The evening times., 1898-10-11
ESCULENTS OF THE HOUR
What We May Buy When We
Go TO Market.
KING OYSTER ENTHR0NED
SuccnIent Bixalyes OF Autumn Ri
vaIing All other DeIicacies-PouI-
try Scarce and High-Butchers
Paying Advanced Prices for Beef
Edfbles to Tempt Mankind.

To those who are now suffering from
the debilitating effects of the recent hot
weather, which usually causes a loss of
appetite. walk through the markethouse
now that cool days have come, is strC ng
ly recommended as a substitute for doc
tors prescriptions and druggists vile
cCnc0ctions. AS a result, not only of the
fresh and more bracing air, but by reas IN
OF the delights one will see of good
things TO eat, the man without any appe-
tite will become hungry and the one who
is already hungry will be made hungrier.
Such a walk is also recommended 10
those who TO a greater degree are gas
Economically inclined. The sight which
their eyes will rest upon will not only
make their orbits bulge but that inner
man feeling Will become so strong as TO
create a craving for all the toothsome
and palatable things in view.
The housewife-she who does the mar
keting-however, will not experience the
same delight as the man whose god Is his
stomach, because prices on foo1 products
OF all kinds are much higher at this me
than they were at the same period last
year.
This higher average OF prices is indi-
rectly due TO the war tariH ana directly
10 scarcity OF crops, although in some IN
stances prices FOR certain articles OF con
sumption rule about the same. NnIle
scarcity generally rules ii may be sdId
that plenty will likely be had of certain
articles that are good 10 eat IN cd
weather.
In this category it is not unjust to pace
R.su ,1rr..
ing TO all predictions king oyster Will as
usual occupy mis- throne.
Oysters are more plentiful now than
usually at this season of the year and
are OF tine quality. This, il is said, indi-
Gates that this viii be a good oyster year
and prices Will not be high.
Poultry is both scarce and high. Dress
ed chickens bring from lS TO is cents
pound, ducks from 10 to 20 cents, ana
turkeys 20 GEMS. OF the latter there are
not many in market as yet. A retailer
in the market says beef is way up, and
that the butchers are forced TO pay all
the way from Sl.50 TO 81 more per hun
dred pounds for beef on the hoof than
formerly. This causes an advance an
retail prices, which run about this way:
Prime rib roast. is to IS cents a pound
porterhouse steak, 20 to . cents; surIoin,
Is. Is and 20 cents; best chuck roast, 10
and II l-2 cents soup meat and
cents; liver, s and 10 cents; calfs liver
30 cents; loins OF veal, Is cents; racks OF
veal Is cents: breasts of veal y IL
cents; veal outlets, % cents; veal chops
is and is cents; lamb, 10 cents; French
chops. . cents; loin, Is and 20 cents;
stewing lamb TO 10 cents; boil legs Of
mutton, l5 cents; racks of mutton, 10
cents. and stewing mutton, 6 cents.
Butter and cheese are no higher than US
ual best prints of butter bringing 80 and
40 cents pound while tub butter is from
% TO 80 cents: for the best New York
cream cheese 20 cents a pound is charg-
ed. Other grades bring from u to Is.
Eggs are both high and scarce, 20 cents
q dozen being the price charged by all
retailers.
The vegetable crop is short, with the
exception OF turnips. Some prices are as
follows: Celery, from to 10 cents 4
bunch; caUlihOwer % cents head; cab
bage 10 10 cents a head; potatoes, 30
cents peck; tomatoes, 40 cents peck;
lettuce 5 10 10 cents a head; corn, %
cents a dozen ears; turnips. 80 cents a
peck; oyster plants. cents a bunch; egg
plants, IS cents a dozen; pumpkin. 3
cents pound; sweet POTATOES, 25 cents
peck; onions. S5 cents peck; beets, )
cents a bunch; carrots. ) cents a bunch:
spinach. % cents a half-peck The gen.
eral price OF all vegetables is about q
per cent higher than last year. Fruit is
both scarce and high.
Now, let good digestion wait on ap-
petite, and health on both"