PUBLISHED  W EE K L Y

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, PUBLISHERS:

Volume  XII.

M.  R.  ALDEN

M.  R.  ALDEN  &  CO.

STRICTLY  FRESH  EGGS,
Choice Creamery and  Dairy  Butter
A  SPECIALTY--------------------------- 

Wholesale  Produce

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E.  E.  ALDEN

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  14,  1895.

Number 621

93  and  95  South  Division  Street,
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G RAN D   R APID S,  M ICh

■ • • • •   BEST  $ 2.00  A  DAY  HOUSE  IN  THE  CITY 

Corner  Grand  River  Avenue  and  Griswold  St.,

NEWLY  FURNISHED
FRED  POSTAL 
• • • • -

¡Griswold House REMODELED 
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C rackers
Sweet  Goods
252  and  254  CANAL  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS

DETROIT,  MICH.

MANUFACTURER  OF

AND FULL  LINE  OF

Proprietor

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M anufacturers of Marine Engines and  Launches, 

send for Catalogue.

WM.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,
MANUFACTURERS 
AND  JOBBERS  OF...

Selling  Agts. tor Columbian  Enameled  Steel Ware.

W rite for Catalogue. 
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WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

Nos.  122  and  124  Louis  Street, 

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There  are  thou= 
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but none so good 

as the................... “Signal Five”

A  FINE  HAVANA  FILLER  CIGAR  FOR  5  CENTS.

ED. W.  RUHE, Maker, Chicago.
LEMON  &  WHEELER  CO.

F.  E. BUSHHAN,  Agent 
523  John St.,

KALAMAZOO,  lie h .

Wholesale 
___Grocers___

GRAND  RAPIDS

Chas.  A.  Morrill  &  Co.

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Importers  and 

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A  DELICIOUS 
RELISH......

THE
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of the kind 
ever offered 
in this country.
Great Seller

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Put up in handsome, wide 
neck bottles with glass 
stoppers.

FOR  SALE  BY

Barnhart- Pnlniai

GRAND  RAPIDS,  nich.

And all first class jobbers 
throughout the 
United States.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  14,  1895.

Volume  XII
The  Michigan 
Trust Co.  G raMiCRhaplds’

Makes a specialty of acting as

EXECUTOR  OF  W ILLS 
ADfllNISTRATOR  OF  ESTATES 
GUARDIAN  OF  HINORS  AND 

INCOriPETENT  PERSONS 

TRUSTEE  OR  AOhNT

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

Country  Merchants

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

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

^ 

DANIEL  McCOY,  President.
CHAS.  F.  PIKE,  Cashier.

IN SU R A N C E  CO.

Detroit,  Mich.

Commercial 
Credit  Co., Limited.

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

65  MONROE  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.
WAYNE COUNTY  SAVINGS  BANK, 

Detroit,  Mich.

$500,000 10 INVEST IN BONDS counties^  towns

and  school  districts  of  Mich.  Officers o f these 
m unicipalities about to issue bonds will find  it to 
their advantage  to  apply  to  this  Bank.  Bl»nk 
Donds and blanks for proceedings supplied with­
out charge.  Communications and enquiries have 
prompt attention.  Bank pays 4 p.c. on deposits, 
compounded semi-annually.  S. D. EtwooD.Treas.
The  Tradesman’s  advertisers  receive 

sure  and  profitable  results.

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade remains  about  the same 
as  last  reported.  Farmers  are  busy  in 
I their fields,and  the dealer  is  waiting for 
business. 
In  the  meantime,  he  is  buy­
ing  only  what  he  needs.  Recent  rains 
have  produced  a  much  better  feeling 
| and  we are all  looking  for a  good  fall 
trade.  There  is  but  little  change  to 
note  in  prices. 
In  many  lines  of  shelf 
goods  the  manufacturers  are  revising 
their  cuts and  selling  prices,  based  on 
the  present  cost  of  material  and  labor. 
Their new  prices will  probably  be  ready 
from  Aug.  20  to  Sept.  1.

Wire  Nails—Are  firm  at  the  price 
quoted  last  week  and  there  is  no  inti­
mation,  as  yet,  whether  there  will  he 
any  change  in  the  price for  September. 
Owing  to  strikes at  one  or  two  of  the 
mills,  and  the production being limited, 
the  output  for  August  is all  sold.  This 
fact  would  indicate  that  stocks  in  the 
hands of  jobbers at  old  prices  were  very 
light.  We quote S2.35  from  stock,  with 
60  to  10,  advancing  50,  and  other  sizes 
as  per old  card.

Barbed Wire-  Nowithstanding  the  re­
cent  advance,  the  demand  continues 
good.  Manufacturers  are  refusing  to 
accept  orders  for  future  shipment,  even 
at  the  present  price,  as  they  are  trying 
to complete  an  arrangement,  similar  to 
the agreement  of  the  nail  men,  when, 
no doubt,  prices  will  be  still  further ad­
vanced.  We  quote,  subject  to  change 
without  notice:
Painted  Barbed  Wire at  m ill...........................$1  85
Galvanized  Barbed Wire at m ill.....................   2  20
Painted  Barbed Wire from  stock....................  2  15
Galvanized  Barbed  Wire  from  stock............   2  50
Window  Glass—firm  at  75  per  cent, 
discount  from  list,  and  stocks  are  low 
It  is  said 
in  all sections of  the country. 
the  price  will  be  higher  before 
is 
lower.

it 

The  following  goods  have  advanced 

at  the factories:

Lead Pipe, 10c per 100 lbs.
Strap and T Hinges, 10 per cent.
Wrought Butts, 10 per cent.
Shovels and Spades, 40c per doz.
Shot, 5c per bag.
S. B. Axes, 50c per  doz.
No change on D Bits.
The  following shows the advance  in
bar  iron, wire  nails and cut nails from
January  ; to  July 25.
I'he figures  are
based  on Pittsburg  rati and  are what
the  johhe r  had  to pay:
Jan. 3......... __  
90
90
.Jan. 31. . .. ___ 
Feb.  21__ . 
90
. 
Feb. 28__ ___ 
95
March  21..
95
.... 
April  11__
9»
April 25__ ___ 
100
May  9 
...
....  1  00
May  16.... ___ 
100
..  .  1  00
May  23....
May  30__ ___  1  00
June  6....... ... 
1  05
June 13__ ....  1  10
June 20....... ....  1  15
June 2 7 __ .. 
.  1  15
July 11....... . 
..  1  20
July 25....... ....  1  30

85
90
90
90
87!«
S7V«
85
85
95
1 00
1 20
] 20
1 20
1 20
l 55
1 55
05

75
75
75
7914
70
70
70
70
90
1 05
1 15
1 15
1 15
1 30
1 30
1 80

Bar Iron.  Wirt Nails.  Cut Nails.

The  Drug  Market.

Alcohol—The  market  for  grain 

is 
comparatively  dull,  and  the  steadier 
feeling  noted  last  week  seems  to  have 
iisappeared.

Cod  Liver  Oil  —Cable  advices  from 
primary  markets 
indicate  a  steadily 
hardening  tendency,  with values  higher, 
and  the  feeling  in  this  country  is  cor­
respondingly  strong,  but  the  movement 
during  the  week  has  been  rather  light.

Essential  Oils  A  fair  consuming  de­
mand  is  noted  for  leading  descriptions 
in  moderate quantities,  and  the  general 
market  has a  steady  undertone.  Cassia 
is  held  firmly.  Camphor  is  scarce and 
firm. 
The  prices  for  new  crop  rose 
have  not  yet  been  fixed  at  the  sources of 
supply,  but  the  feeling  there  seems  to 
he  firm,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that 
later  estimates  place  the  crop  at  470,000 
meticals  instead  of  420,000  meticals.

Gums—Camphor continues very  strong 
and  expectations  of  a  further  advance 
have  induced  freer  purchasing  by  con­
sumers  as  the  stock  outside of refiners  is 
said  to  he  about  exhausted.

Leaves—  Laurel  are  easier,  in  sympa­
thy  with  the  primary  markets,  where 
prices  have  declined,  owing  to  more 
favorable  news  concerning  the  current 
crop,  which  is  said  to  be  larger  than 
previously  estimated.  Short  buchu  are 
quite  active  and  firm,  with  stocks  de­
pleted,  particularly  of  prime  quality. 
Senna  of  all  kinds  continue  in  good  de­
mand,  and  values  are  strong,  owing  to 
scarcity.

Menthol—Quiet  and  nominal  at  the 

recent  decline.

Opium —The  market  has  ruled  tame 
during  the  week,  with  desirable  quality 
in  single  cases  nominally steady.

Quinine  No  further  large  sales  are 
reported,  but  the  consuming  demand 
has continued  active.  Values  continue 
strong.

Soda,  Salicylate  The  weakness 

in 
salicylic  acid  has  influenced  an  easier 
market,  and  manufacturers have reduced 
their  quotations.

Considering  the  Matter  of  a  Graded 

Assessment.

Detroit,  Aug.  10—A11 adjourned  regu­
lar meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
was  held  at  the  office  Friday,  Aug.  9, 
with  J110.  McLean,  J.  T.  Lowry, 
j.  A. 
Murray  and  G.  S.  Valmore  present. 
Three  new applicants  were  admitted  to 
membership,  and  the  regular  routine 
of business  was  transacted,  after  which 
the  Board  settled  down to  discussing  the 
advisabi 1 ity of hringing a graded  assess­
ment  plan  before  the  members  at  the 
next  annual  meeting,  which  resulted 
in 
the chair-appointing  a  committee of five 
to  look  into  the  matter and lay  out  some 
line  of  procedure.  The  chair  appointed 
as  such  committee  Jno.  McLean,  1 no. 
A.  Murray,  Jos.  T.  Lowry,  L.  H.  Cham­
berlin  and  Lou  Burt. 
I  will  try  and  let 
you  know  from time to time,  as  the  com­
mittee  meet,  what action  they  take.

It has been  suggested  by  some  that  a 
circular asking  the  views  of  each  mem­
ber of  the Association  be  sent  out  with I 
the  October  dues.

D .  M o r r i s ,  S e c ’y.

Dissolution  Notice.

The  firm  of  Alden  &  Libby  was  dis­
solved  by  mutual  consent  July  18,  1895, 
and  the  business  will  be  continued  by 
M.  R.  Alden  and  E.  E.  Alden,  under 
the  firm  name  of  M.  R.  Alden  &  Co., 
in  the  same  store,  93  and  95  South  Di­
vision  street,  Grand  Rapids.

M .  R .  A l d e n .
C.  H.  L ib b y .

Craver  &  Merlan  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Albion.  The  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Number 621

The  Grain  Market.

is  about 
last  week  and 

There  is  nothing  new  in  the  wheat 
market—the  same  old  story  of  nothing 
doing—the  exports  being  only  1,550,000 
bushels  as  per  Bradstreet’s  report,  from 
100,000 
both  coasts,  which 
bushels  more  than 
is 
2,000,000  bushels  less  than  the  corres­
ponding  week  in  1894.  There  was  an­
other decrease  in  the  visible  of  687,000 
bushels,  against  an increase  of  2,600,000 
bushels  the  corresponding  week 
last 
year.  There  is  now  22,000,000  bushels 
less  in  sight  in  the  United  States  than 
at  the same  time  in  1894.  The  Govern­
ment  crop  report  shows  a  decline  in  the 
spring  wheat  situation  of  6 3-10  points, 
1-10,  against  67  in
bringing  it  to  95 
i&M.  67  in  1893,  871/2 
in  1892  and  95 
5-10  in  1891,  when  the  spring  wheat 
states  had  so  large  a  crop.

The  Secretary  of  State  reports  the 
yield  of  wheat  in  this  State  at  10 91-100 
per  acre,  against  15  6-10  last  year,  or 
about 66  2-3  per  cent,  an  average  crop, 
while  the acreage  is  fully  10  per  cent, 
less  than  previous  years.  With  all  of 
these  facts,  wheat  still  keeps  at 
low 
points,but  we still  predict  higher  prices 
before  long.  The  millers  are  paying 
68c  for  recleaned  wheat.

Corn  keeps  on  growing 

in  the  corn 
belt,  and  some  claim  100  bushels  per 
acre.  There  is  no doubt  but  what  this 
will  be  the  largest  corn  season  this 
country 
lias  ever  seen,  consequently 
prices  are  drooping.

Oats  go  the  same  way  corn  does,  as 
the syndicate has  dropped  the  deal  and 
[trices are  lower.

The  receipts  for  the  past  week  were 
32  cars  of  wheat,  which  looks  small,  but 
many  of  them  contained 
1,000  bushels 
instead  of  500,  which  is  the  regulation 
amount.  There  were eight  cars  of  corn 
and  only  a  lonely  one  car  of  oats  all 
below  the  normal.

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

it 

According  to  a  recent  article  by  Dr. 
in  the  Engineering  Magazine, 
L o d g e  
lightning  is  not  so  easy  to  ward  off by 
rods,  as  many  people  imagine.  He  says 
that 
is  an  “ oscillatory  discharge  of 
enormous  energy,”   which  no  copper 
rod,  however  thick  and  long,  can  prop­
erly  dispose  of  harmlessly. 
It  can  be 
experimentally shown  that  when  a  light­
ning  discharge  takes  place,  even  down 
such  a  rod  as  this,  sparks  may  fly  from 
it  to all  conductors  near,  capable of  set­
ting  fire  to  any  explosive  compound  or 
gas  leak  which  they  may  chance  to  en­
counter.  He  therefore  recommends  for 
the  protection  of  ordinary  buildings  the 
placing  of  a  wire along all  the  gables, 
and  down  all  the  corners,  with  perhaps 
a  few  in  between  along  any  prominent 
features,  so  as  to 
inclose  the building 
in  a  sort  of  wire  network;  any  metal 
serves  equally  well  for  the  conductor, 
conductivity  being  unimportant  in  com­
parison  with  durability;  points  or  pro­
jections  to  the  sky are  useful  to  take  the 
violence of the  direct  flash  at  its  point 
of  incidence in  a cheap  and conspicuous 
manner,  anil  earth  connections are  de­
sirable  to  save  the  foundation,  the  soil, 
and  the  pipes therein  from  being  dam­
aged.

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

SUCCESSFUL  SALESriEN.

The  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.’s  Quar­

tette of  Representatives.

ALBERT  C.  W ETZEL.

I  like  that 

Bay  City  was  his  birthplace,  anil  the 
young  fellow  “ came  to  town”  
in  ’63, 
the  day  before  the one  sacred  to  the ar­
rival  of  the  Father  of  his  Country. 
While  still  a  baby,  the  family  moved  to 
Zilwaukee,  where  the  child  was  early 
sent  to  school.  Until  fourteen  years  old 
he attended  the  German  school  of  the 
town,  when  he  graduated 
and  then  went  to  the  English  schools, 
taking  the  three  years’  course,  with  his 
diploma  at  the  end  of  it.  So,  with  two 
languages  at  the  tip  of  his  tongue  and 
the  years  of  school  training  to  back 
them,  he  left  the  school  house  for  the 
beginning  of  a  commercial  life.  This 
he  found  in  a  general  store,  one of  the 
best  places  in  the world  for an all-round 
commercial  training,  and  where,  as  in 
this instance, the duties of  the post-office 
and  those  of  an  express  office  are  add­
ed,  it  means  long  hours  and  busy  ones. 
This  life-beginning  took  place  in  1881, 
and  continued  for  two  years  and  a  half.
The  next  move was  a  return  to  Bay 
City,  in  the  spring  of 
1883.  Here  the 
young  man  of  twenty  entered  the  house 
of  Rose,  Lewis  &  Co.,  where  he  re­
mained  five  years.  Thinking  that  the 
time  had  come  for  a  partnership,  he 
suggested  the  ail vantages  of  such  an 
arrangement 
for  life  to  Miss  Helen 
Swaby,  a  high  school  teacher of  Bay 
City,  with  so  much  confidence  in  the 
success ol  the  enterprise  that  she  con­
sented.  This  was 
1888.  Severing 
his  connection  with  Rose,  Lewis  it  Co., 
he  and  his  partner came  to  Grand  Rap­
ids,  the  senior  member of  the  life  firm 
joining  his  fortunes  with  F.  W.  Wurz­
burg’s  dry  goods  house.

in 

Here  was  another  tarrying  of 

live 
years  there  is  luck  in  odd  numbers  - 
during  which  he  ran  through  the  whole 
gamut  in  the  scale  of  trade,  beginning 
with  the  calico  department  and  finish­
ing  with  the highest  note  in  the  octave. 
When  he  had  reached  that  point  and 
was  looking,  like  Alexander  for  other 
worlds  to  conquer,  the  coi poration  of 
the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.  was  form­
ed,  and  Mr.  Wetzel  went  from  the old 
house  to  the  new,  where  he  became a 
partner  in  September,  1892.

And  the  life  partnership?  It  has  been 
a  happy one.  A  little  boy  came  to  bless 
the  happy home on  Portsmouth  Terrace, 
five  months ago,  and 
is,  so  far,  a  com­
plete  success.

Mr.  Wetzel  is a  member of  the  M.  E. 
church,  Division  street,  and  of  the  V. 
M.  C.  A.  He  is a  Mason  of  ten  years’ 
standing,  and 
is  a  worthy  brother  of 
the  K.  of  G.  With  his  life  practically 
before  him,  he  hopes  so  to  run  that  he 
may win,  believing  that  the  prize before 
him,  if gained  at  all,  will  be  due to  the 
energy and  pluck which  he  puts  into  the 
running.

S.  H.  SIMMONS.

A good  big  family  is  not  common  in 
these  degenerate  times,  and  whoever 
claims to  be  one  of  a  family  of  ten  has 
every  inducement  to  be a  man  of  mark. 
Nature,  at  all  events,  has given  the  fel­
low a  lift  pressed  the button  as  it  were 
-with  a  pretty  fair  understanding  that 
he  must  do  his  part  of  the  balance. 
Add  to  this  a good  big farm,  with a man 
at  the  head  who  can  take  care  of  it,  and 
the  rest  is a  mere  question  of time.  The 
farm  in  question was  near Alamo,  Mich. 
It  was owned  and  occupied  by  the  Sim­
mons  family,  to  whom  was  introduced, 
March  28, 
they

1S72,  a  boy  whom 

| christened  ‘ ‘ Sam. 
Until  he  was  fif- ; 
teen,  the  farm  claimed  that  part  of  his ! 
attention  which  did  not  belong  to  the j 
country  school.  At 
fifteen  a  great j 
change  came,  for  then  the  father died,  j 
I The  mother had  passed away some  years j 
I before,  the old  home  was  given  up,  and  I 
the boy  found  a  home  with  a  brother j 
in  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa.  After  a  resi- j 
dence  of  seven  months  in  that  city  he ! 
went to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  and  began  the 
battle  ol 
life  as  a  newsboy  on  the  rail­
road.  Eight  months  saw  the  end  of 
that,  and  he  went  into  the  retail  store  of j 
H.  E.  Martin,  in  St.  Joe.  Two  years j 
after  his  employer  sold  out and,  when | 
the  St.  Joseph  Auction  Co.,  the  pur- j 
chaser,  wanted  a  salesman  to  look  after 
the  shoes,  the  only  man  who  could  till  | 
the  bill  was  the  one  we  are  talking | 
about,  and  he  remained  to  do 
it.  For I 
three  years  he  had  charge  of  the  shoe |

both  the  house and  store  of  his  father, 
there was but  one thing  to  do  -necessity 
knows  no  law  -and  the  boy  left  his 
school  and  left  the city  of  his  birth.  He 
came  to  Grand  Rapids 
1S73  and 
went  to  work  for  the  Cappon-Bertsch 
Leather  Co.,  where  he  remained  a year,  j 
He  then  entered  the  employ  of  L.  J.  i 
Rindge  &  Co.  now  Rindge,  Kalmbach : 
&  Co.  where,  in  the  retai 1  department,  j 
he clerked  ten  years.

in 

Believing  then  that  he  could  do bet- 
ter,  he  resigned  the  position,  and  went 
into  the boot and shoe  business  in Grand 
Rapids,  with  Mr.  R.  W.  Bertsch, 
in 
1884,  under  the  firm  name  of  Herold  & 
Bertsch.  This  retail  house was  in  busi­
ness  eight  years  when  Mr.  Herold  dis­
posed  of  his  interest to  J.  H.  Hagy. 
In 
September,  1893,  the  stock  company  of 
Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.  was  formed • 
Mr.  Herold  has  a  pleasant  home  on

M o rg a n   &  Co.

M anufacturers of

AWNINGS, TENTS,

FLAGS AND CANVAS COVERS 
YACHT SAILS A  SPECIALTY

187  Jefferson  Avenue 
DETROIT,  nich.

O U A I __™L

a   I 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICH.

LIME,  CEMENT,  HAIR,  SEW ER  

PIPE,  BRICK,  LAND  PLASTER, 

FIRE  CLAY.

We sell  Alsen’s G erman  Pori land Cem ent—the 

best in  the world for sidew alk  work.

The  Trade is 
cordially 
in­
vited to write 
us  fo r  sum ­

mer prices on COAL
S.  P.  BENNEfT  FUEL  AND  ICE  CO.
Etc. COAL

A.  H IM E S

Lime 
Cement 
Sewer Pipe 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

1  CANAI. ST.,  GRAND RAPIDS.

W holesale Shipper

THOMAS  E.  WYKES
Wooil
Lime
C O J U *

I'orrespim denee  Solicited.

45  South  Division  St.  GRAND  RAPIDS

The  Mich.  Barrel  Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH,

Bushel  Baskets,  Cheese  Boxes,  Bail 

M AN U FACTURER  OF

Boxes,  Axle Grease  Boxes,

Wood  fleasures.

FRED  E.  WALTHER.

AL'ERT  C.  WETZEL. 

S.  H.  SIMMONS.

A.  HEROLD.

department with  this  company,  and  then 
he  came  to  Grand  Rapids,  to  travel  for 
the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.,  a  posi­
tion  he  now  holds.  Too  voting  to  talk 
much about  success,  by  no  means  con­
sidering  himself  a  model,  he believes 
that  the  fellow  who  tries  to  do  his best 
right along  will  get  somewhere,  and,  if 
he  keeps  at 
long  enough,  even  in  a 
humdrum  sort  of  way,  will  be  surer of 
reaching  the  place  he  wants  than  the 
one  who  doesn’t  try  at  all.  Mr.  Sim­
mons  has 
lately  been  interested  in  the 
exciting  story  of  Hiram,  King  of  T yre; 
and  he  is a  worthy  brother of  the  K.  of 
G.  The  Lakeside  Club  claims  him  as 
a  member,  and  his  delightful  home  is 
with  his  brother at  30  Charles  street.

it 

A.  HEROLD.

Was  bom  December 22—Forefathers ’ 
Day—1859,  in  Holland  City.  Fond  of 
his books,  it  was  more  than a  trial  for 
him,  when  fourteen  years  of  age,  to 
give  up  the  school  he 
liked  so well. 
But  when,  at  that age,  a  tire  destroyed

Buckeye  street,  made  attractive  by  an 
estimable  wife  and  two  happy-hearted 
children.

FR E D   E.  WALTHER.

it.  This  man  can: 

it  isn’t  everybody  who  can  remember 
the  first  money  he  earned  and  how  he 
earned 
It  was 
earned  in  Bucvrus,  Ohio,  where,  on  the 
6th  of  November,  1864,  he  was  born; 
and  he  did  it  in  his  teens,  by  making 
plans  for  a  country schoolhouse.  His 
father  was  a  carpenter  and  a  contractor
a  statement  which  explains  how  this 
young  shoe man  was  able,  with  the  im­
plements  of  the  architect between  his 
lingers,  to  earn  his  first  five  dollar bill. 
It  is  easy  to  understand  that  the  boy 
began  early.  He  kept  up  his  school 
until  he was  18,  making  the  most  of  his 
vacations  until  that  time,  working  at 
carpentery  during  the vacations  in  sum- 
mer.

After  leaving  school,  he was  at  home 
19,  he  came  on ! 
It  was a  long |

a  year  and,  when 
a  visit  to  Grand  Rapids. 

Are Your Coal Bills too High ?

A leaky or im properly adjusted valve may 
cost you hundreds of dollars per year a t the 
coal  pile.
I can  show you how  to  save  it  by  apply­
ing the indicator 10 your engine.

B.  E.  P A R K S,  Engineer.

Address  Lock  Box 80,  Grand Rapids.
V.  SEBRING  HILLYER

Consulting  Engineer

S tructural  Iron  Work

Concrete  C onstruction.

M achinery  D raughting. 

803  fTichigan  Trust  Building 
GRAND  RAPIDS

L. Q. Dunton & Co.
LUriBER=Green  or  Dry
Office and  Yards—Seventh St.  andC . & W.M.R.R. 

W ILL  BUY  ALL  KINDS  OF

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

3

It 

in 

in. 

N'ot 

isn  t  over  yet  and,  although 
visit. 
the  visit  began 
1883,  <t  promises  to 
extend  far  into  the  next  century.  This 
it  happened:  He  struck  the 
is  how 
town  and  a 
job  about  the  same  time. 
Kludge,  Kalmbach  &  Co.,  retail  deal­
ers  in  boots and  shoes,  wanted  a  man  of 
that  particular  build,  and  “ they  took 
him 
in  a  bad  sense,  how­
ever,  for  he  liked  it  so  well  that  after a 
four  years’  course,  he  went to  traveling 
for  the same  house  and  kept  it  up  for 
five  years.  The  first  of  these  five  years 
did  the  business,  so  far  as  Bucyrus 
was concerned.  He  became acquainted 
with  a  young  lady,  Miss  Addie  Richter 
by  name,  and 
long  before  the  wedding 
day,  October  2g,  1889,  neither  Bucyrus 
nor  the  whole  State  of  Ohio  had  a  sin­
gle  charm  for  him. 
It  was  Grand  Rap­
ids,  first,  last  and  all  the  time,  and  has 
been  ever  since.

When  the wedding  journey  was  over, 
he  came  back  to  his  merchandise,  and 
extended  his  territory  into  Indiana  and 
Ohio.

in 

When the Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.  was 
organized, 
1893,  Mr.  Walthers 
became a  member,  and  still  keeps  uj 
his  traveling.  He  has  been  knighted 
twice,  once  by  the  Pythians  and  once 
by  the Grips.  A  pleasant  home  is  his, 
at  22  Michigan  street;  and  when  asked 
when  his  visit  to  Grand  Rapids  will 
be  over,  he  said  that  the  matter was 
still  undecided.  He  had,  however,  ¿>20 
when  he  first came  here and  had  put  the 
money  in  the  bank,  so  that,  financially, 
he  could  go  back  any  time.  Like  the 
rest  of  the  human  family,  so  long as  he 
can  go 
if  he  wants  to,  he doesn’t  care 
to go,  and,  as  I  have  said,  the  visit  will 
probably  extend  far 
into  the  coming 
century.

THE  BACK  OFFICE.

\\ ritten for The  T r a d e s m a n .

the  States.  Depravity 

A  great  deal  has  been  said  of  late  by 
those  who  have  the  welfare  of  society 
at  heart, 
in  regard  to  the  deplorable 
condition  in  which  society  finds  itself 
at  the  close  of  the  nineteenth  century. 
The  newspapers are lurid  with  accounts 
of  crime,  red  and  slimy.  Canada 
is 
list  at  the  ex­
renovating  her  cashier 
pense  of 
is 
abroad 
in  our  streets,  before  nightfall 
and  after;  and  all classes,  high and  low, 
seem  to  be  permeated  by  the  very  spirit 
of  evil.  Only  one,  a  German,  has  tried 
to  locate  the  mischief 
in  the  realm  of 
the  degenerate,  but  there  is  little  to  rec­
ommend  the  theory  except  the  name.
I he cause  of  the  degeneracy has  not  yet 
been  found,  but  those  who are  interest­
ed  in  tracing  the  deplorable  effect  to  its 
source,  while  not  yet  ready  to  render an 
opinion,  are  willing  to  admit  that  the 
burden  of  testimony,  so  far,  shows  a 
remarkable coincidence  in  point of  time 
lawlessness and  the 
between  unbridled 
appearance  of 
the  modern  boarding 
house.  Consider the  matter  from  what­
ever  point  you  please,  the  man  is a  ma­
chine  first  and,  like  all  machines,  re­
quires 
fuel 
which  furnishes  the  motive  power must 
be  of  the best.  The  best  of  oil  should 
lubricate 
joints.  Cleanliness  is  a 
necessity,  and  the  very  atmosphere,  if 
not  guarded  against,  will  damage  with 
its  fumes  and  dust  that  delicate  adjust­
ment  which 
is  an  essential  part  of 
every  well-made machine.  Now,  it  is a 
well-known  fact  that  all  of  these  condi­
tions are  utterly  ignored  by  the average 
boarding  house and  a  large  majority of 
hotels  and  restaurants.  The basement 
dining  room and 
its  copartner  in  mis­
chief,  the  cellar  restaurant,  are as dark

the  greatest  care.  ,  The 

its 

as  the  crimes  which,  without  question, 
they  are guilty  of.  The  table  linen,  if 
indulged 
in,  is  stained  with  marks  of 
long-forgotten  revels  and  redolent  of 
microbe-burdened  fumes.  The  contest 
of  naval  warfare  between  plate-armor 
and  the  power of the  projectile  has  been 
transferred  to  the kitchen  and  the  table 
crockery  tells  the  triumphant  story  of 
the  victory of  the tin  plate  over the  pro­
jectile  force  of  the  servant  girl.  The 
knives have  long  since  cut  theacquaint- 
ance of  the scouring brick, and the forks, 
aweary  of  the  world, ’ ’  and  robbed  of 
the thin jacket of silver,  their glory once, 
form,  with  the  unkempt  knile  and  the 
degenerate  spoon,  a  tripod  where  from 
the gravy-stained  napkin  of  a  disgusted 
guest,  the  Hies,  like  harpies,  await the 
coming  of the next Cyclopean  feast.  The 
bell  clangs,  the  flies  buzz,  the  sinister 
preyers  upon  modern society silently  file 
in  and  the orgies  begin.

Madam, ’ ’  and  the attitude  and  tone 
of  the enquirer are  indicative  of  solic- 
itious  regard,  may  I  venture  to  ask 
you  if  you  have given  me  tea  or coffee,
| this  delightful  morning?’ ’ 
In  a  silence 
intensified  by  the  suddenly  suspended 
activity  of  a  dozen  knives  and  forks 
comes  the  reassuring  answer,  with  the | 
satisfied  voice  of  one  who 
is  giving 
more  than  was  bargained  for,  “ a  little 
of  both,  sir !’ ’

It  is  needless  to  stay beyond  the  par- 
taking  of  the  insidions  decoction  of  the 
tea-plant  and  chicory.  That,  alone, 
would  sufficiently  account  for  the enor­
mities  of  a  Holmes and  a  Jack  the  Rip­
per,  and,  if  anything  more  should  be 
required  to  ‘ ‘ screw  the  courage  to  the 
sticking  point, ”   it  would  be  the  rever­
berations  of  the  murderous  mallet which 
follows  the order  for  porterhouse  stake. 
Right  here,  then,  is  the  cause  of  the 
existing  evils  which  are  honeycombing 
modern  life  to-day.  What  wonder  that 
the  cashier,  with  the  means 
in  hi 
S 
hands,  should  flee  from  the  wrath  to 
come?  What wonder that  the  meat  mal­
let,  in  the  hands  of 
its victims,  should 
be the means of  perpetrating,  in  a  wider 
field,  the  enormities  carried  on 
in  the 
kitchen?  What  wonder,  if  the  dreadful 
lrink  be  not  prohibited,  that  wicked­
ness  should  increase  and  crimes  before 
unknown should  stalk  abroad  unchecked 
ind  uncontrolled?

With  affairs  at  such  a  pass,  there  is 
but  one course to  follow  slovenly board­
ing  houses and  the  restaurants  must go! 
The  means  are  already  at  hand.  The 
Board  of  Health  are  the  officers and  the 
Civil  Service  Reform  the  instrument. 
Let  the  system  be  applied  without 
mercy,  and 
let  those  who  only  pass 
a  pi actical  exam ination  be  permitted  to 
go  on  with  the  chief  functions  of  civili­
zation—the preparation  of  food  for the 
human  stomach.  Let  the  law exact  that 
the  dining-room  shall  be  above ground,  I 
and  that  cleanliness,  which  is  next  to ! 
Godliness, 
shall  everywhere  prevail.  I 
Then,  indeed,  will  the  Golden  Age  re­
turn.  Then  shall  the  coffee  urn  fill  the ! 
world  with  its grateful cheer;  then  shall  I 
the  dumpling  be  no  more  soggy,  the | 
longer  leaden ;  the 
under pie  crust  no 
butter  not  mighty 
in 
its  strength,  nor 
the  under-done  doughnut  heavy  with 
ham  fat.  Then,  another  cycle  will  be­
gin.  Then,  the  evils  so long  complained I 
if  will  have  passed  away  like a  hideous 
Ream,  and  the  sons  of  men,  freed  for- I 
ever  fipm  the  woes  of  the  unwholesome 
kitchen,  will  realize  in  the  newness  of 
life  the  untold 
joy  of  1 iving  again  the 
old  Eden  days,  before  a  cellar  dining­
room  was  thought of  and  Paradise  was 
cursed  with  the modern kitchen  maid.
R ic h a r d   M a l c o l m   S t r o n g . 

I

Mason Fruit Ja rs  Travelers’ Time

CHICAGO

June  16,  1895 

and West Michigan R’y

Going  to  Chicago.

Returning  from  Chicago.

‘ raverse  City,  Charlevoix and Petoskey.

| 
!  "V. (i d Rapids  6:uu>iin  1:25pm *6:30pm *11:30pm 
|  A r-  Chicago...,12:05pm  6:50pm  6:00am 
6:25am
5:00pm*1 1 :45pm
!  \ ,v-C h icag o ..................7:20am 
Ar. Ct d R apids..............12:40pm  10:40pm  *0:30am
■ 
,  T° and from  riuskegon.
I  V l' 
R apids.............  6:00am  1:25pm  6:30pm
i  A r *1  d Rapids 
.......... 11:30am  5: :5pm  10:40pm
, 
I  Vv- 2  d  K apids............. *8:00am   1 :00pm 
1 1 :00pm
1  Ar.  M anistee................. 12:55pm
4:00am
i  Ar.  Traverse O ity........ *1:20pm  4:50pm 
I  W  pfi?rl$.v° lx  
.......*3:50pm  6:30pm  0:30am
. to sk ey ...  ...........*4:20pm  6:55pm 
7:00am
j 
I rains arrive from  north at5:30a.m .. ll:45a.m  
|  1 :00p.m., *1:80p.m.
|  Parlor Cars leave  G rand  Rapids 6:00a.m., I : £5 
i  P-ni..  leave Chicago 7:20 a m.. 5:00 j».m.  Sleeping"
I  Gars leave G rand  Rapids  *11:30 p.m.:  leave Ghi- 
eago *11:45  p.m.
: 

*Kvery day.  O thers  week days  only

P A R L O R   A N D   S L E E P IN G   C A R S .

. 

, ,  

We quote for  im m ediate  orders  the  followin 
prices;  packed  one  dozen  in  box,  each  ja r i 
separate com partm ents.  Price subje-1  to chan--« 
No charge for box or  cartage.
... 
Per firm!!
Pints, w ide m outh..................................
$ 6.00
Q uarts, w ide  m outh..................“  “
H alf gallons, w ide m outh..............
Same packed in straw  as  before.  50 
gross less.
E xtra caps and  rubbers.....................  
Rubber rings for  Mason  ja rs ..............  

per
$3 50
Jjji

, 

Mail  orders direct to

H.  Leonard  &  Sons,  kapIoLBUBEROID

EADY
O O FIN G

All  Ready to Lay.  Needs 
NO  COATING  OR  PAIN TIN G

Is  Odorless,  absolutely  W ater »Proof,  will 
•esist fire  and  the  action of acids.
Can  be  used  over  shingles  of steep  roofs,  or 
s  suitable  for  flat  roofs.
W ill  OUTLAST  tin  or  iron  and is very much 

:heaper.

DETROIT

Oct. 2 8 ,  18 9 4
^Lansing  &  Northern  R’y 

Going to Detroit?

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and S t. Louis.

Lv.  G rand  R apids.........7:00am  1:20pm  5:  '5pm
................11:40am  5:30pm  10:10pm
Ar.  Detroit 
.......... 7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar.  G rand  R apids.......12:40pm  5 :2 'pm  1  :45pm
Lv.  (i  R 7:40am 5:00pm  Ar. (i  R 11:35am 10:45pm 
1 
Lv.  G rand  R apids.......7 :-a m  
1:20pm  5:25pm
i  Ar.  trom   Low ell........... 12:40pm  5:20pm 
...
J 
I  .  Parlor  cars  on all trains  between  G rand  Kap- 
|  !ds imd  Detroit.  Parlor c ar to Saginaw on morn- 
|  1 ng train.  T rains week days only.
| ______ L.  M,  F eller, Chief Clerk.  Pass. Dep’t.

1 o and from Lowell.

T H R O U G H   C A B   S E R V IC E .

M i g h i g a n  T T e n t r a i
____ " T ie Niagara Falls Route.”

D etroit Express  ..................
♦A tlantic  E xpress............
New  York  Express__

A rrive  D epart 
10:20pm 
:00am
.6:30am  11:20pm 
11:45am  6:00pm 
♦Daily.  All others daily,
pt Sunday]
bleeping ears  run  on  all  night  trains "to  and 
trom  D etroit  Parlor cars  leave  for  D etroit  at 
1 :00a m., reaching  D etroit  at  I2:2llp.m.:  return- 
m g,  leave  D etroit  4:35p.m.,  arriving  a t  Grand 
Kapids  10:20p.m.  Direct  com m unication  made 
aJ. IJotroit w ith all through  tra in s east over  the 
Michigan  Central  Railroad  (Canada  Southern 
Division.)  A.  ALMqri-T,  Ticket Agent, 
_______________  
n F T P O IT   ün,nd Haven  &
U L   I   I V l / I   1  y 

Union  Passenger Station.

Milwaukee Railway

Try  Our  Pure

Asphalt Paint

For  coating tin,  iron  or  ready  roofs. 
W rite for  Prices.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  l  SON

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Ask your ha. cl ware denier for it.

Walter Balter 4  Go. Limitea.

T he L argest M anufacturers o f

PURE,  HIGH  GRADE
COCOAS AND 
CHOCOLATES
HIGHEST  AWARDS

on  this  continent, 

have received

from  the  great

EX PO SIT IO N S

IN

Europe and America.
C A U T I O N   ■  In view of the many 
the 
labels and wrappers on our goods, consum­
ers should make sure that our place of man­
ufacture,  namely Dorchester, M ass, 
is printed on each package.

■  imitations  of 

SOLO  BV GROCERS  EVERYWHERE.

Walter  Baker & Co.  Ltd.  Dorchester, Mass.

Eastward.

+No. 14  +Xo.  16 
♦Xo.  18  *Xo. 82 
Lv. (I'd Rapids
.6:45am  111:  (Jam 
3:25pm  11:0  pm 
Ar.  Ionia.......
.. 7:40am  11:25am
4:27pm  12:35am 
Ar.  St. Johns. 
...  r__
...-:25am  12:17pm 
pm 
1 :25am 
Ar.  Iiw osso... 
1 :20pm  0:05pm 
..!l:00am  
0am 
Ar.  E.Sagiiui 
v 10:50am  3:4  pm 
:00pm  6:40am 
Ar.  Bay p u» 
.11:30am  4:35 pm
:37pm
Ar.  Flint.
.................. 10:05am  3:45pm
7:05pm
5:40am 
Ar.  Pt. H uron. 12:05pm  5:50pm 
8:50pm
7:  0am 
Ar.  P o n tiac..  10.53am  3:05pm 
8:25pm
5:37am 
I  Ar.  Detroit  . . 11:  earn  4:05pm 
0:25pm
7:00am
; 
For c   d  Haven and  Interm e d iate  Pts
?S:40am 
F or Ci'd  Haven and  M uskegon...........
hl :00pm 
For (i'd  Haven.  M ilwaukee and c h i... 
5 :35pm 
For (Ud  Haven.  M ilwaukee and  eld
‘7:40pm 
For 14 d  Haven and  M ilw aukee.............. t
I0:o5pm 
tD ailv except  Sunday.  »Daily,  Train
.  arrivi
from  the east, 6:35a.m.,  12:50p.m., 5:30p.m..  10:00
t ram s arrive from  the west. 6:4  a.m.  s-,5 
|  p.m. 
a.m.,  L0:10:i.m„ 3:15p.m.,  7:05pm. 
i  E astw ard—No.  14  has  W agner  Parlor  Buffet 
I  ca£   Xo-  '» Parlor car.  No.  82  W agner  sleeper, 
i  W estw ard—No.  II  Parlor car.  No.  15  W agner 
i  Parlor  Buffet ear.  No. 81 W agner sleeper.
_________ Jas, Campbell.  C ity  Ticket Agent.

W estward.

GRAND  Rapids  &  Indiana  Railroad

Northern  Div.

. 

, , ,  

L , ,  - 
Leave  Arrive
|  bagm an  and i  ad iliac................t 7 :00am  tl  :30am
!  .¡,rav-  Ly.,  Petoskey A  M ack.. ,*S:00am  +5:25pm 
* ray.  Cy.,  Petos. A  H arbor Spstl :40pm  110:15pm
baginaw  and  Reed C ity............ tl:45pm  111 :00pm
1 etoskey and  M ackinaw .........+10:45pm  +6:2uam
8:00 a.m.  train  has parlor cars for T raverse City 
and  Mackinaw.  1:40p.m.  train  lias buffet  parlor 
train  has 
car  for  H arbor  Springs. 
sleeping cars for petoskey and  Mac kinaw. 

lo:45p.m. 

Southern  Div.

Cin.,  Ft.  Wayne A Kalamazoo. .17:25am 
t(L15pm
Ft.  Wayne A  K alam azoo...........*2:15pm 
tl :30pm
Cin  , Ft. Wayne A Kalamazoo. .*6:00pm  *6-50am
Kalamazoo ..................................*1 1 :40pm  **!:.  am
c25a.m.  train   has  parlor  car  to  C incinnati, 
b :00p.m.  train  has  sleeping  cars  to  C incinnati, 
Indianapolis and  Louisville.

Chicago  Trains.

it :05pm 

train  has  through  coach. 

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Ar.  C hicago...................2:40pm 
7-10am
2:!5p.m 
1 1 :4up.m. 
train   has  through coach and sleeping  car.
Uv. C h e a g o .................t6:50am  +3:00pm *11:30pm
0:15pm  6:50am
3 :00p.m.  train has through coach and II :30p.m. 

R apids.............1:30pm 

Muskegon Trains.

has through coach  and sleeping car.
Lv  G d Rapdist7:25am  tl :00pm  78:30am  to :55pm 
Ar  M uskegon..8:50am  2:10pm  0:55am  7:00pm 
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A rG  d RapidslO:30am  1:15pm  7:55pm  5:20pm 
A-„AL,M‘iuIST’ 

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

C. L. Lockwood,"

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

Around  the  State.
Movements  of  Merchants.

Rose  City—Frank  G.  Bill  succeeds 

Randall  &  Bill  in  general  trade.

Bellevue—E.  A.  Turner  is  adding  a 
stock  of groceries to his bakery business.
Ionia  R.  G.  Cooper has  retired  front 
the dry  goods  firm  of  Cooper,  Son  & 
Co.

Bloomingdale  David  Smith  succeeds 
Smith  &  Fancher  in  the  harness  busi­
ness.

Baldwin  R.  J.  Matthews  succeeds  I.. 
in  general 

J. i  Matthews 

S.  (Mrs.  R. 
trade.

Lake  Ann — E.  Bleckmore  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  business  of  Virgil  & 
F arrner.

Woodland—W.  H.  Mohler  has  pur­
chaser! J.  J.  England’s harness stock  and 
will  continue  the business  at  the  same 
location.

Kalamazoo  Buechner  &  Schau  suc­
in  the  hardware 

ceed  Bueclmer  &  Co. 
business.

Muskegon  Potter 

ceed  Potter  &  Brown 
business.

Anderson  suc­
in' the  grocery 

Marshall—Chas.  A.  Radford  succeeds 
in  the  grocery 

Radford  &  McDonald 
business.

Holly—Geo.  E.  Pomeroy  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  Geo.  E.  Pomeroy  in  the  lime  and 
salt  business.

Rockford  -W.  H.  Hyde  succeeds 
Hyde  ¿t  Squires  in the elevator and pro­
duce  business.

Lansing  Ronk  &  Boughman,  dry 
goods  dealers,  have  dissolved,  Alfred 
Ronk  succeeding.
Elk  Rapids  S. 

J.  Cromie  succeeds 
Cromie  &  Davis  as  proprietors  of  the 
city  meat  market.

Boon  Dudley  &  Reynolds  have  pur­
chased  a  shingle  mill  here,  and  will 
stock  and  operate  it.

Ann  Arbor  Wm.  Goodyear  will  suc­
in 

ceed  James  Goodyear,  Sr.,  Sept, 
the  dry  goods business.

i 

Rockford—The grocery firm  of  Grein­
Smith  has been  dissolved,  M.  R. 

er 
Smith  being  now  the  proprietor.

Portland  C.  1).  Valentine  has  re­
moved  his  dry  goods and  boot and  shoe 
stock  from  Saginaw  to  this  place.

Harrison  T.  H.  Lees,  .  dealer 

Battle  Creek  L.  W.  Robinson  it  Son, 
dry  goods  dealers,  have  dissolved,  L. 
W.  Robinson  continuing  the  business.
in 
hardware, 
and 
drugs,  has  removed  to  Hibhing,  Minn.
Jackson  Pickles  it  Platt  have  moved 
their  fish,  game  and  poultry market  into 
larger quarters  at  1 17  South  Mechanic 
street.

glassware 

crockery, 

Alpena  -Hunter,  Glenn  it  Hunter,  of 
Detroit,  have  taken  possession  of  the 
Lockwood  Sisters’  millinery  stock  un­
der a  bill  of  sale.

Battle  Creek  D.  W.  Maynard  suc­
ceeds  O.  V.  Pratt  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.  Mr.  Pratt  will  engage  in  the  coal 
and  wood  business.

Albion 

J.  L.  Meader it  Son  have  sold 
their  stock  of  groceries  and  books  to 
Gunnison 
it  Sanders  not  to  Geo.  W. 
Craver  as  stated  last  week.

Lakeview  E.  C.  Saxton  it  Co.,  gen­
eral  dealers,  have  dissolved.  A  new 
firm  has  been  formed  which  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  same  style.
Jackson  0 .  L.  Topping  has  sold  his 
stock  of  goods and  fixtures  at  Dansville 
to  M.  M.  Joy,  and  takes  in  payment 
therefor  the  stock  of  groceries  and  fix­
tures  at 607  E.  Main  street.  Mr.  Top­
ping will  remove  to  Jackson  and  con­
tinue  the business at  the  same  location.

jewelry 

Ionia—G.  F.  Whitney 

it  Son  have 
sold  their 
and  store 
building  to  0 .  V.  Berry,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  lo­
cation.

stock 

Lowell—A.  B.  Johnson  has  sold  his 
grocery stock  to  Loren  Barber  and  Geo. 
Craw,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same location under the  style of  Bar­
ber  it  Craw.

Allegan-  J.  M.  Williams  and  Wilts 
H.  Williams  have  consolidated  their 
harness  stocks  and  will  continue  the 
business  under  the  style  of  Williams 
it  Williams.

Albion—S.  X.  Osborn  succeeds  Os­
born  it  Mumbrue  in  the  drug  and  sta­
tionery  business.  Dr.  Mumbrue  will 
return  to  his  former  occupation  of  tele­
graph  operator.

Charlevoix-  A.  T.  Washburn has made 
arrangements  to  remove  to  Petoskey, 
where  he  will  take  charge  of  the  dry 
goods  department of Levinson’s  mercan­
tile  establishment.

Jackson 

J.  F.  Orwick  has  purchased 
the grocery  stock  and  fixtures  of  M.  W. 
Coykendall,  corner  of  Cortland  and 
Francis  streets,  and  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Cadillac  -C.  W.  Lewis,  of  Flint, 

is 
in  the  city  to  conclude arrangements  for 
a  final  closing  sale  of  the H.  E.  Aldrich 
(v  Co.  clothing  stock,  which  was  pur­
chased  by  him  last  spring.

Eaton  Rapids-  -The  clothing  stock  of 
Pilmore,  Tears.  &  Merritt,  which  was 
closed  last  week  under chattel  mortgage, 
has  been  purchased  by  Jno.  A.  Adams, 
who  will  continue  the  business.

Coldwater—N.  W.  Oldman’s  stock  of 
groceries  .was  taken  possession  of  last 
week  to  satisfy  the  claims  of  a  local 
bank  and  several  outside 
creditors. 
Unsecured  creditors  will  realize  nothing 
on  their  claims.

Reading- -Weller  &  Ellis  bought  the 
Deman  stock of dry goods  and boots  and 
shoes  at  Montpelier,  Ohio,  June  20,  ne­
cessitating  Mr.  Weller’s  removal  there 
to  take  charge  of  the  business.  Now 
they  have  sold  their  general  stock  here 
to  Geo.  W.  Acker,  of Morenci,  who  will 
continue the business.

Kalamazoo  E.  L.  Harris,  one  of 
Kalamazoo Is best  known  grocery  clerks, 
for eight  years  with  S.  Stern,  and  Eu­
gene Austin,  a  former  well-known  resi­
dent  and  business  man  of  Kalamazoo, 
have opened  a  new  grocery  store at  304 
West  Main  street,  under  the  firm  name 
of  E.  L.  Harris  &  Co.

Kalamazoo—McCullough  &  Munro,  as 
butchers,  sell  butterine  and,  according 
to  law,  obtained  the  necessary  retailer’s 
license.  Some  time  ago  requests  were 
made  011  them  to  purchase  three  tubs of | 
butterine,  thereby  securing  for the  pur-1 
chaser  the butterine  at  wholesale  price. 
As  a  courtesy,  Mr.  Munro  did  this  and, 
in  order not  to  violate  the  law,  he deliv­
ered  the butterine  as  he  received  it and 
even  turned  over the  original  bill  to  the 
purchasers.  But, 
in  his  endeavor  not 
to  break  any  law,  Mr.  Munro  had  run 
directly  counter  to 
By 
turning  over the butterine  in  the  origi­
nal  package  he became  a  jobber  in  the 
eyes  of  the  law,  and,  not  being provided 
with  a  jobber’s  license,  was  liable  to  a 
fine of S600. 
In  some way  the  transac­
tion  reached  the  ears  of  the government 
officials  and  was  investigated  by Deputy 
Collector  Barrett,  of  Grand  Rapids,  and 
Deputy  Marshal  Howard,  of  this  city. 
They  found  the  facts  as  given  above 
and,  because  it  was  evident  that  Mr. 
Munro  had  intended  no 
infraction  o f! 
the  law,  and,  in  fact,  had  tried  to  avoid 
any violation,  the  officials  were  loath to

its  meaning. 

j push the  case.  Mr.  Howard  also  spoke 
in  Mr.  Munro’s  favor,  but,  as  the  law 
distinctly  provided  for  such  cases,  Mr.
I Munro was  fined  but  S320,  or about  half 
the  prescribed  fine.

Hanufacturing  natters.

N a d e a u -—N a d e a u   B ros. ’  sa w   a n d   s h in ­
g le   m ill  h e re ,  w h ic h   w as  b u r n e d   r e c e n t­
ly,  is   n e a rly   re b u ilt.

Sebewaing—J.  C.  Liken  is  operating 
a  small  saw-mill  at  Pigeon,  cutting 
hardwood,  mostly.  He  has  a  full  stock 
of  logs  at  the mill.

Otter  Lake-  Blackinton  A  Till,  foun­
ders,  have  dissolved  partnership  and 
retired  from  trade.  The  business  will 
be  succeeded  by  Wm.  Mudge.

West  Branch-  The  sawmill  of  the 
French  Lumber  Co.  has  finished  cutting 
for the season.  The  shingle,  mill  which 
has been  shut down three weeks,  resumes 
operations  this  week.

Ontonagon  The  Diamond  Match  Co. 
floods  80,000,000  feet  of 
logs  twice  a 
week.  The  logs  were  cut  on  burned 
lands,  and 
if  allowed  to  become  dry 
would  be  injured  by  worms.

Cass  City  Heller  Bros.,  proprietors 
of  the  roller  mills  here,  have  leased  P. 
H.  Toohev  &  Sons’  roller mill,  at Gage- 
town,  for five  years  and  will  run 
in 
addition  to  their plant  here.

Grayling—Sailing,  Hanson  &  Co. 
have  started  a  camp  of  45  men  on  the 
Au  Sable  River,  about  a  mile  from  this 
place.  They  will  cut and  bank  all  the 
Norway  owned  by  the  firm  along  the 
river.

it 

South  Manistique-  Hall  &  Buell  have 
purchased  another tract  of  timber  land 
in  Schoolcraft  county,  of  the  Lac  La 
Belle  Lumber  Co.,  of  La  Porte, 
Ind., 
and  will  continue  opertions  another 
year.

Stanton—J.  S.  Holcomb has purchased 
the  creamery building and  has  formed  a 
copartnership  with  O.  D.  Van Deboget 
and  Charles  Busch.  The  new  firm  will 
place  in  the building  a  two-stone  grist 
mill  for the  purpose  of  grinding  feed, 
buckwheat  and  rye flour.

Oscoda—The  Oscoda  Lumber  Co. 
started  its  sawmill  last  week  for the first 
time  this  season,  and  has  stock  enough 
to  keep  the  mill  in  motion  the  remain­
der  of  the  season. 
It  is  expected  that 
the  Pack,  Woods  &  Co.  mill,  which has 
been  idle  several  weeks,  will resume  op­
erations  in  a  few  days.

Ludington- -The  Danalier  &  Melendy 
Co.  is  making  extensive  preparations 
for  lumbering  the  pine 
in  Luce  and 
Schoolcraft counties,  purchased  of  1.  M. 
Weston  a  year  ago.  The  company 
is 
building  a  logging  road  to  the  timber 
from  Danalier,  seven  miles  east  of 
Seney,  on  the  Duluth,  South  Shore  &

Atlantic  Railway,  and  has  purchased 
the  saw  and  planing  mills  of  the  Dol- 
larville  Lumber  Co.,  at  Dollarville, 
where  the  logs  will  be  sawed.

Bay  City  -A  strong  and  probably  suc­
cessful  effort  is  being made  by the  busi­
ness  men  of  the  city  to  induce  Estey  & 
Calkins,  recently  burned  out at  Pincon­
ning,  to  establish  a  plant  here.  They 
are  now operating  a  lumber  yard  here, 
and  doing  a good business,  and  the  con­
centration  of  their business  here  would 
be  to  their  benefit 
in  many  ways.  A 
site  is  offered  them,  but  they ask  a  bo­
nus besides,  as  they  propose  to  erect  a 
plant  that  would  employ nearly  100 men.'
Muskegon  The Muskegon Wood  Rim 
Co.  has  leased  the  Nelson  piano  works 
for a  year,  with  the option  of  purchas- 
ing  at  the  expiration  of  that  time.  Al­
though  the  company  has  been  working 
only  about  three  months,  it  has built  up 
a  large business,  and  now  plans  to  make 
200,000  sets  of  rims  before  July  1,  1896. 
The  material  used  is  rock  elm,  white 
ash  and  rock  maple,  obtained  mainly 
from  Lake  and  Antrim  counties.  From 
400  to  600  rims  are  obtained  from 
1,000 
feet.  The  company  will  give  employ­
ment to  100  men.

Saginaw  Having  cut  all  the  timber 
tributary  to  Grossman,  Wm.  L.  Webber 
proposes  to  remove  his  sawmill  from 
that place  to  a  point  on  the  Saginaw, 
Tuscola  &  Huron  Railroad,  about  seven 
miles  from  Sebewaing,  opposite  Heis- 
terman  Island.  There  is  a  large quan­
tity  ot  hardwood  timber  at  this  point, 
and  about  5,000,000  feet  of  pine,  oak, 
elm  and  other timber on  Heisterman  Is­
land,  which  it  is  intended  to  cut  during 
the  winter and  haul  across  to  the  main­
land  on  the  ice  and  manufacture  at  this 
mill.  The  product  will  come  by  rail  to 
Saginaw.

Manistee-  A  gentleman  well  posted 
in  salt  matters  recently  asserted 
it 
would  be  a  long  time  before  the  manu­
facturers  received  more  than  40  cents  a 
barrel.  The  developments  at  the  recent 
meeting  in  Chicago  were  a  revelation 
to  some  of  the  more  sanguine  members 
who  had  an  idea  that  the  market  was 
unlimited.  The  Michigan  Salt  Co.  has 
a  large  surplus  on  hand,  and  the  amount 
is  increasing  daily,  as  the  consumption 
is  not  up  to  the  standard.  There 
is  a 
very  large  shortage  of  cattle 
in  the  cat­
tle  producing  country  this  year,  and 
that  has  cut  off  the  consumption  amaz­
ingly.  The  New  York  wells,  with  coal 
at  about  90  cents  a  ton  delivered  at  the 
works,  can  compete  quite  successfully 
with  our  refuse  fuel  from  the  mills. 
The  recent  decline  of 10  cents  a  barrel 
gives  us  a 
little  more  extensive  terri­
tory  by  enabling  us  to  add  that  much  in 
freight  to  the  cost  of  the  barrel.

We tell you 
How good-^—-

Highland  Brand Vinegar is—
You  buy  it  and  you  tell  us  how 

good  I lighland  Brand Vinegar is.

Highland  Brand  Vinegar 

Is Superior=«===

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar  Prices  are  firm  and  without 
change  from  the  full 
list  v a lu e s .  The 
trust  refineries are  o v e rs o ld   on  D ia m o n d  
A,  Candy  A  and  most  grades  of  softs, 
while  the  independent  refiners  are  sold 
well  up  to  production  on  all  grades. 
I he  outlook  favors  a  continued  steady 
market  at  present prices.  The situation 
is  healthy,  and  there  is  a  feeling  that 
before  the  end  of  the  month,  when  the 
canners  of  large  fruits commence opera­
tions,  prices  will  show  an  advance.

Molasses  Buyers  show  some disposi­
tion  to  buy  ahead,  on  account  of  the 
fear  that  there  will  he  a  scarcity 
later 
on.  Both  open  kettle  and  centrifugal 
grades  have  been 
fair  demand. 
Stocks  are  reported  as  very  low,  and  it 
is  said  that  there  is  less open  kettle  mo­
lasses  at  all  points  this  year  than  ever 
known  before.  The  demand  for  foreign 
is  fair,  and  there  is  no  more  to  come 
forward,  as  the  crops are  all  over.

in 

Teas  -There  is  nothing  in  the  situa­
tion  to  induce  speculation,  hut  the deal­
ers are  looking  for a more active  request 
for  fall,  which  they  think  will  start  up 
in  a  few  weeks.  The  receipts  of  new 
teas continue  free,  and  stocks  are  more 
than ample  to  supply  the  demand.

Cheese  The  welcome  rains  have  im­
proved  pasturage  to  that  extent  that  the 
cheese manufacturers  have reduced  their 
quotations  '¿c  and  the  jobbers  have  fol­
lowed  suit.

Provisions  The  market  in  the  early 
part  of  the  week  ranged  to  a  lower  ba­
sis,  with  considerable  speculative  sell­
ing  and  buyers  responding  slowly;  but 
later,  and  especially  toward  the  close, 
the  entire  position  has  been  changed  by 
the exhibition  of  strength and  more  ac­
tivity.

is 

Bananas 

the  country 

Importers  of  bananas  arc- 
loading their vessels  very  lightly.  They 
are  forced  to  make  low  prices  in  order 
to  induce straight  sales,  as  the  demand 
throughout 
limited. 
Wholesale  distributors  can  secure  as 
many  carloads  as  they  want  on  consign ­
ment,  if  they  care  to  crowd  sales,  but 
the  commission  men,  as  a  whole,  prefer 
to devote  the greater  part  of  their atten­
tion  to  the peach,  apple and melon crop, 
which,  with  the  abundance  of  small 
fruits  now  coming  in,  nearly crowds out 
foreign  fruits  now  coming  of  all  kinds.
Oranges  The  same  condition  affects 
the sale  of  oranges  most  forcibly,  and 
they  are  bought  in  small  quantities,  if 
bought  at  all.  A  few  Californias  are 
to be  had  anil,  up  to  the  present,  sell 
better  than  Rodis  or  Sorrentos,  which 
have  been  bringing  comparatively  high 
prices,  but  now,  owing  to  slow  sale, 
have  come down  a  peg.

Lemons  Have  developed  a  much 
stronger  feeling,  and  at  the  Eastern 
fancy  marks  went  at 
sales  Friday, 
$5. i2^ @ 5-37K-  August,  so  far, 
lias 
been  hot  and  favorable  to  high  prices, 
which,  at,  present,  are  certainly  most 
reasonable,  all  things  considered.  Any 
of  our  readers  who  will  compare  Grand 
Rapids  quotations  with  those of  Chica­
go,  Detroit  to  Cincinn iti,  will  observe 
that  our  merchants are  not far behind  in 
the  matter  of  favoring  the  trade  which 
looks  to  this  market  for  supplies. 
It  is 
very  likely  that  fancy  grades  will  be 
quoted  considerably  higher  in  our  next 
issue,  and retailers  with light  stocks will 
do  well  to  anticipare  their  wants  for 
a couple  of  weeks  and  order now.

Gillies  &  Co.  have  a  hyerfrom  a  New 
York  auction  sale  -a  new  Japan  tea. 
See J.  P.  Visner,  agtint.

Gripsack  Brigade.

A  new  commandment 

Do”   others  as  they  will 

I  give  unto 
‘ ‘ do”  

| you 
you.

O tto   H in te r m is te r ,  o f  H a s tin g s ,  h a s  
In g r a m   & 

e n g a g e d  
C o .,  o f  D e tro it, 

tra v e l  fo r  F .  F . 
in   M is so u ri.

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J.  Henry  Dawley  has sent  a  challenge 
to  the  traveling  men’s  baseball  club  of 
Detroit  to  play  a  matched  game  with 
the  Grand  Rapids  boys on  any  date  that 
would  be  convenient to  the  Detroit  grip 
carriers.

Geo.  A.  Cummer,  formerly  of  Cadil­
lac,  who  has  been  employed 
the 
wholesale  hardware  establishment  of 
Buhl,  Sons  &  Co. ,at  Detroit,  has  been 
promoted  to  the  position  of  traveling 
.salesman.

in 

M.  M.  Read  (E.  B.  Miller  &  Co. j 
attended  the  grocers’  picnic  at  Ottawa 
Beach  last 
I hursday  and  managed  to 
obtain  a  ride on  the  Soo  City  without  a 
ticket. 
It  subsequently  transpired  that 
his  ticket  had  been  clandestinely  pur­
loined  by  E.  J.  Herrick.

Geo.  W.  Wyatt,  an  old gentleman  who 
joined  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip 
in  1892,  by  the  payment  of  75 
cents,  and  who  has  never  paid  a  death 
assessment,  is  soliciting alms among the 
traveling  men  by  representing  that  he 
is  a member of the organization.  What­
ever  maybe  his  necessities,  his methods 
are  certainly open  to  criticism.

E.  A.  Bishop,  who  has  represented 
the  H.  J.  Heinz  Co.  in  this  State for the 
past  four  years,  severed  his  connection 
with  that  house  Aug.  1  to  embark-  in  the 
fruit  and  produce  business  at  Logans- 
port 
Ind.,  under  the  style  of  E.  E. 
Hewitt  &  Co.,  having  formed  a  co­
partnership  with  the  Rockford  grocer 
and  produce  dealer.  Mr.  Hewitt  will 
attend  to  the  purchasing  end  of  the 
business,  shipping 
in  carlots  to  Mr. 
Bishop,  who  will  place the goods  among 
the trade  of  Logansport  and  contiguous 
towns.  Mr.  Bishop  made  many  friends 
among  the  trade  who  will  greatly  regret 
his  removal  from  Michigan  and  all  will 
join  the  Tradesman 
in  extending  the 
hope that  his  new  undertaking  will  be 
both  pleasant  and  profitable.

Purely  Personal.

Amos  S.  Mussel mat 1  ( Mussel man  Gro­
cer  Co.  ),  S.  B. 
Jenks  (Mills  &  Lacey 
Manufacturing  Co.)  and  Geo.  W.  Gay 
I Berkey  &  Gay  Furniture  Co.,  )  are  the 
latest  converts  to  the  bicycle  mania.

f  red  H.  Ball  ( Ball-Barnhart-Butman | 
Co. )  and  f rank 
I.  Lawrence  (Putnam 
Candy  C o.) are  in  Reed  City  to-day,  at­
tending  the  annual  convention  of  the 
Northern  Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation.

L. 

J.  Stevenson,  Treasurer  of  the 
Commercial  Credit  Co.,  Ltd.,  has gone 
to  Detroit  to  attend  the  annual  con veil- 
tion  of  the commercial  lawyers,  agency 
managers and  credit  men.  He  will  be I 
gone  about  three  days.

Heman  G.  Barlow  (Olney  & 

|udson 
Grocer Co. )  and  wife  got  as  far  as  De­
troit  on  their  summer  vacation,  when 
they  were  summoned  to  Grand  Rapids 
by  the.announcement  of  the  death  of  a 
neice. 
The  funeral  occured  Sunday, 
and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barlow  will  return  to 
Detroit on  their way  to  Duluth  the  latter 
part  of  the  week.

W.  T.  Larnoreaux  was  taken  with  a 
fainting  fit  in  his  office  last  Tuesday, 
resulting  from  a  disordered  stomach  . 
He  was  able  to  resume  his  usual  work 
after  a  few  days’  rest,  but  the daily 
newspapers made  him  very weary by  an­
nouncing  that  he  had  suffered  a  stroke ! 
of  apoplexy.  The  report  had  no  foun­
in  fact  and  the  publication  of 
dation 
such  a  report  shows  how 
little  reliance 
can  be  placed  on  the  statements  of  the 
daily  j tress  on  matters  relating  to  busi­
ness  alia 1 rs  and  business  men.

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loaded  woof.  At 
I ward  has  heavily 
others,  especially  in  satin  weaves,  so 
much  of  the  woof  as  comes  on  the  sur­
face  is of  pure silk,  with  inferior back- 
I  ing.  The  pure  silk,  unloaded,  is of a 
lively  lustre and  very  soft  to  the  touch. 
If  the  lustre  has  been  artificially  pro­
duced,  the  fibre  feels  harsh and  brittle. 
If  it  is  silk,  but 
loaded  with  metallic 
dye,  the  fibre  looks  like  cotton,  but 
is 
somewhat  softer.
Another test of  quality  is  to  pull  out 
threads  both  ways  and  try  their strength 
is,  catch 
between  your  fingers.  That 
them  with  both  hands  about  an 
inch 
apart,  give  a  quick  outward 
jerk,  and 
note  the  force  necessary  to  break  them. 
Then  try  to  tear the  silk  along  the  lines 
that  the threads  come  out  of.  If  it  parts 
so  difficultly  that  there  are  puckers 
along  the tear,  it  is  proof  that 
it  will 
wear decently  well.

I he  most  valuable  of  the  tests  for 
either weighting or  adulteration  of  the 
fibre  is  to  burn  a  fragment  of  the  sam­
ple,  and  also some  ravelings  of 
it. 
If 
it  is  pure  and  properly  dyed, 
it  will 
take  fire  with  difficulty,  even  when  held 
directly  in  the flame. 
It  will  go out  al­
most  as  soon  as  the flame  is  withdrawn, 
leaving  ashes that are nearly  jet  black. 
On  the other hand,  weighted  silk  is  al­
It  takes 
most dangerously  inflammable. 
fire  readily,  and,  once  burning,  will 
smoulder 
through  the  piece, 
leaving 
ashes  that  keep  the  shape  of  the  cloth, 
and  are  of  a  light  yellowish  red  color. 
If there  is cotton  mixed  with  the  fibre, 
the  smell  of  the  smoke  will  betray  it. 
The  requisites of a  thoroughly good  silk 
are  strength,  smoothness, 
lustre  and 
richness,  without  weight,  no  matter 
how  thick  the texture.  Adulteration  in­
variably  causes  a  harsh  feeling. 
In 
heavy  weaves,  such  as  brocade,  it  is 
particularly  important  to  see  that  the 
foundation 
is  of  firm,  sound  silk,  as 
otherwise  the  fabric  will  not  repay  the 
cost  of  making.  The  writer,  of  course, 
refers  especially  to  silks that are  sold  as 
For  drapery  and  up­
holstery  one  seldom  wants  to  buy  pure 
silk ;  a  well-made  mixed  silk  and  wool­
en 
last 
longer than  pure  silk  when  applied  to 
furniture,  but  it  will  hang  better  when 
used  for  curtains  or  portieres.

fabric  will  not  only  usually 

dress goods. 

A  new  process  for  the  preservation of 
green  fruit  during  railway  transit  has 
It  con­
been  invented  by a Californian. 
sists  in  sterilizing  the air in the car con­
taining  the  fruit,  and 
it  is  said  to be 
more  economical  than  the  present  re­
frigerating  system,  and  much  more  suc­
cessful.  Ordinary  cars  can  be  fitted 
with  the  apparatus  for  the  process  at 
small  expense,  while the  expense  of  the 
process  itself  is said to be comparatively 
nothing compared  with  the  refrigerating 
process.

Í Stop !

AND  READ.

Make  no  contracts  for 
1895  until  we  call  or  you 
write us about

District  and  County  Fairs  of  nich 

igan.

'J.  M.  Bauer,  Secretary,  Hastings.

Barry  county,  Hastings,  Sept.  24-27 
Branch  county,  Cold water,  Sept.  23 
27,  W.  J-..  Wright,  Secretary,  Coldwater.
Caledonia 
l  nion,  Caledonia,  Sept. 
19-20-21,  C.  H.  Kinsey,  Secretary,Cale 
doni a.
Calhoun  county,  Marshall,  Sept.  24 
27,  |.  K.  Cummings,  Secretary,  Mar­
shall.

Charlevoix  county.  Hast Jordan,  Sept. 
24-26,  J.  H.  Stone,  Secretary,  East  Ior­
dan.
Cooperivi Ile.  Cooperivi lie.  Sept.  24- 
27,  C.  De\ os,  Secretary,  Coopersville. 
Eaton  county,  Charlotte,  ( let.  1-4,  G.
A.  Ferry.  Secretary,  Charlotte.
Fenton  Union,  Fenton,  Oct, 
1-4,
Frank  Heath,  Secretary,  Fenton.
Hadley  district,  Hadley,  Oct.  8-10, 

F.  A.  Smith,  Secretary,  Hadley.

Ionia,  Sept. 

Hillsdale,  Hillsdale,  Sept.  40-Oct.  4, 
J.  F  . Fitsimmons,  Secretary,  Hillsdale. 
Howard City. Howard City, Aug.  27-30,
B.  J.  Lowrev,  Secretary,  Howard  City. 
Ionia  district, 
17-20,
1"red  Cutler,  |r..  Secretary, 
Ionia.  L.
Litchfield Union,  Litchfield,  Oct.  8-11, 
L.  B.  Agard,  Secretary,  Litchfield.
ló­
Mason  county,  Ludmgton,  Sept. 
Secretary, 
Midland county.  Midland,  Sept.  25-27,
Oceana  county,  Hart,  Sept.  24-27,  1.
K.  Butler,  Secretary,  Hart.
Saginaw county,  Saginaw,  E .S .,  F.  C. 
Zimmerman,  Secretary,  Saginaw,  E.  S.
S.  O.  iy  \\.  A .,  Holland.  Oct.  1-4,  J. 
Kerkhoff,  Secretary,  Holland.

J.  G.  Culver,  Secretary,  Midland. 

J.  Meisenheimer, 

to,  W. 
Ludington.

St.  Joseph  county,  Centerville,  Oct. 

8-11,  S.  Cross,  Secretary,  Centerville.

Washtenaw  county,  Ann  Arbor,  Sept. 
24  27,  1-.  E.  Mills,  Secretary,  Ann  Ar­
bor.
h a i r   A s s o c ia tio n , 
Lowell,  Sept.  26-27,  J-  S.  Hooker,  Sec­
retary,  Lowell.

I )i s tr ic t 

L o w ell 

Cedar  Springs  Fair  Society,  Cedar 
Springs,  Sept.  5-6,  J.  B.  Callahan,  Sec­
retary,  Cedar  Springs.
Ottawa  and  West  Kent  Agricultural 
Society,  Berlin,  Sept.  17-20,  Secretary, 
Melvin  H.  Smith,  Grand  Rapids.

Manistee County  Agricultural  Society, 
Onekama,  Sept. 17-19,  John  N.  Brodie, 
Secretary,  Bear  Lake.

STATE  AND  D ISTRICT  FA IR S. 

Michigan  State,  Grand  Rapids,  Sept. 
9_14*  L  H.  Butterfield,  Secretary,  A gri­
cultural  College.
Illinois,  Springfield,  Sept.  23-28,  W. 
Indiana,  Indianapolis,  Sept.  16-21,  C. 
Ohio,  Col uni bus.  Sept.  2-7,  W.  W. 

C.  Garrard,  Secretary,  Springfield.
F.  Kennedy,  Secretary,  Indianapolis.

Miller,  Secretary,  Columbus.

J. 

Tri-State  Fair,  Toledo,  Aug.  26-31, 
J.  F.  Fitzsimmons,  Secretary,  Toledo.
16-21, 
T. 
Secretary,  North 
Greenfield.

Wisconsin,  Milwaukee,  Sept. 

1* leming, 

Montgomery  county,  Indiana,  Craw- 
fordville.  Sept  9-13/  W.  W.  Morgan, 
Secretary,  Crawlordville,  I rid.

Venni lion  county, 

Illinois,  Catlin, 
Aug.  20-23,  H.  H.  Kidd,  Secretary, 
J
Catlin,  III. 

Simple  Test  for  Silk.

it"  both 

If  it  gives  way  readily 

The  first  thing  to  do  when  you  want 
to  test  the  quality  of a  sample  of  silk  is 
lengthwise  and 
to  try  to  tear 
crosswise. 
in 
either direction,  be  sure  either that  the 
dye  has  destroyed  the  strength  or  that 
the  thread  is  composed  in  part  of  what 
is  technically  known  as silk waste.  Pure 
silk,  properly  dyed, 
is  the  strongest 
fibre  known.  Nearly  all  the  cheaper 
dyes,  particularly  the  dark  and  black 
ones,  have a  basis of  metallic  salts  that 
eat  into and  weaken  what  they  color. 
Next  test  the 
firmness  of  weave  by 
scraping  diagonally  across  the  fabric 
with  the thumb  nail. 
is  durable) 
and  worth  buying  the  threads  will  not 
slip  for  any  amount  of  manipulation,  j 
Otherwise, the thumb nail will soon  make j 
a  space  of  loose  threads  as  big as  itself.  ! 
After  that  ravel  out a  bit  of  the silk  and I 
look  carefully  at  the  quality  of  both  ! 
warp  and  woof.  Sometimes a  pure  silk  j

If  it 

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His  Best  Recollection.

“ Well,  what  do  you  want,  sonny?”  

asked  the  grocer.

’ I  most  forgot  what  mamma  sent  me 
for,”   replied the  perplexed  little boy  on 
the  outside  of  the  counter,  “ but  I  think 
it’s  a  can  of  condemned  m ilk.”

Seeds==

7

Peaches

If you  wish  to keep  in  touch  with  the 
market  correspond  with  us  and  we 
will  enter your  name  for  market  re­
port  which  will  be  mailed  regularly 
free of charge. 
I he crop  promises to 
be a  large one and quality  is fully  up 
to the  standard.

WRITE  US  TO-DAY.

A L F R E D   J .  BROW N  CO.

Grand  Rapids

\Ve are  now  receiving  New 
Crop  Timothy. 
If you wish 
to  buy  Timothy  or  Clover 
correspond  with  us.  We 
handle  all  kinds  Seeds,  Al- 
syke,  Alfalfa,  Crimson  Clo­
ver,  Etc.

Send  your consignments of

Peaches

I to  sell  you  a  bushel  or two,  if  you  want 
any. ”

1  was  sorry  not  to  buy,  for  the  tubers 
were first-class;  and,  thanking the  grow­
er  for  the  favor  he  had  done  me,  I  went 
on  to  the  next  man  who  lo o k e d   as  if  he 
would  be  likely  to  know,  asked  him  the 
same  q u e s tio n ,  with  the  same  general 
re s u lt.

n  *  *

fo r  some  reason  or  other,  the dago 

the  idea of giving  these fellows the name 
of  St.  James! 
is  not  looked  upon  with 
tenderness.  Whether  it  be  the  dusky 
skin,  or the  dirt  that clings  to  it  I there 
is always a  plenty  of  it),  the  repulsive j 
habits,  the sordid  greed  or  the  vulture­
like 
instincts  which  lead  him  to  the 
scum  of  the  market,  it  is difficult to tell,  | 
but  no opportunity  is  lost  to  show  this 
dislike  on  every  possible  occasion.

“ What  you  want  for these?"  was  the 
question 
in  the  dago  language,  as  a 
dirty  paw  was  spread  out  over  a  bushel 
of  clingstones.

“ Fifteen  cents.”
They were among the  best  on  the  mar­
ket  that  morning,  and  the  regular  price 
was30  cents.  The  man  crawletl 
like 
a  lizard  up  the  side  of  the  wagon  and, 
spreading  his  dwarfish  arms  over  the 
load,  he  said,  his  eyes glittering  like a 
snake’s,  ' ‘ I  take  ’em  a ll!”

Here,  Jim,  I ’ ve  sold  your  peaches 

Fruits and  Produce

How  Prices  Are  Established  on 

Horning  Market.

the

I here  isn  t  any  use  in  trying  to  he 
on  hand  to  say good  morning  to  the  first 
grower  on  the  market,  hut  it  occurred 
to  me,  the  other  day,  that  I  would  like 
to  be  on  hand  in  time  to  find  out  who 
settles  the  prices of  fruits  and  produce 
and  how  the thing  is done.  With  this 
object  in view 1  got  up  at  3  o’clock  and 
later  hailed  a  grower  who 
half an  hour 
had  not  yet 
located  his  wagon  with
What  do  you  charge  for  peaches  this 
morning?”   and  was  fairly  knocked  off 
my  base  to  hear,before  the question  was 
fairly  out,  Whoa!  a  dollar  and  twen­
ty-five  cents!”   How  did  that  man 
know?  and  as  I  loitered  along  pricing 
produce  here and  there,  I  finally  found 
a  promising  face  and  settled  down  to 
business. 
Nice  potatoes  you  have 
there.  Dry  weather  didn’t  affect  you,
I  guess?”  
it  didn’t. 
Been  the  best  time  for  potatoes  that 
I  could  ask 
in  about  ten 
acres  this  year.  They  ain’t  half  the 
folks  that get  in  a 
lot  of  potatoes that 
knows  how  to  take  care  of 
1 
plant  mine  in  hills,  just  a square apart, 
so  I  can run  between  the  hills  both  ways 
with  the  cultivator.  Good  many  plant 
in  rows;  but  that  ain’t  no  way.  They 
don  t  do  half  so  well. 
1 hen,  after they 
1  put  the  machine  through 
come  up, 
in  eight,  regular.  That’s 
’em,  once 
what does  the  business  for 
’em.  Why 
you  can’t  see a  weed  among  my  pota­
toes,  any  more’n  you  would  in  a  parlor. 
A  neighbor come along  t’other  day  ’n’  I 
was h illin g’em.  He  laughed at me,  ’n’ 
by  George,  the  rain  come on 
’n’  them 
p  taters  took  a  start,  ’11'  my,  you  could 
fairly  hear  ’em  grow.”

“ You’re  right, 

I  put 

’em. 

for. 

“  These  some of ’em?”   The  load  was 

among  the finest  on  the  market.

“ A  part  of 

’em,  but  not  the  best. 
These  yield  about 75  bushel  to  the acre, 
but  I  expect  the  others  will  turn  out a 
hundred. ’ ’

" These  are  fine.  What  do  you  ask 

for  ’em?”

Forty-five  cents  a bushel. ’ ’
How  do  you  fellows  establish  your 
prices?  Do  you  have  a  board  of 
growers  who  fix  prices?  Suppose  you 
had  got  here  first  this  morning  would 
you  have put  the price at 45  cents?  How- 
do  you  do  it?”

“ Well,  I'll  tell  you  a  feller  who  has 
anything  to  sell  has  a  general  idea  how 
the  market  is  running,  and  he  isn’t verv 
apt  to get  things  too  low- 
make  a  miss  of  it.  it  don't  take  long 
to  correct  it.  Now,  1  was  here  day  be­
fore  yesterday  and  I  could  see  about 
what the  market  was going  to  be  for  po­
tatoes,  n  then,  b’  George,  I  made  up 
my  mind  that  them  p’taters would  bring 
45  cents 
1 
won’t  sell  ’em

’f  they  brought  anything. 

What  you  asking  for  potatoes?”   in­

terrupted  a  buyer.

“ Forty-five  cents.”
”  I'd  like  to give  ye  40 cents and  take 

all  you’ve got. ’ ’

” \es,  I  s’ pose  you  would;  but  I've 
refused  the offer once  before  this  morn­
ing. ”

just  over  here  where 

"  You see, ”  the grower went on,  ”  I ’ve 
a  place 
1  store 
’em,  if  1  can’t  get  what  they’re  worth; 
and  if  I  can’t get  my  price  one  day,  I 
can  another.  That’s about  how  it 
is. 
The  market  this  morning  is  a  pretty 
good  sign  what 
it  will  be  to-morrow 
morning,  and  a feller that  keeps his eyes 
I'd  like
open  won’t  make a  mistake. 

We respectfully solicit your orders.
ALFRED J.  BROWN  CO.,

Seed  Herchants,

GRAND  RAPIDS

Grand  Rapids Fru it Growers Assn.

Each grower  sells  his own  stock 
fresh  picked each  day

for  you  for  15  cents.  He says he’ll  take  ?•  P*  GRAHAn,  President.
I ¿r  A.  PEARCE,  Vice-President.
’em   nil  I”  
H.  0 .  BRA/1AN,  Treasurer. 
M.  W.  RONAN,  Secretary.

"   • he  devil  he  w ill!”   and  the  dago, 
seeing  the  joke,  backed  down  from  the 
wagon  as  the  owner  came  up,  amid  a 
roar of  laughter,  and 
in  I 
the  crowd.

w as  so o n  

lo st 

H eadquarters until Oct.  1  ||6  LOUIS STREET, 

Grand  Rapids  Is  Headquarters

For  Peaches!

PRODUCE  HARKET.
is 

Apples  Cooking  stock 

in  ample 
supply and  fair demand  at  306/40c  per 
bu.,  while  choice  eating  varieties,  such 
as  Duchess,  Sweet  Boughs  and  Red  As­
trakhan,  command  406/500. 
Snows are 
beginning  to  come  in  and,  as  usual, 
meet  ready  sale at  a  little  higher  prices 
than  other  varieties.

Our crop promises to be large this year, and  as 
we have had some nice rains lately, quality  will 
he good.  We  shall  handle  more this  year than 
ever  before,  and  are  in  position  to  give  vour 
orders  prompt  and  careful  attention.  Hale's 
harly  (Freestone)  are now in  market,  and  will 
nave a  few yeilow peaches last of  week.  Prices 
are about Toe to 41.25 per bushel.  In  about  two 
weeks we shall be  getting  the  Early  Crawfords, 
Bernards, etc.  Send  in  your  orders  at  limited 
price and I will  take  care  of  you.  We  bill  at 
Beets-  -New,  toe  per dozen. 
market price day of shipment, and our terms are 
net  cash weekly.
Blackberries,  home  grown,  are  about
nu,lu>  ! 
,  X 5>  "  » 
-------- > 
t ears,  rium s and C
Pears. Plums and Crabapples  are  now  coming
<*u  01  market  and  wild  stock  has ceased I '[i:  prices  reasonable.
T u 
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Apples.  Potatoes  Melons,  Cucumbers,  Celery
jtt 
r  ’  ■1 
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to come  in. 
1’he crop  of  both  tame and 
Onions.  Cabbage,  etc., at lowest market prices.'
wild  was  nearly  a  total  failure,  so  far as 
W e respectfully solicit your mail  orders; same 
quality  and  quantity  are concerned.
will  have our prompt and caretul  attention  and 
benefit of  lowest  possible prices.
factory  creamery  is  held  at 
iS'ric.  Choice  dairy  commands  146/16c. 

Butter 

HENRY  J.  VINKEMULDER,

Cabbage -  S3  per  100.
Celery  Homegrown,  12 

per dozen 

418-420-445-447 S. Division  St.  Grand  Rapids 
hip;  Freight  or  Express  and

State  how  to 
over what  Line.

bunches.

B U TTER ,  EG G S,  PO ULTRY  and 

FR U ITS  to

Beo. E. Darling & Go.

42  Jefferson  Avenue,
142  Woodbridge  St.

W H O L E S A L E   D E A L E R   IN

GEO. E.  OAKLING 
H.  H.  ROBINSON

DETROIT
w.  H.  BEACH
HAY, GRAIN,
SEEDS,
PRODUCE,

Orders  Promptly  Filled 
Write for Quotations

HOLLAND,  n iCH .

Cucumbers-  Large,  25c  per bu.  Pick­

ling  stock,  75c  per bu.

11 lie  per  doz.

Eggs  Handlers pay  io Gc  and  hold  at 
Grapes  -F lorida  stock  commands  S3 
.  |  Per  2-bu.  stand.  Sales  are  meager,  as 

if  he  does  the price  is,  practically,  prohibitive. 

10c  per  doz.

Green  Corn 
Muskmelons  Nutmeg, 
Unions  506/600  per  bu. 

I doz.  Usage,  S i6/1.25  per doz  crate.
grown  \ el low  Danvers.

506/ 60C  per 
for  home­

Peaches  This  is  the  big  week 

for 
the  Hale’s  Early  variety,  which  are  be­
ing  billed  out  to-day  at  8oc6/Si,  but 
which  will,  probably,  go  considerably 
lower  before  the  end  of  the  week. 
Early  Michigans are  beginning  to  come 
in  and  command  about  the same  prices 
as  H ates  Early.  Early  Rivers  are 
about  at  an  end  for  this  season.

Pears  -Clapp’s  Early,  fair  in  quality,  j 
command  Sr  per  hu.  Bartletts’,  excel - 
ent  in  quality,  bring S i.25.

Plums—Blue stock  commands  S i.25. 
Lombards  sell  to-day  at  S i.50.  but  will 
go  lower before  the  end  of  the  week.  ! 
Green  (,ages  are  beginning to  come  in,  | 
commanding  about  the same  figures  as 
Lombards.

Potatoes-  45c  per  bu.  Transactions 
Tomatoes—Si  per  bu. 
for  home­
Watermelons—io@ 12c  apiece,  accord­

small  and  unimportant.
grown.
ing  to  size  and  quality.

A R T H U R   J .   W A T K IN S

WATKINS& AXE,Wholesale Produce

FRESH  EGGS, CHOICE  CREAMERY  and  DAIRY  BUTTER

J .   H .  A X E

I  for'jlm tts and^Produce^ef* 
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84  and 86  South  Division  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Phone 316 

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SEEDS, POTATOES, BEANS

wheatalFiceiaaIp J i- I1«S  E,EED ;SEEPS.  Clover,  Tim othy.  H ungarian,  Millet,  Buck-
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If you  wish  to buy or sell write us.

EGG  CRATES  and  EGG  CRATE  FILLERS.

_____________ Jobbers  SEEDS,  BEANS,  POTATOES,  FRUITS.

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WHOLESALE 

COMMISSION. Live Poultry

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vw mn  orpt van tha  Hinkoot  m«».
We can get you the  Highest Mar­
ket Price at all times.

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,

117-119   Monroe  Street, 

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Grand  Rapius,  Mich.

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WEDNESDAY. 

AUGUST 14,  1895.

THE  NATIONAL  FINANCES.

The  first  month  of  the  new  fiscal  year 
has  not 
furnished  any  developments 
which  point  to  an  improvement  in  the 
position  of  the  National  treasury. 
It 
had  not  been  expected  that  the  figures 
showing  the  treasury  workings  would 
show  an  equilibrium  between  receipts 
and  expenditures  for  July;  but  it  was 
thought  that the deficit  would  be consid­
erably  less,  and  that  there  would  be  in­
dications  of  a  more  healthy condition  of 
affairs  for  the  rest  of  the  season.

The  receipts  for  the  month  of  July- 
reached  S2g, 069,697,  which  is a decrease 
of  $5.700, 000.  compared  with  the  cor­
responding  month  of  last  seuson 
The 
expenditures  amounted  to  S38,548,063, 
whicli  represent  an  increase  of  S 1,900,- 
000,  compared  with  the same  month  last 
year.  The  excess  of  expenditures  over 
receipts  for  the  month  of  July  was 5q,- 
500,000;  whereas  the  excess  for  July, 
1894,  amounted  to  a  trifle  over S i ,800,- 
000. 
Instead  of  a  diminishing  deficit, 
the figures  actually  show  that  the  deficit 
is  increasing.

The  principal  shrinkage  in  the  rev­
enue  was  in  the  Internal  Revenue  De­
partment,  where  there was  a  falling  off 
for  the  month  of  >12.000,000  in  round 
figures.  O11 the  other  hand,  customs  re­
ceipts  show  a  gratifying  increase  com­
pared  with  last  year,  the  gain  being 
about  55,600,000.  There  is  every  rea­
son  to  believe  that  the  receipts  from 
customs  will 
increase  steadily  during 
the  present  year;  but,  with  internal  rev­
enue  receipts  diminishing,  it  is  practi­
cally  impossible  to  think  of  successfully 
balancing  the  accounts.

The  schedule  of  the disbursements  for 
July  does  not  indicate  that  there  has 
been  any abnormal  drain upon  the  treas­
ury,  about  the  only  noticeable  increase 
over  July,  1894,  being  the  interest  pay­
ments,  which showed  an  increase  of S6,- 
300,000.

Until  the  national 

finances  can  be 
placed  upon  a  sound  and  solid  founda­
tion,  there  can  be  no  revival  of  confi­
dence,  nor  can  the  financial  centers  of 
the  country  he  fully  relieved  of  the fear 
of  monetary  disturbances.  A  country 
with  such  vast  expenditures  to  provide 
for must  have  an  ample revenue,  afford­
ing even a moderate surplus.  That would 
seem  to be  the  most  pressing  financial 
reform  demanding  attention,  and,  when 
the  new  Congress  meets, 
it  will  be 
promptly  confronted  with  the  necessity

of  providing  increased  sources  of  reve­
nue.

This  expenditure, 

The  authorities  in  Berlin  are  making 
a  strong  crusade  against  the  usurers  of 
that  capital  who  are  fattening  on  the 
misfortunes  of  a  large  proportion  of  the 
people  of all  classes. 
It  may be  possi­
ble  to  regulate  the evil  in  some degree, 
but  as  long  as  it  is  the  supply  of  an  im­
perative  demand,  it  will  be 
impossible 
The  root  of  the  evil 
to  eradicate  it. 
lies  in  the  German military  system 
the 
the  senseless  maintenance  of  an 
idle 
army  comprising  much  of  the best  abil- 
industrial 
itv  that  should  be  used  for 
production. 
con­
stantly  augmenting  the 
inheritance  of 
national  debt,  has  made  that boastful 
empire  actually  poor,  and  the demands 
of  taxation  are  altogether  too  severe, 
considering  the  economic  conditions. 
The 
incomes  of  the  aristocracy  are 
not  sufficient  to  maintain  their  stand­
ing  without  constantly  accumulating 
debt  and  for  the  lower  classes there  is 
nothing hut  a  struggle  to  exist  and  pay- 
taxes.  To  eradicate  the evils  of  usury 
it  will  be  necessary  to  abolish  or great­
ly  modify  the  military  system  and  put 
the  armies  to  productive  work.  The 
conditions  in  all  the  army-ridden  coun­
tries  of  Europe are  similar  to  those  of 
Germany  in  varying  degrees.

It 

The  financial  and  trade  revival  con­
tinues  very  encouraging.  While  there 
has  been  a  slight  reaction  in  wheat  and 
one  or two  of  the  less  important metals, 
and  a  complete  demoralization  of  the 
hard  coal  market,  caused  by  reckless 
competition,  prices  in  general have con­
tinued  to  advance. 
is  thought  that 
the  withholding  of  wheat  from  export 
by  the  western  producers  is  likely  to 
work  disaster,  in  that England  will  look 
for  her  supplies  elsewhere.  The  ex­
ports  of  this  cereal  last week  were  but 
little  more  than  one-third  that  of  the 
corresponding  week 
last  year.  Wool 
continues  firm  and  active  and  prices  of 
cotton  goods  are  again  advanced. 
Iron 
has  continued to advance  in  some  lines 
and  Lake  copper  has  reached  12  cents.

The  recent  speech  of  Gladstone,  in 
which  he  arraigns  the  Turkish  govern­
ment  for  the  Armenian  atrocities  and 
calls  on  the other  nations  to  put  an  end 
to  Turkish  misrule  in  Europe,  has  re­
ceived  much  attention.  His  demand 
that  England  unite  with  Russia  in  this 
matter  does  not  receive  unqualified  ap­
probation,  however.  The  price of  Rus­
sia’s  services  in  this  direction  would be 
the  attainment  of  her  long-wished-for 
goal  on  the Bosphorus.  There  are  those 
who question  whether the  Russian  rule, 
in  view  of  her  dealings  with  the  Jews 
and  her  Siberian  colonies,  would  be  a 
sufficient  improvement  over  that  of  the 
Turk  to  warrant  the  change.

Among  other  advantages  of  the  bicy­
cle,  there  is  one that has  had  but  little 
attention,  and  yet  is of considerable  im­
portance 
the tendency to discourage  the 
use  of  strong  drink. 
It  is  found  that 
the  effect  of  even a small  indulgence  is 
generally  very  unpleasant on  the  wheel 
and,  frequently,  causes accident.  Wheel­
men  are  learning  that  they  must  take 
their  choice  between  the  wheel  and 
whisky and the  former wins  so  frequent­
ly  that  it  is a  matter  of  congratulation 
to  those  interested  in  temperance.

The  result  of  the  recent  elections  in 
Australia  is  a  victory  for  the  radicals 
and a severe rebuke to the ultra  conserv- 
I atives.

THE  READING  OF  THE  ORACLE. 

that 

It  was an  apt  reply. 

When  the  world  was younger  than 

it 
is  to-day,  it  was  the  custom  to  refer 
all  doubtful  or  difficult  questions  to  the 
famous  oracle at  Delphi,  whose  answers 
were  usually  so  construed as  to  conform 
to  the  prevailing  opinion.  Modern  life 
has  given  up  the  oracle,  hut  public 
opinion  has taken  its  place;  and  when, 
years  ago,  the  question,  What  part 
in 
the world’s work shall  the woman  take?”  
came  up,  the  public oracle  promptly  re­
plied  to  the questioning  woman :  Your 
best,  your sweetest empire  is  to  please. ”  
It  caught  the 
ear and  pleased  the  fancy  and  corres­
ponded  with  the  idea  prevalent  a  cen­
tury  ago  of  the woman  clinging  like the 
ivy  to  the  sturdy oak. 
It began  to  be 
apparent,  however,  that  in  this  country, 
at  least,  where business  was  early  the 
leading  idea,  the  tree,  transformed  into 
a  wash-tub,  was  hardly  the  form  of  oak 
for a  self-respecting  ivy  to  cling  to,  and 
| the doubt  has been  raised  that the  oracle 
is  capable  of  a  better  rendering. 
If 
woman’s  mission  is  to  please,  this  does 
not  mean,  necessarily,  that the  clinging 
business  is  the  only  method  of  carrying 
out  Nature’s  design.  Even  if  the  oak 
were  ever  so sturdy,  a  vigorous  vine  of 
150  avoirdupois  weight  might  prove 
tiresome,  if  not  monotonous;  and  it  was 
observed  by  the  thoughtful 
the 
clinging  business,  carried  to  excess, 
killed the  tree  the oracle had been mis­
read.  Then the reaction came.  Charles 
II  and  the gentlemen  of  his  court  be­
lieved  that  the woman  might  stop cling­
ing  long enough to  make  a batch of  pies, 
and  in  that way  show that her ‘ ‘best and 
sweetest  empire  is  to  please. ”   Byron, 
the  poet,  could not  bear  the thought  that 
the  woman  he  loved 
there  were  several 
of  her-  -should  come  down  to  beef  and 
beer,  and the pleasing,  in his poetic eye, 
permitted  her  only
“ To  eat  strawberries,  sugar  and  cream, 
Sit  on  a  cushion  and  sew  up  a  seam.”  
In  the  meantime,  the  woman  herself 
has  been  thinking.  The  vine,  like  the 
oak,  must  adapt  itself  to  existing  cir­
cumstances. 
If  use  is  the  requirement 
of  the age,  the  vine  must meet  that  re­
quirement,  and  the oracle  does  not  say 
that the  ivy  is the only vine,  nor does  it 
say that  the  wild  grape  pleases  more 
than  the  cultivated  Concord or  Catawba.
‘ “ Cultivated. ”   That is  the word  upon 
which 
swings.  Who 
pleases  most  as  sweetheart,  wife  or 
mother,  the  ignorant  woman  or the  cul­
tured  one!  And  even 
in  baking  and 
darning,  is  it not true  the  more  knowl­
edge  the baker and  darner  has,  the  bet­
ter she  can  please?  That  is  the  real 
meaning of the  oracle,  and  if  the  woman 
can find her  best and  sweetest  empire”  
in  clinging  less  and  thinking  more,  in 
being  less  a  dressmaker’s  dummy  and 
intelligent  being 
more  the  thoughtful, 
that  heaven 
the 
question 
is  settled  and  the  demand  of 
Margaret  Fuller  is  conceded  “ for  that 
which  is the  birthright  of  every  being 
capable  to  receive  it :  the  freedom,  the 
religious,  the  intelligent  freedom  of  the 
universe;  to  use  its  means,  to  learn  its 
secrets as  far as  nature has  enabled  her, 
with  God,  alone, 
for  her  guide  and 
judge. ”   That  granted,  the woman  has 
the  world  before her,  and  if  the  empire 
of  pleasing  leads  her  into  paths  where 
men  have  walked  until  now,  it  will  be 
pleasing  to  note  how  green  the  grass 
grows  there  and  how  soon  in  her  foot­
prints  there are flowers blooming where, 
before  she  passed,  there was  only barren 
sand.

intended  her  to  he, 

the  condition 

John  Brechting  Archltect

Grand  Rapids.

(Continued from  last week) 

and. instead of going to an archi­
tect for the  inform ation,  he  goes 
to a contractor  who,  after  listen­
ing to the  intending  builder  and 
probably  m aking  a  few  figures, 
etc., he  w ill  state  a  price  which 
he knows  is  high enough,  for he 
thinks it easier to  come  dow n  in 
I rice than to  go  up.  A fter  some 
“ ja n g lin g ”  as  10  th e  price, the 
deal  is usually closed  and.  if  the 
contractor  has  been 
“Jew ed 
dow n”  in  price  any  he  has  his 
u in  1  made up th a t he will  not be 
th e  loser, 
lie  then  will  use  a 
cheap grade of  m aterial  and  p ut 
up ever> thing ns  cheap  as  possi­
ble.  When  com pleted, the ow ner 
thinks he has ju st as good a house 

(To be  continued) 

Anybody  having  any  question 
to  ask  on  this  subject  w ill  be 
heerfully answ ered.

I

I

TO  CLOSE  UP  AN  ESTATE

Good  Furniture 
Business......

Established  1887.  Always  good 
growing business.  Occupying new build­
ing in  prosperous  city  of  100,000  people. 
Large territory tributary to it.

Well selected and  complete stock of all 

kinds of  Household goods.

early business of $50,000 can be done.

Will be sold at a bargain.
Address  No. 

1000,  care  M ic h i g a n  

T r a d e s m a n .

Everything for the

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

Headquarters 

for  Eerg  Cases  and 

Fillers.

128  to   132  W .  Bridge  S t.,

Grand  Rapids,  M ich.

M I C H A E L   K O L B   &   S O N , 

Wholesale

Clothing  Manufacturers,

ROCHESTER,  N.Y.

Write  our  representative,  WILLIAM 
CONNOR  of  Marshall,  Mich,  Box  346, 
to  call  upon  you  and  see  our  fall  and 
winter 
lines  of  Overcoats,  Ulsters  and 
Suits  for  all  ages,  prices,  fit  and  make 
guaranteed,  or  meet  Mr.  Connor  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel  on  Friday,  Aug  30,  and 
Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday  and 
Friday,  Sept.  10,  11,  12  and 
13,  State 
Fair Week.
P h o n e 509-3  R ings. . .

For  Boomer’s  Express 

ilo vin g and  Storage.
56  OTTAWA  STREET.

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sary  are  shut  off  from  work,  and  the 
production  of  the article  manufactured 
is  so  limited  as  to  reduce  the  supply. 
This  puts  up  the  price,  which  can  be 
kept  up  at  the will  of  the managers,  and 
thus the  masses  of  the  consumers  are 
placed  directly  at  the  mercy  of a  single 
vast  monopoly.  Such  methods  may  be 
carried on  until  they  control  the produc­
tion  of  all  necessaries,  and  already  sev- 
eral  important  lines  of  business  have 
been  monopol i zed.  Having 
secured
control  of  the  production  of  the  chief 
the 
articles  of  un i versai  consumption, 
railroads  will  next  be  taken 
in  hand, 
and  all  the  parallel  roads  on  the  conti­
nent  will  be  placed  under  one  manage­
ment,  so  that  there  will  be  no  competi­
tion  in  the  transportation  of  freights 
and  passengers, 
finally  accomplishing 
the total  enslavement of  the  entire  pop­
ulation.

But  is  there  no  remedy  for  all  this? 
I he  remedy  for  which  the  Populists are 
clamoring  is  the  creating  of  a  vast gov­
ernment  despotism  to  monopolize all  in­
dustries,  all  capital  and  all  production 
for  the general  benefit.  There  has  never 
yet  been  such  a government on  the  face 
of  the  earth,  but  there  will  he  if  the 
modern  socialists  of  this  country  can 
accomplish 
startling  designs,  j 
Nevertheless,  the  evil  they  are  trying  to 
combat  is  a  terrible  one,  and  desper- 
ate  men  should  not  be  blamed  for  pro­
posing  desperate  measures.

their 

I he true  remedy  in  reach  of  the  peo­
ple  who  desire  to  preserve  their  free  in­
stitutions  is  to  have  Congress  and  the 
State  Legislatures  pass  stringent 
laws 
against  all  trusts  and  monopolies  and 
crush  them  out.  This 
is  the  proper 
remedy  and  the  patriotic  remedy.  Let 
the  people  look  to  that.

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W e have a carload  New  Teas  due 
next  week.  If any of our  friends are 
interested  in  Japan  Teas,  new 
or
old, we can  do  them  lots of good.
WOODENWARE........has  declined  ■

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til  present  prices  are  so  extremely 
low  we  dare  not  publish  them. 
Write us.

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150  cases  Nunley  Hynes  Marrow­
fat  Peas, 2s,  new,  at  48c  per dz. 
350  cases  Eclipse  Tomatoes,  3s,  at 
7 7 / 4 c   per dz.  in 5 case  lots,  net 
cash.

—•••Cheap  Plug Tobaccos*»»—

W e are  in  the swim on  all  Plugs  at 

12

V2  up to  16c per lb.

TUB Jas. Stewart do.

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OUTCOME  OF  THE  TRUSTS. 

While  the great  commercial and finan­
cial  trusts,  which  are  formed  for  the 
purpose  of  crushing out all competition, 
of  limiting  production, 
fixing  prices, 
controlling  the  markets  and  monopoliz­
ing  the  trade  in articles or  in the supply­
ing  of  service,  that  are  necessary  to  the 
daily  life  of  the  population,  are  the 
greatest  foes  to the  welfare and  prosper­
ity  of  the  American  people,  it  must  not 
he  supposed  that  this  criticism  applies 
to the  ordinary  corporations  formed  for 
the  conduct of business.

Formerly  every  mechanic  owned  his 
kit  of  tools  and  carried  them  with  him 
when  he  engaged  to  work  for some  em­
ployer.  At  that  time  nearly  all  the  work 
of  skilled  labor was  done  by  hand,  anil 
the  superior  skill  and 
ingenuity  of  a 
hand-worker  made  h i nTespec iallyTaim 
able.  The  only  permanent  plant  in any 
of  the  shops  of  the  mechanical  trades 
were the blacksmiths’  forge  and  anvil, 
the  carpenters’  circular  saws,  the  cabi­
netmakers’  lathe,  the  machinists’  bor­
ing  and  turning  machinery.

To-day  all  is  changed.  The  machine 
has  taken  the  place  of  the  hand-worker 
and  special  skill  and  deftness 
in  the 
use  of tools  count  for  nothing.  Machin­
ery  does  all  the  work  of  the  carpenter 
in  planing,  mortising,  molding,  scroll - 
sawing  and  the  like. 
It  turns  out  win­
dow sash and blinds,  doors,  stair-rails, 
etc.,  and  leaves  to  the  workman  only 
the  task  of  putting  the  parts  together. 
The  machinist  enters  a  vast  factory, 
where  mechanical  engines  do  every­
thing,  but  think  for  him.  The shoe­
maker  is  no  longer  dependent  on  a  wal­
let  containing  his  awls,  pincers  and 
knife and  a  stock  of  wax  and  bristles. 
Ingenious  machines  do  all his cordwain- 
ing  and  pegging,  while  the  tailor  finds 
a  mechanism  which  does  his  stitching. 
The  compositor 
in  a  printing  office  is 
no  longer a  man  deft  of  hand  and  quick 
of  eye, picking  types  one  by  one out of a 
multiplicity  of 
little  boxes.  He  has 
come  to  be  only  the  manipulator of  a 
machine,  which  does  everything  but 
talk.

Thus  it  is  that  large amounts  of  capi­
tal  are  necessary  to  provide  and  main­
tain  the great  factories  and  the  compli­
cated  machines that do  all  the  work  that 
was once accomplished only  by  muscu­
lar  labor  and  hand  skill,  and  to  this  end 
corporations  with  the assembled  capital 
of a greater or  lesser  number  of  stock­
holders are  required.  But  no  ordinary 
stock  company  is  able to monopolize the 
necessaries  of  life  or transportation,  and 
in  their general  operations  corporations 
are  not only  necessary,  but  are  benefi­
cial  to  the  conduct of  all  sorts  of  com­
merce  and  industries. 
is  the  trust 
which  is  the great monopolizer,  the  op- 
erpowering  destroyer of all,competition, 
the  enslaver of  the great  masses  of  the 
people.

It 

The  difference  between  an  ordinary 
corporation  and  a  trust  is  th is: 
I he 
former  is  an  assemblage  of  persons, 
each  contributing  a  given  amount  of 
capital  for the  conduct of a business  en­
terprise.  A  trust  is  an  aggregation  of 
corporations engaged  in  the  same  busi­
ness.  One  of  these  corporations  may be 
operating  with  a  capital  of  $1,000,000.
If  tw e n ty   s u c h   c o rp o ra tio n s   c o m b in e  
to  
fo rm   a   tr u s t  th i s   tr u s t  o p e ra te s   w ith   a  
c a p ita l  o f  $ 20, 000, 000.  W ith   s u c h   a   v a s t 
m o n e y   p o w e r  e n o rm o u s   e ffe c ts  c a n   b e  
a c c o m p l i s h e d .

The  first thing  done  is  to  buy  up  or 
crush outalLcom petit ion  in  the  trust’s 
line of business.  This  done,  as  many 
of  the  trust’s  factories  as  may be  neces-

UNIONISM  IN  THE  ENGLISH  ELECTION.
rhe  result  of  the  recent  elections  in 
England  marks  a  reaction  in  the social­
istic  tendencies  of  unionism  which 
would  seem  to  be  an 
indication  to  the' 
anarchist  leaders that the  masses  of  the 
people are  yet  believers  in  law  and  or­
der.  It  is  the misfortune of  trade  unions 
¡that the blatant  demagogues  and  agita­
tors  get  to  the  front  and  pose  as  the 
leaders  and  representatives  of  labor.  At 
the  last  Congress’ ’  of  trades  unions  a 
year ago,  the  socialistic  element  made 
itself  so  prominent and  was  so  rampant 
that  it  disgusted  sensible 
labor  men. 
This  fact did  not  become  apparent  to 
these  leaders ;  so  this  year,  just  before 
the  elections,  they  held a  convention  at 
which  a  platform  was  adopted  compris­
ing  planks  of  the  rankest  socialism. 
One  provision  was  that  land,  manufac­
tures,  trade  and  commerce  should  be 
nationalized.  The requirement was  that 
all  candidates  to  receive  union  support 
must subscribe to  this  platform,  and  the 
edict  went  forth  that  all  trades-union­
ists  should  vote for no one  who would not 
thus  subscribe.  Their  scheme  was  a 
bold  one  and  could  not  fail  to  show  the 
actual  sentiment  of  the  people.  The 
result was  decidedly  disappointing.  A 
year ago  the  boast  was  made  that the 
unionists would  be given  the balance  of 
power by  this  election. 
Instead  of  re­
alizing  this  there  is  so great  a  reaction 
that the  “ party”   will  have  no  signifi­
cance 
in  the  next  parliament.  Not 
only  that but to  this  year’s  meeting  of 
the  congress 
the  unionists  of  many- 
large  districts are  refusing  to  send  del­
egates.

The  significance of  all  this  is  that the 
socialism  of  trades-unionism  is  in  no 
degree  representative  of  the sentiments 
of the  people.  The  curse of  unionism, 
both  in  England  and  in  this  country,  is 
that  the  rank  and  file  consent  to  be 
duped  and  led,  to be  misrepresented  by 
anarchistic  demagogues.

Computing Scale

more  mao  13,000 

in  use!

At  prices  ranging 
from  $15  upwards. 
The style shown in 
this cut

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Scoop.

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see last page of cover in  this issue.

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

your  correspondence  for  new  ideas,  and 
don’t  allow  a  suggestion 
contained 
therein  to go  unheeded.

A  novel  idea  for  shoe  window  dress­
ing  is given  by  an  enterprising  Eastern 
dealer.  He  has  in  some way  procured 
a  pair of  side-lace  ladies’  shoes of  pru­
nella,  which  he  alleges  to  have  been 
handed  down  from  Revolutionary times. 
These  are  placed  attractively 
in  his 
window,  in  close  com pan i onsh i p  with  a 
pair of  up-to-date  side-lace  shoes,  each 
bearing 
inscription. 
The  difference  between  the  two,  con­
trary  to  all  expectation,  is  not great. 
The  old-timers  have  long,  slender  toes, 
light  soles  and,  were they  not somewhat 
dilapitated,  would  quite  closely  resem­
ble  modern  styles.

an  appropriate 

The 

junior  member  of  the  firm  of 
Boomgaard  &  Son  Boodemyn  Boom- 
gaard  hardware  dealers  at Grand  Hav­
en,  has  a  rhythmic  ear and  a  very  good 
conception  of what  constitutes  profitable 
advertising 
for  hardware  something 
out  of  the  ordinary. 
1  am  pleased  to 
be  permitted  to  reproduce  it  here  for 
the benefit  of  the Tradesman  readers:

We  have  too  many goods,
But  not  enough  money.
We’ll  sell  cheap  for  cash—
Do  you  think  it  funny?
We  have  barbed  wire and  nails, 
Caldron  kettles  with  bails.
Also  shovels  and  spades,
O f  d if f e re n t  g ra d e s ,
C o o k   s to v e s   a n d   ra n g e s ,
S c re e n   d o o rs   and  h in g e s ,
Shot  guns and  pistols,
Paint  brushes  all  bristles,
Ready-mixed  and  handy;
Oils,  glass  and  varnish,
Nickel  goods  that do  not  tarnish, 
Rubber hose and  nozzles.
Cow  ties and  ox  muzzles,
Oil  stoves  and  pesters,
Ice-picks  and  egg-beaters,
Ice  cream  and  stomach  freezers,
Ice-tongs  and  lemon  squeezers,
Tea  pots and  kettles  with  spouts,
Hog  rings  for the  snout,
Flat  and  round  nose  pliers,
Dash  churns and  butter  tryers,
Powder,  shot  and  loaded  shells,
Dinner  pails  and  cow bells,
Cuttlerv  for  table  or  pocket,
Chisels  with  shank  or  socket,
Doors,  windows  and  molding,
To  hang,  swing  or  folding,
Iron  wheel-barrows,
And  cultivator  harrows,
Plows  for turning  sod,
Measures  for  peas  in  pod,
Cradles  with  fingers  on  top,
Forks  and  rakes  to  reap  in  the  crop, 
Pumps  both  iron  and  wood,
Pipes  for  city  water,  when  good.
Step  inside  and  you’ll  exclaim,
More truth  than  poetry  in  this  game.
Open  Antagonism

1

Is better than  -i  st.  b  !n  the  <!  rk  We 
lire  nut ■•troll ¡sing  >  nr  com petitors  in 
i tl  r  >'  low   prices on  ¡ill  e hsm\s 
tie' 
of  Dry Goods, bm  we can't  help it.  Our 
shelves are full of tiie  ewost things in 
l’r uts.  Here ales.  Wash  Muslins.  I) ¡ess 
(iiiig ism s,  S: tines,  mill  lnuul.eils  of 
novel!i  s  which  we  m ust 
lorn  into 
cash.  We  shall  iniiugu  ate  open war- 
fu ' e  on 
these  goods  next  Monday 
mi ru  eg. by offering them a t the low est 
of low  p  ices.  Rend these  n r  starters:

GUER.LLA  &  CO.

Getting  the  People

Art  of  Reaching  and  Holding  Trade 

It  is  as 

by  Advertising.
impossible  tor  an  advertise­
ment constructor  to  build  successful ads. 
from  his  unaided  mind,  continuously, 
as  it  is  to  continually draw  water  from 
a  well  which  has  no  source  of  supply. 
The  writer  must  seek  his 
inspiration 
from  his  surroundings  and  by  actual 
contact  with  the  world  of  advertisement 
writers.  Otherwise,  like  the 
immova­
ble  rock,  he  will  gather  a  covering  of 
moss,  rendering 
impenetrable  the  rays 
of  enlightenment  and  advancement  in 
the  manufacture  of  ‘ 'people-getters.”

It  is  the  continual  practice of  the  suc­
cessful  writer  of  selling 
literature  to 
keep  thoroughly  in  touch  with  all  forms 
and  manner  of  advertising.  Thus,  an 
interchange  of 
ideas  is  brought  about, 
which  results  in  lasting  benefit  to  both 
himself  and  the  goods  he  sells.

It 

is  my  aim,  in  these  articles,  to 
bring  about  such  an  exchange of  ideas 
among  the ad.  writers  both  merchants 
and  clerks  who  are  readers  of  this  de­
partment,  that  a  mutual  good  may  fol­
low,  and  that  by  such  reciprocity  each 
may  help  the other to a  higher and  more 
trade-bringing  plane  of  advertisement 
construction.  To this end,  the  Trades­
man  especially 
either  employer  or  employed 
to con­
tribute something  of  his  own  manufac­
ture,  as  often  as  possible,  thereby  giv­
ing  and  receiving  new  and  practical 
hints  from  actual  advertisements  each 
week. 
In  this  way  the department may 
be  made  of  much  greater  value  than 
it  now  is  under  one  man  power.  The 
Tradesman  hopes  this  proposition  will 
be considered  and meet with  a  favorable 
response.

invites  each  reader 

in  a 

The  average  business  correspondence 
of  a  mercantile  house  furnishes  a  won­
derfully  rich  mine  of  ideas  for advertis­
ing,  which  may  be  utilized 
in  any  line 
of  goods.  For 
instance,  we  will  sav 
that  you  are  engaged  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.  Each  day’s  mail  brings  you  let 
ters  and  circulars  exploiting  the  merits 
of  the  various  articles  handled  by  the 
druggist.  These  circulars  and  other 
media  are 
large  number  of  in­
stances  the  products  of  brainy  men who 
have brought  to  bear  their best  efforts 
and  years  of  study  and  experience  in 
the  school  of  advertising  both  as  pupil 
and  master 
to  the  attainment  of  the 
greatest  possible value  at  words as  argu­
ments  why  you  should  carry  in  stock 
and  sell  these  goods.  While  their efforts 
are,  in  the  main,  largely  given  to  ex­
pounding  reasons  why  you  can  and 
should  make  money  by  selling  ” 0. 
Puffv’s  Pure  Malt  Tonic, 
showing  in 
a  thousand  and  one  ways  you  would 
never have  thought  of  otherwise  the  ad­
vantages  which  will  accrue  to  vou  by 
handling  it,  yet,  on  the  other hand,  you 
will  find  specious  arguments  advanced 
why  the  buying  public  must  use  the 
tonic.  They  will  tell  you,  in  language 
which  has  the drawing  power of an  elec­
tric  locomotive  and  which 
is  as  con­
vincing,  almost,  as  if  the tonic  had  ac­
tually  cured  you  of  some  physical 
ill, 
that  human-kind  cannot  exist without 
this  specific.

The  fact  that  so  much  time,  effort, 
brains  and  money  are  expended  in  pro­
curing  the  best  advertising  literature 
for  their  wares by manufacturers,  makes 
the  ideas  collated  from  such  advertising 
by  the  retail  merchant  of  so  much  more i 
value. 
If  you wish  to  advertise  your 
wares  successfully,  then  watch  carefully

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Hold Your  Nose

To the grindstone,  if you want to,  but if 
you would rather straighten up and move 
through  this  world  with  less  wear  and 
tear and  more money  in your pocket,

5611 Lily White Flour

Note  the  following

Pointers!

This  Flour is always the same.
People always want  more of  it. 
Where  they  buy  Flour they buy 

Pleased  customers  are  good  ad­

(Groceries.

vertisers.

SOLE  MANUFACTURERS

G R A N D   R AP I DS .  Mic

VANILLA  W AFERS-

-GINGER  VANILLAS

-GINGER  W A FER S

Be  Progressive!

Are  You.

Making  Money

Selling 
Crackers 
and  Cakes

Handling  our  C r a c k e r s   and 
and  S w e e t   G o o d s ?
P U R I T Y ,   Q U A L I T Y   and 
I; R R SI 1X E S S  make the finest 
line  m  the world to select  from.

\\ il:  be  comparatively  easy  if 
y >;i  push  our  goods.  Liberal 
profits  and  quick  sales  will  be 
yotus.  C  ustomers buying once 
will  < ome  again.  Try,  and  be 
convinced.

Is a  very  easy  matter if you sell 
the  kind  the people  want.

< >ur aim is to produce the best. 
Only  the  choicest  Creamery 
Butter,the purest,sweetest 1 .ard, 
the  finest  Patent  Flour  and  the 
richest  Molasses enter our  pro­
ducts.

A  Little Tickle

We  make  a  Specialty  of  SUMMER  DELICACIES.

U nder th e ribs w  n ’t make you laueh 
so enjoyable as o  r pi ices on >  aimed 
Goods and Table  Delicacies.  We are 
largely stocked w ith  th e finest brands 
of these  goods and  sh .-11  offer  them , 
to r a short  tim e  at the  follow ing un­
heard of prices.

I Price list.)

STRAWTICKLE  &  CO.

THE NEW YORK  BISCUIT CO.

Successors  to  WM.  SEARS  &  CO.

Grand  Rapids,  flichigan.

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Illuminating  and  Lubricating

OILS

Naptha  and  Gasolines 

Office, Mich.Trust Bldg.  Works, Butterworth Ave. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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S&3

If You  W ant 
Clinkers and Slate

Don’t c  me to me  for your w inter supply 
of Goal. 
I  enii't  supply  you  w ith  such 
stuff  -my Coal  is  bright,  burnable  and  a 
blessing  to  cold  rooms  and  economic 
buyers.  Each  ton  gives a  ton's value of

If You  W ant 
Coal  to Burn

I  cun  furnish  it  at  lowest  rates,  with 
prom pt delivery  -Coal  that is tilled  with 
he it.

BLACK  DIAMOND.

Latest  Thing  in 
Bloomers::::::

i

should  see  our  new  fall  line  of  Ladies' 
Bloomer  Bicycle  Suits  K nickerbockers 
and  all  accessories.  These  poods  are  of 
the  most  approved,  dressy  and  modest 
pattern, 
thoroughly  well  made  of  good 
stuffs,  any variety  and  colors.  The  price 
will  pie  se you as  well as the goods

BLOOMERETTE  CO.

Slower  than 
|^ a   Snail........

Is often applied to lazy folks.  O thers are slow 
to realize a bargain or an  opportunity  to  make 
money.  Can you tum ble to the fact quickly that 
a pair of shoes w hich are  regularly sold  at ¡ft are 
a bargain  at $3—just  a  dollar off  price?  We  are 
going to o ffe r this chance for  one  week  only  a 
reliable  shoe  made  by  n responsible house and 
guaranteed.  "G et  a  hustle  on"  if  you  w ant a 
pair.

SOLE  &  LEATHER.

Please hear  in  mind  that  samples  of 
your  advertisement  construction will  be 
appreciated and given due publicity.

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

Civil  Rights  and  the  Soda  Fountain.
The  Appellate  Court  of  Ilinois recent­
ly  handed  down an  opinion  of  consid­
erable  moment,  not  merely  to  proprie­
tors  of  soda  fountains,  but  restaurant- 
eurs,  saloonkeepers,  and  proprietors  of 
other places where  "  refreshments”   are 
dispensed,  inasmuch  as  it  decides  as  a 
principle  of  law  that  they  have  a  right 
to  select  the  class  of  customers  to  whom 
they  desire  to  cater, 
irrespective  of 
“ civil  rights’ *  legislation.

The  case  was  Cecil  vs.  Green, 

the 
defendant  being  Homer  H.  Green,  a 
well-known  apothecary  of  Bloomington, 
111.  Cecil  is  a  negro  who  went  into  Mr. 
Green’s  place  and  demanded  a  glass  of 
soda.  Mr.  Green  refused  to  serve  him, 
claiming  that  he  had  the  right  to  select 
his  customers,  and  that  he  did  not  de­
sire  negro  trade,  as 
injure 
his  business.  Cecil 
sued 
Green,  claiming  an  invasion of his  civil 
rights.  On  a  hearing  of  the  case  in  the 
lower  court  Green's  action  was  sus­
tained, 
On 
trial  before the  Appellate Court  the  lat­
ter  sustained  the  ruling  of  the  lower 
court,  and  taxed  the  costs  on  the  ap­
pellant,  thus  settling  the  rights  of  drug­
gists  to  select  the  class  of  customers  to 
whom  they  desire  to  cater.

it  would 
thereupon 

and  Cecil 

appealed. 

THE  WOMAN  IN  BUSINESS.

Written for the Tradesman.

The  question  which  engrosses  the 
business  world  of  to-day  is  not  who  or 
how,  or  why,  but  what.  Genealogy,  the 
wearisome  detail  of  method  and  the 
long-winded  wherefore  are  not  wanted.
I here  is  no time  for  them.  Results  are 
called  for;  and  anything 
interfering 
with  these  results  is  swept  without  cere­
mony  from  counting  room  and  office by 
the  besom  of  business.  The 
law  of 
primogeniture  does  not  hold  in  trade. 
He  who  can  make  good  use  of  his  en­
ergy,  time  and,  above  all,  his  thought, 
so as  to  swell  the  balance  on  the  right 
side  of  the  profit and  loss  account, is  the 
man,  not  for  the day  and  the  hour only, 
but  for all  time.

When  that  business  principle was  first 
laid  down,  it  became  at  once a  barrier 
which  the 
inefficient  found  it  impossi­
ble  to  pass.  Better  than  anything  else, 
it  attracted  to  the  business  world  the 
longing  eyes  of  woman,  who,  shackled 
to  the  washtub and  the  teacher’s  desk, 
timidly  asked,  after wearisome  years  of 
waiting,  that  the  same  opportunity  and 
liberty  that  a  man  has  in  civilized  so­
ciety  should  be  extended  to  the  woman 
at  his  side  equal  or  unequal  in  special 
powers, hut  an  equal member of  society. 
She  should  prove  her  power  as  he 
proves  his.  Might  she?  There  was  but 
one answer,  and with  a  "y e s ,“  as  hearty 
as  it was  unexpected,  the  long-headed 
business  man,  on  purely  business  prin­
ciples,  opened  to  the  woman  every  avo­
cation  at  his  command;  and  there  she 
is  to-day,  ready  to stand  or  fall,  as  the 
work  of  her brain  and  hand  shall  be 
found  to  meet  the  wants and  needs  of 
the  world,  on  pure business  principles. 
A  publishing  house  wants  a  stirring 
story  and  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe  writes 
one  for  him,  which  enriches  him  and 
frees  a  race;  a  poem  is  called  for,  and 
Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning  answers 
the  call. 
“ Give  me, ”   says  the  dealer 
in  art,  “ something  in  the  line  of  ani­
mals, “   and  Rosa  Bonheur  paints  him  a 
vigorous  group  of  Normandy  horses.

Is 

it  objected  that  works  of  genius 
hardly  fall  within  the  pale  of  business? 
It  is  submitted  that  business,  whatever 
its  development,  makes  that  develop­
ment  the  unerring  sign  of  the  genius 
which  created  it.  The  early  Astor had 
the genius  for  making  money  in  furs, 
and  he made his  fortune  in  that manner. 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt  took  to  steam- 
boats  and 
lo,  the  famous  palaces  on 
Fifth  avenue,  as  the  result  of  genius  in 
steamboating.  Adelina  Patti  wanted  a 
fortune,  and  she  had 
it  for  a  song. 
Belva  Lockwood  decided  to  earn  her 
living  as  a 
lawyer,  and  she  hammered 
at  the  doors  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States  until  that  august  and I 
learned  body  voted  to  let  her 
in.  The 
field  of  medicine 
is  brightened  by 
women,  whose skill with  knife  and  phial 
has  made  them  a  blessing;  and  a  wo­
man  has been  known  to  fill  successfully 
for  years  the arduous  position of  a coun­
try  postmaster.

This  is  the woman  in  business.  There 
she  stands,  and  there  is  the  record  she 
has  made,  to be  criticised  by  the  same 
standard  of  business  which  is  used 
in 
the  work  of  her  brother. 
judging 
Weighed 
in  the  balances,  she 
is  not 
found  wanting.  Her  womanliness  has 
lost  none of  its  sweetness  or 
its  purity 
and,  when  the  time  comes  for  her  to lay 
aside  the  work  which  she  has  honored 
in  the doing,  the  home  she gladdens will 
be  all  the  brighter  for  the  experience 
she  has  had 
in  the  exacting  world  of 
trade.

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JAN E  CRAGIN.

How  She  Furnished  an  Example  of 

Practical  Philanthropy.

■Written  l i i r t i i e   T r a d e s m a n .

It  was a  wet,  disagreeable  day,  and 
that  for  a  country  store means  little  to 
do. 
It  was  no  kind  of  a  day  for  a  wo­
man  to  be  out  in,  and  that,  probably, 
was  the  reason  why  Jane  Crag in, 
iti 
waterproof  and  rubbers,  told  Huxley  to 
take  care  of  things  for  an  hour  or  so 
while  she  went  out  to  look  around.

It  was  evident  that  she had  no  end  in 
view.  She  stopped  on  the  steps  and 
watched  the  clouds as  they  dripped  and 
drifted.  She  looked  up  the  single  sreet 
in  the  village  and  saw  nothing.  She 
looked  down,  and  nothing  but  the  bend 
in  the  road  just beyond  Joe  Wilkinson’s 
bam  claimed  her attention,  and the only 
thing  there  was  the  big  tree  that  had 
forced  the  road  out  of  a  straight 
line. 
There  might have been something  in  the 
drooping  branches of  the big  elm  which 
finally  started  her  down  that  way 
for 
trees  do  have  a 
language  of  their  own 
—and  that  morning  the  rain-pattered 
leaves  did  seem  to  beckon  to  the  little 
woman,  and  away  she  went.

The  walk  down  there  was  over  the 
wet,  gravelly  road,  bordered  by  the 
rain-beaded  grass.  She  was  prepared 
for both, and when she found that the elm 
had  fooled  her and  hail  really  nothing to 
show  her,she kept right on,  thinking  that 
it  was  better  after all  to  be  out  there 
where  things were  growing  than  to  be 
shut  up  in  the  store,  trying  to add  long 
columns  of  figures  when  she  didn’t  feel 
like  it.

What a  pretty  picture  the  river  made 
as  it  crept  out  of  the  overhanging  al­
ders  into  the green  meadows,  and  then 
wound  on  to  the  old mill,  where the  hills I 
came  together to keep  the ruin  from  go­
ing  down  the  then  turbulent  stream! 
The busy days of  the  mill  had  long been 
over.  The  flume was  washed  aw ay;  the 
shingles  were partly gone,  and  the gaunt 
ribs  of  the  roof  stood  out  against  the 
green  trees  on  the  hillside  behind 
it. 
The  wheel  which  had  done good  service 
was  there  some  of  it.  The  rim  still  de­
scribed  its  circle,  but the  buckets  were 
almost  gone;  and  the  drizzling  rain 
dripped  from the wheel  and  fell  into  the 
pool below.

lusty 

All  it  needs,1 ’ she said  to  herself,  as 
she  looked  at  the  pleasing  picture,  " is  
to  have  a  troop  of  vigorous  boys  racing 
about  i t a n d   even  as  she  was  saying 
it,  a  ‘ ‘whoop’ ’  from 
lungs  went 
bounding  against  the  neighboring  hill­
sides.  One-  three-  where  in  the  world 
did  those  five  children,  apparently  all 
of  an age,  come  from?  Was there  any­
body 
in  the  old  Woods 
house,  a  little  farther  down  the  road?
She  would  see  later on,  but  now  she 
must  find  out who  these  children  were; 
and  down  she  scrambled to  the old  ruin.
A  loosened  stone  announced  her  com­
ing,  and,  as  she stood  at  the  entrance 
of  the  old  mill,  the  children  crowded 
forward  to  see  who  the 
intruder  might 
be.

living  now 

"Well,  you  younkets,  a  fine  play-' 
ground  you  have  here.  Are’nt  you 
afraid  of  falling  on  these  old,  wet  tim­
bers?”

"O ,  we don’t  care  if  we do. 

’Twon’t 

hurt  us. ”

Where  do  you  live?”

"Ju st  down  the  road,  on  the  old 

Woods  place. ”

" I   used  to  know  the  folks  who  lived 
there,  but  I  don’t  know  you.  What’s 
your name,  boy ? ’ ’

"M y  name’s  John  Neely,  and  these 
are  my  brothers;  ’  and  the  gaping'

group  stood  wondering  what  was  com­
ing  next.
‘ ‘ Well, 

I  don’t  know  that  I  have 
enough  to  go  around,  but  you  shall  have 
what there  is 
and  Jane  Cragin  took 
front- her pocket a package of sorted can­
dies and  passed them to John,  the largest 
boy,  expecting  to  see  the others  make a 
rush  for  the sweets;  but  they  did  noth­
ing  of  the  sort.  With  the  air of  a  judge 
the  boy  sifted  the candy  into  their  wait- 
ing  hands,  keeping  for  himself  the 
smallest  part. 
Jane  began  to  be  inter­
ested.

How old  are  you,  John?”

"Tw elve. ”

Don’t  you  go  to  school?”
No,  ma’am. ”
Can  you  read?”

"N ot  very  well.  Mother  teaches  me 
a  little  when  she  has  time,  but that isn’t 
often. ’ ’

Why  don’t  you  go  to  school?’ ’  and 
Jane’s  voice  indicated  that  she  was get­
ting  ready  for a  lecture.

The  boy’s  face  fell  for  a  moment.
Then  with  an  earnestness,  not  often 
lifted  his  sober  eyes 

seen  at  twelve,  he 
to  Miss  Cragin’s  face,  and  said :

Mother  is  too  poor to  send  any of  us 
to  school.  We  can’t  any  of  us  read  any 
too  well,  an’  I’m  the only  one  that  can 
write.  Mother says  our  clothes  are  not 
goo 1  enough  for  school.  We  have  been 
living  here  about  six  months.  Mother 
does all  she  can,  an’  the  rest  of  us  do 
what we  can,  but  it’s  pretty  hard  some­
times.  Tommy,  don’t  bite  your apron 
that  way.”

" I s   your  father  alive?”
A  rush  of  red 

in  the  boy’s  face  was 
followed  by  a  pallor  that  made  Miss 
Cragin  wish  that  she  had  not  asked  the 
question ;  but  the boy,  hesitating  but a 
minute,  went bravely  on.

No,  ma’am ;  but a long time  ago,  he 
ran  away  and  left  us  when  Tom  was  a 
little  baby. 
I  was  large  enough  to  no­
tice  that  mother  cried for days and days, 
and  when  I  tried  to  do  all 
I  could  to 
help  her,  she  stopped  crying  and  said 
she  guessed  it  was  all  for  the  best. 
I 
haven’t  seen  her  cry  since.  We  have 
some  hard  times,  but,  unless  we  get  too 
hungry,  we  don’t  care  for that. 
It  isn’t 
going  to  last  much  longer. 
I ’m  twelve 
now and  going  on  thirteen  and,  while 
I  can  soon 
I’m  not  large  for my  age, 
get  something  to  do  to  earn  a 
1 ittle 
money,  and  mother says  a  little  some­
times  goes  a  great  ways.  She  earns  al­
most  enough,  and  when  I  go  to  work  we 
can  have  all  we  want  to  eat,  and  that’ll 
be  a  good  deal.  Don’t  you  s’pose 
I  m  large  enough  now to  do  something? 
Mother  says not,  but  I 
I  am ,”  
and  the  boy  straightened  himself  to 
show  that  he  wasn’t  so  small  after  all. 
" I f   I  should  come  from  the  village and 
tell  mother  that  I  could  earn  St  a  week, 
she’d  be  the gladdest  mother  in  all  the 
world.  Do  you  live  in  the  village;  and 
don’t  you  think  I  could?”

think 

‘ ‘ I  know you  can.  Get  your cap  and 
come  right  along  with  me this minute. ”
I  haven’t  any  cap,  so  we  can  go 

right  off.  Shall  we?”

It  showered  a 

They  went  at  once,  and  the  children 
started  home on  the  run  to  tell  what had 
become  of  John. 
little 
before  they  reached  the store,  but Jane’s 
waterproof  was  equal  to  any  little  thing 
like that;  and,  by  the  time  the  long 
walk  was  ended,  it  was pretty plain  that 
the  home at  the old  Woods  place  was  in 
need  of  everything  that  makes  living 
desirable.

Business  in  the  Milltown  store,  on 
Jane’s  arrival,  became  brisk.  All  hands 
went  at  it—and  in  such  cases  more than 
ever  is  it  true  that  quick  hands  make

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simplicity and artistic neatness.

The  Tradesman 
Company......

Makes  a  specialty of  Business 
Men’s  Printing—Printing that 
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Stationery.

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facilities  for 
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and  prompt  execution  of  or­
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of  the  art  are  surpassed  by 
none.  Prices  are  in  harmony 
with  best results and quality of 
stock  furnished.

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light  work  and  the boxes  and  bundles 
and  baskets  which  went  into that  deliv 
ery  wagon  were  something  extensive 
and  when  Cyrus  drove  off  with  John 
comfortably  clad on the  seat beside  him 
it  was  hard  to  tell  which  was the  "glad 
dest”  
John in his new suit,  Huxley with 
his  load  of  goods,  or  warm-hearted  Jant 
Cragin,  as  she  watched them drive away 
to the  deserted,  work-worn woman,  wh< 
for  so  many  weary  years  had  "earned 
almost  enough”   to  keep  the  wolf  from 
the door.

The  next  day  Miss  Cragin  called  at 
the  Woods  place.  She  was warmly  wel 
corned,  and  when  the  lively  conversa 
tion  about  the  goods  delivered  were 
over,  it  was  found  that Miss  Cragin  had 
a  scheme  which  she  hoped,  with  Mrs. 
Neely’s  help,  to  carry  out.  There  was 
a  vacant  house not  far  from  the  store 
corner,  and  it  could  be  rented  for  al­
most  nothing.  She  had  thought  of  this 
because  they  needed  a  boy  to  run  er­
rands  in  the  store.  They  wanted  John, 
if  she  could  spare  him,  and  in  that  case 
he  must be  near.  They  would  pay  him 
$3  a week ;  and  Mis.  Neely,  by being 
the  village,  would  find  more  work  to  do 
and  so get  along  more  easily  than  where 
she  was.  Would  she  be  willing  to  take 
the  cottage?”

A  week  later  found  a  happy  woman 
and  five  very  happy  children  taking 
care  of the  little  house and  its  neglect­
ed  surroundings.  The  boy  John  soon 
made  himself  a  necessity  in  the  store, 
and  a  good  many  times  afterwards  Jane 
Cragin  was  heard  to  remark  that  that 
walk  in  the  rain  was  the best  walk  she 
ever took;  and  Huxley,  hearing  her, 
replied,  “ Yes,  and  that  load  of  goods 
we  took  over  to  the  Woods  place  has 
paid  for  itself  more  than  a  hundred 
times. ”

1  tell  you. 

long-winded  encomium, 

Of  course,  the boys  had  to  have  their 
say  about  it ;  and one day,  after Jim  had 
finished  a 
in 
which  Miss  Cragin  appeared  as  a  saint 
with  the  traditional  ring  of  flame  above 
her  revered  head,  Sid  remarked :  ‘ ‘ The 
fact  is,  Jim,  they  are  mighty  nice  peo­
ple,  both  of  them,  and Cy isn’t  a  bit  be­
hind  Jane,  now, 
I  heard 
about  him  long  before  I  came  to  Mill- 
town,  and  that  was  one  reason  why  I 
wanted  to  come  here. 
I  used  to  think 
when  I  was  working  on  the  farm,  that a 
store  was  one of  the  best  places  for  a 
man  to  make  himself  looked  up  to  and 
respected;  and  the  more  I  see  these 
people and  know them,  the  more  I  am 
convinced  that  that  is  the  niche  in 
life 
I  want  to  fill.  You  can  see  yourself 
that  Cy’s  the  man  of  the  village,  and 
just  see  the 
is  going  to 
have  when  the  place  gets  bigger. 
Mother  has always  talked  about  my  be­
ing  a  doctor,  because  grandfather  was 
one. 
I  want 
to  be  a  storekeeper;  and,  after  I've  got 
as good  an  education  as  the best  college 
can  give  me,  I'm  coming  right back  to 
this  store,  or some other,  if  I  can’t get 
in  here,  and  do  for  the  place  what  Cy 
and  Miss  Cragin  are  doing  now.  The 
educated  storekeeper  is  to  be  the  man 
of  to-morrow,  and  if  I  don’t  happen  to 
be  on  hand  when  that time comes,  I  can 
do  what  I  can  to  make  my  learning and 
my  influence  tell  on  the  people  and  the 
town  where  I  1 ive.  That  is  better, 
in 
my  opinion,  than  all  the  doctoring  and 
lawyering  when  there  are  too  many  of 
’em  already.  Benton  &  ---- . ”

I  don’t  take  to  it  at  all. 

influence  he 

The  other member of  the  future  firm 
was  not given,  for  a  signal  from  the 
front 
store  summoned  them  both  to 
duty,  and  the  castlebuilding  came  to  a 
sudden  end ;  but  it  may  be well  to  say,

that  if  the  ideas  of  the  embryo  store- 
i keeper should  generally  be  carried  out, 
the  benefits  which  this  country  would 
receive  from  a  nation  of  college  bred 
tradesmen  with  all  that  the training  ini 
plies,  business  life  in  America  would 
assume  a  dignity and  an importance  be­
fore  unknown  arid  would  make  these 
sterling qualities  of  citizenship  felt  in 
the  market  places of  the  world.

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

Information  Gathered  in  Experience.
“ Pipe Hole"  in  the Iron  Age.

I his  is  the  season  of  the  year  when 
people have  brought  their kitchen  stove 
out into the summer shed and are experi­
encing  difficulty  in  getting  their  cake 
done  the  right  brown,  and  are  making 
more  or  less  trouble with the  stove deal­
er on account  of  it.  It  is not  strange that 
a  stove  that has  been  connected  with  an 
8x8  or larger flue of  two  or three  stories 
in  height  fails to  operate  satisfactorily 
when  its  chimney  consists  of  some  old 
pipe  shoved  up  through  the  shed  roof. 
Another  feature  that  acts  as  a  drawback 
is  the high  temperature  of  the  air  at 
this season which naturally does not press 
so hard to enter the fire aswhen the weath­
er  is  cooler and  there  is  a  great  differ­
ence  in  the temperature  between  the  air 
coming  out of  the  top  of  the  chimney 
and  the air  out  of  the doors.  Cheap  ex­
periments  will  prove  expensive 
in  se­
curing  satisfaction,  and  the  best  thing 
to  do  is  to  run  up  a 6-inch pipe  at  least, 
and  oftentimes  better a  7-inch  pipe,  to 
almost  the same  height  as  the  chimney 
with  which  the stove  has  been  previous­
ly  connected.
little  out  of  season  to  talk 
about  double heaters, but many  a double 
heater  has  failed  to  prove  satisfactory 
when  the  weather suddenly  set  in  sharp 
and  cold.  Then  all  the  doors 
in  the 
house  are  kept  closed,  and  each  room 
may  be  said  to  be a  sealed  chamber. 
This  interferes  with  the  passage  of  air 
from  the  room 
in  which  the  double 
heater  is  set  to  the  room  above,  which 
»rdinarily  it  heats,  and  as  a  result  the 
uper  room oftentimes is cold. Where such 
a  result  is  experienced  it  can  be  readily 
remedied  by  placing another  register  in 
the  floor  of  the  upper  room and connect­
ing  it  with  the  face  plate  in  the ceiling 
of  the  room  in  which  the heater  is  set. 
This  will  make a  circulation  of  air 
in 
the two  rooms,  and  will  enable  the  cold 
air  in  the  upper floor  to  come  into  the 
lower  room  to  take  the  place  of  the 
heated  air which  is  discharged  from  the 
heater through  the  register  up  stairs.

is  a 

It 

The  average  dealer looks  on  the  work 
jf   repairing  stoves  as  profitable,  partic­
ularly  when  he  has  careful  men  to  do 
the  work.  Oftentimes  it  is  necessary  to 
put a grate or  fire  pot  in  a  cooking  or 
heating  stove  at  the  residence  of  the 
owner,  and  the man  who  comes  in  and 
makes  a 
lot  of  dirt  for  the  house­
keeper  need  not  expect  her  continued 
patronage.  Some  stove  jobbers  make  it 
1  point  to  take  from  the  shop  a  lot  of 
>ld  newspapers,  which  they  spread  on 
the  floor  under and  around  the  stove  to 
catch  any  of the  dirt  that  may  fall  out 
during  the  work  of  repairing.  Then 
they  make  it  a  point  to thoroughly  clean 
the  stove  before  they start  in  to  work. 
This  takes  but a  few  minutes,  and  en­
ables  the  work  to  be  done  with  more 
comfort  and  It j s s   di rt  i n  the house.

There  has  been  received  at  the  Navy 
Department  a  sample  of  steel  three- 
quarters  of  an  inch  in  thickness  which 
had  been  pierced  by  a  rifle  bullet  of a 
cailber  less  than  that  of  the  present 
irmy  rifle,  or about  thirty.  The sample 
is  interesting 
in  that  it  shows  that  the 
torpedo  boats  may  be  rendered  useless 
by  good  shots  from  such  rifles.  The 
distance  at  which  the  steel  sample  was 
pierced  was  about  200 feet.  A  torpedo 
xiat’s  armor,  her  boiler and  explosives 
might  easily be  pierced  at  this distance, 
or before she  could  make  her  projectile 
langerous  to  a  ship.  The  bullet  was 
of  steel  and  pointed. 
It  made  a  re­
markably  clean  hole  in  the steel.

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

ABOUT  SHOPLIFTERS.

Many  May  be  Caught,  but  Few  are 

Prosecuted.

From  the New  York Sunday  News-.

A  person  unfamiliar  with  the  crimi­
nal  statistics  of  this  city  would  come  to 
the  conclusion  from  reading  the  news­
papers  that  trials  and  convictions  for 
shoplifting  are  very  common ;  but  the 
testimony  of  the  official  records  proves 
that  such  is  not  the  case by  any  means.
The  annual  report  of  the  Board  of 
Pol ice  Justices  professes  to give  a  clas­
sified  statement  of  all  cases  of  crime 
that  come  under  review 
in  the  police 
courts.  Unfortunately,  however,  for the 
person  who  is  seeking  to get  at  the  list 
of  shoplifters,  their  crime  is  not  clas­
sified  by  its  popular name.

“ Well, ”   returned  the  detective, 

ing  the  last  two  months  they  have  had 
over thirty  cases.
How  many  of  them  are  likelv  to  go 
to  trial?”   asked  the  reporter.
in  a 
puzzled  sort of  way, 
perhaps  half  a 
dozen. ’ ’
It  was  evident  from his tone and  man­
ner that he  thought  half  a  dozen  a  big 
They  were 
average 
mostly  women  and  voting  girls.  They 
pleaded  dire suffering  for  need  of  the 
necessaries  of  1 ife.  or  a  first  offense, 
and  the  members  of  the  firm, 
in  spite 
oi  the  detectives’  advice, 
inclined  to 
the  side  of  mercy.

in  thirty  days. 

At  a  dry goods  store  on  Sixth  avenue 
the  reporter  was  told  that  out  of  eight 
persons  detained  under  suspicion,  or 
observed  secreting articles,  during  five 
weeks  past,  only  one  had  been  held  for 
trial.

t 

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from 

In  the  legal  vernacular  there 

is  no 
such  thing  as  shoplifting.  The  offense 
so  described  comes  under  the  head  of
larceny,  or one  of  its  three  subdivis­
ions  grand  larceny,  petty  larceny  and 
larceny 
the  premises.  Under 
which  particular one  is the grand conun­
drum..
The  only  way  of  obtaining  the  exact 
information,  say 
for  the  last  twelve 
months,  is  to  overhaul  the  judges’  min­
utes,  which  consist  of  a  mass  of  man­
uscript  big  enough  to  fill  a  good-sized 
woodshed.
If  you  have  the  physical  strength  and 
courage  to  attempt  a  job  of  this  magni­
tude  you  will  find,  after  having  dug
a 
down  to  the depths 
that  the  number oi  shoplifting  case 
amazingly  small 
number of  other  k imis  of  cases.

compared  with  the 
There  are annually  brought before the 
police  justices  of New York  some  40,000 
persons  charged  with  crime.  The  con­
victions  for  larceny  reported  for  1893 
were  in  the  neighborhood  oi  1,500.  One 
of  the  principal  clerks 
in  the  record 
room  of  the  Court  of  Special 
Ses 
sions  at  the  Tombs  was  asked  what 
proportion  the  number of  cases  of  shoj 
lifting  bore  to  this total.  He  smiled  as 
he  said :
‘ ' I  know  most  people  think  that  shop­
lifters  are a  numerous  class,  but  that’s 
where  they’re  wrong. 
1  don’t  suppose 
that  the  proportion  is  greater  than  one 
in  fifty.
He  hit  it  almost  exactly  right.  The 
actual  proportion  was  one  in  forty-five,
therefore,  dc 
these  figures  correctly  represent the  real 
state of  the  case?  There  are  some  rea­
sons  for  believing  that  they  do  not.
I here  is  a  good  deal  mo  e  of  that  sort 
of  crime  than  the  records  reveal.  Here 
are  some  facts  tending  to  show  it:

They beg  so  pitifully  and make such 
promises.of  reform  that the firm  is reluc­
tant  to  appear against  them. 
I  believe 
that  in  a  majority  of  cases  this  clem­
ency  is  bad  policy.  Two  of the  parties 
who  thus got  off  I  have seen here  several 
times  since,  and  although  I  did  not 
catch  them  stealing  they  doubtless came 
prepared  to  steal  if  they  got a  chance. ”
I his  detective also  gave  the  reporter 
an  account  of  his  discovery of an  entire-1 
ly  new  wrinkle  in  the  shoplifting  line.
A  lady,  say,  has  an  account  at  two 
different  establishments. 
At  one  of 
them  on  a  certain  day  she  purchases 
some  lace,  and  at  the other some  velvet. 
She  has  been  shadowed  for  several 
,  ■■  weeks  by  a  shoplifter,  who  ascertains
r 
five or.stx months,  that  the articles  purchased  are  charged
■ •-  to  her account and  sent  home.  A  note 
is  also  taken  of  the  particular  clerks
with  whom  she  transacts  her  business.
On  the day  in  question  the  ‘ ‘ shadow’ ’ 
goes  to  the  establishment  at  which  the 
lady  has bought  the  velvet  and  orders  a 
quantity  of 
in  her  name.  The 
clerk  notifies  the cashier and  the  cash­
ier  sends  word  back  that  it  is all  right.
“ My  coupe  is  waiting  outside,’ ’  she 
says;  “ be kind  enough  to  deliver  the 
parcel  to the  coachman, ’ ’  and she moves 
off;  apparently  to  do  some  shopping 
in 
another department.  The  del i very "boy, 
meanwhile,  deposits  the  parcel 
in  the 
coupe,  the  thief  comes  out  as  soon  as he 
is  gone  and  directs  the  coachman  to 
drive  her  to  the store where  the  lady  has 
purchased  the  lace.
Here  the same  process is gone through 
with.  An  order  for  velvet 
is  entered 
upon  the account  of  the  customer,  the 
merchandise  is  taken  out  to  the  coupe, 
and  the  double  swindle 
is  successfully 
consummated.

The  question  arises, 

lace 

A  few  days  ago,  the  News  reporter 
had  a  conversation  with  a  detective  sta­
tioned  in  a  store  on  Broadway,  between 
L nion  square and 
i wenty-third  street.
How  long  have  you  been  doing  duty 
here?”   he  was  asked.
was  the  reply.

Since  the  22d  oi  last  December,”  
“ Do  you find  much  occasion  for  your 
services?”

Plenty of  it. ”
Can  you  tell  me  how  many  cases  of 
shoplifting  you  have detected  in  that  in­
terval?”

He  took  a 

little  memorandum  book 
from  his  pocket  and,  after  glancing 
over  two  or three pages,  answered :
Lp  until  last  Monday  1  had  arrested 
twenty-four of  these  thieves. ”
house?”

Were they all  taken  to  the  station 
Not  all.  h if teen  of  them  begged  so 
hard  or  made  such  plausible  excuses 
that  my  employers  concluded  to 
let 
them  go. ’ ’

“What  became  of  the nine  others?”
Six  were  discharged  on  account  of 
the firm’s refusal to appear against them, 
anti  three  are  now  awailing their trial. ’ ’
In  other  words,  out  of  twenty-four 
caught  in  the act,  only  three  are  likely 
to  suffer  the  legal  consequences.  The 
victims  of  their crime  were  too  tender­
hearted  to  prosecute  them.

There  is  a  fourteenth  street  firm  thatj 
keeps  three  detectives  constantlv  on  the I 
watch. 
lhe  reporter  interviewed  two 
of these and received from them accounts 
essentially  similar  to  the  above.  Dur-

”   1 he  cleverness  of  this  trick, ’ ’  said 
the  detective,  “ is  obvious.  A  wealthy 
lady  who keeps  a  running  account  at 
two  or  three  places,  where  she  makes 
purchases  daily, 
is  not  apt  to  charge 
her memory  with  particular dates,  or  to 
remember  exactly  at  which  store  she 
purchased  certain  articles.  At  the  end 
of  six  months or a  year,  when  her  ac­
count  is  sent  in,  the  items  for  the  lace 
and  velvet  fail  to  excite  her  suspicions, 
because  she  has  a  general  recollection 
of  having  purchased  both  lace  and  vel­
vet.  Although  the account  may  seem  to 
her  larger  than  it  ought  to  have  been 
the  chances are  ten  to  one that  she  will 
settle  it  without  enquiry  or  objection. ”
In  illustration  of  the  absurd  excuses 
which  kind-hearted  storekeepers  are  in 
the habit  of  accepting  the  detective  re­
lated  the  following:

“ A party  of  four  persons  came 

into 
the  store one afternoon  and  wanted  to 
look  at  some  jewelry.  There  were  two 
men  and  two  women,  all  well-dressed 
md  1 espectable-look ing.  One  of  them,
1  man  of  venerable  appearance,  with 
snow-white  hair and  moustache,  seemed 
desirous  of buying a  ring  for one  of  the 
women.  He selected  several  from  the 
tray and  passed  them  to  her.

I  was  standing  where  I  could  dis- 
tinctly  observe  his  movements.  When 
she  passed  the  rings  back  to him  I  saw 
him  press  one of  them  against  the  palm 
of  his  hand  with  his third  finger and  re­
turn  the others to the  tray.  By  a  skill- 
ful  contraction  of  the  muscles  of  the ! 
palm  he  managed  to  retain  the stolen  j 
ring  and  was going out of  the  store  with  j 
it,  when  I  stopped  him  at  the  doorway,  i

“ I  askedTiim  to  step  back  to  the  of­
fice  with  me.  He  went  without  the 
' Be kind 
least show  of  embarrassment. 
enough  to  show  me  what  you  have 
in 
your  right  hand, ’  I  said.  He  extend­
ed  his hand,  quite as  if  he had  noth ing 
to  he ashamed  of,  and  there  was  the 
ring.

"H is   simulated  surprise  was  as  fine  a 
bit  of acting  as  I  ever  saw. 
It  com­
pletely  imposed  upon  the  proprietor  of 
the store.  The  man  declared  that  he 
was  wholly  unconscious that  he  was  car­
rying  off  the  ring,  and  my  employer ac­
cepted  his  declaration  as  a  truthful 
' one. ’ ’

Under  these  circumstances  it  is  not  to 
be  wondered  at  that  convictions 
for 
shoplifting  are  so  few  in  proportion  to 
he  whole  number of  convictions.  Even 
in  cases  in  which  the criminal  intention 
is  evident  from  the  false  pocket  and 
side  slit  in  the  femae  shoplifter’s  skirt, 
the  charitable  disposition  of  the  store­
keeper  seems  generally  to  be  stronger 
than  the  desire  to  inflict  punishment.

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would  like to 
increase  their  business, 
“ but  they  are  unable  to  do  so because 
they  have  not  relatives or friends  to sup­
ply  the  capital  or  to  secure  favors  from 
banks.”   The writer advocates the estab­
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lishment  of an 
cor­
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porations 
take 
stock.  He  believes  the mutual  arrange­
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and  profit. 
In  its  comments  the  Amer­
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represented 
and  which 

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manufacturers,  and  yet  their  position 
is  the  legitimate  one that they  can  take 
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they 
can  exercise  no  power  or  supervision. ”

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The  Necessity  of  Learning  to  Think
Here  is  a  story  1  caught  on  the  fly- 
day  or two  ago:  A  woman  ordered 
piece  of  ice  front  the  grocery.  The boy 
who  brought  it  was_a  German.  He  put 
it  on  the  dumb  waiter  in  the  basement 
to be  hoisted  up.  After pulling  with all 
her  strength  she  exclaimed,  “ Gracious 
How  heavy  this  ice  is!  The  grocer  ha: 
given  me  good  weight.”  
In  due  time 
she  succeeded  in  getting the dumb  wait 
er  up,  and  found,  to  her  astonishment 
the boy  seated  on  the  ice.  With  what 
breath  she  had 
left  she  demanded 
"What  did  you  make  me  pull  you  up 
here  for?”  
“ Why,”   was  the  answer 
“ I  thought  the  cake  would  be  too  heavy 
for  you  to  lift,  so  I  came  up  to  help you 
off with  it. ’ ’

One  good  thing  about  such  stories  is 
that  there  is little,  if any,  truth in  them 
and  this  one  will  serve  as  a  fair  sample 
of  its  class.  The  point  to  be  brought 
out  is  that the  boy,  by  a  little  thinking 
might  have  saved  the  woman  a  great 
deal  of  needless  exertion  and  himself £ 
scolding  for  his stupidity.  In  the course 
of  twenty-four  hours,  if  report  tells  the 
truth,  there  is  a  great  deal  of  this  stu- 
pielity  lying  around  loose 
in  a  grocery- 
store,  and  the  store  isn't  always  in  the 
country.  The other day  a  clerk  was tak­
ing  the  eggs  from  a  basket  on  one  end, 
of  the  counter  to  a  box on the  other end, 
three  in  each  hand,  six  at  a  trip.  The 
proprietor  watched  him  for  awhile,  and 
then,  with  a  laugh,  told  him  to  take  the 
basket  to  the  box  and  so  save  time  anil 
lessen  the  risk  of  breaking  the eggs.  A 
clerk  starts  out  with  a  delivery  wagon 
and  drives  several  times over  the  same 
route;  and  when  aske-d  why  he  doesn’t 
take  the sensible way,  he answers  in  the 
old 
“ I  didn’t 
in  the 
think.”   So  the  order 
wrong  place,  or  an  hour  after 
is 
needed,  and  when  the  irate  housekeep­
er  reports  the  carelessness,and  the  clerk 
is  reproved  for 
it,  out  comes  another 
expression  which  the grocer  is  tired  of 
hearing: 
think  of  every­
thing !’ ’

sterreotyped 

“ I  can’t 

is  left 

form, 

it 

for 

it  and 

Right,  my  boy,  you  can’t ;  and  what 
a  blessing  it  is  that  it  is  not  expected 
of  you.  For that  very  reason, 
fix  up 
things  in  that  little  corner  of  the  world 
which  you  call  your  own. 
If  a  poor 
memory  bothers  you,  make out  a  daily- 
programme 
insist  that  it 
shall  be carried  out.  Get  things  where 
you  can  control  them,  instead  of  having 
them  control  you ;  and  by  the  time  that 
happens,  everything  you  do  will  show 
that  there  has  been  thought  behind  it. 
This  I-don’t-know business  never  pays. 
Occasionally  it  may  be  excusable,  but, 
when  it  becomes  chronic, 
it  is  simply 
stupidity-  a  mental  condition  wanted 
nowhere.  This  is  the  class  which  ride 
up  the  waiter  and  spend  the  morning 
carrying  eggs,  and  seeing  if  they  can 
touch  the teeth  of  a  whirling  buzzsaw, 
and  peppering  their  friends  with  shot 
from  guns  they  didn’t  know  were  load­
ed.  Think,  boy,  first,  last  and  all  the 
time;  and  the  day’s  work,  although 
tiresome,  will  be  not only  a  pleasure, 
but  a  delight.

One  of  the  first  results  of  this  think­
ing  will  be  to  know  where things  belong 
and  to  keep  them  there. 
It  may  cost 
you  a  little  trouble,  but  there  is  no  rea­
son  why  the  clerk  in  an  ordinary  store 
should  not  be  able to  find  in  the  dark, 
if  need  be,  what  he  wants.  He  can’t 
do  this  without  order,  and  he need  not

expect  to do it at once without effort,  but, 
to  make  himself  effective,  he must  keep 
track  of  things,  he must keep  himself  in 
good  order,  and,  most  of  all, 
if  he  ex­
pects to  amount  to  anything,  he  must 
first  learn  to  think.

U n c l e   B o b .

Incompetent  Analysts.

As  an  example,  showing 

just  how 
much  the opinion  of  the  ordinary-  “ ex­
pert”   analyst,  employed  by  municipal 
and other public boards, is worth,  we note 
a case tried  in  London the other day.  A 
impure 
party  was  arrested  for  selling 
powdered  ginger, 
the  charge  having 
been made on  the analysis  of  a Mr.  Est- 
court,  of  Manchester,  “ borough  (burro 
would  more  nearly- 
fit  the  case)  an­
alyst,”   who  certified  that  the  sample 
obtained  by  him  contained  25  per  cent, 
of  exhausted  ginger.  On  trial  the  de­
fendants  submitted  analyses  from  Dr. 
Campbell  Brown  and  Dr.  Collingwood 
Williams,  both  well-known  chemists  of 
Liverpool,  certifying  that  the  sample 
(a  portion  of  which  had  been  retained 
and  submitted  to  them)  was  pure,  high- 
grade  ginger,  Dr.  Brown  adding  that 
‘ no  one  who  knows anything about  gin­
ger can  contend  that  the  samples,  are 
other  than  high-class  ginger.”   The 
Somerset-house  (government 1  analysts 
also  testified  that  the  sample  consist­
ed  of  genuine,  unexhausted,  ground 
ginger.  Of  course  the  case  was  dis­
missed,  but  not  until the defendants had 
been  put  to great  trouble  and  expense 
to  “ prove their character.”

incompetent  men. 

I his  is  but  a  sample  of what  is  occur­
ring  nearly  all  the  time  in  England and 
lsewhere,  where  local  boards  have  the 
power to  arrest  merchants  and  apothe- 
rcries  on  the dictum  of  self-styled  “ ex­
perts”   men  possessed  of  a  smattering 
of  chemical  knowledge,  not  enough  to 
enable  them  to  earn  a decent  liv ing  at 
m ate  practice,  and  who  therefore 
eagerly  snap  up  public  appointments, 
with  their  meagre  emoluments,  merely 
to  keep  from  starving.
It  is a  well-known  fact  that  the  salar­
ies attached  to  the office of public chem­
ist,  both  in  England  and  America,  are 
too small  to  attract  the attention of  com­
petent  men,  except  in  rare  instances; 
ind  hence  they  are  usually  tilled  by 
mediocre  and 
In 
those cases  where  the  fees  are  deter­
mined  by  the amount of  work  done  and 
number  of  cases  made,  or  amount  of 
fines  assessed 
the 
tempatation  to 
fal­
sifications  and  adulterations 
is  very- 
great,  much  greater  than  can  be  re­
sisted  by  the ordinarily impecunious ex­
pert,  and  this 
is  especially  the  case 
where  the accused  are  too  poor  or  too 
timid  to  make  a  fight.  The  fine  and 
costs  are  usually  much  less  than  the  fee 
of  the average attorney,  to  say  nothing 
of  court  costs,  etc.,  and  so  they  settle, 
is  the  shortest  way  out  of  the  difficulty. 
We  will  add  that  this  is  the  surest  way 
to  make  rascals.  A  man  who  com­
pounds  with  his  conscience,  and  barters 
hi is  reputation  to  save  a  small  (or large) 
sum,  is 
in  a  state  of  moral  decline 
which  fits  him  to  become  a  sophistica- 
tor,  a  substituter,  or any  other  petty  vi- 
olater of  the  law.

collected, 
impurities, 

and 
find 

A  prominent  St.  Louis  hotel  man 
ranted  a  divorce  from  his  wife,  with 
whom  he  has  not  lived  for  some  time, 
but  he wanted  it  in  a  quiet  way.  So  he 
went to  the  village  of  Hillsboro,  in  Je f­
ferson  county,  put up at  a little hotel and 
announced  himself  as a  resident  of  the 
place.  After a  short  stay,  he  filed  an 
application  for a  divorce  in  the  county 
court.  When  the  case  came  up  the 
judge  proceeded  to question  him  as  to 
his  business,  and  having  extorted  the 
fact that  he  was  the  manager  of  a  big 
hotel  in  St.  Louis,  the  judge  demand­
ed,  “ Why  don’t  you  apply for a  divorce 
in  St.  Louis,  where you are known?  The 
case  is  dismissed.”

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

THE  ERA  OF  MECHANICAL  EVOLUTION.
Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

the 

There  has  never  been  a  time  in  his­
tory when there was  so  rapid  a  growth  of 
the  mechanic  arts  as  at  the  present. 
This  is a  statement which  has been  true 
and  pertinent  for  a  number of  years 
past,  for the  present  seems  to  be  ap­
proaching  a  culmination  from  a  begin­
ning,  still  within  the  memory  of  those 
of  middle  age,  when  special  attention 
began  to  be given  to  mechanical  exact­
ness 
instruments  of 
real  precision  were  hrst  employed  to 
guide  ami  test  the  accuracy  of  the  ma­
chinists'  work.  At  about  the  same 
time the  modern  methods  of  machine 
making  by  the  use  of 
and 
‘ ‘ templates,  making 
it  possible  to 
have  all  similar  parts 
in  machines  of 
the  same  kind  interchangeable,came  in­
to  practical  use. 
1 hese  were  the great 
evolutionary advances,  making  the  mod­
ern  machine  possible.

time  when 

''g ib s’ 

But  at  no  time  has  the  rapidity  oi 
the  forward  movement  been  so  great  as 
at  the  present.  The  advance  during 
the  [»ast  few  years  is  wonderful,  almost 
beyond  belief,  and  yet  the  immediate 
future  promises developments  far  more 
w< mderful.

It 

is 

interesting  to  inquire  what are 
the  causes  of  the peculiar  activity of  the 
immediate  present.  Perhaps  no  other 
single  cause  can  compare  with  the b i­
cycle.  The  unprecedented  demand  for 
these  machines  during  the  past  few 
months,  especially  has  made  require­
ments of  the  manufacturing  facilities  of 
the  country  far  in  excess  of  any  other 
machine  or 
instrument.  To  meet  this 
demand,  required  the  use  oi  machinery 
of  great  exactness,  and  the  manufacture 
of  such  machinery  has  been 
largely 
stimulated.  Factories  have  been  estab­
lished  all  over  the  counrty,  in  great 
numbers,  and  the  facilities  of  those  al­
ready  in  operation  have  been  increased 
to the  limit  of  possibility.  Thus  the 
bicycle  manufacture  constitutes a  con­
siderable  factor  in  this  evolution.

In  another way,  the  bicycle  is exert­
ing  a great 
influence  on  the  fu tu re  of 
mechanical  possibilities. 
In  the  past, 
the most  positive  limitation  to the  use 
of  machinery  has  been  the  lack  of  suffi­
cient  mechanical  knowledge  among  the 
masses  of  the  people  to enable  them  to 
properly  use  and  care  for such  machin­
ery.  The  first  requ¡site  in  the  invention 
or designing  of  a  machine  was that  it 
should  not  require  skill  to  keep  it  in 
working  order.  This  limitation  has  al­
ways been  the  great  hindrance  to the 
more general  use  of  machinery.  The 
effect  of  the  use  of  the  bicycle  in  the 
education  of  the  great  masses  of  the 
people  in  what  is  requisite  for the  pro­
per care  of  machinery cannot  fail  to  ex­
ert a  tremendous  influence in  the  imme­
diate  future  in  the  use of  machinery  of 
all  kinds.  Every wheel  put 
into  the 
hands  of  a  boy,  man  or woman 
is  a 
schoolmaster  in  mechanical  science,  of 
no  mean  qualifications.  The  cost  makes 
it an  object  of  solicitude,  and  its  deli­
cacy  requires  a  degree  of  care and  skill 
in its preservation which cannot fail to be 
an  effective  object  lesson  that will  qual­
ify  the  pupil  to  properly  care  for and 
operate  almost  any  ordinary  piece  of 
mechanism.

The  consequence  of  this  education 
cannot  fail  to  be  an  enormous  increase 
in  the output  of  machinery  of all  kinds. 
The  critical  point  in  the  success  of  the 
self-propelling  carriage,  for  instance,  of 
which we  are  just  now learning so much, 
is the  skill  of  the  people 
into whose 
hands  such  carriages  must be  put.  The

mechanical  education 
will  go  far  to  decide  that  point.

just  mentioned 

Wonderful  as  is  the  present  mechan­
ical  developments,  the  future  promises 
a  development  vastly  more  wonderful. 
A  significant  occurrence  in  this  connec­
tion  is  that  of  the  recent  consolidation 
of  the  most  extensive  locomotive  manu­
factory 
in  this  country  the  Baldwin 
works,  of  Philadelphia,  with  the great 
electrical  concern,  the  Westinghouse,  of 
Pittsburgh.  This  consolidation  prom- 
ises  a  great  advance  in  locomotive  en­
gineering  and  it  is  predicted  that  in  a 
short  time  the  speed  of  trains  will  be 
increased  to 
In 
other  directions,  the  promises  of  me­
chanical  development  are  almost  or 
perhaps  quite  as  wonderful.  No  one 
can  predict  the  end. 
It  will  inevitably 
involve  the  harnessing  of  the  forces  of 
nature  to  the  service  of  most  of  the 
phvsical  wants of  man.

150  miles  an  hour. 

W.  N.  F.

A  C o-operative  Schem e.

Kroii.  the  New  York  shipping  List.

It 

idea. 

to  execute. 

An  effort  is  being  made  to  control  the 
flint  glass  industry  by  the  dissatisfied 
workers.  They  have  mapped  out  a  plan 
of  co-operation  and  given  it  in  charge 
of  a  committee 
is 
claimed  that  all  the  members  of  the 
union  and  their  families  would  number 
35,000. 
It  is  proposed  to get  a  free  site 
lor extensive  factories  sufficient  to  mo­
nopolize  the  flint  glass  industry,  and  to 
establish  a  community  of  workers  sim­
ilar  to  the  Pullman 
Instead  of 
paying out §500,000  to  sustain  a  single 
strike,  the  union  is  to advance  the  nec- 
ssary  funds  for organizing  the  socialist 
ommomvealth,  and  tax  every  member 
egularly  until  the  project 
is  self-sus­
taining.

The  co-operative  scheme  looks  very 
well  on  paper,  and  the walking agitators 
would  like  to  carry  it  out,  but  there 
is 
no  probabilitv  oi  any  competition  being 
established  Irom  this  source.  There  are 
too  many  discordant  elements,  and  too 
many  ambitious  officers  who  want  to  be 
dictators,  lor any  united  effort in a prac­
tical  way  to  be a  sucess.  Regular  man­
ufacturers  of  flint  glass  are  not  dis­
turbed  over  the  new  developments. 
They  feel  satisfied  that  quarrels  would 
soon  terminate  the  existence  of  a  corpo­
ration  founded  on  such  a  basis,  and  are 
inclined  to  believe  that the suggestion is 
merely  a  strike  for higher wages. 
If  we 
are  not  mistaken,  similar  action  has 
been  taken  in  previous  years.

A  fine  chance  for  an  i 11 ventor  is  the 
manufacture  of  a  simple machine  which 
will  run  by  steam,  electricity,  or  clock­
work,  on  the  trip-hammer  principle, 
cancel  a  stamp  with  each  descent  of the 
hammer,  and  enable  a  quick-fingered 
rlerk, in  an  office of moderate size,  deal­
ing  the  letters  one  by  one,  to  do  in
total  ol  two  hours  a  day  what  now 
takes  him  six  or eight.  The  third-class 
post offices,  where  the  annual * business 
is  not  less  than  $1,900  and  falls  any­
where  short  of $8,000,  are 2,691  in  num­
ber.  The  postmasters  are  allowed  so 
much  money,  out  of  which  thev  must 
pay  the  expenses  of  their  offices,  and  it 
is  ail  object  to  them,  therefore,  to  get 
along  with  as  little  paid  clerical  help 
as  possible. 
If,  by  the  use  of  such a 
machine  as  has  been  suggested  here,  a 
third-class  postmaster  could  turn  all  the 
cancellation  and  postmarking  business 
over to  one  clerk  and  still  have  a  good 
deal  more of  the  latter’s  time  than  now 
to  apply  to  other  business,  he  would
dcome  the  chance.  The  machine 
ought  to  be  made  to  sell  outright  for 
$200 or $300,  or  rent  for,  say $50  a  year. 
for 
With  a  small  additional  outlay 
power,  the  postmaster  would  be  in  pos­
session  of  a  great  money  and 
labor- 
saver.  The advantage  to  the  maker  of 
the machine  in  having  the  postmaster j 
to deal  with  diectly  instead  of the  Gov­
ernment  would  be  very  great  also.

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this  trap  and  liv e!

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Grand  Rapids.

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

c e rs   a n d   r e ta il  c le rk s   o f  G r a n d   R a p id s , 
r e s u ltin g   in   th e   v ic to ry   o f  th e   la tte r   b y  
a   s c o re   o f  7  to   o.  A n   e x h ib itio n   o f 
th e  
c re w   o f  th e   lif e - s a v in g   s ta tio n  a t  5  p.  m . 
c o m p le te d  th e   o ffic ial  p ro g ra m ,  a n d   d u r ­
in g   th e   e v e n in g  
t h e ir  
g u e s ts  
th e ir   h o m e s,  w ell 
r e tu rn e d  
p le a s e d   w ith   th e   d a y ’s  e n jo y m e n t  a n d  
u n a n im o u s ly   v o tin g  
th e   g r o c e r s '  p ic n ic  
th e   m o st  p le a s a n t  e v e n t  o f  th e   s e a so n .

th e   g ro c e rs   a n d  
to  

A n n u a l  M e e t in g   o f  t h e   G r a n d   R a p id s  

R e t a il  G r o c e r s ’  A s s o c i a ti o n .

A t  th e   a n n u a l  m e e tin g   o f 

th e   G ra n d  
R a p id s   R e ta il  G ro c e rs ’  A s s o c ia tio n , 
h e ld   a t 
th e   M ic h ig a n  
1 r a d e s m a n   o n   T u e s d a y   e v e n in g ,  A u g . 
6,  P r e s id e n t  W h ite   p re s id e d .

th e   office  o f 

A n n u a l  re p o rts   o f  o ffic ers  b e in g   in   o r ­
d e r,  S e c re ta ry   S to w e  p r e s e n te d   h is   a n ­
n u a l  re p o rt,  a s   fo llo w s :

Our total receipts  from  dues  during  the  past 
year have been i90.78, w hich  I have  turned  over 
to the T reasurer in  the  sum s  and  on  the  dates 
stated below, and for which  I hold  his  receipts:

Sept. 4......................................................$11  83
Nov.  21 
..............................................   20  50
April  19.................................................  
8  50
Ju ly  18...................................................   33  15
Aug.  6....................................................  16  80

D uring the year I have draw n eleven orders on 
the T reasurer in settlem ent of bills  approved by 
the Executive Committee, as follows:
O rder Xo. 46—B. P.  O. E lk s.........................  $ 20  00
14  00
50 00
4  66
50  00
30  53
3 00
2  00

Radc-Iiff  A H olt... 
47— 
Tradesm an Com pany......  15 60
48— 
E. A  Stow e.......... 
49— 
B.  P. O.  Elks........  
50— 
E.  A.  Stow e.......... 
51— 
52— Tradesm an  Com pany....... 
53— 
F rank T.  Law rence.......... 5 00
E.  A.  O w en......... 
54— 
55— E. A. Cloouan....................... 
56— 
Tradesm an Com pany....... 15 10

T o ta l.......................................................  $209  89
T h e   re p o rt  w a s  a c c e p te d   a n d   a d o p te d . 
T r e a s u r e r   L e h m a n   p r e s e n te d   h is   a n ­

1 7

D IS B U R S E M E N T S .
Paid Al.  Rasch picnic prizes.........
Paid O rder  No. 46...........................
47  ..........................

$  2 50 
20  00
14  00
15  60 
50  00
4  66 
50  00 
30 53
5  00 
1 00
Total  disbursem ents...........................  $194  29

R E C A P IT U L A T IO N .

Balance on h a n d .................................. 

Total receipts.......................................  $195  97
Total  disbursem ents.....................................   194  29
1  68
Two orders issued by  the  Secretary on  the ap­
proval of the Executive Committee have not  yet 
been presented for paym ent—one for $3 in  favor 
of E. A. Owen, and another for $15.10 in favor of 
th e Tradesm an Company.

In   addition  to  above  balance.  I  have  in  my 
hands a certificate of deposit  for  $200,  on which 
there is now $8 interest due.

The  report  was  accepted and  adopted.
The  Picnic  Committee  made  a  final 
report  regarding  arrangements  consum­
mated 
for  the  ninth  annual  picnic, 
which  was  accepted  and  adopted,
A  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  the 
H.  J.  Heinz  Co.  for  contributing  1,000 
badges  for  the  picnic  and  the  Secretary 
was  instructed  to  inform  the  donor  of 
the action  of  the  Association

A  vote of  thanks  was also  tendered  E. 
A.  Stowe  for  waiving  any  claim  for 
compensation  as  Secretary  since  Jan.  1, 
1895 ;  also  for  furnishing  room  and  ele­
vator  service for the meetings of  the As­
sociation.

In  view of  the  fact  that  the  employ­
ment  of a  salaried  Secretary 
is  under 
consideration  by  the  Association,  Mr. 
Lehman  moved  that the annual  election 
of  officers  be  deferred  until  Aug.  20, 
in 
order that the  members  may  ascertain 
how  large  a  fund  the  organization  will 
receive  from  the  picnic  receipts,  so 
that  they  may  act  understanding!y  in 
the  matter.  The  motion  was  adopted 
and  the  meeting.adjourned.

*  Carey 
Marquette  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  Ionia.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Association  Matters
Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
T reasurer, J . Geo. Lehman.

President,  K.  White:  Secretary,  E.  A.  Stowe: 

■Sugar  Card  Granulated.

5J4 cents per pound. 
10 pounds for 50 cents. 

4 ',  pounds for 25 cents
20 pounds for $1.
Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association

President.  Byron 0 . IIim.;  Secretary, w .  il. Pou­

t er;  Treasurer, ,f. F.  IIelmkr.

Sugar  Card  Granulated.

554 cents per pound. 

9;..;  pounds for 50 cents 

19 pounds for 11.

Northern  Mich.  Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J.  F. Tatman. Glare:  Secretary,  K.  A. 
Stowe. G rand Rapids; Treasurer, Frank Smith. 
Leroy.

Owosso Business  Men’s Association. 

President. A.  I).  Whipple:  Secretary  G.T. Camp­

bell;  Treasurer, W.  E. Collins.

Michigan  Hardware Association. 

President, F. S.  Carleton, t ’a  timet :  Vice  Presi­
dent,  Hem îy  G.  Weber  D etroit:  Secretary- 
Treasurer, Henry G.  Minnie,  Eaion  Rapids.
Grand  Rapids Fruit  Growers’ Association. 
President,  K.  D.  Graham:  Secretary.  M.  W. 

Ron an;  Treasurer.  H. O.  Bkaman.

Fourth  Aunual  Excursion  of 

Jackson  Grocers.

the 

inviting 

Jackson,  Aug.  io   The  fourth  annual 
excursion  anti  picnic  of the Jackson  gro­
cers,  under the auspices  of  the  Jackson 
Retail  Grocers’  Association,  was  held at 
the  usual  time,  the  second  Thursday  in 
In  order  to  satisfy  the  public, 
August. 
and  find  a  pleasant  and 
loca­
tion,  the  committees  spent  a  great  deal 
of  time  in  visiting different resorts, and, 
after  careful  deliberation,  decided  that 
Diamond  Lake,  on  the  Air  Line  D ivi­
sion  of  the  Michigan  Central  Railway, 
was  the  proper  place.  The  distance 
(nearly  90 miles)  seemed 
like  a  very- 
long  ride,  and  was  thought  by  some  to 
be  too  far,  but  on  the  assurance  of  the 
railway  company  that  it  would  take  the 
trains  through  in  two  and  a  half  hours 
or  less,  it  was  decided  to  accept  the  lo­
cation,  and  the  terms  offered  by  the 
railway  company.

The  excursion  train  was  run  in  three 
sections of  eleven  cars  each. 
The  first 
section  started  at  6:20 a.  m.,  the  others 
following  at  intervals  of  twenty  min­
utes.  The  run  was  made 
in  fully  as 
good  time  as  agreed,  and  2,000  people
the  largest  number  ever  taken  on  one 
excursion  from  the  city  were  landed  at 
Forest  Hall  Station  before  10 a.m.
Too  much  cannot  be  said  in  praise  of 
the  manner  in  which  the  company  han­
dled  the great  crowd.  Traveling Passen­
ger  Agent  Hall,  Assistant  Superintend­
ent  Fisher,  Mr.  Mercer,  of  the  Ticket 
Department,  and  Mr.  Mosier, 
ticket 
agent  at  Jackson,  accompanied  the  dif­
ferent  sections,  and  looked  careltillv  af­
ter  every  detail  regarding  the  running 
of  the  trains,  while  Conductors  Hick­
man,  McKain  and  Mulligan  took  excel­
lent  care  of  the  merry  people 
in  their 
charge.  The  monstrous  mogul  engines 
which  made  such  excellent  time  were 
handled  by  Engineers  Black, 
Johnson 
and  Weeks.

Diamond  Lake  is  one of  the  prettiest 
bodies of  water  in  Michigan,  having  a 
shore  line  of  about  twelve  miles,  nearly 
all  of  which  is  solid  ground.  There  is 
quite  a  large  island  in  the  center  of  the 
Lake,  well  covered  with  magnificent 
forest  trees,  and  also  has a very pleasant 
resort  located  thereon.  There  are  sev­
eral  resorts  around  the  Lake,  also  many 
camping  parties  located  in  cosy  places.
The excursionists  all  left  the  cars  at 
Forest  Hall  Station  and,  after  a  short 
walk  to  the grounds,  where  they quickly 
disposed  of  their  lunch  baskets  and 
other articles  which  they  did not wish  to 
be  burdened  with,  were  soon  scattered 
over  the grounds of  the  various  resorts, 
and  on  the  Lake.  The  three  steamers, 
the  sail  boats,  and  all  the  row  boats 
were  kept busy  all  day.
The  grounds  were  well  supplied  with 
booths,  where  were  to  be  had  eatables 
for the  hungry,  drinkables  (soft  only) 
for  the  thristy,  with  fruit  and  ice  cream 
in  abundance 
for  those  that  wished. 
Meals  were  furnished  at  the  various  ho­

for  those  that  had  not  provided 
tels, 
themselves with  provender before  start­
ing.
I he  usual  program  of  sports  and 
events,  which  have  heretofore  been  a 
feature of  our excursions,  was dispensed 
with  on  this occasion,  and,  in  its  stead, 
two games  of  base  ball  were  arranged, 
the  first between  the  wholesale  grocers 
and  their  employes,  and  the  retail  gro­
cers  and  their  employes.  The  second 
game  was between  the  Jackson  Athletic 
Club,  and  the  Concord  base  ball  team.
I wo  elegant  trophys  had  been  pur­
chase«!  for the competition,  the  trophys 
to  be  played  for  each  year  until  one  of 
the clubs  shall  have  won  it  three  times, 
it  then  to  be  the  property  of  the  win­
ners.
I he  first game  was  called  at  11  a.  m. 
and  was  hotly 
four 
| long  hours  in  the  scorching  rays  of  a 
midday  sun,  on  a  very  rough  and  horri­
bly  dusty  stubble  field  which  had  been 
burned over. 
I he  wholesalers  thought 
it  best  to  give  their  adversaries  the 
game the  first  year,  fearing  that  should 
the wholesalers  be  defeated  on  this  oc­
casion.  the  retailers would  have  to  keep 
the  trophy,decause  they  would  have  no 
it 
competitors  on  iuture  excursions  and 
I would  look  like a  put-up  job,  where  the 
j retail  grocers  made  a  present  to  their 
club.  The  wholesalers do  not  see  the 
result  of  the  game  the  same  as  the  re­
tailers  do,  but  there  is  nothing  strange 
in  that.

contested 

for 

The  second  game  was  for  blood  and 
It  was called  at  3  p. 
a  second  trophy. 
m. 
I he  Concord  club  had  been  having 
their own  way  with clubs from neighbor­
ing  towns,  and  thought  they  were  in­
vulnerable,  but  the 
lackson  boys  laid 
them  out  by  a  score  of  20  to  to.
After  the ball  game  the  excursionists 
began  gathering  their  belongings,  eat­
ing  the  remnants  of  their  lunch,  and 
wending  their way  toward  the station,  a 
tired  but  happy  crowd.

The  trains  began  leaving  the.  resort  at 
6:15.  the sections  about twenty  minutes 
apart,  the  same  as  in  the  morning,  and 
the  great  crowd  that  celebrated  the 
fourth  outing  of  the  Jackson  grocers 
were  all  landed  in  the  city  by 9  o’clock 
in  the  evening.  The  usual  good  fortune 
that  has  attended  the Jackson grocers  on 
previous  occasions  staid  by  us  again 
this year,  as  there was  not  a  single  cas­
ualty  of  any  kind  reported  during  the 
day.  The  benefits  acquired  by  the  gro­
cers,  and,  in  fact,  by  all  the people,  are 
so  far  reaching,  and  so  numerous,  that 
it  seems  to  be as  necessary for  the  jack- 
son  grocers  to  have 
their  day”   each 
year as  it  is  to  try  to  do  business  in  the 
interval.

This,  the  fourth  annual  of  the  Associ­
ation,  has added  much  to  the  friendly 
feeling  that  has  been  brought  into  trade 
through  the  organization.  Five  years 
ago  the grocers  looked  at  each  other  as 
it  they  were  enemies  and  apparently 
acted  011  the assumption that every  other 
grocer  was  not  fit  to  associate  with.  To­
day  the grocers,  both  in  a ml  out  of  the 
Association,  all  work 
in  harmony  and 
do  business  with  each  other  like  mem­
bers  of one large  family.

Let  us  keep  up  the  good  work  until 
every  tradesman  will  look  upon  his  fel­
low 
tradesman  as  a  good  and  loyal 
brother!

W.  H.  P o r t e r ,  Sec’y.

Ninth  Annual  Picnic  of  the  Grand 

Rapids  Grocers.

The  ninth  annual  picnic  and  excur­
sion  conducted under the auspices of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion  was  held  at  Ottawa  Beach  last 
Thursday,  anil  was  the  most  enjoyable 
affair of  the  entire  series.  Two  special 
trains  and  one  regular train  were  run  in 
each  direction,  handling  the  crowd 
in 
an  admirable  manner.  On  arriving  at 
the  Beach  the crowd  scattered to  the  va­
rious  resorts  around  Black  Lake,  com­
ing  together  again  at  2  o’clock  to  par- 
ticipate  in  a  daylight  ride  on  Lake 
Michigan,  which  was  by  all  means  the 
most  enjoyable  feature  of  the  occasion. 
A  match  game  of  base  ball  was  played 
in  the  forenoon  between  the  retail  gro­

n u a l  re p o rt,  a s   f o llo w s :
R E C E I P T S .

Balance on hand  ................................
Rec'd  from  Sec' v Sept.  4..................
Nov.  2 1................
April  19................
Ju ly  18...................
Aug.  6  ................

Total  receipts

$105  19 
11  83 
20 50 
K  50 
33  15 
16  80

OF  COURSE  YOU  HANDLE

¿LION  COFFEE

For^Sale'  byJAII  Jobbers. 

♦
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SEE  PRICE  LIST  ELSEWHERE.

EVERY  PACKAGE  16  OZ.  NET
Perfectly  Pure  Coffee.

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WITHOUT  GLAZING.

W 0 0 L 5 0 N   S P I C E   CO.

TOLEDO, OHIO, and  KANSAS CITY, M0.

S’"  J E S S   Plug  Tobacco 

J E S S

Why  is there such  a sale on this  brand?
1st—Because  it is m ade of the choicest of  leaf.
•-nil—Because it is w rapped w ith  th e choicest of wrappers.
3rd—Because it is cased to suit the taste of the large m ajority of  chewers.
4th—Because it is sold »t a price w ithin the  reach of all.

Jess  Fine Cut  Tobacco

Our  success  w ith  the  plug  has  show n  us  th a t we can sell a tobacco under a 
private brand  if the goods are right, so we have introduced a fine cut also, w hich 
we tru s t w ill be given th e same  reception the plug  has.

Musselman  Grocer  Co.

J E S S Grand  Rapids,  Mich. J E S S   J

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

Drugs==Chemicals

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

O ut'  Y ear— 
'I tvo  V e a rs —  - 
rin e e Y ea's— 
Ft"*!'  Years 
Five Y'ears 

- 

- 

- 
- 

G eo.  G u.ndkitm,  Ionia
C.  A.  B u g b e e,  C h arlev o ix
s.  E  I’ a r k il l . Owosso
F. W.  R. Perky,  Detroit
-  A. 0. S cu rjiaches, Ann Arbor 

A.  Bugbee, Charlevoix 
President. 
Secretary.  F.  \V.  I{.  1‘ekhy.  Detroit. 
Treasurer. (Jco. (irK U E ri,  Ionia.
Coming M eetings—Houghton,  August—.
L an sin g ,  November 5.

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

P resid en t.  G e". .1.  Wa r d .  St.  C lair.
Vice  Presidents. S.  1*. Wiiitmaksh,  Palmyra: 
G. C. Phillips,  Armada.’ 
Secret  ry.  B. Suhkouiiek. Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer. Wm.  Dupont.  Detroit.

Executive  Committee-F.  .1 . Wuuzbukg.  Grand 
Rapids:  F. 1>. Stevens. Detroit:  H. G. Cor,man, 
Kalamazoo:  E. T.  W e b b   Jackson:  D. M. Rus­
sell, Grand  Rapids.

GRAND  RAPIDS  PHARMACEUTICAL 

SOCIETY.

President,
Secretan-.

J ohn  E.  Pe c k  
B. St HKOUUEK

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

Julius  Schuster,  of  Desenberg  & 

Schuster,  Kalamazoo.

That  “ comparisons  are  odious”  

is 
shown  nowhere  more conclusively  and, 
possibly,  more painfully  than  in  bring­
ing  together  educational  results.  Great 
stress  is  laid  upon  the  time  and  money 
and  labor  expended  upon  the common 
schools of  the  United States.  There are 
courses  of  study,  elective  and  non-elec­
tive,  covering 
long  periods  of  years, 
and,  when  all  is  completed,  the  boy  in­
tended 
for  business  dodges  this  grade 
here  and  cuts  across  lots”   there,  and, 
before  lie  can  read  anti  spell,  with  a 
handwriting  that  an  expert cannot  read, 
he  goes  into  business 
long  before  he  is 
ready  for  it  and  finds  fault  with  a  sysj 
tern  which  "doesn’t teach  nothin’. ”

the  same  style,  and 
is  generally  con­
ceded  to  he  one of  the  most  successful 
in  the  State.

Mr.  Schuster  is  also  President of the 
Electric  Lighting  Company of  Kalama­
zoo,  and 
identified,  actively  and 
financially,  with  several  other  manufac­
turing  and  mercantile  institutions.

is 

I- rom  a  successful  business  career, 
which  his  thorough  training  from  the 
first  made  possible,  it  is a  pleasure  to 
1 turn  to  Mr.  Schuster’s  record  as  a  citi­
zen.  Here  learning,  as  it  always does,
I makes  its 
influence  felt;  and  the citi­
zens of  Kalamazoo  were  not  backward 
in  recognizing  it.  They  needed  an  Al­
derman  in  1892,  and  chose  him.  They 
I needed  him  in  1894  for  two  years.  What 
place  he  holds 
in  the  opinion  of  the 
city  government  may  be  gleaned  from 
the  fact  that  he  heads  the 
list  in  the 
chairmanship  of  standing  committees, 
that  of  F inance,  a  position  second  to 
importance,  and  one  which 
none 
calls  for  sound 
judgment  and  a  clear 
knowledge  of  the  principles of  munici­
pal  business  and  their  practical  appli­
cation.

in 

Commercial  success,  and  a  place  high 
in  public  regard,  are  strong  indications 
of  social  distinction  and  a  happy  home. 
Here,  after  all,  is  where  the  real  man 
appears ;  for  here,  best  of  all,  are  to be 
seen  the  results  of  what  training  and 
prosperity  can  do  to  make  the  home 
“ the dearest  spot on  earth.”   Mr.  Schu­
ster  has  nothing  to  sav  of  this  side  of 
his  life ;  but  those  who  have  stepped 
over the  threshold  of  510  South  Burdick 
street,  are  ready  to  speak  of  the  kindly 
courtesy  and  the  warm-hearted  hospital­
ity  which  delighted  them,  and  to  wish 
that  others,  whom  similar  fortune  has 
favored,  might  dispense  as generously 
and  as  gracefully  the  good  things  with 
which  their  culture  and  their  well-di­
rected  industry  have surrounded  them.

1 hese things are done differently in the 

tn  Germany  for  example 

old  world 
where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
in  Westphalia,  April  27,  1842. 
born, 
By  the  time  the  child 
is  ready  for 
school,  it 
is  decided  what  his  course 
shall  be,  and  the  training,  without  in­
terruption, 
is  carried  patiently  to  the 
end,  and  the  boy goes  from  the  school 
to  his  life  work prepared.  He can read ; 
he  can  spell;  he  can  cast  accounts;  he 
has  at  his  linger  ends  a  handwriting 
which 
is  read  at  a  glance,  and,  with 
these  for  a  foundation,  such  things  are 
added  as  he  can  make  good  use  of,  and 
they  are  taught  until  he  has a  facile  use 
of  them.

It  w'as  this  thorough  training  in  the 
schools  of  the  Fatherland  which  Mr. 
Schuster  took  with  hint  to  the  wholesale 
house  of  Sternberg  &  Son,  grocers  at 
Bielefeld,  Prussia,  where  he  served an 
apprenticeship  of 
four  years  before 
coming  to  America.

So  trained  and  so  tested,  he  left  Ger­
many  in  1865  and  went  to  Kalamazoo. 
There  he  became  book-keeper  for  B. 
Desenberg &  Co.,  a  position he  held  for 
live  years  a  fact  which  tells 
its  own 
efficient  story  of  good  service.  Wish­
ing.  then,  to  see something  of  the  south­
ern  portion  of  the country,  he closed  his 
books and  for a  twelve-month  was a  cit­
izen  of  Alabama.  Ready,  then,  to  go 
on  with  his  work,  he came back  to  Kal­
amazoo  and  was  associated  with  a  Mr. 
Nathanson  under the  firm  name of  Na- 
thanson  &  Schuster,  until  the  death  of 
that  gentleman  in  1871,  when  he  formed 
a  copartnership  with  Myer  Desen­
berg,  under  the  style  of  Desenberg  & 
Schuster,  and  embarked  in  the  grocery 
business,  which  is  still  conducted  under

The  Growing  Trade  of  Japan.

The  commercial  importance of Japan, 
now  that  she 
is  becoming  to  be  more 
widely  recognized  than  before,  is  likely 
to  become overestimated  in  some  quar­
ters,  while  in  others  the  tendency  will 
be  to  underrate 
it.  The  statistics  of 
Japanese trade,  however,  furnish  a  sur­
prising  record  of  advance,  and  one 
which  will  not  easily  be  discounted 
even  among  the  most  prosperous  na­
tions.  From  1884  to  1892  her output  of 
textiles 
to 
$35,000,000,  of  sevenfold  in  six  years.
I he  exports  of Japanese  products  seven 
years  ago  amounted  to  about  $55,000,- 
000,  but  in  1892  this  had 
increased  to 
$75,000,000,  or  40  per cent.  The  activ­
ity in  silk  manufacture  has been sharply 
felt  for some  time  by  European  manu­
facturers. 
interesting 
in  themselves,  and  they  are  especially 
valuable  as  a  basis on  which  to  form  a 
definite  conception  of  Japanese  com­
mercial  probabilities.

increased  from  S5,000,000 

1 hese  facts  are 

In  taking  a  train  on  the  Pennsylvania 
Rialroad  from  Wilmington  to  Washing­
ton  recently,  Engineer George  Freder­
icks,  with  engine  No.  92,  made  the  run 
from  Louden  Park  to  the  Navy  Yard,  a 
distance  of  thirty-five and  a  half  miles, 
in  thirty-three and  a  half minutes.  The 
five and one-tenth  miles  between  Land- 
over  and  Anacosta  was  covered  in  three 
minutes,  a  rate  equal  to  102  miles  per 
I his,  it  is  said,  beats  the  record 
hour. 
for  rapid  railroad  travel 
for  that  dis­
tance  with  a  train.-  Engine  No.  92  is a 
new  one,  recently  sent  from  the  Altoona 
shops.

P P r i ^ ’ C   h e a d a c h e ............
■  U V I V  
................ POW DERS
Pay the Best Profit.J^Order from your jobber

JOBBER  OF

Paints,  Oils,  Brushes, 

Varnishes,  Etc.

PLATE  and  WINDOW  G LASS.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  niCH.

26-28  Louis  St.

Ghent’s

Headache

• • • • • •
• • • • • •
Permanent Cure for

N EU R A LG IA

Wafers

Handled by all Jobbers.  Prepared by

C.  N.  GHENT  &  CO.,  Pharmacists 

BAY  CITY,  niCH.

$ E E   Q U O T A T IO N S .

Will you allow  us to give you

A  POINTER

The  S.  C.  W .  is  the  only  nickle 
Cigar,  Sold  by  all  Jobbers  traveling 
from  Grand  Rapids  and  by  Snyder  & 
Straub, 
Jobbers  of  Confectionery, 
Muskegon.  We« do  not; claim  this 
Cigar  to  be  better  than  any  10  cent 
Cigar  made,  but  we  do  claim  it to be 
as  good  as  any  5  cent  Cigar  that} is 
sold  for  a  nickle.

Mr.

Thomas

T H E   B E S T   F I V E   C E N T   C I G A R

IN  THE  COUNTRY.

ED. W. RUHE, MAKER,

CHICAGO.

F.  E. BUSHMAN, Agl.,  523 John  SI.,  KALAMAZOO

vo.a.a,^ 

A sure protection against Cattle
A.valuable Antiseptic Oint-
nds.  Can  be used  for Sores  or 

ment  for stock of all  ki 
Bruises.
Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle,

Makes an  excellent  Hoof Ointment.

Manufactured by

Send for  Pamphlet of Testimonials, etc.

GRAND RAPIDS 

MICH.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced  Oil  Anise  Oil  Cinnamon, Biehrom  Potidash, o u  Pepperm int.  Declined—Linseed.

i 

Aeetieum.......
Benzoicnin,  G
ßorncic..........
Carbolicum
Ci trie n n i.......
Hvdroehlor .. 
Nitrociiin  ....
Oxalieum___
Phosphorium. 
Salicylicum.  . 
Sulpfiuricuni. 
Tannicum  __
T artaricim i................
Ammonia
Aqua,  16  d eg ............
Aqua, 20  d eg ............
O arbonas....................
C hloridtim ................
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Hi YJh 1  0
R e d .............................
450;
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200;,
Mr
250

25
10
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15® 50
0 - 2  00
450
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5
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Bacete.
Cubeæe.............po. 25
J u n ip e ru s..................
X anthoxylum ...........
Balsam um
Copaiba......................
Peru.............................
Terabin, C anada__
T olutan.......................
Cortex
Abies,  C anadian__
C assi® .......................
C inchona F lav a.......
Euonym us atropurp 
Myrica  C erifera,  po.
Prunus V irgini.........
Q nillaia.  g r'd ...........
S assafras.. ................
U lm us.. .po.  15,  gr'd 
E xtractum  

G lycyrrhiza  G labra.
G lycyrrhiza,  p o .......
Hsematox, 15 lb b o x .
H®matox, Is 
...........
Ha-matox, *4s...........
Hsematox, ¿ s ...........

F erru

C arbonate  P recip ... 
C itrate and Q u in ia ..
C itrate Soluble.........
F errocyanidum   Sol.
Solut.  C hloride.......
Sulphate, com ’l .......
Sulphate,  com 'l.  by
Sulphate,  pure  .......

bbl, per  cw t.......

Flora

A rnica 
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A ntbem is..................
M atric a ria ................
Folia
Barosma.....................
Cassia A cutifol, Tin-
nevelly.  ................
Cassia A cutifol,A ix. 
Salvia officinalis, >.,s
and  J4s ....................
U ra Urst.....................
(ium m i 
A cacia,  1st  picked.. 
Acacia,  2d  pinked.. 
Acacia,  3d  pinked  . 
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po...........
.200)28
Aloe.  Barb. po.20C 
Aloe, Cape  ..
■ po.  15
Aloe, So' otri 
po,  00
A m m oniac.. 
A ssafcetida..
PQ-  5
Benzoinum  .
Catechu.  Is..
C atechu,  54*.
Catechu,  >is. 
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M a s tic ....................
M yrrh...............po.
Opii  . . po. $3.0U®>3
S hellac....................
Shellac,  bleached
T ragacanth  ...........
Herba

85
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45
20

85

Lobelia.........oz.  pkj.
M ajorum __ oz.  pkg
M entha  Pip.  oz.  pkg 
M entha  Vir. .oz.  pkg
R u e.................oz.  pkg
Tanacetum V  oz.  pkg 
Thym us,  V  oz.  pkg 
riagnesia.

Calcined, Pat___ ...
Carbonate.  P a t.........
Carbonate,  K.  A  M  . 
Carbonate, Jennings
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Ani’s i...........................  2
A uranti  C ortex.......   1
B ergam ii....................  3
C ajip u ti.....................
C aryophylli..............
C edar..........................
C henopadii................
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C itronella..................

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G anltheria 
.........
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(»ossippii, S<*iii.
M ed uoma,..............
Tur ri pera.........
I.av en d u la..........
I.im onis................
Meritila  Pipar. 
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Montha Veri«!....
Morrlnife,  g a i__
Myrcia. «linee__
o liv e .....................
Piois  Liquida.  . 
Picis Liquida, gal
R ic in a ..................
Rosm arini............
Uomo,  ornine.......
Sucnini  ................
iibina
■Sont.al.........................   •_>  go®.
Sassafras...................  
go®:
if;.
Siuapis. ess.,  ounce. 
T ig lii..........................  
@
40®
[I'hyme 
.................... 
Thyme,  o p t..............  
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T heobrom as............  
is(fr
P otassium
Bi-Barb....................... 
is®
Bichromate  ............  
YfVtr
Bromide.....................  
45®
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\<tir
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pi®
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21®
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An c h u s a .................... 
Arum  10 ..................... 
I C alam u s.................... 
I G entiana.........po  12 
G lyclirrhiza... pv.  15 
H ydrastis Canaden . 
llydrastis Can., po. 
Ilellebore.Alba, po 
Inula,  po.................... 
I  Ipecac,  po..................  1
Iris plox__ 1 kj35®;¡x 
Jalapa,  p r........... 
M aranta,  /J s ............ 
Podophyllum, po....
Rhei  ..........................
Rhei, e u t....................
Rhei, p v .....................
Spigelia....................
Sanguinaria,  po. 25
S erp en taria..............
S enega.......................
Simiíax.officinaiis ii 
S’m ilax.  M..................
■ po.:
Symploi-arptis, Fiuti­
li us,  po...................
V aleriana. Eng.po  30 
V aleriana,-G erm an.
Zingiber a ..................
Zingiber j ..................
Semen
A nisiim .......... po.  20
Apium  igra veicolisi 
Bird,  is.......................

in
12  Sulphate  po

18 ( 'anlam oii...........
12 <’oriundi uni.......
5 1 i ’aiiiiabis  Sativa
no i Ivdoniuni.. . . . .
.85 Oheiiopodium  ..
55 D ipterix  odorati
18 K ifiiieuhim ............
14 Kii-inigiiM-k. po.........
10 L in i............................
00 Lini,  g n l__ bbl. 31»
10 L o b e lia ...................
(0 P barlaris  C anarian.
70 R a p a ...........................
80 Sinapis  A liai............
00 Sinapis  N igra...........
HO
Spiritus
40
ÌH) Frum enti.  U .  1). Co.
f‘>0 Frum enti,  1).  F.  K  .
45 F ru m e n ti..................
>0 8 uni peris  ♦ *o.  < >.  T  .
Juiiiperis C o............
S.iaehjirum  N.  E ....
25 Spt.  Vini  G alli.........
20 \ ini  ()porto..............
25 Vini  A lba..................
Sponges 
F lorida sheeps’ wool
carriag e..................
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage..................
Velvet extra  sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
Extra yellow sheeps’
woof,  carriage__
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriag e..................
Hard, for slate u se .. 
Yellow  R e e f ,  for 
slate  u se................
Syrups

Acacia  ................ 
.
A uranti C ortes.........
Zingiber.....................
Ipecac.....................
F erri  lo d ...................
Rhei  A rom ................
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega .......................
S o il!* .........................

0
♦»0
8**0i
.8120t
35®
40
1  0
70
110

i  OOf»/
000;
250
♦»50;
750:
750
25®.
25Or,

(fr
(ft
@
@

50®,
@

I  30 ¡ 
I  fin I

Un  i  tn 
/no  Z no

T o lu ta n .....................
Priiiius virg..............
Tinctures 
Aconitum NapellisR 
I  Aconitum N apellisF
Aloes............
!  Aloes and  M yrrh__
I  A m ica  ...
Assafu-tida  . ” '."[[[
I  At-rope  Belladonna.
A uranti  c   rte x .......
Benzoin.....................
I  Benzoin Co................
j  B arosm a...................
I  C antbaridcs..............
I  C apsieum .................
C ardam on.................
!  Cardamon  C o...
C astor................
!  C atechu.....................
Cinchona...................
Cl n--bona Co............
C olum ba...................
Cubeba...................
Cassia  A cutifol.......
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
D ig italis...................
E rg o t..........................
Ferri C hloridtim __
G en tian .....................
G entian C o................
G u iac a...................
Guiaca arnm on.........
H yoscyam us............
Iodine.........................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino............................
L obelia......................
Myrrh.........................
Xux  V om ica............
O p ii............................
<1.  ii, cam phorated. 
Opii,  deodorized
Q uassia................
Rhatanv.......
Rhei.......
Sanguinaria  .  .
Serpentaria 
..
Stramonium__
Tolutan............  .
V alerian................
\ eratrum V eride.
Zingiber.........

3 no 
2fi 
15

50
50
50
50
"0
00
60
50
50
20

1  00 
12

Hiscellaneous

.•Ether, Spts.  Nit. 3 F
35@ .‘Î8
.Ether.  Spts.  Nit.  1 F
40
38®'.
A! lim en ..........
2*4®.
Al timen, gro’d .. po. 7
4
A nnat to..............
400.
50
5
Autimoni.  po.........
40
rß0;
Antimoni et PotassT
60
Antipyrin................
0, 1  40
Antitebrin 
............
0!.
15
Argent!  Xitras,  oz  ..
0Ì,
53
Arsenicum...............
50),
7
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..
:î80
40
Bismuth  S.  X.
1  200 1  80
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.
0;
9
Calcium chlor.,  ifts
®
10
Calcium Chlor.,  l4s.
0-
12
Cantharides,  Bus.po
1  00
0
Capsici  Fru> tus, a f .
0!,
i
Capsiei Priietus,  po.
15
Capsici  B ructusB.po
®
1--.
Carvophyllus.po.  15
12
100
Carm ine, No. 40__
%
Cera Alba, S. A  F  ..
5001,
55
Cera  F lava__
400,
42
C occus..................
® 40
Cassia F ru ctu s.........
25
@.
C ontraria..................
0,
10
Cetaceum ...................
40
0
Chloroform .............
1)00,
03
( ’hloroform . squibhs
0
25
C hloralH ydC rst  ...
15® 30
< ’liondriis...................
200.
25
Cinchonidinc.P.A  W 150.
20
Ciuehonidine, Germ 8lj0i
12
OÌÌ0,
Cocaine  ...................
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
05
< ’reosotum ................
0-,
35
Creta...............bbl. re
®i
2
Creta,  prep................
5
©
00,
Creta,  precip............
h
0-,
8
Creta.  R ubra............
C ro cu s............ ..........
500
55
C u d b ea r....................
24
01
Cupri Sulph..............
5@ 6
100
D extrine.....................
12
Ether S ulph..............
750),
90
Emerv. ail  num bers
©.
8
Emery, po..................
®i
6
Lrgotu-..............po. 40
800
35
Flake  W hite.........
120
15
[i.-illa.
0;
G am bler....................
8 0
9
ielatin, Cooper.......
® 60
Gelatin, F ren ch .......
3li@ 50
ilassw are,  Hint, box
80
Less  than  b o x __
70
*1 ue,  brow n............
12
Glue,  w hite  ............
G lycerina..................
G rana  Paradisi  __
H mull h is....................
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
H ydraag Chlor  Cor 
H ydraag Ox  Rub’m. 
H ydraag Ammoniati 
IlydraagU nguentuni
H ydrargyrum ...........
Ichtliyobolla., A m ...
Indigo.........................
Iodine,  Resubi.........
Iodoform ...................
50
Lupuliu
so I  Lycopodium ............  
60® 
70® 
50  Macis........................... 
00  Liquor  A rsen et Hy-
50 
drarg lod ...............  
©  
10@, 
50  LiquorPotassA rsinit 
60  Magnesia,  S ulph__   254@ 
®>. 
50 I  Magnesia. Sulph.bbl 
50 I  M annia,  S. F ............  
60® 

55
05
1  25©  1  50 
75®,  1  00 
3  80®  3  90 
@  4  70 
®   2 25
65
re
27
12
4
lift 
63

00.
13®
13®,
Ú25©
©

45® 
@ 

2  00 
1  00

M enthol................
@
Morphia, S.P.& VV 
Morphia,  S.X.Y.t
r.Q.&
I  C.  Co.......................
I  Moschus C anton__
j  Myristica, No.  1.......
X ux V om ica... po.20
Os  Sepia...................
Pepsin  Saac,  II.  & P.
D. Co.......................
Picis  Liq. N .N.Rgal.
doz......................
Picis Liq., q u arts__
Picis Liq., pints.......
Pil H ydrarg.. .po.  80 
Piper N ig ra... po.  22
Piper A lba__ po.  35
Piix  B urgun.............
Pi limbi  A cet............
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pv rethrum , boxes H 
& P.  D. Co., do z...
Pyrethrum ,  p v .........
Q uassia:.....................
Q uinia, S. P. &  W  . 
Q uinia, S. G erm an..
Quinia,  X.Y..............
Rubia T in cto ru m ... 
Saccharum Lactis pv
Salaein.......................
Sanguis D raconis...
Sapo,  W ............
Sapo,  M.......................
Sapo,  G.......................

5  50 
1  90
1  80 
40 
80

Siedlitz  M ix tu re ....
S inapis.......................
Sinapis, o p t..............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.........................
Snuff,.Scotch,De Vo’s
Soda B oras................
Soda Boras, po.........
Soda et  Potass T art
Soda.  G arb................
Soda,  Bi-C’a rb ...........
Soda,  A sh..................
Soda, S ulphas...........
Spts. Cologne............
5.  E ther  C o.........
j  Spt: 
! spt 
s.  Myrcia  D rm ... 
I  Spt 
s.  Vini  Rect. bbl. 
Spt! 
3.  Vini R ect.54bbl 
Spt! 
s.  Vini Reet.lOgal 
Spt: 
3.  Vini Rect.  5gal 
L
ess 5c gal.  cash 
10 days
30 Strychnia, C rystal..
10 Sulphur,  Subl.........
34*40 39‘.j Sulphur,  R oll.........
37 T am arinds..............
32*00 37*4 T erebenth Venice..
14 Theobrom ® ...........
20 V an illa.....................
2 500 2  60 Zinci  S ulph............
50
Oils
14
12 W hale, w inter.........
15 Lard,  e x tra .............

200
8 0
270
120;
180
400
120
100).
0

1  65®

12
1  20

@
@
&@
654@
o;.;ft/.
24©
1!4@
3
354@.
0.  ; 
500 
®   :

1  400 1  45 
3
2*40
2 0
8 0
~10
280
30
450
AH
9  00® 16 On
7@.
8
ÏAL.
BBL.
70
70
60
65

Lard, No.  1................
Linseed, pure  raw ..
Linseed,  boiled.......
N eatsfoot,  w i n t e r
strain ed ..................
Spirits T urpentine..
Paints

BBL.

LB.
Red  V enetian........... H i  2 ©8
Ochre, yellow  Mars. H£  2 ®4
Ochre, yellow  H er.. H i  2 ® 3
9 VifâtS
Putty, com mercial
Putty, strictly  pure 
2*4  2;*403
Vermilion,  P r i m e
A m erican...............
13®,
15
Vermilion,  English.
7 0 0
75
Green,  P a r is ...........
2 0 * 4 0
27
Green,  P eninsular..
16
13®
Lead, R ed..................
5*;¡Í0
6
Lead,  w h ite..............
5 */j 0v
fi
W hiting, w hite Span
®;
'0
V biting,  gilders  . .
0
90
0 1  00
\V bite.  Paris A m er..
H hRing. Paris  Eng.
®. 1  40
1 niversal  Prepared. 1  00® 1  15

c liff..............

Varnishes
No.  1  Turp C oach... 1  1 0 0 1  20
E xtra  T u rp ..............
1  60®, 1  70
Coach  Body..............   :2  750 3  00
No.  1  T urp  F u rn __ 1  00®. 1  10
Extra Turk  D am ar.. 1  550 1  80
Jap. D ryer,N o.lTurp
75

7 0 0

I  Quintette 
I Quintette 
I  Quintette

The  Best  5  cent  Cign 

$85  per  thousand

telline & Perkins Drug Co.

Grand  Rapids,  M .

Quintette
Quintette
Quintette

2 0

THE  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

1 hey are prepared  just  before going to press and  are an  accurate index  of the  local  market. 

1 he  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the’ trade only,  in such quantities as are usually purchased  by retail 
It  is  im­
dealers. 
possible  to  give  quotations suitable  for all  conditions of purchase,  and those  below are given as representing av­
erage  prices for average conditions of purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer  than 
those  who  have  poor  credit.  Subscribers are earnestly requested to point  out any errors or omissions,  as it is 
our aim to  make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

AXLE  GREASE.
doz.
__ 60
i  astor O il.........
D iam ond........... ...........50
F ra z e r's ............. ...........75
Mica.................... .......... 6i>
Paragon............

Chicory.

i

Bulk  ................................

fcross 
6 00 
7 00
CHOCOLATE.
5  50
9 00
8 00 j  German S w e et..............
6  00 P rem ium .........................

Baker’s.

BAKING  POWDER.

Acme.

>4  lb cans > doz............
doz............
1 
Bulk.

11. cans ! doz............ __ 
...  1  00 Cotton, 60 ft.
lb cans
... 
Cotton. 80 ft. 
Ju te, 00 ft,  in

CLOTHES LINES.
95
45 Cotton. 40 ft. per  tloz.........
75 Cotton, ..o tt. per  d oz......... 1  15
ter  d o z.........
13 5
10 1 otton, 70 ft. per  doz........... 15 5
.er  d o z...........
1  95 
80
r  d oz............
55
...  1  10 Ju te, 72 ft.  pi r doz..............
95
...  2 00
...  9 00 5 gross boxes

CLOTHES  PINS.

Arctic.
1 doz case  .. 
cans
I4  lb 
cans
doz case 
lb
.
lb cans 2 doz ease ..
1 
lb ease
doz case  ..
5 
Red Star.

.40

>4  lb cans.............................
lb c a n s ...........................
lb c a n s ...........................
1 
Van  Anrooy’s Pure.
i4  lb cans 6 doz case........
>;  lb cans 4 doz case.........
1 
lb cans 2 doz case........
*4  lb cans cl,

Telfer’s.

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

Prim e .. 
c ¡olden 
I’eaberr

85 Good 

Our Leader.

...........................................20
11. cans doz..................
Hi cans doz.................... .  1  50 P rim e ...........................................22
................................... 23
lb cans...........................
lb cans...........................
Ill

45
75 F air  ............................................ 21
1  50 Good  ...........................................22
....................................... 24

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

Peaberry 

Fancy 

Prim e  . 
Milled

Interi
Private  Gro 
Mandeb ling.

Maracaibo.

Java, 
itti__

Mocha.

Roasted.

Im ita tio n ....................................
A rabian  .....................................

To  ascertain  cost  o f  roast, 
coffee, add  1-c per lb. for roas 
ing and  15 per cent,  for  shrinl
age.
A rbuekle 
Jersey __

Package.

Lion Coffee
Fine Assortment of Summer 
Gomes now in the patkaoes.
Cases  WO tbs. (  21  8 -  10 

l6  Ounces  N et

" 

6 0   ’ /

Cabinets /20 lbs.  Sam e Price 
00 k Extra  for Cabinets.
HcLaughlin’s  XXXX.........21  N

Extract.

Valley City  it g ro s s ....... 
75
Felix  Vi  gross....................  1  15
Hummel's foil Vi g ro ss... 
¿5
Hummel's tin  Vi  g ro ss...  1  43

KOFFA-AID

100 packages  in  case.......
00 packages in  ca se.......
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags........................... 
Less  q u an tity ...................  
Pound  packages..............  
CREAH  TARTAR.
strictly p u re .......................  
30
30
T elfer's  Absolute 
........... 
G rocers'................................. 15@25

2Vi
3
4

CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. in case.

BATH  BRICK. 

2 dozen in case.

A m erican.........................
English..............................

BLUING.

Arctic  1 oz ovals..............
Arctic 8 oz ovals............
Arctic  pints ro u n d .........
A rctic  No. 2 sifting box. 
Arctic  No. 3 s fting box . 
Arctic  No. 5 sifting box.
Arctic  1  oz  ball................
Mexican  liquid  ’  oz.......
ilex   can liquid  8 oz.......

BROOftS.

No.  1  Carpet.....................
No. 2 < 'arpet.....................
No. 3 Carpet.....................
No. 4 Carpet.....................
Parlor G em .....................
Common  W hisk..............
l-’aucy W hisk....................
W arehouse.......................

CANDLES.

Hotel 40 lb boxes............
Star 40 lb lioxes...............
P araffine...........................

4 50 
6  tO

1  75
1  till
2  50

CANNED  GOODS.

As the pack  of  1SU5  will  not 
begin  to arrive  in any  quantity 
until  about  Sept.  I.  we  Lave 
concluded  to defer th e  publica­
tion of full list under this head 
u ntil our issue of Sept.  i.

CATSUP.

Blue Label Brand.

H alf p in t 25 b o ttles...............2  75
Pint 25  bottles.......................  4  50
Q uart 1  doz.  bottles...........  3 50
H alf p int per doz.................  1  35
Pint 25bottles.......................   t
Q uart  per doz.......................   3

Triumph Brand.

CEMENT.

M ajor's, per g'oss.

Lenaw ee..  . 
Riverside..
Gold  Medal
Skim 
.........
B rick...........
E d a m .........
Leiden........
Limburger. 
Pineapple... 
Roquefort  .
Sap  Sago...................
Schwei tzer.im ported 
Schweitzer,domestic

Peerless evaporated cream.fi 

COUPON  BOOKS.

book:
book
book:
book:
book:
book:

book
book
book:
book
book
book

‘Tradesman.”
per  100..........
».  p e r  100..........
>,  p e r  100..........
>,  p e r  100..........
|* r   100..........
», j>er  100.........
“ Superior.”
», per  100.........
». per  100.........
s, per  100.........
s.  p e r  100.........
5,  p er  100..........
».  p e r  100.

Coupon Pass Books,

“ Universal.”
$  1  books, per  100........
3  00
$ 2 books, per  ¡00........
3  50
$ 3 books.  ■ er  100........
4  00
•i 5 books,  per  100........
5 00 
$10 books, per  100........
0 00
$20 books, per  100........
A bove prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over...  5 per cent 
500 books o r over... 10 per cent 
1000 books or over.  .20 per cent 
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  ...........................  1  00
50 books.............................  2 00
100 books.............................  3 00
250books............................   g 25
500 books..............................10 00
1000 books..............................17 50
500. any one denom’n.......   3 00
1000, any one denom'n.......  5 00
2000, any one denom'n.......  8 00
Steel  punch......................... 
75
DRIED_FRUITS.

denomination from $10down.

Credit Checks.

n o n E S T ic.

Apples.

Sttndried........................... 
Evaporated 50 lb  boxes. 
California Goods.

634
734
Bxs  Bgs
Apricots..............................834  8Vi
Blackberries.....................
N ectarines.......................
Peaches............................... 834  8J4
Pears....................................634  g34
Pitted t ‘berries................
Prunnelles........................
Raspberries.....................

Raisins.

Loose M uscatels.
2 Crown.............................334
3 Crown............................. 4
4 Crown............................. 5

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Schuit’s   Cleaned.

Patras bbls.......................   @2%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases__   @2X
25 lb boxes........................   @5j4
50 lb boxes........................   @5
1  lb packages..................  @g
Citron Leghorn 25 lb  bx 
13 
Lemon  Leghorn 25 lb bx 
11 
12 
Orange Leghorn 25 lb bx 

Peel.

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co.'s 

brands.
G ail Borden  E agle.................... 7 40
C ro w n ............................................g 25
D a isy ............................................ .5 75
Cham pion  ...............................4  50
...............................4  15
M agnolia 
Dime 
...................................... 3  35

Prunes.

25 lb boxes.

California 100-120.........
California  90-100.,.......
California  80-90............
California  70-80............
California  60-70............

H cent less in bags

41 2
534 2 oz regular panel
4 oz  regular panel
6
6»4 6 oz regular panel
7\i No.  3  ta p e r...........
No  4 Taper...........

Lc mon V anilla
1  20
2  00 !
3  00  ¡
2 00 j
2  50 1

<o
.1  50
2  00
. 1  35
.1  50

R aisins.

Ondimi 29 lb boxes......
Sultana 201b boxes......
Valencia 30 lb bo x es...
F A R IN A C E O U S   G O O D S .
B u lk ................................

F arina.

(f/51*
@6?4

3

G rits.

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s ___ ..2  00

H ominy.

Barrels  ...........................
. .3  25
Flake. 50 lb.  drum s__ . 1   50

Lim a  Beans.
D rie d ..............................

Macearon! and V ermicelli.
..  60
..2  50

Domestic.  10 lb. b o x ...
Im ported,  25 1 b.  b o x ...
P earl B arley.
E m p ire ...........................
C h e s te r...........................

.. 

334
2Vt

6*4

Peas.

2%

.1   15

Green,  b u .......................
split,  per lb ..................
Rolled  O ats.
Schum acher,  b b l.........
. .4  20
Schum acher,  34 b b l__ _ .2  25
M onarch,  b b l................
. .3 60
.1   90
M onarch.  34  b b l...........
.  3 20
Q uaker, cases................
. .3  25
Oven  B aked..................
2 25
Lakeside  .......................
G erm an ...........................
East  In d ia..................
Cracked, b u lk ................
24 2 lb packages.............

.. 
3
. .2  40

W heat.

Sago.

4
334

HERBS.

Sage.. 
Hops .

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

K e g s...............................................3 25
Half  Kegs.......................................1 90
QuartenKegs................................. 1 10
1 lb  cans..................................  30
34  lb  cans................................   18
K e g s...............................................4 25
Half Kegs......................................2 40
Quarter  Kegs............................... 1 35
1  lb  cans..................................  34

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

K e g s..............................................11 00
Half  Kegs......................................5 75
Quarter Kegs.................................3 00
1  lb cans....................................  60

INDIGO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes..............   55
S.  F., 2, 3 and 5 lb  boxes__   50

JELLY.

15 lb  pails................................   36
17 lb  pails................................   42
30 lb  pails................................  TO

LYE.

Condensed,  2  doz  .................1  20
Condensed,  4  doz........................2 25

LICORICE.

P u re.......
C alabria 
S ic ily ... 
R oot.......

MINCE  MEAT.

F I S H .

Cod.

Georges cured.............  
(ft  5
Georges  genuine.........  @  534
Georges selected.........  @  6
Strips or  brick'...........  6  @ 9
Sm oked.........................11  @.12

Halibut.

Herring.

80 

n&ckerel.

Holland white hoops keg. 
Holland white hoops  bin.
Norwegian...........................
Round  100  lb s.....................   2 55
Round  40 lb s.....................   1  30
scaled ...................................   13  00
No.  1  100 lbs...............................  11 50
No. 1  40 lbs...............................  4 90
No. 1  10 lbs...............   130
No. 2 100 lbs.........................  9  25
No. 2  40 lbs.........................  4  00
No. 2  10 lbs.........................  1  08
Family 90 lbs.......................
Family 10 lb s.......................

55

58
48

Sardines.
Russian kegs.............. 
T rout.
No. 1100 lb s.........................  4  25
No.  1  40 lb s.........................  1  95
No. 1  10 lb s................ 
No. 1  8 lb s................ 
W hitefish.

No.  1 No. 2 

Fam
1U0 lb s............   7  00  6  00 
2 50
40 lb s............   3  10 
1  30
2  TO 
40
101  s ............  
75 
85 
8 lb s............  
35
63 
71 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.
Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew’. 
the

Souders’.
in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

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

HATCHES.

Columbia  Match Co.’s brands
Columbia Parlor....................1  25
XXX Sulphur......................... 1  00
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.......................... 1  65
Anchor  Parlor........................ 1  70
No. 2  Home..............................1  10
Export  Parlor........................4  00

HOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house..............................10@ 12

Cuba Baking.
Porto  Rico.

Ordinary............................... 13@14
P rim e.................................... 
Fancy  .................................. 

20
30

New Orleans.

F a ir.......................................  
G ood...................................... 
Extra good........................... 
C hoice.................................. 
Fancy  .................................. 

Half-barrels 3c extra.

OIL CANS.

18
22
24
27
so

Crystal valve, per  doz.......   4  00
Crystal valve, per  gro ss...36  00 

PICKLES.
"led i urn.

Small.

Barrels,  1,200 count............   4  25
Half bbls, 600count..................  2 65

Barrels, 2,400 count.............  5  ffi
Half bbls,  1,200 count.........  3  15
Clay, No.  216...............................  1 70
Clay, T.  D. full count......... 
Cob,  No. 3....................................  1 20

PIPES.

65

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina head.......................   514
Carolina  No. 1.....................   5
Carolina  No. 2 ......................  434
Broken....................................  314
Japan,  No. 1.........................  4%
Japan,  No. 2.........................   434
Java, No.  1.............................  5,4
Java, No. 2 .............................  414
P a tn a .................................... 

4
Granulated, bbls................1  10
Granulated,  100 lb cases.. 1  50
Lump, bbls........................... 
1
Lump,  1451b kegs............... 1  10 

SAL SODA.

|

SEEDS.

A n is e .................................... 
13
Canary, Smyrna.................. 
6
Caraway............................... 
10
Cardamon,  Malabar.........  80
Hemp,  Russian................ 
4
Mixed  Bird.........................  
454
Mustard,  w hite.................. 
6V4
Poppy  .................................. 
8
R ape...................................... 
4
Cuttle Bone.........................   20

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels............................... 
18
Half  bbls.............................  20

Pure Cane.
Pair  ........................... 
16
G ood......................................  20
C h oice..................................   25

 

 

SPICES.
W hole Sifted.

Allspice  ..................................  914
Cassia, China in mats...........  934
Cassia,  Batavia in  bund__ 15
Cassia.  Saigon in rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna.................. 22
Cloves, Zanzibar.....................1134
Mace,  Batavia........................70
Nutmegs, fancy...................... 65
Nutmegs, No.  1 ...................... 60
Nutmegs, No.  2...................   '55
Pepper, Singapore, black . . .10 
Pepper, Singapore, white  . .20
Pepper,  shot............................16

Pure Ground in Bulk.

Allspice  ................................... 15
Cassia, B atavia...................... is
Cassia,  Batavia and Saigon.25
Cassia,  Saigon........................35
Cloves,  Amboyna.................. 22
Cloves, Zanzibar.....................ig
Ginger,  African.....................16
Ginger,  Cochin...................... 20
Ginger,  Jam aica.................... 22
Mace,  Batavia........................65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
Mustard. Trieste.................... 25
Nutmegs, No.  2...................... 75
Pepper,  Singapore, black.. .16 
Pepper, Singapore,  w hite  .24
Pepper, Cayenne.................... 20
Sage............................................30
“ Absolute” in Packages.

i 

34s
in  
Ms 
Allspice  ........................... 84 
I 55
1 55
Cinnamon.......................... 84 
Cloves................................. 84  1 55
Ginger,  Jamaica..............84 
1 55
Ginger,  A frican..............84 
1 55
Mustard..............................ri 
1 55
Pepper................................84  1 55
Sage.....................................84

STARCH. 

Kingsford’s  Corn.

20 1 -lb packages......................  634
40 1  lb packages......................634

Kingsford’s  Silver  Gloss.

40 1-lb packages......................6V
6-lb  boxes  .............................  734

Common  Corn.

20-lb  boxes..............................   5v
40-lb  boxes..............................   5V4

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages.........................  5
3-lb  packages.........................  5
6-lb  packages.........................  554
40 and 50 lb boxes..................
Barrels  ................................ ..  394

si/
4«

.1  00 
2  50 
.4  00 
.3  75 
.3  50 
65 
.3  50 
.2  50

2  00 
1  85 
1  70

30
15

60

60

SODA.

B o x es.................................. 
Kegs, English....................

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.
Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes.........
Barrels, 320 lb s..................
Barrels,  115 234 lb bags... 
Barrels,  60 5 
lb bags... 
Barrels,  30 10  lb bags...
Butter, 56 lb  bags............
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags....
Butter, 2801b  bbls...........
Butter, 224 lb  bbls...........
Common Grades.
100 3 lb sacks.....................
60 5-lb sacks.....................
28 11-lb sacks....................
56-lb dairy in drill bags..
28-lb dairy in drill b ags.. 

W arsaw.

Ashton.
Higgins.

56 lb dairy in  linen  sacks 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 

Solar  Rock.
56-lb  sacks.........................
Common Fine.
S agin aw .............................
Manistee  .........................
Scotch,  in bladders.........
Maccaboy,  in jars.............
French Rappee, In  jars..,

SNUFF.

SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s .............................
Deiand’s 
...........................
Dwight’s .............................
Taylor's..............................

.3 3C 
.3 15 
.3 30 
.3 00

TOBACCOS.

C igars.

Edw.  VV.  Ruhe's brands
Signal  F iv e........................
R.  R.  R................................
Mr. Thomas.......................
G. J. Johnson’s brand

No.  1.........
No  2.........
No.  3 .........
No.  4  .......
No.  5 .........
No.  6.........
No.  7 .......
No.  8.........
No.  0.........
No.  10.........
No.  11.........
No.  12.  .  ..
No.  13.........
No.  14.........

s. c
Hornet’s  N est............................. 35 00

15. J. Reynolds’ brand.

Private brands.

Q uintette.....................................35 00
New  Brick...................................35 00

SOAP.
Laundry.

Allen  13.  W rislev's  brands.

Old Country  80  1-lb...........
Good  Cheer 60  1-lb.............
W hite  Borax  100  4  lb .......

Proctor A  Gamble.

C oncord................................
Ivory,  10 oz...........................
Ivory,  6 oz...........................
L enox....................................
M ottled  G erm an................
Tow n T a lk ...........................
Dingman  brands.
Single  b o x ...........................
5 box lots,  delivered .......
10 box  lots,  deliv ered .......

.3 20
.3  90
3  65

.3  45
.6 75
.4  00
3  65
.3  15
.3  25
.3  95
.3  85
.3  75

Jas.  S.  K irk A Co.'s  brands.

American  Fam ily,  w rp'd.
American  Fam ily,  p la in ..

.3 33
.3  27
N.  K. F airbank A ( 'o.'s brands
.3  90
.2  10
..3  10

Santa  C laus.........................
Brown,  60 b a rs ....................
Brown, 80 b a rs ...................

Lautz  Bros.  &  Co.'s  brands.

A c m e ....................................
Cotton  O il...........................
M arseilles.............................
M aster..................................

.3  65
.6 00
. 4  00
.4 00

Thom pson A Chute brands.

S ilv e r .........................................3 65
Mono.......................................... 3 30
Savon  Improved.....................2 50
Sunflower  .....  
2  80
Golden  .................................... 3  25
Economical  ........................... 2  25

 

Henry Passolt's brand.

Sapolio,  kitchen, 3 d o z.........2 40
Sapolio,  hand, 3 d o z..............2 40

G owans & Sons’  B rands.

C ro w ......................................... 3  30
G erm an F am ily....................  2  15
A m erican  G rocer  100s.......  3  60
American G rocer  60s.........  3  05
N.  G ................ 
3  30
Mystic  W hite.......................  3  80
Lotus  .....................................   4  0
Oak  L eaf...................................3  55
Old S tyle...................................2  55
Happy D ay.............................  3  10

 

 

STOVE  POLISH.

N ickeline  4  gross..............   1  00
N ickel'he  4  gross..............   2  00
N ickeline 1  gross................  4  00

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  w hich  the 
w holesale dealer adds th e local 
freight from   New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
am ount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  m arket  in  which  he 
purchases to bis shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
w eight of the barrel.
D om ino....................................5 31
Cut  L oaf..................................5 31
4  04
'ubes
Powdered  .......................
XXXX  Powdered...........
Granulated in bbls.........
Granulated in  bags.......
Fine Granulated............
Extra  Fine Granulated.
Mould  A ...........................
Diamond  Confec.  A —  
Confec.  Standard A .......

. 4  62 
.4  62 
.4  62 
.4  75 
.4  04 
.4  62 
.4  50

THE  M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

.4 37 
.4  37 
.4  37 
.4  37 
.4  31 
.4  25 
.4  18 
4  12 
.4  00 
.4  00 
.3 04 
3  KT 
3  75 
.3  50

Cream  B ar................
5
Molasses B a r ...........
(gì50
Hand  Made Creams.
80  @90
Plain  C ream s...........
60  0/ 80
Decorated C ream s..
(itIK)
String Ro<k..............
(Í/CA)
Burnt  Alinoli«Is.......1 25  (a ÍKJ
W intergreen  Berries
(ffJtiO
Caram els.
No.  1  w rapped. 2  Jb.
boxes  ...................
No.  1  wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  ..................
No. 2 wrap, ed, 2  lb.
boxes  .....................

(T/54
(fio1
@28

F R U I T S .

1 ^

Subject 
Flour in  bbl:
. . . . . . .   ... 

usual  cash  dis- FRE5H  MEATS.

Beef.
Carcass....................

count.
ditiouai.
(<r
M eal.
B o lte d ................................ ..  2 25 Fore q u a rte rs.......... .  .  3 1■iOt
..................... ..  2 50 Hind  q u arters......... ..  8 Or.
G ranulated 
(if
H ay.
(<t
No.  1  Tim othy, ton lots  . . . 18  00 R o u n d s..................... .  6l »(ff
No.  1  Timothy ton lots new IS 
Car  lots..................................
than  ear  lo ts..............
Feed and  M illstuffs.

Loins  No.  3 .................
R ibs............................
i  bucks 
Plates

Oats.

.  8

.  5

TABLE  SAUSES.

Lea &  Perrin's,  larg e.......4  73
Lea .V  P errin's, s m all.  .. .2  75
H alford,  large  .................. 3  75
H alford sm all......................2  25
Salad  Dressing,  larg e.......4  55
Salad Dressing, Sm all.......2  65

WASHING  POWDER.

100 packages in  c a -e ............ 3 35

WICKING.

N o. 0, per gross.......................   25
No. 1, per gross.......................  30
No. 2. per gross.......................  40
No. 3, per gross.......................  75

CRACKERS.
The N.  Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:

B u tter.

Seymour X X X .....................   5%
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Fam ily X X X .........................  5 4
Fam ily  XXX, 3 lb  c a rto n ..  6
Salted XXX...........................  5 4
Salted  XXX. 3 lb carton  ..  6

Soda.

Soda  XXX  ..........................  54
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  ca rto n __   6
Soda,  C ity............................   7
Crystal  W afer......................  104
Long Island  W afers...........  11
L.  1.  W afers,  1  lb carton  ..  12

O yster.

Square Oyster, XXX...........  6
Sq. Oys,  XXX.  1  It)  carton.  7 
F arina Oyster.  XXX...........  6
SW EET  GOODS  Boxes.

A n im a ls................................  104
Bent's Cold  W ater..............   12
Belle  Rose............   .............  8
Cocoauut Taffy...................   8
Coffee C akes.........................  8
Frosted  Honey.....................   11
G raham  C rackers................  8
G inger Snaps. XXX round.  64 
G inger Snaps. XXX  c ity ...  64 
Gin. Sups,XXX home made 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  64
G inger  V anilla...................   8
Im p e rials..............................   8
Jum bles,  H oney..................  11
Molasses  C akes...................   8
M arshmallow  .....................   15
M arshmallow  C ream s.......  16
Pretzels,  hand  m ade  .......  84
Pretzelettes, Little G erm an  64
Sugar  C ake...........................  8
S u lta n a s................................  12
Sears' L unch.........................  74
V anilla  S quare...................   8
V anilla  W a fe rs..................  14

CANDIES.

The Putnam Candy Co. <1 notes 

as follows:

Stick  Candy.

Standard...................  
Standard  II.  H ......... 
Standard Tw ist....... 
Cut  Loaf...................  
Extra II. H ................ 
Boston  Cream......... 

Mixed Candy.

Com petition............  
Standard...................  
Leader  .....................  
R oyal......................... 
Conserves.................. 
Broken  .....................  
Kindergarten........... 
French  Cream......... 
Valley Cream........... 

bbls.  pails

6  @  7
6  (Si  7
6  @  7
7  @ 8

cases
@ 8 4
@  84

bbls.  pails
5  (it  5 4
59X@  04
6  @ 7
64@   7 4
0 4 ®   74
64®   74
7 4 ®  8 4
@  9
@124

Fancy -  In Bulk.

Pails
Lozenges,  plain....... 
@  84
@  94
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops............   11  @12
Choc.  Monumentals 
@12
Gum  Drops..............  
@ 5
Moss  Drops..............  
@ 7 4
@  8
Sour Drops................ 
Im perials.................. 
@ 9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Per Box

Lemon  Drops........... 
@50
@50
Sour  Drops..............  
@60
Peppermint  Drops.. 
@65
Chocolate  Drops__  
H.  M. Choc.  Drops.. 
@75
Gum  Drops................   35 
Licorice Drops......... 1  00  @
@75
A.  B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain__  
@60
@65
Lo/enges,  printed.. 
Im perials.................. 
@60
M ottoes.....................  
@70

Medt  Sweets,  150s,3 25  (it
176s,  200s,................3 50  (ox
Kodi  and  Sorrentos
160  Im perials.......4 00  (it
200s  •..
é .
100s in  F la ts ...........4 50  (fft.
Lemons.
E xtra  Choice  360
New  V erdillis__ 4 50  @
Extra  Choice  300
New  V erdillis__ 4 50  (it .
Fanc y 300 New  Yer-
00  («!
Fanev 360 Novemt cr
cut  .........................5 00  @
E xtra Fancy 360 __ 6 00  @
E xtra Fancy 300 __ 6 00  @

B ananas.

A  definite  price  it hard  to
name, as  it  varies  according  to
size  of  bunch  and  quality  of
fruit.
Small  bunches.........| 00  @1  25
Medium  bun ch es... i 25  (it i  50
Large bunches.........l 75  d¡;..2 00

Foreign Dried  F ru its.

Fig-,  Fancy  Layers
10 to  16  lb s............
Figs, Choice  Layers
10 lb .........................
Figs,  N aturals 
in
bags.........................
Dates. F anis in  10lb
b o x es.....................
Dates,  Fards in  601 b
cases  .....................
Dates,  Persians,  G.
Ms 60 lb cases.......
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb
cases  .....................

(it 15
@13
(Til  6* 9
(it .  7
dt  5
(it,  A1 ó
(it.  3 4

N U T S .
Almonds, Tarragona
@15
@
Almonds,  Ivaca  ....
Almonds,  California
soft  shelled ............
@12
Brazils new ................
<6  7%
Filberts  .....................
(if JO
\V a units,  Grenob e
@14
(it,
W alnuts,  F ren ch .......
W alnuts,  C alif No.  1
@12
W alnuis,  soft  shellei
C a lif.........................
@13
(ff;  0l/9  I
Table  Nuts,  fa n c y ...
(it  9
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecans, Texas 11. P .. 8  @12
Chestnuts  ..................
@.
llickorv  Nuts  per bu.
©
M ich.........................
(it 3  65  j
Cocoanuts,  full  sack.-
B utternuts  per  b u ...
@
Black W alnuts per  bi
P eanuts.

Fancy.  H.  P..  Game
Fancy,  11.  P.,  (¿amt
R oasted...................
Fanev,  11.  P., Assoc la
ti o n ..........................
Fancy,  II. P„  As so d a
tion  R oasted...........
Choice.  II.  P.,  E xtras
Choice,  H.  P.,  Extras
Roasted  ..................

@
@  74
©   54
(ft,  7%  I
&   434  1
@  64

!

F i s h   a n d   O y s t e r s

Fresh  Fish.

W hitefish..................
8
®  
T r o u t.........................
74
Black  Bass................
@  13
13®  15
H a lib u t.....................
Ciscoesor H errin g ..
©   6
Bluefish.....................
@ 
124
@1  16
Live  Lobster,  per  ib
Boiled Lobster.........
©   18
dt 
C o d ............................
12
H addock...................
<&  8
No.  1  Pickerel.........
@ 
9
@. 
P ike.............................
7
Smoked W hite.........
(ft 
8
Red S nappers...........
@;  15 
Col  River  Salm on..
@  20
Mackerel 
................
18@  25
Shrimps,  per gal  ... 1 (NXTf 1  25

Shell  Goods

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25(ffi 1  50
Clams,  per  100.........
75® 1  00

O ysters-  in  Cans.

40(Tr
35®

F. J.  D ettenthaler's Brands.

F airhaven  C ounts...
F.  J.  D.  Selei ts .........
Grains and Feedstuffs
W heat.
o ld ................................
68
N ew..............................
68

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

Flour  in  S acks.

@50

P a te n ts .......................
.......   4  50
S traig h t....................... .........  3  80
C lear............................. .........  3  60
!  G raham  
.......  3  60
B u ck w h eat................ .........4  50

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

ud, i

St. Car Feed, unscreened - -19  50
No.  1  corn and  Oats...........19  00
No. 2 Special..........................18  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal...........18  50
Winter Wheat  Bran...........15  50
Winter Wheat  M iddlings.. 17  50 
Screenings..............................14  00

Corn.

Car  lots.................................. 
43
Less than  car  lots..............  
47
hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  A  Hess pay  as  fol-
low s:
Hides.
G re e n .....................
.  64®  74
Part  cu re d ..............
(o  8
Full ( lured...........
...  81 ¿0  9»4
Dry  ........................... ...  9*irá 11
Kips,  g reen ............ ...  6> 7 1.
Kips,  cured.......... ...  84®  94
Calfskins,  g reen ... . ..  84® 10
('alfskins,  c u re d ...
.1 0 4 ®  12
Deaconskins  ......... ...  2  (ft  3

P elts.
s h e a rlin g s............
L a m b s...................
o ld   W ool............

...  5  ©20
...io   (if30
..  40  <075

W ool.

W ashed
...10  (Tf 1.8
I n w a sh e d .............. ...  5  @13

iTiscellaneous.

T a llo w ..................... ...  3  @  4
Grease  B utter......... ...  I  © 2
Switches  ................ ...  l ‘ j |   2
G inseng.........................2  00®2 x5

Barreled  P ork.

PROVISIONS.
The  Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and  Provision Co.  quotes as fol­
lows:
...................................to  50
Mess 
...................................12  25
Back 
Clear  back  ........  
12  50
S h o rtc u t...............................11 00
P ig ......................................... 13 00
..................................
Bean 
Family  ..............................
Dry S alt  M eats.
B ellies................................  
Brisk its  ............................. 
E xtra  sh o rts...................... 

7
64
6?*

Sm oked  H eats.

Hams,  12 lb  average  __  
Hams,  4 lb  average.......  
Hams,  161b  average.......  
Hams, 20 lb  averag e..... 
Ham dried beef................ 
Shoulders  (N.  Y. c u ti.  . 
Bacon,  cle a r...................... 
C alifornia  ham s............... 
Boneless ham s.................. 
Cooked  h am .....................  

Lards.

Compuuud,  tierces......... 
Fam ily,  tierces................  

C ottole’ e ...........................
C'otosuet  ...........................
501b T in s ...........advance
20 lb P ails..........advance
10 lb  P ails.......... advance
5 lb P ails.......... advance
3 lb  P ails.......... advance

S ausages.

B o lo g n a.............................
L iver....................................
F ran k fo rt...........................
P o rk ....................................
Blood 
................................
Tongue  ..............................
Head  cheese.....................

Beef.

E xtra  Mess.......................
Boneless  ..........................

P ig s’  F eet.

Kits,  15  lbs.......................
4   bbls, 40 lb s...................
4   bbls, 80 lb s ...................
Kits,  15  lb s.......................
4   bbls, 40 lb s ..................
4   bbls. 80 lb s..................

T ripe.

Casings.
...
P o rk ........................... 
Beef  ro u n d s....................
Beef  m iddles..................

B utterine.

Rolls,  d a iry .....................
Solid,  d a iry .....................
Rolls,  cre a m e ry ............
Solid,  c /e a m e ry .........

Canned  M eats.
Corned  beef,  2  lb .........
Corned  beef,  15  lb .........
Roast  beef,  2  lb  .......
4 s.
Potted  ham .
Potted  ham,
4 s-
Beviled ham,
Beviled ham,
Potted  tongue  4 s 
Potted  tongue  4 s.

104
104
10
84
11
74
84
74
9
1 1 4

5
54

7 00 
9  75

I  65 
3 00

2  15 
14  50 
2  00

M utton.
C arcass.......................
Spring Lambs............

C arcass.......................

Veal.

OILS.

s   (n

Barrels.

i  The  Standard  o il  Co.  quote 
as follows:
Eocene  .......................  
XXX W.W.Mieb.IIfllt 
High Test Headlight.
j  Naptha  .......................
Slove Gasoline...........
I C ylinder.....................
Engine.................
I  Black,  winter............
I  Black,  sum m er...........

© 10‘ Í
@38
@21
(ffi

From Tank  Wagon.

Eocene........................... 
i  XXX  W.W.Mieb.lIdlt

1

Scofield.  Shurmer  A  Teagle 

quote as follow s:
Barrels.
P alaeine.....................
Daisv  W hite..............
Red Cross, W.W.Hdlt
N aphtha.....................
Stove Gasoline...........

@10 
(it  04 
@  8 
(it  84
(it  94
)</,
P alaein e.......................
Red Cross W.  W.  Hdlt  @  6‘
Crockery  and

From  Tank  Wagon

Glassware.

LAMP  BURNERS.

 

No.  0  S un..............................  
42
48
No.  1  S u n ..............................  
No.  2  S un................  
 
711
50
T u b u lar.................................. 
Security.  No.  1...................... 
15
security.  No. 2 ...................... 
88
N utm eg  ................................  
50
A rc tic ....................................  1  15
LAMP  CHIMNEYS  Common.
Per box of C doz.
No.  0  S un..............................   1  85
No.  1  S un..............................   2  00
No.  2  S un..............................   2  80

F irst  Q uality.

No. 
No. 
No. 

0 Sun,  crim p 
1 Sun,  crim p 
2 sun,  crim p 

w rapped and  labeled__   2  10
w rapped and  labeled__   2  25
w rapped and  labele ' __   3  25

top,
top,
top,

No. 
No. 
No. 

XXX F lin t.
0 Sun,  crim p 
1 Sun,  crim p 
2 Sun,  crim p 

w rapped and  la b e le d ....  2  55 
w rapped and  labeled__   2  75
w rapped and  labeled____ 3 75

top.
top,
top.

P earl  Top.

No.  1  Sun,  w rapped  and
No.  2  Sun,  w rapped  and
No.  2 Hinge,  w rapped  and 

labeled...................................3 70
labeled .................................  4 70
labeled................................... 4 88

F ireP ro o f  Plain Top.

No.  1  sun,  plain b u lb .........   3 40
No.  2 Sun, jdain  b u lb ..........  4 40

La  B astie.

No.  Sun.  plain  bulb,  per
doz  .....................................   1  25
No.  2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  .....................................   1  50
No.  1  Crimp, per doz.........  1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz............  1 60

R ochester.
No.  1.  Lime  (65c doz 
No. 2,
No. 2.

Lime  (70e ilozi.........  4  00
Flint  (80c  doz 1.........  4  70

Electric.

No, 2, Lime  (70e dozi 
No. 2, Flint  (t!0e doz)... 
M iscellaneous.

.  4  00 
4  40 
Doz.
Junior.  Rochester..............  
50
15
Nutmeg  ..............................  
illuminator  Bases..............  1  00
j  Barrel  lots, 5 doz................ 
90
7 in.  Porcelain Shades.......  1  00
Case lots,  12  doz.................. 
90
|  Mammoth  Chimneys for  Store 
I)oz. Box
1  50 
No. 3 Rochester, lime  1  50 
4  20 
1  75
1  80
No. 3 Rochester.  Hint  1 
No. 3  Pearl 
top,  or
1  85 5 25
Jewel  glass............
No. 2 Globe lncandes.
1  75 5  10
lim e...........................
No. 2 Globe lncandes.
2 00 5  f 5
flint  .........................
2 10 6 00
I  No. 2 Pearl glass.......

Lamps

OIL  CANS. 

Doz. 
1  gal tin cans with  spout..  1  60 
1  gal galv  iron w ith  spout.  2  00 
’ gal galv  iron  with  spoilt  3  25 
gal galv  iron  w ith spout  <  5o 
gal  E ureka w ith  sp o u t..  6  50
gal  Eureka w ith  fane  t 
7  no
gal galv iron A ,t  W __   7  50
gal T ilting cans,  M'nYh  105.1 
5 gal galv  iron  N aeefas__   <1  no

10  50 
12  00  
12  0 
3 00 
10  00

Pum p  Cans.
3 gal  Home  R ule.........
5 gal  Home  R ule.......
3 gal 1 ioodenough....
5 gal (ioodenough ....
5 gal  Pirate  K ing__
LANTERNS
No.  1  T ubular.  .......
No. 
1  B  T u b u lar__
No.  13 T ubular Dash
No.  1 T u b u lar...........
No.  12 T u b u lar............
No  3 stree t  Lamp  ..........   3  *

3  50 
5  00 
12  HO

LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1  doz
each, box 10 cen ts...........
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2  doz
each, box  15 cents...........
No.  T  bular.  bbls  5  doz
each,  bbl 35............
No. 0  Tubular,  bull's  eye 
cases 1  doz.  e a c h ........  .  1  ¿5

LAMP  WICKS.

N o. 0 per gross..... 
-j)
........... 
'  o.  p?r gross...................... 
eg
3s
No. 2 per gross.................... 
No. 3 per  g ro ss.....................   ©
Mommoth per d o z..............  
75
JELLY  TUMBLERS  Tin  Top.
4   Hints,  6 doz  in  box.  per
box  (box  00)  ....................  |  (jo
4   Pints, 21 doz  in  bbl,  per
doz  (bbl  35).......................  
20
4   Pints,  6  doz in  box  per
box  (box  001.................... 
j  go
4   Pints,  I  doz  in  bbl.  per 
doz  (bbl  35).......................  
-¡o

FRUIT  JA RS.

M ason-old style, p in ts.... 
Mason -old  style, quarts 
6  00 
Mason— old  style.  4  gal 
s on 
Mason—  doz in case, p ts ..  6  00 
Mason 
1 doz in case. qts.  6  50 
Mason—1 doz in case, 4  gal  8  50 
Dandy—glass cover,  pints. 
Dandy—glass  cover, q ts ...  <1 on 
D andy—glass cover,  4  gal. 12  On

Business
Hen
Are
Convinced
Of the
Value
Of the
Tradesman
Company’s
Coupon
Books.
They  will
Please you
And
Save you 
flon ey!

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

Candee  Rubbers

Dealers, Please  Take  Notice

Prices advance 50 per cent. Oct.  1.  Until that 
time our prices on  Candees,  20 per  cent,  discount, 
r ederals and Jerseys,  20 and  12  per cent, discount. 
Imperials,  20,  12 and  12  per cent,  discount.  A de- 
lay  in  placing orders  will  cost  you  money.

We have a  full  line of Felt  Boots.
We also carry the finest  line  of  Lumbermen’s 

Socks  in  Michigan.

STUDLEYi BARCLAY.

NO.  4  TIONROE  ST.  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Agents  for  the

BOSTON  RUBBER 
SHOE  CO.’S 
GOODS

12,  14  and  16  Pearl  Street

M anufacturers and Jobbers of

m arket.  You can im prove°yonr trade by'‘h V u idii^ourgoods. 

Boots and  Shoes
Reeder  Bros.  Shoe  Co.

Boots and  Shoes arc necessarily much advanced  ¡11  |.ric<
an, necessarily imicii advanced  in  price

Owing to  the  Great  Advance  in  Leather,

NEEDLE  TOE

0.0.
Shoes and Leather

GOOD  SALESM EN.

Some  Peculiarities  by  which  They 

May  be  Known.

Allen F isher in  Boot and Shoe Recorder.

i he art  of selling goods  (for  it  is  an 
art)  is  made  up  of  the  following  condi­
tions :  Above  all,  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge  of  the  goods  to  be  sold,  gained 
only  by  a  long  experience  and  closest 
attention  to  details.  Next,  the  faculty 
of  impressing  a  customer  with  the  idea 
that  you  know  your  business,  and  are 
telling  him 
this  without 
making  yourself  obnoxious  or  over  im­
portant; 
then,  that  innate  politeness 
that  is  bom  only  in  the gentleman.

truth, 

the 

It  has often  been  said  that 

‘ ‘anybody 
can  sell  a  customer something  he  wants, 
but  it  takes  a  salesman  to  sell  him 
something  he doesn't want,”   and  that’s 
true.  Of  course,  if everybody  in  trade 
kept  everything  that  anybody  wanted, 
and  everybody  sold  everything  at  the 
same  price as  his  neighbor, 
it  would 
matter  very  little  whether  the  salesman 
was an  artist or a machine.  But in  these I 
days  of close  competition  and numerous | 
styles and  tastes,  the  possibility  oi  any 
merchant  keeping  everything  that 
is 
called  for  is  precluded.

you 

I  nder  such  conditions  the true  sales­
man  shines.  Not  that  1  would  have 
him  by  his  superior  knowledge  of  his j 
goods  or by  his  suavity  of  manner  de-1 
ceive  a  customer or browbeat  him 
into 
buying something he doesn’t want, but by 
the  foregoing  qualities  to turn  his  tastes | 
or  inclination  in  the  direction  of  the 
stock  you  have on  hand.  Convince  him  I 
that  it  would  lie  to  his  interest  to  buy 
what  you  show him,  rather than  what lie 
had  in  mind  when  he  came  in.
in  and 
1'or  instance,  a  man  comes 
asks  for a  good  calf  shoe  with  an  extra 
find  you 
heavy  bottom.  Well, 
haven  t  got  it  in  as good  a  grade  as  he 
wants,  but  you  have  got an  elegant  cork 
sole,  and just  about in the desired grade. 
But  lie  doesn’t  want  a  cork,  never  wore 
one.  Somebody told  him  that  cork  busi­
ness  was all  a  fake,  no cork  about  it.”  
Now,  Mr.  Salesman,  get  in your work.
If  you  know how  that  shoe  is  made  tell 
him  all  about  it.  That  you  know  it  is 
cork  (if  you do).  That  there  is  no  rea­
son  for any  reputable  factory to counter­
feit  it,  that  cork 
is  as  cheap  as  anv 
other  tilling  that  could  be  substituted. 
That  from  the  very  nature  of  it  cork 
is 
more  impervious  to  dampness  than  a 
leather  sole. 
I hat  it  acts  as  a  cushion i 
to thef  oot,  thus  making  a  more  com-1 
fortable shoe. 
If  all  this  and  the  many 
other selling  points  be brought  to his at­
tention  in  a  polite  and  proper  maimer.  J 
fen  to one,  if  he 
indi­
vidual,  you will  land  hint,  and the price 
of  your cork  sole  shoe  that  he  didn't 
want  will  tinkle  in  the  bosses’  till  that 
night.  And 
if  you  sold  him  a  good 
shoe  he  will  be better satisfied than  with | 
what he came  in for,  and you’ll  sell  him I 
his  next  pair and  the  next,  as  long  as) 
you  treat  him  properly.

is  a  reasonable 

know  clerks  who,  under such  circum­
stances,  would  smile  and  look  pleasant 
and  ask  her  to  call  again?  But  you 
ought  to  do  all  that  -even  though  she  is 
I  exasperating,she  buys  shoes  sometimes, 
J  make  her  mad,  you  can  depend  upon  it 
j But  if  you get hot  under the  collar  and 
she  won  t  buy  any  of  you,  and  most 
j likely  not  in  the  store  where  you  are 
j  employed.

The  strong-minded  old  maid  school 
idea  how  a  shoe 
i marm,  who  has  an 
j should  be  made,  and  doesn’t allow  any 
j "young  upstart  to  tell  her  what  kind  of 
shoes she ought  to  wear,”   may  make 
; you 
inad,  and  she  may  not  buy  any 
j  shoes  of  you  this  time,  but  when  she 
goes  the  rounds and  finds  her  advanced 
ideas  of  footwear have not  yet  been  ma­
terialized,  she  will  most  likely  remem­
ber the  salesman  who  was  polite  to  her 
and  didn  t  try  to  make  her  believe  she 
didn’t  know  much  about  shoes,  and 
come back  and  let  you  fit  her out  in  the 
common,  every-day  shoes,  that  her  less 
intellectual  sisters  wear.
1 hen  there  come  the  fond  parents  of 
their  first 
tootsy  wootsy. ”   Baby  must 
have shoes—something  soft as  silk,  and 
pretty as a  dream,  but  it  must  not  even 
touch  the  little  pink  toes.  You  pull  the 
• | infants  stock  over from end  to  end,  and 
finally  sell  a  pair  for  four  bits  you 
j  make  nine  cents  profit.  But  you  are 
j supposed  to  look 
just  as  pleasant  as 
| though  you  had  sold an  eight  dollar  pair 
|  in about  five  minutes,which represents a 
I profit  of S3.
But  papa  and  mamma  will  want  some 
shoes  by  and  by,  and  little  “ tootsy”  
will  be  a  big  rough  boy  some  day,  and 
I then  you  can  get  your  revenge.
And  now  there  is  another  phase: I ’ve 
j known  plenty of  clerks  who  were  fully 
I competent  to  show  up  the  goods 
in 
good  shape,  and  all  of that,  but  who 
couldn’t  close  up  the  bargain  to  save!
| their  lives.  It  seems  to  be a  knack  that 
| some  clerks  lack  entirely.  I  know  two 
I clerks  in  the same  store.  One can take  a 
certain  customer  one  time,  sell  him, 
j satisfy him,  get him out of the way in five 
I minutes ;the other knows all  about  shoes 
j 
is equally as agreeable,  but  he  can't 
focus  the  sale  at  all.  The  moment  the 
customer  finds  the  slightest  objection, 
instead  of  answering  the  supposed  fault 
by  a  simple argument,  he  will  go  and 
pull  down  another  shoe,  and so  on,  until  j 
the ledge is  full,  the customer’s  patience 
absolutely  exhausted,  and 
in  many 
cases  he  gets  up  and  walks  out.
A  customer  should  be  shown  plenty of 
stuff,  so as to  impress  him  with  the  fact 
that  your  stock 
is  complete,  but  not 
enough  to  muddle  him  all  up  till  he 
don  t  know  what  he  wants.  Then,  when 
he  is  pleased,  or  you  think  he  is,  bring 
the thing  to a  focus,  right  there.  K^.
member your time 
is 
being  paid  for 
and  it ought  to  be of 
some  value,  anc 
don’t  allow  yourself  t< 
spend  the  mom- 
ing 
in  his  company 
no  matter  how
agreeable  it  may  be.
It’s  not  nec­
essary  for  a  clerk  to be a  dude—  in  fact, 
he shouldn’t  be.  He  should  be  neat’
I trim,  anti  especially  keep  his  feet  well 
dressed,  if  lie  is  selling  shoes.

I hen,  as  to  appearance 

Now,  that’s  salesmanship.  You  have­
n’t deceived  him,  you  didn’t  bulldoze 
him,^  but  you  sold  him  something  he 
didn  t  want,  simply because  you  didn’t 
have  what  he  asked  for,  and  you  had 
genius  enough  to  turn  his  taste  in  an­
other direction.  You  could  have got  rid 
of  your customer  easier  by  simply  tell­
ing  him  that  you didn ’t  have  what  he 
wanted.  But  that  isn’t  what  vou  draw 
your $20  every Saturday  night  for.

it s 

it ;  tries 

How  many  of  you  know  of  clerks, 
who,  when  a  customer comes  in,  ‘ states 
her desire,  clerk  gets 
it  on ; 
perfect  fit.  He  thinks  his  sale  is  made, 
for 
just  what  she asked  for.  Cus­
tomer  admires  it ;  thinks 
it’s  a  good j 
shoe,  so much  prettier  than  any  she  has 
seen  in  the city.  But 
’Guess  1  won’t j 
take  them.”   Now,  Mr.  Clerk,  keep 
your temper.  True,  the aggravation  has 
been  terrible.  You  are  justified  in  be­
ing  mad—even  in  swearing a  little  but I 
not  till  after  your  tormentor  is  gone. 
Then  go  out 
in  the  coal  house  and  ' 
say  what you  please.

Now  I  ask  again,  how  many  of  you

He  should  cultivate  as 

large  an  ac­
quaintance  as  is  practical  without  neg­
lecting  his  business,  for  that  is  really 
a  portion  of  his  stock  in  tratie,  and one 
| of  the  heaviest  arguments  he  can  bring 
to  bear when  he wants  to  make a  change 
I  is  his  acquaintance  with  a  good  class 
of  trade.
1 his seems  to  me  to  cover  the  most 
j  . 
j  important  portion  of  the  ground. 
In 
j addition,  be  careful,  be  painstaking,  be 
a  worker  with  a  big  W,  be  honest,  be 
J  respectable,  read  the  trade  papers,  and 
for  such  a  clerk  there  is  an  absolute 
certainty  that  some  day  he  will  be  a 
| proprietor and  be teaching  others how to 
sell  goods at  retail.

Trade between  the  Puget  Sound  re­
gion  and  Central  and  South  America 
has  developed  very  largely  in  the  last 
year  or  so,  and  several  new  lines  of 
steamships  have  been  put  on  between 
the two.  Another new  line,  to  run  be­
tween  Tacoma,  Wash.,  Panama,  and 
South  American  ports,  has  just  been  es­
tablished,  and  will  commence  sailing 
this  month.

ilavi-  a  great  m any  things  purchased  before 
the  advance  th a t  they  are  still  selling a t old 
priees. and balance of the line at  not one-half 
ot  the adva  ce of the cost to  m anufacture the 
goods to-day. 
It will  pay you  to exam ine  our 
line ol  sam ples when our  representative  calls 
on you.

5  ana 

1 Harm  lo  ia  si..  Giana  ro  ids.

H e r o l d  =  B e r t s c h   S h o e  C o .
BOOTS,  SHOES J  RUBBERS

M anufacturers  and  W holesale  D ealers  in

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

Peculiarities  of  the  Shoemakers  of 

Gotham’s  Various  Colonies.

From  th e New York Sun.

Between  factory-made  shoes  and  ma­
chine  repairing  “ while  you  wait,’ ’  the 
old-fashioned,  self-employing  shoemak­
er  has a  hard  struggle 
for  existence. 
Even  the  shoe  stores  have  gone  into 
cobbling  and  you  see  in  their windows 
such  notices  as  “ Of  course  we  mend 
shoes.”   This  means  still  another  com­
petitive  enemy  to  the  cobbler.  Never­
theless,  shoes  are  still  cobbled  all  over 
town  in  every  language  known  to  this 
community  and  the  cobbler  is  worth  a 
glance or two,  if  only  because  he seems 
doomed.
The  French  quarters,  old  and  new, 
abound 
in  cobblers,  and  on  the  whole 
the  French  self-employing  shoemakers 
are  perhaps  the  best  situated  of  any. 
They  are  skilled  men,  often  making  a 
specialty  of  fine  shoes  and  the  French 
style  of  shoemaking  differs  sufficiently 
from  other  styles  to  keep  the  French 
shoemaker’s  customers  true to  him  de­
spite competition.  There are an  unusu­
ally  large  number  of  shoemakers  in  the 
new  French  quarter  and  they  take  pains 
to  make  modest  proclamation  of  their 
specialty.  The  Secretary  of  Agricul­
ture,  while  he  still 
lived  in  Nebraska 
and  wore  long  boots,  had  them  made  by 
a  self-employing  shoemaker  down  on 
the  edge  of  the  old  French  quarter and 
sent  out  to  him  by  post.  As  the  Secre­
tary  is  a  man  to  hold  to his old friends, 
doubtless  since  his  promotion  from  a 
practical  to  a  theoretical  farmer  he  still 
employs  the  same.
There  are a  host  of  Italian  shoemak­
ers  in  each  of  the several  Italian  quar­
ters.  Some  of  them  are  about  the  crud­
est  mechanics  of  their  craft,  still  cling­
ing  to the  antiquated  art  of  pegging, 
anti  putting  the  largest  and  roughest 
patches  on  anything  that  comes  their 
way.  Since  the  advent  of  very  cheap 
factory  shoes,  by  the  way,  patched  boot- 
gear  is  much 
less common  than  it  once 
was.  Every country-bred  person  recalls 
the  clever  devices  of  the  old-fashioned 
country  cobbler  in  the  days  of  patched 
boots.  There  was  not  only  the  half-sol- 
ing  and  heeling  ol  these  days,  but sol­
ing,  tipping,  si tie  patching,  footing  and 
even  foxing,  this  last  a wholesale  device 
for covering  a  hopelessly  damaged  boot 
with  two-thirds  of  a  new  upper.  The 
Italian  cobblers  come  nearer than  any 
others  to  imitating  the  fruitful  devices 
of  their old-time  rural  fellow-craftsmen. 
The  Italian  colony  is  thrifty  above  any 
other  part  of  this  community  and  its 
members  do  not  commit  the  extrava­
gance  ol  throwing  away  cheap  factory- 
made  shoes  when  they  begin 
leak. 
They carry them to a cobbler of their own 
race  and  he  cobbles  at  a  miraculously
cheap  price  that  makes  one  understand 
why  he  keeps  shop 
in  a  doorway  and 
shares  his  bedroom  with  half  a  dozen 
of  his  countrymen.

to 

German  cobblers  swarm  all  over  the 
large  and  densely  populated  area  occu­
pied  by  their  countrymen.  The  Ger­
man  cobbler  is  often  a  fancier ol  plants 
or canary  birds,  and  his  unwashed  win­
dows  are  usually  backed  with  an  array 
of  1 ive  greenery.  One  sees  now  and 
then  in  the  German  quarter  a  shop  with 
three  or  four  workmen,  an  unusual  evi­
dence  of  prosperity.  But  the  Teutonic 
foot  is often  of  a  sort  to demand  special 
treatment  at  the  hands of  the  shoemaker 
and  to  drive  to  despair  the  dealer 
in 
ready-made goods.  Close  upon  the Ger­
man  quarter,  toward  the  south,  is  the 
Jewish  quarter,  with  many  cheap  cob­
blers  occupying  miserable  holes,  and 
able  to  obtain  little  but  patching  to  do. 
instinct  of  the  race,  the 
True  to  the 
Hebrew  cobbler  often 
joins  to  his  me- 
. chanical  trade  a  mercantile business  in 
second-hand  goods.  There  must  be 
hundreds of men  and  women  that  always 
buy  shoes at  second-hand.  Lower  Sixth 
avenue  and  Carmine  street  are  thick 
with 
in  second-hand 
shoes.  They  commonly occupy  a  deep 
basement,  which  is  really  a  cellar,  and 
the  stairway  to  the  shop  is  completely 
lined with the merchant’s  stock  in  trade, 
a  motley  array  such as  could  hardly be 
duplicated  in  the  largest  shoe  house  in 
town.  Below  stairs are  yet  other  boots, 
shoes,  slippers  and  rubbers,  and  in  one

Jewish  dealers 

corner 
is  a  shoemaker’s  bench  where 
the  worst  of  the  stock  is  put  in  repair 
and  where  customers  may have  cobbling 
done. 
1 he  proprietor will  mend,  make 
or  trade. 
If  you  have  but one foot he 
will  provide  it  with a  boot,  and  if  your 
shoes  do  not  fit  he  will  take  them  in 
trade  and  give  you  a  pair  to  your  lik­
ing.

fellow 

countryman. 

One  finds  far down  town  a  few  self- 
employing  shoemakers  that  still  com­
mand  custom  because  of  some  pecul­
iarity  in  their  work.  Merchants,  brok­
ers  and  all  sorts  of  well-to-do  folk  ac­
customed  to  pay  high  for their shoes  go 
to  such  men  because  they  are  conven­
iently  situated.
Cobblers  lend  a  helping  hand  to  one 
another  in  the  present  struggle  with  a 
crushing  competition,  and  a  few  still 
make  good  wages.  A  Jewish 
immi­
grant,  who  came  penniless  to  this  city 
not  many  years  ago,  was  taken  in  by a 
cobbling 
He 
learned  the trade  and  in  six  or  seven 
years  was the  proprietor of two  flourish­
ing  shoe  stores.  Sometimes  a  cobbler 
makes  room  in  his  shop  for a  craftsman 
of  related  trade,  the  upper  sewer, 
for 
example,  whose  business  it  is  to  own  a 
sewing  machine  and  make  uppers  for 
the  high-priced  custom 
shoemakers. 
One  finds now  and  then  a  skilled  shoe­
maker  in  a  high  anil  squalid  apartment 
of  a  tenement.  Having  lost  his  place 
of  regular employment,  and  being  too 
poor  to  hire  a  ground  floor  shop,  he 
hopelessly  seeks  to  earn  a  living  from 
what  work  his  neighbors  can  send  him. 
Such  a  man  with  a  small  specialty,  as 
making shoes  for  the  lame  or  for child­
ren,  may  gradually  make  a  place  for 
himself,  but the  ordinary  worker  finds 
his  trade  in  such  circumstances  a  vain 
struggle.

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Three  steel  canal  boats of  a  new  de­
sign  are  being  loaded  at  Lorain,  Ohio, 
with  steel  rails,  for  use  on  street  rail­
ways  in  New  York.  Two  more  boats 
will  be  loaded  with  export  flour,  and 
the  five  vessels  will  start  for  New  York 
next  Tuesday,  going  via  Lake  Erie  to 
Buffalo,  and  thence  down  the Erie Canal 
in  tow  of  a  propeller  which  has  been 
especially  built  for  the  purpose.  The 
canal  boats,  which  have  been  built  with 
a  view  to  making  them  seaworthy  on 
the  lakes,  are  270  tons  each, 98  feet  over 
all,  17 '■'>  leet  wide,  and  10  feet  depth  of 
hold.  Two  more  propellers  and  thir­
teen  canal  boats  are  being  constructed 
and  will  soon  be  ready  for  service.  The 
experiment  of  sending  these  vessels 
ilirect  to  New York without a reshipment 
of  cargoes  at  any point  is being watched 
with  much 
interest  in  marine  and  rail­
road  circles,  and 
is  freely  predicted 
that  the  venture  will  ultimately  result 
in  a  revolution  of  the  east  and  west 
bound  freight  traffic.  The  experiment 
of  sending  shipments  to  New  York 
without  reassignment  will  undoubtedly 
next  be tried  from  Chicago.

it 

A  steamer  running  on  rails  is  a  curi­
ous  sight  to  be  seen  near  Copenhagen. 
Two 
lakes  are  separated  by  a  narrow 
strip  of  land  on  which  rails  are  laid 
running  into  the  water  on  either  side. 
The  steamer,  which  is  44  feet  long  and 
carries  70  passengers,  is  guided  to  the 
rails  by  piles  like  a  ferry  slip, 
It  has 
wheels  on  either side  which  fit  the  rails 
and  is  driven  full  speed  up  one side  of 
the  incline  and  down  the other  into  the 
water on  the other  side.

industry 

Oregon  people  are  raising  a  strong 
protest  against  the  continuance  of  the 
horse-canning 
in  that  State. 
They  claim  that  it  will  injure  the  repu­
tation  of  the  State  and  of other  canning 
industries.  They  don’t  want  people  to 
say  or 
dead  horse!”   when 
they  see  the  brand “ Oregon”   on  canned 
meats.  The  horse  cannery  has  started 
business,  but  little  is known  of  its busi­
ness  yet.

think 

P.  Steketee  &  Sons  offer  all  Ameri­
can  prints  at  old  prices,  regardless  of 
present  advance  in  prices.

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Write  us  for  special  prices  on  oil cans 
and  wash  boilers  just  to get acquainted. 
William  Brummeler  &  Sons,  Grand 
Rapids.

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News  from  the  Metropolis"-Index 

of  the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

New  Yoik,  August  io—As  the  season 
grows  near autumn,  trade  generally  im­
proves, and  this  week  we have  observed 
a  much  better  feeling 
in  the grocery 
trade,  although  at  no  time have the  job 
bers felt  discouraged.  There  is a  good 
steady  volume of  trade  and  the  chance« 
are  that  from  now on  this  will be  tht 
constant  report.  Prices  all  along  the 
line  are firmly  adhered  to  and, 
if  con­
cessions  are  made  at all,  they  are  kept 
very  still.

Coffee  maintains  its  former firm  posi 
tion,  and,  although  some  are  predicting 
a  descent,  the  fact  remains  that  some 
large  transactions  are  taking  place  in 
the aggregate,  and  dealers  do  not  wait 
for the  coming downward’ ’ movement 
The  market  is  pretty  well  sold  up,  and 
the quotation  of  1614c  is  firmly  adhered 
to  for  No.  7  Rio.  There are  afloat 514,- 
131  bags,  against  412,961  bags 
last 
year.  Mild  sorts  are  also  well  held  and, 
in  sympathy with  Brazils,  are  keeping 
up  the  record  for  full  figures.  Fancy 
Java  coffee  is  worth  from  28^31 c.

Teas  are selling  in  an  everyday  man­
ner and  there  is  nothing  new to  chroni­
cle,  either  as  to  movement  or  prices. 
There  is  a  feeling  that the  market  is  a 
little  firmer,  but  nothing 
is  known  of 
advanced  quotations.

Raw sugar has been attracting consid­
erable  attention.  Every 
indication  is 
for  higher  quotations,  and  that  very 
soon.  No  very  large  transactions  have 
been  recorded.  Refined  sugars • have 
sold  well  and  some  excellent  orders 
have  been  received  from  out of town 
dealers. 
I he  trouble  which  wholesal­
ers  in  Chicago  have  so  happily  settled 
■ will  have  a  good  effect  on  the  Western 
trade.

Molasses  are  firm  and  those  who  are 
in  the  market  are taking  such  stock  as 
they  need  without  any  grumbling. 
Holders  express  a  great  deal  of  confi­
dence.

Syrups  are in  about the usual  demand. 
Pirces  are  firmly  held,  however,  and  no 
indications  of  weakness  are apparent.

The  rice  market  remains  firm  and 
holders  are  inclined  strictly to  adhere  to 
quotations.  No  sign  of weakness  is ap­
parent,  notwithstanding the  fact  that we 
are about  on  the  eve  of  the greatest  rice 
harvest we have  ever  had.

Spices  are  steady.  The  movement  is 
of  ordinary  character and  former  quota­
tions  prevail.  Some quite  large  transac­
tions 
in  China  cassia  have  been  re­
ported.

Canned  goods  are moving  moderately. 
The  outlook  for  tomatoes  in  the  Eastern 
part  of  New Jersey and  in Delaware and 
Maryland  is  said  to  be  mighty  precari­
ous.  E.  C.  Hazard,  of Shrewsbury,  N.  J ., 
one of the  most successful growers  of  to­
matoes  in  the  country,  says  he was  able 
to  find  but  seven  tomatoes  on  two  rows, 
each  1,000  feet  long  and  similar reports 
are  heard  from  other  parties.  The  to­
mato  is gay  and  festive,  however,  and 
when 
it  is  perfectly  evident  that there 
are  no  tomatoes  whatever  the  fruit  be­
gins  to get  in  its  work;  and  although 
we  hear discouraging  reports  now,  the 
chances  are that we  will  have  plenty  of 
No.  3  cans.  Standards  are  worth  from 
67 % @ 7 o c.  Very  low  prices  prevail  for 
peaches.  Baltimore  packers  are  busy 
on  white  stock.  Apples  are  selling  for 
future  delivery  at  S2,  delivered  in  his 
city.
Lemons  and  oranges  are moving much 
more  freely than  last  week  and  prices 
show  some  advance,  which  at  the  mo­
ment  is  very  firmly  adhered  to.  Califor­
nia  oranges are  worth  from  $2@2.75  per 
box.

Dried  fruits  and  nuts are  steady.  The 
demand  is  not  rushing,  but  for the time 
of  year  is,  perhaps,  all that  could  be  ex­
pected.
Butter  is  in  fair  request  for  the  best 
qualities,  which  sell  at  20@2oJ4c.  Up­
on the  whole  the  market  can  be  called 
firm.

Cheese  is  in  light  demand.  Receipts 
are  moderate,  however,  and  within  a 
if  they  grow  no  larger,  we
few  days, 

may  reasonably  expect  a better  rate pre­
vailing.  Best  State  cheese  is  worth  8@ 
SjAc  for small  size.
Retail  trade  is  good  and  dealers  are 
cheerful.

Grand  Rapids,  Aug. 

Monthly Report from Secretary Owen.
10—Twenty-two 
additions 
to  our  membership  were 
made  during  July—nineteen  active  and 
three  honorary—as  follows :

ACTIVE.
T.  E.  Powell,  Chicago.
C.  R.  Prior,  Marshall.
W.  H.  Culver,  Grand  Rapids.
Wm.  H.  Maxwell,  Peoria,  111.
D.  L.  Strong,  Flint.
A.  B.  Daggett,  Warsaw,  N.  Y.
Alonzo  Filro,  Portland.
E.  C.  Tubbs,  Grand  Rapids. 
G.  F red  Blickle,  Grand  Rapids.
Wm.  H.  Bowers,  Milwaukee,  Wis.
Wm.  H.  Hamilton,  Saginaw.
Emiel  Kermpf,  Fremont.
T.  L.  Wiggins,  Jr.,  Detroit.
W.  W.  Fordham,  Elmira.
J.  E.  Schroyer,  Owosso.
F.  D.  Franklin,  Corning,  N.  Y.
C.  G.  Harris,  Lansing.
John  *H.  McKelvey,  Grand  Rapids.
Calvin  C.  Wynn,  Detroit.

HONORARY.

H.  F.  Miner,  Lake  Odessa.
H.  D.  McDuff,  Allegan.
W.  R.  BiPiiigs,  Holland.
I  shall  shortly  issue  a  second  appeal 
to  those of  our  members  who  are  in  ar­
rears, couched  in the following language : 
Knowing  your loyalty  to  our  Associa­
tion,  and  feeling  that 
it  has been  an 
oversight  in  you  in  not  paying  the  last 
assessment,  1  send  you  this  second  no­
tice.  I  encolse a health certificate which 
the  constitution  provides  must  be 
igned by  all  delinquent  prior  to  re­
instatement,  which  please  sign  and  re­
turn  with  your  remittance.  We  have 
had an  unusual  number  of  deaths  this 
year,  twelve  of  our members having laid 
iown their grips  and  gone  to  that  land 
from  which  no traveler  returns.  So far, 
everything  is  paid.  We have  one  more 
death  claim,  which  will be ordered paid 
at  our  next  Board  meeting and  we  have 
the  money to  pay  it.  Could you  see  the 
letters  of  thanks  which  come  from  the 
wives  of  our deceased  brothers, 
feel 
that  you  would  never  let another assess­
ment  go  by  or  begrudge  the  small 
amount  you  have  paid  in  for  their  re­
lief.  None  of  us  can  tell  who  will  be ■ 
the  next;  and  the  feeling  of  relief  you 
will  have  to  know  that  you  have  left 
those  loved  ones  in  a  position  in  which 
they  will  not have  to  be  turned out  pen­
niless  on  the  cold  world  will  more  than 
repay  you  for the  few  dollars  it  has  cost 
you.  Now,  brothers,  let  us  have  a  quick 
response  to  this  appeal.

1 

G e o .  F.  O w e n ,  Sec’y.

J.  Clark  &  Co.  have  embarked  in  tht 
grocery  business  at  Kalamazoo.  Tht 
Worden  Grocer Co.  furnished  the stock
Are  You  Looking 

......for  Business?

FOR  SA L E

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Buildings,  Machinery,  Foundry  and 
Boiler  Shop,  with  Tools,  Patterns  and 
good will of the business.  Located  right 
in center of the  city,  on  the  bank  of  the 
river and near the  railroad.  Now  in  op­
eration and doing a fair business.
Size  o f  ground,  160 x  170  ft.  M achine  Shop, 
one  story,  60 x 65  ft.  Foundry,  60 x 60  ft., two 
—.8   . » „ m u   ..■in., 1, iiwv  abuncs,
Cupolas. 
cupolas.  B oiler and  P attern  Shop, tw o  stories.
.->0 x  100 feet.  Blacksm ith  Shop,  in  rear,  50 x  60 
ft., two forges.  Engine Room, 33 x 20 ft.  Engine 
and  Boiler o f To  horse  power  capacity.  V acant 
ground for storage, 60 x 160 ft.

Will  be sold cheap and on easy term s,  to  close 
G rand Rapids,  Mich.

an estate, 
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By Vv m.  T.  Po w e rs,  Survivor

WM.  T.  POWERS &  SON,

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

Millers!  Attention!

We have for sa'e a  num ber  of  NEW  PU RIFI­
ERS,  FLOUR DRF.-SERS  and  SCALPERS.  All 
S tandard  .Machines at much  less than  the cos'  of 
m anufacture; also  two  sets  STEVEN'S  ROLLS. 
DOUBLE, 0x12. smooth.  (>ne PERPENDICULAR 
BEEKER BRUSH  MACHINE.  Address

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Room 31, Powers' Opera  House Bl'k.

„  

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

SPOONER  &  HALL,

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

Q. W. Ames

106  Phœ nix  Block 
BAY  CITY,  MICHIGAN

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Tradesman company,
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WANTS  COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

p O R  SALE—OR  WILL TRADE FOR PKOPER- 
1 
ty  located  near  the  corner  of  Hall  and 
Madison avenue, a stock of general m erchandise, 
consisting  of  groceries,  dry  goods,  boots  and 
shoes. Hour,  feed, etc.  Good reasons for selling. 
I-or  particulars call  or address on  the  premi-es" 
3U5 Centriti avenue, G rand Rapids. 
l^ O R   SALE—DRUG,  PAINT  AND  GROCERY 
X 
stock.  Nearest  drug  com petition,  eight 
miles.  Cash  sales, $100  per  week.  R ent $  6 per 
m onth.  A ddress  Cash,  care  Michigan  Trades­

man.■ BIG  CHANCE  FOR  SOMEONE—JEW ELRY 

stock,  tools and fixtures,  to  the  am ount  of 
$1.300, can  be bought fo r $550,  w ith  first class lo­
cation.  Address No. 813, care  M ichigan Trades­
m an. 

813

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EpOR  SALE—HALF  INTEREST  IN  A  WELL- 

established drug store located in  best  town 
I  in  Upper Peninsula m ining di-trict.  Stock  also 
|  includes stationery, blank  books and wall paper. 
Cash  sales, $8,000  per  year.  Will  sell  h alf  in­
terest  for  §1,500  cash  and  perm it  purchaser  to 
pay for balance o f  interest out of profits of busi­
ness.  Purchaser m ust be able to take  fu ll charge 
of  business, as  present  ow ner  m ust  rem ove  to 
w arm er clim ate  on  account  of  ill  health.  Ad- 
I dress No. 820, care M ichigan T radesm an. 
I  W A N T E D   - T O   EXCHANGE  DESIRABLE 
t t 
residence property  or  vacan t  lots  located 
in  Benton H arbor,  M ich., for stock  of  groceries 
or general stock.  A ddress Box 1296, Benton Ilar- 
bor,  Mich.__________  
L v >R  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—A  FIN E   MILL 
J -   property, 40 horse w aterpow er;  would make 
a  good  fish  hatchery;  excellent  spring  creek; 
well located on railroad;  store building, 2o x  90; 
hay scales;  side track ;  agricultural w are house; 
saw m ill and  planing  m ill;  tw o  sm all  houses- 
one nice large residence:  all well rented  except 
m ills run by ow ner;  excellent potato  and  wood 
m arket;  plenty o f hardw ood saw tim ber near by. 
Exchange  for  farm   o r  city  property.  A ddress 
W.  H.  N., care M ichigan T radesm an. 
V | r a N TED —PA RTNE R  TO  TAKK~HA LF  IN - 
I  » t 
terest in my 75  bbl.  steam   roller  mill  and 
elevator, situated ou railroad;  m iller  preferred- 
good  w heat  country.  F u ll  description,  price 
term s and inquiries given promptly by  addressing 
I  H-C. H erkim er, May bee, Monroe  «Vuiii»,Mic.h. 711

IjVJR SALE OR  EXCHANGE—mi ACRE  FRUIT 
t V>R  SALE—DRUG  STOCK AN IT FIXTURES: 

and stock farm  ten m iles from  citv, for stock 
I  of m erchandise.  A ddress L. A 1 :  .. 667 M adison 
avenue. G rand Rapids.

corner location:  stock in good condition and
Ad-

business paying.  Good reasons fo 
dress  Dr.  Nelson  Abbott, Kalamazoo.  Mich.

811 

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W K i l t  Y ALL KINDS SCRAP  IRON.  METAL, 
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ngs,  sh irt and  overall  cuttings  and  rub­
ber.  W rite fo r pr.ces.  Wm. Brnm m eller & Sons 
260 S.  Ionia St., Gran-t  Rapids.  'P h one  tilth  804 
I-pOR  SALE  CHEAP—COMPLETE  SET  T 1 N~- 
A  ner s tools.  Address  P.  W. H olland. C hapin, 
Mich. 
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South  Division street.  G rand Rapids. 
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\ \ l A NTED— EVERY  DRUGGIST  JUST  COM 
**  m encing business,  and  every  o:  e  alreadv 
started,  to use o u r system  of poison labels.  W hat 
lias cost you $15 you can now  g< t  for  $4.  Four­
teen labels do the work  of 113.  T r  desm an Com­
pany, G rand  Rapids. 

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and  Bon  Bons

In large  or  sm all  packages— +  
111 !arge  or  smaI1 
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quarters,  halves,  pounds  o r f
five pound boxe:
five pound boxes. 
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Resorts and  fine  trade  getter- ▼ 
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  A" l‘ndless variety of th e toothsom e dainties to be found  at the m anufacturers

A.  E.  BROOKS & CO.
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‘  7  S .  Ionia  S t.,  GRAN D   RA
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5  and  7 5 .  lonta  S t.,  GRAN D   R A P ID S  *

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Absolute

H e  Acknowledged  Leader.
j  TELFER  SPICE  CO.,

SOLD  ONLY  BY

GRAND  RAPIDS, Mich.

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will never find you over the wash tub if you use

OAK-LEAF  SOAP.

It m akes the clothes clean and w hite, w ith out  the  back-breaking  process 
It 
will save your strength, save your m oney, saveyou rclothes.  Try it n ex tw a sh  
day.  Sold by a ll grocers. 
W h o le sa le  A g e n ts, G ran d  R a p id s,  M leli

O L N E Y   &   J1IDSON  GROCKK  ('O .,

Fifteen  Dollars 
for  Four  Dollars
You W ant  It!
You  Have To  Have  It!
The  Law Says You Shall 

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Have  It.........

2,800 labels all in convenient  form for immediate  use, 
as  illustrated  below,  with  instructions  for  using.  No 
label  case  necessary.  They  never  curl.  They  never 
get  mixed  up.

TRADESMAN  O  COMPANY’S
POISONOUS  DRUGS

CLASSIFICO LIST or

flow to usb mem_  

(¡pi bold tace type) on h

The  Poor  Merchant

Because  he  is  haunted  with  visions  of unpaid  book
accounts which could have been  avoided  by  the  use  of 
the

Coupon  Book  System

which is  now  in  use  by  progressive  merchants  every­
where.

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Briefly stated, the coupon  system  is preferable to the pass book method because 
it (i) saves the time consumed in  recording the sales on the pass book  and  transfer- 
ing same to blotter, day-book and ledger; (2) prevents the disputing of  accounts;  (3) 
puts  the obligation in the form of a note, which is prima facie evidence of  indebted­
ness; (4) enables the merchant to collect interest on overdue notes,  which  he  is  un­
able  to  do  with  ledger accounts; (5) holds  the  customer down to the limit of credit 
established by the merchant, as it is almost impossible to do with the pass book.

Are  not  the  advantages  above  enumerated  sufficient  to warrant a trial of the 
If so, order from the largest manufacturers of coupons in the coun­

coupon system? 
try and address your letters to

Tradesman Company

Grand  Rapids

_ There  are  113  poisonous  drugs  sold,  which  must  be labeled as such, with the 
proper antidote attached.  Any label house will charge you  14  cents  for  250  labels, 
the smallest amount sold.  Cheap enough, at a glance, but did you ever figure  it out 
—1 ¡3 kinds at  14 cents—$15.82.  With  our system you get the same results with less 
detail for less than one-third the money.

Sent prepaid to any address, when cash accompanies order, for $4.

Tradesman  Company

Grand  Rapids

C O N S U M E R S   W A N T   IT.

DO N ’ T  FAI

TO ORDER  A T  ONCE  FROM  YOUR JOBBER  A   QUANTITY OF

Borden’s  
Peerless Brand 
Evaporated Cream,

A   PURE,  WHOLESOME,  THOROUGHLY  STERILISED  UNSW EETENED  CONDENSED  MILK, i  
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ON  WHICH  YOU  CAN  MAKE  A   GOOD  PROFIT. 

Prepared and guaranteed by the NEW YORK CONDENSED  m u if  CO.. New York.

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SOLD  BY  A L L  THE  LEADING  W HOLESALE  GROCERS.

K  Guaranteed Absolutely Pure. 

P Y y oa<

PAYS  FOR  ITSELF

Every two months  and  makes you 600 per cent,  on  the 
investment. 

It  prevents all  errors  in weighing  and
STOPS  THE  LEAKS

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

YOU  NEED  IT!

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

BOSTON  STORK.

118-124 State St., anil 77-79 M adison  St-., 

Cash Merchandise.

Chicago, Dec. 31,  1894. 

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

Gentlemen:  We have had  your  scale  in  use 
since  N ovember  24, 1894, in  our  butter,  cheese 
and  m eat  departm ent.  We  find  them  to do ev- 
actly  w hat  you  claim .  O ur  clerks can w ait  on 
m ore custom ers and assure them  accuracy in e v ­
ery  respect.  We  can  recom m end  them   as  the 
m ost econom ical'scale in use  for  m eat  m arkets 
and groceries 

Yours truly,

B oston Store.

.1.  \V.  WI1ITKLKY  A  SON,

I  Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, etc.

Bonaparte, Iowa, A pril 22.  1895. 

Dayton Computing Scale Co., Dayton, O.:

Gentlemen: 

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

Yours truly,

J. AY. AY HITE let A Son.

Investigate  the  Dayton  Computing  Scale,

For  further  particulars  call

or  write

THE  COMPUTING  5CALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio.

Another  Drop!j
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GLASS and  CROCKERY 
Assorted  Package  of  New  Crystal  Glassware.

We can save you cnm ish on every  package of Glassware to more than pay th e freight

Assorted  Package  Glassware.

NO.  1895  ASSORTED  FOUR  PIECE  SETS.

Butter. Spooner. Creamer, Sugar.  AVe have especially arranged this package to give  our 
custom ers a good variety of sm all quantities o f th e best setting 4-piece sets on  th e m arket, at 
the sam e tim e saving you  10 per cent.  Contents o f package as follows:
H doz.  No. 
14  doz.  No.  15909 4 piece S ets,.....  2  25 
i-6doz.  No. 
39D 4 piece Sets.....  4  00 
l-0doz.  No.Alexis 4 piece Sets........  5 00 

94  4 piece Sets.......$2 25  $  56
56
67
83

6-1 doz.  No. 49D  4 piece S ets.........$6  00  #1  00
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$3  26

Less 10 per c e n t.....................  

Barrel. 35 cents.

“Mikado" Decorated Toilet Sets.

For a cheap Toilet Set ‘-M ikado" cannot 
be  excelled.  Asstd.  Dec.  in  3  desirable 
cols..  Pink,  Pencil.  Brown, in artistically 
arranged groups of  flowers  and  foliage. 
Good quality.
Per Set of  10 pieces..............................$1  75
Per Set of  12 pieces..............................3 01

NO 

15030  ASSORTED  PACKAGE—A  very attractive pattern, smoothly finished. 
Rosette design.  Frosted and figured all over.  I he edges a ie scalloped an d ’the whole
m ake-up  is bright and 1capti vating. "O ur  Biggeslt  Barg*iin*’ eonsiists 0>f the following:
% dz. 4 pc. sets  (g $2 25 $1  50 u   dz.. S in.  ov. Dsh?
75  $ 38 l-6dz.7i 11.<>p.B\vl$2 00 $  3i
dz. l4gl- Jugs. 
1  00 ** dz. M o.cans.P.J.J .1 30
2 (ft)
4 1 -adz.8Ì11.<>j».Bwl  3 00 
50
2  dz. Tum blers.
80 H  dz. Pickles
40
40
90
20 ' .dz :fbtl.« asteis  1 80 
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30 ;4  dz 9 in.  Salvers 2  60
M dz. t 'e eries.
90
65 2  dz. ¡Saltset Pep 
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37 
*2 dz. 8 in. Napps.  1 00
50 1-C.dz HI in.  Salvers 3 00
50
20
3  dz. 4 in. Napps.
60 -2  dz. Bread  Plates
95
48
m   io
2  dz 4 in  Couipts
30
60 l-6dz.7in.cv. Bowls 2  75
1  21
46
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*4 dz. HoniesAcov.l 35
68 1  tidz.Sin.ev. Bowls 3  75
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Pjtck  ge. $1.25.
$10 95
W rite  for our  New  Illustrated  Catalogue,  118

Tot:ti. 
Lesi?  10 p.ct. 

H. LEONARD I SONS,GRIND  RAPIDS

MICH.

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