Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1876 — How France Paid Her Debt. [ARTICLE]

How France Paid Her Debt.

When Germany demanded that sl,000,000,00 ft indemnity, the World stood aghast, never expecting conquered Frtne® to be able to pay it; but in a few years the world again became astonished when it 4 was announced that France had paid her f 1 ,000,000,000 fine to Germany. But did die pay it? Tea; but hot in gold, as called for. Nor, if we pnrsue the same course, will we pay our foreign indebtedness to England and Germany in gold, as called for. How, then, did France pay it? She first issued an abundance of paper currency—fulliega! tender —to her own people. This started up her productive enterprises and set everybody to work. She also attended to her tariff regulations. These two things threw the balance of her trade with England and Germany in her favor. So she paid Germany of the sl,000,000,000 due her, less than f ISO,ooft,000 in cash, and the balance in bills of exchange on German and English merchants. France became prosperous, while Germany and England both became like the United States, financially depressed and in danger of general bankruptcy. If the blind lead the blind shall not both faU into the ditch ? If we follow the lead of England and Germany shall we not tumble Into general bankruptcy, as they are doing? Let us follow the lead of France, and march on to peace and prosperity.Indianapolis Nun. t —A few days since, Mr. Evan Stover, off Spring Valley, Bucks County, while working in his mill, noticed that the machinery was not working as it should do, and kept getting slower. Finally it almost stopped. He immediately proceeded to investigate the matter and ascertain the cause, He raised the atom*, inspectedthe machinery and did other things without avail. Finally he went, to tho water-gate and raised it up. Findiug.tbat thewater did hot flow as fiat as'it should, he inserted his arm in the race and, to his horror, pulled qut one of hi* owq children, aged about three years. It' was, to all appearances, dead, but as he was canlying it to the house its nose began to bleed and the color came back to Its face. The Child was resuscitated and: is at present as well as if nothing had ever happened. How long the little Child had been in the water no one knows.—JDoylettoum (Pa.) Democrat. * agfe —An old schdolfeUow of John Brown tells this anecdote illustrating the man’# conscientiousness: Salmon Brown, a younger brother of John, was also a pnpilat Morris Academy, Conn., and, by some misdemeanor, had Incurred his displeasure. Not willing that Salmon should ir sastrys sr»cisa and after narrating the particulars, said: “ Mr. Vaiil, if Salmon hod done this thing at home, father would have punished him- I know he would expect' cc sswssasss ter go for that day, and, that night finding that Salmon was likely to escape punishment, John made good his word—more in sorrow than in auger—giving Uis htmiMC >