He Was Swearing Mad

The rise in the praice of wlieat has been taken ailvantage of by the farmers, and inany is the tale of this or that man selling lus wheat and clearing ofl" indebtedness or meeting obligations. One man who had a mortgage being i'oreclosed thrashed all night and took liis 800 bushels of wheat to marketin time to redeem his farm from forced sale. But to the man who swore about Jhe advance in price. Ile was a well to do farmer who lived in this county, and lie has been a strong advocate of the theorythat the price of silver always had and always will govern the price of wheat and farm products generally. But he is not so prejudiced but what he can see facts when they are brought ont as plain as the price of those two commoditiea to-day. On the Street a day or two since he was hailed by a republican opponent witli : '-Well how do you like the price of wheat?" "Like it! Like it! Wliy should I like it? G- d- i! you are the third man who has been gaying me this morning! and I tell you I slnu.'i stand it mach longer. How'd I know that wheat was going higher?" and he kopt on in a torrent of oatlis and excited talk iintil bis friend calmea him down and wanted to know what ailed him, anyway. "Oh! you didn't know that I contracted all of my wheat at 75 cents, I suppose?" "Why, no, I had not heard of it." "Well that's what I did, and the blauied tliing has been going np every since. I suppose tbat was what you was digging at me about. I never'll be caught in that sort of B trap again. When I contract anything on the ket that's climbing up you'll eatcn a weazel asleep, don't you forget it." And the two parted after a few more words, the republicau not caring to stick too many pins into liis free silver free trade friend while in the state of mind he was then iu.