The herald., 1896-08-29
MARKETS OF THE WORLD
Local, Eastern and Foreign
Commercial Dealings
WALL STREET SPECULATION
The Southern Cotton Crop Reported to
Be Seriously Injured
Two Styles Of Stores-A New Wev to Keen
Cigars nolst-A Requisite to Success in
Business-Sugar From Beets

According to the weekly report issued by
the weather bureau "intense heat and gen
eral lack OF rain. conditions which charac-
terlzed the preceding week in southern
States nave continued during the week
ehoing August 10, and have affected the
principal crops in that section very unfav-
ofably While the week has been excess
slVely warm throughout most of the coun-
Try east OF the Rocky mountains, the in
furious e1ects or heat upon crops have been
largely confined to the southern states. and
cotton Is the crop that has suffered to the
greatest extent. The cotton has deterio-
rated generally throughout the cotton belt.
Inc intense heat and lack of moisture have
caused premature opening of bolls and
sncdalhs, and in portions of Arkansas the
plant on uplands is dying. In central and
northern Texas and Oklahoma hot winds
nave seriously injured cotton, and under
the most favorable future conditions the
crop IN Texas will be below the average.
Inc general condition of the crop is much
III advance of the season. North Carolina
reports that the first bale has been mar.
keted IN that state earlier than ever
known.
In contrasting two styles of storekeeping
IN grocery lines We are invited to look upon
these TWO pictures One kind of a corner
grocery-sawdust on the floor, Kerosene
ana molasses mixed with it: everything
ttopsy-turyy and nasty; some men smoking.
another kind of corner grocery-A hand
some reception room in front: carnef or
mat tnaa1tting or rugs ON the floor; really pretty
table in the center of the room. with clean
appeuZ1ng samples of green groceries on
II; a light spray of water falling over the
ignuI xsigetaDies ana ID, fruit from tiny fountain:
MuiuoWs neatly decorated. The whole to
took t303F IKE a parlor. Not a speck of dirt in
aniS front room. All goods delivered at
ana. amu TAKEN from the side, and none Of them
ever brought into the front room. except-
ing such neat packages as customers are
to carry away with them. Women are the
fWo nds OF Of Wheh bic Of
eract the women of the neighborhood
somebody will some day see this point
Women won wna yna nave nave parlors where
ana be afraid.-Brains.
A wholesale grocer of Detroit has hit
upon novel way of utilizing his wine cell
lar, which is large and dry. He has hun
dreds OF casks stored there. Recently a
II was placed in the basement along with
the casks of wine. There was no zinc-lined
POKE poxes or or, cases, but just light wooden
casks preserved an even temperature. while
the natural aroma of forty different va
rleties RI ties dmparts light but deicions flavor
are affected more than domestics. cs.-Grocery
World.
Bishop Potter of New York says of the
successful business men of America:
"A prerequisite to success in life Is
say that there is not much to be hoped for
from the man who does not in reason
firmly believe in himself. From belief in
ones inherent qualities man acquires cour-
age, perseverance and the ability to do what
he could not otherwise accomplish. There
is one class of men in America that inter-
ests me greatly. They are the men en-
gagged in commercial pursuits. They in
augurate gigantic undertakings. build rail-
dicates and trusts and open enterprises of