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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Xtic National Flower. 



CHARLOTTE E. WARKER. 



The National Flower ! What shall it be ? 

 Wind whisper it softly to me. 

 "Not the Arbutus, lovely and shy, 

 Hiding its head f I'om even the sky, 

 Only loving the quiet nooks. 

 The song of birds, of rippling brooks, 

 In some lonely, shady glen. 

 Away from the busy haunts of men. 

 Exhaling there the breath of Spring, 

 To Winter's graves sweet offering ; 

 Too short thy life, thy flowers too rare 

 For a whole Nation's claim to share." 



"Not the Laurel, whose glossy leaves 

 So soft adorn the festal wreaths. 

 Or round the victor's brow entwine 

 As tribute to his gifts divine. 

 Long ages past the laurel's been 

 Emblem of greatness unto men. 

 The Nation's flower should know no state- 

 No rich, no poor, no small, no great— 

 The laurel, then, men fain must see, 

 The Nation's Flower can never be." 



Wind, wilt thou whisper again to me. 



The National Flower, what shall it be ? 



" Something that grows without thought or 



care. 

 Springing up by the wayside everj'where. 

 Cheering the wearj^ heart passing by. 

 Reflecting the sunlight unconsciously. 

 Sui-ely, bright Golden-rod it must be you ! 

 Suggestive the rod, unless men be true ; 

 Suggestive the gold ; pure deeps must men 



shower 

 Along the world's wayside— thou art the 



flower." —Good Housekeeper. 



HOX. J. IW[. HAHIBAUOH. 



The subject of this brief sketch is one 

 of the men of whom the State of Illinois 

 is proud. His career in the last Legis- 

 lature, as a representative from the 

 36th District, has made a national 

 reputation for him as a champion for 

 the rights and privileges of apiarists. 



During the present year the Bee 

 Journal has contained the full text of 

 the bills he has championed, and has 

 often referred to the successful work he 

 has done in the Legislative halls of 

 Illinois, and we need not here repeat 

 them. 



His father, S. D. Hambaugh, repre- 

 sented the same District from 1842 to 

 1844, and the son is therefore an honor 

 to the father as well as the State. 



Mr. Hambaugh was elected on the 

 Democratic ticket, but has a large agri' 



cultural constituency. He has given 

 entire satisfaction to the electors of his 

 District, and will in all probability be 

 re-elected, should he accept the nomi- 

 nation. 



In the Legislature he labored inces- 

 santly for the measures which he cham- 

 pioned, but refuses to attribute their 

 success to his individual labors, pre- 

 ferring to share the honors with the 

 hosts of friends, who rendered cheerful 

 assistance, and labored for their enact- 

 ment. 



Mr. Hambaugh's ancestry on his 

 mother's side came from the old English 



HON. J. M. HAMBAUGH. 



Puritan stock, the descendants of which 

 gave us a President in the person of 

 Chester A. Arthur. 



We have procured the following facts 

 from " one who knows him well," and 

 feel sure that they will be interesting to 

 our readers : 



Joseph Mirando Hambaugh was born 

 in Versailles Township, Brown County, 

 Ills., on July 16, 1846, hence is over 45 

 years of age. His father, Stephen D. 

 Hambaugh, emigrated from Kentucky, 

 and pre-empted the land now occupied 

 as a homestead by his son, in the year 

 1828, being one of the very first settlers 

 of that section of the country. 



At that time there was not a railroad 

 in the State of Illinois, and but few in 

 the United States. 



