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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  J U N E   26,  1895,

NO.  6 1 4

GREEN  GROCERIES.

Business.

Seasonable Suggestions Relative to the 
Green groceries  are,  if  properly  han­
dled,  excellent  as  an  inducer  of trade. 
Crisp,  fresh  vegetables  are  more  tempt­
ing than anything else,  while during  the 
spring and  summer  the  consumption  of 
fruit  is  very  large  indeed.  Green  gro­
ceries  are  best  protected  by  keeping 
them  guarded  from  the  sun  and  the 
larger part of them in a  cool  dark  place 
with only a few  samples of each to show 
customers.  These  should  be  arranged 
in the most attractive  manner  with  fre­
quent changes and scrupulous care taken 
to keep them  in  fresh,  crisp  condition. 
Nobody  likes  to  see  half  empty straw­
berry  baskets  even  though  the  berries 
may have merely  settled from considera­
If  lettuce,  radishes  and 
ble 
rhubarb  are  given  space  enough 
they 
will  avoid  the  danger  of  being mussed 
and  unsightly.  Limp and stale  peas and 
beans should be  carefully  removed from 
the stock.  With considerable care, green 
groceries may become an excellent draw­
ing  card.  Without  it  they are liable to 
damage your trade equally  much.

jolting. 

The first thing to be  considered  under 
this subject is the buying  and,  it  is  per­
haps more worthy of attention  than  the 
buying of any other line of goods.  When 
green groceries are brought just as  close 
as  careful  forethought  can  make  them, 
and  care  taken  to  buy  only  creditable 
goods,  there is not a great  deal  of  com­
plaint about spoiled goods.  When green 
groceries  are  received  they  should  be 
carefully looked over,  the  boxes  of  ber­
ries shaken  up and  such  attention  given 
to each article as will insure its  best  ap­
pearance.

The display is a  large  factor  in  aug­
menting or decreasing  the  sales;  and  it 
gives the grocer a good  field  for  all  the 
taste  and  ingenuity  he  possesses.  A 
somewhat remarkable fact is this, that in 
a number of grocery stores  visited  each 
grocer who  paid  considerable  attention 
to bis display and whose goods presented 
an  attractive  appearance  claimed  that 
his 
loss  from  spoiled  goods  was  ex­
tremely  slight,  while  others  who  paid 
less attention made excessive complaints 
along this same line.

If  baskets  are  used  they  should,  of 
course,  be  neat  and  clean  which  can 
with  difficulty  be  accomplished  if  the 
articles are placed  in  the  uncovered bas­
ket.  A number of the grocers  who com­
plained of great loss from  spoiled  goods 
used newspaper in covering  baskets  and 
very massy  looking  and  unattractive  it 
was.  They were grocers  doing  a  large 
business but yet they seemed  to think  it 
economical  to  use  newspaper  for  this 
purpose.  The grocers of the  better class 
who lost few goods  used. Manilla  wrap­
ping paper which is neat and  attractive, 
and one of them used Manilla paper with 
colored stripes and it  was the  best thing 
we  saw. 
It  is  not  economical  to  nse 
newspaper.  Nothing is economical  that 
keeps the display from  looking  its  very 
best.

When the  display  has  been  made  of 
course the grocer will settle  down to sell 
the goods and if he sells bis whole stock, 
well and good.  Left overs,  if  there  be 
any,  if  sprinkled,  in  the  case  of  some 
vegetables  will  keep  passably  well, 
others will  not.  There was some  diver­
sity of  opinion  about  what  to  do  with 
these;  some maintaining it  an  excellent 
plan to place them  in  an  inconspicuous 
part of the store and sell them  to  poorer 
customers  at  greatly  reduced  prices; 
others maintaining it  better  to  cast  out 
all  stock  io  any  way  discreditable. 
This would, of course,  vary  with the dif­
ferent sorts of  trade—but.

Gripsack  Brigade.

is 

J.  E.  Ranp,  of  Constantine,  recently 
with the Jackson Grocer Co., has engaged 
to cover the  Northern  Indiana  territory 
for W. J. Quan & Co.,  of Chicago.

D.  E.  Me Yean 

(Musselman  Grocer 
Co.), who has been laid  up  for  the  last 
two weeks  with  rheumatism,  expects  to 
be able to resume his trips  to  his  trade 
next week.  His territory  is  being  cov­
ered in  the meantime by John  McCieary.
A  woman  drummer  for  a  St.  Louis 
vinegar  manufactory 
the 
Northwest on a bicycle and  in  stunning 
Parisian bloomers.  She started from St. 
Louis  last  January,  aud  bad  reached 
Seattle  a  week  or  so  ago.  She  seuds 
postal cards ahead of her to  the grocers, 
saying she will  “ wheel  into  town  about 
next  week,”  and  asking  them  to  save 
their orders for her.  She  is  creating  a 
sensation,  and selling lots of vinegar.

touring 

Owosso Times:  A.  R.  Thayer,  of  Sagi­
naw,  traveling  representative  for  Wil­
liams,  Davis,  Brooks  &  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
had an epileptic convulsion  on the Mich­
igan Central train, just as  it  pulled into 
the station from the North Monday morn­
ing.  Thayer was removed  to  the  depot 
and  later  taken  to the Miller House op­
posite,  when medical aid  was summoned. 
He 
1 
o’clock.  His wife was  sent  for  and  ar­
rived  on 
the  noon  train.  Thayer  had 
sufficiently recovered to  return  home  on 
the evening train.

regained  consciousness 

about 

Captain Alexander McDougall,  invent­
or  of  the  whaleback,  is  nothing  if  he 
hasn’t  something  new.  At  all  of  bis 
launchings  at  Superior,  heretofore,  a 
pretty young woman stood at the  bow of 
the unsightly-looking vessel and  broke a 
bottle of champagne on the point  of  her 
(the vessel’s) nose,  at the same  time giv­
ing it a name.  McDougall  is  not  going 
to  abandon  the  young  woman  idea  by 
any means,  but he is going  to  pay  some 
deference to  the  temperance  women  of 
the Northwest,  and  hereafter,  instead of 
breaking the wine,  the fair lady  will  let 
loose a cage  full  of  swift  birds,  which 
will fly in all  directions  as  the  ship  be­
gins to move, typifying  the  diverse  na­
ture  of  commerce.  He  borrowed  the 
idea from the Japs,  who  used  it  before 
he  or  his  whaleback  idea  were  born. 
This  pretty  idea 
teaches  liberty  and 
economy.  The  birds  are  given  their 
freedom,  and the wine is saved for  other 
than spilling purposes.

Verbs  and  Potatoes.

Written f o r   T h b   T r a d e s m a n .

Among  the  complaints  which  some­
times reach the ears  of  the  trade  paper 
editor is  one  concerning  the  bad  gram­
mar of  the  retail  grocer.  This  will  do 
for an example:  “There is no need of  a 
man’s talking  in  this  age  of  the  world 
about  ‘them ’taters’nor torturing the ears 
of  his  customers  with  ‘have  went’  and 
‘have saw.’  You ought to speak to them. 
I  beg  leave  to  say  that  1  don’t  live  in 
Boston.”

The first duty for us is to warn  the re­
tail  grocer  that  there  is  a  commercial 
value to verbs  as well as to potatoes and 
that while,  on general principles, he may 
be indifferent to his modes and tenses, he 
will find it to  his  advantage  to  conform 
as nearly as  possible  to  the  established 
laws of speech.

That done,  we would  like  to  say  that 
nothing delights us  more  than  to  listen 
to the masterly nse of our mother tongue; 
that it may be right  and  proper  for  the 
editorial  pen  to  play  the  part  of  Don 
Quixote’s  lance;  and  yet,  what  warm 
hearts are beating to-day  below the  lips 
that say  “them ’taters;”  and  while  the 
“had went” and  the  “have  saw” are far 
away from  “the  pure  well  of  the  Eng­
lish  undefiled,”  will 
the  woman  who 
“does not live in Boston”  pardon  us  for 
saying that,  as  long  as  the  homely,  un­
grammatical  expressions  come 
from 
good,  kindly, old-fashioned  people—old- 
fashioned  as  the  holly-hocks  and  the 
cinnamon  roses  in  the old-fashioned gar­
dens and just as dear—we don’t think we 
care to change them.  Yes, it is nonsense; 
but we would  rather  have  the  kindness 
in  homely  garb than good grammar with 
no  heart  behind  it.  Speak  to  the  gro- 
eer?  Certainly.  Good morning,  boys!

R ic h a r d   M a l c o l m   S t r o n g .
How Associated Grocers Punish a Com­

pany.

The Executive Committee of Wholesale 
Grocers  of  New  England,  composed  of 
134  of  the  leading  grocery  concerns in 
the  East,  has  entered  into  an  alliance 
with the National Cigarette  and  Tobacco 
Company, and  will discontinue  all  busi­
ness  relations  with 
the  American  To­
bacco Company  because of what they  re­
gard as arbitrary methods.

At a recent meeting held in Boston  the 
Association adopted a resolution in which 
they agreed  to  refuse  to  purchase  any 
goods from  any  manufacturer  who  dis­
criminated  against  buyers  in  any way. 
As this  was one  of  the  practices  of  the 
American Tobacco Company,  the resolu­
tion directly  affects  that  concern.  The 
agreement  between  the  Cigarette  Com­
pany and  the  Grocers’  Association  was 
made public  Wednesday.  It is signed by 
Frank McCoy,  President of  the  National 
Cigarette  Company,  and Rufus  H.  Flan­
ders,  President  of  the  Executive  Asso­
ciation of Wholesale Grocers.

The  successful  merchant  follows  no 
criterion but that  of  integrity  and  hard 
work.

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

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DETECTING  "GREEN GOODS.”

Wonderful  Gift  of  Discernment  Pos­

sessed  by  Mr.  Dean.

W r itte n  f o r  T b s  Tr a d e s m a n .

He  had  opened  the  show-case  and 
passed  out  a  box  of  cigars. 
1  had se­
lected three, lighted one of them, and  we 
had entered  into  conversation  upon  an 
interesting topic.  We  were alone in the 
store,  that  bright  May  morning;  and 
probably ten  minutes  elapsed  before  it 
occurred to me,  that 1  bad  not  paid  for 
my  cigars. 
1  took  from  my  pocket  a 
small roll  of  bank  notes,  drew  forth  a 
two-dollar bill—then a quite common de­
nomination  in  circulation—and,  while 
still conversing,  pushed it over the glass 
case toward  him.  As  I  drew  back  my 
band,  1  noticed  that  by  a slight move­
ment of his eyes he saw  the note, gave it 
a quick sharp glance,  for an instant only, 
and  still  continued  the  conversation. 
Neither of  his  bands  moved  toward  it. 
We  were  both  very  much  interested in 
our  subject,  and  perhaps  ten  minutes 
more expired when,  without  a  break  in 
the  conversation,  my 
again 
mechanically  glanced  toward  the  bank 
note,  with  just  a  faint  smile  playing 
about  his  eyes,  and  reaching  forth  bis 
right  hand  he  gently  pushed  the  note 
back to me.  Almost  instinctively,  1  re­
turned it in the  same  manner,  with  the 
remark:  “You  have  not  taken  pay  for 
the cigars.”

friend 

“ Pardon  me,  Walter,”  he 

replied, 
“someone  has  given  you a counterfeit.”
“You are  surely  mistaken;  please  ex­
amine it closely,  for  you  have  not  even 
taken it in your hands,” 1 rejoined.  “ Be­
sides,  1  assure  you  that I received this 
entire roll of notes from  your  First  Na­
tional  Bank,  within 
the  past  hour. 
Please see if the others are counterfeit.”
1 placed the balance of the bills before 
him.  Without separating them,  he  rap­
idly folded back one end  of  each,  scru­
tinizing  them  as  he proceeded,  then  re­
turned them with'tbe remark,  “No coun­
terfeits there.”

“Do you think the cashier would know­
ingly  pay  me  a  counterfeit?”  1  then 
asked.

“O, no;  but he  was  deceived  by  that 
one note, as many other  men  would be,” 
he replied.

“Are you,  then, an  expert  in  judging 
of  the  genuineness  of  money?” 1  asked, 
with surprise.

“I am an  expert  only  with  regard  to 
engraved paper;  my judgment of  coin  is 
of little value,” was bis  reply.

Then, looking at me a moment, thought­
fully,  he  continued:  “And,  strange  as it 
may seem  to  you,  Walter,  I  cannot  be 
mistaken. 
There  is  something  very 
wonderful, even  uncanny,  in this  pecul­
iar ‘gift’ 1 possess. 
It is nothing  1  have 
acquired by education.  Please  call  and 
see  me,  the  first  evening  you  have  to 
spare,  and 1 will try to find time to inter­
est you briefly  with  my  experience  with 
engraved paper.”

1 was only too happy to  accept  the  in­
vitation of my friend,  whom  I  will  call 
Marvin  Dean,  because  that  is  not  his 
real  name. 
I  had  known  him  several 
years,  but,  until  this  incident  occurred,
1  was not aware <bat  he  made  any  pre­
tence of being an expert in monetary dis­
crimination,  and the  thought  of bis call­
ing it a ‘gift’—an innate genius,  in other 
words—puzzled  me,  and  1  admit  my 
anxiety to hear  what  he  might  have  to 
say upon the subject;  therefore,  the first 
rainy evening after the invitation to call,

that  but  one  of 

I  dropped  in  upon  Mr.  Dean, thinking 
that at such a time he would  have  abun­
dant leisure to converse.

“It is very seldom,  indeed,”  said  Mr. 
Dean,  as we seated ourselves  that  even­
ing,  “that I  have anything to  say  either 
privately or publicly,  upon this  subject, 
as 1 am aware that  any  person  with  an 
inborn  talent  or  ‘gift’  of  any  sort,  is 
generally believed to be  an  egotist, or  a 
‘crank,’  or  both,  and  is  often  openly 
treated as such.  However, as  you and 1 
have known each other so  long and  inti­
mately,  it will afford me  pleasure  to  re­
late to  you  several  singular,  yet  true, 
experiences,'running through  more than 
forty years of my  life;  wherein  there  is 
some fairly good  proofs of  my  claim  as 
an expert. 
1  have  never  been  able  to 
the  least  reasonable  explanation 
give 
why 1 possess  this  strange  intuition. 
1 
only  know 
the  five 
senses—sight—is necessary  to  this  abil­
ity to discern  counterfeits,  and,  tbat  as 
age advances, rapidity in this  work is in 
consequence denied me. 
1  was  not  pre­
cocious, as  a  boy.  My  education,  from 
the fifth to the tenth year of my life, was 
limited to the few  branches  taught  in  a 
log school-house  in  the  country, during 
a few brief terms each year.  Being then 
physically  weak, it  was  deemed  best  to 
remove me from school,  and  confine  my 
work or play to the farm for  a time.  At 
the age of thirteen,  a position  as ‘boy  of 
all work’  was secured  for  me  in  a  gen­
eral retail store,  in a  small  town,  where 
1 remained several years,  handling more 
or less  money  of  all  kinds  during  this 
period.  Here,  1  remember  my  first 
knowledge  of  counterfeit  bank  notes, 
and the ease with  which  1  was  able  to 
detect them,  without  knowing  why. 
1 
recollect,  more  distinctly, 
the  wonder 
and excitement created at  the  first  pub­
lic exhibition of my powers,  at  the  age 
of fourteen  or  fifteen  years,  and  how  1 
marveled at the  cause  thereof;  for  that 
which  seemed so clear to me as a  boy,  1 
thought should be  doubly  so  to  men  of 
years and experience.  And,  while I  was 
then plied with questions I could not an­
swer, and  for explanations which  1 could 
not give,  my eyes alone detected the true 
from the false, and 1  am  confident  that 
during all  the  years  of  my  boyhood,  i 
never  received  a  spurious  bank  note. 
And 1 further believe that  only  through 
my own  carelessness  and  haste  have  1 
ever been deceived in a counterfeit piece 
of engraved paper.”

■v«-nr:  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
being  that  it  would  be  accepted  from 
them  with  the  same  indifference. 
If  a 
question  was raised,  they  were quite apt 
to instantly  hand  it to  the  first  child  or 
mendicant near, and  pass  on.  At  that 
time, money was never so plenty  nor  so 
easily procured,  and  prices  of  all  mer­
chandise and  labor were equally inflated. 
Can  we  wonder,  therefore,  that  people 
were heedless of small  losses?  The  five 
and ten-cent notes of this fractional  cur­
rency  were  promiscuously  pressed  into 
vest pockets,  by  careless  and  intemper­
ate persons and,  in making change, often 
fell  from  the  hand  unnoticed. 
It  was 
quite a common occurrence  for  an  early 
morning sweeper to  find  several  dollars 
of this scrip on the floors of  hotel offices, 
drinking  saloons  and  billiard  rooms. 
Among  this  “find,”  much  had  been 
drenched  with  beer  and  tobacco  juice, 
and often ground to pulp  uuder the feet 
of a maudlin crowd,  until  it bore  only  a 
faint resemblance of its pristine  beauty. 
those  days,  paper  money  was  too 
In 
cheap  and 
time  too  valuable  for  the 
masses to either search long for a lost bit 
of scrip or attempt its repair m  order  to 
make it presentable.  What  to  do  with 
this  scrip,  at  length  became  a  serious 
question  among  merchants  and  others, 
whose  losses  from  the  counterfeit  aud 
mutilated currency  became a  large  item.
“At this time,” continued Mr. Dean, “1 
was  a man  in years and stature,  and was 
employed as book-keeper aud cashier in a 
large wholesale aud retail house.  There 
was an opportunity  tor  the  firm  to  tern 
porariiy  increase  its  own  trade and,  as 
silver in fractious of a dollar was  slowly 
making  its  appearance  again,  return  a 
portion of the scrip to the Treasury  to be 
destroyed.  Every  piece of  scrip  offered 
thereafter  passed  my  eye. and  at  least 
twice a month a package,  neatly  pressed 
into shape,and containing from fifty to one 
hundred dollars,  was sent to the  United 
States Treasury and a draft tor the amouut 
received  in  return.  From  six  to  eight 
months, this course  was  constantly  pur­
sued  and,  during  this  time, only  three 
notes of this fractional currency  were re­
turned to us.  These  were  pinned to the 
letters enclosing  the  drafts,  and  across 
their  face  was burned  with a stamp,  the 
word Counterfeit.  This is the only coun­
terfeit  engraved  paper  1  have  ever re­
ceived and, as i have somewhat  graphic­
ally described the usual condition of this 
scrip  when  presented  and  considering 
the  rapidity  of  my  decisions,  may  1 not 
be congratulated upon  the small  number 
overlooked, out  of  the  many  thousands 
submitted?  And now,  allow me to again 
return to the store where 1 was employed 
in  boyhood.  Here,  from  time to  time,  it 
was casually  observed,  by  my  employer 
and  his  two  assistants,  that  i  was  not 
only exceedingly correct in the useof fig 
ures,  but also iu  my  judgment  of  paper 
money. 
1  had,  without  doubt,  been in­
structed  to  be  constantly  on  my  guard 
against  taking spurious money, as 1  well 
remember my daily journeys to the book­
keeper,  to  whom  1  submitted an occas­
ional  coin  for  his  judgment. 
1 cannot 
recall an instance,  however,  of  submit­
ting  a  bank note. 
1  bad  been employed 
in  this  store  about  two  years,  when  a 
more than  ordiuarily  bright  Negro,  re­
siding  in  the  village,  was  arrested for 
passing  counterfeit  paper  money.  The 
number  of  bank  notes  found 
in  his 
possession  was large and, as both he  aud 
his  counsel  asserted  that  it  was  good 
money,  it  was  spread out upon a table, 
at the preliminary examination of the ac­
cused,  and  examined  by a committee ap­
pointed  for  the purpose.  I  was present 
and,  boylike, I  was  also  anxious  to  see 
and hear all  that  was  done  and said. 
1 
crowded  in between the men present un­
til  I  could  look  upon  the  table.  The 
members of the committee did  not  seem 
to agree in their judgment  aud,  while  a 
few bills were laid aside as spurious,  the 
larger  number  were decided to be genu­
ine.  While  closely and carefully watch­
ing  the  examination  of  this  money,  I

It will here be necessary  for the writer 
to digress a little,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
more youthful readers.  During  the  re­
bellion,  between  1860  and  1S65,  nearly 
all our small coin was  either  withdrawn 
or driven  from  general  circulation,  and 
the Government felt compelled  to issue a 
fractional  paper  currency,  to  take  its 
Four  denomina­
place 
twenty-five,  and  fifty 
tions—five, 
cent  scrip—were, 
therefore,  engraved 
aud issued,  and  came  rapidly  into  use, 
remaining 
two  or  three 
years  after  peace  was  declared.  This 
fractional currency was  small; say  from 
three to four inches in  length,  and  two, 
to two and a  half  inches  wide,  printed 
upon a fair but not a  first  class  quality 
of paper.  This  scrip  was  also  largely 
counterfeited—some  of  the  work  being 
extremely  clever.  Many  persons  were 
careless or indifferent regarding  the loss 
of  this  currency  and  it  was  often  re­
ceived  without a thought  as  to  whether 
it  was genuine  or  not,  the  expectation

in  circulation 

temporarily. 

ten, 

“One  of 

noticed what to me seemed a marked dif­
ference in the engraving  of  some  of  the 
notes. 
1  believed  that  a  few  genuine 
bills  were  thrown  aside  as counterfeit, 
and that now and then a  counterfeit  was 
placed with the genuine. 
I quietly men­
tioned this supposed fact to my employer, 
who, after a consultation  with  the  com­
mittee,  persuaded  them to test  my  judg­
ment.  Fifteen or twenty bank notes were 
therefore prepared in an  adjoining  room 
and  brought  forward  for -tny  examina­
tion.  They were loosely piled upon each 
other.  The  one-  on  the top,  1 instantly 
laid  aside  as  spurious.  Then,  rapidly 
removing  one  at  a  time,  until all were 
assorted,  1  bad  three  notes in one pile, 
which  1  pronounced counterfeit, and the 
balance in another,  which 1 averred were 
genuine. 
1  did  not  occupy  more  than 
three minutes in  assorting them,  and was 
then questioned closely for some time  as 
to how,  when,  and  where  I  obtained  a 
knowledge of  counterfeit  paper  money, 
it was also hinted to me that i had  made 
a serious blunder, very detrimental to the 
prisoner,  and  I  was  asked to again ex­
amine the notes more carefully,  and  see 
if 1 could  not change my decision.
the  committee  asked  if  I 
felt willing to see the  negro  imprisoned 
on such  flimsy  testimony,  that  of  a  lad 
who  could  giVe  no  explanation  of  his 
knowledge.  Harassed  by  the  question­
ing,  i began  to harbor a doubt of my own 
ability  and, gathering up the money hur­
riedly,  1  mixed  the  notes  in  a  promis­
cuous  pile  and  once  more  drew  them 
forth rapidly, one  by one,  with  the same 
result  as  before—three  spurious  notes, 
and the balance genuine.  The  astonish­
ment,  if  not  the  excitement,  of  every 
one present,  which  followed  my  work, 
was intense. 
It  was announced  that the 
bank  notes  1 had just  assorted,  had been 
purposely  airanged for  my  examination, 
aud the committee  knew  that  only  the 
three  1  had lain  aside  were  counterfeit; 
aud,  still  further,  that every  note  1  had 
handled in  this test was  furnished  by  a 
bank  in the village,  aud  were no  part  of 
the money  found  in  the  negro’s  posses­
sion! 
l'nere was now a uuiversal  cry to 
allow  the  buy  to  examine  the  money 
taken  from  the prisoner.  This 1 did and 
almost as rapidly  as  the  first  lot  given 
me.  The notes were of different  denom­
inations and purported to  be from differ- 
eht banks.  As near as lean now remem­
ber,  about one-tenth of them  I laid aside 
as  genuine,  the  balance  as  counterfeit. 
All this money was  afterward submitted 
to the  examination  of  bank  experts,  at 
the final trial  of  the  criminal,  and  my 
employer informed me that it was  an ex­
act confirmation of my decision.

“As  1  grew  older,  1  avoided  giving 
publicity, so far as  possible,  to  my  in­
tuitive  perceptions  of  engraved  paper, 
as  most persons are  extremely  sensitive 
when their judgment of money  is  called 
in question, or of being supposed to have 
a counterfeit note in  their possession. 
1 
can  positively assert that  many  times in 
my  life  1  have  seen  counterfeit  notes 
pass from one person to  another,  in pay­
ment  for  something,  and  no  sign  or 
change of expression  upon  my face gave 
evidence to the  fact that i was a witness. 
Ouce,  in  protecting  my  employer  from 
loss,  1  unintentionally  incurred  the  ill- 
wili of  a  banker,  although  1  think  he 
realized  the  position 
in  which  1  was 
placed  and  afterward  forgave  me. 
It 
was during the time  the  fractional  cur­
rency 1  have mentioned  was  in  use.  A 
bank  cashier  of  our 
acquaintance 
dropped  in, one afternoon,  for  his  usual 
cigar.  The proprietor of  the  store,  Mr. 
C.,  was behind  the counter,  while  1 was 
engaged  in  front,  and  it  so  happened 
that  we  were  each  alone  at  the  time. 
Mr*C.  waited  upon  the  gentleman. 
In 
paying for  the  cigar,  be  placed  a  fifty 
cent scrip on the counter,  and  in  such  a 
position 
that  the  strong  light  from  a 
side window  fell  upon  the  note,  which 
happened  to  lie  with  the  back  upper­
most.  That  denomination  of  the  scrip 
had a peculiar medallion  of  scroll  worx 
upon the  back,  which,  in  the  genuine, 
was finely  executed.  As  the  light  fell 
upon it,  one  glance  assured  me  that  it 
was counterfeit, although it was the first 
of  that  issue  I  bad  ever  seen. 
I  was 
standing back of the cashier,  who did not 
observe me as,  by a motion of my bead, 1

“ ‘Pardon  me, M r.-----said I,  pleas­

told Mr. C. it was spurious and, stepping 
forward,  l glanced at it closely.
antly,  ‘but 
feit.’
stant, and I saw he was angry.
is genuine,’  he replied.

the  fifty  cents  is  counter­
“The blood rushed to his face in an in­
“ ‘1 would like to wager >ou 850 that it 
“Mr. C. apologized for ray interference, 
as courteously  as  possible,  saying  that 
possibly 1 might be  deceived,  but,  as  a 
rule,  1  was an extraordinary judge of en­
graved  paper.  The  man,  however,  in­
sisted upon  a  wager  with  me,  and  we 
each agreed to deposit a $5 note with Mr. 
C.  and  send  the  scrip  to  Washington, 
abiding the decision  of  the  department. 
1 asked the cashier to place the stamp of 
his bank upon  its  back,  that  he  might 
identify it when  returned,  and  this was 
done. 
I  will only add  that,  in due time, 
the  scrip  was  returned  to  me  with  the 
destructive  word  “Counterfeit”  burned 
across its face'.  Even then, I  almost  re­
gretted its return,  as I feared  the loss of 
the gentleman’s friendship and custom— 
which,  fortunately,  did  not  occur—and 
1 will admit  that  1  was  shocked,  when 
Mr. C.  handed him the  letter  containing 
it,  to hear  him say, angrily,  ‘Well, there 
are as many  d—d  fools  in  Washington 
as anywhere else.’
“The wager, I then declared, was  only 
a joke on my part and  l  begged  him,  as 
a friend,  to so regard  it  and  accept  his 
$3 from  Mr.  C., which, 1  am  pleased  to 
say,  he eventually did.”
“ With such rare  and  valuable  knowl­
edge in  your  possession,”  I  exclaimed, 
“ why is it that your powers have not be­
come widely known,  and  that  you  have 
not  been  noticed  by  those  who  would 
gladly pay well for your services?”
“ 1 have never made any effort  in  that 
direction,”  he  replied. 
“My  friends 
have sometimes  mentioned  my  name  in 
connection  with  the  strange  capacity  1 
possess in connection  with  engraved pa­
per and,  occasionally,  1 have  been asked 
to decide,  where others  could not,  which 
It  will  be  remembered 
1  have  done. 
that, during the summer and  autumn  of 
1869, 
excitement  was 
created, closely following  the  issue  of  a 
new  $10  note  from  the  United  States 
Treasury,  by  a  supposed  counterfeit  of 
this being  discovered  in  circulation. 
1 
was,  at  that  time,  in  an  Eastern  state 
and one day a large and stately  legal en­
velope  from  Washington  was  placed 
upon  my  table. 
It  was  Official  Busi­
the 
ness,  and  bore 
frank  of  F. 
E.  Spinner, Treasurer,  U. S.  Enclosed, 
were  photographs  of 
ten-dollar 
two 
notes—one known to be genuine  and the 
other a  supposed  counterfeit,  of  which 
my opinion was  asked.  Upon  opening 
the envelope,  I saw  the  photographs  of 
two genuine notes  before  me  and  so  in 
brief informed the writer. 
It  was after­
ward  discovered  that  the  supposition 
arose from a  slight  difference  in  one  of 
the Government plates,  but that no  such 
counterfeit was really in existence.

considerable 

“Early in the ‘eighties,’  I  was  in  the 
then new Territory of  Dakota  and,  hav­
ing business with  the  Bank  of  Plankin- 
ton,  Aurora Co., the  President  informed 
me  that, 
through  my  step-brother,  he 
already felt introduced,  and  asked  if  I 
would  oblige  him  by  looking  over  a 
package of  bank  notes,  indicating  any 
counterfeits I should find.  The  package 
contained probably one hundred notes of 
different denominations and  from  differ­
ent  banks. 
I  said  to  him,  ‘You  will 
please raise one  end  of  each  note  with 
the  thumb  and  finger,  as  if  counting 
them,  and I will watch the operation and 
check you,  should  a  spurious  note  meet 
my eye.’
“The gentleman ran over  them  at  the 
rate of forty-five a minute,  and threw out 
seven or eight of them,  at my request.
“ ‘Now,’ said he,  when all  were  exam­
ined,  ‘will  you please  look  carefully  at 
those I have  thrown  out  once  more  be­
fore deciding?’
“ ‘It is useless,’  I  replied,  ‘for  me  to 
do so, as I  cannot  change  my  decision. 
They are counterfeit?’
“ ‘And are you positive  all  the  others 
are genuine?’ he asked.
“ ‘I  am,  and  would  receive  them  at 
their face value,’ I replied.
“ ‘Can you teach me to detect  notes in

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

3

“ ‘Impossible,’ I replied. 

this  manner?’  was  bis  next  question. 
1  will  pay  you 
liberally  for  the  in­
struction.
‘Neither can 
I explain my own perception  to  others.’ 
He then informed me that he  was  aware 
the notes I had  rejected  were  spurious. 
They had been  in  his  possession  a  long 
time and he  had  hastily  placed  them  in 
the package in  order  to  test  my  power 
and accuracy.
“At  another  time,  when  engaged  in 
business  in  Michigan,  a  gentleman  who 
kept an eating house,  with  whom  I  was 
intimately  acquainted,  stepped  into  my 
store one Saturday afternoon  to  make  a 
small  purchase  and,  while  conversing 
about business in  general,  he  remarked 
that one-half the profits of the past  week 
had  been lost to him  by  the  acceptance 
of a counterfeit $10 note  from  some  per­
son unknown.
“ ‘Allow me to  see  it,  please,’  said  I. 
‘I have  not  seen  one  for  a  long  time.’ 
As he smoothed out the note  before  me, 
I asked,  ‘Who says  that  is  counterfeit?’
•“ The C-----. Bank  says  it  is  and  re­
fused to take it on deposit,’ he replied.
“ ‘1 would be pleased to  give  you  ten 
dollars’  worth of  my goods  for  it,’ I re­
joined;  ‘and I  would  also  consider  my­
self  fortunate by the transaction.’
“His eyes brightened at  once,  and  he 
began  looking  over  the  shelves. 
‘See 
here,  Mr.  Graw,’  and  1  smilingly  drew 
him a chair;  ‘you don’t have to part with 
your  money;  I  will  just  give  you  two 
fives for that  note  and  my  banker  will 
receive it.  When I have  any  goods  you 
really  want,  I  know  you  will  give  me 
your trade.’  The note was paid  into the 
bank  with  others,  placed  to  my  credit, 
and I never heard anything more from it.
“ You have asked if, after being obliged 
to disagree  with all other experts regard­
ing an engraving,  grave  doubts have not 
arisen in my mind as  to  the  correctness 
of my judgment?  Yes,  1 can  recall  such 
instances;  but  my  experience  is,  not 
withstanding, that my first quick impres­
sions  have  been  correct.  With  me,  to 
hesitate  or  listen  to  the  arguments  of 
others,  is to  doubt. 
I  remember  an  in­
stance  where  a  heavy  wager  was  laid 
upon  the genuineness of  a  piece  of  the 
Government  scrip  1  have  mentioned, 
and I was chosen  to  decide,  being  given 
a week’s  time.  When the  note  was  laid 
before me,  1  unhesitatingly  said,  ‘It  is 
counterfeit,  still  I  will  keep  it  in  my 
hands during the  specified  time.’ 
I was 
too busily occupied to give  it  further at­
tention until evening,  when  I  gave it  a 
critical examination.  Then came hesita­
tion, perplexity and doubt. 
In  a  neigh­
boring town,  a few miles distant, resided 
a friend  of  mine—a  Mr.  Cole—whom  I 
knew had been  employed  as  a  Govern­
ment engraver upon this very  scrip.  To 
him  1  at  once  mailed  this note,  giving 
him my  first  impressions,  aud  also  my 
later  doubts  regarding  it,  begging  his 
opinion.  The following day,  it  was  re­
turned to me,  with the reply that my first 
impression was correct,  and  he  pointed 
out, in an enclosed diagram, a manner of 
folding the note  which  would  instantly 
prove  his  assertion. 
I  thereupon  sent 
this note to the United  States  Treasury, 
and it was  promptly  returned  with  the 
fatal stamp across the face.

“I  will  only  detain  you  with  the re­
cital  of  one  more  incident—one  which 
has given me more confidence in the mys­
terious gift I possess,  than  all  my  pre­
vious  experience. 
I  was  employed  as 
book-keeper in a large wholesale  and  re 
tail  store,  at  the  time,  and had been  a 
resident  there  for  several  years.  One 
heavy  branch  of  our  trade  was cigars. 
For the more expensive  brands,  the pro­
prietor usually  selected  the  name,  and 
had it copyrighted,  that he might control 
it.  The  reason  I  mention  this  depart­
ment  of  our  trade  will  be  seen  later. 
Among our daily retail  customers, I  had 
noticed a well,  and neatly dressed young 
man,  who came to us for his  cigars,  and 
who  purchased  one  particular  brand, 
which 1 will call the  ‘Anchor.’  He  was 
quiet  and  gentlemanly,  tolerably  well 
informed and usually  wore  very  neatly 
fitting  kid  gloves,  which,  at  first,  we 
could not account for.  He  would  often 
spend  a  half  hour in conversation with 
those in the house,  who had time to listen

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ing.  H e   o b t a i n s   it  to  a  s u f ­
ficient  e x t e n t   to  k e e p   e v e n  
w i t h   h is  c o m p e t i t o r s   in  t r a d e  
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its  advertising  columns  than  any other 
medium  in  the  Michigan  field.  This 
fact is substantiated  by the The  Trades­
man’s  constantly  increasing list of pay­
ing subscribers  and  the  resultant appre­
ciation  of its  value  as a “trade-winner,’’ 
shown  by  its steadily  enlarging sales  of 
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AROUND THE  STATE. 
MOVEMENTS O f  MERCHANTS.

Gaylord—G.  W.  Babel  has  opened  a 

drug store.

Fenton—Hoffman & Go.  succeed  F.  J. 

Hoffman in the hardware business.

Ida—Hanson & Albright, grocers,  have 

dissolved, Ghas.  Hanson  continuing.

Detroit—L.  W. Thomm & Go. have sold 

their hardware stock to Jeffers  Bros.

Lawton—J. 

£.  Hamilton  succeeds 
Gillies & Hamilton in the drug  business.
Allegan—Geo. £. Rose  succeeds  Ghas. 
S.  Ford in the dry goods and notion busi­
ness.

Monroe—Fred C. Wagner succeeds Du­
val & Wagner in the boot and  shoe  busi­
ness.

Detroit—Schadt & Mathewson  succeed 
Horace Turner in  the wholesale  feather 
business.

Grand Ledge—Hixon &  Ebley  succeed 
A.  W.  Hixon  in  the  drug  and grocery 
business.

Ironwood—Lee  &  Tennesen  succeed 
M.  (Mrs. Ghas. O.)  Forslund in the meat 
business.

Grand  Haven—D.  Bolt  & Go.  succeed 
J. D.  Ritzma in the grocery and dry goods 
business.

Eaton Rapids—Hale & McKinney  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  W.  D. 
Brainerd & Co.

Battle  Creek—D.  W.  Lovell has  pur­
chased  the seed  and  florist  business  of 
H.  W.  Landreth.

Charlevoix—The dry goods stock of A. 
T.  Washburn  has  been  closed  under 
chattel mortgage.

Linden—Stehle & Maloney  succeed  L. 
A.  Stehle  in the jewelry and  musical in­
strument business.

St. James—Neil Gallagher is succeeded 
by the Beaver Island  Fish Go.  in the fish 
and general store  business.

West  Bay  City—Fannie  (Mrs.  Isaac) 
Golden has  removed  her  clothing  stock 
from Grayling to this place.

Saginaw—Legg  &  Sanders,  flour  and 
feed dealers have dissolved,  R.  G.  San­
ders continuing the business.

Cheboygan — Fetta  Wertheimer  suc­
in  the 

ceeds  Wm.  Wertheimer  &  Co. 
clothing and  boot and shoe  business.

Durand—Chick  &  Schneider,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved.  The  business 
will be continued by M.  G. Schneider.

Kingsley—J.  T.  Calhoun  has  pur­
chased  the  new  brick  building  erected 
by Philip Miller and  moved  his  grocery 
stock into it.

Manton—The Patron's  store  has  been 
closed  for a few days,  to  enable  the firm 
to make collections sufficient to liquidate 
some accounts.

Benzonia—Phelps  &  Lincoln,  hard­
ware  and  agricultural  implement  deal­
ers,  have  dissolved,  H.  T.  Phelps  con­
tinuing the business.

Howard City—John  £.  Gates has  pur­
chased  M.  £.  Keith’s  stock  of  goods 
and moved them into the  store  with  his 
brother,  L.  R.  Gates.

Galesburg—H.  C.  Trabert,  boot  and 
shoe  dealer,  and  L.  L.  Bowen, grocer, 
have merged their stocks  into  one under 
the style of Trabert &  Bowen.

Traverse City—Harry  Harris  has  sold 
bis interest  in  the  Candy  Palace  to  his 
partner,  Bert Champney, and has taken a 
position  with McLellan  & Ash.

Albion—N.  Davis bid in  the  Torrey  & 
Burnett grocery  stock at assignee’s sale, 
afterwards  selling  same  to  Howard  & 
Burnett,  who will eontinne  the business.

Lake Ann—B.  Kollenberg,  of  Kollen- 
berg Bros., has decided-not to leave Ben­
zie county,  but will open a dry goods and 
clothing store at the new town of Honor.
Springport—Frank  E.  Oyer  has  pur­
chased  the  Ethan  Allen  grocery  and 
crockery stock and  consolidated  it  with 
the one recently  purchased of I.  P.  Rob­
erts.

Gaylord—Thos. B.  McArthur,  who  re­
cently  purchased  the  Babel  boot  and 
shoe stock  at chattel  mortgage  sale, has 
concluded  to  continue  the  business  at 
this  place.

Jackson—J. C. Downey, formerly  with 
the Foster Furniture Co., and later  trav­
eling  salesman  for  the  Bortree  Corset 
Co.,  has  opened  a  grocery  store at 402 
Lansing avenue.

Undine—Cram,  Wbitford &  Sons, who 
operate a sawmill and are engaged in the 
lumber  business  at  this  place,  have 
merged their business  into a corporation 
under the same style.

Traverse  City—J.  A.  Montague  has 
opened a tin shop in connection with  his 
hardware store. 
It  will  be  in charge of 
Wm. Sheer,  who has been withS. C. Des- 
pres for a number of years.

Jackson—Frank  Lewis  has  purchased 
the stock of groceries  and  fixtures  from 
Mrs.  M.  K.  Reed,  corner of Greenwood 
avenue  and  First street,  and  will  con­
tinue  the  busiuess  at the same location.
Cold water—Wm.  Gamby  and  H.  A. 
Wirley,  under the style of Gamby & Wir- 
ley, have leased the Yanderhof store and 
put in a new  stock  of  groceries.  J.  W. 
Bridenbaugh (Pliny Watson &  Co.)  sold 
the stock.

Adrian—Harry E. Cook has  purchased 
the general stock of the late  John  Chris­
topher,  at  Medina,  and Geo.  W.  Marvin 
will go there to sell  it  at  auction.  The 
price paid  was SI,500,  while  the  stock  is 
said to invoice nearly 85,000.

Jackson—S. H. Carroll and Addison R. 
Smith have purchased  the  stock  of  gro­
ceries formerly owned by J. J. Carroll  & 
Co., at 106 Cooper street,  and  will  con­
tinue the business at  the  same  location, 
with John Carroll as manager.

Greenleaf—The 

store  building  and 
general  stock  of  Turner  &  Co.  was de­
stroyed by fire  June  17.  On  account  of 
a high wind prevailing at the time it was 
feared for a while that the whole  village 
would  be  destroyed.  The  property 
burned was insured for SI,000.

Detroit—There  will  be  a  meeting  of 
the hardware  dealers  of  Michigan  here 
on July 9, at the Hotel Cadillac,  for  the 
purpose of organizing  a  hardware  deal­
ers’  association.  All 
railroads  have 
made a rate of one and one-third fare for 
round trip on  conditions  which  will  be 
made known  by ticket agents.

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

East  Tawas—Gale  &,  Ramage  are 
building a  planing  mill  to  replace  the 
one recently burned.

Evart—Davy & Co.  are shipping 2,000,- 
000 shingles  a  month  from  this  point. 
They  report  a  good  demand  but 
low 
prices.

Reed  City—L.  G.  Steadman  has  pur­
chased the interest  of bis  partner in  the 
flouring mill of Steadman A Co., and will 
continue the business alone.

Estey—The large  sawmill  and  factory 
plant of  the  H.  Sayers A Son Co.  began 
operations  last  week. 
It  manufactures 
hoops,  staves  and  headings, and is buy­
ing large quantities of  soft  maple,  black 
ash, white ash, elm and  basswood.

Alpena—H.  D. Cleveland,  of  Pennsyl­
vania,  has  decided  to  build a hoop fac­
tory here.  He has purchased  machinery 
and secured a site.  He  expects  to  have 
the plant in operation in  September.

Judd’s  Corners—The  stockholders  of 
the butter and cheese  factory  have  sold 
their plant to A.  T.  Holcomb  for  a  con­
sideration  of $300.  The  purchaser will 
operate the factory, making  both  cheese 
and butter.

Saginaw—Briggs & Cooper have sent a 
Lima engine to Lupton  to  haul  cars  on 
the narrow  gauge  road,  five  miles long, 
built into  a  tract  of  40,000,000  feet  of 
timber which the firm will lumber  at the 
rate of 6,000,000 feet annually.

Saginaw—The planing  mills  and  box 
factories are  all fairly busy and are run­
ning  full  time.  There  is  much  less 
building than  usual in Saginaw  this sea­
son,  which has forced some  local  manu­
facturers  of  building  material  to  look 
elsewhere for business.

Leroy—The Cutler & Savidge  Lumber 
Co.  has  shipped  all  its  lumber  from 
Leroy and the iron is being taken  up  on 
its tram  road. 
It  is  to  be  shipped  by 
rail to  Grand  Haven  and  thence  to  the 
company’s  mill  and 
lumbering  opera­
tions  in  Georgian  Bay.  This  removes 
the last vestige of one of  Michigan’s  big 
lumber  concerns  from 
the  Wolverine 
State.

Beaverton—The Eastman Lumber Co.’s 
mill will soon be ready to  begin  sawing. 
About 600,000 feet of logs  are at the mill 
and a camp  will be started as soon  as the 
mill begins sawing. 
It  is  the  intention 
of  the  Company  to  cut  about  3,000,000 
feet  yearly,  mostly  hemlock  and  hard­
wood.  The lumber will  be shipped  out 
by  rail.  The  hoop  mill,  in  which  the 
Eastman’s  are  interested, 
running 
steadily.

is 

Manistee—While  the  situation 

looks 
somewhat brighter and there is consider­
able inquiry for  lumber,  there  does  not 
seem  to  be  the  life  in  trade  that  one 
would  expect  under  the  circumstances. 
Shipments  are  light  aud  the  feeling 
among the mill  men appears to be that it 
is as  well to keep everything possible  off 
the market and thus enable it to  recover 
its  tone,  which has been somewhat low­
ered  by the over supply of piece stuff aud 
common  inch from  Lake  Superior  ports.

Re-Organization of the  Champion Caeh 

Register Co.

The Champion  Cash  Register  Co.  has 
increased  its capital  stock  from  $10,000 
to $75,000,  on  which  basis  the  stock  is 
held as follows:

W hite & F ria n t..............
.............. $47,500
C. O.  Follm er................
..............  io’ooo
Gains  W.  P erkins.............. ..............  5,000
McGeorge B undv................ ..............   5,tU0
F.  R.  B lount............
n 000
H.  M. G eiger........................ ..............   2^500
Under the  new  arrangement  the  offi­

cers will be as  follows:
President—Thomas Friant.
Vice President—G. W.  Perkins 
Secretary—C. C. Follm er.
Treasurer—T.  Stew art W hite 
Manager—H.  M. Geiger.
Mr.  Follmer will devote  his  entire  at­
tention to the business,  which is a  guar­
antee that it will be pushed for  all there 
is in it,  as Mr.  Follmer has  established a 
reputation in the business community  as 
a hustler of the first  class.  He will con­
tinue the shingle  business,  the  same  as 
before.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Mancelona—G.  W.  Ginther  has  pur­
chased  Mr. Streeter’s interest in the ash- 
ery business  and  will  remove  to  Trav­
erse City, where he will  re-engage in the 
same line of  business.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

W. P. Townsend, Traveling Representa­

tive  for  Christenson  Baking Co.
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was born 
Dec.  4,  1851,  at  Dowagiac,  where  his 
father managed a general store.  Here he 
passed bis boyhood and  early  youth, im­
proving such  educational  advantages  as 
the common school  afforded.  At the age 
of 18 he went to work on  a farm and two 
years afterward he  moved  to  Plainwell, 
where  his  father engaged in the grocery 
business,  with the boys to help him.

Three years saw the end of the grocery 
for the Townsends;  and  from  Plainwell 
the family went to Newton  county,  Mo., 
to engage again in farming,  where Willis 
remained  for  a  year.  Not  liking  the 
country,  he  “ laid  down  the  shovel  and 
the  hoe,”  and  took  a  position as news 
agent  between Grand Rapids and Cadillac 
—then known as Clam  Lake—on  the  G. 
R.  A  I.  railroad.  A year afterward, the 
death  of  his  father  summoned  him  to 
Missouri.  Having settled the  estate,  he 
removed  his  mother  and 
the  younger 
children  to Dowagiac.  He  then  entered 
the employ of  the  Globe  Casket  Co.,  of 
Kalamazoo,  traveling  for  two  years  in 
Michigan  and Northern  Indiana.  Sever­
ing his connection  with  the  Casket  Co., 
he  traveled  for the four years following 
for Geo.  Havulman, of  Kalamazoo,  with 
Western Michigan  as  bis  territory.  He 
then came to Grand  Rapids and  for  four 
years  was employed  by  the  former  firm 
of Eaton A Christenson.  S.  K.  Bolles A 
Co. engaged him for the next three years. 
Then, after a  year  with  Daniel  Lynch, 
be  took  the  road  for  the  Christenson 
Baking Co.,  with  whom be has since been 
connected,  this being  his  third year with 
that bouse.

On  Christmas  of  1886,  Mr.  Townsend 
was married to Mrs.  Anua Redd, of Reed 
City.  Their child,  a boy of 7,  died seven 
months  ago,  at 
their  home,  77  Court 
street.

Mr.  Townsend is  an  attendant  of  the 
Second  Baptist church, of which  he  is  a 
communicant.  He belongs to the Knights 
of Pythias,  is  a  worthy  Knight  of  the 
Grip and is in every  respect  an  upright 
citizen and an earnest  worker in  any  po­
sition he has ever  held. 
It  is  a  life  of 
contented industry  which  Mr. Townsend 
is,  and has been,  living. 
It is an  honest 
life.  There have been  in it  few ups and 
downs;  and  with an earnestness  of  pur­
pose  too  rarely  met  with in this age of 
relentless drive aud often unseemly push, 
be follows and intends to follow the even 
tenor of bis way.

Frank H. Clay  (W. J.  Quan & Co.) met 
with  a  «severe  accident  at  Sturgis  last 
Tuesday  which spoiled  the  looks  of  his 
nose  for  a  few  days.  While  about  to 
alight from a freight  train,  with  a  grip 
in each  hand, the train  suddenly backed 
up, the end of the  ear  striking  him  for­
cibly  in  the face,  knocking him senseless 
and throwing him off the  train.  Had he 
fallen  to the right,  instead of to  the  left 
side,  he would have been  run  over  by  a 
passing train.  As  it  was,  be  came  out 
with  only  a  broken  nose,  a  few  loose 
teeth  and  a  badly  cut  lip,  which were 
fixed up as good as new by Dr. Thornton, 
the  landlord  of  Hotel  Thornton,  at 
Sturgis.  Of course,  it is  hard  work  for 
Frank  to  make  the  boys  believe  the 
story,  as he looks as  though Corbett had 
interviewed him.

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

J. P.  Yisner,  Ag’t.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
cose  in  sympathy  with  the  lower  mar­
The Hardware  Market.
ket for corn.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

Frank  Englewood  &  Son,  grocers  at 
503  Ottawa  street,  have  removed  their 
stock to 551 Ottawa street.

John  Dykstra  succeeds  Dykstra  & 
Pater in the grocery business  at  the cor­
ner of Seventh street and Alpine avenue.
Frank E.  Hartwell,  formerly  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  603  Cherry 
to  Cannonshurg, 
street,  has  removed 
where  he  has  purchased 
the  general 
stock of J.  L. Thomas.

Jacob  Kaifer  succeeds  Elverton  C. 
Bemis  in 
the  grocery  business  at  235 
South  Division  street.  Mr.  Kaifer  for­
merly  conducted  a  fish  market  at  239 
South Division  street.

Wm. H. and Frank J.  Pettit  have pur­
chased  the confectionery  stock  of  Dora 
Ray,  at  291  Ottawa  street,  and  have 
added a line of groceries, the 1.  M. Clark 
Grocery Co.  furnisning  the  stock.  The 
firm name will be known as  Pettit  Bros.

The 1.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.  has  at­
tached  the grocery stock of O.  S.  Percy, 
the  Big  Rapids  grocer,  on  a  claim  of 
about $400.  Mr.  Percy  had  previously 
uttered a chattel mortgage  on  the  stock 
for  $414 
Jas. 
Baugbn, of Bundy,  for alleged  borrowed 
money. 
In  making  the attachment,  the 
Clark Company  acted on  the  assumption 
that the  mortgage  was  fraudulent,  and 
will do its  best  to  sustain  that  position 
in  the courts.

to  his  brother-in-law, 

The  statement  published  by  various 
daily  papers  to  the  effect  that  the fac­
tory of the Buss Machine  Works, at Ben­
ton  Harbor,  had  been  closed,  is untrue, 
the report probably  having  arisen  from 
the fact that E.  H.  Foote,  receiver of the 
property,  had  dispensed  with  the  ser­
vices  of Geo.  F.  Buss as custodian, plac­
ing in his stead Robert Gleason, formerly 
of this city,  who will continue  the  busi­
ness  until 
the  machinery  now  in  the 
course of construction is completed, when 
the  works  will  be  shut  down,  pending 
final settlement of the estate.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Fairly  active at steady and  un­
changed  prices.  Advices  covering  all 
sections that  draw  on  Eastern  markets 
for  supplies  continue  to  indicate  ex­
tremely  light  stocks  in  jobbers’  hands, 
and the comparative lightness of  the  de­
mand  at a  season  when trade should be 
brisk  is rather surprising.  This peculiar 
position  gives  ground for the  belief that 
an active demand is not far distant.  Buy­
ers have been holding off,  and  any  con­
centrated movement on their  part  to  ob­
tain supplies hastily  would  undoubtedly 
result in much  inconvenience  and  delay 
in  shipments.

islands.  Advices 

Molasses  and  Syrups—From  advices 
received  from  primary  markets,  it  is 
learned  that  receipts  will  be  light from 
now  on,  as  the  crop  is  about  over  at 
all 
from  Bar- 
badoes  show  a  large  shortage  as  com­
pared  with  last  year.  The  stocks  of 
foreign  molasses  in 
the  United  States 
are smailer  by  about  40  per  cent,  than 
last  year,  and  the  statistical  position 
range  of 
certainly 
values.  The  market 
is 
quiet  and  prices  are  more  in  buyers’ 
favor.  There  is  a  better  assortment 
on  offer  and  refiners  are  accumulating 
some  stock,  hence  the  easier  tendency. 
in  glu­
A  further  decline  is  reported 

favors  a  steady 

for  syrups 

the 

Tea—Does not improve a  particle,  the 

trading being dull and dragging.

Coffee—Both  Brazil and mild grades are 
dull,  with  prices on  the former  nominal.
Spices—The  activity  of  a  short  time 
ago,  which  came 
speculative 
sources,  has  disappeared,  and  the  job­
bing demand is also lighter.

from 

Provisions—For  several  days  at  the 
beginning  of  the  week  the  changes  in 
price for hog  products  were  slight  and 
rather  unimportant  with  occasional 
starts to  higher  figures.  Any  firmness 
was owing to the quite moderate receipts 
of hogs.  The trouble  to  sustain  prices 
was lack of  speculative  buying  interest 
and  on  almost  complete  suspension  of 
export demand, on  account  of  the  large 
stocks  held  generally  on  the  Continent 
and United Kingdom.  A turn  from this 
steady temper came with the close of the 
week,  when the packers,  disgusted  over 
the dull  business  and  large  stocks,  be­
gan selling. 
In  one  day’s  trading  pork 
declined 60 cents  per  barrel,  while  ribs 
were down 15 to 17%  points.  The  mar­
ket  is  still  weak  and  depressed,  due 
largely to the depression in grain.

Bananas—The  local  market  to-day  is 
entirely  bare  of  good  shipping  fruit. 
There are three or four  cars  en route for 
this market,  but  at  present  it  looks  as 
though there would not be enough of the 
fruit to supply  the  Fourth  of  July  de­
mand. 
It is certain that prices will  rule 
higher for the next ten days.

it  was  on 

Lemons—The  weather has not been as 
hot during the past week  as  people  sup­
posed it would,  and for that reason there 
has  been  no  material  advance  in 
the 
price  of  lemons. 
In  fact,  there  was a 
little decline at the New York auctions on 
Wednesday,  but 
the  weak 
lines,  which  would  have to be repacked 
before  sending  out.  Fancy  stock  has 
brought  good  prices,  and  will continue 
to  do  so  until  about July 1, in spite  of 
the weather.  The  arrivals  expected for 
the next three weeks are  only about half 
what they  were for the same  period  last 
season.  New  York  people  figure it out 
that there will be 40,000  boxes  sold  this 
week,  27,000  next,  and about 66,000  the 
third week.  With continued hot weather 
there will be no decline in  prices,  but, if 
it turns cool, they  will  probably  sag  off 
from 50c@$l per box.  Everybody at the 
present  time  is  buying  very  light,  and 
there will be no stocking up to any extent 
until  they  sell  for  about  two thirds  of 
what they bring at present.

Oranges—Local  dealers  report  an  ex­
cellent  demand  for  Fourth  of July and 
most of them  have  provided  themselves 
with  plenty  of  stock.  There are a few 
Seedlings  left  in  cold  storage,  but  the 
bulk of the  offerings  are  Mediterranean 
Sweets.  Eastern  markets  are  handling 
some  Messina  and  Rodi  fruit,  but very 
little of it gets so far west as  this  point. 
All fruit of this variety is shrinking more 
or  less,  and  to  offset  that  it  has been 
necessary to advance prices  on  the  best 
sizes.

A  novel  method  of  rewarding 

the 
Japanese troops for their services  in  the 
war  against  China  has  been  resolved 
upon  by  the Japanese  government. 
In­
stead  of  being  presented  with  medals, 
each soldier who has served  in  the  cam­
paign is to  be  given  a  'watch,  and  the 
Japanese  war office has just  entered into 
contracts with several  Swiss  firms  for  a 
large  supply  of  these  timepieces.  The 
presentation of the watches will be made 
by  the Mikado when he  reviews  his  vic­
torious troops at the close of the  war.

General  trade  has  been  fairly  good, 
but,  owing  to  the extreme dry weather, 
not as good as  it  would  have  been  had 
we had plenty of rain.  The ruin  of  the 
hay crop has lessened  the sale of scythes 
snaths and rakes,  but dealers are  buying 
more freely of cradles,  forks,  etc.  The 
general advance in many  lines  of  hard­
ware are being fully maintained and  it is, 
hard to find any manufacturer  but  what 
looks  with  confidence  on 
the  future. 
They say it is impossible for values to go 
as  low  as  they  have  been  for  several 
years. 
In  many  cases  the  advance  in 
raw material, as well as labor,  will  pre­
vent it.

Wire Nails—The  past  week  has  wit­
nessed quite a jump in the price.  There 
does not seem to be any great  degree  of 
regularity  in  jobbers’  prices.  The rea­
son,  we  presume,  is  that  they  hardly 
know  what  to  make of the situation, or 
to  determine  where  they  are  at.  We 
have  heard  of  $1.75  rates  at Cleveland 
and  $1.70  rates  at Detroit, while Grand 
Rapids jobbers are holding at $1.80@1.75 
and are not  anxious  for  large  orders  at 
those  figures.  Nearly  all  jobbers  have 
ceased quoting mill  prices  in  nails  and 
are supplying the  trade from stock.  We 
think that by August 1 the situation  will 
be  better  understood  and  then  jobbers 
can quote both from mill and stock.

Barbed Wire—The last week has had an 
advance of $2 a ton at mill  on  all  kinds 
of wire and manufacturers  are  refusing 
to contract ahead  even  at  the  advance. 
They claim the recent  advance  in  labor 
and  other  causes  fully  justify  even 
higher  prices.  We  quote  at  present, 
subject to change:

Painted barbed at m ill..........................$1  70
G alvanized barbed at m ill 
2 05
Painted barbed from  s to c k ................2 00
G alvanized barbed from  stock...........2 %
Sheet  Iron—In  sympathy  with  other 

...........  

lines has advanced $2 a ton.

Dealers  can  safely  look  for  higher 
prices on  everything  in  which  iron  en­
ters and if they are in shape  to  buy  can 
hardly make any mistake  in  purchasing 
freely.  While some  may  think  the  ad­
vance is too rapid it  will  be  noticed  by 
the  accompanying  table  that  the  low 
prices of 1893 have not yet  been reached 
by  the  present  advance.  Taking  the 
prices ruling in the  first  week  of  June, 
1893, and in the last  week  of  May,  this 
year,  we  obtain  the  following,  which 
fairly covers iron and steel  products and 
is  sufficiently  general  for  present  pur­
poses:
1893 
Bessemer  pig,  Pittsburgh 
....$13 50 
13 00 
Steel billets, 
 
 
B ar  iron, 
 
1  45 
29 00 
W ire rods, 
 
.  .........   1  50 
W ire nails, 

1895
$U  65
10 25
1 10
25 00
1 35
This shows  that,  although  a  substan­
tial advance has  already  been  made  in 
the prices of articles  mentioned,  a  good 
wide gap remains to be bridged until the 
prices  of  June,  1893,  are  equaled  or 
passed.

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The  Drug  Market.

Acids—Boracic  has  been  moving 
rather freely  into  consuming  channels, 
but without quotable  change  in  prices. 
Tartaric is also in good demand  for  con­
sumption.  Salicylic is more or  less  un­
settled or irregular.  Other  descriptions 
are without noteworthy feature.

Alcohol—The market for grain is again 

unsettled and  irregular.

Bicarb  Soda—Business  continues  of 
average volume  with  prices  maintained 
at the former range of values.
I  Blue Vitriol—Small parcels  are  meet­

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ing  with  an  active  inquiry  and  sellers 
adhere  firmly  to  4@4%c,  depending  on 
size of order.

Cocaine—A further decline  of  25c  per 
ounce is announced.  The cause of these 
continued  reductions  is  thought  to  be 
the determination of  the  combined  mak­
ers to crush out an outsider  in  Southern 
Germany,  who  has  just  started cocaine 
making. 
It  was  thought  that  the  last 
shot would  have  silenced  this  intruder; 
but the contrary was the case,  the  “out­
sider” replying to the challenge by a fur­
ther  reduction  in  his  quotation  to  14 
shillings for  100-ounce  lots,  which  still 
leaves  him  a  sixpence  below the estab­
lished price.  The end of  the  fight  will 
probably be the inclusion of the outsider 
in the syndicate,  followed  by  a  general 
advance in the quotations.

Cream  Tarter—Continues 

to  move 
rather  freely  and  manufacturers’ prices 
are firmly maintained.

Cuttlefish  Bone—Dealers  report a con­
tinued active jobbing demand  for  prime 
Trieste.

Gums—Camphor  continues  on  its up­
ward course aud prices were  further  ad­
vanced  3c  per  lb.  on  Wednesday  last, 
with the previous strong  conditions  pre­
vailing. 
It is  claimed  that  the  present 
cost  of  crude  would  justify  still higher 
prices.  The  London and Hamburg mar­
kets  have  been  flooded  with  rumors  to 
the effect that “the Japanese have limited 
and taxed the export of camphor, and its 
cost is therefore going up and  may reach 
a  high  figure,”  but  the reports are em­
phatically  denied  in  this market. 
It is 
believed  that  the  foreign  canard  was 
started solely for the purpose of  advanc­
ing prices.

Leaves—The better qualities  of  short 
buchu  continue  strong  under  steadily 
diminishing  supplies.  Medium  grades 
of  Tinnevelly  senna  are  still  tending 
upward  and  continued  activity  is  re­
ported.

Seeds—The  demand  for  canary 

is 
light,  but  prices  continue  firm  both  in 
this country and  in  London;  the  syndi­
cate at the latter market  is  said  to  con­
trol  large  holdings.  Russian  hemp  is 
firmer, owing to increasing  scarcity, and 
prices  have  been  advanced.  Celery  is 
moving upward.

Purely  Personal.

The sympathy of the trade  will go out 
to H.  Young,  the  Albion  grocer,  in  the 
loss of bis wife  by  paralysis  last  week. 
She left a  host  of  friends,  as  well as a 
husband and two  grown  sons,  to  mourn 
her loss.

John B.  Howarth  (Pingree  &  Smith), 
President  of  the  Merchants  and  Manu­
facturers’  Exchange  of  Detroit,  was  in 
town two or three days last week,  for the 
purpose of interesting local  jobbers in  a 
new  rating  system  recently  introduced 
by his organization.  Mr.  Howarth  was 
much pleased with his reception and was 
satisfied with the results of his visit.

M. D. Elgin  (Musselman  Grocer  Co.) 
has  lately  developed  exceptional  abil­
ity as a  vocalist  and  his  friends  insist 
that he should place  himself  under  the 
instruction of the German masters of the 
art. 
Instead of doing so,  he  is  said  to 
contemplate  uniting  his  fortunes,  with 
a fair daughter  of  Sweden  whose  voice 
is famous  for  its  sweetness,  thus  com­
bining the companion  and  instructor  in 
one  person.  As  such  an  arrangement 
would add to the fame  of  Grand  Rapids 
as  a  musical  center,  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
sincerely  trusts  that  the  contemplated 
will culminate in actuality.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

DETECTING  GREEN  GOODS. 

( c o n c l u d e d   f r o m   p a g e   t h r e e .) 

and,  at such times,  his  gloves  would  be 
temporarily  removed.  Then  the reason 
for their use  was  plain:  While  his  face 
and neck were tolerably fair and smooth, 
his  hands  were  dark,  cracked  and 
rough, as if by the most severe labor and 
hardships,  and seemed to partially verify 
the truth  of  his  statement  that  he  had 
been on shipboard for  several years as  a 
sailor,  before the mast,  and  had  visited 
the  principal  Chinese  cities.  As  time 
passed,  he  became  still  more  talkative 
and,  not infrequently,  half  a  dozen  per­
sons  would  draw their chairs about him 
to listen.  His fund  of  information  was 
never exhausted, and he  seemed  able  to 
converse upon almost any  subject.  One 
day,  when the conversation  turned  upon 
the  public  lands  in  the  West,  and  the 
low price asked  by  the  Government  for 
them,  he remarked that,  ‘money could  be 
saved in purchasing  them  by  procuring 
Government land warrants.’  As some of 
the  listeners were curious to learn  more 
regarding these warrants,  he casually re­
marked  that he had one which they could 
look at.  He drew it forth  and  spread  it 
out upon a table.  Every  one  seemed in­
terested at once  and  crowded  about  the 
document.  1 Dad seen hundreds of them, 
a few years  previous,  as they were piled 
up  for  sale  in  the  banks  of Nebraska. 
As they were a  really  beautiful  and  at­
tractive piece  of  engraved  paper,  1  laid 
down  my  pen  for  a  moment,  stepped 
from my little den  of  an  office  to  least 
my eyes upon  the paper which  was  call­
ing  forth  so  many  encomiums.  One 
glance at the engraving  told  me  that  it 
was  counterfeit  and  the  first one 1  had 
ever seen, or even beard  of.  Fortunate­
ly,  perhaps,  the  eyes of all around  that 
table were intent upon tbe  paper;  other­
wise,  the varying expressions of surprise 
and  astonishment  depicted  in  my  face, 
would have caused  an  embarrassing  de­
nouement. 
1  moved  noiselessly  away, 
without  having  been  noticed. 
Some 
hours  afterward,  being  alone  with  my 
employer,  I  asked,  ‘Did  you  have  any 
suspicion  that  the 
land-warrant  you 
were  looking  at  to-day  was  a counter­
feit?’  It was then his turn  to  be  aston­
ished. 
‘Did you see it?’ he  asked,  *1 did 
not notice you near the  table.’
** ‘I saw it,’  was  my  reply,  ‘and  I  am 
confident it is counterfeit,  yet the  owner 
may not know it.’
“ ‘Did you ever see a spurious  one  be­
fore?’ he asked.
“ ‘I never did,  and I never  before sup­
posed they  were counterfeited.’
“ ‘If I could ever doubt your judgment 
in the matter of engraved paper,’said he, 
‘it would  be  in  this instance. 
1 cannot 
believe, however,  that the young  man  is 
aware of the fact,  if such is the  case,  for 
only a short time ago 1 discovered  that  I 
am  well acquainted  with  his father,  who 
is a well-to-do farmer not far  from  here, 
and the family is highly respectable.’
the 
“ ‘Several  months  passed,  and 
visits  of  our customer—the sailor—grew 
less frequent and,  at last,  he disappeared 
altogether.  As the autumn advanced,  it 
was discovered one  morning  by  the por­
ter, that burglars had  entered  the  store 
from  an  alley,  daring  the  night,  and 
stolen a large quantity of cigars,  most  of 
them being our  famous ‘Anchor’  brand. 
1 believe a few valuable show case goods 
were  also  missing.  The  total value of 
the entire loss may have  been  in  the  vi­
cinity  of  $200.  Detectives were at once 
set  to  work  upon the case,  but without 
having  a  shadow  of a clue or suspicion, 
and it was  many  months  afterward  be­
fore  the  least  track  was  found  which 
might  be  followed with  any  promise  of 
success.  The owner of the store in which 
I was engaged was  afterward  traveling, 
on business, some hundred or more miles 
from home and,  curiously enough,  while 
passing  a  restaurant  one  day,  saw, 
through the open door,  some boxes of his 
‘Anchor’  brand  of  cigars  upon  a  shelf. 
These,  of course, attracted his  attention 
at once,  knowing that he  had  never sold 
any of them in that city or  vicinity,  and 
his first thought  was, that  some  one was 
imitating his registered  brand.  Stepping 
inside,  he  asked  to  look at a box,  upon 
which he recognized his  own  cost  mark. 
He at once informed the proprietors  that 
the cigars had been stolen from  him  and

long  conversation  ensued,  disclosing 
a 
the fact that soon after the burglary  was 
committed,  the owner  of  the. restaurant 
bad purchased a  thousand  cigars—all  of 
this  brand—from  a  man  representing 
himself as agent for a  Chicago  manufac­
turer,  and  his  description  of  the  man 
pointed forcibly to our sailor and Chinese 
traveler.  Learning  that  the  pretended 
agent,  while there,  bad remained in town 
over night,  my employer  at  once  set  out 
to find where he had lodged.  After visit­
ing almost every hotel in  the place, with­
out success,  he was at  last  rewarded  by 
finding  a  small  house  of entertainment 
in 
the  suburbs  where—soon  after  the 
cigars  were  stolen—our  sailor  friend’s 
name was found upon the hotel  register. 
His residence had  been  first  written  as 
the town  in which his father resided, but, 
afterward,  this had been partially erased, 
and Chicago placed  in  its  stead.  There 
is little more to add, except  that  a  com­
petent man was at once placed  upon  his 
track.  He  was  traced  Eastward,  and, 
after a long search,  was located in a hotel 
at Albany,  New York.,  where he  was  at 
once  arrested.  Before  allowing  him to 
visit his room it was  searched.  Part  of 
a  box  of  the  ‘Anchor’  brand  of cigars 
was lnuud in his possession,  and beneath 
a false bottom of bis trunk was carefully 
spread out more than 150 land  warrants, 
which  were  afterward  proven 
to  be 
counterfeit.  No sales of  any  land  war­
rants could  be traced to him,  but  he  was 
tr.ed  for  the  burglary;  convicted  and 
served  his seutence of  either  ten  or  fif­
teen  years  in  state’!*  prison.  After his 
conviction,  it  was  learned  that  be had 
never  been  a  sailor,  aud  never  visited 
China,  but bad served a lengthy  term  in 
ja>l in a  Western state,  where be  worked 
at biacksmithing during the greater  part 
of tbe time.  This accounted  for the con­
dition of bis hands  when he first returned 
home.”
Thanking  Mr.  Dean  for  his  wonder­
fully interesting and  entertaining  story,
I  returned  home,  wondering  whether  or 
no  he  were  possessed of a supernatural 
“gift,” or was  a  mere  human,  like  my­
self. 

F r a n k  A.  Howie.

When  a  woman  writes  a  note to her 
husband  she  very  seldom  wastes a full 
sheet of paper on him. 
If  she can’t find 
a  half  sheet  already  torn  off, she uses 
brown  wrapping paper,  tears tbe edge off 
a  newspaper,  or  uses  an  old envelope. I 
When the request is for money, she looks 
for  the  smallest  scrap  of  paper  in the 
house to write it on.

The true philanthropist is  the  man  or 
woman who provides work  for the wage- 
earners,  and pays  the  wages  and  main­
tains the conditions that enable a man to 
acquire  independence  and  contentment. 
He is tbe man who builds a solid founda­
tion on which a nation must progress.

It is stated that Dr. Bertillon  has  dis­
covered  a  new  method  for  identifying 
handwriting by enlarging  tbe  letters  by 
photography  and  measuring  the  altera­
tions due to beating of  the pulse.

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Will  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber— 

Green or Dry.

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

Grand  Bapids,  Mich.

THE MICHIGAN BARREL GO.
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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH»

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Bail  Boxes,  A.xle  Grease 

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FLOUR,  FEED,  Etc.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICH.

best in the w orld fo r sidew alk work.

Chas. A . Coye

MANUFACTURER OF

HORSE, WAGON and 
BINDER  COVERS. 

77 PEARL  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN.

SMITH-HILL  ELEVATORS

Electric,  S team   and  Hand  Pow er. 

PRICES  LOW.  HECHANISM  SIM PLE.
NOT  LIABLE  TO  GET  OUT  OF  REPAIR.

Call and  see  m e  o r  telephone  1120  and  I will 
accom pany enquirer  to dozens of local  users  of 
our elevators. 

J .  C.  flULBERRY,  A gent. 
K ortlander Building, G rand Rapids, Mich.

J.  BRECHT1NG,  A r c h it e c t,

70 W onderly Building, G rand  R a pid s 

Correspondence solicited from 
parties who intend to build.

Everything for the

Field and Garden
Clover,  Medium  or  Mammoth,  Al- 
syke, Allalfa  and  Crimson, Timo­
thy,  Hungarian  Millet,  Peas  and 
Spring  Rye.  Garden  Seeds 
in 
bulk and Garden Tools. 
Headquarters  for  Egg  Cases  and 

Fillers.

128  to  132  W.  Bridge  St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Now is the Time

TO ORDER PLANTS.  TH EY ARE 
CHEAP.  YOU CAN MAKE MON­
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Cabbage and Tom ato Plants, 200 in  I ox,  box  65c 
Sweet  Potatoes and Celery Plants, 200 in box  80c
Common Green Onions, per doz.........................lOe
Seed Onions, per  doz . .. 
15c
Radishes,  long or round,  very fine,  per doz 
. 10c
Asparagus, per doz__
Cucumbers,  per  doz..
Spinach, new,  per b u .
Pie  Plant, per bu 
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Bananas,  per  b u n ch ................................. -$1.50@2.00
Wax  Beans.  Peas, Green Beans.  Beets, Carrots 
and  straw berries at lowest  m arket prices.
W e are a  Mail O rder F ru it and Produce House. 
Am certain  I can save you money.  Send me your 
mail  orders  and  von  will  always  get  GOOD 
FRESH  GOODS.

Yours respectfully.

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CLOTHING for all ages.  Every size and kind, 
m ost  replete.  W rite  o u r  M ichigan  Agent, 
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Mich., to  call on  you—no  harm   done  if you 
d o n 't  buy—o r  m eet  him   at  Sw eet's  Hotel, 
G rand Rapids,  M ich., on T h u r s d a y  or Friday, 
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th e  

F e m a le   S ex .

W r itte n  f o r  T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

Reading “Incidents of Travel” in  a re­
cent issue of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   revived 
my  varied  experience  along  the  same 
line.

Some 

incidents  provoke 

laughter, 
others tears, as I  live them over;  but the 
one which  keeps  nagging  me  to  be  put 
on paper is one  until  now  buried in  my 
own  heart;  but  the  telling  can  do  no 
harm and,  possibly,  may  contain  a  les­
son for some, so I  seize  my  willing  pen 
to write it up under the foregoing title.

The word "gossip”  is, as a rule, under­
stood to imply woman,  but I  think  it  is 
high time the tables were turned.  Self­
ishness 
is  not  exclusively  a  womanly 
trait, and I am sure I  speak  for  my  sex 
when I say that we  no  longer  want  the 
monopoly of the word; nor do we deserve 
it, either.

Until  now  I  have  kept  mum  on  the 
subject,  but 1 long ago came  to  the  con­
clusion that men  were not  always  above 
gossip,  but I  never  had  proof  quite  so 
conclusive as in  the  following  incident:
I  was  once—never  mind  when  or 
where—forced to  take  a  short  journey, 
when I much preferred  the  seclusion  of 
my own home; for  a  troublesome  tooth 
had  rendered  my  face  woefully  one­
sided.  But go I  must,  so  I  resurrected 
an out-of-date  “ barege”  veil  and  wound 
it around my head,  and  presto!  no  fea­
ture was visible.

Soon after I  had  taken  my  seat  in  a 
car, a learned and  dignified  lawyer  and 
judge,  living in the  same  town,  entered 
and  took  a  seat  directly  back  of  me. 
My  disguise  was  so  complete  that  he 
took his seat  without  dreaming  that  he 
was near a neighbor.

At the first  stop  a  lumberman  got  on 
and took a seat  by  the  judge.  He  had 
formerly lived within a stone’s  throw of 
the  judge  and  the  veiled  woman,  but. 
for obvious  reasons,  while  one  greeted 
the newcomer cordially,  the  other  made 
no sign of recognition.

The men  talked of bard  times  at  first; 
then they drifted into  politics, one  con­
tending that  the Democrats  were  all  at 
fault, 
the  other  taking  the  opposite 
ground.  They  did  not,  or  could  not, 
agree,  but  evidently  agreed  to  disagree, 
and  then  began  to  gossip  and  got  on 
swimmingly.  They  drifted 
into  it  so 
gracefully  and  naturally  that  I  hardly 
knew  which started  it;  but  after  a  few 
apologetic “they say,”  they  publicly ex­
pressed  their  private  opinions  of  as 
many people living in  the  town  left  be­
hind us as any two women, on  a  wager, 
could possibly have done.

Perhaps  1  should  have  taken  a  seat 
elsewhere, but, positively,  1 couldn’t  af­
ford  to—it  was  such  an eye-opener  to 
hear men—and one of  them  so  learned a 
judge that 1  had  stood  quite  in  awe  of 
him—revel  in gossip as they  seemed  to.
Their  language  was  chaste,  for  they 
were Christian gentlemen;  but,  like  too 
many  women, 
indiscreet 
enough to gossip  and  appeared  to  take 
delight in it.  No harm came  of  it,  how­
ever,  for, although the listener  belonged 
to the much-maligned  sex,  which is  sup­
posed to be unable to  keep  a  secret,  she 
did not until years afterward  relate  that 
experience; for,  had  she  done  so  at  the 
time,  a  veritable  hornet’s  nest  would 
have been stirred  up,  for lawyers,  if  not 
lumbermen,  are supposed to  be  discreet.

they  were 

I had my revenge by hearing some of my 
own relation (by marriage) discussed.

THE  ACTCITTOAÏsr  TRADESMAN,
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As I  was  about  to  leave  the  train,  1 
put my  pride  in  my  pocket,  raised  my 
veil and,  turning the natural side  of  my 
face  to the  gossips,  blandly  said  “Good 
morning.” 
I did not glance at  the  lum­
berman,  for a sight of the  judge’s blush­
ing  face  warned  me  that  I  must  give 
vent to long suppressed  laughter.  As  1 
turned on my heel  1 heard:

“ Whew!  she  must  have  heard  all  we 

AUGURS AMD BITS. 

BARROWS.

BOUTS. 

axks. 

dis.

d is.

1 

said!’”

The next time  I  met  the  judge  I  no 
longer stood in  awe of him,  for I bad dis­
covered  that  he  was  woefully  human, 
but he  blushed  like  a  school  boy  and 
muttered some apology.

1 assured him that no harm  was  done, 
but advised him to choose  a  less  public 
place in  which to gossip next time.

Let me  add,  for  the  comfort  of  any 
judge or lumberman who may be racking 
his brain to know  just  when  he  figured 
as discribed,  that the men gossips I refer 
to, do not live in  Kent county, or even in 
this State  ;  but,  if  among  my  readers 
they have any  counterparts,  I  trust  the 
lesson may not be lost  upon  them.

Not long ago, on our  own  street  cars, 
I had a  similar  experience.  On  hailing 
the car late in the evening, on  my return 
from  church,  I  evidently  interrupted 
another choice bit of male  gossip,  which 
was continued, just back  of  me,  as  the 
car started. 
I did not  know  the  speak­
ers,  but with an evident relish they were 
rattling the bones of some  family  skele­
ton. 
I paid little  heed—although if one 
has  ears  one cannot help hearing a high 
pitched voice—until familiar names were 
mentioned,  and then  I learned that  “the 
broken-hearted  woman”  referred to was 
one I had always supposed a happy  wife.
1 do not know who those gossips were, 
but 1 left the car indignant with  gossips 
in general, and especially with those who 
have as little discretion as these to whom 
1 had been forced to listen.
Gossip,  at best, is  bad  enough,  but  it 
is high time that some one raised a voice 
against the too common error of  discuss­
ing other people’s affairs in  public.

H.  H.  T h o m a s.

T h e  D ry  G o o d s  M a rk e t.

All lines of cotton goods exhibit an up­

ward tendency.

Brown cottons are sold  well  ahead and 

have advauced  }$c in  price.

Bleached cottons in certain  grades  are 
scarce and have advanced  from  ?4@%c.
Kid  cambrics  are  now  held  firmly at 
3%c.  with a possibility of reachihg4c be­
fore July  10.

Shirting  prints  are  still  3%c,  but 
makers are talking of higher prices soon.

Indigos are held at4%c.
Fancy prints for fall are  being  shown 
by manufacturers,  who are trying  to  get 
5%c for new fall work, such as Simpsons, 
Mancbesters,  Gocheco  Acids,  Windsors 
and Hamiltons.  Any stock jobbers have 
on  hand  is,  of course,  sold at old prices 
until these new goods  are  opened  up  in 
August,  when prices will  become settled 
at  either  5%  or  5>ac  net. 
In  no  case 
will they be sold for  less  than  5)^c  for 
above named makes.

Satines for present delivery are scarce, 
although there are good  styles  shown  to 
retail at 10@12X@16c and are being sold 
freely.

Ghallies  and 

lawns  are  nearly  all 
closed out, jobbers finding it a hard mat­
ter to get good styles  and  low  prices  at 
this  season  of  the  year.  Prices  range 
from  3J^@7>£c.

White  goods  are  in  good  demand  at 

prices quoted for the past  month.

BUCKETS.

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“ 
Rim  F ire ...................................................  
5?
 
Central  F ire ..................................................dis. 
25
dis.
Socket F irm e r...................................................  75*io
Socket F ram ing.................................................. ?5* ie
Socket Corner...................   ................................7»*in
Socket S lic k s....................................................... 75*10
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm er................................. 
40
W hite Crayons, per  gross................12©12J4  dis. 10
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.........per pound 
28
26
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.....................
i0
Cold Rolled, 14x48.............................................  
B ottom s.................. 
ae
 
Morse’s  B it  Stocks...................................... 
so
Taper and straight S hank ................................  
so
Morse’s Taper S h an k ...................................... 
so
Small slses, ser pound  ...............................
06
Large slses, per  p o n n d ................................ 
Com. 4  piece, 6 In ........... ....................do*, net 
60
C orrugated.................................................. dis 
so
A d ju s ta b le .....................................  
dl«  40*10
EXPANSIVE BITS. 
30
Clark’s, sm all, 6i8;  large, 826........................ 
Ives’, 1, 818:  2,124;  3,«30............... 
25
 
piles—New List. 
D lsston’s .......................................................... 60*10-10
New A m erican  ..........................................  60*10-10
N icholson’s .................................................... 60*10-  0
H eller’s ...................................................... 
50
H eller’s H orse R asp s.......................................... 50*10
28
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and 24;  25  and 
L ist 
15 
17

GALVANIZED IRON.

DRIPPING PAMS.

 
DRILLS. 

ELBOWS.

dis.

dis.

dlB.

12 

18 

14 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D iscount, 70

OAUOBS. 
Stanley R ule and  Level Co.’s 
knobs—New List. 
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings  —  
Door,  porcelain, jap. trim m ings  ... 
Door, porcelain, plated trim m ing*.... 
Door,  porcelsln, trim m ings  .................... 
D raw er  and  S hutter, porcelain............... 

locks—door. 

Russell *  Irw in  Mfg. Co.’s new  list 
M allory, W heeler &  Co.’s ........ 
.. 
B ranford’s ...................................... 
 
N orw alk’s .................................. 
MATTOCKS.

 

26; 27 
16 
dis.
dis.

. . .  

dl*.

.......  
 

50
55
55
55
55
70

55
55
55
55

dis.
dis.

HAULS. 
hills. 

MOLASSES OATHS. 

Adze B ye..............................  
H unt Bye 
H unt’s ......... 
Sperry *  Co.  s.  Post,  handled  .......................  
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s .........................................  
P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  M alleables__  
“ 
•*  Landers,  F erry *  Cls rk’s.  ................. 
“  Enterprise 
............................................ 

... »15.00. dis. 60-10
.......................................615.00, dis. 80-10
..............................   618  50, dis.  20* 10.
50
40
40
40
30
dis.
Stebbln’s  P attern .........................................  
60*10
Stebbln’s G enuine............................................... 63*10
Enterprise, self-m easuring 
30
M A ILS
A dvance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
1  80@i  75
Steel nails, Dase................................... 
W ire nails, b ase...........................................1  6O91  55
60............................................................. Base 
Base
50...............................................................  
10
40...............................................................  
25
25
80.............................................. 
20........... 
35
45
16...............................................................  
45
12...............................................................  
50
10............................................................... 
8................................................................. 
60
7 * 6 .......................................................... 
75
4.......... 
90
1  20
8 
.............................................................  
1  60
2 ................................................................ 
F ine 3 ..........  
160
..  ...........................................  
Case  10 
65
75
8 .......... 
90
6 ....................................................  
Finish 10 
75
.............................................. 
t  .................................................  
90
6 
.............................................  
10
C linch 10 
70
.............................................  
8  ............................................... 
80
6  ............................................... 
90
B arren \   ............................................... 
175
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ......................................  ©50
Sclota  B ench....................................................   60*10
Sandnsky Tool  Co.’«, fan cy .............................   ©50
Bench, first q u ality .....  
...  ©50
fin
Stanley R nle and  Level Co.’s  w ood............  

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

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PAMS.

F ry,  A cm e................................................   dla.60—10
Common,  polished....................................  dis. 
70
dis.
Iron and  T in n e d ........................................... 
60
Copper R ivets and B u rs........................... 
so— to

RIVRTS. 

PA T E N T   PLA N ISH ED   IRON.

,1  r i i r t .

“ A’’ Wood’* patent iuanlineu,  .>ut. 2* 10 27  10 20 
“ B” Wood’s  pat. planished, hies. A u i 27...  9  20 

Broken pai k>  n r   per  •- 

H IN G ES.

j,- . 
uia.

a » » ,  r.
M aydole  *  Co.’*..............................  
21
Kip’s ............................................  
Y erkes *  Plum b’s .....................................   dis. 40*  ’
M ason’B Solid Cast ateei............................. 30c list 7
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast  Steel  H and __ 30c40*it,
G ate, C lark’s, 1, 2 , 3 .....................................dis.60*lo
S tate.................................................. per dos. net, 2  so
Screw Hook  and  Strap, to 12  In. 4 *   14  and 
3 *
r t ............
1
.............. net
.............. net
%............
8w
X .......... ............   net
7 *
* .............
net
1%
.........  dig.
HOLLOW WARN.

lo n g e r.............

WIRE GOODS. 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

£ p ts........................................................... 
.........60*1
K ettles..................................................................   80*1
S p to e ra ................................................................ 6C&!
Gray enam eled....................................................40*11
Stamped  Tin W are...  ......................new list 1  *10
Jap an n ed  Tin W are...........................................21 *10
G ranite Iron W a re .........................new 11s 
40
B lig h t..........................................................................go
Screw  E yes................................................................. go
Hook’s ...........................................................................go
G ate Hooks and  8y e s ........................ 
.go
LEVELS.
Stanley R nle and  Level  Co.’s ......................  d ls.'o
ROPES.
5V4
Sisal,  a  Inch and la r g e r .......
M anilla.........................................
9
SqUARNB.
Steel an d   Iro n .............................
80
Try and B evels...........................
M itre ....................................................................  
*1,
SHEET IRON.
„ 
Com.  Smooth.  Corn.
Nos. 10 to  14........................................... |3   50
.63  50
8S>  50
Nos. 15 to  1 7 ...........................................  3 50
.  3  50
2  6
Nos.  18 to 21.........................................  4  05
4  05
2  70
Nos. 22 to 2 4 .........................................  3  55
3  55
2  80
Nos. 25 to  2 6 ............
..3   65
2  90
No. 27.......................................................   3  75
..  3  75
3  00
over 30 Inches
w ide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19. ’86  ...........................................dis.
Silver Lake,  W hite  A ...................................list
Drab A ....................................... 
“
W hite  a ...................................   •
Drab B .................................... 
W hite C .......   ........................'  >•

All  sheets No. IS  and  ligbte: 

SAND PAPER.
SASH OORD.

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dis

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30

Discount, 10.

SASH WB1GBT8

saws. 

dis.

Solid Byes....................................................per un  s»;

traps. 

H a n d ...............................................

“ 
Silver Steel  Dia. X Cuts, per fo o t,... 
?
“ 
5r-
Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.  . 
Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per fo o t....  3i
*' 
“  Cham pion  and  Electric  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  fo o t..................................................  
gp
Steel, G am e.........................................................   60*1
O neida Community, N ew house’s ......... 
51
O neida Comm unity, Hawley * N orton’s. .7t-10  10
Mouse,  ch o k er..........................................15c per dos
M ouse, delu sio n .................................... 61.25 per dcs
Bright M arket..................................................   75*10
A nnealed M arket.................................................7f*io
Coppered M arket—   ................................. .... ’ 
75
621*
Tinned M arket................................................  
Coppered  Spring  S teel...........................  . 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised .......................  
235
p a in te d ...................................  2  00

WTBB. 

dl*

d lt

“ 

HORSE NAILS.

WKMMCHKS. 

*n  ‘»»Me...................................................................dl*. 40A1O
dis.  05
Putnam   ............................................... 
dis. 10*10
N orthw estern 
dis
Baxter’*  A djustable, n ickeled.......................  
3u
5n
Coe’s  G enuine 
.................. 
.........................  
Coe’s P atent A gricultural, w rought,..........   7' *10
Coe’s  Patent, m alleable..... 
75*n>
d ll
s.
Bird Cages 
Pumps, C istern....................  ........................76*l< *5
Screws, N ew L ist. . , ..........  
go
Casters, Bed  a  d  P l a t e ............................. 50*10*1'
Dampers, Amerioan  ..........................................4(410
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods.................70

MISCELLANEOUS 

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M E T A L S ,

PIG TIN.

ZINC.

240
Pig  L arge............................................................. 
Pig B ars................................................................  
J60
5^
680 pound  cask s............................................... 
6
Per  p onnd............................................................. 
*©V 4......................................................................... 12 jf
T he  prices  of  the  many  other  qualities  ot 
solder In the m arket indicated by private brands 
vary according to composition.

SOLDBB.

TIN—MBLTH GRADE.

10x141C, C harcoal.............. ................................6  6  00
14x20 IC, 
...............................................  6  00
10x14 IX, 
...............................................  7 50
...............................................  7 50
14x20 IX, 

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TIN—ALLA WAT GRADE.

Each additional X on this grade, 61.76.

10x141C, C h arc o al...............................................  5 25
...............................................  5 25
14x20 IC, 
10x14 IX, 
6 25
............................................. 
14x20 IX, 
...............................................  6 25

Bach additional X on this g rade 61.50.

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14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28  IC, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX 
20x28 IC, 
20x28 IX , 
| 14x56 IX. for No.  s Boilers,

“  D ean 
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6  00
10 00
4  75
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W E D N E S D A Y ,  J U N E  86.

L A W   O F  S E L F   D E F E N S E .

The recent term of the  Supreme Court 
of the United States was marked  by  im­
portant  decisions.  The  Debs  and 
in­
come tax cases  were far  reaching  and of 
vast 
importance,  and  the  law,  as  de­
clared  by  the Court, affected men and or­
ganizations.  But a  decision  of  interest 
to  every  individual,  among  the  latest 
rendered  previous  to  the  adjournment 
of  the  Court,  has  received  little  atten­
tion.  This was  a  decision  defining  the 
law of self defense.

One of three brothers  named  Jones,  in 
Arkansas,  had  a dispute with Babe Beard 
over the ownership of a cow.  The  three 
making common cause of  the  claim,  had 
been  warned  by  Beard  to  keep  off  his 
premises.  But in  his  absence they  went 
one  day  to  possess  themselves  of  the 
cow.  Mrs.  Beard  opposed  them,  and, 
while  they  disputed,  the  husband  re­
turned.  One of the  brothers  moved  to­
ward  Beard  and  seemed  about  to  draw 
his revolver.  Beard  struck  him  on  the 
head,  fatally 
injuring  him.  Beard’s 
plea on  trial  was self defense.  The trial 
judge instructed the  jury  regarding  the 
law of self defense;  that  Beard was com­
pelled  by  that  law  to  avoid  danger  by 
getting  out of his  assailant’s  way, if  he 
could,  and that the  only  place where  he 
could not retreat farther was  his  dwell­
ing house.  The jury found Beard guilty, 
and he was sentenced to  eight  years’ im­
prisonment for manslaughter.

The  Supreme  Court  differs  from  the 
trial  judge,  Parker,  in  holding  that  a 
man on his  own  premises  must  retreat 
from  au  assailant  until  his  dwelling 
shields him,  when he  can  stand  against 
all comers.  As defining  and  construing 
authentically the law of  self defense  we 
give the language of  the  Court,  written 
by Justice Harlan:
Beard was in the lawful pursuit of  his 
business—that  is,  doing  what  he had a 
right to do—when, after returning  home 
in the afternoon,  he  went from his dwell­
ing house to a part of  his  premises  near 
the orchard  fence,  just outside  of  which 
his  wife and  the Jones brothers were  en­
gaged in a dispute—the former endeavor­
ing to prevent the cow from  being  taken 
away, the latter trying to drive it off  the 
premises. 
In  our  opinion  the 
court below erred in holding that the  ac­
cused,  while on his premises,  outside  of 
his  dwelling  house,  was  under  a legal 
duty to get out of the  way,  if  he  could, 
of  his  assailant,  who,  according  to  one 
view of the evidence,  had  threatened  to

* * * 

kill the defendant,  and,  in  execution  of 
that purpose,  had armed  himself  with  a 
deadly  weapon,  with  that  weapon con­
cealed  upon his person  went  to  the  de­
fendant’s premises, despite  the  warning 
of the latter to keep away,  and  by  word 
and act indicated his  purpose  to  attack 
the accused.  The  defendant was where 
he had the right to be when the deceased- 
advanced upon him in a threatening man. 
ner and with a deadly weapon; and if the 
accused did not provoke the  assault  and 
had at the time reasonable grounds to be­
lieve and in good faith believed  that  the 
deceased intended to take his life or to do 
him  great  bodily  harm,  he  was  not 
obliged 
retreat,  nor  to  consider 
whether he could safely retreat,  but  was 
entitled to stand his ground and meet any 
attack  made  upon  him  with  a  deadly 
weapon in  such way aud  with such force, 
under  all  the  circumstances,  he  at the 
moment honestly believed,  and  had  rea­
sonable  grounds  to  believe,  was neces­
sary  to  save  his  own  life or to protect 
himself  from  great  bodily  injury.  As 
the proceedings  were  not  conducted  in 
accordance  with 
these  principles,  the 
judgment must be reversed and the cause 
remanded,  with directions to grant a new 
trial.

to 

L E A R N IN G   BY  O B SERV A TIO N .
Now that the war  between  China  and 
Japan  is over,  the  interest in the  details 
of the great naval fight between the fleets 
of the two  belligerent  off  the  mouth  of 
the Yalu River,  in  the  Bay  of  Corea,  is 
increasing  rather  than  diminishing,  be­
cause  the  facts  connected  with  that 
memorable  occurrence are becoming bet­
ter known  in  detail,  and,  consequently, 
they  are  in  better  shape  to  prove  in­
structive to the student of  naval  affairs. 
Special reports on the  subject,  prepared 
by American naval officers on  the  scene, 
are being considered this summer  at  the 
Naval War College, aud  the  conclusions 
which the naval officers  who  attend  the 
school  arrive  at  are  likely  to  result  in 
changes  in the equipment of the ships  of 
the fleet, as  well as in details of the  fleet 
drill.

It  appears  to  be  the common verdict 
that, although the  Chinese  fought  well, 
they  were  outmaneuvered.  The Japan­
ese,  on  the other hand,  maintained their 
fleet  formation 
throughout  the  action, 
and it was to this fact  that  their  success 
was due.  The  general  results of the ae- 
tion  are  reported  to  have fully demon­
strated the superiority of the  battle-ship 
over the cruiser, for the reason  that  the 
two  large  Chinese  battle-ships,  though 
attacked by four of the  largest  Japanese 
cruisers,  were not  disabled  in  any  way, 
nor was their armor belt  pierced  at  any 
time.

One  fact  conclusively  demonstrated 
was that the  presence  of  wood  in  war­
ships is exceedingly  dangerous.  All the 
Chinese ships suffered severely from fire, 
and,  in the case  of  those  vessels  which 
were  destroyed,  fire 
first  completely 
burned  them  out.  Another  important 
development of the fight was that all sig­
nal halyards were  promptly  shot  away; 
consequently, early in  the action, the ad­
mirals of the respective fleets  were  pre­
vented from signaling, a fact  which  was 
disastrous to the Chinese.  The  armored 
conning towers prove  of  little  value  in 
the fight,  as all  the  commanding  officers 
found it expedient  to  conduct  the  fight 
from  the  decks.

One  of  the  most  important  develop­
ments of the  action  was  the  exemption 
from injury of the  engines  and  machin­
ery,  due  to  the  effectiveness  of the ar­
mored protective decks.  This  immunity 
was  experienced  by  practically  all  the 
large vessels of both fleets.

O LD -FA SH IO N ED   A M ERICAN ISM .
A  leading newspaper,  in  referring  to 
the new Secretary of State and  what may 
be  expected  of  him,  says  that  many of 
the  newspapers  declare that he is about 
to make a startling display of  “old-fash­
ioned Americanism.” 
It is not true,  be­
cause there isn’t any  such  thing.  What 
is meant by Americanism may  grow  old 
with time,  but it can  never  be  old-fash­
ioned. 
It is above and beyond  the  term 
and everything belonging to it.  The cap 
it wears is liberty’s  own,  unchanged  and 
unchanging. 
Its shield is as unchanging 
as the years.  The  stars  in  its  flag still 
shine  in  the  field  of blue.  The stripes 
are there—the old thirteen—old,  but  not 
old-fashioned.

The  same  is  true  of  the  principles 
upon  which  Americanism  rests.  They 
are incapable of change  and  so  will  be 
always  found  in  fashion.  There was a 
time when the term  in  certain  quarters 
did seem out of date.  Stars fell from the 
field  of  blue  and  the  stripes—all  but 
three—were  lost.  They  were  found, 
though, every one of them,  and the  stars 
came  back  and  there  they  are,  the  old 
thirteen and the old star-spangled blue— 
old, 
if  you  please,  but  old-fashioned, 
never!

The same fact underlies  every  princi­
ple which  Americanism  holds  dear. 
It 
is as deathless as immortality  itself,  and 
when,  years  ago,  it  was  stated  with a 
distinctness which admits of  no  mistake 
that America,  North  or  South,  is  not  a 
field  for  European  encroachment  or en­
tanglement, a question,  then  raised,  was 
settled forever and the  Monroe  doctrine 
became one of  the  immortals.  England 
smiles sometimes  when  the  principle  is 
pressed,  France  remembers  Maximilian 
and is silent, Spain  protests  and  Portu­
gal sighs for the lost crown of Brazil.

So,  when  such  principles  are  called 
old-fashioned, it is the language  of  igno­
rance  or  of  thoughtlessness,  and  they 
who, relying on either, presume  to  treat 
the principle as old-fashioned and out  of 
date,  will find, as others have found, that 
there are things above  change  and  that 
the Monroe doctrine is one of them.

United States Consul Tingle, stationed 
at Brunswick, Germany,  writes  the State 
Department that  he has had so  many  in­
quiries from the  United States  in  conse­
quence of bis report on  the  possibilities 
of importing American  horse  meat  into 
Germany,  that  he  submits  some  addi­
tional  suggestions.  He  advises  ship­
ping horses on the  hoof  and  consigning 
them to some  large  port,  such  as  Ham­
burg.  The  duty  on  live  horses  is  but 
$4.75  each,  while  if  meat  be  shipped, 
some objection,  similar to that now made 
against American beef,  might  be brought 
forward.  Horse meat sells  in  Germany 
at 7 cents a pound,  fresh, and 12  cents  a 
pound 
The  German  horse 
batcher pays on  an  average  $35  apiece 
for  horses.  American 
fresh  horses 
should bring better prices.

smoked. 

At the opening of the  ship  canal  con­
necting  the  Baltic  and  North  Seas  the 
German Emperor christened it the  “Kai­
ser  Wilhelm,”  after  his  grandfather, 
who inaugurated the project.  The open­
ing of this canal is an event of the great­
est consequence to  European  commerce, 
and,  especially, 
to  that  of  Germany. 
The  shipping  passing  through  it  will 
amount  to  many  millions  of  tons  an­
to  Germany,
nually,  all  paying  toll 

which  has  exclusive  control  over  it  in 
every regard,  commercial  and  military. 
It is said  that, on account of  the facility 
with  which 
the  German  fleet  can  be 
transferred by its means in time  of  war, 
it  will  practically  double  its  efficiency 
and the  security  of  the  German  coast. 
The canal will be of vast benefit  to  Rus­
sian commerce.  About one-third  of  the 
traffic will be  to  or  from  British  ports. 
The celebration of  the  opening  was  at­
tended  by the  greatest  naval  review  of 
history,  although  the number  of  vessels 
taking part—one hundred  and  sixteen— 
will  not  seem  very  large  nntil it  is  re­
membered that any one of them is power­
ful enough to  destroy  the  navies  of  the 
world up to twenty-five years  ago. 
It is 
interesting  to  consider  that  not  one  of 
the number was ever  engaged  in  serious 
battle.  The  possibility  of  such  use  in 
the future seems  very  remote.  Four  of 
the  most  efficient,  although  technically 
not the  most  powerful,  were  American 
ships,  built in  American ship-yards.

The State of South Dakota has compro. 
mised the crime  of  its  defaulting  treas­
urer,  Taylor,  accepting as much of a res­
titution as he is able to make  aDd  agree­
ing  to  sentence  him  to  two  years  in 
prison,  from  which  sentence he is to be 
pardoned  by  the  Governor  in season to 
save his citizenship.  This  plan  of com­
promise seems to have been  reckoned up­
on before Taylor disappeared and  he only 
kept  in  biding  until  the  arrangement 
could be brought  about. 
It  was  doubt­
lessly devised in  the light  of  his  knowl­
edge of the characteristics  of  South  Da­
kota officials.  The dilatory,  half-hearted 
way in  which the  search  was  made  for 
him  by  the  detectives  be  refers  to  as 
amusing.  He  spent  the  time  until  he 
had grown a full beard in  cruising about 
the  West  Indies  and  Central  America. 
He then came boldly to one of the North­
ern cities,  where he has  been  in  perfect 
security.

Spain  is  finally  beginning  to  realize 
the  fact  that  there 
is  disaffection  in 
Cuba.  After having  sent  nearly  30,000 
men,  officered  by  their  most  prominent 
general,  to that  Island  and  found  them 
wholly inadequate, she now  proposes  to 
send 25,000 more. 
If any of the Spanish 
reports can  be credited,  they have finally 
succeeded in  killing one prominent  rebel 
leader,  Marti,  but  it  is  stated  that  his 
death was only accomplished by the pay­
ment  of  a  large  sum  to  bis  assassin. 
American interest  in  the  matter  in  the 
way of filibustering expeditions seems to 
continue,  regardless  of  the  neutrality 
proclamation. 
If  matters  keep  on  in 
this way Spain will eventually be obliged 
to acknowledge that there  is rebellion in 
the Island.

The Chief  Entomologist  of  the  Agri­
cultural  Department  issues  a  warning 
that  this  is  the  “locust  year.”  The 
West Central States are to be invaded  by 
the hosts  of the  seventeen-year  locusts, 
which made their last  appearance  there 
in 1878; and Georgia,  with the  surround­
ing territory,  will have the thirteen-year, 
or Southern  species,  which  appeared  in 
1882.  The  entomologist  says  that  a 
serious time may be expected, and recom­
mends the example of a Western  farmer, 
who,  when he first observed signs of  the 
locusts coming out of the  ground  in  his 
orchards, called in  the  aid  of  his  hogs 
and chickens,  which made away with the 
locusts before  they  had  opportunity  to 
climb the  trees.

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

9

CH A N G E  IN   W O M E N ’S  A TTIRE.
The civilized world is  considerably ex­
ercised  nowadays  over  the  problem  of 
women’s attire, owing to the rapid growth 
of  the  sentiment  that  skirts  should  be 
abolished  and  pantaloons  or  bloomers 
substituted therefor.

to  men. 

Let it be understood,  by  way of  defini­
tion, that  the  term  “pantaloons”  is  re­
stricted  to  the  garment  which  in  this 
country  is  appropriated 
It 
means 
the  straight  up-and-down  twin 
cylinders of cloth  which  are used  to  in­
close the masculine legs.  The term “pant­
aloons”  does  not  embrace  trousers,  or 
bloomers, or tights, because  they are  all 
more  or  less  in  use  by  the  women  of 
Europe  and  America.  This  discussion 
is,  therefore, confined to  “pants”  alone.
No consideration of this  matter should 
be eommenced  without  reference  to  the 
fact that a great majority of  the  women 
of our planet do wear, and have from the 
earliest  times  continued  to  dress  their 
nether limbs iu trousers.  These  are  the 
women of China,  of  India,  of  Japan,  of 
the Turkish Empire, of  Persia, of all the 
Mahometan countries  of  Africa  and  the 
Asiatic  Islands.  There  are,  perhaps, 
400,000,000,  and  may  be  500,000,000, of 
women  to day  wearing  trousers—a  sort 
of  loose,  baggy  breeches  reaching,  in 
most cases,  to the ankle.

Such a dress  is  considered  thoroughly 
modest; it amply protects the person and 
is adapted to  all  the  purposes  of  an  in­
doors or out-of doors costume. 
It  is  the 
stereotyped style for all Oriental  women 
from the very earliest historic times, and 
in  all  probability  would  have  been 
adopted by the women of the Western na­
tions  but  for  its  extreme  ugliness. 
It 
wholly conceals and disguises the beauti­
ful proportions of  the  female  form,  and 
that is good reason for discarding it. 
In 
the  Oriental  nations  the  women  dress 
only  for  their  husbands. 
In  the  West­
ern nations they dress for  the  delight  of 
all observers. 
In  Christian  countries  a 
man  who has a beautiful wife delights to 
have her admired  by  the  outside  world. 
In Mahometan and  the  pagan  countries 
the beauty of the women is especially re­
served  to  be  enjoyed  by those to whom 
they belong.

Thus it comes about that in  the  West­
ern nations the true rule that should gov­
ern the style of women’s dress  is  that  it 
shall make  the  wearer  as  attractive  as 
possible. 
In  the  Eastern  countries  the 
women are not allowed to attract.  Their 
beauty is for the home  alone.

Having arrived at the foundation prin­
ciple  which  governs  women’s  dress,  it 
will  be  in  order  to  decide  upon 
the 
“pants” proposition.  Such  a garment is 
even uglier  than  the  baggy  trousers  of 
the  Orient.  Pantaloons  would  utterly 
destroy all the beauty of a tapering limb. 
Its  artistic  curves  and  elegant  propor­
tions would be wholly lost in  a  cylindri­
cal  envelope  which  is  of  the same size 
from thigh to ankle. 
Its  unquestionable 
ugliness condemns such a  garment,  and, 
therefore, it will never be  used,  save  by 
cranks,  like  Dr.  Mary  Walker,  and  a 
woman crank is a most unusual fact.

new woman, or to pronounce a judgment 
on  her;  but  simply  to  recognize  her. 
Facts cannot be ignored.  They  are here 
to speak for themselves,  whether  people 
like them or not.

The new woman is moving swiftly into 
prominence,  and she has already adopted 
a  bifurcated  style  of  apparel, 
the 
bloomer.  Above all  things,  the  bicycle 
is the great impulse to  the  divided  gar­
ment.  Such  a  dress  is  necessary when 
one must ride  astride.  Having  adopted 
the  bicycle,  it  necessarily  follows  that 
women  who wish  to ride  in  comfort  are 
driven to bloomers;  but bloomers are not 
pretty.  They  are  but  little  improved 
upon the  Turkish  trousers.  The  latter 
reach to the ankle and the bloomer to the 
middle  of  the  calf.  As  an  article  of 
beauty  it  is  a  failure,  and  beauty  in 
dress is indispensable.

There is,  then,  but one more step to be 
taken,  and  the  movement  is ali in that 
direction. 
It is to the  page’s  dress—the 
dress which we read of  in  mediaeval  ro­
mance  and  see  on  the  stage  of  grand 
opera. 
It is composed  of  a  close-fitting 
bodice,  short  trunks  or  breeches,  and 
tights.  Here 
the  figure  is  fully  dis­
played,  and the richest  and most elegant 
material may be used for the  dress.

It  would  be  no new thing,  but only a 
return to an ancient  style. 
In  the  mid­
dle ages, in  Europe,  before the  introduc­
tion of side-saddles,  the  fair  sex  always 
rode  on  horseback  astride,  and 
they 
adopted the page’s dress for the purpose. 
In the middle  of  the  sixteenth  century 
the celebrated Queen Catherine de  Medi­
éis,  of  France,  was  accustomed to ride 
through  the  streets  of Paris with a bril­
liant bevy of ladies dressed as pages  and 
mounted  on  horseback  “en  cavalier.” 
Such a dress for women was so much the 
rule that nobody questioned it.

Somebody  will  ask,  “Is  it  modest  to 
dress in tights?”  This may  well  be  an­
swered  with  another  question:  When 
did  modesty  control  styles  of  dress? 
Fashion is a matter  of  leadership.  Any 
woman who is beautiful  and  occupies  a 
prominent social position can set a  fash­
ion  in  dress. 
If  the  new  style  makes 
her handsome  and  shows  off  her  beauty 
to advantage,  it will be quickly imitated. 
The great body of the women never think 
of  dress  from  the low and brutal stand­
point of men.  They display their lovely 
arms  and  bosoms  in evening dress with 
never a dream that there is anything  im­
modest  or  even  suggestive  of  improper 
exposure. 
It is left for men  to  discover 
evil where it does not exist.

The  evolution  of  women  is  a  great 
movement wrought by social forces which 
cannot be overborne or  checked  in  their 
course.  The  softer  sex is taking a posi­
tion in social affairs  never  before  occu­
pied by  it.  This  movement  necessarily 
creates  new  conditions  in  social life to 
which man must  conform  himself.  The 
mere  items  of  dress  and  other  circum­
stances  of  adjustment  to  these  condi­
tions will be governed wholly  by conven­
ience  and  appropriateness.  These  will 
be the arbiters in such matters.

It must not be  inferred,  however, that 
women will not adopt bifurcations.  The 
sex,  by  virtue  of  its  rapidly hastening 
emancipation from all the  restraints and 
traditions of the  past,  is  undergoing  an 
evolution which will make woman a new 
creature in a new world.  Already  there 
is talk of the “new woman.”  The object 
of these remarks  is  not  to  criticise  the

The Chicago Chronicle thinks  that  the 
army of Americans who  do not find their 
own country good enough for  them,  and 
annually  troop  to  Europe  to  squander 
their American dollars,  are the gold car­
riers who  threaten  more  danger  to  the 
treasury  reserve  than  is  likely to come 
I from any other source.

T H E   B A C H   O F F IC E .

W r itte n  f o r   T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

“When  1  spend  a  dollar I want some­
thing to show for it, and if  the  world  in 
general  would  pursue  the  same  policy, 
there would be a world a great  deal  bet­
ter off than it is now.  Take this conven­
tion business: 
It’s  simply  run  into  the 
ground.  After  it’s  all  over  with,  what 
has one of the attendants  to  show  for  it 
but a  headache  in  the  morning?  That 
isn’t what money  was made  for.”

We were walking by the soldiers’ mon­
ument,  at  the  head  of  Monroe  street, 
when this opinion  was  expressed,  and  1 
thought I’d better say something.  “That 
monument  business 
illustrates  pretty 
well what you’ve been  saying.  There it 
stands—a  piece  of  work costing,  1 don’t 
know how much money—and what of  it? 
How much  better it would  have  been  to 
have  used  the  money  for  the  poor,  in­
stead of putting it there to look at and to 
talk  about  each  Memorial  Day  and 
Fourth  of  July.  Think  of  the  money 
wasted  and  worse  than  wasted  in  just 
making a noise.  Think  of the sky-rock­
ets and the costly  fireworks  and,  if  you 
please, 
the  firecrackers,  burnt  up,  the 
country over—the suffering and death by 
accidents  occasioned  by 
this  wanton 
waste of money  which  might,  as  Judas 
said,  have been given to  the poor.  That 
Judas had a head for  business!”

“There you go, off on a tangent, as  us­
ual. 
I  don’t  remember  that  they  had 
conventions in the middle ages.  Seems to 
me  that  every  blessed  man  of  them 
wasn’t satisfied until  he  got  behind  his 
castle wall,  with the drawbridge up; and 
it seems to me that’s the way things went, 
until that Peter  What’s-his-name  got  up 
that convention  where all hands  went  to 
Jerusalem.  Dead?  Why,  until that first 
crusade,  one  half  of  the  world  didn’t 
know that the other half  was  alive,  and 
hoped  it  wasn’t.  After  the  old  hermit 
waked them up and they  rubbed  against 
each  other  in  their  fight  for  the  Holy 
Sepulchre,  life began  to be worth the liv­
ing  once  more. 
If  it  hadn’t  been  for 
that  convention,  what  would  have  be­
come  of  all  the  splendid  achievements 
which  have  brightened  the world since 
then  and  made  it  better?  How  about 
the start and progress of learning  which 
that same eventjproduced; and, if it hadn’t 
been for it,  who knows but what you and 
the trading world would  find  your  busi­
ness confined to Henry V lll’s pet line  of 
torturing the Jews for their money.

“What you should do,  my friend,  is  to 
forget all  about  showing  something  for 
your  dollar  and  go  to  the next conven­
tion you hear of.  You need it.  You are 
getting to be a  regular  mossback.  You 
want to get away  from  yourself  just  as 
fast as you  can.  You  want  to  start  on 
your first crusade at 10:45,  and  you  have 
just sixty seconds to get  to  the  station. 
Start! make yourself one of the rest when 
you get there,  and come home as  the  old 
crusaders did,  and  as our soldiers did,  in 
rebellion times,  with your  shield or on it. 
By  that  time  you  will  find  that  there 
are things in the world better than money 
and  the  last 
illustration  you’ll  ever 
think  of  using  will  be  Judas  and  the 
head he had for  business,  when  you  are 
trying to ridicule the idea of attending  a 
convention.”

•  *  *

When  one  American built  steamer, 
carrying the  American  flag,  creates  the 
excitement  that  attended  the  St.  Louis 
on her initial  trip,  what will be the con­
dition of the  American  mind  when  our I

commerce upon the  seas  once  more  as­
sumes  its  old  time  Importance?  When 
the seas are once more dotted with Amer­
ican  merchantmen,  sailing  under  the 
Stars and Stripes?—Hardware.

That isn’t  a  hard  one.  By  the  time 
the next  steamer  slips  down  “ into  the 
arms of the gray old  sea,” the American 
mind will have regained its  normal posi­
tion  on the question of  ships and  steam­
ers,  and will be strongly inclined to deny 
that it was ever excited over such a com­
monplace,  matter-of-fact affair as a ship- 
launch.  “Why, my  dear  sir, you  don’t 
seem  to  take  in  the  American  mind. 
You convey the idea  that  this  shipping 
business is something new to  this  coun­
try;  but it isn’t any  such  thing.  We’ve 
been a trifle  busy  with  other  and  more 
important  matters,  and  haven’t  been 
especially anxious to  give  up  our  time 
and attention to the carrying business of 
the world.  England didn’t seem to have 
much to do and  the  Germans  seemed  to 
take to the business kindly, and, so long as 
they knew how,  and wanted the job, why 
not? The minute, however, they began to 
hint that we don’t know how to make a ship 
and to sail it, that’s an  entirely different 
thing.  We do  know how  and  we  have 
shown  that  we  do.  So,  when  the  big 
ship slid from the stocks, there had to be 
considerable noise about it  and we made 
it.  That done,  that was  the  last  of  it; 
and now a fleet may be  launched at once 
and  ‘the American mind’  will speak of it 
at the breakfast table as one of  the  ordi­
nary affairs  of  life  and  look  upon  the 
man regarding it as  a wonder  as  a  sort 
of  Uncle Josiah, just from the farm and 
so so not up  ‘in matters marine.’ ”

Don’t you know  what  a  dreadful  time 
we were going to have in the  resumption 
of  specie  payment?  The  world  was  to 
be  turned  upside  down.  Financially } 
everybody  was going under.  Then, when 
that awful  New  Year  morning  dawned 
upon  the world and things went right on 
as usual,  there was a  line  of  I-told-you- 
sos. from Maine to  the Golden  Gate  and 
long before sunset,  the man who dared to 
speak of the  resumption  as  remarkable 
was  requested  to  go in and get the hay­
seed out of his hair. 
It will be the same 
with  dotting  the  seas  with  American 
merchantmen.  When the time comes and 
we feel like it,  we’ll dot ’em,  and  to  the 
American  mind  “they’ll be dots that’ll be 
wuth suthin’.”

R ic h a r d   M a l c o l m   S t r o n g .

A Chicago paper tells  about  a  gentle 
man of that  city  who, a  short time  ago, 
wanted fifty gold  dollars  for  some  pur­
pose.  He applied to his bank  for  them, 
and  was  offered  the  amount  in  larger 
coins,  but the dollars they did  not  have. 
He looked farther,  and  soon  found  that 
there  were  no  gold  dollars to be had  in 
Chicago,  not  even  at  the  sub-treasury. 
He wrote to New  York and Washington, 
but the dollars could not  be  found.  Fi­
nally,  he learned  that they  could  be had 
in  San  Francisco,  but  only on the pay­
ment of 50 per cent,  premium.  It is said 
that  there  has  not  been  a  gold  dollar 
coined in forty years,  and that altogether 
but 1,004,000 have been minted.

The greatest bridge in  the  world  was 
planned by a Chinese engineer  and built 
by  Chinese  workmen. 
It  is  of  stone, 
and reaches across an arm  of  the  China 
sea by  300  arches.  Over  the  pillar  of 
each arch reclines a  lion  carved  from  a 
block of marble 21 feet  long.  The road­
way is 70 feet wide.

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

IT  REACHES  THE  PEOPLE.

G ETTIN G   T H E   PE O PL E .

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

A d v e rtisin g .

The  amount  of  money  thrown  away 
upon  unproductive  advertising  in  the 
United  States  alone  would  reasonably 
suffice to pay off  a  large  portion  of  the 
public  debt.  This  waste  arises  from 
many  sources,  the  principal  ones  being 
the unfitDess of media and the indifferent 
wording  of  the  advertising.  Space  in 
popular magazines and the leading dailies 
and  weeklies of the country is almost be­
yond  price,  and  while  many  manufac­
turers  and  dealers  employ  able  “ad- 
smiths"  at  princely  salaries,  there  are 
yet instances of the most  valuable  space 
being  utterly  lost  through  weakness of 
phraseology and a lack  of  perception  as 
to  points in the article  advertised  which 
will  interest  and  hold the buyer’s atten­
tion.

Below  will be found  some original ads. 

for use in nearly any  branch of trade.
The  Coming  Woman

1-:v¡<li-.nlly  m enus  b u sin ess, m ill 
,io « e . 
She  w a n t'o n ly   th e  b e s t  fii.ini- to   be  h a d , 
unit  we a re   h e re  rea.lv  lo se ll  th em   to h e ra t 

TWENTIETH  CENTURY  PRICE5.

| Mention  prices, etc.)

w h ich   a re   m ill'll  low er  th a n   th o se  o f  o u r 
com petitors  in  th is  ce n tury 
\\ c a re   d o in g  
a  "tin   d e  sie c le "   business’  a n d   lo ts  o f  it. 
O u r  tra d e   a d v e rtis e s   ns  m ore  a n d   m ore 
ev ery  day.
Wind  up the century  in  a  tilling  m anner 
by giving  us your  custom  lor  the  balance 
o f the tim e. 
COATEM  &  HATTEM.
it may seem a matter of small  moment 
to the one placing  his  wares  before  the 
public  as  to  what  is  said  in  reference 
thereto, so long as price,  name aud qual­
ity  are  fully  expounded.  While  these 
latter are essentials, yet they  are of  much 
less moment as  compared  with  the other 
requisites of a paying advertisement.

In the first place,  it is  absolutely  nec­
essary to the success of an advertisement 
that the seed  be  planted  in  fitting  soil. 
Potatoes  won’t grow  on  rocks—advertis­
ing won’t bring results  placed  in  media 
which  does  not  reach the class to whom

it  is  desired  to  sell  the  article.  This, 
therefore,  is the primary step—look  well 
to placing your advertising in the proper 
channels.
‘Jab  Me  In  the  Eye! ’’

Said the N eedle to the Thread.  Our line of 
Fine  Groceries  for  cash  is “jabbing"  the 
eyes out of high  prices  and  th e observing 
people are learning this fact.

A re  you  o b serv in g ?

SWEET  &  SHUGER.
The quality of the seed assumes second 
rank  in importance, 
if the  potatoes  are 
decayed or subject to other disqualifyiug 
infirmities,  the  seed  will  not  take root 
and  briDg  forth  abuudance  at  the  har­
vest  time.  The  “seed  of  advertising” 
must  be  in  prime  condition,  perfect  in 
every  respect, in order that it  may  yield 
perfect  returns.  Every  word  uttered 
should  be  given  profound 
thought. 
Every  word  in  an  advertisement  is  in­
tended to create an  impression—a  photo­
graph of the merits of the  article  adver­
tised—upon  the  reader’s  brain. 
In this 
the  successful  advertisei 
connection, 
places himself in  the point of  view of the 
reader,  not in his own  way of  looking  at 
the article in question.  Usually,  the ad 
vertiser is the “parent” of the  invention 
or merchandise offered for sale.  Ue  un­
derstands every point in connection with 
it thoroughly and technically, as the fond 
parent of a  little  child  sees  and  under­
stands its merits  better  than  any  other. 
But, just as the indulgent  father  cannot 
see  the  faults  of  his  child—or,  rather, 
blinds  himself  to  them—and  does  not 
look  upon  his  offspring  with  his  neigh­
bor’s eyes,  so the  "parent” of  an  inven­
tion or  article  of  manufacture  does  not 
see it as others do.
The  Point  of  View

o

“ The  Big  and  th e  L ittle  Of  I t.”

A  F air  Price on a  Good  A rticle  lookelli  latrg 
lo the  man of  False  Economy.  Imt  Small to  bin 
who hath Stored  his  Drain  with  Logie:  “ For. 
saith  the  man o f  Logic, 
a  garm ent which  Gov 
eretli  me  Itoth  stylishly  and  Comfortably,  hail 
In it  Q ualities  and  Merits  which  Arc  Viiluabl 
by  Reason of T heir enduring Q ualities."
Such  a set of garm e  ts for gentlem en we rela i 
atilO .  F irst class quality Cheviot,  up  to date.

I b e   s u c c e s s ic i  " ttu -s iu ilh ” s c h o o ls  h tm -1 
self in this regard.  His first thought, on

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
It is hoped that The Tradesman's read­
ers will make use of any of the ads. given
A  False 

Friend........ Q uaker

11

taking  up  an  article  to  advertise, 
is, 
“What are  the  pleasing,  attractive  and 
valuable points in connection  with  it  to 
be made plain to the public?”  This once 
thoroughly mastered,  he  sets  himself to 
work understandingly and from  the buy­
er’s point of view,  not his own.
Gone  From 
Our  Bed

and  Board !

Is one w hogivesyou wrong “pointers." 
Let  us  indicate  to  you 
th a t  we -are 
faithful  to your  interests  when  we say 
th a t our stock of  Mens.  Boys  and Chil­
dren's Clothing is unexcelled  In quali 
ty,  style  and  reasonable  values.  W» 
w on't  give  you  “som ething  for  noth 
ing,"  but the true  w orth is in the good: 
every time.

CHEVIOT-SERGE  CO.

in these articles,  as  this  department  is 
conducted  for  their  especial  benefit. 
Amateur “ad.  smiths” and others are  in­
vited  to  send  their  productions  to this 
department for criticism,  which  will  be
made in a fair and  impartial  manner,  to 
the best of the writer’s  ability.

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

H e  F o u n d   H ie  M atc h .

thanks,”  murmured 

“Is  this  seat  engaged?”  asked a com­
mercial traveler on the G.  R.  &  I.  Rail­
road of the prettiest girl  in  the car; and, 
finding it wasn’t,  be  put  his  sample  box 
in the rack  and  braced  himself  up  for 
solid enjoyment.
“Pleasant day,” said  the  girl,  eoming 
for him before he could get the straps  of 
his  tongue  unbuckled;  “most  bewilder­
ing day, isn’t it?”
“Ye-yes,  miss,” stammered  the  drum­
mer.  He  was  in  the  habit  of  playing 
pitcher in this kind of a  match,  and  the 
position of catcher didn’t fit him as quick 
as it  might.
“Nice  weather  for  traveling,”  con­
tinued the girl; “much nicer than when it 
is  cold.  Are  you  perfectly  comfort­
able?”
“Oh,  yes, 
the 
drummer.
“Glad of it,” chirruped the girl,  cheer­
fully.  “You don’t look so.  Let  me  put 
my shawl under your head,  won’t  you?”
“No,  please,”  he  gasped;  “ I’m doing 
well enough.”
“Gan  I  buy  some peanuts, or a book? 
Let  me  do  something  to  make the trip 
pleasant.  Suppose I slip my  arm around 
your waist!  Just  lean  forward  a  little, 
please,  so that I can.”
“You’ll—you’ll  have  to  excuse  me,” 
gasped the wretched drummer.  “I don’t 
think you really mean it.”
“You  look  so  tired,”  she  pleaded; 
“ wouldn’t you like to rest  your  head  on 
my shoulder?  No one  will notice.  Just 
lay your head right down, and I  will tell 
you stories.”
“No, thanks, I won’t  to-day;  I’m  very 
comfortable,”  and  the  poor  drummer 
looked as if he needed help.
“Your  scarf  pin  is  coming  out.  Let 
me fix it—there.  At the next station I’ll 
get you a cup of tea,  and when we arrive 
at  our destination you’ll  let  me  call  on 
you!”  and she smiled an  anxious  prayer 
right into his pallid countenance.
“I  think  I’ll  go  away  and  smoke,” 
said the drummer, as he hauled down his 
gripsack  and made a dash for  the  door.
“Strange!”  murmured  the  girl  to  a 
lady in front of  her.  “I  only  did  with 
him just what  he  was  making  ready  to 
do with me,  and,  big and strong as he  is, 
he  couldn’t  stand  it. 
think 
women  have  stronger  stomachs  than 
men.”

I  really 

A   S a lm o n   B iv e r  N e a r H o m e.

There is  scarcely  any  doubt  that  the 
Pennsylvania Fish  Commission  has  suc­
ceeded in making the Delaware a salmon 
river.  During the past few  weeks  hun­
dreds  of  this  greatest of food and game 
fishes have been caught on  their  way  to 
the  spawning  beds  in  the upper waters 
by  the  shad  nets  between  Chester and 
the Delaware Water Gap.  The  fish cap­
tured  were readily sold by the fishermen, 
at prices ranging from  75  cents  to  $1  a 
pound, and several of the large hotels in 
Philadelphia,  it is said,  have  placed  or­
ders  with  the  fishermen  direct  for  all I 
they capture at the prices named.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons  have  a complete 
line  of  new  sateens,  percales,  shirting i 
prints and lawns, challies  and  dimities. I

This  is  to   C ertify,  That  Madam High- 
price has  left our store  for “ keeps," aud 
we have taken a decree of separation from 
her.  This did not prevent our im m ediate 
rem arriage,  and  we  have  taken  to  our 
fireside M iss Constance In teg rity  Sm all- 
profit, whom we shall cherish in all love 
and  respect during th e  rem ainder of our 
business  life.  Madame  H ighprice  be­
cam e unbearable in our  home  and  used 
us  cruelly,  but  w ith  the  assistance  of 
Miss  Smallprofit our  trade  is  increasing 
daily.  An exam ple of her value is given 
in  the following  prices:

BENEDICT  &  CO.
1 have in my mind a very short line  in 
an  ad.  of  Walter  Baker &  Co.’s Cocoa. 
Just below the words “Breakfast Cocoa,” 
and  immediately  following  “pure  and 
soluble,” is the simple  yet  forcible  and 
practical  sentence,  “costs  less  than one 
cent a cup!” 
I believe  that  one  line  to 
be  worth  thousands  of  dollars  to  this 
firm annually, yet it consists of language 
which any child of reading age can read­
ily master.  And therein lies its  value— 
it  is  the  simplest  and  most  direct and 
forcible appeal to the  economical side of 
human nature  possible,  while  in  direct 
connection with the words  conveying  to 
the mind the idea of  purity  and  health­
fulness.
Don’t  Dodge

or  Jump!

When you wish to pass a "b ik er,“  or  w hen  you 
w ant straight goods at straight prices.  It is tru e 
we have “jum ped“ into the  good  graces  of  the 
public through  the  positive  values  and  bottom  
prices of o ur goods,  but  don’t you “dodge“ into 
th e w rong place w hen shopping and get “ stuck" 
on a shoddy lot of stuff.

We always prove our words truth!

SHOEH  &  CO.

The amateur “ad-smith,” clerk or busi­
ness man will find a  study  of  the  prom­
inent magazine and  newspaper  advertis­
ing  a  great  help to him in  the construc­
tion of his “ pullers.”  Each ad. contains 
at least one idea which  is  convertible  to 
use,  and a study of the methods  used  by 
these great advertisers is of  incalculable 
benefit.

Flour

M a d e   fr o m   S e l e c t e d  
N o   1  W h i t e   W h e a t
The  Best  Flour  that  can  be 
made by Modern  Rftller Pro­
cess. 

.

Guaranteed  First Quality.
¡Sold  exclusively  by  us  to  the 

Trade only.

Send  in  your orders.

WORDEN GROCER CO.
  1 1  i n

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

llia i)o u r  customers  don’t  know  when  they  get  good 
goods and  when  there is  a cheaper article palmed  off on 
them.  No one  who  has ever  used

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Highland  Brand Vinegar

told  you  anything  but  that  it  is the  best.  Highland 
Brand  Vinegar is SUPERIOR

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matsa£S. sa£t h7fe
Diamond Crystal Salt

T h e g e n e ra l p u b lic a re  reco g n izin g  m o re  a n d  m o re  ev e ry  d a y  th e  d e sira b ility   o f p u re 
s a lt.  T h e re s u lt Is  a   la rg ely   in c reased   d em an d  for  D iam ond C rystal S a lt.  Of course 
y o u   a im   to   h a n d le   th e   b est  goods  in   ev ery  b ra n c h  o f  th e tra d e.  W hy  n ot in  s a lt?

is now  pack ed  so th e  g ro cer  ca n   h a n d le   it  a t   a  profit  eq u a l to  th a t m a d e on  in fe rio r 
goods.  N ote these grea tly reduced prices :

120  2%  bags  in   a  barrel,  (3)  $3.00
« 
75 
@   2.75
“  @  2.50
40 

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4  
7 

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F or other sizes in proportion  see price current  on  another page.

• 
D iam ond C rystal is m u c h  lig h te r  th a n   co m m o n   salt,  a n d  th e  2%, 4,  a n d  7 lb.  bags 
a re   a b o u t  th e   sam e  size  as  3,  5,  a n d   10  lb.  bags  o f  th e  o rd in a ry   product.  D iam ond 
C rystal  is  p u rer, stro n g er, a n d   goes  farth er.  T he  bags  a re   h an d so m e, a n d   m a d e  o f 
th e   v ery   b est  m a te ria l—s a v in g   w aste  from   bro k en   bags.
D IA M O N D   C R Y S T A L   S A L T   C O .,  S T .   C L A IR ,  M IC H .

«THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

in concert  with  one  another,  but  inde­
pendently,  we  shall  never be free from 
the danger  of  catastrophes  like  that  of 
1893.  On the other hand,  to abolish bank 
credits altogether and to  restrict all pay­
ments to the passing from  hand  to  hand 
of coin and of paper secured so  as  to  be 
equal to coin,  would be a  step  backward 
toward primitive ages,  which is not to be 
thought  of.  The  continuation  of  the 
safety  of  cash  payments  with  the con­
venience of credit  is a  problem  for  this 
country yet to  solve.

Taking,  however,  the  facts as they ex­
ist,  we  find  that  the  supply  of  what 
serves  the  purpose  of  money  is  at the 
moment so largely  in  excess  of  the  de­
mand for it that  the  compensation  paid 
for its  use  is  greatly  diminished.  The 
natural  consequence  is  that  many  of 
those who hold it aud cannot lend it tem­
porarily at a satisfactory  price  are turn­
ing their attention to buying those stocks 
and  bonds,  which,  without  much  danger 
of loss, yield a larger return.  Time was, 
within the memory of  many  still  living, 
when 7 per cent,  per annum interest was 
accepted  only  upon  the  very  best  se­
curity,  then  6  per  cent,  became  the 
standard,  then 5, and now it is 4,  with  a 
tendency toward  3}£.  The  prospect  is, 
that,  unless  something  unforeseen  hap­
pens, 
the  same  class  of  investments 
which now yield  4  per  cent,  will  yield 
only 3,  and those that now yield 3 will be 
reduced to 2% or  perhaps 2.

Nothing can retard thi9  result  but  the 
discovery  of  new  fields  of  industry,  or 
the  invention  of  new  productive  pro­
cesses requiring the use of large amounts 
of capital.  Borrowers of money,  whether 
it be in the form of coin and paper,  or in 
that of bank credits, do not borrow it for 
the mere pleasure  of  paying  interest  on 
it.  They  convert  it  as  speedily as pos­
sible into merchandise, machinery, labor, 
or  some  other  kind  of  wealth  out  of 
which they hope,  by their enterprise and 
skill, to create enough new wealth to pay 
the interest and leave a sufficient surplus 
to reward them  for  their  efforts.  Until 
lately they have found  opportunities  for 
doing  this  in  the  building  of railroads 
and  of 
in  the  opening  of 
mines,  in carrying on commerce with for­
eign  countries,  and  in  real  estate  im­
provements. 
It looks now as if about all 
the railroads are built  that  are  needed, 
and all the factories; that  the  mining  of 
coal  and  iron  has  been  overdone,  and 
that  our  foreign  trade  is  diminishing. 
Only real estate shows signs  of  activity, 
but at the rate at which the modern steel 
towers of Babel are going up in the large 
cities of the country, the demand for new 
buildings,  other  than  dwelling  houses, 
will soon be satiated.  So far,  therefore, 
as the known outlets of  capital  are  con­
cerned they are well filled up.

factories, 

The  solution  of  the  difficulty  most 
probable, from  present indications, is the 
transference of enterprise  to  higher  and

more  complicated  forms  of  the  same 
kinds of industry as  now  prevail.  New 
railroads  may  not  be  built to any great 
extent,  but those which are already built 
may be enormously improved by the con­
struction of parallel tracks; the laying of 
sidetracks and the building of  expensive 
bridges and culverts; the improvement of 
the roadbed; the further  use  of  drawing 
room and sleeping cars in  place  of  com­
mon day coaches; the  erection  of  better 
depot and freight  buildings  and  the  im­
provement of the depot grounds. 
In the 
field of manufactures, the growing wealth 
of  the  country  and  the  more  liberal 
earnings of those who live by their labor, 
is  creating  every  day  a  greater  and 
greater  demand  for  goods  of  superior 
quality  and  finish.  Our  dwellings,  our 
furniture,  our  clothing,  and  even  our 
daily food are already  of  an  excellence 
far surpassing  those  which  the  genera­
tion  preceding ours was able to command, 
and the tendency of  the  age  is  to  make 
us  still  more  luxurious  in our require­
ments 
In  a  word, 
new capital will  hereafter be  applied  to 
the promotion of luxury, the demand  for 
the necessaries of life being already fully 
supplied. 

in  these  respects. 

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

A  Danish  manufacturer  has  two  es­
tablishments  near  London,  which  turn 
out  800,000  pounds  of  oleomargarine  a 
week.  Londoti  consumes  most  of  the 
product as butter.

T h ey all say

“It’s  a s   g o o d   a s   SAPOLIO,”  w h e n   t h e y   t r y   to  sell  y o u  

t h e i r   e x p e r i m e n t s .   Y o u r   o w n   g o o d   s e n s e   w ill 

tell 

y o u   t h a t   t h e y   a r e   o n l y  

t r y i n g   to  g e t  y o u   to  a id   t h e i r  

n e w   a rtic le .

W h o   u rg e=   y o u  

to  k e e p   SAPOLIO? 

Is  it  n o t   t h e  

p u b lic ?  

T h e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s ,   by  c o n s t a n t   a n d   j u d i c ­

io u s  a d v e r t i s i n g ,  b r in g   c u s t o m e r s   to  y o u r   s t o r e s   w h o s e  

v e r y   p r e s e n c e   c r e a t e s   a  d e m a n d   fo  o t h e r   a r t i c l e s

12

L O W E R   IN T E R E ST   R A T E S.

fo r 

The 

H o w   th e   A v e n u e s 

In v e s tig a tio n  
H a v e   B een   C u rta ile d .
accumulation  of  unemployed 
money  in  the  financial  centers  of  the 
country  is  little  less  than  remarkable. 
In New York City,  for  instance,  borrow­
ers in good repute can  get  loans  on  any 
kind  of  marketable  collateral  at  1  per 
cent,  per annum on call,  and  at  2%  per 
cent,  for three or six months.  Good com­
mercial  paper  is  bought  by  banks  at  a 
discount  of  3  per  cent,  per annum and 
less,  and  the  regular  rate for long time 
loans on first-class  real  estate  mortgage 
security  is  4  per cent.,  with a tendency 
to a still lower figure.

For the benefit of those who are not fa­
miliar  with  the  facts  it  should  be  ex­
plained that by  the  “money,”  which  is 
lending at these low  rates,  is  not  meant 
gold and silver coin, or even legal tender 
notes  and  bank  notes,  but merely  bank 
credits.  When a borrower in Wall street 
obtains a loan he takes it  in  the form  of 
a check on the  lender’s  bank,  which  he  ’ 
deposits in his own bank to  his  own  ac­
count,  drawing  against  it  checks as his 
needs require.  The persons who receive 
these checks deposit them in their  banks 
in turn,  and thus the entire sum  is  split 
up and passed from hand  to  hand  with­
out the use, except on  special  occasions, 
of a dollar of actual circulating  medium.
It is true that the borrower has the  right 
to exact legal tender money for either the 
check he takes or for the checks he draws 
himself,  but this right is exercised rarely. 
The bank credit  is so completely equiva­
lent to money that it is treated as  money 
by everybody.

This explains, too,  what  often  puzzles 
the  uninitiated,  how  the  banks  of  New 
York  City,  with  only  $180,000,000  of 
specie and legal  tenders  in  their  vaults, 
can report deposits to the amount of over 
$568,000,000,  and  bow,  in  like manner, 
the total deposits of all the banks  in  the 
United States footed  up,  according to the 
latest report  of  the  Comptroller  of  the 
Currency, $4,620,000,000,  although  their 
entire stock of specie  and  paper  money 
was but $689,000,000.  The  credits given 
to  borrowers  are  counted  as  money of 
equal  value with  species and notes,  and, 
ordinarily,  they  serve  equally  well  the 
needs of the community. 
It is only  pan­
ics, such as that of 1893, when confidence 
in  the  solvency  of  the  banks fails, and 
depositors,  all at the same time,  begin  to 
clamor for actual  money  instead of certi­
fied checks, that  the  difference  becomes 
apparent.  At other periods, people hardly 
ever  reflect,  when  they  take  checks in 
payment of  debts  or  for  property  sold, 
that these checks entitle  them  to  actual 
money.  They  deposit  them  in  their 
banks,  and  are  satisfied  with  the  entry 
of the amount on their passbooks.

Whether  it  would  not  be wiser to do 
our business differently and to substitute 
for the enormous volume of  bank credits 
which  now  fulfil the  function of money, 
something less  liable  to  impairment  in 
periods  of  financial  distrust  is another 
question. 
It is not to be  denied  that  so 
long as the banking business of the coun­
try is controlled by  some  7,000  or  8,000 
bank  presidents,  few  of  whom concern 
themselves with the state  of business af­
fairs  outside  of  their  own 
immediate 
neighborhood, and who,  under the stress 
of fear for the solvency,  each of his own 
particular institution,  go,  in  seasons  of 
panic,  from the extreme  of  expansion to 
the extreme of contraction,  and  act,  n o t'

PO O R  B O O K -K EEPIN G .

O ne  o f 

th e   LeakB   W h ic h   P re c lu d e  

S u c c e ss.

Wilson Maclay in Trade.

“Good  morning,  Mr. Jones; just  pass­
ing,  and  thought  I  would  stop  in  and 
pay my bill.”
“That’s  good.  Always  like  to  bear 
people talk that way.’’
“Yes?  How much is my  account?” 
“Let  me  see—how  far  back  does  it 
run?”
“You’ve  got  me  there—look  at  your 
books.”
“That’s  what 1 want to do; but  if  you* 
could tell  me  just  when  and  where  to 
start,  it would save time.”

“ How do you mean?”
“Why, you see, if you knew  just what 
time you bought  the  first  bill  that  you 
want  to  pay  now,  I  wouldn’t  have  to 
waste any time going through  my  books 
to find the right place to start.”
“ How do you keep your books?”
“The regular way, of course.”
“All right; let me  have  a  statement.” 
“Very  well;  just  sit  down  there; I’ll 
have it in a few minutes.”
The  gentleman  who  was  anxious  to 
pay sat down and  picked  up  a  newspa­
per.  The  few  minutes  soon  were  ten, 
and then twenty.  At last,  when twenty- 
five minutes had been  added to the great 
past, he  looked  up  at  Jones,  who  was 
struggling  with  his  salesbook  and  a 
sheet of paper,  and asked:

“Nearly ready?”
“Yes;  here it is now.”
“That doesn’t  agree  with  my  version 
“In what particular?”
“In about six or seven particulars.” 
“Let me see.”
The visitor bad drawn a  slip  of  paper 
from  his pocket,  and  was  comparing  it 
with the  statement  that  the grocer,  Mr. 
Jones,  had  handed  him.  We  will  peep 
over his shoulder and see how the papers 
look.
The  following  is  the  grocer’s  state-
ment:

of it.”

A pril  6. 
A pril  9. 
A pril 12. 
A pril 15. 
A pril 26. 
A pril 28.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

1 8

three. 

M ANUFACTURERS  OF

E st a b l is h e d   1865.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

.  BUGGIES,  SLEIGHS  &  WAGONS,

a sales-book—is nothing new  to you, and 
so, you  see,  the whole cost of having cor­
rect accounts will  be an average  of  one- 
half an hour per  day.  Don’t  you  think 
you can spare the  time?”
The grocer had  listened  to  all  of  this 
long harangue with a sort  of  half  inter­
est,  as one does  who  is  hearing  the  for­
tieth repetition of the same tune.  At the 
end,  however,  be said:
“ Well,  I  think  I’ll  try  it,  although  I 
really can’t see why my  system  isn’t  all 
right.”
“ 1 don’t know  any  reason  against  its 
value,  except  that  it  does  not  put  any 
check on your errors.  Good  day.”

tunately for you,  most of the people  you 
deal with are honest,  but there  are  very 
few among them  that keep any record  of 
what they  buy at a  grocer’s, and  if  you 
forget to charge them they are not  likely 
to  remember,  even  if  the  thought  of 
cheating you is  the  farthest  from  their 
minds.
“And  now  about  the  time  that  you 
will  have  for  the  keeping  of  your  ac­
counts.  The whole work of  posting can 
be  done  in 
ten  hours  for  the  entire 
month,  and  the pasting of your  bills into 
a book  that can  be bought  for  that  pur­
pose  won’t  take 
The  other 
work—that is,  keeping  a  cash-book  and

book-keeping.  The  trouble  that  you 
have is  what almost every man that runs 
a small business meets.
“There is no attempt made to keep your 
accounts on  the  only  correct  principle. 
Let me try to explain  what I mean.  The 
man  doesn’t  live  who  is  proof  against 
mistakes,  and that fact  once  recognized, 
a great deal of progress  has  been  made. 
There is  nothing  in  which  one  is  more 
likely  to err than figuring, and there isn’t 
a memory  in  any one’s  head  that  is  75 
per cent,  proof, or 60 per cent, either,  for 
that  matter.  Recognizing  these  facts, 
and  allowing—to  yourself,  of  course— 
that you are no better than  the  average, 
how in the world do ever expect  to  have 
any  right idea of the state  of  your  busi­
ness,  if you are  going to  depend  on  the 
accuracy  of  your  unproved  additions 
and your far-from-perfect  memory?  You 
must have some system  in  the  manage 
ment of your affairs,  and the first step  in 
this direction is the keeping of  an  intel­
ligent set of books.
“Your  system  of  book-keeping  does 
not have to be  a  complicated  one.  You 
do  not  have  to  have  more  than a cash 
book, a salesbook,  the  same  as  the  one 
you now run;  you do not need a  journal, 
but you do need a ledger.  But  you  also 
need  something  which  is  considerably 
more than all of  these,  and  that  is  the 
determination  that  you  will  make your 
charges and your cash entries when they 
occur,  and not in the evening,  when you 
are all tired out, and your  brain  refuses 
to entertain any  idea  that is not directly 
connected  with  retiring.  Don’t  make 
charges on  bits of  paper and  stick  them 
in  your  pocket,  to  be  pulled  out with 
other things and so  lost.  You  may  say 
that  you  cannot  afford to keep a person 
that shall  do  all  these  things  for  you, 
and I’ll say that you’re right.  You must 
do  them  yourself;  you  must  certainly 
have plenty of  opportunities  during  the 
day,  when customers are scarce,  like the 
present.
“ You  look as though you were  getting 
ready to say that you do  not  understand 
how to keep a set of books on the double­
entry  system.  All  right;  I’ll  answer 
that for you,  too.  There are lots of books 
that can  be bought for a mere  song  that 
will give you a very  fair idea of  bow  the 
thing  is done.  And  if  there  should  be 
some points that you do  not  understand 
readily, you must have a  number  of  ac­
quaintances  beside  myself  who  will  be 
very glad to give you all the  information 
you desire.  You can count on me when­
ever you  want.
“Now,  just  think  of  the  advantages 
this little extra labor will give you.  Sup-
pose that I was not honest,  and  had  no 
desire  to  do  the  right  thing. 
I would 
have shown you my two receipted bills of 
the 6th and 15th, and  paid you $13.54 and
gone on my way rejoicing  over  the  fact j Prompt attention to Mail and Telegraph Orders.  Prices right.  Write for 
that I had cheated you out of $6.12.  For- 

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that  came  from

And this is the paper 

the visitor’s pocket:

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A pril 1 0 .............................
A pril 12..............................
A pril 13..............................
A pril 26..............................
A pril 28..............................

In  answer  to  the  request  made  by 
Jones,  his visitor banded  him  the  state­
ment that he had received,  and  his  own 
memorandum,  saying:  “Look  for  your­
self.”
to  be  a  difference, 
doesn’t there?”

“There  seems 
“ 1 should say so.”
“You must have made a mistake some­
where.”
“I never make  mistakes  in  things  of 
this sort.  My  memory  is  a particularly 
good one, but 1 never trust  it  when  it  is 
a question of an  account,  either  in  my 
favor or against me.  Now,  let’s  get  at 
this muddle and straighten it out.”

“All right.”
“In the first  place, taking  your  state­
ment,  you  have  charged  me  with  $1.26 
on the 6th.  That  bill  was  paid  at  the 
time  it  was  presented.  Here  it  is,  re­
ceipted.  The bill of the 9th is all  right. 
You seem  to  have  forgotten  to  charge 
my  purchase of the  10th—that’s 37 cents 
in my favor.  Then,  the bill of  the  12th 
should  be  $2.49,  instead  of  49  cents— 
that’s  $2  more.  You’ve  forgotten  to 
charge $3.75 on  the  13th,  and  the  $4.07 
of the  15th was  cash. 
I  can’t  imagine 
how you keep your accounts, if this  is  a 
fair  sample.”
“Most of my  customers  don’t  run  ac­
counts that stand a whole  month.  They 
pay every week.”
“And  when  they  don’t,  where  are
you?” 
.  .
“Well,  I do my best;  but  it seems that 
my books never come out right.”
“See here;  I don’t want to lecture you, 
but there are a  few  words  that  1 would 
like  to  say  to  you  on  this  subject  of

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

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And  so do  we.  That is,  we always suit our eus- 
toiuers,  because  our  goods  always suit  our  cus­
tomers'’icustomers,  and  so

E verybody 
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Everybody likes  this  kind  of suits.
Let  us give you fits—with some of these suitings. 
There’s  money in em.

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D A Y   A F T E R   TO -M O RRO W .

W r itte n  f o r   T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

“Baxter? 

Rodney  Baxter,  do  you 
mean?  O,  be died years  ago.  Day after 
to-morrow killed  him.”

“ What ?”
“I say day after to-morrow  killed  him. 
You  see  it  was  this  way:  The spring 
you went  away—why,  that  was  twenty 
years ago,  wasn’t  it?—well,  that  spring 
Rod told bis father that he  was  through 
school,  and as for going  to  work  on  the 
farm,  he  wouldn’t  do  that for love nor 
money.  No,  he  wouldn’t  go  into  any­
body’s  banking house; nor  would  he  go 
to the city—he  was  right  about  that,  1 
think—but,  if the ‘old man’  would fit  up 
a  store  for  him  down in the village, he 
believed  he’d like that—at all  events,  he 
So  Jethro — ye 
was  willing  to  try. 
haven’t forgotten Jethro Baxter,  I  hope! 
Don’t you remember how  you  boys  used 
to sample his water melons for him  after 
dark?  Well  that’s  the  one—he  went 
down to the village and  bought out  Dan­
iel What’s-his-name and turned the store 
over to Rod.

top 

“Well,  things went on swimmingly for 
awhile,  and  folks  said  that  Jethro  had 
hit it,  so far as the  boy  was  concerned. 
Old Daniel—strange I can’t think of  that 
man’s  name!—had got  old  and  pokey— 
some said,  you know,  that he  never  was 
young—and  his  store  was  topsy-turvey 
from 
to  bottom.  That just suited 
Rod, who was as neat as  a  pin,  and  for 
the next two months  he  was  busy  put­
ting things  where  he’d  know  where  to 
find ’em.  When he got through,  it looked 
like a new store and you couldn’t stop at 
a  farmhouse  within ten miles of it  with­
out  being  asked  if  you’d  seeu the new 
store over to Plymptonville.

“That part of it is easy to account  for. 
Old Daniel  never  took  account  of  stock 
in his life;  he never  cleaned  up  things; 
he  was  always  dropping  whatever  he j 
used wherever he used it; and,  as  a  mat­
ter of course,  he  never  could  find  any 
thing  when  he  wanted  it.  So  it  was a 
clhtter  from  one  end of the store to the 
other.  They  did  say  that the molasses 
wandered over to the  dry  goods  side  of 
the  house  and  got  mixed  up  with  the 
shoestrings  and 
the  ribbons,  but  that 
was going too far.  Nobody ever believed 
that,  but  Rod  straightened 
things  out 
until  it  did,  for  a fact,  seem like a new 
store.

“ The thing which  the  boy  didn’t  like 
—and  the  minute  one  of them Baxters 
didn’t  like  anything  it  was ail np with 
them—was to  do  a  thing  before  he  got 
good and ready.  There  are  some people 
built  just  that  way.  He  cleaned  the 
store,  aud  he  put  it  to  rights  all  fair 
enough and fast enough for  that  matter, 
but not until he got  ready.  Then things 
had  to  stand  ’round.  That does pretty 
well in  matters which concern  only  one; 
but  when  there are more, there is bound 
to  be  trouble.  Time  and  tide  wait for 
no man, and once in a while a man comes 
along  so  much  like  time  and  tide  that 
you can’t tell ’em apart; and after awhile 
Rod came in contact with that  kind  of  a 
man.

“ You  see,  the  boy  got  to  dealing  a 
good deal  in eggs.  Farmers  liked  him. 
because he  dealt fairly with them,  and it 
got so that a good many  of  them  would 
rather  sell  their  eggs  to him for a little 
less  than  to  anybody  else,  and it made 
him a little  pompous.  After  a  while he 
began  to  think  that  the  rest  of  the 
world were like  the  farmers  and  that  it

was  his  motion  that must  be waited  for. 
So the city folks  would send  him  an  or 
der,  and he’d look at  it  and  that  would 
be the last of it for a day  or  two.  Then 
when the signs were right,  he’d send  the 
eggs, and that would be the last of  it—at 
least, that’s what be thought.

“Well,  there began to be  a  little  fric­
tion.  One  would  give  him  a  raking 
down,  and  then another, and  he’d  laugh 
it off as if it was one of the biggest jokes 
It did turn out so in most 
in  the world. 
cases. 
‘These fellows,’ he said,  ‘will get 
mad and tear around like a  pea  on a hot 
griddle  and  trade  somewhere  else for  a 
while;  then  they  come  marching  back 
and  1  laugh  at ’em.  You  see,  somebody 
must have their way and 1 don’t  see  why 
1 ain’t the one to have it. 
1  don’t  know 
of  any  law  that’s  going to make me an­
swer a letter the same day 1 get it;  and 1 
don’t  know  why  I  should  jump out of 
my skin because Hilton &  Hobbs want to 
fill an order on a certain date which they 
know  or  might  know  is  going  to  be 
mighty inconvenient for  me  to  forward 
on  time. 
1  ain’t going to do it,’ and  he 
didn’t.

“ You  know  Hilton,  don’t  you?  He’s 
one of these  men  who  is  right  up  and 
down.  When he says,  ‘Thumbs up,’  the 
thumbs go up.  So,  after  their  man  had 
got tired of fooling with Rod,  he  turned 
him  over  to  Hobbs,  who  pretty  soon 
found  that  he  had  met  his match;  and 
finally told  Hilton that they’d better hunt 
up another factor and let Rod  go.

“1 guess Rod  was about  the  first  man 
Hilton  ever  met  who  ever  dared to in 
timate  that  he  didn’t  like  to  play  the 
game above  mentioned  unless  he.  Rod 
was “it.”  He had, he  acknowledged,  in 
bygone  times  occasionally 
turned  his 
thumbs up or  down  to  another’s  dicta­
tion;  but never so far as he could remem 
ber had he ‘wig-wagged’ to  anybody  and 
he didn’t care to begin  now.  He’d  send 
the  eggs  when  he  pleased.  He  wasn’i 
quite sure about it;  but,  if he could man­
age,  without too much inconvenience,  he 
thought the goods would  move about day 
after to-morrow.

“Hilton  read the  letter and *ah’-ed.  He 
went home early  that afternoon and took 
the  letter  with  him.  After  dinner  he 
made a  preliminary  remark  or  two  and 
put  the  letter  into  the  hands  of  his 
daughter and  asked  ber what she thought 
of that. 
It did not take her a  long  time 
to read it,  and while she  is  so  engaged, 
it  will  be  a  good  time  to say that Rod 
had  evidently  been  in  favor  with  the 
senior  member  of  the  firm,  had  been 
looked  upon  kindly  by  his  only child, 
more on  her father’s account than on her 
own,  so that when she returned the letter 
she  simply  said:  T il  tell  you  what  1 
think*of  your  letter  after  you  tell me 
what to think  of  mine;’  and  the  young 
lady placed in his hand a letter  received 
that morning  from  Rodney Baxter.

“it  was not quite so bad as  the  one  to 
the firm,  but  it  was hardly what a young 
womau  would  expect  from a young man 
asking her to be his wife.

Well?’  said  the  young  lady,  with  a 
strong circumflex accent, as the letter was 
returned to her.

“ ‘Well.”  was the answer  with  several 
exclamation points  and no end of double 
daggers.

“The next day the firm countermanded 
its  order  by  telegraph,  and  the  young 
lady took  the  opportunity  to  say  that, 
while she wasn’t quite sure  about it,  she 
would manage to give him  a  definite  an-

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the factory by an expert,  who  sets  aside 
every can  that is suspicious for chemical 
examination.  The  milk  is  cooled  with 
ice till it reaches 40  degrees,  and  stands 
till  the cream is  risen,  when  the  cream 
is  skimmed  by  hand.  Mrs.  Tweedie 
speaks of  some  of  the  farmers  having 
separators and delivering  to  the  factory 
only the  cream,  but  she  gives  the  im­
pression  that at the factory  there is only 
hand skimming.  The cream  is raised to 
a temperature of  68  to  sour it and then 
cooled 
for  churning.  Mrs. 
Tweedles gives the details  of  the  work­
ing and  packing,  and draws a fascinating 
picture  of  the  butter  factory  and  the 
women and girls who do  the work  iu  it. 
The prices of milk she  mentions  are low 
compared  with  the prices  paid  by  people 
in our cities for  their  quart  a  day,  but 
they are  not  low  compared  with  what 
what farmers in the vicinity of our great 
great cities generally net  for  their  milk, 
and  the  butter  brings  a  high  price  in 
England.
In a recent address ex-Governor Hoard, 
of Wisconsin,  said that the  price of Wis­
consin  butter had  been  raised  in  a  few 
years from  15 to 25 cents a pound  by im­
proving  the  herds  and  the processes of 
buttermaking.  This corroborates the ex­
perience of Denmark  that it pays to make 
a good thing.
The trouble with the American  farmer 
on a general  average is that  in  the  past 
he  was  too  prosperous;  it  was too  easy 
to  make  a living to make it worth while 
to 
take  much  pains  about  anything. 
There is  no  reason  why  he  should  not 
make  as  good  butter as there is in Den­
mark  and  Australia,  and  as  compared 
with 
latter  he  certainly  has  an 
enormous  advantage  in  being  so  much 
nearer England and on the  same  side  of 
the equator. 
If he raises sheep he ought 
to pack  his fleeces as well as the  Austra­
lians do instead of ruining his market by 
trying  to  see  how  much  dirt  and  how 
much  of  the  inferior  portions  of  the 
fleece be can  work off on  to  the  Eastern 
buyer  without  detection, 
if  he  raises' 
cottou  he ought to see to it  that  his  cot­
ton  reaches  market  in as  good shape as 
the cotton of Asia and Africa.  The Eng­
lish people eat great quantities of bacon, 
but they do not like our  bacon so  well as 
they do that cured in Denmark and some 
other  parts  of  Europe.  Our  packers, 
however,  are making more effort to teach 
the English to like our  bacon  than  they 
are  to  cure  bacon  to  suit  the  English 
taste.  Here and there  is  an  exception, 
but as a whole we are not  half  trying  to 
find a market for  our  productions.  We 
have an idea that  England must buy our 
wheat and  cotton,  and  it  is  useless  to 
bother about anything else.

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swer day after  to-morrow;  but  when  he 
looked for the date of the letter he didn’t 
find any!

“ Well, do you  know,  that  broke  him 
all  up.  He  went  around  quiet-like  for 
several days;  and,  finally,  oue  morning 
his father went out to the  barn,  and  the 
first  thing  he  saw  there,  was  the boy, 
It made a good deal of talk at the 
dead. 
time;  but  he  had  only  himself 
to 
blame for it.

“ What!  Is this Lansing?  ’Tis.  There’s 
the  Capitol,  no  mistaking 
that;”  and 
there was just time enough  for the teller 
of the story,  a woman with a high-pitched 
voice, and a  very  deaf  old  man  to  get 
ready  to  leave  the  train.  My seat,  im­
mediately  in  front  of  them,  had  com­
pelled me to listen,  whether  I  would  or 
not,  to the story  which  promised to be  a 
farce  and  ended  a  tragedy.  Who  they 
are I did not ascertain.  Who the Baxters 
or the Hiltons are  I  have  no  means  of 
finding  out. 
I  only  know  that  I  have 
told the story as I heard  it,  without  any 
attempt to account  for  the  incongruities 
which  I should  be  glad  to  explain  if  1 
could. 
It  is  the  first  instance  1  ever 
heard  of  where  “day  after  to-morrow” 
killed anybody;  and  it  seemed  to  me  a 
good  idea  to  play  Captain  Cuttle  and 
“make a note on’t,” it being  barely  pos­
sible  that  some  reader  with a reflective 
turn of mind may  find a moral  in the ex­
pression and so  turn  it  to  practical  ac­
count. 

R a m b l e r .

D a n ish  B u tte r in  E n g la n d .

In the Fortnightly Review,  an  English 
lady, Mrs.  Tweedie, asks her fellow coun­
trymen  why they do not make  their  own 
butter,  instead of buying it in  Denmark. 
Her  question  may  well  be  changed 
slightly  to adapt it to  ourselves,  and  we 
may ask why  is it,  with all our  facilities 
for the  production  of  butter,  that  Eng­
land spends about  $5,000,000  a  year  for 
foreign butter, and the value of  the  but­
ter we sent to England and Scotland  was 
only  $675,762  in  1893  and  $941,523  in 
1894.  Danish butter is not imported into 
England because it is cheap,  but because 
it  is  good;  it  ranks  with  or  above  the 
best  English  butter.  That  Denmark  is 
nearer to England than  we are  is  no  ex­
planation  of  our  exclusion  from  this 
trade,  because the most  mortifying  part 
of Mrs.  Tweedie’s article,  for  us,  is  her 
statement 
that  the  competition  which 
Denmark has begun  to suffer  from  lately 
is that of Australia,  whose butter  has  to 
cross the tropics,  and  is  carried  through 
the Red Sea in  refrigerating chambers in 
order  to  reach  England  in  marketable 
condition.  Enough  Australian butter  is 
going into England  to affect the  price  of 
Danish  butter.  Yet  we,  only  a  week 
from  England,  have not  sent  her  much 
more than a million and  a  half  dollars’ 
worth  of  butter  in  the  past two years, 
and  our  farmers  are  complaining  that 
there is not a sufficient market  for  their 
products.
The  Danish  butter  does  not  make  it­
self.  No manufacturing industry is car­
ried on with  a  nicer  regard  for  quality 
and thoroughness.  The  company  whose 
work Mrs. Tweedie describes,  and  which 
she says is a fair  sample of all  the butter 
making companies in  the  little kingdom, 
maintains  veterinary  surgeons  who  In­
spect every  two  weeks  the  herds  whose 
milk  is  bought. 
If  disease  breaks  out 
between these visits  the  farmer  has  no 
motive  for  coucealing  it,  because  the 
company  will pay  him  for  his  milk  just 
as  usual,  but  it  will  throw  the  milk 
away.  Any farm hand who has been ex­
posed to a contagious disease  loses noth­
ing by  reporting  the  fact  and  keeping 
away  from his  work,  for his  wages go on 
just  the  same.  Every  farmer  keeps  a 
quantity of ice, and the milk is promptly 
cooled.  He strains the milk with  a  care 
that very few American  farmers  can  be 
induced  to  exercise,  but  the  milk  is 
scientifically filtered  when  it reaches the 
factory.  Every can of milk is  tasted  at

D o n ’t  T ry   To  C h e a t  a   L a w y e r.

A  young  lawyer  just  starting  in  his 
profession  hung  out  bis  sign in a town 
where there was only  one  other  lawyer, 
an aged judge.
A close-fisted  old  fellow,  thinking  to 
get legal advice for nothing,  called upon 
the young man and contrived in a sort of 
neighborly  way to get  some  legal  ques­
tions  answered.  Then, 
the 
young man,  he was about to leave,  when 
the young man asked for  a  $5  fee.  The 
old  fellow  went  into  a  violent passion 
and  swore  he  would  never  pay.  The 
young lawyer told him he would sue him.
So the old  fellow went down to see the 
judge and said:
“That  voung  scamp  that’s  just come 
into town!  1 dropped in to make a neigh­
borly call on him,  and he  charges  me  $5 
for legal advice.”

thanking 

“Served you right,” said the judge. 
“But have I got to pay it,  judge?”
“Of course you have.”
“ Well,  then,” said the man, “I suppose 
1  must,” and started  off.
“ Hold  on,”  said  the  judge,  “aren’t 
you going to pay me?”
“Pay you?  What  for?”
‘ For legal advice.”
“ What do you charge?”
“Ten dollars.”
The result was that the old fellow  had 
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the old one.

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W r itte n  f o r  T h e  T u d e s i i h .

Twenty-five years  ago,  there  lived,  in 
one of the little villages of the Far West, 
two  people with an only child,  a  girl  of 
sixteen.  They  were  called,  for  those 
days,  well-to-do people  and  were  of  the 
sturdy  New  England  stock,  who  bad 
come  West  to  get  rich,  and,  like many 
others,  had seen  greater  possibilities  in 
the  future  of  this  little  town  than the 
facts  have  proven  warrantable,  for it  is 
now only a little larger than it was thirty 
years  ago.  Towns  are  very much  like 
boys—you never know just  how they are 
going  to  turn  out,  and,  like boys,  they 
very often show such promise  for  a  few 
years that we stake  our  hopes  and  for­
that  we 
tunes  on  them,  only  to  find 
have  made- very  losing calculations. 
If 
all the cities that have been  put down on 
our  mental  maps  had  materialized,  we 
would have Cbicagos dotted all  over  our 
fair land.  And  so,  too,  if  all  the boys 
into  whose  clear, 
truthful  eyes  fond 
mothers  have  looked  and  read signs of 
future  greatness  had  become  the  men 
these  mothers  believed  they  would  be­
come, then our jails and prisons would all 
be  empty;  nay,  more  than  that—there 
would be no ordinary men among  us,  for 
mothers think not  only  that  their  boys 
will not be positively bad,  but  that  they 
will not be negatively  good.  And  as  it 
is often an  apparently  unimportant  oc­
currence that shapes the destiny of a vil­
lage,  making  it  in  the  future  a  great 
city or a “dead  town,”  so,  likewise,  our 
boys  become  either  lawyers  or  loafers, 
presidents  or  pugilists,  capitalists  or 
criminals, 
sometimes,  some 
trifling occurrence in their early life.

through, 

But  1  began  to  tell  you  the  strange 
story connected  with  these  three  people 
of twenty-five years ago.  Soon after set­
tling  in  this  little  village,  a worthless 
but handsome young man  was  attracted 
to  this  bright  young  girl.  She seemed 
so different and superior  to  these  West­
ern  girls,  and  his  calls showed marked 
interest in her.  But his  reputation  was 
by no  means  good,  and  the  parents  at 
first objected  and  finally  positively  for­
bade  their  daughter  seeing him or com­
municating in any  way  with  him.  But 
that only enlisted the  wayward girl’s in­
terest in him the more,  and  so  clandes­
tine  meetings  followed,  which,  to make 
the story short, culminated  in  an  elope­
ment and marriage.  Of course,  the par­
ents  were  heartbroken  and  began  a 
search  for  their  daughter;  and,  during 
all these twenty-five years, they have not 
wholly lost hope that someday she would 
return.  To be sure,  they  half  believed 
she must be dead;  but  we find it so hard 
to believe what  we  do  not  want  to  be­
lieve!

And  so  the  years  went  by and  these 
two people were growing  old  and  many 
changes came into  their lives.  The once 
thriving little  village  received  a  death­
blow  by  the  railroad being taken away. 
They lost a  great  deal  on  their  invest­
ments,  and,  in time, they left that town, 
after living here and there,  came,  a  few 
years ago, to Grand Rapids.

Three  years  ago, 

this  heartbroken 
mother was stricken  with  paralysis and, 
during  this  subsequent  time,  has  been 
unable to walk  a step alone.  They lived 
alone,  be  being  her devoted companion 
and helper. 
In  truth,  I  think  he  sees 
more beauty in that sweet  wrinkled face

of 70 years,  with the soft gray hair about 
it, than be ever saw • when she was young. 
And,  after  all, 
is  not  real  beauty, 
whether in youth or old  age,  that  unde- 
finable  something  that  has  little  to do 
with outline or color,  with  form  or  fea­
ture?

The years went  by  and  hope  of  ever 
seeing their child  had  wellnigh  died  in 
both  their hearts, and,  year by year, each i 
became dearer to the other,  for they had 
a  common  sorrow  and  that is a stronger 
bond than joy.  But,  one day this spring,
1  went to see these dear old  people  and, 
as 1 opened the door,  I saw  a  new  light 
was  in  the  mother’s  eye,  and no artist 
could ever  paint  the  look  of  happiness 
upon  that  face.  She  was  there  alone, 
with  the  Bible  in  her  band,  and  when 
she saw me, she simply  said,  “ We  have 
found  our  child!”  I  could  only  reply 
with tears that choked  my  voice  and  for 
a few minutes neither of  us  could  speak
but sat and  wept together,  so  closely al­
lied  are  sorrow  and  joy  that  both find 
often the same expression. 
I shall never 
forget the sound of  her  voice  when  she 
uttered  that  single  sentence,  “ We have 
found our child!”  When  joy  reaches its 
supreme  height,  it  becomes  a  solemn 
thing.  Gladness  is  not  gaiety,  save  in 
youth.  When  she  could  finally  speak, 
she told me that they had  received a let­
ter,  which  had  been  sent  to  numerous 
places and had,  by a most remarkable co­
incidence, fallen into the hands of a man 
who knew them and he had  forwarded it 
to  them.  This  was  all  she knew—that 
her child was alive,  and that  this  young 
girl  of  16  must  be  now a woman of 41. 
She could not  quite  comprehend  it  all. 
What  must  that  letter  have  meant  to 
these two people who bad waited twenty- 
five years for it!

A 

telegram  was  at  once  sent  to  the 
daughter’s  address  in  New  York,  and 
then another  letter  came  and  this  was 
the  story  that  it  told:  This wayward, 
willful  girl  had  found  the  man  whom 
she married even  worse in character than 
her  parents  supposed  him  to  be,  and, 
after living five  years  a  most  unhappy 
life with him, he died,  leaving  her  alone 
in 
the  world  with  one  child.  During 
these five years, she was too proud to  let 
her parents know  the  sad  fate  that  she 
had brought upon herself.  After he died 
she  had  this  child  to  care for,  and she 
was a mere child herself in judgment and 
ability  to  earn  a  living.  After  strug­
gling along for a time,  maintaining  her­
self and child by sewing,  and  feeling  al­
ways the burden of her past terrible mis­
take,  she began  to  realize  that  she  was 
only adding cruelty  to the  wrong she had 
already done, and she resolved  to  return 
home, if they  would take her back.  Let­
ter after letter was send  and  returned to 
her,  for,  as  I  said,  they  had made sev­
eral changes and all knowledge  of  them 
bad been lost in that little Western town 
that  she  once  called  home.  So  here 
were parents looking for their child  and 
a child  looking  for  her  parents!  After 
several years of weary  work  and  loneli­
ness,  she  was  married  again  to a most 
estimable man.  And the letter told them 
that they had four grandchildren, as well 
as a daughter and son.

The next time I called, they had sent a 
letter  begging  them  not  to  come  for  a 
visit,  but to come to stay with them  dar­
ing  the  few  remaining  years  of  their 
lives.

A  little  while  after,  1  was, one day, 
about  to  pass  the  house,  when I beard

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the  laughter  of  children. 
1  looked  up 
and  the  house,  always  so  hushed  and 
still,  was full of life and stir.  So  then  I 
knew the  prodigal  had  returned  and  it 
was meet that they  should  make  merry 
and be glad.  When  I  go  in  and see all 
these happy faces,  and the dear  old  lady 
the  happiest  of  them  all,  I go out with 
streaming  eyes  and  say,  “At  last,  all 
wanderers  will  return  to  the  Father’s 
house.” 
Commercial  Value  of a  Good  Reputa­
What is it worth to a merchant,  in dol­
lars and cents, to  have  a  reputation  for 
honesty,  fairness and reliability?
The very  suggestion  of  the  question 
causes  a  chill  to  run  down  the  moral 
backbone of the  purist,  and  those  who 
love righteousness for its own sake stand 
aghast at the cold  blooded  query.  Such 
would answer,  and  very  properly,  that 
there is no true honesty  which  takes  ac­
count  of  the  commercial  advantage  of 
right doing;  and that it is a  very  limber 
sort of integrity which studies the policy 
of good behavior.  The only honest man, 
in  sober  truth, 
is  he  whose  honesty 
springs from an  inborn  sense  of  right, 
and who is fitted  with a quality  of  mind 
and soul  which leads to honest  acts  and 
thoughts as unconsciously as plants grow 
upward and  forward  toward  the  light. 
That  man  who  measures  the  effect  of 
righteous conduct and chooses it because 
it pays best is essentially mean aDd base; 
when the real trial comes,  when  a  great 
crisis confronts him  and  honesty  means 
ruin,  while  timely  “crookedness”  will 
save his  estate,  he  will  reveal  himself 
nine times out of ten,  and  the  hypocrite 
will stand  unmasked.  The  truly honest 
man will stand  by  his  principles,  what­
ever the price of his faithfulness.
But read the  title of this article  again: 
Tou will find it asks the value of a repu­
tation for  honesty.  Now,  reputation  is 
not  character.  Some  one  has  wisely 
said,  “Reputation is  what  men  think  of 
us; Character is what God knows of  us.” 
The honest man possesses  character;  the 
politic man  enjoys  reputation.  We  are 
not,  therefore,  to  consider  the  commer­
cial  value  of  honesty  per  se,  but  the 
worth  in  dollars  and  cents of a reputa­
tion for honesty. 
It is a distinction with 
a vast difference.
Good is so much valued  in  this  world 
that  even 
the  semblance  of  it  com­
mands a premium in commerce and trade. 
However weak and nerveless a mau  may 
be morally, in his own  inner  knowledge 
of himself gathered from  the  self-inven­
tory  of  his  moral  qualities,  if  he  does 
right in the  public  eye,  acts  honorably 
with men and honestly with the world at 
large,  he  secures  a  reputation  which  is 
a very  considerable  part  of  his  capital 
and adds a liberal  measure  to  his  stock 
in trade.  Such a man need not vouch  the 
quality  of  his  goods;  the  fact  that  he 
sells them,  without explaining  their  de­
ficiencies, establishes their  worth  at  the 
price.  He  is  not  compelled  to  go  into 
hysterics in his advertising; he need only 
state the facts in strong, simple language, 
and his presentation will attract the con­
fident  public  against  the  questionable 
neighbor who  must  invent  superlatives 
and sprinkle exclamation points  through 
his advertisements to compel  the  doubt­
ing  reader’s  attention.  Take  up  any 
metropolitan newspaper,  and the student 
of advertising  can  instinctively  fix  the 
status of the several  leading  advertisers 
in  the  confidence  of  the  community. 
Here, one has  to  scream  at  the  reader; 
there,  another  calmly  and  confidently 
states  his  case.  One  gets  the  ear  only 
through  the  compelling  power  of  “the 
bargain  price;”  the  other  commands  a 
hearing on the merits of bis goods.  The 
one  talks  to  the  prospective  buyer  of 
that  day;  the  other  to  an  all-the-year 
audience,  and  in  so  doing  demonstrates 
the solid value  of  a  well-earned  reputa­
tion.  The  “good will” of  such  a  busi­
ness  is  an  assessable  quality;  of  the 
other, it is valueless.
A good reputation is  acquired so slow­
ly, and represents  such  a  vast accretion 
of  little  right-doings,  that  one  should 
treasure it above every other form of the 
capital in their investment—for it is cap­

ital,  as certainly  as  that  represented  in 
merchandise  and  bank  balances.  Yet 
how wasteful men are of  the  chances  of 
acquiring this treasure!  In Kings county 
penitentiary there are sixty-one bank  of­
ficers  imprisoned  for  embezzlement — 
seven presidents, fifteen  cashiers,  forty- 
nine  tellers  and  clerks.  They  deliber­
ately squandered  the  potentialities  of  a 
good reputation,  with all  the human dig­
nities and  honors attaching thereto—and 
their  crimes  brought  them  the  briefest 
compensations.  The  same  quality  of 
misdemeanor,  if not  the  same  quantity, 
menaces  the  future  of  the  thoughtless 
merchant who is selling cotton-and-linen 
for “all linen,” or  rolled-plate  cases  for 
“twenty-year  filled;”  who  broadly  inti­
mates that his  honest  competitor  is  “no 
better than he should be;” who advertises 
“dollar  values  at  nineteen  cents;”  and 
who, in divers and  manifold  ways, prac­
tices upon the ignorance or the duplicity 
of  the  public.  Like  the  embezzling 
bankers,  their  sin  will  eventually  find 
them out;  if,  by  cunning  and  ingenious 
concealment, 
they  evade  detection  in 
their own day,  their  children  will  have 
to bear the burden in theirs—the  burden 
of discovery of a parent’s fraud, the wit­
ness  of  the  punishment  of  the  public 
scorn,  and  the  contempt  of  honorable 
men.

P ro fitle ss  B a k in g  P o w d e rs.

From the Spice  Hill.

in. 

in  handling 

The baking powder war is  assuming  a 
new  phase—one  that  the  retail  grocer 
will no doubt be glad to see  and  become 
interested 
It  has  been  gradually 
dawning  upon  the  trade  that  the lines 
are  being  so  tightly  drawn  on  baking 
powders recently that there is  no  longer 
freedom  nor  profit 
this 
staple.  An exchange says that the large 
manufacturers,  backed by  the  enormous 
fortunes which the grocers  have assisted 
in building up,  are  making a determined 
effort,  and  not  without  some  degree  of 
success, 
to  keep  down  competition. 
Flushed by their success,  they  now  say 
openly to the retailer,  “You must handle 
our goods, for  we  have  proved  that  all 
! other baking powders  are  deleterious  to 
health.”  They  would  even  teach  the 
consumer to believe that all baking pow­
der  made  hereafter  will  be  poisonous. 
This is about  as  absurd  as  for  them  to 
say that the grocer is compelled to handle 
their brands to the  exclusion  of  others. 
Does  the  manufacturer  of  any  staple 
have more influence with your customers 
than  you?  If  he  has,  you  are  losing 
ground  and,  perhaps,  self-respect.  The 
grocer is not a  machine to be worked for 
the profit of others,  and I believe he will 
not be restricted in handling baking pow­
ders,  any more than he  would allow  any 
set  of  manufacturers  to  dictate  what 
brands of coffee he should handle.
The offerings of new brands  of baking 
powders  on  the  market  recently  has 
brought about a  wholesale  denunciation 
of all baking powders but  “ours.”  The 
“ours”  being the two or three companies 
that have made people  so  weary  during 
the last three years by their charges  and 
counter  charges  that  their  competitors’ 
goods contain alum,  ammonia, etc. 
It is 
high  time  that  the  retail grocer should 
step in and have something to say and do 
regarding  the  purity  of  the  goods  he 
sells,  for it must  be  remembered  that  a 
purveyor  should  know something about 
his  business. 
It  appears  from  the  ev­
idence as shown in the  daily  press  that 
some  of  the  manufacturers  of  baking 
powders are  trying  to  establish  it  as  a 
fact that grocers do not  know their busi­
ness.

William Wilson,  a Chicago laborer,  re­
cently sued a street car company  in  that 
city for heavy  damages  for  injuries  re­
ceived from the cars of the company,  but 
forgot to make his  story  consistent.  He 
was an employe of a steel  company,  and 
the books of the company,  which the  de­
fense brought into court,  showed that he 
worked every day but Sunday during the 
time that he alleged  that he was  laid  up 
by his injuries, and drew full pay for his 
services.  As soon as the trial  was  over, 
Wilson was  arrested  for  attempting  to 
blackmail the  company.

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In  this short series  of  articles  1  shall 
endeavor to give some practical  hints  or 
suggestions  as  to  the  desirability  and 
practicability of the permanent improve­
ment of  highways.  My  interest  in  this 
subject extends back  to  my  earliest  ex­
perience in farm life.  The  limitation of 
value  of  the  farms  of  the  locality  in 
which  my  boyhood  was  spent  was  the 
distance  and  inaccessibility  of  market, 
and  while  the  region  was  tertile,  with 
favorable climate the  farms  were almost 
worthless as to  immediate  remuneration 
for the labor expended  upon  them on ac­
count of the impossibility  of  selling  the 
produce. 
In  the  case  of  the  farm  on 
which my experience was obtained it was 
found that the most valuable crops,  as to 
money  returns, 
that  could  be  raised, 
were wool and maple  sugar.  These  had 
the  most  value  as  to  quantity,  and the 
former  was  ready  to  market  when  the 
roads were most passable and  the  latter 
could  be  kept  for  the  most convenient 
season.  As these were scarcely sufficient 
to make a promising outlook for the time 
to come,  better prospects  were sought  by 
emigration to a  locality  more  accessible 
to markets.  The  interest caused  by this 
early experience has  led me to  give  con­
siderable  attention  to  the  subject,  and 
my familiarity with  the operations of the 
old methods of  road-tax  work  has  kept 
me on the lookout  for  practical  methods 
of doing the work those did  not do.

if  such  it  be,  of  seeing  their  rightful 
tributes  pass  their  doors.  The  quality 
of a prairie road is proverbial  and  in  the 
country, tributary to  the  towns  referred 
to,  they are still deserving of their  repu­
tation.  Had these towns  been  provided 
with  suitable  roads  in  place  of the re­
gion being so overdone by  railways  they 
would have continued  to  be  centers  of 
prosperous trade and manufacture.

Now  these  conditions  as  to  develop­
ment  of  the  resources  of  the  East are 
temporary.  The  tide  of  emigration  to 
the  West  will  stop  and  roll  back from 
the foot of the  Rocky Mountains and the 
increase in  population  will  demand  that 
the neglected  resources  of the East shall 
be exploited  and  this  question  of  roads 
will  be the first and most  important one.
Reference  has  been  made  in  recent 
numbers of T h e   T r a d e s m a n   to  the  im­
portance  of  this  subject  to the country 
merchant.  This feature  of the  question 
cannot  be  too  much  emphasized.  The 
condition of trade in the  towns  referred 
to  above  are  a  sufficient  indication  of 
this.  Examples of merchants  who  have 
embarked in trade in  new and  promising 
localities  who  have met  disappointment 
and  failure  simply  because  the  town 
failed  to  become  a  center  of  trade for 
want of roads are  familiar  to  everyone. 
In  varying,  but  not small, degrees,  this 
question  is  a  factor  in  the  problem  of 
success or failure of every  couutry  mer­
chant. 
Novel  Method  of  Getting  Solid  With 

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the  American Youth.

The magnitude  of  the  undertaking  of 
securing permanent or easily maintained 
highways is  beyond  comprehension. 
In 
European countries the task  may  be  said 
to be well advanced,  but  it  is  relatively 
much  smaller  there  on  account  of  the 
much greater density  of  population;  and 
again,  the work has been mucb  longer in 
progress.  This  undertaking 
this 
country  is  far  greater  than  any  other 
economic undertaking before us.

in 

The  idea  has  obtained  quite  largely 
that the older portions of our county  are 
becoming worked out,  that  opportunities 
for work,  for improvements,  for  indust 
rial enterprises,  are becoming scarce.  It 
was  in  the  light  of  this  idea  that the 
capable,  though  at  times  somewhat  er 
ratic,  economist,  Horace Greely,  advised 
the young man  to go West  and  grow  u 
with  the  country.  He has taken the ad 
vice and done so with a vengeance.  The 
best opportunities of the East  have  been 
left  scarcely  skimmed,  while  the  new 
and  untried enterprises of the  far  West 
irrigation  aud  development  of  arid  re 
gions,  receive  the  attention  that  should 
have  been  given  to the far  more  practic 
able  resources  of  the East. 
It is a fact 
well known  but scarcely realized  that  in 
many localities in the so-called garden of 
the country,  the  Eastern  prairie  states, 
as Indiana,  illiuois,  Iowa,  and  even  in 
the southern counties of our own  state of 
Michigan, 
larger  portions  of  the 
small towns and  villages have declined in 
population aud  have  lost  most  of  their 
manufacturing  industries,  as  shown  by 
tbe  federal  census.  The  rush  to  the 
West accounts for  some  of  this  decline 
but the greater cause is the lack of  high­
ways to  make  the  surrounding  regions 
tributary  to  these  towns.  The  all  too 
great  supply  of  railroads  facilities  has 
reduced the more accessible ones to ship­
ping points from  which to send the prod­
ucts to the great centers,  while  the  less 
accessible have not even  the consolation.

the 

This is about  tbe  season  of  the  year 
when athletic sports  take  possession  of 
the  brain  of  the  small  boy,  his  big 
brother and  the old  man,  and  base  ball 
clubs galore are formed  from  an average 
in  height of from 3 feet 6 inches to 0 feet 
3 inches from  Maine to California.  Every 
town has its base ball  cranks  and  every 
town has its base ball clubs.  Out of this 
fact  a live  retailer  may  work  in  some 
good advertising.
Select a club  of boys, say 16 years  old 
or so,  and rig them out with cheap suits, 
caps, etc. 
If there are two or three clubs 
of this character in your town,  let  them 
play  a  series  of  games  for  the  suits. 
Give the lucky club your  name  and  act 
as manager,  with an assistant  to  do  the 
work.
Arrange games in your vicinity and get 
the  weekly  papers  thereabouts  to  puff 
up  the  games.  With  the  exercise  of a 
little shrewdness you can get  some  good 
notices that will bring you trade.
The  main  thing,  however, is to make 
yourself  popular  with  the  youngsters. 
Offer prizes of small  value  at  intervals. 
Get the boys headed your  way  and  very 
frequently the  old  folks  will  be  towed 
along in their wake.
During  the  summer arrange for a ball 
game  between  the  merchants on the op­
posite sides of your street, or between  the 
fats and the leans,  and get what  free ad 
vertising you can out of it.
There is another way of  making  your­
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Procure  a 
time  with  the  workmen. 
quantity  of  thin  white  caps  with  your 
business card printed on  the  front,  and 
give them away.
In 
fact,  they  are  sold for but a very slight 
advance  on  cost,  and  if no  one  in  your 
neighborhood has  them  they  will  make 
you a splendid ad.  that will  never be  de­
stroyed  so  long  as  the  cap  and  hot 
weather hold  out.

These  caps  are  very  cheap now. 

A carload of the first uew  wheat of the 
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1 9

AN  UNSUCCESSFUL  CLERK.

Confessions of a Man Who Never  Made 

His Mark.

I.

I am now nearly fifty years of age,  and 
hold a 8000 position  in a general  country 
store,  where,  I  hope,  if  not  discharged, 
to end  my days in the monotonous  round 
of its humble  duties.  There  have  been 
times  when  a  more  ambitious  purpose 
filled my mind,  but  that  was  years  ago; 
and  my  own  failure  in  life leads me to 
look with considerable interest  at  every­
thing  recorded  by  men  who  have been 
able to do what I undertook,  but did  not 
carry to success.

Greatly  interested  attention  gave I to 
the letters of my  friend,  Mark  Rowland, 
whose  business  life  was  so  graphically 
outlined in that admirable serial entitled 
•'From Porter to Partnership.”
1 will show you,  in a little  space,  how 
I managed to fit  myself  for  the  position 
now occupied,  and by what  methods  my 
business life was deprived of those emol­
uments  of  wealth  and  honor  that  my 
early associates  have  so  pleasantly  gar­
nered.
I knew Mark Rowland well.  Soon  af­
ter he entered the employ  of Mr.  Ely,  in 
the  combined  capacity  of  errand  boy, 
porter and sub-clerk, I  was  installed  in 
a similar position in the store  of Samson 
&  Crow,  at  the  county  seat,  an  Ohio 
town  of  some  4,000  inhabitants,  which 
possessed not only  the  court  house,  but 
one railroad and two long lines of  hitch­
ing posts—one row upon each side of the 
main street,  where a hundred or so teams 
of  country  buyers  would  find  location 
and a feeding place during  the  business 
hours of each pleasant day.
I  was  born  and  raised  in  the  little 
country town  in  which  Mark  lived,  and 
where be laid the foundations of his busi­
ness  success.  We  attended  the  same 
school for several years,  and it was  with 
no  little  wonder  that  i  noted  his pro­
ficiency in arithmetic,  and  the  confident 
air with which he would  march up to the 
blackboard and  “do”  the  most  abstruse 
“sums”  in Ray’s Third Part  Arithmetic. 
The  examples  and  definitions  which 
failed  of  accomplishment  at  my  hands 
were always  turned  over  to  Mark;  and 
the  superior  air  with  which  he  would 
march by  me  and cover  the  board  with 
figures that,  under his deft manipulation, 
always  aggregated  safely  into  the  an­
swer  required  by  the  book  was  an  ag­
gravation that had its sting so deep that, 
even  to-day,  1  am  unable  to  recall  it 
«without  a  lingering  touch  of  jealous 
heartburn.
In  reading,  geography  and  spelling,
1  could  hold  my  own  with  him;  but in 
those days and schools,  the supreme  test 
of intellectual merit lay  in  the ease  with 
which a pupil could  master  his  arithme­
tic.  What  an  unattractive  round  of 
mysteries  lay  bound  in  that dog-eared, 
brown-covered  book!  Commencing with 
the multiplication table—how  1  hated it, 
with its six  times  seven  are  forty-nine; 
eight  times  nine  are  ninety-four—and, 
working on  by  the  slough  of  Fractions; 
the  morass  of  Proportion;  that  bill  of 
difficulty  called  Partial  Payments;  and 
so  on  by  Cube  Root,  Arithmetical  Pro­
gression,  and  those like  horrible  things, 
put  in,  1  believed,  merely  to  entrap  a 
boy who found more pleasure in  playing 
“authors,”  or 
sleigh-riding  with  the 
girls,  than  in  poking  around  at  home, 
studying dry figures by the  light of a tal­
low  candle  set  over in  the middle of the 
kitchen  table.
I have  said  that  the  supreme  test  of 
our  district  school  lay  in  arithmetical 
proficiency.  There  should  be  a  slight 
modification  of  this  statement.  Once 
each  week  we  had  an  afternoon  for 
“speaking pieces,”  when  the little  girls 
would come in  clean' pinafores,  and  the 
big girls  in  curls  and  delaine  dresses; 
the little boys with newly-washed  faces, 
and the big boys in  their store  clothes— 
well do 1 remember  that  Mark  Rowland 
was the first boy in our school to  wear  a 
real paper collar.
A  few  prim  old  ladies,  redolent  of 
“dill,” and,  perhaps,  a  school  director, 
would be present upon  these  stirring oc­
casions, to  catch  this  intellectual  over­
flow  from  the  “Corners”  school.  The 1 
boy or girl who could make  the  best  ap-

pearance in the way  of  essay  or  decla­
mation  was,  for the moment,  set  upon  a 
pedestal  of  fame  equal  to  that  of  the 
prize pupil  in Ray’s distracting  series of 
mathematical  conundrums.
Where  was  Mark’s  glory  in  “sums,” 
when I  was permitted to march out upon 
the floor, in  well-blacked  cowhide  boots 
and  a  black  alpaca  roundabout, and,  in 
shrill and soul-compelling manner, recite 
“Marco Bozzaris” or  "On  Linden  When 
the Sun Was Low!” 
I  was  regarded  as 
one of  the  “show”  pupils  brought  out 
upon such occasions;  and,  unfortunately 
for me,  the  idea  found  lodgment  in  my 
mind that as fame and honor could be so 
easily  won in that little  world  by this ap­
pearance  once  each  week,  it  would  be 
folly to labor all the remaining days over 
lessons that were so  hard to learn and so 
easy to forget.
The  schooldays  of  a  poor  boy  in the 
country are usually over at  an early age. 
At  a  time  when  he  should  be  in  the 
hands of  careful  trainers,  who  are  en­
deavoring to discover the bent of his  tal­
ents that they may  be  led in the right di­
rection, practical necessity drives him  to 
seek  some  labor  by  which  he  may  pay 
his own way in the world. 
I was  hardly 
sixteen when my schooldays  ended.  My 
father’s  roof  and  table  were  still  un­
grudgingly at my service,  but boots, hats 
and clothes required ready  money, which 
1 was considered old enough to earn.
I  must  confess  that  this  view  coin­
cided with my own. 
I  felt  that  all  the j 
education  1  should  need,  even  for  the j 
United  States  Senate,  which  was  then 
set as the goal of my  ambition,  had been 
already secured,  and that  such  solid  ac­
quirements  as  were  lacking  could  be 
made  up  by  dash  and  guesswork. 
In j 
later years it has  been  my  lot  to  meet 
more than one young man  who set out in 
life equipped  with  the  same  miserable 
theory.
The succeeding year  was spent in farm 
work,  here and there, at  fifty cents a day 
—haying,  hoeing, chopping, cutting corn, 
plowing,  etc. 
It was good physical exer­
cise,  and in  that respect a  great  benefit. 
My evenings were largely spent  in  read­
ing  the  old  New  York  Ledger, Captain 
Mayne Reid’s remarkable stories, or Mrs. 
Southworth’s early novels—about  as bad 
a collection of trash as  could  have fallen 
into a boy’s hands.
I think  that  Mark  Rowland’s  success 
in getting into Mr.  Ely’s  store  first  set 
me to the serious consideration  of  seek­
ing  something  similar  for  myself.  Of 
course,  I  meant  to  become  a  lawyer— 
we boys in those  days  thought  that  the ' 
one requirement for that  profession,  was 
an ability to “speak  pieces”  better  than 
the other  boys. 
I  recognized  the  fact, 
however,  that a leap from Deacon Peck’s 
cornfield into  a  law  office  was  beyond 
even my abilities,  and  that  some  inter­
mediate  step  was  necessary.  A  few 
years  in a  store,  1  reasoned,  would  en­
able  me to lay aside a  little  money,  and 
pass away the time  before some eminent 
jurist  might  come  along,  discover  me, 
and  take me into immediate partnership.
There was no chance  in  the  stores  of 
our  village,  Mark  having  secured  the 
one vacancy then open.  The county seat 
was  only  fifteen  miles  away,  and  my 
hopes  naturally  turned  in 
that  direc­
tion. 
that  my  father  would 
raise  objection to my leaving home for a 
year or so at least, and I decided  to  do  a 
little figuring  without him.
It  was  late  in  the  year  when he de­
cided  to drive over to G------- with a load
of  hides  he  had  been  buying  from the 
farmers,  and  1  was permitted to  go  with 
him.  We reached our destination a little 
before  noon,  and,  after  dinner  at  the 
main  tavern,  I set out  among  the  stores 
to seek my fortune.

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It was 
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shop in a  Western  town  to  reverse  the 
order of things.  On the  occasion  of  his 
daughter’s  marriage  a  large  piece  of 
paper  was  tacked  on  his  barred  door. 
Across the paper  straggled  these words: 
“This  Store  is  close  on  the Account  of 
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A  W H IST L IN G   GIRL.

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Gimpton was  an  old-fashioned  burgh, 
full of old-fashioned people,  not  one  of 
whom pretended to deny tbatMellie Rose 
was  the  prettiest, 
liveliest  girl  in the 
place.
Now,  although  Gimpton  folk  had  re­
luctantly  succumbed  to  the  inroads  of 
progress,  insomuch  that  they  admitted 
there were no  witches,  they  still  clung 
persistently to wise  old  saws.  Why  not 
call  them  the  worn-out  old  saws,  and 
relegate them to the  junk  pile  of  other 
bygone misconceptions?

Thus  it  happened,  that  while  other 
girls were “spoke  for”  as  soon  as  they 
became of age,  sweet Mellie Rose  wasted 
her sweetness  upon transient  lovers.
Joshua Jones,  the most appreciative of 

iu 

“Naow\  mammy,  1  dou’t 

these,  bad remarked to his mother:
believe 
there’s  a  thing  wrong  with  Mellie.  1 
like her mighty  well.”
"Gracious, Josh!” said she,  holding up 
her hands in  horror.  “If jou’re a-gittin’ 
struck on that gal,  >ou  had  ju*t  better 
git  over  it  as  quick  as  possi tile.  My 
griet!  A  whistlin’  gal 
the  Jones 
family!  Ugh!”
So honest Josh put aside his sentiment 
by muttering:
“Yes, I s’pose whistlin’ gals and crow-1 
in’ hens is as true to-day as it ever  was.” 
Josh was right.  This  old  saw  is  just 
as true to-nay as it was when  the lunatic 
of  long  ago  manufactured  it.  Accord­
ingly,  he married a “good housekeeper,” 
who never  whistled,  and  Mellie  seemed 
destined to be an old maid.
In Gimpton,  a girl became an old  maid 
if  she  was  not  “keeping  reg’k r  com­
pany”  by the  time  she was  twenty-one.
“I  can’t  see why  Mell  cau’t  be  like 
other gals,” said her  aunt  Dorothy,  who 
didn’t believe in old  maids.  "Can’t jou 
stop  this  pesky  whistling,  Mellie?”  she 
asked her one day.
“I’ll try, aunty,”  replied  the innocent 
girl.
So for a  week  or  so  she  went  about 
looking  as  demure  as  possible;  but  it 
was  up-hill work.
“Got a new minister.  They say he’s  a 
young man—right smart, too.  Guess i’ll 
invite  him  in.  No  tellin’,  he  might— 
but no, of  course  not!  Well,  i’ll  invite 
him,  anyhow,”  said Aunt Dorothy.
A week or two after this, she was busy­
ing herself,  making the little parlor look 
“spry,”  when  a  knock  sounded  on  the 
door.  She  ushered  in  a  fine 
looking 
young man  with a decidedly  clerical air, 
but pleasant and kindly withal.
The pastor and his  hostess  were  soon 
talking  quietly  on  parish  matters. 
In 
the next room there  was a rattle of some 
one washing dishes.
“I’ll call Mellie as soon as she  finishes 
her chores,”  Aunt  Dorothy  was  saying, 
when, horrors!  there arose in that young 
lady’s clear,  piccolo-like  whistle  the fa­
miliar  notes  of  "Old  Hundred.”  Poor 
Mellie had kept her mouth  in  its normal 
position for two whole  weeks;  but  now, 
to the time of the  rattling  crockery,  the 
notes  rose  and  fell  with  startling  dis­
tinctness.
Aunt  Dorothy  turned  red  and  then 
white;  fidgeted  about,  and  finally,  when 
the  assortment  of  noises  stopped,  went 
into the kitchen,  saying as she went:
“Excuse  me,  Mr.  Haviland,  and  I’ll 
tell Mellie to come in.”
With blood curdling coolness  she  said 
to her  niece:
“The new minister’s in here.  Come in 
and be introduced.”  That was what her 
mouth uttered;  but her eyes  said,  “Now 
you’ve done it,  with that dratted  whistle 
of  yourn!  Let’s  see  how  you’ll git out 
of it.”

Mellie followed the irate lady.
“Mr.  Haviland,  my niece,  Miss Rose.”
One would have supposed  that  a  real 
rose could not be much redder; but when 
Mr. Haviland said,  in  an  amused  tonp, 
"Your  brother  is  a  fine whistler,”  then 
one knew that Mellie’s  first  blush  was  a 
mere tinge of color.
“I—I  have  no  brother,”  she  replied 
honestly;  so  the  evidently  painful  sub­
ject was  dropped.
lady,” 
thought the  young  minister,  as  he  was 
returning  to  his  boarding-place,  “and 
evidently as  innocent as  her  name. 
It’s

“A  remarkably  fine  young 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

so dull here;  1 really must  cultivate  her 
acquaintance.” '

So the fleeting summer  days found  the 
Reverend  Haviland often  at  Aunt  Doro­
thy’s  house,  or,  in  Mellie’s  company, 
wandering upon the rocky banks  of  Lit­
tle River.

To the young lady  these  bits  of  sun­
shine  in  her  life  were  snatches  from 
dreamland.  To hear the educated young 
man  discourse  upon 
the  people  and 
things of  the  big,  big  world was so dif­
ferent from the humdrum talk and gossip 
of Gimptown.  Her aunt thought:

“I  swum! 

I  do  believe  the  parson’s 
a-gittiu’ interested in Mell.  Now if she’ll 
only keep that whistle o’  hers  shet  long 
enough,  who  knows?  something  may 
come of it.”
•Gimpton  in general  said it  was  almost 
scandalous 
that  so  fine  a  young  man 
should  be  “took  in”  by  a  pretty  face, 
when everyone knew that  that  face  was 
disfigured  by a  whistling mouth.

Miss  Smith,  whose  age  was  an  un­
know quantity between twenty and forty, 
and  who  had  set  her  cap  so  often that 
that article was badly  frayed  around  its 
figurative edges, said:
“No,  be shan’t  be  bamboozled,  not  if 
1 have to  warn  him  myself!”  And  it  is 
on record that  she  did  warn  the  daring 
man!
In spite of all this opposing element in 
his  flock,  Mr.  Haviland  could not help 
thinking how dull life would  be  without 
a certain fiower whose perfume  he  alone 
seemed to have discovered.
One bright September  day,  he  walked 
over to Aunt Dorothy’s little  cottage,  in­
tending  to  invite  Mellie  to  accompany 
him  upon  an  errand  of  mercy.  As  be 
reached  the  gate  he stopped  a moment. 
The front door  was  wide  open.  Mellie, 
dressed  in  pink calico,  with a cap of the 
same material only partly concealing her 
fluffy  brown  hair,  was  busily  engaged 
with broom and dust brush  in  the  hall. 
There was a happy look  upon  her  inno­
cent  face.  When,  as  if,  bird-like,  she 
could not restrain her joy,  the  ruby  lips 
puckered bewitchingly,  and the  notes  of 
a  hymn  thrilled  forth  with  startling 
clearness and truth.
Suddenly  the unconscious warbler was 
electrified 
into  silence  by  the  sharp 
words:

“Perfectly shockin’, ain’t it?”
Glancing  up,  she  saw  Aunt  Dorothy 
standing,  with  watering-can  in hand,  as 
if preparing to water her own feet, which 
seemed  rooted  to  the  ground.  She was 
staring at Mr.  Haviland,  who leaned  up­
on the gate  with  a  puzzling  expression 
upon his face.
Not waiting to hear his  answer,  Mellie 
fled to her own room,  where she indulged 
in that which seldom spoiled  her  happy 
face—a  good  “cry.”  For  she  doubted 
not  that  she  had  forfeited  her place in 
the minister’s  esteem.
She  was  not  surprised,  then,  when 
Aunt Dorothy met her with:
“Now you have done it!  My goodness! 
I  don’t  know  what  to  do  with  you. 
1 
swum, you’re enough to try  a  saint’s pa­
tience!”
But  Mellie  was  surprised  when  her 
aunt handed her a note  from  Mr.  Havi­
land containing his request toaccompany 
him to the  house  of  some  poor  people, 
who lived several miles away.

“Shall I go?” she asked her aunt.
“Of  course!  No  use  makin’  matters 
worse than they be by refusin’.”
So  Mellie  said  she  would accompany 
the minister, though her sensitive nature 
rebelled against the trial.
After packing a basket of food  for  the 
poor  people,  Mellie  waited  in  nervous 
anxiety  for  her  escort.  When  he  ar­
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her into the buggy,  where she sat almost 
dumb,  a  pained  expression  upon  her 
face.
“What is the matter with you to-day?” 
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they  trundled 
through the green fields.
Mellie  trembled  at  his  kindly  tones; 
but she would not be drawn into  conver­
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But  there,  no  matter!  What  right 
have  we  to  intrude?  Suffice  it  to  say 
that  the  next  day  Mr.  Haviland  asked 
Aunt Dorothy for Mellie’s  band.
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death”  with the proposal,  could not help 
saying:
“But, Mr.  Haviland,  she is a whistlin’ 
gal;  an’ you know—”
say  a  word 
“There, 
a g a in s t  the  future  mistress  of  the par­
sonage!” he interrupted.  And  so,  amid 
shocked  Gimpton’s  surprised  talk,  the 
doomed old maid of  twenty  winters  was 
converted  into  a  happy bride of twenty 
summers.
Rumor has it that Miss  Smith  is  prac­
ticing the much abused art  of  whistling. 
But heartless  rumor  also  says  that  she 
whistles in vain.

T h e  S p u r t  In  C in n am o n .

To  most  people, the  sudden  spurt  in 
cinnamon  and  the  extensive  business 
done in it have come as a great  surprise, 
and most people,  who used to  look  upon 
this  spice  as  an  article too small to at­
tract the attention of strong  speculators, 
have now  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
they  have  undervalued  its  significance, 
and that a formidable  “ bull”  clique  has 
taken this article in hand, a clique which, 
furthermore,  has  operated  with  a skill 
and a secrecy  worthy of  an  undertaking 
of a bigger thing, says the  London  Com­
mercial  Record.  Speaking  of  the pros­
pects,  it  says:  “So far as we can see, the 
apparent  strength  of  the  clique  repre­
sents,  at  present,  the  only  feature  in 
favor  of  the  ‘bull’  movement,  for  the 
statistical position of the article does not 
appear to be of a  character  likely  to  in­
spire anyone with a desire to buy  exten­
sively.  The shipments from Ceylon have 
been large,  in spite of the supposed dam­
age  done  to  the  recent  crop  by  the 
drought.  They  amounted  to  522,445 
pounds in bales from Jan.  1 to  April  29, 
1895;  442,920 in  1894 and 472,096 in 1893. 
The reports of the  coming crop continue 
favorable,  promising fair  supplies.  Our 
stocks are about the same as last  year  at 
this time, being returned  as  about  3,000 
bales,  and our trade,  to  judge  from  the 
little  support  it  has  extended  to  the 
movement,  is undoubtedly  well  stocked, 
and as no fresh employment or outlet has 
been found for cinnamon,  it is difficult to 
understand the justification of the spurt. 
It is a speculative ‘bull’ movement,  pure 
and  simple,  the  duration  of which will 
depend entirely  on  the  strength  of  the 
clique responsible for it.”

G ra n d   R ap id e   R e ta il  G ro c e rs   A sso c ia ­

tio n .

At the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
at  the  office  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   on 
Tuesday  evening.  June  18,  President 
White presided.
The  circular  letter  sent  out  by  the 
Secretary,  explaining  the  necessity  of 
employing a  regular  salaried  Secretary, 
was  discussed  at  some  length  and  ap­
proved.
The matter of closing on the Fourth of 
July was then discussed at  some  length, 
culminating in the adoption of  a  resolu­
tion, offered  by  Mr.  Klap  and  supported 
by  Mr.  Lehman,  that  the  Association 
continue the  custom  of  previous  years, 
and close promptly at noon  on  Indepen­
dence Day.
The subject of  the  annual  picnic was 
then taken  up  for  discussion.  A  mem­
ber suggested that the picnic be  held  on 
labor day,  which suggestion did not meet 
the approval of  the  other  members,  for 
the reason that  Grocers’ Picnic  Day  has 
come to mean as much  in  Grand  Rapids 
as labor day or Fourth of July.
Mr.  Lehman moved that the  picnic  be 
held  in the  month  of  August  and  that 
the Chairman and Secretary be instructed 
to prepare a list  of  the  necessary  com­
mittees  for  presentation  at  the  next 
meeting,  which was adopted.
The Treasurer  reported  a  balance  on 
hand of $239, and the meeting adjourned.

E n tire ly   S afe.

F r o m  the Boston  H e ra ld .
“ Did  you  ever  hear  of Nocash’s most 
generous offer to the town of  Littleton?”
“No;  what was  it?”
“He offers to give the town $500,000 for 
a free library if the citizens  will  raise  a 
similar amount.”

“But Nocash is not worth  $500,000.”
“ Neither are the citizens of Littleton.”

W h e n   to   T ry   o n   S b o e s.

Retailers will  hardly  believe that there 
are special times and seasons  for  trying 
on new shoes,  but so it  is.  You  need  a 
larger pair of shoes  in  summer  than  in 
winter, and it is always best to  try them 
on in the  latter  part  of  the  day.  The 
feet are then at the  maximum  size.  Ac­
tivity naturally enlarges them  or  makes 
them swell;  much standing tends  also to 
enlarge the feet.  New  shoes  should  be 
tried on over moderately thick stockings; 
then you can  put  on  a  thinner  pair  to 
ease your feet if  the  shoes  seem  to  be 
tight. 
It is  remarkable  what  a  differ­
ence  the  stockings  make. 
If  they  are 
too large they  will  be  nearly as  uncom­
fortable as a pair of  shoes  that  are  too 
tight.  New shoes  can  ba worn with  as 
much ease as old ones, if they are stuffed 
to the  shape  of  the  foot with  cloth  or 
paper  and  patiently  sponged  with  hot 
water.  Or,  if they pinch in some partic­
ular spot, a cloth  wet with hot water and 
laid across  the  place  will  cause  imme­
diate  and  lasting  relief.  Milk  applied 
once  a week with  a  soft  cloth  freshens 
and preserves  boots and  shoes. 
If these 
points are brought by the retailers to the 
notice  of  their  patrons  they  will  find 
them a help in attracting customers, who 
will thereby  recognize that the  dealer  is 
not  only  seeking  their  custom  but  is 
looking 
their  comfort  and  con­
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C a s t  O u t  Ille g itim a te   C o m p etitio n .
The majority of  retail  shoe  merchants 
are  rigidly  honest  and  honorable,  and 
their stores  are  conducted  accordingly, 
but there are a  few  in  business  who  at 
times  do  not  pursue  a straightforward, 
business-like  course  of 
trade.  This 
should  not  be,  and  tlie  evil  could  be 
readily  eradicated  if  the  honest  mer­
chants  would  combine  in  some  way to 
destroy  it.  The  manner  in  which  this 
class of dealers conduct their business is 
detrimental  to  the  many  upright  mer­
chants, although generally it  lasts  but  a 
short time.  The influence of these rogues 
is not only felt among  the  retailers,  but 
also by the  wholesalers,  and  eventually 
by the public.  Consequently, they should 
be driven out of the business for the ben­
efit of everybody,  as they not only injure 
the shoe trade materia' ly,  but the stigma 
they cast upon it  by  their  operations  is 
felt socially as well as  the  financial  loss 
they entail upon the trade generally.

T e m p o ra ry   B oss.

“Are  you  the  boss  of  this  ranch?” 
asked the tramp.
“Yes,”  said  Mr.  Timmins, 
thought­
fully.  “I think that at the present moment 
I  can  truthfully  say  that I am  the  boss 
here.  The  hired  girl is taking an after­
noon off and my wife is out riding a bicy­
cle.” 

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of  more  than  ordinary  interest  to  the 
public in general  and to  users of milk in 
particular.  Blackham  washed  his  milk 
cans,  and  perhaps  weakened  his  milk 
with water  from  a  well  alive  with  mi­
crobes of typhoid fever.  Over 400 of his 
patrons were taken sick,  and  twenty-one 
of them  died.  Typhoid  epidemics  have 
occurred  in  a  number  of New England 
towns from  similar  causes.  Some  1,600 
cases of the disease have  been  traced  to 
this source, 250 of them fatal.

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M OVING  SA N D -H IL L S .

P o w e rfu l A srents in  C h a n g in g  th e  C ru s t 

o f th e  G lo b e.

The phenomenon of  a  moving  hill  of 
sand is by no  means  an  uncommon  one 
on various parts  of  the  earth’s  surface 
and,  not  unfrequently,  whole  villages 
and 
towns  have  thereby  been  over 
whelmed and destroyed.  To  sucb  shift 
ing mounds the name  of “dunes” is usu 
ally given  by geologists,  and from a  sim 
ilar  root  the  more  familiar  term  of 
“downs” seems  to  be  derived.  Dunes 
or downs,  of  sand  are  commonly  found 
within  a  short  way  from  the  seashore 
being composed of the fine particles  cast 
up by the waves, aud afterward  dried  in 
the  sun,  and  carried inland to a greater 
or  lesser  distance  by  the  wind.  The 
coasts of Holland present an  example  of 
vast quantities of detritus taken  down to 
the sea in the first instance by rivers, and 
subsequently 
thrown  back  upon  the 
land,  forming  long  chains  of sand-bills, 
or downs.  The  shores  of  France,  Spain 
and  various  other  countries  exhibit  the 
same  phenomena  at  particular  points. 
On the shores of the Bay of Biscay,  mov­
ing sands are so common  as  to  have  oc­
casioned  much  injury  to  the  land  and 
the inhabitants, both in  early and  recent 
times.

About  the  year  1770,  a whole village 
near St.  Pol de Leon, In Brittany,  was so 
completely  buried  by  one  great  move­
ment of drift-sand, that nothing could be 
seen of it but the spire of the church.  In 
the  same  region,  according  to  Cuvier, 
these  dunes  advance  with 
irresistible 
force, burying forests in their route,  and 
impelling  before  them  lakes  of  fresh 
water, derived from the rains which can­
not find a way through them  into the sea. 
“One village  in  the  department  of  the 
Landes, named Mimisan,  has been strug­
gling for twenty years against them; and 
one sand-hill,  more than sixty feet high, 
may  be said to be seen advancing hourly. 
In 1802, the propelled lakes  invaded five 
fine  farms  belonging  to  Saint  Julien; 
they  have  long  since  covered  a Roman 
causeway leading from Bordeaux to Bay­
onne,  and  which  was  seen  about  forty 
years since,  when the  waters were yet in 
a low state.  The river Adour,  also,  has 
been turned out of  its  former  course  by 
the same  causes.”

in 

Sometimes assuming the shape of  con­
ical mounds, and sometimes appearing in 
the  form of flat  heaps  or  masses,  these 
shifting sands  have also done much harm 
at different periods on the British coasts. 
In  Suffolk, 
the  year  1688,  part  of 
Downham  (a  name ominously indicative 
of the character of the district) was over­
whelmed by  sands  which  had  begun  to 
move,  about  100  years  before,  from  a 
point about five miles  to  the  south-west. 
The drifting mass  traveled  over  the  in­
tervening distance  in  the  course  of  the 
century,  and covered more than  a  thous­
and acres of  land.  On  the  north  coast 
of  Cornwall,  a  considerable  extent  of 
country  has  been  inundated  by  sands, 
constituting hills several  hundred feet in 
height.  So  completely  have  these  vast 
mounds  shifted  their  whole  bulk from 
spot  to  spot,  that  the  ruins  of  ancient 
buildings,  originally  overwhelmed  by 
them,  have  again  been  laid  bare  in  the 
rear of their line  of  progress.  A  pot  of 
old  coins  was  found  in  the  same  situa­
tion  in  one  instance,  by  which  a guess 
could  be made at the  period  of  entomb­

Many  other  examples  of  these  sand­
hill  phenomena  might  be  selected;  but 
enough has  been said regarding sea-borne 
sands.  There  are  drifting  sands  of  a 
different character,  which  have  effected 
far  greater  changes  on  the  face of the 
earth,  and  have  far  more  deeply  in­
fluenced  the  comforts  and  affected  the 
lives of its inhabitants.  What  were  the 
original  limits  of  the  desert-sands,  and 
what the  former  condition  of  many  re­
gions now covered  by them,  it is scarcely 
possible to  determine;  but  certain  it  is 
that they  have shifted to an  immense ex­
tent within the  knowledge  of  man,  and 
have produced deplorable  consequences. 
By  the  action,  seemingly,  of  the  west 
winds,  the sands of the  African  interior 
have  been gradually forced in  more  and 
more  upon  the  banks  of the Nile,  until 
they have engulfed many cities,  and  the 
ruins of cities,  and  have  covered  a great 
portion  of  the  tillage  lands  of  Egypt. 
The number of cities,  towns and villages 
thus effaced from the earth is too large to 
be  calculated.  The  French 
traveler, 
Denon,  tells  us that  their  summits  still 
appear externally in  many instances, and 
feelingly observes,  that  “nothing can  be 
more melancholy  than to  walk  over  vil­
lages swallowed  up by  the  desert-sands, 
to  trample  under  foot  their  roofs, 
to 
strike against the peaks of their temples, 
and to reflect that  here  were  cultivated 
fields,  that  here  grew  lofty  trees,  and 
that here were even the homes  and  hab­
itations of men—and  that  all  have  van­
ished!”

These iemarks  will  bring  to  the  mind 
of many readers the  buried  condition  in 
which  the  majority  of  the  recovered 
sculptures  and  monuments  of  Egypt 
were found,  and  particularly  the  great 
Sphinx,  the base of which  extraordinary 
piece  of  sculpture  was  sunk  thirty  or 
forty  feet 
in  the  sands,  having  little 
more than  its  massive bead aboveground 
to  point  out  where  it stood.  Although 
the desert sands,  however,  have wrought 
such vast apparent ruin,  by  swallowing 
up the glorious  monuments of past  ages, 
there is a degree of consolation to  be  de­
rived  from this very fact—this  very  en- 
gulfment.  The sands are,  in  one  sense, 
conservators  of  the things they entomb. 
By no  other mode  of interment  or  keep­
ing could  the fine sculptures, stuccos and 
paintings  discovered  by  Burckhardt, 
Beechey and Belzoni  have  been  handed 
down  to  us  in  so  perfect  a state.  Mr. 
Lyall,  who makes this  remark,  points  it 
out also as not improbable that the sands 
which have shifted may shift again,  and 
in  sucn a manner that “many a town  and 
temple of higher  antiquity  than  Thebes 
or  Memphis  may  one  day  re-appear  in 
their original integrity, and a part of the 
gloom  which  overhangs  the  history  of 
earlier nations be dispelled.”

But alas!  the numberless  human  lives 
which the  desert  sands  have  destroyed 
can never thus be restored to the light of 
day.  Whole  caravans,  numbering  in­
dividually  hundreds  of  followers,  have 
been overwhelmed  in  this way,  in  vari­
ous lines of travel, as well in Asia  as  in 
Africa. 
In  Arabia,  the  bones  of  dead 
men and camels are the  principle guides 
of the pilgrim.

The  sands  which  cause  the  greater 
part of these deaths come usually  in  the 
form of a wind,  bearing fine  particles on 
its wings,  which blind and  suffocate  the 
unfortunates who chance  to be  in  their

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path.  These saml- winds  move  along  in , 
columns of great  height, in  a whirlwind 
fashion,  and  well  defined  in  their  out­
line and extent. 
In the  same  countries, 
sands also move slowly along  the  earth, 
as the  dunes  of  Europe  move;  but  the 
chief source of  fear  and  destruction  to 
travelers is the whirling sand-wind.

These  mobile  sands,  therefore,  must 
be viewed as powerful  agents  in  chang­
ing,  renewing and  re-arranging the solid 
crust of  the  globe. 
In  other  respects, 
their influence is  equally  powerful,  for 
there cannot be a  doubt  that  they  have 
altered,  and  are still altering,  to  a  great 
extent,  the  appearance  and  productive 
capabilities of large  regions to  the  east, 
north and north-east of  the  central  Af­
rican deserts whence they  came.

D o n a l d   L .  W i l b e r .

G o o d   A d v ic e   to   Y o u n g  M en.

There  is  nothing  miraculous  in 

It is thought that because 1  have  been 
a young man,  and have worked  hard and 
achieved success, I am qualified to advise 
others who are starting in life. 
It is not 
for me to decide whether or not this idea 
is correct.  But 1 am sure that  few  ben­
efits  can  be  conferred  upon  humanity 
more important than to  help  the  young 
to lead good and useful lives; and if any­
thing I can say will  promote  that  end  I 
am willing and happy to say it.
the 
success that I have met with. 
If  a  man 
has good principles and does bis  best  to 
act up to them,  he cannot fail of success, 
though it may not be success of precisely 
the same kind  as  mine.  There  are  in­
numerable ways of  being  useful  in  this 
world,  and  each  man  has  his  peculiar 
gifts and qualifications.  Each  man  will 
walk in the  path  best  adapted  to  him; 
but  there  is  no  reason  why every path 
should not lead toward one and the same 
point—toward the  benefiting  of  men  in 
general.  Good  principles  are  just  as 
good for the artist as for the artisan—for 
the poet as  for  the  ploughman—for  the 
man of business as for the clergyman,  it 
makes no difference what you do, as long 
as it is just and you are honest  and  dili­
gent in the doing of it.

“ W ho sweeps a room, as for Thy laws,
Makes th a t a nd th e action  fine.’’
it is well,  in  my  opinion,  to  accustom 
one’s  self  early 
to  work,  and  not  be 
afraid of any kind  of  work  that  is  hon­
est and useful. 
I  began  to  support  my­
self when 1 was 12 years old, and  1  have 
never  been  dependent  on  others  since. 
1 had  some  schooling,  but  not  much;  1 
never went to college,  not because  1  did 
not  think  a  college  career  might  be  a 
good thing  for  those  who  could  make  a 
good use of it,  but because I  did not  feel 
that it was so important for me  as  to  be 
earning  my  own  living.  When  I  left 
home to come to  Philadelphia, one of my 
relatives  said  that  1  would  soon  have 
enough of that and would be coming back 
again.  But 1 made  up  my  mind  that  1 
would never  go  back—I  would  succeed.
I had health, the power of  applying  my 
self,  and,  I  suppose,  a  fair  amount  of 
brains.  I came to Philadelphia with $3 in 
my pocket.  I fonnd board and lodging for
$2.50 and then got a  place  as  office  boy 
for  $3.  That  gave  me  a  surplus of 50 
cents a week.
1 did not merely do the work that 1 was 
absolutely  required  to  do,  but did  ail  1 
could,  and  put  my  heart  into  it. 
I 
wanted my employer to  feel  that  1  was 
more useful to him than he  expected  me 
to  be. 
I  was  not  afraid  to  clean  and 
sweep and perform  what  might  be  con­
sidered by some young gentlemen  nowa­
days as menial  work,  and,  therefore,  be­
neath  them. 
I  did  not think it beneath 
me then, and  1  should  not  now. 
If  it 
were  necessary,  I  would  sweep out my 
office to-day,  and I  often  carry  bundles. 
But the other day a youth came to me  to 
ask if I could find  some  employment for 
him.  His father had died and his mother 
could not support him,  and  be  wished to 
i  looked  at  him and 
saw that he had on very  nice clothes and 
kid gloves.  I asked him if he would like 
to  wheel  a  wheel-barrow.  He  seemed 
surprised,  and  answered  that  he  didn’t

•  support  himself, 

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think he would like that.  Then i  asked 
him  if  he  would object to carrying bun­
dles.  Well,  he  wasn’t  anxious to carry 
bundles,  either.  He  was  like  many 
young men  who  talk  about  wanting  to 
work,  but  when  it  comes  to  the point 
they want to  do  only  kid glove  sort  of 
work. 
I  must  say  1  don’t  have  much 
sympathy with that sort of feeling.  Men 
are all brothers, and  what  is  worthy  of 
one  is  not  unworthy  of  another.  The 
Bible says it is what  cometh  out  of  the 
mouth  that  defileth  a  man. 
It  is  not 
work, but character,  that can be discred­
itable.
While  I  was  working  as  errand  and 
office boy 1 improved such opportunity as 
I had to read books,  and  to  attend  book 
sales, so as to learn the  market  value  of 
books  and  anything  else  that  might be 
useful to me hereafter. 
It  was  my  aim 
always to be in a position  where  l  could 
use my best  talents  to  the  best  advan­
tage. 
1 fixed  my ambition  high,  so  that 
even  if I  did  not  realize  the  highest,  1 
might at least always be tending upward. 
A man should not only use all his  facul­
ties,  but be constantly  developing  them 
so that he can do more. 
If you  jump  at 
a  thing with your whole heart and mind, 
though  you  may  not  be  exceptionally 
able,  it is wonderful how  much you  may 
accomplish,  but if you  are  half  hearted 
you will fail. 

G e o .  W.  C h il d s .

Her First Pair of Shoes.

Among  many 

interesting  incidents 
connected with  the closing of the saloons 
in  Kittanning,  Pa.,  a  leading  merchant 
tells the following:
A  woman  came  into  his  store  very 
timidly.  She  was  evidently  unaccus­
tomed to trading.
“What can  I do for you?” inquired  the 
merchant.
“ 1 want  a  pair  of  shoes  for  a  little 
girl.”
“What number?”
“She is 12 years old.”
“But what number does she  wear?”
“I do not know.”
“But what number did  you  buy  when 
you  bought the last pair for her?”
“She  never  had  a  pair  in  her  life. 
You  see,  sir,  her  father  used  to  drink 
when  we had saloons;  but  now  they  are 
closed  he  doesn’t  drink  any  more,  and 
this morning he said to  me: 
‘Mother,  1 
want you to  go  uptown  to-day  and  get 
Sissy a pair of shoes,  for she never had a 
pair in her life.’ 
I thought, sir,  if 1 told 
you  how old she was,  you  would  know 
just what size to give  me.”

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one  of 
traveling  salesmen 
known,  tries  to  cover  all  of  Michigan 
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necessitates  longer  time  and  the  occa­
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the Secretary and  Manager  of  the  com­
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to spend a few days in Grand  Rapids and 
then  everybody  will  be  enjoying 
the 
“Hemmeter” and the “Hemmeter Imper­
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A Reasonable Doubt.

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be.

Lawyer—Is  that your signature on the 
Merchant—I  don’t  know,  sir. 
It may 
“Does it look like your signature?”
“Not a particle.”
“Doesn’t it bear the least  resemblance 
to your signature?”
O “Not  the  least.”
your signature?  Tell me that.”
pen.”

“Then  why  do  you  think  it may  be 
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It is hard enough  to  meet  temptation, 

but  worse than folly  to court it.

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24

A   GOOD  SA L ESM A N .

O pinion o f a n  E x p e rt o n  T h is  I m p o r ta n t 

S u b je c t.

F. L. Stevenson in Boot and Shoe Recorder.

Successful  salesmen are born into this 
world the same  as  the  successful  musi­
cians,  actors,  or  any  of the others pos­
sessed  of  gifts  bestowed  upon  mortals, 
and  unless  a  person  is  born  into  this 
world  endowed  with  certain  traits  of 
character, he  or she,  in my opinion,  will 
never become  a  successful  salesman  in 
the general acceptance of the term.
There  are  two  kinds  of  salesmen, 
wholesale and retail, and  they  are  alto­
gether different.  But in  writing  on this 
subject  1 suppose we are to accept  them 
and treat them as one.  While  a  person 
may be successful in the one line he may 
be a failure in the other.  But  accepting 
the  two  as  one  he  must  possess,  as  i 
said  before,  several  excellent  traits  ot 
character,  and  in this,  my maiden effort 
at writing,  1 shall try as best 1 can to de­
scribe what 1 think are  the  most  essen­
tial elements that go to make up the suc­
cessful salesman.
In the first place,  a man, to be a success 
in this line, must possess at  least  an  or­
dinary amount of intelligence.  He must 
at least be a fair judge of human nature, 
and the better his  ability  to  read  char­
acter the more successful he will  be,  for 
without  this  judgment  he  will  often 
make mistakes  which to a certain degree 
will depreciate  his  ability.  Human  na­
ture  in  ail  its  different phases is being 
presented  to  him in  his  everyday  voca­
tion.  And the more  proficient  he  is  in 
this line the better his chances are to be­
come  successful.
Next  in  the  composition  of this ideal 
salesman  we  are  making  up  we  must 
have a person who is fond of the occupa­
tion he  is  following.  We  must  have  a 
person who has at  least  good  control  of 
himself,  and  the  better  the  control  the 
more successful he will be, for one,  to be 
a success in a retail way, must be blessed 
with that greatest trait of  Job,  patience. 
While it is possible  for  any  one of us  to 
school ourselves in that line,  there are in 
our  ranks  many  who,  as  1  said  be­
fore,  are  born  with  that  divine-given 
blessing,  an  even,  smooth  and  gentle 
temperament, which any successful sales­
man needs and must have to  a  degree in 
a retail way.
This  wonderful  being  must  also 
possess  as  one  of  his  good  qualities  a 
good address and the more  attractive  his 
personality the  more  successful  will  he 
be,  other  things  being equal.  Now, in 
this  connection  I  think  a  great  many 
have  an  erroneous  idea  of what a good 
impression  really  is. 
Some  salesmen 
think  the  more entertaining they can be 
to a customer the  better  the  impression 
they  have  made,  whereas, 
in  many 
cases,  they  overdo  the  matter.  As  a 
general  rule a customer goes into a store 
to purchase goods and not to  listen  to  a 
lengthy  dissertation  on  the  weather, 
politics, 
the  latest  social  event,  etc. 
Now, don’t understand me  to  say  that  a 
little spice is detrimental.  On  the  con­
trary it is very essential  in  some  cases; 
but if a salesman gets into  the  habit  of 
visiting with his customers  he  generally 
wastes valuable time besides losing much 
of the trade. 
I  therefore  claim that the 
better the first impression the  more  suc­
cessful  the  salesman.  After  his  good 
impression is made he must, in his pleas­
ant way, impress the trade  that  his  sole 
object  is  to  please  and  suit  them.  At 
this point he must use his good judgment, 
for you must  read  the  character  before 
you,  for,  while the  thing  said  or  done 
would have the desired effect with one, it 
would  have  the  opposite  effect  with 
another.  So it is through  all  our  lives 
as salesmen,  for we are constantly  meet­
ing  new  trade  and,  therefore,  we  are 
meeting  different  kinds  of  character. 
And  the  one  the  most  apt  in  this  di­
rection  stands  in  a  fair  way  to be the 
most successful  salesman.
The truly successful man,  must,  in his 
dealings,  be honorable and honest  in  re­
gard to all the wares he is trying  to  dis­
pose of.  While deception  will  at  times 
win,  it  is  the last and  poorest  argument 
to use and is not resorted to  by  success­
ful salesmen.
One of the strong points  for a success­

ful  salesman is  his  ability  to  serve  the 
greatest number of customers  and  to  do 
it in a  satisfactory  manner,  both  to  the 
trade and at the same time  to  himself or 
to his own credit, and also serve  his  em­
ployer  at  the  same  time. 
1  have  seen 
salesmen who would be called  very  suc­
cessful from one point of  view,  who  did 
not finish with a customer  in  a  satisfac­
tory  manner,  and  I  consider  this  point 
alone quite a necessary qualification.
In order to be a  successful salesman it 
is  absolutely  necessary  that  you  be 
thoroughly posted  in  regard  to  the  line 
of trade in which  you are engaged.  The 
more  learned  or  versed  in  the  line  the 
more  successful,  for  the  salesman  who 
can and  will,  in  a  business-like  manner 
and  in  an  intelligent  way,  answer  in­
quiries in regard to  the  stock  he  is  try­
ing to sell,  will surely  be  more  success­
ful than one  who  cannot  go  into  detail 
and  answer such inquiries  in  an  intelli­
gent manner. 
1 therefore claim  that  he 
must be  posted.
You  will  always  find  the  successful 
salesman pleasant and polite to all of the 
trade,  without any regard to social stand­
ing  or  difference  in  stations  in  life. 
And, as a matter of  fact,  the  better  his 
conversational powers,  the better his  ar­
gumentative powers, the more successful 
will he be.  The  most  successful  sales­
man,  some  will  say,  is  the  one  who  is 
most popular and  has the  greatest  num­
ber of  friends.  But  I  do  not  think  so, 
for 1  have  seen  very  popular  salesmen, 
in a social way,  who  would  not  be  con­
sidered as successful salesmen.
A  man,  to  be  a  success, must possess 
traits of  character besides those that are 
required for one  to  become  what  would 
be called popular.  For instance,  a  man 
may be a  fine  conversationalist  and  yet 
lack that  needed  argumentative  power, 
and in a great  many  cases  he  would  be 
unsuccessful.
Some would claim, I suppose,  that  the 
one who sells the most  dollars’  worth  of 
goods  is  the  most  successful salesman. 
But in this I differ,  for  a  salesman  may 
increase his sales  largely  by  neglecting 
other  things  which  I claim are very es­
sential to  the  qualities  of  a  successful 
salesman.  A man in this  case  must  not 
only  be  a  man  who  can sell goods,  but 
the stock is to  be  looked  after  and  the 
man  who  keeps  his  stock  in  a  proper 
shape  and at the same time sells bis pro­
portion of the  goods  is,  in  my  opinion, 
the better salesman of the two. 
I consid­
er to be a good stock keeper, one who has 
his stock so arranged as  to  be  the  most 
convenient  and  the least trouble to find, 
one  of  the  strongest  points in  the  suc­
cessful salesman. 
I  would  give  a  good 
stock  keeper  a  deeided  preference over 
the one who had the  reputation of  being 
a good salesman,  as the term is generally 
used  and  applied,  for without the stock 
in a proper position  and things arranged 
in a systematic way,  no  matter what the 
salesman’s other  qualities  are,  he  is  at 
sea in a badly kept and  poorly  arranged 
store.
Another thing that seems to  me  to  be 
a  very  strong  point  in  the make-up of 
the successful salesman  is  the  ability  to 
make  his  sales  from  the  undesirable 
stock that is  staying  and  to  dispose  of 
the odd sizes that are sure to accumulate 
in the  best  regulated  stores.  Most  any 
one can take  nice  fresh,  new,  desirable 
goods and sell them,  but  it  takes  a  very 
successful salesman to dispose of the old 
ones.

Another strong  point  in  favor  of  the 
truly  successful  salesman  is the knowl­
edge  of  two  or  more  languages.  As a 
matter of course it is not  absolutely nec­
essary, but by some it  would  be  consid­
ered,  and we must all admit  that  it  is  a 
decided  advantage  to  a  salesman,  but 
should  not  be  considered  against  us  if 
other things are equal.

In finishing this article let me say that 
if you will show me a salesman who goes 
to his work from day to day with a pleas­
ant word to all he meets;  a  man who ad­
dresses and receives  his  customers  in  a 
polite gentlemanly  manner;  a  man  who 
is always willing to  serve  all  the  trade 
just as  it  happens  to  present  itself  to 
him;  a man who can sell the finest article 
in the store to the most aristocratic trade 
in the city, and  can  and  will  in  a  like 
manner serve  the  humblest and  poorest

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tbat be may be sailed  to  wait  upon,  and 
make them both feel tbat they  have  bad 
the best of attention;  a man  who is truly 
honest  and  upright  in  all  his dealings; a 
man who can  place his hand on any article 
in  the  store  and  can  in  a  business-like 
way talk the same;  a man  who,  perhaps, 
for bis honesty  will at times  lose a  sale; 
a man  who  will  sell  the  most  goods  in 
the  most  satisfactory  manner;  a  man 
who is always careful  about  bis  charges 
and credits; a man  who  can  start  at  the 
bottom and do anything pertaining to bis 
line from the stock keeping  to  the  buy­
ing  if  necessary; a  man who has a kind, 
affable, pleasant way, kind and courteous 
under all the  trying  circumstances  in  a 
mercantile  life; 'a  man  who  can always 
find  something  to  occupy  his  time that 
will  be  a  benefit to bis employer; a man 
who  has  a  memory,  that  he  can  call 
trade by name after once hearing  it,  and 
remembers little  incidents,  for  it  has  a 
good  influence,  as  the  trade  feel 
that 
that  salesman  has  an  interest  in  them, 
and in many  cases  will  make  trade  for 
life.  Show me the  man  1  have  tried  in 
my  maiden  article  to  describe,  and  I 
will show you a man who is  wise  in  dis­
pute  or  an  argument,  a  lion in the mer- 
nantile  conflicts,  a  teacher  among  his 
companions, an arbitrator in his vicinity, 
conscientious  in  action, content with his 
state,  regular  in  his  habits,  diligent  in 
his  calling,  faithful  in  his  friendship, 
temperate in his pleasures,  deliberate  in 
his  speech,  devoted  to  his  God,  so  he 
will  be  happy  in  his  life,  easy  in  his 
death, and  an  esteemed  example  for  us 
to follow.

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

Contrary to all  expectations,  the  past 
week  was another of  depression.  While 
everything  pointed  to  firm  and  higher 
markets, the reports of the damaged con­
dition of the crop  were  more  than  con­
firmed.  The  State  Agricultural  Board 
of Kansas issued a  report  showing  only 
13,000,000  bushels  of  wheat,  against 
some  thirty  odd  million  last  year,  and 
nearly 50,000,000 bushels  in  1893.  Cali­
fornia  claims  only  30,000,000  bushels 
against  35,000,000  bushels  last  year. 
Where threshing has  commenced  in  the 
winter  wheat  belt  the  yield  is very un­
satisfactory,  being  below  the  estimate. 
Individual  opinions  go  for  naught  in 
times like these.

The visible will  be less than 46,000,000 
bushels,  against  55,800,000  bushels  the 
corresponding  week 
last  year.  This 
leaves  a  shortage  of  about  10,000,000 
bushels aud  is  about  20,000,000  bushels 
less than  In  1893.  The invisible is a mere 
bagatelle,  as  the  farmers  have  been 
using the wheat for feeding purposes.  In 
the face  of  all this,  wheat  lagged  about 
5c during the week,  and  about  15c  from 
the highest point.  As  stated  last week, 
farmers do not sell  any  and  millers  are 
compelled to pay  3c  over  Detroit  prices 
in  order  to  get  their  supply  of wheat. 
This downward tendency  cannot  always 
keep  in  with  the  present  condition  and 
we look for an  advance.

Corn is lower,  as the outlook has never 
been  better for an enormous crop  unless 
some unforeseen  calamity  overtakes  it.
Oats are,  also,  weaker, owing  to  good 

outlook.

One thing  has  taken  a  boom  beyond 
all precedence,  and  that  is  hay,  which 
climbed  up  to  $18  per  ton  during  the 
week.

The receipts during the  week  were  as 
follows:  Wheat,  35  cars;  corn,  5  cars; 
oats,  2  cars.  The  above  amounts  re­
ceived  were extremely  small.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

Note Cycloid Cycle  Co.’s  advertisment 
on  page  15. 
Immediate  delivery  guar­
anteed.  Dealers are Invited to  send  for 
trade discount.

REFUSED  A  HEARING.

The  Stewart  Co.  Denied  the  Privilege 

of Making  a  Statement.

S a o in a w ,  June  22—Enclosed  please 
find communication  we sent to the  Even­
ing News  Weekly, of Detroit,  replying  to 
its refusal to continue our advertisement 
in its paper,  it claiming  tbat all  the Sag­
inaw jobbers, and a  portion  ol  the  De­
troit  jobbers,  objected  to it,  thus ignor­
ing  a  written  contract  with  the  paper 
covering  a  certain  space  for  a  year’s 
time.  This paper, in an abrupt and high­
handed manner,  denied us  the  privilege 
of selling our goods at  such prices as we 
saw fit to name.  We leave  it  to  the  re­
tailers  of  Michigan  to  draw  their  own 
conclusions.
Will you kindly  publish  the  letter  in 
T u k   T r a d e s m a n   and much  oblige 

Yours truly,

T h e   J a m e s   S t e w a r t   C o .,  L t d .
S a g in a w ,  June 7,  1895. 

E vening News Weekly, D etroit:
G e n t l e m e n —Your favor of  May 28 at 
hand and contents carefully noted.
Your Mr.  Jenkins  informed  us  a  few 
days  ago,  in  reply  to  his  request,  that 
our company should cease to name prices 
in  the  space  we  had  contracted  for  in 
your  Weekly,  which  we  declined  to  do, 
that, owing to  the  very  strong  pressure 
that would be brought to bear upon your 
paper by  the  other wholesalers,  be  bad 
strong doubts  as  to whether  our  adver­
tisement  would  be  continued 
in  the 
manner we desired.
In your favor  just  at  hand  you write: 
“We have noted your remarks very care­
fully and,  no  doubt,  what  you  state  is 
well  taken.” 
In  this  you  were  candid 
enough to admit that the  position  taken 
by this company was correct.
You further state  that  “if  all  jobbers 
were  to  inaugurate  a  series  of  cutting 
prices,  it  would  tend  to  demoralize  the 
trade.” 
Is it  possible  that  you  are  not 
aware that every  jobber  in  the  State  of 
Michigan,  without  exception,  is  to day 
doing  what  he  has  done  for  the  past 
twenty  years—cutting  prices  on  some 
article  in  hopes  of  catching  customers 
and building up a  trades.
When  did  your  paper  undertake  to 
dictate to its patrons and establish a cen­
sorship over their advertisements?  What 
course would your paper pursue,  if other 
parties in your line of business sought to 
establish censorship over your  editorials 
and  attempted  to  dictate 
the  price  at 
which your paper should be sold?
Is  it  not  true  that,  waiving ail  argu­
ments as  to  prices  involved,  you  have 
been  solely  influenced  by the threats of 
wholesale grocers,  both  in  Saginaw  and 
Detroit,  that,  in  the  event  of your not 
suppressing the Stewart  Co.’s  advertise­
ment, they  would withdraw their patron­
age from your paper?  Is it  not a matter 
of fact that  you  have  submitted  to  the 
dictation  of  certain  men  for the money 
that was in it for  your  paper?  Why  do 
you  not  undertake  to  dictate 
to  the 
wholesale trade  in  dry  goods,  clothing, 
and other branches  of business,  at  what 
price their goods  will be sold?
It is a well-known  axiom in trade that 
goods  well  bought  are  half  sold.  The 
James  Stewart  Co. 
is  well  known 
throughout the  United  States  as  a  cash 
buyer  of  merchandise.  The  prices 
quoted  in 
the  Evening  News  Weekly 
specified,  “Cash with order in current ex­
change.”  Will any jobber dispute  for  a 
moment that goods cannot be sold in this 
manner  at  a  less  price,  than  for  long 
credit,  with  the  attendent  dangers  of 
failures?
In  your  communication  to  us you re­
gret that you are  unable to  use our  copy 
on account of the so-called  “cut  prices” 
quoted therein. 
In  this  connection  we 
quote an extract from  your  issue of May 
29, taken from the advertisement  of  one 
of the  leading  wholesale grocery houses 
in Detroit:  “Why pay $2.90  or  $2.20  per 
case  for  rolled  oats,  when  you can get 
the same quantity,  and  same  quality  for 
$2.10.  Buy a case  of  Buckeye  Oats  for 
sample.”  This  house has stated our po­
sition exactly and we fully agree  with it 
that  the  retailer  should  be allowed  the 
privilege of purchasing  his  rolled  oats, 
or any other article, from the  wholesaler 
quoting the lowest price. 
It  is  rather  a

strange  coincidence  that  in  the  adver­
tisement  suppressed  by  you  we  quoted 
these  self  same  rolled  oats at $1.95  per 
case.  Further comment  upon  this point 
is unnecessary.  The retailers  of  Michi­
gan can draw their own  conclusions.
We take it for granted  that  the  Even­
ing News Weekly desires to  cultivate  the 
good will and gain the support of  the re­
tailers of Michigan. 
If so,  would  it  not 
be a  good  idea—and  it  lies  within  the 
scope of your paper to ascertain from the 
retailers of  Michigan  what  their  views 
are upon this subject—to  learn  whether 
they  desire  the  wholesale  grocers  to 
quote open prices or not? 
If a large ma­
jority of the  retailers  should  answer  in 
the affirmative,  what course  would  your 
paper then pursue?
The causes that lead up to  the naming 
of  cut  prices  are  often  legitimate.  A 
wholesaler frequently finds himself over­
stocked  with  an  article  of  a  perishable 
nature. 
If  he  is  a  good  merchant  he 
knows that the  first  loss  is  the  lightest 
and proceeds to make a price which  will 
move the  goods.
Again,  a  far-sighted  merchant  per­
ceives a weak market which  will  proba­
bly result eventually in  very much lower 
prices.  He proceeds  to  unload  as  rap­
idly as possible,  and, in order to do so, is 
compelled to  shade  prices.  Neither  do 
we regard  it  as  reprehensible  where  a 
jobber has  been fortunate in  stocking up 
heavily  before a sharp  advance  to  share 
his good luck  with his  customers  by  not 
insisting upon charging him the  extreme 
market  price.
If time permitted,  we might go  on and 
give you many reasons why  we  think  it 
is right and proper to quote  close  prices 
to close  buyers.  We  have  already  en­
croached  more upon your  valuable space 
than  we had at  first  intended.  Reserv­
ing  the  right  to  give  publicity  to  the 
above,  we remain.

Yours truly,

T h e   J a m e s   S t e w a r t   Co .,  L t d .

P r e p a ra tio n s  fo r  th e  T h irte e n th   A n n u a l 

C o n v en tio n .

D e t r o i t ,  June 24— Extensive  prepara­
tions are being made by the  druggists of 
Detroit  for  the  entertainment  of  their 
fraters on the occasion of  the  thirteenth 
annual  meeting  of  the  Michigan  State 
Pharmaceutical Association,  which  will 
be held here July 16,17, 18 and 19.

The  meetings  will  take  place  at  the 
Light  Infantry  Armory,  and an exhibit 
of druggists’  goods  will  be  held  at  the 
Auditorium  on  July  17,  18 and 19,  par­
ticipated in by  wholesale  druggists  and 
manufacturers from all over the country. 
The  four  days’  programme  begins  on 
Tuesday afternoon with  different  sports 
at the Island.  On  Wednesday the Asso­
ciation  will be called to  order.  The sec­
ond session will  take  place at 2:30 in the 
afternoon,  and  will  continue 
through 
the remaining two days.
The pharmacy exhibition at the  Audi­
torium will  be open  to  the  public  at  10 
a.  m. on Wednesday,  July  17,  and  will 
remain  open  mornings,  afternoons  and 
evenings  for  three  days.  The  jobbers 
and  manufacturers  will hold a reception 
in  the  evening  at  the  Light  Infantry 
Armory  for visitors, members of the  As­
sociation  and  the trade.  On  Thursday 
evening  a  promenade  concert  will  be 
given  at  the  Auditorium.  On  Friday 
evening,  the closing of  the  meeting  will 
be celebrated by a  moonlight  excursion.
At the meetings of the  Association, re­
ports will be received from the Executive 
Committee as to the advance of the  drug 
trade  interests  in  the  past year.  This 
comprises F.  W.  R.  Perry,  chairman,  of 
this city, John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids, 
D.  E.  Prall  of  Saginaw,  A.  Bassett,  of 
Detroit,  and  F.  J.  Whitmarsh,  of Pal­
myra.  The report of  the  Committee  on 
Trade Interests is likely to cause  discus­
sion.  This committee is composed  of  C. 
N.  Anderson, chairman, of Detroit, F.  J. 
Wurzburg,  of  Grand  Rapids,  and H.  G. 
Colman, of Kalamazoo.
Other committees to report will  be the 
Pharmacy and Queries Committees, com­
prising  D.  M.  Russell,  chairman,  of 
Grand  Rapids,  and  F.  B.  Raynale,  of 
Lansing; the Legislation Committee, com- 
' prising A.  Bassett, chairman,  of Detroit, |

John  E.  Peck,  of  Grand  Rapids,  and 
James Yernor, of  Detroit;  the Auxiliary 
Committee on  Legislation, comprising S. 
E. Parkill, of Owosso, Dr. G. J. Ward, of 
St. Clair,  and George Gundrum,  of Ionia; 
the Adulteration Committee,  comprising
A. B.  Stevens, of  Ann  Arbor,  John  D. 
Muir, of Grand Rapids, and  C.  C.  Sher- 
rard, of Detroit;  and  the Research  Com­
mittee, comprising  J.  O.  Schlotterbeck, 
of Ann Arbor, O. Eberbach, of  Ann  Ar­
bor, and A. C. Schumacher,  of  Ann  Ar­
bor.
The committee which  will  receive  the 
members of the  Association  is:  Harvey 
C.  Parke,  W.  C.  Williams,  F.  Stearns, 
Harvey Clark, John  J.  Dodds,  John  M. 
Hinchman, E.  Nelson,  James  E.  Davis, 
Chas. C.  Hinchman, F.  K.  Stearns,  H. P. 
Williams,  F.  F.  Ingram,  John  William­
son,  all of Detroit, and Hon. C. S.  Hazel- 
tine,  of Grand Rapids, Prof. A.  B.  Pres­
cott,  of  Ann  Arbor,  and  Thomas  M. 
Peck,  of Grand Rapids.
The  following  local  committees  have 
been created:
General Committee on Entertainment—• 
Frank Inglis,  chairman;  F.  F.  Ingram, J. 
P. Reinfrank, John Williamson, F. W. R. 
Perry, Harry Baker,  F. D.  Stevens,  Jas. 
Vernor, F.  E.  Bogart,  W.  H.  Dodds, D. 
Gray,  W.  D. Church,  A.  S.  Parker,  W.
B.  Wendover and  A.  W.  Allen.
Reception Committee—W.  M.  Warren,
chairman;  Harry Baker,  F.  E.  Bogart, S.
C. Stearns and A. S. Brooks.
Committee  on  Exhibits—A.  Bassett,
chairman;  C.  N.  Anderson,  Chas.  C. 
Hinchman and F.  A. Thompson.
Committee on Subscriptions  and Tick­
ets—Wm. Dupont and W.  H.  Dodds. 
Committee on Music—F.  W.  R. Perry,
A.  S. Parker and Frank Inglis. 
Committee  on  Games  and Prizes—W.
D. Church,  chairman;  A.  W.  Allen,  D. 
Gray and F. D.  Stearns.
Committee on Boat  and  Refreshments 
—F.  F.  Ingram,  chairman;  Jas. Vernor, 
W.  H. Dodds, John  Williamson  and  W.
B.  Wendover.

Every  employer  should  encourage the 
reading of good trade papers by  his  em­
ployes.  What  benefits  them  benefits 
him,  and  the  employe  who  does  not 
profit by the careful study of  a  paper in 
his  line  is  either  very  stupid  or  has 
stumbled  upon a very stupid paper.

Use Tradesman Coupon  Books.

Fruii Growers  ol  M

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l

W e  have  recently  opened  our  extensive 
W arehouse  and  Shipping  Depot  a t  42 
Jefferson  Ave.  and  142  W oodbridge  S t. 
W .,  and  are 
for 
handling  all  goods  in  o u r  line  w ith o u t 
delay  and  a t  h ig h e st  prices.

thoroughly  equipped 

Early correspondence is solicited, In order to in ­

sure a ready m arket.

T ruly yours,

Q.  E.  Darling & Co.

joBBbus  ix

FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC

FRUITS  AND  PRODUCE

D etroit,  Mich.

M o r g a n   &  Co.
AWNINGS, TENTS,

M anufacturers of

FLAGS AND CANYAS COVERS 
YACHT SAILS A SPECIALTY

187  Jefferson  Avenue 
DETROIT,  nich.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
unto tbe  going  down  of  the  same,  and 
have him tell me, then, whether farm life 
has about it  tendencies  to  bring out the 
sterling qualities of  manhood.

2 6
Drug Department•

8tute  Board  o f P harm acy.

One Y ear—George  Gundrum ,  Ionia.
Two Years—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
Three Years—8. E. Parkhill, Owosso.
Four Years—F. W. R  Perry,  Detroit 
Five Years—A. C. Schum acher, Ann Arbor.
P resident— Fred’k W .R. P erry, Detroit, 
fee re ta ry —8tanley E. P a rtili, Owosso.
T reasurer—Geo. Gundrum , Ionia.
Ooming  Meetings—Detroit  (Star  Island),  June  24; 
Lansing, Nov 5.

M ichigan  State  Pharm aceutical  Am ’d. 
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
V>5ce-President—John E. Peck, D etroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont,  Detroit.
Beoretav—F. C. Thompson. Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, July 16,17,18 and 19.

G ra n d   R a p id s   P h a rm a c e u tic a l  S o ciety . 

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

R E P R E S E N T A T IV E   R E T A IL E R S .

H .  E .  P a rm e le e ,  th e   H illia rd s  G e n e ra l 

D e a le r.

An amusing story is  told of  a country 
clergyman who, while artlessly admitting 
that his sermons were fair, never felt,  he 
said,  that he bad done his text or himself 
justice unless he could  begin  with  Adam 
and work his way up.  Then he was sure 
of a sermon that would stand  the test  of 
time. 
It is something  like  that in gath­
ering materials for these  sketches  of  re­
presentative men.  Unless  we can  begin 
with the farm,  we are  not  quite  sure  of 
the work;  but, sooner or later in the nar­
rative,  we find ourselves with  the  towns 
behind  us  and  stopping  at  last  at  the 
farmhouse,  asieep under the apple trees, 
where the representative  man  w«s  born, 
and  where,  if the fates  were kind to him, 
he was bred.  With  that  fact  fixed,  the 
rest follows,  as a matter of course.

It was, then,  no surprise to  learn  that 
Mr.  H.  E. Parmelee, the  prosperous gen­
eral dealer  at  Hilliards,  was  born  on a 
farm  some  thirty  years  ago. 
It  was  a 
surprise  to  learn  that  his  own  unaided 
exertions had  been  his only  means of se­
curing the prosperity so plainly his (thus 
early in life);  and when,  to the  question 
how it had  been  brought about—not hap­
pened—the old answer of hard work and 
enough of it,  was given,  the  old  idea  of 
the farm as a nursery of  successful  men 
came promptly to the  surface to  add  its 
interest to the annais of  this busy life.

Those  of  us  whose  early  years  were 
farm-blessed,  need  not  be  told  how  his 
early life was spent.  The old claims  of 
the wood-box—first a pleasure, then  any­
thing but that—doubtless  heads the list. 
There  were  cows  to  go  after at sunset, 
and to drive  to  pasture  at  sunrise;  and 
then that round of daily  work  known  as 
“chores” —unremitting as they  are  end­
less—began to test the temper and  so be­
gin  tbe training of the future  represent­
ative  man. 
It  is  said,  sometimes,  that 
there is nothing on a  farm  to  bring  out 
the  latent  qualities  of  a  sterling  man­
I 
hood,  especially  in  its  early  years. 
will not argue the question. 
I  prefer  to 
meet it  as  boyhood  on  the  farm  has to 
meet it,  and insist that the  maker of  the 
statement  shall  turn  the  grindstone  in 
hay-time for the grinding of a new scythe 
and tell  me,  when  the  grinding  is  over, 
whether there is in the work anything to 
drive home  the  truth  that  there is hard 
work in  the world  to  be  done  and  that 
each  must have his share of it.  I will set 
him to picking  stones  where  the crop is 
abundant and,  at  nightfall,  ask him,  as 
he compares what he has done with what 
remains undone,  whether the discourage­
ment experienced has its  connterpart  in 
other  and  wider  fields  of  the  world’s 
work:  and,  when  that is done,  I  will  let 
him drive oxen from  the rising of the sun

It  was  under  such  training  that  this 
storekeeper at Hilliards  passed  his  first 
twenty-one  years.  Then,  his  own  mas­
ter, he hired  a  farm  of  his  father and, 
with his young wife,  began life a tiller of 
tbe soil.  Here, sorrow came and the first 
half year of wedded life found him beside 
bis young wife’s open grave.

He finished  the year  on  the  farm  and 
then went home,  where,  after  two  years 
more of farm life,  he  became  convinced 
that  something  better  was  waiting  for 
him in  the world of trade.  A  clerk  was 
wanted in the nearest country  store  and 
he supplied the  want.  A  little  experi­
ence in this new field of effort  convinced 
him that  he  had  found  his  niche  and, 
with the faith  which  follows  conviction, 
he bought out his employer  and  at  once 
assumed control.

Where did you get  your  money,  you  a 
boy of twenty-three, working on a farm— 
enough of it to buy a store?

Listen,  and don’t  talk  to  me  about  a 
farm’s being no place at all to  bring  out 
tbe sterling qualities of manhood.

“O.  1 earned it.  A fellow  with a stout 
back  aud  wanting  to  get  along  in  tbe 
world  will always find all be  wants to do 
on a farm.  That’s the  way  it  was  with 
me. 
I found out pretty early in  life that 
wliat a man gets he has  got  to  work  for 
[what  a  life-lesson  from  the  farm  is 
pounded  into that!|  and so  I took off my 
coat and sailed in.  After I  had earned  a 
dollar with  my  hoe,  or  my  axe,  or  my 
scythe, somehow  it  looked  a  good  deal 
bigger to me than other dollars  did,  and 
I got into the notion  of  keeping  ’em. 
I 
liked tbe nice  things  you  can  buy  well 
enough, I’ll tell you that,  but l  tell  you, 
too,  when a fellow has  to  work  an  hour 
and a half hoeing potatoes for  a  dish  of 
ice cream,  somehow he’d rather go  with 
[Young  fellows,  put 
out the ice cream. 
that into  your  pipe  and  smoke  it!] 
I 
did,  anyway; and so, after I  had  been  in 
the  store  for  a  couple  of  months  and 
found  I  could  make  it  go, 
tbe  owner 
wanted to  sell  out  and  I  conclnded  to 
buy and did.  That was  something  over 
seven  years  ago.  Some  of  the  time  it 
has been rather rough sledding, but, when 
such times come,  all you have to do  is to 
brace  up  and  go  light  straight  along 
about  your  business.  Vacation?  Well, 
once or twice,  for a week, but  when  you 
are at  a  thing  and  are  in  earnest  you 
don’t think of vacations.”

Of course,  there were  “marriage  bells 
a-ringing” sometime after the  store  life
became a settled  thing,  and,  of  coarse, 
there  were  little  guests  who  came  to 
stay; and so tbe old  farm  lessons,  trans­
ferred to  another  house  and  home,  are 
doing what they can for another day  and 
generation.

for. 

If now I have been at all  successful  in 
making prominent  the  leading  traits  of 
this  retailer’s  life,  the  reader  will  not 
fail to see how much  has  depended upon 
work.  Without  that  nothing  has  been 
expected—nothing  hoped 
Some 
time in the old farm life,  the idea  of get­
ting on in the world came to the boy and 
stayed. 
It was worth his while  to strive 
for it, and so,  in season  and  out  of  sea­
son,  the struggle  began  and  continued. 
It came  to  him  oue  day  that  a  penny 
saved was as  good  as  a  penny  earned, 
and the saving,  like tbe work,  began and 
continued.  He found on  the  farm  what

bis  store  experience  has  proven  again 
and again,  that the only way to  be  pros­
perous is to  be  honest.  A  farmer,  who 
turns  over  a  big,  red-cheeked  apple  to 
hide a rotten speck,  may  chuckle  at  his 
shrewdness  on  his  way  home;  but  the 
specked apple has an  uncomfortable way 
of turning over at the  wrong  time,  and, 
once turned,  tells  its  ugly  story  with  a 
distinctness which  borders on the  alarm­
ing.  Surely  honesty  is  the  best  policy 
always and,  when this  is  intimately  as­
sociated id business with thoughtful work 
and  with  a  determination  that  opposi­
tion cauuot check,  there is but one result 
and that finds  an  ample  illustration  in 
tbe  management  of  tbe  store  at  Hil- 
iiards—a result which tells its own pleas­
ing story and furnishes its own  convinc­
ing conclusion. 

R.  M.  S.
A  T y p ica l  N ia g a ra   F a lls  H a c k m a n .
There  is  a  new  story  out concerning 
the reasonable kindness,  amiability  and 
proverbial  honesty  of  the Niagara Falls 
hackman.  Two  tourists,  a  lady  and  a 
gentleman,  stopped off  at  the  Falls  be­
tween trains.  A hackman engaged them 
for  a  brief  tour  of  sight-seeing.  The 
time  actually  consumed  was  fifty-five 
minutes.  Tbe  backmau  said  be  must 
have 810.  Tbe gentleman remarked that 
it  was an outrage.  The driver explained 
that he had  been  of  great  assistance  in 
pointing out  the  places  of  interest  and 
stood firm.  The  gentleman  prepared  to 
pay  under  protest.  Unfortunately  for 
himself,  he handed the  man  a  820  bill.j 
“Do you pay  for the lady,  also?”  asked- 
tne hackman.  promptly.  “Do I  pay  for 
the lady?” repeated his fare,  in astonish­
ment.  “Of course,  I  do.  What  do  you 
mean?”  “Then there  will  be no change,” 
replied  the  hackman.  “ My  charge  of 
810  is  for  one  person;  820 for two per­
sons.  The amount you  have  handed me 
is exactly correct.  Thank you,  sir.”

R an d o m   S h o ts.

The  skeleton  alone  of  an  average 
whale  weighs twenty-five tons.
If a match is  held  to  a  celluloid  bil­
liard  ball,  the  ball  will  catch  fire  and 
burn.

Embrace  «very  opportunity  and  you 
have hugged to your breast the  secret of 
success.
Unfair  competition  will  always  con­
tinue to turn the grindstone  for  the  fair 
merchant.

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Everyone bears bis own  burden  except 
the dead-beat.  His  grocer  usually  does 
that for him.
Don’t love a woman for her beauty nor 
a man for his prosperity.  Both  are sub­
ject to change.

There are  119,900,000  copper  pennies 
somewhere,  but  nobody  knows  what has 
become of them.

if you  are  too  good-natured  you  may 
rest assured there  will  be no limit  to the 
things  you  will  be  allowed  to  do  for 
other people.

If  the  experiments  now  in  progress 
succeed,  paper stockings  sized  with  po­
tato starch and tallow will  be put on  the 
market and sold at three cents a pair.

If grocers  would  spend  more  time  in 
educating  their  customers  up  to  stand­
ard brands and  less  money  in  price-cut­
ting,  they  would  have  an  easier  time 
holding trade and  make  more  money.

the  building  of 

The latest move on the part of  the  de­
partment stores in  Brooklyn  is  rumored 
to be tbe opening of  milk  routes. 
It  is 
rumored  that  an  order  has been placed 
for 
forty  delivery 
wagons,  with which they will serve milk 
from house to  house.
There was nearly 33,000,000 barrels  of 
beer made and consumed  in  the  United 
States last year.  At a very low estimate 
the retail  cost of  the  same  to the drink­
ers  was  866,000,000,  and  about  two- 
thirds of this vast sum was  profit  to  the 
manufacturers and dealers.

A Western tanner who was  comparing 
his May business this year with that of a 
year ago found that  he  had  bought  just 
as many  hides this  year  as last,  but that 
he had paid 100 per cent,  more  for  them 
than  last  year.  While  this  condition 
continues leather cannot decline.

There’s a lively telephone  war now on 
at Madison, Wis.,  between  tbe  Bell  and 
the  Harrison  companies.  Rates  have 
been cut to 81.50 per  month  by  both  of 
them,  and there’s a likelihood of another 
cut,  for each company is after the other’s 
scalp.  The  price  charged  by  the  Bell 
people  before  the  Harrison  began  the 
fight was 86 per month.

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iO tD V S .

8® 10
A cetlcu m ......................... 
Benzolcum  G erm an..  65®  75
IS
Boraclc 
........................ 
C arbolicum ...................  
22® 3*
Ci tri c u m ......................... 
41® 44
H y d ro ch io r.....................  
3®  5
......................   10® 12
N ltrocum  
O x allcn m ........................  10®  12
Phosphorlum   d ll......... 
20
Salley Ile u m ....................   65® 70
S ulpnurlcum ..................   H i®  5
T annlcum ............................1  40@1 60
T artarlcu m ..................... 
30® 33

XMMOHIA.

« 

Aqua, 16  d e g ...................  
4®  6
8
Carbonai  ..................  }2@ 14
C h io rld u m ......................   13®  14

20  d e g ................  

6® 

A N ILIH B .

B lack.................................... 2 0002 25
B row n...............................  80©1 00
r £ ì
...................................  45® 50
Y ellow ................................. 2  50®3 00

C ubebae............................... 1  50®l 60
B xechthltos................  1  20@1  30
B rlg e ro n ..............................1  20@1 30
G a u lth e rla ..........................1  50@1 60
G eranium ,  ounce.......   @ 7 5
Gosslpil,  Sem. g a l.......  60®  70
Hedeoma  ......................l  25® 1  40
J u m p e rl.........................   50@2 00
L a v e n d u la ...................   90®2 00
L lm onls..........................1  30® 1  50
M entha P iper......................1  85@3 00
M entha V erld ....................1  80®2 00
M orrhuae, g a l.................... 1  75@1 80
M yrcia, o u nce..............   @ 5 0
O liv e..............................   90@3  00
Plcls Liquida,  (gal..85) 
10®  12
R ic in i.................. 
88®  98
R osm arini............  
1  00
Rosae,  o unce......................6 50@8 50
S uccini...........................  40®  45
S a b in a ...........................  90®1  00
Santal  ........................... 2 50@7  00
S assafras.......................   50®  55
Slnapls, ess, o nnee__   @  65
T igli!..............................   @1  00
T h y m e ...........................  40®  50
first 
M>
opt 
@1  60 
Theobromas
15®  20

 

20®  25 
8®   10 
25®  30

45®  50 
@3 00 
45®  50 
50®  55

Cnbeae  (po  25). 
J n n lp e ru s ...........
X antnoxylum  .  .

C opaiba................
P ern .................
Terabln. Canada 
T o lu ta n ................

CO RTBX.

Abies,  C anadian --------
Caaslae  ...........................
C inchona F lava  ...........
Buonymus  atro p u rp ... 
Myrlca  Cerlfera, p o .. -.
P ru n u i V lrg ln l...............
QulUala,  g rd ..................
Sassafras  .............
Ulmus Po (G round  15).

RXTRAOTtTM.

f z r r u

G lycyrrhlsa  G labra 
“ 
PO.....
Haem atox, 15 lb. box
I s .............
“ 
“  Mi........
“ 
54*........
Carbonate P reclp—  
C itrate and Q uinta.. 
Citrate  S o lu b le ......
Perrocy anldum  S ol..
Solnt  Chloride  .......
Sulphate,  com’l .......
p u re ..........
FLORA.

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

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

A rn ic a ...........................   12®  14
A n th e m li......................  18®  *
M atricaria 
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FOMA.

Barosma 
Cassia  A cutifol,  Tin- 

......................  14®  30

n lv e lly . . . . . .  
11 
AlX.  25®  30
Salvia  offlclnalis,  54s
and  Mi 
....................  1^®  »
...................... 
U raU ral 
8®  10

18®

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“ 
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SCM M 1.
A cacia, 1st  picked 

“ 
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16)................... 

2d 
3d 
sifted so n s 
po 
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60) 
“  Cape,  (po.  20) 

®
®   40
®   30
®   20 
60®  80
50®  60
®   12
®   so
Socotrl,  (po.  60) 
„
Catechu, la, 04s, 14 54s> 
®   18
A m m o n iac....................  55®  flu
Assafoetlda,  (po 40: 
35®  40
50®  56
B ensom um  
Camphors»......................  55®  58
K upnorblum   po  .........   15® 
lo
50
G afbannm ...................... 
Gamboge,  p o ................  65®  70
G nalacum ,  (po  85) 
. 
®   3»
Kino,  (po  2 00)........... 
m  00
M a s tic ... 
@ 8 0
 
M yrrh,  (po. 45)............   @  40
Opli  (pc  3  00@3  20).  1  85@1  »0
40®   60
Shellac  .......................  
4i@  45
bleached  —  
T r.tg a c a n th ..............  
50®  80

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bsxba—I n  ounce packages.

A b sin th iu m .............................  25
B up ato riu m .............................  20
Lobelia......................................  25
M ajo ra m ..................................   *
M entha  P ip erita....................  23
Y lr .............................  ®
R n e.............................................  80
Tanacetnm , V .........................  
jj*
Thym us,  V ............................. 
25

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... 

Calcined, P at  .. 
55®  60
20®  22
Carbonate,  Pat 
Carbonate, K. A  M —   20®  25 
Carbonate,  Jennlng5. 
35®  36

OLSTW.

PO TASSIUM .

B IC arb...........................  15®  18
B ich ro m ate..................  11®  13
B rom ide.......................  
45®  48
C arb................................  12®  15
Chlorate  (po. 17@19)..  16®  18
C y an id e.........................   50®  55
Io d id e............................ 2  90@3 0»
Potassa, B ltart, p u re..  24®  26 
Potassa, B ltart, com ...  @ 1 6
Potass  N ltras, o p t....... 
8®  10
Potass N ltra s................ 
9
7® 
P ru ssla te.......................   25®  23
Sulphate  p o ....... ..........  15®  18

R A D IX .

A co n ltu m .....................   20®   25
A lthae.............................  22®   25
A n c h u s a .......................  12®  15
Arum,  po.......................  
®   25
C alam us.........................  20®  40
G entians  (po.  12)....... 
8®  10
G lychrrhlxa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
H ydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35).....................  
@ 3 0
H ellebore,  Ala,  p o __   15®  20
Inula,  po  .. .*................  15®  20
Ipecac,  p o ....................1  30@1  40
35®  40
Iris  plox  (po. 35@38) 
Jaiapa,  p r.....................   40®  45
M aranta,  >4s................ 
®   35
Podophyllum , p o .........  15®  18
R h el................................   75®1  00
“  o u t.........................  @1  75
“  p v ...........................  75® 1  35
S p lg ella.........................  35®  38
Sangulnarla,  (po  25)..  @ 2 0
Serpentarla.................... 
so®  55
S e n e g a ...........................  55®  60
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @ 4 0
M  @ 2 5
Sclllae, (po. 85)............   10®  12
Symplocarpus,  Fostl-
dus,  po....................... 
© 3 5
V aleriana,  Eng.  (po.30)  ®   25
G erm an...  15®  20
20 
Ingiber a .................... 
20
Zingiber  ]

“  
18®
18®

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.... 

Anlsum ,  (po.  20) 
Aplum  (graveleons)
Bird, Is  ....................
Carol, (po.  18)...........
Cardamon 
C orlandrum  
Cannabis Satlva 
Cydonlum 
Chenopodlun< 
Dlpterlx Odorate 
Foeniculum
Foenugreek,  p o .......
U n i .............................
U n i, grd.  (bbl. 8 * ). 
Lobelia
Pharlarts C anarian..
R a p a ...........................
Slnapls  Albu
N igra

O   15 
14®  16 
4® 
6
10®   12 
1  00@1  25 
12®  14 
4® 
5
75®1  00 
10®   12 
1  80®2  00 
®   15 
6®  8 

3WO  4 
3*@   4 
35®  40 
4®  5
4 * 0  
5
7® 
8
11®   12

S P IR IT  tI8.

 

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Frum entl, W., D.  Co. .2  00Q2  50 
D. F. R  ..  2 00@2  25
.1  2501  50
 
Junlperls  Co. O. T .... 1  65®2  00
Saacharum   N.  B ..........1  90®2  10
Spt.  V lni  G alll............. 1  75®6  50
V lnl O p o rto ........................1  25@2 00
V lnl  A lba........................... 1  25®2 00

9 poses».

F lorida  sheeps’  wool
carriag e.......  
N assau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  .................... 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage........... 
E xtra  yellow  sheeps’
ca rria g e ...................... 
Grass sheeps’ wool car­
riage  ........................... 
H ard for  slate  u s e .... 
Yellow  Reef, for  slate 
u s e ..............................  

2  50®2  75
*  00
1  10
85
66
75
1*0

A b sin th iu m ............... . 2   50@3  00
Amygdalae, Dulc  ..  ..  30®  50 
A m yaalae. A m arae— 8 oo@8  25
A n is l.................................... 1  90@2 00
A nranti  C ortex............1  80®2 00
Bergam ll  ...................... 3  00®3  20
C aryophylii..................   75®  80
C e d a r...............  
35®  65
Chenopodll  ..................  @1  60
C in n a m o all........................ 1  4?®1 50
C ltro n ella......................  45®  50
Conlnm   M ac..............  
36®  65
C o p aib a.......................  
80®  90

 

 

SY R U PS.

A c c a c ia ....................................  50
Zingiber  ..................................  50
Ipecac........................................  60
F erri  Io d ..................................   50
A urantl  Cortes.......................   56
R hel  A rom ..............................   50
Slmllax  Officinalis................   60
. . . .   50
S en eg a......................................  50
Sclllae.......................................   60
«  Co..................................  60
T o id ta n ....................................  50
50
P ru n u i  vlrg  ...................... 

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

M orphia, 8. P.  A  W. 
8.  N. Y. Q.  *

1 75®2  CO 
C.  Co.......................   1  65@1  90
Moschus  C anton.........  @ 4 0
M yrlstlca,  No  1 .........   66®  70
N nx Vomica,  (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia.......................   15®  18
Pepsin Saac,  H. A  P. D.
C o ................................   @2 00
Plcls U q , N.*C.,  *  gal
doz  .............................  @2  00
Plcls Llq., q u a r ts .......   @1  00
©   85
P ll H ydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  N igra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba,  (po g5)__   @  3
P llx B u rg u n ..................  @ 
7
Plum bl A c e t................  1C®  12
Pul vis Ipecac et o pli. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrum ,  boxes  H
A  P. D.  Co., doz.......   @1 25
Pyrethrum ,  p v ............   20®  30
Q u asslae.....................  
8®  10
Q ulnla, S. P. A W .......34« @39*
8.  G erm an__   27®  37
R ubla  T lnctorum .......  12®  14
Saccharum  Lactls p v . 
18®  20
S alacln.............. ............2 50@2  60
Sanguis  D raconls.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W  .................. 
12®  14
,T  M ..........................   10®  12
a  
is
“  g ... 
 
Seldlltz  M ixture.........  @  20
Slnapls...........................  
®   18
®   30
“   o p t.....................  

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Voes

Snuff,  M accaboy,  De 
@  34
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  34 
Soda  Boras,  (po. 6*-9)6*@  
9
Soda  et Potass T art .  .  24®  26
Soda C arb....................  1*@   2
5
Soda,  Bl-Carb..............  
3® 
Soda,  A sh ........................3 * ®  
4
Soda, S ulphas..............   @ 
2
Spts. B ther C o ............   50®  55
“   M yrcia  D om ......  @2 00
“  M yrcia Im p ........  @2  50
2  55
•*  V lnl Rect. bbl  .. 
2 6)
“  Hhbl. 
«  « 
“ 
“  10 gal. 
2 63
“ 
“  
“ 
“ 
5 gal. 
2 65
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
S tiychnla  C rystal....... 1  40@1  45
Sulphur, S u b l..............   2)4®  3
R o ll................  2  @  2 *
Terebenth V enice.. ...  28® 30
T h eobrom ae........... ...45  @ 48
V anilla..................... ..9 00016 00
7® 8
Zlncl  S ulph............
OILS.
B b l.  Gal
70
65
45
Î4
16
7(,
40

W hale, w in te r......... ..  70
Lard,  e x tra .............. ..  60
Lard, No.  1............... ..  40
Linseed, pure ra w .. ..  61
Linseed,  boiled.. 
63
N eat’s  Foot,  w inter
65
Spirits T u rp en tin e.. ..  35

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s tra in e d ................

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FAINTS. 

lb.
Red  V enetian............... l g   2®8
Ochre, yellow   M ars__ 1M  2@4
B er......... 1%  2@8
“  
Putty,  com m ercial__ 2 *   2V4@3
“  strictly  p u re ....... 2 *   2M®8
V erm ilion Prim e A m er­
13@15
ican .................... 
 
 
Verm ilion.  B ngllsh__  
70®75
Green, P aris................ 
20*@27
Green,  P en in su lar.......  
13@16
Lead,  re d .......................   5)4@6
w h ite ..................5>4®6
@70
W hiting, w hite S pan... 
@90
W hiting,  G ilders’......... 
1 
W hite, Paris  American 
W hiting.  Paris  Eng.
c lif f ..............................  
1  40
U niversal Prepared  ..1  C0@1  15
No. 1  Turp  C oach__ 1  10@1  20
B xtra T u rp ....................160@1  70
Coach  Body..................2 75@3 00
No. 1 T urp  F u rn .........1  00@1  10
B utra T urk D am ar__ 1  55®1  60
Jap an   D ryer,  No.  1 
T u rp ............................. 
70@75
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F ...
A loes..................................
and  m y rrh ............
A rn ic a ..............................
AsafoBtlda.........................
Atrope B elladonna.........
B enzoin.............................
Co.......................
S angulnarla.....................
B aro sm a...........................
C antharldes.....................
C apsicum .........................
Ca  dam on.........................
Co.....................
C astor................................
C atechu.............................
C in c h o n a .........................
Co.....................
C olom ba...........................
C o n ln m ............................
Cubeba..............................
D ig ita lis ...........................
E rgot..................................
G e n tian ............................
Co.........................
G u a lc a ..............................
a aim o n ................
Z in g ib e r...........................
H yoscyam ns...................
lo d in e................................
Colorless..............
Ferri  C hlorldnm ............
K in o ..................................
Lobelia..............................
M yrrh................................
N nx  V om ica...................
O p li...................................
"  C am phorated...........
“  D eodor.....................
A nranti C ortex................
Q u a ssia ............................
R hatany  ..........................
R hel...................................
Cassia  A cutifol..............
Co.........
S e rp en tarla.....................
Strom onlnm .....................
T o lu ta n .............................
V a le ria n ..........................
V eratrnm  V erlde............
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...  <0
...  60
...  60
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  75
...  50
...  75
...  75
...1  00
...  50
...  50
. 
.  60
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  60
...  50
...  60
...  50
...  50
...  75
...  75
...  85
.  .  50
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  F5 
...  50
...2  00
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  50
...  60
...  00
...  50
...  50

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ground, 

C apsid  F ruetus, a f ... 
p o .... 
B po. 

¿Ether, Spts  N it, 8 F . .  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  S8®  40
A lu m e n ...........................2)4®  3
3® 
4® 

(po.
7 ).................................. 
4
A nnatto.........................  40®  50
5
Antlm onl, p o ................ 
et Potass T.  55®  60
A n tip y rln .....................   @1  40
A ntlrebrln.....................  @  15
A rgentl  N ltras, ounce  ®   53
A rsenicum .................... 
5® 
7
Balm Gilead  B u d .... 
38®  40
Bism uth  8.  N ............. 1  20® 1  30
Calcium Chlor, Is,  (* s
10;  ¡4»,  la ) ................  @ 
9
C antharldes  Russian,
p o ................................   @1  00
®   15
@  15
@  15
Caryophyllus,  (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40........... 
Q8  75
Cera  Alba, S. <b F .......  50®  55
Cera F la v a ...................   40®  42
C occus..........................   @  40
Cassia F ru e tu s............  
Q   25
Cen tr a ils ....................... 
©   10
C etaoeum .....................  
O   40
C hloroform ..................  60®  68
sq u lb b s..  @1  25
Chloral Hyd C rst.........1  15®l  30
C h o n d ru s.....................   20®  25
Clnohonldlne, P.  A  W 
is®   20 
German  8 * ®   12
C ocaine........................5 0t@5  25
Coras,  list,  dls.  per
cent  ......................... 
65
®   35
C reasotum ................ 
®  
2
Crete,  (bbl. 75).......  
prep................ 
5® 
5
preclp................ 
9®  11
©   9
. 
C ro cu s.........................  
50®  55
C udbear.........................   @  24
Cuprl S ulph..................  5 ®  
6
D ex trin e.......................   10®  12
Bther S ulph..................   75®  90
Bmery,  all  num bers.. 
8
6
Brgota, (po.)  40 ...........  30®  35
F lake  w h ite ................  12®  15
G a lla .............  ..............  
®   28
G am bler.........................  8  ©   9
G elatin,  Cooper........... 
Q   60
F ren ch ........... 
30®  50
G lassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  70.
G lue,  B row n..............  
9®  15
“  W hite..................  18®  26
G ly cerln a......................  13®  20
G rana P aradlsl............  
©   22
H nm ulus..................  ..  25®  55
©   79
H ydraag  Chlor  M ite.. 
®   69
“ Cor  .... 
Ox Rubrum   @  89 
®   99
A m m onlatl. 
U nguentum .  45®  55
H ydrargyrum ..............  
©   65
Ichthyobolla, A m ..  ..1  25®:  50
In d ig o ............................   75® 1 00
Iodine,  R esubl........... 3 80®3 90
Iodoform .......................   @4 70
L u p u lln .........................   @2 25
L ycopodium ................  60®  65
M a d s .............................  70®  75
U quor  A rsen  et  Hy-
drarg Io d ...................   @  27
U quor Potass A rslnltls  10®  19
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
M annla,  8. F ................  60®  68

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1 * ) ...............................  2*@   4

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THE  MIOMrCiAN  TBADESM AK.

GROCERY  PR IC E  CU RREN T.

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

A X L E  G R E A S E .
doz
.........................  70
Mica 
....  55
aurora
60
... ....... 
'astor Oil 
D iam ond......... .........  50
Frazer’s ........... ....... 
75
..  .. .........  55
Paragon 

gross
8 00
6 00
7  00
5  50
9 00
6 00

B A K IN G   P O W D E R  

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.................
1  “  ....... •-•••••

Acme.
>4 id.  ;u m . 3  dos —
S '-»-  , 
“  
li b . 
‘ 
B ulk.................. . 
-•••
A rctic.
34 ft cans 6’doz  ca se..
34  3)  “  4 doz  “
1  fi>  “  2 doz  “ 
..
5  ft  “  1 doz  “
Bed  Star. 34  ft  c a n s...
“
K f t 
l f t  
...
“ 
Sun Light.
■4 lb. cans, 6 doz.-case 
4  doz.  ‘
34 lb.  “ 
1 
lb.  “ 
2  doz.  “
V an  Anrooy’s  Pure 
>4 lb. cans, 6 doz. c a se ...
*   lb.  “ 
...
1 
lb.  “ 
relfer’s,  % lb. cans,  do* 

4  doz.  “ 
2  doz.  “
“
341b. 
1 lb. 
’
Our l eader,  34 .b cans.
34 lb  cans —
l i b  cans 
...
B A T H   B R IC K .
2 dozen In case.
E n g lis h .........................
Bristol..................................
Domestic..................

•• 
•> 
•• 

B L U IN G . 
Arctic, 4 os  ovals  ■

“ 

80s 
...............
pints,  ro u n d ...........

“ 
« 
«  No. 2, sifting box
“   No. 3, 
“   No. 5, 
“  
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,r
“
-*  • -
8 oz.........

Mexican Liquid, 4  oz  .

i os ball 

“ 
b r o o m s ,

“ 
« 

AO. 2 H url —
No. 1  “
No. 2 Carpet
No. 1 
Parlor G em ...........................
Common W hisk 
1 
Fancy 
................
W arenouae.

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

“  

B R U SH  EH
Stove, No.  1 ....................

*•  10..........................
“  16..........................

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Bice Root Scrub, 2  row 
Rise Boot  Scrub, 3 row
Palm etto,  g o o s e ................
UAM DLKS- 
Rotel. 40  lb  boxes
Slai ,4 «  
----
Paraffine  ...........................
WlCKloK  • .........................
OAI4N K ll  «O O D S

L ittle Necx,  1 in ..............
“ 
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters. 

rub.
Clams
2  lb .................
Standard, 8 lb ......................
Standard,  l i b . .  
—
2 lb ....................
Lobsters.
Star,  1  lb .............................
2  lb .............................
Picnic, 1 lb ...........................
2 lb ..........................
Maoxerel.
Standard, 1 lb ......... ............
2  lb ....................
M ustard,  21b  ....................
Tomato Sauce,  s  it —
S oused,2  lb .......................
Sal auL  
Colum bia River,  flat 
« 
rails
Alaska, R e d .................
p in k ..............
R lnney'8.  flats............
Sardines. 
A m erican  k«
a*
Im ported  34s
34s
M ustard  44s 
Boneless 
.
Broox  8,  lb

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Croat.
F ru its .
Applet.
31b. standard 
fo rk  State, gallons 
Sam bnrgh, 
“
A pricots.
Live o a k .............. 
. . .
S anta  C ru s....................
L u sk 's.............................
O verland.....................
Blackberries.
F . A  W ...........................

46
75 
1  60
10
55 
1  10 
2  00 
9 00 
40
76 
1  40
45 
85 
1  60
85 
1  65 
3  26 
45 
96 
1  50 
45 
75 
1  50

.  80 
70 
60 
Gross
3 60 
.  6  75
9  00 
2  75
4  00 
8  00 
4  50
.  3 60 
6  80

;  90 
2  00 
x  15 
2  50 
2  50 
85 
1 00 
2  85

1  25 
1  60 
1  75 
85 
1  25 
1  50
lb

1  20 
1  90

80
1  45
2 45 
8 50
2  Ob
2  90
.1  10 
2  10

.2 25
.1  80 
. I
.1  30 
.1  20 
.1  9
41  4 
©   6 
©  9 
<a  3 
©   7 
21
.2 GO

90 
3 ou

1  40 
1  40 
1  50 
1  10
85

Cherries.

 

Pears.

Gages

R ed.................................. 
® l  15
1  40
W h ite ............................. 
Brie  ............................... 
1  15
Damsons, Egg Plum s and Green 
E r ie ................................ 
1  00
1  05
C alifornia...................  
Gooseberries
1  10
C om m on.......................
Peaches.
1  00 
P ie .................................
1  40 
M axwell
1  40 
Shepard’s  .
©1  55
C alifornia.
Monitor
O xford...........................
D om estic.......................  
1  0
R iverside........................ 
1  25
Pineapples.
Comm on.........................1  00©1  30
2 50 
Johnson’s  Bllced
g rated .........
2  75 
@2  5 ) 
Booth’s sliced ..............
©2  75
grated  ...........
Quinces.
C om m on............ ..........
1  10
Raspberries.
R ed ..................................
95 
Black  H am burg...........
1  4G 
1  10
Erie,  black  ..................
Straw berries.
L aw ren ce......................
1  25
H am b u rg h ....................
1  7S 
E rie.................................
85 
T e rra p in ...........................
80
W hortleberries.
85
B lu eb erries..................
Corned  beef 
.  2  35
Roast beef 
2 35 
Potted  ham ,  34 lb __
.  1  30
80
tongue, 34 l b ............1  30
34 l b ---------   35
chicken, 34 lb  .........  
96

M eats.
..................
.....................
“  34 l b .............

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V eg etab les.

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Beans.

 

 

 

 

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Peas.

Corn.

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Ham hnrgh  stringless..........1  15
F rench sty le........2  00
L im as.................... 1  25
Lima,  g reen ............................1  15
soak ed .........................   70
Lewis Boston  B aked........... 1  25
Bay State  B aked............ .*... 1  25
World’s  F air  B aked............1  26
Picnic B aked...........................  95
H am burgh  ...............................1  is
Livingston  E d e n ................. 1  00
P u rity .......................... 
90
Honev  D ew ............................1  25
M orning Glory  .......
S oaked........................ 
00
H am burgh  m a rro fat.............1  30
early J u n e  
...1   a0
Cham pion E n g .. 1  40
petit  pots............1  40
fancy  sifted  ...1   66
■>os*e«i  ..................................  
85
dxrii« u u n u d .................... 
75
VauOtmp’»  m a rro fa t........... 1  io
early J u n e ........l  80
A rcher *  Esrly Blossom __ 1  26
F re n c h ..................................... g  15
F re n c h .............. . ................. 19©2!
B rie ....................................... 
90
H u b b ard ........... ...................... 1  15
H am burg.................  
1  30
S oaked...... — —— ..............  80
H oney JDew...................................1 30
E rie ................................................. 1 85
H an co ck .................................. 
Excelsior 
E clipse....................  ... 
H am burg.—....................................1 30
Gallon 

Mushrooms.
Pum pkin.
Squash.
Succotash.

so
. — . . ................  80
85
............................2   65
Baker's.

C H O C O L A T E .

Tom atoes.

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28
37
-5

9
t>3£
8»
8 *
334

G erm an Sw eet.............  .. 
P rem ium ............................. 
B reakfast  Cocos............  
C H E E S E .
A/dikjj 
. 
A cm e .... 
.............
Jersey ...........................
Lenawee 
..............
R iv e rsid e ....................
Gold  Medal  ..............
Skim 
...........................
B rick.............................
Edam   .......................
L e id e n ................
L lm b u rg e r.................
Pineapple 
Roqnefort 
Sap  Sago
Schw eitzer,  im ported 
C A T SU P.

dom estic 

Blue Label B rand.

5®ti
11
1  00 
20 
©15 
024 
085 
018 
©24 
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H alf  pint, 25 b o ttles..............2 75
P int 
4  50
Q uart 1 doz b o ttle s ................8 50
H alf pint, per  d oz..................1 35
P int, 25rbottles.........................4 50
Q nart  per  doz  ...................... 3  75

Trium ph Brand.

Raisins.

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Cod.

Prunes.

©   6
..  6340  8
..

O ndnra, 29 lb. boxes.. 
Sultana, 20 
V alencia. 30 
California,  100-120  ... 
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334
90x100 25 lb. bxs  534
80x90 
.5 3 4
63k
70x80 
60x70 
7
. 
7®10

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Silver 
Zenoleum, 6 oz  ....................  2  00
Zenoleum, qts.............................  4 0*
Zenoleum,  *4  gal.......................  7 20
Zenoleum ,  g a l............................12 tO

D IS IN  EE C T A N T .

“ 
2 00
“ 
6 25
10 00
17 50

34  “  40  “ 
M ackerel.

H alibut.
H erring.
“ 
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F IS H —S a lt 
Bloaters.
Y armouth....................
Georges cured...................   4
Georges g e n u in e ----- ...  5
Georges selected...............  534
Boneless,  bricks...............6%
Boneless,  strips................   64408
ll®12
S m oked. 
80 
H olland,  w hite hoops keg 
bbl  10  0
N orw egian................................   11 GO
Round, 34 bbl  100 lb s.........  2 55
.........   1  30
Scaled....................................  13
No. 1,100 lb s................ 
No. 1, 40 lb s ...............................  5 50
No. 1,10 lb s .................... 
No. 2, 100  lb s.................................9 00
No. 2,40  lb s................................   3 %
No. 2,10  lb s..........................  1  05
Fam ily, 90 lb s ..» .................
10  lbs ....................
Russian,  kegs........................ 
55
No. 1,  34 bbls., lOOlbs..............4  25
No.  1  34 bbl, 40 
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs 
56
.......... 
No  1, 8 lb   kits  ..................  
48
No.  1  fam ily
34  bbls, 100 lb s............ 97  25 2  25
“  ............   3 20  1  20
34  “  40 
101b.  k its .....................  
38
“ 
8 lb. 
33
...........  
h'juY  P A P E R .

Sardines.
Trout.

lb s .....................1 95

12  00
135

Whiteflsh.

81 
73 

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FLA V O R IN G   EXTRACTS. 

S o n d e rs'.

Oval  Bottle, w ith corkscrew. 
Best in th e w orld for th e money.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

dos
2 os  — 9  75 
4 os  ....  1 so

Regular
Vanilla.

dos
2 o z.......91  20
I 4 oz.......2  40

XX G rade 
Lemon.
8 oz....... 91  50
4 o z .......   3 00

XX G rade 
V anilla. 
2oz......91  75
4 oz....... 3  50

J e n n in g s .

Lemon. V anilla 
2 os regular p anel.  75 
>1.  75
1  20
4 os 
..1  50
2  00
6 os 
.2 00
3  00
No. 3  taper 
______
..1  35
2  00
No. 4  ta p e r............ 1  50
.1  50
2  50

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G U N PO W D E R .
Rifle—D upont’s.

K egs............................................s 25
H alf  kegs...................................1 90
Q uarter kegs.............................1 10
1  lb  ca n s..................................   30
34 lb  ca n s................................   18

Choke Bore—D upont’s

K egs................
H alf  k egs__
Q uarter kegs. 
1  lb c a n s .......

.4  2Î 
.2  4C 
1  3t

E agle D uck—D upont’s.

K egs............................• 
........ 11  00
H alf  k e g s .............................5 75
Q uarter kegs......................... 3  00
1  lb  ca n s................................  
60

R egular Size.

Per box___38c.  Per case.. S3 40
In  5 case lots, per case__ 3 30
In  10 case lo's. p erca se___3  20
“ L ittle Tanglefoot.”
25
R etails, p e rfc o x .................. 
(  O'lS  O-- OftMV 
................   1  75

1  ’T T C | 1  j y i w   '

H E R B S .

Sage.
Hops.

M adras,  51b.  boxes........... 
S. F ., 2, 8 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

65
50

15  lb. p alls. 
“
17  “  
30  “  “

©   38 
O   44 
©   65

LICO RICE.

P u re...........................................   30
C alabria....................................   25
S icily .........................................   12
R oot...........................................   10

LYE.

Condensed, 2  d o s................. 1  20
4 d o s................. 2 25

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M INCE  M EA T.

1.A K 6E  SIZE.

 

D W A R F SIZ E .

F arina.
G nts.
Hominy.
 

25dbl. shts. In b o x .p r.b x .  $  38 
Per case of  10 box e s...........3  40
25 double sheets in   box,
Case of to  boxes..................  1  25
Case of 2 1  box es..................  2  50
COM BINATION  CASE.
5 boxes Large  Decoy  | 
.   —
12 boxes D w arf Decoy f • ■ 
F A R IN A C E O U S   UOODm. 
115 lb. kegs...................... 
234
W alsh  DeRoo  &  Co.’s .......  1  S5
Barrels  ............ 
234
G rits ........................................  334
Lima  Beans.
D ried............................... 
634
M accaronl and Vermicelli. 
Domestic, 121b.  b o x .... 
55
Im ported...1.................IO34011
E m p ire .... 
..........................334
C hester.................................. 
234
Peas.
Green,  b n ............................   1  10
Split  per l b ....................  
234
Schum acher, bbl........................94 60
M onarch,  b b l.............................  3 90
M onarch,  34  b b l..........................2 10
Q uaker,  cases...........................   3 20
Oven Baked...................................3 25
L akeside......................................  2 25
G erm an ..................................   3
B ast In d ia ...............................  334
C racked...................................  3

34 b b l..............   2  41

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

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M ince m eat, 3 doz. In case.  2  75 
Pie Prep. 3  doz.  In  c a se__ 2  75

M A T C H E S.

Colum bia  M atch Co.’s  B rands.
Colum bia P arlo r.........................91 25
XXX  S ulphur..............................  1 00
Diam ond  M atch  Co.’s  Brands.
No. 9  sulphur 
..................   1  65
A nchor p arlo r............................   1 70
No. 2 home 
............................ 1  10
E xport  parlor  ........................4  00

M E A S U R E S .
Tin, per dosen.

1  g allo n ......................................  II 75
H alf  g allo n ...............................  1 40
70
Q u a it....................................  
45
P in t........................................ 
H alf  p i n t .................... 
40
 
W ooden, for vinegar, per dos.
  7  00
1 g a llo n ...................... 
H alf g a llo n ...............................  4 75
Q q a n ............................. 
 
3  75
H a t ....................................... . 2

 

C R E A M   T A R T A R .
Strictly  p u re ......................... 
3c
30
T e lle rs   A bsolute................  
Grocers’................................. 15©25

C L O T H E S   P IN 8 . 

D a isy   B ra n d .

5 gross b o x e s .................. 40©45

COCOA  S H E L L S .

351b  bags.........................   ©3
Less  quantity 
Pound  p a c k a g e s .........6k® 7

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

©334

C O F F E E .

G re e n .

 

Santos.

M exican and G uatem ala.

Rlffi
F a ir......................  
18
G ood......................................  19
P rim e........................................ 21
G olden...................................... 21
Peaberry 
................................ 23
F a ir............................................19
G ood..........................................20
P rim e ....................................... 22
Peaberry  ................................. 23
F a ir............................................21
Good.......................................... 22
F an cy ........................................24
P rim e ........................................28
M ille d ...................................... 24
In te rio r...............................  . .25
Private G row th...................... 27
M an d eh lln g ......................  . .28
Im ita tio n .................................25
A rabian.................................... 28

M aracaibo.

Mocha.

Java.

R o aste d .

E x tra c t.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add  34c. per lb.  for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M c L a u g h lin 's   X X X X ..  £1  30
Lion. 60 or 1001b.  case__21  30
A rbuckle..............................  21  30
J e r s e y ..................................  21  30
Valley City  34  gross  ____ 
75
1  15
Felix 
H ummel’s, foil,  gross.......  165
“ 
...  2  85

tin 
C H IC O R Y .
s u lk ......   .................... 
¡ted..................................... 
Cotton,  40 f t ...........perd o s.  1  25
140
1  60
1  75
1  W
86
1  00

5 0 ft............  
6 0 ft............  
TOft............  
40 f t ............  
80 ft 
.... 
72 ft  ......... 

C L O T H E S   L IN K S .

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4 doz  In  case.

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gall Borden E agle..............   7  40
C row n........................................ 6 25
D aisy.......................................... 5 75
C ham pion..............................   4  50
M agnolia 
...............................4  25
D im e...........................................3 35

“ Superior.”
, per  hundred

2  50
3 00 
8 50
4 00
5 00
6 00

U n iv ersal

3 50
4 00
6 00

2

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1
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5 00
9  5
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7 « '
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Above prices on cm.poo books 
to  the  following 
are  subject 
quantity discount*:
2Uu books or over..  5  per  oent 
500 
1000 

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ICan  be  m ade to represent any 
denom ination  from 110  down. I
20books....................... :.  9  1  00
50 
 
100 
...  3  00
250 
500 
1000 

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C R E D IT   CHECKS.

500, any one denom 'n 
1000,  “ 
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Steel  punch 

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C RACK ERS.

Butter.

Seymour XXX 
Seymour XXX. carto o n .
Family  XXX 
Fam ily XXX,  cartoon
Salted XXX 
..............
Salted XXX,  cartoon 
Boston.  ...
Sears’ T ea. 
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Soda.
Soda.  XYX 
Soda XXX.car  on.
Soda, Olty
Soda.  D uchess................
Crystal W afer 
Long  Island W afers 
8. Oyster  XXX
City Oyster. XXX............
F arina  Ovster

Oyster.

S w eet  Goods

Iced Coffees 
.......
G n g e r Snap1................
Graliam  Crackers 
O a'm eal Crackers. 
P retz els. 
—
Molasses  C ake............
Sugar  C a k e ................

D R IE D   FRUITS. 

D o m estic.

Apples.
8u n d ried ,................  
Evaporated. 50 lb.  boxes 
Apricots.
C alifornia in  bags 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
In   boxes..
70 lb. bags 
25 lb. boxes 

Blackberries.
N ectarines.

............
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Peaches.

Peeled, in  boxes 
Cal. evap.  “ 
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In  nag» 
Pears

“ l!fornls *•  b 

C alifornia b o x e s ........... 
Pitted  Gherne*.
B a rre ls ............................
..............
50 lb. boxes 
26  “

Prunelles

S’* lb.  boxes 

Rs*pi:errle*.

.¡2  narrei- 
50 lb. box* s ............. 
25 lb 

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5 00
8 00
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634 
634
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Peerless evaporated cream   5 

CO U PO N   B O O K S .

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I   1  books,  per  h u ndred
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Raisins.

Loose  M uscatels In Boxes.
.........................   334
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Loose M uscatels In Bags.
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354

2 crow n 
8 
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2  crow n 
3 
 

F o re ig n .
C urrants.

Patras,  bbls.........................  @254
Vostlzzas, 5o lb.  eases  .......  2%
25 lb.  b oxes..................... ......   534
50 lb.  boxes 
1 lb.  packages 

......................... 5
.................6

S chuit’s Cleaned.

Peel.

Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  12 
Lemon 
8
10
O range 

25  “ 
25  “ 

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New O rleans.

M O L A SSES.
BlackBtrap.
Sugar house.................  
Cuba Baking.
O rdinary.........  
Porto B lu .
Prime 
Fancy 
F a ir ........................................ 
Good  ....................................  
Extra good...........................  
Choice 
...............................  
F a n c y . . . .................... 
H alf  barrels 3c.extra
P IC K L E S .
Medium.

.

Barrels, 1,200  o o n n t... 
H alf bbls, 600  count. 
Small.
Barrels, 2,400  count 
H alf bbls, 1,200 count 

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18
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32
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©4 ¿5
©7 63
5 50
3 75

Clay, No.  216.............................1 70
“  T. D. fu ll co u n t............   70
Cob, No.  8 .................................. 1 20

P O T A S H .

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s ............................. 
4  00
Penna Salt  Co.’s .................  8 00

R IC E .
Domestic.

 

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Carolina h e a d ................ 

5H
No. 1 .......................... 5
No. 2 .........................   4 *
B roken.....................................  3)4
Japan, No. 1..............  .............814
No. 2 ...........................S
J a v a ................................. ♦—* •  *
P atn a........................................  <K

Im ported.

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W hole Sifted.

A llspice.......................................9)4
Cassia, C hina In m ats.........  914

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P ure G round In B ulk.

B atavia In bund — 15
Saigon In ro lls.........32
Cloves,  A m boyna..................22
Z an slb ar....................1114
Mace  B atavia..........................70
Nutmegs, fa n c y ...................... 65
••  No.  1...........................60
“  No.  2...........................55
Pepper, Singapore, b la ck .... 10 
w h ite ...  .20
sh o t............................. 16
A llspice.....................................15
Cassia,  B atavia...................... 18
and  Saigon.25
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S aig o n ........................35
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Cloves,  A m boyna..................22
Z an slb ar................... 18
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G inger, A frican ...................... 16
"  C ochin.....................   20
“ 
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Mace  B atavia..........................65
M ustard,  Bug. and T rieste. . 22
T rieste  ......................25
.....................75
Nutmegs, No. 2 
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16 
“ 
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...24
“  C ayenne.....................20
Sage............................................29
“ Absolute” in  Packages.

Jam aica 

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A llspice...........................  84  155
C innam on.......................  84  1  55
Cloves..............................   84  155
G inger,  Ja m a ic a ..........  84  1  55
A fric a n ..............  84  1  55
M u sta rd ........................  84  1  55
P e p p e r............................   84  155
Sage?. —  

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K lngsford’s Corn.

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654
K lngsford’s Silver Gloss..  6%
5*
554

20 l ib packages. 
4 0 1-lb 
 
40 1-lb.  packages
6-lb. boxes......................
Common Corn
20-lb  boxes....................
40-lb 
“ 
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1-lb packages...........................  5
8-lb 
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6-lb 
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5 £
40 and 50 lb.  boxes................   3%
B arrels......................................  354

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Boxes 
......................................5 h
Kegs, E n g lish .......................... 454

S O D A .

SA L T.

D iam ond Crystal.

 

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Cases, 243  lb. boxes.........I  1  60
Barrels, 320  lb s..................  2  50
115 2% lb bags—   4  00
3  75 
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tO 5 
lb  “ 
3 50 6) 
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3010  lb  “  
B utter, 56 lb  bags...........
3 50
“  20141b bags...........
“  280 lb  b b ls .............   2  50
2 25
“  224 lb 
 

W orcester.
U52V4-lb sack s............................*4 10
“ 
60 5-lb 
..................  3  Tf
....................3  50
“ 
3010-lb 
22  14 lb.  “ 
....................  3  30
320 lb. b b l...............................  2  50
8 lb  s a c k s... 
.............  3254
linen ac k s...................   60
Common G rades.
12  10 
100 3-lb.  sack s..............
1  90
60 5-lb 
..................
28 10-lb.  sack s......................  1  75
30
56 lb. dairy In d rill  b ag s.. 
16
281b. 
. 
75
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks  . 
75
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks 
5H  i t .   sack s......... 
.. 
22
S a g in a w ..............................
M anistee  .............................  

Ashton.
Higgins.

Common Fine.

Soiar Rock.

W arsaw.

90

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A n is e ............................. 
Canary, Sm yrna........... 
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C a ra w a y ................ 
Cardamon, M alabar... 
Hemp,  Russian 
.......  
M ixed  B i r d ................ 
M ustard,  w hite  ......... 
P oppy ............................  
R a p e .............................. 
C uttle  b one.................. 

S N U F F .

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80
4
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9
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so

Scotch, In  bladders............ 37
Maccaboy  In ja rs .................. 35
French Rappee, in  Jars 
48
SA L E R A T U S 

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

C hurch’s ...............................  3 30
DeLand’s .................................3  15
D w ight’s ...................................3 30
Taylor’s .................................... 3 00

S O A P .
L a u n d ry .

G.  R. Soap W orks Brands. 
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Best G erman Family.

Concordia, 100 54 lb. b a rs .. .3 50
5 box  lo ts........... 3 35
10 box lo ts........... 3 30
20 box lots.........3  20
601-lb. b ars............................. 2 25
5 box  lo ts...............................2  15
25 box.lots................................2 00
A llen B. W risley’s Brands.
Old C ountry,  80  1-lb.............3  20
Good Cheer, 601 lb .................3  90
W hite Borax, 100  3£-lb......... 3 65

Proctor & Gamble.

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C oncord..................................3 45
Ivory, 10  o z............   ...........  6  75
6  oz............................... 4 00
L enox....................................  3 65
M ottled  G erm an....................3  15
Tow n T a lk ...............................3 25

D lngm an Brands.

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

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands 

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American  Fam ily, w rp d . .18  33 
p la in .  .  2 27
N.  K.  F airbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa C laus...........................  3  9rt
B rjw n,60 b ars........................2  10
“ 
80 .bars  ....................3  10
Lautz  Bros. & Co.’s  Brands.
Acme ...................................... 3 65
Cotton O il............................   6 00
M arseilles.................................4  00
M aster  ..................................... <00
Thompson & Chute Co.’s Brands

Silver 
 
..................  ■
Mono 
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Savon  in  p r o v e d ............
Sunfluwf    ............................ 2  80
G oluen 
...............................3  25
E c c'o m .cal 
. . . .   2  25

 

 

H enry Passolt’s Brand.

S c o u rin g

Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2  40 

band,3 •’oz............2 40

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SU G A R.

Below  are  given  New 

twi* 
prices on sugars, to  w hich  the 
w boiesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  am ount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the m arket  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point, including 20  pounds  for 
the w eight of the barrel.
D om ino.......   ......................   ®
Cut  L oaf................................  5  31
C u b es..................................... <91
P ow dered .............................. 5 00
XXX X  Pow dered................  5  18
G ranulated 
................  4  62
Fine G ranulated ..................  4  62
E xtra Fine G ran u lated ...  4  7o
Mould  A  ..............................   4  91
Diam ond Coufec.  A ...........  4  62
Confec.  Standard  A ...........4  50
No.  1................................... 
4  37
No.  2  .................................... 4  37
NO.  3......................................  4  37
No.  4....................................   4  7
No.  5......................................  4  31
No.  6 ......................................4  25
No.  7....................................•'  4  18
No.  8 ......................................  4  12
No.  9......................................4  06
No.  10......................................  4  no
No  11..................................... 3  94
No.  12....................................  3 87
No.  13.  ..................................  3 75
3 56

1  No.  14.............................. 

SAL  SO D A.

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G ranulated,  bbls...................  1 >4
751b  cases.........  154
..........................   154
Lump, bbls 
1451b kegs.................... 154

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Corn

B arrels........................... 
22
Half bbls................................ 24

Pure Cane.

F a ir.............................................  15
G ood...........................................  20
Choice.........................................  25

T A B L E   SAUCES.
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Lea & Perrin’s, la rg e .........4  75
sm all.......   2 75
H alford, la r g e .....................   3 75
s m a ll......................2 25
Salad  Dressing,  large  .  ...  4  55 
1 
2  fit

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j a p a n — Regular.

©17
©20

8 UN  CURED.

.......................32
.... ................................10

F a ir ................................
G ood .............................
Choicest
Dust 
F a ir .......
Good ..  .
Choice... ....................... 24
Choicest. .......................32
.10  @12
Dust 
... ...............................10
BASKET  F IR E D .
F a ir ................................18  @20
•holce...............................  
i  holcest............................ 
i tra choice, w ire leaf  ©40 

@17
©20

@25
@35

TOBACCO».

Cigars.

Congress  Brand.

.........«..........*80  00

Invincibles 
Im perials....................................  <0 00
Perfectos ..  . 
Boquets 
Signal  F iv e.................................35 (0
Comrade 
Mr.  Thom as 

........................  35 00
...................... 35  (0

Edw. W.  Ruhe’s Brands.

..........................  55 00

 

6j 00

G. J. Johnson’s B rand.

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

F in e  C u t.

Lorlllard  \   Co.’s  Brands.
Sweet R u s s ..................  @25
T iger............. 
30
D. Scotteu  &  Co s Brands.
H iaw atha........... 
60
C u b a...................... 
32
R ocket.......................  
30
Spaulding &  Merrick  -  Brands.
S terlin g .........................

Private  Brand».

C h e r ry ................................  @3J
Bazoo__  
• •  .........
Can  Can......................... 
<&•'-*
N ellie  B ly.....................24  ©2.
Uncle B en.................... 24  @25
M cG inty......................
54 b b ls .........  
25
C olum bia.......................  
Columbia,  drum s  ......... 
Bang  U p ........................  
Bang up,  drum s 
......... 

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P lu g .

Spear 
Jok 
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Sorg’s Brands.
a d .................... 
................... 
Scotteu’s Brands.

•  y Tw ist

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32
31
27

 

Finzer’s  Brands.

Lorillard s Brands. 

..  aw atha............•••
34
v alley C ity .................  
Old  H onesty................ 
*■
*•
Jolly T ar 
-•••■ 
39
Climax (8  oz., 41c).... 
Green T u rtle ................ 
30
27
Three  Black Crows 
Something G ood......... 
38
H eart.. 
Out of  S ight................  
24
Wilson <s M cCaulay’s  Brands.
Gold  Rope.
Happy T hought........... 
37
M essm ate............................ 
No T a x ................................ 
Let  Go................................  

J . G. B utler’s.Brands.

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S m o k lu g .

Catlin’s  Brands.

 

 

Klin  d rie d .........................  1T@18
Golden  Shower  .....................19
H untress 
.............................  -26
Meerschaum  ...................... 29@a0
American  Eagle Co.’s Brands.
M yrtle  N avy........................... 40
Stork  .. 
...................................Ip
German 
Frosr 
Jav a.  54s foil 
32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
B anner—  
Banner C avendish  .............   3b
Gold Cut 
30
W arp ath ...................................14
Honey  D ew............................. '»
Gold  Block 
F.  F.  Adams Tobacco Oo.’s 

Scotten’s Brands.

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Brands

Peerless.................................... 26
Old  T om .................................. 18
Standard 
22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s  Brands. 
H andm ade............................... 40

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76

30

S m o k in g —Continued. 
L eidersdorfs  Brands.

Rob  Roy...................................26
Uncle  Sam........................28@32
Red Clover......................  ....3 2

Spaulding & M errick.

Tom and J e rry ........................25
T raveler  C avendish. . . . . .   38
Buck H orn....................  — 30
Plow  Boy..........................30@32
Corn  C a k e .........................   16

V IN E G A R

H ighland  Brand 

W E T   M U STA R D .

Bulk, per g a l ..................
Beer mug, 2 doz In ca se.

.

D iam ond... 
E urek«.......
Magic.............
Yeast  Cream 
Yeast Foam

W O O DEN W A R E .

1214

30 
1  75

75 
1 fO 
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.1  00 
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Bowls, 11 In ch ............  —  

No. 2........................ 
No. 3........................ 
No. 1,  three-hoop 
13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

Tubs,N o. 1...........................  400
3 SiO
3 00
95
1 
80
............. 
«0
........................   1  25
.......................  1 80
H ID E S  PELTS  and  K IR '
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol 

lows:

H ID ES

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@(54
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654© 8)4
754©  954

G re e n ............................   8  @7
P art  C ured..............  
F ull 
D ry..............................  
K ips,green  ................  o  @ 7
Calfskins,  g reen .......  8* a l 0
cu red __ ..I t @13
iU © 2 5
Deacon sk in s.........
No. ¿ hides  %  off
PBLTfe
Snearllngs................
Lambs 
..................
Old  W ool.......
WOOL

5 ©   20
10 ©   30
ID <¡g*  «5

W a s h e d ............
Unwashed  .

, 0 @16
.  5 ©1-2

M ISCELLANEOUS.

T a llo w ....................... .  3 ©  4
1 <a>  a
Grease  butter  .........
*
Switches  ..............
2  1*
Ginseng
6 K A IN S   a n d   F E E D S T t  KKf 

W HEAT

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

15
75

FLO U R  IN  SACKS.

•P atents 
......................
Second P atent  ..................
S traight................................
C lear......................................
•G rah am ..............................
B u ck w h eat.........................
Rye.........................................
count.
ditional.

•Subject  to  usual  cash 
F lour In  bbls., 25c per bbl 

4  00 
4  4 
4  2J 
4  O, 
4  00 
4  50 
4  00 
dls-
. ad-

M EAL.

B olted....................................  2 10
G ranulated.................. 
2 75
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FE E D   AND  M IL L 8T U FF8 

St.  Car  Feed,  screen e d ..  *22  ¿0 
■it. Car Feed, unscreened.  »2  to
No.  I Corn and  Oats  .......  22  00
No. 2 S p e c ia l....................  2i  to
Unbolted Corn  M eal.........  20  to
W inter W heat  Bran  .......   1»  5o
W inter W heat M iddlings  16  oo
screenings  .........................   15  50

COBH.

Car  lo ts............................... 
Less than  car  lo ts........ 

54
56

OATS.

Car  l o t s ................................   3454
Less than car lots  .

37

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No.  1 Tim othy, car lots 
No. 1 

ton lots

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20  00

f i s h   a n d   o y s t e r s  

f r e s h   f i s h .
.......................  

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1254@I5

Whitens.-, 
T rout 
Black  Bass......... 
H a lib u t,..........................   18®8
Ciscoes or H erring 
*  @ 6
B lueflsh.........................  @1254
16
Fresh lobster, per lb. 
30
Cod 
..................... 
12
H addock...........................  @ 
@  8
No.  1  Pickerel 
P ik e................................   @ 7
Smoked  W hite 
@ 7
15
Red  S n a p p e rs ............. 
Columbia  River  Sal
m o n ............................  
-5
M ackerel..........................  18@25
Shrimps,  per g a l......... 
1  a5
SH E L L   HOODS

Oysters, per  100.........  1  ®@1  50
Clams. 

75@1 00

OYSTERS— IN  CANS.

F. J . D ettenthaler’s Brands. 
40
36

F alrhaven  Counts —  
F .  J. D.  Selects........... 

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LA M P  B U RN ERS.

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No. 0 S u n .........................................................
NO. 1  “ 
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No. 2  “ ...........................................
T ubular
Security.  No. 1....................................................
..............................
Security,  No. 2.................. 
N u tm eg ................ ............................  
.......
A rctic...............................................  
.......
LA M P  CHIM NEYS  —6  dOS. lU  bOX.
.............................
.

No. 0 S u n ... 
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 0 Sun, crim p top, w rapped and  labeled.
No. 1  “  
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No. 2  “ 
No. 6 Sun, crim p  top, w rapped  and labeled 
No. 1 
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r 10 
.2  25 
.3  25
2  tO 
.2 80 
.3  80

No. 1 Sun, w rapped and  labeled.................. 
No. 2
-  
“  
................ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 

“ 

F ire Proof—Plain Top.
No.  1, Sun,  plain  b u lb .......................
“ 
.......................
No. 2, 

“ 
La Bastte.
No. 1  Sun, plain  bulb,  per dot 
No. 2  “ 
. 
No. 1 crimp, per d o s.................................
1«
No. a 
“ 

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

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

... 

3  7b
4  7»
4  82

3  40 
.4  40

1  25 
1  50
1  35
1  fif-

No.  1, lime (65c d o z )...............................
.........3  50
No. 2, lim e (iOc d o z )................................ .......   4  00
No. 2, flint (80c doz).................................
4  70

Electric.

..

M iscellaneous.

Ju n io r, Rochester  ..... 
. . . .
N u tm e g .... 
Illum inator B ases.......
Barrel lots, 5 doz  .......
7 In. Porcelain Shades. 
Case lots, 12 doz............

Doz.
No.  3  Rochester,  lime  . 
1  50
No.  3  Rochester, flint.
.1  75
No.  3  Pearl top or Jew el gl’s .1  85
No.  2  Giobe lncandes.  lime.. .1  75
No.  2  Giobe  lncandes.  flint.. 2 00
h  o.  2  Pearl glass..  ................ M  10

No.2, lim e  (70c d o z ) ................................. _____ 4  lb
No.  2 flint (80c d o z )................................ .........  4  40
Doz.
.  50
.  15 
.1 (X) 
90 
.1  uO 
.  00
Box
4  2U
4  SU
5  25
5  10
5  85
0  00
Doz
1  U1
.  2 00
.. 
.........3  25
4  50
........   6  10
___  0 50
.......   7  ou
....  *  50
...  10 5 >
9  Ou
lb 50 
.2  Ot 
12  bd
10

O IL  CANS.
1  gal  tin cans w ith spout__
1  gal  galv iron,  w ith spout..
2  gal  galv  iron  w ith spout
3  gal  galv iron w ith snout—
5 gal  McNutt, w ith spout.  ..
5  gal  E ureka, w ith sp o u t..
5  gal  E ureka w ith  faucet___
5  gal  galv iron  A  &  W
5  gal  T ilting  Cans,  M onarch
5  gal  galv iron  N acefas.. 

3  gal  H>.me Rule.  .. 
___
5  gal  Home R ule...............
3  gal  U oodenougb..................................
5  gal  G oodeuough 
.....
5  gal  Pirate  King 

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

Pum p Cans.

LANTERN  OLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular, cases  1  doz.  each .....................  45
“ 
No. 0, 
........... 
46
......................   4"
No. 0, 
bbls 5 
No. 0, 
bulPs eye, cases  I doz each. 1  25

2  “ 
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LAMP WICKS.

No. ii,  per  gross.....................................................  
No. 1, 
No  2, 
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per d oz............................................... 

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“ 

 
 
 

 

 

“ 
“ 

“  bbl, ‘ 
“  box, “ 
‘•'bbl, “ 

JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin Top.
24  “ 
6  “ 
18  “ 

54  Pints,  6 doz in  box,  per box (box 00).
doz (bbl  35)  __
54 
box (box (XI)__
54 
doz (bbl 35)........
54 
stoneware—AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1  to 6 g a l..................................
54 gal. per  d oz..................
Jugs, 54 gal., per doz................................
1 to 4 gal., per g a l..............................
Milk Pans,  y% gal., per  d o z.....................
.............. ..

1  “ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

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STONEWARE—BLACK OLAZED.
B utter Crocks,  1  and 2 g a l.......................
Milk  Pans,  54 gal.  per  d oz....................

60

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65
79

 

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6

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2r
 
 

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60 2b 
I  80 
22

in 

M ason—1 doz. 

F R U IT  JA R S.
Mason—old  style, p in tsi...................................... 7  2c
quarts....................................  7  75
h alf gallons  .....................   9  75
case, p in ts................ 7  50
quarts.........................   8  Oo
half  gallons................10 (0
D andy—glass cover, p in ts...............................  10  50
q u a r ts .............................. 11 00
h alf  gallons....................14 00
OILS.

The S tandard Oil Co  quotes as follows:

8

BA RB ELS.

Eoeeue.
XXX W .W .  Mich.  H eadlight..............
N aptha................ ......................................
Stove G asoline.........................................
C ylinder................. 
...............   •  -•
8
E ngine......................................
Black,  w in ter...........................................
Black, sum m er.........................................

10 4
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FROM  TA N K   WAGON.

Eocene.................... . 
XXX  W. W.  Mich.  H eadlight 
Scofield, Shurm er  &  Teagle  quote  as  follows:

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

9

B A RRELS.

P alacine........................................................... 
Daisy W hite........................................  
Red Cross, W W  H eadlight.................  
N ap th a............................................ 
Stove G asoline........................................ 
FROM   TA N K  W AGON,
Palacine..................................................................   10
Red Cross W W H eadlight............  
.................  •

 
 

 

 

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THE  MICHIG^lIST  TRADESMAN.

SU C C E SS  FROM   F A IL U R E .

N e c e s sa ry   L e sso n s  T a u g h t  b y   B rig h t 

From  the New York Press.

C a re e rs .

Here is a message for  all  men,  young 
and  old,  who  are  striving  with sincere 
purpose  to  wrest  the  prize  of  success 
from an indifferent,  because a very  busy 
world:
“Do not be discouraged because of one, 
or even more than one,  failure in the bat­
tle  for  success.  Be  prepared  for  your 
chance when it comes to you,  whether it 
seems to promise great or only  moderate 
rewards,  and  when  you have begun  the 
work of taking advantage of  the  chance 
never stop till you have won.”
Every successful man will indorse this 
message;  every  student  of  humanity 
knows of its  truth;  it  is  taught  by  the 
lives of hundreds of the great men of the 
past.  Take the career of General Grant, 
for  instance,  whose  name  will  always 
shine in  the  galaxy  of  greatest  Ameri­
cans, for the reason that  he  was not dis 
couraged by  failure—an  element  in  his 
character concerning which Bishop New­
man,  of  the  Methodist  Church,  who  is 
shortly to go to Europe on  an  important 
mission, delights to talk to bis friends.
Nearly everyone knows of the military 
achievements of the hero of Chickamauga, 
but how many think of the buffetingsthe 
silent soldier  had  to  endure  before  his 
chance to become the savior of the Union 
came to him?  It was after  the  Mexican 
war that he met with circumstances  that 
would have discouraged almost any other 
man.  Who but Grant, during the dreary 
years  when  he  was  living  on the Dent 
farm in a log house near St. Louis, could 
have  maintained  that  supreme  faith  in 
himself that was  finally  justified?  Dur­
ing that period almost all his cash income 
was derived from  the  sale  of  firewood, 
which  he  cut  with  his  own  hands and 
hauled to market  in  the  city,  where  he 
sometimes had to stand  for  hours on the 
street corner waiting for a purchaser.
After  that  he  went  to  Galena,  111., 
where he was  employed at  most  meager 
wages in  his  father’s  leather  establish­
ment, and  where,  though  he  was consid­
ered  well  enough  in  his  way,  it  was 
never dreamed that he was a  man  likely 
to make any  sort  of  mark  in  business, 
politics, or,  least  of  all,  in  war.  The 
first of his chances came when it was de­
cided to hold  a  meeting  to  indorse  the 
movement to  prevent  the  disruption  of 
the Union,  and he was  asked  to  preside 
because be bad been  a lieutenant  in  the 
Mexican war.  He  saw a further  chance 
in the coming  conflict,  and  he  took  it, 
too,  by offering his  services  to  the  Gov­
ernment.  They  were  accepted,  but  no 
one wanted him  and he  was not assigned 
to  any  command  for  many  days.  Mc­
Clellan had no use  for  the  unassuming, 
quiet-looking  tanner  from  Galena,  and 
he was sent to Indianapolis,  where  for  a 
short time  he was  set  at  clerical work. 
He took the small chance offered  to  him 
to work at the records of the military de­
partment  then  and  did  his  work well. 
By  and  by there was a call  for a man to 
command a  regiment  somewhere  in  the 
southwest  that  no  one  else  wanted. 
•Some one  said:  “ Why  not  send  Grant 
there?  He wants active service, he says, 
and it  is  likely  he’ll  get  all  he  wants 
there.  Besides, he may  make  a  success 
of  it.  He  is  really  a  very  competent 
clerk,  hard working,  persistent  and  pa­
tient.”
So  to  Ulysses  S.  Grant  was  given 
charge  of  the  regiment  that  no  one 
wanted,  and though no  one suspected it, 
probably Grant as little  as  anyone,  that 
was the first step  toward  the  beginning 
of the end.  Grant made good soldiers of 
the troops, and when  the  tftne  was  ripe 
he took  Paducah  with  them,  greatly  to 
the amazement  of  certain  officers,  who 
bad  snubbed  the  tanner  from  Galena 
when  be  was  knocking  about  from 
pillar  to  post  in  search  of  his  chance. 
Grant was not a young man then;  in fact, 
as  he  was  born  in  1822,  and  Paducah 
was captured in 1861, he was  thirty-nine 
years old.  Till then his life  had  been  a 
failure and he was  taunted with  this  in 
the  press  and  on  the  platform.  There 
were  those who  insisted  that  he was  a 
failure then  and  afterward,  all  through 
the Civil war, indeed;  bnt  the  facts  and

the estimation of a grateful Republic are 
all the other way.  Certainly the achieve­
ments of General Grant  should teach the 
lesson that there is never a time  when  a 
man can afford to be discouraged.
A  WORD FROM MR.  HEWITT.

There  is  no  one  in  New  York  who 
preaches this doctrine  more  logically  or 
more convincingly than AbramS. Hewitt, 
ex-Mayor, ex-Congressman,and thorough­
ly successful man of  affairs.
“The world is full of successful men,” 
he said to the writer  a  day  or  two  ago, 
looking up from  a desk that was  covered 
with work,  “ who were not  able  to count 
themselves  as  snch until they had made 
more than one failure.  But it is not easy 
to  define  the  word  success.  Some men 
give up  the  opportunities  that  come  to 
them  to make phenomenal  material  suc­
cess,  in  order  to  devote  themselves  to 
what they  consider  higher  things.  Mr. 
Edward Cooper and myself have  been  in 
the  iron  business  for many years.  We 
began in a small way,  applied  ourselves 
to the work,  and soon  had  the  satisfac­
tion  of  seeing  our  business  grow,  and 
grow rapidly.  We never took any money 
out of it,  for we had other means of  sub­
sistence.  The business came,  in time,  to 
be the largest of its kind in  the  country 
It was valued at $5,000,000.  But we have 
lived  long  enough  to  see  it  just about 
where it was when we began  with  it,  so 
far as profit is concerned.
“To be sure,  we have  a  period  of  ex­
traordinary activity  to  look  back  upon, 
during which we have done a  very  large 
business, during which we have also em­
ployed many men in  times  of  depression 
as well as times of prosperity.  We have 
never  missed  a pay-roll and never failed 
to meet our obligations, and  at  one  time 
we  were a large amount ahead,  but,  as 1 
have said,  we are now where we began in 
the iron  business.  Now  would  you  call 
that success?
“Success, as the word is  generally  ap­
plied,  is as likely to come at one  time  as 
another in a  man’s  life,  and  is  not  less 
likely  to  be  ultimately reached  because 
of previous early  failures. 
In  fact,  the 
man of brains and determination is pretty 
sure to learn something from  every  fail­
ure, and therefore to be able to more cer 
tainly  grasp  the  next  good chance that 
comes along.  Almost  any  man  of intel­
ligence  and force may command success. 
Young men should not lose sight  of  that 
nor become discouraged  because  of  one 
or a dozen  unsuccessful  ventures.  Yet 1 
have known men who possessed the chief 
elements  of  success—intelligence,  good 
habits and industry in remarkable degree 
who  were  not  successful. 
’Luck’  was 
against  them  all their lives.  Their fail­
ures  could  be  explained  on  no  other 
ground.
“On^ of the best  instances  of  success 
through  many  trials  was  Peter Cooper. 
Another was  Goodyear,  the  inventor  of 
vulcanized rubber.  The  story of Robert 
Bruce is familiar to every schoolboy, and 
they  all  teach  that,  so  long  as oue has 
health, there is never a time in any man’s 
life  when  he  is justified in giving up in 
discouragement.”

HOW  PETEK  COOPER  SUCCEEDED.

Peter  Cooper’s  success—a success that 
has  left  a  monument  in  the  shape  of 
Cooper  Union,  the  people’s  school,  the 
people’s meeting place—was won  by  the 
hardest sort of struggling.  He first, as a 
boy,  worked  in his father’s hat shop and 
then in a brewery.  Then,  at  seventeen, 
be started  in  to  learn  the  coachmaker’s 
trade.  Although  he  was  offered a part­
nership with his employer,  he  declined, 
rather than go into  debt,  but  continued 
at  his  trade  watching  for  his  chance. 
This came to him in  1812—he was born in 
1791, and the centennial of his birth  was 
duly celebrated  here  three  years  ago— 
when the war with  Great  Britain  broke 
out.  Our  ports  were  closed  to foreign 
manufacturers and there was a great  de­
mand  for  native  textiles.  Cooper  in­
vented  a  machine  for  shearing  rough 
cloth,  and,  there being a demand  for  the 
contrivance,  made  some  money  before 
the close of the war.  When the last gun 
had been fired the demand was  no  more, 
but with the beginning of capital that he 
had acquired Cooper  turned  his  factory 
into  a  cabinet  shop.  Then  he  entered 
the  grocery  business,  but  finally  aban-

O A N DIES,  FR U IT S  and  NUTS 
T he P utnam  Candy Co. quotes as follow s:

STICK   C 1N D T .
Cases

“ 
“ 

Standard,  per  lb ...........
H .H ..................
Tw ist  ............
Boston  C ream ................
. 
Cut  L oaf.........................
E x tra H  H ..................... .. 

8X
9X
M IXED CANDY.

5
6
6

Bbls. Palls.
7
7
7
8

Bbls.
• 5X
6
6X
.7
.7
-6X
7

S tandard..........................
L eader..............................
R oyal................................
E nglish  R ock................
C onserves.......................
Broken T affy..................
P eanut Squares..............
French Cream s..............
Valley  Cream s..............
Midget, SO lb. basketa 
M odern, 30 lb. 
.

.. 

“

“ 
f a n c y — In bulk

Palls
6X
7X
8
8X
7X
8
9
12X

Palls
.......   8*
......   9X
.  11@12
.......  12
...  b
. 
.......  7)4
...  8 
. 
........  9
Per Box
....... 50
......... 50
......... 60
............65
----- 75
35050 
...1   00
....... 75
.........60
......... 65
...........60
.........70
.........55
..........50
..s ta s o
..63080
.......... 90
.......£0
9001  25 
.......... 80

“ 

Loaenges,  p la in .....................................
p rin ted ..................................
Chocolate D rops.....................................
Chocolate M onum entals.....................
Gum D rops..............................................
Moss D rops......... .....................................
Sour D rops..............................................
Im perials.......................   .......................
fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.
Lemon D rops.........................................
Sour D rops.............................................
Pepperm int D rops..............................
Chocolate D rops....................................
H. M. Chocolate  D rops........................
Gum C rops..............................................
Licorice Drops.......................................
A. B. Licorice  D rops...........................
Losenges, plain............................   .. .
p rin ted .............................
Im perials................................................
M ottoes.............................................
Cream B ar.......................................
Molasses  B ar......................................
H and Made  Cream s.......  
............
Plain Cream s....................................
D ecorated Cream s...........................
String  R ock...................................  
B urnt Almonds..................................
W lntergreen  B erries............................

“ 

.

CARAMBI.B.

No. 1, w rapped, 2 lb.  boxes................
........... 
No. 1, 
No. 2, 
...............

3 
2 

“ 

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ORANUBS.

.

34
51
28

Medi. Sweets—126.........................  
3  25
150,  176,200..............................................................  3 25

........ 

L IM O N S.

E x tra Choice,  360  ............ 
5  50
Fancy 36  ...............................................................   5  75
E x tra Fancy, 360...................................................6  25
E x tra Choice,  300  ..............................................   5  50
Fancy, 30J.................................................................6 00

 

 

 

BANANAS.

Large bunches............................................ 1  7502  25
Small bunches...........................................   1  2501  50

O TH BB  FO REIO N   F R U IT S .

“ 

“ 
“ 

extra 

Figs, fancy  layers  161b  ........................... 
“ 
8 0 ft... 
....................
141b...............................
“ 
“  bags  ...................................................... 
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  b o x ..............................  
“ 
..............................  
Persian.  G.  M.5Ulb  bo x ............. 
“ 

50-lb.  “ 

“ 

NUTS.

“  
“ 
“ 

Iv aca............  
C alifornia,soft  shelled 

Almonds, T arragona..................................
..........................
....
Braslls, new ..................................................
F ilb e rts ..........................................................
W alnuts, G re n o b le ....................................
F re n c h .........................................
Calif  No.  1  ................................
Soft Shelled  C alif......................
TaDie  N uts,  fan cy ......................................
ch o ice..................................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ..............................   8
C hestnuts.................................. ....................
H ickory N uts per  bu.,  M ich....................
Cocoannts, fu ll sacks................................
B utternuts, per  b u ......................................
Black  W alnuts, per bu..............................

“  

PEANUTS.

Fancy, H.  F., Game Cocks  .....................  
“  K oasted........................ 
F ancy, H.  P., A ssociation.......................  
“  K oastdd............  .......  
Choice, H. P.,  E x tras................................  
“   R oasted.................... 

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F R E S H   M E A T S.

B E E P .

Carcass.................. .......................  ...
Fore  q u arters.................................... .
H ind q u a rte rs..................  .............
Lqins No. 3......................................... .
R ibs......................................................
R o u n d s ................................................
C h u c k s ........ ........................................
P la te s .................................................. .

. . . 5   0   7 
3 X 0   4 
...  8  0   9 
010
...  8  012 
■ ■ •  6 X 0   7X 
...  8 X 0  5 
...  3 X 0  4

PO R K .
D ressed ..................................... .
L oins.........................  
.............
Shoulders  ................................ .
Leaf L a rd ..................................
MUTTON.

7
8

C a rc a ss..........................................................5 X 0  6X
Spring lam bs............................................... 8  010

C a rc a ss.................................. .......................5X  0  

6

V IA L .

C H IC A G O  
________ A N D   W E S T   M IC H IG A N   R ’Y.

—JuneJOjIsa

GOING  TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM   M USKEGON.

liETUF.NINU  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids  6:00&m  1:25pm  *6:30pm *11:30pm 
Ar. Chicago  . .12:05pm  6:50pm  6:C0am*  6:25am 
,  
a I ' 
...............-7:2Cam  5:00pm  «11:45pm
Ar. G d R apids.............12:40pm  10:40pm  «6:30am
Lv.  G rand R apids.........6 :00am  1:25pm  6 :30pm
Ar. G rand R apids......... 11:30am  5:15pm 10:40pm
Lv. G rand  Rapids ..  *8:00am  1:00pm  11:00pm
Ar.  M anistee....... . 
4:00am
•fr- i i ? v?rse 9*ty —   * 1:20pm  4:50pm 
Ar. C harievolx.........  «3:50pm  6:30pm  6:30am
Ar.  Petoskey.......  
*4:20pm  6:55pm 
7:00am
T rains arrive from   north at  5:30 am,  11:45am 
1 :t)0 pm, *1<  :30 pm.

T R A Y ER SB  C IT Y .  C H A R LEV O IX   A N D   PKTO SK EY  

12:55pm

PA R L O R   AND  SL E E P IN G   CABS.

Parlor Cars  leave  G rand  Rapids  6:00 am   1-25 
leave  Chicago 7:20 am , 5:00 pm.  Sleeping 
leave Chi 

pm : 
Cars leave G rand Rapids  «11:30  pm ; 
cago *11:45 pm.
«Every day.  O thers week days  only
<><*•»■.»<
D E T R O I T , 
___________L A N S IN G   St  N O R T H E R N   R .  R .

GOING  TO  DETROIT.

4V>S l? nl R ap,ds..........  7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. D e tro it.......................n:40am   5:30pm 10:10pm

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

Lv.  D etro it.. 
. .............  7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. G rand  R apids..........12:40pm  5:2Cpm 10:45pm
r  
Lv. G R   7:40am  5:00pm  Ar. G R .ll :35am 10:45pm

5   PROM   SAG IN A W ,  ALMA  AND  ST.  LO U IS

TO  AND  PROM   LO W ELL.

Lv. G rand R apids............   7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
A r.from  Low ell................12:40pm 5:20pm  . . . . . . .

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE. 

• j arl2rr>Cars,on a11 D-ains  betw een  G rand  Rap 
Ids and Detroit.  Parlor ca r to Saginaw  on m orn- 
lngtraln.

T rains  week days only.

__________ 9 8 0 . D bHAVEN, Gen.  Pass’r Ag’t.

Michigan (T e n t im i,

“  T i t  N ia g a ra  F a lls R oute.”

•D aily.  All others dally, except Sunday. 

D epar t
A rrive. 
10 2 0 p m ........... D etroit  E x p re ss .............7 ou a m
5  3 0 a m .........  •*N18h t  E xpress.............11  2 0 p m
11  45  am   .. . . .   New  York E x p re ss.........  6 00p m
Sleeping cars  ru n  on  all  nig h t  trains  to  and 
from  D etroit
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turning, leave D etroit 4:35 p m , arriving a t G rand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
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trai  Railroad  (Canada Southern D ivision.)
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“  Mil. and C hi..  +5 .35 p. m.
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«Daily.

tD aily except  Sunday. 
T rains  arrive  from   th e  east,  6:35  a.m .,  12:50 
p.m.. 5:30 p. m.,  10: jO  p.m.
T rains  arrive  from   th e  w est,  6:40  a,  m.  8:15 
a. m. 10:10 a.  m.  3:15  p m.  and 7:05 p. m.
E astw ard—No.  14  has  W agner  P arlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor  Car.  No. 82 W agner  Sleeper.
W estw ard— No. 11  P arlor Car.  No. 16 W agner 
Parlor B uffet car.  No. 81 W agner Sleeper. 
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Lv. 
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Ar.
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Petoskey and M ackinaw .........+10 45pm  +  6  20am
8 00 am  train  has  parlor  cars  for  Traverse City  and 
Mackinaw.  140 pm train  has buffet p arlor car for H ar­
bor Springs.  10 45 pm tra in   has  sleeping  cars  for  Pe­
toskey and Mackinaw.
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Ft.  W ayne and K alam azoo...+  2  15pm  +  1  30pm 
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Kalamazoo..................................*11  40pm  *  9 20am
7 25 am tra in  has p arlor  car  to  Cincinnati."  6 00  pm 
train  has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and 
Louisville.
Lv. G rand R apids... +7  25am  +2  15pm  *11  40pm
Ar. Chicago................  2  40pm 
7  10am
215 pm train  has through coach.  1140 pm tra in  has 
through coach and sleeping car.
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Ar. G rand R ap id s...  1  30pm 
6  50am 
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through coach and sleeping car.
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2 10pm  9 55am  7  Oipm 
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A. ALMQUIST, 

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TH E   MICHIGAN  TïtAXiESiÆAJSr.
his invention put to five  hundred  differ­
ent uses,  but he died in debt.  Yet Good­
year was  successful in  the  highest  and 
best sense, and  he became  so  because he 
could not be discouraged by  failure.  To­
day there is not a  man,  woman  or  child 
in the civilized  world  who does not profit 
constantly  by his inventions.

doned it and went to making glue and is­
inglass.  Peter Cooper’s glue factory is still 
in operation, and with it  he  secured  the 
nucleus  of  what  was  afterward a great 
fortune. 
It was not until 1830,  howerer, 
when he was thirty-nine  years  old,  that 
Mr.  Cooper  began  the  manufacture  of 
iron, establishing  works at  Canton,  Ind.
When the  Baltimore  <fe  Ohio  railroad 
was laid  out,  it  was  Peter  Cooper  who 
built the first  locomotive  for  the  line, 
and  this  was  the  first  locomotive  ever 
built  in  the  United  States. 
It  was  of 
only one horse-power,  and  on  its  work­
ing depended,  in some  measure, the con­
tinuance  of  the  road’s construction and 
the contract with Mr. Cooper for the iron. 
For  this  reason  lie  ran the engine him­
self on the trial  trip. 
In  order  to  keep 
the  steam  pressure  up,  he  had  to hold 
the  safety  valve  down  with  his  own 
hands, to  the  entertainment of a jeering 
crowd;  but  Mr.  Cooper  was  struggling 
with a chance for the success of  his  iron 
business.  He  proposed  to  win,  and  he 
did win by recognizing the situation  and 
acting  accordingly.  Never  once  In  his 
long and eventful life did he become dis­
couraged;  never  once  did  he  let  the 
chance  that  came  to  him  pass  by.  He 
was  engaged  in  nine  different  occupa­
tions during his career,  and his  life  his­
tory should serve as  a  leading  example 
to all struggling young men.

Charles  Goodyear  was 

GOODYEAR’S  FRUITFUL. FAILURES.
The life of the  inventor  of  vulcanized 
rubber,  who  was  mentioned  by  Mr. 
Hewitt,  was a most remarkable  series  of 
failures—failures that never  caused  dis­
couragement,  and  that  were  crowned 
with success that unhappily came so late 
that the man who won it had hardly time 
to enjoy i t
the  son  of 
Amasa  Goodyear,  of  New  Haven,  who 
first made hay forks  of  steel  instead  of 
wrought iron.  The boy was  brought up 
as the  son  of  a well-to do  manufacturer 
should be,  and when  he  became  a  man 
entered his father’s business  as  a  part­
ner. 
.When  he was  thirty,  however,  the 
business  broke  up,  and  Charles  found 
himself a  poor  man.  The  development 
of the India rubber industry had just be­
gun,  and therein  Mr.  Goodyear  thought 
he  discovered  his  chance  for  winning 
success.  This was in  1830, and then and 
for some  years  thereafter  there  was  a 
state of excitement  concerning  the  gum 
of the caoutchouc tree  scarcely  less  re­
markable than the gold fever  and the oil 
craze  of  later  years.  The  great  thing 
was to learn how to treat the gum so that 
it would bear the heat of  summer.  Good­
year set about solving this problem.  He 
had to  borrow  what  money  he  used  in 
his experiments,  his family was  in  con­
stant want,  he had  to  move  from  place 
to  place,  and  he  was  several 
times 
thrown into prison for  debt.
It was not  until  1835,  when  he  com­
bined the gum,  magnesia and  quicklime, 
that  there was  a  gleam  of  success  ob­
tained,  but the  product which  promised 
so well was bound to yield to  weak acids 
like vinegar.  A year later  he  combined 
nitric acid and rubber gum, a partner with 
money was found,  a  factory was  secured 
on Staten Island and a store on Broadway, 
and success seemed near. But the panic of 
1837 wiped everything out,  and he found 
it impossible to go forward for  the  time 
being.  His  persistent  working  at  the 
chance that had come to him made him a 
subject  of  ridicule;  he  was  called  the 
“India rubber maniac.”  But he went to 
Roxbury,  Mass.,  and  got  another  start. 
After a good deal of money had  been ex­
pended it was found that the  nitric  acid 
process only affected  the  surface  of  the 
rubber.  Everything  was  again  swept 
away,  and he was  once  more  penniless. 
He  was  urged  to  give  up  his  experi­
ments,  but he would  not,  and  he finally, 
through 
the  accidental  sprinkling  of 
sulphur on the gum by  an  employe, dis­
covered the principle  of  rubber  vulcan­
ization, now in  use the world over.  This 
was in 1839,  but  it  was  not  until  1844, 
when he was a man  of  middle  age,  that 
his patents were taken out. .In 1851, he re­
ceived  the  great  Council  medal  of  the 
World’s Fair at  London,  and  honors  of 
all sorts were showered  upon him.  Many 
persons got rich out of  India rubber,  but 
Goodyear  did  not.  He  worked  inces­
santly until his death in 1860 and  he saw

NORVIN  GREEN’S PERSISTENCE.

The  first  of  the  very  high  modern 
buildings  to  be  erected  in  New  York 
stands on lower  Broadway, 
it is a mon­
ument  to  the  memory  of  another  man 
whose power  to  rise  above  discourage­
ments  made  him  one of the phenomenal 
successes  of  the  century,  and  changed 
the whole trend of business  life—Norvin 
Green,  who was President  of  the  West­
ern  Union Telegraph Co. during  the  pe­
riod  of  its  upbuilding and till his death 
a few years ago.  Mr. Green had no early 
educational advantages other than  those 
afforded by the rather narrow instruction 
of the  common  schools.  But  he  was  a 
man of vast persistence, and all the spare 
time of his boyhood days of severe  work 
on  his  father’s  farm  was  given  up  to 
hard reading  of  whatever  he  could  get 
hold of.  His father was sheriff of Breck­
inridge  county,  Kentucky,  and  Norvin 
used  to ride about the  county  collecting 
taxae.  His  first  personal  venture  in  a 
business way  was undertaken sixty years 
ago,  when,  in 1834,  he gave  his notes for 
a boat and stock at Cincinnati,  and went 
down the Ohio on a  trading  voyage, 
in 
three  years  he  had made enough money 
to pay his father’s debts and buy a farm. 
Then  he  went  to  cutting  lumber  and 
cordwood, swinging bis axe himself with 
his men.  A little later he went to Louis­
ville and took up medicine,  his  range  of 
study extending far  beyond  the  healing 
art, however,  for it  was during the years 
he was acquiring  a  physician’s  diploma 
at Louisville that he  laid  the foundation 
for the wonderful fund of information on 
all sorts of topics for  which he was soon 
afterwards  noted  among  his  acquaint­
ances.  For  thirteen  years  he  practiced 
medicine, devoting some time also to pol­
itics. 
It  was  not  until  1854,  when  he 
was  36  years  of  age,  that  he  became 
identified  with the telegraph,  and it was 
then that his real  struggle for success be­
gan.  He  was  the  active  spirit  in  the 
formation  of  a  syndicate  to  lease  the 
United  Morse  lines  from  Cincinnati  to 
New  Orleans  and  the People’s lines  be­
tween the same  cities.  The  outlook  for 
the enterprise at this time  was not a bril­
liant one.  The lines were badly  strung, 
the instruments in  use  were not the per­
fected ones of to-day,  so much of the de­
velopment  of  which  is  due  to Edison’s 
genius and unremitting labors, and there 
were all sorts of difficulties to  overcome. 
But Norvin Green  never  lost  his  faith; 
he  knew  that  his  chance  had met him. 
He proceeded with  tireless  industry and 
almost matchless pluck to conquer  it.
In 1857 he came to New  York  and  got 
together  the  presidents  of  several tele­
graph  lines,  and  succeeded  in  making 
the “Six Party Contract,”  the  first  tele­
graph  deal  ever  entered into.  The suc­
cess of this arrangement  was  so  marked 
that nine years afterward,  in  1866,  when 
Norvin Green  was 44  years  old,  he  sue 
ceeded  in  forming  the  Western  Union 
Telegraph Co., and may be  said  to  have 
conquered the success of his life.
The list of men who have won because 
they never got discouraged might be con­
tinued  almost  indefinitely,  but  the  ex- 
1 amples of Grant,  Cooper,  Goodyear  and 
Norvin Green are among the brightest in 
the  history  of  successful  endeavor. 
Their  study,  should  drive  depression 
from the mind of every struggles

P e rtin e n t  S u g g e s tio n   A n e n t  th e   S ale 

o f D re ss  G oods.

E a s t   J o r d a n ,  June  1 9 — Retail dealers 
in small towns are laboring  under  a ser­
ious  disadvantage  on account  of  a  con­
dition  which has grown  to  be an  evil of 
considerable  importance. 
It  is  the  ex­
istence  of  too  many  yard  lengths  in 
which  each piece  of  goods  is  put  up 
and sold  to  the  small  trade  by  manu­
facturers and jobbers.  The retail dealer 
in a small  town  is  as anxious  to  satisfy 
his trade as the city dealer  and  his  cus­
tomers are even more  difficult  to  please 
than  those  living  in  the  cities. 
In  a

small town people who are  neat,  stylish 
and fastidious  in  their  tastes,  and  are 
particular about their  clothing  and  ap­
pearance  on  the  street,  are  constantly 
annoyed  by seeing  a  pattern  identically 
like the one purchased by  them  worn by 
people  who are  exceedingly  careless  in 
regard to the fit and appearance  of  their 
clothing.  Once  a  pattern  worn  by  an 
untidy person  is seen  in  the  street,  Mr. 
Smalldealer might  as  well  put  the  re­
mainder  of  the  piece  of  goods—often 
nearly  a  full  length—on  his  remnant 
pile,  as none but  second-class  trade will 
again  buy  from  that  pattern,  and  the 
merchant is obliged to see his best  trade 
continually sending  mail  orders  to  the 
cities  for  their  fancy  dress  patterns. 
Now,  if  goods  in  the  fancy  and  toned 
patterns were made in  lengths,  say from 
fifteen  to  twenty  yards,  dry  goons  re­
tailers  in  small  towns  would  not  be 
obliged to see their best  trade  go  “out­
side” for something new and different, but 
they  could,  for  the  same  money,  give 
their customers a better assortment, have 
fewer remnants and back  number  fancy 
goods on  their  shelves,  which  are  un­
salable to  the  best  trade  at  any  price 
In this respect price  cuts  no  figure,  for 
what a mertshant’s  best  customers  want 
is  cheap  at  any  price.  1  believe  that 
this feature and condition are so common 
that  every  dealer  in  small  towns  will 
recognize the fact and,  as it can be easily 
remedied, 
it  seems  reasonable  that  it 
might  be  eliminated  without  much 
trouble. 

F.  E.  B o o s in g e r .

The above states its  subject  matter  so 
clearly  that  it  is  published for the ben­
efit  of  those  concerned.  While  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   has its own ideas  in  regard 
to  overcoming  what is there complained 
of,  the opinion of the  expert  is  needed, 
and, calling on Mr. John Snitzeler, of the 
dry goods house of Voigt, Herpolsheimer 
& Co., and placing the communication  in 
bis hands,  asked  him  what  he  thought 
of it.

“ Well, 

the 

there, 

trouble  is 

31
fast 
enough,”  he said,  “and the  remedy,  to a 
certain  extent,  has  been  found  in  the 
plan proposed. 
In  cheap  lines,  that  is 
done now. 
In  large  houses,  even,  it  is 
not  unusual  to  order a single dress pat­
tern;  but in fine goods it  is  not  possible 
to do this.”

Mr.  Dan.  Steketee,  of  P.  Steketee & 
Sons,  concurred  in  the  above  opinion. 
Manufacturers  have  been  appealed  to 
with more or less success.  Some houses, 
even  in  fine  goods,  will  sell  reduced 
lengths.  Another evil  which  should  be 
done away  with is the habit  manufactur­
ers have of turning  in  and  spoiling  the 
end  of  goods,  %  of  a yard or  more—a 
trifle,  if  confined to a  single  piece—but 
amounting otherwise to a great deal.

In  his  opinion,  however, 

Mr. Geo. E. Raymond, of Spring & Com­
pany,  was not surprised at the complaint. 
It  was  an  old  one  and  had often  been 
discussed. 
In prints  it  had  been  tested 
aud  samples  at  baud  showed  what  had 
been  done. 
In  that  hue  of  goods  the 
plan worked  well aud there is  no  reason 
why  it  would  not  be  the  same  with 
others. 
the 
discussion of the question  would amount 
to little.  The  manufacturers  would  do 
nothing;  the  wholesale  houses  cannot, 
without additional expense,  and that the 
retailer  cannot,  aud  as  often  will  not, 
stand, 
it is a good plan,  but  experience 
had convinced  him  that  it  would  never 
be carried out.
It  cannot  fail  to  be  noticed  that the 
manufacturer  is  the  man  who  can  re­
move  the  difficulty,  if  he  will;  and  we 
can say  that  we have  yet to see the man­
ufacturer who would not,  if  the  change 
promised to be a  benefit  to  all,  make  it, 
if it was iu  his power.  That is the point 
to  which every energy should  be directed 
and  if T h e   T r a d e s m a n   can do anything 
to aid  in  the  matter it will be found ready 
and  willing to do it.

W e   h a v e   no  n e w   T e a s   d u e  insid e 
of  8 0   d ays.  W e ^ h a v e   on  h an d   a 
big  line  of  last s e a s o n ’s T eas.  T h e y  
are  the  Best  V a lu e   in  this  S tate  at 
the  p rices  w e   w ill  sell  th em   at.

Send for samples from  13c  up to  35c for tbe 
finest Tea ever imported into  Michigan.

We offer the  best Mocha and Java Coffee  in 
the  market,  in  1  lb.  packages,  under  Do­
si »ris  brand,  at 30c.

We have a  big  drive  in  a “Canuck”  Soap, 
costs $3.10  per box,  100  bars, equal to  many 
brands sold  at #3.50.

JAM ES  STEWART C0„ LTD.

EAST  SAGINAW.  MICH.

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G O T H A M   G O S S IP .

N e w s  fro m   th e   M e tr o p o lis -- -In d e x   o f 

th e   M a rk e ts .

Special  Correspondence

N e w   Y o r k ,  June  22—A  trip  among 
the jobbing  grocery  houses  of  this  city 
convinces me  that  a  good  big  trade  is 
going  on.  There  is,  of  course,  always 
“room for one more” and  business is not 
particularly  booming;  but,  better  than 
that,  the  trade  is  steady  and profitable. 
There seems to be no weakness whatever 
and all  lines  are  remarkably well  held, 
with a very few exceptions, coffee  show­
ing a  little  depression  and  raw  and  re­
fined  sugars  hardly  coming  up  to  the 
mark.
The  deliveries  of  coffee  have  been 
about  10,000  bags  ahead  of  the  same 
week last  year,  but  15,000  bags  behind 
last  week’s  deliveries.  The  market, 
while quite  firm,  shows  some  points  of 
weakness,  and  while  the  quotations  for 
Rio  No.  7  are  from  15H@15%c,  these 
prices are  nominal.  Stock  afloat,  587,- 
916 bags,  against 295,632  bags  last  year. 
The greatest year for  coffee imports was 
1892,  when  the  net  imports  into  this 
country aggregrated 629,671,748  pounds. 
For the year  ending  June  30,  1894,  the 
aggregate was  547,068,994  pounds,  or  a 
per  capita  import  of  almost  exactly 
eight pounds.  The imports for  the  cur­
rent year promise to  be a trifle larger, as 
the  amount  imported  of  free  and  duti­
able up to  April  30.  1895,  was  542,164,- 
343 pounds.  With twelve months  of  in­
creasing  prosperity 
and  decreasing 
prices we  shall  see  the  consumption  of 
the  beverage  increasing  by  leaps  and 
bounds.
The tea market is characterized  by the 
same  monotonous  dullness  which  has 
pervaded  it  for  many  months.  The 
character of the arrivals has  been  some­
what disappointing and  buyers  are  tak­
ing no interest, although the turn  is,  un­
doubtedly,  in  their  favor.  Purchases 
are being made in only an everyday  sort 
of way.
Sugars  have  been  going  in  rather  a 
disappointing way during the  week,  but 
within a day or so the  demand  seems  to 
have taken a turn for the  better.  There 
has been  no  change  in  quotations  save 
for a fractional decline in  certain grades 
of yellows.
Packers of  canned  goods  are  meeting 
with a fair demand for peas.  The Mary­
land  pack  is  said  to  be  short  of  last 
year’s  as  to  quantity.  Prices  of  new 
goods are firm but still remain  very low. 
The  finer  grades  of  early  June  peas 
fetch from  90@95c,  and  are  said  to  be 
worth that readily.  Standard  No.  3  to­
matoes  are  worth  67>£@70c.  Peaches 
are steady.  The Alaska  Packers’  Asso­
ciation is said to have sold the 1895 pack 
of red.  Prices  have  not  been  publicly 
mentioned,  but it is thought they  will  be 
about 2Kc higher than  last  year.  Pres­
ent rate of red Alaska, $1.10.
The outlook for California  dried fruits 
is said to  be  somewhat  brighter,  owing 
to  the  breaking  of  a  combine.  Four- 
crown  raisins  are  held  at  4c.  As  a 
whole, however,  the market is not thrill- 
ingly interesting and this  is  true  of  the 
foreign dried fruit trade as well.
The  lemon  market  is  active.  Prices 
have declined and  jobbers  are  busy  fill­
ing orders from local  dealers,  while  the 
mail  orders  have  been  frequent and  of 
liberal proportions. 
It is  almost  impos­
sible  to  find  any kind of lemons for less 
than $4 a box,  and from that the range is 
to $5, $6 and even to $7.  The  supply  of 
California oranges is diminishing rapidly 
and, as all that is available will  soon  be 
here,  the  dealers in Mediterranean fruit 
are  hopeful  of  obtaining  better  rates. 
Sixty-five carloads of  watermelons  came 
Friday.  The quotations range  from  $16 
@20 per hundred.
Butter  shows  considerable  firmness 
and  holders  profess  great  satisfaction. 
Eighteen cents seems to be about all that 
can be  obtained  for  the  best  Elgin,  al­
though  %e  more  has  been  realized  in 
some instances.
Cheese has been taken quite readily by 
exporters and for fancy large  full  cream 
7%c seems to be the prevailing  rate.
Eggs have declined,  owing  to  several 
reasons, chief among them  being lack of 
storage room,  lack  of  demand,  and  the 
quantity  arriving  not being up to mark.

Clerks’  Corner.

Otsego—Miss  Josephine  Pattison  has 
taken a position in  Edwards & Chamber­
lin’s hardware at Kalamazoo.  Miss Han­
nah Pattison has taken her  former  posi­
tion here.

Rockford—Clifton Sears,  senior  son of 
Chas.  F.  Sears, 
the  veteran  general 
dealer, was recently married to Miss Katie 
M.  Baker,  who  achieved  success  as  an 
elocutionist  and  school  teacher.  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   extends congratulations.

requests 

Chairman  Lawton 

T h e  
to  call  a  meeting  of  all 
T r a d e s m a n  
Grand Rapids traveling men  to  be  held 
at the meeting place of Post E,  Saturday 
evening of this week,  for the  purpose  of 
deciding whether it is  desirable  for  the 
traveling men as a class to be represented 
in  the  street  parade  on the morning of 
July 4.

Lapeer—A  young  grocery  clerk  here 
thought he would show off  his new bicy­
cle before some young lady friends.  He 
had a deceptive bag of  eggs in one hand. 
It  is  difficult  to  execute  any  intricate 
movements under such a condition, so he 
turned a somersault, and now  there  is  a 
large omelette on the walk,  baked by the 
sun.  The young  ladies  appreciated  the 
various moves he made.

Kalamazoo—A.  B.  Bretzel,  who  has 
been  so  familiar a  figure at  the grocery 
store of Desenberg  &  Schuster for many 
years,  has resigned his position  as  book­
keeper.  He is 81 years  of  age  and  has 
come to the conclusion  that  he ought  to 
retire.  The firm is sorry to lose his serv­
ices, as he has  been  a  faithful  employe 
for thirteen years.  Mr.  Bretzel has been 
a resident of Kalamazoo since 1861.

Big Rapids—The departure of Gil Rey­
nolds, so long with the  Comstock banks, 
makes two other  changes.  Prior  to  en- 
gaging in  the  boot  and  shoe  business, 
Fred  Neahr,  of  the  firm  of  Neahr  & 
Hughes,  was  book-keeper  for  the  Chip­
pewa Lumber Co.,  and  ranked  with  ex­
perts in his line.  Mr.  Neahr  has  taken 
the place of Mr.  Reynolds in tbe Mecosta 
County Savings  Bank,  and  his  place  in 
the store has been filled  by  Charles  An­
derson, for many years  clerk  for  M.  M. 
Brackney,  D.  Hamilton’s  connection 
with Mr. Brackney permitting Charles to 
leave.  Mr. Neahr will continue  to  hold 
his interest in  the  shoe  store,  and  the 
firm name of  Neahr  &  Hughes  will  re­
main as at present.

PRODUCE  riARKET.

Beans—The  m arket  is higher, w ith evidences 
of  still  higher  prices.  News from  other points 
report  a  fa ir  distributing  trade,  w ith  holders 
very firm in th e ir views.

Beets—N ew, 15c per doz.
B utter—Factory cream ery is slow  sale  a t 16® 
17c.  Dairy is in fa ir dem and a t  12®13c. w ith in ­
dications pointing to higher  prices  in   the  near 
fu tu re on account of th e extrem ely hot w eather 
and depleted pastures.
Cabbage—M aryland stock is com ing in freely, 
com m anding $1.75@2 per crate  of  two  to  three 
dozen.  Cairo stock, $1.58 per crate  of 1% doz.
Cucum bers—Mississippi stock,  $1.50  per  crate 
of about 7 doz.
tic  per 
C herries—Red  Richm onds  com m and 
qt.  Sweet are about the  sam e  price, but do not 
sell as readily as sour fru it in th is m arket.
Eggs—H andlers pay  10c and  hold  a t  10;4(Sillc 
in a regular jobbing way.
O nions—10c per doz.  bunches  fo r green stock. 
Dry stock from   th e  South  com m ands  $1.25  per 
bu.
Potatoes—Old  stock  has  taken  a  sudden  up­
w ard turn,in co  sequence of th e advance o f new 
stock to $3.50 per bbl.  Sales  were m ade Monday 
on  the basis o f 65c per  bu.,  w ith every  prospect 
of  considerably  higher  prices  before  the  end 
of th e w eek

and quality.

G ooseberries—Nominal.
Pineapples—$1@1.25 per doz., according to size 
Radishes—China, 15e per doz.
Raspberries—Black  are  beginning  to   arrive, 
com m anding  ll@13c  per  qt.  Red  are  also  in 
m arket in lim ited  quantities,  com m anding  8® 
12c  per  qt.  Both  w ill  recede  in  price  as  the 
week advances.
Straw berries—The season is about  at  an  end, 
such  stray  lots  as  come in  com m anding fancy 
prices.

Tom atoes—$1.25 fo r 4 basket crate.
W ax Beans—$1.50 per bu. crate.

THE  MICHIGAN  I ’KADESMA ¿n

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s h o t 

in   u s e  

A m e ric a   a g a in s t  tb e   w o r ld !  T b e   la te s t 
A m e ric a n   p r o d u c t  to   ta k e   f r o n t  r a n k   is 
tb e   c o rn s ta lk . 
tb e   c o n s tru c tio n   o f 
m o d e rn   w a r  s h ip s   th e r e   h a s   b ee n   p la c e d  
b e tw e e n   th e   o u te r   a n d   in n e r  s k in s   o f  tb e  
v e s s e l  a   s u b s ta n c e  c a lle d  c e llu lo s e ,  w h o se  
b u s in e s s ,  w h e n  
h a s   p a s s e d  
th ro u g h ,  is   to  s w e ll  a t   c o n ta c t  w ith   th e  
in r u s h in g   w a te r   a n d   c lo se   tb e   b o le .  T h e  
c e llu lo s e  
is  a n   E n g lis h   p r o d u c t 
m a d e   o f  co c o a.  A n   A m e ric a n   h a s   b e e n  
e x p e rim e n tin g   w ith  
th e   p it h   o f  c o rn ­
s ta lk s ,  a n d   J u n e  10,  a  te s t o f th e   tw o   w as 
m a d e   a t  In d ia n   H e a d .  T h e   c o n d itio n s  
w e re   p re c is e ly   s im ila r,  a n   e ig h t  a n d   a  
s ix   in c h   s h o t  b e in g   tire d  
th r o u g h   e a c h . 
T h e   co c o a   c e llu lo s e   p e rm itte d   a   s lig h t 
tr ic k lin g   o f  w a te r  to   g e t  th ro u g h ,  w h ile  
th e   c o rn s ta lk ,  o r A m e ric a n ,  c e llu lo s e  w as 
a n   a b s o lu te   w a te r   s to p p e r.  T h e  
te s t 
w a s   in te n d e d   to   d e c id e   w h ic h   p r o d u c t  to  
u s e   in   f u tu r e   c o n s tru c tio n   o f  w a r  s h ip s , 
a n d   th e   r e s u lt e lim in a te s , p ra c tic a lly ,  th e  
la s t  fo re ig n   e le m e n t  fro m   o u r   c ru is e rs  
a n d   b a ttle   s h ip s .

T h e   e n tr a n c e   to   a   c e m e te ry   a t  O M sco 
is   c ro w n e d   w ith   a n   a rc h w a y   b e a rin g   th e  
s o m e w h a t  d u b io u s  
“ W e l­
co m e  to   a l l.”   T h e  in v ita tio n   w as  p la c e d  
th e r e  o n   M e m o ria l  D ay .

in s c r ip tio n , 

U se  T r a d e s m a n   C o u p o n  B o o k s.

P R O V IS IO N S

LARD.

8AU8AGE.

Tbe G rand Rapids  Packing  and Provision Co 

PORK  IN  BABBBI.8.

quotes as follow s:
Mess................................................................  
12 B0
u   75
Short c u t ....................................................... 
14 oo
E x tra clear pig, short c u t......................... 
E xtra clear,  h ea v y ..................................
12  75
Clear, fa t  back........................................... 
Boston clear, short c u t..............................  
13 6u
Clear back, short c a t......................... 
13 50
S tandard clear, short cut. b est................ 
13 50
7^
Pork, lin k s............................................. 
B ologna...........................   ...........................  
5u
g
L iver...............................................................  
e
B lo o d ............................................... 
6
Head c h e e se ................................................  
Summer.......................................................... 
jo
714
F ran k fu rts.............................................  
K ettle  R endered........................................... 
7*4
G ra n g e r................................................ 
vu
F a m ily .....................................................................5H
C om pound................................................  
su
C ottolene............................................. 
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50 lb. Tins, 34c advance.
201b.  {Mils, He 
ii c 
10 lb. 
51b. 
* c  
3 lb. 
l c
E xtra Mess, w arranted 200  lb s................  
7  00
E x tra Mess, Chicago Dacklng................ 
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Boneless, rom p butts...................................... 
to 00
smoked  meats—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average 20 lb s ............................. 
9 a
16 lb s .....................................  
9V
12 to 14 lb s ..................................  10
7
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1  eg
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75
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p ic n ic ...................................... 
best boneless................................ 
S houlders................................................   • 
B reakfast Bacon  boneless............  
D ried beef, ham  prices..................... 
DRY  SALT  MEATS.
Long Clears, h eav y ............................................  
Briskets,  m edium .  ...........  ................  
H alf  b arrels................................................. 
Q uarter barrels................................................ 
K its ..................................................................  
Kite, honeycom b................................................  
Kits, p re m iu m .................................................... 
Creamery,  ro lls............................................... 
tu b s.............................................  
D airy,  rolls...............................................  
tu b s..... ............................................. 

PICKLED  PI081  FEET.

BEEP  IN  BARRELS.

BUTT BRINE.

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G .   W .   A M E S ,

Dealer In

R e a l   E s t a t e

And Prom oter of

T h e  la te s t  s u b s t itu t e   fo r   coffee c o n s is ts  
th e   s u n flo w e r.  T h e  
o f  ro a s te d   s e e d s   o f 
o il  c o n ta in e d   in   th e   s e e d s   w ill  d o u b tle s s  
I n te r fe r e   w ith   t h e ir   u s e   fo r th a t  p u rp o s e .

W a n t s

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A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  Inserted  un d er  this 
head fo r tw o cents a w ord the first Insertion and 
one  c e n t a w ord  for each  subsequent  Insertion 
No advertisem ents  taken  for  less  than 25 cents' 
A dvance paym ent.

B U SIN E SS  C H A N C E S .

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7^7

1AOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER 
A   chandlse in a grow ing  tow n  of 3,000  Will 
inventory about $5,000.  Best  store  and location 
in tow n.  A ddress No. 793, care M ichigan Trades 
man. 
r n o   EXCHANGE  —  360  ACRES  FARMING 
-L  land  in  Craw ford  county,  M ich.,  close  to 
railroad and county seat,  for im proved  farm  •  al 
so  village  lots  In  fine, flourishing  villages’  in 
M issouri  and  Tennessee,  for  horses,  buggies 
wagons  or  bicycles.  A ddress  H.  H arrington! 
Reed City, Mich. 
\ \ T ANTED—A  GOOD  LOCATION  FOR  DRY 
V V  goods,  clothing  and  boot and shoe  store 
A ddress No. 792, care M ichigan Tradesm an.  92  ‘
THOR SA L E -N IC E  CLEAN STOCK O » HARD- 
A   w are, invoicing about  $1,6  0, in  good  enter 
prising village of 700 or 800 Inhabitants, situated 
on two railroads—G rand  R apids  & Indiana and 
W abash; also a stock of agricultural im plem ents 
in  connection.  A ddress No  791, care M ichigan
Tradesm an.
lilO U SA LE OR EXCHANGE—A GOOD FARM, 
A   stock, tools and  crops,  for general  stock  or 
lum ber yard, price, $4,000;  also large  new   brick 
hotel,  furnished  com plete,  doing  a  good  busi­
ness, to exchange for a  good farm .  A ddress W. 
H. N., care M ichigan Tradesm en. 
"CIOR  SA LE-STO CK   OF  CLEAN  GROCKR- 
a  
Inventories 
from $1,800 to $2,000.  B estof reasons for selling 
A ddress No. 785, care M ichigan Tradesm an.  7851
TK TILL  PAY  CASH  FOR  LARGE  GENERAL 
Y V  stock,  if  cheap.  Quick  deal.  A ddress 
Lock Box 39, Sheridan, M ich. 
TTIOR  SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIX T U R E S' 
A   corner  location;  stock  in  good  condition 
and business paying.  Good reasons for  selling. 
A ddress Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo,M ich.776 
TDOK  SALK—DRUG  STOCK, CONSISTING OF 
A   staple  drugs,  patent  m edicines,  stationery 
blank books, w all paper, etc.. Inventorying about 
$4,000, fo r one h alf cash and  tw o  years’ tim e  on 
balance.  Cash sales last year, $8,000.  Store  has 
steam  heat, electric lights, hot  and  cold w ater— 
everything in first-class  shape—and  Is  situated 
in best tow n In Upper  Peninsula, in  m ining dis­
trict.  Reasons for selling, 111 health, necessitat 
Ing a rem oval to a  w arm   clim ate.  A ddress No 
769. care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

ies In good tow n, w ell located. 

789

786

769

ANTED—PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN- 
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teres tin  my 75 bbl.  steam   roller m ill  and 
elevator, situated on railro ad ;  m iller preferred • 
good  w heat  country.  F ull  description,  price, 
term s and Inquiries given  prom ptly  by address 
lng  H .C .  H erkim er,  M aybee,  M onroe  county. 
Mich. 
fy,O OD   OPENING FOR  BARBER SHOP, AND 
VA  residence to  ren t  cheap  A ddress  No  779, 
care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

779

711

M ISC E L L A N E O U S .

751

799

1 * 7 ANTED—YOUNG  REG ISTERED   PHAR 
TV  m aclst, well recom m ended, w ho can  build 
■p a business In a new  store.  A ddress  No.  790, 
care M ichigan Tradesm an. 
Ij TOK  SALE  CHEAP—COMPLETE  SET  TIN 
A   ner’s tools.  A ddress P.  W.  H olland, Chapin, 
Mich. 
784  ’
/   > RAN1TE  AND  MARBLE  MONUMENTS, 
U   m arkers  and  all  cem etery  work.  Largest 
stock.  W rite  us  about  w hat  you w ant an a  we 
w ill quote prices.  G rand  Rapids M onum ent Co , 
818 South Division. 
TVfBN  TO  SELL  BAKING  P O W D E R IO   THE 
grocery trade.  Steady em ploym ent, experi­
ence unnecessary.  $75  m onthly  salary an a e x ­
penses or com. 
If  offer satisfactory, address at 
once, w ith particulars concerning yourself, U.S. 
Chem ical  W orks, Chicago. 
1 * 7 A NTBD-PO ULTRY ,VEAL, LAMBS, BUT 
Tv 
te r  and  eggs  on  consignm ent.  Ask  for 
quotations.  F.  J .  D ettenthaler,  G rand  Rapids, 
Mich. 
\A 7  ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
YY 
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  W atkins  <6  Smith, 
84-86 South D ivision S t, G rand  Rapids. 
1 1 7 ANTED—EVERY  D R U G G I S T   J U S T  
Y Y  starting In business and every one already 
started to use our system  of poison labels.  W hat 
has cost you $15 you can now  get  fo r  $4.  F our 
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesm an 
Company.  G rand Rapids.
6 foot length. 

673

760

757

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B u s i n e s s   C h a n c e s

BAY  CITY, MICH.

F O R   R E N T .

M a n u fa c tu r in g   P r o p e r ty   w ith   P o w e r, 

O n e  S ta r e   a n d   s e v e r a l  fin e   Offices.

APPLY TO

W M .  T .  P O W E R S   o r  J . W .   S P O O N E R , 

Room 34, Powers' Opera House Block.

Patented  Feb.  12,  1S95. 

Y O U  

WILL  WONDER how  you  ever  got  along  w ith 
th a t  old-style  counter,  once you have seen  and 
used  “ SHERER’S .”   Finished  and  fram ed  in 
Oak, su bstantial and m ade to  last, it displays the 
goods  attractiv ely   and  keeps  them   secure  and 
clean. 
First-class  and  up-to-date  in  every re­
spect.  S tandard  height, 33H  Inches;  length, as 
desired,  from   3 ft. 8 in., to   12  ft.  Send  for  de­
scriptive  testim o n ial  and  price  list  to th e Sole 
M anufacturers, 
37  R iver  S t.,  Chicago.

SHERER  BROTHERS,

T anglefoot
SEALED  STICKY  FLY  PAPER

YOUR  CUSTOMERS  WILL  ALL  PREFER  IT.

PRICES  FOR  THE  REGULAR  SIZE.

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

Order the largest quantity yon can  use and get the 

BEST  DISCOUNT.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  JOBBERS.

If you  are  particular about your  STICKY  FLY 

PAPER,  specify

TA NGEE FOOT

5}i x 9 inches.

dows and Fine Rooms.
a  case.

Particularly  adapted  for  Show  Win­
25 Double Sheets in a Box,  15 Boxes, i 
Retails for 25 cents a box.
Costs $1.75 per case.
Profit  nearly  115  per cent.
Will  be a Good  Seller.

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THE  GAIL  BORDEN  EAGLE  BRAND

CONDENSED  fllLK  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

THE  NEW YORK  CONDENSED  MILK  COMPANY

I ^^el^^onalpnjlBcSDiL^a^^ 
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bJIfiBi

signature, _  

IT  HAS  NO  EQUAL.

For  Quotations  See  Price  Columns.

A ra b   A ra b

SUNDRIED

PANFIRED

T E A

This  appears  m erely  to  announce  th a t  our  New  Crop  1805  Teas are in.  This high-grade 
brand of ours needs no com ment. 
It  is “w ell know n anil  highly  respected  by all.’’  Send 
in your orders at once and “avoid the  rush.”

MUSSELMAN GROCER CO.

A r a b  

GRAND  RAPIDS 

A .r a h

GRAND RAPIDS, 

MICH.

18 and 19 Widdicomb  Bid.

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

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

Correspondence Solicited.

C O N G R E S S

C I G A R S

INDISPUTABLY  the  FINEST 
HA VAN A  CIGAR in  AMERICA.
HI C o n g re ss C igar

Dealers who  are desirous of adding an  exceptionally fine  Havana  Cigar to their stock 
will  find  it to their interest  to send  a sample order to either of the following Jobbers.
Ask  their Salesmen  to show you  samples of the

BALL,  BARNHART  A 

PUTMAN  CO.,

W holesale Grocers

LEMON  A  W HEELER 

CO.,

W holesale Grocers

CO.

MUSSELMAN  GROCER 
W holesale Grocers
I.  M. CLARK  GROCERY 
W holesale Grocers

CO.

H AZELTINE  A  PER­

KINS  DRUG  CO.

W holesale D ruggists

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO. 
W holesale confectioners

OLNEY  A  JUDSON 

GROCER  CO.

W holesale Grocers

A.  E.  BROOKS  A  CO. 
W holesale Confectioners

WORDEN  GROCER  CO. 
W holesale Grocers

M.  H.  TREUSCH A  BRO.
W holesale Cigars

A charm er.  E xcellent im itation of  R ich  C ut  Glass 
pattern.  8 pcs. com plt.  w ith  tray, 55c.  P er dz.  sets, $6

‘•A lexis" W ater Set, b rillian t pattern, th e g randest 
success of th e year.  Superbly finished, sm ooth pol­
ished bottom  tum blers. 8 pcs.com plt.w ith tray,ea.65c 
P er doz. sets, #7.

“ Regent,”  Assorted.

“ Alexis” W ater S et.

"New  Regent"  asstd.  pkg.  Lemonade 
and W ater Sets.  You  can  not  invest  a 
small am ount of money in any goods that 
w ill sell more  rapidly  or  prove  m ore a t­
tractive th an  o u r  "New  Regent’’ asstm t. 
12 sets, each different. 4 styles. 3 colors. 
1-3 dz. ruby opalescent, 4 styles, #1.10 #4.40 
1-3 dz.  blue  opalescent, 4 styles, 
75  3.00 
75  3.00
1-3 dz.  cry’s, opalescent, 4 styles. 
#10.40
Less 10 per cent.  1.04
#9.3«
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Barrel, 35 cts. 

We illustrate only  a  few.  Send  for  new  Cata 

logue, No  118,  showing full  line.

15009 SUGAR.

94 SPOONER. 

39D  BUTTER. 

49D  SUGAR.

No.  18 9 5  Package,  4  piece  Glass  S ets.

We have especially arranged this package to give o u r custom ers a good  variety of sm all quan­

tities of the best  selling 4 piece sets on the m arket, a t the same tim e saving you  10 per cent. 

x  doz. Xo. 
94 4  piece sets, at #2  25 
$4 doz.  Xo.  15009 4 piece sets, at  2  25 
i-6doz. Xo.  39D 4 piece sets,  a t  4  00 
l-6doz.  Xo. Alexis 4 pee. sets at $5  00

1  00
$3 62
36
$3  26

CONTEXTS  OF  PACKAGE.

$  50 I  1-6 doz. Xo. 49D 4 piece sets, a t $0  00 

67 I 
83 

Barrel, 35 cents.  Less 10 per cent.. 

This  pkge.  con­
tains four kinds of 
P itchers  assorted 
in  1  bbl., 
doz. of 
each.  All  ready 
sellers,  full  size, 
b rillian t bargains. 
Heavy as goods us­
ually sold  for dou­
ble the  money.
These are all fin­
ished goods.
2 dz.  Squirrel 
asst, pitchers 
at #1.45 
Barrel. 35 cents.

#2  90

Our  “ Squirrel”  Assortment  of  Half-Gallon  Pitchers.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids
The M o n e y -Sa vins? S c a le

PAYS  FOR  ITSELF

Every two months and  makes  you  h00  per cent,  on  the invest­
ment. 

It prevents all errors in  weighing and

STOPS  THE  LEAKS

in  your business these  hard times.  You  can  not  afford  to  be 
without one.

YOU  NEED  IT!

SEE  WHAT  USERS  SAY.

BOSTON  STORE.

118-124 State St.,  and 77-79 Madison St.,

C a s h   M e r c h a n d i s e .

Chicago. Dec. 31, 1894. 

The Com puting Scale Co., D ayton, Ohio: 

G e n t l e m e n :  We have had  your  scale  in  use 
since  N ovember  24,  1894, in  our  butter,  cheese 
and  m eat  departm ent.  We  find  them  to do ev 
actiy  w hat  you  claim .  Our  clerks can w ait  on 
more custom ers and assure them  accuracy in ev­
ery  respect.  We  can  recom m end  them   as  the 
most econom ical scale in use  for  m eat  m arkets 
and groceries. 

Yours truly,

Boston Store.

J.  W.  WHITELKY  A  SOX,

Dry Goods, Clothing, G roceries, etc.

Bonaparte, Iowa.  A pril 22,  1895. 

D ayton Computing Scale Co., Dayton, O.: 

G e n t l e m e n : 

In  reference  to  yours  of  recent 
date regarding the Com puting Scales w hich you 
sent  us,  perm it  us  to  state  th a t  they have ex­
ceeded our  expectations,  giving  us  th e  utm ost 
satisfaction.  We consider it one of o u r g reatest 
conveniences in o u r store, and know ing it, as we 
now do and  from   the  experience  we  have  had 
from  its usage  in  the  store,  we  would  not  dis­
pense w ith it for ten tim es its value.  Any ordi­
nary- clerk, w ith com mon school  education,  can 
expedite business  equal  to  tw o  or three clerks, 
and we prize it as  one  of  our  forem ost  fixtures 
in our store.  We consider and feel th a t ours has 
paid for itself in tw o m onths.

Yours truly,

J.  W.  W hitelet & Son.

Investigate the Dayton  Computing Scale.  For further particulars call  or write

T H E  C O M P U T IN G   S C A L E   CO., 

D a y to n ,  O hio

