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checks are par in all markets.  The

MEN  OF  MARK.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  W EDNESDAY,  JULY  17,  1895.
Mr.  Clark  is  not  a  member  of  any 
church, although  his  family  are  adher­
ents to the Baptist faith and  he is  a  reg­
ular  attendant  at  that  church.  He  is 
one of the  most  enthusiastic  Masons  in 
the  city,  being  an  active  member  of 
every lodge from  the  3d  to  the  3‘2d  de­
gree,  including the  Shrine,  of which  he 
is A  noted  exemplar.  Aside  from  Ma­
sonry,  he has one  other  bobby,  which is 
the  ownership  of  a  span  of  Kentucky 
horses  of  the  Morgan  strain,  which  is 
considered  as  fine  a  carriage  team  as 
there is in the city.

Bark  &  Lumber  Co.

N. B.  Clark,  President of the  Michigan 
Nelson B.  Clark  was  born  in  Living­
ston  county,  N.  Y.,  July  4,  1845,  cele­
brating the 50th anniversary of his  birth 
in  an  appropriate  manner  on  lndepen 
dence  Day  this  year.  Uis  antecedents 
on  both  sides  were  participants  in  the 
struggle for American independence,  his 
great  grandfather  on  his  father’s  side 
having  signed  the  Declaration  of  Inde­
pendence  as  the  representative  of New 
Jersey.  This  renders  him  eligible  to 
membership in  the  organization  known 
as the Sons and Daughters  of  the  Revo­
lution, having for its object the perpetua­
tion of the memories of those early days.
When he was 4 years of age.  his father 
moved to Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, 
where be embarked  in  the  lumber  busi­
ness,  which  he  continued  until  1861, 
when he removed to  Vassar,  this  State.
Mr. Clark then  found  employment  in 
his  father’s  store,  and,  in  1868,  be  re­
moved  to  Frankfort,  Minn.,  and  em­
barked in farming.  He  soon  found that 
he was not  adapted  to  agricultural  pur­
suits,  and,  after  a  year’s  experience, 
abandoned  farming  and  took  a contract 
for grading the roadbed  of  the  Southern 
Minnesota  Railway,  now  known  as  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee & St.  Paul Railway. 
This pursuit he  followed for  five  years, 
when  he  removed  to  Reed  City  in  1871 
and took charge of the  ballasting  of  the 
track of  the  F.  &  P.  M.  Railroad  from 
Reed City  to Ludington.  One  year later 
he removed to Fremont and took the posi­
tion of book-keeper for D. Gerber & Sons, 
tanners,  which  position  he  held  five 
years.  He then engaged in the handling 
of hemlock bark on his own account, and 
in  1887  removed  to Grand Rapids.  Two 
years  later  he  formed  a  copartnership 
with W.  A.  Phelps,  of  Whitehall,  and 
the  two  continued  the  business  here 
under the style of N.  B. Clark  He  Co.  for 
three  years,  when 
the  business  was 
merged  into a stock  company  under  the 
style of the Michigan Bark & Lumber Co., 
Mr. Clark taking  the  position  of  Presi­
dent. 
In 1894 Mr.  Clark  purchased  the 
stock of Mr.  Phelps  in  the  corporation, 
which is now owned by himself, Clarence 
Clark, his son,  and Warren  D.  Wade,  of 
Manton.  Although 
the  business  was 
not established until 1880,  it  has  grown 
in fifteen years to be one of the most  im­
portant enterprises in the State, furnish­
ing  employment  to  a  large  number  of 
men  and  bringing  many  thousands  of 
dollars  into  the  State  from  different 
states.

Mr. Clark was married Oct. 15, 1867,  to 
Miss  Isabella  Higgins,  of  Caro.  Three 
children  have  blessed  the  union—Clar­
ence, who is  now  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer of the Michigan  Bark  and  Lumber 
Co.;  Minnie,  a  daughter  of  19,  who  is 
proficient in music,  and  who  graduates 
next year from  the  Grand  Rapids  high 
school, and Frank,  a youth  of  16,  who is 
now in the grammar  grade.  The family 
reside at  15  Charles  street,  where  they 
have a commodious  home.

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.  Qr*n,Slc,ïiplds'

Makes a specialty of acting as

EXECUTOR  OF  WILLS 
ADniNISTRATOR  OF  ESTATES 
GUARDIAN  OF  HINORS  AND 

INCOHPETENT  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.

6 AND 7  PEAPL STREET.
Commercial 
Credit  Co 

Limited.

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

65  MONROE  ST..  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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INSURANCE  CO.

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$500.000 TO  INVEST  IN  BONDS  counties*,  towns
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 
ponds and blanks for proceedingssupplied with­
out charge.  Communications and enquiries have 
prompt attention.  Bank pays 4 p.c. on deposits, 
compounded semi-annually.  S. D. ELwoop.Treas.
The  Tradesman’s  advertisers  receive 

sure  and  profitable  results.

NO.  6 1 7
with  a  good  demand  from  consumers. 
Tinnevelly senna  are  moving  freely  on 
consuming orders, with prices steadily im­
proving.  Laurel  are  hardening. 
It  is 
reported  that  the  current  crop  will  be 
very  small,  owing  to  damage  to 
the 
leaves by frost during  the  early  spring.
Quicksilver—Is  lower  in  London  and 

values here have declined.

Quinine—Continues  in  the  same  firm 
position noted  last week,  with a fair job­
bing movement from  second  bands,  and 
manufacturers report an  increase  of  or­
ders at full prices.

Roots—Ipecac is again  higher  in  Lon­
don,  late advices  reporting  an  advance. 
There is no particular activity here,  but 
holders of desirable  qnality  are  firm  in 
their views.  Jalap is again easier,  owing 
to  unexpected  arrivals,  it  having  been 
supposed  that 
the  shipments  had  all 
come forward.  Serpentaria is lower.

Seeds—Canary is easier  under  the  in­
fluences noted last week, together with a 
decline in European markets,  where it is 
supposed that the syndicate  has  reached 
its financial  limit  and  is unable  to  make 
further  purchases.  Dutch  caraway  is 
slightly easier.  Celery continues irregu­
lar, owing to  anxiety  to  realize  by  out­
side holders.

W hat It Costs.

There  is  a  Vermont  farmer  who  oc­
casioned considerable surprise  the  other 
day  by  answering  a  single  question, 
"What  does  it  cost  you 
to  produce  a 
pound of  butter?” 
‘"Thirteen and a half 
cents.”  That  is  all  there  was to it,  but 
the  answer  made  everybody 
look  up. 
The fact  is,  the farming  fraternity,  as  a 
class,  rarely  know what  anything  costs 
which the farm produces.  Haying comes, 
the crop is harvested,  the  cows  consume 
it, and the butter is  sold  at  the  market 
price; but whether the farmer can  afford 
to sell at that price,  be never knows  and 
he  never  troubles  himself  to  find  out. 
This Vermont farmer  has troubled  him­
self;  and  when he answers a straightfor­
ward question,  with  exact  figures,  he  is 
looked upon as a  wonder.

It is strongly suspected that the “don’t 
know”  business  is  not  confined  to  the 
farmer.  There is now and then a grocer, 
who has to  “scratch his head and think,” 
when the answer should  be  prompt  and 
exact. 
It takes a long head to  carry  or­
dinary  business  around  in  the hat,  and 
an  attempt  to  do  it  indicates a shorter 
head  than  the  owner  suspects; yet it is 
not uncommon  to find in town,  as well  as 
in country,  men  in business  who  try  to 
do  that  very  thing. 
"About”  is  the 
standard, and they  are  “about”  sure  to 
turn their financial toes up to the daisies 
sooner or later,  with the prospects  all  in 
favor of the former.

When a customer  comes in don’t go  at 
him or her  with a  “What are you looking 
for?”  or  “Is there anything you want?” 
Be less abrupt about  it. 
If  a  customer 
is merely looking around it is not advisa­
ble to make him or her uncomfortable by 
suggestive  questions.  “Is 
there  any­
thing I can  show you?” is better.

Mr. Clark is loath to  state  to  what  he 
attributes  his  success 
in  the  business 
world,  but  dismisses  the  enquiry  with 
the  statement  that  application  to  one 
line of business,  and  the learning of that 
business  thoroughly,  are  usually  suffi­
cient to achieve success.

The  Druff  Market.

the 

Acids—The  bulk  of  the  business  in 
progress  has  continued  almost  entirely 
of 
jobbing  order,  with  values 
throughout the list  indicating  continued 
steadiness,  and  tartaric  is  in  the  same 
strong position previously noted.

Alcohol—The market has continued to 
reflect an easy  undertone,  owing  to  the 
unsettling influences previously referred 
to.

Balsams—The 

arrivals  of  copaiba 
noted last week are  stili  in  first  hands 
and efforts to  depress  prices  have  been 
unsuccessful.  Dealers  report  a  con­
tinued active jobbing movement at former 
quotations.  Tolu  and  Peru  are  both 
rather quiet,  but fairly  steady,  and  the 
recent direct arrivals of the latter remain 
unsold.  There has been  more  doing  in 
Canada fir for consumption,  but the mar­
ket is still  unsettled,  with  values  tend­
ing in buyers’  favor.

Chamomile Flowers—The new  crop  is 
into  consuming 

moving  rather  freely 
channels, and values are firm.

Cod Liver Oil—Genuine is very strong. 
There is some oil of questionable quality 
which is said to  be  offering  and  selling 
to  unsophisticated  buyers  at  lower  fig­
ures.

Cream Tartar—Limited quantities con­
tinue to meet with  a  good  inquiry  with 
manufacturers’ prices firm.

Essential Oils—New crop anise has  be­
gun to offer from  primary  markets,  but 
only  for very  late shipment,  and no busi­
ness  has  yet  resulted.  Citronella  con­
tinues scarce and  prices  show  a  further 
advance.  Peppermint is  firm  and again 
higher.

Flowers—The  chief  article of interest 
in this department  is  American  saffron, 
which  has  become  decidedly  unsettled 
owing to unexpected  large  arrivals  and 
sharp competition  between sellers.

Gums—There  have  been  arrivals  of 
260 boxes Curacoa aloes,  all  sold  for  ex­
port  on  private  terms.  Assafuetida  is 
fairly active for  the  season  and  former 
prices are still current.  Camphor is quiet 
with  manufacturers’  prices  unchanged 
and nominally  steady.

Leaves—Short buebu  continue  steady

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JPfcEE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

a year ago and is attending the State Un­
iversity at  Ann  Arbor,  with  the  inten­
tion  of  becoming  an  attorney.  The 
daughter,  16  years  old, 
is  attending 
school at Saranac,  and  will  graduate  at 
the end of the next school year.

Mr.  Watt is a member of the K.  of  P., 
L O. O.  F.  and A.  O. U.  W.,  and  the  es­
teem in which he  is  held  in  these  fra­
ternities  finds  fitting  expression  in  the 
positions of honor and trust  which he  is 
frequently called upon to fill.

All business men have hobbies and Mr. 
Watt is no exception to the  general rule. 
Born in an atmosphere  of  partisan  pol­
itics—his  father  bad  the  reputation  ot 
being a natural politician and turned  his 
aptitude to good account—Mr. Watt early 
espoused  the  cause  of  the  Republican 
party and has been  a  life-long  adherent 
to that organization.  Be has been a del­
egate to nearly  every  county  and  State 
convention  for  the  past  twenty  years 
and,  because of  his  unselfish  efforts  for 
the advancement of the party, has come to 
be regarded as one of the most influential 
men in the counsels of the party in Ionia 
county.  While he seldom asks anything 
for his friends,  and  never  anything  for 
himself,  his  requests  invariably  meet 
with  prompt compliance; and the leading 
Republicans of bis couuty are practically 
unanimous in the opinion that, whenever 
he will consent to take any  office as a re­
ward  for faithful  service  and  loyal  ad- 
hereuce  to  party,  the  best will be  none 
too good.

When asked to stale  to  what  cardinal 
principle  he  attributed  his  success,  he 
replied that the little word  “push” about 
expressed bis ideas on the  subject.  One 
feature, he  ibiuks, has  been  of  abiding 
value to him and that is  the  rule  he  es­
tablished at the inception of his business 
career, to pay  cash  or  “ trade”  for  pro­
duce and fruits,  making no distinction so 
far as the price  paid is concerned.  This 
has worked to his advantage  by  causing 
his customers to believe that there is not 
a wide abyss between cash and merchan­
dise  prices.
Personally,  Mr.  Watt  is  popular  with 
all classes of people.  While  not  an  ad­
herent to any church, he is a liberal sup- 
poiter of the churches  of his community 
and  a leader in all movemeuts in  the  in 
terest  of  better  morals aud the material 
prosperity of  the  place.  The  fact  that 
he has served the village twice in  the ca­
pacity of President, that he  has been ex­
press  agent  seventeen  years  aud 
tele­
graph agent twenty-seven  years,  speaks 
well for his wearing  qualities.  Satisfied 
with  his  success,  happy  in the thought 
that he  has  few  euemies  and  as  many 
friends  as  any  man  in  trade,  Mr.  Watt 
lives  a  life  of  quiet  contentment,  and 
Thk T radesm an joins  in  the hope  of  a 
host  of  well wishers  that  be  may  live 
loug to enjoy the fruits  of  his  industry.

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

S.  A.  Watt,  the Veteran  Saranac  Mer­

chant.

Samuel A. Watt was born at Carrollton, 
Ohio, Dec.  13, 1845,  being  the  youngest 
of seven children.  Bis antecedents were 
Scotch-lrish,  his  father  having  been  a 
Scotchman,  while his mother was of Irish 
extraction.  At the time of his  birth  his 
father  was  serving  Carroll  county  in 
the capacity of  sheriff,  but  eight  years 
later he removed to Mansfield. Ohio,  and 
engaged in the mercantile business.  The 
family afterwards  removed  to  Findlay, 
where  the  senior  Watt  re-engaged  in 
business, dying in 1861.  Mr. Watt there­
upon left the family  circle  and  went  to 
Indianapolis,  where  he  was  employed 
during the  war by D.  F.  Frazell,  official 
sutler for Camp Burnside. 
In 1866,  Mr. 
Watt removed to  Saranac,  where  he  re­
entered  the  employ  of  Mr.  Frazell  as 
book-keeper for bis grist  mill  and  stave 
factory,  which  position  he  filled  for  two 
years.  Be then studied telegraphy and, 
on completing his course  of  instruction, 
was  appointed  local  representative  for 
the Western  Union Telegraph Co.,  which 
position he has  held,  without  interrup­
tion,  for the past tweuty-seven years.  In 
the  meantime  he  entered 
the  employ­
ment of Q.  A. Cotton,  who was  then  en­
gaged  in  general  trade  at  that  place. 
Three years later he eutered  the  railway 
mail service, origiually covering the mail 
route on the F.  & P.  M. Rd road between 
Saginaw and  Reed  City,  and  afterward 
from Toledo  to  Ludingtou.  This  work 
he followed for seven consecutive  years, 
when he was transferred to the D., G.  B. 
&  M.  Railway,  succeeding  the  veteran 
Truman  Kellogg  on  the  mail  route  be­
tween  Detroit  and  Grand  Baven.  Be 
held this position three  years,  when  be 
resigned to take the  active  management 
of the grocery and crockery stock  at Sar­
anac which he had purchased  of  the  es­
tate  of  Mr.  Cotton 
three  years  pre­
viously.  Shortly after this he took  in  a 
partner,  and  for  eighteen  months  the 
business was conducted under  the  style 
of Watt & Caboon.  Since that  time  Mr. 
Watt has  “gone it alone” in all his  busi 
ness  ventures.  Be  subsequently  added 
to the stock lines of dry goods and shoes, 
making it one of the most  complete  gen­
eral stores in  Ionia  county.

In 1889  he  opened  a  branch  store  at 
Clarksville,  which  be  conducted 
five 
years,  when be removed the stock to Sar­
anac,  where it  is  now  conducted  under 
the management of his  elder  son.  This 
store  carries  lines  of  boots  and  shoes, 
hats and caps,  clothing  and  men’s  fur­
nishing  goods,  while  his own establish­
ment includes  full  lines  of  dry  goods, 
groceries and  crockery.  Both stores are 
well arranged and excellently conducted, 
being creditable  alike  to  the  town  and 
their enterprising owner.

In 1892 Mr. Watt purchased  a  grocery 
stock  at  666  Wealthy  avenue,  in  this 
city,  which he continued for a year, when 
be  exchanged  the  stock  for  a  57-acre 
farm one mile north of Saranac, on which 
he  has  set  out  2,500  fruit  trees,  which 
give promise of  being  a  very  profitable 
investment.

Mr.  Watt was married  Sept.  10,  1870, 
to Miss Alice A. Cotton,  by  whom be has 
had  three  children—two  boys  and  one 
girl.  The elder son  is  now  22  years  of 
age and  has concluded to  follow  a  mer­
cantile  career.  The  younger  son,  19 
years old,  lost his right arm  by  accident

g e t   r e a d y   f o r   t h e

R o t a t o B u g s
THE ECLIPSE
mk
iller  or  Duster
Woier  Sprinkler 

IS  A  NEW  AND  VALUABLE  irtPROVED'

(Patented 1886.  Improved 188!).)

Especially adapted for app ying  Paris Green Water, Row 
Compounds, 
Plaster, etc., to Potato V nes and other plants.
THE  ECLIPSE is manufactured in such a durable manner as to be practi­
cally inde-tructible, and also so simplified as to be quickly and easily detached 
for  any  purpose  necessary,  making  it  the  Cheapest  and  Most < onvenient 
Sprinkler for all purposes—in doors or out—and a  praotical 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
EASY  10 OPERATE------ SIMPLE  OUd DURABLE

FOR  POTATOES  AND  OTHER  VINES.

EIGHT  I I  TEH  W

  COVERED  PER  DM.

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 plas'er to be  delivered,  is  ail  that  is  necessary  to  opera e  the 
sifter.

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

covering from eight to ten acres per day.

Catches  More  Flies

than an\  other Sticky Fly 
Paper and  pleases  every­
body.

Every  box  guaranteed 

by  the  manufacturer.

Costs no more than comj 

mon  fly  paper.

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CRACKING  SKULLS.

It is generally  supposed  that  what  is 
known as brutal or  barbaric  is  only  to 
be found in cock pits,  the  squared circle 
of the honored  pugilist,  or  with  a  clout 
for a suit of clothes in some Indian camp 
or a Kaffir kraal.  Where the flag  of  the 
free knows no  slaye  under  its  bunting, 
and humanity wears better  clothes,  con­
sumes more pie,  and  reads  more  news­
papers than can  be  found  elsewhere  on 
the  crust  of  the  old  planet,  it  would 
seem  to be as idle to look  for his satanic 
majesty at a prayer meeting as to  search 
for thugism  in  American  reform. 
It  is 
not so, however.  The  gentleman  with  a 
clnb for an argument and a  brickbat  for 
a  missionary  is  with  us.  He  can  read 
and vote, run  for  office  and  get  there, 
and,  in  a  general  way,  is  as  amiable 
and  able  a  personality  as  any  in  the 
crowd.  He is loud and vehement  in  de­
nouncing the barbarism of  a  sultan  and 
the knout of  a  czar.  His  fingers  tingle 
at  industrial  wrongs.  He  pities  the 
seamstress in a sweat shop,  and  the man 
who  works  ten  hours  a  day,  and  the 
female labor employed in a tin-plate fac­
tory.  All of this would do him honor as 
a man and a citizen were  it  not  for  the 
fact that a bald place in his wool reveals 
the wolf under his wrapper.  He  cannot 
leave  free  labor  alone.  He  slugs  the 
scab,  and  is  apparently  proud  of  the 
glory found in cracking  a  head  or  mak­
ing a fracture in another  man’s  nose.  It 
is wasting words to say that  this kind of 
missionary work in  the  sacred  name  of 
labor reform  never  pays. 
It  has  done 
more damage  to  a  righteous  cause  and 
worked more havoc in  public  sentiment 
than perhaps anything else  in  the  story 
of industrial  progress. 
It  is  a  satirical 
comment on our fine talk and our  silver- 
tongued  eloquence 
regarding  human 
rights to see a  platoon  of  police  guard 
ing  property  and  men,  not  from  Paw 
nees  and  Kaffirs,  or  footpads  or  bur 
glars,  but  from  men  who  can perspire 
over 
fit­
ting  the  same  tight  shoe  on  another 
man’s  foot.  Right is right and wrong is 
wrong, no matter the  mud  we  throw  on 
one, or the whitewash we put on another 
and if twenty men  are  willing  to  work 
for  wages  that  twenty  others  refuse 
there  can  be  no  law,  made  by  God or 
man, that justifies a violent  interference 
with another man’s rights.  This is plain 
talking and putting the  pepper on a sore 
place,  and if there was  more  of it the ir 
responsible thug in  labor  would  be  less 
known. 
It is quite true that thuggism is 
not indorsed in labor platforms, and it is 
equally as true that  such practices are  a 
source of regret to the  majority of work 
ers,  but  until  the  foot  of  organization 
comes  squarely  down  on  this  evil,  by 
turning out of  its  ranks  the  asses  that 
disgrace it,  the evil  will cling to its skin 
as barnacles hang on a good  and  gallant 
ship. 
It may be  that  the  unreasonable 
and  violent  element  can  never  be  en 
tirely  eliminated.  We  cannot  keep  it 
out of Congress,  the  courts of justice, or 
even the  church,  and  labor  in  a  broad 
sense has no more right to be blamed for 
its evil members than the twelve apostles 
for  the  scoundrel  known  as  Judas  Is 
cariot.  Labor organizations, in fact, are 
a corrective of mob methods, both in dis 
cipline,  responsibility  and  maxim.  To 
this  all  intelligent  men  will subscribe 
though their faith may  be  shaken  when 
honest  labor  needs  a  police  escort. 
It 
will  be  well  when  labor  throws  this 
Jonah  overboard,  though  we  may  pity 
the whale that has to give  him  hotel ac 
commodations.  Get  rid  of  the  thug  if 
possible,  and if not,  if the corn  must  al 
ways be on the toe, pare  it  down  freely 
and often. 

their  own  wrongs  while 

F bed  W oodbow.

STIC K   CA N D Y.

Standard,  per lb............  
•  H.H................... 
Twist  .............. 
‘ 
Boston Cream.................  8 ¡4
Cut  Loaf........................  
Bxtra H  H......................  SK

Cases  Bbls.  Palls.
7
7
7
8

5 
6 
6 

MIX BD  C A N D Y. Bbls. 
Standard.......................................5* 
Leader............................................ 6 
Royal............................................ 6* 
Nobby................ 
7 
English  Rock.............................. 7 
Conserves.................................... 6)4 
Broken Taffy....................baskets
PeanutSquares................. 
7 
“
French Creams....................... . 
Valley  Creams.............................  
Midget, 80 lb. baskets.....................................
Modern. 30 lb. 
.......................................

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

“ 
FANCY— In bulk

 

fancy—la 5 lb. boxes.
 

Srlnted.............................  

Palla
Losenges,  piala.............................................  8H
  9)4
rops......................................   11©12
Chocolate Monumentale.............................   12
Oum Drops....................................................   6
Haas Drops....................................................   7)4
Sour Drops..............................................  ...  8
Imperiale.......................................................   9
Per Box
.50
Lemon Drops.............. 
Sour Drops...................................................... 50
Peppermint Drops................................... 
 
Chocolate Drops..................................... 
H. M. Chocolate Drops....................................75
35® 50
Oum Drops.......................  ...............  
Licorice Drops.............................................. 1 00
A. B. Licorice  Drops...........  .................  
 
Losenges, plain.....................................  
printed.................................. 
 
Imperials..........................................................60
Mottoes................................................. 
Cream Bar............................................. 
 
Molasses Bar................................................... 50
Hand Made  Creams.................... 
.... Rt©90
Plain Creams.............................................6 ,@80
Decorated Creams............................................90
String  Rock.......................................  
Burnt Almonds.....................................90@  25
Win ter green  Berries.......................................60

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CARA M ELS.

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

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3 
2 

 
 

 
 

Medt. Sweets—126...................... 
........  3 00
150,176,200.....................................................   3 *5

Extra Choice, 360..........................................  5 00
Fancy 36  .......................................................  5  25
Extra Fancy, 360.....................................   ...  5 50
Extra Choice,  300.........................................   5 00
Fancy, 300.......................  
5 50

 

 

Large bunches...................................... 1  75@2 25
Small bunches.....................................  1  25@J  50

OTHKB FOREIGN FRUITS.
Figs, fancy  layers  16ft>  ..................
“  801t........ .............
extra 
“  141b......................
bags  .........................................
Dates, Fard, 10-lb.  box....................

“ 

“  5Mb.  “  .......................
Persian.  G. M.SOlb  box..........

NUTS.

“ 
« 
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California, soft shelled 

Almonds, Tarragona.............................
....
Braille, new...........................................
Filberts..................................................
Walnuts, Grenoble...............................
French......... .........................
Calif  No. 1 ............................
Soft Shelled  Calif...................
Table Nuts, fancy.................................
choice..............................
Pecans. Texas, H.  P.,  ..........................   8
Chestnuts...............................................
Hickory Nuts per  bu., Mich.................
Cocoanuts, full sacks............................ 
Butternuts, per bu.................................
Black  Walnuts, per bu..........................

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PXAXUTS.

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©12 © 8 ©10 
©14 
6  
©12 
©13 
©11 
©  9 
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Fancy, H.  P., Game Cocks....................  ©
“  Boasted.....................7  © 7)4
Fancy, H.  P., Association....................   ©
“  Roasted...................   7  ©
Choice, H. P., Extras......................—  
©
“  Roasted.................  ©6(6

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FRESH  MEATS.

1ID.

Carcass................................................... 5  @ 7
Fore quarters........................................ 3)4© 4
Hlud quarters.............................   ......  8  @9
Loins No. 3............................................   ©10
Ribs........................................................8  ©12
Rounds.................   -  -......................... 6)4© 7)4
Chucks............................  
................3)4® 5
Plates.................................................... 3Ji© 4
PORK.

Dressed................................................. 5  © 5ft
Loins......................................................
7)4
Shoulders 
...........................................  
Leaf Lard..........; .................................  
8

HUTTON.

Carcass.................................................4)4© 5%
Spring lambs......................................... 7  © 9

Carcass

© 6)4

THE  MICHIGAN  TRAEESMAJST.

3

CANDIES.  FRUITS  and  NUTS 
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:

It’s  a  daisy,  something  new,  a  quick  seller.  Every  lady 
wants  one.  Lasts  a  lifetime.  The  only  perfect  sharpener 
made.  Will sharpen  any  pair of shears or scissors in  ten  sec­
onds.  Made of th», finest tempered  steel,  handsomely  finished 
and nickel  plated.

SELLS  AT  SIGHT

80
Because every  lady  can  s« e at a glance the  practical  benefit 
65
she  will  derive from  this  addition  to  her  work  basket.  Her 
scissors will  always  have  a  keen  edge.
75
60
Satisfaction  guaranteed  or  money  refunded.
65
Put  up  one  dozen  on  handsome  8  x  12  Easel  Card.  Per 
70
55
Dozen,  $1.75.
For  Sale  at  Wholesale  by

to

I HAZELT1NE  &  PERKINS  DRUG  CO.
I.  M.  CLARK  GROCERY  CO. 
A.  E.  BROOKS  &  CO.
MUSSELMAN  GROCER  CO. 
LEMON  &  WHEELER  COMPANY.  PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.
BALL-BARNHART-PUTMAN  CO 
I  WURZBURG  JEWELRY  CO.
51
Or by the manufacturer,
28

W .   T.  L A M O R E A U X ,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

PANFIRED

SUNDRIED

T E A

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This  appears  merely  to  announce  that  our  New  Crop  1-!I5  Teas are in.  This high-grade 
brand of ours needs'll» comment.  It is ••well known ami highly  i espeeteil  by all."  Send 
in your orders at once and “avoid the jusli.”

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Arab _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ GRAND  RAPIDS_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Arab
Thomas

Mr.

IS  NOT  A  nUSICIAN,  BUT----

THE  BEST  FIVE  CENT  CIGAR

IN  THE  COUNTRY.

ED.  W.  RUHE,  MAKER.

CHICAGO.

F.  E. BUSHMAN, ligi..  523 JODn SI.,  KDLilAZOO

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AROUND  THE  STATE.

MOVEMENTS OF  MKRCHANTS.

Marshall—Chas.  A.  Radford  succeeds 
Radford & McDonald in the grocery busi­
ness.  •

Buchanan—D.  L.  Boardman  succeeds 
Boardman & Wehrle in the  grocery busi­
ness.

Addison—James  O.  Power  succeeds 
Power  &  Sou  in  the  drug  and grocery 
business.

Alpena—G.  W.  Kendrix  &  Co.,  dry 
goods  dealers,  have  assigned  to  A.  M. 
Marshall.

Muskegon—The style of the Jacob Jes- 
son Co.  has been  changed  to  the Central 
Drug Store Co.

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

Ann  Arbor—Mack  &  Schmidt,  dry 
goods dealers,  have  dissolved,  Walter C. 
Mack succeeding.

Muskegon—Magoon,  Kimball  &  Co. 
have purchased the ice and coal  business 
of Nell & Alewynse.

Calumet—G.  L.  Perrault  has  removed 
his  confectionery  and  cigar  stock from 
Chassell to this  place.

Frederic—Fred  H.  Osborne  has  re­
moved his drug and general  merchandise 
stock to Grand Marais.

Detroit-2—Brede & Ehly,  dealers in wall 
paper, etc.,  have  dissolved,  J.  C.  Brede 
continuing the business.

Charlevoix—U.  Gornell  has  purchased 
John  McCabe’s  meat  market  business 
and is now in possession.

St.  Ignace—L. Geilius has sold bis bak­
ery to R.  Metivier,  who will continue the 
business at the same locatiou.

Lake Ann—Geo.  Vernier,  Jr.,  &  Son 
will open a branch  hardware store at  the 
new town of Honor in the near  future.

Cheboygan—A.  N.  Howard, of the gro­
cery firm of Howard & Horton,  was  mar­
ried to Miss Edith Dawson  on  the  even­
ing of July  3.

Traverse City—W.  B.  Jackson, late  of 
Jackson,  has opened  a grocery  store  in 
the old  Matteson store,  corner  of  Ninth 
and  Union  streets.

Wayland—L.  A.  Smith has disposed of 
his interest in the meat  market  with  L. 
A.  Walch to H. J. Slade,  the new firm be 
ing Slade & Walcb.

Lowell—Frank  B.  Clark  will  open 
commission rooms in Train’s opera house 
block on or about  August  1  and  handle 
fruits and  vegetables.

Traverse  City—E.  W.  Hatch  &  Co , 
dealers in  agricultural  implements,  have 
dissolved.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued  by E.  W.  Hatch.

Kalamazoo—C.  E.  Powers has sold the 
Farmers’  Sheds  grocery  stock  to  J.  L. 
Barhite.  Mr.  Powers intends going into 
business at Vicksburg.

Cadillac—James  A  Smith,  dealer  in 
clothing and men’s furnishiug goods, has 
uttered  three  chattel  mortgages  on  bis 
stock amounting to $12,439.80.

Greenville—After serving  seven  years 
as Cashier of the bauk of C.  J.  Church & 
Co.,  W.  H.  Browne  was  received  as  a 
partner in the bauk on July  1.

Sparta (Sentinel)—C.  A.  Johnson  took 
the  agency  for  a  liquid  warranted  to 
keep Hies  otf  from  horses,  and,  before 
offering it to  his  customers,  tried  it  on 
bis own  roadster  last week. 
It  worked 
splendidly and  Charlie  is  now  looking 
for a companion remedy—a hair restorer. 
His horse’s hide looks like a map  of  the 
Cannibal Islands,  with variations.

TTTK  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Big Rapids—A.  R.  Morehouse has pur-  City” —a  firm  which  has  no  existence, 
chased  the Branch store so long occupied  His victims are dressmakers  and  millin- 
by J.  H.  Megargle, and this  fall  will  oc- jers iu country  towns,  to  whom  he  dis- 
cupy the same  with  groceries,  flour  and ! plays samples of ribbons, laces aud fancy 
feed. 
I goods, offering to supply  them  at  much
Owosso—E.  T. Chaplin  has  puichased  less than  market value,  and by some  de- 
Geo.  Kinney’s interest in  the  meat  mar-  vice obtaining payment of  sums ranging 
ket  at the corner of  Main  and  Lansing  from $3 to  $8  for goods ordered,  but  of 
streets and  will continue the business  at  course never received.
the same location.

Charlevoix—W.  H.  Gardner,  of  Har­
bor Springs,  has purchased  the  Moulton 
jewelry store, and  will take possession as 
soon  as  he  can  move  his  family  here 
from his former  location.

Big  Rapids—C.  W.  Barton  has  pur­
chased the stock  of  groceries  exempted 
to Mr.  Percy,  but  has  not  yet  decided 
just what he will  do  with  it.  He  may 
open  another store in the building where 
the goods are now located.

Hastings—J.  H.  Cutting,  of  Ann  Ar­
bor,  has  sold  his  stock  in  the  clothing 
corporation of E.  W.  Morrill &  Co.  to R. 
M.  Lambie,  of Grand Ledge, who will re­
move  to  this  city  and  take  the  active 
management of the business.

Montague—Wm.  Peck has  sold  a  half 
interest in his hardware  stock  to  S.  A. 
Catlin, of Winnepeg,  Manitoba,  who will 
assume the management of the  business, 
which  will  be  conducted  under the style 
of the Montague Hardware Co.

Detroit—The  American  Paper  Stock 
Co.,  which will deal in rags,  metal,  etc., 
has  filed  articles  of  association.  The 
capital stock is $15,000,  half of  which  is 
paid in.  The stock taken is  held  as  fol­
lows:  David  W.  Simons,  TOO;  David 
Biumeuthal, 5; Harry S.  Blumenthal,  45 
shares.

Nashville  (News)—J.  F.  Goss  &  Co., 
grocers and proprietors  of  the  Saratoga 
Hotel, made an assignment last Saturday 
evening,  for the benefit of their creditors, 
Dr.  R.  P.  Comfort  being  named  as  as­
signee.  No statement of liabilities or as­
sets has as yet been  made,  but  it  looks 
as though  the  unsecured  creditors  will 
get the short end of nothing to  chew  on. 
The grocery is  closed,  but  the  hotel  is 
still running in charge of the assignee.

Saginaw—The  clerks 

in  Spangler  & 
Davis’  wholesale fruit  store  were  some­
what  startled  the  other day  when a  big 
bunch of bananas was  lifted  up,  to see  a 
large Southern crab, with vicious looking 
nippers,  jump  on  the  floor  and  scud 
along its surface like  a  ship  under  full 
sail.  At first the boys  thought  it  was  a 
species of tarantula of gigantic  size  and 
they  gave  the  strange  object  a  wide 
berth.  A closer investigation  showed it 
to be a crab,  and Mr.  Spangler has boxed 
him up as  the  nucleus  of  a  future  mu 
seum.

Tecumseh—When  John  S.  Kinney,  a 
Tecumseh  furniture dealer,  failed,  three 
years ago,  Isaac Wolcott, one of the cred­
itors,  paid $300 for a  bill  of  sale  of  the 
stock,  giving a bond of $1,000 to pay cer­
tain debts.  The Globe Casket  Co.  after­
ward sued  Wolcott for  the  amount  of  a 
claim  they  had  against  Kinney,  but  it 
was  decided  in  the  Circuit  Court  that 
Wolcott was  not  responsible,  and  that 
the sale of the stock to him was absolute. 
The  case  was  appealed,  and  the  Su­
preme  Court  has  just  aflirmed  the  de­
cision.

particularly 

Kalamazoo—A 

cruel
swindle is practised  by a  rascal  who has 
been traveling through the towns  in this 
vicinity under  the  name  of  George  P. 
Turner and pretending to be the agent of 
“ H. Adams & Co.,Union Square New Tork

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Muir—Stephen  Warner succeeds  S.  S. 
Burling & Son  in the  flouring  mill  busi­
ness.

Saginaw—The  Alpha  Manufacturing 
Co.,  manufacturers  of  ladies’  wrappers, 
will remove to Detroit Aug.  1.

Holland—The  Walsh-DeRoo  Milling 
Co.  now  manufactures  three  barrels  of 
flour every 24 hours per one horse power, 
in a 400 barrel mill.

Saginaw—Articles  of association  have 
been filed by the Farmers’  Handy Wagon 
Co.,  which  intends  to  manufacture  and 
deal in  wagons  and other  vehicles,  agri­
cultural  and  lumber  implements.  The 
capital  stock  is  $50,000,  divided  into
5.000 shares of $10 each.  The stockhold­
ers and the number of shares held by each 
are as follows:  C.  W.  Robinson,  3,000; 
E.  Germain,  500: Harry T.  Wickes, 500; 
H. C. Potter, Jr., 500; H. Kirk  Howry, 500.

The  Grain  Market.

The wheat market was badly  demoral­
ized during the past  week.  On  Monday 
it  dropped  4c,  aud  on  Tuesday  it  de­
clined 5c per  bushel  more,  which  was  a 
stunner.  However,  on  Wednesday  the 
manipulators saw they had  overdone the 
thing  and  prices  have  rallied  about 7c 
since that time.  Reports came in  show­
ing damaged condition of the crop iu the 
spring  wheat  section,  while,  several 
weeks ago, there was a phenomenal crop 
reported and now they claim  the  crop  is 
about  the  same  as  last  year,  or about
125.000.  000  bushels,  making  a  total  of
400.000.  000  bushels,  spring  and  winter 
wheat together.  Should this be  correct, 
the United States will have nottoexceed
100.000.  000 bushels for  export, as I have 
stated several times previously.  Thresh­
ing has commenced  in  this  locality  and 
the yield  is  fully  as  good  as  was  pre­
dicted.  While the  threshers  do  not  re­
port  a  > ield  of 35 and 40 bushels to  the 
acre,  they  do  report  10  to  18  bushels. 
Thus far,  this is the highest yield  1 have 
heard  of  this  year. 
It  is  hoped,  how­
ever,  to hear of yields of 25 and 30 bush­
els  in  the  near  future.  Farmers  are 
still  very  reluctant  to  part  with  their 
holdings.  Should  wheat advance to near 
where it was,  it is my  opinion there will 
be a free movement.

The  visible  decreased  2,122,000 bush­
els during the  week,  which  leaves  only 
about 41,228,000 bushels.  This is getting 
down  rather low  and  we  think  the  up­
turn  will  have  to come, soouer or later.
flue  growing 

Corn,  owing 

the 

to 

weather, is still on  the decline.

Oats,  although  the  outlook  for  even 
three-fourths of a crop  is  very  dubious, 
still remain very weak.

The receipts for the  week  were as fol­
lows:  53 cars wheat,  12  cars corn aud  10 
cars of oats.  This is  a  large  amount  of 
oats  for one week. 

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

In  1894,  the  United  States  consumed
1.700.000  tons  of  foreign  sugar.  With 
the means of raising  and  manufacturing 
the article which this country  possesses, 
an  item  like that ought to set somebody 
thinking.

C H I C A G O  

—JunejMMS
AND  WE.ST  MICHIGAN  R’T.

GOING TO CHICAGO.

TO  AMD  FROM  M U SKEGON.

RETURNING  FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. G’d Rapids 6:00am  1 :25pm *6:30pm *11:30pm 
Ar. Chicago  .. la:05pm  6:50pm  6 :C0am * 6:25am 
Lv.  Chicago................ 7:» am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids......... 12:40pm 10:40pm  *6:3oam
Lv. Grand Rapids.......   6:00am  1:25pm  6:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........11:30am  5:15pm 10:40pm
Lv. Grand  Rapids..  *8:00am  1:00pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Manistee...........  12:55pm
Ar. Traverse City....  *1:20pm  4:50pm  4:00am
Ar. Charlevoix........  *3:50pm  6:30pm  6:30am
Ar.  Petoskey.... 
*4:20pm  6:55pm  7:00am
Trains arrive from  north at  5:30 am,  11 ;45am 
1:00 pm, *1  :30 pm.

T R A V E R S E  C IT T .  CH A R LEVO IX   AND  PETO SK ET

,

I T

P A R L O R   AN D   SL E EPIN G   CARS.

Parlor Cars  leave  Grand Rapids  6:00 am  1-25 
pm;  leave  Chicago 7:20 am, 5:00 pm.  Sleeping 
Cars leave Grand Rapids  *, 1:30  pm;  leave Chi 
cago *11:45 pm.
♦Every day  Others week days only.
D
E T R O

Oct.  28,  1894
LANSING  St  NORTHERN  R. R„
GOING  TO  DETROIT.

Lv. Grand Rapids........   7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit  ..................11:40am 
Detroit..................   7:40am 

RETURNING  FROM  DETROIT.

TO  AND  FROM  SA G IN A W ,  ALM A  AND  ST.  LOUIS

Ar. Grand Rapids.........12:40pm  5:20pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. G R.ll :35am 10:45pm
Lv. Grand Rapids  ........  7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell..............12:40pm 5:20pm  ..........
Parlor  Carson all trains  between  Grand Rap 
ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

TO  AND  FROM  LO W ELL.

Trains  week days only.

GEO. DeHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t.

5:30pm 10:10pm
1:10pm 6:00pm

Michigan (Tentral

“ Tie Niagara Falls Route.”

♦Dally.  All others daily, except Sunday. 

Depart
Arrive. 
10 20 d m.........  Detroit  Express......... 7 00am
5 30a m 
.«Night Express............11 20 p m
11  4.  am  —   New York Express  ......  6 00pm
Sleeping ears  run on  all .night  trains  to  and 
from Detroit
Parlor  cars  leave  for  Detroit at 7:00 a m;  re 
turning, leave Detroit i:35 pm, arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20 p m.
Direct  commnnicatloH  made  at  Detroit  with 
ail through  trains tr«!  over  the  Michigan Cen­
tral  Railroad (Canada southern Division.)
A. ALMqriaT, Ticket Agent, 
________   •  Union  I’mssertacrStation.
D ETR tO T,  G R A N D   H A V E S  £  M il 
tNo.  14 +No.  16 tNo.  18i*No.
Trains L  ave 

W A l'K K E   K ailw ay.
EASTW A R D .

Lv,  6 45am 
Ar  7 40am 
Ar  8 25am 
Ar!  9 00am 
Ar  lo 50am

11  20am 
1125am
12 17pm 
1 20pm
3 45pm
4 35pm 
345pm
5 50pm 
305pm 
4 05pm

325pm 
4 27pm 
520pm 
605pm 
800pm 
6 37pm 
705pm 
8 50pm 
8 25pm 
925pm

1100pm 
1235am 
125am 
3 10am 
640am 
715am 
5 40 am 
730am 
537am 
700am

W ESTW AR D .

“ 

“ 

«Daily.

For  Grand Haven  and Intermediate
Points  ...........................................*8:40 a.m.
For I,rand Haven and  Muskegon......tl:C0p. m
“  Mil. and Chi..  +5 35 p.m.
“ 
For Grand Haven  Mil. and  Chi........*7:40 p.m.
For Giand Haven and Milwaukee__tl0:05p. m.
tDally except  Sunday. 
Trains  arrive  from  the  east,  6:35 a.m.,  12:50 
p.m  5:3ii p. m.,  10:  •>  p.m.
Trains  arrive  from  the  west.  6:40  a.  m.  8:15 
a.m.  In -10 a.  in.  3:  5  pm  and 7:05 p.m.
Eastward—No.  14  has  Wagner  Parlcr  Buffet 
car.  No. lb Parlor Car.  No. 82 Wagner Sleeper.
Westward — No. 11  Parlor Car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Huffei car  No. 81  Wagner Sleeper. 
___________ 1  »■

Schedule in effect June 23, 189-,
Lv. 
NORTHERN  D IV . 

.  C a m p b e l i .  i Itv  i'*cket Agent
Giand  Bapids  &  Indiana  K  B. 
Ar.
Saginaw and  adiliac...........t   00am  til  30am
Trav. i y. Petoskey & Mack__*8 00am  + 5 25pm
T  av Cy.Petos.&Harbor Sps..  tl  40pm 
tlO 15pm
saglnaw »Ld Reed  City..........tl  45pm  til 00pm
Petoskey and  Mackinaw....... tlO  45pm  t  6 20am
8 SO am train has parlor  cars  for  Traverse City  and 
Mackinaw  I 40 pm ti ain has buffet parlor car for Har­
bor Springs  10 45 pm train  has  sleeping cars for He- 
toskey and  Mackinaw.
Cin.  Ft  Wayne & Kalamazoot 7 25am  t  9 15pm 
Ft. Wayne and Kalamazoo.. .t 2 15pm  t   1 30pm 
Cm., Ft  Wayne & Kalamazoo* 6 00pm  » 6 50am
Kalamazoo....................... 
*11  40pm  * 9 20am
7 25 am t  ain has parlor  car  to  Cincinnati.  6 00 pm 
train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and 
Louisville.
Lv. Grand Rapids...t7 2iam  t-i  15pm  *11  40pm
Ar. Chicago.............   2 40pm  9 05pm 
7  10am
215 pm train has through coach.  11 40 pm train has 
through coach and sleeping car.
Lv. Chicago...........  t6 50am  t l 00pm  *11  30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  1  ¿0pm  9  ,5pm 
6 50am 
3 00 pm  train  has  through  coach  and  1130 pm  has 
through coach and sleeping car.'
Lv.Gd.Rapidsti 25am  tl 00pm  78 30am 1 5 fOpm 
Ar. Muskegon  8 50am  2 10pm  9 55am  7 0 pm 
Lv.Muskegont913am  tl2 05pm  76 30pm  t4  05pm 
Ar.Gd.Rapids 10 30am 
1  5pm  7 55pm  5 20pm 
C. L. LOCKWOOD,
A. ALMQUIST, 

t Except Sunday.  * Daily.  7 Sunday only.

SOUTHERN  div. 

Ticket Agt. Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass.& Tkt.Agt.

MUSKEGON  TR A IN S.

CHICAGO  TR AIN S.

Lv. 

Ar.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.
changed, the exception  being African gin­
ger, white Singapore, red Zanzibar and red 
Bombay pepper,  ail of  which are a shade 
easier.  The  stock  of  African  ginger  is 
large and the arrivals are few, which  has 
caused  more  disposition  to  sell.  The 
pepper market is quiet and the syndicate 
is doing nothing so far as can  be learned. 
Cloves are dull here.

T.  W. Tucker, Michigan representative 
for  Henry  Wichert,  the  Chicago pickle 
manufacturer,  is in town  for a few days, 
interviewing the retail  trade.

Geo.  H.  McWilliams  (Olney  Sc Judson 
Grocer Co.)  has gone to  Brantford, Ont., 
where he will spend a week with friends. 
He is accompanied  by his wife.

Gripsack  Brigade.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GOSSIP.

C. S. Parks has opened a grocery  store 
at Kent City.  The I.  M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co. famished the  stock.

Comfort & Jones,  bakers  at  Nashville, 
have  added  a  line  of  groceries.  The 
Worden Grocer Co.  furnished  the  stock.
F.  E. Penny has  purchased the confec­
tionery stock of Alfred C.  Fassett at  135 
South  Division  street  and will continue 
the business at the same location.

At the meeting of  the  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association,  to be held this evening,  the 
date and  place of holding the annual pic­
nic of the  organization  will  be  decided 
upon.
J. 

H.  Axe has purchased  the interest of 

Arthur Smith in  the  meat  and  produce 
firm of Watkins  &  Smith  at  84  and  86 
South Division street.  The new firm will 
be known as  Watkins & Axe.

A movement is on  foot  to  organize  a 
stock company, with a  capital  stock  of 
$35,000,  to build  and  operate  a  line  of 
light draft  steamboats  on  Grand  River 
between  this port and Grand  Haven.

Mrs.  Thos.  H.  Atkins  and  Chas.  E. 
Perkins  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under the style of Atkins &  Perkins  and 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  733  South 
Division street.  The Worden Grocer Co. 
furnished the stock.

John Connor recently sold  his boot and 
shoe stock at Charlevoix to Julius Levin­
son, of Petoskey,  who began  closing  out 
the goods.  As it is claimed  that  Connor 
sold  $3,000  worth  of  stock  for  about 
$800  in  cash,  four  creditors  (including 
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. and Reeder Bros. 
Shoe  Co.)  whose claims aggregate  $1,550 
have  garnisheed  the  purchaser  on  the 
ground that the  transfer was fraudulent.

The Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The demand has continued  ac­
tive,  with 
indications  rather  favoring 
higher  prices  on  soft  grades.  There 
seems to be no reason  to  expect  an  ad­
vance  in  granulated  unless  raw  sugar 
goes higher.  The position of soft sugars 
is  a  very  strong  one,  all  grades  being 
oversold and some  of  the  bettor  grades 
from  four  to  six  days.  Stocks  in job­
bers hands  throughout  the  country  are 
unquestionably  light,  but  buyers  are 
purchasing from hand to mouth and com­
pelling the refiners to carry them.

Coffee—The demand  shows  some  im­
provement,  particularly for mild grades, 
and prices of both Brazil and mild coffees 
are somewhat firmer.

Tea—There is no appreciable improve­
ment in the country demand,  but  sellers 
are hopeful of a good fall  trade, as  they 
argue that the  light  condition  of  stocks 
throughout the country  will  soon  impel 
holders to replenish. 
In all respects the 
market at first hands is in a waiting con­
dition.  Advices from  the East  say  that 
new teas  are  being  settled  right  along 
and that there is no  interference  on  ac­
count of the late war.

Prunes—There is  an  increased  move­
ment  in  California  prunes,  which  are 
selling quite freely in a small  way at the 
prevailing low prices.  The smaller sizes 
are doing best.  French  prunes are quiet 
and unchanged.

Spices—No activity has been displayed 
in anything on the list,  and  holders  are 
waiting the advent of buyers in the  mar­
ket and are not attempting to force  mat­
ters.  Prices  have  been  generally  un­

to 

Lemons—Ninety per cent, of  the  fruit 
in this line now  being  sold  at  the  auc­
tions  will  only  grade  as  common  and 
choice,  and all of the  boxes  show  signs 
of  weakness  and  decay  which  neces­
sitates  their being repacked before leav­
ing New York.  Owing to this condition, 
importers  are  not  getting  as  much  per 
box as they expected and the majority of 
dealers  seem 
think  prices  have 
slumped.  While  general  quotations are 
certainly below those  of  two  weeks ago, 
they  are  in  keeping  with  the  grade of 
stock  which  they stand  for,  but  bright 
smooth  lemons  which  are sound and  in 
original  order  are  scarce  and  readily 
bring  outside  prices.  They  are  much 
the cheapest to buy,  taken all around,  as 
good goods  always  please  and  the  con­
suming public are not averse to paying a 
fair price for anything needed  which  bus 
value.  The  gist  of  it  all  is,  don’t  be­
lieve that you can get as  good a grade of 
lemons from dealers who  quote  at  $3.50 
@4 as you can  from  other  reliable  firms 
who are known  to handle  the best marks 
only  and  quote  on  a  basis  of  value. 
Fancy stock to-day  sells  for  $5.25@5.50 
and is worth twice  as  much  as  scrubby 
stuff offered at  $3.50 (cb4.

Oranges—Still  very  moderate.  The 
best of them are rather spongy  and  they 
decay so rapidly that none of  the  retail­
ers care to carry much  stock.  Domestic 
fruits,  melons, etc., are  being  sold  very 
low  and  take  the  place  of  oranges to a 
great extent.  Rodi  and Sorrento fruit is 
being  offered  at  the  Eastern  auctions, 
but very little of it finds its way to West­
ern markets, of late years.  Like the ma­
jority of foreign fruits,  they  are  packed 
very  handsomely,  but much of  the  fruit 
itself  is  puffy  and  juiceless.  All  local 
dealers have a fairly good stock  of  Med­
iterranean Sweets in cold storage,  but, as 
the hot weather tells on the fruit severely 
after being removed from  the  low  tem­
perature, 
it  is  not  advisable  to  order 
otherwise  than 
small  quantities. 
Prices  at  present  are  somewhat  lower 
and  buyers  contemplating  liberal  pur­
chases  will  fine wholesalers very easy of 
approach.

in 

Bananas—Local 

jobbers  report  that 
demand continues  to be good  and  prices 
remain fairly  firm. 
Importers  bring  in 
smaller cargoes now and  try  to  keep  a 
visible  supply  which  is  only  adequate 
to the demand  and  thus  not  overcrowd 
the market.  This is  a wise  policy  and 
beneficial all around,  as  “gluts”  mean  a 
loss  to  every  bolder  of  stock.  There 
will  be three carloads in our  market this 
week,  which will  be sufficient for  all  re­
quirements.

Foreign  Nuts—Sell  only  in  a  small 
way and prices are  generally  easy.  No 
advance can  be noted in  any  variety ex­
cept  in  Brazils,  which  were  sprung  a 
cent per pound last week,  and those in  a 
position to know state that there  will be 
another  advance  when  any  change  is 
made.

5

sky,  dear Liberty’s abode,  upon  a  pedes­
tal he saw the  very  steed  he  rode,  and 
on  that  steed,  surrounded  by  a  crowd 
of salesman  vets,  Columbia  sat,  astride, 
arrayed 
In

Them

Pant’lets!

S im p ly   a   S u g g e s tio n .

One of the most attractive  turnouts  in 
the procession on the Fourth  of  July  in 
this city  was that of a local  cigar  bouse. 
Later on in the procession, came represen­
tatives of a few  trades’  unions, who filled 
the air along their line  of  march  with  a 
snowstorm  of  labels.  The  face  of  the 
label  was headed  by the  order  to  smoke 
only cigars of  union  manufacture.  The 
reverse,  with  pleading  in  its  tones,  im­
plored union  men  not  to  smoke  the  ob­
noxious cigar.

It looks as if the  order  or  the  appeal 
were  both  needed. 
It  looks  as  if they 
had  been  needed  for some time before the 
Fourth; and now,  at the risk  of  furnish­
ing aid  and  comfort  to  our  friend,  the 
enemy,  it  seems  proper  to  ask,  if  that 
label  flurry  was  just  the  thing for the 
men on that side of the fence to  do.  Di­
rectly ahead was the prohibited cigar and 
human  nature  is  weak.  The  streets 
were  crowded  by  those  who  were  at­
tracted  to  the  cigar  and,  when  the av­
alanche of labels  came  down  upon  that 
frail  human  nature 
there  was—there 
could  be but one result,  and  that came at 
once to pass—they all  went for  that  ob­
noxious cigar and it does seem now  as  if 
the  makers  thereof  ought  to  do  some­
thing  handsome  to  pay  for all advertis­
ing.

In  the  meantime, here is a pretty little 
story which  may  be of  service  not  only 
to  the  label  avalanche  brigade,  but  to 
others who are  afflicted  with  periodical 
agitation of gray  matter:

There  was  once  an  anxious  mother, 
who was,  unexpectedly, called away from 
home.  Just  before she left she gathered 
her children around her and said:  “Child­
ren,  I  am  going  to be away for half an 
hour.  You may  have  all the apples you 
want and you may play tag in  the garden, 
and  you  may  play  toss  with  the  bean 
bags;  but  don’t  get  the  beans  out  and 
don’t  put  ’em  in  your  ears  or  up  your 
nose;”  and  when  she  came  back  every 
little  nostril  and  every  little  ear  had  a 
bean in it.

The Hardware Market.

As before reported, glass is firm.
Bash and doors have advanced.
Tire and stove bolts have  advanced  10 

per cent.

J.  A.  Putnam,  traveling  salesman  for 
the  Saginaw  Broom  Co.,  was  killed  by 
the cars last week in Wisconsin.  The re­
mains were taken  to  Saginaw  for  inter­
ment.

W. T.  Lamoreaux  is  now  represented 
on the road by five  salesmen,  all  selling 
his  patent  scissors  sharpener—W.  J. 
Corbin, C.  B. Corbin,  H.  W.  Reid,  W.  O. 
Knowles and Frank A. Collins.

L. C.  Bradford has severed his connec­
tion with the Muskegon branch of the U. 
S.  Baking Co. to take  a  similar  position 
with  the  bakery  department of the Du­
rand & Kasper Co.,  which is managed by 
Harry  Fox,  formerly  manager  of  the 
Muskegon establishment.

If there is  one  point,  more  than  an­
other,  upon  which  T h e  T r a d e s m a n  
prides itself it is its  thorough  apprecia­
tion of  whatever  pertains  to  American 
patriotism.  The  scream  of  the  Ameri­
can eagle is music  to  its  ears;  and  the 
gun,  too big,  and the fife too  shrill,  have 
yet to  be  heard,  provided  always  that 
the booming and the piping  are  in  Lib­
erty’s sweet name. 
It takes  pride,  too, 
in the  inspirations  of  American  genius 
which the  day  is  sure  to  bring  forth; 
and with a thrill of delight it asks  where 
there is a better instance  of the  inspira­
tion of  that genius than  that  which  cen­
tered on the last Fourth  of  July  in  the 
pantalets of the  warhorse in the ranks of 
the  traveling  salesmen?  There  was 
something in the attitude  of  Uncle  Bam 
that day, as clad in stars  and  stripes  he 
rode his  decorated  bay,  a  something  in 
his countenance that  plainly said he saw 
a vision of the future that just  filled  his 
soul  with  awe—a  vision  unattended, 
though,  by any vain  regrets,  for  all  the 
sky  was all  aglow 

With

Them

Pant’lets!

The time  would come—he  saw  it  then 
—when all the world would feel,  no  life 
was  worth the living which did  not  own 
a wheel; and with a wheel  what  woman 
in all the world would ride,  if bifurcated 
garments should  be  to  her  denied?  He 
vowed that  she  should  have  them  and 
with several  “You bets,”  his  horse  was 
wearing then the style 

Of

Them

Pant’lets!

No wonder,  then, that  prancing  bay  the 
salesmen’s  pride  became;  no  wonder, 
then, that Uncle  Sam  with  joy  was  all 
aflame;  for  there,  beneath  the  summer

Barbed wire continues at former prices.
It has been noticed that,  although  the 
wholesale houses have in many instances 
had to pay more for some of their  goods, 
they have not increased the selling price.

INCLUDE  A  CASE  OF

KOFFA-AID

In  your  next  order  to  your Jobber.

IM P W   A L > T If  I  P  

A 
**  IN Li vv 
dients.  It pays you a profit of 33 per cent.  Saves the consumer 25 per cent.

to be used in connection with Coffee.  Guaranteed not 
r tiy  I  1V/L.L.  to contain one particle of chicory or deleterious ingre­

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

J. P.  Yisner,  Ag’t.

THE  KOFFA-AID  GO, 

d é t r o i t ,  m ic h .

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

boy.  1 recall  one  now, out  of  the  dim 
and  misty  past,  whose  long neck—sug­
gesting  the  Rhode  Island  clam—looked 
all  the  longer  for  the  lack  of a collar. 
There is no need  of  such  indifference to 
personal  appearance,  and  the  boy—big 
or little, old or young—who will not pre­
sent himself properly clad  is not the boy 
who can expect to climb up rapidly  in  a 
grocery  store  even  if he is permitted to 
work in one. 

U ncle  Bon.
Points for Clerks to  Remember.

To  be  a  good  clerk  is  to be able not 
only  to sell to a  customer  something  he 
has  started out  to  get,  but  to  sell  him 
something be had no idea of buying when 
he came into the  store.  ‘
The respect with which you are treated 
by other people depends upon the respect 
with which you treat yourself.
Thousands  of  women  promenade  the 
stores, having not  the  slightest  idea  of 
buying.  So  it  is  no  wonder  that  the 
clerk  is  often  short  in  his  answers  to 
persons  who really mean  to buy.  At the 
same  time,  he  should  try  to remember 
that it is the overcoming of such difficul­
ties and  worries as this  that  makes  men 
successful.
A good customer cannot always be told 
by the clothes he  wears. 
It  will  pay  a 
clerk to treat everyone with  equal  cour­
tesy.
Avoid  the  discussion  of  religion  or 
politics in your place of  business;  while 
every  man has  a  right  to  his  opinions, 
they have nothing to do with business.
Be careful of your health.  It is a bless­
ing which cau never be too highly valued. 
Good health is esrential to the  great suc­
cess iu  life.

Griswold

House

M  DELED,  NEWLY  FURNISHED

FRED  POSTAL,

Proprietor.

Rust $2.00 a day House in  the City 
Cor.  Qrand  River  Avenue  and  tiriswold  Street,  DETROIT,  MICH.

SW EET’S   HOTEL

J.  E.  RICE,  Proprietor.
LIN  W.  RICE,  Clerk.

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

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

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

AND  A  HJLL  LINE  OFuSMALL  IHPLE/IENTS  AND  REPAIRS.

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

Catalogue.  Telephone  104.

6

CLERKS’  CORNER.

It  was  Saturday  morning  when  I 
stepped into Jones’  grocery  on  the  cor­
ner  to see how  things  were  getting  on, 
when that boy they  have  there  came  to 
that side of the store and began to do  up 
some berries. 
I may have  something  to 
say  about  that  one  of  these  days,  but 
just now I want to say that that boy  had 
on  about  the dirtiest shirt that a young­
ster  ever  wore. 
It  wasn’t  clean  any­
where, but from the  elbow  down  it  was 
black.  Now, I don’t like that; and I saw 
enough in the little while 1 was  in  there 
to  convince  me  that  I  am  not the only 
one  who  didn’t  like  it.  To  be  honest 
about  it,  I  kept thinking that if I could 
only have that  garment  to  spread  over 
my  strawberry  bed,  just  before  a  good 
lively shower,  how it  would  enrich  the 
garden and  what splendid berries I would 
have the next season!

I thought,  at first,  that I would quietly 
exercise the privilege  which  belongs  to 
the  superannuated  and  tell  the  boy  to 
take care of himself. 
If I should,  this is 
about what he would say:  *‘I  can’t help 
it.  Nobody can,  in a store where he  has 
to  do  everything. 
I  can’t  change  my 
shirt but once a  week; and,  if 1 did,  both 
of’em would be as black as this.”  Then he 
would  tell  me  ail  be  has  to  do,  from 
sweeping to loading potatoes; and 1 know 
that  already.  The  more  1  think  of itt 
however,  the more 1  am  convinced  that 
the boy and all  boys  in  a  grocery  store 
should  keep  clean:  and  I  don’t know a 
better way to bring  that  about  than  to 
tell my boys of T h e T radesm an of some 
other  boys  1  know  of  who  don’t  have 
black  shirt  sleeves  any  Saturday  and 
who  don’t  change that garment  ofteuer 
than once a week.

They have overjackets  of  some  wash­
able stuff—your mothers,  boys,  will  tell 
you what—and,  when they are set at any 
dirty work, on goes  the  jacket  and  the 
clean shirt sleeves remain unsoiled.  Yes, 
the jackets do get dirty, but nobody cares 
anything  about  that,  for  they  are  not 
worn at all in the  front  part of the store 
and so do not offend if they are black. 
I 
have yet to  see  the  boy,  however,  who 
will  not  do  a  little washing on his  own 
account,  rather than  be offensively dirty, 
and,  when  such  boys  are  found,  it  is 
very  easy  to  decide  what  to  do  with 
them.

I think, too, that a  boy  looks  a  great 
deal  better  with  a  collar  than  without 
one. 
I would not  have  in  my  store,  to 
scare  away  my  customers,  a  collarless

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Is  known  throughout the  territory  covered  by  them,  as  keeping the  best 
class of FOOD  GOODS to  be obtained  in  this  or  foreign  countries. 
It 
will  not,  therefore,  be  a surprise to anyone  when  they read  this page and 
learn  that this Company has taken  the  EXCLUSIVE  SALE  of the food 
products of the

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of Battle  Creek.  This  Company  has the largest Food  Laboratory  in  the 
world,  and their success as  health  food producers is well  known.

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cannot drink  Tea or Coffee.

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eaten  with  cream  and  milk,  and in  many  combinations  with  fruit and  eggs. 
the  nio-t delicious of  all  cereal  foods.

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Is composed of the  most  nutritious and  easily digested grains,  from  which all  foreign and  in­
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W EDNESDAY.  JU LY  17.

A  GOVERNMENT  BY  SPOILSMEN.
A telegram  from San  Francisco relates 
that a man  who had once  been a clerk in 
the  County  Tax  Collector’s  office  had 
been  arrested  for threatening to  kill  the 
Governor of California,  for  failing to ap­
point him to some public office  which  he 
had demanded.

This is merely a  repetition of a sort of 
criminality tbat is becoming far too com­
mon in this country.  Everybody still re­
members  with  horror  the  murder  of 
Mayor  Carter  Harrison,  of  Chicago,  a 
few years ago,  by a  man  who  had  been 
di.»appointed  in  getting  some public of­
fice  which  be  wanted,  and  the  case  of 
Guiteau,  who assassinated President Gar­
field because the  President  had  not  ap­
pointed him to a public office.  Doubtless 
there have been many  more  such  disap­
pointed office-seekers  who were ready  to 
commit  murder,  but  lacked  the  oppor­
tunity.

But it is fully demonstrated that  there 
are men,  and  not a few of them, who live 
upon the taxpayers of the country.  They 
have  made  up  their minds that the peo­
ple must support  them,  and  in  one  way 
or another they are  generally able to get 
into public  place;  but  when  it  so  hap­
pens that one of  them is left out in some 
new distribution of the  offices,  be  feels 
that his  right  to  live  at  the public cost 
has been  outraged,  and  he  is  ready  to 
wreak  his  vengeance  upon  somebody, 
anybody  whom he may choose to hold re­
sponsible.

Thus it comes about  that  there  is  al­
ways a horde of men who  regularly  mo­
nopolize the offices  when  their  political 
clique  is  in  power.  Before an election 
they parcel out the  offices  among  them­
selves,  and,  if  any  of  them  happen to 
fail of success in realizing their  dreams, 
they claim  that they  have  been  deprived 
of their just  rights,  and  loudly  demand 
revenge.  To  such  an  extent  has  this 
odiuus  spoils  system  been  carried  in 
cities  that  no man dare hope for a nomi­
nation to any office until he  has  squared 
himself  with the  freebooters  who  claim 
to own all  the public plunder.  Not even 
a reform can  be  inaugurated  until  these 
pirates are pacified or bought  up.

This is what our municipal government 
of the people,  for the people and  by  the 
people has  come  to. 
It  is  no  longer  a 
government  controlled  by  the  people,

but by bands of jobbers and robbers, who 
seize upon  the plunder and dictate terms 
to the people.  And here is  the  weakest 
spot  in  all  the  political  theories of the 
socialists,  who wish  the  Government  to 
own and control all the industries, wealth 
and commerce of the eouutry and admin­
ister it for the good of the whole  people. 
The result would be that the Government 
would be seized upon and held by a band 
of robbers,  and these  rascals  would  ad­
minister everything for their  own  bene­
fit,  while the people would  suffer  worse 
than  they  do  under  the  present condi­
tion of things.

ENFORCE  THE  MONROE  DOCTRINE.
T h e  T r a d e sm a n   is  pleased  to  note 
that there is a growing  popular  demand 
in favor of the strict enforcement  of  the 
Monroe doctrine.  This demand is  not  a 
mere indefinite popular  outburst,  but  a 
mandate to the Government,  based  upon 
actual  knowledge that several  violations 
of the celebrated doctrine are threatened. 
The policy  of  the  State  Department  in 
recent international controversies,  where 
some  construction  of  the  Monroe  doc­
trine was involved,  has not  met  popular 
approval,  and  a  change of tactics is de­
sired.

The most important of  the  threatened 
infringements of the  Monroe  doctrine  is 
the  attitude  of  Great  Britain  towards 
Venezulela.  An  attempt  to  seize  the 
district along the Venezuelan frontier by 
the British would be a  flagrant  violation 
of the most vital principles of  the  Mon­
roe theory,  and the  United  States  could 
not  afford  to  wink  at  such  aggression 
without abolishing the  Monroe  doctrine 
altogether.

Another  threatened  violation  of  the 
Monroe doctrine is the threat  of  Italy  to 
compel  the  payment  of  an  indemnity, 
claimed of  Brazil,  by  force of arms.  Al­
though  the late Secretary  of State  Gres­
ham allowed  the  British  to  occupy  Co- 
rinto,  Nicaragua,  the  masses of the peo­
ple  have  always  believed  that it was  a 
violation of the letter  and  spirit  of  the 
Monroe doctrine, and  would not  tolerate 
a repetition of the mistake in the case of 
Italy  and Brazil.

The  French  in Guiana are also threat­
ening trouble  by seeking to extend  their 
influence into the section  of  Brazil  situ­
ated  along 
their  frontier.  All  these 
international  controversies  should  be 
watched,  and our  Governmen  should  be 
prepared to act promptly should  any  in­
fringement  of the Monroe doctrine be at­
tempted.  The people demand that  much.
The  progressive  wheelmen  of  New 
York  who are tired of baggy knees areas 
anxious  to  pnt  off  trousers  as  the  pro­
gressive  wheel-women  are  to  put them 
on.  There  is  no reason why they might 
not both be gratified, and comfort,  health 
and neatness plead alike for the knicker­
bockers  and  the  bloomers.  The  wheel 
is  working  a silent revolution in the ap­
parel of society,  and it will not stop with 
the  clothes.  But  wheels  must  be  ex­
pected  to  make  revolutions;  and when 
society  gets  many  wheels  in  the head, 
revolutions will be plentiful.

During  the  first  six  months  of  1894 
there  was  coined  by  the  mints  of  the 
United  States  $46,735,005  in  gold  and 
$386,797  in  silver—120  times  as  much 
gold as silver.  Yet the  gold  has  almost 
entirely gone out of  general  circulation, 
being  retained  by  the  Government  and 
the banks.

! OPPOSITION  TO  CIGARETTE  TRUST.
I  The  American  Tobacco  Company  has 
extended  its  monopoly  into  Canada  by 
purchasing all of the Dominion factories. 
This trust aims to  control  the  cigarette 
business.  It insists that all dealers must 
sell its products or none. 
In  New  Eng­
land formidable opposition to  the  dicta­
tion  of  the  trust  has  developed,  and 
dealers there  are  combining  to  sell  the 
goods  of  outside  manufacturers.  One 
way of settling the  controversy might be 
the  enactment  of  laws  in  the  various 
states imposing a heavy tax  on  the  sale 
of all cigarettes.  The  original  cigarette 
was made by the smoker himself out of a 
fine grade of tobacco, which was enclosed 
in a rice  paper wrapper.  The  manufac­
tured cigarette is a  very  different  thing 
Even  where fresh material  is  used  it  is 
bleached  and  drugged.  The  cheapest 
grades are,  unquestionably,  made  out  of 
all sorts of factory refuse, and even cigar 
stumps  picked  up 
in  the  gutters  are 
utilized.  The  wrappers  of  nearly  all 
cigarettes are now made from  wood  pulp 
paper  of  one  kind  or  another.  This 
yields,  when burned,  a creosote  prtduct, 
which, inhaled into the lungs,  is  a  posi­
tive poison.  What with  the  creosote  of 
the  wrapper  and  the  opium  in  the to­
bacco,  the  manufactured  cigarette  be­
comes a  serious  menace  to  the  general 
health, especially as its cheapness  offers 
great temptation  to young people.  There 
is a law in this State which prohibits the 
sale of cigarettes to minors,  but it is vio­
lated more than any other on the  statute 
books.  The  way  to  regulate  the  per­
nicious traffic is to put a heavy tax on it. 
This  has  been  done  recently  down  in 
West Virginia,  with  tbe  result  that  the 
sale of cigarettes has  virtually ceased in 
that  State. 
If  a  similar  tax  were  im­
posed in other states, it  would  not  mat­
ter what factories the  American  tobacco 
trust controlled.

THE  COST  OF  MILITARISM.

The cost of the European military sys­
tem is placed at $25,000,000,000 since the 
last great war, twenty-five  years ago,  an 
average of $1,000,000,000 per year.  This 
vast  outlay  has  been  attended  by  the 
withdrawal of a large  proportion  of  the 
ablest  of  the  laboring  population  from 
industrial  pursuits  to  serve  in tbe mili­
tary  establishments.  This  preparation 
constitutes  an  immense  magazine of de­
struction,  which  might  be  ignited  by  a 
single  careless  diplomat,  with  conse­
quences—in view of the modern  advance 
in  destructive  machines—too  appalling 
to be imagined.

This is not only a stupendous waste of 
money and labor,  but is a continual  men­
ace and the source of uneasy foreboding, 
causing the fluctuation  and  depreciation 
of securities,  and is generally  the  great­
est disturbing element  in  the  industrial 
and economic  conditions  of  most of  the 
European countries.  When oqp contrasts 
the  results  of  this  expenditure  of  the 
vast revenues  wrung  from  the  proceeds 
of  the  toiling  masses,  with  the  results 
that would have  ensued  from its  use  in 
the advancement  of  the  social  and eco­
nomic conditions, it  is  enough  to  cause 
question as to the value and permanence 
of European civilization.  The continued 
pauperism and threatened anarchism are 
results  of  this  worse  than  wasted  na­
tional revenue.

The rapid advance made  in  France  in 
the  propulsion  of  carriages by mechan­
ical motors bids fair to work a revolution

in road  traffic.  The  problem  of the ap­
plication  of  machinery  for this purpose 
is a comparatively simple  one on  the  al­
most  perfect  highways  of  France  and 
England.  It is probable that if the move­
ment becomes as general  in  those  coun­
tries  as  it  promises,  it  will  exert  no 
small  influence  in  the  improvement  of 
roads in America.  The  atrocious  condi­
tion of roads here,  amounting to almost a 
total  lack  of  any  fit  for  such  traffic, 
would be a bar  to  its  introduction  were 
it  not  that  the  Americans  would never 
allow the old countries to  outstrip  them 
so far in  methods of transportation with­
out taking prompt  steps  to  remedy  the 
situation.  ________________

Tbe  Cuban  situation  is  becoming  so 
serious  tbat  it  is  probable  Spain  will 
soon  be compelled  to  admit  that  actual 
war  is  in  progress  there.  Battles  and 
skirmishes  are reported,  with  the  usual 
Spanish  successes,  likely  to  be  turned 
into  defeat  by  later  information.  The 
fact that Campos is  demanding  large re­
enforcements 
that  his  suc­
cesses  are  not  very  decisive.  The Cu­
bans’  expectations  of  aid  from  sympa­
thizers  in  this  country  and  elsewhere 
continue to be  fully  realized,  while  the 
co-operation of that fell destroyer, yellow 
fever,  aids in making  tbe  Spanish situa­
tion a serious one.

indicates 

In  its  latest  number  tbe  American 
Jewess tries to prove that  women who are 
to-day  wielding  the  pen,  asking  for 
rights,  undertaking new duties,  and  ad­
vertising dress reform,  are  simply going 
back to Bible days.  “ When  tbe  daugh­
ters  of  Zelophehad  and  their  contem­
poraries  asked  for  more  just  property 
rights,  the Lord commanded  their  claim 
to  be  satisfied,’’  says one of its writers, 
adding that the  first  garments  worn  by 
men and  women seem to have been made 
of the same material and cut by the same 
pattern.  When  a  man  calls up  history 
he must look  backward.

The Japanese  army  of  occupation  in 
Formosa is finding some  work  to  do  in 
the establishment of authority. 
Its deal­
ings with  the  Formosans,  however,  in­
volves  no  more  difficulty  than  when  it 
was  opposed  by  tne  armies  of  China. 
Every  battle is a victory,  with  the  usnal 
proportion of eight or  ten  of  the  enemy 
slain  to  one  of  its  own  soldiers.  The 
work of subduing this Island  will  serve 
to keep up the military  spirit  and  pres­
tige of the “coming nation.

The Japs have been  figuring  up  their 
losses during the war, and find that it has 
not been a very fatal  war to them.  There 
were but  623  killed  in  battle,  and  172 
died of  wounds received.  The  wounded 
altogether  numbered  2,981; 
cholera 
killed  2,489,  and  other  diseases  took 
2,981.  The  Chinese  seem  to  have  for­
gotten  what  little  they  learned  about 
shooting  from  Chinese  Gordon.  Proba­
bly  nobody  will  ever  know  what  their 
losses were.

The New York  Court  of  Appeals  has 
just  settled  a  question  which  has long 
been the occasion of much domestic strife 
and infelicity. 
If there  is  a  dog in  the 
family,  it belongs  to  the  husband.  The 
wife has no  claim,  not even a “commun­
ity of interest.”  The  dog  is  the  man’s 
and he may kick it or tie a tin can  to  its 
tail or shoot it as  he  pleases. 
It  is  ab­
solutely his.

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THE  ARMENIAN  DIFFICULTY.
Now tbat Great Britain has a new min­
istry,  and particularly a new foreign sec­
retary, it is interesting to speculate upon 
the probable result  of  the change on the 
future  management  of  the  Armenian 
question.  Will  the pressure placed  upon 
the Turkish  Government  by  Lord Rose­
bery’s ministry  be renewed and  the ulti­
matum  to  the  Porte  enforced,  or  will 
Lord  Salisbury  adopt  a new line of pol­
icy?

It  is  known  that many of the leading 
Conservatives  did  not  approve  of  the 
course followed  by the late  Liberal  Gov­
ernment,  and  advocated  a  more  lenient 
policy  towards  Turkey.  They  argued 
that the integrity of the  Turkish  Empire 
was essential  to  the  preservation  of  the 
“status quo” in  Europe,  and  more  par­
ticularly to the protection  of  British  in­
terests in  the  East.  They  professed  to 
see danger to British  interests  in  Egypt 
and India from the share accorded Russia 
and France  in  the  demands  made  upon 
the Porte.

Lord  Salisbury’s  reputation  as  a for­
eign secretary stands very high,  and  his 
former Government  was  always  looked 
upon  as  hostile  to  Russia  and  France, 
and friendly towards Germany,  Italy and 
Austria.  A renewal of the entente  with 
Germany may,  therefore,  be  looked  for 
as one of the early developments of  Lord 
Salisbury’s administration, and a gradual 
estrangement  from  Russia.  The  evi­
dences of Russian intrigue with Bulgaria 
to bring about interference in  Macedonia 
will no doubt be accepted by Lord  Salis­
bury as a warning that the  Czar  expects 
to gain a substantial advancement in  the 
direction of Russian aims with respect to 
Constantinople from the  Armenian  diffi­
culty.
British and Russian interests  with  re­
spect to Turkey are so  diametrically  op­
posed that it is difficult to see  how  these 
two powers can  co-operate  without  one 
or the other  sacrificing  some  important 
point  affecting  their  respective  preten­
sions  in  the  East.  A  consideration  of 
these facts has prepared the public mind 
to expect a change in  the  British  policy 
towards Turkey, now that Lord Salisbury 
is  firmly  fixed  in  the  foreign  office. 
Things  are  likely  to  be  allowed  to  lie 
dormant,  however,  until  after  the  gen­
eral elections next week; but,  should  the 
Unionists be returned to power by a good 
majority,  a new Turkish policy by  Great 
Britain will be generally looked for.

NORWAY  AND  SWEDEN.

The  presence  of  Emperor  William  in 
Sweden just at the present time is looked 
upon  as  being  particularly  significant. 
As is well known, King Oscar, of Sweden, 
is at the  present  moment  involved  in  a 
very serious  difficulty  with  the  Radical 
majority  in  the  Norwegian Parliament, 
and,  after having exhausted every means 
of conciliation,  has  recently  determined 
to  resort  to  drastic  measures  to  bring 
about peace.

It is feared that  should the King make 
up  bis mind to  seize  upon  the  reins  of 
government  and  dismiss  the Parliament 
there  will  be  armed  resistance  on  the 
part of the  Norwegians, in  which  event 
King Oscar would call to bis  aid  the  en­
tire military power of both  Norway  and 
Sweden to put down the revolution.

It  has  been  stated  from  time to time 
tbat Russia was disposed  to  interfere  in 
favor of the Norwegians, although  there 
has been no overt act to  justify  such  an

impression.  On the other hand, Emperor 
William has  been  very  open  in  his  es­
pousal  of  the  cause  of King Oscar,  and 
is giving him all the  moral  support  that 
could be  wished.  From  that  fact  it  is 
argued  that  in  the  event  of Russia at­
tempting to side with  Norway,  Germany 
would aid Sweden.

The union of Norway  and Sweden  was 
the  result  of  the  action  of  the  treaty 
powers of Europe,  when,  at  the  close  of 
the Napoleonic wars,  in the early part of 
the century,  the map  of  Europe  was  re­
arranged.  The  union  consists  of  little 
more than a common ruler and a common 
consular  and  diplomatic  corps.  Each 
country has its  own  Parliament  and  its 
own laws,  even its own  army  and  navy. 
Norway  now  demands  separate consuls 
and  ministers,  and  the  Parliament  re­
fuses  to  grant  any  money  for consular 
and  diplomatic  purposes  until  its  de­
mands are acceded to by the  King.

Without interference  from the outside 
the  Norwegians would  be unable to cope 
with Sweden,  more especially as the mil­
itary resources of  Norway  itself  are  all 
in the power of  King  Oscar,  neither  the 
army  nor  the  navy  having  shown  any 
sign of disloyalty so far.  The  only dan­
ger lurking in the situation, therefore, is 
the remote possibility  of  Russian  infer­
ence.

COST  OF  THE  CENSUS  OF  1800.
The work of compiling and  publishing 
the census reports of 1890 is fast nearing 
completion, and a few months  more  will 
see the Census Bureau at  the  end  of  its 
work.  The census of 1890 was by  far the 
most  thorough  and  comprehensive  ever 
undertaken by the  Government,  and it is 
also satisfactory to note that it  has  been 
completed  in  much  less  time  than  the 
enumeration  of 1880.

is  bound  by 

While the  work  accomplished  by  the 
Census Bureau has been eminently satis­
factory,  it must be admitted that  the  ex­
pense has been  enormous,  it  being  esti­
mated that the aggregate  cost  will  foot 
up $11,500,000,  very nearly twice as much 
as  the  preceding  census. 
If  the  cost 
of  each  succeeding  census  is  to  be  in 
creased  at  that  rate,  the  tax  upon  the 
people  will  be  out  of  all  proportion 
to  the  benefits  resulting.  The  Govern­
ment 
the  constitution 
to  enumerate 
every 
ten years,  but that  constitutional obliga­
tion  does  not  extend  beyond  the  vital 
statistics.  The scope of  the  census  has 
been extended from time to time to cover 
statistics of crops,  manufactures  and the 
like;  but it  is  now  a  question  whether 
the limits of prudence and true  economy 
have  not  been  already  exceeded  and 
whether  something  in  the  way  of  re­
trenchment should not be resorted to five 
years hence,  when the census  of  1900  is 
to be taken.

the  population 

Some public men are advocating a per­
manent census  bureau,  with  apparently 
no  other  object  in  view  than to create 
more  public offices and to entail still  fur­
ther burdens  upon  the  people.  Such  a 
permanent bureau would  serve  no  good 
purpose,  while it would make the census 
reports more  unwieldy  and  voluminous 
than they now  are.  Judicious  retrench­
ment, both in the cost and in the scope of 
the census,  are demanded  rather  than  a 
further expansion of the system.

If  you  must  worry,  worry  over  the 
mean  things  you  have  done  until  you 
compel yourself not to repeat them.

J U S T  

A J tR T

New Crop

1 8 9 5

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BUY  IT—The  Price  is  Right. 
BUY  IT—And  “ You’re all  Right.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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GETTING  THE  PEOPLE.

Art of Reaching:  and Holding: Trade by 

Advertising:.

Written for Thb Tradesman.

“I read nearly  every  advertisement in 
my magazines  and  newspapers,”  said  a 
lady to me, not long ago.

These  few  words  convey  a  world ol 
meaning  to the  thinking  merchant.  To 
him,  it is conclusive  evidence  that  right 
advertising is the strongest  pillar  in  the 
foundation  of  a  solid  and  substantial 
business  fabric.  The  superstructure  is 
composed of many and various materials, 
but the immovable  rock  of  good  adver­
tising and strict integrity is the base.

The  lady  said,  “1  read  nearly every 
advertisement,”  etc.—she did not say all 
advertising.  The  vital  point to di-cover 
is,  what  part  does  she  read?  Do  you 
think  she  scans  closely  the  ad.  of  the 
man who says the same words, day  after 
day—perhaps  merely  an  announcement 
of  his  name,  business  and  location— 
with never a change but  for  the  worse, 
as the tpye wears out? or does she greed­
ily watch for  Jones’  new  announcement 
of tempting  bargains,  couched  in  glow­
ing terms, yet  so  plainly  and  carefully 
stated that a child may read  understand­
ing^?  This lady is a woman  of  intelli­
gence and discernment.  Think  you  she 
reads the ad. of one who states  that  it  is 
possible to obtain of him diamonds in ex­
change for paving stones,  or  who  says, 
“$30  fur  capes  now  sold  for  $10?”  or 
does she,  in the  light  of  her  astuteness 
and  discrimination,  pass  this  fable  by 
with a shrug of doubt, if not absolute dis­
belief  and  indifference,  and  turn  with 
avidity to the allurements of the advertis­
er’s words which she  knows,  by common 
sense,  to be true,  that  tell  her  she  may 
obtain something new, something useful, 
something necessary to  her  comfort  and 
enjoyment of life, something valuable  to 
her,  at a figure which is within  the  limit 
of her purse, and a figure that she knows 
is right?

False advertising is the sunken reef on 
which  many  a  good  ship  of  trade 
is 
wrecked.  The reader of  advertisements 
does not live—unless in some  wilderness 
and  uncivilized—who  believes  in  some­
thing for  nothing.  The  advertiser  can­
not afford to depend  upon  the  credulity 
of  the world to sell his  wares.  He must 
depend solely upon  his  sagacity  in  buy­
ing such articles as  will  sell  readily  on 
their  merits,  when  properly  advertised, 
and then advertise  them on a reputation 
which  he  cherishes  above 
temporary 
gain.

It is often the case  that  an  advantage 
may  be  gained  in  some  special article, 
whereby it may be  sold  at  a  seemingly 
losing  price,  far  below  its  real  value, 
and yet not sacrifice  the  merchant’s rep­
utation for veracity,  which  he  must pos­
sess beforehand in order to do this safely.
A lasting and  reliable business, however, 
can not be built upon  the  shifting sands 
of  “cut price  advertising.”

It 

I have just had my  attention  called  to 
the three column advertisement of a firm 
dealing  in  ladies’  goods  almost  exclu­
sively. 
is  beaded,  “Semi-annual 
Clearing Sale,”  and  is filled  from  top  to 
bottom  with  such  inducements  (?)  as 
these:

“Ladies’  trimmed  hats,  formerly  $2, 

now sold at 25  cents.”
“$4 hats at 98 cents.”
“Ladies’  capes,  formerly  $4,  now  98 

cents.”

“Ladies’ capes,  silk,  velvet,  etc.,  for­
merly sold at  $5,  $8,  $10  and  $12,  now 
$2.98.”

All these and many more as utterly un­

truthful on their face.

While such allurements may  suffice  to 
call to the doors of  the  advertiser a mob 
of people,  it will  be found  that  the  cus 
tomers  are  not  of  the class comprising 
the  reliability  and  substantiality of  the 
buying public.  Those  whose trade is  ol 
lasting value to  the  merchant  will  look 
wah  more  than  susp cum  upou  these 
“stretches  of  the  advertiser’s  imagin.i 
tion,”  ami,  as  was  remarked  when  this 
advertisement  was  called  to  my  atten 
lion,  will  say,  “ What a bundle  of  false
hood»!-’

As  an  illustration  of  the  manner  in 
which the letter and spirit of these "Hash 
ads.”  fail  to harmonize  with  each  other. 
1  will  mention  a  circumstance  which 
happened  not  long ago in Grand  Rapids. 
A young married lady  was  the  possessor 
of a porcelain-lined  kettle,  purchased  ol 
a  thoroughly  relianle  firm  at  a  right 
price.  Shortly after, she saw the  ad.  of 
a  certain  other  house, offering a line of 
porcelain  lined  kettles  at  one-tenth  the 
price paid for the one she already owned. 
Here was Mrs.  Youngwife’s  opportunity. 
“I will astonish my dear spouse with  my 
foresight and economy in  purchasing this 
dear little kettle at this  ridiculously  low 
figure.”  She did. 
lie was not  only  as 
tonished,  but  the  lady  was  fairly  as­
tounded when, on  pouiing  boiling  water 
into the “dear,  cheap  little  kettle,”  its 
lovely  porcelain  (?)  lining  cracked  and 
peeled  like  birch  bark  in  the  fall.  Do 
you,  Mr.  Merchant  Advertiser, see  the 
folly of “Getting the People” in this way? 
You’ll  surely  get  them  once,  but  “a 
burned child dreads the fire.”
“ Hew to the Iine’’==
Never  mind  the  chips.

own.  We ure  guarding carefully your in­
terests and. at  the  same  time, ‘ hewing  to 
th<* bottom line" of  prices  on  all  summer 
goods, and we don't care  a  rap  what com­
petitor the chips sti ike in the eye.  so  long 
as we  don't  cut  our  own  thumbs  off  and 
•can  stick  to  the  line  of  honest  and  low 
price dealing.

OLD5AYING  &  CO.

Golden  Results!

Are secured  to  you  when  you  purchase a 
reliable  article  in  Footwear.  Financial 
results  because you save  money  in  wear. 
Pleasing  results—because  of  the  comfort 
o  easy shoes.  Our Shoes give these results 
as well as lasting results  to  our  trade—be­
cause you always come again.

Look at this list of  reliable bargains.

KISMET  &  CO.

A  Haunted 

Bicycle.........

May  cause  its  rider  serious trouble, 
it will shy at anything, and seems  to 
delight in mixing  its  rider  with  the 
dust of the road and the brambles  of 
the  roadside.  A  mud-puddle  is  its 
delight, and it seems to take fiendish 
joy in depositing its  human compan­
ion therein.  Provide yourself, then, 
with a pair  of  our  dust-proof,  mud- 
proof, briar proof and rip-proof Bicy­
cle  Trousers.  They  are  thoroughly 
well made and will stand lots of hard 
knocks.

TWOWHEELS  &  CO.

-THE  MICHIGAN  TEABESMAN,

SOLD  ONLYjBY

GRAND  RAPIDS, Mich.

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

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

Just the  thing  for  Summer 
Resorts and  fine  trade  gener­
ally.

THE  ACKNOWLEDGED  LEADER !

TELFER  5FIG E  GO.,

Absolute

Tea!

and Bon  Bons

Chocolates........
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DETROIT POP CORN NOVELTY CO. ""SSTnfiT“

Pop  Corn  Goods!

Our  Balls are the  Sweetest  am I  Be.-t in  tin*  market. 
*¿00  in  Box  or »'*00  in  Barrel.

Penny  Ground  Corn  Cakes  in

Are Tip  Top  Sellers.

5  and  7  South  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

ESTABLISHED  THIRTY  YEARS.

A Cold  Day

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

Oranges 
Lem ons  and 
Con fee tion ery

than of  price.PUTNAM GANDY CO.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Goods vvill he  eloseei  out
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AFRICAN CLOTHING CO.

Candied  Opinions.

The candid opinion of  all  who  have  sam- 
pled  onr  delicious  and  healthful  home 
made Candies Is  that  there  are  none  like 
them for flavor and  toothsomeness  They 
are made of the purest materials to be had 
and put up in packages as you wish.

J.  R.  NONGLlfCOSE

The  Natives 

Smoke ’em!

Be  careful  when  you  exhibit  the  peerless 
brand  “F. K.  W.”  cigars, if you want to smoke 
them  yourself.  Everything  living  recognizes 
the unexcelled value of this brand of Cigars and 
human  kind  must  have them.  They  furnish  a 
cool, delightful smoke,  refreshing and soothing 
to the  tired  nerves.  Epicures  of  the  weed  de­
mand them.

FLORIDAN  CIGAR  CO.

First-=A  NIGHTMARE 
Then—A  NIGHTHORSE 
Now-*A  NIGHTBICYCLE

Is  the  proper  expression,  to  he  in  line 
with the fin de sieele language.  With  a 
nigbtbicycle  you  must  have a lantern, a 
bell  and  many  other  attachments  for 
safety and comfort.  We carry a full line 
of  “Bikers’ ”  goods—everything  needed 
for the wheel-at low  prices  for  articles 
of reliable manufacture.

PROGRESS  &  CO.

While advertising should be catchy and 
attractive, too many  writers  forget  that 
dignity  is  an  absolute  essential to good 
ads. 
Incorporate  as much  humor as you 
please,  but do not descend  to “cheapness 
of  words”  or  a  lack  of  dignity  in  any 
respect,  aud above all  avoid  the  pitfall 
of the ridiculous ‘ former price,  so  much 
—now  sold  a t—.”  This  road  leads to 
“Notrade town.”

F dc.  F oster  Fu ll er.

With  the  encouraging  reports  which 
come  from  the  crops  outside  of  the 
drought  belt,  there  are  other  cheering 
notes from the business world  which it is 
a comfort  to  hear.  New  York City  and 
Philadelphia announce a  great  improve­
ment  in  the  dry  goods line.  San Fran­
cisco  is  going to put $5,000,000 into new 
buildings this  year.  Chicago  is  adding 
materially 
to  her  shipbuilding.  Min­
neapolis—“flour  is  king”—mentions,  as 
if  it  were  a  matter  of course,  that  the 
milling  business  is  increasing  ail  the 
time.  Pittsburg  is  too  busy 
to  talk 
much,  and  what spare time  she  has  she 
is  using  in  putting up—just stop a min­
ute and look at  that!—the  wages  of  her 
workmen.  When the  country  generally 
ean do that, things financial  will  “bum;” 
for it is the workman  who makes the de­
mand  and  it  is  the  peculiarity  of  the 
American  working  man  that  he  wants 
the  best  which  his money  will  buy. 
It 
does look as if everybody  will  want  two 
days this year to be thankful  in.

«

ARSENIC  IN  BEEF.

Improbable  Story  Started  by  JealouB 

German  Dealers.

their 

the—the—story  started 

Kalamazoo, July 8—1 note that  a  re­
port lias gained currency  in  Germany  to 
the effect that American  packers  use  ar­
senic  in  a  formula  for  preserving beef 
for  export,  which  leads  me  to  believe 
that when the “Sweet  Singer  of  Israel” 
feelingly remarked, one day, that all men 
are liars,  lie  had  Germau  produce  aud 
provision dealers in  his  mind.  It is won­
derful  wbat statements  have lately come 
i rom  the  Fatherland.  Why  should  the 
American packers lay  down  beef  in  ar- 
-euic?  To kill off the goose that lays for 
them the golden egg? 
Is that  the  char­
acteristic  of  the  American  mind?  Re­
cently  the report came rushing like wiid- 
tire through the portals of  foreign  trade 
that the American  pork  packer was just 
saving up for export  all  the  trichinse-in 
fested hogs in  the country. 
It kicked up 
a terrible dust aud  it  is  doubtful  if  the 
Secretary of State and the  German  Min­
ister  have  finished 
lively  cor­
respondence  about  it.  That was pretty 
stuff  to  be  telling  about  the  grandest 
country that the  sun  ever  looked  down 
upon;  and 
in 
Germany.  Last  week  a  dealer  over 
there received some  dried  apples  which 
were a lithe “off.”  There is  nothing  so 
very  bad  about  that.  The  fact  is,  by 
some  accident,  a  little  of  the prime in 
some way  was  taken  for the super-prime 
and  passed thiough  the  hands  of the in­
spector  without  detection.  One  would 
think  the world was  coming  to  an  end. 
There has been no end of complaint, and 
no end of disaster  predicted  in  regard to 
that innocent dried  apple.  What  if  the 
damaged  article  hadn’t  been  detected, 
and bad  found an entrance into the ways 
and  by  ways  of  tbe  German  stomach! 
What if a German, over-foud  of  tbe  ar­
ticle,  and  it is gaining in favor everyday 
—bad taken  in  an overload—of dried up 
pics—aud then yielded  to the demands of 
an  over-thirst!  Douner  vetter!  but  the 
very  idea  is  appailiug!  And  so  from 
this lie—or  what  amounts  to  the  same 
thing—tbe dried apple business has gone 
by tbe board,  in Germany.
Now,  what 1  want to find out is,  where 
this  prevaricating—that  sounds  better 
than the other word  with  three  letters— 
is going to stop.  We  don’t  want to poi­
son Germany;  we  don’t  want  to  fill  the 
American  trichinae  with  German  beer; 
and  tbe  last 
that  America  has 
thought  of  is  bursting  the  expansive 
Germau stomach  with  swollen dried ap­
ples of an  inferior  order.  What  we  are 
after is to find some way of “dwelling to­
gether in  unity,” and, while we care little 
about tbe ointmeut  that  rolls  down  tbe 
beard—your  true  American  keeps  his 
vest  pulled down and  his  chiu  wiped off 
— we do care  very  much  about  furnish­
ing the laud of tbe bologna with beef and 
pork  aud dried apples,  and  we  care very 
much,  too,  about their  lying  about these 
articles after they get there. 

Ra d ix.

thing 

Shingles, Twenty Years Ago,

Were made  from  the  choicest  of  timber 
and  a  good  shingle  roof  would  last 
twenty or more years,  but in  these  days 
with a greater demand  for the  timber  of 
older  growth  aud  a  greatly diminished 
supply of it,  shingles are mostly cut from 
the limbs and tops of the  trees.  Shingle 
roofs now last  from  five  to  eight  years 
only  and  tbe  farmers  and  tradespeople 
are  clamoring  for  something  more  ser­
viceable and  cheaper  Ruberoid  Ready 
Roofing has been  used and  sold  for  five 
years by  EL.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son,  of  this 
city,  in their large  business  as  practical 
ruofers, and it is  now guaranteed  to  last 
longer than any shingle,  tin or  iron  roof 
that can be  laid. 
It  is  frequently  used 
to  cover  other  roofs  and  is very easily 
applied by auy person of  ordinary  intel­
ligence.

The devil  is  responsible  for  much  of 
the wickedness of the  world,  but  it is the 
devil  that  a  man  develops  within  him­
self.

Don’t ask tbe Lord to  do  anything  for 
yon until you are quite sure you  deserve 
it,  and  don’t  then  if  you  can do it for 
yourself.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

A  LITTLE  SHARP  PRACTICE. 

Written for Thk Tradesman.

The strawberries  were the  first  which 
bad  been  brought in—bin,  red  and  ripe. 
They  were so big and  looked so delicious 
that Jane Cragin,  from  her  place  at  the 
desk,  came for a nearer view and a taste.
“Well,  those  aie  fine  berries  and  no 
mistake,’’  she said,  after  oue or two had 
melted in  her mouth.  “ 1  want  a  couple 
of quarts to take home;  and you had  bet­
ter put them aside now,  before  they  are 
all  gone.  Jim,  just  put  me  up 
two 
quarts and  I’ll  take  them  when  I  go  to 
dinner;  but,  mercy to me!  you don’t call 
that a  quart,  in  that  bit  of  a  box,  do 
you?”  She tipped  up  oue  of  the  ooxes 
and gave it a little shake.

“That’s the way they  came,”  said  Cy, 
taking  the  box  from  Jane’s  hand  and 
shaking the berries level again.  “There 
may  be  a  quart  in  each box  and  there 
may  be  two—’tain’t  nothin’  to  us, ’s I 
know of, ’f  there  aiu’t.  We  didn’t  put 
’em  up,  ’n’  we  aiu’t  measured ’em,  ’n \ 
what’s  more,  we  ain’t  a goin’  to.  We 
bought ’em for a quart,  ’u’  we’ll sell ’em 
for  that.  Maybe  the  berries  ’r*  so big 
that it  makes ’em  look’s  if  there  wa’n't 
so many  of  ’em.  Guess  that’s  it,  after 
all,  Jane;  but. ye see,  we  can’t afford to 
find  out  how  much  they  run  over,  ’n’ 
we’d  better  let  the  respous’bility  rest 
with  the packer,  jes’ where ’tis  now.”

“Well, Cy. you can  leave it that way, if 
you want to,  but  I’m  going  to  have  two 
quarts of berries.  Jim,  you  needn’t  put j 
up two boxes for me;  1  want  two quarts, 
whether it takes two boxes  or  ten,”  and 
tbe  book-keeper  went  back  to  her  fig­
ures.

As Jane had  predicted,  the  fine  straw 
berries were iu great demand and, by  the 
time the first row of tbe  crate  had  been 
sold, the  whole  population  of  Milttown 
had  beard  of  the  berries  aud  wanted 
some.  As Cy  had calculated,  all the cus- i 
tomers  wanted  was 
to  have  the  box 
emptied  into  the  paper  pail,  with  no 
thought or care about  the  quantity,  and 
he couldn’t help  feeling a little provoked 
at Jane’s  implied  suggestion  that  there 
was cheating about it; or,  if  there  was, 
that he had  anything to do  with  it,  and 
his old  idea of  woman and  business  gave 
him a good deal of comfort.

In  the  meantime,  Jane  waited  aud 
watched.  Pretty soon  “ Madam  Walker, 
with her nose in tbe air, came  tip-toeiug 
in.”  Jane  gave  the  boys  a  signal  to 
stand  back  and  allow  the  proprietor  of 
the  Milltown  store  to  wait  on  the cus­
tomer and they,  nothing loath, obeyed.

Mrs. Walker’s methods were peculiarly j 
her  own.  She  was  never  abrupt,  and 
she never came at once  to  tbe  matter  in 
hand, even  in tbe buying of groceries;  so | 
that,  while the basket she brought meant | 
berries,  with  “her  nose  in  tbe  air”  she 
peered  first  at  this  article  of merchan­
dise,  then  at  that  and,  finally,  “ wore 
around” to the strawberries.

“Are  these  fresh  berries,  Mr.  Hux­
ley?”  she asked,  in  her  deliberate  tone, 
daintily  picking  out  the  biggest  berry 
and “putting it,” Cy thought  to  himself, 
“ where  she  thinks  it’ll  do  the  most 
good.”

“Fresh from  the  vines,  ma’am—fresh 
tbe  vines!”  was  Cy’s  assuring | 

from 
reply.

“Well,  I can  hardly  agree  with  you j 
there,”  was tbe slow-coming response,  as 
the same right fore-finger and thumb came ! 
down,  “like  a  hawk  on  a chicken,” on 
tbe  best  berry  in  another  box;  “still, |

they are very good  berries, or  would be, 
if they  were  a  trifle  fresher;  but,  then, 
where berries come so far,  one  can’t  ex­
pect  that  delicious,  right-from-the-vine 
taste  which  makes  strawberries  so  es­
pecially desirable.  Yes,  these  are  very 
good  berries,”  and  a  third box gave up 
its plumpest chicken to that same swoop­
ing  hawk.  “Let’s  see—how  many  of 
these  do  1  want?  I’d  better  ask  tbe 
price first—how  much are they Mr.  Hux- 
lej ?”

“Fifteen  cents.”
“Fifteen cents!” and her  voice  rocked 
on  cents  as  if  it would tip over.  “Fif­
teen cents!” another big berry disappear­
ing  from  another  box.  “ Why,  twelve 
cents is all such  berries  ought  to  bring, 
I'm  sure.  Can’t  you  let  me have a box 
for twelve cents,  Mr.  Huxley?”

“Not this morning,  ma’am,  unless  you 
want  second class  berries.  Jim  bring 
in — ”

"O,  1 don’t  want any  second-class ber­
ries,  Mr.  Huxley;  but  fifteen  cents  does 
seem exorbitant,”  and  another  fat  sam­
ple-berry  followed  “the  loved ones  gone 
before.”

*  How  many  boxes  will  you  take, 

ma’am?  Two?”

“ Mercy,  no!  not  at  fifteen  cents  a 
quart—that’s  what  each  box  holds, 
isn't  it?”

“That’s what we bought  ’em for.”
“ Well, just pour  the  berries  right  in 
here,” and she presented  her  quart  bas­
ket.

“O, you’d  better take  the berries right 
along in  this box, and  you  won’t  ’mash 
’em, pourin’  ’em;  or,  let—here, Jim, take 
these berries right over to Mrs. Walker’s. 
Lively, now!”

Jim,  however,  was too  slow;  and  Mrs. 
Walker, never in  a  hurry,  had  deliber­
ately  taken  a  box,  whose biggest occu­
pant was untouched, and bad  poured the 
berries into her basket.

“ My!  my!  Look at  this,  Mr.  Huxley! 
This basket of mine  holds  just  a  quart, 
when it’s level full;  and,  see,  it is hardly 
half filled!”

“O, 1 guess that’s all  right.  You  see, 
when you  pour berries  that way,  it  kind 
o’  ’mashes  ’em,  and  when  they  are  as 
ripe as these are, it—er—”

“O,  no, 

it  doesn’t.  Just  see  here, 
now,” 
and  Mrs.  Walker,  squinting 
through her glasses, saw the quart meas­
ure at the other end  of  the  counter  and 
stepped  briskly  over to get it,  while  Cy, 
with his face growing red  and  more rosy 
each  instaut,  turned an imploring glance 
toward the office window for Jane to help 
him out of his trouble.  She wasn’t there, 
but,  by the time Mrs. Walker had reached 
the measure,  Jane  Ciagin’s  voice  called 
from the back store:  “Mrs.  Walker,  here 
is  something  1  know  you  want  to  see. 
Come right back in here.  There,  if  you 
want  some  strawberries  that  are  well 
worth  carrying  home,  let  me  give  you 
some of these.  They are  some  the boys 
measured out for me;  but,  as  you  want 
only a quart—Jim,  bring  me  that  quart 
measure,  will you?—you had better have 
these.  Help  yourself,  while  I  get  your 
basket;”  and  tbe little woman  was  soon 
back to her customer.

“There!  That is something  like  it.  1 
told Mr.  Huxley  bis boxes didn’t  hold  a 
quart.”

they  don’t,  always.  I  think, 
myself; but the best  way  is  to  measure 
them and then  there  is  no  doubt  about 
it.  Let  me  drop  in  a  handful  of these

“ Well, 

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big ones.  Just try that one,  Mrs.  Walker. 
Isn’t  it  sweet?  Ton  are  going to have 
your berries  for  tea,  I  suppose.  Don’t 
you  want  some  of  these  fresh  buns?— 
they are  just  from  the  oven—yes,  they 
are  still  warm.  Twenty  cents  for  the 
buns and fifteen  for  the  berries—thirty- 
five—that’s right.  Wouldn’t you  like  to 
have  me  save  you  some  berries,  when 
some  really  good  ones  come  in?  Tes, 
that’s so; I might send  one  of  the  boys 
over,  and I will.  Good day.”

Jane Gragin,  watching,  for  a  moment, 
her customer  as  she  tip-toed  along  the 
street, turned  to  the  senior  member  of 
the  firm  who,  now  the coast was clear, 
began to laugh.

“You want to laugh, Gy,  with all  your 
might  and  main,  but  you  can’t.  You 
don’t  feel  a  bit  like it, and 1 shouldn’t 
think you  would.  What 1 was  afraid  of 
was, 
that  you  would  let  that  woman, 
who  is  altogether  too  sharp  for  you to 
trade  with,  measure  that  box  of  ber­
ries right before that storeful of  custom­
ers, and that was  what  you  were  going 
to do.  A pretty thing that  would  be, to 
go traveling around the  country,  would­
n’t it?  Now,  you  have an  idea  that  it’s 
business to buy and sell a pint for a quart. 
It’s  mighty  poor  business!  Too  poor, 
anyway, for this store and,  I  guess  after 
that little piece of shrewdness,  we’d bet­
ter drop it and try something  that  won’t 
make you the laughing-stock of the  com­
munity. 
I  helped you out this time, Cy, 
but  if  you  walk  into  anything  of that 
sort again,  with  your  eyes  wide  open, 
you may get out the  best  way  you  can, 
for all of  me!”

That  afternoon,  Gy  wired  the  house 
which furnished  the  fruit:  “Send  ber­
ries  full  measure,  or  not  at  a ll!”  and 
never  after  did  he  have occasion to call 
on Jane to help him out of  that  kind  of 
a difficulty.

Ric h a rd  Malcolm Strong.
THE  BACK  OFFICE.

Written for Thb Tradesman.

It is a fortunate  thing  that  the  mem 
bers  of  the  human  family  do  not  see 
things  alike.  An  item  has  drifted  in 
here,  with a wail in every line:  Fashion 
and its devotees  are  bringing  this  glor­
ious country of ours to moral  decay  and 
ruin and,  on the last great day, the vastly 
rich,  who have done  all  this,  will  wish 
they  hadn’t!  The  dude  is wailed over. 
He is the harbinger  of  moral  death  and 
mental  decay.  Where—where  is  it  all 
to end and  “ why is this thus?”

Now if the writer of that nonsense will 
stop his bawling and  wipe  up  a  little,  I 
should like to talk to him a bit. 
I’d like 
to ask if he doesn’t know that he  is  tak­
ing a part for a whole and a  pitiful  part 
at that;  and if he really  thinks  that  ex­
tremes are good subjects,  even  for  talk­
ing-material?  He  has  mentioned  the 
dude—let’s  look  at  him.  There  he  is, 
the veriest Nancy  Jane  that  ever  clam­
bered out of  a  band-box.  GalU him  the 
harbinger of moral death  and mental de­
cay?  Harbinger,  nothing. 
the 
Simon-pure  thing,  itself;  but  the  thing 
isn’t  to  blame.  That’s  what  old  Lap- 
stone has been working for,  all  his  life, 
and  you  can’t  make  him  believe  that 
“Cholly” Isn’t as good as they  make ’em. 
“But what’s going to  become of  us,  as  a 
nation, if that’s the  best?” 
It  isn’t  the 
nation’s  best—it’s  old  Lapstone’s;  and, 
so  far  as  the thing,  itself,  is concerned, 
Nature will  kindly step in,  one  of  these 
days,  and kill it—she always does.  Take

it’s 

in 

the other extreme—born in  poverty  and 
reared 
crime.  The  monstrosity 
reaches the  limit,  and  Nature  strangles 
it, and so both  extremes  sleep  together, 
under a common  soil.

“Yes,  but  these  fads  and  fashions.” 
Well,  what  of  them? 
“Father,”  re­
marked Johnny,  not long ago, “the fish’ll 
bite  like  everything  to-day.”  “Well, 
you  jes’  keep  right  on  hoein’ 
them 
p’taters, ’n’ they won’t  bite  you!”  See?
The fact of the  case  is,  Lapstone  be­
longs  to  a  numerous  family,  but  he 
doesn’t cut much of a  figure,  taking  the 
nation  as  a  whole.  Remove  the  ex­
tremes,  which  Nature  takes  such  good 
care of,  and the men  and  women  which 
make up  the happy  mean  will be  found 
healthy,  and  wholesome,  and  strong. 
These are the Nation’s  best,  and  it is  to 
be observed that  when  fashion  and  fad 
reach a certain line and  attempt  to  step 
over,  the  “Stop right there!” of the best 
is sure to be heard and  heeded.

*  *  *

A writer  in  the  Grocers'  Advocate  is 
having some fun over a move made  by  a 
Philadelphian,  in  displacing  his  male 
clerks  by  females.  He  thinks  there is 
trouble ahead,  because  “it  is  quite  nat­
ural for women to gossip.  She  will pre­
sent  a  woeful  appearance  when  she 
shoulders a basket of coal,  and  how  she 
will turn up her nose when  it  comes  to 
fishing  out  a  salt  mackerel,”  and  he 
thinks  there  will  have  to  be  a  man 
around to harness the horse.

Well,  now,  let’s  see.  1 have an idea 
that we men-folks better  not  bear  down 
too hard on the gossiping  business.  Did 
you ever drop into a store, on a rainy day, 
in the country,  when all the old clay pipes 
and corncobs were in full  blast?  There 
you have it,  and that’s the way the thing 
goes  in  town. 
It  may  be  quite natural 
for  women,  but  let’s  be  magnanimous, 
once in our lives,  and,  putting  mankind 
against womankind, call  it square.

A woman shouldering coal would  be  a 
woeful  sight,  but  they  chop  wood,  and 
draw water,  and lug coal  by  the  hodfnl, 
all day long  and,  for  the  life  of  me,  1 
can’t  see  why  she shouldn’t carry it on 
her shoulder, if she wants to.

Did you ever see  a  woman  fish  out  a | 
salt  mackerel? 
I  have,  for  I  watched 
her; and she did it so differently from the 
clerk whose place she took  that I remem­
bered it,  for that  very  reason.  The man 
had just been  picking over potatoes—and 
when he  went  mackerel fishing,  he  got a 
long,  wire-like poker,  which  was kicking 
around the floor,  aud  began  to  hook  up 
the fish.  The wire was  bent  and  rusty 
and  he  had  no  end  of  trouble  with  it; 
but, in time,  he  succeeded  and  the  cus­
tomer went off with the fish.
Then came Jane’s turn.  She,  too,  was 
sorting  potatoes  and,  leaving  them,  she 
went  straight 
to  the  sink  and  washed 
her hands.  Finding mackerel was called 
for, took off the cover from  the mackerel 
barrel,  put  her  hand  right  in,  took the 
fish  she  wanted,  pnt  it  into  the  paper, 
weighed it and passed it over the counter 
to the customer,  washed her hands again 
and  went on  with  the  potatoes. 
I’ll  be 
blessed  if  I  don’t  like  Jane’s  way  the 
best.  So  far  as  harnessing  a  horse  is 
concerned,  here’s sixteen to one that  the 
girl  will  harness  the  horse  and get the 
wagon  loaded,  while  John  and  Jim  are 
quarreling as to whose turn it is to do it.
I’d like to know the name  of  the  Phil­
adelphia  grocer  who  has made the great 
change,  and I hope,  if this article should 
chance to come before his  eyes,  that  he 
will 
take  the  trouble  to  tell  me  about 
the  change  aud  the  results which have 
come from  it.

Rich a rd  Malcolm Strong.

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It  does  seem  as  If  the American man 
ought  to  know  enough,  by  this  time, 
about the American  woman to know that 
she can manage this wheel  business  and 
what pertains thereto  without  any  help 
from  him.  He  seems  to  be  worried 
greatly about her dress.  He doesn’t like 
bloomers,  and  he  doesn’t  like  divided 
skirts, and  he isn’t pleased with this,  and 
there  is  something  about  that  which 
doesn’t go to the  right  spot.  This  will 
go  on for  a  while and then,  all at once, 
there will be a great calm.  There will be 
nothing  said,  but  it  will  be  noticeable 
that married  men  have something else  to 
talk about.  By  and by,  when  the  signs 
are right and  the American  woman  gets 
good  and ready,  you’ll see  the  prettiest, 
comliest  wheel-dress  which  good  sense 
and beauty have  ever  produced.  That’s 
what’s coming and you  might as  well  be 
looking out for it.

•  #  *

Now there is going to be a tax  on  tea. 
Certainly.  By all  manner of means.  A 
tea-tax has always been  a  favorite  idea 
in  this  country  and  even  when  they 
made  a  teapot  of  Boston  harbor  and 
dumped  in a whole cargo  of  the  article, 
there was an element  that  looked  upon 
the  proceedings  as  an  outrage.  Of 
course,  it  would  lead  to  lessening  the 
tea  drinking,  but  there’s  the  beer;  and 
everbody  knows  that  alcohol  is  vastly 
better for the needs of the human  family 
than  the  seductive  theine.  Out  with 
“the  cup  that  cheers  but  does  not  in­
ebriate,”  and 
the  schooner 
which inebriates and cheers.

in  with 
*  *  *

There are hints from  the Northwest to 
the  effect  that  the  pack  of salmon this 
years has  fallen  off. 
In  the  long  rnn, 
that  will come out all right.  Every once 
in  so long there is a season  of  “let-up,” 
and 
that  makes  the  other  seasons  so 
much the better.  To the world in general 
the loss of the salmon  will  be  made  up 
by  the  abundance  in  other  directions 
and yet if the beef takes too high a jump 
upward,  the  salmon  returns will  not  be 
so bad after all

*  *  *

Who says the hard times came to stay? 
We’re going to have  something  to  wear 
anyway.  Cotton has reached  that  stage 
when its future for the year can  be  fore 
told and 9,800,000 bales  of  it  are  to  be 
raised this year. 
It is the  largest  yield 
by 800,000 pounds, that this  country  has 
ever  produced;  and  Texas,  which  has 
raised a third of  this  amount,  ought  to 
have  the  privilege  of  holding  up  her 
head pretty high,  if she feels like  it.

#  *  *

Consul-General  Polk,  at Calcutta, says 
that there is small chance for the United 
States  fruit  growers  to secure a  market 
in  Bengal.  That’s  right.  All  Uncle 
Sam ever asks for  is a  foothold,  only  let 
it  be  distinctly  understood  beforehand 
that the old man  has a foot  like  a  moun­
tain,  and,  when  he  puts  it  down,  it’s 
there to stay.

*  *  *

It is to be hoped  that  “our  folks”  are 
looking out for the main chance, off there 
in the Orient, or in  the  Occident,  if  we 
are looking out of Columbia’s back  door. 
Whiie new conditions are arranging them 
selves  is  the  time  to be on band, and if 
there is such a thing as getting the inside 
track,  Uucle Sam ought to be there.

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1'JbOi  MiCMIQA-N  1  > • HLA i )  
happened to be  paying  a  morning  call, 
ate  six,  it  was  small  wonder  that  the 
shortcake  was shorter in the  berries than 
anywhere  else.  Lots  of  people  don’t 
think  it  auy  barm  to  pick  up  a  little 
something to eat out of the  top of a  bas­
ket, so when it’s  a case of  something all 
ready to put into your  mouth,  1  always 
tie it up tight.”

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Fruits and  Produce

D E L IV ER IN G   GOODS.

Pertinent Hlnta  Which  Should  Be  Ob­

served  by  the  Grocer.

The long row of baskets was ready  for 
the wagon,  and Billy  was going from one 
to  another,  pad  aud  pencil  in  hand, 
checking off the  various  articles  on  his 
order  slips.

Suddenly  he  paused  before  a  basket 

which stood in the middle of the row.

“ Who packed this?’’  said  he,  sternly.
“ i  did,  sir,” said Jerry  Banks,  a good- 
natured  young  countryman,  whom  I 
hired  recently,  because 1 knew him to be 
honest  and  faithful,  but  whose  only 
training  had  been  in  a  small  country 
store.

"Look-a-bere,” said  Billy,  “don’t  you 
know  when you stand a pound  of  cheese 
aud  a  bag  of  sugar  against a kerosene 
can  that  they’re  bound  to  taste  of the 
oil; and sure as the sunrise  some  woman 
will  be  in  here  in the course of a week 
telling  ns  about  it!  And  then  you’ve 
emptied the potatoes right on top of that 
delicately-wrapped box  of  fine  biscuits, 
and  you’ve  put  the  celery  so  that  the 
tops will get all crushed,  and Mrs. Robin­
son will declare that it is never the bunch 
she  picked  out;  and  I’d  be ashamed to 
pack  axle grease the way  you’ve  packed 
that 30-cent butter,  and  the  things  that 
ain’t  crushed  or  broken  or  tasting  of 
kerosene will have a  nice  tlivor  of  salt 
mackeral.  You’ve  put 
that  fish  so  it 
drips over just as  many things as it can.”
“There  were  so  mauy  things------- ”

stammered  Billy.

“it  is  a  bis  order,”  said  Billy  in  a 
milder  tone,  “but  it 
is  no  was'e  of 
trouble to put  up the things just  as  well 
as you possibly can. 
In  the  first  place, 
that kerosene can  has no  business  in the 
basket at all.  1  always have Conrad  put 
the  oil  cans  in  front,  away  from  the 
boxes.  Once  in  a  while  he  forgets  to 
leave the can  with the rest of  the  order, 
but that is not as awkward a3 explaining 
to ladies  why tea and coffee and ¡Saratoga 
chips aud eveiy thing else all should taste 
like kerosene.

“ Now,”  said  Billy,  mollified  by  the 
other’s  respectful  attention,  “you  just 
watch me pack  this  basket as it ought to 
be  packed.  Begin  with  your  fish,  and 
put  an  extra  piece  of  paper around it. 
Paper’s  cheap.  Then  put  in  your  po­
tatoes  and  lay  more  paper  over  them. 
Then top  up  with yourcelery and cracker 
box, and the  butter  tray  wedged  firmly 
in  the  middle.  Now  that  basket  looks 
as nice as a box of caody,  doesn’t it?”

Jerry  generously  admitted  that it did.
“ Now,  here’s  another  box  I  bet  you 
packed,”  said  Billy  glancing  down  the 
row.  “That’s  better,  but 1 don’t  like  a 
basket packed so that  you can  see every­
thing that’s in it.  That woman  lives  in 
a  fiat,  and  she  may  not like her neigh­
bors to kuow everything  she buys.  And 
when you send  berries, or  anything  like 
that,  always  tie  a  paper  securely  over 
the top of the box.  Tie  it  so  it’s  more 
trouble  to  undo  than  it would  be to  go 
without  a  few  berries.  Last  year  the 
customers kept coming  in  and  showing 
me  the  half-filled  berry  boxes  we sent 
out.  1  knew they  were  full  when  they 
started,  but 1 calculated  that  if  Conrad 
ate three,  and  the janitor  of  the  Hat  ate 
four,  and  the  cook ate five,  and  the sec­
ond  girl’s  cousin,  the  policeman,  who

“Billy,” said 1,  when  the  last  basket 
was  carried  out  and the lad had paused 
for breath,  “1  want to tala  to  you  about 
this  delivery  busiuess.  Can  you  think 
of  any  ways 
it  belter  or 
cheaper?”

to  make 

“ Weil,  there’s  this  mistake  busiuess. 
i'he  follows  will  make  mistakes  in  or­
ders, and 1 dou’t see how they can  be ex­
pected to help it,  hurried as we are some­
times,  but  I’ve  been  thinking  it  would 
cut down the number  of  mistakes if you 
had each man’s  order  slips  nled  separ­
ately,  and  offered  a  little  prize  every 
three  months  to  all  who  had  made no 
mistakes, or the one  who  had  made  the 
fewest, 
it costs a great deal  to  set  mis­
takes right,  in  both  time  aud  stock,  and 
i thought that way might be  cheaper.”— 
but.
Educating  the  trade  To  Buy Standard 

Goods.

Recent issues of  I ue  Tradesman have 
contained  cousiueraoie  discussions  on 
the duty of grocers to  their  custoineis— 
the  duty  of  dealing  in  pure  foods aud 
standard  brands—but  there  is  auother 
side of this question to be looked at,  and 
that is the duly of theg.ocer  to  educate 
the  customer  to  recognize  the  value of 
standard brands,  to demonstrate to  mem 
why  they  can economically spend a cent 
or  two  more  on  a  can  of  tomatoes,  to 
demonstrate  to  them that a cheap brand 
of  goods  is  very  apt  to  be  expensive. 
Price cutting  has  developed  to  such  an 
extent,  and  advertisers  have  been  so 
liberal  in  the  use  of  adjectives,  that a 
great many people imagine  they  cau  get 
really first-class goods among the cheaper 
grades; but every grocer knows this to be 
untrue, and it is his duty  to  himself  and 
to his customer to let him know it also.  It 
is a splendid thing to have a trade which 
recognizes the value of standard  brands. 
Such a  trade  must  be  profitable  and  in 
every  way  satisfactory,  and  the  grocer 
who possesses it will  find no impediment 
to refreshing sleep at night, and  will en­
tertain  a  high  respect  for  the  grocery 
business. 

Occasional.

The opprobrious epithet,  “an  old  sar­
dine,” still  painfully common  in  certain 
parts of the  country,  is  beginning to cut 
a  better  figure  in  the  world.  The im­
provement began about twenty years ago 
down  in  Maine,  where  there  is a little 
herring which  makes  oue  of  the  nicest 
sardines to be found in  salt  water.  For 
a  while  the  industry  was  a small one; 
but the  industry  has been growing,  until 
now  there  are  7,000  people  employed. 
There is no doubt that the industry is an 
important one and  that  it  will  continue 
to grow;  but  it  is  doubtful  if  time  or 
prosperity  will ever soften the full mean­
ing  and  bitterness  which  custom  has 
crowded  into “a blamed old sardine!”

Jobn  D.  Rockefeller  has  the amiable 
eccentricity of giving bicycles  to such  of 
his friends as he  thinks  would  enjoy  or 
profit by them.  Last year he gave away 
twenty-two wheels to various  people,  aud 
this  year  he  has  already  found sixteen 
friends who,  he thinks,  would  be  better 
for the exercise.

-   p o t a t o e s  -   J S e n n s s

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

EGG  CRATES  and  EGG  CRATE  FILLERS.

If you wish to buy or sell write us.

\ t J T / ^ s 5 £ i l r i i r  

C / J   M 3  L 

Jobbers  SEEDS.  BEANS,  POTATOES,  FRUITS.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

26=28=30=32  OTTAWA  STREET

8. A MORMAN k CO.

COAL WHOLESALE

GRAND  RAPIDS,  niCH.

LIME,  CEMENT,  HAIR,  SEWER 

PIPE,  BRICK,  LAND  PLASTER, 

FIRE  CLAY.

We sell Alsou's German Portland Cement— the 

best in the world for sidewalk work.

The  Trade is 
cordially  in­
vited to write 
us  for  sum­
mer prices on

COAL
S. P. HIT FUEL AND ICE CO.

GOAL, LIME, CEMENTS,

A.  H I M E S .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Wholesale Shipper

SEWER  PIPE,  ETC.

1  CANAL ST.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

T H U S .  E .  W Y K E S

COAL

Wood, Lime, Sewer Pipe, Flour, Feed, Etc. 

Correspondence  solicited.

45  South  Division  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS

Manufacturers of

M o r g a n   &  Co,
AW NINGS,  TENTS,
FLAGS AND CANVAS COVERS 
YACHT SAILS A SPECIALTY

187  Jefferson  Avenue 
DETROIT,  nich.

MANUFACTURER OFW

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C h a s . A . C o y  g

BARGAIN  IN 
SALT......

Have picked up a few  hundred  bbls. 
of  Pocket  Salt  and  offer  it,  UNTIL 
SOLD, at the following prices: 
bbl.

20-14, 
50 lb. sacks,  26c ea.
56 lb. sacks,  28c ea.

100-3S, $*.83 bbl. 
Oo-ss,  I.67 bbl. 
28-ios,  1.58 bbl. 
“-end me your orders for

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

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

41B 20-445-44Y S. DIVISION ST., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

 fro

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

Yours truly.

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

Everything for the

F ie l d   and  G a rd e n
Clover,  Medium  or  Mammoth,  Al- 
syke, Ahalfa  and  Crimson,  Timo­
thy,  Hungarian  Millet,  Peas  and 
Spring  Rye.  Garden  Seeds 
in 
bulk  and  Garden  Tools.

Hi adquarters 

for  Egg  Cases  and 

Fillers.

MORSE, WAGON and 

BINDER  COVERS.

128  to  132  W.  Bridge  St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

11  PEARL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

H e r o l d - B e r t s c h   S h o e  Co.
BOOTS,  SHOES  S  RUBBERS

Manufacturers  and  Wholesale  Dealers  in

5 and 7  Pearl  Street

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

Siaie Agems  m -goodkear  rjbb  rs

We carry In stock Regular, Opera, 
Piccadilly and Needle Toes.

We are prepared to  furnish a  Rubber of 

periority in quality, style and tit.

Owing to the  Great  Advance  in  Leather,

Hoots and Shoes are necessarily much advanced in price.

R eeder  B ros.  S hoe  Go.

Have  a  great  many  tilings  purchased  before 
the  advance  that  they  are  still  selling at old 
prices, and balance of the line at  not one-half 
of the adva- ee of the cost to  manufacture the 
goods to-day. 
It will  pay you to examine our 
line of samples when our  representative  calls 

16
Shoes and Leather

THE  EXPERT  SHOE  CLERK.

Some  Tricks  of  the  Trade  in  Selling 

Shoes.

look  over 

Sometimes it is in fitting  the  foot  that 
the  shoe  salesman  finds  trouble;  more 
frequently it is in satisfying the head,  or 
maybe two beads.  Where is the customer 
who knows  wbat be  wants  or  is  able  to 
tell when he gets it?
Selling shoes is all a game of  knowing 
how.  Never mind  what the shoe» are,  it 
the clerk  knows how  to  »ell  »hoes, he’ll 
get them  otf  his  hauus  and  onto  some­
body's leet.  And  there  aie a good  many 
little tricks of the trade that  ate learned 
by experience.
Take the matter of »eating the prospec­
tive customer,  lor instance.  Lt t us sup­
pose a tr.o comes in, consisting of  lather, 
mother  and  daughter.  Would  jou  seat 
them auywheie it happened to  be  handi­
est?  Wrong,  tneud,  all  wrong.  Here’s 
where jou show jour  tact.  Lion t  go at 
it  bull-headed; 
the  store 
quickly  for  a  pretty  girl.  Fiud  her? 
Then  seat  the  trio  opposite and a little 
distance away.
That  disposes  of  the  old  man.  He’s 
not  interested  in  you  or  his  wile  from 
that  time  on.  His  gaze  is  directed  to­
ward a spot,  presumably  on  the floor,  a 
few inches away  from  the pretty foot of 
the pretty  girl  and,  so  long  as  she  re­
mains there, you need not notice him.
Having  thus  reduced  your  enemy  a 
man,  remove  the  daughter’s  right  shoe 
and select something to put  on  the  foot.
It makes no difference  wbat  it  is  you 
try,  for no one ever  buys  the  first  shoe 
tried.  J ust stick it on to get the operation 
started.  A  volley of questions-will now 
be fired at you,  and to  answer  them  one 
should  do  it  properly.  Don’t  sit  there 
and  continue  to  tit  the  shoe,  but stop, 
straighten  up and address  your  answers 
to the daughter—but  don’t  look  at  her. 
Don’t so much as glance at her.

Keep your eyes on the old lady.
There’s  where  you  want  to  look  for 
trouble—and you’ll find it.
Now is the time to  bring  out  the  best 
If 
in the store.  Work  hard  to  tit her. 
that don’t suit,  it is time to  begin  trying 
something  cheaper  and  charge a higher 
price for it.  Gradually  aud  with  con­
summate  tact  work  the  price  down  to 
about  the  proper  figure,  bring  out  the 
shoe you have found to tit from  its  posi­
tion on the shelf wheie you had replaced 
it—and effect a sale.
The  lone  woman  with a profusion of 
foot is much more easily seated, the only 
care necessary being to put her far  away 
from  any  Trilby  who  happens  to be in 
the store.

Comparisons are odious always.
It  is  not  advisable  to  come  out  flat- 
footed  with this dame and ask her  which 
she wears, 8’s or Si’s,  but it will  be found 
to be  far more  discreet  aud  satisfactory 
to murmur “Trilby”  softly  as  you  size 
up her pedestals.  Bring out your 7  EE’s 
and  proceed at once to  business,  with  a 
total disregard of sizes in your  conversa­
tion.
Turn  the talk into the channels  of  the 
last church fair or a  forthcoming  straw­
berry sociable.  Mention  shoes  as  little 
as  possible,  and  feet  still less, 
if you 
are forced  to it,  you might ring in  a bluff 
about being glad to get  rid of your small 
sizes  as  there  is  so  little  demand  for 
them, 
if she doesn’t seem  to  relish this 
and  takes  it  for  what  it  really is, just 
grab the  bit in your teeth  aDd  liken  her 
pedals to those of the prettiest woman in 
town—then work quickly  and  finish  the 
sale before she recovers.
The  mannish  woman  is  a  stunner. 
Look out for her.  The  crease in her hat 
betokens a fiery temper.  The square-cut 
coat bodes evil.  Tread lightly when you 
bring  out  your  square-toed  dongolas, 
and  swear  they  are  calf. 
If  she  isn’t 
satisfied,  hustle in a  pair of grain goods, 
kangaroo,  French  kid—anything.  Give 
her everything she wants and  get  rid  of 
here.  She’s  a  hoodoo  and  will  wreck 
your happiness and peace of mind.
While attending to  her  wants  it  will 
not be a bad idea  to  swear  a  little  now 
and then to assist her in carrying out the

delusion that  she  votes.  A  complimen- 
tary allusion to the  remarkable advance* 
ment of women in the past few years will 
not b6 out of place.
There is no need of hurrying when you 
are waiting  upon  a  sweet  miss  with  a 
pretty foot.  Get her  shoe off  as quickly 
as  possible.  That  is  all.  Then  take 
your time.  Be very  careful  to  rub  out 
every  wrinkle  of  each  shoe  you try on 
and find a little  fault in each  which  will 
necessitate  taking  it  off  and  trying  an­
other.
If  this  operation  is  well  prac.ieed it 
can  be  done  with  great  effect  and  will 
make  you  many  friends.  Theie  is  no 
accuiiipli»bment of more dollar-aud-ceuts 
value  to  a  man  than  that  of  fitting  a 
pretty  foot.
Make a  specialty  of  it.  Spread  jour 
tame as a pretty foot filter  aud  you  will j 
have a monopoly  of  the  feminine  trade: 
in your vicinity.
Then there is the female with  the  high 
instep  which she  never  fails  to  inform 
jou she never  could  tit  without  having 
her shoes made to order.  Never  mind  if 
she  has  been  buying  shoes  of  you  for 
twenty  years,  don’t  mention  it.  Just 
give her the same old tale  that  you  will 
take  her  measure  and  order  a  special 
pair.  Then lay your measure  aside  aud 
after  she  is  gone mark a pair of 4 C kid 
buttons  “Sold  to  Mrs.  Hy 
lnstepp.” 
When she comes in again, of  course  you 
will tell  her that they haven’t  come  yet. 
She  will  kick  a  little,  but  don’t  mind 
that.  The  next  time she comes  in  she 
will feel all the  better  for  having  been 
compelled to  wait.

His  First Business Venture.

Troubles there are, even unto the youth.
There lives not very far from Jefferson 
avenue a lad of about 7 years of age.  He 
thought that, yesterday  being  warm  and 
its  atmospheric 
uuseemly  as  regards 
proprieties, 
it  would  be  very  nice  to 
originate a little lemonade stand  out  on 
the front lawn and make  a  few  pennies. 
So  be  got  the  lemons  and  his mamma
made the  lemonade.
He sat out on the lawn and sold two or 
three  glasses  to  the  neighbors,  when 
three or four urchins who were returning 
from  swimming  came  along.  They in­
stantly saw that there was “cake”  to  be 
had  for the pains.
“ How much er glass is yer lemonade?” 
asked one  urchin.
“Five cents a glass.”  was the reply.
“ All right,  we’uns’ll have  some,”  and 
the lad took out  a  lead  quarter  he  had 
found and  gave it to the boy.
“ Wait till I go into the  house  and  get 
the change” said  the innocent boy.
When he came back there were no boys, 
neither was there any lemonade.

Goodyear  Glove 

Rubbers■   ARE 

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Agents  for  the

B o s to n   H u b b e r  
S h o e   C o .’s  
G o o d s

R1NDGE,
KflLMBAGH
m i »12,  14 and  16  Pearl  Street
Boots and  Shoes

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

We make the best line of Medium Priced Goods in the 

market.  You can improve your trade by handling our goods. -

LINDEN 

NEEDLE TOE.

BOSTON

RUBBER SHOE
Goods  are  found  atMcG raw’s

COiTPANY’S

DETROIT

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

of any houss in the United States.

, KRAUSE S GO., Selling dpi:

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN.

G ran d   R apids  R etail  G rocers'  A ss’n. 
President—E . W h it e .
Secretary—K. A.  St o w e.
Treasurer—J .  G e o.  L e h m a n .

SUGAR  CARD—GRANULATED.

5’/i cents per pound.
4Vi pounds for 25 cents.
10  pounds for 50 cents.
20  pounds for SI.
Jackson Retail Grocers’  Association. 
President—B y ro n  C.  H il l .
Secretary—W. H.  Porter.
Treasurer—J. F.  Helmer.

SU GAR CAR D — G R A N U LA TE D .

5Vs cents per pound.
9V£ pounds for 5G cents.
19 pounds for $1.

Northern  Michigan Retail Grocers’  As­

sociation.

President—J. F. Tatman, Clare.
Secretary—E. A. Stowe. Grand Bapids. 
Treasurer—F rank Smith, Leroy.
Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President—A. D. Whipple.
Secretary—G. T  Campbell.
Treasurer—W. E. Collins.

Michigan  Hardware  Association. 

President—F. S. Ca r l b to n, Calumet. 
Vice-President—H e n r y  C. W e b e r , Detroit.
Sec’y Treas.—H en r y C. M in n ie , Eaton Bapids.

Completing Arrangements for the Jack- 

son  Picnic.
July 

J ackson, 

13 — The 

regular 
monthly meeting  of  the  Jackson  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  was  held  at  the 
office of the Association,  Thursday  even­
ing,  July  11,  President Byron C.  Hill  in 
the chair.  After the calling  of  the  roll 
and  approving  the  minutes  of previous 
meeting,  the subject of the annual excur­
sion was taken up for  consideration.
The General Committee,  by D. S. Flem­
ing,  reported 
that  arrangements  had 
been  made  with  the  Michigan  Central 
Railway for the running of trains for the 
excursion.  Thirty 
first-class  coaches 
will  be  provided,  and, 
if  more  than 
twenty-five are  used,  the  train  will  be 
run  in  three  sections,  the first train  to 
start at 6:30 a.  m.,  and the other sections 
to  follow  one-half  hour  apart,  making 
the  run  in  two  and  one-half  hours  or 
less.
Five thousand large posters  have  been 
procured  for  distribution,  some  to  be 
posted,  and  the  others  to  be  sent  out 
with orders from  the  stores.  The  com­
mittee on procuring large banners to  ad­
vertise the excursion  reported  that  they 
had  procured  100  and  that  they  had 
been  distributed  where  they  would  do 
the most good.
A  resolution  was  adopted,  that  the 
Mayor,  City  Recorder,  City  Treasurer, 
City Attorney,  and  the  members  of  the 
Common Council be invited to attend the 
picnic.
The  Ticket  Committee  reported  that 
the tickets had been  printed and were be­
ing distributed  among  the  members  for 
sale.
The Committee on  Invitations  was  in­
structed to  invite  every  business  house 
in the city to close its store, thus making 
the event a general  holiday  for  proprie­
tors, clerks and patrons.
L. J. Schoettle was added to  the  Com­
mittee  on  Entertainment.  On  motion, 
the Committee on  Entertainment was in­
structed to procure a trophy,  to  be  used 
in base  ball  contests,  the  trophy  to  be 
held by the winner until the next annual 
picnic. 
Arranging for Tlielr Sixth Annual Picnic
Sa g in a w ,  E. S., July  10—There was a 
large  and  enthusiastic  meeting  of  the 
Saginaw Retail  Grocers’  Association  at 
Borden & Drysdale’s store  last  evening, 
over 100 members being present,  for  the 
purpose of making  arrangements for the 
sixth annual picnic and excursion.
The following officers  were elected for 
the ensuing year:
President—John McBratnie.
Vice-President—Charles  Goppelt.
Secretary—W.  H.  Lewis.
Treasurer—J.  W. C. Pendell.
The  following  committees  were  then 
appointed in connection with  the  picnic 
and excursion.
Transportation—A. D.  Spangler,  Geo.

W. H.  P orter,  Sec’y.

Holcomb, J.  M.  Drysdale,  H.  P.  Graeb- 
ner, James Kebo.
Printing—Otto M.  Rhode,  Frank  Her- 
rig,  William Grossman.
Music—J.  W.  C.  Pendell,  Henry  King, 
H.  B. Burdick.
Games—A. O.  Draper,  Charles  Spind- 
ler,  Peter Gossel, Louis Schwemer,  Chris 
Kalzow.
Prizes—Seth Davis, C.  F.  Alderton, J. 
S.  Smart.
The Executive Committee is as follows: 
A.  D. Spangler, Otto M.  Rhode, J. W. C. 
Pendell, A.  O.  Draper  and  Seth  Davis, 
each of whom is chairman  of  one  of  the 
above committees.  The  Executive Com­
mittee will meet  next  Tuesday  evening 
at Borden & Drysdale’s  and  make its re­
port,  the matter  of  time  and  place  for 
holding the annual picnic and  excursion 
being left in its hands.  There were eight 
members of the Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion of Port  Huron  present,  who  urged 
that their city be  selected  for  the  day’s 
outing.  The  advantages  of  Riverside 
Park were also  presented.
A fine  program  of  games  will  be  ar­
ranged which will  put all previous efforts 
in the shade and there will be  a, general 
exodus from the city of  the  grocers  and 
their families,  who know  so well how  to 
put in a  day’s  enjoyment.  The  various 
committees appointed will spare no pains 
to make the affair one that it  will  be  al­
ways  pleasant  to  recall  by  those  who 
participate in  it.

H a rd w a re   D ealers  O rganize  for  P ro ­

tection.

Detroit,  July  .12—As  the  result of a 
two  days’  session,  the  Michigan  Hard­
ware Association was organized  here  to­
day  for the purpose of bringing the hard­
ware  dealers  of  the  State  into  closer 
social and business contact  so  that  they 
may act as  a  unit  on  matters  affecting 
the  welfare of their business.  While the 
ocial features  are  not  to  be  underesti­
mated  in  the  purposes  of the organiza­
tion,  a  strong  fight  will  probably  be 
made against  manufacturers  selling  di­
rect to consumers,  the  Association  put­
ting  itself  on  record  at  once  as an ag­
gressive body.
The officers  of  the  Association  are  as 
follows:
President—F.  S. Carleton, Calumet. 
Vice-President—Henry C.  Weber,  De­
troit.
Secretary-Treasurer—Henry C. Minnie, 
Eaton Rapids.
Executive Committee-Charles F.  Bock, 
Battle  Creek;  T.  A.  Harvey.  Saginaw; 
Edward  A.  Moye,  Marquette  and  J.  B. 
Sperry, of Port  Huron.
Investigation Committee—W. J. Boyce, 
Port Huron; S.  P.  McDonnell,  Bay  City, 
and T.  F.  Ireland, Belding.
The  annual  meeting  will  be  held  on 
the second Wednesday of next  July,  the 
place to be arranged hereafter.  A special 
meeting  will  take  place  on  the second 
Wednesday  in  February,  1896,  at Sagi­
naw. 
In terestin g   M eeting  of th e   St.  Ig n ace 

^ ____

B.  M.  A.

for 

St.  I gnace,  July 13—At the last meet­
ing of the Business Men’s Association the 
Committee  on  Arrangements 
the 
Marquette demonstration made  a  partial 
report,  which  was  informally  discussed. 
The program for the  day  was  definitely 
agree  upon,  and,  on  motion,  adopted. 
Considerable correspondence was read by 
the Secretary, a  considerable  amount  of 
details attended to, the meeting virtually 
acting in committee of the whole.
There can be no doubt  that  the  Asso­
ciation has  achieved  one  important  ra- 
suit,  as the Portage road is to be repaired 
by  Moran  township,  which  will  spend 
some  8200 
in  replacing  the  corduroy. 
This  is  the  practical  result  of  the  call 
made  by  Messrs.  Highstone  and Camp­
bell upon  the  authorities  of  that  town­
ship.
At the last meeting of  the  Association 
it was  stated  that  several  business  men 
were holding aloof because they had  not 
been formally asked to  join. 
It was  de­
cided to publish a full list of members of 
the  Association,  so  that  those  who  are 
not members may have an opportunity of 
judging who is working so faithfully  for 
the material interests of the place.

f

17
The Bradstreet Mercantile Apncy,

Tb« Bradatreet Company, Props.

Executive Offices, 279,281,283 Broadway, NT

CHARLES  F.  CLARK, Pres.

Offices  n the 
States,  Can»
Australia, and In London, England.

i principal cities of the United 
da,  the  European  continent,

Grand  Rapids  Office,  Room  4,  Widdieomb  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE. Sapt.

urn in i a

in.

20 &  22  Monroe  St.f

GRA ND  B A PID S.

The clerk who properly  observes Sun­
day will be in better  condition  for  work 
the remainder of the week.
V.  SEBRINQ  HILLYER

Consulting  Engineer

Structural Iron Work
Attention given to Drawings for Patents

803  rtichigan  Trust  Building 
GRAND  RAPIDS

L.  G.  DUNTON  It GO.

Will  buy  all  kinds  of  Lumber— 

Green or Dry.

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

Grand  Hap ids,  Mich.

'Hurt  link

Via  D.,  G.  H.  &  M.  Ry. and GOODRICH LINE. 

The  Magnificent New  Fast Steamships,

ATLANTA  and  CITY  OF  RACINE
L eave  Grand Rapids daily via D., G. H. A M. Ry.
R e t u r n in g ,  Leave Chicago  daily  at  7:30  p.  m.. 
arrive Grand Rapids 6:40 a. m.

at 7:40 p. m., arrive Chicago 6:30 a. m. 

s c h e d u l e:

GRAND  RAPIDS to 
CHICAGO.  ONLY 

$ 3 . 9 0

FOR THE ROUND TRIP.  Stateroom
C/L 
4 * 0 . Berth Included.  Through  tickets and 
stateroom berths can be had at the city office and 
depot of the D., G- H. A  M.  Ily.,  Grand  Rapids: 
also at all stations on the  D.. G.  H. &  M. Ry., D., 
L. &  N., G.  R- A.  I. and T. S. A M. Rys.

JOHN  SINGLETON, 

General Pass. Agent, 

Goodrich Trans. Co., Chicago.

P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,

DEALERS  IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

Nos.  129  and  124  Louis  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

WE CABBY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOB MILL USB.____________

We offer this week,  subject to being unsold,

Car

Black  Spanish 
W atermelons

Handsome Lot  at $16.00  to  $18.00  per  hundred
Choice  300s  Lemons at  $3.50  to  $3.75  per box
New  Potatoes at $3.55  per bbl.
Buckeye  Rolled  Oats,  $1.90  per case—36  2-lb. 
packages in  case.  Same  goods a  Detroit  firm 
advertises as  cheap  at  $2 10  per  case.  Why 
pay  $2.10  when  you can  buy  the same  quality 
and quantity for $1.90.

We  have  just  taken  stock,  and  will soon  offer 
some  odd  lots  of  merchandise  at  way down 
figures to  clean up stock.

JAMES STEWART GO..

EAST  SAGINAW.  M1GH,

18
Drugs~=ChemicaIs

State Board  of Pharmacy»

One Year—George Gundrum, Ionia.
Two Years—C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
Three Years—8. E. Parkhill» Owosso.
Four Years—F. W. R  Perry, Detroit.
Fire Years—A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.
President— C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix.
Secretary—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit, 
treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coming  Meetings—Houghton,  August— ;  Lansing, 
Notò.

Michigan State  Pharmaceutical  Ass'n.
President—A. 8. Parker, Detroit.
Vice-President—John E. Peck, Detroit.
Treasurer—W. Dupont, Detroit.
Secretar—F. C. Thompson. Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Detroit, July 16,17,18 and 19.
Grand  Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

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

H IN T S   O N   R O A D   IM P R O V E M E N T . 

Written for Tbs Tradesman.
IV.

The ideal highway is one  which is per 
fectly straight and  nearly  level,  as  well 
as  smooth  and  hard—conditions  which 
can only be secured  in a  country  nearly 
or quite level.  By  the usual  practice  of 
laying  out  roads  in  squares on the sec­
tion lines in such  countries, there is lost 
the condition of  straightness,  as  radiat­
ing from a center,  in ail except those ex­
tending in the direction  of  the  cardinal 
points of the compass.  To reach a point 
located in any other direction, the course 
must either follow two sides of a triangle 
or zigzag on  the  section  lines,  the  dis­
tance increasing in  proportion  as  it  di­
verges  from  the  cardinal  points.  The 
average  increase  of  distance,  resulting 
from this system,  is  about  20  per  cent., 
varying from nothing  on  the direct lines 
to 40 per cent,  in the  least  favorable  di­
rections.  The fact that  this cause of in­
crease of distance is so little  considered, 
argues that the quality of straightness i> 
not  most  essential. 
It  is  a  matter  ot 
question  whether  it  would  not  pay  to 
build  roads  in  such  localities in the in­
termediate  directions,  dispensing,  how­
ever,  with  those  on  the  section  lines, 
which  would be rendered unnecessary  by 
their  proximity.  A  saving  of  40  per 
cent,  in distance is a  matter of some mo­
ment.

The  laying  out  of  roads  on  section 
lines,  so  universal  in  level  country,  is 
generally  attempted  with  more  or  less 
success in undulating and  hilly  regions. 
This  introduces  the  question of another 
and more essential quality—that of being 
level.  Every  teamster  well  knows  that 
passing over even  a  moderate  elevation 
is  a  much  more  serious  matter  than 
would be a considerable increase  of  dis­
tance.  Considering 
is 
strange to what an  extent  the  roads  are 
located  on  section  lines,  regardless  of 
hills. 
It is strange,  too.  to  what an  ex-1 
tent effort and  money are  wasted  in  fu­
tile attempts t«> render such  roads  passa­
ble by grading down the  bills  and filling 
up the valleys.

fact, 

this 

it 

In  enterprises  of  road  improvement, 
careful consideration should  be  given  to 
the matter of location. 
In deciding this, 
only such roads  should  be  selected  for 
improvement as  will serve  the  purposes 
of the greatest  number  for  as  much  of 
the distance to the market as is  possible. 
The tendency of each farmer to insist  on 
the improvement of  the  road  adjoining 
his own farm,  and the unnecessary  num­
ber of roads on  which  improvements  are 
attempted,  dissipates  and  wastes 
the 
available funds with scarcely perceptible 
effect.  To  get the consent and co-opera­
tion of the land-owner in  limiting the ex­

After  the  general  line  has  been  se 
lected,  there  should  be made as careful 
and  complete  a  survey  thereof  as  pos 
sible,  and  where it may be  already  loca 
ted  over  bills  and  other  unfavorable 
features, careful consideration  and  con 
sultation  should  be had  as to changes of 
route.  The avoidance  of  a  hill by a de 
tour  should  always  be  secured,  when 
practicable.  The  increase  in  distance 
signifies  little,  while  the  advantage  in 
saving grades is  very  great.  The  prob 
lem of the right of way and  cutting  into 
private lands must be solved by the  rule 
of the greatest good to the greatest  num 
ber.  Tact and the  calling  into  play  of 
an enthusiastic public spirit  will  aid  in 
its solution.

Perhaps the most usual  way  in  which 
road money is wasted,  secondary  to  the 
one referred to of dissipating it on  every 
byway,  is  the  attempt  to  make  heavy 
grades.  There is a hill in the  way  and 
perhaps,  a valley to fill up; and  the  idea 
never occurs to the roadmakers  of  going 
around them.  Without  any  estimate  of 
the amount of earth to be moved, the hill 
is unhesitatingly attacked and  after  ex 
hausting the means at  hand,  the  would 
be improvers are surprised at  the  slight 
effect of their efforts.  The  work done is 
an added reason  why the effort should  be 
made each succeeding year.  How many 
uch undertakings there are,  monuments 
to inconsiderate and wasted  effort.  Un 
less accurate  survey  and  estimates  are 
made of earth work,  the amount  will  in­
variably be  under-estimated.  The  most 
practical rule is, to lay the route in order 
to  avoid  heavy  grading,  so  far  as pos­
sible.

Perhaps  the  hills  will  be  the  most 
frequent causes of variation of route, but 
there  will  be others.  A marsh is some­
times almost as serious  an  obstacle  as  a 
bill.  Then,  the direction and  frequency 
of watercourses and streams,  the  neces­
sity of bridges and  approaches,  must  be 
considered.  On some streams,  the  mat­
ter is complicated by  the  disastrous  ef­
fects of floods.

In  brief, 

then,  after  selecting  such 
routes as may  be  practicably  improved 
by  the  means  obtainable,  locate  them 
with the greatest care,  usiug the best en­
gineering and surveying skill to  be  had, 
and,  if  possible,  make  whatever  devia­
tions of course may  be  necessary  to  ob­
tain as nearly  level  gradients  as  can  be 
found.  Success  will  largely  depend on 
the skill  with  which  public  spirited  co­
operation can  be invoked and engaged  in 
this part of the work. 

W.  N.  F.

It isn’t  the  clerk  who  sells  the  most 
goods  who is  most  valued  by  the  busi­
ness  man  who  knows  his  business,  but 
the one who cleans up old  stock and gets 
the hard sellers disposed  of.  The  great 
object of storekeepiug is to  sell  goods to 
make money and this  cannot  be  done  it 
the  poor  sellers  are allowed to accumu­
late.  A dummy could sell some goods.

About sixty  miles  square  of  territory 
in  Minnesota  is  overrun with grasshop­
pers.  They are not near wheat sections, 
however,  and  it  is  said  that  reports  to 
the contrary are exaggerated.
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THE  MICHIG^Isr  TRADESMAN,
penditures to main lines,  will  require ef­
fort and tact.

IT IS»

Making a 
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WHEREVER  SOLD.

THE  lì EST  5c.  CIGAR 
EVER  l’U T   IN  A  BOX !

07701133

MILWAUKEE,  WIS.
W holesale  D istributors.

J.  A.  GONZALEZ,

Michigan Representative

Will you allow us to give you

A  POINTER

The  S .  C.  W.  is  the  only  nickle 
Cigar,  Sold  by  ail  Jobbers  traveling 
from  Grand  Rapids  and  by Snyder  & 
Straub,  Jobbers  of  Confectionery 
Muskegon.  We  do  not  claim  this 
Cigar  to  be  better  than  any  io  cent 
Cigar  made,  but  we  do  claim  it to be 
as  good  as  any  5  cent  Cigar  that  is 
sold  for  a  nickle.

uhe’sj^ eal  Rippe
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ts   THE  VERY  BEST

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Cures  Neuralgia  Permanently
Handled by all Jobbers.  Prepared by
.  N.  GHENT  &  CO.,  Pharmacists 

Wafers

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U P - T O - D A T E   B I C Y C L E S

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A  High  Grade  Machine  Built on  Mechanical  Principles.
Our  Prices are  Right. 
Immediate Shipment  Guaranteed. 

Dealers, write for discounts.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

1 9

Wholesale  Price  Current.

Advanced—OtI  Oltronella, Oil  Peppermint. 

Declined—

“ 

8.  N. Y. Q.  A

Morphia, S. P.  <4 W.  175@2 (0
C.  Co....................  1  65@1  90
Moschus Canton.......   @ 40
Myrlstlca. No  1 ........  66®  70
Nux Vomica, (po 20)..  @ 10
Os.  Sepia....................  16®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P. D.
Co............................  @2 00
Plcls Llq, N.-C., M gal
doz  ........................   @2 00
Plcls Llq., quarts......  @1 00
pints.........  @  85
Pll Hydrarg, (po. 80)..  @ 50
Piper Nigra, (po. 22).  @ 1
Piper Alba, (po g5)__  @  3
Pllx Bnrgun...............   @  7
Plumbi Acet.............. 
ic@  12
Pulvis Ipecac et opll. .1  10@1  20 
Pyrethrnm,  boxes  H
A P. D.  Co., doz......  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv..........   20@  30
8®  10
Qnasslae.................... 
Quinta,8 .P .4 W   ...  34■*@30M 
27®  37
8.  German... 
Rubla  Tlnctorum......  12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv. 
18®  20
Saladn...................... 2 50@2 60
Sangnls  Draconls......  40@
18®
Sapo,  W.
10®
M  ..............
G  ..
@
Seldllis  Mixture.
@
Slnapls................
@®
opt...........

’• 

Myrcia Dorn. 
Myrcia Imp. 
V i i -

Snuff,  Maccaboy,  De
Voes.................  ...  @  84
Snuff, Scotch, De. Voes  @  34 
Soda  Boras, (po. 6M-9)6M@  9
Soda et Potass Tart...  24®  25
Soda Carb.................  1M@  2
Soda,  Bl-Carb............   3®  5
Soda, Ash....................3M@  4
Soda, Sulphas............   @  2
Spts. Ether C o...........  50®  55
@2 no 
@2 50 
2  53 
2 58 
2 61 
2 63
1 
Less 5c gal., cash ten days.
Strychnia Crystal......1 4(i@l  45
Sulphur, Subl............   2^@ 3
“  Roll..............  2  @ 2M
Tamarinds................. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice......  28®  30
Theobromae..............45  @  48
Vanilla..................... 9 00@16 00
7®  8
Zlncl  Sulph
Gal
70

ini Rect. bbl  ..
Mbbl.
10 gal.
5 gal. 

Bbl.
70
60
40
61
63
strained...............   65
35

Whale, winter
Lard,  extra...............
Lard, No.  1...............
Linseed, pure raw  ... 
Linseed,  Dolled..
Neat’s  Foot,  winter 
8plrf ts Turpentine.

OILS.

“ 

paints. 

bbl.  lb.
Red  Venetian..............1M  2@8
Ochre,yellow  Mars...  1M  2@4
Ber........1M  2®8
“ 
Patty,  commercial— 254  2M@8
“  strictly  pure......2M  94i@8
Vermilion Prime Amer­
ican .......................... 
13@15
70@75
Vermilion.  English.... 
Green, Paris.............  
20M@27
Green,  Peninsular......  
13@16
Lead,  red....................  5M@6
“  w hite...............   5M@6
Whiting, white Span...  @70
Whiting,  Gliders’........  @90
1 
White, Parts  American 
Whiting.  Paris  Eng.
Cliff . . ........................ 
1  40
Universal Prepared  ..1  f0@l  15 
No. 1 Turp  Coach.  .. 1  10@1  20
Extra Turp................  Ifi0@l  70
Coach  Body...............2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn 
.  . .1  00@1  10 
1  56@1  60
Eutra Turk Damsr 
Japan  Dryer,  No.  1 
Turp......................... 
70®75
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S t a n d .   S e n d   us  a n   o r d e r  
for  a  trial  d o ze n .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Aceticum  .................... 
Beniolcnm  German..  65®
Boraci c 
....................
Carbollcum ...................  
f M
C ltrlcum ......................
H ydrocm or..................... 
j g
Nltrocum 
...................  }0®
Oxallcom...................
Phosphorium  d ll.........
Salley Ileu m ....................   55®
Sulpnurlcuin.......................„ IX©
Tanni cum ............................ 1 40©1 GO
Tartari cum ..................... 
33®  35

AM MONIA.

Aqua, 1#  deg................   «©  6
»   *>8..............  6®  8
* 
Carbonai  ....................  
la® «
C hiorldum ...................... 
l*@  «

AN ILIN E.

Black.................................... 2 00®2 25
Ä
..........................   « K  00
Red...............................  g®
Yellow............................ 2 50@3 00

BACCA».
25)......

Cubeae (po 
Junlperua —  
Xanthoxylum

20®
8®25®

BAL8AMUM.
Copaiba...................... 
*
Peru..............-...........  
..JP IX
Terabln. Canada  —   45®  oo
Tolutan......................  50®  55

CORTEX.

Abies,  Canadian.................   18
Cassiae  . . . . .........................  “
Cinchona P ia v a ...........  •  •  1°
Ruonymus  atropurp...........  *)
Myrlca Cerifera, po............
Prunus Vlrglni....................  J2
Qulllala,  grd.......................
J»
Sassafras  ............ 
 
Ulmus Po (Ground  15)........ 
i&

 

■XTRACTUM.

« 
Is.....  18® 
« 
•<  Ms...   14® 
S s....  16® 
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K U O

Glyoyrrhisa  Glabra...  24®  25
po...........  33®  35
Haematox, 15 lb. box..  11®  12
14
15
17
15 
®3 50 
80 
50 
15 2 
7

Carbonate Predp...
Citrate and Quinta.
Citrate  Soluble ..-•••••  ®
Ferrocyanldum Sol —   w
Solut  Chloride..........   @
Sulphate,  com’l .............. »®
p u re ...........  ®

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f l o r a .
 

Arnica.............. 
  12®
Antbemls...................  1°®
Matricaria

14 
25 
18©25

FOLIA.
.
.

.

.

Barosma 
.
I4® 
Cassia  Acutlfol,  Tin- 
mvelly ...; r   - i l x ;  “ g
Salvia  officinalis,  M»
and  Sis....................
UraUrsl 
................... 

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“ ....
“ ....

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Acacia, 1st  picked 

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sifted sorts...
Aloe,  Barb, (po. 60) • • ■
“  Cape, (po.  20)..
Socotri, (po.  60).
Catechu, Is, 04». 14 Ms
®
Ammoniac...... • •.......   ^®
30®
Assafcetlda, (po.3n, 
Bensomnm................. 
'J®
Camphor» 
 
3
Knphorblum  po  .........
Galbanum...................... 
.  ®2 JS
®Q
Gamboge,  po. 
Guaiacum. (po  35)  •..  ®
Kino,  (po  2 00).........  
g-
Mvrrh, (po  45).............  ®  40
Opll  (pc  3 00@3 20)..1  85@1  90
Shellac  . 
40®  60
bleached.......  40®  45
Tr.zgacanth..................  50®  80

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Absinthium.........................  *
Bupatorlum.........................  g
Lobelia......................................  *5
Haioram........-........................
Mentha  Plperiu....................  g
26
....................... 
80
Rue
Tanècetum, V.................   g
Thymus, V..........................
Calcined, P a t............  55®  60
Carbonate,  Pat.  ......  20®  22
Carbonate, K. A  M^. ..  20®  »  
Carbonate, Jennlng5..  35®  3b 

Cubebae..................  1 50® 1  SO
Exechthltos  ............  1  20® 1  30
Rrlgeron......................... 1  20®1 30
Ganltherla......................1  50@1 60
Geranium,  ounce......  ®  75
Gossipi!, Sem. gal......  60®  70
Hedeoma  ...................1  25®l  40
Jnmperl.....................   50®2 00
Lavendula.................  90@2 00
Limoni«...........................1  .3001 50
Mentha Piper...................2 25®2 30
Mentha Verld................. 1  80@2 00
Morrhuae, gal................. 1 75®1 80
Myrcia, ounce............   @  50
Olive..........................  90®3 00
Plcls Liquida, (gal..85)  10®  12
Ricini.......................  68®  96
Rosmarini........... 
1  00
Ros&e, ounce...................6 50®8 50
Succinl.......................  40®  45
Sabina.......................  90@1  00
Santal  ....................... 2 50®7 00
SaaBafraa....................  50®  55
SlnaplB, ess, ounce__  ®  65
Tlglfi..........................  @1  00
Thjrme.......................  40®  50
®1  60
Theobromas...............   15®  20

opt

POTASSIUM.

RADIX.

BICarb.......................  15®  18
Bichromate...............   11®  13
Bromide....................  45®  48
Carb...........................   12®  15
Chlorate  (po.l7®19)..  16®  18
Cyanide.....................   50®  55
Iodide........................ 2 96@3 00
Potassa, Bltart, pure..  24®  26 
Potassa, Bltart, com...  ®  15
Potass Nltras, opt......  8®  10
Potass Nltras.............. 
7®  9
Pressiate....................  25®  28
Sulphate  po...............   15®  18
A coni turn..................   20®  25
Althae........................   22®  25
Anchusa....................  12®  15
Arum,  po....................  ®  25
Calamus.....................   20®  40
Gentlana  (po. 12)......  8®  10
Glychrrhlsa, (pv. 15)..  16®  18 
Hydrastis  Canaden,
(po. 35)..................  
®  30
Hellebore,  Ala,  po—   15®  20
Inula,  po....................  15®  20
Ipecac, po..................1  30@l  40
Iris plOX (po. 35®38) 
35®  40
Jaiapa,  pr..................   40®  45
Maranta,  Ms..............  ®  35
Podophyllum, po.......   15®  18
Rhel............................  75@1 00
“  cut......................  @1
“  pv.  ....................  75®1  35
Spigella.....................   35®  38
Sanguinaria, (po  25)..  ®  20
Serpen tarla...............   50®
Senega.......................  55®
Slmllax, Officinalis.  H  @
M  @
ScHlae, (po. 85)..........   10®
Symplocarpus,  Fosti
dus,  po....................  @
Valeriana, Bng. (po.30)  @
German...  15®
Ingiber a ................. 
18®
Zingiber  1.............. 
18®
SKKBH.

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Anisum,  (po.  20) 
Aplum  (graveleonB)..  14®
Bird, Is.....................  
4®  6
Carni, (po. 18)............  10®  12
Cardamon................. 1  00®1  25
Corlandrnm...............   12®  14
4®7501 00 
Cannabis Saliva
Çydonlnm..............
Cbenopodlum  ......
10®   12 
1  80®2 00 
Dlpterix Odorate  ..
O  15 
Foenlcnlnm..........
6®
Foenugreek,  po  ...
L ini.......................
Lini. grd.  (bbl. SM)
Lobelia.................
Pharlarls Canarian
R apa.....................
■  
Slnapls  Albn
Nigra  .........  HO  12
B7HUTU8.
2 0002 50 
Frumenti, W..D.  Co. 
2 0002 25 
D. F. R .  ..
1  2501  50 
1  6502 00 
Juniperls  Co. Ó. T ...
1  7503 50
Saacharum  N.  R.........1 9002 10
Spt.  Vlni  Galll............1 75@6 50
VIni Oporto.................1 25©2 00
Vlnl  Alba....................1 25@2 00

3M© 4 
3M®  4 
35®  40 
4®
4 MO
70

“ 

Florida  sheeps’  wool
carriage.................. 2 50®2 75
Nassau  sheeps’  wool
oarrlage  .................
2 00 
Velvet  extra  sheeps’
1  10
wool  carriage.........
Extra  yellow  sheeps’
85
carriage..................
Grass sheeps’ wool oar
66
rlage.......................
75
Hard for  slate  nse —
Yellow  Reef, for  slate 
1  40
n se..........................

TINCTURES.

“ 

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11 

F 

“ 

A coni turn  Napelli» R .........   60
so
Aloes...................................  60
and myrrh.................  60
Arnica................................  50
Asafcetlda............................  0
Atrope Belladonna..............  60
Benzoin...............................  60
“  Co..........................  50
Sanguinaria........................   50
Barosma.............................  50
Cantharides........................   75
Capsicum............................  50
Ca damon............................  75
Co........................  75
Castor..................................1 00
Catechu...............................  50
Cinchona...........................   50
Co........................  60
Columba.............................  50
Conlom...............................  50
Cubeba................................  50
Digitalis.............................   50
Ergot...................................  50
Gentian...............................  50
*  CO............................  80
Gualca................................  50
ammon....................  60
* 
Zingiber.............................  50
Hyoscyamus.......................  50
Iodine..................................  75
Colorless..................  75
Ferri  Chlorldnm................   35
Kino................................  .  50
Lobelia................................  50
Myrrh.................................   50
Nux  Vomica.......................  50
Opll....................................   85
“  Camphorated...............  50
Anrantl Cortex....................  50
Quassia..............................   50
Rhatany  .............................  50
Rhel....................................   50
Cassia  Acntlfol..................   50
Co..............  50
Serpentaria........................  50
Stramonium........................   60
Tolutan...............................  60
Valerian.............................  50
VeratrumVeride.................  50

Deodor..................... 2 00

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MISCELLANEOUS.

“ 

“ 

5®

‘ 
“ 

Æther, Spts  Nit, 8 F..  35®  38 
“  4 F ..  88®  40
Alnmen.......................2M® 3

T‘ 
ground,  (po.

7).............................  3®  4
Annatto.....................   40®  50
Antimoni, po..............  4®  5
et Potass T.  55®  60
Antlpyrln..................   @1  40
Antirebrin..................  ®  15
Argenti  Nltras, ounce  @  53
Arsenicum................. 
Balm GUead  Bud....  38®  40
Bismuth  S.  N ............ 1  20® 1  80
Calclnm Chlor, Is, (Ms
®  9
10;  Ms,  12)..............
Cantharides  Russian,
po...........................
®1  00 
®  15 
Capsid  Frnctns, af...
@  15 
®  15 
tpo.
Caryophyllns, (po,
15)
10®   12 
®8 75 
Cannine,  No. 40..
50®  56 
Cera  Alba, 8. A F
Cera Flava.................  40®
“ 
* 
40 
Cocons  .....................   ®
25 10 
Cassia Frnotns...........  ©
Centrarla....................  ®
40 68
Cetacenm..................   ®
Chloroform...............   60®
sqnlbbs ..  ®1  25
Chloral Hyd erst----- 1  15®1  30
Chondrns..................  20®  25
Cinch onldlne, P.  A  W  15®  20 
German  8M®  12
Cocaine.....................& 0; @5 25
Coras,  list,  dis.  per
65
oent  .....................
35 2
Creasotum..............
Creta, (bbl. 75)......
5 11
3 
55 
246 
12 
90
8 6
36 
16
®  28 
® 9

Ca
“  prep
5®
9®
predp. 
Inbra.
Rtf
a50®
Croons  ........
Cudbear...  .
Cupri Sulph...............   5 @
Dextrine....................  10®
Ether Sulph...............   75®
®
Emery,  all  numbers
30®
lte..............  12®

po.
Flake  Whit
Galla..........................
Gambler.....................   8
Gelatin,  Cooper.........   @
French...........  30®
Glassware  flint, by box 80. 
Less than box 70.
Glne,  Brown.............. 
9®
“  White................  13®
Glyoerlna...................  13®
Grana Paradlsl...........  ®
Hnmnlns....................  25®
Hydraag Chlor  Xlte..  ®
“  Cor  —   ®
Ox Rnhram  @
Ammonia tl..  @
U nguentnm.  45®

gotaL(po.)  40. 

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OLEUM.

90@2 00
00@3 20

Absinthium................ 2 
50®3 00
Amygdalae, Dulc  ..  ..  30®  60 
Amydalae. Amarao— 8 00@8 25
A nisi  ...........................1 
Auranti  Cortex...........1 80@2 00
BCTgamll  ...................3 
Oallputi....................   60®  65
CaryophylU................  7®@  80
Cedar......................... 
65
Chenopodll...............   @1  80
Clnnamonii.................1 
Cltronella...................  50®  60
Conlom  Mac  ............   ¡»®  65
Copaiba  ....................   80®  90

«@1 50

A ccada...............................  50
Zingiber  .............................   50
Ipecac..................................  “2
Ferri Iod.............................  50
Anrantl  Cortes....................  50
Rhel  Aram...................  
50
Slmllax  Officinalis..............  60
Senega..................................  50
Sdllae..................................  50
50
Toiatan................................ 
Pranas  rirg 
.................  

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

*  Co 

 

Hydrargyrum............   ®  65
Iehthyobolla, Am..  ..1 26®1 50
Indigo........................   75@1 00
Iodine,  Resnbi...........3 80®3 90
Iodoform......... ..........  @4 70
Lupulln......................  ®2 26
Lycopodium..............  60®  65
M ads.........................  70®  75
Liquor  Arsen  et  Hy-
ararglod.................  @  27
Llqnor Potass Arslnltls  10®  IS
Magnesia,  Sulph  (bbl
50
Mannla,  8. F ...........  60®  68
~

1M).........................  *M®  4

1H E   MICH IGAN  TEADESMAN.

lOCERY  PR IC E  C U R R E !

i  this list are  for the  trade only,  in  saeh  quantities as  are  usually  purchased  l*y  retail  dealers.  They 
It  is  impossible  to   irive  quotations  suitable  for  all conditioni 
u  accurate  index  of  the  local  market. 
renting  average  prices  for average  conditions of  p u rch ase .  Cash  b u y e rs  or those  of  strong credit 
dit.  Subscribers  are  earnestly requested  to  point  out  a n y   errors or omissions,  as  it is our  aim to  n 
iealers.

Schuit’s Cleaned.

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Peel.

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25 lb.  boxes  .......................  554
5 1 lb.  boxes  .......................5
1 lb.  packages  .................6
Citron, Leghorn. 25 lb. boxes  12 
“ 
25  “ 
Lemon 
8
10
Orange 
25  “ 
“ 
Raisins.
•ndura, 29 lb  boxes 
© 6
“ 
Sultana, 20 
© 65S4
Valencia. 30  “
California,  100-120 ..............  354
.  554

Prunes.
90x100 25 lb. bxs. 5
80x90 
6
70x80 
60x70 
7

DISINFECTANT.

SUver  .......................  ©
Zenoleum, 6 oz  .................  2 00
Zenoleum, qts.....................  4 0*
Zenoleum, %  gal................  7 20
Zenoleum,  gal....................12 to

u m i - sk h,
Georges cured.............. 
4
Georges genuine............   5
Georges selected.............. 534
6*
.toneless,  bricks. 
toneless, strips..  . 
654©3
H&ilbnt.
11©12
smoked  .. 
Herring.
80 
Holland, white hoops keg 
bbl  10  0
“ 
“ 
Norwegian  ..................  
11  <,0
Round, 54 bbl 100 lbs  __ 
2 55
54  “  40  “  ........  1  30
Scaled...............................  13
12 00
No. 1,  100 lbs.............. 
No. 1,40 lbs................. 
5 50
No. 1,  10 Ids................. 
1  85
No. 2,100  lbs...... 
...  9 00
No. 2,40 lbs........................  3 9 ,
No. 2,10  lbs........................  1 115
Family, 90 lbs....................
10  lbs .................

Mackerel.

cod.

“ 

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“ 

Sardines.
Trout.

Russian, kegs....................   55
No. 1, 54 bbls., 1001 bs......... 4  25
No. 1 54 bbl, 40  lbs.............1  95
No. 1, kits, 10 lbs 
........  
56
No  1, 8 lb  kits  ---- ------.- 
48
No. 1  family
56 bbls, 100 lbs...........«7 00  2 50
54  “  40  “ ...........3 10  1 30
10 lb.  kits..................  
so
3»
8 lb.  “ 
 Y  i*.4 PER.
r

85 
.........   71 

Whiteflsh.

I.&RGE  SIZE

•;

...

.’5 dbl. shts. In box. pr. bx. 9  38 
Per case of  10 boxes......... 3  40
DWARF SIZE. 
25 double sheets In  box,
Case of 10 boxes...............   1  25
Case of 2) boxes...............   2 50
COMBINATION  CASE.
5 boxes Large  Decoy I 
4 ’
12 boxes Dwarf Decoy f ■ • 
FARINACEOUS  GOODS. 
115 lb. kegs........................ 
Walsh DeRoo &  Co.’s ......2 00
 
Barrels 
Grits....................................  354
Dried............................... 
Domestic, 12 lb. box__  
imported 
Pearl Barley.
Empire.................................   354
Chester............................  ..  254

Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
............   1054@11

.................... 
Lima  Beans.

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

IYl iI Cherry  Phosphate.

55

 

254

254

654

40 oz. size 

per doz.  $8

25c size 

per doz.  $2

N.Y.Cond’ns’d Milk Co’s brands
Gall Borden Eagle............   7  40
Crown..................................6  25
Daisy....................................5 75
Champion..........................  4  50
Magnolia  ............................4 25
Dime....................................3 35

Peerless evaporated cream  5  ?t

c o u p o n   b o o e d

“Tradesman.’

8  1  books, per hundred  ...2  Ot 
. . . . 2  50
** 
* 2  
....  8 00
18  “ 
8 5 
... 
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8 no
ti.o 
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1»KX EG  FRUITS 

Peaches.

Domestic.
Apples.
Sundrieu,.............. 
Evaporated, 50 lb.  boxes 
Apricots.
California in  bags 
Evaporated In boxes.  .. 
Blackberries.
In  boxes......................
Nectarines.
701b. bftgs.......................
25 lb. boxes..................... 
Peeled, in  boxes........... 
Oal  evai.  “ 
 
tn l ags.......  

 
Peats.
o’a't  ■ r -u 10 bigs 
California boxes........... 
Blued  Cberritw.
Barrels 
............ .......
............
50 lb. boxes 
25 “
80 lb 
lb  barrels 
501b. boxes.................... 
25 lb. 

Prunelles
if* ................... 
Raspberries.

.............. 
Raisins.

154
754 
@’54

8

9
14
9
8
65s
754

9 s
22
i2d
2254

 

Loose  Muscatels In Boxes.
2 crown 
3 
.............................   4
> 
...... .............   5
2  crown............— ............314
8 
................•-.............3J£

“ 
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Loose M uscatels In Bags
“ 

 

354

Foreign.
Currants.

Patras,  LLils. 
Yostizzas. 5u lb.  cases........  278

........

 

 

COCOA  SH ELIA

35 lb  bags......................  ©3
Less quantity....... .......   @314
Pound  packages.......... 6K©T

Santos.

COFFEE.
Green.
Rla.
Fair....................... 
18
Good.................................... 19
Prime.................................. 21
Golden.................................21
Peaberry  ......................  ...23
Fair......................................19
Good....................................20
Prime.................................. 22
Peaberry  ........ 
23
Mexican and Guatemala.
Fair..................................... 21
Good....................... 
22
Fancy.................................. 24
Maracaibo.
Prime .................................. 23
Milled.................................24
Interior................... 
  Si
Private Growth...................27
Mandehllng........................28
Imitation............................ 25
Arabian............................... 28
To  ascertain  cost  of  roasted 
coffee, add 54c. per lb. for roast­
ing and 15 per  cent,  for shrink­
age.
MoLanghttn’«  XSXX.  ¿1 3t.
Lion. 60 or loo lb.  case ..  21 30
Arbnckle.........................   21  30
J e rs e y ............................21  3u
E x tr a c t.
Vauey City  gross
75
F ells 
5
Hummel's, foil, gross 
1  65
2 85

Paa'kagn.

Roasted.

Mocha.

Java.

tin 

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K 0FFA -A 1D

100 packages in  caie .......
60 packages in  case........
im t
-ted.
Cotto11.

CLOTHES LINES.

CHICORY.

5
7
per dot. t  2?
1  40
1  60
1  75
1  90
85
1  00

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60 ft
“
70 ft
11 soft
60 ft  ....
Jnts
“
72 ft  .

CONDENSE!)  MILK. 

4 doi  In case.

“superior.”
.  per  oim dreo

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61
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4 00
.  5 on
.  6  00

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.  20 

f  1  books,  per hundred 
13 00
*  2 
3 50
. 
...  4 00
13 
*5
....  5 00
»10 
...  6 00
92!'
....  7  00
ü imve prices on coupon oooas
at.  hiifiject
to  the  following
qua«11tv discounts:
¡&£i books or cn?ei  . 
per  *en*
JO
itt»
COUPON PASS  BOOKS.
(Can  be  nw e to represent any
from 810  down. 1
denomlnaiioi
8  1  00
20 books
50  “ 
..
..................   2 00
100  “
...............   3 00
250  “
..................   6  25
500  “
.................. 10 00
1000  “
...........  17  50
duo. any out- •lenom'n. — 83 00
luilu,  “ 
......5 00
2000,  “ 
...... 8  00
■¿5
Mecí  punch.

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CRACK ERS. 

CREDIT  i  riLOKII.

Butte
Seymour XXX........
joymonr XXX. cartoon 
Bacilly XXX 
Family XXX,  cartoon.
sailed XXX.........
salted XXX,  cartoon
Boston.................
sears  Tea. 
__
Soda.
Soda.  XXX 
.  ..
Soda XXX.carton
Soda, City
soda,  Duchess
Crystal Wafer....... .
Long  Island Wafers
Ovster.
8. Oyster  XXX.......
City Gyster. XXX............
Farina  Oyster. 
...
Sweet  Goods.
Iced Coffees  .................
G nger Snaps.................
Graham  Crackers
Oatmeal Crackers 
...
Pretzels.......................
Molasses  Cake...........
Sugar  Cake
«  E -1 ENT

Major's  per gro.
.« /size 
1  oz size.

J L - 9 ^  

5 Vi
...  6 
..  5>4 
..  6 
...  5^ 
..  6 
6« 
654
554
...  6
7
8
..  U'54
..  11
6
6
.  6
...  9
..  6
..  .  8
....  8
...  8
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.ili 0(1
..  18 on
iq.due.loz 9 60
Leather Cement
1  oz size...  12 00
2  oz size...  18  <
Rubber Cement 
»2  oz size...  12  00

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to   (

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6 00
7 00
5 50
9 00
6 00

45
75
1 60
10
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1  102 00

9 00
40
75
1  40
85
1  65
3 25
45
35
1  50
45
75
1  50

.  80
70
60
Irosa
3 60
6  75
9 00
2 75
4 00
8  00
4 50
3 60
6 80
1  90
2 00
t li2 50
2 50
85
1  002 85
1  25
1  50
1  75
85
1  25
1  50
10
9
10
24

1  20
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2 25
.  80
1  45
* 30
3 35
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2 90
1  10
2  10
2 25
2 25
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1  80
1 65
.1 30
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2 50

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3 00

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1  40
1  50
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85
11  15
1  40
1  15
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1  00
1  05

1  40 
1  40 

1  10
1 00 
©1  55

Gooseberries.

Pears.

Common
P ie...........
Maxwell  .. 
Shepard's  . 
California. 
Monitor 
Oxford  ...
1 0
Domestic.................... 
125
Riverside.................... 
Pineapples.
Common—  
.............1  00©1  30
Johnson’s sliced........ 
2 50
2 75
grated........ 
Booth’s sliced............  ©2 5)
grated...........  ©2  75
Quinces.
1  10
Common.................... 
Raspberries.
Red.............................  
95
1  40
Black  Hamburg.........  
1  10
Brie, black................. 
Strawberries.
Lawrence..................  
1  25
1  7£
Hamburgh................. 
1  05
Erie............................ 
Terrapin....................... 
9i*
Whortleberries.
Blueberries...............  
85
Corned  beef  ......................2 35
Roast beef  .........................2 35
Potted  ham, 54 lb.....................1 30
“  54 lb.................  80
tongue, 54 l b ........... 1  :-0
56 lb...........  35
chicken, >* lb  ........  95

Meats.

“ 
Vegetables.

Beans.

Peas.

Corn.

Hamburgh  stringless...........1 15
French style....... 2 00
Limas.................. 1 25
Lima, green..........................1 15
soaked.....................   70
Lewis Boston Baked............l 25
Bay State  Baked.................. 1 25
World’s  Fair  Baked............l 25
Picnic Baked.......................  95
Hamburgh........................... 1 15
Livingston  Bden.................1 00
Purity.................................   90
Honey  Dew..........................1 25
Morning G lory...............
Soaked  ............................ 
60
Hamburgh marrofat............ 1 00
early June  . 
...1 2)
Champion Bng. .1  20
petit  pots...........1 40
fancy  lifted___1 65
Soaked................................   85
Harris standard..................   75
VanCamp’s  marrofat...........1 10
early June........1 30
Archer’s  Early Blossom___1 25
French................................. a 15
Mushrooms.
French........... —....... .......19©21
Pumpkin.
Brie-------------  
90
Squash.
Hubbard............................. 1  15
Succotash.
Hamburg................. 
1  so
Soaked.................  
80
Honey  Dew.......................... 1 80
1  35
E rie......................  
Tomatoes.
Hancock.......................  
.  80
Excelsior  ...— ..... 
  80
Eclipse................................  85
Hamburg..—........ .............. 1 30
................... —...2 65
Gallon 
Baker’s.

CHOCOLATE. 

 
 

 

 

German Sweet.................. 
Premium..................  
 
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
CHEESE.
10
Amboy.....................  
Acme.......................... 
10
Jersey......................... 
10
Lenawee..................  
10
Riverside................. 
10
Gold  Medal  ......
o&7
Skim  ................ 
Brick.................... 
11
1  jo
Edam  ...................  
Leiden...................... 
20
Limoarger.............. 
©15
©24
Pineapple 
........... 
Roquefort
©18
Sap Sago 
Schweltser, Imported  ©24 
«¿14

domestic 

28
3?
45

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Triumph Brand. 

Blue Label Brand.

CATSUP.
Half  pint, 25 bottles
2 75
Pint 
4 50
Quart 1 doz bottles
3 50
Half pint, per  doz.......... ..1  35
Pint, 25nbottles................. ..4 50
Quart  per  doz  ............... .  3 75
CREAM  TARTAR
StrlctlT  pare....................
30
Telfers Absolute.............
30
Grocers’............................ 15©25
OMtTHES  PINS, 

i.aisy  urxuti.

5 gross boxes.................40©45

M A T C H E S .

Columbia  Match Co.’s  Brands.
Columbia Parlor...............II  25
XXX Sulphur...................   1 00
Diamond  Match  Co.’s  Brands.
Mo. 9  sulphur  ............ 
l  65
Anchor parlor.................... 170
No. 2 home  .........................1  10
Export parlor.....................4 00

New Orleans.

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap
Cuba Baking.
Porto BIcj.

Sugar house.................... 
14
Ordinary..........................   U
Prim e...............................  
20
Fancy............................... 
80
Fair..................................  
18
Good  ...............................  
22
27
Extra good........................ 
Choice 
........................... 
32
Fancy..................................  
40
Hair -barrels 3c.extrs
PICKLES.
Medium.
Barrels, 1,200 count... 
Half bbls, 600  count..  ©2 65
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 count 
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

3  15

©4 25

5 25

PIPE8.

Clay, No.  216............................ 1 70
Cob, No. 8.................................1 20

“  T. D. full count...........  70

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina head...........
“  No. 1...........
“  No. 2...........
Broken......................
Imported.
Japan, No. 1............
“  No. 2.............
Java..........................
Patna.......................
8PICES.

5*
5
4 * 
3*
5*
5
4M

Whole Sifted.

 

Pepper, Singapore, black 

Allspice...............................  9M
Cassia, China In mats........  B*
“  Batavia in bund — 15
Saigon In rolls........32
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
Zanzibar................ 11M
“ 
Mace  Batavia.............   — 7u
Nutmegs, fancy...................65
“  No.  1.....................  60
“  No. 2........  
  55
10 
*• 
“  white  ..  20
shot.........................16
“ 
Pure Ground In Bnlk.
Allspice............................... 15
Cassia,  Batavia...................18
and  Saigon.25
“ 
Saigon................... 35
“ 
Cloves,  Amboyna...............22
“  Zanzibar.................18
Ginger, African...................16
~  Cochin....................20
Jamaica  .............. 22
“ 
Mace  Batavia......................65
Mustard,  Eng. and Trieste. .22
“  Trieste....................25
Nutmegs, No. 2 ...................75
Pepper, Singapore, black  ... 16 
“  white.......24
Cayenne................20
Sage  ...................................20

“ 
“ 
•‘Absolute” In  Packages.

“ 

Allspice......................  84  155
Clnuamon..................   84  1  55
Cloves........................   84  155
Ginger,  Jamaica........  84  1  55
“  African...........  84  1  55
Mustard......................  84  1  55
Pepper.......................   84  155
Sage.............................  84

STARCH. 

“ 

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

Kingsford's Corn.
..  6 Vt
20 1-lb packages................
401-lb 
• •  6M
................
401-lb.  packages............. ..  GX
6-lb. boxes.........................  7)4
Common Corn
20-lb  boxes....................... .  5X
40-lb 
“ 
..................
5M
Common Gloss
..  5
Mb packages  .................
“ 
8-lb 
..................
.................... ..  5X
6-lb 
“ 
40 and 50 lb. boxes........... • •  3X
Barrels.......................... - •..  3X

SODA,

SALT.

Boxes.............................. ...5M
Kegs, English.................. ...4X

Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 243  lb. boxes........ 8  1  60
2  50
Barrels, 320  lbs...............
115 2M lb bags —  
“ 
4 00
3 75
..  .
lb  “ 
60 5 
“ 
.... 3 50
“ 
3010  lb  “ 
65
Butter, 56 lb  bags............
3 50
“  20141b bags  .........
“  280 lb  bbls........... 2 50
“  224 lb 
........... 2 25
100 3 lb. sacks....... ........... 12 10
.................. .  1  90
60 5-lb.  “ 
28 10-lb. sacks................. .  1  75
30
56 lb. dairy In drill  bags. 
28 lb.  “ 
“  •
16
56 lb. dairy iu linen sacks ..  75
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks

Ashton.
Higgins.

Common Grades.

Warsaw.

“ 

“ 

76 I

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN,

2 1

Soiar Rock.
Common Fine
 

56 li>.  sacks....................... 
Saginaw 
 
Manistee  .........................  

 

22
9"
90

SNUFF.

Scotch, In  bladders............37
Maccaboy  In jars...............35
French Rappee, In Jars 
.. 48 
SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

G. R. Soap Works Brands.

“ 
“ 
Best German Family.

Concordia, 100 % lb. bars. .  3 50
5 box  lots...........3 35
10 box lots.......... 3 30
20 box lots..........3 20
601-lb. bars...................  .. .2 25
5 box lots...........................2 15
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  *-lb........ 3 65

Proctor <& Gamble.

“ 

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

6  o*...................  

Dingman Brands.

“ 

“ 

Single box.........................  3  95
5 box lots, delivered......... 3  85
10 box lots, delivered........3  75
Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  Brands. 
American  Family, wrpd.,13 33 
plain...  2 27
N. K.  Falrbank & Co.’s Brands.
Santa Claus.........................3 9)
Br jwn, 60 bars....................2  10
80  bars  ...................3  10

“ 
Lautz Bros. &.Co.’s Brands.

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

“ 

4M
80
.  1M 
...  IX 
...  1« 
■  1M

@13
4
bh
4
4M98

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 20 
Good...........................
Choice  ............
..  25
Lea & Perrin’s, large  .. 
..  4  75
small......  2 75
Halford, large..................   3  75
sm all...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large  .  ...  4  55 
2  65 
** 

TABLE  SAUCES.
“ 

«mall 

Corn.

“ 

TEAS.

j a p  a» — Regular.

SUX CUBED.

Fair  ...
@17
@20
Good ...
Choice.. .................. ..á4 @26
Choicest ....................32 @34
@12
Dust  ... .................... 10
F air__
@17
@20
Good ..
Choice.. .....................24 @26
Choicest ..................... 32 @34
Dust__ .....................10
@12
BASKET  FIRED.
Fair  ... ..................... 18 @20
@25
'hoice..
@35
*  holcest
@40
•’. i tra choice, wire leaf 
TOBACCO». 

Cigars.

Congress  Brand.

 

Invencibles 
....................580 00
Imperials...........................  70 00
Perfectos .. 
. 
..................... 55  10
Boauets 
Signal  Five....................... 35 > 0
R  R  R.............................  35 00
Mr.  T ilom as.................3 > 
(0
G. J  Johnson’s brand.

Edw. W.  Rube’s Brands

6j 00

 

. 

Silver  ..............................  3 66
Mono 
3 30
Savon  In proved  ................2 50
Sunfiitw« r .......................... 2  80
Gol -en 
............................3 25
Economical....................... 2  25

 

Henry Passolt’s Brand.

..  $3 60

Atlas,5 box lots,  del. 

Lñ  BE8TA

HO packages in c *se..........  3  35

il lioobncrAw In i* . kp 
Scouring.
baud.3 4oz............2 40

Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz...  2 40 

..  .i

“ 

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New 

i.-i* 
prices on sugars, to  which  thi- 
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  iu which 
he  purchases  to  his  shipping 
point,.including 20  pounds  for 
the weight of the barrel.
Domino......  ...................  65 3!
Cut  Loaf...........................   5 31
Cubes................................  4 91
Powdered............................500
XXX X  Powdered..............  5  18
Granulated 
....................  4 62
Fine Granulated...............   4 62
Extra Fine Granulated...  4 7a
Mould  A  ..........................  4  91
Diamond Contee.  A.........   4  bi
Confec. Standard  A......... 4 50
No.  1...............................  4 37
No.  2  ...............................  4 37
NO.  3................................  4  37
No.  4...............................  4  ¿7
No.  5................................  4 at
No.  6................................  4 25
No.  7................................   4  18
No.  8................................  4  12
No.  9................................ 4 06
No.  10................................  4 00
No.  11................................  3 94
No.  12...............................  3 87
No.  13................................  3 75
No.  14................................  3 56 I

S  C. W............................   3> 00
Ho  net’s Nest..................135 0)

B. J.  Reynolds’ Brand.

Fine Cut.

 

• - ■ 

@25

23
19

(ft 30 @27 @2.' 

P. Lorillard .v Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Russet............   @25
30
Tiger........... 
D. Scotten & Co s Brands.
Hiawatha.........  
60
Cuba...................  
32
Rocket.................... 
30
Spaulding & Merrick -  Brands. 
Sterling.....................  
?*>
Private Brands.
@3J 
Cherry........................
Bazoo ........................
Can  Can.....................
Nellie  Bly................. 24
Uncle Ben.................24
McGlnty....................
“  M b b ls........
Columbia.....................
Columbia,  drums.........
Bang  Up.......................
Bang up,  drums 
........
Plug.
Sorg’s Brands.
39
Spearhead ..  ............. 
27
Joker  ...................... 
Nobby Twist...............  
40
Scotten’s Brands.
25
K y lo ..................................  
38
Hiawatha...................  
34
Valley City................ 
Flnzer’s Brands.
4(>
Old  Honesty.............. 
*■’
Jolly Tar............ 
 
39
Climax (8 oz., 41c)—  
Green Turtle.............. 
30
27
Three  Black Crows... 
38
Something Good........ 
Heart.. 
36
Out of  Sight.............. 
24
Wilson <x  ilcCaulay’s Brands.
Gold  Rope................. 
43
Happy Thought......... 
37
32
Messmate..................  
No Tax....................... 
31
Let  Go....................... 
27
Gatlin’s  Brands.

J. G. Butler’s. Brands.

Lorillard’s Brands. 

Kiln  dried......................  17@18
Golden  Shower  ..................19
...........................26
Huntress 
Meerschaum  ...................29@30
American Eagle Co.’s Brands.
Myrtle Navy....................... 40
Stork  ................................   30
German............................... 15
Frog....................................32
Java, Ms foil.......................32
Banner Tobacco Co.'s Brands.
Banner.................................16
Banner Cavendish  .............36
...........................3^
Gold Cut 

S m o k in g .

—  

1 00

Smoking—Continued. 

Scotten’s Brands.

 

 

. 

arose

Brands

YEAST.

VINEGAR.

Spaulding & Merrick.

Leidersdorfs Brands.

W arpath..............................14
Honey  Dew......................... 26
Gold  Block................ 
  30
F. F. Adams Tobacco Co.’s 
Peerless............................... 26
Old  Tom..............................18
Standard............................  22
Globe Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Handmade...........................40
Rob  Roy..............................26
Uncle Sam.....................28@32
Red Clover...........................32
Tom and Jerry...................  25
Traveler  Cavendish........... 38
Buck Horn.......................... 30
Plow  Bov......................30@32
Corn  C ake.....................   16
P. Lorillard & Co.’s  Brands
Alligator 
........................30
Red  Cross............................30
Rose L e a f...........................30
Sensation............................ 32
12*4
.. 
Highland  Brand 
WET  MUSTARD.
Bulk, per gal  ..................  
30
Beer mug, 2 doz in case...  1  75 
Diamond......... 
75
1  '0
Eurek«...... 
Magic. 
.........................1  00
Yeast  Cream  .............. 
 
Yeast Foam 
................   1 00
Tubs, No  1........................   400
“  No. 2.......................  3 tO
“  No. 3..........................3 U0
95
Palls, No. 1, two-hoop.. 
1  HI
“  No. 1,  three-hoop 
Bowls, 11 Inch.................. 
80
“ 
................. 
90
“ 
................. 
1  25
1  80
.............. 
“ 
HIDES  PELTS  and  F IR  
C Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green.........................  6M@'M
Part Cured....................  
68
Full 
..............  SM3  9«
Dry.......................... 
9M311
Kips, green 
6M0  7M
......... 
“  cured.................  8M@lo
9MS 11
<'alf skins.  green.... 
cured........12  @13M
Deanoti skins 
2  f  35

WOODEN WARE.

13  “ 
15  “ 
17  “ 

10 
40  @ 
10 

66
...........   60

Nn. 2 hides M off
PELTS
.............  
WOOL

Shearlings..................   5 ft  20
Lambs 
Old  Wool. 
'.5
Washed.................. 
Unwashed..................  5 @13
M ISCELLANEOUS.
Tallow.......................  3 @4
Grease  butter  ..........  
1 @2
Switches 
1M@ 2
Ginseng 
...  2 0002 25
G R A IN S   a n d   F E E D S T U F F 8  
Old............................... 
New............  
FLOUR  IN  SACKS.
•Patents  ..........................  4 65
Second Patent.................  4  15
Straight...........................   3  95
Clear.................................  3  75
•Graham..........................   3 7j
Buckwheat.....................   4 50
Rye...................................   3  75
•Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditlonal.
Bolted...............................  2 35
Granulated............... 
  2 60
St. Car Feed,  screened...521  00 
St. Car Feed, unscreened.  20 ¿0
No.  1 Corn and  Oats.......   20 00
No. 2 Special...................... 9  50
Unbolted Corn Meal........  19 50
Winter Wheat  Bran  ......  15 So
Winter Wheat Middlings.  16 50
Screenings  ............ 
  U  00
Car  lots.............................   49
Less than  car lots  . . .  
52
Car  lots  ..............................32
Less than  car lo ts .........  3s
No. 1 Timothy, car lots — 17  50 
20 00
No. 1 

H A T.
ton lots 

FEED   AND  MILLBTUPFH 

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

W H EAT.

M EAL.

CORN.

OATS.

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

@15

FISH  AND  OYSTERS. 
P R E S S   PISH .
.................  @8

Whlteflsh 
T ro u t..............................   @ 7M
Black Bass................. 
Halibut,.....................  13@15
Ciscoes or Herring —   @6
Blueflsh.....................  @12M
16
Live  lobster, per lb.. 
Boiled lobster............  
18
Cod 
................. 
12
Haddock....................   @ 8
No. 1 Pickerel  .........  @8
Pike............................ — ^*7
Smoked  W hite........  @7
Red  Snappers...  ......  
15
Columbia  River  Sal­
¡.5
mon ........................  
Mackerel....................  18@25
Shrimps,  per gal.......  
1  25
SH ELL  HOODS
Oysters, pel  loo........1  25@1  50
Clams 

™@l 00

O YSTER S— IN CANS.

F. J. Dettenthaler’s Brands.
40
35

Falrnaven  Counts__ 
F. J. D.  Selects.........  

.  50 
.1  15
box
1  85
2 60 
.2  fcO
.2  10 
.2 25 
.3 25
2 T5 
.2 75 
.3 75
3 70
4  70 
.4  89
.  3  10 
.4  4o
.  1  25 
1  50 
.  1  35 
-.1  00
..3 50 
4 00 
4  70
. .4  10 
.  4 40
Doz. 
..  50
..  15 
..1  oo 
..  90 
.1  uO 
..  90
Box 
4 20
4  80
5  25 
5  10
5 85
6 OO
Doz1  tO 
.  2 00 
.  3  25 
4  50 
.  6 50 
.  6 50 
.  7  00 
.  7  50
10  3  >
9 00 
. 10 50
i2  06 
.12  00 
.13  (U 
10  00

• 
** 

“ 
“ 

“ 
* 

••
*• 

......... 

LA M P  BU R N ER S.

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE
No. 0 Sun.......................................................
No. 1  “ 
.....................................................
No. 2  “  .......................................................
T ubular...................................... .............
Security.  No. 1..............................................
Security,  No. 2.............................................
Nutmeg.........................................................
A rc tic ..................................................... 
.........
LA M P   CHIM NEYS  — 6  d O S.  I n   bO X . Per
No. 0 Sun........................................
No. 1  “  ..............................................
No. 2  “  ............  
......................
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.. 
No. 1  “ 
No. 2  “ 
“
No. C Sun, crimp  top, wrapped and labeled. 
No. 1 
'■ 
“ 
n o . 2  “  
;;
“ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  laoeied__
“ 
No. 2  “ 
No. 2 Hinge,  “ 
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1, Sun,  plain  bulb..................
“ 
No. 2,  “ 
.......................
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.2, lime (70c doz)...............................
No.  2 flint (80c doz).................”
Miscellaneous.

First quality.
11 
“ 
XXX Flint.
“ 
“  
Pearl top.
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
La Bastle.

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

Electric.

“ 
“  

••
•* 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

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

Junior, Rochester....................................
Nutmeg......  
Illuminator Bases...............
Barrel lots, 5 doz  ............................. . . .  . .
7 in. Porcelain Shades...............
Case lots, 12 doz.......................... .
Doz.
No. 3 Rochester,  lim e........l  5j
No.  3 Rochester, flint. 
.  ..1  75 
No.  3  Pearl top or Jewel gl’s.l  85 
No.  2 Globe lucandes. lime... 1  75 
No.  2 GiObe Incandes. flint...2 uu 
No. 2  Pearl glass..  ................2  10

Mammoth Chimneys for Store Lamps.

OIL CARS.

.

“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

LASTERH  GLOBES.
“  2  “
bbls 5  “ 
bull’s eye, cases l doz each-
LAMP WICKS.

1  gal  tin cans with spout..........................
1  gal  galv iron, with spout............
2 gal  galv iron with spout
3 gal  galv iron wuh spout__
5 gal  McNutt, with spout.  .
5 gal Eureka, with spout.. 
5   30
5 gal  Eureka with faucet......
5 gal  galv iron  A  &  w 
5 gal  Tilting cans,  Monarch.
@: 8
5 gal  galv iron Nacefas__
Pump Caus.
3 gal  Home Rule.
5 gal  Home Rule... 
3 gal  Uoodenough. 
5 gal  Goodenough 
5  gal  Pirate  King..
No. 0,  Tubular, cases 1 doz.  each..
No. 0, 
No. 0, 
..
No. 0, 
No. u,  per  gross...................................
No. 1, 
No  2, 
No. 3, 
Mammoth, per doz..........................................  75
(box 00)...
M Pints,  6 doz in box, per box 
1  60 
.  20 
“ bbl,  ‘  doz (bbl  35)......
M 
“ box, “  box (box 00)__
M 
1  80 22
“ bbl,  “  doz (bbl 35).......
M 
Butter Crocks,  1 to 6 gal.............................
06
“ 
“  M gal. per doz......................
60
Jugs, M gal., per doz..................................
70
“  1 to 4 gal., per gal...............................
0760
Milk Pans, ft gat., per  doz..................
1  “ 
“ 
.......................
72
STONEWARE—BLACK GLAZED.
Butter Crocks, 1  and 2 gal........................  
6M
Milk Pans, M gal. per  doz..........................  66
79

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

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

STONEWARE—AKRON.

“ 
FRUIT JARS.
Mason—old  style, pints................................
quarts...............................
half gallons....................
Mason—1 doz. in case, pints.........................
quarts.....................
half gallons............
Dandy—glass cover, pints..........................

........ 

“ 
“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

I 

“

quarts.......................10 tO
half  gallons.........  
.13 50
OILS.

The Standard Oil Co  quotes as follows:

B A R R BL 8.

FROM  T A N K  WAGON.

Eocene....................... 
1> M
................. 
XXX W. W.  Mich.  Headlight................ 
9
Naptha................................................  @  9)4
Stove Gasoline......................................   @11M
Cylinder................................................31  @38
Engine................................................. 12  @21
9)4
Btack,  winter........................................ 
Black, summer......................................  
8X
Eocene.................... 
9
 
7
XXX W. W.  Mich. Headlight................ 
Scofield, Shurmer  &  Teagle  quote  as  follows:
Palatine...........................................................11M
Daisy White.................................................... luM
Red Cross, W W  Headlight...............  
Naptha......................................................... 
9)4
Stove Gasoline................................................ 11)4
Palatine.......................................................... 10
Red Cross W W Headlight............................... 7

PROM  T A N K  WAGON,

B AR R ELS.

  9

 

 

•>\>

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

Dyk’s  life  took  place  on a farm in New 
Holland, in March,  1858.

Eighteen years of farming failed to im­
press Mr.  Van Dyk  with  the  dignity  of 
that calling and,  with  what schooling  he 
bad received  from  the  winter  terms  in 
the old school bouse at the crossroads, he 
hung up his scythe in the apple tree  one 
day in summer,  and went  to  Graafschap 
—how that name smacks of the windmills

might  have  been  a  half-hour  of weari­
some  waiting  into  one  of pleasure fur­
nished the key to the secret  of  that  suc­
cess and I hereby congratulate him  upon 
that possession.

MARTIN  W.  O.  NIETHAMMER.

The man from Ohio seems to  be  omni­
present. 
It  makes  but  little  difference 
what place is mentioned,  there Ohio puts

MARTIN  W.  G.  NIETHAMMER

JOS.  J.  FINCKLER

JOHN  M.  MOORE

KERST  VAN  DYK 

B. A.  BENEKER

in a  claim  and  maintains  it.  You  may 
take  the  wings  of  the  morning  and fiy 
to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  sea  and

the first  man  to  meet  you  on  the  dock 
will  give  you  a  hearty  welcome  in  the 
name of Ohio,  “The Beautiful,” his  own 
beloved  home, 
it was, then, no surprise 
to  learn  that  an  Ohio farm in  Fairfield 
county,  “ knee-deep in June” —it was the 
19th—was the birthplace,  in  1867,  of  the 
man  whose name  stands  at  the  head  of 
this  sketch.

The stay on  the Ohio farm was  not  an 
extended one, and the family came north 
into Michigan,  and tarried for a while  at 
Lisbon.  La  Porte,  Ind.,  then received 
him and bis relatives there were so agree­
able  that  he  remained there eight years, 
working in a chair factory,  When  these 
years  were  over, he  folded  his tent and 
pitched it next in Bremen, where he tried 
his hand at the  hardware  business.  He 
remained there uutil the increasing  fame 
of the future metropolis  of Michigan  in­
duced  him to come and grow  up  with  the 
town and  he found work for  six  months 
in  the  Star  (tiouring)  Mills.  Hearing 
that Voigt,  Herpolsheimer & Co.  wanted 
a man, he applied for the  place  and  be­
came enrolled in  the  carpet  department, 
and  was with  the  firm  for  three  years. 
His business made him  more  or  less  ac­
quainted  with  similar  establishments  in 
Detroit,  and  when the dry goods house of 
Lotz Bros,  needed  help,  he  went  to  the 
oldest city in the State,  from the most en­
terprising one,  and soon saw his blunder. 
The town  tired him.  He  shared  in  the 
local  pride  which  threw  a halo of glory 
around the old  Fort of the  long  ago;  but 
the halo,  in time,  too much resembled the 
straw hats on the heads of  the  saints  in 
the  old  cathedrals  and  it  wearied him. 
He became tired of  bearing  that  Wood­
ward avenue  and  Jefferson avenue were 
the finest thoroughfares  in  all  creation,

Dry Goods

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

Sketches of Spring &  Company’s  Hust­

ling Quintette.
JOS.  J.  FINCKLER.

Three dates and two moves in the same 
town are not promising  materials for  an 
exciting story to the common observer of 
everyday  affairs;  but  to  the  thoughtful 
mind  and  to  one  who has had his share 
of experience,  it comes  home  with  force 
that ‘‘brevity is the soul of wit” and that 
the best biographies are not those  which 
have the greatest number of pages.

The dates which Mr.  Finckler has fur­
nished are common,  but they  are  impor­
tant.  The  first  fixes  his  birth,  which 
was on the  16th  of  September,  1S56,  in 
Grand  Rapids.  Schooltime  began  with 
him  at  the  usual  age and for ten years 
he followed the round of  school  life,  al­
ways tiresome to a  lively  boy,  with  the 
usual  rewards and  punishments.  When 
this round was over,  he  was 15 years old 
and  hi« father,  a grocer, found  be  could 
keep  a  boy  of  that  age  and size busy, 
and gate him  a  place  with  him  in  the 
store.

1 have no data  giving the time the boy 
spent with his  father,  but 1  have an idea 
—and it has been growing with me—that 
that time, be it longer  or  shorter,  was  a 
very important period  in that boy’s busi­
ness life.  Without knowing it, possibly, 
he learned  to  make  himself  useful—so 
useful that those who engaged him came, 
in time,  to feel  that  they  could  not  get 
along without him;  and that one trait, in 
my humble opinion,  would  be  the  mak­
ing of a good many  who are to-day drift­
ing aimlessly about with  nothing  to  do. 
So,  then,  with  this  to  help  him,  he 
weighed out his last  pound  of  sugar  in 
the  grocery  store  and  stepped  over  to 
William  Kramer’s  dry  goods  store  one 
day,  and went to work.

My notes  say  “clerking.”  Not  much 
there  to  get  excited  about;  and  it  was 
given to me as if there was nothing in it. 
To be candid  about  it,  there  wasn’t.  1 
had written the word  until 1  was simply 
tired of it;  but  when,  a  minute  later,  1 
wrote  “ 10 y’rs,”  somehow 1  wasn’t tired 
any more.  1 felt, as the  naturalist  does 
when he comes across a new species, that 
I wanted to turn him  over  and  examine 
him.  1 felt as  if,  physically,  he  had  a 
different make-up  from  the  general  run 
of  clerks.

When  the  ten  years  were  over,  there 
was a position  with  Spring  &  Company 
which  be concluded to make the most of, 
and  in  September,  1881,  be  joined  his 
fortunes with that  house.  He  has  been 
there ever since, and 1 should judge from 
present  indications  that  it will  be quite 
awhile before he goes anywhere else.

He was married in  July,  1886.  Three 
lively  boys  call  him  father  and  he  is 
hailed as brother  by  the  Knights  of  the 
Grip.

KERST VAN  DTK.

A maker  of  maxims  says somewhere, 
“If you can’t get  what  you  want,  come 
as  near  to  it  as  you  can”—a  precept 
which  Mr.  Van  Dyk  put  into  practice 
early.  The only proper place for  a  Van 
Dyk to be born  is  Holland—there  is  no 
question about that—and when  that  was 
found, under the circumstances, to be ut­
terly impossible, the old  maxim  was  re­
called and the leading event in  Mr.  Van

in 

of  the  Netherlands!—and  went  to work 
in a country store.

1 have an idea that he didn’t like it. 

I 
think, after the  novelty  of  the situation 
passed away,  that he became tired  of the 
barter, tired of the  hard  work—a  coun­
try  store  is  not  a  haven  of  rest—with 
small returns; and he  began  to  turn  his 
eyes  toward  pastures  new.  Noordeloos 
was  now  the  land  of  promise,  but  the 
promise paled,  and six months afterward 
he was on his way to Grand  Rapids.  He 
had  his  first  taste  of  mercantile life in 
town 
the  Star  Clothing  House,  on 
Canal  street,  where,  as stockkeeper,  he 
lived and moved and  had his  being  from 
spring until fall.  At  that  time,  Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer & Co.  were in  want  of  a 
stockkeeper and  he was with them  for  a 
while.  P.  Steketee & Sons then engaged 
him as a retail  clerk, but when  the  year 
was  over,  his  old  life  at  New Holland 
seemed to rise constantly before him; and 
with  the  thought  that  the  experience 
now his  could  be  turned  to  account  in 
the old home, back he went to  its  green 
fields and  blossoming  orchards  and  for 
two years and a half added  his  share  to 
the thrift and enterprise of the  place.

Yes, we’ve got ’em !

Novelties and Staples in Dry Goods 
Everything in Notions.
Rig Line of Gents' Furnishings.
All that can he desired in Yarns.

We are Headquarters for

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

YOIGI,  HERPOLSHEIMER S  CO.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Spring &  Company,

Unlike  the  maiden  who  “could  be 
happy  with  either,  were  t’other  dear 
charmer away,” Mr. Van  Dyk found him­
self thinking of the absent one most,  and 
finally  he  came  to  Grand  Rapids  once 
more,  this time “for keeps,”  and fell into 
step with the Spring & Company’s brigade, 
where he has been marching  ever  since.
He was married April 14, 1880, and has 
four  children.  He  is  a  member  of the 
Dutch Reformed church  and  belongs  to 
the order of Modern Woodmen of Ameri­
ca.  1 wish,  on my  own  account,  to  add 
that while Mr.  Van  Dyk’s  seven  years’ 
connection with Spring & Company  tells 
a pleasant story of his success as a sales­
man, the courtesy  which  changed  what

IMPORTERS  AND  WHOLESALE  D EALERS  IN

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

Spring &  Company.

We  invite  the  Attention  of  the  Trade  to  our  Complete  and  Well  Assorted 

Stock at  Lowest  Market  Prices.

THE  MICHia-AJ^  TRADESMAN.

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and  be  wanted  to  Ret  back  to  Grand 
Rapids,  where  a  stranger  in  town  was 
less  a  novelty; and  when Spring & Com­
pany had a vacancy,  he  clambered  into 
it just as  soon  as  he  could.  That  was 
some years ago and the carpet  and  drap­
ery  department,  since  his  connection 
with it,  has been  steadily booming.

Mr. Niethammer was  married  in  1889 
and he has one child,  a boy five years old.

B.  A.  BENEKER.

It is easy enough  to  write  Wissenker- 
kee, after somebody tells you how; and it 
looks  well  and  sounds  well,  after  it  is 
written,  but when Mr.  Beneker first told 
me that that was where  he  was  born  in 
1857,  in the province  of  Zeeland,  of  the 
Netherlands, it occurred  to  me  that  one 
of the wisest moves he  ever made was to 
put the ocean between  him  and the town 
with the unpronounceable name.  A little 
practice soon makes it musical,  however, 
and  when that  was  over,  1  found that he 
left Wissenkerkee in 1870,  when  he  was 
13 years  old.

At that age,  unless an extended course 
of study is decided on,  a  boy’s  schooling 
is almost over anywhere, and, after afew 
months  of  school  in  Grand  Rapids,  he 
found employment  with the then  firm  of 
Putnam & Brooks,  where he  remained  a 
year.  A grocery store on  Ui vision street 
next claimed him,  and for a year  be  did 
what  a  growing  boy  can  do to forward 
the interests of that kind of trade.  With 
the grocery life over,  he tried  with  vary­
ing success whatever came  to  hand,  un­
til,  in 1878,  when  21  years of age,  he be­
came a clerk for P.  Steketee & Sons.  lie 
was with that house four years,  when he 
went 
to  John  Benjamin,  where  be 
clerked  some  and  did  some  traveling. 
Two years finished that  engagement and 
then  he  came  to  Spring  &  Company, 
where he now  is.  Here  he  first  became 
identified  with the retail department, but 
his  extensive  acquaintance  throughout 
the city was believed to have  a  commer­
cial  value,  and  the  city  trade  was  put 
into  his  bands  to  work up. 
It is need­
less to say that it  has  been  worked  for 
all it is worth,  and the fact  that  he  still 
retains  the  position  is  the best of proof 
that the move  was  a  good  one  in  every 
sense of the word.

Among other valuables which Mr. Ben­
eker  brought  with  him  from  the  Old 
World was a musical  voice.  Clear,  sweet 
and  strong,  it  early  claimed  attention 
and the young man  found  it  to  his  ad­
vantage to give it the culture it deserved. 
As a member of the Park  Congregational 
church  choir,  his  musical  tenor  adds 
much to the effective  service.  Mr.  Ben­
eker is a leading member of the Schubert 
Club and is one of the Weber Male Quar­
tette,  and  be  has  turned  his  musical 
knowledge and skill to  practical account 
by giving instruction iu the divine art of 
song  where,  it is safe  to  say,  he has  met 
with abundant success.

In 1880,  Mr.  Beneker  was  married  to 
the daughter of Hon.  John  Steketee,  ex- 
Revenue Collector of this  district during 
the presidency of Mr.  Harrison.

JOHN  M.  MOORE.

There is a farm up in Montcalm county 
which  I  should  like  to  see.  The  soil 
may be fertile or barren,  the  number  of 
acres  may  be  large  or  small  and  the 
farmer’s bank account  may be  big or lit­
tle—1  have  nothing  to  do  with  such 
things;  but  I  know  that  there  is  one 
place in that county  where the fences are

up and the bars are  where  they  belong. 
The plowing is  done  in  season  and  the 
weeds—there  are  none. 
It  is  a  neat, 
snug,  well-taken-care-of  piece  of  land, 
which is made  to  do  its level best every 
time, and I’d like to see it.

There  was  a  boy  born  on  that farm 
something less than thirty years ago, and 
1 have just been  talking  with  him.  He 
doesn’t  say  so  very much, but somehow 
he got it early into  bis  head  that  if  it’s 
potatoes your after,  or  if  it’s  a  field  of 
corn that’s to make you  laugh in harvest 
time,  you must have sense enough, in the 
first place,  to plant each  where it can  do 
its best, and then  see  to  it  that  every­
thing  is  done  that  can  be to insure  the 
best  results.  The  fact  is,  it  is  work, 
backed  up  by  considerable 
thinking, 
which  does  the  business  in  this  world 
and the quicker  a  boy  finds  it  out  the 
better.

Well,  that  boy’s  father  sent  him  to 
school with just that idea, and he pegged 
away at it  winter  and  summer  until  he 
was 12 years old  and,  after  that,  in  the 
winter, until  he was 18.  Then there was 
a sufficient  agitation  of  gray  matter  in 
somebody’s  brain  to  suggest  that  two 
years  in  the  high  school  would  do the 
boy  more good  than anything else in  the 
world;  and the Cedar Springs high school 
had him as a student to peg away, on the 
same  old-fashioned  idea,  in  the  higher ] 
grades of study.

took  him 

School was over at  20 years of age and 
there, at the bars of  life,  he  stood  with 
the bars  down  and  Providence  led  him 
to  the  old  farm  and told him that there 
was the place  for  him  to  begin.  So  he 
began.  He  took  care  of  his  father’s 
farm and then for a little diversion—“All 
work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” 
—he took a  farm  of  his  own  and  con­
ducted it on the same old principle,  that 
work  is  the  basis  of  everything worth 
having.  This  went on  in  that  way  for 
four  years.  Then  he  left  the farm for 
business.  This 
to  Cedar 
Springs, in 1887,  where he  bought a half 
interest  in  the  general  stock  of  John 
A. Spooner,  the firm  then  being  known 
as Spooner & Moore.  After two years of 
moderate success,  a division  took  place, 
Mr.  Moore  taking  for  his  interest  the 
dry  goods,  groceries  and  shoes and en­
gaging in  business  on  his  own  account 
for  a  year. 
In  1890  he  removed  the 
stock to  the  Bl&cfc  Hills  where  he  did 
business under the style of  J.  M.  Moore 
& Co.  Here bis health gave out and, dis­
posing of his interest in  the  concern,  he 
returned to Grand  Rapids,  where he was 
employed  by Spring & Company  to  take 
charge  of  a  bankrupt  stock  at  Cedar 
Springs.  Closing  out  the  stock  in  the 
course  of  nine  months,  be  returned  to 
this city,  where be  has  since  remained, 
as traveling salesman  for Spring & Com­
pany.

Mr.  Moore has but  little  to  say  as  to 
his  own  success.  Work  is  his  watch­
word,  and that,  with  the  common  sense 
| which he claims no  more  of  than  other 
men possess,  is  what  will  do  the  busi­
ness for him.  My own observation leads 
me to add,  a pretty  fair  ability  in  read­
ing  men  and some excellent home train­
ing.  With  this,  the  rest  may  be  con­
ceded  to  “hard,  solid  work  from  the 
ground  up.” 

R- M.  S.

p.Steketee& Sons

WHOLESALE

Dry Goods and  Notions

This  cut  represents  the  Fountain  Street  front  of Jour 
establishment,  comprising  thiee  stories  and  basement,  de­
voted  «xclusively  to the  Wholesale  Department.

The above are the portiaits  of  our  four  hustling  Sales­
men,  who call  on the  trade  regularly.  We  earnestly  request 
you  to inspect their  line of  Hosiery,  Underwear,  Lumbermens 
supplies,  Floor and Table Oil  Cloths, to say  nothing of Staple 
Goods,  as you  will  find our line complete  iu  all  departments.

It is stated that  the  patent  office  has 
now  brought  all  its work up to date for 
the first time in fifteen years.  An appli­
cation  can  now  be  acted  upon  within 
three days after it is  filed.

Purely  Personal.

eral dealer,  was in town over Sunday.

John M. Flanagen, the Mancelona gen­

Clarence U. Clark, Secretary and Treas­
urer of the  Michigan Bark  and  Lumber 
Co., is spending  the  summer  at  Frank­
fort,  superintending  the water shipment 
of bark.

Heman  G.  Barlow  (Olney  &Judson 
Grocer Co.) has resumed  his  desk  after 
a week’s wrestling with  a bowel  trouble.
S.  Gaubatz,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
hardware business  at  Manistee,  has  en­
tered  the  employment  of Geo.  Billings, 
hardware dealer at the same place.

T H E   MICHIGAN  TRA DKSMAÌM
satisfactory.  There  is  no  change  in 
quotations.
In canned goods salmon takes the chief 
place of interest.  Stocks in  all  parts of 
the country seem to be light and well un­
der control.  Chicago has  taken  several 
thousand cases from this city  at  a  price 
said  to  be  90c  for pink.  Trade in gen­
eral is rather quiet, as is to be  expected. 
There  are  no  great  variations in prices 
and the entire line is “ without guile.”
Butter has  been  very  much  unsettled 
and a decline of about 
seems to have 
been  inevitable.  Best  Elgin  butter  is 
worth 16}£@17>£c.
Cheese is dull and  at the moment very 
little demand prevails.  While  the stock 
of  large  size,  full  cream  cheese  is  not 
great,  there is yet  plenty  for all comers. 
There  is  very  little  doing  in an export 
way.
Eggs are in good demand for first-class 
stock,  but a large  proportion  of  the  ar­
rivals  shows  some  effects  of  heat  and 
sells for what it will bring.  Near by are 
worth  15%@16c,  and  Northern  Indiana 
and Michigan are held at 13@13>£c.
Lemons have not occupied much of the 
attention  of  buyers  and  very  little  in­
terest was shown at the recent sale.  Or­
anges,  both Sicily and  California,  are  in 
very light  request.
The market  for  potatoes  is  weak  and 
lower,  with quotations within  the  range 
of $1.50@2.25 per bbl.
Retail trade is  good  and  everybody  is 
full of  cheer.  The  grocers’  excursions 
are well patronized  and  the  boys  know 
how to get  as  much  fun  out  of  lile  as 
any other class of tradesmen.  May their 
tribe increase!

traveling 
representative for the Musselman Grocer 
Co.,  but for the past two  years  manager 
of the St. Joseph  (Mo.)  rubber  house  of 
E.  B.  Preston & Co.,  has  been  promoted 
to the management of the Chicago house, 
which will  hereafter be conducted under 
the style of the McCord Rubber Co.

Russell  W.  Bertsch  (Herold-Bertsch 
Shoe Co.)  has gone to  Haverhill,  Mass., 
where  his  wife  has  been  spending  the 
summer.  He  will  visit  the  principal 
shoe  manufacturing  centers  before  re­
turning home.

Apples —Home grown  Red  Astrieans  are com­
ing to market, commanding  $2.25  per bbl.  The 
fruit is small in size and inferior in quality.

Bert  Remington,  formerly 

PRODUCE  riARKET.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

the  Markets.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index of 
Special  Correspondence
New Y ork, July 13—If you  have  ever 
“grown  up’’  with a man who had a lux­
urious beard,  and should meet him  some 
day with his hirsute appendage smoothly 
taken off, you  would  naturally  exclaim,
“ What th’ ------- .”  So we New Yorkers
feel,  when passing the spots  whieh  have 
grown  familiar  to  us  by  reason  of a 
“stand” on the sidewalk,  on  seeing  the 
familiar landmark  gone.  No  stands  on 
the  streets!  No  displays  on  the  side­
walks! 
Is this reform or  petty  persecu­
tion?
Somebody who, it is alleged, is a mem­
ber of the National Retail Grocers’  Asso­
ciation—whatever that  is—has  been  in­
terviewed by a  trade  paper  and  has  in­
formed a long-suffering public  that nine- 
tenths of the goods on the shelves  of  the 
average grocer are not  what  they  seem. 
He  intimates that the coffee that is often 
sold has done service once in  some  hotel 
or  restaurant. 
It  is  afterward  used in 
connection  with  yellow  ochre,  beans, 
peas,  and so on, ad nauseum.  There are 
any quantity of allegations,  but  the  ma­
jority  of  them  “won’t  wash.”  L.  J. 
Callanan,  one  of  our  most  progressive 
grocers and foremost citizens,  emphatic­
ally denies the charges,  and says  that  at 
least  three-fifths  of  the  statements  are 
false.  He  thinks  there  is  very  little 
coffee which is impure,  when  tne  whole 
bean is used.  Of course, there  are  some 
adulterants,  and  there  are  many  who 
prefer coloring matter or chicory in their 
coffee,  but all these  are  perfectly  harm­
less. 
Immense  harm  has  been  done  to 
the legitimate grocery business  by  these 
men  who  are  always  crying  “adultera­
tion” and the sooner  they  are  shown  to 
be  mistaken  or  even  fraudulent  them­
selves  the  better.  There  never  was  a 
the  standard  of  our  food 
time  when 
products was so high as at present,  made 
so  by  competition  and  legislation. 
It 
would be utterly out of the  question  for 
dealers to keep “cheese  made  of  rancid 
fat,” etc.
The usual midsummer dullness is upon 
us.  Salesmen are looking  tired,  but not 
by reason  of  any  great  rush.  Visitors 
are not here in any  great  numbers  and, 
upon the whole, trade this week  is  slug­
gish.  There are,  however,  no  signs  of 
discouragement  and  dealers  who  have 
been talked with are  full  of  enthusiasm 
over the outlook. 
It  is  reasonable,  too, 
to suppose  that with  all  the  mills  and 
factories in full blast again  we  shall  see 
a good trade in  groceries. 
It has become 
monotonous to hear the  clerks  in  stores 
repeat over  and  over  again  as  they  ex­
plain  to a customer,  “Well,  but  this  has 
gone up, you know.”  This  is  the  case 
with almost everything from  a  paper  of 
tacks  to  the  tax  on  paper. 
If  there  is 
any exception  in  “matters wholesale”  it 
is  in  the  case  of  coffee.  This  article 
seems to have had its day of high  prices, 
or at least there has  been  no  recent  ad­
vances,  and,  if anything,  the  quotations 
are a shade lower than  a week  ago.  Rio 
No. 7 is worth at the  moment  15>£c  and 
that is all it  is  worth—that  is,  the  in­
voice  value.  The  amount  of  coffee 
afloat  is  510,932  bags,  against  336,881 
bags the same time last year.
Refined sugar is  not  selling  quite  as 
freely as last  week,  but  holders  profess 
the  future.  No 
much  confidence  in 
changes  have  occurred  in  prices,  save 
for an advance of  l-16c  on  some  of  the 
lower  grades.
Teas are  somewhat  in  buyers’  favor. 
New samples of Fingsuey green show up 
very nicely and are said  to  be  equal, if 
not  superior,  to  any  which  have  been 
shown for some years.
The rice trade has been a  little  slack, 
but  everything  points  to  a  good  fall 
trade.  No  concessions  whatever  are 
made.  Stocks of foreign  rice are said to 
be  very  small  except  that  of  Japan, 
which is correspondingly large.
Syrups  and  molasses  are  selling  in 
about  the  usual  manner.  There  is 
not a  great  deal  of  desirable  molasses 
here  and  the  stoek  is  very  well  con­
trolled.
Spices give more indication  of activity 
and a better  prospect  is  in  sight.  The 
demand during the week has  been fairly

Probably  a  Fake.

The  Kalamazoo  Telegraph  of  recent 

date contains tbe following:

A new company has recently  been  or­
ganized to control the country  hide  mar­
ket. 
It will  open  purchasing  agencies 
in  Michigan,  Oh’o  and  Indiana. 
Its 
points in  Michigan  will  be  Kalamazoo, 
Saginaw,  Niles,  Battle  Greek,  Jackson 
and Ann Arbor.  The company will buy 
all of its hides directly  of  butchers  and 
farmers.  A  local  real  estate  firm  has 
been engaged to ascertain  a  suitable  lo­
cation  for  the  company  in  Kalamazoo. 
This  action  has  been  brought about by 
the unsatisfactory condition of the  trade 
since the recent great  advance  in  hides 
and  the  inability  to  purchase  hides  at 
reasonable  prices.  The  company  will 
eventually  establish  headquarters 
in 
Chicago.
The above item was shown  to  Mr.  E. 
R.  Thompson, of  Perkins  &  Hess,  who 
doesn’t hesitate to pronounce  it  a  fake. 
In  his opinion  there isn’t enough margin 
in  buying  directly  from  butchers  and 
farmers to make the enterprise  pay. 
In 
order to do  that,  hides  must  be  bought 
by the carload.  Mr.  McLaughlin,  of  the 
same house,  has lately  returned  from  a 
trip covering several of the  points  men­
tioned  and  has  heard  nothing  of  the 
newly-formed  company.  Mr. Thompson 
is of the opinion  that  the  statement  in 
regard to tbe unsatisfactory  condition of 
the trade  should  be  taken  with  a  few 
grains of salt;  and  when  the  headquar­
ters referred to are finally fixed upon, he 
i thinks it very likely they  will  b9  found 
in Chicago, if anywhere.

Two  More  Stores at East Jordan.
Ea st J ordan,  July 13—J. L. Wiseman 
will open a general store in the  Loveday 
block and A. J. Beardsley, of Boyne City, 
will open a notion  store, in  about  three 
weeks,  in the Hubbard block.  East  Jor­
dan  will  then  be  a  stronger town than 
ever for competition.  We can hardly see 
how the town warrants this ¡addition,  as 
business is already overdone.
A Curious Mistake.
Clerk—Mrs.  Highly sent her  little  boy 
in for a dollar’s worth of sugar.
Merchant—Did you tell  the  boy  when 
you gave him the sugar that we do a cash 
business?
Clerk—Nope.  Just  told  him he had a 
good deal of sand.

W a n t s   C o lu m n •

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

BUSINE8S CHANCES.

OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
chandise in a growing town  of  3,000.  Good 
clean  stock.  Will  inventory  $5,0 0.  Annual 
sales $25,00>.  Will be sold cheap  for  cash.  Ad­
dress No. 799, care Michigan Tradesman. 
789 
rpiMBEREI)  LAND  FOR  SALE  OR  EX- 
A  change for clean stock  of groceries or furn­
ishing  goods.  Address  Bisbee  Bros.,  Paris 
Mich. 
goo
I ilOR  SALE—DRUG  STORE.  GOOD  LOCA- 
tion, cheap.  Good reasons for selling—own­
er not a druggist  Enquire of J. G. Jackson,  43
Pearl street, Grand Rapids._______  
goi
BUYS 80 ACRES (ONE-HALF PRICE) 
dpTl/vr  ten  acres  cleared,  good  log  house 
eighty  rods  from  Rhodes,  Mich.  Address  m ’ 
Bentley, Rhodes, Mich. 
g02
OR  BALE—ESTABLISHED  DRUG  BUSI- 
ness in booming  Nortnern  Michigan  town 
Owner has interests  in the  South,  making it ne­
cessary to close out  this  business  Correspond 
ence  must  be  prompt. Address  No.  803,  care
Michigan Tradesman. 
303

IOR  SALE—THE DANIELS STOCK OF t»RO- 
ceries.  Best location  and  cheapest  rent In 
town.  Strictly  cash  business  and  well  estab­
lished.  Stock  worth  about  $4,8u0.  Will  take 
five sixths  of  inventory,  cash 
Fixtures  the 
best.  Address Box 97, Traverse City, Mich.797 
OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRUGS,  BOOKS, 
wall  paper,  in  one  of  the  best  towns  in 
Southern Michigan.  Invoice about $4,000.  Terms 
easy, if  secured.  Would  sell  one half interest 
to right party.  Address,  with  particulars,  No. 
798
793, care Michigan Tradesman. 
OR  SALE—THE  FINEST  STOCK  OF  URO 
ceries and fixtures in the State of Michigan. 
Fixtures put up in sections so  they can be fitted 
to any sized store.  Will sell fixtures  separately, 
if so desired.  Also  first-class  panel  top  wagon 
and good  delivery  horse.  Liberal  discount  al­
lowed  on  original  cost.  Address  O.  Sengen 
be; ger, 250 Bast Fulton street. Grand Rapids. 795
F OR  EXCHANGE —LARGE  NEW  BRICK 
hotel, furnished complete,doing a good busi­
ness  to exchange for a  good farm.  Address W. 
H. N , care Michigan Tradesmen.________796
TJIOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  CLEAN  GROCER 
A 
its in good town, well located.  Inventories 
from $1,800 to $2,f0 ’.  Best of reasons for selling. 
Address No. 785, care Michigan Tradesman.  785
FOR  SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES;
corner  location;  stock  in  good  condition 
and business paying.  Good reasons for  selling. 
Address Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo,Mich,776 
"Ij IOR SALK—DRUG STOCK, CONSISTING OF 
-U  staple  drugs,  patent  medicines,  stationery, 
blank books, wall paper, etc., inventorying about 
$4,000, for one half cash and  two  years’ time  on 
balance.  Cash sales last year, 18,000.  Store  has 
steam heat, electric lights, hot  and  cold water— 
everything in first-class  shape—and  is  situated 
in best town in Upper  Peninsula, in  mining dis­
trict.  Reasons for selling, ill health, necessitat­
ing a removal to a  warm  climate.  Address No. 
769. care Michigan Tradesman. 
\ \ T ANTED—PARTNER TO  TAKE  HALF IN 
V v 
terest in my 75 bbl.  steam  roller mill  and 
elevator, situated on railroad;  miller preferred; 
good  wheat  country.  Full  description,  price, 
terms and Inquiries given  promptly  by address­
ing  II. C.  Herkimer,  Maybee,  Monroe  county, 
Mich. 
G ood  o pe n in g  fo r  b a r b e r s h o p, a n d
residence to  rent cheap.  Address  No.  779, 
care Michigan Tradesman._____________ 779
■  E BUY ALL KINDSSCRAPIKON, METAL, 
rags, shirt and  overall cuttings  and  rub­
ber.  Write for prices.  Wm.  Brummeller & Sons, 
260 S. Ionia  St., Grand Rapids. ’Phone 640.  804 
OR  SALE  CHEAP—COMPLETE  SET  TIN 
ner's tools.  Address P.  W. Holland, Chapin, 
Mich. 
f  1 RAN1TE  AND  MARBLE  MONUMENTS! 
VJ  markers  and  all  cemetery  work.  Largest 
stock.  Write  us  about  what  you want and we 
will quote prices.  Orand Rapids Monument Co., 
813 South Division. 
■ ANTED—BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY, 
potatoes,  onions,  apples,  cabbages,  etc. 
Correspondence  solicited.  Watkins  <s  Smith, 
673
81-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

784

769

761

711

ANTED—EVERY  DRU G G IST  JU ST 
starting in business and every one already 
started to use our syBtem of poison labels.  What 
has cost you $15 you can now  get  for  $4.  Four 
teen  labels  do  the  work  of  113.  Tradesman 
Company, Grand Rapids.

For  Bargains  in  Real  Estate, 
in  any  part  of  the  State, 
write  to..................

G. W. Ames

■ 06  Phoenix  Block 
BAY  CITY,  MICHIGAN
B.  E.  PARKS,

DRAFTSMAN  and  ENGINEER,

Lock  Box  80,  Grand Raplns,  nich.

Inventions and New Ideas perfected 
Power Plants designed, erection superintended 
Steam Engines indicated and power measured

Beans—Owing  to  the  absence  of  export  de­
mand and the extremely light request from tuy- 
ers for home markets, there has been a deprecia­
tion of values on  nearly  all  varieties  of  beans. 
The market, while dull, is in a seasonable condi­
tion. and not much  businsss  is  expected before 
the middle of August,  unless  an  active demand 
should spring up from Cuban markets.

Beets—New, 15c per doz.
Blackberr es—Lawtons, 10c per qt.
Butter—Factory creamery is in  better demand 
at 17(u 18c.  Dairy is in improved demand at  13@ 
14c. with indications favoring a higher  range of 
values.

Cabbage—Maryland stock is about the same as 

a week ago, commanding $1.50 per crate.

Cherries—Some fruit is still  coming  in,  com­
manding about $1.50 per  bu.  This  is  the  only 
crop not affected  by  the  frost  or  drought, the 
yield having been exceptionally  large.
Cucumbers—Home grown, 35c per doz.
Eggs—Handlers pay 10c and  hold  at  10!j(iillc 

in a regular jobbing way.

Onions—10c per doz. bunches  for green stock. 
Dry stock from  the  South commands  $1 per bu.
Potatoes—The market  is  still  strong,  due  to 
the fact that wet weather in some  parts  of  the 
South has retarded digging.  The  present  price 
is $2.50@2.75 per bbl, with prospects of a decline 
to $2.50 flat for choice stock  by  the  end  of  the 
week.
Raspberries—Black,  about  5c  per  qt.  Red, 
10c per qt.  The crop is about at an end.

Tomatoes—90c for 4 basket crate.
Watermelons—15@20c apiece, according to size 
and  quality.  The  supply  is  large  and  every 
indication points to a long and  satisfactory sea­
son.

Wax Beans—$1.50 per bu. for home grown.
Fruits and Produce

Our  shipments  of  Cherries  have  been  very 
heavy for the past week, but  presume that some 
of our customers will want more this  week, and 
I think we shall have Cherries most of the week. 
Prices  will  be  about  $1.50(31.75  per  bu.  Also 
have them in lti qt. cases, at 90c<§$1 per case. 

Black Raspberries, $1.00(31.10 per case.
Red Raspberries, very scarce»
Watermelons, 18(3 20c.
Tomatoes, $1.10(3.1.20 per 4 basket crate.
New Onions, $2.75 per bbl.
Potatoes, 90@95e  per  bu.  If  any  decline  will 
give your orders the benefit.
Bananas, Green Onions. New Beets, Peas, Wax 
Beans. Radishes, Cabbage and  Celery at Bottom 
Prices.
•  A  few  barrels  of  Pocket  Salt  left  at  prices 
quoted on page 15 of this issue.
Remember,  we  are  a  Mail  Order  Fruit  and 
Produce  House,  and  can  save  you  money, but 
you  must  mail  the  orders.  Many  merchants 
are doing this and are well satisfied.  Better try it

HENRY  J.  ~E 

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South Division Street 

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GRAND  RAPIDS •

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W illiam Connor

AGENT FOR

MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON 

Wholesale Clothing flanufacturers 

ROCHESTER,  N.Y.

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

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

Correspondence solicited from 
parties who intend to build.

Will  be  at  the  Imperial  Hotel,  CHICAGO,  with 
his full line of samples, from Monday, JULY 15, 
to  Monday.  JULY  22,  and  will  entertain  his 
friends and the trade who call upon him.

The Imperial Hotel is only a one  minute  walk 

from the Michigan Central Depot at Chicago.
William  Connor  will  be  at  Sweet's  Hotel, 
GRAND  RAPIDS Thursday,  Friday  and  Satur­
day, JULY 25,26 and 27 instant.

THE MICHIGAN BARREL GO.
Bus! el  Baskets,  Cheese  Boxes, 
Bail  Boxes,  Axle  Grease 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH,

M ANUFACTURER  OF

Boxes,  Wood Measures.

G r a n d  R a p id s  B r u s h  Co.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

i l M A i

B R U S H E S
J.  T.  M U R P H Y ,

S E E   Q U O T A T I O N « .

BARGAIN  CA SE

PR0FIT' 

99  NORTH  IONIA  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS

TELEPHONE  738.

Show  Cases, 
Store  Fixtures, 

Etc.

BUY.

IPHILLIP’S  SHOW  CASES.

J.  P H I L L IP S   &  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Contains 2^  dozen  25  cent 

‘izp  (at  $2  per dozen), $5,

Established  1864.

EXACT  SIZE 

OUR

BOTTLE

FREE!

24 doz.  15-cent trial 
bottles,  one  forty  oz. 
$1  bottle, two  glasses,
. one  tray,  signs,  eou- 
j pons, posters, etc.,  300 
coupons  to  advertise 
with.

The 40  ounce  bottle 
makes SOqts.,  or  1,000 
glasses.  Keep a pitch­
er mixed and  serve to 
all  your  customers  a 
sample  free,  and  you 
will sell  a  case 
every
day.

Special  Triple  Ex­
tract,  for  soda  foun­
tains  and  soft  drink 
trade,  in  one  gallon 
bottles, price *3.  Will 
| make  13  gallons  tine 
syrup at a cost of only 
50 cents a gallon.

ORDER  OF 
1 YOUR  JOBBER

For  sale  by  the fol- 
»wing  w h o 1 e s a 1 e 
eaters:
Grand  Rapids
ver Co.

Olney  A  Judson  Gro­
Lemon A Wheeler Co. 
| Mus-elman Grocer Co.
I.  M.Clark Grocery Co. 
j Worden Grocer Co.
Ball-liarnhart-Put- 
[  man Co.
Ilazeltin** A Perkins 
Drug  Co.
Putnam Candy Co.
I  A. E.  Brooks A Co.

Saginaw

I Wells-Stone  Merc. Co. 
I Jas. Stewart  Co.,  Ltd. 
Symons Bros. A Co. 
Melze, Smart A Co.
I). E. Prall A Co.
G. A. Alderton.
J. P. Derby.

Bay  City
I  W.I. Brothurton A Co. 
R. P. Gustin Co. 
Meisel A Goeschel.
W. Bay City

Walsh A Tanner

Kalamazoo 
u  Desenberg A Co. 

Muskegon
Geo. Hume & Co.
Fred Brundage.

Battle Creek
John F.Halladay A Co. 
Godsmark, Durand 

A Co.

«IGE»

PHOSPHATE

A  T A B L E  SPOON F U L L   M AKES A  QUART

DIRECTIONS!^

«One iea»poonfnl  extract, three of  sugar,  or sweeten to 
taste in tumbler water.  Drink  freely as you would lemon­
ade.  Can  be  used  with either  hot or  cold w a ter.F o e  
Coughs, Colds, Sore  Throat,  etc,  use  boc>f} Never  drink* 
water  without  adding a few drops of extract, ai it will des­
troy all Cholera and germ  diseases, rendering impbrw water 
harmless.  To  make  the  beverage in  larger quantity, use 
t gal. of water. 2 to 4 ounces extract. 1  pound sugar*  Never 
jnix  in  tin  vessels.

a o n c a r  ncrvc t o n ic.

Invaluable  for  Nervousness.  Headache,  Sleeplessness, 
Dyspepsia. Rheumatism. Stomach. Liver and Kidney troub­
les.  Read circular.  None genuine without signature. {

Daily use will positively prevent any disease from gam­
ing a foot hold on the system,  as if is one of the best known 
antiseptics.  Can  be  taken  without  the  slightest  injury.
PRICE  25c., MAKES  16  QUARTS.
S 1.00 SIZE  M A K ES  80 Q UARTS.

THOMPSON  PHOSPHATE  CO.
6 1 3   W .LA K E  ST  CHICACO.U.S.A

WRITE  FOR  PRICES 
ON  ANY  SHOWCASE 
NEEDED.

5 5 »   5 7 »   5 9 .   6 1

Canal St.

GRAND  RAPIDS

NEW  CIGAR  SHOWCASE

NEESON-M A TTER 

EURNITURE 

CO.

M AKERS  OF  FU RN ITU RE

FOR  CITY  AND COUNTRY HOMES

SELL  FURNITURE  AT  RETAIL....
33-35-37-39  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS

Bedroom  Suites,  Sideboards,  Bookcases,  Chairs,  Tables, 
Chiffoniers,  Couches  and  Lounges,  Upholstered  Parlor 
Furniture,  Lace Curtains  and Drapery Silks.

Correspondence and Orders by Mail solicited.

NELSON-MATTER FDRNITDRE CO., Grand Rapids. Mich.

The M o n ey -S a v in g 1 S c a le

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Every two months  and  makes you  H00  per eviit.  on  the invest­
ment. 

It prevents all errors in  weighing and

PAYS  FOR  ITSELF

STOPS  THE  LEAKS

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

YOU  NEED  IT!

S E E   W H A T   U S E R S   S A Y .

BOSTON  STORK.

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

Cash  Me rc h a n d ise.

Chicago, Dec. 31,1894. 

The Computing Scale Co.. Dayton. Ohio: 

Ge 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,

Boston Store.

J. W. WHITELEY  A  SON,

Dry Goods. Clothing, Groceries, etc.

Bonaparte. Iowa. April 22,  1895. 

G e n tlem en: 

Dayton Computing Scale Co., Dayton, O.: 
In reference  to  yours  of  recent 
date regarding the Computing Scales which 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, us we 
now do and  from  the  experience  we  have  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,

•T.  W.  W h it e l e t  A  Son.

Investigate the  I)ayt<>n  Computing Scale.  For further particulars call or  write

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h e a r d   of  on

For illustrations of the other Nos. of Mich­
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M IC H IG A N ^

Send us your order early and start  your  trade 

with some Low Prices on Gasoline Stoves.

THREE  BURNER  WITH  STEP.

• H e ig h t  2 5   i n c h e s  
S t e p  1 5   i n c h e s .

No.  60;;—2  B u r n e r  
Step individual Gen­
erator...................... $4 80
No.  61 >4—3  B u r n e r  
Step Individual Gen­
erator...................... 6 00
No. 60—2  Burner  Step 
Single Generator...  6 50 
No. 61—3  Burner  Step 
Single Generator. 
7 50 
No. 66—2 Burner, high 
flat top ind. genert'r 3 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. 68—2 -Burner,  low 
flat top. ind. gen't'r 2  75 
No. 69—3  Burner,  low 
flat top, ind. gen't'r  4 00 
No. 64—2  Burner,  low 
flat top, sin.  gen't'r  3  75 
No. 65—3  Burner,  low 
flat top, sin.  gen't'r 5  00 
Regular Crating  Charge 

Extra.

—— usto.  q t .

Three  Individual  Burners.

SEICHT  25  INCHES.

Special  Juniors

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 
any Junior Stoves.
No charge for crates  on 
Special Jr.

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Three  purncr

SINGLE  GENERATOR  JUNIOR. 

H e i g h t   1 4   I n c h e s

The  Best  Stove  in  the  Market  for  Camping  Out,  Fishing  or  Hunting  Parties.

H. LEONARD & SONS, Grand Rapids

