Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1878-05-30

The persians, compared with their
heighboes. TIE Turks and Egypiians.
are lively people. bot - wculd call
them nni1f. and even sd because thelT
e,retr = 80 different from cnrss AID
their manapfs are more grave end dls-
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ne6as. an1 oae Of their yearly fesa1EAla
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NJ The Summer. I viii try and tel yod
s0lnefhing aboutit-
The climate beng very warm, the
people live much out of DOORS and dur
ring this feast tents are pitched; every
one wears bis or hef pfettiest dresses.
and, as all Eastern people are fond OF
bright colors, the scene is very gay
one.
During this festival everything be-
tokens mirih and enjoyment. The
cymbals and Lutte are heard from morn
ing till night, the story-tellers recount
their most beautiful tales, and the dane
ing-girls dance for hours at a time.
Then, when night comes and the noon
light covers everything like silver
cloud, the people stretch themselves on
their soft carpets and listen 10 the songs
Of the nightiugales and soit serenades
on the woman's lutte.
In some parts OF Turkey whole fields
of roses are cultivated, from which the
Turks make the famous ''otiar ofroses, :"
which is so fragrant that vessel or
ANYTHING touched with a drop Of IT.
seems never to lose the smell; and the
Hindoos scatter rose leaves in the wa-
ter they drink TO give it pleasant aP-
pearance.
There are more than two hundred
kind of roses, and they are OF all sizes,
from the tiny "Picayune rose, so called
because il is no larger than fve-cent-
piece-which in the South is called a
picavune-~tothe immense cabbage-rose,
Of all shades Of color, bright yellow
pink, red, and almost black. The rose
of Damascus, or damask rose, is the.
one first brought to this country, and Is
very deep red with strong perfume.
Then there are the Egyptian sea roses
tea roses, rock roses which grow IN
dry, rocky places, where no other flow-
er can live; and the Alpine rose, grow
ing by the eternal snow drifts of the
Alps.
=. GAgy-aa see hardy plants, and live long
nmad adtesA~for. There is a
tSsast II Germany, which is known
to be eight hundred years old, and it is
still blossoming.
We all know and love the pretty moss
rose, with its messy, green veil, that
gives il such shy, modest air; and the
tea rose which in the South and West,
grows on large trees. The writer had,
in her garden in Arkansas, one which
grew 10 be over seven feet high, and
would bear as many as five hundred
blossoms at once.
But there is one rose more curious
than all the others-the rose Of Jericho.
1t has another name which bOtanist call
il, that is .Anastafiea, a Greek word
meaning resurrection; and the Arabs
call il The symbol ofimmortality, because
it comes TO life again long after il has
seemed to be dead. II lives in the hot
sands of the Desert of Sahara, and when
the dry season comes il withers, folds
its leaves, and draws up its little roots,
like little feet, into light ball, and the
winds of the desert carry il until il
reaches a moist soil, and then, we are
told, il drops, takes root, and It's blossom
opens, delicate pink.
There is a flower in Mexico, known
as the Resurrection Flower, which is
very much the same. II may be car
ried about in your pocket for year and
more, and YET, when put into saucer
of water, in a few hours viii blossom
out as bright and fresh as If il had just
come out of the garden.
When the Romans conquered Britain,
more than eighteen hundred years ago,
they introduced many curious customs
into that country--among others, that
Of carving the figure Of a rose on the
ceilings Of their banqueiing halls, or
suspending a natural rose over the din
| inc table, with the Latin motto, "SuJ
R0sa," written above it. that whatever
was said there among friends, or under
the rose-for that was the meaning Of
the words-should not be repeated, the
white rose being the symbol Of silence.
The rose is the national emblem ol
England, as the thistle is Of Scotland,
and the shamrock or clover Of Ireland.
Every one who has studied history
knows OF the wars Of the roses in Eng
land, when the two rival families Of
York and Lancaster fought for the Eng
lish crown, the house OF York having
for its badge the white rose, and the
house of Lancaster the red.