in a German
garden, with some of my countrymen around me, three thousand miles
from "home." I could just hear the waves beating on the beach at
dear old East Hampton, with the moonlight shining over all; the
light in the dear little "chalet," and our footsteps sounding on
the board walk, as we came in, in time for dinner, with the bright
table and father just in from town. And I could see the funny old
house with the willows in front, and the quiet old graveyard
bright in the still white light. Across the way Daisy's house with
the yellow lamplight shining through, and Daisy's black shadow
passing across the light through the window. John Howard Payne
must have seen the same "Home, Sweet Home" as I did that minute.

EDITH S. MILLS.
DRESDEN, GERMANY.

A South Carolina Plantation.

We live on a plantation. The clearing is about 400 acres in
extent. On the east is a salt-water river, and on the north,
south, and west is the forest. On the other side of the river is a
marsh. On this marsh there grows a kind of grass. In the winter
the marsh dries and breaks off, and in spring, when we have high
tides, the grass floats upon the beach, and people haul it away to
put in the stables for the horses and cows. There are many large
live-oaks scattered over the clearing, with lots of moss hanging
from them. The moss is lovely. Along the river-shore on our side
are palmettos, oak-trees, and bushes.

MILLIE MITTELL, R. T. L.
BLUFFTON, S. C.

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This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin
collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question
on these subjects so far as possible. Correspondents should
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Corean money is made of copper or brass, each piece about as large as
our old copper cents, with a square hole in the centre. It takes six
hundred of these coins to equal in value one of our silver dollars. Ten
dollars would be a good load for a man to carry about, and fifty dollars
would be a good load for a horse.

Where does the capitalist keep his money? We have to build immense
vaults in Washington to store away our silver bullion and silver dollars
that no one cares to carry about as we prefer good gold or paper money.
There are no banks or safe-deposit com