^*%Vn* stead of forty million dollars, the earth The Angels' Greeting. HOUSE AND FARM. freely if we will let them they blind us, others, while he alone is to blame. should yield eighty or a hundred, the additional quite without apology, with the sharp point* There are men who are too stingy to Come to the land of peace! quantity (however inconsiderable in of their sticks or umbrellas, which they carry True Hospitality. Conic Where the tempest hath no longer sway make good fences or properly repair those itself) will be scarcely noticable in the mass recklessly and carelessly under their arms. 'The shadows pass from the soul away, True hospitality is a thing that touches of metal already circulated in the world. which are rotting or tumbling down, and At the theatre many well-dressed,, seemingly The sound of weeping cease. the heart and never goes beyond the circle Moreover, it is by no means certain that the who yet talk of being stock farmers, and well-to-do, brutes sometimes spoil all our of generous impulses. Entertainment mines will continue to give such large yields. they will buy grade short-horns, grade Fear hath no dwelling there! pleasure. Ladies, in irreproachable costumes, In half a dozen years there may come with the truly hospitable man means Come to the mingling of repose and love. Jerseys, mongrels of all colors and sizes, giggle or gossip aloud, or carry on another diminution, or another treasure of more than the mere feeding of the body Breathed by the silent spirit of the dove and expect the puplic to admire their unblushing flirtations, callous to the discomfort gold may be brought to light, and so the Through the celestial air. it means an interchange of soul girts. of neighbors who have come to hear the animals and believe them to be something balance be restored. Still it should have its laws, as all things play and not their outspoken philandering. superior. Now by using good Come to the bright and blest, It was not thought necessary to modify good must have laws to govern them. Gentlemen ostensibly, in faultless evening pure-bred bulls and raising the calves, And crown'd forever! Midst that shining band the existing legislation until Germany demonetized attire, talk of their private affairs, and laugh Gather'd to heaven's own wreath from every The obligation to be hospitable is a sacred improvements could be made in these silver and adopted a gold standard. land. at their own jokes through three acts, or, one, emphasized by every moral grades, but those niggardly souls will This alarmed France far more than the Nevada Thy spirit shall find rest. when the drop-scene falls, push past every code known to the world,*and a practical begrudge the trouble to raise the calves, mines. Attention was directed to the one in order to go out and smoke. In the outcome of the second great commandment. and either sell them for veal or let them Thou hast been long alone, question at Versailles, and after due deliberation, railway carriage the selfish dog-in-the manger Come to thy mother! On the Sabbath shore, There should never be a guest in go with the cow to a dairvman. as a measure of temporary precaution, spirit of the true brute often stands out in The heart that rock'd thy childhood, back the house whose presence requires any it was resolved to first limit and then entirely System would raise all the heifer calves the strongest relief. It is not only that he once more considerable change in the domestic economy. suspend the coinage of silvr in the French and by using good bulls each generation will not recognize the claims of a lady to the Shall take its wearied one. mints. In 1876, an eminent financier, M. best^seat nor open the carriage-door when would become better. Or, any man with De Parieu, interpellated the Government However much the circumstances of In silence wert thou left: she wishes to get out, but he arrogates the suficient capital would commence with of the day again about Come to thy sisters! Joyously again, business or mutual interests may demand exclusive control of the window, and has it some really good pure-bred stock, and All the home voices, blent in one sweet strain the matter, an called for a radical change, in entertaining a stranger, he should in his own good will whether we shall be breed and sell first-class animals, and Shall greet their long bereft. involving th* adoption of gold mono-metalism. never be taken into the family circle unless asphyxiated or die of cold. If he be similar thus conduct the breeding on a system What the ultimate result of so extreme he is known to be wholly worthy ot ly situated at a restaurant, he insists tha Over thine orphan head of continually selling at double and treble an expedient might have been is more than The storm hath swept,as o'er a willow's bough his own personal convenience and comfort a place in that sanctum sanctorum of social the price of common stock and gaining I or any one can tell. It muse have caused a Come to thy father! It is finish'd now, comes before every one else in the room life but when once a man is admitted terrible loss in the first instance to a country extra profits.- System, too, will cause Thy tears have all been shed and although ladies be carried out fainting, to the home fireside he should be possessing, as we have seen from the statistics any man of intelligence to have every department or, conversely, men wear hats and greatcoats, treated as if the place had been his always. of the Bank of France, so great an accumulation In thy divine abode. methodically conducted, and he sits stolid and unconcerned, refusing Change finds no pathway, memory no dark of silver. The effect of demonetization not to have anything delayed or capriciously resolutely to surrender control of the trace, here would have been visible, too. The fact of an invitation gives neither changed from the rotation or regular fresh air. Such brutes, it is to be feared, And, oh! bright victory, death by love no place instantly in a host nor guest the right to be master of course. But the miserable, shiftless have none of that disinterestedness in little Come, spirit! to thy God. the other's time, and does not require farmer will have a piece of plowing in ScJiool and Home. as well as in great thingsthe wish to oblige SUDDEN DEPRECIATION OF SILVER even a temporary sacrifice of one's entire the middle of a meadow and a field of all over the world, for it must be remembered and defer to the will of others which has individuality or pursuits. that the chief market for the metal has long been described as the real foundation of good corn or grain with no fence between it FRENCH FINANCES. been France. In the year 1842 or thereabouts A man should never be so much himself mannners. and the pasture, and then every neighbor she absorbed and retained over half as when he entertains a friend. And yet brutes have the best of it. will be complaining of injury from [Paris Correspondent of the Chicago Tribune.] the out-turn of the whole world. Possibly Thoroughgoing brutes generally get on in To stay at a friend's house beyond the stock through the bad fences, He will It will not be uninteresting to take a glance as a corollary to the depreciation of silver the world. Nothing wounds them they suffer time for which one is invited is to perpetrate also be so simple as to attempt to fatten, at the French monetary system, which there there would have been an appreciation of no qualms of conscience, no stings of remorse a social robbery. in the winter, cows which have been ia has of late years been so much talk of abandoning. gold. The supply might have been unequal they are seldom distressed by the To abide uninvited in a friend's house The present legal theory of French milk and have lost their flesh and perhaps to the demand, and after all a return to silver misfortunes or troubles of relations and money is the result of the legislation of the is a much a misdemeanor as borrowing some course, thin Dig boned steers. have been found necessary. friends. Being entirely without bowels of seventh and eighteenth Germinal, year XI of his coat witout his permission. It is For the moment France has decided to compassion, they will have without mercy -the Republic, corresponding to March 28, debasing the coin of friendship to mere rest content with half-measures. She will the uttermost farthing and the last ounce of -and April 8, 1803. This legislation ordered: Glimpses of Lincoln. dross when a man attempts to make it watch the course of events, coin no silver, flesh. They marry often the nicest women pay his hotel bills. and take no final step toward a radical they are clothed in purple and fine linen, From .Reminiscences by Noah. Brooks, Scribner for 1. That the monetary unit of France tor March. The fact of two men having Ihe same change of any sort, until she sees what live on the daintiest fare, have the best of should be the silver franc, and that gold, by So much has been written about Lincoln's America will do about the silver dollar. occupation'and interests in life gives to everything that is going, and are commonly tolerance, should concurrently be legal tender. private life and personal habits, Since the law restricting the coinage was neither a social right to the other's bed rich, prosperous and successful to the end of By a franc was understood i% grammes that it seems unnecessary now to add passed, the whole quantity of silver that has and board. A traveling minister has no their days. -o pure silver and gramme of alloy. more than a word. He was simple in all passed through the two mints at Paris and more right to go uninvited to a fellowpreacher's 2. That the intrinsic value of pure metal Bordeaux has scarcely exceeded a value of his tastes liked old songs and old. poetry. house than a traveling shopkeeper in each coin should be the nominal value 200,000,000 francs, or to be more exact, ijhe How Mamma Flays. He was always neatly, but not finically or shoe-maker has to go unvited stamped upon it (pieces of money being silver coinage was in francs: dressed. He disliked gloves, and once I Just the sweetest thing the children do to the house of his fellow craftsman. Men therefore only ingots of gold and silver certified Is to play with mamma a-playing too: saw him extract seven or eight pairs of 1874 60,000,000 by government as to standard and are ordained to the ministery as preachers, And Baby is Lost," they think is the best, 1875 75,000,000 gloves from an overcoat pocket, where weight.) and gpastors, and not as private For mamma plays that with a merrj zest. 1876 52,000,000 they had accumulated after having been 3. That such money should have unlimited hotel-keepers. 1877 16,600,000 furnished him by Mrs. Lincoln. Usuallv, legal tender currency, and that private persons "My baby lost!" up and down mamma goes, No five-franc silver pieces whatever have A peering about and following her nose he drank tea and coffee at the table, but should have unlimited right to have Remedy for Unjust Weights and. Measures. been issued or will be this year. The sixteen Inside the papers, and under the books, their gold and silver bullion coined into he preferred milk, or cold water. Wine and odd millions turned out in 1877 were received And all in between the covers she looks, money at the mints. was ne\ er on the table at the White House In many portions of our countryes "Baby! baby!" calling. in the shape of bullion by the mint At the outset, these laws undoubtedly except when visitors, other than familiar But though in her way is papa's tall hat, pecially in the newer portion prior to the legislation of August 1876, which contemplated the establishment of a single friends, weie present. The Piesident'a She never once thinks to look under that. of the country, there suspended the coinage of silver. silver standard, in spite' of the fact that gold glass was always filled, and he usually is a great talk amDg the farmers of She listens, she stops, she hears the wee laugh, was declared to be legal tender. The value touched it to" his lips. Sometimes he false weights and measures. We could And around she flies, the faster bv half, of gold in relation to silver was fixed in the The Confiding Man. drank a few swallows, but never a whole Why, wlterecan he be!" and she opens the give a very large number of definite examples proportion of 15}^ to 1, that is, one gramme glass, probably. clock, [Detroit Free Press.] of this kind, which have come of pure gold was recognized and decreed She tumbles her basket, she shakes papa's A solitary lady was going up on a Cass He was cordial and affable, and hia equivalent to lo% grammes of pure silver, within our observation. sock, avenue car yesterday, smiling as if she believed simple-hearted manneis made a strong and all persons in France were compelled to Hogs fall short from rive to twenty-five "Baby! baby!" calling. all the world at peace, when a man accept either gold or silver in this proportion impression upon those who met him ioi While the children all smile at papa's tall hat, pounds each. Buyers take from fifteen with a handkerchief bound around his head in payment of debt. It is probable, though Though none of them go and look under that, the first time. I have known impressionable to ninety pounds of wheat or oats from got aboard and sat opposite her. He doubt no way proved, that the Legislature had no women, touched by his sad face and each load bought in the street. At the less felt that some explanation should be intention of making the convention as to A sweet coo calls. Mamma darts everywhere. his gentle bearing, to go away in tears. close of the season, one buyer in a small made for his appearance, and he suddenly She feels in her pocket to see if he's there. the relative value of the precious metals Once I found him sitting in his chair so town had a surplus of two carloads of said: In every vase on the mantel shelf. binding for future generations. Most political collapsed and weary that he did not look wheat left over. This was equally divided She searches sharp for the little elf, economists take it for granted that it was Madam, I was not run over by a butcher up or speak when I addressed him. He "Baby! baby!" calling. between the dealer and the railroad tacitly understood at the time that if gold cart." Another coo comes from papa's tall hat, put out his hand, mechanically, as if to company. became worth more or less than 15^ times She made no reply, and he presently continued Yet none oi them stir an inch toward that. shake hands, when I told him I had come its weight of silver, through an inciease or Two bags of clover seed fell short sixteen at his bidding. It was several minutes falling off in production, or other causes, "And I didn't fall down stairs." pounds a small crock of butter Somewhere he certainly must be, she knows there would have to be made a correspond^ before he was roused enough to say that She looked out of the window as if she So up to the china cupbord she goes three and a half poundes three bags of ing he had had a hard day/' Odce, too, at didn't care whether he had gone down The coders she lifts from the suejar-bowls, barley ground at the mill fell short fifty The sweet white lumps she rattles and rolls, through abridge or had been blown up. He a reception in the White House. I joined pounds, besides the lawful toll a load of CHANGE IX THE GOLD COIN. "Baby! baby!" calling. moved around uneasily, and then whispered: the long queue" of poeplet,, shook wool shrunk fifteen pounds in going to The gold pieces in circulation would be But though there's a stir near papa's tall hat, "'Twas a family fightworst conflict you hands with him, received the usual -Glad They will not so much as look toward that. town. Meat, tea, coffee, sugar, and all melted down and reissued with a proportionately ever sawmost beat a tornado. You look to see you, sir,'' and passed on. Later in different denomination of francs kinds of groceries, often tall short from thin and weak and pale and I don't mind the evening, meeting me, hedeclaied that She moves the dishes, but baby is not stamped upon them. The law, in fact, that five to twenty-five per cent. Two firms telling you how the old woman always" In the cream-pitcher nor in the teapot he had not seen me before, and explained made the silver franc the standard stipulated advertised kerosene at five cents a gallon "Will you mind your business!" called the And she wrings her hands and stamps on the his preoccupation of manner while the that if, through any cause, the relation of less than most other dealers. They were driver, as he opened the door. floor, the gold and silver coins needed to be altered, people were shaking hands with him by found to make up the difierence in price She shakes the rugs and opens the door, "I will!" was the soft reply, "but I want only the gold coins should be changed. This saying that he was thinking of a man "Baby! baby!" calling. by the shortage in measure. At one railway to tell this lady how she can wallop the old was a distinct recognition of the intention down South." It afterward came out that They stand with the backs to papa's tall hat, man every time he gets sassy and sighs for a depot, in two years, fifteen thousand of the Legislature that silver should be the Though the sweetest of murmurs comes from the man down South was Sherman. terrific conflict, you see. When one o' these bushels of grain were taken out of the standard. In practice, however, the monetary that. family fights occurs there is always some farmers. Once, when a visitor used profane system of France has from the beginning pre" been bi-metallic. It is now three-quarteis Most of the aboev examples were detected language in his presence, he rose and Sea-Water as a Beverage. I want you to stop!" shouted the driver. of a century since the 18th Germinal, by the good sense of several farmers. said, "I thought Senator C. had sent me a I willI will, but first let me say that but gold and silver have never ceased to be They mistrusted they were being gentleman. 1 was mistaken. There is Visitors at the seaside who out of curiosity there is always some preliminary jawing and unlimited legal tender, nor the relative legal cheated. They bought large and smail the door, and I wish you good night." At sassing around. If the woman is sharp, have sipped a little of the salt water value of the metals to be as 1 to 15^. scales, and carefully weighed everything another time, a delegation from a distant she will keep jawing as she backs for the will easily understand the intense thirst But, in addition to the articles "already before going to mill or to market, The state waited on him with a written protest fire shovelkeep jawing and backingsassing generally caused by its continuous use. specified, the laws of March and April, 1803, cheating is done by leaded weights, againit certain appointments. The and backing" This thirst is the chief torture endured by enacted that the standard for gold and silver two sets of trucks and various paper contained some reflections upon I'll put you off the car!" exclaimed the persons who have taken refuge lrom a should be fixed at nine-tenths of pure metal other devices which ever suggest the character ot Senator Baker, Lincoln's driver as he looped his bines over the brake. foundering ship in a small boat, and find to one-tenth of alloy for all legal money. themselves to minds wanting to use them. old and beloved friend. With great "Keep jawing back till you get hold of themselves without fresh water on the The following coins are to-day the only the fire shovel!" said the stranger. "Then dignity, the President said, This is my We have mentioned only a few cases open ocean. Many instances are on record legal money of Francebank-notes aie no carefully sneak and sneak along, and while paper which vou have given me?"Assured in which we could give the" names of the of men, thus exposed, being driven longer legal-tender: The 100-franc gold he is calling you a hyenaess and you are that it was, he added, "To do with as I parties. What shall the farmers do about pieces, very rare 50-franc gold pieces, very mad by resorting to sea-water to quench calling him a savage, you want to" please?" Certainly, Mr. President." it? They might go to law, but they are rare 20-franc gold pieces, or napoleon 10- their intolerable craving for something to "Off with youright off'n this car said Lincoln stooped to the fire-place behind franc gold pieces, or half-napoleon 5-franc a peaceful class of people, and dislike to drink and in works of fiction this great the driver as he grappled him. him, laid it on the burning coals, turned gold pieces and the 5-franc silver pieces. make a "fuss." The enterprising men horror ot shipwreck has been frequently "I willI'll go, but, madam, don't forget and said, Good day gentlemen." It was slightly modified a few years ago in referred to are now buying and selling depicted. Yet it appears upon some of the to sneak along, and sneak along the cases of the fractional coins, for 2f., If., by their own weights and measures. coral islands of the Pacific Ocean there He was off the car by that time. He stood ^b 50 centimes and 20 centimes silver pieces. They are saving each other more than the in the middle of the street, and as the car exists a race of men who actually use seawater For these, which with the copper coins, 10 A Doctor's t^ueer Story. costs of the scales and the trouble of started he turned his head in and hoarsely as their daily beverage! These centimes, 5 centimes, 2 centimes, and 1 shouted weighing grists,of grain they now weigh islands are situated at an immense distance The Cincinnati Times tells the following centime, are only token money, the standard "Strike for all your worth when you hit in, and weigh out of the mills. Such from the mainland, surrounded by has been lowered to meet particular emergencies. on the authority of a physician in that him It's the first blow that counts. If farmers are looking out for their rights the boundless ocean they are of small It is now fixed at 8 35-100 of pure city, who says the incident happened on you can stun him on the start the victory many others are catching the same spirit. size, and being elevated bnly very slightly metal to 1 65-100 of alloy. the 4th, of September,last: a lady drove to is Heretofore they have done as do now above the level of the waves, and without Here then is an example of a nation consistently my office door about 9:45 o'clock, and The driver made for him, and he retreated a very large majority of the farmers vegetation except a few cocoanut trees, and calmly to the curbstone. When the car started asked me to visit her sick child. In in the country, they allow the buyer to contain no streams or springs of fresh again he leaned forward and called out HOLDING TO A Bl-METALLIO SISTEM order to learn of the child's illness I set his own price, do his own weighing water. If wells are sunk they yield a over a protracted period, without inconvenience 'Sh Say nothing What I have told questioned the lady as to the symptoms, on his own scales, and make his own brackish liquid, little differing from that you is in strict confidence Hit him over to itself and with much convenience and she stated that she had not seen the figures as to the result. Such farmers of the ocean. the ear and the scalp will peel clear to the world at large. Between 1803 and child in four months, and that 'whea she court abuse from all dealers who are in around!"' 1873 the relative yields of gold and silver The inhabitants are therefore obliged last heard from it it was well. I then any ways inclined 'to be dishonest. Who have altered again and again, but the proportion to drink from the sea, and they do so constantly asked why she wished me to go to the says that the farmer does not need to of 15^| to 1 resisted the force of all The Beautitude of Brutality. without ill effect. So extraordinary house. She said, "Because it is sick keep his ears and eyes open, to learn the fluctuations. At the beginning of a circumstance has caused much now. You can see her in the cab. She tricks of the trade Successful men are the century it is roughly computed that [London World, January 23.] conjecture as to whether these men are the production of silver exceeded that of learning to conduct their farms on business got in at the depot with me, and her face It is, perhaps, in our common, every-day constitationally different in some manner gold as 50 to 1 (in weight) or about 3 tovl in principles. is pinched" and pale, and she seems to be life that we are most actively irritated and from others or whether they have gradually value. In 1849 or 1850, during the Calfornia in great pain." I took a seat beside her annoyed by the genus "brute." In this accustomed themselves to its use at fever, the yield of gold was almost System in Farming. and examined the carriage closely, but overcrowded country, where politeness in times when cocoanuts were scarce, and equal to that of silver in value. Between There must be a system in every business could see no child or shadow of a child. address and bearing has not yetbeen elevated the milk that they ("afforded unavailable. 1852 and 1865, the difference was largely in if it is to succeed, and whoever The lady stated that Dr. M. was her fam into one of the fine arts, we are at their Perhaps the ability arises from favor of gold, probably three times the value ignores a clear foresighted way of conducting ily physician, but that she knew she mercy continually: our peace and comfort both causes, since now and then instances of the inferior metal being discovered. The farming will soon have no far ning: would be unable to find him at his office are often altogether in their hands. In the price of gold fell in the market relatively to have been known of sailors drinking for if he is depending on it for a living haunts and public places where people nowa-days at that late hour, and she had no wish to silver, yet France went on coining us usual, from the sea oh board, ship, at first [from he will become bankrupt, or if doing undisturbed, at the old rate of 15% to 1. In must meet perforce the brute constantly be delayed, as she feared the child would partial necessity and aitewards without it for amusement, the drain on capital 1867, and from that time forward to the afflicts us, and we cannot escape him. die. On arriving at her home, I found hesitation, while their companions could will be so heavy as to cause prudence to present, silver went down, down, down, or Sometimes he is dressed in a little brief authority, that an hour or more previous the little not touch it. So that it would seem to step in and end such a losing transaction. gold went upas you choosetill the market a policeman, for example, although require a peculiarity in the constitution, girl had been taken with severe pains in Some men are so opiniated as to imagine difference in value of the first came to rarely, who is rudely unsympathetic, and developed by exercise. In one case, a the stomach, and was crying terribly. themselves competent to manage a represent a serious loss. France went on threatens to "run us in" because we have allowed sailor who drank sea-water foud his complexion The father asked his wife how she came farm without any looking forward, and coining. She had- not felt any harm from ourselves to be robbed more often it become yellow. The human to return without letting them know, a^td her disregard of the much heavier increase they will make inadequate preparation is an official of the underground railways, body appears capable of accomodating asked who her companion was. Sh*e of gold production from 1848 to 1865, and for winter and have nothing in readiness itself by degrees to the most poisonous who considers it an insult to be asked a question stated that he was a physician she had she saw no reason to dread harm in the case by the time it is wanted, ana if anything substances even corrosive sublimate is or to be supposed that he is there for of silver, especially as the value of the early brought to treat the child, and then proceeded goes wrong it is laid at the door of so ne stated to have been taken safely by some anything but his own good pleasure. Brutes production in Nevada, etc., was small, compared to tell her husbrnd the same story other than the right person. There is not persons. The particular places were to the immense finds of gold in yet again unequalled for incivility and peremptory she told me. She had no means of knowing a more pitiable and contemptible man these sea-water drinkers are found are the the Sacramento valley and in Australia. It airs may be found at the doors of that,her child was ill, and had n than the one who thinks himself smarter Paumoton Islands, and Easter Island, in was argued: even supposing the annual find Burlington house, in the livery of the Royal than any one else, and yet runs around thought of such an occurance [until of silver should double or treble, and in- the Pacific. Academy. In the streets brutes jostle us seeking to charge all his shortcomings to took the cab^at the depot. -*"&?& if* *Ji3Nif agfe*