duke, who had been banished, could say:
"And this our life, exempt from public haunt.
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
I would not change it."
And the man "compact of jars," grew musical
enough to sing in his usual key;
"If it do come to pass
That any man turn ass,
Leaving his wealth and ease,
A stubborn will to please.
* * * * * * * *
Here shall he see
Gross fools as he,
An if he will come."
Nevertheless, in the midst of Jaques' gloom, we catch transient glimpses of humor. This generally occurs when Touchstone is around, hence we pardon Jaques for not being able to sustain his usual reputation. The only time we notice this selfish mortal offering his services is when Touchstone and Audrey present themselves as candidates for matrimony. It is easy to believe that this is out of curiosity, rather than through any desire to be accommodating. But as things do not appear to Jaques as they really are, neither does he appear to us as he is. He is that at which he scoffed, the fool in melancholy's clothing.
Shakespeare introduces this character for a purpose. He produces the same effect upon the rest of the characters as a dark back-ground does upon bright stage scenery. He brings out clearly the peculiar traits of the other characters. Rosalind secums brighter, Orlando happier, and the old duke more resigned. Shakespeare has managed this character so happily that, in spite of all his melancholy and fatalistic preachings, no gloom is cast over the play, but everything turns out "As you like it."
The Seminary
At the opening meeting of the Historical Seminary last Friday afternoon, Prof. Blackmar gave a very interesting review of gold and silver legislation in the United States.
The important dates in the monetary legislation of the country, he said, are, 1792, 1834, 1837, 1853, 1873, 1878 and 1893. By the law of 1792, pure bimetalism was established at a ratio of 15 to 1. This ratio was soon found to over-value silver and consequently to drive gold out of circulation. To remedy this, Jefferson, in 1804, issued an order suspending the coinage of silver dollars; and for thirty years thereafter they were not coined. The law of 1834 changed the ratio to 16 to 1. This ratio over-valued gold slightly, and that metal came into circulation and remained the standard of value until the time of the civil war. Meanwhile, in 1847, the alloys of the coins had been placed upon a uniform basis, all coins being made nine-tenths fine and one tenth alloy. In 1853, the fractional currency had been reduced in weight and also declared legal tender, but for not more than five dollars.
During the war, cheap paper money drove out gold. The paper money era continued until after the passage of the law of 1863. This law was a general revision of all previous monetary legislation. It provided for the coinage of trade dollars, half dollars, and quarte dollars, on government account. They were made legal tender for amounts not exceeding five dollars.
This bill was before the public for nearly four years before its final passage, and there is no evidence of its provision having been in any degree due to improper influences.
In 1878 the Bland act was passed. It required the government to buy as much as two million dollars worth of silver bullion each month and coin it into silver dollars, but no more than $4,000,000 worth could be purchased monthly. This was superseded in 1890 by the Sherman act, which required the government to buy 4,500,000 ounces of silver each month, at its market value.
It will be seen that, so far as the letter of the law is concerned, we had bimetalam from 1792 until 1873. Silver was coloured very little during this period,
however, owing to Jefferson's order of 1804, and to the unequal ratio established in 1834. Since 1873 silver has declined rapidly in value, because of its greatly increased production and the general refusal of nations to use it as money. This decline in value has raised the bimetallic controversy and, as a consequence of the aggressive work of bimetallists, we have coined a great deal more silver since the demonetization than was coined during the whole period when its coinage was nominally free, the coinage of silver from 1792 to 1873 being only about eight million dollars, while that of the year 1890 alone was over thirty-eight million dollars.
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So much sameness has been observable of hate in farce comedies, owing to the fact of the participants in them borrowing acts one from the other, that the theatregoers have grown, to a certain extent, tired of this sort of thing. The natural consequence of this similarity in plays of that class, and the public's evident desire for novelty, has led managers to look around, and in their endeavor to cater to the popular taste they have produced, instead of farce comedy, which had no plot to speak of, farcial comedies which owe their success to continuity of plot, bright dialogue, and amusing situations. One of the most humorous examples of this style of entertainment is "Incog," Mrs. R. Pachacco's most successful comedy of errors, which Mr. Charles Dickson and his company of players will present at the opera house Monday night, Sept. 25. No better play of his kind has ever been written, if the unanimous praise of the press, which has been bestowed upon it, can be believed. It should succeed in drawing an excellent audience to the theatre on the night of its performance here.
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