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Show HK HAD TO HAVB FRUIT. Grapes Deyend His Purse, Doy Took Humble Subtlftute. I James Wilson, the secretary of agrl culture, waa discussing In Washington the aid which hla department give the American farmer He pointed ( out Ihe benefit that had been derived i from the Introduction of darnm wheat of the wheat totting machine and of ! the method of extracting potash from granite ' In fact," said Mr Wilson, smiling. "I believe that eventually our finest product will be cheap enough to lie within the reach nf all Then the I story of the hoy and the hot house grape will be a dead and antiquated as the theater hat stories of the past I "This boy lie wa a Iwotblack entered a grocer's store one day, and, pointing to tome Biipeth grapes, Mid "'Wot' the price o' them there, mister?" " 'One dollar a pound, my lad,' the , clerk replied I "A look nf anguish lasted oier the boy' face, and he said hastily . "'Then give us u cent's worth o" carrots. I'm dead nut on fruit.'" I |