A Peculiar Case.

ip my travels ! " Haranguing him at the close of a day when he had neglected every duty , he broke the force of my censure by demanding if I was " for or agin capital punishment . " He habitually g lided away from a subject that happened to set against snake sliunder

jiim , just as Tennyson ' s " pt a spray !" Poor Cyrus ! I have not even veiled his insignificant and unmusical name , for he is no longer extant in a world he did nothing to benefit or adorn . Oblivion

called for him years ago . He was carried off in the season of green apples , being unable to restrain his reckless passion for unripe fruit . As I strew this handful of popp ies over his unconscious eyelids , I remember with a smile of gratitude the daily fun his droAvsy presence afforded to at least

one member of that little household by the sea ; and pondering hoAV small an interest he ever took in the industries of life , I confidently apply to his " peculiar case " the Avell-known assertion in a celebrated monody— " Little he'll reck if they let him

deep on ! " Vex not his ghost ! Light lie the turf on his inactive elbows , for they Avould be troubled , even now , if under pressure of any kind . It cannot be seriously said of him that he " rests from his labours , " poor lad , for his frequent

slumber was ahvays more natural than his infrequent toil , and he kneAV IIOAV to take much ease during his brief sojourn in this work-a-day Avorld . No " hoary headed swain " DoAvn East can ever make this passing observation touching the habits of our defunct acquaintance :

"Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing Avith hasty steps the deAVS aAvay , To meet the sun upon the upland laAvn . "

But many of us still remember hoAV often "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That Avreathes its oldfantastic roots so

, high , "is listless length at noontide Avould he stretch , And pore upon the brook that babbles by . "

Our Archaeological Corner.

Our Archaeological Corner .

BROTHERS OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE . BRO . George Fort the able author of the " Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry , " has published in the "

Philadelphia Keystone , " so admirably conducted by our amiable confrereBro . Clifford P . McCalla , an Ancient and Curious Document , which Ave give beloAV . It is well known , that in or about the year 1119 A . D ., Geoffry St . Omer and

Hugh de Paganis , Avith five others as some say , under the protection of Raymond Patriarch of Jerusalem and with the approbation of BalcUvin II . Kmg of Jerusalem formed themselves into a Knights Order to preserve the safety of the roads ,

to defend Christian Pilgrims , to , observe the vows of poverty , chastity , ancl obedience , as Avell frs hospitality to the poor , and above alFto protect those who Avent to visit the Holy Sepulchre . In the first instance , they seem to have been under the rule of

St . Basil . St . Bakhvin built for them a hospital close to the Temple , from Avhich they took the name of Knights of the Temple or Templars .

In 1128 Hugo de Paganis , with some others Avent to the Council of Troye , at Avhich the great St . Bernard was present , ancl certain rules and regulations Avere then draAvn up with the approbation of Pope Innocence IL , by Avhich they Avere

incorporated to pray under the name of " Pauperes commilitones Templi in Sancta Civitate "" Poor FelloAv Soldiers ( Knights ) of the Temple in the Holy City . " Some Avriters call them Knights of the Temple of Solomon , "Templimi

Solomonis , " but this does not appear in their OAVU rules , and the Temple more correctly perhaps refers to the " Sanctum Sepulchrum , " the Holy Sepulchre . At the Council of Troye they seem to have been p laced under the rule of St . Augustin , not

Benedict , as some writers assert . The words " frater , " or " frere , " or " brother , " seems to be used indifferently in the " Statuta " or regulations for the " Pauper commilito Christi , " the " Poor Fellow Soldier of Christ . " In the Latin the word " fratribus " is not added to the Latin " commilitonibus . "