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WEATHERLY  &  PULTE,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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dog  dragging  the  produce  cart  to  the 
European  market,  attended  by 
the 
I woman’s  unburdened  husband;  and  it 
seemed to  her  that  she  might  success­
fully change places with  him.  Her own 
work  in  the  schoolroom,  both  as  pupil 
aud teacher,  had always  been  as good as 
her male competitors.  She honestly be­
lieves that  her knowledge  of  the  goods 
she carries—skirts,  blankets  and  furni­
ture—is of a practical character to which 
a  man  can  never  attain; 
in  fact,  on 
this ground even now she  can  hold  her 
own.

“ How is she to meet business  men?”
As a  business woman.  Can  anything 
be plainer?  That is  ground  common  to 
both;  and  business,  like  heroism  and 
work,  is not a matter of sex.
“But society—will  she  not  be  ostra­
cised?”
On  what  grounds?  The  wage-world 
for women is  no  longer  limited  to  the 
If the pro­
kitchen and  the schoolroom. 
fessions  have  opened 
their  doors  the 
trade world should not  object,  nor  does 
it.  The  woman  is  welcomed  every­
where,  and everywhere  she  has  proved 
herself equal  to the  work  she  has  taken 
in  hand,  without  caring  what  society 
thinks and  says. 
Indeed,  it  is  society 
who is to look  to  her  laurels.  She  has 
worn the crown  too  long  and  has  held 
her scepter with too firm a grasp.
So,  from  whatever  side  the  question 
could be considered,  there was  found  on 
good  reason  for  not  going  on  with the 
proffered work. 
It  calls  for  certain  re­
quirements and  she  has  them.  She  en­
ters the lists  asking no odds  and  expect­
ing none.  She  knows that she who puts 
on the armor is not to boast like her who 
takes it off,  and  she  wants  it  distinctly 
understood  that any success  which  may 
come to her is to be the  reward  of  merit 
and  not the  result  of  compassion  or  of 
pity.
T h e T radesm an extends  its  warmest 
wishes to the  brave  young  woman  who 
launches  her  bark  upona the  unknown 
sea of business.  May  the waves be kind 
to  her;  may the  winds—the  trade-winds 
—waft  her with  favorable  gales  to  wel­
come  ports  upon  a  prosperous  voyage; 
and  may 
the  traveling  salesmen  who 
make  a  place  to-day  for  the  woman 
among  their  number  have  good  reason 
for saying,  by and  by,  that  none  among 
them  have a better record than  she  who 
took  up the work laid down by her father 
and carried on to successful termination*
the  Hopkins 
Station general dealer,  turned his  native 
shrewdness to good account one  day  last 
week.  It appears that a former  customer 
of  his  left  nis  bailiwick  about  twelve 
years ago, owing him a  little  over  $100. 
The  debtor  left  the  State  and  has  fol­
lowed  numerous  pursuits  in  the  mean­
time,  finally developing into a horseman, 
since which  time Mr.  Watkins  has  been 
following 
fortunes  of  his  steed 
through  a  career  of  several  thousand 
miles.  Learning that the horse  was  en­
tered  for the  races here last week  he  ar­
ranged  to  levy  on  the  animal  for  the 
amount  of  bis  account.  Finding  the 
owner accompanied the horse he  secured 
personal  service  on  the  debtor  and the 
next day bad the  satisfaction  of  pocket­
ing $175,  being the amount  of  bis  claim, 
with 
interest  in  full.  The  man  who 
thinks Mr.  Watkins is not  as  successful 
a  collector  a<  he  is energetic as a mer­
chant reckons wrongly.

Frank  B.  Watkins, 

the 

Frank  Melbourne,  who has  made a  re­
spectable fortune as a rainmaker,  admits 
that the whole  business  is  a  fake.  He 
says that the American people like  to  be 
humbugged, and the bigger the  fake  the 
better it goes.

tune,”

(extension 

how  was she to meet

Her Deceased Father.

“The slings and arrows of  outrageous  for­

..  good  qualities  of  the  goods  to be sold, 

G R A N D   R A P I D S .   W E D N E S D A Y ,   J U L Y   l O ,   1 8 9 5 .
FROM  SCHOOLROOM  TO  GRIPSACK.
A  Young  Lady Takes  Up  the  Work  of 
^ 
A recent issue of  T h e  T radesm an  re­
i-  to say  nothing of  the sneers and  Jibes  of 
corded  the death of  Norman  L.  Bouton, 
,  her own sex?  Those were the conditions.
ol  Pent water,  who had traveled  on  com­
-  Was she equal  to them?
mission  for  several  years  for  the Pent- 
She  calmly  and,  without  prejudice,
water Bedstead  Co.,  Pent water;  J.  Hal­
-  looked carefully  over  the  qualifications 
stead 
tables),  Pentwater; 
;  she could bring to  the  work  before  her. 
Erickson,  Stiffer & Co.  (center tables and 
1  There  was  her  school 
training—did
book  cases),  Whitehall;  C.  E.  Geisen- 
-  that  amount  to  nothing?  or  did  those 
dorff &Co.  (skirts, flannels and blankets), 
,  years  from  6  years old to 17 give a com- 
lndian»polis;  Thus.  Williams &  Co.  and 
i  mercial  value to  the diploma received on 
Frank  L).  La Lanne  &  Co.  (cottons and 
1  commencement  day?  or,  comparing  her
woolens),  Philadelphia.
mental  qualifications  with  some  of  the 
the 
}  shrewdest  traveling  men  she  had  met, 
father,  and  kindly  bands  had  laid him 
l  was she in  any  way  inferior?  She  was 
down to sleep  under  the  green  grass  of 
f  quick  at  figures,  she  could  spell,  she 
May, the question came with  a  force the 
i  could talk  without murdering  the  king’s 
daughter could  not  resist,  whether  she 
)  English, she could  write a readable hand,
could  not  fill  her  father’s  place,  ac­
-  and she  could  write  a  letter  without  a
quainted,  as she was,  with his work, bet­
-  postscript!  So far so good.  She had  been 
ter than even a more  experienced  hand? 
l  reared  by  a  painstaking, 
intelligent 
The thought followed  her by  day  and  it 
t  mother to believe that  neatness  in  per- 
went  with  her  into dreamland at night.
.  sonal appearance is very near  the  divine

traveling  was  over 

When 

for 

•ROMPT. 

CONSERVATIVE, 

J.  W.  CHAMPLIN,  Pres.

SAPS'

W.  FRED  McBAIN. Sec.

INSURANCE  CO.

Organized 

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

WAYNE  COUNTY  SAVINGS  BANK, 

Detroit,  Mich.

$500,000 10 INVEST IN BONDS SKSS SSS
and  school  districts  of  Mich.  Officers of these 
municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to 
their advantage  to  apply  to  this  Bank.  Bl-nk 
bonds and blanks for proceedings supplied with­
out charge.  Communications and enquiries have 
prompt attention.  Bank pays 4 p.c. on deposits, 
compounded semi-annualiy.  S. D. Enwoop.Treas.
Country  Merchants

Can save exchange by  keeping  their Bank 
accounts in Grand Rapids, as Grand Rapids 
checks are par in all markets.  The

Offers  exceptional  facilities to its custom­
ers, and is  prepared  to  extend  any favors 
consistent with sound banking.

DANIEL  McCOY,  President.
CHA5.  P.  PIKE,  Cashier.

The  Michigan 
Trust Co.  ara^lcRhapU,s>

Makes a specialty of acting as

mss HOflERIA  A.  BOUTON.

EXECUTOR  OF  WILLS 
ADfllNISTRATOR  OF  ESTATES 
GUARDIAN  OF  illNORS  AND 

INCOflPETENT  PERSONS 

TRUSTEE  OR  AGENT

In the management of any  business  which may 
be entrusted to it.
Any  information  desired  will  be  cheerfully 
furnished.

LEWIS  H.  WITHEY,  President. 
ANTON  G.  HODENPYL,  Secretary.

LÖ A N D 7PEA PL STREET.
The  Tradesman’s  advertisers  receive 

sure  and  profitable  results.

It whispered to her of the uncertainty of 
the schoolroom,  where she  had  won  the 
hearts of her pupils and the good  will  of 
the  parents  at  home. 
It  spoke  of  the 
meager returns which came from  the un­
certain  calling  and  the  richer  rewards 
which  would  come  to  her  in  this  new 
field of  work.
That  was  one  side  of the picture and 
Prudence stood at her  elbow  with  many 
a question in regard to the other.
Was it womanly to go from an employ­
ment  purely  woman’s  to  that  which, 
with  but few exceptions,  belongs  exclu­
sively  to  men?  Could  she  endure  the 
fatigue of travel in  wet  weather  and  in 
dry as well as the extremes  of  beat  and 
cold?  How  was  she,  with  her  home 
training and her fondness  for home com­
forts,  to meet the exactions of  hotel  life 
in  country  and  in  town?  Did  she  ex­
pect,  on account of the claims of woman­
hood,  that  the  rough  would  be  made 
smooth?
Admitting this,  what  6f  the  work  it­
self?  How  was  she,  a woman  who was 
a  lady,  to  meet  these  business  men  in 
business houses and  in business hours on 
matters purely business?  Admitting  all 
she  claimed  to  know  of  the  work and 
more,  and add to this  the instinct of  her 
sex to appreciate  and  to  bring  oat  the

in a woman’s  life.  The  thought  that  a 
man couid excel  her in  that  was  simply 
amusing.

Did she think of the  barren  places  in 
the  drummer’s  life  without  shrinking? 
She did.  The lonesome ride on the lone­
some road and the stop over at  the  lone­
some  hotel  were  looked  calmly  in  the 
face and  were  provided  for.  This  was 
the sober  side,  but  she  did  not  falter. 
True,  the  usual  resources  of  her  class 
were denied  her.  There  was  no  laying 
in of a superior quality of  cigars,  no fill­
ing  of  an  extra  bottle  of—Apoilinaris; 
but the bouse need not suffer  on that ac­
count.  Her  aptness  in  other  things 
would enable her to learn soon how such 
things  should  be  managed.  She  could 
not play  billiards,  and  card  playing  on 
the train had no  attraction  for  her;  but 
she  had  heard her father say  that  these 
accomplishments  were  not  strictly  nec­
essary and that traveling  men  had  been 
known to succeed  without  them. 
It was 
a green spot in  this wilderness  of  trade, 
touched by the Jordan,  and,  strengbened 
by it,  she turned to other questions.

Strange to say,  the nature  of the work 
had  never  troubled  her.  Work, 
like 
heroism,  is not so much a matter of  sex, 
as it is of ability to do it.  She  had read 
in books of travel of the woman  and  the

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SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

Voiyt, Herpolehelmer & Co.’s Quartette 

of Travelers.

HENRY SNITSELER.

In the commandments of Nature  there 
is  none  more  strongly  insisted on than 
this: 
‘'Thou  shalt  not  make  use  of  a 
square plug for a round hole.”  It is sure 
to bring disaster sooner or later,  and  he 
who does not  learn  this  fact  early  and 
govern himself accordingly  is  not  wise.
It  was  on  a  farm  in Ottawa couuty, 
some twenty-five or thirty years ago that 
this  commandment  was 
learned  and 
wisely  followed.  Some  years  before,  a 
boy, Henry Snitseler,  was born  in  Vries- 
land,  Feb.  6,  1861,  and for  a  number  of 
years  the  farming  father  indulged  the 
hope  of  leaving  the  paternal acres to a 
successful  tiller  of  the soil; but,  as the 
years went by, it was plain that the hope 
was never to be realized.  There was not 
the faintest promise  of  a  farmer  in  the 
boy’s whole make-up.  He  hated  chores. 
He  grumbled  when  he  had  to  go  after 
the  cows.  The  song  of  the  singing 
scythe never leaped from his lips.  There 
was  no  joy  in  his  heart  when  storing 
away hay under the hot roof of the barn, 
beaten upon  by a burning June sun.  The 
hoe was not  an  implement  of  industry 
which he loved.  The very weeds wagged 
their  heads  at  him  in the cornfield and 
laughed  him  to  scorn;  and  when,  one 
day,  it was proved beyond  all doubt  that 
a left-handed boy  of  Holland  extraction 
couldn’t  drive  oxen,  nature’s  law  was 
bowed  to—a  square  plug  couldn’t  be 
fitted  into  a  round  hole—and  the  boy 
Henry,  soon  after,  was  on  his  way  to 
town.  He directed  his  footsteps  to  the 
store of Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co.,  and 
found,  at  last,  that  life  was worth the 
living.  He was at the foot of the ladder, 
but that foot didn’t rest on  a  farm,  and 
the work which now came  to  him  was  a 
pleasure.  He  soon wormed his way into 
the position of shipping clerk.  The  dis­
tance between that  and  house  salesman 
was early traveled,  and  when,  later on, a 
man  was  wanted  for  the  road,  out  he 
went,  gripsack in band,  ready to  do  bat­
tle for the calling he had liked  from  the 
start, with Northern  and Western Michi­
gan for his territory.

Mr. Snitseler has been a worthy member 
of the First Reformed church for  several 
years,  and the Knights of  Pythias  claim 
him as a brother.  He  has been married 
eight years or more and  has  a  wife  and 
two little girls of four years  and  two  to 
greet him at  the  daily  home  coming  at 
134 Clancy street.

JOSEPH  W.  MARTIN.

It is a happy salesman  who has plenty 
of  money  and  who  travels  because he 
likes it;  and  that  was  the  condition  of 
things,  as Mr.  Martin  laughingly  stated, 
when he  seated  himself  before  my  bio­
graphical  camera.  That  did  very  well 
for a general statement—a pleasant back­
ground,  as it were,  for  the details  which 
follow.

Mr.  Martin  was born in the  City of the 
Straits,  October  19,  1861  — not  early 
enough to take  an  active  part  in the re­
bellion.  He remained in  the  schools  of 
the city  until he was 16  years old,  when 
he entered the dry  goods  store of  W.  H. 
Elliott,  of  Detroit.  He  staid  with  him 
for  a  year  and  then  went  to  work  for 
Allan Sheldon &  Co.,  of  the  same  city. 
A year of clerking  saw  him  transferred 
to the stock keeper’s place and, after two

years of faithful service in that position, 
he was advanced to the  salesman’s coun­
ter.  He was there long enough to make 
his mark—a good one,  by  the  way—and 
then  went to see what he could do on the 
road,  confining  his  attention  to Lower 
Michigan.  This went on for three years, 
when the salesman  for  the  house  in  the 
Upper  Peninsula  went  somewhere else, 
and  Mr.  Martin  was  sent  to  take  bis 
place—a 
field  he  continued  to  occupy 
until the house went out of business.

Here the curtain  was rung dowu on the 
first  act,  and  when  it  went  up again  it 
found Mr.  Martin  in  the  employment of 
a friend  whom fate had chosen to fill  the 
office  of  Register  of  Deeds  in  Detroit. 
The  fact  is,  the  salesman  bad  become 
tired of  the  old  routine.  He  wanted  a 
change  and  a  rest  from  his  labors;  so, 
when his  friend  offered  him  a  place  in 
his  office,  it  was  accepted  and  he  re­
mained  there  until  the  term  expired. 
Financially,  the  change  was  not  a  suc­
cess.  The emoluments of office  were not 
large enough  to meet the requirements of 
the position,  with  a margin  sufficient for 
the  demands  of  a  growing  family,  so,

in 1859.  When he was  14  years  of  age 
the family emigrated to the United States 
and 
located  at  Grand  Rapids.  Here 
Ralph went to school for a year on South 
Division  street.  When  his  school  life 
was  over,  he  found  work,  at  first, in  a 
pail factory—a place  which  he  retained 
only until something  better  should  turn 
up.  This proved to be with  the dry goods 
house of Spring  &  Company,  five  years 
after his departure from the old  world in 
1873  When he left SpriugA Company, iu 
1881,  he was employed  in  the  wholesale 
department.  After a  week’s  “lay  off,” 
he entered the employ of  Voigt,  Herpoi- 
sheimer &  Co.  and was the first man that 
house sent out on  the  road,  covering  all 
the trade courted  by  the  house,  outside 
of  the  city.  Times  have changed since 
1881,  however, in  consequense  of  which 
Mr.  Blocksma has been compelled  to  di­
vide his territory  with  two  other  sales­
men,  but it does not follow that  he  sells 
less  goods,  for  the  facts  of  the matter 
are that he sells  mauy  more  goods  and 
calls on  many  more  customers  than  he 
did fifteen years ago.

Two years  after  his  connection  with

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Australia, and in London.  England.
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Wholesale Clothing nanufacturers 

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bis full line of samples, from Monday, JULY 15, 
to  Monday.  JULY  22,  and  will  entertain  his 
friends and the trade who call upon him.
from the Michigan Central  Depot at Chicago.

The Imperial Hotel is only a one  minute  walk 

William  Connor  will  be  at  Sweet's  Hotel, 
GRAND  RAPIDS Thursday,  Friday  and  Satur­
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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CHARLES  O. FASOl.DT 

HENRY  SNITSELER 
RALPH  BLOCKSriA

JOHN  W.  MARTIN 

when  tlie curtain  went  down  at  the close  h  s  present  house,  Mr.  Buu-ksma  was
married 
to  Miss  Elizabeth  Quartell. 
of the second  act,  discretiou  was  found 
There  are  three  children  in  his family 
to be the better part  of  valor;  and  the 
and the eldest, a boy of 11 years,  is often 
salesman,  rested  and  refreshed,  if  not 
taken out on  the  road  by  his  father  to 
strengthened,  seized his grip, and the po­
learn  the  ins  and outs,  from a practical 
litical  field  which  knew  him  once  will 
standpoint, of a vocation  which  may,  in 
know him no more forever.
time,  be his, if he should so  desire.

This was early in the present year, and 
he turned his face toward Grand  Rapids, 
where  he  had  already  been  engaged  by 
Voigt,  Herpolsheimer & Co. to look  after 
their interests in Lower  Michigan.

Mr.  Martin  joined  the  ranks  of  the 
Benedicts  about a  dozen  years  ago, and 
is  ready  to  verify  the  words  of  the 
Psalmist when he says:  “ As  arrows are 
in the hand of a mighty man,  so  are  the 
children  of  youth.  Happy  is  the  man 
that hath his quiver full of them.”

RALPH  RI.OCKSMA.

Grand  Rapids and  Holland  have  this 
in common—they have  both  been  taken 
by the Dutch.  Among those  of  the  Old 
Republic who decided to seek  their  for­
tunes  in  the  New,  were  the parents of 
Ralph  Blocksma, 
the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  who was born at Sneek,  Holland.

CHARLES  6 .  FASOLDT 

Was  born  in  Michigan  City,  Ind ,  Nov, 
30,  1867.  The  family  subsequently
moved to Omaha, Neb.,  where  his father 
died.  His mother  then  came  to  Grand 
Rapids,  where  her  two  sons  attended 
school.  At 15 years  of  age, Charles  left 
school and  was  with  his  brother  for  a 
year  iu  a cigar  store;  then,  after one  or 
two changes,  he secured a place with  his 
present  house,  where  he  has  been  for 
nine years, beginning  as a  billing clerk. 
He now bolds the  position of  city  sales­
man.

Mr.  Fasoldt is  unmarried  and  lives  at 
home.  He  is  a  member  of the German 
M.  E. church,  and  belongs  to  the  Schu­
bert Club and  the  Schumann Male Quar­
tette.

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3

c.c.c.

That is the record as it came  from  the 
young man’s  lips.  Will  he  pardon  me 
for reading between  the  lines  and  tell­
ing, 
in  my  own  way,  the  filial  story 
which I find written there?

It begins—my story  does—under  Ger­
man skies when a man  from  the kingdom 
of Saxony,  in  the presence  of  a  clergy­
man,  placed a ring upon the  finger  of  a 
Wurtemburg  maiden  not  far  from  the 
legend-haunted  Rhine. 
Shortly  after, 
the young couple found  their way  across 
the  Atlantic  to  a  home  in  a  Western 
State,  where,  after  a  brief  illness,  the 
husband died  when Karl  was 5 years old.
Young as he  was,  the  boy  seemed  to 
feel,  even  then,  that  in  whatever  per­
tained to him,  his mother was  always  to 
stand first.  He found  that  his success in 
school,  whatever it was, pleased her  and 
he labored for that purpose.  When other 
boys gave themselves up to the question­
able pleasures  of  the  street,  he  was  at 
home,  and  far  from  the  fear  of being 
sneered at for being tied  to the maternal 
apron-string,  his one desire was,  and  has 
always  been,  to  make  the  most  of his 
home life.

The  love  of  music,  an 

inheritance 
which has come  to  him  direct  from  the 
Fatherland,  has  found  a  means  of ex­
pression in  the Schubert Club,  of  which 
he  is  a  prominent  member,  and  in the 
Schumann Male Quartette.  The  church 
claims him; and she adds  a  testimony  of 
his worthy life which  it would be a pleas­
ure to record.  That is  a  pleasure,  how­
ever, which has not been  assigned to me; 
but when,  reading  between  the  lines,  I 
caught such  splendid  glimpses of manly 
endeavor to brighten the  pathway of  the 
mother who has learned to lean upon the 
strong young arm  which has never failed 
her,  business,  social 
the  church 
were all forgotten, and I thought I  could 
do my readers no better  service  than  to 
write the story down. 

R. M. S.
HINTS  ON  BOAD  IMPROVEMENT. 

life, 

Written for Thk Tradesman.
III.

The practical interest  of  the  question 
of improvement of highways to the coun­
try merchant suggests  the  inquiry  as  to 
what he can do in  the  matter.  That  he 
should  take  the  initiative  is  a  conse­
quence of his greater intelligence and in­
fluence,  as  compared  with  the  farmer, 
the other party  to be  most  directly  ben­
efited.  The average  merchant  enjoys  a 
prestige  that  gives  an  opportunity  for 
leadership sufficient to  enable him to ac­
complish a great  deal,  especially  if  ex­
ercised with tact in the  direction  of  the 
best interests of those he  is  trying to  in­
fluence.

It is  not  practicable  or  necessary  for 
me  to  lay  down  specific  rules  for pro­
ceeding in such an  enterprise,  even  if  I 
were competent to  do so,  as  varying cir­
cumstances  render  such  rules  of  little 
value.  The practical good sense of those 
interested  will suggest the best methods. 
In some situations it may  only  be  prac­
ticable for the  merchant  to  suggest  and 
agitate the matter as  he  comes into con­
tact with his  country  customers,  giving 
them such hints and information  as he is 
able,  to lead them to  improved  methods. 
Every one interested  can do this and the 
subject will always be found of sufficient 
interest  to  engage  the  attention  of  the 
farmer if the plans suggested  are not too 
radical  as  to  direct  financial  outlay on 
his part. 
In addition to  this  it  may  be 
practicable  to  visit  localities—perhaps 
accompanied by  other  dealers  similarly

interested—and canvass the subject with 
the more  influential  and  intelligent. 
It 
may  b e . advisable  to  call  meetings,  or 
even to effect simple  organizations to se­
cure more intelligent  co-operation in the 
expenditure  of  the  highway  funds  at 
command  and  any  other  means  of  im­
provement  possible. 
It  is  a  subject  at 
least worthy of inquiry  as  to  whether  a 
portion of the time and energy invested in 
this direction  will not  yield sufficient re­
turns to warrant the expenditure.

The  Business  Men’s  Associations,  in 
many  of  the  towns  of  the  State,  have 
recognized  the  importance  of  this  sub­
ject and  have included  it  among the ob­
jects for which they are  organized.  Not 
a  little  advancement  in  road  improve­
ment is to be credited to their efforts; but 
in many localities interest has, unfortun­
ately,  been  permitted  to  lag and  efforts 
have relaxed.  Other and  lesser  matters 
engage  the  attention,  and  the  nimble 
penny supplants tbe slower  shilling. 
If 
there were no other  reason  for the exist­
ence of business  organizations  than  this 
one  of  road  improvement, 
it,  alone, 
would be sufficient,  were  its  importance 
realized. 
It is  probable,  however,  that 
much of the apparent indifference is to be 
charged  to  the  discouraging  paucity  of 
immediate result for the efforts put.forth. 
This smallness of result  is  made  appar­
ent by comparison  with the magnitude of 
the whole object desired—a complete sys­
tem  of  improved  and  permanent  high­
ways,  leading  to  all  points  of  the com­
pass. 
It  should  be  remembered,  how­
ever,  that  each  piece  of  improvement, 
though small,  is a  positive  advantage  to 
every  dealer  in  the  town  to  which  it 
leads. 
It Is the duty of every member of 
every  association to see that this feature 
of association work is kept constantly  in 
hand,  and,  where  there  are  no  such as­
sociations,  early  steps  should  be  taken 
for their  organization.  The  importance 
of this factor  in  the  problem  cannot  be 
overestimated.

The character of the  suggestions to  be 
made and the practical  steps to be taken 
are  matters  for  careful  consideration. 
Any agitation of  the  subject  may possi­
bly  result  in  good,  if  the  attention  of 
some one of  practical  ability  is  thereby 
directed to it;  but returns  will  be  much 
more certain  if  the  merchant  has  well- 
formulated  ideas  of  the  most  practical 
means of making  positive  improvements 
in the conditions  peculiar  to  each local­
ity.  Let him be  informed of any pecul­
iarly bad places in an otherwise passable 
road,  if  only  the  improvement  of  such 
places is within tbe reach  of  his  efforts. 
Let him, also, become  familiar  with  the 
general principles of permanent road im­
provement, if, haply, he may  inaugurate 
a movement that will secure the building 
of a  complete  highway.  Let  him  learn 
the methods obtaining in different locali­
ties  for  the  expenditure  of  the  usual 
highway taxes and,  if he  finds  that  they 
are  “ worked out,” let him suggest to tbe 
farm  owner  that  an  improvement  any­
where on the  road  to  market is as great 
an advantage,  if  not  greater,  to him,  al­
though ten miles distant, as though upon 
the road adjoining bis own  farm,  where 
his  narrow-minded  selfishness  usually 
prompts him to insist that the work shall 
be  done. 
let  him  study  the 
subject  until  he  has  an  intelligent idea 
of what can  be practically accomplished, 
and then let him use the diligence its im­
portance demands.
In  succeeding  papers,  I  shall  give 
hints as to practical methods of  road  im­
provement— proper  location,  grading, 
draining, gravel and other surfacing, etc., 
and measures  for  preservation,  such  as 
preventing  destruction  by  narrow tires, 
neglect and other causes. 

In  short, 

W. N. F.

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A ROUND  TH E  ST A TE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MERCHANTS.

Sparta—N. C. Kingsburg has puichased 

the jewelry stock ot G.  W.  French.

Lake Ann—C.  A.  Schephorst  succeeds 

Wm.  H. Schroeder in general trade.

Saline — Sheider  A  Liston 

succeed 
Nichols  Bros,  in  the  drug  and  jewelry 
business.

Cedar Springs—Fallas &  Skinner  sue 
ceed Anna  (Mrs.  Burrell)  Tripp  in  the 
drug business.

Jackson—Frank  N.  Flanagan  has  re­
moved his wholesale cigar business  iroui 
Lansing to this  place.

Ludington—A. Rasmussen succeeds  C. 
the  grocery 

Rasmussen,  deceased, 
business at this place.

in 

Albion—Culver A  Espie  have  opened 
a grocery store in the  building  formerly 
occupied by F. L. Crane.

Cadillac—The  clothing  and  merchaut 
tailoring firm of P.  O. Kiint & Co. is suc­
ceeded by Johnson A  Os ten sou.

Menominee—Baum,  Besnaw  A  Dun­
ham succeed  Baum  Dunham  A  Co.  in 
the clothing and tailoring business.

Constantine—¡S. J.  Heim bach  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  and  men’s  furnishing 
goods  stock  formerly  owned  by  John 
Eppley  Co.

Mason—Walter  M.  Pratt  has  uttered 
two  chattel  mortgages  on  his  grocery 
stock,  amounting to $833, and assigned to 
J. T.  Campbell.

Central  Lake—The  Cameron  Lumber 
Co.  will immediately  erect a large frame 
store building for the use of  its  mercan­
tile department.

Ludington—Jas.  McKuigbt,  who  has 
been  manager  of  the Big Store Mercan­
tile Co. for the past eighteen  months,  is 
succeeded by Jas.  Williams.

Ann Arbor—A bitter war  is  going  on 
among the local coal dealers  on  account 
of  the action  of  a  certain  new  dealer, 
who  recently  began  quietly 
take 
orders for the best hard coal at $5.50  per 
ton, 50  cents  less  than  the  established 
price.  Large 
consumers  were  ap 
proached  for  their  orders.  When  the 
other  dealers  learned  of  the  deception 
they,  too,  began to cut  rates.  One  lead 
ing dealer has put the price  down  to  $5 
and the fight waxes furious.

Decatur—Our merchants and manufae 
turers  are  preparing  a  vigorous  and 
lively  protest,  which  will  be presented 
to Michigau Ceutral  officials, asking that 
the present schedule  of  passenger trains 
be so amended as to give  Decatur people 
as  man\  trains  a  day  as  neighboring 
towns  on  the  line.  Decatur  resident 
claim  to ship  more  grain  than any other 
station  between  Detroit  and  Chicago, 
also to furnish more  passenger  business 
than villages of equal population, and do 
not propose to be sidetracked  if they can 
find any remedy.

Detroit—The fly-by-night  shoddy  shoe 
bouses  here continue to be  an  irritation 
to the legitimate dealer.  There  are  sev 
eral  who  advertise  in  flaming  colors, 
plastering the whole  front  of  their  tem­
porary  places of  business  and  who  rake 
in the dollars of the unwary.  They  dis 
appear as suddenly as they come and bob 
up at some other location  for a few weeks 
or months under a new firm  name,  such 
as the Boston  Bankrupt Company  or  the 
“Great  Fire  Sale Sacrifice.”  Not a few 
wholesale  dealers find that collections in 
this direction are mighty poor.

Elk Rapids—R  G.  Bruce  has  resigned 
his position  with the Elk Rapids Iron Co. 
to  take  a  position  in the mercantile de­
partment of the East  Jordan  Lumber Co.
Bloomingdale — E.  J.  Merrifield  has 
bought Chauncey  Smith’s  harness  busi­
ness and  stock  and  employed  G.  Riley 
Smith to  work  iu  the  shop  the  coming 
year.

Three Rivers—M.  Hack has taken  Wm. 
Barton into partnership in the  meat  and 
canned  goods  business,  which  will  be 
conducted  hereafter  under  the  style of 
M.  Hack A Co.

Homer—Burgess  A  Stilson  succeed 
Burgess  &  Dowker  in  the  grocery  and 
bakery  business,  instead  of  Burgess  & 
Dowker succeeding Burgess & Stilson, as 
stated last week.

Monroe—The  shoe  firm  of  Duval  & 
Wagner  has  been  dissolved  by  mutual 
consent,  M.  D.  Duval  retiring.  These 
two gentlemen  have worked  together for 
the last twenty-four years.

Muskegon—Irving F.  Hopkins has pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  the  Bennett 
Drug Co.  and  will continue  the  business 
at the same location,  also  continuing his 
Third street  pharmacy  without  change.
East Jordan—J.  L.  Wiesman,  of  Bel- 
laire, has leased the Loveday brick block 
and  will  occupy 
it  with  his  stock  of 
clothing,  dry  goods,  shoes,  hats  and 
trunks  as  soon  as  the  latter can be re­
moved from Bellaire.

Detroit—F. G. Smith &  Sons and Stur­
geon &  Co.  have  merged  their  jewelry 
stocks and formed a new corporation  un­
der the style  of  Smith,  Sturgeon  &  Co. 
The  capital  stock  is  $100,000, of  which 
$75,000 is paid in.  The  paid-in  stock  is 
held as follows:  F.  G. Smith,  Jr.,  1,250;

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Ionia—Cutter.  Burger  &  Co.  succeed 
R.  L. Burger & Co.  in the manufacture of 
cigars.

Detroit—Emanuel  Aertz.  of  Aertz, 
Meyers & Co.,  furniture  manufacturers, 
is dead.

Barr.vton—J.  G.  Schoberth,  of  Mt. 
Pleasant,  is building a planing  mill here 
and will operate a  lumber  yard  in  con­
nection.

White  Pigeon—The  firm  of  lgnatz A 
Roderick, cigar manufacturers,  has  been 
dissolved,  Mr. 
lgnatz  continuing  the 
business at the old stand.

Temple—Churchill & McMullen’s saw­
mill is being connected  with  a  switch  to 
the Toleeo & Ann  Arbor main  track  for 
the purpose of hauling logs  to  the  mill.
St. James—Dennis Bonner, who started 
a cigar factory here last  spring,  has  not 
sold any cigars except to the home trade. 
His brands  are  the  Grand  Opera  Bron- 
heldia and Sweet Dennis.

Manistee—Tne Canfield Salt A Lumber 
Co.  is  increasing  its  piling  room about 
1,000,000 feet by extending  the  dock  up 
toward the Baker  yard  and  dredging at 
the  front  of  the  dock  so  that  vessels 
drawing 12  feet  can  load  without  diffi­
culty.

Dowagiac—A stock  company  has been 
formed  by  Dowagiac  business  men  to 
manufacture  an  improved  railway  car 
truck.  The  organization is chartered as 
the  Dowagiac  Car  Co.,  and  the  follow- 1 
ing  were  elected  as  officers:  President, 
Y. D.  Beach; Vice ^resident, Dr. Thomas 
G.  Rix;  Secretary,  Dennis  Onen;  Treas­
urer,  L.  J.  Pray; Collector,  E. B.  Jewell. 
A factory will at once be built as soon as 
its location can  be decided upon.

Martin  S.  Smith,  2d,  1,250;  Charles  F. 
Hammond, 3,750;  William  A.  Sturgeon 
1,250 shares.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
Manistee—Salt is  moving  at  ordinary 
pace,  and the blocks keep  turning it out 
to the utmost capacity.  The State Lum­
ber  Co.  has  added  four  grainers  to its 
block,  which increases the  output  about 
200 barrels daily,  making  it  about 1,200 
barrels.

to 

The  Hardware Market.

The continuance of the  dry  weather is 
having its effect upon general trade.  The 
orders for harvesting tools have not been 
in  proportion to other lines.  Prices con­
tinue to advance  all  along  the  line  and 
dealers generally are  taking  very  kindly 
to  the new order  of  things.  Should  we 
get the much-needed rain soon, prospects 
for the speedy revival of business will be 
much  brighter.

The same  conditions exist in regard to 
wire nails as last week.  Prices  are  now 
quoted from stock at $1.95@1.90.

Orders for barbed  wire  still  continue, 
notwithstanding the higher prices, which 
remain the same as last week.

PRODUCE  riARKET.

Apples—Florida stock is hi limited demand at 
$3 per bbl.  The stock is small  in  size  and  not 
at all inviting  in appearance, a guarantee going 
with each shipment that the fruit  contains  one 
stomach-ache with each apple.

Beans—The  market 

If  without  quotable 
change, ranging  from -£2.05  at  Chicago  to  $2.15 
at Boston.

Beets—New, 15c per doz.
Butter—Factory creamery is slo v  sale  at  Wn. 
17c.  Dairy is in fair demand at  12@13c. with in­
dications favoring a higher range of values.

Cabbage—Maryland stock is about the same as 

a week ago, commanding $1.50 per crate.

Cherries—Th  crop  is  large—much  better  in 
quality and quantity  than was  expected earlier 
in  the  season.  1 he 
rop  will  be  pretty  well 
closed out by the  end  of  the  week,  red  Rich­
mond and black commanding about $1.25 per bn.

Cucumbers—Home grown, 35c per doz.
Eggs—Handlers pay 10c and  hold  at  10‘4@illc 

in a regular jobbing way.

Onions—10c per doz. bunches  for green stock. 
Dry stock irom  the  south commands  $1 per bu.
Potatoes--The  market  is  somewhat  strong, 
owing to the fact that the rains  throughout  the 
South hare prevented digging for  several  days 
past.  Dealers  are  quoting  them  at  $2.50fe2.75 
per bb...  with no indication of lower  prices  be­
fore the end of the week.
Raspberries—Black,  about  5c  per  qt.  Red, 
Hie per qt.  The crop is turning oni  much  t etter 
than was expected earlier iu the season

Tomatoes  !K)c for 4 basket crate.
Watermelons-  1  fir 20c apiece and  no prospect 
of higher prices.  Tne  suppl.  is la.ge aud every 
indication  points to a long and  satisfactory  sea-

Wax  Beans—$1.50 per bu. crate.

PROVI81UN8

The Grand  Rapids  Packing  and  Proviso 

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quotes as follows:
PORK  IN  BARBELS.
M ess,............................  ....................
Short c u t...................................................
Extra clear pig, short c u t ......................
Extra clear,  heavy  ..........  
...................
Clear, fat  back..........................................
Bostou clear, short cu t...........................
Clear back, shortcut..  ..  ......................
Standard clear, short cut. best...............
Pork, ltuks 
B ologna....................................................
L iv er.......................................................
Tongue............................................
. 
c lo u d  
.................................................. ..
.. 
Uead cheese 
..................................
summer 
.......................................
raukfurts 
Kettle  Rendered................................
ra n g e r...................................
Family  ............................................................
tom p* >u ud 
Cottolene... 
lotosuet...................................... 
5u lb. Tins, *%c advance.
lb  pails, Vic 
in lb.  “  4 c  
5 lb.  “  Sic 
31b. 
I  c 
Extra Mess, warranted 200  lbs..........
Extra Mess, Chicago packing.............
Boneless, rump butts.........................   ...........
smoked  meats—canvassed or Plain.
dams, average 20 lbs..................
16 lbs.......................................
12 to 14 lbs................................
picnic.....................................................
best boneless..........................................
shoulders...........................................................
Breakfast Bacon  boneless............................
Dried beef, ham p rices...................................
DRY  SALT  MEATS.
Long Clean, heavy.........................
Briskets,  m edium ...........................................
PICKLED  Pies’  PBBT.
Half  barrels......................................................
Quarter barrels.................................................
K its....................................................................
Kits, honeycomb 
Kits, premium 
..
Creamery,  rolls. 
tubs.
Dairy,  rolls.......
tuba...  .

BEEF  IN  BARBELS.

BUTTERINE.

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Menominee—The Kingsford Starch Co , 
of Oswego,  N.  Y.,  has contracted for  the 
season’s cut of  basswood  at  Christensen 
A  Son’s  mill.  A  shipment  of  600,000 
feet  went  forward  last  week. 
It  is 
shipped  by rail to  Escanaba,  thence  by 
water to Oswego.

Manistee—The  Buckley  &  Douglas 
Lumber Co.  is running  another  pier  out 
from the south end of  its  dock  near  the 
dock near the  State  Lumber  Co.’s  line. 
Besides this,  it has  about  40  acres  near 
the mouth  of  the  river,  where it is put 
ting most of its hemlock.

Detroit—The Vinton Co.  has  been  in 
corporated  with a capital  stock  of  $50, 
000,  ail paid in,  for the purpose of manu 
facturing lumber and  building  material 
The stock  is  held  as  follows:  Warren 
G.  Vinton,  1,245;  George  Jay  Vinton, 
3,750; C. J.  Vinton, 5 shares.

Bay City—The South End  Lumber Co. 
has taken a  contract  to  saw  25,000,000 
feet  annually  for  five  years,  for  A 
Mosher A  Son,  with  the  option  of  in 
creasing it to  30,000,000  feet.  This  in 
sures this plant a steady job  for  the  en 
suing five years. 
It is  the  largest  con 
tract of the kind made, save  that  of  the 
Arthur Hill Co., of Saginaw,  which let  a 
contract to James Playfair A Co.,  to  cut 
25,000,000 feet a  year  for  ten  years  at 
Midlaud, Ont.,  work  on  which  was  re 
cently started.

Manistee—There  has  not  been  much 
lumber on  the market  from  here  lately, 
and at present prices there will  be  less, 
as mill men are not  at  all  satisfied  and 
are of the  opinion  that  lumber  is  going 
to be worth  considerably  more  30  days 
from now.  They are  prepared  to  holu 
on  to their lumber for a longer time than 
that  should  it  prove  necessary.  Time 
was  (and one need not be very old in the 
business to remember it)  when  mill  men 
at  this  and  other  points  had  no  dock 
room, and  all  their  cut  went  into  flat 
pile,  and  a  couple  of  boat  loads  was 
about all they had  room  for.  Then was 
the time  when  prices  were  good.  But 
times changed,  lumber was  manipulated 
more and  more  at  the  mills,  new  docks 
and slips were added from  >ear  to  year 
until now it is possible  for  some  of  the 
mills to store almost  their  entire  yeai’s 
cut,  except  what  piece  stuff  and  bill 
stuff they make.

A  Ragged  Diplomat.

Old Maid—1 haven’t anything for  you!
Raggles—Pm no  beggar,  mum.  Pm  a 
census  taker.  Pve  called 
to  get  the 
names of yer mother aud grandmother.  1 
presume yer livin’ with ’em?
Old  Maid—Well,  no,  not exactly;  but 
tep inside and have  a little lunch  while 
ou find out what you  want.
In the Fourth of July parade  Van  An- 
rooy’s Pure  Baking  Powder  display  at­
tracted  much  attention.  Biscuits  were 
freely distributed to every  person  want­
ing them on the street and the quality  of 
the baking powder  was  sampled.  Sales 
of this baking powder are increasing and 
free exhibits  and  free  biscuits  are  still 
being given at different retail  stores.

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

J. P.  Vlsner, Ag’t.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
opinion  is  expressed  that  any material 
increase to the demand  would  result  in 
an advance.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

J. C. Post has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at Fennville.  The stock  was  furnished 
by the I.  M.  Clark Grocery Co.

C.  D.  Danaher  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at Doliarville.  The Olney  &  Jud- 
son Grocer Co.  furnished the stock.

J.  Reynolds  will  shortly  open  a gro­
cery store at Woodville.  The Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman  Co.  has  the  order  for  the 
stock.

Benj.  Gilden  has  opened  a  grocery 
store in the new Luton  block, at  the cor­
ner  of  North  Division  and  Fountain 
strrets.  The  I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co. 
furnished the stock.

J.  M.  Hayden has  purchased the  inter­
est of L. C.  Hayden in the firm  of  J.  M. 
Hayden & Co.,  dealers  in  mill  supplies 
at 96 Pearl street, and  will  continue  the 
business under the same style.

D. C.  Andrews and L. C.  Hayden  have 
formed a copartnership  under  the  style 
of D. C. Andrews & Co.  and embarked  in 
the manufacture  of  washing  compound 
at the corner of  West  Bridge  and  Scrib­
ner streets.

At a meeting  of  the  directors  of  the 
Metal Stamping &  Spinning Co.,  held  at 
the  Old  National  Bank  last  Saturday 
evening, 
the  resignation  of  Frank  A. 
Werner as Secretary  and  Treasurer  was 
accepted.  H.  S.  Lawton  was  elected 
Secretary  and  Frank  S.  Coleman  was 
elected Treasurer  to fill the vacancy.

The fall furniture season  is now in full 
blast and the manufacturers look for  the 
largest attendance of buyers  in  the  his­
tory  of  this  market.  Prices  on 
the 
cheaper and medium  grades  of  bedroom 
and dining-room  furniture have been ad­
vanced from 15 to 25 per cent.,  and there 
will  also  be  an  advance  in  the higher 
grades,  although not to  such  an  extent. 
Reports from different  parts of the coun­
try are to the effect  that  stocks  are  low 
and  that  with  fair  prospects  for  fall 
trade the orders will  be  liberal  and  nu­
merous.

M. J. Clark,  Frank  Jewell,  the  I.  M. 
Clark  estate,  the  Scudder  estate aud  L. 
W.  Wolcott are highly elated over the re­
markable  developments  being  made  on 
the  properties  of  the  Clark Iron Co. on 
the Mesabi  range.  The  land  on  which 
these  discoveries  have  been  made  was 
acquired by tbe Clark & Scudder Lumber 
Co.  in 1881, comprising  320  acres,  which 
bear the finest Bessemer ore of any mine 
on the range.  The drift is only  from  30 
to 40 feet deep,  where  the  ore runs from 
20  to  45  feet  in  thickness.  Only  one 
tract of 40 acres has been fully explored, 
which discloses the existence of 3,000.000 
tons of high grade  ore. 
If tbe other 280 
acres turn out to be as rich in  ore as  the 
first 40 explored,  the assets of  the  Clark 
Iron  Co.  are  estimated  to  be  worth at 
least 85,000,000.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Both  raw  and  refined  have 
been  more active,  and.  while  tbe  former 
has  not  advanced,  the  tone 
is  much 
firmer.  The  demand  for  refined  was 
quite active  and  several  numbers  were 
advanced,  by  the refiners and further ad­
vances  are momentarily  expected.

Teas—The market has  ruled  slack  all 
the  week,  the  holiday,  of course,  inter­
fering with trade to some extent.  Prices 
are unchanged,  but as  they are regarded 
now about  as  low  as  they  can  go,  the

Spices—Very quiet and an  easier  feel­
ing prevails.  This comes from a lack  of 
demand and is not due to any causes that 
are  likely  to  have  a  lasting  influence. 
As soon as the  demand  picks  up  prices 
are expected to advance.

Canned Goods—Ruled quiet, but prices 
are  characterized  by  considerable  firm­
ness.

Provisions—The  trading  through  the 
week has been very slack in a speculative 
way,  and  the  advance  of  the  previous 
week  has  not  been  held  on  account of 
the scarcity of buyers and the  depressed 
feeling due to the large stocks.

Lemons — Prices  during  June  were 
quite uniform and, considering the  short 
crop and hot,  dry  weather,  very  reason­
able.  About the 15th of tbe month sound 
lines began to bring anywhere from 85 to 
86  per  box,  and  every  wholesaler  and 
commission  man  who  had  any  stock  to 
speak  of  cut  off  his  orders  and  hustled 
to  get  the  long  price  for  stock in  hand, 
as a natural result.  When  tbe later car­
goes  came  in,  listless,  unspirited  bid­
ding  was  a  knockout  blow  to  tbe  im­
porters’ hopes, and prices slumped 81  per 
box all  round.  Now  every  mail  carries 
numerous  purchasing  orders  to  the dif­
ferent  brokers,  as,  with  the  to-be-ex­
pected-weather of July  and August,  will 
come a greater demand and higher prices. 
Bright,  sound  lemons  at  85  per  box  at 
this  time  in  July  ought  to be a winner, 
and the most far-sighted dealers  seem  to 
concur in the  belief, judging by  the  lib­
eral orders received.  Now  and  then the 
wholesaler who buys the best marks  and 
talks  quality,  rather  than  price  to  the 
trade, 
is  annoyed  by  a  customer  who 
kicks  on  the  price  and  sends  in  some 
windy  circular  from  a  rival  house  of­
fering  to  “grow  anything  to  order”  if 
patronage can be  gained  by  so doing.  It 
may  help  to  secure  a  trial  order  of  a 
short sighted dealer who  thinks  he  can 
get  a  double  profit  from 
the  cheaper 
stock,  but  one  consignment  is  usually 
enough.  Good  quality  in  fruit  always 
proves  attractive,  and  nine  out  of  ten 
purchasers will  buy at advanced  figures, 
and,  although they  may  grumble a little, 
there is  a  feeling  of  satisfaction  which 
would  be  lacking  if  goods  of  inferior 
grade  bad  been  taken,  simply  because 
the  price  was 
lemons  at 
present quotations are a safe  investment.
Oranges—The oranges sent out  by the 
various wholesalers since  June  20  have 
been,  in  tbe  main,  unsatisfactory,  and 
probably unprofitable  to  everyone  con­
nected with  tbe  deal.  All  of  the  fruit 
comes from the coast  in  iced  refrigera­
tors and,  while  the  low  temperature  of 
tbe car while en route is a  preventive  of 
tbe decay of tbe fruit,  the  hot  air which 
strikes it upon its arrival  seems  to  mow 
it down like grain before the reaper.  A 
good many dealers placed  liberal  orders 
for the  Fourth  of  July trade and  prob­
ably found  many  boxes  which  showed 
signs  of  decay  upon  opening.  They 
ought not to blame the shipper, however, 
for  the  fruit  was  undoubtedly  sound 
when  shipped.  Tbe  fruit  business  is 
one  which  renders  the  gathering  of 
profits very  uncertain  and  few  deale's 
know just the proper time  to  draw  out. 
The abundance of melons  and  domestic 
fruits will cause a weakening of  the  de­
mand and a probable  decline  of  prices.
Bananas—Were a scarce  article in this

low.  Good 

market  last  week.  No  Eastern  fruit 
could  be bought and tbe  Southern  stock 
was not good enough to warrant our local 
wholesalers in  buying  liberally.  A  car­
load  or  so  was  ordered  by each  whole­
saler, to  tide  them  over,  but  the  fruit 
was so green  when  it arrived that reship­
ping any  great  portion  was  out  of  the 
question,  and  so  scores  of orders were, 
from  necessity,  turned  down.  The  few 
saleable bunches  to  be  had  brought  al­
most any price the  fortunate  holder saw 
fit  to  ask,  and  that  meant  a good deal 
more than the actual  value  in  every  in­
stance.  Better  fruit  is  now coming in, 
and  as  melons  and  domestic  fruits  are 
becoming plenty,  prices  will  range a lit­
tle lower and more in the retailer’s favor.

Purely  Personal.

J.  Geo.  Kaimbach  (Rindge,  Kalmbach 
& Co.)  is spending three  weeks  with  his 
family at the resorts  in  and  around  Pe- 
toskey.

Mrs. J.  W. Sleight has returned to Chi­
cago  after  spending  a  month  with  the 
families  of  Wm.  H.  Pipp  and  Fred  J. 
Ephlin.

Sumner  Wells,  Secretary of  the 1.  M. 
Clark Grocery  Co.,  has  leased  the  Mrs. 
Edna  Smith  cottage,  at  Jenison  Park, 
and  is  pleasantly  located  there  for the 
season.

L.  E.  Hawkins left  Saturday  night for 
Colorado Springs, Colo.,  accompanied by 
his son,  who has been  very  near  death’s 
door as the result  of  a  long  run  of  ty­
phoid fever.

Miss  Augusta  Kutche,  who  has  been 
identified  with 
the  establishment  of 
Spring & Company and  its  predecessors 
for the past twenty-five years,  in  charge 
of the trimmings and button department, 
closed her services with  that  house  last 
Saturday evening.

Karl L.  Maurer,  prescription clerk  for 
Geo.  D. VanVranken, the Cadillac  drug­
gist, and John H.  Maurer,  clerk  for  M. 
V.  Gundrum,  at  Leroy,  were  in  town 
Monday on their  way  to  Martin,  where 
they  will  spend  a  week  with  friends, 
after which they will put in  a  couple  of 
days  at  Battle  Creek,  whence Karl  pro­
ceeds to Detroit to attend tbe annual con­
vention of  the  Michigan  State  Pharma­
ceutical  Association.

Wm.  Logie (Rindge, Kalmbach  &  Co.) 
returns from the  East  July  15,  and  the 
following  day  Lester  Rindge,  son  and 
daughter  leave  for  North  Bay,  Ont., 
where they will join one of the celebrated 
Raymond excursions  to  Alaska  and  tbe 
Yellowstone Park.  The party  is  sched­
uled to arrive at Victoria July 27, spend­
ing  several  days  at  Sitka  and 
thence 
home via Portland, Oregon,  spending six 
days at the Yellowstone Park  and  arriv­
ing in Chicago Aug.  25.

Henry G.  Scott,  tbe  Seney  druggist, 
while driving to a small  stream with  the

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intention of fishing  and  bunting  a  few 
hours,  met with a serious  accident.  His 
shotgun dropped through  the  bottom  of 
the wagon and in the attempt to  raise  it 
by taking hold of the  barrels,  tbe  ham­
mers caught and  both  barrels  were  dis­
charged into his left arm just  below  the 
shoulder,  shattering it  so  that  amputa­
tion  was necessary.  To  make  the  acci­
dent more terrible,  his  clothing took fire 
and was  extinguished  with  difficulty,  he 
being at least  two  or  three  miles  from 
any assistance.

Tbe  Grain Market.

Prices remained remarkably  even dur­
ing the week.  There were  no  large ad­
vances or big drops,  Speculators evened 
up before the Fourth,  as they  thought it 
risky to have large lines out during these 
times.  Old  wheat  is  nearly  all  con­
sumed,  some  small  offerings  from  ele­
vator men at fancy  prices being about all 
there is left.  The new crop  thus  far  is 
very  unsatisfactory.  Detroit  received 
six cars of new wheat from  Indiana  and 
Illinois,  four of  which  were  graded  No. 
3 and two  were not  graded on account of 
dampness.  All  reports 
that  come  in 
from  winter wheat states may  be  termed 
bullish;  but this  goes  for  naught when 
tbe  bigs  bears (large farmers)  in Chicago 
can go  out  and  get  a  mint  julep  or  a 
cocktail and then return to the Board  and 
sell  2,000,000  or  3,000,000  bushels  of 
wind wheat to depress the  market.  The 
question  is,  will  this  not  overdo  the 
thing some of these days?  Thns far they 
have  been successful  in  bearing the mar­
ket on account  of  the  great  surplus  of 
wheat.  We will see if they can continue 
this method on a short crop like the pres­
ent  one.

Corn  dropped,  as  was  predicted  *n 
these letters for several  weeks  past,  due 
to the phenomenal growth and the favor­
able  weather  for  that  cereal,  which 
promises to be  the  bumper  crop  of  tbe 
season.

Oats,  in sympathy  with  corn  (as  the 
new  crop  will  soon  be  along,  although 
the outlook for even  an  average  crop  is 
very slim), declined 2%@3c  per  bushel. 
The  bigoat deals fell flat,  probably caus­
ing the manipulators considerable loss.

The receipts during the  week  were  as 
follows:  wheat, 34 cars;  corn. 9 cars, but 
only one car of oats  was received.  Grand 
Rapids for  the  past  few  weeks  has  re­
ceived many  more cars of wheat than has 
Detroit.

Tbe visible  decreased  about  1,250,000 
bushels,  which will leave the visible near 
45,000,000 and the decrease will probably 
go  on  for  three  weeks,  before  enough 
new wheat comes in to have  an  increase. 
In the face of  all  this,  however,  wheat 
slumped off Monday about 2}£@3c.

C. G. A. Voigt.

Use Tradesman Coupon  Books.

INCLUDE  A  CASE  OF

KOFFA-AID
THE  KOFFA-AID  CO., 

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|\I P  W   A I?TIC* I  F   to be used in connection with Coffee.  Guaranteed not 
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In  your  next  order  to  your Jobber.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TBADESMA ~N,

the home is the  beginning  of  the  State. 
The  domestic  virtues  are  the  salt  that 
saves the world. 
In the  worst  times  of 
Roman corruption and  crime,  there were 
happy families, devoted  wives and moth­
ers;  brave and faithful men; virgins who 
were  the  glory  of  the  sex,  and  youths 
who were justly the  hope  of  their coun­
try.  The  sheet  anchor  of  every  home, 
the high priestess of all  virtue,  the con­
servator of all human society,  is  woman. 
Not 
sits  on  a 
throne,  nor  even  the  woman  who  pro­
claims the equality and  independence  of 
her sex,  but the queen of  the  home,  the 
wife and mother.

the  woman  who 

Sooner or  later  women  will  vote  and 
hold  political  power.  Sooner  or  later 
women  will  come  and  go  at  their own 
will,  without having to be accountable to 
any man as to how they spend their time 
or  where.  Sooner  or  later  women  will 
claim and hold a place  in  every  depart­
ment of life,  and  emancipation  for  the 
sex will  be complete.  But,  for  all  that, 
nature  will  assert  its  power.  Women 
were  made  to  be  wives  and  mothers. 
Men  and  women  were  made  for  each 
other,  and they both have  duties  to  per­
form in their relations  of  mutual  affec­
tion.  The laws of nature are the laws of 
God, and they must stand forever.

It has been truly said that woman is by 
nature  better  than  man.  Her  moral 
sense is keener, her  instincts  are  purer 
than man’s.  She  knows  fewer  tempta­
tions; her heart is refreshed with sweeter 
and more thrilling emotions, even though 
it  may  be  touched  with  deeper  sorrow. 
She is weaker in prosperity, but stronger 
in  adversity  than  man.  She  is  more 
patient and enduring.  Her training must 
be on different lines, for she is a plant of 
more delicate growth.  She  is influenced 
more by the emotions; he  is  directed  by 
mental convictions.

But no woman is all  heart,  just  as  no 
man is all mind.  The  faculties  in  each 
are  harmoniously  blended  for  a  grand 
united purpose.  One is  the  proper  and 
complete  supplement  to  the  other,  and 
together they are here to work out a vast 
development of human society.  The new 
woman  is a part  of  this  evolution.  Let 
her  be  welcome.  She  will  work  both 
good and evil,  for that is the result of all 
human effort. 
It may  be  that  the  good 
will  overbalance  the  evil.  At any rate, 
the  good  will  accomplish  its  purpose, 
while society will have  to  suffer  for  the 
It is by fire that  gold is tried.  As 
evil. 
tor  the  new  woman,  she  is  here.  She 
will have a fair trial  whether  or  no. 
It 
is,  therefore,  wiser  to  accord  it  to  her 
without demur. 
Frank Stowell.

THE  NEW  WOMAN.

The “new woman”  is one of the results 
of a social evolntion  which,  while it is  a 
product of  the  last  half  of  the  present 
century,  has  unfolded  with  remarkable 
rapidity.

The emancipated  woman  is not wholly 
a  new  creature.  She  has  figured  long 
ago,  and most prominently, in the world’s 
history.  She was well known in the first 
century of the  Roman  Empire,  and  is al­
ways  the  product  of  any  age of luxury 
and self-indulgence.

The first symptom of this emancipation 
is seen  in  a  growing  distaste  to the re­
straints of the  marriage  bond and an ex­
tensive  demand  for  its  dissolution. 
It 
manifests itself chiefly and always at first 
among  the  men.  They  demand  entire 
liberty of action  and  revolt at  any  sort 
of social control.  They treat their wives 
with contumely,  they  neglect  them  and 
fail  to  provide  for  their  support,  and 
often live  on  the  earnings  of  wives  or 
other female relatives, or, if they possess 
means,  squander  them  on  undeserving 
objects.  Such  is  the  history  of  nine- 
tenths of the  cases  which  crowd the di­
vorce courts  to-day.

In the first centurv of  the  Roman  Em­
pire,  divorce  was  made  so  easy that it 
could  be  accomplished  by  mutual  con­
sent, and many  husbands did not hesitate 
to put away  their  wives  without  asking 
any consent.  The  most  prominent  men 
in Rome had divorced several  wives,  and 
they  did  not  hesitate  to  get  rid  of  a 
spouse in order to acquire wealth  or  po­
litical power by another  marriage.

Women are  what men make them,  and 
the result of this excessive  laxity  in  the 
married  relation,  carried  on  through  a 
long period,  for  several  hundred  years, 
up to the time of the Emperor Justinian, 
in the fifth century,  was the  demoraliza­
tion to a great extent  of  the  better  and 
purer sex.

Women,  out  of  the  goodness of their 
heart  and  the affection  of  their  nature, 
desire to please  men.  They  are  taught 
that modesty and purity of life  are  their 
chief  attractions,  and  so  virtue  and 
chastity have become the  ruling  charac­
teristics  of  their  conduct and lives,  and 
if they are ever misled,  nine times out  of 
ten it is through their confiding and affec­
tionate  disposition,  and  from  no  desire 
or dream of doing evil.

When,  however,  they awake from their 
dreams of pure  and  sacred  love  to  dis­
cover  that  men  are  ceasing  to  regard 
the charms of a chaste  devotion  and  are 
giving  themselves  up 
to  debauchery, 
what are they to think?  How many good 
women  are  awakening  to  a  realization 
that love is a delusion,  that  devotion  to 
duty  is  a  fault,  and  honor is no longer 
honored! 
It  is  frightful  to  think  what 
must be  the effect upon  them  of  such  a 
revelation. 
It is not strange that- women 
are  demanding  political  equality  and 
legal independence  of  such  a  condition.
The  demoralization  of  women is slow 
and gradual. 
In Rome there  was a  vast 
period of time, counted by  centuries,  be­
tween the Lucretia  and  Cornelia,  at  the 
one extreme of wifely  virtue  and mater­
nal excellence,  and Messalina and Agrip­
pina at the other extreme of feminine in­
famy.

The writer does not assume any role of 
prophecy in treating this  important sub­
ject. 
It only  recalls  the lessons of  the 
past, and it is from experience alone that 
any insight into the future can be gained. 
The family is the  foundation  of  society; '

G E T   R E A D Y   F O R   T H E

P o t a  t o B  u g s
THE  ECLIPSE
  SorinKler  vim  S i r   or  Duster  m iocienl.
K

IS  A  NEW  AND  VALUABLE  iriPROVED

r

(Patented 1886.  Improved 1889.)

Especially adapted for app'ying  Paris Green'Water, Pow-'er Compounds, 
Plaster, etc., to Potato Vines and other plants.
THE  ECLIPSE is manufactured in such a durable manne  as to be practi­
cally indestructible, and also so simplified as to be quickly ano easily detached 
for  any  purpose  necessary,  making  it  the  Cheapest and  Most ( onvenient 
Sprinkler for all purposes—in doors or out—and a  practical device indispens­
able for effectually destroying the Potato Beetle and other plant insects.

For  Sprinkling. 

For  Store  or  Floor.
For  Vines  or  Plants.

For  Dusting.

Acme Plaster Sifter

FOR  POTATOES  AND  OTHER  VINES.

EIGHT  TO  TEN  ACRES  COVERED  PER  DAY.

To  Operate  the Sifter.

Place the square piece of Sheet Iron with points down over the 
agitator in the bottom.  Put  the  Plaster in  can  on  top  of  square 
piece.  This square piece takes part of the weight of plaster, which 
is very  heavy, from  the  agitator and  allows  it to work freely.  A 
slight turn of the wrist, easy or hard, as you may wish much or lit­
tle plaster to be  delivered,  is  all  that  is  necessary  to  operate  the 
sifter.

With  one  in  each  hand  a  man can care for two rows at once, 

covering from eight to ten acres per day.

G R A N D   R A P I D S .

Catches  More  Flies

than any other Sticky Fly 
Paper and  pleases  every­
body.

Every  box  guaranteed 

by the manufacturer.

Costs no more than com 

mon fly paper.

THE  BACK  OFFICE.

Written (or Tan T r a d e s m a n .

The  statement  recently  made, 

that 
grocers  often  think  it  a  shrewd,  sharp 
thing to take  advantage  of  a  child’s  ig­
norance, 
is  not  true.  There  is  but 
precious little  thought  about  the  whole 
contemptible business.  Had there been, 
the  same  thought  that  suggested  the 
meanness,  would have hinted of  the  day 
of reckoning, as sure to come as daylight 
follows  the  darkness.  There  was  a 
chance to cheat.  That’s all  there  is  to 
it;  and when a man,  in trade or out of it, 
stands ready to jump at  such chances,  it 
makes  but  precious 
little  difference 
whether it is  child  or  man—the  chance 
is made the  most  of,  and  the  ill-gotten 
gain is put on the right side of the  day’s 
account with a chuckle  that  comes well­
ing  up  from  the  swindler’s  very  toes. 
What I  have never been  able  to  under­
stand  is,  how  such  men  are  tolerated; 
and yet  the woods  of  trade  are  full  of 
them. 
It seems a little  meaner  when  a 
child is made the victim,  but  the  man— 
“Aye, in the catalogue they  go  as  men” 
—is  consistent. 
It  is  the  gain  he  is 
after, and he gets it.  A  child  comes  in 
—it is the extra nickel  he  sees,  not  the 
child,  and he  laughs  as  he watches  the 
rotten banana go  out  of  the  front  door 
instead of the back one.  Bridget comes 
in and the baking powder,  which is “just 
as good’’ as the  kind  she  asked  for,  but 
which cost him a  great  deal  less,  gives 
him  an  extra  gain  of  ten  per  cent. 
Smarting  with 
imposition,  Mrs. 
Smith comes  in  person.  She  gives  him 
a piece of her  mind.  She  tells  him  ex­
actly what she  thinks  of  him,  and  she 
carries away with her some of the  nicest 
cheese—filled!—at a cent or  two  more  a 
pound,  with the satisfaction  of  knowing 
that Mr. Swindle  knows  better  than  to 
try any of his capers on  her  again. 
It’s 
“nuts,” though,  when Mr.  Smith  comes. 
It has long been an admitted fact between 
them that Smith is a man whom  Swindle 
can’t cheat.  He laughingly  admits  that 
he has given  up  trying,  long  ago.  So, 
when the man of the Smith  house  comes 
for tea, or sugar, or  coffee,  the goods are 
placed  before him for his approval.  His 
knowledge precludes  the  possibility  of 
asking too much  and  “Old Smith’’  goes 
off with  a  pound  of  the  choicest  brand 
of Java  and Mocha at 38c a pound which 
chicory and beans  can  furnish!  Thinks 
it’s shrewd?  O, no.  Once in  the green, 
gosling  age  of  his  grocery  experience, 
when  his work was  done—that  kind  of 
work—with all the clumsy awkwardness 
of  a  “bike’Meamer,  there  might  have 
been something resembling  thought  and 
its processes  going  on  behind  his  stu­
pendous frontal bone;  but now, his years 
of practice have given  him  a  facility  on 
his trade wheel,  which  the most  skillful 
professional  in 
the  wheel field  would 
never think  of  equaling,  and  that, too, 
with never a thought behind it!

the 

•  *  »

The man  who goes  fishing  these  days, 
goes  prepared.  He  has  been  getting 
ready ever since  warm weather set in and 
on the day before his  departure  he  con­
templates  with  pride  bis  fine  array  of 
fishing  tools.  His  rods  are  marvels of 
beauty,  and skill,  and  convenience,  and 
he puts them into  their  cases  with  the 
feeling  that  the  fishes  “up  there”  will 
feel under obligations  to  him  for  being 
hauled out of the water by  such  fine  ap­
pliances.  When  he  comes  home  from 
his  trip,  it  is  observed that he tumbles

* 
• 

dls.

OlB.

CAPS.

axbs. 

bolts. 

BABBOWS.

CHOW BABB.

AUGURS AMS BITS. 

BLOCKS.
OBADLBS.

BUCKETS.
butts, oast. 

his patent fishing-tackle  down  anywhere 
and,  when  questioned  about  it,  he  re­
marks  that  “ ’twasn’t  worth  a—any­
thing.”  The very  day  he  whipped  the 
trout stream  until  there wasn’t a bubble 
left in it,  with not a fin to show  for  it,  a 
little freckled,  barefooted,  twelve-year- 
old,  with  a  green  rod  and  a  bent  pin 
came along behind him with  a  string  of 
trout  reaching  to the ground.  The fact 
is,  this  hundred-dollar  fishing-tackle  is 
well enough for those  who  want  it,  but 
the  science  of  “get  there”  depends on 
something  else.

THE  MICHIGAJSr  TBADESMAK
Hardware Price Current.
70
Snell’s  ..............................................................  
Cook’s ................................................................ 
40
26
Jennings’, genuine.......................................... 
Jennings’, Im itation....................................... 50*10
dls.
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.............................  5 25
D.  B. Bronze............................ I 9 (0
S.B .S. Steel.............................  6 00
D .B .Steel................................   iO  00
¿allroad............................................  
I 00  14 00
Garden......................................................  net  SO 00
Stove...................................................................  
60
Carriage new list.............................................. 
70
Plow...................................................................40A1O
Sleigh shoe........................................................ 
-o
Well,  plain  ......................................................$3  2.
d 'r
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................................  
75
75  jr)
Wronirnt s»r>n» 
Ordinary Taokle,  1st April  1892 ................. 
70
Grain, Wood b race.........................................$16 CO
Grain, Wire brace...........................................$18 00
Cast Steel.................................................. per t>  4
Ely's 110 ......................................................per m
Hick’s  C. F .............................................. 
“
G .D ....... 
......................................... 
“
Musket 
.....................................  “
Rim  Fire...........................................
Central  F ire...............................................dls.
dls.
Socket Firm er............................  
75*10
Socket Fram ing............................. 
75*10
Socket Corner..................................................   75*10
Socket Slicks...................................................  75*10
Batchers’ Tanged Firm er............................... 
40
CHALK.
12®12)4 dll. 10
White Crayons, per  gross__
COPPER.
Planished, 14 os on; to else........ per ponnd 
28
26
14x52,14x56, 14x60 .........................  
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60.................... 
20
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................ 
i0
22
Bottom s............................................................. 
Morse’s  Bit  Stocks........................................  
50
Taper and straight Shank............................... 
50
Morse’s Taper Shank.................................... 
50
Small sizes, ser p o n n d .......................  
6ft
 
Large sizes, per  pound.........................  
¿6
.... 
Com. 4  piece, 6 In.............................. dos. net 
60
Corrugated............................................................ dls 5"
Adjustable........................................................... «dll. 40*10
Clark’s, small, $18;  large, 126........................ 
30
Ives’, 1, »18:  2,124;  3,»30.......................... 
25
Dlsston’s .......................................................60*10-10
New American.............................................60*10-10
Nicholson’s .....................................................60*10- 0
Heller’s 
510
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................... 50*10
Nos.  16  to  20;  22  and  24;  25  and  26;  27 
28
16 17
List 

Ever  since  the  Monitor  rammed  the 
Merrimac  into  unenviable  notoriety  in 
Hampton Roads,  the fighting element  on 
the other side of the sea  has  been  trying 
to get ready for a possible war  in  which 
it was determined the  navy  should  take 
no minor part; and if it was a question of 
ramming-force and plate-resistance, then 
the fact bad better be acknowledged  and 
settled  at  just  that  point.  For  some­
thing over  thirty  years,  the  nations  of 
the  earth  have  been  working  away  at 
that idea.  First, the ram had  it.  Then, 
money  and  genius  forged  to  the  front 
and  the  plate  was far ahead.  So,  with 
the  regularity  of the pendulum,  success 
has oscillated from one to the other.  The 
other day the  German  Emperor  invited 
his friends  and neighbors to Kiel.  Each 
donned bis best naval bib-and-tucker and 
went; and  there  was  assembled  in  the 
southwest corner of the  Baltic  the  most 
formidable array of war ships  the  world 
has ever seen.

After it was  all  over,  and  everybody 
had a chance to think a little  upon  what 
the full meaniug of the display  was,  the 
commander  of  one  of  the best ships in 
the whole fleet frankly confessed that  he 
had  so  little  confidence  in  bis own fine 
ship  that he  would  not  like  to  go  into 
battle  with  her.  Millions  have  been 
lavished for defense,  but an insignificant 
torpedo-boat will  prove  the  war-vessels 
to be so many experiments, as untried  as 
they are expensive.  The science of “get 
there,”  in naval circles,  is  as  far  off  as 
ever.

 
GALVAEIZED I BOM.

13 
Discount, 70

14 
gauges. 

piles—New List. 

BXPAMSIVB BITS. 

DRIPPING PANS.

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

CARTRIDGES.

omsBLS. 

BLBOWS.

DRILLS. 

dls.
dls.

diS.

dls.

dls.

12 

15 

.. 

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It  begins  to  look  as  if  the  “getting 
there”  depends  on  something  besides 
preparation; as if that something couldn’t 
be made to order, and that when millions 
have been spent  to  meet  every  require­
ment,  some  insignificant  nobody  will 
come  whipping the stream,  like Grant  at 
Vicksburg and go whistling home  across 
lots with all the big fish in his basket.
R ic h a b d   M a lcolm St r o n g.

Sewing on  Eyebrows.

likes, 

It is said that a  London  perfumer  has 
found  a  new  way of fixing up eyelashes 
and eyebrows. 
Instead of painting them 
in the usual  vulgar old style,  he puts the 
genuine  article  there,  and  professional 
and  amateur beauties  of  the  great  city 
are  flocking  to  him  to be made just  too 
lovely  for  anything.  The  operation  is 
said  tobe  extremely delicate,  though  by 
no meaus painful.  He takes a hair from 
the head of the  beauty,  or,  if  she  does 
not  like  precisely  the  color of her  own 
hair,  he takes one of any other color that 
she 
threads  an  extremely  fine 
needle with the hair,  runs it along inside 
the skin of the eyelid, sewing sailmaker’s 
fashion, but leaving the loops sufficiently 
long to  enable  him  to  cut  them  after­
ward,  so that they  will  form  a  range  of 
beautiful fringe and  look  perfectly  nat­
ural.  For  eyebrows  he  does  the  same 
thing;  but the  eyebrow  operation  is,  of 
course,  less delicate.  Arched  eyebrows, 
bushy  eyebrows,  straight  eyebrows, 
crooked eyebrows,  all sorts of  eyebrows, 
in any color or shade or  form,  this won­
derful  perfumer makes for  the  ladies  of 
London;  and it is said that his success is 
something astonishing.

dll.

dls.

NAILS

dll.
dls.

MATTOCKS.

locks—doob. 

MAULS. 
mills. 

MOLASSES OATES. 

knobs—New List. 

Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s ....................  
50
Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings...................... 
55
Door,  porcelain, jap. trimmings__   —  
55
Door, porcelain, plated trimmings...............  
55
Doot,  porcelain, trimmings....................  
55
Drawer  and  Shutter, porcelain.............. 
70
Russell *  Irwin  Mfg. Co.’s new list  ..........  
55
Mallory, Wheeler  *   Co.’s ..............................  
55
55
Branford’s ........................................................ 
Norwalk’s .......................................................  
55
Adze Bye........................................ »16.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt Bye....................................... »15.00, dls. 60-10
Hunt’s .......................................... »18.50, dls. 20*10.
50
Sperry *  Co.’s, Post,  handled........................ 
40
Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ....................................... 
40
“  P. S. *  W. Mfg. Co.’s  M alleablei.... 
Landers,  Ferry *  d a  rk’s ................... 
40
"   Enterprise 
........................................._ 
30
Stebbln’s Pattern........................................  .  60*10
Stebbln’s Genuine.........  ...........................  .. 68*10
Enterprise, self m easuring........................... 
30
Advance over  base,  on  both  Steel  and Wire.
Steel nails, Dase........................................1  90@1  85
Wire nails, base........................................1  95@i  SO
dase 
60.
50..............
10 
25 
40..............
25 
80..............
20.........   .
35 
45 
16..............
12........
45 
10........
50 
60 
75 
7 * 6 ......
90 
4...............
3............
1  20 
2...........
1  60 
1  60 
Fine 3 —  
65 
Case  10... 
“  8... 
75 
“  6.  . 
90 
75 
Finish 10. 
î..
90 
“ 
6
10 
70 30 
Clinch; 10.............................................
8  ...................................
6....................................
90 
1  75 
B arren *  
...........................................
dll.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fan cy ....................................  050
Solota  Bench..................................................   60*10
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fanoy...........................   050
Bench, first quality..........................................  Q50
Stanley Rale and  Level Co.’s  wood............ 
6n

8.........

PLANES.

.Base

“ 
“ 

7

PAES.

Fry,  Acme.................................................dls.60—10
70
Common,  polished...................................dls. 
dll.
Iron and  Tinned.............................................  
60
Copper Rivets and B ars................................  60—10
“A’’ Wood’s patent piaulsned, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“ B”  Wood’s  pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27...  9 20 

PATENT PLANISHED IBON.

RIVETS. 

Broken  pact>  mc per ponnd extra.

KAHHEBS.

“ 

“ 

BOWES.

“ 
“ 
“ 
HOLLOW WARE.

Maydole  *  Co.’s................................................... dls. 25
M ir*....................................................................... dis. 25
Yerkee *  Pltuno’s .................................................dls. 40*1»
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel........................... 80o list 70
Blacksmltn’s Solid Cast  Steel  H and.... 80c 40*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 .................................. dls.60*10
State...............................................per doz. net, 2 50
Screw Hook  and  8trap, to 12  In. 4)4  14  and
8)4
longer............................................................. 
Screw Hook and  Bye, )4..................................... net lo
X  ..........................net  8)4
* ..................................... net 7)4
* ...........................net  7)4
Strap and T ..........  ....................................dls 75&10
Pots................................................................  ..60*16
Kettles.............................................................. 60*1
Spiders  .............................................................. 60*1«.
Gray enameled.................. 
40*10
Stamped  Tin W are...........................new list 70*10
Japanned Tin W are......................................... 70*10
Granite Iron W are........................new 11s 
40
B light...................................................................... .80
Screw  Eyes...........................................................   80
Hook’s ......................................................................go
Gate Hooks and Byes.............................................80
Stanley Rnle and Level  Co.’s ....................... dls 7 1
5)4
Sisal,  )4 Inch and la rg e r........................ 
Manilla....................................................... 
 
9
dls.
go
8teel and Iron................................................... 
Try and Bevels................................................. 
50
M itre.................................................................. 
so
Com.  Smooth.  Com.

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

LEVELS.
HOPES.

WIRE GOODS. 

SHEET IRON.

SqUABES. 

diS.

 

I? 50
2 60
2 70

280
2 90
All  sheets No. 18  and  lighter,  over 30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to  14..........................................|3  50 
Nos. 15 to 17 .........................................   3 50 
Nos.  18 to 21........................................   4 05 
Nos. 22 to 24.......................................  355 
Nos. 25 to 26........................................ 3  65 
No. 27.......................................................3 75 
wide not less than 2-10 extra
List acct. 19. ’86  ........................................ dls. 
Sliver Lake, White A ................................ list 
Drab A ....................................  “ 
White  A ..................................  • 
Drab B .....................................  «• 
White C....................................“  

SAND PAPER.
SASH CORD.

50
so ‘
55
50
55
30

“  
“  
“ 
“  

3 00

Discount, 10.

BASH WEIGHTS.

dls.

dls.

saws. 

wire. 

traps. 

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

Solid Byes............................................... per ton »20
“ 
20
Sliver Steel  DIa. X Cuts, per foot,.... 
75
“  Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot__  
50
“  Special Steel Dla. X Cuts, per foot__  
£5
“  Champion  and  Blectrlc  Tooth  X
Cuts,  per  foot.................................................  30
Steel, Game........................................................60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ................. 
5v
Oneida Community, Hawley a Norton’s. .70-10  10
Monse,  choker....................................... 15c per dos
Mouse, delusion..................................»1.25 per dos
dls.
Bright M arket................................................... 75*10
Annealed Market..............................................75*10
Coppered Market.............................................. 
75
Tinned Market.................................................  62)4
Coppered  Spring  Steel.............................. 
 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanised.............................   2 40
painted...................................  2 ¿5
! Au  Sable................................................dls. 
40*10
Putnam.............................................. 
dls.  05
Northwestern................................... 
dls. 10*10
dls.
Baxter’s  Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
go
Coe’s  GFunlne  ............................................... 
50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..........   75*10
Coe’B  Patent, malleable.................................. 75*16
Bird Cages....................... 
50
Pumps, Cistern.............................................75*1(45
Screws, New List.....................................................80
Castera, Bed  a  d  Plate.............................50*10*’ 0
Dampers,  American  ........ 
4(410
Forks, hoes, rakes  and all steel goods................70

MISCELLANEOUS. 

HORSE NAILS.

wrenches. 

dig.

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METALS,
FIG TIN.

ZINC.

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E. A. STOWE. Editor.

WEDNESDAY, JULY  lO.

THE  CONSULAR  SERVICE.

to 

According 

recent  advices  from 
Washington,  the  question  of  removing 
consular offices from the list  of  political 
appointments 
is  attracting  attention. 
Secretary of State  Olney  is  reported  to 
be in favor of the appointment of all con­
sular officers after  an  examination,  and 
that the posts be held pending  good  be­
havior,  promotions  being  made  to  the 
better positions from the deserving mem­
bers of the consular corps.

In a word,  it is proposed to establish  a 
regular  consular  service  based upon the 
plan  followed  by  most  European  coun­
tries—appointments  to  be  made,  in  the 
first place,  under  civil  service  rules,  to 
the lesser positions,  and the more impor­
tant posts to be filled by promotion.  Sena­
tor Hill suggested such  a  change  at  the 
last session of Congress,  and  should  the 
administration  favor  the  plan,  as  now 
seems likely, a bill will in all probability 
be presented at the next session applying 
the general  principles of civil  reform  to 
the consular service.

The practice of appointing  all  consuls 
by each incoming administration  has  re­
sulted in filling all  the  important  consu­
lar posts  with  political  henchmen,  who 
have no qualifications  whatever  for  the 
work  that  consuls  are  called  upon to 
perform.  Under  the existing  system,  a 
consular officer has scarcely time to famil­
iarize himself  with his  duties  before  he 
is called home.  The result  of  this  sys­
tem is that the consular service is of  but 
little practical  value  to  the  commercial 
interests of  the country.  Onr  trade  in­
terests abroad receive but scant attention, 
and,  naturally, suffer through the  super­
iority of the consular  representatives  of 
trade rivals.

In the case of  the  consular  service  of 
Great  Britain,  and  the  same rule holds 
good in the case of  nearly  all  the  other 
European powers,  the appointments have 
no  relation  whatever  to  party  politics. 
Appointments  are  made  after  examina­
tions to the lower positions  in  the  serv­
ice,  and there is constant aud systematic 
promotion 
iutermediate 
grades to the highest and most important 
posts.  British  consular  officers  hold 
their  positions  pending  good  behavior, 
and as they have been gradually educated 
up to the duties  required  of  them,  they 
are most efficient in safeguarding British

through 

the 

fore,  be safely counted  on  to  produce  a 
serious  curtailment  of  the  next  sngar 
crop of that  Island,  even  if  tbe  depres­
sion due to  low prices  does  not  force  a 
considerable decrease.  Even  with a full 
European  crop,  a  material  redaction  in 
Cuba  would  greatly  influence  prices, 
particularly in the United  States.  As  a 
matter of fact,  however,  it  is  probable 
enough that tbe European beet  crop will 
fall considerably  behind  last  year,  both 
because of the smaller  sowings  and  the 
less favorable weather experienced.

T h e T radesm an  finds  much  to  com- 
meud,  and  nothing  to  condemn,  in  the 
position  taken  by  the  publisher  of  the 
Grand  Traverse Herald  in  declining  the 
advertising patronage of a transient mer­
chant  whose  methods  are  not  such  as 
commend themselves  to  reputable  deal­
ers. 
In taking such a position  the  pub­
lisher  was,  probably,  actuated  by  the 
same  laudable  motives  which  inspired 
the Ladies’  Home  Journal  to  decline  a 
page  advertisement  for Best Tonic,  not­
withstanding tbe fact  tbat tbe order was 
accompanied  by  a  certified  check  for 
$3,000.  Tbe  same  motives  have  been 
called into play  by  T h e  T radesm an  in 
declining  tbe  announcements  of  irres­
ponsible business  houses and the cards of 
quack  medicine  manufacturers  and  al­
leged doctors  who prey  on  the  fears  and 
credulity  of 
T h e 
T radesm an  believes tbat a trade journal 
or a newspaper should  be  conducted  on 
business  principles  aud  make  all proper 
effort to encourage the aunouncements of 
legitimate business  enterprises,  but  the 
publication  which  panders  to  unworthy 
objects and debases  its  columns  by  ad­
mitting  questionable  advertisements— 
whether  such  announcements  refer  to 
the curing  of  incurable  diseases  or  the 
sale of  goods  at  less  than  cost—is  un­
worthy the confidence and support of the 
people. 
In declining to publish the card 
of a  transient  dealer  who  purported  to 
sell goods  below  cost  the  editor  of  the 
newspaper  above referred to did the mer­
chants of Traverse City a  valuable  serv­
ice;  but he  did more for himself than he 
did  for  his  patrons  by  upholding  the 
decency  aud  dignity of the editorial pro­
fession.

the  unfortunate. 

A  recent 

important  decision  of  tbe 
Supreme  Court,  referred 
to  at  some 
length  on  page  11  of  this  issue,  is  in 
keeping  with a long line  of  decisions  on 
the same  subject and  should  serve  as  a 
fresh warning to the merchants of Michi­
gan not to go too far in  the matter  of  li­
censing transient merchants.  The courts 
have uniformly held that license fees  re­
quired of peddlers and  transient  dealers 
shall  be regulative and not  prohibitive— 
in  other  words,  that  while  tbe  license 
fees  may  be  made  sufficiently  high  to 
cover tbe expense  of  inspection,  protec­
tion  and  regulation,  they  must  not  be 
made so excessively high as to amount to 
prohibition.  A fee of $30 per month,  re­
quired of transient merchants  on  Macki­
nac Island,  would probably beheld valid, 
because  it is not an excessive  charge  for 
tbe advantages secured,  but a fee  of  $10 
per day,  levied  on  transient  merchants 
in  Saginaw  by  the  Common  Council  of 
that  city,  is  clearly  excessive  and  has 
been so held  by tbe court  of  last  resort. 
T he  T radesm an  has never been accused 
of advocating tbe cause of tbe peddler or 
transient merchant,  but it has repeatedly 
warned its readers that,  in  dealing  with 
this evil, great care must be taken not  to 
overdo tbe matter by getting  the  license 
fees so large as  to  be  illegal.  There  is 
always  a  happy  mean  between tbe two 
extremes  and  it  should  be  tbe  aim  of 
reputable  merchants  to  so  adjust  the 
charges  saddled  upon  fly-by-night  deal­
ers as to render the business as  unprofit­
able  as  possible,  without  incurring  the 
displeasure of tbe courts.

into 

trade interests.  From  the  higher  posts 
in the  British  consular  service  there  is 
also  promotion 
the  Diplomatic 
Corps.

TFTK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
MISS  BOUTON’S  UNDERTAKING.
The pleasing task which  falls  to  T h e 
T radesm an' s pen to-day begins with the 
no less pleasing fact that heroism  is  not 
a  question  of  sex  and  never  has been. 
Influenced only  by  duty,  whenever  and 
wherever that calls  and  leads  the  way, 
there will  be found the doer of  the  deed 
that stirs men’s  blood  with  none  to  ask 
and  none  to  care  whether  the  doing 
band was man’s  or  woman’s. 
It  is  the 
good accomplished  which  tells.  History 
will  never  weary  of  the  story  of  the 
peasant’s daughter,  who,  like  the  shep­
herds upon  tbe plain  of  Bethlehem,  saw 
signs in heaven and  died a martyr to her 
beloved France.  There  have been many 
lives snatched from tbe savage  waves  of 
the Atlantic,  but Grace  Darling,  on  one 
side of the sea,  and Ida  Lewis,  upon  the 
other,  have shown what  women can do in 
times of  peril;  and  the  everyday  walks 
of life are full of modern instances where 
good  has  come  which,  traced 
to  its 
source,  ieads  straight  to  the  womanly 
hand which did it.

The  politicians  will,  no  doubt,  stub­
bornly resist any  attempt  to  inaugurate 
the desired reforms in the  consular serv­
ice,  but  the  business  interests  of  the 
country  would applaud  the change,  as it 
would insure much needed improvement. 
The comparison  between  American con­
sular  officers  and those of Great Britain 
is so unfavorable  to  our  representatives 
that  the  burden  of  argument  is  over­
whelmingly in favor  of  the  British  sys­
tem.  Since  it  is  becoming  daily  more 
essential that  the  United  States  should 
compete actively in foreign markets,  the 
sooner  we  are  provided  with  consuls 
capable  of  safeguarding  and  watching 
our interests abroad, the  better it will be 
for American commerce.

A  QUESTION  ANSWERED.

The  New York  Journal  of  Commerce 
wants to know if New York is sufficiently 
progressive?  The question  seems  to  be 
asked in good  faith  and  the  same  good 
faith  returns  a  negative  answer.  The 
lack of  progress,  however,  is  easily  ac­
counted for.  While  not,  as  yet,  super­
annuated, the metropolis of  the Western 
world is getting  along  in  years—so  far 
along, at all  events,  that  she  shrinks  a 
little from getting up first  in  the  morn­
ing, especially  when the mercury is play­
ing around the zero point,  and  making  a 
fire.  She  has  things  comfortable  and 
she  is  beginning  to  conclude  that  she 
might just as well  enjoy  them.  With  a 
philosophy  becoming  to  her  years,  she 
thinks that there is no harm in indulging 
in  a little  after dinner  nap,  even  if  it 
does suggest the sleep of  her  Dutch  an­
cestry  and the legend  of  Sleepy Hollow. 
They  were  worthy  people,  those  ances­
tors;  and she hopes  the  time  will  come 
when  her children  will  be as proud of her 
as she is of her father, “dear old Dietrich 
Knickerbocker.”  What’s the  use  of  all 
this worry and fuss  and this  everlasting 
desire  to  turn  the  world upside  down? 
isn’t the Goddess of  Liberty  holding  up 
her torch  down  the  harbor?  Isn’t  that 
East  River  suspension  bridge  finished? 
isn’t Cleopatra’s needle in Central Park? 
and hasn’t the  Five  Points  been  turned 
into a respectable neighborhood?  Please 
don’t  talk  to  her  about  that  barum- 
scarum  John.  His  success  with  tbe 
world’s fair has quite upset him;  and the 
only thing she  prays  for  in  respect  to 
those  high buildings of  his  is  that  they 
will be high enough to protect  him from 
the Indians in case of an  attack.

the  statement. 

That is the real condition of  things  in 
the East. 
It has had  its day.  The  time 
is coming when New York will be simply 
a port of  entry.  Washington  will  con­
tinue to be tbe capital  for awhile longer; 
but the Paris of  the  United  States—and 
Paris is  France—will  be  located  in  the 
West.  Chicago  smiles  with  becoming 
consciousness  at 
SL 
Louis listens and wonders;  and  the twin 
sisters of the  Northwest,  with  personal 
grievances  forgotten,  dream  hopefully 
of  what  may  one  day  be.  “ Westward 
the star of  empire  takes  its  way,”  and 
one of these days,  when the old  folks on 
the  Manhattan  homestead  are  rejoicing 
because they have got  in  their  coal  for 
the winter and are thinking  how  nice  it 
is to  be  snug  and  warm,  nothing  will 
please them  more  than  news  from  the 
Metropolis of the West.

Much  has  been  said  about  tbe  New 
Woman and what  she  is  to  accomplish. 
It is well enough to put it  that  way,  but 
is it the best  way?  The  best is  what the 
world wants and that  best  is  opened  to 
the  worker,  irrespective  of  sex;  and 
with that secured tbe world is  not  skill­
ful enough now to tell  whether the prize 
winner be man  or  woman  and  is  brave 
enough  not  to  make a distinction  in  re­
gard to sex.

There is one standard which is followed 
more  and  more  in  doing  the  world’s 
work—the  best.  The  best  sermon,  the 
best  poem,  the  best  artisan,  tbe  best 
seller of goods,  tbe  best  bewer  of  wood 
and tbe  best  drawer  of  water—tbe  best 
of everything in  fact—is  called  for  and 
tbe  time  is  coming—is  here—when  it 
makes  no  difference  from  what  source 
tbe good comes, for it is to  be  judged  by 
tbe sole standard of  real  worth  and  not 
by that of  sex.

THE  NEXT  CUBAN  SUGAR CROP.
The prospect for the next Cuban  sugar 
crop is attracting attention  in  the  sugar 
trade,  as the future of prices depends not 
a little on  tbe  reports  from  the  Island. 
It is known that, owing to the low  prices 
of last season,  the  Cuban  planters  have 
become  much  discouraged,  and,  through 
inability  to  secure  fresh  loans,  have 
been compelled to restrict  their planting 
operations.  From  this  cause  alone  a 
considerable decrease  in  tbe  sugar  pro­
duction is to be looked for.

The revolution at  present  existing  in 
Cuba is  also calculated to  greatly  retard 
tbe  sugar  industry.  Already  several 
sugar estates are reported  to  have  been 
burned,  and,  should  the  trouble  spread 
to  all  parts  of  the  Island,  which  now 
seems likely,  tbe  damage  to  the  sugar 
plantations  will  be  greatly  increased. 
The  demoralization  of  labor  resulting 
from the civil  strife is also likely  to pro­
duce a serious effect upon tbe next Cuban 
sugar  crop.

Should  General  Martinez  de  Campos 
carry out his  intention  of  inaugurating 
a general campaign to cover all  parts  of 
the  Island,  when  the  yellow fever  sea­
son  is over, the  danger to  the  sugar  es­
tates will  be  greatly  increased,  a3  the 
progress  of  military  operations will  be 
sure to cause the  abandonment  of  crops 
in many places,  and poor cultivation and 
manufacture in others.

The  revolution  in  Cuba  may,  there­

LOW  LAKE  LEVELS.

Id 1889, the Illinois  Legislature passed 
an  act  for  the  construction  of  a  canal 
from Lake Michigan at Chicago to the Il­
linois River.  The  primary  purpose was 
to get rid of the sewage  of  the  Western 
metropolis,  which,  having no  other  out­
flow except into  the  lake,  was  emptied 
there through a  sluggish  channel,  often 
to remain in the vicinity of the  city  un­
til favorable winds or currents carried  it 
away.  A secondary and  no  less  impor­
tant purpose of the new channel  was  to 
serve as the first and  most  costly link of 
a ship canal from Lake Michigan  to  the 
Mississippi.

The  work  of  constructing  this  canal 
has been  vigorously  pushed  since  Sep­
tember,  1892.  When  completed,  at  an 
estimated cost of  $20,000,000,  the  chan­
nel,  as  at  present  planned,  will  carry 
300,000 cubic feet of  water  per  minute. 
But if it is finally  dredged  to  the  maxi­
mum  bottom  width  of  100  feet,  with a 
depth of 26 feet as the meau stage of  the 
water level,  its capacity  will  be  600,000 
feet per minute.  All  the  rock  cuttings 
have  been  made up to this maximum, so 
that  subsequent  enlargement  will  have 
to be done only  where  the  canal  passes 
through soft earth.

In view of the large  amount  of  water 
that will flow through it,  the possible ef­
fect of this drainage  and  ship  canal  on 
the lake  level  has  excited  considerable 
comment,  and  no  little  alarm  among 
those interested in the  commerce  of  the 
lower  lakes.  Engineers  estimate  that 
the normal level  will  be  reduced  about 
three inches.  This appears  to  be  insig­
nificant,  but  it  might prove serious in a 
season like the  present.  This  year  the 
water has been phenomenally low in  the 
lakes because of the dry winter and  lack 
of spring rains.  Adverse winds  have  at 
times also held back the flow of the water. 
For instance, the level at the western en­
trance of the Detroit  River  has  been  as 
much  as  four  feet  below  the  normal. 
The draft limit also has  been  materially 
reduced  in  the  Welland  Canal  and  St. 
Mary’s River. 
In  Lake  Erie,  the  level 
this year has been over two feet below the 
normal.  This means a loss  of  12>£  per 
cent,  in a vessel’s cargo capacity.  Again, 
according  to  a  statement  by the mana­
ger of the Richelieu  &  Ontario  Naviga­
tion Co., the water of  the  St.  Lawrence 
River is to-day lower than it has been  in 
twenty-five years at this time, and nearly 
a foot lower than last year.

The possibility of  a  further  lowering 
of the depth of the  great  lakes  through 
natural or artificial causes lends  interest 
to recent suggestions  of engineers  as  to 
the feasibility of  dams. 
It  is  proposed 
to build one  of  these  either  in  the  St. 
Mary’s River, to hold  back  the  water  in 
Lake Superior for use as  may  be  neces­
sary,  or  in  the  Niagara  River, to  hold 
back all the  lake  water  above  Ontario. 
Engineers  agree  that  the  Niagara  dam 
would  be  the  only  one  of  any  use, 
althought it  might  knock  out  the  falls 
and  stagnate  Buffalo's  water  supply. 
But there will be no dam of any kind for 
several  years yet, at least.

DEATH  TO  STRIKES.

There  was  a  paper  read  before  the 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  En­
gineers  at  its  recent  convention in  De­
troit  which  cannot  be  too  much  com­
mended or too  widely  distributed,  for in 
it lies a possible means of putting an end 
to  that  pet  weapon  of  unionism,  the

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,
strike.  The  remedy  offered  consists  in 
having two rates  for  the  same  piece  of 
work—“a high price if the job is finished 
in the shortest possible  time  and in  per­
fect  condition,  and  a  lower  price  if  it 
takes a longer time  to  do  the  job  or  if 
there  are  any 
the 
work.”  The  plan  has  been 
tried  in 
Philadelphia,  where  the  writer  of  the 
paper  above  referred  to  asserts  it  has 
been in successful operation in  one  mill 
for ten  years.

imperfections  in 

A  Cold  Day

Would  be  unexpected  in July,  but, in  current  slang, 
“it’s a cold  day”  when  we don’t have the  BEST

9

It  is  claimed  that  this system accom­
plishes  that  which,  at  first,  would  ap­
pear  to  be  its  weakest  point—that  it 
sifts out the men  who are incurably lazy 
or inferior, a result  which  strikes  at the 
very root of unionism,  where ail men are 
assumed  to be equal  in  intelligence  and 
ability  and  where,  with  that 
for  a 
starter,  a certain  piece of  work  is  to  be 
paid for at a certain  rate,  whether  to  be 
well done or not.

it would  be interesting to know  who is 
the judge of  such  work. 
It  is  easy  to 
imagine, from the development of  recent 
years,  a  delegation  headed by a walking 
dictator,  calling  at  the  mill  office and 
with the modesty of  his  class  asking to 
be written down as  the  judge  in  behalf 
of the workmen; and it is a matter of sur­
prise  that  no  such  request  has  been 
made.

The  friendly  feeling  created  by  this 
system is not difficult to  understand.  A 
man  who has done his best,  and has  that 
best  recognized  and  paid  for  as  such, 
cannot fail to be pleased nor can  he  fail 
to  have  a  more  than  friendly  feeling, 
long before the ten years  mentioned  are 
over,  for the man and the  company  who 
have paid him according to the real value 
of his work.

The  system  of  dual  rates  is  full  of 
promise. 
It  divides  the  union  house 
against  itself  and  a  house  so  divided 
must fall.

St.  Louis made  great  preparations  for 
the Pingree potato plan this  season,  and 
a  considerable  amount  of  unoccupied 
land  was plowed and put in condition to 
be used by the poor of the city in  raising 
vegetables  for  their  own  sustenance. 
Seeds and tools were furnished  in  abun­
dance,  and all  that was  needed  was  the 
eo-operation  of  destitute  families;  but 
here came the hitch.  Only  a  few appli­
cations  were made  for  the  vacant  lots, 
and  investigation  into  the  cause shows 
that people who a few months  ago  were 
seeking  for  employment,  almost  desti­
tute, are now  hard at work and are  earn­
ing  good  wages.  Some  there  are,  of 
course, who choose to live  as  medicants, 
but  these  are not the class to make good 
Pingree farmers.  St. Louis now  has  for 
sale a valuable collection of hoes, spades 
and other implements of the Pingree art.

It has been  stated  that,  under  present 
laws,  the Comptroller of  the Treasury is 
an  autocrat  whose  decision  overrides 
even that of the Chief Magistrate  of  the 
nation.  Some  years  ago,  the  then  in­
cumbent of the office  refused  to  sign  a 
warrant for money which  General Grant 
thought it proper  to  expend.  “That  is 
right,”  the  President  said;  “I  admire 
your  firmness.  Where  your  conscience 
is concerned  never permit yourself to be 
eoerced.  Tou  may  consider  yourself 
clear in this affair, for 1  shall  appoint  a 
new Comptroller to-morrow.”

Use  Tradesman  Coupon  Books.

Oranges 
Lemons and 
Confectionery

In  market  Our aim  to supply first class goods only, 
amounts  almost to a fad,  but  it  strikes  a  responsive 
chord  among the dealers  who  think  more  of  quality 
than of price.

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.
Pop  Corn  Goods!

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

Penny  Ground  Corn  Cakes  in

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

and T u r k is h   B r e a d

Are Tip  Top  Sellers.

ESTABLISHED  THIRTY  YEARS.

DETROIT POP CORN NOVELTY GO. 41  JEFFERSON  AVENUE
Chocolates......
and  Bon  Sons

Just the  thing  for Summer 
Itesorts and  tine  trade  gener­
ally.

In large  or  small  packages— 
quarters,  halves,  pounds  or 
live pound boxes.

Detroit,  n ich .

An endless variety of the toothsome dainties to be found  at the manufacturers.

A .   B.  B R O O K S   &  CO.

AbsoluteTea!

5  and  7  South  Ionia  S t.,  Grand  Rapids.

THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER !
TELFER  SPICE  CO..

SOLD  ONLYoBY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  Mich.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRAJDESMAJST.

v S .l  IL IN G
O N  L A N D !

Would  be a  difficult  task  for  most people,  but 
sailing on  the  ‘ Sea  of  Success” is  the daily oc 
cupation  of all  those  wise  grocers  who  handle 
our famous

Lily
White
Flour

How  many go down  on  the River of D. ubt,
When  a turn  of the  helm  would  send them  about,
Away from  the struggle and  daily distress,
Far out on  the  beautiful  “Sea of Success.”

Grocers, turn your  helm  and  sail  with 
us on  this  beautiful  Sea.

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.

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

DID  Y O U   N O TICE

S

GETTING  THE  PEOPLE.

A rt  o f B each in g1  an d  H olding T rade  b y  

A d vertisin g.

W ritten for The  Tradesman.

Boisterous, noisy, explosive  Fourth  of 
July  has  come,  with  all  its  attendant 
temporary rush of  trade,  and  gone in  a 
blaze of undimmed glory. 
It has left the 
merchant  in  the  midst  of  the  summer 
quietness of trade.  For the ensuing two 
months, if trade is to be  had,  it must  be 
hustled for.  Here  is  where a display of 
every talent possessed by the  live  adver- 
tiser is  called  for.  Every  energy  must 
be bent in  the  one  direction  of  getting 
business  by  advertising, 
it  is  a  trifle 
early for fall goods and too late for spriug 
novelties.  The  towns  are  deserted  for 
the  summer  resorts,  and  those  who  are 
left behind have  no  means  to  squander 
unwisely.  Therefore, 
the  merchant 
must  advertise  wisely,  and  build  even 
better than his neighbor.

During the cool summer  evenings,  the 
show  window will be  found  one  of  the 
most profitable aids in  “Getting the  Peo­
ple.”  Usually, the  streets  are  peopled 
in the evening  by  tired  women,  out  in 
search of fresh air and recreation  after a 
day of heat and  worriment over the cares 
of home.  This  is the merchant’s chance 
to catch them.  To do this,  he  must  get 
up something new,  continually.

“Living  Pictures”  are a never-failing 
drawing card,  and can  be  made  cheaply 
and  in  a  manner  to  please  everyone. 
Take  this  plan  for  instance:  Place  a 
large card in the window,  reading as fol­
lows:

LIVING  PICTURES.

For the benefit  of  our  patrons 
:  we shall give a series of Beauti- 
:  ful Living Pictures in this  win- 
•  dow, commencing Monday even- 
:  ing. July 18.  Absolutely free.

Make  a  special  notice  of  this  in the 
newspaper and in every  way get the pub­
lic expectations up to a high pitch.  Keep 
the card in the window aud advertise the 
show not less than a full week.  Some of 
the pictures may be arranged as  follows, 
the costumes  being  easily  and  cheaply 
obtainable.

No.  1—“Youth  and  Age.”  An  old 
man seated in a  chair  with  an  annoyed 
and  uncomfortable  looking  boy  across 
his lap,  in the position  familiar to  us  all 
in early youth. 
In  the  old  man’s  band 
will  be  held,  poised  in  mid-air,  a very 
large  slipper.  An  appropriate  card 
should be displayed  like this:

THIS  BOY  TOLD  A  LIE

He was told to get his new----   .'
:  of Hiltcm A Co., who sell goods  : 
•  cheap for cash.  Said  he  did—
:  but didn't.

No.  2—Man  in  continental  costume, 
small tree and a small  boy with  uplifted 
hatchet.  This  will  be  readily  recog­
nized,  and the legend should  be:

“ CUT  IT  DOWN,  GEORGE!”
That's our motto, wecutdowu 
prices  on  everything  to  the 
last notch of profit. 

:

: 

No.  3—“Summer  Pastimes.” 

Fill 
window  floor  with  a  layer  of  earth. 
Place  plants—cabbage,  corn,  or  some 
other sort—in the  earth.  Costume  your 
actor as a  farmer  boy—the  more  quaint 
and old-fashioned  the  better—and  place 
him in the  act  of  hoeing  the  corn.  An 
umbrella held  over  his  head  by  an  as­
sistant will add  to  the  effect,  and  upon 
it vou can place this  card:

“MIGHTY  HOT  WORK."

:  Yes, and we are making it “mighty  : 

hot" for our competitors by the 

reductions  we  have  made 

on  all  summer  goods. 

:

Each one of these will be  a  living  ad­
vertisement,  at  almost  no  cost  to  the 
merchant.  The lessons will linger in the 
minds  of  the  beholders  long  after  the 
pictures have faded  away,  and will  turn 
many a dollar  into  the  exhibitor’s  till.
The  advertiser’s  ingenuity  will  give 
him any number of  pictures,  taking  his­
torical  happenings  and  poetical  and 
mythical lore for a basis. 
It is the expe­
rience of all  advertisers  that  an  adver­
tisement with actual life  as its principal 
feature is worth  more  than  a  dozen  in­
animate  objects  displayed 
in  a  show 
window.  There  is  a  fascination  about 
the most common events of everyday life 
when given  in  a window which will  at­
tract even the most blase shopper.

1 wish to divert from my usual course, 
in  order  to  show  how  utterly  careless 
and ignorant  some  show window  adver­
tisers are. 
In  a window  on  one  of  the 
most prominent  streets  in  a  large,  pro­
gressive city, I saw recently a  small pair 
of  kids—young  goats,  not  the  human 
order  of  “kids” —with a card reading as 
follows:

THIS PAIR OF KIDS OR YOUNG 
GOATS  ARE  THE  KIND  THAT 
THEIR SKINS MAKETUE BEST 
SHOES.  WE  SELL THEM.

It is barely  possible  that  one  out  of 
a hundred  passers-by  might  not  notice 
the ludicrousness and  lack  of  education 
in  this  placard,  but  the  other  ninety- 
nine surely will,  and the  universal  com­
ment will be that  if  a  merchant  is  not 
possessed of better English,  he  certainly 
cannot be smart enough to buy  goods  to 
sell  in  competition  with  his  educated 
neighbors.  The remark  of  the  one  who 
does not notice the lackaof  grammar will 
be,  “I don’t  see  why  they  want  to  sell 
goats in a shoe store.”

Following  will  he  found  some  hot 
weather bombs to explode  in  the  ear  of 
the public:
An  Alarming 
Fatality!

Is recorded  in  the  death  of  a whole 
family from starvatian.  It is  needless 
to  say  that  the  head  of that family  did 
not economize by making his purchases of 
dealers who sell at liviug rates.  It is our aim 
to sell goods at  such  prices  that  all  may live, 
and you will never  die  in  want if  you  take ad­
vantage of our bargains.

LIFE  &  WARflTH.

‘There’s  many 
a slip==”

As  the  old  saying goes, but  there  is 
no failure  to  please  in  the  bargains 
we offer in  Crockery  and  Glassware 
l’rices  have  “slipped  several  cogs" 
downwa  d, and your opportunity has 
now come to fill up your China Closet 
at extremely low rates.

SMASH KM  &  CO.

A  Lady  in  Trousers

Undoubtedly  looks  well  if  she  is  nicely 
formed  and  the  trousers  fit.  This  is  the 
main point—FIT—for either men orwomen. 
Our Tailor Made,  Ready-to-Wear Suits are 
guaranteed  to  tit,  and  the  wear  of  the 
goods is perfect.

FITTEM  &  CO.

By  Accident-- 

Not  Design==

We  have  a  larger  amount  of  goods  in 
stock than we can carry.  You are invited 
to help us get rid of them by taking your
choice  of  our---------at  one-quarter off
regular prices for  the  next  thirty  days.
We  wi 1  show  you  the  invoices,  if  the 
lowness  of  the  prices  does  not  satisfy 
you.

OVERSTOCK  &  CO.

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

■EARS’

UPERIOR

T h a t   is  w h a t   it  m e a n  

EYMOUR
S —

“ THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER 

OF  CRACKERS! ”

T H E Y

O r ig in a te d   in 
A r e   Made in 
A r e   So Id  in

M I C H I G A N
M I C H I G A N
M I C H I G A N

And  all  over  the  World.

Manufactured  by

The New York  Biscuit Co.,

Successors  to  WM.  SEARS  &  CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

Now You  See  I t!
Now You  Don’t !

This is the song of the “Cheap .John  ”  He 
will make one price to you  and  another to 
some  one  else  and,  like  the  magician's 
tricks, you can't tell what he's going to do. 
Our Summer Stock is  all  marked  in  plain 
figures, like this:

Cost, $ 8.25.
Retail, $12.00.
Summer Reduction,  3.75.
Result to you, 18.25.

All our Suits will be sold  in this manner 
until  fall  goods  arrive.  This  Is  a  plain 
statement and means money in your purse 
and business for us.

FACTS & TRUTHS.

I have neglected the cigar  trade  some­
what  in  my  “hand-me-down”  ads.,  not 
intentionally, however,  as  retail  dealers 
do  not  often  advertise  the  goods  they 
handle, particularly.  Here’s  an ad.  for 
any special brand of cigars:
Agreeable in  the 

Houth........

One  of  our  “BANG-UP”  Cigars is  as 
pleasant  and  gratifying  to  the refined 
smoker as a bath to the weary traveler. 
Made  of  the  finest  Havana  Tobacco 
grown,  with  Sumatra Wrapper, by  ar­
tists in the manufacture of cigars.
PUFFEM  &  CO.

“ Humanity

Comforters.”

This is  the  appropriate  term  for 
our  old  and  well-tried  brand  of 
Domestic Cigars called “Hope.” 

They are a sweet, fragrant  and  lasting 
smoke, made in the h ghest style of the 
art  of  cigar  manufacture.  Equal  to 
many ten cent brands now popular.
SWEET  &  LASTING.

Don’t forget that the mind of  the  pub­
lic is like  a  hole  in a piece of  rubber— 
you must  keep something in it or it will 
close  up  and  you  are  forgotten.  Keep 
your advertising iron  hot,  and when one 
place closes up,  make a  new  hole.  You 
will finally make such a  place  for  your­
self and  your  business  that  the  public 
can’t forget you, even if it tries.
The  absence  of  illustrated  ads.  this 
week is accounted for in the fact that  the 
Engraving Department of the Tradesman 
Company, although thoroughly equipped 
to do a  large  amount  of  all  classes  of 
work,  is  sometimes  crowded  to  its  ut­
most  capacity,  necessitating  the  exclu­
sion  of  all  excepting  regular  orders. 
This feature will  be  resumed,  however, 
in succeeding articles.

F dc.  F oster F uller.

A  M odest  R etailer.

Four  or  five  ladies  bustled  into  Mr. 
Blank’s store the other day.
“ What  can  1  do  tor you,  ladies?”  he 
asked pleasantly.
‘Why, Mr.  Blank,”  began  one  of  the 
visitors,  “ we are  taking  up  a  subscrip 
tion,  and we knew you  wouldu’t  like  it 
if we didn’t  give  you au  opportunity  to 
subscribe.”
Mr.  Blank  bowed  graciously,  and 
asked:  “And the object?  Of course,  it is 
a worthy one, or you would not  be  inter­
ested in it.”
“Yes, sir,”  replied  the  spokeswoman, 
“ we think it is a very  worthy  object 
it 
is to build a borne for aged  and  indigent 
widows.”
“Excellent!  Excellent!  1 shall  take 
pleasure in making you out a check.”
“Oh, how lovely of you,  Mr.  Blank !” 
exclaimed the spokeswoman when she re­
ceived  the  bit  of  paper  and  read  the 
amount—one  thousand  dollars. 
“Oh, 
we didn’t expect to  get  that  much  from 
you.  We are ever so much obliged.”
“So good of him,”  and  similar  excla­
mations  were  heard  as  the  check  was 
passed around for the  admiration  of  the 
party.
“But, Mr. Blank,” said  the  lady  who 
handled  the  check  last,  “you  haven’t 
signed it.”
“That  is  because  I  do  not  wish  my 
benefactions known to the  world,”  said 
Mr.  Blank,  modestly.  “1  wish  to give 
the check anonymously.”  And he bowed 
the ladies out with great dignity.

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Coffee - - -

“Q U A K E R ” 
“T O -K O ” 
“S T A T E   H O U S E  

B L E N D ”

Roasted  and  put up especially for us 
by  Dwinell,  Wright  &  Co.,  the fa­
mous  Coffee Roasters.

TRY  THESE  COFFEES.

WORDEN  GROCER  GO.

GRAND  R APIDS,  MICH.

J U S T   A R R I V I N G !

New Crop

1 8 9 5

EX CESSIV E  TAXATION.

R egulation , N o t  T axation, th e   P rovince 

o f  M unicipalities.

Sa g in a w ,  E.  S.,  July  5—Justice 
Hooker, of the Michigan  Supreme Court, 
has handed down an opinion affecting the 
rights  of  transient  dealers, denying  tLe 
right  of  municipalities  to  levy  license 
fees  which  are  prohibitive  instead  of 
regulative.
Saginaw  has  an  ordinance  which  re­
quires that every person,  not  a  resident, 
who  brings  into  the  city  any  merchan­
dise to sell,  without any bona  fide inten­
tion  of  remaining  permanently  in  the 
business in said city, shall  be  treated as 
a  transient  dealer,  and  be  required  to 
pay  a  license  of  $10  a  day.  The  or­
dinance exempts dealers in wood or fuel, 
or the products of the farm or dairy when 
sold by the producers thereof.
Acting  under  the  ordinance,  the  city 
officers  recently  arrested  a  man named 
McKevitt for refusing to  pay  the license 
fee.  He was  convicted  by  a  justice  of 
the peace,  but upon appeal  to the Circuit 
Court, Judge McKnight quashed the pro­
ceedings  upon  the  ground that the ordi­
nance was invalid.  The city took an ap­
peal to the Supreme Court,  with  the  re­
sult above  stated.
McKevitt’s attorneys  claimed the ordi­
nance  was  invalid  because  it  discrim­
inated  between  residents  and  non-resi­
dents of Saginaw; because of its discrim­
ination in requiring a license  only  when 
goods  were  brought  into  the  city;  and 
because the  fee  was  excessive  and  un­
reasonable.
The  opinion  by  Justice  Hooker  says 
that the business of a transient dealer,  if 
subjected to the payment of  a  fee,  must 
be  with  a  view  to taxation,  or to cover 
the expense of regulation  under  the  po­
lice power. 
In this case,  the  fee cannot 
be sustained as a tax,  because  the Legis­
lature did not  authorize  the  city  to  tax 
business,  but  only  to  license  it,  to  the 
end that it may regulate it. 
In the opin­
ion of the court, it is to  protect the com­
munity from imposition and fraud, rather 
than to obtain revenue,  that  this  power 
was conferred. 
If so, there is  no reason 
for  an  ordinance  that  applies  only  to 
non-residents  as  a  class,  and  exempts 
inhabitants of the city.  The  court  does 
not  discuss  the  extent to which the city 
may go  in  restricting  and  limiting  the 
number  of  this  kind  of  dealers,  and 
whether tests relating to their character, 
etc., may  be  applied,  as  the  ordinance 
does not attempt to regulate the business 
along these lines. 
It  permits  anyone  to 
engage  in  the  business  of  a  transient 
dealer. 
it  means  a 
dealer  who  goes  about  from  place  to 
place,  the  court  says  there is no reason 
for  thinking  that  such  business  only 
needs regulation  when conducted by non­
residents. 
It appears  to  the  court  that 
this ordinance is aimed  at non-residents, 
and  i hat there is room for  the  suspicion 
that  it  was  designed  for  the  benefit  of 
residents,  and  therefore,  open  to  the 
criticism that it is in  restraint  of  trade. 
Moreover,  that it borders very closely on 
the  line  of  unreasonable  license  fees. 
The ordinance iS,  therefore,  held  invalid 
and the writ denied.

If,  by  this  term, 

BUY  IT==The  Quality  is  Right 
BUY  1T=-The  Price  is  Right. 
BUY  IT=-And  “ You’re all  Right.

A  curious suit is pending in New York. 
Mr.  Louis Spitz,  of  Brooklyn,  has a pair 
ct  feet,  the most notable feature of which 
is a large assortment of  corns  and  bun­
ions,  of  which  he  naturally  takes  the 
greatest  and  tenderest  care.  Recently 
be ordered a pair of shoes from the Bone- 
Crawford Shoe  Company,  which guaran­
teed its product not to hurt the tenderest 
feet.  He  put  on  the  shoes  and  every 
corn extended an indignant  protest.  He 
is  now  suing  the  company  for  $66.50. 
The  shoemakers  assert  that  after  Mr. 
Spitz was measured his feet suddenly  in­
creased in size,  and  maintain  that  if  he 
had  employed  a  competent  chiropodist 
the  trouble  would  not  have  happened. 
They  will take the case  to  the  Supreme 
Court  rather  than  pay.  Mr.  Spitz’s 
friends have formed a  pool to get justice 
for his corns.

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

A   TOUGH  CUSTOMER.

W ritte n  fo r T h b T i a s i s i u .

The storekeeper  at  Milltown  watched 
the woman until she had  closed the door 
behind her.  He then  took  out bis mem­
orandum-book and,  making a note  of  it, 
put it  again  into  his  pocket.  Then  he 
looked  towards  the  door,  squinted  one 
eye, gave two or three  little  jerky  nods 
and  indulged  in  a  little earnest talk  to 
himself.

“Tuesday.  That  critter always comes 
of  a  Tuesday,  ’n’  somehow  there isn’t 
anybody to wait on her  but me.  1 begin 
to see suthin’, ’n’  1 b’lieve I sh’ll  have to 
go  to  Ammidown’s  next  Tuesday t’ see 
’bout  them  aiggs.  Gracious!  I’ve  got 
’nough of ’er.  Jim ’r Joe may tackle ’er, 
or Jane may take ’er in  hand.  That’s  it 
—that’s jest it. 
‘Woman  ag’in  woman,’ 
’n’ I’ll bet on Jane.”

It  was  remarkable  bow  soon  both 
clerks came in as soon as Miss Bettis had 
gone;  but,  aside  from  the  wink  which 
one gave the other—and  which Cy didn’t 
see—there was no sign to indicate an  in­
tention  on either side to have nothing  to 
do with the farmer’s  wife,  who had been 
in promptly with her eggs and butter and 
farm  produce  on  every  Tuesday  since 
the new Milltown store had been opened.
Joe had been the first  one  to  see  that 
the  Bettis  produce  was  properly  ex­
changed  for  dry goods.  He found  him­
self worsted every time,  and  was blamed 
for it.  He soon  managed  to  be  busy  on 
Tuesday,  and  Jim  came  in,  to be igno- 
miniously done for and  sharply  scolded; 
and  now  Huxley  himself  had  met  his 
Waterloo,  and  with  an  “each  for  him­
self,”  followed  Napoleon’s  example  and 
hurried  away  on  horseback for the Am- 
midown  eggs.

taste,” whereupon the thumb  safely  de­
posited  its  golden  burden  between  the 
unctions lips of their unctious owner.

“ ’Tis a leettle soft, but ’t tastes  good. 

Try it.”
. The invitation  was  not  accepted,  and 
Miss Cragin,  whose stomach was not over 
strong,  looked  toward  the  battered  tin 
pail and quietly pulled the cover over the 
butter, as she asked about the eggs.

“ Yes, them’s um.  One  ’r  tew  on  um 
got a leetle  dirty  bringin’  in;  but, land 
safce!  1 tol’ J’siah  a  hen’s aigg’s a hen’s 
aigg,  black ’r white, ’n’ 1  wa’n’t goin’  to 
wash um off ’f I didn’t  sell  one on ’em— 
jes’ six dozen.  Naow,  I want  t’ see yer 
han’kerchers—suthin’  real  nice ’n fine.” 
And Mrs.  Bettis  moved  towards the dry- 
goods counter.

Jane didn’t go.  She was looking at the 
eggs.  She saw the one or two that “got 
dirty  bringin’  in,”  and she saw so many 
more  in 
the  same  dirty—filthy—condi­
tion  that she  was  poking  them  around 
with her penholder,  to see if  there was a 
single one of them  which she was willing 
to touch.  There  were  three  that  didn’t 
need  cleaning.  Another  thought  came 
as  she  was  poking  them  about—there 
couldn’t be six  dozen  eggs  in  the  pail. 
She would count  them.  There were five 
dozen and  two.  Fresh,  were they?  She 
took one in  her  handkerchief  and  shook 
it, close to her ear.  A half-bottle of wa 
ter  so  shaken  couldn’t  have  made  a 
greater  commotion.  The  same  experi­
ment showed defections in  over  a  dozen 
of them.

“Ain’t they good?”
“No.”
“Wall,  they’s six dozen, ain’t  they?  I 
(This  last  In  an 

see ye caountin’  em.” 
injured tone.)

to 

trade. 

The dreaded barter had been  going  on 
for months now, and it was not in the na­
ture of events for Jane  Cragin,  with  her 
desk where she  could  see  and  bear  all 
that was going on in the store,  to  be  un­
mindful of the scores of  victories  which 
“ that Bettis woman” had won  since  she 
had  been  there 
She  had 
watched  and  wondered  where  it would 
end,  when  the  store  door  opened  and 
Mrs.  Bettis came in  with the usual  boxes 
aud pails.  Huxley bad gone off early to 
Ammidown’s, and  there  was  nobody  in 
the store.  She  called  up-stairs  for  Jim 
and down-stairs for Joe.  The  silence  of 
the grave alone equalled that of both up­
stairs and down.  There  was no help for 
it,  and Jane  went behind  the counter.

* Mornin’,  Miss  Cragin.  Where’s  Cj? 
Alius like t’ trade ’th Cy.  Mighty  sorry 
’e ain’t here;  but guess you’ll deu.  But­
ter’s  little  loppy  ’s  mornin’. 
I  said t’ 
J’siah  ’t I’d  bet ye wouldu’t take it, ’n’ 1 
wouldn’t  blame  ye  ’f  ye didn’t; but th’ 
aiggs  *r’  fresh.  Had  every  one  of  um 
laid las’  night ’specially for  ye—jes’  six 
dozen ’n’ ten  pounds  o’  butter.  What’s 
butter ’n’ aiggs bringin’  naow?”

Jane Cragin thought she was ready for 
her  “ barter  woman,”  but  she  wasn’t. 
She watched the chubby  woman  open  a 
small-sized  weather-beaten  cheese-box, 
with a pair of grimy hands whose fingers 
and thumbs were draped at their extrem­
ities in  the  deepest  mourning.  A wet, 
dirty,  mildewed  rag covered  three  irreg­
ular  lumps  of  soft  butter, and  the  two 
dirty hands  having  removed  the  cloth, 
one thumb deftly scooped up on its dirty 
nail a goodly portion  of  the  yellow-col­
ored compound,  which  it  promptly  pre­
sented to Miss  Cragin’s  mouth.  An  in­
voluntary  dodge  alone  prevented  "a

“No,  ma’am,  there  are  two  over five 
dozen.”  The  words  were  short  and 
sharp.  “ Fifteen of them are rotten, and 
all  but  three  look  as  if  they  had  been 
rolling  about  the  barnyard  for  a week. 
They are nasty! ”

“O,  wall,  naow, I  shouldn’t wonder  if 
I’d brought the wrong  lot. 
I tol’ J’siah, 
when I took ’em,  ’t  I’d  bet  he’d  gimme 
the wrong ones, ’n I know he did, ’f there 
ain’t  six  dozen;  but  never  mind ’baout 
the aiggs.  Jes’  lemme  see  yer han’ker- 
cbers, V   I  c’n  bring  the  aiggs  when  I 
come ag’in.”

As  Jane  Cragin  went  around  to  the 
other side of the store,  it  was  noticeable 
to some listening ears  in  the  back  room 
that her little heels  came  down  sharply 
as  she  walked. 
“She’s  about  ready,” 
said Joe, and the two crept a little nearer.
“Here  are  the  handkerchiefs  in  this 
showcase.  The  hemstitched  ones  are 
seventy-five  cents  and 
the  others  are 
jifty.”

“ Wall, can’t ye take um out ’n’  lemme 
the 

look  at  um,  ’r’  don’t  ye  want 
trouble?”

A little red spot had settled in the cen­
ter  of  each of Miss Cragin’s cheeks, but 
the voice, clear and distinct,  said,  with­
out a quiver:  “I  will  hold  the linen up 
close to the under side  of  the  glass  and 
you can easily see what it is.”

“Do you  mean t’  tell me, Jane  Cragin, 
that  y’r  han’kerchers  ’r*  too  good  t’  be 
touched?”  And  Mrs.  Bettis drew  down 
her fat chin and  turned  an  ugly-looking 
eye on the junior member of the  firm.

“No,  Mirandy  Bettis, I don’t; but I do 
mean  to  tell  you  that  you  can’t touch 
any white goods in this  store  with  your 
dirty hands.  So much for that.  Now,  I 
have one or two things to say .to yon  and

O w ing  to  the  Great 
Advance  in  Leather,

Hoots  and  Shoes  are  necessarily much 
advanced in price.

Have  a  great  many  things  purchased  before 
the  advance  that  they  are  still  selling at old 
prices, and balance of the line at  not one-half 
of the ad vat ee of the cost to  manufacture the 
goods to-day. 
It will pay you to examine our 
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the quicker they’re said the better.  For 
some two or  three  months,  now,  you’ve 
come here every blessed week,  with your 
eggs and your butter and whatever you’ve 
had  to  sell,  and  we’ve  taken  them,  at 
your  own  price,  for  goods  at the price 
you were willing to  pay.  We can't do it 
any more and I’m going to tell you  why. 
Just come here and look  at  this  butter. 
See how streaked it  is  with  buttermilk! 
See how  soft and oily it  is.  Fresh  from 
the churn?  You know  better;  and  if  it 
was  as  hard  as  a rock and sweet when 
you left home with it,  we couldn’t sell it, 
and  we  wouldn’t  try  to  sell it, after it 
has  been  wrapped up  in  that  dirty  rag. 
We have thrown away too much  of  your 
stuff  already,  and  we  don’t  want  any 
more  of  it.  We  won’t  say  anything 
about these eggs.  Last week,  a  third  of 
what you brought were rotten  and  there 
weren’t  as  many  as  we  paid  you  for. 
Week before last it  was  just  the  same. 
What kind of a way is that,  I should like 
to know?  You  didn’t  like  it  just now, 
because I  wouldn’t  take  out  the  hand­
kerchiefs.  A  while ago,  when you  were 
in here,  you had Jim  cover  the  counter 
with  goods,  and  after  you  had  pawed 
them all over and left  your  dirty  finger 
marks on some muslin  you  didn’t  want 
and  didn’t  have  any  notion  of buying, 
you  bought  a  pair  of shoe strings and a 
spool of thread.  The fact is,  there hasn’t 
been a pound of your butter which hasn’t 
been  sold  at  a  loss,  and  you  haven’t 
bought anything which has furnished  us 
profit  enough  to  pay  for  trading  with 
you.  That’s all of that.  When you can 
bring us good, sweet,  first-class farm but­
ter,  we’ll  take  it  and allow you a good 
price  for  it,  but  we’re through  buying 
grease.  We  can’t  sell  it  and  we don’t 
want it.  That’s  the  beginning of it and 
that’s the end of it.”

Having  finished  her  Philippic,  Miss 
Gragin  waited  to  take  what  was  to fol­
low; but Mrs.  Bettis had nothing  to  say. 
With the air of  an  insulted  queen,  she 
covered  the  butter,  passed  her fat arm 
under the bail of the  egg  pail,  grasped, 
in both hands,  the  butter-box  and,  with 
a  look  of  ineffable  scorn,  swept  with 
heavy but  emphatic  tread  to  the  door, 
which  she  opened  with  difficulty  and 
dexterously closed  with  her  left  heel  as 
she passed out.

“Our  army  in  Flanders  swore  ter­
ribly,”  but  Jim  Hankson,  in  the  back 
store, crowded his profanity into a single 
oath.  “James,”  said  Jane  Cragin,  “1 
thank you.”

chancery  with 

The accusing spirit,  which  flew  up  to 
Heaven’s 
the  oath, 
blushed,  as he gave it in,  and the record­
ing  angel,  as  he wrote it down, dropped 
a tear on the word and  blotted it out for­
ever. 

Kich a rd  Malcolm Stkon«.

T w o  S id es  o f B est.

Doctor  (to wife of wealthy shoe dealer)
I would advise you, dear  madam,  to take 
frequent baths,  plenty of  fresh  air, and 
dress in cool gowns.
Husband (an hour later)—What did the 
doctor say?
Wife—He said I ought to go to a water­
ing place,  and  afterwards  to  the  moun­
tains and  get  some  new  light  gowns  at 
once.

A Chicago man  has  invented  an  elec­
tric  motor  which  be  claims  will  save 
97 per cent,  of the  power,  whereas other 
motors save but 15 per  cent,  at  the  out­
side.  He asserts that it will drive a ship 
across the Atlantic for $200.  The inven­
tion is valued at $15,000,000.

Conscience sometimes makes a bad bed­

fellow.

C hicago  M erchants  S a y   E very  One  Is 

E conom izing  to   B uy  a  W h eel.

From the Chicago Record.
Storekeepers and tradesmen have their 
own ideas  on  political  economy.  They 
do not explain the depression in  business 
and the financial difficulties by any of the 
stereotyped  arguments  of  the  public 
.speaker.  With them the cause is not the 
outflow of gold; it is not the silver dollar 
—it is the bicycle. 
If the twentieth cen­
tury fulfills  the prophecy  that  the  man 
who does not ride a bicycle will  be a cur­
iosity they say they will close up shop.
Every  bicycle  rider,  they  say,  is  in 
training—physical  or  economic. 
If  he 
is not preparing to  win  medals  or  cash 
prizes  or  pianos,  he  is  paying  for  his 
wheel.  To the bicycle as a  hygienic  in­
vention they do not object;  for  the  rich 
man they think it is just the thing.  But 
they  do  not  like  it  on  the installment 
plan.  The installment plan,  in  the  dic­
tionary of  the  tradesman,  means  no  ci­
gars,  no  theatre,  no  novelties  in  neck­
wear, and no meals for more than 15 cents.
The chapter in the  tradesman’s  politi­
cal economy devoted to statistics presents 
figures something like these:  In Chicago 
there are  about  150,000  persons  buying 
bicycles on the  installment  plan.  They 
are,  as  a  rule,  people  who  make  just 
enough money and have  none  to  spare. 
Some of them figure expenses  so  closely 
that a day’s outing with their  best  girls 
or with  “the boys”  means  a  boycott  of 
the street car for several weeks.  The bi­
cycle for “spot cash” had little or no  in­
ducement for  them,  but  they  have  suc­
cumbed to  the  blandishments  of  the  in­
stallment plan  and are its slaves  for  six 
months.
the  installment  plan  gets  its 
When 
clutches on the young  man  with a salary 
it takes $30 to start with.  As  a  rule  he 
cannot  spare  this  amount in one month, 
so be saves  up  his  spending  money  for 
months ahead.  When he  gets started he 
gives up  $10  a  month.  Bicycle  dealers 
are  considerate  in  that,  in  most eases, 
they do  not  take  away  the  earnings  of 
the tradesman for more than six months. 
■Sometimes  they  take  $5  a  month,  but 
that  is  usually  all  the  young  man can 
pay,  and  the  agony  of  the  tradesman 
lasts nearly a year.  However the matter 
is figured  up,  the  tradesmen  lose  about 
$2,000,000 a  month.  When their statisti­
cian made his report some of them fainted.
The restaurant keeper, the  cigar  man, 
and the men’s  furnishing  goods man can 
tell months  ahead  when  a  regular  cus­
tomer is  contemplating  the  installment 
plan.  He comes into  the  restaurant out 
of breath and pretends  to  be  in  a  great 
hurry.  He  takes  a  seat  at  the  lunch 
counter instead of at the  table  where  he 
is accustomed to sit.  The  waiter brings 
him a bill of fare.
“How long will it take to get a tender­
loin steak?”  he asks.
“Oh, about ten minutes,” says the man.
“Too  long.  Can’t  wait.  Terrible 
hurry, you know.  Bring me a ham sand­
wich and a cup  of  coffee,  and  be  quick 
about it.”
When  he  has  finished  he  pays his 10 
cent check without looking at  the  pretty 
cashier and goes out on the run.
At the cigar store he  drops  from  a  10 
cent to a three-for-a-quarter  cigar.  The 
next  day  he finds something for a nickel 
that he can  bear.  Then he gets  to  talk­
ing about cigars being too strong for  him 
and buys a box of cigarettes.  Finally he 
comes  in  and gives the cigar man a long 
tale about his best girl  not  wanting  him 
to smoke,  and  says  he  has  promised  to 
swear  off.  He  tells  the  man  where he 
used to buy  bis  neckties  that  he  has  a 
very poor stock.  The tie  he  saw  Jones 
wearing was a beauty, but he cannot find 
one like it in town.
The storekeepers  are  resorting  to  all 
sorts of devices to keep their trade.  One 
cigar man  has rented his window to a bi­
cycle agent, and says he  is  catching  the 
spare change when the  fellows  come  in 
to pay  their  installments.  At  many  of 
the restaurants there are  racks  in  front 
of the windows where riders  are  invited 
to hook their wheels while they take din­
ner.  Restaurant keepers think this will 
shame  the  wheelmen into baying a good 
meal.

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From the New  York Tribune.
Store manners,  the  behavior  of  sales­
men  and saleswomen and the behavior of 
shoppers, as displayed in the large  retail 
establishments of this city, are  an  inter­
esting subject to study,  revealing as they 
do  naively,  often  brutally,  and  always 
unconsciously, 
the  real  character  and 
principles of conduct of those concerned. 
Individual traits, traits of class,  of  age, 
of  race,  above  all  of  sex,  are nowhere 
more  broadly  exposed  than  across  the 
couuters where men and  women sell  and 
buy.  The  caricaturist  and 
the  comic 
writer have long since realized  this,  and 
seized upon such salient points  for  their 
satire as the bargain  day  crush  and  the 
wholesale sacrifice scramble,  but the sub 
ject is worth  a  more  serious  considera­
tion.
To begin  with,  the  manners  of  clerks, 
for  it  is  their  manners and not those ot 
their customers that are of  the  most  im­
portance, both because as clerks they are, 
in  a way, servants of the public, and thus 
under certain obligations  to  it,  and  be­
cause  the  position  behind  the  counter, 
even  when  filled  by  a  hireling,  is  the 
post of vantage.  The  shopper  may  in­
deed  go  away,  but  if  he  wishes to buy 
what the clerk has to sell he must submit 
to the latter’s manner, whatever this may 
be, of selling it to  him.  That  the  man­
ner  of  the  salesman or woman is a most 
important element in  the  matter  no  one 
will deny.  An agreeable,  or  interested, 
or simply  civil  salesman  or  woman  in­
duces a purchase,  where  a  disagreeable, 
or uninterested, or uncivil one—and there 
are  surprisingly  many  such—will  often 
drive  an 
intending  purchaser  away. 
Storekeepers are well aware of this  fact, 
and, consequently,  in small stores  where 
the proprietor himself does the selling or 
is  aole  immediately  to  supervise  those 
wbuui he employs for that  purpose,  cus­
tomers almost invariabl>  receive the civil 
treatment that is the real secret of  many 
a tradesman’s success.
larger  establishments,  however, 
where both the selling  and  the  supervi­
sion  of  those  who  sell  are delegated to 
subordinates,  the treatment of customers 
is  often  different.  The  proprietor’s  in­
tention remains the same;  iu every store, 
however large,  every  clerk  is  expected 
to serve every customer  with  politeness, 
promptness  and  attention.  This  is  the 
theoretical,  the  ideal  state  of  the case 
but the actual is  such  that  while  there 
are  many  large stores in this city  where 
the best intentions  of the proprietors to 
ward their customers  are  carried  out  in 
the courteous  conduct of their employes, 
there are others where these subordinates 
are  notoriously  uncivil,  where  every 
shade of rudeness  from  downright  iuso 
lence to dull inertia is encountered by the 
buyers  who,  nevertheless,  dock to thei 
sales.
those 
stores where the behavior ot the clerks is 
the least pleasant and  often the most of 
tensive  are  precisely  those  where  the 
crowd of custom is  gieatest.  To  a  cer 
tain extent this is a case ot cause and ef 
feet.  A  continuous  crowd  of  custom 
fatigues  the  clerks,  tries their patience 
and dulls their interest by a too constant 
demand.  That  buyers,  however,  will 
continue to submit to  the  treatment that 
is the outward and visible  sign  of  these 
effects,  when  they  could  get  what  they 
want  sold  to  them  more  civilly  and 
cheerfully elsewhere,  remains one of the 
most  curious  of  the  phenomena  that 
meet one in the investigation of this sub­
ject.  Within a  block  of  each  other,  in 
the  fashionable  shopping  quarter,  are 
two large establishments dealing in dress 
and  fancy  goods.  To  all  appearances 
they are in every way  equal,  except that 
in the one the  clerks, as a mass, are per­
haps  the  worst  mannered  in  the  city, 
whereas in the other they  are  extremely 
civil.  Tet  the  former  has  by  far  the 
greater run of custom.  Nor is this to be 
accounted for by a difference in prices to 
the advantage of the more largely patron­
ized  house,  since  these  range  alike  in 
both.  Of course,  there are many persons 
who,  having  once  experienced  nncivil 
treatment iu  a  t-ioie,  n e\ci  it-unn  to  it

For,  strange  as  it  may  seem, 

again, or who, if they do,  avoid  the par­
ticular department where,  or  the partic­
ular clerk from  whom,  the  uncivil treat­
ment was received;  but  the great major­
ity  of  shoppers  go  on  submitting  as  if 
unwilling or indifferent  or insolent serv­
ice were a  necessary  part  of  their  pur­
chase.
The display of bad manners  by  clerks 
is  especially  marked  in  those  depart­
ments of large shops  where  women  sell 
to women.  Here  the  primitive  feeling 
of sex antagonism,  which would  seem  to 
be strouger or at least  less  controlled  iu 
women than  in  men,  together  with  the 
smaller animosities such  as  envy,  color 
and race prejudice and the like, intensify 
the  incivility  so  often shown.  A sales­
man is frequently surly  or  impatient; he 
is sometimes fairly brutal in his attempts 
to bully  a  shopper—particularly  where 
that  shopper  is  a  woman—into  a  pur­
chase,  but he  is rarely indifferent,  as the 
vast majority of saleswomen are. 
If  the 
incivility of  the  latter  ceased,  however, 
with  this  indifference,  the  complaints 
against them might be  dismissed,  but  it 
often  shows  itself,  as  every  shopper 
knows, 
in  a  far  more  offensive  form. 
Not long ago the writer was walking  be­
hind two ladies who  had  just  come  out 
of a well-known store.  Tfiey  were well- 
dressed,  refined-looking women,  with the 
handbags  and  hurried  air  of  the  sub­
urban shopper.

‘Ob, dear,” exclaimed one  of  them  in 
dismay.  “I’ve forgotten that shirt waist!
If  1  don’t  get  it  to-day  I  shall  have to 
make  another  journey  into  town  just 
for it.”
Well,  I’m  afraid  you  will,”  replied 
her companion,  “ for  you  can’t  go  back 
it’s  nearly  six  o’clock,  and  you 
now. 
know  how  they'd  act;  they’d  not show 
,ou  anything,  and  they’d  be  positively 
insulting about it, too.”
This  incident illustrates  the  condition 
of dread, if  not  of  awe,  to  which  many 
women  shoppers  are  reduced  by  the 
ladies  behind 
the  counter,  for  ladies 
—young ladies—these saleswomen  insist 
upon  being  considered,  however  much 
their manners may contradict their claim. 
The  persistence  with  which  this  much 
abused title is dinned into shoppers’ ears 
is often ludicrous in the  extreme, as, for 
instance,  when such  a  self-styled  young  | 
lady at the same time turns  her  back  on 
a customer, as a real lady would never do, 
and  lets  her  wait  while  she  discusses j 
with the other young ladies the  cut  of 
new gown or Tom’s  attentions  to  Jennie | 
at the dance last night.
Another  common  disproof  of  such 
saleswoman’s claim to this title is the re­
ception she accords to the  appeal  so  fa­
miliar in our crowded  stores:  “ Will you 
wait on me  next,  please?”  A  lady  an­
swers when she is addressed, or  at  least 
glances an  acknowledgment  to  the  per­
son  addressing  her.  Not  so  the  sales­
woman;  she  might  be  a statue or a deaf 
mute for all the sign she gives of  having 
heard.  Sometimes the floor-walker  him-  I 
self, when appealed to by a weary or impa- 
tient shopper,  is met with the same churl- j 
ish stolidity.
Indeed,  the floor-walker who is set over 
women has not a happy  lot.  They  dety 
his authority or, in submitting  to  it,  do 
so in a way a man  would  not  dare.  Oc­
casionally  they  coquet with him,  but, a? 
a general  rule,  they  seem neither to  like 
nor to fear him.
A few days ago the writer stood  at  the 
same counter with  a  gentle-looking  eld­
erly woman,  who  had  brought  back  an 
article she wished  to change.  The sales­
woman to whom she addressed herself in­
terrupted  her  explanations  curtly  with 
“See the flawker.”
“The flawker?” said  the  customer,  in 
a puzzled tone.
“ Yes; that’s  him  over  there,”  jerked 
out  the  saleswoman,  pointing  with  her 
thumb  at  the  floor-walker,  who  was 
standing near.
In fact, these police of the  trade  seem 
to  be  regarded,  at  least  by the women 
under them, very  much  as  are  the  ma­
rines by the sailors on a  man-of-war, the 
difference  in  sex  adding  apparently  to 
the  difficulty  of  maintaining  discipline 
on the one side and  to  the  presumption 
with  which the attempts  to  do so are de­
fied on the other.  At least in  one  large 
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performed  by  women  in  every  depart­
ment in which  women  serve, not  only  is 
the service exceedingly good, but the un­
derstanding between  overseers and over­
seen is apparently much  better  than  in 
those  establishments  where  such  over­
seers are men.
It is not usual,  however,  to find women 
in this position, or, indeed,  in  any  other 
of importance  and  authority,  except,  of 
course,  where they are at the head of  es­
tablishments  of  their  own. 
In  shops 
where  both  men  and  women  are  em­
ployed, the position of  women  is  almost 
invariably inferior  and  subordinate. 
It 
is men and not women  who sell the  silks 
and fine dress goods that women  wear.
“Why?” said  a  gentleman  prominent 
in the dry goods business  in  response  to 
the reporter’s question.  “Why,  because 
to sell silk or any other  fine  goods some­
thing  more  is  required  than  merely  to 
tell  the  price  and  measure  off  the ma­
terial. 
It takes judgment, it takes  skill, 
it  takes knowledge and information, and 
a certain  feeling  for  color  that  women 
don’t seem to get.”
It is men and not women  who  sell  the 
jewels that women more especially prize. 
It is men and  not  women,  in short,  who 
do the fine, the higher  grade  dealing  in 
every  branch  of  trade, except millinery 
and dressmaking.  Tbe  reason  for  this, 
as for the worse  manners of saleswomen 
as a class when compared to salesmen  as 
a class,  is best given in the words of the 
gentleman quoted above:
“The trouble with  women  is that they 
don’t take enough interest in  business to 
excel in it.  They resent being under the 
necessity  of  taking  it  up,  even  as  the 
temporary  makeshift  they  consider  it. 
They  all  want  to  marry, they all mean 
to  marry.  Their  minds  are  distracted 
with that idea while they are in business, 
and at the first opportunity to marry they 
gladly give the business  up.  Naturally, 
they do not take the same  interest  or  do 
as  well  as  the  man  who  is  in to stay, 
whether  he  marries  or  not.  A  good 
salesman knows that  his manners are an 
important part of his  equipment  for  his 
business,  the  means  of drawing custom 
to him.  Every good  salesman  builds up 
a  clientele  for  himself  out  of  his  em­
ployer’s  custom. 
It  stands  to  reason 
that  if  a  man  or  woman  is well served 
and well suited in a  certain  store,  when 
they  want  anything  in  the  same  line 
again they are likely  to  go  back  to  the 
same store and the same person.  Such a 
clientele is  the  beginning  for  an  ambi­
tious young man of a business of bis own. 
Women,  as a rule,  lack that sort of ambi­
tion  entirely;  they  don’t  exert  them­
selves in a way  to  succeed.  Of  course, 
there  are  exceptions  to  this  rule;  and 
where  a  woman  stays  in  business  till 
she’s too old to  marry, or  where for  any 
other reason she has got that idea of mar­
riage out of her head,  she is apt to settle 
down into a first-rate saleswoman.  Such 
women  are  invaluable  in  business, and 
you will generally find  them in positions 
of trust and very well paid.”
This gentleman,  whose experience cer­
tainly  makes  him  an  authority  on  the 
subject,  also  maintains  that  the  sales 
personnel of an establishment, as a mass, 
is a reflection of its chief, and that where 
the former “ is not up  to  the  mark,” it’s 
because  “there’s  a  screw  loose  some­
where higher up.”
This  control,  however,  so  far at least 
as  manners  are  concerned,  would  seem 
to be indirect—a matter of example, per­
haps,  rather than of  precept, since there 
does not appear  to  be on the part of em­
ployers any direct  and  specified require­
ment  as  to  the  behavior  of  their  em­
ployes  toward  their  customers.  The 
matter is left to the clerk’s own sense  of 
what is due.
Both salesmen and saleswomen  are  in 
the  habit  of  attuning  their  manners  to 
their  customers’  clothes,  a  shabbily 
dressed shopper receiving  shabby  treat­
ment,  while a well-dressed one is civilly, 
and an elegantly  attired  one  cringingly 
served.  Judging thus superficially,  they 
sometimes  make  amusing  mistakes.  A 
lady of the writer’s  acquaintance had  in 
wear last winter two cloaks.  One was  a 
valuable fur garment of  the  latest  fash­
ion, tbe other was  a  good  but  decidedly 
passe  cloth  wrap.  While  wearing  the 
latter one stormy  day  she  was  so  inso-

lently treated  by a salesman  at  the  silk 
counter in a certain store that she left it, 
resolved never  again  to  patronize  it,  at 
least so far as that department  was  con­
cerned.  However,  some  weeks  later, 
when her indignation had cooled,  she did 
return  to  that  department,  having  re­
duced her boycott to the particular sales­
man  whose  insolence  had  so  outraged 
her.  But  he,  evidently  all unconscious 
of having offended  her,  hurried  forward 
to serve her with such  alacrity  that  her 
indignation  subsided  still  further  and, 
instead  of  punishing  him  as  she  had 
meant  to by declining  his  services,  she 
suffered him to wait upon her,  which  he 
did in a way that proved him to be an ac­
complished  knight  of 
the  yardstick. 
Finally he even  ventured to remark, in a 
tone expressive of admiration,  “That’s a 
fine garment  you  have  on,  ma’am,  and 
comfortable for such a day  as  this.” 
It 
was cold, and she was wearing her hand­
some fur cloak!

Of the manners of shoppers it  is  more 
difficult to treat,  since the variety here is 
almost as great as the endless  procession 
of purchasers.  The worst  behavior  be­
hind finds more than its match before the 
counter. 
Indeed,  the latter is  often  the 
aggravating cause of the  former.  Here, 
again,  women  are  the  worst  offenders. 
Men,  when  they  go a-buying,  generally 
know  beforehand  what  they  want  and 
how much they  will  pay,  and  they  will 
get through with the operation as quickly 
as  possible,  to  the  saving  of their own 
time  and  the  clerk’s patience.  The re­
sult is that  they  are  favored  even  by  a 
salesman over women buyers; of a mixed 
company at a counter,  the  men,  though 
they  may  not  be  the  first  comers,  are 
likelier  to  get  waited  on  first.  The 
woman shopper is  terribly  prone  to  the 
“folie de doute;” she does not know what 
she wants; or she  wants so  many  things 
that she cannot decide—where  a  lack  of 
money  sufficient  to  command  them  all 
compels such a decision—which of  them 
to take.  Frequently  it  is the lack of de­
cision itself rather  than  of  money  that 
makes her vacillate till the dealer’s stock 
and  patience,  too,  are  exhausted.  All 
shoppers and clerks are familiar with the 
woman  who  brings  husband,  mother, 
daughter or frieud to  decide  the  matter 
for her.  A  good  salesman  knows  well 
how to deal with  this  psychological  pe­
culiarity  in  his  women  customers;  he 
brings all the arts of  suggestion  to  bear 
upon it, and  often  shows  an  admirable 
skill  in  guiding  an  uncertain  mind  to 
its  conclusion.  The  bearing of  a  sales­
woman in the face of this trying  vacilla­
tion takes more the form of dumb endur­
ance.  She  does  not  try  to persuade or 
bully; she waits with more  or  less  long 
sufferance  for  it to find its own way to a 
conclusion.
“I don’t mind how long a customer de­
tains me, if  she  really  means  to  buy,” 
said a saleswoman to the reporter.  “But 
there are lots of women who come in and 
try on garments just to fill up their time.”
This is quite true;  in every  store  such 
women may be seen wandering aimlessly 
about, picking up things and asking their 
prices, and  laying  them  down again,  to 
pass on to  the  next  counter  and  repeat 
the performance.  Against such pseudo­
shoppers the clerk has no defense.  He— 
or she—is obliged to show the articles and 
give the information asked for;  but it  is 
not to be  wondered  at  that  after  a  few 
such  experiences  the  service  thus  im­
posed  upon  should  become  less  willing 
and  less  polite,  and  that  the  bona  fide 
shopper should sometimes  have to  suffer 
for it.
Vulgarity,  aggressiveness  and  every 
degree of  ill-breeding, or of  no breeding 
at all, are displayed  by  those  who come 
to buy.  At times,  the mere tone in which 
the errand is stated  would  rouse the  de­
mon in the breast of a saint.  The vend­
ers of flowers,  many  of  whom  are Ital­
ians  in  Twenty third  and  Fourteenth 
streets, and along Sixth  avenue  between 
these  two  thoroughfares,  are  often  ex­
tremely  insolent;  but  the  reporter  has 
ceased  to  wonder  at  it  since  hearing  a 
handsomely dressed woman  say to one of 
them,  who had asked her to buy  a bunch 
of roses:  “No, I  don’t  want  your  nasty 
flowers. 
I wouldn’t take them as a gift.”
The  superintendent’s  desk  in  a  large 
store is an excellent place  for  observing

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in the store  except  in  the  window.  Of 
course, people  began  to  drop  in to ask 
what had become of  them, and at least a 
score of people wanted one of them.  But 
he would hear to none of  it.  Those  kit 
tens were there to  stay.  He wishes now 
that he had listened.  Now  he  has some 
twenty-five to give away,  but  he  cannot 
find anyone to take them.
Some few of the druggists  have  taken 
into their hearts in the shape  of particu­
lar pets the pretty poll  parrots.  Ferrets 
are  found  in  a  few  drug stores.  They 
are  pretty  little  animals,  never  make 
themselves a nuisance,  and  are  sure  to 
keep  the  place  clear  of  rats and mice 
They  are  usually  kept  in pairs and be 
come quite tame and companionable.
It  is 
probable that the druggists will  not  be­
come such  victims to  the  fad  that  they 
will  have  a  stall fitted up and exhibit a 
Shetland pony or a  sacred  ibu  in  order 
to  get  ahead  of  a  rival  nearby; but so 
long as the spirit holds out he must have 
a pet of some kind in the store, or he will 
be considered a hoodoo.

And  so  the  list  might  go  on. 

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‘‘Madam,”  asks 

the manners of shoppers.  Here  the cus­
tomer comes who  has  any  complaint  to 
make,  and  the  way in which it is made, 
not infrequently the  complaint  itself, is. 
a  fair  index  of  the  real  character  and 
so'cial status of  the  individual.  The  re 
fined person states the grievance quietly, 
the clever one concisely,  the  voluble one 
in a deluge of words,  and the coarse  and 
ill-bred one somewhat in this wise:
‘‘I  bought  and  paid  for  a  pink  silk 
waist in this store  a  week  ago.  This  is 
what  was  sent  me,”  and  a  waist,  also 
pink,  was flourished angrily in the super 
intendent’s  face.  “It  ain’t  the  one  L 
bought at all. 
I’ve wrote  to  you  about 
it;  I’ve sent my friends  to  see  about  it; 
and  now  1  want  to  know  what  you’re 
goin’ to do about it.”
the  superintendent 
blandly—they  are  marvels  of  self-con­
trol  and  suavity,  these  functionaries— 
“are you sure this  is  not  the  waist  you 
bought?”
“Of course  I  am,”  snaps  the  furious 
woman.  “What  do you take me for?”
A lady, of  course;  that  she  would  in 
sist upon.  The title is  as  often  misap 
plied before as behind the counter. 
In a 
Fourth  avenue  laundry  the  other  day 
such  a lady was berating the proprietress 
about a pair of  lace  curtains  which  had 
not been done up to her satisfaction.
to  understand,”  she 
screamed,  at the end of  her tirade,  “that 
I am a lady, and I  know  better how cur­
tains  ought  to  look  than you,  who only 
wash ’em. 
I shan’t pay you a cent,” and 
out she bounced,  slamming  the  door  be­
hind her.
The washers  and  ironers  at  the  back 
of the room  had  stopped  their  work  to 
listen,  and  as  she  made  her noisy exit, 
one of them,  a big fat Irish woman, came 
forward  and  looked  out  the  door after 
her.
“Well,” she exclaimed in  her  inimita­
ble  brogue,  “if  that  thing’s a lady, I’m 
glad 1 ain’t one.”

“I  want  you 

P e ts o f  C hicago  D ru ggists.

says 

the  Chicago 

Tha latest “fad”  is  that  taken  up  by 
druggists in keeping miniature menager­
ies, 
Inter-Ocean. 
Every  up-to-date  drug  store  ha3  some 
kind or various kinds of pets,  and,  be  it 
a cat, dog, or whatever  it is, it must cer­
tainly  have  been  born  with  a  golden 
spoon in its  mouth,  to  judge  from  the 
habits of living  to which it aspires.
Cats  seem to  be  the  favored  ones  in 
the  classification  of  “druggists’  sun 
dries.”  A  popular  pillmaker  on  Rush 
street rather holds  the  premium  for  fe­
line attractions.  He has two in his place 
of  business,  a  beautiful,  pure-blooded 
Maltese and a  black  cat  that  is  black, 
indeed,  as not a single white  hair can  be 
found  upon  its  body.  They  are  both 
large and fat,  and, as  the  gentleman  in 
question  is  a bachelor  and  has  nothing 
else upon which to fix  his  affections, the 
cats get all there is of them,  and so  fond 
of him are  they  that they “ tag” him all 
over the store and sometime on the street 
as well.
Out on  West  Madison  street  there  is 
another druggist who makes  a  specialty 
of cats.  He is getting a  little  tired of it 
now,  however,  and  if  any  one wants a 
real nice,  thoroughbred kitten of any de­
scription,  he may have one.  Last spring 
passers-by invariably stopped in front of 
his window to watch the antics  of  those 
kittens.  When  first  noticed,  they  were 
just  beginning  to  find out they had legs 
and they made a  pretty  picture  as  they 
waddled around among the bottles in the 
window,  while the  mother,  well satisfied 
with a soft bed in a  sunny  corner,  slept 
and purred alternately.  People  got into 
the habit of  stopping  every  day  to  see 
how  much  the  kittens  had  grown,  and 
there  was  not  one  person  among  the 
thousand who passed  by  daily  who  did 
not have a personal  interest in them all. 
There were six  of  them.  Finally,  when 
they had knocked over  and  broken  four 
of  the  colored  lights  in  the window in 
succession, their  owner  began  to  think 
they were a nuisance,  but  he  had grown 
so attached to them that he couldn’t bear 
to let them go.  Besides,  they  had  been 
a  splendid  advertisement  for  his place. 
So he overlooked the  broken bottles,  but 
from that time on he gave them to under­
stand that they could stay anywhere else

T r a v er se  Cit y ,  July  5—1  herewith 
enclose  slip  cut  from  Grand  Traverse 
Herald.  The  manager  of  this  stock 
came here and billed the  town and coun­
try over to the effect  that he would open 
a fire sale of goods at 29 cents on the dol 
lar,  which, of course, on  the  face  of  it. 
was a  fake.
He  went to Mr. Bates  to  make  an  ad­
vertising contract with  him,  announcing 
his willingness to  pay  liberally  for  the 
same.  Mr.  Bates  declined  the advertis­
ing and came out the next week with the 
attached statement in  his  paper  regard­
ing  him.  The  result  of  his  enterprise 
was that  he  was  compelled  to  pay  $10 
per  day  license,  kept  open  but  a  few 
days, as popular  sentiment  was  against 
him, and he has left town.
I  think  a  statement  like  this  of  Mr. 
Bates warrants further  publication.  He 
refused a good,  liberal  advertisement  in 
the  interests  of  home  merchants  and 
home  people. 
It  seems  to  me  that  if 
others  would  take  the  stand  that  Mr. 
Bates has in  refusing  to  open their  col­
umns to this class of trade that we would 
have less trouble from traveling fakes.
There is no doubt  our  laws  are  weak 
and there is a good  deal  of  hesitancy  in 
trying to enforce a license, except under 
certain  conditions;  nevertheless,  it  is 
true that  this  class  of  merchants  is  of 
the poor sort, and  not  calculated  to  ad­
vance 
the  interests  of  resident  mer­
chants. 

F ra nk  Ha m ilton.

The editorial  statement  to  which  Mr. 

Hamilton refers is as follows:

The Herald refused  this week  to  take 
a large contract  for  advertising  from  a 
transient clothing concern which wanted 
to  open  up  here  a  stock  of  so-called 
cheap goods.  There is no  room here for 
such  a  business.  The  well-established 
business houses of the  city are fully  ca­
pable of meeting all demands of the trade 
in this or any other  line,  and  the  legit­
imate competition in the town is so close 
that no saving can  be  made  by  purchas­
ing of any transient sellers.  The Herald 
does  not  believe  that  such  short-lived 
stores are  any  benefit  to  a  community 
and is not  disposed to encourage  such  a 
business, although  it  might  make  some 
ready money  by so doing.  The  business 
men who pay the taxes and in every way 
contribute to  the  support  of  the  town 
and county and state are entitled to some 
consideration in this matter, and the pur­
chaser may be very sure of getting as low 
prices for good goods as can  be  made  by 
anybody.  We  believe  we  are  serving 
the best  interests  of  the  whole  county 
when we refuse such  advertising  as this 
referred  to.

There is a  difference  between  having 
too many irons in the fire and having  too 
little  fire  for  one’s  irons.  Very  little 
ironing will  be done with  a  single  iron.
Reciprocity  is  needed.  Thousands  of 
Americans go to Europe to spend money. 
Europeans  do  not  come  to this  country 
for that purpose.

Yes,  we’ve got  ’em !

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can do.

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St. 

I g n a ce,  July  5—The  Business 
Men’s  Association held a  meeting  Tues- 
dap night,  and there was  a  good  attend­
ance.  President  P.  Mulcrone  dropped 
the gavel  for order,  and  after  some  pre­
liminary business  had  been  transacted, 
Hon.  Michael  Cumbers  presented  the 
report  of  the  financial  committee  who 
had  been  appointed  at a  previous  meet­
ing to collect subscriptions  to  meet  the 
expenses  of  the  Marquette  demonstra­
tion to be held on  August  7.  The  com­
mittee,  which consisted  of  himself  and 
Messrs.  Kynoch  and  Agrell,  had,  he 
stated,  met  with  unexpected  success. 
The members  had  personally  canvassed 
the business portion of the city  and  had 
secured  the  sum  of  $314,  which  was 
more  than  they  had  anticipated.  The 
report was then submitted in  due  form, 
and  on  motion,  the  report  was  unani­
mously adopted  and  this  was  followed 
by a special  vote of thanks  to  the  com­
mittee for their efforts in the matter.  A 
vote of thanks to the committee  was also 
extended  by the meeting to  J.  M.  Camp­
bell,  who had  personally  collected  sub­
scriptions and rallied up some delinquent 
members.
arrangements, 
through  its  chairman,  C.  W.  Bertch, 
.made a  report  of  its  proceedings,  and 
it was evident that  careful  and  earnest 
efforts are being  made  to  suitably  pre­
pare for the important  occasion.

committee  of 

The 

C om m ittees for tb e  G rocers’  Picnic.
At tbe  regular meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association,  held 
July 2,  the following committees  for  the 
annual  picnic  were  appointed:
Sports—J.  George  Lehman,  Julius  J. 
Wagner, Frank P.  Merrill.
Badges—J. A. Morrison, Sumner Wells, 
C. C.  Bunting.
Program—Henry J. Vinkemulder, E. J. 
Herrick,  H.  M.  Liesveld.
Judges—W. L.  Freeman,  Peter  Schuit, 
B.  Van Anrooy.
It bad been expected that the time and 
place for holding the picnic  would be de­
cided  at this meeting,  but,  after  discus­
sing the question at some length,  it  was 
laid over until the  next  meeting,  which 
will  be held on the evening of July  16.

A fter  U n licen sed   P ed d lers  a t  D elray.
Delr a y,  July  8—The  grocers  of  this 
place are  taking  steps  to  protect  them­
selves against tbe produce  peddlers  who 
daily  frequent  this  section.  A petition 
has been drawn up and  will be circulated 
among the grocers.  When enough signa­
tures have been  secured  it  will  be  pre­
sented to tbe township board.  The peti­
tion requests that the  peddlers  be  made 
to take out licenses or  stop  selling  their 
wares.  Frank T.  Hophauer,  the  princi­
pal  agitator,  states that the  peddlers  are 
irresponsible and that it  is not right that 
they should be allowed  to  compete  with 
the grocerymen,  unless they pay the reg­
ular State license  fee.

Use Tradesman Coupon  Books.

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

Acids—Tartaric is ruling strong at the 
I advance  noted  last week,  and  the  de­
mand  has continued  active.  Citric  con­
tinues in  seasonable  request,  with  man­
ufacturers’  prices  firm. 
In  other  de­
scriptions there is  little  of  interest  be­
yond  a  fair  jobbing  movement  at  un­
changed but steady prices.

Alcohol—Lower  quotations  for  corn, 
together with continued  competition  be­
tween the various distilling interests, has 
influenced  a  further  decline  in  prices. 
Wood is held firmly,  with a  fair  average 

supplies  again 

Arsenic—The  consuming 

trade  has 
been absorbing a fair  amount  of  stock, 
and,  with 
reduced, 
the market has  a  steady  undertone  and 
sellers adhere to  the  former  quotations, i
Balsams—There  have  been  large  ar­
rivals of copaiba  during  the  week,  and: 
some  effort  has  been  made  to  depress i 
prices for stock  in  first  bands,  but with-1 
out much success.  Dealers report a con- I 
tinued  active  jobbing  demand  for  a ll! 
varieties at full previous quotations.

Cacao Butter—Is quiet  but  higher,  in 
sympathy  with  the  advanced  prices I 
realized  at  the  regular  auction  sales in j 
London and Amsterdam on Tuesday last. I
increased j 
offerings,  the  market  being  better  sup- j 
plied and prices have declined.

Caffeine—Is  easier  under 

Cassia Buds—The spot stock  has  been 
increased  by  further direct arrivals,  but | 
trade demand is satisfactory  and  values j 
are well  maintained.

Cod Liver Oil—A continued  good  job­
bing business is reported,  with  the  tone I 
of the market steady.

Cuttle Fish Bone—Continues  to  move 

freely on consuming  orders.

Cream Tartar—There is a good inquiry 
for  limited  quantities  and  manufactur­
ers’  prices are decidedly firm.

Essential  Oils—The  firmer position of 
cassia  noted  last  week 
is  maintained. 
Citronella is  very  scarce  and  decidedly 
stronger,  holders  having  advanced  their 
quotations and the tendency  is  still  up­
ward.  Peppermint has continued to  im­
prove and all varieties are  again  higher.
Gums—The principal  holders  of  kino 
have reduced  the  price  of  whole.  The 
position of rdfined camphor is unchanged 
but the demand is less active and  only  a 
moderate  business 
reported.  The 
only indication of weakness is one  lot  of 
Japan,  in tbe hands of an outside  holder 
anxious to realize,  which could probably 
be  had  at  a  shade  under  the  ruling 
quotation. 
from  abroad 
states that  the  stock  of  crude  in  Ham­
burg is  exhausted.  London  advices  re­
port  an  easier  market,  but the general 
opinion is that the fluctuations are apart 
of the syndicate manipulations.

Information 

is 

Opium—Has received very little atten­
tion except  from  consumers,  and  there 
is nothing to report  beyond  a  fair  job-
bing trade.

Quinine—The  market  continues  firm 
in tone,  with a fair business reported for 
consumption.

Roots—Senega is easier in the  absence 
of business and the  market  is  unsettled 
and irregular.  There  are  no  new  fea­
tures in golden seal or serpentaria.  Un­
bleached  Jamaica  ginger 
is  'higher. 
Ipecac is stronger and  prices  have  been 
advanced.

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Two Years—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
Three Years—8. E. Parkbill, Owosso.
Four Years—F. W. R  Perry,  Detroit 
Five Years—A. C. Schum acher, Ann Arbor.
President— C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
S ecretary—F. W. R. Perry .D etroit, 
treasu rer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
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PHYSICIANS  A ND  PROPRIETARIES.
While by far the larger  and  most  pro­
gressive  portion  of  the  medical profes­
sion  of  to-day  recognize  the  value  of 
some  of  the  remedies  classed  as  “pro­
prietary,” and  freely  use  them  in  their 
practice,  there is  still  a  portion  of  the 
body who throw themselves  back upon a 
“creed  outworn,”  and  stiffly  refuse  to 
prescribe anything of which  they  are ig­
norant,  not  merely  of  the  component 
parts,  but  of  the  method of compound­
ing.  They must  be  informed,  not  only 
of what is in a remedy,  but  the  manner 
in  which  the  ingredients  are  manipu­
lated so as to produce the preparation.

That such a position  is  illogical,  goes 
without saying;  for if it were carried out 
to its legitimate conclusions  they  would 
not  use  any  of  the natural drugs,  such 
as opium, camphor or  squill,  unless they 
could  penetrate  the  secrets  of  nature’s 
laboratory,  and learn by  what  processes 
the rootlets of the plant extract, and  the 
tissues perfect the  proximate  principles 
which  makes them  valuable. 
It is illog­
ical,  too,  from  another  standpoint:  It  is 
the physician’s duty to  combat  and  con­
quer disease  by  whatever means is avail­
able,  and  to  use  that  substance  which 
yields him this victory tutissime, citissimc 
safely,  most
et 
swiftly and most agreeably. 
It would be 
just as rational for a  soldier  to refuse to 
use an explosive whose  merits  had  been 
proven  by  experiment,  but  whose  con­
stituents  and  mode  of  manufacture  are 
kept secret,  as for  a  physician,  brought 
face to face  with a  deadly  disease,  to re­
fuse to use a preparation  that  had  been 
proven effective therein,  simply  because 
it is' a “proprietary.”

jucundissime—most 

Many  men  taking  this  ultra position 
do so simply  because they  fancy  that  it 
gives  them  a  certain 
importance,  but 
there are others who  are  actuated by  an 
honorable pride in  the  traditions  of  the 
profession,  which lead  them  to  cling  to 
certain principles, the origin  and  raison 
d'etre of which  belong to  a  remote  past, 
and have no part in the life of to-day.

In  former times, or before  the compar­
atively  recent  general  distribution  of 
knowledge,  the  physician  was  the  em­
bodiment of the science  and  learning  of 
his day,  and it was a tenet regarded with 
religious scrupulousness by  him,  that he 
must share with  his  brother  physicians 
(not with the public)  all  discoveries  and 
advances made by him in the art of med­
In  those  days  all  medical  and 
icine. 
scientific  knowledge  was 
imparted 
through the medium of the Latin tongue, 
in which all works on  medicine and sim­
ilar subjects were written  and  (after the 
art  of  printing  had  been  discovered) 
printed.  This was done, avowedly,  as  a 
safeguard  against  the  vulgarization  of 
science.  There  were  no  medical  or

pharmaceutical journals in  those days to 
spread intelligence of each new discovery 
from pole to pole almost as  soon  as  dis­
covered.  The  sole  mode  of  conveying 
information  of  this  description—up  to 
within a hundred  years—was  by  letter, 
and  by  the issuance  of ponderous tomes 
printed in Latin.

The  apothecaries  of  those  days,  too, 
were a different race of beings from  those 
of to-day,  and Latin was also the  tongue 
in  which  all  their  knowledge  was  pre­
served from the public, or the  “common 
herd,” as the  unlearned  were  regarded. 
The chemist, the wonder-worker,  was  as 
yet  unknown,  although  he  was  repre­
sented  partly  by  the  apothecary  and 
partly  by the  alchemist.  So far as chem­
istry  relates  to  medicine,  however,  the 
ancient apothecary occupied  the  relative 
place of the chemist of  to-day.

Under these circumstances, all  knowl­
edge of medicine and  pharmacy  was  re­
tained in a close  community  of  learned 
men,  living to a great extent  apart,  and 
speaking a  different  language  from  thè 
world around them,  and under these  cir­
cumstances  the  Ethieal  Code  was  born 
and flourished.  Then  every  pharmacist 
bought his crude drugs from the druggist, 
or herbalist,  and made his own  prepara­
tions, from the smallest to the most com­
plicated,  and from beginning to the  end.
Contrast this condition  of  things with 
that of to-day, the  genius  of  which  lat­
ter is the division  of  labor.  The  chem­
ist, unknown as  such  a  couple  of  cen­
turies ago, daily grows in  importance  as 
a factor in the production of  the articles 
of  the  medical  armamentarium,  and  as 
he  grows, 
the  apothecary  diminishes 
(as a member  of  a  learned  profession), 
and the doctor—?  What  does  the  aver­
age  physician  of  to-day  know  of  the 
science  of  chemistry?  A  pretence  is 
still made of  teaching  chemistry  in the 
medical schools, it is true, but how much 
of  it  is  learned,  absorbed  and  carried 
away by the graduate?  Mighty little.

The entire fabric,  the whole range and 
condition of  things  constituting  the  art 
and science  of  medicine  has  changed— 
all  except  the  Code  of  Ethics,  which 
still hangs as a clog  around  the  feet  of 
its votaries,  preventing  them  from  tak­
ing advantage of remedies that are freely 
used by their wiser brethren. 
If  one  of 
them were told every  step  taken  in  the 
chemistry of  some  of  the  newer  “pro­
prietaries,”  if  all  the  ingredients  and 
apparatus  were  given  him  he  would 
neither  understand  the  one  nor  know 
how  to  use  the  other.  How  absurd, 
then, does this opposition to this class of 
articles seem.  The Code is toppling  and 
it must soon be a thing of  the  past,  and 
the sooner  this occurs  the  better  it will 
be for medicine.

Bicycle inventors  come thick and  fast. 
American  inventive  genius  apparently 
has  concentrated upon the wheel.  Every 
week some inventor comes  forward with 
some new device  designed  to  make  cy 
cling  easier,  or  safer,  or  faster,  or  to 
make a wheel  lighter. 
In  France,  how­
ever,  the  inventors  are  experimenting 
with petroleum-driven bicyclettes.  Why 
petroleum  is  better  than  the  human 
leg,  and  why  the  machine  should  be 
dubbed “bicyclette,” are  questions  only 
a plausible Frenchman can answer.

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Declined—Alcohol.

ACIDUM.

A cetlcnm ....................... 
8® 10
Benzolcum  German..  65®  75
Boracic 
15
......................  
Carbollcum .  ............... 
22® 32
C ltrlcum .......................  
41® «4
H ydrochlor.................... 
3®  5
Nltrocum 
.....................  10® 12
O zallcum ......................   10®  12
Phosphorlum  d ll........  
20
Salleylicnm...................  55® 65
Sulphuricum.................   Hi® 5
Tannlcum................... 1  40@1  60
Tartarlcum .................... 
33® 35

AMMONIA.

“ 

Aqua, 16  deg.................. 
4®  6
20  deg.................. 
6®  8
Carbonas  ......................   12® 14
Chroridnm .....................  12®  14

a n il in e .

Black.............................
Brown.............................  80@1
Bed..................................  « ®  50
Yellow........................ 2  50®3 00

b a c c a b.

Cnbeae (po  25)...........  

fiS K S te ;::.-::::  3

20® 25

  S

BALSAMUM.

Copaiba..........................  45®  50
Pern............... .............. 
. J®3 99
Terabln.Canada  .... 
45®  50
T olutan..........................  50® So

COBTBX.

Abies,  Canadian...................  18
Cinchona F la v a ...................  18
Euonymus  atropnrp............  30
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po..............  20
Prnnns V lrglnl......................  12
Qulllala,  grd.........................   *0
Sassafras  .........•••••••..........  J*
Ulmus Po (Ground  15).........  15

SXTRACTUM.
Glycyrrhlsa  Glabra.. 
24®  25
po............  33®  35
Haematox, 16 lb. box..  11®  12
is .................  13®  14
V(s...............   14®  15
vjs...............   16®  17
PERBtJ

•• 
“ 
« 

(jkrbonate Preclp........  
®  1®
Citrate and Q ulnla....  ®3  50
Citrate  Soluble.....  ..  @  80
Ferrocyanidum Sol —   @ 
jo
Solnt  Chloride............  @ 
lg
Sulphate,  com’l ................ »®  2
pure..............  @  7

«' 

A rnica.........................   12®  14
A nthem ls....................   18®  ®
Matricaria 
18© ¿5

....... 

FLORA.

FOLIA.

Barosma 
Cassia  Acntlfol,  Tin- 

.......••■•••••  14®  30
« »   *

n lT elly ...;.. 

Salvia  officinalis,  Ü*
UraUrsl 
....................  

and  Vie......................  13®  »
8®  10

“ 
“  

“ 
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<« 
•• 

SUMMl.
Acacia,  1st  picked 

®  *0
@  40
2d 
.. 
3d 
®  *>
... 
©  20
sifted sorts. 
p o ...................  60®  80
5!®  60
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60). 
©  12
“  Cape, (po.  20) 
®  50
Socotri, (po.  60) 
Catechu, Is, (Vis, 14 V**,
16)............................. 
©  18
Am m onias...................  55®  «0
Assafoetlda, (po.35; 
30®  35
Bensoinnm...................  50®  55
Camphora  ..................   58®  60
Buphorblum  po  ........   35® 
io
Galbannm....................   ®2  50
Gamboge,  po...............   65®  70
Gualacnm,  (po  35)....  @  30
Kino,  (po  2 00)......... 
@2  00
Mastic  ................  
  @  80
Myrrh, (po. 45)............  @  4®
Opll  (po  3 00@3  20).. 1  85@1  90
Shellac  .......................   40®  60
4t@  45
T r.tgacanth.................  50®  80

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bleached  —  

Absinthium ...........................   25
Bupatorlnm ...........................   20
Lobelia....................................  25
Major u m ................................  28
Mentha  Piperita...................  g
“  V lr...........................   26
Bne..............- ........................   80
Tan ace tum, V ........................  **
Thymus,  V .............................  26

MASNS8IA.

Calcined, P at...............  55®  60
Carbonate,  P at............  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M —   2u®  25 
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  36 

OLNUM.

A bsinthium .................2  50®3 00
Amygdalae, D nlc........   30®  50
Amydalae. Amarae__ 8 00®8 25
A nlsl.............................1  90@2 00
Aurantl  Cortex...........1  80@2 00
Bergamll  .....................3 00®3 20
C ajlpntl...................... 
60®  65
Caryophylll.................  75®  80
Chenopodli.................  @1  60
Clnnam onll..................1 4 @l  60
Cltronella....................   45®  50
Conlnm  Mao.............  
35®  65
Copaiba........................  80®  90

Cubebae....................  1  50®1  60
Exechthltos...............  1  20® 1  30
E rlgeron....................... l  2n®l 30
G aultherla....................1  50@1 60
Geranium,  ounce.......  ®  76
Go6slpll,  Sem. gal......   80®  70
Hedeoma  .....................1  25®1  40
Jum perl.......................   50@2 00
L avendnla..................   90®2 00
Llmonls.........................1  30@i so
Mentha Piper................1  85®3 OO
Mentha Verld.............. 1  P0@2 00
Morrhuae, gal...............1  75@1 80
Myrcla, ounce.............   ®  50
O live............................   90@3  00
Plcis Liquida, (gal..35)  10®  12
K lein!......................... 
88®  96
Rosmarini............ 
1  00
Rosse,  ounce................6 50®8 50
Succlnl.........................   40®  45
S abina.........................  90®1  00
Santal  ..........................2 50®7 00
Sassafras......................  50®  55
Slnapls, ess, ounce__   ®  65
Tlglll............................  
®1  00
T hym e.........................  40®  50
opt  .................  ©1  60
Theobromas.................  15®  20

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POTASSIUM.
B1 Caro.......................  
15®  18
bichrom ate.................  11®  13
45®  48
Bromide...................... 
Carb.
12®
Chlorate  (po.l7®10).
16®
50®
Cyanide......................
2  9G@3 00
Iodide.........................
Potassa, Bitart,  pure. 
24® 26
@ 15
Potassa, Bitart, com..
Potass  Nltras, opt__
8® 10
7® 9
Potass Nltras.............
Prussiate....................
25® 28
15® 18
Sulphate  po...............

RADIX.
A conitum .................
Anchusa  . 
Arum,  po.
Gentiana  (po. 12).......
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15).. 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)....................
Hellebore,  Ala,  po...

20® 25
22® 25
12® 15
@ 25
20® 40
8® 10
16® 18
® 30
15® 20
15® 20
3001 40
35®  40
Iris  plox (po. 35®38). 
Jalapa,  p r....................  40®  45
Maranta,  Vis_______  
®  35
Podophyllum, po........   15®  18
Rhel..............................   75@1  00
“  cut.......................   @1  75
“  pv.........................  75@1  35
Splgella.......................   35®  38
Sanguinaria,  (po  25). 
®  20
50®  55
Serpentaria................. 
Senega.......................  
55®
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H 
®@
M
Scillae, (po. 85)...........
10®
Symplocarpus,  Fcetl-
®@15®
dus,  po.....................
Valeriana, Bng. (po.30)
German..
Ingiber a ..................
Zingiber  j .................
SXMXN.

18®
18®
O14®
Anlsum,  (po.  20).
Aplnm  (graveleons)..
4®
Bird, Is .......................
Carol, (po. 18)............   10®
Cardamon....................1  00®1  25
Corlandrum........... .. • •  12®  14
Cannabis Satlva..........  4® 
5
Cydonlum....................  7501  00
Cnenopodium  ...........   10®  12
Dlpterlx Odorate  .......1  80©2 00
Foenlculum ...............  ©  15
Foenugreek,  po.......... 
6®  8
U n i ................................3V,® 4
U ni, grd.  (bbl. 3Vi)..  3Vi®  4
L obelia.......................   85©  40
4®  5
Fharlarls Canarian.... 
R ap a............................   4 Vi©  5
8 
Slnapls  Albn.............  
.7©
N igra...........   11®
12

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Frumentl, W., D.  Co.. 2 0002 50
D. F. K.......2 0C®2  25
1  25®1  50
 
Junlperis  Co. O. T — 1  65®2 00
Saacharum  N.  B ......1  90®2 10
SpL  Vlnl  Galll............1  75@6 50
Vlnl Oporto................. 1  2502 00
Vlnl  Alba.....................1  25®2 00

SFONSBS.

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................  2 50®2  75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
carriage  ..................  
2 00
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
wool  carriage.......... 
1  10
Bxtra  yellow  sheeps’
carriage.................... 
85
Grass sheeps’wool oar
rla g e .........................  
65
75
Hard for  slate  use —  
Yellow Reef, for  slate
use.......................... 
1  40

SYRUPS-

A ocacla.................................   50
Zingiber  ................................  50
Ipecac.....................................  60
Ferrl  Iod................................  50
Aurantl  Cortes......................  50
Rhel  Arom............................   80
Slmllax  Officinalis...............  60
__   50
Senega...................................  60
Scillae.....................................  60
80
“  Co.............................. 
T o iatau .................................   50
5«
Pranas  vlrg................... 

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Co..............   60

Co..............   75

Aconltum  Napellls B ..........  60
VI
Aloes................................. 
!  60
and m yrrh..................   60
A rnica...................................  50
Asafcetlda..............................   4)
Atrope Belladonna...............  60
Bensoln.................................   60
„ 
Co.............................  50
Sanguinarla...........................  50
Barosm a................................  50
Can tharldes...... ....................  75
Capsicum..............................   50
Ca damon..............................   75
„   “ 
Castor..........................................1 00
Catechu...................  
50
C inchona..............................  so
Colomba................................  50
Conlum .................................   50
Cubeba...................................  50
D igitalis................................  50
Rrgot......................................   50
G entian..................................  50
Co..............................  60
G ualca...................................  50
Z ingiber................................  50
Hyoscyamus.........................  50
Iodine.....................................  75
Colorless........   75
Ferri  Chlorldum..............  35
K in o ......................................   50
Lobelia...................................  50
M yrrh.....................................  50
Nux  Vomica.........................  50
O pll........................................  85
11  Camphorated.................  50
“  Deoaor................................2 00
Aurantl Cortex......................  50
Q uassia.................................   50
Rhatany  ..........................  
  50
Rhel........................................   50
Cassia  Acntlfol....................  50
Co...............   50
Serpentarla...........................  50
Stramonium...........................  60
T olutau.................................   60
V alerian................................  50
VeratrumVerlde..................   50

ammon..........  60

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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ground, 

jBther, Spts  Nit, 8 F ..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  38®  40
Alnm en.......................   2)4®  3

squlbbs  . 

“ po.... 
“ B po. 

(po.
3®  4
7)................................ 
Annatto.......................   40®  50
Antimoni, po............... 
4®  5
55® 60
et Potass T. 
A ntlpyrln....................  ®1  40
Antlfebrin...................   @  15
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  53
Arsenicum..................  
5®  7
Balm Gilead  Bud  ... 
38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............. 1  20®1  80
Calcium Chlor, Is, (Vis
10;  M®,  12)...............  @  9
Can tharldes  Russian,
p o ..............................  @1  00
Capslcl  Fructus, a f...  ®  15
O   15
®  15
Caryophyllus, (po.  15)  10®  12
Carmine,  No. 40..........   ®3 75
Cera  Alba, 8. & F .......  50®  55
Cera Flava..................   40®  42
Coccus  .......................   O   40
Cassia Fructus............  ®  25
Centrarla......................  ®  10
Cetaoeum....................  Q   40
Chloroform.................  60®  68
®1  26
Chloral Hyd Crst.........1  15®1  30
Chondrus....................  20®  25
Cluchonldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German  3 Vi©  12
Cocaine.............................5 0:@5 25
Coras,  list,  dls.  per
oent  ........................ 
Creasotum............... 
Creta,  (hbl. 75)....... 
prep.............  
preclp.......... 

65
O  36
®  2
“ 
5®  5
9®  11
“ 
“  Rubra................ 
  ®  8
Croons........................ 
500  55
Cudbear.......................   ®  24
Cupri Sulph..........—   5 ©  
6
D extrine........ .............  10®  12
Bther Sulph.................  75®  90
Bmery,  all  numbers..  ©  8
po....................  ©  6
B rgotajpo.)  40..........  80®  35
Flake  W hite...............  12®  15
G alla............................  ©  28
Gambler— ...............  8  © 9
Gelatin,  Cooper.......... 
O  60
30®  50
French.......... 
Glassware  flint, by box 80.
Less than box  70.
Glue,  Brown............ 
9®  15
IS®  26
Glyoerina....................  13®  20
Grana Paradisi............  ©   22
Humulus......................  25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite..  ®   79 
©  69
“ Cor  ... 
Ox Rubrum 
©  89
Ammonlatl..  ©  99 
Cnguentum.  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.............   ©  65
Ichthyobolla, Am..  ..1 2601  50
Indigo...........................  75@1  00
Iodine,  Resubl............3 80®3 90
Iodoform......................  @4  70
Lupulln........................  ®2 25
Lycopodium...............   60®  65
M a d e ...........................  70®  75
Uqnor  Arsen  et  Hy-
drarglod..................  
®  27
Uquor Potass Arslnltls  10®  12 
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
lVi)...............................2Vi® 4
Mannia,  8. F ...............   60®  II

“  W hite................. 

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Morphia, S.  P.  A W.  1 75©2  CO 
C.  Co......................  1  65@1  90
Moschus  Canton........   @ 4 0
Myristlca, No  1 .........  65®  70
Nux Vomica,  (po 20)..  @ 1 0
Os.  Sepia......................  15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
C o..............................   @2 00
Plcis Uq, N.*C., Vi gal
do*  ...........................  @2 00
Plcis Liq., q u a rts.......  @1  00
p in ts..........  @  85
Pll Hydrarg,  (po. 80)..  @ 5 0
Piper  Nigra, (po. 22)..  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__   @  3
Pllx Burgun.................  @  7
IP®  12
Plumbl A cet............... 
Pul vis Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrnm,  boxes  H
&P. D.  Co., dos.......  @125
Pyrethrnm,  pv............  20®  30
Quasslae.....................  
8®  10
Qulnla, S.  P. A W .... 34 «@39 Vi
27®  37
8.  German... 
Rubla  Tlnctorum.......  12®  14
SaccharumLactlspv. 
18®  20
Salacln........................2 50@2 60
Sanguis  Draconls.......  40®  50
Sapo,  W ........................  12®  14
,T  M.........................  10®  12
“  G .........................  @  15
Seldllts  M ixture....... 
@  20
Slnapls..........................  ©  18
,r  opt....................  ®  30

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Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
V oes.........................   ®  84
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  84 
Soda  Boras,  (po.6Vi-9)6%@  9
Soda  et Potass T art...  24®  25
lVi®  2
Soda Carb................... 
Soda,  Bl-Carb..............  8®  5
Soda,  A sh......................3 Vi® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.............  
®  2
Spts. Bther C o ............  50®  55
Myrcla  Dom.......  ©2 00
Myrcla Im p........   @2 50
Vlnl Rect. bbl  .. 
2  S3
2 58
“ 
“  Vi bbl. 
2  61
“  10 gal. 
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2 63
Stiychnla  Crystal.......1 40@1  45
Sulphur, Subl.............   2V»@  3
Tam arinds..................  
8®  10
Terebenth Venice.......  28®  30
Theobrom ae................... 45 
Vanilla....................... 9 00®16 00
7® 8
Zlncl  Sulph..........
OILS.
Bbl. Gal
Whale, w inter__
70
70
Lard,  extra..........
65
60
Lard, No.  1.................  40
45
40
61
Linseed, pure raw 
?4
Unseed,  boiled..
(6
63
Neat’s  Foot,  winter
strained................. 
65
71
65
40
Spirits Turpentine
35

Roll...................   2 

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p a i n t s . 

lb .
Red  Venetian...............Hi  2®8
Ochre, yellow  M ars...  1M  2@4
Ber.........1*  2©3
“ 
Putty,  commercial.... 2M  2Vi©8
“  strictly  pure.......2V4  2M@8
Vermilion Prime Amer­
13®15
ican ............................. 
70075
Vermilion.  E nglish.... 
Green, Paris............... 
20Vi@27
Green,  Peninsular....... 
13016
Lead,  red ......................  5M®6
“  w h ite .................5V£®6
@70
Whiting, white Span... 
@9G
Whiting,  Gliders'........  
1
White, Paris  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Bng.
c liff.................. .......... 
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  (0@1  15
@ 2Vi
No. 1 Turp  Coach__ 1  1001  20
Bxtra Turn.................  1«0©1  70
Coach  Body.................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp  F u rn ........1  00@1  10
Butra Turk Damar...  1  55®1  60 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turn........................... 
70®75
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The 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 tb«.n 
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.

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Pears.

Peaches.

1  10
i n
1  40
1  40
<Q,1  55

Gooseberries.
Common...................... 
P ie ............................... 
M axw ell...................... 
Shepard’s ..................  
California............ 
Monitor 
Oxford__
Domestic..................... 
l 0
R iverside....,.............. 
l 25
Pineapples.
Common.......................1  W@1  30
Johnson’s  sliced........  
2 50
2 7!
grated........  
Booth’s sliced.............  @ '5
grated —  ..  .  @2  <S
1  in
95
1 t
<  io
i  25
j  7~
l  05
9;*
85
............. * .  2 35
2  35
80
1.0
la ib ...........  35
95

Quinces.
Common...................... 
Raspberries.
Red................................ 
Black  Hamburg.......... 
Brie  black 
.  .... 
Strawberries.
Lawrence.................... 
Ham burgh..................  
Brie............................... 
T errapin.........................  
Whortleberries.
Blueberries................. 
Corned  beef 
Roast beef  ...............  
Potted  ham,  Vi lb .......................1 3u

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la lb ............... 

Meats.

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Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1  15
French style....... 2 00
Limas  ................. 1  25
Lima,  green 
........................ 1  15
soaked.'......................   70
Lewis Boston  Baked............ 1  25
Bay State  Baked...................12'
World’s  Fair  Baked............ 1  a-
PlCnlc Baked.........................   95
Hamburgh  ............................j  j»
Livingston  E d en .......................1 0u
P u rity .....................................  90
1  25
Honey  Dew.................... 
Morning Glory
Soaked 
e
Hambnrgh  marrofat.............1  80
early June 
...1  50
Champion Eng.. 1  40
.t  4T 
petit  pot» . 
fancy  sifted 
.1   6f
f5 I

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Peas.

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Beaus.

COCOA  SHELLS.

35ib  bags........... 
Less Quantity 
Pound  packages 

... 
..  6£37
CO FFEE.

(£3
Q31i

G reen.

Rib.
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Fair 
is
Good 
19
Prim e..................................... 21
Golden....................................21
Peaberry 
.............................23
Santos.
Fair.........................................19
Good.......................................20
Prim e..................................... 22
............................. 23
Peaberry 
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair.................................... ...21
Good...................................  ..22
Fancy 
..................................24
Maracaibo.
Prime 
...............................23
Milled 
24
 
..... 
Interior............................. 
25
Private Growth...................  27
M andehllng..........................28
Im itation...............................25
Arabian.................................. 28

Mocha.

Java.

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Package.

To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add Vic. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
M cL aughlin’s  XXXX.  ¿1  36 
Lion. 60 or 100 lb.  case...  21  30
Arbuckle............................  21  30
J e rse y .................. 
21  30
E xtract.
Valley City  Vi  gross 
75
Felix 
5
Hummel’s, foil, gross 
:  65
*  g  |

KOFFA-AID

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tin 

100 packages in  ca*e........
60 packages in  case........
Bulk  . . .
-ted 

CHICORY,
.............................. 
CLOTHES  LIN ES. 

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Cotton.  40 it 
50 !t 
80 ft 
Tf #t 
30 ft 
« -1  ............. 
*8 * ........ 

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per dos.  1  25 
140
1  60
1  75
1  90
8b
1  00

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4 doz  in ease

A X LE GREASE.
doz
.......  70
Mica  .............
.......  55
éLurora............
.... 
60
Castor Oil.......
Diamond........
.......  50
Frazer’s .......... __  
?5
.......  55
Paragon 
..  ..

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

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Acme.
Va ID.  ;auo. 3  d o i---- 
45
2 :b . 
“ 
.................   T5
i  “ ............. 
i 
lb. 
i eo
Bulk....................................... 
10
Arctic.
%  Ei can« 6 doz  case.......... 
55
*  lb  “  4 doz  “ 
...........1  10
1  Ei  “  2 doz  “ 
........... 2 00
...........  9  00
%  E>  “  1 dot  “ 
40
Red Star, % ft  cans............ 
*  ft  “ 
............ 
76
1  40
1 ft  “ 
Van  Anrooy’s  Pure.
V lb. cans, 6 doz  case....... 
85
.......  1  65
»« lb.  “ 
3 25
1  lb.  “ 
45 
reifer’i,  la lb. cane, doi. 
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..  1  50
Our Leader,  % .b cane....... 
45
Vi lb  cans........  
75
...  .  1  50
1 lb cans 
BATH  B RICK .
2 
dozen In case.

4  doz.  “ 
2 doz.  “ 

Vi lb. 
1 lb. 

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BLUING. 

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E nglish.......................  
-  80
Bristol.....................................  70
Dom“etlc  ..............................   60
Gross
Arctic, 4 os  ovale  ............. 3  60
“ 
8 os 
6 75
“ 
pints,  round............  9 00
“  No. 2, sifting box...  2 75
. 
»  No. 3, 
4 00
NO. 5, 
...  8 00
l os ball  ...................4  50
Mexican Liquid, 4  oz........ 3  60
8 oz..........  6  80
1  90
Mo. 2 H url.............
»0.1  “
2  00 
2  ll 
»0.2 Carpet 
2  50 
No. 1 
...................
2 50
Parlor Gem............
85
Common W blsk............
1 0U
1 
Fancy 
............
2 85
Warehouse...........  
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BRUSHES.
1  25 
Stove, No.  1..................
1  50 
“  10...................
1  76
“  15...................
86 
Sloe Root Scrub, 2  row 
1  25
Rice Boot  Scrub, 8 row
Palmetto,  goose..................   1  50
CANDLES.
Hotel. 40  lb  boxes
Star,  40 
............
“ 
Paraffine  ...........................
Wicklng  —
u v «MRD  GOODS

10
9
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Fish.
Clams

Little Neck,  1 lb

“  2  lb ...............
Clam Chowder.
Cove Oysters.

Standard, 8 lb
Standard,  1 lb

21b..................
Lobsters.

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star,  1  lb —  
“  2  lb .........................
Picnic, 1 lb ........................
“ 
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1  A)
.1  90
2 2f.

, 
Soaked  .............................. 
Harris standard
VanCamp’s  marrofat__
.  1  1‘
early June..
.  1  3
Archer’s  Early Blossom .  1  2.
F re n c h .............................
2  1
Mushrooms.
French.............................
1932:
Pnmpkln.
B rie.....................................
90
Squash.
H ubbard.......... ...............
..1  r>
Succotash.
Hamburg................. _ . . .
..13
80 Soaked__ _________
..  $
1  45 Honey  Dew........................ ..1  %
B rie........ ....................
..135
2  45
Tomaloe*.
3  Sii Hancock  .........................
P0
2  *> Eclipse...................

Szcelslor
Hamburg............................ ..1  30
......................... - .2  65
210
CHOCOLATE.
2  25
Baker’s.
2  25 German Sweet............. 
.2 25 Premium..................
Breakfast  Cocoa__
1  80
■CHEESE.
i  5 Amboy 
.
:  3" Acme............................
2
Jersey...........................
19
Lenawee 
Riverside............
(&  4 
Told  Medal
Skim 
.........
©  6 
il  u 
B riet__
nl  3 
Bu&.r.  __
Leiden  .  ..  . 
i l   7
tm.nirg<
Pineapple 
Roqnefn-t 
Sap  Sago
8chweluer,  imported 
CATSUP.
2  75
Half  pint, 25 bottles 
4 60
Pint 
Quart 1 dos bottles 
8  50
Half pint, per  doz  ............. 1  85
Pint, 25rbotties........   .......... 4 50
Quart  per  doz  ...................3 75

28
37
45
9 Vi
9*
9 a
10
10
536
11
1  00
o   5
324
3*5
3 I8
3-'4
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Blue Label Brand.

Triumph Brand.

4«ime»tlr 

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.

CREAM   TA RTA R.
Strictly  pure...................... 
3c
T elfers  Absolute................ 
80
Grocers’............................... 15325
CLOTHES  PIN S. 

D aisy  B rand.

5 gross boxes  ..  ............40345

“ 

“ 
“ 

Mackerel.
Standard, 1 lb ...................... 110 Gallon 
2  lb 
....
.....
Mustard,  2 lb 
Tomato Sance.  2 lb.  ..
Soused, 2  lb ...............
SalmuL
Jolnmbls River, Hat
“  «alls
Alaska. Red 
pink.............
Kinney’s,  flats...............
Sardni*-«.
American  lg« 
4*
Imported  w*..
>4«
Multara  x*  ■ 
Boneless 
...
Brook  8, lb

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

“ 

90
3 *>u

lb. standard 

F ru its.
AplMSS.
3 
fork State, gali-m» 
Hambnrgh.
Apricots.
Live o a k ...........  
1  40
Santa C ru x ............... 
1  40
1  SO
Lusk’s ......................... 
1  10
Overland............ 
Blackberries.
85
F. *   W 
.................... 
Cherries.
31 li
Red.........................  
W hite........................... 
1  40
1  15
B rie..............................  
Damsons, Egg Plums and Green 
B rie.............................. 
1  00
California.................... 
1  05

Gages.

!

N. Y.Coud’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gail Borden Eagle.............   7  40
Crown.....................................6  25
Daisy....................................... 5  75
* 'hampion 
...  ..................  4  go
Magnolia 
.............................4  25
•irne....................................... 3 35

Peerless evaporated craau.  5 

COUPON  Kv.O <v 3

“Tradesman.’ 
I  1  books, per  hundred 
* 2 
• 8 
8 5
liO
820

« 
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2  00 
2 50 
8 00 
8 00

4  Oo5 00

c r o c k   f r u i t s  

Peaches.

Dom es tic.
Apples.
Sundrled,................ 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes 
Apricots.
California In  bags 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes.......................
Nectarines.
10 lb. bags.........................
251b. boxes.......................  
Peeled, In  boxes............ 
Cal. evap.  “ 
............ 
“ 
In bags------  
Pears.
< lull  ornla In bags 
California boxes............ 
Pitted co erne*.
Barrels  ...........................
..............
50 lb. boxes 
25  “
Prunelles
801b.  noses....................  
Raspberries.
in  barrels 
snib. boxes....................  
251b.  • 
 

 
Hal sms.

t.vi
7Vi

8

9
14
9
8
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74

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22
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22 Vi

 

 

Loose  Muscatels in  Boxes.
................................  4
......................  5

2 crown 
8 
4 
2  c ro w n ..............................   3Ji
8 
3*

“ 
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“ 

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Foreign.
Currents.

Patras,  bbls. 
.........  @2%
Vostlzzas, 50 lb.  cases........ 2%

.. 

“superior.”
.  per hundred

2  50
3 00 
8 Si
4 00
5 0C
6 no

8  t 
8  5 
810 
836

Universal  '

 

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83  00 
8  1  book«,  per hundred 
8 2 
8  50
. 4  00
8 3 
8 5 
5 00
6 00
810 
821; 
  7 9C
a Dove prices on coupon books 
art  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
2Uu books or ovei..  t  per  :eu. 
500 
n«* 
COUPON  PAS8  BOOK8. 
lC an  be  made to represent any 
denomination  from 810  down. 1 
20 books 
50
2  00 
3 00 
100
250
6 25 
500
10 00 
1000
17 50
500, any one denom’n .......83 00
....... 5 ou
looo,  “ 
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2UUU,  “ 
.......8 00
Steel  punen 
',5
CRACKERS.

“ 
“ 
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C R E D IT  CHECKS,

......................8100

__  
Sofia

Butter.
Seymour XXX......... 
6
Seymour XXX. cartoon......   6 Vi
..........  b
Family  XXX 
6  »
Family XXX,  cartoon 
salted  XXX  ........  
6
........ 
salted  XXX,  cartoon 
6 1
.. 
Boston. 
vs
Se  re’Tea. 
evi
soda  XX X 
5
Soda XXX. carton...................6li
¡HiUtt, «.li) 
7
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¡sunlit,  Duentihi» 
crystal W afer..........................0Vi
Long  Island Wafers 
.......  11
s. oyster  XXX........  
6
OUj Oyster. X X i. . . . __  
6
Farina  Ovster......... 
g
Sweet  Goods.
Iced Coffees  ....................'.  9
G nger Snap’......................... 6
Graham  Crackers 
.. 
.8
Oa mea  Crackers. 
__   8
Pretzels..................................g
Molasses  Cake......................  714
Sugar  Cake 
7*

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

Oyster.

CEMENT 

Major’s, per gro.
Vi oz size 
.812 60 
1  oz size...  18 06
Liq.Glue.loz  9  60
Leather Cement
1  oz size...  12 00
2  oz size...  18  "
Rubber Cement 
2  oz size...  12  0

Sehuit’s Cleaned.

“ 
“ 

Peel

3  0
<&  6 Vi

251b.  boxes..........................   5J4
5 1 lb.  boxes  .........................  5
1 lb.  packages  ...................  6
Citron, Leghorn. 251b.  boxes  12 
“ 
25  “ 
8
Lemon 
Orange 
25  “ 
“ 
10
Raisins.
Ondnra, 29 lb  boxes 
“ 
Sultana, 20 
Valencia. 30  “
Prunes.
California,  100-120 ...............  3%
90x100 25 lb. bxs.  5K
80x90 
S%
70x80 
6V4
7
60x70 
.. 
7310

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Silver 
Zenoleum, 6 oz  ..................   2  00
Zenoleum, qts...........................  4 0*
Zenoleum, %  gal......................  7 20
Zenoleum,  gal..........................12 10

D ISIN FECTA N T.

“ 
“ 
“ 

E l m —s a il

Cod.

12 00

 

“ 

Mackerel.

Haiioui.
Herring
“ 
“ 

Georges enred...............   4
Georges genuine...........  5
Georges selected..............
Boneless,  bricks..............6*
Boneless,  strips..................64(3$
smoked 
11312
80 
Holland, white hoops keg 
obi  10  0
Norwegian  ............... 
11(0
Round, >i bbl 100 lbs  ......   2 55
“  %  “  40  “  .........  1 30
Scaled..................................  13
No. 1,100 lbs.................... 
No. 1,40 lb s...................... 
5 50
No. 1,  10 lb s ................. 
1
No. 2,100  lbs....... 
....  9 00
No. 2,40 lbs.........................   3 9
No. 2, 10 lbs.........................   1 05
Family. 90 lbs......................
10  lbs ...................
Russian,  kegs......................  
55
No. 1,  Vi bbls., 1001 bs............4 25
No. 1 % bbl, 40  lbs...............1  95
.........  
No. I, kits, 10 lbs 
56
No  1,81b  kits..................  
48
No.  1  family
X  bbls, 100 lbs............87 00  2  25
Vi  “  40  “ 
.......3  10  1  20
101b.  k its....................  
85  38
“ 
8 lb. 
71  33
.............. 
FLY  P A P E R .

Sardines.
Trout.

Whlteflsh.

“ 

 

LABOR  SIZE.

DWARF MZE.

25 dbl  shts. in box.pr. bx. 8  38 
Per case of  10 boxes..........   3 40
25 double sheets in  box,
Case of 10  boxes.................  1  25
Case of 2 1  boxes......................  2 50
COMBINATION  CASE.
5 boxes Large  Decoy |
83  41
12 boxes Dwarf Decoy f 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
115 lb. kegs....................  
2vi
Walsh DeRoo &  Co.’s .......  1  85
Barrels 
2vi
G rits........................................   3 Vi
6 Vi
Dried.................................. 
Domestic, 12 lb. box .... 
56
Imported 
Pearl Barley.
Empire...............................  3Vi
Chester..................................... 2V4

Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
10H3 1 I

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.
..................... 

Lima  Beans.

W ild C herry  P hosphate.

Peas.

“ 

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bn...........................  1  10
Split  per l b ................... 
2Vi
Schumacher, bbl...............   84  80
Vi b b l............2 44
Monarch,  bbl......................   3 90
Monarch, Vi  bbl....................2 10
Qnaker,  cases.....................   3 20
Oven Baked............................ 8 25
Lakeside................................. 2 25
German  ..............................   3
Bast India.............................  ?vi
Cracked.  ..............................  8
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Wheat.

Sago.

Sonders’.

Oval Bottle, with corkscrew. 
Best In the world for the money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

dos
2 os 
...8  75 
4 os  ....  1  50

Regular 
Vanilla.

dos
2 oz  ....81  20 
4 oz  ....  2  40
XX Grade 
Lemon.
2 oz....... 81  50
io z .........3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.
2 oz.......81  7i
4 oz.........3 50

“ 
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Jen n in g s.
Lemon. Vanilla 
2 os regular panel.  75 
1  20 
4 os 
...150
2 00 
60s 
...2 00
3 00 
No. 3  taper........... 1  35
2 00 
No. 4  taper........... 1  50
2 50

GUNPOW DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s-
Kegs....................................
.3 25
Half  kegs............................. 1  90
Quarter  kegs.......................1  10
1  lb  cans................................  30
Vi lb  cans..............................   18
Kegs...............
4 25 
Half  kegs__
.2 40 
Quarter kegs.
1  35 
1 lb cans —
.  34

Choke Bore—Dupont’s

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs 
.......................
............
Half  kegs 
Quarter kegs..........  .
1  lb  cans 
..........
HERBS.

11  00 
5 75 
3 00 
60

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

INDIGO.
Madras,  5 lb.  boxes 
S. F.  2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.. 

65
50

3   38
3   44
3   65

JE L L Y .
..  ....... 
15  lb  palls 
“ 
...............  
17  “ 
................. 
30  “  “ 
LICO RICE.
....................................  so
Pure. 
Calabria..................................  25
Sicily 
....................................  12
Root........................................   10

LYE.
Condensed, 2  dos................1  20
4 dos................. t   25
.  

“ 

M INCE  MEAT.

40 oz. size 

per doz.  $8

25c  size 

per doz.  82

Mince meat, 3 doz. 
In case.  2 75
Pie Prep. 3  doz.  In case___ 2 75

M EASURES 
Tin, per duseu.

1  g a llo n ...............................81  75
Half  gallon...............  ......  1  40
y u a n .................................. 
70
P in t.....................................  
45
Half  pint  .........................  
40
Wooden, for vinegar, per dos.
1 g allon..............................   7 00
Half gallon 
......................   4  75
Q u art.........  ......................  3  75
Pint 

.................................  2

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

2 1

H A TCH ES.

Columbia  Match Co.’s Brands.
Columbia Parlor......... ...81  25
XXX Sulphur.............. ....  1  00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s Brands.
No. 9  sulphur..............
...1  65
Anchor parlor............. ...... 1 70
No. 2 home.................. ......1  10
Export parlor.............. ...... 4  00

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap
Sngar honse............
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.....................
Porto Rltj.
Prim e..........................
New Orleans.
Fair  ............................
Good  ..........................
Extra good...................
Fancy...........................
Half -barrels Sc.extra
PICKLES.
Medium.

14
16
20
80
18
22
27
32
40

Barrels, 1,200 count... @4 25
Half bbls, 600  count.. @? 65
Small.
5 25
Barrels, 2,400 count
Half bbls, 1,200 count
3  15
PIPES.

Clay, No.  216............... ...... 1  70
“  T. D. full count... ......   70
....1 20
Cob, No. 3....................
POTASH.
48 cans In case.
Babbitt’s .....................
Penna Salt  Co.’s........

4 00
...  8 00

RICE.
Domestic.

Carolina head.............. ........5)4
“  No. 1.............. ........5
“  No. 2.............. ......  4)4
Broken........................
....  3)4
Imported.
Japan, No. 1................ ........5)4
“  No. 2................. ........5
Java.................... ...............5
Patna.................................  4V4

8PICK8.

Whole Sifted.

“ 

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

Allspice...............................  9)4
Cassia, China In mats........  9)4
Batavia In bund — 15
Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves,  Amboyna............... 22
Zanzibar................ 11)4
Mace  Batavia......................7U
Nutmegs, fancy...................85
“  No.  1....................... 60
“  No. 2....................... 55
Pepper, Singapore, black...  10 
r‘ 
white  ..  .80
shot......................... 16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bulk.
Allspice................................15
Cassia,  Batavia................... 18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
salgon.................... 35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
*'  Zanzibar..................18
Singer, African................... 16
®  Cochin..................   2u
Jamaica  ................22
“ 
Mace  Batavia...................... 65
Mustard,  Bng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste.................... 25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black — 16
■* 
white......24
“  Cayenne..................20
Sage..................................... 20
•‘Absolute” In Packages.

14s
Allspice......................  84  155
Cinnamon.................  84  155
Cloves.........................  84  1  55
Ginger,  Jamaica........  84  1  55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage.............................  84

Ms 

STARCH.

Klngsford's Corn.

“ 

Klngsford's Silver Gloss.

20 1-lb packages..................   6)4
401-lb 
...................  6M
40 1-lb.  packages  ...............   6&
6-lb. boxes...........  ...........  7M
20-lb  boxes..........................  534
40-lb 
5M
1-lb packages.......................5
8-lb 
.......................  5
6-lb 
 
6M
40 and 50 lb. boxes...............  334
Barrels................................   334
Boxes...................................5*»
Kegs, Kngllsh.......................434

Common Corn
“   
Common Gloss
“ 
“ 

SODA.

 

 

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.

“ 

Cases, 243  lb. boxes...... .8  1  60
Barrels, 320  lbs.............. .  2 50
115 2*4lb bags... 
“ 
.  4 00
...
lb  “ 
60 5 
“ 
.  3 75
“ 
... .  3 50
3010  lb  “ 
Butter, 56 lb  bags...........
65
“  20141b bags........... .  3 50
“  280 lb  bbls......... .  2 50
“  224 lb 
......... .  225
Worcester.
115 2*4-lb sacks..............
.  84 (0
................ .  3 if
60 5-lb 
“ 
................ ..  3 50
“ 
3010-lb 
22  14 lb.  “ 
................. ..  3 30
530 lb. bbl....................... ..  2 50
8 lb  sacks...
..  32*4
60
HO 8-lb. sacks................. .82  10
................. ..  1  90
60 5-lb.  “ 
2810-lb. sacks................ ..  1  75

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

. .  

“ 

56 lb. dairy In drill  bags...  30
281b.  “ 
16
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks..  75
75
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks.. 
56 li>.  sacks........ 
22
........... 
8aglnaw 
an
............... 
Manistee........................ 
90

Ashton.
Higgins.
Soiar Rock.
Common Fine.

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders...........87
Maccaboy  In jars...............35
French Rappee, In Jars......43

8ALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

80AP.
Laundry.

G..R. Soap Works Brands.

Concordia, 100 34 lb. bars. .  3 50
5 box  lots.........3 35
10 box lots.......3  30
20 box lots........ .3 20

“ 
“ 
j. “ 
Best German Family.

601-lb. bars............................. 2 %
5 box  lots...............................2 15
25.box^lots................................2 00
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country,  80  1-lb...........3 20
Good Cheer, 601 lb.................. 3 90
White Borax, 100  X-lb........3 65

Proctor A Gamble.

“ 

Concord...............................3 45
Ivory, 10  ox.........................6  75
6  os...........................4 00
Lenox..............................   3 t>5
Mottled  German.................3  15
Town Talk.......................... 3 25

Dlngman Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box...........................3  95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3 85
10 box lots, delivered........3 75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s Brands. 
American  Family, wrp d .. 13 33 
plain...  3 27
N.  K.  Falrbank A Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.......................  3  99
Brjwn,60bars.................... 2  10
80  bars  ...................3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. A.Co.’s Brands.

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

“ 

98

4*4
30
■  1*6
•  IX
•  1*4 
■  1*4

@13
4
80
4
4)4

SEEDS.
Anise........................
Canary, Smyrna........
Caraway  ..................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Hemp,  Russian.........
Mixed  Bird  ..............
Mustard,  white  .......
Poppy.........................
Rape..........................
Cuttle  bone..........
SAL  SODA.
Granulated, bbls.....
751b  cases
Lump, bbls 
..............
1451b kegs.......
SYRUPS.
Barrels........................
Half bbls.....................
Pure Cane.
Fair.............................
15
Good...........................
2025
Choice........................
Lea A Perrin’s, large........4 75
small......   2 75
Halford, large.................. 3 75
small............... .  225
Salad Dressing, large  .  ...  4 55
small......   2 65.
” 

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

Corn.

22
24

“ 

TEAS.

japan—Regular.

 

SUN CURED.

F air...............................  @17
Good.............................   @20
Choice......................... 24  @26
Choicest.....................32  @34
Dust  .........  
10  @12
F air...........................   @17
Good..........................  @20
Choice..........................24  @26
Choicest...................... 32  @34
Dust............................ 10  @12
Fair.............................18  @20
'holce........................   @25
«  holcest.....................   @35
*? itra choice, wlreleaf  @40 

BASKET  P1BED.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Congress  Brand.

Invincibles  ................... 880 00
Imperials...............................  70 00
.............6 < 00
Perfeetos........ 
Boquets 
......................   55 00
Signal  Five..................... 35.0
R  R. R.................................  35 00
Mr.  Thomas 

Edw. W. Ruhe’s Brands

...................3)  10

G. J  Johnson’s Brand.

S  C. W....................  ......   3) 00
Ho  net’s N e st.............. $35 0)

B. J.  Reynolds' Brand.

Fine Cut.

Private Brands.

P. Lorillard  \   Co.’s Brands.
30
D. Scotten &  Co's Brands.
60

Sweet R uss...................  @25
Tiger........... 
Hiawatha......... 
Cuba...........................  
32
Rocket.......................... 
30
Spaulding A Merrick s  Brands.
Sterling..........................  
20
Cherry...........................  @32
Bazoo............................  @30
Can Can.........................  @27
Nellie  Bly................. 24  @2:
Uncle Ben.  ...............24  @25
McGinty........................ 
25
)4 b b ls........ 
Columbia.................... 
Columbia,  drums  ........ 
Bang  Up....................... 
Bang up,  drums 
........ 
Plug.

27
24
23
21
19

“ 

Sorg’s Brands.

Spearhead...................... 
Jo k e r............................ 
Nobby Twist.................... 
Scotten’s Brands.
Kylo............................... 
Hiawatha........................ 
Valley City....................  
Flnzer’s Brands.
Old  Honesty................... 
Jolly Tar........  ..............  
Lorillard’s Brands.
39
Climax (8  oz., 41c)—  
Green Turtle..................  
27
Three  Black Crows... 
J. G. Butler’s. Brands.
Something Good........ 
38
Heart.. 
36
Out of  Sight................... 
Wilson <s McCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope...................... 
Happy Thought......... 
37
Messmate.......................  
No Tax............................ 
Let  Go............................ 

—  

39
27
40
25
38
34
40
32

30

24
43
32
31
27

Smoking. 

Callin’s  Brands.

Kiln  dried........................17@18
Golden  Shower...................19
Huntress  ...........................26
Meerschaum  ...................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle  Navy....................... 40
Stork  ..  ............................  30
German...............................15
F ro e....................................32
Java, Ms foil  ................... 
32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish..............36
Gold Cut 
...........................30

 

. 

Silver  ................................ 3 66
Mono 
3 30
Savor In proved...............  2 50
Sunf.nwf r .......................... 2  80
Gol'ien 
............................ 3 25
Eccnom.cal  ...... 
. . . .   2 25

Henry Passolt’s Brand.

Atlas, 5 box lots,  del.  —   $3 60

Scouring:
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40 
hand,3 ^oz..........2 40
8UGAR.

“ 

Below  are  given  New  Y«»ik 
prices on sugars, to  which  the 
wholesale  dealer  adds  the  lo­
cal freight  from  New  York  to 
your  shipping  point,  giving 
you  credit  on  the  invoice  for 
the  amount  of  freight  buyer 
pays from the market  in which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point„including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino............................  (5 31
Cut  Loaf.............................. 6 31
Cubes........  ....................... 4  94
Powdered.............................5 00
XXXX  Powdered...............  5 18
Granulated......................... 4 62
Fine Granulated................   4 62
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 7a
Mould A  ...........................  4 94
Diamond Confec.  A..........   4 61
Confec. Standard  A............4 50
No.  1................. ............   4 37
No.  2................. ..............  4 37
No.  3................. ..............  4  37
............ ..............  4 J>7
No.  4 
No.  5................. ..............4 31
Ño.  6.................................4 25
No.  7................. ..............4  Id
No.  8................. ..............412
No.  9................................4 06
No.  10................. ..............4 00
No.  11................. ..............3 94
No.  12................. ............   3 87
No.  13................. ..............  3 75
No.  14................. ..............3 56

Smoking—Continued. 

Scotten’s Brands.

Warpath.............................. 14
Honey Dew......................... 26
Gold  Block......................30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 

Brands.

Peerless............................... 26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard............................  22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................40
Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle  Sam.........   ........ 28@32
Red Clover...........................32

Leldersdorfs Brands.

Spaulding A Merrick.

Tom and Jerry.....................25
Traveler  Cavendish.. 
Buck Horn.......................... 30
Plow  Boy......................30@32
Corn  Cake  ......................... 16

.38

VINEGAR.

Highland  Brand 

.. 
WET  MUSTARD,
Bulk, per g a l..................  
Beer mug, 2 doz In case... 

12*4

30
1  75

YEAST.

Diamond......  
...........  75
Eureka...... 
1 TO
Magic................................. 1  00
Yeast Cream  ..................... 1  00
Yeast Foam 
....................1  00

WOODENWARE.

“ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

cured... ...12  @13*4

18  “  ....................  
15  “ 
17  “ 

Tubs,No. 1........................   400
“  No. 2........................ 3  50
“  No. 3........................ 3  00
Pails, No.  1, two-hoop.. 
95
“  No.  1,  three-hoop  ...  1  10
Bowls, 11  inch..................  80
“ 
90
“ 
....................  1 25
“ 
....................  1 80
HIDES  PELTS and  FURS
Perkins  A  Hess pay  as  fol-
lows:
HIDES
Green.................... ...  6*401*4
@8
Part Cured............
............ ...  S*4@  9*
Full  “ 
Dry......................... ..  9)4 @11
...  6H@  7)4
Kips, green  ...........
...  8)4@10
“  cured......   ...
Calfskins,  green... ...  9)4@11
.  21  @35
Deacon skins.......
No. 2 hides % off.
FELTS
Shearlings.............. . . . 5   @20
..10  @  30
Lambs 
.................
40  @  75
Old  Wool............
WOOL.
10  @18
Washed ..............
. ...  5  @13
Unwashed........ 
Tallow.................. . . .3   @4
Grease  butter  ...... ...  1  @2
Switches  ..............
1*4@ 2
fttnseng 
......2 0O@2 25
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFF8 
No. 1 White (58 lb. test) 
No. 2 Red (60 lb. test) 
FLOUR  IN  SACKS.
«Patents............................  4 65
Second Patent.................  4  15
Straight............................  3.95
Clear.................................  3 75
•Graham..........................  3 75
Buckwheat..................  ..  4 50
Rye...................................  3  75
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Bolted...............................  2 35
Granulated.......................  2 60
St. Car Feed,  screened. ..821  00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  20 50
No.  1 Corn and  Oats........  20 00
No. 2 Special.................  59  50
Unbolted Corn Meal........  19  50
Winter Wheat  Bran  ......  It  50
Winter Wheat Middlings.  16 00 
Screenings  ......................  it  09
Car  lots.............................   49
Less than  car lots.............. 52
Car  lots  ..............................32
Less than  car lots  .........  35
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 17  50 
20 00
No. 1 

FEED  AND  KILL8TUFPB

ton lots 

•  0 
'.0

WHEAT

MEAL.

c o  BN.

OATS.

“ 

FISH  AND  OYSTERS.
PBESB  PISH.
Whlteflsb 
.................  @8
Trout 
......................  @ 7)4
Black Bass................. 
@15
Halibut,.....................  13® 15
Ciscoes or Herring —   @6
Blueflsh......................  @12)4
16
Live  lobster, per lb .. 
Boiled lobster.................  
18
Cod 
 
 
Haddock....................  @8
No. 1 Pickerel...........  @8
Pike............................  @ 7
Smoked  W hite.........  @7
15
Red  Snappers.................  
Columbia  River  Sal­
£5
mon .............................  
Mackerel....................  18@25
Shrimps,  per gal.......  
1  25
SHELL  HOODS
Oysters, per  100  ......  1  25@1  50
Clams 
75@1  00
F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands. 
40
35

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

OY8TEB8— IN CANS.

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE

LAMP  BUHNERS.

No. 0 Sun.................................................
No. 1  “  ....................................................
No. 2  “  ....................................................
Tubular............................................
Security.  No. 1........................................
Security,  No. 2.  .....................................
Nutmeg...............................   .................
Arctic.......................................................
LAMP CHIMNEYS.—6  dOS.  in bOX.

40 
45 
65 
50 
60 
80 
50 
1  15
Per box.
......  1  75
....1 88 
......2 70
Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled... 2  10 
“ 
...2 25
“ 
...3 28

No. 0 Sun 
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  »
No. 0 
No. 1 
No. 2

First quality.
“ 
" 
XXX Flint.

•' 
“ 

“ 
‘ 

“ 
“ 

‘ 
“ 

3 70
4 70 
4  88
3 40 
.4 4U

1  25 
1  50 
1  36 
1  60
3 50
4 00 
4 70
.4  10 
.4 40
Doz. 
.  50 
.  15 
.1  00 
.  90 
.1  00 
■  90
Box 
4 20
4 80
5 25 
5  10
5 85
6  00
Doz 
1  60 
2  00 
.  3 25 
4 50 
6 60 
.  6 50 
.  7 00 
7  50 
10 5u 
9 00
10 50 
12 0C

“ 

Pearl top.
“
“ 

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled.... 
“ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
__
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb....................
“ 
“ 
....................
No. 2,  “ 
_  
La Bastle.
,  
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb,  per doz 
No. 2  “ 
No. 1 crimp, per doz__
No. 2 
.................;
“ 
„  
Rochester.
No. 1, lime (65c doz).................
No. 2, lime (70c doz).............
No. 2, flint (80c doz)...............
„  
No.?, lime (70c doz).................
No.  2 flint (80c doz)..............
Miscellaneous.

Electric.

“ 

“ 

“ 

*•

Junior, Rochester..........................
N utmeg..............  .................... ...................
Illuminator Bases.........................................
Barrel lots,5 doz  .........................................
7 in. Porcelain Shades........ 
...............
Case lots, 12 doz......................
Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps.

No.  3 Rochester,  lim e........  l  5Ò
No. 3 Rochester, flint.  .........1  75
No.  3 Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.l  85 
No.  2 GlobeIncandes. lime...l  75 
No.  2 Glebe Incandes. flint...2 00 
No. 2 Pearl glass....................2 10

10

OIL  CANS.
1  gal  tin cans with spout......
1  gal  gaiv iron, with spout
2 gal  gaiv iron with spout  __
3 gal  gaiv iron with spout..
5 gal  McNutt, with spout........
5 gal Eureka, with spout........
5 gal  Eureka with faucet........
5 gal  gaiv Iron  A  A W 
5 gal  Tilting Cans,  Monarch.. 
5 gal  gaiv iron Nacefas__
Pump Cans.
3 gal  Home Rule.....................
5 gal  Home Rule.....................
3 gal  Goodenough...................
5 gal  Goodenough  ............
5 gal  Pirate King....................
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each........
“ 
2  “ 
No. 0, 
bbls 5  “ 
No. 0, 
bull’s eye, cases i doz each 11
No. 0, 
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0, per  gross.......................
.........................
No. 1, 
......................................... ...................
o, 
Mammoth, per doz...............   ........... ” ”
*4 Pints,  6 doz  In box, per box  (box 00)...
*i 
doz (bbl 35)...
*4 
“ box,  “  box (box 00)_
*4 
” bbl,  “  doz (bbl 35)...
STONE W ABE— AKRON.
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................
“ 
*4 gal. per doz....................
Jugs, *4 gal., per doz...................................
•r   1 to 4 gal., per gal...............................
Milk Pans, >% gal., per  doz..................
“ 
....................
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........................  
Milk Pans, *4 gal. per  doz......................... 

JELLY TUMBLEB8—Tin Top.
24  “  “  bbl, 
6  “ 
18  “ 

1  “ 
STONEWARE—BLACK  GLAZED.

“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“
“

“ 

45
45
40
25
2028
3b
65
75
1  60 
26 
1  80 
22
66
60
70
07
60
72
8)4
65
78

“

1 

... 

Mason—1 doz.  in case, pints............ 

The Standard Oil Co  quotes as follows:

“   w 
FRUIT JARS.
Mason—old  style, pints.................................. 7  25
quarts.................................7 75
half gallons....................  9  75
7 50
quarts.....................   8 00
half gallons................. 10 CO
Dandy—glass cover, pints..........................  10  50
quarts.............................. 11 00
half gallons.........  .  .14 00
OILS.
BARRELS.
Eocene.......................
10*49
XXX W.W.  Mich.  Headlight.
@ 9)4
Naptha....................................
Stove Gasoline.......................
@11)4@38
Cylinder............... 
.....................   31'
Engine.................................................  12
@21
Black,  winter.. 
9*4
Black, summer.
8X
Eocene.................... 
.................... 
9
7
XXX W. W. Mich. Headlight...............  
Scofield, Shurmer  A  Teagle  quote  as  follows :
UH 
Palaclne........................................
Daisy White..................................
1  *4 9
Red Cross, W W  Headlight...........
Naptha...........................................
9)4
Stove Gasoline.............................
11X
PROM TANK WAGON,
Palaclne........................................ .
10
Red Cross W W Headlight...........

PROM TANK  WAGON.

BARRELS.

12

** 

3
6
6

12*

Palls
654
754
8
854
754

STICK  CANDY.
Cases

“
fancy—Id bulk

Bbls. Palls.
7
7
7
8

CANDLES,  FRUITS  an d   HUTS 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

MIXED CANDÌ. Bbls.
.554
6
-654.7
JJ
654

Standard,  per lb.........
“  H.H...............
Twist  ...........
“ 
Boston Cream..............
856
Cut  Loaf......................
Extra H  H ...  ............ ..  354

Standard......................
Leader..........................
Royal..........................
Nobby..........................
English  Rock..............
Conserves....   ............
Peanut Squares...........
French Creams...........
Valley  Creams...........
Midget, 301b. baskets. 
Modern. 30 lb. 

TÎTE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
A corporation in failing  circumstances 
may  prefer  one  creditor  to another,  by 
giving a mortgage on its  stock  to secure 
the creditor’s  claim,  if  such  preference 
is made in good faith.
A party to a written contract who seeks 
to modify it  on  the  ground  of  fraud  or 
mistake must show by precise and indub­
itable evidence that the  contract entered 
into was as alleged by him.
A debtor of a suspended  bank,  acquir­
ing a  check  upon  it  with  notice  of  the 
suspension, cannot set  it  off  against  his 
debt, although he  acquired the check be­
fore the appointment of a receiver for the 
bank.
Where  goods  are  delivered  to  one 
merely that he may show them to a prob­
able purchaser, one to  whom  he  pledges 
them  for money,  which  he  appropriates 
to  himself,  has  no  title  as  against  the 
rightful owners.
One who purchases in good faith in the 
open market stock of a corporation which 
purports on the face of the certificates to 
be  full  paid  and  non-assessable,  is  not 
liable  for  assessments  on  such  stock, 
though in fact it had not been fully paid.
An assessment on the capital  stock  of 
an insolvent corporation,  made  by  a  re­
ceiver,  by order of court,  is binding only 
on  those  persons  who  would  be  liable 
as  stockholders  upon  an  assessment 
levied by the directors.
Where a  bank,  knowing  itself  to  be 
insolvent, receives for  deposit,  from  the 
maker,  a cheek on another  bank,  the de­
positor may, in an action  alleging fraud, 
recover the check,  or the proceeds  of  it.
Property in  the  hands  of  a  common 
carrier in transit  to  a  place  outside  of 
the state is  not  subject  to  garnishment, 
although it is yet within the state  at  the 
time of the service of the garnishee sum­
mons.
In an action on a fire insurance policy, 
it is  essential  to  the  right  of  recovery 
that proof of loss be furnished according 
to the  conditions  of  the  policy,  unless 
such conditions have been  waived  by the 
company.
A corporation  is not  a  citizen  within 
the provision of  the  Constitution  of  the 
United States,  securing  to  a  citizen  of 
any state the  rights,  privileges  and  im­
munities  guaranteed  to  the  citizens  of 
tbe several states.
A  vendor  of  personal  property,  who 
has possession of it  at  the  time  of  the 
insolvency of the  vendee,  may  assert  a 
vendor’s»lien  for  the  unpaid  purchase 
price,  although  he  has  previously  ac­
cepted  the  vendee’s  notes  for  the  full 
amount.  There  is  always  an  implied 
condition that the  vendee  will  keep  his 
credit good until the  term  of  the  credit 
shall  have expired.

Pails
Losenge8, plain............................................   a*
printed.........................................   914
Chocolate Drops.....................................11@12
Chocolate Monumentals...............................  12
Gum Drops....................................................  5
Moss Drops....................................................  7>4
Sour Drops....................................................  8
Imperials....................  ................................   9
Per Box
Lemon Drops...................................................50
Sour Drops......................................................so
Peppermint Drops........................................... 60
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 65
H. M. Chocolate Drops.........................  .... .75
Gum Drops............................................... 35@50
Licorice Drops..............................................1  00
A  B. Licorice  Drops............... .
75
Lozenges, plain............ :..........
...........60
printed...................
........65
Imperials................................
......... 60
Mottoes...................................
......... 70
Cream Bar................................
........... 55
Molasses Bar........................... .
...........50
Hand Made  Creams..................
.. ..86<aS>0 
— 6 .©SO
Plain Creams.............................
Decorated Creams.....................
...........90
String  Rock__ r.......................
............. to
Burnt Almonds..........................
.  90®  25 
Wlntergreen  Berries................
...........60
CARAMELS.
No. 1, wrapped, 2 lb.  boxes__
No. 1, 
No. 2, 

OTHER  FOREION  FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers  161b  ....................
..............
,T 
“  30fc... 
“  141b.......................
“  extra 
“  bags  ...........................................
..............  
854
..........  a 7h
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box.......................
a  i%

DEMONS.
Extra Choice, 360..  ............. 
.................... 5 05
Fancy 36  ...................................... 5 s<
Extra Fancy, 369  ................................ . " . . .   loo
Extra Choice,  309  .................................  
5 25
Fancy, 300............................................... 5 5

Large bunches...................................... j  750*2 25
Small bunches................................... .........

_ 
Persian,  G. M.SUlb  box........... 

Medt. Sweets—126. 
150,176,200............

......... ••••••••••  A 5

fancy—In 5 lb. boxes.

3 25 
3 50

BANANAS.

50-lb.

- .. 

“ 
“ 

3 
2 

“
«

“ 

“ 

¿ 2

LAW  POINTS.

Compiled  from  Late  Decisions of  tbe 

Highest Courts.

An agent authorized to  sell  is  author­
ized to make a warranty.
Oral negotiations  leading up to a writ­
ten lease are considered  merged  in  such 
lease.
A bill of exchange for  tbe  payment of 
a certain sum “ with exchange” is not ne­
gotiable.
A deed absolute in  terms,  given as se­
curing  for  tbe  payment  of  a  debt  or 
money, is a mortgage.
Mortgaged  chattels, as  against  credit­
ors  other  than  tbe  mortgagee,  may  be 
claimed as exempt from execution.
The  geographical  name  of  the  place 
where a thing is manufactured cannot be 
exclusively appropriated as a trade mark.
A deed from an insane grantor is abso­
lutely  void,  and  therefore  a  bona fide 
purchaser from the grantee takes no title.
A  contract  made  by  an  agent  in the 
name of  his  principal  without  previous 
authority may be adopted by  the  princi­
pal.
Where  a  party  acts  in  good  faith  in 
buying  a  note,  he  will  be  protected, 
though he may  have  been  grossly  negli­
gent.
The delivery of a note by the maker to 
another  than  the  real  payee,  without 
some understanding with  the  surety,  re­
leases the latter.
Part  payment  of  the  principal  on  a 
note past due, or of  interest  due,  is  no 
consideration  for  an  agreement  for  an 
extension of time on the note.
Where nothing is said as to the manner 
in which a contract is  to  be  performed, 
it will be presumed that it is to  be  done 
in a proper and skillful  manner.
Every partner is liable for the  fraudu­
lent representation of  every  other  part­
ner,  made  in  the  sale  of  partnership 
property  as  a  means  of  effecting.such 
sale.
The fact that  a  married  woman,  con­
tinuing her husband’s  business  after  he 
became insolvent, employed  him  as  her 
agent,  does not  show  fraud  as  to  cred­
itors.
Insolvency of a vendor  at  the  time  of 
sale will not defeat tbe title  of  the  pur­
chaser  for  a  valuable  consideration, 
without  notice  of  the  vendor’s  insolv­
ency.
A purchaser is not  estopped  to  refuse 
goods  as  unmerchantable  because  he 
pays the freight  and  receipts  for  them, 
where there has been  no  opportunity  to 
make an  examination.
Oral representations by  the  agents  of 
an insurance company  are  merged  in  a 
subsequent contract, or policy  of  insur­
ance, and are  inadmissable  to  vary  the 
terms of the contract.
In an action for false warranty  in  the 
sale of a machine,  the  party  is  entitled 
only to damages arising from  the  fraud, 
and cannot recover interest, or insurance 
on such machine.
After a note has become barred by  the 
statute  of  limitations  the  liability  of a 
surety  cannot  be  revived  by  payments 
made by the  maker,  without  the knowl­
edge or consent of such surety.
The promise of one person to indemnify 
another  for indorsing tbe note of a third 
person is not within the statute of frauds, 
requiring  promises  to  pay  the  debts of 
another to be in writing.
A  director  who  buys  at  a discount a 
debt of a  corporation,  without  advising 
it of the opportunity,  will  be  considered 
as  buying  for  the  corporation, and  can 
collect f.rom it only the  amount  he  paid.
An equitable pledge  of  stock  may  be 
made  by  the  delivery  of  it indorsed in 
blank by its owner, as collateral security, 
without an entry of its transfer upon the 
corporate books.
Change of  an  employe’s  compensation 
from  commissions  to  salary,  without 
changing his duties,  does  not  affect  the 
liability of a surety on his bond for faith­
ful discharge of duty.
Duress  may consist of  one’s  goods  as 
well as of his person,  and  an action may 
be maintained when one is  compelled  to 
submit to an illegal exaction in  order  to 
obtain his goods from one who has them, 
but refuses to surrender them  unless the 
exaction is endured.

“S.  C.  W.”  On the Increase.

The cigar  factory of Gerrit J.  Johnson 
It 
has more than  doubled  its  capacity. 
now occupies the entire  building  at  the 
corner  of  South  Division  street  and 
First avenue  and two  floors  of  a  brick 
block near by are also occupied  as  stock 
rooms. 
Improved machinery  is  a  great 
success  in 
this  establishment  Mr. 
Johnson’s  stripping  machine,  the  only 
one in  the  State,  strips  Sumatra wrap­
pers,  saving thirty per cent,  of the stock. 
His seven bunch-receiving  machines  are 
the only ones In Michigan  outside of De­
troit.  An  electrical  motor  furnishes 
economical power.

All that  can  thus  be  saved  in  labor 
in the production of the “8. C.  W.” cigar 
is expended in the  finest  tobacco obtain­
able, thus making the  “S. C.  W.” as near 
to a ten cent cigar as can be attained and 
still  sell  for  five  cents.  Twenty-five 
people are steadily employed  under  the 
supervision  of  Mr.  J.  A.  Mahnen,  re­
cently from  Sandusky, Ohio,  who  thor­
oughly understands  the  use  of  modern 
cigar making machinery.

The  hardest  money  is  that  which  is 

hardest to get.

Give advice to a poor widow written in 

pencil on the back of a $10 bill.

HUTS.

“ 
“ 
“ 

Almonds, Tarragona......................
Ivaca.............................
California, soft  shelled
Brazils, new...................................
Filberts.........................................
Walnuts, Grenoble....................
French...........................
Calif  No.  1 ....................
Soft Shelled  Calif.........
TaDie Nuts,  fancy.........................
choice.......................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ................
Chestnuts.......................................
Hickory Nuts per  bu., Mich....!.
Cocoanuts, full sacks..................
Butternuts  per bu.........................
Black  Walnuts, per bu................  !

“ 

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PBAHUTS.

Fancy, H.  P., Game Cocks...................  
Fancy, H.  P., Association .  ................. 
Choice, H. P„ Extras............................ 

“   R oasted.........................   7  a  Y lt
“  Roasted........ .......... ;   « 7*
“  Roasted.................  @

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n   71

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FRESH  MEATS.

BEEF.

Carcass...................................................5  a  7
Fore quarters..................................... 
3 «is?  4
K f f i ' T : : : . : : : : : : : . : " : : : : : ........8 1, ?

Chucks................................;
PIates.................................................... 3%® 4

POBK.

Dressed...............................................   5
Loins....................................... " !;;;;;
Shoulders  ................................!!."!!!.*!
Leaf Lard............... . ..........
MUTTON.

a 5* 
9*

Spring lambs.........................................  7  @

4 * a   5H

Carcass..........................—............. 6  a  6»

VEAL.

CHICAGO

__________ a n d   WEST  MICHIGAN  R’Y.

GOING TO  CHICAGO.

TO AND FROM  MUSKEGON.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids 6:00am  1:25pm  *6:30pm*11:30pm 
Ar.Chicago  ..12:05pm  6:50pm  16:00am* 6:25am 
“ y- Chicago-................7:20am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G d Rapids............12:40pm  10:40pm  *6:30am
Lv. Grand Rapids........6 :00am  1:25pm  6:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........11:30am  5:15pm 10:40pm
TRAVERSE CITT. CHARLEVOIX  AND  PETOSKEV. 
Lv.Grand  Rapids..  *8:00am  1:00pm  11:,0pm
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:55pm
•^r-y,rav®rseCity—   *1:20pm  4:50pm  4:00am
A r. Charlevoix.......   *3:50pm  6:30pm  6:30am
Ar.  P etoskey.... 
*4:20pm  6:55pm  7:00am
Trains arrive from  north at  5:3) am,  11:45am, 
1 :UU pm, *!•  :30 pm.

PARLOR  AND  BLEEPING  CARS, 
nor c’—   m  
pm:
1H  
C ars j 
cago *11:45 pm.
_*Every day.  Others week days only.

a 

—

DETKOIT, 

0ct 8811894

__________ LANSING  &  N O RTH ER N   R . R .

GOING TO DETROIT.

aI ' £ l? nl Rap,d8.......  7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit..................11:40am  6:30pm  10:10pm
13® iSiSS

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT

. 

_ 

.  _   TO AND FROM  LOWELL.

- 
aI c™?"? Hapids..........  7:00am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell............. 12:40pm 5:20pm
.  
THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.
Parlor  Cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap- 
Parlor Car to Sa*,na" on «Era-
Ingtrafn? 
_________GEO. DkHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

Trains  week days only.

Michigan (Tentrat.

“ Tie Niagara Falls Route.”

n

Arrive. 
*0 I 1' 0 m.........   Detroit  Express...........71» am
a 30 a m......... .»Night Express...........11  20 p m
11  4‘  ai?, 
New York Express.......   6 OOnm
ei J?ai 

A11 othere daily, except Sunday,

from Lietroit*"8 

WAUKEE  Railway.

°n  a11 'n,ght  trains  t0  and
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at 7:00 a m-  re
RapidTi^f^p metrOU4:35 Pm’arrlvlngat Grand 
Direct  communication  made  at  Detroit with 
all through  trains erst  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral Railroad (Canada Southern Division  )
A. A1.Mqu1.vr, Ticket Agent, 
TTniop  PassengftrStation.

DETKJJIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  «  M il 
Trains L‘ ave  +No.  14 +No.  16 +No.  18
G’d  Rapids,  Lv
325pm
Ionia...........Ar
4 27pm
St.  Johns  ... Ar
5 20pm 
Owosso....... Ar
3 05pm 
E. Saginaw.  Ar
8 00pm 
Bay City......Ar
637pm
F lin t...........Ar
7 05pm 
Pt.  H uron...A r
850pm
Pontiac....... Ar
8 25pm 
Detroit.___ Ar
925pm

6 45am
7 40am
8 25am
9 00am
10 50am
11 3< am 
10 05am 
1205pm
10 53am
11 50am
WESTWARD.

1020am 
1125am 
1217pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm
3 45pm
5 50pm 
305pm
4 05pm

1100pm 
1235am 
125am 
3 10am 
640am 
715am 
540am 
730am 
537am 
700am

“ 

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LV. 

»Daily.

Schedule In effect June 23,1895. 
NORTHERN  DIV. 

For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points  ...........................................*8:40 a.m.
For Grand Haven and  Muskegon...... +1 ;(j0 p. m
“  Mil. and Chi..  +5.35 p. m.
“ 
For Grand Haven, Mil. and  Chi........*7:40 p. m.
For Grand Ilavenand Milwaukee....+10:05 p. m. 
tDaily except Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east, 6:35 a.m., 12:60 
p.m.. 5:30 p. m.,  10:u0 p.m.
Trains  arrive from  the  west,  6:40  a,  m.  8:15 
a.m. 10:10 a.m.  3:15  pm.  and 7:05 p.m.
Eastward—No. 14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner  Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11 Parlor Car.  No. 16 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. 
___________ Tab. C a m p b e l l, city T*cket Agent.
Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  R.  R. 
Ar.
Saginaw and Cadillac...........+7 00am  +11  30am
Trav. Cy. Petoskey & Mack__ *8 00am  + 5 25pm
Txav.Cy.Petos.&Harbor Sps.. .+1  40pm  +10  15pm
Saginaw end Reed  City..........+4 45pm  +11  00pm
P eto sk ey  a n d   M a c k in a w ..........+10  45pm  +  6  20am
8 00 am train  has  par lor  cars  for  Traverse City  and 
Mackinaw.  140 pm train  has buffet p arlor car for Har­
bor Springs,  10 45 pm tra in   has  sleeping cars  for Pe­
toskey and Mackinaw.
Cin.. Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo* 7 25am  t  9  15pm 
Ft. Wayne and Kalamazoo...+ 2 15pm  +  1  30pm 
Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo* 6 00pm  * 6 50am
Kalamazoo....................... 
*n  40pm  * 9 20am
25 am train  has parlor  car  to  Cincinnati.  6 00 pm 
train  has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and 
Louisville.
*11 40pm
Lv. Grand Rapids...+7 2>am +i  15pm 
Ar. Chicago..............  2 40pm 9 05pm 
7 10am
215 pm train  has through coach.  1140 pm tra in  has 
through coach and sleeping car.
Lv. Chicago...........  +6 50am +3 00pm 
*11 30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  1  30pm 9  15pm 
6 50am
3 00 pm  train   has  through  coach  and  1130 pm  has 
through coach and sleeping car.
Lv.Gd.Rapids+7 25am  tl 00pm  J8 30am  + 5 50pm 
Ar.Muskegon  8 50am  2 10pm  9 55am  7 0.pm 
Lv.Muskegon+913am +1205pm  J6 30pm  +4 05pm 
1 15pm  7 55pm  5 20pm 
Ar.Gd.Rapids 10 30am 
+ Except Sunday.  * Dally,  i Sunday only.
A. ALMQUIST,  ‘ 
C. L. LOCKWOOD, 
Ticket Agt. Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass.A Tkt.Agt.

SOUTHERN  DIY. 

MUSKEGON TRAINS.

CHICAGO  T BAINS.

Lv. 

Ar.

TESTING  MELONS.

T heir  C ondition.

T w o  D ifferent  M ethods  for  D etecting: 
It is easy enough from  a seat at a lunch 
counter to judge of  the  ripeness of a cut 
of melon, although its  flavor may not  be 
such a sure thing;  but  when  the  grocer 
refuses to plug a melon, a  person  would 
like to have some means of  obtaining  an 
idea  of  its  interior  before  carrying  it 
home and putting  it  in  the  refrigerator 
to  cool.  He  would  like  to be sure that 
he has got a good  thing.  Anyway,  it  is 
human nature,  from  the small boy to the 
father of  a  family,  to  test  fresh  paint 
and  watermelons.  With  this  in  mind, 
the question was put, in  all  fairness,  as 
between man and man,  to  a  dealer  who 
declared  he  had  sold  watermelons  for 
sixteen seasons and  handled in that time 
as many as any dealer in the city.

“Can  I  tell  ’em?  Of  course  I  can, 
every  time!  Come  here  and  I’ll  show 
you.’’  He started across  to  a  stack  of 
melons.  On  the  way  he  made  four 
sales,  shouted  several  orders,  and  made 
the necessary memoranda,  but  he  never 
halted  until he had leaned  over and  laid 
his head on  a  fine  melon.  “Now,”  he 
said,  placing a hand on either side of the 
melon,  “I’m not busy just now—if  1 was 
1 wouldn’t talk  to  you  at  all—but  I’ll 
show you  how to  tell  a  ripe  melon  ail 
right  enough.  Come  down  here,  now, 
where you can  hear her speak.”

The reportorial ear, eager  to  listen  to 
the confessions of  a  watermelon,  was re­
warded  by a distinct cracking,  which the 
fruit man explained,  as  he  straightened 
up, after patting the subject of bis atten­
tions approvingly:  “There!  That  broke 
her heart! 
It’s no trouble at all, and you 
can  always  tell  a  ripe  melon,  for  if 
they’re green they’re too tough to  crack, 
and if they’re over ripe  they’re  too  soft. 
It’s the heart that  cracks, not  the  rind, 
and  that tells the melon story.”

it  with 

ripe.  But  here 

Another  dealer  showed  the  way  be 
would get a mental tin-type of a  melon’s 
interior without trampliDg  on  the  feel­
ings of the grocery  man.  “Some  people 
claim  to  be  able  to  tell  a  good  melon 
by  snapping 
fingers,” 
said  he.  “They  say  when  it  sounds 
clear  and  solid 
just  right,  and 
when  it  sounds  mellow  and  deep  it 
is 
is  a  handy 
way, and it gives you a dead sure thing.” 
He  scraped  lightly on the surface of a 
melon with the sharp edge of  his  knife. 
A strip  of  dark  green  appeared  under­
neath,  with  two  or  three  rough  spots 
with  an  abrased  surface.  “That’s  not 
ripe,  the rind proper is too soft, it  ought 
to be smooth and hard.  Let’s  try this.” 
He  repeated  the  operation  on  a  second 
specimen and this time  the  surface  un­
derneath  was perfectly smooth and hard. 
“There,” he said,  shutting  up  his knife, 
“that is a hard flinty rind and  its  bound 
to be a good melon.  You can tell whether 
they’re  ripe  or  not  by  squeezing them 
sometimes, or if they  are  old  they’ll be 
light weight,  but I always take my  knife 
and get a look at the rind under the skin 
and then I know if it’s good.”

it’s 

the 

too 

These  methods  of  judging of a melon 
were obtained  from  men  who  ought  to 
know, for they were married  men of mid­
dle  age  and  claimed  to  have  bandied 
watermelons in  every  capacity,  as  pur­
chaser,  middle  man  and  consumer.  A 
combination of both  tests  would  proba­
bly  be  too  much  for  any but an honest 
melon.
Kolb gems, the Jones,  the  Georgia rat-

first  pickings 

Just  now  the 

from 
Georgia are  on  the  market.  The  Flor­
ida melon matures the earliest and makes 
the first appearance  in  the  season.  Ex­
treme Southern Georgia  is  a  close  sec­
ond,  and after  that  seven-tenths  of  the 
supply  comes  from  Georgia  and  Mis­
souri.  The last melons of the season are 
mostly  from  Muscatine  Island,  in  the 
Mississippi  River, not  far  from  Daven­
port,  Iowa.  Hundreds  of  carloads  are 
raised on  this  Island,  but  the  growers 
suffer the disadvantage of getting  into  a 
late market with their fruit  and  the  hot 
weather  is  likely 
to  be  over.  Good 
melons are raised  in  Illinois  and  Michi­
gan,  but by  the time the northern melons 
are matured the market is full and prices 
so low that no money can  be made.  The 
early  shippers  make  the  money,  for 
when they begin to come  they  all  start 
in a bunch and prices go down to a point 
which sometimes  makes  it  unprofitable 
to take them from the cars.
Tbe  Lost  Liver.

A Kansas oracle is  authority  for  say­
ing that suit  will be  brought  in  the  dis­
trict court of  Shawnee county next  week 
by the hotels of Topeka against the lead 
ers of tbe late  silver  convention.  Dam­
ages to tbe extent of  many thousand dol­
lars will be asked,  the plaintiffs  alleging 
that they are out that amount  by  reason 
of  the  extensive  baking  they  did,  and 
which spoiled on their hands.  The lead­
ers  of  the  convention  are  held  to  be 
liable,  having led the hotel  keepers  into 
the loss by over-estimating the  crowd  to 
be present.  One hotel  enumerates  fifty 
prune  pies  that  were  spoiled,  another 
nine dozen boiled eggs, and another  fifty 
pounds of fried liver.  The hotel men also 
say  that  they  advanced  money  to  the 
leaders on the strength of their promises 
of a big  crowd.  The  hotel  people  are 
wrong.  They  were  not  obliged  to  cook 
for a crowd that was not in sight.

An  unlucky number is the number that 
measures  the  amount of your debts over 
your resources.

Everything for the

F ie ld   and  G a rd en
Clover,  Medium  or  Mammoth,  Al- 
syke, Alialfa  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.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T H A J D E S M A J S '.
tlesnake and the ice cream  are  the prin-1 
cipal varieties to be found on the market. 
The Kolb gem is a  round, dark green va­
riety,  with light  stripes,  while the Jones 
is the same in size and  shape  but is of  a 
solid  dark  green  hue  with  no  stripes. 
The  Kolb  gem  is  hardy  and  a  good 
shipper, which makes it popular with the 
dealers.  The  Jones  is  a  trifle  finer  in 
flavor  but  has  a thin rind,  necessitating 
great care in loading the cars.  The long 
green melon with stripes  is  the  Georgia 
rattlesnake.  The  “ice  cream”  is  also1 
long,  but nearly white in  color. 
It  is  a 
fine variety,  with a better flavor than the I 
rattlesnake, but on account  of  the  light 
color it does not sell  well.

We guarantee the Highest 
Market  Price  for  Butter 
and Eggs.  If you have any 
to dispose of, let  us  know 
at once.

Yours truly,

23

BARGAIN  IN 
SALT......

Have picked up a few  hundred  bbls. 
of  Pocket  Salt  and  offer  it,  UNTIL 
SOLD, at the following prices: 
20- 14,  $ i-53 bbl.
50 lb. sacks, 26c ea.
56 lb. sacks, 28c ea.

100-3S, $ 1-83 bbl. 
I.67 bbl. 
60-5S, 
28-ios,  1.58 bbl. 
Send me your orders for

New  Potatoes, 
Bananas, 
Black Raspberries, Cherries, 
Melons, all kinds of Vegetables

Remember,  we are a  Mail  Order Fruit 
and  Produce  House  and  can save you 
money, out you must mail the orders.

42 Jefferson Avenue 
142  Woodbridge St.W.
DETROIT,  Mich.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
& 15E D &  - P o t a t o e s  - B e a n s

4 1 H 2 0 4 4 5 -W S . DIVISION ST.,
Sl  JS 

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

EGG  CRATES  and  EGG  CRATE  FILLERS.

If you wish to buy or sell write us.

M o s e le y  B r o s .

Jobbers  SEEDS.  BEANS,  POTATOES,  FRUITS.

26-28=30-32  OTTAWA  STREET 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Older for 4th of July— LEMONS,  WATER  MELONS, 
BOLOGNA,  KOSHER  SAUSAGE,  SMOKED  HALIBUT,

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER, 

117-119  Monroe St  , ^ DDS

OF----

Right We 
— Are —

Every well-iuformed wholesale grocer in Mich­
igan  knows it to be  a  fact  that  early  picked 
Japan  Teas cost 3  to  4c,  this  year,  over  last 
year’s  prices.

That they  are also  not  up  in  style  or  cup 
quality,  owing to the  set  back  they  received 
during a cold  spell  in  the  beginning  of  the 
season.

We have an  elegant  line  of  1894  Teas  on 
hand.  We can  sell  them  at  prices  that  defy 
all  competition.  Samples  mailed  upon  appli­
cation.

Remember,  we  are  the  heaviest  cash  im­

porters of Japan  Tea in  Michigan.

JAMES STEWART CO.. LTD

EAST  SAGINAW,  MIGH.

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24

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

N ew s  from   th e   M etropolis— Ind ex   o f 

th e   M arkets.

Special  Correspondence

Retail  trade  among  grocers  is  very 
good and there are  mighty  few  croakers 
to be found anywhere.  We  are entering 
a  new  era—an  era  of  better  trade and 
more general prosperity.

Monthly  Report of Secretary Owen. 
Grand  Ra pid s,  July  5—During  the 
month of  June  we  had  forty-five  addi­
tions to our  membership  list—forty-two 
active and three honorary,  as follows: 

New Y o k e ,  July 5—The coffee market 
remains without any change and  without 
any immediate prospect of  any.  Sellers 
and buyers alike grumble,  the former be­
cause they are not selling  more  and  the 
latter  because  they  don’t  like the high 
rates.  No.  7  remains  at  15%c.  There 
are  afloat  543,548  bags,  against  312,886 
bags last year.  Mild coffees are  doing  a 
little better and are steadily held at  pre 
vailing quotations.  One  sale of Padang 
Interior is reported at 26c for July  deliv 
ery.
The sugar market has acquired consid 
erable activity since  last  week  and  may 
now be characterized  as  fairly  satisfac­
tory.  A slight advance  has  been  made 
on some grades of soft refined,  but  gran 
ulated  remains  as  last  week.  Orders 
have  come  from  every  direction  and 
brokers are looking for a  continuance  of 
the same for at least six  weeks.
There is,  perhaps,  a  little  better  feel 
ing in teas,  but  there  is  no  occasiou  to 
grow excited.  The orders  coming  are 
little  more  satisfactory  and.  on 
thi„, 
hopes  are  built  of  a  good trade during 
the autumn.
Canned goods are  certainly  improvinD 
right along.  There has been a very light 
pack of peas in  Baltimore and  the season 
is  practically  over.  From  all  appear 
ances there will be a  light  tomato  pack. 
Maine promises to come to the front with 
an excellent crop of  sweet  corn,  both  as 
regards quality and quantity.  The price 
thereof ranges from 65c  for  standard  to 
90c@$l for fancy.  Salmon  is  firm,  with 
a  very  light  spot  stock  of  red Alaska, 
which can  be bought  at  SI. 10,  although 
the ostensible price is $1.12@1.15.
There’s nothing like rice.  Dealers are 
happy  and 
trade  is  booming.  Whil« 
quotations  are  not  perceptibly  higher, 
the  feeling  is  one  of  firmness  and,  in 
fact,  rice  has  been  very  well  held  all 
summer.  Orders  are  coming  iu  freely 
and  stocks  in  every  direction  are,  un 
doubtedly,  light.  Foreign, as  well as do 
mestic,  of  course  partakes  of  the  same 
feeling and,  altogether,  importers are  as 
well  pleased  as  dealers  in  any  line of 
grocery staples.
The trade iu spices is  somewhat  spec 
ulative.  Prices are quite  firm,  and  this 
-is particularly  true ot  p e p p e r  and cloves
Butter has been  dull  and  quiet.  Ad­
vices  reporting  weaker 
feeling  West 
have a  tendency  to  unsettle  matters  at 
this -'point.  The  outside  rate  for  best 
Elgin  creamery 
is  I8@18%c.  About 
1,000 packages  were  sent to  Great  Brit 
ain  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  worth 
about 10%c.
The cheese  market  is  a  shade  duller 
than  last  week.  For  small  size,  full 
cream,  the quotation is about 8}£c.  Very 
little is doing  at  the  moment  iu  an  ex­
port way.
There  has  been  a  good  demand  for 
eggs and the market  shows  considerable 
strength.  Arrivals have  been  of  fairly 
good quality.  Western,  13}£c.
trade  for  lemons  was 
hardly  up to  expectations,  although  fair 
quantities  have  been  moved  at  good 
rates.  There  is  a  very  steady  feeling 
and  importers  adhere  very  closely  to 
quotations  made  a  week  ago.  Other 
foreign fruits  are  selling  about  in  the 
usual midsummer manner.
Dried  fruits  show  very  little  life  and 
the  situation  shows scarcely any  change 
from week to  week.
Domestic fresh fruit is arriving in very 
liberal quantities,  but, as yet,  few  desir­
able apples have appeared.  Watermelons 
have  declined  and  the  demand  at  the 
moment is rather light.
Beans  and  peas are quieter.  Good to 
choice pea beans, $1.85@2.15.
The  huckster  who  bought  a  wagon 
load of cakes and melons and lemons and 
all  that goes to make the Fourth a howl­
ing success  was decidedly blue when  the 
“low hung clouds” poured their moisture 
down  all  day.  How  it  did  rain!  And 
how thoroughly soaked this  part  of  the 
country is.  When you  read  of  a  “dry” 
Sunday in this city be sure it has nothing 
whatever  to  do  with  the  operations  of 
Jupiter Pluvius.

A C TIV E.
H. C. Klocksiem,  Lansing.
I.  E.  Randall,  Lansing.
A.  B.  Armstrong,  Lansing.
D. D.  Ludlow,  Lansing.
E. L. Smith,  Lansing.
G. E. Andrews,  Detroit.
John E. Darrah, Clarion.
J. S.  Adams, Columbus,  Ohio.
J.  W.  Patterson, Holly.
L.  S. Simon,  Detroit.
C. S.  Hoag,  Lansiug.
P. C. Canavan, St. Joseph.
F.  W.  Tidball,  Grand Rapids.
C.  H. Peterson, Menominee.
W. J. Sullivan,  New York.
Horace M.  Batt,  Petoskey.
W.  L. Chidester, Detroit.
J.  W.  Beck,  Detroit.
W. T.  Moreland,  Adrian.
E.  F. Snyder, Grand Rapids.
S.  E.  Holmes,  Watertown, Wis.
A.  W.  Franklin, Chicago.
R.  C.  Pennington, Carey, Ohio.
C. A.  Petti bone,  Detroit.
C. H.  Miller,  Chicago.
William Boughton,  Grand Rapids.
C. F.  Young,  Grand Rapids.
T.  J.  Patterson, Jr.,  Grand Rapids.
W. J.  Reeves, Chicago.
L.  T.  Lewis,  Harrisburg,  Pa.
J.  L.  Strelitsky, Chicago.
Jacob Vandenberg, Grand Rapids.
P.  D. Cohn,  Detroit.
G.  W.  Howell,  Muskegon.
R.  A. Harrington, Flint.
Edward Frick, Grand Rapids,
A. J. Calkins, Portage,  Wis.
D.  H.  Drew, Chicago.
T.  B. Snyder,  Petoskey.
C. A. Goldsborough, Grand  Rapids.
J.  W. Sleight, Chicago.
T.  B.  Bell,  Clayton,  N.  Y.
J.  Mars, Fife Lake.
A.  Vincent,  St. Joseph.
H.  S.  Read,  Ludiugton.
During the past month only  one  death
loss  has been reported, that of Frank  H. 
Seymour,  who died  at  Bakersville,  Cal., 
as  the  result  of  a  complication of dis­
eases.  The beneficiary is Mrs.  Henry  J. 
Seymour,  mother of the deceased.
Scott Swigart,  a former  member of the 
organization, died at  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
during the mouth,  but  as  he  had  failed 
to pay death assessments No.  I and  2  of 
this year,  his  beneficiary  receives  noth- 
:ng at the hands of the Association.
1 again call the attention of  the  mem­
bers to the  fact  that  assessment  No.  3 
expires  July  15.  The  constitution  re­
quires thirty days’  notice,  but  as  we  got 
out the assessment  notices  ten  days  in 
advance  of  their  dating,  each  member 
"as actually had forty  days’ notice.
1  am  still  in  receipt  of  communica­
tions from  members  who think they have 
already paid $4 this year,  prior to assess­
ment No. 3.  This is  not  a  fact,  as  as­
sessments Nos.  1 and 2 called for only $2 
and should have been designated  as  No.
I, instead of Nos.  I  and 2.  The  mistake 
occurred in  following  the  precedent  of 
previous  years  when  assessments  were 
made $1 at  a  time,  instead  of  $2  at  a 
time,  as is now the rule. 
I  have  strong 
hopes that we will be able  to  get  along 
without another assessment this  year,  in 
which case the members  will  be  able  to 
carry  $500  insurance  for  the  unprece­
dented low figure  of  $5,  which  includes 
$1  for annual dues.
I  am  still  meeting  with  considerable 
trouble with some of the  boys  in  regard 
to the given names of their  beneficiaries. 
Many  of  the  boys  write  me  that  they 
wish the insurance made payable to Mrs. 
Cbas.  Blank or Mrs. James  Blank, as the 
case  may  be.  Of  course,  if  the lady’s 
name  is  Charles  or  James,  this  is  all 
right,  but .if,  on  the  other  hand,  her 
given name is  Mary  or  Marguerite,  we 
ought to  know  it. 
I  hope  such  a  con­
tingency will  never  arise  again  in  our 
j organization,  but there  was a time when

HONORARY MEMBERS.

The  holiday 

one  of  our  members  died,  leaving  two 
wives,  and  it  took  considerable  tim e  and 
trouble to ascertain  which  wife  was  en­
titled  to the  insurance,  whereas,  if  the 
deceased  had  taken  the  precaution  to 
give  us the given  name of  the wife whom 
he wished to have  the money, there would 
have  been  no controversy. 
I  propose  to 
keep  at  the  boys  u ntil  they yield  up  this 
inform ation,  if it takes  all  sum m er,  as  I 
earnestly  believe  we  should  have  the 
given  name  of  every  m arried  woman 
whose  husband  is  a  member  of our or­
ganization, except  where  the  insurance 
is  made  payable  to  a child  or  m other  or 
to the estate of the deceased.

Geo.  F.  Ow en,  Sec’y.

M arch  o f th e   G rip  B rigade. 
Several leagues—many leagues—
A dozen leagues onward—
All In the Valley City

Marched the one hundred. 

“Forward, the Grip Brigade!
Get there, Straw Hats! ” he said;
And through the Valley City 

Marched the one hundred. 
“Forward, the Grip Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not much—though well they knew 

Some one had blundered:

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to question why,
Theirs but to march or die;
So, through the Valley City 

Marched the one hundred. 

Crackers to right of them,
Crackers to left of them,
Crackers in front of them 

Volleyed and thundered.

Ogled by every belle, 
Boldly they marched and well:
Under the blazing sun,
Almost as hot as sheol,

.

Marched the one hundred.
Blue waxed the summer air—
You should have heard 'em swear. 
Sweating and puffing there—
All the crowd wondered.

Blunged through the dust and smoke- 
It was a serious joke—
Their  patriotism 
Wavered at last, then broke— 

Shattered and sundered.

Then they marched back, but not.

Not the one hundred.
Crackers to right of them,
Crackers to left of them,
Crackers behind  them

Volleyed and thundered.

Ogled by every belle,
They stood the pressure  well,
But several drummers fed!
Back through the sizzling streets,
Ten times as hot as sheol,
Came what was left of them—

Left of one hundred.

When can their glory fade?
Oh, "twas a big parade!

All the crowd wondered.
Honor the nerve displayed!
Honor the Grip Brigade—

Noble one  hundred!

G ripsack  B rigade.

L. A.  Mack of Greenville,  has engaged 
to travel for the shoe house of I. Farnum 
& Co.,  of Chicago.

A.  M.  Van Hoven,  house  salesman  for 
P.  Steketee & Sons,  has returned  from  a 
fortnight’s  vacation  at  Macatawa  Park 
and other  resorts.

Chas. G. Fasoldt (Voigt, Herpolsheimer 
& Co.) Is taking  a  fortnight’s  vacation, 
spending the time in  visiting his brother 
at Utica and his cousins at Albany, N. Y.
J.  A.  Gonzalez,  Michigan  and  Indiana 
representative for the  Wellauer  &  Hoff­
mann Co., of  Milwaukee,  will  make  an 
exhibit of the goods comprising his cigar 
line  at  the  annual  convention  of  the 
Michigan State  Pharmaceutical  Associa­
tion at Detroit next  week.

Post C (Detroit),  Michigan  Knights  of 
the Grip,  gave an  excursion  and  basket 
picnic  to  Sugar  Island  on  the  steamer 
Wyandotte  last  Saturday.  A  base  ball 
match  was one of the features of the day. 
It was between a nine composed of Hick­

ory Island residents and a nine  from  the 
membership of the Post.  The  score was 
21 to 14  in  favor  of  the  Islanders.  The 
tug-of-war  was  won  by  ten  men  under 
the leadership  of  Giles  Burnham.  The 
opposing team  was captained  by Michael 
Howarn.  A successful balloon ascension 
completed the day.

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one  cent a word  for each subsequent  insertfon 
No advertisements  taken for  less  than »  cents' 
Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

XjlOK  SALE—THE DANIELS STOCK OF URO- 
ceries.  Best location  and  cheapest  rent  in 
b£riet,ly  casb  business  and  well  estab 
llshed  Stock  worth  about  -$4,800.  Will  take 
Fixtures  the 
five sixths  of  inventory,  cash 
best.  Address Box 9;, Traverse City. Mich.797

o f  d r u g s!  books'
wall  paper,  in  one  of  the  best  towns  in 
Southern Michigan  Invoice about $4,000  Terms 
easy, if  secured.  Would  sell  one-hilf inteiSt 
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■9?, care Michigan Tradesman.  panicnIars-  «°-
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JL  eerie* and fixtures in the State of Michigan 
Fixtures put up  n sections so  they can be fitted 
?.a„nL 8l.ZeH8t0.r?  Wil1 sell fixtures  separately 
if sodesired.  Also  first-class  panel  top  wagon 
and good  delivery  horse.  Liberal  discount  al- 
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7gg
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. 
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Missouri  and  Tennessee,  for  horses,  buggies
B a y a j i r '“- Aaare"  “•
ANTED—A  GOOD  LOCATION  FOR  DRY 
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Address No. i92, care Michigan Tradesman.  92
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Wabash, also a stock of agricultural implements
Tradesman0“'  Address No  791 - «¡axe Michigan
PIOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  CLEAN  GROCER
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from *1,800 to $¿,00 ■.  Best of reasons for selling 
Address No.  -80, care Michigan Tradesman.  785
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and business paying.  Good reasons for  selling. 
Address Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo.Mich.77ti
X^IOR  SALE—DLL G STOCK, CONSISTING OF 
JL  staple  drugs,  patent  medicines,  stationery, 
Wank books, wall paper, etc., inventorying about 
*4,000, for one hair cash and  two  years’ time  on 
balance.  Cash sales last year, 88,000.  Store  has 
steam heat, electric lights, hot  and  cold water— 
everything in first-class  shape-and  is  situated 
in best town in Upper  Peninsula, in  mining dis­
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TITANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE  HALFIN~- 
7 ’ 
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terms and inquiries given  promptly  by address’ 
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/"I OOD  OPENING FOR  BARBER SHOP, AND 
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MISCELI, A NEOPS.

OR  SALE  CHEAP—COMPLETE  SET  TIN- 
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Mich. 
7§4
r T ra ntte  a n d  m a r b le  MONUMENTS] 
V*  “a*ier8  and  all  cemetery  work.  Largest 
stock.  Write  us  about  what  you want and we 
will quote prices.  Grand Rapids Monument Co.. 
818 South Division. 
W  ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
tv 
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc 
Correspondence  solicited.  Watkins  £   Smith. 
81-86 South Division St., Grand  Rapids. 
X \T ANTED— EVERY  DRUGGIST  JUST 
v V  starting in business and every one already 
started to use our system of poison labels.  What 
has cost you *15 you can now  get  for  84.  Four 
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company,  Grand Rapids.

673

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in  any  part  of  the  State,
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M I C H I G A N ^

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HEIGHT  =5  INCHES

No.  60;»—2  B u r n e r  
Step Individual oen-
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No.  til1»—3  B u r n e r  
Step Individual Gen­
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No. 60—2  Burner  Step 
Single Generator...  6 50 
No. 61—3  Burner  Step 
Single Generator.  .  T  SO 
No. 66—2 Burner, high 
flat top ind. genert'r3 30 
No. 67—3 Burner,  high 
flat top ind. genert'r  4  50 
No. 62—2 Burner, high 
flat top. sin.  gen't'r  4  30 
No. 63—3 Burner,  high 
flat  top. sin. gen't'r 5  40 
No. 6s—2  Burner,  low 
flat top. ind. gen't'r  2  75 
No. 69—3  Burner,  low 
flat top,  iinl. gen't'r  4 00 
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flat top, sin.  gen't'r 3  75 
No. 65—3  Burner,  low 
flat top. sin.  gen't'r 5  00 
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H e i g h t   1 4   I n c h e s

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2 Burner  Low..........$2  25
2 Burner High...............3 00
3 Burner  Low............   3 50
3 Burner High............   4 00
The Burners used on all 
Michigan Gasoline  Stoves 
are  the  simplest,  most 
powerful  Burner  used on 
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No charge for  crates  on 
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H. LEONARD & 50N5, Grand Rapids
The Money-Sa vini*- Scale

PAYS  FOR  ITSELF

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ment. 

It prevents all errors in  weighing and

STOPS  THE  LEAKS

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without one.

YOU  NEED  IT!

SEE  WHAT  USERS  SAY.

BOSTON  STORE.

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

Cash  Mer c h a x b ise.

Chicago, Dec. 31, 1894. 

The Computing Scale Co., Dayton, Ohio: 

G e n t l e m e n :  We have had  your  scale  in  use 
since  November  24,1894, in  our  butter,  cheese 
and  meat  department.  We  find  them to do ev 
aetly  what  you  claim.  Our clerks can wait on 
more customers and assure them accuracy in ev 
ery  respect.  We  can  recommend  them  as  the 
most economical scale in use  for  meat  markets 
and groceries 

Yours truly,

B oston Sto k e.

J. W.  WHXTELEY  A  SON,

Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, etc.

Bonaparte, Iowa, April 22, 1895. 

G e n t l e m e n : 

Dayton Computing Scale Co., Dayton, O.: 
In reference  to  yours  of  recent 
date regarding the Computing Scales whiijh you 
sent  us,  permit  us  to  state  that  they have ex­
ceeded our expectations,  giving  us  the  utmost 
satisfaction.  We consider it one of our greatest 
conveniences in our store, and knowing it, as we 
now do and  from  the  experience  we  nave  had 
from its usage  in  the  store,  we  would  not  dis­
pense with it for ten times its value.  Any ordi­
nary clerk, with common school  education,  can 
expedite business  equal  to  two  or three clerks, 
and we prize it as  one  of our  foremost fixtures 
in our store.  We consider and feel that ours has 
paid for itself In two months.

Yours truly,

J. W.  Whiteley & Son.

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

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