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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
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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'
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W-M..Xiss Nona~W\est, Noah Wil
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Right.
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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.
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