| Show HIS CUP LACKED ONE JOT JOY A correspondent of 0 the american economist gives the experience of a sound old bard abell shell democratic farmer who got terribly alarmed last fall over the fearful bricea ice that the ile mckenley kinley bill was at once going to impose thinking be he would be ahead in one thing at least be he laid in a supply of binding twine tor for which he paid 14 cents per pound wholesale for medium grade article the harvest of this year being about over be he brought his wife to town to got supplies for threshing th at same time be he brought a load of corn which he sold for 60 cents per bushel he bold sold his wheat for 1 per bushel and a bunch ol 01 hogs bogs for per hundred pounds live weight he ile then bunted hunted his wife up and paid her bills she bad had bought three tin cups for a dime good calico tor for 4 cents per yard and the beet best granulated sugar for 5 cents per pound he ile then stepped into a hardware store and bought a keg ot of nails for and needing a few pounds of binding twine for late harvest he waa wag given the best manilla twine for 10 cents conta per pound this kno knocked eked the old fellow clean out lie ile contemplated tem plated the ceiling a lew few moments and then communed with himself thus the best manilla binding twine for 10 cents per pound three tin cups for a dime good calico for 4 cents a yard 20 pounds of beet best white sugar for 1 a whole keg of nails for corn CO 60 cents per bushel and I 1 sold bushels at that price and got the apih hoga hogs per hundred pounds on fot wheat 1 per bushel and 30 bushels to the acre if only v cleveland was president this would be a b h ilof 11 of a fine time |
