A correspondent sends us the following with the remark that it was sent to a Philadelphia paper, but no response came to his inquiry :

" I live in the country, over in New Jersey. I moved there to secure low rent, pure air and water, healthy surroundings, fresh and cheap vegetables. You know the dream of the average city man. Well, I think I've got left on the cheap vegetables. Although surrounded with truck farms, we buy our vegetables in the city, carrying them down home ourselves, the reason being that the farmers ask two prices for anything they have to sell. They haul their produce five miles and sell in the city at one-third less than they are content to sell to neighbors in their own village. They seem to prefer to lose the time, labor, ferriage and expense of the long haul rather than sell in a home market, and we are compelled to go five miles to purchase a home product. How do you account for this?"

[It is remarkable that in a city where they have a "chair of political economy," attached to the University, no answer should be given. The explanation is that " Time is money," and that a man can make more money in taking one hour to go five miles and sell a thousand cabbages for $400, than he could by selling ten cabbages in the same time at home for even fifty cents apiece. - Ed. G. M.]