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Show THE BUGGY BUSINESS. Reports from manufacturers and dealers respecting the present demand for buggies and tho prospects for future fu-ture business vary quite a little according ac-cording to tho localities from which we receive them. In some "Western States reports are of a very cheering character, not only as regards the amount of business already transacted, transact-ed, but also in reference to the immediate im-mediate outlook. A great many dealers deal-ers state that their business has far exceeded their expectations, and that numbers of second orders have been necessitated by the clearing up of their first lots. In other cases dealers tell us that their trade so far this year has been about normal no variation varia-tion being noticeable, one way or the other Other reports are somewhat less favorable and seem to reflect a want of confidenco in the outlook based on some unaccountable foreboding on the dealers' part that Industries of all kinds aro, to use a somewhat unclas-sical unclas-sical expression, "on the blink," As a matter of fact, there are undoubted un-doubted signs of a considerable Improvement Im-provement in the business,' and the preponderance of favorable reports over those of the opposite character is easily five to one. |