POLITICAL ECONOMY.
POLITICAL ECONOMY is the basis of all good government. The wisest men of all ages have brought to bear upon this subject the—
[Here I was interrupted and informed that a stranger
wished to see me down at the door. I went and confronted
him, and asked to know his business, struggling
all the time to keep a tight rein on my seething political
economy ideas, and not let them break away from me or get
tangled in their harness. And privately I wished the
stranger was in the bottom of the canal with a cargo of
wheat on top of him. I was all in a fever, but he was
cool. He said he was sorry to disturb me, but as he was
passing he noticed that I needed some lightning-rods. I
said, "Yes, yes—go on—what about it?" He said there
was nothing about it, in particular nothing except that
he would like to put them up for me. I am new to
housekeeping; have been used to hotels and boarding-houses
all my life. Like anybody else of similar experience,
I try to appear (to strangers) to be an old housekeeper;
consequently I said in an off-hand way that I
had been intending for some time to have six or eight
lightning-rods put up, but The stranger started,
and looked inquiringly at me, but I was serene. I
