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Golden Rod. A. B. Williams in Richmond News Leader. In our climate the golden rod is the last kindly token of her love anc bounty bestowed by the old mother Earth. who gives us at the beginning life and to our tired heads at the lasi a restful cradle-a might- cradle worthy of a child of Omnipotence Swung nOiselessly and softly and with imperceptible motion by th< hand of God through space incompre hensible. Every fall before she takes her rest from her busy work of crea ting for us she gives the golden rod statley and humble, brav.- and beau tiful weed. We call it a weed be cause it is given so lavishly. Eart is not niggardly with this glorious gold. It is our weakness and blind ness that we value lightly what is given to us bountifully. We value most highly the things we musi groan and sweat for, while 'disregard ing the manifold blessings and beau ties Nature and Earth and Life offer freely, and sigh most greviously after the few things we may not have. When we consider seriously and hon estly most of us must be astonished by the multitude of the blessings of fered us for the prudent and sincere asking-life, strength, health, chil dren, love, home and peace. And the things we long and strive for and give our lives and labors and sometimes our souls for, are so few and small and empty by comparison-wealth, luxury and distinction without ease and with peace and rest impossible. This flower is grown and guarded on individual stalks and is a valued pos session in Europe, when it does not spring uninvited from the soil. We call it a weed because it comes to us unbidden, a free gift. It asks noth ing of us, does not need to be nursed or pampered or even permitted, is regardless whether we see it. It comes in the fall of our year whether seasons are good or bad, the land cared for or fallow. It was bloom ing and waving here in autumn un told ages before the white mar brought the plow and the art of coax ing production. Where it could find a spot to grow it grew for the wild Indians and animals when this con tinent, now teeming and busy, was a vast silence shaded by solemn for ests. It has gladdened the eyes of many generations of our people witbi wide expanses of swaying gold. Thousands and thousands of acres of it have bloomed (where no human eyes saw it. It has come at this time year after year through many centur ies, in prosperity, rich and dreamy place, in the blood and tumult ol war. Generation after generatior lovers have muses and brooded hap pily together over it and have gather ed it abundantly for the decoratior of quiet homes. It covers the old battlefields where hosts of mer tramped and strove and died, and where blood was poured from the veins of the brave. It -has been the one tribute given by Earth for many a lonely grave forgotten and neglect ed by man. The small seeds, shed by the gol den rod. wvai< buried and hid a yeal until Nature ar d Earth call them tt do their part ar.d adorn the verge of cold, darkness and death--the pro cess we call death moaning alwvays the consummnation of life, the presagt and assurance '-: resurrection and life to comre presently inore abounding and beautiful. The early hard3 flowers are bhold children of th< breath of sr.:ing. follow.ing so close ly on winter's re::eating footsteps -that they mingle :- .-etimnes with his mantle and gleam through the s;ur rounding whiteness of the snow, bui they live by man's help and associa. tion. Later the little humble wil< flowers come and show their delicat< loveliness -in forests and nooks. Ther in the voluptuous warmth of long summer days the languid summei night the hosts of flowers grow glor iously and the air is deliciously heav) and sweet with their opulent fra ance. The trees are burdene< ith verdure and the vines languisi ith their own luxuriance of purpl< usters. The grains-corn plume< ke a knight panoplied for war an< othed in fine yellow silk and vivi< en, wheat a rippling, tossing se; old in the glamor of the sumnme shine-mature and fall to th4 . Fruit ripens and are gath The unseen seeds of the -gol waitiag ii the trtnfes o the soil, are tossed by plowshares, I trodden by many unheeding feet. The spring flowers bloom and die, the flowers and grains and vines are fruits of the summer flaunt them and pass away while they wait patiently and humbly for their time. The taug and sting and threat of returning winter are in the air. The spring flowers have gone long ag s hng it seems to those o us who have personal recollections of their coming and gathering and going. The glry and fragrance ot the summer blooms have vanished. Grains and fruits have been garnered. Fields are bare and pasture and lawn are with ered to dead, monotonous gray and brown. The dead stalks and leaves are remnants of things once living. growing and beautiful rattle, dry, dis consolate and barren. The sturdy forests are yet flushed, rich and glow ing )vith their triumphant defiance of death and denudation-voiceless. but singing their death songs in glorious harmonizing discords and endless combinations of color. The more delicate trees are gauntly silhouetted is black outlines of bared trunk and branches against the fading, pure, faintly colored light of a western ho rizon while nature seems to hold her breath and solemn silence broods. Then the golden rod and its lowly ompanion, the life-everlasting, wif its dingy white and clean, pungent odor, are in their glory. They have waked to life and beauty when the things we nourish in our gardens, fields and orcharde are dying or have died and withered. Each stalk of the golden rod is -a sceptre fit to adorn the hand of any ruler or an empire, a wonder defying all our art to repro duce the infinity of its beauties and marvels. It springs to life unbidden, save by nature herself. hiding desola tioa and barrenness, illuminating the bleak autumpal landscape with great zplashes of shining ud.-lating yellow. It is the annuel 1r--mpi of patient waiting to the time of - ee4, repeated throvgh m atin uncouted years, centuries, generations. cl :- 'es and vicissitudes It is the annual vindi cation and triumph of the unconsid ered, humble, homely and small things, the evidence of their useful ness and beauty when they rise to do their work at their appointed time. It is the cheerful, flashing, beautiful farewell of our kindly old mother earth going to her rest, her assurance that she :3 not dead and will not die; that the power and work and operations of nature are undi minished and unceasing; that life and beauty endure and are to come, that God will be with us until she wakes again. Mr. Roosevelt's Sadness. Atlanta Journal. If the president is really saddened by the manner in which he is re garded by most southerners, as he claims to be in a letter recently made public, the cure for this melan choly is in his own hands. He can revise his negro policy, if he will, and live happily forever af ter, so far as the south is concern ed. Several things have occurred lately which indicate that the president would like to "square himself" with this section of the country. Mr. Harry Stillwell Edwards recently gave out an interview in which he said that the president would prob ably come south and make a speech explaining his attitude toward the south. Mr. Roosevelt can "square him self" with the south very readily, and without the necessity of making speeches here. He has it within his power to dIgnify at one stroke that he has underg~one a change of heart, and that is by desisting in his efforts to force negro office-holders upon the people of various communities is spite of their protests. He can give notice that he has decided to adopt this policy in the future by not send ing the name of the negro Crum. of Charleston. to the senate for con firmation when ccongress convenes again this winter. He can make that his beginning. And if he adopts that policy, his sadness should shortly disappear. Papers in a suiit for eight mil lion dolars, brought by the American China company against the Hudson Trust company, of Hoboken, were IT'S A WONDERFUL REMEDY COSTS NOTHING TO TRY Local Druggists Guarantee Its Efficacy or Make No Charge We want everybody suffering from any disorder of the stomach. bowels or liver to call at our store and get a full size bottle of 'Seven Barks"-the great German stomach and liver regulator. As an evidence of good faith, we ask a deposit of 50 cents-but if after taking according to directions, the remedy does not accomplish all that is claimed, return the empty or partly used bottle and your money will be cheerfully banded back. We could not afford to make a guar antee of this kind, were we not positive of our position. "Seven Barks" is not an untried remedy. It has been on the market for 35 years with astonishing success. There is no remedy on earth that keeps its friends longer than "Seven Barks." There are thousands of Amer ican families never without a bottle, nor have they been without for 20 years. Grandmothers, mothers and children are all enthusiastic in their praise. Don't postpone calling for a bottle. You will not regret it. MAYES' PHARMACY. Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in post office at Newberry for week ending November 5, 1904. B-Mary Jane Bailey, Miss Lola Bird, Henry J. Boozer, Miss Rachel Brown. Rev. L. M. Burton.. C-Miss Rosannar Canon, Miss Sarah Coffman, Miss L. M. Coving ton. D-Miss Emma Davis, Miss Flor ence -Davis. Miss Malla Denough. E-Miss Annie Lee Elkin. Miss M. N. Evans, Miss Lizzy Etheridge. F- Miss Carrie Farrow, Arthur Foy. G--Miss Marry Gadson. James Groves. Miss Mabelle Goodward. H-Frank Hart. L-Ewin Launge, Miss Alice Long, Ed. Lindsie, John D. Livingston, Gorge Lyles. M-u. W. Moore. N*.-N W. Nichols. P-Percival, Miss Gussie Philip. R-Mrs. Carrie Rolison. S-Susey E. Spears, Mrs. Lilla Sims. Mrs. Margaret Strother, Arla' der Suber. W-M..Xiss Nona~W\est, Noah Wil son. Mrs. Vinnie Williams, WV. R. Right. Chas. J. Purcell, P. M. The Christmas Delineator. The December Delineator, with its message of good cheer and helpful ness, will be welcomed in every home. The fashion pages are unusually at tractive, ilhistrating and describing the very latest modes in a way to make their construction during the busy festive season a pleasure instead of a task, and the literary and pictoral features are of rare excellence. A selection of Love Songs from the Wagnes operas, rendered into En glish by Richard de Gallienne and beautifully illustrated in colors by 3. C. Leyendecker, occupies a prominent place, a chapter in the Composers' Series, relating are Romance of.-Wag ner and Cosima, is an interesting sup-] plement to the lyrics. A very clever paper entitled ''The Court Circles of the Republic," rescribes some unique phases of Washington social life is from an unnamed contributor, who is said to wvrite from the inner circles of society. There are short stories from the pens of F. Hopkinson Smith, Robert Grant. Alice Brown. Mary Stewart Cutting and Elmore Elliott' Peake, and such interesting writers as Julia Marguder, L. Frank Baum, and Grace MacGowan Cooke hold the attention of children. Many Christ mas suggestions are given in needle work and the Cookery pages are re dolent of the Christmas feast. In ad dition, there are the regular depart ments of the magazine, with many special articles on topics relating to wman's intserests ..itigued Jrithout tde omne. teed to bake either in stove. 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