Fallow. I like these plants that yoa call weeds— -8edo, hiirdliaok, mullein, yarrow— That knit their roots and sift their seeds Where any tirossy wheel-track lends Through country by-ways narrow. They fringe the ragged hillside farms, Grown old with cultivation. With such wild wealth of rustio charms As bloomed in Nnttire's matron arms The first days of creation. They show how Mother Garth loves best To deck her tired-out places; By flowery lips, in hours of rest, Agniust hard work she will protest With homely nirs and graces. You plow the arbutus from her hills, Hew down her mountain laurel; Their pUtce, ne best she can, she fflls With humbler blossoms ; so she wills To close with you her quarrel. She yielded to your ax with pain Her free, primeval glory ; She brought you drops of golden grnin tou say : " How dull she grows !—how plain !" You old, mean, selfish story. Hsr wildwood soil yon may subdue, Tortured by hoe and harrow; But leave her for a year or two, And see! she stands and lauglis at you With hnrdhnck, mullein, yarrow ! Donr Garth, the world is hard ts please Yet Heaven's breath gently passes Into tho life of flowers liko these, And I lie down at blessed ease Among the weeds and grasses. —Lucy Isircom. THE MAMELUKE S LEAP. There arc few more striking city landscapes in the whole of Africa, though there may be many handsomer, than the panorama of Cairo, where an cient and modern Mohammedanism stand represented side by side. As a mere picture, the traveler may perhaps give his preference to the towering red cliffs and terraced streets of on of burn ing light far overhead, between the flat, heavy-battlemented roofs of the strange old houses, with their blank massive walls and deep tunnel-like i doorways. All around you the quaint, old-world life of the "Arabian Nights" is in full swing. The gray-bearded bar ber is chattingto his Arab customer as he shaves his crown. The laden camel striding up the narrow, rubbish heaped street, almost tramples upon a tur baned loafer who is too lazy to get out of the way. The "kalmbki" (seller of cooked meats) sets out upon the narrow "yiard before him his little squares of /noking mutton, each impaled ii|M>n its own tiny spit. The deformed lieggar extends the shapeless mass of sores which serves him as a hand, with a jhrill petition for charity. The bare limbed water-carrier waddles past un der his dripping hag of skin, eyed envi ously by the tattered, dusty pilgrim from Mecca, who is looking around in search of a bath-house. The veiled woman glides noiselessly past in her shroud-like robe, like a risen corpse, while the gaunt, half-clad, wild-eyed dervish (religious devotee) stalks through the crowd yelling like a mini man, and tossing his l>arc arms franti cally in the air. Amid such a scene one would hardly be surprised to come upon Khojah Has san, or Sinliad, the sailor, snugly seated in a shady corner and recounting to a eircle-of admiring listeners one of thoso interminable stories which delighted the Caliph Hnroun Al-Raschld. Be 'ore you reach th foot of the winding path loading upward to the citadel you will be quite ready to assent to tho old Haying that "He who hath not seen Cairo hath not seen the world." But the gem of the whole panorama is the citadel itself, which stands upon a Hteep rocky bluff overlooking tin* town. True, the massive walla are font crumbling to decay, and a military engineer would be anything but satis fled either with tho condition of the defences or with that of tho guns mounts upon them. Hut the most resolute fault-Under could hardly object to tho stately white front and tapering minarets of the great mosque, or to the wealth of coloring lavished upon the graceful columns and fretted cornices and deep, shadowy archways of Its beautiful interior—a ill monument of he greatness of its founder, Meheruet Alt Pasha, the Napoleon of Kgypt, who ruled the country with a rod of iron in the earlier part of tho present century. Beyond the mosque, in the outer angle of the fortress, and just at the point where the rocky face of the hill upon which it stands falls away into a sheer precipice, lies a spacious quadran gular court-yard, pavtsl with broad fiat stones and encircled by a quiet, shady colonnade, the hack of which is formed by the ramparts themselves. As you enter this quadrangle, a gray-haired Arab, who seems to haunt it, tells you in a tone of sombre meaning that it is the Court of the Mamelukes. The name recalls at once the half ! forgotten details of one of the grandest and gloomiest tragedies of modern times, and for any one who wishes to know what Kgypt really is, it is worth while to look back and see what deeds ■ were done in this quiet spot on a cer tain fine summer evening within the • memory of men who are still alive. * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * The evening sun is just beginning to redden the hold ridges of the Mok.at tam hills (which Hank Cairo on the east) as a troop of horsemen, mounted on superb Arab coursers and arrayed , in all the barbaric splendor of Eastern warriors, ride gallantly up the path | leading to the citadel. All are stout and stalwart men, armed to the teeth ami seemingly quite ready to use their weapons at a moment's notice, against j either friend or foe. These are the famous Egyptian Mamelukes, the hereditary aristocracy of the, land, who once facial the tastt soldiers of Itonaparte himself beneath the shadow of the Pyramids, and from whose ranks came the renowned Sul tans that formerly ruled all Egypt from ! the sea to the cataracts of the Nile. Proudly do they tile in through the gloomy old gateway, rejoicing t<> think that even Mehemet Ali Pasha himself, the dreaded Governor uf Lower Egypt, thinks it prudent to stand well with ttie Maiio lukf - and bid them to a feast in his own citadel at Cairo. Little do they dream what manner of a feast it is to be. Mehemet All is not the man to let any one stand in his way, and these haughty chiefs, with their fierce courage ami uncomfortable notions of independence, have long lieen a burden to bun. if tie intends to (as he does) become absolute master of all Egypt, he or they must go; and he has already made up his mind which of the two it shall Is-. In all their pride and splendor the doomed men inarch into the fatal court yard, whence they are never to return. The gate shuts linperceived behind ! them as they enter, while a crowd of 1 obsequious servants press around them to aid in dismounting, tie up their horses and marshal the "noble chiefs" to their appointed places. In the last glow of sunset (for this strange banquet ball has no roof but the ojien sky) the well-spread tables and colored lamps, the crimson hang ings of the encircling colonadr, the dark handsome faces and rich dresses of the Mamelukes, made a goodly show. But, although most of the guests seemed in high good humor with every- j thing, one scarred veteran, with a ■ long gray beard hanging over his brawny chest, looked ominously grave and gloomy. "What ails thee, Father Hassan?" asked a tall, handsome lad beside hitn. ] "Thy face is as dark as the peaks of the Mokattam before a storm." "I am but ill at ease, friend Said," answered the old warrior. "Last night I dreamed that a wild hare ran past me, and thou knowest what that fore bodes." Evidently did know, by the sudden clouding of his bright young face. "Well said the wise man, that an en emy's gifts bring evil," pursued Has san. "Meheinat Ali Pasha loves us not, and here, in his own stronghold who knows what he may do?" "Ha! think'st thou that the Fasha means treachery?" cried the young chief, with a fierce gleam in his large black eyes and a significant clutch of his jeweled sword hilt. "If It lie so let him beware, for he w ho lieats the thicket for an antelope piay chance to rnuso a lion I Hut all this is idle talk—ho dare* not!" "lie darns not," echoed three or four of thu others, with a disdainful laugh : and the feast began. Long and merry did they revel; but just as their mirth was at its height a shrill wistle, sharp and ominous a* the scream of a vulture, pierced the still night air. Instantly the hangings of the colonnade fell, and from behind the pillars, with a flash ami roar like the outburst of a thunder-storm, a deadly volley of musketry came crashing among the revelers. In u moment ull was confusion. The betrayed Mamelukes sprang to their feet and grasped their swords and dag gers; hut what could these avail against the merciless bullets that hailed lymn them without ceasing? Down they went, man on man, and among the llrst that fell was jstor old Hassan, whose gloomy prophecy was but too truly fulfilled. Yet even in this deadly peril, the brave young Said did not lose his pres ence of mind. At the llrst alarm he had sprung to his horso and untied it, but the outer gate was shut. There was only one chance left. As the howl ing murderers closed in to finish their work, Said spurred his horse and darted like an arrow through the doorway leading from the colonnade to the ram part that overhung the precipice. An exulting yell broke from his i enemies ;* they rushed after him, : thinking that now they had him fust, I hemmed in as he was bet ween ttieir leveled weapons and the fearful gulf beyond. Hut they little knew Said, the Mameluke, fine defiant shout, one | headlong bound forward into the empty air. and the. horse and man vanished into the fathomless depths of blnckmtis liclow. Even the savage soldiers turned away in horror from the sight of that desperate leap, little dreaming that their prey had escaped them after all. Yet so it was. The horse was killed, hut the daring rider escaped with a broken limb to die long years after in a distant land, upon a far nobler battlo liehl!—Our Continent Tardy Ke|iaration. Tardy reparation lias at length bu made to he memory of a mortally wronged German woman, whose nam* has Iss-n unjustly held up to public scorn and contumely in the pl.e e of her birth for more than two rcnturiee and half. In the year 117, says The Ismdon Telegraph, the city of Tsnger muende was destroyed by fire, and two years later several persons were tried, condemned, and executed at Branden burg fr acts of incendiarism, alleged to have caused the calamity in ques tion. Anmng those who suffered was Grete Minden, the daught< r "fa Tan gerumend' patri< ian. Slie was p*l and chained t<> a tall |*>st in the market-pl.ii o. The five fingers <elicv*l, withholding her paternal inheritance. was a story by the eminent novelist, Theodore Fontaine, in which Grete Minden figured as a heroine, that suggested an investigation of the documentary evi dence conws-ted with her case t< Ltidoif i'arisius, a member of the reiehstag, and this gentleman found out that the unfortunate woman had most undoubt edly been the victim of a judicial murder. He lost no time in communicating his discovery to the Tangermuende au thorities. ami on Sunday, the 10th ol September, when the clergyman on duty ascended his pulpit to preach the 264 th " conflagration sermon," he pro faced his discourse hy announcing to the congregation that recent inquiry into the origin of the great Tangcrmu ende Are had completely exonerated (Irete Mimlen from any coin|)licity with the authors of that catastrophe. For many days liefore and after the Are she hail been lying on a led of sickness many miles, from Tan germ uende. Sub sequently she hail !>eeii wrongfully ac cused, sentenced, tortured, and done to death with the utmost barbarity, an absolutely Innocent woman. "llow profoundly still and beautiful is the night," she whispered, leaning her flnely-veined temple against his coat-collar, and Axing her dreamy eyes on the far-off I'ieiadea; "how soothing, how restful "Yea," ho replied, toying with her golden aureole of hair, "and what a night to shout cats." LAMPS' DEPARTMENT. I'bahlon Nlri. Feather fans are fashionable. Brasses are again revived in brlc-a orac and objects of art. Black dresses are in favor and are often made of two materials. Nonpareil velveteen Is a desirable material for ladies' and children*' dresses. l'laids are fashionable made up with plain goods matching or harmonizing in color. Itoman gold is fashionable in jewelry | and the demand is for light, graceful patterns. Cashmere is worn in all plain shades of color, arid also brocaded in small de j signs. ('locks introduced in pottery plaques and hung upon the wall are counted with passing fancies. There are revolving fire-screen* which produce line efforts of color In stained and decorated glavs. Very pretty frames for photographs are worked on linen in outline stitch, fruit and flower designs being generally used. Velvet, Ottoman repped silks, bne caded satin* and silks, with large figures, and sometime* brightened with gold threads, and plain satins and plain silks arc the stuffs used for the richest evening dresses. Bright bow* and loops of soft, lustrous Ottoman ribbon* are placed among the falls of lace neck bows when lace h used for this purpose; but ribbon alone forms the greater nuuilx-r of Imjwh for the neck. Basques, with a sharply points! front, short on the hips ami jtostilion backs, are much worn, with narrow l*'X pleating* being placed around the bottom and terminating under the postilion* in the hack. For dancing toilets arc imported vt m Iteautiful transparent silk muslin* of exquisite texture and finish, with single large flowers, such as r<* s and carnations, tlropjx-d ujxin pale-tinted ground*. One pattern in these fabrics shows a pale tea-rose, vt-llow ground brocaded with pale pink azalt-.ts and foliage, and a second pattern, already i made up in Watteau style, ha- n I ground-work "ii pale blue, scattered over with Mush r*>scs and sweet-pea | blossoms. Hrrtrd llkm Hl|ht. Middy Morgan, the woruan stoapcr, taught an insolent policeman a valuable lesson the other day. This l.llow mistook her for a wanderer from the backwoods s* she w.ih walking on a wharf rn-ar the Battery recently, antl loudly ad vistsl her to "walk overlioard." Mie quietly tk his nnmN r, n ;...rti*l him at his station, identified him when lit- 1 ap| • ir -I at the end of his watch, and had him sns|M-titlS for two weeks with out pay. The astounded rough tn.-d to If g off, and his fellow-oflh t r shut him up with tin- n manl, "mtm-I ye right." Xmrk'm llrsnrrfinji School i.lrl. Did you CM r sc* sm h pretty things , as the I ..tnling -chool girls of New York? -ays a wriltr in a city pa|x r. They sally out to walk every after noon. rosy with the strong airs of this ' low gneiss island; demure .is nuns anil 1 representative of all places, but the . native Ni w York type prevail* with its ] brunette skin, gray eyes, height of figure, almost manly countenance and carriage, and well-turned feet. The 1 I'hilatlelphia girls have gentler, more submissive faces, the Boston girls have more beans in their skin ami culture in their scrawn, the Baltimore girls have lost their old reputation and prettier ] faces are now seen in Washington, \ Ix-autv in Uu* West is very ptstrly or- ; ganiztsl, and tii t urn-fed, but there is a thing call**! "style" alsuit these < Manhattan lielles which makes every - one of them the model for a carved i Goddess of Libertv. _—. A Wamflil ||frur n liar In A Sydney (Australia) pajter say*; A short time ago, Mrs. G. A. D. Mo- ; Arthur Campbell, formerly a resident of Coon amble, distinguished herself hy a deetl of admirable bravery. Mrs. Campbell was a passenger in a steamer ' from Ilong Kong to one of the northern ji port* of Queensland, anil one day a 1 little boy about four years of age, to . I whom the latiy was much attached. < fell overboard, the accident occurring through a sudden lurch of the vessel. With the exception of Mr*. Campbell and the man at the wheel all the pas- ' sen gers and crew were at dinner. Without waiting for a life buoy or ! divesting herself of any clothing, and nlmply saying to the man at the wheel; "Don't tell the child's mother," Mr*. I Canipliell plunged into the water, swam to the boy, and held hiin up till both were rescued, the steamer having been promptly stopped and a boat lowered. Neither the lady nor the boy were much j the worse for the immersion. I< A Small Ihirlrinliuf. An Irish washerwoman who wai among the earliest settlors in Loadvilie . Colorado, has succeeded in amasainf a large fortune by her own industry . | Jfor stink in trade when shecame eon j sisted of a pair of tuhs and a wash , board. She liegan business under an • old pine tree on the hillside, having nc means of hiring a house. She at>on, i however, got together with her own r hands a rude slaheabln,and ashusinesr was g'sml at two dollars and a half per dozen for washing, she gradually began ito provide for her wants. Khe got a camp stove, and after furnishing her ralmi eomfortably, Is-gari to at < umulati money. The town Ix-gan to grow in the direction of her cabin, and after aw bile she employed lalsirers to put up a log house. As there was a great de mand for miners' Itoarding-houses, thLs I enterprising woman concluded to ! abandon the waxhtub and start alsiard | ing-houae in her new edifice. In the | idea she received great encouragement, j and the house was opened with llatter ing prospect*. In this venture she proved to be very successful, and made money and saved it. Hy the growth of the city her house linally got to !• in the very centre, and as the streets were laid out, it proved to occupy a be cation on a desirable corner. liusiness was new and she continued to make j money, which she invested wisely. She built another ]<>g house and rent's] it. 'J hen she put up a frame building, which wax rented before it was finished. About this time some 0 f the "land grabbers" disputed her title to the land . and tried to diajK>s-e-s her, but the old i lady bad s. many determined friends among the miners that the effort was given up. Several month ago she r<- used an offer of ten thou .ml dollars for her property, and sit that time • has built a two-storv bloel fronting on a desirable avenue. She -ill lives in her log house, hut intends to tear it down and er ■ t a two-story Mock in its place. When her improvements are eoinplcted she will have an income of more than a thousand dollars jx-r month —a pretty g...! re< -rd of business suc cess for an old washerwoman, it must te admitted. Life's Mockery, "iti v* me another doughnut." Heine McCloskcy's Voice is huskv with grief as she sj aks this., words, •and over the dimplisl check that looks so fair and white in the moonlight the blushes are chasing each other in rapid succession. To her right are the ('at skills, their summits bathed in a flood of suvery light, while at their base lii-s the placid Hudson, its shimmering surface reflecting the twinkling stars that are looking down in all the sib-nt splendor froin the azure zenith. Di ns tly in front of the girl, and lending to the tout ensi mble a soft warmth of coloring not otherwise obtainable, is a large jar. Immediately ix-hind it stands IL miles Perkins. "1 am going aw av," he says.' The girl does not reply. The shadow of the doughnut-jar conceals the look * trembling now, and in the deep brown eyes there are hot tears of sorrow and pain. Suddenly Heine s]n aks. "Go away," she says in agonized tones, "tin away before Iti ll you that which had lssst remain unsaid," arid sobs choke her utterance. A great light breaks upon Horrtiles. Stepping quickly to the girl's side he places his arm around her. "Tell me truly, sweetheart." he says, "do you love me?" For answer she places a soft white arm around his nek, and as he bends over to kiss her the other hand reaches forward, feels cautiously around for an nstant, and then, with a wild cry of lagony. Heine McCloskey falls forward in a swoon. The doughnut-jar is empty.— Chicago Tribune. Origin of a Familiar I'hrase. The oft-quoted saying. "Those whe live In glass houses should not throw stone*," originated at the Union of the Crowns, when London was. for the first time, inundated with Scotchmen. Jealous of their invasion, the Duke of Buckingham organized a movement against them, and parties were formed for the purpose of breaking the win dows of their almdes. Hy way of re taliation. a number of Scotchmen smashed the windows of the Duke'r mansion, known as the "Glass House,'' in Martin's Fields, and, on his coin plaining to the King his Majesty re plied : "Steenie, fHeenia, those who live in glass houses should be careful how they fling stones."— Memoir of Alemndej Sea ton. Costumes are to be less dinging this i sea*on, bat prices will stick. The Climax. If the tea wwi toi hot, tho roffi* too ooW, This tiling was too riew, or the other too old, Tito Grumbler would see It, no doubt. He'd a eigh o you ever go to meeting?" ask<*l a minister <>f a K< ntuekian. "C'-rtainly, sir, twiee a year; spring meeting and fall mis-ting." A : "Why have you mark's] the birth- Jays of all your friends in your almanac?" J5: "So an to know when not to call on them." "Charles, dear," she murmured, as siie strolled aiong the other evening, and ga/i-d uj. at the tie jeweled firma ment, "w hi< b is Venus and which is Adonis ?" Criuti"n in the premises: "Hadn't I Is'tter pray fur rain to-day, deacon 'f said a mini-ti r. "Not to-day. dominie, I tiiink," was the prudent reply; "the wind isn't right." "What are eggs this morning ?" 'Fggs, of course," says the dealer, humorously. "Well," adds the custo mer, "I am gla/1 of it, for the last I Nmght of you wi re chickens." A young man while out searching for his father's pig. accosted an Irish man as follows: "Have you seen a stray pig about here?" I'at responded : "Faix, how could I tell a stray pig from tnv other?" At a stenographic exhibition In Paris twenty four different systems of short hand wire on view. Among other curiosities there was a postcard con taining 44,' M' words. '< ir sules riptions to the oirio : Monument fund of Cincinnati n ov ,i.-.it- al-ut enough !• r tin purine*-. The statue is to be ■ f hr-nze. full length, of heroic size, •Hid mounted on a granite pedestal. "There, never mind." said the dentist, soothingly, as he twited the tooth tround once ~r twin- to loosen it up. "never mind, it won't hurt." "No," gasjn d the victim. "I know it won't, but it il'i- now. and that's what inter *ts me." A very old lady on her death-bed, in |icnitential m<*l. said: "I have Is-en a great sinner for more than eighty y ears, and didn't know it." An old colored woman, who had lived with her Co a long time, exclaimed, "Laws, I knowed it all the time," In the production of coal, Illinois is now second only to Pennsylvania. The Mat" Hun au of Labor reports that thy output has Increased from tons in lKH(l to 9,((in,000 in ljfl that the value at the mines nearly #14,01 tt.OOO. M A lady hail in her ncllcnt girl who hail one /are was alw ays in a smudge. Lin tried to tell her to wash her out offending her. and at last ro*oM| to strategy. "Do you know, BridgA" she remarked in a confidential manner, "it is said if you wash the face c vary day in hot soapy water it will inAkg yon beautiful?" "Will it?" answered the wily Bridget. "Sure it's a won dor ye nivrr tried it, ma'am 1" Obedience to Husbands. , "Your future husl>and seems exacting; he has lw-on st:pwla(4| for all sorts of things," said a mother to her daughter, who was on the point of lieing married. "Never ruib£- mamma," said the affectionate girl, whl was already dressed for the wedding: "these are his lat wishes." This is complete reversal of the rule laid down by the old couplet: 'Man. love thy wife; thy husband. wife, obey. Wixee are our heart; we should 1* head alwmy." In many Instances the state of the caw is rather something like the following "if I'm not home from the party to night by ten o'clock," says the huskanf to his better and bigger half, "donl wait for me," "That I won't," replio the lady, significantly; "1 won't wait but I'U come for you." lie is home ten haxnbers' Jottmci. r