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t— '-y. ~ ~ i|^"PARENTAL. GRATITUDE J If It warn't fur Bill, my oldest son, 1 dunno what I'd have ever done. Savin' up cash was easy 'nuff. What puzzled me was to spend the stuff. When you've Hvod In a plain, old-fash ioned way You can't be a sport in Jes' one day. The coin would have laid there In the till L.lk<? lead. If It hadn't have been for Bill. Of course. It wouldn't have done for me To bet on bosses where folks could see, Nor talk in slang, nor stay out at night; An' I never could tlo rny necktie right; But Bill, he was quick to understand. An’ he took the enterprise right in hand. We was Jes' plain folks. We'd have been so still. No doubt, if It hadn't have been for Bill. It's a comfort to sit on the new back stoop An' the painted barn with the weather vane And the other tokens of worldly gain. I've labored faithful to let folks gee That money's no object at all to me. But envious people would doubt it still, I'm sure, if it hadn’t hav^ been for Bill. —Washington Star. =1 “To Wedded Life" j=j ----1 Laughter and the music of guitars sounded through the half-open door way of a restaurant In the Italian quarter. It was an air from ‘'Car men" the musicians played. Into the middle of it broke a woman's voice, vibrant, dramatic. Only a few bars it sang, then stopped as suddenly as it had begun. The players continued as if no voice had been heard. The laughter, which had subsided quickly, was renewed. With it brolto out a salvo of applause. Schuyler Thompson halted before tho door. He was strange to San Francisco, and he hesitated about en tering. Then he saw the name “San guinettl” above the entrance. The name seemed familiar. Had he heard it in the Palace Hotel? Yes, that was It. Some one had said: "If you want a ‘Dago’ dinner, go to Sangulnetti'e." His Btomach told him it was din ner time; his watch said it was long past it. Before the applause had ceased, he was inside. Along the right side of the room was a long bar. Behind It were glasses and bottles. On the other side were tables, most of them occu pied and laden with dishes. It was a plain place, almost shabby. White sand covered the floor lightly, plowed Into little furrows by trailing skirts. Odors of Italian cooking and cigarette smoko filled the air. Tho handclapping ended and one after another, almost simultaneously, the diners lifted their glasses toward one woman, held them In the air until they caught her glance, then drank to her. It was readily done, gracefully, easily, spontaneously. She smiled and turned to her escort. Thompson seated himself at a table near tho singer. Before lie gave his order to the waiter he asked who she was. She was the prima donna of tho Italian opera company playing in the Tivoli opera house, the waitor told him, a woman who sung Carmen with a force and abandon suggestive of Calve. Then Thompson under stood the applause and the mute toasts. Sitting at a table nearby, between the singer's and his, Thompson notic ed a woman and a man. Naturally lie* saw tile woman first. Her appear ance pleased Ills critical faculty. She was well formed, well groomed, well gowned, tailor-made. She and her escort wire lingering over their des sert. As he ate he watched them. Occasionally their glasses met. Hor hand once closed on that of her escort above the table in a moment ary. covert clasp. Hor smiles for I__ Thompson seated himself at a table rear the singer. him were coquettish, or so they seemed to Thumpron, for he had seen tho linking of the fingers and the smiles. “Ah, a little love affair," he sakl to himself, and lie became Interested and slightly envious. Tho guitars struck up a rag time air and in a minute the sound of danc ing, the grinding of sand between wood and leather, and tho rustle of silk and lace flung hither and thither with energy, came to Thompson over his shoulder. A girl, young, pretty and well dressed, was lr. the midst of a shuffle Laughter id the clapping J-—----1 of hands rewarded her efforts. Thomp son’s eyes and those of the tailor made woman met. They smiled. “Good!” He thought. “I'm pro gressing.” He turned again to look at the dancer, just in time to see he fling herself into her chair, her cheeks flushed and her eyes sparkling from the exertion and her black picture hat tilted far for ward. But. it was only an instant she was permitted to remain quiet. An other girl from the same party seized her by the hands and pulled her to The tailor-made woman. her feet and together they went the length of the room and back, with the postures ar.d flourishes of cake walk ers. The applause was redoubled, and springing to her feet, the singer waved her glass to them and quaffed It In their honor. Thompson tco. and the tailor-made woman drank to them. Then the tailor-made woman and her escort clinked glasses, and Thompson heard him say: ‘‘To you, sweetheart.” Tiie woman looked toward Thomp son and ho lifted tils glass to her. She smiled and raised hers in return, and together they drank to health and happiness, or good fellowship or all together or whatever the action sig nifies. “Splendid," lie 6aid mentally. “Splendid.” The woman’s escort turned to the singer and said something. She laughed and replied in kind, and soon they were In conversation. He filled her glas:s and his own. and they, too, renewed the unspoken pledge taken times innumerable. “This seems to he my opportunity,” thought Thompson, and he leaned to ward the tailor-made woman. “How pleasant it Is here.” he said. “It is pleasant,” she replied. “It's the first time I have been here.” “Is it? We come here every week or two. It’s a change.” “Isn't it very free and easy?” “In come ways,” she said. So they chatted on. "Your escort seems quite enamored of the actress." he ventured after a time. “Does he?” she asked In a non committal way. “Aren't you Jealous?" “Oh, r.o. His talking to another woman doesn’t make mo jealous.” “Well. If he was in my place and I was in his and I saw you talking to him. I'd be jealous.” “Oh. no you wouldn’t,” she said, pleasantly. "My husband and I know each other too well to be jealous of each other.” She looked across the table at the man and her face lighted up with pride and love. "Your husband?" Thompson said with a start. “Yes.” And she laughed merrily. “Does he permit you to talk to strangers?” he asked in wonder. ”1 mean in a place like this?” “Why, certainly,” she replied. “And it’s because it is Sanguinnetti's that we can be Informal." Then she add ed : “It's only where there is true love and unbounded confidence that there is real freedom.” Thompson pondered a moment. Then he lifted his glass. “Here’s to wedded life,” he said. "To wedded life,” she repeated, anti they drained their giasses. As she passed out through the door way a little later, her hand on her husband’s arm, the tailor-made woman turned and smiled at Thompson. Standing, he raised his glass once more, and she knew his toast was: "To wedded life.”—George H. Squire, in New York Press. THE DISLIKE OF FRECH AIR. Prejudice Not Because of Malaria, But to Save Fuel. The theory that, the necessity of ex cluding from houses the injurious night air is the cause the world over of the practice of poor ventilation will not hold. It Is at least not tha sole nor the chief reason of the prejudice against fresh air. Manifestly it does not obtain for countries in which there is no mos quito. In cold climates, and especial ly in the winter season, the theory has no applicability, and another ex planation must be found. This is. we believe, the necessity that exists, especially among the vast majority of the poor, to economize warmth. A large portion of the peas ants of France to-day secure this economy by keeping their domestic animals at night in the combined house and stable. in Arctic climates and in winter even in temperate zones, and especial ly in previous centuries, the securing of sufficient clothing and saving the loss of warmth has doubtless been a chief cause of the universal fear of ventilation. In this way to-day in some coun tries medical college lecture rooms get on without the expense of fuel by utilizing the foul but warm exhala tions of the bodies of hundreds of students, who in anger cry out against a door ajar or a crack in a window. The greatest and best remedial agent in tuberculosis and many other devitalizing diseases is fresh air, by night or by day, ever fresh air.— American Medicine. LAST OF HAMILTON TREES. All That Is Left of Them in Upper Manhattan. It is safe to say that there isn't a city in all the world where sentiment counts for so little as it does in New York, when it comes to the preserva tion of historical objects. This is no better illustrated than Convent ave uue, between 142d and 143d streets. At one time a fence surrounded the little group of trees to protect them from vandalism, and an inscription told the stranger that they were planted by Alexander Hamilton in commemoration of the thirteen orig inal states. But eight of the trees are now standing, only three of which show any sign of life by putting forth their scant, foliage of fresh green. This spring’s foliage will probably be the last spring garb the historical old gums will ever don. as building has crept up close, only a few vacant lots remain in which they are the center. The building stones of the Lady of Lourdes Church are scatter ed all around, and even the trees themselves which Hamilton set out with such beautiful, patriotic senti ment, are covered, high as the sign hanger could reach, with real estate advertisements of “For Sale." An ignoble death for these relics of the colonial days of the new republic! —New York correspondent Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Only One Story Told. Two well known horsemen of Phil adelphia were telling about some of their old favorites and the kindly feeling they had toward them In not working them too hnrd, but letting them do as they liked in their old age. The older of the horsemen .said: "One of my best horses was sent out to Kansas to pass the rest of his days quietly on a farm; the farmer had a barn stored with eorn, which took fire cne cold afternoon .and as the heat was so intense it managed to pop the corn very quickly, which, with the strong wind blowing at the time, (aused the corn to fly about in all directions. The old mare stood watching this for a few minutes, thought it was snow, and then lay down and fro/.e to death.” The Sunshiny Woman. She always seems so pleasant that I often wonder what good fairy, lty magic of some wand's flat. Decreed her moods and nmnnnrs airy; And smiles—I marvel much thereat When cure's great cross is hers l< carry Yet. he dull grief or gladness present. She hath thu art of seeming pleasant. To beauty slight would be her claim. Likewise to grace and lofty station And. tlwntgh she hears an honored name Her heart's ne'er felt that quick puls.D tion That conu s with picking fruits of fame And earning critics' sweet oblation Her placid life hath known no wimple Yet smiles keep e'er lur cheeks a-dimpic. I think the fates or fairies must Have." when with graces they endowed her. Bethought how beauty flies ns dust Anil fame doth crumble Into powder While smiles live on. and. being just ’ This gi eater boon than all allowed her— A grace most sweet In queen or peasant The* one of always being pleasant! —The Housekeeper. Unusual Provocation. “You ought to know better.” said the oculist, "than to rub your eyes after handling paper money. Unless it'? perfectly new, it's full of germs.” “But tftis was a thousand-dollar bill a fellow handed me to look at. I rubbed my eyes to see if I was awake.” responded the patient. His Experience. Patient (who has just had hi* eye operated upon)—“Doctor, it seeitjt to me that $50 is a high price for tttat job. it didn't take ten seconds." Eminent Oculist—"My frienV, Jn learning to perform that operatin'. In ten seconds, I have spotted mor% UiJ>i two bushels of eyg*t“ j UNITED STATES RAISES THREE- j i FOURTHS OF WORLD’S CORN CROP : t_:_ ? The corn crops of the world, In each 'ear, are roundly 2,800.0T>0,000 bushels. The percentages produced in tho sev ual countries are as follows; United states, 74.9; Canada, .9; Mexico, 3.6; Europe, 16.4; South America, 2.7, and Africa and Australia, 1.5. The prin ipal producing country in Europe is -lungary, and not much is raised out iide of the Dtwiublan districts. The South Am.rican crop is mainly in Ar ;eniina. As will be seen, the United States In relation to the total crop, these states had 51.7 per cent of the entire area and raised 67.4 per cent of the total bushels. Their per capita pro duction, with a population estimated to be about 20,340,000 and about one fourth of the present population of, the United States, was 83.7 bushels; in all other states but 13.7 bushels. The area planted for the crop of 1903 is an unknown quantity. It is a general estimate that three-feurths of it had seeding by June 1. The re large, so much in excess of any pessi mistic view, that it calls for no enter tainment. The crop of 1902 was not the largest ever produced. There was every in centive that it should be. The coun try was bare. Farms were in sore need of their great essential. The price was high and stimulating, the season generally favorable. The crop, however, was late in maturing and late in availability. Its use began with October. A scarcity of animals u ses nearly three-fourths of the whole. In wheat the United States iaises but 22Vi per cent. This is one exhibit of the impor tance of the American corn crop. Corn in the most valuable of our produc tions. Our cotton crop is largely de pendent upon it. It is the keystone of our agricultural prosperity; the one crop we can least afford to lose. The crop in 1902 was not the larg est the United States has produced. In its measurement it was a large crop. Officially, it was 2,523,648.312 bushels from 94,043,613 acres. To grasp what these figures mean, the acreage, in square miles, is 146,983, and an area sufficiently large to make a band nearly six miles wide around the earth's largest circumference; an ^irea larger than is contained in the j states of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and I one-fourth of Iowa, and all in corn, if in a singlo bulk of shelled corn, the production in 1902 would make a mass 112^ feet high, with perpendicular sides, cn a base of a square mile. If in car loads of 800 bushels, it means 3,154.560 cars, making a lino of freight cars 23,900 miles long, that would nearly girdle the earth at the equator. Tito land area of the seven surplus states, the states producing more corn | than they use, is 265,817,600 acres. In j 1902 these states had 18.3 per cent 1 of this area in com, or 48,692,079 I acres out of a total of 94,043,613 for the entire country. In detail, the sev eral surplus states had the following percentage of their land surface in corn: Ohio, 12.3; Indiana, 19.7; Illi nois, 26.9; Iowa. 26.1; Missouri, 15.5; Kansas. 14.2; Nebraska. 15.9. If lands not in cultivation—lands in forest, cit ies. railways, etc.—are excluded, these percentages are possibly dou bled. This is another evidence of the crop's importance. mainlng one-fourth—or, approximate ly, 18,500,000 acres—Is to be treated as most affected to mar the general prospect. And right here we enter the threshold of the crop Indication. Probably 70,000,000 acres at least had timely planting, for only In parts of the surplus states does there appear to have been highly unfavorable and preventing conditions. Should the acreage for this year’s crop be reduced to 80,000,000, which I do not believe will be the case, It would be a reduction of 15 per cent from the figures of last year. It would mean the loss of an area equivalent to 21,043 square miles, an area con stituting one-haif of the land surface of the state of Missouri. It would mean as many acres as were In corn in the states of Indiana and Illinois in 1002, or as many as were in corn in Missouri and Kansas in that year. Except in 1901, a calamitous year, when the yield of corn per acre was as low as 10.7. an average yield has been 24.52 bushels for ten years. In but one year of the ten forming this average was it under 20 bushels. It was 19.38 in the calamitous year of 1894, when the official crop was de clared 1,212,770,052 bushels. Assum ing 80,000,000 acres only for this year, this average production of 24.52 stands for 1,961,000,000 bushels. There are good reasons why we will have no such reduction as to 80,000, 000 acres. The damage districts are not general. As already Intimated, the area outside of the surplus states last year was 45.413,065 acres. This is probably not lessened in this year. Under thf incentive of a high price it may show' some increase. If, then, we place so large a loss as roundly 14, 000,000 acres from last year in the surplus states, it means nearly 30 per cent of their corn area. This is so to feed, as evidenced In lessened pack ing and the high prices of meats; the finest and most prolonged fall pastur age in years; a mild winter, and am ple stores of cheaper feeding stuffs, admitted of great economies In the use of corn. Farmers were disposed to good holdings against contingen cies of a following crop, and the price prevented waste. With these several features restricting consumption, the declaration that but 1,050,600,000 re mained on the farms on March 1, 1903, may he classified as among the many errors in official statistics. We are asked to believe in a greater con sumption in five months, when there was little need for it, than ever be fore; in a disappearance of nearly 1, 500,000,000 bushels, or 10,000,000 bush els a day. for 150 days. It is my opin ion that the reserves on March 1 were near 1,200,000,000. Deliveries by farmers were re strained by late maturity and the soft condition of the grain, a scarcity of cars during the winter, bad roads in the spring and later by a tendency to hold on an impaired crop promise. High prices are a great check on con sumption. At this time, with crop advices before me from representa tive districts, I believe a crop not un der two billion is a conservative esti mate. There can be conditions tc change this either way. The situa tion is probably more hopeful thar promising. A few bright days and o seasonal warming up will dispel much of the present anxiety.—Oscar K Lyle in New York Herald. A Missouri Judge. It does not always pay to appeal too independent, especially in a court room. They are telling the following story on a former Missourian, who it now a judge in Oklahoma: A gam liter was tried before the judge recent ly and convicted of playing poker. H* appeared in court dressed in flash) style and with plenty of money in hit pockets, apparently unconcerned a. to the outcome of his trial. Lookin* over his spectacles, the judge in i squeaky voice said: "Jim, st»r.d up." The gamble) obeyed. • Jim, have you anything to say be fore I pass sentence on you?” "No, sir." “Jim, I'm a-goin’ to fine you $50—’ "All right, judge," interrupted th« gambler, “here it is in my hii pocket." "And give you sixty days in jail,* continued the judge. “Now, look and see if you’ve got that in your hij pocket, too.”—Kansas City Star. WHAT THE CORN CROP OF 1902 AMOUNTED TO. 7,r,° ta.ttH 90.417 8M00 00.189 01.0.TO I cnciu Mcirut tigiTgt wcium imitk j»tu I 110,68® 630.394 611.110 490.010 604.176 M 10,360 *0.093 i ^3*° -- ■■"- -- jrmrmwmiumm _ L,f , J TO.690 03.009 9X019 49,460 90.000 U4«U kSO.OOl *“'•***’■ »*«“> ww o«iiUB goo.i, Mom V*52,032 100.406 681.078 846.476 469,113 1,490,084 1,950,010 ——W.160 i ■— i . ■ ^i. m , ,| f - ■ ^ , 104.640 OTTAWA O.C73 09.416 62.784 *>£*> 100.906 140.CC® . V,*,'®1" 2,123,000 vuuci locii ten ie:iM uui .utioi 1,777,282 tso.roo 7,06 158.866 103,881 681.040 1,827,533 ££41,092 US.B12 HUM U87 I 97.099 10.983 86.886 78.960 W*— ”364.*, -2|6S6’<0g | wc«r. won iam out ,arc, -—£§■ “Ta33 —-i"-"8 7Mo8<-_ fiSfiSt IOO 678 1.097 89.030 « » Tui«j«i «WHUpcW • - •unite* ann I**n r— a&ttrrn cimtt 161.033 «,«/' ..070 7.7*1 .,,334 7,n. SST ^371 "U -till »»0->«4 ToTUT ^ ^ '«»« 160 ° W 13,047 mitt ioj.mJTI ifsvncx "sr r ®£u i*2£i jss3» 630 r CJ 977 | 7 XB a01® a.,73 M.B38 *1 .«. mc, ‘ *3.3*8 ■:»io» tnnu imu w** *** eauoti uaa kiipu f*»»o *-°°9 730 9.216 06,89® 64.8(8 47^866 403036 £735,922 0,8’0,259 Wap Showing the Combined Acreage and Yield of Winter and Spring Wheat In Kansas In 1901, by Counties. Upper figures show acreage and lower figures the yield In bushels. The ’V.irty leading count 1*8 comprising the “Kansas Wheat licit.” as outlined below, produced T1.1C6.U7S bushels, or ~'J per cent, of the crop ot 1001. and the ylaliU of each at a shown In bold-faced typo.