Clever Reasoning

Bather an original lesson in political economy was that once taught by the Japanese nobleman, Awoto, and thus translated by iáir Edwin Arnold, iu "Seas and Lands:" One evening as he was going to the palace to take his turn in keeping night wateh, he let ten cash drop out of his tinder case into the stream, and then bought fifty cash worth oï torches to seareh i'or the lost coin. Hls iriends laughed at hun for spending so much in order to recover so little, and he replied with a frown: "Sirs, you are foolish and ignorant of economies. Had I not sought for these ten cash they would have been lost iorever - sunk in the bottom of the Nameri-gawa. The lifty cash Whlch I expended on torches will reniain In the hands of the tradesman. Whether he has thern or I is no matter; but not a single one of the sixty has been lost, and that is a clear gain to the country."