VOL. XII.

WHEN  DEAF  MUTES  WANT  THE

S. C. W. CIGARS

T„ey  D O   X f f l S

JSO.  6 10

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MAY  Ai), 18 í>5
Best  5  cent

CIGAR

Sold  by  all  Wholesale 
Druggists,  Confection­
ers  and  Grocers  travel­
ing  from  Grand  Kapids. 
and the Manufacturer,

H eating  —   Plumbing

------------- IN  THE  LINE  OF-------------

Steam,  Hot Water or Hot Air. 

Sheet Metal  Work

IN  ALL  ITS  PARTS.

NO  FIRM  IN  THE  STATE  HAS  BETTER  FACILITIES  OR  REPUTATION.  OUR

WOOD  MANTEL  GRATE,  GAS  AND  ELECTRIC  FIXTURE  DEPARTMENT

Is  pronounced  the  FINEST  IN  THE  COUNTRY,  East  or  West.

WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

A.  J.  SYMOXDS.

.1.  I..  SYMONDS. 

Ill II i1

DETROIT  MICH.

Roof  Cresting  and  Weather  Vanes

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Wire and Iron Fences. Bank and Office Railing, Stable Fixtures, Window Guards,

T h e r e  a re   th o u s a n d s   of S IG N A L S , 
but  no n e  so good  as the

“SIGNAL  FIVE”

A  Fine  Havana  Filler  Cigar  for  5  cents.

r ^ r v  
C r U .   W .   f V ' J r i C r ,   CHICAGO. 

\ \ T   H I   T I—I C   Maker, 

F.  E. BUSHflAN,  Agent,

523 John St.,  KALAMAZOO

Office  Telephone  1055. 
Barn Telephone  1059.
Q P Y T   T D I T V   Storage  and
Transfer Co.

I  

Warehouse, 257—259  Ottawa  St.  Main Of’ce, 75 Pearl St.

rioving,  Packing,  Dry  Storage.

Expert Packers and Careful, Competent  Movers of Household  Furniture.  Estimates  Cheerfully 

Given.  Business Strictly Confidential  Baggage  Wagon at all hours.  F. S. ELSTON, Mgr.

COMRADE

Is  one  o f   the  f e w
Good  5   cent  brands,  which
A.11 sm okers  will
Realize by giving them  a trial•

ED.  \V.  RUHE,
Maker,  Chicago 
F. E. Bushman,  Agt. 
523 John st.
Kalamazoo

MANUFACTURER  OF

C rackers
Sweet  Goods
252  and  254  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS

AND  FULL LINE  OF

AHERICA’S  GREATEST  RELISH !

F.ndorsed by medical fraternity.  P o rta­
ble use  their delicious, creamy  flavor  is 
never forgotten.  Cure  Dyspepsia,  Indi­
gestion,  Sick  Headache.  Nervousness. 
Sweeten the breath.  Sold by all dealers. 
In  handsomely 
lithographed  cartons. 
Retail at 20 cents each.
r?oar  American Pepsin Cracker Co.348 G detroiT  Ave

kti.

s\mpJi“

t

ample int;

Our  Plan
•Saves  disputes  and  enables 
you to discount your bills.
Saves book charges  and bad 
Saves worry and loss of sleep.
Wins  cash  trade  and  new 

debts

customers.

IF   N O T   S A T IS F A C T O R Y .  Y O U R   M O N E Y   BA CK .

Absolute

Tea!

• 

:  THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADERJ
IIELFER  5P1GE  CO.,

SOLD  ONLY  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS, Mich.

• 

Fob the Boiler  and E ngine.  Abe the  E ngineers-  Favorites.

85,000  Penbebthy Actomatic Injectors in use, giving perfect satisfaction 
under ail conditions.  Our Jet Pumps, Water Gages and Oil Cups are unetiualled
S end  fo r 
D E T R O IT .
C ayaloque. 

PEN B ER TH Y   IN JE C T O R   C O . 

branch  fa c to r y  at WINDSOR.» ONT* 

M IC H »

SPECIFY DAISY BRAND U M S

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers  of  Groceries,  Hardware and  Woodenware.

ALDEN  &  LIBBY, 

Î S S E L Z g Z S Ï Ï ë y  Butter  Wholesale  Produce

SPECIALTY---------------------- 

Northern Trade supplied at Lowest Market  Prices.
shipment, or receive on consignment

93  and  95  South  Division  Street,

-.-=

We buv on  truck at point of 
PHONE 1300.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

SW E E T ’S   HOTEL

MARTIN  L.  SWEET,  Proprietor.

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

Steam heat in every room.  Electric fire alarms  throughout  the  house.  Other 

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

Yes, a  startling  advance,  and  it  is one of the signs  of 
and factors in returning  general prosperity. 
It means 
Wetter  business,  larger  profits.  Your  customers  will 
want the best brands of Flour, and we make the VERY 
REST  ON  EARTH.  Write us for prices.

BRANDS—Sunlight,  Michigan,  Electric,  Purity,  Magnolia, 

Daisy, Morning Star,  Idlewild,  Diamond.

SPEC IA LTIES—Graham Flour, Wheatena Flour, Buckwheat  Flour,  Rye 
Flour, Rye Meal, Pearl Barley,  Wheat Grits, Rolled Oats,  Bolted  Meal, 
Feed  (Corn  and  Oats),  Meal,  Mill  Feed.
HOLLAND. 
MICH.

WALSH-DE  ROO  MILLING  CO.,

Tanglefoot
SEALED STICKY FLY  PAPER

YOUR  CUSTOMERS  WILL  ALL  PREFER  IT.

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and  19 Widdicomb  Bid.

N.  B.  C l a k k ,  Pres.

¡ÜÍÜ  W.  D.  W a d e ,  Vice-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.

7 

Correspondence Solicited.

PRICES  FOR  THE  REGULAR  SIZE.

Per Box.............................. 38 cents  Per Case...................................83  40
In 5 Case lots,  per  case......... S3  30 
In 10 Case lots,  per case........3  20

If  you  are  particular about  your  STICKY  FLY 

PAPER,  specify

TANGLEFOOT

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.
Will  be a  Good  Seller.

Order the largest quantity you can  use and get the 

BEST  DISCOUNT.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  JOBBERS.

i v v v v v y T V T T V v y y T T v  í

\ A  C O O K IN G   S C H O O L

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now exists which,  recognizing the importance  of  having plenty of  pure  ^ 
milk  on  hand  for cooking  purposes,  has  found  its requirements fully  4
met by 

Borden’s  Peerless  Brand 

Evaporated  Cream, 

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and it highly indorses same.  Merchants  interested  in  supplying their 
customers with satisfactory goods,  at a reasonable  profit to themselves,  J 
will  find that the  Peerless  Brand  is a good article to purchase and a 
reliable one to sell.

Prepared and guaranteed by the New  York  Condensed  Milk Co. 

^ ^ * F o r   Q u o t a t i o n s   See  Price Columns.

Jh  jftnfk 

A  A   A A A A A A A A A A A A A r A . A A . A A A A  ^  A  A A  A A A  A A

C O N G R E S S C ongress  C igars
CHOICEST ÄND HIGHEST GRADE  HAVANA TOBACCO

ARE  MADE  BY  THE  BEST  CUBAN  WORKHEN  FROn  THE

T h is  B ra n d   o f  C igars  is  a  d ecid ed   su c ce ss, 

sa m p le   o rd er to  a n y   o f th e   fo llo w in g   Job b ers:
Sazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. 
Musselman Grocer Co.
Lemon JcTWheeler Co. 
LM . Clark Grocery Co. 
| Putnam Candy Co.

T ry   th em .  S e n d   a

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

C I G A R S

YOL. XII. 

GRAND RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  MAY  2 9 ,  1 8 9 5 . 

NO.  6 1 0

DESMAN

Makes a Specialty of acting as

Executor of  W ills, 
Administrator of  Estates, 
Guardian  of ilinors and In­

competent  Persons, 

Trustee or Agent

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  Q.  Hodenpyl,  Sec’y.

5  AND 7  PEAPL STREET.

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

79 Wonderly Building, G r a n d   R a p id s . 

C orrespondence so lic ite d  from  
parties w ho in te n d  to  build.

THE  TRADESMAN 

Has  a  FIELD  of  its  own.

i n

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Advertisers get RESULTS.

Commercial 
Credit  Co., Limited.

Reports  on  individuals for  the  retail  trade, 
house renters and professional men.  Also Local 
Agents  Fum .  Com.  Agency  Co.’s  “Red  Book.” 
Collections handled for members. Phones 166-1030

INSURANCE  CO.

OT*,ss\zea 

Detroit, Mich.

PROMPT. 

CONSERVATIVE, 

«APR.

J.  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

W.  FRED  McBAIN, Sec.

FOR  RENT.

Three-story  and  basement  factory  building, 
size 50 x 150 feet.  West end  Pearl street bridge.
Water and Steam Power.
Full line of Wood Working Machinery, Bench­
Also other property  with  power for manufac­

es, Dry Kilns, etc.
turing purposes. 

WM.  T.  POWERS,

O pera H ouse Block.

T H E   P R IZ E   W IN N E R .

Brief Biography of Frank Lawrence, of 

the Putnam  Candy  Co.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   is gratified at the ac­
tion  of  the  awarding  committee  of  the 
Retail Grocers’  Association  in  selecting 
the essay of Frank T.  Lawrence on  “Ad­
vantages of the Cash System” as the  one 
most  worthy  of  the  first  prize,  as  the 
author is one  of  the  bright  and  intelli­
gent  young  men  associated  with  the 
wholesale  trade  of  the  city  and  richly 
merits  the  honor  thus  bestowed.  For 
the  past  two  years he has prepared the 
fruit market report of  this  Journal, and 
the retail trade throughout Michigan  are 
aware  that  the  summaries  given  from 
week  to  week  are  as  true  an  index of 
market conditions as  is  to  be  found  in 
any trade journal  in  the  country.  The 
gentleman in question was born  in  Clar­
endon, Orleans county,  N.  Y.,  in Septem­
ber,  1859,  and  passed  the  period inter­
vening between that date and November, 
1871,  in  the  village  of  his  birth.  His 
parents moved to Michigan in  the  latter 
year mentioned and until 1877  bis  daily 
labors  were  passed as  a  farm  boy.  A 
desire  for  commercial  life  then 
took 
possession of.him and he eame  to  Grand 
Rapids and entered the employ of  A.  B. 
Knowlson  as  delivery  boy  anti  general 
hustler,  and  held  that  position,  with 
gradual promotion,  as the  business  war­
ranted,  until  1884,  when  he  purchased 
his employer’s grocery  interests  and  for 
the  two  succeeding  years  did  a  most 
lucrative business,  but,  owing to  various 
causes—he is frank  enough  to  say  that 
like  many  another  he  could  not  stand 
success—he  was  forced  to  discontinue 
and sold out to his head clerk,  Oscar Em- 
mons.  His next move was to obtain a posi­
tion with Putnam & Brooks as city oyster 
salesman  and  from  that  position he was 
rapidly advanced  to  city  shipping  clerk 
and  house salesman, and,  when that firm 
dissolved in 1889,  he  remained  with  the 
new  corporation  which  succeeded  it, 
known as the Putnam Candy Co.  He was 
installed  as  manager  of  the  oyster  and 
fruit  departments  and  so  well  are  his 
abilities  thought  of  that  for two  years 
past he has been looked  upon  as  one  of 
the  managers  of  the  institution  and 
evidences of his handiwork may be found 
in all  the  transactions  and  correspond­
ence of the firm  named,  and he is direct­
ly responsible for ail the advertising and 
printed matter which  emanates from the 
house. 
In  ingenuity  and  aptness  it  is 
second to none,  and  his  productions  in 
this line stamp him one of the successful 
“ad”  writers  of  the  day.  He  is  a 
“hustler,”  in the  accepted  sense  of  the 
word,  and  generally  gets  what  he  goes 
after,  whether  orders  for  the  house  or 
the good will of co-workers  and manage­
ment,  and it is  a  matter  of  pride  with 
him that he was never discharged from a 
position he was  selected to fill.  To earn 
more  than  his  salary  by conscientious, 
painstaking  application, 
is  his  motto, 
and the success he has  achieved  in  that 
direction  proves  conclusively  what  any

young man may accomplish  by  well  di­
rected,  untiring energy.  Personally,  he 
is affable, obliging and quick to perceive 
points of advantage when they incline to 
the benefit of the house  he  labors  with, 
and he stands high in  the  estimation  of 
all who know  him  as  being  one  of  the 
young men who are destined to become a 
factor in business circles.

T h e   D ru g   M a rk e t.

Acid—There is a  continued  unsettled 
and irregular  market  for  salicylic,  with 
the  combination  prices  more  or  less 
nominal.  Benzoic remains  easy.  Citric 
is active and steady.  Tartaric continues 
to harden under the influences last noted 
and  manufacturers’  prices  have  been 
farther advanced.

Alcohol—Grain  continues  to  advance 
in  sympathy with  the  steady  improve­
ment in crude material.  Business  is  of 
average volume and there is  less  compe­
tition.

Beans—Angostura 

tonka  are  firmly 
held under  diminishing  stock»  and  un­
favorable  reports  concerning  the  new 
crop.  Vanilla continues  to move  freely 
into  consuming  channels,  with  prices 
well sustained.

Borax—Is  without  much  animation, 
the demand being moderate,  with  prices 
unchanged.

Bromides — Manufacturers  have  ad­

vanced prices 2c per lb.

Cocaine—Is in good consuming request 
at  the decline noted last week and a fair 
: business is reported.

transpires 

Cod  Liver  Oil—It 

that 
stocks in this country are  much  smaller 
than  previously  estimated and the  bulk 
is now under control of one holder.  The 
situation  »broad 
increasing 
strength and the lowest quotation named 
is said to be equivalent to $42  laid  down 
here.

indicates 

Cream Tartar—The  continued upward 
tendency of argols abroad  has influenced 
a  further  advance 
in  manufacturers’ 
prices.

Morphine—The  anticipated 

decline 
was  announced  last  week,  when manu­
facturers and  importers  reduced  quota­
tions 10c per ounce  on all quantities and 
sizes.

Quinine — Continued  activity  is  re­
ported,  with  the  tone  of  the  market 
strong.

Roots—The  stock  of  jalap 

in  first 
hands  continues  to  accumnlate  and  in 
the  absence  of  interest  on  the  part  of 
dealers, 
the  market  has  a  drooping 
tendency.  Arrivals  of  Jamaica  ginger 
are steadily growing smaller  and  indica­
tions  favor  a  higher  market.  Serpen­
taria,  senega and golden seal are  all  rul­
ing quiet at unchanged  prices.

Sugar of Milk—The  leading  brand  of 
powdered has been  advanced, but  there 
is  no  change  in  the  lower  grades  or 
crystals. 

______

The Detroit  Herald  of  Commerce  has 
ceased to exist and  L.  S.  Rogers has  en­
tered the employ of the  Detroit  Evening 
Nexos 
in  the  capacity  of  advertising 
agent.

tion.

Grand  Rapide Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
At the regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
at the office  of  the  M ic h i g a n   T r a d e s ­
m a n  on Tuesday evening,  May 21,  Presi­
dent White presided.
The following letter  was  read  by  the 
Secretary:
G r a n d   R a p i d s ,  May 18—1  find  it  im­
possible to continue my talk on  the  sub­
ject of the rebate system of selling  flour, 
as  the  situation  has  changed  in  some 
cities  since  I  last  addressed  you. 
In 
Baltimore and Buffalo this method is con­
tinued,  but  in  Minneapolis it is changed 
somewhat.  The  fact  is,  there is a con­
tinual change, especially  when  wheat  is 
so erratic and fluctuating as at  the  pres­
ent time.  If the grocers will act together 
the rebate method of selling flour can  be 
easily  arranged  so  as  to  be  mutually 
beneficial and wrong no one.

C. G. A. V o i g t .

Mr.  Wagner moved that  tbe  communi­
cation be accepted and placed on file and 
that Mr. Voigt be requested  to  keep  his 
agreement to  continue  the  discussion  of 
the flour question and announce his posi­
tion in the matter of selling  flour  on  the 
rebate plan at  the  next  meeting  of  tbe 
Association.  Adopted.
John  H.  Goss moved that a committee 
of three  be  appointed  to  wait  upon  the 
yeast manufacturers and solicit  their  as­
sistance  in  securing a  representative at­
tendance at the next meeting of the Com­
mon Council.  Adopted.
The same gentleman moved that  every 
grocer consider himself  a  committee  of 
one  to  wait  upon  the  aldermen  of  his 
ward  and  secure  their  co-operation,  if 
in  maintaining  the  present 
possible, 
license fee for hucksters.  Adopted.
The  following  resolution,  introduced 
the  Secretary,  was  unanimously 
by 
adopted.
Resolved,  That the thanks of this Asso­
ciation are hereby tendered Aldermen O. 
A.  Ball and G.  H.  DeGraaf  for  the  able 
manner  in  which  they  championed  the 
cause of the grocer in the matter of licens­
ing  hucksters and  peddlers.
A  communication  was  received  from 
the Commercial Credit Co.,  Ltd., offering 
to collect the unpaid dues on the basis of 
10 per cent,  commission.  On  motion  of 
Mr.  Lehman the offer was  accepted.
Chairman Wagner,  of tbe  special Com­
mittee on Essays,  then  presented  the re­
port of  tbe  Committee,  announcing  tbe 
prize winners,  as follows:
1.  Frank T. Lawrence,  Grand  Rapids.
2.  E. A. Owen, Vittoria, Ont.
3.  E. A. Cloonan, St.  Lonis,  Mo.
Mr.  Wagner  stated  that  the  essays 
were  so  uniformly  good  that the  Com­
mittee had much  difficulty  in  determin­
ing  which  were  entitled  to  the prizes, 
and suggested that  tbe  essays  receiving 
the prizes be taken up  and  discussed  at 
the  next  meeting  of  the  Association. 
Adopted.
The  subject  of  employing  a  regular 
salaried secretary was then taken up and 
discussed at some length, culminating in 
the adoption of a motion,  offered  by  Mr. 
Lehman,  that  the  Secretary  send  each 
member a circular letter,  calling  his  at­
tention to the  expense  of  employing  an 
officer to give his entire time to the work 
and asking whether such  action is in ac­
cordance  with  the  wishes  of  the mem­
bers.
Peter Schuit  introduced the subject of 
the grocers’ picnic by  suggesting  that  a 
parade  of  wholesale  and retail grocers’ 
wagons  be held  on  the  morning  of  the 
picnic and that prizes be  offered  to  both 
branches  of  the  trade  making  the  best 
display.  The  suggestion  was  well  re­
ceived and will be discussed  at  the  next 
meeting.
There being  no  further  business,  the 
meeting adjourned.

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TfcOS  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .

Commercial  Aspect of tbe  Bicycle.

Written for T a n   T r a d e s m a n .

The  local  street  railway  officials  are 
complaining  because the bicycle is  mak­
ing business a little dull for  them.  The 
liverymen  are  also registering a kick on 
the pneumatic  tired  horse,  and  for  the 
same  reason.  A  report  has  been circu­
lated that the latter people are trying, in 
imitation  of  their  brethren  in  Denver, 
Col., to induce  the  Common  Council  to 
pass an ordinance  providing  for  an  an­
nual tax of some odd dollars to be  levied 
on each wheel in the city, hoping in  that 
way  to  reduce  the  number  of  bicycles 
used.  Their kick is funny. 
It might be 
compared to a man stationing himself  at 
the dock of a  steam  transportation  com­
pany and trying to induce  tbe  people  to 
take passage in a  frail  rowboat;  it  also 
resembles a man trying to sell straw hats 
in December.  They are trying to induce 
people to spend  their  money  for  some­
thing they don’t want.  They don’t  want 
a horse and buggy, because a bicycle will, 
without effort,  cover  twice  the  number 
of  miles  in  an  hour  that  the  ordinary 
equine will.  They  don’t want to ride on 
a  street  car,  because, on a “bike,” they 
can take an even  start  with  an  electric 
motor and beat it to  any  given  point  in 
the  city.  Old  wheelmen  have  known 
this  for  the  past  three  dr  four  years. 
The Great American Public  is  just  find­
ing it out,  with the  result  of  a  material 
decreasd in the two lines of  business  re­
ferred  to.

A little calculation  as  to  the  amount 
the Street Car Company is losing through 
the great iucrease in bicycle riding might 
be  interesting.  The  bicycle  dealers  in 
the  city  ought  to  be  tbe best judges of 
the number of  wheels  used  here.  They 
think that a conservative estimate would 
be about 6,000 of all  kinds.  Now, out of 
this  number,  at  least  5,000  would take 
two street car rides a day—to their  work 
in the morning and home again at  night. 
That  would  represent  $500  in  nickels. 
Then,  there  are  about  1,000  more who 
would  take  four  rides  a  day.  This 
would  add  $200  to  the  above  amount. 
The amounts taken in  by  the  conductors 
in the evening,  which  would  come  out­
side  of  both  these  classes  of  people, 
would foot up no small  sum.  Certainly, 
enough people use bicycles who formerly 
took  the  car  at  night to average up $50 
more,  bringing  the  grand  total  up 
to 
$750.  Even considering 6,000  as  an  ex­
aggerated  estimate  of 
the  number  of 
wheels in use here,  the  money  saved  to 
the  riders  is  surprising.  Upon  a basis 
of  only  half  that  number  tbe  amount 
represented would,  in  six months’  time, 
amount to $67,500. 
It is astonishing but 
figures don’t lie.

What  do  they  all  do  iu  winter?  At 
present,  they  store  their  wheels  away; 
that is,  most of them do—not all of them. 
Winter riding is easy. 
In  the  future,  it 
will  be  made  still  more  easy.  That 
“Necessity is  the mother  of  invention” 
will  prove  to  be  true  in  this  case.  A 
bicycle  rider  dislikes  to  put  away  his 
wheel  worse  than  anything he could  be 
asked to do.  So,  when nearly everybody 
shall  own one,  city  ordinances  will  be 
enacted providing for means  to keep  the 
streets  clean  and  passable  for  bicycles 
the entire winter.  Riding  on  the  snow 
is not hard work;  in  fact,  hard  packed 
snow makes one of the  best  surfaces  for 
bicycle  riding  extant.  Whsn  properly 
dressed,  there can be no objection to win­
ter  riding,  and,  when  the  people  find

this out, as they have just found out that 
the  bicycle  is  a  good  thing to use,  cy­
cling in January will be as common as  it 
is  now  in  July.  People  wonder  at  it 
now,  but  they  also  wondered,  a  long 
time ago,  whether wheels  would  ever  be 
improved  sufficiently 
to  enable  their 
riders to glide past a  horse  on  the  road. 
Now that it  is  easy,  and  winter  riding 
will some day be easy,  also.

Referring  to  city  ordinances  suggests 
some of those  now  in  force  relating  to 
the  bicycle.  Here  in  Grand  Rapids, 
wheelmen  are  allowed  the  use  of  the 
sidewalks outside a certain limit  and  on 
paved streets.  Actually,  they  have  no 
right on a sidewalk or  sidepath  used  by 
foot passengers.  A bicycle  is  a  vehicle 
and its status as  such  has  been  decided 
in the courts time  and  again;  therefore, 
it  must  go  in  that  part  of  the  public 
thoroughfares  set  aside  for  vehicles. 
Wheelmen,  here,  are  allowed  the  privi­
lege of the  sidewalks,  because  the  city 
streets,  as a rule,  are  almost  unridable. 
At this, the horse  owners  come  forward 
with a remark to the effect that a vehicle 
that cannot be used on any  street  in  the 
city has no place  in the  city.  They for­
get that,  if  the  wheel  is,  according  to 
law, a vehicle,  and must be  classed with 
other vehicles,  the communities in which 
the machines are  owned  are  obliged  to 
keep the highways  in  a  passable  condi­
tion.  An instance of this was noticed in 
a  Massachusetts  town  some  time  ago. 
A young  man  rode  his  bicycle  on  the 
sidewalk,  was arrested  and  paid  a  fine. 
He then sued the town for maintaining a 
nuisance in the shape  of  an  impassable 
street wiwre he  was  using  the  sidewalk 
and collected  damages.  Lamp  and  bell 
ordinances are also unenforceable, unless 
every other vehicle is compelled  to come 
under the rule.  There should  be no dis­
crimination.  Here, in  this  city,  wheel­
men  carry  bells  in  exchange  for  the 
courtesy of  sidewalk  privileges.  When 
they are compelled to keep  in the street, 
off go the bells, or else every  other  kind 
of vehicle is provided with a gong.
That article in the  New  York  Tribune 
which was noticed  in  the  last  issue  of 
T h e T badesm an  was  very  well  taken. 
A good wheelman asks  no  odds  of  any­
thing that  goes  over  the  surface  of  the 
earth.  “Roadhogs”  are  plenty, and the 
way  they  impose  on  new  riders,  and 
especially on ladies,  is a  disgrace to  tbe 
oommunity that permits it, as  well  as  to 
the guilty parties.  A good share  of  this 
kind of driving,  however,  is not intended 
to be spiteful.  Drivers  become  so  used 
to seeing wheelmen dart around  through 
all sorts of places that they have become 
tired of turning out for  them when  they 
see that it is of no use,  and so they make 
up their minds to go straight ahead,  and, 
not  knowing  whether  the  approaching 
bicyclist is experienced or not,  they often 
cause new riders, and,  as  1  say,  ladies 
especially,  considerable  inconvenience. 
When a wheelman  is  approaching  a  pe­
destrian,  be begins,  as  soon  as  he  sees 
him, to make  calculations  bow  he  will 
pass him.  He looks to see  if  any  other 
persons are about and,  if  so,  be  calcu­
lates their  relative  rates  of  speed  and 
how near together  they  will  be when  he 
arrives in their  vicinity.  Bicycle riding 
enables a person to  make  these  calcula­
tions correctly and, if the  persons  walk­
ing keep their course,  the  rider can tell, 
rods in  advance, just  exactly  where  he 
will go  in  passing  them. 
If  a  man  is 
crossing the  street,  the  rider will,  nine 
times out of  ten,  go  behind  him;  so,  if 
the pedestrian  does  not  stop  or  try  to 
dodge, 
there  will  be  no  trouble.  Of 
course, 
there  are  exceptions  to  every 
rule,  and  there  are  blunderers  riding 
bicycles, just as there are  blunderers  in 
all  walks of life.  Occasionally,  a “hobo” 
is seen rushing through the  streets,  pay­
ing no attention to the  safety  of  anyone 
in  his  path,  but  they  are  rare.  They 
also manage to break their wheels  about 
twice  or  three  times  a  week  by  their 
carelessness,  which  is  good  enough  for 
them  and  is  good  for  the  public,  as, 
when their wheels are in the repair shop, 
they are not taking up twice  the amount 
of room in the street that is generally al­
lowed one man. 

Mobbis  J.  W h it e.

W e s t   M i c h ig a n   A g e n t s

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Large Stock 
Prompt  Shipment

Boots.

HOSE

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PACKING

Everything in  Rubber

Grand  Rapids, flieh.

BICYCLE
CLOTHING¿Of all descriptions

W e  are  Exclusive 
Agents  for

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BICYCLE  SUNDRIES
BASE BALL and TENNIS GOODS
Agents Wanted

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

You can always tell

Which bicycle is the most popular, most sat­
isfactory,  most  pleasing  to  the  fastidious 
eye, and the keenest competitor, by what its 
business  competitors  say  about  it.  The 
dealer

Who Is hurt by

Such competition as  our  customers are  able 
to  put  with  our  line  of  NEW  CLIPPERS, 
generally tells you  that  CLIPPERS  are  “no 
good.'’ they "run  hard,"  are  “ice  wagons,’’ 
etc., etc.  We have been

Noticing who hollers

Lately :  it's those who can't find a better line 
to  compete  with  these  "ice  wagons;”  they 
hurt because they stand up and give satisfac 
lion. 
If you want a  Bicycle  Built  for  Busi­
ness. just TRY A NEW  CLIPPER before you 
buy.  We'll be willing to  submit to your  un­
prejudiced judgment.

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Galvanized 

Steel
Can  be used 
as a Portable 
or Stationary 
Bath Tub, 
with  or  with­
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Grand  Rapids.

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T H E   B A C K   O F PIC E .

W ritte n  f o r  T h b T u r a n u i ,

I suppose there are exceptions to every 
rule,  but,  when  I  read  the  other  day 
that it is a Rood rule in  business to throw 
a bucketful of dirt on those who throw a 
spoonful on us, my first thought was that 
the exceptions to the rule would be more 
numerous than  the instances that  estab- 
ished  it;  but  I  have  been  looking  the 
ground  over  more  carefully  since  the 
reading,  and 1  find in  business  the  pre­
vailing idea to be, not an eye for  an  eye 
and a tooth for a tooth,  but for  each  eye 
and each tooth take two!  The idea is, of 
course, 
that  there  are  a  good  many 
mighty  mean  men  in  the  world—that 
these men resort to the meanest business 
practices,  and that the only  thing  to  be 
done is to punish  the  offender  that  the 
offense will not be repeated. 
It has been 
proven, times without number, and  it  is 
nature’s way.  Whosoever stops a  flying 
brick  gets  hurt; “A burned child dreads 
the fire.”  So these men, overpaid in their 
own coin, are mighty glad to sneak away, 
and the lesson,  once  well  learned,  does 
not  need  repeating. 
It  is  readily  seen 
what the reverse of this  leads  to.  That 
thief filled his pockets with  his  employ­
er’s money and slipped  to  Canada;  this 
wretch,  crazed  with  whisky,  kills  his 
brother, and other crimes  are  committed 
against  the  public  peace  and  safety. 
Then the philanthropist  steps  in,  talks 
about the  “quality of  mercy”  not  being 
strained and its dropping “like  the  gen­
tle rain from heaven upon the  place  be­
neath.”  Then  the  thief  comes  back, 
the  murderer,  poor fellow,  is set  at  lib­
erty, the other crimes are  condoned;  and 
then everybody wonders what  the  world 
is coming to.  Anybody with half an eye 
can  see  what  it  has  done  in  politics. 
Saints  are  made  of  the  biggest scamps 
unhung, and a decent man  won’t  accept 
public office for  love  or  money.  That’s 
what it’s coming to  in  business; and  the 
only  way  is  to  shut  down  on  these 
scamps. 
If  they  throw  a  spoonful  of 
dirt  on  us,  they  must  be  treated  to  a 
bucketful, or,  better still,  bury them un­
der a mountain of it.  Tough,  but that’s 
the only way.

It  is  remarkable  how  history  repeats 
itself:  That’s  just the way  they  got  to 
talking  some  nineteen  hundred  years 
ago.  Ton favor me and I’ll  do the same 
for you;  but, if you hit  me  with  a  club, 
confound  your  everlasting  picture,  I’ll 
smash your head with a crowbar—I guess 
they had a crowbar, or  something like it, 
then;  and  then,  from  Bethlehem,  from 
the lips of Him who  spake as  never man 
spake, comes echoing down the centuries: 
. “I say unto you that you resist  not  evil, 
but  whosoever  shall  smite  thee  on  the 
right cheek, torn to him  the  other  also; 
and whosoever shall compel thee to  go  a 
mile, go with him twain.”  That  Jordan 
may be a hard road to  travel,  but  if  we 
insist on an eye for an  eye  and  so  over­
come,  “What reward  have  ye?  Do  not 
even the publicans  so?”

Human nature is something that never 
changes;  and  isn’t  it  possible,  even  in 
business,  that,  if  the  bucketful  of  dirt 
be replaced with  another  filled with  the 
milk of  human  kindness,  there  will  be 
fewer  of  the  spoonfuls  thrown  and  so 
fewer to resent?  I have lived a good many 
years in the world,  and I  have yet to see 
any good accomplished by a  faithful fol­
lowing of this old principle,  “An  eye for 
an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” nor  do  I 
believe that the world will be any better,

even in business  lines,  by  exacting  two 
eyes or two teeth for one.
*  *  •

There  is  a  trade  paper  published  in 
Canada which finds  its way in  here now 
and then and is sure to make  Itself  wel­
come,  a  good  many  times  over. 
It  is 
broad-gauged  and  thinks  no  more  of 
talking of matters and things  outside  of 
dollars and cents than it does of printing 
a price list. 
In the  copy  I  have  before 
me, it asks why young ladies in a certain 
part  of  the  provinces  use  the  word 
“aught” for  “naught,”  and  proceeds  to 
tell the ladies that  naught  is  the  right 
word to use when naming the cipher.

The mistake is not confined  to  Canada 
nor to those Northern  ladies;  but,  what 
I am after now is  the  fact  that  a  trade 
paper should find  this  a  matter  of  suf­
ficient  interest  to  give  it a place in  its 
columns.  There is a  common  argument 
south  of  the  Great  Lakes:  “Tradin’  ’s 
tradin’;  ’n’  ’t  don’t  make  no  difTrence 
haow ye  say it, ’f ye c’n git threw ’,n’  git 
y’r money fo r’t;  ’n’ ’f ye hed  a  bill  ’ith 
a couple o’ aughts o n ’t, I wouldn’t keer, 
b’ gosh,  what ye called ’em, ’f ye’d gimme 
the  bill!”

Has the time, indeed,  arrived  when  it 
does  make  a  difference  whether 
the 
trader at his desk and  the  clerk  behind 
the grocer’s counter speak,  in its purity, 
their mother-tongue;  and,  is  it  dawning 
upon  the  business  world  that  a  man’s 
grammar,  in the marts of  trade,  as  well 
as his manners, has a  commercial value? 
I know that, in the higher walks of trade, 
where  merchant  princes  dwell, 
the 
“aught”  element  was  ostracized  long 
ago;  1 know,  too, that much,  if  not  all, 
of that “looking down  upon”  which  the 
grocery  clerk sometimes complains of is 
due, not so much to the work as to the lack 
of training so  woefully  apparent  in  all 
he  says  and  does;  but  I  did  not know 
that Trade, per  se,  is beginning  to  care 
bow a thought is expressed,  and that  he 
not  only  knows  the  difference between 
aught and  naught—something and noth­
ing—but that he insists that others shall 
mark this difference and  shall state it  in 
good and intelligent  English.

I  beg  leave  to  tender my hearty con­
gratulations to the leading paper of Brit­
ish America, and to say  that,  if  there  is 
aught I can do to help  in the good  work 
begun,  I  shall be  only too glad to make 
every effort,  even  should  it  amount  to 
naught. 

R ic h a b d  Malcom S t r o n g.

T o o ts  fro m   B arn ’s   H o rn .

Sin is deadly only  when it  can hide its 
face.
God is still calling  some  people  to  do 
small things.
To say “Thy will be  done,”  means  to 
say good-bye to self.
God’s warriors are always chosen from 
his  worshipers.
When you shut your  closet  door,  lock 
it with a promise.
The  rod  never  does  good  unless  the 
hand of love holds it.
□ Whatever is gained  Id  Sodom  must be 
lost  with  Sodom.
The  only  things  we  really  know  are 
those  God  tells  us.
It  is  never  hard  to  believe  when  we 
get  on  believing  ground.
It  is  the  wolf  in sheep’s elothing that 
has the sharpest teeth.
We can only walk  with God  when  we 
are willing  to  go his way.
The devil is most like a  lion  when  he 
looks  most like a sheep.
Let ns do right, and God will  see  to it 
that we come out right.

There is nothing a man likes  to  think 
about more than his  difficulties,  when he 
has conquered them.

Yes, we’ve got ’em !

Novelties and Staples in  Dry Goods* 
Everything in Notions.
Big Line of Gents’ Furnishings.
All that can be desired in Yarns.

We are Headquarters for

FioorOH Giotnsand Linoleums
can do. VOIGT, M U IR  X60.

Have you ever done  business with us?  If not, 
let's get our heads  together  and  see  what  we 

Wholesale  Dpy  Goods,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Spring & Company,

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

We  invite  the  Attention  of  the 

Stock  at  Lowest  Market  Prices.

Trade  to  our  Complete  and  Well  Assorted

Spring & Company•

We are ready to show, both in the  house 
and on the road, samples of

Fall  Underwear,  Overshirts, 
Yarns,  Hose,  Socks,  B atts,
Dress  Cashmeres in 36,38,40,45 in. widths 
D ress  Flannels,  26, 36, 50 in. widths, 
Fiderdown  and  Teazel  Down 

Flannels,

And all at our usual Low  Prices.

P.  Steketee &  Sons
.  Kersey
Pants

Duck 
Coats 

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We  manufacture  the  best  made  goods  in  these  lines  of 
any  factory  in  the  country,  guaranteeing  every  garment  to 
give entire satisfaction, both in fit 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,  rilCH.

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AROU N D   T H E   ST A TE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Newaygo—Bruce  &  Blanchard  have 

opened a meat market.

Niles—Snyder  A  George, 

succeed W.  H. Snyder, Sr.

jewelers, 

Clio—G.  M.  Long has sold his grocery 

business to Reuben Parmelee.

Manistee—George  Johnson & Co.  have 

opened a new shoe store here.
£.  Ernst 

Oscoda—Chas. 

succeeds 

Ernst Bros,  in the bazaar business.

Charlevoix—Geo.  Bates  has  purchased 

the meat business of A. J. McLeod.

Muskegon—Geert P.  Bulthuis succeeds 

Bulthuis A Co.  in the feed business.

Thompsonville—J.  A.  Evetts succeeds 
J.  P.  Winters  in the hardware business.
succeeds 
Stemple Bros,  in the  confectionery  busi­
ness.

Coleman — Philo  Stemple 

Kalamazoo—M.  E.  Bennink  succeeds 
Roelof  DeKorning  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Escanaba—Ehnerd  &  Willard  succeed 
Herman  A.  Breitenbach  in  the  meat 
business.

Hancock—J until la  &  Co.,  grocers, 
have  dissolved,  S.  Juntilla  continuing 
the business.

Paw Paw—A.  Hathaway  &  Co.  have 
assigned their stock  of  lumber  to  Geo. 
W.  Longwell.

Coleman—Harrison Sampson  has  pur­
chased the grocery  and  notion  business 
of Seth Bowdish.

Dowagiac—C. E.  Lyle  is  succeeded  by 
the Jones A Murray Co.  in the dry  goods 
and carpet business.

Alba—Fred  Shepard  has  bought  a 
stock  of groceries and begun business in 
the Welch building.

Pontiac—Losee  Bros.  &  Co. 

is  the 
name  of  a  new  firm  who  will  shortly 
open a shoe store here.

Menominee—Cate  A  Cate,  druggists, 
have  dissolved.  The  business  will  be 
continued by H. B. Cate.

ironwood—The Rebate  Mercantile  Co. 
has merged its business into a stock com­
pany under the same style.

Stanwood—Burghdotf  A  Mitchell,
dealers in dry goods and  groceries,  have 
dissolved,  Thos.  Mitchell  continuing the 
business.

Traverse  City—Richardson  A  Co.  and 
Schoolcraft A Co.  have consolidated their 
grocery stocks under the  style of School­
craft A Richardson.

Aint—The  C.  E.  Smith  Shoe  Co.,  of 
Detroit,  recently  foreclosed  a  chattel 
mortgage  on  the  shoe  stock  of  E.  M. 
Weller and sold it to C.  D.  Ulmer.

Sherman—Wm.  Foster  has  sold his in­
terest in  the hardware stock of Wilson A 
Foster to his  partuer,  who  will continue 
the  business  under  the  style  of  Thos. 
Wilson.

Elwell—Taylor  A  Meyer  have  leased 
the store building  formerly  occupied  by 
E.  L. & J.  1. Gee  and  moved  their  drug 
stock  to  that  location.  They  will  add 
lines of dry goods and groceries.

Sand Lake—F.  W. Pollock has decided 
to erect a one-story  brick  building, 22x60 
feet in dimensions, for  the  reception  of 
his drug stock.  A.  Giddings will erect a 
building  adjoining  Mr.  Pollock’s  store, 
22xT0 feet in dimensions.

Otsego  Lake—Thomas  McArthur,  of 
Gladwin, has purchased the boot and shoe 
stock of C.  W. Babel  and  will  continue 
the  business.  Mr.  Bahel  will  take  a 
summer  off  and  says  he will  next  fall 
embark in the drug business at  Gaylord.

hi  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
| estate owners to oppose  public  Improve­
ments and  exhibit  an  utter  indifference 
to add to our industrial enterprises.”

McGraw  were  admitted.  Alexander  C. 
McGraw died In 1893, and since then  the 
business has been  conducted  by  the  ex­
ecutors  of  his  estate  and his surviving 
partners.  A  rubber  business  was  con­
nected with A. C.  McGraw  A  Co.’s  boot 
and shoe  factory  at  33  Woodward  ave­
nue.  This will be carried  on  by  W.  A. 
McGraw.

UANUFACTUKIX6   MATTERS.

Armada—Hulett  A  Case  will  begin 

making cheese about June 1.

St.  Clair—The  Diamond  Crystal  Salt 
Co. is erecting an  addition  to  its  works 
48 x 41 feet in size and three stories high. 
On the second floor will be a grainer.

Dorr—A 50-barrel  roller  process  flour 
mill  is  to  be  built  here  by  Herman 
Geerds, of Fremont.  The citizens donate 
a site and $500 in cash as encouragement.
the  Globe 
Foundry  Co.  has  been  changed  to  the 
Globe  Iron Works  and  its  capital  stock 
has been increased  from  $5,000  to  $15,- 
000.

Detroit—The  name  of 

Muskegon—E.  E.  Nolan,  W.  E. Thorn­
ton and D.  M. Stever have  leased tbe up­
per floor of the Barcus saw shop and  will 
embark  in  the  manufacture  of  bicycle 
rims under the style of the  Only  Perfect 
Wood Rim Co.

St. 

lgnace—Immense  gypsum  beds 
have been discovered three  miles  north­
west of this city and Kansas City capital­
ists have secured options on all  the  land 
in  that locality,  with  a  view to  develop­
ing the business.

Detroit—Articles  of  association of  the 
Globe Electrical Co.  have  been  filed  iu 
the county clerk’s office. 
It  has  a  capi­
tal  stock of $10,000,  of  which  $3,000  is 
paid in, and is  held  by  Will  H. Palmer, 
400  shares;  Scott  H.  Morris,  399,  and 
Friend  Palmer, 201.

Traverse City—The Potato  Implement 
Co.  has purchased the woolen mill  prop­
erty and will convert it into a factory for 
the manufacture of the  Acme  hand  po­
tato planter,  the Acme plaster sifter, the 
Hill improved  knapsack  sprinkler and  a 
new cart sprinkler,  recently  acquired by 
the company.  C.  K. Buck  is now devot­
ing his entire attention  to  the  business.

A. P r o m p t  S e ttle m e n t.

the  fire 

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  May  24—Yesterday 
my  house  at  No.  174  Lyon  street was 
badly  damaged  by 
in  tbe 
Second  Reformed  church. 
I  reported 
tbe loss to the office of tbe Grand  Rapids 
Fire Insurance Co ,  and the  proper  per­
sons immediately took up the adjustment, 
and  this  morning  Secretary  McBain 
handed  me a check in full  settlement  of 
my loss.  1 recommend all Grand Rapids 
citizens to insure  their  property  in  our 
home company,  where  they  are  sure  to 
receive prompt,  honorable and courteous 
treatment. 

Ca l v in   L.  I v e s.

A  1  kinds,  sizes, 
qualities andquan 
titles of Flags at

STEKETEE 
& SONS.

Henry  J.  Vinkemulder  says  that  his 
in 
book-keeper  files  his  order 
Shaw’s Name File  Book  and  that, when 
so filed, accounts  are  always  ready  for 
settlement.  Mr.  Vinkemulder’s growing 
trade  necessitates  the  most  economical 
system of accounts.

slips 

Petoskey—Guy  M.  Harwood  has  sold 
his drug stock to E.  J.  Burrell and Harry 
Luke,  who  will  continue  the  business 
under the style of Burrell  A  Luke,  hav­
ing leased Mr.  Harwood’s store building. 
Mr. Burrell was formerly connected with 
the chemical department  of  the  Mance- 
lona  iron  furnace.  Mr.  Luke  was for­
merly  employed  by  J.  G.  Johnson,  the 
Traverse City druggist

East Jordan—C. W.  Dunham,  who  for 
the past three and a  half  years  has  had 
charge  of  the  mercantile  department of 
the East Jordan  Lumber  Co.’s  business, 
has tendered his resignation of that posi­
tion,  to accept a more congenial  position 
with a  wholesale house in  Chicago.  Mr. 
Dunham has been a resident of this place 
for  twelve  years,  seven  of which  have 
been  spent  in  the  employ  of the  Lum­
ber Co.

Owosso—At a  recent  meeting  of  the 
Owosso Business Men’s Association com­
mittees were appointed to look  after  the 
pickle factory and  the  Exeter  Manufac­
turing Co., both  of which are desirous of 
locating in this city.  The  Mt.  Pleasant 
Plow  Co.,  which  was  recently  burned 
out, is  also  considering  the  idea  of  re­
moving to this city.  Officers of the com­
pany were here a few days ago with that 
object  in  view.  A  committee  was also 
appointed at the last  meeting  to  devise 
ways and  means for bringing  to  the  at­
tention of  outside  capital  the  business 
advantages of our city.

Cadillac—The Chicago  Supply Co. suf­
fered a complete knockout  at the  bands 
of a jury in Justice Long’s court one day 
last  week.  A  short  time  ago  Mathew 
Proud,  of Colfax,  was  sued on a note for 
$80 held by the Drovers’  National  Bank 
of Chicago.  The note was  given  to  the 
Chicago Supply Co. by  Mr.  Proud  for  a 
parcel  of  merchandise,  represented  by 
the  agent  to  be  of  much greater value 
than 
the  amount  of  the  note  given. 
When convinced that  the  goods  were  of 
an  inferior  quality  and  not  worth  the 
amount to be paid and  that  their  verbal 
agreements were not kept, Mr. Prond  re­
solved to let a jury decide  the  merits  of 
the case,  with  the  result  above  stated. 
This virtually  decides  the  invalidity  of 
the notes given the Supply Co.,  so  far as 
justice  court  juries  are  concerned,  and 
the  many  gentlemen  of  this  section 
whose  notes  are  held  by  the  Drovers’ 
Bank will feel secure against payment of 
the obligations held against them.

Port Huron—Mayor N. S. Boynton has 
tendered his resignation as  President  of 
the Chamber  of  Commerce,  accompany­
ing the  resignation  with  the  following 
caustic  criticism:  “I  had 
invited  the 
grocers  and  commission  merchants  of 
this city to meet at the Chamber of Com­
merce to  make  arrangements for  enter­
taining the grocers of  the  Saginaw  val­
ley,  who were  to  have  their' annual  ex­
cursion or outing in the near future,  and 
I  had  invited  them  to  come  to  Port 
Huron.  Only  four  of  our  grocerymen 
showed up. 
Instead of an  active  inter­
est being shown in  the work of building 
up our city,  holding what enterprises we 
have and securing others to  locate  here,
I find that  a  great  deal  of  indifference 
prevails.  One  of  our  most  valuable 
manufacturing  institutions  has  been 
forced to  move  elsewhere,  and  it  looks 
as  if  others  would 
follow.  Empty 
dwelling houses  are  found  everywhere, 
and  more  are  being  vacated.  There 
seems to be a disposition on  the  p^rt  of 
some of our business men and  large  real  ,

Detroit—The  joint  executive  commit­
tee of the cigarmakers’ and cigarpackers’ 
unions  has  finished  the  appeal  to  the 
international  union  asking  its  indorse­
ment of the strike  to  be  begun  against 
tbe “open” shops of this city,  and it was 
mailed  to  the  headquarters  in  Chicago 
Saturday  night.  At  a  meeting  held 
Tuesday it was voted to strike  if  the  in­
ternational union gave its consent.  The 
matter may be referred  to  a  vote  of  all 
the  unions  affiliated  with  the  interna­
tional union, or the executive board may 
indorse the  application. 
It  will  proba­
bly take a couple of weeks before the an­
swer of the international reaches Detroit. 
An open shop is one in which both union 
and  non-union  persons  are  employed. 
The blue label  is not placed on the goods 
manufactured by open shops.  The shops 
classed as open shops  by the local  union 
are the Banner,  Detroit  Cigar  Manufac­
turing  Co.,  George  Moebs  A Co., Alex­
ander  Gordon,  Cabinet  Cigar  Co.,  and
H.  Dietz.  The  union  men  have  no 
grievance,  so far as  wages  or  hours  are 
concerned,  but  it  grieves  them  beyond 
measure to be compelled to work side by 
side with non-union men  who do not con­
tribute  to  the  support  of unionism and 
the upbuilding of anarchy.

Detroit—Two  of  the  oldest  business 
houses in the State will be married Sept.
I.  The firm names of H. P. Baldwin, 2d, 
A Co.,  and A. C.  McGraw A Co.  will then 
be wiped out of  existence,  and  in  their 
place  will  be  written  that of Baldwin, 
McGraw  A  Co.  H.  P.  Baldwin,  2d,  A 
Co. is composed at present of H. P. Bald­
win  and  Samuel  C.  Sutter.  The  mem­
bers of A. C. McGraw A Co.  are the A.  C. 
McGraw  estate,  Thomas  S.  McGraw, 
William  A.  McGraw  and  S.  G. Caskey. 
The  new  firm  will be made up of H.  P. 
Baldwin,  Samuel  C. Sutter and  Thomas 
S.  McGraw.  H.  P.  Baldwin  A  Co.  are 
doing  business  at  the  southwest corner 
of  Woodward  avenue  and  Woodbridge 
street in the building that they  have  oc­
cupied since 1851.  A.  C.  McGraw & Co. 
are at the southwest corner  of  Griswold 
and Woodbridge  streets,  so that the  two 
factories are separated by only  an  alley. 
After  Sept.  1  Baldwin,  McGraw  & Co. 
will occupy the latter location, which af­
fords an  immense floor space.  Not  only 
will  there  be no decrease of the number 
of  operatives,  but  an  increase  is  ex­
pected.  The change is due  largely  to  a 
desire to close up the estate of A. C.  Mc­
Graw, and,  no doubt, to the advantages to 
be gained by combining  the  interests  of 
the  two  institutions  and  stopping  the 
competition  between  them.  Both  firms 
have made enviable records as  manufac­
turers of boots and  shoes.  H.  P.  Bald-! 
win, 2d, & Co. is the  outgrowth of H.  P. 
Baldwin & Co.,  which,  in  its  turn,  was 
established in 1836 by the late Gov. Bald­
win.  H.  P.  Baldwin, 2d,  and Mr. Sutter 
were taken into the firm in  1870 and suc­
ceeded to the business in 1878  under  the 
present name.  An indication of the con­
servatism of the house is  shown  in their 
long tenancy  of  their  present  quarters. 
Only one other firm in this city, it is said, 
has remained the same  length of time  in 
one  place;  that  is,  T.  H.  Eaton  A Co. 
The  other  house  was  established  by
i  Alexander C. McGraw in  1832.  Stephen 
Smith was taken  in as a partner in  1843, 
but S. G. Caskey succeeded him  in  1853. 
Subsequently, Wm.  A.  and  Augustus  C.

G RAN D   R A P ID S   G O SSIP.

E. 0. Goss succeeds  Caldwell  &  Goss 
in  the meat business  at  851  East  street
White  and  Armstrong  have  opened 
their  office  for  the  sale  of  cigars at 75 
Lyon street.

N.  M.  Hooker  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Moline.  The  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

E. L.  Lanphere,  formerly  of  Toledo, 
Ohio, has purchased the grocery stock of 
L. J. Wheeler at 704 Wealthy avenue.

Edwin Fallas has enlarged the scope of 
his activity by  adding machinery  for  the 
refining of syrups at his jelly, pickle and 
mince meat factory on Livingston street.
E.  H.  Don nal ly,  trustee for  the  credit' 
ors of the Sweet  Electric  and  Manufac- 
turing  Co.,  announces  that  he will dis­
pose  of  the  assets  at  public  sale  on 
May 81. 

,

The  United States Circuit Court of Ap­
peals of Boston has granted  the O.  & W. 
Thum  Co.  a  rehearing  on  each  of  the 
seven  points  asked  for  in  their  suit 
against Boston parties  who  imitated the 
salient features of their Tanglefoot.

The  report  that  Wm.  Graham  and S. 
Fred Rouse  had  consolidated  their  gro­
cery  stocks  under  the  style  of Rouse & 
Graham is untrue.  Mr.  Graham  contin­
ues business at 703  Madison  avenue  and 
Mr. Rouse remains in  trade at the corner 
of Madison and Griggs avenues.

L.  E.  Hawkins  &  Co.  have  sold  the 
stock in the “Little Corner  Grocery,”  at 
the corner of  East  Fulton  and  Lagrave 
streets to Aldis E.  Holmes,  formerly  of 
St. Joseph, and Frank  Whipple,  of  this 
city,  who will continue the  business  un­
der the style of Holmes & Whipple.

The  annual  license  fee  of  $30  for 
hucksters of vegetables  and  peddlers  of 
fruit  is  an  established  fact,  Alderman 
Shaw having sustained a third  defeat  at 
the  meeting  of  the  Common  Council 
Monday evening,  when the  aldermen re­
fused to reopen the question  by  the  de­
cisive vote of 17 to 6. 
It is now in order 
for the police department to act promptly 
and effectively in  the  matter,  prosecut­
ing those who have neglected to take out 
the necessary licenses  as  a  preliminary 
to engaging in the peddling business.

The I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.  recently 
foreclosed  its  chattel  mortgage  on  the 
stock of Leonard Gates,  the Howard City 
grocer,  and  last  Wednesday  Fred  B. 
Clark bid in the stock at  public  sale  for 
$375.  As the claim  of  the  Grocery  Co. 
was $678 and Mr. Clark had reason to be­
lieve that goods had been purloined from 
the stock and secreted,  he caused the  ar­
rest of Mr. Gates on  a  charge  of  secret­
ing  chattel  mortgaged  property.  He 
subsequently  sold 
the  stock  to  C.  A. 
Straitb,  who  has  leased the store build­
ing occupied  by Mr.  Gates and  will  con­
tinue the business at the  same  location.

T h e   G ro c e ry   M a rk e t.

Sugar—Hard sugars are firm,  but some 
grades  of  soft  are  weak  and  a  shade 
lower.  There are no indications of a de­
cline in granulated, nor are prices  likely 
to go lower unless the European markets 
develop great weakness  and  influence  a 
decline  in  raw sugars here,  which at the 
moment seems improbable.  It is believed 
that  jobbers  still  have  fair  stocks, the 
consumptive  demand  having  fallen  off, 
due in a great measure to the  cold  snap.

Bananas—The  market  for  the  past 
week has been rather bare of what  could 
be  called  real  good  shipping 
stock. 
Nothing  but  colls  could be obtained up 
to  Wednesday,  at  which  time  three or 
four cars came in,  but  the  fruit  was  en­
tirely green and will not be  fit  for  ship­
ping  before  next  Monday.  The  severe 
frosts  which  materialized  during  the 
past ten days injured the berry crop to  a 
considerable extent and  for  that  reason 
bananas  have  been  in  greater  demand 
and have sold rapidly at good prices. 
It 
is  to  be  expected,  however,  that  from 
now  on  the  fruit  will  be  plenty  and 
cheap,  as  domestic  fruit  will  begin  to 
come in freely and  materially  affect  the 
demand for this item.

reasonably  expected 

Lemons—Everything  at  present  goes 
to  warrant  a  possibility  of  having 
warmer weather and,  if it  comes,  it  can 
be 
that  higher 
prices  will  result.  The  recent  cold 
spell did not have a  tendency  to  reduce 
prices,  as  many  dealers  supposed  and 
hoped it would. 
It  simply  checked  the 
demand.  Stocks  in  general  held  by 
Western  dealers  are  light  and  all  of 
them are kept  from  buying  largely  for 
fear that there should  be  a  slump,  and 
they do not want to be caught with large 
stocks in such a  case.  We  believe  that 
it will be perfectly safe to buy what will 
be  needed  for  the  next  six  weeks  at 
present prices and  that  those  who  take 
advantage of them  now  will  reap  their 
reward in dollars and cents.  New  York 
brokers and  importers  report  already  a 
stronger  feeling  and  an  advance  of  at 
least 50c  per  box  will  probably  be  re­
corded before another issue of this paper, 
if the weather does its duty.

Oranges—Most of the local  dealers are 
buying  in  a  small way—from  hand  to 
mouth,  we might say—as all of  the seed­
lings melt down  very  rapidly  and  it  is 
much safer  to  get  them  in  small  lots, 
even at a  slight  advance  over  car  load 
prices, than to order them in large quan­
tities,  and lose money  and  labor  in  re­
packing made  necessary  by  natural  de­
cay.  Mediterranean  sweets  are  begin­
ning to come into market  and,  while  the 
fruit is not at all superior to seedlings in 
quality, they will stand  up  much  better 
and for that  reason  are  held  at  higher 
•  prices.  Navals  are  practically  gone, 
what few there are left  being  too  puffy 
and  juiceless  to  merit  any  attention. 
Messina fruit is arriving  freely and sell­
ing at good prices, but the quality is  not 
up to  the  California  stock.  Prices,  as 
they appear in  another  column, are cor-¡ 
rect in the  main,  but,  of  course,  large 
orders wonld be shaded a little  in  price.
Fireworks—The  wholesale  dealers  in 
fireworks are  already  giving  their  men 
samples, and it is high  time  that the re­
tail  trade  began  to  put  in  stock,  as  a 
great many of the  smaller  towns are go­
ing to celebrate and,  if one wants to  sell 
goods,  it  is  necessary  to  have  them  in 
stock in  good  season.  Prices  this  year 
are lower than  were  in  force  a year ago 
and in keeping with the times, especially 
in  40-64  long  stem  crackers,  American 
cannon  crackers,  torpedoes,  flags  and 
rockets.

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-.......

L. C.  Prescott, formerly engaged in the 
paint  and  wall  paper business here, has 
removed,  with his family,  to Port Huron, 
where  he  has  established  a  successful 
business in the same line under the style 
of the Prescott & Winchester Co.

C. J.  Pope, of Owosso, has taken a  po­
sition as traveling  representative for the 
Saginaw Hardware Co.

Albert C. Antrim  (Alabastine Co.) has 
returned from  a four months’  trip to the 
Pacific coast, going  via  Washington and 
Oregon  and  returning  via New  Mexico, 
Arizona  and  Texas.  Mr.  Antrim  still 
claims the  distinction  of  being  the first 
traveling salesman to go out of the Grand 
Rapids market.

J. W.  Martin,  traveling  representative 
for Yoigt,  Herpolsheimer & Co., has con­
cluded to take up his residence in  Grand 
Rapids and  has,  therefore,  removed  his 
family from Detroit to this place.

The  members  of  Post  C  (Detroit), 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  have 
chartered  the  steamer  Wyandotte  for 
their  annual  excursion,  to  be  given  to 
Sugar Island, Saturday,  July 6. 
Invita­
tions  have  been  sent  to  the  different 
traveling men’s associations in the State.
Two more deaths have occurred in  the 
ranks  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip—N. L. Bouton,  of  Pentwater,  and 
Theo.  Schultze, of this city.  The former 
was an old  member,  but  the  latter  bad 
joined  only  last  December,  having paid 
only $3 into the organization.  The  $500 
the  widow  will  receive  as the result of 
this  investment  was  ail  the  insurance 
carried  by  the  deceased.  This  makes 
seven deaths in the K.  of  G.  so  far  this 
year  and, 
three 
deaths occurring  during  December were 
carried  over to this year’s account,  mak­
ing ten in all.

in  addition 

thereto, 

T h e   G ra in   M a rk e t.

Another  booming  week  has  passed, 
during which time  wheat  has  advanced 
fully  5c  per  bushel.  There are various 
causes  for  this  booming.  The  scarcity 
of wheat is caused  largely  by  the  enor­
mous quantities of grain used for feeding 
purposes.  As  wheat  has  been  so  ex­
tremely cheap, it seemed  that the  whole 
country  was  bound  to  destroy  it—any 
way to dispose of it—and now many farm­
ers wish they had the wheat back in  their 
granaries.  The frost  seems to  have  in­
jured the growing  crop in  Indiana,  Ohio 
and  Illinois.  Kansas  reports  a  very 
short crop.  Our opinion  is that wheat is 
at  a  pinnacle  price.  Speculation  has 
been very lively and country  speculators 
for once are  reaping  the  benefits.  The 
decrease  during  the  week  was 2,224,000 
bushels,  leaving the visible  54,260,000 or 
about 9,000,000 less than the correspond­
ing week last year.

Corn did not advance  with  wheat,  as is 
usual,  owing  to the fact that the receipts 
were large.  The present cool and  frosty 
weather is a setback to the growing crop. 
There  is still abundance of time to make 
a good crop of corn,  which  is a drawback 
to  its  advancing  in  price,  although we 
think  it is the lowest on the list.

Oats are very firm and the  demand  for 

them is increasing.

The receipts during  the  week  were  as 
follows:  Wheat,  54  cars;  corn,  33  cars, 
and oats, 4 cars. 

C.  G.  A.  Y o ig t.

O. S.  Rodenbaugh,  of  tbe  firm  of  Ro- 
denbaugh Bros., druggists and grocers  at 
Mancelona,  died  May  22,  after a linger­
ing illness with  consumption.  Deceased 
had been a resident  of  Mancelona  since 
1882 and was well known and  highly  re­
spected,  having  held  many  positions  of 
trust  and  responsibility, including  that 
of president of the village.

T H E   M IC H IG ^ JS r  T R A D E S M A N * .
and it is not expected that the trade  will 
take hold  with freedom  until  the  latter 
part of this week or early next week.

G rip s a c k   B rig a d e .

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

W a n t s   Column,

Advertisements  will  be  Inserted  under  this 
head for two cents a word the first Insertion and 
one  cent a word  for each subsequent  Insertion. 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than 25 cents. 
Advance payment.______

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

77g

779

OR  SALE — ONE HALF  INTEREST  IN  A 
general  store  in  a  hustling  town  of  3,000 
population.  Will inventory about 85/ 00.  Only 
cash  offer  considered.  Obliged  to  sell  on  ac­
count  of  poor  health.  Address  No.  778,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
OOD  OPENING FOR  BARBER SHOP, AND 
residence to  rent  cheap.  Address  No  7  9, 
OR  SALE-FIXTURES  WORTH  810*'AND 
good-will  of  an  old-established  clothing 
store for 8300.  Good  chance  for  a  live man  to 
drop into a  good  paying  busiuess.  Address  A. 
Markson A Son, Big Rapids. Mich.________TU

care Michigan Tradesman. 

F OR  SALE-DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES;
Fo r  s a l e  o r  e x c h a n g e —a f ir s t -c la ss
F o r   s a l e   o r   r e n t - t h b   s a u g a t u c k

corner  location;  stock  in  good  condition 
and business paying.  Good reasons for  selling. 
Address Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo,Mich.776
nearly  new  steam  evaporator,  with  all  at­
tachments;  seventy-five bushels  capacity.  Ad­
dress W. H. N„ care Michigan Tradesman.  773
basket factory, fully equipped with machin 
ery.  Enquire  of  John  T. Strahan,  Grand  Rap 
ids. 
OOD OPENING FOR DRYGOODS DE \LER 
with  82,000  to  85,000  capital, in  a  town  of 
1,000  inhabitants.  For  particulars  address  No. 
75, care Michigan Tradesman.______ 

F o r  s a l e —d r u g   s t o c k , c o n s is t in g  o f

staple  drugs,  patent  medicines,  stationery, 
blank books, wall paper, etc., inventorying about 
84,000, for one hair cash and  two  years’ time  on 
balance.  Cash sales last year, 83,0u0.  Store  has 
steam heat, electric lights, hot  and  cold water— 
everything in first-class  shape—and  is  situated 
in best town in Upper  Peninsula, in  mining dis­
trict.  Reasons for selling, tllhealth, necessltat 
ing a removal to a  warm  climate.  Address No. 
769
769. care Michigan Tradesman. 

774

775

772

770

OR SALE—HOUSE AND  CORNER  LOT  ON 
finest  residence  street  in  Grand  Rapids. 
Lot  76x145  feet  in  dimensions,  with  alley. 
House on rear of lot, leaving room  for  mansion 
on  front  of  lot.  Price,  89,000.  Terms,  S3,SCO 
cash;  balance  on  time.  Address  No  772  care 
Michigan  Tradesman. 

a  OR  SALE-GOOD STOCK  CLOTHING, DRY 

goods and boots and shoes, at 60 cents on the 
dollar.  Best stock  ever  offered;  fine  location; 
will invoice about 85,000.  Address No. 770, care 
Michigan Tradesman 
OR  SALE—A WELL SELECTED STOCK OF 
drugs and fixtures complete, located on good 
street in Grand  Rapids.  A  bargain, if  taken at 
once.  Address  Chas.  E. Mercer,  ’phone  863,1
771
and 2 Widdicomb block. 
OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—HOTEL  PROP 
erty.  Good  location.  For  particulars  ad 

dress J. C. Tracy, Custer. Mich. 

■ ANTED—PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN 

terestln my 75 bbl.  steam  roller mill  and 
elevator, situated on railroad;  miller preferred; 
good  wheat  country.  Full  description,  price, 
terms and inquiries given  promptly  by address 
ing  H. C.  Herkimer,  Maybee,  Monroe  county, 
Mich. 

a  clean  stock  of  groceries 

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

Inventorying 
about 85,000.  Terms.cash;  sales,$30,roo annually; 
strictly  cash store;  good  town  of  7,0*0inhabl 
tants  Address 738. care Mich. Tradesman.  738

755

711

M18C ELL A N EOUS.

F o r  r e n t —b . v . s t o r e , 523  s o u t h   d iv i 

sion street.  Splendid location for furniture, 
bouse  furnishing, crockery or  gentlemen's  fur­
nishing goods. Apply to John C. Dunton, 67 Lyon 
street. 

781

761

768

782

F o r   r e n t —d o u b l e   s t o r e   b u il d in g

for furniture and  house  furnishings.  Only 
one in city of 3,600.  Chance of  a  lifetime.  Ad 
dress Lock Box 869, Belding, Mich. 
ANTED— PAIR  PLATFORM  SCALES, 
standard make, capacity not less than 1,000 
pounds.  Large  platform  preferred.  Address 
No  768, care Michigan Tradesman. 

■' RANITE  AND  MARBLE  MONUMENTS, 

I  markers  and  all  cemetery  work.  Largest 
stock.  Write  us  about  what  you want and we 
will quote prices.  Grand  Rapids Monument Co., 
813 South Division. 

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

grocery trade.  Steady employment, experi­
ence unnecessary.  875  monthly  salary ana ex­
penses or com. 
If  offer satisfactory, sddress at 
once, with particulars concerning yourself, U.S. 
Chemical works, Chicago. 
ANTED-POULTRY.VEAL, LAMBS, BUT 
ter  and  eggs  on  consignment.  Ask  for 
quotations.  F.  J.  Dettenthaler,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 

■ ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 

potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  Watkins  &  Smith, 
81-86 South Division St., Grand  Rapids. 
ANTED—EVERY  D R U G G IS T   JU S T  
starting in business and every one already 
started to use our system of poison labels.  What 
has cost you 815 you can now  get  for  84.  Four 
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company.  Grand Rapids.____________________

760

673

757

SITUATIONS  W ANTED.

SITUATION  WANTED — REGISTERED  As­

first-class  references; 
.  graduate in pharmacy  and  chemistry.  Address 
> No. 780, care Michigan Tradesman. 

sistant  pharmacist; 

780

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A .   H I M E S .

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TOLEDO’S  EARLY  DAYS.

Pioneer Incidents  of  the  City  on  the 

Maumee.

W ritte n  to r  T h e T radesman.

No town in  the  United  States  which 
cannot trace its rise to the fort  can  ever 
hope for a place among the aristocracy of 
cities;  and.  when the time comes for To­
ledo to take her place as  the  Great—not 
the Future Great—City of the world,  she 
will point with pride at the place 
“where the brook and river meet,” 

and tell the story of her  early  toils  aud 
tears to those who come to  stand  on  the 
spot  where  Fort  Industry  stood, 
the 
cradle  where was rocked  the infancy  of 
the Lady of the Lakes. 
It  was  near the 
mingling  of  these  waters—Swan  Creek 
and  the  Maumee—wher^  early  in  the 
present century,  the fort was located—“a 
stockdale  fort,”  the  records  say,  “ as 
Dear as can  be  determined,  on  Summit 
street”—and, it may be added, it is, proba­
bly,  the site of  Fort  Industry  Block  on 
the  corner  of  Summit  and  Jefferson 
streets, and the scene, on July 4, 1805, of 
a  treaty  with  the  Indians,  when  their 
claim to Fire Islands,  a tract  of  country 
including all of Huron  county  and  most 
of Erie,  was given up.

With this in mind,  I  sauntered  to  the 
dock at the foot of Jefferson street,  not a 
stone’s throw from the site  of  the  Fort, 
and looked out upon the placid Maumee, 
as wide here,  perhaps,  as  the  Rhine  at 
Cologne, and almost as  dirty. 
It  is  not 
a  hundred  years  since  the old stockade 
shut out the Indians,  but  marvelous  are 
the  changes  which  have  taken  place 
since  then.  The  old-time  picture  is 
easily painted,  for the woods, then, came 
down to the river upon  either  bank;  the 
sky was probably flecked,  as to-day, with 
hints of recent storms; the sun brightened 
alike the leaves and the ripples,  and  up 
the stream and down  the  stream it was a 
scene of woods  and  river,  breeze-kissed 
under a cloud-dotted sky of  blue.

No records tell us how many built  and 
occupied the Fort,  nor  who  they  were; 
but they do say,  later on,  that  the woods 
were full of game,  and,  indirectly,  they 
furnish  an  idea  of  the  life  going  on 
around the old Fort.  Deer in large herds 
roamed the forest,  ready,  when  needed, 
for the wants of the  hunter.  Wild  tur­
keys  are  especially  mentioned  and  we 
are led to  infer  that  it  was  no  uncom 
mon thing for the turkey to weigh,  when 
dressed, thirty  pounds.  Partridges  and 
quail  were  in  great  abundance,  also 
woodcock and snipe, and,  farther  down 
the river,  where  Jackson  street  strikes 
it, it was no unusual sight to see,  at  one 
time,  500  prairie  chickens.  Quail were 
then sold at a shilling  a  dozen,  bringing 
6#  cents more when dressed,  and  ducks 
and geese, of which there  seemed  to  be 
no end in Maumee Bay, were sold for the 
munificent sum of 30 cents a  dozen.

These are pleasant things to  read;  but 
there were other things to be  taken  into 
account by those who thought of settling 
near  Fort  Industry.  They  might,  with 
composure, read,

“On Maumee, on Maumee,
They roast them in the fire,

The potatoes they grow sm all;
And they eat them tops  and  all.”

But,  when they learned that Mr.  Ague 
had pitched his tent here, and  that  they 
who  felt  his  grasp  shook  so  that “ the 
bouse and all” fairly rocked, it  is  prob­
able that more than one, when assured of 
this,

“Folded his tent like the Arab,
And as silently stole away.”

I myself have heard  from  the  lips  of

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the  early  settlers  bow,  when the place 
had  become  a  growing  town,  it  was  a 
common  thing, 
in  ague  time,  to  meet 
strangers  at  the  station  and  take their 
measure,  that  their  coffin  might  be  in 
readiness,  and  that  confusion  and  de­
lay which otherwise  might  be  expected 
to follow be avoided—a practice  not  cal­
culated to secure a rapid increase of pop­
ulation.  This and  similar  stories  were 
recited,  however,  as  a  sample  of  what 
the  enemies  of  the  Future  Oreat  City 
were in the habit of  saying  of  their  ag­
gressive  rival;  but  the retailers of these 
yarns  informed  that  the  stories  were 
pleasant  little fictions, merely,  and  that 
they  were  wholly  without  foundation. 
There might have been some  ground  for 
them when Swan Creek, unvexed  by  the 
Perry  street  bridge,  mingled  its  waters 
with  the  yellow  waves  of  the Tiber—I 
should say Maumee—but, since  then,  no 
ague to amount to anything has darkened 
a single day of the  Lady  of  the  Lakes, 
especially  if  she  began  the  day  in the 
orthodox  fashion  with  a  good  horn  of 
whisky and  was  careful  to  see  that  her 
stock  of  quinine  was  not  exhausted— 
began  and  was  careful,  mind  you, for, 
now,  there  is  not  a  city in the basin of 
the St.  Lawrence  so  free  from  malaria 
and  from  disease  of  any  kind as is the 
city of Toledo.

When I  first  knew  the  city,  she  was 
struggling  with  that  awkward  period 
known  as  the  “betwixt  and  between” 
time of  life.  Hardly  large  enough  and 
hardly old enough to don the garb of wom­
anhood,  and  yet  painfully  aware  that 
some of the proprieties of  maturity  must 
be observed,  she  wore,  at  that  time,  a 
gown much  too  large  for  her and,  with 
skirts frayed and  bedraggled in the mire 
of pasturelands and vacant lots as forlorn 
as  they  were  neglected,  reminded  one 
of a buxom country  lass,  with  stockings 
and  shoes  to  wear,  if  she  would,  but 
much  preferring  to  go  without  them. 
She took pride in Summit  street  and be­
lieved,  after one or two buildings of brick 
had been  put  up,  that  little  more  was 
wanting to make her  the business center 
of  North  America.  When  one  or  two 
lines of railroad had connected  her  with 
the rest of the  world,  she  complacently 
contemplated the Maumee and  Lake Erie 
and  wondered  how  long  it  would take 
the poor stupid  world to find  out  the  lo­
cation of the Future Capital of the West­
ern Empire.  The building  of the Oliver 
House  was  an  event;  of  the  Boody,  a 
climax,  and,  when  Society  left  White’s 
Hall  and  engaged  a  box  at  Wheeler’s 
Opera  House,  after  rejoicing  that  she 
was  no  longer  provincial,  my  Lady of 
the Lakes  concluded  to  go  barefoot  no 
longer and,  putting away childish things, 
to enter upon  that  career  predicted  by 
the early settlers about  the  Fort  at  the 
mouth of Swan Creek.

Then it was that Toledo began to  be  a 
city.  She  found  that  a  store  could be 
built on some street besides Summit, and 
she built it.  She concluded that,  with a 
water way unsurpassed at her very door, 
she ought to be more of a railroad center; 
so she built  the  roads.  These  finished, 
she insisted that a city so connected with 
the remotest parts of the  country should 
be  a  manufacturing  center;  she  gained 
her  point.  Then  she  became  tired  of 
living  in  a  basement  house  wedged  in 
between two other  basement  houses and 
without  any  dooryard,  and,  going  out 
where  there  were  green  fields  and  an 
abundance of tall trees,  she  built  her  a

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home worthy of the daughter  of  a  fort­
building  father;  and  the  pasturelands 
and the woodlots of long ago  are  now so 
many carefully-kept lawns,  the pride  of 
as many beautiful palaces,  upon  streets 
nowhere surpassed in pave or border, the 
whole having gained for her the title she 
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the 
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It was of the palace and  not  the  Fort 
that  I  thought,  as,  my  reverie  over, I 
joined the crowd on  Summit  street;  and 
yet there must  have  been  something  of 
the old  hunting ground spirit  within me 
striving for expression,  for,  while  I was 
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“On Maumee, on Maumee,

They roast them in the fire,

The potatoes they  grow small ;
And they eat them topi and all t” 

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W EDNESDAY,  MAY  29.

C O N SEQ U EN C ES  O P  T H E   D EC ISIO N .
There  has  been  considerable  discus­
sion  as  to  the  consequences  of  the in­
come tax decision  in  its  curtailment  of 
the  power  of  taxation  by  the  general 
government  and  many  dire  effects  are 
predicted by those  who dissent from  the 
opinion  of the court.  These predictions 
are  of  all  degrees  of  absurdity  and 
prophesy ruin and chaos to  the  revenue 
system.  Senator  Morgan, of  Alabama, 
aa able constitutional lawyer,  goes so far 
as to say that the  decision  will  make  it 
necessary to refund all liquor and tobacco 
taxes, claiming that they are as much di­
rect  taxes as a tax on personalty.  Some 
even  discuss  the  necessity  of  an extra 
session of  Congress  to  repair  the wreck 
and to make provision for  the  deficit  so 
greatly increased by it.

The more conservative  majority,  how­
ever, are not at all alarmed as to the  sit­
uation.

They recognize,  what would seem to be 
the fact,  that the constitution  in  its  in­
tention and interpretation clearly defines 
that the general government has the sole 
right to levy all  duties  and  tariff taxes, 
and any others that  would interfere with 
It  also  has 
commerce  between  states. 
the  right to levy  a  per  capita  tax. 
It 
was evidently the belief,  which has been 
justified,  that,  without  the  last,  these 
would be sufficient for all ordinary needs 
of  the  government. 
If  some  of  these 
have been diminished to an imprudent de­
gree it is not a fault of  the  constitution.
To offset these reservations by the gen­
eral  government  the  power  of  direct 
property taxation is by the  same  instru­
ment secured to the individual states.

There seems to  be  nothing  in  the  de­
cision that interferes with the  statement 
of the situation.  All talk  of  an  amend­
ment of the  constitution  to  enable  the 
government to impose direct taxes is  the 
sheerest  nonsense. 
The  anarchistic 
spirit that made it possible to  pass  such 
a law through its activity  and  the  dem- 
agogism  of Congress really  actuates but 
a  small  minority  in 
It 
might be possible to carry a state or two, 
but it is an absurdity to think  of  carry­
ing  the  necessary  two-thirds  to  secure 
the adoption.

this  country. 

It  is  probable  that  improved  condi­
tions will so increase the revenues of the 
government that the increase  of  the  de­
ficit will be speedily arrested.  This will 
allay the anxiety on that subject  until  a

T H E   C U BA N   SITU A TIO N .

are 

The  reports  from  the  insurrection  in 
Cuba indicate that the movement is grow­
ing  in  magnitude  and  that  while  the 
Spaniards 
continually  reporting 
severe  defeats  administered  to  the  Cu­
bans  and  the  killing  of  the  prominent 
leaders,  these reverses  seem  to  be  con­
stantly increasing  the  strength  and  ac­
tivity  of  the  revolutionists,  and  two 
prominent  leaders  seem  to  spring  up 
where  one  is  cut  down.  The  Spanish 
government  relied  greatly  on  the  pres­
tige and prowess  of  their  greatest  gen­
eral, Campos,  fancying that his  going  to 
the island with a large army,  nearly  30,- 
000 men,  would  overawe  and  dishearten 
the Cubans and that it would be  an  easy 
matter for him  to restore its authority  in 
the provinces in rebellion.

The  result  has  been  far  from  their 
anticipations.  His  coming  has  adver­
tised  the  importance  of  the  movement 
and  caused great accessions to the insur­
gent ranks  from  the  Cuban  population 
impelled by the patriotic hope that  inde­
pendence would become the  question  at 
issue. 
It has also led to  the  flocking  of 
great  numbers  of  Cuban  sympathizers 
and other adventurers from this  country 
to the island with munitions  of  war and 
other assistance.

It is said that the  Cubans  are  depend­
ing  on  the  assistance  of  that  grim  de­
stroyer,  pestilence.  The  unacclimated 
Spaniards  can  hardly  hope  to  pass  the 
heated  term  without  suffering  severely 
from  yellow  fever,  while  the  islanders 
will  be  comparatively  exempt  from  its 
ravages,  and will have command of many 
of the healthier localities.

The  prospect  of  a  termination of  the 
movement  is, to  say  the  least,  very re­
mote.  The  Spanish  general  has  waited 
so long before attempting decisive move­
ments,  that it would seem  his opportuni­
ty is gone. 
If  the  Cubans  pursue  a de­
fensive policy, they will tire the Spanish 
government  with  the  expense  of  main­
taining  such  armies  in  the  field and by 
the loss of so  great a  share  of  the reve­
nues it  has  exacted,  and  it  is  not  un­
reasonable to conjecture that the war will 
result  in  greatly  lessening  the  rigor  of 
Spanish rule,  if not in independence.

There has been  built,  at  the  London 
Empire  of  India  Exhibition, a wheel on 
the  plan  of  the  Ferris  wheel  at  the 
World’s Fair. 
It is  considerably  larger, 
to beat the Yankee wheel, of course; and, 
to adapt it to the  differences  in  national 
customs  and  prejudices,  it  was  found 
necessary  to  make  ten  of the forty cars 
in luxurious style  for  first-class  passen­
gers,  while the remaining  thirty  will  be 
adapted  to  the  more  plebeian  patrons. 
The Ferris wheel  had  thirty-six  cars  on 
a democratic  level.

Technicalities  and  motions  are  being 
introduced into  the  litigation  attending 
the  management  of  the  affairs  of  the 
Whisky Trust to an extent that bids  fair 
to give the lawyers the lion’s share of the 
profits of that association for a long time 
to come.  United States  Courts  are  reli­
able business managers,  but  when  there 
are  so  many  conflicting  interests  to  re­
ceive attention, their services  are  pretty 
expensive.

O PPO R TU N ITIE S  IN  C H IN A .

During  the  past  ten  years  LI  Hung 
Chang,  the  Chinese  viceroy,  has  made 
every effort to break down the  prejudice 
of the Chinese government  against  mod­
ern inventions and  to  secure  the  adop­
tion  of  modern  arms  and  implements. 
Before the  recent war, he  was  defeated 
in most of these  efforts  by  the  advisers 
nearest  the  throne. 
In  the  instances 
where he  has  succeeded  in  getting  the 
assistance of foreigners  in  the  customs 
and other services, the results have  been 
very  favorable,  and  at  the  same  time 
those  rendering  such  assistance  have 
speedily  acquired  large  fortunes.  The 
government  is  willing  and  can  afford 
to pay for such service munificently when 
it will  accept it at  all. 
It  is  probable, 
as one result of the war, that  the  liberal 
Viceroy  will  be  allowed  to  have  his 
way,  and  already  numbers  of  English 
and  American  promoters  have  gone  to 
that country, ready to  take  advantage of 
any move on the part of the Chinese gov­
ernment  to  construct  railroads  or  tele­
graphs  or  to  adopt  any  foreign  inven­
tions.  With 
commissions 
there is a fortune for  the  foreigner  who 
can get the contract to  supply  the  army 
with  new  guns  and  ammunition,  or  to 
furnish material  for the new navy  which 
China must speedily  secure  to  take  the 
place of that navy  which was  broken  up 
at the Yalu and  at  Wei-hai-wei. 
In  the 
building  of  railroads  and  canals  there 
will  be even greater profits.  China needs 
railroads and waterways more  than  any­
thing  else,  and  if  the  Viceroy  is  not 
checked he will see that  the  main  prov­
inces  are  well  supplied  with  means  of 
communication.

legitimate 

Foreigners  who  can  speak  Chinese 
have  an  enormous  advantage,  and  any 
man of ability who can  speak  and  write 
the  language  of  China  ought  to  get  a 
lucrative post in these days.  The Orien­
tal  Departments  of  American  colleges 
like Yale,  Harvard and Cornell  ought  to 
turn  out  men  who  can  prove  of  great 
value to China in her  present  extremity. 
Certainly, 
the  government  service,  as 
well  as  trade,  in  China  offers great re­
turns to young Americans who know  the 
Chinese language and  who have the busi­
ness  ability  to  make  use  of it.  There 
may  not  be  another  fee  so  fat as  that 
$100,000 in silver  given  to  ex-Secretary 
John W. Foster for his few  weeks’  work 
in arranging terms  of  peace  for  China; 
but the Chinese are prepared to  pay  lib­
erally for any foreign  expert advice  that 
will help them to  get  even  in  the  race 
with Japan.

NOW   S E E   TH E IR   E R R O R.

It has  taken  a long  time  for  the  rail­
way labor organizations  to arrive  at cor­
rect conclusions as to  the  merits  of  the 
great  Pullman  strike.  That  some  of 
them seem to have finally done  so  is  in­
dicated  by  the  following  extract  from 
the official address of the Secretary of the 
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at the 
recent biennial session of that  body:
The general effect of the  strike  will,  I 
believe,  be  beneficial in  the  end  to  or­
It has taught  the  lesson 
ganized labor. 
that in order to win  a  fight  of  any  con­
sequence you must bg in the right. 
I do 
not pretend to say that the  cause  of  the 
Pullman  Company  was  just,  but  I am 
obliged to admit that  the  strike  against 
the  railroad  companies—and,  particu­
larly, those with which  our  membership 
and that of other railway labor organiza­
tions had contracts—was wholly unjusti­
fiable. 
I  am  satisfied  that  those mem­
bers now see the error of this action,  but

at the time it was impossible to convince 
them that strict compliance with the law 
and  their  contracts  with the companies 
was the only proper  course  for  them  to 
pursue.

It would hardly seem necessary that so 
self-evident'a  truism  as  the  statement 
that to “ win a fight  of  any  consequence 
you must be in the right”  would need so 
costly a lesson of  blood  and  riot  in  an 
unjust cause to demonstrate.  The injus- 
tice of the strike was as potent to the in­
telligent among the labor  leaders during 
its occurrence as at this late  day,  but  it 
seems the question as  to  whether an un­
just strike could be won needed to be de­
termined.  ________________

It has been noticed that  the  old  prej­
udice against the Hebrew  has  well-nigh 
disappeared  in  most  countries,  and  no 
sensible  or 
right-minded  person  dis­
credits a Jew because of his  race  or  re­
ligion. 
In fact,  in  some  quarters  there 
is  a  distinct  tendency  to  the  other ex­
treme,  and  many  persons  are  glad  to 
claim Jewish  descent.  Members  of  the 
English  royal  family  have  been  known 
to boast that they  have  Jewish  blood  in 
their veins.  And  it  is  certainly  in  the 
power of  the offspring  of  Princess  Bea­
trice to do so, for  the  mother  of  Prinee 
Henry of  Battenburg,  Princess  Julie  of 
Battenburg, was of Jewish extraction  on 
her mother’s side.  If belonging to an old 
family gives a sound claim to distinction, 
certainly  there  is reason for pride in the 
Jewish  blood.  The  Jews  as  a  race far 
antedate the  oldest  families  in  Europe, 
royal,  noble  or  aristocratic.  They  are 
quite able  to care  for  themselves  when 
it  comes  to intelligence, enterprise, edu­
cation,  influence and wealth.

than 

The opening of the  Kickapoo  reserva­
tion  for  settlement  last  week  was  at­
tended by a rush  in some  regards  more 
exciting 
the  famous  Oklahoma 
rush.  The number  of  people,  as  com­
pared with  the  number  of  claims,  was 
much  greater—25,000  for  437  claims. 
Great numbers  of claimants  are  camped 
on a single claim in many  instances, and 
it  will  be  a  considerable  time  before 
peace is restored  and  it  is  decided who 
are the  rightful  claimants.  Of  course, 
in a majority of  instances  might will  be 
the  arbiter.________________

Ghas.  A. Dana,  the  veteran  editor  of 
the  New  York  Sun,  thus  discusses  the 
necessity of character in  the  publishing 
business:

A fellow who is  practicing  arts  of de­
ception  may  last  a  little  while,  but  he 
cannot last long.  The man  who stays  is 
the man  who has the staying power;  and 
the staying power is not  merely  intellec­
tual, it is moral. 
It is  in  the  character.

The  new  Utah  constitution  provides 
for a jury of eight  members,  instead  of 
twelve, and that a  verdict  may  be  ren­
dered in  civil  cases  by  a  three-fourths 
vote of  that  number.  The  experiment 
will be watched  with  great  interest  by 
the older states and,  if  successful,  as  it 
probably  will  be,  similar  innovations 
will follow elsewhere.

Country  merchants  who  are  pestered 
by  peddlers  should  remember  that  the 
law regulating the peddling evil has been 
amended so that  peddlers  must  now ob­
tain separate  licenses from the township 
boards of  each  township  in  which  they 
peddle their goods.

The  business  office  of T h e  T rades­

man  will close at noon Memorial Day.

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9

G ETTIN G   T H E   P E O P L E .

A rt  o f B e a c h in g   a n d  H o ld in g  T ra d e   b y  

A d v e rtisin g .

W ritte n  fo r th e  T rad esm an .

It is generally conceded  that the phar­
macy—and especially  the  drug  store  in 
the  smaller  towns—is  one  of  the most 
difficult  branches  of  merchandising  to 
successfully  advertise.  The  druggist 
cannot conscientiously say, in his alloted 
space  in  the  local  paper,  “Bankrupt 
Sale  of  Sticktite’s  Everlasting  Porous 
Plasters.  A job lot on our hands,  which 
we must move at once to  make  room  for 
Spring  Styles.”  Plainly 
this  would 
never  do.  Job  lots  in  porous  plasters 
and pills with which  to  beguile  the  un­
wary have not,  as  yet,  been  introduced 
in the drug line.  Still, there’s no doubt, 
if  trade  demands  them,  they  will  be 
made available.  Neither can  the  dealer 
in  physics  attract  the  bargain-seeking 
eyes of the fair sex  by  calling  attention 
to his “Spring Stock  of Thattiredfeeling 
& Co.’s  freshly  imported  Painless Kala­
mazoo Compound,”  which  is  guaranteed 
to cure the most obstinate case of “Blue- 
Mondays” in fifteen minutes or money re­
funded.

Obviously,  none  of  these  things  will 
“ fetch,”  and  “fetching”  business 
is 
what the drug man  is  trying  to  accom­
plish.  Tet there’s no  doubt  in my mind 
that  a  thousand  and  one  different and 
fresh ways of  bringing trade to  his  door 
may  be devised by the “thinking and ob­
serving”  advertiser.  Personally,  I never 
sold an ounce of  drugs  in  my  life,  and 
am  utterly  without  experience  in  the 
pharmaceutical  business;  yet,  by  giv­
ing full rein to my imagination, by  “put­
ting myself in the place” of the ad. read­
ers,  and  making  myself,  to  a  certain 
extent, a  mind-reader,  I  am  egotistical 
enough to believe that I can  devise  new 
advertising — advertising  which  will 
“ fetch”  and hold trade—even  for a drug 
store.

When you stop to think  of  it,  attract­
ing  public  attention  is  no  trick at all. 
The foundation of the  whole  fabric  lies 
in appealing to  the  cupidity,  curiosity, 
characteristics  and  conditions  of  man­
kind.

Jnst sit down behind  your  desk  some 
day,  when  business  is  slack,  and write 
an advertisement something like this:
Politics and Roguery

Are  often  supposed  to  go  hand  In  hand. 
This  may  be  so,  yet  we  can  prove  that 
“Roguery and Druggery” do  not  fit, in our 
case.  In our

DRUGGERY

are  no  adulterations  or  rogueism  of  any 
sort, but only the purest  and best drugs on 
the market.  A full line of Surgical Instru­
ments, Toilet Preparations, etc.

JACK  &  PILL,

Open every moment. 

Upthehill street.
The above will  appeal  to  the “curios­
ity”  side  of  mankind.  Then  you  may 
add to it just enough in  the way  of some 
special bargain to attract the attention of 
Mr. Cupidity, alios “Buycheap,”  and,  in 
the  language  of  Solomon,  you’ve  “got 
’em.”

Personal 

invitation  advertising  by 
means of neatly  printed  slips, delivered 
at the homes and addressed especially  to 
the ladies,  is  an  old-established  method 
and,  if the advertising is  properly  word­
ed, will pay.

It is an easy matter to  obtain  the  por­
trait of a cat.  Get a nice-looking, corpu­
lent “Tommy”—not  one  who  looks  as if 
he had been  through  a  nocturnal  prize­
ring and concert contest  Place the pic­

ture in your  show  window,  surrounded 
by  the  article  to  be  advertised.  The 
startling announcement,  “This  cat  gives 
milk,” is very  certain  to  attract  the at­
tention of pedestrians.  A card like this, 
printed  in  plain  black  letters  on white 
cardboard,  with  plenty  of  white  space 
around it, will do the rest:

This  CM (2 k

l

The cold shake. He prefers

BOODLER’S  LACTATED  CREAM

For the Complexion.  50c.

This can be varied  to  suit  any  article 

of a similar nature.

Mr.  Druggist, you haven’t begun to get 
at  the  meat  of  drug  store  advertising. 
Look over  your  shelves,  and  get  some­
thing  new  and  novel  before  the  public 
camera every day.  Impress on the minds 
of the people that you are in  business  to 
sell  goods—that your store is not merely 
a gossiping resort,  a place to wait for the 
car, a convenient  city  directory  holder, 
nor yet a rendezvous for lovers who dare 
not  meet  except  by  apparent  chance. 
Give it to ’em hard—I  have  even  heard 
of cases where a positive insult  was  em­
bodied  in  the  advertising  and  it  drew 
trade.  Yet this  is  bad  practice  and  is 
frowned upon by all legitimate  advertis­
ers.

Some day,  as you pass your local black- 
smithing  parlors, ask  the  brawny  artist 
in iron for an  old  pair of broken  buggy 
springs,  the  rustier  and  more  old-fash­
ioned,  the  better.  Perhaps  you  have  a 
liver invigorator  of  your  own  make—if 
not, sell some  other.  Place  the  broken 
spring tastily upon a bed  of  cotton,  sur­
rounding  it  attractively  with  the medi­
cine.

POSITIVE  SPRING  REMEDY  !

Bonnet’s 

Hooper upel la 

WILL  STRAIGHTEN  OUT  THE 

MOST TOBPII)  LIVER.

Add to this  in  any  attractive  way and 
place the card above the springs.  Under­
neath yon might say:

“THE  BROKEN  SPRINGS”

Of  life  welded  and  made  to  carry  the 
weight of care over the rough places with­
out jolting, through  the  agency  of-------

I will venture to assert that your  window 
will be crowded with lookers.

Buy your goods with especial reference 
to  advertising.  Never  place  an  order 
without including some novelty or staple 
which you can  “boom,”  thereby  “fetch­
ing” the people to your place of business. 
Once there, you and your clerks, as cour­
teous gentlemen,  will know  how to  keep 
the people and bring them  back again.

Don’t fall to  the  rear  in  the  race  for 
trade,  Mr. Druggist of  the  “Druggery;” 
there are plenty  of  advertising  methods 
for you in  the  possibilities  of  art  com­
bined with English “as  she’s  wrote,” all 
pulverized with  the  pestle of “persever­
ance”  in  the  mortar  of  “pleasing  the 
public.” 

Fx>c.  F o ste r F u l l e r .

New  York  City  is  still  hard  at  work 
getting rid  of the overhead  wires  which 
disfigure  the  city  and  are  a  constant 
menace to  the  lives and property  of  the 
citizens.  At last week’s meeting  of  the 
Board of Electrical Control the Secretary 
reported that since  the  last meeting  642 
miles of overhead wire and 317 poles had 
been removed.  He  said  that  126  more 
poles were to be removed  at once.  This 
is as it  should  be.  Subterranean  wires 
cost the companies a little  more,  but  in 
the long run they cost the public  a  good 
deal less.

Reeder Bros. 

Shoe Co.

State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co.

&  Son

W h o le s a le   C lo th iers

Rochester,  N.  Y.

Our  representative,  WILLIAM  CONNOR, 
of  Marshall,  Mich.,  will  be  pleased  to call 
upon  the  Trade  and  show  you  samples, if
you will favor him with a line.

Mail orders promptly attended to.

LYCOniNGS are our FIRST QUALITY 
KEYSTONES are our Second Quality

Nine years ago these goods were not known in 
Michigan, and to-day they stand second to none 
and are as well known as any.  A great many of 
the best retail merchants in  Michigan and  Indi­
ana think they are the  best  goods  made,  being 
made from the  Purest  Rubber  and  on the  best 
style lasts, and are the  best  fitting goods in  the 
market.  Our  trade  for  the  past  nine  years on 
these goods has steadily increased.
OUR  LEATHER  LINE  is  full  and  complete; 
also an elegant line  of  FELT  BOOTS  and  SOX 
for fail.
See our salesmen—it  will  pay  you to examine 
samples.

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A.  HEROLD, 

F.  E.  WALTHER, 
SAM  H.  SIMMONS

ARE  HUSTLING  THESE  DAYS  FOR  ORDERS  ON

Wfll FS-fimnYFflR  RUBBERS

A. C  WETZEL 

THE  BEST  WEARING  BRAND  ON  EARTH, for the

Heroic!-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.,

5 and  7 Pearl  St., Grand  Rapids.

P. S.  Write  us care the house.

RINDGE, KflLMBflGH l GO.

12,  14  and  16  Pearl  St.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Boots, Shoes & Rubbers

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.

BOSTON 

RUBBER SHOE
McGraw’s

COnPANY’S

Goods  are  found  at

DETROIT

We have the Greatest  Variety of the Freshest Goods, and the Largest  Stock 

of any houss in the United States.

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.

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T H E   MICTÌTGAJNT  T R A D E S M A N ,

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We

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.

Our No. 9 Machine with lid open, exposing interior view, showing accounts as 

separated into proper  columns.

REMEMBER  THAT  WITH  THE

Champion

T h e  ca reless  p erson   IM PLIC A TES  o n ly   H IM ­
SE L F ,  an d   NOT  ev ery b o d y   in  th e  store,  a s 
w ith   o th er  registerin g  sy stem s.

Every essential  feature  of  the  CHAMPION 
is  fully  protected  by  patents  owned  and  con­
trolled  by  the  Champion  Cash  Register  Com­
pany.  Users  will  be  protected  and  infringe­
ments will not be allowed.

^ “ Merchants desiring to inspect our Registers 
are  requested  to  drop  us  a card, so that one of 
our agents can call when In the dealer's vicinity. 
It will cost nothing to see the machine and have 
its merits explained.

MANUFACTURED  ONLY  BY

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH.

O NE  PA IR   O P  G LO V ES.

Thirty-three years ago this  autumn,  a 
little  boat  was  dropping  slowly  down 
the Medway, below the old  stone  bridge 
of Maidstone. 
In it  were  Ralph  Erroll 
and Bessie Farleigh, and  there  is  small 
wonder they did not hurry their journey, 
for to them it was a  sail  into  Loveland. 
Bessie  was  beautiful,  and  the  evening 
was  beautiful.  The  air  was  redolent 
with  the  rich,  balmy,  bitter  odor  of 
hops; far and near were the  little  camps 
of  the  pickers,  and  drifting  in  fitful 
strains over the river came the echoes  of 
their songs and laughter.

It  was  not  an  evening  when 

love 
needed to plead;  he  could  let  his  pres­
ence  blend  with  all  other  sweet  influ­
ences,  and  trust  to  the  effect.  Bessie 
felt  the  charm  of  the  sweet  gloaming 
and the still  stronger  charm  of  Ralph’s 
presence.  By  and  by  the  boat  drifted 
into a cove, and,  stepping  ashore,  they 
were  in  a  park  that  rose gradually to­
ward an old gray Hall.

“See,  Ralph;  there  are  lights  in  the 

parlor!  We must go home.”

“Wait  here one minute,  Bessie; I have 
something  to  ask  you.  When  I  have 
made  a  little  practice  in  London,  will 
you be my wife?  Answer me truly, now, 
as a good, honest girl ought to.”

“I will, Ralph.”
And when they  came  among  the  old 
fashioned  flower-beds, 
they  were  sol­
emnly pledged to share life’s fortunes to­
gether.  For one minute they stood lean­
ing on an old sun-dial, and in  the newly- 
risen moon  everything  about Bessie had 
a  strangely  bewitching  beauty.  Ralph 
could not help noticing  how  exceedingly 
small and shapely  was the hand that lay 
in  his,  and  how  dainty  and  pretty  the 
pearl-colored kid glove that covered it. 

When they parted, he said:
“Bessie,  this  has  been  a  great night 
for me;  give  me  this  glove,  that 1 may 
know to-morrow it was not all a dream ” 
Bessie laid it in her  lover’s  hand  with 

a smile and a kiss.

“Take it, Ralph,” she  said,  “it  is  my 

gage that I  will redeem my promise.” 

Ralph  put  the  delicate  little  pledge 
away and went  up  to  London.  He had 
something to  work  for  and  hope,  now. 
and he soon  made  these  influences  tell. 
Bessie’s parents had  not  objected to  the 
match. 
’Squire Farleigh was the poorest 
of a long  race  of  Kentish  ’squires,  and 
though the old Hall and  lands remained, 
he bad not been a successful farmer,  and 
money  was very scarce with him.  There 
seemed  nothing  better  for  Bessie  than 
that she should marry  Ralph  Erroll,  for 
house and  lands  must go to her  brother 
Tom, and every year  the  savings toward 
her dower had been less and less.

But the very next spring after Bessie’s 
engagement, a speculative neighbor  who 
had money proposed to  the  ’Squire  the 
planting of the rich meadows of Farleigh 
in hops.  Everyone knows that  the  cul­
ture of hops is the  gambling  of  agricul­
ture.  As  it  happened,  it  was  a  lucky 
move for ’Squire Farleigh.  It was a new 
crop  to  his  lands;  the  yield  was enor­
mous,  and  the  rate  of  duty—on  which 
everything  hangs — unusually 
small. 
When  the  picking  was  over,  the  hops 
sold, and profits divided,  the ’Squire  had 
4,000 pounds in the bank.

Everything looked  different  now.  He 
had found an El Dorado at his own  door, 
and could do nothing but abuse  the  con­
ventional  stupidity  which  had  led  him 
always  to  plant  wheat  and  oats  and

feed  cattle, simply  because  the  ’squires 
before him had always done so.

But he was no better able to bear  sud­
den  riches  than  most men are.  He im­
mediately launched into  unusual  expen­
ses—refurnished  the  Hall,  and  rebuilt 
his  kennels,  and  bought  a  couple  of 
bunting  horses.  There  was  plenty  of 
time for Bessie’s dower; next year’s crop 
would provide  for her;  and,  indeed,  he 
had already begun to  doubt  the  wisdom 
of Bessie’s choice.  He told himself that 
she would never live in a close  city,  and 
a doctor to him  was only associated  with 
scenes of death and misery.

The next year’s crop  was  another sue 
cess, and the ’Squire began to  build  fine 
oast-houses on his lands, for  he was now 
determined to have everything necessary 
to the culture of hops of  the  very  latest 
and best description. 
In  the  meantime, 
the whole family  were  learning  extrava 
gances  never  thought  of  in the days  of 
simple  farming.  Tom  Farleigh  put  no 
stint to his pleasures,  and  they  were  all 
of an expensive kind, and Bessie  had de 
veloped equally expensive  desires  in the 
way of dress  and  watering-places.  The 
’Squire,  with all his influx of ready mon 
ey,  was always in a tight place.

In  the  second  winter  of  her  engage­
ment,  Bessie  was  to stay with a new ac­
quaintance  in  London.  So far as Ralph 
was  concerned,  it  was a  very  unhappy 
visit.  He loved Bessie with all his heart. 
Bessie  had  begun  to  love  many  other 
tbingá  besides  Ralph.  The  charm  of 
London society,  in  all  its  s plendid nov­
elty, captivated her imagination.  A  life 
without the park and the opera,  without 
balls and shopping,  seemed like a  return 
to the dark simplicity of  Farleigh before 
the hop days.

Bessie thought  she  still  loved  Ralph, 
but she did not know her own heart until, 
one  day,  Ralph  took  her  to  see  a little 
cottage  at  Richmond,  and  told her how 
much his income was,  asking her honest­
ly to redeem  her  pledge to  him at  once. 
She was  struck  with  dismay  at  the ap­
parent  narrowing  of  her  life, and  posi­
tively refused to accede to an  immediate 
marriage.
Indeed, 

the  possibility  of  breaking 
it  off  had  now  entered  her  mind,  and 
being  once  admitted, 
the  idea  made 
rapid  progress,  and  she  found  plenty 
of reasons  and  excuses  for  her  con- 
conduct.  Ralph  felt  the  change,  but 
love is  always  blind  where  it  does not 
want  to  see;  and  one  morning,  when 
he read her engagement in  the  Mominy 
Chronicle to a  wealthy  magnate  of  the 
East  India  Board,  he  felt  as if his life 
had  been  suddenly 
smitten  with  blind-
ness.

When  a  man  is 
like  it.

constant, there is no 
constancy 
Ralph  refused  to 
blame Bessie; everything and  everybody 
were wrong  but  her,  and  he  treasured 
the  little  glove  that  had  been  such  a 
faithless gage beyond all his  possessions. 
Day after day he watched the  post  with 
a  feverish  hope  that  incapacitated  him 
for  every  other employment  He wrote 
and wrote to Bessie, and was  quite  sure 
that sooner or later she would find means 
to  answer  him.  The  only  answer  that 
ever came was a description of  her  mar­
riage festivities down at the old  Hall  at 
Farleigh.

Then  he  knew  his  love  was dead to 
him,  and  he  tried  to  bury  it  in  some 
sweet-scented  corner  of  his  heart;  but 
just as he thought he was succeeding,  he 
one day came suddenly face to  face  with

a\fcU£  M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N .
at the only  souvenir  of  their  love,  nor 
yet to love any other  woman.

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Bessie in Oxford street.  He  suffered  so 
keenly  after  it  that  he  determined  on 
putting himself out of  the  way  of  snch 
rencounters.  So  he  advertised for some 
medical  position,  and had three answers. 
One would  take  him  to  Canada,  one  to 
Ireland,  and  the other to India.  He de­
termined to let the decision rest on which­
ever offered him the highest salary.

The  Indian  appointment  won,  and 
within a few  weeks  he was  on  the  road 
to  Calcutta.  He  had  destroyed  every 
memento of his engagement  except  one; 
bnt on that last night  in  Euglaud,  when 
he had sadly burned Bessie’s letters, and 
her little gifts,  and even  her  picture,  be 
bad not been  able to  commit  to  destruc­
tion that dainty  little  glove  that  had  so 
long comforted  him. 
It  seemed  almost 
part  of  Bessie,  and  though  he  several 
times dropped  it  toward  the  flames,  he 
finally put it away with  a  sad  and  half- 
reproachful tenderness.

It found its home in no  very  romantic 
place—a  secret  drawer  in  his  medicine 
chest—and there  through  eighteen  long 
years  it  remained  untouched  and  un- 
looked at. 
In this retreat  it  went  with 
Ralph  to  Calcutta,  and  after  a  few 
months, he had no temptation to  disturb 
it.  He had become an enthusiast  in  his 
profession,  and a  devoted  botanist,  and 
in the two pursuit found  ample  interest 
for life.

His salary was a  very  good  one,  and 
he was not  indifferent  to  that fact.  He 
loved money just  enough  to  be  anxious 
to make it;  and as his  practice  lay  very 
much among native princes and begums, 
his professional rewards were frequently 
magnificent—twenty  years  ago 
these 
dignitaries  did  not  calculate  quite  so 
closely  as  they  do  now—good  invest­
ments  were  plentiful,  and  Ralph  was 
known in Calcutta as a  man who  always 
had a few thousand  rupees  for  a  profit­
able scheme.

He grew  attached  to  his  Indian  life. 
One relay of  officers  after  another  was 
exchanged  or  sent  home  on  long  fur­
loughs,  but Ralph never thought  of  any 
change save a  few weeks  every  summer 
to the cool  heights  of  the  Neilgberrys. 
Probably he would have died a very con­
tented  exile, if  he  had  not  received  a 
letter in the eighteenth  year  of  his  In­
dian life,  telling him that he had become 
the lawful  heir to  the  barony  of  Krroll 
and Hastings.

Then he went  back  to  England.  But 
after the first excitement and pleasure of 
his  return  and  his  new  position  were 
over,  he  began  to  feel a sense of ennui 
and  disappointment.  His  profession 
was dear to his heart,  and  it  was impos­
sible at once to find the calm, easy duties 
of  a  country  gentleman  equivalent  for 
the  exciting  incidents  and  labors  of  a 
physician  whose  circuit  had  extended 
over a range of fifty miles every  way.  In 
fact,  in spite of  wealth  and  honors,  he 
was bored,  and  seriously  inclined  to  a 
journey of unlimited length in any coun­
try or countries that promised him some­
thing to do, or to learn.

He had come up  to  London  with  this 
idea in embryo, resolving to make inquir­
ies  and  preparations  there.  Bessie bad 
no  place  in  this  movement.  He knew, 
indeed,  that  she  was  living  in  Hamp­
shire;  but  he had no thought or  hope  of 
meeting  her,  and  would  have  avoided 
such a  possibility at some personal trou­
ble.  Probably he still  feared her power 
over him,  for he had  never dared to look

He did  not hurry his preparations,  but 
talked at the various  clubs  with various 
travelers on polar and tropic  lands,  and 
wavered  considerably  in  his intentions. 
One day,  when  he had about  decided  on 
California and the “Great West,” he  met 
an  old  Indian  acquaintance  at  “The 
Oriental.”  They  had  a  long  chat  to­
gether, and as the major  was  leaving,  he 
said:

“ Doctor,  1 want you  to-morrow  night. 
My  daughter  Belle—you  saved  her  in 
that  jungle-fever,  you  know—is  to  be 
married soon to Jack  Dawson,  of  ‘Ours,’ 
and it is her betrothal  party.”

“ I never meddle in such  affairs,  Major. 
I will come another  night  and  see  Miss 
Belle.”

But the happy father would hear of no 
excuse, and Ralph was obliged to go. 
It 
was a very splendid  affair,  but  the  doc­
tor was used to Indian magnificence,  and 
the splendor did not interest him.  What 
pleased him most were the groups of fair, 
innocent-looking  girls, their  pale-brown 
curls,  and blue eyes,  and rosy  skins,  and 
their candid,  child-like  joyousness,  con­
trasting  so  vividly  with 
the  bronze- 
colored,  dark-eyed,  half-veiled  mysteri­
ous beauties of the Far Ease.

By  and  by,  wandering  through a con­
servatory, he came suddenly upon a sight 
which  gave  him  an  inexpressible  emo­
tion—a 
scented,  pearl-colored 
glove,  lying on a  rustic table.  He stood 
looking  at  it  with  a  strangely  tender 
feeling  in  his  heart,  and  in  a  few mo­
ments  a  young  girl  glided  up  to  him, 
and, looking shyly in  his face,  said:

little, 

“It is my glove,  sir.”
Then Ralph looked at her.  She was a 
little rosebud of a girl, clothed  in  pearl- 
gray silk,  white  lace  and  pink  ribbons; 
and  he  fell  irremediably  ia  love  with 
her in  that’  one  moment.  He  followed 
her timidly about for an hour or two, and 
finally got an introduction to her—“Miss 
Bessie  Wilmot.” 
It  was  Bessie  Far- 
leigh’s daughter,  of  course,  but  he  was 
thinking so little of the old Bessie at that 
moment 
that  the  circumstance  never 
struck him, until someone asked the new 
Bessie,  as  they  passed  her,  when  she 
next went to Farleigh.

Well,  this meeting changed all Ralph’s 
plans.  He did  not  go  to  California;  he 
went down to Farleigh instead.

He  found  the  ’Squire  alive  and  pros­
pering; Farleigh Hall  had become one  of 
the show-places in  Kent; and  in  its  old 
gardens,  and  again  floating  down  the 
Medway  when hops filled  the  air  with  a 
richer perfume than  olibanum  or  nard, 
he  wooed  and  won  the 
lovely  Bessie 
Wilmot.

He has two little  pearl-colored  gloves 
now,  and the first Bessie  laughed  pleas­
antly when he showed  her  that  the  two 
were excellent matches, and made a pair.
“The second gage  redeems  the  first,” 
she  said,  with  a  tender,  happy look at 
the little Bessie so dear to them both.

Three  years  ago  they  were  married, 
and Ralph does not  now  find the country 
gentleman’s life dull. 
Indeed,  as he has 
some  idea  of  taking  ’Squire  Farleigh’s 
advice and planting hops in Erroll mead­
ows, I have no doubt he will  find  in  the 
uncertainty and anxiety  of their culture, 
taxation and sale plenty  of  material  for 
excitement,  if he still thinks it necessary 
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m ission.
In spite of “Daisy Miller,” there  is  no 
settled type  of  the  American girl.  The 
country is too young.  She is only one of 
a large assortment,  like a naturally beau­
tiful,  but untrained voice, where one note 
differs from another,  following its own or 
its  great  Creator’s  fancy  without  any 
respect for the  most  approved  methods. 
So the shop-girl,  in  spite  of  the inevita­
ble  Psyche  knot,  is  composed  of  many 
varieties,  all sizes, ages, complexions and 
nationalities,  with  the  Jewess  and Irish 
maiden  well  in  the  lead.  The  former 
has  a  way  of  drawing  money  from  the 
customer which is  certainly  astonishing 
to the uninitiated  and  delightful  to  her 
employer.  The  Irish  girl  is  usually  a 
strong second in running what is called a 
“good  book,”  from  her  characteristic 
native wit,  but  the American,  while  you 
will find her  modest  and  oftentimes  re­
fined, lacks  the  “ push”  and “go”  to be 
come as  valuable.
To  be a  good  saleswoman is not to be 
able to  sell  a  customer  something  that 
she asks for  and  has  started  out,  after 
studying the bargain columns, to get, but 
to sell her something  she  does  not want 
and  has  no  idea  of  buying  when  she 
comes into the shop.  A  cloak  is  adver­
tised for  some  one  day  only  for  $7.50, 
worth  $15,  “special.”  That  is  what  is 
called  a  “ leader,”  and  that  is  the  bait 
which draws  the  customer to the house.
A clever saleswoman  will  gently  lead 
the  innocent  victim onward  and upward 
until she  walks out with  a  $35  garment, 
of some elegant  material,  maybe,  but  of 
an old style  which they are longing to be 
rid of, and  which the purchaser fancies is 
the most wonderful  bargain,  as  she  still 
hears its songs  of  praise  ringing  in  her 
ears.  Then  it  is  that  the  pretty  little 
Jewess  who has made  this  sale pats her­
self on  the back  and  lets  everyone  else 
know of her  achievement,  even  the pro­
prietor himself,  if it  is  possible,  telling 
of it in a deprecatory style which is a sort 
of combination  of  modesty  and  self-ap­
preciation.  The average hurried,  impa­
tient shopper in these crowded dry-goods 
houses  gets  very 
indignant  at  the 
saleswomen.  The short answers,  the in­
difference, the particularly  discouraging 
information of “three rooms over,” “tw'o 
counters  below,”  make  one  feel  often­
times  as  though  these  people  were 
leagued against you and  the  proprietor, 
in an iron-clad  union, the motto of which 
is:  “Sell as little  as  possible  and  be  as 
disagreeable as you can.”  But this is not 
the case.  They are most anxious to sell, 
for their positions are held  almost solely 
by their sales,  and  the  greatest  amount 
of rivalry exists among them in trying to 
outdo each other.
There is no bone of contention so great 
as one which  is  a  common  occurrence. 
For instance, a woman comes in in an un­
certain frame of mind to  buy a hat.  Ev­
ery  style,  shape  and  argument  in  the 
place is brought  to  bear  upon  the ques­
tion,  but the  discouraging  verdict is  ob­
tained  by the weary saleswoman  that she 
“ will look a little  further  before  decid­
ing—”  The next day she  walks  in  and 
buys  of  another  the  same  hat  that  has 
been high in favor the day before.  War 
is  immediately  declared.  “That  is  my 
‘come back,’ ”  says  saleswoman  number 
one, in the shop vernacular,“and  1 ought 
to have that check.”
“ Well, you won’t get it,” sa^s number 
two,  with more firmness than  politeness, 
“for I lost a check the same  way  yester­
day,” etc.
to  shop 
ought surely to try to  find  the  same girl 
who has shown so much patience in wait­
ing on them.
Before 1 looked  into  this question,  my 
sympathies  were, to a great  extent,  with 
the customer;  but, since,  they have been 
transferred  to  the  much-enduring  sales­
woman.  The time women take to look at 
an article,  to finger it,  to  ask  questions, 
the  same  one  over  and  over  in a dozen 
different  forms!  The  many  times  they 
try it on,  and  decide  first  for  and  then 
against  its  becomingness.  How they al­
most come to the point and  then shift off 
and try every one of its kind in the room, 
asking  the  same  thing  over,  and  then 
come back to the original!  And  all  this 
is bad enough if there is only  one person

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to suit.  But  when  the  customer  is  ac­
companied  by  two  friends,  each,  of 
course, of a different mind!  B ut the bane 
of the saleswoman is the “looker.”
Thousands  of  women  promenade  the 
shops  having  not  the  slightest  idea  of 
buying,  fingering this  and  pricing  that, 
so that it is no wonder the poor shop-girl 
is often short in  her  answers to a person 
who  really  means  to  buy. 
If  these 
“lookers” could only  realize bow hard  it 
is  on  the  people  who  have  to  wait  on 
them,  they  would certainly  refrain  from 
this form  of amusement.
The proprietor of a large store on Sixth 
avenue one  day  asked  the  saleswoman 
what was wanted by a customer who bad 
strolled along  and  addressed  some ques­
tion  to  her.  “She  did  not  want  any­
thing;  she  was only  looking.”  Happen­
ing  to  feel  somewhat  out  of  sorts that 
particular  morning,  the  proprietor  said: 
“Oh,  1  guess  she  would  have  bought 
something,  if you  had  expressed a little 
more interest in her.  1  don’t  think  we 
want such people as you around;  you go 
to the office and get your salary;”  and so 
the girl  was out of a place, and all because 
a too curious woman had asked the price 
of some fancy goods that she bad not the 
remotest intention of buyiug.
The grading in a store forms a very im­
portant element.  A girl begins as  “cash” 
on a dollar and seventy-five cents a week, 
and it is her duty to do everything she is 
called  upon to do by  everyone in author­
ity,  and,  of course, everyone is in author­
ity over the poor little  “cash.”  But  all 
things have an end,  and when she is pro­
moted to the next place, “ packer” (wrap­
ping  and  neatly  tying  up the parcels), 
her turn comes, and she orders about the 
“cash” in a much  more supercilious man­
ner than the  head  of  the  firm  himself. 
After serving a sufficiently  long  term  as 
a “packer,” a steady,  bright girl is  often 
called upon  to take  charge  of  a table  of 
bargains;  then her head  is apt to be much 
turned,  for she has reached the zenith of 
her ambition.  She is a “saleslady!”  A 
young  girl  who  had  left  the  packing 
desk about a week  before to  take  charge 
ofselliugat  a  bargain  table  of  aprons 
was beard berating a small cash girl who 
bad  offered  her  some  slight  indignity. 
“The idea,”  she said,“of telling me what 
to do, and me a saleslady and  her a cash! 
The very idea!”
There are all  sorts  and  conditions  of 
saleswomen—some,  at  the  head  of  the 
profession,  very  wise  and  important; 
others,  secondary  lights  and  “ under­
studies,” those who dust  and  take  care 
of  the  stock only coming forward to sell 
at  busy  times  and seasons.  There are, 
also,  in all the  important  shops,  beauti­
ful  girls,  used  almost  exclusively  as 
models,  and  when  the  customer  sees a 
gown, coat, or hat on an  almost  perfect 
figure or charmingly pretty face, she, not 
being able to “see herself  as  others  see 
her,” lays the flattering  illusion  to  her 
soul  that  it will  look just like  that  on 
herself,  and  is,  thereby,  much  more 
tempted to make the outlay.
At  the  head  of  each  department  is 
the “buyer.”  That is a  position  of  im­
portance  and  responsibility,  for a large 
part of the success  of  the  establishment 
depends  upon  the  judiciousness  of  the 
“buyers,” and this  position  is  generally 
earned  by  a  long  shop girl  apprentice­
ship.  They go  to  the  wholesale  houses 
to select and  haggle for the goods,  scour 
the  town  for  “jobs,”  a  lot  that can be 
sold cheap,  with a great hue  and  cry  of 
advertising, and get  a  very  comfortable 
profit for the proprietor.  The  salary  of 
a “ buyer” is generally  very  good,  from 
twenty-five dollars a week up  to  several 
thousand a year.
The workrooms, filled with  shop-girls, 
where  they  manufacture  the  beautiful 
creations  in  hats,  fancy  bodies,  tea- 
gowns,  and collarettes  are,  perhaps,  the 
most  interesting  part  of  an  establish* 
ment.  A  glimpse into a millinery work­
room,  for instance, reveals two  or  three 
French  “trimmers,”  and  some  of  other 
nationalities,  who are seated at different 
intervals, each  surrounded  by  three  or 
four girls called “miilinies,” or “improv­
ers,” and two or three  apprentices,  who 
are “learning the trade,” bob in  and  out 
collecting  and  “matching  up”  the  ma­
terials for the work.  General  Washing­
ton, at the head  of  his  army,  could  not

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have felt, or made others  feel,  so  much 
his august presence  as  did  the  diminu­
tive French  woman.  'This  little  woman 
had the best seat in  the  room,  near  the 
light, she  was  screaming  for  the  stool 
for her feet,  she was ordering  about  her 
girls  in  the most dictatorial  style,  and, 
above  all,  she  was  turning  out  truly 
wonderful  creations  of  art  and fashion!
Conversation in  the  workroom  is  car­
ried  on almost incessantly in  a brisk but 
low-voiced  manner,  always  brought  to 
an  abrupt  standstill  at  the  entrance of 
the “forewoman,” the thread of  the  dis­
course immediately resuming as the door 
shuts behind her.  The  theme  is  almost 
invariably  the  coming  man.  He  may 
vary from day to day in his style,  bis  ac­
complishments,  his attainments,  but  he 
is  always  in  it,  so  to  speak,  for these 
working-girls  look  forward  with  the 
constant  hope  of  being  released  from 
their daily bondage by  matrimony.  The 
majority  of 
the  older  girls,  I  found, 
have what they call  their  “steady  com­
pany,”  and when they decide upon some 
one particular favorite they are,  for  the 
most part,  very  loyal to him. 
It  is then 
only a question of time and  salary  when 
the nuptial knot will  be  tied.  Ail  their 
little pennies are saved up for  Christmas 
and  birthday 
souvenirs,  and  I  was 
greatly  surprised  at  the  magnitude  of 
these gifts.  A working-girl  would scorn 
a  plain  gold  ring  as  an  engagement 
badge,  and  many  of  them  possess  dia­
monds of quite goodly proportions, which 
they  do  not  always  wear except upon a 
Sunday.

Some of them have very wild  and  am­
bitious flights  of  fancy  concerning  this 
coming arbitrator of their fate.  One girl, 
getting  a  salary  of  six  dollars  a  week 
for  the  consideration  of  sewing  little 
puffings of lace on a  wire  frame, calmly 
announced  one  day  in  all  seriousness 
that she was going  on  her  vacation  for 
two weeks where a certain  young  bach­
elor, worth many millions, has a country- 
seat,  and who knows what  may  happen! 
The significance of  the  look  which  fol­
lowed  this  declaration  quite  awed  the 
workroom into complete silence  for  sev­
eral minutes.  The  society  notes  failed 
to  chronicle  an  event  of a  startling na­
ture, so the young woman still continues 
to sew, although  the  winter  velvet  has 
taken the place of the summer lace.
But  not  all  are  looking forward to  a 
life of  matrimonial  bliss.  Some  dream 
of independence.  Some  have  more  pro­
nounced  flights  of  fancy.  One  young 
girl,  who was perfectly indifferent to the 
correctness  of  speech  as  prescribed  by j 
Mr.  Murray,  announced,  after  a  short 
acquaintance, that she was not very much 
interested in her work,  that  she  did  not 
expect to be learning a trade  much longer 
—she  was  going  to be  a  literary lady, 
and  was studying to that end “evenings.” 
She  also  brought  books  to read during 
the lunch hour, not the lovely,  romantic 
tales, such as “Dora Thorne,”  “Wife  in 
Name Only,” or “The Curse of Clifton,” 
devoured  by  the  girls  with  the  sand­
wiches  and  cakes  at noon,  and perused 
morning and night  going  up  and  down 
on the  elevated, but essays  on  “How  to 
Compose  Sonnets,”  “The Proper Course 
of  Instruction  To  Become  a  Poetess,” 
and 
“Oh,
yes, 
I haven’t  had it printed
deal of poetry. 
yet,  but  the  minister’s  wife  died  the 
other  day  and  I  sent  him  an  original 
poem  on  embossed  cardboard,  with  a 
beautiful  gold  edge  and a hand-painted 
bunch of violets at the  top,  tied  with  a 
black  ribbon.  Would  you  like  to hear 
it?”  Of course, there was a general con­
sent,  and forthwith a copy  of  the  poem 
was produced and read  to  the  admiring 
erowd  with such pathos as  brought tears 
to  the  eyes.  How  they  did  pity  that 
poor  afflicted  minister!  The  embryo 
poetess  worked  so  hard  at  her studies 
“evenings,” burned so  much  after  mid­
night  oil,  stinted  herself  so,  that  she 
might  buy  her  essays  and  systems  of 
“Complete  Compositions,” 
she 
finally grew unfit to work at the plebeian 
millinery business,  and  the last that was 
heard from  the  poor  girl  was  that  she 
had succumbed to a fever.  After that all 
trace of her was lost.
Some, of a more practical turn of mind, 
were figuring  on  “setting  up”  in  busi-

similar  deep 

literature. 

that 

”  she  said,  “I have  written  a great 

“Sneeze on Monday 
Sneeze for danger.
Sneeze on Tuesday 
Kiss a stranger.
Sneeze on Wednesday 
Get a letter.
Sneeze on Thursday 
Something better.
Sneeze on  Friday 
Sneeze for sorrow.
Sneeze on Saturday 
Joy  to-morrow.”

In  most  of  the  large  establishments, 
where  many  people  are  employed,  the 
rules are very strict and the  punishment 
is  generally  a  fine,  which  is  deducted 
from the salary at  the  end  of the week. 
For example,  a cent  a  minute  is  gener­
ally charged for  tardiness,  and many  of 
the people, no matter  how small the sal­
ary,  and maybe living  many  miles  from 
their  place  of  business,  frequently,  in 
fact, almost uniformly,  carry home their 
salaries  at  the  end  of  the  week minus 
fifty cents or so.  On the  other  hand,  if 
customers  come  in  late  and  stay  over 
closing  time,  these  same  girls  are  ex­
pected to wait on  them  cheerfully  some 
fifteen or twenty minutes  after six with­
out  extra  compensation.  Still,  fining 
seems necessary,  for,  when not enforced, 
there are always those who  take  advan­
tage  of  it,  and  they  must  be  in  their 
places to get their stocks in order and  be 
ready to wait on the customers.
Fining applies more  especially  to  the 
low-salaried  sales-people.  The  higher 
up  in  authority,  and  the  bigger wages 
one receives,  the  more  leniency  shown; 
therefore,  the  “head  fitter,”  getting  her 
$75  a  week,  the French trimmer,  whose 
time is worth her weight in  gold,  or  the 
large-salaried buyer, arrive  with  an  air 
of importance a half  hour or so after the 
appointed time of opening.
In most of the  great  shops  there  Is  a 
surprising lack of  comfort in the  way  of 
a lunch-room,  or a place to spend  the al­
lotted three-quarters of an  hour at noon. 
In some places this  room is at  the top of 
the building,  and in others  in the cellar, 
but almost all are dirty  and unattractive 
in every way. 
In  one  particular  house 
on the west side the rats are so large and 
numerous  that  the  services  of  a  Pied 
Piper are  sadly  in  demand.  This  is  a 
disgrace,  especially  when  one  sees the 
flue waiting-rooms provided for  the  cus­
tomers.  There  are  one  or  two notable 
exceptions  to  this,  however,  one  espe­
cially,  which  is  following  closely  upon 
the lines of the  famous  Bon  Marche,  in 
Paris, and  it is greatly appreciated by all 
the  employes, 
it  is  an  unpretentious 
house on Lower Broadway,  but  the com­
fort of the  sales-people  seems  to  be  as 
much  considered  as  that  of  the  cus­
tomers.  They take an  especial  pride  In 
their  lunch-room,  which  is  large  and 
neat.  Clean,  attractive tables,  at  which 
four  can  comfortably  sit, line the sides, 
and in the middle  is  a  beautifully  neat 
cooking  counter  bristling  with  cakes, 
sandwiches,  eggs,  pies,  frankfurts,  tea, 
coffee,  milk,  and other edibles,  in charge 
of  a  pleasant-faced  woman,  who  keeps 
her  little  flock  well  in  hand  and  does 
not  allow  so  much  as  a  speck  on  the 
floor.  She  will  show  you  her  ice-box

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ness,  and one actually did,  and  lost  the 
earnings of many  months.
Superstitions  in  the  workroom  are 
many and  varied  and command great re­
spect.  To drop an unfinished hat on the 
floor is a sure  guarantee  of  its  success, 
and,  as many are sold that  have  taken  a 
tumble,  and would be naturally, the sign 
is considered  infallible.  To  drop  your 
scissors  means  extremely  bad  luck,  if 
you stoop to pick them up yourself.  You 
must step on them,  and then  have  some 
one else return  them to you.  When you 
are so fortunate as to get an  order  for  a 
bride’s  hat,  you  must pluck a hair from 
your own head and sew it  in  your work; 
then, every girl demands the privilege of 
trying it on,  and she is sure to get a hus­
band on her own account.
Every one knows the  adage  about try­
ing on  a  mourning  hat,  but,  strange  to 
say, many, even the  most  superstitious, 
drape 
themselves  in  widow’s  weeds 
whenever they get an  opportunity; prob­
ably,  although  thoroughly  believing  in 
the fate in store, they do it on  the  prin­
ciple:  “ ’Tis better  to  have  loved  and 
lost than never to have loved at  all.”
A  sneeze  is  fraught  with  augury. 
What sneezing portends  is  expressed  in 
rhyme.

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in 

two 

raspberries, 

The  half holidays  provided 

with exceeding pride,  and well she may, 
for it is a joy.  Jn summer a bowl of  de­
licious 
tremendous 
watermelons,  vicby, ginger ale,  and sar­
saparilla,  and,  crowning  all,  a  great 
freezer  of  ice-cream;  while  in  winter, 
hot  chowders  and  soups  are  provided. 
The  employes  can  buy  an  appetizing, 
wholesomely prepared  lunch  here  for  a 
few pennies;  and how much it  is  appre­
ciated they only can say!
the 
warm  months  are  a  great  boon  to  the 
working-girls.  Just  think  how 
little 
time they get to do any  sewing or mend­
ing, or  any  little  feminine  fussing  and 
planning.  Very few spend  their  Satur­
day afternoons at Coney Island  and such 
places,  as the common idea  may  be,  but 
are only too  glad to stay quietly at borne, 
making a new shirtwaist or  a  fancy  col­
larette,  and in  looking forward,  plotting 
and planning for the great holidays, such 
as  Fourth  of  July  or  Decoration  Day! 
Every one has something on hand,  and it 
takes all the next day to tell of  its  joys, 
its successes, or,  maybe,  its  disappoint­
ments.
A word as to the morals of these bread­
winners.  They|are. far above the fin-de- 
siecle  society  girl.  They  have  little 
time, little money,  or  little  opportunity 
to  learn  aught  of  champagne  or  ciga­
rettes.  They  have  few  invitations 
to 
gaze on “Living  Pictures,” and  few  op 
portunities  to  discuss  society  dramas. 
As a  rule, they  live  at  home,  and  they 
have absolutely no control over the little 
salary which they earn.  That is  carried 
home at the end of the week in  its envel­
ope, just as it  is  received,  and  given  to 
the  mother.  She  provides  what  she 
thinks is right for  her  daughter,  regard 
less  of what  the  child  earns,  and  this 
right  is  almost  universally  exercised, 
even  far  beyond  the  time  when 
the 
daughter is  of  age  legally  and  entitled 
to  control her own earnings.  Naturally, 
the little girl who  starts  out  at  the  age 
of ten to earn her few pennies  as “cash’ 
soon  becomes  very  wise  in  her  genera 
tion as to the ways of  the world,  but she 
also learns,  at the  same  time,  to  be  her 
own  guardian  angel,  and  she  generally 
succeeds. 

Ma r y   P.  Wh ite m  aw

T h e re b y   H a n g s   a   W a tc h .

It is the fashion  in  Paris  now among 
the swells to have the watch  attached to 
a  quarter-inch-wide  piece  of  grosgrain 
ribbon,  which is passed around  the neck 
and rests  upon  each  side  of  the white 
dress shirt  front,  then  passed  through 
the second buttonhole of the dress waist­
coat and thence  into  the  watch  pocket. 
The effect is startling, to  say  the  least; 
but it will  doubtless  become  a  favorite 
fashion  with  the  ultra  swell. 
If  the 
dude  has no  watch,  or  if  one  that  was 
given  to  him  is  in  the  pawnshop,  the 
ribbon,  borrowed  from  a  girl,  can  be 
worn all  the  same,  and  the  swell  will 
esem to be in style.

Among the many useful articles which 
are sure to be in demand in  every family 
is the “Star Cleaner,” a preparation man­
ufactured expressly for cleaning carpets, 
rugs, curtains, wood work, woolens, silks, 
satins and  plush goods—indeed, all kinds 
of fabrics that are liable to fade from ex­
posure  and  become  dingy  through  the 
accumulation  of  dust  The  advantages 
and virtues claimed for it are that it saves 
hard labor and produces quick results all 
over the  house;  that  one  can  of  it  will 
clean  25  yards  of  woolen,  ingrain  or 
Brussels carpet without removal from the 
floor  and  without  dampening  it  under­
neath. 
It is  guaranteed  to  brighten  up 
and renew the most vivid or delicate col­
ors. 
It is moderate in price and will save 
many weary hours of toil  and worry. 
It 
is equally adapted for toilet purposes,  as 
it cleans the hands  and  skin  most expe­
ditiously and is invaluable  for  removing 
scurf and  dust  from  the  hair.  Dealers 
will find this cleanser a profit winner,  as 
it  is  handsomely  packed  In  enameled 
boxes and an article used in every family 
the year around.  The manufacturers de­
sire  a  representative  in  every  city,  to 
whom they give special inducements and 
supply  with  advertising  matter. 
For i 
particulars see advertisement, or address 
the Star Manufacturing Co., Canton,Ohio.

HERO IC  IN   TRO U BLE.

A   S to r y   o f   S u ffe rin g   a n d   D e p riv a tio n  

S e ld o m   E q u a lle d .

W ritte n  fo r Th e  Trades si am.

In  one  of  the  basements—or,  rather, 
cellars—of this fair  and  prosperous  city 
live  a  woman  aud  her  four  little  chil­
dren, an American woman of intelligence 
and  pleasing  manners.  A  partition 
makes  of  this  underground  home  two 
tiny rooms.  There is  a window in  each 
of these compartments so small  that  one 
cannot see  to  read,  even  in  a  sunshiny 
day,  without  the  aid  of  a  lamp.  This 
woman  pays  for 
these  unfurnished 
apartments $1.25  a  week,  invariably in 
advance.  She  has  one  bed  for  herself 
aud  these  four  children,  the  oldest  of 
whom is but fourteen. She makes a bed of 
quilts each night upon the floor of  one of 
these  underground  rooms,  and  part  of 
them sleep there.  The children, as well as 
the mother, are bright and attractive. The 
money with  which this rent is to be paid, 
with  which fuel and food and clothes are 
to be purchased,  is earned by this woman 
at the  washtub.  Once, she  could  hardly 
do her own washing;  now, she does mine 
and  many  more.  All  she  asks  of  the 
world is enough washing to do.  Perhaps 
some  who  rejoice  in  the  welfare  and 
prosperity  of  their  fellow  men  would 
think she ought to be congratulated that, 
in these dull times,  with so many  out  of 
work,  she  has  five  “steady  places”  to 
wash;  but,  if  they  could  see  the  awful 
pallor  upon  that  woman’s  face  after  a 
half  day’s washing,  they  might  possibly 
conclude it would be just  as well  if  she 
had a little more money and a  little  less 
work.

The  reader may  be  interested  enough 
in this woman to wish to know a little of 
her former history.  Through no fault of 
hers,  through  no  mismanagement,  not 
even  through  an  unwise  marriage,  has 
she come  to  this  hopeless  and  pitiable 
condition.  Nor was  she  born  to  it  
It 
has  all  come  from  a  circumstance  for 
which she was no more  responsible than 
you  or  I.  Eight  years  ago,  she  had  a 
pleasant  home  and  an  industrious,  de­
voted  husband.  He was a young man of 
only  32 years,  a brakeman on a railroad. 
They were happy with their children and 
with  each  other.  One  day,  he  was 
brought  home  unconscious,  injured  in 
the  head  by  an  accident.  Since  that 
day, eight  years  ago,  he  has  not  even 
known bis wife. 
It was not the  fault of 
the railroad,  hence no damages  could be 
obtained.  The  little  they  had  saved 
could  not  last  long,  and,  after  he  was 
found to  be  incurable,  he  was  sent  to 
one of our insane asylums,  where he has 
since remained,  in possession  of  perfect 
bodily health but with  a  hopelessly  im 
paired mind.

At that time, the youngest  of her chil 
dren  was but six weeks  old—the oldest 6 
years.  What was she to do?  It  is  mer 
ciful  that we have  not  always  time  for 
tears, or for memories of the happy past. 
The great problem of how to get a living 
confronted  her.  People  cannot  receive 
alms  when  they  are  proud  and self-re­
specting, and  what  was to be done?  Had 
she been capable of  teaching,  copying or 
keeping books,  could  she  have  done  it 
with  those  four  helpless  babies to care 
for  every  minute?  She  did  the  only 
thing she  could  do—washing.  At  first, 
she  took  it  home  and  then, as the chil­
dren got old enough  to be left alone, she 
went out to  different  houses.  This  she 
has  done  through  all  these  eight  long

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Every  Wholesale  Grocer  in 
Grand  Rapids  and  the  State 
keeps this  Soap  in  stock,  and 
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try one box  with  his  next  or­
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in his own family, and will tell 
his  customers  that  it  is  the 
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

1 5

dreary years, and her whole  earthly pos­
sessions now consist of that one bed, one 
stove,  a chair or two and a few old dishes 
and  cooking  utensils,  she  having  sold, 
little by little, everything  she could pos­
sibly live without.

If  the  seventy-two  church  members, 
who were  reported  last  Sunday,  at  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  C.  O.  S.,  to be 
making friendly  visits  among  the  poor 
for the purpose of  giving  sympathy and 
encouragement  to  “the  higher 
life,” 
were all to visit this woman,  either  sin­
gly  or  in  a  body, it could not help  her. 
That is not the way  to help this  woman, 
fighting, single-handed,  life’s hard battle 
so  bravely.  Away  with  such!  When 
she  gets  home  at  night  to  her hungry 
children,  she  is  too  tired 
to  receive 
friendly  visitors;  besides,  such  as  she 
shrink  from  notice  and  prefer  to  bear 
their trouble  alone.  Sympathy  and  en­
couragement are best  shown  to  such  as 
this  toiler  by  a month’s rent being paid 
in some mysterious way,  or,  better still, 
by  her  landlord  being  interviewed and 
his conscience touched;  by  a  good  Sun­
day dinner being sent in, on the assump­
tion that she is “too  busy,”  and not that 
she is too poor,  to prepare it  herself;  by 
any  and  every  practical  way  in which 
life may be made less hard.

She is looking forward to  something— 
she  hardly  knows  what;  but  her hope, 
her  interests,  her  ambition,  center  in 
these children and in their  future.

1 have given  you,  without  embellish­
ment and with no drawing on  the  imagi­
nation,  the story of a woman  in this very 
city, born in our free  land  and  entitled 
to  happiness,  but  dragged  under  the 
wheel of pitiless  circumstance—the true 
story of one showing  more  heroism than 
to  fight  in  a  hundred  battles.  Ought 
life  to  be  so  hard and sad for some and 
so easy and  bright  for others?

H e  P aid   for  th e  Com b.

He  wasn’t  a  bad  looking  man,  nor 
meanly dressed.  His face is  often  seen 
about  town.  He  went into a furnishing 
goods store and made a  few  trifling pur­
chases.  When  the  young  lady  clerk 
went to the other end  of  the  counter  to 
do  up  the  package the customer slipped 
a pocket comb into  his  pocket.  He  did 
not  know—or  if  he  did,  it  slipped his 
mind at the moment—that  every  button 
on the dress of a young lady  clerk  is  an 
eye.  When  it  comes  to  seeing,  in  the 
line of their business,  the late Mr. Argus 
is not in the same class with them.
The young  lady  clerk  returned  with 
the  package  to  the  customer,  smiling 
sweetly—very  sweetly.  She  laid 
the 
package before him,  and looking into his 
face,  said  in  her  softest  and  sweetest 
tones:
“Did  you  wish  to  pay  for  the comb 
now, or shall I make a  slip of it?”
The customer cleared his  throat  in  an 
embarrassed sort of a way.
“Ahem!  Er-ah;  what did you say?”
“The comb;  the comb you put  in your 
pocket  a  moment  ago.  1  thought  per­
haps you might desire to pay for it along 
with the other articles.”
Alas, the sweetness  of  her  smile  and 
the liquid murmur of her voice!
“Ah!—ahem!  What  is  the  price  of 
combs?”
The young lady clerk leaned gracefully 
upon the counter with her  dainty elbow, 
while  the  magnetic  glance  of  her  eye 
penetrated  his 
soul  and  percolated 
through  every  molecule  of  his  nervous 
system.
“The price of the one you have in your 
pocket is 5 cents.”
He  ran  his  hand  violently  into  his 
pocket and pulled  out  all  the  money  he 
had,  a solitary and sickly-looking 10-cent 
piece.  He threw it on the counter,  and, 
without waiting for the change, went out 
at the door so fast that  he  upset  an um­
brella  rack  and  nearly  overturned  the 
showcase on the outside.
The  young  lady  clerk  laughed  a rip­
pling,  sunny  laugh;  the  cash  register 
rang with a merry jingle and  showed  up 
the private signal as  follows:  “ 10c.”
Then  the  young  lady  clerk  returned 
demurely to her fancy work.

WILLIAM  REID,

JOBBER  OF

PAINTS, OILS,VARNISHES  BRUSHES,etc.,PIate & Window GLASS

__________2 6 -2 8   L ou is  Street,  G R A N D   R A P ID S,  MICH.
P E R K IN S   &  H ESS,

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS  IN

Nos.  i2a  and  124  Louis  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan. 

____________ WB CABBY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MU t  USB.

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  IflPLEHENTS  AND  REPAIRS.

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

Catalogue.  Telephone  104.

E s t a b l is h e d   1865.

BUGGIES.  SLEIGHS  &  WAGONS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCHIGAN.

H.  A.  R.

[The Tradesman  is  conversant  with 
the circumstances connected  with the sad 
ease above described and  vouches for the 
accuracy of the  statements  and the good 
faith of the writer.  The money paid her 
for  this  contribution  will  be presented 
to  this  worthy  woman,  whose only aim 
in life is to  rear  and  educate  her  chil­
dren;  and if  any  of  The  Tradesman’s 
readers feel disposed to  contribute  any­
thing  to  assist  her  in  her endeavors to
keep 
the  wolf  from  the  door,  The 
Tradesman will see that such  contribu­
tions are immediately turned over to  the 
writer  of  the  above  article,  who  has 
taken a friendly interest  in  the woman’s 
behalf.]

IM PORTAN T  ANNOU NCEM ENT.

F ree P rese.

“ M.  Q u ad ”   T a k es  His  O ld P la ce on th e 
We find great pleasure  in  announcing 
to  oar  readers  that Chas.  B. Lewis,  the 
famous  “M.  Quad,”  has  resumed  his 
former  place  upon  the  Detroit  Free 
Press.  Since  his  retirement  from  The 
Free Press four years ago  Mr. Lewis has 
been writing for one of the  leading  syn­
dicates.  His preference for direct news­
paper work,  however, led him to abandon 
that connection, and  hereafter  his  pop­
ular  writings  will  appear  only  in  the 
Free  Press.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bowser, 
Brother  Gardner,  Arizona  Kicker,  Zeb 
White,  Abe  Crofoot,  Mrs.  Gallop,  and 
many new characters, will  appear  regu­
larly.
The publishers  are  making  a  special 
four  mouths’ 
trial  offer  of  the  Semi- 
Weekly  Free  Press  for 25c to introduce 
their  paper  to  new  readers,  and  we 
would advise  those  looking  for  a  great 
bargain to send in  their  subscription  at 
once.  The  offer  is  good only until Au­
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gust 1st. 

At  the  present  time  the  Australian 
aborigines are the lowest  known  species 
of  humanity.  They  have  little  or  no 
reasoning faculties,  and  their  only  idea 
of a higher power is through fear.  They 
are chocolate colored,  wear  little  cloth­
ing,  and their weapons are of wood.

The report of the legislative committee 
on the management of the  Illinois  State 
penitentiaries  embodies  a  recommenda­
tion that the convicts be put  at  work  on 
the extension of the Chicago  ship  canal.  |

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W r i t t e n   f o r   T h u   T r a d e s m a n .

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In a recent  issue  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
appeared  an  article  with 
title, 
“Canning  Delicacies  at  Sea,”  in  which 
it was stated  that  a  schooner  had  been 
fitted out at New York for the purpose of 
plying the Southern waters and  canning 
and preserving,  on board, delicacies of  a 
perishable  nature.  Among  other  good 
things in the edible line to  be  conserved 
for onr future delectation was mentioned 
“ the pompano.”

“The pompano”—what  was that?  My 
ignorance on the  subject  was  dense. 
I 
dimly recollected  having heard the word 
mentioned someway  in  connection  with 
fishes;  and,  possessing  a  child’s inquis­
itiveness  in  regard  to  the  unknown,  I 
hied me to my desk and “dropped a line” 
to a retired old tar down  on  the  Florida 
coast—aged enough to be gathered to his 
fathers.  He’s a good old soul, is he,  and 
has  been  wont  to  help  me  in  similar 
times of need. 
In answer to my peremp­
tory demand,  “The pompano—tell me all 
about it,” came along,  by the next mail, 
a lengthy dissertation on the subject,  in­
terspersed with many a  quaint seafaring 
phrase, and giving more than  a  hint  of 
the traditional nautical tobacco. 
I shall 
not attempt to produce  the whole  of  his 
kindly effort in my  behalf—it  possessed 
all the charm of an old-fashioned friend’s 
conversation—nor  to  give  it  verbatim, 
only attempting to get at  the  main facts 
in the case.

[So  much  for  the  pompano  of  the  Atlantic 
Coast.  That of the Pacific  Coast will be treated 
in a future article.  E d.1

THE  POMPANO.

He’s a beautiful  fish—as  good  to  eat 
as  he  is  pretty  to look at.  He comes—

like som'e of  his  mammalian  brothers— 
of  an  old  but  plebeian  family.  This 
family is surnamed Mackerel.  You hear 
him referred to as  “the  far-famed  pom­
pano  of  Florida,”  so  no  wonder  that, 
with such fulsome praise, his head some­
times gets turned.

T H E   M IC H IG A JS T   T B A lD E S M A S T .
is  a  small  shell-fish—known  as  the 
“pompano  shell,”  on  account  of  being 
eaten by them—which  seems  to  hobnob 
amicably with their digestive  apparatus. 
Their habit is to swim as  near  the shore 
as the depth  of  the  water  will  permit. 
They seldom appear  at  the  surface,  al­
though  occasionally  jumping  into  the 
air in play or for unwary insects.  Other 
things  being  equal,  the  best  grounds 
cannot be  expected  near  cities  and the 
larger towns, where  steamers  and  vari­
ous  sailing  craft  frequent  and  scare 
away these denisons ot  the deep.

As  good a fisherman as ever wet a line 
says that the skill necessary  for  hauling 
him in lies mainly in  knowing  the  most 
favorable  bottom-grounds,  the  state  of 
the tides most propitious  to  success  and 
the best inducements to offer  him  to  al­
low  himself  to  be  caught—you  might 
call it bait—at the various seasons of the 
year.

He succumbs to being “taken in” only 
with  the  hand-line,  which  must have a 
heavy  sinker.

The rod and reel are Ignored and voted 
useless by anglers  of  the  deep-sea  line. 
With regard to tackle, game fish,  in gen­
eral, of  Florida  are  uneducated.  They 
are not at all  particular,  and  expensive 
flies  need  not  be  used  to  allure  their 
fishships.  For  hand-line  fishing,  resi­
dent  experts  use  cable-laid  cotton  and 
braided cotton  lines.  The main thing is 
strength of tackle—stout lines  and  large 
hooks.  But 
Izaak  Walton  who 
would ensnare the  wily  pompano  must 
have more than mere tackle—he must be 
to a degree,  alert.

the 

In  the  matter  of  bait,  our  pompano 
doesn’t  object  to  clam,  in  fact,  rather 
likes it.  Alas for him  when  he  gazetb 
on it too often and too fondly!

Mr.  Pompano  and  his  fellows  are 
caught in small schools,  in  shoal  water 
along the sea beaches, where  they  illus­
trate the  saying,  “The  big  fish  eat  up 
the little ones;” but their  principal  diet

There is  a  great  commercial  demand 
for fish  of  this  variety,  which  is  fully 
supplied only a few weeks of  the  year— 
spring and early  summer. 
In  the  New 
Orleans market  it ranks  first  with  epi­
cures,  and,  in fact, is considered by most 
as the  finest  food-fish  of  the  Southern 
waters.  Along  the  southern  coast  of 
Florida,  this  finny  animal  is  found  all 
the year round.  At  Key  West  they  are 
caught  in  great  quantities. 
Farther 
north,  they  arrive  at  the  coast  only  in 
the  spring  and  disappear  in  the  fall. 
Their movements are from  the eastward. 
Their ordinary range is  northward to the 
coast  of  South  Carolina.  They  are 
found occasionally as  far  north as  Cape 
Cod. 
It  is  chiefly  the  baby  pompanos 
that are found so far north as  this point, 
the  grandmothers  seeming  inclined  to 
prefer a  more  southerly  home—case  of 
Old Rheum,  mayhap.

A curious feature of this  much-lauded 
fish—as  well  as  much-landed,  I  might 
say—is that,  when he gets  old,  he  loses 
his teeth,  which may  be as great a cause 
for annoyance  and  lament  with  him  as 
with  some  others  that  might  be  men­

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tioned.  And,  when he  becomes a Methu­
selah, and  bis  blnnt nose begins to  sink 
in,  he  may  not  be the object of beauty 
that  he  once  was.  Hie  jacet  omnia— 
more’s the pity! 

But,  though Old Age  overtake  him,  it 
cannot rob him of his good long names— 
Trachynotas Carolinus is  his  chief  one, 
although  he  locomotes  under a number 
of others.  Near and around  Charleston, 
he  goes  by  the  cognomen  of  crevalle, 
which  was  bestowed  upon  him  by  the 
early French settlers.

And he brings a good  price,  too—that 
is,  during  the  seasons  when he  “makes 
himself scarce,”  so  to  speak.  Then  he 
commands  $1  apiece;  but,  when  abun­
dant, be loses prestige—men,  the  world 
over,  don’t want that which they can pro­
cure without effort—and  goes begging at 
5 cents apiece.

He tips  the  beam  at  6  pounds.  An­
other  species  of  pompano  of  inferior 
edible  quality  boasts  a  weight  of  20 
pounds—illustrating “Quantity, not qual­
ity.”

To sum up:  The angler  may  have net, 
seine, gig or barb;  he may  fish  in  boat, 
or from  the shore;  in the  daytime,  or  by 
torchlight;  for fun,  or  for  fish—he  will 
find  nowhere  on  this continent a better 
theater  for  piscatorial  feats  than  the 
waters around that beautiful  Gulf  State 
—Florida—and no fish  will  better  repay 
his  skill  than  the  bold biter swimming 
under the name—the  pompano.

H.  E.  R. S.

It  is  a  foolish  man  who  spends  his 
time  mourning  over  lost  opportunities 
instead of looking round for new ones.

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G r a n d   R a p i d s ,  May  24—This  paper 
is written by request in  reply to  a  num­
ber of articles written by  grocerymen  in 
regard to fruit packages.
I have argued for  years  that  all  pro­
duce  should  be  bought  and  sold  by 
weight and then all would get  their  just 
dues.  I am willing to admit that there are 
fruit growers who will  “stuff” a package 
and  give  short  measure—it  would  be 
strange if  there were  not—and  I would 
be willing to admit that there  are a good 
many  grocerymen  who  have  the  same 
reputation;  yet it would be unjust to say 
that “a more dishonest class of men ever 
existed.”  1 wonder if Nemo ever sent to 
the morning market and  bought  berries 
by the crate and potatoes in a  “bastard” 
bushel basket,  kicking and  finding  fault 
about the  quality  and  the  measure  and 
then chuckling to himself over  the  good 
bargain he bad made;  and after reaching 
home and dumping  the  potatoes  in  an­
other  basket  and  having  some  over  a 
bushel  to  sell  to  someone  else;  also 
dumping his crate of berries  into a  tray 
and when a customer came along, saying, 
with a galvanized  smile,  “Yes, they  are 
the finest berries  I  saw  on  the  market 
and 1 am selling  them  for  exactly what 
they cost—ten cents a  quart;”  then  tak­
ing his battered tin  wine quart  measure, 
larger at the bottom than at the top,  and, 
with a shingle shovel,  filling the measure 
until it ran over and giving his customer 
an  “honest  quart,”  and  yet  having 
enough left to make a good profit  on  the 
crate.  But enough of this, and  now  for 
a few facts in regard  to  fruit  packages:
I  take  it  for  granted that the St. Joe 
baskets are spoken of only as a sample of 
what all the manufacturers  are  making, 
so 1 will take them as an  example.  The 
standard bushel basket in general  use  in 
Grand Rapids and  all  over  the  country 
will hold  by measure level full  a  bushel 
of  wheat,  sealed  measure. 
In  some 
places  fifty  pounds  are  allowed  for  a 
bushel of peaches.  As  generally  put up 
here,  peaches  weigh  fifty-five  pounds 
gross weight.  A  legal bushel of fruit or 
vegetables  must  be  heaped  measure, 
which  we  always  give. 
If  we  use  a 
cover it gives one and  one-eighth  inches 
above the top of the basket.  It is claimed 
that nine-tenths of  the  small  fruits  are 
sold  by  wine  measure.  The  raising  of 
the bottom in  the  square  Hallock  berry 
box has always been a subject for  jokes, 
but it is an actual necessity  to  allow  for 
the heaping np  of  the  bottom  boxes  in 
the erate.  A  wine  measure  quart  con­
tains fifty-seven  and  three-fourths  cubic 
inches.  The  Hallock  wine  measure 
quart  berry  box  holds  fifty-seven  and 
one-fifth cubic inches.  The band is four 
inches  wide,  scored  to  make a box four 
and  one-half  inches  square  ?nd  three 
inches  deep, 
inside  measure.  A  dry 
measure quart  contains  sixty-seven  and 
three-fourths cubic inches.  The Hallock 
box is made four and three-fourths inches 
square and  three  inches  deep  inside  of 
box  and  contains  sixty-seven  and  one- 
fifth  cubic  inches,  and  we  always  give 
heaped measure.  Pints in both wine and 
dry measure  are of the same dimensions, 
except, of course, only one-half  as  deep. 
There are a  limited  amount  of  Hallock 
berry boxes  made,  called  the  Standard 
quart,  holding  about  sixty-two  cubic 
inches  and  claiming  to  hold  full  dry 
measure quarts.
There is no law  compelling  either  the 
producer or grocer to  use  a  certain  size 
of  package.  At  the  last  three  annual 
union meetings of the  Western Michigan 
Horticultural  Societies,  held 
in  Grand 
Rapids, resolutions  were  adopted agree­
ing to use the Standard bushel  basket for 
fruit and the  Climax  four  and  one-half 
and eight pound  baskets  for grapes,  and 
to discourage the use of  a  smaller  pack­
age.
As a rule,  the grocerymen do not prop­
erly  encourage  honesty  in  packing  and 
If  you  have  extra  goods, 
in  measure. 
they will quote  you  what  they  can  buy 
poorer  stock  for,  when  they  know  the 
comparison is not  just, and  wish  to buy 
yours at the same  price.

W m .  K .  M u n s o n .

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ciently large.  Screw-driver,  tape  meas­
ure,  alcohol-stove for warming hard-rub­
ber  trusses,  matches,  etc.,  should  be  in 
their places.  And the outfit  is  not com­
plete without a  chair  in  which  the  pa­
tient  can  be  gradually  let  down  flat 
on his  back  and  gradually  brought  up 
again to a sitting position without an  ef­
fort  on  his part.  Such a chair is better 
than a couch, because when necessary  to 
fit a truss  to  a  person  lying  down,  the 
straining required  in his  rising is apt  to 
throw everything out of place.  A cheap 
surgeon’s chair  answers  every  purpose, 
in the absence of such a chair  a couch is 
infinitely  better than  the  floor,  or  even 
some boxes.

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Drug Departm ent.

Grand  Rapids  Pharm aceutical Society. 

P re sid e n t, Jo h n  E. P eck ; S ec re ta ry , B. S chronder.

H O W   TO  F IT   T R U SS E S.

P e rtin e n t  S u g g e s tio n s   b y   a   D ru g g is t 

o f E x p e rie n c e .

find 

regarding 

their  opinions 
it. 

Were  any  one  of  us  to  talk  with  a 
dozen different druggists on  tbe  subject 
of  truss-fitting  and  selling,  we  should 
probably 
about 
equally  divided 
Some 
would say that they like it, that they find 
it an interesting, in tbe  main a pleasant, 
and a  fairly  profitable  branch  of  their 
business;  others  would  pronounce  it  a 
nuisance—more bother than it  is  worth. 
This  difference  of  verdict  may  be  due 
somewhat to the difference  of  the  drug­
gists  in  matters of taste and in mechan­
ical skill,  but I think it is  mainly due to 
their different  modes  of  conducting  the 
business.  The  first requisite  to success­
ful truss-fitting is  to  have  a  clear  con­
ception of what a hernia is—to be able to 
recognize the various  forms  of  rupture, 
and to know in each case in just what di­
rection to apply pressure in  order  to  re­
duce the hernia, and also  to hold it most 
securely and at the same  time most com­
fortably to tbe patient.  There  are  pub­
lished  various  anatomical  charts which 
illustrate  this  subject.  A  person  may 
gain  a  very  good  knowledge  of  it  by 
studying Gray’s Anatomy,  borne  of  the 
manufacturers’  catalogues  also  contain 
illustrated  chapters  ou  hernia,  and  on 
symptoms  of  hernia  often mistaken for 
those ot other affections.
Tbe  second  requisite  to  successful 
truss fitting  is  a  good  outfit.  No  man 
can do goud  work without  a  good  place 
to work in and a good assortment ot good 
tools to work with.  Under  the  head  ot 
outfits  i  would  place first of all a suita 
ble room,  where one is  retired,  not  sub 
ject to  interruptions,  where  things  are 
neat and clean,  comfortably  warm,  and 
where trusses and tools are or can  be ar 
ranged conveniently at hand.  One workc 
at a decided disadvantage when he  takes 
his  customer  behind 
the  prescription- 
case, or down cellar, or into a back room 
among barrels and  boxes, subject to con­
stant interruptions,  and  where  it  is  so 
cold that the patient  in his  exposed con­
dition soon  becomes  uncomfortable  and 
impatient.
Next in order comes a good assortment 
of trusses.  By good  assortment  1  don’t 
mean that one should  try  to  keep  some 
of  every  kind  and  style that are  made 
and  buy  every  new-fangled,  double 
geared  contraption  that  comes  along. 
Ue  should  select  a  few  good  styles 
which  by  experience  he  knows  he  can 
do good work with,  and then have  a  full 
assortment of sizes of these on hand.  As 
to what is the best  truss  to  keep,  good 
judges  would  no  doubt  give  different 
opinions.  One  thing  certainly  is  true: 
no  one  truss  is  tbe  best  truss  for  all 
cases.  Were a new man in the business, 
just putting in a new stock,  to ask me to 
advise  him  in  making  a  selection,  1 
should say to him:  Get  a few elastic belt 
trusses,  a  few  soft,  kid-finished,  light­
spring,  French pattern,  including infant 
sizes,  and  then  get  the  greater  part  of 
your  stock 
iu  hard-rubber  covered 
trusses.  Of the  different styles of hard- 
rubber trusses 1  would select the ones in 
Seeley’s  Catalogue  as Figures 3,  5 and 6 
(“Hood’s” ).  1 think  very  highly of the 
Hood pattern;  it seems to  me  to  obtain 
the 
lifting  pressure  resembling  that 
which one exerts when holding a rupture 
on  himself  by  bis  fingers  on  the same 
side,  the neatest of any truss that 1 have 
ever  used.  The  “cross-body”  style 
worked  well in the few cases  of  femoral 
hernia  which  1  have  had.  For 
in­
guinal hernia 1 do not consider it as good 
as the other styles mentioned.
The  best  way  to  store  trusses  is  in 
boxes,  with  a  cut  showing  the  style 
pasted on the outside of tbe box, and  the 
sizes distinctly marked on it.  The boxes 
should be arranged on shelves, where the 
marks can be readily seen.
Next  to  the  trusses  themselves  one 
should have a  vise  and  a  good  pair  of 
large  pliers,  to  be  used in bending and 
twisting springs.  A No. 8  vise  is  suffi­

With  your  room,  your  trusses,  your 
vice, chair,  etc.,  all  in  good  shape,  the 
next  question  is,  how  to  handle  your 
patient?  This is frequently a compound 
and a complex  question. 
If  I  could  do 
just as  I  would  like  with  a  patient,  I 
should  examine  him,  make np my mind 
what kind of a truss is best for  his  case, 
take a hard rubber one  of  that  pattern, 
fit it to him,  paying  no  attention  to  his 
suggestions,  being  sure  to  have  it stiff 
enough  to hold him,  and then tell him to 
come in again after  a  few  days.  Then, 
on  his  coming  in.  if  I thought  I  could 
weaken the spring so as to make it  more 
comfortable  for  him  and  still  keep  the 
rupture  secure,  I  would  do  so.  That 
would  be comparatively simple and easy 
work;  but,  as  a  rule,  we  can’t do it in 
that way.  The customer  is apt  to  have 
ideas and whims,  to  ignore  which  will 
offend him and leave him  dissatisfied,  no 
matter  how  good  work  you  may  do on 
him,  while to yield  to  them  will  insure 
poor results.  The question, then,  how to 
handle  your  patient,  is  a  double one— 
not merely how to treat his  rupture,  but 
how to manage him, or,  as  one  truss-fit­
ter  expressed  it,  “how to fit his head as 
well as his rupture.”

When a man has worn  a  certain  kind 
of truss and  wants another  just  like  it, 
if  you  happen  to  have  that  kind  it  is 
usually  best to give it to him,  and  prac­
tically let him  fit  himself,  even  though 
you  may  know  that  it  is  not  the bes. 
truss for bis  case.  You  might  exhaust 
yourself  persuading him to take the kind 
that you know to be the best for him, but 
most likely you  would do  him  no  kind­
ness.  Ten  chances  to  one,  he  would 
bring  it  back  to  you  after a few days, 
pronouncing  it  a  failure,  and  his  poor 
opinion of you as a truss-fitter  would  be 
established  forever.  Most  men  weai 
their trusses too low; they do not  under­
stand  that  the  aperture  is  above  the 
tumor. 
If  you  place  the  pad  where it 
should  be,  the  first  thing  they  do is to 
shove  it  down  out  of  place. 
It  is the 
truss-fitter’s  duty  to explain to them the 
anatomy of the parts and  why  the  pres­
sure should  be placed  higher  than  they 
suppose,  and,  if possible,  “educate them 
up”  to wearing the pad  where it belongs.
In cases where the patients are not  at­
tached to a truss which  they  have  been 
wearing,  but still are disposed  to  follow 
their  own  ideas,  making  their  own se­
lection of a truss and dictating  how they 
want  it  adjusted,  I  say  to  them pleas­
antly:  “I think I know a great deal bet­
ter than you do what your case  requires. 
If you will permit me to select  the  truss 
and fit it to you,  and if you  will  wear  it 
where I place it,  1 will guarantee  that  it 
will suit yon, or I will  take  it  back  and 
refund  the  money to you.”  When a pa­
tient proposes to take one or more of  my 
trusses  home and try them, I say:  “No; 
you  may  select  your  truss  and fit it to 
yourself  here,  and  if  you  desire I will 
assist you,  but I take no chances on your 
truss-fitting.  You must pay for the truss 
before  you  take  it  home,  and,  after 
you 
it  home,  you  must  keep 
i t ”  After a little firm but  kind  talk  of 
this  sort  the  patient  will  usually  put 
himself in  my  hands. 
In  talking  that 
way  to a patient I mean just what I say.
I will not let  any  man  take  my  trusses 
home and try them. 
If they don’t  fit,  he 
doesn’t know how to make them  fit,  and 
he  is  almost  sure  to  bring  them  back 
I have then had my 
soiled more or less. 
trouble and the damage to my trusses all 
for nothing. 
I will take my  chances  on 
my  own 
truss-fitting,  and  the  patient 
must  take  his  chances on his.  On this 
(Continued on Page 22 )

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Advanced—Balsam Tolu, Alcohol, Turpentine.

AOIDUM.

8® 10
A cetlcu m ......................... 
Benzolcnm  G erm an..  65®  75
Boraclc 
........................ 
15
C arb o llcu m ................... 
22® 32
C ltrlc u m ......................... 
41® 44
H ydrochlor  .................. 
5
3® 
N ltrocum  
......................   10® 12
O x allcu m ......................  10®  12
Phogphorlum   d ll......... 
20
S allcyllcum ....................   65® 70
S ulphnricum ..................   13£@ 5
T annlcnm ........................1 
T a rtarlcu m .................. 
30®  33
AMMONIA.

A q u a,16  d eg ................  
6
8
20  d eg ................  
Carbonae  ......................  12®  14
C h io rld u m ....................  12®  14

4® 
6® 

40@1 60

ANILINE.
 

B lack................. 
B row n...............................  80@1 00
R ed ....................................   45®  50
y e llo w .............................2 

2 

00®2 25

50©3 oo

BACCAS.

Cnbeae (po  25).........  
20®  25
8®  10
Ju n l p e rn s ...................... 
X antnoxylnm ...............  25®  30

BALBAMUM.

C opaiba.........................   45®  50
P eru .................................  @3 25
Terabln. C anada  .. . .  
45®  50
T o lu ta n ...........................   45®  50

OOBTXX.

Ablea,  C anadian....... ............  18
Caralae  ....................................  12
C inchona F l a v a ....................   18
Buonymua  atro p u rp ............   30
M yrlca  Cerlfera, p o ...............  20
P ranue V lrg ln l.......................   12
Q ulllala,  g rd ...........................   10
Sassafras  ................................   12
U lm ns Po (G round  16).........   15

b x t &a c t u m . 

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G lycyrrhlia  G labra.
p o .........
Haem atox, 16 lb. box
lB.............
HB........
*■........
m a n
C arbonate P re d p —
C itrate a nd Q ulnla  .
Citrate  Soluble.........
Ferrocyanldum  S ol..
Solut  C hloride.........
Sulphate,  com’l .......
p u re...........
FLO R A .

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24®  25 
33®  35 
11®   12 
13®  14 
14®  15 
16®  17

®  15 
®3 50 
®  80 
@  50 
®  15
.9®®

A m ica.........................   12®  14
AnthemlB....................   18®  25
Matricaria 
18® 5

........  

FOI.1A.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutifol,  Tin

.....................  1*®  30
nlvelly.........  ...........  18®  25
Alx.  25®  30
sind  ü b......................  12®  20
8® 10

Salvia  officinalis,  üb
Vra Ural 

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

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8U M X 1
Acacia,  1st  picked 

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts
p o .........  .
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60;
“  Cape, (po.  20.

®  60 
®  40 
®  30 
®  20 
60®  80 
50®  60 
®  12 
®  50
Socotrl, (po.  60)
Catechu, 1b, (Mb, 14 Ms,
16)............................. 
©  1
Am m oniac..................   55®  60
ABsafcetlda, (po.401 
35®  40
Bentoinum...................  50®  55
Camphor»  ...................  50®  54
Bupnorblum  po  .........  35®  lo
Galbannm....................   ®2  50
Gamboge,  po...............  65®  80
Gualacum, (po  35)  ...  ®  30
Kino,  (po  3  00)..........   ®3 00
M astic.........................  
®  80
Myrrh, (po  45)............  ©  40
Opll  (po  3  10®3 30)..1  90@2 00
Shellac  ........................  40®  60
40®  45
Tr.sgacanth.................  50®  80

“ 
■xbba—In ounce packages.

bleached....... 

A bsinthium ...........................  25
Bnpatorlum ...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  25
M ajorum ................................  28
Mentha  Piperita...................  23
“  V lr...........................   26
Rue..........................................   20
Tanaoetum, V ........................  22
Thymus,  V ............................   25

MAGNESIA.

Calcined, P a t...............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. &  M —   20®  25
Carbonate,  Jennlng5..  35®  36

o l e u m .

Cubebae.........................1  60@l 70
Bxechthltos...............  1  20@1  30
B rlgeron....................... 1  20@1 30
G aultheria....................1  &0®1 60
Geranium,  ounce.......  ®  75
Gossipll,  Sem. gal.......  60®  70
Hedeoma  .....................l  2S®1  40
Jum perl........................  50@2 00
L avendula..................   90®2 00
Llm onls......................  1  30@1  50
Mentha Piper................1  g5@3 OO
Mentha Verid...............1  80@2 00
Morrhuae, gal...............1  40®1 50
Myrcla, ounce..............  ®  50
O live............................   90®3 00
PlClB Liquida, (gal. 85)  10®  12
R icin i......................... 
88®  96
Rosmarini...........  
l  00
Rosae, ounce..............  6 50®8 50
S ucdni........   ..............  40®  45
Sabina.........................   90®1  00
Santal  ..........................2 50@7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__  
®  65
Tlglll............................   ®1  00
T hym e.........................  40®  60
@1  60
Theobromas................   15®  20

opt  ...... 

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PO TASSIUM .

BICarb.........................   15®  18
bichrom ate.................  11®  13
Bromide...................... 
45®  48
Carb..............................   12®  15
Chlorate  (po.l7@19)„  16®  18
Cyanide........................  50®  55
Iodide............................2 90@3 00
Potassa,  Bltart,  pure..  23®  25 
Potassa, B itart,com ...  @  15
Potass  Nitras, opt  __  
8®  10
7®  9
Potass Nitras............... 
Pro salate......................  25®  23
Sulphate  po....... 
... 
15®  18

R A D IX .

A conltum ....................  20®  25
Althae...........................  22®  25
A nchusa......................  12®  15
Arum,  po......................  @ 25
Calamus....................  
  20® 40
 
Gentlana  (po. 12).......... 
8® 10
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)....................  
@ 3 0
Hellebore,  Ala,  po__   15®  20
Inula,  po.......................   15® 20
Ipecac,  po......................1  30®1 40
Iris  plox (po. 35®3S)..  35®  40
Jalapa,  p r....................  40®  45
Maranta,  Ms............... 
®  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhei................................  75@1 00
“  cu t.......................   @1  75
“  pv.  ......................  75@1  35
35® 38
Splgelia.........................   35® 38
@ 20
Sanguinarla,  (po  25)
50® 55.
Serpentarla...............
55® 60
Senega...........................  55® 60
40
-   — 
Simllax, Officinalis.  H 
§
@ 25
M
10® 12
Sdllae, (po. 35)..............  10® 12
Symplocarpus,  Poeti
@ 35
dus,  po.....................
® 25
Valeriana, Bng.  (po.30)  @  25
15® 20
German
18® 20
lnglber a ..................  
18®  20
18® 20
Zingiber  J.................
SBMXM.

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@ 15
Anlsum.  (po.  20).
14® 16
Aplum  (graveleons)
4® 6
Bird, la ....................
10® 12
Carni, (pa 18)..........
00@1 25
Cardamon.................
12® 14
Corlandrum...................  12® 14
Cannabis Sat!v a..........  4® 
5
Cydonlum......................  75® 
Chenopodio»  ..............  10® 12
Dlpterlx Odorate  ....... 1  80@2 00
Foenloulum — ........  
@  15
Foenugreek,  po....... 
8
6® 
L in i...............................   sm® 4
Lini, grd.  (bbl. 8M)..  3*®   4
Lobelia...........................  35® 40
Pharlarls Canarian... 
5
4 ®  
R ap a..............................  4M®  5
Slnapls  Albu................ 
7®  8
r   N igra...........   11®  12

srnuTUs.

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Frumenti, W..D.  Co. .2 00®2 50
D. F. R ........2 00@2 25
1  25®1  50
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T —  1  65®2 00
“ 
.............. 1  75®3 50
Saacharnm  N.  B .........1  90®2 10
Spt.  Vini  Galli.............1  75®6 50
Vini O porto...................... 1  2S@2 00
Vini  Alba..........................1  25©2 00

s p o u s e s .

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage......................... 2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ..................  
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.......... 
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage....................  
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ......  
 
Hard for  slate  use.... 
Yellow Beef, for  slate 
u se ............................. 

2 00
1  10
85
65
75
1  40

so®3 00

90@2 00
00®3 20

A bsinthium ..................2 
Amygdalae, Dulc........   30®  50
Amyaalae. Amarae— 8 00®8 25
A n is i..............................1 
Auranti  Cortex........   1  80@2 00
Bergamll  .....................3 
C ailputl...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................  75®  80
C ed a r...........................  35®  65
C henopodll.................  @1  60
C lnnaaoB ll.................. 1 
Cl tranello....................   ®  45
Oonlum  Mao...............  35®  65
Oopalbe........................  80®  90

4001 50

ST B  U PS.

A c ca d a .................................   50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................   60
Ferri Iod................................  50
Auranti  Cortes......................  50
Rhei  Arom.............................  50
Simllax  Officinalis...............   60
....  50
Senega...................................   50
Sdllae.....................................   50
“  Co................................  50
T o iatan ..................................  50
Pranas  rlrg ...........................   50

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11 

p in ts..........

S.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S. P. A W.  1 75@2 GO Snnff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voe’s .........................
®  34
C.  Co......................  1 65®1  90 Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  ®  34
Moschus Canton____ @ 40 Soda Boras, (po. 7-9).
7®  9
Myrlstlca,  No  1 ......... 65® 70 Soda  et Potass T art... 24®  25
Nhx Vomica, (po 20).. @ 10 Soda Carb..................
1M®  2
Os.  Sepia......................
3®  5
15® 18 Soda,  Bi-Carb.............
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Soda,  A sh.................... 3M@  4
on
d o ..............................
®  2
Plcls Llq, N.%C.. M gal
Spts. Bther C o ............ 50®  55
doz  ........................... @2 00
“  Myrcla  Dom.......
®2 00
Plcls Llq., q u a rts....... @1  00
“  Myrcla Im p........
@2 50
2  55
“  Vini Rect. bbl...
85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80).. @ 50
2 60
“  Mhbl.
“ 
Piper  Nigra,  (po. 22).. @ 1
“ 
“  10 gal.
2  63
Piper Alba,  (po »5)__
@ 3
“ 
“  5 gal.
2 65
Pllx Burgun................. @ 7
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Plumbl A cet...............
if® 12 Strychnia  Crystal....... 1 40®1  45
Pul vis Ipecac et opll.. 1 10@1  20 Sulphur, Subì............. 2M® 3
Pyrethrom,  boxes  H
Roll............... 2  @ 2M
A P. D.  Co., doz.......
®1 25 Tam arinds..................
8®  10
Pyrethrum,  pv...........
20® 30 Terebenth Venice....... 28®  30
Quasslae......................
8® 10 Theobrom ae............... 45  ®  48
Qulnla, S. P. A W .......34M039M Vanilla....................... 9 00@16 00
7®  8
Rubia  Tlnctoram.......
12® 14
Saccharam Lactls pv.
Bbl.  Gal
16® 18
Salacin.........................2  3CX&2  60 Whale, w inter...........
70
70 
Sanguis  Draconls......
40® 50 Lard,  extra.................
60 
65
Sapo,  W .......................
12® 14 Lard, No.  1.................
40 
45
M.........................
10® 12 Linseed, pare raw  ...
59 
ei
“  G .......................
® 15 Linseed,  boiled.........
(3
61 
Seldllts  M ixture........
® 20 Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Slnapls..........................
strained.................
7G
65 
® 18
® 30 Spirits Turpentine__ 35 
,r  opt....................
40

8.  German__ 27® 37 Zlncl  Sulph.................

OILS.

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faints. 

bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............Hf  2@8
Ochre, yellow  Mars__144  2®4
“  
Ber.........I *   2®3
Putty,  commerdal__ 2M  2M®8
“  strictly  pure.......2M  2£®S
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13@15
ican ............................. 
Vermilion.  Bngllsh__  
68®72
Green, Paris..............  
20M@27
Green,  Peninsular....... 
13® 16
Lead,  red ......................5M@6
“  w h ite .................5M@8
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
Whiting,  Gliders’........  
@90
1 
White, P u ls  American 
Whiting,  Paris  Bng.
c liff............................  
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15
No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra T nrp...................166@1  70
Coach  Body.................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp F u m ........ 1  00@1  10
Butra Turk Damar__ 1  55® 1  60
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp...........................  
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Co....................   75

Aconltum  Napellls R ..........  60
Aloes.............-........................ 
  60
and m yrrh....................  60
A rn ica.....................................  50
Asafcetlda..............................   0
A trope Belladonna.................  go
Bensoln...................................   60
„  “ 
Co...............................  50
Sangulnarla.............................  50
Barosm a..................................  50
Cantharldes.............................  75
Capsicum................................   50
Ca damon................................  75
„  “ 
Castor.......................................... 1 00
Catechu...................................  50
C inchona................................  50
Co.............................  60
Columba..................................  50
Coni u rn ..................................  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
Ferrl  Chiorldum....................  35
K in o ........................................   50
Lobelia.....................................  50
M yrrh.......................................  50
Nux  Vomica...........................  50
O pll..........................................  85
“  Camphorated................   50
“  Deodor.......»....................... 2 00
Auranti Cortex........................  50
Q uassia...................................   50
R h atan y ..................................  50
Rhei..........................................  50
Cassia  Acutifol......................  50
Co.................  50
Serpentarla......................  
Stramonium.............................  60
T olutan...................................   60
ValerlaD.................................   50
V eratrum V eride...................  50

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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“ 
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1 oo
“ 

1 
“ 

5‘ 
ground, 

Aether, Spts  Nit, 3 F ..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
A lum en....................... 234®  3

squlbbs.. 

“ et Potass T. 

(po.
7)................................ 
3®  4
Annatto.......................   40®  50
Antlmonl, po............... 
4®  5
55®  60
AntlDyrln....................  @1  40
Antlfebrln.............  ...  @  25
Argentl  Nitras, ounce  ®  53
Arsenicum.................. 
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud__  
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 1  20@1  30
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Ms
10;  Ms,  12)...............  ® 
9
Cantharldes  Russian,
p o ..............................   @1  00
Capsid  Fructus, a f ...  ®  15
“  DO----   ®   15
“  Bpo. 
®  15
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40..........   @3  75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F .......  50®  55
Cera  Flava..................  40®  42
Coccus.........................  @  40
Cassia Fructus............  @  25
Centraria......................  ®  10
Cetaceum....................  Q   40
Chloroform.................  60®  63
®l  25
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  15@1  30
C hondras....................  20®  25
dnchonidlne, P.  dr  W  15®  20 
German  8M@  12
Cocaine.............................5 80@6 00
t.'oiAs,  list,  dls.  per
cent  .......................  
65
@ 3 5
Creasotum...............  
Creta,  (bbl. 75)....... 
®  2
“  prep.............  
5®  5
“  p red p .......... 
9®  11
“  Rubra.................  ®  8
C rocus.......................  
50®  55
Cudbear........................  @ 2 4
Cnpri Sulph.................  5  ®  6
D extrine......................  10®  12
Bther Sulph........ ........  75®  90
Emery,  all  numbers..  @  8
po....................  @  6
Brgota,  (po.)  40 ..........   30®  35
Flake  W hite...............  12®  15
G alla............................   ®  23
Gambler.......................   7  @8
Gelatin,  Cooper.  .......  ©  60
French...........   30®  50
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  70.
Glue,  Brown............... 
9®  16
“  W hite.................  13®  25
Glycerins....................   13®  20
Grans Parodist............  ©  22
Ham ulus......................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®  79
“  C o r___   ®  69
Ox Rubrum  ®  89
Ammonlatl..  ®  99 
Unguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum..............  ®  65
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1  25@1  50
Indigo...........................  75@l 00
Iodine,  Resubl................. 3 80@3 90
Iodoform......................  @4  70
Lupulln........................  @2 25
Lycopodium...............  60®  65
M a d s ...........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararg Iod..................   ®  27
Liquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
M urals,  8. F ...............   60®  «3

1M).............................2 MO 4

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TJbLRj  A ±lC fcU .Ö A ..N   T H A D K a M A N .

G ROCERY  PR IC E   CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the  trade only, in such 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.
Strictly  pore...'.................. 
su
T ellers  Absolute...............  
30
Grocers’..............................  is©25
CLOTHES  PINS. 

__   @314

D aisy  B rand.

Santos.

COCOA  SHELLS.

5 gross b o x e s...............40@45
351b  bags.......................   ©3
Less quantity 
Pound  packages  ........
CO FFEE.
G reen.
DM

Mexican and Gnatamaia.

F a ir ..................._ ..............18
Good........................................19
Prim e......................................21
Golden............................... ¡..gj
Pea berry  .............................. 23
F air........................................ ..
Good..................................    ,ao
Prim e...........................‘ ” **,22
Peaberry  ...............................23
Fair.....................................   21
22
Good............................  
Fancy......................................24
Maracaibo.
28
Prim e............................. 
M illed...............................'  24
Interior.................................. 25
Private Growth.....................27
28
M andehllng...............  
Im itation...............................25
Arabian..............................!..28

Mocha.

java.

R oasted.

T‘ 

___  
... 

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add J4c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cLaughlin^**XXXX..  £1  30 
Mon. 60 or 100lb.  case  ...  21  30
Arbuckle............................  21  30
Jerse y ................................   21  30
E xtract.
Valley City X  gross 
76
j  15
Felix 
Hummel’s, foil, gross 
]  65 
2 85
tin 
“ 
CHICORV.
5
Bulk............................ 
7
Red..................................  
Cotton,  40 f t.......... per do*.  1  26
140
1  80
1  go
85
100

60 f t ............  
¡» f t........... 
80 ft........... 
60 ft_____  
re f t ......... 
4 

•• 
•• 
•• 
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dos. In case.

CONDENSED  M ILK .

CLOTHES  LIN ES.

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fnte 
“ 

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N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gall Borden Eagle.............   7 40
Crown...................................6 25
Calay--..................................5 75
Champion............................   4 50
...........................4 25
Magnolia 
Dime.......................................335

Cherries.

Pears.

Gages

Red................................  @1
140
W hite...........................  
1
B rie.............................. 
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
1 00 
E rie ..............................
California....................
1  05
Gooseberries.
Common......................
1
Peaches.
1 09 
P ie...............................
M axw ell......................
1  40 
Shepard’s ..................
1  40 
California....................
©1  55
M onitor.......................
Oxford..........................
1 0 
Domestic......................
Riverside......................
1  25
Pineapples.
Common.......................1  oo@l  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2 50
2 75
grated........  
Booth’s sliced.............   @2 51
grated............  @2  75
1  10
95
1  4G
t  10
1  25
1  25
85
gc
85
Bleats.
........................2 85
.........................   2 35
to
......... 185
94 R>..............  75
95

Quinces.
Common...................... 
Raspberries,
Red............... „ ............  
Black  Hamburg..........  
Erie,  black..................  
Strawberries.
Lawrence....................  
H am burgh................... 
Brie............................... 
T errapin.........................  
Whortleberries.
Blueberries................. 
Corned  beef 
Roast beef 
Potted  ham, 14 lb .......................1 25

tongue,  K lb 
chicken, 34 lb  .........  

“  14 lb ................. 

“ 
V egetables.

“ 
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“ 

“ 

Beans.

“ 

“ 
“ 

Peas.

“ 
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Corn.

Hamburgh  strtngless............1 15
French style...... 2 00
Limas  ................ l  25
Lima, green.............................1 15
soaked........................  70
Lewis Boston Baked............ 1 25
Bay State  Baked........................1 25
World’s  Fair  Baked............ 1  25
Picnic Baked.........................   95
Ham burgh.............................. 1 xs
Livingston  B deu...................1 00
P a rity ...................................   90
Honey  Dew................................ 1 25
Morning Glory....................
Soaked..................................  75
Hamburgh  marrofat.............1 ao
early Jnne 
...l so
Champion B ng..l  «0
petit  pole........... 1 4t
fancy  sifted____ l v
Soaked...................................   go
-
Harris standard....................  
Van Camp’«  m arrofat...........1  ic
early Jn n e.......1  80
Archer s  Early Blossom.... 1  2b
F rench........................................ g 15
Mushrooms.
French........................  
19@21
Pumpkin.
E r i e ............................ , _ 
go
Squash.
H nbbard................................ x  15
8nccotash
Hamburg................. — ........1
Soaked..... .............................   80
Honey  Dew............................    ao
® rle........................................1  36
_  
Hancock................................   pq
Excelsior ...............................  80
Bcllpse........................... ........
1  *0
Hamburg. 
G allon............................„...2  25

Tomatoes.

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Baker’s.

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet.............. 
Premium............................. 
Breakfast  Cocoa...............
CH EESE.
Amboy.......................... 
Acme............................. 
Jersey........................... 
Lenawee...................... 
R iverside................... 
Gold  Medal  ...............  
Skim  ...........................  
Brick...........................  
Edam ..........................
Leiden........................
Llmbarger  ...  ........
Pineapple 
...............
Roquefort  - .
Sap Sago...........
chweitier, imported 
domestic
“ 
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Blue Label Brand.

8
9
§
s
g
s
5©6
-
11
1  00 
20 
©15 
©21
P
©24
©14

A X LE GREASE.
Aurora......................  55 
Jastor Oil...............  
60 
Diamond..................   50 
Frazer’s ..................  
75 
Mica  .......................   65 
Paragon 
.................  55 

doz  gross
6 00
7  00
550
9 00
7  50
600

BA K IN G   PO W D ER. 

Acme.
“ 

 

“ 4  doz “ 
“ 2 doz  “ 
“ 1 do*  “ 
J4 ft  “ 
1 ft  “ 
Sun Light.
“  4 doz. 
‘ 
“  2 doz.  “ 

44 id.  » ub. 3  doz—  
45
5  lb. 
.................   T6
1 
‘  1  -   ...................1  80
lb. 
Bulk...................... 
 
»
Arctic.
¡4 ft cans S'doz  case..........  
55
V4 ft 
..............1  10
..............2  00
1  ft 
5  ft 
..............9  00
40
Red Star, 14 ft  cans............ 
............  
75
............  1 40
14 lb. cans, 6 doz. case....... 
45
U lb. 
.......  
85
1  lb 
.......  1  60
Van  Anrooy’s  Pure.
14 lb. cans, 6 doz. case....... 
85
14 ib.  “  4  doz.  “ 
.......  1  65
1  lb.  “  2 doz.  “ 
- ■  3 25
. 
Teller’s,  K lb. cans, dos. 
46 
‘* . . 8 5
-.1 5 0
45
75
...  .  1  50

14 lb.  “ 
lib .  * 
Our Leader, 14 .b cans....... 
14 lb  cans......... 
1 lb cans 

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BATH  B R IC K .
2 

dozen In case.

BLUING. 

English.................................  
j*J
Bristol....................................  22
Domestic................................  60
Gross
Arctic, 4 os  ovals............... 3 60
“  80s 
............... 6 75
pints,  round............9 00
“ 
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75 
«  No. 3, 
...  4 00
...8  00
“  No. 5, 
“  1 os ball  ............... .  4 50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........   3 60
8 oz..........  6  80
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BROOMS,

40.2 H url..............................1  90
.............................|  JO
No . 1  “ 
No. 1 
“ 
...................—   S S
Parlor Gem  ......................... 2 50
Common W hlik  ................. 
85
...................100
Fancy 
Warehouse............................2 85

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BRUSHES.

“ 
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Stove. No.  1  ....................... 1  25
“  10  .......................1  50
“  1 5 ........................ 1  75
Sloe Root Scrub, 2  row—  
85
Rice Root  Scrub, 8 row—   1  25
Palmetto,  goose 
...............   1  50
Hotel, 40 lb. b o x e s............10
..............  9
Star,  40 
Paraffine  .............................10
Wloklng 
24

GANDLR8.

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O A N N ID   HOODS.

Fish.
Clams

“ 

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“ 

Little Neck,  1 ib  .................1  20
“  2  lb ..................1  90
Clam Chowder.
Standard, 81b.......................2 26
Cove Oysters.
Standard,  l i b ......................   80
2 lb........................ 1  45
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb...............................2 45
2  lb ...............................8 50
P1onlo,l l b .......... ................ 2 00
21b .............................2 90
Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb ....................... l  to
2  lb ......................2 10
Mustard,  2 lb  ......................2 25
Tomato Sauce,  2 lb ............. 2  25
Soused, 2  lb ...................... 
.2 25
Salmon.
Columbia River, f l a t ........l  go
“  »alls  ------  1  «5
Alaska, Red  ......................... i  go
Pink  .........................x 20
Kinney s,  fiats....................l  95
Sardines.
American  14s..................  ©  4
/4*..................  0  6
Imported  14s ......................  0  9
tie  ....................   013
Mustard  Ms  ......................  0  7
si
Boneless 
.........................  
Trout.
Broot  1, lb 
.......geo
F ru its.
Apples.

“ 

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Apricots.

lb. standard 

3 
.....  
Fork State, gallons ... 
Hamburgh,
Live oak..............   .... 
Santa  Crus................... 
Lusk’s ........................... 
Overland.......... 
Blackberries.
F. A  W.........................  

x  10

90
3 00

140
1  40
1  50

85

“Superior.”

8  1 books, per hundred 
12 
• 3 
8 5 
no 
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13 00
8 50
4 0P
5 ft
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7

I  1  books, per hundred 
• 2 
• 8 
•  5 
M0 
no 
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over..  5  per  cent 
500 
xono 
COUPON  PASS  BOOKS. 
LCan  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from $10  down.‘ 
20 books... «....................$  1  00
50
2  00 
3 00 
100
250
6  25 
500
10 00 
1000
17 50
500, any one denom’n .......S3 00
1000,  “ 
....... 5 00
“ 
2000,  “  “ 
.......8 00
....  75
8teel  punch 

C R E D IT  CHECKS.

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Butter.

CRACKERS.
Seymour XXX...............
Seymour XXX, cartoon
Family  XXX 
..............
Family XXX,  cartoon.
Salted XXX..........
Salted XXX,  cartoon  .
K enosha.......................
Boston.............................
Butter  biscuit..............
Soda, X X X .........................   5U
Soda, City..............................  7#
Soda,  Duchess  ....................  8K
Crystal W afer....................... 1014
Long  Island Wafers 
8. Oyster  XX X ......................514
City Oyster. XXX.................... w
Farina  Oyster......................  5

Oyster.

........ u

Soda.

CEMENTS.

Major’s, per gro.

Vs oz size...$12 00 
1  oz size...  18 00
Liq.Glue,loz  9 60
Leather Cement
1  oz size...  12 10
2  oz size...  18 '0
Rubber Cement 
[J2  oz size...  12 00

D R IE D   FR U IT8. 

D om estic.

Peaches.

Apples.
Snndried.................
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags  .  .. 7K@8
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes........................
Nectarines.
70 lb. bags.........................
25 lb. boxes....................... 
Peeled, in  boxes............ 
Cal. evap.  “ 
 
[  “ 
In b a g s....... 
California In bags....... 
California boxes............ 
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels............................
GO lb. boxes....................
26  “ 
.....................
Prnnelles.
30 lb.  b o x e s................... 
Raspberries.
In  barrels........................ 
501b. boxes  ..................... 
25 lb.  “ 
........................ 
Raisins.

 
Pears.

“ 

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6l
714 

8

9
14
9
8
61a
7%

94
22
£214
2214

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.
“ 
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“ 
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Loose Muscatels In Bags.
“ 

2 crow n................................   814
8 
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2  crown....................................314
8 
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Raisins.

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Ondnra, 29 lb. boxes..  ©  6
“ 
Sultana, 20 
..  614©  8
Valencia, 80  “
California,  100-120...............  4

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb.  bxs. 514
.. 6>a
80x90 
614
70x80 
. 7
60x70 
S ilver................... 
7©10
Zenoleum, 6 oz  ..................   2 oo
Zenoleum, qts...........................  4 06
Zenoleum, X  gal......................  7 20
Zenoleum,  gal..........................12 (0

D ISIN FECTA N T.

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1  65

Cod.

Bloaters.

94  “  40  “ 
Mackerel.

Haiiout.
Herring.
“ 
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FISH —Salt 
Yarmouth................... 
Georges cured..................   4
Georges genuine................5
Georges selected..............  6
Boneless,  bricks..  . ......... «*
Boneless,  strips..................6X@8
11@12
Smoked 
80 
Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl  1010
Norwegian  ........................  11  00
Round, 14 bbl 100 lbs........   2 55
.........  1  30
8caled..................................  1314
No. 1,  100 lbs.............................12 00
No. 1,40 lb s ................................ 5 50
No. 1,  10 lbs..............................   1 ?5
No. 2,100 lbs.............................10 00
No. 2, 40 l b s .............................  4 30
No. 2,10  lbs  .......................   1  15
Family, 90 lbs......................
10  lbs ...................
Russian, k eg s.................... 
55
No. 1, M bbls., lOOlbs............4 25
No. l i  bbl, 40  lbs...............1  95
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs................ 
56
No  1,8 lb  kits................... 
48
No. 1  family
X bbls, 100 lbs............$7  25 2 75
14  “  40  “  ............  8 20  1  40
101b.  kits....................  
43
“ 
8 lb. 
37
F L T   P A P E R .

81 
..............  73 

Sardines.
Trout.

Whlteflsh.

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F L A V O R IN G   EX TRA C TS. 
Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money.

Bonders’.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

dos
2 os  ....$   75 
4 o s -------1 50

Regular
Vanilla.

dos
2 oz........$1 20
4 oz..........2 40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz........ M 50
4 o s........  3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz 
4 oz
Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla
2 os regular panel.  75 
1  20
4 os 
...1  50
2 00
601 
...2 00
8 00
No. 3  taper............1  35
2 00
No. 4  taper............1  50
2 50
N o rth ro p ’«

....81  75 
....  3 50

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Lemon. Vanilla.
1  10
lr75
1  20
2 25

2 oz  oval taper  75
«  1  20
3 oz 
2 oz regular  “ 
85 
4 oz 
“ 
1  60

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G U N PO W D E R .
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................................8 25
Half  kegs................................1 90
Quarter  k eg s....................... 1 10
1  lb  cans................................   30
14  lb  cans...............................  18

Choke Bore—Dnpont’s

Kegs.........................................4 25
Half kegs................................2 40
Quarter kegs.......................    1  35
1 lb c a n s................................   34

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................-  
........11  00
Half  kegs  ........ 
5  75
Quarter kegs..........................3  00
1  lb  cans............................... 
60

Regular Size.

Per box....38c.  Percase..$3 40
In  5 case lots, per case__ 3 30
In 10 case lo’s. percase__ 3 20
“Little Tanglefoot”
Retails, per box..................  
25
Costs,  percase....................   1  75

HERBS.

Sage
Hops.

IN D IG O .

Madras,  5 lb. b o x e s......... 
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

56
50

15  lb. palls. 
“
17  “ 
80  “  “

@  37 
©  45 
©  70

LICO RICE.

Pure.........................................  go
25
Calabria..............................  
Sicily.......................................  12
Root........................................   10

LASSE  SIZE.

D W A R F  SIZ E .

Lima  Beans.

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

25 dbl. shta. In box, pr. bx. $  38 
Per case of  10 boxes.......... 3 40
25 double sheets In  box,
Case of 10 boxes.................  1  25
Case of 2t  boxes.................  2  50
COM BINATION  CASE.
5 boxes Large  Decoy |
$3  49
12 boxes Dwarf Decoy f 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
2u
115 lb. kegs..................... 
Walsh DeRoo  &  Co.’s .......  1  85
2%
Barrels  .......................... 
G rits......................................  8X
55.
Dried............................... 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
55
Domestic, 121b. b ex .... 
Imported...................... 10X@11
Pearl Barley.
Empire....................................  3L
Chester................................... 2%
Green,  bn..........................   1  10
214
Split  per l b ................... 
Schumacher, bbl...............  $4  75
:i4 bbl..............  2 50
Monarch,  bbl......................   4 00
Monarch, 14  bbl....................2 13
Quaker,  cases.....................  3 20
Oven Baked............................ 8  25
____  
Germ an................................   3
Bast India.............................  314
Cracked.................................  3

Rolled  Oats.

W heat

Sago.

Peas.

“ 

Condensed, 2 dos............ 

LY E.
1  20
4 dos  ............   2 25

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

M ATCH ES.

Globe Match Co.’s Brands.

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

M EA8URE8.
Tin, per dosen.

gallon  ............................   M  75
Half  gallon..........................  1 40
Q u art..................................  
70
P in t...........................  
46
40
Half  pint  .......................... 
Wooden, for vinegar, per dos.
7 00
gallon............................ 
Half gallo n .........................   4 75
Q u art..................................   8  75
...................................  2
Pint 

 

 

 

Peerless evaporated cream  5 75 

COUPON  HOOKE,

 

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Half  pint, 25 bottles............ 2 75
4 60
Pint 
Quart 1 doz bottles...................8 50
Half pint, per  doz..................... J 35
Pint, 25 bottles........................... 4 so
Quart  per  d o z ..........................3 75

Triumph Brand.

“Tradesman.’

1  books, per hundred.
2 
3 
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$20 

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F oreign .
Currants.

Schult’s Cleaned.

Patras,  bbls....................   ©314
Vostlzzas, 50 lb.  cases.........3%
25 lb.  boxes...........................  5
1 lb.  packages 
.................  514
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  12 
8
Lemon 
10
Grange 

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“ 
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25  “ 
25  “ 

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2 50 

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MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
sugar houBe...............— .
Cuba Baking.
O r d i n a r y .......................................
Porto BIl j.
P rim e................................
F ancy......... 
............
F a ir....................................
Good  ................................ .
Extra good........................
Choice 
............................
F an cy... 
..........................
Half -barrels 8c.extra
P IC K L E S.
Medium.
Bárrele, 1,200 oonnt... 
Half bble, 000  count.. 
Barrels, 2,400  connt. 
Half bble, 1,200 oonnt 
P IP E S .

Small.

14
1C
20
SO
18
22
27
32
40

0 4  00
©.'  50
5 50
3 25

Clay, No.  210...........................1 70
“  T. D. full count............  70
Cob, No. >................................1 20

PO T A SH .

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s .............................  4  00
Penna Salt  Co.’s ...............   3  00

B IC E .
Domestic.

Carolina bead...............
«  No. 1...............
“  No. 2...............
Broken...........................
Japan, No. 1..................
“  No. 2...................
Java.............................-
Patna.............................

Imported.

SPIC E S.

Whole Sifted.

5*
.54M
3*
CM.5
5
4M

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Allspice..................................  SM
Cassia, China In m ats.........  9M

Batavia In bund....15
Saigon In rolls........ 32
Cloves,  Amboyna................22
Zanzibar..................UM
Mace  Batavia.......................70
Nutmegs, fancy................... 05
»  No.  1......................... 00
“  NO.  2......................... 55
Pepper, Singapore, black.... 10 
“ 
w hite...  .20
shot............................16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice.................................15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 18
" 
and  Saigon.25
“  Saigon......................35
Cloves, Amboyna..................22
“  Zanzibar................... 18
Ginger, A frican................... 16
u  Cochin...................... 20
“ 
22
Mace  Batavia.......................65
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste...................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ................... 75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
w hite.......24
Cayenne. ...............20
Sage........................................ 20

“ 
" 
"Absolute” in Packages.
*■ 
...  84

Jam aica.......... . 

*■ 
1  56
Allspice...................
Cinnamon............... ...  84 1  55
Cloves...................... ...  84 155
Ginger,  Jam aica... ...  84 155
A frican....... ...  84 1  56
Mustard................... ...  84 1  55
Pepper  ..................... ...  84 1  56
Sage........

84

“ 

S T A B C H .

Klngsford's Corn.

“ 

20 1-lb packages....................
401-lb 
....................
Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.
6»7*
40 1-lb.  packages..................
6-lb. boxes.............................
Common Corn
5*
20-lb  boxes.............................
5M
40-lb 
“ 
..............  ..........
Common Gloss
5
1-lb packages..................
5
8-lb 
“ 
...................
6*
6-lb 
“ 
...................
8*
40 and 50 lb. boxes........
3«
Barrels.............................
Boxes  .................................... 5M
Kegs, English.........  ..............4M

SODA,

SALT.

“ 

Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243  lb. boxes........ 1  1  60
2  50
Barrels, 320  lbs.................
4  00
115 2* lb bags  ...
“ 
3  75
....
60 5 
lb  “ 
“  
.... 3  50
*• 
3010  lb  “ 
65
Butter, 56 lb  bags.............
“  20141b bags.............. 3 50
2  50
“  280 lb  b b ls............
225
“  224 lb 
............
Worcester.
115 2*-lb sacks................... .34 (0
3 V
...................
“ 
60 5-fb 
................... .  3  50
“ 
3010-lb 
3  30
22  14 lb.  “ 
....................
3201b. bbl........................... .  2 P0
"8  lb  sacks........................ .  32*
60
linen acks-..............
Common Grades.
ta  10
100 3-lb. sacks....................
..................... .  1  90
60 5-lb. 
28 10-lb. sacks................... .  1  75
30
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags..
16
28 lb. 
" 
.
76
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks
76
56 lb. dairy In linen  sacks
22
56 lb.  sacks........................
90
Saginaw .............................
90
M anistee............................

Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

Ashton.
Higgins.

Warsaw.

“ 

“ 

“ 

Scotch, In  bladders....... ....87
Maccaboy  in jars..........
...35
French Rappee, in Ja rs. ....43
8ALERATUS.

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. CIO 20 gro 
2  “  N. 8.  1  20  •*
12 60  “
14  40  •*
2  “  F. M.  1  40  “
Vanilla.
1 oz. F. M.  1  50 doz.
2  “  N.  S.  2 00  “
2  “  F. M. 2 50  “

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  *'

SO A P.
L aundry.

G.  R. Soap  Works Brands.

“ 
“ 
“ 
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
2S.box^lots.............................. 2 00
Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb.............3 20
Good Cheer, 60 l i b ................3 90
White Borax, 100  * -lb ......... 3 65

Proctor A Gamble.

u 

Concord..................................3  45
Ivory, 10  os..........................6  75
6  os.............................4 00
Lenox.................................   3  66
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.

“ 

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American  Family, wrp d. .13 33 
p lain...  2 27
N.  K.  Fairbank A Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................  3  90
Brjwn,60 bars......................2  10
80  bars  .................... 3  10

“ 
Lauts Bros. A.Co.’s Brands.

Acme......................................3 65
Cotton Oil.............................. 6  00
Marseilles..........   ................. 4 00
M aster....................................4 00
Thompson A Chute Co.’s Brands

Silver..................................... 3  66
M ono..................................... 3  30
Savon Improved...................2 50
Sunflow er.............................2  80
Golden....................................3  25
Economical...........................2 25

Scouring.

Ha polio, kitchen, 3 dos...  2 40
hand, 3 dos.......... 2 40

“ 

SUG AB.

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  3)
Cut  Loaf................................ 5  31
Cubes..................................... 4  9|
Powdered.............................. 5 03
XXX X  Powdered...............  5  18
Granulated 
......................  462
Fine Granulated.................  4  62
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 7o
Mould  A ................................ 4  91
Diamond Confec.  A..........  4  62
Confec. Standard  A . . . . . .   4 5>*
No.  1..................................   4  37
No.  2  .................................... 4  37
No.  3..................................... 4  37
No.  4....................................  4  47
No.  5...................................   4  31
No.  6........................'.......... 4 25
No.  7..................................... 4  18
No.  8...................................  4  12
No.  9................ 
4  06
No.  10..................................... 4 00
No.  11.....................................8  94
No.  12..................................  3 87
No.  13...................................   3 75
No.  14...................................   3  56

 

 

TA B LE  8AUCES.
“ 

Lea A Perrin’s, larg 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  65

“ 
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TEAS.

j a p a n — Regular.

F a ir..............................
Good.............................
Choice........................... 24
Choicest........................32
D u st............................. 10

©17
© 20
©26
©34
©12
BUB C U B ED .
©17
Good.............................
©20
Choice...........................24
©34
Choicest........................32
D ust.............................. 10
©12
b a s k e t   v i s e d .
F a ir...............................18
@20
©25
Choice..........................
©35
Choicest......................
©40
Extra choice, wire leaf
euHPOwiisa.
©35
Common to  fa ll...........25
©65
Extra fine to finest— 50 
©85
Choicest fancy........ ,.75
©26
©30
Common to  fair...........23
©26
Common to  fair...........23
©35
Superior to fine............ 90
©26
Common to fair...........18
@40
Superior to  fine...........30
EH O LISB  BREAK VAST.
F a ir..............................18  @22
Choice....................—  34  ©28
B est..............................40  ©50

r o u n s   h y s o n .

IM PE R IA L .

OOLONOv

TOBACCOS.
Congress  Brand.

Cigars.
......................880 00

Invincibles 
Imperial s ...............................  70 00
Perfectos..................................6 • 00
Boquets 
Signal  Five...............................35 (0
Comrade 
Mr.  Thomas..............................35 C0

Edw. W. Rube's Brands.

.........................  56 00

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

G. J. Johnson’s Brand.

S. C .W ................................  35 00

F in e C at.

24
23
»1
19

“  

F log.

P. Lorlllard A Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet...............   ©25
30
Tiger............................. 
D. Scotten A Co's Brands.
Hiawatha....................  
60
32
C uba............................. 
Rocket.........................  
30
Spaulding A Merrick’s  Brands.
30
Sterling........................ 
Private Brands.
@31
C herry...........................
©30
Bazoo...........................
©27
Can  Can.......................
©25
NeUie  Bly...................24
©25
Uncle Ben................... 24
27
McGinty......................
M   b b l s ...............
Columbia.......................
Columbia,  dram s..........
Bang  Up..........* ............
Bang up,  drum s............
Sorg’s Brands.
39 
Spearhead...................
27
Jo k er...........................
40
Nobby Twist..................
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo.............................. 
25
38
Hiawatha..................... 
VaUey C ity.................  
34
Flnzer’s Brands.
4o
Old  Honesty...............  
32
Jolly Tar...................... 
39
Climax (8  oz., 41c).... 
Green Turtle............... 
30
27
Three  Black Ctowb. .. 
Something Good........  
38
Ont of  Sight...............  
24
Wilson «  McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope................... 
43
Happy Thought..........  
37
Messmate....................  
32
N oTax.........................  
31
Let  Go.........................  
27
Sm oking. 

J. G. Bntler’s.Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands. 

Catlln's  Brands.

Klin  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, Ms foil......................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner..............................  
Banner Cavendish................36
Gold C ut................................ 30

16

THB  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.
SEEDS.
A nise...........................
Canary, Smyrna.........
Caraw ay......................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp.  Russian..........
Mixed  Bird  ...............
Mustard,  w hite..........
Poppy ...........................
R ape............................
Cuttle  bone.................
SNUFF.

BAX  SODA.
Granulated,  bbls.........
751b  cases
Lump, bbls 
...............
1451b kegs........
SYRUPS.

@13
4
7
80
4
<*
9
8
4*
30

Sm oking—Continued.

Barrels...........................
Half bbls........................
Pure Cane.
F a ir................................
Good..............................
C hoice...........................

Scotten’s Brands.

1MIK
1*
1M

Corn.

22
24

15
20
25

“ 

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2 » t

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSW ARE

LA M P  R U R K E R S.

•

“ 

« 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“  

“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 
Pearl top.
“ 
“ 
“ 
•• 

No. 0 Sun......................................................
No. 1  “  ......................................................
NO. 2  “  ....................................................
Tubular........................................................
Security.  No. 1............................................
Security,  No. 2...........................................
N utm eg........................................................ .
Arctic............................................................
LA M P  CH IM N EY S.— 6   doz. l u  box.

40 
45 
65 
50 
60 
88 
50 
1  25
Per box.
No. 0 Sun 
___  1  75
No. 1  « 
......1  88
No. 2  «
.2 70
First quality. 
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped
and labeled. ..2  10 
..2 25 
No. 2  “ 
.3  25
No. C Sun 
, crimp  top, wrapped and labeled.  2 60 
...2 80 
No. 1 
• 
No. 2  “
...8  80
No. 1 San, wrapped and  labeled......................3 70
.................... 4 to
“ 
No. 2  “ 
......................4  88
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
No.;i, Sun,  plain  bulb...................................... 3  40
No. 2, 
......................................4 40
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per d o i......................... 1  25
.........................is o
No.2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz.............................................i 86
j go
No.2 
“ 
No. 1, lime  (65c doz)...................................  
3  50
No. 2, lime  (70c doz).......................................... 4 00
No. 2, flint 
(80c doz).......................................  4  70
No.2, lime (70c d o z ).........................................4  10
No.  2 flint (80c d oz)..........................................4  40
Doz.
Junior, R ochester..............................................  so
Nutmeg................................................................  
is
Illuminator Bases..........................  ...................1  00
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ................................................  go
7 in. Porcelain Shades.........  .............................l  00
Case lots, 12 doz...................................................  go
Box

Fire Proof—Plain Top.
“ 

Mammoth Chimneys for Store  Lamps.

“ 
La Baade.

“  
Rochester.

Miscellaneous.

Electric.

“ 

« 

“ 

•« 

Doz. 
No.  3  Rochester,  lim e .........1  50 
No.  3  Rochester, flint.  ... .. ..  1  75 
No.  3  Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.l  85 
No.  2  Globe Incandes. lim e...l  75 
No.  2  Glebe Incandes. flint...2 00 
No.  2  Pearl glass.....................2  10 

O IL  CANS.

4 20
4 80
5 25
5 10
5 85
6 OO

 

 

, 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Pump Cans.

Doz
1  oo
1  gal  Un cans with spout............................. 
1  gal  galv iron, with spout....................................2 00
2 gal  galv iron with spout  ..............................3 25
3 gal  galv iron with spout....................................  4 50
5 gal  McNutt, with spout.....................................  6 06
5 gal  Eureka, with spout.....................................   6 50
5 gal  Eureka with faucet.....................................  7 00
...........................  7  50
5 gal  galv iron  A  AW 
5 gal  Tilting  Cans,  Monarch...............................10 5o
5  gal  galv Iren Nacefas..... 
g  00
3  gal  Home Rule.....................................................10 50
5 gal  Home Rnle....................................................12 00
3  gal  Goodenough........................................ !. 12 00
5  gal  Goodenough................................................. 13 50
5  gal  Pirate  King  ............................................ 10 50
LA N TERN   HLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular,  cases 1 doz. each...................   45
.4 5
“ 
No. 0, 
2  “ 
 
“ 
wl 
u 
...............   W
40
 
No. 0, 
bbls 5  “ 
“ 
bull’s eye, cases 1 doz each  !  25
No. 0, 
LAM P  W ICK S.
No. 0, per  gross.........................
20
...........................
No. 1, 
28
No. 2, 
...........................
38
No. 3, 
...........................
65
Mammoth, per doz....................
75
M Pints,  6 doz  in box, per box (box u0)... 
1 60
doz (bbl  35)....  20
*  
box (box 00)....  1 80
M  “ 
M  “ 
doz (bbl 35)........  
22
Batter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal................................  ue
“  M gal. per  doz.....  ...............   60
“ 
Jugs, M gal., per doz......................................   70
07
“  I to 4 gal., per gal.................................. 
Milk Pans,  m gal., per  d o t........................... 
6U
“ 
72
.........................  
«M65

“ 
“ 
“ 
JE L L T   TUM BLERS— Tin Top.
24  “ 
6  “ 
18  “ 

STONEW ARE— BLACK  BLA ZED ,
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal......................
Milk Pans, M gal. per  aoz......................

“ bbl,  •* 
“ box, “ 
” bbl,  “ 

STONEW ARE— A KRON.

1  “ 

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“ 

 

I 

“ 

“ 

..........

The Standard Oil Co. quotes as follows:

“ 
F R U IT  JA R S.
Mason—old  style, pints...................................   7  25
quarts....................................7  75
naif  gallons......................  9  75
Mason—1 doz.  in case, pints..........................  7  50
quarts.......................   8 00
half  gallons...............10 00
Dandy—glass cover, pints.............................  10  50
q u a rts.............................II 00
half  gallons.................. 14 00
OILS.
B A R R ELS.
10 
Eocene.........................
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight.
8 4© 9* 
Naptha.......................................
Stove Gasoline.........................
@ li* 
Cylinder....................................................3i
@38 
@21 
Engine...................................................... J 2
Black,  winter.. 
9*  
Black, summer.
8*
8 *
...................... 
Eocene...................... 
6*
XXX W.  W.  Mich. Headlight................. 
Scofield, Shurmer  A  Teagle  quote  as  follows :
Palaclne............................................
Daisy W hite.................... ................
Red Cross, W W  Headlight............
Naptha...............................................
Stove Gasoline................................
FROM   TA N K  WAGON,
Palaci 11e................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Red Cross W W Headlight............

11
10
8M
10*
11*
9*
6M

FROM   TA N K   WAOOX.

B A R R ELS.

Brands.

W arpath.................................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.............................30
Plow  Boy........................30©32
Corn  Cake.............................16

Leldersdorfs Brands.

Spaulding A Merrick.

VINEGAR.
40  g r ...................... .......................  
@ 8
50 gr..............................   ©9
81 for barrel.

W ET  MUSTARD,
Bulk, per gal  ....................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz In case...  1  75

YEAST.

Diamond.............................. 
75
Eurek*....... 
1  < 0
Magic............  ...................... l  00
Yeast  C ream ..............................1 00
Yeast Foam 
................... 1  00

W OODEN W  A RE.

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

Tubs, No. 1...........................  5 75
“  No. 2.............................4  75
“  No. 8............................. 4 00
1 25
Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
“  No. 1,  three-hoop  ..  1  35
Bowls, 11 Inch.....................
...................... 
“ 
90
“ 
........................ 1  26
•• 
......................  1  80
H ID ES  PELTS  and  FURS 
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  bb  fol­
lows:
G reen...........................  8  @7
Part  Cared................. 
©¡M
Full 
...................  7 * 0   8*
Dry................................6M©  8M
Kips, green  .................  5  @ e
“  cured..................   7M@  9
Calfskins,  green— 7m©  9
cured.........10  @12
Deacon skins...............10  ©25

H ID E S.

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No. 2 hides M off.
PE L T S .

78
78

WOOL.

W H EA T.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Shearlings....................   5 ©  20
Lambs  .......................... 10  @  30
W ashed...........................8 @’.3
U nw ashed...................  5 @11
Old  Wool.............  
40  @75
Tallow ..........................  3 @  4K
Grease  butter  .............  1 @ 2
Switches....................  1M@  2
.................2 0o©2  25
Ginseng 
G RAINS and  FEEDSTUFF«
No. 1 White (58 Ih. test) 
No. 2 Red  (60 lb. test) 
FL O U R   IN   SACKS.
«Patents..............................   4  70
Second Patent...................  4  <o
Straight..............................   4  00
Clear....................................  3  70
«Graham.............................  4 UO
B uckw heat........................  4  50
Rye.......................................  4 (0
«Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad- 
dltlonal.
Bolted..................................  2  50
Granulated................. 
275
St. Car  Feed,  screened. ..821 00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  *2  50
No.  1 Corn and  O a ts .......  22 00
No. 2 Special.....   ............  20  50
Unbolted Corn Meal........   21  E0
Winter Wheat  Bran  .......  15  00
Winter Wheat Middlihgs.  16  00
Screenings  ........................  14 U0
Car  lots................................  57M
Less than  car  lots............. to
Car  lots  ................................35
Less than car lots................. 37
No. 1 Timothy, car lots__ 10  50
No. 1 
ton lots  .......11  50

F E E D  AND  M ILL8TU PP8-

M EAL.

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

FISH   AND  OYSTERS.
© 8 
©  TM 
12H@15 
©12H © 6 @12* 
1410
© 8 © 8 
©  7
©  7 
14
15
18@25

FRK SH   P IS B .
Whlteflsh 
..................
T ro u t...........................
Black Bass..................
H alibut,.......................
Ciscoes or Herring —
Blueflsh.......................
Fresh lobster, per lb ..
Cod................................
Haddock......................
No. 1 Pickerel.............
Pike..............................
Smoked  W h ite ..........
Red  Snappers..............
Columbia  River  Sal-
m o n ...........................
Mackerel......................
Scallops........................
Shrimps  .....................
Clams  .........................
SH K LL  HOODS
Oysters, per  1U0..........1  2S@1  50
Clams. 
75©1  00

1  26

O T8TK R 8—  IN  CANS.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands.
40
35

Falrbaven  Counts 
 
F . J. D.  Selects..........  

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H O W   TO   F IT   T R U SSE S?

(Continued from Page 18.) 

First. 

point it pays to be independent and posi­
tive.
In cases where a  patient  is  strenuous 
for  a  belt  truss,  either  because he has 
been  tortured  by  a  poorly fitted spring 
truss, or for any other reason, if  I  think 
that  a  belt  truss  will  serve  him fairly 
well I follow his preference.
As  to  the best trusses for women, my 
experience is limited.  Two  lady  physi­
cians have been in the  habit  of  coming 
to me for trusses to fit their lady patients 
with; frequently they have described the 
cases to me and asked my advice.  From 
that experience 1 have  formed  the  opin­
ion  that,  while  a  woman  may face the 
music and have a tooth  pulled  with  less 
ado than a man  (and dentists tell us such 
is the case),  when it comes to  protracted 
discomfort  she  has  less  patience  and 
endurance  than  a  man;  moreover,  she 
forms opinions from the looks of a truss. 
If a truss looks hard and  uncomfortable, 
it will hurt her when she wears it; and if 
it  looks  nice,  soft and comfortable,  she 
will find it  comfortable.  Therefore,  for 
women,  I  would  select  neat, soft, kid- 
covered  French  patterns,  with  as  light 
springs as possible.
So  much  on  the  management  of  a 
customer.  We will now consider  briefly 
the matter of adjusting a truss.  Exactly 
how to adapt a truss to  each  individual, 
it would be  impossible  for  any  one  to 
explain  without  a  clinic of a variety of 
cases,  but  certain  general  instructions 
may be given:
Insist  on exposing the  patient 
sufficiently  to have a fair chance at him. 
Working under several layers of clothing 
from undershirt to overcoat,  and  among 
a tangle of suspenders, etc., is too  much 
like  cutting  a  man’s  hair  with his  hat 
on.  Take off  coats,  let  down  trousers, 
and pin shirts up out of the way. 
If  the 
patient wishes to wear the truss over  his 
underclothing he can do so  after you get 
it  fitted;  the  thickness  of  the  clothing 
will  probably  make  no  difference with 
the  set  of  the  truss;  but  fitting over a 
shirt  is  blind  work.  Have  the patient 
stand  up  straight,  with  his  heels  to­
gether, and  bearing  his  weight  equally 
on both feet; reduce the hernia  while  he 
is  in  that  position  if  it  can  be  done 
easily. 
If that is not easily  done,  select 
the truss which you are to use,  put  your 
patient on the chair,  reduce  the  hernia, 
hold it with your fingers while you bring 
him back onto his feet, then  put  on  the 
truss, and  remove  the  fingers. 
In  some 
very bad cases  it  may  be  impossible  to 
remove  the  fingers  and  adjust  the  pad 
without letting the rupture  partially  es­
cape.  In  such  cases  put  the  truss  on 
him, get the  rear  adjustment  all  right, 
then put him on his  back,  lift  up  each 
pad, reduce the rupture, put  the  pad  in 
place,  then  carefully bring him onto his 
feet.  Then  sit  down  in  front  of  him; 
have him cough and change  positions; if 
it escapes,  watch and  see  just  where  it 
escapes. 
If possible, be sure to have the 
hernia  completely  reduced  before  the 
truss  is  put  on.  Sometimes  in  an  old 
hernia certain growths or adhesions  ren­
der  a  complete  reduction  impossible. 
Whatever  can  be returned to the abdom­
inal cavity without materially lifting the 
spermatic cord should be held there.  Be 
sure to have the  truss  completely  hold­
ing him before you let him  go.  A  truss 
that is  pinching an  intestine  which  has 
partly, even in  a  small  degree,  slipped 
by it is a very uncomfortable and often a 
very harmful truss; for that  reason  it  is 
too  stiff 
better  to  have  the  spring 
It  is  better  to  say  to 
than  too  weak. 
a  patient,  “I 
is 
think 
stiller 
it  per­
manently,  and,  after  you  have  worn 
it a few days, if you will  come in, I  will 
slack it up,” than it is to say  to  him,  “I 
want  to  make  it  as easy as possible for 
you;  I  will  try  a  limber  spring;  if  it 
doesn’t hold you, I will make  it  stiller.” 
If it fails to hold him he is liable to  con­
sider you a  failure  and  to  want  to  try 
some  one  else.  So, on  the  start,  what­
ever else you do or fail to do,  be sure,  if 
possible,  to  establish  the  fact  that  you 
can hold him.  At this point I would em­
phasize again the importance  of keeping 
a full assortment  of  sizes,  for  it  is  too 
bad  to  fail of a perfect job just because j

than  you  will  need 

this  spring 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

you have to use a  truss  which  is  a  size 
too large or too small.
Keep a record  of  every  truss  you  fit; 
it  will  be  of  service  to  you  in  many 
ways.

RUPTURE  IN INFANTS.

It is sometimes impossible  to  put onto 
little fellows trusses  which  will be com­
I 
fortable, or which will  keep In place. 
think that, as a rule, a spring truss is bet­
ter  than  a  compress,  and  that  a  soft, 
leather-covered  French  pattern 
is  the 
best.  A  hard-rubber  truss  would  be 
cooler and more cleanly,  but  it  is  more 
apt to slide out of place.  The  following 
device  has  worked  well  in  some  light 
cases:  Take two corn or bunion plasters, 
stick their gummed  sides  together,  and 
stick 
them  onto  a  piece  of  adhesive 
strip.  The plasters  make  a  good  com­
press with the hole  in the  middle;  place 
the compress on the  hernia and fasten it 
in place with the strip.  This  should  be 
changed quite frequently,  and each time 
the  slip  should  be  fastened  to  a  new 
place. 
If  more  pressure  is  needed, an 
additional  bandage  can  be  attached  to 
the  compress  and  passed  around  the 
body.
Sometimes  a  person  coming  to  the 
druggist  for  a  truss  brings  along  his 
physician to superintend the matter.  As 
a rule, physicians are not practical truss- 
fitters. 
I have found that the  most  sat­
isfactory way in such cases  is  simply  to 
tender  the  physician  the  use  of  your 
room and your assortment of trusses and 
leave the case entirely in  his  hands. 
If 
he declines your  tender,  as  most  likely 
he will,  he will be  careful  not  to inter­
fere  with  your  work  or  make any sug­
gestions that will embarrass you.

H .  G.  Co l m a n.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

SMITH-HILL  ELEVATORS

Electric,  Steam  and  Hand  Power. 

PRICES  LOW.  HECHANISM  SIMPLE.
NOT  LIABLE  TO  OET  OUT  OF  REPAIR.
Call and  see  me  or  telephone  1120 and  I will 
accompany enquirer  to dozens of local  users  of 
ourelevators. 

J.  C.  riULBERRY,  Agent. 
Kortlander Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

i

  6.  DUNTON  i  00.

Will  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber— 

Green or Dry.

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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th eir  e x p e r im e n ts.  Y o u r  o w n   g o o d   se n se   w ill  tell 

y o u   th a t  th e y   a re  o n ly   tr y in g   to  g e t  y o u   to  aid  th eir 

n e w   a rticle.

W h o   u r g e s  y o u   to  k e e p   SAPOLIO? 

Is  it  n ot  th e  

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io u s  a d v ertisin g ,  b rin g   c u sto m e r s to  y o u r   sto res  w h o s e  

v e r y   p r e se n c e   c r e a te s  a  d e m a n d   for  o th er   a rticles.

THE  MICHIGAK  T R .A n ff.3 M  A  NT.

Pop  Corn  Goods

Our Balls are the Sweetest and Best in  the market. 
*200 in Box or 000 in Barrel.

Penny  Ground  Corn  Cakes  in

and 'Turkish 

Molasses  Squares 
B read.
Are Tip  Top  Sellers.

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*  

ssLAJSi
AMD  WK.3T  M ICHIGAN  R ’T .

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AMD PROM  MUSKEGON.

RETURNING  PROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids..............7:15am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
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
TRAVERSE CITT.  CHARLEVOIX AMD  PETOSKEY. 
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

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

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.

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.
♦Every day.  Others week days  only.________

pm.

DETROIT,

LANSING7 A  N O RTH ERN   R .  R .
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

the DID Y O U   N O TICE Lv. Grand Rapids.........   7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm

Ar. D etroit......................11:40am  5:30pm  10:10pm
Lv.  Detroit.....................  7:4<iam  l:10pm .6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..........12:40pm  5:2Cpm  10:45pm
Lv. GR 7:40am  5:00pm  Ar. G 3 .l l :35am 10:45pm

TO AND  FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND  ST.  LOUIS.

RETURNING  PROM  DETROIT.

The use of the land is loaned,  the  plow- DETROIT POP CORN NOVELTY CO. 4i  JEFFERSON  AVENUE 

Detroit,  rtich.

ESTABLISHED  THIRTY  YEARS.

s

C U RR EN T  COM M ENT.

The  potato  patch  scheme  of  charity, 
originating with  Mayor  Pingree, of  De­
troit, last year,  has  become  very  popu­
lar, and  a large number of cities,  both in 
this country and  Europe,  are  preparing 
to do  something  of  the  sort  this  year. 
The fact that the poor people  of  Detroit 
succeeded in  raising  last  summer,  with 
the oversight and help of the  mayor  and 
his co-workers,  about  $14,000  worth  of 
produce from 400 acres of land  at a total 
expense  of  not  more  than  $3,500,  has 
been accepted as a demonstration  of  the 
practicality of the plan,  and  those  most 
interested in it have been the  more grat­
ified because,  though essentially  a  char­
ity,  the system accomplishes  its purpose
by helping the poor to  help  themselves. 

them  above 

ing is done by the city, and the dressing,
seeds  and  tools  are  furnished;  but  the 
most of  the  labor  is  done  by  the  poor 
people who are to benefit by  the system, 
and  this  fact  lifts 
enervating  shame  of  mendicancy.  The 
plan is found also to have an educational 
value, for the  men  who  work  on  these 
potato patches  must  of  necessity  learn 
something about agriculture  in  its  sim­
pler forms,  and by  this  means  they  be­
come  less  dependent  upon  factory  or 
other  employment  by  which  they  have 
been  accustomed 
to  seek  a livelihood. 
That this benefit is something  more than 
theory is proved  by the fact  that  a  con­
siderable number of  the  beneficiaries  of 
the Detroit system have  left  the city  for 
the purpose of engaging  permanently  in 
agricultural work on their own  account. 

*  *  *

A story comes  from  Massachusetts  of 
a small boy who was playing  with dyna­
mite and lost the tops of the  fingers  and 
some of the thumb of bis left  hand.  Ue 
was taken home, and the doctor  who was 
called in advised the removal of  the suf­
ferer  to 
the  hospital.  The  boy  was 
afraid that his teacher would  think  that 
he was playing  truant,  and  insisted  on 
being brought before her en  route to the 
hospital.  His  teacher  was  very  sorry 
and  expressed her sympathy quite freely. 
“Do you  feel  badly  about  it,  Willie?” 
she  asked. 
“ About  what?”  said  he. 
“Why,  about losing your fingers  and go­
ing to the  hospital.” 
“Well,  no,”  said 
he, quite meditatively,  “ 1  don’t  feel  so 
bad about that; but  I’ll tell  you,  1  play 
shortstop for our club,  and  we are  going 
to  play  a  match  to-morrow,  and  1  feel 
rotten to think that I’m out of  it.”

*  *  *

One of the largest retail bouses in New 
York has applied  the card catalogue sys­
tem to its book-keeping.  Two catalogues 
are kept, one  of  balanced  accounts,  the 
other of open accounts.  When  the  firm 
wishes to send a statement to a customer, 
an  accountant  rnns  over  the  live  cata­
logue,  takes down all  the  items  against 
the customer in question,  and  makes  up 
the statement.  When the bill is paid all 
the  cards  that  went  to  make  np  that 
statement are transferred to the balanced 
account catalogue, together  with  a  card 
recording the  payment.
*

The Chinese  burglar  takes  an  ingre­
dient of his own,  burns it,  and blows the 
smoke  through the keyhole  of  the  bed­
room  where the master  of  the  house  is 
asleep.  The  fumes  dull  the  senses  of 
the victim just enough to make him help­
less,  while at the  same  time  permitting 
him to hear and see everything that goes 
on in the room.

•  

*  

O N   Y O U R   C R A C K E R S ?

SEARS’

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 
A re Made in  MICHIGAN 
A re  S old in  MICHIGAN

And  all  over  the  World.

Manufactured  by

The  New York  Biscuit Co.,

Successors  to  WM.  SEARS  &  CO.»

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

FRUITS

TO AND FROM LOWELL.

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

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DbHA VEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.

Michigan (Tentrai

“ 7 m Niagara Falls Route’’

(Taking effect  SundayM ay 27,1894.) 

♦Daily.  AH others daily, except Sunday. 

Arrive. 
Depart.
10 20 d m ..........  Detroit  E xpress............7 00am
.  .‘Atlantic and  Pacific.......1120 pm
5 30am  
1  „0pm   .......New York Express..........  6 00 p m
Sleeping cars  run on Atlantic  and  Pacific  ex 
press trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00 a m ;  re­
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 p m , arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communicatlou  made  at  Detroit  with 
all throngh  trains east  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division.)
A. Alm^uist, Ticket Agent, 
Union PassengerStatlon.

EASTWARD.

w a u k e e   R a ilw ay.______________

325pm
4 27pm
5 20pm 
605pm 
8 00pm 
S37pm 
705pm 
850pm 
8 25pm 
925pm

1100pm 
1235am 
125am 
3 10am 
6 40am 
715am 
541am 
730am 
5 37am 
700am

1(  20am 
1125am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm 
435pm 
345pm 
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

D e t r o i t ,  g r a n d   h a v e n   &   M i l ­
tNo.  14 tNo.  leitNu.  18 *ho.
6 45am
7 40am
8 25am 
900am
10 50am
11 3i am 
10 05am 
1205pm 
10 53am 
1150am
WESTWARD.

Trains Lt ave
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
Io n ia ............Ar
St.  Johns  ...A r
Owosso........ Ar
E. Saginaw.. Ar
Bay City.......Ar
F lin t............Ar
Pt.  H uron... Ar
Pontiac........ Ar
Detroit......   Ar
For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points...............................................   *8:40 a. m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon.......tl :00 p. m
“ 
“  Mil. and Chi.  +5  35 p. m.
For Grand Haven, Mil. and  Chi........   *7:40 p. m.
For Grand Haven and Milwaukee__ tlO :05 p. m.
tDally except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:60 
p.m., 5:30 p. m.,  10:uU  p.m.
Trains  arrive  from  the  west.  6:40  a.  m.  8:15
a. m. 10:10 a.  m.  3:15  pm .  and 7:05 p.m .
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parle r  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.

»Daily.

•J&s  C a m p b e l l , city T'cket Agent.

“ 

“ 

c r a n e   R a p id s   A In d ia n a .

TBAIHB  s o m e   KOBTH.

L e a v e  g o to  g  

N o rth

EARLY  GARDEN  VEGETABLES

YOUR  ORDERS  SOLICITED.

F. J.  Dettenthaler, "117-119  MONROE  STREET,
S B B D S  -   P o t a t o e s  -   B e a n s

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We  handle  all  kinds  FIELD  SEEDS,  Clover,  Timothy,  Hungarian,  Millet,  Buck­
wheat, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Barley,  Etc.  Buy  and  sell  Potatoes,  Beans,  Seeds,
Eggs,  Etc.  Car lots or less.

EGG  CRATES  and  EGG  CRATE  FILLERS.

If you wish to buy or sell write us.

Moseley Bros.

26-28-30-32  OTTAWA  STREET 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Jobbers  SEEDS,  BEANS,  POTATOES,  FRUITS.

L eave g o in g  

F o r  T ra v erse C ity, P eto sk ey   a n d  S a g in a w ...  7:40 a .  ir-
F o r S a g in a w ..................................  ............................ 5:00 j»  -
F o r  P eto sk ey   an d   M ackinaw ............................6:86 p  m .

T RA IN S  G O IN S   SO U TH

S o n th .
F o r  O ln o ln n atl.......................................................... 7 :8 6 a.m .
F o r K alam axoo an d   C h ic a g o ..............................8:16 p.  m .
F o r  F o rt W a y n e a n d   th e   E a s t............................ 8:16 p .m .
F o r C in c in n a ti  ........................................................*6:40  p .m .
F o r  K alam azo o  an d  C h ic ag o ............................*11:40  p. m

C h ic ag o  v ia  G.  R.  & I.  R.  R.

L v G ra n d  R ap id s............. 7:86 a m   8:16 p m   *11:40 p m
A rr  C h ic a g o ...................... 8 :4 0 p m  
7 :1 0 am
8:16 p  m   tr a in   h a s th ro u g h   W a g n e r  B uffet  P a rlo r 
O ar a n d  co ach .

9 :0 6 p m  

11:40 p  m  t r a i n  d a ily .  th ro n g h  W ag n er S le ep in g  C ar 

a n d  C oach.
L v  C hicago 
A rr G ran d  R a p id s 
3:S0  p  m   h a s   th ro n g h   W a g n er  B uffet  P a rlo r  O ar 
11:30 p m   tr a in  d aily  .th r o n g h   W a g n e r  S leeping  O ar 

3 :S 0 p m  
9 :1 6 p m  

11:60p m
7 :8 0 a m

0  60am  
8:60pm 

F o r M uskegon—L ea v e. 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids A Indiana.
7:86  a m  
0:60 a m
1:00p m  
1:16pm
6:40  p m  
6:80 p m

F rom  M uskegon—A rriv e .

General  Passenger and Ticket Agent.

O X . LOCKW OOD’

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G OTHAM  G O SSIP.

N e w s  fro m   th e   M e tro p o lis— In d e x   o f 

th e   M a rk e ts .

S p ecia l  C o rre sp o n d en ce

Rice,  both  foreign  and  domestic, 

N e w   Y o k e,  May  25—Peaceful  and 
happy has the week been.  All  attention 
has been concentrated on  the  wheat  pit 
of  the  Produce  Exchange,  and a person 
not used to the sight would think he  had 
landed in pandemonium had he gone into 
the visitors’ gallery.
Coffee has been  actively  dealt  in  dur­
ing the week,  but it is hardly possible  to 
chronicle any advance in the staple.  On 
the  contrary,  the  quotations  on  No.  7 
Rio have been slightly reduced and 15%c 
seems  to  be  the  outside  limit.  The 
amount  of  coffee  afloat  is  much  larger 
than  last  year,  being  554,864  bags, 
against 326,908 last  year.  Mild  sorts  of 
coffee  are  in  good  demand  and,  as the 
supply is not excessive,  holders  are  in  a 
cheerful frame of mind.
The tea market—well, there is no mar­
ket  for  teas.  Purchasers  are  buying 
enough to last  “over  Sunday,”  but  the 
whole aspect of  things is flat.  The  sale 
of Wednesday  was  a  large  one,  nearly 
10,000 packages being disposed  of.  For- 
mosas  made  the  best  record,  and  for 
these  there  may be said to exist a better 
feeling.  Fine  Formosas  are  worth  28 
@30c.
The  demand  for  refined  sugar  has 
shown considerable falling off during the 
past few days and not  many  buyers  are 
in the market.  All orders  are  promptly 
filled.  Prices have undergone no change.
Grocery grades of  molasses  are  firmly 
held  and  are  doing  better  all the time. 
Syrups and glucose,  also,  are feeling the 
effect  of  stronger  markets  and  holders 
are singing,  “Oh,  be joyful.”
is 
still  meeting  with  an excellent demand 
and holders are making the most of their 
golden opportunities.
Spices of all sorts  are  making  a  good 
record  for  themselves and,  while cloves 
and pepper lead in  the  race  for  higher 
rates,  the  confident  tone extends to  the 
entire list.
Canned  goods  are  quiet  and  steady. 
The recent severe frosts  do  not  seem  to 
have exerted any  influence,  one  way  or 
the other.  Brokers  are  sending  out  so 
many conflicting reports  that one hardly 
knows what’s what.
There is a moderate demand for lemons 
and oranges,  which promises to extend if 
the  warm  weather  continues. 
Pine­
apples,  bananas,  etc.,  are  selling  well, 
and  prevailing  prices  are  firmly  ad­
hered to.
Butter is firmer,  and,  while the supply 
is large,  it is passing out at a  rate which 
leaves  no great accumulation in storage. 
Best  Elgin  and  State  butter  is  worth 
17Kc.
Cheese remains  unprecedentedly  dull. 
Small size, full  cream  cheese,  is  bring­
ing  6%c.  Export  trade  is  slack  and 
stock  going  abroad  is  mostly  of  a  in­
ferior make.
Eggs show a  weaker  feeling  than  ex­
isted last week.  Arrivals are larger, de­
mand  lighter  and  weather  warmer—all 
conditions  exerting  an 
that 
tends to lower rates.
Domestic  fruits  and  vegetables  are 
here in such seeming  abundance  that  it 
would  seem  as  though  frosts were  un­
known.  Fine strawberries  are  retailing 
at  three  boxes  (alleged  quarts)  for  a 
quarter.  New  potatoes  prevail  at  res­
taurants,  but  they  are  mighty  poor 
eating.  Old ones are advancing in price.
T h e  Mic h ig a n  T radesm an  is  to  be 
congratulated upon the excellent portrait 
and biography of “Lion” Woolson in the 
last  issue. 
It  is  no  uncommon  thing 
to see big piles of Lion coffee boxes here. 
The world  is  Woolson’s  parish  and  his 
friends are legion.

influence 

A n n u a l  M e e tin g   o f  W h o le sa le  G ro c e rs.
The annual meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Wholesale Grocers’ Association was held 
at Bay  City  last  Wednesday,  at  which 
time the following  officers  were  elected 
for the ensuing  year:  President,  W.  J. 
Gould, Detroit; First Vice-President, A.S. 
Musselman, Grand Rapids;  Second Vice- 
President, John Robson, Lansing;  Treas­
urer, C. Elliott, Detroit;  Executive  Com­
mittee,  Gilbert  W.  Lee,  W.  H.  Brace,

PRODUCE  nARKET.
Asparagus—40® 45c per doz.  bunches.
Beans—It  looks  now  as  if  the  decline which 
has been going on  for some  weeks had been ar­
rested and  that  the  bottom  had  been  reached. 
The jobbers, who were free  buyers on the rising 
market and have been peddling out stocks since, 
are now practically out of  goods  and have com­
menced  to  bny  again.  Receipts  still  continue 
light.

Butter—In ample supply at  12®15c  for choice 

Beets—New, 40c per doz. bunches.
Cabbage—Mississippi stock commands $l@l.gf> 

dairy.

per doz.

Cauliflower—$1.50 per doz.
Cucumbers—Home  grown  are  now  in  ample 

supply, commanding 35@40c per doz.

Eggs—11@1 iy2c and fairly firm.
Onions—Green  bring  SglOc  per doz. bunches. 

Bermudas command $1.50 for 40 lb. crate.

Potatoes—Old  stock  is  stronger  and slightly 
higher than a week ago,  the  demand from Ohio
and Indiana  for  seeding  purposes  being  quite 
active.-  The price hovers around 50c for city de­
livery,  about  40c  being  paid  at  outside  buying 
points.

Pieplant—25c for 75 lb. basket.
Radishes—Round,  10c per doz.  Long,  15c per 

doz.

Spinach—30c per bu.
Strawberries—Illinois stock is arriving in fair­
ly good condition,  considering -the  unfavorable 
weather  of  the  past  two  weeks.  The  price 
ranges from $2@2.50 per crate of 24 qts.

PROVISIONS

 

7*5*6s*6

SAUSAGE.

1250
25
14 00
13 00
13 50
13 50
13 50

The Grand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

PORK  IH  BARRELS.
 

quotes as follows:
Mess................................ 
 
S h o rtcu t...................................................  
Extra clear pig, short c u t........................ 
Extra clear,  heavy...................................
Clear, fat  back.......................................... 
Boston clear, short cut............................. 
Clear back, shortcut................................  
Standard clear, short cut. best...............  
Pork, links..
Bologna.......
Liver............
Tongue .......
Blood. . . . . .
Head cheese
6
Summer.......
10
Frankfurts..
7H
Kettle  Rendered...  ..........................................   7«
G ranger...........................................................  ‘  7*
Fam ily....................................................................5*
Compound.........................................................
Cottolene........ .. 
Cotosuet.................................................................6u
50 lb. Tins, >4C advance.
20 lb. palls, He 
101b. 
“  Me 
5 lb. 
“  %c 
3 lb. 
" 
l c  
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs.....................
Extra Mess, Chicago packing......................
Boneless, rump butts.......................................
s m o k e d   m e a t s—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lbs...................................
16 lbs.......................................
12 to 14 lbs...............................
p ic n ic ........................................................
best bonelesB.<.....................................
Shoulders..........................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless....'........
Dried beef, ham prloes................................"

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R E X P   IN  B A R R E L S.

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LARD.

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.  6 75 
7 00 
10  00
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THE  MICHIGAN  TKADESMAJN

James  Edgar,  Detroit;  William  Judson, 
S.  M.  Lemon,  Grand  Rapids;  H.  S. 
Griggs,  Jackson;  J.  W.  Symons,  Sag­
inaw;  Mr.  Dixon,  Port  Huron;  W.  L 
Brotherton, Bay City.
In the evening a banquet was tendered 
the  visitors  by  the  wholesale  grocery 
trade of Bay City.

E.  E.  Lessiter,  the  Grattan  general 
dealer,  has the sympathy  of the trade  in 
the death of his wife,  who  passed  away 
May 19 as the result of  Bright’s  disease. 
Deceased was not quite  20  years old and 
possessed the love and respect of ail who 
knew her.

R. A. Service,  the St.  Ignace  druggist, 
was in town last week for the  first  time 
in several months.  He was  chief  clerk 
for Thum Bros.  (Grand Rapids) for three 
years and found much pleasure in renew­
ing his  acquaintances  among  the  drug 
trade.

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Strong, Lee  &  Co.  (Detroit)  have  se­
cured the State agency for the celebrated 
parchment lining,  which retains  its stiff­
ness,  no matter how many times the gar­
ment of which  it  is  a  part  is  washed. 
The paper is evidently  destined  to  have 
a large saie.

THE MICHIGAN BARREL CO.
Bushel Baskets, Cheese  Boxes, 
Bail  Boxes,  Axle  Grease 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH,

MANUFACTURER  OF

Boxes,  Wood Measures.

Everything for the

F ield   and G arden
Clover,  Medium  or  Mammoth,  Al- 
syke, Altai fa  and  Crimson, Timo­
thy,  Hungarian  Millet,  Peas  and 
Spring  Rye.  Garden  Seeds 
in 
bulk and Garden  Tools. 
for  Egg  Cases  and 
Fillers.

Headquarters 

128  to  132  W.  Bridge  St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

' 

Prices  quoted  on application.

B U T T E R   W A N T E D !
N O T E   JLOW  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 Currant:

On following goods:

30-lb.  pall............................................................  70
¿0-1 b. pall..................................................  
go
17-lb.  pail.................................................................45
15-lb. pall............  ......................................T.II  40
1  quart Mason  Jars, per  doz.................... .  1  65
1  pint  Mason  Jars,  per  doz........................  1  25
Per ease, 3 doz.  in  case................................... 3 6J
Mrs. Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the
best made.  Price per  case  ........................2 40
Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pall, per  lb................................................  0
25-lb. palls, per lb ..............................................  giz
12-lb. pails, per lb .........................................  
  gjJ
2-lb. cans, per doz.  ........................................’  j  40
5 lb. cans, per  doz................................   ....... ’  3 50
Pint Mason Jars, per  doz................................  |  25
Quart Mason Jars, per doz  .......................... .  2 00
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per gal............. 
i2y~
Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal  14 
1  40
Maple Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per  doz. 
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per  doz__   2  25
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per  doz........   9 00
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb p a ils ........................1  00
Peach Marmalade in pt  Mason jars, pr dz  .  1  20 
No  1 Egg Crate  Fillers, best  in  market,  10
sets in case, No.  1 Case  inclnded...............   1  25
No. 1 Egg Crates with fillers  complete......... 
33
Special prices made on  ICO Crate lots.
I make Syrups and quote you Refiners’ prices:
White Sugar Drips, % bbls.................. per gal  32
“  53
n  
.........................       «  “  26
Honey Drips,  ft bbls 
“  44
EDWIN FALLAS,0I,AN«D,Si“105

_  >  and % gal.  palls  “ 
1 and %  gal.  palls.........  “ 

. 

A  Dead Shot
In Teas —

We offer 47  1-2 chests  Morilyan,  Heimann 
& Co.’s  packing,  1894  Japan  Teas, weight
88 lbs., at 25 cents per lb.
We also offer 92  1-2 chests  Hellyer & Co.’s 
packing,  1894  Japan  Teas,  weight 80 lbs., 
at  18 cents per lb.
Less 6 per cent, cash with order.
These  Teas  are  elegant  value.  Send  for 
samples and  try them.

THE JAMES  STEWART CO.
emon  j Wheeler Co.

EAST  SAGINAW,  MICH.  ■

W h o l e s a l e   G r o c e r s

Grand  Rapids

13.  J.  REYNOLDS

GHA.ND  RAPIDS

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 o lic ite d

ON  EARTH MEAK1NS' WHITE GRANITE WARE.

THE  BEST 

REDUCED
PRICES

NO.  141910,  IDEAL  SHAPE. 

NEW  IDEAL  SHAPE.  Original  Assorted  Crates. 
NO.  15168,  IDEAL  SHAPE.

Origina!  Assorted  Crate Alfred  Meakins’  W hite  Granite  Ware.

Orig.  Asstd. Cte. Alfred Meakins W hite Granite.
50
42 $  2 52  1 5 do 5 inch  Plates................. f 42 $2  10
2 only Teapots. 24s  ............... 3  00
6 doz 5 inch  Plates......................
84
4 only Sugar*.  24s..................   2 53
1  04
61
20 doz 7 inch  Plates......................
85
3 onlv  6s  Jugs........................3  38
7  32
to
2 doz 8 inch  Plates......................
13
6 only 12s  Jugs........................  2  25  1
1  40
6 onlv 6 inch  Bakers..................
04
33
3 only 24s  J tigs.......................   1  31
1  22
8 onlv 8 inch  Bakers.................. 159
56
6 onlv 30s  Jugs......................  1  13
1  68
94
6 onlv 24s Bowls..........................
3S
47
94
6 onlv 36s  Jugs........................ 
75
42 only 30s Bowls..........................
47
94
16
6 onlv 24s Bowls...................... 
03
12 onlv 30s Bowls...........................
2s 18 onlv 30s Bowls...................... 
1 13
75 
12 onlv Os Open  Chambers.......... 3 00
63
85 12 only 36* Bowls...................... 
63
6 onlv 9s Covered Chambers__ 4  50
6 onlv prs. 9s Ewers A Basins  7  13  3 57
112
12 onlv t; inch Scollop*.................
94
6 onlv covered Chambers 9s.  4  50  2 -5
70
12 onlv 7 inch Scollops................. 1  13
99 13 only Cncov'd Chambers 9s.  3 00  3 00
12 onlv S inch Scollops................ 1  69
37!j  3 96
66 101 * set hdld. St.  Denis Teas.. 
28
6 doz 4 inch  Fruit Saucers........
37H  3 94
38 HI1» set hdld.  Daisv  Teas....... 
19
4 doz Individual Butter*............
set unhdld. St. Denis Teas  31}.»  0 62
St*
94 31 
15 set handled st.  Denis Teas__
2 50
Crate and Cartage....... 
37*
15 set handled  Hensliall Tea*__
—
271
21 set unhandled st.  Denis Teas.
#61 99
75
Total...................... 
24 only < >v.*ter Bowl*.  30s............
6 pairs 9s Ewers and  Bastns__ 7  13
6 onlv  9 inch Dishes.................. 1  13
6 only 10 inch Dishes.................. 1  69

52
2 do z 6 inch  Plat. *.................
12 20
61
2 d<>
1  40
70
2 do 8 inch  Plates.................
47
85  ! 2 do 7 inch  Plate*.  Soup— 61
28
47  ; 6 do 4 inch  Fruit Saucers...
75
19
2 do Individual Betters......
2 on v  8 inch  Dishes............
94
63
3 00  1 M on v  9 inch  Dishes............ 1 13
2  25  ; 6 onlv  10 inch  Dishes............ 1 69
6 on v 11  inch  Dishes............ 2 25
94
2 si
3 on v  12 inch  Dishes__
1  13
3 01: v 14 inch  Dishes............ 3 94
1  69
1  68  1 ¿on v :! inch scollops............
66
6 on v 5 inch Scollops............
75
76
5  63  ! 2 oil v ti inch Scollops............
94
.  7 inch Scollops........... 1 13
3--*:
6 62  ; 3 on v * inch Scollops............ 1 69
1  50  j 6 on v 9 inch Scollops............ 3 25
r inch Covered  Dishes 3 94
3 57
* inch Covered Dishes 4 50
1 50
-  Sauce  Boats.................
pjefclw**
2  50  I 2 on v 7 inch Casseroles........ 4 50
-------  !
s inch Casseroles........ 5 06
$58  72  ; 3 on y 5 inch Covered Butters 3 38
ie s e   goods in Open  Stock  at  Sligh
A ll

Crate and Cartage.............
Total...........................

1  13
1  69
1  13
66
2
75
K4
56

3 011
56  j 3 on
2 •»;

‘SUnnERTinE,”  English  Dec.  Sem i-Porcelain.

PENCIL  OR  BROWN  COLOR.

no.  13116,  ••sunrtERTinE.”

Assorted  Crate.

51  83 04 
4 doz 5 in Plates...... $
62  1  24 
62
2 doz 6 in Plates....... 
73  8 76 
12 doz 7 in Plates......  
73
84  1  68 
84
2 doz S in Plates....... 
34  2 04 
34
6 doz 4 in Fruits....... 
23  1  38
6 doz Ind.B utters...  23
68 
lA doz  9 in Dishes...  1  35 
1  01 
14 doz 10 in Dishes...  2 03 
1  13 
14 doz 12 in Dishes...  3  38 
79 
l-Cdoz 14 in Dishes...  4 73 
1  58 
2 doz 3 in Bakers.... 
79
45 
14 doz 7 in Bakers__   1  25
68
14 doz 8 in Bakers__ 2 03
14 doz 6 in  Scallops..  1  13 
14 doz 7 in  Scallops..  1  35 
14 doz S in  Scallops..  2 03
14 doz 12 Jugs............  2 70
14 doz 24 Jugs............  1  38
14 doz 30 Jugs............  1  35

67 
1  02 
1  35 
79 
67

14 doz Sauce Boats...  1  80  90
14 doz Pickles............  1 35 
68
1 doz Cov'd Dishes..  5  49 5 50
14 doz B. & B. Plates.  1  80  60
14 doz Cov'd Butters  4 05  2 03
14 doz 24 Sugars.........  3 04  1 52
14 doz Creamers 
....  1  26  63
18 doz Teas...............  
90  16 20
2 doz Coffees............  1  05  2  10
3 dozSOOyst’r Bowls  90  2  70 
Crate  and Cartage. 
2 50
#63 79

100 PIECE  DINNIR SET, 
Open stock, $6.25

H. LEONARD & 50N 5, Grand Rapids
The  D ayton  Computing  Scale!

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The  trade  are  hereby  warned against using 
any Infringements on Weighing and Price Scales 
and  Computing and  Price  Scales,  as  we  will 
protect  our rights and  the  rights of  our general 
agents  under  Letters  Patent  of 
the  United 
States Issued in  1881, 1885,1-86. 1888,1891,1893 and 
1894.  And  we  will  prosecute  all  infringers  to 
the full  extent  of  the  law.  The simple  using 
of Scales that  infringe  upon  our  patents makes 
the  user  liable  to  prosecution,  and the  impor­
tance  of  buying  and using  any other  Comput­
ing  and  Price  Scales  than those manufactured 
by us and bearing our name  and date  of patents 
and thereby incurring liability to  prosecution is 
apparent.  Respectfully,

The  Computing  Scale  Co.

See What Users Say:
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 
otherTscales, and had these in constant use ever 
since.

We^are  very  much  pleased  with  them and 
think^THEY  HAVE  SAVED  US  ABOUT  $5.00 
PER  DAY,  or  nearly the cost of  them,  by  this 
time. 

Yours  truly,
THE  CHICAGO  LUMBERING  CO. 

Per C. S.  Hill, Manager.

The COMPUTING SC A LE  CO., Day ton, Ohio

