i roppfcg. t'opptao in the garden, Ah, Che eplendidahowt Paarly, crimson banners In the sunehine's glow, Haughty lonle and ladies Of the garden bed, Bare and lofty petiole, And a gorgeous head. Blow, poppies, blow I Only thero for show. Poppies by the aero, Growing tbero for trade | Prom the pearly banners Subtle poison made. Growing there for markot, Growing to be sold, Mot for scent or beauty— No, indeed I—for gold. Poppies, blow or fade, You are but for trade. Poppies in the wheat field, Now I see a graoe; Bee and beauty blended Maki a pleasant place. 80 with daily labor Blend some pleasure sweet; As the idle poppies Grow among the wheat. Toppies at our feet Grow among the wheat. —Harper's Weekly. THE QUEEN OF THE HAMLET. A PATHHTIU BTOBY TOLD DX A TRAVELER. "A bill of hillocks, flowory and kept green, Bound erosees raised for hope, With many tinted sunsets where the elope Vaoes the lingering western sheen." " Thero you have au exact picture of % litfle village cemetery in the Baden Palatinate where I heard one of the most romantic stories 1 have ever met in the forty years of my life." The speaker was a gentleman residing en West Bprnoe street, Philadelphia, who had been on a lengthened tour in Europe, and was laden with anecdotes md stories of people and adventures. Sitting in his oozy smoking-room, he tontinued: "In the Palatinate it is a customary ihing with tourists to take long walks, ometimes for days together. There is p much to be seen, so many ruined feudal strongholds and bewitching ulleys and romantio waterfalls, which an only be approaohed on foot lam bnd of walking, and with a knapsack containing a few necessities strapped o my baok, and a good stout oaken tiek in my hand, I have tramped many . Herman mile—one of theirs equaling bree of ours—through some of the aost beautiful scenery in the world, fou do not trouble yourself much about lotels. If you cannot find a roadside an, you are safe to oome across a armhouse or a hunter's lodge, and a tospitable welcome is a matter of outse. One evening I arrived at the [uaint little village of Rohrback, a lamlet eighteen miles from Heidelberg, testling at tli9 foot of a gentle de iivity which slopes down to the banks if the Neck or river. On the summit of he hill were the remains of a baronial ironghold, whioh I carefully investi (uted from tower to dungeon. "Then I wandered down the foot •aths to the viilage and entered the uatio church, and soon found myself aeditating over the brass-sontoheoned ombs of the robber lords who were >nee, perhaps, the terror of the dis rict. What a quantity of high, well- K>rn mightiness, to translate the old fforman and Latin inscriptions, was covered by those broken monuments, vhioh at once disfigured and adorned he narrow chancel of the long church, ind what strange scenes were evoked by <he contemplation of the tattered ban ters and rust-eaten casques suspended kom the rafters above the tombs, I lingered awhile with my thoughts, and ■hen tempted by the perfume-laden oreeees which floated through the open foor, I wandered into the churohyard where the village elders sleep their last deep of all amid their dead kindred, rhe graves were all alike; grassy nounds and wooden orosses inscribed with the simple words, ' Pray for the IOUI of Jobann or Litohen.' One grave, however, attracted my curious attention. It stood but a little apart from the rest and was deftly fenced around with dwarf shrubs. In the center of the inolosure, above the green oaound, wan a small white marble cross. Tinning its branches around wan a beautiful white rose tree, covered with flowers. On the cross was insoribed • Boeslein,' and beneath the name the versa: Ooms onto me all who labor with sorrow and care overburdened, And rest I will givs you and pardon, for sake of toy Bon interceding. "While musing as to who 'Little Roso'might have been, I heard a foot- behind me, and there was the ven ( arable priest of the hamlet, who, see ing I was a stranger, cordially invited me to enter an adjacent cottage—his parsonage—and partake of his evening meal. The fresh milk and fruit and the home-made bread were done fullest Justice to by me, and we sat smoking together, for the good priest gladly ac cepted a cigar from me, until a tinkling bell summoned him to evening service. Previously be had insisted on my pass ing the night under hie roof, so, hav ing rid myself of my knapsack and waahed off the dust of my journey, I' followed the pastor to church and listened with reverence while he sheeted the benediction to a few dozen simple looking rostios, whose attention was hardly restrained by the solemnity of the rftual from concentrating itself npon the stranger. " At the close of the service the priest and I walked slowly homeward through the churchyard, but we halted a few minutes in front of the rose-hidden marble cross, where the priest knelt a while in prayer. Later, when sitting in the porch of the parsonage—the moon light throwing silver radiance on the trees, the air fragrant with the scent of a thousand dowers, the nightingale singing its love serenade to the evening wind—l was told Rosslein's sad story. " 'She was tho pride of the whole vil lage,' was the faltering exolamation of the clergyman, as he stifled the emotion caused by remembrance. 'She was so beautiful, it seemed as if a sunbeam had mated with a rose and She their off spring. We all loved her, for she be longed to us all. One Christmas eve, twenty-two years ago, I was standing at the foot of the altar giving the message of mercy to my flock : Como unto me all who labor, with sorrow and care overburdened, And rest I will give you and pardon, for sako of my Son interceding) when the blacksmith entered, bearing something in his arms. Ee had been for a walk of some distance to the postal town, and I thought when 1 missed him in his accnstomed seat he had probably been impeded by tho snow, whioh was falling heavily. He walked to where his wife was kneeling and plaoed the bundle in ber arms. It gave forth a child's cry, and the woman be gan to soothe what was evidently an in fant. At the close of the servioe I questioned the blacksmith. He told me that he had found the child lying in jjfche snow by the roadside within a mile of the village, warmly wrapped in a blanket. Half an honr before finding the infant a closed carraiage had passed him, driving very qniokly. The baby proved to be a little girl of a few weeks old. She was dressed in costly gar ments, and 500 florins in notes were found in the folds of her dress. My housekeeper took charge of the tiny flower, and meanwhile I made every kind of inquiry my limited means would allow, but I could disoover noth ing about her parentage, and to this day it still remains a mystery. Howeveri we willingly adopted her among us, and all the village became her foster parents and she their queen. " 'She grew up sweet and beautiful as an angel. At every wedding she was bridemaid and dressed the bride. When a ohild was born Roeslein gave it its first kißs—a fairy gift 1' any one died Roeslein placed the white flowors over the dead. As for the young men of the village, why, thoy adored her. She did not show any preference, how ever; they were all her brothers, noth ing more. I used to think that Qod intended her for Himself, and sooner or later I hoped she would take the vows of an order. " •Oa Rceilein's eighteenth birthday we had a village festival, and a young Englishman took part in the games. He was an artist, and had been Btajing a few days at the Qolden Lion, the inn yonder. He had oalled npon me and told me he intended to make sketches of the ruins and the churoh. Nobody interfered with him or took any partic ular notice of him. We were aocus tomed to foreign artists wandering our way, and this one seemed a quiet, gentlemanly young fellow. At the fes tival he danced two or three times with Roeilein, but we thought nothing of that. On the morning following the artist got np early and departed before Hans Eberle, who was host in those days, was out of bed. The amount of his bill was found on the dressing table, so no remark was made until some honrs later, when Roeilein was suddenly fonnd to be missing. Bearoh was instituted everywhere, and then it began to be whispered that Rcedein had often sat in the chnrchyard with the artist watching him paint. Finally our fears were confirmed. The miller anived in the evening from the postal town eight miles distant. He had seen Rcoilein and the artist together, and the latter had engaged a carriage, which had driven off toward the Uni versity city. I hastened to Heidelberg in a distracted frame of mind. I made every inquiry to find out if any priest had married them; but from no one ooold I obtain any information. I re turned to my flock with my sorrowful news. The whole village was in monrn. ing; all felt they had lost an adored child, a'beloved sister. " 'Time that soothes, bat does not heal, rolled onward, and Christmas eve had returned for the second time since Roealein had left ns. What a night it was I The snow was over a foot deep on the ground. My people had assem bled for the watch service, and I ad dressed my flock and exhorted those who had not laid their last sins at the feet df the Savior to do so without delay. Ooms unto me ail who labor, with sorrow <n a care overburdened. And rest I Will give you and comfort, for sake of mj Sen interceding. " 'Just as His sweat message was out " of my lips there approaohed down the venter able toward the altar a woman pale, drenched ud tattered, bearing a ohild in ber arms. Tottering to where I WM standing on the stops of the sanc tuary, she laid the ohild at my feet and then fell forward on the floor. Two or three quiokly raised ber—she was dead ; but in the pinched, frozen lineaments we recognized one long lost—Eoeslein I Tenderly, reverently, we laid her at the foot of the altar. She had brought her harden unto Him, and it had been aooepted. I knew that her soal had risen heavenward, and was sure of loving mercy and forgiveness. We baried her where yoa saw to-day. Last year an anonymous writer sent me a thousand florins for my poor, on condi tion I erected a marble cross over Rcoilein'a grave. So I bad one put up beside the white rose tree the villagers had already planted above the grass* mound. " ' And the ohild ?' I questioned. "•God returned it to her. It died within a few days of it mother, and lies beside her. The betrayer was never seen by any of ue again.' " The priest's story affected me very much," remarked the lately arrived traveler as he concluded his narrative. "I sketched the grave before I left the next morning. I will show it to you when I have unpacked my things." Henrj Ward Beeclier'g Early Married Lire* The Pall Mall Gazette, of London, says: The wife of Mr. Henry Ward Beecher has recently been communi. oating some interesting details of her early housekeeping experiences to an inquisitive reporter. When she married Mr. Beecher was the minister of a small ohuroh out West, with a stipend of seventy-five dollars per annum. As the congregation consisted of twenty-four women and one solitary man, who was excommunicated, the only wonder is that they were able to raise so muoh. They began housekeeping in two small rooms over a store; and this is the way in whioh they furnished them: | )"My brother gave us a piece of carpet, and other members of the family gave us a cooking stove and two lamps. A classmate of Mr. Beecher gave him a set of knives and forks, and a friend gave a set of orockery. When we got home we asked permission to paint the dirty floor. The proprietor denied our request, because he was afraid "it would rot the wood." Mr. Beecher threw off his ooat, rolled up his sleeves, and helped me to scrub the rooms with soap, water and sand. It was some days before the stains were got out We were given a table and a double bed, and I made mattresses of cheap material and filled them with husks. Then Mr. Beecher wanted a book-case. I saw a dilapidated old wash-stand lying in the yard. It was very far gone, but Mr. Beeoher fastened it together, put some shelves on it and it answered nicely for a bookcase. On a piece of wire stretohed across one oorner of the room I hung a curtain of fourpenny calico and kept behind it my washtub, flour barrel and oooking utensils. On a stick across the top Mr. Beecher hung his saddle. I fastened some sticks to the legs of the single bedstoad and made it a high fourposter. I hung a canopy about it, and on a pieoe of tape inside we hung our clothes. When we had company we took the canopy down."' They had a hard struggle in making both ends meet, but Mrs. Beecher agrees with her husband in regarding these early days as the happiest in their life. Weighing the Earth. One would scarcely think that the world oonld be weighed in soales like a package of merchandise, but Her yon Jolly, of Mnnioh, has done so, and finds it is 5,792 times as heavy as a body of water of the same size, or about half as heavy as if it was of solid lead. He plaoed his balance in the top of a high tower, and from each of the scales sus pended, bv means of a wire, a seoond ecale at the foot of the towur. Two bodies which would balance in the upper sealos were out of balanoe when one was removed to the lower soale, because the latter was nearer the center of the earth. By comparing this differ ence with the difference caused by a large ball of lead in olose proximity to the lower soale, he obtained an equa tion which, with the known size of the earth, gave the density of the latter as above stated. A Mansolenm to Cost $40,000. The Seligman family of bankers, of Now York, are about having built a splendid mausoleum in Cypress Hills oemetory, and the plans have boon chosen. It will be composed of gran ite, hexagon in form, and with a dome on whioh will be a bronze figure. There will be a vault containing ten cells on eaoh side. This will be lighted by uindows in the dome. The entranoe will be through a sort of portico, with granite columns and gates of the same for the interior. The exterior gates will be of wrought bronze. Stained glass windows will shed their oheering light. The whole will coat abont $40,000 EGIPTIAI PECULIARITIES.. The Pfww-Lnlnr Peeplo ef Upper Frrpt- Tho Uadire—A Romance ef the Period. The following is from an artiole on the tronble in Egypt whioh appeared in the Hew York Herald: The action o' the governor of Minieh, 136 miles np the Nile from Cairo, was a perfectly natural proceeding for that official, when he refused to permit any iuterfereuoe with the administration of the railways. The provinoe, of whioh Minioh ie the oapital, is agriculturally one of the richest in Egypt, and the governor con siders himself an important factor in the governmental machinery along the Nile. When travelers stop there ho generally provides an elaborate Turkish dinner, the inevitable ohibooks and coffee, and gayly-oaparisoned asses and donkeys on whioh to monnt to visit the points of interest lying beyond the town. Then follows the fantiaser, with the Egyptian dancing girls; the grahosec, whioh holds the party far beyond midnight to the sonnd of revelry and the rude native music. Few of the largo towns along the river have ever had a heartier or more hospitable mudir than Minieh. The town is simply a mnd oi'.y of some 15,000 souls, dwelling near the bank of the river in all of the squalor pecnliar to the Egyptian habitations. In these settlements, and as saoh they are far ther to southward, the entire popula tion—men, women and children—are made to work. The mndir holds his appointment from the khedive or through the minister of the interior, who managee the entire local admin istration. The mndir has supreme charge of the taxation in his province ; in faot, is king of the domains over which his jurisdiction extends. He must, however, be aarefnl to see that every intermediate official between bim sclf and the khedive receives handsome preeents, and neither mast they be in significant in point of valne, usually consisting of a handsomo bag of British sovereigns with proffers of eternal gratitude. At least annually the mndir makes a visit to Cairo, and there he is expected to signalize his advent in the capital by substantial testimonials to the khedive. These generally take the form not only of money, bat also of the handsomest Egyptian maidens whom ho can find in the province. Nor is their social qnal ity respected. There have been in years gone by terrible reprisals on ao oonnt of the ruthless desecration of tho household. Among the more spirited Bedonin Arabs, when their daughters and sisters have been seized for the harem of the mndir or the khedive, the scheme of blood revenge has been de veloped, and retribution has followed until whole families have bten swept away. It thus appears that the mndir is bat a slave of the rnling power in Cairo, making the better governor when he can exoel in pandering to his imme diate snperior, the minister, and then to the khedive. It is not always safo for a governor of a province to reside among the people whom he has plundered and oppressed. It also not infrequently happens that the governors are nothing bnt common assassins, who are called upon to exe cute the summary or secret vengeanoe of some minister or favorite at oonrt of ali cm they may stand in awe. A case that occurred while the llerald corre spondent was in the upper oountry was directly to the point. A Turkish official of high rank—he was a bey—had long been a favorite of the khedive at Cairo, for they had been educated together in Franoe. This official wbr, therefore, a great deal around the palace, and it oc curred to the kliedive's mother that she would like to marry off a favorite child of the harem to a gallant officer in re. oeipt of large pay. The bey was sum moned by the khedive and told that his mother had found him a wife—a wondrous creature. O' oonrse in the East such an intima tion to a subordinate is simply a com mand; yet whilo the hey submitted he seoretly chafed at what he considered a gross imposition upon a friend, a Turk ish aristocrat, and an officer accus tomed to European liberties and ens toms. The marriage took place and was a grand fete, costing many thon sand dollais. Of oonrse the bey had never looked upon her faco nntil after the nuptial knot was tied, and when he did neither the oonntenanoe nor the owner thereof was to his liking. Two years went by and the khedive's mother perceived that the yonng wife was slowly pining away. At last persistent inquiry made the girl disclose that from the very honr of the oeremony the bey had defined to treat her as his wife. The khedive's mother— a perfect tigress-- hastened to his highness and demanded that the bey should be put to deat h instautly. n-3 oonld not refuse. The bey was immediately seised, oonveyed by a guard 1,800 miles to the Sondan, and upon his arrival the gov ernor-general was ordered to strangle him; bat the governor-general hap pened to be the life-long friend of the condemned man and allowed bim to live. Six different orders were sent to hit; him, bnt not one of them was | obeyed. The Herald correspondent WM the guest of this gentleman in the Soudan tor over two months, and these facts oame from his own lips. A better eduoated man one seldom finds in the world's travel. His books were Miohe let, Victor Hugo, Abont, Schiller, Goethe, Heine, Irving, Ds Tocqueville and others. He finally joined caravans with the Herald correspondent on a journey of 1,500 miles to Cairo, and returned to Hhartoum to beoome gov ernor general in the very oapital where he had been sent to be put to death. He has sinoe been minister of publio instruction in the servioe of the present khedive. Qucsr Happenings. A olond, seen in Gnatemala for eight oonseentive days, was fonnd to oonsist of seeds floating in the air. An Ontario farmer, Nathan Briscoe, died in fifteen minutes from the effects of a bee sting on the forehead. A Hawkinsville, Ga., man weighs 225 pounds, his wife 220 pounds, and their fifteen living ohildren are all he*. weights. While plowing in a field near Ope lousas, La., a negro strnok a jar contain ing SIO,OOO in Bpanish silver coins of the date of 1779. Louisville was darkened recently by a flight of black flies whioh ooverodthe street lamps so that their light was al most entirely obsonred. A dog belonging to the Monongahela house, Pittsburg, had its leg broken. After meditating,' apparently, for a time, it ran to the river, and, deliber ately diving undor water, was drowned. A. B. Camp, a miner at San Benite, had just kissed his wife who had come to visit him after many years of separa tion, and, as they were leaving the tnnnel, he a little in advanoe, the roof fell in and she was killed. While sinking a shaft in the gold mine of Gary Oox, in Oherokee county, Ga., many feet below the snrfaoe the workmen came upon two human heads carved out of marble. They were not finished, bnt had evidently been oat with good tools, and lay upon a bed of slate. As Charles Siloway, engineer, of Me chaniosvillo, was entering a cut with his train he saw the embankment giving way, and, knowing he oonld not stop his train in time to avert an acoident, he polled the throttle wide open. The train sped with lightning like rapidity, and had barely oleared the eat when the earth fell, covering the track ten feet deep for a distance of 200 feet. Tho farm of Goorge Smith, in Faulk ner county, Arkansas, has been undea cultivation for more than half a etm tnry, yet, as he was plowing a field rcoently, he turned np some ancient relics ; and in a ravino, reoently swept by an overflow, ho found a large number of human skeletons, with earthen bowls, shells and arrows. The eknlls were all encased in vessels made of olay, and one, with handsomely en graved ornaments, scorned to denote that the sknll belonged to an important personage. Tangled tyiostlons for Scientists. There is a family in the neighbor hood of Lewistown, this ooanty, of whioh the following marveloas history has jnst been related to us by a re sponsible physician, well acquainted with the facts. Some fifteen or twenty years ago the father and mother had a quarrel, and for a year the former never spoke to the latter. A child was born abont eight months after the quarrel, and he has never spoke a word to his father. They work together days at a time, and the father talks to his son, bnt he never answers. The yonng man has been questioned ia regard to the matter, and he says that £e is never prompted to speak to his father, that he has never had an impulse to speak, and that it seems to him that there has never been any ocoasion for him to speak to his father ; that he bears his father no ill will, and wonld speak to him shonld he ever be prompted so to do, —Mc~ chunks tovrn (Afd.) Clarion. A Sand Storm. A remarkable sand storm, acoompan ied by an intensely nold temperature, Is mentioned in Icelandic journals as hav ing raged on that island for two weeks during the past spring. The air WM filled with dry, fine sand to saoh a degree that it WM impotsible to sea for more than a short distance, and tha sun was rarely visible, though the sky was clear of olands. Nobody ventured out of his house exoept upon matters of the most urgent neoessity, and many who were exposed to the storm wen frozen. The sand penetrated into the houses through the minutest orevtees. It was found mixed with ariiolee of food and drink, and every breath drew it into the longs. Thousands of sheep and horses died. Discretion Is more necessary to woman i ban eloquence, because they have less trouble to speak well than to apeak little. *Tfre FAMILY DOCTOR. Women drew so that when oo* at doors they only half fill the lungs with air, oonseqnently the flash is flabby, nerves are weak, brains unmagnetiot and their mental efforts superflciaT' oompared with what they might be. Those who live in a malarious climate should not go out before breakfast nor after sundown, neither should they, sleep on the ground floor. Fruit and grains are the best food for malarious people; meats and greasy substances ought to be avoided. A sick person who is curable can't die, provided he is put under righ con ditions, by and with his own consent, and keeps there. Thousands die be cause they are not brought under the obstructed operations of the laws which God has ordained for them to live by. Providence would appear to be con spiring or eo operating with those who have so long labored to reduce meat eating within reasonable limits, and to substitute a milder and more healthful diet—and if it produce such results the present scarcity of oattle will be any thing but a crying evil, however loud may be the complaints of those who sell, and those, who, from the nature of their business have to purchase meat for their guests. A physician writes from Peru to make known the result of his observation of malarial or intermittent fevers and their cause. He believes more in sur faoe chilling as a cause than in germs. In places of high altitude, where there was no chance, as he thinks, for ma larial germs to thrive, he has seen typ ical and extreme attaoks of intermittent fever from exposure daring the 000 l of evening in the same clothing which was worn in the tropical heat of the day. To properly proteot oneself by remain ing indoors daring the evening, or by wearing an overcoat when going out, was quite sufficient, in his experience, to prevent or avoid so called malarial troubles.— Dr. Foote'i Health Monthly. Celery. I have known many men and women, too, who, from various causes, had be come so much affected with nervous ness, that when they stretched ont their hands they shook like aspen leavee on windy days—and by a daily moderate use of the blanched foot stalks of celery leaves as a salad they became as strong and steady in limbs as other people. I have known others so very nervous that the least annoyance put them in a state of agitation, and they were almost in constant perplexity and fear, who were also effectually oured by a daily moderate use of blanched celery as a salad at meal times. I have known others cured by using eelery for palpita tion of the heart. Everybody engaged in labor weakening to the nerves shonld nse celery daily incite season irndf onions in its stead when not in season.— Christian at TPcHb. Subjugating Vicious Horses. The Vienna AUeffemeinc ZciUtng tells of an English horse trainer who has been giving proofs of his skill in tire presenoe of the Austrian emperor, "the most unmanageable stallion in the royal stable was brought out and turned over to him. He speedily had the ani mal under control, and, having opened its month, found a small abscess in the jaw that was caused by the sharp and jagged edge of a tooth. Th'is he re lieved at onoe by a little filing, to which the animal submitted patiently. Then he removed the bit and halter, leaving the animal entirely free, and lying down upon the ground, placed one of the stallion's hind feet on liis breast to show how completely tamed he was. His exhibitions of skill were altogether highly satisfactory to the emperor, who gave him some valuable presents and commissioned him to in spect the other horses in the imperial stud. The Language of the Eyes. Bound-eyed persons see mnoh, live me oh in the senses, bnt think lest. Narrow eyed persons, on the other hand, see lees, bat think more end feel more intensely. It will be observed that the eyes of ohildren are open and ronnd. Their whole life is to reoehre impressions. It is only when childhood is maturing toward manhood or woman hood that thought comes, if it oomes at aIL Bat what is it that most leads to reflection ? Experience. Oar errors, oar shortcomings, oar fail ares—these teach as to think before we not, to consider each step, to weigh every mo tive. When, therefore, the upper eye lid—for it is that which has the greatest amount of mobility—droops over the eye, it indicates not merely reflection, bnt something painful to reflect about. Henoe the length or drooping of Ac upper eyelid betokens oonfession and penitence. — P\rexoi-yical Magazine. Fin engines of very rude con struction were in use in Holland as early as 161S, but it was not until 100 years later that they were snfflciraitiy perfected to be of any practical value, Paris first had a fire engine in 1609,
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