The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-02
LINSEED OIL is SOARING
1T is NOW SELLING AT 20 CENTS A
GALLON IN BARREL LOTS.
william Kothe Talks About the "Put-
ting Up" OF Fruit-Ise of Teie-
phones-Business Notes.

al 4hNtA VI AAAASCNN 90
ing considerable comment on South Merid-
ian street just now. They have taken the
limit off now" said G.. G.. Allen. vice pres
ident of the A. Burdsal Company. land
are playing it clear up to the ceiling Lin
seed oil is at the highest point Ii has
reached in years. II is now selling at IS
cents a gallon by the barrel" Mr.. Allen
was careful TO add that before his caller
had walked a square the tickle commodity
might have climbed 4 or S cents higher.
However" he continued, 1.-The rise in oil
is not such a killing matter, after all. Fiji
teen gallons will suffice TO mix the paint
for covering a good-sized house. Suppose
the rise has been 80 cents a gallon. You
see, it would only be $3.50 on the entire job.
Some people come in here, and when We
tell them that linseed oil is selling at IS
cents a gallon by the barrel they throw
up their hands and calculate in tones Of
horror: Goodness gracious! We can't do
our painting this season. that's certain"
They do not stop to reflect that 1t is not
a serious matter, after all
Marion Ward, of Ward Bros wholesale
drug house, said he had heard the rise in
linseed oil is due TO the absorption of the
trust by the Standard Oil Company, which
would be a case of dog eat dog he said.
XXX
Here is a mystery l would like to have
somebody solve for me-" said William
Kothe yesterday. "A lot of fruit jar man.
ufacturers will get together and raise their
prices a hundred per cent, and a lot Of
men that make tin cans will get together
and raise their prices more than a hundred
per cent. Then the dear people will go
right TO the stores and pay those great big
prices for jars and cans. and stand over a
redhot stove putting up cherries, plums,
peaches, berries of all kinds, tomatoes and
other fruits and vegetables. They could
go TO almost any retail grocery store and
buy better goods for about the same
amount OF money that their own stuff costs
them. to say nothing Of the labor they save
in such weather as we are having just now.
They would also save a certain amount of
spoiled goods, which any family that puts
up its own goods is bound to have. Take,
for instance, tomatoes. Tin cans cost
about 60 cents a dozen. The tomatoes cost
about 80 cents a bushel. The sealing wax
for a dozen cans will cost about 5 cents.
Ii takes about a bushel OF tomatoes TO NIL
a dozen cans. This makes the cost about
81. 10 a dozen, leaving out entirely the labor
Of the housewife in putting up the toma-
tomatoes at any retail grocery for 81 a
dozen If they would buy them in case lots.
How do you account for this queer conduct?
! confess l am at a loss for an explanation.
l have not said anything about the risk
housewives run Of falling victims to the
intense heat, and thus piling up doctors
bAA4o OA y u SAC - "a NbNA SaAA
mer's canning. 1t seems that when a
family has a peach, pear, cherry or plum
tree in the back yard the woman Of the
house thinks there is nothing else to do
but buy a lot Of fruit jars or cans, and
fuss and fume over a hot stove for several
days until all that 'warty' fruit is put up.
1t is false economy. in my opinion
If a humane officer had happened to pass
through McCrea street in the wholesale dis
trfot .-a.farGa1r aho,f MON ha uy0ul1 haua
witnessed a spectacle that would have
have brought joy to his heart. AS usual.
however. in the case of the beautiful things
of life. this went unnoticed except by a
very limited number OF passers-by. 1t was
a humble picture. A horse. attached TO a
dray, was eating its midday lunch out of a
leather bag. The animals nose was buried
deep in the bag and despite its evident
pleasure in eating 1t now and then glanced
anectionately towards Its master who was
seated on a dry-goods box patting and
caressing the animal that makes his daily
living for him. This particular horse owner
did not wear broadcloth, nor was there a
large watch chain visible on his vest. In
fact, he wore neither coat nor vest. Never
theless he had a superabundance of kindly
feeling for dumb brutes that might well be
the envy Of his more favored brethren. The
humble driver OF a dray had been thought
full enough Of the comfort of his animal
servant to remove all harness from its
head while it ate it's monday meal.
XXX
The development of the telephone bust
ness has been something wonderful" said
S. P. Sheerin, of the New Telephone Com
pany. yesterday. I'm the last six years
over 1000 new telephones, by actual count,
have been put in. The business has at
tracted the attention of a great many of the
big fnancierS OF the country and more peo-
pie are looking for places in which to To-
cate new telephone plants than there are
places adapted 10 this purpose. About all
Il D-0G4n IL lAaalGff2c baxrA hAn~ ~xfI
with telephone systems Farmers are every
where coming to use the telephone and II
has indeed been a Godsend to them. 1t
materially reduces the isolation of rural
life and puts the farmer in close contact
with his neighbors and with surrounding
towns and cities"
Louis G.. Deschler had an extra clerk and
a stenographer helping him take his in
ventory of cigars and tobacco on hand yes
terday for the purpose of making out his
claim against the government for rebate on
this class of goods under the tariff-reduc-
ton act passed by the last Congress. He
said his share of rebate would amount to
between 500 and $500.
The Merchants National Bank will this
morning declare it's regular sixty-eighth
semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent.
XXX
The Capital National Bank directors met
Saturday and declared the customary 2h
per cent. semi-annual dividend.
The Indiana National Bank declares a
| dividend each quarter. but the amount is
not given out for publication.
Otto n. Frenzel, vice president Of the
Merchants National Bank, is in Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, to-day watching his son.
John +. frenzel, 1r., pull an oar with the
Cornell team in the great regatta.