Then you can swell
around till half past ten, and sneak off to the depot on foot and come
home, and your pocket book will be just as empty as when you started,
unless you get a subscriber, and you will have added bloom to your cheek,
and had a high old time, and next winter you can talk about the delightful
time you passed at Sparta last summer during the heated term.
Let's get up a party and go down some night.
WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS.
What the country needs is a melon from which the incendiary ingredients
have been removed. It seems to me that by proper care, when the melon is
growing on the vines, the cholera morbus can be decreased, at least, the
same as the cranberry has been improved, by cultivation. The experiment of
planting homeopathic pills in the hill with the melon has been tried, but
homeopathy, while perhaps good in certain cases, does not seem to reach
the seat of disease in the watermelon. What I would advise, and the advice
is free to all, is that a porous plaster be placed upon watermelons, just
as they are begining to ripen, with a view to draw out the cholera morbus.
A mustard plaster might have the same effect, but the porous plaster seems
to me to be the article to fill a want long felt. If, by this means, a
breed of watermelon can be raised that will not strike terror to the heart
of the consumer, this agricultural address will not have been delivered in
vain.
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