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VOL. XII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  JUNE  1 9 ,1 8 9 5

NO  6 1 8

SPECIFY DAISY BRAND it is THE BEST

For  Sale  by  all  Jobbers  of  Groceries,  Hardware  and  Wooden ware.

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T h e r e   a re  th o u s a n d s   o f S I G N A L S , 
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“SIGNAL  FIVE”
ED. W. RUHE
Absolute 

A  Fine  Havana  Filler  Cigar  for  5  cents.

523 John St.,  KALAMAZOO

F.  E.  BUSHHAN,  Agent,

Maker,
CHICAGO.

:  THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER !
TELFER  SPICE  CO.,

SOLD  ONLY  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  Mich.

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Ask  your  Grand  Rapids  Traveling  Men 
about it.

M.  R.  ALBEN

ALDEN  &  LIBBY,

STRICTLY  FRESH  EGGS, 
Choice Creamery and Dairy  Butter  W   I l U I C b d l C   * 
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Northern  Trade supplied at Lowest Market Prices.  We buv on track at point of 

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shipment, or receive on consignment.  PHONE  1300.

93  and  95  South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

S W B B T ’S   HOTBB

MARTIN  L.  SWEET,  Proprietor.

HENRY D. and FRANK H.  IRISH, ITgrs.

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

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

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85,000  P enberthy Automatic  Injectors in use, giyiDg perfect satisfaction 
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Wide. Medium, Narrow and Piccadilly Toes.
We will mail you a Net Table and Catalogue upon 

request.

H eating —  Plumbing

-IN  THE  LINE  OF-

Steam ,  Hot W ater or Hot Air. 

IN  ALL  ITS  PARTS.

Sheet Metal  Work

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  W est.

WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

C O N G R E S S   IS D IS rU T A B L Y   the  F IN E ST
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Dealers who are  d e s i r o u s   of adding an exceptionally line  Havana Cigar to their stock 
will find  it to their interest to send  a  s a m p l e   order to either of the follow mg Jobbers.
Ask their Salesmen  to show you samphs of tlie

BALL,  BA1LXHART  A 

PUTMAN  CO.,

Wholesale Grocers

WHEELER

Wholesale Grocers

CO.

MUSSULMAN  GROCER 
Wholesale Grocers
I.  M. CLARK  GROCERY 
Wholesale Grocers

CO.

HAZELTINE  A  PER­

KINS  DRUG  CO.

Wholesale Druggists

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO. 
Wholesale Confectioners

A.  E.  BROOKS  A  CO. 
Wholesale C o n f e c tio n e r s

WORDEN  GROCER  CO. 
Wholesale Grocer

OLNEY  A  JUDSON 

GROCER  CO.

Wholesale Grocers

M  IL  TREUSCH A BRO.
W holesale Cigars

C I G A R S

MAT HAS ADVAIED

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

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

Daisy,  Morning Star,  Idle wild,  Diamond.

SPEC IA LTIES—Graham  Flour, Wheatena Flour,  Buckwheat Flour,  Rye 
Flour, Rye  Meal, Pearl  Barley,  W heat  Grits, Rolled Oats,  Bolted Meal, 
Feed  (t orn  and  Oats),  Meal,  Mill#Feed.
HOLLAND, 
MICH.

WALSH-DE  ROO  MILLING  CO.,

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GRAND R APIDS, 

MICH.

18 and  19 Widdicomb  Bid.

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

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

Correspondence Solicited.

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THE  GAIL  BORDEN  EAGLE  BRAND

CONDENSED  HILK  is  a  staple  article ;  sold every­
where,  and  as  an  infant  food  has  no  equal.
All  reliable  dealers  sell  it  and  it  is  a  good  stock  for 
jobbers  to  carry. 
Prepared  and  guaranteed  by  the

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SEALED STICKS FLY PAPER

YOUR  CUSTOMERS  WILL  ALL  PREFER  IT.

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PRICES  FOR  THE  REGULAR  SIZE.

Per Box..................   .........38 cents  Per Case...................................$3  40
In 5 Case lots, per  case.........$3  30 

In 10 Case lots,  per case........  3  20 ¡

If  you  are  particular about your  STICKY  FLY 

PAPER,  specify

TANGLEFOOT

5 ¡4  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.

VOL.  XII,
SMITH-HILL  ELEVATORS

Electric,  Steam  and  Hand  Power. 
PRICES  LOW.  nECHANISM  SIMPLE.
NOT  LIABLE  TO  GET  OUT  OF  REPAIR.
Call and  see  me  or  telephone  1120  and  I  will 
accompany enquirer  to dozens of local  users  of 
ourgilevators. 

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

J .   B R E C H T IN G ,  A r c h it e c t ,

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

C orrespond,  nee so licited   from  
p a r tie s  who in te n d  to  build.

INSURANCE  CO.

Detroit, Mich.

organized 

Commercial 
Credit  Co  Limited.

Reports  on  individuals for  the  retail  trade, 
house  renters and professional men.  Also Local 
Agents  Furn.  Com.  Agency  Co.'s  “Red  Book.” 
Collections bandied for members. Phones 10G—1030 

65  MONROE  ST.,  ORAND  RAPIDS.

The  Michigan 
Trust Co.  araM1<;Rhaplds'

Makes a specialty of acting os

EXECUTOR  OF  WILLS 
ADIUNISTRATOR  OF  ESTATES 
GUARDIAN  OF  HINORS  AND 

INCOriPETENT  PERSONS 

TRUSTEE  OR  AGENT

In the management o f any  business  which may 
be entrusted to it.
Any  information  desired  w ill  be  cheerfully 
furnished.

LEWIS  H.  W1THEY,  President. 
ANTON  Q.  HODENPYL,  Secretary.

THE  TRADESMAN 

Has  a  FIELD  of  its  own.

ill’s IT

Advertisers get RESULTS.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE *19,  1895,

NO.  6 1 3

NULL  AND  VOID.

The  New  Peddling:  Law  Proves To  Be 

Defective.

In  1889 the  Legislature  passed  a  law 
allowing  Upper  Peninsula 
township 
boards  to  assess  whatever  license they 
wished on  peddlers. 
In  some  places  it 
has been prohibitive.  The  peddler  nui­
sance was  thus  abated.  Representative 
Hoyt,  at the recent session of  the  Legis­
lature,  attempted  to  have  a  measure 
passed  which  would  accomplish 
the 
same end  in  the  Lower  Peninsula.  He 
had  the  1889  act amended to that effect, 
making the  law apply to every township 
in the State.  Unfortunately,  the title of 
the bill  was not changed and  the  act  is, 
therefore, null  aud void, according to re­
peated decisions of the Supreme Court.

Section 2 of the act  of  1895  also  con­
tains a grave error, 
it provides  for  the 
repeal of section  6, of chapter  21, of  the 
Revised Statutes  of  1846.  This  chapter 
relates  to  specific  taxes  and  turnpike 
companies.  Tbe  evident  intention  of 
the act was to repeal section  16, of chap­
ter 21,  which relates to hawkers and ped­
dlers.

the  Upper  Peninsula 

The result of this  miscarriage  will  be 
that 
township 
boards will  continue  to  fix  the  license 
fee at any figure  they  see  fit,  while  the 
State  Treasurer  will  continue  to  exact 
the statutory fee from  peddlers  who  op­
erate below the  Straits.

The  Drug:  Market.

Acids—There is  a  continued  seasona­
bly active market for citric and  tartaric, 
with  prices of both ruling firm.  Salicylic 
is  also  receiving  a  fair degree of atten­
tion,  but  quotations  are  yet  irregular. 
Carbolic is moving rather  freely  in  lim­
ited quantities at about quoted  figures.

Alcohol—U nchanged.
Borax—Is 
slightly 

irregular,  with
small outside holders quoting  a  fraction 
under regular qnotations.

Cocaine—Weak and lower,  having  de­

clined 25c per oz.
□Chlorate  of  Potash—Is  steadily  im­
proving abroad,  and  a  continued  strong 
feeling is manifest on the part of holders 
here.

Cod Liver  Oil—Continues  very  strong 
and  very active,  with  large  buyers  will­
ing to  take  everything  of  reliable  qual­
ity.  The situation abrogfl  continues  fa­
vorable  to  holders.  The  ancient  infor­
mation  concerning  offerings of cod  liver 
oil from which  the  active  principle  had 
been extracted,  reference  to  which  was 
made in this column as  long  ago  as  last 
autumn,  has been recently  published  by 
contemporaries as fresh  news.

Cuttlefish Bone—The  demand  is  very 
active  with  the  tone  of  tbe  market 
stronger, owing  to  depleted  stocks  and 
lessened  competition,  several  of 
the 
former  dealers  having  abandoned  the 
article.

Cream  Tartar—Is  firm  under  the  in­
fluences heretofore noted and a fair busi­
ness is reported.

Essential  Oils—Peppermint  has  de­
veloped a firmer feeling  among  holders,

but aside from  a rather better enquiry no 
cause is  assigned  for  the  improvement. 
Pennyroyal 
is  seasonably  active  and 
higher.

Gums—Curacoa  aloes  are  somewhat 
steadier,  all  the  recent  direct  arrivals 
having  been  taken  for  shipment to  Eu­
rope.  Camphor  is strong at the advance 
noted  last  week  and  considerable  busi­
from  second  hands, 
ness  is  reported 
their  stock  of 
closing  out  nearly  all 
American  in  barrels.  Advices 
from 
London are still favorable to holders and 
all  indications point to a further advance. 
Japan can be had in  a  limited  way only. 
Chicle is stronger.

Leaves—Short buchu are  very  strong, 
the better  qualities  being  in  very  light 
supply.  Tinnevelly  senna  continues  to 
harden under a good demand aud increas­
ing scarcity of medium  grades.  Reports 
regarding  Alexandria  varieties continue 
to be exaggerated;  the primary market is 
stronger, but there  is  no  such  improve­
ment as intimated.

Opium—Cables  to  hand  from  Smyrna 
report that market  firmer,  but  no quota­
tion  is  given;  the  firmness is said  to  be 
due to tbe belief  that  large  orders  have 
recently been received  there.  The  spot 
market is also firm.

Quinine—The irregular market quoted 
in last issue continued several days, when 
a firmer feeling developed.
Roots—The  declining 

tendency  of 
jalap has been checked.  Jamaica giuger 
Is meeting  with  a  fairly  active  demand 
from  the  consuming  trade  and  values 
have a firm suppqrt.  Colombo is selling 
moderately.

Sponges—The spot market is decidedly 
strong,  but there is an entire  absence  of 
stock of Rock  island  Florida  sheepswool 
in first hands.

Clerks’  Corner.

Elk  Rapids—A.  L.  Haight succeeds  E. 
A. Bivins as prescription  clerk  for Chas. 
E.  Mahan,  Mr.  Bivins  having  gone  to 
Alma to take charge of the  drug store  at 
that  place  recently  purchased  by  Mr. 
Mahan.
Traverse City—James S. Lewis,  whoso 
quietly slipped away from all  his friends 
a few weeks ago to marry a Petoskey lady, 
has returned to this city with  his  bride, 
after  an  extended  and  very  pleasant 
wedding trip,  and has resumed  his  posi­
tion in J.  W.  Milliken’s dry  goods  store.
Hastings—Fred  L.  Heath’s  drug  store 
had a  narrow  escape  from  fire  Sunday. 
The clerk spilled some  linseed  oil  upon 
the floor Saturday and tben  put shavings 
on  to  absorb  the  oil.  He  afterwards 
gathered the shavings  up  and  put  them 
in a barrel.  Sunday,  Mr.  Heath  and  the 
clerk smelled some unusual  odor and be­
gan an investigation,  which  resulted  in 
discovering  that the shavings in  the bar­
rel  were  smoking and ready to burst into 
flames.  A  few  moments 
later  there 
would undoubtedly have been a blaze had 
it not been discovered,  and  in  that  row 
of  wooden  buildings  there is  no  telling 
where it would have stopped.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

The  Hardware  Market.

General trade continues good and  buy­
ers  feel  confidence  in  prices  and  are 
keeping their stocks up in  better  shape. 
The recent advances are  held  firmly and 
all  indications lead to the  belief that tbe 
beginning of a firmer market has arrived. 
In the bar and pig iron  centers  great ac­
tivity  exists  and  prices  have  advanced 
very  materially.  We  note  advances  in 
bar iron of $7 a ton,  while pig iron shows 
only about SI a ton advance;  but  as  one 
iron  mill  owner  says,  “We  have  been 
selling iron for S3 a ton  less  than it cost 
us for tbe  past  two  years,  and  we  feel 
as though we were entitled to a little ad­
vance.”

Wire Nails—Are  firm and mills are re­
fusing to name  any  price  for  July  and 
are  declining  orders  for June, claiming 
they are all  filled up.  The price of $1.30 
at  mill  and  $1.45@1.50  from  stock  is 
firmly held.

Barbed  Wire—The  market  is  strong 
and there are orders  enough  in  sight  to 
keep the mills  busy  for  several  weeks. 
Wire now  has advanced over  tbe  lowest 
price $5 a ton.  The present price is $1.95 
for painted and $2.30 for  galvanized.

Window  Glass—A  new  list  has  been 
adopted  by the Association and a new dis­
count  made,  which  is  75  and 5 on bath 
D.  S.  and S.  S.  New lists can  be had of 
the jobbers by  writing for  them.

Gas  Pipe—In  sympathy  with  other 

goods, has advanced 10 per cent.

Many lines show higher  prices and we 

will  mention a few:

Common hollow ware to 60 and 10.
Tin and  stove bolts to 70 per cent.
Bright wire goods to 85 per cent.
Lead  pipe has advanced  J^c a pound.
Drop and  buck shot, 15c a bag.
Galvanized  sheet  iron  is  now  being 
quoted  by  the  mills  at  70 and  10,  with 
every prospect of being 70  per  cent,  in a 
few days.

Carriage bolts to 70 per cent.
Machine bolts to  70 and  10.
Dealers should  be  careful not to quote 
any  prices  on  staple  goods  until  they 
know what  they can buy  them for.  Hold 
your  present  stock  firm. 
If  you  have 
money to  buy  with,  use  judgment  and 
keep  good  stocks.  Of  course,  some 
things may recede,  bat with wages being 
advanced all  over,  the  tendency  to  im­
proved business is everywhere  manifest.
A new medical story has  arrived  from 
Maine.  “My  doctor  is  a  real  joker,” 
said  a  Lewiston  lady.  “I  didn’t know 
that my talking  bothered  him  when  he 
was writing prescriptions until the other 
dap.  He never mentioned  it,  and  I  al­
ways  asked  him  all  sorts  of  questions 
while be was writing them out.  Recently 
he examined me and  sat  down  to  write 
something. 
1  kept  talking.  Suddenly 
he looked  np  and  said:  ‘How  has  yonr 
system  been?  Hold out your tongue.’  1 
put  out  that  member  and  he  began to 
write.  He  wrote  and  1  held  out  my 
tongue,  and  when  he  got  through  he 
said: 
‘That  will do.’ 
‘Bat,’  said 1,  ‘yon 
haven’t looked at  it.’ 
‘No,’  said  he,  T 
I  only  wanted to keep it 
didn’t care to. 
still while I wrote the  prescriptton.’”

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nrnPTTT!  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

PROPER  STATUS  OF  THE  BICYCLE. 
W ritten for The Tradesman.

An innovation  like  the  bicycle  must, 
necessarily,  interfere  in  some  respects 
with accepted  conditions  and  ideas. 
It 
required some time for it to find its prop­
er  classification,  which  it finally did,  as 
a vehicle. 
It was then taken for granted 
that it should be subject to  all  the  laws 
and 
regulations  governing  vehicles, 
while the idea that  any  of  these  should 
be  modified,  on  account  of  the  pecul­
iarities  of  the  wheel,  was  considered 
ridiculous. 
It took a long  time  to  dem­
onstrate that it is  something  more  than 
an idle plaything, and any considerations 
of its needs  were  regarded  about  as  the 
needs  of  the  boys  for  coasting  in  the 
streets in many of the towns of the coun­
try.

There was a decided  antipathy  to  the 
wheel  on  the  part  of  many.  Timid, 
nervous people  disliked  it  and  still  do 
dislike  it  on  account  of  its  silent  ap­
proach.  Many drivers of other vehicles, 
especially those from the country,  wquld 
have it suppressed  because  it  frightens 
their horses.  The average farmer has no 
patience  with  anything  in 
the  streets 
which does not meet the approval  of  his 
team.  Many  others  dislike  it  from  a 
conservative tendency to abhor  all  inno­
vations.  As a consequence  of  this  dis­
like on the part of so many,  there has de­
veloped a strong tendency  to  antagonize 
the wheel and in  some  towns  there  are 
severe  ordinances  regulating  its  use. 
For instance, in  Hackensack,  N. J.,  it  is 
said that it is not only  forbidden the use 
of  sidewalks  under  all  circumstances, 
but it is not  allowed  to  go  through  the 
streets  at  a  greater  speed  than  eight 
miles  per  hour, and  must  be  provided 
with a loud bell  or  gong  at  that,  while 
from sunset  to  sunrise  a  lighted  signal 
lamp  must  be  carried.  Penalties  for 
violating these  ordinances  are  very  se­
vere and without appeal.

Perhaps there are no other towns where 
the regulations are quite so arbitrary, but 
in many localities they are  such as 10 in­
dicate that the wheel is considered a nui­
sance,  to  be  suppressed  or  restricted. 
Thus,  the  Common  Council  of  this city 
has  an  ordinance  under  consideration 
which forbids the use of  all sidewalks in 
an area including a wide belt  where  the 
streets are impassible for the wheel much 
of the year.  This is  considered the  log 
ical sequence of its  classification  as a ve­
hicle.

What  is  the  proper  standing  of  this 
mode of conveyance  and  does it deserve 
auy  special  privileges  over  the  coal 
wagon?  To reach a logical conclusion on 
this question,  it may be  desirable to ask. 
What is the proper purpose of the streets? 
The  answer is obvious—for the  greatest 
facility of transit of  people and  their be­
longings—and to properly serve this pur­
pose there must be  adaptation  to the  re­
quirements of the  modes  of  conveyance 
used by the greatest number.

Thus the sidewalk is most suitable  for 
the pedestrian, and it is not  so  very  se­
rious a matter  for  the  coal  wagon  and 
similar  vehicles,  even  those  more  ele­
gant, if the streets are rough  and  coated 
with a thick layer of  mud  much  of  the 
time;  but 
such  conditions  are  not 
adapted to so delicate a  mode  of  transit 
as the wheel,  and the question  of  its  de 
serving  consideration  turns  upon  the 
numbers  using  it. 
If  all  used  wheels 
there  would  be  no  objection  to  their 
monopolizing the sidewalks.  As long as

there  were  but  few  wheels in  use, they 
could not properly claim any special con­
sideration; but now that they are  getting 
to  outnumber  all  other  vehicles  in the 
streets, it is different.  They  may  prop­
erly claim a suitable  pathway.

As vehicles, the  proper  place  for  the 
wheel  in  a  city  i»on  the paved street. 
Where it is not paved and  the  mud is  so 
deep as to be impassable, the proper way, 
theoretically,  to meet the requirement, is 
to pave the street.  Practically,  in a city 
like this,  where  rapid  growth  makes  it 
impossible,  on  account  of  taxation,  to 
prevent a wide  belt  of  uupaved  streets, 
it  is  a  question  whether it is not better 
to bend  the  rules  for  vehicles  and  per­
mit the use of sidewalks  not  too  thickly 
occupied  by  pedestrians until such time 
as the city may  be able to provide proper 
roadways;  and  it  is  also  a  question 
whether  the  great  number—now  over 
6,000 in  this city—does  not  entitle  them 
to  demand  some  consideration  of  this 
kind.

It  cannot  be  denied  that  the present 
antagonism is  largely caused by the law­
lessness  of  a  few  wheelmen—reckless 
speed  on  the  sidewalks  with  a sudden 
ring of the  bell at the instant of flashing 
past the  pedestrian;  startling  people  by 
passing without ringing;  using  the side­
walks when it is  unnecessary,  when  the 
streets  are  in  good  order  although not 
paved,  and  showing,  in  other  ways,  a 
disregard of the  rights  and  convenience 
of  pedestrians.  Thus  the  convenience 
of the many is  hazarded  by  the  lawless 
selfishness  of  the  few.  More  and  se­
verer punishments  should  be  meted  out 
to such,  and the use  of sidewalks,  where 
permitted, should  be carefully  regulated 
as to speed, etc.  Numbers  must  compel 
a recognition of the wheel  and it must be 
accorded corresponding facilities for use.

W.  N.  F.
How To Detect Poisonous  Cheese.
Numerous  complaints  have  come  to 
T h e   T r a d e s m a n   during  the  past  two 
weeks  of  the  existence  of  poisonous 
cheese,  Fennville,  Lamont  and  several 
towns  having  suffered 
other  Michigan 
severe experiences  of  this  kind. 
T h e 
T r a d e s m a n   has secured  samples  of  the 
cheese which caused  the trouble  at  both 
places named and in  both  cases  the  lit­
mus test  disclosed  the  existence  of  ty- 
rotoxicon  in considerable quantities.

The Vaughan method of testing cheese 
for tyrotoxicon is so  simple  that  all  of 
readers  should  be 
T h e  T r a d e s m a n ’s 
prepared to use it in  the  event  of  there 
being any question as to the  wholesome­
ness of any cheese  they  happen  to  have 
on sale.  The test is made with  blue  lit 
mus paper, which can  be obtained at any 
drug store. 
If a piece  of  the  paper  be 
applied  to the  freshly  eut  surface  of  a 
cheese,  and the  moisture  therefrom  im­
mediately gives  the  paper  an  intensely 
red appearance,  the cheese  may  well  be j 
regarded with suspicion.  While all  new 
or green cheese feebly and slowly redden 
blue  litmus  paper,  only  the  poisonous 
cakes give the intense and  instantaneous 
reaction. 
If the cheese  is  dry,  a  bit  of 
it may  be moistened with  water  and  the 
paper then applied.

In a note to the editor of T h e   T r a d e s ­
m a n ,  Dr.  Vaughan  states  that  his  re­
cently discovered cheese poison  is a pro- 
teid body,  as  distinguished  from  a  bac­
terium like tyrotoxicon.  He is diligently 
at  work  in  developing  the  poison  and 
promises to describe  it  at  length  in  an 
early issue of this journal.

W O M IN   A T  TH E  A U C T IO N S.

Usually  Keen,  Discreet  and  Able  as 

Buyers.

During  the  spring  season  the  keen­
witted housekeeper has an  appalling list 
of odds and ends to buy for  her  summer 
cottage,  and only  by  sacrificing  a  gown 
can she get them at first  hand.  Her  pe­
rusal  of the morning paper extends  from 
the  marriage  notice  to the auction sales 
and her mind is made up.

It is the alluring look of  an  announce­
ment that all  the elegant  fittings and fur­
niture  of  some  up town  house  will  be 
sold  at  a  great  sacrifice  at  11  o’clock 
that fills her with hope.  She  goes to ex­
periment,  she stays to buy, and  she usu­
ally comes  home  having  expended  just 
double the amount of her  original  inten­
tion.  The  gown  was sacrificed after all, 
but  the  delight  of  having  struck  such 
marvelous  bargains  was  sufficient  com­
pensation,  and ever after she is a devoted 
follower of auction sales.

That is the way the average  woman is 
drawn  into  auction  shopping.  Finding 
them good customers,  every  clever  auc­
tioneer  now  keeps  a  oook  in  which  he 
is at pains to register as many  names  as 
possible,  and  for  every  sale  that  pos­
sesses any attractions he sends  out  little 
notices to private addresses  of  the  hour 
and articles for  auction.

Unfailingly,  almost,  he  will  find  the 
women  respond  to notices of the disposal 
of somebody’s household  effects. 
If  the 
auctioneer is  counting  on  a  large  fem­
inine  attendance  he  makes  no  end  of 
kindly little preparations for  their  com­
fort.  The common  crowd  is  no  longer 
herded 
in  to  stand  and  listen  to  the 
shouts of a  lazy  or  facetious  assistant. 
The  women who make big purchases like 
to be comfortably seated for  the task,  so 
that now,  when the hammer is  about  to 
fall on  private household  goods, and the 
articles are sold  on  the  premises,  a  big 
room  is  cleared  for  the  sale,  rows  of 
stout  folding  and  camp  chairs  are  pro­
vided,  the light  is pleasantly  regulated, 
and the idle rabble barred out.

For the  auctioneer  himself,  his  voice 
is like silk,  low,  earnest, cheerful,  confi­
dential and sincerely  respectful  in  tone. 
Whatever may  be  his  native  or  profes­
sional talent for joking,  be  sternly  sup­
presses it,  for no  woman  ever  takes  her 
shopping 
lightly  or  will  consider  the 
solemn  business  of  bargaining iu a jest­
ing mood.  She  doesn’t  like  to  be  hur­
ried,  either,  but  she  dearly  loves to be 
persuaded  and allowed to  make  and  un­
make  her  mind  as  frequently  as  she 
pleases.  This  is  easily  and 
inexpen­
sively done,  for,  unless it is  some  really 
very  desirable  object,  started at a smart 
bidding pace, the price is apt  to  rise  by 
very short steps of  five,  ten  and  fifteen 
cents.
Tlie first two  or  three  times  a  woman 
attends an auction she  is  apt  to  let  her 
wavering  decision  be  clinched  by  the 
lively  opposition  and  brisk  bidding  of 
snme^)ther woman.  Then,  if her temper 
gets a bit aroused, she will be  apt  to bid 
in an iron  pot with a hole in it merely for 
the sake of showing her rival  she  knows 
her rights and  can  spend  her  money  if 
she wants.  After a little experience she 
is likely to run  to  the  other  extreme  of 
absurd caution,  and the oddest fact to be 
noted  in  attending  these  auctions  pat­
ronized by women  is that  none  of  them 
will buy  merely  for  the  sake  of  a  bar­
gain.  A woman  must  always  persuade 
herself she wants a thing before she will

raise her voice in  its  favor, and  no  auc­
tioneer has yet been  found who  can  al­
ways be sure he  is  putting  forth  a  de­
sirable  bargain  before  a  feminine  au­
dience.

A lot of unforgivably ugly, cheap little 
colored  prints  will  in  five  minutes  be 
pushed  up double, treble their value, but, 
with the delightful  inconsistency  of  the 
female mind, purses will shut with a snap 
and dead silence reign  when a set  of  cut 
glass is  put  up  at  a  sacrifice.  Only  by 
sobs in  his voice and a confessed butcher­
ing of price can  the bewildered salesman 
raise a bid.

There  are  some  things,  ton,  a  wejl- 
trained  auctioneer  separates  as  goats 
from  the  sheep  of  good  things  he  can 
probably  sell  in  a  woman’s  audience. 
Books  only  by  the  standard  authors, 
such  as  Dickens,  Scott,  George  Eliot, 
Cooper,  Hawthorne  and  the  like,  ever 
find  any  worthy  prices  among  women. 
Then they  are  dreadfully  particular  as 
to the completeness of  the  set,  refusing 
almost to have a broken  lot at any figure.
They  care  nothing  for  simple,  hand­
some bindings, or rare editions,  and they 
have  a  particular  contempt  for  other 
folks’  kitchen  furniture,  but  revel  in 
sales  of  rugs  and  carpets,  house linen, 
and tableware, and  have a particular pen­
chant for bidding in clocks.

But the true  charm  of  the  auction  is 
the possibilities of really  wonderful  bar­
gains,  and  numbers  of  women  have 
furnished  half  their  houses  from  pur­
chases discreetly  made  under  the  ham­
mer.  They  find  that  for  a  song  china, 
glass and  good  plated  ware  for  stocking 
a country house  are  to  be  had  at  hotel 
sales,  as the modern  hostelry  uses  excel­
lent and tasteful furnishings of this sort, 
quite  appropriate  for  the  most  refined 
private  home.  An  announced  sale  of 
rugs  invariably  brings  women  out  in 
large  numbers,  but  for 
the  intrinsic 
value of really  beautiful  bric-a-brac they 
have scarcely  any  appreciation,  perhaps 
the  only  point  on  which  their  thrifty 
sense of perception  fails.  Some of them 
become  well-known  habitues  of  auction 
rooms and buy  with  amazing  discretion, 
never rising above  what  seems  to  be  a 
fixed  limit;  and  yet  one  who  attended 
some  fifteen  auctions  in  the  month  of 
April secured every detail of  furnishiug 
for her  little seaside home,  and  did it all 
ou  $300.  including  hemmed  linen  dish 
cloths and a box of laundry  soap.

“The reason  women  make  such  excel 
lent  bargainers,”  said  an  experienced 
auctioneer,  “ is that they don’t  object  to 
examine every  lot  or  object  persoually, 
criticise aud discuss it,  and they release a 
coveted chair or lamp shade  rather  than 
overstep their set bounds of price.  Once 
a  woman  strikes  her 
limit,  Orpheus 
himself couldn’t force her over it,  and so 
she gets  what she  wants iu  spite  of  our 
efforts.  Their  one  weakness  is  change 
of opinion,  and if a table  or  a  bookcase 
goes  home  and  seems  to  be a mistaken 
purchase,  they  will  come  back  to  roe, 
pour  out  their  woes  and  voluntarily 
double  my  commission to get it off their 
hands.  The  funniest  instance  1  ever 
knew  was  of a woman who bid in a very 
gorgeous screen.  After it got  home  she 
found she  was mistaken  in  her  estimate 
of  its  color  and  it  wouldn’t  narmonize 
with her drawing room walls.  She  gave 
it back  to me to resell and came to watch 
its disposal.  It took at once,  aud because 
a woman she knew  and  apparently  dis­
liked  made  very  lively  bidding  on  it, 
saying its color just suited  her  complex­
ion,  the  first  owner  paid  $12  over  the 
original  price and carried it off  again  in 
triumph—perfectly satisfied.”

M a r g a r e t   B i s r a n d .

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¡capital,  who  will  begin  operations  at 
once and employ a large force of men the 
j year round and  be quite a valuable“addi­
tion to our  industries.

Aibii/n —Dr.  W.  A.  Muubrue,  of 
Bloomingdale,  and  S.  N.  Osborn,  of 
Marshall, succeed J.  E. Gary in the drug, 
wall paper aud  stationery business.

Kalamazoo—C.  A.  Peck  has leased the 
buildiug  at  124  East  Main  street  to I. 
Nuput,  of  Columbus,  who  will  occupy 
the store with a stock  of  clothing  about 
July  1.

Jackson—S.  B.  &  H.  C.  Collins  have 
purchased the  coal  and  wood  business 
formerly owned  by Slifer  and  Schuller, 
aud  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same location.

Farwell—Moses A .  Herrick writes T h e 
Tradesman  that  the  stock  he  has  re­
cently  purchased from E.  A .  Herrick  is 
a  general  stock,  instead  of  a  grocery 
stock,  as stated last  week.

Coopersville—Mark  Hunter has rented 
the  vacant  store  formerly  occupied  by 
W.  D.  Reynolds A Co.  and  will  put  in  a 
stock  of  shoes  aud  men’s  furnishing 
goods.

Manton—A.  W.  Sessions  and  Adrian 
DeVoist  have  bought  the  furniture and 
undertaking  stock of John Turner & Son 
and  will continue the business under the 
style of A.  W.  Sessions & Co.

Doliarville—Danaher  &  Melendy,  of 
Ludington,  have  purchased  the  Dollar- 
ville mill plant here and a large quantity 
of timber  tributary  thereto.  This  firm 
also owns 100,000.000  feet of  fine  timber 
near Grand Marais.

Bay City—The  Hardwood  Lumber Co. 
will start  its planing mill at  once  in  or 
der to get out material for a  dry  kiln  to 
be built in connection  with  the plant.  A 
side track from  the  Flint  &  Pere  Mar­
quette connects the mill  plant  with  that 
road.

Frankfort—The  Frankfort  Refrigera­
tor Co.,  recently established here,  will at 
once put up a main  building,  40x100  feet 
in  size and two stories high.  The works 
will  begin operations next  fall,  employ­
ing about sixty  workmen.

Kalamazoo—The  Remington  &  Ford 
Co., operating the planing mill  on North 
Church street,  has  made  an  application 
in the Circuit Court to close  the  partner­
ship and  have a receiver appointed.  The 
object is to change the name of  the  con­
cern.

Jackson—M.  V.  Parmelee  has sold his

Big Rapids—J.  K.  Sharpe  &  Co.  have 
opened  a branch  grocery  store  in  their 
own building on East Maple street  to ac­
commodate their  old  customers  on  the 
east side of the river. 
It is in  charge of 
T. J. Sharpe.
stock  of  groceries  and  fixtures  at  93:,j  They  are  held  as  follow
East Main street to W.  T.  Smith,  of  the 
Jackson  Fruit House.  Mr. Smith has re- 
I moved the stock  to his store  at  the  cor- 
I ner of Main and Jackson  streets, 
j  Hart—Tiie report that E.  A. Noret had 
sold  his hardware stock  to Joshua Colby,
| of  Muskegon  Heights,  was  premature,
| Mr.  Noret asserting that  he  was not in  a 
selling mood at the time  the  transaction 
j  was supposed to have taken  place.

Hogle,  40;
Sawyer,  3, 
share.

Detroit—The Peninsular Soap & Chem­
ical Co.  lias filed articles  of  association. 
The capital  stock  is .§5,000,  divided  into 
500  shares,  of  which  180  are  paid  in.
s:  Thomas  C. 
Emma  Uogle,  136;  Guy  B. 
and  Horatio  B.  Uamlen,  1

Alpena—Our  business  men  are  con­
sidering a project to erect  a  factory  for 
the manufacture of jack pine pulp wood. 
A proposition has been made that Alpena 
shall take one-half  of  the  3250,000  nec­
essary  to put in  the proposed plant,  pro­
vided  A.  F.  Neuman,  who  holds  the 
patents,  would  secure 
the  remainder 
from  Eastern capitalists and  paper  mak­
ers.  Mr.  Neuman  expresses  himself as 
satisfied with the proposition.

Nadeau—Nadeau Bros, are  making ar-1those  figures

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MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS. 

Shelby—Andrus  &  Chapman  succeed 

H.  L.  Andrus in general trade.

Prattville—J.  Z.  Dunscombe has sold 

his grocery stock  to Paul Jones.

Ashley—Parmeter  &  Martin  succeed 

E.  Pitts in the grocery  business.

Grant Station—Henry  Teidy  succeeds 

Henry  Hotell  in the meat business.

Hillsdale—Cole & Mason  succeed  Lin­

coln F. Cole in the grocery business.

Norway—ffm,  Buchholtz has  sold  his 

hardware stock to Chas.  H.  Treiber.

Chase—L.  A.  Stone  succeeds  J.  S. 

(Mrs. W.  S.) Gordon in general  trade.

Sault Ste.  Marie—E.  M.  Lacy  has  re­

moved  his drug stock to Mt.  Clemens.

Freesoil—B.  F.  Rozelle  has  added  a 

line of groceries to his hardware stock.

Mt.  Pleasant—Hall  &  Coffey  succeed 
Alex.  Hall  in the boot and shoe business.
Big  Rapids—Jacob  Haugstorfer  suc­
ceeds ffm,  Ward & Co.  in  the  meat busi­
ness.

Rosebush—Will  W.  Carman 

is  suc­
ceeded by Reeves & Carman  in the tinning 
businesr.

Freeport—F. A.  Moore & Co.,  boot and 
shoe dealers,  have dissolved,  1.  E.  Moore 
succeeding.

Chelsea—Lewis  T.  Freeman  has  pur­
chased  the grocery and crockery business 
of Geo.  Blaich.

Detroit—Henry  Koester succeeds  Ken­
nedy & Koester in the wholesale  and  re­
tail  jewelry  business.

Oak  Hill—J.  Borucki  & Co.,  boot  and 
shoe dealers,  have  dissolved,  J.  Borucki 
continuing the business.

Kitchi—A.  L.  Haudiin & Sou,  grocers, 
have  dissolved.  The  business  will  be 
continued by A.  L.  Hand 1 in.

Ionia—L.  P.  Brock  has  sold  his  shoe 
stock to Arnold & Co.,  who will continue 
the business at the same location.

Camden—Ira T.  Allen  &  Co.,  dealers 
in  boots and  shoes  and  groceries,  have 
dissolved and removed to  Moscow.

Marquette—J.  C.  Fowle,  of  this  city, 
is building a stave,  heading  and  shingle 
mill at  Falls  Siding,  Ontonagon  county.
Springport—Frank  E.  Oyer,  instead of 
Frank E.  Dwyer,  as reported  last  week, 
succeeds 1.  P.  Roberts  in  general  trade.
Jacksou—Betts,  Weber & Co.  are  suc­
ceeded  by the American Steam  Laundry, 
proprietors of the  Eureka  Steam  Laun­
dry.

Gregory—Daniels  Bros,  succeed  Mon­
tague & Daniels and  have  removed their 
stave  manufacturing  business  to  Dear- 
field.

Port  Huron—W.  U.  Appeuzeller  has 
removed  his  boot  and  shoe  and  men’s 
furnishing goods stock  from  Saginaw  to 
this place.

Mason—Vandercook  &  Rice,  grocers, 
are  succeeded  by  the  Vandercook Gro­
cery  Co.,  Jennie  (Mrs  A.  L.)  Vander­
cook,  proprietor.

May bee — Rupp,  Daeubier  &  Hum­
phrey,  furniture dealers here and at  Mon­
roe,  have discontinued  their  branch  es­
tablishment at this  place.

Alpena—W.  P.  Dead man & Co.,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership,  j 
The  business  will  be  continued  by j 
Louise (Mrs.  W.  P.)  Headman.

Owosso—E.  L.  Brewer and J.  U.  Howe ! 
have  about  decided  to  erect  a  store 
building  on 
their  lot  adjoining  M.  L. i 
Stewart  &  Co.’s  lot,  in  connection  with 
the Stewart addition,  now  in  process  of 
construction.  The  building  will  be 
19x24 and two stories high.

Rapid  Rise  of  a  Man  Who  D.d  Not 

W atch the  Clock.

S a g in a w ,  E.  S.,  June  15—1  heard  a 
very  pretty  story  here  the  other  day, 
which 
I  think  will  bear  repetition. 
Everyone knows  that  A.  W.  Wright  is 
many times a millionaire,  and it  so  hap­
pened that,  some  years  ago,  there  was 
employed in  his sawmill at  Saginaw City 
a young man  who  drew  the  munificent 
sum of §1.25  a  day  for  piling  slabs  as 
they came from the saws.  Unlike  every 
other employe  of  the  mill,  this  young 
man failed to have his  coat  on  so  as  to 
jump for the street the moment the whis­
tle  blew  for  noon  or  quitting  time  at 
night, and,  as  luck  would  have  it,  Mr. 
Wright  happened  to  notice  this  pecul­
iarity  of  the  young  man  on  more  than 
one occasion.  Feeling that  bis  services 
were  worth  more  than  ten  shillings  a 
day,  he  applied  to  the  manager  for  an 
advance,  aDd  was  told  that,  while  he 
filled the position  to the  entire  satisfac­
tion of the foreman,  the work he did was 
worth  no more than  he had  been  receiv­
ing.  He,  thereupon,  gave notice  that he 
wished  to leave the employ  of the mill at 
a certain  time.  Happening  to  learn  of 
the  circumstance,  Mr.  Wright  inter­
rogated the young man  on  the  occasion 
of his next visit to the mill as to what he 
proposed to do.  The young.man  stated 
that he was going  West to embark in the 
sheep  raising  business,  whereupon  Mr. 
Wright stated  that be  thought  he  would 
go along and see what sort of  a  business 
sheep  raising  was.  Finding  a  ranch 
which met their requirements, the young 
man  invested  his  savings  of  §200,  Mr. 
Wright advancing the remainder  of §12,- 
000  and  making  a  contract  with  the 
young man,  giving him  a  quarter  inter­
est  in  the  profits  for  looking  after  the 
business.  That  was  several  years  ago, 
and Mr.  Wright  now  states  that  he  has 
no more loyal  and  trusted  partner  than 
the former employe  who  did  not  know 
what it was  to  have  his  hands  washed 
and  his coat on.  ready  to  jump  when the 
whistle blew.  There is a  moral  to  this 
story  which  some  men  will  recognize, 
which  is  that  no  man  need  expect  his 
employer to take any  interest in  his wel­
fare unless  the  employe  exhibits  a  dis­
position to  look  well  to  his  employer’s 
business. 

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6
8*4
T o n g u e..........................................................  
6
Blood 
............................................................  
0
Head c h e e se ................................................. 
Summer...................................................... . 
10
Fr&nkfurts..................................................... 
7*4
Kettle  Rendered................................................... 7*4
G ranger....................................................................7!a
Family
...................................................5»
Compound •  .................................. 
0«
Cottoleue.................... .................... ..........
6&
.............................  
Cotosuet............. 
50 lb.  Tins,  %c advance.
“
20lb. pails,  *4c 
10 lb.  “ 
* e  
“
51b. 
lie 
“
31b. 
“
I  e 
Extra Mess,  warranted M l  lb s.....................
Extra Mess, Chicago  packing.........................
10 00
Boneless, rump butts......................
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 IDs.............................................  9/4
16 lb s.............................................  9k
12 to 14 lbs................................4-10
p icn ic...........................................................7J4
best boneless.............................................  9
Shoulders...............................................................  7
Breakfttst Bacon  boneless..................................8*4
Dried beef, ham prices........ .. 
.........................11
Long Clears, heavy..............................................   6*4
Briskets,  m ed iu m .................................. 
Half  barrels.....................................  ....................3 00
Quarter barrels.......................................................1 8
K its................................................................................90
Kits, boney com b........................  
75
Kits, prem ium .............................. 
*6
BUTTEBINS.
Creamery,  rolls......................*............................ 16
tubs...............7.....................................
Dairy,  rolls............................................................. 11*4

PICKLED  PIGS’  PEST.

BEEF  IN  BABRELB.

DRY  SALT  MEATS.

...........7

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'* 
“ 
“ 

TRIPE.

tubs............................................................. 11

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Detroit—Articles of association of Bar­
bour,  Kirchner &  Co.,  neckwear,  shirts, 
clothing, etc.,  have  been filed.  The  au­
thorized capital stock  is §20,000, divided 
into 2,000 shares, and §4,000  is  paid  in. 
The shareholders are:  Wm. C.  Barbour 
and Chas.  W.  Kirchuer, 500  each;  Chas. 
A.  Crane  and  Fred  D.  Goldstone,  100 
each.

Mancelona—J.  W.  Mathewson has pur­
chased  the interest of his  partner.  W.  H. 
Clark,  in the furniture  and  undertaking 
stock  of  Clark  &  Matbewson  and  will 
continue  the  business.  W.  L.  Evans, 
who has  been  with  the  firm  of  Clark  & 
Mathewson  for the past four  years,  will 
remain in the employ of Mr.  Mathewson, 
who spends a portion of his time at BeJl- 
aire,  where he has a branch store.

MANUFACTURING  m a t t e r s.

Reed  City—L.  G.  Steadman  succeeds 
the  flouring  mill 

Steadman  &  Gee  in 
business.

Monroe— W.  E.  Stone  has  purchased 
the cigar manufacturing  business  of  H.
A. Burdean.

rangements  to  rebuild 
which was recently burned.

Owosso—The  Dewey  &  Stewart  grist 
mill  has  been  leased  to C.  E.  Miller and 
Wm. J.  Hoxsie, of Vassar, who will oper­
ate the mill  under the  style  of  Miller  & 
Hoxsie.

Manistee—A  great deal of satisfaction 
is  expressed  over  the  sale  of  the East 
Shore Furniture Co.’s  plant.  This plant 
has been idle for some  time.  The  pres

Bay  City—The  Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation is figuring on  several  woodwork­
ing  industries,  among  them  the  Hunt 
Chair Co.’s  factory,  which can be secured 
for a bonus of §1,400  with  which  to  se­
cure a site.  The Association  is  also en­
deavoring  to  clear  the  title  to the Mc­
Lean  mill premises  to  secure  the  Estey 
& Caikius plant being  located  there.  A 
match  factory  and  a  wood  pulp  plant 
are  projects  that  are  also  being  con­
sidered.

Manistee—There  is  considerable  talk 
among our mill  men of establishing a re­
tail  hemlock yard  in  which  they shall all 
pool their product and so have an  unlim­
ited  supply  of  sorts.  One  of  our  mill 
men says he has not sold  a  foot  of  hem­
lock  so far that  has not  netted him more 
than §6.50 at the mill and running  up  in 
lengths and  sizes  from  that  to  §9.  Of 
course,  there is  always  a  percentage  of 
| No.  2 that is not  salable  by  car,  but  at 
man  can afford to throw
their  sawmill,  away a good deal  of  No.  2,  considering
the fact that it  only  nets* about  §1.50  at 
present prices.

When  Lemons  Are  High 

It pays to buy  bright  waxy  stock.  You 
can always get that kind  of  the  Putnam 
Candy Co.

Be on hand for new Japan Teas.  They 
are  now  seasonable.  Gillies’  Fans  are 
thp 

J-  P.  Visner,  Ag’t.

THE  MICIIIG^YTST  TRADESMAN,
Frank E.  Chase and  family  left  Mon­
day for Detroit.  From there  Mrs.  Chase 
and  Miss  Chase  will  proceed  to  Cape 
Cod,  where  they  will  spend  the  heated 
term with friends.

Secretary.

Suggests the Employment of a Salaried 

l

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

J.  George Lehmann  has opened  a meat 

market at 43 East Bridge street.

D.  C.  Hunter  has opened a confection­

ery and cigar store on  Burton avenue.

James V. Jury, of  Traverse  City,  has 
opened  a  meat  market  at  5  Robinson 
avenue.

Barton & Swift have opened a  grocery 
store at Big  Rapids.  The  I.  M.  Clark 
Grocery Co.  furnished the stock.

Mark L.  Hunter has opened  a  grocery 
store at Coopersville.  The Olney & Jud- 
son Grocer Co.  furnished  the  stock.

T? Schooubeek  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at 110 Cedar street.  The stock was 
furnished by the I.  M. Clark Grocery  Co.
The style  of  the  Richmond  Manufac­
turing Co., at 47-55  Alabama  street,  has 
been changed to the Grand  Rapids  Book 
Case Company.

W.  H.  Hickok  has  embarked  in  the 
grocery  business  at  670  Cherry  street. 
The stock was furnished  by the  Oluey & 
Judson Grocer Co.

E.  J.  Herrick  has  leased  the  grocery 
store privilege at Ottawa  Beach and will 
conduct a store at that resort during  the 
summer  season  under  the  management 
of Miss Mary Ormand,  the efficient young 
lady  in charge of  the  candy  department 
in his Monroe street store.

S.  A.  Sears  and  A.  D.  Rathbun,  Jr., 
have sold their stock  in the Cycloid Cycle 
Co.  to  the  other  stockholders,  in  conse­
quence  of  which  A.  Video and Wm.  E. 
Martin have been elected to succeed them 
on  the  Board  of  Directors.  Geo.  C. 
Fitch succeeds Mr.  Sears  as  Vice-Presi­
dent of the corporation.

Attracted by the  uniform  profit  which 
has  now  been  maintained  on  feedstuffs 
for  several  years,  a  number  of  local 
capitalists  are  considering  the  idea  of 
establishing a feed  mill on a  large  scale. 
It  is  also  reported  that  the  Voigt inter­
ests  will invest $20,000  in  the  same  sort 
of an establishment in the near future.

The retail grocers  of  Chicago  are  not 
so  fortunate  as  their  Grand  Rapids 
brethren  in the matter of  obtaining  ade­
quate  license  fees  for  peddlers.  They 
endeavored to get  an  ordinance  passed, 
placing the fee at  $25  per  annum,  pay­
able at thetime issued.  The friends of the 
peddlers  made  a  desperate  attempt  to 
get the license placed  at $10,  and  a  com­
promise was finally effected,  making the 
license $25,  payable in  quarterly  install­
ments.  This  leaves  the  matter  in  bad 
shape, as a peddler can  now take  out  a 
license for only  three months and  peddle 
only during the  most  profitable  portion 
of the peddling  season.  An  annual  fee 
of $10 would  be preferable to a quarterly 
fee of $6.25.  The  Grand  Rapids  method 
is by all means preferable—$30 per year, 
annual  licenses ouly.

Gripsack  Brigade.

C.  S.  Uitchcock,  of  Marshall,  has 
taken  a  position  as  traveling  salesman 
for the  Steele- Wedeles  Co.,  of  Chicago. 
His territory  comprises  Southern  Mich­
igan.

David  McGhan,  formerly  with 

the 
Kortlander &  Murphy  Co.,  but  for  the 
p a st year on the  road  for  Nussbaum  & 
Sloman,  of  Chicago,  has  engaged 
to 
travel  for  Hulman  &  Beggs,  of Terre 
Haute,  Ind.,  covering the same territory 
as before.

T.  J.  Patterson succeeds  Isaac Baer  as 
specialty  salesman for  the  Standard  Oil 
Co.  in  this  territory,  with  headquarters 
in  this  city.  Mr.  Patterson  hails  from 
Cleveland  and  brings  with  him  all  the 
enthusiasm  characteristic  of  the  home 
office.

The  commercial  traveler  of  to-day  is 
a man of energy, earnestness of purpose, 
education, 
refinement  of  deportment, 
sobriety and indomitable industry.  Com­
petition  and  organization  have  driven 
from  the road the bummer,  the  gambler, 
aud  the  libertine.  Such  are  outclassed 
and  cannot  compete  with 
the  man  of 
self-respectiug mind,  who is possessed of 
the esteem of both  his employer  and  his 
customer.

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat,  as  compared  with  last report 
(one week ago) closed  lower—cash,  7)tic; 
July,  7J£c, and September 6J^c.  The de­
pression was caused by the small amount 
exported,  which  was only 1,781,737 bush­
els,  against  2,991,600  bushels  the  pre­
vious week aud 2,254,000 bushels the cor­
responding week  last year;  still the bear 
element  kept pounding  for all  there was 
in  it.  The tired  longs sold and large lots 
of wheat  were moved on stop loss orders, 
and  many  sold  to save what margins they 
had in it.  The fact  is,  it  was  a  general 
the  news 
liquidation  all  around.  All 
favored  stronger  markets. 
Illinois  re­
ports  only  39  per  cent,  of  an  average 
crop and  Indiana claims  only  about  18,- 
000,OOU bushels of a crop, against 43,644,- 
000  bushels  last  year.  Combining  the 
small  amount  exported  and  the  causes 
enumerated above are the reasons for the 
slump.  While wheat declined  in  wheat 
centers we find  it hard to get cash  wheat 
here,  as farmers are holding  on  to  what 
they  have,  knowing  the  growing  crop 
will  be short.  The highest  reported  es­
timate  is  only  420,000.000 bushels,  with 
only a small  amount  in  farmers’  hands. 
Our  yearly  home  consumption  is about 
350.000,000 bushels.  This  would  leave a 
surplus for export of only about  70,000,- 
000 bushels,  while this year we  exported 
about  150,000,000.

Corn followed  wheat  down,  but  there 
is a  good  cause  for the  decline  in  that 
cereal,  as the outlook for a  good  crop  is 
all that could  be  wished  for  at  present 
writing.

Oats  are  also  weaker,  with  a  lower 

tendency.

Post.

The 

receipts 

for  the  week  were: 
wheat,  34 cars; corn.  9 cars  and  one  car 
of oats—rather a  small  amount  of  oats.
The visible decreased 2,000,000 bushels, 
which  was about 500.000 more  than  was 
looked  for. 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Change in the Secretaryship of Jackson 

J a c k s o n ,  June 10—A meeting  of  Post 
B.  Knights of the Grip,  was held June  8, 
at Castle hall. 
In the absence  of  Presi­
dent  Alwatd,  C.  McNolty  was  elected 
chairman protein.  W.  S.  Mest tendered 
his  resignation  as  Secretary  and  F.  C. 
Davis was elected  to fill  thevacancv.
A  proposition  was  made  that  Post  B 
co-operate  with  the  United  Commercial 
Travelers in arranging for a day’s excur­
sion  and  picnic  during  the  summer. 
After  considerable  disscussion,  it  was 
decided to call  a meeting  of  the  Post  at 
the  office  of  the  Secretary,  Saturday 
evening,  June 22, to  take  action  in  the 
matter. 

F.  C. Davis, Sec’y.

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W a n t s   C o lu m n •

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.

BU 8IN ESS  C H ANCES.

787

m o   EXCHANGE  —  360  ACRES  FARMING 
A   land  in  Crawford  county,  Mich.,  close  to 
railroad and county seat,  for improved farm; al­
so  village  lots  in  fine,  flourishing  villages  in 
Missouri  and  Tennessee,  for  horses,  buggies, 
wagons  or  bicycles.  Address  H.  Harrington, 
Reed City. Mich 

F o r   s a l e , c h e a p —a   s t e a m   l a u n c h ,  6

x20 feet,two horse Shipman marine oil  (kero­
sene)  engine;  carries  eight  to ten persons;  ad­
justable awning; screw propeller, with automat­
ic skag;  needs no engineer or license;  mounted 
on  trucks;  hull  made  at  Plainwell  and  wain 
scoted all around  inside; double floor; cost$5C0? 
will sell  for $¿50 cash;  no  trade;  going to  Cali­
fornia  and  have  no  use  for  it;  speed,  7  to  9 
miles.  S.  B  Emmons,  Meudon. St. Joe county, 
Mich 
VAT ANTED—A  GOOD  LOCATION  FOR  DRY 
r v  goods,  clothing  and  boot and shoe  store. 
Address No. 192. care Michigan Tradesman.  92

F o r  s a l e - n i c e  c l e a n  s t o c k  o ? h a r d -

ware. invoicing about  $4,*'  0. in  good  enter­
prising village of 700 or 800 inhabitants, situated 
on two railroads—Grand  Rapids  & Indiana and 
Wabash: also a stock of agricultural implements 
in  connection.  Address No  791, care  Michigan 
Tradesman 

788

791

789

OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A GOOD FARM, 
stock,  tools and  crops,  for general  stock  or 
lumberyard,  price, Si,000;  also large  new  brick 
hotel,  furnished  complete,  doing  a  good  busi­
ness, to exchange for a  good farm.  Address W. 
II. N„ care Michigan Tradesmen. 

Lock  Box 39, Sheridan, Mich. 

stock,  if  cheap.  Quick  deal.  Address 

its in good town,  well located.  Inventories 
from $1,800 to $2,ro ■.  Best of reasons for selling. 
Address No. ?85, care Michigan Tradesman.  785

F OR  SALE-STOCK  OF  CLEAN  GROCER 
■ TILL  PAT  CASH  FOR  LARGE  GENERAL 
F OR  SALE-DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES;
■ OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK, CONSISTING OF 

corner  location;  stock  in  good  condition 
and  business paying  Good reasons for  selling. 
Address  Dr.  Nelson  Abbott, Kalamazoo,Mlch.776

staple  drugs,  patent  medicines,  stationery, 
blank books, wall paper, etc., inventorying about 
$4,000. for one half cash and  two  years’ time  on 
balance.  Cash sales last year, $8,000.  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, ill  health,  necessitat­
ing a removal to a  warm  climate.  Address No. 
769. care Michigan Tradesman.______  

769

786

¡TANTED—PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN- 
terestin 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  n . C.  Herkimer,  Maybee,  Monroe  county, 
Mich.________________________________ 
f  N OOD  OPENING FOR  BARBER SHOP,  AND 
\ J   residence to  rent  cheap  Address  No.  7*9, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

779

711

M ISCELLANEOUS.

761

790

784

■ TANTED-YOUNG  REGISTERS J  PHAR 

macist, well recommended,  who can build 
up a business in a new  store.  Address  No.  790, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

OK  SALE  CHEAP—COMPLETE  SET  TIN- 
ner’s  tools.  Address  P.  W.  Holland, Elsie, 

Mich. 
/   > RANITE  AND  MARBLE  MONUMENTS, 
vX  markers  and  all  cemetery  work.  Largest 
stock.  Write  us  about  what  you  want and  we 
will  quote prices.  Grand  Rapids Monument Co., 
815 South  Division. 

M e 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.  $75  monthly  salary and ex ­
If  offer satisfactory, address at 
penses or com. 
once,  with particulars concerning yourself, U.S. 
chem ical  W orks, Chicago. 
VVrANTED—POULTRY,VEAL, LAMBS, BUT- 
VV 
ter  and  eggs  on  consignment.  Ask  for 
quotations.  F.  J.  Dettenthaler,  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
T I7A N T E D —BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
I *  
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  Watkins  &  Smith, 
81-86 South  Division St., Grand  Rapids. 
\ \ r ANTED— EVERY  D R U G G IS T   J U S T  
TV  starting in  business and every one already 
started to use our system of poison labels.  What 
has cost you $15 you can now  get  for  $4.  Four 
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company.  Grand Rapids.

673 

760

757

The following  letter  has  been  maMed 
to the members of the Grand  Rapids  Re­
tail Grocers’  Association:
G r a n d   R a p id s ,  June  17—As  you  are 
prooably  aware,  the  business  engage­
ments of Mr.  Stowe are so numerous that 
he earnestly  desires  to  retire  from  the 
Secre  aryship  of  the  Association,  at  the 
same time  recommending  that  a  person 
be employed  who  will devote  his  entire 
time and attention to the  work of the or­
ganization.
The suggestion  has  been  discussed  at 
several  meetings of the  Association,  cul­
minating in  the adoption of  a  resolution 
requesting the Secretary to communicate 
with each member  by letter for  the  pur­
pose of ascertaining the  sentiment of the 
membership on this subject.  You  will, 
therefore,  please  answer  the  following 
enquiries at the earliest possible date:
1.  Do you think  it advisable to employ 
a regular salaried Secretary?
2.  Will you agree to contribute  a  pro­
portionate share of the expense of  main­
taining such au officer?
No definite statement  can  be  made  as 
to the cost of  such  an  undertaking,  but 
if every grocer in  the  city  were  to  join 
the Association,  the expense  of  such  an 
officer,  including  office  rent,  telephone 
and other  incidentals,  would,  probably, 
not exceed $3 per year per member.
The advantage of such an arrangement 
will  be readily manifest,  as  the  employ­
ment  of  a  regular  Secretary  would en­
able the Association to  use  its  good  of­
fices  in  adjusting  differences  between 
members and  harmonizing  matters of au 
annoying nature  which  might  arise  be­
tween the wholesale and retail trade.
The Association has  been  remarkably 
in  maintaining  a  uniform 
successful 
price  on  granulated  sugar  for  nearly 
thus  saving 
three  years, 
the  grocery 
the  demoralization  which 
trade  from 
prevails in Detroit and other cities where 
no attempt  is  made  to  obtain  uniform 
prices.
Please  let  us  have  your  reply at  the 
earliest possible moment and  oblige 

Yours truly,

E.  A.  S t o w e ,  Sec’y.

Purely  Personal.

Lewis T.  McGrath has  leased  his  cot­
tage at Ottawa Beach  to  E.  J.  Herrick, 
who will occupy it with  his  family  dur­
ing the heated term.

Henry  J.  Vinkemulder, 

the  South 
Division  street  grocer,  will  become  a 
Benedict  June  26,  when  he  will  lead  to 
the altar Miss  Belle L.  Blake,  of  Grand- 
ville.

J.  A.  Henry,  Manager  of  the  Seager 
Bros.  &  Janney  cannery,  at  Hart,  has 
returned from an extended  trip  through 
the Central States, during which  time he 
placed all the stock left  of  the  pack  of 
1894.

Will Canfield  (Olney  &  Judson  Grocer 
Co.)  suffered  the  loss  of  his  youngest 
child—a  two  year  old  boy—by  cholera 
infantum  last  Saturday.  The  funeral 
and interment were held at  I’laiuwell  on 
Sunday.

John  McConnell, 

the  old-time  hard­
ware dealer,  has  left  the  city  to  spend 
the summer on his large tract of  land on 
Bear Lake,  near  Petoskey.  Mr.  McCon­
nell led an active life for  nearly  a  quar­
ter of a century  and  merits  the  respite 
he  is  now  able  to  take  from  business 
cares.

Preparatory  to 

the  installation  of  a 
structural  iron  and  steel  plant,  to  cost 
$1,750,000,  the Illinois Steel Co. has been 
asking  for  an  ordinance  giving  it  the 
right of  way for better facilities for ship­
ping  its  product.  The  failure  to  give 
such an ordinance is  likely to  locate  the 
new plant at Joliet,  where  the  company 
i already has extensive works.

that  old-style  counter,  once you have seen  and 
used  “ SHERER’S .”  Finished  and  framed  in 
Oak, substantial and made to last, it displays the 
goods  attractively  and  keeps  them  secure  and 
clean. 
First-class  and  up-to-date  in  every re­
spect.  Standard  height, 331*  inches;  length, as 
desired,  from  3 ft. 8 in., to  12  ft.  Send  for  de* 
scriptive  testim onial  and  price  list  to the Sole 
Manufacturers, 
37  River  S t.,  Chicago.

SHERER  BROTHERS,

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T F T T - :  

: M i c i i i G . A J s r   t e a d e s j v l ä j s '.

B o o k -k e e p in g  a n d   M a n a g e m e n t.

Book-keeping  in  the  nineteenth  cen­
tury is a  wonderful  science,  capable  of 
wonderful  results,  as  many  good  and 
trusting  people  can  testify.  But  bank 
book-keeping should be as free  from the 
multiplication  of  books  and  figures  as 
possible.

Complicated  or  so-called  scientific 
book-keeping is a  temptation  to  the  ex­
pert  employe.  No  new  system  is  re­
quired  for  protection.  The  best  bank 
vault  or  safe  made  can  be  unmade  if 
time and opportunity are given  the  bur­
glar.  The best  system  of  book-keeping 
* can  be  juggled  if  opportunity  and  in- j 
clination exist

But  the  second  proposition, 

‘'man­
agement,”  is  the  road  to  safety.  The 
management of the  book-keeping and  of j 
the men who keep the  books  and  handle 
the cash in  a bank should  in  most  cases 
be the doty  of  the  cashier.  He  should 
be  possessed  of  dignity,  but  not  of 
the  unbending  kind.  His  experience 
and  what  be  knows  of  the  practice  of 
others should be his  guide  for  formula­
ting rules to be observed.

Banking is a progressive  science,  and 
hard and fast rules must not  be laid down 
to meet all new conditions.  Give all new 
ideas  and the suggestions of others care­
ful  consideration,  and  if 
they  prove 
practical, do not hesitate to  adopt  them.

Changes  of  position  must  be 

from  desk  to  desk,  not  necessarily  at 
stated  periods,  but the rotation  must  be 
certain.  The  relationship  between  the 
cashier and his employes should  be such 
that rules and  orders  will  not  be  taken 
as evidence of suspicion,  and the cashier 
should court suggestions from employes. 
Of course,  pass books and accounts  must 
be  balanced  periodically.  All  pass 
books,  when balanced,  must be examined 
by the  customer.  The  cashier  will  de­
rive information  and  much  satisfaction 
from this rule. 
It should  be understood 
to be  an  unpardonable  sin  for  a  book­
keeper or teller to  assume  the  responsi­
bility on an overdraft to the  extent  of  a 
farthing. 
In calling off  or  checking  up 
work,  all  errors  must  be  corrected  at 
once,  and before calling the attention  of 
the men responsible for them.

It  is  most  important  that  the  cashier 
should know the antecedents  of  an  em­
ploye  when  he  is  taken  on,  and  when 
they  are  working  for  him  he  must  be­
come thoroughly acquainted  with  them. 
He must gain a complete personal knowl­
edge of the characteristics  of  every  one 
of them.

Any man  who is  unhappy  or  dissatis­
fied  with  his  position  must  not  be  re­
tained.  He  is  not  strongly  fortified 
against  temptation.  He  will  become 
careless; he will not take any  interest  in 
his  work,  and should get  another  situa­
tion  before his feelings are hurt by  some 
hasty remark.

The rule  or practice of  a  bank  in  the 
matter of  promotions  should  be  rigidly 
adhered to.  Never discourage a score or 
two  of  clerks  by  glaring  favoritism. 
Clerks should not be allowed to give per­
sonal  bonds.  Good  character  and  cor­
rect habits are indispensable.

1  will  only  add 

that  “eternal  vigi­
lance” should  be the watchword.  There­
by bang all the law and  the—profits.

Origin of Alpaca Goods.

Perhaps the most familiar object in the 
average woman’s daily  life,  and  of  the 
substance of which she remains  most ig­
norant,  are  the  wool  and mohair goods

that heap the dry goods counters and are 
- sampled,  measured,  piled, twisted, tested 
and felt of every hour of  the  day.  Like 
j “the  primrose by the river’s brim,”  it  is 
mohair, cashmere or alpaca to  them  and 
; nothing  more,  and  many  are  strong  in 
the  belief  that  mohair  and  alpaca  are 
j one and the same  material,  with  only  a 
little difference  of weave.  As  a  matter 
of fact, the substance  for  their  weaving 
| comes from exactly opposite  sides of the 
world,  and from  the time of the Peruvian 
! Incas to 1836 alpaca was a stuff unknown 
in  any  woman’s  wardrobe. 
Its  arrival 
was  wholly due to  the  inventive  clever- 
| uess of Titus Sait, of England, whoafter- 
| wards got a title to dignify his odd name,
I and who.  in  the  year  above  mentioned, 
stumbled  across,  in  a  Liverpool  ware­
house,  a  number  of bales of ill-smelling 
black  hair from  South  America.  As  no 
one seemed to have any  special desire to 
possess it, he bought the 300 bales and from 
it produced a  fabric  every  woman  grew 
so  mightily  to  fancy  that  presently  he 
bad five large factories in  full  operation. 
Now the essential difference between mo­
hair and alpaca is that the  first is woven 
from  the fine  white  hair  of  the  Angora 
goat  and  accepts  any dye.  while alpaca 
is  made  from  the  coarser  coat  of  the 
South America llama  and  is rarely dyed, 
but sold in  the  natural  tones  of  black, 
gray,  or  rusty  dark  brown.  Though 
“Made in Germany” is  stamped  upon  so 
many of the small findings and trimmings 
of gowns,  the  average  American  woman 
has  grown  to  believe  that  the decently 
clad  world  must  depend  upon 
those 
little  Prussian 
towns.  The  best of  the 
mohair  braids  are  English  woven,  and 
m   just why  the  English  surpass  all  other 
.  I nations  in  their  manufacture  of  goods 
1 from Angora goat and llama hair is chiefly 
because of the  moisture  in  the  English 
air. 
It is only in damp atmosphere  that 
this yarn  can  be  spun,  an  atmosphere 
that  in  Russia,  Germany  and  France 
must  be  artificially  produced  and 
in 
which the spinning  and weaving are  not 
nearly so successful as in  England.

Disadvantages of a Dark Store.

A dark store  seems  to imply  the  mer­
chant’s lack of confidence in his wares.  It 
subtly  suggests  dingy,  shop-worn  mer­
chandise  which  will  not  bear  morning 
sunshine—old stock  which ought to have 
been  replaced by  several  generations  of 
fresh  merchandise.

A  dark  store  not  only  suggests  un­
cleanlines«, but actually  fosters it.  The 
most  conscientious  sweeper  cannot  see 
into  dim  corners,  and  no  one  feels  a 
moral  responsibility  for  dust  which 
must be sought  for with  a  lighted  lan­
tern.

A dark store means  increased  expense 
for  artificial 
light  and  danger  of  fire 
from matches struck  to  find things  in a 
hurry.

A dark  store  depresses  the  spirits  of 
every one who works in  it,  from  the pro­
prietor  to  the  errand  boy. 
It  means 
cross  words, endless  mistakes,  and prob­
ably incivility to  patrons.

A customer  never  sees  anything  new 
in a dark store.  He buys  only  what  he 
had in mind  before he came  in,  transact­
ing his business  as  quickly  as  possible 
so that he  may  get  into  the  light  and 
sunshine again.  This means  a  decrease 
of many per cent,  in a day’s  total  sales.

A  Lightning  Phonographer. 

hand?

Business  Man—Can  you  write  short­
Applicant—Yes, sir.
“ How many  words a minute?”
“ 1  never  counted  ’em,  but  the  other 
day when my wife found in my  overcoat 
pocket  a  letter  which  she  gave  me  to 
mail  last fall,  I  took  down  every  word 
she uttered as fast as she said it.” 

“You’ll do.”
“There 
“ He  does?’
“ Yes; no one else  will take it.”

word!”

goes  a  man  that  keeps  his

| The  Antiquity  of  Butter  and  Cheese.
|  Butter was not  known, or very  imper­
fectly known,  to  the  ancients,  although 
the early Hebrew translators  claimed  to 
have,  found  it  mentioned  in  scripture; 
those best acquainted  with  biblical criti­
cism,  however,  unanimously  agree  that 
the  word  “ chamea”  signified  milk  or 
cream or sour milk, and not  butter.
I  The  first  mention  of  butter,  though 
this is doubtful  and  obscure,  is  in  the 
account given of the Scythians by Herod­
otus.  “ These  people,”  he  says,  “ pour 
I the milk of their mares  in  wooden  ves­
sels, cause it  to  be  violently  stirred  or 
shaken  by their  blind  slaves, and  sepa­
rate the part that rises to  the surface, as 
they consider it more valuable  and  more 
delicious than that which is collected be­
low i t ”  The writer  evidently  explains 
that the richer part of the  milk  is  sepa­
rated  by  shaking,  and  thus  alludes  to 
butter; this is also confirmed  by Hippoc­
rates,  who  was  almost  .contemporary, 
but he gives a more detailed  description: 
“ The  Scythians  pour  out  the  milk  of 
their  mares  into  wooden  vessels  and 
shake it violently; this causes it to foam, 
and the fat part,  which is light,  rising to 
the surface,  becomes what  is called  but­
ter.  The heavy and thick part,  which is 
below,  being kneaded and  properly  pre­
pared,  is,  after it has been  dried,  known 
by the name of  ‘hippace.’  The  whey or 
serum  remains  in  the  middle.”  This 
writer evidently speaks of  butter, cheese 
and  whey.  The  Scythians  probably 
quickened the separation of  the  caseous 
part  from  the  whey  by  warming  the 
milk, or  by  the  addition  of  some  sub­
stance known to them  to effect this.
It is noteworthy that  the  word  “ but­
ter” does not occur  in  Aristotle,  though 
we find in his works information  in  con­
nection  with  milk  and  cheese.  He  at 
first  gives  milk  but 
two  component 
parts—the watery  and  caseous—but  he 
afterwards remarks that in  milk there  is 
also a  fat  substance,  which,  under  spe­
cial circumstances,  is like  oil.  He in all 
probability  intended  to  point  out  that 
the fat  part  of  the  milk  was  observed 
under an oily appearance in  cheese made 
of sweet milk,  from  which the cream had 
not  been  separated.  Their  comparison 
to  oil  also  occurs  in  Dioscorides  and 
Pliny.
Considerable importance  has  been  at­
tached to the remarks of Dioscorides and 
Galen  on  the  subject  of  butter.  The 
former says  that  good  butter  was  pre­
pared  from the fattest milk, such as that 
of sheep and  goats,  by  shaking  it  in  a 
vessel till the fat was separated.  To this 
butter he ascribes the same effects,  when 
used  externally,  as  those  produced  by 
our  butter,  adding  (and  he  is  the  first 
writer who makes  the  observation)  that 
fresh  butter  melted  and  poured  over 
pulse and vegetables  was  far  preferable 
to oil, and that it was  an  excellent  sub- 
titute for fatty matters in making pastry. 
The Roman writers, giving  an account 
of  the  ancient  Britons,  all  agree  that 
they lived principally on milk,  but while 
some tell us that they used cheese, others 
affirm that they  were not acquainted with 
the method of preparing it.
Pliny  says  they  did not make  cheese 
but butter, which  was largely  used  as an 
article of food; he even goes so  far  as  to 
ascribe to them the  invention  of  it,  and 
describes the vessels employed for making 
it,  which appears to  have been somewhat 
similar to those at present  in use;  at  all 
events he  says  that  they  were  covered 
and that the lid  was perforated.
“ Oxygala”  was a kind of  cheese  pre­
pared  with sour milk,  the  serum  being 
this 
separated.  According  to  Pliny, 
cheese was made from  the caseous  parts 
which remained in the buttermilk, which, 
when  separated  by  acids  and  boiling, 
were  mixed  and  prepared 
in  various 
ways.  Galen says its acidity or sourness 
affected the teeth,  but  mentions  a  mild 
cheese  under the name  of “ caseous oxy- 
galactium;”  in  the  “ Geoponica”  direc­
tions were given how to keep this cheese 
for a length of time.

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Common Green Onions, per d oz..........................ioc
Seed Onions,  per  d oz..............................................isc
Radishes, long or round, very fine, per doz 
.10c
Asparagus, per doz...................................................30c
Cucumbers,  per  doz............................................... 50c
Spinach, new,  per bu............................................. 50c
Pie  Plant,  per bu 
...................................................40c
Bananas, per  bunch  ................................. $1.50@2.00
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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Hardware Price Current.

som e  d e fe c t  in  g ood s,  d oes  h e  tu rn   ca re­
le ss ly   a w a y ,  rem ark in g  th at  th is  w ill 
try 
h ap p en   s  mi e t  m es,  or  d o es  h e 
to 
rem edy  th e  d e fe c ts  and  m ake 
it  right 
w ith   th e cu sto m er?   A re  he  and  a ll  h is 
a ssista n ts  k ind  and  c o u rteo u s  to* th o se 
w ho  en ter  th e  sto re,  w h eth er  th ey   p u r­
ch a se  a n y th in g   or  not? 
if   th ey  are  n o t 
p u rch a sers  at 
th ey   m ay  b ecom e 
su c h ,  or  th ey   m ay  be  d isp lea sed   w ith   th e 
trea tm e n t  receiv ed   and  n ot  com e  again  
w h ere  th e ir   in q u irie s  for  in fo rm a tio n   are 
c u r tly   an sw ered .  T h e  m erch an t  can u o t 
afford  to  m ak e  e n e m ie s  w hen  a  few   kind 
w ords  and  a  co u rteo u s  m anner  w ill  m ake 
fr ie n d s  in stea d .

first, 

A Novel  Scheme.

AUGURS AND BITS. 

dl*

 

 

“ 
‘ 
‘ 

AXES. 

70
Snell’s 
.......................................................... 
Cook’s .........  ........................................................ 
40
25
Jennings’, genuine.................... 
Jennings’,  Im itation..........................................18*10
«IH.
First Quality, 8  B.  Bronze...............................  5 25
D.  B.  Bronze.................................1 9   0
6  00
8.  B. r4. Steel......... 
D.  B. Steel 
...............................  i0  00
tu s il
»12  oo  14  no 
.  oet  30 00 
dis. 50410 
...........70410
tnAtT
'04'.

ijardcn..................................................

tllroan.

MOLTS.

.. 

BUCKETS.

stove........... 
'arrlage u e«  list 
Plow........... 
Sleigh  -¡hue 
Well,  plain 

.....................................
.............  .......
...........................
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.............. .......................
BUTTS, CABT.
Can Loose Pin, figured..................
■Air 
Ordlnarr  Turtle,  1st April  1898.
CRADLE*.
Gr  in. Wood  b r a c e .......................
........................
Grain,  Wire brace 

BLOCKS.

--<■•

dll.

CAJPa

CHISELS.

CROW  BARS

CARTRIDGES

....*16  fO 
......*18  00

Oast sicei
S ly’s 1 10 
Hick’s  t \  <f 
G .D  
Musk 'i
Rim  Fire 
25
Central  Fire
dls. 
socket Firmer  . 
75410 
Socket Framing
75416
Socket Corner...................................................       75410
Socket S lic k s......................................................  75410
40
12©12* dls. 10
28
26
2
i0

Of all  the fin de sieele schemes to draw 
trade,  the  one  recently  gotten  up  by  a 
shoe dealer in a town  in  the  interior  of 
Pennsylvania is probably  the most uovel. 
lie offers  a  bicycle  to  the  boy  through 
whom  the  largest  quantity  of  shoes  is 
sold in  two  months.  Naturally,  nearly 
every  boy  in  town  has  interested  him­
self in the matter,  and,  as a  result, he  is 
making life  miserable  for  “his  sisters, 
cousins  and  his  aunts,”  besides  his 
father,  mother,  Sunday  school  teacher, 
etc.  Each boy  participating in  the  con­
test  is  given  a  pack  of  cards  on  which 
his  name  is  written.  These  cards  the 
boy distributes  to his friends,  requesting 
them to buy their  shoes  during  the  two 
months at So-and-so’s,  and present at the  Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer 
store one of the cards on  which  his  (the \ 
chalk.
is  incribed.  The  store-1 WMte 
boy’s,  name 
keeper  places  tbe  amount  of  purchase i planished, 14 os cut to slse.. 
upon the  caru and  files  it  to  the  boy’s) 
“ 
tolled,’ 14x48 .aU..........
credit.  At  the  expiration  of  the  two  I 
the  various  amounts  will  be j B ottom s....................................
months, 
summed  up,  and the  boy  whose  account j 
d r i l l s .
T a ^ n d ’ite S S h a n k !"
is the largest gets  the “ bike.” 
Morse’s Taper Shank
Small sites, ser pound 
6V4
Large sties, per  ponnd 
06
Cim. 4  p’ece, 6 in .............................. no*,  nei 
65
'Isrragated 
. dls
KUnstable 
dls  suAin
Clark’s, small, Ii8;  large, *26.........................  
31
Ives’, 1, *18:  2, *24;  3,*30..................... .. 
25
Disston’s 
...................................................... 60410-10
New American  .............................................60410-10
Nicholson’s ...................................................60410-  0
Heller’s
Heller’s Horse R a sp s......................................  50410
28
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
List 
16 
1’

..  per  pound 
.......................  
................  
....................... 

Couldn’t  Find  the  Baby.

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

GALVANIZED IRON.

pilbs—New List. 

EXPANSIVE BITS. 

drifting pans.

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

RLROWB.

if*??'

dls.

dls.

„ 

... 

15 

. 

GLASS  PAPER.

A  More  Accurate  Designation  Nowa­

days  than  Sandpaper.

instrument. 

F rom   th e  P h ila d e lp h ia   In q u ire r.
Sandpaper as  now made is false  to  its 
name, for  it  bas  no  sand  about  it,  tbe 
place of that material  being  now  taken 
usually by  powdered  glass,  which  does 
its work  with vastly greater effect.
One of the most  important  operations 
in  the  faoricatiou  of  sandpaper  is  the 
pulverization of the glass iuto powder of 
the  different  grades  of  fineness.  Com­
monly,  an  iron  mortar  is  used  for this 
purpose, a  heavy  iron  pestle  being  the 
crushing 
Stamping  ma­
It  consists of a  stout 
chinery is better. 
box,  whose  iron  side  walls  serve  as  a 
base  for  the  stamping  machinery, 
in 
the box,  which can  be closed by a wooden 
door  to  prevent  waste  of  material  and 
also injury to the workman,  are two iron 
cylinders  in  which  play 
the  stamps. 
These crush the  glass,  turning  on  their 
own axles as they work.
For grading the powder  several  shift­
ing cylinders are necessary, covered  with 
gauze of different mesh.  Beginning  with 
the coarsest the workman  proceeds  grad­
ually  to  the  finest,  resifting  each time 
that which  passes through  the  network 
The  paper to be used in  the  manufac­
ture  must  be  good,  strong,  and  rather 
long-fibred;  it  must  also  be  free  from 
knots and irregularities,  and  if  there  be 
any  such  they  must  be  planed  off. 
If 
they should  be  overlooked,  they  would 
interfere with the proper use of the sand 
paper; the knots would protrude through 
the  glue,  and  little  ridges and channels 
would  result,  making  it  impossible  to 
smobth  off  a  surface  evenly  with  the 
paper.
The  paper  is  cut  into  large  sheets, 
spread on  work  tables,  fastened  down, 
and then  paiuted,  by  means  of  a  large 
brush,  with a thin, even coat of hot glue. 
If the glue is too thin  and  the  paper  of 
bad  quality,  the  glue  soaks  into  the 
paper,  so that  which  remains  is  not  of 
sufficient  consistency  to  hold  the glass. 
Thus results a sandpaper from which the 
glass easily rubs off, or which,  in places, 
has no glass at all,  or not enough.  This 
is notably the case  with  the  coarser  va­
rieties, in  which the layer  of  glue  must 
be put on with  exceeding  care,  that  the 
relatively 
fragments  of  glass, 
which can in no manner be  soaked  with 
the binding material, may be held  fast in 
it.  On the other  hand,  if  the  layer  of 
glue is too  thick  or  the  consistence  too 
viscous,  the outer part hardens too quick­
ly,  so  that  the  glass  powder  cannot 
embed itself in it.
When the glue has been  spread on the 
paper,  the powdered glass must be sifted 
on through an  appropriate  sieve.  This 
operation  also 
requires  considerable 
skill,  though not so much as  the spread­
ing of the  glue,  for  the  glass  must  not 
be sifted merely in such a  manner  as  to 
use a given quantity  to  a  sheet,  but  so 
that each sheet may  be  covered  evenly. 
Even then all the powder will  not  stick, 
and some of the particles lie  upon others 
without touching the  glue; these  can  be 
shaken off  by  a  slight  movement  of  the 
paper.  When the superfluous glass pow­
der has been removed, a  wooden roller is 
passed  lightly  over  the  paper  to  press 
the particles of glass  as  firmly  as  possi­
ble into the glue and to form a  perfectly 
even surface.

large 

Must Watch  the  Course  of Trade.
It is an  old saying that  “Straws  show 
which  way  the  wiud  blows,”  and  the 
merchant must  watch  the  straws  well. 
If he sees that some of his customers  are 
not coming quite  so  frequently,  or  that 
their  purchases  are  less  when  they do 
come, or if he finds that  he  cannot  hold 
his customers year after year,  but that in 
two  or  three  years,  or  possibly only as 
many months,  his best customers vibrate 
gradually  to  his  neighbor’s  store,  the 
time has come when  the  wise  merchant 
will open his eyes  and  see if  tie  cannot 
find  the  cause,  and  by  studying  the 
movements of the straws he may possibly 
be  able  to  change  the  direction of the 
wind,  or  find  some  remedy 
for  the 
trouble.  Are his prices too  high?  Does J 
he keep  a good  grade  of  goods?  When 
his  customer  now and tnen complains o ft

dis.

HINGES.

PANS.
dls.SO—10 
Fry,  A cm e..............................
dis. 
70 
..............
Common,  polished 
R im s .
60
Iron and  Tinned.....  
..........
....  60-10
Copper Rivets and B ars.........
“A ” Wood s  patent pianlaKoU, Nos. 24 to 27  10  80 
“ B" Wood's  pat  planished,  Nos. 25 to 29...  9  20 

PATENT  PLANISHED IKON.

HOLLOW  WARB

Broken  pars* 

lo n g er.............

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

i«**'  r*-wid esira,
HARMS»*.
May dole  A C o.».....................................  
dls. 
2>
Kip’s ............................................ ................... dls. 
*>
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s ....................................... dls. 404”
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............................80c list 7
Blacksmltn’s Solid Cast  Steel  Hand__ 80c404i0
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 ..............................  
dls.60410
State.................................................. per dos. net, 2  oi>
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4H  14  and 
8 *
.............. net
i
net
8w
net
7H
net
7K
dll.

>4............
.. 
94............
X ..............—  
* ............. .... 
....... 

o*
6041
614'.4Uûi‘
uew  list 
410 
................ 21 410

Strap and T .......
Pots................ 
.................................
Kettles............. 
S p id ers.........................................................
Gray enam eled........................................
HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOOD*.
Stamped  Tin Ware.
Japanned Tin  Ware......................
Granite Iron W are.......................
Bright..................................  .........
Screw  Byes....................................
H ook's.............................................
Gate  Hooks and  a yes...................
Stanley  Rule «ud Level  co.  s ...
Sisal,  H Inch and la r g er.........
Manilla  ...........................................
SQUARES.
Steel and  I r o n ....................................................
Try and B evels..............  .............
M itre......................................................................
SHEET IRON.
Com.  Smooth.
Nob. 10 to  14 
13  50
Nos. 15 to 1 7 ....................................... 
3 50
Nos.  18 to 2 1 ..................... 
4  05
Nos. 22 to 24  ............ ..........................  
3  55
Nos. 25 to 2 t ...........................................3  65
NO. 27.......................................................  3 75
wide not less than 2-10 extra
SAND PAPER.
01st acct. 19, '8 6 ...........................................dls. 
SASH CORD
Silver Lake.  White  A ................ 
...list 
 
 

80
M.20
COD' 
|i>  50 
2  6 
2 70 
2 80 
2  90 
8 00
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  inebe» 

OlS /  o
5 *
9
dis.

LEVELS.
HOPES.

WIRE GOODS.

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

. 

Drab A ............................. 
White  a   ....................................‘ 
Drab  B................................ 
 
White C.......................................“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

50
60
» 56
50
■« 5*
30

Discount, 10.

SASH  WEIGHTS

dls.

saws. 

TRAPS. 

H and............................................... 

Solid  Byes  ....................................... 

per ton I2u
20
11 
Sliver Steel Dla.  X Cuts, per foot,___  
7u
“ 
Special Steel Dex X Cats, per foot....  50
Special Steel Dla. X Cats, per foot.... 
80 
“ 
“  Champion  and  Electric  Tooth  X 
80
Cuts,  per  root............................................. 
Steel, Game.........................................................  6041
Onelaa Community, Newhonse’s ................ 
5
Oneida  Community, Hawley * Norton’s. .7T-10  10
Mouse,  choker..........................................15c per dot
Mouse, delusion.................................... 11.25 per dos
die.
Bright Market.  ................................................   75410
vnnealed Market.  ............................................. 7; 410
Coppered Market 
........................................  
75
Tinned  Market....................................................  62H
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................................... 
50
barbed  Fence, galvanised....................................  2 30
painted...........................................  1 95

wire. 

dlk

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

 

dls

dla. 

WRENCHES. 

»  **»«•*”  ........... 

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

40410
Putnam  .......................................................  
Northwestern 
dls. 10410
i&xter >.  Adjustable, nickeled.  .................... 
so
50
Joe’s  G -n u ln e.................................................... 
’oe’s  latent Agricultural, wrought,............. 7! 410
Coe’s  Patent, malleable.....................................75415
dlS.
Bird Cages 
50
 
..........................................7541145
Pumps. Cistern 
Screws, New List 
80
.. 
Casters,  Bed  a  .d  Plate 
.....................   5041041»
Dampers,  American 
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.................70

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

MISCELLANEOUS. 

 

 

 

dls. 05

4< 410

M ETALS,

PIG TIN.

Pig  Large.............................................................  
Pig Bars................................................................. 
6mo pound  casks............................................... 
Per  ponnd............................................................. 

ZINC.

246
260
5ft
6

SOLDER.

........................................................................ 1214
Tht  prices  of  the  msny  other  qualities  u> 
«ilder in  the market Indicated  by private brand»
vary  according to composition.

TIN—HELVE GRADE.

“ 
“ 
TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE.

.........................................
.........................................
Bach additional X on this grade, 11.75.

10x14 IO, Charcoal............................................... 1 6 0 0
6 no
14X20 IC,
7  50 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 
7  50
1 20
1 SO
 
10x14 IC,  Charcoal 
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
14x20 IX, 

.......................................
.........................................
.......................................
......................................
Bach additional  X  on  this grade 11.50.
..................

BOXFING PLATES
Dean 

5  25
5  25
6  25 
6  25

“ 
“ 
“ 

1 60

I*x20  IC, 
14x20 IX 
20x23  IC 
14x2010, 
14X20IX 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX,
<x'w
IX  I 
X,
4Xa

Allaway  Grade

BOILER STBS TIN PLATE. 
■  v .   9 Hollers, I

1  j per  ponnd

5  00
6 00 
10 00
4  75
a ou
11  5}

a 

“A  funny 

lady’s  arm  was 

thing  happened  to  me,” 
said a drummer,  “as  1  was  coming  up j 
the  other  night  in  a 
from  Cincinnati 
sleeper.  Before  I  went to bed  I  noticed 
two ladies and  a  little  baby  in  the  seat 
across  from  me.  The  next  morning  1 
was  lying in my  berth awake,  wondering 
whether 1 had better get up or not, when, 
suddenly, 
thrust 
through the curtains,  and  I  was  gently 
tapped on the shoulder.
“ ‘Excuse me,’ said  a  feminine  voice, 
•but is my  baby in your  berth?’
“I  was  considerably  surprised,  but 
managed to mumble something about my 
being a pretty old codger to be her baby.
“ •No,’  she  said,  ‘you  don’t  under­
stand me;  1 can’t find my precious baby.’
“ ‘Well,’  said  I,  ‘has  it  rolled  out 
onto the floor?’
“ ‘No,’ she  answered  plaintively,  ‘but 
we were  so  crowded  in  our  berth  last 
night that I asked the porter  to  put  tbe 
little  darling  in  with  some  gentleman 
who was alone,  and now 1 can’t find it.’ ”
Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical Society.
At  the  regular  quarterly  meeting  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Pharmaceutical  So­
ciety,  held at the office  of  the  Uazeltine 
&  Perkins  Drug  Co , 
last  Wednesday 
evening,  President Peck  presided.
Applications for membership  were  re­
ceived  from  tbe 
following  druggists: 
Wm. Legate,  1213  South Division street; 
Dennis Baker,  61  West  Leonard  street; 
G.  S.  Putnam,  1168  Wealthy  avenue;  F. 
W. Curtiss.  196 East Bridge  street;  Emil 
Riechel,  416  West  Bridge  street;  Laura 
A. Oliver, 702  Madison  avenue.
On motion of  Frank  J.  Wurzburg,  all 
of the above applications  were  accepted 
and  the  applicants  elected  to  member­
ship in tbe organization.
No other  business  of  a  public  nature 
was  transacted.

True  to  Life.

Papa—Are  you  sure  that  you  and 
mamma thought of  me  while  you  were 
away?
Little  Grace—Yes;  we  heard  a  man 
just scolding awful about  his  breakfast, 
like 
and  mamma  said,  “Thai’s 
papa.”

just 

Those  who  live  only  to make money 
finally  become as hard as  the  money  it­
self.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

d ll

60410

13 

12 

Discount, 70

14 
GAUGRS. 
Stanley Rnle and  Level Co.’s
knobs—New List. 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings 
... 
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings 
.. 
Door, porcelain, plated trimming*__
Door,  porcelsln, trim m in gs................ . 
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain............... 

LOCKS—DOOR. 

Russell 4  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list 
.......  
Mallory, Wheeler  4   Co.’s ................................ 
...................................................... 
Branford’s 
Norwalk’s 
.............................

dls.
GO
dls.
G
5
5
7

dls.

S
5
56

MATTOCKS.

....................................... $16. >0, dls.  60-10
........................................I15.  »>, dls. 6”-10

Adxe Bye 
Hunt < y e 
Hunt’s .............................................118.GO. dls.  20410
dls.
Speiry 4  Co.’s, Fost,  handled......................... 
dls.
,’offee, Parkers  Co.’s .........................................  
”  P. S  4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables.... 
•’  Landers,  Ferry 4  d s  rk’s .................... 
............................................ 

MAULS. 
mills. 

Enterprise 

GO
40
40
40
30

MOLASSES GATES. 

N A IL S

Meooin’s  P attern ....................................  
Stebbln’B G enuine...............................................66410
Enterprise, seif-m ea su rin g ........................... 
30
Advance over  base,  on  b ith   Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails,  oase.................................  
1  50@1  45
Wire nails,  oase.......................................... 1  5031  45
Base
60.............................................................Base 
50...............................................................  
10
25
40...............................................................  
30...............................................................  
25
35
20...............................................................  
16...............................................................  
45
12...............................................................  
45
10............................................................... 
50
8 ....... .......................................................  
«0
7 4 6 .......................................................... 
76
4 
.............. 
90
......................................................................  
3 
2 ........................................................................ 
F i n e * ............................................ 
 
Case  10.  .. 
 

66
 
8  .......  
76
 
90
6 ....................................................  
Finish 10 
75
.............................................. 
90
\  ... 
.......................................... 
10
6 
.............................................  
Clinch  10 
70
.............................................  
80
8  ............................................... 
Qfl
a 
B arrell* 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n cy ......................................  850
Sdota  Bench......................................................  60410
Sandusky Tool  Oo.’s, fan cy..................................  C 51
Bench,first quality..................................................  C 50
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s  w ood............. 

•* 
“ 
*> 
“ 
“ 
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PLANKS. 

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c h ig a n S ja d e s m a n

\jZcvà>?

A  WEEKLY  JOURNAL r «VOTED  TO  TBE

Besl  Interests  of  Business  Men.

Pabllshed at

N e w   ltlo ilg e tt  R M  if., Grand  R apids, 
TRADESMAN  COMPANY.

—  BY  THE —

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E.  A.  STOWE.  Editor.

W E D N E SD A Y ,  J U N E  19.

THE  lÆICHIG^LlSr  TRADESMAN.
TRADE  WITH  THE  FAR  EAST, 

There can  be no accurate knowledge as 
to the situation  on  account of exaggera­
tion and the censorship of Spanish news, 
but nearly  every  Spanish  success  is  fi­
nally corrected  as  an insurgent one  and 
all  the  most  prominent  Cuban  leaders 
slain in  battle continue to  turn  up  else­
where very much alive.  Spain continues 
to pour  in  money  and  troops,  bat  not 
enough  to  turn  the  scale,  although  her 
armies there are greater  than  were  ever 
sent in any previous war in  the Island.

country.  Her  short-sighted  policy  of 
oppression  has  weakened  the  ties  be-!  One of the most interesting of  the  de­
tween her and Cuba and driven the latter I velopments connected  with  the  surpris-
ing strides in civilization made by Japan 
to  seek  commercial  sympathy  and  aid 
in recent years is  the  progress  reported 
elsewhere.  She has sown  the wind  and 
in industrial  enterprise.  Not  only  has 
the whirlwind  will  be the harvest.
Japan essayed to produce all  that  is  re 
quired for  home  consumption,  but  she 
has also sought  to  compete  for  foreign 
trade with a  success  which  promises  in 
the  not  distant  fnture  to  make  her  a 
formidable  rival  of  the  Western  coun 
tries.
Within the past ten  years  a  consider 
able cotton manufacturing  industry  has 
been built up in  Japan,  which  not  only 
supplies  the  home  demand  for  manu 
factured  cotton  goods,  but  also  ships 
goods  to  China 
in  competition  with 
India.  The opening  up of new  sections 
of China as a  result  of  the  recent war 
and the throwing open of  Corea  to  com 
merce,  will  develop  a  wide  field  for 
Japanese enterprise  in  cotton  manufac 
turing.  Owing to an  abundance  of  in 
telligent and cheap  labor,  the  Japanese 
mills are able to produce cloth at a lower 
cost than can either India or Manchester 
They  are  also  in  a  better  position  to 
manufacture just the styles of goods that 
will sell best in the  Chinese  and  Corean 
markets.

WATCHING THE  CLOCK.

The  letter  from  “Vindex,” published 
elsewhere  this  week,  setting  forth  the 
circumstances which led a young  man in 
comparative  obscurity  to  become  asso­
ciated in business  with  a millionaire,  is 
commended to the perusal of every clerk 
wit hip  the  scope  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n ’s 
influence.  The employe who watches the 
clock  lest  he  give  his  employer  a  few 
minutes  more  time  than  he  is  paid for 
never achieves any degree of success, for 
the reason  that his methods are  not such 
as  commend  themselves  to  the  kindly 
consideration  of  the  employer. 
T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   happens to know a man who 
is expected to be at  his  post of duty at 7 
o’clock.  About half the time he is  from 
five  to  fifteen  minutes  late  (which  he 
never makes up), and whenever he arrives 
at the place where he is employed  a  few 
minutes ahead of time,  he sits down  with 
his coat and bat on,  waiting for the clock 
to strike 7,  so that the  garments  may  be 
removed and hung up on  the  employer’s 
time.  Such a  man  can  never  get  very 
far  away  from  the  shadow of the poor- 
house,  for the reason  that be  has seldom 
sufficient ambition to  strike  out for him­
self and, whenever he does so, he is sorely 
handicapped  by  slovenly  habits  which 
absolutely  preclude  success.  The  suc- 
essful man of the future is  the clerk  of 
to-day  who is not afraid of  work and who 
not  over  particular  abont  the  extra 
hours or minutes he gives  his  employer, 
but  who devotes every energy to contrib­
ute to the success of his employer’s busi­
ness. 
If this employer happens to be  so 
sordid that he does not  appreciate  faith­
ful service  on the part of the clerk—and 
there  are,  unfortunately,  such  employ­
ers—some other employer  is  pretty  sure 
to detect the good  traits  of  the  employe 
and to reward him  therefor  by  the offer 
of better pay or a partnership interest in 
his  business. 
If  such  recognition  fails 
to come,  the employe still has recourse to 
the broad avenue  of  embarking  in  busi­
ness for himself,  in  which  the  habits  of 
faithfulness  formed  earlier  in  life  will 
come  into  play  to  excellent  advantage, 
and will contribute, in no small degree, to 
his  ultimate success.

A  SOURCE  OF  CUBAN  ASSISTANCE
Added importance has  been  given  the 
Cuban  revolt  by  the proclamation  of  the 
President,  forbidding  filibustering.  Of 
course,  such  action  was  necessary  for 
consistence  in the  claims  made  by  tbi 
country  under  the  nutrality  laws;  but 
the action  has  no  significance  as  to  the 
feeling of sympathy  in  this  country  for 
those who are  fighting for  their  freedom 
in Cuba.

That the aid the Cubans  are  receiving 
from this country  is a very serious factor 
in  the problem  for Spain is beyond ques­
tion,  but  it is not correct to  charge  that 
fact entirely to the  sympathy  of  Ameri­
cans.  The aid  they are  receiving,  while 
coming from  this  country,  is  largely,  if 
not principally,  from others than Ameri­
cans, and  the fact of the existence of that 
source of aid is to he  charged to Spanish 
misrule and oppression.

Commercial intercourse  between  Cuba 
and the United States  has been  very  in­
timate  and  constantly 
increasing  and 
many  of  the  most  enterprising  of  the 
young business men of the Island, trained 
in  that  most  difficult  business  school— 
difficult on  account of Spanish  exactions 
—have  naturally  turned  to this country 
for more favorable  opportunities.  Here 
they  have  quickly  assumed  prominent 
positions  in  the  business world and  are 
among the most enterprising and wealthy 
of  many  of  the  large  cities.  Thus,  in 
New York there is a large Cuban colony. 
These men are engaged in lines  of  trade 
in  which  Cuba  is  especially interested, 
such as tobacco, coffee,  fruits, etc.  They 
have come to this country to make money 
and have retained their  interest  and  pa 
triotism for their beautiful Island.  Their 
relatives  are  there  and,  in  fact,  their 
homes—they are exiles,  not emigrants.

These  men,  by  means  of  their  own 
wealth and the  wealth  they  are  able  to 
command  on  account  of  their  business 
interests and associations  are  supplying 
large  sums  for  the  prosecution  of  the 
war for freedom. 
It  has  been  a  matter 
of  wonder  how  the  rebels  are  provided 
with the  finest  modern  arms  and  have 
unlimited  supplies  of  all  kinds.  The 
source is not far  to  seek  and  any  proc­
lamation of the President or  any  degree 
of diligence  on  the  part  of  the  officials 
will not materially affect it.

The truth of the  matter  is,  Spain  has 
been unable to preventCuba from becom- < 
ing  a  commercial  dependency  of  this I

distribution.  Still,  the  general  reason 
given  in  all  the  decisions  is  that  they 
tend to destroy competition  and are con­
trary to public policy.

In the case of the whisky  trust  it  was 
also held that the charter of  the corpora­
tion  only  authorized  the  ownership  of 
distillery plants for the  purpose  of  car­
rying on its business and  the  control  of 
any others was in excess of its powers.

Japan is fully meeting the expectations 
of her admirers in  the manner  in  which 
she  is  taking  her  place  as  a  modern 
power.  The  signing of a treaty between 
that country and  Russia is the fourth  ef­
fected,  the others being with  the  United 
States,  Great  Britain  and  Italy.  The 
most  important  provision  of  all  these 
treaties is that Japan is recognized as  an 
eqnal  power,  with independent rights  to 
make  her  own  tariff  laws  and  conduct 
her own judicial  procedure  without  for­
eign consulur courts at  the  large  treaty 
posts.  This means that she is recognized 
as  competent to manage  her  own  affairs 
without  the  supervision  of  the  powers 
which has been exercised, to  a  great  ex­
tent, ever since the nation  began  to  ad­
mit foreigners. 
In the  manner,  also,  in 
which she is gathering up  the  fruits  of 
her  victory  over  China,  the vigor with 
which she has taken  possession  of  For­
mosa and has asserted her rights in other 
regards  under  the  treaty  with  China, 
there  is nothing to  criticise  or  suggest. 
There were those  who  thought  that  her 
action in  resigning her claims to the  ter­
ritory  west of Corea on the  recommenda­
tion  of  the  powers was a manifestation 
of  weakness,  but,  as  a  matter  of fact, 
those  recommendations  were  based  on 
sound political  reasons in the interest  of 
permanent  peace,  and  her 
resistance 
would have amounted to foolish bravado. 
That she so quickly recognized  that  fact 
and  acquiesced cheerfully and  with  dig­
nity  argues  well for her appreciation of 
political interests.

A dispatch from Massillon, Ohio,  says 
that  while  his  thermometer,  fifty  feet 
away,  registered  100  degrees,  Uriah 
Matthews sat in  his  cold  storage  room, 
the other day,  in great  danger  of  freez­
ing to death.  He  entered  the  chamber 
to  arrange  some  supplies,  leaving  the 
door  open.  An  employe,  not  knowing 
that Mr.  Matthews  was inside, closed the 
door and locked it  carefully.  Mr.  Mat­
thews shouted and pounded,  but in  vain. 
He had grown  stiff and numb and was all 
but unconscious  when, occasion  arising 
for some one to enter,  the  door  was  un­
locked.  He  was  carried  out  helpless, 
but  alive.  Restoratives  were  applied 
aud he will  recover.

The Chicago Inter-Ocean,  noticing  the 
prosecution of a woman in New  York for 
attempting suicide,  says that the punish­
ment  of  attempting  suicides  can  only 
have  the  effect  of  making  them  more 
careful to be successful  in  the  execution 
of their attempts. 
It holds that  punish­
ment  is  brutal,  and  is  fonnded  on ex­
ploded superstitions,  and thinks that the 
true way of dealing with  such cases is to 
convince them  that  there  is  stilt  some­
thing in life  worth living for.

In its output of steel rails and railroad 
iron  of  various  kinds  the  Illinois  Steel 
Works,  of South  Chicago,  is  said  to  be 
without  a  rival,  even  excelling  the 
famous  Krupp  works  at  EsseD,  Ger­
many, in those particular lines.

The  Japanese  have  discovered  that 
American  cotton  suits  their  needs  bet­
ter than India  or  other  Eastern  cotton 
hence fair quantities of the  fleecy  staple 
have  been  purchased  direct  from  the 
United States,  and  still  larger  amounts 
of the American  product  have  been  im­
ported  via  Liverpool.  Owing  to  their 
econominal methods of  manufacture and 
cheaper cost of  labor,  the  Japanese  find 
they can import American  cotton,  manu­
facture it and sell to China at  a  cheaper 
price  than  Manchester,  or  even  New 
England milling centers.

Having  experimented  with  American 
cotton and found it  well  suited  to  their 
purposes, 
there  is  no  doubt  that  the 
Japanese will seek to import an annually 
increasing amonnt of cotton  direct  from 
the United States.  At present  the  high 
cost of freight,  resulting  from  the  haul 
to  San  Francisco  and  the  reshipment 
there for  Japan,  is  an  obstacle  in  the 
way of the trade; but  when  the  Nicara­
gua  Canal  is  built,  placing  Japan  and 
the East generally within  easy  reach  of 
the  great  cotton  belt  of  the  United 
States,  the  Japanese  will  import  large 
quantities of new cotton  from  this coun­
try. 

________________

THE  WHISKY  TRUST  DECISION.
The  decision  of  the  Illinois  Supreme 
Court declaring the  whisky  trust  illegal 
and its charter void is in the  line  of  the 
decisions  of  various  courts  in  the  oil, 
sugar, match and  other  combinations  to 
control output of industries.  The decision 
will  not  have  the  importance 
in  the 
present case  that  it  wonld 'have  had  if 
the affairs of the trust  were  not  already 
in the hands  of  a  receiver.  One  result 
of the decision,  however,  is to  leave  the 
question in doubt as to the  rightful  pos­
sessors  of  the  plants,  and  rumors  of 
seizure  by  the  individual  owners  have 
made  it  necessary  for  the  receiver  to 
provide  about  100  deputy  marshals  in 
Chicago  and  a large  number  at  Peoria 
and other points.

The  Mayor of Muncie, Ind.,  is  in  for 
it.  A few days ago  he  issued  an  order 
for the arrest of the  engineer  of  a  pas­
senger train for running into town faster 
than 
the  law  permitted.  The  arrest 
caused the train to be  delayed  for  more 
than half an hour,  until  another  engine 
could be procured to take it  on.  Now it 
occurs to the people of  Muncie  that  the 
It is remarkable that in  most  of  these 
Mayor  has  interfered  with  the  United
decisions affecting trusts the  trials  dem-
States  mail  and  with  interstate  com-  onstrated  the  fact  that  their  operation 
merce,  and the official is likely  to  smart  had been to lower prices, on account of the 
for his officiousness. 
I greater  economy  in  administration  and

W H O   IS   M ASTüiK ?

.Now that there is a lull  in  the  scrim­
mage which has been going on  in  Asia’s 
back yard,  there seems to  be some  doubt 
as to who is to take control of the matter 
as  it  stands.  Time  was  when  the two 
parties  which  had  come  to  blows  in­
sisted  on  settling  their  differences  in 
their own way; but, now,  when  the  one 
worsted  has taken his dose and  expected 
to abide by it, Russia & Co.  step  in  with 
a decided,  “No, no!” and there  the  thing 
hangs  fire.  Japan  had  a grievance and, 
with the odds  supposed  to  be  fearfully 
against  her,  “went  in”  and  gave  her 
overbearing neighbor a drubbing she will 
remember for many a day; and  she is un­
able  to  see  why  she  shouldn’t  have  a 
slice of territory  if  she  wants  it?  And 
she can’t exactly see  what  right  Russia 
or  England  has  to call a halt. 
Isn’t In­
dia  large  enough,  and  -was  Japan  con­
sulted when that part of Asia  went  over 
to  the  English  crown?  And  will  the 
Russian  Bear  kindly  mention  the  date 
when,  with  a  “Beg  pardon”  to  Japan, 
his big paw came down and covered  “for 
keeps” a goodly portion of  Asiasic  terri­
tory?  Of  course, France is calmly look­
ing  on,  and,  of  course,  if  there is any 
kind  of  a  show,  the  German  Emperor 
will  be  there,  and,  while  the  United 
States  cannot  hope  for  anything,  she j 
has  such  a  desire to  see  fair  play  that 
she  stands  on  tiptoe  looking  over  the 
heads of the crowd.

In  the  meantime,  what  of  China? 
Beaten and bleeding and robbed,  is  it  to 
be supposed that she is to remain  in  the 
pitiful  condition  in  which  Japan  has 
left her?  Her foolish dream of superior­
ity and the sleep  which  produced  it are 
over. 
It is painfully evident that, if she 
isn’t  wide  awake,  it  won’t  be  a  great 
while before she will be, and when  300,- 
000,000 Chinamen  “get a move on them,” 
to  quote  the  vernacular  of  the  street 
gamin,  something will be done.

We respectfully suggest to  the nations 
and peoples of  the  earth  that,  in  their 
dealings with  this  question,  they  exer­
cise due care not  to  get  their  digits  too 
near  the  rapidly  revolving  buzz  saw; 
something  unpleasant  will  be  sure  to 
come of  it.  A  nation  may  be  half  civ­
ilized,  but it is human, and the humanity 
that is in it will take such an instance as 
the Alsace and Lorraine episode  of  1870 
and make  as much of it as  France hopes 
to one of these days.

It was Shylock  who  said: 

“The  vil­
lainy you teach me I will execute,  and it 
shall  go  hard,  bat  I’ll  better  the  in­
struction;”  and,  when  that  same  idea 
gets fairly settled in  the  mind  of  a  na­
tion, the execution is as sure  to  come  as 
is the sunrise.  China has a history; and, 
if that history  repeats  itself,  when  the 
final  answer  is  given  to  the  question, 
“Who  is  master?” 
the  now  prostrate 
nation, in the dust no longer  and  bleed­
ing no longer,  will reply  with  a  single 
word, and that word will be,  “China.”

TO  MAINTAIN  NEUTRALITY.

There is now not the  least  doubt  that 
a filibustering expedition,  well  equipped 
with arms and ammunition,  to assist  the 
insurrectionists  in  Cuba,  succeeded  in 
getting  away  from  a  Florida  port  and 
landing on the north coast of  the island. 
The  expedition  was  an  important  one, 
not  merely  from  the fact that it carried 
over 300 men,  but  because  it  was  well 
supplied  with  arms  and  ammunition, 
which  have  been  more  needed  by  the 
revolutionists than have men.

It is impossible  for the Government  to 
refuse  to  take  these  precautions  now 
that the fact  has  been  established  that 
the neutrality laws  have  been  violated; 
nevertheless,  it  is clear to every  impar­
tial observer  that  popular  sympathy  in 
the  United  States  is  on  the side of the 
revolutionists, and their ultimate success 
would be hailed  with satisfaction.

All the latest  accounts  received  from 
Cuba indicate that General de  Campos  is 
not meeting with  the  success  he  antici­
pated in quelling the  trouble.  Owing to 
the breaking  out  of  rebellion  in  many; 
new portions of the island,  and the  pros­
pect  of  trouble  also  in  Porto Rico, the 
outlook  for  a  successful termination of 
the struggle on the part of de  Campos  is 
not  particularly  bright  at  the  present 
time.  His demand for  more  troops  has 
been  met  by  the  ordering  of  ten  ad­
ditional battalions to Cuba,  and  that  the 
Spanish government  considers the situa­
tion serious is attested by the  fact  that, 
in  addition  to  the  ten  fresh battalions 
ordered  to embark,  ten  more  battalions 
are to be held in  readiness  to  depart  at 
short notice.

By the provisions of a new state law  in 
New Tork,  no railroad  corporation  shall 
hereafter employ a  locomotive  engineer 
who is not able to read and write.  While 
it is true that ability to  do  so  forms  no 
part of an engineer’s duties, it  is,  never­
theless,  some  evidence  of a man’s intel­
ligence. 
Intelligent men are required in 
such responsible positions, and,  with  all 
the provisions that are  made  to-day  for 
at least an elementary education,  the  il­
literate cannot be classed  as  thoroughly 
intelligent.  Another  feature of  the new 
law  prohibits  the  employment  of  any 
person under 18 years of age,  or who has 
had less than one year’s  experience  as  a 
railroad telegraph operator.  This is also 
on the side of safety, as  the  operator  is 
responsible for many lives, and the blun­
der of an inexperienced boy  may  at  any 
time result in a  great  catastrophe.  By- 
and-by, when laws  are  laws,  somebody 
will be to blame if railroad accidents  oc­
cur.

The  property  owners  and  residents 
along the Grand  boulevard of Chicago are 
up in arms against  a  proposition  to  de­
stroy some 500 fine  shade  trees,  for  the 
purpose  of  constructing  a  bridle path. 
The  trees  are  said  to  be  more  than 
twenty years old.  They  have  grown  to 
large  size  and  form  a  most  attractive 
feature of the  boulevard.  The  petition 
for their removal came from some of  the 
horsemen of Chicago  who  wish  to  have 
equestrian  paths  provided  where  they 
can enjoy the pleasure of  horseback  rid­
ing.  Opposed to them, however,  are the 
pedestrians  whose  walks  are  sheltered

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMLAIN'.
Tne evidence of the success of  this ex­
pedition has urged  the  Spanish  govern­
ment to make  representations  at  Wash­
ington,  and  the  authorities  there  have 
been compelled to take notice of the mat­
ter and  make  arrangements  to  prevent 
future violations of the  neutrality  laws. 
With  that  object  in  view,  the  cruiser 
Raleigh has  been  ordered  to  proceed  at 
once  to  Key  West,  Fla.,  in  order 
to 
cruise  along  the  Florida  coast  for  the 
purpose  of  preventing  the  sending  of 
more filibustering  expeditions.  Collect­
ors of customs at the various  Gulf  ports 
have also  been  instructed  to  be  on  the 
lookout  for  expeditions 
intended  for 
Cuba,  and to use the  revenue  cutters  in 
patrolling the coast.

by the trees and the  land-owners  whose 
property  is  enhanced  in  value  by  the 
nearness  of  attractive  natural features. 
As  the  opponents  of  the  scheme  are 
include 
greatly  in  the  majority,  and 
wealthy  and  influential  citizens, 
it  is 
believed that  their  indignation  meeting 
and  the  resolutions  of 
remonstrance 
which  have  been  adopted  will  be  suc­
cessful  in saving the park  from  devasta­
tion.

9
Tne  opium  commission  was  appointed, 
not to satisfy  the  whims  of  extremists, 
but,  as  we  have  said,  to  instruct  and 
guide the conscience of the nation. 
If it 
succeeds  in  making  the  nation  under­
stand the moral issue now at stake in In­
dia,  it will have rendered  a  noble  serv­
ice.  We  refer  not  to  any  financial 
aspects,  but to the plain alternative as to 
whether the Indians are to  remain  mod­
erate  consumers  of  a  stimulant  which 
sends scarcely a victim  to  the  hospitals, 
lunatic  asylums  or  jails,  and  which 
hardly ever  causes  the  dismissal  of  an 
employe, or  whether  the  harmless  nar­
cotic that has during  generations  gradu­
ally  won  its way is to be superseded,  un­
der  British  compulsion,  by  the  alcohol 
that  ruins  every  tropical  race  among 
whom  we have brought it.”

*  *  *

Is it to be a silk  waistcoat  this  season 
or not,  and is  it  to  be  of  gorgeous  pat* 
tern  or  of  modest  and  subdued  style? 
These are  the questions that  are  agitat­
ing  the  fashionable  tailors  of  London. 
The Prince of Wales is  the  only  person 
who  can  answer  the  questions,  and  he 
has been more deliberate than the tailors 
like  in  signifying  his  royal  will  and 
pleasure. 
If  he  says  “silk  waistcoat,” 
there  will  be a run on  English  silk  pro­
ductions,  and  probably  a  corresponding 
rush  for  the  manufactures  over  here. 
American silkmakers are  quite ready  for 
this bright-hued  fashion,  and  will  wel­
come  it  con  amore.  The  time  when 
gaudy  waistcoats  were ridieuled  will all 
be brought back,  but in these  days  men 
are more independent,  if  less  dandified, 
in 
their  dress,  and  nobody  will  be 
ashamed to resemble  robin  redbreast  or 
a Baltimore  oriole.

#  *  *

A French optician has recently brought 
out  an  entirely  new  kind  of  field  or 
opera glass,  which may  be folded up flat 
and  carried  in  the  pocket. 
It  has  no 
tube or barrel whatever;  the object glass 
and eye-piece  are  hinged  at  either  bar, 
which is capable of  being  lengthened or 
shortened by a simple  ratch  and  pinion 
adjustment.

*  *  *

The project of filling in  Lake Michigan 
out from the Chicago shore to  the end of 
the government piers  on  the  south  side 
of  the  harbor  has  assumed  such  form 
that it will,  undoubtedly,  be  carried out 
in the near future.  The  land  thus  res­
cued from the Lake  will be added to that 
adjoining,  now  owned  by  the  city,  and 
all  be devoted to park  purposes.
Courage  in  Business.

Courage is a  quality  that  every  busi­
ness man should possess.  Not  the  cour­
age  of  a  warrior  on  the  field  of battle, 
but  Simon-pure,  moral  courage.  He 
should have courage to  say  “No”  decis­
ively  when the  occasion  demands  when 
dealing with obstinate  salesmen  or  cus­
tomers; he should have sufficient courage 
to inform his creditors at all  times of his 
monetary position,  and  to  apologize  for 
and rectify all mistakes.  Courage is also 
necessary to deal honestly  with  custom­
ers and to tell the truth about prices, de­
clining to enter into  any altercation con­
cerning the price of a purchase; it is also 
a very  necessary  ingredient  in  the  col­
lection  of  bad  debis.  A  day  seldom 
passes  by  without  the  merchant  being 
called upon, in some way,  to  display  his 
moral  courage  in  various  matters  per­
taining to his business and it is most  im­
portant to his prosperity that he exercise 
it in a bold  and straightforward way.

The tramp question  is  rapidly  forging 
to the front as one  of  the  most  serious 
social problems  of  the  country.  With 
the  warm  weather  come  thicker  reports 
of the depredations of these disagreeable 
cattle  in  all  parts  of  the  country.  A 
gang of  about fifty  tramps  has  been  in 
complete  possession  of  barns  and  old 
houses  in  Baltimore  county,  Md.,  and 
from 
the  Berkshires  in  Massachusetts 
news is received of a meeting of  citizens 
called  for the purpose of  planning  some 
way  of  relief  from  a  similar  scourge 
there. 
It is estimated that  in  the  coun­
try at large there are  not  less  than  60,- 
000 habitual  tramps,  who  beg  and  steal 
their living at a daily cost of  about $30,- 
000,  which comes, of  course,  out  of  the 
earnings  of  honest  workers  and 
tax­
payers.

Pacific coast people  are  talking  about 
shipping  flour  to  China  to  enter  into 
competition  with rice.  They  think  that 
it could  be sold  there  at  a  profit  at  1>£ 
cents  a  pound,  and  at  that  price  the 
Chinamen  would buy  it in  preference  to 
rice.  Once they have begun  to use it,  it 
is argued,  they  would  not  go  back  to 
rice, even though  the  flour  costs  more, 
and  thus  would  be  created  a  demand 
which  would keep the flour  mills on  the 
Pacific coast running at their  fullest  ca­
pacity.  Unfortunately for  the plan,  the 
chances  are  that  if  the  Chinese  want 
wheat  they will  raise  it  themselves  at 
prices to ruin the Pacific coast millers.

CURRENT COMMENT.

Rio de Janeiro, the  capital  of  Brazil, 
has a notoriously  bad  climate,  and  the 
government has  resolved  to  change  the 
site of the capital.  A scientific  commis­
sion  has bten appointed to select a better 
place.  The commission  have selected  a 
plateau  which should  be  a  real  land  of 
promise to  the  transmigrants  from  the 
coast.  The spot is between the parallels 
of 15 degrees 40 minutes  and  16  degrees 
8 seconds south,  and the  meridians of 49 
degrees 30 minutes  aud 51  degrees  west. 
It is over 4,000  feet  above  the  level  of 
the  sea  and  its  temperature  resembles 
that of the middle  of  France.  There  is 
plenty of water  for  agriculture  and  no 
yellow fever.  The  journey  by  railway 
from the coast is a matter of  some  eigh­
teen hours.

»  * 

*

The London Times thinks that  the  na­
tives of India are in much greater danger 
from the use of alcohol  than  the  use  of 
opium. 
It says:  “ We are introducing a 
new  industrial  era  into  India,  and the 
milder narcotic stimulants which sufficed 
for the old  organization  of  labor  in  In­
dia no longer suffice for the new.  Every 
Indian  magistrate,  every  Indian  doctor 
and every  Indian  governor  knows  that 
the present danger to  the  people  arises 
not from the use of opium,  but  from  its 
supersession  by  alcohol.  The  British 
nation  would take on itself a terrible re­
sponsibility  by  any  measures calculated 
to  promote  or  accelerate  that change.

IO

GETTING  THE  PEOPLE.

Art of Beaching'  and Holding1 Trade by 

Advertising.

W ritte n  fo r  Th e  Tradesman.

To advertise  a  grocery  business  with 
daily  increasing  trade  as  a  result  re­
quires the patience of a Job, the cunning 
of the metaphorical fox,  the  “hang  on” 
of a full-grown bull-terrier and the daring 
and pluck of a Columbus  in  discovering 
new worlds  of  advertising  methods  by 
which to exploit the wares.

Very lately 1 have  seen,  in  the  daily 
newspapers,  advertisements  of  retail 
grocers  offering  a  certain  number  of 
pounds  of  sugar  for  one  dollar,  which 
cost the merchant fully that sum,  if  not 
more.  What is the  object?  “To  obtain 
custom,” you reply, and, of course, that is 
the  end  sought.  But  does  this  price- 
cutting result  in  a  healthy  and  steady 
growth of the “ business tree?”  Lookiug 
at the matter from the  standpoint  of  an 
outsider,  1 believe that  such  advertising 
is  far  from  success  and  solid  results. 
The people who fall  over  each  other  in 
an endeavor to be first at such a sale are, 
as a rule,  a class  of  “nomadic”  buyers, 
who will never return to the  same  store 
for an article at a regular and  legitimate 
profit.  The  eyes  of  these  “nomads” 
are continually glued to  the  columns  of 
the newspapers, watching  for “leaders,” 
and  “leaders”  are  all  they  purchase. 
When the merchant ceases cutting prices, 
the "nomads” return to their “stand-by” 
in  their  immediate  neighborhood,  who, 
perhaps,  never made a “cut”  during  his 
business  life,  and  steadily reaps a profit 
where his neighbor pays out  a  good  in­
come  on  profitless  advertising  for  the 
benefit  of  those  who  “fold  their  tents 
and steal away,” at the first indication of 
a return to legitimate values.

Let me moralize  a  bit.  The  grocery- 
man who remains, year after year,  at the 
“same old stand,”  is  the  merchant  who 
builds up his business on the line of con­
fidence,  stability  and  reliability. 
In 
other words,  bis name  and reputation  as 
a  “purveyor to  the  kitchen”  becomes  a 
“stand-by”  and  a  synonym  for  trust­
worthiness.  Where you find such a mer­
chant,  there you find  a Gibraltar in times 
of business depression, and an increasing 
trade, year by  year.

The  grocer  must  sell  goods at a close 
profit.  Therefore,  his  purchases  must 
be, nr should  be,  for cash,  and all  that  it 
is possible to obtain  for (lie money.  This 
is true, not only of  his  shelf  aud  barrel 
stock,  but of  his  advertising  purchases. 
The  most  profitable  and  “People  Get­
ting”  advertising  for  the  grocer  lies  in 
using word  pictures  which  will  get  at­
tention and  in quoting  prices  which  will 
hold  it.  The  space  should  be  closely 
filled. 
In almost all  other  lines,  white 
space is  a  positive  necessity,  but  with 
the grocer it is a detriment  and  a  waste 
of cash.  Fill up your ads.  with  articles 
of daily use, quoting prices for standard- 
goods which your trade will come to look 
upon as absolutely reliable.

The grocer will find  it the part of wis­
dom,  if he wishes to make a  special  run 
on any one  article,  not  to  add  anything 
to 
it  distinctive. 
Otherwise you  will  draw  attention  from 
the main  point.

the  ad.  but  make 

The “poetry of  description” is  an  ab­
solute essential  for  the  advertising  gro­
cer.  There  is  so  much  and  so  sharp 
competition  and  profits  are  so  small, 
that new  trade  must  constantly  be  ob­
tained  and held.  Charles  Dickens  was

«THE  MICHTGAJSr  TEADESALAN-.

an able exponent of descriptive  writing. 
He could take a straw and  write  several 
pages of the  most  intensely  interesting 
facts  in  connection  therewith,  causing 
the reader to doubt if the straw were not 
fully as valuable and attractive  as a dia­
mond.  This is  the  secret  of  successful 
advertising.  Make  the  people  think 
there  are  no  goods  in  existence  but 
yours, no store but yours,  no  dealer  but 
yourself,  and  all  the  world  of  trade  is 
yours.

Supposing  you  have  an  extra  choice 
brand  of  coffee  in  stock.  Use  it  as  a 
leader—a “catch-eye.”  An  appropriate 
vut costs but  little  and  if  original  will 
more than repay the expense.

Something  like  the  following,  nicely 
displayed,  will be sure  to  get  the  atten­
tion of the coffee lover:

in  this  grade  a  delicious  flavor  produced  by 
years of careful culture.  We call  it "Coffee with 
a  Pedigree,'' because it has become strengthened 
ami refined  by  years  of  experiment in  cultiva­
tion.  Coffee  wàs  first  used  in  England  in  the 
year 1050. and this brand  is a  lineal  descendant, 
improving each year.  40 cents a pound and ev­
ery pound guaranteed.

n .  O.  LASSES  &  CO.

Small,  neatly  printed  price  slips, en­
veloped  and  addressed  to  the  ladies di­
rect,  are  a  “trade  winner”  from  ’way 
back.  Use  language  and  metaphor  in 
these slips which  will  convince  the lady 
that it is impossible to get up a good din­
ner without your help, and  that her hus­
band is apt to get a divorce if she doesn’t 
give you her trade—all in  “pretty talk,” 
of course—and you’ve “got ’er.”

Here’s a soap ad.  which  will please the 

ladies:
Saving Human  Life!

ELEPHANT  SOAP,  til tough  its  excellent 
qualities,  is saving the lives of  thousands of 
women annually by a reduction of labor atnl 
muscle  requited, and  a  s tvingof  garments 
It contains no alkali or other  deleterious  in­
gredients.  and is  fully  entitled  to the name. 
“ Life  Preserver  Soap.’-  5 cents  a  cake, six 
cakes for 25 cents.

B.  JUSTINWATE,

People's Purveyor.
This ad. can  be used  for  any  brand  of 
soap  desired  to  “rush,”  and  should  be 
varied to fit the case.

Window  advertising  is  altogether  too 
much  neglected  by  grocers.  The  idea 
seems  to  be  prevalent  that  buyers  are 
anxious to look at pyramids of tomato or 
other  cans,  often  covered  with  defunct 
flies and feathery  cobwebs—perhaps  not 
changed  in  six  months.  Sneh  displays 
are worse than  useless.  Study up some­
thing  new,  new.  n e w ,  NE V !  That’s 
what "Get’s the People.”  This is an age 
of “new-ism.”  notwithstanding  there  i9 
“nothing  new  under  the  snn.” 
If  yon 
can’t do better, put  a  picture of a skele-

The Sun  —  
Draws  Water
You  Can 
Draw  Trade

From all  parts of the  world  without apparent effort.

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

IT  PAYS to buy where you can get  EY ERYTIllNG 

you  need. 

IT  PAYS  TO  BUY  OF  US.

BECAUSE our goods are continually  advertised  all 

over the State.

want they  BUY.

BECAUSE  people  KNOW  them.
BECAUSE  people  WANT  them  What  people 

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THE  MICHIG-AJSr  TRADESMAN.

1 1

Mr.

Thomas

IS  NOT  A  nUSICIAN,  BUT-----

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ton, or  a  skull  and  cross-bones, in  the 
window with this warning  legend:

Cheap
Result 
-Canned
of 
Goods
Using 
Our Canned Goods may cost a little more 

but  you  avoid  funeral  expenses  by 

their  use.  Funerals  come  high.

There  is  nothing  that  wilt  kill  your 
trade so quickly  and  surely  as  going  to 
sleep and allowing  the  flies  to  roost  on 
you and your wares.  Be up  before your 
neighbor,  and stay  awake  all day.  Not 
only this,  but  wake  up  the  people  and 
the “other fellow”  with  the  originality 
of your advertising and the rush and roar 
of your volume of trade.

W ritte n  ( o r Tb s  Tradesman.

F d c .  F o st e r   F u e l e r .
The  Subjugation  of the  Jungfrau.
If Mount  Blanc  is  the  “King  of  the 
Alps,”  the  Jungfrau  is,  without  ques­
tion,  the  “Queen.”  There, 
in  royal 
majesty,  she sits,  her  crown  against  the 
sky,  as awe-inspiring to the Alpine trav­
eler as she has been, so far, inaccessible. 
A few,  indeed, of the braver spirits have 
clambered the perilous  heights,  but  the 
enchantment  which  distance  lends  the 
view  has  remained  unbroken,  and  in 
silence  and  solitude  the  Jungfrau  has 
reigned.  That  reign  is  almost  over. 
What  Hannibal  and  Napoleon  accom­
plished in the pursuits of war  is  now  to 
be  repeated  in  the  arts  of  peace,  and 
early summer will see  the  beginning  of 
an  undertaking  which  will  end  in the 
subjugation of the Jungfrau.

It  tunnels 

An electric road is  to  be  built  to  the 
top  of  that  famous mountain. 
It starts 
in the clouds,  a mile and a quarter above 
the  level  of  the  sea. 
the 
mountains when that is best;  it picks its 
way  over  narrow  ledges;  it  spans  the 
precipices  at  head-swimming  heights, 
and stops, at last,  14,000  feet  above  the 
level of the sea.  To reach the peak of the 
mountain an elevator 200  feet  high  will 
be  built,  and there will be erected a pa­
vilion of steel  and  iron,  capable  of  en­
tertaining 500 people.  The length of the 
road is about seven and a half miles,  five 
of which will be tunnel.  Five years  are 
given for the building  of it, and the new 
century can be greeted  by  the  celebrat­
ing,  among Alpine heights,  of the great­
est  feat of  engineering  skill  the  world 
has ever seen.

It may  be put down as a piece of Amer­
ican assumption,  but,  nevertheless,  it  is 
safe to say that the people of the  United 
States are,  in a  certain  sense, largely re­
sponsible for this last  wonder  of a won­
der-producing century.  Let it be known 
that  American  travel  is  to  be stopped, 
and the building of the Jungfrau electric 
railway would  be indefinitely postponed. 
Let  the  road  be  built  and 
then  stop 
American  travel  in  Europe,  and  few 
would be the trips of the electric train to 
the peak of the Jungfrau.  So,  when the 
work is done and the lightning drags the 
loaded car  up  among  the  Alpine  crags 
and  peaks—its  old-time  playground— 
America,  while listening to well-merited 
praise  of  her  Sister  continent’s  genius 
and skill, may  yet  rejoice  that  she  has 
been able to be the instrument of making 
possible 
the 
grandest century! 

this  crowning  glory  of 

R .  M.  S t r e e t e r .

Every  business  man  has  his troubles 
and disappointments,  but if  he keeps on 
doing  the  best  he  can  the  chances are 
that in the end he will come out all right.

The  Bicycle  Trade.

W r itte n  fo r Tan Ti a s i s i u e .

In  a 

The bicycle business, so  far  this  sea­
son,  has  exceeded  the  expectations  of 
even the most sanguine, and a number of 
manufacturers  are  already 
advising 
their agents  that  they  will  not  be  able 
to fill orders on certain  models.
recent  contribution 

to  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   1  suggested  that  dealers 
order  more 
liberally,  predicting  the 
present situation.  Those  who  did  have 
fared  better  than  their  neighbor  who 
ordered  sample  wheels;  but  no  dealer 
has been able  to  get  a  sufficient  supply 
of wheels to  supply  the  demand.  Who 
is to blame  for  this  shortage?  Not  the 
manufacturers.  They  prepared  them­
selves according  to  the  way  dealers  or­
dered.

You have probably sold from 50 to  500 
per cent,  more  wheels  than  you  origi­
nally planned orders for; and  how  could 
any factory anticipate this demand when 
you lacked knowledge or confidence?

The demand for ladies’ wheels has sur­
prised  every  dealer  and  manufacturer 
and a good  wheel  of  this  description  is 
hard to get promptly,  except  from  those 
who  had  confidence  and  placed  liberal 
orders early.

One factory making high-grade  wheels 
proposed  to  make  3,000  wheels.  They 
have already  made  and  sold  over  5,000 
and are still a month  behind orders.  The 
makers  of  any  kind  of  medium-grade 
wheels  have  found  a  ready  sale,  and 
some of them have advanced prices since 
March 1.  Some jobbers paying  from  $1 
to  $3  more  for  a  wheel than their con­
tract called for,  in order to try  and  sup­
ply their trade.

The small dealer is  now  beginning  to 
cancel orders,  thinking that  the  trade is 
about over  and  that  everybody  is  sup­
plied.  They  make  a  big  mistake. 
There will,  no  doubt,  be  a  large  cheap 
and  medium-priced  trade  all  summer 
and even to the  middle  of  September or 
the first of October.

Farmers’ sons have to  have  wheels  as 
well as the city fellow,  and a great many 
of them will not buy  until  after  harvest 
and seeding.

Featherstone  has  notified  bis  jobbers 
that he shuts down his factory  August 1 
for inventory,  repairs  and  to  begin  on 
’96  models;  and  those  wishing  wheels 
for late trade will  be obliged to  place or­
ders at  once,  in  order  to  get  them  by 
August 1.  Last year,  there was  a  large 
trade and this class  of  wheels  was  hard 
to get.  This year,  the late trade will,  in 
all probability,  be  in  the  same  propor­
tion  as the early trade.

If you  want to sell  wheels,  don’t  lose 
trade,  but  make 
your  confidence  or 
preparations  early—now. 
If you  don’t, 
you will be the loser.  Stick a  pin  here.

W il l   B .  J a r v i s .

The Sultan of Morocco has notified the 
representatives  of  the  foreign  powers 
that he is unable to protect the lives and 
property of  travelers  in  the  interior  of 
his dominions,  and  that if they go there 
it will  be  at  their  own  risk. 
It  would I 
seem as though the  time  had  arrived  to 
relieve him of the burden of governing a 
country which he  acknowledges  his ina­
bility to govern,  and  to  turn  it  over  to 
somebody  that  can  and  will  govern  it. 
France  would  willingly  undertake  the 
responsibility and  might  do for Morocco 
what Great Britain  has  done  for Egypt.

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the admonition:  “Be careful  in  buying i 
eggs.”

S A. MORMAN

OFFICE  19 LYON  ST.

WAREHOUSES  COR  WtAUHV A IONIA ST.

There  is  no  doubt  that  the advice is 
worth  following.  Everyday  experience 
confirms the fact that the less one has  to 
do with a “ bad egg”  the better;  and  yet j 
such advice to a  grocer doesn’t read well 
to that grocer’s customers—not nearly  as 
well  as  “Be  careful  in  selling  eggs”  | 
would read.  Ofjcourse,  it is to be inferred  ! 
that the careful buyer will  be the careful  ; 
seller,  but  that  doesn’t  necessarily fol­
low,  aud it is a fact,  as  the  article  men 
tinned says,  that  “ the  flavor  of  the  egg j 
undergoes great changes  in  a  few  days 
after it is laid;”  aud  1  have  known  the 
most  careful  buyer  to keep eggs a great 
many days after they  were  laid,  and  he 
wasn't particular to state  the  fact  when 
he  sold  them.  What  a  reputation  that 
grocer  would  make  who should  say to bis 
customers:  “ 1  wouldn't  use  those  eggs 
for  salad 
if  1  were  you,  for  only  the | 
freshest eggs are  fit  for  that,  and  these | 
are not the freshest.  They  have  been in j 
the  store  at  least  a  week.  For  boiling 
they  won’t do at all.”  No  danger of my 
hearing that, you say?  1  am  afraid not, 
and yet,  what a “ pity ’tis  ’tis  true," and 
what  a  greater  pity  ’tis  that the state­
ment is not confined to eggs.

Madam  was busy,  the  other  day,  and 
sent Bridget out  for  some  bananas.  A 
good  price  was paid  aud  when  the  fruit 
was put upon  the  table  it  was  so  with­
ered  and  decayed 
that  It  couldn't  be 
eaten. 
In  the  explanation  which  fol­
lowed it came out  that  “the  boy  didn’t 
know Bridget and  wasn’t  careful  in  se­
lecting them.”  O for  the  grocer  who  is 
as careful in selling as be  is  in  buying!
A great deal  was said,  last  year,  about 
selling strawberries by  bulk.  The  ma­
jority  seemed  to  lean  strongly  to  the 
box—they  were  less  liable  to  “muss.” 
The  box,  this  year,  seems  to  be  the 
favorite  method  of  transportation  aud 
sale,  but,  when  1  recently  took  occasion 
to remark that,  for a  quart  of  strawber­
ries, the one in  question  was  altogether 
too  small,  the  reply  was,  “ A  quart! 
Don’t  talk  through  your  bat!  We  sell 
’em  by  the  box—fifteen  cents.  See?”
1 am sorry  to  say  1  do;  and  1  am  also 
very sorry to see bow easy  it is  for  deal­
ers to be careful  about  buying  and  yet 
how utterly careless they  are  in  selling 
eggs and  bananas  and  strawberries  and ; 1 
everything!  This is the place for  a  ref- j 
ereuce to the  Golden  Huh;  but,  as  this \ 
isn’t sermon-day,  we  forbear,  with  the j 
remark that that sort of thing  will go on j 
for  a  while  and 
it'll  stop  and | 
lucky (?)  will  that  grocer  be  who  made 
up  his mind  long  ago  that  “ Honesty  is 
the best  policy,”  and  that  cheating  in 
any form doesn’t  pay.

there 

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THE  BACK  OFFICE.

W ritte n  fo r T h e T hadkshan.

We are now  “ knee-keep  in June;” and 
the  maple  standing  before  my window, 
with its hands  spread  out  for  the  wind 
and sun to  kiss,  is  only  one  of  a  thou­
sand  things  which  rejoices  with  lifted 
palms for

“This day so cool, so calm, so bright.

The bridal of the earth  and sky.”

I do not  wonder that  the  senior  mem­
ber of the firm puts by the  morning mail 
and  looks  dreamily  at  the  bit  of  blue 
above the top of the block  just  over  the 
I  am  uot  surprised  to  hear  the 
way. 
desk-lid come down  with something  very 
like a slam,  nor to hear him unconscious­
ly  whistle an old-time tune  as  the  office 
door swings  noislessly  behind  him.  He 
isn’t  the  senior  member  any  more. 
It 
was the bars leading to  the  pasture,  not 
the desk-lid,  that  clattered so, and  he, a 
“barefoot boy  with cheeks  of tan,”  is on 
his  way to the  strawberries which  June 
has ripened for him  along  the  wall  and 
around the  stumps  in  the  pasture.  He 
and  the  quails  exchange  greetings  as 
they pass.  The brown thrush on the top 
of the old chestnut  tosses  him  a  bar  or 
two  of  marvelous  song.  The  bluebird 
flutes  for  him  from  the  orchard;  the 
robin warns him to  keep  away  from  its 
“mansion  in  the  skies,”  and  the  bobo­
link,

“atilt like a blossom among the leaves,” 

p ou rs  o u t  its  h ea rt

“In profuse strains  of unpremeditated art.” 
How  bright  the  grass  in the meadow 
lands to-day;  and  how  the  wind,  sweet 
with the breath of clover,  throws  it  into 
waves till it looks like an inland sea.  Off 
on  the  hills  the  cattle  are  “cropping 
shorter the short green grass;”  the lambs 
are exchanging terms of endearment; the 
chipmunk is  chattering  his  “hit  me  if 
you  can,”  and  the big elm, dowu  where 
the brook has dug out a place  to sleep in 
when the days are hot,  is beckoning with 
long  fingers  and  pointing  to  “ the  old 
swimmin’ hole!”

No wonder that the lid came down with 
a bang,  that the years have  dropped into 
nothingness,  that the hot bricks  and  the 
tiresome  pavement  have  given  place  to 
green things  growing!  No  wonder  that 
the  senior  member  hears  the  sound of 
laughing brooks,  the  hum  of  bees  and 
the murmur of voices  calling  across  the 
years,  and  that,  hearing  them,  he  has 
gone back  to-day to the  greeeu  pastures 
and the still  waters of the long  ago.  He 
will  be  here  again  to morrow,  and  his 
face will be bright with  a  gleam  of  the 
sunshine he has  brought  back  with  him. 
We shall find  him  ready  to  go  on  with 
“The Old Oaken  Bucket,” if we give him 
the first line;  all the old home-poems and 
songs  will  come  singing  from  his  lips; 
Whittier and  Emerson  and  Holmes  wilt 
brighten,  in  turn,  the  passing  hour,  and 
he will finally turn  to  his  desk,  repeat­
ing softly to himself,  as be lifts  the  lid:
“When life was like  a  story,  holding  neither 
In  the  olden,  golden  glory  of the  days gone 

sob nor sigh,
by!”
I have been reading an intensely inter 
esting  article  on  buying  eggs. 
It is as 
full of good points as the article it treats 
of is full of meat 
It tells about  the  de­
licious  flavor  of  the  new-laid  egg,  and 
about  what  delectable  delights  for  the 
table can  be made of it when in its prime; 
and,  when the story is done,  the  reverse 
of this is pictured,  until one  .turns  from 
the description with all the  symptons  of 
mat  de mer.  The whole concludes with

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It is to be hoped that the  Agricultural 
Department, one of these days,  will have 
a practical farmer at the  head  of  it. 
It 
has  got  so  that  about  everything  that 
comes from  that office is sure  to  tell  the 
farmer that everything he does is wrong. 
The  last  paper  is  to  the effect that  the 
abuse of orchards  is  common among our 
farmers.  After they have  worked them­
selves to death to set out an  orchard and 
get it to bearing,  if they dou’t keep right 
on, year after year,  spending  their  time 
and  strength  on  that  orchard,  they’re 
abusing it!  The idea used  to  be  that  it 
did an orchard good to  plow it and plant 
it with grain of some sort.  That, now, is 
only so much  “abuse,”  and  the  farmer 
who does that  “ought  to  know  better.”

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Starting: in  the Hardware  Business. 
In country towns,  say of  5,000  to  10,- 
the 

popularity  of  the  would-be  hardware DID YOU  NOTICE

000  inhabitants,  connections  and 

1 3

s

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

These 

merchant have much  to do  with  the  ad­
visability or otherwise, of  establishing a 
new store.  Of course where a  man buys 
out an old established store,  he naturally 
expects  to  succeed  to  the  “good  will” 
and patronage enjoyed  by  his  predeces­
sor,  but  the  writer  means  starting  in 
business 
in  competition  with  older 
houses,  based on his connections  and the 
promised support of bis  friends  and  ac­
quaintances. 
latter,  unfortu­
nately,  are not always to  be relied upon; 
they are, as a rule,  a little more exacting 
and less easily satisfied than  the  general 
public.  The  writer  has  known  in  his 
twenty years’ experience,  several  unfor­
tunate victims to  the  promises  of  their 
friends—has  heard  of  others,  who 
opened a store with glowing prospects of 
success but closed with  more or less  dis­
astrous results.
Here is one experience,  his  friends,  as 
a  matter  of  course  expected  and  got 
credit and were surprised that he  should 
be so importunate about those little bills, 
and some of them went  so  far  as  to  re­
mind him of certain obligations  for  past 
favors.  A little later,  his friends(?) dis­
covered that his goods were no better nor 
cheaper than those  of  other  merchants, 
perhaps going so tar as to say,  “they  do 
not compare favorably with Mr. Sawset’s 
across  the  street.”  Finally,  be  found 
some of his professedly  warmest  friends 
leaving him to trade  elsewhere,  many of 
them forgetting to settle.  Remonstrances 
were useless and in  some  instances  lost 
friends and  accounts  also. 
In  the  end, 
which  was  not  long  coming,  the sheriff 
took possession.  Of  course,  there is an­
other side to this, the man referred to in­
herited some money on  his father’s death 
and  having  been  rather  popular  with 
“ the boys,” hail fellow well met,  and  so 
on,  sought  advice  as to  what to do with 
his money.  Oh, start a  hardware  store, 
$3,000  will  be  enough  and  all  your 
friends  will  patronize  you.  He  had 
some business experience,  but not is the 
hardware  trade,  and  being  a  little too 
blunt and confident in his manner, which, 
combined  with  want  of  tact  and  poor 
judgment  together  with  the  loss  of  his 
friends’  support, soon  brought  him  to 
grief.
The sole reliance of the beginner in the 
retail hardware trade, or,  indeed, any re 
tail business in a small  town,  should  be 
integrity 
in  his  dealings,  reasonable 
prices, civility and strict attention to the 
business  in  band.  Should  he  properly 
apply the foregoing  principles  and  pos­
sess a fair amount of business  ability  be 
will  undoubtedly  make  patrons  of  his 
friends and friends of his patrons, there­
by  laying the foundation of a  permanent 
business success.

A t  th e  B a c k  D oor.

Mr.  Newcomer—Have  the  neighbors 
called upon you yet.?
Mrs.  Newcomer—1 should say they had. 
They’ve called  upon me for almost every­
thing in the nouse.

S EARS’

UPERIOR

EYMOUR
T h a t  is  w h a t   it  m e a n s — 

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In  Michigan  to-day, and has only been on 
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JESS

JESS

He ought to know  that  a  field  that  pro-j 
duces  apples does all that is  expected  of 
it,  and anything beyond that is ’way  off! 
Next thing, we shall hear  will  be that the 
average farmer’s wife doesn’t  know how 
to make  butter, and  that that is  the  rea­
son why so much is said in favor of oleo­
margarine.  What  that  Dogberry  officer 
in the Agricultural  Department  needs  is 
somebody to  “write him down an ass!”

•  *  *

The other day,  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the United States, in sending thedrunken 
Debs  and  his  associates  to  jail,  said: 
“ We  yield  to  none in our admiration of 
any act of  heroism  or  self-sacrifice,  but 
we may be permitted to add  that  it  is  a 
lesson  which cannot  be learned  too  soon 
or  too  thoroughly,  that,  under the gov­
ernment of and by the people, the means 
of redress  of  all  wrong  is  through  the 
courts and  the  ballot  box,  and  that  no 
wrong,  real  or  fancied,  carries  with  it 
legal  warrant to invite,  as a means of re­
dress, the eo-operation of a  mob,  with its 
accompanying acts of  violence.”

That’s what nine men say and,  in spite 
of  the  thousands  of  A.  R.  U.’s,  Debs 
goes  to  jail.  Nine  to  thousands!  The 
majority rules with a vengeance!”

#  *  *

We  have  been  examining  the  second 
Government bulletin for the benefit of ex­
porters,  relating  to  the  extension  of 
trade  in  American  products  with  Ger­
many.  Besides the German  tariff sched­
ule,  so far as it relates  to American  pro­
ducers and  shippers, it  has  a  statement 
of the  commercial  unions  of  Germany, 
showing that they  have  been  an  active 
factor in stimulating  Germany’s  foreign 
trade,  which  was  $252,280,000  in  1850, 
and, 
the 
last  three  years  the  Unifed  States  and 
Russia supplied all the caviare  imported 
into  Germany.  Consular  reports  from 
German commercial centers are appended 
to show the feasibility  of  extending  the 
market  for American  products  in  their 
respective fields of observation.  But we 
don’t find one of  them giving  an  inch of 
space  to  the  superior  quality  of  our 
stuffed cheese!

in  1894,  $1,876,154,000.  For 

•  *  *

It  begins  to  look  a  little  likeu  a  war- 
cloud away  off  there  in 
the  Far  East— 
or  west,  with  us,  if we take it the other 
way.  Germany  charges  Russia  with 
bad  faith  in  making  terms  with  China 
while  taking  care  of  the  Chinese  loan; 
and Russia, considering it “like  the  idle 
wind which  she  regards  not,”  keeps  on 
with  her  schemes  of  aggrandizement, 
confident that the  young  Kaiser  has wit 
enough  to know  how far  to  go  in  that 
line  and  when  to  stop.  How  sorry 
France would be to see Germany get into 
trouble,  and how mad  England  would be 
to see Russia scope Constantinople!

R ic h a r d   Ma i.com  S t r o n g .

Say  “No”  Gracefully.

You are often asked to refund  money. 
This is a sort of  an  accommodation  now 
which you  must submit  to.  Some  mer­
chants will conclude that this  is  unfair. 
Sometimes  it  might  be,  but  be  careful 
if  at  all  possible,  re­
how you refuse, 
fund the money. 
If  not,  give  a  satis­
factory reason for being compelled to re­
fuse.  Don’t get  wrathy.  Some  people 
can say  “no” so gracefully  that  instead 
of offending, it is satisfying.  There  is a 
knack about this.  You  can  do  it,  pro­
vided  you  don’t  get  excited. 
It  is  a 
grave  mistake  to  lose  your  temper  at 
any request.

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IT  MIGHT  HAVE  BEEN  EXPECTED. 

“Now,  father,  tell us all the news.” 
Mrs.  Merriman had filled the old farm­
er’s pipe,  had given him his favorite seat 
by the fire, for the evenings  were  grow­
ing  chilly,  and  was  bustling  about the 
comfortable,  roomy  kitchen,  preparing 
supper.  A  market-day  supper  was  a 
serious business,  for Lucy Merriman and 
her mother took a “snack”  on  that  day 
instead of the customary  noonday  meal, 
and  substantial  food  was  reserved  for 
the hearty  supper  “ father”  relished  so 
well after his  long drive from town.

It  was  another  time-honored  custom 
for the farmer,  in the  interval  while bis 
wife and pretty  daughter  prepared  sup­
per,  to tell them  all  the  gossip  he  bad 
heard in town,  and  prices  obtained  for 
his chickens,  butter  and  eggs,  and  the 
purchases were to be unrolled  after sup­
per  should be over.

But  on  this  especial  evening, 

the 
farmer,  instead of putting down  his pipe 
and  clearing his throat  for  a  long  talk, 
glanced anxiously at bis  only  child,  his 
Lucy,  the  pride  and  darling  of his old 
heart.  She was  very  pretty,  with  blue 
eyes and  brown  hair,  and a very tender 
smile;  but she had lost  something in the 
past  three  months  of  the  bloom  and 
brightness  that  had  been  her  great 
charm.  She  looked  pale  and  not  alto­
gether happy,.as she  drew  out  the table 
and spread the cloth for supper.

“ 1 was right,”  the old farmer thought; 
“and  yet  I  hate  to  tell  her.  She  has 
never been the same  girl  since  he left.” 
“Why,  father,”  Mrs.  Merriam  said, 
“ you  look  as  solemn  as it  you had  bad 
news.  Ain’t lost nothin’,  have you?” 

“No—no.  1 got  your  calico all right, 
Jane,  and  the  groceries,  but—well,  it 
don’t  exactly  concern  us  now,  but,  the 
fact is,  1 did hear some disagreeable news 
to-day.”

Then  he  paused  again,  wondering  at 
his own reluctance to impart the tidings.
But  Lucy  had  drawn  near  the  arm­

chair,  her face white as snow.

“Don’t  concern  us  now?”  she  said. 
“Is it—is it news about Henry Newton?” 
“ Well,  well,  women  folks  are  master 
hands  at  guessing,”  said  the  farmer. 
“ You thought your  old  father  was  very 
cruel,  Lucy,  didn’t  you,  when  he  would 
not let you marry that fine city chap  who 
was turning all the girls’  heads?”

“You—you  are  never  cruel,  father. 
You meant to  be  kind—but—but—what 
have you  heard?”

“Berks has  been  up  to  Albany about 
some business for the store, Lucy, and he 
heard  that  Henry  Newton  had been ar­
rested for forgery and theft.”

“Bnt it is not  true!  Father,  it  is  not 

true!”

The wailing cry of utter misery  called 
the mother  in  from  the  buttery.  Lucy 
was lying in her father’s arms,  shivering 
and moaning as if stricken with physical 
pain.

“ It is true,  Lucy. 

I always mistrusted 
him, the smooth-tongued  villian.  Thank 
Heaven,  I was firm for once, and kept my 
darling.”

“ Father,  where is  he?”
“ Where they  put  criminals—in  jail!” 
There  was  a  pause  of  utter  silence, 
Mrs.  Merriman coming  across  the  room 
to  stroke  her daughter’s hair with a lov­
ing touch.  Then Lucy  rose  stiffly  from 
her father’s arms,  and  staggered  across 
the room to the  staircase,  stumbling  up 
blindly  to  her  own  room.  Her mother

would have followed,  but the old  farmer 
held her back.

“ Leave her  alone  a  bit,  mother,”  he 
said,  hoarsely,  wiping his eyes  with  the 
back of his broad band. 
“She’ll fight it 
out best by  herself.  Who’d  ’a’  thought 
she’d take it so hard?”

“ We knew she loved him,  father!” 
“But she’s been  so quiet since  he  left, 

I thought she  was getting over it.”

“ We can’t be too thankful she  did  not 

marry  him  when he wanted  her!”

“No—but—poor child!  poor  child!  to 
think of her young,  pure heart being  set 
on such a scoundrel,  when  there’s  good 
men  would give their right hand  to  win 
her!”

“It’s  the  world’s  way,  father.  But 
sh e ’ll  get over it!  We’ll  see her a happy 
wife yet,  please  Heaven.”

Then  Mrs.  Merriman  bustled  away 
again,  and  put  the  smoking  supper  on 
the table.  After she had filled the farm­
er’s plate, she went upstairs, coming back 
with red eyes.

“She’ll not eat yet,  father!”  she  said. 
And the food left the table  almost un­
touched,  for  neither  father  nor  mother 
could eat,  thinking of the stricken  heart 
mourning in  the room  above  them.  Be­
fore they slept th£y stole  in,  as  if  their 
child  was sick,  for  a  silent  caress, hop­
ing morning would  bring comfort.

But  when the sun rose and  the farmer 
lifted his head  from  a  sleepless  pillow, 
he saw  his  wife  coming  from  the  room 
beyond,  white and shaking.

“She’s gone,  father,”  Mrs.  Merriman 
whispered.  “She’s not slept in  the  bed 
all night,  and  she  is  not  in  the  house. 
She left this!”

As she  spoke,  the  mother  held  out  a 
note, at  which she had looked  with hun­
gry eyes,  knowing nothing of  reading or 
writing.

But  the  farmer  could  read;  and,  in  a 

choked,  low  voice,  he read the letter:

“ 1 cannot stay to disgrace  you! 

I was 
married  when  Henry Newton  went  away 
in August, on the day I  coaxed  father to 
take me to town to buy  a bat.  You  will 
find  the  marriage  on  the  books  of  the 
church opposite the  tavern where father 
it  written 
always  puts  up. 
I  saw 
down,  there. 
I  have my  lines  with  me 
that the minister gave me. 
I  must go to 
my husband,  and you  must  think  of  me 
as if I  was  dead,  because  I  will  never 
come back to  disgrace  the  old  home. 
I 
am  a  convict’s  wife,  and  no  longer 
worthy to be your loving child.  L u c y . ”

“Oh, father!”
“ Married—all this time deceiving us— 
I thought if there was  one  true  woman 
on earth, Jane, it was our  Lucy,  and she 
has been  living a lie to us for weeks!” 

“ But what  will  she  do?  Where  can 
she go?  Will she be allowed to  go  with 
him?”

“How do 1 know?  I’ve  been  an  hon­
est man, Jane.  What should  I  know  of 
prisons and prison rules.”

The old farmer’s face was set  in  rigid 
lines as he spoke, for the treachery of the 
child  who was the very idol of  his  heart 
cut him deeply. 
It had  cost  him  bitter 
pain to refuse her her heart’s  desire,  but 
he  had  doubted  the  brilliant  man who 
had wanted to marry  her,  knowing  that 
he was the richest farmer in the country, 
and fearing that the suitor  thought more 
of that fact than of  Lucy.  And  he  had 
trusted  Lucy  blindly,  never  supposing 
her capable of a deceitful act or thought. 
Mrs.  Merriman  went  downstairs  to  get 
breakfast,  knowing  it  was  useless  to 
argue with  her  husband  when  his  lips 
were compressed and his eyes stern.

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“He loves her so!'1  the mother thought, 
wistfully.  “He will never  let  her  go.” 
The breakfast was  a  silent  meal,  and 
when it was  over,  the  farmer  sat  with 
his face hidden in his  hands  for  a  long 
time.  WJien at last  he  looked  up,  the 
mother’s heart gave a great throb of grat­
itude.  She  did  not  need  to  bear  his 
words to know that love  had  conquered.
*T  will  go  to  Albany,  Jane,  on  the 
I’ll  be but six hours behind 

noon train. 
her.”

“ You’ll bring her back,  Dan’l?”
“Ay!  If she will come.”
It was a dreary journey,  and  when the 
farmer reached the  city,  it  was  after  7 
o’clock.  He  bad  been  to  Albany  but 
twice in the sixty-four years  of  his  life, 
and,  be  thought  bitterly,  he had never 
inquired before where to find the jail.

But it was closed, and he found only a 

warden on duty at the gate.

“I  was  wishing  to  seen  Henry New­

ton,” he said to that official.

“Any day between 10 and 2, if you are 

a relative,”  was the answer.

“I  am—”  the  words  came chokingly, 

“his father-in-law.”

The man gave a long whistle.
“By Jove!” he cried,  “another one!” 
“Will you tell me what  you  mean?  1 
am an old man,  in heavy  trouble,  and— 
this man—has—taken  my—child. 
I  am 
looking for her.”

“Sit  down;  sit  down.  1  guess  it’s  a 
bad business.  You see,  he’s  an  old  of­
fender,  this  Newton,  and  he’s  evaded 
the  law  for  years,  so  they  are  glad 
enough  to  have  proof  now  to  convict 
fifty men,  if  need  be.  And  he’s  got  a 
wife  here  in  Albany,  that he quarreled 
with years  ago  and  left.  But,  woman­
like,  as  soon  as  she  heard  he  was  in 
trouble, she came  here to  him,  and  has 
been  every  day.  But  to-day,  a  young 
girl,  a  country  girl,  came  to  see  him, 
and his wife was in the cell.  There was 
arow, of course,  for  Number  Two  had 
her certificate, and Number  One  was fu­
rious, and they both went off.”

“But where?  Where did Lucy  go?” 
“Lucy!  That  was 

the  name,  sure 
I can’t tell you any  more  than 

enough. 
that she left here.”

But,  even  as  the  warden  spoke,  a 
policeman sauntered up, and, lounging in 
the doorway,  said:

“Remember the  country  party,  Tom­

kins?”

“ Yes.  Where is she?”
“ Where she  won’t trouble Newton any 
more.  Mrs.  Newton  the  first  has  the 
coast clear.”

“ You don’t mean she has —”
“Yes, 1 do!  Walked from here straight 
down to the  river  and  bung  about  till 
dusk.  One of the steamboat  bands  saw 
her when she jumped  off  the  dock,  and 
gave  an  alarm.  But,  bless  you,  when 
they found her  she  was  dead.  Hulloo, 
who’s the old man?”

For the farmer with  one  awful  groan 

had dropped senseless on the floor.

“Her  father!”  answered  the  warden, 
stooping over the prostrate figure.  “ Was 
inquiring for her as you came  up.  Nice 
pill, that Newton, take  him  all  around.” 
“ Yes!  He’s coming to himsell!  Here, 
old  man,  you  must  not  give  way  like 
that!  Here,  take  a sip of this!"

Rough  men  both  and  accustomed  to 
scenes of misery,  but they  were tender as 
women in their touch,  as  they  lifted  the 
farmer to a bench,  bathed  his  face  and 
put spirits to his  lips.

“Can you take me to her^’

up into the policeman’s face.

“To-morrow.  You  see it’s a coroner’s 
case,  and we couldn’t get at her to-night. 
I’ll take you the first thing in  the  morn­
ing.  Tomkins,  can’t  you  let  him  lie 
there to-night?”

I’ll see to him.”

“ Yes, yes. 
And be  was  kind  and  sympathizing. 
But, oh,  the long,  long night,  the  weary 
stretch  of  time  before  morning.  What 
could he say to Jane, the farmer thought; 
bow tell the waiting mother that  he  had 
kept his promise and  brought  her  child 
home, dead,  never  again  to  smile  upon 
her,  never again to speak a loving  word.
Then a wild  desire  for  revenge  upon 
the villain who had  wrought all this mis­
ery seized the old man,  and he  paced  up 
and  down  the  small  room,  his  hands 
clenched, his  eyes  burning,  calling  for 
the vengeance of Heaven  upon his child’s 
destroyer, and  the  warden,  looking  on, 
whispered:

“Better so than moaning like a girl.”
But  the  day  broke  at  last,  and  the 
policeman came to keep his promise.  All 
through the weary,  bitter day Mr. Merri- 
rnan had to wait with all the patience he 
could command,  till the coroner gave his 
verdict,  and the law  allowed  the  heart­
broken father to claim his child.

Another  interval was  spent  in  neces­
sary  preparation,  before  she  could  be 
taken to the home she had made desolate, 
and there was unutterable pathos  in  the 
father’s tone  as  he  said  to  the  under­
taker:

“ You must arrange for me to  have  an 
hour or two before the  coffin  is  sent  to 
the farm,  to  tell  her  mother.  1  cannot 
send word,  for  Jane  cannot  read  writ­
ing.”

But she could  read  the  stricken  face 
it 
for  which  she  was  watching,  and 
needed no spoken word to  tell  her  why 
Lucy was not with her  father.

“She  is  dead!”  she  cried,  “she  is 

dead!”

And  then  waited  for  a  denial  that 
never came. 
It needed not the  time  the 
father had asked for to break the  dread­
ful news,  but  the  mother  went  with  a 
strange,  apathetic  calmness  to  prepare 
the house for funeral  rites.

Very fair and beautiful  was  the  face 
that  was  pillowed  in  Lucy  Merriman’s 
coffin, and very sincere  was  the  sympa­
thy extended to  the  sorrowing  parents. 
But,  with the deep mourning, the sincere 
pity,  was  ever  the  bitter  truth  that 
comes to so many sorrowing  hearts, that 
at the root of all the desolation and grief 
was the one act of deception,  the one lie, 
that was the parents’  reward for years of 
devoted love

There is much written of  true love, of 
parental tyranny,  but thousands  of tales 
could  be  told  where  the  love  is  but  a 
glamour of youth, and the  tyranny  only 
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love;  where  the 
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the  father  as  by  the  wayward  child. 
Many  a home  tragedy  that  will  remain 
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«THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

THE  ROAD  PROBLEM.

W ritte n   fo r  T hk  T radesman.

by  practical 

This question is one having  many  un­
determined  elements,  that  is,  undeter­
mined 
demonstration, 
though many ideal and theoretically com­
plete schemes of practical  solution  have 
been  devised  and  published.  The fact, 
however, that there is so little real  prog­
ress in  the work of  securing  good  roads 
seems to indicate that there is  something 
lacking in practicality.

The practical  difficulties in the way  of 
permanent road  improvement  are  indi­
cated  by  the  remarkable  fact  that  so 
many railroads bave been built in regions 
where the real needs of  commerce would 
have  been  better  served  by 
improved 
highways to other,  not distant, railroads. 
I base my  assertion as to the better serv­
ing the needs of  commerce  on  the  fact 
that so many such  roads are built at vast 
expense where it seems  utterly  hopeless 
that they will ever  pay,  and  where  the 
attempt  to  make  them  pay  must  be at 
exorbitant  tariffs.  Now,  why  is it that 
these roads can  be built at  such  expense 
and nothing can  be  done  for  the  high­
ways?

The 

Aside  from  questions  of  speculation, 
fraudulent floating of bonds and schemes 
of  municipal  aid,  the  difference  lies  in 
the  fact  that  in  tile  construction  of  a 
railroad there  is  obtained  by  the  com­
pany a positive  property  and  monopoly 
that is impossible in any scheme  of  road 
improvement  yet  devised  even  if  such 
monopoly  were  desirable. 
toll 
roads from many of the larger towns  are 
of so little importance to the  main  ques­
tion and  the  tenure  of  monopoly  is  so 
slight  they  are  scarcely  to  be  noted  as 
exceptions.

In these  facts, then,  seems  to  lie the 
greatest difficulty:  There  is  no  definite 
basis  for organization  of  road  improve­
ment  which shall give to  those Investing 
in  the  work a definite and  tangible  indi­
cation  of  the  amount  of  their  several 
ownerships  in  it.  And  there 
is  no 
means of making a  sufficiently  apparent 
return for the investments of each owner 
in such improvement.

in 

1 mean by this that there  has  not  yet 
been devised a plan  for  co-operation  in 
road improvement that can command the 
confidence of the  average  farmer,  or,  as 
to that matter,  merchant,  and  induce  an 
investment in  it. 
It  seems  strange  that 
the  economic  conditions  are  such  that 
capital will build such a  great  milage of 
railroads at such vast  expense,  when  the 
same  investment 
improvement  of 
highways would produce so much greater 
returns.  The  building  of  one  mile  of 
railway costs  about  $20,000.  The  per­
manent improvement of one mile of high­
way is placed by the  best  authorities  at 
less than $1,000.  The cost, then, of build­
ing twenty mites of railroad  would build 
no less than  four hundred  miles  of  per­
manently  improved  roads. 
it  would 
need but little  figuring  to  show  which 
would yield the  greater  returns,  that  is 
when made tributary to a  reasonably ac­
cessible railroad line.

Of course,  the first plan  that  suggests 
itself is co-operation.  This  is  the  plan 
almost  universally  advocated 
(though 
there are locatities considering the  prac­
ticability of county  bonds  for  this  pur­
pose.)  But the difficulty is to get the av­
erage farmer to  appreciate  and  join  in 
this  kind  of  co-operation. 
It  is  much 
easier  to  get  him  to  subscribe  for  a 
railroad,  for  then  he  has  something  to

show for his investment, though it prove 
to be bankrupt stock; or easier to get him 
to vote a bonus because it will “open up” 
the country.

A great work awaits the one who  finds 

a solution to this problem.  W.  N.  F.

A   D octor’s   S tory.

It was while I was  practicing at Ashe­
ville,  N. C., a few years ago.
One morning there  came  into  my  of­
fice  an  old  fellow  who  had the appear­
ance of a mountaineer.
He was accompanied by his  wife,  who 
was totally  blind from cataract.
The old  fellow  said  that  if  I  would 
cure her,  or manage  to  give  her  just  a 
little sight, he  would pay me $100.  Said 
he:  “The  ole  woman’s  been  blind  for 
over twelve years,  and  ain’t of no use to 
herself nor nobody else, so if you will go 
ahead  and  fix  her  up  so’s  she can see 
ag’in and be of  use  to  me,  why,  I  will 
give you the money.”
I agreed to take the  case;  not  withont 
some trepidation,  as  a  fellow  physician 
had  already  operated  upon  one  of  the 
eyes with bad  results.
In the course of time, however,  I man­
aged  to  restore  the  old  lady’s  sight,  so 
that she could see  and  read  quite  well, 
and then  after a reasonable lapse of time 
I presented the bill.
“ 1 ain’t a-going to  pay you  nothin’  on 
that bill.”
“ Why?”  I asked.  “What  is  the  mat­
ter?”
* Well,” said he,“it’s just here. 
I told 
you,  you  will  remember,  that  if  you 
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W ritte n  f o r  Th e T radesman.

The woman question is one  wbich will 
not be downed, and,  as long as the agita­
tion  consequent  upon  women’s  voting 
continues,  it  will  not  be  lost  sight of. 
This is not intended  as an  article on the 
“rights” or “ wrongs” of women;  but, as 
a  business  woman,  and  seeing  some 
things  from  a  woman’s  point  of  view 
that would be lost sight of from a man’s, 
allow  me  to  advance  some ideas which 
might  not  be  exactly  agreeable  or  ad­
missible from a member of  the  opposite
86X.

Some of us have a way of arguing that 
woman,  given  the  chance  to  exercise 
equally with man  the  right  of  voice  in 
public affairs,  will have  a  beneficial  in­
fluence on all matters  business  and  po­
litical,  although we all agree that  hered­
ity  and  environment  are  the  factors 
which  make  one’s  character  and  life. 
As sisters of,  why do we  not  partake  of 
the  same  nature  as  our  brother  man? 
Given  the  same  business  education  and 
training,  why should we be any better or 
worse than he?

It has been my observation that almost 
any woman will tell  you  she  had  much 
rather have business  dealings  with  men 
than  with  a  member  of  her  own  sex. 
Women would rather work  for men than 
for each other,  which  may be one reason 
for the rush for shop  and office positions, 
instead of seeking employment in domes­
tic service.

In a recent editorial in one of the lead­
ing Chicago dailies,  some  attention  was 
given to the  subject of women’s work  in 
the  matter  of  trades,  and  the question 
was  asked,  “Why  is  it  that  girls  will 
continue to overfill  the ranks of office as­
sistants,  etc.,  when the trades peculiarly 
feminine are not  yet  sufficiently  full  of 
good help?”  And, further,  “A thorough­
ly competent dressmaker  or  artistic mil­
liner can command  any  reasonable price 
for her  labor,  and  the  demand  is  still 
greater than the supply of  skilled  work­
ers.”

The business woman is  no  better  and 
sometimes not so agreeable as the men in 
like occupations. 
It is more  than likely 
that a great cause is in the lack  of  busi­
ness  training,  which  men  receive from 
their early  years  and  which  is  usually 
lacking among women.  1 am not  speak­
ing of Individual cases but of  them  as  a 
class.

We hear a great  deal  about  the  “new 
woman,”  and it  would  probably  not  be 
particularly advisable for  any  writer  to 
allude to  the  former  class  as  the  “old 
woman;”  hut,  undoubtedly,  with 
the 
old-time  views  of  women’s  education 
and  training,  her  morals  and  general 
tendencies were superior to  those of  her 
brother.  But,  given  his education, sur­
roundings and general training,  with his 
ambitions  and  temptations,  she  is  still 
his sister in a great degree and,  in  time, 
will  be  his  equal—no  more,  no  less. 
Women  have  shown 
that  in  business 
they are no  better  than  men,  and  why 
should  the  cry  of  their “purifying pol­
itics” still be kept up?  No  greater  fal­
lacy ever was dreamed of. 
In a woman’s 
club not a thousand miles from here,  the 
fact has been shown that  skillful schem­
ing is not unknown,  and that, too, where 
salary is not one of the incentives.

The  chivalry  of  all  ages,  much  of 
which still  remains,  is  responsible  for

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the  idea  that  woman,  in  the  abstract, 
has  a  purifying  influence wherever  she 
may  be  placed.  Happily,  such  is  the 
case in a great  measure;  but  she  is  not 
infallible,  and,  the more one sees  of  the 
business world and of  the  women  in  it, 
the more he is convinced  of  the  “equal­
ity” of the sex in more matters than one.
Do you speak of loyalty to the sex? That 
is all very well,  but “ Be just before  you 
are generous”  is  a  good  motto  to  keep 
sight  of.  Too  many  women  want  the 
rights  of  men  and  the  privileges  of 
women at the same time.  When we enter 
the field  of  business,  we  should  expect 
the same treatment that  men  give  each 
other,  and  not  attempt  a  competition 
with them and expect them to give us all 
the  advantages  which  chivalry  would 
exact. 

J a c q u e l in e .

A   R hetorical  Q uestion.

W ritte n  (o r T hr Tradesman.

An exchange, ’way  up  in  matters  of 
finance,  asks,  “Would  free  coinage  re­
duce wages,” and then goes on to  say,  to 
all intents  and  purposes,  that  anybody 
would see, if he  would think  a  minute, 
that, of course, it would reduce wages.

Well, now, there are two sides  to  that 
question and,  somehow,  we  have  got  on 
the other side.  Take it a year ago, when 
every other  man  met  was  out  of work, 
and the man that did  have it worked  for 
almost nothing—if  the  silver  had  been 
coined without  limit,  would wages  have 
gone  down?  Of  course,  they wouldn’t, 
for  they  couldn’t.  So  much  for  that. 
What  would  have  been 
result? 
Where a man earned $1 he’d earn at least 
$2,  and,  when he was paid  off  every Sat­
urday  night,  the  employer,  out  of  his 
abundance,  would  have  slipped  in  an 
extra dollar or two as a kind of surprise. 
Out of the fullness of his pocket  his  lib­
erality speaketh,  and the era of  prosper­
ity would have  returned.  So  much  for 
that.

the 

Here’s another idea that  might as well 
be disposed of now as at any time.  How 
large ought a dollar in  coin to be? 
It  is 
a question  of  convenience.  Who  wants 
to carry about a  lot  of  weights  for  the 
sake  of  having  a  dollar  or  two in  his 
pocket?  Compare the old-fashioned cent 
with the last one from the mint.  That’s 
the idea.  For “cent” read  “dollar”  and 
you have it.  There is  no  reason  in  the 
world why we^houldn’t  have  twice  the 
number of dollars with only the  expense 
of  the  coining.  The  common  dollar is 
as  large  again  as  it  ought  to be.  All 
that’s needed is to stamp  the  half-dollar 
as  a  dollar  and  that  matter  is settled. 
Don’t ask what,  with potatoes  at  a  dol­
lar  a  bushel,  the  farmer  would  say to 
one  of  the  new  dollars?  He  wouldn’t 
say anything.  He would  be  so  glad  to 
get the dollar that he would  slip  it  into 
his pocket without  a  word.  No;  a  dol­
lar’s  a  dollar,  whether  it’s  as big as  a 
cart wheel, or reduced to  the  size of the 
little gold  one—another  proof  that  size 
has very little to do with the coin  of  the 
country.

We submit,  then, that free coinage, in­
stead of reducing  wages,  would have an 
effect exactly the reverse.  We  say  that 
hard  times  are  due  entirely to a dearth 
of dollars—a matter  of  experience  with 
the majority of men during  the  last  two 
years;  and we say,  too,  without  fear  of 
contradiction, 
if  the  half-dollar 
should be stamped as a dollar,  the  mass 
! of mankind  would  have  twice  as  many 
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COIN  AN D   CREDIT.

H ow   P ap er  M oney  and  B ank  C hecks 

H ave  S u p p lan ted   Coin.

I d  the purchase and sale of stocks, the 
impulse to buy,  like the  impulse to sell, 
is produced by trifles and is destroyed by 
trifles.  Men  pass  from  hopefulness  to 
despondency and back again for no other 
reason, often,  than that  they are tired of 
the one state of feeling and  take  up  the 
other  for  a  change.  After  they  have 
bought they want to sell,  and  then  they 
want to buy again.

Wbat  is  true  in  this  respect  of  the 
stock  market is also true of  the  market, 
when  there  is  any,  for  all kinds of ar­
ticles  capable of being bought  and  sold 
with sufficient  ease  to  furnish  inviting 
chances of profit.  As we  see  daily,  not 
only are the prices of  wheat,  corn,  cot­
ton, beef, pork,  iron and  petroleum sub­
ject to speculative fluctuations,  but even 
those of less important commodities such 
as  drugs,  spices  and  hemp,  and  of  so 
bulky and unwieldy a  kind  of  property 
as  land  and  buildings,  have  their  ups 
and downs,  resulting from men’s changes 
of sentiment in regard to  future  values. 
In  fact,  value  itself is only the popular 
estimate  of  the  desirability  of  things. 
The more earnest the desire for them the 
greater their value,  and  the  less earnest 
the  desire  the  less  their  value. 
If  no­
to  possess  diamonds  the 
body  cared 
Kohinoor  would  be  as  worthless  as  a 
piece of broken  glass,  while  the  eager­
ness of  the Sc  th  Sea Islanders for  iron 
made  it  as  valuable  to  them  in  Capt. 
Cook’s time as gold is to us.

Value, too, being the  result  of  mental 
operations,  cannot  be  said  to  be  fixed 
and absolute. 
It is, in  its  very  nature, 
relative,  but,  being usually expressed  by 
a reference  to  the  single  commodity  of 
money,  the  relative  value  of  all  other 
commodities  to  one  another 
is  over­
looked.  We say that wheat  sells  for  so 
much a bushel and cotton  for so  much a 
pound, and there we stop. 
If we  went a 
step  farther  and  compared  wheat  with 
cotton,  we  could  as properly  say  that  a 
bushol  of  wheat  was  worth  so  many 
pounds of cotton, or a  bale  of  cotton  so 
many bushels of wheat.  The  dollar,  or 
the  shilling,  or  the  franc,  or  whatever 
money  unit  is  employed  to  express 
prices, is  merely  a  convenient  common 
measure by which to get  at  the  relative 
value of  things,  without  going  into  the 
complicated  calculations  which  direct 
barter  entails;  for,  the  seller  of  wheat 
or of  cotton,  wbile  he  insists  on  being 
paid in money for what he  sells, does  so 
only for the purpose of buying  with that 
money  the  other  articles  which  he  de­
sires.  The use  of  money  does  not  de­
stroy  barter;  it  only  makes  it  easier  to 
effect.  Although the  whole  business  of 
the  civilized  world  is,  in  the  first  in­
stance,  buying and selling  for  money, it 
is,  actually,  a  gigantic  system  of  ex­
changes,  by  which  every  individual  de­
voting  himself  to  the  production  of  a 
few things, or,  perhaps of a single thing, 
obtains  various  other  things  which  his 
fellow men produce,  and  which  he needs 
for his comfort or bis pleasure.

Of  course,  the  ease  or  the  difficulty 
with  which the desire for  the  possession 
of things can be gratified is  also  an  ele­
ment in increasing or diminishing  value. 
If diamonds were  as  plenty  as  pebbles 
and as readily to be  had,  they  would  be 
as valueless, no matter  how  fashionable 
they might be for ornaments  So,  too, if 
iron  were  as  scarce  with  us  as it was 
with  the  South  Sea  Islanders,  and  as 
hard to get,  we should be willing  to  pay 
as  much  for  it  as  they were.  Not de­
mand alone,  therefore, nor  supply  alone 
determines value,  but the action  and  re­
action  of  each  upon  the other.  Of the 
two,  however,  demand  is  the  primary 
and more efficient  factor,  since  without 
it the essential  element  of  value  would 
be lacking.  Let nobody want an article, 
even as a gift, the fact that  it  is  scarce 
and  hard  to  get  will not make it worth 
anything.

It is evident from this that,  when  the 
desire to possess any particular  thing  or 
class of things takes hold of a great num 
ber  of  people  at  the same moment,  the 
value of  that  thing  or  class  of  things 
will  increase,  and  .as  value  in  buying 
and selling is expressed  by  the  amount 
of money things command, their  price in 
money  will  go  up.  To  create  and to 
stimulate this desire are the  aim of own­
ers who ha\e things to  sell,  and  to  the 
degree that they succeed in  doing  it,  or 
that it is done for them  without effort on 
their part,  a rise in prices  is  the  result. 
Correspondingly,  when the desire to buy 
abates, and especially  when  a  desire  to 
sell takes its place,  prices go down, as so 
frequently happens in the  stock  market. 
It is all a matter of feeling and of imagina­
tion, and hence the difficulty of  prognos­
ticating  the  course  of  prices  either  of 
stocks or anything else.  What  ought  to 
take place,  in  reason,  can  be  foretold, 
but,  unfortunately, reason is  not  always 
supreme.

The money with  which  this  great  ex­
change of commodities  among men is ef­
fected may be anything which is so  gen­
erally  desirable  that  it  will  be readily 
taken  in  payment  for other things. 
In 
different ages and in  different  countries 
it  has  been  cattle,  salt,  wampum, cow­
ries, furs, teas,  tobacco,  and,  in  short, 
almost every  kind of non-perishable com­
modity.  The  metals,  from  their  supe­
rior durability, gradually  supplanted,  as 
civilization  progressed,  everything  else, 
and iron,  brass, silver,  and,  finally, gold, 
shaped into convenient form  and  size as 
coin, 
the  only 
money  used.  The  result  is  that  when 
money  is  spoken  of  hardly  any  one 
thinks of anything but coin, or  of  paper 
representing coin.

successively  became 

Coin,  however,  is by no means  the last 
stage  of  the  development  of  money. 
With the growth of commerce, especially 
in these days of railroads, steamers,  and 
electric  telegraphs,  the  actual  passing 
over of coin from hand to hand  in  every 
transaction has become too  laborious  an 
operation.  Where the  aggregate of pur­
chases  and  sales  amounts  at  a  single 
point, as it frequently  does,  to hundreds 
of millions of dollars,  payment in coin is 
physically impossible.  A hundred thou­
sand dollars in gold weighs  370  pounds, 
and in silver,  at the ratio  of  16  to  1,  it 
weighs nearly three tons.  A  million  of 
dollars  in  gold  weighs nearly two tons, 
and  the  same  amount  of  silver  nearly 
thirty tons.  We have only  to  fancy  the 
employment  of  the  actual gold or silver 
in effecting the  exchanges  of  commodi­
ties in this city,  to  become  convinced  of 
its impracticability.  All  the horses and 
carts at our command  would  not  suffice 
to carry  the  stuff  around,  even  if  men 
enough and time enough  could be had to 
count it.

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of  substituting  for  coin,  in  business 
transactions,  first,  paper  money  repre­
senting coin,  and,  what is of  far  greater 
utility,  bank  credits.  Within  a  month 
the banks of New  York City  in  one  day 
exchanged  among 
themselves  credits 
representing  $137,000,000,  and  settled 
the resulting balances not in coin,  but in 
paper  and  in  warehouse  receipts  for 
coin. 
In  London,  which  is  the  great 
commercial  and  financial  center  of  the 
civilized  world, 
the  bank  exchanges 
averaged  last  year  on  Stock  Exchange 
account days $400,000,000, and amounted 
for the year to  $31,000,000,000.  What is 
done in these two  cities  is  done  in  like 
manner on a smaller  scale,  but  still,  in 
the aggregate,  to  an  enormous  amount, 
in other  commercial  cities  all  over  the 
world.  Only  the  smallest  conceivable 
fraction  of  the  business  trausacted  in­
volves the use of actual  coin,  nearly  the 
whole being accomplished by  the  use  of 
credit.

I  mention  these  facts,  not  as  being 
new  to  my  readers,  but  because  they 
need to be brought into prominence  just 
at this moment,  when so great an  outcry 
is made on both sides of the  Atlantic  of 
the insufficiency of the supply of  coin  in 
the  world  to  do  the  world’s  business. 
The  truth  is  that,  just  as  coin  sup­
planted  cattle,  shells,  and  other  incon­
venient kinds of money,  and as gold  and^ 
silver supplanted iron, copper and brass, 
so  paper  money  and  bank  checks have 
supplanted gold and  silver  coin.  Under 
the  pressure  of  the  same  progressive 
movement  silver  is  disappearing  from 
civilized countries  as  a  medium  of  ex­
change,  and is used only as subsidiary or 
token money in the same way that  paper 
or bronze might be used. 
In  process  of 
time gold itself will be no  longer coined, 
but  kept  in  the  shape  of  large ingots, 
and in that form  employed  to  settle  in­
ternational  balances,  as  it  is  now to a 
great extent. 

Ma t t h e w   Ma r s h a l l .

She Had the Book.
From the Philadelphia Grocery  World.

Judging from a case which came under 
the writer’s notice during the past week, 
it is small  wonder that  some  retail  gro­
cers  fail.  The  case  was one in which a 
Philadelphia retailer  was  the  chief  fig­
ure.  He did a  good  business,  and  bad 
a reputation among his  fellows  of  being 
a  pretty  progressive  fellow.  Recently 
this  grocer  had  quite  a  good-sized  bill 
which he was  unable  to  collect.  After 
temporizing for some time,  he  placed  it 
in  the  hands  of  a  certain  collection 
agency in the city,  with  instructions  to 
push it.
After the bebtor,  who  was  a  woman, 
had been notified through  the  collection 
agency that the bill had  been  placed  in 
the latter’s bands for collection, she paid 
a visit to the agency, and said she would 
pay the bill instantly upon  receiving  an 
itemized statement.  The manager of the 
collection agency  congratulated  himself 
on getting the account in  so  easily,  and 
communicated  with the grocer with a re­
quest for an itemized  bill.
The  grocer  answered  the  request  in 
person:
“I can’t give  you  any  itemized  bill,” 
he said.
“Why  not?”  asked  the  collector,  in 
surprise.
“Why,”  answered  the  grocer,  “she’s 
got the book.”
“You  don’t mean to say that’s the only 
book of her account you kept,  do  you?” 
demanded the manager.
“ Why, certainly,”  was the grocer’s an­
swer, given in a tone which denoted that 
he was surprised at the question.
The result was  that  the  account  still 
remains  uncollected,  and  is  likely  to. 
Any  customer  has  such  a  grocer right 
under his or her  thumb.

A   Bit  of  Modern  Verse.

W ritte n  fo r T h b Tradbsman.

Without  insisting  too  strongly 

that 
the  American  muse has,  in a fit of inspi­
ration,  given  utterance  to some practical 
and,  at the same  time,  prophetic  verse, 
we confess to a feeling akin  to  that  ex­
perienced  in  reading  accounts  of  Eng­
land’s action in Central America  and  on 
the  continent  farther  south.  To  our 
prejudiced  ears  these  accounts  have  a 
striking resemblance to an old story, told 
first  in  1776,  and  repeated,  with  little 
variation, a little later,  when Perry “met 
the enemy and they are [were]  ours.”

It is to be hoped that there is  no  dan­
ger of a return of the condition of things 
then existing with the  corresponding  re­
sults,  but,  when  we  see  the  same old 
spirit asserting itself in the same old  ag­
gressive  way,  the  lines  of  the  modern 
muse, doggerel though they  be,  come  to 
us and  we find ourselves  bumming  with 
considerable  vim:

“You can’t holler down our rain barrel,
If you won’t be good to m e!”
The fact is that too little  attention has 
been paid to the limits of  the  back  yard 
and  the  ownership  of  the  rain barrel. 
One  would  think  a  continent  barrier 
enough to  keep  off  troublesome  neigh­
bors,  and  yet,  when  the  trouble  began 
with the Hawaii children, there was that 
John  Bull  monopolizing  the  yard  and 
keeping the children  from  sliding  down 
their own  cellar-door.  Nicaragua  hap­
pens  jo  leave  her  back  gate  open  and 
John B.  at once  mounts the gate-post and 
lets  nobody  go  out  or  in.  Venezuela 
concludes to do  what  she  will  with  her 
own,  but  there  stands  the  omnipresent 
John,  who,  with  a  wave  of  the  hand, 
tells the  youthful  republic  to  get  right 
back—that part of the  dooryard  belongs 
to him. 
It makes  no  difference  what  is 
said or done—whether it is  sliding down 
the  cellar-door,  or  hollering  down  the 
rain-barrel, or climbing  the  apple-tree— 
this  big-vested  John  has  something  to 
say about  it.

It does seem as if the time has come to 
call  a  halt.  Hints  enough  have  been 
dropped,  but  to  no  purpose,  and,  if 
nothing will do but emphasizing the hint 
with a kick,  let  the  latter  be  given  and 
with force enough to lift  the burly  med­
dler  from  the  ground.  That,  if  any­
thing,  will bring matters  to  a  focus  and 
will give special force  to  the  suggestive 
lines:

“You can’t holler down our  rain-barrel,

You can’t climb our apple tree,

And you can’t play In our back yard 

For you ain’t good to me.”

R .  M.  S t r e e t e r .

C ourting  th e   C uriosity  o f  C ustom ers.
An  ingenious  Chicago  merchant  re­
cently  placed  the  following  inscription 
on a card in one of his store windows:

WATCH THIS WINDOW TO-MORROW.

The  curtains  of 

the  window  were 
closely  drawn,  which 
circumstance 
aroused the curiosity of  shoppers  as  to 
what was going  on behind them,  and  in­
duced them to be present on  the morrow 
when  the  curtains  were  raised.  The 
scene presented to  their  vision  was  an 
extremely handsome and artistic  display 
of the very latest  styles  in  the  dealer’s 
line,  which  they  considered  a  genuine 
commercial treat.  To make  such  a  dis­
play cost the  storekeeper  a  good  many 
dollars,  but  he  considered  the  money 
well invested, judging by  the  customers 
attracted  to  his  establishment  by  the 
scheme. 

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Job,  yes  Job  had  some  trial,  but his 
life was as a sunny  pilgrimage compared 
with  that  of  most  merchants.  He ought 
to  have  bought  a  retail  store  if  he  was 
looking for trouble.
But  this  was  not  the  beginning;  as 
nearly  as  1  can  remember  the  curtain 
arose upon  the following:
“Tell  her  1  am  busy—writing  some 
letters  that  must  be  mailed  to-night;” 
and  seizing a pen  he began  writing  at  a 
rapid pace.
The  mere  entrance of a lady customer 
occasioned  all  this.  The  clerk stepped 
behind  the counter and politely inquired 
her wants.
‘ Could I see Mr. Blank a moment?  He 
knows  just  what  1  want;  besides,  you 
know  1 always trade with him.”
••Mr.  Blank  is  very  busy  at  present. 
He is  writing  some  letters  which  must 
be  mailed  to night.  Don’t  you  think 1 
would do this time?”
‘ Why,  yes,  certainly,  you  would  any 
time,  only  you  know,  as  1  said  before, 
1 am so accustomed to  trading  with  him 
that  it  seems  he  can  always  put  his 
band  right  on  the  article  1  am after.  1 
am  looking  for  a  pin  for  baby,  and  1 
can’t make up my  mind  whether  to have 
it  say  ‘baby’  or  ‘mamma’s  darling.’ ”
“Oh,  mamma!”  groaned  Mr.  Blank 
taking a fresh  dip  of  ink  and  bending 
lower over his work.
The clerk set a tray of pins on the case 
before  the  customer.  sugges>ing,  as  be 
did so,  that the  lettering  was  merely  a 
matter of taste.
She looked and looked;  picked  up  one 
pin  after  another  aud  laid  it  down,  a 
look  of  troubled  indecision  wrinkling 
her brow.
‘‘You haven’t any with  ‘mamma’s  and 
papa’s darling’  on, have you?”
Blank made a  frenzied  jab  at  the  ink 
stand,  remaiking  in  an  undertone  that 
she would probably end  up  with  a  door

THE  MJCHIGLAJST  TRADESMAN.
different form to the plague, but it might 
as well be the baby as  anything else,  for 
on some excuse or other she  is  bound  to 
consume  100  minutes  for  a  dollar. 
I 
timed her to-night,  and  it  took  her  ex­
actly  forty-three  minutes  to  buy a  pin 
that  would have beeu j  st as satisfactory 
if bought in the dark.
“ 1 will pay ten  yeais’  subscription  in 
advance  and  agree 
to  become  a  life 
reader of any trade paper that  will  offer 
an  effectual  remedy  tor  this  affliction. 
Every  merchant  has  it  in  some  form; 
some are beset with sample fiends, but as 
a rule they do not bother long. 
It is the 
good customer, such as  the  one  just  in, 
who always buy,  but  are  forever  at  it, 
that tries one’s patience.”
1 know another merchant whose experi­
ence was very similar to the above.  The 
annoying customer’s especial  hobby  was 
dress  goods.  Whenever  he  advertised 
the arrival  of  new  dress  goods  she  was 
the  first  to  put  in  an  appearance,  and, 
as  he  put  it,  the  last  to  leave.  Every 
piece  in  the  house  had  to  be 
taken 
down,  several  yards  unrolled,  and  the 
merits  and  demerits discussed at length. 
Naturally,  the  counters  soon  looked  as 
if  a  cyclone  had  struck  the  place.  His 
temper  not  being  proof  against  every­
thing,  he  was considerably  annoyed,  yet 
this very customer bought more and  bet­
ter  dress  goods  than  auy  other  patron. 
Of course,  he could not afford to seud her 
away,  because  her  trade  was  consider­
able, and,  besides,  she  had  friends  who 
would be more or less influenced.
laboriously; at 
last an idea arrived,  and,  with it,  a smile 
of satisfaction.  He bided his time.
It was springtime; the gentle cackle of 
the hen blended  in tuneful cadence  with 
the  rythmic  rattle  of  battens  on  the 
barn; it was springtime aud spring  dress 
goods weie literally  flooding the stores— 
if the statements in the  papers  could  be 
believed;  Likewise came  the  lady  cus­
tomer, even  before  the  newspaper  man 
arrived with his bill.  The time  had  ar­
rived.
|  The  proprietor  waited  upon  her. 
It 
was  the  same  old  story—piece  after

plate  with  the  whole  blooming  family 
on  it.
‘T  think  it’s  real  mean  of  you,  Mr. 
Blank,” she observed,  poutingly,  “to not 
come and  wait on such  a  good  old  cus­
tomer as I.”
“That’s  true,  Mrs.  Smith,”  replied 
Blank,  ‘‘you  are  an  old  customer  and 
very  good  to  excuse  me  this  evening 
when I have more than 1 can do; but  the 
truth is, John  knows  more  about  baby 
pins than all the  rest of us put together. 
He has  made  a  special  study  of  them, 
and knows all  the  good-luck  charms  in 
the catalogue.  Take his advice  and you 
will be  safe.”
“Oh, aren’t you awful!  But  say,  Mr. 
Blank,”  and  she  walked  down  to  the 
desk  with both  hands  full  of  pins,  “do 
you think there  is  any  danger  of  these 
pins coming unpinned and  sticking  into 
baby?”
Mr.  Blank could not do otherwise than 
put a half  an  hour  of  careful  consulta­
tion  with his customer,  the  result  being 
the sale of a fifty-cent pin.
This lady, the merchant afterward  ex­
plained,  was one of  his  best  customers. 
Since a little child she  had  stood  stead­
fastly  by  him,  apparently never thinking 
that  it  was  possible  to  buy  goods  else­
where.  When the year rolled  around  it 
was invariably  found  that  the  trade  of 
her  family  was  very  near  the  top  in 
amount.  As  for  pay,  the  account  was 
worth  100 cents on the dollar.
These were the good features.  On the 
other hand,  it always cost all  the  profits 
to  sell  her  goods,  so long did it take to 
make the selection.
No  one  could  wait  upon  her but Mr. 
Blank,  and  when  she  had  made  a  pur­
chase the counters aud  show  cases  were 
filled  with  goods  which  she  had  in­
spected.
“ What can a person do?”  inquired the 
“ 1 have tried  every  scheme 
proprietor. 
1 can evolve,  but  they  all  seem  to  only 
entertain  her  the  more. 
If  1  tell  her 
that  1  cannot  afford  to  waste  so  much 
time with her  1  will  not  only  lose  her 
trade but that of her parents as  well.
“This  baby  has  temporarily  given  a

He  thought  long  and 

piece  came  down.  When  enough  had 
been placed  upon  the  counter  to  afford 
an  excuse  he  called  the  book-keeper, 
with  whom  it  bad  been  previously  ar­
ranged,  and  set  him  to  replacing  the 
goods on the  shelves.  The  book-keeper 
gauged bis speed so as to keep even with 
them,  being  careful  to  make  a  painful 
display of the vast  amount  of  work  re­
quired to build up  that which  they  were 
tearing down. 
It did not  take  quite  so 
long that time.
in a few days  she came  in  again;  this 
time the proprietor and  a  clerk  went  to 
wait  upon  her.  Two  or  three  times, 
this  was  done,  when  one  day  she  re­
marked:
“I never before knew how  much  trou­
ble 1 have made you;  I am  more  trouble 
than all my trade is worth to you.”
In  response  to  which  the  proprietor 
promptly and  suavely  lied,  saying  that 
she was no trouble;  that it  was  a  pleas­
ure  to  show  goods,  etc.  But  the mer- 
chaut never again took a clerk with him, 
nor  was it necessary,  for the little object 
lesson opened her eyes  to  the  fact  that 
she  was  making  unnecessary  trouble, 
and that was sufficient.
While every merchant has  his trouble­
some customers,  there are  very  few who 
go  to  such  extremes,  and since hearing 
the  above  1  have  often  wondered  if  it 
would not be productive of  good  results 
if the salesmen  would stop and carefully 
roll and replace each piece  before taking 
down  another.  Of  course,  this  would 
apply  to  only those wno make too  much 
trouble in the selection of goods.
Value of Advertising'.

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I 
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with  termorrer  mornin’  an’  it’s  about 
time another batch o’  them  green  goods 
circ’iars was gittin’  in.”

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OPPORTUNITIES  FOR  SUCCESS.
It is a common complaint in these days 
that  there  are  no  good  opportunities 
now, such as there  once  were,  to  make 
money.  Competition,  men tell you,  is so 
keen  that  the  profits  of  business  are 
small,  while risks of loss  are  many  and 
large.  To  do  a  profitable  business  re­
quires not only more brains, but a larger 
capital  and  intenser  activity  than  ever 
before.  Trade tends to  concentration in 
fewer  and 
fewer  hands.  The  great 
houses  are  continually  absorbing  the 
small  ones,  or,  by  underselliug  them, 
driving  them 
For 
every clerkship there are hundreds of ap­
plicants,  which  reduces  wages  so  low 
that a young man  who wishes to  go  into 
business by-and-by  for himself can  bare­
ly live,  without laying up a dollar.

into  bankruptcy. 

Now,  while there is  a  certain  amount 
of  truth  in  this,  we  believe  it  to  be 
enormously  exaggerated.  We  think we 
could  show,  had  we  space,  that  for  a 
man  who  is  abreast with  the  age,  and 
has mastered the latest and best mode of 
doing business,  the  present  is  in  many 
respects the best time in  the world’s his­
tory to win  an  independence  or  a  for­
tune. 
Instead,  however,  of  showing the 
truth of this opinion, we will  tell an  an­
ecdote.

About fifty years ago, we were chatting 
in a hotel  in  Maine with  a  shrewd  old 
retired  merchant  over  eighty  years  of 
age,  who,  beginning life  a  poor  boy in  a 
village  in  Kennebec  county,  Me.,  had 
accumulated from $800,000  to  $1,000,000 
—a sum  equal,  probably,  to  more  than 
twice as much  to-day.

they 

“People,” said the  old  man,  “are  al­
ways  complaining 
that  there  are  no 
chances  now  to  make  money.  Thirty 
years  ago, 
tell  you,  there  were 
plenty  of  such  chances;  and,  had  you 
lived at that time,  you  would have heard 
the same  croakings. 
I  remember  well 
that  people then said that  the  days  for 
acquiring fortunes had gone by—that the 
time  for making  money  was  just  after 
the revolution; and I have  no doubt that 
during this last period there  were plenty 
of unsuccessful  men  who  asserted  that 
there was no profit in  business—that the 
lucky men  were  those  who  lived  a  gen­
eration  earlier.  And  so  you might  go 
back a hundred  years, or  more,  and  al­
ways you  would hear from  many persons 
the same  despairing.  Now,  the  fact is, 
Mr.  Mathews,” continued he,  after paus­
ing a moment to  take  a  pinch  of  snuff, 
“ that  all  times  are  good  for  making 
money, if  you  only  know  how;  and  if 
you don’t know how all  times  are  bad.”
“But,  Mr.  6 -----,”   said  we,  “suppose
that a young man is a  clerk  in  a store in 
Boston,  with a salary of only $200 a year, 
and  he  has  to  pay  $5  a  week  for  his 
clothes and board;  how  is  be  to  lay  up 
any money?  How is he to get a  start  in 
life, or find capital to go  into  any  busi­
ness for himself?”

“ I don’t  undertake,”  replied  the  old 
man,  in his shrill, slow voice, “to say how 
it can  be done;  I only say that if  be  has 
a will to do it, it will  be done.  But,  in­
stead of arguing the  matter,  I  will  tell 
you a story.

“About  fifty  years  ago,  there  was  a 
poor  boy  in  Maine,  whose father, once 
independent,  had lost most  of  his  prop­
erty by indorsing notes  for  his  friends, 
and lived in a log house.  The  boy  used 
to pick strawberries and other fruits and 
carry  them  two  miles  to a country  vil­

“One day a firm of traders, thinking he 
had a turn for business,  asked  him  how 
he would like to be one  of  their  clerks. 
His eyes sparkled  at  the  proposal,  and, 
on his saying he would like the place,  he 
was taken into the store.  His  salary for 
the first seven years was $40  a  year  and 
board.  For  the  next  two  years  he  re­
ceived $100 a year and his board.  At the 
end of the nine years’ clerkship  his  em­
ployers  took  him  into  co-partnership. 
How much money do you suppose he had 
at that time laid up?”

“ Why,”  we  replied,  “if  he  Lad  re­
sembled some clerks  that  are  employed 
to-day, he probably,  if he could  have got 
credit for such a  sum,  would  have  been 
about $1,500 in debt.”

“ Well,” said  the merchant  in a tone of 
triumph,  “ that is  precisely  the  sum  be 
had laid up in  cold  cash.  And  now,  if 
you don’t believe the  story,  1  will  tell 
you who the boy was.  He was your own 
father, and I was  one  of  the  firm  that 
employed him as  clerk  and  finally  took 
him into co-partnership.”

Surprised at this  revelation,  and  con­
scious that we had been floored by an ar- 
qumenturn ad hominem,  we  were  silent 
for a few minutes,  and then added:  “But 
the  whole  of  the  clerk’s  salary,  Mr.
G----- ,  for the  nine  years,  put  at  com­
pound interest,  wouldn’t have  amounted 
to  the  $1,500,  which  you  say  he  had 
hoarded.”

“Oh,”  was the reply, "he kept his mon­
ey turning over, of course.  He fished  at 
night in the Kennebec—caught  and  sold 
salmon, and dickered  with  the  farmers, 
etc.  But  he  never  neglected  his  em­
ployers’  business.  He  was  my  partuer 
for thirty years,  and the  only  one  1  did 
not lose money  by.”  W m.  Ma t h e w s.

Should  Stick to One Thing.

When a man starts out as  a  merchant, 
and is desirous  of  being  successful,  he 
should stick to  that  one  vocation.  Few 
men are such geniuses as  to  be  able  to 
look after the  crops,  electioneer  tor  the 
mayoralty, deal  in horses,  etc.,  all  at  the 
same time.  Don’t  have  too  many  irons 
in  the  fire.  A  “jack-of-all-trades”  is, 
generally,  the master of none, and a shoe 
mercnaut  who  attempts 
to  maintain 
other  commercial  interests  in  conjunc­
tion with his shoe business  will not very 
likely prove a striking  success  in any of 
his pursuits.  "All-around” men are few 
and very far between.  Any  one  having 
an  extensive  circle  of  acquaintances  is 
well aware of  the  fact  that  the  "know- 
it-all”  man,  as  a  rule,  knows  but  very 
little.  Few  architects  are  at  the  same 
time writers  of  poetry;  artists  are  not 
usually composers of music, and the doc­
tor  who  is  anxious  to  succeed  in  his 
chosen profession does not  study  Black- 
It is the same with the shoe mer­
stone. 
chant. 
If  he  wishes  to  prosper  in  his 
commercial  enterprise, 
let  him  study 
shoes and all  that  appertains  to  them. 
He should be well versed  in leathers and 
the  different  styles  of 
tanning.  He 
should be familiar with the  leather  mar­
ket and  its  customs.  He  should  know 
how a shoe is manufactured, of the proc­
ess  from 
the  time  the  leather  is  cut 
until  the  last  button  is  sewed  on.  He 
should keep himself  well-informed as to 
what is going on in  the  markets,  and  it 
would  be  greatly  to  his  advantage  to 
peruse every  week a  progressive,  newsy, 
and 
trade  journal.  Not 
every man can  operate  a  store  success- 
fully.  To be  a  success  as  a  merchant 
requires  brains, and  lots  of them.  The 
duties of few  men,  whatever  their  pro­
fession,  business,  or  trade  may  be,  are 
more exacting.  The merchant  may hold 
up  his  head  as  high  as  any  man,  for 
though his vocation  is  not  so  gilded  as 
the lawyer’s, or the journalist’s,  it neces­
sitates Intellect to conduct it.

interesting 

The Largest Manufacturers  of

PURE,  HIGH  GRADE
C O C O A S  AND 
CHOCOLATES
HIGHEST  AWARDS

on  th is  continent, 

have received

from  the  great

EXPOSITIONS

IN

Europe and America.

J n l i k e   th e  D u tc h   P rocess 
no  A lkalies  or  other  Chemicals or Dyes 
are  used  in  any  o f  their  preparations. 
Their delicious

3REAKFAST  COCOA

is absolutely pure and solnbld, and 

costs less th a n  one cen t a  cup.
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.

«ALTER BAKER &  CO. DORCHESTER MASS.

We want your Eggs-  Will 
pay you full  market  [»rice 
for  them,  delivered  here. 
Please  note, we  are  Buy­
ers, not commission  men.

We  are  Headquarters  for
Egg  Cases  and  Fillers.
Will  sell  you

23

No.  1 Cases complete, in lots of 10, each, $  f t
No.  1 30 doz. Cases,  in lots of 10, empty,
each............................................................... 
No. 230 doz. Whitewood  Cases,  empty,
each ............................................................... 
No. 2 30 doz.  Whitewood  Cases, knock­
down,  in lots of 25, each.........................  
10
14
No. 2 36 doz.  Whitewood Cases, each —  
No. 2 36 doz.  Whitewood Cases,K.D.eaeh 
11
No.  1 Fillers,  10 set in No.  1 Case............   1  00
No. 2 Fillers,  15 set in No.  1  Case............   1  00

13

W.  T.  LAMOREAUX  CO.,

A lle g a n ,  M ich.

Thoroughly  renovated,  repaired  and  refur­
nished  from’ kitchen  to  garret.  It is the inten­
tion of the landlord! who is an old traveling man) 
to make the house a  veritable  home  of  comfort 
and good cheer to the traveling public.

E.  0.  PHILLIPS,  PfOP.
NOTHING  SUCCEEDS  LIKE  MERIT!
HocU.Gr  XVashGr

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Has proved the most satis- 
factory of anyWasher ever
|   placed  upon  the  market.
It is warranted to wash an
, .'¿ e g S B   ordinary  family  washing 
of
' 

ioo  Pieces in One  Hour 
as clean as can be washed 
on the washboard.
W rite for Catalogue and 
Trade Discounts.

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids...............7:15am  1:25pm  *11:20pm
Ar. C hicago....................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

TO  AND FROM HUSKBGON.

TR A VERSE C ITT. CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEY

7:30am  3:15pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids.. 
Ar.  Manistee.............  12:20pm  8:15pm
1:0i)pra  8:45pm
Ar. Traverse City__  
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  BLEEPING  CARS.

Parlor  car 

leaves  for  t hicago  1:25pm.  Ar­
rives 
from  Chicago  In:25pm.  Sleeping  cars 
leave  for  C hicag.  11:30pm.  Arrive  from  Chi­
cago 6 .25am.
♦Every day  Others week  days  only._________
D E T R O IT ,

LA NSING   &  NOKTHKKN  K.  K,
GOING  TO  DETROIT.
Lv. Grand  Rapids. . . . . .   7:0Oam  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar.  Detroit 
....................11:40am  5:30pm  10:10pm

pm.

RETL'KNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  Detroit....................  7:4* am  1:10pm  6 :00pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids  .......12:40pm  5:2epm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am  5:00pm  Ar. G R  11 :.(5am 10:45pm

TO AND  FROM  SAGINAW.  ALMA  AND ST.  LOUIS.

TO AMD FROM LOWELL.

Lv. Grand Rapids.............  7:00am  l:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. from L ow ell................12:40pm  5:2opm  ............

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

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

Trains  week days only.

GEO.  DeIIAVEN. Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.
M i c h i g a n  LTe n t r a i

“ Ttt Niagara Falls Route.’*

(Taking effect  S un d ayM ay 27,1894.)

•Dally.  All others daily, except Sunday.

Arrive. 
Depart
10 20 D in............ Detroit  E xpress............7  00 a m
5 30am   .........  *Night  Express.............1.  20 pm
11  4i  am  .......New  York  Express...........   6  00 p m
Sleeping cars  ran on  all  night  trains  to  and 
from  Detroit.
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at  7:00am ;  re 
turning, leave Detroit 4:35 pm , arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit  with 
all through  trains erst  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral  Railroad  (Canada Southern  Division.)
A.  ALM«iui»T,Ticket  Agent, 
T 'n ln n   P a s s e n e e rS tH tlo n

W AI  K E E   R ailw ay.
EASTWARD.

■  ETROIT,  U R A N O   HAVEN  &  M il 
tNo.  14 tiNo.  to Ti>u.  AÖ*>0.
6 45am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 3 am 
lO'iOam 
1205pm
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

Trains L  avt
3’d  Rapids,  Lv
[o n la ............ ar
St.  Johns 
Ar 
Owossd —   Ar 
E.  Saginaw  Ar 
Bay City 
.  Ar
Flint 
.........  Ar
Pt.  Huron.  .Ar
P on tiac.........Ar
Detroit. 
Ar

1  20am 
1) 25am 
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

3 25pm
4 27pm 
520pm 
ó U5pm 
8 00pm 
8 37pm 
7 15pm 
8 iOpm 
8 25pm 
925pm

11 oopm 
1235am 
1 25am 
3 10am
6 40am 
715am 
54* am
7 30am 
5 37am 
7 00am

For  Grand  Haven  and  Intermediate
Points  ...................................................*8:40 a. m.
For Crand  Haven  and  Muskegon 
.  .tl:(0 p .  m 
t5  35 p.  m.
“  
For Grand  Haven  Mil.  and  Chi.........  *7:40 p. m.
For Grand  llaveu and Milwaukee —  tlU:o5 p. m. 

“   M il.  and Chi. 

“  

“ 

»Daily.

tDaily except  Sunday 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35  a.m.,  12:60 
p.m  5:3u p.  m.,  10:  o  p.m.
Trains  arrive  from  the  west.  6:4U  a.  m.  8:15 
a, m.  iu:10 a.  m.  3:15  p m   and 7:05 p.m .
Eastward—No.  14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor  Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11  Parlor Car  No.  16 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car  No. 81  Wagner Sleeper.

J ab. Campbell. City T'cket Agent.

G rant)  R a p id e  & In d ia n a

TBA INS  GOING  N ORTH.

Leave going 

North

T RA IN S  GO IN G   SOUTH

F o r T ra v e rse  C ity , P eto sk ey   a n d  S ag in aw ---- 7:10 a .  ir-
F or S a g in a w ................................................................5:00p 
F o r  P eto sk ey   an d   M ackinaw ...........................5:25 y,  m .
L eave g o in g  
F o r  C in c in n a ti........................................................... 7:25 a  .m .
F or K ala m azo o  an d   C h ic ag o .............................. 2:15 p.  m .
F or  F o rt W ayne a n  a  th e   E a st............................ 2:15 p .m .
F o r C in c in n a ti  ........................................................*5:40  p .m .
F o r  K alam azoo an d  C h ic a g o ............................*11:40  p.  m

S ooth.

-

C hicago v ia   G.  Ft.  St  I.  Ft  R.

Lv G ran d  R ap id s............7  2 5 a m   2:15 p m   *11:40 p m
A rr  C h ic a g o .......................2 :4 0 p m  
7 :1 0 am
2:15 p  m  tr a in   h as th ro u g h   W a g n er  B uffet  P a rlo r 
M ar an d  conch.

9:05 p m 

11:40  p m  t r a in  d a lly ,  th ro u g h   W a g n er S leep in g  C ar 
an d  C oach.
l l  :30p m
Lv  C hicago 
A rr G ran d  R a p id s 
7:20 a m
3 so  p  m   h a s   th ro u g h   W a g n er  B uffet  P a rlo r  O ar 
U:30 p m   tr a in  d aily  .th r o  u g h   W a g n e r  S leeping  C a r 

S  30 p m  
9:15 p m  

6:50am  
2:50pm 

F o r M uskegon—L ea v e. 

.M u s k e g o n , G r a n d   R a p i d s   I t  I n d i a n a .
9:50 a m
7:25  a m  
1 :9 0 p m  
1:15pm
4:40  p m 
6:20 p  m
0  X .LO CK W O O D ’

F rom  M uskegon—A rrive.

General  Passenger and Ticket Agent.

2 2

-TTTTT.  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

CURRENT  COMMENT.

The California coast  papers  are  brag­
ging that more than one-half  the  salmon 
pack of  the  United  States,  and  nearly 
half of the world’s supply,  is now put up 
in  Alaska.  The  business  has  some 
$3,000,000 capital invested in it,  and  the 
value of a season’s catch,  without  count­
ing  the  manufactured  products  there­
from,  is  about  $'2,000,000.  Last  year 
there were twenty-two  canneries  in  op­
eration,  which packed 646,000  cases,  be­
sides twenty-four salting establishments, 
which  marketed  21,000  barrels  of  salt 
salmon.  The fish are nearly all taken by 
seines at the mouths  of the  rivers,  thus 
preventing  the  salmon 
reaching  their 
spawning grounds,  and it is said that the 
industry  is  rapidly  destroying  the  fish. 
The salmon have practically disappeared 
already  from  the  Columbia  and  other 
Pacific coast rivers,  and,  at  the  present 
rate, it will not be  long  till  one  cannot 
be found in Alaska. 
It might  be  worth 
while for the Government  to  take  some 
steps for the  protection of the salmon on 
the west coast. 
It  would be  easier  and 
cheaper  than  protecting  the  seals  in 
Behring Sea.

*  *  *

For five days an unlucky cat  was  up a 
tree in Brooklyn  without food  and  wail­
ing  piteously  for  assistauce.  This  cat 
knew  more  about  climbing  up  than 
climbing down, and though every induce­
ment in the way of food  was  spread  out 
at the foot of the tree,  she could  not  get 
down.  Passers-by pitied her,  policemen 
stared at  her,  residents  of  the  vicinity 
cursed her,  and agents of  the Society for 
the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals 
could not help her.  Finally, a small  boy 
solved the difficulty, 
lie climbed up the 
tree and brought the cat  down,  amid the 
plaudits of an admiring  throng,  and  his 
picture got iuto the  World.

*  *  *

A Mr.  Borden,  of  New  York,  has  of­
fered a reward of  $10,000  for  the  arrest 
of the men who murdered  his negro  but­
ler,  and says that be  will  make it $20,000 
to convict them. 
It is a  big  sum.  The 
chiefs of police of the big  cities recently 
decided that it was  wrong  and  criminal 
to  accept  rewards  for  the  capture  of 
criminals,  but  the  chances  are  that  if 
these are taken, the  $10,000  will  not  be 
refused.

*  *  *
carriagemakers, 

The 

blacksmiths, 
hackmen  and  others  of  Quebec  have 
joined in a protest  to the  mayor  against 
the new  electric street railway,  which  it 
is proposed to  operate  there.  They  de­
clared that it would be extremely danger­
ous to life,  and that it  would  ruin  their 
trades.  The mayor heard the committee 
to the end,  and  then  told  them  that  he 
was sorry that he  could  not  agree  with 
them,  but that  he felt bound  to do all  in 
his  power  to  secure  the  proposed  rail­
way for  the  city,  as  it  wonld  have  to 
keep up  with the procession  or  fall into 
the  background  altogether.  He  said 
that the old city had  already suffered no 
little  through  its  reputation  for  back­
wardness, and that it was  time to take  a 
new departure.

•  *  *

There is no need of wasting  any  sym­
pathy on  Florida. 
If  a  state  ever  did 
seem to need  it,  that  State  was  Florida 
when the cold wave struck  her  and  car­
ried  away,  when  it  ebbed,  one  of  the 
most promising crops of oranges that her 
trees  had  ever  borne.  Everybody  was 
sorry  for her then and should have been;

but, with a “So be it,” the  land  of  blos­
soms wiped her eyes and started  for  her 
melon  patch  and  went  to  work.  Now 
she comes forward  “ with  smiles  where 
once were tears”  and informs us that she 
has  the  biggest  melon  crop  on  record 
and expects to ship more than  8,000  car­
loads.  Well done, Florida!  Here’s hop­
ing that the  melons will  be all that they 
promise; and here’s hoping,  too, that the 
example  set by that  not-to-be-cast-down 
sister State will  be faithfully followed by 
the other members of the same family!

*  *  *

Here’s a move in  the  right  direction: 
A dairy  division  has  been made  in  the 
Agricultural  Department at Washington, 
D. C.,  and  will be  organized  about  July 
1. 
Its  purpose  is  to gather and spread 
information  concerning  the  dairy  busi­
ness of this country,  in 1892, the United 
States exported  15,047,246 pounds of but­
ter  and  82,100,221  pounds  of  cheese, 
their  combined  value  being  $9,835,000. 
The Americans were  securing  the  Lon­
don market for their  cheese  when  some 
smart  Alec  of  an  exporter  began ship­
ping filled cheese and selling  it  for  full 
cream  cheese.  That  finished  the  busi­
ness  in  Europe!  Mulhall,  the  English 
statistician, places the total annual dairy 
production of the world at 1,946,000 tons, 
and  that of  the  United  States  alone  at 
610,000 tons.

#  *  *

From the time John Sutter found  gold 
in  his  mill-race,  to the present, Califor­
nia has stood,  in the eyes  of  the  world, 
as  the  gold-producing  state.  The time 
has come for that idea  to  broaden.  The 
gold product is all right but it  holds  the 
first place no longer.  For  the  past  ten 
years the fruit has been  pushing  to  the 
front,  amounting,  last year,  to  $50,000,- 
000.  The  value  of  the  gold  mined for 
tne  same  time  was  $40,000,000,  which 
shows that,  if  the  mines  give  out,  the 
State will still  be able to  keep  her  nose 
above  water.  She  seems  to  have  heard 
the fable about not putting  all  her  eggs 
in  one  basket  and  to  have turned it to
practical  account.

*  #  

•

Scientists are talking  again  about  the 
gradual subsidence of the  Atlantic coast 
of this country.  A  landmark  set  up  in 
Fairfield county,  Conn.,  about  100  years 
ago, is now deep  under water at low tide, 
and along the  New  Jersey  shore  it  has 
been  necessary  to  move houses back  at 
intervals of thirty  years.  At  one  point 
on  the  Florida  coast  a  lighthouse  had 
to  be  abandoned  and  another  built 
higher  on  the  shore.  The  indications 
are strong that Long  Island  was  once  a 
part of the mainland.  Along  the Atlan­
tic in Northern Europe the coast is slowly 
rising,  but the Italian shore is subsiding. 
Fortunately,  scientists  maintain 
that 
there is an alternation in this movement, 
and that in the course of ages our Atlan­
tic seaboard will rise  again.

•  *  *

A Portland  business  man has hit on  a 
new  scheme  for  being  awakened  at the 
proper time in the morning, which he de­
clares  beats  any  alarm  clock  that  was 
ever invented.  He has his telephone  in 
his bedroom,  and each night when  about 
to retire he calls up the central office and 
requests the operator  to call him up at  a 
designated hour, in  order  to  find  if  the 
’phone  works  properly.  Promptly  at 
that hour the bell rings loudly, and he is 
awakened  with  neatness  and  dispatch. 
He claims that the  service thus rendered 
is alone  worth  the  annual rental of  the 
telephone.

C h e a p
Coupon
Books

in  Ibis era of low prices  and  low grade goods, 
a  demand  has  arisen  for  CHEAP  COUPON 
BOOKS, which can be made and  sold at a lower 
price than our Standard  Grades, that have  boei^ 
on the market for a  dozen  years  past  and  have 
stood the test of time.  We are not  advocates  of 
cheap goods in any line,  and  we note that those 
houses which  attempt  to  build  up a reputation 
by catering solely to  the  demand  for low  grade 
goods, seldom make any money  and  soon  cease 
to cut  much  of  a  figure  in  the  business  world.
However,  if  any  of  our  customers  waut  a 

cheaper  book than our regular

TRADESMAN,

SUPERIOR  or  UNIVERSAL

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

ECONOMIC

Book  is not quite up  to  the  standard of  its pre­
decessors, but it's a heap  better  than  the  books 
sold by other coupon  book  makers for the same 
money.  If  you  are  skeptical  on  this point,  we 
solicit a comparison  of  workmanship  and  quo­
tations.

Tradesm an  Company
Grand  Rapids........

T S m   M I C H I G A 1 T   T R Â

op.

t h e  k e y  to  s u c c e s s.

Vital  Principles  Which  Must  Be  Ob­

served by  the Salesman.

The most vital and difficult task a man 
has in this life is to  determine  what  his 
talents are and then select that  vocation 
which demands an exercise of these same 
talents.  Every man has some one facolty 
with  which  he  may  excel.  With  this 
faculty he possesses the ability to develop 
himself more fully than  with  any  other 
he may have had  given  him.  Applying 
this to  selling  goods,  we  have  no  hesi­
tancy  in  declaring  that  a  salesman  is 
born a salesman, i.  e.,  he  is  born  with 
the  qualities  which  make  a  salesman. 
He may have no ability  whatever to  exe­
cute for himself.  So careless  may he be 
about finance that at the  end  of  his  life 
he has barely enough to support himself. 
Yet he may  be  a  success as a salesman. 
There is one quality  that  be  must  have 
in an unusual  degree,  and  that  is  judg­
ment of human nature. 
If be  is  unable 
to read his man  he  had  better  hunt  for 
another  job.  He  must  make  himself 
congenial  to  his  customer.  Salesman­
ship does  not  consist  in  selling  what  a 
man desires to  buy. 
It  is  in  directing 
the attention of your  customer  to  some 
thing which you know  is  paying  a  good 
margin, or which is  unsalable  and  must 
be gotten out of the  store  or  a  loss  will 
result.  And to thus direct  a  customer’s 
attention to stuff when  he  has no appar­
ent interest in it one must be agreeable— 
agreeable  in  the  sense  of  reading  your 
man and so  impressing  yourself  on  him 
as to please him.  A  keen  salesman will 
meet a  customer  with  dignity  and  con­
tinue to treat  him so  until  sure  that  he 
will  stand  a  joke.  But  to  continue  to 
travel on  your  dignity  when  your  cus­
tomer is a jolly fellow is just as grave an 
error.  Or to indulge in a spirit of weak­
ness about price  when  your  man  wants 
one price and that in a  very firm tone,  is 
wrong.  Again  we  insist  the  ability  to 
read your man is absolutely  necessary to 
your success  as  a  salesman.  Some  ad­
vise against introducing politics  into the 
conversation when selling  goods.  Such 
unqualified  advice  is  injurious.  There 
are many men who  can  be  won  as  your 
friend only by taking opposition to them. 
We  have  heard  the  hottest  kind  of  a 
political argument  between  a  merchant 
and a drummer, and  it  only  made  more 
secure that drummer’s grip  on  the  mer­
chant.  Here  again  is  manifested  the 
necessity of knowing your  man.  There 
is a subject, however, that  one  had  bet­
ter omit, and that is  religion.  Get  into 
no argument on religion;  it  is dangerous 
ground  to  tread. 
Is  it  required  of  a 
salesman  to  express  no  decided  views? 
We believe it is not,  and  that  merchants 
and  customers  delight  to  deal  with  a 
salesman  who  has  well-defined  ideas. 
To know to whom  and  when  to  express 
them  is  the  difficulty.  Human  nature 
once more.

•  •  #

A good salesman sells more than a cus­
tomer wants or a better  article than was 
in mind.  This is salesmanship.  You go 
into a clothing store.  You have  decided 
on a $20 suit.  You ask  for  such. 
It  is 
shown you.  About what  you  expected, 
but skillfully your attention  is drawn to 
a $24 suit.  So much more  desirable is it 
shown to  be  that  you  buy  it.  Just  so 
with your lady buying a dress.  A better 
dress  will  be  bought  if  skill  is  used. 
Here  is  another  case  of good salesman­
ship that happened  in  a  Western  town 
recently:  A lady is in  the  store  trading. 
She  has  purchased  quite  a  bill of car­
pets. 
It runs up  to  quite a figure.  She 
has informed her salesman  that  she  de­
sires nothing more.  She  is  on  the. way 
to  the  door  when the proprietor accosts 
her.  He informs her that  he  has  some­
thing  to  show  her.  She  thinks  it  is 
needless to look at it  as  she  is  through 
buying.  . He  persists,  and  ere  she  is 
aware  he  has  a  pattern  of dress goods 
nicely draped with silk  to  match,  drops 
a  jet  yoke  over  it  and  then  folds  his 
arms.  She looks interested. 
It is beau­
tiful  (good buying),  but  hesitates.  Her 
daughter is enthusiastic.  Still  she  hes­
itates.  “It will be gone in the morning,” 
remarks  the  proprietor. 
“Have  only 
one.”  And  she  buys  it,  trimming  and 
yoke, $20.  Salesmanship!  But hear the

rest  Another lady has seen  the effect of 
the  draping,  and  expresses  regret  that 
she didn’t get it.  “I  have  another even 
prettier.”  She is  incredulous.  He  gets 
it out  and  drapes  it.  And  he  sells  it. 
How much did  he  make?  Pour  dollars 
on  the  dress  and  the  same or more  on 
the  trimming.  Eight  dollars’  profit on 
each dress  by  salesmanship.  Either  in 
pushing old or new  stuff  this  salesman­
ship  is  necessary.  Encourage  it  by  a 
bonus  of  $50  at  the  end  of the year to 
whoever  practices  it,  especially  in  old 
stuff.

#  *  #

A well-informed salesman is  more  de­
sirable than the thoughtless, shallow  fel­
low.  Customers  care  to  trade  with  a 
salesman who  is  bright  and  alert  con­
cerning the questions  of the day,  and his 
influence extends  into  society,  and  out­
side  of  the  store  he  is  making friends 
who will come  to  trade  with  him.  En­
courage  talent  which  is  anxious  to  be 
used outside the store. 
It  is  cheap  ad­
vertising.  Your trade is  to  come  from 
the people with whom such  a  fellow  as­
sociates;  not from sports.
*  *  *

A salesman who will  misrepresent is  a 
detriment  to  any  store.  People  know 
very little about the goods  they buy,  and 
they  are  aware  of 
it.  They  pub­
lish such facts only in one way,  and  that 
is  by  stopping  trading  with  a  sales­
man  who  lies. 
In  one  of  the  jobbing 
houses  of  a  certain  city  is  a  salesman 
who  has  an  extraordinary 
foliowing 
among the trade,  and  ranks  easily  first 
in his line.  That  man  never  misrepre 
sents.  We  never  heard  of  a  customer 
who refused  to  have  this  man  wait  on 
him,  but we have seen  the  flip,  flagrant 
liar  passed who possessed other qualities 
j superior to the first salesman.
Interesting  Archaeological  Discoveries.
According  to  a  note  in  the  London 
Times,  the excavations by  the  American 
School at  the  Heraion  of  Argos,  under 
the  direction  of  Professor  Waldstein, 
which  were  resumed  this  spring,  have 
been very successful.  Two hundred and 
fifty  men  have  been  employed  on  the 
work.  Besides the two  temples and five 
other  buildings  previously  discovered, 
a large and well-preserved  colonnade  45 
meters long has now been  found, 25 feet 
below  the  surface,  south  of  the second 
temple.  The  discoveries  include  parts 
of metopes, two marble heads of the best 
Greek  period,  a  hundred  objects  in 
bronze and gold,  gems,  vases  and  terra 
cottas of the  Homeric period,  as  well  as 
numerous scarabs and several  Mycenean 
tombs  with  Argive 
inscriptions  ou 
bronze,  probably of a religious character. 
The excavations,  which  are  now  in  the 
fourth  season,  will  be  completed  this 
year.  They  rival  the  French  excava­
tions at Delphi in magnitude  and impor­
tance,  representing  all  the  periods  of 
Greek  life  from  prehistoric  to  Koman 
epochs.  _____  

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T he P ottery T ree.

One  of  the  most  peculiar  vegetable 
products of Brazil is the Moquilea  utllls, 
or  pottery  tree.  This  tree  attains  a 
height of 100 feet,  and has a very slender 
trunk,  which  seldom  much  exceeds  a 
foot in diameter at the  base.  The  wood 
is  exceedingly hard,  and contains  a very 
large  amount  of  silica, but not so much 
as does the  bark,  which  is  largely  em­
ployed as a source of silica for the manu­
facture  of  pottery. 
In  preparing  the 
bark  for  the  potter’s  use, 
it  is  first 
burned,  and the residue  is  then  pulver­
ized and mixed with  clay  in  the  proper 
proportion.  With an  equal  quantity  of 
the two  ingredients,  a  superior  quality 
of  earthenware  is  produced.  This  is 
very  durable,  and  is  capable  of  with­
standing  any  amount  of heat.  The na­
tives employ it for all kinds  of  culinary 
purposes.  When  fresh  the  bark  cuts 
like soft sandstone,  and the  presence  of 
the silex may  be  readily  ascertained  by 
grinding a piece of the bark between  the 
teeth.  When dry it is  generally  brittle, 
though  sometimes  difficult 
to  break. 
After being burned it cannot,  if  of  good 
quality,  be  broken  up  between the fin- 
I gers, a mortar and pestle  being  required 
I to crush it.

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

The “Pullers-in” of Milliners’ Bow.

From the New York Tribune.

“Anions  the  characteristic  sights  of 
the lower East Side  “Milliners’  Row”  is 
and  interesting  example.  The  "Row” 
consists  of  that  part  of  Division street 
which lies between Market street and the 
Bowery.  Every store in the  row  on  the 
north side of the street is  occupied  by  a 
milliner,  whose trusty “puller-in”  stands 
guard 
in  front  ready  for  the  unwary 
woman  who  may  glance  at  a  bonnet. 
There  are  a  few  millinery  stores scat­
tered farther along Division street  which 
act as a sort  of  skirmish  line.  The real 
business,  however,  begins  when  Market 
street is reached.

thought 

thing  they  want  to  sell 

The  women  "pullers-in,”  although 
more gentle in  their methods,  are just  as 
persuasive in  manner and glib of  tongue 
as their male  brethren  on  Baxter  sireet. 
Their  scent  for  a  customer  is  just  a.- 
keen, 
their  voices  are  not  so 
loud.  When a  "pulier-iu” sights a  pros­
pective  customer  she  darts  out  ot  the 
doorway,  places a hand upon the  arm  ot 
her quarry,  throws her head persuasively 
on  one  side,  and  proceeds  to  sing  the 
praises of her mistress’  wares.
“Vant to buy a nice,  cheap  hat?  Ye 
have  de  best  goods  and  de  cheapest 
Step inside  and  loog  them  ofer.  You 
needn’t buy if you don’t vant to.”
Nearly all  the  milliners,  and  “ bark 
ers.”  too,  are  Jewesses,  as  their  faces 
and names  proclaim,  with  no  uncertain 
voice.  The "pullers in” present an end 
less variety  as to age,  attractiveness and 
costume.  Some are old,  some are young, 
some  pretty  and  tender-eyed  as  Leah, 
others hideous as a Welsh  rarebit  night 
mare.  They are all alike in one respect, 
however,  in that they wear no  headgear. 
The  very 
is 
strictly tabooed among  themselves when 
on duty.  This gives  a  fine  opportunity 
for the  display  of  artistically  coiffured 
locks,  which  are,  as  a  rule,  glossy  and 
raven-hued like the heads of most of  the 
children of Israel.
Their business methods do  not call for 
quite as much  perspicacity  as the  duties 
of a Baxter street “ barker.”  He  has  to 
distinguish between  man  and  man,  and 
only accosts men who,  in  his  judgment, 
are  likely  customers.  Out  of  the  fifty 
passersby,  he  probably  only  tries  his 
wiles on half a dozen.  Not  so the senti­
nels of  Division  street.  Every  woman, 
old or young,  who passes Milliners’  Row, 
is held up,  not  by  one  "pul!er-in,”  but 
by all of them.  After witnessing  half  a 
dozen  women  stopped  by every “ puller- 
in” along  the  line,  whom  even  the  re­
porter’s  poor  masculine  judgment  con­
sidered as extremely unlikely customers, 
he asked one  olive-skinned  Rebecca  the 
reason  for so  much  waste  of  persuasive 
arguments.  The reason  she gave was of 
as distinctly  a  feminine  nature  as  the 
goods she was trying to sell.
“Veil,”  she  said,  with  a  shrug,  “if 
they do not vant to buy,  vat are  they do­
ing down here,  anyvay?”
Some of  the  women  get  angry  when 
importuned,  and  impatiently  shake  off 
the hand of  the “puller in.”  This  does 
not in the  least  deter  the  others,  how­
ever,  who,  if  anything,  increase,  their 
efforts to send a  customer  inside.  Even 
men  are not safe  from  the  importunity 
of the  girls,  who  entreat  them  to  pur­
chase a “nice hat for  your  vife.”  Once 
inside,  a  male  customer  is  absolutely 
certain to become a purchaser  unless  he 
is  possessed  of  unusual  strength  4)f 
mind.
The hats displayed are  all  very  much 
the same in every  window.  There are a 
few black,  a few white,  and a good many 
colored ones,  with always a chef d'oeuvre, 
generally  a huge white hat,  in  the  mid­
dle.  The prices range from  SI  to  $5, or 
higher for hats made to order.
As a rule,  the girls of rival stores seem 
to  be  very  good  friends,  although  the 
proprietress does  not  encourage  friend­
ship between her girl  and  the  one  next 
door.  Two girls will be seen cozily chat­
ting together until  the  “ boss”  puts  her 
Semitic nose  out  of  the door,  when  they 
will shoot apart with great celerity.
Among  the  Baxter  street  “ barkers” 
one or two men are always  looked  up  to 
by  the  rest  as  being  facile  princeps 
among them.  There has  always  been  a 
“king” of the “barkers,”  but you cannot

find  a  “queen”  among  Milliners’  Row 
“pullers-in.”  Apparently, 
there  are 
just  as  many  “queens”  as  there  are 
girls,  for  none  of  them  will  admit the 
superiority of any of her  sister  workers.
the  women  “pullers-in” 
are quite an institution in their way,  and 
contribute largely  to  the  local  color  of 
the great East Side.

Altogether, 

Unworthy of Credit.

it  was 

the  matter,  but  gave 

From Farm Implement News.
There  are  many  opportunities  for 
business ui9n to be meau and  "small”  if 
they  are  so  inclined,  and  one  of  the 
meanest  tricks  of  all  is  to  make  mis­
takes 
intentional!}.  An  occurrence 
coming  recently  under  the  writer’s  no­
tice is one  which  deserves  severest  con­
demnation, nut so  much  for  the  amount 
involved,  as the  principle.  A  merchant 
remitting lor a bill  of 023 and  deducting 
a discount of five per  cent,  to  which  he 
was entitled,  deducted  01 25  instead  of 
St. 15.  This might easily be set  down as 
a clearly  unintentional erroi;  but in this 
particular case the man virtually  boasted 
that 
iuteutioual,  and  that  he 
picked  up a good many dimes  in  a  year 
id  the same way,  as his  creditors seldom 
mentioned 
iuii 
credit. 
¡Such  a  man  must  be  lacking 
that  necessary  part  of  true  manhood, 
conscience.  He must  have  a  soul  that 
would defy the microscope and be utterly 
devoid of  principle.
If a discount amounts to  02.13,  it is no 
uncommon  thing  to  deduct  $2.15,  but 
however  prevalent  this  may  be,  it  is, 
nevertheless,  wrong.  And  if  this  prac­
tice does have apologists,  surely  no  one 
can excuse the deliberate meanness of the 
other case.
Another case equally  as  reprehensible 
was that of a merchant who was entitled 
to a credit for freight on  a  certain  ship­
ment. 
In remitting he  deducted  $3  but 
did not inclose  the  freight  bill.  When 
asked for it he ignored  the  request,  and 
not until several  letters had been written 
did he  respond.  With  the  freight  bill 
came eighteen cents  in  stamps,  for  the 
bill showed the freight to  be  only 02.82. 
His excuse was that  it was easier  to  fig­
ure on even amounts.
For the sake of business  integrity  and 
as a matter of  principle  every  manufac­
turer or  wholesaler should absolutely re­
fuse to  accept  business  from  men  who 
are  known  to  be  guilty  of  such  prac­
tices,  no  matter  how  strong  they  are 
financially, or  how  large  their  season’s 
account is.

Home-Made  Dimples.

It is reported that once  upon  a  time  a 
certain  woman  applied 
to  the  patent 
office for a patent  upon  her  dimple-pro­
ducing process; but,  as  it  was  refused, 
the  secret  is now common property,  and 
any  one  who  cares  to  experiment may- 
try 
it.  Her  claims  were  as  follows: 
Smear a small spot on the cheek  or  chin 
with colorless shellac varnish mixed with 
glue.  With a pencil or  penholder  press 
the flesh with the point,  holding  it  there 
until the substance on  the  face  becomes 
dry and hard.  The  stiffened indentation 
thus retains the exact shape of a  dimple, 
and a little face powder carefully  dusted 
over  the  “artificial  dimple”  will  com­
pletely  conceal  the  varnish  and  glue 
compound.  Some care must be observed 
in  smiling  too  suddenly  or  the  dimple 
may  be broken.  But with ordinary gen­
tle usage  it will retain  its  pretty  shape 
a whole evening,  if  not  longer.  While 
the dimple process is applicable to  those 
whose faces comprise  a  soft,  velvety  or 
pulpy surface,  as  then  a  very  deceptive 
dimple  can  be  produced,  it  is  not  so 
available  for  thin  or  bony  faces,  nor 
where the skin is very thick and unyield­
ing.

Henry C. Strong, of Chicago, claims  to 
be  the  first  inventor  of  the  telephone. 
He  made  his  first  one  in  1877, out of a 
piece of gas pipe, a block of wood, a reel 
of copper wire,  and a bit of  sheet  metal. 
He applied for a patent in  the  spring  of 
1877, but only got it a few years since,  as 
a  fire  in  the  patent  office destroyed his 
model and caused a  delay.

Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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BUY  IT=-The  Price  is  Right.
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Diamond Crystal Salt

The general public are recognizing m ore and m ore every day the desirability  o f p u re 
-  he.res_?l t i?   a  largely  Increased  dem and for  D iam ond C rystal S a lt.  Of course 
y ou   a im   to  handle  the  best goods  in   every branch o f  the trade.  W hy  n o tin   sa lt?

Is now  packed so  th e grocer  can  handle  it  a t  a profit  equal to th at m ade on inferior 
goods.  N ote these grea tly reduced prices :

130 
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D iam ond C rystal is m uch lighter  than  com m on  salt,  and th e 2W„ 4.  and 7 lb  hairs 
are about  the  sam e  size  as  3,  5,  and  10 lb.  bags  o f  the  ordinary  product.  D iam ond 
C rystal  is  purer, stronger, and  goes  farther.  The  bags  are  handsom e, and  m ad e  o f  
th e  very, best  m aterial—savin g  w aste  from   broken  bags.
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-  Potatoes - B ean s

W.e  h.anJ,i,le,Ja!!  kinds  FIELD  SEEDS,  Clover,  Timothy.  Hungarian,  Millet,  Buck­
wheat,  Field Peas, Spring Rye,  Barley,  Etc.  Buy  and  sell  Potatoes,  Beans,  Seeds, 
hggs,  Etc.  Car lots or less.
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If you wish to buy or sell write us.

.  ^  EQQ  CRATES  and  EGO  CRATE  FILLERS.

M oseley Bros.

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" 7-*«9  MONROE  STREET,

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
those quoted in our last  issue.  There is 
no possibility of lower prices  before  the 
Fourth of  July, if  the  present  weather 
continues,  and several chances  that they 
will  advance.  Local  dealers  are  well 
supplied with  stock  and  orders  to  this 
market  will  be  executed  with  prompt­
ness and  despatch.

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T he  G rocery  M arket.

The markets have been  without partic­
ular  feature  during 
the  past  week. 
Trade  in  many  departments  is improv­
ing slowly,  and,  considering  the  time  of 
the  year  and 
the  conservative  policy 
which  buyers are known  to  pursue,  the 
volume  of  business  in  nearly  all  lines 
has been of fair proportions.

Sugar—The  demand for refined grades 
last week  was not  equal  to  the  produc­
tion  and another week has gone by  with­
out any positive indications of  a  change 
in  the  market.  The  retail 
trade  has 
light supplies,  but  in  purchasing  for  a 
time, at least, dealers, will, undoubtedly, 
pursue a band to mouth  policy, owing  to 
the decline and easy tone of  the  market 
for raw sugar.

Provisions—The  conditions  of 

trade 
have  been  tame  and  unsatisfactory  all 
through  the  week. 
It  has  looked  as 
though  the  outsiders  who  have  been 
buying have given  way  steadily  to  more 
conservative  operations.  The  failure 
recently  to  make  material  advances  in 
prices on the  spurts  of  speculative  ex­
citement  in  general  commodities  was 
disheartening.  The large  stocks  of  the 
products all over  the  world  and  the  in­
creasing out-turns on the part of  foreign 
countries  have  been  depressing,  while 
steady  full receipts  of  hogs  have  added 
further to the accumulations at the pack­
ing centers.

Canned  Goods—Advances  have  been 
made on several  kinds  of  canned  goods, 
and a generally  better  feeling  pervades 
the market.

Currants—There has  been  a  stronger 
movement in currants  during  the week, 
but the market is not quotably higher.

Prunes—The market does not improve 
in any  respect,  and prices  are weak  and 
in  buyer’s  favor.  California  prunes 
drag at former  prices,  and  sellers would 
probably  shade  them  a  trifle.  French 
are reported  as  stronger,  on  the  other 
side,  but there  has  been  no  attempt  to 
increase values  here.  Sultana  are  dull 
and  unchanged.

Raisins—A  better  feeling  has  been 
manifested 
in  California  raisins  and 
prices  are  somewhat  firmer,  although 
still  very low.  Buyers have  taken  hold 
of the lower grades quite freely.

Spices—Hardly  so  active,  although 
there is a fair  business  in  progress, and 
prices  are generally  strong,  with  the ex­
ception of pepper  and  cloves,  in  which 
a slight weakness is reported.

Coffee—Brazilian  grades  have  been 
very dull and the market has been  weak 
with  prices  entirely  nominal.  Mild 
grades have done moderately well.  East 
India growths have been quite strong and 
at times active.

Cheese—The drought is causing a seri­
ous shrinkage in the milk supply, in con­
sequence  of  which  all  grades  of  full 
cream  stock  are  K@%c  higher  than a 
week ago,  with every indication  of  still 
higher  prices  unless  the  drought  is 
broken soon.

Bananas—Continue  to  sell  freely,  as 
prices are  a  little  lower,  owing  to  the 
abundance  of  berries  and  other  fruits. 
Local dealers have made arrangements to 
secure a good supply for  Fourth of  July 
trade and orders sent to this market  will 
receive  as  good  attention,  and  be filled 
with  as  good  a  grade  of fruit, as from 
any market in the country.

Lemons—There  has  been a strong de­
mand for lemons  during  the  past  week, 
but no particular change  in  prices  from

Oranges—Nothing  in  market  suitable 
for  reshipping,  except  Mediterranean 
Sweets.  They  are  in  their  prime,  and 
really the best orange obtainable at pres­
ent. 
It is not to be expected  that  lower 
prices will be made during the next three 
weeks,  and,  as there is sure to be f. good 
demand  for  use  the  Fourth  o fJu ly .it 
will  be  advisable  for  retail  dealers  to 
place  their  orders  for  such amounts as 
they  may  need  early,  as  it  is  possible 
that the  wholesalers  will  run  short  for 
some of the best sizes, such  as  176s  and 
200s.

All dealers in fruits report a  good  vol­
ume of business.  They are  working with 
a will to keep up with the orders as they 
come in.

The Im provem ent  C ontinues.

The  financial  and  industrial  situation 
continues to  improve  steadily  in  nearly 
all lines. 
Iron  is  still  in  the  lead  and 
this fact  gives  assurance  of  the  genu­
ineness of the business revival. 
In  cot­
ton goods  the influences of the  improve­
ment are «lowiy  making  themselves  felt 
and  improving  demand  and  paces  are 
helping the labor troubles in  the eastern 
factories.  Since  the  beginning  of  the 
advance,  about  five  months  ago,  when 
the lowest  prices  known  prevailed,  the 
rise  in  Bessemer  iron  is  26  per  cent.; 
cotton, 35 per cent.; wheat, 53  per  cent.; 
leather, 60 to 70 per  cent.; refined oil, 80 
per cent,  and  hides,  over  100  per  cent. 
The only industry which  does  not  sym­
pathize with the general improvement  is 
coal.  The  price  of  anthracite  has de­
clined 25  cents  at  the  mines  and  there 
seems to be as much  uncertainty as ever. 
This is charged to the  reckless  competi­
tion, and  has  no  significance  as  to  the 
general situation.

To B e C ontinued a t N e w a y g o .

The Automatic Circuit Breaker Co. has 
been organized,  at Newaygo,  with a cap­
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paid in, divided among  three  stockhold­
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A.  6 .  Runnels  ..............   ..............................  
3,000
N.  Runnel-....................................................... 
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The corporation is officered as  follows:
President—A.  G. Runnels.
Vice-President and Secretary—N. Run­
Treasurer—Chas. C.  Kritzer.
The  new  company  has  acquired  the 
patents,  good  will,  machinery  and  tools 
of the defunct Sweet Electric  and Manu­
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building can  be  prepared  for  its  recep­
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assumption  that  the  United  States  has 
been negligent in  regard  to  Cuban  fili­
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Alabama  claims  resulting  from  similar 
English  neglect  during 
the  civil  war. 
The difference is that in the  case  of  the 
civil war  the  South  was  acknowledged 
as  belligerent. 
Spain  refuses  to  thus 
acknowledge the Cubans  and  stoutly as­
serts there is no war. 
If  this  be  true, 
how  can  neutrality  laws  apply  in  the 
case?

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DECLINE  OF  PHARM ACY.

Methods  Which  Must  Be  Adopted  To 

Improve the  Situation.

Under 

the  sensational  caption  of 
“Druggists  Fear  Ruin”  there  appeared 
lately a report in aChicago paper, purport­
ing  to give the views of promiuent retail 
druggists of that city relative  to  the  op­
erations of the  pharmacy  law.  The  re­
porter says “ the  druggists  are  worried” 
and complain that “ruiu  stares  them  in 
the  face”  because  “depaitment  stores, 
sharp competition  aud  profitless  selling 
prices” render it impossible  for  them  to 
hire registered clerks as the law requires. 
According  to  this  reporter  the  law  is 
odious  to  the  druggists,  "discriminates 
agaiust them,  and  makes  no  couipensa 
tiou,”  compelling  them  to  hire a  regis­
tered  clerk  who  “ must  have  a  good 
salary.”
One druggist is reported as saying that 
if the law would  prevent any  man  uot  a 
graduate in  pharmacy  from  lilting  pre 
scriptions,  the  departmeut  stores  would 
be  “prevented from engaging in the busi 
ness and cutting prices.”
Another  is represented as  having said 
that “there is at preseut widespread  dis 
tress  among  druggists,”  resulting  from 
defects  in  the  preseut  pharmacy  law, 
which, in hisopiuion,  “imposes  burdens 
without  adequate  compensation,”  an ■ 
that  he hoped  the  law  would  be  either 
amended or repealed.  He  expressed the 
opinion that “at present almost  any  one 
may engage in  the  drug  business,”  and 
stated that  “stores  are  springing  up  at 
every  corner,”  admitting  at  the  same 
time that departmeut  stores  “cannot  be 
forced out of the business.”
Representatives of “department stores” 
were interviewed by  the  reporter.  One 
said be was not  frightened by the clamor 
of the  druggists;  his  firm  was  “in  the 
business to slay,” and if the retail  drug­
gists  were  “out  for  a  little  fun”  he 
would be right with them.  Another said 
his house “employed  a  registered  phar­
macist,  aud could not  see  how  anybody 
could  prevent them  from  selling drugs.”
A representative of  a wholesale  house 
expressed doubt as to  the  possibility  of 
stopping  the  sale  of  drugs  at  depart­
ment stores.
There is no  doubt  about  the  “cutting 
of  prices”  and 
the  blighting  effect  of 
commercial  competition  upon  the  pros 
perity of the retail druggists of the pres­
ent;  it is almost  true  that  “almost  any­
body can engage in  the  drug  business,” 
and  that additioual  “stores are springing 
up at every  corner” not already occupied. 
At some corners  there  are,  in  fact,  four 
drug  stores,  and  you  may see  six drug 
stores  within  two blocks  if you  will. 
It 
is also undeniable that  the  “department 
stores cannot be  forced  out  of  the busi­
ness” as now  conducted  and  under  the 
conditions  established  by 
the  radical 
changes which  have come upon the retail 
drug business in all  countries within the 
past  quarter  of  a  century.  That  our 
defective pharmacy  laws  do  uot  afford 
any  remedy,  is equally true.
But it is  certainly  untrue  that  regis­
tered clerks receive  high  salaries.  The 
writer  recently  received  a  letter  from 
the Dean of an  Eastern  college  of  phar­
macy,  who  expressed  the  opinion  that 
greatly increased courses  of  college  ed­
ucation in  pharmacy  must  be  regarded 
as impracticable so long as  the  majority 
of the  students  could  look  forward  to 
nothing  better  than  $15  per  week  for

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

their services after  they  had  graduated.
The remedy  for this extremely unsatis­
factory  condition  of  the  average  retail 
druggist and his  business  lies  in the di­
rection of better  education  for  the  real 
professional  pharmacist,  and  the  utter 
abandonment of the vain hope that pure­
ly  commercial  competition  ever  can  or 
will be restricted by law in this country. 
The only hope is to make the pharmacist 
a  really  professional  man,  entitled  to 
professional fees for his  expert services, 
and  independent  of  mere  commercial 
competition.
No chauge for the better is at  all  pos­
sible  while  boys  of  from  12  to 16 years 
are allowed  to begin to  “learn  the  busi-, 
ness”  in  the  stores,  leaving school sev­
eral  years  too  early  for  that  purpose. 
These all get into  business  on their own 
account  some day  and  increase  and  de­
grade the competition.
No  material  improvement  is  possible 
without a reasonable measure of compul­
sory education,  both general and special. 
Better education  will check  competition.
No relief is possible  so  long  as  every 
so-called drug store is placed on  precise­
ly  the  same  plane  as  every other drug 
store,  and  every  retail  druggist  on  the 
same footing  with  every  other  druggist, 
without any  reference  to  qualifications, 
duties,  responsibilities  and  services ren­
dered.
No  remedy  will  ever  be  found  until 
the  retail  druggists 
themselves  shall 
have become once for all aud finally con­
vinced  that  they  can  never  enjoy  a 
monopoly of the  business  of  selling  the 
ordinary  merchandise  of  the  modern 
drug trade,  and that the only  occupation 
which  the  pharmacist  can 
rightfully 
claim as exclusively  his own must be the 
compounding  and  dispensing  of  medi­
cines and the sale of  substances which it 
would  be  daugerous  to  permit  every 
dealer  to  handle;  and  he  has  abso 
lutely no right  to  claim  even  these  ex­
clusive privileges  unless he can  base his 
claim  upon such ample special education 
as will  constitute  a  substantial  protec­
tion  to  the  public  against  the  dangers 
that inevitably attend  the  dispensing ot 
potent medicinal  substances  by  persons 
uot  familiar  with  their  properties  and 
behavior.
Nothing  will  bring  us  to  a  permanent 
and satisfactory solution  of  the  difficul­
ties  complained  of,  except  a  higher 
standard of education for  those  who  en­
ter  the  ranks,  a  genuine  professional 
esprit de corps, and a full  and free recog­
nition of the fact that  the  mere  buying 
aud selling of any  articles  whatever,  be 
they drugs and medicines or calicoes and 
nails, is not pharmacy.
If  any  retail  druggist  finds  that  his 
trade does not enable him to hire a regis­
tered clerk, let him  consider  that  there 
are but two methods of obtaining relief— 
either he must stop compounding and dis­
pensing  medicines  and  become  a  mere 
merchant, or he must direct his  energies 
toward enlarging the scope  of  his  really 
pharmaceutical  work.
The  boards of  pharmacy  have  already 
ample power to  insist  upon  very  much 
higher  standards  of  education  for  the 
proprietors or managers of stores.  They 
can  absolutely  refuse  to  register  as  a 
fully equipped registered pharmacist any 
person  who is not competent to interpret 
and apply all  the pbarmacopoeial  defini­
tions, descriptions,  tests,  and  processes. 
They can make  the  standard  of  educa­
tional  requirements  lower  for  clerks  or 
registered  assistant  pharmacists.  They 
can  permit proprietors  to  absent  them­
selves from their places of  business  one 
full  day  each week, leavmg a registered 
assistant  pharmacist  in  charge.  They 
can  insist  upon  a high-school education 
or its equivalent preparatory  to  appren­
ticeship  in  pharmacy.  They  can,  per­
haps,  permit  general  stores,  in  places 
where there is no  registered  pharmacist 
in  business, to sell unopened packages of 
medicinal preparations,  and to sell epsom 
salts, castor oil, and  other simple domes­
tic  remedies  for  which  there  is a suffi­
cient demand that ought  to  be  supplied 
and that can be  supplied  by  any  person 
without danger to the public  health.
If any of  the  existing  pharmacy  laws 
do not admit of this  interpretation,  they 
ought  to  be  amended  without  delay. 
There  are  altogether  too  many  drug

stores;  the  best  interests  of  the public 
and of the medical profession,  as well as 
of the druggist himself, demand that fur­
ther increase  in  this  direction  shall  be 
checked;  and this object can  fortunately 
be gained by at  once  beginning  the  en­
forcement of sufficient  educational  qual­
ifications as a requirement  for  “ full reg­
istration,”  such  as  ca>ries  with  it  the 
right  to  open  or  couduct  a  pharmacy; 
and unless this one possible check is  ap­
plied the  competition  will  become  even 
more  intensified.
Pharmacies  of  the  First  C lass should 
be such as  are  conducted  by  Registered 
Pharmacists,  who should  have  the right 
to  dispense  or  sell  any  medicinal  sub­
stances so potent as to be rightly  classed 
among  poisons,  or  so  important  as  to 
render it imperative that  they  should  be 
of never-failing activity  and  uniformity 
of strength.
Pharmacies of the  Second Class should 
be such as may  be  conducted  by  Regis­
tered Assistant Pharmacists,  who should 
not have the right to  dispense or sell the 
important and potent  remedies above re­
ferred to in such pharmacies.
Licensed  Drug  Stores  should  be  con­
ducted by  persons ot good  moral charac­
ter registered as Licensed Druggists, who 
should  have  the  right  to  sell  common 
and simple domestic drugs  (to be defined 
by the Board of Pharmacy)  and druggists’ 
merchandise, in  places  where  no  phar­
macy is conveniently accessible,  but who 
should not have the right  to  prepare  or 
compound any medicines.
With a perfect  system  of  registration 
this  classification 
is  certainly  practi­
cable.
The rank  of  the  store  should  depend 
directly upon the rank of  the  registered 
retail  druggist  conducting  it.  Thus  a 
pharmacy of the first class should remain 
such as  long  as  conducted  by  a  regis­
tered pharmacist, but should  cease  to be 
one when no longer in  charge  of  such  a 
pharmacist.  A pharmacy  of  the  second 
class should be raised to  a  pharmacy  of 
the first class as soon  as placed in charge 
of a registered  pharmacist.
Compulsory  college  training  in  phar­
macy might  be introduced,  to  take effect 
January 1,  1900.
All  persons already registered  as  reg­
istered pharmacists or  as  registered  as­
sistant pharmacists must, of course, con­
tinue entitled  to annual  renewal of their 
registration  as long as  they  continue  to 
apply for it and  remain  in  actual  prac­
tice.
There seems to be no  other plan  avail­
able  which  would  really  improve  the 
practice of pharmacy in our country, and

this plan  would by  no  means  work  any 
rapid change; but it ought not to  be  ex­
pected  that  any  substantial and  lasting 
reform can be effected except  gradually.

Had To Take  Hie  Own Medicine.

S h o rth an d   H a rris in  C hicago Tim es-H erald.

Some  time  ago,  while  sitting  in  the 
store of a popular druggist  in this place, 
an aged man shuffled  up  to  the  desk  of 
the proprietor, removed  his  felt  hat  and 
one after another pulled off the fingers of 
his  worn-out  gloves,  braced  himself  at 
the  counter  and  commenced  his  little 
speech.  He  had  placed  an  old carpet­
bagger’s  satchel  upon 
the  floor  and 
started out with the information that his 
name was Jones, from Rockford,  in Win­
nebago county,  Illinois,  and  then  went 
on to tell a long story about his domestic 
afflictions.  The druggist  was  just  boil­
ing over with impatience  before  the  old 
man  had  finished  and  be  snapped  out: 
“ Who you are and  where you come from 
I neither know nor care. 
If  1  had  been 
selling goods in your line I  would  never 
think of approaching a  businees  man  as 
you have done;  I  would have just walked 
in and said,  'Good morning,  sir!  1  have 
some  goods  here  which  will  commend 
themselves to you  by  their  quality  and 
their  cheapness.  Will  you  please  look 
at them?’ ”
“Thank  you,  sir!”  said the aged  man. 
“Your lesson shall  not  be  lost  on  me,” 
and he went  out.  My  friend  heaved  a 
big  sigh  of  relief  as  he said:  “Thank 
heaven,  he’s gone at last.”
But, would you  believe it, that  old fel­
low again  opened  the  door and,  coming 
right up to  the desk,  said as bold as you 
please:  “Good morning,  sir!  I have some 
goods  here  which  will  commend  them­
selves to you by  their  quality and  their 
cheapness.  Will  you  please 
look  at 
them?”
The  druggist  was  thunderstruck,  but 
quickly said: 
“ For  heaven’s  sake,  put 
me  up a  dollar’s  worth  of  your  truck, 
whatever it is,  and clear out!”
And the old  man loaded him down with 
lead  pencils and slate pencils, with which 
he  was  already  overstocked.  But  the 
druggist had to take bis own medicine.

Preacher to little boy—"My  son,  does 
Little  Boy—“I  don’t  know.  He’s 

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5
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Soda,  A sh....................
3 X 0  
4
Soda, Sulphas.............
O  
2
50®  55
Spts. Ether C o ............
®2 no
“  Myrcla  Dorn__
.
®2 50
“  Myrcla  Im p... 
2  57
•*  Vini Reet, bbl 
.
2 «2
“  Xbbl
“ 
“ 
“  10 gal
2  65
“ 
“ 
5 gal
2  67
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
8trychnia  Crystal__ 1  40@1  45
Sulphur, Subi............
R oll................ 2  ©   2X
Tam arinds..................
8 0   10
Terebenth V enice....
28®  30
Theobrom ae.............. 45  ®   48
V anilla.........................9 00@16 00
Zlnd  Snlph................
8
Bbl.  Gal
70
70 
on 
65
40 
45
60 
*3
(5
62 
7l
«5 
35 
40

Whale, winter...........
Lard,  extra..............
Lard, No.  1................
Linseed, pure raw
Linseed,  ooiieo..
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
Spirits Turpentine

strain ed .................

2 X 0   3

OILS.

7® 

“ 

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b b l. 

white 

p a in t s. 

lb .
Red  Venetian................IX  2®a
Ochre,yellow  M ars...  IX  2@4
" 
Ber.........IX  2@8
Patty,  com m erdal...  2X  2X©8
“  strictly  pure.......2)4  2X®3
Vermilion Prime Amer­
1.3® 15
ican  ............................. 
Vermilion.  E nglish__  
70@75
Green, Paris...............  
20X027
Green,  Peninsular  .... 
13@16
Lead,  red.......................   5X@6
.................. 5X@6
@70
Whiting, white Span. 
. 
@flc 
W hiting,  Gliders’  .. 
. 
1 
White, Paris  American 
W hiting  Paris  Bng.
1  40
.................... 
Universal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15
VARNISHES.
No. 1  Turp  Coach__ 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp..................  lt«@l  70
Coach  Body..................2  75@3  00
No.  1 Turp  Furn 
. 
.1   00@1  10 
.  1  55@1  60 
Eutra Turk Damar 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Tu t u .........................  
70@76

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No. 1, Magic Atomizer,  long metal  tube 
No.  5, Magic  Atomizer,  straight  and  bent 
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No.  25,  Magic  Atomizer,  two  adjustable 
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No.  2, Goodyear Atomizer, hard rub’r tube 
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A cetlcum ......................
Bemolcum  German..
Boraclc 
........................
Carbollcum  .  .............
Cl tri c u m ......................
HvdrocUlor..................
Nitrocum 
....................
O xallcum ......................
P h o g p h o rlu m   d l l ...........
Salley Ileum ..................
Sulpburlcum................
Tannlcum ..................... 1
Tartar! cum ..................
▲MMOHIA.

8®   10 
65®  75 
15
¿Hit  32 
11®  41 
3® 
5
10®  12 
10®  12 
20
65®  70 
IX®   5 
40@1  60 
30®  33

*' 

Aqua, 16  d eg ...................  
4©  ®
6®  8
20  d e g ................... 
Carbones  ........................  J2©  «
Chtorldum..................   Ia®

ANILINE.

Black.............................. 2 0002 26
BrowB  .............................  80®1 00
R e d ..................................  45® 50
Y ellow ...........................2  50®3 00

Cnbeae (po  25)
Juníperos...........
X antnoxylum .  ■

Copaiba................
Peru................
Terabln. Canada 
T olutan................

20®  25 
8®   10 
25®  30

45®  50 
®3 00 
45®  50 
50®  55

Abies,  Canadian...........
Cassi ae  ...........................
Cinchona F la v a ...........
Buonymus  atropurp... 
Myrlca  Cerifera, po 
..
Prunus V lrglnl...............
Qulllala,  grd..................
Sassafras  .......................
Ulmus Po (Ground  15).
EXTRACTUM. 
Glycyrrhlia  Glabra..
PO
Haematox, 15 lb. box.
Is...........
X *.............
X*..........
f lS B D
Carbonate Preclp.......
Citrate and Quinta
Citrate  Soluble...........
Ferrocyanldum Sol 
Solut  Chloride
Sulphate,  com’l  .......
pure.............

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 

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

®   15 
®3  50 
®   80 
®   50 
®   15 
9® 
2
®   7

FLORA.

A rn ica.................  12® 
A nthem ls...........   18® 
Matricaria 
........ 

*4
®
18®»

“ 

“
“

“ 
•* 
•* 

FOLIA.
..................  14®  30
®
25®  30
12®   20 
8®   10

Barosma 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin
n lv e lly .............   18® 
“  A lx. 
Salvia  officinalis,  X8
and  Xs 
....................
Ura Ural 
....................
s v a s i.
Acacia,  1st  picked

2d 
3d 
sifted sorts.
po
Aloe,  Barb,  (po. 60)
“  Cape,  (po.  20)

60 
®   40
®®  20 
60®  80 
50®  6f ®  12®  50 
Catechu, Is, 04s, 14X>>
®  3
55®  60 
Ammonlae  — .............
35®  40
Assafostida,  (po 401 
_  _
Bensoinum ....................  * ®   op
Camphor»......................  65®  58
Buphorbium  po  .........  15® 
lo
Gal ban nm ......................  @2  50
Gamboge,  p o................  65®  70
Gualacum.  (po  35) 
@  3
Kino,  (po  2  00)...........   @2 00
Mastic  ................ 
@  80
Myrrh,  (po  45)............   @  40
Opll  (pe  3  10®3 3(i).. 1  90@2 00
Shellac  . 
4<i@  do
...........  
4  @  45
... 
T ragacanth................ 
50®  80

Sorotrl.  (po.  60)

16)................

bleached 

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Absinthium 
.......
Knpatorlum 
..............
Lobelia.........................
Majornm —
Mentha  Piperita
V lr ................
R ue................................
Tanaoetum, V ............
Thymus,  V 

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magnesia

Calciuoli,  Pai
Carbonate.  Pal
Carbonate.  K.  4   M
Carbonate.  Jenulng5
OLJKUM,

25
. 2 0
26
28
23
26
80
22
26

.... 

.  ... 
....... 

55®  ÖL
2U@  22
2(1®  26
35® 
.31

.

2  5li®3 1«
A baratti turn
30®  50
Amygdalae, Dulc 
8 00®8  25
Amÿdalae. Aciarae
........................... 1  90®2 00
Auls! 
Aurantl  Cortex......... 1  80®2  0U
.................... .3  00®3 20
Bergami) 
60®  65
......................
Cajfputl 
75®  80
Caryophylll................
35®  65
Cedar 
.........................
@1  60
Chenopodi!  ................
.1  4'@1  50
C intiam oli»..............
45®  50
C itronella....................
Conlum  Mac................   *4»  65
Copaiba  ...................... 
80®  90

... 

Cnbebae.....................   .1  50®1  60
Bxechthltos......................   1 20@1 30
B rlgeron...........  ..........1  au©l  30
G aultherla......................... 1 50®1 60
Geranium,  ounce. 
®   75
Gosslpll,  Sem. gal.......  60®  70
Hedeoma 
......................l  2S@1  40
Jumper!...........................  50@2 00
L avendula......................  90@2 00
Lim onls...............................1 30©’ 50
Mentha Piper......................1 f>5@3 00
Mentha  Verld....................1 R0@2 00
Morrhuae,  g al....................1 75®1 80
Myrcla, ounce..............  @ 5 0
O live...............................  
90@3 00
Plcls Liquida,  (gal..85)  10®  12
R ld n l......................... 
88® 98
Rosmarlnl............ 
1  OP
Rosae,  ounce....................   6 50@8 50
Succlul.............................  40® 45
90@l 00
Sabina  _ ......................... 
Santal  <•............................  2 50®7 00
Sassafras
50®  55 
Slnapls, ess. ounce
@  85 
Tlglll  ....................
@1  00 
T h ym e____ _____
40®  50 
@1  60
_
........... 
ri heobromas....... .........   15®  20

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POTASSIUM.
B! Card......................... 
15®  18
bichrom ate.................. 
ll@   13
Bromide....................... 
45®  48
12®  15
Carb......................... 
Chlorate  (po,’7@19)..  16®  18
Cyanide.....................
50®  5» 
Iodide..................
2  9fi@3  00 
Potassa,  Bitart,  pure 
24®  26
16 
Potassa, B1 tart, com .
Potass  Nltras, opt 
.
10 
Potass N ltras............
:@ 
9
Prusslste...................
5®  23
15®  18
Sulphate  p o__

RADIX.

.

.

. 

4P®  45
@ 3 5

A conltnm ..........  
20®  25
Althae......................... 
22®  25
Anchusa 
12®  15
.
 
Arum,  po.......................  @  25
Calamus.........................  20®  4P
Gentlana  (po.  12)....... 
8®  10
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35).....................  
@  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po  ...  15®  20
Inula,  p o ...................  
15®  20
Ipecac,  po............ 
l  30®l  40
Iris  plox  (po. 35@38). 
35®  40
Jalapa,  pr......  
Maranta,  X8.... 
Podophyllum, po.........  15®  18
K hei................................  75@1  00
“  cut  .......................   @1  75
75@1  35
.....................  
“  pv 
Splgella.........................  35®  38
@ 2 0
Sanguinarla,  (po  25). 
Serpen tarla — ........... 
50®  55
Senega 
55®  60
Similar, Officinalis.  B  @ 4 0
M  @  25
Sclllae, (po. 35) 
...  10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Preti-
dus,  po........... 
@ 3 5
Valeriana,  Bng.  (po.30)  ®   25
German...  15®  20 
lnglber a  —  
18®  20
Zingiber  ) 
........... 
18®  20
t o n s .

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......... 

Aulsum,  (po.  20) 
O  15
Aplum  (graveleons)..  14®  16
Bird,  1» 
4® 
6
Carat,  (po.  18)............  
10®  12
............   1  00@1  25
Oardmnnn 
12®  14
)orlandrum 
4® 
'annabl» Nativa 
5
’vdonlnm 
75©1  00
•henopodluv 
10®  12
Dipterlx  Odorate  ........1  80®2 00
F oenlculum ................  @  16
6® 
Poenugreek,  po.......  
8
L in !..................................3W@ 4
Lini  grd.  (bbl. 8X) 
3)4®  4
Lobelia 
....................  85®  40
5
Pharlaris Canarian.... 
• apa  ..............................  4)4®  S
Slnapls  Albn..............  
8
N igra............   11®  12

4® 
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Proiuentl, W., D.  Co.  2 00@i  W 
2 0T®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  G alli............. 1  75®6  50
Vini Oporto........................1  25@2 00
Vini  Alba...........................1  25@2 00

SPONGES.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage................ 
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage 
.................... 
Velvet  extra  sheepa’
wool  carriage........... 
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage.....................  
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ..........................  
Hard  for  slate  u se—  
Yellow  Reef, for  slate 
u s e .............................. 

2  50@2  76
2  00
1  10
86
65
75
1  40

STRUPS.

Accada  .. 
Zingiber  . 
Ipecac —  
Ferri  lod.
Aurantl  Cortes.....................  
Khel  Arom................
Slmllax  Officinalis..
Senega  .........
Sclllae...........
•<  C o ....
T oiatan .......
Promts  rlrg

50

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TINCTURE».
Aconitum  Napellls R ..........   60
F 
«in
A loes................................ 
60
and  myrrh...................   60
A rn ica.....................................  so
Asaf retida....... ........................  
«
Atrope Belladonna................  60
Bensoln....................................  60
Co..............................   50
Sanguinaria............................   50
Barosm a..................................  50
Cantharides............................   75
Capsicum ................................   50
Ca  damon................................   75
Co..........................  75
CaBtor.......................................1  00
Catechu....................................  50
C inchona................................  50
Co..........................  60
Columba..................................  50
C onlum ....................................  50
C ubeba.... 
......................  ..  50
D igitalis..................................  50
Ergot....... .................................  50
G entian....................................  50
“  Co................................  60
G nalca.....................................   50
ammon.....................   60
“ 
Z ingiber..................................  50
Hyoscyamns...........................  50
Iodine.......................................  75
Colorless....................  75
Ferrl  Chlorldnm..................  35
K in o .......................... 
50
Lobelia.....................................  50
Myrrh.......................................  50
Nux  Vomica..........................   50
O p ll..........................................   95
“  Camphorated.............. 
50
“  Deodor............................2 00
Anrantl Cortex.......................  50
Quassia  ............................... 
  50
R hatany................................ 
50
50
Rhel............................ 
 
Cassia  A cutlfol.....................   50
Co 
.........  50
Serpentaria............................   50
Stromonlum.............................  60
60
T olutan.................................. 
V alerian................... 
50
Veratrnm Veride.................. 
50

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cent 

‘ 
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T* 
ground, 

35®
38®
38®  40 
2X@  8

Ætûer. Spts  Nit. 3  F. 
“  4 F . 
Alnmen 
...........
(po.
7)  ...............................  
3® 
4
Annatto....................... 
40®  50
Antlmonl, po............  
4® 
5
55®  80
et Potass T 
Anti pyrin.....................   @1  40
Antlfebrln.....................  @ 1 5
Argent!  Nltras, ounce  @  53
Arsenicum ...................  
5® 
7
Balm Gilead  Bad  ... 
38®  40
Bismuth  8.  N ..............1  20@1  80
Calcium Chlor, Is,  ()4s
9
@ 
10;  X«,  12)..............
Cantharides  Russian.
@1  00 
p o .............  ................
®   15 
Capsid  Frnctus, a f...
po
@  15 
B po
@  15 
Caryophyllns,  (po.  15)
10®   12 
®8 75 
Carmine,  No. 40...........
50®  55 
Cera  Alba, 8.  A F .......
42 
Cera  Flava...................   40®
40 
Cocoas 
.......................  @
25 
Cassia Froctns  ...........  @
Centrarla.....................  
O
10 
40 
.................... 
Cetacenm 
O
63
Chloroform 
60®
@1  26 
sqnlbbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst 
.. 1  1501  30 
20®  25
Chondros  . 
Clnchonldlne, P.  4   9   15®  20 
12
German 
C ocaine.........................5 3'@5 50
Coras,  11st,  dls.  per
65
......................... 
Creasotnm................ 
@  35
@  2
Crete,  (bbl.75)  .... 
“  prep...............  
5® 
5
9®  11
“  preclp............ 
“  Rubra..........  
@
55 
50®
C roons......................... 
24 6 
@
Cudbear 
Cuprl Sulph 
5 ®
12 
D extrine.....................  
10®
90 
Ether Sulph..................  75®
8 
Emery,  all  numbers
o
6
35 
Brgotajfpo.)  40 ...........  30®
16 @  28 
Flake  W hite................  12®
G a lls............................
®   9
Gambler.......................  8
O '
Gelatin,  Cooper
30®  50
French 
Glassware  flln*. by  box 80.
Less than box  70.
Glne,  Brown.............. 
9®  15
“  W hite...............  18®  26
Glyoerlna......................  18®  20
Grant Parsdlsl............  @  22
Hnmnlns.......................  25®  55
@  79 
Hydraag  Chlor  Mite. 
@ 6 9
“ Cor  ... 
Ox Rnbrnm  ®   89 
®   99
Ammoniatl. 
Ungnentnm.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum............ 
@ 6 5
Icnthyooolla,  A m ..  ..1  26® 1  50
Indigo..........................  
75@1  00
iodine,  Resubl  .........  3  8o@3  9u
®4  70
Iodoform.....................  
Lupnlln.........................  @2  25
Lycopodium ..............  
60®  65
M a d s ............................   70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy
drarg lo d ................ 
@  27
Liquor Potass Arsinltls  10®  12 
Magnesia.  Sulph  (bbl
Mannls,  8. F ..............  

1)4).....................  

2X@  4
60®  61

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doz
.............. .........  70
Mica 
.......... .........  55
aurora 
60
....... 
JastorO il.
Diamond......... .........  50
Frazer’s  ......... ....... 
?5
..  .. .........  55
Paragon 

gross
8 00
6 00
7  00
5  50
§  00
6 00

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Acme. 
id.  sans. 3  do* —
,  V  -***
* :b- 
1  “ 
lib . 
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S u lk ................... 
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Arctic.
>4  lb  caus 6 doz 
4 doz “
lb  “ 
i  a>  “ 
2 doz 
lb “  1 do*  “
5 
Red  Star, k   *>  cans.........
“ 
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..........
l   lb  “ 
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Sun Light.
k  lb. cans, 6  doz. case.  . 
4  doz. 
‘
k  lb.  “ 
1  lb.  “ 
2  doz.  “  ...
Van  Anrooy’s  Pure 
k  lb. cans, 6  doz  c a se... 
4  doz.  “  ...
k  lb.  “ 
1  lb.  “ 
2  doz.  “  .
Teifer’s,  k  lb. cans,  do«
“
k lb .  “ 
1 lb.  *
eader, k  *b cans. 
<4 lb  ca n s....
l  lb cans
B A T H   B R IC K .
2 dozen In case.

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Bristol....... .....................
Domestic
BLU IN G .
Arctic, 4 o«  o v a ls .......
“ 8 oi  “ 
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pints,  round —
“  No. 2, sifting bo*
“  No. 3, 
“  No. 5, 
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Mexican  Liquid, 4  o z..

8 oz.......

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No. 1 
No. z Carpet
No.  1 
parlor Gem.........................
Common  Whisk 
Nancy 
1 
Warenouse —
KKt'UKn.

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Stove  Mu

¿¿iüo  Root Scran, r  res 
Rise  Lioat  scran, <s ru» 
P*.<aetto,  goose
tiott-i  v  lb. 0 JXcr 

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2  lb  .

Little  Neck,  1 lb ................

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Cove Oysters

Standard, 8 lb ....................
Standard,  1 lb ....................
2 lb ....................
Lobsters.
Star.  1  lb.............................
2  In.............
Picnic, l i b -------

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Standard,  i  lb 
----
2  lb  .......
Mutiard,  z lb  ..............
Tomato sauce,  2 lb
Soused. 2  lb ................
Salmon.
tiiiiionl»  Rl*er, flat 
.
’■«.life..,
“ 
Alaska, R ed...................
pink....................
Kinney's.  flats..............
Sardines.
American  k * ..............
A*.........
Imported  k * ......... ........
k s ......... 
...
Mustard  k * ...............
B o n e le ss ...........
Brook  8, lb

Trout.

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F ru its.
Apples.
3 lb. standard 
fork  State, gallons 
Hamburgh.
Apricots.
Live oak.........................
Santa  Crus— ............
Lusk’s .........  .................
Overland......................
Blackberries. 
F. A  W ...........................

case
“

4b 
75 
1  80 
10
5b 
1  10 
2  00 
9  00 
40 
75 
1  40

1  60
85 
1  F5 
3 2b 
45 
35 
1  50 
45 
75

.  80 
TO 
60 
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3  60 
6  75 
9 00
2  75
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.  8  00
4  50
3  60 
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90 
2 00 
*  15 
2  50 
2  50 
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1  75

10
2  10 
2  25

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90 
3 00

1  40 
1  40 
1  50 
1  10
85

Cherries.

 

Pears.

Gages
. 

Red..................................  @1  15
W h ite............................. 
1  40
B rie................................  
1  15
Damsons, Bgg Plums and Green 
B rie..............................  
1  00
1  05
California. 
 
Gooseberries.
1  10
Com m on.................. 
Peaches.
P i e ............................... 
100
M axw ell.......................  
i  40
Shepard’s .................... 
i  40
California__ —  
@1 55
Monitor 
......................
O xford..........................
Dom estic........................ 
1 0
1  25
Riverside........................ 
Pineapples.
Common.........................1  uu@l  30
Johnson’s  sliced ......... 
2  50
2  75
grated......... 
Booth’s sliced..............  @ ’ 5)
g r a te d ...........  @2  75
1  10
95
1  40
1  10
1  25
1  75
85
80
85
..........................2  35
.........................   2  35
89
tongue,  k  l b ..............1 80
k  lb ---------   35
chicken,  k  lb  .........   %

Common  ......  
 
Raspberries.
B ed.................................. 
Black  Hamburg........... 
Brie,  black  .................. 
Strawberries.
L aw rence.....................  
Hamburgh.................... 
Erie.............................   . 
Terrapin........................... 
Whortleberries.
Blaeberries.................. 
Corned  beef 
Roast beef 
Potted  ham,  k  lb ........................ 1 30

“  k  lb .................. 

Quinces.

“ 
V egetab les.

“ 
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Beans.

 

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Peas.

“ 
early June 
Champion B ag 
“ 
petit  pole... 
“ 
fane*  sifted 
ed  ............................. 

Hamburgh  stringless............ 1 15
French style......... 2 00
Lim as......................1 25
Lima,  green 
..........................1  15
soaked  ........................  70
Lewis Boston  Baked..............1 25
Bay State  Baked  .................. 1  21.
World’s  Fair  Baked..............1 25
Picnic Baked...........................  95
Corn.
Hamburgh 
............................. 1  15
Livingston  B d en ........................ 1 00
Purity 
................................   90
Honey  D ew ...................................1 25
Morning Glory 
...........
Soaked.................................... 
75
Hamburgh  marrofat..............1 .*)
. 1  41 
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.1 4
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..  85
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I  I'auOsmp’B  marrofat 
. . . .   1  i-.
early  June  ...  1  80
Archer’s  Early Blossom ___1  25
French...................................... 2 15
Mushrooms.
French........................ — ..I9Q21
Pumpkin.
B rie.............................................—  90
Sqaash.
Hubbard........... ...................... 1  15
Succotash.
Bamborg................... 
1  3
Soaked.............. .— ..............  80
Honey  Dew.............................. 1 80
B rie............................................1
H ancock..................................   po
Excelsior  ...............  
80
Eclipse 
75
Hamburg  .................................1  30
..................... . . . . 2*5
Gallon 
CHOCOLATE.
Baker’s.
German Sweet...................  
Premium.................... 
Breakfasi  Cocoa................ 
C H E E SE .
tinooy  ......... 
 
...............  
A cm e.... 
Jersey............................. 
Lenawee.......................  
R iverside.................... 
Gold  Medal  ................
Skim 
B rlcs............ .................. 
Bdam  ....................... 
Leiden  .  ............. 
L lm aarger......................  @15
Pineapple 
Roqnefo’t 
Sap  Sago 
Schweitzer, import» I. 

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Bine Label Brand.
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Triumph Brand.

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

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Strictly  pnre......................... 
3
T elfers  Absolute..............  
30
Grocers’..............................   15@25
CLOTHES  p i n s .

D aisy  Itraml.

5 gross boxes 

COCOA  SHELLS

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Prim e................................  
21
Golden...................................... 21
Peaberry 
23
Fair. 
19
Good..........................................a.
Prim e..............................  
22
Peaberry 
.  ............................¿3
Mexican and  < in alamo l*.
Fair............................................21
Good 
*>
Fancy
Prime 
Milled 
Interior......................
Private Growth
M andehllng...........
Mocha.
Im itation..................
Arabian.....................
Roasted.

Maracaibo.
23
............................ . 2 4

Java

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To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add  14c.  per lb. for roast­
ing and  15 per  cent  for shrink­
age.
E s i.a a g h lin ’»  X X X X .. ¿1  30
Lion, «1 or 100 lb  case  ..  21  30
Arbuckle..............................  21  30
J e r s e y ................................ 21  30
r. 1 tract.
Va;iey city  k   gross 
75
.... 
Felix 
15
Hnmmel’s, foil,  gross.......  165
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1  40 
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Gall Borden Bagle..............   7  40
Crown........................................6  25
Daisy..........................................5  75
Champion  ...............................4  50
Magnolia  ..............................   4  25
Dim e..........................................3  35

Peerless evaporated cream  S  75 

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Seymour XXX. cartoon 
Family  XXX 
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Salted  { X X .........................
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Peaches.

Apples.
m ndrled.................. 
Evaporated. 50 lb  boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes...........................
Nectarines.
TO lb. bags...........................
251b. boxes........................  
Peeled, In  boxes............. 
Cal. evap.  “ 
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“ 
In  bags......... 
California In bags.......  
California boxes............  
Pitted  Cherries.
Barrels  .............................
50 lb. b o x e s......................
25  “ 
......................
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31 lb.  b o x e s .................... 
Raspberries.
In  barrels.........................  
50 lb. boxes  ...................... 
251b  “ 
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Raisins.

6
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6k
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2  crown....................................3k
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Schnit’s Cleaned.

Patras,  bbls......................  © 2k
Vostizzas, 50 lb.  cases  __ 2%
25 lb.  boxes............................   5k
501b.  b oxes............................   5
1 Id.  packages 
................   6
Citron, Leghorn, 25 lb. boxes  12 
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Sultana, 20 
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California,  100-120  ... 
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80x90 
71x80 
60x70 

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Zenoleum, « oz  ....................  2  00
Zenoleum, qts.........................  4 0*
Zenoleum,  k   gal...................  7 20
Zenoleum,  gal....................... 12 <0

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5k
6k
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Bloaters.
Yarmouth..................
Coo.
Georges cured.................... 4
Georges genuine
5
Georges selected...............
(toneless,  uncus..............
Boneless,  strips................ 6k® 0
Smoked
ll© lz
Holland,  white hoops keg
80
bbl
10  0
Norwegian 
11  iO
Round, k   bbl  100 lbs  __
2 55
1  30
k   “  40  “ 
.......
Scaled.................................
13
Mackerel.
No.  1,  100 lb s............
12 00
5  50
No. 1. 40 lb s ...................
No.  1,  10 lb s....................
1  ?5
No. 2,  100  lb s.......
8  0
No. 2, 40  lbs  .....................
3  7u
No. 2,10  lbs  .....................
.  1  no
Family, 90 lbs...............
10  lbs  ................
Russian,  kegs....................
55
No. 1,  k  bbls., lOOlbs........ ...4   25
No.  1  k   bbl, 40  lb s.......
..1  95
No. 1, kits, iO lbs 
........
5o
No  1, 8 lb  k i t s ................
48
No.  1  family
k   bbls, 100 lb s............17  25 2  50
k   “  40  “ ......... ...  3  20  1  30
101b.  kits...................... 
S’ 
40
“ 
8 lb. 
73  35
...........  
FLY   P A P E R .

Sardines.
Trout.

Whiteflsh.

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Regular Size.

Per box__ 38c.  Per case.. $3 40
Tn  5 case lots, per case___3  30
In  10 case lo  s. per case___3  20
Retails, per b o x ........... 
25
Costs  p't case......................  1  75

“Little Tanglefoot.”

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Best in the world for the money.

J e n n in g s .

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120
2 os regular panel.  75 
2  00
4 os 
...1   50 
3  00
6 oz 
...2  00 
No. 3  taper..............1  35 
2 00
No. 4  taper  ........... 1  50 
2  50
G U N  P O V D E R ,
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs..........................................3  25
Half  kegs............................... 1  90
Quarter  kegs........................ 1  10
1  lb  cans..................................  30
k   lb  cans................................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

K egs............................
H alf  kegs..................
Quarter kegs...........
1  lb c a n s ..............

4  25 
.2  40 
1  35 
.  34

Bagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ........................................11  00
Half  kegs 
..............................5  75
Quarter kegs.................................8 00
60
1  lb  cans................................. 

H E R B S .

Sage...........................................16
Hops..........................................15

IN D IG O .

Madras,  51b. boxes........... 
S. F.. 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes  . 

55
50

¡5  lb palls..................
17  “
30  “

LICO RICE.

© 37
© 45
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Pure.
SO
Calabria....................................   26
Hlcllv
Root

Condensed,  2  do*..............   1  20
4 do*.................2 25

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DWARF SIZE.

25 dbl. shts. in box.pr. bx.  $  38 
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25 double sheets in  box,
Case of 10 boxes..................  1  25
Case of 2  boxes..................  2  50
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1151b. kegs.................... 
2k
Grits.
Walsh DeRoo  &  Co.’s .......   1  85
Hominy.
Barrels 
2k
...................... 
.  3k
G rits............................... 
Lima  Beans.
Dried........................ 
6k
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 12 lb. box___ 
55
Imported........................I0k© ll
Pearl Barley.
Empire......................................  3k
Chester.............................. 
2k
Green,  bu..........................  
1  10
Split  per l b ....................  
2k
Schumacher, bbl........................84 75
Monarch,  bbl............................   3 90
Monarch,  k   bbl................  
Quaker,  cases...........................   3 20
Oven B aled...................................8 25
Lakeside..........................  
 
German..................................  3
Bast India...............................  8k
cracked..................................   3

k   bbl-----------2 50
10

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

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Pie Prep. 3  doz.  in  case— 2  75

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Columbia  Match Co.’s  Brands.
Columbia Parlor....................81 25
XXX Sulphur........................... 1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  sulphur 
..  1  65
Anchor  parlor........................  1 TO
No. 2 home 
............................1  10
Bxport  Dsrlor  ........................4  00

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M EA SUR ES.
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2 25

......................  II  75
1  gallon 
Half  gallon.  .....................   1  40
70
Q uart....................................  
P in t........................................ 
45
Half  pint  ...........................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per dos.
1 g a llo n ...................... 
  7  00
Half g a llo n ..........................  4  75
Q nart...............  
3 75
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Sugar house  ................. 
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary. 
Porto HIcj.
Prime 
.................  
 
Fancy 
N«w Orleans.
Fair 
................................. 
Good  ....................................  
Extra g o o d .......................... 
Choice 
Fancy  ..
Half  barrels Sc.extrs 
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Barrels, 1,200  count,... 
Half bbls, 600  count. 
Barrels, 2.400  count 
Half bbls,  1,200 count 
P IP E S .

Small.

14
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18
22
27
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¡tii <0
@2 Ml
5 50
3 £5

Clay, No.  216.............................1 70
“  T. D. full count.............  70
Cob, No.  8 .................................. 1 20

PO T A SH .

48 cans in case.
Babbitt's............................  
Penna Salt  Co.’s ......... 

4  00
3  00

15

RICK.
Domestic.

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No. 1 ......................... 5
NO. 2 .........................   4)4
Broken.....................................  3)4
Japan, No. 1—  
.....................5)4
No. 2 .............................5
Java.................................—   5
Patna......................................  4)4

Imported.

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Allspice 
................................... On
Cassia, China In m ats.........  9*
Batavia In  bund  ... 16
Saigon In  rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna 
............... 22
Zanzibar..............   -.11)*
Mace  Batavia..........................7u
Nutmegs, fan cy......................65
NO.  1..........................60
No.  2..........................55
Pepper, Singapore, black  ..  10 
white  ..  .20
shot............................. 16

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Pure Ground In Bulk.
A llspice............................... 
Cassia,  Batavia...................... 18
and  Saigon .25
sa lg o n ........................35
Cloves,  Amboyna...................22
Zanzibar 
................18
Ginger, A frican.......................16
Cochin....................  2u
.22
Jamaica 
Mace  Batavia  ....... 
■. -  6ft
Mustard,  Eng.  and Trieste. .22
Trieste 
...............25
 
Nutmegs, No. 2 
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Pepper, Singapore, black 
white 
.24 
“  Cayenne 
■  2»
Sage............................................20
Absolute” In  Packages.>4S  Ml
A llspice..........................  84  1  55
C innam on.................. 
84  155
Cloves.............................  84  155
Ginger,  Jam aica.........  84  1  55
A frican.............  84  1  55
Mnstard.........................   84  1  55
84  155
Pepper.........................  
84
Sage. 
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20 1-lb packages......................6)4
6J4
40 ’-lb 
40 1-lb.  packages  —  
....... 6M
o-lb. b o x e s .........................   7J4
Common Corn
20-ln  boxes.............................  5j£
40-lb 
“ 
 
5M
Common Gloss
1  lb packages  ......................... 5
81b 
“ 
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6-lb 
5J£
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Cases, 24 3  lb.  boxes.........*  1  60
Barrels, 320  lb s..................   2  50
115 2M lb bags—   4  00
“ 
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tO 5 
lb  “ 
“ 
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....  3  50
3010  lb  “ 
6>
“  20141b bags...............  3 50
“  280 lb  b b ls .............  2 50
“  224 lb 
.............  2 25
Worcester.
1152M -lbsacks.......................14 i0
“ 
60 5-lb 
....................   3 5?
” 
3010-lb 
......................3  50
........................  3 30
21  14 lb.  “ 
3201b.  bbl...............................  2 50
8 lb  sack s... 
.  ............... 32)4
60
S2 10

linen acks.................. 
Common Grades.
100 3-lb.  sacks....................  
......................   1 90
60 5-lb 
28 10-lb.  sacks....................  1 75
56 lb. dairy in drill  bags. 
33
-6
28 lb. 
.. 
55
58 lb.  dairy  In linen sacks. 
75
56 lb  dairy  In  linen sack s.. 
Vi  In.  sacks....... 
22
Saginaw 
6”
Manistee 
90

Soiar  Rock.
Common Fine.

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

Ashton.
Higgins

Warsaw.

“ 

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4

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A n ise .............................
Canary, Smyrna...........
Caraway 
Cardamon, Malabar. 
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Hemp,  Russian 
Mixed  Bird 
............
Mustard,  white 
....
Poppy 
...........................
................
Rape 
Cattle  bone  ...
8NUFK.

Scotch, In  bladders.......
Maccaboy  In jars------
French  Rappee. In Jars
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Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s ..............................  3  3o
DeLand’s ......................................3 r>
Dwight’s ...................................3 3 1
Taylor’s ............................ 
  3  00

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Concordia, Ì00 34 lb. bars.. 3 50
5 box lots  ___ .3 35
10 box lots......... 3 30
20 box lots......... 3 20
.2 25
60 1  lb. bars.........
.2 5
5 box  lots
.2 00
25 box lots.
Allen B  Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb............. 3 2u
Good Cheer, 601 lb ................. 3 90
White Borax, 100  M-lb  ........3  65

Proctor & Gamble.

“ 

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

Dingman Brands.

Single  box...............................3  95
5  box lots, delivered...........  3  85
10 box lots, delivered  -----  3  75

Jas. S.  Kirk A  Co.’s  Brands 

“ 

“ 

American  Family,  w rp d..i3  33
plain.  .  S  27
N.  K.  FaJrbauk  A Co.’s Brands.
......................  3  9 1
Santa Claus 
Brjwn, 60 bars....................... 2  10
3  10

“ 
Lautz  Bros.  & Co.’s  Brands.

80  b a r s ................ 

A cm e....................  
3 65
Cotton Oil  ... 
6  00
Marseilles........................... •  4  00
Master 
.  ................................ 4 00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Bra mis

 

 

 

.'5

. 

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

Silver] 
Mono 
......................
Savor  in proved 
..............
Sunfi*-wf r .............................
Gol-ien 
.............................
Kcr, "''m  cal  —

* Henry- Paiiolt’s Brand.

A tla s......................................

S co u rin g .

Sapolio, tilC  en, 3  d o z...  2  40 

hand,3 Hoz.............2  40

•• 

’■UnAB.

Below  are  given  New  Y«»ik 
prices on sugars,  to  wh'ch  tn-  ■ 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the 
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  ...............................  *6  31
Cut  Loaf................................  5  31
C ubes..................................... 4  91
Powdered..............................   5 0J
XXX X  Powdered................  5  18
Granulated 
................  4 82
Fine Granulated..................  4  62
Extra  Fine Granulated...  4  7o
Mould  A  ..............................   4  91
Diamond Confec.  A...........  4  6s
Confec. Standard  A ...........4 5
No.  1....................................   4 37
No.  2 
...............................  4 37
No.  3..................................... 4  37
No.  4..............................  
4  37
No.  5......................................4  31
No.  .......................................4  25
No.  7.....................................   4  18
NO.  8 ......................................  4  12
No.  9......................................4  06
No.  10....... ..............................  4 00
No  11..................................... 3 94

. 

JIO.  14......... .......................  

“ 5®

s i . L I . C j   l M u A v I ’ ,

Lemon.
1 oz.  P. M.  I  90 doz.  *10 30 gro
2  “  N.«*.  1  20  '■ 
12 60  “
2  “  F.  M.  I  40  “ 
14 40  ’
Vanilla.

Rococo—Second  Grade. 

1 oz.  F  M. 1  50 doz.  16  20 gro
2  •’  N  S  2 Ou  “ 
21 60  “
2  ’•  F.  M.  2  50  “ 
25 50  •*
Lemon.
Vanilla.

2 oz....  .......75 doz........  8 00  “
..  1  oo doz.......10  50  *'
2 doz. 
SAL  SO DA.

Granulated,  bbls....... ...........   1M
751b  cases.........  1%
Lump,  bbls 
..........................   1)4
1451b kegs.................... lv%

“ 

S V K l'F S.

Corn.

Barrels.  ................................ 22
Half b b ls ...............................24
Fair 
.........................................  15
...  ..............................  20
Good 
Choice  .....................................  25

Pure Cane.

T A B L E   SAUCES.
“ 

..  4  75
Lea A  Perrin’s, large  .. 
sm all.......  2 75
Halford, la r g e..................... 3  75
sm all..................  .  225
’¿alad  Dressing,  large  .  ...  4  56
2  65

small 

“ 

T E A S .

japan—itegu lar.
@17
...............................  
..............................   @20

..............................   @17
.............................  @2u

Fair 
i_»uod 
Choice.............................. 24  @26
.................... 32  @34
Choicest 
Dust 
................... 10  @12
amt on bud.
Fair 
Good 
Choice 
ChOteeH 
Duri 
SASKKT  FIRED.
Fair 
ihoice..........   ..............  
holcest........... 
@35
» trs choice, wire 1 ear  @40
TOBA4 4 O -.
Congress  Brand.

24  @2£
............ 
......................32  @34
...10  @12
......................18  @20

Cigars.
....................... *80  00
............ 6  •  00
......................55 10

Inviucibles 
imperials......................................70 00
Perfectos ..  . 
Boquets 
signal  F ive................................ 35 »0
Comrade 
M r.  Thomas 

........................   35 00
—   3> * 0

Edw. W. Ruhe’s Brands.

@26

U. J  Johnson’s  rand.

 

F it»   Cut.

s a w .........................3. oo
c.  Lori Hard  i  Co.’s Brands.
  @2^
Sweet Kus 
"0
Tiger............. 
D. scotteu  &  Co's  Brands.
60
Hiawatha........... 
Cuba...................  
32
«j
Rocket....................... 
Spaulding A  Merrick  -  Brands.
Sterling.....................  ■ 
10
Private Brands.
Cherry............................   @32
Bazoo............................   W”®
Can  Can.........................
Nellie  B ly.................... 24  @2
Uncle Ben.....................24  @25
McGinty.....................  
~7
25
Columbia...........  .........  
Columbia,  drums 
. . . .  
Bang  U p ......................... 
Bang up,  drums

<4  bbls  ■ 

“ 

24
24
24
19

P lu g .

Sorg’s Brands.
Spear  a d .................... 
JOF 
...............
N 
j  Tw ist.................. 
Scotten’s Brands.

39
40

Finzer’8  Brands.

j . G.  Butler’s  Brands. 

h   a w a t h a . ........................
. alley C ity ........................ 
Old  Honesty  ■ 
...............  
Jolly Tar
Lorillard’s Brands. 
39
Climax  (8  oz., 4lc).... 
Green Turtle................ 
30
2T
Three  Black Crows. 
Something G ood.. .... 
38
Heart. 
36
Oat of  Sight...................... 
Wilson  <s  McCsulay’s  Brands.
Gold  Rope.........................  
Happy Thought........... 
37
Messmate........................... 
No T ax..........................  
31
Let  Go................................. 
Catlln’s  Brands.

Sm okiug.

—  

**
*

24
43
32
27

Kiln  dried  .......................   11(3*18
Golden  Shower  .................... 1»
Huntress 
...........................   M
......................29@3u
Meerschaum 
American  Eagle Co.’s  Brauds.
Myrtle  N avy........................... 40
Stork  ................................... 
German....................................J®
Java.  Ms foil 
....................... 32
Banner Tobacco Co. s Brands.
Banner—  
Banner Cavendish  ..............  3o
Gold Cut 
...............................30

 

30

M u iikisg—Contained. 

Scotten’s Brands.

Brands.

Leldersdorf s Brands.

W arpath...................................14
Honey  Dew..............................26
Gold  B lock............................ 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........................25@32
Red Clover............................... 32
Tom and Jerry......................  22
Traveler  Cavendish............. 38
Buck  Horn...............................30
Plow  Boy..........................30@32
Corn  Cake  ................ 
.  ..  16
V IN EG A R .
40 gr............... 
50 g r.............................. 
11 for barrel.

Spaulding A Merrick.

@8
@9

 

 

W ET  M USTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ..................... 
Beer mug, 2 doz lu case.. 

30
1  75

Y FAST,
 

Diamond..........  
75
 
Eurek”....... 
1  r0
M agic............................... . 
1  oo
Yeast  Cream  ..........................1  00
........................... 1  00
Yeast Foam 

“ 

W OO DEN W A K E.
Tubs, No. 1......................... 

5  75
’’  No. 2...............................4  75
“  No. 3 ...............................4  uO
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop. 
1  25
1  35
“  No. 1,  three-hoop 
Bowls, 11 Inch.......................
“ 
...................... 
90
“ 
......................  1  25
“ 
......................  1  80
H ID E S  FELTS  »nrt  FI'Rfc 
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol 

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

lows:
BIDES
G reen..... 
..................  S  @7
Part  Cured.................. 
@'M
Full 
..................  SM@  9j%
Dry.............................. 
614 @ 8)4
Kips,g r e e n   ........ ............   b  @ 7 .
cured..................  ~Mtt  9M
..  8a «  10
Calfsclns,  green.
...11 @13
iO @25
Deacon skins.........
No. 2 hides M  off.
PELTS.
5
a   20
snearllngs................
.  10 @  30
....................
Lambs 
40 (¡2,  «5
Old  Wool.
WOOL.
8 @14
W ashed..............
@12
U nw ashed..............
3 @  4
T allow .............
i @  2
Grease  butter
lA@  2
switches 
. —
.......  
Ginseng 
2 0>*  2 25
G R A IN S  and  FEED STt  FSO 

SOT’S.
XIBCBLL AHBor B.

“ 

WHEAT.

.8 
78

No.  1  White (58 lb. test) 
No.  2  Red  (60 lb.  test) 
FLOUK  IN  SACKS.
♦Patents.............................. •  4  90
Second Patent....................  4  4 j
Straight................................   4  20
Clear......................................   4  u>
♦Graham..............................   4  oo
B uckw heat.........................  4  50
Rye........................................ .  4 , 0
♦Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count. 
.
Flour in  bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Bolted....................................  2 50
Granulated................... 
2 75
St. Car  Feed,  screened... 121  00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  »2  50 
No.  1 Corn and  Oats  —   22  00
No. 2 Special....................  20  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal.........  21  £0
Winter Wheat  Bran  .......   15  00
Winter Wheat Middlings.  18  00
Screenings  .........................   14  00

 
FEED AND MILLSTUFFS

HEAL.

. . .  

Car  lots........................................54 M
Less than 

OOBN.
car lo ts........  
OATS.
Car  lots
Less than car lots 
BAT
No.  1 Timothy, car  lots 
ton  lots 
No.  1 

•’ 

to
3iM34
¡3  ■ 0 
.6 * 0

M SB   A N D   OV81 IK S  

'2)4@15

FBB8H  FISH
....................... 

............  @ 8

VS miens». 
Troul 
Black  Bass......... 
H alibut,.........................  18»2
tt  6
Ci.cwes or  Herring  . 
Blnenso 
—   @12M
Fresh  lobster,  per lb. 
16
( ‘oil 
• 
12
Haddock........................  @ 8
<Mi  8
No.  1  Pickerel 
Pike................................  @ 7
Smoked  White 
@  *
15
Red  Snappers 
Columbia  River  Sal­
mon  ............ ................ 
5
Mackerel..........................  1S@25
Shrimps,  per gal  ....... 
1  25
SHELL  HOODS
uysleis  pur  nai 
1  ¿5461  50
r J«*.. 

75@1 00

OYSTERS—IN CANS.

¿6

F. J.  Dettenthaler’s Brands. 
40
35

Falrhaven  Counts—  
F .J . D.  Selects........... 

2 9

C B O b k L i v I   A N D   b L A . u a   a n t  

LAMP  BUBXEBS.

 

 

 

 

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.—6 dOZ. In bOX.

40
No. 0 Sun................................................................. 
47
No. 1  “ 
................................................................. 
No. 2  “ 
o'
................................................................. 
Tubular............................................ 
5C
Security.  No.  1......................................................  60
Security,  No.  2......................................................   80
N utm eg..................................... 
50
Arctic........................................................................... 1 15
Per box
No. 0 Sun................................................................... l  75
...............................................................  1  88
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
.................................................................  2  7«
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled...«  10 
No. 1  “ 
...2  25
No. 2  “ 
.  .3  25
No. 0 Sun, crimp  top, wrapped  and  labeled.  2  to 
No. 1  =• 
...2  80
N o .2 
...-SO
“ 

First quality.
“ 
“ 
“___   ‘ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“ 

” 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

• 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

Pearl top.
’’ 
“ 
“ 
“  , 

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled...........  .....   3  70
No. 2  “ 
4  70
4  SS
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
3  40
4  40

No.  1, Sun,  plain  bulb...........................
No. 2,  “ 
...........................

Fire Proof—Plain Top.
“ 

-  ................... 

“ 
La Bastle.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz 
No. 2  “ 
.
“ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz
No. s 
“ 

“ 

“ 

”

.........
Rochester.

.

.

1  35

No. 1, lime  (65c d o z)............................................ 3  50
4  00 70
No. 2, lime (T0c d o z).
No. 2, flint (80c doz).................
Electric.
.4  Hi 
No.2, lime (70c doz)  ..  ...............
4  40
No.  2 flint  (80c d o z )..................
Miscellaneous.
Junior, R ochester.........................
N utm eg.....  
..........................
Illuminator Bases...........................
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ...........................
7 in. Porcelain Shades....................
Case lots, 12 doz...........................

.1  00 
90 
.1  uO

Mammoth Chimneys for Store  Lamps.

OIL  CABS.

No.  2  Pearl glass.

Doz.
1  5.)
.1  75
i.l  85
.1  75
.2 00
.2  10

No.  3  Rochester,  lime 
No.  3  Rochester, flint.

Box
4  20
4  80
5 25
5  10
5  85
6 00 
Doz
1  b0
1  gal  tin 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-----
5 gal  McNutt, with spoilt.  ...
5  gal  Eureka, with spout..
5  gal  Eureka  with  faucet.......
5  gal  galv iron  A  A  W 
5  gal  Tilting  Cans,  Monarch.
5  gal  galv Iron  Nacefas.....  
3  gal  Home  Rule. 
....... 
5  gal  Home  Rule.  . . . . .  
3  gal  Goodcuough.......................  
5  gal  Goodeuough 
5  gal  Pirate  King 

.  10 5
....... 
9  no
....................It  21
.2 Ik:
.............. 12  00

............. 
..................13
.......................................  10

Pump Cans.
. 

lantern  globes.
No. 0,  Tubular, cases  1  doz.  each.....................  45
“ 
No. 0, 
2  “ 
..................... 
45
......................   4'i
No. 0, 
bbls 5  “ 
No. 0, 
bull’s eye, cases  i doz  each. 1  25

6 (0 
6  50

“ 
“ 
“ 

, 

“ 
“ 
lamp wicks.

 

 

 
 

 
 
 

“ bbl, 
•*  doz 
” bbl,  “  doz 

-o
No. o,  per  gross...................................................... 
“ 
2o
No. 1, 
“ 
S'-
No  2, 
“ 
No. 3, 
6'-
Mammoth,  per doz................................................   <5
jelly  tumblers—Tin Top.
>4  Pints,  6 doz In  box, per box  (box 00)... 
1  00
(bbl 35).........  20
24  “ 
% 
6  “  “  box,  “  box  (box (JO)___  1  80
£   “ 
)4  ” 
Its  “ 
(bbl 35).............22
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1  to 6 gal................  ..............   06
)4 gal.  per  doz.........................  60
“ 
70
Jugs,  M gal., per doz.......................................  
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal...................................  
07
Milk Pans,  *  gal., per  doz...................... 
80
“ 
72
...................... 
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
6*
Butter Crocus,  1  and 2 g al.......................
65
Milk Pans,  )4 gal. per  doz— ................
79

1  “ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

I

FRU IT JARS.
Mason—old  style, pints....................  ,,
quarts.....................
half  gallons  .......
Msson— 1  doz.  in case, pints............
quarts............
half  gallons.
Dandy—glass cover, pints..................
q u a r t s .................
half  gallons...
OILS.
BARRELS.
• 

E ocene... 
.............
XXX W.  W.  Mich.  H eadligh t.........
Naptha...... 
....................................
Stove Gasoline.........................................
Cylinder  .............. 
Engine. 
’-K
Biack,  winter...............................................
83i
Black, summer.............................................
9
Eoceue....................
*
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  Headlight 
Scofield, Shurmer  A  Teagle  quote  as  follows:

.........................   • 1
12

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

9
@  9)4 
<a l.)a
@21

FROM  TASK  WAGON.

....... 

... 

BARRELS.

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

......... ................................... IO72

Palaclne................................  
Daisy W hite....... . 
Red Cross, W W  Headlight................................   9
Naptha  .........................................  
Stove Gasoline.....................  
FROM TANK WAGON,
Palaclne.................. 
Red Cross W W Headlight............. 

— .........................1®
.................  >

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

.........

'O’ 754

-  The Standard Oil Co  quotes as follows:

.14 00

3 0

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

a .N -.T H E R   D  .3  J O  V E R Y .

Prof.  Vaughan  Adds  Another  Laurel 

to  His Crown.

A n n   A r b o r ,  June  6—Will  you  please 
have the goodness to  publish the follow­
ing quotation from the little book  by Dr. 
Novy and myself?  This  article  consists 
of the statements in  which,  according  to 
Dr. Maclean, 1 have  immodestly and un­
truthfully  claimed  for  myself  ‘’great 
It  will  be  seen 
credit”  and  “glory.” 
that  1  have  given  credit  to  previous 
writers  on  the  same  subject. 
I  have 
never pretended to have been the discov­
erer of the fact that cheese is  sometimes 
poisonous.  1 suppose  that the man who 
first ate bad cheese ascertained that fact. 
1 have never stated  that  L  invented  the 
word tyrotoxicon.  Let it  be  ever so hu­
miliating,  i must  admit  that  the  Greek 
language was used  before 1 was born. 
I 
might have called the substance  which 1 
isolated  Yaughanite,  but  this would not 
have  been  sufficiently  self-laudatory; 
therefore,  L took the Greek word, tyrotox­
icon,  which  means  cheese-poison,  and 
which had been used  by  others  to  indi­
cate the  poison,  which  all  knew  to  be 
there,  but which had  not  before been is­
olated.  But here  is  the  boasting  state­
ment:
“in  1827,  Hunnefeld  made  some  an­
alyses of poisonous  cheese,  and  experi­
mented  with  extracts  upon  the  lower 
auimals.  He accepted  the ideas  of  Ker- 
ner in regard to poisonous  sausage  in  a 
somewhat  modified  form,  and 
thought 
the active agents to be sebacic and caseic 
acids.  About the  same  time  Serturuer, 
making analyses of poisonous cheese  for 
Westrumb,  also  traced  the  poisonous 
principles, as he supposed,  to these fatty 
acids.  We  see from this that duriug the 
first part or' the present century the fatty 
acid theory,  as it may be called,  was gen­
erally accepted.
“In 1848,  Christison,  after referring to 
the  work  of  Hunuefeld  and  Serturuer, 
‘His 
made  the  following  statement: 
(Hunnefeld’s) experiments, however, are 
not  quite  conclusive  of  the  fact  that 
these  fatty  acids  are  really the poison­
ous principles,  as  he  has  not  extended 
his experimental researches to the caseic 
and sebacic acids  prepared  in  the  ordi­
nary  waj\  His views  will  probably  be 
altered and  simplified  if  future  experi­
ments should confirm  the  late  inquiries 
of  Braconnot,  who  has  stated 
that 
Proust’s  caseic  acid  is a modification of 
acetic acid, combined  with an  acrid  oil ’
“ In  1852,  Schlosberger  made  experi­
ments with pule fatty acids  and  demon­
strated  their  freedom  from  poisonous 
properties.  These  experiments  have 
been verified repeatedly, so that now it is 
well known that all  the  fatty  acids  ob­
tainable from cheese  are  devoid  of  poi 
souous properties.
“It may be  remarked  here  that  there 
is every  probability  that  the  poisonous 
substance  was  present  in  the  extracts 
obtained by the older chemists. 
Indeed, 
we may say that this is a certainty, since 
the  administration  of  these  extracts  to 
cats was, in some instances,  at least,  fol­
lowed by fatal  result.  The  great  mass 
of these extracts consisted of fatty acid£ 
and, as the  chemists  could  find  nothing 
else  present,  they  very  naturally  con­
cluded  that «the  fatty  acids  themselves 
constituted the poisonous  substance.
“Since the overthrow of the  fatty acid 
theory,  various  conjectures  have  been 
made, but none worthy of consideration.”
We  make  the  following  quotations 
from some  of  the  best  authorities  who 
wrote during the  first  half  of  the  past 
decade upon this subject:
is 
known of the  nature  of  cheese  poison, 
its  solubility  seems  established,  from 
an observation by  Husemann,  a  case  in 
which  the poison  was  transmitted  from 
a nursing mother to her  child.”
“The 
older investigations of  the  chemical  na­
ture of cheese poison,  which  led  to  the 
belief  of  putrefactive  cheese  acids  and 
other problematic substances,  are void of 
all trustworthiness, and the  discovery of 
the active principle of  poisonous  cheese 
may be looked for in the  near future, on 
account of the  proper  animals  for  con­
trolling  the  experiments  with  the  ex­
tracts, as dogs can eat large quantities of

Husemann  wrote  as  follows: 

“Nothing  definite 

Hiller  says: 

p u is u u u u s   c h e e se   w ith o u t  U s  p ro d u c in g  
any effect.”
Brieger stated, in  1885:  “All kinds of 
conjectures  concerning 
the  nature  of 
this poison  have  been  formed,  but  are 
even devoid of historical interest; because 
they  áre  not  based  upon  experimental 
investigations.  My own experiments to­
ward solving this question have  not pro­
gressed very far.”
In the above  quotation  we  think  that 
Brieger has  hardly  done  justice  to  the 
work of Hunnefeld and Serturuer.  Their 
labors can hardly be  said  to  be  wholly 
devoid  of  historical  interest,  and  they 
certainly  did  employ  the  experimental 
method of inquiry.
in the years 1883 and  1884,  there were 
reported to the Michigan State  Board  of 
Health about 300 cases of  cheese poison­
ing.  As a rule, the  first  symptoms  ap­
peared within  from  two  to  four  hours 
after eating  the  cheese. 
In  a  few  the 
symptoms  were  delayed  from  eight  to 
ten  hours  and  were  very  slight.  The 
attending  physicians  reported  that  the 
gravity of the symptoms  varied with the 
amount of cheese eaten,  but  no  one who 
ate of  the  poisonous  cheese  wholly  es­
caped.  One physician reported  the  fol­
lowing  symptoms:  “Everyone  who  ate 
the cheese was taken  with  vomiting,  at 
first of a thin,  watery,  later a  more  con­
sistent  reddish-colored,  substance.  At 
the same time the patient  suffered  from 
diarrhea with watery stools.  Some com­
plained  of  pain  in  the  region  of  the 
stomach.  At first the tongue  was  white, 
but  later  it  became  red  and  dry;  the 
pulse was  feeble  and  irregular;  counte­
nance pale,  with  marked  cyanosis.  One 
small boy,  whose condition  seemed  very 
critical,  was covered  all  over  the  body 
with bluish spots.”
Dryness and constriction of  the throat 
were complained  of  ijy  all. 
lu  a  few 
cases  the  vomiting  and  diarrhea  were 
followed by  marked nervous prostration, 
and in  some  dilation  of  the  pupils  was 
observed.
Notwithstanding  the  severity  of  the 
symptoms in  many,  there  was  no  fatal 
termination  among  these  cases,  though 
several deaths  from  cheese poisoning  in 
other  outbreaks  have  occurred.  Many 
of the physicians  at  first  diagnosed  the 
cases from the  symptoms  as  due  to  ar­
senical poisoning,  and on  this  suspicion 
some administered ferric hydrate.  Others 
gave alcohol  and  other  stimulants  and 
treated  upon the expectaut plan.
Vaughan,  to whom the cheese was sent 
for analysis,  made  the  following  report: 
“All of these 300  cases  were  caused  by 
eating  of  twelve  different  cheeses.  Of 
these, nine were made at one factory and 
one  each  at  three  other  factories.  Of 
each of the twelve 1  received  smaller  or 
larger pieces.  Of each of  ten I received 
only smaller  amounts.  Of  each  of  the 
other two i  received about eighteen  kilo­
grammes.  The cheese was  in  good con­
dition and there was nothing in the taste 
or  odor  to  excite  suspicion.  However, 
from  a freshly cut surface  there  exuded 
numerous drops of a  slightly  opalescent 
fluid,  which  reddened  litmus  paper  in­
stantly  and  intensely.  Although,  as  I 
have stated, I could discern  nothing  pe­
culiar in the odor, if two samples, one of 
good, the other of poisonous, cheese, were 
placed before a  dog  or  cat,  the  animal 
would invariably select  the good cheese. 
But if only poisonous cheese was offered, 
and  the  animal  was  hungry,  it  would 
partake  freely.  A  cat  was  kept  seven 
days  and 
furnished  only  poisonous 
cheese  and  water, 
it  ate  freely  of  the 
cheese  and  manifested  no  untoward 
symptoms.  After the seven days the an­
imal  was  etherized  and  an  abdominal 
section  was  made.  Nothing  abnormal 
could  be  found.  1  predicted,  however, 
in one  of  my  first  articles  on poisonous 
cheese,  that  the  isolated  poison  would 
affect  the  lower  animals.  As  to  the 
truth of this prediction  we will see later.
“My  friend.  Dr.  Sternberg,  the  emi­
nent bacteriologist,  found in  the  opales­
cent drops  above  referred  to  numerous 
micrococi.  But  inoculations  of  rabbits 
with these failed to produce  any results.
“At first I made an alcoholic extract of 
the cheese.  After the alcohol  was evap­
orated in vacuo at  a  low  temperature  a 
residue consisting mainly  of  fatty  acids 
I  ate  a  small  bit  of  this
remained. 

residue 

solution  of 

residue aud fouud that  it  produced  dry­
ness  of the throat, nausea,  vomiting  and 
diarrhoea.  The mass of this extract con­
sisted  of  fats  and  fatty  acids, and  for 
some weeks I endeavored  to  extract  the 
poison from these fats,  but  all  attempts 
were  unsuccessful. 
I  then  made  an 
aqueous  extract  of  the  cheese,  filtered 
this  and,  drinking  some  of  it,  found 
that  it, also,  was  poisonous.  But  after 
evaporating the aqueous  extract  to  dry­
ness on  the  water-bath  at  100  degrees, 
the 
thus  obtained  was  not 
poisonous.  From this I ascertained that 
the poison  was decomposed or volatilized 
at or  below  the  boiling  point  of  water. 
1 then tried distillation at a low  temper­
ature,  but  by this  the  poison  seemed  to 
be  decomposed.
“Finally,  I made a clear, filtered a que- 
ous  extract,  which  was  highly  acid, 
alkaline  with  sodium  hydrate,  agitated 
this with ether,  removed  the  ether,  and 
allowed  it  to  evaporate  spontaneously. 
The residue  was  highly  poisonous.  By 
resolution in water  and  extraction  with 
ether, 
the  poison  was  separated  from 
foreign  substances.  As  the  ether  took 
up some water,  this residue  consisted of 
an  aqueous 
the  poison. 
After  this  was  allowed  to  stand  some 
hours in vacuo  over  sulphuric  acid,  the 
poison separated  in  needie-shaped  crys­
tals.  From  some  samples  the  poison 
crystallized from the first  evaporation of 
the ether and  without standing in  vacuo. 
This  happened  only  when  the  cheese 
contained a comparatively  large  amount 
of  the  poison.  Ordinarily  the  micro 
scope  was  necessary 
to  detect  the 
crystalline  shape.  From  sixteen  kilo­
grammes of one cheese i  obtained  about 
0.5  gramme  of  the  poison  and  in  this 
case the individual crystals  were plainly 
visible  to  the  unaided  eye.  From  the 
same  amount  of  another  cheese  1  ob­
tained only  about  0.1  gramme  and  the 
crystals in this  case  were  not  so  large. 
1  have  no  idea,  however,  that  by  the 
method  used  all  the  poison  was  sepa­
rated from the cheese.
“ To this ptomaine  Vaughan has given 
the  name  tyrotoxicon,  cheese-poison, 
its chemistry  will be discussed in a  sub­
sequent  chapter.”
i have only to  add  that  I  have  found 
(I  will  not  say  discovered)  another 
poison  in  cheese  which  differs  radically 
in its properties from that which  I  have 
called  tyrotoxicou.  Possibly  the doctor 
will  have  the  kindness  to  tell  me  by 
what name this second  poison  should  be 
designated,  and  when  and  by  whom  it 
was discovered.  Which of these poisons 
is  the  tyrotoxicon  which  has  been  so 
long and so well known?  Are there still 
other poisons in  cheese—by  whom  were 
they  found;  what  are  their  names  and 
properties? 

V ic t o r   C.  V a u g h a n .
The Hemmeter Cigar Company.

The  above  establishment,  one  of  the 
largest cigar factories in  Michigan, occu­
pies the entire four-story building  at the 
corner of  Hamilton  and  Adams  streets, 
in Saginaw.  The  company  was  organ­
ized in January,  1893,  and its  rapidly in­
creasing business is due to the  judicious 
supervision of Mr.  J.  P.  Hemmeter,  its 
Secretary, Treasurer and General  Mana­
ger.  The first year the  company  manu­
factured 100,000  cigars; the  second  year 
2,500,000,  and in 1895 the output  will  be 
over  3,000,000 cigars.  Over  half  of  the 
product is secured by jobbers. 
In Grand 
Rapids  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug 
Co.,  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  and  B. 
J.  Reynolds are finding a big demand for 
the  “ Hemmeter”  and  the  “Hemmeter 
Imperial,”  the  two  principal  brands  of 
this factory.  The “Hemmeter Imperial” 
retails for 10 cents and the “Hemmeter,” 
three for 25 cents.  Their  trade  extends 
into every town of Michigan  and  North­
ern  Indiana  and  one  salesman  covers 
Minnesota,  Iowa and the  Dakotas. 
In  a 
short time Mr. J.  P.  Hemmeter  will give 
his personal attention  to  Grand  Rapids 
merchants.  Tisch Bros.,  of  Grand  Rap­
ids,  furnish all the  cigar  boxes  used  by 
the Hemmeter Cigar Company.

Ca X U IZ S ,  T A O II'S  . „ u   A l l j

The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follow s:

STICK  CAMDT.

Cases 
Standard,  per  lb ............................  
H .H .................................... 
Twist  ..............................  

“ 
“ 

Boston  Cream.................... 
Cut  Loaf.............................  
E x tra H  H .........................  

8)4
3)4
MIXED  GAMUT.

Bbls.
..5)4
..6
-.6)4
..7
..7
•  6)4
Broken Taffy....................... baskets
Peanut Squares...................
French Creams....................
Valley  Creams................
Midget, 30 lb.  baskets........
.........
Modern. 30 lb. 

“ 
fancy—In bulk

** 

Losenges,  plain.................
printed.............
Chocolate Drops................
Chocolate Monumentale.
Gum Drops.........................
Moss D rops.........................
Sour Drops..........................
Imperials..........................

f a n c y —In 5 lb. boxes.

“ 

Lemon D rops......................................
Sour D ro p s..........................................
Pepperm int D rops.............................
Chocolate D rops..............................
H. M. Chocolate  D rops....................
Gum  D rops........................................
Licorice Drops....................................
A.  B. Licorice  D rops........................
Losenges, plain..................................
p rin te d .............................
Im perials.............................................
M ottoes.............................................
Cream B ar........................................
Molasses  B a r..................................
Hand Made  Cream s.....................
Plain Cream s....................................
Decorated Cream s...........................
String  R ock....................................
B urnt A lm onds.................................
W lntergreen  B erries......................

CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes. 
No. 1, 
No. 2, 

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3 
2 

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Bbls.  Palls.
9 7
6 7
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g

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

Palls 
... 
8)49*
12(312 
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12 
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5
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...  8 
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...  50 
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.  60 
65 
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35® 50 
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....  75 
....... 60
..... 66
....... 60
...  .70 
....  55 
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6 @80 
90 10

90®

Medt. Sweets—128. 
150,176,200.............

E xtra Choice,  360
Fancy 36  ................
E x tri  Fancy, 360  ., 
E x tra Choice,  300 
F ancy, 300...............

Lafgfe bunches. 
Small bunches.

OTHER  FOREION  FRUITS.

“ 

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extra 

Figs, fancy  layers  16St>  ..................
•“ 
3 0 f t ... 
...........
141b......................
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Dates,  Pard, 10-lb.  b ox......................
“ 
....... ..............
Persian.  G.  M .50 lb  b o x ...
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50-lb.  “ 

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NUTS.

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Almomls, Tarragona.........................
Iv&ca..................................
California, soft  shelled
Braslls, new................   ......................
F ilberts.................................................
Walnuts, G renoble...........................
French................................
Calif  No.  1 .......................
Soft Shelled  Calif.............
Table  Nuts,  fan cy.............................
ch o ice...........................
Pecans.Texas, H.  P.,  ..................
............................
Chestnuts............... 
Hickory Nuts per  bu.,  Mich...........
Cocoanuts, fu ll sacks......................
Butternuts, per  bu.............................
Black  Walnuts, per bu......................

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PEANUTS.
Fancy, H .  P., Game Cocks  ...
“   rtO H steu 
. . .
Fancy, H.  P., A ssociation . 
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“  Roast j d  
Choice, H. P.,  Extras...............
“   R oasted..

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3  25

5  50
6 00 
6 50
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b mar.

Carcass............................................................  5  @ 7
Fore  q u arters............................................... 34@   4
H in d q u a rte rs...  ...........  ..........................8  @ 9
Loins No. 3 ....................................................   @10
R ibs................................................................. 8  @12
R o u n d s ..........................................................6)4®  7)4
Chucks   
.........................................'8)4®  5
P la te s ..............................................................3)4@  4

PORK.

D ressed ..........................................................5  @  5)4
L oins................................. 
8
Shoulders.......................................  
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Spring lam bs......................................... .......8  @10

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TT-I K  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
ib.e;  the store  ia  well  lighted  aud  ven­
tilated;  the stock is of as good  a  quality 
as it is possible to procure  anywhere for 
the  money;  the  salesmen  are  obliging 
and patient,  and last,  but  not  the  least 
important,  the  proprietor  of  the  store 
advertises  liberally.  Go  thou  and  do 
likewise, if thou art anxious to  succeed.

The following remarks,  taken from  an 
insurance  monthly,  seem  worthy  of  re- 
publication,  as they  certainly  character­
ize some of us mortal men:

A  P ertin en t  O b servation.

Tbe  meanest  of  all  men  is  he  who 
makes a pretense of loving a woman;  de­
prives  her  of  all  other  chances  in  the 
world  by  appropriating  her  to himself; 
sees her youth  and  beauty  expended  in 
his service;  -ees her  become  the  mother

31

of his children, and  refuses to secure for 
her,  by life insurance,  the  provision she 
might have  saved  from  the  wages  of  a 
hired servant.
We  are  with  you.  reader,  when  you 

say,  “Amen!” 

Very  truly yours,

The P ie r c e   Ma n u f a c t u r in g   Co. 

Ludington,  Mich.

We manufacture  the  “Pierce  Broom.”
Use  Trudeftman  Co at ton  Books.

If we should 
Live 

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

A n d   live  a s   w e   s h o u l d ,   w e   m u s t  
U S E   T H E   B E S T !

Highland  Brand  Vinegar

IS  SUPERIOR!

BRIGHT  BOY.

E ffect o f  H om e T raining in th e  G rocery 

Store.

“Will you lend me your watch,  sir, for 
a  few  minutes?  1  want  to  use  the 
second hand.”
L Billy is to  be  trusted  with  anything, 
so I promptly handed  him  my  valuable 
timepiece  without  a  question  as  to  the 
use he  would make of it.  A few minutes 
later  I  glanced  toward  the  rear  of  the 
store,  and  saw  Billy  rapidly  doing  up 
different sorts  of  merchandise  into  neat 
parcels and as  rapidly  undoing  them.  1 
walked toward the scene of  action to see 
what he was about.
“I’m just  practicing,” said  he  in  an­
swer to my  mental  inquiry. 
“ When  I 
was  over to your  competitor’s  store  the 
other day,  there was a young  man  there 
who could do up a bottle into  a  package 
while I counted  ten. 
I  thought  maybe 
if I practiced long enough  1  could  learn 
to do it,  too.”  While  Billy  talked  his 
busy fingers  made  neat  knots,  and  one 
eye was kept steadily on the  small  hand 
of my watch,  which lay before him.
“Do you think it’s worth  all  the  trou­
ble it will be to learn?”  I asked.
“Course 1 do,”  he answered  promptly. 
“I  don’t  believe  it  will  take  me  more 
than a month  or  two,  and  then  1  shall 
know how  as  long  as  I  live.  You  see 
you never  forget  the  things  you  learn 
with your hands or your feet.”
1 said nothing,  but  watched  the  boy’s 
dextrous  fingers  as  he skillfully shaped 
the stiff wrapping paper  around  various 
objects.  After a minute  or  two he  went 
on:
“It’s  so  much  easier  to  do  anything 
after you know exactly  how;  and  I  hate 
to be a chump with  my  hands,  anyway. 
Have you noticed that new clerk you got 
last week?  He’s a nice man.  and every­
body  likes  him,  but  he’s  the  clumsiest 
chap 1 ever saw.  He always  spills a lit­
tle  of  everything  he  touches—about  a 
tablespoonful on the average.  After he’s 
had a real busy morning there are enough 
spilled  groceries  behind  the  eounter  to 
make  a  square  meal  for  a tramp, only 
they are too mixed even for that.
“That  man  ought  to  live  with  my 
mother  a  little  while.  When  1  was  a 
little shaver 1 had a bad habit of spilling 
things  on  the tablecloth.  Mother spoke 
to me once or twice about  it.  Then  one 
day,  after dinner,  she lifted me up to the 
table and showed me the place where my 
plate had been.  There was a clean  white 
circle  with  a  lot  of  different  colored 
spots around  it.
“ ‘My son,’ said she,  ‘if  it  made  your 
dinner taste better or made you  any  hap­
pier to put those spots there  1  would  let 
you  go  on  doing  it,  but as I am sure it 
will  not  you  must break yourself of the 
habit at once.  1 will  take  one  cent  out 
of your pocket-money for every spot  you 
get on  the  tablecloth,  and  see  whether 
you can’t learn to be a little tidier. 
It is 
a  matter  of  habit,  either way,  and you 
will  always find that on the whole a good 
habit is easier than a bad one.’
“ Well,  sir,  I  was  pretty .poor  for  a 
week or two,  but after that my place was 
the  cleanest  at  the  table,  and 1 guess  1 
am cured of spilling things as  long  as  1 
live.
“ I don’t  like  to  do  up  packages  spe­
cially well,  but  if  1  can  learn  to do up 
twice as many  in a  morning  as  anybody 
else, I suppose I  would be worth twice as 
much wages;  wouldn’t I,  sir?”
I  am 
afraid sometimes that Billy is getting too 
sharp for me—but.

I  smiled,  but  said  nothing. 

W h y  S om e  M erchants  S u cceed . 
Many  merchants  wonder  why  their 
competitors forge right ahead to success, 
while they  lag  behind.  There  is  noth­
ing  wonderful  about  it.  A  schoolboy 
can  reason  the  whole  thing  out,  and 
make it as plain as A B C.  The business 
man  who succeeds is, probably,  better  lo­
cated than  the  man  who  is  grumbling 
about the depression  of  trade;  he  has  a 
handsomer  store,  the  exterior  being  in 
/first-class shape,  the  pavement solid, the 
steps  leading  to  the  store  are firm, the 
show-window is up to date and attractive­
ly dressed.  The interior dt the  store  is 
well  furnished;  the  chairs  and  settees 
are comfortable;  no  dust  or  dirt  is  vis-

All Due  to a  Grocer’s  Mistake. 

bad?”
out?”
easy.”

“Good land!  The  old  chestnut  about 
the shoemaker and the  bad  $10  bill  has 
started on its rounds again.”
“What?  That old thing about the man 
buying a $2 pair of shoes and  paying for 
them with a $10 note”—
“And the shoemaker hasn’t the change 
and sends out for it”—
“Yes, and gets the money” —
“Pays the customer  $3”—
“And finds  out  afterward  the  bill  is 
“And  how  much was  the  shoemaker 
(Both  together)—“ Why, 
that’s  dead 
“ Well, how much do you say?”
“How much do you say?”
the  shoes,  of 
“He’s  out  $18  and 
course.”
• “Nonsense!  It  was  $28  and  the  price 
of  the  shoes.  Anybody  can  see  that 
you’re wrong.”
“I’ll bet you.”
“Why, man,  what do you  take me for?
I ain’t a robber.”
“You  ain’t,  eh?  Since  when?  Since 
when?”
“Well,  uow,  look here.  Don’t  you  be 
a fool—that is, any  more of one than you 
are now”—
“ You’ve got such a mathematical head 
on you—you have” —
“Look here, now, you think  you’re  so 
smart. 
I’ll  just  figure  it  out  for  you. 
The man paid $10. didn’t he?”
It wasn’t 
“Yes.  No, he didn’t either. 
$10. 
it  was  less 
than $10.”
“You  haven’t  any  more sense than a 
rabbit.  Then  there  was  $8  the  shoe­
maker gave the man”—
“Doesn’t that prove what I said?  The 
shoemaker was $28 out.”
“No, you didn’t.  1 said that.”
“Now, look here.  1 said from  the  be­
ginning  that  the  shoemaker  was  $28 
out.”
“So you’re a liar as  well as a  fool,  are 
you?  I’ll have you know that it was 1 who 
said $28—hold on; was it $28?  No.  How 
could the man lose $28,  when  there  was 
only $10 in the transaction?  No, it’s only 
$18 the man lost. 
“Gentlemen,”  put in a  quiet  man  sit­
ting close by,  *‘l think  I  can  settle  your 
difficulty.  In me behold the shoemaker.” 

It  wasn’t  anything, 

I’ll show you”— 

•How much were you  out?”
“ Not a cent,”
“Not a cent?”
“No.  You  remember  the  grocer  of 
whom  my  boy  got  the  change said  the 
bill was bad?”

“Yes.”
“ Well, he was mistaken.”

Posed the Britisher.

A young Englishman, on  his  first visit 
to this country, relates  the  following  as 
specimens  of  American  slang  that  he 
overheard in  a Pullman  car  in  Chicago. 
The colored porter said to the conductor; 
“ You  better go and talk  with  that  lady 
in lower 10; 1 can’t do nothing  with  her; 
she’s too flip.”  “Oh,  go  on  and  be  pa­
tient with  her,”  replied  the  conductor. 
“She’s too much for me,  conductor; she’s 
gettin’  flipper.”
“As the porter stood waiting near me,” 
said the Englishman,  “I  asked  what  he 
meant  by  saying  the  lady  was  flip  or 
flipper.” 
.  ,
“ ‘Why, I  meant  she  was  too  fresh,’ 
answered the  porter.
“ ‘Too fresh?’  I queried.
“ ‘Yes, that is  she’s  too  soon,’  he  ex­
plained.
“ ‘Flip,  fresh,  soon—I  don’t  under­
stand you yet,’ 1 told him  with  a  laugh.
“ ‘Oh,  Lord, can’t  you  talk  English?’ 
exclaimed  the porter;  ‘well  I  mean she’s 
too fly.’”

. 

T be  P u tnam   C andy  Co.

interesting  announcement  on

Has  an 
' page 20.

A  Few   Hot 
Weather Shots

We offer this  week, ca-h with order, in current 
exchange,

10,0.00 lbs.  Armour’s Hams,  10  lb.  aw,  at 9^c. 

f.o b. Chicago.

100 cases Buck# ye  Rolled  Oats at $1  90  per case. 
100 Full Cream  Michigan Cheese atT^e.
250  Bbls.  Pomeroy  Butter Crackers, at M^c.
250 pails Sweet  Russet  Fine Cut at  24c.
A  CARLOAD  FIRECRACKERS  at lowest price 

ever named  iti  Michigan.

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Special  Correspondence
N e w   Y o k e ,  June 15—It is rather diffi­
cult  this  week  to  give  the true inward­
ness of the volume of  business  done  by 
the jobbing  grocery  trade  in  this  city. 
Some report a good  trade  and  others  do 
not.  Upon  the  whole,  one  concludes 
that  business  is  not  all  that  might  be 
hoped  for.  There seems to be a midsum­
mer  lull  which  has  come  before it was 
really dne.
The coffee market shows no animation. 
Values  are  steadily  maintained,  yet  if 
there is a  chance  of  turning  an  honest 
penny,  the  probabilities  are  that  there 
might  be  some  shading  done. 
Invoice 
value of Rio No.  7 remains  at  15%@16c. 
The amount afloat is 578,213 bags, against 
269,483 bags  last  year. 
It  is  said  that 
interior dealers are taking so much coffee 
from the importers that our grocery  job­
bers are complaining of being ‘'left.”  Of 
about 90,000  bags  delivered  during  the 
past ten days,  our jobbers  have  handled 
less than  10 per cent.  Mild coffees main­
tain a good degree of stability.
Teas remain dull and lifeless and  buy­
ers are  taking  only  enough  to  last  for 
present requirements.
Refined sugars are dull and  no  change 
has  beeu  made  in  quotations  of  gran­
ulated.  Mail orders have come  in  quite 
freely and from wide sections.  The can­
ning industry is now  taking its usual  re 
quirements and these are  promptly  met 
as  supplies  seem  ample.  Raw  sugar 
have  declined  about 
l-16c  since  las 
week.  Taking  the  sugar  trade  as  i 
whole, it is probable that it is rather dis 
appointing,  so  far  as  refined  is  con 
cerned.
Rice  is  firm  and  dealers show no dis­
position  to  make  any  concession.  The 
country trade is good.
Spices are quiet,  the trade being some 
what under speculative  control.  Quota 
tions  are  firm  and  indications  are that 
we shall see no speedy decline  from con 
trolling rates.
In canned goods a steady  improvement 
is to be seen.  While the  volume  of  or 
ders  is  not  materially  larger,  perhaps 
there is more willinguess on the  part  ol 
buyers to  pay  prevailing  rates,  and  an 
indisposition  on  the  part  of  holders  to 
make  any  concession  whatever.  Corn 
and tomatoes both show a  decidedly  bet 
ter appearance and  on the former  article 
there  has  been  an  advance  on  the  be 
Maine sorts.  A few days ago Maine corn 
was found to be quite plenty  at  80c;  but 
the same is now firmly held  at  70c.  For 
fancy  90c  to  $1  is  asked  and obtained. 
There  is  every  prospect  of  a  reduced 
pack of tomatoes in this part of the coun­
try  and,  as  a  better  demand  already 
seems  to  prevail, 
the  growers  are  in 
hopes that the  long  lane  of  low  prices 
has at length been  turned.  New  Jersey 
brands  are  worth  65c,  with  67%c  fre­
quently obtained. 
It seems to be  gener­
ally believed that there are a great many 
cases of last year’s peas with  this  year’s 
labels on,  and  buyers  are  cautioned  to 
exercise  discrimination  in  making  pur­
chases.  Early  Junes  of  this  season’s 
pack of extra  quality  have  sold  for  $1. 
The pack  now  in  progress  shows  great 
variation in quality.  Salmon  is firm and 
steady.  The  call  is  chiefly  for  red 
Alaska,  which is held at 81.10;  Columbia 
River,  tall tins,  spot, $1.55@1.75.
Lemons took a tumble of 50@75c a box 
on  Thursday,  as  buyers  could  not  or 
would  not  give  prevailing  quotations. 
There is a very steady market,  however, 
all along the line.  The  orders  from  out 
of town have been  numerous and of good 
size.  They  all  indicate 
the  near  ap­
proach of the Fourth,  with all it implies. 
Bananas and  pineapples are  quickly  ab­
sorbed and at good rates.

The fact that  firecrackers are about 50 
per  cent,  cheaper  than  last  year  will 
make the small  boy smile all  over.  The 
thought of 40 packs of firecrackers for 75 
cents is sufficient to make  an  old  fellow 
wish he were a boy  again.

Butter is arriving  freely,  but  a  great

Russia,  Belgium,  Portugal  and  Ger­
many have  introduced  the  bicycle  into 
amount is being put in cold storage  and, I their armies  for  orderly and other  serv- 
as there is a good demand,  the market is  ice.
firm  and  quotations  are closely adhered 
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I  Use Tradesman Coupon Books.

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Barnato,  the  mine  owner  of  South 
Africa,  is at  present  scattering  his  mil­
lions  in  Paris.  Twenty  years  ago  he 
was very poor,  and  acted  as  clown  in  a 
circus,  with two  trained  donkeys.  Now 
he is  worth  $150,000,000.  He  was  per­
forming  in  Kimberley  to  poor  houses, 
when, on  a walk,  he  found  a  sparkling 
stone in  the  fields. 
It  was  a  diamond 
and worth $10,000.  Barnato  bought  the 
fields around there and  gradually looked 
up gems and  sold  them.  Thus  he went 
on and did likewise later  with the Johan- 
nisburg gold mines.  He is  a  fellow  di­
rector  with  Cecil  Rhodes  in  the  com­
panies that control the mines.

PRODUCE  riARKET.

Beans—The  m arket  is  stronger  and  higher 
th an  a week ago,  the Chicago m arket having ad­
vanced to $2.05, in consequence  o f  w hich  hold­
ers are still strong in th e ir views.

B utter—In am ple supply at  I2@15c  for  choice 

dairy.

Beets—New, 35@45c per doz.
Cabbage—M aryland stock  is com ing in freely, 
com m anding $1.75@2 per crate  of  two  to  three 
dozen.

Cucum bers—M ississippi  stock,  30c  per  doz. 
Home  grow n,  40@45e  per  doz.  The  la tte r  is 
m uch  better in quality and gives b etter satisfac­
tion than the S outhern  product.

C herries—Bed  Itichm onds  com m and  10c per 
qt.  Sweet are ab o u t th e  sam e  price, but do not 
sell as readily as sour fru it  in th is m arket. 
□ E ggs—H andlers pay  10c and  hold  a t  lie   in  a 
regular jobbing w-ay.

O nions—10c per doz.  bunches  fo r green stock. 
Dry stock  from  th e  South  com m ands $1  per bu.
P otatoes—Old  stock  is  about  the  sam e  as  a 
week ago, selling in sm all quantities to  th e retail 
trade  a t  38@40c per  bu.  New  stock  is  com ing 
in  freely, com m anding$2@2.25 per bbl.  The re­
ceipts are m ostly from  Tennessee.

(looseberrics—In full supply, b ut in no dem and 
w hatever,  th is being one of the few   m arkets  in 
th e country w hich takes no interest in this fruit.
Pineapples—$1@1.25 per doz., according to size 

and quality.

Radishes—Round or Long, 8c per doz.
Spinach—25c per bu.
Straw berries—The  season  proves to be a   very 
disappointing  one, as  it  is  now  generally  con­
ceded th a t the yield of home  grow n  will  not  be 
over one-quarter of an average crop.  Had there 
been  frequent  show ers  im m ediately  a fte r  the 
May frosts, the crop m ight still have been a   fair 
one In point of both quality  and  yield;  but  the 
dry  w eather  precluded  a  second  crop o f blos­
soms and shortened the yield accordingly.  This 
week  will  practically  close  th e  season, locally, 
during  w hich  tim e  th e  price will  rule from  8@ 
10c for average stock and  12!4©14c for fancy o f­
ferings.

Tom atoes—$1.50 fo r4  basket crate and $2.25 for 
0 basket  crate.  Most  of th e stock now in m ar­
ket is from  Mississippi.

W as Beans —scarce  and  higher,  th e  m arket 

price having advanced from  $1.50 to $2 per bu.

B U T T E R   W A N T E D !

Prices  quoted  on application.

N O T E   L O W  P R I C E S
Mrs. Withey's Home Made Jelly,  made  with  _j

On following goods:

boiled cider  very  fine.  Assortment con­
sists  of  Apple,  Blackberry,  Strawberry, 
Raspberry and Currant:
30-lb.  p ad ................................................................ 
70
so
*0-1 b  pail................................................................. 
17-lb.  pail............................................................... 
45
15-lb. pail......................................... ...................... 
40
1  quart Mason  Jars, per  doz.........................   1  75
1  pint  Mason  Jars per  doz............  125
Per case, 3 doz.  in  case......................................3 60
Mrs.  Withey’s Condensed Mince Meat,  the
best made.  Price per  case  ......................... 2  40
Mrs.  Withey’s bulk mince meat:
40-lb. pail, per  lb...................................................  6
25-lb. pails, per lb .................................................  6M
12-lb. pails, per lb .................................................  654
2-lb. cans, per d oz.  .............................................   l  40
5 lb. cans, per  doz...............................................3  50
Pint Mason Jars  per  doz.................................. 1  25
Quart Mason Jars, per  doz  .............................2 00
Pure Sweet Cider, in bbls., per gal................   1254
Pure Sweet Cider, in less quantities, per gal  14 
Maple  Syrup, pint Mason Jars, per  do* 
1  40 
Maple Syrup, quart Mason Jars, per  doz....  2 25
Maple Syrup, tin, gallon cans, per doz.........  9 00
Peach Marmalade, 20-lb pails 
.........  1  00
Peach Marmalade in pt  Mason jars, pr d z..  1  20 
No  1 Egg Crate  Fillers, best  in  market,  10
sets in case, No.  1 Case  included................   1  25
No. 1  Egg Crates with fillers  com plete......... 
33
Special prices made on  ICO Crate lots.
I make Syrups and quote you Refiners’ prices:
White Sugar Drips, 14  bbls.................  per gal 
32
1  and 14 gal.  pails  “  “ 
_  
58
Honey Drips,  14 bbls  .............................    “  “ 
26
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48
EDWIN F ALL AS,aRAMÎcii PIDS

1 and 14  gal.  pails........“ 

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In T his S ectio n  o f th e State.

M USICAL  MERCHANDISE.

T hat Sh ould B e  S e e n —The L a rgest 

A   D isp lay  o f  H and som e  Instru m ents

J--fc±iiì  MjLOHClOAJNf  ^ R A D H^ M A N .
Cheese is showing a little  better  tone. 
It is likely that a large amount  has gone 
into cold storage.  Exporters  have taken 
rather more than the average aud dealers 
profess quite a good degree of confidence 
in the future.  The  receipts  since  Mon­
day have been about 45,000 boxes.  Fancy 
small  white cheese of N.  Y.  State  make 
is worth 7%c.
Eggs are stale.  That is  the  condition 
of  about  nine-tenths  of  them,  anyway. 
Really good stock from Michigan, North­
ern  Indiana  and  Northern  Ohio  will 
letch 13%c,  but it is very  hard to find de 
sirable eggs at any price.
New potatoes are  worth  from  $3.25@ 
4.50 a bbl.  and are plenty.
Pea  beans,  choice  1894,  $2.15@2.20 
The demand  is moderate and the  market 
is easier.
F.  B.  Thurber,  formerly  of  the  Thur- 
ber-Whyland  Co.,  has  been  appointed 
trustee of the new East River bridge that 
is to be.  The appointment  is  generally 
commended,  as  Mr.  Thurber  allows  no 
grass  to  grow  under  bis  feet,  and the 
bridge will  “hump,”  if  he  has  his  way 
about it,  while building.

Any one that is a musician, or for  that 
matter, any one that appreciates a  beau­
tiful  display  of  wares  of  any  kind, 
should  devote  at  least  one  hour  some 
day viewing the immense line  of  music­
al  instruments Julius A.  J.  Friedrich  is 
showing in his  mammoth  emporium,  on 
Canal street.  Space  will  not  permit  a 
detailed  mention  of  the  many  makes 
there  displayed  of  both  pianos  and  or­
gans,  but if the visitor  does  not  say  he 
never saw a larger or more complete line 
in this section,  a serious mistake is made 
AH kinds of  instruments  and  the  finest 
made are found  there,  along  with  sheet 
music  and  musical  literature  from  all 
over the world.  The  five  floors  in  con 
stant use are reached  by a passenger ele 
vator.
A D eal in  E g g s  W hich  W a s  N ot  Con 

The bill  passed by the Illinois General 
Assembly,  prohibiting  the  manufacture 
of cigars in the  State  penitentiaries, has 
been  vetoed  by  the  Governor  on  the 
ground  that  to  prohibit  any  particular 
industry in the prisons  shows  partiality 
against the rest.  By  this  reasoning  the 
prison  wardens  constitute  the  supreme 
tribunal to  decide what  industries  may 
be undertaken in the prisons.  Of course, 
the management will  endeavor  to  select 
the  trades  which  will  make  the  best 
showing  in  meeting  prison  expenses. 
As long as their  judgments  may vary  in 
regard to the proper trade to select, many 
lines of  manufacture will  be  constantly 
threatened by convict competition. 
It is 
said that the cooperage trade  in  Chicago 
has  been  almost  entirely  destroyed  by 
this  labor scourge. 
It  seems  a strange 
reasoningdhat takes the  right  to  decide 
such  matters  from  the  legislatures  and 
thus relegates  them  for  decision  to  the 
jobbery of prison rings.

Two honorable members  of  the  Colo­
rado Legislature  have  just  been  tripped 
up in  a  pretty  mean  scheme  of  making 
money  by  beating  railroads  that  had 
given  favors  to  them  because  of  their 
public office.  They have been  making  a 
system of renting their annual  passes  on 
the railroads  to  traveling  men  at  $15  a 
month apiece. 
In  the  case  of one mem­
ber,  who has a German  name,  the  fraud 
was discovered through  one  of  his  per­
sonal passes being presented by a man of 
palpably  Hibernian  nationality.  The 
conductor could  not  reconcile  the  name 
and the brogue,  and  held  the  man  and 
the  pass  for  investigation,  when  the 
fraud  was  discovered.  Following  this 
clew led to the 'discovery  of  the  system 
operated  by  the  two  legislators.  One 
pass that  the  Assemblyman  had  rented 
for $15 a month had been  used  for  more 
than  a hundred dollars’  worth  of  travel 
in that time.

F u lly Capable.

Shoe Dealer—If a woman  should come 
in and ask you to show her  a  good, com­
mon-sense shoe that would not pinch her 
foot,  what would you do?

Would-be-clerk—I’d  bring  out  a  shoe 

about two sizes too small for  her.

T guess you’ll  do.”

su m m ated .

This is a  story  of  how  a  New  York 
grocer  grievously  offended  a  customer 
also  of  how  the  customer  wounded  the 
sensitive feelings  of  the  grocer,  and  of 
the circumstances which led to  this mo 
unhappy  estrangement.  The  customer 
was  “every  inch  a  lady;”  the  grocer, 
though he never wore  a  stove-pipe  hat, 
was in other essentials a gentleman.
They met at the  grocer’s  counter, and 
this is the  conversrtion  that  placed  be­
tween  them a great yawning chasm:
“ Are those eggs fresh?” she asked. 
“ Yes,  marm,”  replied the grocer.
“You are quite sure?”
“ No doubt about it, marm.”
“Now,  if there is any  doubt  about  it,
I should not care to buy  any.”
You  can  depend  upon  it,  marm.  1 
wouldn’t  say  they  were  fresh  if  they 
weren’t.”
“There were three rotten ones in those 
I bought the other day.”
You  won’t  find  any  of  these  that 
way.”
“Now, you say you  are  positive  these 
are perfectly fresh?”
“That’s whgt I said, marm.”
“You’ll  take  back  the  bad  ones, if 1 
find any won’t you?”
“ You’ve got to take them  just  as  they 
come, marm.”
“You’ll warrant that there are  no  bad 
ones among them,  won’t you?”
“No,  1  won’t;  I’d  a  warranted  them 
when you  came  in,  but  they’ve  grown 
old since then.  You  can’t  expect  eggs 
last 
to 
forever,  marm,  and  another 
thing —”
But the slamming  of  the  door  as  the 
lady flounced  out  lost  to  the  world  the 
verbal  pearls  that  continued  to  come 
from  between the grocer’s celluloid-filled 
eeth.  -

T he  H ou se W a s  a   F ailure.

Bingo—Didn’t you  have  some  trouble 
in building your house?
Kingley—Oh,  a  little.  The  architect 
made  a  slight  mistake, in  the estimate, 
and it cost me $4,000 more than 1 counted 
on.

Bingo—Was that all?
Kingley—All?  No,  sir.  The  carpen­
ters  forgot  there  was  such  a  thing  as 
specifications,  and left out a hall; but, of 
course,  one shouldn’t  mind a little thing 
like  that.

wrong and had to be  replaced.

Bingo—Certainly  not.
Kingley—Then the pipes  were  put  in 
Bingo—That usually happens.
Kingley—Oh,  yes.  Then  I  neglected 
my business for  three  months  trying  to 
find  the  architect,  and  that  cost  me  a 
pretty  penny.

Bingo—But you expected that?
Kingley—Certainly.  After  the  place 
was  finished  I  found  my  old furniture 
-wouldn’t do, and I had  to get a new out­
fit.  Then  my  cellar  flooded, 
the  roof 
leaked and the piazza warped;  but  these 
things aren’t anything to the trouble  I’m 
in now.

Bingo—What’s the trouble now?
Kingley—I can’t sell the house.

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COLUMBIA  DECORATED  TOILET  SET.

Each piece in this lovely pattern  is  a model of grace and beauty.  W e 
have a variety of decorations, namely:  W hite and Gold, Assorted Colors, 
Pearl, Brown and Green, and Enameled and  Gold  Illuminated, at the fol­
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Columbia, white and  gold, 
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Columbia Triumph, assorted  colors, gold illmtd.  13  00 
Columbia Triumph, enameled roses, gold  illmtd.  14  00 
Columbia Primela, enameled  floral, gold  illmtd.  14  00

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LIST  PRICE  PER  SET  98  PIECES,  $56.00.

These goods can be had in any quantities desired.  As easily matched 

as common white ware.

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