IS

Volume  XII.

A  FINE  HAVANA  FILLER  CIGAR  FOR  5  CENTS 
“Signal Five”

ED. W.  RUHE,  Maker, Chicago.  »«¡¡»I

SHHAN,  Agent 

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M AN U FACTURER  OF

C rackers
Sweet  Goods
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  21,  1895.

Number  622

Take  This  Address

If you need  Peaches,  Pears,  Plums, Apples,  in  fact, anything 
in  the  line  of  Fruits 
and  Produce, correspond  with  us.  We are a  mail  order fruit and produce house and 
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HENRY  J .  VINKEM ULDER,

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Number 622

Volume  XII.

Country  Merchants

<'an save exchange by keeping their Bank 
accounts in Grand Kapids, as Grand Rapids 
checks are par in all markets.  The
Offers exceptional facilities to its custom­
ers, and is prepared to extend any favors 
consistent with sound banking.

• 

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

The  Michigan 
Makes a specialty of acting as
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furnished.

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________ ANTON  O.  HODENPYL,  Secretary.

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GROCERS  IN  CONFERENCE.

Second  Convention  of  the  Northern 

Michigan  Association.

The  second  annual  convention  of  the 
Northern  Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation  convened  at  the  city  hall, 
Reed  City,  on  Tuesday  morning,  Aug. 
13,  President  Tatman  in  the  chair.

On  motion,  E.  A.  Stowe,  N.  Bicknell 
and  H.  R.  Xiergarth  were  appointed  a 
Committee on  Programme,  and,  after 
an  informal  discussion  on  a  variety  of 
topics,  the  meeting  adjourned  until  af­
ternoon.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

On  convening 

in  the  afternoon,  A. 
Rosenberg,  President  of  the  village, 
welcomed  the grocers  to  Reed  City 
in 
the  following  words :

Your  meeting  here  calls  forth  the  re­
flection  that  the  trend  of  the  times is  to­
wards organization  and  co-operation 
in 
all  directions. 
I  believe  it a good  and 
It  is  largely  a 
wholesome  tendency. 
result  of  widespread,  cheap  and  rapid 
communication  between 
individuals, 
communities  and  countries. 
Its  effect 
is  to draw  men  closer  together,  to  create 
a  common  feeling, 
like  sympathies;  to 
cement  the  fellowship  and  brotherhood 
of  man.
Deeming  the  object  and  purpose  of 
your meeting  a  commendable  one,  I,  as 
in 
their  temporary  representative,  and 
behalf  of  the  citizens of  Reed City,  wel­
come  you  most  heartily  to  our  little 
town,  hoping  that  you  may be successful 
in  finding  ways  to  head  off  the  false 
bottom  fiend,  short  weights  and  meas­
ures,  dead-beats  and  trade  parasites  of 
all  descriptions.

President  Tatman  called  on  N.  Bick­
nell  to respond  to  the  address  of  wel­
come.  He  stated  that  the grocers  were 
glad  to go  to  Reed  City,  as  he  had  rea­
son  to  know  from  past  experience  that 
the  people  of  the  town were  warm-heart­
ed  and  ideal  entertainers.

life.  He  cited 

President  Tatman  then  delivered  his 
annual  address.  He  compared  conven­
tions  to  schools,  inasmuch  as  they  edu­
cated  merchants  as  to  the  right  methods 
of  doing  business, 
just  as  the  schools 
educated  children  in  the  stern  realities 
of 
instances  showing 
that  business  methods  are  constantly 
changing  and  that  the  grocer  must  be 
progressive  to be successful.  The  Asso­
ciation  has  accomplished  one  important 
reform  during  its  brief  existence,  and 
there  is  every  reason  to  believe  that 

other  reforms  will  be  accomplished  and 

other abuses  abolished  as  time  goes  on. 
He  cited  the  new  laws  needed  to  prop­
erly  protect  the  merchant  and  referred 
to  the  desirability  of  repealing  a  num­
ber of  old  laws  which  tend  to perpetuate 
dead-beatism  and  deception.  The  cash 
system,  also,  appealed  forcibly  to  his 
consideration.  He  expressed  the  hope 
that  the  discussions would be  full and  ex 
haustive,and  that  the  proceedings would
be  characterized  by  the  spirit  of  charity 
and  good-nature  a  wish  which  was  ful­
ly  realized.

Secretary  Stowe  then  presented  his 

annual  report,  as  follows :

In  presenting  my  annual  report  as 
Secretary  of  the  Northern  Michigan  Re­
tail  Grocers’  Association,  I  assume  that 
the  first  thing  you  will  want  to ascertain 
is our financial  condition.  Our  receipts 
for duos  during  the  past  year  have  been

S39,  all  of  which  has  been  turned  over 
to  the  Treasurer,  and  for  which  I  hold 
his  receipts.

Our  expenses  since  our  organization 
in  June,  1894,,  have been  S41.25,  which 
includes Sio  in  postage  stamps.
As  the  dues  for  the second  fiscal  year 
are  now due and  payable,  and  as  there 
are  a  sufficient  number  of  constitutions 
and  application  blanks  to  last  us  during 
the  coming  fiscal  year,  I  think  you will 
agree  with  me  in  the statement that  we 
are  in  an  excellent  financial  condition.
I  confess myself somewhat disappoint­
ed  that  the  growth  of  the  Association 
has  not  been  greater. 
I  confidently  ex­
pected  when  we  met  at  Clare  that  our 
Mount  Pleasant  meeting  would  be  at­
tended  by a  couple  of  hundred  grocers, 
but  when  I  realized  the  fearful  drouth 
and  threatening  fires  which  were  pre­
vailing  in  all  parts  of  Northern  Michi­
gan  during  the  time of  the  convention,
I  was  not  surprised  that  the  attendance 
was  not greater,  as  many  grocers  who 
would  have  surely  attended  the  meeting 
under ordinary  circumstances  were  de­
tained  at  home  to  protect  life and  prop­
erty.
It  is a  matter  of  congratulation  that 
one abuse  which  brought  the  organiza­
tion  into  existence  was  abolished  soon 
after the  Association  was  organized. 
1 
refer,  of  course,  to  the  rule charging  for 
cartage and  boxing.  Although  this  is  a 
question  which  has  more  than  one side, 
and  the  members  of  the  Association  are 
somewhat divided  on the subject, I  think 
I  am  safe  in  stating  that  all  were  glad 
when  so  annoying  a  rule  was  abolished 
ami  the  practice  of  charging  cartage 
was  abandoned.

At  our  Mount  Pleasant  meeting  reso­
lutions  were  adopted,  calling  upon  our 
members  to  use  their influence  to  secure 
an  amendment  to  the  present  exemption 
law.  1 am  aware  that  considerable  effort 
was  made  in  this  direction,  but  experi­
ence gleaned  at  several  sessions  of  the 
Legislature  has  convinced  me  that  the 
only  way  by  which  this  reform  can  be 
secured  is by  means  of  concerted  action 
among  the business  men,  not  simply  of 
one  section  of  the  State,  but  of  the”  en­
tire  State,  for a  law  which  has  been  on 
the  statute books  for nearly  half  a  cen­
tury  and  has grown  time-worn  and  ven­
erable  with  age 
is  a  difficult  thing  to 
repeal. 
I  trust  that  before  the  close  of 
this  convention  some  plan  will  be 
adopted  which  will  secure  for  the  busi­
ness  men  of  Michigan  some  immunity 
from  the  deluge  of  dead-beatism  which j 
this  unjust  law  stimulates.
I  hope,  also,  that  effective  measures 
will  be adopted  for  increasing  the  nu­
merical  strength  and 
influence  of  this 
organization. 
I  candidly  believe  that 
it  can  be  made  the  means  of  bringing 
about  needed  reforms,  abolishing  tim e-1 
worn  abuses  through  the medium of con­
certed  action  and  by  co-operation  with 
the  wholesale  trade and  with  .organiza­
tions  of  retail  dealers 
lines. 
Within  the  past  two  months  the  hard­
ware  dealers  of  the  State  have  started 
the  nucleus  of  a  strong  organization,  I 
since  which time the wholesale hardware | 
dealers  have  come  out  with  an  an­
nouncement abrogating charges  for cart­
age  which  have  been  in  vogue  for  a 
great  many  vears. 
I  am  not  prepared 
to  say  that  this  departure on  the  part  of | 
the  jobbing  trade  is due  entirely  to  the 
organization  of  the  retail hardware  deal­
ers,  but  it  ceratinly  looks  as  though  the 
movement  had  something  to  do  with I 
the  change  of  policy  on  the  part  of  the 
wholesale  trade.

in  other 

I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  as  ad­
vocating  antagonizing 
the  wholesale 
trade,  as  1  am  one  of  those  who  believe 
that  retail  dealers  can  usually  accom­
plish  all  they  desire  by agitation,  co-op­
compromise  measures.  |
eration  and 

There  may  be  times when  it may  be  de­
sirable  to take  a  firm  stand,  but  experi- 
j ence  has  taught me  that  intelligence  is 
usually  met  with  intelligence  and  that 
j a  disposition  to  ask  for  only  that  which 
|  is  fair and  just  is almost  unversallv met 
! with  prompt  recognition  at  the  hands  of 
j  the  class  addressed.
In  conclusion,  permit  me  to thank you 
j for the  honor  you  have  bestowed  upon 
me  in  permitting  me  to  act  as your Sec­
retary  during  the  past  year.  ”  While  I 
regret  that  there  has  not been more work 
to  do,  I  assure  you  that  I  have  endeav­
ored  to  perform  the  meager  duties  de­
volving  upon  me  as understand i ugly and 
promptly as  possible,  and 
1  trust  that 
my  successor  will  meet  the  same  kindly 
co-operation  and  hearty  response  which 
you  have  given  me  on  any and every oc­
casion.

Treasurer  Smith  presented  his  annual 

report  as  follows :

I  beg  leave  to  report  that  1  have  re­
ceived  from  the  hands  of  the  Secretary 
the sum  of S39,  for which  I  have  given 
proper  receipts.

I  have  paid  one order on  the  Treasur­
in  my 

er for $20.75,  leaving a  balance 
hands  of  $18.25.

The  report  took  the  same  course  as 

I the  Secretary’s  report.

H.  W.  Hawkins  then  read  a  paper on 
the  subject,  ‘ ‘ Is  it  Possible  to  Improve 
the  Present  Exemption  Law?”   as  fol­
lows :

The  question  asked 

in  the  subject 
under consideration  involves  a  knowl­
edge  of  the  provisions  of the present law 
on  this  subject;  so,  before  attempting 
to  answer  the  question, 
1  will  give  a 
brief digest  of  the  law  as 
it  stands  on 
the  statute hook :

REAL ESTATE.
value $1,500.CHATTEL PROPERTY.

I.  Homestead,  whether  it  be  a  vil­
lage  lot  with  the  buildings  thereon  or 
in 
forty  acres of  land,  not  exceeding 

1.  All  spinning  wheels,  weaving 
looms,  stoves  put  up  and  kept  for  use 
in  any  dwelling  house.
in 
any  house  of  public  worship.

2.  A  seat,  pew  or  slip  occupied 

3-  All  cemeteries,  tombs  and  rights 
of  burial  while  in  use as  repositories  of 
the  dead.

4.  All  arms  and  accoutrements  re­
quired  by  law  to  be  kept  by  any  person. 
All  wearing  apparel  of  every  person 
and  family.

5.  Library  and  school  books  of  every 
in 

individual  01  family,  not  exceeding 
value  $250.

6.  To  each  householder  ten  sheep 
with  their  fleeces  and  the  yarn  as  cloth 
manufactured  from  sam e; two cow s; five 
swine;  provisions  and  fuel  for  the  com­
fortable  subsistence  of  such  household 
or  family  for  six  months.

7.  To  each  householder all household 
goods,  furniture,  utensils  not  exceeding 
in  value $250.

8. 

’I he  tools,  implements,  materials, 
stock,  apparatus,  team,  vehicle,  horses, 
harness or other things  to  enable  a  per­
son to carry  on  his  profession  or  trade 
and  not  exceeding  in  value S250.
9.  A  sufficient quantity of  hay,grain, 
feed  and  roots,  whether growing  or  oth­
six 
erwise, 
months  the animals  herein  enumerated.
There  is  also  exempt from  the  process 
of  garnishment  the  wages  of  any 
labor­
er  not  exceeding  in  amount $25.

for  properly  keeping  for 

It  is a  well-known  fact  that by  far  the 
larger  part  of  the  business  of  this  coun­
try  is  done  on  credit.  The  manufac­
turer  sells  his  products,  to  a  large  ex­
tent,  to the  jobber  on  credit;  the  job­
ber  sells  the  retail  merchant  largely  on 
credit;  the  retail  merchant  also  sells

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

How  can  the  present  exemption 

the  consumer  largely  on  credit  hence 
we  have a  chain  of  credits.  The  man­
ufacturer,  in  most  instances,  can  readi­
ly  enforce  payment  on  the 
jobber;  the 
jobber  can  nearly  always  enforce  pay­
ment on  the  retail  merchant;  but  the 
retailer  can  scarcely  ever  enforce  pay­
ment  on  the  part  of  the  consumer,  for 
the  reason  that 
an  unjust  exemp­
tion 
in  the  way.  Hence 
law  stands 
we  see  that  the  retail  merchant 
is  the 
least  protected  of  the  three  classes  of 
traders  1  have  named.  The  retailer 
needs  some  ready  money  with  which 
to  meet  some  pressing  claim 
from  his 
jobber.  He  knows  he  must  meet  the 
obligation.  His credit  is  at  stake;  his 
property  is  at  stake;  his  honoris  at 
stake-  his  all  is  at  stake.  He  consults 
his 
ledger  to  see  where  he can  secure 
the available  means  to  satisfy  his  cred­
itor,  and  finds,  greatly  to  his  dissatis­
faction,  that  scarcely  one out  of  ten per­
sons  against  whom  he  has  claims  are 
collectible.  Although  there  are  many 
hundreds  of  dollars  in  accounts due  him 
in  excess  of  the  amount  necessary  to 
meet  his own  obligations,  yet  he  must 
suffer  the  humiliation  of  allowing  his 
credit  to  become 
impaired  because  of 
the  indifference  which  the  consumer 
manifests,  as  regards the  account stand­
ing against  him.
law 
be  improved?  By  cutting down  the  val­
uation  to $1,000 on  homesteads  exempt 
from  execution ;  by  taking  off  all  ex­
emptions  on  chattels,  with the exception 
of  household  utensils  and  wearing  ap­
parel ;  by  allowing  no  exemption 
from 
process  of  garnishment  to  the  wage 
earner.  Let  the  labor of  his  own  hands 
stand  as  security  for  his  credit.
When  the  exemption  law  on  our  stat­
ute  books  is  amended  so  that  the  retail 
merchant  shall  have  better  protection, 
we  shall  see,  (I ),  that  the  dead-beat 
will  have  to  give  up  his  business  or 
move  to  some  more  congenial  clim e; 
(2),  that  the  thoroughly  honest  man will 
not  be obliged  to  suffer  for  the  guilty, 
as  heretofore,  but  will  find  ready  means 
of  assistance  when  better  protection 
is  afforded;  (3),  that  the  whole  busi­
ness  of  the  country  will  be reduced more 
nearly  to  a  cash  basis,  thereby  being 
mutually beneficial  to  debtor  and  cred- 
itor.
When  the  exemption law  is  so  amend­
ed  as to  cease  placing  a  premium  on 
dishonesty  by  holding out  inducements 
for  honest  men  to  become  dishonest, 
and  compelling  dishonest  men  to  be­
come  honest,  as  regards  their  obliga­
tions  to  their  fellowmen,  then  shall  we 
see  that the thoroughly  upright  man will 
receive  just  treatment  at  the  hands  of 
his  fellowmen  and  the  dead-beat  will 
not  flourish  as  the green  bay  tree.

stated  that 

Mr.  Wisler 

the  worst 
dead-beats,  as  a  rule,  were  up  on  legal 
tactics;  that  they  were  worse  than  a 
thief,  because  a  man  can  be  on  the 
lookout  for a  thief.

Mr.  Stowe  then  explained  the  efforts 
which  had  been  made  in  the  past  dozen 
years to  secure  a change in the law, with­
out  result  as  yet.

Mr.  Bicknell  moved  that  the  matter 
be  laid  on  the table  for  further  discus­
sion  later,  which  was  adopted.

Jess.  Wisler,  of  Mancelona, 

then 
read  the  following  paper  on  the  sub­
ject, 
it  Desirable  to  Substitute 
Weights  for  Measures  in  the  Handling 
of  Produce?’ ’

“ Is 

It  is  well  for the  Northern  Michigan 
Grocers  ’Association  to  take  up  this 
question  and  thoroughly  discuss 
it,  so 
that the  people  of  Northern  Michigan 
may  have  no  doubts as  to  how  we  stand 
upon  the question.
I  am  well  aware  how  slow  we  are  to 
do  away  with  every  thing  that  has  long 
been  the  established  custom  and  are 
ready  to  say, 
The  old  way  is  the 
best;’ ’  how  we dread  to  make  an 
in­
novation  upon  the  traditions  of  our 
fathers  and  how  slow  we  are  to  change 
the  laws,  customs  and  manners  of  the 
past  when  experience has taught us there 
should  be a  change;  but  I  believe  it  to 
he  the duty  of  every  dealer- -I  will  put 
it  broader,  the  duty  of  every  true cit-

izen—to  point  out  the  errors  of  those 
who  have  lived  before  us  and  be  ready 
to  suggest  improvements  and  a  better 
way,  where  experience  has  taught  us 
there  is a  better  way.
Our  fathers  buiided  the  best  they 
knew  and  we  ascribe  all  honor and 
praise  to them  for  the  advanced  steps 
they  took  in  the  cause  of  human  libeity 
and  the  rights of  the  people;  yet  we, 
their  children,  standing  near  the  one 
hundred  and  twentieth  milepost,  know 
full  well  that  the  advancement  of  civil­
ization,  art,  science  into  the  high  state 
of  develodment  which goes  to  make  up 
this  busy,  hustling,  onward-moving  peo­
ple  of  seventy  millions  have  outgrown 
many  of  the  theories, 
thoughts  and 
ideas  of  our  fathers;  and,  true  to  the 
best  interests  of all  the people,  each de­
partment  of  business,  the  earnest,  hon­
est  men of  each  calling have  ever  been 
willing  to  take a step in the advance  and 
the  masses  have  only  been  too  willing 
to  follow  on.  Such  being  the  case,  why 
shall  not  we,  the  retail  grocers,  keep 
abreast  with  the  other  business  interests 
of  the  land  and  ‘ ‘ keep  up  with  the  pro­
cession"  in  all  that goes  to  advance  the 
best  interests of  the  people  with  whom 
we are  brought  in  contact?

I  hold  it  to  be the  duty  of  those  who 
have a  matter  of  as  much 
importance 
as  the subject  under discussion,  to  take 
the  lead  and  hold  themselves  in  readi­
ness  to  give a  reason  for  their action.

for  measures 
duce?’ ’ 
yes. ’ ’ 

‘ ‘ Is  it  desirable  to  substitute  weights 
in  the  handling  of  pro­
1  answer,  most  emphatically,
1’he announcement  of  the sub­
ject  at  once  suggests  the  thought  that 
we,  as  retail  grocers,  deal  directly  with 
the  producer  and  the  consumer.  The 
producer  is  the  farmer,  the  man  who 
produces  by  his  labor  the  produce  that 
we  buy  and  sell  to  the  consumer. 
E x­
perience  has  taught  us  there  is  no  hard­
er  worked  people  in  the  land  than  the 
class  who  produce  the  necessaries  of 
life  and  no  class  that  should  be  more 
fairly  dealt  with. 
“ Equal  and  exact 
justice  to  all’ ’  should  be our  motto.

There  are  too  many  ways  in  measure­
ments by  which  the  seller and  the  buyer 
can  be  wronged  for  me  to  attempt  to 
point  out  in  the  time  allotted  me,  but 
that the  present  system  of  measurement 
is  open  to  the  wickedness  and  selfish­
ness of  men  needs  no argument.

The  size  of  the  bushel”  

the  peach 
basket,  the  berry  basket,  the grape  bas­
ket  and,  in  fact,  all  measurements  are 
looked  upon  with  mistrust  by the  buyer. 
The  puns  and  jokes  which  have  been 
hurled  at  the  retail  dealer  over  the 
smallness  of  the  measurement  has  many 
times  caused  us  to  regret that  there  ever 
was  such  a  thing  as  a  basket,  box  or 
measure  made. 
1  know our  fathers  in­
troduced and  put  into  law  what  they  be­
lieved  to  be a good  system  of  weights 
and  measures,  but  we  have  learned  by 
sad  experience  that,  through  or  by  the 
shrewdness  of  some sharp,  shrewd  Yan­
kee,  measures  have  fallen  short  of  the 
system  adopted  by  law  and  the  consum - 
er has  had  to  pay  for  too  much  ‘ ‘ short­
ness  or for too  much 
hollow  in  the 
bottom’ ’  of  the  box  or basket.

I  answer: 

What  would  I  suggest? 

I 
would  have  the  Legislature  change  the 
law  so  that  all  produce  should be bought 
and  sold  by  weight,  the  light  articles by 
the  pound  and  the  heavier  ones  by  the 
hundred  weight. 
I  would  attach  a  pen­
alty  that  whoever  should  be  convicted 
light  weight  should  pay  a 
of  giving 
heavy  fine,  be  he 
farmer  or  grocer. 
And  no  man  should  be  allowed  to  sell 
until  he  had  his  scales  tested  by  the 
proper  officer  of  the  city,  village  or 
township,  whose duty  it  should  be  to 
see  to  it that none but true  scales  were 
being  used  in  or  under his  jurisdiction.
I  know  we have  a  law  now  for  weights 
and  measures  upon  our  statute  books, 
but  it  is  a dead  letter.  No  attention  is 
paid  to  it,  hence  the  smallness  of  meas­
urement  and  the  fault  finding,  grumb­
ling,  and  gibing  at  and  with  the  deal- 
er.  We  have  to take  all  the  blame.  The 
retail  grocer has  to  take  all  the  cussing 
for the  shortness  and  smallness  of  the 
bushel  or  basket,  when, 
in  fact,  but  I 
few  of  us,  if  any,  have  anything  to 
do  with  the  manufacturing  of  the  arti­
cle.  Let  the  law  make  it  the  duty  of |

the  oldest  jnstice  of  the  peace  of  the 
| township,  the marshal  of  the  village,and 
j police  justice  of  the  city  to  have  a  true 
and  tried  system  of  weights  tested  and 
recorded,  open  to  the  inspection  of  all, 
with  a  good  round  penalty  and  a  vigor­
ous enforcement  of  the  law,  and  the  re­
tail  grocers  would  do  much  to  rid  them­
selves  of  the  stimga  that  now  attaches 
to  them  and  for  wliich  they  are  not  re­
sponsible  for  small  measurements.  The 
producer and  consumer  have  a  right  to 
look  to  us,  the  retail  grocers,  for a  rem­
edy  in  the  long  delayed  matter.
1  am  glad  it  has come before this  hon­
orable  body  for  discussion. 
1  have  the 
honor of  representing  the  northern  por­
tion  of  the  Lower  Peninsula  of  Michi­
gan,  and  I  am  glad  to  state  that  110  bet­
ter,  more  true,  earnest,  energetic,  go- 
ahead  people 
in  Michigan  or  in 
any  other State  in  this honored land than 
the  producer,  the  dealer  and  consumer 
of  the  portion  of  the  State  which  I  rep­
resent.  Believing,  as  1  know  they  do, 
in  Equal  and  exact  justice, ’ ’  1  repeat 
what  1  said  before  most  emphatically,
’ 1 It  is  desirable  to  substitute  weights 
for  measures  in  the  handling  of  prod­
uce. ’ ’

live 

As the  paper  by  J.  W.  Densmore,  of 
Reed  City,  on  the  subject,  How  long 
must we  endure  the disgrace  of  handl­
ing  fruits  shipped  in  bastard  baskets?’ ’ 
was  somewhat  similar 
in  character  to 
Mr.  Wisler's,  it  was  decided  to  have  it 
read  at  the  same  time  and  discuss  the 
two  together.  Mr.  Densmore’s  paper 
was  as  follows:

When  1  received  Mr.  Stowe’s  letter, 
requesting  me to  present  a  paper  on  il­
legitimate  fruit  baskets  at  this  conven­
tion,  I  felt  unequal  to  the  task,  espe­
cially  on  account  of  the  short  time  in 
which  I  had  to  prepare  it  and,  also,  on 
account  of  my  inexperience 
in  prepar­
ing  such  papers. 
ielt,  however,  that 
there were  others  in  the  same  predica­
ment  and  that  if  they  all  shirked  their 
duty,  it  would  make  a  pretty  dull  con­
vention. 
I,  therefore,  wrote  Mr.  Stowe, 
accepting  the  assignment.

1 

it 

If 

The question,  How  long  must  we 
endure  the  disgrace  of  handling  fruit  in 
bastard  baskets?’ ’  is  a  subject  fraugh 
with  vital  interest  to  the  merchant  who 
handles  them. 
is  some  “ skin­
flint"  or 
irresponsible  person  who 
handles  them,  it  makes  but  little  differ- 
ence;  but,  to  the  majority  of  grocers, 
who  consider  their  reputation  of  more 
consequence  than  their  money,  it  is  ex­
tremely  annoying,  and  at  the  same  time 
hazardous  to  their  business.  To 
illus­
trate :  A  customer  comes  in  and  buys a 
bushel  of  peaches.  When  he gets  them 
home and  measures  them,  he  finds  he 
has  received  about  three  pecks.  You 
can  imagine  the  reflections  which  will 
pass  through  that  man’s  mind,  and, 
if 
he  has  not  too  great  a  distance to  go,  he 
will  promptly  cart  them  back. 
If  at  too 
great  a  distance  to  return  them,  you 
will  hear from  him  at  the first opportun­
ity  in  words  about  to  this  effect: 
“ Mr. 
Grocer,  how  many  peaches  did  you  sell 
me  the  other day  in  that  basket?  The 
it  was  sup­
grocer  will  answer  that 
posed  to  be  a  bushel. 
is 
that  the  way  you  do  business?  Are  you 
doing  a  supposing  trade?  Are  you  sell­
ing  three  pecks  for  a  bushel?  Are  you 
selling  three-fourths  of  a  pound  of  tea 
for  a  pound?  Are  you  giving  short 
weight  and  measures  generally? 
If  so, 
the sooner  I  change  my  trading  place 
the better. 
And,  gentlemen,  that  is  a 
mild  phase  of  the  matter.  The disgrace 
runs  all  the  way  down  the  line  from 
bushels  to  quarts.

Supposed ! 

It  is almost  impossible  to get  an  hon­
est  basket;  and,  to  go  still  further,  there 
is almost  as  much  fraud  practiced 
in 
the  manufacture  of  barrels  as  in  bas­
kets.  Nine,  ten  and  eleven  peck  bar­
rels are  the  rule,  and  the  grocer,  when 
purchasing 
is 
compelled  to  protect  himself by  having I 
an 
in  black  anti 
wh ite, speci fyi ng  the amount  each  pack­
age  is  to  contain  or  he 
is  sure  to  be 
swindled.  To go  still  further,  we  can 
trace  the  filthy  tracks  of  fraud 
in  the 
politician  who  poses  as a  philanthropist 
until  he gets  into  office,  where,  at  the |

fruits  and  vegetables, 

ironbound  contract, 

for 

square  -models 

first  opportunity,  he sells  his birthright 
for a  mess  of  pottage.  Even  the4 min­
isters  of  the gospel, who  should  Jbe  up­
right  and 
their 
churches  and  congregations-  -will  often 
stooj)  to  the  most  contemptible  frauds. 
The  Almighty  Dollar 
the  everlasting 
I thirst  for greed 
is  at  the bottom  of  all 
It  is  one  of  the  primary  causes 
this. 
of  our social  troubles. 
It  is  making  the 
rich  richer and  the  poor  poorer.  .  It 
is 
building  up  a  superstructure  of  fraud 
which  will  not  stand  the  censure  and 
indignation  of  an  honest  and  discrimi­
nating  public.  These  giant  frauds  are 
the growth  of  recent  years.  They  have 
crept  upon  us  like a  thief  in  the  night. 
It 
is  within  the  reach  of  everyone’s 
memory  in  the  room  to  remember  the 
good  old  days  when  it  was  the  excep­
tion  and  not  the  rule  to  run  across 
frauds  like  these.

I  think  not. 

Gentlemen,  are  we  to  submit  to  this 
humiliating  disgrace  and  swindle?  Are 
we to  be  robbed  of  our  good  reputation 
and  money?  Are  we  to  let  the  profes­
sion  of  merchant  go  down  to  posterity 
with  such  a  rank  odium  attached  to 
it 
as  this? 
I  think  we  are 
on  the  threshold  of  a  mighty  reform, 
both  socially,  politically  and  financial­
ly,  and  in  this particular reform we need 
not  be behind. 
In  my opinion,  we  have 
only  to  come  out  like  men  and  show  up 
this  fraud  in  its  true  light.  Let  us  have 
a  thorough  investigation  of  the  matter. 
Let  every  grocer  understand  the  false 
position 
in  which  he  places  himself 
when  he  handles  these  baskets.  Let 
these  packers  and  manufacturers  under­
stand  that  we,  as  retailers,  will  not 
handle  their  bastard  packages;  and, 
last,  but  not 
in 
in  bastard  baskets,  we 
packing  fruit 
will  have  recourse  to  the  strong  arm  of 
the  law.

if  they  persist 

President  Tatman  expressed  himself 
as  very, much  pleased  with  the  contents 
and  conclusions  of  both  papers.  He 
stated  that  he  had  frequently  bought 
peaches  at  S i.50 a  bushel and placed the 
selling  price  at  $2,  but  that  after  he  had 
sold  three  pecks  out  of  the  bushel,  he 
found  he  had  no  peaches 
left.  Until 
this  abuse  can  be  remedied,  the  grocer 
will  lose  money  right  along.

least, 

H.  VV.  Hawkins  stateil  that  he  had 
been  struck  with  the  same  club  and 
that,  in  his  opinion, 
the  Association 
should  put  itself  on  record  as  opposed 
to  all  sorts  of  deception  in  weights  and 
measures.

Mr.  Beebe  stated  that,  in  his opinion, 
the abuses  grew  out  of  the  desire  of  the 
grower to  withhold  enough  fruit  to  pay 
for  the  package.

Mr.  Fleischhauer stated  that  the  way 
out  of  the  difficulty  would  be  to  sell 
everything  in  the  lines  of  fruits  and 
vegetables  by  weight, 
instead  of  by 
measure.

Mr.  Stowe  related  the  progress  made 
by  the  honest  farmer’ ’  in  getting  the 
basket  manufacturers  to  reduce  the  size 
of  the  standard  measures,  year  after 
year,  and  moved  that  the  matter be  re­
ferred  to  a  Committee  on  Resolutions, 
composed  of  Messrs.  Densmore,  Wisler 
and  Beebe,  to  summarize  the  ideas  of 
the  Association 
subject. 
Adopted.

this 

on 

N.  Bicknell  then  addressed  the  Asso­
ciation  on  the  subject  of the desirability 
of  establishing  uniform  prices  on  pro­
duce by  means  of  local  boards  of  trade. 
He  recited  a  number  of  amusing  inci­
dents  met  by  the  merchant 
in  buying 
produce  and  set  forth  the  reasons  why 
local  boards  of  trade  would  be  advan­
tageous  all  around. 
In  his  opinion, 
however,  a  better  plan  would  be  to  es­
tablish  a  warehouse  in  each  town,  with 
cold  storage  connection,  where  butter, 
eggs,  beans,  hay  everything  the farmer 
has  for  sale  could  be  purchased  by  a 
manager,  who  would  represent  the  mer­
chants  of  the town  on  a  stock  company 
basis.  This  would  do  away  with  the

rivalry  which  now  exists  beween  mer­
chants  in  the  purchase  of  poor butter for 
the  sake  of  securing  trade.  He  related 
a  circumstance  of  a  lady  who  came 
in­
to  his  store  with  two  rolls  of  butter 
which  were  so  inferior that  they  would 
have  to  be  relegated  to  the  grease  tub. 
He  declined  to  purchase  the  butter,  al­
though  he  knew  that  he  would  lose  her 
trade  unless  he did  so.  She  went  away 
very  indignant,  but  came  back  a  little 
later,  stating  that  another  merchant  had 
purchased  the  butter  for  his  own  use, 
and  that  he  wished  her  to  bring  in  the 
same  amount  every  week  for  his  own 
table.

Mr.  Wisler  stated  that  such  a  plan 
would  not  work 
in  Mancelona,  for  the 
reason  that  the  merchants  of  that  town 
have  nerve  enough  to  pay  more  than 
the  market  price  for  produce,  when they 
know  that  the  market  is  on  an  upward 
tendency.  He  stated  that  Mancelona 
was  passing  through  a  transition  from 
timber to agriculture,  and  that  until  thi 
new  order  of  things  became established 
it  would  be  undesirable  to  make  any 
change  in  the  present  methods  of  buy 
ing  produce.  He  realized 
from  past 
experience  that  the  hardest  thing 
merchant  has  to  do  is  to  tell  a  woman 
that her  butter  is  not good.

X.  H.  Beebe  then  led  the  discussion 
on  the advisability  of adopting the  Blue 
Letter  collection  system.  He  stated  that 
when  the  system  was  introduced  in  Big 
Rapids  the  merchants all  pledged the 
selves  to  stick  by  each  other,  and  that 
if  they  had  done  so,  it  would  have  been 
very  much  better  for  them  all.  Those 
who  violated  their  agreement  may  have 
temporary  advantage 
gained  a 
but  they  “ got  it’ ’  later on. 
It is  an  ex 
cellent  system,  without  a  doubt,  and 
if 
the  merchants  would  stick  to  their  text 
they  would  have  the  dead-beats  on  the 
hip  every time.  Mr.  Beebe  stated  that 
he  began  selling  for  cash  September 
i, 
1894,  and  that he  had  been  remarkaby 
well  pleased  with  the  change.

little 

Mr.  Niergarth  stated  that he  had  con­
ducted  his  business  on  the  cash  plan 
since  October,  1893,  and  that  while  he 
did  not  carry  it  out  absolutely,  he  was 
so  well  pleased  with  the  results  that, 
we  were  to  start  in  business  again,  he 
would  sell  for cash  only.

Mr.  Wisler demurred to  the cash plan, 
on  the ground  that  it  curtails  sales,  and 
that  he  would  rather  sell  §10,000  more 
goods  a  year,  even  if he  did 
lose  §200 
or  §300,  as  he  would  still  be  money 
ahead.

Mr.  Densmore stated  that  in  the  four­
teen  years  in  which  he  had  been 
in 
trade  in  Reed  City,  he  had  held  his 
book  accounts  down  to §1,800;  he  found 
it  necessary  to  charge  off  §200  to  §300 
each  year  for  bad  debts,  but he  found 
that he  could  always  collect §50  or  §100 
of  this amount  the  next  year by  schem­
ing  and  watching  his  debtors.  He 
thought  the  merchant  should  use  com­
mon  sense  in  shoving  out  goods,  and 
that  if  he  did  so.,  there  would  be  very 
little  fault  found  with  the credit  system.
The  meeting  then  adjourned  until 

EVENING SESSION.

evening.

At  the  opening  of  the  evening  ses­
sion,  W.  D.  Hopkinson,  of  Paris,  start­
ed the ball  rolling by a  few  remarks  on 
the  subject  of  ‘ ‘ Store  pay  vs.  cash  for 
produce. ’ ’  He  found 
it  beneficial  to 
pay  cash  for produce,  but  made  a  dif- 
ference'of  1  cent  a dozen  for  eggs  and 
2  cents  a  pound  on  butter between  cash 
and  trade.

George  F.  Cook,  of  Grove,  objected 
to  paying  cash  for produce,  because  in

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

many  cases  the  money would go  directly 
to  merchants  in  competing  towns.

]■   V.  Crandall,  of  Sand  Lake,  stated 
that  his  experience  had been  that it  was 
not  desirable  to  pay  cash  for  produce in 
the  country, 
for  the  reason  that  the 
farmers got  in  the  habit  of  saving  up 
their  money and  going  to  the  cities  to 
do their  trading.

J.  H.  Schilling,  of  Clare,  stated  that, 
in  his  experience, 
the 
money  paid  for  butter and  eggs  was  in­
variably  left  in  the  store  before  the  sel­
ler went out.

two-thirds  of 

Mr.  Tatman  then  introduced  the  sub­
ject  of  wholesale  grocers  selling  goods 
to  hotels.  He  spoke  of  the  retail  deal­
ers ^making  business  for  the  hotels  by 
attracting  the  traveling  men,  who  sup­
port  the  hotels,  and  that,in  his  opinion, 
the  landlord  should  buy  his goods  in  his 
home town.

Mr.  Densmore  stated  that  he  had 
been  annoyed  by  this  abuse  for  thirteen 
years,  citing  a  case  where  a  Milwaukee 
vinegar  house  sold  him  five  barrels  of 
vinegar and  then  sold  the  hotel  man  one 
barrel  at  a  less  price  than  the agent  had 
charged  him  for  five barrels. 
In  his  ex­
perience  not  one-tenth  of  the goods  used 
by  hotels  were  purchased 
in  the  home 
town.

Mr.  Bicknell  stated  that  when  he 
found  a  wholesale  house  selling  hotels 
he  would  drop  the  house 
immediately, 
and  in  such  case  the traveling  salesman 
would  cease  visiting  the  town,  as  there 
would  not be  enough  in  the  hotelkeep­
er’s  trade  to  warrant  his  stopping  off.

Mr.  Wisler  cited  an  instance  where  a 
Grand  Rapids  jobber had  sold  a  Mance­
lona  hotelkeeper  ten  pounds  of  Bull 
Durham  at  46 cents a  pound,  when  the 
regular  price  to  the  retail  trade  was 50 
cents!

Mr.  1 atman  offered  the  following res­
olution  covering  this  point,  which  was 
unanimously  adopted:

Resol ved—That  the  President  desig­
nate  a  member  in  each  town 
in  which 
the  Association  has  members  whose 
duty  it shall  be  to  report  to  the  Secre­
tary  the  name  or  names  of  any  jobbing 
house or flouring  mill  selling  goods  to 
hotels or  boarding  houses  (cigars  ex­
cepted ) ;  that  the  Secretary immediately 
communicate  with  the offending  house, 
protesting  against  such  practice;  and 
in  the  event  of  the  house  refusing  to 
pledge  itself  to  desist  from the practice, 
that  the  facts  be  promptly  communicat­
'd  to  every  member of  the Asssociation.
An  interesting  discussion  followed  on 
the  subject  of  package  brands  and  the 
giving  of  exclusive  agencies,  which 
brought  out  the  interesting  fact  that  in 
many  cases  flour mills and  manufactur­
es  of  package goods  had  played  double 
with  the  retail  trade.

I he  meeting  then  adjourned  to  the 
dining  room  of  the  Hotel  King,  where a 
sumptuous  banquet awaited  the  guests, 
participated  in  by  about  fifty  business 
men  and  their wives, in  addition  to  the 
guests  of  the  evening.  After  the  menu 
has  been  disposed  of  W.  H.  Hawkins 
was  announced  as  toastmaster  and  pre­
faced  the  responses  with  a  few  happy 
remarks, after which  he  called  upon  sev­
eral  gentlemen  to  respond  to  pertinent 
toasts as  follows:

Clare.

Our  Association—J.  F.  Tatman.
The  Traveling  Man—J.  N.  Bradford, 

Grand  Rapids.
Mancelona.
Rapids.

Future  of  the  Potato—Jess  Wisler, 
Mixed  Pickles—N.  H.  Beebe,  Big 

Lake.

The  Off  Horse—J.  V.  Crandall,  Sand 
The  Ladies—N.  Bicknell,  Clare.
Early Days at Reed City—E.  A. Stowe. 
Our Village--C.  A.  Withev.

WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION 

At  the  opening  of  the  morning  ses­
sion,  nineteen  applications  for member­
ship  were  read  and  accepted,  after 
which  a  telegram  was  read  from  the 
Worden  Grocer  Co.,  regretting  its  in­
ability to be represented on the  occasion.
then  called  for 
further discussion  on  the  subject  of  the 
Blue  Letter  collection  system.

President  Tatman 

Mr.  Niergarth  pronounced  the  system 
a  grand,  good  one’ ’  and greatly regret­
ted  that  it  was  not  now  in  use  in  Reed 
City.

H.  W.  Hawkins  stated  that  he  never 
saw  a  system  so  effectual  as 
the  Blue 
Letter  method,  as  it  stirred  the  dead- 
I beats 
from  center  to  circumference. 
Many  people  will  pay from policy’s sake 
only,  and  the  co-operative  system  is  the 
best  thing known and  the  only  efficient 
way  to  shut  off bad  pay  customers.

Mr.  Stowe  moved  that  the  matter  of 
adopting  or  rejecting  the  Blue  Letter 
system  be  left  to  a Committee composed 
of  Messrs.  Tatman,  Niergarth  and 
Beebe,  to  report at  the  February  meet­
ing-

The  Committee  on  Resolutions  then 
presented  the  following  report,  which 
was adopted:

Resolved—That  the  members  of  this 
Association  will  do  all  in  their power  to 
discountenance  the  use of  short  weights 
and  measures;

Resolved—That  when  buying 

fruits 
anil  vegetables  we  will  insist on  getting 
a  standard  bushel  and  sixteen  ounces  to 
the  pound ;

Resolved—That  we  earnestly  com­
mend  the  intent  of  the  invalid  statute 
enacted  by  the  last  Legislature  through 
the  efforts  of  Representative  Hoyt,  as 
we are  of  the opinion  that  the  taxing  of 
country  peddlers  should  be  taken  out  of I 
the  hands  of  the  State  and  placed  in  the 
hands  of  the  township,  where  it  proper­
ly  belongs.  Under  the  present  system 
not  one  peddler  in  a  hundred  takes  out 
the  prescribed  license,  which  is  a  man­
ifest  injustice  to  legitimate  trade ;

Resolved —That  we  urge  the  grocers 
of  every  town  in  Northern  Michigan  to 
use  concerted  action 
in  securing  ade­
quate  protection  from  village  peddlers 
in  the  shape  of  efficient  ordinances  pre­
scribing  license  fees  which  shall  be 
made  large  enough  to  be  regulative,  but j 
not  so  large  as  to  be  prohibitive;

Resolved  -That  the thanks  of this  As­
sociation  are  due  the  grocers  of  Reed | 
City 
for  their  cordial  greetings  and I 
splendid  entertainment  on  the  occasion I 
of our second  annual  convention ;  to  the 
Hotel  King  for  reduced  hotel  rates;  to 
the  village  fathers  for  the  use of the city 
h all;  to  the  local  committee  of  arrange  I 
ments  for their  painstaking  attention  to 
details.

The  selection  of  the  next  place  of 
meeting  being  then  in  order,  Mr.  Beebe 
invited  the Association  to  meet  at  Big 
Rapids.  Mr.  Densmore  spoke  for  Reed 
City,  Mr.  Bicknell  for  Clare  and  Wm. 
Hoag  for  Cadillac.

Mr.  Niergarth  moved  that  the  next 
convention  be  held  at  Big  Rapids  the 
second  Tuesday  in  February,  which  was 
adopted.

Mr.  Bicknell  moved  a  Committee  on 
Membership—one  from  each  point  of 
the  compass—be appointed  by  the  Pres­
ident,  retaining  one-half  of  the  annual 
dues  obtained 
services. 
Adopted.

their 

for 

Election  of  officers  being  then  in  or­
der,  President  Tatman  nominated  Mr. 
Wisler  for  President.  Mr.  Williams 
nominated  Mr.  Densmore.  Both  gentle­
men  positively  declined  the honor,  when 
the  election  resulted  as  follows :

President  -J.  F.  Tatman,  Clare.
Vice  President—J.  W.  Densmore, 
Secretary— E.  A. 
Stowe,  Grand 
Treasurer—Jess  Wisler,  Mancelona.

Reed  City.
Rapids.

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Executive  Committee—N.  H.  Beebe, 
Big  R apids;  Wm.  Hoag,  Cadillac’; 
Frank  Smith,  Leroy;  T.  Bergy,  Mt 
Pleasant;  C.  Yost,  Ithaca.

Mr.  Wisler  moved  that  membership 
certificates  be  printed  for  distribution 
among 
the  members,  which  was 
adopted.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

NAMES OF THE MEMBERS.

meeting  adjourned.

At  the  close  of  the  Reed  City meeting 
the  membership  list  included  fifty-five 
grocers  and  grocery  firms,  as  follows :

Clare—J.  F.  Tatman,  Becknell  & 
Co.,  C.  S.  Chase,  G.  W.  Halstead,  Ma­
\ an  Brunt,  A.  S. 
son  &  Boyd,  A. 
Rhoades,  J.  H.  Schilling,  J.  L.  Welch.
Cadillac  -Robert  Johnson,  Snider  & 
Hoag.

Hersey —John Finkbeiner, Frank  Proc­

tor,  C.  M.  Bisbee.

Paris—W.  D.  Hopkinson,  J.  L.  Dav­
John  L 

enport  &  Co.,  Bisbee  Bros., 
Reed.

Mantón—J.  H.  Williams,  O.  Brink.
Mancelona—Jesse  Wisler.
Coleman- -M.  0 .  McFarland.
Shepherd - F .  M.  Taylor,  H.  D.  Bent.
Leroy—Frank  Smith,  Gustafson  & 

Olsen.

Reed  City  C.  T.  Kerry,  FI.  R.  Nier­
garth,  John  Marin,  J.  W.  Densmore,  H. 
W.  Hawkins,  Wm.  H.  Hawkins,  Kirk 
Bros.  &  Co.,  Martin  Miller.
J.  H. 
Megargle,  W.  E.  Haney, Chas.  15.  Love- 
joy,  J.  L-.  Barker.

Big  Rapids  N.  H.  Beebe, 

Ithaca—S.  E.  Parish,  Lewis  &  Yost,' 
Ludwig  &  Isman,  A.  S.  Barber  &  Co  , 
E.  D.  Hamilton.

Mt.  Pleasant  1 rank  A. 

Sweeney, 
Kane  Bros.,  I .  Bergy,  R.  D.  Balmer, 
W.  C.  Yowles,  Hamilton  &  Co.,  A"  N 
Ward.

North  Star  -J.  H.  Pettit  &  Co.
Gladwin—J.  M.  Shaffer.
Dushville  G.  0 .  Adams.
Grove—Geo.  F.  Cook.

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

Wholesale

Clothing  Manufacturers,

ROCHESTER,  N .Y.

Write  our  representative,  W ILLIAM 
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  1 riday,  Aug  30,  and 
I uesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday  and 
Friday,  Sept.  10,  1 1 ,1 2   and 
13/  State 
Fair  Week.

Lime 
Cement 
Sew er Pipe 
Etc.

A.  HIMES
Wholesale ShipperC O A L
i CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS.
T H O M A S   E .  W Y K E SLime 
Sewer 
Piue 
Flour 
Feed Etc
C O A I ,
Correspondence Solicited.
The Trade is 
cordially in­
vited to write 
us 
for sum­
C O A L
mer prices on

S. P. HIT fill II 1(1 (0.

45  South  Division  St.  GRAND  RAPIDS

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

A*rp URPO* T r a d e s m a n  c o m p a n y ,;

C R A X D  R A P ID S . M IC H .

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

East  Jordan—Geo.  L.  Sherman  has' 
sold  a  half  interest  in  his  meat  market 
to  C.  H.  Gifford,  of  Grand  Rapids. 
The  new firm  will  be  known  as  Sher­
man  &  Gifford.

Jennings—Ground  has  been  broken 
for a  new store building,  30x70  in  size, 
for  Mitchell  Brothers.  A  general  stock 
of  merchandise  will  be  carried,  A.  C. 
McNitt  acting  as manager.

Ionia  -John  W.  Baldie  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  produce,  wood  and  coal 
business  of  W.  C.  Page  &  Co.  to  his 
partners,  R.  Lee  Page and  John  Scott, 
who  will  continue 
it  under  the  same 
name.

Watervliet  R.  E.  Wigent,  who  was 
engaged  in  general trade here for several 
years,  recently  died  as  the  result  of  a 
stroke  of  apoplexy.  He  was  in  bathing 
in  Paw  Paw  Lake  at  the  time the  attack 
came  on  him,  but  was  dragged  to  the 
shore by  a  p issing  companion.

Grant  — J.  F.  A.  Raider has begun  the 
erection  of a  two-story  solid brick build­
ing,  24x50 feet in size,  which  he  will  oc­
cupy  with  a  drug  stock  as  soon  as  com­
pleted,  which  will  probably  be  about 
October  15.  His  son,  Lynn,  will  have 
personal  charge  of  the  business.

Owosso—E.  L.  Devereaux  and  A.  F. 
Loomis  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under the  style  of  Devereaux  &  Loomis, 
and  will  embark  in  the grocery' business 
about  Sept.  20,  taking  possession  of  the 
H.  W.  Parker store  building,  now  oc­
cupied  by  the  Hook way  &  Son  grocery 
stock.

idea 

I looked  for,  the  equipment  of  a  cigar j 
j factory  with  women  and  women  alone.  J 
j  John  H.  McLean,  of  the  Detroit  Cigar j 
I Co.,  is  responsible  for the  scheme,  and 
says  that  it  is  going  to  prove  a  great j 
success.  The 
is  taken  from  sev­
eral  shops  which have been running with j 
women  employes  for  some  time,  notably j 
a  large  factory  at  Mansfield,  Ohio.  Mr. 
McLean  thinks  the  employment of mak­
ing  cigars  will  become  more  attractive \ 
to the girls  who  seek  employment  than I 
work  in  a factory or laboratory,  especial­
ly  when  it  is  considered  tnat  a  girl 
cigarmaker,  or rather 
lady'  cigarmak- | 
er, ’ ’  as  Mr.  McLean  terms  them,  can j 
earn  from  two  to  four  times  as  much 
money  in  a  week  as  she  can in  a factory 
or  laboratory.  The  strike  was  virtually 
a  move  to  crowd  the  women  out  of  the 
business,  but,  as  reforms  seldom  go 
backward,  it  is  bringing  out  the  very 
thing  the  men  struck  to  prevent.  Mr. 
McLean  announces  that  he  so  well satis­
fied  with  the  results  that  none  of  his 
male  cigarmakers  could  get  back  in  the 
shop  on  any  terms. 
If  other  manufac­
turers  should  take  the  same  views of  the 
matter as  the one  pioneer  in  the  move­
ment does,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  there 
would  be  little  use  of  u n io n  cigarmakers 
staying  in  the  city  at  all,  as the increas­
ing  demand  for  Detroit  cigars  since  the 
strike clearly demonstrates that the union 
label  is  no  advantage to a manufacturer, 
but,  instead, 
it 
compells  him  to  pay  high  wages  to  an 
inferior  class  of  workmen.

is  a  disadvantage,  as 

Around  the  State.
Movements of  Merchants.

Sturgis  -Frank  Nathan  has  sold  his 

clothing  stock  to  |ohn  1 l'ipp.

Lucas  CL  W.  lay lor  succeds  Taylor 

Bros,  in  the grocery  business.

Charlotte  Wm.  Jordan  succeeds  Tur­

ner  &  Jordan  in  the  grocery  business.

Charlotte  Mitchell  &  McCarger  suc- 
ced  Hults  &  Mitchell  in  the  meat  busi­
ness.

Lake  Ann  Potter  &  Anderson  suc­
ceed  Virgil  &  Farmer  in  the meat busi­
ness.

Schoolcraft  -Gilmore  &  Harrison suc­
ceed  A.  R.  Gilmore in  the grocery  busi­
ness.

Erie—Cornelius  S.  Drouiiliard  is suc­
in  general 

ceeded by  C.  C.  LaPointe 
trade.

Lake  Odessa—Wright  &  Friend  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  to  Geo.  At. 
Fowler

ceeds  Sherwin  &  Ball 
business.

Battle  Creek—Frank  G.  Sherwin  suc­
in  the  grocery- 

Grayling 
Isaac Rosenthal is succeed­
ed by Jos. Rosenthal in  the  dry  goods 
business.

Petoskev 

J.  Welling  succeeds B.  Perl 
&  Co.  in  the  men’s  lurnishing  goods 
business.

Cassopolis—G.  C.  Underhill  &  Co. 
succeed  Underhill  &  Bonilie  in  the gro­
cery  business.

Homer  Edwin  C.  Doolittle  succeeds 
in  the  gro­

Doolittle,  Anderson  &  Co. 
cery  business.

Blissfield  The  Phillips  Hardware 
Co.,  Limited,  is  succeeded  by  the  Phil­
lips  Co.,  Limited.

Lake  Odessa  Gardner  Wight 

suc­
ceeds  Samuel  Bair  in  the  agricultural 
implement business.

Detroit  Clias.  Addison 

Bro.,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved,  T red  Addison con­
tinuing the  business.

Gaines  Station  -W.  B.  Cozard  suc­
ceeds  F.  W.  Blodgett  in  the  hardware 
and  lumber  business.

Battle Creek—Louis  Strauss  has  re­
moved  his  clothing  and  men’s  furnish­
ing  goods  stock  to  Detroit.

Stanton  Lamb  &  Peterson,  agricul­
tural  implement dealers,  have dissolved, 
Hans  Peterson  succeeding.

Kalamazoo  -H.  B.  F i slier  has  pur­
furnishing 

chased  the  tailoring  and 
goods  business  of  H.  F.  Wenier.

Grand  Ledge  -Geo.  A.  Youngs,  gro­
cer,  has  admitted  a  partner  and  the 
style  of  the  firm  is  now  Youngs  &  Ab­
bey.

Muskegon  S.  A.  Soderberg  has  sold 
his  shoe stock  to  A.  P.  Conner  &  Co., 
who  have  consolidated  the  stock  with 
their  own.

Chadwick  E.  T.  Bolster  has  admit­
ted  his  son to  partnership  in  his grocery 
business.  The  firm  will  hereafter  be 
known  as  E.  T.  Bolster  &  Son.

Marine  City  Markle &  Thatcher,  fur­
niture  and  undertakers,  have  dissolved. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by  Nor­
man  J.  Markle  in  his  own  name.

Hastings—Phin  Smith  has  purchased 
the  boot and  shoe  stock  of  H.  E.  Pad- 
dock,  at  Grand  Ledge,  and  is  now  en­
gaged  in  removing  it  to  this  place.

Ionia  -Jos.  H.  Canfield  has purchased 
the  interest  of  Wm.  F.  Scammell  in  the 
old-established  grocery  and  meat busi­
ness  of  Scammell  &  Canfield  and  will 
continue the business  under the  style  of 
the  Canfield  Grocery  Co.  Mr.  Scam­
mell  will  embark  in  the  purchase  and 
sale  of  live  stock.

being  no grievance as  to hours or wages, 
j  hinging  simply  on  the demand that none 
but  union  men  be  employed-  a  demand 
| which  no  honorable  employer  can  con- 
1 cede,  as  it  deprives  him  of  every  attri- 
i bute  of  independence  and  makes  him  a 
slave  to a  tyranny  ten  times  more 
irk­
some  than  that  sought  to be  established 
l by  the  slaveholders  of  the  South.

The  country  dealer  remote  from  large 
centers  of  population  where  the  saloon 
and  the  union  thrive  in  mutual  helpful­
ness— is  sometimes at  a  loss  to  under­
stand how any' organization  can  influence 
j a  man  to  throw  up  a  job  he  has  had  for 
many  years  and  with  which he  is entire­
ly  satisfied  simply  to  humor the  caprice 
of  a  walking  delegate  whose  wages  go 
on  whether  his  dupe  works  or  not.  The 
cause  for  this  deplorable  lack  of  inde- 
I  pendence on  the  part  of  the  workman  is 
j his  fear of  personal  violence  in  case  the 
I mandate  of  the  agitator  is  not  obeyed, 
j The  moment  a  union  man  fails  to  obey 
! the commands  of  his  superior  officer  he 
is  blacklisted,  boycotted,  assaulted— 
j  murdered,  if  need  be 
in  the  name  of 
Judges  and  prosecuting 
j union 
j and  police  officers  whose  duty 
is  to 
| apprehend,  prosecute  a n d   punish  viola­
tions  of  the  law  wink  at  the  murderous 
I assaults  committed 
in  the  name  of 
unionism  and  even  the  Governor  is  un­
able  to  dispatch  troops  to  quell  a  riot 
until  overt  acts  have  been  committed, 
albeit  the  existence  of  angry and ungov­
ernable  mobs  are  at  once  a  menace  to 
the  public  peace  and  a  sure 
indication 
of  impending  disturbance  and  crime. 
Remove  the  fear  of  personal  violence 
from  the minds  of  the  rank  and  file  of 
union  workmen  and  the  pernicious  in- 
I fluence  of  trades  unionism  will  cease.
An  Abuse  which  5 hould  be  Abol~ 

labor. 

it 

ished.

It  is 

first  cost, 

Reed  City,  Aug. 

19-  I  wish  to  call 
your attention  to  an  abuse which grocers 
have  to  contend  with: 
in  regard 
to  railway  agents  and  employes  ship­
ping  in  fruits  and  vegetables,  supply­
ing  themselves and neighbors  with  these 
goods  at 
less  the  freight.
I  It  seems  they  have  the privilege of ship­
ping goods  for themselves  without  any 
freight  charges.  The  amount  of  fruit 
shipped  here  in  that way  cuts  quite  a 
figure. 
I  think  if  the.  railway  officials 
at  headquarters  were  made  acquainted 
with  this  abuse,  they  would curtail some 
of  these  privileges.  These  people  take 
advantage  of  this  privilege  and  make 
quite  a  little  money  out  of  it  during  the 
fruit  season. 
It  is  not  a  “ fair  shake, ’ ’ 
as  these  people  get  good  salaries  and 
should  be  made  to  keep  their  noses  out 

of  the  retail  trade.John W. Densmore.

investigation  of 

There  has been  a  considerable  specu­
lation  and  some  concern  as  to  the  effect 
of the  opening  of the  new  Hennepin  or 
Chicago  drainage  canal  on  the  level  of 
the  Lakes  and  the  consequences  to  the 
harbors. 
In  an  interview  General  O. 
M.  Poe,  chief of  the  Government  Com- 
1 mission  for  the 
the 
question,  gives  the  assurance  that  the 
j lowering  will  be  slight  and  that  it  will 
j require  years  to  reach  the  new  level.
;  He  says  the  change  may be  three  inches 
i or  it  may  be  eight.  As  the  natural  var- 
j  i at ion  greatly  exceeds  these  amounts 
it 
will  be  seen  that  there  is  no  reason  for 
| concern.  Any  change  011  that  account 
could  be  prevented,  if  desirable,  by  the 
|  building  of  a  wing  dam  in  the  St.  Clair 
|  river  equal  to  the  sectional  area  of  the 
j Canal.  This  would  need  to  lessen  the 
outflow  only  about  one-twelfth  to  pre­
vent  any  variation.

Improve  the  opportunity  on  Gillies’ 
& Co.’s  special  N.  Y.  tea  offer.  It  is  a 
j new  Japan  cheap. 
J.  P.  Visner,  Agent.

nanufacturing  flatters.

Muskegon—Bennett  Bros., 

lumber
dealers,  have  merged  their business  in­
to  a  stock  company'  under  the  style  of 
Bennett  Bros.  Lumber  Co.

Cheboygan—Geo.  Quay  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  shingle  mill  business  of 
1).  Quay  it  Sons  to  his  partners,  who 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
same  style.

Manistee—Eastern  buyers  are  coming 
back 
for  hemlock.  One  concern  has 
just  placed  an  order  for  water  shipment 
that  will  take a  little  over  1,000,000  feet 
and  will  take  more  as  soon  as  a  good 
assortment  offers.  The demand  for hem­
lock  lath  is  falling  off,  consumers  using 
pine  lath  now  that  they' are so  cheap.

Saginaw —Col.  A.  T.  Bliss  is  cutting 
a  quaiter  of  a  million  feet  a day  at  his 
own  sawmill  at  Carrollton,  and  the  Cen­
tral  Lumber  Company’s  mill  at  Zilwau- 
kee,  of  which  he  is  the  principal  stock­
holder.  He  has  sold  a  number  of  mil­
lion  feet  this season  to  go  to  Chicago.
Bay  City—Hargrave  &  Son  are  run­
ning  their  sawmill  with  a  night  and day 
crew,  the  daily  output  being  125,000 
feet.  The band  and  gang  are  operated 
days  and  the band  nights.  The  mill  is 
cutting  Canada  logs,  and  2,000,000  feet 
of  lumber on  the  dock  is  sold  for  imme­
diate  shipment.  The 
firm  expresses 
satisfaction  over the prospects for a good 
fall  business.

Bay  City—Things are  looking  bright­
er all  along  the  lumber  line.  There  is 
a better demand  for  lumber,  although  it 
is  chiefly  for good  stock  which  is  most 
wanted.  The  sale  of  500,000 box  cut  to 
order  to  a  Saginaw  firm 
is  reported  at 
S10. 
It  is  said  that  some  box  has  sold 
as  low as S9.  There  is  very  little  Nor­
way  being  cut  owing  to  the  low  condi­
tion  of  the  market.  There  is some lum­
ber being  shipped  by  water  and  there 
ought  to be  more at  Si  freight  to  Ohio 
and  $1.25  to  Buffalo  and  Tonawanda.

Detroit—The  senseless  strike of cigar­
makers,  which  has  now been 
in  opera­
tion  for a  couple  of  months,  has  pro­
duced  one  effect  which  was  hardly

A  Boycotting  Letter  and  Its  Result 

Incongruity  of  Unionism.

A  certain Grand Rapids jobbing house 
recently  received  a  circular  from  the 
headquarters  of  the  striking  cigarmak­
it  not  to  pur­
ers  at  Detroit,  warning 
chase  any'  cigars  made 
in  Detroit,  on 
the ground  that  the  cigars  now  turned 
out  by  the  large  factories  there  are  pro­
duced  by  non-union  female  labor.  The 
house  in  question  immediately  ordered 
5,000  cigars  of  a  well-known  Detroit 
brand,  volunteering  the  statement  that 
it  felt  perfectly  safe  to  place  woman- 
made goods  in  the  hands  of  its  custom­
ers,  as  it  would  be 
impossible  to  find 
a more filthy  or a  more  repulsive class of 
workmen  than  the  average  union  cigar- 
maker,  who  is  notorious  for the  amount 
of  whisky  he  can  consume  and  the 
baths  he  never  takes.

*  *  *  ■

Nothing  could  be more ridiculous than 
the outcry  against  woman  labor  in  cigar 
factories,  especially  when  indulged 
in 
by  men  who  seldom draw a  sober breath 
and  whose  personal  appearance  betoken 
their unfamiliarity with every manifesta­
tion  of  cleanliness.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
women  make  as  competent  workmen  in 
cigar  factories  as  men  and  they  have 
one decided  advantage  over  most  union 
men-  -they  are,  as a  class,  clean  in their 
habits and  they  keep  sober.  They de­
pend  on  holding  their  positions  by  the 
character of  their  workmanship,  rather 
than  by  reason  of  their  connection  with 
an  oath-bound,  boycotting  and  black­
mailing  organization.

The  strike  in  the  Detroit  factories 

is 
at  an  end,  so  far  as  the  employers  are 
concerned.  The  workmen  who  perm i t- 
ted  themselves  to  be  made  fools  of  by 
venal  and  unscrupulous  leaders  are  now 
eating  the  bread  of  bitterness  and  have 
the alternative  of quitting  the  union  or 
seeking  employment  elsewhere,  which 
is  not an  easy  matter  to  do,  as  the  mar­
ket  for that  class  of  labor  is  badly  over­
stocked.  The  strike  was  one  of  the 
most  senseless  ever  indulged  in,  there

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5

| fore  the  latter  variety  will  be  all  that 
can  be  had.  Prices  are  still  low,  ow- 
|  ing,  in  part,  to  the  small  demand.

Lemons 

Importers  and  brokers  have 
been  talking  higher  prices  for  the  past 
month,  but  their  predictions  did  not 
seem  to be  verified  by  facts  until  with­
in  the  last  ten  days.  A great  many  deal­
ers  had  a  fair  amount  of  stock  on  hand 
up  to  August  1,  and  it  was  almost 
im­
possible  to  induce  an  order  until  they 
were  practically  out. 
This  state  of 
things  seems  to  have  occurred  all  at 
once and,  as  a  consequence,  orders were 
plentiful  with  the  brokers  last  week  and 
as  the  supply  is somewhat 1 imited  con­
siderably  so,  for  this  season  of  the  year
prices  were  advanced  sharply,  much 
I to  the gratification  of  the  importers.  At 
the sales  Saturday  common  to  choice 
stock  brought  $4.50(^5  and  fancy  Ver- 
dtlli,  either  size, 
from  S5-75 @6.37^. 
There  are  a  few  wholesale  dealers  who 
still  have  a  fair supply,  which  they  will 
be  able  to  work  off  at  remunerative 
prices,  although  quotations  made  this 
week  are  much below  the  auction  sell­
ing  price.  There  is  no  probabi 1 ity  of  a 
decline during  the  next  two  weeks  and 
retailers  may  possibly  escape  an  ad­
vance  by ordering  at  the  present  prices.
Figs  There  is  a  fairly  good  demand 
for a  fancy grade  of  stock,  but as  all  of 
it  has  been  placed  in  storage  for  safety 
during  the  hot  weather, 
it  presents  a 
candied  appearance  when  opened  up, 
the cause  of  which  does  not  seem  to  be 
clear to  a  majority  of  the  retailers. 
It 
will  be  safer  to  order  this  class  of goods 
in  small  quantities,  as, 
like  all  other 
goods  which  have  been 
in  cold  storage 
any  length  of  time,  they  will  deteriorate 
rapidly  after being  exposed  to  a warmer 
temperature.

Dates  All  the  stock  is  kept 

in  cold 
storage,  the  same  as  figs,  and  is  subject 
to  the  same  appearance  and  keeping 
qualities  when  taken  out.  They  sell 
slowly  at  present,  but  the  approach  of 
the  county  fairs  will  stimulate  the  de- 
'  mand  and  dealers  will  probably  close 
out  present  holdings  during  the  next 
month.  Prices  are  low.
Cheese  The  market 

is  weaker  and 

I a  trifle  lower.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

J.  C.  Miller  &  Co.  succeded  G.  W. 
Miller  &  Son  in  the  grocery  business  at 
480  Lake  avenue.

Calvin  H.  Catlin,  formerly  clerk 

for 
M.  K.  Collins,  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  20  Plainfield  avenue.

P •  J.  Parker  &  Co.  succeed  F. 

J. 
Lamb  &  Co.  in  the  produce  and  com­
mission  business  at  33  Ottawa street.

Abraham  Kok  and  Adrian  Hoffins 
have  embarked  in  the  flour  and  feed 
business  at  iq West  Fulton  street  under 
the  firm  name of  Kok  &  Hoffins.

H.  M-.  ( ieiger  has gone  to  New  York 
to assist  in  opening  an  Eastern office of 
the  Champion  Cash  Register  Co.,  which 
will  be  in  charge  of  Blount  &  Otto.

f .  Herman  Ziegler, 

formerly  of 
Lowell,  succeeds  E.  F.  Herendeen 
in 
the  meat  business  at  420  West  Bridge 
street.  Mr.  Herendeen  has  removed  to 
Rochester,  N.  Y.

grain  business  to John  W.  Baldie,  of 

Thos.  E.  Wykes  has  sold  a  half  inter­
est  in  his  coal,  wood,  lime,  cement  and 

local 

light-weight 

Ionia,  who has  removed  to  the  city  and 
will  take an  active  part  in  the  manage­
ment  of  the  business.  The  new  firm 
will  be  known  as  Thos.  E.  Wykes  &  Co.
A 
commission 
house  is  exciting  considerable  comment 
among  the  retail  trade  in  towns  remote 
from  Grand  Rapids  by 
consigning 
peaches  without  any  intimation  that  tin* 
fruit  will  be  acceptable.  Of  course, 
the  returns  in  such  cases  are  quite  apt 
to  be  disappointing,  whereupon 
the 
commission  merchant  indites  insulting 
letters  to  those  dealers  who  fail  to  re­
port  satisfactory  returns.  As  a  result 
of  such  unbusiness-like  dealings, 
ill 
feeling  is  created  and  crimination  and 
recrimintion  ensue.

Judge  Burlingame  has decided,  in the 
case' of  Jacob  Norman,  that  peddlers  of 
fruits  and  vegetables  must  hereafter 
either  pay  the  prescribed 
license  fee 
without  kicking  or  appeal  to  the  Su­
preme  Court.  The  defendant’s  attor­
ney,  S.  Wesselius,  argued  that  the  case 
should  he  quashed,  on  the  ground  that 
the  charge  was  made  under  a  repealed 
ordinance  and  that  the charter provision 
was  in  restraint  of  trade, 
inconsistent, 
unreasonable  and  oppressive  and  the 
license 
the  charter 
authorized.  The  motion  to  quash  was 
denied  and,  in  view  of  a  recent  ruling 
of  the  Supreme  Court, 
the  case  will 
probably  not  be appealed.

larger 

than 

fee 

The  Grocery  Market.

Bananas  The  wholesale  dealers  and 
commission  men  are  ordering  them  for­
ward  very  sparingly,  owing  to the  limit­
ed  demand  from  out-of-town  dealers. 
This  has  caused  the  importers  to  reduce 
prices  considerably,  in  order  to  stimu­
late  the demand. 
It  is  more  than  prob­
able,  however,  that  for  the  next  six 
weeks,  or  nntil  peaches  are  out  of  the 
way,  there  is  not  much  hope  of  what 
can  be  called  a  satisfactory  demand  be­
ing  encouraged.  A  few  regular  fruit 
dealers  still  order  regularly,  but  grocers 
and  other dealers who handle these goods 
periodically  are  very  chary  of  them. 
Prices  are  in  favor  of  the  dealer  who 
orders.

Oranges 

is  remarkable  how  the 
California  crop  hangs  on.  They  can 
still  be  had  at  prices  much  more  favor­
able  to  the  retailer  than  the  Rodi 
fruit, 
although  it  will  be  but  a  short  time  be-

It 

The  Drug  Market.

Acids  Benzoic  is  somewhat  steadier, 
owing  to  rumors  that  the  new  seller, who 
was  recently  sol ¡citing  orders  for  future 
deliverv  at  comparatively 
low  prices, 
has  met  with  obstacles  which  will  delay 
the  realizing  of  expectations  for  an 
in­
definite  period.  Salicylic  shows  no  im­
provement.

Alcohol  Continued  dullness  is  noted 
in  the  market  for grain,  and  there  is  no 
apparent  improvement 
in  the  general 
condition  of  affairs,  notwi thstand i ng 
favorable  developments  in  the  reorgani­
zation  of  the  old  combination  of  distill­
ers.

Caffeine  Remains  nominallv  steady, 
inquiry  and  the 

but  there  is  not  much 
market  is  inactive.

Cod  Liver  Oil  A  number  of  holders 
have  withdrawn  from  the  market,  owing 
to  stronger  advices  from  abroad,  and 
indications  point  to  high  prices,  when 
the  active  consuming  season  sets  in.

Cream  Tartar  Continues 

to  move 
fairly  in  moderate  quantities  foi  con­
sumption,  with  values  ruling  firm.

Cubeb  Berries-  -Remain  quiet  with 
values  unchanged  and  110minally steady.
Essential  Oils - -The  market  for  pep­
permint 
is  somewhat  unsettled  and  ir­
regular,  with  reports  conflicting.  Cas­
sia  is  jobbing  freely  and  holders  are 
firm  in  their  views.  There  is  no  change j 
|  in  other descriptions.

Flowers—American  saffron  is  selling 
in  small  parcels  only  to  the  consuming 
trade,  the  condition  of  the  market being 
practically as  noted  in  previous  issues. 
Other  descriptions  are  without  note­
worthy  feature.

Leaves- -There  is an  absence  of  new 
features  in  any  description,  and  aside 
from  continued  activity  in  short  buchu 
and  senna,  the  market  has  a  quiet  ap­
pearance.

Opium-  The  Smyrna  market 

is  un­
changed  and  quiet  and  here  a  fair  de­
mand  is  reported.  The  available  spot 
stock  is  light,  but  in  view  of  the  large 
current  crop  the  general 
is 
that  future  prices  are  more  likely  to  fa­
vor buyers  than  sellers.

impression 

Roots  -No  important  movement  is  re­
ported  in  any  of  the  various  leading  de­
scriptions  and  the  changes 
in  prices 
are slight and of no especial significance.
Seeds —All  varieties  of  canary  show  a 
fractionally  lower  range  of  values, main­
ly  owing  to an  easier  feeling 
in  Euro­
pean  markets,  but  aside  from  a  fair 
movement  in  Smyrna  there  is  little  to 
note 
in  the  way  of  business.  Dutch 
caraway to  arrive  has  been  fairly active 
with  considerable  sales of  new  crop  re­
ported.  There  is  no quotable change  in 
values  of  mustard.

The  Grain  Market.

interested 

To  say  the  wheat market  was  dull  and 
; uninteresting  would  be  speaking  of  it 
rhere  is  simply  nothing  do­
mildly. 
ing ;  no  one  seems  to  be 
in 
it.  The  lower the  visible goes  the  lower 
prices  go.  The  visible  showed  another 
decrease of  954,000  bushels,  against  an 
increase  of  1,580,000 bushels  the  corres­
ponding  week  last  year.  The  visible  to­
day  amounts  to  36,875,000  bushels, 
against 63,901,000  last  year,  or  25,446,- 
ooo  bushels  less  than 
last  year.  The 
whole  amounts  to  this:  while all  factors 
point  toward  higher  markets  the  real 
fact  is,  prices  are  lower.  While the  ex­
ports are  remarkably 
low  the  receipts 
are  still  smaller as  is  shown  by  the  vis­
ible  and  the  present  amount  in  sight  is 
less  than  it  had  been  since  1891.  Prices 
are  about  20c  per  bushel  higher to-day 
than  they  were  the  same  date  last  year. 
We  will  not  prophesy  this  week,  as  our 
predict ions  have  been  wrong  so  far. 
Spring  wheat  has  commenced  to  move 
but  not  very  freely  and  what  comes 
in 
is  very  deficient  in  quality.  Out  of  133 
cars  received  in  Chicago  only  ten  grad­
ed  No.  2  red.

Corn  also  declined  in  price  for  rea­

sons given  in  our  previous  letters.

Oats show the  same  reduction  as  the 
other cereals  and  will  be  on  the  down 
grade  this  week.

Receipts were:  wheat  35  cars ;  corn 

3  cars  and  oats  5  cars.

C. G. A. Voigt.

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

All  grades  of  bleached  and brown  cot­
tons are  advancing  steadily  in  price un­
til now about 10 per cent,  has been added 
on  these goods  since  June.

The  same  may  be  said  of  prints. 
Some  makes are  now 5yic  in fancy black 
and  white,  and  wines  and  greys  are 
still  5c.

Staple  ginghams  range  from  4 %c  to 
5c,  according  to  quality.  Dress  ging­
hams are  held  at  4 'A iff8c.

The  attention  of  the  Tradesman’s 
readers  is  called  to  the  advertisement of 
Studley  &  Barclay  on  page  22  of  this is­
sue.  By  an  unfortunate  error,  they were 
in  last  week’s  paper, 
made  to  say, 
“ Prices advance  50  per  cent.  Oct. 
1, ”  
which  should have  read  “ 5  per  cent.”

Gripsack  Brigade.

A. 

D.  E.  Me Yean  (Mussel man  Grocer 
Co.)  has been  compelled  to  return  to 
Mt.  Clemens  for a  short  course  of  treat­
ment.  His territory 
is  being  covered 
in  the  meantime  by  John  McCleary, 
who  is  accompanied  by  his  smile.

E.  Worden,  President  of  the 
Worden  Grocer  Co., 
is  accompanying 
A.  S.  Doak  on  his  calls  to  his  trade this 
week.  During  his  absence  Mr.  Worden 
will  investigate  the  circumstances  at­
tending  the  killing  of  sheep  by  Mr. 
Doak’s  dog  at  South  Boardman  several 
years  ago.

0 .  M.  Clement,  of  Lansing,  who 
travels 
in  Illinois  and  Iowa  for  the 
American  Whip  Company,  of  Chicago, 
recently  returned  home  in  a  badly  bat­
tered  up  condition.  While  going  to 
his  hotel  at  Cedar  Rapids, 
last 
Thursday  night  he  was  set  upon by foot­
pads,  who  choked  him  nearly  to  death, 
and  then  knocked  him  senseless  by  hit­
ting  him  over the  head  with  a  brick. 
He  was  robbed  of $53  in  cash and a gold 
watch  and  chain.

Iowa, 

J.  A.  Gonzalez  has  succeeded 

in  se­
curing a  release  from  the  Wellauer  & 
Hoffmann  Co.,  of  Milwaukee,  to  accept 
a  flattering  offer made  him  by  the  Best 
&  Russell  Co.,  of  Chicago,  Western 
distributors  for  the  Owl  Cigar  Co.  (New 
\ ork 1  and  E.  H.  Gato 
( Key  West'). 
Mr.  Gonzalez  represented  the  Owl Cigar 
Co. 
for  four  years and  the  change  is  a 
welcome  one to  him  in  several  respects, 
principally  because  the  line  is  one  with 
which  he  is  entirely  familiar.  The  Mil­
waukee  house  was  loath  to  part  with 
him,  as  it  was  gratified  over  the success 
he  had  achieved  in  the  short  space  of 
six  months  in  this  territory.

The Condition  of Trade.

In  spite  of  the  decline 

in  the  aggre­
gate  of  trade  transactions  occasioned  by 
the  midsummer  dullness,  which  is  sev­
eral  weeks  later  than  usual,  prices 
in 
most  lines  have  continued  to  advance. 
The  most  unfavorable 
indications  are 
the great  increase  of  imports  and  the 
decline  of  exports,  and  the  consequent 
unfavorable  condition  of 
exchange, 
which  causes  continued  apprehension as 
to  the  Treasury  reserve.  The  sales  of 
cotton  goods  have  been  checked  some- 
what  by  the advance  in  prices  and  the 
heavy  imports,  and  the  woolen  trade  is 
suffering  from  the  foreign  competition. 
The  uncertainty  is  increased  by  the  de­
mands  of  the operatives  for  the  restora­
tion  of  the  wages  pa i d  before  the 
panic.

iron 

The  condition  of  the 

industry 
continues  very  encouraging.  The  ac­
tual  consumption  is  large  and the  prices 
continue  to  raise  in  the  face  of  the 
in­
creasing  output.  Wages  have  been 
generally  advanced.  Copper  has  ad­
vanced  toi2 '4  cents.

Wheat is still  being  held  by  the  grow­
ers,  although  prices  have  declined  \% 
cents.  Corn  and  pork  products  have 
shown  more  or  less  decline,  on  account 
of  favorable news  as  to  condition  of  the 
crop.

The  comparison  of  failures  with  last 
year  is  favorable 
196 against 229  in  the 
United  States,  and  thirty-eight  in  Can­
ada,  against  forty-five  last  year.

food  product  of 

Evaporated  potatoes  is  the  latest  pre­
served 
the  Pacific 
Coast.  A  Washington  concern  engaged 
in  the  business  of  preparing  evaporated 
apples  and  prunes  has been experiment­
ing  with  potatoes  and  finds  that,  pre­
pared  in  this  way,  they  will  keep  good 
for an  indefinite  time  and  retain  practi­
cally  all  their food  value.

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V.  SEBRINQ  HILLYER

Structural Iron Work

C o n su ltin g  E n gin ee r

Concrete Construction.

Machinery Draughting. 

803  Hichigan  Trust  Building 
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I can show you how to save it by apply­
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Address, 74 Monroe St., Room 5, Grand Rapids.

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“ Do  not  try  to  be m en,"  said  the 
preacher. 
“ God  created  you  separate 
and  distinct  beings!  Do  not  attempt 
by a  change of  garments  to alter the de­
cree of  the  Almighty!”   and,  if  the  pen 
of  the  recorder  is  to be  depended  upon, 
the  sermon  created  no  little  sensation.

As the  years  go by,  I  am  more  and 
impressed  with  the  silence  of 
more 
scripture. 
I  know,  for  example,  that 
the  evening and  the  morning  were  the 
first day,  but when  I  turn  to  the  sacred 
page  with  the  query  how  long  that  first 
day was,  there  is  silence.  There  is  no 
doubt  that  the  tree  of  knowledge  bore 
fruit  and  that  Eve  partook  of 
it,  but 
when  the question  comes.  What  kind 
of fruit  in  form  and  color and  taste  was 
it, ”   there  is  no answer. 
It  has  always 
been  regarded  as a  settled  question  that 
the  first  attempt  at  civilization  was  the 
making  of  aprons,  but  when  the  mo­
mentous  question  arises.  How  were 
those  aprons  fashioned?”   there  is  the 
same  oppressive  silence  which  the  cen­
turies  have  not  been  able  to  break. 
Science has,  indeed,  been busy.  She has 
turned  the  leaves  of  the  rocks,and,  from 
the  testimony  written  there,  has  startled 
us  with  what  she  thinks  the  Creator 
means by  ‘ ‘ the  first  day. 
Belief  has 
settled  into  conviction,  that  it  was  the 
ancestor of  the  Rhode  Island  Greening 
which  led  to  the  first  transgression,  and 
it  early  passed  into  tradition  that  the 
aprons  which  our first  parents  made  for 
themselves 
in  the  secluded  bowers  of 
Eden  were  plain  garments,  plainly 
made  by  the  sewing  together  of  fig 
leaves:  and  when  reading  what 
‘ ‘ the 
preacher saith, 
there  is  an  anxiety  to 
learn,  if the  silence  of  scripture  has  at 
last  been broken,  and  if  the  science  of 
theology  has  so  far ascertained  ‘ ‘ the de­
as  to  settle  for­
cree  of  the  Almighty, 
ever this  theological  question : 
‘ ‘ What
dress  shall  a  woman  wear  on  a  b i­
cycle?”

It  is  remarkable, 

in  glancing  down 
the  centuries,  to  see how  little  ‘ ‘ the  de­
cree’ ’  has  so  far been  understood.  One 
would  suppose,  for  instance,  in  design­
ing  the  garb  of  the  Jewish  high  priest, 
that  there,  if  anywhere,  would  be  found 
decided  the  question  of  sex  in  dress; 
but,  if the  pencil  of the artist  is  at  all 
to  be depended  on,  the  flowing  robes  of 
the woman  of  to-day  resemble  the  high 
priest’s  dress  more  than  the  priest’s 
does  who has  lately handed  down  “ the 
decrees  of  the  Almighty. ’ ’  They  who 
are  up  in  classic 
lore  will  correct  the 
blunder, 
if  there  be  one;  but  isn't  it 
true that  the  graceful  garb of the  Greeks 
furnished  the  design  for  the  Roman 
irres­
toga,  worn  by  the  Roman  world, 
pective  of  sex?  And  isn't 
it  also  true 
that,  in  the  time  of  Caesar  Augustus 
the  period  when the Roman Empire  had 
reached  its  culiminating  splendor—the 
trailing  robe  prevailed?  That,  how­
ever,  was  the beginning of the  Christian 
era,  and  the silence of  scripture  allows 
us  to believe  that  He  who  was  Bethle- 
hem-born,  following  the  fashion  of  the 
time,  was  clad  in  the  garb  common  in 
the  Roman  provinces.  Has  “ the  de­
cree  of  the  Almighty”   made 
it  plain 
to  the theologian  of  to-day that  "pants”  
were  in  fashion  during  the  first  quarter 
of the  first centurv?

There  may  be  nothing  pertaining  to 
the  followers  of  the  Crescent  and  the I 
Cross which  good  Christians  are  bound 
to  respect,  but  it  would  be  pleasing  to 
know  if  “ the decree of  the  Almighty”  
gave  to  the  Orient  the  exclusive  privi­
lege of bifurcated garments; and whether I

the  women  of  the  East,  unlike  their 
Western  sisters,  have,  when  clad 
in 
these garments,  features sufficiently dis­
tinctive,  to  make  them 
‘ ‘ separate  and 
distinct beings, ”   and  so  render  it need­
less  for them  ' 1 to  try  to be  men, ’ ’  when 
clad  in  similar attire.

It  is  to be  hoped  that  nothing  which 
has  so  far been  said  has  suggested  the 
thought  that  there  is  any  doubt  as  to 
‘ * the decree, ’ ’  or its authenticity.  Noth­
ing  is  further  from  the  purpose.  The 
purpose  is to  show  that  the  clergyman 
himself  is  the  one  who  has  disobeyed 
‘ ’ the decree, ’ ’  and  to ask  him  how  he 
dares  to  enter  the sacred  desk  in  a  gar­
ment  intensely bifurcated,  when the gar­
ment  designed  according  to  “ the  de­
cree  of  the  Almighty”   and  worn  for 
thousands of  years  by  the  priesthood, 
was  the flowing  robe?

twenty  young 

lady  bicyclers 

It  looks as  if  the hurler  of  the  ‘ ‘ fiery 
worded  thunderbolts”   was,  so  to speak, 
“ off  his  base;’ ’  and  when  he  tells
in  his 
audience’ '  not  to  attempt by change of 
garments  to  alter  the  decrees  of  the  Al­
mighty, 
it  is  very  suggestive  that  he 
doesn’t  know  what he  is  talking  about. 
She  who  rides  a  wheel,  must  have  a 
free  use of  her  legs.  Such  freedom 
is 
not  found  with  the  prevailing  skirt. 
There  is  danger,  too,  of  its  catching  in 
the wheel  and  the  divided  article  obvi­
ates  these difficulties.  Necessity,  then, 
is the  mother  of  the  timely-thought  of 
bifurcated  garment;  and  the garb of  the 
Mahommedan  woman  has  been  donned 
by the  Christian  maiden,  without  the 
faintest  idea  of  trying  to  be  a  man— 
God  save  the work !  -or altering a single 
“ decree.of  the  Almighty. ’ ’

It  will  be  observed  that  “ the  sermon 
It  could 
created  no  little  sensation. 
not  well  be  otherwise. 
“ I  certainly 
never saw anything  like  it !”   said  Gen­
eral  Grant  of  Mark  Twain’s  military 
m ap;  and  that congregation  went  away 
with  the  same  idea  of  the  sermon;  and 
if the hearing  produced  anything  like 
the  same  effect  of  the  reading,  that  con­
gregation  who  had  come  to  worship 
went  home,  convinced  to  a  man,  that 
the preacher should  have  ended  his  har­
angue by  calling  as  lustily as  Dogberry 
did for somebody  ‘ ‘ to write him down as 
ass!”

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

The  Electrical  World  is  authority  for 
the  report  that an  electric  car  will  com­
mence  running  in  Rome  next  month. 
The  modern  world  will  thus  establish 
its  latest  triumph  over  the  dust of  the 
Caesars.  Meanwhile,  a  trolley  line  is 
being  projected  to  the  Pyramids  of 
Egypt;  and  locomotives,  built  in  Phil­
adelphia,  are  running  to  and  from  Jeru­
salem.

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Fruits and  Produce

Everyone  Pleased  with  the  Change 

in  the  Morning  Market.

Louis  street,  as  a  public  market,  isn’t 
in  it  any  more.  A  morning  stroll  on 
the old  camp ground  now  is  worse  than 
a  \ isit  to  a  graveyard,  for  the  monotony 
is  unbroken  by an  epitaph  to stir  up  the 
passer  with  its chiselled  lie.  On  South 
Ionia  street  the  tents  of 
trade  are 
pitched,  and  it  is  curious  to  note  h  >w 
quickly and  quietly  the crowds  adapted 
themselves  to  the  new  conditions,  and, 
now  that  the  change  has  been  made, 
how  general  the  rejoicing  is  thereat.

What  do  you  think  of  the  present 
[dace  for  the  market?”   has  been  the 
question  all  along  the  line  from  the 
grower  to  the 
jobber  and  the  answers 
from  all  are  remarkable  for  their  uni­
formity.  By  common  consent  the  site 
chosen  is  the  most  central  one  and  the 
most  convenient  for  all  concerned.  The 
grocer  likes  it,  tor  the  reason  that  the 
location  is  easy of  access.  The  shipper 
likes  it  for  the  same  reason  and  for  the 
equally 
important  advantage  that  the 
shipping  is  easier than  ever.  The grow-
ers,among  whom  it  was  supposed  would 
be  found  the  most  objection,  expressed 
themselves as  well  satisfied  more  so, 
in  some  instances,  than  they had  hoped. 
Those  who  come  from  the  north,  espec­
ially  the  small  growers,  while  knowing 
that  the  other  site  would  have  been 
more  convenient  for  them,  thought,  af­
ter  all,  that  this  one  would  answer  the 
purpose,  although 
it  was  farther  for 
them.

After  locality,  convenience  was  main­
In  the  first  place  the 
ly  mentioned. 
street  is  wide  wider  than  they  thought. 
This was a  great  advantage. 
It  meant 
less  crowding  and  more of  a  chance  to 
get  around.  There  was  more  “ elbow 
In  the  old  place,  when  the 
room.”  
wagons  were  in 
line,  there  was  little 
chance  for  teams  to  pass.  All  that 
is 
obviated  now  and,  with the  wider  side­
walk,  there  is  ample  room  for  all. 
In 
fact,  the growers have begun  to  realize 
what  disadvantages  they  had  to  put  up 
w ith  in  the old  place.

The advantage  of  being  on  a  paved 
street  was  frequently  commented  on.  In 
the  old  place, 
in  wet 
weather and  «lusty  in  dry  both  condi­
tions being  anything  but  desirable  anil 
both  removed  by  the  pavement  which 
they  had  needed  so  long.

it  was  muddy 

In  the  matter  of  cleanliness,  there 

is 
but  one  opinion 
it  will  be  a  much 
easier  place  to  keep  clean  than  the  old 
site or any  of  the  others  mentioned ;  in 
fact,  there  was  not  a  discordant  note  on 
the  market  along the  line,  and  the ques­
tion,  as  it  has  been  'decided,  seems 
it 
meet  with  general  satisfaction.

It  is  too early  to  expect  to  find  every­
thing  settled.  No  one  seems  to  know 
just  yet  where  in  the  line  he  wants to lo­
cate  and  that  will  take  time.  With 
more  room  to  select  from  the  matter 
will  be comparatively  easy.  The  police 
officers  have  been  on  hand,  helping  the 
thing  along,  and  it  will  not  be  a  great  j 
while before affairs  on  the  market  willj 
be  running  smoothly.  The  test  of  the 
new  locality  will  probably  come  when 
If 
the  peach  crop  gets  fairly  started. 
the [ 
it  meets  the  requirements,  then 
market  place and  all  that  pertains  to 
it 
will  no  longer be  a  subject  of  concern,  j 
anil  buyer  and  seller  alike  will  continue 
to wait  with  patience  for  the  ultimate 
action  of  the  Council,  which  will  enable 
a grower to  have  his  own  stall,  where 
he  can  come  when  he  pleases  and where 1

his  customers  will  be  sure  to  find  him, 
when  they  wish..

Rambler.

PRODUCE  riA R K ET.

10c  per  doz.

Cabbage-  $3  per  100. 

Apples  No  change  from  a  week  ago, 
cooking  stock  commanding  3o@40c  per 
i bu.  and  good  eating  varieties  bringing 
4o@ 50c.
Beets 
Butter  Factory  creamery  is  i4c  high­
er than  a  week  ago,  commanding  19c. 
Choice dairy  is  without  change,  hover­
ing  around  iqd/ 16c.
j  Celery  Home-grown,  12 I<c  per  dozen 
I bunches.
Cucumbers  Large,  25c  per  bu.  Pick­
I'.ggs  Handlers  pay  io'4c  and  hold 
in  Eastern 

at  ii'g c   per  doz.  Weaker 
markets,  but  unchanged  here.
per  8  lb.  basket.

Cirapes  Home-grown  Concords,  25c 
Green  Corn  --5c  per  doz.
Musk melons^-Nutmeg,  $1^ 1.2 5   per 
doz.  and  very  scarce.  Osage,  Si  per 
doz.  crate.

On ions—5o@ 6oc  per  bu. 

ling  stock,  75c  per  bu.

for  home­

grown  \ el low  Danvers.

I he 

Peaches  Hale's  Early  are  about  at 
an  end. 
favorite  varieties  this 
week  will  be  Early  Michigan  (white) 
and  Crane’s  Early  (yellow),  although 
Early  Crawfords  are  expected  to  put 
in 
appearance  by  the  end  of  the  week. 
Prices  run  about  Si  per  bu. 
to-day,  but 
large  arrivals  are  expected  Thursday 
and  Friday,  which  may hammer the  bil­
ling  price  down 
io(f/2sc.  The  fruit 
coming  in  this  week  is  fair  in  size  and 
excellent  in  quality  and  will  give  satis­
faction  to the  retailer and  consumer.
Pears  Si  per  bu.  for  Flemish  Beau­
ties,  Bartietts  or  Clapp's  Early.
!  Plums  Si @ 1.25  per bu. for Lombards, 
Green  f rages or  Bradshaws.  The  latter 
I  is  the  favorite  variety  this  season

Potatoes  30c  per bu.  The  market  is 
«lull  and  sluggish,  with  an  entire  ab- 
I siuice of  shipping  demand.
for  home­
Tomatoes-  75c  per  bu. 
grown.  The  quality  of  the  stock  now  in 
I market  is  excellent.  The  price  will,  of 
course,  recede  rapidly.

Watermelons  Cheap  Southern  stock 
is  entirely  exhausted,  the  only  variety- 
now  in  the  market  being  large  Indiana 
melons,  which  command  20c. 
The 
season  has  been  a  very  unsatisfactory 
one  all  around,  owing  to  the  lowness  of 
the  price.

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

W.  H.  BEACH
HAY,  GRAIN,
SEEDS,
PRODUCE,

Orders  Promptly  F illed 
Write for Quotations

H O L L A N D ,  fllC H .

Peaches!

Butter,
Eggs  and 
Fruits!

Consignments received.  Highest 

Prices procured.

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Importers and  Jobbers,
Foreign and  Domestic  Fruits,
Canned  Goods and  Fancy Groceries,

FRESH  PEACH ES

And  Baltimore Canned Oysters a  Specialty.
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PEACHES
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Special Attention to Consignments 
for Meats and Produce.
and Buying on Track.

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Phone 395 

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WRITE  US  TO-DAY.

A L F R E D   J .   B R O W N   CO.

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.  The crop promises to 
be a  large one and quality  is fully  up 
to the  standard.

For  Peaches!  F e a C h e S
Our crop promises to be large this year, and as 
we have had some nice rains lately, qualitt will 
he good.  \Ye shall handle more this year than 
ever before, and are in position to give your or­
ders prompt and careful attention.  Early Mich, 
(freestone). Crane's Early «yellow« now in mar­
ket, and will have some Crawfords and Barnards 
last of week.  Prices are about 75c to $1.50 per 
bushel. 
In about one week we shall be getting 
plenty Early Crawfords Barnards, etc.  Send in 
your orders at limited price and I will ake care 
of you.  We bill at market price day of ship­
ment, and our terms are net  cash weekly.
Pears. Plums and Crabapplt-s are now coming 
in: prices reasonable.
Apples. Potatoes  Melons. Cucumbers. Celery, 
Onions. Cabbage, etc., at lowest market prices.
We respectfully solicit your  mail  orders; same 
will have our prompt and careful attention and 
benefit of lowest possible prices.
418*420-445-447  S.  Division  St.  Grand  Rapids 
State how to ship:  Freight or Express and 
over what Line.
Seeds==

Peaches

HENRY  J.  VINKEMULDER,

Eeo.E. Bailing & Co.

B U T T E R ,  E G O S ,  P O U L T R Y   and 

Send your consignments of

Long Distance Telephone  1084.

Grand  Rapids

F R U IT S   to

We 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.

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

Seed  rierchants,

GRAND  RAPIDS

Each grower  sells  his own  stock 
fresh picked each  day 

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J .  A.  PEARCE,  Vice-President.
H.  O.  BRAC1AN,  Treasurer.
:  M.  W.  RONAN,  Secretary.

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E.  A.  STOWE,  E d i t o r .

WEDNESDAY,  - 

AUGUST 21,  I89S.

BUNCOMBE  LEGISLATION.

In  the earlier days of  the  Republic  a 
Representative,  on  being  privately 
called  to account  for  some 
remarkable 
statements  which  he  had  made  upon  the 
floor of  the  House,  explained  his  posi­
tion  by saying,  “  That  was all  for  Bun­
combe’ 
a name applied  to that part  of 
the  country  which  he  was  supposed  to 
represent,  and  to  whose  whims  he  was 
expected to  cater.  The  explanation was 
greeted  with  a  roar of laughter and  Bun­
combe became  the  geographical  center 
for  that  kind  of  legislation.

from 

It  is  to be  regretted  that  the  chick­
ens  hatched at  Buncombe,  should  not  go 
home  to  roost.  It  is  a  matter  of  regret 
that  the  idea  harmless  enough  to begin 
with—should  have  passed 
the 
Representative  to  the  constitutency  and 
that  they,  not  only  at  Buncombe,  but 
everywhere,  should  openly  avow  that 
Buncombe  laws  are  enacted  for the stat- 
utebook  only,  with  the  distinct  under­
standing  that  they  are  never  to  be  exe­
cuted.  New  York  passed  a  law  prohib­
iting  the  sale of  intoxicating  drinks  on 
Sunday.  The  disciples  of  prohibition, 
believing  a  law  to  be  the  only  thing 
needed  for the accomplishment  of their 
well-meaning  purpose,  rested  from their 
labors  to  learn,  in  time,  that  a  bit  of 
Buncombe  legislation  had  been  enacted 
and  that the  “ wet’ ’  element was moving 
its triumphant banners  in  the  despon­
dent faces  of  the  ‘ ' dry. ’ ’  Then  a  change 
came.  A  man  was  found  who believes 
that a  law  upon  the  statute book  is not a 
law, 
dead  letter;  that  the  arm  of  the 
with  sufficient  will  power  behind 
it,  is 
only  needed  to  make 
it  effective;  and 
when  the Buncombe constituency of New 
York  find  to  their amazement  that  their 
own  guns  are  turned  against  them,  with 
an 
impudence  equaled  only  by  their 
baseness,  they boldly  avow  that  the  law 
was never  intended  to be  enforced,  and 
that any  officer  who  insists  on  doing  his 
duty  is  doomed.

No  less  important  and  far  commoner 
is Buncombe legislation  seen in other di­
rections.  Laws  of  transportation  are  en­
acted  with  fixed 
limits  of  passengers 
and  freight;  but  when  the  captain  of  an 
overloaded  excursion  steamboat 
is  re­
minded  that  he  is  exceeding  the  condi- 
tions  of  his 
charter,  says,  with  a 
laugh,  that that  law  is a  little  Buncombe 
legislation  which  was never  intended  to 
be  carried  out,  it is time  that some thing 
should  be  done  about  it.  The street  car

traffic 
is  assuming  enormous  propor- 
I tions.  Made to  carry a  fixed number,  it 
is  made  (so  the  player  upon  words 
would  argue)  to  carry  all  who  can  hang 
to  it  until  a  clinging swarm  of  bees  is  a 
fit  comparison. 
It  is  carrying  the  joke 
altogether  too  far.

Hasn't  it  been  carried  far  enough? 
Isn’t  it  time  to  call  a  halt?  Hasn’t  the 
Buncombe  idea  passed  its usefulness  in 
representative  and  constituency?  With 
higher  aims  and  purposes  hasn’t  the 
time  come  for something  better  in  leg­
islative  halls 
than  the  enactment  of 
screaming  farces?  and,  far  better  than 
anything  else,  isn’t  it  time  for the  con­
stituency  to  conclude  to  look  to 
itself 
and. 
if  this  is  the  outcome  of  its  en­
deavor,  to  purge  not  only  itself  but  the 
legislature  and  so  save  the  statute  book 
from  the  condemnation  of  all  just  men?

INCONSISTENCY  OF  UNIONISM.
The  action  of  several  of  the  trades 
unions  of  this  city 
in  condemning  the 
action  of  the  Board  of  Education  in  the 
school  book  fight now  raging 
illustrates 
the  inconsistency  and  hindsightedness 
of  the  average  union  labor  leader.  The 
great  war  cry  of  these  leaders  is “  Down 
with  monopoly. 
The book  fight is  be­
tween  Ginn  &  Co.,  one of  the  few  anti­
trust school  book  publishing  houses  still 
existing,  and  the American  Book  Com­
pany,  the  greatest  school  book  monop­
oly  ever  organized. 
The  Board  of 
Education  voted  to  adopt  a  book  pub­
lished  by  the  former company.  Through 
influences  that  only  such  a  monopoly 
can  command  the  fight  has  been  egged 
on  by  the  daily  press  and  every  other 
possihle  means,  until  a  great  hue  and 
cry  has  been  raised  against  the  action 
of  the  Board. 
It  is  probable  that  at  the 
school  election,  just  approaching,  the 
same  influences  will  defeat  a  majority 
of those  who  voted  for  the  anti-trust 
book  and  the  Board  will  be turned  over, 
bound  hand and  foot,  to  the  tender mer­
cies  of a  monopoly  supposed  to  be  the 
peculiar detestation  of  union labor.  The 
generalship  and  strategy  of  the assumed 
leaders  of  the  poor  dupes  of  the  unions 
would  be  beyond  comprehension  were  it 
not  that  they  care  more  for the agitation 
which  keeps  them  to  the  front  than  for 
any  consistent  purpose  which  would 
benefit  their  followers.

It  naturally  affords  the  Tradesman 
much  pleasure  to  be  the  first  and  only 
journal  in  the  State  to  publish  a  com­
plete  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
second  annual  convention  of  the  North­
ern  Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion,  which  was  held  at  Reed  City  last 
week.  As  will  be  noted  by  the  proceed­
ings,  the  meeting  took  advanced ground 
interest 
on  several  subjects  of  material 
to  the  retail  grocery  trade,  and 
it  goes 
without  saying  that  the  influence  of  the 
organization  will  be  widespread  and 
beneficial  to  all  concerned.  Although 
the  convention  was  not  as  largely at­
tended  as  was  expected,  those  who  did 
attend  acted  on  the  assumption  that 
they  were  there  for business  and,  as  the 
result  of  such  determination,  much 
progress  was  made  in several directions. 
The  Tradesman  is  pleased  to  note  that 
the  organization  is gaining  in  strength 
and  numbers,  twenty  additions  to  the 
membership  list  having  been  registered 
at  the  Reed  City  meeting. 
It  is  hoped 
that  the next  convention,  which  will  be 
held  at  Big  Rapids  in  February,  will  be 
largely  attended,  as  the grocers  have  it 
in  their  power  to  remedy  many  reforms 
by  concert  of  action,  properly  applied.

Bastard  baskets  must go !

BASTA R D   B A S K E T S   M UST  GO.
Logic  in  much of  its  modern  applica­
tion  is  not convincing.  There  is sure to 
be a  fallacy  somewhere and  the  fallacy 
is  sure  to  lead  to  conclusions  if faithful­
ly  followed,  which  are  simply  disas­
trous.  A  strawberry  box,  for  example, 
was  made  to  hold  a  quart  of  strawber­
ries. 
In  time  the box  and  the quart be­
came  in  the  public  mind  synonymous, 
and,  finally,  syllogistic,  as

The  measure  holds  a  quart;
The  strawberry  box  is  a  measure;
Therefore,  the  strawberry box  holds  a 

quart.

is 

The  logic  from  the  growers’  stand­
point 
invincible  and,  encouraged 
with  the  outcome  of  this  practical  met­
aphysics,  they,  reasoning  from  analogy, 
conclude  that  what  is  true of  the  quart 
is  equally true  of  the  bushel. 
It  was 
found  that a  basket  was  needed  to  hold 
a  bushel,  that  amount  of  produce  being 
the  unit  of  measure,  and  one  calling  of- 
tenest  for  frequent  handling. 
In  time 
the basket  in  many  instances  took  the 
place  of  the  measure  by  common  con­
sent,  and  its contents sold  for a  bushel. 
It  soon  was  noticeable  that  produce  was 
sold by the basket—presumably a bushel; 
and  from  that time  the shrinkage  in  the 
size  of  the bushel  basket began. 
It  has 
kept  on  shrinking  and  will  continue  to 
do  so,  probably,  until,  as  in  the  case 
of  the  strawberry  box,  some one  calls  a 
halt,  holds  up  to  ridicule  that  kind  of 
logic  and  pronounces both reasoning and 
conclusion  to  be  a  delusion  and a  snare.
The  Tradesman  is  pleased  to note that 
the halt has  already  been  called.  The 
Northern  Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation  has  taken  the  matter  in  hand, 
and  with  no  uncertain  sound  has  put  it­
self on  record  in  regard  to  it.  The out­
raged  grower may  continue  to  be  “ out­
but  it  must be  at  the  rate  of 
raged 
67.2  cubic 
inches  for  every  quart  of 
strawberries  he  sells.  He  may  be 
“ down  trodden 
but his  bushel  basket 
shall  hold  2,150.42  cubic  inches  so  long 
as  there  is  enough  of  him  above  ground 
to  call  him  a grower;  he  may be  “ poor 
and  abused,”   but  every  half  bushel 
measure  and  every  peck  measure— 
whether  in  basket  or  in  box  shall  con­
tain  the  requisite  number  of  cubic 
inches  laid  down  by  the  law.

It  is,  indeed,  true  that  the  maker  of 
the bastard  basket and  the  user  thereof 
are  not  the only  offenders.  Every yard­
stick  in  creation  may  or  may  not  be  too 
short;  every  scale  in  the  land  may  or 
may  not  have been  tampered  with—that 
is  nothing  to  the  purpose.  What 
is 
wanted  and  what will  be  insisted  upon 
is  that,  measure  for  measure  and  pound 
for  pound, 
this  swindling  business 
shall  be  stopped  and  that goods  shall  be 
what  they  are  sold  for,  whether  it  be  by 
the  “ poor,  despised  farmer,”   the  “ ar­
rogant  jobber”   or  he  “ grasping  deal­
er. ’ ’  That  is  what  it  is  coming  to,  and 
he  who  shapes  his  course  accordingly, 
irrespective  of  his  place 
in  the  line, 
will  find,  as  others  have  found,  that  the 
right way  in  the  best  way  and  that  a 
thief  is  a  thief,  whether he  plies  his ne­
farious  trade  in  back  yards  and  alleys 
or on  the  public  market  by  means  of  a 
bastard  basket.

TH E  WISDOri  OF  IGNORANCE.
It  is  a  noticeable  fact  that  all  ques­
tions  of  public  policy,  to  the  superficial 
and  slightly  informed,  seem  very simple 
and  perfectly  easy  of  solution. 
It  is 
only when  the  intellect  of  the  student of 
such  questions  becomes  broadened  by 
long  and  careful  study,  thus  gradually 
and  slowly  acquiring  a  comprehension

of  the  various  elements  and factors,  that 
a  realization 
is  obtained  of  the  real 
complexity  and  uncertainty.  The  trite 
saying  that  “ fools  rush  in  where  angels 
fear to  tread”   is  nowhere  more  appli­
cable  than  in  the  questions  of  social, 
civil  and 
financial  policy,  especially 
the  last.

least 

Among  the 

informed  will  be 
found  the  most  positive  and  conclusive 
opinions,  and  the  greatest  surprise  and 
impatience will  be  manifested  by  them 
that their  views  are  not  universally  ac­
cepted.  To  such  people  the  discussion 
of  these questions at  such  length  in  the 
press  is  a  matter of  the  greatest  aston­
ishment,  and  not  a  few of them  essay to 
set the  world  right  by  conclusive disser­
tations  on  the  subject.

The  theories  of  free  trade  and  protec­
tion  can  be  fully  stated  in  a  few  pages 
with  a  positive  clearness  sufficient  to 
“ convince any  honest  man’ ’  by  one  of 
these  political  economists,  yet  eminent 
statesmen  have  hesitated  before 
the 
questions  raised  after  long lives  devoted 
to  the  study.  At  every  turn  will  be 
found  those who  are  prepared  to  give a 
solution  of  any  question  as  to  the  best 
system  of  currency—perchance 
it  will 
be  the  greenback,  perchance  bi-metal- 
ism,  or the gold  standard.  Whatever  it 
is,  his  positions  are  absolute  and  unas­
sailable ;  yet the  press  will  be  filled  for 
weeks  at  a  time  with  the debates  of  the 
most  celebrated  students  of  these  ques­
tions  with  the  result  that they are left  in 
the  same  state of  uncertainty  as  at  the 
beginning.  That  such  lengthy  discus­
sions  of  these  almost  self-evident  prop- 
! osi tions  should  be  necessary  or  even 
possible  passes  the  com p rehen s i on  of 
such  people.

It 

is  a  wonder to  the  superficially  in­
formed  that questions of this  description 
should  need  to  occupy  the  attention  of 
a  body  like  the  United  States  Congress 
for  long  periods of  time. 
If  they  could 
have  a  hearing,  the  matters  would  be 
soon  cleared  up,  and  yet  the  greatest  fi­
nancial  ability  of  the  country  is  repre­
sented  in,  or  is available  to,  that  body, 
and  after  long  periods of discussion they 
all  remain  vexed  questions.

To  the  financial  adm i n i strat i on  are 
called  men  of  the  widest experience and 
most  ability  to be  found  specialists 
in 
that  field  and  questions  of  finance  are 
made  matters  of grave  consideration  by 
large  councils,  composed  of  such  men ; 
yet,  without  the  slightest  hesitation, 
these  knowing  ones  will  answer  the 
I most abstruse  proposition  in finance  and 
lay  out  the  only  proper  course  to  he 
j taken,  and  this  in  terms  that  do  not ad­
mit  of  debate  or question.

the 

The  proposition  that  the  horizon  con­
tinually  broadens  to 
increasing 
power of  comprehension  of  the  student 
is  no  more  applicable  to  the  abstract 
j  sciences  than  to questions  of  the  great­
est  apparent  simplicity  in  the  common 
walks  of  life.

American  citizenship  does  not  count 
for  much  in  Germany.  William  Clazer 
of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  a  naturalized  citi­
zen,  who  lived  in  this  country  since  he 
was  a  boy,  has  just  got back  from  a  vis­
it  to  Germany,  and  tells  about being  ar­
rested  and  imprisoned  for having  failed 
to  serve  three  years  in  the  army.  His 
passport  was  taken  from  him  and  va­
rious indignities  were heaped  upon  him. 
After  awhile,  he  was  released  and  told 
not  to  leave the  country  until  his  case 
was  investigated,  but  he  paid  no  heed 
to  this,  and  got  home  as  soon  as  possi­
ble.

Short accounts make  long  friends.

mmore than 13,000 
in use!

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

$30.00

which 
i n c l u d e s  
S e a m l e s s   Brass 
Scoop.

P E O P L E   OF  P E A C E .

l’rof.  Percival  Lowell,  who  lias  been 
for  months  observing  the  planet  Mars 
with  a powerful  telescope  from an obser­
vatory  in  the  remarkably  cloudless  at­
mosphere  of  Arizona,  has  been  writing 
some 
interesting  accounts  of  the  red 
planet.

I tions,  instead  of  engaging 
in  war  and 
j destruction,  burning  in  each  century  all 
! the  cities  and  public  works  erected 
in 
the  previous  age,  they  have  devoted 
themselves  to  the  most  peaceful  of  all 
I the arts,  agriculture.

Q U E ST IO N A B LE   M E T H O D S.

interred 

I he  presence  of  human 

inhabitants 
in  any  of  the  heavenly  bodies  outside 
ol  our  earth,  while 
from 
grounds  of  reason,  never  had  any  foun­
dation  of  proof  until  the  Italian  Schia­
parelli  discovered  what  he "declared  to 
be artificial canals upon  the planet  Mars.
1 here  are  no  straight  lines  in  nature. 
All  natural 
in  curves.  A 
straight  line  is  such  a  remarkable  ex­
ception  that  it  would  be  at  once  recog­
nized  as  outside  of  the  universal  rule of 
natural  forms. 
1 here  a re  upon  the sur­
face  of  Mars  straight  lines  a  thousand 
miles  in  length,and  they  are  so  remark­
able that  the  inference  is  that  they  are 
artificial. 
‘ What  can  be  their  pur­
pose?”   is  the  natural  question.

forms  are 

1 he  observation  of  astronomers  seems 
to  teach  that  Mars  is  a  dry  planet.  The 
seas  are  small  compared  with  the  conti­
nents ;  whereas,  on  our  earth,  the  seas 
make  up  about  three-fourths  of  its  sur­
face. 
I he  directions  of  the  canals  con­
necting,  as  they  do, with the green  areas 
which  are  considered  to  be  seas,  show 
that  they  are  for  the  purpose  of leading 
the  water  for  long  distances  across  the 
arid,  red  continents.  These  canals  are 
doubtless  more  for  irrigation  than other­
wise;  but  they  are  also  probably  used 
lor the  purposes  ol  navigation.

Prof.  Lowell  has  enjoyed  the  advan­
tage  of  a  cloudless  sky. through which  to 
examine  the  red  planet,  and  his  obser­
vations  have  rendered  more  clear  that 
the  circulation  of atmospheric  vapors  is 
not  affected  there  as  here  by  the  evapo­
ration  ol  seas,  clouds  and  rivers,  bear­
ing  water again  to  the  ocean.  Mars  has 
few  showers,  few  clouds  no  storms,  no 
hurricanes,  no  tempests,  no  cyclones. 
The  watery  vapor,  generally 
invisible, 
is  condensed  into  snow  in  winter  about 
the  polar  regions,  and  the continents  re­
main  dry. 
Summer  comes  and  the 
snows  melt and  dissipate  in  a  gigantic 
overflow  that  tills  the  canals  and  lakes 
that  empty  themselves  across  the  conti­
nents  by  way  of  the  small  seas  with 
which  they  connect.  Slimmer  passes, 
and  the  snows  collect  anew  about  the 
poles.  This  is  a  hydraulic  system  very 
different  from  the  one  prevailing  on 
the  earth.

Prof.  Lowell  has  been  writing  his  ob­
servations  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  and 
they  make  up  an  extremely  interesting 
and  important  collection  of  information 
concerning  the  human  affairs  of  the  red 
planet.  He  has  given  good  reasons  for 
the belief  that  the  great  canals  are  not 
250  and  300  miles  wide,as  was  first  sup­
posed ;  but  that  the  broad  green  strips 
are tracts  of  irrigated  agriculture  along 
the banks  of  the  canals,  and  thus  are 
seen  as  stripes  of  verdure  upon  the  vast 
red  desert  that  make  up  most  of  the 
planet.

labors, 

Such  a  system  of  canals as  appears  in 
Mars would  have  required  for their  con­
struction  the  united 
through 
thousands of  years,  of  a  great  body  of 
the  population.  This  would  prove  that 
the  people  of  Mars  are  not  the  fierce 
and  warlike  races  that would be  inferred 
from  the  name  of  their  planet, 
taken 
from  that  of  the  Roman  god  of  war.  On 
the  contrary, 
thoroughly 
peaceful and industrious,devoting  scien­
tific  skill  to  the  watering  of  their  dry 
planet.  Thus,  for hundreds  of  genera-

they  were 

I he  action  of  the  First National  Bank 
largest  and 
of  Chicago,  one  of  the 
strongest  of  the  national  banks, 
in 
charging  off  to  surplus  $1,000,000  of bad 
debts,  thus  reducing  its  surplus  from 
Sj>000,000  to $2,000,000,  and leaving the 
capital  intact  at $3,000,000,  has natural­
ly  attracted  much  attention.  Not  only 
is  it  significant  as  showing the  extent  of 
the  depression  and  d isaster  that  has 
swept  over  the  country,  but 
it  throws 
distrust  on  the  examinations  and  the  re­
ports  of  the  National  Bank  Examiners 
based  thereon,  which  appear  to  be  but 
superficial.

It  is  nowhere  even  hinted  that  the 
1" i 1st  National  Bank  ol  Chicago,  which 
bears  the  reputation  of  being  most  con­
servatively  managed,  has  suffered  unus- 
ual  losses,  and  it  is,  no  doubt  true  that 
other  banks  have  suffered  losses  propor­
tionately great  and  that  their  capitals 
are  equally 
impai red.  It  is  unfortunate 
that  the  Bank  Examiner  should  have 
passed  on  these  bad  debts,  now  charged 
off,  as  good,  for  it  destroys  confidence 
in  the  reports  ol  other  Bank  Examiners, 
and  such  reports  showing  the  capital 
and  surplus  of  other  banks  to  be  unim­
paired  will  now  be  accepted  only  with 
reservation.

1 he  method  of  charging  off  the  losses 
suffered  by  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Chicago  also  excites  unfavorable  com­
ment. 
It  is  understood  that  dividends 
will  be  continued  at  the  old  rate  of  12 
per  cent,  and  earnings  not  applied  to 
restoring  the  surplus.  Of  course,  the 
losses now charged  off  were  not  sudden­
ly  incurred,  but  have  been  accumulat­
ing  for  the  past  three  years  and  should 
have  been  charged  to  profit  and 
loss. 
But  this  would  have  eaten  up  all  profit, 
and  dividends  would  of  necessity  have 
been  suspended.  As  it  is  dividends 
have been  paid  for the  last  three  years 
not  out  of  earnings,  but  surplus.

Secretary  Morton  has  conferred  a  fa­
vor  on  the  nation  by  abolishing  the 
garden-seeds bureau  in  his  department. 
This  bureau  was  originally  intended  to 
promote  the  introduction  into the United 
States  of  such  foreign  plants  as  might 
be  found  suited  to  this  climate,  and also 
to  distribute 
in  various  parts  of  our 
wide  domain  those  plants  which already 
flourished  in  certain  localities. 
It  de­
generated  into  a  distribution  agency  for 
common  vegetable  and 
flower  seeds, 
l'lie  Congressmen  ol  some  agricultural 
districts  found  in  it  a  means  of  supply­
ing  farmer  constituents  with  seeds,  and 
city  Congressmen  helped  them  out  by 
gifts  or sales  of  the  packages  alloted  to 
themselves.  The  abuse  was  notorious, 
and  its  abolition,  which  is  to  take place 
October  1,  is a  matter  of  thankfulness. 
To  prevent  its 
restoration,  Secretary 
Morton  has  already  cleared  out  the 
rooms  devoted  to  this  fraud,  and  will 
occupy them  with  other business  of  his 
growing  department.  Hence  Congress­
men  who  call  for  the  restitution  of  the 
seeds  bureau  will  be  obliged  also to de­
mand  a  new  building  for  the  purpose

Mark  Twain  has declined  an  offer  of 
$10,000  for a  series  of  twenty  letters  of 
about  4,000  words  each,  to  be  written 
during  his  tour  around  the  world. 
If 
the  job  be  still  open,  there  are  several 
men  in  this  office  who  would  not  de­
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Computing Scale

Bor advertisement showing our World  Famous  Stan­

dard  Market

DAYTON  COMPUTING  SCA LES

see  last page of cover in  this issue.

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

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The  Plug  W ar  Is  On

D A Y T O N ,  OHIO.

In  Earnest!

It  is an open  secret, to the trade, that a  fierce  war is raging be­
tween several of the largest  Plug and  Fine Cut  Manufac­
turers in this country, in  their different  lines.
A  Saginaw  firm  is  out  with  a  circular  quoting  Battle  Axe 
Sales had been made at  13 14c.
We are of the opinion that our  12 )Ac price on  certain  plugs  will 

at  14c.

be reached by our Competitors within  a  month.

W e  Offer  a  Sm all  Lot

Of  Fine  Cut  in  40  lb.  drums  at  14c,  and  Lorillard's 
famous  Corker,  quality  of  Fine  Cut,  at  16c  in  10  lb. 
pails.

Rolled  Oats  in  bbls.  at  $3.25,  Standard  brand.
Buckeye  Rolled  Oats,  36  2  lb.  packages  in  case  at  $ 1.75 

per  case,  called  cheap  at  $2.10  by  a  Detroit  firm.

We  renew offer upon  Peas and  Tomatoes.

Our terms,  cash  with  order,  in  current  exchange.

H e  Jas. Slewari  Co.

(LIM ITED .)

EAST  SAGINAW,  MICH.

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

Getting  the  People

A rt  of  Reaching  and  Holding  Trade 

by  Advertising.

Why  do  you  buy  of  So  &  So,”   1 
propounded  to a  lady  acquaintance,  the 
other  day.

' ‘ Well,  one  reason  is,  they  keep 

just 
what  one  wants,  they  sell  at  reasonable 
prices  and  I  see  their ad.  in  the  paper 
every  dav  which  gives  a 
list  of  bar­
gains  in  such  a  wav one  can’t help look­
ing  at  the goods  and,  il 
1  am 
sure  to  buy something,  for  they  always 
have  the  latest  styles. ”

The  same  reply  and  reasons  may  be 
multiplied,  dav  alter day,  by  a  1 ittle ju-
They adver-
llicii ms 
sucli  a
fist- !”   N<nt  only  that,  but
i l l
looking at  the
way one can’t’  help 
goodsV*

interviewing.

look, 

Av-,  titere’s  the  secret  <if  the whole

1 

tiling.

St«>ry  \vriters  for  such  p:apers as  the
New York Weekly  make  a class iif  liter-
atún *  whit:h will  attract  sensation lovers.
Scie ut i tic writers aim  their  big hi irds
at  the  stm 1ions  and  profoundly learned
l’lie man o r   W II-
portiOil  of humanity. 
mail who  «seeks  wealth  amI  Ilotiiriety
|lerliaps,  but
quositiunable  notoriety, 
faint\  just the  same  dips the stylus  in
Trilbi-
the  ink  of love—  legitimate or
atic.  Ministers  build  up 
fame  for 
themselves  by  promulgating  a  popular 
and  uleasing  theory  of  religion,  or  by 
expounding  some  new  and  unique  doc­
trine,  and  so  goes  the  world  of advertis­
ing  - either  for fame  or  cash 
the  aim 
and  end  is  to  Get the  People.

A  merchant  cannot  sit  down  and 
write  a  treatise  on  Saturn  and  his  rings 
and  expect  to  sell  goods  through 
its 
agency.  Neither  can  the  astronomer  ex­
pect  to  gain  a  clientele  by  talking about 
butter,  when  lie  should give  1 acts  on  the 
heavenly  bodies. 
So  each  advertiser 
must  hew  his  own  woodpile,  and  gather 
his  own  chips.  His  axe  must  be  sharp­
ened  for  the  particular  kind  of  work  to 
be  done,  and  it  must be  an  edge  like  a 
razor.  The  mercantile  world  is  full  of 
advertisers  many  of  them  superior 
and  to  make  a  paving  disturbance  in 
the  pool  of  publicity,  one must  do  some­
thing  g r e a t e r   and  brighter and  better  in 
all  ways  than  his  fellow,  who  simply 
throws  in  a  pebble  occasionally,  and 
lazily  awaits  the  coming  of  the  surface 
ripples  to  him.

The  mercantile  advertisement of mod­
ern  times  must  have  snap,  hustle  and 
the  ring  of  true  metal 
in  it.  Buyers 
quickly  detect  the  hollow  clang  of  the 
cracked  bell  and  distinguish  at  once  the 
reverberating  resonance  of  solidity  and 
soundness.  The  mercantile  meeting 
house”   which  is  tilled  from  opening  to 
closing  with  eager buyers,  pouring  each 
his  share  of  profits  into  the  merchant’s 
till,  is  the  house  that  rings  constantly 
the  changes  in  styles  and  prices  and 
values  from  an  honest,  clear-toned,  ad­
vertising  bell,  which,  as 
it  swings  to 
and  fro, can  be  heard  loud  and clear and 
distinct  above  all  the  discordant clangor 
of  the  cracked  and  rusty  and  old-fash­
ioned  gongs  w ithin  hearing.

The  advertisement  writer  of  these 
times  must “ know his  trade,”   even  as 
the ancient  artificers  in  tine  gold  were 
so  cunningly  taught.  More  than  this, 
lie must be  a  deep  student  of  humanity 
judge  of  what  will 
and  an  unerring 
Get  the  People. 
Folks  who  buy 
won’t  listen to ” clap-trap,  neither will 
they  read  the same  old  story,  day  after 
day.  They  want a  kaleidoscopic  vari­
ety-  they are  children  in the sense  of  an

overweening  desire  for novelty,  and  he 
who  gives them  new "word  playthings’ ’ 
to  amuse and  interest  them,  is  he  who 
will  receive  their gratitude  and  nickels 
in  exchange.

The  departed  amusement  furnisher, 
P.  T.  Barnum,  once  said,  Humbug 
’em  and you’ve  got  ’em, 
or  words  to 
that  effect.  While  he  may  have  been 
right  in  his  way,  yet  behind  the  hum­
bug  there  must be  something which will 
satisfy  and  appease  any  feeling  of  cha­
grin  they  may  have  by  reason  of  the 
humbuggery. 
hum 
It  is  possible  to 
bug”   people 
into  reading  an  ad.  by 
some  hocus-pocus,  but  you’ll  never get 
a  cent  of  their money  unless  you  keep 
for the  last  something  so  pleasing  and 
profitable  to  them  that  it  will  act as  a 
halm  for their  feelings  of  disappoint­
ment  in  being  unwary  enough  to  read 
the ad.

The  best  and  only  true way  to  adver­
tise  profitably  is  to do  it square  from  the 
shoulder  hit  out  hard  and  straight  on 
the  start.  Drive  the  first  nail  in  so  far 
the  reader  can’t  get 
loose  and  must, 
through  absorbing  interest,  take the  bal­
ance  of  what  you  say  into  his  inner 
sanctuary  of  reasoning.
Is this  Yours,
Madame?

It's a dainty delicious creation of 
lace and  wash goods,  stylishly 
|. ade. full suit.  It is made as well 
as any die smaker can do and 
even more stylishly. 
It is a suit 
which would cost you to buy and 
make up yourself not less than 
$15.  We are offering them in a 
variety of styles at $S.50.

Is this Yours, 
Madame?

An  Old  Soak,

Everlasting Greatness

Is Known  by the  Pickle 

Will  You  Accept 
A  Dollar?

lu the case of a lot of pickles, may he 
all right ami it may not. 
If the Vine
gar used is superior, the more they're 
soaked, the better.  We have just re­
ceived a lot of excellent Vinegar 
which is guaranteed. 
It will add zest 
to your relishes.
Our line of Groceries and Table Delicacies is 
surp siting.
(’an  be obtained by persistency and 
effort.We are  p ersistent  in pleasing.
We are  persistent in effort.
We are consistent  in prices 
We are consistent  in values.
Will it be possible for yon to call and inspect 
our New Fall Stock now coming in?
If we offer 100 cents' reduction on 
our line of Ladies’ Fine Shoes—the 
whole line, including all the latest 
styles—it mean« giving you a dollar. 
The full value is in the shoes.  Look 
at the display in our window.
LOW PRICE  & CO.
Never wore nicer or more stilish and 
durable Suits than the line we are now 
opening for the Fall Trade.  There are 
any number of new novelties in Dura­
ble and l']i-to-date Garments for Gen 
tlemen.
Is the case of the man who doesn't know 
a good thing when he sees it.
Made of first-cl ass material, nobby and 
stylish, every part guaranteed at $10, is a 
good thing both 
in  economy in  cost 
and doctor's bills, for it
See our line before purchasing.

Harvey and  Horr

Absolutely  hopeless

Saves  Your  Health.

A  Fall  Overcoat

FITTE/n  &  CO.

V A N ILLA   W AEERS-

-G INGER  VANILLAS

-GIN GER  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 HSIIN H SS make the finest 
line  in  the- world  to select  from.

Will  be  comparatively  easy  if 
you  push  our  goods.  Liberal 
profits  and  quick  sales  will  be 
yours.  Customers buying once 
will  come  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,sw eetest Lard, 
the finest  Patent  Flour  and the 
richest  Molasses enter our  pro­
ducts.

We  make  a  Specialty  of  SUMMER  DELICACIES.

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TH E N EW   YORK  BISCUIT  CO.

Successors  to  WM.  SEA R S  &  CO.

Grand  Rapids,  flichigan.

VAN ILLA  SQ UARES

GINGER  SNAPS

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Hold  Your  Nose

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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,

Note  the  follow ing

*"  Lily White  Flour
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Pointers!

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

(Groceries.

Pleased  customers  are  good  ad­

vertisers.

Here’s  a  novelty  for a  window  catch­
er  for any  line  of  goods.  Cover the  win­
dow with  whiting,  evenly  laid  on.  At 
a  convenient  height  leave  a  small  hole 
about  as  large  as  a  half-dollar.  Above 
this  hang a  printed  card,  as  follows: 

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SO LE  MANUFACTURERS

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M i c h .

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D E A L E R S   IN

Slamarli Oil Co.

Illuminating  and  Lubricating

Naptha  and  Gasolines

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

BULK  WORKS at  Grand  Rapids, 
Rig  Rapids,  Grand  Have 
Allegan,  Howard City,  Peto

Muskegon,  Manistee, Cadillac, 
I,  Traverse  City,  Ludington, 
«key,  Reed  City.

Highest  Price  paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels

Our New Goods are arriving daily. 
Our Salesmen will call upon the Trade 
soon.
not place orders until you have
seen our beautiful line of Novelties.
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feet 

Place  a  cone  made  of  heavy  paper  at 
the  orifice  in  the  window.  This  should 
long  and  lined  with 
he about  six 
black  cloth  or  paper. 
It  should  be  the 
exact  size  of  the hole  in  the  window  at 
the  window  end  and  as  large  as  possi­
ble  at  the  other.  Place  this  in  a  hori­
zontal  position,  making  it  easy  to  see 
larger  end.  Now,  in  the  big end,  place 
a  picture  of  a  nice  looking  lady,  a  liv­
ing  picture,  if  possible.  Have  a  card, 
black 
letters,  very  plain,  on  white 
board,  as  follows,  placed  in  a  conven­
ient  position  near  the  lady :

This  is Truth.

She is ut the bottom of our price 
well.  That’s why we do business 
and that’s why
Come  in  and get  acquainted 
with the tiuth about our goods.

You are  Looking at Her!

Every  passer-by  will  look,  and  each 
will  call  h i;  preoccupied or near-sighted 
friend’s  attention  to  it. 
It  costs  noth­
ing  but  a  little  labor  and  time,  which 
can  easily  be  spared  in  the mid-summer 
quietness. 
I  would be  pleased  to  have 
anyone  trying  this  idea  write  me  as  to 
the  results. 

Foe. Foster Fuller.
Eli  in Min: tea (»ol is Omimercial Bulletin.

Pertinent  Observations  by  an  Out­

I  know  it’s  a  winner.

sider.

however, of  engaging in  a discussion on 
towns of  Dakota,  the  small  towns.

I  have been  traveling this week  and,of 
course, 
learned  something.  No  man 
with  eves  can  travel  and  not  learn  it  the 
eyes  and  tongue  are  used.  A  good  many 
people  forget  two  things:  First,  that 
one  can 
learn,  second,  that  one  can 
learn  by  seeing  and  talking  as  well  as 
by  reading  and  study. 
I  have  no  idea, 
knowledge;  I  shall  simply  call  attention 
to  a  simple  business  matter  that  attract­
ed  mv  attention  in  some  ol  the  country 
It  does  a  city  fellow  got id  to  get  into 
the  country  occasionally,  just as  it  helps 
a  country  fellow  to  visit  the  city.  I  like 
to  visit  the  country occasionally  for  the 
purpose  of  testing  my 
ideas.  For  in­
stance,  when  1  advocate  better  care  of 
store 
rooms  and  window  displays,  1 
like  to  visit  the  country  and  see  if  it  is 
done. 
If  it  is,  the  theory  is  practical, 
of  course. 
I  have  seen,  therefore  1 
know,  that  smutty,  cluttered  store  win­
dows  in  the  smaller  towns are  not  only 
unneccessary,  but  they  are  just  as  ob­
jectionable  as  they  are  in  the  city. 
1 
made  a  study  of  this 
in  one  town  I 
visited.  About  one-hall  ol  the  stores 
were  well  kept;  the  less  said  about  the 
other  half  the  better  perhaps.

In  the  well-kept  stores  the  windows 
were clean  and  appropriate  displays  ol 
goods  were  made. 
I liese  really  inter­
ested  me  and 
I  suppose  1  fairly  out­
classed  the  proverbial  countryman  who 
visits  the  city  and 
looks. ”   Dress 
goods were shown  in  various drapes and 
they  were  really  inviting.  There were a 
few  attempts  at  special  display 
in  the 
way  of  decorated  figures  and  the  work 
was  very  well  done. 
I he  shoe  stores 
were  nicely  represented  in  the  windows 
and  in the general dry goods anil  grocery 
stores  were  inviting.
This  work  can  be  done,  because  what 
one  has  done  another can  do,  conditions 
being  equal.  And  I  know  if  I  1 ived  in 
the  abo  e  town  I  would  buy  my  goods 
of  the  st in-;  that  appeared  inviting* 
doing  it  if  he  has  half  an  eye  for  order. 
Why  can’t  we  have  more  of  these  clean 
isn’t  necessary  that  large 
stores? 
sums  of  money  should  be  ex pended 
in 
It  coses  very  little  to
keeping  clean. 

outside  an 1  inside.  One  cannot  help 

It 

late  store  hours. 

keep  clean.  People act  sometimes  as  if 
a  fortune  was  necessary  to  clean  the 
glass  in  a  store  front,  when  two  cents’ 
worth  of  soap,  a  brush  and  a  little  el­
bow  grease  would  work  a  revolution 
in 
any  store  front  in  thirty  minutes.
There  is  one  more  thing  that  should 
receive  attention 
It 
is  necessary  at  certain  periods  of  the 
year  for  country  merchants  to keep their 
stores  open  in  the  evening  to  accommo­
is  all  right. 
date  farmers,  and  that 
What  I  wish  to  talk  against  is  the  keep­
ing  open  of  stores  when  it 
isn’t  neces­
sary,  and  I  know  that  if  a city  of  a  mil-
lion people can ret along  w i th  stores
dost il  at  7  o clock that communities  of
200 to 
1,000 peo de can  manage  to  do
least.
o’ch ck  is  be cause tin­ stores keep  open  j
after that  hour;  if tile stores  close  at  8 |
the  same  amount  ol  goods  will  be  sold 
before  that "hour.  All  that  is  necessary 
is  to  close.

tildi buying be fort
The reason some pcople  buy  after  8

s o’clock  at 

1 here ought  to  be sufficient  affiliation I 
among  local  business  men  in  any  com-  I 
munity  to  permit  of an  agreement  along I 
this  line,  no  matter  how  sharp)  the  com- | 
petition  between  them  may  be. 
I  am 
for  a  pol icy  of  general  decency at  all 
times  and  my  argument 
is  that  when 
the  business  men  ol  a  community  can­
not  speak  to  each  other  that  there  is  a 
screw  loose  in  the  social  system  of  that 
| community  that  needs  to  be  tightened.  I 
T irst  of  all  be  business  men  and  al- 
ways  be  decent  business  men.  He  above 
| the  petty  quarrels  of  children ;  act 
in  a  I 
| manly  way  in  all  your  dealings  and  you  1 
; will  have  1 ittle  to  complain  of  in  your j 
!  neighbor  and  your  neighbor  will 
find I 
| that  you  are  above  the  tricks  that  be-  1 
long  to  the  category  of  meanness.

d a s

Integrity  in  Trade.

If  an  article 

Some  storekeepers  think 

it  an  evi- 
! deuce  of  smartness  to  palm  o ff  an  infer­
ior  article  upon  a  customer,but  in  many 
instances  it  proves  to  be  a  fatal  mistake 
I upon  their  part.  Many  a  retail  mer­
chant  has  ruined  his  reputation  for  lion- | 
esty  and  integrity  by  petty  little  tricks i 
which  have  offended  those  who  have I 
been  his  patrons.
(>ur  leading  and  most  successful  nier- i 
I chants  pride  themselves  upon  their 
in­
tegrity. 
is  defective  or j 
imperfect  they  instruct  their  clerks  to 
it 
|  point  it  out.  and  customers  who  buy 
| at  a  reduced  price  know  and  fully  un- 
derstand  what  they  are  getting. 
If 
goods  are  unsatisfactory  they  permit I 
| them  to  lie  returned,  often  when  they 
are  cut  or  the  package  broken.
They  exert  themselves  to  please  their 
I well  as  to  make  a  reasonable  profit  on 
I their goods. 
In  the  long  run  they  gain 
!  more  titan  they  lose,  because  all  such 
I courtesies  are  appreciated  and  kindly 
I remembered  by  customers,and  they take 
pride  and  pleasure 
in  continuing  to 
trade  with  the  merchant  who  conscien­
tiously  strives  to  please  and  accommo­
date  them.

j  patrons  and  to  retain  their patronage,  as 

It  is  true  that  the generosity  of  mer­
chants  in  this  respect  is  often  abused,
| but  it  pays  them,  notwithstanding, 
to 
j  possess  their  souls  in  patience;  to  study 
the  tastes  and  characteristics  of  their 
j  patrons  and  to  strive  zealously  to antici- 
!  pate  their  wants,  rather  than  to  per- 
| suade  them  to  buy  goods  they  do  not 
want  and  which  are  sure  to  subsequent­
ly  give  them  dissatisfaction.

Justice  What  is  the  charge  against 
Officer—Having  an  infernal  machine 

this  prisoner?
in  his  possession,  yer  Honor.

Justice  Anarchist  or  bicyclist?

The  Tradesman  Company  has  in  prep­
aration  specimen  sheets  of  engravings 
especially  adapted  to  the  use  of  retail 
merchants. 
The  cuts  are  made  from 
original  designs,  prepared  by  our  own 
designers  and  engraved  by  our  own 
;  workmen,  and  cannot  be  obtained  else* 
;  where.  These  sheets  will  be  ready  to 
mail  to  applicants  in  a  short  time.  A 
postal  card  will  bring  one  to  you.

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JA N E   CRAGIN.

Her  Ideas  on  Keeping  Boys  on  the 

Written for the  T k a d e s m a x .

Farm.

It  was  “ raining  pitchforks  with  the 
tines downward, 
and  had  been,  all  the 
morning.  Custom,  at  that  season  al­
ways  dull,  was  especially  so  on  such  a 
day, 
for  the  farmers  who  might  have 
dropped  in  if  the  rain  had  been  a  good, 
comfortable  sizzle-sozzle,  didn’t  care  to 
brave  a  regular  downpour,  even  for  the 
sake  of  en joying  the gossip of  a  country 
store;  so,  with  one  boy  down  cellar 
sprouting  potatoes,  and  another  under 
the  roof  at  work,  the  senior  proprietor 
of  the  Milltown  store  was  yawning  and 
stretching  and  wondering  what  such 
dumbed  weather  was  made  for,  any­
how, ’ ’  when  one of  Cy’s  detested  hay- 
fed  horses”   stopped  at  a  hi telling-post 
in  front  of  the  store.

‘ ' Now,  then,  I'd  like  to  know  what 
it’s 

That’s 

Jane? 

’ r 

it 

I’ ve  done 
Jam*!”

1 ’ll 

’ im. 

with  a  tin  pail. 

1  1 ike  that  feller 

‘ ‘ What  is  it,  Cy?”
"O ,  you’ve  been  a-doin’  suthin’, 

now  you're go in*  to  git  your  pay 

’n’ 
for’t !
Here’s  that  old  skinflint  of  a  Foster 
I  ha’  n’t  done  nothin’.
It’s  you,  and  you’ve  got  to  trade  with 
I’m  glad  he  let  that  Jed  o’  hisn 
'im. 
there’s 
come  along. 
suthin’  to 
talk  to  Jed  and 
watch  you  and  the  old  man  dicker. 
’S  worth  halt  a  dollar  any  day,  ’n’  I’ll 
pay ve alter  he’s gone.  Here  they  come. 
Now  then !  Well,  well,  Foster!  ye  must 
’av’  got  aout  o’  terbacker, 
in 
this  cloudbust.  A in’t  ye  soppin  wet? 
Come  up  t' the  stove.  Til’  ain’t  any fire 
in  ’t.  but  a 11  ve’ ve got to dew  ’s t’  make 
b’ lieve  they  is,  ’ u’  ye’ re  all  right.  Miss 
lean in’  towards 
Christian  Science,  sence  we  let  the  fire 
g ’  aout. 
Rain  looks 
V f   ’twas  prutty  wet.  How  i s ’t, 
little  damp’ll in’  ’long  'n  the  ruts?”   and- 
the storekeeper  shook  the  stout,  good- 
looking  young  fellow  warmly  by  the 
hand.

Crag in  ’n’  1  ve  been 

cheaper! 

t’  come 

It’s 

Jed 

Not  on  our  ro.i 1.  We  come  just  be­
hind  the  last  pourin, ’ 
’n’  that  washed
the bottom  ’o  the  ruts  clean  out.  Did, 
for  a  fact. 
Pop  was a  little  careless  of 
'is  drivin’  ’ n’  got  in  once  er  twice,  ’n’ 
if  t  hadn’t been  f'r  th’  ex,  we’d  a gone 
down,  sure’s  guns;  wouldn’t  we  Pop?”
’ F  we’d  staid t’  home’s we’d  ough’ 
’t  wouldn't  made  any  difference 
ter, 
whether  we  would,  r  not. ’ ’  The 
little, 
dried-up,  old  man  was  in  no  mood  for 
banter.  He  was  wet  and  cross,  and 
his  thin  voice,  always  on  a  high  key, 
took  a  still  higher  pitch  when  “ mad,”  
as  he  evidently  was  now. 
But  no, 
nothin’  would  dew  b’t  we  mus’  come 
trampin’  through  the  rain; 
’n*  naow
ve’ve  got  here,  1  hope  ye’re  satisfied. 
’er  cheese ? 
Have  ye  g in   Miss  Crag in 
Where 
'd  morn in’.  Ma 
sent  ye  over  s’ m  Dutch  cheese  she’s 
ben  a-ntakin. ’  She  heard  ve  say 
’t  ye 
liked 
’n’  she  wanted  ye  ter  have 
some.

is  Jane? 

Thank  fou  she’s  very  kind.  Tell 
her  I  am  much  obliged  to  her.  You 
must  have  found  it  disagreeable  driving 
through  the  rain. ”

(), 

it, 

“  \ us. bad  nough  -plenty bad  'nough; 
’ n’  't  was  all  the  wuss  t’  come  f ’r  noth­
in’ ;  but  that  Jed’s  ben a  stewin’,  ever 
’s  ben  t’  work 
sense  that  Benton  boy 
over here,  t’  come  tew ; 
’n’  this  morn- 
in’.  ’th  all  them  stone  ’n that new  piece 
t"  pick  up,  nothin’  would  do  but  we 
mus’  come 
’f  ye  didn’t want 
im  t’  work  for ve.  Don’t  s’pose  ye’ re 
short  o’  help,  be  ye?”

’n’  see 

Wal,  no.  Fact  is, times  ’r’  s ’  dumb :

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

tight  we  find  it  hard work  t’  keep  what 
help we’ve  got. ”

“ Wouldn’t be no  danger  ye're  want­
’ im  alter  we  git  through  the  fall 

in’ 
work,  would  they?”

’r  tew 

S ’pose  ve  rake  ' im  over 

“ Wal,  that’s  too  fur off  t’  guess. ’ ’ 
’n’  see 

’f 
he’s  goin’  t’  be  wuth  anything  ’n’  a 
’ »’ 
store.  Ask  "im  a  question 
’ im. 
see  what  you  c’n  make  aout  on 
Great  Scott!  suthin’s  got  to be  done! 
I 
haint agoin’  t’  have  any  more  o’  this 
everlasting  dingin’ goin’  on ;  ’ll’  I  want 
11'  know,  b ’fore  1  g ’  back,  whether  it’s 
farmin’  o’  storekeepin’. 
I  swan  to 
gosh,  I've  had  'nough  on  ’t !  Can’t  ye 
manage  some  ’ow?”

A  prompt  refusal  was  prevented  by 
three  things-  a  pleading 
look  on  the 
boy’s face,  a smothered  chuckle from Cy 
and a  desire  to  find  out  if  what  she  sur­
mised  to  be  the  boy’s  reason  for  a 
change  was  true.

‘ ‘ I  don’t think my opinion will amount 
to  much,  but  I’d  like  to think  the  mat­
ter  over. 
I’ll  tell  you  what  we’ll  do. 
You  let  Cy  take you  home  to  dinner 
he  owes  me a  half  dollar  anyway— and 
I'll  take Jed  along  with  me.  That  will 
give  me a  chance to  look  him  over  and 
have a  little talk  with  him ;  and  about 
the time  you are  ready to  go  home.  I ’ll 
tell  you  plainly  exactly  what  I  think. 
I 
suppose  that  is  what  you  want?’ ’
“ Jes’  so;  ’n'  ye  can’t  make 

it  tew 

plain. ”

“ Well,  Cy,  your dinner’s  about  ready 
if  it  isn’ t,  it  will  be  by  and  by,  and 
you’d  better go  now  so  you can get  back 
for  us  to  go  to  ours. ’ ’  The 
in  time 
smothered  laugh  had  taken  wings  to 
it­
self  and  flown  from  Cy  to  Jane.

Come  in  here,  Jed,  where  you  can 
have  a  comfortable  seat,  and  I  can  talk 
and  work  at  the  same  time.  There, 
that’s  a  great  deal  better  than  standing.
It  seems  to  me,  Jed,  if  I  lived  on  a 
farm  like  your  father’s,  that  nothing  in 
the  world  could  get  me  away  from 
it. 
Do  you  hate  farming?’ ’

Why,  no ;  I  don’t  think  I  do. ’ ’

‘ ‘ It  must be  pretty  hard  work  to  be 
up  in  the  morning  early,  and  working 
late  at  night;  and  I  know  enough  about 
such  things  to  understand  that  a  young 
fellow  must  get  pretty  tired  of 
it  after 
following  it  year  after year as  you have. 
The  chores  would  stump  me. ’ ’

“ 0, 

they  don’t  amount  to  much. 
Once  in  a  while  it’s  a  little  hard  to  get 
home  in  time  to  do  them ;  but  every­
I 
thing  can’t  be  pleasant,  you  know. 
like getting  up 
It’s 
the  pleasantest  part  of  the  day  and,  so 
far  as  the  work  is  concerned,  I  never 
knew a  boy  who  didn’t manage, in  some 
way,  to  get  along  without  breaking  his 
back.

in  the  morning. 

“ There’s  one  thing  you’ ll  miss—at 
least I should-  and that’s having a horse 
to  go and  come  with,  just  when  you  feel 
like  it. ”

There  was  no  reply  and  Jane  said  to 
herself,  “ There’s  a  place  to  stick  a 
pin. ”

“ I  suppose  all  boys  don’t  care for 
such  things ;  but  you have a  large  house 
up  there  on  the  hill,  with  not  a  small 
room  in  it.  You’re going  to  miss  that 
big  chamber  of  yours,  and  after  you 
have tried  to  sleep  one  night 
in  the 
common seven-by-nine bedroom,  you’ re 
going  to  start,bright  and  early,  for  your 
old  airy  bedroom,  up 
there  on  the 
h ill.”

“ O,  I  guess  not. ’ ’ 

(Pin  No.  2.)

Then,  there’s another thing—you  are 
going  to  miss  the  cream  and  the  sweet 
milk  and  your mother’s delicious butter; 
and  how  you  are  ever  to get  along  with­
out  the vegetables  and  the  nice  things

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is  something 

you  get  fresh  from  the  garden,  1  don’t 
see.  You  think  it  will  he a  tine  thing, 
at  the  end  of  the  week  to  get  your 
wages.  There 
in  that, 
but you  can’t  have  your  own garden plat 
and  what you  can  raise  on  it,  nor  your 
own  calf,  nor  your  own  colt 
in  fact, 
none  of those  thousand  and  one  things 
which  a  thrifty  farmer’s boy 
is  sure  to 
have,  because  he  can  raise  them  him­
self. 
lake  your  clothes,  now: you  have 
what  you  want,  because  you  can  get  it 
with  what  you  raise;  and  that  extra half 
dollar,  which  all  of  us  like  to  have 
in 
our  pocket,  a  farmer’s  boy  is  sure  to 
have,  because  he  has  raised  it,  in  some 
way,  on  the  farm.”

Jane  stopped  at  this  point as  she  had 
at  several  others  for  the boy to do a  lit­
tle  talking;  but  he  wasn’t  “ an  easy 
milker 
’n’  didn’t  give  down  wuth  a 
cent.”   She  took  another  task.

it. 

‘ ‘ One  thing  you  would  have  to  make 
up  your  mind  to,  if  you should  go  into 
a  store,  would  be  to  cut  yourself  from 
home  and  all  that  belongs  to 
It 
seems,  sometimes,  as if  you’d  give  any­
thing,  if  you  didn’t have  to  hear  every 
morning  somebody  calling up the cham­
’ ll 
ber  sta i rs :  * Come, 
curdle  before  you  can  get 
into  the 
pail 
if  you  wait  much  longer;’  or, 
‘ Come,  Jed,  don’t  you  want  to  draw  me 
a  pail  o’  water;’  or,  ‘ I  wish  you’d  go 
down  and  bring  me  up a  pan  o’  milk ;’ 
or- -  ’ ’

Jed,  that  milk 

it 

There  was  no  need  of  going  on.  A 
flush  of  red  flooded  his  face  and  left 
it 
like  marble.  He  said  nothing,  and  of 
course  Jane  noticed  nothing, 
for  she 
was  looking  just  then  across  the  road 
where  she  saw  Cy and  his  guest  on their 
way 
from  dinner,  who  shortly  after 
came  in.  Then  calling  the  boys,  the 
four  were  soon  on  their  wav  to  the 
Neely’s,  where  they  were  to  dine  to­
gether.  When  the  meal  was  over  Jane 
sent  for  Mr.  Foster,  who soon  came  in.
“ I  brought  over  the  cheese  Mrs.  Fos­
ter  sent  me,  and  Mrs.  Neely  and  I  have 
been  wondering  why  your  Dutch  cheese 
is  so  much  better  and  nicer  than  any 
other  we get  around  here.  What’s  the 
secret,  Mr.  Foster?”

“ Tain’t  no  secret.  A  little  good  man­
agement  is  all  that’s  necessary.  You 
know  enough  about  cattle  to  know  that 
you  can't  git  good  milk  aout  of  a  bad 
caow.  Wal,  cattle  ’¡e  jes’  same’s  folks. 
A  likely  critter  must  have  the  best  she 
c ’n  eat,  ’ n’  a  good  stable,  ’u'  the  best 
o’  care.  Then  she'll  give  the  best 
milk.  That’s  all  they  is  tew  it."

“ Well,  if  you  take  a  good  cow  that 
has  been  taken  good  care  of,  must  you 
keep  up  the  good  feed  and  the  care,  if 
you  want  to  get  the  rich  milk  and  the 
fine  cheese?”

“ Sartin ! 

It’s the  only  way,  but  wha’ 
I)’  ye  think  ye 

d'  make aout  o'  Jed? 
c ’n  make  a  place  for  'im?

“ led  isn’t  any  more  tit  for  a  store 
than  your  handsomest  Jersey  is  tit  for  a 
race  horse!”

' Good! b’ gosh, 
tell ’im.

jes’  what 

that’s 

I 

‘ ‘ There  isn’t  auv  need  of  your  telling 
him  what  he  knows already.  That  boy 
is  a  farmer.  He 
likes  the  farm  and 
everything  belonging  to  it.  You  don’t 
have  to  urge  him  any 
in  his  work,  do 
you?”

“ Urge!  Wal,  I  guess  not.  He’s  up 
in  the  mornin’  b’fore  1  be;  ’ n’  smarter 
’n’  a  steel  trap  a ’ter  he  is  up.  Puttin’ 
that boy  into  a  store  <1  spile  ’ im.
‘ ‘ Then  don’t  put  him  into  one.”
“ Wal,  great  king,  woman,  how  c ’n  1 
stop  it?  That’s  what  I  want  t’  know. 
I've  talked  'til  I ’m  ’bout  blind, 
’n'  1

can’t  dew nothin’  with  ’ im ; 
’n’  naow 
'f  you  c ’n  tell  me  what  ter  dew,  for 
goodness’  sake  dew  tell  it.”

“ It  isn’t  any  secret,  Mr.  Foster.  A 
little  good  management 
is  all  that’s 
needed.  Folks are  just  like  a  lot  of  cat­
tle.  They  must  have  the  best  there 
is 
to  eat,  a  good,  well-furnished  house,, 
and  the best  of  care,  and  they  mustn’t 
work  themselves quite  to  death  either, 
if  you  expect  from  them  the  best  that 
they  can  do. 
It  is  your own  argument.
I  don’t  think  you understand that boy of 
yours,  and  I’d  like  to go on  with  this, 
only  I  don’t  want  you  to get  mad.

“ Say  what ye  wanter,  Jane;  I’ll  swal­

ler  it. ”

Well,  in  the  first  place,  you  want  to 
get  over the  idea  that  your  cattle  are 
worth  more  than  your family. 
They’ re 
not;  but  you give  your  cows  the  best 
they  can  eat;  and  your butter  and  eggs 
and  chickens and  fresh  meat,  which you 
ought  to  use  at home,  you  sell,  and  feed 
your  family  on  skim  milk  and  codfish. 
You  have  the  likeliest  barn  in  the coun­
ty,  and  every  cow  has a  stall  made  and 
fitted  up  with  the  one  idea  of  making 
that  cow  comfortable.  Your  house 
is 
well  enough -  it is certainly large enough
and  yet  when  I  spoke  to  Jed about  the 
large,  well-furnished chamber he’d  have 
to  give  up,  if  he went away  from  home, 
I  could  see  that the boy’s  room  is  in the 
garret  with  the  hired  man;  and  when 
you  came to talk  about  care,  you  know 
that  that  yoke of  steers  which  you  talk 
so  much  about  gets  more of  it  in  a  day 
than  your  whole  family  gets  in  a  week. 
Now,  I’m  going  to  tell  you  something. 
That  boy,  Jed,  is a thoroughbred.  He’s 
as  dumb  as a  clam ;  but  for  all  that,  the 
reason  for  his  wanting  to  be  in  the store 
is that he  may  earn  some  money to  hire 
help,  that  his  mother  needn’t  work  her­
self  quite  to  death  on  that  farm. 
I 
wouldn’t  have told  you  this,  if  I  hadn’t 
thought  that  you  ought  to  know  what 
Jed’s  motive  is  Now that  you  know it, 
you  may  be able  to  keep  him  at  home 
if  you  want  to;  but  1  can  tell  you  his 
mind  is  made  up,  and  if  you don’t  look 
out  for  the  help 
in  the  kitchen  you’ll 
lose the boy. 
if  he belonged  to me,  I ’d 
fix  up  the  best  room  in  the  house and 
I’d  give  him 
put  him  into  it  alone. 
two or three acres  of  the  best 
land  on 
the  farm  and  give  him  every  cent  he 
raises  from  it. 
I’d  tell  him  on  the way 
home  that  I'd  give  him  that  handsome 
black  horse  which  he  looks  so  well  on 
his,  to  have  for his  very  own  to  keep 
as  long as  he  wants  it,  and  to  sell  and 
keep  the  money  for  it when he gets  tired 
of  keeping  it. 
I ’d  subscribe  for  a  first- 
class  magazine;  and  I'd  bring  home 
a  new book  every once  in  a  while  and 
read  it  with  the  rest  of  the  family  and 
talk  it  over. 
I ’d  take  him  to  the  city, 
and  I ’d  go  around  with  him  as  if  he 
were a  younger  brother;  and 
in  every 
way  I  could  think  of, 
I'd  let  him  see 
that  1  thought  a  thousand  times  more of 
him  than  of  any Jersey  calf  in  all  crea­
tion. 
I'll  tell  you  something  else,  Mr. 
Foster.  The boy  loves  his  mother  and 
—and  -1  should  do  everything  I  could 
to  please  him 
in  that  direction.  The 
fact  is,  this  skimping  business  on  a 
farm,  or any  where  else,  doesn’t  pay ; 
and  I  say  to  you  now  what  I  Honestly 
believe: 
It’s a  great  deal  better  not  to 
be quite  so  rich  and  have  some  genu­
ine,  well-trained  men  and  women  be­
it 
hind  you  than 
is  to  leave  a  lot of 
money  to a  lot of  half-brought  up  young 
ones  who  have 
just  sense  enough to 
show  how  out  of  all  proportion  the  old 
man's  pocket-book  was to  his  brains! 
Well,  1  must  go  to  work.  You  think 
this  over,  and  don’t  spoil  a  first-class 
boy and  a  first-class  farmer  for the  sake 
her  first-class yoke  of  steers or  a  num- 
of  a one Jersey  ca lf."

And  he  didn’t.

R ic h a r d   M ajlcolm  St r o n g.

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to  all  Concerned.

The  subject  that  the leading dry goods 
paper  of  our  country  pronounces  the | 
most  important  to  the  fraternity  which 
it  so  admirably  stands  for.  ought  to  in­
terest  every  mcr  hant  and  clerk,  and 
inasmuch  as  that  selection  is  “ Special 
Sales,' ‘  it  is  well  for  every  dry  goods 
man  to  know  where  he  stands  on  it.

judgment 

The  merchants of  our  country,  retail 
and  wholesale  .dike,  who  are  eminently 
successful,  have  adopted  the  special 
sale  as  their  most  forceful  and  their 
most  aggressive  method,  and  that  very 
fact 
is  conclusive  evidence  that  the 
question  admits  of  no  argument;  it  is 
already  answered,  and  answered  by  the 
most  practical 
1  ss  of  men  in  our na­
tion,  whose 
is  more  nearly 
infallible  th m  ta it  of  any  other  class, 
and  who  ado;  t  that  only  which  shows 
largest  results. 
The  point  may  be 
taken  that  Ulysses  !s.  (bant  was  not  a 
great  general,  but  the  fact  remains  that 
he  crushed  the  rebellion,  and 
if  suc­
cess  in  life  is  to  be  measured by results, 
Grant  was  a  great  general.  Likewise 
the  question  may be  asked  concerning 
the  wisdom  of  using  the  special  sale, 
but  if  America’s  most  practical  men 
adopt  it,  by  th  t  very  adoption  the  best 
indorsement  has  been  made 
possible 
and  tin* question  is  answered.
therefore,  the  special  sale  has 
been  proved  bv  a 
¡ohn  Wanamaker  or 
a  lolm  V.  Farwell,  the  one as  a  retail­
er  and  the other as  a  wholesaler,  and  by 
thousands of  just  as practical  merchants 
throughout  tire  country,  to  be  a  winning 
idea,  we  have  but  one  duty  regarding 
the  matter and  that  is  to  define  special 
sales anti  examine  the  elements  which 
make  it  so  pronouncedly  successful.
First, have  we all  a  clear  idea  of  the 
special  sale?  We  believe  that  this  defi­
nition  will  suffice:  A  particular  em­
phasis  of  one or  more  articles  by  some 
unusual  method.  That  definition  will 
surprise  him  who  looks  upon  the  spec­
ial  sale  as  an  offering  of  stuff at  cost  or 
less. 
It  may  also  surprise  him  who 
has associated  only  the  idea  of  pushing ' 
old  and  un lefirible  goods  with  the 
special  sales.  Our  definition 
includes 
both  these  id  m s  but  also  much  more. 
A  special  sale  is  a  special  effort. 
is 
an  effort bey >:id  the  ordinary.  And  he 
who  questions  the  desirability  of  the 
special  sale  would  eliminate  life’s  most 
commendable  qu  l.ty,  i.  e.,  special  ef­
fort.

If, 

It 

Indeed,  we  believe  special  sales  are 
nothing  but  inte  elv  aggressive  mer­
chandising  keen  buying  and  forceful 
pushing.  A  decade  ago  the  merchant 
was  content  to  wait  for  a  visit  from  a 
possible  patron,  when  the  clerk  would 
call  attention  to  a  special  lot  of  unde- 
s.rable  stuff or  a special article very  new 
and  stylish,  or a  special  purchase  at  a 
low  figure.  They  we  e  all special  sales. 
To-day,  however,  rather than  await  the 
customer's  visit,  merchants  are  telling 
tlie  clerk's  same  story  by  the  news­
paper and  the  circular  letter,  which  is 
so  much  more  effective  that  the  prac-, 
tice  is almost  universally  adopted.  The 
q  lest ion  under  consideration 
conse­
quently  is  but  this ;  Shall  we  he  con­
tent  to  await  a  visit  from  the  customer 
and  let  the clerk  tell  the  story  of special 
values  and  prices,  or shall we  go  out af­
ter  the trade  and  tell  our story  of  spec­
ial  offerings,  not  only to  those  who  visit 
our  store,  but  also  to  our  competitor’s 
best  customers?

Which  will  yiel  1  larger  results?  The 
special  sale  may be  employed 
in  a  fi­
nancial  gale,  as  did  A.  T.  Stewart  when 
he originated  the selling-out-at-cost  sys­
tem  to  escape  commercial  shipwreck; 
or  it  may  he  used  to  escape  commer­
cial  starvation  and  death  when  a  mer­
chant  is becalmed ; or better than all  for 
the  peerless  energy  of  American  man­
hood,  it  may be  used to  the more quick­
ly  drop  anchor  in  the  port  of  our  am­
bitions.  One  may  "get there”  quicker. 
" A   particular  emphasis”   means 
‘ ‘get­

ting out  of  the  crowd” -  doing  some-  I 
thing  your  competitor  is  not doing-  and  j 
if  that  is  not  wide-awake  merchaudis-  i 
ing,  pray  what  is?

The  merchant  who  is  succeeding  to-  L 

it.  A  blanket 

day  is  doing  it by emphasizing in  a  par- 
ticular  manner  his  goods.  He  must  do  1 
it  to get  the  women  to  his  store,  and 
the  more  original  his 
ideas  the  larger I 
his  results.  And  a  man  may  exercise 
originality  on  the  special  sale as  on  no 
other  department  of  his  business.  One 
is  able  by  the  special  sale  to  emphasize 
as  in  no  other way.  For  example: 
In i 
j  a  town  of  i.Soo  inhabitants,  across  the 
Mississippi,  is  a  store  doing  a  business 
of $125,000 annually.  Bear  in  mind  the 
size  of  that  town.  They believe  in  the | 
is 
special  sale  and  use 
offered  them  at  $3.75  per  pair. 
It’s  a 
corker. 
They  want  a  price  on  500 
pairs.  One  of S3  even  is  made.  They 
accept  it.  Now what?  Are  they  going 
to  wait  for  cold  weather  and  for  cus­
tomers  for that  blanket?  No,  they  are 
going  after  customers and by the special 
sale.  They  advertise  that on  August  1 
these  500  pairs  will  be  offered  at  $4, 
about "the  price  that  their  competitors 
will  pay  for the  dozen  pairs  they  will 
buy.  Winter goods  in  mid-summer 
is 
nothing  if  not  unusual.  They  advertise 
extensively a rare bargain  secured.  Peo­
ple  know  they  can  be  believed.  And 
we declare  facts when  we write  that  the 
500  pairs  were  sold.  Could  they  have 
been  sold 
in  a  town  of  this  size by  the 
old  method?  Results  of  the  sale:  Busi­
ness  in  a  dull  season  -one  of  the  best 
possibilities  of  a  special  sale.  Enor­
mous  advertising  always a  result  of  the 
special  sale.  Getting  to  their store  pat­
rons  of  competitors—a  most  desirable 
result.  Sales  to  patrons  of  competitors
a  result  to  make  a  merchant  chuckle. 
Good  profits—the  without-which-not  of 
successful  retailing.  And  possibly  the 
result  of  largest  returns-  that  of  getting 
the  people  acquainted  with  your  store 
and  clerks  for  the  heavy  fall  business. 
"G ot a  pretty good  pair  of  blankets  of 
Messrs.  Special  Sale &  Co.  ;  guess  we’d 
better go  there  for that carpet and  cloak 
wife,  hadn’t  we?”  
"A ll  right,  old 
man, ”   and  they go.  We  repeat:  The 
special  sale  may be  used  to  draw  trade 
during  dull  seasons  as no  other  method. 
Then  there  is  the  special  sale  of an arti­
cle  at  or  below  cost.  Good?  Some­
times,  yes.  We  know a  dry  goods  re­
tailer who  accomplished  last  year  what 
few  did 
turn  his  stock  nine times  -and 
his  most  effective  method  was  the  spec­
ial  sale.  Towels  that  cost  him  $1.20 
per dozen  he  offered  at  four for 20  cents, 
and  would  not  sell  more  than  four  to 
one woman.  He  also ■  had  towels  that 
I cost $2,  $2.50 and  $3  per  dozen.  These 
latter  he  mixed  together  at  39  cents 
each.  Women  flocked  to  his  store,  and 
so  skillfully were  they  manipulated  by 
the  salesmen  that  by  far more of  the  39 
cent  towels were  sold  than  of  the  four 
for  20  cents.  Think  of  having  500 
women  in  your  store  from  1  to  5  p.  m.
Another had  a  sale  of  a  carpet  at  4 
cents  that cost  13  cents.  Only about  150 
yards were  cleaned  up-  it  was  a  sticker
but  he  received  advertising  for  miles 
around  and  doubled  his  sales 
that 
month.  The best  practice  of  selling  an 
I article  at  a  low  price is to learn that it  is 
to  be  reduced  and  then 
lead  competi­
tion  by  a  special  sale.  Many  people 
'  will  think  your  enterprise  did  it.

Special  sales on articles  at  cost or less 
are  very  seldom  necessary,  but  when 
made  let  them  be,  indeed,  special  cuts.
Time  sales are  sometimes  criticised, 
though  they,  too,  possess  good  quali- 
! ties.  We  admit  that  they  swell  the  vol- 
; ume of business abnormally,  but  it  is  a 
| good  thing  to  advertise  now  and  then 

j  that  your  store  was  crowded.  Women 

Listen.  Grade 

are great  transmitters  of  such  facts,  and 
1 to  crowd  your  store  is  to  secure  lots  of 
I free  advertising. 
in 
j your  normal  periods with  extraordinary 
effort  so  that  they  will  be on a level  with 
1 high  water marks  of  special  sales,  and 
you’ll  have 
just  what  you  dream  of 
night  and  day.  The  abnormal  results 
of the  special  sale  enable  one  to  deter­
mine  his  possibilities—steps  to  reach 
one’s best.
is  sometimes  made 
that  a  woman  will  wait  for  the  special

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sale,  and  thus  profit  is  lost.  Not  if  she 
wants  the  article  badly.  Also  the  man 
who  argues  so  forgets"  that  the  special 
sale  may  return  a  good  profit.  He 
is 
asleep  to  the  possibilities  of  the  special 
sale.  And  then  it  is  the correct  idea  to 
have  no  certain  days.  Change days and 
articles.  The  special  sale  sells”  stuff 
that a  customer  was hesitating  about  or 
didn’t  need  at  all.  We  believe  there are 
more  cases  of  this  than  we  realize.

stick. ’ 

several  pieces 

lose  on.  With 

special  effort or  you’ll 

I hen  the  novelty  special  sale  is  a 
winner.  Here  is  an  original  one.  You 
have  gone  through  your  dress  goods 
find 
stock  and 
that
\ on  have  failed  to  move
them.  Suppose  you  would  cut  them  in­
to  dress  patterns  and attach  to  each  pat­
tern  an  envelope  containing  so  cents  or 
Si. 
1 hen  advertise  that  you  have  on 
sale  for one week a  number of  dress  pat­
terns  to  each  of  which  is  attached  an 
envelope  containing  a  silver  dollar. 
Head  it  The  Silver Question  Settled. ’ ’ 
This  is  a  special  sale  with  a  most  lau­
dable  object,  v iz :  Clearing  up  stock. 
And  it  will  advertise  your  dress  goods 
department  for  fall  "wonderfully.  Or 
this :  Advertise  as  the  other  a  sale  of 
your better  wool  dress goods  tha't  are  yet 
on  your  shelves.  Stuff  that  requires 
every  dress  give  a  ticket  entitling  the 
purchaser  to  the best  wash  goods  dress 
in  stock  after  August 
ist.  Would  not 
such  a  sale  clean  up  both  in  wool  and 
wash  goods?  And  the  profits  on  1 inings 
and  trim ini ngs would  follow.
In  cities one  day is enough time  to de­
vote  to  a  sale.  In towns two or three da vs 
are  more  effective.  How  often?  Often 
in  your 
enough  to 
town.  This  does not  imply  oftener  than 
your  competitors.  The  special 
sale 
has  its  disadvantages  but  the  advan­
the  ambitious  mer­
tages  of 
chant  are 
freighted 
with  such  possibilities  that  they  offset 
easily  the  former.  He  who  has  tried 
it 
is  continuing  the  same,  which  is  a  sure 
guarantee  of  its  worth.  He  who  has 
’ never  tried  it  will  do  well  to  demon­
strate  to  himself  by  experience  what  it 
is  and  what  its  possibilities  are.  Our- 
own  experience  and  observation  are 
it  pays  big.

lead  competition 

so  many  and 

it  to 

Written for the Tradesman.

SOME  INFLUENCES  OF  THE  BICYCLE.

is 

The  more  the  subject 

is  considered 
the  more  one 
impressed  with  the 
significance  of  the  bicycle  movement
with  its  far-reaching consequences  re­
lating  to  social  and  economic  condi­
tions.  The  press  is  teeming  with  dis­
cussion  and  comment  on  the  social  sig­
nificance, 
its  effect  on  fashion,  the a d ­
vent  of  the bloomer,  aiid-  the  . increased 
activity,  freedom  and  independence  of 
women. 
the  term  has  an  earnest,  candid  mean­
ing,  as  well  as  the  sarcastic  one-  -is  the 
contemporary  of  the  bicycle.  The  social 
significance 
is  receiving  considerable 
attention  from  all  purveyors  of  public 
opinion 
the  press,  the  pulpit,  gossip; 
indeed, 
everyone  must  needs  com­
ment  on  the  subject.

Indeed,  the  new  woman”  

But  there  are  some  economic  features 
of  the  wheel  movement  that  have  re­
In  fact,  few  rea­
ceived  less  attention. 
lize  how  widespread  is  its  influence 
in 
the  manufacturing  and  commercial 
world.  And,  great  as  that  influence  has 
already  become,  every  indication points 
to greatly  increased  significance  in  the 
immediate  future.  The  tremendous  in­
crease  in  the  use  of  the  wheel  of  the 
present  year, which  has  much  more  than 
doubled 
the 
country,  bids  fair  to  be greatly  outdone 
another  season. 
It  would  seem  that  the 
time  is  not  far distant  when  the  wheel 
will  he  a  necessity  for  all  able-bodied, 
and  many  not  so  able-bodied,  of  town 
and  country.

its  number 

throughout 

Among  its  more  manifest 

influences 
is  its  effect  on  other  modes of  transpor­
tation.  Perhaps  as  little  has  been  said 
about  its  effect  on  walking  as a mode of i

If  its  present  ratio 
the  use of the  latter becomes  universal,  j 

|  progression  as  any. 
I of  increase’ continues  it  bids  fair  soon 
| to relegate  pedestrianism to  the category 
of  lost arts.  Wheelmen  will  bear  wit­
ness  that  walking  soon becomes  tedious 
in  contrast with  the  wheel,  and  when 

as  it  seems  to  promise,  walking  must 
needs  be almost  discontinued. 
Indeed,  j 
we  may  imagine  in  the  not  distant  fu­
ture  how  our children  will  be told  of  the 
time  when  people  could  only  get  about I 
by  walking  or riding  on  the  backs  of 
animals  or  in  clumsy  vehicles  drawn  by 
such animals,  except  on 
long  journeys 
by  train.

And  this  observation  brings  us  to  the 
effect of  the wheel  on  the  horse.  The 
displacement  of  the  noble  animal  by 
electricity  for street  car traffic  in  all  the 
towns  of  the  country  has  already  exert­
ed a  greatly  depressing  influence  on  the 
value  of  the  medium  grades'  of  horses.
I he  advent  of  the  bicycle  has  almost 
completed  the  destruction  of  the  trade 
in  those  grades  and 
in  addition  has 
worked  sad  havoc  with  the  dividends  of 
the  street  rai 1 ways  as  well.  There  has 
never been  a  time  when  horse-flesh  was 
so  nearly  worthless  as  the  present;  there 
is  generally  no  market  for  it  at  any 
price.  And  the  day  of  dividends  on 
street  railways has  been  put  into the  far 
distant  future  by  the  same  means  in  a 
majority  of  the  towns  of  the  country.

It would naturally follow that  the  car­
riage  trade  must  suffer  from  the  same 
causes. 
1 he  intelligence  comes  from  a 
large  number  of  the  most  extensive  car­
riage  manufacturers  that  they  are  pre­
paring  to  add  the  building  of  bicycles 
to  their  business.  The  carriage  trade 
has so greatly  fallen  off  it 
is  necessary 
to  do  this  to  continue  their  plants  at 
anything  near  the  former  scale.

This  influence of  the  bicycle  on  the 
horse and  carriage  trade 
is  dependent 
on  another  cause  in  addition  to  its  dis­
placement  of  their  use,  viz.. 
the  fact 
that  the  money  that  would  ordinarily 
have  been  expended  in  that and  similar 
trade  has  been  monopolized  by  the 
wheel.  When  the amount  of  money  thus 
invested  is  taken  into  consideration 
it 
will  be  found  of  no  small  importance, 
and  that  it  has  had  a  great  influence  on 
many  other  lines  of  trade.

Indeed,  it 

impossible  to 

realize 
how  far this  influence  extends;  and  it 
is  interesting  to  speculate  as  to  where 
it  will  end. 

W.  N.  F.

is 

Impossibility  of  Compulsory  Arbi­

tration.

Arbitration,  says  Justice  Henry  B. 
Brown,  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court,  in  the  August  number of  the Fo­
rum,  is  thought  by  some  to  promise  a 
I solution  of  ' all  these  problems, 
and 
where  a  dispute  turns  simply  upon  a 
rate of  wages  it  may  often  be  a  conven­
ient  method  of  adjustment.  Yet 
its 
function  is,  after all,  merely  advisory. 
It  cannot  compel  an  employer  to  oper­
ate  his  establishment  at  a  loss ; 
it  can­
not  compel  employes  to  work  for 
less 
wages  than  they  may  choose  to  demand. 
If  it  could,  it would  re-establish  slavery 
under  the  name  of  an  award.  The 
whole  theory of  arbitration  presupposes 
voluntary  action  a  voluntary  submis­
sion  of something  in  dispute—a  volun­
tary  performance  of  an  award.  Compul­
sory arbitration  is  a  misnomer—a  con­
tradiction  in  terms.  One  might  as  well 
speak  of  an  amicable  murder  or  a 
friendly  war.  There  are  certain  things, 
too,  which  cannot  be  arbitrated.  Sup­
pose  a  labor  union  should  assume  to 
dictate  who  should  be employed and  up­
on  what  terms,  of  whom material  should 
be  purchased,  and  to  whom  sales  should 
be  made.  This  involves  no  more  nor 
less  than  the  control  of  one’s  business, 
the  surrender  of  which  could  not  be 
made  without  the  certainty  of  ultimate 
bank'ruptcy.

15

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1  J E S S   Plug  Tobacco 
J E S S
Why is lh> re such a sale on this brand?
1st— Because it is made of the choicest of leaf, 
nd- Because it is wrapped with the choicest of wrappers.
:5rd — Because it is cased to suit the taste of the 'arse majority of ehewers. 
4th— Because it is sold . t a price within the reach of ail.
Our success with the plug has shown us that we can se’l a tobacco under 
private brand if the goods are right, so we have introduced a tine cut also, whie 
Jess  Fine  Cut  Tobacco
we trust will be given the same recepti n the plug has.

Musselman  Grocer  Co.

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

W e  tell  you 
H ow  good—

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

good  Highland  Brand Vinegar is.

Highland  Brand  Vinegar 

Is Superior=~=«=

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

A  Clerk’s  Opinion  of  the  Clerks’  j 

Corner.

1  had  made  an 

1  have  been  crowding  so  much  wis­
dom  into  the  last  one or two  of my  talks 
to  the  boys  that  I  thought the  time  had 
come  for  me  to  drop  in  here  and  there 
to  see  if 
impression. 
is  a  grocery  near  where  1  go 
There 
pretty  often  and  1  know  the 
1 radesman 
has  a  regular  subscriber  there,  for  1 
im­
have  seen  the grocer  reading  it. 
proved  an  opportunity  when 
1  knew 
in  the  business  and 
there  was  a  lull 
sauntered  in.

I 

Tradesman  here?

"D o   vnu  take  tlu 
I'd  like  to  look  at  it. ”

It  was  politely  handed  to  me  and, 
looking  it  over  for  a  time,  1  returned 
it  to the  clerk,  a  bright  young  fellow  of 
lo  or  ’o  years,  1  should  guess,  win 
resting  after an  active  morning.

"D o   vnu  find  the  paper  about  what 

you  want?

| money-two-or-three-times-over.  What
kind  of  stuff  ’s  that  to  put  into a  paper, 
1  should  like  to  know? 
if  1  earn  mine 
once,  I ’m  satisfied,  but  Boss  would  just 
to  have  m e   j , ,   ¡t two or three times
I'd  like  to  know  mighty  well 
over. 
what  ground  they  put 
it  on— earning 
your money  three  or  four  times  over! 

yes  I  would.
‘ ' Been  here  long?”
"  'Bout  a  year  and  a half. ”
“ Like  it?”
'' Yes,  pretty  well. ’ ’
"W ell  enough  to  go  right  on  with 

I  it?”

"Why,  yes,  1  think  so. 

I'd  have  a 
better  anil  a  bigger  store  than  this, 
though.

" 1   suppose  if  you  had  the  money 
for  buying  Mr.  Boss  out, 
veil'd  be 
wouldn't  you?  Be  a  nice  thing  to  start 
to-morrow,  for  instance,  wouldn’t 
it?”  
"W ell,  not  quite  so quick  as  that.  A 
was j fellow’s  got  to  learn  a  lot  of  things  that 
1  1  don’t  know  yet  before  he can  go  into 
business  for  himself.”

"Y ou  are  learning  these  things  right 

up

tem.

There  is an  original  man 

After  lie  gets  through  with 

Flint  tickled  Boss  hugel y and 

Unique  Substitute  for  the  Cash  S y s ­

l iiere's an  old 

thing  in  that,”   1  came  away.Uncle Bob.

It  takes an  original  man  to solve diffi­
culties  these  days.  So  many  ordinary 
men  have tried  to do  it inordinary  ways 
that  the  difficulties  that  still  exist  yield 
only  to  original  methods.

along  now,  1  suppose?”
"W ell,  yes,  slowly.”
"Then  it’s  barely  possible  that  Mr. 
Boss thinks  that  this  mercantile  learn­
ing  is  worth  something.  Your wages are 
for  the  work  you  do,  and  the  double 
earning  balances the  instruction  you  are 
getting  every  day.  See?”   And  while  he 
was  saying,  “ Wall,  there  may  be  some­

■ ‘ Yes,  it's  a  pretty  good  paper.  Mr. 
Boss  thinks  he  can’t  get  along  without 
it,  he
it.
me. 
hands 
it  ov 
the  Clerks'  Column 
duffer  writ in 
down  that  just  to  see
and  1  like  to
what lit says.  He '»  trying  t<>  make out
in tin­ mora­
that a  ffiler  must  igit  up 
i ng, and  wash  his face  and tinniils  and
the store
put  <HI his  bib  ami1  sweep  out
and k e < *p  his  fingt■r  nails cleain ; and  the
1nit  one,  he
last time-,  or  tin-  1;ast  t i me 
was tl'Vi ng  to  make  out  tli:it  a feller
salary  set,-eral times
should earn  his
1
over
got  the  paper  a 
little  earlier  that  day 
on  account  of  it. 
The  trouble  with  tin­
man  that  does  the  writing  is,  that  he 
don’t  know  what  he's  talking  about. 
in  Tempe, 
I’d  like  to  have  him  come  in  here  and 
Arizona,  and  he  is  in  business.  He  has 
work  a  week,  and  then  write  up  his 
i  been  bothered  for  years  by  bad  debts 
Clerks'  Column. 
That  would  make
some  spicy  reading,  now  1  tell  you.  and  long-time  credit and  determined  to 
\ mi  wouldn  t  hear  anything  about  dip- (put  a  stop  to  it.
ping  your  hands  in  water 
So  far as  this
the dirt  iff onto a  towel,  1 
that, 
i  bet  a  dollar  by  the  time  the 
week  was  out  lie'll  chuck  his  collar  and 
necktie  into  the  litter barrel,  and  if  any- 
bodv  said  anything  about  his 
linger 
nails,  lie  punch 
im  in  the ribs !  Mighty 
nice  thing  to  sit  down  to  a  desk  where 
it's  nice  and  cool  anil  clean  and  tell an­
other  feller  how to  keep  the  dirt  off  a 
good  deal  easier  than  it  is  to  skin  out 
of  beil  at  half  past  four  in  the  morning 
and  go  through  his  programme  to  open 
up  the  store.  As  he  fixes  it  up,  it  is  as 
easy  as  falling  off  a  log;  but  1  tell  you 
what,  when  everything’s  said  and  done, 
the best  place  in  the  world,  to  have  a 
good  big  bile, 
is  on  another  feller’s 
neck.

is  nothing 
tell  you I striking  about  the  matter.  There  are 
thousands  of  men  in  trade  to-day  who 
feel  exactly  as  this  man  felt.  For  years 
and  years  they  have  toiled  early  and 
late,  schemed  and  planned  to  gain  a 
competence behind the  counter, and year 
after  year they  have seen  the  profits  of 
their  labors eaten  up  by  bad  debts  and 
uncollectible accounts.
Their  ledgers  are  filled  with  epitaphs 

They  have  struggled  on,  making  the 
living 
best  of  a  bad  bargain, 
living 
well  but  laying  nothing  up  for a  rainy 
day.  They  have  longed 
lor  the  cash 
system,  but have  passed  it  by  with  the 
conviction  that  it  was  impossible.
Not  so  this  retailer.  He  studied  the 
matter and  at  last  determined  upon  a 
plan  whereby  he  could  achieve  a  result 
approximating  the  cash  basis,  yet  not 
requiring  the  possession  of  cash  by  the 
purchaser.  Original,  was  it  not?
The  dealer  first  made  his  basic  rule, 

which  was,  “ Not  one  cent’s  worth  sold 
on  credit. ”   The  customer  who  found 

"What  does  Mr.  Boss  say  about  it?”
"Nothing. 
"I’would 
give  me  a  chance  to  tell  him  what  I 

think  about  things,  and  1  would  you 

on  their mercantile  ambitions.

1  wish  he  did. 

anil  wipm

s  there 

bet  your  bottom  dollar,  1  would.  After
lie  gits  through  reading  the  paper  he 
gives  it  to  me.  He  reads  with  his  pen­
cil  in  his  hand  and  when  he  comes 
across anything  lie  likes,  he  moistens 
the  pencil  and  makes a  big  black  mark 
it. ) 
close  to  the  line. 
O,  he  likes  it.  He Jbiuks  there  ain't 
anything  ill  the  paper  like  the  Clerks’ 
Column.  One  of  these  days,  when  the 
old  chap  crosses  the line and talks about 
tin-  other side of  things, 
I'm  going  to 
get  hold  of  the  paper first  and  do a little 
marking  on  my  own account.”

(1  -had  noticed 

“ What  were  some  of  the  things  he 

marked?”

“ Well,  there  was  the  earning-your-

he could  buy  nothing  except  for  cash 
and  who  hail  no cash  was  told  to  make 
out  a  list  of  his purchases.  This being 
done,  a  promissory  note  for  the  amount 
was  made  out,  signed  by  the  purchaser 
and  the  proper amount  without discount 
given  him  by  the  cashier.  The  custom­
er then  paid  for  his  purchases  with  the 
cash  thus  obtained.
The  originator  of  this  idea  states  that 
it  works  well  and  is,  he  believes,  the 
only  system  of  the  sort  that  will  operate 
satisfactorily 
It 
gives  the  merchant  promissory  notes 
instead  of  open  accounts,  which  are 
not  only  more  easily  collected,  but  are 
negotiable and  may  be  discounted  when 
money  is  needed  and  when  book  ac­
counts  are  but a  jeering  mockery.

in  country  districts. 

Holes

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Sugar  Card-Granulated.

Sugar  Card—Granulated.

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association

Association  Matters
President, E.  W h it e :  Secretary, E. A.  St o w e: 
Treasurer, J .   G e o .  L e h m a n .
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ Association
4)4 pounds for 25 cents 
5*/4 cents per pound. 
10 pounds for 50 cents. 
20 pounds for $1.
President,  By r o n  C.  H i l l : Secretary, W. 11.  Por­
t e r : Treasurer. J. F.  H e l m e r .
5!4 cents per pound. 
9*4 pounds for 50 cents 
19 pounds for $1.
President. .1. F. T a t m a n, Clare:  Secretary, E. A. 
St o w e, Grand Rapids: Treasurer. J.  W is l e k , 
Manrelona.
Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association. 
President. A. D. W h ip p l e : Secretary, G.T. C a m p­
b e l l ; Treasurer,  W . E.  C o l l in s.
President, F. S. C a r l e t o n , Ca umet: Vice Presi­
dent,  H e n r y  C.  W e b e r   Detroit;  Secretary- 
Treasurer,  H e n r y  C.  M in n ie , Eaton Rapids.
Grand  Rapids  Fruit  Growers’ Association. 
President, It. D.  G r a h a m : Secretary, M. W. 
Ron a n : Treasurer,  II. O.  Hra m an.

Northern  Mich.  Retail  Grocers’  Association

Michigan  Hardware  Association.

G R A P E S   AND  P EA C H ES.

Observations  of  a  Detroit  Grocer  on 

Grand  Rapids  Orchards.

Detroit,  Aug. 

19-  Without  bearing 
down  very  heavily  on  the  fact,  that 
through  ray  own  stupidity,  I  failed  “ to 
hook  on”   at  the  proper  time 
in  the 
morning,  let  me  say  that  later 
in  the 
day  1  managed  “ to  get  there,  with  both 
feet,”   if  I  may  be  permitted  to drop in­
to  the  vernacular  of  the  street.  The 
“ there”   in  this  instance,  was  the  farm 
of  W.  K.  Munson,  a  name by  no  means 
nnknown  in  the  fruit  growing  circles  of 
Michigan.

A  street  car  took  me as  far  as  the  law 
allows,  and  from  that  pi out my own  pri­
vate  conveyance  was  depended  on  for 
the  remainder  of  the journey. 
1'hat,  af­
ter all,  is  the  royal  way  to  travel.  Tes­
la  may  harness  the  lightning  streak  to 
the  flashing  car  and  time  and  distance 
may  be annihilated ;  but  what  I  was  af­
ter  was  to  get  an  idea  of  the  country  to 
the  north  or  Grand  Rapids  the  condi­
tion  of  the  roads,  the  lay  of  the  land, 
the  fertility  of  the  soil,  the  farm-dotted 
landscape,  where  the  sun  was  already 
painting  the  peaches and the plums, and 
where  the conscious  grape  was  making 
itself  royal  in  robes of  purple.

The  sun  was  hot  -good  corn  weather
-but  the grass  was green  and  cool,  and 
the  wind  from  the  ripening  fruit 
laid 
its  peach-scented  palms  upon  my  face 
and  so greeted  me  upon  my  first country 
outing  for over a  twelve  month.  Still? 
There  was  nothing  astir  hut  the  wind; 
and  so  light  was  its  tread,  that the grass 
only  bent beneath  its  passing  footstep. 
The  locust  that  likes  to  stab  the  silence 
of  the  August  noon  with  its sharp  sound 
had  gone  to  sleep  and  the  dunes  which 
the winds have  made  from  the  shifting 
sands  lay  basking  in  the  hot  sun,  bare­
ly  protected 
its  beams  by  the 
scanty  covering  ot  the  scattered  grass 
and  burweed. 
It  was  a  typical  August 
day;  and  when  the driver  of  a  passing 
milk  wagon  asked  me  if  1  would  ride, 
I  forgot  about  the  royal 
independence 
of a  private conveyance  and  concluded, 
in  spite of  the  Psalmist,  to  put  my  trust 

in  the  stiength  of  the  milkman’s  horse. 

from 

A  few  minutes  later  found  me  at  the 
well,  with  a glass  of  its  dripping  cool­
ness,  and  then,  with  the  stains  of  the 
dusty  road  removed,  the  business  of  the 
afternoon  began.
The  vineyard  ot  Mr.  Munson  first 
claimed  the  attention;  and  while  the 
looked 
vines,  to  my  untrained  eyes, 
heavy  with  the  abundant  clusters, 
the 
frost  had  already  materially lessened the 
promise of  early  spring,  while  the  hail 
of  a  recent  storm  had 
in  some  places 
made  the crop  still  smaller. 
is  evi­
dent  that  there  are  lively  times when the 
grape  harvest  begins.  Here  was  the 
room  ready'  even  now  for  the  packers. 
Over  head  the baskets are  stored  for the 
coming  “ season,”   and  on  all sides  were 
the  signs  of  that  portentious  lull  which

It 

precedes the coming  storm.  What  was 
of  great  interest to  me  is  the  system  of 
cold  storage,  without  ice,  which  the ac­
tive  brain  of  Mr.  Munson  devised. 
It 
is  simplicity  itself,  a  fact  which greatly | 
commends  it.  A  cottage  has  been  pro­
vided  with  a  tall  cylinder  through  the 
roof.  Large  tiles  conducted  the air  un­
der ground  to  the  cellar  from  remote 
openings.  Holes  are  cut  in  the  floor  of 
the  cottage  and  the  draft  through  the 
tall  cylinder  is  sufficient  to  keep  the  air | 
inside  at  the required  temperature.  By 
this means,  when  the  picking  begins,  it 
goes  on  without 
interruption,  the  cold 
storage  receiving  each  day’s  surplus.

There are  no  peach  orchards  on  the 
Munson  farm,  and  when the rounds here 
had  been  taken,“  Kittie”   was harnessed 
to  the tilbury and  away  we  went  over 
the  road  which,  in  the  distance,  looked 
like  a  ribbon  of  tan,  winding  with 
many a  turn  among  the hills and  knolls. 
Had  the  roads been  rockier and lined by 
stone walls,  it  would  have  been  easy  to 
fancy  that  1  was  riding  through a neigh­
borhood  of  New  England  farm s;  but  I 
missed  the  sprouting  white  birch  and 
the  chestnut  woods  which  are  common 
there,  and  the  absence  of  the  “ thank- 
you-ma’ams”   in  the  New  England  road 
banished  that  thought  and  kept  before 
me  the  plain  fact  that  1  was  becoming 
acquainted  with  Michigan  instead.

In  due  time a  peach  orchard  came  in 
view. 
In  due time  “ Old  K it”   stopped, 
and,  shortly after,  there  was  an  exten­
sive  testing  of  peaches  from  trees bend­
ing  to  the  ground  with  the  almost  clus­
tered, 
It  was  a 
pleasure  I  had  not  indulged  in  for  years 
and 

I  made  up  for  lost  time!

red-cheeked 

fruit. 

With thanks  for  the  feast,  we went  on, 
and,  when  we stopped  again,  it  was  at 
the  home  of  a  genuine  peach-grower. 
There  were  peaches  to  right  of  us, 
peaches to  left  of  us,  peaches  around 
u s;  and  as  far as the  eye  could  look 
in 
either direction  it  was 
its 
in 
range  by  the  green  foliage  of  “ the  em­
erald  peach”   -emerald  no  longer, 
for 
the  sun  was  even  then  at  work,  turning 
the green  to a  comely  red.

limited 

Think  of  an orchard  of  ninety  acres 
of  peach  trees,  bending 
;.lmost  every 
one of  them  with  fruit  burdens  until  the 
branches  reach  the ground !  The  weight 
of  many  of  them  was too  great  and  the 
houghs  were  split  or  broken  with  it. 
Five or six  men  were at  work  and  little 
less  than  magic  was  the  speed  with 
which  a  tree  was  stripped  of 
its  fruit.
I  had  fancied  I  had  seen  peaches  and  a 
peach  orchard. 
I 
had  supposed  that  my  past  experience 
would  warrant  any  statement  I  might 
make,  however extravagant.  That,  too, 
was  a  delusion;  and  I  will  simply  say, 
in  conclusion,  that  I  know  a  little some­
thing  about  peaches,  but  not  much;  I 
have  in  my  time  consumed  a  few ; 
I 
have  walked  over  a  part  of  a  ninety- 
acre  peach  farm ;  but the man who wants 
to get  a good idea of the [»each must go  to 
the  peach  orchards,  as  I  have  and  look 
and  look  anil  keep  his  tongue  still!

It  was  a  delusion. 

Oc c a sio n a l.

The Off  Horse  in  Trade.

In  these  days  of  combined  business 
interests  and  unity  of action,  legitimate 
trade  principles  should  be  the  guiding 
star  the  beacon  light 
toward  which 
life's  barque  should  be  guided.  No 
steps backward  should he  taken  a  for­
ward  movement all  along the line  should 
be  the watchword;  yet,  in  the  face  of 
such  a  desirable  desideratum,  the “ off 
horse"  ever  and  always  appears  the 
one  disturbing  element,  the  unknown 
quantity  to  mar  life’s  pleasures  and 
business  relations.

Committees  on  Trade 

Interests  or 
trade journals have no  influence  in  keep- 
I  ing  the  “ off horse”   in  line.  He  knows 
his line—-he  knows  more  about  business 
principles  and  trade  interests  than  all 
the  combined  teachings  of  the  retail 
j trade.  He  runs  his  own  business,  buys 
| as  he  chooses and  sells  as  he  pleases,
! and  110  effort  of  the  trade  can  draw  him 
within 
its  charm  or  harness  his  un­

tamed,  untutored  and  unbusinesslike 
methods  or  bring  them 
into  harmony 
with  the  trade.  He  is  a  law  unto  him­
self,  and  no  influence  which  legitimate 
trade  can  throw  around  him  will  check 
his  everlasting  bull-headedness or  open 
his  understanding.  What  he  doesn’t 
know about business  isn’t  worth  know­
ing.  He banks  on  the  fact  that  be owns 
his  stock  of  goods  and  that  no  law  of 
trade  interests  reaches  him  or  controls 
his  action. 
If  he  pays  $4.96  for  granu­
lated  sugar,  hasn’t  he a  perfect  right  to 
sell  at  5  cents? 
If  he  pays  Si. 15  per 
dozen  for canned  corn,  hasn’t  he  equal­
ly  good  right  to  sell  it at  10  cents—trade 
interests  to  the  contrary  notwithstand­
ing?  He  will  pay 
11  cents  for  eggs 
when  they  are only quoted  at  10^2  cents 
at  the  trade  centers.  He  pays 
14  cents 
regardless  of  quality  or 
for  butter, 
strength,  sometimes  paying  more  for 
butter that’ ‘ can walk down cellar, ’ ’there­
by  placing  a  premium  on  poor  grades 
and  discouraging  the  making  of  better 
grades,  finally  dumping  all  promiscu­
ously  into  a  barrel  and  shipping  it  to 
the bogus creamery butter  factory.  His 
system  of buying  and  selling is  rotten to 
the core.  His  influence on  the  trade  is 
vile  and  pernicious  and  every  square 
dealer  is  damaged  thereby.  No 
influ­
ence  can  be  brought  to  bear  to  check 
his  reckless manner  of  conducting  his 
business.  He  is  the  “ off  horse’ ’ 
in 
every  community,  and  our  organiza­
tions  and  legitimate  trade  interests have 
no  restraining  influence  over  him.  He 
is  the  Aaron  who  forges  the golden  calf 
for  malcontents  and  pirates  of  the  trade 
who how  the  knee  to  worship  with  P i­
late  or  Barrabbas.  No  system of educa­
tion  can  bring  him  into  line  or stay  his 
reckless  course  in  business.  Such deal­
ers are  the cancers  in  trade,  the  leeches 
in  business,  the shysters  in the commun­
ity.  Sooner or  later they  are  pushed  to 
the wall  and  the  red  flag  of  the  sheriff 
or auctioneer  floats  over  the  doors  of 
their  [»laces  of  business.  Their  mem­
ory  is  a  stench,  sweetened  only  by  the 
thought  that  they  have  gone  to  fill  the 
ranks swollen  by  the  fool-killer,  whose 
epitaph  is  mene  tekel  weighed  in  the 
balance  and  found  wanting.

There  is  left  but  one  course  for  the 
to buy  and 
ignoring 
the  “ off 

legitimate  dealer  to  pursue 
sell  on  an  honorable  system, 
the shyster and  tramp  dealer 
horse’ ’  in  trade  and  business.

The  world  moves,  the  masses  are 
reading  and  are  being  educated.  No 
intelligent  community  asks  or  expects 
at  this  late date  for goods  to be  handled 
simply  for  love or  fun.  Civilization  ex­
pects business  to  be  done  for  profit  and 
gain,  and  he  who  caters  to  the  credulity 
of  a  gaping  crowd  reckons  without  his 
host.  Double  dealing  and  recklessness 
will  soon  relegate  the  shyster  to  the  rear 
of  the  procession,  while  the  square, 
upright,legitimate  dealer  will  have  the 
respect  of  his  fellows,  the  approval  of 
the good  and  true  and,  in  the  final  reck­
oning,  will  he  [»all  bearers  for  that  con­
summate  jackass 
in 
trade.

the  “ off  horse”  

J.  V.  C r a n d a l l.

Sand  Lake,  Mich.

The  pack  of  salmon  for  this  season 
in  Northern  British  Columbia  is  174,000 
cases by  sixteen  canneries,  against 130,-
000  cases  last  year by  twelve  canneries. 
The  great  increase  in  this 
industry  in
I that  locality  is  attributed  to  the fact that 
the  seals  which  prey on  the  salmon  are 
rapidly  becoming  extinct.

left  for the  foundation  of  the New  York 

Of  the  §6,000,000  Samuel  J.  Tilden
Public  Library,  about  one-half  will  be 
realized  for  the  purpose,  the  remainder 
being  sacrificed  by  a  compromise  with
j the  contesting  heirs  of  the  rest  of thees- 
1 tate.

1 

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

Going to Detroit.

Going  to  Chicago.

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

To and from Lowell.

Returning from  Detroit.

To  and  from  Huskegon.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and Petoskey.

“ T tt Niagara  Falls Route."__

Oct. 28, 1894 
^Lansing  &  Northern  R’y

Mic h ig a n  (Ten tral

Travelers’  Time  Tables.
Lv. G’d Rapids 6:00am 1:25pm *6:30pm *11:30pm
CHICAGO and West  Michigan R’y
Ar. Chicago___12:05pm 6:50pm 6:00am 
6:25am
Lv. Chicago.............................7:20am 5:(J0pm *ll:45pm
Ar. G’d Rapids.....................12:40pm 10:40pm *6:30am
Lv. G'd Rapids.................. 6:00am  1:25pm  6:30pm
Ar. G'd Rapids.
................11:30am 5:15pm 10:40pm
Lv. G’d Rapids...................*8:00am  1:00pm 11:00pm
Ar. Manistee........................12:55pm
Ar. Traverse Oity.............*1:20pm  4:50pm 4:00am
Ar. Charlevoix ........., ..*3:50pm  6:30pm  6:30am
Ar. Petoskey........................*4:20pm  6:55pm 7:00am
Trains arrive from north at 5:30a.m., 11:45a.m., 
1:00p.m., *1:30p.m.
Parlor Cars leave Grand Rapids 6:00a.m., 1:25 
p.m.; leave Chicago 7:20a m , 5:00p.m. Sleeping 
Cars leave Grand Rapids *11:30 p.m.; leave Chi­
cago *11:45 p.m.
»Every day.  Others week days only.___________
Lv. Grand Rapids............7:00am  1:20pm 5: ¿5pm
DETROIT
Ar. Detroit............................11:40am  5:30pm 10:10pm
Lv. Detroit.............................7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..........12:4Hpm  5:20pm 1 :45pm
Lv. G R7:40am5:00pm Ar. G R 11:35am 10:45pm 
Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:^ am  1:20pm  5:25pm
.....
Ar. from Lowell..............12:40pm  5:20pm 
Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rap­
ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.  Trains week days only.
_________L. M.  F u l l e r , Chief Clerk. Pass. Dep’t.
Arrive  Depart
Detroit Express ..................................10:20pm 
:00am
»Atlantic Express..................................6:30am 11:20pm
New York Express...............................11:45am 6:00pm
»Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday. 
Sleeping cars run on all night trains to and 
from Detroit.  Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 
7:00a.m., reaching Detroit at 12:20p.m.: return­
ing, leave Detroit 4:35p.m., arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20p.m.  Direct communication made 
at Detroit with all through trains east over the 
Michigan Central Railroad (Canada Southern 
Division.) 
A.  A lm q u is t, Ticket Agent, 
____________________________Union Passenger Station.
+No. 14  +.No. 16  tXo. 18  *Xo. 82 
DETROIT, Grand  Haven  &
Lv. G’d Rapids.6:45am 10: 0am  3:25pm 11:0.ipm
Ar. Ionia...........7:40am 11:25am  4:27pm 12:35am
Ar. St. Johns. .8:25am 12:17pm  5:2opm  1:25am
Ar. Owosso___9:00am  1:20pm  6:05pm  3:)0am
Ar.E.Saginaw 10:50am  3:4'pm  8:00pm  6:40am 
Ar. Bay City.. 11:30am  4:35pm  8:37pm  7:15am
5:40am
Ar. Flint...........10:05am  3:45pm  7:05pm
7:t0am
Ar. Pt. Huron. 12:05pm  5:50pm  8:50pm 
Ar. Pontiac... 10:53am  3:05pm  8:25pm 
5:37am
7:00am
Ar. Detroit... 11:50am  4:05pm  9:25pm 
.*8:40am 
ForG'd Haven and Intermediate Pts.
.+1:00pm 
For G’d Haven and Muskegon....................
.45:35pm 
ForG'd Haven, Milwaukee and Chi___
For G'd Haven, Milwaukee and Chi___
*7:40pm
ForG’d Haven and Milwaukee..
.........tlO :05pm
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily, 
Trains arrive 
from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m. 
30p.m., 10:00
p.m.  Trains arrive from the west, 6:4*>a.m., 8:¡5 
a.m., 10:10a.m., 3:15p.m., 7:05p m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlor Buffet 
car.  No.  18 Parlor car.  No. 82 Wagner sleeper.
Westward  No. 11 Parlor car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner sleeper.
J a s.  C a m p b e l l, City Ticket Agent.
Northern  Div.Leave  Arrive
GRAND
Trav. Cy., Petoskey & Mack. 
.+7:00am t 5:15pm 
Trav. Cy., Petoskey  & Mack.. .*8:00am *10:00pm
Traverse City........... 
.......................+5:25pm til:30am
Saginaw.................................................t5:00pm til :00pm
Petoskey and Mackinaw...........£10:45pm t 6:20am
7:0.ia.m. train has through cars to Saginaw. 
8:00a.m. train has parlorcars for Mackinaw. 5:25 
p.m. train has parlor car for Traverse City. 10:45 
p.m.  train has sleeping cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Div.Leave  Arrive
Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo.t 7:25am 
t9:15pm
Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo...........t 2:00pm 
t2:15pm
Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo.*10:15pm  *6:50am
Kalamazoo..........................................t  6:00pm  t9:  am
7:25a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 
10:15p.m. train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, 
Indianapolis and Louisville.
Lv. G'd Rapids.............»7:25am tz :00pm tlO :15pm
Ar. Chicago........................2:40pm  9:05pm  7:10am
2:00p.m  train has through coach.  10:15p.m. 
train has through coach and sleeping car.
Lv. Ch: cago......................t6:50am  t3:00pm *11:30pm
Ar. G'd Rapids...............2:15pm  9:15pm  6:50am
3:00p.m. train has through coach and 11:30p.m. 
has through coach and sleeping car.
Lv G’d RapdistV :25am tl :00pm 78:30am t5:40pm 
Ar Muskegon, ,8:50am  2:10pm  9:55am  7:05pm 
Lv Muskegon.*9:13amtl2:05pm 76:30pm t4:05pm 
Ar G'd RapidslO:30am  1:15pm  7:55pm  5:20pm 
tExcept Sunday.  »Daily. 
iSunday only.
C. L. Lockwood,
A. Almquist, 
Ticket Agt. Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass.  & Tkt. Agt.

Rapids  &  Indiana  Railroad

Milwaukee  Railway

Muskegon T rains.

Aug.  18,  1895 

Chicago  Trains.

Westward.

Eastward.

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

I  ids  Mutual  Building  &  Loan  Associa- 
| tion  and  a  half  owner  of  Barlow  Bros.,
| the  most  prosperous  and 
successful 
binding  establishment  in  the  State.

Mr.  Barlow  was  married  March  20,
I  1871,  to  Miss  Julia  R.  Hall.  Three 
j  children  have  blessed  the  union,  only 
one of  whom  survives  Miss Julia-  who 
is  well-known  in  social,  charitable  and 
society circles.

While  employed  as  shipping  clerk  for 
Cody  &  Olney,  Mr.  Barlow  originated 
and  had  patented  the  Barlow  manifold 
shipping  book,  which  has  been  one  of 
the best  money-making  devices  of  the 
age.

the  abrupt  question.

‘ ‘ How «lid  you  happen  to  do  it?”   was 

j  which  have  to  be  done  by  somebody, 

it  was  one  of  those  things 

‘ ‘ Why, 

I 
and  I  suppose  I  was  the one to do  it. 
never  meant  to  do  anything  of  the  kind 
and  it  was  a  sort  of  necessity-is-the- 
mother-ot-mve'ition  affair  all  around.

MEN  OF  M ARK.

Heman  Q.  Barlow,  Secretary  of  the 

Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.

There  may  be  a  question  about  the 
truth  of  the statement  that  a  man  is  the 
creature of circumstances,  but  there  has 
never been  a  doubt 
in  my  mind  that 
natural  surroundings  have  much  to  do 
with  the  human  life  brought  up  under 
such  influences.

William  Tell  may  or may  not  be  the 
myth a  modern  iconoclast  has  asserted, 
but,  admitting  all  that  was  claimed  for 
him  his  love  of  liberty  and  his  rnanly 
independence  he  could  no  more  help 
playing  the  part  he  did  in  Switzerland’s 
historical  drama  than  he  could  help 
breathing  the  air  that  the  Alps  sent 
down  to  him 
from  their  bonnets  of 
never-melting  snow.  That  may  be  an 
extreme  example,  but  in  a  less  degree 
is  true of  every  one  of  us. 
the  same 
The  boy,  prairie  born,  and  of 
the 
same blood  as  his  cousin  whose home  is 
among  the rocky  hills,  will  show  when 
they  are  together  the  influences  of  the 
plain;  and  he  of  the  hills  will  tell  in 
numberless ways  what  the  rocks  have 
done  to  fashion  the  life  committed  to 
thei r care.

I  thought  of  this  when  writing  the 
name  of  Rockton,  an  Ontario  village, 
where  Mr.  Barlow  was  born  one  day  in 
March  when  the  half  of  the  century’s 
1  wondered  if 
course  was  run,  and 
when  the  brief 
interview  was  over,  1 
should  find,  here  and  there,  a  touch  of 
the highlands  and  anything  to  suggest 
the  “ sermons 
in  stones’ '  which  had 
been  preached  to  him  there.  The  eld­
est of  a  family  of  nine  children, 
is 
easy  to  understand  why  he  might  early 
be  called  upon  to  render a  helping hand 
in  that  numerous  household and  why  his 
school  days  ended  when  he was  12  years 
old.

it 

The  links  in  the  chain  of  his  mercan­
tile  career  are  soon  noted.  When  the 
time  came for  “ all  work, ’ ’ he  found  his 
way  to  Grand  Rapids,  where  he  was 
first employed by  Berkey  Bros,  in  their 
furniture  factory.  Then  Buddington  & 
Turnham,  retail  furniture  dealers,  en­
gaged  him  for a  year or two, after which 
he  turned  his  hand  to  something  in  the 
line  of  pailmaking  in  the  establishment 
of  Hon.  C.  C.  Comstock.  At  that  time 
he  decided  to  take  a  course 
in  book­
keeping  and  he  devoted  six  months  to 
mastering  that  attainment  at  Swens- 
berg’s  Commercial  College.  Ready  now 
for  the  serious  work  of  life,  he  struck 
the  center of  the  city  at  Grab  Corners— 
bad  name  that  for  a  trading  house!— 
and  began there his book-keeping  career 
in  the old  grocery  house  of  Crawford 
Bros.  Cody  &  Olney  then  wanted  him
this  was  about  1872  and  they  contin­
ued  to  want  him  for  seventeen  years, 
although  two  years 
in  the  meantime 
were  devoted  to  the  service  of  John 
Caulfield  and  C.  W. 
Jennings.  Shortly 
after  the organization  of  the  Olney  & 
Judson  Grocer  Co.,  Mr.  Barlow  pur­
in  the  concern  and 
chased  an 
was  elected  a  director  and, 
later,  Sec­
retary. 
In  th is  position  he  brought  to 
bear all  the  valuable  experience  he  had 
gained  during  his  seventeen  years’  con­
nection  with  the wholesale grocery  trade 
(on  the  strength  of  which  he  claims  to 
be  the oldest  in  point  of  experience  of 
any  one now  connected  with  the  whole­
sale  grocery  trade  of  this  market),  and 
to  his  devotion  and  experience  are  due, 
in  no  small  degree,  the  rapid  strides 
that  house  has  taken  in  forging  its  way 
to  the  front.  Mr.  Barlow is also a stock­
holder and  director  in  the  Reeder  Bros. 
Shoe  Co.,  a  director  in  the  Grand  Rap-

interest 

Mason Fruit Jars

We quote for immediate orders the following 
prices : packed one dozen in box, each jar in 
sep iraie compartments. Price subject to change.
No charge for box or cartage.
Per Gross.
Pints, wide mouth.............................................................$6.00
Quarts, wide mouth........................................................ 0.50
Half gallons, wide mouth...................................... 
8.50
Same packed in straw as before. 50 cents per 
gross less.
Extra caps and rubbers............................................$3.50
Rubber rings for Mason jars...........................................30
Mail orders di rect to

11.  Leonard  &  Sons,

GRAND
RAPIDS.

Grand  Rapids.

John  Brechting  *rchltcct

(Continued from last week) 
us his neighbor, who had an ar­
chitect and had a number of con­
tractors give him  prices.  Now. 
let us ci mpare the buildings: no­
tice 
the  height of 
foundation 
above grade line on both  build­
ings.  The usual case is that the 
con rac or building has but one 
course, while the other has three. 
Then notice the 
‘‘water table" 
finish.  Has the contractor any 
on bis building and is there any 
finish  at  the  top of  windows 
called -belt cour-eV”  Then no­
tice the gable finish a d porch 
finish and look about you and see 
if you cannot see the same pat­
tern on some other house which 
this carpenter built for its pattern.
(To be continued) 
Anybody having any question 
to ask on this subject will  be 
cheerfully answered.

Manufacturers of

FLAGS AND CANVAS COVERS 

M o r g a n   &  Co.
AWNINGS, TENTS,
YACHT SAILS A  SPECIALTY

187  Jefferson  Avenue 
DETROIT,  nich.

WILL BUY ALL KINDS OF
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

L. Q. Dunton & Co.
Office and Yard —Seventh St. and C. & W.M.R.R. 
LUnBER=Green  or  Dry
Pay the Best Profit.  Order from your jobber

n C r i / ’ C   H EAD ACH E.............
r C v K   ^  
.............. POW D ERS

“ 1  like  hills, 

| prise to be told: 
in  the 
first  place.  The air  is better there,  and 
when  down  town  it  is  dead  and  hardly 
worth breathing,  a  whiff of  the  air  on 
| the  higher  elevation  puts  new 
into 
; the being  that  breathes 
it.  Yes,  give 
me  the hills.  It  may  be  hard  sometimes 
| to  climb  them,  but  a  man  is  all  the bet­
ter when  he  reaches  the  top. ’ ’

life 

They  who  have  followed  me  so  far 
have  not  failed  to  notice  that  Mr.  Bar- 
low  has  made  but  a  single  move.  He 
came  from  Rockton  at  the  age  of  12  to 
Grand  Rapids,  and  has been  here  ever 
since.  There have  been  changes  from 
one  position  to another,  but  these  have 
been  made  on  the  same  ladder,  with 
every  move  bringing  the  climber  nearer 
the  top.  What  of  it?  Only  this:  He 
learned  a  lesson  from  the  rocks  before 
he  left  them.  He  saw  that  the  moss 
gatherers  were  not  the  stones  that  the 
quail  and  the  chipmunk  dodged,  but the 
rocks  that  cling  to  the  spot  where  Na­
ture  planted  them. 
It  was a  useful  les­
son 
for  the  young  life  to  learn,  and 
while  he  may  repeat  the proverb  of  the 
rolling  stone  and  the  moss, 
if  asked 
how  it  happened  that  he  made  but  a 
single  move,  the  rocks  at  Rockton  will 
be  the  foundation  of  the  answer,  and 
they  strengthen  the theory  of  the 
influ­
ence  of  early  surroundings  upon  human 
life and  character.

I  think 

I he  next  idea  is  pure  conjecture; and 
they  who  know  Mr.  Barlow  must  decide 
whether  it  be  whollv  wrong.  Granting 
that  the man  who  comes  to  a  place  and 
stays  and  builds  his house  on the  hilltop 
does so because  the  rocks  and the hills of 
the  long  ago  so  persuade  him,  does  the 
influence go  further  still? 
it 
does. 
If  Hugh  Miller  was  so  haunted 
by  the  rocks  that  they  gave  him  no 
peace  until  he 
imprinted  upon 
them  the  “ footprints  of  the  Creator, ”  
I  see  no  reason  why  the  same  spirit 
should  not  leave  such an  impression  up­
on  a  child  as to  give  bent  to  his  read­
ing ;  and  while  Mr.  Barlow  makes  no 
claim,  I  believe,  to  being  a  scientist,  I 
think  I  am  right  in  the  statement  that 
the  books  he  loves  best  are  scientific 
rather than  historical  or  those  based  on 
fiction.

found 

We  need  not  carry'  this  study  further. 
Theory  and  reasoning  alike  may  be 
illogical;  but  in  the  realm  of  fact, 
if 
our surroundings  early  in  life,  or  later, 
will  only  enable  us  to  realize,  as  Mr. 
Barlow  has  done,  the  truth  that  a  stone 
which  does  not  roll  gathers  moss,  we 
shall  be  reconciled  to  our  defective 
theory and  look  with  complacency  upon 
the abundant  moss which a logical  prac­
tice  has  realized.

Luther  Laflin  Mills, 

the  Chicago 
criminal  lawyer,  says  that  when  he  was 
a  boy  he  frequently  accompanied  his 
father,  who  was  a  wholesale  merchant, 
on  collecting  tours  through  the  North­
west.  They had  to  travel  by  wagon, 
and  as  the  father  would  have  large 
sums of  money  about  him  it  was  often 
a  problem  where  they  could  safely  put 
up  for the  night. 
“ My  boy,’ ’  the  old 
man  used  to  say,  ‘ ‘ it  is  safe  to stay  at a 
house  where  there  are  flowers  in  the 
window. ’ ’

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BAY  CITY,  niCH,

I  had  to have  something  and  happened 
to  hit  on  that. 
It  answered  my  purpose 
I and  one or  two  other  shipping  clerks 
saw  it  and  liked  it ;  and,  finally,  some­
one  asked  me  why  I  didn’t  get  a  pat­
ent  on  it.  This  1  finally  did,  and  the 
books  are  now  in  use  in  all  parts  of  the 
country. 
It  is  turning  out  profitably, 
but  1  don’t  claim  any  great cred it for  it. 
I  couldn’t  help  it. 
If  I  hadn’t  done  it, 
somebody  else  probably  would. ’ ’

That  is  what  Sir  Isaac  Newton  said in 
announcing  one of  his  discoveries.  An 
apple  hit him  on  the  head,  exactly  as  it 
had been hitting men since apples began 
to fall  in  the garden  of  Eden,  but  it  was 
Sir  Isaac  who  caught  from  that  circum­
stance  the  idea  of  the  law  of  falling 
bodies.

Do  you  belong  to  any  social  organi- 

zation?’ ’

It 

“ Yes,  one. 

is  very  exclusive— 
home;  and  when,  at  night,  I 
leave  my 
office  for  27q  Lyon  street,  the  doors  of 
that  club  house swing  open  to  me  when 
I  reach  them  and  the world sees  little of 
me  until  another day  begins. ”

Past  these  portals  the  Tradesman 

is 
conscious  that  it has  no  right,  uninvit­
ed,  to  g o ;  but  as  the doors  are  seen  to 
open,  and  a  glimpse 
is  caught  of  the 
cheery home  within,  it  is  no  betrayal  of 
confidence  to  develop  the  flash  light— 
enough,  at 
the 
theory  that  early  surroundings  make 
themselves  manifest  whenever 
and 
wherever opportunity  offers.

to  strengthen 

least, 

It  would  not be necessary,  for  exam­
ple,  to go far  for a  reason  for  locating 
this  home  on  the  hilltop;  and 
if  ques­
tioned  why,  it  would  occasion  no  sur-

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

(jrftr

Ammonia

Cortex

Ferru

Aniline

Baccæ.

Balsamum

Extractum

88®,  9ti 
@.  1 00 

1  50®   1  00 
1  20®  1  30 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

35© 
(55
90
80® 
I 20(5 1 30
i  max i oo
Gi,  75 
60® 
70
1 25Gi 
1 to 
1 5(1® 2 00 
9. Gl 2 00
1 30Gl 1 50
2 25® 3 00 
1 80@ 2 (10 
1 75® 1 so
®  50
Gt, 
Si 
I 50Gt 8 50 
40®.  45
90®: 1 00
: 50(5 50®-. © © 
40® © 
15®15®.13«45®
12®,
ns®50®90®24®.
12®
30® 1
35®40®® 
15® 75® 1 
75® I 
35*9 
50(9 56*9 © © 
15®
Mi® 
14® 4® 
12®.5®

8*9$ 10 1
Aceticum.........................$
75
Benzoicum, German
®.
15
Boracic.............................
32
22*V/
Carbolicum..................
ii® 44
Citrieum.........................
Hvdrochlor..................
5
10*9;
12
Nitrocum......................
12 !
K'è
Oxalicum.......................
© 20
Phosphorinm, dii...
55*»/
65
Salieÿlicum...................
5
?i@
Sulphuricum................
Tannicum.................... 140® 160
33*9.
35
Tartaricum....................
fi
4®
Aqua, 16 deg................
CrffT
8
Aqua. 20 deg................
12®.
14
Carbon as.........................
12fTr
14
Chloridum....................
.................... 20 © 225
Black......... 
8ÍKSÍ 1o>
Brown.............................
50
45*9l
Red....................................
Yellow............................. 250® 3 00
20*9
25
Cubeæe................po. 25
8®.
10
Juniperus......................
25® 30
Xanthoxylum..............
45*9;
50
Copaiba............................
0 200
Peru....................................
Terabin, Canada — 45© 50
5
59®.
Tolutan............................
Abies, Canadian___
18
12
Cassiæ.............................
18
Cinchona Flava.........
30
Euonvmus atropurp
2 •
Myrica Cerifera. po.
là
Prunus Virgini...........
10
Quillaia, gr'd.............
12
Sassaf ras.........................
15
Ulmus...po. 15, gr'd
24® 25
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
33© 35
Glycyrrhiza. po.........
11® 12
Hæmatox. 15 Ih box.
13® 14
Hæmatox, Is 
..............
11® 15
Hæmatox, Hs..............
IH® 17
Hæmatox. Qs............
15
Carbonate Precip...
350
Citrate and Quinta..
80
Citrate Soluble...........
50
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
15
Solut. Chloride.........
Sulphate, com'l.........
Sulphate, com'l. by
m)
bbl, per cwt..............
7
Sulphate, pure .........
12®,
14
Arnica 
...........................
25
18*9
Anthémis......................
25
18<à
Matricaria.....................
30
14®,
Barosma...........................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
25
im
nevelly.........................
25*9
30
Cassia Acutifol.Aix.
Salvia officinalis, Hs
42® 20
and Hs.........................
8® 10
Ura I’rsi...........................
Acacia, 1st picked.. 
Acacia, 2d picked.. 
Acacia, 3d picked 
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po......................
Aloe. Barb. po.20@28 
Aloe, Cape 
Aloe. So' otri.. po. (50
Ammoniac.................... 
na©
Assafoetida_____po. ?5  30®,
Benzoin urn.................. 
50®
@
Catechu. Is..................... 
Catechu, Hs.................. 
©
Catechu, Hs.................. 
(f%
Camphor*.................. 
58®
©
Euphorbium.. po. 35 
@ 1
Galbanum....................... 
Gamboge po___ 
65©
. 
. 
Guaiacum...........po. 35 
@
Kino............ po. 12.00 
Mastic............................. 
Myrrh...................po. 45 
Opii . .po. 13.00® 330 1 85®,  1
Snellac............................. 
1 ®
Shellac, bleached 
10Gt 
Tragacanth.................. 
50®!
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia...........oz. pkg
Majorum___oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rue.....................oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus, V  oz. pkg 
flagnesia.
Calcined. Pat— — 
Carbonate, Pat . 
... 
Carbonate. K. >V M 
Carbonate. Jennings 
Oleum
Absinthium.............
Amygdal*. Dulc.. 
Amygdal*. Amara
Anisi.............................
Auranti Cortex...
Bergamii....................
Cajiputi......................
Caryophylli..............
Cedar.............................
Chenopadii................
Cinnamonii..............
Citroneila..................

Conium Mac.........
Copaiba....................
Cubeb*......................
Exechthitos.........
Erigcron..................
Gauitheria.............
Geranium .ounce. 
Gossippii, Sem. g:i
Hedeoma..................
Junipera...............
Lavendula.............
Limonis....................
Mentha Piper____
Mentha Verid....
Morrhti*. gal___
Myrcia. ounce___
Olive...........................
Picis Liquida.
Picis Liquida. gal
Riciua......................
Rosmariui................
Rosie, ounce.........
Succini ....................
Sabina......................
Sontal........................
Sassafras..................
Sinapis. ess., ounce.
Tiglii.................................
Thyme 
.........................
Thyme, opt..................
Theobromas...............
Potassium
Bi-Barb.............................
Bichromate 
................
Bromide...........................
Carb.................................
Chlorate..po. 17(5-19 •
Cvanide..........................
Iodide............................... 2
Potass«, Bitart, cure 
Potassa, Bitart, com 
Potass X itras. opt...
Potass Nitras...............
Prussiate........................
Sulphate po ................
Radix
Aconitvm......................
Alth*...............................
Anchusa.........................
Arum po...........................
Calamus.........................
Gentiana... 
- PO  12 
pv. 15
Glychrrhizi 
Hydrastis Cunaden 
Hydrastis t'an., po. 
Hellebore,Alba. po.
Inula, po.........................
Ipecac, |K3......................
Iris plox___po35@38
Jalupa, pr...............
Maranta, Hs...............
Podophyllum, po. 
..
Rhei .................................
Rhei, cut.. 
................
Rhei.pv...........................
Spigelia.........................
po.
Sanguinaria 
Serpentaria
Senega .............................
Similax,officinalis H
Smilax. M 
....................
S' ill*...................po.35
Symplocarpus, E«eti-
dus, po........................
Valeriana. Eng. po 30 
Valeriana, German.
Zingiber a......................
Zingiber j......................
Anisum.............po. 20
Apium (graveleons)
Bird. Is. 
.........................
Carui.....................po. IS
Cardamon......................
Coriandrum..................
Cannabis Saliva.
Cydonium.. 
................
Chenopodium ...........
Dipterix odorate...
Foeniculum..................
Foenugreek, po_____
Lini....................................
Lini, grd___bbl, 3Vj
Lobelia..........................
Pharlaris Canarian.
Rapa.................................
Sinapis Albu...............
Sinapis Nigra.............
Spiritus 
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 
Frumenti, D. F. R
:  00®.  2 
25® 1 
Frumenti......................
ISGt 2
Juniperis Co. O. T .
Juniperis Co............... 1 75® 3 50
1 90®. 2 10 
Saacharum N. E.
1 75®. t» 50 
Spt. Vini Galli...
1 25® 2 00 
Vini Oporto...........
1 25® 2 00
Vini Alba................
Florida sheeps' wool
carriage......................
Nassau sheeps wool
carriage......................
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage.........
Extra yellow sheeps' 
55®
woof, carriage— 
20®
Grass sheeps' wool.
20«' 
carriage......................
.’E>®
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R ee f. 
for 
date use
MiVfr 
_
5ft ! 
Syrups
00® 8 25 
100. 2 20 ! Acacia.............................
80*5] 2 00 | Auranti Cortes...........
75 
Ipecac...........................
70®, 
80 ] Ferri Iod........................
75® 
35®.  65 I Rhei Arom....................
(ft 1 60 | Smilax Officinalis...
700 1 80 j Senega.............................
45@  501 Scilîæ................................

| Scill® Co........................
■ Tolutan...........................
Prunus virg..................
Tinctures 
Aconitum NapellisR 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.................................
Aloes and Myrrh..
Arnica.............................
Assafoetida..................
A trope Belladonna.
Auranti C rtex.........
Benzoin...........................
Benzoin Co....................
Barosma........................
Cantharides..................
Capsicum......................
Cardamon.....................
Cardamon Co.............
Castor...............................
i Catechu...........................
: Cinchona........................
I Cinchona Co................
i Colnmba........................
Cubeba.............................
Cassia Acutifol.........
| Cassia Acutifol Co
| Digitalis.........................
Ergot.................................
Ferri Chloridum___
Gentian...........................
Gentian Co....................
Guiaca...........................
Guiaca auimou...........
Hyoscyamus................
Iodine...............................
Iodine, colorless____
Kino...................................
Lobelia............................
Myrrh................................
Nux Vomica...............
Opii....................................
j Ocii, camphorated..
Opii, deodorized___
Quassia...........................
Khatany...........................
Rhei...................................
I Sanguinaria...............
Serpentaria.................
I Stromonium...............
I Tolutan............................
Valerian........................
! Veratrum Veride ...
| Zingiber.........................
.liscellaneous 
.Ether,
pis. Nit. 3F
35®38®
Nit. 4 F 
.Ether. Spt
Alumen.............
Alumen, gro'd
2Q®3®40®4®.55®@©®5®38®.
po.7
Annatto.............
Antimoni, po.............
Antimoni et PotassT
Antipyrin....................
................
Antifebrin 
Argenti Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum.....................
Balm Gilead Bud
Bismuth S, N.............
1  20® ® @ ®®@
CalciumChlor., Is.. 
Calcium chlor., Hs. 
Calcium Chlor., Hs. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici Fru- tus, af. 
Capsici Frac-tus. po. 
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophvllus..po. 15
Carmine' No. 40.........
10®©50®.40®,@®@ ® 
Cera Alba, S. & F 
.
Cera Flava....................
Coccus.............................
Cassia Fructus...........
Centraria........................
Cetaceum........................
60® @ 
Chloroform...................
Chloroform, squibbs 
1 15® 
20® 
Chloral Hyd Crst....
chondrus.......................
15® 
Ciuchonidme.P.& W 
Cinehouidine, Germ
3H@ 
5 00®.
........................
Cocaine 
Corks, list, di 
.pr.ct.
.
Creosotum. 
®@
Creta..................bbl. 75
Greta, prep....................
®9®®50®,©5®
Greta, precip................
Creta. Rubra...............
Crocus.............................
Cudbear........................
Cupri Sulph..................
Dextrine..........................
10®75®@
Ether Sulph.................
Emery, all numbers
Emery, po......................
@30®13®
Ergota...............po. 40
Flake White................
Guild..................................
Gambier...........................
8®®3n®9®13®13®®25®
Gelatin, Cooper..
Gelatin, French.........
Glassware, flint, box
Less than box___
Glue, brown................
Glue, white ................
Glycerina......................
Grana Paradisi ___
Humulus........................
Hydraag Chlor Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor 
Hydraag Ox Rub'm 
@®®45®1 25® 1 50 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagU ngueu turn
Hydrargyrum.............
Icbthyobolla, Am... 
75® 1 00
Indigo...............................
Iodine. Resubi........... 3 80© 3 90
© 4TO
Iodoform........................
© 225
50 Lupulin 
.......................
6o
60@70*9;
5050 Lycopodium................
60 Liquor Arsen et Hy-
®
drarg Iod...................
50
10®,
12
50 LiquorPotassArsinit
4
60 Magnesia, Sulph___
2*4 @i
50 Magnesia. Sulph.bbl
© 1H
60® 63
50 Mannia. S. F................

10 40 63 
1 25 
1 30 25 

*5.
50*5.
é

10® 
00®  1 

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14®

(it  2
%
Gi

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10®

18®.

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Folia

Gummi 

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®

20 
12

Sponges 

@
20®

2

Semen

OH®

19

Menthol........................... 
@  50
Siedlitz Mixture...
Lard, No. 1....................
Morphia, S.P.A W..  1 65®.  1 90
Sinapis...........................
Linseed, pure raw.
Morphia. S.N.Y.Q.&
Sinapis, opt................
Linseed, boiled.........
C. Co.............................  1 55®  1 80
Neatsfoot.  winter
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Moschus Canton___
Voes.............................
strained......................
Myrislica. No. 1.........
05®
Snuff.Scotch, DeVo'
Spirits Turpentine..
Nux Vomica... po.20
Soda Boras..................
@6H®
Paints
Os Sepia.........................
®15®
Soda Boras, po.........
Pepsin Saac, II. A P.
Soda et Potass Tart
Red Venetian.............
D. Co............................. 
®  l 00
Soda. Carb..................
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
Picis Liq. N.N.H gal.
Soda, Bi-Carb. ____
Ochre, yellow Her.. 
doz........................ 
  ® 2 00
 
Soda, Ash ..................
Putty, commercial.. 
Picis Liq., quarts___ 
® 
lot)
Soda. Sulphas...........
Putty, strictly pure 
Picis Liq.. pints......... 
Gt 
85
Cologne
Vermilion,  Prime
50f7r, " ññ
Pii Hydrârg ..po. 80
50 Spts. Ether Co...........
American...................
15
Piper Nigra... po. 22
18 Spts. Myrcia Drm..
70® 75
@t 2 oo Vermilion. English
Piper Alba___po.  35
.30 Spts. Vini Red. bid.
27
0 ,2 51 Green, Paris................ 20*4*5;
Piix Burann...............
7 Spts. \ ini Rei-t.Hbbl
13® 16
0 2 56 Green, Peninsular..
Plumbi Acet.............
10® 12 Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal
5*4*5$.
0 .2 59 Lead. Red......................
6
Pulvis Ipecac et • )pii I 10®1 20 Spts. Vini Rett. 5gal
6
0 2 61 Lead, white..................
Pyrethrum boxesH.
Less 5c gal. cash
70
Whiting, white Span
A P. I). Co., doz...
90
% 1 ¿5
10 days.
Whiting, gilders'...
Pyrethr m. pv...........
30 Strychnia. Crystal... 1 40®1 45 White, Paris Amer..
00
Quassia?...........................
10 Sulphur. Subl.............
3 Whiting. Paris Eng.
Qui nia. S. P. & W.
2© 2U
311.;®,:sp;
Sulphur. Roll...........
cliff 
.............................
® iO
Quinia. s. German
37 Tamarinds....................
15
10 Universal Prepared. 1 00®,
Quinia. N.\.................. 32\«0 37H Terebenth Venice..
30
Varnishes
.
Rubia Tinctorum. 
12®.
14 Tbeobrom*.............
48
SaccharumLactis pv
18® 20 Vanilla...........................
9 00® 16 0o No. 1 Tttrp Coach... 1 10® 20
Salacin.........................
7@
2 50f92 60 Zinci Sulph..................
8 Extra Turp.................. 1 60®.
70
Coach Body.................. > 75*5
Sanguis Draconls. 
.
40® 50
00
BBL. GAL. No. 1 Turp Furn___ 1 00® 10
Oils
Sapo. \V 
........................
13® 14
70 Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55*5
Sapo. M.............................
10®:
60
12 W hale, winter.............
70
Sapo. G.............................
7()@ 75
% 15 Lard, extra..................
65 Jap. Dryer.No.lTurp
60

200
90.
270,

80.
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dealers.  They are prepared just  before going to press and  are an  accurate index  of the  local  market. 
It  is im­
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.

SPICES.

SEEDS.
Anise.............................................  13
canary, Smyrna...................... 
6
Caraway......................................  10
Cardamon, Malabar...........  HO
Hemp, Russian.................... 
4
Mixed Bird................................ 
454
Mustard, white....................... 
654
........................................... 
Poppy 
8
Rape............................................... 
4
Cuttle Bone................................  20
SYRUPS
Corn.
Barrels...........................................  18
Half bbls....................................  20
Pure Cane.
Fair 
...............................................  16
Good...............................................  20
Choice...........................................  25
Whole Sifted.
Allspice 
...........................................  954
Cassia, China in mats.............. 954
Cassia, Batavia in bund___15
Cassia. Saigon in rolls...........32
Cloves, Amboyna.....................22
Cloves, Zanzibar....................... 1154
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, Batavia............................18
Cassia. Batavia and S»igon.25
Cassia, Saigon..........................   35
Cloves, Amboyna.......................22
Cloves, Zanzibar..........................18
Ginger, African..........................16
Ginger, Cochin............................20
Ginger, Jamaica.........................22
Mace, Batavia...........................65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
Mustard. Trieste.......................25
Nutmegs, No. 2.........................75
Pepper, Singapore, black... 16 
Pepper, Singapore, white..24
Pepper, Cayenne.........................20
Sage....................................................20
“Absolute" in Packages.Ms
/4s
Allspice 
55
.............................
..»4
Cinnamon...........................
.84
55
55
Cloves..................................... .Si
Ginger. Jamaica...........
..84
55
. .81
Ginger, African...........
55
Mustard................................. .84
55
Pepper................................... .84
55
Sage.......................................... .81
20 1-lb packages.............
6*4
40 1 lb packages..............
654
40 1-lb packages..............
6M
6-lb boxes .......................
7J4
Common Corn.
20-lb boxes......................................
40-lb boxes...................................... 55>
Common Gloss.
1-lb  packages............................ 5
3-lb  packages............................ 5
6-lb  packages............................ 5J
40 and 50 lb boxes....................... 3J
Barrels ............................................. 3%
SODA.
I Boxes................................................. 51/
Kegs, English............................... 4%
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 213-lb boxes...
I Barrels, 320 lbs................
2 50 
Barrels, 115 254 lb bags
4 00
Barrels,  60 5 
lb bags.............3 75
Barrels, 30 10 lb bags.............3 50
Butter, 56 lb bags.......................  65
Butter, 20 14 lb bags................3 50
Butter, 2801b bbls......................2 50
Butter, 224 lb bbls......................2 25
Common Grades.
100 3 lb sacks...........................
I 85 
60 5-lb sacks...........................
28 11-lb sacks.........................
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..
1  70156060
28-lb dairy in drill bags.. 
Ashton.
56 lb dairy in linen sacks 
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks 
Solar Rock.
56-lb sacks......................................  22
Common Fine.
Saginaw ...........................................  75
Manistee 
.........................................  75
Scotch, in bladders..................  37
Maccaboy, in jars.......................  35
French.Rappee,.in jars.........  43

Kingsford’s  Silver Gloss

Kingsford’s  Corn.

STARCH. 

SNUFF.

1  00 

2  00 

10

Acme.

Arctic.

Teller’s.

Baker’s .

Chicory.

Our Leader.

COFFEE.

CHOCOLATE.

Van  Anrooy’ s Pure

BAKING  POWDER.

AXLE  GREASE.doz. gross ;
Bulk 
1) 00 1
Red .
Aurora..................................55
T 00 1
Castor oil...........................60
5 50
Diamond.............................50
9 00
Frazer’s...............................75
S 00
German Sweet....................
Mica........................................60
6  00
Premium.................................
Paragon...............................55
.45
Breakfast Cocoa...............
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton. 40 ft. per doz.............  95
45
»4 lb cans 3 doz......................
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz.............1 15
75
• i lti cans 3 doz......................
Cotton, GO ft, per doz.............1 35
lb cans 1 doz.......................  1  00
1 
( otton, 70 ft, per doz.............1 55 I
Bulk.................................................
Cotton. 80 ft, per doz.............1 £6
Jute, 00 ft, per doz..................  80
55
54 lb cans 6 doz ease.........
Jute, 72 ft. per doz...................  95
lb cans 4 doz ease  ----.  1  10
CLOTHES PINS.
.  2  00
lb cans 2 doz ease ...
1 
lb ease 1 doz ease.......... 9 00
5 
5 gross boxes.......................................40
Red Star.
40
u lb cans....................................
Creen.
75
54 lb cans.................................
Rio.
. 1 40
1 
lb cans.................................
Fair...........................................................18
Good.........................................................19
Prime......................................................21
85
*4 lb cans 6 doz case........
..................................................21
Golden 
*4 lb cans 4 doz case.......... 
1 65
Peaberry 
.............................................23
. 3 25
lb cans 2 doz case........
1 
Santos.
Fair .........................................................19
45
>4 lb cans doz...........  —
Good 
......................................................20
K5 j
>. lb cans doz......................
Prime......................................................22
. 1 50
1 
lit cans doz.......................
Peaberry 
.............................................23
Mexican and Guatamala.
45
<4 lb cans.................................
Fair .........................................................21
75
l 4 lb cans.................................
Good 
......................................................22
. 1 50
1 
lb cans......... 
....................
..................................................24
Fancy 
BATH BRICK.
Maracaibo.
2 dozen in ease.
Prime......................................................23
....70
Milled.........................................................24 I
....80
English........................................
Java.
BLUING.
Interi r..................................................2
Gross
Private Growth...................................~7 j
. 3 60
Arctic 4 oz ovals...................
Mandehling.........................................2s
.. 6 75
Arctic 8 oz ovals..................
Mocha.
. 9 00
Arctic pints round.............
Imitation...............................................25 !
. 2 75
Arctic No. 2 sifting box..
Arabian 
................................................iff
... 4 00
Arctic No. 3 sifting box 
Roasted.
. 8 00
Arctic No. 5 sifting box..
. 4 50
Arctic 1 oz ball......................
To  ascertain cost of roasted 
. 3 60
Mexican liquid 4 oz...........
coffee, add Vic per lb. for roast­
. 6 60
Mexican liquid  8 oz...........
ing and 15 per cent, for shrink 
age.
BROOnS.
Package.
.  2  20
No. 1 Carpet.............................
Arbuckle..........................................21 80
No. 2 Carpet...............................  2  00
Jersey........................ 
21 80
. 1 75
No. 3 Carpet.............................
No. 4 Carpet............................... 1 60
. 2 50
Parlor Gem.............................
R5
Common Whisk....................
Fancy \\ hisk............................. 
1  00
.. 2 50
Warehouse...............................
Lion Coffee
CANDLES.
9
F in e Assortm ent o f Summer 
Paraffine.............................................10
Games now in the patkaqes.
¡6 Ounces  Net  J  
Cases  ¡00 tbs. I  21  8=10
As the pack of 1895 will not 
co  - /
begin to arrive in any quantity 
until  about  Sept. 1* we have 
concluded to defer the publica­
tion of full list under this head 
until our Issue of Sept. 4.
Half pint 25 bottles................2 75
Pint 25 bottles............................. 4 50
Quart 1 doz. bottles.............  3 50
Half pint per doz..................... 1 35
Pint 25bottles............................. 4 50
Quart per doz............................. 3 75
Major's, per g-oss.oz size. ...12 00
1 oz siz.___18 00
Liq. Glue,] z 9 60
1 oz size.........12 00 I
2 oz size.........18 00
Amboy..................................  © !)i
Acme................................. 
9'
Jersey....................................  @ 9!
Lenawee..............................  © 9t
Riverside.............................  © 9}
Gold Medal..................
Skim 
............................... 6  @  7
11
Brick.................................. 
Edam...............................  @1 00
Leiden...............................  ©  20
Limburger..........................  ©. 15
Pineapple........................  @  24
Roquefort...................... 
®  35
Sap Sago.........................  @  18
Schweitzer,imported  ©  24
Schweitzer,domestic  © 
14

ITcLaughlin's XXXX...........21 HO
Extract.
Valley City  Vt gross......... 
75
Felix 14 gross................................ 1 15
Hummel's foil 14 gross... 
85
Hummel's tin 14 gross... 1 43
KOFFA-AID
100 packages in case......... 
9 00
00 packages in case......... 
5 Si
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb bags.................................. 
214
Less quantity......................... 
3
Pound packages.................. 
4
CREAI1 TARTAR.
Strictly pure............................. 
30
Telfer's Absolute 
30
.............. 
Grocers'..........................................15© 25
4 doz. in ease.

N. Y. Condensed Milk Co.'s 
brands.
Gail Borden Eagle.........................7 40
Crown.......................................................6 25
Daisy.........................................................5 75
Champion .......................................4 50
Magnolia 
.......................................4 25
Dime 
................................................3 35

Cabinets HO tbs.  Same Price 
SO f  £\tru  for Cabinets.

C O N D E N SE D   M IL K .

CANNED  GOODS.

Blue Label Brand.

Rubber  Cement.

Leather  Cement,

Triumph Brand.

CEM EN T.

C H E ESE.

CATSUP.

- 

Peerless evaporated cream.i

COUPON  BOOKS.

“ Universal."

“ Superior.”

Credit  Checks.

“ Tradesman.1

Coupon Pass Books,

¥ 1 books, per 100.........
2  002 503 003 004 005 00
$ 2 books, per 100. 
..
$ 3 books, per 100.........
¥ 5 books, per 100.........
¥10 books, per 100.........
¥20 books, per 100.........
¥ 1  books, per 00.........
¥ 2 books, i er 100.........
3 003 504 00
¥ 3 books, per 100.........
¥ 5 books per 100.........
¥10 books, per >00.........
¥20 1 looks, per 100.........
3 00 
¥  1  1 >ooks. per  100...........
3 50 
¥  2 ' ooks per  00...........
¥ 3 books,  er 100...........
I 00 
5 00 
¥ 5 books, per 100...........
¥10 books, per  10 0...........
0  00
¥20 books, per  10 0...........
Above prces on coupon books 
are subject  to the following 
qi'Hii'ity discounts:
200 books or over... 5 per cent 
500 books or over... 10 per cent 
.20 per cent 
1000 books or over. 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from ¥10 down.
20 books ....................................  1  00
50 books............................................. 2 00
100 books............................................. 3 00
250 boot s...............................................»i 25
500 books..............................................10 00
1000 books..............................................17 50
500, any one denom'n......... 3 00
1000, any one denom'n......... 5 00
: 000, any one denom’n.........  8  00
Steel punch................................. 
75
DOnESTIC.
Apples.
Sundried..................................
654
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. 
California Goods.Bxs
Apricots..................................8‘4
Blackberries..........................
Nectarines.............................
Peaches....................................854
Pears..........................................654
Pitted Cherries....................
Prunnelles..............................
Raspberries..........................
Raisins.
Loose Muscatels.
2 Crown.................................
3 Crown....................................4
4 Crown.....................................5
FOREIGN.
Currants.
Patras bbls.............................
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.... 
Schuit’s Cleaned.
25 lb boxes...............................
50 lb boxes...............................
1 lb packages......................
Peel.
Citron Leghorn 25 lb bx 
Lemon Leghorn 25 lb bx 
Orange Leghorn 25 lb bx 
Prunes.
25 lb boxes.
California 100-120..............
California 90-100................
California 80-90..................
California 70-80..................
California 60-70....*..........
54 cent less in bags

DRIED  FRUITS.

Cod.

LYE.

3V4

254

Sago.

JE L L Y .

Halibut.

INDIGO.

Herring.

LICORICE.

MINCE  MEAT.

FISH.

Em pire  ..................................  

Choke  Bore - Dupont’:

Eagle  Duck  Dupont’s.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle— Dupont’s.

HATCHES.

Sage. 
Hop:
Kegs...............................................
Half Kegs....................................
QuarterKegs.............................
1 lb cans......................................
54 lb cans....................................
Kegs...............................................
Half Kegs....................................
Quarter Kegs...........................
1 lb cans......................................
Half Kegs.....................................11 00
Kegs...............................................
. .  60
1 lb cans........................................
55
Madras,5 lb boxes.............
..  50
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes.
151b pails......................................  36
12
17 lb pails....................................
30 lb pails....................................  70
. .1 20
Condensed, 2 doz ..............
. .2 25
Condensed. 4 dvz................
. .  30
Pure...............................................
25
Calabria....................................
Sicily.............................................
..  14
..  10
Root...............................................

Raisins.
Ondura 29 lb boxes..........  @5V»
Sultana 20 lb boxes..........  © 6?4
Valencia 30 lb boxes...
Farina.
Bulk................................................. 
  3
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.'s.............2 00
Hominy.
Barrels ........................................3 25
Flake. 50 lb. drums..............1 50
Lima Beans.
Dried............................................. 
654
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic. 10 lb. box...........  60
liujiorted, 2• lb. boS...........2 50
Pearl Barley.
Chester......................................... 
254
Peas.
Green, bn....................................1 15
split, pc rib............................... 
Rolled Oats.
Schumacher, bbl..................4 20
Schumacher, 54 bbl.............2S
Monarch, bbl...........................3 00
Monarch, 54 bbl....................1 90
Quaker, cases...........................3 20
Oven Baked.............................3 25
....................................2S
Lakeside 
German........................................ 
4
East India.................................. 
35s
Wheat.
Cracked, bulk........................... 
3
24 2 lb packages......................2 40
Georges cured...............
Georges genuine.........
Georges selected.........
Strips or bricks...........
Smoked.............................
Mince meat, 3 doz in case. .2 75
Pie Prep. 3 doz in case...........2 75
I Holland white hoops keg. 
i Holland white hoops bbl.
I Norwegian.................................
Columbia Match Co.’s brands
I Round 100 lbs...........................
Columbia Parlor..........................1 25
1 30 
Round 40 lbs...........................
XXX Sulphur.................................X 00
13 00
Sealed.............................................
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur................................1 65
No.1100 lbs.
Anchor Parlor..............................1 70
No.1  40 lbs.
No. 2 Home.....................................1 10
1 35 
\o.1  10 lbs.
Export Parlor..............................4 00
9 25
No.2 100 lbs.
HOLASSES.
No.2 40 lbs.
Blackstrap.
No.2  10 lbs.
Family 90 lbs..................
Sugar house.................................10© 12
Family 10 lbs..................
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary.......................................12@14
Russian kegs..................
Porto Rico.
Prime............................................. 
20
4 25 
No. 1 100 lbs....................
........................................... 
Fancy 
30
1 95
No. 1 40 lbs....................
New Orleans.
No. 1  10 lbs....................
Fair................................................. 
18
No. 1  8 lbs.....................
Good............................................... 
22
Extra good.................................. 
24
No. 1 No. 2 Fam
Choice........................................... 
27
2 50
6 00
... 7 00
100 lbs....
........................................... 
Fancy 
30
2 70
] 30
.... 3 10
40 lbs....
Half-barrels 3c extra.
75
40
85
101 s....
35
63
OIL CANS.
8 lbs....____ 
71
Crystal valve, per doz........... 4 00
Crystal valve, per gross.. .36 00
PICKLES, 
rk screw, 
Oval bo’tle. with 
riedium.
for 
the
Best 
in  the  world 
Barrels, 1,200 count....................4 25
money.
Half bbls, 600count................. 2 65
Small.
Barrels, 2,400 count................. 5 25
Half bbls, l,200count............ 3 15
PIPES.
4 oz..............1 50
Clay, No. 216................................. 1 70
Clay, T. D. full count........... 
65
Cob, No. 3....................................... 1 20
POTASH.
Vanilla.doz
48 cans in case.
2 oz..............1 20
Babbitt’s.......................................... 4 00
4 oz.............2 40
Penna Salt Co.’s..........................3 00
RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina head.............................  554
2 OZ..............1 50
Carolina No. 1...........................  5
4 oz_______3 00
Carolina No. 2...........................  454
Broken.............................................  354
Imported.
Japan, No. 1................................  4J£
Vanilla..1 75 
Japan. No. 2................................  454
.3 50
Java, No. 1....................................  554
4 oz
Java, No. 2....................................  454
Patna...............................................  4
Lemon Vanilla 
SAL SODA.
2 oz regular panel..  75 
120
Granulated, bbls.....................1 10
2 00
4 oz regular panel.. 1  50 
Granulated. 100 lb cases.. 1 50
3 00
6 oz regular panel. .2  00 
Lump, bbls................................. 
1
No. 3 taper................... 1  35 ‘*^2 00
Lump, 1451b kegs.....................1 10
2 50
No. 4 7aper...................1  50 

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

XX  Grade 
Lemon.

Whitefish.

XX  Grade 

Jennings.

Souders’ .

flackerel.

Sardines.

Regular

T rout.

I 

<

Soda.

%  3Vt

Cigars.

Butter.

Oyster.

SOAP.

WICKING.

TOBACCOS.

SALERATUS.

TABLE  SAUSES.

WASHING  POWDER.

FRUITS.

CRACKERS.

Hornet’s  Nest........................... 35 00

S. C. W.....................................................35 00
B. J. Reynolds’ brand.
Private brands.
Quintette..............................................35 00
New Brick.....................................35 00
Laundry.
Allen B. VV risley's brands.
Old Country HO 1-lb..........................3 20
Good Cheer 60 1-lb............................3 00
White Borax 100 M lb..............3 65
Proctor & Gamble.
Concord....................................................3 45
Ivory, 10 oz..............................................6 75
Ivory, 6 oz..............................................4 00
Lenox............................................... 3 65
Mottled German................................3 15
Town Talk.............................................3 25
Dingman brands.
Single box.............................................3 95
5 box lots, delivered..............3 H5
10 box lots, delivered..............3 75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.'s brands. 
American Family, wrp’d.. .3 33
American Family, plain____3 27
N. K. Fairbanks Co.’s brands
Santa Claus...........................................3 90
Brown, 60 bars.....................................2 10
Brown, 80 bars.....................................3 10
Lautz Bros. A Co.’s brands.
Acme.........................................................3 65
Cotton Oil..............................................6 00
Marseilles................................................4 00
Master.......................................................4 oo
Thompson A Chute brands.

1............................................... 4 37
No.
Cream Bar....................
5
2.......................
No
...................... 4 37
Molasses Bar.............
@50 
Packed 60 lbs. in box.
..............................
..3 3C No. 3 
...................... 4 37
Hand Made Creams.  80 ©90
Church’s......................................
4 ....................
.315 No.
(it 80 
......................4 37
Plain Creams.............  60
Deiand’s 
....................................
.330 No. 5......................
...................... 4 31
Decorated Creams..
©90
Dwight’s......................................
.300 No.
......................4
String Rock..................
(ft. 60 
Taylor's.........................................
No. 7....................
IS
Burnt Almonds.........1 25 ©90 
No. 8......................
......................412
W intergreen Berries
@60
No. 9......................
......................400
Caramels.
No. 10......................
......................400
Edw. \V. Ruhe’s brands.
No. 1 wrapped, 2 lb.
Signal Five................................ 3500 No. 11......................
...................... 3 94
boxes...........................
@34
R. R. R........................................... 3500 No. 12......................
.................. 3hf
No. 1 wrapped, 3 lb.
Mr. Thomas................................ .3500 No. 13.......................
..................3 40
boxes ...........................
©51
No. 14......................
......................350
G. J. Johnson’s brand
No. 2 wrap, ed, 2 lb.
boxes ...........................
@28
Lea A Perrin's, large.........4 75
Lea A Perrin's,small. 
.. .2 75
Halford, large .......................3 75
Halford small...........................2 25
Medt Sweets,  150s.3 25 @
Salad Dressing, large.........4 55
176s, 200s....................3 50 @
Salad Dressing, 3mall.........2 65
Rodi and Sorrentos
too Imperials.........4 00 ©
200s...................................4 50 ©
100s in Flats................
@
Lemons.
Extra  Choice  300
New Verdillis___5 00 ©
Extra  Choice  300
100 packages in case...............:
j q g a i a
New Verdillis___5 00 ©
Fancy 300 New Ver-
dillis ...........................5 50 ®
No. 0, per gross.............................
Fancy 360Novemi er
No. 1, per gross.............................
cut 
...............................5 50 @
No. 2, per gross.............................
Extra Fancy 360 ___6 00 @ 
No. 3, per gross.............................
Extra Fancy 300 ___6 00 @
Bananas.
A definite price 
is hard to
name, as it varies according to
size of bunch and quality of
The N. V. Biscuit Co. quote: 
fruit.
as follows:
Small l unches...........1 00 ©1 25
Medium bunches...  25 ©1 50
Seymour XXX...........................  51.
Larae bunches...........1 75 @
Seymour XXX. 3 lb. carton  6
Foreign Dried Fruits.
Family XXX...............................  5';
Fig-, Fancy Layers
Family XXX. 3 lb carton. 
6
10 to 16 lbs...............
©15
Salted XXX.................................  5b
Figs, Choice Layers
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton ..  6
10 lb...............................
@13
Figs,  Naturals 
in
Soda XXX 
.............................
bags...............................
6 »4
Soda XXX. 3 lb carton..
Dates, Fards in 101b
Soda. City...............................
boxes...........................
© 7
Crystal Wafer......................
Dates, Fards in 601b
Long Is and Wafers.........
cases ...........................
@ 5
L. I. Wafers. 1 lb carton
Dates, Persians, G.
Ms 60 lb cases.........
@ 4M
Dates,  Sairs  60 lb
Square < lyster, XXX.
cases ...........................
Sq. Oys. XXX 
1 li> carton. 
Farina <>v
XXX.............
SWEET GOODS  Boxes.
@15
Almonds, Tarragona
Animals........................................ 10)
@
Almonds, Ivaca.............
Bent's Cold Water.................. 12
Almonds,  California,
Belle Rose........ 
................  8
soft shelled..................
©12
Cocoanut Taffy........................  8
Brazils new......................
!
© 8 
Coffee Cakes...............................  8
Filberts 
.............................
!
@10 
Frosted Honey.......................... II
Walnuts, Grenob e...
©14
Graham Crackers....................  8
Walnuts, French.........
©
• linger Snaps. XXX round.  O' 
| Walnuts, Calif No. 1.
©12
Ginger Snaps, XXX city...  «»• 
Walnuts, soft shelled
Gin. Snps,XXX homemade 
Calif.................................
j
© 13 
Gin.Snps.XXX s> alloped..  O'
| Table Nuts, fancy___
@ =U»4.
Ginger Van-lla........................  8
j
(?/ 9 
j Table Nuts, choice...
Imperials......................................  8
Pecans, Texas H. P... t © 12
Jumbles, Honey...................... 11
Chestnuts ........................
©
Molasses Oakes.........................  8
| Hickory Nuts per bu..
Marshmallow 
........................... 15
Mich.................................
@
Marshmallow Creams......... 16
(r/ 3 65 i
1 Coeoanuis. full sacks
Pretzels, hand made .........  8‘
1 Butternuts per bu___
©
Pretzelettes, Little German  6'
@ -
Black Walnuts per bu
Sugar Cake.................................  8
Sultanas....................................... 12
Peanuts.
Sears' Lunch...............................  7‘
Fancy, H.  P., Game
Vanilla Square........................  H
I  Cocks...............................
©
Vanilla Wafers...................... 11
| Fancy, H.  P.,  Game
|  Roasted..........................
@ 7)4
Fancy, H. P., Associa-
1 
tion...................................
@ 5V4 1
Fancy. H. P.. Associa-
tion Roasted...............
! 
©1 7‘4 !
The Putnam Candy Co. quote 
@ *ip2 j
i Choice, II. P.. Extras.
as follows:
Choice, 11. P., Extras,
@ 61.
Roasted 
........................
5tick  Candy.bbls. pails
standard........................ 
6
Standard 
il. li..... 
6
Standard 
Twist... 
6
Cut Loaf......................... 
7
Fresh Fish.
9
@ 
>  Whitefish......................
© s‘,
Extra II. H.........
@  8@  13
Trout...............................
Boston Cream.
Halibut...........................  13©  15
@  6
Ciscoesor Herring..
Mixed Candy.bbls. pails
Bluefish...........................
©  12's
Comuetition................ 
5  @ ~
©  18
Live Lobster, per lb
Boiled Lobster............... ©  20
Standard........................... 
5‘4(ff.
Leader ........................... 
6  ©
©.  12
Cod....................................
Royal............................... 
6)4®
Iladdcck........................
© 
8
Conserves...................... 
6)4©
@ 
9
No. 1 Pickerel...........
Broken .......................... 
6‘.©
© 
7
Pike....................................
714© 8)4
Kindergarten............. 
0 
8
Smoked White...........
© 9
French Cream........... 
Red Snappers.............
@  15
Valley Cream............. 
©12!
(it  20
■  Col River Salmon..
Mackerel 
....................  18©  25
Shrimps, per gal.... 1 00@1 25
2 
Lozenges plain.........
Lozenges, printed..
2  Oysters, per 100.............125®,1 50
Choc. Drops...............
clams,  per 100.............
75© 1 00
Choc. Monumentals
Oysters—in  Cans.
@12 ® 5 
Gum Drops..................
Moss Drops..................
F. J. Detteuthaler's Brands.
2 
Sour Drops....................
Fairhaven Counts___
40®!.
(a  8 @. 9
Imperials......................
F. J. D  Selects.............. 35©
Boxes.Per 1 @50 @50 @60 @65 @75 
L- mon Drops..............
Sour Drops..................
old................................................. 
60
Peppermint Drops.. 
New...........................................___ 
66
Chocolate Drops — 
H. M. Choc. Drops..
.... 4 20
Patents.................................
Gum Drops..................
35  @50 
Second Patent..................____3 70
Licorice Drops...........
.... 3 50
Straight.................................
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Clear............................................ 3 30
Lozenges, plain — 
©’@60@65@60@70
____3 50
Graham 
...........................
Lozenges, printed..
... 4 50
Bui kwheat........................
Imperials......................
...  3 60
Rye..........................................
Mottoes...........................

Atlas, 5 box lots,  del.............3 60
Sapolio, kitchen. 3 doz........2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz.......................2 40
Crow....................................................3 30
2 153 60 
German Family................
American Groeer 100s. 
3 05 
American Grocer 60s..
3 303 804 0 3 553 10
N. G
Mystic White.........................
Lotas ...........................................
Oak Leaf....................................
Old Style....................................
Happy Day...............................
Nickeline M gross.............
Nickeline 
gross...........
. 4 00
Nickeline 1 gross................ 
Below are given  New York 
prices on sugars, to which the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit on the invoice for the 
amount of freight buyer pays 
from the market in which he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including 20 pounds  for the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino.............................................5 31
Cut Loaf..........................................5 31
.4 94 
Cubes
Powdered .............................
.5 18 
XXXX Powdered..............
.4 62 
Granulated in bbls...........
.4 62 
Granulated in bags.........
.4 62
Fine Granulated................
Extra Fine Granulated.
'4 94 
Mould -A..................................
.4 62 
Diamond Confec. A — 
.4 50
Coufec. Standard A.........

Silver.......................
Mono.........................
Savon Improved
Sunflower ...........
Golden 
..................
Economical ___
Henry Passolt':

V ! Grains and Feedstuffs

Fish  and  Oysters

CANDIES.

Gowans & Sons’  Brands.

NUTS.

STOVE  POLISH.

©   9V, 
11  @12 

Fancy -  In  Bulk.

Flour  in  Sacks.

Fancy—In  5  lb.

Shell  Goods.

SUGAR.

Scouring.

1  00 
2  00

Wheat.

!  00  @

.5 »0 

6},  s;

©   7‘ 

Subject to  usual cash  dis- 
ount.
C
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
{
1
G
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. 19 00 
. 18 50 
.18 00 
.17 50 
. 17 50 
. 15 00 
. 17 00 
. 14 00

Feed and  Millstuffs.

Hay.

Oats.

Wool.

Hldes.

.  2  ©  3

6 >/i@
©

Hiscellaneous.

Barreled  Pork.

.  Ufo© 11 
.  8 M©  9 I4 

Hides  and  Pelts.

©  2
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2 0Ö@s
PROVISIONS.

than car lots. 
Timothy, ton lots ... 17 00 
Timothy ton lots new 15 00
Perkins A Hess pay as  fol-
. 6'j@ 7U 
. H* ..© 10 
. 10» ,@12 
s; @20
Shearlings....................
II @30
Lambs.............................
Old Wool......................
. 4u @75
Washed 
....................
..10 ©18
.. 5 @13
Unwashed..................
©   4 
Tallow................
Grease Butter.
Switches 
.........
Ginseng.............
The Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and Provision Co. quotes as fol­
lows:
Mess 
........................................ 10 50
Back 
..........................................12 25
Clear back 
..................
. 
. 
12 50 
Short cut....................................
11 00 
13 00 
Pig.................................................
Bean 
..........................................
Family ......................................
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies........................................
....................................
Briskits 
Extra shorts...........................
Smoked Heats.
Hams, 12 lb average ___
Hams, 4 lb average.........
Hams, 161b average.........
Hams, 20 lb average___
Ham dried beef....................
Shoulders (N. Y. cut).
Bacon, clear.........................
California hams................
Boneless hams....................
Cooked ham.........................
Lards.
Compuund, tierces.........
Family, tierces..................
Grange....................................
Kettle (our own)..............
Cottole e...............................
Cotosuet  ___
50 lb Tins___... t.dvance
20 lb Pails______advance
10 lb Pails....
.. .advance
5 lb Pails....
... advance
31b Pails...
.. ..advance
Sausages.
Bologna.............................
Liver......................................
Frankfort...........................
Pork......................................
Blood 
...............................
Tongue .............................
Head cheese....................
Beef.
Extra Mess....................
Boneless 
..........................
9 75
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs........................
M bbls, 40 lbs................
I 65
(2 bbls, 80 lbs......................... 3 00
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs.............................
M bbls, 40 lbs......................
1 50
)•; bbls, 80 lbs......................
Casings.
35
Pork..........................................
Beef rounds.........................
Beef middles.....................
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy.........................
Sodd, dairy...........................
Rolls, creamery...............
Solid, e.eamery.............
Canned Meats.
Corned beef. 2 lb.........
Coined beef. 15 lb.........
Roast  beef, 2 lb.........
Potted  ham.  Ms.........
Potted  ham 
Reviled ham 
Potted tongueMs.
Beviled ham 
Potted  tongue Ms.

14 50 
2 001 25 75 
1 25
1 23

Ms

8)1

11

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

Beef.

Veal.

@ 10 14

<ir 3

Barrels.

Barrels.

Mutton.

LAMP  BURNERS.

From Tank  Wagon

(Til to 
8  @12 
6V4@i 7‘.

From  Tank  Wagon.

OILS.

Glassware.

Palacine.....................  @914

Crockery  and

FRESH  MEATS.

Carcass.........................
Fore quarters...........
Hind quarters.........
Loins No. 3................
Ribs..................................
Rounds 
chucks. 
Plates 
.
. 5*;© 6iv
Dressed.............................
@11».
Loins.................................
© 8
Shoulders.........................
Leaf Lard.........................
© 8
. 4M© 5):
Carcass.............................
Spring Lambs................. 6  @ 7
Carcass.............................
The Standard Oil G 
as follows:
Eocene ...............................
©, 9 »4
©8
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
High Test Headlight..
@ 7
Naptha ...............................
@8»;
(a 10».
Slove Gasoline................
Cylinder.............................31 (it:18
Engine..................................12 ©:n
Black, winter..................
©8
Black, summer..............
@
Eocene..................................
@6l?
XXX W.W.MieU.Hillt.
Scofield,  Sh urine r & Teagle
quote as follows:
Palacine..................
Daisy While....................
(f t 9! 2
Red Cross, W.VV.Hdlt.
(it 8
Naphtha.............................
@ 8?4 @10» 2
Stove Gaso] i ne................
Red Cross W. W. Hcllt  @ 6li
No. 0 Sun......................................
No. 1 Sun......................................
No. 2 Sun......................................
Tubular...........................................
Security, No.  1............................ 
65 I
Security, No. 2............................. 
Nutmeg ........................................ 
50
Arctic...............................................  1 15
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common, j
Per box of 6 doz.
No. 0 Sun...................................... 1 85
No. 1 Sun...................................... 2 00
No. 2 Sun...................................... 2 80
No. 
top,
0 Sun, crimp 
wrapped and labeled___  2  10
No. 
top,
1 Sun, crimp 
wrapped and labeled___2 25
No. 
top,
2 Sun, crimp 
wrapped and labele ___  3  2-, I
No. 
top,
0 Sun, crimp 
I  wrapped and labeled____ 2 55
4:1  No. 
1 Sun, crimp 
top,
wrapped and labeled___ 2 75
5u 
I No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
top,
7 
wrapped and labeled___ 3 75
Pearl Top.
6
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
M
labeled.........................................  3 70
No. 2 Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled........................................... 4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and 
1
labeled...........................................4 88
Fire Proof—Plain Top.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb........... 3 40
No.  2 Sun, plain bulb........... 4 40
La Bastie.
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
Rochester.
No. 1, Lim** (65c doz)........... 3 50
No. 2, Lime (70c doz)........... 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)........... 4 70
Electric.
No. 2, Lime (70c doz) 
.............4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)........... 4 40
Miscellaneous. 
Doz.
Junior, Rochester.................. 
50
Nutmeg ...................................... 
15
illuminator Bases___
Barrel lots, 5 doz.........
7 in. Porcelain Shades
Case lots, 12 doz....................... 
90
Mammoth Chimneys for Store 
Lamps.  Doz.  Box 
1 (N)4 20 
No. 3 Rochester, lime 1 50 
4 80
No. 3 Rochester, Hint 1 75 
No. 3  Pearl 
top, or
Jewel glass................ 1 85
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
5 10
lime................................. 1 75
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
flint ...................... 
2 00
No. 2 Pearl glass.........2  10

First  Quality.

XXX Flint.

1  00

6 00

6M

%
%

88

2 1

LANTERN GLOBES.

Doz.
OIL CANS. 
1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 60
1 gal galv iron with spout. 2 00
2 gal galv iron with spout  3 25
3 gal galv iron with spout. 4 50
5 gal Eureka with spout..  6 50
5gal Eureka with fauc.t.  7  00
5 gal galv iron A A \V......... 7 50
5 gal Tilting cans, M'n'ch 10 50 
  9  00
5 gal galv iron Nacefus 
Pump Cans,
3 gal Home Rule..............................10 50
5 gal Home Rule..............................12 00
3 gal Goodenough..................... 12  1 0
5 gal Goodenough............................>3 00
5gal Pirate King............................10 00
LANTERNS.
No.  0Tubular .......................... 3 50
No.  1 B Tubular........................... 5 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash................ 5  00
No.  1 Tub., glass fount___  7  00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 12 t o 
No.  3 Stre. t Lamp................  3 25
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents................ 
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. each................  1 25
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0 per gross........................... 
ao
> o.  p3r gross........................... 
as
No. 2 per gross........................... 
3s
No. 3 per gross ..................... 
65
Mommoth per doz.................. 
JELLY TUMBLERS -Tin Top. 
M Pints. 6 doz in box, per
box (box (JO) 
.........................  1 no
’a Pints. 2* doz in bbl, per
doz (bbl 35)............................. 
ao
Yi Pints, 6 doz in box per
box (box (X))........................ 
] so
12 Pints, 1  doz in bbl, per 
doz (bbl 35)......... 
aa
.............. 
Mason--old style, pints___
Mason--old style, quarts..5 75
Mason -old style, )4 gal... 7 75
Mason--1 do 
incase, pts.. 5 75
Mason 1 doz in case. qts. 6 25
Mason-- 1 doz in case,1. gal 8 25
Dandy-glass cover, pints.
Dandy --glass cover, qts... 9 00
Dandy-- glass cover. 1., gal.'12 00

FRUIT  JAR S.

45
45
40

75

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

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

j or  woman  of  abnormal  feet  meets with 
| an  early  intimation  that  there  is  no  fit 
j to be  had.  Such  persons  come  to  be 
| known 
in  the  shops  and  to be dodged 
| bv  the  salesmen.

Candee  Rubbers

How  to Judge a  Retail  Shoe Store.
Invariably  a  retail  store can be judged 
j  by  the  window and  show  cards  which  it 
displays.  The appearance of the  card,
! its  cleanliness  and  neatness,  have  a 
I powerful  influence  upon  the  person  who 
gazes 
into  the  window.  A  dirty  or 
cheap  card  betokens  shabby  treatment, 
j  while a  modest and  honest-iooking  card 
1 impresses one,  at  least,  of  reliability  of 
the  merchant.  A  greater  fabrication 
and  slander  was  never  cast  upon  the 
American  people  than  when  a  celebrat­
ed  charlatan  declarer!  that  “ The Ameri­
can  people  like  to  be  humbugged.”  
He  who  humbugs  an  American  man  or 
woman  once  never  has  the  opportunity 
to  repeat  it. 
“ He  who  fools  me  once, 
shame  on  him ;  he  who  fools  me  twice, 
shame  for  me. 
An  American  prefers 
to  be  robbed  ten  times  than  to  be  cheat­
ed once.  He  has a horror of being  bun­
coed.  He 
is  ever  on  guard  against 
those  who  would  take  advantage  of  his 
ignorance  upon  any 
special  matter. 
This  characteristic  of  eternal  vigilance 
sometimes  hardens  him  and  causes  him 
to  be  too  suspicious.  Consequently,  he 
is  ever on  guard  against  being  cheated 
in  his  purchases.  The  peculiar  con­
struction  of  an 
inscription  on  a  show 
card  may  drive  him  to  a  competitor. 
The  cases,  window and  the  price-cards 
should  be gotten  up  in  a  manner  that 
becomes  respectability  and  reliability.
A  trick  may  win  at  first,  but eventual­
ly  it  redounds  to the loss of  the trickster. 
A  certain  merchant  thought  he  was 
brainy  when  he  displayed  a  sign  on 
inscribed  the  following 
which  he  had 
inscription: 
“ William  Williams’  best 
shoes  only $3.”   That  sign  cost  him 
many  a  patron  who  would  otherwise 
have  purchased  a  pair  of  the  shoes. 
But  the  lettering  was  capable of a  very 
It  might  have  been 
wide 
that  William  Williams’  best 
shoes, 
though  selling  for  only  S3,  were  worth 
intrinsically  only  50  cents,  as  they may 
have  been  second-hand  shoes.  Don't 
put a  lot  of  shoes  in  the  window  with  a 
sign  reading  “ This  lot  S2. ”   Some  one 
might  think  it  meant  the  whole  lot. 
It 
was  funny  but  very  unbusinesslike  for a 
retailer to  put  the  following  sign  in  his 

window :What do you think!
What do you think!
A pair of shoes for nothing,
And a nice, sweet drink!

inference. 

Dealers, Please  Take  Notice  =

Prices advance 5  per cent. Oct.  1.  Until that 
time our prices on Candees, 20 per  cent,  discount. 
Federals 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.
\\ e also carry the finest line  of  Lumbermen’s 

Socks in  Michigan.

STUDLEY &  BARCLAY.

NO.  4  nONROE  ST.  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

O w in g  to  the  G re at  A d v a n ce   in  Leath er,

Boots and Shoes are necessarily much advanced in price,

»uu  auues are  necessarily  mncn  advanced  in  price.

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

5 ana 7 norm ionio si., Grand  rooms.

Manufacturers  and  Wholesale  Dealers  in

H erold-B ertsch  Shoe  Co
BOOTS.  SHOES  l  RUBBERS
We carry in stock Regular. Opera.
Piccadilly and Needle Toes.
We are prepared to furnish a Rubber of 
superiority in quality, style and lit.

GRAND  RAPID S,  MICHIGAN
M e  a p is   wales-goodylar  rubb  rs

5 and  7  Pearl  Street 

Shoes and  Leather

R EA D Y -M A D E  SH O ES.

What a Great Newspaper  Has Learned 

From the New York Sun.

About Them.

Selling  ready-made  shoes 

is  a  very 
different  thing  now from  what  it  used  to 
be,  when  many  thousands  who  now  buy 
them  had  their  footwear  made  to order. 
Sizes 
in  ready-made  shoes  have  been 
greatly  multiplied.  Not  only  do  men’s 
shoes  run  up to No.  13 in length,  but they 
vary  in  width  1 rum  A A,  the  narrowest, 
to  E E,  the  widest.  A  salesman  must 
know  all  about  sizes  and  be  able  to 
make  a  pretty good  guess  at  what  a  cus­
tomer needs,anil must  as  well know what 
makes  of  shoes  run  wide  or  long  for 
their  numbers.

Before  all  these  niceties  of shading 
were 
invented,  the  matter  of  fitting 
ready-made  shoes  to  a  customer's  feet 
was  a  very  simple  one.  Perhaps 
it 
would  be  more accurate to sav that there 
was  no such thing  as  a  tit  in  ready-made 
lor  persons  ol  normal  and 
shoes  save 
average  feet.  The 
long,  slender  foot 
was  not  provided  tor,  and  neither  was 
the  short,  thick  toot.  The  numbers of 
men’s  shoes  most  called  for  now  are  7, 
7 'i and 8,  with the widths A.  B and C.  In 
women’s  shoes  the  numbers  in  length 
most 
in  demand  are  3,  3*_>,  4,  4 'i  and 
3,  with  the  widths  A  and  B.  But  the 
unusual  sizes  above  and  below  these  are 
provided  in  large  numbers.  There  are 
many  calls  for  13  at  the  large  concerns, 
It 
where  unusual  sizes  are  provided. 
is  difficult  in  small  concerns  to  get  any­
thing  above 
ioVj.  The  difference 
in 
price  for  size  is  little  or  nothing,  save 
that  what  are  called  "  misses’  shoes, ”  
which  run  pretty  high,  and are  for  some 
reason sold  cheaper than  women's  shoes 
like  size.  Some  women  know  this 
of 
and  profit  by  it.
Women  have  from  time  immemorial 
been  abominably  ill  shod,  and  most  of 
them  are  so  still. 
1’he makers of  ready­
made  shoes  unhesitatingly cater  to  fash­
ion,  and  it  is  difficult  for  us  men  to  rind 
a  ready-made  shoe  with  a 
low  heel  and 
a  roomy toe.  Nine  women  out  of  ten 
have  wretchedly  abused  feet,  and  the 
condition  ol  their  walking  shoes at  the 
end  of  six  weeks’  use  is  such  that their 
brothers  or  husbands  would  not  for a 
moment  think  of  wearing  them.  Work­
ing  women  stand  or  walk  all  day  long 
on  french  heels,  partly  through  vanity, 
partly  because better shaped  shoes  have 
to be  made  to  order  at  a  compartati vely 
high  price.  Children’s  shoes,  save  in 
rare  instances,  are  still made  in defiance 
of  hygiene,  and  are  responsible  for  half 
the  pains of  learning  to  walk.  Doctors 
are 
infants  be 
brought  up  barefoot.  The  price  for  in­
fants’  shoes  made  to  order  is  prohibi­
tive  to  the  poor.  Every  sort  of  shoe 
that  professes  to  be  hygienic  has a  high 
price  put  upon  it  because of  the  name. 
Women  have  of  recent  years 
learned 
some  wisdom  in  the  matter of  footwear 
from  the  fact  that  shoes  for wear  in  ath­
letic  sports  are  made 
in  sensible  and 
comfortable shapes.  These  shoes,  which 
have to  be  roomy  to  be  endurable,  have 
brought al)out  a 
light  reaction  against 
the  vanity  of  wearing  shoes  too  short 
and  too  narrow  for the  feet.
The  man or woman  of  normal  and  av­
erage  feet 
in  the 
ready-made  shoe  shops,  because  such 
persons can  usually be fitted  in  less  than 
ten  minutes. 
It  would  hardly' be  possi­
ble  to carry'  on  business  were  there  not 
comparatively  few  feet  of  abnormal  size 
or  shape,  for  a  man  or  woman  with 
such  feet  consumes from  half  an  hour to 
an  hour of  a  salesman’s  time,  and  often 
goes  away  without  buying.  There  must 
be  small  profit 
in  selling  ready-made 
shoes to  such  people.
The  man  that  wears  say  11 x/2  A A  is  a 
most  unwelcome  visitor  at  any  shoe 
shop,  though  in  all  the  large  concerns 
salesm >n  manfully  struggle  to  fit such 
customers.  On  very  busy  days  the  man

is  always  welcome 

recommending 

that 

A  pedestrian  reading  the  sign  entered 
the store  ordered  a  pair  of  shoes  and 
then  asked  for  the  drink,  after  drink­
ing  which  he was about  to depart  with­
out  giving  the  merchant  any  remunera­
tion  for  the  shoes  and  drink,  pointing 
at  the  same time to  the  sign  in  the  win­
dow.  The  retailer  grabbed  him  and 
took  him  to  the  sign  which  he  read 
in 
any  but  the  manner  in  which  the  pedes­
trian  had  read  it :

What do you think?
What do you think?
A pair of shoes for nothing,
And a nice, sweet drink?

After  considerable  trouble  the  mer­
chant  extricated  himself  from  the affair 
and  never afterwards departed  from  us­
ing  any  but  signs  and 
that 
smacked  of  good  business  sense.

cards 

Explaining  a  Brand.

Shopper—Is  the  color  in  these  stock­

ings  fast?

old  maid's  wedding.

Salesman  -Oh,  my, 
“ Old  maid’sjwedding?”

Yes’m. 

It  never  comes off. ”

yes!  Genuine 

Agents  for  the

BOSTON  RUBBER 
SHOE  CO.’S 
GOODS

l  C0.[>
Boots  and  Shoes
We make the best line of Medium Priced Goods In the 
market.  You can improve your trade by handling our goods.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

12,  14  an d  16  P earl  S tre e t

LINDEN 

NEEDLE  TOE.

t h e   M i c h i g a n   t r a d e s m a n

23

A lw ays  Examine  Their  Lines.

Many  retailers  regard  traveling  sales­
men  as  bores  and  a-re  more  than  reluct­
ant to  spend  a  half  hour  or  an  hour 
in 
examining  the  salesman’s  goods  which 
they  regard  as  nothing  else  than a  waste 
of  time.  This  should  not  be. 
Instead 
of  it  proving  unfruitful  and  unpleasant 
the time  may  be  profitably  expended  in 
every  case. 
It  is  a  privilege  to  have  a 
salesman  journey  many miles to a  retail­
er’s  store  which  the  merchants  of  50 
years  ago  did  not possess. 
In  the olden 
time  the  retailer  was  compelled  to  do 
all  the traveling  himself.  The  muddy 
and  dangerous  roads  infested  with  high­
waymen,  the  expenses  of  the  hotel  and 
the  fear of  burglars  and  many other  in­
conveniences  had  to  be  endured.  To­
day  a  retailer  may  sit 
in  his  comfort­
able  store  from  year  to  year  without  the 
trouble  and  expense  of  leaving  his busi­
ness  and  spending  a  day  or week buying 
his  stock  at the  wholesale establishment, 
as  did  Mr.  Shoemaker  50  years  ago. 
This  privilege  is  greatly  appreciated by 
the  majority  of  retailers,  but  still  there 
are  a  number  who  regard  traveling 
salesmen  as  bores.  A  mighty  howl 
would  be  heard  in  the  land  if  the  insti­
tution  should  ever  be  eradicated.  Noth­
ing  is  more  important  for a retailer  than 
to  be  well  acquainted  with  all  the  styles 
that  are 
in  the  market,  and  so,  if  a 
salesman  should  insist  upon  your  exam­
ining  his  line  of  samples,  by  all  means 
do  so.  There  are  new  things  appearing 
in  the  market  every  day,  and  nothing  is 
more  important  to  a  retailer  than  to 
know  what  they  are.  A  traveling  sales­
man  should  ever  be  made  cordially  wel­
come  by  the  retailer,  as  he is  largely  es­
sential  to  the  success  of  the  retailer’s 
store,  which  should  always  contain  the 
very  latest  styles  in  footwear.

Don’ t  Make  a  Circus  of  Your  Store.
It  does  not  pay  to be  sensational,  or 
to  endeavor to  make a  circus  ol  a  store. 
Business  is business,  and  he  who cannot 
conduct  his  business  on  sound  business 
plans  should  discard  it  for  a  vocation 
that  is  more  congenial  to his disposition 
and  ideas. 
If  a  merchant  can  sell  a 
•good  shoe  at  a  low  price,  he  need  not 
.fear about  selling  the  article.  The  peo­
ple,  by  the  assistance  of  a  right  kind  of 
advertisement,  will 
find  him.  These 
wild  and  crack-brained  ideas  that  a  few 
retailers  put  into  execution  to  draw 
trade  are  disgusting.  They  are  posi­
tively  objectionable  to  the  majority  of 
customers. 
It  may  be all  right for  mer­
chants  in  Asia  and  Europe  to  use  this 
method,  but  it  is  nauseous  to  the  Amer­
ican  people,  excepting,  of  course, 
the 
little  children.  Give  them  an  honest 
equivalent  for  their  money,  is  what  they 
demand.  The  circus  part  will  be looked 
after  by  themselves. 
If  they  need 
amusement  there  are  scores  of  resorts 
about  that afford  them  legitimate  enter­
tainment. 
It  is  highly  commendable  to 
have  an  inviting  and  cheerful  store,  but 
it  is  the  height of  vulgarity  and  folly  to 
make  a  burlesque  of  the thing.  Any  ex­
perienced  buyer  knows  that  he  or  she 
pays  to  see or  hear  the circus  when  they 
purchase  a  pair  of  shoes.  A  child  can 
reason  that  out.  To  use  these  outlandish 
schemes  to  draw  trade does  not  betoken 
solidity,  as  a  well-established  merchant 
never  adopts  such  methods.  Besides, 
statistics  show  that  these  burlesque  es­
tablishments  are  nearly  all  short-lived.

Treat  Your  Employes  Courteously.
A  merchant  makes  a  serious  mistake 
who  regards  his  employes  as  his  infer­
iors and  treats  them  so.  A bigger blun­

der  could  hardly  be  made. 
It  is  not 
only  decidedly  foolish,  but  wicked ;  not 
only  wicked,  but  dangerous.  A  store 
that  is  not  conducted  harmoniously 
is 
destined  to  failure.  There  should  be 
no  friction  whatever  between  employer 
and  employe.  He  should,  though  it be 
for  policy’s  sake  alone,  treat  his  em­
ployes  as  his  equals  and  his friends  and 
impress  upon  them  the  fact  that  the 
more  his  business  prospered,  the  higher 
should  be  their  positions and  the  more 
liberal  their  salaries.  Their 
interests 
are  closely  allied,  and  each  should  re­
gard  the other  with  respect. 
If  an  em­
ployer does  not  act  in  this  manner,  if 
he  treats  his  employes  miserably,  he  is, 
doubtless,  in  perpetual  dread  of  a  con­
spiracy among them  to  defraud  him ;  his 
help  does  not  take  any  especial  interest 
in  his  affairs;  they  are  inwardly  tickled 
should  an  old  patron  sever  his  or her  re­
lations  with  the  store,  and  are  amused 
and  delighted  should  misfortune  befall 
their  employer.  A  clever  merchant 
never  permits  himself  to  fall 
into  this 
pit.  He  treats  his  employes  with  re­
spect  and  moves  socially  among  them, 
without  losing  his  authority  over  them.

I  make 

How  One  Traveling Han  Holds  Trade.
it  a  point  to  collect  all  the 
bright  ideas  on  retailing  that  1  can.  1 
find  that  they  materially  aid  me  in  my 
business,  and 
I  could  quote  you  in­
stances  where  I  actully  brought  a  dis­
gruntled  customer  to  time,  or  success­
fully worked up  a  new  one by being  able 
to give  him  bright,, practical  ideas  for 
his  advertisements, 
the  arrangement 
and  display  of  goods,  or  for  neat  1 ittle 
trade  bringing schemes that have  proved 
winners  elsewhere.  I  keep  a  scrap  book 
in  which  I  paste  catchy  advertisements 
or headlines  of  advertisements of  hard­
ware  stores  cl ipped  from  the  local  pa­
pers  in  towns  in  which  I  happen  to  be 
at  the'time. 
I  also  carry  a  note  book 
devoted  entirely  to  memoranda  of  ideas 
that  I  think  would  prove  useful  to  my 
customers  and  which  I  jot  down  as  they 
occur to  me.
In  this  way  1  keep  myself  perpetually 
‘ ‘ loaded”   and  when  a  customer  com- I 
plains  to  me,  as  he  frequently does,  that 
he  lacks  the  results  he  thinks  he  should 
obtain  from  his advertisement  in  the  lo­
cal  paper, 
1  am  prepared  to  suggest 
I some  attractive  catch  line  or  point  out 
some  improvement in  method that might 
i  be  made. 
If  he claims  of  dullness  of I 
trade,  I  can  probably  give  him  a  tip  on 
some  legitimate  little act  of  trade enter­
prise  that  will  serve  to make  him  talked 
of  more  than  his  rivals  for the  time  be­
ing.  Of  course,  these  suggestions  must 
all  be  made 
in  a  tactful  manner  and 
there  are  many  merchants  who  do  not 
need  them  or  if  they  do  would  consider 
insinua­
them  an  impertinence  and  an 
tion  that  I  thought  they  were  not  ca­
pable  of  running  their own  business. 
I 
have  many  men  on  my  list,  however, 
who  realize  the  fact  that  a  man circulat­
ing  among  the trade  in  different  towns 
and  sections  is  bound  to pick up  a  great 
many  bright  ideas  that  would  not  occur 
to  them,  and  they  look  for  my  coming 
it  meant  simply 
more  eagerly  than  if 
the  opening  of  a  sample  trunk 
instead 
of an 

idea  box”   as  well.

Business  in  Old  Shoes.

No, 

“ Shall  1  put  up  your  old  ones  for 
you?”   asked  the  shoe  dealer,  as  the 
customer stamped  his  heels  into  a  pair 
of  new  shoes. 
said  the  custom­
er,  “ but what  can  you  do  with  the  old 
“ We  have  twenty  or  thirty 
shoes?”  
calls  a  day  for  them, 
answered  the 
I dealer.  Some  are  from  needy  men,  who 
put  the shoes on  instantly.  Other  cali­
bers  are  men  that  go  from  shop  to  shop 
¡gathering  old  shoes  which  they  sell  to 
j the  second-hand  dealers.  A  pair  of 
shoes  will  fetch  at  least  10 cents,  and  I 
| doubt  not  some  of  these  beggars  make  a 
| good  thing  out  of  the trade. 
I  suppose 
] nearly  every  store 
in  the  city  is beset 
I with  such beggars.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP. 

News  from  the  Metropolis===Index 

Special Correspondence.

of  the  Market.

New  York,  Aug. 

17—The  grocery 
trade  is  not  extremely  animated  this 
week.  The  weather  has  been  "a g in ”  
active  movements and  the trend of trade 
has  been  toward  the  seashore. 
Still 
conservative  operators  are  feeling pretty 
well  satisfied  and  are  doing  a  satisfac­
tory  trade.
The  coffee  trade  has  not  been  as  ac­
tive as  it might  be and  there  is  a  feel­
in 
ing  that  the  top  has  been  reached 
quotations.  Arrivals  have  been  quite 
large  and  buyers  are  not  showing  great 
eagerness  to  purchase.  There are afloat 
530,578  bags  of  Brazil  coffee,  against 
423,070 bags  the  same  time  last  year. 
Mild grades are  not  selling  with  great 
freedom  and,  probably,  some  conces­
sions are  made  rather than  lose  a  sale.
The  sugar  market  is  dull  and  trading 
very  light.  Considerable  disappoint­
in  which 
ment  is  felt  at  the  manner 
granulated  is  going, off,  and 
is  hard 
it 
to  account  for the  light  demand.  Some 
take  it  that  stocks were purchaser! large­
ly  ahead  earlier  in  the  season  and  are 
only now  being closed out.  Dealers  are 
expecting  a  better  condition  of  affairs 
every day,  but,  as  yet,  there  is  no  delay 
in  filling  all  orders  that  come.
Rice  is  hardly  as  firm  as  last  week 
and  buyers are  showing  very  little  ani­
mation  in  making  purchases.  They buy 
only  for  everyday  wants and  are waiting 
for the next  turn  of  the  market.  At  the 
moment  come  reports  of  a  big  Gulf 
storm  with  its accompanying  damage.
Molasses  is  in  good  condition  and 
buyers  who  seek  for  first-class  quality 
do  not  scruple  to  pay  the  rates  de­
manded
Syrups  are  selling  well  and  dealers 
are  expressing  considerable  satisfaction 
with  the  turn  of  the  market.  Refiners 
are  not  preparing  large  quantities.
Spices  begin  to  show  up  better  and 
several  quite  large transactions  are  re­
ported  with  interior dealers.

in 

Canned  goods  are  quiet  and  every­
body  seems  to  be  having  a  vacation. 
Peaches  are  cheap  at  present  prices and 
yet  demand  is  by  no  means  active,  sell­
ing  for $i.20(fv 1.30  for  No.  3  standard 
yellow as  to brand.  Not  much  doing  in 
tomatoes,  which  are  worth  from  67 
70c  for  No.  3  standard.  Five  hundred 
cases  of gallons  of a  well-known  Balti­
more  packer are  offered  at  S i.65,  regu­
lar terms  at  Baltimore  for  future  deliv­
ery.  Peas  are 
light  demand  and 
steady  at  75(17800  for  standard  Marrow­
fats.
The  demand  for  butter  is  not  all  that 
could  be  hoped  for.  There  is  quite  an 
accumulation  of  creamery  of  best  qual­
ity  and  20c  can  be  regarded  as  about 
the  very  top  quotation.  Under  grades 
of creamery are  extremely  dull  and,  as 
accumulations  thereof are  not  to  be  de­
sired,  quotations  are  made  that  wil1  sell 
them,  whether or no.

Receipts  of  cheese  have  been 

light 
and,  although  the  demand  has  not  been 
in  pretty 
very  active,  the  market 
good  shape.  Small  colored  fancy 
is 
worth  8 ( f / 8 ‘ s C .

is 

Eggs,  as a  rule,  show  the  effects  of 
the hot  weather and  it  is  very  difficult 
to  find  strictly  honest goods  which  have 
come from  any  distance.  For  the  best 
Western,  13 Uc  is top.

Lemons  have  taken  a  jump  and  on 
Friday  were  a  dollar a box  higher  than 
on  the  previous  day.  To  a  dealer  sell­
ing  20,000 boxes  this  little  raise  means 
quite  a  little  fortune  made  within  24 
hours.  Sometimes,  however, 
the  cat 
doesn’t  jump  that  way.

Dried  fruits  are  extremely  dull. 

Beans are  dull  and  weak.  The  mar­
ket  shows very  little  animation.  Choice 
pea beans  are  worth  S2@2.o5.
It  is 
thought that  about  300  cars  will  com­
prise  the  dried  apricots. 
Few  have 
come  to hand,  as  yet,  and  they have  not 
been  all  that  could  be  desired as to qual­
ity.  Prunes  are  worth  4*^c  for  the  four 
sizes.  Raisins  are  very  quiet.  New 
California  dried  peaches  are  quotable 
at 6c.  Scarcely  any  demand  exists.

Bastard baskets must  go!

fire and burnt  steadily  on  the  surface 
of  the  liquid  oxygen,  which  became 
opaque  because  of  the  carbonic  acid 
given  off.  He also burned  some graph- 
I  ite  on  liquid  oxygen,  and  said  that  the 
combustion  of this  form  of  carbon 
is 
sometimes more  difficult  to  start  than
that of the  diamond.

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*

liquid 

A  Washington  expert,  who  has  evi­
dently  drunk  a  good  deal  of  beer, 
warns  people  against  drinking’  se­
ductive 
in  places  where  the 
kegs  are  furnished  with  brass  spigots, 
but  rather  to  find  a  place  where  the 
I kegs  are  provided  with  modest  wooden 
j spigots.  He  says that  there  is  nothing 
in  beer  so 
that  will  act  on  the  acids 
quickly  as  brass. 
“ The  fact  is,  there 
ought  to  be  a  kindergarten  in  this  town 
to  teach  barkeepers  about  hand] i ng 
I beer.  A  keg  ought  never to  get  above 
60 degrees  from  the  time  it  is  put  in  to 
age  till  it  is  used.  A  rise of  10 degrees 
will  spoil  it  by  starting  the  second  fer­
mentation.  Then  beer does  not  improve 
by  aging  as  does  ale  and  porter and 
such  drinks.  The  right age  is  between 
four and  eight  months.  Beer kept long­
er  commences to  go  down  hill. ’ ’

* 

*  ♦

Kate  Donaliy,  of  Winsted,  Ct.,  will 
probably  be a  little  cautious  hereafter 
about  what  she  stands  on.  The  other 
day  she  went  into the orchard  to  gather 
some apples  and  climbed  on  the  head 
| of a  barrel,  which  stood  conveniently 
under a  tree.  The’barrel  was  old  and 
the  heat  of  the  sun  had  softened  the 
pitch  which  it  contained,  so  when  the 
head  gave  way  under  the  young  lady’s 
weight  she  found  herself  up  to her  ank­
les  in  the  pitch,  and  unable to  get  out. 
She  slowly  sank  deeper and  deeper  into 
the  sticky  mass.  When  help  reached  her 
it  took  half an  hour  to  get  her  out  of 
the barrel,  and  three  hours more  to  get 
the pitch  off her  so  that  she  was able  to 
walk.

* 

* 

*

The  Japanese  have  but  barely  had 
breathing time  in  which to recover from 
the  effects of their  struggle  with  China, 
when  they  are  threatened  with  another 
invasion.  This time  it  is  General  Booth 
who  has  his  eye  upon  Japan,  and  who 
has  resolved  upon  planting  the  flag  of 
the  Salvation  Army  upon 
its  shores. 
The general  has  made  the  preparations 
for taking  the  field  and  for commencing 
operations  immediately.

The Best Place  to  secure a Business, 

Prof.  A.  S.  Parish,  proprietor  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Business  College,  has  re­
turned  from  his  summer  vacation 
in 
New  York  State.

Shorthand and Typewriting 
education  is  at  the  old  re­
liable

GRAND  RAPIDS, HIGH. 

A.  S.  PARISH,  78  Pearl  St.

For new catalogue, address
For prompt shipment. Nos. XXXX, Ex­
tras, 1,2 and 3 Axe Handles, Whiffletrees, 
We Have on  Hand
Neckyokes and Pick Axe Handles.  We 
will make special prices until Sept. 1.
Phone 540^
Grand Rapids, Mich.
We have for sale a number of NEW PURIFI­
ERS. FLOUR DRE - SEES and SCALPERS.  All 
Standard Machines at much less than the cost of 
manufacture: also two sets STEVEN’S ROLLS, 
DOUBLE, 6x12. smooth. One PERPENDICULAR 
BEEKER BRUSH MACHINE.  Address
Room 34, Powers’ Opera House Bl’k.

J. M.  HAYDEN &  CO.,

Millers!  Attention!

SPOONER  &   HALL,

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

 

WANTS  COLUMN.

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BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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

fpOK SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES 
in thrifty Indiana town.  No pharmacy law. 
Address C. M. W., 2S5 Central avenue, Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
823
tV>R  SALK-STOCK  OF GENERAL  MER- 
chandise in a live growing town of 3,000pop­
ulation.  Will inventory $5,000and is in fine con­
dition.  Best  building and location in  town. 
Will sell for ninety cents on the dollar cash. 
Address No. 821, care Michigan Tradesman.  824 
\ \ [ANTED—LOCATION  FOR A HAY AND 
feed store. New towns preferred.  Address 
“Feed,’" care Michigan Tradesman. 
si®
YI7ANTED—A COMPLETE OUTFIT OF MA- 
M  chinery for  band sawmill and  planing 
mill plant to supply the place of one recently de­
stroyed by fire.  Second-hand will do if good and 
cheap.  Address Fearon Lumber A Veneer Co., 
Ironton, Ohio. 
826
IpOR SALE-STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES AND
diy goods, cheap for cash. 
Invoices about 
$1,800.  Address No. 827, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
827
FVJR SALE—HARDWARE  STOCK IN  DE- 
troit, gnod trade now.  Would take Detroit 
property in exchange.  Address  No  828, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
828
4  GOOD  TWO  AND  ONE-HALF  STORY 
brick house and good lot in the city of 
Grand Rapids to exchange for merchandise, 
dry goods preferred.  Enquire of the  Boston 
Stores, St. Louis. Mich. 
820
FjMIR RENT—THE  \Va7a)KON  KL<JCkTOP- 
posite Union depot.  Best location in city 
for wh Resale  or commission  business. 
See 
Scribner Bros, or F. D. Waldron. 
830
IJ'OR SALE—OR WILL TRADE FOR PROPER- 
. 
ty located near the corner of  Hall and 
Madison avenue, a stock of general merchandise, 
consisting of groceries, dry goods, boots and 
shoes, flour, feed, etc.  Good reasons for selling. 
For particulars call or address on the premises; 
303 Central avenue, Grand Rapids. 
819
I,''OR SALE—DRUG, PAINT AND GROCERY 
' 
stock.  Nearest drug  competition, eight 
miles.  Cash sales, $100 per week.  Rent $  6 per 
month.  Address Cash, care Michigan Trades- 
man. 
817
I BIG CHANCE FOR SOMEONE—JEWELRY 
stock, tools and fixtures, to the amount of 
$1,300, can be bought for $550, with first class lo­
cation.  Address No. 813, care Michigan Trades­
man^_____ 
813
fl'OK SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A WELL- 
established drug store located in best town 
in Upper Peninsula mining district.  Stock also 
includes stationery, blank books and wall paper. 
Cash sales, $8,000 per year.  Will sell half in­
terest for $1.500 cash and permit purchaser to 
pay for balance of interest out of profits of busi­
ness. Purchaser must be able to take full charge 
of business, as present owner must remove to 
warmer climate on account of ill health.  Ad- 
dress No. 820, care Michigan Tradesman. 
820 
TXT ANTED — TO EXCHANGE  DESIRABLE 
residence property or vacant lots located 
in Benton Harbor, Mich., for stock of groceries 
or general stock.  Address Box 1296, Benton Har­
bor, Mich. 
815
I4IOR SALE OR EXCHANGE— A FINE  MILL 
-I-  proj>ert», 40 horse waterpower: would make 
a good fish hatchery: excellent spring creek; 
well located on railroad: store building, 20 x 90; 
hay scales; side track; agricultural ware house; 
saw mill and planing mill:  two small houses; 
one nice large residence; all well rented except 
mills run by owner; excellent potato and wood 
market; plenty of hardwood saw timber nearby. 
Exchange for farm or city property.  Address 
W. H- N., care Michigan Tradesman. 
811 
TX/'ANTED—PARTNER T<) TAKE HALF IN- 
TT 
terestinmy75 bbl. steam roller mill and 
elevator, situated on railroad: miller preferred; 
good wheat country.  Full description, price, 
terms and inquiries given promptly by addressing 
H.C. Herkimer. May bee, Monroe 1 ounty.Mich. 711
EiM»R SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES;
corner location; stock in good condition and 
business paying.  Good reasons for selling.  Ad­
dress Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo, Mich. 776
YX/'K BUY ALL KINDS SCRAP IRON, METAL, 
ags, shirt and overall cuttings and rub­
ber.  Write for prices. Wm. Brummeller & Sons, 
260 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. ’Phone 640.  804
fjlOR SALE CHEAP—COMPLETE SET TIN- 
ner’s tools.  Address P. W. Holland, Chapin, 
Mich.______________________ 
784
YX7ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, PO- 
tatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc.  Cor­
respondence solicited.  Watkins  & Axe, 84-86 
South Division street. Grand Rapids. 
673
Y X 7ANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST COM- 
tt  mencing business, and every one already 
started, to use our system of poison labels. What 
has cost you $15 you can now get for $4.  Four­
teen labels do the work of 113. Tr desman Com­
pany, Grand Rapids.

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CURRENT  COMMENT.

The  situation  in  Cuba  continues  to 
become  more  favorable  to  final  inde­
pendence.  The  Spanish  officers  are 
greatly  discouraged  and  are  resigning 
or asking  to be  relieved,  while  the con­
dition of  the  rank  and  file  is  becoming 
more deplorable on  account  of  the  rav­
ages  of  disease  in  the  terrible  summer 
climate.  The  call  for  more  men 
in 
Spain  is  received  with  the  greatest  re­
luctance,  and  mutiny and  desertion  are 
apprehended  when  they  reach  the  is­
land.  As  to  the  question  of  annexa­
tion,  the  Cubans  say  that  is  not  what 
they want.  They  have  already  organ­
ized a government  and  consider  them­
selves  competent  to  take  their  place 
among  the  family  of  republics. 
is a 
question  whether  it  would  not  be better, 
on  the  whole,  for both  countries that she 
should  do  so  in  the  event  of  her  throw­
ing  off the  Spanish  yoke.  There  would, 
undoubtedly,  be  a  close  commercial 
union,  which  is  all  that  would  be  of 
value to  either  country.

It 

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F rench  servants  seem  to  be  endowed 
with  great  curiosity or  immense  patriot­
ism. 
It  is  reported  that  Lord  Dufferin, 
the  English  ambassador  at  Paris,  has 
had  to  fire  all  his  F rench  servants be­
cause  they  were  caught  meddl ing  with 
his  official  dispatches.  One  of  them 
had a  key  made to  fit  the  ambassador’s 
dispatch  box,  and  would  stop  on  the 
stairs,  or  in  some  private  place,  to  open 
it  and  read  the dispatches. 
It  is  hinted 
that  the servants were - in  the  pay  of  the
French  Government.

There  was  no  little  excitement  in  a 
clothing  store  at  Moberly,  Mo., 
the 
other  day,  when  a  big  cinnamon  bear, 
that  had  been  placed  in  the  show  win­
dow  for  advertising  purposes,  slipped 
his  chain  and  started  to  investigate  the 
establishment.  He had  it  all to himself 
for  awhile,  but  finally  an  intrepid  young 
man went  in  and chained  him  up  again. 
The • bear  was  perfectly  tame,  and  be­
longed  to  a butcher of the  town.

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The  story  is  told  that a  Michigan  wo­
man  had  a  very fashionable  silk  waist 
made,  which  she  sent  to  her sister  in  a 
little  Western  Kansas'  town.  She  re­
ceived 
in  reply  a  letter  of  thanks,  in 
which  the  sister said  that  she  found  the 
sleeves  much  larger than  her  thin  arms 
needed,  and  she  had  cut  them  over, 
getting  enough  out  to  make  her  five- 
year-old  girl  a  dress. 
‘ ‘ You  must  have 
thought  I  had  awful  fat  arms, ’ ’  the  sis­

ter out  West wrote.* 

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it 

Prof.  Dewar says  that  carbonic  acid 
has the  peculiar  property  of  possessing 
its  melting 
a  boiling  point  lower  than 
point;  in  fact,  it  is  a boiling  solid. 
In 
illustration  of  this,  at  a  recent  lecture, 
he  pressed  some solid  carbonic  acid  in­
to  a  kind  of  snowball,  tied  a  piece  of 
string  around  it,  and  suspended 
in 
water  in  a  glass  trough  with  parallel 
sides,  so  that  he  could protect  an  image 
of  the  block  upon  the  screen. 
It  was 
then  seen  to be giving  off carbonic  acid 
gas  freely. 
In  molding  it  with  the  fin­
gers,  he  said,  it  feels  no  colder  than 
snow,  because  in  reality  it  never  comes 
into  contact  with  the  skin.  There  is  a 
layer between  in  the  spheroidal  condi­
tion.  He also burned  diamonds  in  liquid 
oxygen,  an  experiment  never shown  be­
fore.  He dropped one  or  two  red hot 
diamonds  into  liquid oxygen.  The  cold 
put  them  out,  and  they sank to the  bot­
tom.  Then  he  made  a  diamond  extra 
hot by means of a blowpipe;  it  caught |

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DON’ T  FAI

TO  ORDER  A T   ONCE  FROM  YOUR  JO B B ER   A   QUANTITY  OF

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Borden’s 
Peerless  Brand 
Evaporated  Cream,

Guaranteed Absolutely Pure,

A   PU RE,  W H O LESO M E,  THOROUGHLY  ST ER ILIZED   U N SW EET EN ED   CONDENSED  M ILK, 
ON  WHICH  YOU  CAN  M A K E  A   GOOD  PROFIT.

Prepared and guaranteed by the NEW YORK  CONDENSED MILK  CO.,  New  York.

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SOLD  B Y   A L L   TH E  LEADING  W H O L E SA L E   GROCERS.

Fon  Q u o t a t io n s  S ec  Pr ic e  Co l u m n s .

UBEROID
EADY
OOFING....

All  Ready to  Lay.  Needs 
NO  C O A T IN G   OR  P A IN T IN G

Is  Odorless,  absolutely  Water  Proof,  will 

resist fire  and  the  action of  acids.

cheaper.

Can  be  used  over  shingles  of  steep  roofs,  or 

T r y   O ur  P u re

is  suitable  for flat  roofs.

Will  OUTLAST  tin  or  iron  and is very much 

Asphalt  Paint

H. M. REYNOLDS  l SON
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Ask your hardware dealer for it.

For  coating  tin,  iron  or  ready  roofs. 
Write for  Prices.

SHORT LINE TO

s c h e d u l e :

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GRAND  RAPIDS to  C - , 
CHICAGO.  ONLY 

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

A T L A N T A   an d  C IT Y   O F  R A C IN E

The Magnificent New Fast Steamships,
L e a v e  Grand Rapids daily via D., G. H. & M. Ry.
at 7:40 p. m., arrive Chicago 6:30 a. m. 
Returning, Leave Chicago daily at 7:30 p.  in., 
arrive Grand Rapids 6:40 a. m.
<£/. 
FOR THE ROUND TRIP.  Stateroom 
v " ■ jo  Berth Included. Through tickets and 
stateroom berths can be had at the city office and 
depot of the D., G. H. & M. Ry., Grand Rapids; 
also at all stations on the D., G. H. & M. Ry.,  D ., 
L. & N., G. R. &. I. and T. S.  & M. Rvs.
II. A. BONN,
General Pass. Agent, 
Goodrich Trans. Co., Chicago.
Office Simam
S T A T E M E N T S ,p 
E N V E L O P E S . 

aH  B I L L  H E A D S
fRADESMAN
company;

COUNTER  BILLS.

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

T h e y   all s a y ?

“It’s as good as  Sapolio,” when they try to sell you 
their experiments.  Your own good sense will tell 
you that they are only trying to get you to aid their 
new article. 
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Is it not the 
Who urges you to keep  Sapolio? 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by constant and judi­
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very presence creates a demand for other articles.

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AND  READ.

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

Portland  and 
Swell  Body 
Cutters

Belknap,  Baker &  Co.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.  ^

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*   Nos.  122  and  124  Louis  Street, 

W E  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE  TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 2 j

£

WM.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,

MANUFACTURERS  T|MW H DC 
AND  JOBBERS  OF...  1  1 1 x 1 1   H i V L
2 6 0 South Ionia Street
Write for Catalogue. 
Telephone 640. 
GRAND RAPIDS, rtlCH.
Selling Agts. for Columbian  Enameled  Steel  Ware.

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ONYX  T A B L E S

We  Have 
Them.

000-000

AH  Styles.

o o o o o o

Banquet 
Lamps

WELL-KNOWN

Immense variety  now  in  stock.

From  $  1.00 
to  $ 20.00

Gilt  Cupid 
Banquet  Lamp 
6  in.  Onyx  Stem 
.  Cast  Head 

$1.75

$3.25

Write for  Illustrations.

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10.00
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No. 3529—6 in. Genuine Onyx Center 
and Cast Grass Head—No. 2 Royal Cen­
ter Draft Burner. 
Lamp and Burner 
only $3. 7 5. Complete with Elegant 16 in. 
Silk Shade, 6 in. Flounce $5.0 0.
The  Money=Saving  Scale

Grand  Rapids 

Mich.

P A YS  FOR  IT S E L F

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

It prevents all  errors in  weighing-  and

STOPS  TH E  LEA K S

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

YOU  NEED  IT!

S E E   W H A T

C a sh   M e r c h a n d is e .

BOSTON STORE.

118-124 State St., and 77-79 Madison St.,
Chicago, Dec. 31, 1894. 
The Computing Scale Co., Dayton, Ohio: 
G e n t l e m e n :  We have had your scale in use 
since November 24, 1891, in our butter, cheese 
and meat department.  We find them to do ev- 
actly what you claim.  Our clerks can wait on 
more customers and assure them accuracy in ev 
ery respect.  We can recommend them as the 
most eeonomicarscale in use for meat markets 
and groceries 

Yours truly,

B oston St o r e.

G e n t l e m e n : 

U S E R S   S A Y .

.1. W. WHITKLKY A SON,
Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, etc.
Bonaparte, Iowa, April 22, 1895. 
Dayton Computing Scale Co., Dayton, O.: 
In reference to yours of recent 
date regarding the Computing Scales which you 
sent ns, permit us to state that they have ex­
ceeded our expectations, giving us the utmost 
satisfaction.  \\ e consider it one of our greatest 
conveniences in our store, and knowing it, as we 
now do and from the experience we have had 
from its usage in the store, we would not dis­
pense with it for ten times its value.  Any ordi- 
I nary clerk, with common school education, can 
expedite business equal to two or three clerks, 
and we prize it as one of our foremost fixtures 
: in our store.  We consider and feel that ours has 
1 paid for itself in two months.
Yours truly,

Investigate  the  Dayton  Computing  Scale. 

For  further  particulars  call  or  write

TH E  COMPUTING  S C A L E   CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio.

J .  W .  W h it e l e y  & S o n.

