Sl)c jTavnui-'fl iilontl)lt) bisitnr. 



27 



A str.iiige story. 



Lord Piiicllion iiiid M-.\\><\- Friiv, a rnii|ilc of 

 Fii^lisli jji'lilli'iiieri, ln^iiiu :M Ciin) List .•UJliiiiili, 

 on their niiini li-imi A!i>s,<iiiiii, vvlien- tliry pick- 

 ed il|> iMiiidi dC tliMt iiiHii-Minliiiii wliicli li:is lieen 

 uiirUed ii|) SCI well liy C;i|it. Bond llr.id i\\ liis 

 lili' ot' Uriice, (oiiiid the lowii in a stiite ol' cxtni- 

 oidiiiaiv excilriiiciil, in cuiisriiMfiii-e oflliH i-ecenl 

 iinivid ill tliDSi! |i;irts iit' a ct^lidir.itt'd iiiiivii'i.ni, 

 tidiii the fKiiire ol' Al'iicii, snineuhere in the 



vi<liiity of the M il.iins ol' the Moon. It w;is 



iiaiveisiilly snid, and fienendly helicvod, that this 

 chaiaiter jiossessed .ind exercised the power oC 

 .showiiijr to any visiter who chose to coaiply 

 with his terms, any person, dead or living', wlioni 

 the same visiter pleased to name. The Eiif;lisli 

 tiavellers, alter ahmidanl iiapiiries anil sonie 

 soriiple.s. repaired to his residence, paid llieir 

 fees, and were admiiled to his Sanctum. They 

 found theniselves ill the presence of a very liaiid- 

 Koaie young iMnor, uiili a very Ion;; lilacU heard, 

 a eriiiisoii caftan, a snow while tiiilraii, eij;lileen 

 inches hiiih, blue trousers and yellow slippers, 

 silliiii.' cross-leu^ied on a turkey carpel, three led 

 sipiare, with a cherry stalk in his mouth, a cup of 

 cofii^e at his left elbow, ;i diaiiiondhefled (la;;;;er 

 ill his ^iirdle, and in his ri;;ht hand a lar;;e vol- 

 ume, clasped with hrazen clasps. On hearing; 

 their errand, he arose iiiid kiui led some spices 

 oil It sort of small altar in the middle of the 

 room, lie then walked round and round the 

 .•illar for half an hour or so, niulieriiif; words to 

 thiiii nuinlrlli^ihle : and l-aviiijr at lensjth drawn 

 three lilies fif chalk aliout the allar, and placed 

 himsell upiiiilil lieside the fl. line, desired iheinio 

 seek a .Seer, and he was ready to •;iMtify llieiii in 

 :ill llieir desires. Tliere were in the old ilays, 

 whole scliuels of niai:iciaus here in Faircpe, who 

 could do nothing in lliis line without the inter- 

 ventimi of a pure Seer — to wit, a maiden's eye. 

 'J'lie African lieloui;s to the same fiaternity — he 

 made llieiii imderstaiid ihat iiolhiiiir could lie 

 iloiie until ii virifineye w,i- placed at his disposal. 

 Me iiade them ;;o oni in the streets of Cairo, and 

 li'lcli up any child ihey tiiiicied, under ten years 

 of ajje. They did so; and afler walkiiif; aliout 

 for half an hour, selected an Arab boy, not a( 

 paiently above eiiilit, win 

 at marbles. They bribeil 

 lirnie, and look him with 

 the African Roi;er Kacoii. 

 lii^diteneil at the smoke 

 chatter tiiid the mntleriiii: — but by and by he 

 Slicked his sniiar candy, and recovered his iraii- 

 ipiilitv, and the magician made him seat himself 

 under a window — the only one thai had not been 

 darkened — and ponrc-d about a lable spoonful of 

 some black liignid Into the boy's ri;;lil hand, and 

 bade liiin hold the band steady, and keep his eye 

 fixed upon tin' smliice of the liipiid, and llien 

 resiimiua his old stalion by the brazier, siiii^' out 

 fur si'\er:d niiniites on end — what do you see ? 

 .Allah bisiuillah— whatdiMoiisee.^ lllala Resold 

 Allah! What do you see? All the while the 

 smoke cm led up taster and taster. Preseiuly llu^ 

 lad said, "Bisinillah! 1 see a liiM>'e — a liorse- 

 maii — 1 .see tuo horsemen — I see three — 1 sei^ 

 four — five— six — I see seven horsemen, and the 

 seventh is a Su/tot." " lias he a fla^' ?" cries the 

 niafiieiali. ''He has three," aiiswercil 1 he boy. 

 ••''I'is well," says the other, " now halt 1" and wiili 

 that be laid Ids stick iij;lit across the fire, and 

 standiiii; np addressed the travellers in thesi! 

 words: — Name your name — be it of those that 

 are upon the earth, or of those that are beneath 

 it; be it Frank, Moor, Turk, or Indian, prince or 

 be^iirar, liviiii; and brealhiiiLf. or resolved into llie 

 (Inst of .Adam, ;WOU years ai;o— speak, and this 

 boy shall behold and describe." 



The first name was William Sliakspeare. The 

 Maiiiciaii maile three reverences towards the 

 window, waved his w.ind nine limes, siiii^ out 

 somethiu;!- beyond their inli'ipretation, and at 

 leimlh called out, •'Boy, what do you behold r" 

 "The Sultan alone remains," said the child — 

 "and beside him I see a pale-faced Frank— but 

 not dressed like these Franks — »» illi lariie eyes, 

 a pointed beard, atall hat, roses on his slioes,aiid 

 a short mantle!" 'J'he other asked fiir Fnnu-i.'! 

 Jlrouel de Vu'lalre, and the boy iinmediately de- 

 scribed a lean, old, yellow laced Frank, wilh .i 

 liii^ie brown »vi;r, a nutmeg; j;raler profile, spindle 

 shanks, buckled shoes, and a ;.'olil snuff box !" 

 Lord Prndlioe now named .\rcdeacon Wraiiii- 

 Imiii, uihI tliu Arab Ixjy made answer, and said, " 1 



III they found playini: 

 hiiii wilh a fi'W iialf- 

 llieni to the studio of 

 The child was much 

 iiid the smell, and the 



perceive a tall, trrey-haired Frank, wiili a black 

 silk petiicoat, walkinj; in a garden with a little 



I k in his hand, lie is readiiij; on the book — 



his e_\es .-ire bri-lil and ^.deaminj; — his teeth arc 

 whin — he is the h.ippiest lookinj; Fr.aiik I ever 

 beheld." Major ['^ lix liow named a brother of 

 his, who is in the cavalry of the Fast India Com 

 paiiy, in ihe presidency of Madras. The Ma- 

 gieiiiii sijined, and 1 he boy jif;ain answered. •' 1 

 see a red haired Frank, with a short red jacket, 

 and while trowsers. He is slaiidini; by the sea 

 shore, ami behind him there is a black man in a 

 tmb.iii, holiliii^- a beauliful hmse riiddy capari- 

 soned." " (Jod in Heaven !" cried Felix. "Nay," 

 the boy resumed, "this is an odd Frank — be has 

 tm ned roniid while yon are speakini;, and, by 

 .Vll.ih! he has but one arm!" Upon this the 

 Major swdoued away. His brother lost his left 

 arm in the cainpaijin of Ava! 



Cliiy Lands. 



iTlr. Allen, of the "Amerir.ui Ai:ricullnrist, " in 

 i;iviiig some directions fm- the inanajienient of 

 stiff clays, recomiueiids as the most effectual 

 mode of improvemeiil and the most desirable 

 where circumstances will justify the expense, 

 the ineorporaliou of a siifiii'ieiit quantity of sand. 



Tlioroii;;l der-drainin;; is next advised if the 



cost can be inemred. At any rate, he advises 

 where the naltnal lidl of the land does not 

 atibrd sntiicient declivity to carry off the surface 

 water, the m:fl<iii<,' of beds ten or twenty |i?et 

 wide with liirrows leading; into a common ditch 

 wilh sntKciiuit fall. He adds, 



'■ Another mode of improvement, which to a 

 certain extent is within every farmer's reach, 

 and as one of the le;;iliinate objects of every 

 g-ood tiirmer's sysieiii, is to add lar;;e qnautilies 

 of coarse, nult'iinented iii.anuie, and all his un- 

 deca\ed ve;;elables; which may be done on a 

 lar-ie scale, by lurnini' in matured crops produc- 

 ed upon Ihe laud. There is no danger of put 

 tiiiL' on too much manure of this kind, if buried 

 siiliicienlly ileep, in proportion to the ipiantity 

 used. And there is as bllle dani'er of sntfeiinH 

 any loss of the manure, it will last till exlians- 

 tei'l by the iirowth of vefjetalioii. Nor will it 

 burn the land, aceordiiif; lo the common plira.se, 

 as an excess of maniiie does on light and sandy 

 soils, ll is not carried auay by rains, rir evapo- 

 r.-ited by heat; but like coin, securely hoarded in 

 a siroirg box, it is safely reiained till the owner's 

 key is applied lo unlock it. The mechanical, as 

 well as cliemie.d characier of this soil, parlicn- 

 larlv ad.ipis it to the preservation of iiiaiinres ; 

 fiir in addilion to its stronir chemical affinity fiir 

 amuiouia, which is the fiertilizing principle in 

 all soils, its mechanical striicliire enables it to 

 hold, beyond the possibility of escape, all the 

 animal and vegetable siibst.-inces buried bene.ilh 

 it" 



Mr. Alliii reeoniinends, and ill this we know 

 that be i- correct, that cl.iy lands slionld be 

 ploughed for s|iring crops in the tiiH. He goes 

 on lo say, 



" !f ciirn or roots are reqniied, the land shonlil 

 be half iilniighed the previous fall; that is,- a 



space shonlil b.- left iii ilested, of the widlli of 



a fiirrow, oil which the upturned liirrow isthrown. 

 By this opi'iation a l.irge dry siirliice is exposed lo 

 Ihe salutary effects of air and moislme, heat 

 anil tiost ; a'nd it will be in ihe best possible con- 

 dition for early tillage, and .abiiiul.Uit cro|is. It 

 will be mellow, fii.able, and compai alive ly dry, 

 and by llioioiigli cross -plougliiug, ban owing and 

 rolling in the spiiiii;-, it will be well tilted for the 

 reception of tlie seed. 



'For wiati'r wheat we do not lliink them 

 suitable, unless prepared by thorongh under- 

 draining, as the wheat is very generally winter- 

 killed, or thrown out by the frost, or drowned 

 by excessive rains, before tlie sun gets sufficient- 

 ly high to protect it. But wilh the best varieties 

 of spring wheat, it produces largely. For the 

 1 roduction of rye, it is totally nnsuiled ; but of 

 bailev, oats, pease, grass, and roots, when suita- 

 bly "prep.ired, no soil produces belter crops. 

 Thir (diief value, however, is dtv grass lauds, 

 anil wliiMi properly put down in meadow, they 

 oULdit never to be disturbed, as with good man- 

 agement, Ihey will be ill a constantly improving 

 state, and afiiird the most profitable and remnn- 

 eraliiiL'- reinrns. Hut whili' in this condition, no 

 animal should ever be siiffacd to graze them, 

 and csiHciully while the ground is soft. Poach- ! 



ing is di!slriiclion to them, and no scarcity of 

 other fliod will jnslify ihe farmer in ilriving bis 

 catib- upon his meadows while salnraled wilh 

 water ll is a common opinion by ibnse nnac- 

 I'listomed lo iheui that clay lands « ill not pro- 

 duce good clover; yet v\e have never seen better 

 clover, or larger crops, then we have repeatedly 

 raised on them. 



" When reipiired fiir roots, corn, or other hoed 

 crops, llie soil should be well charged with ma- 

 nure, iind the most iboidugb tillage will be am- 

 ply repaid. ' .'\ liiile land well liFled,'lia» a pe- 

 culiar signification v\ hell applied to this kind of 

 soil. Plaster, (sulphate of lime,) has no appreci- 

 able effect on it IV hen applied in small quanti- 

 ties; anil lime, (eiirbonale of lime,) has less then 

 on any of the li'jhier soils. Ashes are valuable 

 on any land, and, we believe, under all circum- 

 stances; yet we have repealedly made the appli- 

 ralioii of them on a M'vy sliffclay, wiihont deri-. 

 vingany immedi;ii(. perceptible benefit. A long- 

 er time is reqniied under cerl.dn circnmslances, 

 for them and other maunres to act, but llieir ac- 

 tion conlinnes through a niiKrIi longer period." 



Mary Magdalene. 



BY THK LATK FRANCIS S. KKY, ES-Q. 



Ti) the h:ill of tliat fciist cniue the sitiful and fair, 

 Slip hotird in the city tli it Jesus wns thore ; 

 UnheediiiL' the fpleiidoi" h it blnz^ d "n tl.e board, 

 She Bileiitly knelt at the feet of her Lord. 



'I'ho hair on her forehenri, so sad and so meek. 

 Hati^ dark on the blushes that liurned on her cheek ; 

 And so sad and so lowly she knelt in her slianie. 

 It seemed that her spirit liad fled IVoni her frame. 



The frown and the niui niur went rnnnd thro' them all, 

 That one so nnhallowed ..^hiuild tread in tfiat hall ; 

 And some said tl:e poor would he objects more meet, 

 for the wealth of the pcrluiiie she shower'd on his feet ! 



She heard hat her Sivii'Ur. she spoke hut vvilli tears, 

 She (lar'fl lu'i look up to the heaven ot'liis eyes ; 

 And the hot tears i:n>h'd foilh.at each heavi. of her breast, 

 As her lips to his sandals were throbbiagly press'd. 



In tlie sky .after tempest, as shinetli the bow, 

 In the [.'l.iiice of the sunbeam, as nieliclh the snow, 

 Me looked on the lost one, her ;.ins are forgiven, 

 And Mary went forth in the beani) of Heaven. 



Tut; Flower .M.\rkf.ts of Holh.nd. — Major 

 Davezac gives, in Ihe Ifeniocraiic Review, the 

 following' account of the superb flower markets 

 of Holland : 



At .Auislerd.im, rireehl, Rollcrdam, the Hague, 

 aiifl above all, at Harlem, the floral city, crowds 

 of individuals of all the classes of society are 

 seen assembled ,il theflov\er markets, held twice 

 a week in each of these great cities. The rich 

 .•ittends them lo make exclnsixely his own, by 

 purchase, the emeralds, the rubies, ibe sapphires 

 of the vegetable kinL'ilom, in .iddilioii lo those 

 which he alreaily possessed, liirmed in depths of 

 the earlb through the slow elaborations of a!;es ; 

 but, in spite ol his covetous eagerness lo obtain 

 the iiiono|)oly e\en of these, nalnre's treasures, 

 the iadigent too has seen these dazzling gems of 

 the spring; he has inhaled their perlume : and, 

 while the variei;ated Camelia, the purple Lages- 

 iremia, the uaiidy, inodorous C.ictns, the morn 

 sweet-scented but still gorgeous Peony, and all 

 the cosily exoiics are bona' away to spre.id a 

 irrealer liisire over the abode of opulence, the 



I ble Violet, the Rose, (now ihou^lil to be a 



Miliiar fiovver, thon;;li still blnshiiiL' ils loveliness 

 and exii.iling the mosl exqnisitiMif fl-avrance,)are 

 taken to the home of ihe poor, to light llie gloom 

 of his lowly shell — lo give swtM'iness to the liiilc 

 air be is yet allowed to breathe. I always alleiid- 

 ed these floral markets, and I do not remember, 

 crowded as ihey always are, ever to have heard 

 a quarrel there. .An eli'gance of maimers, nay, 

 of language, seemed inspired by the grace and 

 beamy of the ephemeral gardens; every one 

 present acted and spoke as if he feared either 

 to injure b\ brutal acts, or to soil by the expres- 

 sion (d' iaihdicale ihou'.'lits, these lender ami fr.a- 

 u'ile treasures of the Sjirin^'. All clustered arnimd 

 lliem, like bees; and .ill, like bee.s, appeared to 

 gather ti-oiii lliem nothing but sweetness. Then; 

 is a tradiiioii at ihe Hague, that .Toh.-innes Secmi- 

 dns, the Dutch poet who s.tim of Kisses, (whose 

 house, near the flower markets in that city, is 

 still lo be seen,) always wrote w illi a nosegr.y on 

 his lable. Afti'r lie.iring of this, as I read bis 

 BiiAi'a over again, 1 fancied in the poetry, besides 



