The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 29, 1907, Page FIVE, Image 5
SATAJNf AND FLOWERS.
Diabolic Action of Certain Plants in
Mythology.
Tlio 1 raditioiial association of the
personified power of evil ami a garden
is, of course, familiar lo all*
ami the kindred of evolved traditions
form one of the mr?t fascinating
studies of comparative mythology.
But it can scarcely be contended that
it is in any way due to this association
that we lind his Satanic majesty
figuring so frequently in the folk
nomenclature of flowers and shruibs.
lint such cases are by no means common;
bnt far, tho greater number of
dialbolic appellations refer to some
physical popularity in the Haul which
is either attributed lo M. le I liable,
or suggests its employment by or effect
on that potentate. Ami when
avo come to consider the names in
finest ion we realize, says I lie London
(ilobe, that it is by no means the
IWiltouic devil I hat is referred lo,
but rather the malevolent and sometimes
rather contemptible buffoon of
the old miracle plays. And wlial is
still more remarkable in some cases
we find plants the subjects, so to
speak, i I' a joint or disputed ownership.
one claimant to which is the devil.
while oilier is often a canonized
saint named in llie christian calendar.
It is not easy for us of the
present age to conceive the me.ital
phase which names, for example, a
hand-shaped flower al'ler a saint or
devil indifferently, as in the case
with one of tho orchid family, which
by some is styled "iMary'e hand"
and by others "Satan's hand."
There does not seem the same violence
of absurdity in the custom of associating
flowers or plants with elves
or fairies a.-- their originators or employe
rs.
11 would be impossible within reasonable
limits lo give all the instances
of the devil among the flowers,
but enough may lie cited lo show thai,
as has been said, it is the grotesque,
mediaeval devil, rather than the awesome
fiend of the ology or poetry.
The familiar scabious, owing to the
shape of iis root, surges live of a
mouthful having been taiken out of
it. is called the devil's bit-e. Explanations
are by no nutans wanting.
The "bile" was taken in jealous
rage, because the root in question
was thought to be of great medicinal
value, and the arch enemy naturally
begrudged mankind every fraction of
it. One of its herapeutic uses is as
a soporific, and the atmosphere of
his abode rendering such an age.it
quite unnecessary the devil bit off
a piece in a dog-in-the-mai wr spirit.
Another tradition lias i! that
with this root the evil one was wont
to perform all sorts of marvels till
our lady deprived1 if of the power,
whereupon in impotent rage he bit it.
Some of the devil titles doubtless
date from the time when, as Shakespeare
1 ells us, to many plants with
a decoroue appellation, "liberal shepherds
give a grosser name," and
these can be found in plenty in oldfashioned
herbals.
Some plants owe their diabolic
prefix to the same moral idea that
has been noticed in the case of the
"devil's apples" of lilie mandrake.
The berries of I he briony. for instance,
are the devil's cherries, and
those of the deadly nightshade devil's
berries par excellence. But if is
not quite easy to understand why
the pretty campion should be the
devil's bower, nor the ox-eyed daisy
his daisy\ still more puzzling is it to
account for the garlic being his
"iposv," when \vC|Call lo mind the
universal attribute to the garlic of
hostility to the powers of ovil?especially
when manifested in the vampire
form. But this apparent contradiction
is noticeable also in tire
case of the mystic vervain, which,
according to some, .is eminently anlivenctic,
but which old gerarde Iclls
us "Ihe devil did revoal as a secret
and divine medicine." This association
of the vervain with diabolic action
reminds us that there are i- microns
plants with which, "though it
be not written down" in I heir names,
the devil is connected. The devil is
said lo exercise the strides! guardianship
over the magical fern-seed
(which gives the power of being invisible).
and I he only time il can be
obtained from his custody is on Si.
.Jolnv's eve. not her legend has for
it<s subject the favorite sweelbriar,'
or eglantine, always associated with
the well known references lo it of
Shakespeare and Milton and Tennyson.
The thorns point downward
and the reason given ..is I ha 1 after
his lull the devil essayed lo clamber
up to heaven.by means of il, the
eglantine then being a sla.tely tree.
But when its proportions were reduced
to a bush, "out of spile he
placed its thorns in their piosent
I . [;
j lA'i-ouh'ii* I'omI n?it. * Siii ' si ranker is
liio countiyside kg( ml that neonates
"our gentlemen ia black" with
the blackberry. A'Ftcm* Michaelmas
day?iiiiti' I ho folklore rocords include
both old and new styles?if is
I wrong, or at least imprudent to pick
| blackberries, lor on Mint, day the devil-?according
to locality?spits on
them, treads on them, casts his cloak
over I hem or throw*; his club at thorn
?the last injury being" one of the
j very few occasions on which the four
j fields' is assigned a weapon other, perj'haps,
thnn the "pitchfork" of some
I old pictures.
Hero and Lover.
'New York World.
Take Soberer and Florence llnrt inan,
aged f). are the best playmnles
land friends ever. They h^ve lived
J for several years in on apartment
'house al dO Fast One Hundred and
'Forty-ninth Street, and each to the
other is the sum of perfection.
J' Jn'ke and Florence didn't seem to
|'gybe with the rest of the youngsters
| vi their block yesterday afternoon
! 'an 1 went oil' t?. take a long walk,
j'lake s)i icsletl Maconi'rs Dam River
I'ark as a line place for a ramble,
j'Florence said that suited her, so
|'away the liwo little folk went,
j Florence has that in her soul which
I'is characteristic of mosl women?a
j 'love for green tilings and for danger
'when somebody stronger is at hand.
I "She spied' some beautiful ferns
'growing on the edge <?l' the creek in
'the park ami wanted them because
they were out of her reach. Jake
stood by, warning her to be careful,
j If she would only return to safe
| ground he would pluck them green
things for her, eveai if he had to
i swim to get them.
j Florence answered .lake with a
' laugh. " There no danger," she
j said.
; I'll'1 nexl instant Florence lost lior
' balance and was screaming for help
in 1 lie .sweeping current of the creek.
I .lake loosed off his cap and jacket
and took a "lieader." Tie came, up
tbeside Florence, pulled her over on
; her 'back and kicked out for the
shore.
The boy got (lie girl out of iho
j wate" safely just as Sergeant Mickey,
of the High I'ridge Police Sta|
lion, came to the rescue.
j 'No. you can't do anything," said
j the boy to the policeman, aaul turnling
to the girl, he added: "Come,
| along, Florie, and let 's 'ret some drv
I duds."
Nobody Stood Up.
No wherry Observer.
If the question were put loud
! enough for all white men to hear,
j and if they could vote so loud that
j they might be heard: "All in favor
| of reducing tlie 200,000 negro majority
in South Carolina will vote
,'avo,'" there would be an almost
j unanimous '' aye.''
l>u! iliow i< it to he done? Kill
| lliem off? No; the law and humanity
I forbid that. Run them out of the
I slate? The law provides a big fine
, for any one who tries to persuade
them to leave. Natural increase of
| population will not do it. bnt rather
makes matters worse and vorse.
There is only one way; lhat is to
! induce white people to come here
j from other sections of Ibis country
| and from the old country. That is
why immigration is advocated.
Nobody is advocating "undesirable"
immigrants either?which reminds
us of an incident that happened
at an evangelistic/ meeting
down near Trenton some years ago.
The evangelist, as the custom is,
was making divers "propositions."
At last he said: "Let all who want
to go to heaven stand up."
This was too much for a good old
steward of the church, \<dio was already
tired of so much bobbing up
and down, and he rose from his seal
and made Ibis proposition: "Now
if there is anybody here who wants
to go to hell let him stand up, I'll
j like to see him.''
But nobody slood up.
In God \Vc Trust.
! New Ym l< American. ; *
As a mailer of fad, how many of
I tlie excellent gentlemen w'ao protest
I so violently are familiar wilh Iho
I eioiiage of the Cnited Stales? II
lavas not until 1804 that the words
whose disappearance agitates them
first appeared on the two-cent piece,
which has long since been withdrawn
from circulation. In 1800
the motto was first stamped on the
eagle. Can any of the clergymen
now so bitterly condemning I'rosiI
dent Roosevelt say off-hand, witliI
out examining the coins, on which
I pieces of currency the motto, "In
God We Trust" is not to be found?
Is there a single one (hat knows as
an actual fact Mint it appears on tiro
quarter, half-dollar and dollar sil
i \ >". pieces ;ilid on : i5 the jiold. and x*
' il'iis n it appear imi liii' ouc-H-eat, p
i live-cent ami ten-ceni. pieces/ llow
i many practical nion in cvery-ilay life
' can describe correctly ilie designs
ami letlerinjfeon one and all of these
'coin*. Here is a simple lest as lo
itlie effect of llio motto upon the
t daily life of the averaue person.
One Result of Hard Times.
!Nerv York World.
Harry Payne Whitney mortgaged
' his Fifth avenue mansion to lire
United States Trust Company for
$300,000. lie will pay ~> per cent i:i;
tcrest for live years.
The mansion, a massive Romanes
'que structure, on the southwest corner
al Fifty-seventh street, was a ^
jiil't lo llarry Payne from his fath- J
er, the late William ('. Whitnev'. ll
aw
.was the elder Whitnev's home until
% T) 4
lie In::!; a no ti:e; f< r himself on tilie '
:iorth cuncr of Fifth avenue ami
Sixty-eighth street.
The new house was sold after Mr. J
Whitney's sudden death to James
Iles'rv ( ilvMit ) Smith l\:;- a little ov'
er $ 1.500,000. i ~
Al hou^h llarry Payne Whitney | y
ha- lived in the old Whitney mansion uT(
' for several veai.;, he did not acquire
line in his ow:i name until last week. ! ^
when the deeds of jjil'i from William ! ^
j (Whitnev were ) laced on record,
lie married a daughter of the late ?x
Cornelius Yandei'l.-ilt, wliose urea t
i i .' 1
mansion was on t!ie northwest cor- ^
tier a' Fifty-seventh street, opposite ^
the old Whitney home.
NOTICE. **
On liecember 4, 1H07. at 10 o'clock
all of the household roods of Mrs. ^
, A in l\. l)erricl>, decease.I. c?::isi>:in.v '
'of furniture, heels. ta'des. chairs,
wardrobes, bureaus, cols, and everytlrn'A'
in dinintr room and kitchen
al<o cveryl himr <n place, will be s< Id i
:it I Si e "Derrick" place one mile !
n:?rt!i of IV.maria <u Decmker l. I
l!M)7. at 10 o'clock by a.i antionecr. I
Olin W. Derrick.
Adiministrator. ^
ei
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OLINA RY.
Schedule in cffcct Juno 9th, 1907.
I Lv. NewberryiC N & L.) 12:40 p. m. J j),
Ar. Laurens 1:52 p. na. j er
Lv. Laurens (C. & W. C.) 2:15 _r?. rn. j y
! Ai'. Greenville '1:40 p. in. j
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A r. MeCormick :5n p. m. Lj.
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Pullman Chair Cars between An-!,,',
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Head Lettuce, j
Cauliflower,
Cranberries,
Raisins,
Nuts,
Ph'.ne to
rheo. Lambry.|
maw umm j
issenger Train Schedules (Revised) !
FtTeclivo 12.01 a. m. (Fastern time' |
inday, November 24th, 1907, the j
ii111lime for passenger trains out j
Newberry I'nion Station will be
follows:
Southern Railway.
l?. 1">. for Greenville .. 51.07 a. m.
, .12, for Columbia .. ..10.35 a. m.
i>. 19. for Greenville .. 3.25 p. m.
o. IS, for Columbia .. 1.40 p. m.
i). 11, for Greenville .. 5.IS p. m.
i). 10, for Columbia .. .. 0.47 p.m.
C., N. & L. Railway.
Co. S5, for Laurens .. 5.19 a. m.
To. 22, for Columbia .. S.47 a. m.
o. 52, for Greenville ..12.46 p. m.
0. 53, for Columbia .. 3.10 p. m.
To. 21, for Laurens .. ..7.25 p. m.
To. S4, for Columbia .. 8.30 p. m.
Daily, except Sunday.
The foregoing schedules arc given
dv for information, are not gunrlteed
and are subject to change
ithout notice.
G. L. Robinson,
Station Master.
;
r'iLE or PERSONAL PROPERTY j
We will soil at the bite residence
A. Cromer, d< eased. .Friday,
eeeniber (>, 1907, beginning at elevi
?: ' lock, l!.e personal properly of
s estate, except household and
ii'lien furniture, consisting of:
1 horse, 3 mules, 1 cow and 1 shote,
ower, rake, harrow, wagon and farm
lpleuieuts, eorn and c.dti.n seed,
iv, fodder and peas. Fine gun and
id dog.
Terms: Cash.
Daisy F. Cromer,
Geo. B. Cromer,
Kxecutors.
v.
OWN ? DOWN ? LUMBER and
building material of all kinds.
Flooring, ceiling and shingles of all
grades, sash, doors, blinds, laths,
roofings, etc. C. IT. Cannon will
give the very lowest prices and
meet all competition. He is in for
small profits and large business
NOTICE OF SALE.
I will sell at public outcry, to the
. best bidder before the court house
or, at Newberry, on sales day in
I'cember, 190/, one nice brood mare
id one mule colt, seven months old.
Terms: Cash.
2t 1',. T. Bishop.
10,000!
Agents wanted at once, previous
perienee is not essential, territory
going fast, write soon if you wish
make money faster than you ever
d before. Whit today. Address J
Clark, Conway, Ark.
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er-C!p.ntennia) Exposition, Norfolk.
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On account of the above occasion
e following instructions will govn
the sale of round trip tickets to
orfolk, Va. from Ntwherry, S. C.
Season ticket?$19.;">5. This ticket
ill be sold <1 lily April 19th to and
eluding November 30lh, 1007, final
tie to leave N'orilok n'lurning IV-j
m'er 15th. 1907.
GO day ticket-- $10.30. Tiiis ticket!
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eludinir November 30th, 1907, final i
lie Jo ' ?; .(> Norfolk relurnintr siv- I
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>t IntO'l 1 ban dece:n'?"r 15th, 1907.
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and including November 30th,j
'07. final date to leave Norfolk rerning
fifteen (15) days from ,1atf j
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Coacn Kxcnsion ticket ?$^.55. This'
ket is not god in sleeping. Pull- j
an, or Parlor cars, and will be sold
i Tuesday of oaeli week during per- j
<1 of the exposition, final dale to]
ave Norfolk return in'/ ten (10)1
1.Vs from date of sale.
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\ PRESSED 15 TO BE DRESSEP FOR
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anr DAlNlYDI5H SHOO LP &e
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~ ?^ v ^ " '*" ^ * PKl'PA^^" oP
fft co?y?i??T not MTtn HUSIIK 0?0WNt0.tnic??0. THMJK.^blViN (n
will your turkey TASTE good if you sit
down to the table shabbily clad? some
people think it 1-5 unnecessary to eat To
live. eating will n'.ake you "exist," but
you must wear good clothes also if you
wish to "live." these things will help /
you to enjoy your turkey: /
a cood wool suit $10.00
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respectfully,
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