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...IFELX. Six o'clock! And as the mill bell an nounced the fact the whir and clang of machinery died away and was suc ceeded by the shouts of small boys who came troopig from the doors of the great factory. Soon a wide stream of humanity was surging toward the en trance gates. Following the boys camne the young men with long strides, and after them the women and girls an(1 great mass of operatives, and, lastly, hobbling along with the aid o1 canes, the veterans of the mill-men and womu who had almost outlived their usefulness, but who were still kept on the payroll of the company. A few minutes and the smoke hov ering over the red chimney lost itself in the clouds, the night watchman camte out with his lantern, the gates wore closed, and another day's work Was finished. For all but the bookeeper. In his ollice he still bent over long columns of figures. Up and down, up and down his lingers moved until at last he raised his[ head wearily. It was too dark to see. Taking his hat from its nail in the corner he made a movement to ward the door, but instead of going out ho s.uddenly raised his hand to his chest with a low gasp of pain. For a m1jonit he groped blindly for a chair, tlien sank upon the floor. Half an hour later lie rose slowly and went out, carefully locking the door behind him. As he went down the steps lie looked like an old man, his figure was so bent. But gradually his walk grew fiimner, and by the time lie had reached the little house at the end of the village lie had regained his customary upright carriage. - Vou are late, Felix," said a com plaininig voice as lie entered the small sitting room; " tea has been waiting nearly an hour." " Yes, mother, I know," lie answer , as ho stooped and kissed her wrinkled forehead; " but I could not possibly get away sooner. There is a press of work at the ollice, and---" [lut the thin hands were raised ap. peanligly. 1 Spare me, Felix! Your father never used to speak about bus-ness. That was left to the agent. If lie had lived we would never have come tc this,'' and she glanced abut the bare room piteously. " Poor little mother!" his voice was very tender as he rested his hand for a moment on her gray hair. " it is hard, but perhaps it will be all right somiietime.'' Something in his voice caused her ips to tremble a little. "1 (10 not mean to be cross, Felix,' she said, wistfully, "1 but everything is so different. Your father should havt aet i man in charge of the property, You are not to blame. You were only a boy and did what you thought waf best."' Ie had heard the complaint man times before, but he answeredl simply: "Yes, mother. I have dlone what I thought was best.'' A t this moment, a tall, fair girl en, ted the roomi. '' Gom2e, Felix,'' ihe saidf, brightly. "I shah not wait aniy longer. Yot m~ust eat supper~ so I can wash th< dishes. After that you and I will takt a walk dlown by the canal. I want t< talk." "A reasonable want,'" tie laughed as he followed tier into the dinin~ Except in age they wvere very much' alike, this brother and sister; tall anm friir, with warm eyes and quick, sunn smiles. Onily about the temples of thu young man --hie was not yet forty---thu browni hair was beginning to hurn. While he was eating flhe girl watcheri im anxiously. Sden'ly she broka out with: "' I spent the afternoon 'vith D r, lireen's wife.'' A And- -and shte said that her hius. hand had been taflking about you-that you ought to leave the ollice.'" "Yes, lie told me sonmethuing to that effect nearly a yearI ago, and~ I believe has mention ed it several times since.'' the spoke ightly, and hehpe~d himself te aniothuer biscuit. "And you never told us?" reproach fully. " What was the use? I was not ready to leave the 0llice." Then lie addted, whimsically: "' I have arrang ed for a grand spree in August. Iharry and Bess will be home from school and the four of us will go for a month's jolli leation among the Maine lakes. Aunt.Bcetty will conme and stay with muothier." For a moment she looked at him to see if lhe were in earnest, then ini spite of her twenity-two years, promptl mnountedh a chair andI whirled a napikin ab~ove her head. TIhien she induilgedi in ant energetic panutomime of a war whoop. Felix watched her applreciatively. 'IThat's the way I feel," lie saidl. "The mere thought of a vacationi after titen years of oflice work is like a t nic. Now, suppose I help you with te dises, andi~ then we will go out and ltyou free yourself of the 'talk.' " (" lFelix," she said a little later, as they we ,alking ,along the canal. "ennr odan' ousinu arrivedi from - on you oday la said le would call surp~rised to'leai temedyo werny muc bookkeeper. li11 h t you eonya b)en one of' the i riltat you atdol lege and that great ting hnd abcon expected from you.'' g ndbe Felix laughed a little. "~ Bob was my classnatcs li sad " andi naturally over-sag ie aout his friend. It is ttglruianen wo usually niake failures."'tn e h I~o spoke lightly, somnethuig in his voice caused tier to draw nearer. " Felix," she said, after a hong'pause. " I want you to tell me all about >ap' affairs. We were mere babies Wl en he died and you came home from col lege to look after things. But H-ar ry andi Bess and I are now old enough to take our share of the burden. It is our right to know." She spoke earnestly and as they reached a belt of moonlight looked up> into his face. h a curious smile. 'If he were not so old, and if I di know better," she thought. " uld say he was in lovo." Lb ARP GROWS POETICAL Writes About tile Flower f Spring an( the BirdN tiha lng. anta Constitution. t is not quite time to indulge i ing poetry. I tried it some year and strained My mind and slum try it again. One poem is enoug make a man famous and I hav ror seen mine improved upon: 'he bull frog boilers in the ditches, L's shufflied off his winter britches. 'he hawk for infant chicken watchoth nd 'fore you know it one ho cotclhot 'he lizzard is sunnin' himself on rail, he lamb is shaking his now born tai Cing cotton has unfurled his banner Lad sconts the air with sweet guaiL nor, .he darky is Plowing his subbor mule Lad jerks the line with "Gco, yo fool," Ldown the crook and round the ponm ire gentlemen and vagabonds Lad all our little dirty sinners' Lro digging bait and catching nih nore. L'hat is classic and expressive. ] /mes well and measures well and: isidered the champion spring pon ,t I will venture to make a few r rks about flowers, for as Soloni th, " The winter is past; the rain 3r and gone. The flowers appear c carth, the time for the singing4 -ds is come and the voice of the turt vo is heard in the land."' It is t story that when God made ma Li gave him hearing and seeing ai to and smelling, Ile created bir< slug for him and please his ears ai iss to grow and herbs and trees ar him fruit, but Adam wasn't vel ppy and said these are all very goo t they cannot love me nor talk to n r comfort me when I am sick ai 1. I am here alone and not cyt ur angels visit ie. And so God to< ,y on him and ereated woman at an lie was happy. But woman didn't care to be diggit d hoeing and planting and lookn ter the sheep and tile cows, and a Lord created flowers especially f r enjoyment. lie also taught lier ig and make music on the harp, at nco came the old tradItion that w in and music and flowers were God st gifts to man. You see that eilt flowers nor inusic is mentioned a Mosaic account of the creation ai idition says that they were not mai til woman was. It is sitinila th some of the ancieit languages t] me word that means woman mca wers too. Aniong the ancient Greeks, Riomati rsians and Egyptialis there was gre verence for and even idolatry wers. The lotus or sacred lily w )rshlped as a god in Egpt. In Jap a chrysanthiemnumi is eqlually sacr d nearly all of their feaamle childr a named for Some IloweVr. lIn untries every temple eervice, eve itival or banquet, or sacred (lay. cry birth or marriage or (deatih nieral ceremony calls for a profusi< flowers. Wheni soldliers wvent, o fight, and when they returned th< 3re crownedi with wreaths and ga nd(s; strangers were given flow( tien they came to see you. Eve wer had its meaning and its sen ant, as for instaaxue a red rose mea L love you;'' a white rose " I w~ arry you." The Chinese make t: Lost lavish use of ilowers and huave iinese alhiabet, of flowers. adorn nlation has such love and Law r them iior such beautitful garde d .Japani comes next,. China is call e Flowery Kingdom. Almost, all of the civilized nuatio ye a national flower. Egypt, Turk dI Ind~ia have the lotus. Japan t1 rysanthemum. Spain tile pomegr toc. France tile iris or fleur do lis >uis Vf I. Napoleon I tried to aboli: lund put the honey b~ec instead, b 3 people rebelled andl it, is still LI u. Scotland has the t~histle, Irelar shamrock, Wales the leek, Mexi, cactus, Glermuany the corn flowe iglandi the rose, and~ the Unite utes nonie at all, In 1889 wve tri make it the golden rod, bult, faile ae North voted for the trailing arb andl the rose andi sonme grceen hou: (oung( Gl~vh e often engaged in doing the work home under the. most trying condi ns. Neture cries out agamnst th oping and lifting, thme runing up an down stairs at tiime wvhen labor shoul be0 as light as5 poss ble. It is owfng t overstrain or sel neglect nmder thes conditions that Lih foundation is lain for serious woman ly disease. Irregu d'larity is the fira . 7:. ,step to imipaire ''womanly health. Perfect regularit: . my be estab)ilihe by the use of Drm Pierce's Favorite S Prescription.I will heal inflamma .thou and ulceratiot anid cure femnal weakness. It makes weak wVom1 en strong and sici women well. "It gives mne muec ,e -tsure," wr tes Mis: -'a -car'..!." lla-ap or nmne. 17,Onl rord unty,, "t thank Dr. Piere for the grent goot~ ived rolm the use of ba ' Fa voit Prenerip anI ' Oolden Med ical ilscovery.' I ilar ared fr three years or ruore ntt m gnthily, a. It seemne as though I wouht die will is in, my hwa nud stoumach. I could noi d at all without faintin . 110nd gIven up al a of ever belt.n cure<, wVhen one of nil riteintrye tug :r.nPitr & li itid herm 1 hand taken, half ai bolttle1 better. Now I have taken, two bottles oj vorlte Prescriptlo ,1( andton of enolde, ical flisc ver,' nn I am entirely cured, and 311'Iut me wvhen, all oither muediciinem hr. Pierce's Conumon Sense Medical riser, p~aper coversu, senit free on re >t of 21 otne-cenit stamups, to payex se Of imihing wily. Addr'css Ur V. Pierce. ii Ihffalo.Y It was very grave. wil " Father was careless," he sail, "nothing more. We will not speak nol about him. The rest is very simple. wo I got a position as bookkeeper and that is all." They walked on awhile in silence. Then she said: " You have not told me all, Felix. Something has been troubling you all these years. I have felt it ever since I I was old enough to observe. You At] have a good salary, and make as much more by your magazine articles, and yet you never indulge yourself in any- BPI thing. Mamma's talk used to make me ag( think that papa had left considerable noI property, and Harry and Bess and I to always thought that our school money ne came out of this. But lately I have 1 doubted it." Then abruptly: " Did I papa leave anything-above his debts, 9 I mean?" " No." " And-was there enough to pay his debts?" "No." "I suspected it. Now Felix," speak. j ing firmly and letting her hand rest caressingly on his, 4 you must be open 9 with me. I am a woman now, and want to be a. help instead of a burden. Harry and .Bess will graduate next month and they feel just as I do. Papa's debts must be paid,'and it will be so much easier for the four of us, working together, than f or you alone." Then, hesitatingly: " Is it very much?" rh, "No," smiling. co "And you will lot us help you?" Bv "Gladly. You are already doing mi that-more than you imagine." Then sal laughingly, " I am very 'proud of my ov children, Margaret. Not many bach- th< elors have brought up such a promis- bil ing trio." do " Bosh! You are trying to escape o( the subject. I want your opinion of an my taking the Ridge school. Bess can tai turn housekecpor." to " Well, seriously, then, I think you gr would better stick to your drawing. be Your talent lies in that direction, and ha the Ridge school means hard work and bu poor wages. As to the debts, they ne are all paid and we have a small sum sa< in the bank. yo " Felix!" pi " Yes. The last was paid six months th ago. Did you think I could arrange for a jolliflcation with anything like ani that hanging over us? Now if the af Maine woods do their duty I shall come th back a new man and be ready for the he fall campaign., si, " The fall-what?" he " Campaign, my dear,'" lie said, m coolly, enjoying her amazement. "You bc did not know that my name was up for er Senator. It has been kept secret for th certain reasons, but to-day I had inti- tr mation that they were ready to go uz ahead, and with every prospect of in success." sa " But-I did not know that you took 1ic any interCsL in politics?" she said, her voice trembling with eagerness and 1, wonder. re S Nor have I-much," he repelid, 1k gravely. " I never dreamed of such a w, thing until I was appt oached on the Lih sub'ject. I thought ny amubition was atl dead, but it, seems I was niistaken. I ar felt, almost frightened at the tumult cc the possibility awoke in me. Andi it fe plleases you, too, Margaret?" he askedi ey after a moment's silence, fut "More than I can tell," she replied, of with a glad light in her eyes. " I have to felt worried ab)out you lately. It wi seemed so hard that after all these la years there coull be no future for you w but the musty ofice. It seems almost idt like the ending of one of your stories. mn It is rather late, but you are not very "~ old.'' mi Not very ol! The words rang in in his ears long after he had gone to his C. roomi. lie had almost come to regardl i hiimeclf as an old man, but, after all, fo lie was not very old. IIe was scarcely ar ini his prime. A long future was be- thi fore him-and it, was very bright. Per haps- it From the open window the sky pre- ar1 sented a picture of rare beauty and ch brilliaincy in contrast with the dark na group)ings of hills andl forests. Millions 14 of stairs looked down, and away in the it northeast could be traced the path of Lh the Perseidls. Somewhere undler the iri line of shooting meteors lhe imagined thi was a country mansion, and in the i mansion a fair girl with (deep, tender Elt eyes. gt: This was one of the dreams. lie had to left behind. But the past few weeks TI has been restoring much which lie had tu thought was host, and this came up ... with the rest. If there was to be a fu ture for him this should form a part, aind a dleep flood of thianksgivig welled up from his heart as his eyes gazed into the majesty of the night. Thinkm~~jg of the sweet p)ossibihties that parting on the bridge grew very At near, ie could feel the soft touch ona his arm and1 hear the quiet, voice as it t " Felix, your work is at home-and we are very young. When it is right you may come for mue. I will lbe wait,. mlg." Andi (luring all these fifteen years she had kept, her word. Even now lie had a letter in his pocket, on which the ink was scarcely dry. They had lost their youth, but the summer and autumn would be richer for the waiting. It was not until lie hieardl the mill bell strike three that he left the wini dlow. But even then It was not to sleep. Ills nerves were not ready for that. Over and lie reviewed the past ' and made lhans for the future, andh '. when the firt, summons of the factory : bell brought, him down to breakfast, lie toldi Margaret that lie had dlecidled to give in Is resignation 'luring the day. " I think I can do it and still be able -J to keel) the wolf from the door," lie saidi, with a smile. " And I thinlk so, too," she returned heartily. " Besides, we will all have N. mocre courage for work if we know '' you are out, of that horrible ofilce." auT Several times dluring the meal she ''* saw a sudden light come into his face, ate aiid faniciedl his tones were even morc tendter than usual. ia A t length she spoke. fl "Your thoughts are pleasant, Felix.'' a Yes,"~ thoughtfully, " they are M lpleasant--very pleasant. I will tell head you about themi sometlime."I kisre h ie wnt out lie stopped anu d its leaves, and the tulip means a turban and the geranium means a crane's bill from the shape of its seed pods, and the nasturtium means a nose twister for when you smell it or taste the seed the pungent odor and taste make you draw up your face and curl up your nose. And the old man told about many others, and it seems that we not only got the names of the days and the months and the stars from ancient my thology, but we have even kept the names of their flowers. If flowers were as scarce as diamonds and pearls they would bring a much higher price, for they are really more beautiful. A kind Providence made the best and most beautiful things the most abundant so that the poor might have them as well as the rich. It does not take money to buy sunshine nor shower nor the green grass nor the songs of birds nor the daisies and lilies that adorn the flields and meadows. The great poets' books are full of beautiful thoughts about flowers. Shakespeare's lament over the death of Imogen is full of tears and flowers. Horace Smith in his ode to flowers says: "Your voiceless lips, oh flowers I are living preachers, Each cup a pulpit and each leaf a book." Mrs. Remans says: "Bring flowers, fresh flowers, for the bride to wear They were born to blush in her shining hair." And Wordsworth says: " It is my faith that every flower that blooms en joys the air it breathes and is conscious of its own beauty." It was a tradition among the early Christians that when Al 1y. the mother of.Jesus, tled with her < h 1 in to,Egypt beautiful roses and I 'ies sprang up and bloomed along her pat iwav ns she journeyed through the plains 4d ol Sm:iron and Jericho. Women and II .wers tro always found toguther, b. II ii fact and in fancy. Some men hkel flowers, too, escpecially young men w bo are in love, but with In my men dogfreinel and jimpson weed are as sweet an. pretty as roses and violets. BiLl Ai.1.. ITEMS OF STATE NEWS Senator B. It. Tilf man has announced that he will speak at Manning on Friday, April 25. Octavius T. Gibbs, one of the few survivors of the famous Palmetto teginent of the Mexican war, died in Augusta last Saturday. The commencement sermon of Co lumbia Female College will be preached by Rtev. . 0. Watson, and the literary address will be delivered by Geo. B. Croiner, LL. D. A movement is on foot for the for muation of a trust of all the cotton yarn mills of the South. The matter will be settled at a meeting to be held in Char lotte on Wednesday, April 23. Mrs. Minnie RI. Pike, whose hus band was killed by the recent accident at the Spartanburg electric power house, has brought suit against the company for $20,000 (damages,. The father of Simon Ellis, who is sentenced to hang in Union on the 9th of May, will petition the Governor to Bend his son to the penitentiary for1 life. Tihe petition is signed by most of the leading citizens in Union. Itock ilill boasts of a citizen fifty. years old who has never owned a dog i nor a gun, never has been intoxicated but twice and that many years ago when lie was a boy, and lastly he has never smoked a cigar nor a cigarette. Senator McLaurin, of South Caro- 11 lina, made an extended argument 6 against the Chinese exclusion act,. He thinks the passage of the measure would pr'ove disastrous to the cotton manufacturing interests of the South. Judge Buchanan has declined toi grant the petition for the removal of the case brought by the State against the Virginia-Carolina Chemical com pany for vi->lation of tihe State anti trust act from the State to the U~nitcd States court. President iloosevelt is said to have learned a great (heal of South Carolima p)olitics (luring his recent visit to this State andl among other things expressedl regret that lie should have madle a mistake in attempting to force the nbmination of Koester. Miss llepzibah Dye, of Rock Hill, has suedl the Journal Publishing comi pany for $3,500 damages because they pubblshedl " willfully and maliciously .false and damnatory remarks " about her engagement to marry a Florida sea captain. The courtship came about through a newspaper advert isemenit. A. P. Aldrich, a machinist working in the Grendell cotton nill, Greenwood, hadl a spelh of typhoid fever, He brought suit against the company for $10,000 " danmages on account of loss of time, I1 pain, mental anguish and all that sort of thing. After a trial lasting two days, the jury rendlered a verdhict in. favor of the cotton mill. Poorly? " For two years I suffered ter- in ribly from dyspepsia, with great depression, and was always feeling poorly. I then tried Ayer's Sa rsa parilla, and in one week I wasa . n ew m an."- Johin McDonald, Philadelphia, Pa. Don't forget that it's " A yer's " Sarsaparilla that will make you strong and hopeful. Don't waste~ your time and money by trying some other kind. Use the old, tested, tried, and true Ayer's Sarsapa rilla. t . a~ -ote l dugs Harsaparla ie rknow al aiatoi t th grn d ol famil sa dene. Follow buis advice and J. o. AV ER 00., LOWeOl, Mass. 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S. 0, N~~MAIN o 1 ractico in aill theCourts.4:0pi.v.IpkjA.l pn Offico ovor Earlo's Drug Stor 4:5P1 .Prsn .115p R. 3l. P. CARLISLE 4:~ nA uIy!Y:: :1 -DENTIST,-- Fa tiii~ GroenvillIe, S. c. Al(ul al xet8ii~y Office ovor Add isons D~rug Store. No10(nptwihotenlaiwy apJ12-19tf. N.I ~n~et ~hSuhr ala ANDERSON BABB, ~ 1 miractor and Builder ~ 213 noialnapyt P~eken,.,.. E..Boncra President. d t tI n jt sSmall crops, unsalable veg I tables, result from want of Potas Vegetables are especially , fond, of Potash. Write for our free pampilets. . GERMAN KAM WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. n u flowers, and there was no flower elect. ed. That trailing arbutus don't trail is in this part of the country. Well, of course, the rose is by uni versal 6uffrage the queen of all the I flowers. About six hundred years ago the duke of Lancaster chose a red rose for his emblem. His brother, the 18 duke of York, choso a white rose. The - descendants of these two princes got - to fighting for the crown and it was n called the war of the roses. But after s while the son of one married the ' daughter of the other and stopped the war, and the two roses were united in le to one and called the Tudor rose. " In the eleventh century the Danes n mande war upon Scotland, and one dark kd night planned an attack upon a fortress Is that was the key to the whole country. "I They took off their shoes and breeches Lo so as to swim across a muoat that sur Ly rounded the fortress, thinkig that the 'Is moat was deep and full of water. But 10 the Scotch had nearly filled the moat id with thistle, and it stuck the Dlanes so terribly that they yelled in agony and got out quickly and the Scotch took them unawares and killed nearly all of them before they could put on their I shocti and breeches. Tihe thistle saved ig Scotland, and so they took it for theit so national flower. or Away back in the centuries, when to good St. Patrick went to Ireland as I1l missionary, he preached to them about 0- the Trinity an how there were threc L's persous is one God, and the peopic h- laughed at him and said it was impos. in sible and they didn't believe it. ISc '( the saint picked up a shamrock sten: 10 with its thrtv leaves growing out of il at and exclaimedl:" Why not? Wh3 le not? If thil I le pliant can miaki I's three from oi.e, hy can't God do it?' So be convinced and converted all thal is, people, and they took the clover oi at shamrock plant for the national flower, of In the sixth century the Norman [as invaded Wales, and just before a greal mn hattle one (lark, cloudy evening th ad Welsh wvent, through a licld where th< m1 leeks or wild onions were in bloom di and eycry man plucked one andl stuck ry it in his hat so as to dlistinguish theil -- soldliers from the enemy, and lby th~ or means they whipped the light and )i savedl their country. After that, they ut took the leek for their national flower BY When Nlapoleon Bonaparte overraim r- G ermany and the emperor andl hiu rs famnily had to fly from Berlin and .con ry ceal themselves, lie was awfully dia. ti- tressed andl they liked to have perishied, 11i, But his old1 mother made garlands of1' ill ;little wil flower, known as the corn bie flower or kaiserblume, and put thenr a .on him andi cheeredl him up, and whei: ~o Bonaparte was vanqjuishecd the em tie peror adhoptcd that little wvild flower al 118 the national emblem. ed -When Louis VII started out on thi Crusades lie chose the iris as his badge, naS and when he returned with his armn cy it, was adopted as the nation's flower, '10 This is enough of national flowers.] 'a- wish ws had one for our nation, and of we will have one when this IFederatiort uh of Womn's Clubs takes 1ho1( of the Lit matter, andl I hope it, will be the golden 10 rod. It grows from Mamne to Mexic<: id and bcud~s Its graceful head in field and ro forest. r, The reason I got to rummnatinn 3(d about flowers was because our goo(l 3d ladies gave an entertainment the othei dl. night which was quite original and u- peculiar. .it was called the enchanted se gardlen. Tihere were twelve pretty flowers painted on a long curtain and in front of them was an old1 gardener teaching a pretty little girl her first lesnin flowers. lIe told her their origin anti ho0w they got their nmeme and whenever he mentioned One of thet flowers that, was on the curtain and p-hoinitecd to it, that, flower disappearetd e as if by enchantment and in its place td there applearedl the face of a pretty girl s or woman, who sang a song that fitted 1 the flower-such songs as "Only a -IPansy Blso, " TIhe Last, Rose of 4 Summer,'' ''Pond Lilies,'' " A Bunch e of D~aises," etc. At intervals between e t~he songs, the old gardenmer told his '1 pupil how Clyta fell in love with Apollo, -the godi of the sun, antd she gaz~ed1 upon0 him so continually that, he got tired of t~ it, andi turned her into a hehotrope, for this Greek wortd means turnetd by the sun. And how Apollo's cup hearer 1was a very hiantdsome boy and Apollo .loved him so much that another boy killed him through envy and his dead t botly was changetd into a hyacinth. - Tihe Greek spelling is Yacinthus antd Apollo stamped the Greek letiter Y on every petal, and it, is there yet. And how a very vaiin and handsonme youth spent, all of his time looking at, him self in a fountain of clear water and onc0 day lie fellI in andit was d rownedl and A p1ll hiIangedl his body into a narcissus. And how the carination -was always a pink or flesh color for the IGreek wortd carnios mean flesh, but, now it is of all colors. And how dlandlelion means a lion's tooth from the shap~e of CASTOR IA For Inf'~nts aind Children. The KInd You Have Always Bought hoears th