And still the bell did flut. We went to the cornucopia, put our
ear to the toddy stick and said, "What ailest thou darling, why dost thy
hand tremble? Whisper all thou feelest to thine old baldy." Then there
came over the wire and into our mansard by a side window the following
touching remarks: "Matter enough. I have been ringing here till I have
blistered my hands. We have got to have ten car loads of hogs by day after
to-morrow or shut down." Then there was a stuttering, and then another
voice said, "Go over to Loomis' pawn shop. A man shot in"--and another
voice broke in singing, "The sweet by and by, we shall meet on that
beautiful"--and another voice said--"girl I ever saw. She was riding with
a duffer, and wiped her nose as I drove by in the street car, and I think
she is struck after me."
It was evident that the telephone was drunk, and we went out in the hall
and wrote on a barrel all the afternoon, and gave it full possession of
the office.
CONVENIENT CURRENCY.
What we want is a currency that every farmer can issue for himself. A law
should be passed making the products of the farm a legal tender for all
debts, public and private, including duties on imports, interest on the
public debt, and contributions for charitable purposes. Then we shall have
a new money table about as follows:
Ten ears of corn make one cent.
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