The age-herald., 1900-07-29

market this season fifteen hundred thousand boxes of the golden apples of the Hisperides, One million five hundred thousand boxes, 360 oranges to the box, will be 45,OO0,O0O dozen boxes, or about seven oranges for every child, woman and man in the United States, with few dozen left over for Ii Hung Chang's Christmas stock ing, if he'd only be good.'
 Florida oranges can be delivered at steamship or railway ter1ninii in New York at a cost of one dollar and five cents box, including boxing and cartfng, freight, commissions and other expenses of hand ling. These figures have just been sent out by the national Department of Agri- culture, and are compared with the costs, a dollar and sixty cents box on Califor- nia oranges, and a dollar and fiftytwo cents a box on Mediterranean oranges. The imported oranges pay seventy sents a box tariff duty, and yet they are delivered in New York at eight cents less than Califor- nia oranges. As is seen, Florida has the advantage of forty-sexen cents box over the next to the cheapest oranges
 
 The long lost Sam" has returned to his home, the drugstore at Nineteenth street and Secand avenue. Sam" bounded in amongst customers. boxes, drugs of every sort imaginable, desks, chairs, soda-foun- tain stools and so on, shouting the glad dest shouts ever heard in any place of drugs anywhere. Within forty seconds Sam had saluted the proprietors. clerks and customers, had chased three cats and frfobtauad two atc x,iY every nook and corner in the shop. shout ing all the time. He then ran to the front door and shouted at everybody and every thing and nothing in sight; after which he dashed around the ,fruitstand at the corner, saluted his old friend the Ventler, made the acquaintance of the new assistant, in- Bpecfed the fruit, and took shy at pass dng 6og with which he was not acquainted. Having done this, he trotted across the street to kiss a dog friend and then hur- ried back to make moe music for the chemists. There was never before any creature so exuberant as Sam was in the first three minutes and half after his return home.
 sam is the dear little black dog that got his nhne in print and caused wide spread regret by nnysteriously disappearing from Adams drugstore about six weeks ago. Great public interest was manifested in Sam for he is the most popular dog in the valley. Inquiries were made every where thousands of persons who did not have the happiness of personal acquaint- ance with Sam having read of him and his gentle virtues in these columns. Two or three days ago he was beard of as being under restraint at house in suburban town, and one who loved him went to con duct him home.
 Reform in mems dress has stout sup porter In Colonel James L. Tanner of Bir- ,ningham, and Colonel Tanner declares that sre is supported by Judge Banks. Edward wilkinson and other we'll known men who dress well.
 Gall them shirtwaists. shintsleeves, or whatever you will: but I am in favor of men wearing upper garments that will ren- der hot coats unnecessary Colonel Tan ner said. "As my part I prefer jackets similar to those my mother made for me when I was little boy; those that had fice-buttons around the waistband to which the brooches were attached That was g neat and tidy dress for boys then, and is so now; and it would be equally neat for men. The jacket and the smsn-legged trousers now in fashion would so we'll together. We would miss our coat and vest pockets for A while, but we'd soon become accustomed to doing without them. There's no use talk ing, something must be done to enable men to go coatless in hot weather!''
 As Colonel Tanner, comedy little man who would become any rainent, concluded it ar,f fat 1fct1; hundred pounds and wearing no coat, hove into view, and at sight of his vast expanse