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Show i i Rann-dom Reels ; ! By HOWARD U RANN ! Till: DKOL'TII THE Drouth Is a long, dry spell followed hy a series of sharp i x-plosions x-plosions In tin- wheat pit. It I- aNi followed by the agonized accents ol the rural speculator who lne-i.-d somebody c-i-e's money and was promptly puiietuiid while ri adoig up on the ha-ehall scores. The Drouth is cmied by n to'al n! sence of rain In places where a liitb-xvould liitb-xvould go a long way. One of ti e strange and lii-eruialile my-teries of this Heeling life below Is why the rain should fall with such fervor and exuberance ex-uberance In the spring of the oat. when everybody wants to plant corn or try out a new antoinobile, and then s soon us summer opens up with draw from the Immediate vicinity iiiel allow everything to dry up but tlie political orator. In the spring it Is harder to head off a soaking rain than 6 t Not enough rain will fail to properly water one perspiring citizen. It is to discourage a visiting collector who Is accustomed to speak without notes or mercy, but Just as soon us-hot us-hot weather sets In and raises large, luminous blisters on the common people peo-ple not enough rain will fall to properly prop-erly water one perspiring citizen. A Drouth which has not been advertised ad-vertised In advance Is a big asset to successful gambling on the price of December corn, wheat and other breakfast foods. Many a man has bought a few million bushels of No. 1 wheat long before It began to peep shyly from the ground, In the hope that a double-geared Drouth would cause It to wither from the ankles up, and has been gratified to such an extent ex-tent that he could pay his barber bill for the first time since his marriage. Thousands of men who bet on the price of wheat, however, are now living liv-ing In peaceful seclusion at the expense ex-pense of an industrious father-in-law, the ratio of plungers who heat the game being about the same as that which holds good in bucking a slot machine. The Drouth Is a very uncomfortable article to live with, hut it is easier lo get along with I linn some people, for which 1ft us give thanks. (Copyright.) ( i |