At that time the prospect was that
the winter wheat yield would be enor
mous tbe coming season ; but since
then the whole situation has been
changed, and it is now believed that
the crop, so far from being abundant,
will fa'.l short of even the general
average. It is asserted, in fact, that
more than one-half of the crop has
failed in all the Western States. In
Kansas, for instance, the wheat over
a large portion of the State has been
almost entirely destroyed. Iowa re
ports that the winter planting is an
utter failure, and tbe spring outlook
far from gotjd. The reports from
Illinois are fair. In Minnesota near
ly one-half of the spring wheat has
been sown, but the acreage has not
increased. Missouri shows a better
condition of affairs than last spring
in regard to winter wheat, and ex
hibits an acreage increase of nearly
30 per cent Nebraska has planted
nearly 20 per cent more spring wheat
this season than it did List year, and
Dakota makes an equally favorable
report The next few weeks will
probably change the estimates, so far
at least as the spi ing planting is con
cerned. According to the best in
formation on the subject however,
there is reason to fear that the win
ter crop will be a short one."
Oxe day last week a man at Fort
Wayne, Ind., employed a young man
to lay some carpets. He was a hand
some young man, with a romantic
cast of mind not at all in harmony
with earpetlaying. He met the daugh
ter of the house, who also had a ro
mantic streak and an admiration for
handsome young men, which, it
6ecmed, was as likely to absorb a
carpet-layer as any one else. She
fell awfully in love with the carpet
layer we are speaking of or, rather,
she believed she had done so. He
fell just as awfully in love with her,
and, leing very romantic, she didn't
take the trouble to inquire anything
about the carpet layer. He was just
too beautiful for anything, and so
romantic, and that was all that was
required to make a good husband.
