MAY 21. 



LETTEBS PROM A HTOGABIAH. 



""/it f'KiHintry on Bund- 



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- Clay Uouti*. 



LoMry-CiTL'-rrt, a Jfin-h 

 r<in-(iipti<» on- A* Bead 



the MDDtt7 l» )e»m more of the character of tbo 

 real Motors, and for thai purpose started for the 

 most celebrated Hungarion water-core, Fared. I 

 accordingly entered the muil-coocb (when the rail- 

 ntd DOW in progress is finished, tho convey- 

 ance will be twice as cheap acid convenient) at tbo 

 pOlfrofllM in P«»Jb. ; and after a journey of fartcen 

 hour*, interrupted only by tho change of horses at 

 every station, wo reacbeJ the most favorite ond 



place of Hungary, situated on tbe shores of Lake 

 Italaton, a ithect of water about fifty mile3 long 

 tod ill in hreadlb, some eighty miles south-east of 

 IV1.H1 The mad through which we passed carried 

 us through several towns and villages, over bills 

 and valleys, none of which, however, are of suffi- 

 cient importance to demand special mention. Tho 

 volleys lining the macadamized highway on both 

 sides, bloomed most luxuriantly with various kinds 

 of groin, potatoes, and that most abundant KucLu- 

 ruta{\\w Hungarian name for Indian corn.) So 

 richly does tins product cover the fields throughout 

 Hungary, that during three months in the year, it 

 in tii'H'r wanting as a dessert, afterdinnerand sup- 

 per, among the rich and poor. Id one of the nu- 

 tiiiiiiil melodfei of the Magyar this grain ia im- 

 mortaUsod as an everlasting companion. It is 

 rattier strange that nn article so abundant in Hun- 

 gary, should be called " Turkish wheat" in Ger- 

 man, and "Indian com" in English. This latter 

 appellation has led many farmers in the United 

 States to believe that it is only grown in America; 

 and I recollect seeing ao educated farmer in the 

 very city which may boast of issuing so well- 

 oonductcd a journal as tho Rural, perfectly sur- 

 prised at my telling him that I bad seen Indian 

 corn long before coming to America, and that I 

 hod up to my twelfth year probably eaten more 

 " h'url-urtit:" than any Yankee of equal age.— 

 Another particular that may not be uninteresting, 

 especially to your agricultural readers, is the fact 

 that in one place tbe fields were, for several miles 

 in extent, almost literally covered with stones as 

 big a man's head, and yet potatoes and other veg- 

 oliihli'.n grew here in great abundance. Tbestones 

 nrr left mi the field, as the plant nevertheless forces 

 its way through all obstacles ; and it is only when 

 fears are entertained lest tho too vast collection of 

 rocks suffocate the germ that tbe largest are re- 

 moved and gathered in a heap. 



After this digression about the road, let me toll 

 you what I saw at Fartd. This place consists of 

 but one street— tbe houses of which are mostly 

 hotels of more or less magnificent styles— at the 

 cad of which stands a chapel where, during the 

 bathing season, (from May to September,) divine 

 service is held on Sundays and other holidays.— 

 Around this Btrecl are many promenades and an 

 elegant park, in tho center of which stands the 

 Sauerbrunn {■< sour fountain.") The water of this 



Weill 



, but h 



t n .*n:. 



palate and salutary to the body. Large quantities 

 of this healthy water are sent in corked bottles to 

 oil parts of Hungary, where il forms a most luxu- 

 rious beverage when mixed with wine. The addi- 

 tion of a little sugar causes the mixture to foam 

 like ordinary soda-water, thus creating a most re 

 freshing, invigoraliug, and cooling draught during 

 the summer. But though such large quantities of 

 this water aro exported, it is here (at the water- 

 cure) offered gratis to nil as the fountain seems in- 

 exhaustible; and tbo man who stands at the well 

 furnishing all who will with a glass, seems to 

 mo to proclaim, in the language of Isaiah : — " Ho, 

 he that tbiratctb, como ye ond diink," Ac. Not so, 

 however, is it with tho delicious fish who " multi- 

 ply and increase" in the Plalttutt* (Lake Balaton.) 

 Although these thrive here in great abundance, yet 

 SO superior ore they to oil others, tbat they, also, 

 like the water of the fountain, are carried in such 

 vast quantities to the markets of the larger cities, 

 as to render them enormously dear even in tbo 

 place of their uotivity— about half a dollar a pound. 

 Tbe scenery, on the whole, is most charming and 

 !>ii-turr„|iii', piuiii-nlarly on the rising hi 

 uppii.-iU' ^loroot the I nke, win.' re tho echo 

 feet that if you make a speech in one breath, it will 

 be repeated vtrbatim with tbe greatest distinctness. 

 Tin- Lake Itaolf seem? to be a magic reflector, for 

 when the sky is here and there veiled with thiD, 

 fleecy clouds, ihe limpid waters throw tbe various 

 hues of red and blue. To a spot so delightful it 

 is no wonder that the people are annually attract- 

 ed; and. though tho waters of tbe lake are fitted 

 pr>oc.p.llvfv,i /l0Il „, J<TM tuumbers of the wealthy 

 and health;, flock hither just to show snd enjoy 

 Q»Bl«lTM,wMai«rt»fc WInok , grftnd p „ para . 

 tions and adroll display, lo u catch „ he ^. or a 

 " belle," as tbe case may be. 1„ ,| m waT F(rrcd 

 like many of the fashionable water-cures of Amer- 

 ica, is growing more ond more aristocratic fright- 

 ening away the real but unfortunate patients of 

 JEscclap. Still, there is one day when you can see 

 hundreds of thvpoorttt classes, even, the strong as 

 noil as the weak, either basking in the sun or 

 ■landing in the large common baths. This is on 

 Sunday, when tbe peasants of tbe neighboring « il- 

 lages come, one and all, bringing with them what 

 I for tbe day, and enjoying tbe mu- 

 sic in Ihj ptrlj w iih the satisfaction, on their re- 

 turning, of not having left a copper at the bih- 

 lonablf (uminer resort. I had thus the opportu- 

 *eciog the most magnificent apparel beside 



P'*. peculiar dress of the genuine Magyar ; 

 beside tbe many-folded, 





g«ily-eolored Sunday petticoat; tbe tight panta- 

 loons of the dandy beside tbe peasant's linen 

 (Gatya) of almost fabulous width. Nor 

 that peculiar garment of tbe Magyars wanting — 

 the Sunda. This is a long cloak of sheepskin 

 which, as the peasant maintains, protects him 

 nst htat as well as cold. In cold weather be 

 rs it with the wooly side in, in warm weather 

 urns the wooly side out. Some of these Sun- 

 visitors spend all day in the bath, though the 

 iicians advise their patients not to spend inure 



take from twenty to sixty baths a season, think 

 bathing ten hours in succession must be an 

 equivalent to at least twenty baths of half an hour 

 each; and so they often come out of tbe water with 

 hardly strength enough to keep them on their feet. 

 While I was walking up and down in the park 

 tb a friend of mine, I noticed several persons 

 hose awkard demeanor, yet proud gait and 

 splendid dress showed them to belong to tbe class 

 of beings favored, by Mammon, but sadly neglect- 

 ed by tbe divinities of wisdom and common sense. 

 Nor had they a noblo birth to boost of. Still they 

 ncited attention and formed the topic of conver- 

 ation in many a circle. " These," said my friend, 

 ,s he noticed my somewhat surprised countenance, 

 'these are among tbe happy feu> who had tho for- 

 une of winning tbe great prize at tbe imperial 

 lottery. Yes, they ore few, indeed, whose lot turns 

 1 so favorable, while hundreds are annually 

 nod by sitting down with a blank. An indus- 

 OUS shoemaker died some years ago in Comom, 

 among whose effects was bequeathed a box of 

 blanks which amounted to near 1 ,000 florins (about 

 $600.) Thus does the government give its sanc- 

 tbat hazardous game wbicb saps tbe accu- 

 mulated savings of thousands of its subjects," — 

 of my friend need no comment. 

 Justly did the Hungarian patriots of '43 demand, 

 among other points, the abolishing of the prevail- 

 ig lottery system. The incomes of the lottery, it 

 argued, ore applied to tbe building of highways 

 and other public works. But, it seems to me, that, 



by I 





,„ks 



palaces of the imperial house of Hapsburg. 



ning (Sunday) I had the pleasure of 

 attending a concert, the hero of which was a mu- 

 sical genius only ten years of age, who executed 

 tbe most difficult compositions of Meter- 

 .i.Evi.nud others, on the violin. This young 

 rho bids fair to rival Olk Boll — and will 

 doubt, "astonish tho natives" of Ameri- 

 -is a little Jew, Lkopold Aubr, by name, 

 and happens to be a native of tbo same city where 

 born, viz., Wesprim, a few hours' ride from 

 immcr retreat I am now describing. This 

 boy affords another testimony tbat, though the 

 sons of Israel have •'bung their harps on the wil- 

 lows by the streams of Babylon," they have not 

 forgotten the nrt of tho Levitical choirs of old, 

 but do even now challenge the admiration of tbe 

 world, in such persaim us Tiiai.iikho, Vieuxtkui'S, 

 EitNHST,I)8i<.t,AO (a Jewess at the royal opera of 

 ~iennn,) not to speak of tho many Jewish compo- 

 sts, such as Mendklssuon, Bahtiiolut, Mbieb- 

 [18, and others. 



Having arrived at Fccred in August, when the 

 season" was already drawing to its close, I no 

 longer found the place so filled as it is in the early 

 part of tbe summer. Most of the guests hnd al- 

 ready left, and so 1 determined t* leave myself after 

 enjoyed tbe truly refreshing 

 baths of the lake. For the sake of variety, I now 

 took a different route from that on which I had 

 come hither, and accordingly left with the omnibus 

 (which is cheaper but not half so comfortable as 

 the mail-coach, the former taking twelve passengers 

 while the latter carries only six,) for Gran, the 

 city where I first stopped on my arrival in Hun- 

 gary, and of which I have given you a description 

 in one of my previous letters. But though I now 

 traveled a different route, I observed nothing new 

 worth chronicling, excepting tbe large number of 

 dirty villages, with no sidewalks in tbe streets, nor 

 even closed yards to the bouses. These arc mostly 

 built of clay which the peasant stamps himself, 

 and piles together in thick, crooked walls, whose 

 only beauty is the glistening whitewash. But tbe 

 Hungarian farmer fells quite content within these 

 loam walls, which, like bis bunda (cloak,) keep out 





nod 



i cold i 



Wherever we slopped for refreshments, we were 

 regaled with the lively melodies of Huogary 

 played either by Magyars or by that strange, dis- 

 persed race, the Gypsies, who wander nbout from 

 place to place, the husbands playing music and the 

 women telling fortunes by cards. How it hap- 

 pens that this forlorn race abounds more in Hun- 

 gary than in any other country, I have never been 

 able to ascertain. But such is the fact, and were 

 it not that the Hungarians are passionately fond 

 of music, the Gipsies would not bo tolerated hero 

 either, they being of the foulest character. But I 

 must not weary you with so many details, and 

 hasten lo bring this lenglby epistle lo a close. 

 Yours, Smox Tosu. 



Tns Cbjuibleo*— Singular Fact.—Wr. Buck- 

 land, the great Naturalist, says: — "Betwixt the 

 two sides of tbo body there seems a lack of sym- 

 pathy. One eye may be looking straight forward, 

 while the other is looking as directly backward. 

 One may be entirely asleep, while thcotheris wide 

 awake. And this kind of independent ond sepa- 

 rate oction applies to each side of tho creature— 

 to itt limit. It cannot iu?im, btcaute itt limit re- 

 fute to act in concert. Could the two sides under- 

 stand one another, and agree on a prescribed 

 course of action, it might always be awake, or 

 half awake. But it gains nothing by its unilateral 

 independency; the two sides ore like two horses 

 that won't work in harness. It seems strange, 

 with such a peculiarity, tbat on trees, or terra 

 firnia, the creature sbonld be able to make any 

 progress. But as tbe two sides are fed by one 

 mouth, and, as the insect tribes refuse to come to 

 it, so they seem in regard to all culinary matters, 

 o agree to sink their differences, and to move in 

 harmony. The stomach is a potent hormonizer." 



The Harbor of Acopulco, on the shores of tbe 

 Pacific, appears like a nest scooped out of the 

 mountains, into and out of which the tide ebbs and 

 flows by a double entrance riven by an earthquake 

 in the solid rock. Tradition soys another ouco ex- 

 isted, which an earthquake closed, while it opened 

 tho present channels. There is still \ a the sharp 

 mountain ridge, that abuts it from the sea, another 

 opening, dug by the labor of man, at a point op- 

 posite the entrance of the harbor; to let in tbe cool 

 sea-breeze upon one of the hottest and most un- 

 healthy places upon this continent. Such, in sub- 

 stance, is and was tho little city of Acapulco, tho 

 eeot and focus of the Oriental commerce of New 

 Spain, and of the Spanish Empire. 



It was not discovered when Cortez built in Coli- 

 ma the vessels that went to search for a north- 

 west passage; but wben they bad returned from 

 their fruitless voyage, they anchored in the moun- 

 tain-girt harbor of Acapulco. The discoveries of 

 tbe celebrated uavigalor, Magellan, fixed the com- 

 mercial character and importance of this seaport. 

 He bod sailed through tbo straits that bear bis 

 name, and coasted northwardly as far as tbe trades. 

 And from thence he bore away to the Spice Islands, 

 discovering on tbe voyage the Philippine Islands, 

 where tbe city of Manilla was founded. By this 

 voyage he demonstrated that tbe advantages of a 

 route across the Pacific were so superior to o voy- 

 age around Cape Horn, as to justify tbe expense of 

 a land transit from Acapulco to Vera Cruz, and re- 

 shipment to Spain. Now that the Panama Rail- 

 road is made, this demonstration may prove ad- 

 vantageous to other notions. 



The practical advantage of this discovery was 



nt of the Manilla Company, whose 

 annual galleon carried out 1,000,000 silver dollars 

 to purchase Oriental products for the consumption 

 of Spain nnd all her American colonies. In this 

 galleon sailed the friars that went forth lo the spir- 

 itual conquest of India. In it sailed Spanish sol- 

 diers, who followed hard after tho priests, to odd 

 tbe temporal to the spiritual subjugation of Orien- 

 tal empires. To this harbor tbe galloon returned, 

 freighted with tbo rich merchandise of China, Ja- 

 pan, and the Spice Islands. When the arrival of 

 the galleon was announced, traders hastened from 

 every quarter of New Spain to attend tho annul 

 fair. Little vessels from' down tho coast came I 

 get their share of the mammoth cargo. The king' 

 officers came lo look after the royal revenue; an 



the Spanish portion of the freight to Vera Cruz.— 

 Thus, for a short lime, the population of this vil 

 loge was swollen from 4,000 to 3,000, which fell off 

 again wben the galloon took lur departure. 



Such was tho commercial condition of the town 

 of Acapulco down lo tbe timo of the Independence, 



i lost I 



1,1.1 



was made n half-way house on the voyage to Cali 

 fornia. The town lies upon the narrow intervale 

 between the hills nnd tbe barbor. It is built of tho 

 frailest material, ond is destroyed about oi 

 ten years by an earthquake. 



The castle of San Diego stands upon the high 

 bank, and, though commanding the entrance to 

 the barbor, is itself commanded by the surround 

 ing high lands, and ha9 so often been taken by as- 

 sault during the last thirty years as to be consid- 

 ered untenable.— Wihon't A'ew IlUtary of Mexico. 



BISE OF WATEB IN LAKE ONTARIO. 



Eos. Rural :— The rise of Lake Ontario for tbe 

 last six weeks has been fearfully rapid. Not less 

 than fourteen inches, duriog that time, have been 

 added to its then unusual elevation ; and at the 

 present time it is nbout five feet above its lowest 



Storms, when the water is so high, arc always 

 more or less destructive, in proportion to their 

 violence, washing away land and sometimes other 

 property. Saturday last we were visited by the 



here. Tbe wind, attended with rain and snow, 

 blew a gale from the N. E. most of the day ; tear- 

 ing up everything vulnerable in that direction. 

 In the afternoon it changed into the N. W. ond 

 continued through the night, part of tbe time with 

 increased violence, and abated not in its march of 

 ruin till it strewed the shore for a great distance 

 with the ruins it bod wrought. Tbe long and ex- 

 pensive wharf of B. Todd & Sons, together with 

 one warehouse, were completely demolished and 

 scattered along the shore. Another warehouse 

 belonging to them is completely riddled, (he floor 

 torn up and tbe north end carried away. Tbe 

 wharf of Mr. J. KbvKOLos was swept clear of 

 everything that lay above the water, every plank 

 lorn away, and a large quantity of cedar posts 

 were cast upon the water, and now lie piled pro- 

 miscuously along shore. His two warehouses did 

 not escape material damage. A large blacksmith 

 shop, built of cobble-Btone, two stories high, 

 (originally somo forty feet from the lake, ond pro- 

 tected by a wharf,) was ruined by the storm. Tho 

 whole side next the lokc fell with a crush about 

 nine o'clock lust evening. We beard that three 

 vessels went ashore near Sodus lost night (doubt- 



ful) and one five mi 

 lake has been high f 



t of ibis plat 

 ■al years. Lo 



Tb. 



height, and about that number of inches higher 

 than ever known before; but it fell during the fall 

 and winter about two feet, and commenced rising 

 again some six weeks ago. d. c. h. 



PoltnoyvUle, N. Y., April 25, 1869. 



Ran arks.— According to the regular measure- 

 ment of the level of Lake Ontario for several years, 

 at the Port of Genesee, at the mouth of tho Gene- 

 see, Ibis statement and several others need some 



The change in the level has been greater in a 

 month than this here given. The level has risen 

 six and obalf inches in April and five in' March, 

 and is now three and a half inches lower than in 

 Aug., 1653. 



The lake has not beei 

 the lowest known here in thirteen years was in 

 Feb., 1857, as low into one inch in 1850, and into 

 two inches in 1843 and in 184.fi. Indeed tbe lake 

 was low the lost five months of 1856, lower still in 

 Nov. and Dee. of that year, and in Feb., 1857, tbe 

 lowest, as already 6tated. It then rose to the mean 

 height inMoy, 1857. and was the highest that year 

 in October. It was high in Jan., 183S, and highest 

 in August, 135S. Since that time it has fallen 



>r several years; for 



some, but is now quite high again. The variation 

 of tbo level at Toronto corresponds to this her* 

 nearly in time and quantity. 



The range here iu thirteen years has not exceed- 

 ed fifiy-four inches, and occurred in 1857 and 1858 ; 

 the water being lowest in Feb. of the former ant 

 August of tbe latter. 



Tbe lake rises or falls from the varying quantity 

 of water from rain and snow, and of evaporation, 

 ns the principal causes, the excess being poured 

 from the great wuter-.shed into this great natural 

 reservoir prepared for it. The rise of Lake Onta 

 rio has been expected on accouulof the great rain; 

 at tbe West. It would not be strange to find the 

 level yet higher. There is no difficulty in account- 

 ing for tbe change but that of the varying quanti 

 ties of rain at different times and in different years, 



TEA - TASTTJJG. 



Few of our readers aro aware that tea-tastjo| 

 reduced too regular profession, one which is 

 certain death toa man as tbe continued practic 

 i.'I'niiii-'.-.itiug. Tbo success of tho tea-broker 

 taster, depends upon the trained accuracy of 

 nose and palate. Ins experience iu the wants of 

 American market, and a keen business tact. If be 

 has these qualities in high cultivation be may make 

 from twenty to forty thousand dollars per annum 

 while be lives, and dio of ulceration of the lungs 

 He overhauls a cargo of tea, classifies it, and do 

 termines Ihe value of each sort. In doing this be 

 first looks at the color of the leaf and the general 

 cleanliness of it. He next takes a quantity of tbe 

 herb in bis band, and, breathing his warm breath 

 on it, he snuffs up the fragrance. In doing this ht 

 draws into his lungs a quantity of irritating and 

 stimulating dust, wbicb is by no means wholesome. 

 Then, sitting down at the table in his office, on 

 which is a long row of little porcelain cups and e 

 pot of hot water, he "draws" tbe tea and tastes 

 the infusion. In this way be classifies tbe differ 

 ent sorts to the minutest shade, marks the different 

 prices, and is then ready to compare bis work with 

 the invoice. The skill of these tastes is fairly 

 velous, but Hie effect of tbo business on their 

 health is, as I have said, ruinous. They grow lean, 

 nervous, and consumptive. At the end of a hard 

 day's work they feel and act as fidgety nnd 

 as if they had the hysterics. 



CitoconiLES. — After burying tho eggs 

 soil, there to be matured by the sun, tbe female 

 visits, from time to time, the place in which they 

 are secreted, and just as the period of hatching 



completed, exhibits her eagerness for her offspring 



- IMlll I 



and | 



walks around the nest of her hopes, scratches the 

 fractured shell, and, by signs which resemble the 

 bark of a dog, excites the half-extricated young to 

 struggle forth into life. When she has beheld, 

 with this sort of joy, fear and 

 her offspring quit its broken casement, sbt 

 them forth into the plashy pools away fro 

 river, and among tbe thick underwood, to 

 the predatory visits of the father, whose 

 delights in nothing more than tho flavoi 

 young, which be ei 

 portunity. In this 



remorM'les.'ly o 



• last of 



, r> op- 



..•rocious, during, and mo 

 ',°gu"ard7ng"wllh inquietude her young, when 



by whin'mg and 

 tudeto keep thi 

 too shallow for 



■Then ihey 

 j shows a peculiar solici- 

 ts pools only as arc much 

 t of the full-grown reptile. 



PLEASTJBE GAMENIHG FOE YOUTH. 



sua. Editors -.-Once or twice before I have 



taken to fell my youug friend, who read tins 

 :ment of the Uta»L bow to grow Milons. I 

 with good confidence that I em not writing 

 an uninteresting subject, foroll the boys and 



manure to enrich it with. But all who would like 

 to grow and eat melons cannot find such a soil u 

 lliis, and therefore they must plant on tbe best 

 they have. There are very lew difficnlties of thia 



in earnest. This is a lesson tbat I learned long 

 ogo, and never have forgotten it. This is the way 

 I have always prepared hills for melons in a heavy 

 cloy soil, ond I have never foiled to grow them so 

 good as to make the boy's moulhs water — in fact 

 they havo presented so great a temptation that 

 many dishonest fellows have robbed my melon 

 patch. I regretted, I'lVuursc, Ihe loss of my melons, 

 but I regretted far more that uny young men should 

 so far forget (he right ns to do so mean a thing, and 

 pursue a course very likely to lead them to even 

 still worse practices, and finally, perhaps to prison. 

 Most of this practice, I think, is the result of 

 thoughtlessness, for some boys, I have no doubt, 

 have taken my melons, who would die rather than 

 steal a chicken from my fowl-house, or a dollar 

 from my pocket. And yet somo nights they bavo 

 done more mischief to my melou patch, and caused 

 me more loss than though they had robbed me of 

 half-a-dozen fowls or as many dollars. Boys that 

 will grow melons themselves, or any other fruit, 

 will not steal thoughtlessly ; they know how much 

 care and time it takes lo grow good fruit, and bow 

 much fl person prizes a fruit tbat he has raised, 

 often far above its market value. Sometimes I have 

 had a pear picked thoughtlessly tbat was worth 

 only a few cents, and yet we would not have lost il 

 for several dollars. After we have grown a tree 

 two, or three, or more years, we look anxiously for 

 the first fruit, to see its quality, and its loss causes 



Well, this has not much to do with growing 

 melons, but still it will be useful I hope, to tho 

 youth, whom I love as well os fruits aod flowers ; 

 in fact I never talk and think of children, but I 

 compare them to flowers, and get them all mixed 

 together,— the children are the flowers of the fam- 

 ily, some of them wild ones, with prickles and 

 thorns, — like thistles, they annoy everybody that 

 has anything to do with them, while others are aa 

 sweet oa tho violet, and beautiful as pinks. The 

 flowers aro the children of the field. 



But I must keep to the melons. If you have only 

 a heavy soil, then dig holes six or eight feet apart, 

 where the hills are to be, Make them four feet in 

 diameter and about eight inches deep in tbe contor, 

 running lo nothing at the edges. Then go to some 

 sandy knoll in the woods and gather tbe surface 

 soil, which will be composed of decayed leaves and 

 sond. Fill the holes with tbis material, making it 

 about throe inches higher in tbe center than the 

 natural soil, and round off the hill nicely. Plant 

 six or eight seeds iu each hill, though three strong 

 plants arc enough. The weak ones can be removed 

 after danger from insects is past. Keep the ground 

 between the hills mellow. This can be done in a 

 large field by the cultivator, but iu a small patch 

 the best thing is tbe mannre fork, and it should be 

 done only in dry weather. Dont't touch tho soil or 

 walk upon it when it is wet. 



The time for planting is between the 20th of May 

 and 1st of June. One of tho best things for for- 

 warding melons is a little box made of boards 

 sloping towards tbe front and covered with one or 

 more lights of glass as shown in tbe engraving. 

 This should face South or South-east, and be placed 

 over tbe hills, and otter tbe plonts ore up a little 

 air should be given warm days, by moving the 

 glass one side, but nights ond cold days it should 

 be closed tight. After the weather gets quit© 

 warm, and the plants are so large as to fill tbe box. 

 remove it. This is a sure protection against insects, 

 and forwards the melons several weeks, which is a 

 very important matter. Before removing l ie ox 

 it may be raised up by placing stones under i . 

 this is done for a week or so the plants will become 

 so hardened that thev will uot notice e re . 



Do this, and you will have good melons, whether 

 your neighbors have any o 



Murine Co., N, T., liny, lb. 



ILI> QARnEKBB. 



Tim Poet Crayonc< 

 a thing very little kn 

 Whole life one can never nave more man a sn.g.o 

 mother." I *»<* l ° a ?™ n S art,sl 0Dce ' ,0 ailuBlon 

 to the kiss that Beoj. West, when a boy received 

 from his mother, for his picture of " the baby,"— 

 "Sir, your mother ought to kiss you." "I have 

 no mother," said he, and the emotion 'that filled 

 bis Toice revealed the true man. No mother! 

 Badly off is he whose mother cares not for him i 

 still worse off is he who cares not for bis mother. 



Ir we do not learn to love the beautiful in youth 

 iv e never shall. The Sabhalhs arc not tbe sumo to 

 me now as they were in childhood ; they are not 

 so still; the sun rises more worldly; the cattle are 

 not so devout. They have all changed, or I have, 

 and not for the better.—//. W- Beecher. 



Tsb alphabet of our knowledge is m our own 

 culties-in Hope, Fear, Love, Reverence, suscep- 

 tibility to beauty, or what not- 



