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GLA X O   L A P IO b,  M AY  2 2 ,1 8 9 5

MANUFACTURER  OF

M.  R.  ALOEN

Crackers  STRICTLY  FRESH  EGGS,
Sweet  Goods

AND FULL LINE  OF

A  SPECIALTY

ALDEN  &  LIBBY,

Choice Creamery and  Dairy  Butter  Wholesale  Produce

Northern Trade supplied at  Lowest  Market Pric  s.  We bin- on  track at point of 

shipment, or receive on consignment  PHONE  1300.

NO.  6 0 9

C.  H. LIBBY

252  and  254  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS 193  and  95  S o u th   D iv isio n   S tr e et,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A flERICA 'S  GREATEST  RELISH I

Endorsed by medical fraternity.  Forta- 
ble use  their delicious, creamv  flavor  is
i.  never forgotten.  Cure  Dyspepsia.  Indi­
gestion,  Sick  Headache,  Nervousness. 
Sweeten the breath.  Sold by all dealers. 
lithographed  cartons. 
In  handsomely 
American  Pepsin  Cracker Co.348 QlDetroit"  Ave

___t  Retail at 20 cents each.

S W E E T ’S   H O TEL

MARTIN  L.  SWEET,  Proprietor.

HENRY  D. and  FRANK  H.  IRISH, H’grs.

Ask Jobber for a 
sample order,  or

C O M R A D KlSPECIFY DAISY BRAND IT is THE BEST

improvements and  decorations will  soon  make it  the  best  hotel  in  Michigan.

Steam heat  iu every  room.  Electric  tire  alarms  throughout  the  house.  Other 

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers  of  G roceries,  H ardw are  and  Wooden w are.

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Automatic Water Cage,

the Boiler  ano Engine.  Are the  engineers*  Favorites.

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65,000  P e sb e r t h t Automatic I njectors in use, giving p erfect satisfaction 
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Catalogue. PENBEBTHY  INJECTOR  CO.  De t r o i t .
:  THE ACKNOWLEDGED LEADER1
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Office  Telephone  1055.

Office  Fixtures, 
Store  Fixtures,  etc.

M ff. 99 N. IONIA 81, Gld Rapids
SEC U R ITY   ?oragf a"d

Transfer Co.

Barn Telephone  1059.

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Telephone  738.

Warehouse, 2 5 7 -2 5 9   Ottawa  St  Main Of’ce, 75  Fearl St.

Hoving,  Packing,  Dry  Storage.

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but  n o n e   so  g o o d   as  th e

A  Fine  Havana  Filler  Cigar  for  5  cents.

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S. C. W. CIGAR

WHEN  DEAF  MUTES  WANT  THE

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523 John St.,  KALAMAZOO

F.  E.  BUSH1TAN,  Agent,

Maker,
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now exists which  recognizing the  importance  of  having plenty of  pure  ^ 
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s a m p le   o rd er to  a n y   o f th e  fo llo w in g   Jobb ers:
Hazeltine <fc  Perkins Drug Co. 
Ball-Barnhart  Putman  Co. 
Lemon  <fc  Wheeler Co.
Mussel man  Grocer Co. 
I.  M.  Clark Grocery Co.
Putnam  Candy Co.

Olney <fc Judson Grocer Co. 
Worden  Grocer Co.
A. E.  Brooks  & Co

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RETAILS  AT  25  CENTS 

EACH.  COMPLETE.

A  convenient  ^ 
bu. fruit package 
when  fillers  are 
removed.

FIVE  DOZEN  CRATES  COHPLETE  WITH  FILLERS  with 
your  Ad.  neatly  printed  on  each  crate,  delivered  at 
your  railroad  station  for 

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MANUFACTURED  BY

CU nriER  MFQ. Co.
Cadillac,  flichigan.____

Tanglefoot
SEALED  STICKY ELY  PAPER

YOUR  CUSTOMERS  WILL  ALL  PREFER  IT.

PRICES  FOR  THE  REGULAR  SIZE.

Per Box................................. 38 cents  Per Case............................
In 10 Case lots,  per case
In 5 Case lots,  per  case..........83  30 

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Order the largest quantity you can use and get the 

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FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  JOBBERS.

If  you  are  particular about  your  STICKY  FLY 

PA PER ,  specify

T A N G L B F O O  T

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb  Bid.

N.  B.  C l a r k ,  Pres.
W.  D.  W a d e ,  Vlce-Pres.
C.  U.  Cl a r k ,  Sec’y  and  Treas.

We  are  now  ready  to make 
contracts for  bark  for  the  sea­
son of 1895.

Correspondence Solicited.

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5Já x 9 inches.

dows and Fine Rooms.
a  case.

Particularly  adapted  for  Show  Win­
25 Double Sheets In a Box,  15 Boxes in 
Retails for 25 cents a box.
Costs 81.75 per case.
Profit  nearly  115  per cent.
W ill  be  a  Good  Seller.

DESMAN

GBAUD  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  2 2 ,  1 8 9 5 .

MEN  OF  MARK.

son Spice Co.

A. M. Woolson, President of the  Wool- 

On  the corner  of  Huron  and  Jackson 
streets,  in  Toledo,  Ohio,  is an establish­
ment that covers the  most  of  an  entire 
square.  It  is  a  handsome,  well-built, 
costly structure of recent date and  over­
looks the city at an elevation of  125  feet 
—the home of the Woolson Spice Go.,  es­
tablished some thirteen years  ago.  The 
company,  from  its  inception,  has  taken 
no  backward  steps.  Beginning  with 
sales  for  the  first  month  amounting to 
$1,500,  there  has  been  a  constant  in­

ger of the company,  who  was  willing  to 
turn  from  the.huge  pile  of  letters  that 
covered his desk  and  journey  with  him 
from one end  of  the  vast  establishment 
to  the other.

When that journey  was  over,  I  could 
easily understaud what had  been incred­
ible before—that for the  past  five  years 
the average work of the house  has  been 
500,000  bags  of  coffee,  aggregating 66,- 
000,000  pounds  a  year,  an  average  of 
more  than  a  pound  of  coffee  to  every 
man,  woman  and  child  in  the  United 
States; but I could  not  understand  how 
that man,  who  was  relating  these  stu­
pendous,  facts  as  so  many  incidentals

VOL. XII.
Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  Limited.

Reports  on  individuals for  the  retail  trade, 
house renters and professional men.  Also Local 
Agents  F u m .  Com.  Agency  Co.'s  “ Red  Rook.” 
Collections handled for members. Phones 160-1030 

6s  MONROE  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

IN SURAN CE  CO.

Organized 

D e t r o i t ,   M i c h .

Qeo. W. Stowitts

REPRESENTING

DIBBLE  &  WARNER,  Mfrs.  Fine  Suspenders 
GRAND  RAPIDS  NECKWEAR  CO.,  nfrs.  of 
I shall be pleased to call on dealers in need  of 

and  Braces,  East  Hampton, Mass.
Fine  Neckwear,  Grand  Rapids.

anything in e ith er of above lines.

155 Thom as st., G rand Rapids.

«ROMPT, 
VF  CHAMPLIN.  Prc*.

CONSERVATIVI. 

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W  FRED  MelSAIV  Sec.

FOR  RENT.

Three-story  and  basem ent  factory  building, 
size 50 x  150 feet.  W est end  Pearl street bridge.
W ater and Steam  Power.
F ull line of Wood  W orking M achinery. Bench­
Also o th er property  w ith  power for  m anufac­

es,  Dry K ilns, etc.
turing purposes. 

WM.  T.  POWERS,

Opera House Block.

THE  TRADESMAN 

Has  a  FIELD  of  its  own.mi nr

Advertisers get RESULTS.

THE MIGHÌ6AN TRUST CO.. GrBW lds'

Makes a Specialty of acting aB

Executor of  W ills, 
Adm inistrator of  Estates, 
Guardian  of  flinors  and  In­

com petent  Persons, 

Trustee  or  A gen t

In the management of any  business  which  may 
be entrusted to It.
Any  information  desired  will  be  cheerfully 
furnished.
Lewis  H.  W ithey,  Pres.

Anton  G.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y .

A.  M.  WOOLSON.

crease,  and to-day these sales are, on the 
average,  greater  than  the  entire  coffee 
consumption of either  England,  Italy  or 
Russia.  This  one  fact  has  made  the 
company  an  object  of  interest  to  the 
coffee drinkers and  the  spice  consumers 
of  the  world,  and,  with  a  curiosity to 
visit the home of this immense trade and 
a desire to see the man of mark  who  has 
been  able  to  conceive and,  with a corps 
of helpers nowhere  surpassed,  to  carry 
out  in  detail  this  great  undertaking, 
your correspondent  sent  in  his  creden­
tials  by  the  courteous  clerk,  and  soon 
after was  politely received by  the  Mana­

hardly worth the  telling,  and  who  was 
pointing  out,  as  he  went  on,  the thou­
sand  and  one  conveniences  and  inven­
tions,  almost  wholly  his  own,  which 
necessity had suggested—I could not un­
derstand,  I say,  how that one  brain  had 
been able to create the remarkable things 
I saw,  and I finally asked him  the  secret 
of the success which had made them tan­
gible. 
It  was  neither  the  time nor the 
place for more  than  the  “keeping-ever- 
lastingly-at-it”  which he  gave  me;  and, 
when I ventured to  urge  him  for  some­
thing more,  he kindly Invited me  to  call 
on him at his  home and in  his  “den”  to

NO.  6 0 9
glean  from  the  story  of  his  life  snch 
scattered  straws  as  1  might  find  worth 
the picking up.  These I gathered—some 
of  them  nearer  the  sheaves,  perhaps, 
than I had any right  to  go;  and  I  have 
bound them,  wondering no longer  at  the 
success  achieved,  but  considering 
it, 
rather,  as  a  result,  as sure  to follow as 
any effect  from its not far-off cause.

The early annals are short and simple. 
Something  more  than  fifty  years  ago a 
boy  was  born  in  Erie  county,  Ohio, of 
parents too poor to do  what  they  would 
for the child, and  after  twelve  years  of 
struggle  they  gave him  to a neighboring 
farmer,  whose  ownership  of  the 
log 
house in  which he  lived  promised  more 
for the boy than they could do for him  at 
home.  The change was  but  temporary, 
for,  after  the  transfer  was  made,  the 
Western  fever  seized  the  foster  father 
and,  giving the boy to  a  fellow  farmer, 
he started  upon  his  westward  journey. 
The second  transfer was a favorable one. 
The  boy  “grew  and  waxed  strong”  in 
mind and  body,  taking bis  full  share  of 
the farm  work and  making  the  most  of 
the educational  advantages  afforded  by 
the country school during the three  win­
ter mouths of the year.  Not much prom­
ise there for the establishment on  Huron 
street,  and yet just there  is  the  founda­
tion  upon  which  this structure  rests,  for 
in  those early years  of  preparation  the 
boy found  that  he  had  only  himself  to 
depend  upon,  and  that 
lessou,  once 
learned,  found  him  ready  with  brain  and 
band to begin  the work  before  him.

That  work  he  found at  first in  a  coun­
try  store,  a  place giving full scope to the 
spirit within  him,  for,  in addition  to  the 
attention  to  be  given  the  goods  of all 
kinds  which  crowded  the  narrow  quar­
ters,  the  post office kept there took care 
of any spare  miuutes  which  the  young 
clerk  might  fiud  hanging ou  his  hands. 
Several  months  of this  experience  were 
enough,  and,  when  the Saudusky  Regis­
ter  advertised  for  a  boy,  the  clerk ap­
plied  for the  place,  got  it,  and  kept  it 
until  sickness  forced  him  to give it  up. 
From the priuting  office he  went back to 
the farm.  Then,  with  health  restored, 
he made up his mind  to  be  a  mechanic. 
He had begun to  learn  the  trade,  when 
the war of the rebellion  began.  Throw­
ing aside his  hammer,  he  was  soon  en­
rolled as a volunteer in the Union Army.
It would be easy to  continue  the story 
with  “After the war was  over,”  but  the 
man  who entered the army with a musket 
and  came  out  with  a  sword  had  been 
turning  to  account  those  four eventful 
years;  and,  while it is not my purpose to 
follow in detail those years of strife,  it is 
worth while to remark  that the sword  he 
brought home was  the  reward  of  merit 
earned  by  a  service  which  lifted  him 
from  the  rank  and  file,  and  it showed 
that the farmer  boy had  qualities that in 
the war time made him  a  man  of  mark. 
After the young soldier  had received  the 
appointment  of Sergeant Major of Artil­
lery,  a position demanding  special  qual­
ities, the commanding officer, upon being 
asked  why  he  had  made  the  promotion

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over  the  heads  of  so  many  competent 
non-commissioned officers,  replied:  “For 
the reason that,  when  I  tell  him  to  do 
anything,  1  know  he  will  do it,” from 
which it seems  that  the  Commander  in 
chief  of  the  Union  forces  was  not  the 
only one who was  determined  to  “tight 
it oat on  this  line,  if  it  takes  all  sum­
mer.”

When the rebellion was over,  the same 
resolution that had  made its mark during 
the war was determined to do something in 
business,  and the sword  bad  hardly  been 
bung  up  at  home  when  the young ser­
geant was called  upon to  aid in  the erec­
tion of a  large  paper  mill,  a  work  for 
which  his  experience 
in  the  machine 
shop  had  fitted  him.  Here,  for several 
years,  he labored,  with  a  success  easily 
his,  when  he concluded  to  see  for  him­
self something of the  western country  of 
which he had heard so much.  He  spent 
a year on the plains,  most of the time as 
an agent of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad 
between Kansas City and  Denver.  That 
was long enough and,  concluding  that  a 
man could succeed among the  Buckeyes, 
if anywhere,  he  returned  to  his  native 
State.  After  another  year in  a country 
store, he determined  to start in  business 
for himself,  and,  with a capital of §125— 
in  cash—stick  a  pin  here—which  had 
been safely deposited  in  a  Toledo  bank, 
our  newly-fledged  store-keeper  stepped 
into  the  office  of  Secor,  Berdan & Co., 
bought  his  first  bill  of  goods,  gave  a 
check  for  the  full  amount  and  in  due 
time opened  his store.

I  should  much  like  to  brighten  this 
article with a picture  of  that  store. 
It 
was located in the pleasant and  thriving 
town of Wauseon;  the building  is  stand­
ing there yet,  if I do not mistake.  What 
1 can do  is  to  furnish  some  noticeable 
features about  it,  the  most  striking  of 
which  was its  cleanliness.  Nothing like 
it had  ever  blessed  that  town. 
It  was 
scrupulously clean from  top  to  bottom, 
and had been made  so  by  a  liberal  ap­
plication  of  hot  water  and  soap  and 
sand and what is known  by  the  homely 
name of  “ elbow-grease.”  The windows 
were compelled to  let  in  the  light  and 
they  remained  ever  after,  during  that 
occupancy,  uncurtained  with  cobwebs 
and  dead  flies  and  dirt.  The  shelves 
and  the goods on them  were  always safe 
to touch; the scales were kept  bright  as 
a new dollar,  and  the  counters  and  the 
floor were  washed  often  enough  to  sat­
isfy the  neatest  housekeeper.  All  this 
received 
its  favorable  comment;  but, 
when this neatness went so  far  as  to  in­
clude the washing  of  the  potatoes,  the 
wise ones  laughed.  That  was  going  a 
little  too  far,  they  thought,  but  the 
store-keeper  who  found  that  his  clean 
potatoes brought him a higher price could 
well afford to be laughed at and  kept  on 
with the washing; and the housekeepers, 
rejoicing over  the  store  that  was  kept 
like  a  parlor,  unconsciously  furnished 
hints of advertising to the  young trades­
man,  which  he  turned  to  practical  ac­
count.

Another  feature  for  which  the  new 
store soon  became noted  was  the evident 
desire of the proprietor to please all cus­
tomers.  There  was  nothing  which  he 
was  unwilling  to  do  for  them.  Night 
and day it  was  bis  constant  study  and 
not a customer left his store without car­
rying away a kindlier feeling  on account 
of some  unexpected  favor.  Not  many 
of  those  customers  have  yet  forgotten 
their surprise and  pleasure  when  once,

in  midwinter,  each carried  home  a  pot­
ted  plant,  bright  with blossoms,  in itself 
a  little  thing,  but  showing  so  plainly 
that they  had  been  kindly  thought  of, 
and so making it easy  for  them to  speak 
as kindly of the  store  and  the  earnest, 
thoughtful man  who was  keeping  it. 
I 
wonder  if  the  children  remember  still 
that candy-day,  when  each  bright  face 
grew  brighter,  as,  crowding 
into  the 
store,  they  received  the  precious  sticks 
and hurried home to  show  the prize.

Another feature,  and perhaps the most 
important  one  of  all,  was  the  system 
which,  without  apparent  effort,  settled 
everything promptly in  its  proper  place 
and  kept  it  there.  There was  no  han­
dling of things twice; no opportunity was 
given  to  mislay 
things,  and,  conse­
quently,  no time was lost  in  looking  for 
things mislaid,  and  woe betide the clerk 
whose  carelessness  strengthened  by  an 
exception  the  general  rule.  As  a  re­
sult,  order  reigned 
in  that  store  and 
from cellar up it  would  have been possi­
ble  to  find  in  the  dark  whatever  was 
wanted.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
the  world  over,  he made such  practical 
use of his knowledge  that his increasing 
business  soon  obliged  him  to  increase 
his  clerical  force,  until  the  number 
rounded  into the  baker’s  dozen  and  the 
double stores  became  so  small  that  an­
other  had  to  be  erected. 
It  was  like 
tossing  a  stone  into  the  middle  of  a 
placid  stream—the  triple  store  became 
the center  of  constantly  diverging  cir­
cles;  the immediate vicinity  was first in­
closed,  then  the  parts  of  the  town  be­
yond it; the city  was next encircled, and, 
finally,  the country for a  score  of  miles 
or more was  shut  in  by  these  rings  of 
trade. 
It was no uncommon sight to see 
forty or fifty  farm  wagons,  at  the  same 
time,  at Woolson’s store and  the  owners 
of them inside  making  the  most  of  the 
ready market for their  products  and  en­
joying the respectful  attention to  which 
they  were entitled and  were  sure  to  re­
ceive.  Here  came  in  play  one  of  the 
lessons 
little  country 
store.  The  farmer  likes  best  to  trade 
with  the  store-keeper  himself.  He 
is 
sure,  then,  of getting things  first hand in 
quality ana price;  and, after the  trading 
is over,  he  likes  that  aftermath  of  talk 
with the proprietor,  which implies, when 
it is repeated at home,  a  familiarity  es­
pecially  dear  to  the heart of the farmer 
who lives upon the  acres  which  he  not 
only tills but owns.  So,  when  the farm­
ers came  to  Woolson’s,  they  found  the 
owner  ready  to  receive  them,  to  trade 
with  them,  to talk with them of the  fam­
ily  and the farm,  and to ask  them to take 
home for the boy or the girl or  the  wife 
something  like  the  candy  and  the  blos­
soming plant at Wauseon,  to  show  that 
he regarded them  as a part of the  family 
whose  interests  centered  in  Woolson’s 
store.

There is no need of going on  with this. 
There  was one outcome  and  one  only— 
the  building up  of a good trade,  a condi­
tion of things which ended  in the need of 
a larger  field  for  the  energy  and  enter­
prise  which  that  country  store had de­
veloped  and  strengthened  and  which 
brought the  country  store-keeper,  with 
his accumulated capital,  to Toledo.

At  that  time,  Summit  street  was  the 
business  center  of  the  town,  but  with 
rare discernment he turned from

“Where merchants most do congregate,” 

learned 

in  the 

and a dozen  blocks away,  on a side street 
at  that,  selected  the  site  for his store. 
Then  what a shaking of heads was there. 
“Open  a  store  in  that  out-of-the-way 
place!  The man is crazy!  If  he wanted 
a store in the country,  why come  to  To­
ledo?”  So,  with a joke  and  a  laugh  at 
the  countryman’s  expense,  they  passed 
on to their  business  on  Summit  street, 
thinking that it takes  all sorts of men to 
make a  world;  and  he,  rfot thinking so, 
but sure of  it,  went  right  on  with  his 
building,  for he  was a workman  with the 
others as need required, 
in that  way he 
got  acquainted  with  the  people  of  his 
neighborhood;  he  found  out  what  they 
wanted and of  what  they  were  most  in 
need,  and,  when  the building was ready, 
knowing what he could  sell in the double 
arch-connected  store,  he  placed the right 
kind of  goods  on  his  shelves  and  was 
soon enjoying a large and  lucrative trade 
on  the very spot  where he had  been told 
so often that that was no  place  for busi­
ness.

He  began  with  a  single  clerk.  And 
he  began  to  advertise—not  that  kind 
which 
is  contented  with  throwing  a 
handful of dodgers into somebody’s back 
yard,  or is satisfied with furnishing mate­
rial  for the waste  basket, 
it  was  trade 
he was to attract and  to  keep,  and  this 
his experience in  the  country  store  had 
taught him could be done,  not by chance, 
but by judgment.  He  made  use  of  the 
newspapers,  as well as of  the  customers 
themselves;  and,  finally  believing,  what 
test proved to be true,  that a trade paper 
is the best means of  advertising which a 
house like  his  can  have,  he  issued  the 
Toledo Grocer and once  a  month  placed 
a copy in every home in the city and dis­
tributed  it  in  the  country  for  miles 
around.

Knowing that human nature,  which he 
had early learned to read,  was  the  same

These were pleasant days and prosper­
ous ones,  but were not to  last.  Another 
and a broader field was preparing for the 
shaping  hand  of  the  master,  who  had 
long.been  waiting for the  opportunity of 
making use of those  administrative abil­
ities which he  knew  he  possessed.  He 
saw in the coffee and spice trade a golden 
opportunity for rich  returns,  and  when, 
at last,  misfortune,  or  something  else, 
had stranded  a  large  concern,  he  knew 
that the time for widening  his world  had 
come.  For months  the  wreck,  or  what 
was left of it,  had  been for sale and, buy­
ing all  that  remained,  he  organized  an 
incorporated company,  and  the  ¡Septem­
ber of 1882 saw  the  Woolson  ¡Spice  Co. 
making its bow to the public  and asking 
for its patronage.

1 might go on  with  the  story  of  this 
company,but it would be only a twice-told 
tale,  for the same brain  which  conceived 
and gave it life is still  controlling it. 
It 
is  true  that  its  field  of  work  is  now 
almost limitless,  but the  same  elements 
and  the  same  system  which  organized 
and  kept  in motion the stores  in country 
and in  town  permeate  this  immense  es­
tablishment “ from turret  to  foundation 
stone.”  The same uubending  discipline 
which there kept every  man  and  every­
thing in place  is  everywhere  suggested 
here  in  the exactness  displayed in every 
carefully planned and carried out  detail. 
The old  hostility to dirt is  rampant still, 
and,  while there  are  here  no  tubers  to 
wash,  the lovers of  “ the cup  that cheers 
but not inebriates ”  may know  that  the 
fragrant coffee  berry  in  this  establish­
ment  adds  nothing  to  the  traditional 
peck of dirt we all  are  expected  sooner 
or later to consume.

A pleasing trait,  too  often  neglected, 
if not utterly  forgotten,  in  concerns  as 
large  as  this,  i3  the  old-time  courtesy 
which  the  farmers  liked  so  well  and 
came so  far  to  enjoy.  No  one  is  un­
mindful of  it  here.  The  clerk  at  the 
office  window  was not  too  busy to be po­
lite,  and the man  who  told  me  that  the 
Manager  would  see  me  did  so  with  a 
mauner that  was  heartiness  itself;  and, 
during all  that long walk over  the estab­
lishment,  the same  courtesy  was  every­
where  apparent.  Nothing  looking  to­
wards the  comfort  and  convenience  of 
those employed  has  been  considered  too 
troublesome or too costly to provide.

This  thoughtfulness  offers  one  good 
reason 
for  the  easy  management  of  a 
concern  so  large  as  this;  but  another 
quite as  important is  found in  the inborn 
ability of the  manager  to  pick  out  the 
men  he  needs  to  officer  his  crew,  now 
outnumbering many  times  the  old-time 
baker’s dozen. 
It  is  related  that  once, 
when  passing along the street,  Mr. Wool­
son’s attention  was attracted  to  a  young 
vender of suspenders.  He  watched  him 
for a while and then,  elbowing  his  way 
through the crowd  the young  fellow  had 
gathered,  asked him  to call at  his  office. 
That man occupies,  to-day,  a  position of 
trust in the company  which  he  has  held 
for years,  and  he  but  furnishes  an  in­
stance of  this ability of  Mr.  Woolson,  in 
the selection of his employes,  to  turn  to 
practical  account  his  innate  knowledge 
of human  nature;  and  it  shows,  better 
than  anything else, the training given by 
the  Manager,  and also the  loyalty  of  the 
men  to the business.

if,  now,  we turn  from  this  establish­
ment,  with its yearly output of  over 66,- 
000,000  pounds  of  coffee,  and  consider 
the  “keeping everlastingly-at-it”  as  the 
central  thought  which  started  it  and 
keeps it all in  motion,  it  will  be  found 
that,  while the principle upon  which the 
thought is based is a sound one,  it  is the 
genius of  the man  behind  the  principle, 
and  the efficiency of  the  able  assistant, 
Mr.  W.  A.  Brigham,  and  the  energy  of 
the other  loyal  co-workers,  which  have 
made  the  Woolson  Spice  Co.  such  a 
splendid  success. 
It  is  true  that  Mr. 
Woolson’s career as a  grocer  is  nothing 
more than every grocery  boy  can  attain, 
if he will;  but it is equally true  that the 
grocery  boys are  few  who  do  attain  it. 
Apples had  fallen on  human  heads times 
without  number,  but  Newton  was  the 
only one  who gained  from  the  accident 
the law of falling  bodies.  The  rebellion 
offered  the 
the  Union 
forces  to a whole  army  of  generals,  but 
it was the man  “keeping everlastingly  at 
it”  who dictated the terms  of  surrender 
under  the  appletree  at  Appomattox. 
But in  these instances  there  was  some­
thing  besides  the  constant  hammering 
which  brought  success  where  so  many 
had failed.  Persistent  work  is  always 
an essential element of success.
“The heights by great men reached and kept 
But they, w hile th eir com panions slept,

Were not attained by sudden flight.
W ere tolling upw ard in the night.”
But,  take  away  that  gift  of  discern­
ment,  which  belongs to genius,  to see at 
once  the  right  thing  to  do,  and all  the 
“keeping  at  it”  under  the  sun  would 
never have laid a brick on  the  corner  of 
Huron and Jackson streets,  nor  ground  a 
berry of that coffee which  has  made  the 
name of the Woolson Spice Co. a familiar 
one in every  quarter of the  globe.  Thi s 
is  the  secret  of  the company’s success; 
but,  while  I  do  not  underestimate  the

leadership  of 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

3

TOWNSHIP  LICENSES.

Important Change  in  the  Law Govern­

ing  Country  Peddlers.
E.  Hoyt,  the  Hudsonville  general 

C. 

system  which everywhere appears;  while 
I cannot too much  admire  the  splendid 
discipline which keeps  in  motion,  with­
out a Jar,  the machinery of this immense 
concern  made up  of  ten  distinct  build­
ings;  while  the  courtesy  and  the  kind­
ness and  the  intelligent  oversight,  and 
the loyalty and  the  devotion  of  officers 
and  men,  receive  the  recognition  they 
can  so  justly  claim,  it  is, after all, the 
active  brain,  the  unflinching  firmness 
and 
the  “keeping-everlastingly-at-it” 
which have made this company a success 
—a success beginning years  ago  on  that 
Erie county farm and culminating in  the 
Woolson Spice Co., of Toledo,  Ohio.

Some  summers  ago,  after  wandering 
among the monuments  and  statues  that 
adorn the Cathedral of St.  Pauls  in  Lon­
don  and  admiring  the  genius  that  has 
chiseled  from the rock a  church  for  the 
living and a tomb  for  the  distinguished 
dead, I found,  over the north  porch,  the 
Latin inscription to Wren,  the  architect, 
ending  with,  “If you seek for his monu­
ment,  look  around  you.”  And,  after I 
had  finished  my  Journey  through  the 
great  establishment,  and  remembered 
that the whole was the result of  the  tal­
ent and the firmness and the unremitting 
toil of the man  who had been  my  guide, 
the inscription over the  north  porch  of 
that old cathedral came to me,  and I said 
to  myself,  as I glanced at the handsome 
structure  and  at  the  work  going  on 
around  me:

“Si  monumentum  requiris,  circum- 

sp tce.”  

R ic h a r d   Ma lcom  St r o n g.
Useful  Waste.

Elsewhere in this week’s paper mention 
is  made  of  new uses  to  which  articles 
are now being put which have heretofore 
been considered  utterly  worthless.  An­
other  example  might  be  cited—that  of 
turning to account  the  so-called  “offal” 
of fishes.  The flesh  and the head of  the 
cod,  the ling and several  other  kinds  of 
fish  are  now  used  for extract, glue and 
guano;  the  bladder  for  isinglass;  the 
backbond for glue and  for  “bone-meal;” 
the roe for albumen;  the liver-for oil, ex­
tract  and  fibrine,  and  the  entrails  for 
glue and guano.  The external coverings 
of the larger kinds are now profitably re­
moved and  tanned,  an  idea  once  to  be 
laughed  at.  They  give  a  strong  and 
good  skin,  excellent  for  bookbinding, 
portfolios  and  similar  articles.  The 
work  of  cleaning and preparing for use 
these once  cast-away  parts  of  fishes  is 
rapidly  assuming  the  proportions of  an 
important commercial industry.
A  Man  of Business.

It is  related that Theodore Roosevelt’s 
ranch,  away out West,  adjoins  the  pos­
sessions of the Marquis de  Mores,  a per­
son whose inflammability  of temper  and 
whose  violence  of  vengeance  are  no­
torious.  One time Roosevelt got a letter 
from the marquis demanding an explana­
tion of certain  representations  that  had 
been  made  to  him  involving the charge 
that Roosevelt had been  inciting  discon­
tent  among 
the  marquis’  employes. 
Roosevelt immediately mounted his horse 
and rode over to his  neighbor’s.  He did 
not indulge in any correspondence at all; 
he preferred to get right at the kernel of 
the affair by having a personal interview 
with the marquis.  “A man  who  writes 
a  letter  of  that  kind  must want some­
thing,”  said  Roosevelt,  “so  I’ve  come 
over to see what you want.”  “I  am  en­
tirely  satisfied,”  said  the  Marquis  de 
Mores,  as blandly as you please.  “Your 
explanation assures me that the informa­
tion whleh disturbed me  was  wholly  in­
correct.”

dealer,  has  probably  suffered  as  much 
from  the indiscriminate  peddling evil as 
any  man 
in  trade.  Living  and  doing 
business  within  a  few  miles  of  tirand 
Rapids his territory  has  fairly  swarmed 
with peddlers during the  summer season 
and,  whenever  he  attempted  to  enforce 
the law,  he  met  unexpected  difficulties 
in  the way of  legal  technicalities  which 
would  have disheartened a  less  resolute 
man.  Smarting  under  the  injustice  of 
the law governing the peddling business, 
it is  no wonder  that  he  should  wish  to 
curtail  the evil as much  as  possible, and 
his election  to  the  Legislature  afforded 
him  an opportunity to secure  the  repeal 
of the old  law  and the  enactment  in  its 
place  of  a  much 
less  cumbersome 
statute,  which provides for  the  issuance 
of licenses by  township  boards,  instead 
of  by  the  State.  This  law  renders  it 
necessary for  a  peddler  to  have  a  sep­
arate license  for  each township in which 
be  peddles,  which  will,  necessarily, 
make it somewhat expensive  for  a  ped­
dler to run  a wagon  over  any  consider­
able stretch of country.  The full  text of 
the  new law,  which  was  drawn  up  by 
Mr.  Hoyt and owes its  existence  in  stat­
utory  form  to  the  energy  and  aggres­
siveness of its originator, is as follows:

Section  1.  The People of the  State of 
Michigan enact, That it shall be the duty 
of every township board of any township 
in the State at a regular or special  meet­
ing thereof,  to license  hawkers, peddlers 
and pawnbrokers,  and hawking  and ped­
dling,  and  to  regulate  and  license  the 
sale or  peddling  of  goods,  wares,  mer­
chandise,  refreshments  or  any  kind  of 
property or thing,  by any  persons  going 
about from place to  place  in  the  town­
ship for that purpose,  or from any stand, 
cart,  vehicle  or  other  device, 
in  the 
streets,  highways,  or  in  or  upon  any 
wharves,  docks, open  places  or  spaces, 
public grounds or public buildings in the 
township:  Provided,  That  in  no  case 
shall such license exceed the sum  of one 
hundred dollars per year for  peddling in 
such township.  Nor shall anything con­
tained  in  this  section  be  construed  to 
prevent any  person from  purchasing any 
fish, cattle,  sheep or swine  for  the  pur­
pose of peddling such fish or  the meat of 
such animals in  the  country  outside  of 
any incorporated city or  village.
Sec.  2.  The  action  of  the  township 
board in licensing hawkers and  peddlers 
and  in  regulating and licensing the sale 
of  goods,  wares,  merchandise,  refresh­
ments, or any  kind  of  property  or  thing 
under Section 1 of  this  act  shall  be  by 
resolution of the board,  which resolution 
shall be spread at  length  upon  the  rec­
ords of its proceedings:  Provided,  That 
sueh  resolution  may  be  annulled  or 
amended by resolution  of  the  township 
board passed at any  subsequent meeting 
thereof  and  spread  at  length upon  the 
records  of  its  proceedings:  Provided 
Further,  That  such  resolution  or  any 
resolution  annulling  or  amending  the 
same shall not  take  effect  until  twenty 
days  after  a  written or printed copy  of 
the same shall have  been  posted  in  five 
of  the  most  public  places  in the town­
ship.  The  person  or  persons  posting 
copies of any resolution as in this section 
provided  shall  make  and  file  with  the 
township clerk of the township an affida­
vit or affidavits of the fact of  such  post­
ing;  and in all suits, actions  or  proceed­
ings where the passage of any  resolution 
by the township board,  authorized by the 
provisions of this act  or  the  posting  of 
copies  thereof,  as above provided,  shall 
come in question,  a copy of such  resolu­
tion  and  of  such  affidavit  or  affidavits 
certified under the hand of  the township 
clerk  of  the  township  shall  be  prlma 
fa d e  evidence of the due passage of such 
resolution  and  of  the  due  posting  of 
copies  thereof.

Sec. 3.  No  license  shall  be  granted 
for any term beyond the first  Monday  in 
May  next  thereafter,  nor  shall  any  li­
cense be transferable.
Sec.  4.  All sums received for  licenses 
granted under authority of  this act shall 
be paid  into the township treasury of the 
township  granting  the 
license,  to  the 
credit of the contingent  fund.
Sec.  5.  Every  person  who,  without 
license,  shall,  within  the  limits  of  the 
township,  exercise  any  occupation  or 
trade or do anything for or in  respect to 
which any license  shall  be  required  by 
resolution or regulation of  the township 
board of any  township  made  or  passed 
under authority of this act,  or  who  shall 
be found selling  or  trading,  or  offering 
for sale, or trade,  any goods,  wares, mer­
chandise,  refreshments,  or  any  kind  of 
property or  thing,  within  the  limits  of 
the township,  contrary  to  the  terms  of 
any  license granted  to him, shall for each 
offence forfeit the sum of fifty dollars, or 
imprisonment in  the  county  jail  not  to 
exceed  ninety  days,  or  both  such  fine 
and  imprisonment  in  the  discretion  of 
the  court:  Provided,  That  nothing  in 
this act contained shall  include  any  per­
son  who shall sell or offer to sell agricul­
tural, garden or dairy  products)  or  any 
fruit,  shade  or  ornamental  trees,  plants, 
shrubs,  or bushes,  agricultural  machin­
ery,  tools, implements,  or  vehicles,  and 
all kinds of meat and  fish.
Sec.  6.  That Section 6, chapter  21, of 
the revised statutes of  1846,  as  amended 
by the several acts  amendatory  thereof, 
being sections 1257 to  1266,  inclusive, of 
Howell’s Annotated Statutes,  be  and  the 
same are hereby  repealed.
This act is ordered to  take  immediate 
effect.
Approved May 13,  1895.

The Cash System  from  the  Standpoint 

of a Live Merchant.

H a s t in g s,  May  16—I  note 

in  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   the agitation of  the  advan­
tages of the cash system and cannot help 
saying a few  words  in  regard  to  same. 
From doing a credit  business  for  thirty 
years to a cash-before-delivery  business, 
I  wish  to  say  that  1  am  more  than 
pleased.  I  have  learned  by  the  credit 
system that the  dead-beat has no use  for 
me as soon as  he  has struck  me  (to  use a 
slang  phrase)  for  all  he  can. 
I  have 
seen  him  leave me and go  to  my  neigh­
bor who sells for cash. 
I  have seen him 
loitering around on the street,  days  at  a 
time,  when he could get  work if  he  de­
sired,  wearing better clothes  than  1—all 
because  some  firm  or  firms  took  the 
chances of trusting him  for  the  necessa 
ries of life for himself and his family.  If 
they  had  stopped  giving  him  credit he 
would have gone to some other town  and 
continued the same practice.  1 have had 
dead-beats come into my store and  curse 
my  competitor  and  say 
they  would 
never  buy  of  him  again,  wheu  1 knew 
that all they  wanted  was  an  excuse  to 
leave  him,  claim  their  accounts  were 
wrong and never pay a cent.  That was a 
good enough excuse for them.  Probably 
the man  who trusted them  was not sleep­
ing  nights  on  account  of  inability  to 
pay his bills.  The  merchant  who  sells 
his  goods  for  cash  has  their good  will 
and  will  have as long as he will not  give 
them credit. 
Is he does do  so,  he  will, 
in time,  have to share the curse  with  the 
rest.  How  many men  have  gone down, 
with  the 
ledger,  or,  as  I  now  call  it, 
the  “Old Sweat Book of  Time,”  full  of 
unpaid accounts of men  who  are  living 
in idleness, and,  you  might  say,  luxury! 
If you have such accounts you  are  will­
ing to take anything you  can get  at  any 
price,  but  your  chances  are  small and 
you  probably  will not  get  your  salt  out 
of  it.  All  merchants  who  do  a  credit 
business have ledgers for  sale  for paper- 
rags.  They  are  worth  more  for paper- 
rags than the accounts are worth.
The man  who sells for  cash  can  look 
his  customer in  the  face  with  a  smile; 
but how is it if you have  his  account on 
the ledger?  Perhaps you can  smile,  but 
you  are  an  exception  unless  you  can 
force  the  collection.  As  a  rule,  men 
who do a credit business  pay  their  bills 
when they  can,  but,  if  they  sell  their 
goods for cash,  they do  not  have  to  pay 
from  7  to  8  per  cent  on  overdue  ac­
counts, besides  the  saving  of  discounts

of  from  1  to  7  per  cent,  on  invoices. 
You tell  the  agent,  when  he  calls  and 
presents his card,  that you pay  spot cash 
for  your  goods:  thereupon  he  informs 
you that  such  customers  invariably  get 
closer prices than the man  who  buys  on 
credit.  Moreover,  the jobbers  and man­
ufacturers  try  harder  to  please  such  a 
customer than one who takes all the time 
he can obtain.
The cash buyer  always  sells  his  cus­
tomers more  or  better  grade  goods  for 
the  money  than  the  old  regular,  with 
regular goods,  at regular  prices. 
If you 
sell for cash you can  do  justice  to  your 
customers,  as  they  have  no  old  “sweat 
book”  bills to pay,  and it is for  the  cus­
tomer’s interest as  well  as  for  the  mer­
chant’s. 
If  be  is  not  honest  the  mer­
chant has no use for him,  only as he pays 
cash,  and  he  should  be  watched  to  see 
that he  gets only  what  belongs  to  him. 
if each  and every person could do a cash 
business,  more  merchants  would  sleep 
sound  nights,  and  the  manufacturer, 
the  merchant  and,  in  fact,  all  but  the 
lawyer, would be happy.  As Archimedes 
said  when he demonstrated  the  effective­
ness of the  lever,  “Give  me  a  place  on 
which to stand and I will lift the world.” 
So 1 say,  give me cash and I  can  buy  or 
sell all  old-timers  sooner  or  later  at  a 
big  discount. 
Probable  Solution of tbe  Store  Butter 

P h in   Sm it h .

Nuisance.

From the Michigan Farm er.

The merchants of  Ithaca  are  reported 
to have taken  initiatory steps looking to­
ward the improvement of the butter mar­
ket  in that village. 
It is  proposed  to es­
tablish a central  store,  in  charge  of  an 
expert,  the only  business  of  which  will 
be the buying and selling of butter.  All 
butter will  be  graded  and  bought  and 
sold  on  its  merits.  There  will  be  no 
dickering or trading,  as cash  will be paid 
for every pound of butter bought.  Under 
present  market  conditions  it  is  practi­
cally impossible for  makers  of  a  prime 
article of butter to  get  a  fair  price  for 
their product at country;  towns  but  this 
cannot  be  wholly  charged  to  the  mer­
chants  who  purchase  it.  Each  farmer 
who makes a small amount  of  butter ex­
pects  the merchant with  whom  he  trades 
to take it  in the course  of  business.  To 
refuse to do so means loss of trade to the 
merchant.  Neither must he discriminate 
in  the price paid  between  the  butter  of 
Mrs.  Smith or Mrs.  Jones,  or he  may  ex­
pect  trouble  at  once.  He  is,  therefore, 
compelled to name a price at which he can 
afford  to  take  everything  that  comes— 
good,  bad and indifferent.  The  receipts 
are placed on sale,  the villagers pick out 
the  best,  and the  merchant—just  before 
the  heap  spoils—mixes  it  all  together, 
puts  the  mass  in  a  good  package,  and 
some  commission  merchant  in  the  city 
receives  a  consignment  of  fresh  dairy 
butter.  The  whole  system  favors  the 
poorer grades of butter,  for the merchant 
always pays more  thaa  they  are  worth, 
but considerably less than  a  prime  arti­
cle should sell  for. 
If  a  system  of  in­
spection  could  be 
inaugurated  in  the 
principal towns and  villages in  the  inte­
rior,  it would  have  a  most  beneficial ef­
fect upon the quality  of  butter  made  in 
the  State,  for  the  lower  grades  would 
practically  become  unsalable.  When 
the careless buttermaker finds  his  prod­
uct brings a price  so  much  below  what 
his neighbor’s does,  the work  of  reform­
ing his methods is apt  to  begin  at  once. 
Then  the careful  maker,  who  feeds  his 
cows well,  sees that they are keptcleauly 
and  comfortable,  and  uses  skill  and 
judgment in  the making aud  packing  of 
bis  product,  will  be  encouraged  to  do 
still  better.  Let  the  larger  towns and 
cities follow the  system  inaugarated  by 
Ithaca,  and their  merchants  will  be  rid 
of a business  which always  nets  them  a 
loss,  and  buttermakers  will be  rewarded 
for their skill and  enterprise  in  turning 
out  a  product  of  high  quality—as  they 
should be.

New Things in Cotton  Flannel.

We are sole agents  for  the  celebrated 
Housewife Cotton  Flannels  in  bleached 
and  unbleached,  absolutely 
the  best 
goods 
Samples  now 
ready  for  inspection.  Be  sure  and see 
the line before buying.

in  the  market. 

P.  St e k e t e e   &  So ns.

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AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Ashland Center—J.  W.  Callaghan  has 

opened a meat market.

Perrinton—J.  N.  Terpening  has  pur­

chased  the grocery stock of A.  Pettit.

Lapeer—Salisbury &  Dent succeed Al­

fred Yosburg in the grocery  business.

Bay City—Reinold Opperman  succeeds 
Opperman & Co.  in the grocery  business.
Pinckney—Jackson  &  Cady,  general 
dealers,  have filed  notice of  dissolution.
succeeds 
Wright & McBride  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Lapeer—Chas.  F.  Wright 

Wolverine—Rorabeck  &  Moore  suc­
ceed C.  E.  Rorabeck  &  Co.  in  general 
trade.

Flint—Jacob  Herstein  will  remove his 
shoe  business  to  Lansing 

boot  and 
June  1.

Lakeview—Samuel Bowhall,  dealer  in 
dry goods,  clothing and boots aud  shoes, 
is dead.

Gladstone—Weinig  &  Stenzel,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Martin  Weinig 
succeeding.

Battle Creek—C.  W.  Christler  &  Co. 
have purchased  the  grocery  business  of 
J.  L.  Marble.

Lansing—A.  M.  Emery  is  succeeded 
by the Lansing Book  &  **aper  Co.,  not 
incorporated.

Holland—A.  Van  Pulten  succeeds  J, 
and  A.  Van  Pulten  in the  manufacture 
of butter tubs.

Iron  Mountain—Richards  &  Grenfell 
succeed Thos.  W.  Grenfell  in  the confec­
tionery  business.

Kalamazoo—Hall  Bros.  &  Co.  succeed 
Hail  Bros,  in  the  drug and  physicians’ 
supplies business.

Lakeview—John  T.  Butler  has  pur­
chased the dry  goods and notion  business 
of H. C.  Thompson.

Croswell—Arnot & Son  succeed Aruot. 
Edgar &  Co.  in  the  grocery,  dry  goods 
and clothing business.

Muskegon—C.  C.  Wagner  &  Co.,  gro­
cers,  have dissolved.  The  business will 
be continued  by  M.  Kuoohuizen.

Ann  Arbor—Finnegan  &  Richards, 
dealers in coal  and baled  hay,  have  dis­
solved,  Henry Richards succeeding.

Albert  Stegeman, formerly  manager of 
the  Allegan grange  store,  has  bought  a 
fruit ranch in Paradise Valley, Cal.

Battle  Creek—John  F.  Ualladay,  of 
in 

John  F.  Halladay  &  Son,  dealers 
wholesale groceries aud oils, is dead.

Bangor—Levi  DeHaven  succeeds  De- 
Haven  &  Westfall  in  the  drug,  wall 
paper  and  agricultural  implement  busi­
ness.

Detroit—Geo.  F.  Clark  has  sold  his 
one-half interest in  the  Clark  Shoe  Co. 
to his partner,  Mrs.  Anna  P.  Young,  for 
S I,500.

Eimdaie—Dr.  M.  Crane  has  sold  his 
grocery and dry  goods stock to T. L. Fos­
ter,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
the old  stand.

Monroe—John  Roth,  of  Roth  &  Bor- 
deau,  cigar  manufacturers,  has  sold  his 
interest to Henry Bordeau,  who will con­
tinue the  business.

Manton—John  Turner,  the  Cadillac 
furniture dealer,  has leased a store build­
ing here  and  will open  a  new  furniture 
stock about June 1.

Sherman—W.  H.  Shaver  has  retired 
from  the  firm  of  W.  H.  Shaver  &  Co., 
dealers in clothing and men’s  furnishing 
goods,  and purchased  the  furniture  and 
undertaking business of W.  J.  Austin.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

East  Jurdau—F.  W.  J.  (Mrs.  J.  H.)
| Stone has sold  her dry goods stock  to the 
East Jordan  Lumber Co.  and  her grocery 
stock  to  W.  L.  French.

East Jordan—The shoe stock  formerly 
j belonging to the  Heston  estate  was  sold 
at auction sale to E.  N.  Clink, who resold 
the stock to J. J.  Gage,  who consolidated 
it with his stock.

Owosso—The  bankrupt  stock  of  the 
Owosso  Dry  Goods  Co.  has  been  pur­
chased  by C.  E.  Stock,  who  will  reduce 
the stock  by slaughter sale  and  then  re­
move to another location.

Goblevllle—Geo.  Bush  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  Mrs.  Clark  in  the drug 
and  grocery  stock of  E.  M.  Bailey  & Co. 
and the business  will  hereafter  be  con­
ducted  under the style of  Bailey <& Bush.
Perrinton—Albert  Pettit,  engaged  in 
general  trade and  the  sawmill  business, 
and A.  B.  Batchelor,  dealer in  dry goods 
and  groceries,  have  merged  their  busi­
ness  under the style  of  Pettit  &  Batch­
elor.

Lake  Ann—A.  H.  Huellmantel,  of 
Traverse City,  has decided to become one 
of  Lake  Ann’s  business  men,  and  has 
purchased the  vacant  lot  between  Cole­
man’s  drug  store  and Schephorst’s hall, 
on  which  he  intends  erecting  a  store 
building,  22x60  feet  in  size  and  two 
stories high.  Mr.  Huellmantel  will  oc­
cupy  the  building  with a  general  stock.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Kalkaska—M. J. Bond, formerly a well- 
known  Michigan 
late 
years in  Mississippi,  will  build a plauing 
mill here.

lumberman,  of 

Torch Lake—The sawmill  of  the Cam­
eron Lumber Co.  is  running  night  and 
day.  The  company  will  cut  13,000,000 
feet of hardwood.

Allegan—K.  Schipper,  formerly  of the 
West  Michigan  Cigar  Co.,  at  Zeeland, 
lately  of  South  Chicago,  has  moved to 
this place and  will open a  cigar  factory.
Copemisb—Frank  Carpenter  has  es­
tablished a sawmill  west of Crystal Lake 
to cut the timber north  of  Crystal  City. 
The logs  will  be floated  across  the  lake.
Marquette—F.  W.  Read  &  Co.,  who 
operate  sawmills  at  Eagle  Mills  and 
Michigamme,  have put  in  a  retail  yard 
In this city,  aud  will  cater  to  the  local 
trade here  more than  formerly.

Muskegon—Two 

shingle  machines 
have been  placed  in  the  sawmill  of  the 
McGraft Lumber  Co.  and  about  80,000 
shingles are being  turned  out  daily.  A 
stock of 15,000 cedar logs  has been  piled 
in the booms for this  purpose.

Traverse  City—The  mill  of  the  Oval 
Wood Dish Co. has begun running nights. 
The mill and factory are now  employing 
300 hands.  The company has spent $85,- 
000 for timber this season,  and  its  pay­
roll  will  reach  more  than  $90,000  this 
year.

Traverse  City—The  Traverse  City 
Lumber Co.  has been forced to cease cut­
ting  hardwood  for  a  time,  in  order  to 
clear  the  river  of  hemlock  logs.  The 
mill is  still  running night and  day,  and 
averaging 140,000 feet daily.  The  lum­
ber 
is  being  shipped  to  Chicago  by 
schooner.

Detroit—The Anderson Manufacturing 
Co.  will  remove  its  carriage and wagon 
factory from Port  Huron  to  this  place, 
having  purchased  a  site  at  Milwaukee 
Junction,  on which it  will  erect  a  brick 
factory building, 90x300  feet  in  dimen­
sions.  The company will employ a force 
of 150 hands and expects to  begin  opera­
tions about Sept.  1.

HAWAII  UNSETTLED.

The latest reports  from  the  Hawaiian 
Islands are to the effect that the republic 
is in  a precarious condition and  that the 
restoration of the monarchy  under  Prin­
cess Kaiulani  is  imminent.  The  signifi­
cance of  such  a  revolution  lies  in  the 
fact that it would indicate an ascendancy 
of British influence,  and if it  should  not 
lead  to  serious  complications  between 
England and the United States,  it would, 
at  least,  subject  the  administration  of 
the latter  country  to  still  severer  criti­
cism  for the unfriendly  attitude  toward 
the  republican  government 
that  has 
made such  a relapse possible.

The importance of the  political  status 
of  these  Islands  is  not  dependent  on 
their population,  which is about the same 
as that of Grand Rapids, nor on territorial 
extent,  about one-ninth  that of the State 
of Michigan,  nor yet on its wealth, which 
is trifling. 
It is dependent on its strate­
gical position  in the world of trade.  It is 
the natural  resting  place  and  depot  of 
supplies  for  all  trans-Pacific  commerce, 
and on this  account,  the  Islands  are  of 
incalculable  importauce  to  this country 
in  prospect  of  the  great  impetus  that 
that commerce must receive  as  a  result 
of  the  opening  of the Eastern countries 
by the recent  war.  Hawaii must  be  the 
stopping  place  of  a  trans-Pacific cable. 
Whatever nation  is  dominant  there  will 
have  a  control  in  Pacific  trade  second 
only,  perhaps,  to  the  nation  that  shall 
control  a traus-lstbmian canal.

The  reports  of  the  precarious condi­
tion  of  the  republic  are  brought  by  a 
British  vessel  and  seem  to  have  been 
published under British  influence  or  in­
stigation.  While  the  conditions  are 
probably exaggerated, there is, doubtless, 
some  foundation  for  the  reports  other 
than  the wishes of  our  English  friends.
Change  in the Commercial Credit Com­

pany.

W.  H.  P.  Roots  transferred  his  one- 
third  interest in  the  Commercial  Credit 
Company  Saturday  to  Wm.  Widdicomb, 
E.  A.  Stowe and Clarence A.  Cummings, 
after  which  a  new  association  was 
formed to  continue  the  business  under 
the style of the Commercial  Credit  Com­
pany,  Limited,  the  partners  and  the 
amounts of money  contributed  by  each 
being as follows:

Luther J . Stevenson.............................11,700
C. Edw ard  B lo c k ..................................2,6-0
Wm. W id d ico m b .........  ....................  j,o00
E.  a . Stowe...............................................i,iwu
Clarence Cumm ings............................  
too
Jam es  R.  W ylie...................................  
250
Geo. Clapperton.................................. 
*50
The Board  of  Managers  for  the  first 
fiscal  year  will  comprise  Wm.  Widdi­
comb,  E.  A.  Stowe,  L.  J.  Stevenson, C. 
Edward Block  and  Geo.  Clapperton,  the 
officers being as follows:

Chairman—Wm.  Widdicomb.
Secretary—C.  Edward Block.
Treasurer—Luther J.  Stevenson.
The new  association  has  acquired  all 
the property,  contracts and  franchises of 
the  co-partnership  formerly  known  as 
the  Commercial  Credit  Company,  and 
will enlarge the business,  removing  in  a 
few  months  to  larger  and  pleasanter 
offices  on  the  fifth  floor  of  the  Widdi­
comb building.

Nicaragua has  paid  to  Great  Britain 
the $75,000 made the pretext  for  her  oc­
cupation  of  Corinto.  The  dispute over 
her claims in  the Mosquito Coast remains 
to be adjusted.

It 

is  reported  that  a  German  com­
pany  is about to be organized at  Bowling 
Green,  Ky.,  with  a capital  of  $1,000,000, 
for the manufacture of beet sugar.

3 
6 
6 

Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7
3

Bbls.
■ 5)4
..6
.6)4
..7
..7
..6)4
7

Palls
6*4
7)4
8
8)4
7)4
8
9
12)4

OANOU8, FRUITS  and  HUTS 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

STICK  CANDY.

Cases 

» 
“ 

Standard,  per lb ..........
H. H .................
Twist  ............
Boston  Cream...............
Cut  Loaf........................
Extra H  H ............. . 

. 

8)4
. ..  3)4
MIXED CANDY.

Standard........................
Leader.............................
Royal...............................
Nobby.............................
English  Rock...............
Conserves  ....................
Broken Taffy.................
Peanut Squares.............
French Creams.............
Valley  Creams..............
Midget, 90 lb. baskets 
Modern. 301b. 

“
fancy—In balk

“ 

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes. 

Losenges, plaln..............
printed..........
Chocolate D rops...............
Chocolate Monumentale
Gum Drops.......................
Moss Drops...................... .
Sour Drops.......................
Im periale..........................

Palli 
....  8» 
....  9* 
11@12 
....  12 
...  6 
....  7* 
....  8 
....  9
Per Box
Lemon Drops................. 
BO
Sour D rops........................................................... 50
Peppermint Drops............................. 
60
 
 
65
Chocolate Drope.................... 
 
H. M. Chocolate  Drops......................... . 
.  ...75
Gum Drops.............................................. 
3a©50
Licorice Drops...................................................1  00
A. B. Licorice  Drops...........................................75
Losenges, plain.....................................................60
.........66
Imperials...............................................................60
Mottoes..........................................  
70
 
56
Cream Bar...................................... 
 
Molasses  Bar...............................  . 
............50
Hand Made  Creams.......... ...........  
8C'©90
Plain Creams..................................................60©80
Decorated Creams................................................90
String  Rock......................... 
 
60
Burnt Almonds.............................  
.  90@1  25
Wlntergreen  Berries...........................................60

printed........................... 

“ 

. 

 

 

 

 

No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes...........................  34
No.  1, 
51
No. 2, 
28

“ 
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CARAMELS.
 
 
ORANGES.

California Seedlings—!2f,, 150,170,2C0,216.  3 00
200.......... .  . . . . . . . . .   3 75
Messina  Oranges,  200..  ............  
  3  CC
 
.......   3 00
Meat Sweets—126 
................ 
150,176, 200.................................................. 
  3 50

 

 

 

LEMONS.

Choice,  300..........................................................
Extra Choice,  300 
.....................................   4 00
Extra Fancy, 300...............................................  5  0j
Choice,  360  ........................................................  4  03
Extra Choice,  360 
4  25
Fancy, 360..........................................................  4  50
Extra  Fancy,  360, gilt packing.....................   6  00

......................  

 

 

BANANAS.

Large bunches......................  .............
Small bunches.......................................
OTHER  FOBS [UN  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers  161b  ......................
“  301k..........................
14to..........................
“ 
..........
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box........................
..........  .......... .

........................ 
50-lb.  “ 

,T 
“ 
“  bags 
“ 
“ 
“ 

Persian.  G.  M .50 lb  box.

“ 
extra 

NUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Ivaca............ 
Calif orals, soft  shelled

Almonds, Tarragona.......  .................
........
Braslls, new......................... .................
F ilb e rts ................................................
Waiouts, G renoble....................
French  ................................
.......................
Calif  No.  1 
Soft Shelled  Calif............... .
Table  Nuts,  fancy...............................
choice.............................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  .......... .............
Chestnuts..............................................
Hickory Nuts per  bu.,  Mich..............
Cocoanuts. full sacks..........................
Butternuts, per  bu...............................
Black  Walnuts, per b u ....."................

“ 

PEANUTS.

Fancy, H.  P.,Suns...............................
“  Roasted................. .
Fancy, H.  P., Flags.............................
“  Roast J d ........... .
Choice, H. P.,  Extras..........................
“  Roasted..............

“ 
“ 
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“ 
“  
11 

K K K sH   M EA TS. 

BEEP.

Carcass.............................................
Fore  quarters.................................. ■
Hind quarters................. ...............
Loins No. 3..........................................
Ribs...................................................
R ounds.............................................
Chucks  ...........................  .........
Plates.............................................. .

PORK.

D ressed............................................
Loins........................ 
....................
Shoulders  ........................................
Leaf Lard..........................................

1  75@2 25 
1  3501  50

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Spring lambs............................................. 10  @12)4

MUTTON.

Carcass...............................................5)4©  0

VEAL.

THE  MICHIGAN  T~R A T)ERMA TST

5

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

D.  Eiestra has engaged in  the  grocery 

business at 919 Wealthy avenue.

Wm.  Graham, grocer  at  703  Madison 
avenue,  is  succeeded  by  Rouse  &  Gra­
ham.

Alexander  L.  Rose  has  removed  his 
grocery  stock from 265 South Ionia street 
to 105 Page street.

John  Allgier  has  re-engaged  in  the 
grocery business at his  former  location, 
160 Clancy  street.

Henry Enoppin has  opened  a  grocery 
store at 90 Crosby street.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler Company furnished the stock.

Mrs.  M.  F.  Blashfield  has  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  Yorkville.  The  stock 
was  furnished  by  the  Worden  Grocer 
Co.

Geo.  W.  Eern has  arranged  to  open  a 
drug store at Prairieville.  The  Hazeltine 
& Perkins Drug Co.  has the order for the 
stock.

N.  B.  Carpenter  &  Co.,  dealers  in 
paiuts and  wall paper at  32  South  Divi­
sion  street,  are  succeeded by Carpenter 
& Parcell.

Sidney Clark,  dry goods dealer at Shep­
herd,  has added a line of groceries.  The 
stock was furnished  by the Olney & Jud- 
son Grocer Co.

Andrew Flietstra has sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  319  Plainfield avenue to Gerrit 
Van Anrooy, who has clerked for B.  Van 
Anrooy,  the West  Bridge  street  grocer, 
for some time past.

Henry  S.  Eoopman,  formerly  of  the 
firm of  John  Eoopman  &  Son,  general 
dealers at Falmouth,  has open  a  grocery 
store at Herrick’s  Siding.  The  Worden 
Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

Harm VanDam  succeeds  VanDam  & 
Eievit in the grocery  business at 92 Cen­
tral avenue.  The change was occasioned 
by the death of Mr.  Eievit,  thus dissolv­
ing one of the oldest grocery firms in the 
city. 

_________________

The  Bell  Telephone  Co.  is  making  a 
vigorous effort to increase the number of 
long-distance  telephones  in  use  in  this 
city and one of  the  methods  adopted  to 
induce subscribers  to put in  the more ex­
pensive  instrument is to render the serv­
ice  over  the  regular  telephones  as  un­
satisfactory as possible,  with  a  view  to 
forcing  the  abandonment  of the old  in­
strument and  the  adoption  of  the  more 
modern mechanism.  The telephone serv­
ice  of  the city has always  been  wretch­
edly  poor,  but  under the present  policy 
of the company it  is  worse  than  ever— 
except in the case  of  subscribers  to  the 
long-distance telephone.

^  

Gripsack  Brigade.

• 

Henry A.  Hydorn  has  taken  the  posi­
tion of traveling  representative  for  the 
Garland  Refining Co., of Cleveland.

E.  F.  Snyder,  formerly of  the  firm  of 
Church & Snyder,  has engaged  to  travel 
for Brown  &  Sehler.  Mr.  Snyder  is  a 
salesman of  ability  and  experience  and 
Brown &  Sehler  are  fortunate  in  being 
able to secure his services.

The Putnam Candy Co.  has  engaged  a 
fifth  salesman  in  the  person  of  C.  D. 
Crosby,  who  traveled  several  years  for 
the Michigan  Confectionery  Co.,  of  De­
troit.  Mr.  Crosby  will  cover  the  trade 
of  Southern  Michigan  and Northern In­
diana.

Burt  Euyers,  the  versatile  traveling 
representative  for  P.  Steketee  &  Sons, 
was made the happy  father  of  a  bounc­
ing daughter last Saturday.

On  account of the rain  the Grand  Rap­
ids traveling men did not meet  at  North 
Park  for base ball practice last  Saturday 
afternoon.  Weather  permitting,  they 
will  meet at the place named next Satur­
day  afternoon.  Game  will  be  called 
promptly at 3 o’clock.

T.  P.  S.  Hampson,  for  the  past  ten 
years  traveling  representative  for  the 
Anti-Ealsomine  Co.,  has  been  confined 
to his bed at his residence  at  332  South 
Lafayette street ever since last  fall  and 
fears are  expressed  as  to  his ability to 
rally again.  His  trouble  is sciatic rheu­
matism.

The  House  of  Representatives  has 
passed  the bill known  as  “Substitute for 
House  Bill No.  580,  File  180,”  providing 
for the sale of interchangeable 1,000 mile 
mileage books, good over any  road  in  the 
State.  The indications are that  the  bill 
will pass the Senate,  but it would be well 
for all  the boys  to  write  their  Senators, 
urging immediate action on  the measure.
E.  L.  Smith,  chairman of  the  Railway 
Committee  of  the  Michigan  Enights  of 
the Grip,  has succeeded  in inducing Gen­
eral  Manager Spicer,  of the Grand Trunk 
Railway,  to change the time card so as to 
allow  another  westbound  train  to stop at 
Marcellus.  Under the old  arrangement, 
only one of the four daily  trains passing 
Marcellus stopped  there,  working  great 
inconvenience to the  traveling public, es­
pecially  traveling men.

At the second annual convention of the 
Grand Council of Michigan,  United Com­
mercial  Travelers  of  America,  held  at 
Flint,  May 17 and  18,  the  following  of­
ficers were elected:  Grand  Counselor,  F. 
R.  Streat,  Flint; Grand Junior Counselor, 
H. A.  Marks,  Detroit;  Grand  Past  Coun­
selor,  A.  G.  Ellis,  Saginaw;  Grand  Sec­
retary,  Edwin  Hudson,  Flint;  Grand 
Treasurer,  George A. Reynolds, Saginaw; 
Grand Page,  D. C.  Slaght,  Flint;  Grand 
Sentinel, J.  J.  Evans,  Bay City; members 
of  Executive  Committee,  for  one  year, 
Samuel Rindskoff,  Detroit; two years,  M. 
J.  Moore,  Jackson;  Mr.  Yassold,  Sagi­
naw.  On the evening  of the 17th a ban­
quet was  tendered  the  guests  by  Flint 
Council,  No. 29,  which  was  heartily  en­
joyed  by  all  present.  Congressman 
Aitken presided and an  excellent assort­
ment of  toasts  was  responded  to.  The 
banquet  programme  and  souvenir  dis­
tributed on the occasion  of  the  conven­
tion is one of  the  finest  publications  of 
the kind ever issued.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers* ABs’n. 
President—E.  W h ite.
Secretary—E. A.  St o w e.
T reasurer—J.  G e o.  L e h m a n .

SDSAB  CARD—GRANULATED.

5% cents per pound.
4*4  pounds for ¿5 cents.
10  pounds for 50 cents.
20  pounds for $1.
Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association. 
P resident—Pa u l  W.  Ua e f n e r.
Secretary—W.  H.  Porter.
T reasurer—J. F.  H elm er.

SUGAR CARD—GRANULATED.

5V4  cents per pound.
9Vs pounds for 50 cents.
19 pounds fo r $1.

Bargains In Dry Goods.

Imperial challies,  all  cream  grounds, 

good  value,  3%.

Full standard prints,  new  work,  4%.
B wide indigos,  best makes, 7%.
C wide indigos,  best makes,  6%.
Dress ginghams, good styles, 4%.

P .  St e k e t e e   & So ns.

GROCERS  ON  TOP.

Victory  over the  Peddlers— Alderman 

Shaw  Turned  Down.

At  the  regular  meeting  of the Grand 
Rapids  Common  Council,  held  on  the 
evening  of  May  13,  the  Committee  on 
Licenses presented  Its  annual  report  on 
the subject of city  licenses,  recommend­
ing a schedule for the present fiscal year. 
Under  the  head  of  fruit  and vegetable 
peddlers,  the  recommendation  was  as 
follows:
H ucksters and peddlers of  fru its  and  vegeta 
bles,  each,  for  fu ll  year  and  for  nothing  less 
th an  a year, $40.

The  subsequent  proceedings  are  thus 

set forth in the official  report:

Aid.  DeGraaf  moved  the  adoption  of  th e  re 
port.
Aid.  Johnston  moved  as  an  am endm ent th a t 
the license fee for hucksters  and  fru it  peddlers 
be $20, the same as last year.
Aid.  V erkerke moved as a substitute to lay the 
m atte r on the table one week.
Yeas—Aid. Clark, Gibson, Johnston, M atheson, 
Saunders, V erkerke—6.
Nays—Aid.  Ball,  Bissell.  Cam pbell,  DeGraaf, 
Dodge, Em m er, Forbes,  H ilton,  Hosken,  Logie, 
Pearl,  Shaw,  Slocum,  T eachout,  W atson,  A. 
W urzburg,  F.  W urzburg—17.
Thereupon Aid.  Pearl moved  th a t  the  license 
fee for hucksters and fru it peddlers be fixed at a 
uniform  rate of $30.

Carried.
Yeas—Aid. Ball,  Bissell,  Campbell,  Clark,  De­
G raaf,  Dodge,  Em m er,  Forbes,  Gibson,  Hilton, 
Hosken, Johnston,  Logie,  M atheson,  Pearl, Slo­
cum ,  Teachout,  V erkerke,  W atson,  A.  W urz­
burg, F. W urzburg—21.

adopted by th e follow ing vote:

Nays—Saunders,  S h a w —2.
The report  of  the  Comm ittee  was  thereupon 
Carried.
Yeas—Aid.  Ball,  Bissell,  Cam pbell, Clark,  De­
Graaf, Dodge,  Em m er,  Forbes,  Gibson,  Hilton, 
Hosken, Johnston,  Logie,  M atheson,  Pearl,  Slo­
cum , Teachout,  V erkerke,  W atson, A. W urzburg, 
F.  W urzburg—21.

Nays—Saunders,  Shaw —2.
Pending  tbe  motion  to  adopt  the re­
port,  Alderman Shaw made a piteous ap­
peal to the Council to sustain him  in  his 
position  as  the  “peddler’s  friend,”  as­
serting that no other city in  tbe  country 
taxed  the  peddlers  in  excess of $25 per 
year and that Grand  Rapids could not af­
ford to go  on  record  as  oppressing  tbe 
poor and unfortunate by  placing  a  pro­
hibitive fee on  the privilege of peddling. 
Mr.  Shaw intimated that be was not well 
treated,  a year  ago,  on account of bis  af­
finity for tbe peddler,  and some of the al­
dermen  were led to believe  that  he  was 
asking for  a  vindication  on  account  of 
last year’s experience.  He failed  to  get 
it,  however,  for  on  the  question  of 
adopting the amendment,  and also on tbe 
final passage of tbe report,  he found him­
self in  tbe company of but one  other  al­
derman,  with  twenty-one  votes  against 
him.

Mr.  Shaw’s enthusiastic support of tbe 
peddler  leads  some  people  to  surmise 
that be must have an  interest  in  a  ped­
dling  wagon  or  else  contemplates  em­
barking in tbe  huckstering of vegetables 
as soon as his present term  as  alderman 
expires.

Later—At tbe meeting of  tbe  Council 
on  May 20 Alderman  Sbaw  made  a  des­
perate effort to secure an  amendment  to 
tbe ordinance,  reducing  the  license  fee 
from  $30  to  $20,  without  result.  Tbe 
matter is likely  to  come  up  again  next 
Monday evening and it  behooves tbe gro­
cers to be acting in  their  own  behalf,  in 
order that they may not  lose  the  advan­
tage they have secured.

A. Jennings,  formerly with the House­
man  & Jones Clothing Co.,  has taken tbe 
position of billing clerk for the Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company,  rendered  vacant  by 
tbe  promotion  of  D.  J.  Huntley to the 
position of assistant book-keeper.

J.  A.  Henry,  manager of the Hart can­
nery,  owned by Seager Bros.  &  Janney, 
was in town a couple of  days this  week. |

Calling  upon  the  veteran  patent  at­
torney,  Mr.  I.  J.  Cilley,  we  find  him 
pleasantly settled  in  his  new and  com­
modious offices at 74 Monroe st.

Ask J.  P.  Visner for  Edwin  J,  Gillies 
& Co.’s special  inducements on early im­
port teas  for June shipment.

Wants  Column.

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  Inserted  under  this 
head for tw o cents a w ord the first Insertion and 
one  ce n t a word  fo r each subsequent  Insertion. 
No advertisem ents  taken for  less  than 25 cents 
A dvance naym ent.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

OR  SA L E-FIX T U R E S  WORTH  $1(00  A N J 
good-will  of  an  old-established  clothing 
store for *300.  Good  chance  for  a  live man  to 
drop Into a  good  paying  busiuess.  A ddress  A. 
M arkson & Son.  Big Rapids,  Mich. 

77/

',74

775

769

OR  SA L E-D R U G  STOCK AND FIXTURES; 
corner  location;  stock  in  good  condition 
and  business paying  Good reasons for  selling. 
A ddress  Dr.  Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo,M ich.T76

nearly  new  steam   evaporator,  w ith  all  at­
tachm ents;  seventy five  barrels  capacity.  Ad­
dress W.  H. N., care M ichigan Tradesm an.  773

F o r  s a l e  o r  e x c h a n g e —a f ir s t -c l a ss
F o r   s a l e   o k  r e n t - t h e   s a u g a t i  ck

basket factory, fully equipped w ith m achin­
ery.  E nquire  of  John  T. S trahan,  G rand  Rap 
ids. 
O O O D  OPENING  FOR DRYGOODS DEALER 
VX  w ith  $2,* 00  to  $5,000  capita], in  a  tow n  of 
1,000  inhabitants.  For  particulars  address  No. 
75, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

I lOK  SALE—DRUG  STOCK, CONSISTING OF 

staple  drugs,  patent  m edicines,  stationery, 
blank books, w all paper, etc., inventorying about 
$4,000.  fo r one h alf cash and  tw o  years’  tim e  on 
balance.  Cash sales last year, $8,000.  Store  has 
steam  heat, electric lights, hot  and  cold w ater— 
everything in first-class  shape—and  is  situated 
in  best tow n in Upper  Peninsula, in  m ining d is­
trict.  Reasons for selling, ill  health, necessitat 
lng a rem oval  to a  w arm   clim ate.  A ddress No. 
769. care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

OR SALE—HOUSE AND  CORNER  LOT  ON 
finest  residence  street  in   G rand  Rapids. 
Lot  76x145  feet  In  dim ensions,  w ith  alley. 
House on rear of lot, leaving room  for  m ansion 
on  front  of  lot.  Price,  $9,000.  Term s,  $3,5C0 
cash;  balance  on  time.  A ddress  No  772  care 
M ichigan  Tradesm an.___________  

F o r   s a l e —g u o d st o c k   c l o t h in g , d r y

goods and boots and shoes, at 60 cents 011  the 
dollar.  Best stock  ever  offered;  fine  location; 
w ill Invoice about $5,000.  A ddress No. 770, care 
M ichigan Tradesm an 

F o r   s a l e —a  w e l l  s e l e c t e d  sto c k o f

drugs and fixtures complete, located on good 
street in G rand  Rapids.  A  bargain, if   taken  at 
once.  A ddress  Chas.  E.  M ercer,  ’phone  863,  1 
and 2 W iddicom b block._________  

F o r   s a l e ,  n o   t r a d e - o n e  o f t h e  f in

est  drug  stores  in   G rand  Rapids.  Clean 
stock, hardw ood  fixtures, everything  first-class, 
at a bargain.  Stock and  fixtures  invoice  about 
$1,000.  Reason for selling,  other business.  Ad- 
dress No. 759. care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

■ OR  SALE  OR  EX CH A N G E-H O TEL  PROP 
erty  Good  location.  F or  particulars  ad 
dress J. C. Tracy, Custer,  Mich. 
TX 7A N TED —PARTNER TO  TAKE  H A L FIN - 
▼ V 
te restin  my 75 bbl.  steam  roller m ill  and 
elevator, situated on railro ad ;  m iller p referre d ; 
good  w heat  country.  F ull  description,  price, 
term s and Inquiries given  prom ptly  by address 
ing  H. C.  H erkim er,  Maybee,  M onroe  county, 
Mich. 

a  clean  stock  of  groceries 

E ig h t y   c e n t s   w il l   b u y   $1  w o r t h   o f

inventorying 
about $5,000.  T erm s,cash;  sales,$30,000 a n n u a lly ; 
strictly cash store;  good  tow n  of  7,000inhabi 
ta n ts  A ddress 738, care Mich. Tradesm an.  738

759

770

755

772

771

7ii

MISCELLANEOUS.

761

768

TTTA N TED  —  PAIR  PLATFORM  SCALES, 
V T  standard make, capacity not less th an   1,0 )0 
pounds.  Large  platform   preferred.  A ddress 
No  768, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 
/   i RA NITE  AND  MARBLE  MONUMENTS, 
v l   m arkers  and  all  cem etery  work.  Largest 
stock.  W rite  us  about  w hat  you w ant and  we 
will quote prices.  G rand Rapids M onum ent Co., 
81: South Division. 

Me n   t o   s e l l   b a k in g   p o w d e r  1 0   t h e

grocery trade.  Steady em ploym ent, experi­
ence unnecessary.  $75  m onthly  salary and e x ­
penses or com. 
If  offer satisfactory, address at 
once, w ith  particulars concerning yourself, U.S. 
Chem ical Works, Chicago. 
TTTA N TED —POULTRY, VEAL, LAMBS, BUT 
TV 
ter  and  eggs  on  consignm ent.  Ask  for 
quotations.  F.  J.  D ettenthaler,  G rand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
TX T ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
1 1  
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  W atkins  &  Sm ith, 
81- 86South Division St., G rand  Rapids. 
TTTA N TED —EVERY  D R U G G IS T   J U S T  
V V  starting in business and every one already 
started to use our system  of poison labels.  W hat 
has cost you $15 you can now   get  fo r  $4.  F our 
teen  labels  do  th e  w ork  of  113.  Tradesm an 
Company.  G rand Rapids.______________________

673 

760

757

SITUATIONS  W ANTED.

■ ANTED—POSITION  BY  YOUNG  MAR 

ried man In grocery or general store, small 
tow n preferred.  E ight years’ experience in  gro­
cery.  Capable  of  taking  charge  of  books  and 
doing th e buying.  V ery best or references.  Ad­
dress No. 753, care  M ichigan Tradesm an. 

'.53

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TUE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN'.-

13.  J.  R E Y N O L D S

GJRÆND  RÆFIDS

Sole  A gent  for  M ichigan

G O O D S   G U A R A N T E E D

M a il  O r d e r s   S olicited

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

7

Commercial Aspect of the Bicycle.
The practice of  manufacturers  donat­
ing bicycles,  tires, etc., as prizes  for road 
races,  is in  a fair way to  be  permanently 
discontinued.  This spring the  usual de­
mand  is  being  made  upon  dealers and 
makers for donations,  all the  return  the 
donating  party  receiving  being  the  ad­
vertising he gets out of it.  That kind of 
advertising is now  at a  discount.  Not a 
manufacturer in  the  country  is  able  to 
fill  his  orders, 
let  alone  give  wheels 
gratis to race promoters.  This  will  ul­
timately  result  to  the  good of both  the 
trade and sport.  It will  cause the demise 
of some of the smaller races,  which  is  to 
be regretted,  as  a  road  race  always  at­
tracts wholesale  attention  to  cycling  in 
the place in which  it  is  given,  and  the 
quick time made—remarkable time when 
compared  to  that  generally  made  over 
the  same  road  by  a  horse—opens  the 
eyes of non-cyclers to the  great possibil­
ities of the bicycle in  the  line  of  quick 
locomotion.  A road race is always a bet 
ter advertising  medium  than  are  track 
races and this is  why  manufacturers,  as 
a  rule,  are  anxious  to  be  represented 
among the winning wheels.  The  list  of 
prizes  being  furnished  always  affords 
some advertising,  as  the  donors  are  al­
ways mentioned on the programs.

is 

the 

free 

Irvington-Milburn, 

Programs  for  road  races  are  always 
widely circulated,  especially at  the large 
races.  There  can  be  no  admission 
charged,  as  the  event  is  on  the  public 
highway  and 
to  everybody. 
Crowds numbering over a  hundred thou­
sand  people,  yearly,  congregate  at  the 
Chicago, 
the 
Linscott,  the Poorman,  the  Martin  and 
one or  two  of  the  other  largest  races, 
and,  as they don’t  have  to  pay  for  the 
privilege of looking  on,  a very large pro­
portion of  them buy a program and read 
everything in it while waiting. 
It is the 
very lack  of  revenue  from  these  races 
which has compelled  the  manufacturers 
to support them or let  them  die;  and.  as 
the advertising to be had  by  winning the 
race on  their  respective  wheels was  im­
mense,  the  makers  have  fostered  them 
until  they  have  reached  their  present 
enormous proportions.

The  Chicago  handicap  on  Decoration 
Day,  will,  this  year,  have  nearly  five 
hundred  starters,  which  will  practically 
make  the  road  to  Pullman  alive  with 
swarms of flying  wheelmen.  The  win­
ner of such a  race  is  a  famous  man  for 
all time  to  come,  and  every  ’cyclist  in 
the  country  knows  his  name  the  next 
morning,  as  well  as  the  make  of  wheel 
on which he won.

So  anxious  are  manufacturers  to  be 
represented  in  these  events, that  cases 
are on record where  some  “crack-a-jack” 
has been offered as high as $400  for  sim­
ply  having  a  certain  tire  fitted  to  his 
wheel.  He  must  win  one  of  the  time 
prizes,  however,  in  order  to  collect  the 
money.  The good  racing  men  never  so 
much as think of buying a wheel  to ride 
in  these  races. 
It  is  simply  a  case  of 
who  will  pay  him  the  most  for  riding 
their machine.  One mistake  which  both 
the rider and the maker  usually make  is 
in having a wheel too new. 
It  is a  well- 
known  fact  among  experienced  riders 
that a new wheel  will never run so easily 
as one which has been  ridden a couple of 
months.

No  doubt  the  racing  men  will get as 
many  and as good  wheels to use as ever, 
but the promoters  of  the  races  will  be 
forced  to  buy  the  prizes.  As  the pro­

“begging,”  which 

moters of the smaller meets cannot afford 
to do this, the races will have  to  be  dis­
continued.  That the  ultimate  result  of 
this will be for the good of the trade  and 
sport,  is almost sure,  for it will  stop the 
everlasting 
com­
mences  as  soon  as  a  committee can  be 
appointed to do it,  and which has thrown 
discredit and  ridicule  upon ’cycle  racing 
for the last eight or ten years. 
It is not 
likely that manufacturers will  have  any 
wheels  to  spare  for the purpose of giv­
ing  the  first  prize  at  a  road  race,  for 
some time and,  when  they  see  that  the 
big races,  at least,  survive  without  this, 
they will not re-commence it.

Referring  to  road-racing  brings 

to 
mind the  fact ¡that 'this  branch  of  ’cy­
cling has been discontinued altogether in 
England.  The authorities there have de­
clared it illegal.  This suggests the great 
difference in bicycles manufactured  there 
and those made in our own  country. 
In 
England a “light”  roadster weighs 30  or 
31  pounds.  American  roadsters will  av­
erage  about  nine  pounds 
less.  The 
lightest English racing  wheel  weighs  20 
pounds.  The lightest  American  racing 
wheels weighs 14%  pounds.  The Amer­
ican  roadsters are stronger than  those  of 
English  make  which  are  nine  pounds 
heavier.  American  wheels  are  used  on 
roads which are execrable as compared to 
the fine  English  thojoughfares,  yet  the 
English manufacturers  are  not  skillful 
enough to even approach  them  either  in 
strength or beauty of  finish.

Three years ago,  when  the  American 
manufacturers  were  all  making 45 to 50 
pound  wheels, one of the largest branches 
of  English  trade  was 
the  American 
agencies.  There were as  many  English 
wheels in use here as  wheels  of  Ameri­
can  make.  The  American  manufactur­
ers  “tumbled”  to this and set to  work to 
change matters.  The  next  season  (’93) 
they  all  made  such  good  wheels  that 
three-fourths of the English product  was 
driven out of the market. 
In  1894,  they 
finished  up  the  job.  There  is  just  one 
English  wheel  represented  in  America 
to-day—by  a  firm  in  Boston—and they 
are not  known  to  have  made  a  sale  this 
year. 

Mo b r is J.  W h it e .

Rule  of the  Road  With  Bicycles.
Every 

experienced  wheelman  will 
heartily  agree  with the following  in  re­
gard  to the  “rule of the  road”  from  the 
New York  Tribune:

“It should be understood that bicyclers 
in all ordinary cases should be  the  ones 
to turn out.”  Every  one  familiar  with 
the bicycle knows  that it  can  be  turned 
with the greatest  of  ease  and  with  the 
quickness  of  a  lightning  flash.  Every 
rider knows,  too,  that  if  teams  and  pe­
destrians  go  straight  ahead  and  mind 
their  own  business  he  can  avoid  them 
with  comparative ease.  Wheelmen  who 
have ridden in crowded Broadway  affirm 
that their chief trouble is caused by  peo­
ple  crossing the street who try to get out 
of the rider’s way,  regardless  of the fact 
that he is carefully planning to keep out 
of their way,  and  would  do  so  without 
difficulty if they simply went along as  if 
he  were  not  in  sight.  By  stopping, 
standing still or stepping backward  they 
may upset  his  calculations  completely. 
Let it once be understood  that wheelmen 
are to turn out,  and  the chances  of  col­
lision  would  be  small  in  the  case  of 
practiced riders.

The  Afterclap.

$5 each. 

Customer—So you sell these watches at 
It must cost that to make them. 
Jeweler—It does.
Customer—Then how do you make any 
Jeweler—Repairing ’em.

money?

You can always tell

W hich  bicycle is the most  popular,  most sat­
isfactory,  m ost  pleasing  to   the  fastidious 
eye, and  the  keenest  com petitor, by w hat  its 
business  com petitors  say  about 
it.  The 
dealer

Who Is hurt by

Such  com pe  itiou as  our  custom ers are  able 
to  p u t  w ith  our  line  of  NEW  CLIPPERS, 
generally tells you  th a t  CLIPPERS  are  “no 
good.’’ they “ run  h ard ."  are  “ ice  w agons,’’ 
etc., etc.  We  have been

Noticing who hollers

Lately:  it’s those  who can  t find a  better line 
to  com pete  w ith  these  "ice  w agons;"  they 
hurt  because they stand up and give satisfac 
tion. 
If you  w ant a  Bicycle  B uilt  for  Busi­
ness, ju st TRY A NEW  CLIPPER before you 
buy.  We’ll be w illing to  subm it to vour  un­
prejudiced judgm ent.

BICYCLE
CLOTHING

O f all descriptions

W e  are  Exclusive 
Agents  for

Boston  Patent 
Pants Co.

BICYCLE  SUNDRIES
BASE BALL and TENNIS GOODS
A gents W anted

BOSTON PATENT  BICYCLE  PANTS.

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Boots.

HOSE

BELTING
PACKING

Everything in  Rubber

Large  Stock

Prompt  Shipm ent

4  nONROE  ST.

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

SYMONDS’  W IRE &  IRON  WORKS

j. l.  stmonds 

Detroit, Mich. 
Manufacturers of

a. j .  hymonds 

Cemetery Fences and Lam Fnrnitnre

CHAIRS,  SETTEES,  VASES,

VAULT  GATES,  Etc.

GRAVE  GUARD.

State your wants and send for Catalogue.

GHASMORRILLSCO.

Importers and Jobbers of

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W EDNESDAY,  MAY  22.

T H E   IN D U ST RIA L  R EV O LU TIO N .
The  recent  war  in  Asia  is  going  to 
open  up  a  new  era  for  the  industrial 
world.  Wheu China  was surrounded  by 
a wall of  hostility  to  foreigners,  which 
excluded  foreign  commerce  from 
the 
greater part of that  vast empire,  and  en­
tirely  kept  out  railways  and  all  indus­
trial  machinery  and  improvemeuts,  the 
rate of  wages  current  among  this  vast 
Asiatic population  was  a  matter  of  no 
concern  in  Europe  and  America.  But, 
with  the admittance of  all  the  methods 
aud  appliances  of  Western  civilization 
into the  Far  East,  a  tremendous  indus­
trial  revolution  will be precipitated upon 
the world.

China,  India and Japan contain nearly, 
if  not  fully,  one-half  of the population 
of the earth.  These races  are extremely 
ingenious  and  are  capable  of  working 
with and  of  constructing  machinery  of 
every description.  They are industrious 
to a high degree,  and are the  most frugal 
people ou  the face of the  earth.  A  few 
cents  a  day  suffice  for wages,  and  they 
can  live on a little rice aud  tea. 
It  must 
he  remembered  that Japan,  with 40,000,- 
000 of people,  is now  classed  as  one  of 
the highly civilized countries,  according 
to the  European  standard.  This  civili­
zation is contagious,  and  will rapidly ex­
tend to China,  with 400,000,000 of people, 
and to India,  with  its 300,000,000.

Here are more  than  700,000,000  of  in­
telligent,  ingenious,  industrious  people, 
capable  of the  most  remarkable economy 
in  the  processes  of  living.  Heretofore 
they  have  not  adopted  machinery  and 
Western  methods,  because  it  was  held 
that  machinery  would  largely  deprive 
this  redundaut  population  of  daily  oc­
cupation and  the means of earning a  liv­
ing.  But,  imagine this enormous popula­
tion,  embracing  half  the  population of 
the globe,  suddenly  changing  its  policy 
from  the  traditional  opposition  to inter­
course  with the rest of  the  world  to  the 
most active commercial  intercourse  and 
intercommunication.  Let  the  mind  fig­
ure  to itself  these  700,000,000  of people 
rapidly changing  the  ancient  system  of 
hand-labor for the  wonderful  industrial 
mechanisms  of  the  Western  World,  pro­
pelled  by  steam  and  electricity. 
Is  it 
possible  to  conceive  of  any  conditions 
that  would  work  a  more  overwhelming 
revolution  in  the  commerce,  manufac­
tures  and  general  political  economy  of 
the nations of the earth?

If these peoples were trained in all the

arts of modern  warfare,  and  were  sup­
plied with improved and abundant arma­
ments  and  materials of  war,  and  were 
thoroughly organized  under able leaders, 
who can doubt that these  Asiatics  could 
successfully overrun  a  great  part  of  the 
earth and make a formidable attack even 
upon  united Europe?  From  what Japan 
has done in  the way of war  with modern 
methods,  it is  evident  that,  united,  the 
people of Eastern  Asia  could  become  a 
most formidable  menace to  the  safety of 
Europe and the  institutions  of  Western 
religion  and  culture,  and  of  Western 
ideas  of  liberty  and  constitutional  gov­
ernment.

But if these Asiatics  would  be formid­
able in  war,  they  would  be  more  than 
formidable  in  the  arts  of  peace.  They 
possess  lands  and  climates  adapted  to 
every sort of agriculture possible  in  the 
temperate  and  semi-tropical  regions. 
They could  produce every  article  of  ne­
cessity  without difficulty,  and they could 
do so  with  a cheapness that is wholly im­
possible  with  any  of  the nations of the 
West.  Aided by modern  machinery, the 
teeming  populations  of  Asia  would  be 
able,  not only  to  supply  all  their home 
demands  for  every  article of  consump­
tion,  but they could do it for the  rest  of 
the  world,  and they  would  be compelled, 
by the  necessities  of  their  condition,  to 
seek markets for their products in  every 
part of the globe.

The result would  be  that  Asiatic  cot­
ton  and cottons  goods,  sugars,  woolens, 
pottery,  cutlery and many  other  articles 
could  be  laid  down  in  every  European 
and American market  cheaper  than they 
could  be  produced 
in  those  countries. 
The United States has laws  keeping  out 
Chinese laborers;  but how about keeping 
out Chinese  cottons,  woolens  and  other 
necessaries,  when  they  would  be cheaper 
than  those made at home  or in any Euro­
pean country?  Commerce is utterly de­
void of soul or heart. 
It would drive the 
white  man  to  starvation,  if  thereby  it 
could  secure  the  cheaper  labor  of  the 
black. 
It  would  drive  ont  both  white 
and black  for  the  cheaper  labor  of  the 
Asiatic,  and it was  only  prevented  from 
consummating  this  infamy  by an  upris­
ing of the people of this country, who re­
fused  to be destroyed for any such selfish 
reason.

When it were known  that all the neces­
saries of life made by  Asiatics  could  be 
famished  cheaper  than  those  made  at 
home  or  in  Europe,  does  anybody  be­
lieve  it  would  be  possible  to keep them 
out  of  this  country?  Bat  suppose  they 
were excluded  from  the  United  States, 
could they be kept out of Europe,  and,  if 
carried to Europe,  would  they  not  there 
come into  competition  with  products  of 
American industry and drive  them  out?
It is an undeniable fact that  the  labor 
of the United States  can  never  compete 
with  the  pauper  labor  of  Asia,  if  that 
labor  is  to  be  backed  up  with modern 
machinery  and  turned 
the 
world.  But these are just the conditions 
which are coming to pass. 
It is a maxim 
of commerce to buy in the cheapest  mar­
ket  and  to  sell  in  the  highest,  and  to 
drag labor down  to  the  lowest  possible 
level so as to increase the profits of com­
merce.  Europe and America have got to 
wrestle  with  the  question  of  Chinese 
cheap  labor,  and  some  method  of  pro­
tection must be devised to  save  the  free 
people  of  the  United  States  from  the 
slavery that Asiatic starvation  wages  al­
ready  threaten to pnt upon  them.

loose  on 

TRIUMPHANT  DEMOCRACY.

The decision of the  United  States  Su­
preme  Court  declaring  the  income  tax 
unconstitutional  is received  with gratifi­
cation  by every one cherishing  a  regard 
for  the  permanence  of  popular govern­
ment.  The anarchistic  spirit  that made 
the enactment of such a law possible is a 
matter of serious concern to the thought­
ful student of the tendency of  American 
politics. 
It  is  a  matter of concern that 
so-called populism  could  have  obtained 
such  a hold and influence in  the councils 
of the law makers  as to  secure  the  pas­
sage  of  an  act  intended  to  force  the 
wealthy to pay the expenses of  the  Gov­
ernment,  to  the  exclusion  of  the great 
mass of the American  people.  The  pro­
motors  of  this  project  are  too  short­
sighted to see that  they are thus turning 
the Government  over  to  an  aristocracy 
which will eventually rule because it has 
thus been given  the right to  rule.

The operation of this  law  would  have 
been  injurious  in  many  ways. 
Its  in­
quisitorial character  kept  an  active  an­
tagonism alive in the  minds  of  its  vic­
tims.  This  antagonism  would  have 
tended to make them more selfish  in  the 
employment of their wealth and  less  in­
clined to use it  for  charitable  purposes 
and for the endowment  of  public  insti­
tutions.  In such  ways  the  loss  to  the 
masses of  people  would  have  been  far 
greater than the paltry sums  that  could 
have been  confiscated  for  the  purposes 
of government.  But  narrow  selfishness 
of the spirit that is  responsible  for  such 
an enactment is based on too  great  a de­
gree of ignorance to forsee  such  resnlts.
In the exigences of a war  like  the  re­
bellion  such  a  confiscation  might  be 
cheerfully submitted to,  but  now  there 
are  no  sncb  exigences. 
is  bat  a 
short  time  since  the  disposal  of  the 
great  surplus 
the  United  States 
treasury  was  a  matter  of  solicitude. 
taken  to  relieve  that 
If  the  means 
condition  have  been 
too 
effective  and  have  turned  the  surplus 
into a comparatively insignificant deficit, 
it is not a sufficiently  serious  matter  as 
to require so drastic a remedy  as  confis­
cation.  A  modification  of  the  means 
taken to reduce the surplus—the restora­
tion  and  increase  of  internal  revenue 
taxes on luxuries, duties, etc.,  which are 
clearly constitutional and  will  meet  the 
approval  of  the  great masses of intelli­
gent people,  will be  qnickly  and  amply 
sufficient.  _________________

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THE  BEHRING  SEA  FISHERIES.
The Behrirg  Sea  troubles  promise  to 
be reopened  during  the  present  season 
by the refusal of Great Britain  to  renew 
the agreement entered  into  last  year  to 
prohibit  sealing  within  a  certain  zone, 
and to exact the  sealing  up  of  firearms 
so as to prevent their use by  the  pelagic 
prowler in taking  seals.

This  refusal of Great Britain to renew 
last  season’s  agreement  has  put 
the 
United States  to  serious  inconvenience, 
as some of the revenue  cutters  have  al­
ready  been  dispatched  to  the  sealing 
grounds  with  instructions  to  seize  any 
vessel  caught  taking  seals  within  the 
prohibited  zone, or carrying firearms un­
sealed.  Unless  these 
instructions  are 
promptly revoked, further claims  for  il­
legal  seizures  will  be  sure  to  be  pre­
sented by Canadian sealers,  backed up by 
the British  government  The  Washing­
ton  Government  will, 
therefore,  be 
obliged to  dispatch  speoial  instructions 
' to the vessels in  Behring Sea at  once.

The removal of  the  prohibition  as  to 
the limits within which sealing is illegal, 
and  the  abandonment  of  the  system of 
sealing firearms,  are sure to render prac­
tically nugatory all the  precautions  that 
have been taken to protect the seals, and 
to make the treaty  which  resulted  from 
the Paris arbitration  entirely  worthless. 
By permitting the  vessels  to  carry  un­
sealed arms,  the  destruction  among  the 
seals  will  be  greatly  increased,  as  the 
firearms  will  be  freely  used  whenever 
revenue  vessels  are  out  of  the  way. 
Moreover,  the abandonment  of  the  pro­
hibited zone will deprive  the  seal  herds 
of the limited protection from  the  hunt­
ers which they now enjoy.

Unless Great Britain  shows  some  dis­
position to  share in the work of  protect­
ing the seals,  the  treaty  resulting  from 
the Paris tribunal might as well be aban­
doned,  and  all  attempts  to  protect  the 
seal  herds  further  relinquished.  As 
things  now  are,  the  United  States  ex­
pends  vast  sums  of  money  annually  in 
protecting the seals for the benefit of the 
Canadian  sealers,  who  control  most  of 
the vessels  engaged  in  the  industry  in 
Behring Sea.

The  Behring  Sea  arbitration  was  a 
most  disastrous  arrangement 
for  the 
United States,  and it should be  a  lesson 
to  the  advocates  of  arbitration  as  a 
means of  settling  international disputes 
which  should  serve  to  convince  them 
that the time is not yet ripe  for  a  reali­
zation of their pet  theory.  The  sooner 
the United States prepares to  make good 
its claims by force of  arms,  if  need  be, 
the  sooner  will  foreign  powers  realize 
the necessity of respecting this country’s 
rights and  position among great  nations.
Unless we are able to  enforce  our  de­
mands and protect onr claims,  it  is  use­
less to resort to  arbitration,  as  we  may 
feel assured that the  arbitrators  will de­
cide against us  in every case.  Arbitra­
tion  is  nothing  more  nor  less  than  a 
convenient  way  of  yielding  on the part 
of a weak  country to  the  exactions  of  a 
country more powerful.  If the  late Sec­
retary  Blaine  had  felt  confident  of  the 
ability of the United States to  defend its 
position in Behring Sea,  he would  never 
have consented to arbitration.

In  consequence  of  the  exhaustion  of 
the wheat supply in  the  Southwest,  and 
the poor prospects  of  the  present  crop, 
the price of the  cereal  has  advanced  to 
75 cents in  Kansas  City,  and  shipments 
are being  made from Chicago  to  supply 
the demands  of  that  market—an  occur­
rence  without  precedent  since  Kansas 
became  a  wheat  growing  state.  Many 
localities in  the West and  Southwest are 
buying their wheat  from  Chicago,  and, 
in some  instances,  are,  perhaps, buying 
back the  same wheat  they  had  sold  at 
the low prices prevailing last fall.

The  United  States,  by  the  action  of 
Congress,  refused to pay  the British gov­
ernment the S450,000 claimed  to  be  due 
Canadian sealers.  Why doesn’t England 
take possession of our principal city  and 
force the payment as she  did  with  Nica­
ragua?  Can  it be that a nation  with the 
prestige and prowess  of  England  is  in­
fluenced  in  such  undertakings  by  the 
difference  in  the  power  of  the  two  re­
publics?

Of the total length  of  the  great  trans- 
Siberian railway from  St.  Petersburg  to 
Vladivostok,  6,000 miles, 3,700 remain to 
be completed.

PUBLIC  a n d   p r iv a t e  h o n e s t y .
In the old-time school books there was 
a story about Alexander the Great  and  a 
brigand  chief  whom  his  soldiers  had 
captured.  Alexander  had  the  prisoner 
brought before him, and,  after  denounc­
ing him as a robber,  ordered  him  to  be 
executed.  But the outlaw,  after  receiv­
ing  his  sentence  with  calmness,  de­
nounced  Alexander  as  a  robber  whose 
operations were carried on  upon a vaster 
scale, plundering kings of  their  thrones 
and slaying multitudes of  people,  while 
he  (the brigand) only  cut  an  occasional 
throat  and  seized  upon  the  dead  man’s 
purse.

The  lesson  intended  to  be  taught by 
this  trite Land  musty] narrative  is  that 
wholesale  crime  is  commonly  excused, 
while  the  criminal  who  operates  in  a 
small  way  is  regarded  with horror and 
indignation,  and  is  always  dragged  to 
punishment  when  caught.  Certain  it  is 
that society is more shocked  by  the man­
ner of a crime than by  the  nature  of  it. 
Violent  and  sensational  acts  which  af­
fect a very small  number  of  people  will 
startle and horrify  an entire community, 
when occurrences  which operate silently 
and  without  violence,  but  which  ruin 
many  and  drive  them to poverty, crime 
and  vice,  attract no attention at all.

Almost  every  day  there  are,  in  the 
course of what  is  considered  legitimate 
business,  transactions  which  take from 
men all that they have,  reducing them  to 
poverty and their families to dependence. 
Out of these occurrences grow such want 
and desperation as that  men  are  driven 
to suicide or  to  criminal  practices,  and 
women  to  vice  and  shame.  Nobody  is 
astonished,  nobody  is  shocked,  nobody 
is horrified.  Nobody  gives the  matter  a 
thought,  while a violent  act  which costs 
a  life,  or  deprives  an  individual  of  a 
small part of  his  wealth,  shocks  every­
body. 
It is as if the  silent but devastat­
ing crime had no  features  which  offend 
public taste,  while the violent act startles 
because it shocks the  aesthetic  sensibil­
ities.

Moreover,  it is coming to be so that al­
most any  crime  is  excused  when  com­
mitted  by  a  person  of  great  wealth or 
high social importance,  while  the  cheap 
and  common  criminal  must  bear  the 
brunt of public  indignation.  Somebody 
must  be  punished,  or  else  the 
laws 
against criminals will become a dead let­
ter.  Then let the  victim be a  person  of 
no importance,  and the fact  of  an  occa­
sional  conviction of such a criminal will 
satisfy public  indignation,  so  that when 
the rascals of note  and  consequence  are 
reached  there  will  be no outcry against 
them.

It is said that  many  commercial  men 
see no special criminality  in  official Job­
bery  and  corruption.  “Does not,” they 
argue,  “every man  in  business  take  all 
the  advantages  he  can  in  trade?  The 
ignorant and the careless must  expect to 
suffer  for  their  lack  of  attention  or 
knowledge 
in  a  business  transaction. 
The largest profits are made out of  other 
men’s 
losses.  Business  is  an  intense 
competition,  a struggle for life,  in which 
every man is for himself,  and  the  devil 
for the slow,  the weak and  the  unlucky 
in  the race.  When  men  who  are  miser­
ably poor  are  put  into  public  office  to 
which there is no  salary,  fee  or  emolu­
ment,  what can be expected of  them but 
that  they  will  take  every  opportunity 
that comes to hand to better themselves?”
It is a low state  of  morality  that  will

put forward such doctrines as  a  rule  of 
commercial  action, and it is to  be  hoped 
that those  who  hold  to  it  are  the  ex­
ceptions;  nevertheless,  such declarations 
are openly made as if there  were no rea­
son to be ashamed of them.  Nor  is pub­
lic morality benefited or strengthened  by 
the rise on every hand of great  combina­
tions of capital,  seizing on  almost  every 
branch  of  business  and  crushing  out 
competition.  Everybody  must  get  out 
of the way or be  destroyed.  How  many 
men  have  been  driven  out  of  trade  by 
these overpowering monopolies  that give 
laws to merchants and dictate where and 
to whom  they shall sell their wares?

When the power of wealth to command 
social position and every sort of influence 
is understood, is there  any  wonder  that 
so many engage in  a  desperate  struggle 
to secure it?  Would it be strange if men 
embarked in such  an  enterprise  should 
grow reckless of their principles and  in­
different to sentiments of honor  in  their 
eagerness to  secure  the  coveted  object, 
and  take  such  desperate  risks  as  that 
they  are  brought  to  the  very  door of a 
felon’s  cell?

Public  honesty  can  never  be  higher 
than  the  standard  of  private  morality. 
If  legitimate  trade  permits  the  private 
citizen  to take  short cuts  and  question­
able advantages in  business,  what  check 
is there upon  the public official who,  per­
haps,  cannot even  live  unless  be  should 
steal?  How  many  citizens of  the  high­
est  pretensions  are 
there  who  have 
profited  by the corruption of  public  offi­
cials  and  are  interested 
in  protecting 
them from  punishment?  If all  the  peo­
ple were honest, all  the  public  servants 
would be honest also.  The  citizens  are 
virtually  responsible  for  the crimes and 
corruption  of  those 
in  public  place. 
Perhaps  this  is  why  it is so difficult to 
punish the chief transgressors.

Negotiations were in progress  recently 
to form a combination between the  inde­
pendent  and  the  syndicate 
(English) 
breweries  of Chicago, with  a view  to ad­
vancing the price of beer from  $4  to  $5 
per barrel.  The  negotiations failed  and 
now the syndicate is  threatening  a  beer 
war. 
It appears  that,  in  the  increased 
expense  of  running  such  a  business 
owned  by  a  foreign  corporation,  the 
prices which will yield a  fair  return  on 
those  under home  capital  are  not  suffi­
cient  to  yield a dividend.  The English 
capitalists  would  have  hesitated  about 
going into such  an  enterprise  had  they 
taken into consideration the facility with 
which  the  Americans  start  new  enter­
prises  and  the  rapid 
in 
methods and apparatus  that  soon  make 
the older plants “back  numbers.”

improvement 

At last It is announced that the Bureau 
of Engraving and  Printing  at  Washing­
ton has completed the preparation of the 
diplomas  awarded  by  the  World’s Fair 
Commission  and they are  ready  to be is­
sued to exhibitors as  soon  as provision is 
made for  their  distribution.  The  Com­
mission is to hold  no more  meetings and 
it is uncertain  what  further  delay  there 
will be in the matter on this  account.

Official maps prepared some  years  ago 
by  the  English  Government  have  been 
found  showing  the  disputed  boundary 
between British  Guiana  and  Venezuela 
exactly as claimed by  the  latter Govern­
ment.  This  is  very important evidence 
as to the injustice of British claims.

T H E   JV1   I C H I G L ^ I s r   T R A D E S M A N

PROGRESS  OF  8 ILVER.

The report of  the  committee  of  four­
teen  appointed  by  the  Upper House  of 
Prussia  to  consider  the  advisability  of 
calling  an  international  conference  on 
the silver questiou  is  a  decided  encour­
agement to  the  friends  of  bimetallism. 
The vote stood  ten  to  four  in  favor  of 
such a conference. 
It is  significant that 
the committee consisted of the  most con­
servative element in  the  most  conserva­
tive  legislative body in Germany.

In  England  the  cause  of  silver  is 
steadily  progressing  and  in  the  United 
States  there  is  taking  place a  reaction 
from  the  fanaticism  of  both  extremes 
which  bids  fair  to  crystallize 
into  an 
overwhelming sentiment  in  favor  of  bi­
metallism  at  a  correct  ratio  and  under 
proper legislative  control.

There is no question  that  the  cause  of 
silver,  in  this  country,  has  suffered  se­
verely, and is still suffering,  at the hands 
of its friends.  The cry of “free and  un­
limited  coinage”  has in  it  such a sound 
of  free  and  unlimited  money  that  its 
spread over the country  has amounted  to 
a craze.  This  is  not  only  analogous  to 
the greenback  craze of  years ago,  but  is 
dependent on the same  cause—the popu­
lar fallacy that lots of money  must needs 
mean greater general  prosperity.

legislative  control. 

This element in the silver question has 
been a cause of  uneasiness to the friends 
of a  sound  and  sufficient  currency  sub­
ject  to  proper 
It 
must be a hindrance to  the  cause  of  sil­
ver as long  as  its  friends  insist  on  the 
course  which  would,  eventually,  result 
in  monometallism,  with  silver  for  the 
standard,  or,  at least,  create fears of such 
a result  in  the  minds  of  the  great  stu­
dents of the currency  question.

It  is  the  belief  of  T h e   T ra.desm a.it 
that  it  was  a  mistake  that  silver ever 
lost its position and prestige  in  the  cur­
rency of this country  and  the  European 
nations. 
If it should  be  a  consequence 
of its demonetization in  this country  that 
the  other  countries,  where  it  was  first 
deposed,  should  join  in  its  restoration 
the seeming  mistake  of  its  demonetiza­
tion  here may result in great good.

The  currency  of  this  country should 
consist of  gold,  silver  and  paper,  each 
subject to the control of the Government. 
It is really an  absurdity  to  use the term 
“unlimited”  in connection with either as 
long as the authority  which  gives  them 
their power as money  continues to exist. 
There  can  be  no  unlimited  coinage  so 
long as Congress has  the  power  to  sus­
pend  it,  should  fifty carloads  of  either 
metal  be dumped  into the mints.

The country is gradually awakening to 
the  fact  that  it  is  the  old  spirit  that 
actuated the  greenback  movement  that 
is the cause of the present  silver  fanati­
cism and it will  be ready when  the  other 
nations  are  for  a  conference  as  to the 
proper  way  of  restoring  silver  to  its 
place in the currency of the world.

MODERN  NAVAL  WARFARE. 

According  to  recent  advices 

from 
Washington,  Secretary  Herbert  has  de­
cided to make public,  at  an  early  date, 
an account of the  naval  operations  dur­
ing the  war  between  China  and  Japan, 
as  prepared  by  United  'States  officers 
who were at the scene of  hostilities,  and 
who  had  exceptional  opportunities  for 
observing the results of  the  various  en­
gagements.  This information  will prove 
of great value to  students of naval  prog­
ress,  will  be  instructive  to  the  officers

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of  our  own  naval  establishment,  and 
highly interesting to the public  at large.
Owing  to  the  prompt  collapse  of  the 
Chinese  naval  force,  there  were  not  as 
many  naval engagements  as there prom­
ised to be at the  commencement  of  hos­
tilities;  but  there  were  a  number  of 
occasions on  which  the  Japanese  ships 
did  important  service,  and  there  were 
two general engagements in which a con­
siderable  force  of  vessels  of  both  sides 
took  part,  such as the battles of the Talu 
River and of  Wei-Hai-Wei.  The  battle 
in the estuary of the Talu  was  the  first 
engagement  between  fleets  of  modern 
ships of war on record,  and for length of 
duration,  important  results  and  casual­
ties it  was one of the most  memorable in 
history.

feature  connected  with 

The number of actual tests  of  modern 
warships  is not numerous,  hence it is  of 
the  utmost  importance  that every inter­
esting 
those 
which  have  occurred  should  be  most 
carefully chronicled  and  studied.  Some 
radical  changes  in  the  construction  of 
ironclads  will result from the experience 
of the  war in the  East,  not  the  least  of 
which  will  be  the  elimination  of  lux­
urious  interior furnishings,  wooden  pan­
eling  and  other  combustible  material. 
Another development  of the  naval oper­
ations  has  been  the  great  efficiency of 
the  rapid-fire guns,  particularly those  of 
moderate caliber.  The torpedo  practice 
of the Japanese justified all expectations 
of the destructiveness of  the  torpedo  as 
a modern engine of warfare.

Owing to the difficulty of  securing  ac­
curate  details  from  the  scene of hostil­
ities,  because  of  the 
imperfect  tele­
graphic  communication.  Secretary  Her­
bert’s publication  will  be  awaited  with 
keen  interest,  as  it  promises  to  throw 
light on  many points  hitherto  in  doubt.

The  Brazilian  Government  recently 
found 
it  necessary  to  borrow  some 
money  and opened a loan  for $50,000,000 
at home.  In less than  three  days  $64,- 
000,000 had  been subscribed. 
If  so poor 
a  country  could  raise  such  a  loan so 
easily,  how  much  could  the  United 
States  have  raised  by  using  the  same 
means,  instead  of  going  to  Europe  for 
the last sale of bonds?

As  a result  of  the  commission  of  in­
quiry of the  European  powers  into  the 
condition of Armenia,  the  Turkish  gov­
ernment  has  been  notified  that Christian 
governors  must  be  provided 
its 
Christian subjects  in  that  province  and 
that the powers  will  exercise  the  right 
of veto in case of unsatisfactory appoint­
ments.

for 

in 

The  scheme  of  laying  a  cable  from 
British  Columbia  to  Australia  via  the 
Hawaiian Islands is said to  be  having  a 
great  boom 
island  continent. 
Every province is ready  to grant a bonus 
if necessary. 
It would incalculably ben­
efit the trade of the United States if they 
would  forestall the  Englishmen  with  a 
trans-Pacific cable.

the 

The  kerosene  manufacturers  of  the 
Baku  oil fields of Russia  have formed  a 
combination  to control their  product for 
the next four years.  W hether tthe Stand­
ard Oil Co.  is  a  party  to  it  is  a  matter 
of  conjecture.

It is officially  declared  that  bicyclists 
of the fair sex are  divided  on  the  ques­
tion of  “The Lady or the Bloomer.”

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WON  BY  HIS  WIFE.

How  Ned  Bruce  Conquered  a Violent 

Temper.

Almost any one  would  naturally  stop 
and look over the  trig fence at the  farm­
house behind the row of  Lombardy  pop­
lars and the pink azaleas.  There  was  a 
neatness about the furrows,  a  fat,  sleek 
contentment about the cattle in  the  pas­
ture,  and  the  brook  under  the willows 
was so pretty.  Nevertheless, Adam  Hull 
would have hurried past—for he was ex­
pecting to meet his  wife  at  the  station 
two  miles  away—had  not a dog’s howls 
smote his ears.  He was a tender-hearted 
man  with animals,  and  he stopped.  His 
handsome fair face darkened.

“Well,  he  is  a  mean  man,”  he mut­
tered;  “if  he  ain’t  beating  that  dog  I 
gave Aggie!”

But he reflected that  the  train  would 
be due in half an hour,  and,  shutting his 
ears,  he lifted the reins.  Yet  he  didn’t 
go  on. 
Instead,  with  a  flushed  and 
knitted brow, he sprang out of the wagon 
and ran into the  yard.  The  dog’s sharp 
yelps  had  trailed  off  into  whimpering 
cries.  He lay  on  the  ground  and  over 
him  stood a man  with  a  whip,  who,  in 
turn,  was clasped in the arms of a young 
woman.  She thrust her slight figure  be­
tween the man and the  trembling  beast 
“Whip us both,  then!”  she cried.

“Let go that dog!”  the  man  said,  not 
loudly, but with concentrated  passion  in 
his tones.

“I won’t!”
“Then I’ll make you.”
“You  coward!”  sobbed  the  woman. 

“Oh,  you mean,  cruel coward!”

The man straightened himself  up and, 
as he did so,  shifted  his  whip  from  one 
hand to  the  other. 
Something  flashed 
silver  white  when  the  right  hand  ap­
peared again.  “If you don’t  let go  that 
dog  and 
let  me  lick  him  for  chasing 
chickens, I’ll kill him!”  said  he.

The woman lifted her  white face.  “It 
isn’t  because  he  chased  chickens  that 
you  want  to  kill  him;  it’s  because  he 
loves me and I love  him.  You  torment 
him to hurt me.”

The man stood  looking at  her  darkly.. 
Adam  hesitated.  There  were  stories 
afloat about Ned Bruce’s  temper  and his 
furious disregard  of  consequences  when 
in a passion.  “If he strikes  her  I’ll  in­
terfere, gun or no  gun!”  thought Adam, 
lingering in the  shadow  of  the  poplars.
He did not strike her;  he  flung out his 
arms  in a gesture of  anguish,  of  anger, 
of  rage  dumb  and  impotent;  theu  he 
strode away.

Only the sound of  the  woman’s  weep­
ing  and  her  broken  words  of pity  and 
caressing  to  the  dog  were  heard.  “I 
shall have to,  poor  Jump,”  she  sobbed; 
“I can’t bear to  see  him  abuse  you  so, 
day  after day!  There’s where  he  threw 
the hot water on  you  just  because  you 
came  into  the  kitchen. 
Poor  Jump, 
good  Jump!  Oh,  Jump,  it  won’t  hurt 
you if I kill you!  It  will be me,  me that 
it  will  hurt!”  The  tears  were flowing 
unrestrained  while  the  dog  strove  to 
comfort a grief he  did  not  comprehend, 
by wagging  his tail and licking her face. 
Adam  Hull  stepped  hastily 
forward. 
His  wife  afterward  told  him  that  he 
ought to  have  pretended  to  come  from 
outside,  after  a  decent  interval  and 
plenty  of  warning  noise;  but  he blun­
dered in, choking with sympathy.

“Don’t feel so bad,  Aggie,”  cried  he. 

“Give me the dog; I’ll take care of  it!”

The  woman  lifted  her  pretty,  tear-

stained face and made a piteous effort  at 
composure. 
“I am just as silly as I can 
be,”  she  said.  “Mr.  Bruce  wanted  to 
whip  him  for  chasing  chickens,  but  1 
can’t  bear  to  have  him  punished,  he 
howls so!”  She rose to her  feet  as  she 
spoke and arranged her disordered dress. 
Very  pretty  she 
looked  as  she  stood 
there, in her thin  gown  with  its  crum­
pled  roses,  and  her cheeks the  color  of 
the  printed  flowers.  But  Adam  Hull 
was not thinking of her  beauty.  Rather 
ruefully  he  asked: 
“Does  he  chase 
chickens bad,  Aggie?”

“No,  he never chased  them  before  to­
day,”  answered  she.  And  he  did  not 
notice that her tone had changed;  it  was 
colder  and  quieter.  “I  think  it  was  a 
mistake and just for  fun  to-day,  for  he 
went around the yard with me every day 
and he never bothered anything.  But he 
is just young and playful.”

“I  guess  he  won’t  bother  the chick­
ens,”  Adam  nodded,  as  if  reassured. 
“He’s the kind of dog  a  lady  would  get 
fond of, don’t you  think?”  There was a 
note of irresolution in his  voice  masked 
by cheerfulness.

“Ob,  yes,”  said  Aggie  eagerly,  “she 

couldn’t help it.  He knows tricks!”

Adam  nodded  again.  “I  guess  you 
I guess he 

better let me take him home. 
sorter bothers Bruce.”

Bruce,  for  his  better  convenience  in 
thrashing the dog,  had  tied a rope to his 
collar;  by that same rope Jump  was  led 
away,  to  be  finally hoisted into Adam’s 
wagon.  Neither Adam  nor  Mrs.  Bruce 
noticed  that  Bruce,  behind  the  grape­
vines, directed  a burning  gaze  on  every 
motion.

Adam was now in  a  desperate  hurry, 
and  Agnes  Bruce  bad no time for more 
than a single glance at  the  wistful  eyes 
of the hound.

‘Thank you,  Adam,”  was all she said; 
to which Adam responded in  an  embar­
rassed  way,  “Oh,  that’s all right,  Aggie. 
Elia will drop  in  sometime soon and tell 
you how he gets along!”

Then  she was  watching  the  dust  and 
the  whirling  wheelspokes.  Very  soon 
she returned;  there was  supper to get in 
the house;  the burden  of  her  daily  life 
sank  more heavily, more hopelessly down 
on her shrinking shoulders.

“I’d like to steal Ned’s pistol and shoot 
myself,” she  muttered;  “ 1  don’t  believe 
it  would  be  wicked—the  way  things 
are!”

She had begun  to set the supper table, 
wondering drearily  how  she  could  ever 
have been  so pleased as she was over the 
pretty  table  linen  and  the  new  china. 
“That  was  before  1  was married,”  she 
thought.  “Oh, if girls only knew!”

But in general  her  state  of  mind  was 
too stunned for  even  silent  words.  She 
crawled about the room  and,  half  of  in­
stinct,  repeated every tidy,  usual  motion 
in  preparing the table.  Once  or  twice 
her mind strayed dully after  Adam;  but 
his presence,  that had once been the cen­
ter of a  young  girl’s  romance,  failed  to 
move her now.  “He was afraid of Ned,” 
she thought,  “and he was afraid his wife 
wouldn’t  like  Jump.  He  never  really 
cared for me.  1 wish  1  never  bad  seen 
him.  Maybe then  I  wouldn’t  have  mar­
ried  Ned!”

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through  her husband’s courtship.  First, 
it was Adam came to see her,  driving out 
from the village,  where he  kept a  store, 
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grays that he was driving to-day  used to 
know  the way  to  Alfred  Robbins’  gate 
well enough to traverse  it  in  the  dark. 
One day  he  brought  her  a  hound  with 
long ears and  beamy dark  eyes,  so swift 
and agile of limb that  Aggie  called  him 
Jump.  More than once  he  brought  her 
candy of a choicer sort  than  he  sold  in 
the store,  the  boxes  decked  with  paper 
lace and  a flattened  pair of  tin  tongs,  to 
Aggie a truly sumptuous offering.

Aggie’s mother went about  among  the 
neighbors, 
incidentally  .  mentioning 
Hull’s  presence  in  the  bouse  and  his 
gifts to  Aggie.  The  girl  never  remem­
bered  seeing  her  mother  so  cheerful. 
Mrs.  Robbins  was a  gaunt  woman,  with 
more  wrinkles than her  years needed,  an 
anxious  eye  and  a  stoop  of  the  shoul­
ders.  By  unremitting  energy  she  bad 
kept a  thriftless  husband’s  head  above 
water;  and  unwelcome as every one save 
the eldest had  been,  she  had  loved  and 
tended  all  her  great 
family.  Aggie, 
however,  was  her 
to  have 
Aggie  marry  well,  marry  a  man  who 
could  “do for her,”  as she  expressed  it, 
was the one vivid  hope  in  her  colorless 
life.

idol,  and 

Aggie  was  nineteen,  teaching  school, 
and  flinging  her  meager salary  into the 
hole of  the  family  expenses.  To  nine­
teen,  the  first  lover  who  has  straight 
eyes  and  a  good  coat  on  his  back  is 
gilded by romance into a hero.

Aggie regarded Adam’s  narrow  shoul­
ders,  untanned cheeks  and  white  hands 
with admiration; she saw how  kind  was 
his nature; and  she  had  no  doubt  that 
she loved  him.

But one Sunday  night  Adam  did  not 
come. 
Instead, Ned Bruce,  who was her 
father’s landlord,  followed him  into  the 
kitchen.  His  dark  face  flushed  as  he 
greeted Aggie.

“ What’s 

the  matter  with  him?” 
thought Aggie,  carelessly.  But  be  was 
a lenient landlord and she' bestirred  her­
self to help entertain him,  although  her 
ears ached,  straining  after  every  sound 
outside which might be twisted  into  the 
rattle of wheels.  Bruce  laughed  loudly 
at  her  girlish pleasantries.  He  seemed 
uncommonly interested  in  her  scholars. 
After a while,  to do honor to  the  guest, 
a  plate  of  apples  was brought up; and 
Aggie’8 mother praised a certain  tree  in 
Bruce’s orchard.

“They  do  taste  good,”  said  Bruce. 
“Say,  Mrs.  Robbins,  let  me  send  you 
over a barrel to-morrow.”

The children’s eyes  were  all  shining. 
Each  had  been  provided  with  half  an 
apple,  which was  rapidly  disappearing. 
Mrs.  Robbins  said  she  wouldn’t  have 
children  eat much just before they went 
to bed,  there was  nothing  so  unhealthy. 
The oldest boy sat near  Bruce  and  fur­
tively smoothed  the fur cuffs of his over­
coat.  “I like you,” he said,  shyly.

The speech made Bruce  redden  again. 
“Well,  that makes it even,” said he,  "for 
I 
looked  up  and 
smiled at Aggie.

like  you.”  But  he 

The  next  day  the  barrel  of  apples 
came.  Casually,  also,  Bruce  gave  little 
Jonas  a  new  pocket-knife  with  more 
blades in it  than  any  Robbins  boy  had 
ever seen.  Jonas was  sure  he  was  “an 
awful nice man.”  and frankly demanded 
of  his  sister  why  she  wouldn’t  marry 
him instead of Adam.

“I’m not expecting  to  marry  either  of 
them,” replied Aggie,  tartly.  Neverthe­
less, she experienced a certain  gratitude 
toward Bruce,  because  he  had  diverted

Since she was  ten  years  old,  she  had 
been her mother’s confidant. 
She knew 
every small economy  that  was  practised 
in  the  household. 
It  was  she  who al­
ways declined the meat  at  supper—meat 
made her have bad dreams.

“ Well,  I  don’t  see  what’s  become  of 
Adam,” Mrs.  Robbins did say a few times 
during the next fortnight;  “seems  to me 
he acts  awful  queer!”  But.  before  the 
fortnight  was  over,  an  interview  with 
Bruce  had  changed  her  approbation  of 
Adam 
into  irritating  dread.  She  only 
feared now that Aggie cared for him, and 
she  heard,  with  actual  relief, of his at­
tentions to Ella  Rhodes.

“They  do  say,”  she  told  Aggie,  “as 
how he  has  been courting Ella for a year, 
but they  had a tiff of some  sort  and they 
’ve jist made it up.  Mrs.  Martin told me. 
I’m ’bout sure she jist wanted to be hate­
ful.  But 1 matched  her. 
‘He’s been aw­
ful  attentive  to  Aggie,’  says  I,  ‘but  I 
guess it was only  tryin’  to keep his mind 
took up. 
I hope so,’  says  I, ‘seeing how 
Aggie has  another  beau she likes  better

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Aggie’s delicate cheek grew hot.  “But

you know I ain’t,  ma----- ”

“I know you have,  Aggie.  Ned  Bruce 
spoke to  me  ’bout  you,  this  week,  and 
he’s a man Adam  can’t  hold a  candle to. 
Look  at  the  way  he’s  done  that  farm 
since  his  pa  died!  He  owns  two  big 
farms and our little one,  and there ain’t a 
more respected man.  He could go to the 
legislature  any  day 
if  he’d  only  turn 
Democrat.”

Two  months 

later  Aggie  married 
Bruce.  To-day,  the  first months  of  her 
married  life  were  passing  before  her, 
unformed  and  shapeless,  here  a  mist, 
there a startling  vivid  scene.  “He  was 
good  to me,  for awhile,”  she  said to her­
self,  “ but  then,  they  always  are,  they 
say,  at first.”

He was “awful  kind,”  he  really  was, 
until  that day  be  came  back  from  town 
full of the gossip he had  beard about  her 
and Adam.  He asked her  about  it  and 
he asked in such  a  tone  that  she  grew 
angry.  And  then—she  had  heard  Ned 
had a temper,  but she did  not know what 
the words meant.

On the table stood  the pretty  cups and 
saucers sent her by Adam  for  a wedding 
present.  One by one her husband hurled 
them savagely at  the empty  stove.  She 
started up to save them,  but he  held  her 
at  arm’s  length  with  one 
iron  hand, 
while the other wrecked  cup  after  cup.

It was  just  as  he  turned  away,  the  ; 
last  saucer gone,  that  Jump  crept  into  : 
the room.  A snarl,  like  a  wild  beast’s,  - 
escaped Bruce.  “He gave him to  you— 
that’s why you’re so everlasting  fond  of 
that d----- dog!”  he  yelled.  Remember­
ing,  Aggie  put  her  hands  before  her 
eyes  as 
if  thus  she  could  shut  out 
the  vision  of  the  rage-distorted  face 
of her husband,  the brutal  motion of his 
foot and the hound’s body flying through 
the window.

That was the  first  outburst.  She was 
too angry to reason.  She locked  herself 
in her  room.  He  did  not  come  to  it; 
maybe because he had read the  note  she 
had left downstairs.  Did she  perchance 
hope that  he  would  disregard  her  hot 
words and plead forgiveness?  If so,  she 
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to breakfast she  found  the  fire  lighted 
and the milk strained  as  usual;  and  he 
was  standing,  very  tall  and  strange 
looking, by the kitchen table.

“I just want to say one word  to  you,” 
said he,  not  raising  his  eyes,  glowering 
at  the buckle of  her  belt. 
“You  don’t 
need to lock your door;  I  wouldn’t touch 
you with  a  ten-foot  pole,  now  1  know 
you think more of another  man  than  you 
do of me!”

Aggie’s  lips  parted;  yet  she  did  not 
speak.  She  did  think  more  of  Adam, 
who was always kind  to  beasts,  than  of 
this torturer of her dog.  And  while she 
hesitated,  he darted at  her  one  strange, 
tormented look and strode away.

Then began  a  v~oful  life.  Ned  threw 
himself  doggedly  into  work.  Most  of 
the time he did  not  speak  to  her  at  all; 
but  occasionally  an  excess  of  auger 
would  possess him,  making  him  almost 
like a maniac, 
lie  never  laid  his  baud 
on  her,  but once he cruelly flogged Jump 
because  he  would  not  go  back  to  the 
house at his command  Another time he 
flung boiling water  on  the  dog  for  com 
ing into  the  kitchen  with  muddy  feet. 
He  had said,  the last time,  that  be didn’t 
mean to hit the dog.  The  first  time  his 
only remark  was,  “That’ll teach  him  to 
mind  next time.”

Yet he  was not always unkind,  though 
never  pleasant  and  gentle  any  more. 
One day she found  a great  box  on the ta­
ble and,  ranged  beside  it,  a  dozen  cups 
of  the  exact  pattern  and  size  of  those 
that had been broken.  A note  was open 
on one of the cups. 

It read:

“These are as  good  as  those  that  fel­
low  gave. 
1  would  have  sent  them 
sooner,  but  they  had  to  send  away  for 
them.”

Aggie had experienced a  movement  of 
forgiveness,  almost of  attraction toward 
him.  But at  supper  he  bore  the  same 
lowering brow and rigid mouth  that  she 
had  grown  to  fear;  and  her  carefully- 
studied  words  of  kindness  ebbed  away 
from her lips,  as birds fly at  the sight of 
a hunter’s gun.  Her hand  held the new 
teacup toward him,  trembling.

“I’m obliged for the  cups,”  she  said. 

Fear made her voice cold.

“That’s all right,” he said. 

In  a  min­

ute he added,  “Did you count them?”

“No,” faltered she.
“There’s  two  extra  for  those  there, 
holding flowers,”  said  he,  “and  1  want 
them.”

“Why,  Ned,”  she  asked,  “ what’s  the 

harm of keeping them?”

“No  harm,  maybe;  it’s  jest  my  little 
notion.”  So saying,  he made two strides 
to the  window  where pansies  bloomed in 
a  teacup  lacking  outy  a  handle  and  a 
saucer with  but  a  slight  nick;  cup  and 
saucer he took up  in bis  hand.  First  he 
dropped the cup on the newspaper which 
she  saw  had  been  spread  on  the floor, 
and ground bis heel  into plant aDd china 
until they  were a  shapeless  ma>s;  next, 
he flung down  the  saucer  to  splinter  it, 
in  the same  fashion.  Something  in  his 
face,  in  his  cold  fury,  frightened  his 
wife.  She was silent.

“I  don’t  want  any  of that d—d fool’s 
truck  around!”  said  he,  sitting  down  at 
the table.  He ate in  morose  dumbness; 
but  she  noticed—what  she  might  have 
noticed before,  bad she been older or less 
absorbed in the tumult of  her  own  feel­
ings—that he showed her a certain defer­
ence  and  observance.  Her  plate  was 
never  empty  that  he  did  not  proffer 
lifted  the
something  to  refill 

it.  He 

i heavy  teakettle  and  poured ¡the  water I 
into the dishpan  after  supper.  He  car-1 
I ried the pans of milk  into  the  ice-house 
where they were kept.  He  always filled 
the ice-box in the  pantry  and  the wood- 
box  in  the  kitchen.  And  until  to-day 
she had at least kept  her  domestic  mis­
ery  to  herself. 
In one  respect,  too,  her 
husband  had  not  disappointed  her;  his 
kindness to her people  was  all  she  had 
hoped  it  would  be,  and  more.  There 
had gone  over  to  the  farm,  where  her 
father lived rent free,  a  continual  over­
flow  from Bruce’s  plenty.  Jonas  had  a 
colt  of  his  own.  Her  mother  had 
Brahmas  and  Plymouth  Rock 
fowls 
among  the  barnyard  plebeians  of  the 
leaner  days.  She never wore it but  she 
continually gloried in a black silk bought 
her by  her son-in  law.  Every  time Aggie 
saw her mother’s face,  with  its new look 
of placid satisfaction,  she resolved afresh 
I not to C  mplain.  And  Bruce  had  helped 
her.  Did  Mrs.  Robbins come,  he  would 
always  detain  her  for  the  next  meal. 
During  the meal  he might  be  grave,  but 
he  was  neither  cross  nor  snilen;  and 
sometimes he spoke to  Aggie  almost  in 
his old  manner.

“There ain’t no need of  pestering  the 

old  lady  with our bickerings,” he  said.

Afterwards, 

she  wished 

she  had 
thanked  him  for showing her  that  much 
consideration,  but at the time her misery 
choked  her.

Trivial 

incidents  of  the  same  sort 
thronged  on  her.  “It  seems  as  if  he 
wasn’t all bad,”  she thought,  “but  then 
—he can  be so hateful,  and  what  will  1 
do if he should be cruel, cruel to”-----

Even  at  the  thought  the  poor  child 
broke down and sobbed.  “O!  what shall 
1 do—what shall  1 do?”  she moaned over 
and over.  “1 am  so  frightened.  Oh,  1 
hope I ’ll die!  Oh,  Lord, I’ve tried  to  be 
a good girl.  Please let me die!”

She got  up,  restless in  her  agony,  and 
began to walk the  floor.  As  she  passed 
the window,  the  pictures  outside  froze 
her 
into  a  statue  of  chill  fright.  A 
peaceful  picture  a  stranger  might  have 
called it—the old fashioned garden flooded 
with tranquil evening  light,  and,  darkly 
shaped  against  the  glow,  his 
figure 
rimmed by the setting sun,  a  man  lean­
ing  on  an axe handle.  Over  the  fence 
clambered a dog with a  weight  dangling 
at  his  heels.  The  weight—which  was 
such  as  is  used  to  hold gentle horses— 
caught  on  the  fence  and  kept  the  dog 
captive,  writhing  and  howling.  Aggie 
understood it ail in  a  flash.  Adam  had 
let  the  dog  out  of  the wagon  while he 
was waiting for the train,  and Jump  had 
dragged  his  weight  all  the  way  home. 
Her  heart  was in her ears,  pounding her 
breath away,  as she looked  at  the  faith­
ful,  meek  creature  struggling  to  crawl 
up to the feet of the man  with the axe.

“He’ll  kill  him!  He  said  he  would 
kill him!” she  muttered.  Useless as she 
knew her intercessions to be, she tottered 
to the door—and stopped.

A most amazing thing  had  happened. 
The axe lay on the ground and  Ned  was 
patting Jump’s head.  His hand slipped 
down  to  the  dog’s  neck—Jump  all  the 
time wagging his tail so violently  Aggie 
could hear the thumps  on  the  ground— 
and strap  and collar fell  together.

Bruce waved  his  hand,  saying  some­
thing at  which the hound  bounded away, 
to  burst  through  the  spring  door  and 
jumped joyously on his mistress.

Bruce  remained,  his  head sunk on his 
i breast,  in the attitude  of  one  pondering

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deeply.  At  last  be  shook  himself  and 
walked  briskly  up to his  own  door.  He 
entered,  but did not come into the dining 
She 
room,  going  directly  up  stairs. 
could  hear  him  moving  about 
in .the 
chamber which he now occupied.

What did it mean?  What would he do 
next?  Memories stirred in  her heart  of 
the days when  he  had  been  kind,  when 
she had not shrunk away from him, when 
even a timid  affection  and  a  pride  that 
was  very  sweet,  in  his  manly  strength 
and  daring,  had  begun  to  console  her. 
She brushed away  thoughts  and  visions; 
she cried out that she  bated him,  had al­
ways hated him;  but his eyes would seem 
to shine  again as they bad once or twice; 
she felt a kiss,  timid as passionate on her 
hair,  and,  in  a  mixture  of  feelings  she 
could  not  understand,  found  the  tears 
rolling  down  her  cheeks. 
His  step 
aroused  her.  He  was  passing  through 
the  hall.  Hastily  she  dried  her  eyes. 
He did not come in.  She  saw him going 
through  the  yard,  wearing  the  good 
clothes he always wore to  town.  “He is 
going to  town;  I am glad!  I am glad!’’ 
said  she.  And  as  she  arose  and  went 
again to the window,  she repeated, “I am 
glad. 

I wish he’d stay!”

But in a minute she  had  left  the  win­
dow and gone  out  on  the  piazza to ring 
the bell. 
“He ought  to have something 
to eat before he  goes—”  so  she  excused 
her action to herself.

He  was half way to the  barn,  where  a 
hail had stopped him.  Behind  the  hon­
eysuckle,  Aggie,  unseen  herself,  could 
see Adam Hull’s horses trotting up to the 
gate. 
In the wagon  beside  Adam sat his 
wife, shielding her new blue  outing  suit 
with  her  husband’s  linen  duster,  and 
slipping her  arms  out  of  the  duster  as 
she drew in sight of the house.

“She will have to know!”  thought  the 
poor wife.  She lingered and did not step 
out;  though why  she  waited  she  hardly 
knew.  Bruce stepped up  to the wagon. 
He spoke with perfect  calmness and civ­
ility.

“I  was  just  going  to  hunt  you  up, 
Hull.  Good  evening,  Mrs.  Hull.”  He 
removed his  hat. 
“Say,  Hull,  the  dog 
you  took  came  back,  and  1  was  glad 
enough to see him. 
I  got  in  one  of  my 
d—d fool tempers  at  him  for  chasing  a 
little sick chicken  that’s  a  pet  and  fol­
lows me about; and I  wanted  to  cut  the 
heart out of him.  My wife  punished me 
just  right  by  giving  him  away.  But  1 
guess  she  pnnished  herself,  too;  and, 
anyhow, when the feller came back,  and, 
you  might  say,  begged  my  pardon,  I 
felt all-fired  cheap”-----

“Did  he  get  back?”  cried  Mrs.  Hull. 
“I told Adam  that was where he’d gone.”
“Yes,  ma’am.  He came back  with the 
weight on him—couldn’t  keep  him;  and 
the  happiest  dog  you  ever  saw  to  get 
back!  Now,  that’s what  I’m  coming to. 
I’d like to  buy  that  dog  of  you,  Hull. 
I’ve a Hereford calf”-----

Adam 

interposed  hastily,  with 

the 
warmth of a  much-relieved  man.  “Oh, 
take him,  you’re  welcome—you  see,  we 
keep chickens,  too.”

“We wouldn’t have  him  for  a  gift  if 
you ain’t going to hurt  him,”  chimed  in 
Mrs.  Hull.

“I shall  never  lick  him  again,”  said 
Bruce,  very  sternly,  “but 
look  here, 
you’ve  got  to  take  that  Hereford  calf. 
Your wife can take it if you won’t.  Say, 
Mrs.  Hull, just  come  over  to  the  barn 
and look at it once!”

Adam  Hull  wondered 

if  he  had 
dreamed of the violent  passions  of  hus­
band  and  wife,  when  he  heard  Ned 
Bruce  asking  his  own  wife  to  stay  to 
supper,  and  calling  Aggie  to  come  out 
and  help  him  keep  them,  and  Aggie 
prettily  seconding  the 
“1 
guess they  ain’t  so  mad  at  each  other, 
after all,” he  reflected.

invitation. 

But his  shrewder  wife  noted  Aggie’s 
red eyelids and said to herself:  “Humph, 
Ned Bruce may be  awful  nice  now;  but 
I’ve  heard  of  his  temper  before;  I’m 
glad he ain’t my husband!”

She  accepted  the  calf,  which  Adam 
had  fain  declined;  but  she  would  not 
stay to  supper.  Ned  and  his  wife  ate 
the meal  alone  and  almost  in  total  si­
lence.  Neither of  them  had  any  appe­
tite.  After supper, Ned,  as  usual,  filled 
Aggie’s  dishpans  and  then  went  out  in 
the yard.  He was gone so long  that  the 
dishes  were washed  and his wife’s brown 
head  was  bent  over  her  sewing  in  a 
white halo of  lamplight,  when  he  stood 
on the threshold.

He looked at her  thus  for  a  few  mo­
ments—his handsome, dark face working 
—before he entered.  He did  not notice, 
being  strongly  moved,  that  she  thrust 
her work  into  the  basket  near  her;  but 
he  did  notice  her  frightened  eyes  and 
how she half rose at  his  entrance,  as  if 
for a  stranger.  His  mouth  quivered  a 
little.  But when  he spoke his voice was 
gentle  and 
“Aggie,”  he  said, 
“when I get mad I don’t know  what I’m 
I  was 
doing;  and I  got mad  at  Jump. 
I—ain’t—I 
angry at  other  things,  too. 
ain’t  so  angry  now. 
I 
bought  the  dog  back  from  Hull.  He 
ain’t  Hull’s  dog  any  more,  he’s  mine. 
Will you take him for a present from me? 
I’ll  never lick him again.  Will you?”

I’m  sorry. 

sad. 

Aggie  did  not 

look  up  yet.  “Yes, 
Ned,” she  said,  and  she  added  a  timid 
“thank  you.”

“That’s  all  right.  May  I  sit  down 
here a minute?  What’s that  you’ve  got 
there, sewing?”  He only said it to make 
talk;  he  was  embarrassed,  this  young 
husband,  before his estranged wife.

Before she  could  interpose, he  pulled 
the dainty bit of silk  and  flannel  out  of 
the  basket.  His face changed;  his eyes 
flashed from his hand to  her  crimsoning 
face.  Slowly the red dyed his  own face. 
He could  not  speak;  but  she  bent  her 
head,  and,  not raising  it,  she  lifted  the 
basket and  pushed  it  over  in  front  of 
him.

“Wait—wait  a  minute,”  he  gasped, 

“I—I can’t—I’ll be back pretty  soon.”

Then she was alone,  and he had rushed 
out into the  night.  She  did  not  know 
how he felt;  she did  not  know  how  she 
felt herself;  but suddenly the found her­
self at the door calling  his  name.  More 
than once she called before he came.

“Don’t you  be  running  and  hollering 
and  exciting  yourself,”  he  said,  as  he 
came up the steps,  and he stood back  un­
til she should enter the house.  He hand­
ed her a chair,  but  he  remained  on  l^is 
feet,  and,  during  the  conversation  that 
followed,  sometimes  he  would  walk  up 
and down  and  sometimes  lean  over the 
back of the empty chair in  which he had 
sat,  and sometimes  talk with his back  to 
her,  staring  out  of  the  window—in  all 
postures or motions showing an agitation 
that was plain  likewise in  his pallid face 
and sombre eyes and knitted  brow,  with 
the wet,  black  hair dropping over it.

“Aggie, I’ve got to talk to you. 

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to me,  but I’ve  got  to  try  to  make  you 
feel you don’t  need  to  be  afraid  of  me 
like you are!  You don’t know how I feel, 
Aggie. 
I’ve got to  begin  at  the  begin­
ning.  Aggie,  I’ve  been  getting  fonder 
and fonder of you for a year.  You thought 
it was  business;  that I came over just for 
a  few  minutes  to  see  your  father. 
It 
wasn’t;  it  was you.  And  at last 1 made 
up my mind I’d try to marry you.  1 knew 
Hull  was  waiting  on  you,  but  1  didn’t 
care;  you  had a right to choose your own 
beau.  And  1 came and you married  me. 
I knew you  had done it as much  because 
I could help out your  family  as  because 
you  liked me;  but  I  hoped  you’d get to 
like  me.  Sometimes — at  first — ”  he 
turned his  black  eyes,  which  were  soft 
and  wistful  now,  for a  single  glance  at 
her—“it  seemed  like  you  were  fond of 
me.  Oh,  Aggie,  couldn’t  you see how  1 
loved you then?  I loved you  so  much  I 
was ’fraid  of  you.  But  I  did  tell  you, 
sometimes, 
i was  so  happy.  You  see, 
since mother died,  I  never  had  anybody 
to love me,  and 1 didn’t know how to say 
things to women folks.  Mother  thought 
everything of me,  but  she  never  petted 
me;  I used to wish  she  would.  And, of 
course,  I knew  lots  of  men,  and  1 could 
get along ail  right with them,  if  1 do  get 
mad  and  charge  around  some.  But  j 
didn’t know  how to handle  women folks 
1 used  to  ask  your  mother  about  wbat 
things  you’d  like  to  have,  and then  I’d
bustle till I got them----- ”

“You  were  always  generous,  Ned 
everybody said  that,”  Aggie  managed  to 
say.

“But  they  all  said,  too,  I had a devil 
of a temper.  That’s true.  That’s  what’s 
making me fit to kill  myself.  I’m so d—d
miserable”-----
“Oh,  Ned!”
“Excuse  me,  Aggie; I didn’t  mean  to 

“Oh,  not  that,  Ned;  1  meant—I  felt 

away so I could  pull my knife. 
I’d have 
stabbed  him  if  he’d  tried  to touch me. 
He  sent  me  away  from  school,  but he 
didn’t hit me.  That’s how I’m so poorly 
educated.  Once  it  was  a  horse  that 
maddened  me. 
I ain’t  often  unkind  to 
beasts—not very often”-----

“ 1 Bever saw you mean to anything ex 

cept Jump,” said Aggie.

He looked  grateful.  “That’s  good  of 

you  to  say,  Aggie.  But  once—once 
had  a balky  horse,  and  I  got  mad.  He 
was  worth $150,  but I pulled out a pistol 
and  shot  him  dead. 
I  was  a  fool  to 
carry  a  pistol.”  He  passed  bis  hand 
over  bis  forehead,  tossing  away  the 
damp hair.  “I’m just like Jump,  Aggie. 
There’s a  weight I can’t  get rid of,  hold­
ing me down. 
I run  a  little  way;  I pre­
tend  I’m  free;  but  it  always  drags  me 
down. 
I’m a pris­
oner!”

I  ain’t  a  free man. 

“No,  you’re  not,  Edward  Bruce,” 
cried  bis  wife,  rising;  “you  can  conquer 
yourself,  if you will.”

He was al the window,  his back to her, 
and  his  answer  came  in  a  groan.  “I 
I  thought I 
thought  1  could  down  it. 
was free of  the  cursed  thing. 
I  didn’t 
get mad once those two months.  Then— 
then  Mrs.  Martin  told  me  about  Adam 
Hull’s  quarrel  with  Ella,  and how he’d 
made it  up;  and  it all  came over me that 
was  why you  married me—you were mad 
at him.  And  she  spoke  of  seeing  you 
and Adam  at  the  post  office,  talking  a 
long  while,  and—I  know  I’m a fool,  but 
I remembered how you would  go to town
that mean, drizzly  day”-----

“But,  Ned,”  interrupted  Aggie,  “it 
was to  get  ma’s  silk  that  came  by  ex­
press;  her  birthday  was  the  next  day, 
and  she’d  never  bad  such  a  splendid 
present. 
It just  happened  I met  Adam, 
and—and—I  was  thinking  he  never 
would  have been  so  good to ma.  And  I 
was glad  I’d  married you.”

swear”-----

sorry.”

He baited in bis nervous pacing of  the 
fioor.  “That’s  kind  of  you,  Aggie.” 
There was the slightest break before  the 
name, as if he had a tenderer word  in  his 
mind that he did not venture to  use,  but 
his  wife  was  too  agitated  to  observe. 
“Yes,  1 am as miserable a d—d  feller  as 
there  is  anywhere  out  of  the  peniten­
tiary,  I guess.  You saw that dog awhile 
ago  and the weight on him,  holding him 
so  he  couldn’t  get  away,  not  if  1  had 
come at him  with  my  axe—well,  Aggie, 
that’s  just  my fix. 
I got this temper on 
me  and  I  can’t  break  away  from  it. 
Now see,  1 had  it when I was a litile fel­
ler;  but  I  was the only one,  and ma and 
pa didn’t cure me.  Sometimes  they  got 
mad at me and gave me a good whipping; 
but  they  might  have  whipped  the  life 
out of me before I’d give  in.  So I guess 
they got discouraged; and then  pa  died, 
and I never  crossed  ma.  1 liked her so, 
and  I  was  a hard  worker,  so it went on; 
she humored me,  and I  didn’t  often  get 
mad.  I  truly  never  got  mad  at  her. 
But I’d  have these fits at other folks and 
at  things. 
I  was  like  a  crazy  man  in 
them.  Once,  when  I  was  a  boy, I got 
mad at another boy,  and  I  beat  him  so 
he  was  sick.  He  wasn’t  really  very 
sick,  I guess; but I thought  he  was,  and 
that they’d take me to jail and  hang  me 
if he died. 
I  never  said  a  word,  but  I 
had  my  little bundle ready for a week to 
run  away, 
it didn’t matter who  it  was, 
when the fit came on,  that roused  it  up. 
The teacher,  he  tried to punish  me once, 
and  I  bit  and  kicked and somehow got

“Aggie, 

I’ve  been 

“And  I  spoiled 

it  all,”  groaned  the 
in—never 
man. 
mind; that aiu’t what  I set out  to say;  it 
was that this morning,  when  1 saw Adam 
speaking to you,  I  run  away. 
I  didn’t 
dare to stay,  for if I’d  seen  he or you  do 
a thing like you  cared  for  him,  I  knew 
I’d  have  killed  him. 
I  run,  Aggie.  1 
went out and chopped  wood  till I  cooled 
down  a  little.  But,  Aggie,  what  I’m 
In  the  worst  of  it,  1 
coming at is this: 
wouldn’t have hurt you. 
I’d have killed 
him if I’d seen you giving  him  one kind 
look; but l  wouldn’t  have  touched  you. 
And,  Aggie—if—if—you don’t know how 
it makes me  feel  to  think  that  maybe, 
sometime—when  I  saw  what  you  were 
making—Oh,  Aggie,  you  don’t  think, 
bad as 1 am,  1 could  be  cruel  to  a  little 
child?”

As be spoke he turned his face  to her, 
and something  in  it  moved  his  wife  as 
she never had  been moved  before.

“No,  Ned,  no!”  she  cried.  He  sank 
down on  his knees before her and  buried 
his head in  the folds  of  her  dress.  His 
sobs shook him.  But  she  could  distin­
guish the  words  he  whispered  between 
them.  “Oh, I’ve  been  so  mean  to  you. 
And I didn’t know!”

“Ned,  it  was  my  fault  as  much  as 
Indeed,  in  that 
yours,”  she  answered. 
moment she believed it was,  for  she  had 
a generous  nature. 
“And  don’t  feel  so 
bad. 
I’ll  help  you  get  rid  of—of  that 
weight you  talk of,  and I  know I can for 
I shall never be ’fraid of you  again.”

She was  smoothing  his  hair  while  at 
the same time she  wiped  her  own  fast-

W e

A p p e a l

To  the  Common  Sense  of  the  Clerks  as  well  as  the  Mer­
chants.  The Clerks  prefer the  CHAMPION  because it shows 
which  person  in  the  store  is  making  mistakes.  Therefore, 
they are  not blamed  for the faults of others.

O ur No.  9 M achine  w ith lid open, exposing interior view, show ing accounts as 

separated into proper  colum ns.

REMEMBER  THAT  WITH  THE

Champion

T h e   c a r e le s s   p e r s o n   IM P L IC A T E S   o n ly   H I M ­
S E L F ,  a n d   N O T   e v e r y b o d y   in   t h e   s to r e ,  a s  
w i t h   o t h e r   r e g is te r .n g   s y s te m s .

Every essential  feature  of  the  CHAMPION 
is  fully  protected  by  patents  owned  ami  con­
trolled  by  the  Cham pion  Cash  Register  Com­
pany  Users  will  be  protected  and  infringe­
m ents w ill not be allowed.

(^ "M e rc h a n ts desiring to inspect o u r Registers 
are  requested  to   drop  us  a card, so th a t one of 
our agents can call w hen in the dealer's vicinity. 
It will cost nothing to see the m achine and have 
its m erits explained.

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flowing tears away.  Such different tears 
from those that had scorched  her cheeks 
before that day!  Even  as  she  spoke  he 
withdrew  himself  gently  from  her  and 
stood  up a little way  off.  “You  needn’t 
be  afraid,  ever,  Aggie,  dear,”  he  said, 
“and you needn’t  be  afraid,  either,  that 
I’m going to  bother  you,  like  1  did  at 
first. 

I’ll keep my  place.’’

But  his  wife,  with  her  eyes  shining 
and a new,  divine  courage  and  trust  in 
her heart,  came up  to  him  and  laid  her 
head on his breast.  “You won’t botner,” 
she  whispered,  “ I  guess  1  missed  you 
all the time.  And—dear,  it will  need  us 
both!’

*  *  •

Three years later a man,  a woman  and 
a  very  active  little  child  were driving 
along  the  highway  from  Ned  Bruce’s 
farm to the village.  Behind  the  wagon 
trotted a fat hound.  Presently  the  man 
looked back.  “1 do think Jump’s tired,” 
he said,  “shan’t  we let him  in?”

“I’m  ’fraid  he’s  muddy,”  said 

the 
woman,  dubiously.  “Ned,  you just spoil 
Jump!”

The man  laughed and gave the woman, 
who  was young and very  pretty,  a play­
ful  bug  with  his 
left  arm.  “And  1 
spoil  baby,  too,  you say,” said  he;  “how 
about you?”

“Oh, every one  knows  you  spoil  me!” 
returned  the  young  woman,  deftly  re­
moving the arm.  “For shame,  Ned,  the 
Hulls are just behind;  how  it  looks!”

“It looks as if  1  was a happy  man,  and 
I  am,” returned  the man, stoutly, patting 
the cheek  of  the  child,  who  looked  up 
laughing.

“She’s  got  an  awful  sweet  temper,” 
he continued  in  a graver tone;  “she’s got 
her  mother’s  nature  and  her  ways. 
Aggie,  I’m glad.”

“I  don’t  know,”  the  wife  answered. 
“Ned,  I’d like her to be more like you.”
“Temper  and  all?  Aggie  Bruce,  1 
heard  of  the awful  whopper you  told at 
the sewing society.”

“That  you  were  the  best-tempered 
man 1  knew?” said  Aggie, fondly.  “Ned, 
you  are.  Do you  know,  Ned.  1  wonder 
sometimes  how  you  did  master  your 
temper the  way you  have.”

Ned  smiled..  “ 1  loved  you,  Aggie,” 
said  he,  “and,”—touching the rosy little 
face at  his knee—“1  loved  her.  You did 
it,  not  me.  But”—drawing  a  deep
breath—“it’s been a big job  and  no mis­
take!  And  there’s  plenty 
left  to  do, 
still!” 

Oc t a v e   T h a n e t .

Grand B apids Retail Grocers' Association.

A d v a n ta g e s   o f  th e   C a sh   S y ste m .
[Bntered <n competition for  prizes  offered  by 
On the advantages of the  cash  system 
permit me to say that the only  way  to do 
business  is  in  a  businesslike  way,  and 
that  all  other  ways  are  failures.  The 
cash  system  is  a  business  system  and 
leads to success.  The credit  system  i- a 
failure and  leads  to  ruin.  Ninety nine 
per cent,  of those engaging in mercantile 
pursuits make failures—and  ninety-nine 
per cent,  do a credit business.  All goods 
bought or  sold  for cash  involve  no  loss, 
except it be on account of a depreciation 
in  value,  which  would  have  no  effect  in 
the credit system.  The  goods  would  be 
as apt to depreciate in  the credit  system 
as in  the  cash  system,  and  a  deprecia­
tion certainly takes  place  in  the  credit 
system  as  soon  as  the  goods  leave  the 
store.  Many  of  the  accounts  on  your 
books considered as  good  will  not  bring 
anywhere  near  par  value  when  placed 
on the market.  The credit system,  as  a

whole,  will depreciate  more  on  account 
of non-payment of goods than  will  shelf 
worn goods suffer,  caused  by  slow trade, 
on  account of the  cash  system.  The ar­
gument in regard  to shelf-worn  goods  is 
the only one in favor of the credit system. 
Shelf-worn  goods  will  always  retain 
some  value; but an uncollectible account 
is worthless.  Credit  given  with  ample 
security  is  not  credit,  as  value  is  re­
ceived  in  place  of the goods; while a ver 
bal  promise depends  upon  the  ability— 
and too often  the  desire—of  the  person 
trusted  to fulfill  his promise; and,  if  liti­
gation  is  resorted  to  it is so prolonged 
that a debt—say of 810—is not  worth  the 
suing.

The man  who  does  a  partially  credit 
business,  and  places his ca<b each day  in 
his bank  for security,  would  not  place it 
there  long  if  the  bank  passed  its cash 
out to the  public  on  no  more  security 
than the credit  merchant  is  secured  on 
his  merchandise,  as  he  would  feel  sure 
that a bank doing such  a  credit  business 
must soon  fail.  Merchandise  represents 
its value as much  as does  the gold or the 
silver,  and  many  a  merchant  who  is 
given a rating of A  1  by  our  mercantile 
reports  has  a  greater part of that value 
in  stocks  which  are  to  be  sold  and 
placed from  East  to  West  among  mer­
chants who are doing  a  credit  business. 
Can he afford to run  his  chances  on  the 
credit  merchant,  any  more  than  the 
credit merchant  can  afford  to  place  his 
cash  in  a  city  bank  which is pursuing 
the same credit system?  Is  it  right  for 
a  retail merchant to expect credit on bis 
purchases,  and he to pass the same goods 
over his  counter  in  credit?  If  right  to 
expect it,  we will ask  why?

Let us now consider the  advantages of 
the cash  system—what  is  to  be  gained 
thereby.  A man doing  a  cash  business 
of 848,000 per annum  is able to  discount 
his  bills  at  3  per cent.;  and it is  a rea­
sonable statement to  say  that  be  would 
discount one-half of the amount, or 84,000 
each month,  which  would  be  a  profit  ot 
8120 per month or 81,440 per annum.  He 
also dispenses with an extra book-keeper 
at a salary of 8600  per annum,  making  a 
saving of 82,040  per  annum.  The  mer­
chant  doing  a  credit  business  on  the 
same amount of sales  would  be  out  the 
82,040  which  is saved  by  the cash system 
on  discounts  and  book-keeper;  and,  in 
addition,  it is safe to say  that  he  would 
be  carrying  notes  at  the  bank  to  the 
amount of 81,500,  which  he  would  have 
to  discount  every  sixty  days  at  7  per 
cent.,  amounting  to  8105  per  annum. 
Placing  this  amount  with  the  82.040 
saved  by the cash system, and we have the 
good  round total  of 82,145 in  favor of the 
advantages of the cash  system.

W.  M.  G ib b s.

Fredonia,  N. Y.

A  United  States 

Internal  Revenue 
Commissioner,  whose district takes in the 
anthracite coal  region  of  Pennsylvania, 
has just rendered  a  decision  which  will 
materially reduce the income tax receipts 
from  that  section  of  the  country.  He 
holds that the profits  realized  from  coal 
mining  are  exempt  from  taxation,  bas­
ing  his  decision  on  the  principle  that 
all  rents,  profits  and 
income  derived 
from land and its immediate product,  ac­
quired directly  by the owner  of the free­
hold  or  dominant  estate,  are  exempt 
from  taxation as  income  of  the  owner. 
The ruling will  reduce  the  income  tax 
in  the Luzerne,  Lehigh,  Schuylkill  and 
Lackawanna valleys  at  least  one-third, 
provided  that the United States Supreme 
Court allows the law to stand as thus far 
interpreted.

The Sun  —  
Draws  Water
You  Can 
Draw Trade

From all  parts of the world «without apparent effort.

From all  directions  almost as  easily  if  you  handle  our 
Famous  Brands  of  Spring  and  Winter  Wheat Flour, 
our Celebrated  Feed  and our  well-known Specialties.

IT  PAYS to buy wheic you can get  EVERYTHING 

you  need. 

IT  PAYS  TO  BUY  OF  US.

BECAUSE our goods are continually  advertised  all 

over the State.

want they  BUY.

BECAUSE  people  KNOW them.
BECAUSE  people  WANT  them  What  people 

VALLEY CITY MILLING  GO.

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

fl  SURE  THING

Is what the average dealer is  looking for.  When  he 
sells a customer goods he  wants  the fact ot  realizing 
a profit and getting a  duplicate  of  the  order to  be a 
“sure thing ” 
In selling goods  of  our  manufacture, 
you take  no  chances—they  are  well  and  favorably 
known,  and  while  not  always  the  lowest  in  price, 
they are ever of  standard  quality  and  always  satis­
factory.

PUTNAM  GANDY CO. 
Pop  Corn  Go o d s !

Our  Balls are the Sweetest and Best in  the market.
*200 in  Box or ‘100 in  Barrel.

Penny  Ground  Corn  Cakes  in

M o la s s e s   S q u a r e s  

a„d  T u r k is h   B r e a d
DETROIT POP CORN NOVELTY CO.

ESTABLISHED  THIRTY  YEARS.

Are Tip  Top  Sellers.

41  JEFFERSON  AVENUE 

Detroit,  flieh.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

H E B E   A N D   T H E R E .

Written for The Tradesman

Did you ever  notice  how  little  gratl 
tude there is in the  prayers  we hear—of 
practical  gratitude,  1  mean? 
I  once 
heard a simple little story about  some of 
the  angels  wishing  to  be  deputized  to- 
come  to  earth  for  a  time,  and  finally 
two  were  sent.  One  was  to  gather 
up the thanks she  heard  and  the  other 
the requests.  The  first  came  back  al 
most empty handed,  while the  other was 
weighted down. 
I have often thought of 
it  as  I  listened  to  prayers  in  public 
places.

something  this  wise: 

With no spirit of ridicule or  cynicism, 
let  us  think  of  those  we  commonest 
hear—in  churches,  for  instance.  Most 
ministers fall into  a  habit  wholly  their 
own,  and  usually  begin  the  same  way 
each  time, 
“O 
Mighty  and  Most  Powerful  One,”  etc. 
After sufficiently describing God to  him­
self, they proceed to  tell  him  their  nu­
merous  wants..  One  minister  of  my 
early recollection always  finished in  this 
way:  “What we have  failed  in  asking, 
fail not Thou in giving,” which,  even to 
my childish  mind,  seemed  unwarranta­
bly  selfish.  Then  followed,  “and  to 
thy  name  shall  be  the  glory,  and  the 
power,” etc.,  which, added to the former, 
almost savored of bribery.

Of all the prayers  that  impressed  me 
most,  in the right way—did  me the most 
good and  influenced  me  more  than  any 
heard in my life—was one  listened  to in 
a  little  village  church  not  many  years 
ago. 
It  was  one  of  genuine  gratitude 
from beginning to  end,  and  it  enumer­
ated things commonly  overlooked in our 
everyday  life.  When  it  was  finished, 
one had a realizing sense of his blessings 
and a desire to be worthy of  them. 
I do 
not remember a word of the  sermon  that 
followed,  but  the 
that 
prayer  remained  and  led  to  a  feeling 
of faith and gratitude that has  lightened 
many a  burden.

influence  of 

•   *  *

emulate 

Speaking  of  ministers,  an  eminent 
Eastern  divine  recently  brought out an 
idea that was as novel as  it  was  full  of 
truth.  He  said:  “The  traveling  man 
and  the  life  insurance  agent  are  not 
usually held up as examples of Christian­
ity,  but,  if  the  average  church  member 
would 
their  example,  there 
would  be  more  good  done in the world 
than there is now.”  The  look that  went 
around that staid  Presbyterian  audience 
was one of mingled surprise  and  curios­
ity.  He  proceeded:  “People  start  out 
to do good  with the  best  intentions  and 
with the greatest zeal for the good cause: 
but  they  make  it  too  much  a personal 
matter and the slightest  rebuff  is  taken 
in that manner.  Now, the traveling man 
steps into a store or other place  of  busi­
ness,  and usually the first thing he  bears 
is,  ‘1 don’t want anything.’  Does  be im­
mediately  retire?  Not  he!  He  isn’t 
making  a social call—he is selling  goods 
for his house.  His  employer’s  interests 
are  first,  and he,  as an individual, is,  for 
the time being,  obliterated. 
(That is the 
successful one.)  He endeavors to make 
himself generally  agreeable,  and,  when 
that  is  accomplished,  his  goods are in­
troduced,  and the traveling  man  usually 
*arrives.’  And  who  ever heard of a life 
insurance agent being talked  down!”

It was evideut to his  hearers  wherein 
they might emulate the example of these 
two  exponents  of  push  and  persever­
ance.

Perhaps no city  in  this  country  is  so 
distinctly a Mecca for cranks as is Wash­
ington.  There they  most do congregate, 
from the one  who  considers  the  Presi­
dent as having usurped the  place  which 
rightfully belongs  to  him,  to  the  most 
harmless female  who  minces  along  the 
street  dressed  in  the  fashion  of  thirty 
years ago and imagines  herself to be the 
only one in appropriate  attire.

An  amusing 

Included somewhere  about  midway in 
the  category  might  be  mentioned  the 
average private secretary  to  the  officers 
in charge of departments of  Government 
service. 
His  peculiar  hallucination 
seems to be in reference  to  his  own  im­
portance  in  shaping  the  affairs  of  the 
nation,  and  the  danger  there  exists  in 
occupying  so  exalted  a  position  as he 
does,  from the bloodthirsty tendencies of 
certain  other—only  he  leaves  out  the
other”—cranks.
The heads of departments,  as  a  rule, 
are  affable  gentlemen  who,  when  they 
are reached,  give  one  respectful  atten­
tion,  and,  in  case  of  a  refusal  of  re­
quests,  should  one’s  errand  be  of  that 
nature,  perform the  disagreeable task in 
a way that does  not  antagonize.  I  say, 
‘when you reach  them;”  and  I  use  the 
term advisedly,  for  between  them  and 
the  outer  world  are  secretaries  before 
whom one  must  pass  in  review  before 
the object  of  the  call  is  accomplished. 
He often  mistakes himself  for  the  head 
of affairs,  almost for the  Government it 
self, especially if he be new to the place.
incident  illustrative  of 
the above came under the  notice  of  the 
writer a short time  ago,  and  it  is,  per­
haps,  worth repeating;  An elderly lady, 
plainly dressed and having no air of “in­
fluence” about her,  having business with 
one of the departments,  called  at  head­
quarters  to  see  the  chief. 
She  was 
ushered  into  the  presence of the  secre­
tary,  who sat with his feet  on  the  desk 
in  front  of  him,  reading  a newspaper. 
Beyond a casual glance in  her  direction, 
he paid not the slightest attention to  her 
entrance.  She waited  a  moment  to  see 
if  he  intended  any  recognition  of  her 
presence,  and,  seeing he did not,  she  hit 
upon  a novel plan  to  bring  him  to  his 
senses.  She  began  looking  under  the 
chairs,  desks, etc.,  with  which  the  place 
was furnished, as if searching  for  some­
thing. 
“Crank!”  flashed  through  his 
mind,  and visions of disaster  to  the  de­
partment  and,  worst  of  all, to  himself 
rose vividly before  him.  Bomb  throw­
ing might next be in  order!  So it might 
be well to try and propitiate her.  Turn­
ing in his chair,  he asked  in  trepidation, 
“Madam,  is there  anything  you  wish?” 
Making no reply,  the search  was  contin­
ued.  She  was  getting dangerously near 
him.  Springing up and  with  most  con­
ciliatory 
tone  and  manner  he  cour­
teously  put  the  question,  “Madam,  is 
there any way I can serve you?”  “Well, 
young  man,  I don’t  know  but  there  is; 
but,  first,  I was looking for  your  crown.
I see you  are not wearing it  to-day.” 

J a c q u e l in e .

W h e re   H e  W a s   N e e d e d .

in  while  on 

St.  Peter:  “Well,  sir,  what  business 
the 
were  you  engaged 
earth?”
Applicant:  “Please, sir, I conducted a 
great fire sale of clothing.”
St.  Peter:  “Yes?  Well,  they’re  ar­
ranging one of those schemes downstairs, 
and I  guess  they’ll  need  your  valuable 
services.”

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

and  7  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

Our line for 1895 is G reater in V ariety  and  F in er  than  ever at­
tem pted before.  Every one o f the old favorites has  been retained.
Your inspection is kindly  solicited w hen  in  th ecity .  O ur rep 
resentatives  will  call  on  yon  early  and  w ill  gladly  show  you 

through.

Bottoms.”

Keep your eye on  o u r  Oil  G rain  line  in  “ Black 

W A L E S   -  GOODYEAR  RU BBERS

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

BOSTON 

GOHPANY’S

RUBBER SHOE
McG raw ’s

Goods  are  found  at

DETROIT

We have the G reatest  V ariety of the  F reshest Goods, and the  Largest  Stock 

of any housx in the U nited states.

R1NDGE, KALMBACH l  GO.

12,  14 and  16  Pearl  St.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

B oo ts,  S h o e s   &   R u b b e r s

Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.’s goods.

Now is the time to  order  your  rubbers.  They will be higher Oct.  1st. 
If you  place  your  order  with  us, we will take good care of you and  give 
you the best possible terms  and  discounts, and guarantee  them until  time 
of payment.  You do not have to pay for them  any  sooner,  and  you  are 
more sure of having  your order tilled complete if given now.  Light goods 
very much improved in style  and quality.

Reeder Bros. 

Shoe Co.

State  Agents fo r Lycoming liubber Co.

LYCOniNGS are our FIRST QUALITY 
KEYSTONES are our Second Quality

Nine years ago these goods were not know n in 
M ichigan, and to-day they stand second to none 
and are as well know n as any.  A great m any of 
the best retail m erchants in  M ichigan and  Indi­
ana think they are the  best  goods  made,  being 
made from  the  P urest  Rubber  and  on the  best 
style lasts, and are th e  best  fitting goods in  the 
m arket.  O ur  trade  fo r  the  past  nine  years on 
these goods has steadily increased.
OUR  LEATHER  LINE  is  full  and  com plete; 
also an elegant line  of  FELT  BOOTS  and  SOX 
for fall.
See o u r salesm en—it  will  pay  you to exam ine 
samples.

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO.

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Michael  Kolb 

&  Son

W h o l e s a l e   C loth iers

Rochester,  N.  Y.

O ur  representative,  WILLIAM  CONNOR, 
of  M arshall,  Mich.,  w ill  be  pleased  to  call 
upon  th e  Trade  and  show   you  samples, if 
you w ill favor h im  w ith a  line.

Mail orders prom ptly atten d ed  to.

U se  T r a d e s m a n  W a n t s  C o l u m n

IT  REACHES  THE  PEOPLE.

T H E   M I C H I G k A I S r   T T L A D E S A T A J S T .

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E r r a tic   C a r e e r  o f  C rê p o n s.

From th e Dry Goods Reporter.

The  caprice  of  fashion  can  never be 
more  fittingly  illustrated  than  by  the 
crepon  weaves.  From  the  time  they 
were first brought  out  they have  been  a 
puzzle to all who were concerned in their 
future.  Jobbers  and  retailers  have
burned their fingers  so  frequently  with 
novelty  weaves  that  when  the crêpons 
first  made  their  appearance  they  all 
looked askance and bought  very  lightly. 
They  caught  the  eye  of  fashion,  how­
ever, maintaining the popularity in Paris 
whicfrthey won there from the first;  and 
their  favor  has  steadily  traveled  from 
the East to the West.

in  the  country. 

So  far  this  spring 

Their sale was erratic in  the West last 
year.  Jobbers and retailers quickly sold 
the light stocks they had  provided at the 
beginning  of  the  year,  but the demand 
subsided when their consignments  of re­
orders commenced to pile  in at the  mid­
dle  of  the season.  By the time the sec­
ond season  for crêpons was at hand near­
ly  every  house  was  stocked  well  with 
them, but the feeling was  very nervous as 
to their future.  This fear was indicated 
by the lowering of prices  and  the  offer­
ing of discounts on crepon  weaves.  For 
the  moment  it  appeared  that  crêpons 
might be killed.  However, they stemmed 
the tide and passed  through  last  winter 
safely.  When  the  time  for spring buy­
ing came they were  still a factor to  per­
plex  the  dress  goods  people.  The  un­
certainty  of the trade  was  indicated  by 
the  foreign  buyer  for one large jobbing 
house,  who,  when he  went abroad in the 
winter to purchase for  spring,  said  that 
he had decided that he  would pass  by on 
the other side of  crêpons.  He  admitted 
that he  was  afraid  of  them.  When  in 
France  he  was  persuaded  to  buy  some 
crêpons,  but he  touched  them  gingerly. 
As spring trade opened up he  found that 
they were being  asked  for,  and  he  was 
obliged to place some urgent orders  with 
the manufacturers.
the  demand  for 
crêpons has been excellent  in  the  West, 
although all dealers have been fearful of 
them  from  the  beginning  to  the  end. 
The city trade has been  the  mainstay in 
keeping them going, their high price and 
lack of durability interfering  with  their 
popularity 
Jobbers 
naturally hesitate  to  prophesy  concern­
ing a fabric which has  broken  all  rules 
and defied all calculations  as the  crepon 
has  done,  but  the  general  feeling  has 
been that its course was about  run.
Now  the  situation  is  further  compli­
cated  by  Paris  correspondents  who  say 
that the crêpons  are  sure  to  be  in  de­
mand  for  fall  and  winter.  L a  Mode, 
among  others,  says  in  a  recent  letter: 
“We  must  bear  in  mind  the  crepon  is 
sure to be  in  demand  for  next  winter’s 
evening dresses.”
It is  difficult  to  understand  why  it  is 
that  crêpons  have,  in  spite  of  all  the 
feeling against them,  continued  to  sell. 
An explanation which  might be  offered, 
and yet which only  bears  the  weight  of 
an opinion expressed here  and  there,  is 
that  the  French  manufacturers  have 
been back of it all.  Crêpons  are  almost 
exclusively a product of  France,  as very 
little has been attempted  in  this  weave 
by the other manufacturers.  The  finest 
ones  are  woven  on  hand-looms,  which 
are  slow  and  tedious.  Monopolizing 
them as they  have,  it  would  seem  that 
the French have boomed them from  sea­
son to season that they  might  alone  en­
joy the profits.  They  might  even  have 
been willing,  as  each  season  drew  to  a 
close,  to  leave  their  future  in  doubt  so 
that no other manufacturers  would  dare 
to  enter  the  field.  Confident  in  their 
ability to dictate to some  of  the  leading 
Parisian dressmakers,  and through them 
to the fashionable  world,  they  may have 
held back purposely and kept crêpons  in 
doubt until  the  new  season  was  almost 
at hand.  Then with  characteristic clev­
erness they have  gowned  a  few  of  the 
leaders of fashion,  knowing all the world 
would follow.
It would be  therefore  unsafe  to  ven­
ture a prophecy concerning the future of 
crêpons  until the  French  manufacturers 
have displayed their hand.  The fashions 
of the world,  even  in  this  land  of  the 
free,  appear  to  be bound hand and foot 
to the chariot of gay  Paris,  and we must

wait for the crook of her finger before we 
can  know what  fabrics  our  fair  women 
are to wear.  The hint of  the  Paris  cor­
respondents  seems  to  indicate  a decree 
that crepons are still  to  be  worn  in  the 
fall and winter.
It must be admitted  by all that crepons 
are  of  the  sort  of  fabrics which,  when 
they are no  longer  the  fashion,  will  be 
absolutely  dead.  They  are  of  such  a 
pronounced weave that the stocks left on 
hand  when  their  end  comes  cannot  be 
palmed off,  like the  coverts  were,  under 
other names.  That there  will be  a  dull 
thud  when  they  do  drop  is  without  a 
question.

’em?

Grocer—Pm looking  at  it. 

N o t  S a tisfie d   w ith   H is  F ly   P a p e r.
Indignant Customer—Say,  look at this 
sheet of fly-paper you sold me  the  other 
day I
I  see  it’s 
covered  with flies.  That’s  what you got 
it for,  wasn’t it?
Indignant Customer—Tou  charged  me 
four cents for it, didn’t you?
Grocer—Yes.
Indignant Customer—And I got two of 
Grocer—Very likely.
Indignant  Customer—The other one is 
Grocer—Well,  what  are  you  kicking 
Indignant  Customer—You  see  this  is 
Grocer—I see it  is.
Indignant Customer—There isn’t room 
Grocer—I suppose not.
Indignant  Customer—Well,  when  I 
tried  to  pull  ’em  off  so  I  could  set it 
again,  they wouldn’t come off.  The other 
one’s the same way.  The game, I reckon, 
is to make a fellow  keep on  buying ’em. 
I’m not going to do it,  and I  think it’s  a 
darned swindle,  and  you  can  take  your 
old fly-paper back  again,  and  I’ll  never 
buy another cent’s worth of goods at this 
store, so help me Nebuchadnezzar.

exactly like this one.
about?
covered all over, don’t you?

on it for another blamed fly?

W h ile   “ W a itin g   fo r  th e   O a r."

To merchants  who are annoyed by peo­
ple  who enter their store while  “waiting 
for the car,’’and who never make any pur­
chases,  the following  notice  will  prove 
interesting  and  instructive.  It  origin­
ated  with  a  druggist  in a neighboring 
city,  who  placed 
in  a  conspicuous 
place in his show window:

it 

NO TICE.

“Patrons of  this  car 
line will please come In 
and  kick  while  they 
wait.  The telephone is 
free and the city direc­
tory is yours as long as 
it lasts.  A  thermome­
ter  will 
indicate  the 
te m p e r  ature.  Don’t 
trouble  yourself  about 
buying  anything.  We 
are  here  for  pleasure. 
You  can  get  any kind 
of  goods  a  great  deal 
cheaper in the city.”

The  people  took  the  hint  good-na­
turedly,  and  now  when  they  enter  the 
store they usually buy something.

An alien contract  labor law  has  been 
introduced in  the Dominion  Parliament. 
It is as sweeping in its provisions as that 
now 
in  force  in  this  country,  and  is 
doubtless intended  to  be  in  retaliation 
for the  exclusion  of  Canadians  by  the 
United States.  There appears  to  be  no 
reason  why,  if  the  Yankees  exclude  a 
Canadian  school  teacher,  as  has  been 
done,  the  Kanucks  should  not  exclude 
Yankee  lumbermen,  sailors  and  other 
laborers.

Paris has one divorce to every thirteen 
marriages,  and Berlin  has  one  to  every 
seventeen.  We have as yet  received  no 
data from Chicago,  but a  careless  obser­
vation  of  the  business  during  the  past 
few days leads  us  to  believe  that  they 
have about one marriage for  every seven 
divorces there.

s u m m er  G oods

O rg a n d ies,  C h allies,  W h it e   G oods  (P er ­
ca les,  6 0   sty les),  L a w n s,  C repes,  S a tin  
S trip e  C repe,  M osq u ito  N ets,  P a lm   F a n s, 
F o ld in g   F a n s,  L ig h t  N e c k w e a r   for  L a -
d ies  a n d   G en tlem en ,  in  B o w ,  T ec k   an d  
W in d so r   S h a p e s.
COME  IN  AND  LOOK  AT  THEII.

P .  S t e k e t e e   &   S o n s

“GET  OFF  THE  EARTH”

That’s the way some people talk.  Others make you feel that way.

DO  YOU  SELL  DRY  GOODS?

If so, you have a mission to perform.  That is, to keep people good-natured and satisfied,  and 

at the same time do yourself a good turn.

CAN  IT  BE  DONE?

We say yes, and have the goods that will do the  business.  The  latest  always  on hand and  of 

the kind that makes buyers every time.

PRICES-DON’T  MENTION IT !

We are way down to BED  ROCK.  None can beat us on that score.

V o ig t,  H e r p o l s h e i m e r   &  Co.

W h o le s a le   D ry   G oods,

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h .

Spring  <£  Company,

IM PORTERS  A N D   W H O LESALE  D E A L E R S  IN

Dress  Goods,  Shawls,  Cloaks,  Notions, 
Ribbons,  Hosiery,  Gloves,  Underwear, 
Woolens,  Flannels,  Blankets,  Ging­
hams,  Prints and Domestic Cottons.

We  invite  the  Attention  o f  the 

Stock  at  Lowest Market  Prices.

Trade  to  our  Complete  and  Well  Assorted

W e   do  n ot  hold   o u t  o u r   p rices  as

Spring &

Company.
AN  INDUCEMENT

To secure the orders we want, but WE  DO 
pride ourselves on the  O l IA I  I T V  
bearing our  TRADE  V  

goods 
—   MARK.

Every  intelligent  dealer  realizes  that  price  is not every­
thing, and that there is pleasure and  profit in handling stand­
ard goods.  Do business with us and enjoy  both.
P U T N A M  
C A N D Y   CO .

THE  MICHIGAN  TKAlDESMAlIST,
but  those  who  deal  directly  with  the 
consumer can  have  a  realizing  sense  of 
the  mischief  justly  chargeable  to  the 
originally good,  but  much  abused,  sys­
tem of giving credit.

M o ral  A sp e c t  o f th e   C a sh   S y ste m . 

W ritten for T n  T u s u m .

In the late discussion of  this  question 
ODe prominent point has  received  little, 
if  any,  attention.  Most  writers  have 
been content to dwell on  the  advantages 
the abolition of credit  sales  will  confer 
on  the  dealer  in  a  pecuniary  sense; 
hence  they  enlarge  on  the  economic 
method  of  doing business for cash only, 
by which the  capital  of  both  manufac­
turer  and distributer may be used  to  se­
cure  the  largest  possible  profit  at  the 
least possible risk of loss, and, while,  in­
cidentally,  this is assumed  to  be  in  the 
interest  of  the  ultimate  purchaser  and 
consumer  in  the  same  economic  sense, 
there  seems  t »  be  room  left  for a few 
pertinent arguments  as  additional  sup­
port  to  the  volume  of  sound  reasoning 
already  advanced  in  favor of a  univers 
cash system.

So long as commercial  honor continues 
to be recognized  as a virtue  in  the  busi 
ness world,  so  long  should  moral  ques 
tions enter into every feature of  trade or 
manufacture  and  both 
in  theory  and 
practice control  the entire system of sup 
ply and demand.

Ever  since  Jacob  made  his  first con 
tract with his  future  father-in-law—and 
which  was so shamefully  broken  by  the 
latter—down  to 
these  modern  times 
when  criminal  bankruptcy  and  official 
malfeasance have become alarmingly  fre 
quent,  the  moral  code,  upon  which  all 
business is, of necessity,  based,  makes 
promise a  sacred  thing,  not  to  be  wan 
tonly  violated.  Upon  this  code  our 
credit  system  has,  so 
far,  depended 
rather than on  the  stern  alternative  en 
forced  by statute and common law.

Our  higher  civilization  acknowledge 
its  influence  when  providing  necessary 
safeguards against the  greed  of  human 
selfishness;  consequently, 
in  this  age 
and country  the debtor  class  has  larger 
privileges  under the law  than  were  al 
lowed  a century ago,  or than  are,  to-day 
afforded the same class in lands  that  are 
behind  us in commercial enterprise.

This debtor class,  which,  under  favor 
able conditions,  has been  continually in 
creasing,  is  made  up  of  men  in  every 
life.  The  possession  of 
condition  of 
ready  means  does  not  restrain 
the 
wealthy  from  the  habit  of  buying  on 
credit,  when  their  own  interests  would 
be better  served  by  cash  payment;  nor 
does the utter lack of  funds  on  hand  or 
in  prospect deter  the  poorest  from  buy 
ing whatever they desire, so long as they 
can  make a verbal  promise  to  pay  pass 
current in  the  world’s  market  Of  the 
obligations thus ass'umed  perhaps only a 
small  percentage  fail  of  being  honored 
ultimately,  though in the  matter of time 
defaults  are  legion.  Very  few  debtors 
secure the confidence of  dealers with the 
intention  of  repudiating  obligations, 
either  expressed  or  implied.  The  Jer­
emy  Diddlers  who  victimize  good-na­
tured creditors attain the height of  their 
unsavory  reputations  only  by slow  and 
almost 
that, 
through  procrastination,  undermine  the 
moral sense  as  to  the  sacredness  of  a 
promise to pay  for value  received.  The 
number  of  this  class  is  constantly  in­
creasing,  being augmented  by  the  sharp 
competition  in  all  lines  of  trade.  The 
ease  with  which  credit  is  secured  and 
the foolish exemptions  provided  by  law 
to protect  promise  breakers  have  been, 
for years,  powerful factors in the demor­
alization of the public conscience.  None

imperceptible  degrees, 

To  one  who  theorizes  only  it  would 
seem  evident  that  a  man  of  limited 
means had every  inducement,  under  the 
credit system,  to  build  up  a  reputation 
for prompt payment of his pecuniary ob­
ligations as they mature,  and  this  even 
at the sacrifice of personal  comfort.  He 
must  know  that  the  confidence  of  the 
dealer in his honesty is the only securit} 
for  future  needed  favors.  Self-interest 
would,  therefore,  dictate  a  strict  com­
pliance  with  the  terms  of  the contract 
made; but, practically, self-interest alone 
cannot  be  depended  upon  to  enforce 
moral  obligations  among  a  class  who 
adopt  the  theory  that  the  world  owes 
them a living,  with or  without an  equiv 
alent rendered,  as the  case  may  be. 
It 
takes some  time to reach  a  condition  of I 
mind where such  subterfuge  is  used  to 
stave off the just  demands  of  creditors, 
but,  just  so  sure  as  the  descent  to 
Averuus is easy,  just  so  sure  does  one 
after  another  consciously  entertained 
frivolous  excuse  blunt  the  moral sense 
of the once  honest  debtor  when  he  de­
liberately ignores the terms  of a bargain 
made in good faith with  a  trusting  mer­
chant.  The fact that,  because  of  a  cer­
tain  profit,  the  latter  will  be  no great 
loser ou  account  of a broken  promise,  or 
that  a  sudden  emergency  calls  for  the 
use of  fuuds pledged,  and intended to be 
used,  to redeem his plighted  word,  is the 
sophistry  usually  applied  to  still  the 
chid mgs of the monitor^  conscience,  un­
til  the  voice  of that monitor is literally 
asphyxiated  under  the  accumulation  of 
mental  quibbles.

After an experience of  nearly  twenty- 
five y ears in  a retail  business,  and  with 
all  sorts  of  customers,  I firmly  believe 
that,  of  all  the  hopeless  accounts  out­
standing,  not  one tenth  of  1  per  cent, 
can  be traced  to  lack  of  means  on  the 
part  of  the debtor.  This is the inevita­
ble fruit of a credit system that extended 
only  reasonable  consideration  to 
the 
wants  of  applicants 
for  commercial 
favor. 
Perhaps  my  experience  com­
pared  with  others  may  be exceptional, 
but,  while  l  am  able to record a total loss 
of  less  than  2  per  cent,  on  gross sales, 
the saddest feature upon which I have  to 
reflect is  that a much  larger  per cent,  of 
them  have wilfully abused my confidence 
and thereby justified the conclusion that, 
under a credit system,  human nature de­
velops a large amount of moral obliquity. 
The aggregate  outstanding  is  large  but 
is  made  up,  mostly,  of  small amounts. 
Some of the  debtors  have  moved  away; 
many  have  paid  the debt of nature and 
that  due  me  by  the  same  mysterious 
process;  but new ones  have  taken  their 
place in spite of most careful discrimina 
tion. 
I  meet  some  of  them  often,  but 
they persistently ignore  the  past;  or,  if 
pressed for  settlement,  they  cheerfully 
renew  their  promises  in  the  spirit  of 
Micawber  when  he  used  to  settle with 
his creditors by  giving  an  omnibus  due 
bill, carefully  covering all  arrearages of 
interest.  Others  who  are  courteously 
requested by mail to  “kindly step in and 
adjust that old account’’ are conspicuous 
by prolonged absence.  Like  the baleful 
shadow  of  the  Marshalsea, 
the  credit 
system,  when  abused,  blights those  who 
have so  unworthily accepted its benefits. 
And,  so long  as  human  nature  remains

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A N N T H IL A T O R . 

Hercules Powder is carried  in stock  by all of the following jobbers:

Foster, Stevens A Co., Grand  Rapids,
A.  Austin, 93 Jefferson Ave.,  Detroit, 
J. J.  Post & Co., Cheboygan,
Popp A Wolf, Saginaw,

Potter Bros.,  Alpena,
Buechner &Co.,  Kalamazoo,
Seavey  Hardware  Co.,  Ft.  Wayne, 
Camper & Steadman,  South Bend.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

1 9

If  it  is  soft  and  smooth  and 
tongue. 
does not break dry,  tough  and  rough,  it 
is safe to assume that it  is  genuine  Chi­
nook salmon.
A retailer can  kill his trade  in  canned 
Columbia river salmon in  one  season  by 
labeled  brands. 
offering  these  falsely 
Every intelligent dealer  knows  that  Co­
lumbia river salmon offered in New York 
at  less  than  *1.55  to *1.75 for tall tins, 
and $1.75 to SI.90 for  flat  tins,  must  be 
other  than  represented.  “Standard  Co­
lumbia River”  salmon  at  $1.20  may  be 
steelheads,  dogfish,  or  fall  caught  sal­
mon,  but 
it  is  not  Chinook  salmon 
packed in  the spring,  when  the  fish  are 
firm in texture and in  their  highest con­
dition.
There is a moral sentiment in the trade 
against the fraudulent labeling of goods, 
and if this will come into lively exercise, 
the trade and occupation  of  those  pack­
ers,  brokers  and  commission  men  who 
allow  their  cupidity  to  run  away  with 
their judgment will be killed.
Legitimate Outcome  of  the 

S ch em e

Goods Evil.

W RITE  FOR  PRICES 
ON  ANY  SHOWCASE 
NEEDED.

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GRAND  RAPIDS

NEW   CIGAR  SHOWCASE.

the same,  we may expect a like demoral 
izlng result to flow from a  credit  system 
that is so carelessly guarded  and is so  to 
the advantage of the debtor.

Among the brilliant  inventions in  this 
age  of  organized  effort  it  would  seem 
that  some  plan  might  be  devised  to 
diminish the losses incident to the credit 
system;  but,  when  formulated  and  ap 
plied,  there will,  most  likely,  be a grad 
ual  evolution, 
instead  of  a  radical 
change.  The  work  has  already  com 
menced  wherever the  coupon  system  of 
dealing  is  established.  This,  undoubt 
edly,  comes  nearer  than  any other plan 
now in  use to meeting  the requirements 
and its use  has  advanced  the  evolution 
in  no  small  degree  in  very many local 
ities;  while the  cash  register  system  is 
wakening business men  to  methods  that 
promise  practical  and  remunerative  re­
is  advancing  most 
sults.  The  reform 
rapidly 
the  most 
thorough  organization  of  dealers  is  se 
cured.  At  best,  it  will  be  a  work  of 
time,  and few  now  living  may  see  the 
grand  cash  millennium.  But  every 
dealer  can  lend  a  helping hand to edu 
cate the popular conscience, which needs 
the quickening grace  of  knowledge  and 
good  morals to prove to it the  profitable 
ness of cash payment from  an  economic 
standpoint,  and to  show  forth its justice 
as  an  important  feature  of  the Golden 
Rule,  without  which  no  community  can 
permanently  prosper.

in  places  where 

S.  P.  W h it m a k s h

Bogus  Brands  of Salmon.

From the American Grocer.

is  put  up  and 

So long as cupidity  is a part of human 
nature,  we shall be forced  to  wage  war 
against those  who sacrifice  integrity and 
indulge in  fraud to make money.  A few 
such men are allied  with  the  salmou  in­
dustry,  or directly  connected  therewith. 
They seek to market inferior varieties of 
salmon  for the  true  Chinook  salmon  of 
the Columbia river,  which is everywhere 
regarded  the  fiuest  for  flavor,  texture 
and size of all the  many  varieties of sal­
mon.  Columbia river  brands  are  coun­
terfeited;  salmon  from  Alaskan  and 
British  Columbian  waters,  and 
from 
other  rivers  in  the  United  States than 
the  Columbia, 
labeled 
Columbia  river.  Fall-packed fish, which 
is of inferior flavor,  texture and  color,  is 
packed  and  labeled  as  being  the fiuest 
Columbia river salmon.
Whoever  does  this,  whether  packer, 
commission  merchant,  broker  or  jobber, 
is guilty of a fraud—a  contemptible and 
petty  fraud.  They  rob  true  Columbia 
river salmon of  its  high  reputation  and 
discredit the use of  tinned  saimon,  and 
thus stab their  own  business.  No  rep­
utable  broker  or  commission  merchant 
would be a  party  to  such  a  method  of 
swindling.
There  are  to-day  in  the  New  York 
market  nearly  a  dozen  brands  of  so- 
called Columbia  river  salmon  offered  at 
all sorts of prices, no one  of  which  con­
tains  an  ounce  of  true  Columbia river 
Chinook salmon,  but  fish  packed  on  the 
Sacramento, 
in  Alaska,  on  the  Tilla­
mook,  or from the fall run of the  Colum­
bia.  These brands are scattered through 
the  smaller  groceries,  among  ‘‘cutters” 
and  the  department  stores,  and  exten­
sively  advertised  at  cut  prices  as  com­
pared  with the price  of  genuine  spring- 
packed Columbia river salmon.
Retailers  need to be on the lookout for 
these fraudulent brands.  The remedy is 
to buy only of  reliable  commission  mer­
chants  and  jobbers—such  firms  as  rely 
upon integrity of grade and quality,  and 
who  would  scorn  to  handle  a  falsely 
labeled  brand  or  an  inferior  lot  of  so- 
called tinned salmon.
There is a smoothness  of  texture  and 
an  oiliness  about  Columbia  river  fish 
It 
which are found  in  no other salmon. 
may  readily  be  detected  by  putting  a 
piece  of  salmon  under  the  roof  of the 
mouth  and  breaking  it  down  with  the

in  the 

“Something  will  have  to  be  done  to 
discourage  ‘inducements’  to  retailers,” 
declared  a  wholesale  grocer,  the  other 
day,  “or the time will come  when  it  will 
be  almost 
impossible  to  obtain  pure 
goods  in  any  line.  These  inducements 
move the cupidity of the retailer and  the 
consumer  suffers  by  having 
imposed 
upon him  inferior or adulterated goods.” 
"What do you mean  by  inducements?” 
The  grocer  handed  to  the  iuquirer a 
handsomely  illustrated  card,  on  which 
were the words:
‘Free  with  500  pieces  of  Jollopy’s 
(that’s not the name)  chewing  gum,  the 
handsome full gilt clock here pictured at 
a cost to the retailer of $3.  That  is, you 
get  $5  worth  of  gum  at retail and a $3 
clock,  all for  $3.”
“if the manufacturer stopped at chew­
ing gum the demoralization to  the  trade 
would  be  slight,  but this get-something- 
for-notbing idea is  stimulated  all  along 
the  line, 
it  is  bad  enough  in  various 
lines  of  tobacco,  but 
line  of 
ground  spices  and coffee it is absolutely 
pernicious, 
it’s  a  lucky  consumer  who 
gets any genuine ground  spices  now,  or 
any goods which  may  be  cheapened  by 
mixing.  Mustard is mixed  with sawdust 
and made hot  in the mouth  by  the  addi 
tion  of  cayenne  pepper.  So  it  is with 
other things.
“Here’s a catalogue of a  manufacturer 
who unblushingly labels his  book  ‘abso 
lutely pure spices.’  There are about  150 
different articles named in  it as prizes to 
grocers who buy those  spices  in  greater 
or  less  quantity.  Among  the  induce 
ments are musical  boxes,  firearms, furni­
ture  of  ail  kinds,  stoves,  sewing  ma­
chines, store fixtures,  show cases,  clocks, 
cyclopedias,  bicycles,  baby  carriages, 
lawn  mowers,  mackintoshes,  crockery, 
rugs,  silverware,  watches  and  clocks, 
gold-headed  canes,  umbrellas,  rugs,  and 
so  on  up  to  delivery  wagons  and  two- 
seated carriages.  Here’s the inducement 
in the last named:
“With 750 pounds ground spices, abso- 
utely pure,  any  assortment  of  allspice, 
mustard,  ginger,  pepper,  cinnamon, 
cloves,  etc., at 25 cents a pound,  we give 
one  of  these  carriages  free. 
In  other 
words,  750 pounds of spices and the  car­
riage,  all for $187.50.
“The drug  trade  is  afflicted  with  this 
same sort of a thing,  and, perhaps,  to  as 
great  an  extent  as  the  grocery  trade. 
There ought to be some  way  of  heading 
it off.”

From  Better to  Worse.

“Please,  ma’am,” said  the  cook, 
Td
like to give you a week’s notice,”
“ Why,  Mary,  this is  a  great  surprise. 
Do you hope to better yourself?”
“ Well,  no,  not exactly that,” answered 
Mary,  with  a  blush;  “I’m  going  to get 
married.”

A New York  batter  says  the  men  of 
the  United  States  spend  $300,000,000  a 
If  some  one  would 
year  in  headgear. 
now 
inform  us  how  much  American 
women  spend 
in  headgear,  we  could 
form  some  idea  of  the  part  the  head 
plays in our economic  system.

W e  Pay - HIGHEST  MARKET  PRICES  in  SPOT  CASH  and  Pleasure  Bark 

W hen  Loaded.  Correspondence  Solicited.

D uck
C oats a n d   K e r s e y
P a n ts

We  manufacture  the  best  made  goods  in  these  lines  of 
any  factory  in  the  country,  guaranteeing  every  garment  to 
give entire satisfaction,  both  in  lit and  wearing qualities.  We 
are  also  headquarters  for  Pants,  Overalls  and  Jackets  and 
solicit  correspondence  with  dealers  in  towns  where goods  of 
our manufacture are not regularly handled.
L a n s i n g   P a n t s &  O v e r a ll

Co

LANSING,  n iC H .

The. Sa£f
Do
you
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handle
it?
Diamond Crystal Salt

T h e g en e ra l p u b lic a re  reco g n izin g  m o re  a n d  m o re  ev e ry  d a y  th e  d esira b ilitv   o f pure 
, s a lt.  T h e re s u lt Is  a   la rg ely   in c reased   d e m a n d  for  Diamond Crystal Salt.  O f course 
, y o u   a im   to   h a n d le   th e   b e st goods  in   every b ra n c h  o f  th e tra d e.  W hy  n o t in  s a lt?

is now  p ac k ed  so th e  g ro cer  ca n   h a n d le   it  a t   a p ro fit  eq u a l to  th a t m a d e  on  in fe rio r 
goods.  Note these greatly reduced, prices:
ISO  £%  bags 
. 7  5 
4 0  

in a barrel, 
«  @  a.75
“  @  ».so

4  « 
1  “ 

@ $3.0 0

«  « 
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For other sizes in proportion see price current  on  another page.

Diamond Crystal is m u c h  lig h te r  th a n   co m m o n   sa lt,  a n d  th e 2*4, 

a n d  7 lb. bags 
1 a re   a b o u t  th e  sa m e   size  as  3,  5,  a n d   10  lb.  bags  o f  th e   o rd in a ry   product.  Diamond 
Crystal  is  p u rer, stro n g e r, a n d   goes  farth er.  T he  bags  a re   h an d so m e, a n d   m ade  o f 
th e   v ery   b est  m a te ria l—s a v in g   w aste  fro m   b ro k en   bags.
DIAMOND  CRYSTAL  SALT  CO.,  ST.  CLAIR.  MICH.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

V  PRICE. 50 CIS. PER GALLON, 

BY THE BARREL.

One  gallon  covers  250  square  feet 
on Tin or I ron  Roofing, or 100 square 
feet  on  Shingle  o r  Board  Roofing. 
Good also for painting Smoke Stacks, 
Boilers, Iron  Fences, etc.
Anyone can apply  it  w ith  a w hite­
wash'  brush.  W ater  and F ire Proof. 
Stops  all  leaks  in  old  or  new  roofs. 
Give it a trial.

Scofield,  Shurmer &  Teagle, 0Ram“ciÌpids

Send for Pam phlet of Testim onials, etc.

No  Petroleum
Our  Lime  Rock

19 Lyon St., G rand Rapids.

Li me,Cement
Sewer Pipe, Coal

W holesale and R etail

We handle the Alsen’s Cement, the 
best  in the w orld fo r side w alk work

20
N ew   U ses 

for  M aterials  Formerly 

R egarded  as  W aste.

Prom the Chicago Record.

What substance would seem to be more 
completely  useless  than  the  refuse  of 
mines  and  furnaces,  or  slag,  as  it  is 
called?  But  slag  is  now  treated  in  a 
variety  of  ways  and  converted  into  a 
number of useful things, such  as  paving 
blocks,  slag glass, slag shingles  and slag 
sand.  Making slag bricks  is  one  of  its 
chief uses at present,  and for these there 
is a  considerable  demand.  Mortar  for 
building purposes is  another  method  of 
utilization,  simply achieved  by  grinding 
the slag sand with about  ft  per  cent,  of 
slaked lime; artificial  stone,  molded into 
chimney-pieces,  window heads  and sills, 
wall coping and  other  ornamental  work 
for builders, is another,  and  the last  use 
which has been found for it is in  making 
slag  wool  or  silicate  cotton,  so  called 
from 
its  resemblance  to  cotton  wool. 
This 
is  snow  white  in  color,  and  is 
chiefly used for covering boilers or steam 
pipes,  and,  being  a  non-conductor  of 
heat, it  is  admirably  adapted  for  these 
uses.
Coal slag has been,  for  years,  another 
troublesome waste.  Now,  however,  this 
is  being  used  for  building  purposes. 
The builders in  Lyons,  France,  are cred­
ited with being the first to use  the waste 
which surrounds every coal mine.  They 
wished  to  fiud  a  cheap,  durable  and 
healthful  material  for  the  construction 
of suburban houses,  and  coal slag mixed 
with  slaked  lime,  treated  as  concrete, 
was adopted.  The  mass  hardened  rap­
idly,  and even after a few days the walls 
were  firm  enough  to  support  the  joist 
framings.  The strength  and  fire-resist­
ing properties  of  this  new  composition 
have been  well  tested,  and  one  case  is 
mentioned  where a nitro-benzine  factory 
built  of  this  material  near  Lyons  was 
burned, the great heat  even  melting  the 
machinery,  and  yet  the  walls,  built  of 
coal-slag bricks,  were unconsumed,  their 
surface merely having  a  glazed  appear­
ance,  and they sustained,  without repair, 
tbe  ceiling  and  roof  of  the  restored 
building.
An establishment that  works up  brass 
and iron in  about  equal  proportions  for 
more than  a  year  mixed  the  drillings, 
turnings and filings of both  metals indis­
criminately  and  dumped  them  out  of 
doors as  useless  rubbish  to  be  got  rid 
of.  A  separating  machine  was  sug­
gested,  and  it  paid  for  its  cost  within 
three  weeks. 
It  is  self-operating,  re­
quiring only tbe occasional supply of the 
chips and  the  removal  of  those  already 
separated. 
The  mixed  chips  pass 
through  a trough in a thin stream  before 
a revolving cylinder composed  of  horse­
shoe magnets.  The brass  chips  drop in 
front into a box  and  the  iron  and  steel 
chips are carried on  the  magnets  to  the 
under side and are  brushed  off  by  fixed 
brushes into another  box.  Before  being 
separated, 
these  mixed  chips  were 
worthless.  After  being  separated,  the 
iron chips had  a  marketable  value  and 
the  brass  chips  a  value  ten  times  as 
great.
Tin cans  and  scrap  tin,  like  the  old 
and much abused  hoopskirts,  for  a  long 
time  resisted  all  attempts  to  convert 
them to  some  second  use.  The  empty 
tin can has at last a mission,  and  a prof­
itable one at that.  Emptied  of  its  con­
tents  of  peaches,  tomatoes  or  other 
edibles, discarded  and thrown out at  the 
back door,  it may soon find  its way  in  at 
the front door and  be  given  an  honored 
place in  tbe house.  Thousands  of these 
cans are  gathered in  cities  every  week 
and made into shining  sheets,  which  are 
used to decorate or cover large  traveling 
trunks.  A number  of  factories  for  the 
conversion of old.  buffeted  and  battered 
cans and other tin  refuse  from  the  ash 
heaps have  sprung  up  in  recent  years, 
and the business is a  growing  one.  The 
cans are  collected  in  various  ways,  but 
principally from the  city ash  heaps  and 
the hotels and the large boarding-houses. 
At the factories the  soldered  seams  are 
subjected to a intense heat in such a way 
that the solder runs into a receptacle and 
is carefully saved  and sold. 
It brings 12 
cents a  pound  and  the  profit  from  this 
source alone almost pays  the  expense  of 
of gathering and handling the cans.  The 
tops and bottoms of the cans  are  melted

j  and  made  into  window-sash  weights.  | 
The  labels  on  the  tinplate  are  easily , 
taken off, after  having  been  thoroughly 
soaked  in water,  and  tbe  plates  them- j 
selves are rolled flat  by  machinery.  As i 
the insides of  the  plates  are  not  much j 
discolored  by  the  contents  of  the  can, 
they present a  clean  surface  and  make 
excellent coverings for trunks,  the seams 
being hidden  by the trunk  braces, either | 
of wood or sheet-iron.

the  whole 

In New York City there are  about  500 
venders of sawdust,  having  a  capital  of 
$200,000 invested and doing a business of 
$2,000,000  annually.  Forty  years  ago,  I 
the mills were glad to have  the  sawdust 
carted  away;  twenty-five  years  ago  it 
could be bought for 50 cents a load;  now 
It  is 
it brings $3 50 a load at the  mills. 
used  by hotels, eating  houses,  groceries 
and other business places. 
It is wet and 
spread over floors in  order  to  make  the 
sweeping  cleaner  work.  Plumbers  use 
it a great deal  about pipes and  buildings 
to deaden  the  walls  and  floors.  Soda 
water  men  and  packers  of  glass  and 
small articles of every kind  use  it,  and 
dolls are  stuffed  with  it.  Yellow  pine 
makes the best sawdust,  as it is the least 
dusty and  has a pungent,  healthy  smell. 
But any  light wood  will  do.  Black wal­
nut sawdust  will not sell and  is  burned.
In  a  certain  machine  shop  worn out 
and broken files  are  placed  in  a  trans­
verse  bolder  on  the  grindstone  frame, 
held  against  the  face  of  the  stone  by 
springs, given  a  traverse  by a  belt  and 
a spiral cam,  and  tbe  result  is  bits  of 
smooth steel just adapted  for  forging  to 
boring-bar  cutters  and  keys,  with  a 
further result of keeping the stone trued, 
in  brass manufactories there is  unavoid­
able waste of the  metals in the scoriae  of 
the melting furnaces, in  the rolling  mill 
department  and 
the  wire  drawing. 
Whatever of this waste,  with  the sweep­
ings, can  be  gathered  is  put  into  large 
mortars and subjected  to  the  impact  of 
pivoted  pestles,  until 
is 
pounded  to a dust.  Then  it is floated in j 
a  running  stream  of  water  through  a 
chute over riffles,  which catch the  heavy 
metallic particles  and  allow  the  lighter 
trash to pass off.  The metallic  residum, 
packed in  crucibles  with  fluted  covers, 
gives  back  a  profitable  percentage  of 
solid brass to be reused.
The  utilization  of  sewage  is  a  most 
important question,  but, apart  from  the 
chemical and agricultural  uses  to  which 
it is now put,  there is  yet  to  be  solved 
the problem of utilizing the  waste  with 
which  every  river,  to  a  less or greater 
extent,  is  polluted.  This  is one  of the 
things that they seem  to  manage  better 
in France,  for,  in a most interesting arti­
cle which appeared a few months  ago  in 
the Leisure  Hour,  it was pointed out how 
the  floating  debris  of the Seine has,  for 
years,  been a source of  profitable  manu­
facture in obtaining from it  the  greases 
and other products of commercial  value.
The utilization  of  animal  waste  pre­
sents  an  extensive  field.  In  the  large 
pig-killing establishments  in  this  coun­
try, and in some in England  and Ireland, 
there is  literally  nothing  lost—save  the 
squeal.  Whether  horse  flesh  will  ever 
become in this country an article of  food 
it is difficult to say,  but  an  organization 
in Paris known  as  The  Society  for  the 
Promoting the Use of Horse Fiesh claims 
to have provided Paris, between 1866 and 
1881,  with  67,809,460  pounds  of  meat. 
With Americans the worn-out  and  dead 
horses come out from the  factory  yards, 
the  flesh  as  oil  for  soapmakers  and 
leather  dressers,  and  the  bones  as oil, 
fat, glue and manure,  to  say  nothing  of 
the large quantities sold  for  cat’s  meat.
In the great cotton  plantations  of  the 
Southern  States,  cotton  seed  was,  for 
generations,  thrown  away,  but  is  now 
a  recognized  commercial commodity  for 
the  blending  of lubricating and  cooking 
oil  and  in  the  mixing of feed eakes for 
cattle.
Old ropes, after they have been picked 
by prisoners, are served up again as  ma­
terial for calking ships.
The refuse from  candle  works  comes 
ont as glycerine and that  of  soap  works 
as manure.  Some  of the most delicately 
scented  perfumery  comes  from  waste 
rubbish.
Use has been found  for  the  refuse  of 
tanneries and  curriers’  shops.  Much  of

A .  U. KNOWLSON,
Gement, Lime, Goal, Sewer Pipe, Etc.

Wholesale Shipper

CARLOTS  AND LESS 

OB AND  RAPIDS,  MIOH.

T h o s.  E .  W y k e s

LIM E,  S E W E R   PIPE, 
FLOUR,  FEED ,  Etc.

Any  quantities,  W holesale  and  Retail.  W rite 

fo r prices.

45  S.  Diviston S t.,  Grand  Rapids.

8.  P.  Bennett  Filel & lee  Go.
ALL  KINDS  OF  FUEL

Mine*Agents and Jobbers for

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
A   H 1 M B S .

W holesale Shipper

GOAL,  LIME,  GEMENfS,

SEWER  PIPE,  ETC.

1  CANAL  ST. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

L.  G.  DUNTON  i   GO.

Will  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber— 

Green or Dry.

Office  and  Yards,  7th  St. and  C. & W. M. R. R. 

Grand  Rapids.  Mich.

J.  BRECHTING,  A r c h it e c t ,

79 W onderly Building, Grand Ra m u s. 

Correspondence solicited from 
parties who intend to build.

SMITH-HILL  ELEVATORS

Electric,  Steam  and  Hand  Power. 
PRICES  LOW.  HECHANISM  SIMPLE.
NOT  LIABLE  TO  GET  OUT OF  REPAIR.
Call and  see  me  or  telephone  1120  and  1 w ill 
accom pany enquirer  to dozens of local  users  of 
o u r elevators. 

J.  C.  HULBERRY,  Agent. 
K ortlander B uilding, G rand Rapids, Mich.

Contains  nothing  but 
Pure  Asphalt  Gums.

Paint  Your  Roofs

W ith  it.  Don't  let  any firm  make  you  believe 
th a t petroleum   is  the  proper  base  for  a  paint. 
We positively guarantee our  Paint  Strictly Pure 
A sphalt, and th a t  it  covets  more  surface  than 
any o th er paint sold.

Price,  50  cents  gallon,

In Bbis.  or  Half  Bbls.

Manufactured by

The Bradstreet Mercantile Apncy,

The Bradatreet  Company, Props.

Executive  Offices, 279,281,283  Broadway, NT

CHARLES  P.  CLARK,  Proa.

Offices  n the principal cities of tfie United 
States.  Canada,  the  European  continent, 
Australia, and In London, England.

Grand  Rapids  Office,  Rood  4,  Widdieomb  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE. Snpt.

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cuttings 

the  material  formerly  wasted  in  these 
trades is now used for making  the  heels 
and  soles  of  boots  and  shoes.  The 
leather 
and  scrapings  are 
cleaned,  dampened,  compressed 
and 
dried, the refuse in this process  being in 
turn  manufactured  into  what is known 
as leather board.
Waste paper,  as is well known,  is  con­
verted 
into  a  great  variety  of  useful 
things—into pails, eups and other useful 
articles of domestic  use,  and  even  into 
car wheels and building materials.
The saying that an enterprise  has  “all 
ended in smoke”  does not  have  half  the 
significance that it did before a  way  was 
found  to  materialize  that  airy  product 
into substances as tangible as oils,  acids, 
spirits and tar.  A  single  blast  furnace 
in one of the Western States,  which cap­
tures the smoke of its  charcoal  pits  and 
conveys  it  into  stills,  has  been  able  to 
realize enough from this source  to  pay  a 
large share of its  running  expenses. 
It 
has demonstrated that each  cord of wood 
contains 28,000 cubic feet  of  smoke,  and 
that  2,800,000  feet  of  smoke  produces 
12,000  pounds  of  acetate  of  lime,  200 
gallons  of  alcohol  and 
twenty-five 
pounds of tar.  Smoke from  the  factory 
chimneys  is  largely  carbon  in  another 
form,  and,  in the course of  a  few  years, 
people may expect  to  see  some  diminu­
tion of the smoke nuisance  so  prevalent 
in large towns,  not from the  vigilance of 
the sanitary inspectors,  but because con­
sumers are  beginning  to  learn  that  in­
stead of allowing the particles  of  carbon 
to  escape  with  the  other  products  of 
combustion,  and  so  helping  to  poison 
themselves  and 
their  neighbors,  they 
may  have  lighter  coal  bills  to  pay  by 
burning up these  particles.
In the  utilization  of  vegetable  waste 
much  of  a  surprising  nature  could  be 
told.  The seeds or stones of many fruits 
which  would  apparently  seem  useless 
have  some  economic  value. 
In  some 
parts of Egypt the date stones  are boiled 
to soften them and the camels  and cattle 
are fed  with  them.  They  are  calcined 
by the Chinese and are said to  enter into 
the composition  of  their  “Indian  ink.” 
In Spain they are burned  and  powdered 
for dentifrice.  Vegetable ivory nuts are 
said  to be applied to the  same  purposes. 
Some species of Attalea nuts are  burned 
in Brazil to  blacken  the  raw India  rub­
ber.  In India the  seed  or  stone  of  the 
tamarind 
in 
cases of dysentery as  a tonic. 
In  times 
of scarcity of food  the  natives eat  them 
after  roasting  and  soaking  them  for  a 
few  hours  in  water.  The  dark  outer 
skin  comes  off,  and  they  can  then  be 
cooked in various ways.  From  this seed 
an oil has also been obtained.  The  seed 
of the carob bean is  ground  up  for  food 
for cattle. 
In Algeria,  when  roasted,  it 
is used in  place  of  coffee.  The  use  of 
some  Mexican  and  other  grasses  for 
brushes 
is  being  rapidly  developed. 
This material is as strong and  flexible as 
bristles,  and even the refuse from  this is 
being  used  as  stuffing  for  mattresses. 
The use of esparto  grass  for  papermak­
ing is well known,  and  straw  is  largely 
used  for  the  same  purpose.  The  con­
tents  of  old  straw  mattresses  are  very 
often sold to papermakers.

is  sometimes  prescribed 

Squeezing  the  Lemon.

It  may  be  said,  without  leaving  the 
truth on the other side of  the  road,  that 
one-half  of  the  world 
fattens  on  the 
other and  leaner  half. 
In  no  one  part 
of this delightful  process  of  absorption 
is the art of squeezing the lemon  so  per­
fect and popular as it  is  in  the  loaning 
of money to such as must  have  the  cash 
or go to the wall. 
It  is  to  this  kind  of 
legalized extortion that we owe not a few 
of our princely mansions,  our  cuffs  and 
collars,  and diamonds  that  can  sparkle 
on  a  Shylock  as  a  star  can  shine on a 
toad’s eye.  This is an age of spondulics. 
The  man  that  possesseth  them  galore 
may  be  but  a  dried-up  pea in  a golden 
thimble,  but the world  will overlook  the 
littleness of the man  in  the  size  of  his 
money pile.  We have got out of the  old 
clam-shell of feudal  foolery,  when  men

went on their marrowbones as dukes and 
barons  passed  by;  but  we have simply 
changed  our  positions  and  are  putting 
our  noses  on  our  knees  when  Mr. 
Moneybags  comes  in  sight.  Where  the 
shekels came  from  and  how  they  were 
gotten makes no difference  in  the  curve 
of our spines.  So long  as  the  molasses 
gets into the barrel the  flies  will  crowd 
around the hoops. 
It is  this  weak  spot 
in the public spine that tolerates  and ex­
cuses  the  scoundrelism  that  can  rob  a 
washerwoman  and  impoverish a widow, 
and  that  smiles  when  society  throws 
boquets at a thief. 
It is as certain, how­
ever,  as a caterpillar  is  dumped  from  a 
lettuce,  that  sooner  or  later,  extortion 
will be held in check  and  proscribed,  if 
not altogether prevented.

In  this  reform  the  interests  of labor 
will not be left at the  back  door.  What 
is known  as the  “people’s bank,”  with  a 
triplet of gilt balls over its door,  and the 
skinning  of  eels  going  on  continually 
within,  will not forever be  what it is.  In 
Great Britain and  other  countries,  legis­
lation is seeking to remedy  the  evil  and 
to  provide  some  other  plank across the 
ditch where,  if a man  gets across with  a 
shirt on his back,  he is  fortunate  in  not 
having to leave his skin. 
In an interest­
ing  and  pertinent  article  by  Lee  J. 
Vance on  this really vital matter,  in  the 
North  American  Review,  attention  Is 
called to the success of  what  is  called  a 
“Registered  Credit  Association.”  This 
was established some forty  years  ago  in 
Saxony. 
It  was  intended  to encourage 
thrift  and  providence  among  working 
people,  and  to  accommodate  those who 
needed money  for the  purchase  of  tools 
for their trade and stocks for their stores. 
The  acorn  has  grown  to  an  oak  and 
there are now about 2,000 of  these  asso­
ciations  in  the  German  Empire.  The 
membership has a census of  1,500,000,  a 
capital  of  810,000,000,  and  turns  over 
8500,000,000 annually. 
It can be readily 
understood that the benefits are immense. 
It  helps  the  man  with  small  means to 
tide  over  difficulties  that  might  other­
wise strand  him,  and saves him from the 
buzzards that pick the meat off the bones 
of a mule with the rheumatics  or a lamb 
held up in a clump of  cat  briars.  Birds 
of  this  feather  are  thick  in every city, 
town  and  hamlet.  They  thrive  on  the 
needs  and  misfortunes  of  others,  from 
the farmer with an empty corncrib to the 
mechanic  wanting  cash  to  buy  a coffin 
for his dead baby.  It is  just here  where 
the sore place is on the neck of a willing 
horse,  and the flies have  it  all  their own 
way. 
It is to be regretted that  the  Ger­
man plan  is not better  known.  By  that 
or  some  other  plan  American  people 
need lifting over the stile.

F r e d  W oodrow.

The Canadian Government  is  tired  of 
having the members of its House of Com­
mons traveling on  railroad  passes while 
they are drawing mileage from  the  pub­
lic  treasury.  They  are  allowed  10 
cents a mile from their homes  to Ottawa 
by the shortest rail route  going  and  re­
turning,  and 
they  have  religiously 
drawn the money,  though  it is notorious 
that  the  most  of  them  have  passes. 
Some  833,000  of  the  public  funds goes 
this  way  every  year.  The  matter  has 
been  thoroughly  ventilated  at  Ottawa, 
and it is said that  the  mileage  is  to  be 
discontinued and  the  members  allowed 
to ride on passes,  if they  can  get  them.

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

C Y C B B
S T B P
B A O D B R .

WRITE

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  1  CO.,

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS, 

___________for Catalogue.___________

WALTER BAKER &  GO.
PURE,  HIGH  GRADE
COCOAS AND 

T h e  L a rg e s t M a n u fa c tu re rs   o f

CHOCOLATES
on  this  continent, 
HIGHEST  AWARDS

have received

from  the  great

. 

EXPOSITIONS

IN

Europe and America.

U a lik e  th e  H u tc h   P ro c e s s  

no  Alkalies  or  other  Chemicals or Dyes 
are  used  in  any  of  their  preparations. 
Their delicious
BREAKFAST  COCOA

is absolutely pure and soluble, and 

costs less than one cent a cup;
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.

(UTEB BAKER AGO. DORCHESTER MISS
C h a s . A . C o y e

MANUFACTUBEB OF

1

HORSE, W AQON  and 

BINDER  CO VERS.

i  PEARL  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN

21

CHICAGO

AND  WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y.

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AMD FROM MUSKEGON.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids..............7:15am  1:25pm *11:80pm
Ar. Chicago.................. 1:25pm 6:50pm  *7:20am
Lv.  Chicago...................8:25am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............. 3:05pm  10:25pm  *6:25am
Lv. Grand Rapids........   7:25am  1:25pm  5:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.........11:45am  3:05pm 10:25pm
7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids 
.. 
Ar.  Manistee............  12:20pm  8:15pm
Ar. Traverse City__  
1:00pm  8:45pm
Ar. Charlevoix........  
3:15pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Petoskey....... 
3:45pm  11:40pm
pm.

Trains arrive from  north at  1:00  pm and 10:uo 

TRAVERSE CITT. CHARLEVOIX AND  PETOSKEY.

PARLOB  AND  SLEEPING  CABS.

Parlor  car 

leaves  for  Chicago  1:25pm.  Ar­
rives 
from  Chicago  10:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
leave  for  Chicago  11:30pm.  Arrive  from  Chi­
cago 6:25am.
*Bvcry day.  Others week days  only________

DETROIT, 

°et- a», iss«

LANSING A  NORTHERN  R.  K.
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........   7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. D etroit....................11:40am  5:30pm  10:10pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  Detroit....................  7:4(iam  l:10pmx6:0Opm
Ar. Grand Rapids........ 12:40pm  5:20pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R  7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. G R .ll :35am 10:45pm 

TO AND PBOM SABINAW, ALMA AND ST. LODI#.

TO AND FBOM LOWELL.

Lv. Grand Rapids............7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell...............12:40pm  5:20pm  ...........

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE 

Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand  Rap­
ids and  Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DbHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.
/Mi c h i g a n  CTe n t r a i

“Tie Niagara Falls Route.”

(Taking effect  Sunday,  May 27,1894.) 

«Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday. 

Arrive. 
Depart.
10 20d m ..........  Detroit  E xpress............7 00am
5 30 a m  ... .»Atlantic and  Pacific.......11  20 p m
1  lOp m ........New York Express...........  6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains to aud from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit a t 7:00 a m ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 p m , arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communlcatiOH  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains erst  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral Railroad  (Canada Southern Division.)
A .  A l m <s d i s t , Ticket Agent, 
Union PasseneerStation.

DETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN 

W A UK EE  Railway.
BASTWARD.

1(  20am 
1125am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

tN o.  14 tN o.  teitN o.  la
3 25pm
6 45am
4 27pm 
7 40am
520pm 
8 25am 
605pm 
900am
800pm 
10 50am
11 3i am 
8 37pm
1005am 
7 05pm
8 50pm 
1205pm 
8 25pm 
10 53am 
925pm
1150am
WESTWABD.

'tra in s  L tave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
I o n ia .............A r
St.  Jo h n s —  Ar
O w osso.........Ar
E.  Saginaw ..A r
Bay C ity....... Ar
F l i n t ............ Ar
Pt.  H u ro n ...A r
P o n tia c .........Ar
D etroit.. . .   Ar
For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points.......................................  .......*8:40 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon.......tl:G0 p. m.
“ 
“  Mil. and Chi.  +5  35 p. m-
For Grand Haven, Mil. and  Chi........   *7:40 p. m.
For Grand Haven and Milwaukee__ tlC:05 p. m.

1100pm 
1235am 
125am 
3 10am
6 40am 
715am 
54Cam 
730am 
537am
7 00am

»Daily.

tDaily except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:60 
p.m.. 5:30 p. m.,  10:u0  p.m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west.  6:40  a.  m.  8:15 
a. m. 10:10 a.  m.  3:15  p m.  and 7:05 p. m.
Eastward—No.  14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 16 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper.

J ab. Ca m pbell, City T*cket Agent.

“ 

“ 

Grand  Rapids  A Indiana

TBAIBS  GOING  NORTH.

Leave going 
North
For Traverse City, Petoskey  and Saginaw----7:40 a.  tr-
For Saginaw...........................................................6:00 p. r
For  Petoskey  and  Mackinaw..........................  5:25  m.
Leave going 
8oath.
For  Cincinnati........................................................7 i6 a .n i,
For Kalamazoo and  Chicago............................2:15 p.m .
For  Fort Wayne and  the  East.........................2:15 p.m.
For Cincinnati  ....................................................*8:40  p.m .
For  Kalamazoo and Chicago..........................*11:40  p. m

TRAINS GOINS SOUTH.

Chicago via G.  R.  & I. B. R.

Lv Grand Rapid a............ 7 25am   2:15 pm   *11:40 pm
Arr  Chicago.....................2:40pm  2:06pm  
7:10am
Car and coach.
and Coach.
Lv  Chicago 
Arr Grand Rapids 
3 SO  p  m  has  through  Wagner  Buffet  Parlor  Car 
1130 p m  train daily .thro ngh  Wagner  Bleeping  Car 

2:16 p  m  train  haf through  Wagner  Buffe.t  Parlor 
11:40 p m train daily,  through Wagnei Sleeping Car 
11:30pm
7:20am

3:30pm 
2:16 pm  

6:50am 
2:50pm 

For M uskegon-Le»»'• 

Muskegon, Grand  Rapids & Indiana.
9:50 am
7:26  am  
1:00pm  
1:15pm
*:40 P m 
6:20 pm

From Muskegon—Arrive.

O .L. LOCKWOOD •
General  Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O O

THE  MICHIGAN  TR^DESMAJST.

GREAT  STORES  VS.  SMALL  SHOPS.
D iscussion o f  Departm ent Store Matter 

by an Able Authority.

Artemas Ward in American Grocer.

The  health  of  a  nation  is  said to be 
greatly  enhanced  1%,  a  policy  which 
creates  a  large  number  of  small  land­
holders,  rather  than  by  one  which  en­
courages large laud-holding  on  the  part 
of a few and the  cultivation  of  the  soil 
by  tenant  farmers, 
is  it  not  a  fairly 
parallel case to claim that the  best  pros­
perity  and  the  greatest health of a mu­
nicipality  should  consist  in  its having a 
multitude  of  small  shops  rather than a 
few  great  department  stores?  England 
has  been  termed  ‘-a nation of shopkeep­
ers;” and,  truly,  the  English  cities  sur­
prise the stranger who visits them, by the 
countless  number  of  little  shops  of  all 
descriptions.  But  England  has  culti­
vated  a sturdy citizenship  and  produced 
the fruit of perscnal  independence to an 
extent that lias  made her the most active 
factor in the civilized  world.  Her  cities 
are well governed,  her citizenship  some­
thing  to  be  well  proud of.  Meanwhile, 
her  agricultural  interests  do  not  thrive 
equally well,  and largely  because in that 
direction immense  estates  have  greatly 
lessened the number of  small  land-hold­
ers.

Economy  of  system  means  cheaper 
goods—this  is  the defense of the incom­
ing  system.  A  plague  upon  economy 
when  it trenches  upon the  moral  health 
or general  well-being of the  community! 
There is a  difference in  the  economy  of 
the  machine  which  grinds  the  crude 
products of the earth,/so as to save man’s 
labor for higher tirfng$,  and the economy 
of  a  commercial  ¿ystfem  which  enables 
one Napoleon of trade to make  machines 
of countless employes,  numbering  them 
like the Inmates of a  State’s  prison,  and 
holding his  authority  by  means  of  fines 
which  are  imposed  without  excuse  or 
room for explanation.  At  the bottom o 
the list the great dry  goods  man  writes. 
“It is not a question why you  broke  one 
of these rules, nor what  excuse you have 
to offer,  but merely did you break them? 
Then  the fine stands.

*  *  *

The small  store,  with  its  single  pro 
prietor coming in close contact and  sym 
pathy  with  two  or  three  employes,  re 
mains  a  natural  factor  in  human  and 
municipal 
life.  Mutual  failings  are 
borne  with;  the  employer  seeks  to  in­
struct and elevate  the  employe, and  the 
employe  develops  a condition of loyalty 
toward  his  employer  by  reason  of  the 
more  direct  contact.  The  'shopkeeper 
cherishes his  rights as a  citizen  regard 
ing the street,  the  pavement,  gas,  sani­
tary rules,  the police,  protection  against 
fire and robbery and all  the  other  priv­
ileges  of  citizenship.  His  power  over 
his employes  is  not beyond  reason,  nor 
is  his  relation  to  the  municipality  ex 
aggeratea in its  importance.
With  the  great owner  of  the  depart 
ment  store  the  case  is  very  different. 
Personal sympathy is largely  out  of  the 
question;  personal contact a very remote 
thing.  He owns  the  policemen  on  the 
corner,  and dictates terms  to the  firemen 
who  approach  his  building.  His  rela­
tion to  his  employes  is  not  a  paternal 
one;  it is that of  an autocrat.  His  rela­
tion to the officials of  the  community  is 
so commanding that  they  often  sell  or 
surrender their rights  to him.

What  is  the  real  economy?  By  ag­
gregating  a  vast  number  of  employes 
into  one  store  under  a  single manage­
ment  it  is  possible  to  sell  everything, 
from notions to  groceries,  at  a  slightly 
lower price;  not a serious  reduction  but 
one large enough to advertise  in flaming 
statements  in  the  newspapers.  But  in 
order to do this someone  must  lose,  and 
it  is  a  serious  question 
in  my  mind 
whether the community does not lose far 
more  in  the  aggregate  than  the  slight 
saving which is  evident  to  them  in  the 
advertisement.  It is not alone  “Because 
some manufacturer  has overstocked;  his 
loss, your gain”—“A bankrupt  sale; our 
cash  procured  all  the  bargains;  you 
shall share our  advantage  and the bank­
rupt’s 
loss”—“The  sheriff  has  closed 
out a great carpet factory;  we have won-

dertul  bargains  to  offer  hot  from  the 
sheriff’s hammer.”  It is not these losses 
alone that go to  make  up  the  mistaken 
economy  of  the  great department store. 
As the little shops multiply,  positions of 
usefulness  and  even  of  trust  multiply 
also;  whole  neighborhoods  are  made  to 
thrive; property (both  store  and  home) 
rents 
to  greater  advantage,  and  the 
health and wealth  of  the whole city  are 
improved  on  the  average.  If,  by econ­
omy of system,  100  clerks  in  the  great 
department store can  do the work of 200 
in  the small shops,  then  100  citizens  are 
looking  for  employment  otherwise.  If 
by piling departments one over the other 
from the cellar to “take  the  elevator  to 
the sixth floor,  front,”  the  great store is 
able to conduct the business of 100 shops 
on ten city lots,  then  ninety city lots are 
deprived  of  a  natural  revenue  in  ten- 
antry;  and  so  it  goes  throughout  the 
whole list  The  saving  is  evident,  the 
loss not  so  evident.  The  selfishness  of 
the people teaches  them to hunt for bar­
gains.  The weakness  of the times  is  to 
exaggerate  the  necessity  of  reducing 
prices.
The wealth,  health  and  prosperity  of 
the city are not  to  be measured by  such 
cheap  questions  as  bottom  prices  on 
goods,  rent  or  labor.  The  moral side, 
the  human  side,  general  average  im­
provement and  comfort are  far  more  to 
be considered.

The  grocery  trade 

is  responsible  in 
no  small  degree for  some of  the  condi­
If  the individual shop­
tions that exist. 
keeper  had  been  more  careful  of  his 
rights,  more  clear  in  his  citizenship, 
more  clean  in  his  store,  more exact in 
the selection of his  stock,  had  bestowed 
more  real  economy  on  his  business, 
broadening it with honest  effort,  making 
its  roots  strike  deeper  by  greater  per­
sonal attention,  there  would  have  been 
less  room  for  this  new  competition. 
Had he  studied  his  goods  and  brought 
his trade to a perfection  that  recognized 
quality  rather  than  price,  and  that ac­
quired  public  confidence  with  its  daily 
growth,  his  position  would  have  been 
more 
fortified.  Had  he  co-operated 
more  with  his  fellow  tradesmen  rather 
than  spent  his  time  in  criticising  and 
abusing his rivals;  if  in  a  spirit  of  hu 
manity  he  had  considered  somewhat 
carefully the interests  of  his  clerks  and 
concluded  that,  while  late  hours  migh 
save enough to pay for the gas consumed, 
they would  not pay  for the lives of those 
who  were  overworked;  if  in  a hundred 
ways the  grocer  had  consulted  not  visi­
ble interests alone,  but  invisible  justice 
and right toward himself,  his  trade,  his 
city,  his  fellow  citizens,  this  problem 
which  confronts  him  to-day  would  be 
much simplified.

A  plague  upon  economy,  again  I 
say,  when  it  trenches  upon  the  moral 
health or general  well-being  of the com­
munity!
The vast majority of the world are mad 
for bargains,pursuingday and night plans 
by which they hope to make  a  thousand 
dollar salary  buy fifteen hundred dollars’ 
worth of material  prosperity,  forgetting 
that the other five hundred  dollars  must 
come out of somebody’s  human rights or 
they could not acquire it.  The consumer 
who hunts out  some wholesale  house  in 
order to save the little margin of  the  re­
tail  trader—the  man  who,  after  accu­
mulating great wealth,  tries to command 
for himself  a  scale  of  prices which  ig­
nores the honest broker who  has  served 
his purpose earlier in the  game—all  the 
grasping ones in life  are  responsible for 
a  condition  of  things  which  promises 
gifts and offers  flattering  reductions  in 
price only to take them out of  the  heart 
and life of the city  and  the best interests 
of its citizens.

Tough  W orld  for  W omen.

Flossie  is  six  years  old.  “Mamma.” 
she  called  one  day,  “if  I  get  married 
will  I have to have a  husband  like  pa?” 
“Yes,”  replied  the  mother,  with  an 
amused  smile.
“And  if  I  don’t  get  married  will  I 
have to be an old maid like Aunt  Kate?” 
“Yes.”
“Mamma”—after  a  pause—“it’s  a 

tough world for  us women,  ain’t itf ”

Mr.

Thom as

IS  NOT  A  nUSICIAN,  BUT__

THE  BEST  FIVE  CENT  CIGAR

IN  THE  COUNTRY.

ED.  W.  RUHE,  MAKER,
F. E. BUSHMAN, I®., 523 John SI.,  M O O

CHICAGO.

SHE  USES

CONCORDIA

SOAP

SOLD  BY  ALL  GROCERS.

Manufactured  by

See  T r ad esm a ns  Quotations.

Every  Wholesale  Gi •ocer  in 
Grand  Rapids  and  the  State 
keeps this  Soap  in  stock,  and 
we want every Retail Grower to 
try one box  with  his  next  or­
der.  He will then use no other 
in his own family, and will tell 
his  cust >mers  that  it  is  the 
Best  Value  in the  market.

’,p*^BUYS POUND BAR 
JfBEST & MOST' 
/ECONOMICAL

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(Trademark)  i

80  One  Pound  Bars  in  box, 
5  Box  Lot, delivered at your station, 
10  Box  Lot, delivered at yonr station, 

- 

$3,20
3.15 
3.10

Write postal for Advertising Matter.  Manufactured only by

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Laundry  Soaps,  Toilet  Soaps,  Perfumes  and  Glycerine.

Over the wash-tub trying  to  rub  the dirt out of g  
your week’s washing.  There  is a better way to fe 
get the clothes clean with much less work  Use P f
gci me cioines clean witn much less work  Use
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It lightens the labor of washing—takes  the  dirt  If 
out with no injury to either your wash  or  your |§ 
hands.  Get a cake  at  your grocers and give it f| 
a trial.  Send for catalogue of beautiful pictures,  p
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
versal of  the  letters.  The  three  “P’s” 
compass about all the main requisites  of 
advertising:  Be 

GETTING  THE  PEOPLE.

Art  o f  Beaching:  and  Holding  Trade 

by  Advertising:.

Written  for Thx  Tradesman.

You are the possessor  of  certain  mer­
chandise which  you desire  to  barter for 
gain’s sake.  How  do  you  go  about it? 
Do you  place your goods  on  the  shelves 
and then sit idly by,  awaiting the chance 
customer, or do you go  out,  literally and 
figuratively,  into the  highways  and  by­
ways,  legitimately  forcing  buyers  into 
your place of business, and, incidentally, 
their coppers into your  till  in  exchange 
for the articles you have  to sell?

Of course,  my progressive friends,  you 
don’t sit down  and whistle  for  a  “trade 
wind”—but do you get  the  whole  value 
of opportunities and cost spent in  adver­
tising your  wares?  In  the  majority  of 
cases, I will  venture to say,  No,  you  do 
not.  This  business  of  placing yourself 
and your goods before the people  in  the 
best,  the newest and the  brightest  light, 
is  something  which  has developed won­
derfully in the past  few  years;  in  fact, 
1 might say,  has only become  a  possibil­
ity through the intervention of improved 
systems  of  type  display  and  enlarged 
ideas concerning originality.

Just  for  instance:  A  few  years  ago, 
it  was  no  uncommon  matter for a mer­
chant to pay out good  money  for  a  cer­
tain  space  in  his  town or village news­
paper,  which  was  filled  something  like 
this:

H U D   H.  MUD,

DEALER IN

Dry Goofls, Groceries & Provisisns,

NEXT  DOOR  TO  P  O.

Sands’ Old Stand. 

Sleepyville, O.

And,  unlike  the  “sands  of  time,”  the 
advertisement  never 
shifted,  but  re­
tained its familiar features  month  after 
month,  until the printer’s  type  was  ut­
terly worn  out,  compelling  him  to  call 
upon the merchant for  new  “copy.”  At 
the same time,  undoubtedly,  the half-fed 
editor went in  fear  and trembling,  lest, 
by calling his  attention  to  it,  the  mer­
chant  might  order  the  advertisement 
“out.”

in  order  to  bring 

Only in the most antique of  old-fogey- 
ite, out-of-date and sleepy  newspapers is 
this  obsolete  way  of  non-advertising 
maintained.  Now-a-days,  the  printer— 
country village as well as  city—not only 
has  a  well-selected  assortment  of  type 
and ornaments,  but  original  ideas  as  to 
how  an  advertisement  should  be  dis­
played 
the  golden 
shower down  upon  the  merchant’s  gar­
den.  And right here’s  a  point: 
If  you 
are  not  a  practical  printer  yourself, 
don’t dictate to one who is how  your dis­
play  lines  should  be  set.  Leave  it  to 
him—tell him you depend  on  the  origi­
nality of design and strength  of  concep­
tion  shown  in  his  work,  added  to  the 
allurements  of  language  in  which  you 
depict your wares,  to  make  the  invest­
ment a profitable one,  and you can wager 
a ten-dollar gold piece against  a  cake  of 
ice  in  the  summer,  that  he’ll  “do  his 
prettiest.”

Now,  in regard to preparation of copy: 
In the first  place,  let  your  language  be 
mesmeric and forceful,  if I  may  use  the 
term.  Get  out  of  the  old  ruts.  Say 
something new, even if you  have  to  say
d----- n!  Ten  people  will  stop  to  read
the  word  “Gnihsup,”  where  one  will 
give  a  second  thought  to  “Pushing.” 
Yet this is an old trick,  and merely  a re­

Pungent  in expression,
Precise  in  specifying quality, 
Particular  in stating truths.
When you load your “advertising gun” 
for  big  game,  aim  at  the  ladies—God 
bless ’em.  They are the best  readers  of 
merchandising  ads.—especially 
it  you 
can throw in  a  “bait”  of  some  sort  or 
other.  Maybe  you’ll say,  “Special  Sale 
of Ladies’  Fine  Underwear  and Corsets. 
A  Ladies'  Hour,  from  10  to  11  a.  m., 
for the purpose of distributing  a  beauti­
ful free souvenir.”

Which, in your  mind,  will  attract  the 
more  attention—a  handsome,  mild-eyed 
cow in your window to  advertise  an  ex­
tra nice lot of butter,  or  a  sign  in  your 
neighbor’s: 
“Fresh  Dairy  Butter  just 
received.”  Nobody’ll believe the latter, 
but they’ll all stop to look  at  your  cow. 
Or,  mayhap,  you’ll  use  a  “Billy-goat,” 
instead  of  the  cow,  to  represent  the 
“butter.”

illustrations. 

These  are  simply 

In 
stead  of  the  “long-suffering  ad.”  men­
tioned above,  you  know  that  something 
like  this  will  “Get  the  People,”  while 
the other will not:
Strike,  Lock-Out 
and Tie-Up!

On account of the  enorm ous  rush  to our 
store to obtain some of those bargains in 
Ladies and  Misses’  Shoes at 12 and $1.75, 
we have been com pelled to

Strike  Our  Flag,
Lock Out Our Competitors 

and  Tie  Up.the  Dog,  for  fear  be  may 
be crushed in the rush.
A  few  left  (Shoes,  not  dogs 1.  B-.tter 
HURRY.

HUD  H.  MUD,

N ext door to P.O.

Put a  mirror in  your show  window—a
good  long one,  one  which  will  tell  the 
truth—not a  cross-eyed  mirror.  One  of 
your  clerks  or  the  printer  can  easily 
make an attractive sign:

“This is your picture,  but  you can’t 
take it with you.
“We can’t keep it  to  remember  you 
by—no matter, the glass tells truth. 
So do our prices and qualities.”

Don’t yon think yon  would stop to read 
a screed like this?  Yes, and you would be 
inclined to test the  “truth” of the adver­
tiser’s prices and qnalities.

But,  while  all  these  ideas  are  trade 
winners,  let  me  admonish  you:  News­
papers  are  the  merchants’  “tried  and 
true” mediums for advertising.  Stick to 
them.  Supplement them  as you  will by 
novelty  and  “house  schemes,”  yet  the 
original  “pay-lead”  of  the  advertising 
mine lies in the “veins” of the newspaper 
—country as well as city.

F d c.  F o s t e r  F u l l e r .

the  directions  with 

A Paris  physician who was summoned 
the other day to attend  a  sick  child  left 
directions  which  a  neighboring  French 
druggist had translated for the benefit of 
the English nurse in charge of the  child. 
These  are 
the 
English intended  in  parenthesis:  1.  To 
distend the  children  of  other  children. 
(To isolate the baby from her sister.)  2. 
Not many flowers in the eat and not give 
him  that milk prepared. 
(Suppress fari­
naceous  food  and  also  the  milk  as 
hitherto prepared.)  3.  Before the col of 
children  une  eponge  warm. 
(Apply  a 
hot  sponge  to  the  child’s  throat.)  4. 
Everybody  that have occupation of child­
ren will vhach the hands in  liquor of van 
Swieten. 
(Every  person  coming in con­
tact with the child to wash  his  hands  in 
van  Swieten’s  solution.)  All  the linen 
deteriored shall  be vhach in solution  be­
fore 
linen  to  be 
washed  in the solution before being sent 
to the  laundress.)

(All  soiled 

londres. 

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Upwards.

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$30.00

W hich  includes  Seamless 

Brass  Scoop.

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S tan d ard   Oil  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICHIGAN

D E A L E R S   IN

Illilminating  and  Lilbrißating

Naptha  and  Gasolines.

Office,  >1 irli inali  Trust  Bids'.

Works,  Butterworth  Ave.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 
BIG  RAPIDS, 
ALLEGAN,

BULK  W OR KS  A T

MUSKEGON, 
GRAND  HAVEN, 
HOWARD  CITY,

MANISTEE, 
TRAVERSE  CITY. 
PETOSREY.
Highest  Price  Paid  for

CADILLAC, 
LUDINGTON, 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

ness.  He  finds  he  is  buying and selling 
nearly doable the amount of goods he did 
last year,  with his old  tumble-down,  rat­
tle-trap  wagon.  He soon  finds he needs 
another good rig to take care of his busi­
ness.

Why need we ask  if  it  pays  to have  a

neat delivery outfit?  We have seen these 
dirty old  carryalls  drive up to the finest 
residences in  the  city  and  deliver  their 
stock of sundries,  and  have  often  won­
dered why the grocers  of  Grand  Rapids 
do not seem to appreciate or feel the  im­
portance of having  a  neat,  clean  adver-

tisement for themselves,  and  something 
that will do them  good  almost  every day 
in the year,  in  the  shape  of  a first-class 
delivery rig.  There is not a town of this 
size in  the  United  States,  that we know 
of,  that is so much of a  back  number  in 
this respect. 

G e o .  W.  Hart.

JS IT  N O T A  B E A U T Y ?

This Is a “ L eader” w ith us and we are selling lots of them .  Of course, we have larger and b etter D elivery W agons fo r m ore money.

Pumps, 

Page Fencing, BICYCLES and o th e r things too num erous to m ention.  Prices right. 

WE  CARRY  A  FULL  LINE
A D A M S   & 
B elknap,  B a k e r  &  Co.

Mills,  Plows,  Harrows,  W heel C ultivators  G rain  Drill«

*

HART,  12  w. Bridge st.

W H O LESA LE  AN D  R ETAIL.

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Desirability  o f a  R espectable  Looking 

Delivery  W agon.

Written for The T u t i s i u i .

It is certainly  something of a  surprise 
to note the number of old,  rickety,  clap 
trap,  worn-out delivery wagons in use 
this large,  healthy,  wealthy  and  beauti 
ful city.  Why a grocer  will keep a very 
neat and tidy store, clean front windows 
filled up  with a very  choice  and  sightly 
lot  of  goods,  and  a  scrupulously clean 
swept floor,  and will then put  his  goods 
into  the  hands  of  a very cheap looking 
man or boy,  to be rattled  along the prin 
cipal streets of the  city  in an old,  faded, 
rattle-trap,  noisy,  illy-shaped and  worn 
out delivery wagon,  is beyond our under 
standing.

What better  advertisement  can  there 
be  for  a  merchant  than to have a neat 
nicely painted,  attractive  wagon,  hurry 
ing  around  on  the  streets  of  this  city 
with his name on it?  Of course,  a  good 
looking horse  and  harness  ought  to  go 
with  the  wagon. 
It  does  not  cost any 
more to feed a  good,  stylish  horse  than 
it does an old consumptive  or  rheumatic 
one.  The new wagon,  harness and horse 
mean paying out good  money  for  some 
thing that many a man thinks he can get 
along without;  but the idea is right here 
Mr.  A.  comes out with a stylish  rig,  not 
necessarily  a  large  or cumbersome one 
and everybody sees it  at  once;  not  only 
his  old  customers,  but  many new ones 
He delivers a batch of  groceries  to  Mrs,
B.  She notices the new  wagon and har 
ness and remarks on the general neat ap 
pearance of the rig.  Somehow  the  fish, 
meat  or  groceries  seem  to  look cleaner 
and please her a little  better than  usual 
Half an hour afterward  along comes Mr.
C. 
This  lady,  who  happened to notice Mr. 
A.’s new rig at her  neighbor’s house,  al­
most imagines that her  stuff  seems a lit­
tle older,  dustier or mustier  than  usual, 
coming from  Mr.  C.’s  old  dirty  wagon, 
hitched to a tired looking  horse.

’s old rig,  and stops at Mrs. D.’s house. 

This happens two  or  three  times  and 
she  then  speaks  to  her  husband  about 
changing  grocers.  He  has  already  no­
ticed  the  new  wagon  of  Mr.  A  on  the 
streets, and readily agrees with  his  wife 
that they can afford to deal  with  just  as 
enterprising  a  grocer  as  the  B  family. 
They  feel  that  they  want  just  as  good 
stuff as  their  neighbors  and  they  want 
a wagon just as decent ana clean-loooking 
to bring it to them;  so Mr. A gets another 
good customer.  He  very  soon  begins  to 
get  the  very  best  class  of  trade.  His 
cash  business increases; 
in  fact,  he  is 
now  doing  almost  entirely  a  cash busi­

8 8 - 9 0 - 9 2   S.  D IV IS IO N   ST .

L igh t  D elivery  and  Order  W agon.

G R A N D   R A P I D S

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E stablished  1865.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

BUGGIES.  SLEIGHS  I   WAGONS,

QRAND  RAPIDS,  niCHIQAN.

THE  GROCER’S  SAFETY.  MADE  IN  2 SIZES ONLY.

g°<Iy 7 
ft. long, 36 in. wide, drop tail  gate. 
Body 9% ft. long, 38 in. wide, drop tail  gate.

FULLY  WARRANTED.

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.  48 00

Prompt attention to Mail and Telegraph Orders.  Prices right.  Write for 

Catalogue.  Telephone  104.

H a r n e s s e s ,  H a r r o w s ,  
P l o w s ,  C u ltiv a to r s .

AND  A  FULL  LINE  OF  SMALL  IflPLEflENTS  AND  REPAIRS.

The  Drug  Market.

Acids—Salicylic  is  unsettled  and  ir­
regular,  with the combination  prices  be­
ing shaded.  Benzoic is easier.  Citric is 
moving rather freely and  the  market  is 
very firm in view  of  the  strong  upward 
tendency  abroad.  Tartaric has been ad­
vanced.  The  undertone 
is  decidedly 
firm and  indications  favor  still  further 
improvement.  Other  descriptions  are 
without noteworthy feature.

Alcohol—The undertone of the general 
market  is  firmer,  but  no  positive  evi­
dence  has  yet come to light of an  agree­
ment between competing distillers.

Arsenic—Increasing  strength 

in  pri­
mary markets and  continued  scarcity  in 
this  country  influence  a  firm  feeling 
among holders.

in 

Balsams—Copaiba  is  in  good  jobbing 
request from  dealers,  but  stocks  in  first 
hands are  accumulating,  recent  arrivals 
being unsold,  and  prices  are  somewhat 
easier.  Pern is  unchanged,  but  tending 
easier.  Tolu has been advanced.  There 
have been no direct  arrivals  for  a  long 
time,  and none  are known  to  be on the 
way;  holders  are,  consequently,  unwill­
ing 
lots. 
Stocks 
in  London  and  Hamburg  are 
lower  than  for  several  years,  and  a 
further  advance  in  prices  would  not  be 
surprising.  More  inquiry  is  noted  for 
Canada fir.

to  sell 

except 

small 

Cocaine—The  easier  feeling  hereto­
fore noted  has resulted  in  a  decline  of 
50  cents  per  ounce 
in  manufacturing 
prices.

Colocynth  Apples—The  market  has  a 
strong  undertone,  with  a  good demand 
for consumption,  and  both  Trieste  and 
Spanish are bringing full prices.

Cream  Tartar—Continues  firm  under 
the influence of strong markets for crude 
material,  and  manufacturers  maintain 
the advance.

Essential  Oils—Leading  descriptions 
are sharing in the  general  business  im­
provement.  Anise  is  very  firm.  Clove 
is stronger,  in sympathy with  the  spice. 
Croton is stronger,  owing to higher  mar­
kets abroad and scarcity of seed.  H. G. H. 
peppermint  is  firmer,  under  a  fair ex­
port  demand  and  lighter  offerings,  but 
bulk oil has not improved.

Flowers—Chamomile  are  in  fair  de­
mand at  steady  prices.  Saffron  is  also 
being taken in moderate quantities.

Glauber  Salts — Manufacturers  have 
formed  a combination and  announce that 
an  advance  will  be made in a few days.
Gums—Camphor  has  again  been  ad­
vanced  2c  per  lb.,  and  the  market  is 
somewhat excited.  Cables report higher 
markets  abroad  for  both  crude and re­
fined,  and domestic makers  are  disposed 
to  cut  down  their  orders and  refuse to 
make contracts. 
Importers of Japan are 
holding firm.

Lycopodium—Continues  to  meet  with 
a  good  demand  from  consumers,  and 
prices are firm.

Mercurial  Preparations—Have  been 
advanced,  owing  to  the improvement in 
quicksilver;  calomel,  corrosive  subli­
mate,  bisulphate  and  the  precipitates 
are 2c higher;  the minor preparations, lc 
higher.

Morphia—Has  declined,  due  to  the 

lower price of opium.

Opium—Steady.
Quicksilver—Is  higher,  in  sympathy 
with  the  London  market,  Rothschilds’ 
price  having  been  advanced,  in  conse­
quence  of  which  American  merchants 
have marked their prices up 2c per lb.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Roots—There is nothing encouraging to 
be  said  concerning  jalap.  The  ship­
ments which usually come to this country 
have been diverted to London  and  Ham­
burg  in  the  hope  of  realizing  better 
prices,  but  recent  sales  abroad  indicate 
that the  shippers  are  disappointed,  as, 
notwithstanding  the  low  prices  here, 
they are above the parity of foreign mar­
kets.  Jamaica  ginger  continues  to  ar­
rive,  but in smaller  quantities,  the  cur­
rent crop nearing its  end,  and  the  mar­
ket  is  ruling  steady.  Sepentaria  of 
prime quality is becoming scarce.

Window  Glass—Meetings  are  being 
held weekly  by the glass  men,  trying  to 
arrange  to have a more general advance. 
As the time  is  very  near  when  all  the 
factories close down  for the summer,  the 
market is much firmer.  We quote  S.  S. 
glass at 85@15 per cent,  and  D.  S.  glass 
at 85@20 per cent.,  but  look  for  higher 
prices  soon.

The  Grocery  Market.

Seeds—Exceptional quietude  has  pre­
vailed  this  week  in  the  seed  market. 
The  most interesting feature  is  the  re­
ported  movement  to  organize  a  canary 
seed trust in  London,  with the  object  of 
realizing  higher  prices  during  the  bal­
ance of the  present  crop  year.  Recent 
advices  indicate  that  all  the  important 
English  operators  are  supporting  the 
scheme,  and this intelligence has infused 
a firmer tone into the American  markets. 
Prices,  however,  show no change.  Hemp 
remains in light supply.  An  important 
shipment from Russia  is  being  delayed 
at  Copenhagen  by a mishap to the vessel 
and it  is  feared  that  the  cargo  is seri­
ously damaged.  Mustard  is  unchanged, 
brown  being scarce and quotations show­
ing firmness.

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade for the last few days has 
been  a  little  dull,  owing  to  the  cold 
weather,  but during the hot spell the first 
of the  month  it  was  impossible  for  the 
jobber  and  the manufacturer to keep  up 
with their orders. 
In many lines  this  is 
still the trouble  with  the  manufacturer. 
The news from all over the country indi­
cates a marked revival in all  trades, and 
the indications are that  we  shall  have  a 
continuance of same if the  cold  weather 
and frosts do not kill  all  the  crops  and 
the currency agitators do not unsettle the 
financial  business  of  the  country.  All 
heavy hardware,  as well  as  many  lines 
of shelf goods,  has  been  advanced  quite 
materially  and  the  prospects  are  that 
more will follow.  Our advice to dealers 
is not to give their goods away  withont a 
profit,  for they  will wait a long while be­
fore  they buy many things as cheaply as 
they have.

Wire  Nails—Low  prices  have  been 
withdrawn  by all  the  mills  and  even  at 
the  advanced  price  they  will not quote 
beyond June  1.  While  the  advance  in 
the cost of raw  material  would  necessi­
tate a better price  in  the  manufactured 
article,  a  general  advance in  labor has, 
also,  been made.  We  quote,  subject  to 
change without notice,  $1.10 at mill  and 
$1.30@1.25 from stock.

Barbed  Wire—Like  nails,  all 

low 
prices have been  withdrawn  and,  while 
prices  from stock have not advanced, the 
price  from mill is some $3 a  ton  higher. 
We quote painted at $1.80 and galvanized 
at $2.20.

Sheet Iron—Manufacturers  are  refus­
ing to quote for fall  deliveries,  but  job­
bers who have contracts entered  are tak­
ing care of their trade,  but at an advance 
of $2 a  ton.

Bar  Iron—Has  advanced  from  $3@4 
per ton and the mills  are not  anxious  to 
book large orders at that.

We also note higher  prices on  the  fol­
lowing:  gas  pipe, 
lead  pipe,  pumps, 
sinks,  screws,  strap  hinges,  plain  and 
galvanized wire of all kinds.

Sugar—The  market  has  ruled  quiet 
during the past week,  with the tone hold­
ing firm,  in  sympathy  with  strong  raw 
markets here and in  Europe.  The  indi­
cations continue to favor steady  and  un­
changed prices for the near future.  The 
feeling is that  any change that  may  oc­
cur will be an upward one.

Bananas—The local  market  is  rather 
bare  of  bananas  at  the  present  time; 
that is, bananas  which are  in  good  ship­
ping  condition.  There  are  about  2,000 
bunches  of  fruit  here  which  have  been 
chilled  somewhat,  mostly  culls,  and for 
that  reason  good  stock  will  probably 
bring  better  figures  this  coming  week. 
Most of the stock  now  arriving  is  from 
New Orleans and  Mobile,  as  prices  are 
cheaper  there  than  at  Eastern  points. 
Cargoes  coming  to  New  York,  Boston 
Baltimore  average  very light,  and as the 
is  excellent  they  sell  readily 
demand 
upon  arrival,  at  better  figures 
than 
Western dealers can  well  afford  to  pay.
Lqmons—The cool weather  which  has 
prevailed during the past two weeks  has 
not been instrumental in reducing prices 
of lemons,  as  many  supposed  it  would. 
It has merely  checked  the  demand  and 
advance.  New  York  brokers  have  a 
good lot of orders  in  band,  which  deal­
ers  turned  over  to  them  in  hopes that 
lower  prices  would  be  realized  on  ac­
count of the weather.  sSo  far,  the  limit 
given  in  the  majority  of cases  has not 
been reached,  and as Western  stocks  are 
light the first few days of warm  weather 
will witness a  sharp advance.

Oranges—The orange situation is about 
the  same  as  last  week.  Retail dealers 
are handling them sparingly,  and buying 
from hand to  mouth,  as  they  decay  so 
rapidly  that  no  one  cares about having 
more on hand than  will  supply them for 
a few days’ needs.

Domestic  Fruits—Are  arriving  freely 
from the South,  and  selling  at very rea­
sonable prices.  Strawberries, especially, 
are reaching here in  a  good  firm  condi­
tion,  and selling comparatively low.

Foreign Nuts—Easy, the prices  in  the 
buyers’ favor.  The same  will  apply  to 
figs and dates.

It is stated that,  as a result of the high­
handed conduct of England in  the  Nica­
ragua affair,  the Venezuelan government 
is  about  to  establish a national bank in 
which United States capital  will  be  in­
terested as far  as it may  be necessary to 
call  outside  assistance.  The  manage­
ment  of the national finances is to be in­
trusted to this  bank,  including  the  col­
lection  of  the  revenues.  This  arrange­
ment will render it  impossible  for  Eng­
land to interfere  with  duties  as  threat­
ened in the Nicaragua case,  without  in­
volving interests of  this  country.  Ordi­
narily,  the  Venezuelans  would  have 
looked to England for this  assistance, on 
account of her financial  prestige and low 
interest rates,  and  this  action  indicates 
the  alienation  in  consequence  of  the 
short-sighted  British  poliey 
the 
smaller American republics.

in 

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Bonus 
Offered::::::  .

The citizens of the village of VANDERBILT 
w ill  pay  a  liberal  bonus  fo r  a  Hardwood 
F actory 
th a t  will  em ploy  seventy-five 
m en o r more.

We have the choicestof Maple. Birch and 

Basswood Tim ber.

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Clover,  Medium  or  Mammoth,  Al- 
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in 
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Fillers.

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State  Board of Pharm acy.

One Year— George  Gundram,  Ionia.
Two Tears—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
TbreeTe&rs—8. E. Parkhill, Owosso.
Pour Years—F. W. R  Perry.  Detroit 
Five Tears—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.
President—Fred’k W .R. Perry, Detroit.
€ e ere tary—Stanley E. Par kill, Owosso. 
treasurer—Oeo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Detroit  (Star  Island),  June  24; 
Lansing, Nov 5.

Michigan State  Pharm aceutical  Asa’n. 
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
V '.ce-President—John E. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secret* r—F. C. Thompson.Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 

President, John E. Peek; Secretary, B. Schrouder.

T H E   C O CA IN E  H A BIT.

Direful  Results  of  Free  Use  of  the 

Drug.

in 

in 

The cocaine  habit  is  a  comparatively 
new addition to the  evils  by  which  hu­
manity  is beset,  and it promises  to  excel 
even  morphinism 
insidiousness  of 
growth, 
blasting  destructiveness 
and in the number of its victims.  Under 
the  influence  of  cocaine,  the  subject 
seems to enjoy a renewal  of  youth.  Ca­
pacity for  labor  is  augmented,  and  the 
need  of  sleep  much  diminished.  The 
occasional  use of cocaine leaves  a highly 
illusive impression on the unprofessional 
mind,  producing pleasant  sensations,  in­
spiring  courage  and  causing  a  general 
feeling  of  exuberant  vitality,  with  ap­
parently no unpleasant after effects;  but 
while  the  immediate  action  of  cocaine 
is  more  animating  and  agreeable  than 
that of morphine,  it is not  nearly  so  en­
during,  and the bitter sequela: are  mani­
fested  earlier  and  in  a  form  far  more 
disastrous than in morphine intoxication. 
Cocaine habitues  are  utterly  unreliable 
and  disregard  all  personal  appearance, 
going  about  unkempt,  bedraggled  and 
forlorn.  While under  the  influence  of 
the  drug  they  feel  equal  to  any  task, 
forget the past,  cherish  hopes for the fu­
ture,  are happy in  and  oblivious  to their 
sad condition.  Without it they are nerv­
ous,  maniacal,  morose  and  even  danger­
ous.  The cocaine habit is a swift poad to 
destruction,  and  leaves  in  its  wake  a 
blight  most terrible to  behold.
The growing  prevalence of  this vice is 
largely due to the  greatly  reduced  price 
of cocaine,  occasioned  by  improvements 
in the process  of  extracting  it  from  the 
crude drug.  Less  than  ten  years  ago, 
cocaine  was  worth  75  cents  a  grain;  it 
can now  be  bought  at  the  rate  of  two 
grains  for five cents.
Several distinct causes result in the ac­
quirement  of  this  habit. 
Promiuent 
among these  is  the  pernicious  practice 
of a certain class of druggists (fortunate­
ly  small  in  number)  who  offer cocaine 
when  a>ked for something  that  will  re­
lieve toothache,  neuralgia  and  countless 
other  aches  and pains. 
It is impossible 
to  estimate  the  ruinous  effect  of  such 
recklessness.  To  the  chronic  sufferer, 
cocaine  proves  at  first  au 
inestimable 
boon;  but  the  first  dose  breeds  an  in­
satiable and almost insuperable appetite, 
and with this  come  all the  trickery  and 
depravity  of  an  experienced  victim. 
Misery  and  the  bitterness  of  remorse 
would  fill the  soul  of  the  druggist  who 
is  so  rashly  indifferent  as to incur this 
responsibility,  bad  he sufficient imagina­
tion  to see before him a panorama of  the 
degradation, 
for 
which  be has become chargeable.
In some  way the erroneous  notion  has 
eome to prevail that, in treating the mor­
phine habit,  cocaine  is  of  great  value, 
counteracting the effects of the morphine. 
Proceeding on this principle, numberless 
quacks have claimed ability  to  cure  the 
morphine  habit.  The  unfortunates 
whom  they have  succeeded  in  deluding 
are  perhaps cured of the morphine habit, 
but in its stead they  become cursed with 
a vice  far  more  ruinous  than  all  their 
former ills.  Cocaine  may  couteract  the 
effects of morphine,  but  when  the action 
of the cocaine  is  exhausted  the  system 
demands greatly  increased  quantities  of 
morphine,  and  this  in  turn  produces  a 
desire  for  more  and  more cocaine.  To 
use  cocaine  for  curing  the  morphine 
habit  is  like  jumping  from  the frying 
pan into the fire.

suffering  and  ruin 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Another  class  of  victims  comprises 
those to whom cocaine  has  been  admin­
istered in minor surgical operations,  and 
who,  remembering  its  exhilarating  ef­
fects,  subsequently  obtain  and  use  the 
drug,  to their ruin.
Some, ignorant of  its  possibilities  for 
injury,  begin  the  habit  voluntarily; 
others are led into  it  by  what  seems  to 
them a necessity,  and  others,  again,  are 
innocently beguiled into  it by  the  influ­
ence of environment and friends.
The cocaine habit is  apparently incur­
able,  unless  the subject possesses a pow­
erful will and renounces  the  use  of  the 
drug ere its vicious effects  are  manifest. 
After the habit is once acquired,  the sys­
tem  craves  the  drug  very  much  as  the 
body craves food.  When this  drug hun­
ger is  not  gratified,  the  habitue  suffers 
all the  consequences  of  natural  starva­
tion,  until  his  system  recovers  its  nor­
mal  condition.  With  overwork  or  any 
mental  strain  the  craving  for  the  drug 
returns,  and  is  repelled  only  with  the 
utmost difficulty.  Each  dose  creates  a 
demand for a larger dose  the  next  time, 
and a point  is  seldom  reached  where  a 
constant quantity  produces  uniform  re­
sults.
A  single  instance  will  illustrate  the 
terrible  possibilities  of  this  drug.  A 
prosperous  youngf  lawyer,  being  very 
much overworked  and in  great  demand, 
sought renewal  of  his  exhausted  ener­
gies in  cocaine.  For  a  long  time  this 
served him remarkably well,  stimulating 
his  energies  and  producing  an  appear­
ance of renewed  vitality.  Presently  his 
system  failed  to  respond  to  the  usual 
quantities  of  the  drug;  then  began  a 
gradual  increase in the dose,  with simul­
taneous reduction  in  the effect.  Finally 
the drug seemed to lose all  potency,  and 
the  subject  was  completely  prostrated. 
Under  skillful  treatment  he  recovered 
after a time and appeared to be restored, 
but  with  returning  labor  and  anxiety 
came the old craving  and  morbid  desire 
for 'hestimulant. This he resisted with all 
his energy,  but to no avail.  An  extreme 
hunger prevailed in  his  system,  and  he 
could  have no peace until  this was satis­
fied.  Notwithstanding  his  former  ex­
perience,  one  night  he  stole  from  his 
home and satisfied  his  longing  with  co­
caine.  Pleasaut*thoughts  and  blissful 
dreams  were  the  result.  And  thus  he 
sustained himself from day  to  day.  By 
stealth  his  wife  obtained  some  of  the 
drug,  and,  finding exhilaration in its use, 
continued  to  administer  it  to  herself, 
guarding her  secret  from  her  husband. 
To-day one is  a  raving  maniac  aud  the 
other is behind  the  bars,  clamorous  for 
cocaine.

A l b e r t   N.  D o e i s s c h u k ,  Pb.  G .

A  P lea  for the  Kitchen  Girl.

Written for Thb Tradesman.

The  average  American  woman  has 
neither  the  taste  for  nor  the  physical 
ability to do,  with  her  own  hands,  the 
work necessary to be done in  any  house, 
hold,  however small.  We  women  know 
how deceptive appearances are in respect 
to the amount of work to be done,  but to 
the uninitiated it seems that the work in a 
small family must be,  in fact,  mere  pas­
time.  But facts are stubborn things and 
the contrary is  well  known  to  be  true; 
and  the  unvarying  routine  of  washing, 
ironing,  cooking,  dish  washing,  etc., 
must be done with as persistent  regular­
ity in a family of three as in  one  of  five 
times that number.

Now,  the vexed question of how to  ob­
tain competent help to do this work  that 
we,  with  here  and  there  an exception, 
neither like  to  do,  nor  are  able  to  do, 
ourselves—and, I might  add,  nor  know 
how to do—has, as yet, not  been  settled.
Of course,  we see now and then a faith­
ful and efficient servant in  some  family, 
but the army  of  incompetent  and  soul- 
harrowing  kitchen  girls  is,  indeed,  ap­
palling.

But  right here I want to say a word in 
behalf of these girls against  whom  mal­

edictions  are  so  freely  uttered.  For 
what stimulus have they to  be  anything 
but  shiftless  and  incompetent, and,  in 
fact,  what  chance  have  they to be any­
thing else?  To  be sure,  no one  wants to 
hire untrained help and be to the  trouble 
of teaching them,  and so we all  advertise 
for,  and  expect  to  get,  a  girl  who  is 
thoroughly competent,  and we  add,  ‘*No 
others need apply.” 
If  it turns  out that 
she is not all that we require  in  compe­
tent  help,  she  is  generally  discharged 
and  another  hired.  But where is she to 
become competent?  This  knowledge  is 
not intuitive,  nor  to  be  learned  but  by 
experience 
repetition. 
Where is the school  where she can  learn 
the  art  of  cooking,  of  sweeping  and 
dusting,  of  washing  and  ironing?  We 
have  schools  where  girls  may  study  to 
become trained  nurses,  and  the  results 
are seen in skillful care of the sick.  But, 
where is this great body of  domestics  to 
get  their  knowledge  and  skill?  Their 
name  is  legion,  and  they  come mainly 
from homes where  model  housekeeping 
is by no means common.

patient 

and 

And another thing:  Is the  paltry  sum 
of $2 or $3  a  week  a  sufficient  induce­
ment to a girl of independence and ambi­
tion  to take this  position  of servant and 
be debarred from any  other  society than 
that of  kitchen  girls?  When  a  woman 
does  her  own  work,  she does not,  for  a 
moment,  consider that  she  is doing any­
thing that  will exclude her from good so­
ciety.  Now,  what  difference  does 
it 
make whether  a  womau  does  her  own 
work  for  no  recompense  whatever,  or 
does for pay  the work of some  one  else? 
And,  again,  what 
the  difference 
whether  a  girl  earns  money  by  doing 
housework,  or  earns  it  by  doing  any 
other  respectable  work—dressmaking, 
school  teaching,  type  setting,  stenogra­
phy or any other kind of office work?  If 
we would  bring  up  this  position  to  the 
level  of  other  occupations,  we  would 
soon  find a better  class of girls to  fill  it  
If, in some  way,  there  could  only be  an 
inducement  given  to  these  girls  to be­
come skillful and competent and  intelli­
gent—yes,  intelligent,  for  the  ignorance 
of some of them is dense and their stupid-

is 

ity beyond belief—is  it  not  likely  they 
would become so?

We have no trouble whatever in hiring 
women skilled in  sewing and in nursing; 
and,  until  there  is  some  school  where 
girls can  be  taught  housekeeping  in  its 
varied  departments,  and  until  there  is 
some  inducement  offered  to  become  a 
skillful domestic—as there is now  to  be­
come  a  good  dressmaker  and a skillful 
nurse—we shall go on advertising in vain 
for competent  girls to do  our work,  and 
shall go on hiring and discharging a poor 
class of help that scarcely earn the small 
sum they  receive.

It is in the art of cooking—for cooking, 
truly,  is a fine art—that we find the most 
deplorable  want  of  knowledge.  And 
how can it be otherwise?  To  be  a  good 
cook requires  judgment  and experience. 
No merely mechanical processes of labor 
will evolve a  good  dinner.  Good  cook­
ing  calls  out  many  more faculties than 
are required  to be a good seamstress or a 
good nurse, or even  a  good  book-keeper. 
A  good  cook  must  be  quick of percep­
tion,  correct  in  judgment,  methodical, 
accurate,  neither  dull  nor  slow.  And 
when  we shall  be  willing to pay a better 
price  to  have  good  cooking  done,  and 
shall so dignify the  position as to render 
the  conditions  more  desirable  under 
which a girl enters our homes,  we shall, 
doubtless,  spend 
less  time  bemoaning 
our sad  fate in being  at  the mercy of in­
efficient help. 

H.  A.  R.

Much in  the world depends upon those 

who do the thinking.

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S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S. P.  A'W.  1 75@2  GO 
C.  Co......................  1  65@1  90
Moschus  Canton___   @ 4 0
Myristlca, No  1 .........  65®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia......................  16®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
C o.....................  @2 00
P ld s Llq, N.»C., M gal
doz  ...........................  @2  00
P lds Llq., q u a rts......  @1  00
p in ts..........  @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
PllxB urgun.................  @  7
Plumbl A cet............... 
io@  12
Pulvls Ipecac et opll.. 1  1001  20 
Pyrethrum,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......   @1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv...........   20®  30
8®  10
Q uasslae...................... 
Qulnla, S. P. A W .34*039)4
S.  German__   27®  37
Rubla  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
16®  18
Salad n ........................ 2 30®2  50
Sanguis  Draconls......   40®  50
Sapo,  W .......................   12®  14
M.........................   10®  12
Seldllts  M ixture........   @  20
Slnapls..........................  @  18
opt....................  @  80

“  G ..............   @ 1 5

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

“  Mbbl. 
“  10 gal. 
“ 
5 gal. 

“   M yrcla  D om  
“  M yrda Im p 
“  Vlnl Rect. bbl... 
“ 
“ 
“  
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.

Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................
@  35 
Snuff .Scotch, De. Voes 
@  35 
Soda Boras, (po.7-9).. 
7®  9
24®  25
Soda  et Potass Tart.
Soda Carb...................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.............. 
3®  5
Soda,  A sh......................3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas.............   @  2
Spts. Bther C o ............  50®  55
  @2 00
  @2 50
2  53
2 88
2 61
2 63
Strychnia  Crystal.......1 40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl..............  2v4@ 3
Roll...............   2  ®  2M
Tam arinds.....................  
8® 10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobrom ae...............45  @  48
Vanilla....................... 9 00@16 00
7®  8
Z ind  Sulph.................... 
Bbl. Gal
70
70
60
65
40
45
59
fl
61
(3
71
r  65
31
40

Whale, w inter__
Lard,  extra..........
Lard, No.  1..........
Linseed, pure raw 
Linseed,  boiled.. 
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained............
Spirits Turpentine

“ 

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faints. 

bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian.............. IX  2@3
Ochre, yellow  Mars__IX  304
“ 
Ber.........IX  a@S
Putty,  commercial__ 2M  2M®8
“  strictly  pure.......2M  2X@8
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13015
ican ................... 
 
 
Vermilion,  English__  
68072
Green, Paris............... 
2OM027
Green,  Peninsular....... 
13016
Lead,  red......................  5M@6
“  w h ite .................5M06
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
@90
Whiting,  Gliders’........  
1 
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Bng.
c liff............................  
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15
No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Bxtra T urp...................16001  70
Coach  Body.................2 75@8 00
No. 1 Turp  F u rn ........ 1  00@1  10
Eutra Turk Damar__ 1  5501  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp........................... 
70®75

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ACIDUM.
Acetlcum ...................
Benzoicum  German.
Boraclc 
....................
Carbollcum  .  ............
Cltrlcum ....................
H ydrochlor...............
Nltrocum 
.................
O xallcum ...................
Phosphorlum  dll. 
Salley Ileum .
Salley Ileum .. 
Sulphurlcum. 
Tannleum .. 
Tartarlcum.

AMMONIA.

BALBAMTM.

Peru............... . . .........
Terabln. Canada

Caaaiae

Myrlca  Cerlfera, po.
Qulllala,  grd. 
Sassafras  —

KXTBACTUM.
Glycyrrhlsa  Glabra..
po...............
“ 
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
“ 
la...............
Ms.............
“  
“  M»— ..........
n u u

Carbonate P red p ........
Citrate and Q ulnla—
Citrate  Soluble............
Ferr ocy anldum Sol...
Solut  Chloride............
Sulphate,  com’l ..........
pure..............

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8®   10 
65®  75 
15
22®  32 
41®  44 
3®  5
10®  12 
10®  12 
20
65®  70 
IX®  5 
40®1  60 
30®  33

4® 6
6® 8
12® 14
12® 14

0002 25
8001 00
45® 50
5003 00

20® 25
8® 10
25® 30

45® 50
03 25
45® 50
400 50

18
12
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

24® 25
33® 35
11® 12
13® 14
14® 16
16® 17

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80
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@ 15
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FLORA.

 
y o u  a.

A rn ica.......*.................  12®  H
A nthem ls....................   18®  25
Matricaria 
190-5

 

Baroama 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin-

.....................  14®  30
nlvelly......................  18®  25
Alx.  25®  30
and  Mb......................  12®  20
8®  10

Salvia  officinalis,  Me
Ura TJrsi 
..................... 

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Acacia,  lat  picked—  
®  40
2d 
.... 
3d 
®   30
.... 
®  20
sifted aorta... 
p o . .. .. ..........    60®  80
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60). ..  50®  60 
“  Cape, (po.  20)...  ®  12
Socotri, (po.  60).  ®  50
Catechu, Is, (Ms, 14 Me>
16)..............................  
®  1
Ammoniac...................  55®  60
Aisafcetlda,  (po.401 
35®  40
Bensomum...................  50®  55
Camphors  ...................  50®  54
Buphorbium  p o .........  35®  lo
Galbanum...................  @2  50
Gamboge,  po...............   66®  80
Gualaoum,  (po  85)....  @  30
Kino,  (po  3  00)..........  
0 3  00
M astic.........................   ®   80
Myrrh, (po  45)............  ®  40
Opll  (po  3  10®3 30)..l  90®2 00
Shellac  ........................  40®  60
40®  45
Tr.agacanth.................  50®  80

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bleached....... 

Absinthium ...........................   25
Bupatorium ...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  26
M ajorum................................   28
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
“  V lr...........................   26
Rue..........................................   30
Tanaoetum, Y ........................  22
Thymus, V.............................   25

MASICBSIA.

Caldned, F a t...............  56®  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  I f ....  20®  25 
Carbonate, Jennings..  35®  86

OLXUM.

Absinthium ..................2  50@3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc  ..  ..  30®  50
Amydalae. Amarae___8  00@8 25
A ntal..............................1  90@2 00
Aurantl  Cortex............l  80@2 00
Bergamll  .....................3  00©3 20
C ajlputl...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................   75®  80
C ed ar...........................   35®  65
Chenopodll.................   ®1  60
C lnnam onll.................. 1  40@1 50
Gltronella....................   @  45
Conlum  Mao...............   36®  65
Copaiba  ......................  80®  90

l  go@l  70

Cubebae.................... 
Bxechthltos....................   1  20® 1 30
B rigeron............................1  20@1 30
G aultheria........................ 1  50®1 60
Geranium,  ounce.......  @  75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.......  60®  70
Hedeoma  .....................l  25@l  to
Jum per!........................  5002  00
Lavendnla..................   90®2 00
Llm onls............................. 1  3001 50
Mentha Piper................1  85®3 00
Mentha Verld...................l  8002 00
Morrhuae, gal................... 1  40@1 50
Myrcla, ounce.............   @  50
O live............................   90®3 00
Plcls Liquida, (gal..85)  10®  12
88®  96
K lclnl.........................  
Rosmarinl............ 
l  00
Rosae,  ounce.................... 6 5008 50
Succlnl.........  ..............  40®  45
Sabina.........................   90@1  00
Santal  ..........................2 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess. ounce__   ®  65
Tiglfi....................  ....  @1  oo
Thym e.........................   40®  50
opt  .................  @1  60
Theobromas................  
is®  20
POTASSIUM.
BiCarb.........................  15®  18
Bichrom ate................. 
li®   13
Bromide...................... 
45®  48
Carb...........................  .  12®  15
Chlorate  (po.l7@19)..  16®  18
Cyanide.......................   50®  55
Iodide................................ 2  9003 00
Potassa, Bitart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, Bitart, com...  @ 1 5
Potass  Nltras, opt  __  
8®  10
Potass Nltras............... 
7® 
9
Prusslate ......................  25®  23
Sulphate  po............... 
15®  18

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A conitum ....................  20®  25
Althae...........................  22®  25
A nchusa....................  
12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @  25
Calamus.......................   20®  40
Gentiana  (po. 12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhisa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)....................  
@ 3 0
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po......................  15®  20
Ipecac,  po..........................1  30@l 40
Iris  plox (po. 35®38).  35®  40
Jalapa,  p r....................  40®  45
Maranta,  Me..............   @  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
R hel..............................  75@1  00
“  cu t.......................   @1  75
“  pv.........................   75@1  35
Splgelia.......................   35®  38
Sangulnarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentaria................. 
50®  55
Senega.........................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 4 0  
M  @ 25
Scillae, (po. 85)...........   10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Foetl-
  @  35
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  @  25
German...  15®  20
inglbera..................  
18®  20
Zingiber  }................. 
18®  20

dus,  po..............  

smem.
Anlsum,  (po.  20). 
®  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  14®  16
Bird, Is...................... 
4®  6
Carol, (po. 18).............   10®  12
Cardamon..........................1  0001 25
Corlandrum.................  12®  14
Cannabis Satlva..........  4® 
5
Cydonlum....................   75@1  00
Cnenopodium  ............  10®  12
....1  80®2 00
Dlptenx Odorate 
Foenlculum.................  @  15
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
6®  8
U n i .................... 
3MO 4
Uni, grd.  (bbL 3M) - -  3M®  4
Lobelia.........................   35®  40
4®  5
Pharlarls Canarian.... 
R ap a...............................4M®  6
Slnapls  Albu.............. 
7® 
8
r   N igra............  11®  12

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Frumentl, W.. D.  Co.. 2 00@2 50
D. F. R ........2 0002 25
1  2501  50
Jnnlperis  Co. O. T — 1  65®2 00
.............. 1  75®8 50
Saacharum  N.  B .........1  9002 10
Spt.  Vlnl  Galll............ 1  7506 50
Tftnl Oporto...................... 1  2S@2 00
Vlnl  Alba......................... 1 2502 00

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage....................2 50Q2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
200
carriage  ................... 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage..........  
1  10
Bxtra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................  
85
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage .........................  
65
75
Hard for  slate  use —  
Yellow Reef, for  slate 
u s e ............................  
1  40

SYRUPS.

A ccacla.................................   50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferri  Iod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes.......... 
56
Rhel Arom............................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis...............  60
....  50
Senega...................................   50
Sdllae................................... 
50
"  Oo.............................. 
50
50
T o iatan ..............................  
Prunas  rlrg ...................... 
60

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Aconitum Napellls R ..........  60
V..........  50
and m yrrh..................  60
A rnica...................................  50
AsafcBtlda..............................   4)
Atrope Belladonna...............  60
Benzoin..................................  60
Co.............................  50
Sangulnarla...........................  50
Barosm a................................  50
Cantharides...........................  75
Capsicum..............................   50
Ca damon..............................   75
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Co...........................  75
Castor.......................................... 1 00
Catechu..................................  50
C inchona..............................   50
Co........................  .  60
Columba................................  50
Conlum ..................................  50
Cubeba...................................   50
D igitalis................................  50
Ergot......................................   50
G entian..................................  50
Co..............................   60
G ualca...................................  50
ammon......................  60
Z ingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................   50
Iodine.....................................  75
Colorless....................   75
Ferri  Chloridum..................   35
K ino......................................   50
Lobelia...................................  50
M yrrh.....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
O pll........................................  85
“  Camphorated............... 
50
“  Deodor...........................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Q uassia.................................   50
R h atan y .......................  
  50
Rhel........................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol....................  50
Co...............   50
Serpentaria...........................  50
Stromonlum...........................  60
T olutan.................... 
60
... 
V alerian.............................. 
50
Veratrum Veride................. 
so

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ground, 

¿Ether, Spts  Nit, 8 F ..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
Alum en.......................   2M®  3

“ et Potass T. 

(po.
7)................................ 
3®  4
Annatto........................  40®  50
Antlmonl, po............... 
4®   5
55®  60
Antlpyrin....................  @1  40
Antlfebrin...................   @  ffi
Argentl  Nltras, ounce  @  53
Arsenicum..................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 1  2001  80
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
10;  Ms,  12)...............  @  9
Cantharides  Russian,
p o ..............................   @1  00
Capsid  F ructus,af...  @  15
po—   @  15
B po.  @  15
Caryophyllus,  (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40..........  @8 75
Cera  Alba, S. & F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava..................  40®  42
Coccus.........................  ®   40
Cassia Fructus............  @  25
Centrarfa...................... 
Q  10
Cetaceum....................   @  40
Chloroform.................  60®  68
squlbba..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  15®1 30
Chondrus....................  20®  25
Clnchonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German  3V4®  12
Cocaine .:..........................5 80@6 00
Gorki,  list,  dli.  per
cent  .......................  
65
Creasotum...............  
@  35
@  2
Creta, (bbl. 75)....... 
“  prep.............  
5®  5
preelp............... 
“ 
9®  11
“  Rubra.................  @  8
50®  55
Crocus........................ 
Cudbear........................  @ 24
Cnprl Sulph... 
__   5 @  6
D extrine......................  10®  12
Bther Sulph.................  75®  90
Bmery,  all  numbers..  @  8
po....................  @  6
Brgotajpo.)  40 ..........   30®  35
Flake  W hite...............   12®  IS
G alla............................   @  28
Gambler.......................   7  @  8
Gelatin,  Cooper..........  @  60
French...........   300  50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  70.
Glue,  Brown.............. 
9®  15
“  W hite.................  18®  25
Glycerine....................   13®  20
Grana Paradis]............  @  22
Humulus......................  25®  56
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®   79
“  C o r__  
Q   69
Ox Rubrum  ®  89 
Ammonlatl..  ®  99 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.............   @  65
IchthyoboUa, Am..  ..1  25®1  50
Indigo...........................  75@100
Iodine,  Resubl............ 3 8003 90
Iodoform.........................   @4 70
Lupulin...........................  @2 25
Lycopodium...............   60®  65
M a d s ...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarg Iod..................   @  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltli  10®  IS 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
Mannla,  8 .F .............   60®  M

1M)...........................  *M® 4

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THE  MJLCtLlGAJN  'rKADESMAN.

GROCERY  PR IC E   CU RREN T.

The prices quoted in this list are for the  trade only, in each quantities as are usually purchased by retail  dealers.  They are prepared just before 
going to press  and are an accurate  index of  the local  market. 
It is impossible to give  quotations  suitable for all conditions of  purchase, and those 
below are given  as  representing  average  prices  for average  conditions of  purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of  strong credit  usually  buy closer than 
those who  have poor  credit.  Subscribers  are  earnestly requested to  point  out  any  errors or omissions, as it is our  aim to make  this feature of  the 
greatest possible  use to dealers.

CREAM   TA RTA R.
au
Strictly  pure........................ 
80
T elfers  Absolute.............. 
Grocers’...............................15©25
CLOTHES  PINS.

Daisy  B rand.

COCOA  SHELLS.

5 gross b o x e s.............  40©45
351b  bags.......................   ©3
Less  quantity 
Pound  packages........6M©7

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C O F F E R

G reen.

 

Santos.

„   , 
' B i s .
Fair..................... 
78
 
Good.................................. 
ip
Prim e..................................... 21
Golden....................................21
Peaberry  ................. 
...23
Fair........................................ ..
Good.......................................20
Prim e....................................'.22
Peaberry  ............. . . . . . . . .. .23
Mexican and Guatemala.
Fair.........................................21
Good....................................... 22
Fancy..................  . . . . . . . ..  24
Prime .».............. 
23
M illed..................... ::::::::.2 4
Java.
Interior............................. 
25
Private Growth.....................27
M andehllng..........................28
Im itation...............................25
Arabian.............................  '  28

Maracaibo.

Mocha.

Roasted.

 

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E xtract.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Ac. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M o L aughlln^X X X X ..  £1  30 
Mon. 60 or 100 lb.  case  ..  21  30
Arbuckle............................  21  30
Jerse y ............  .................   21  30
Valley City A  gross............ 
75
1  15
Felix 
Hommel’s, foil,  gross.........1  65
"  
.........2 85
tin 
CHICORY.
ia lk ........................................  5
led............................ 
7
Cotton,  40 ft.......... per dot.  1  25
1  40
1  60
1  75
1  90
86
100

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60ft...........  
60 f t ...........  
70ft...........  
» f t ...........  
no i t _____  
72 ft-------- 
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N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gall Borden Bagle.............   7 40
Crown...................................   e  25
Daisy.......................................5 75
Champion............................   4  so
M agnolia...............................4  25
Dime.......................................3  35

Peerless evaporated cream  5  75 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Cherries.

Gages

Pears.

Peaches.

R e d ..............................   ©l  15
W hite........................... 
1  40
B rie............................. 
1  15
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
B rie............................  
1  no
1  06
C alifornia................... 
Gooseberries.
1  II
Common...................... 
P ie ............................... 
10
M axw ell...................... 
1  40
Shepard’s ................... 
1  40
California....................  ©1  56
Monitor 
......................
Oxford..........................
Domestic...................... 
1  0
Riverside...................... 
1  2!
Pineapples.
Common.......................1  00©1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2 50
grated........  
2  75
Booth’s sliced.............  @ -  5
grated............  @2  75
Quinces.
Common...................... 
1  10
Raspberries.
95
Red................................ 
Black  Hamburg..........  
1  40
1  10
Brie,  black  ................. 
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................  
1  25
1  26
Ham burgh................... 
85
Brie............................... 
T errapin.........................  
81
Whortleberries.
85
Blueberries................. 
M eats.
Corned  beef 
....................... 2  15
...........................2  25
Roast beef 
Potted  ham, 74 lb ..................J  26
“  M lb ...................  70
“  M lb .........   75
V egetables.

tongue, A lb ................... 1 35
chicken, M lb ..........  

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Beans.

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Peas.

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Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  15
French style..........2 00
Limas.....................1 25
Lima, green  ......................... 115
soaked........................  70
Lewis Boston Baked............ l  25
Bay State  Baked........................1 25
World’s  Fair  Baked............ l  25
Picnic Baked.........................   95
Hamburgh............................. 1  15
Livingston  B den..................1 00
P urity.....................................  go
Honey  Dew................................ 1 25
Morning Glory....................
Soaked................................  
75
Hambnrgh  m arrofat............1  30
early June  -  ...I   50
Champion Bng.. l  40
petit  pols.............1  40
fancy  sifted. . „1  65
Soaked  ..................................  eg
Harris standard..................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat...........1  ic
early Ju n e....... 1  30
Archer’s  Barly B lossom ....l  26
French  ...  ............................2  75
Mushrooms.
French........................  
19©21
Pumpkin.
S rie...................- ............—   90
Squash.
Hubbard................................7  75
Succotash.
Hamburg.................. 
7  3
Soaked...................................  so
Honey  Dew.................................7 80
B rie........................................1  35
Hancock..............................  ?o
Excelsior.......« .................  go
Bcllpse............................ 
75
Hamburg
110 
Gallon 
2 25

Tomatoes.

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CHOCOLATE. 

............
Baker’s.

German Sweet.................... 
¿5
Premium............................. 
37
45
Breakfast  Cocoa.... 
CH EESE.
8 V4
Amboy.......................... 
Acme............................  
a
¿A
Jersey........................... 
Lenawee............. 
8
au
Riverside................... 
Gold  Medal 
s
.............. 
Skim 
5©6
.........................  
77
Brick............................. 
Bdam..........................  
7  00
20
Leiden.......................... 
L im burger................. 
©15
©21
Pineapple 
©35
Roquefort 
Sap S a g o .................... 
©18
Schweitzer, Imported.  ©24 
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domestic 

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

A X LE OREASE.
doz
55
. . .  
60
.... 
.......  50
.... 
75
.......  65
..  . • ......   56

A u ro ra..........
Jastor Oil.......
Diamond........
Frazer’s ..........
Mica 
.............
Paragon 

gross
6 00
7  00
5 50
9 00
7  50
6 00

B A K IN G   P O W D E R  

Arctic.

“ 4 do*  “ 
“ 2 doz  “ 
“ 1 do*  “ 
A*>  “ 
1 9 ) “ 
Snn Light
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u  id.  jui>. 8  do*....
"  ...............
<  :»•  , 
1 lb.  • 
1  “  ....................
Bulk......................................
w  9> can* 6'doz'"cftse..........  
56
Si  9> 
............. 1  JO
j  9> 
..............200
5  9» 
... ......... 9 00
Red Star, 74 9> can*...........  
40
“ 
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........
“ 
1  40
45 
A lb. cans, 6  doz. case—
85 
A lb.  “  4  doz. 
....
1  60
1 
lb. “  2  doz.  “  —
Van  Anrooy’s Pure.
v  lb. cans, 6 doz. case....... 
85
W  lb. 
......   1 65
1 
3  25
lb. 
. 
45 
t’eifer’*,  A lb. cans, do* 
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..1 5 0
46
•i 
1  50
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“  2 doz.  “ 
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14 lb  cans................... 7»
llb c a n s 

Our Leader, 14 -b cans....... 

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BATH  B RICK  
2 dozen In caBB.

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E nglish.......................
Bristol.....................................  ™
Domestic................................  61
Gross 
Arctic, 4 o*  ovals  -  ... 
3 60
“  8o* 
pints,  round............9 oo
“ 
«  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
4  no 
“ No. 3, 
8 on 
“  No. 5, 
4  50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........ 3 00
6  80

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8 oz.
BROOMS,

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do. 2 H url............................ 1  90
HO. 1  “ 
.............................2  00
Ho. 2 Carpet.........................8  15
No. 1 
“ 
......................... 2  50
Parlor G e m ........................2  50
Common Whisk  .................  ®
Fancy 
Warehouse...........................2 85

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Stove, No.  1  ........................  1  ®
“  ni 
....  150
“  15  ........................  1  75
iuoe  Root Scrub, 2  row—   86
ttioe  Root  Scrub,8 row  ...  1  25
Palmetto, goose...................  1  50
Hotel, 40 lb. boxes  ............  10
Star  40 
.............   9
Paraffine  .............................  M
W eking 
.......  ..................   24

CANDLES.

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lia it.
Clam*
Little Neck,  1 lb 

............1  20
“  2  lb .................. 1  90
d a m  Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 8 lb ....................... S
Standard,  l i b ......................  80
21b.................... 145
Lobsters.
star,  1  lb............................... 2 45
“  2  lb ............................... 3 5(
Plouio, 1 l b ............................2 m

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“  »alls  ___  

Mackerel
Standard, 1 lb ........................ 1  10
2  lb 
................2  10
tf.uaturd,  2 lb 
................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb .............2 25
Souse-1, 2  l b .............  
.2 25
Columbia River, f l a t ...........1  go
I  m>
Alaska, Red 
.................l  30
p in k ............................... 1 20
Kinney’s,  f la ts .......................... 1 95
Sardines.
American  14*.................   © 4
A«..........  .  .  © 6
Imported  M s ....................   © 9
As  ..................  ©:3
Mustard  M *......................  © 7
Boueleas 
21
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Trout.
drooi  3, lb 
2 50
F ru its.
Apples.

 

 

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Id. sta n d a rd ....... 
Pork state, gallons ... 
Sambnrgh,
Apricots.
Live oak....................... 
Santa Cruz..................  
Lusk’s ...........................  
Overland....................  
Blackberries.
P. A W .........................  

1  40
1  40
1  SO
1  40
85

 

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Triumph Brand.

Half  pint, 25 bottles..........  2 75
Pint 
...4 50
Quart 1 doz bottles...................8 50
Half pint, per  doz.....................1 35
Pint, 25 bottles........................... 4 50
Quart  per  doz  .....................3 75

“Tradesman.’

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1  books, per hundred.
2 
8 
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8  1  books, per  Hundred 
8 2 
8 8 
8  5 
810 
820 

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3 00
....  8 50
....  4 00
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83 00
8 2
3 50
8 3
4  n
8  5 
5 Of
810 
6 <N
820 
7 «
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
2U- books or over..  5  per  oen 
500 
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COUPON  PASS  BOOKS, 
lean  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. |
20 books......................... 8 1  00
.SO 
2 00
100 
300
250 
6 25
,500 
10 00

 
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C R E D IT  CHECKS.

600, any one denom’n .......83 00
....... 5 00
1000.  “ 
“ 
........8 00
“ 
2000,  “ 
Steel  puneb 
75

“ 
“ 
....................  

CRACKERS.

Butter.

..

Seymour XXX........................
Seymour XXX, cartoon.......
Family  XXX 
Family XXX,  cartoon.......
Salted XXX  .........  ..............
Salted XXX,  cartoon 
.......
Kenosha 
.  .........................
Boston............  ...................
Butter  blscnlt  ...................1
Soda.
Soda,  XXX  ................. 
514
Soda, City 
.  ......................  7yj
Soda,  Duchess 
¿A
Crystal W a fe r....................1074
Long  Island Wafers 
.......  11
S. Oyster  XXX......................514
City Oyster. XXX...................  574
Farina  Oyster......................  6

.............  

Oyster.

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

D om estic.

Apples.

14

9

“ 

.. 

 
8
6M
774

Peaches

Apricots.

In bags 
Pears.

etc
Sundried,.......................... 
774
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
California In  bags..  ..  7A@8 
Evaporated In boxes. 
8
Blackberries.
In  boxes.........................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags  .......................
251b.boxes  ... 
.............. 
Peeled, In  boxes  .............. 
 
Cal. evap.  “ 
“ 
.... 
California In bags....... 
California boxes............ 
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels............................
50 lb. boxes....................
............
* “  »• 
Prunella*.
f  - lb  boxes 
..... 
Raspberries
in  barrels..........................  
501b. boxes 
...............  
 
25 lb  “ 
Raisins.
.........................   374

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.
................................  4
 

2 crown 
3 
• 
2  crown  ..................................3M
8 
8M

“ 
“ 
Loose Muscatels In Bags.
“ 

 

 

 

94
22
‘2 4
V2A

 
F oreign.
Currants.

Scbuit’s Cleaned.

Patras,  bbls....................   @7a
Vostizzas. 50 lb.  cases...........3%
25 lb.  boxes.............................5
1  Id.  packages 
.............574
Citron, Leghorn, 251b. boxes  12 
Lemon 
8
Orange 
10

25  “ 
25  “ 

Peel.

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
Raisins.

Ondnra. 29 lb. boxes..  ©  6
“ 
Sultana, 20 
..  6A©  8
Valencia. 30  “

California,  100-120 ................. 4

Prunes.
90x100  26 lb.  bxs. 5 A
80x90 
.. 67»
7Px80 
6A
00x70 
S ilv er.................. 

“ 
“ 
“ . 7 1
  7©10

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

 

FLA VO RIN G   EXTRACTS. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money.

Bonders’.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
2A

115 lb. kegs..................... 

Farina.

Grits.
Hominy.

Walsh  DeRoo  &  Co.’s ........  1 S5
Barrels  ..........................«...  2a
G rits......................................  3A
Dried............................... 
5M

Lima  Beans.

Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
Imported......................10 a @1 1
Empire...................................  3
Chester......................................2M

Pearl Barley.

55

. 

“ 

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bn...!*6**."............. 
l 10
Split  per l b ............ 
2A
Schumacher, bbl................  54 65
A bbl................ 2 50
Monarch,  bbl  .....................   4 00
Monarch, A  bbl........................ 2 13
Quaker,  cases.........................  3 20
Oven Baked.................................8 25
_ 
German................................   8
Bast India.............................  3A
Cracked.................................  8

Wheat.

8ago.

FISH —Salt.

Bloaters.

Cod.

Yarmouth..................................   1 65

“ 

“  M  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

Georges cared...................  4
Georges genaine..............5
Georges selected..............6
Boneless,  bricks..  . .......«M
Boneless,  strips..................6£©S
Halibut.
Smoked..................... 
11©12
Herring.
Holland, white hoops keg 
80 
bbl  10 (0
“ 
“ 
Norwegian.........................   11 00
Round, 74 bbl 100 lbs........   2 55
..........   1 30
Scaled.....................................  13 A
No. 1,  100 lbs....................... 12  00
No. 1,40 lb s.........................  5  50
No. 1,  10 lbs..........................1  35
No. 2,100 lbs....................... 10  <X)
No. 2,40 lbs.........................  4  30
No. 2,10 lbs.........................  1  15
Family, 90 lbs......................
10  lbs ...................
Russian,  kegs......................  
55
No. 1, A bbls., 1001 bs...........4  25
No.  1 M bbl, 40  lbs.............. 1  95
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs................ 
56
No  1,81b  k its................... 
48
No. 1  family
A bbls, 100 lbs............87 00 2 75
M  “  40  “  ............3  10  1  40
101b.  kits....................  
85  1  43
“ 
81b. 
7 0   37
..................... 
PLY   P A P E R .
9

Sardines.
Trout.

Whlteflsh.

“ 

XX Grade 
Vanilla.
[2 o z......81  75
>4 oz......3 50

“ 
“ 

Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 os regular panel.  75 
1  20 
4 os 
...150
2 00 
60s 
...2  00
8 00 
No. 3  taper...........1  36
2 00 
No. 4  te{)er...........1  50
2 50
N o rth ro p ’s
Lemon.’.Vanilla. 
1  10 
oval taper  75
“  1 20
“ 
1'75 
85
1  20 
“ 
“  1 60
2 25

2 oz 
3oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
4 

oz 

G U N PO W D E R  
Rifle—Dupont’s.

K e g s............................................
.8 25
Half  kegs................................1 go
Quarter  kegs......................... 1 10
1 lb  cans................................   30
A lb  cans...............................  78
Kegs.........................................4 25
Half  kegs................................2 40
Quarter kegs.......... ............... 1  35
lib  c a n s....................................34

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

 

Bagle Duck—Dupont’s.

H ERBS.

INDIGO.

Kegs......................... 
  11  00
Half  kegs................................5 75
Quarter kegs...........................3 00
1  lb  cans.............................
60
Sage.....................................
Hops.....................................
Madras,  5 lb. boxes..........
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 
15  lb. palls...................
“ 
17  “ 
1
................ 
80  “  “ 
1
.................  
LICO RICE.
Pore.....................................  
„
Calabria..................................  25
Sicily.......................................  12
Root.........................................  10
LYE.
Condensed, 2 dos  ..............I  20
4 dos................2  21

JE L L Y .

“ 
M IN CE  M EAT.

Regular Size.

Per box__ 38c.  Per case.. $3 40
In  5 case lots, per case__ 3 30
In 10 case lo‘s. per case__ 3  20
“Little Tanglefoot”
Retells, per box  ................. 
25
Costs, per case....................   1  75

5

LABUB  SIZE

DWARF SIZE.

25 dbl. shts. In box, pr. bx. 8  38 
Per case of  10 boxes...........  3 40
25 double sheets In  box,
Case of 10 boxes..................  1 25
Case of 21  boxes.................   2 50
COMBINATION  CASE.
boxes Large  Decoy j ... ..
5 
12 boxes Dwarf Decoy |  - - *•» *» 

MATCHES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

Columbia Parlor...................81 25
XXX Sulphur.......................   1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  sulphur......................... 1 66
Anchor parlor.........................1 70
No. 2 home.............................. 1 10
Export  parlor.........................4 00

Mince meat, 3 doz. in case.  2 75
Pie Prep. 3  doz.  In  case__ 2  15

M EASURES.
Tin, per dosen.

1  gallon.......................................... .  81  75
Half  gallon...................... .  1  40
Q n a it................................
70
f t n t ...................................
45
Half  pint  .......................... 
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per doz.
1 gallon............................. .  7 00
Half gallon...................... .  4  75
Q u art................................ .  3 75
PtDt 

...............................

2

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porio K i i  j .

Sugar house......................
O rdinary.......................................
P rim e ..........................................  
.
Fancy................................
N«w Orleans.
F a ir ....................................................
Good  ...............................................
Extra good...................................
Choice 
........................................
Fancy
Half -barrels Sc.extra

14
1C
20
30
18
22
27
32
40

MìHEK  MICHIGAN  'IHADEBMAK.

2 9

PICK L ES.
Medium.
Barrel«, 1,200  count... 
Half bbls, 600  count.. 
Small.
Barrels, 2,400  count 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
P IP E S .
Clay, No.  216............................... 1 70
“  T. D. full count............  TO
Cob, No.  8....................................1 20

©4 00
©- 50
5 50

3  £5

PO TASH .

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s .........................  
Penna Salt  Co.’s ....................   8 00

4  00

B IC E .
Domestic.

Carolina head..........................OH
“  No. 1..........................5
“  No. 2..........................4H
3H

Broken............... 
Japan, No. 1............................
Java............................. ..........*
Patna....................................

No. 2............................. 0

 
Imported.

 

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

A llsp ice...............••...........  'H
Cassia, China in m ats......  9)4
Batavia in buna — 15
Saigon In rolls........ 32
doves,  Amboyna................. 22
Zanzibar —  ............HH
Mace  Batavia........................jjj}
Nutm eg^fancy

“ 
11 
« 

“ 

ft 
“ 

No!  2........................ 55
Pepper, Singapore, black...  10 
“  w hite...  .20
shot.......... ..-V .-..16

Pure Ground In Bulk.
A llsp ic e .............................
Cassia,  B a ta v ia ...............

and  Saigon.25
i< 
“ 
Saigon......................35
doves,  Amboyna.................."
a  Zanzibar...................lb
Ginger, African.....................16
Jam aica...................»
Mace  Batavia.... •••••• • • • • •
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .22
«  Trieste......................*
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...... • • ■—
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 16
**  w hite........24

“ 

ft 
“  Cayenne.......................... 20 #
Sasre 
••Absolute” in Packages.

••••• »••••• ••••

“ 

Hs  Hs
A llspice........................  g*  i   S
Cinnamon....................   g* 
i  32
Cloves..........................   64  1  M
Ginger,  Jam aica........   84  1 »
A frican............  84  1  56
Mustard........................  84  1  »
Pepper..........................  84  155
Sage.............................     84
Granulated,  bbls.................   }H
751b  cases........   IX
Lump, bbls 
.........................
1451b kegs.................

SAL  80D A .

•• 

“ 

SEEDS.
A nise...........................
Canary, Smyrna.......... 
C araw ay..................... 
Cardamon, Malabar 
Hemp,  Russian 
....... 
Mixed  Bird 
........... 
Mustard,  white  ........
Poppy...........................  
R ape............................. 
Cuttle  bone................ 
STARCH.

4
•
oo
4
4*
“
4*
80

Klngsford's Corn.

 

“ 

Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.

Common Corn
“ 
Common Gloss
" 
“ 

..  ...........   6H
20 1-lb packages. 
40 1-lb 
.......... ..,•••  6H
40 1-lb.  packages..................   69X
6-lb. boxes...........................
20-lb  boxes.............................  *>H
40-lb 
5)4
1-lb packages.........................   5
8-lb 
.........................   5
6-lb 
53£
 
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............   3)4
Barrels...................................   8*
Scotch, In  bladders............. 37
Maccaboy. In Jars.................35
French Rappee. In Jars  ... .48 
B oxes...................................... 51»
Kegs, Bngllsh.........................4M

SN CFF.

SODA.

 

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

Cases, 24 3  lb. boxes.........*  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.................  2 50
115 2H lb bags....  4 00
“ 
lb  “  ___   3 75
60 5 
“ 
“ 
....  3 50
3010  lb  “ 
65
“  20141b bags..............  3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls ............   2  50
11  2241b 
. . . . . . . .   2 25

Butter, 56 lb  bags.............  

•• 

 

 

 
 

 
 

Worcester.
115 2H-lb sacks..........................»4 CO
3 if
“ 
60 5-lb 
3  50
“  
3010-lb 
22  14 lb.  “ 
3 30
320 lb. bbl..................................  2 50
8 lb  sack s..........................32)4
60

linen acks........ ........  
Common Grades.

100 3-lb. sacks............................62 10
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks..........................  1 75
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags... 
28 lb. 
.. 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks.. 
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks 
56  lb.  sacks.........................  
Saginaw ............................. 
M anistee............................  

Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

Ashton.
Higgins.

30
16
75
75 
22
90
90

1  90

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

SALERATCS. 

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Church’s ............................... 3 30
DeLand’s ....................................3 15
Dwight’s ...........  .................. 3 30
Taylor’s.......................................3 00

SEELY’S  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.
1 oz. F. M. $  90 doz.
2  “  N. 8.  1  20  “
2
F. M.  1  40  “

Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M.  1  50 doz.
2  *•  N.  S.  2 00  “
2  “  F. M. 2  50  “

110 20 gro
12 60  “
14  40  »

16  20 gro 
21  60  “
25  50  •*

Rococo—Second Grade.

Lemon.
Vanilla.

2 oz............... 75 doz.. ...  8 00  “
2 doz........   1 00 doz.. ...10 50  *’

SOAP.

Laundry.

G. R. Soap Works Órands. 

“ 
“ 
“ 
Best German Family.

Concordia, 100 & lb. bars.. .3  50
5 box  lots........... 3 35
10 box lots...........3 30
20 box lots.......... 3 20
601-lb. bars.......................... 2 25
5 box  lots............................ 2  15
25.box.lots.............................200
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb .............. 3 90
White Borax, 100  * -lb ........3 65

Proctor A Gamble.

“ 

Concord..................................3  45
Ivory, 10  oz........................... 6  75
6  oz.............................4 00
Lenox.................................   3 65
Mottled  German...................3  15
Town Talk.............................3  25

Dingman Brands.

“ 

« 

Single box............................. 3  95
5 box lots, delivered.......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........ 3 75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d. .63 33 
plain...  3 27
N.  K.  Fairbank A Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus........................... 3  90
Brjwn, 60 bars......................2 10
80  b a r s .....................3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. A.Co.’s Brands.

Acme......................................3 65
Cotton Oil...............................6 00
Marseilles............................   4  00
Master 
..................................4 00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

“ 

SUGAR.

Sliver............................  
3 u5
M ono...................................3  30
Savon Improved  ...............  2 50
Sunflow er...........................2  80
Golden  ................................3  25
Economical  ......  
. . . .   2  25
Scouring
Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz. 
¿40
hand, 3 doz.......... 2  40
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino...............................  65  31
Cut  Loaf...............................  5 31
C ubes......................................4 91
Powdered  ...........................  5  09
XXXX  Powdered................  5 18
Granulated 
......................  4  82
Fine Granulated.................   4 62
Extra Fins Granulated...  4  75
Mould A ...............................  4 94
Diamond Confec.  A...........  4 61
Confec. Standard  A .............4 5!’
No.  1..................................   4  37
No.  2 ..................................  4 37
No.  3...................................  4  37
No.  4......................................4  57
No.  5...................................   4  81
No.  6.....................................4  25
No.  7...................................   4  13
No.  8...................................  4  12
No.  9..................................... 4  06
No.  10...................................  4  00
No.  11..................................... 3  94
No.  12..................................  3 87
No.  13...................................   3  75
No.  14..................  
3  56
Corn.

 
SYRUPS.

Barrels..................................20
Half bbls.............................. 22

 

Pure Cane.

F a ir........................................   15
Good.......................................  20
C hoice...................................   25

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

Lea A Perrin’s, la rg e ........ 4  75
small.......  2  75
Halford, la rg e .................... 3 75
small.................... 2 25
Salad Dressing,  la rg e .......4  55
sm all.......2  66
** 

“ 
" 

TEA 8.

japan—Regular.

SUN OUBKS.

BASKET  FIRED.

F a ir..............................   @17
Good.............................  ©20
Choice............................24  ©26
Choicest........................ 32  @34
DuBt...............................10  @12
F a ir..............................   @17
Good.............................  @20
Choice............................24  @26
Choicest.........................32  @34
D ust............................... 10  @12
F a ir............................... 18  @20
Choice...........................  @25
Choicest......................  @35
Extra choice, wire leaf  @40
Common to  fa ll........... 25  @35
Extra fine to finest___50  @65
Choicest fancy.............75  @85
@26
Common to  fair........... 23  @30
Common to fa ir........... 23  @26
Superior to fine.............30  @35
Common to  fair............18  @26
Superior to  fine........... 30  @40
F a ir............................... 18  @22
Choice....................—  24  @28
Best................ 
40  @50

OOLONG. 
IMPERIAL.

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

YOUNG HTSON.

GUNPOWDER.

32

TOBACCOS.
Cigars.
Congress  Brand.
................ 

 

Invincibles 
880 00
Imperials.................................   70 00
Perfectos.............................6 '  00
Boquets 
........................   55 00
Signal  Five...............................35 10
Comrade 
Mr.  Thomas............................. 35 CO

Edw. W. Ruhe’s Brands.

.......................  35 00

F ine Cut.

“ 

P. Loriilard A Co.’s Brands.

27
24
23
2,1
19

V4 bbls..........  

Private Brands.

D. Scotten A  Co’s Brands.

Sweet Russet...................  @25
Tiger.................................. 
30
60
Hiawatha.........................  
Cuba.................................. 
32
Rocket..............................  
30
Spaulding A Merrick's  Brands.
Sterling............................. 
30
Cherry..............................  @32
Bazoo..............................   @30
Can  Can...........................  @27
Nellie  Bly................... 24  @25
Uncle Ben..............— 24  @25
McGlnty...........................  
25
Columbia.......................  
Columbia,  drums  ........  
Bang  Up......................... 
Bang up,  drums 
........  
P l u g .
Sorg’s Brands.
Spearhead........................ 
Joker 
......................... 
Nobby Twist.....................  
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo...................................  
Hiawatha.......................... 
Valley C ity ...................... 
Finzer’s  Brands.
Old  Honesty  ........... • 
Jolly Tar 
 
Lorillard’s Brands.
Climax (8  oz., 41c)_____  
Green Turtle....................  
27
Three  Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler’s.Brands.
Something Good........  
38
Out of  Sight..................... 
Wilson  <& McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope........................ 
Happy Thought.  ............  
Messmate.........................  
No T ax.............................. 
Let  Go..............................  
Gatlin’s  Brands.

Smoking. 

24
43
37
32
31
27

39
30

39
27
40
25
3s
34

4
 

Scotten’s Brands.

Kiln  dried.......................   17@18
Golden  Shower  ................... 19
Huntress 
..............................26
Meerschaum  ................... 29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy..........................40
Stork  .................................   30
Germ an..................................15
F ro g ....................................--32
Java, %a foil.........................32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner....................................16
Banner Cavendish............... 36
Gold Cut 
.............................30
W arpatb.................................14
Honey  Dew............................26
Gold  Block............................30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless.................................. 26
Old  Tom................................ 18
Standard................................ 22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade............................. 40
Rob  Roy................................ 26
Uncle Sam.......................28@32
Red Clover............................. 32
Tom and Jerry.......................25
Traveler  Cavendish............ 38
Buck Horn.............................3u
Plow  Boy........................30@32
Corn  Cake  ............................16
40gr................................  @8
50 gr..............................   @9

Leidersdorf's Brands.

Spaulding A Merrick.

VINEGAR.

Brands.

II for barrel.

YEAST.

WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  .................... 
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75
D iam ond..............................   75
Eurek*....... 
1  f0
Magic....................................... 1 00
Yeast  Cream  ........................1  00
Yeast Foam  ..........................1  00

 
 

 
 

LAMP  BU R N ER S.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.— 6   dO S. i n   bOX.

CROCKERY AND  GLASSWARE 
40
No.OSnn........................................................... 
41
No. 1  “  ...................................................... 
 
No. 2  “  ............................................................. 
65
no
Tubular............................................................. 
Security.  No.  1..................................................   60
Security,  No.  2.....................  
86
N utm eg..................................  
so
Arctic...................................................................... 1 28
Per box
No. 0 Sun........................................................  ..  1  75
.............................................................  1  88
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “  ......................... 
2  TO
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. ..2  10 
No.1  “ 
...2   25
No. 2  “ 
.  .3  26
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60 
No. 1 
■   * 
...2  80
No. 2
80
•No. 1 Sun, w rapped and  lab eled .....................   g  70
“ 
No. 2  “ 
......................4  70
......................  4  gg
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 

First quality.
•* 
“ 
XXX Flint.

Pearl top.
“ 
“  
“ 
“  

“ 
“ 

“ 
• 

“ 
“ 

‘ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

' 

N o.'l, Sun,  plain  b u lb .................................... 
No. 2, 

3  40
...................................... V.4  40

F ire Proof—P lain Top.
“ 

“ 

 

“ 
La Bastle.

No. 1 Sun, plain  bulb,  p e rd o s ...........................  1 26
.. .   ..................   1  50
No. 2  •* 
No. 1 crim p, per d o s. . .t  ...................".!!.’!!.'."!  1  35
No. 3 
“ 
1  go

“  

11 

“ 

“ 

....................... ..................  
Rochester.

 

Electric.

No.  1, lim e  (65c d o z )...........................................  3 50
No. 2, lim e  (70c d o z ).................... 
 
.4  00
No. 2, flint  (80c doz)....................................... 
4  70
_  
No.2, lim e  (70c d o z ) ..................................  
4  10
No.  2 flint  (80c d o z ).............................................'.4 40
.  
Doz.
Ju n io r, R o c h e ste r.......................................... 
go
N u tm eg .........................................................................15
Illum inator Bases.................................................... 1 00
Barrel lo ts,5 doz  .......................................................90
7 in. Porcelain Shades................................ .........j   oo
Case lots, 12 doz........................................... .........‘  90

M iscellaneous.

Mammoth Chimneys for Store  Lamps.

Doz. 
No.  3  Rochester,  li m e ........   1  50 
No.  3  Rochester, flint. 
.  ..1  75 
No.  3  P earl top or Jew el gl’s .l  85 
No.  2  Globe Incandes. lim e...l  75 
No.  2  Globe Incandes. flint.. .2 00 
No.  2  Pearl glass.......................2  10 

* 

Box

4 20
4 80
5 25
5 10
5 85
o 00

O IL  CANS.

“ 

Pum p Cans.

Doz 
1  gal  tin cans w ith spout.....................
1  60 
1  gal  galv iron,  w ith spout..................
2  00 
2  gal  galv iron w ith spout  ..................................
3 25
3  gal  galv iron w ith spout.............  ...............  4  go
5 gal  M cNutt, 
w ith spout.  ...........  6  60
5  gal  E ureka, 
w ith spout..............  6 50
5  gal  Eureka w ith faucet.................................  7  00
..............
5  gal  galv Iron  A  A W  
.  f  50 
5  gal  T ilting  Cans,  M onarch.............
10 50 
5  gal  galv iron N&cefas..... 
.......
9 00
3  gal  Home Rule.  .............. ...................
.10 50 
5  gal  Home R nle.....................................
12  00 
3  gal  G oodenough..................................
.12 00 
5  gal  G oodenough  ................................
.13 50 
5  gal  P irate  King 
................................
10 50
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular,  cases 1 doz. each...................  45
No. 0, 
“ 
“ 
45
2  “ 
No. 0, 
411
bbls 5  “ 
“ 
No. 0,
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each. 1  25
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0,  per  gross..................................................  
¡¡.o
No. 1, 
No  2, 
No. 3,
Mammoth, per doz.............................................   75
JE L L Y   TUM BLERS—Tin Top.
in box, per box  (box 00)...  1  60
X Pints,  6 doz 
“ bbi,  •* 
24  “ 
X 
X 
6  “  “  box,  “  box  (box 00) __   1  80
X 
16  “ 
” bbl,  “ 
STONEW ARE— AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1  to 6 gal................................  ut>
“ 
X gal. per  doz........................  60
Jugs, )4 gal., per doz.......................................  76
*r   1 to 4 gal., per gal.................................. 
07
Mlik P ans,)% gal., per  d o t.............   ... 
6o
“ 
.........................  
78
Butter Crocxs, 1  and 2 gal........................... 
6)4
Milk Pans, )4 gal. per  doz............................  66
79

1  “ 
STONEW ARE— BLACK  GLAZED.

doz  (bbl 
doz  (bbl 

......... 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

I 

 
 

 
 

“

“ 
OILS.

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows :

9V4
@11)4
@11)4

FROM TANK WAGON.

BARRELS.
Eocene.........................
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.
Naptha.......................................
Stove Gasoline.........................
Cylinder.................................................... 81
Engine.......................................................12
Black,  winter.. 
9)4
Black, summer.
834
Eocene...................... 
8*4
...................... 
6)4
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight.................  
Scofield, Shurmer  A  Teagle  quote  as  follows:
Palacine...........................................
Daisy White.....................................
Red Cross, W W  Headlight...........
Naptha...............................................
Stove Gasoline...........................—
FROM TANK WAGON,
Palaclne.
Red Cross W W Headlight............

BARRELS.

9)4
6)4

35)................   ¿u
35). 

22

1  25 *

WOODEN W A RE .

Tubs, No. 1............................. 5 75
“  No. 2............................. 4  75
“  No. 3............................. 4  00
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop ....  1  35
Bowls, 11 Inch.....................
...................... 
“ 
90
.......................   1 25
“ 
“ 
......................   1 80
HIDES  PELTS  and  FURS
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

FURS.

lows:
40 @ 1  25
Mink............................
30 @ 75
Coon...........................
60 @ 1  15
Skunk........................
15 @ 18
Rat Spring............
08 @ 11
Rat,  w inter..........
03 @ C8
Rat, fall...................
Red  F o x ....  . . . 1  60 @ 1  61)
40 @ 6)
Gray Fox.,............
Cross Fox ............... 3 00 @ 5 00
50 @ 1 00
Badger...................
50 @ 75
Cat, wild..................
10 @ 25
Cat.  house............
Fisher........................ 5  00 @ 6 00
1  OU @ 2  50
Lynx...........................
L2 00 @ 3 00
Martin, drxk___
Martin, pale, yel  1  00 @ 1  50
Otter........................... 5  00 @ 8 09
W olf............................ 1  00 @ 2 00
Beaver...................... 3  00 @ 7  00
Bear............................. 15 00 @25  00
10 @ 25
Opossum.................
10 @ 25
Deer Skin, dry..
05 @ 12)4
Deer Skin,;green

HIDES.

“ 

6 @7
Green  .........................
@7)4
Part  Cured............
Pull 
........
7)4@  8)4 
8/4
Dry......................
5
@  6 
Kips, g re e n .......
@ 8
7
*•  cured........
VHUouuB,  (4ICCU .  ■
Calfskins,  green
7)4©  9
cured__ ..10 ©12
Deacon skins............ ..10 @¿5

•• 

No. 2 hides X off.
PBLT8.

WOOL.

Shearlings................. ..  5 ©  20
.................... ..10 @  30
Lambs 

W ashed.................... ..  8 @’3
Unw ashed............... .  5 @11
40 <8m5
Oid  W o o l...........

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Tallow ...................... ..  3 @ 4*
1 @  2
Grease  butter  ..........
Switches...................
1)40  8
Ginseng 
..............  2 Óo@2 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF«

WHEAT.

No.  1  W hite (58 lb. test)
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. test)

74
• 4

FLO U R  IN  SACKS.

4  40
3  9*
3  70
3  50
3  7U
4  50
4  (0
»Subject  to  usual  cash  dis-
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad-

Second  P a te n t..................
S traight..............................
C lear....................................
»G raham .............................
b u c k w h e a t.....................
Rvft............................ ..........
count.
ditlonal.

M EAL.

B olted ..............................................
G ranulated..................

2 45
2 70

F E E D   AND  M ILLSTU FFS.

S t  C a r   Feed,  screen e d .. *22  50
i2  00
St. Car Feed, unscreened
No.  1 Corn and  Oats  — 21  00
¿0  00
No. 2 S p e c ia l....................
21  00
Unbolted Corn  M eal.......
W inter W heat  Bran  — 15  00
16  00
W inter W heat M iddlihgs
Screenings  ................................... 14  00

CORN.

Car  lo ts...............................
Less than  car  lots.............59

. .57)4

OATS.

Car  lots  ................................34)4
Less than car lots  ...............-37

H AT.

No. 1 Timothy, car lots.... 10  00 
No. 1 
ton lots........ 1100

“ 

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.

FRESH  F 18B .
...................
Whlteflsh 
T ro u t  ................................
Black Bass..................
H a l ib u t ,............................
Ciscoes or Herring —
Blueflsh........................
Fresh lobster, per lb.
Cod................................
Haddock...................
No. 1 Pickerel............
Pike..............................
Smoked  W hite...........
Red  Snappers.............
Colombia  River  Sal­
mon ...........................
Mackerel......................
Scallops..............  ......
Shrimps  ......................
Clams...........................
SHELL  GOODS.

15
18@25

1  25

Oysters, per  100.......... 1  25@1  50
Clams. 
.  75© 1  00

OYSTERS— IN CANS.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands.
40
35
25

Fairnaven  C ounts.... 
F . J. D.  Selects............. 
Selects.............. 
30
F. J. D., Standards,... 

3 0

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

AVOIDABLE  MISTAKES

W here  Shoes  Are  Handled  in  a  Gen­

eral  Store.

The  general  merchant  is  sometimes 
disagreeably surprised to find that an ar­
ticle in  a  certain  style  of  footwear,  of 
which he has bought a large quantity  for 
the express purpose of  catering to a new 
class of laborers,  or other industry which 
he  thinks,  by  all  the  laws  of common 
sense,  should  make  a  market  for  that 
style,  fails  to  accomplish  this  purpose, 
and  by  reason of its peculiar fitness  for 
this class of customers is  adapted  to  no 
other,  and  becomes  a  dust collector  on 
his shelves.  An instance of this came to 
my notice  only  recently.  A  prominent 
merchant of  Eastern  Pennsylvania,  who 
has  the  reputation  of  being  a  pretty 
shrewd buyer,  controlled almost  the  en­
tire  trade  of a score or so of  Italian  la­
borers who had  been  transported to  that 
locality to work in the extensive Belgian 
block  quarries.  He  sold  them  flour, 
meats and other provisions,  and thought 
he would get a line on  their  shoes  also. 
On  his  next  purchasing trip to the  city 
his  eye  was  caught  by  an extra heavy 
brogan,  the sole of which was plentifully 
studded  with  nails  with 
large  heads, 
which  he  thought  would  be  just  the 
thing  to  withstand  the  wear  and  tear 
over the stones and  would  please his cus­
tomers extremely.  He  purchased a con­
siderable number of  them,  and when the 
next  quarryman  entered  the  store  and 
called for a pair of shoes  he  handed  cut 
for  inspection  a  pair  of  these,  saying, 
"Here is something new and  stout which 
I  bought  expressly  for  you,”  where­
upon,  to his intense  disgust,  the  Italian 
said,  “Hah,  ’talaian  shoes;  no  want 
’em.”  So it was with all of them.  They 
did  not  wish  other  people  to  tell them 
what they wanted,  and, the only  way  the 
merchant  sold  those  shoes was by pull­
ing the nails out.
A  persistent  effort  is  being  made  by 
some  unscrupulous  manufacturers 
to 
force on the  trade  a  shoe  with  a  com­
posite  sole,  generally  stamped  “solid 
leather.”  This is  an untruth,  pure  and 
simple,  and  for, the  protection  of  the 
public  some  course  should  be  taken  to 
prevent this wholesale fraud.  As a gen­
eral rule,  these shoes need to be  re-soled 
in about two weeks,  the sole  being about 
equal to compressed pasteboard,  and  the 
customer who  has  been  cheated  with  a 
pair of these shoddy articles looks  not to 
the maker,  but to the  dealer,  for  justifi­
cation.
One  of  the  greatest  blessings  of  the 
trade in late years is the  packing  of  all 
goods in  single  pair  cartons,  which  is 
now nearly  universal.  Formerly,  when 
all shoes were shipped loose in cases,  the 
shoes  either  had  to  be  sold  from  the 
cases, which necessitated a great amount 
of hard  work in pulling the  boxes  down 
from the shelves,  and  also  was  a  factor 
in  causing  a  great  amount  of  internal 
profanity  when 
the  strings  ¿became 
tangled,  or  they were  placed  uncovered 
on the shelves,  and,  as nothing will  offer 
such a  secure  resting-place  for  dust  as 
the seams of a  pair  of  shoes,  no  matter 
how often cursorily cleaned,  they  looked 
more shopworn  after a  few days  than  a 
pair of shoes in  the  single  carton  ever 
does.  A customer will invariably choose 
the pair in  the  carton,  other  conditions 
being the same,  as they  are  much  more 
convenient to carry,  making a neater and 
more regular package,  and he  is inclined 
to patronize the manufacturer who seems 
desirous of pleasing his customers.  The 
cost of the paper  cartons  is  very  little, 
and bears no  comparison  to  the  advan­
tages to be.derived from their use.
The  opinion  was  prevalent  among 
many merchants last  season  that,  owing 
to the almost  universal  wearing  of  rus­
sets,  principally 
in  a  cheap  grade  of 
goods,  by  all  classes  of  people, 
the 
stylish people who make  or  unmake  the 
fashion  would weary of the color  at last, 
and the  abnormal  demand  would  mark 
the retirement of the russet  and tan,  for 
a time at least.  They had ceased to hold 
one  advantage  which  was  claimed  for 
them at first—that  they  needed  no  pol­
ishing—for it  was found  that  the  russet 
shoe would  show  the  lack  of  polish  as 
soon as,  if  not  sooner  than,  the  plain 
black,  to any eye except the  uninitiated,

and anyone  who  wished  to  be  “in  the 
swim”  with regard to footwear was com­
pelled to  have  them  polished  daily,  at 
least,  if not oftener.

This  past  condition  of  affairs  now 
stares the merchant  in  the  face. 
If  he 
lays in  a stock of russets  and  something 
new catches the public eye, he will  have 
hard  work  in disposing of  them;  but,  on 
the other  hand,  in  spite  of  the  almost 
phenomenal  sales  of  last  year, 
if  at­
tractive new styles are  brought out,  and 
the manufacturers succeed  in  making  it 
the  summer  shoe  par  excellence,  the 
market may  be held  secure  for  another 
season.

The  evils  of  the  credit system are so 
apparent and  so great,  when used in con­
nection  with the selling of footwear,  that 
a  merchant  very  soon  begins to search 
for  a  remedy.  The  price  of  a  pair  of 
shoes or boots is so great  in  comparison 
with a single article  of  any  other  com­
modity that the merchant may  well  hesi­
tate  to  take  the risk in  a case where he 
might  let  a few pounds of sugar go. 
In 
the  store  devoted  exclusively  to  foot­
wear  it  can  be  made  the  rule,  without 
much trouble or ill-feeling, that no shoe» 
are  to  be  sold except for spot cash,  but 
in  the  general  store  the  task  is  more 
difficult.  The  merchant’s  best  trade  is 
perhaps  with factory hands  who come to 
him for provisions,  clothing  and  shoes, 
and,  as  he  usually  cashes  their  pay- 
checks at the end of the month, he is toler­
ably certain of  being  paid,  although,  of 
course,  cash  is  better  than  waiting  30 
days.  But  he  is  placed  in  a somewhat 
embarrassing  position  when  he  denies 
credit for a pair of shoes to a casual cus­
tomer  on  the  ground  that  he  cannot 
afford to take the risk; and the  customer 
points  out  those  cases  where he breaks 
his  rule.  But  the  best plan,  neverthe­
less,  is to only part  with  shoes  for  cash 
or au equivalent  security,  no  matter  if 
the groceries are sold on credit,  and  the 
best  plan  here  also  is  to  sell only for 
cash,  although  seemingly  impossible  in 
some localities.

Some  of the  boots  made  about  25  or 
30 years ago must have been  fearful  and 
wonderful  creations.  Broad in  the toes, 
loose  over  the  instep  and  narrow  and 
high  in  the  heel,  could  anything  be 
imagined  more  uncomfortable,  and  cer­
tainly not beautiful in  any respect?  The 
older generation laugh at  the  razor  toes 
of  the  present,  but  they  acknowledge 
that  no  shoe  was  ever  so  symmetrical 
and adapted to the shape of  the  foot,  so 
well-fitting in places  where no room  for 
movement is needed and yet  so  easy  for 
walking,  which  surely tests  the  comfort 
of the shoe,  as the present one.  The old 
boots were defective in the very  place on 
which  the  comfort  of  the  wearer  most 
depends.  Freedom in  walking with high 
heels and a narrow tread  is  an  absolute 
impossibility,  and the  freaks  of  fashion 
should always be compelled  to  seek  the 
place where the comfort of the  wearer is 
not interfered  with.  And  what  is  the 
use of making  a  shoe  uncomfortable  in 
parts where the lines do not show?
Did you  ever  think  what  a  compara­
tively small amount of goods it takes for 
the country merchant to make  a  display 
with?  Your city dealer must  buy  large 
quantities  to  fill  his  show  windows, 
while  you,  with  the  varied  assortment 
necessary to  supply  the  manifold  calls, 
can easily change  appearances  all  along 
the line by the addition  of  a  diminutive 
quantity of any  one  staple.  A  shifting 
of the goods,  taking the  old  ones  to  the 
rear,  putting the  new  ones  in  the  most 
prominent  place,  and  the  fresh  stock, 
especially  if  packages,  easily  show  for 
themselves.  Neatness,  cleanliness  and 
constant  change are factors that win the 
race,  equally in  city  and  country.  Try 
to rejuvenate your stock with a  very  lit­
tle  new  material;  use  soap,  water  and 
elbow-grease on your woodwork  and  see 
if the customers do not  speedily  remark 
on the change.
Why  the country store-keeper of to-day 
should not be as  brainy  a  merchant  as 
his eity brother is not a difficult question 
to answer.  Difference  in  kind  and  not 
in degree should only stand  sponsor  for 
a  condition  of  affairs  that  the  average 
dealer thinks he sees,  specialization  be­
ing  the  natural  outcome  of  the  city 
It  is  impossible  to
dealer and dweller. 

E n gravin g  Department

Anything for 
Any  Purpose

The dem and  fo r the finest Illustrations of all  kinds, 
ns well as for the finest  m echanical and ornam ental 
designs, is constantly increasing and inciting to con­
tinual effort to  keep  the  lead  in  the  production of 
the best work.  To m eet these dem ands, we are con­
stantly adding facilities and im proved m ethods.

OUR  HALFTONE  ENGRAVINGS 

Are  unexcelled.

IN  PHOTO  AND  PHOTO  TIN T

Engraving for A dvertising D esigns.Buildings, ( Jards 
and  L etter  Headings,  we  are  m aking  plates  w hich 
will com pare favorably  w ith  any  in artistic design, 
fineness and  printing quality.
F or M achinery and  M echanical  Designs,  our

WOOD  ENGRAVINGS

are  from   the  hands  or  superintendence  of  an  e n ­
graver of th e longest experience of  any in  W estern 
Michigan.  We  challenge  com parison  with  any  in 
clearness, artistic  effect.and  in com plete and accur­
ate  representation of th e subject.  This  last feature 
is  im port  nt,  especially  in  cuts  of  patent  devices 
and  m anufacturing specialties.  F or such w ork, the 
best is em phatically the  cheapest,  fo r many  a m eri­
torious invention  has met  w ith  failure  through  the 
use of poor and in a rtistic  engraving.

OUR  PRICES  ARE  CORRECT.

While  slovenly  and  inartistic  plates  may  be  ob­
tained at lower prices,  perhaps,  o u r  custom ers  find 
it  more satisfactory to be assured of first class work 
in every respect, a t fair prices.
It is a pleasure for us to  answ er  questions as to  the 
best process for the work required, to give estim ates 
of cost and  to send sam ples of work in sim ilar lines.

C h eap
Coupon
Books

in th is era of low  prices  and  low grade goods, 
a  dem and  has  arisen  fo r  CHEAP  COUPON 
BOOKS,  which  can he m ade and  sold at a lower 
price than our S tandard  G rades,  th at have  been 
on the m arket for  a  dozen  years  past  and  have 
stood the test of tim e.  We are not  advocates  of 
cheap goods in  any line,  and  we note th at those 
houses w hich  attem pt  to  build  up a reputation 
by catering solely to  the  dem and  fo r low  grade 
goods, seldom  m ake any money  and  soon  cease 
to cut  m uch  of  a  figure  in  the  business  world.
However,  if  any  of  our  custom ers  w ant  a 

cheaper  hook th an  our regular

TRADESMAN,

SUPERIOR  or  UNIVERSAL

Grades,  we have it and will cheerfully send sam ­
ples and quote prices on  application.  O ur

ECONOMIC

Book is not quite up  to  th e  standard of  its pre­
decessors, but it's a heap  better  than  the  books 
sold by o th er coupon  book  m akers fo r th e same 
money. 
If  you  are  skeptical  on  this point,  we 
solicit a com parison  of  w orkm anship  and  quo­
tations.

Tradesman  Company
Grand  Rapids........

conceive  of  the  country  store save as a 
powerful factor in the  village  or  settle­
ment,  for it is there,  the headquarters  of 
the circumjacent territory,  that the clans 
must gather day and  evening. 
In  these 
sparsely-settled districts, the farmer,  the 
laborer, the teamster and the dweller  are 
bound  to  arrive  during the day,  to stay 
only a minute,  to remain  finally  for  two 
hours,  expecting  a  rear  seat  near  the 
stove  in  winter,  a  bench  on the shady 
side in  summer;  always  a  cigar;  some­
times a chew of tobacco, or a  “nip” from 
the  cider  barrel—this,  regularly  every 
day,  each road,  north,  east,  south,  west, 
contributing a daily quota  that  must  be 
seen to be appreciated.
In  the  evening  those  nearer  at hand 
gather  about 
to  vary  the  long  and 
monotonous  hours  between  7  and  9 
o’clock with tales  not  always  too  pure, 
but  told  with  a  vim  and just apprecia­
tion  of the sometimes smutty  point. 
In 
this mixed gathering  the  store-keeper is 
the  one  surprised.  While  some one in­
habitant may shine  above another in  the 
little  company,  it  is  to  the  proprietor 
that ail turn to settle the knotty point of 
an argument,  to prove an  assertion or  to 
justify a statement.  Here  his  power  is 
absolute—and  while  he  may  be  told 
while behind the counter  that  his  shoes 
rip,  that  the  sugar was sanded  and  the 
butter half lard,  beside the stove his po­
sition is never questioned.  A  little  un­
crowned  king,  he  sits  in  passive judg­
ment on his fellows  and aids in unravel­
ing tangled threads.  Hearing the many- 
sided assertions,  from  politics,  religion 
and  medicine  to  day-labor,  everyday 
news  and  the gossip of the vicinity,  his 
mind does expand,  his  perception  broad 
ens and his appreciation becomes keener.
Let  us  examine  his  opportunity  and 
see if he makes the best of it.  Certainly 
this power can  be  placed  to  his  banka­
ble credit if  properly  wielded,  and  why 
should be not lead the conversation on to 
his goods—new  ones  just  received,  old 
ones still fair in value and condition that 
he must get rid of?  Why  not  bring  out 
that  pair  of  women’s  shoes  hardly 
unpacked  and,  saying,  “Boys,  look  at 
these!”  direct  the  conversation  to  that 
channel where Jones  remembers that  his 
wife needs a new pair  “just for church,” 
and,  being amazed at their cheapness, or­
ders  a  pair  laid  away  until  he  comes 
next week with  butter,  and where Brown 
examines  and  turns  and  twists,  telling 
the assembly that  he  paid  so-and-so,  of 
such a  town,  50  cents  more  for  some­
thing  not  as  good? 
the 
desultory flow of small talk  that  the cir­
cle always  must  hear,  why  should  not 
the 
the 
gathering 
extol  bis  own  wares? 
Then,  they  are more  apt to be carefully 
examined,  thought  about  and  appre­
ciated than at  the  counter.  Here  is  an 
opportunity that  always  exists, yet  un­
fortunately is not either  properly appre­
ciated or taken advantage of.

shrewdly  use 

store-keeper 

Instead  of 

to 

General  S t o r e-k e e p e r .
Creditor—Can’t you meet your bills? 
Hardup—You bet!  I meet  ’em  every­

where.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

31

An  Inconsistent  Policy.

From  the  Sanitary Plumber.

conditions,  become 

The  short-sighted  and 

inconsistent 
policy which seeks to close to young men 
all  entrance  to  the  trades,  and  at  the 
same time  allows,  without  protest,  the 
great influx  of  foreign  workmen,  needs 
little comment. 
It is intrinsically selfish 
and  unnatural,  and  being  such  canuot 
long  continue.  The  trade  school  has 
come to stay. 
It has come in  answer  to 
a great need,  and must develop in answer 
to that  need.  The  right  of  American 
youths to enter the trades,  and  to  equip 
themselves in  the most  economical  man­
ner for a livelihood,  cannot  much longer 
be gainsaid or set  aside.  What  might, 
under  other 
the 
tyranny of a class cannot  long  exist  be­
side the free institutions of our  country. 
On  the contrary,  the true interests of  or­
ganized  labor  are  to  be  found,  not  in 
futile  opposition,  but  in  active  partici­
pation.  The opportunity is  at  hand for 
the labor organizations of  the country to 
actively  influence and,  to  a  certain  ex­
tent,  direct  the  trade  school  movement. 
By  co-operation  with  the  schools  they 
can do much  to  realize  the  highest  op­
portunity for usefulness  that  is  open  to
them.  By selfish and  bigoted opposition 
they  will do much to cripple  and narrow 
their own power.  A comprehensive sys­
tem of trade training suited to  the  times 
would  involve  the  recognition  of  the 
trade  school  graduate  by  the  trade  or­
ganizations  of  the  journeymen,  as  well 
as of  the masters,  and his establishment 
with  a  definite  place  and  a  definite 
economic value  in  the  industrial  world. 
Such  a  system,  while  effectively  pre­
venting  the  admission  of  imperfectly 
trained  workmen,  would  afford  ample 
opportunity  to  every  naturally qualified 
candidate.  An  arrangement  of 
this 
kind would open  the  doors of  the trades 
to  American  youth,  without  requiring 
the sacrifice of  all  opportunity  for  cul­
ture that is now demanded.  Such an  ar­
rangement would  mean to a large  extent 
the  Americanizing  of 
trades—it 
would  mean  the  addition  to  our  indus­
trial army of  young  men  who  have  had 
the opportunity of a  good  public  school 
education,  and  who  are  fitted  to  assume 
the duties of citizenship with intelligence 
and  patriotism,  as  well  as  to  attain  to 
the highest efficiency  in  the operation of 
labor.

the 

The Monkey and the Sugar.

A tame monkey  in India  recently  was 
given a lump  of  sugar  inside  a  corked 
bottle.  The monkey  was of an inquiring 
mind  and  it  nearly  killed him.  Some­
times, in an  impulse of disgust, he  would 
throw  the  bottle  away  out  of  his  own 
reach and then be distracted until it  was 
given  back  to  him.  At  other times be 
would sit with a countenance of the most 
intense  dejection,  contemplating  the 
bottled  sugar,  and  then,  as  if  pulling 
himself  together  for  another  effort  at 
solution,  would  sternly  take  up 
the 
problem  afresh and gaze into  the  bottle. 
He would tilt it up one way,  and  try  to 
drink  the  sugar  out  of  the  neck,  and
then,  suddenly reversing it,  try  to  catch 
the  sugar  as  it  fell  out  of the bottom.

Under the impression that he could  cap­
ture the sugar by surprise,  he kept rasp­
ing his teeth against the  glass  in  futile 
bites,  and,  warming to the pursuit of the 
revolving lump,  used to tie  himself  into 
regular knots around the bottle.  Fits of 
the most ludicrous melancholy  would  al­
ternate  with  spasms of delight as a new 
idea  seemed  to  suggest  itself,  followed 
by a fresh series of  experiments.  Noth­
ing  availed,  however,  until  one  day  a 
light was shed  upon the problem by ajar 
containing bananas falling from the table 
with  a crash,  and the fruit  rolling about 
in all  directions.  His  monkeyship  con­
templated the catastrophe,  and  reasoned 
upon  it  with  the intelligence of a Hum­
boldt.  Lifting  the  bottle  high  in  his 
hands,  be brought it down  upon the floor 
with  a  tremendous  noise,  smashing the 
glass 
into  fragment,  after  which  he 
calmly 
transferred  the  sugar  to  his 
mouth  and  munched  it  with  much  sat­
isfaction.

A  Fakir’s  Ingenuity.

Enormous  business  has  been  done 
lately  at French  fairs by a man  who pro­
fessed to sell a rat powder that  was  per­
fectly  harmless and that struck  rats dead 
on  the  spot. 
In  order  to  convince  the 
skeptical,  the man,  first of all,  powdered 
a slice of bread  with  the stuff,  and  ate  a 
piece of it himself.  Then  he put the re­
mainder  under  a  glass  case,  in  which a 
rat  was kept in captivity.  The  rat went 
to eat the  bread  and instantly  fell  dead. 
At  five pence a box the  powder  went  off 
like hot roll«,  and  the  lucky  proprietor 
of  the specific was in  a fair way  to make 
a fortune.  But the police,  who in  France 
are  very active in  protecting  the  people 
from  fraud,  looked  into  the  matter  and 
found that the powder  was  nothing  but 
ordinary  sugar.  They  also  discovered 
that  the case was connected with a pow­
erful electric battery, and  that  the  mo­
ment ther rat touched  the bread  the  cur­
rent  was turned on,  and it was  thus  bis 
death  was brought about.  The man was 
arrested  at the fair of Albi,  and  he  has 
been sentenced  to fifteen days’  imprison­
ment.

------m  m  m
The Dry Goods  Market.

Dry goods men  are  getting  their  fall 
line of underwear,  oversbirts  and  yarns 
ready  for  inspection  on  the  road,  and 
some very good values are  shown  to  re­
tail at 50 and 75c and SI.

Comforts  and  blanket  samples  will, 
also,  be shown in new  colorings and  de­
signs.  Prices are very low.

Fall  ginghams,  prints and  domets  will 
be opened  to select  by  sample  in  June, 
fully  two weeks  ahead  of  time.  Prices 
will  rule a trifle firmer than  this  spring, 
on  account  of  higher  wages  paid 
in 
nearly  all the large mills  at  Fall  River, 
Providence,  Lowell and  Lancaster.

Print cloths have reached  3c,  which  is 

just 

higher than 30 days ago.

Cambrics  are  still  jobbed  at  3%c, 

only a small advance on  the raw cloth.

FIREWORKS

An  A ggressive  Store  Policy.

From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

Every  merchant  should  have  a  store 
policy.  Very  few  have  one.  There  is 
too much  of  allowing  trade  to  take  its 
course,  and  we will be content with what 
comes our way.  That  is not aggressive­
ness,  it is nonsense.  When  the  war was 
on,  the  great  armies  did  not  remain  at 
one  point  until  the  enemy  came  along 
and engaged  in  battle  with  them;  they 
sought  out  the  enemy  and  conquered. 
That  is  what  the  aggressive  merchant 
will do.  This  is  not  an  argument  for 
the competition that has no regard for the 
rights of others; it is an argument against 
going  to  sleep  and  allowing  the  busi­
ness of the community  to  go  to a neigh­
bor.
Because some  other  merchant  goes  to 
sleep it is not necessary  that  you should 
remain  in  a comatose  condition  through 
fear of injuring the other man;  no one is 
obliged  to  hold  himself in restraint  be­
cause some other merchant is not able to 
do  business  as  it  should  be done.  Re­
gard  for others is in not  wilfully crowd­
ing one to the wall  by unfair means, such 
as a system of price cutting  and  misrep­
resentation.  Every  man  has  the  un­
doubted right to  make  progress  so  long 
as  he  does 
it  fairly.  An  aggressive 
store policy means  a right policy of push 
and  progress,  not  a  simpering  store 
method  that  would  cause  inanition  in  a 
few hours.
What  is  aggressiveness?  It  is  being 
wide  awake.  Advertise 
local 
paper,  and  change  the  advertisement 
every  issue.  That 
is  what  city  mer­
chants  do  and  they  are  aggressive. 
Learn  how  to  advertise.  Buy  well. 
Never  misrepresent;  that  isn’t  aggres­
siveness,  it  is  dishonesty.  Always keep 
that difference in mind.

in  the 

She  Let  Him  OfiT.

Wife—My dear,  I need  a little more  of 
this stuff,  and some  trimming  to  match. 
I wish you  would drop into  Bigg,  Sale & 
Co.’s and get it.
Husband  (a smart fellow)—Let me see. 
Oh,  I know.  That’s the store where they 
have so many pretty  girls, isn’t it?

“Yes.”
“Yes,  I remember.  That  blonde  girl 
at  the  trimming  counter  knows  yeur 
taste  and  will  doubtless  select  just the 
sort of trimming  you  want—I  mean  the 
girl with  the golden  hair,  alabaster skin, 
blue eyes and sweet little—”
“There are a number of  things I  want 
down  town.  Never  mind,  dear,  I’ll  go 
and get them myself.”

Use  for  Pearl-Shells.

The  pearl-shells  which  are  shipped 
from Australia to the  United  States  are 
used,  principally,  for the manufacture of 
knife handles, shirt buttons and  kindred 
articles.  Considerable  quantities  are 
also  used  for  decorating  papier-mache 
and  for  other  ornamental  work.  The 
pearl  buttons,  shirts  studs,  etc.,  now 
made in  this country are  said  to  be  the 
best  and  cheapest  in  the  world,  a fact 
due,  in great measure,  to  the  care  used 
in selecting the material  and  to  the  im­
proved methods of cutting.

<‘W e   a r e   th e  p e o p le ”  to  p la c e   o r d e r s   w ith .

Variety and completeness of stock second to none.  PRICE&  ARE  MUCH  LOWER  THIfe  SEASON  and we want to  lig 
ure with you on  LARGE  ORDERS.  Net price list of staples and  large  illustrated  list  of Set Pieces and Celebration  Dis­

plays furnished  upon application.The Putnam Candy Co.

3 2

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N ew s  from  the  M etropolis— Index  o f 

the  M arkets.

Special  Correspondence
N e w   Y o r k ,  May  18—General  trade 
among grocery  jobbers  during  the  past 
week has been good.  The  cold  weather 
and reports of heavy losses by frosts may 
have  had  a  slight  temporary  effect  in 
keeping out-of-town  buyers  away  until 
they could be certain of the real  damage 
done,  which, as usual,  was  probably  ex­
aggerated.
A  new  paper  has  appeared  with the 
title of the Anti-Monopolist. 
It  appears 
to be devoted to the demolition of depart­
ment  stores,  and  the  boycotting  of  the 
same  by  retailers.  None  of  the  stores 
have closed, as yet,  nor  do  we  see  any 
signs  of  weakening  on  account  of  the 
boycott.  A few interested parties appear 
to be getting  their  board  and,  perhaps, 
some salary  by keeping up this incessant 
roar about the department  store.  Never 
learning by experience,  they  proceed  to 
work the grocer for all he  is  worth;  but 
the retailer is gradually  gaining  knowl­
edge.
Coffee  appears to be regarded as a bet­
ter article to purchase than  a  week  ago. 
Holders are evincing some determination 
to make the most of the present  state  of 
affairs, and would-be purchasers  need  to 
shop around a good deal  if they  find par­
cels  to  suit  their  taste  as  to  lowness 
of price.  Quotations are not higher,  but 
the rate given  is  more  easily  obtained. 
Statistically,  the  position  is  for  lower 
prices, as  the amount of Bio coffee  afloat 
at present is 497,826  bags,  against  367,- 
067 bags same time last year.
Refined sugars are firm and steady,  but 
the  demand  has 
lessened 
somewhat. 
Deliveries are still somewhat behind,  but 
within a very few days all orders will  be 
promptly  filled.
The stereotyped  condition  in  the  tea 
trade still remains.  The demand is only 
for immediate  wants  and  at  about  the 
same old  prices,  and  buyers  and  sellers 
alike seem perfectly indifferent.
Spices are in quite  good  demand  and, 
for this time of year, holders  are making 
some  good  sales.  Rates  are  firm  and 
show no signs of weakness.  Speculation 
may have something to do with the pres­
ent quotations,  but trade is healthy.
Syrups and molasses are  firm  and  the 
demand during the week has  been  quite 
satisfactory.  Primary  points  report  a 
scarcity of some grades and  the  outlook 
is for a firm market right along.
Canned goods have been  in  about  the 
usual  demand.  Some  jobbers  report  a 
good trade and others a dull one.  There 
are no changes in quotations to  mention. 
Salmon is the firmest thing in  the  entire 
list of canned goods and is going out at a 
very satisfactory rate.
Dried fruits are  very  much  depressed 
and concessions are made in  many  cases 
rather than lose a sale.
Lemons  have  suffered  a great decline 
in  demand  during  the  week, owing,  no 
doubt, 
in  a  great  degree,  to  the  cold 
weather.  Other 
too, 
show an absence  of  demand,  and,  alto­
gether,  the market is somewhat demoral­
ized for the time being.
Butter is not running very  well  as  to 
quality  of  stock  now  coming  in.  The 
demand is of an everyday character.  For 
the best Elgin 17c is quoted,  and this fig­
ure is paid,  too,  for best State and Penn 
sylvania.
Cheese  is  extremely  dull  and  quota­
tions are nominal.  The  hot  weather  of 
last week demoralized a great deal of the 
stock in transit,  and the market has been 
full of stuff which has been  selling from 
2@5c,  thus  making  it  hard  to  obtain 
profitable  rates  for  better  quality.  At 
the  moment  the  prospect is rather more 
favorable.
Eggs are selling well, if fresh, bet such 
are mighty hard to  find.  Others,  which 
are  plenty,  bring all sorts of prices and 
the market is dull.
Retailers  are  all  doing  a  good  trade 
and the prospects  are  fair  for  summer. 
The exodus to the country appears to be­
gin earlier each season and already many 
have gone.

foreign 

fruits, 

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat has been extraordinarily strong 
during  the  week  and  prices  went  sky-

S A U S A G E .

quotes as follows:
F O B S   IN   B A R B E L S.
M ess,..................................................
Short c u t ...........................................
Extra clear pig, short out...............
Extra clear,  heavy...........................
Clear, fat  back.............................. ...
Boston clear, short cu t....................
Clear back, shortcut........................
Standard clear, short cut. best.......
Pork, links..
Bologna.......
Liver............
T ongue.......
Blood ...........
Head cheese
Su m m e r ........
Frankfurts..
Kettle  Rendered............
G ranger...........................
Fam ily.............................
Compound......................
Cottolene..........................
Cotosuet...........................
50 lb. Tins, !*c advance.
201b. palls,  54c 
101b.  “ 
5 lb. 
“ 

“
Jic  “
He  «

L A R D .

BEEF  IN BARRELS.

“ 
"  

“ 
"  
“ 
“ 

.  6 50 
6 75 
10 00
.  10 
..1014 
-10>*

r'..  9

Extra Mess, warranted 200 lbs...................
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......................
Boneless, rump butts...................................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs...................................
16 lbs.....................................
12 to 14 lbs............................
picnic................................................
best boneless.....................................
Shoulders.............................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless..........................
Dried beef, ham prices...............................I
Long Clears, heavy......................................
Briskets,  medium.......................................
Half  barrels................................................
Quarter barrels............................................
K its..............................................................
Kits, honeycomb..........................................
Kits, premium......... ...................................
Creamery,  rolls..................................................18
tubs................................................. 15
Dairy,  rolls..........................................................u%
tubs........................................................ ii

PICKLED  Pies’  PEET.

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

6* 
••  7}4
3 00 
.1  65 
..  90
75
15

B Ü T T E R I N E .

TRIPE.

..11

“ 

“ 

l B m   M I C H I G A N   a^ R A JD jESM A JN .

ward.  Cash  wheat  advanced  9c,  which 
has not happened before in  many  years. 
This is due to the  scarcity of cash  wheat 
and  the  effect the frosts have had on the 
growing  crop.  Speculation  is,  also,  a 
great  factor.  The  sales  of  July wheat 
aggregated about 900,000  bushels  in  De­
troit  on  Saturday.  No  one  is  able  to 
predict the length of  time  this  booming 
of the market will hold on.  Should it be 
ascertained that the frosts have not dam­
aged the  growing  crop  of  wheat  mate­
rially, 
the  markets  will  remain  un­
changed;  but  if  wheat  is  damaged  as 
predicted,  not only by the frosts,  but  by 
the  Hessian  fly  and  the  cinch bug,  we 
shall certainly see higher  prices.  While 
spring wheat in  the  Northwest  has  been 
considerably higher,  the case is  reversed 
now.  Millers are paying 72c per bushel, 
which is  an  advance  of  about  25c  per 
bushel  from  the  low  point;  and  still 
farmers  are  very  slow  sellers.  The 
weather has much to  do  with  the  firm­
ness 
in  prices,  even  advancing  them 
further.

Corn shared  with  wheat  in  the  boom­
ing  prices  and  advanced  about  5c  per 
bushel,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that 
700  cars  were  received 
in  Chicago  on 
Saturday  and 500 cars  on  Friday.

Oats  shared the advance and  if  wheat 
and  corn  remain  firm  oats  will  advance 
further.

The receipts during the  week  were  as 
follows:  Wheat,  31  cars,  being  an  ex­
ceedingly  small  amount;  corn,  23  cars, 
which  is  a  little  more  than  the average; 
oats,  10  cars,  being  considerably  more 
than the normal amount of oats received.
There was another  enormous  decrease 
during 
the  week.  Wheat  decreased 
3,100,000, corn 414,000, but oats increased 
178,000  bushels.  This  speaks  for  itself 
as  regards  the  future  price  of  wheat. 
We will  also  note  that  white  wheat  ad-
vanced  3>£cand red  l}£c over Saturday’s 
close.______________C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

PROVISION 8

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

PRODUCE  riARKET.

A sparagus—Ten days ago It was a drug on  the 
m arket, but the cold w eatherof the past ten days 
has caused a dearth  o f stock  and  the  price  has 
jum ped from  18c per doz. bunches to 45@60c.

Beans—The m arket continues dull and  values 
have declined  still  further. 
In  the  absence  of 
dem and, holders have pressed  goods  to sale,  re­
sulting in a low er range of values.

B utter—In am ple supply at  12@15c  for  choice 

Beets—New, 35c per doz.  bunches.
Cabbage—M ississippi stock com m ands $1®1.25 

dairy.

per doz.

Cauliflower—$1.50 p er doz.
Cheese—The  m arket  has  sustained  a  fu rth e r

decline o f J4@ lc per lb.
Celery—Out of m arket.
Cucum bers—75@90c per  doz.
Eggs—H andlers pay about 11c fo r all  offerings 
of strictly fresh  Picklers have been putting  in 
stocks on the basis  of  about  10!4c, but  they  are 
pretty well filled up and low er prices are looked 
fo r from  now on.

Onions—$2.25 per bu.  for  Berm uda and  10® 12c 

per doz. bunches fo r green.

Potatoes—New  stock  from   F lorida  is in light 
receipt, com m anding $1.75 per bu.  Old stock  is 
very quiet a t 35®40c, but some dealers still insist 
th a t bottom   has  been  reached  and  th at  higher 
prices w ill rule w ithin a few  days.

Pieplant—%e per lb.
Radishes—Round,  15c per doz.  Long,  25c per 

doz.

Spinach—40c per bu.
Straw berries—Tennessee stock  is  still  com ing 
forw ard, although a good portion of the receipts 
is from  Southern Illinois.  P resent  prices are $2 
@2.25 per crate of 24 qts.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.
NOTHING  SUCCEEDS  LIKE  MERIT!

------- THE-------

Rocker  Washer

Has proved th e m ost satis­
factory o f any W asherever 
p ’aced  upon  th e  m arket. 
I t is w arranted to  w ash an 
ordinary  fam ily  w ashing 
of
100  Pieces in One  Hour 
as clean as can be w ashed 
on the w ashboard.
W rite fo r Catalogue and 
T rade D iscounts.

I  OFFER  YOU

Cabbage and Tom ato P lants, 200 plants

in  box, per b o x .........................................$  75
Green Onions, per d oz................................  
12
Round R adishes, per d o z........................... 
15
25
Long Radishes, per doz............................... 
A sparagus, per  d o z...................................... 
30
go
Pie Plant, per  b u sh ...................................... 
Spinach, per b u ............................................. 
go
Lettuce, per lb ............................................... 
12
Lemons, per b o x .............................. $4  00®. 4  50
B ananas, per  b u n ch .......................   1  go®  2  00

S oliciting your Mail  Orders, I am  

V ery respectfully,

445-447 S. DIVISION ST., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.
E g g s   W a n t e d   !

Prices quoted  on application.

On following goods:

70
50
45
37
1  40 
1  0)
2 85
2  40

N O T E   L O W   P R IC E S
Mrs. Withey's Home Made Jelly, made  with 
boiled cider,  very  fine.  Assortment con­
sists  of  Apple,  Blackberry,  Strawberry, 
Raspberry and C urrant:
30-lb.  pall.................... ......................................
¿0-lb. pall.................... .....................................
17-lb.  pail........................................................ "
15-lb. pall.............................................................
1  quart Mason  Jars, per  doz........................
1  pints  Mason  Jars  per  doz....................
Per case, 3 doz.  in  case....................................
Mrs. Wltbey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the 
best made.  Price per  c a s e ........................
Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pall, per  lb ...............................................  6
25-lb. pails, per lb ..............................................  gV
12-lb. palls, per lb .........................................6*4
2-lb. cans, per doz..............................................  1  40
5 In. cans, per  doz............................................  3 50
Pint Mason Jars  per  doz................................ 1  25
Quart Mason Jars, per  doz  ...........................   2 00
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per gal.............."  12%
Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal  14 
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per  doz 
1  40
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per  doz__ 2 25
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz........   9 00
Peacb Marmalade, 20-lb palls 
........ 1  00
Peach Marmalade in pt  Mason jars, pr d z..  1  20 
No  1 Egg Crate  Fillers, best  In  market,  10
sets incase, No.  1 Case  Included...............   1  25
No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers  complete......... 
33
Special prices made on ¡(0 Crate lots.

J .

ED W IN   F A L L A S ,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

12 SO
12 25 
14 00
13 00 
13  5 
13  5< 
13 50

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DEGOY

DWARF  DECOY
Catches  mor e   Flies 
than any other sticky 
fly paper and  pleases 
everybody.

Every  box  guaranteed  by  the 

manufacturer.

fly  paper.

Costs  no  more  than  common 

Tho
vor te
Churn

BRAND  RAPIDS 

BRUSH GOMP’Y,
MANUFACTURER  OF B R U S H E S   GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH

DID  YOU  NOTICE

POINTS  OF  EXCELLENCE.
It is made of  thoroughly  seasoned  material. 

It  is  finished 
smooth inside as well as outside.  The iron ring head is strong 
and not liable to break.  The  bails  are  fastened  to  the iron 
ring, where they need to be fastened. 
It is simple in construc­
tion and convenient to operate.  No  other  churn  is so nearly 
perfect as The Favorite.  Don’t buy  a counterfeit.

SIZES  AND  PRICES.

No. 0— 5 gal., to churn 2g als.........................$  8 00 I  No. 3—20 gal., to churn  9 gals.........................  10  00
No.  1—10 gal., to churn 4 g als.........................  8 50  No. 4—25 gal., to churn 12g als.......................   12  00
No. 2—15 gal., to churn 7 g als 

W rite for discount.

..................  9 00 | 

folïfl§TEVEHS

AGENTS  FOR\WESTERN  MICHIGAN.

O N   Y O U R   C R A C K E R S ?

S EARS’

UPERIOR

EYMOUR
T h a t   is  w h a t   it  m e a n s — 

“THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER 
OF  CRACKERS!”
T H E Y

Originated in  MICHIGAN
ArdgMade in  MICHIGAN 
Arc  S o  Id in  MICHIGAN

And  all  over  the  World.

The New York  Biscuit Co.,

Successors  to  WM.  SEARS  &  CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

T h e  D ayton C om puting  S c a l e !

It Sells 
Because
Its
M aking
Features

For  further  information

drop  a  postal  card  t o ..........

Warning!

T he  trade  are  hereby  w arned against using 
any infringem ents on Weighing and Price Scales 
and  Computing  and  Price  Scales,  as  w e  w ill 
protect  our rights and  the  rights of  our general 
agents  under  Letters  P atent  o f 
th e  United 
States issued in  1881, 1885, 1-66, 1888,1891,1893 and 
1894.  A nd  we  w ill  prosecute  all  infringers  to 
the full  ex ten t  of  the  law.  T he sim ple  using 
of Scales th at  infringe  upon  our  patents m akes 
the  user  liable  to  prosecution,  and the  im por­
tance  of  buying  and using  any other  Comput­
ing  and  Price  Scales  than those m anufactured 
by us and bearing our nam e  and date  of patents 
and thereby incurring liability to  prosecution  is 
apparent.  Respectfully,

The  Com puting  Scale  Co.

See W hat  Users S a y :

Office.of  CHICAGO  LUMBERING  CO.

Manistique,  Mich.,  Apr.  2,  1895. 

Dayton  Computing  Scale  Co.:

Gentlemen:  We bought three  Standard  flar- 
ket  Scales and two Tea'Scales of you,  Feb.  nth, 
for our two stores,  and have  thrown out all our 
other.scales,  and had these in constant use ever 
since.

We are  very  much  pleased  with  them  and 
think^THEYJHAVE  SAVED  US  ABOUT  $5.00 
PER  DAY,  orjnearly the cost  of  them,  by  this 
time. 

Yours  truly,
THE  CHICAGO  LUMBERING  CO. 

Per C.  S.  Hill,  Manager.

The C O M PU TIN G  S C A L E  CO., D ay ton, Ohio
ON  EARTH MEAKINS'  WHITE GRANITE WARE. REDUCED
THE  BEST 

PRICES

NEW  IDEAL  SHAPE.  Original  Assorted  Crates.

NO.  141910,  IDEAL  SHAPE.

inch  Bake 
24s Bow ls... 

Orig.  Asstd.  Cte. Alfred Meakins’  White Granite. 
6 doz 5 inch  P lates..
20d o z 7 inch  P lates..
2 do* S inch  P la te s..
6 onlv 6 inch  Bakers
6 only 
6 onl 
12 onl
Bowls
12 onlv 36s Bowls.
12 only Os Open  Cham bers 
t; only 9s covered Chamber:
12 only <j inch Scollops.........
12 only 7 inch Scollops.........
12 only 8 inch Scollops.........
6 doz 4 inch F ru it Saucers.
4 doz Individual B utters.
To set  handled St.  Denis Tea 
15 set handled H enshall Tea 
21  set unhandled St.  Denis 'I 
24 only Oyster Bowls,  30s... 
ti pairs Sis  Ewers and  Bastns
6 only  9 inch D ishes.......
0 only Hi inch D ishes.......
6 only 11  inch D ishes.......
Crate and C artag e..

.. 9  42 $ 2 52
61
12 20
1 40
70
y v
47
85
..  1  59
47
94
75
75
63
03
..  3  00
3 00
2 25
..  4  50
94
94
.  1  13
1 13
1 69
..  1  09
1 68
28
19
76
3714  5 63
3714  5 62
. 
2714  0 62
is. 
1 50
75
3 57
..  7  13
..  1  13
58
65
..  1  69
2  25
1 13
2 50
65S  72  I
A ll

T otal.

168.  IDEAL  SHAPE.
NO.  15
,  Alfred  Meakins’  White  Granite  Ware.
Origiual  Assorted  Crate,
5 doz 5 inch  P lates..................¥
2 onlv Teapots, 24s  ................   3  00
42 ¥2  10
4 doz 5 in Plates.......¥  51  §3  04
2 doz 6 inch  P lates..................
52
4 onlv Sugars,  24s....................  2  53
1  04
82  1  24
2 doz 6 in  Plates....... 
12 doz 7 inch  Plates 
3 onlv  8s  Ju g s..... ................... 3  38
81
.......
7 32
12 doz 7 in  Plates....... 
73  8  76
2 doz 8 inch  P lutes..................
8 onlv 12s  Ju g s......................... 2  25
1  40
70
3 onlv 24s  Ju g s .........................   1  31
61
2 doz 7 inch  Plates,  S oup__
1  22
1  68 
84
2 doz S in P lates....... 
28
6 doz 4 inch  F ruit  S a u c e rs...
6 onlv 30s  Ju g s .......................   1  13
1  88
0 doz 4 in F ru its....... 
34
2 04 
38
2 doz Individual  B etters.......
94
8 only 36s  Ju g s.........................  
19
23
6 doz Ind. B u tte rs... 
1  38 
16
2 onlv  S inch  D ishes.............
6 only 24s Bowls.......................  
94
94
28 18 onlv 30s Bowls.......................  
3 onlv  9 inch  D ishes............   1 13
75
*4 doz  9 in D ish es...  1  35 
68 
6 onlv 10 inch  D ishes............   1 69
85 12 only 36s  Bowls.......................  
63
Vz doz  10 in  D ishes...  2 03 
1  01 
6 onlv 11 inch  D ishes............   2 25
6 only prs. 9s Ewers A  Basins  7  13
11 2
Tu doz  12 in D ishes...  3 38 
1  13
3 onlv 12 inch  D ishes__  
70
2 81
6 only covered Cham bers 9s.  4  50
3 only 14 inch  D ishes............   3 94
99 13 only U ncov'd Cham bers 9s.  3  00
1-Gdoz 14 in D ishes...  4  73
12 only 3 inch Scollops............
66 I0y2 set hdld. St.  Denis T e as.. 
66
2 doz 3 in B akers__  
79
6 onlv 5 inch Scollops............
38 104 set hdld.  Daisy  T eas.......  
75
T-j doz 7 in B akers 
  1  25
94
94 31 
12 onlv 8 inch Scollops............
set unhdld. St.Denis Teas 
13 only 7 inch Scollops............   1 13
C rate and C artag e.......
M doz 8 in B akers 
  2 03
13 onlv 8 inch Scollops............   1 69
6 onlv 9 inch Scollops............   3 25
Vz doz 6 in  Scallops..  1  13 
4  doz 7 in  Scallops..  1  35 
3 only 7 inch Covered  Dishes  3 94
3 only 8 inch Covered  Dishes  4 50
Vz  doz 8 in  Scallops..  2 03
2 only Sauce  Boats..................  1 50
Vz doz  12 Ju g s.............  2  70
3 only P ickles...........................  1 13
Vz doz 24  Ju g s.............  1  38
2 only 7 inch Casseroles.........  4 50
3 only 8 inch Casseroles.........  5
Vz doz 30 Ju g s............   1  35
3 onlv 5 inch Covered B utters  3  ;
th e se   g o o d s   in  O pen  S t o c k   at  S li g h t   A d v a n c e .

50
84
85
1  13
33
56
47
47
1  M
63
3  57
2  n
3  00
371 3  98
374 3  94
314 6  62
2  50
i61  99

1  13
1  69
1  13
66
75
25
28
75

67 
1  02 
1  35 
79
67

T o tal.......................  

68

“ S U nnE R T inE ,”  English  Dec.  Semi-Porcelain.

PENCIL  OR  BROWN  COLOR.

no.  13116.  ‘ •sunnERTiriE.”

Assorted  Crate.

Vz doz Sauce Boats 
!4 doz P ickles.........
1  doz Cov'd Dishes 
»4  doz B. A  B. Plates 
Vz doz Cov'd B utters 
Vz doz 24 Sugars.
Vz doz Creamers 
18 doz T eas.........
2 doz Coffees.............
3 doz30O yst'r Bowls 
Crate  and Cartage.

1  80 
1  35 
5  49  5 
1  80 
4  05  2 
3  04  1 
1  26 

90  16 
1  05  2 
90  2

100  PIECE  DINNER  SET 
ooen  SIOC».  $0.25

H. LEO N A R D  & S O N S , G rand  R ap id s

