palling. I never saw a newspaper in a 
French farm village. Their wants are no 
more than the wants of a horse. The French¬ 
man eats the coarsest food; about the same 
as he feeds his horse. He will eat coarse 
bread and wine for breakfast; soup, bread 
and wine for dinner, and perhaps bread and 
milk for supper. He does not know what 
coffee or tea is. The negroes of the South 
live like kings to a French farmer. Still, 
the Frenchman is satisfied because he 
knows no better. 
When I asked a French farmer who was 
cultivating his farm (150 by 1500) if he saved 
any money, he said: 
“Oh, not much. I go to all the fetes. I 
laid by 500 francs ($100; last year. 1 put 
it in the Caisse rV Epargne 1 ’ 
“What is that?” I asked of the landlord. 
“That is the government savings bank. 
The government takes the money of‘the 
poor up to 1000 francs, and gives them 3^ 
per cent, for its use. The peasant farmers 
of France have nearly $800,000,000 on de¬ 
posit in these savings banks. These poor, 
degraded, half-fed farmers keep the French 
treasury full of money.” 
The French farmer loves the republic, 
but the people of Paris hate it. The empire 
made Paris. Without the empire trade is 
bad in Paris; so Paris sighs for some Louis 
XIV or Napoleon III to come and establish 
an expensive court again. 
I asked a farmer near Dijon if he preferred 
the republic to the empire. 
“Yes” he said, “but we most of all want 
peace. We are sick of war. If the empire 
comes, they will want us to fight. We 
want to stay at home on our farms. French¬ 
man do not like to fight. The Parisians 
want an emperor who will collect millions 
of dollars from the country and spend it on 
opera houses‘and public buildings in Paris.” 
I found Paris very dull. Trade there is 
stagnant. The people there are dissatisfied. 
I would not be surprised to hear any day 
that the republic was dead and another em¬ 
pire declared. All that is wanting is the 
right man with old Bourbon blood in him, 
and a few generals in the army. Dijon, 
Macon, Amiens and all the provincial cities 
like the republic — but Paris is France. 
The crops in England and France are 
good everywhere, with the exception ?of 
hops in Kent. Whea 4 : in France is splendid. 
The fields are so small that they are reaping 
it with a sickle. A man and his wife and 
three children can reap with the sickle and 
bind about as much wheat as one man can 
reap and bind in America. In America the 
wife is attending to her household duties 
and the children are at school. In France 
the whole family is in the field. 
Indian corn is raised all over the southern 
half of France. They plant one stalk in a 
hill and hoe it by hand. The weeds are all 
hoed out of the wheat, barley and oats by 
hand. Wheat is worth in Dijon $1.25 per 
bushel .—New York Sun. 
Light and Love. 
[An Acrostic.] 
BY W. B. DERRICK. 
Ever and anon, ’tis said, 
Light and love should be displayed: 
Light to guide our steps aright, 
And love to cheer us day and night. 
Visions then of happiness, 
In this world our lives would bless, 
Only second to the scenes, 
Longed for in our hopeful dreams. 
As knowledge is the light that shines 
Clear and constant at all times, 
Let light and love thy life enshrine 
And happiness will e’er be thine; 
Remember this: God will approve 
Knowledge and kindness — light and love . 
Tlie New Wliite Grape, “Francis 
B. Hayes.” 
This new Grape, named in honor of the 
noted president of the Massachusetts Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, was first fruited about 
the year 1872. It came with Moore’s Early 
from a lot of seedlings of the well known 
Concord, and if the flattering reports of the 
many pomologists who have tested it are 
realized it will stand a chance to become as 
popular as that old and well known varie¬ 
ty. The Hayes is very hardy and produces 
bunches of good size having greenish white 
berries, changing to a fine amber yellow 
when fully ripe. Its flesh is juicy and of 
fine flavor. It is from a week to ten days 
earlier than the Concord. 
Our illustration was furnished by Messrs. 
John B. Moore & Son, of Concord, Mass., 
the originators and disseminators of Moore’s 
Early and the Francis B. Hayes. 
