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sure  and  profitable  results.

THE  HOPE  OF  THE  WORLD.
The  reign  of  the  Plantagenet  family 
in  England  was  a  negative  blessing.  In 
the  fight 
for  supremacy  between  the 
king  and  the  barons,  everything  elst 
was  forgotten,  and  whatever  progress 
was  made  in  civil  life  in  any  direction 
was  wrested  from  the  king  on  the  out 
side  or from  the  nobles  on  the  other 
and  when  the  reign  was  over,  every  ad 
vantage,  from  the  Magna  Charta  down 
was  a  proof  of  the  fact  that  the  uses  of 
adversity  are  sweet.

Among other evils  which  existed  then 
was  the  deplorable  condition  of  the 
finances  of  the country.  Dishonesty  was 
the  watchword  of  the  hour.  Fraud  only 
flourished  and  integrity and  uprightness 
were  unknown.  Trade,  if  not  paralyzed 
languished,  and  the  money  that  rep re 
seated  it  was  as  untrustworthy  as  the 
it  was  made 
worthless  commodities 
faithfully  to  represent. 
In  the  midst  of 
the confusion  which  this  financial  cor 
ruption  created  a  coin  of  gold  found  its 
way  across  the  channel  into  England 
and  on  account of  its  purity  was eagerly 
sought  after  and  made  the  English 
standard  of  pure  money. 
Retaining 
the  name  of  the  Eastphalian  traders 
who coined  it,  known  then  in  England 
as  Easterlings,  the  money  was  calk 
incorporate _ 
I sterling;  and  a  word  was 
from  most 
into  English  speech  which, 
of  its  users,  conceals  the  fact  that 
it 
was the  trader  of  the  twelfth  century 
who  rescued  the  English  speaking  race 
from  financial  anarchy,  and  who showed 
himself  to be  then  what  he 
is  to-day, 
the hope of  the  world.

No  one  thinks  certainly  no  one  be­
lieves  that  no  progress  has  been  made 
since  sterling  became an  English  word ; 
but  that  there  is  a  painful  similarity be­
tween  the  conditions  of  things  then  and 
now  is  undeniably  true  The  humanity 
of  the  twentieth  century  is  as  eager  as 
that  of  the  twelfth  to  get  something  for 
nothing.  As  earnestly  as  they  of  the 
olden  time,  do  we  bend  our  energies  to 
getting  gain,  with  ways and means quite 
as  unscrupulous  as  theirs.  They  cheated 
in  weight,  and  so  do  we.  Yardsticks 
shrank  then  as ours  do.  They  bragged, 
as  we  do,  of  goods  “ all  wool  and  a 
yard wide”   and  flooded  the  market  with 
an  equivalent  for  shoddy,  exactly  as  we 
do  to-day.  Cheating  and  sham  were  liv­
ing  then  and  as  royally  entertained  as 
they  are_now.  Theft  and  robbery  were 
almost  as  common  as  they  are  to-day, 
and  the  eagerness  with  which  they 
in 
the days  of John  of  Gaunt  discussed  the 
money of the  Easterlings  has  its  coun­
terpart  in  the  modern  agitation  of  cur­
rency and  coin.

With  this  similarity  admitted  the 
remedy  for existing  evils  is  not  hard  to 
find.  Now,  as  then,  difficult  as the task 
may be,  the  trader  is  the one  to  do 
it. 
The  same  hands  that  struck the standard 
of  the  English  pound  are  called  for  now 
to  restore  the  bushel  of  our  grandfath­
ers.  The  varying  weight  and  the  un­
certain  measure  are  waiting  for his seal. 
His  voice  is  needed  to expose the cheat, 
to confound  error, to  right  the  wrong— 
in  the 
in  a  word,  to  prove  himself 
twentieth  century  as  he  did 
in  the 
twelfth,  the  hope of  the  world.

THE  BALANCE  OF  TRADE.

There  can  he  no  question  but  tha 
many elements go  to make  up  the  bal 
I mice  of  trade  other  than  the  relative 
proportion  of  imports  to  exports,  hence 
the  Treasury  statistics  of  such  matters 
shendel  not  he accepted  as  the sole guide 
in  determining  whether  or  not  the coun 
try  has a  favorable  or  unfavorable  bal 
ance  to  reckon  with.  Nevertheless,  the 
statistics  of  imports  and  exports  are 
prima  facie  evidences  and  should  he 
carefully  weighed.

The  Treasury  statistics  of imports anti 
exports  for  the  first seven  months  of  the 
present  year  are  now  available  and 
ii 
must  he-  cejufessed  that  the  figures  are 
not  reassuring.  The  tendency  of  im­
ports to  exceed  exports  which  has  been 
apparent  for  the  past  few  years  is  even 
more  pronounced  this  year,  as  the*  total 
of  imports  for the seven months exceeds, 
by  a  very  considerable  amount,  the  ex­
ports  during  the  same  period.  The  ex­
ports show a  considerable decrease  this 
year,  while;,  on  the  other  hand,  imports 
have  materially  increased.

fo r  the  seven  months  of  the  calendar 
year  ending  with  July  the*  exports  are 
valued  at  $443,465,860,  which  represents 
a  decrease  of  nearly  $13,400,000  as 
Compareel  with the* corresponding  period 
>f  1S94.  The  imports  were  valued  at 
$465,069,683,  which  represents  an  in­
crease  of over $67,300,000  as  compared 
with  seven  months  of  1894.  For  the* 
se*ven  months ending  with  July  the  im­
ports  exceeded  the  exports  in  value  by 
$21,603,823,  whereas  during  the;  se-ven 
months ending  with  July,  1894,  the*  ex­
ports  exceeded  the  imports  by  $59,182,- 
709.

With  such  an  excess of  imports  over 
■ xpeirts  it  is  not  astonishing  that  the*re* 
hould  have been  exports  of  gold,  hut  it 
is a  remarkable fact that the gold  exports 
in  1895,  although  gre*atly  exceeding  the* 
imports of  the*  precious  metal,  fell 
far 
short  of  the exports  of  last  season,  al­
though  eluring  1894  the  exports  of  mer- 
handise  exceeded  the  imports. 
This 
comparatively  better  showing  as  re­
spects  gold  shipments  is,  without doubt, 
in  a  large  measure  due  to  the  workings 
>f  the  bond  syndicate.  Had  the  syndi­
cate  not  interposed  between  the  Treas­
ury and  exporters  there  is  little  reason 
to  believe  that  the  shipments  of  the 
precious  metal  would  have  fallen  any 
ihort of  last .season.

1 he  tendency  of  exports  to  diminish 
in  proportion  to  imports  is  not  an  en­
couraging  sign,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  the  remaining  months  of  the  year 
will  develop  a  change,  which  is  possi­
ble, as  the  crops all  promise  to be  large.

PERNICIOUS  LEGISLATION.

It  is  unlawful  to  engage  in  any  for- 
ign  country  any  foreign  citizen  or  sub­
ject  to  labor  or  render  service 
in  the 
nited  States.  This  law  has  been  con­
strued  to  apply  to  clergymen,  teachers, 
artists  anti  musicians,  as  well  as  me­
chanics  and  laborers,  and,  if  such  per­
sons  are  engaged  anil  brought  to  this 
country,  they  will  not  be  allowed  to 
land.

The  interpretation  placed  on  this  law
would  seem  to  be that  no  person  skilled

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  28,  1895.

Number  623

in  learning,  science,  the  fine  and  useful 
arts,  is  to  be  permitted  to  come  here 
from  foreign  countries,  and  only  loafers 
and  beggars who positively will not work 
are  wanted.  This act  has  just  been  put 
in  force  at  New  Orleans against a  young 
Englishman,  named  Schrieber,  who  was 
sent  over here  by  parties 
in  Liverpool 
to  sample  cotton  for  their  agents,  who 
are  stationed 
in  San  Antonio,  Tex. 
I he  United  States immigration commis­
sioners  sat  upon  his  case  and  decided 
that  he  must  be  sent  back.

this  law,  which  was  enacted  at  the 
demand  of  the  trade  unions,  was  evi­
dently  1 ntendet 1  to  exclude the immigra­
tion  of  men  who  would  compete  with 
their  membership  in  their  several  lines; 
but  it  has  been  construed  to  apply  to 
persons  who  can  render any  sort  of  ser­
vice,  with  the  view  of  keeping  them  all 
out  of  the country. 
It  is,  however,  ut­
terly  powerless  to  keep  out  competing 
labor of  any  sort,  and 
it  only  operates 
to  vex  and  annoy  a  few  respectable  per­
sons,  while  hordes  of  criminals,  pau­
pers,  worthless  persons,  provided  they 
have  their  passage  paid  and  a 
little 
show  of  money  to  live  on,  come at  their 
w ill;  while  there  is  no  restraint  on  any 
sort  of  workmen,  provided  they  have 
not  been  formally  engaged  to work here. 
A  little  jugglery  is  all  that  is  needed  to 
secure  their admission  into  the  country, 
anil  they  can  be  set  to  work  without  any 
open  violation  of  the  law,  which  only 
catches  honest  men  who  have  been  en­
gaged  abroad  and  are  willing  to  avow 
the  truth.

Under  the  decision  of 

immigration 
commissioners,  respectable  men  have 
frequently  been  excluded  from the coun­
try,  while pirates,  brigands  and despera­
does are admitted  without  question,  be­
cause  there  is  no  law  to  prevent  them, 
unless  they  will  avow  their  criminal 
character,  or the  testimony 
is  at  hand 
to prove  it.  That  is  about  all  that  is  ac­
complished  by  such invidious exclusion.

A  FAVORABLE  AUGUST.
The  unusual  activity  during 

July 
makes  the  usual  August  dullness  more 
apparent; but,  in  reality,* the  month  has 
been  unusually  active  in  some 
lines 
and  tin;  outlook 
is  favorable  for  fall 
trade.  Wheat  has declined  3@4c.  E x ­
ports  have been  about  one-half  those  of 
the  corresponding  month  last  year.  The 
fact  of  the decline  indicates  that lack  of 
buyers  abroad  has  more  influence on  the 
market  than  the  reported  holding  of  the 
crop  by  the  Western  producers.  Corn 
has  declined  4j^c,  while  the tendency of 
is  upward  Cotton  has 
pork  and  lard 
advanced  a  little  and  the  demand 
for 
manufactured  goods  has  been  corre­
spondingly  strengthened ;  yet  the  price 
of  prints  is  slightly  weakened.  The 
price of  wool  is  kept  up  stiffly  and sales 
have  been  small, 
foreign  competition 
in  manufactured  goods  is  causing  un­
easiness.  The  iron  situation  continues 
very  encouraging,  although  new  orders 
are  not  numerous.  Bessemer  has  ad­
vanced  50c  and  there  is  an  advance 
in 
barbed  w ire;  but other  prices  are  un­
changed.

It recognizes no competition—Signal 5.

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Shoes and  Leather

A  NOBLE  LIFE.

Autobiography  of 

the  Late  A.  C.

McQraw.

lessons 

learned  to  make  my  shoes. 

1  was bora barefi«>ted  near  the  high­
lands  of  the  Hudson,  on  the  farm  my 
mother  and  all  her  children  were  horn 
on,  September  26,  1809,  and  remained 
1 
barefooted  nearly  half  the  time,  until 
had 
In 
those  early  years  farmers 
took  their 
hides to  a  near-by  tannery  and had them 
tanned  on  halves.  Then  the  shoemak­
er,  called  Cat  Whippers,  came  to  the 
house and  made  up  the  family  shoes  for 
the  winter.  Then  1  entered  the  fresh­
man  class,  taking  my  first 
in 
strapping  my  own  skates  and  helping 
the  Cat  Whipper  until  1  was  fifteen 
years  old,  when  1  entered the sophomore 
class  in  a  small  custom  shop,  in  a  vil­
lage  near  by,  named  Walden,  where  1 
was  a  boy  of  all  work  being  the young­
est boy,  1  must  answer  all  calls  one 
of  which  was  so  frequent,  particularly 
at  night—going  out  for  whiskey  for  the 
journeymen. 
1  became  so  disgusted 
with  their  habits,  it  made  of  me  a  tem­
perance  man  in  all  my  after  1 i 1 e.  My 
father  would  never  indenture  any  ol"  his 
boys.  The  contract  he  made  for  me,  1 
was  to  have  twenty-rive  dollars  a  year 
for the  first  year  and  board ;  thirty  the 
second,  and  thirtv-five  the third,  but my 
boss  closed  up  his  business  there  and 
moved  to  New  York,  before my  contract 
was  ended.  My  father  was  acquainted 
with  George  Mecklem,  the most  reliable 
man  in  the shoe business  in  Newburgh.
I  was  taken  into  his  family  as  one  ol 
them,  and  his worthy  wife  always  treat­
ed  me  with  a  motherly  kindness  1  have 
always  been  thnaklul  lor,  and  her  hus­
band’s  shoe  store and  shop  was  the  first 
opportunity  1  had- to 
learn  promptness 
in  business.

18, 

Early  in  1830  my  father  decided  to 
sell  the old  farm  and go  to  Michigan,  if 
his  three  sons  would  all  come  with 
him,  and  we  all  voted  yes  and  on  the 
morning  of  May 
1830,  our  whole
family  were aboard  of  a  sloop  at  the 
wharf 
in  Newburgh,  where  George 
Mecklem  was  the  last  man  to give  us 
Godspeed,  with  advice  to  me  to  create 
no  speculative  debts.  We  arrived 
in 
Detroit  May  29,  via  Hudson  River, 
Erie  Canal  and  Lake  Erie.  We  remain­
ed  in  Detroit  a  few  weeks,  then  a  city 
of  2,222  inhabitants,  mostly  French  in­
habitants,  and  then  my  father  bought  a 
farm  near  Pontiac,  a  small  village, 
where  I  went to  work  for  a  man  from 
Vermont,  who  had  just  opened  a  small 
shop.  He  commenced  work  on  heavy 
pegged  work  and  1  made  the  first I  had 
ever seen  made ;  up  to  that  time pegged 
work  had  never  been  seen  or  worn 
in 
In  one  year  I  had  saved 
Newburgh. 
one hundred  dollars  and  with  it 1 bought 
out  the  concern  and  run  it  until  the  first 
cases  of  Asiatic  cholera  in  the  United 
States broke  out,  July  5, 
in  De­
1  had  previously  engaged  rooms 
troit. 
for a  shop  and  store 
in  Detroit,  and 
while the  cholera  was  yet  raging, I  came 
here  to  stay  and  have  staid  pegging 
away  for  over  sixty-one  years  of  con­
tinuous  business  in  this  city.  The  first 
winter of  1833  and  ’34  employing  only 
five  or six  men,  in  the spring  of  the  lat­
ter year,  1834,  1  changed  my  store  to  a 
larger one and  in  a better  location  and 
increased  my  business 
in  making  up 
work,  never at  any  time  doing a  custom 
made  business  to  measure,  which  1 
found  to  have  many  objections. 
In  a

1832, 

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

I few  years,  having  a  little  trouble  with 
j  the  workmen,  I  went  to  New  York,  and 
laid  in  and  have  always  dealt  in  East- 
| ern  made  goods,  in  connection  with  our 
own  make,  which  for  many  years  was 
j of  the  heaviest  and  best  quality.  The 
j  demand  for  heavy  goods  has  become 
less  as  the  country  has  become  cleared 
1  up  and  attention  has  been  turned  to 
1 ight,  line  goods  for  men  and  women.

Have been  a  housekeeper  sixty  years.
|  Have  always  1 ived  from  a  half  to  three- 
| quarters  of  a  mile  from  the  store.  Have 
I always taken  three  meals  a  day at home, 
j  Have  no  recollection  of  ever  eating  a 
i meal  in  Detroit  at  any  hotel,  or  restaur­
ant.  Up  to  the  time  of  running  street 
cars,  have  always,  when 
in  the  city, 
walked  two  times  a  day  each  way  for 
thirty  years  and  at  least  half  the  time 
since.  When  in  Boston  and  New  York 
doing  business,  I,  as  a  rule,  retired  to

thoroughly  knowing  his  own  country. 
An  ardent  lover of  nature  and  an  en­
thusiastic  fisherman.  He  was  known 
and  loved  by  the guides  in  the  Adiron- 
dacks,  the skippers  at  Nantucket  and 
the  punters  in  Florida  and  his own  fish­
ing  club  on  the  Lake  St.  Clair flats.  Al­
though  in  his 85th  year,  he  made  his 
usual  tri p 
to  Nantucket  last  summer 
and  it  never  blew  so  hard  but  what  he 
was  ready  and  eager  to  go  after  blue 
fish  if  Capt.  Adams  would  venture  out.
I  have  made  no  changes  in  the  fore­
is  one 
going  manuscript.  The  story 
truly  eloquent 
I he 
dead  man  was  a  hater  of  shams  and 
empty  pretensions  and  his  long  life  was 
as  the page  of  an  open  book.

its  simplicity. 

in 

There  is  one  instance  where  it  is  not 
wise  to  add  rapidly,  and  that  is  to  the 
items  of  your expense  account.

THE  LATE  A.  C.  McGRAW.

my  room  before  10  p.  111.,  very  seldom 
ever going  to  a  theater,  or  other  place 
of  amusement,  or  very  seldom  away 
from  my own  home  after  tea  at  night.
Now,  I  think  1  hear  you  say,  he  has 
got  in  a  rut  and  cannot get  out  of  it,but 
not  so  by  any  means.

NOTE BY  HIS SON, W. A. MCGRAW.

At  this  point  Mr.  McGraw  stopped 
writing,  expecting  to  finish  next  day, 
but  was  taken 
sick  and  never  re­
covered.

As  he says,  he never got 

into  a  rut. 
His  firm  was  always  in  the  lead,  doing 
the  largest business in boots and shoes  in 
Detroit  or  Michigan.  He  was  a  man  of 
extensive 
in­
subjects.  A  great 
formed  upon 
traveler,  having,  at  different 
times, 
visited  all  parts  of  Europe.  From  the 
North  where the sun  never  sets,  to  the 
M ed i terranean 
also

reading,  unusually  well 

the  South, 

all 

in 

Model  Hotel at (irand  Marais.

Gaud  Marais,  Aug.  26—As  a  matter 
of  simple  justice  1  would 
like  to  call 
the attention  of  traveling  men  to the  ac­
commodations  offered  by  the  New  Wa­
bash  Hotel.  Landlord  Cummings  and 
his  estimable  wife  are  ever on  the  alert 
to  please  the  traveling  public,  and  ex­
tend  a  cordial 
invitation  to  traveling 
men  to  bring  their  wives  with  them  and 
see the  coming  city  of  Grand  Marais.
1 he  Wabash  Hotel  is now a three-story 
building  1 urnished  throughout  with  new 
furniture. 
I he  rooms  are  large  and 
well  ventilated,  nicely  decorated  and 
carpeted.  There  is  a double-deck  ver­
anda  on  three  sides  of  the  building, 
making  a  pleasant  promenade  and  a 
place  where  everyone  feels  at  home. 
The  house  is  also  furnished  with fire  es­
capes. 
in 
Michigan  for  a  traveling  man  to  take 
his  fami 1 y  for  an  outing  than  Grand 
Marais.

is  no  better  place 

I here 

Have  you tried  it—Signal  Five?

MEN  OF  MARK.

Wm.  A.  McGraw,  of  W .  A.  McGraw 

&  Co.,  Detroit.

Indeed, 

If  there  is  any  truth  in  the  moral  of 
the  old  Latin  fable,  that  youth  is 
in­
structed  in  no better  way  than  by  exam­
ple,  then  the  statement  of  Mr.  McGraw, 
that 
there  is  little  to  say  regarding  my 
early  1 ife,  or  present  one  for  that  mat­
ter,  of 
interest  to  the  average  mer­
chant,  has  little  foundation  to  rest  up­
to  the  Tradesman,  the 
on. 
splendid  story  of  his  prosperous 
life 
leads  promptly  to other conclusions,  and 
not  only to  the average country merchant 
is  this  life  story  of  the greatest  concern, 
but  to  the  whole  world  of  trade  as  well.
The  time  has  come  in  America  when 
something besides  ‘ ‘ getting  ready”   and 
“ beginning”   should  be  looked  for. 
If 
not  monotonous  and  not  exactly  stale,  it 
is  not,  at  least,  unusual  for  remarkable 
success  to  point  with  pride  and 
justly 
so 
to  the  unpretending  cabin  where  its 
humble  life  began.

A 

The  grandest  fortune  of  modern  times 
started  with  an  oil  well.  The  first genu­
inely  American  President  began his  life 
little  one-story 
as  a  railsplitter. 
house  in  Ohio 
furnished  the  greatest 
general  which  the  continent  has  seen; 
but  the  time  has  gone by  in  this country 
for going  into  ecstasy  over an  oil  well, 
a  <50  cabin  or  a  chestnut  rail.  With 
these  preliminaries  done,  and  well 
done,  it  is  the  next  step  that  is  of inter­
est,  not  only  to  the  average  country 
merchant,  but  everywhere;  and  on  that 
account  the  Tradesman  reads,  with  the 
usual  joy  ol  a  paper  in  securing  some­
thing  new,  ” 1  never  left  home  at 
12 
years  of  age  and  worked  three  years  for 
my  board  and  clothes,  with  a  dollar  a 
year  lor  spending  money. 
The  foun­
dation  of  a  genuine  mercantile  life  had 
already  been 
laid  by  the  father,  and 
every  stone  of  that  foundation  had  been 
placed  solidly  on  bedrock  by  the  sturdy 
builder.

When,  on  January  12,  1857,  the  boy, 
whose  name  stands  at  the  head  of  this 
article,  was  placed  in  the  father’s arms, 
a  resolve  was  made,  that  all  that  abun­
dant  means  and  worthi ness  of  purpose 
could  accomplish  should  be  done  to 
make—not  a  professional  man,  but  a 
broad-gauged,  well-educated  merchant, 
to  rest upon the foundation the father had 
then  begun  to  lay  with  so  much  care.

It  was  training  indeed.  The  best  in 
the  line  of  instruction  was  not  thought 
too good ;  and  when  the  eductional  ad­
vantages  of  the  New  World  were  ex­
hausted,  the  doors  of  learning  in  the 
Old  World  swung  open  and  let  him  in. 
.Germany  enrolled  him  as  a  student,  un­
til  the  difficult  speech  of  the  Teuton 
was as  familiar  as  his  mother  tongue. 
With  this  preparation  for a groundwork, 
Mr.  McGraw  returned  to  America  and 
began  his  1 ife  work,  entering  the  em­
ploy  of  the  old-established  shoe house ol 
A.  C.  McGraw  &  Co.,  which  had  been 
founded  and  was  still  managed  by  his 
father.  The house  was  then  located  at 
the  corner  of  Woodward  avenue  and 
Larned  street,  where  Swan’s  restaurant 
now  stands.  While  engaged  in  master­
ing  the  rudiments  of  the  business,  Mr. 
McGraw  conceived  a  strong  liking  for 
the  rubber  department  and  he  deter­
mined  to know  the  business 
from  the 
cellar  up, ’ ’  and,  with  a  zeal  worthy  of 
his  Scotch  ancestry,  he  bent  to  the  task 
I lie  had  set  himself.  Choosing  the  work 
j because  he  loved  it,  the  enthusiast  be­
gan  with  the  gum.  He  made  it  a  study. 
He  familiarized  himself with  the  facts 
I concerning  it.from  the  time  it  is  taken

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

3

is  manufactured 

from  the  tree  in  South  America,  togeth­
er with  the  methods of  obtaining  it,  un­
til  it 
into  boots  and 
I he  fact  is,  his  determination
shoes. 
to  know  all  abouf  it"  has  made  him 
an  expert  in  whatever  pertains  to  rub- I 
ber.  He  is,  without  doubt,  the  best 

posted  man  in  his  line  of  business  to  be j 

found;  and  they  who  know  what  they 
are  talking  about  concede  that  Mr.  Me- I 
Graw  is  a  hustler on  general  principles 
and  a  King  in  the  rubber business,  with  | 
a  capital  K.

Noting  his  partiality  for  the  rubber 
business,  his  partners  naturally  insisted I 
that  he  take  entire  charge  of  that  de­
partment,  which  became,  under  his  en­
ergetic  management,  the banner depart- 
merit of  the  establishment.  His  famil- j 
iarity  with  the  business and his intimate | 
knowledge of  details caused  him  to  be j 
consulted  by  the manufacturers on  mat- j 
ters  of  moment  to  the  trade,  such  as  the 
probable  selling  quality  of  new  patterns I 
and  the  prices  which  new  styles  would  ! 
bear.  No one connected  with  the  trade I 
enjoys  the  confidence of the manufactur- { 
ers  to  a  greater  extent  that  Mr.  Mc- 
Graw.

Devotion  to  duty  soon  rewarded  Mr. 
McGraw  with  a  partnership  interest 
in 
the  business,  which  will  be  continued 
until  Sept.  1,  when  the  old  firm  of  A. 
C.  McGraw  &  Co.  will  be dissolved  by i 
mutual  consent,  W.  A.  McGraw  taking! 
the  rubber  portion  of 
the  business, 
which  he  will  continue  at  So,  82 and  84 I 
Jefferson  avenue  under the  style  of  W. 
A.  McGraw  &  Co.,  handling  the  prod­
uct  of  the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Co., 
having  already  employed  an  office 
and  traveling  force  for that  purpose.

At  intervals  during  his  busy,  business 
career  Mr.  McGraw  has  taken  time  to

Owing to the Great  Advance  in  Leather,

Boots and Shoes are necessarily much advanced in price.

see  more of  the  world  and  its  people 
than  can  be  viewed  from  the  narrow 
confines of  accounting  room.  The  Ger- 
| man  songs  the  boy  had  learned 
in  the 
schools  of  Berlin  had  a  deeper  meaning 
as  the  man  of  business  hummed  them 
on  his  journey  down  the  castle-guarded 
j  Rhine.  He  learned  by  experience  the 
:  pleasures  and  dangers of  Alpine  travel.
|  His  own  eyes  saw  the  magnificence  of 
| the  Austrian  capital,  looked at  the  won­
ders  which  Italy  had  been  gathering  for 
centuries,  rode along the Champs Elysee 
(by  far  the  finest  avenue  in  the  world), 
and  ransacked  the  British  Isles  to  learn 
something  of  the  home  of  his  Scotch an­
cestors.  Nor  was  this  foreign  travel  to 
j  take  the  place  of  journeying  at  home, 

j  He  has  learned  its  geography  by  seeing 

J  it  from  the  woods  of  Maine  to  Cuba 
and  the  Gulf,  over  the  Rockies  to  the 
I Golden  Gate.  Across  the  Pacific  sea, 
twice  traversed,  Mr.  McGraw  journeyed 
and,  with  an 
interest  not  common,  he 
made  himself  familiar  with  Japan,  her 
is  one  of 
| people  and  her history,  anil 
the  best  posted  men  on 
Japan  her 
history,  her  resources and  her future  an 
authority,  in  fact,  on  whatever  pertains 
to  the  Flowery  Kingdom. 
In  fact,  what 
study  and  intelligent  travel  can  do  to 
I widen  a  man  s  world  has  been  made  the 
most  of  in  this  instance.

None  knows  better than  Mr.  McGraw 
that the structure  he  is  building on  such 
a  firm  foundation  is  by  no  means  com- 
lo  him  it  may  seem  a  private 
|  pleted. 
matter  how  he builds,  and  that  what 
is 
added,  day  by  day,  can  be  of  110  con­
cern  to  the  average  country  merchant; 
but  it  is  a  matter  of  the  greatest  mo­
ment,  not only  to  the  storekeeper  in  the 
city  and  in  town,  but  to  the  boys  and 
young  men  behind  the  counter  through-

rtg cu tö   lo r  in e

BOSTON  RUBBEI 
SHOE  CO.’S 
GOODS

WH.  A.  McGRAW.

RINDGE,

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 advance 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.

s and  ì noi ionio si.. Giona Booms.

Candee  Rubbers

Dealers,  Please  Take  Notice  =  =  =  =

Prices advance 5  per cent. Oct.  1.  Until  that 
time our prices 011  Candees, 20 per  cent,  discount. 
,  ederals and Jerseys, 20 and  12  per cent, discount, 
imperials, 20,  12 and  12  per cent,  discount.  A  de- 
lay  in  placing orders  will  cost you  money.

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

Socks in  Michigan.

STUDLEY S  BARCLAY.

NO.  4  riONROE  ST .  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

$  CO.D»

12,  14  and  16  Pearl  Street

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Manufacturers  and  Wholesale  Dealers  In

LINDEN 
NEEDLE  TOE.

Boots  and  Shoes
We make the best line of Medium Priced Goods in the 
market  You can improve your trade by handling our goods
H e r o l d - B ertsch  S hoe  Co.
BOOTS,  SHOES  l  RUBBERS
V\ e carry in stock Regular, Opera, 
siale ßaenis w/ues-gooüyear rubbirs
Piccadilly and Needle Toes.
\\ e are prepared to furnish a Rubber of 
superiority in quality, style and tit.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

5 and  7  Pearl  Street 

out  the  length  and  breadth  of  the land, 
who,  like  their  elders,  sometimes  tire 
of  the " beginning" stories,  worn thread­
bare  by  constant  use,  and  they, 
like 
their  elders,  are  watching  with  unabat­
ed  interest  a  mercantile  career  begun 
where  the  other  had  ended. 
Their 
young  hearts  are  throbbing  with  the 
throught  that  trade  life needs only, learn­
ing  and  the culture  that  travel  gives  to 
make  it  noble,  and  that  if  a  life  so  fav­
ored  can  be  found  to  prove  the  claim, 
they,  too,  will  strive  to  acquire  that 
learning  ami  that culture as Lincoln did, 
with  a  torch  for a candle, 
if  need  be; 
as  Bayard  Taylor did ;  and  as  hundreds 
of  the  old-time  beginners did,  provided 
only  that  this one  instance  which  they 
are  watching  with  so  much  interest  now 
shall  assure  them  that  the  race  is  worth 
the  running  and  that  it  is  just that effort 
and  only  that  which  w ill  lift  the  trade  - 
man  to  a  higher  level  and  enable  him 
to  stand  unabashed  in  the  presence of  a 
king.

“ ()f  no  interest  to  the averageco nitry 
merchant?"  We  shall  see.  " A   city  set I 
on  a  hill  cannot  be  hid,”   and  the  citi­
zens  of  that  city  may  rest  assured  that 
their  going out and  their  coming 
is 
noted  by  the dwellers  in  the  plains  be­
low,  and  that  those  plain  dwellers  are 
encouraged  by  the  far-off  example  to 
follow  closely  in  the  footsteps  of  those 
who,  even  unconsciously,  are  leading 
the  way.

in 

The  Grain  Market.

Low  and  dull  is  the  condition  of  the 
wheat  market. 
Although  everything 
points  to  strong  markets,  the contrary  is 
the case.  If  not  one  thing,  it  is  another 
to  depress  the  price  of  wheat.  Now 
it 
is  the  heavy  gold  shipments. 
It 
is 
claimed  that  Wall  street  is  depressing 
the  wheat  market,  so  that 
it  can  be 
taken  for  shipment  in  tile  place of gold. 
Kxports  have,  certainlv.  been  below  the 
normal  and  the  receipts  have  been  be­
low,  also.  At  this  writing  there  is  noth­
ing  in  the  near  future to  enhance  prices 
very  much.  Later on,  tile  crop  shortage 
will  show  itself  in better prices.  Wheat 
receded  3c  per bushel  during  the  past 
week.

1 lie  visible  showed  another  large  de­
crease  of  1,803,000  bushels  against  an 
increase  of  S1 o.000  the  corresponding 
week  last  year,  leaving  the  visible  only 
36,034,000  or  38,157,000  less  than  the 
same  week  one  year ago.  Who  can  ac­
count  for  the  low  prices?

I here  is  nothing  new  in  the corn mar­
ket except  that  the  outlook  is  as good  as 
ever. 
Brices  receded  about  4c  per 
bushel  during  the  week.

< fats  shared  the  fate  of  wheat  and 
orn,

hile  the  crop  is  unpromising, 
eceipts  were  normal  on  wheat,
;  two cars  of  corn,  which  is  lie- 
average,  and  three  cars  of  oats.

C.  G. A. Voigt.

41  car: 
low  til

A  Universal  Favorite 

in  Canned 

Goods.

Every  grocer  should  have  in  stock  the 
french  Red  Kidney  Beans,  packed  by 
the  Illinois  Canning  Co.,  of  Hoopeston, 
III.,  as  their  fine  quality  and  the  exten­
sive  advertising  done  in  their  behalf  in 
this  market  are creating  a  good demand 
for them,  and  the  low  price  at  which 
they  are  sold  affords  the  grocer  a  good 
profit.  Nearly  all  of  the gocery  jobbers 
in  Michigan  now  have  them  in  stock.

I he  Japanese govt 

■ rmneiit  lias  sent  a 
quantity  of  smoked
and  salted  fish  to 
this  country  to see  if  a  market  can  be 
found  here  for  such  goods.  Similar ex­
periments  are  to  be  made  with  other 
lood  products.

It  is  the  best  Signal  Five.

Around  the  State.
Movements  of  Merchants.

Munising—Cox  &  Cox  succeed  W.  F. 

Cox  in  general  trade.

Owosso—Otis  Could  has  removed  his 

drug  stock  to  Oakley.

Battle  Creek  -O.  V.  Pratt  has sold his 

grocery  stock  to  Daniel  \V.  Maynard.

Flint—The  harness  stock  of  H  X. 
Gay  has  been assigned to Henry  H.  Gay.
Climax  Lee  A'  Rilev  succeed  Pierce 
A  Lee  in  the  drug  and grocery business.
Reading—Geo.  W.  Ocker  has  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  stock  of  Weller  A 
Ellis.

St.  James  The  A.  Booth  Packing Co. 
has closed  its  fish  business  here  for  the

Avenll  has  begun 
igars at 229 Western

H.  Column has sold 
market  to  G.  W.

ill  C.  ( Mrs.  Wm. ) 
her  grocery  stock

McNair  has  pur-

Muskegon

F .  M .
the  manufacture  of  i 
avenue.

Traverse City—G. 
his  fish  an  I  produce 
Coleman.

Nessen  City  San 
Hogg  has  removed 
to  Honor.

Cass  City 

J.  S. 

chased  the  plan in:
A.  DeWitt.

Holland  W.  T. 
his  boot  and  shoe 
this  place.

m ill

Hardy  has  removed 
stock  from  Sparta  to

Negaunee  -The  dr;
Henry  H.  Bregstone 
1 erred  to  Alex.  Heyn.

goods  stock  of 
fias  been  trans-

St.  Louis—-John  R.  Hughes  has  re­
moved  his  jewelry,  notion  and  bazaar 
stock  to  Waveland,  Ind.

Hastings  -Farrell  A Cowan,  clothiers, 
lmve  dissolved.  The  business  will  be 
continued  by  J.  C.  Farrell.

Rea  L.  F.  A  W.  F.  Overmyer,  gen­
eral  dealers,  have  dissolved,  W.  F. 
Overmyer continuing the  business.
Cadillac  The  creditors  of  the 

insol- 
v  nt  John  G.  Mosser  estate  will  shortly 
receive a  dividend  of  12,V2  per cent.

Battle  Creek—L.  W.  Robinson  A 
Son,  dry  goods dealers,  have  dissolved, 
I..  W.  Robinson  continuing  the  busi-

Newaygo—Thompson  Bros.  A  Co.
have  purchased  the  stock  of  groceries 
of  S.  D.  1 hompsori  and  will  continue 
the  business.

Iron  Mountain  Rusky A  Sackin,  gen­
eral  dealers,  have dissolved.  Each will 
continue  the general  store  business 
in 
his own  name.

Ihompson,  Graves  &  Co.,  wholesale 
lumber  dealers,  have  dissolved.  The 
business  will  he  continued  by  B.  R. 
Thompson  A  Co.

Kent  City  -M.  E.  Cone  has  sold  his 
stock  of  groceries ami  shoes  to  Albert 
X.  Saur,  who will  continue  the business 
at  the  same  location.

Iron wood  -Thomas  A  McCabe,  deal­
ers  in  drugs  and  stationery  at  this  place 
and  at  Hurley,  Wis.,  have discontinued 
their  business at  Hurley.

Allegan  A.  W.  Tripp,  of  Cedar 
Springs,  has  purchased  Mrs.  G.  C. 
Adams’  stock  of  stationery,  books  and 
fancy  goods and  will  add  lines  of 
jew­
elry  and  drugs.

Mancelona  Then.  Scattergood  has re­
moved  his  jewelry  stock  to  Mt.  Pleas­
ant.  The field here will he occupied by  |. 
A.  Jackson,  of  Kalkaska,  who  will  re­
move  his  stock  to  this  place.

Hudson  -Arch  Seager,  of  Rome,  has 
purchased  the  interest  of  Mr.  Wiles  in 
the  cigar  business  of  Burk  &  Wiles, 
and  the  business  will  be  continued  un­
der  the  name of the  Hudson  Cigar  Co.

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

Sidnavv  -The attachments executed  by 
Wells,  Stone  A  Co.,  of Duluth and other 
wholesalers,  on  the general  stock  of  E l­
mer  Desvoigne,  have  been '  released. 
The  trouble  came about  through  a  111 is- 
understanding.

Alma—The  business  men  of this place 
have  raised  Sio.ooo  for  the  purpose  of 
purchasing  the  right  of  way  through 
for  the  Toledo,  Ann  Arbor  A 
Alma 
I North  Michigan  Railway,  which 
in­
volves  the  erection  of  a  union  depot  for 
the  joint  use  of  the  D.,  L.  A  N.  Rail­
way.

Ironwood  -Chas.  H.  Koenig  A  Co.’s 
clothing  stock  has  been  seized  by  E.  I). 
Nelson,  President  of  the  First  National 
Bank,  by  virtue  of  a  chattel  mortgage 
for $4,000.  The  liabilities are  stated  to 
be  about $8,000,  and  the  assets 
in  the 
neighborhood  of $5,000.

Kalamazoo  H.  B.  Fisher and  W.  M. 
Thompson  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under the  style  of  H.  B.  Fihser  A  Co. 
for  the  purpose  of  continuing  the  men’s 
furnishing  goods  business  at 
107  West 
Main  street,  formerly  conducted  by  H. 
f .  Weimer.  The  new  firm  will  add  k 
line  of  hats and  caps.

Allegan  0 .  R. 

Johnson  will  again 
embark  in  the  mercantile  business here.
I he  interior of  the store  he  formerly oc­
cupied  is  undergoing  repairs  and  will 
be  made  ready  for  his occupancy.  Geo. 
E.  Rowe,  who  succeeded  Chas.  S.  Ford 
in  business  at  the  same 
location,  has 
removed  the  stock  he  did  not  dispose  of 
to  Hastings.

Traverse  City  The  Traverse  City 
Lumber Co.  has  sent  fifty  vessel  loads of 
lumber  to  Chicago  thus  far  this  season, 
and  thirty  more are  ready  to send.  Over 
$125,000  have  been  paid  for  timber  and 
labor.  The  output  of  the company’s two 
mills  will  be  greater  this  season  than 
ever before,  25,000,000  feet  having been 
sawed  in  two  months.

in  ! 

Florence—The  peppermint  crop 

this  vicinity  will  be  almost a  total  fail 
ure,  on  account  of  the 
injury  done  by 
the  frost  last  spring.  Mr.  Hall,  one  of 
the  largest growers  in this  vicinity,  sue-1 
ceeded  in  getting  only  23  pounds of  oil 
from  73  acres  of  old  mint,  when  he 
should  have  had  from  to  to  20  pounds 
to  the acre.  He  has  300 acres  of  mint 
which  will  not  yield  enough  oil  to cover 
the expense of  cutting.

Adrian—The appraisers  of  the  Met­
calf  dry  goods  stock  have  awarded  the 
owner $40,433,  the  stock  to  be  retained! 
by the  insurance companies,  which  have 
shipped  it  to  the  Western  Salvage  and 
Wrecking  Co.,  of  Chicago.  The  ex­
penses  of  appraisal  were  about  $700, 
which  will  tie  home  equally  by  Mr. 
Metcalf  and  the  insurance  companies. 
H.  C.  Shattuck,  who was appointed trus­
tee,  still  holds  the  policies 
in  trust. 
Mr.  Metcalf  was  unable to state whether 
he  would  re-enter business,  when  asked 
this  question,  hut 
intimated  that  he 
might.

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Cotton  goods are  still  advancing.
All  best  makes of  prints are  now  job­
bed  at  5/4@5c%>  with  a  few brands still 
held  at  5c.

Dress  goods  for  fall  are  being  shown 

at  prices  ranging  from  7f4c(uj$i.

Amoskeag  staple  ginghams  are  now 
quoted  by  manufacturers  at  5% c;  dress 
cambrics  at  3^@ 4c.

All  American  prints,  both  wide  and 
narrow  goods,  have advanced %c.  Simp­
son’s  new  Hazel  brown  prints  are  beau­
tiful  and  are  proving  good  sellers  at  the 
new  price of  53^c.

Napped  goods are  also  shown  in qual­
ities  to sell  at  10c  and  I2j^c  in  Persian 
effects and  stripes.

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

Going to Detroit.

Going  to  Chicago.

P A R L O R   A M I   S L E E P I N G   c a r s .

To and from  Lowell.

Returning from  Detroit.

To  and  from  fluskegon.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Saginaw,  Alma and St. Louis.

“  T te Niagara Falls Route.”

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and Petoskey.

M i g h i g a n  P e k t r a i

n P T o n i T  
oct. as, 1894
L r L   1  t\V / 1  1  ^Lansing  &  Northern  R’y 

Travelers’  Time  Tables.
1 I,v. G'd Rapids 6:U0:un 1:25pm *6:30pm *11:30pm 
CHICAGO and West Michigan R’y
| Ar. Chicago....12:05pm (5:50pm  (5:00am 
(5:25am
j Lv. Chicago........................7:20am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G'd Rapids..................12:40pm 10:40pm *6:30am
j Lv. G’d Rapids.................. (5:00am  1:25pm (5:30pm
I 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. Traxeree City..............*1:20pm 4:50pm 4:00am
, Ar. Charlevoix 
(5:30pm (5:30am
..........*3:50pm 
1 Ar  I’e oskey.........................*4:20pm 6:55pm 7:00am
!  Trains ar rive from north at 5:30a.m., 11:45a.m.
1:00p.m., *1:30p.m.
Parlor Cars leave Grand Rapids 6:00a.m., 135 
| p.111.: leave Chicago 7:20a.m.. 5:U(>p.m.  Sleeping 
j Cars leave Grand Rapids *11:30p.m.: leave Chi­
cago *11:45p.m.
♦Every day.  Others week days only.
Lv. Grand Rapids............7:00am 
1:20pm 5: 5pm
Ar. Detroit.............................11:40am  5:30pm 10:10pm
Lv. Detroit......... 
.................7:40am  1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...........12:40pm  5:2epm 1 :45pm
Lv. G It 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G It 11:35am 10:45pm 
Lv. Grand Rapids...........7:  am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell...............12:10pm  5:20pm
Parlor ears 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..................................(5:30am 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 12:2np.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 l m q u i -  t . Ticket Agent. 
____________________________Union Passenger Station.
Lv
ids.
G'd Ra 
:45am It 
:40am 11 :(Jam  3:25|im 11:0 pm 
Ar. Ionia
__
Ar. St. Johns. 
t : I7(i!n  5:-A p m _______
Ar. Owosso___0:00am
! :20pm  (> :05pm  3: (Jam 
Ar. E. Saginawl0:50am 
3:4 pm  8:00pm  C:40am 
Ar. Bay City .11:30am 
4:35pm  8:37pm 
15.1 m 
Ar. F lin t.10:05am 
3:45pm  7:05pm 
5:40am 
Ar. Pt. Huron. 12:(J5pm 
5:50pm  8:50pm 
7: 0am 
Ar. Pontiac.. 10.'53am
3:05pm  8:25pm 
5:37am 
Ar. Detroit.. 11:50am  _______
4:05pm  9:25pm
7:00am
For G'd Haven and Intermediate Pts.
. ,*8:40am 
For G'd Haven and Muskegon................
. .+l :00pm 
For G’d Haven, Milwaukee and Chi..
. +5:35pm 
For G'd Haven. Milwaukee and Chi..
. *7:40pm 
For G'd Haven and Milwaukee.............
.tl0:(ì5pm
tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.  Trains arrive 
from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m., 5:30p.mJ, 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 ,  C ity Ticket Agent.
r.DANn 
_ 
Leave  Arrive
. 
Trav. Cy., Petoskey A Mack. 
t7:00am t 5:15pm 
.*8:00am *l0:00pm
Trav. Cy., Petoskey  & Mack. 
Traverse City.....................................fa:25pm til:30am
Saginaw...................................................+5:00pm tl l :00pm
Petoskey and Mackinaw...........710:45pm t 6:20am
7:00a.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
Cm., Ft. \\ ayne& Kalamazoo.t 7:25am 
t9:15pm
Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo...........t 2:00pm  12:15pm
Cin , Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo.*10:15pm  *6:50am
Kalamazoo ...........................................t 6:00pm 
t9 : a am
7:25a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 
10:15p.m. train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, 
Indianapolis and lamisville.
Lv. G'd Rapids...........*7:25am 
t-: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. Chicago....................tG:50am  +3:00pm *11:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............2:15pm 
6:50am
9:15pm 
3:00p.m. train has through coach and 11:30p.m. 
has through coach and sleeping car.
Lv G’d RapdisfT:25am tl :00pm £8:30am t5:40pm 
Ar Muskegon. .8:50am  2:10pm  9:55am  7:05pm 
Lv Muskegon.*9:13amtl2:05pm +6:30pm t4:05pm 
Ar G’d RapidslO:30am  1:15pm  7:55pm  5:20pm 
tExcept Sunday.  »Daily. 
JSunday only.
A. Almquist, 
C.  L.  L ockwood,
Ticket Agt. Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.

Aug.« ..s
U l \ / i n i /   Rapids  & Indiana  Railroad

H P T P n i T   Qra,,d  Hav.en  &
Lf Lr  1  I V U 1  1 9 

Milwaukee Railway

Muskegon Trains.

27 pm  12:. :5a 111

Chicago  Trains.

Northern  Div.

Westward.

•895

"  

. 

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

The  Drug  Market. 

J 

The  Hardware  Market.

is 

Alcohol  Nothing  has  developed  to 

Arsenic—The  demand  for  white  con­
tinues  light,  and  the  limited  wants  of 
consumers  are  being  supplied  at  prices 
within  the  old  range.

Cascara  Sagrada  Reports  from  the 
Pacific  coast  state  that  the  market  there 
is  hardening,  most  of  the  bark  in  sight 
having  already gone  forward  anti 
in 
strong hands which expect to  hold  it over 
until  next  year. 
It  is  claimed  that  the 
prices  realized  by  gatherers  this  season 
were so  low  that  many  of  them  were  un­
able  to  make  ends  meet,  arul  the  disap­
pointing  results  will  cause them to aban­
don  the  business.

General  Trade-W hile  there  is  a  good 
improve  the situation.  The  demand  is  deal  of  fault  found  with  the  dullness  of
rather slow-.
trade,  if  the  merchant-  will  only  refer
back  to  his  books  and  compare his trade 
with  last  year at  this  time,  lie  will 
find 
he  is  doing  just  as  well,  if  not  a  little 
better.  We think  everything  points  to 
a  good  fall  trade.  Most  of the crops  are 
good  and  a general  revival  of  buying  is 
sure  to  come. 
In  other  sections  of  the 
country  this  is  felt  stronger  than  it  is  in 
Michigan,  but our  time  is  soon  here  and 
we  must  be  prepared  to  improve 
it. 
All  goods  in  the  hardware  line  are  hav­
ing  material  advances,  and  we  see  no 
reason  why  there  should  be  any declines 
for a  long  while  to  come.  Raw  mater­
ial  is  up,  labor  has  been  advanced,  and 
everybody 
is  getting  tired  of  selling 
goods  at  cost.  Now,  if  the  retail  mer­
chant  will  only  imbibe  a  little  of  this 
confidence  in  the  future  and  keep  his 
selling  price  up  with  the  present  ad­
vances,  everybody  will  be  just  as  well 
off.

Cream  Tartar  -Is moving steadily into 
consuming  channels,  with  values  un­
changed  anti  firm.

Ergot  Small  parcels  of  the  better 
grades  continue  to  find  a  good  consum­
ing  outlet.

consumption  at  the  old  range.

Is  in  moderate  request  for 

Cocaine 

is  unloading.  Some  profess  to  believe 
that  this  is  simply  a  process  to work  the 
market,  and  that  there  is  no 
indication 
that  the  syndicate  will 
let  go  beyond 
comparatively  small  quantities,  and  this 
in  order  to  depress  prices,  so  that  they 
may  buy  in  again.

I ea  As  compared  with  the early  part 
of  the  month,  there  is  probably  a 
little 
more  business  being  done,  but,  as  a 
whole,  the  market  shows  no active  con­
ditions.  The  country  buyers cannot  be 
induced  to operate  beyond  actual  neces­
sities,  as  they  see  nothing  in  the  situa­
tion  to  induce  them  to  speculate.  Most 
interest  centers  on  fine  lines  of  green 
and  black  teas.  Slight  declines  are  re­
ported  in  line  prices  on  fine  grades  of 
imperials,  Hyson  and 
India  and  Cey- 
lons,  although  on  the 
latter  auction 
prices seemed  to  be  somewhat  stronger.
in  very 
moderate  request,  orders  being  of  a 
hand-to-mouth  character.  The  market 
for  prunes,  apricots  and  currants  is 
in 
an  unsettled  condition,  while  on  apples 
prices  have  a  declining  tendency.  The 
remainder of  the  offering  is  without ma­
terial  change.

Dried  Fruits  Have  been 

Coffees  Both  Brazil  and  mild  grades 
of  coffee  have  been  dull,  with  prices 
rather  weaker.  Buyers  are  disinclined 
to  operate,  and  holders  do  not,  as  a 
rule,  see any  good  results  to  be obtained 
by  breaking  the  market.

Molasses  While about  the  usual  run 
if  orders  for  moiasses  comes  in  daily, 
the  market  in  a  large  way 
is  dull,  as 
transactions  are  confined  to  small  indi­
vidual  quantities.  Prices  on  both  open 
kettle  and  foreign  molasses  are  very 
firm,  while  low  grade  centrifugals  are 
unsalable,  as  they  cannot  be  laid  down 
here at  the  prices dealers  are  willing  to 

Grand  RapidsjQossip
Stephen  C.  \anderPlas  has  opened  ; 

meat  market  at  549  ()ttawa street.

Floyd 

J.  Everhart, 

grocer  at  47 
Eleventh  street,  is succeeded by Edward 
R.  Connell.

D.  F isher  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
I he stock  was  furnished  by 

at  Stetson. 
the  Hall-liarnhart-Putman  Co.

<).  R.  Johnson  has  re-engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Allegan.  The  Ball- 
Bamhart-Putman  Co. 
the
stock.

furnished 

Longcor  &  Grove  have  embarked  in 
the  grocery business  at  Shepardsville. 
The  stock  was  furnished  by  the  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co.

f .  C.  Miller  has  been  engaged  by 
Enos  Putman  to  close  out  the  stock, 
manufactured  and  unmanufactured,  in­
cluding  lumber  and  other  raw  material 
on  hand,  of  the  \\ iddicomh  Mantel  Co.

G.  J.  Johnson,  who recently  purchased 
the  cigar  stock  of  Geo.  W.  Hart,  at  20 
Canal  streeet,  has sold  the  stock  to  Geo. 
Peacock,  who  will  continue  the business 
under the style of  Geo.  Peacock  &  Co.

1 he  report  that  Appel  Bros,  have 
transferred  their  lease  to  a  dry  goods 
firm  which  will  occupy  the  double  store 
with  a  line  of  staple  dry goods  and  no­
tions  is denied  by  the firm  in  question.
The  road  race  from  Chicago  to  Mil­
waukee  to occur  November  2  between 
horseless  vehicles, 
in  competition  for 
S5.000  in  prizes  offered  by  the  Chicago 
rimes-Herald,  is receiving  considerable 
attention  at  the  hands  ol  the motor man­
ufacturers  of  the  country.  Already about 
eighty  entries  have  been  made,  includ­
ed  among  them  being  one  by  the  Sintz 
Gas  Engine  Co.,  of  this  city.  The 
vehicle  it  has  entered  is  nearing  com­
pletion  and  promises  to  be  a formidable 
competitor. 
If  its success  in  this  appli­
cation  of  its motor approaches  the  suc­
cess  which  has attended  its  use  for  pro­
pelling  launches,  its chance of  carrying 
off  the  first  prize  is  a  good  one.  The! 
outcome  of  this  competition  will  be  a 
matter  of great  importance  to  those  who 
succeed  in  making  a  practical  self-pro­
pelling  vehicle,  and 
in  so  public  and 
well  advertised  a  manner  demonstrates 
its  practicability.  The  adoption  of this 
mode ol  transportation  is  making  rapid 
strides 
recent 
F'rench  road  race  of  the  same  kind  as 
that  proposed  here.  The  world  is  ripe 
for it and the  manufacturers who  succeed 
in  first  gaining  recognition  will  be  the 
fortunate  ones.

in  Europe  since 

the 

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar  -Raw sugar  has declined 

i -i6c 
during  the  past  week  on  weak  anti low'er 
European  markets.  Sellers  still  main­
tain  a  firm  front.  The  decline  in  re­
fined  has  been  from  ’ sfr/ t-ific,  while  the 
trading  was  not  stimulated  by  the  lower 
prices.  The  market  for  German  granu­
lated  was  working  constantly  to  a  lower 
basis  all  the week,  which  influenced  the 
decline.  Should  the decline continue  in 
Europe  still  lower  prices  are  predicted.
Spices  There  is  a  better  demand  for 
spices  in  a  jobbing way at steady prices, 
but 
invoice  dealings  continue  quiet. 
Advices  from  foreign  markets  are  very 
meager, 
for  the  reason  that 
prices here  are  so  much  below those rul­
ing  in  foreign  centers.  A  report  is  go­
ing  the  rounds that  the  clove  syndicate

largely 

Essential  Oils  There  is  a  continued 
unsettled anil  irregular  market  for  pep­
permint,  but  while  the  new  crop 
is  un­
doubtedly  short  in  some  sections  of  the 
growing  districts,  it  is  believed  that the 
aggregate output  will  be  ample  to  meet 
requirements.  Anise,  bergamot  anti 
cassia  are  all  firm,  but  the  latter  is  the 
more  active.

Gums-  Asafoetida  is  in  fair  demand, 
for  the  time  of  year,  at  unchanged 
prices.  Camphor  is  in  active  request, 
with  the  market  decidedly  strong,  all 
indications  favoring  an  early  advance. 
The  princpal  holders  of  kino  have 
further advanced  their  price.

it 

ay- 

Opium 

I he  market  is without anima­
ls  an  apparent  lack  of 
article  on  the  part  of 

I he  receipts at  New  Orleans  con- j tion  and  there 
interest  in  the 
both  buyers anti  sellers.

tinue  light  and  the stocks  in  the  sheds 
there are  small.  Nothing  much  in  the 
way  of  business  is  expected  here  until 
the early  part  of  next  month,  when  it  is 
xpected  that  more  interest  in  the  arti­
cle  will  be  shown.

Syrups  The  market  keeps  well  sold 
up  and  prices are  a  trifle  firmer. 
Job­
bers  are  displaying  considerably  more 
interest.  The  outturn  from  the  refin­
eries  is  small  and  everythin 
piickly  absorbed.

Quinine—The  London  market  has 
been  steadily  hardening,  and during  the 
past  ten  days  the  advances  aggregate 
fully  2  cents  peroz.  While prices abroad 
have  been  moving  upward,  no  change 
has occurred  here,  and 
is  not  sur­
prising  that  the  difference  between  the 
two  markets  should  have  developed  an 
iffering  is  export  demand ;  such  is  the fact,  anti we 
| understand  that  fully  50,000  ounces have
Bananas-There  is  virtually  no  de-  been  taken  tor shipment  to  London  and
that  further  parcels  would  sell  readily  if 
suitable  quantities  were  available.  The 
tone of  the  local  market 
is  decidedly 
firmer,  with  prices  from  second  hands 
on  a  parity  with  those of manufacturers’ 
agents  when  the  question  of  discounts 
are considered. 
It  is  a  well-known  fact 
that  outside  holdings,  especially  round 
lots,  have  been  gradually  absorbed  by 
the consuming  trade,  anti  that  many  of 
the 
the  former  large  operators  have  closed
holding  of  local  merchants,  who  report
a  most  spiritless  demand.  Peaches  have ‘ out  t^ie’r holdings  with  a  view  to  aban 
doning  the  business,  and  leatling  brok­
the  midtile  and  both  sides of  the  road
ers  acknowledge  their  inability  to fill or­
now,  to  the  exclusion  of  other  fruits, 
ders  of any  magnitude.
especially  oranges  and  bananas.
Roots  The  market 

main!  for  them,  and  importers  will  con­
sign  to  any wholesaler  who  may  be 
in­
duced  to  take  the  chance  of  getting 
freight  out  of  a  car. 
It  must  not  he  in­
ferred  from  this,  however,  that  the  re­
tailer  can  get  them  for  a  song,  as  so 
many bunches  in  a  carload  are  ruined, 
the  few good  shippers  must,  of  neces­
sity,  bring  fair  prices.

fruit  comprises 

Oranges  Rodi 

for 

ipecac 

is 
strong  with  values  tending  upward  anti 
an  improved  demand  is  expected  next 
month,  when  the  consuming season  usu­
ally  begins. 
Jamaica  ginger  is  meet­
ing  with  an  active  seasonable  demand 
and  a  good  business  is  reported  in  both 
bleached  and  unbleached  at  full  prices. 
Golden  seal  has  met  with  increased  at­
tention.

Barbed  Wire  -The excitement  of  the 
week  in  the hardware  market  has  been 
the  recent  advance  on  barbed  wire. 
Painted  wire  has  advanced  S12  a  ton 
and  galvanized  >13  a  ton.  The  present 
price  is :

Painted barbed, from mill........................$2 45
Painted barbed, from stock ...................  2 65
Galvanized barbed, from mill............... 2 85
Galvanized barbed, from stock..........  3 05

I his  is  the  greatest  and  most  sudden 
advance  that  has  occurred  in  the  hard­
ware  line,  but, according to all  accounts, 
the  wire  manufacturers  have 
their 
affairs  well  in  hand  and  are  able  to  put 
the  price  at  a  living  profit.

Plain  Wire  The advance  in plain an­
nealed  wire  has  not  been  so  great.  We 
quote  that  as  follows:

From Stock 

From Mill
1 85..
». 12....
Extra for Galvanize«! Wire, 40e.

1  <15  .
2 05..

No.  15.

o.  10-11. 

__il  95

Wire  Nails  Are  stationary  at 

last 
quotation,  which  was $2.15  at  mill  and 
S2.35  from  stock.  The  anticipated  ad­
vance  did  not  take  place,  but, 
if  trade 
continues  good,  we  may  look  for  it  next 
month.

Rope  The  rope  makers  are  getting 
tired  of 
low  prices  and  are  gradually 
making  advances.  We  quote  sisal  rope 
6@5/^c  and  mauilla  at Q'ilfiqc.

Sundries—We  are  advised  that  all 
makers  of  shelf  hardware,  locks,  knobs, 
etc.,  have  withdrawn  all  quotations; are 
now  revising  their  costs  and  will  soon 
issue new and advanced  prices. 
It  will, 
no  doubt,  average 
from  10  to  25  per 
cent.  Agricultural  tools  have  advanced 
10  per  cent.  ;  screws  to  8o@io@8s  pe 
cent.  ;  carriage  bolts  to  65  per  cent.  ; 
machine  bolts  to  65  per  cent..;  shovels 
and  spades,  50c  per  doz.  ;  sash  weights, 
S2  per  ton;  plain  board  to  ¿11.15;  tar 
board  to  $1.30.

As  we  have  saitl  before, 

it  behooves 
the  retail  dealer  to  watch  the  market 
carefully  and  not  give  away  his  goods. 
Those best  informed  on  the  situation  do 
not  look  for  a  declining  market  for 
some  two  or three  years;  hence we think 
retail  dealers  should  bear this 
in  mind 
anti  keep  their  selling  prices  up  with 
the  market.

Lemons  Arrivals 

from  “ the  other 
side”   are  very  light  and 
fancy  goods 
bring  S6@7  at  the  auction  sales.  Many 
seem  to  think  it  will  he  October  before 
there  will  be  a  decline  of  any  moment, 
while others  think  that  early  in  Septem­
ber  we can  look  for  much  lower  prices.
that  all  are 
buying  from  hand  to  mouth,  and  prices
have  crept  up  a  peg  almost  daily for the I 
past  week.  Buying 
lots,  as 
is  safest  until  the  re- 
needs  require, 
actjon 

It  is  certain,  however, 

in  small 

___^  

^ 

Improve  the  opportunity  on  Gillies’ 
& Co.’s  special  N.  Y.  tea  offer.  It  is  a
new Japan  cheap. 

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|  C.  E.  Block,  Secretary  of  the  Corn-
R  is  estimated  that  the  bicycle  output  mercial  Credit  Company,  has  been  at 
1895  Oakland  Beach,  with  his  family,  for  a

was  200’ 000>  while  that  of 

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It  is  thought  that  next  week

will  be  400,000. 
year  the  output  will 
I wheels. 

r   ‘ ,  u   „   „  
Fred  H.  Ball  (Ball-Bamhart-Putman
in  Boston,
P.  Steketee  &  Sons  still  offer  %  Ar-  participating  in  the  Knights  Templar 

Co.)  is  spending  the  week 

700,000 

reach 

„  

T,

, 

J.  P.  Visner,  Agent,  ¡gyle  Standard  Indigo  blue  at  4J4c. 

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56  OTTAWA  ST.

The  New  W ays and  Work of Woman.
And  now  six-  wants  Blackstone.  Onlv 
the other  day,  1  heard  a  girl  of the  per­
iod  asking  where  she  could  get the great 
In  New 
commentary  on  common  law. 
Y ork  there  is  a  class  of  young 
ladies 
taking  a  course  of  competent  instruction 
in  constitutional  law  and  political  econ­
omy.  Which  would  indicate  that  the 
feminine  intellect  of  the day  was  drift­
ing  towards  "Blackstone”   and  "Chitty 
on  Contracts, 
instead  of  the  guide  to 
goo 1  housekeeping  and  Ella  I..  Hoyle’s 
"Cook  Book. 
It  looks  as  iI  the  ladies 
were  qualifying  themselves  for any  pub­
lic  or  political  duties  that  might  de­
volve  upon  them  during  these  days  oJ 
rapid  advancement.  < Her  2,000 women 
physicians  in  the  United  States.  And 
now  they  are  turning  their  attention  to 
the  practice  of  law.  What  would  be the 
consternation  of  our  dear  old  grand­
mothers  could  they  behold  Belva  Lock- 
wood  and  Clara  Kilgare  at  the bar?  But 
if  the  dears  devote  all  of  their  time  to 
law  and  political  economy  what on earth 
will  become  of  the  domestic  economy? 
Is  the  kitchen  to  be  abandoned  tor  the 
court-room,  the  household  lor  the  halls 
of  legislation?  The  way  things  are  go­
ing  this  will  soon  grow  into  a  question 
of  general  and  pressing 
importance. 
Women  everywhere  are  doing  the  work 
of  men  at  counter,  desk  and  office table. 
Young  ladies  getting  from  S;o  to  sSo  a 
month  for  light  and  pleasant  employ­
ment  and  have  servants  doing  domestic 
drudgery  from  daylight  till  dark  for $12 
and  S15  a  month.  Men  paying  their 
typewriters  $53  a  month  and  finding 
fault  with  their  wives  tor  paying  the 
halt  of  that  to  their servants.  American 
girls  are  learning  to  despise  home  du­
ties  and  are  crowding  capable  young 
men  out  of  their  customary  avocations. 
This  changed  condition  of  affairs  will 
soon  require  a  readjustment  of domestic 
and  industrial  relations.

fretful, 

lished  where  the 
little  ones  will  be 
looked  after  and  managed  by  patient 
and  loving  women  who are  experienced 
trained  nurses.  These  little  ones  will 
enjoy  the  association  of other  children 
and  advantages  not  provided  in  the  av­
erage  household.  Sometimes  mothers 
are  over-fond, 
inexperienced, 
overworked  and  are  really  not  qualified 
to  attend  their  children.  And  the men 
that  women  are  crowding  out,  what  will 
become  of  them 
the  1 imbs  of  the  law 
that  these  young  lady  students  are  pre­
paring  to  displace  or  subserve?  Let 
them  take  to  sterner  and  more  stirring 
pursuits,  if  crowded  out,  to  something 
more  suitable  for  their  manly  endow­
ments,  to  their  ambitions  and  adventur­
ous  turn  of  talent,  such  as  engineering, 
mechanical  inventions,  supervision  of 
industrial  establishments,  scientific  dis­
covery,  etc.  The  ladies will allow them 
to be  leaders  in  all  the  avenues  and  un­
dertakings  of  life  for which  they  prove 
themselves  capacitated! ?) 
Let  them 
show  their  mental  and  manual  superior- 
I  ity  by  constrcting  sewing  and  typewrit­
ing  machines  and  such  th i ngs  for  the 
women  to  use;  by  producing  works  on 
law  and  political  economy  for  them  to 
study;  by  conquering  the  inclement  el­
ements and  making  the  earth  a  befter 
abode 
is 
plenty  for  the  heavier  handed,  hardier- 
headed  gentlemen  to  do 
leave 
the tape-measuring  in  stores,  the  type­
writing 
in 
schools  and  1 ike  employment  for  the 
gentler going,  finer  brained, 
fairy-fin­
gered  ladies  when  they  prefer these avo­
cations  to  marriage.

for  human  beings. 

the  teaching 

in  offices, 

if  they 

There 

The  twentieth  century,  pushing,  per­
sistent,  self-reliant  and  intellectual  wo­
man  is  already  here.  She  has  come  to 
assert  her  dignity  and 
independence 
and  womanly worth,  and  to  be  the  asso­
ciate  and  assistant  of  man  in  all  of his 
achievements.

Ella  R. Berry.

There  is  a  good  reason  for  girls  giv­
ing  up  housework  when  they  can  com­
mand  double  the  day  for  half  the  hours 
‘ ‘ The 
of  work  in  sedentary  situations. 
bread  of  dependence 
is  bitter. 
and 
when  a  woman  works  faithfully and  well 
and  then  asks  her 
legal  protector”   for 
a few  dollars  to  spend  for  recreation  she 
is  often  met  with  a  reproof  and her little 
ideas  are  denounced  as  foolishness,  and 
if  the  money  is  given  it  is  h 111 tied  out 
so  gingerly  that  her spirit  sinks  within 
her and  she  is  robbed  of  the  pleasure 
that  she would  have  had  if  the  manner 
of  giving  had  been  different.  And  so 
she  becomes  studious  of  how  she  can 
earn  a  little  money  and  she  dreams  of 
the great  delight  of  spending  it  the  way 
she  likes. 
is  not  that  the  sex  has 
suddenly  conceived  a  distaste  for  do­
mestic  service  that  so  many are foresak- 
iug  it.  but  for  the  reason named,and be­
cause  they  can  get  larger salaries for  far 
less  laborious  employment.  And  so  they 
are  crowding  and  pushing  onward  to  till 
occupations  which  suit  their  tastes  and I 
talents.

It 

Of  course,  the domest  c de; artment  is 
woman’s  own,  but  its  demands and  du­
ties  are  decreasing,  and  it  is being  ren- 
dered  less  drudgeful  every day.  Labor- 
saving  inventions  and  appliances  are 
invading  kitchen, 
laundry  and  every 
part  of  the  house,  so  as  to  dispense 
with  much  of  the old-time  menial  toil.  | 
Every  requisite 
is  now  brought  to  the 
door  for family  use.

The  question  has  been  asked,  what | 
will  become  of  the  babies  while  the 
mother  is  away  studying  Blackstone and | 
at  the  ballot  box?  Easy  enough  an- I 
swered.  Day  nurseries  will  be  estab-1

The  Art  of  Selling.

like  the  paints  and  brushes 

Goods  will  not  sell  themselves.  You 
may be  the  best  of  buyers  -and  that  is 
half the accomplishment of a good man of 
business  but  that  will  not  be  sufficient 
unless  you  are  a master of  the art of sell­
ing  the  goods.  A  good  store,  a  bright 
store,  and  a  well-arranged  store  are  also 
necessary  in  the  making  up  of  a  good 
business.  They  help  the  selling,  but 
they  will  not  do 
it  all.  Goods  well 
bought  and  these  other  desideratums, 
are 
in  a 
studio.  They  are  necessary  to  the  work 
of  making  the  picture,  but  it  needs  the 
artist’s talent  to  use them  and  produce 
the desi red  result.  Many  persons  enter 
a  store  attracted  by  advertisements  or 
window display,  or  perhaps  from  mere 
curiosity,  and  are  received  coldly,  and 
1 made  to  feel  more  like  interlopers  than 
friends,  if  the  cause  of  their  entry 
is 
sharply  and  abruptly  demanded.  The 
art  of  selling  partly  lies  in  understand­
ing  just  how  to  treat different  classes  of 
customers.  The  successful  salesman
must  study  so  as  to  learn  all  about  the 
goods  he has  to  sell  something  of  their 
manufacture,  and  all  about  their  uses 
and  value.  But  above  all,  he  must
study  human  nature,  and  have  regard 
for  varying  likes  and  dislikes,  opinions 
and  prejudices. 
.Such  knowledge,  with 
tact  in  its  application,  will  teach  the 
salesman  how  to  adapt  himself  to  his 
different  classes  so  as  to  give  the  great­
est  satisfaction  to  all,  and  that  means 
getting  as  much  business  as  possible 
from  all.

The  value  of  advertising  is  nowhere 
so  greatly  shown  as  in  the  phenomenal 
success  of  Mr.  Wanamaker.  He  is not a 
man  of  extraordinary  brains,  but  he 
is  an  extraordinary  advertiser, 
and 
hence  his  enormous  profits.  They  were 
§4,000,000  last year.

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M.  M.  Read,  Michigan  Representa= 

tive  for  E.  B.  Millar  &  Co.

for  the  customary 

It  is  not  always  possible  to  tell  by  the 
looks of  a  man  what  kind  of  a  place  lie 
hails  from,  but  after  the  formalities,  in 
this  instance,  were over,  and 
1  was ar­
ranging  my  camera 
exposure,  I  said  to  myself,  this  man  has 
stubbed  his  toe,  or  Ins  ancestors  have 
theirs,  against  the  New  England  rocks, 
or  I  miss  my  guess.  He  may  not  come 
from  a  university  town,  although  there 
is  something  in  the cut  of  his  jib  that 
the  pop­
suggests  it,  but  here’s  16  to  i 
ular  proportion  now-a-days 
that  he  has 
hail  more than  a  p issing  acquaintance 
with  the  inside  of  a  school house.  There 
wasn  t  any  quarreling  going  on  be­
tween  his  verbs  and  their  substantives. 
I he final  g  was  not  conspicuous  by  its 
absence  and  was  not  represented  by  the 
sound  of  its  middle  letter; and  the  utter 
lack  of  the  nasal  indicated  a  wholesome 
atmosphere  from  the  educational  stand­
point,  which  it  was a  pleasure  to  note, 
and  fixed  the  tact  that  the home was in a 
locality  where  all  these  characteristics 
are  carefully  looked  after.

‘ My  parents  came to  the State of New 
York  from  New  England”   what  was 
the  use  of  bothering  any  longer  with  a 
pencil  and  statistics?  Like  the  judge 
who  listened  to  Webster  in  the  famous 
Dartmouth  College case,  everything  fol­
lowed  so  naturally  and  easily  that  I  had 
no  need  of  a  pencil,  and,  finally,  laid  it 
down.  New  A ork  was ”  Out West’ ’  when 
this  particular  Read 
left  the 
New  England  hive.  They  went  from 
the  New  England  rocks  to  Jefferson 
county,  N.  Y .,  where  they  could  plow 
all  day  without  any  opposition  from  the 
stones,  and  on that  farm, 
in  February, 
1854,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
born.

family 

It  would  be  a  good  place  here  to 
launch  out  upon  the  farm  as  the nursery 
of  great  men.  There  is  a  good  chance 
here  to drive home a  truth  or  two  with­
out giving  it  the air  of a twice-told tale, 
but  with  a  forbearance,  perhaps  com­
mendable,  I  refrain,  pausing only  long 
enough  to  record  the  fact  that,  during 
these  early  years,  the  boy  developed  a 
love  for a  good  horse  which  has  clung 
to  him  since  and  made  the  ownership 
of  fine  horses one of  pleasure,  if  not  al­
ways  of  profit.

The  farm  life  ended  at  16.  Before 
that  period,  the country school  had  done 
what  it  could  to  train  the  young 
idea 
how  to  shoot;  but  when  the  best  had 
been done,  it  was  not  enough,  and 
in 
1870,  the  schools  of  Watertown,  N.  Y ., 
enrolled  upon 
its  list  of  students  the 
name  which  graces  the  head  of  this  ar-i 
tide.  When  the  student  life  was  over, 
it  was  only  a  step  from  the  pupil’s  desk 
to. the teacher’s,  and  for  a  number  of 
years  he  taught  school 
1  said 
he  did! 

just  as 

in  the  Empire  State.
employment  was 

The 

found 

agreeable 
enough,  and  he 
it  profitable 
enough,  but  the  teacher's career  lias  its 
clearly  defined 
limits  and  the  young 
man  made  up  his  mind  to  leave  the 
teachers’  ranks,  while  he  was  good  for 
something  else.  His  time  came  when 
the  Davis  Sewing  Machine  Co.  wanted 
a  man  for  Southern  travel.  He 
joined 
them,  was  a  success,  and  continued 
with  them  until  1880,  when  lie  made  a 
transfer to  E.  15.  Millar  &  Co.,  jobbers 
ot  teas,  coffees  and  spices  at  Chicago. 
That  was  fifteen  years ago,  but  the  date 
is  the  beginning  of  a  business  connec­
tion  which  has  never  been 
interrupted.
In  1881  occurred  the  second  important 
in  that  year  he

event  of  his 

life,  for 

married  Miss  Ida  E.  Bassett  and  set  u| 
his  household  goods  in  Ypsilanti,  where 
he  has  since  lived.

Mr.  Read  belongs  to  the church whose 
the\ 
communicants  daily  admit  that 
"have  done those  things  they  ought  not 
to  have done  and  there  is  no  health 
in 
them,”   but  there  is  reason  to  believe 
that  the  rest  of  the  petition  is  granted ; 
that  his  home 
in  that  Normal  .School 
town  is  a  pleasant  one;  and  that  the! 
little  daughter who calls  him  papa,  and 
who  strongly  favors  her  accomplished  ; 
mother  is  one of  the dearest  children  in  : 
the  world.

The  Safety  Line  in  Credit  Business.

From  1 be 11011 Age.

I he  line  of  demark at ion  running  be- ! 
tween  safety  and  danger 
in  the  credit j 
business  must  vary according to  the  c 11 -  j 
cumstances of  the  merchant,  the  condi-  i 
tions  of  trade  and  the  community  in  j 
which  he  is  doing  business.  No  spe-  ' 
cific  or  iron-clad  rules  can  be  adopted  I 
that  will  apply  in  all  cases.  Some gen- ! 
oral  rules,  however,  may  be  formulated | 
as a  safe guide,  the violation  of  which, 
if  not  bringing  real  disaster,  will  result 
in  much  worry  and  embarrassment.

I he  cautious  and careful business man 
will  not  extend  credits  so that  his  bank  I 
account  is  constantly  overdrawn.  The 
retailer  with  a  $5,000  stock  of  goods, 
whose  annual  sales  foot  up  $20,000,  or j 
four  times  the  amount  of  his  stock,  is 
doing  as 
large—* a  business  as  he  can i 
safely  do,  unless  he  is  fortunate,  enough 
to  be  in  a  city  with  jobbers  from  whom  j 
he  can  daily  replenish  his  stock.  The 
average  country merchant will book  over ! 
one  halt  of  his  sales.  On  this  basis  he 
will do a  credit  business  during  the  year 
of  $10,000,  or,  allowing  ninety  days  as I 
the average  duration  of  an  acccount, 
will  have $2,500  upon  his books the  year 
around.

More depends on  the character  of  the 
In  selling, 
credits  than  on  the amount. 
notes  drawing  the  legal  rate  of 
interest 
This 
should  be  taken 
if  possible. 
paper,  if given  by persons of good stand­
ing,  can  be  easily  hypothecated  if  nec­
essary;  indeed,  prompt  payment  is  of­
ten  secured  by  placing  them  in  a  bank 
for  collection.  As  a  rule,  a  multitude 
of  small  accounts  will  prove  a  source  of 
great  annoyance  and  considerable  loss.
The  cost  of  following  up  and  collect­
ing  a  petty  charge  is  as  much  as  that 
incurred  in  a  much  larger  one. 
Young 
merchants,  anxious  to do  it all,are often 
reckless 
They 
would  do  well  to  remember  the old  say­
ing: 
“ It  is  better  to  cry  over one’s 
goods  than  after  them.”

in  extending  credit. 

Reckless  overbuying  often  results  in 
reckless  credits.  The overstocked  deal­
er  frequently  finds himself giving  credit 
to  a  man  whom  he  would  not  think  of 
loaning  half  the amount 
in  money.  A 
pretty good  rule  is  to  stop  and  reflect: 
If  loaning  money,  would  I  let  this  per­
son  have  the  amount  of  the  purchase  in 
cash  without  security?

The  merchant  should,  as  a  rule,  con­
sider  not  only  the  buyer’s  circumstan-

CCS, 1>Ut IlD■1 habits :ind  general cap>ac-
ity. To  nef use  a customer  or anac-
qua inta neecredit  wi tlx lilt giving offenst
requires 
"1 am  trying
to
collet:t  my accounts and prefer not
t<i
open any new  ones  at present, ’ ’ or,
”  The priee-niade  you is so close* théit  I
ought to have  the  csish, ” ;ire  rep]lies of-

ininch  tact. 

ten  made  to  persons asking  credit.
1 he  credit  and  collection  department 
is  undoubtedly  the  most  vital,  and  upon 
this  rock  more than  any  other  commer­
cial  enterprises  are  wrecked.  Goods 
well  bought  are  half  sold,  but  goods 
poorly sold  may  be  wholly  lost.

Revised  Psalm  of  Life.

At  twenty,  when  a  man  is  young,  he 
thinks  he  knows  it  a ll;  he  likes  to  wag 
his  active tongue and  exercise  his  gall ; 
he  struts  around 
in  noble  rage;  the 
world  is  all  his own ;  he  laughs  to  scorn 
the  world  of  age  and  lists  to  self  alone. 
He  wears  a  window  in  his  eye  to  see 
his  whiskers grow;  he thinks  the  ladies 
pine  and  die  because  they  love  him  so. 
At 
forty,  as  you  may  suppose,  he’s 
knuckled  down  to  biz ;  tis  not  till  sixty 
that he knows  how  big  a  chump  he is.

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LENGTHEN  THE  VACATION.

complex  and  intimate,  violent  personal 
revenge  is  seen  to  he a  menace  to  the 
safety  of  society.

As certain  as  the  blossoming  of  the 
golden  rod 
in  the  August  roads  and 
It  has  been  well  said  that  a  man  who 
lanes  is  the  opening  of  the  school  house 
is either above or  below  public  opinion 
with  the  coming  of  September.  Age, 
is  a  dangerous  man.  The  titled  aristo-
rank  and  condition  bend  alike  to  the
crat  may  be  indifferent  to  what common  decree,  and,  weeks  before  the  summer 
people think  of  his  conduct,and  he  may 
is  over,  the shady  nooks  by  mountain,
feel  that  he can  afford  to  be  contempt- 
stream  'and  sea  give  up  the  happy
| uous  of  those  social  conventions  and 
throngs  they  have  entertained  so 
long, 
j proprieties  which  are  respected  by  all 
and  boat and  train  hurry  them  back  to 
j respectable  persons;  but  in  really  civil- 
city  and  town.
l  ¡zed  countres  he  must,  nevertheless,  fear 
j the  will  of  the  people  as  it  is  expressed 
in  the  law  of  the  land,  and  civilization 
|  is  at  its best  where  neither  position  nor 
| wealth  can  control  the  verdict  of  a  jury. 
But 
in  all  populous  communities,  es- 
! pecially  in  all  great  cities,  there  is  a 
j crude,  uncivilized  element  which 
is  at 
j war at  once  with  respectabi 1 ity and  with 
It  is  below  public  opinion  ex- 
|  law. 
in  so  far  as  it  itself  is  a  public. 
i  cept 
Extremely  poor  and  untaught, 
living, 
perhaps,  much  of  the time  in  enforced 
|  idleness  and  subsisting  by  precarious 
means, it  traces  its hardships  to  the con- 
| st i tut ion  of society,  and  is  ripe  for  re- 
; volt.  This  element  is,  of  course,  par- 
! ticularly  dangerous  in  democratic  coun- 
| tries,  for  the  ballot  in 
its  hands  is  a 
! weapon  which  it  can  wield  under  the 
aegis  of  the 
is  why 
city  government  has  become  a  problem 
of  so  much  perplexity.  It 
is  a  question 
sometimes  whether  the  law-abiding  vot­
ers  of a  large  city,  with  their  united 
strength,  compose  an  actual  majority. 
How  much,  then,  is  the  difficulty  of  the 
situation  increased  when  their  strength 
is  divided!

Why?
If  the  heat  that  burned  the  child's 
cheek  in  June  was  great  enough to hurry 
it  from  .the  hot,  pent-up  air  and  the 
hard  bench  of  the  schoolroom,  will  the 
cheek  suffer  less  in  the  hotter  sun  of 
early  September,  and  will  the  air  be 
cooler and  less  close  then  than  when  the 
grass  was  green  and  the  ground  was 
moist  with  the  refreshing  dews  which 
September  never  knows? 
If  heat  is  the 
cause of  the  exodus,  the  greater  heat 
cannot  be given  as grounds  for  the early 
home-coming. 
If  it be claimed that  the 
school  year  now  is  hardly  long  enough 
to  accomplish  the  work  laid  down,  is  it 
not  barely  possible that  the needs  of  the 
child  have  been  lost  sight  of  or made  to 
conform  to  the  exacting  conditions of an 
uncomprontising  programme,  when  it  is 
the  programme which  should  be  made 
to  conform  to  the  exacting conditions  of 
the  child?  Surely  a  system  which  fits 
the  child  to  the garment 
instead  of  the 
garment  to  the  child,  is  not  the  system 
to be  written  down  as  perfect;  and,  if 
the  question  be  one  of  time,  it  must 
certainly  be  conceded  that  we  have  all 
the  time  there  is.

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PUBLIC  OPINION.

It  is  stid  sometimes  that  public opin­
ion  is 
law :  but  this  broad  assertion 
should  be  accepted  only  after  analysis 
and  qualification.  Public  opinion  may 

be  defined as  the opinion  of  the  public; 

but  it  would  be  a  mistake  to  suppose 
that  there  is only  one  public. 
it  be 
said  that  the  public  is  simply  the  ma­
jority.  and  that  the  public  opinion 
in 
regard  to  any  matter  is  the  prevalent 
opinion,  we are  reminded  that  it  is  of­
ten  doubtful  on  which  side  of a question 
the  majority  stands.

If 

of  the agitation  of  a  number  of  well- 
meaning  enthusiasts  who  believe  that 
war can  be  abolished  and  the  nations  of 
the earth  educated  to submit their griev­
ances  to  arbitration.

Unfortunately  for the  plans  of  these 
good  people,  human  nature  has 
in  no 
sense  changed,  and  the constantly grow- 
ing  armaments  maintained  by  the  lead­
ing  powers  prove  that no  confidence ex­
ists  in  the  permanence  of  peace  or  any 
other  final  settlement  of  international 
differences  than  an  appeal  to  the  arbi­
trament  of  the sword.  The only consid­
eration  which  has  maintained  peace  in 
Europe  during  the  past  ten  years  has 
been  the  respect  of  the  different  powers 
for  the armaments  of  their  neighbors. 
The  outcome of a  war  is  so  doubtful  as 
things  now  stand  that  the  powers  are 
afraid  to  risk  an  appeal 
arms. 
Should  any  serious  dispute  arise,  how­
ever,  there  is  absolutely  no  likelihood 
that  it  would  be  submitted  to  arbitra­
tion.

to 

The  experience  of  this  country  with 
arbitration  has  not  been  such  as  to 
recommend  the  system  to  our  legisla­
tors.  The  Behring  Sea  controversy was 
submitted  to  arbitration  with  the  result 
that the  verdict  was  against  the  United 
States  on  every  count,  although, 
to  all 
appearance,  justice and  equity  were  on 
our  side. 
It  is  true  that  Secretary  of 
State  Blaine  would  not  have  consented 
to an  arbitration  if  it  had  been  safe  at 
the time  to  risk  an  armed  struggle,  and 
in  all  probability  he  had  made  up  his 
mind  that  an  arbitration  would  be  the 
best  plan  of  retiring  gracefully  from  a 
bad  position.

In  the arbitration  of  any  dispute  be­
tween  the  United  States and  a European 
power,  this  country  must always  expect 
to  be beaten,  owing  to  the prejudice en­
tertained  towards  us  by  the  European 
governments.  A 
realization  of  that 
fact  has  made  the arbitration  idea  any­
thing  but  popular 
this  country, 
hence  the advocates  of  universal  arbi­
tration  are  likely  to  receive  very  little 
encouragement  on  this  side of the Atlan­
tic.

in 

in  future  all 

Some  years  ago  the  Pan-American 
Congress,  which  met at Washington,  de­
cided  that 
international 
disputes between  the  American  repub­
lics  should  be  settled  by  arbitration. 
Since  that  time  South  America  has 
been  in  a  constant  turmoil,  and  arbitra­
tion  apparently  has  not  once  been 
thought of.  Unless  human  nature  un­
dergoes  a  radical  change,  no  strong 
power  will  ever  consent  to  arbitrate  a 
difficulty  with  a  weaker neighbor.

H

M

The  St.  James’  Gazette,  the  exponent 
bf  British  official  opinion,  is  urging up­
on  the government  the  consideration  of 
the question  involved  in  the opening  of 
an  Isthmian  canal  by  a  United  States 
company. 
It  fears  that  the  commercial 
hold  of  England 
in  Central  America 
will  be  broken  and  the  control  of  that 
market  transferred  to  this  country.  The 
fears  expressed  are  probably  with  foun­
dation  as  to  the  canal  remaining  under 
control  of  this  country;  and  if any treat­
ies  exist  that  are  inimical  to  such an ar­
rangement,  it  is  probable  their abroga­
tion  would  precede  any  settlement  of 
the  question.  The 
the 
United  States  are  so  immediate  and  di­
rect  that it  seems  the 1 ight of impudence 
for  a  country  separated  by  an  ocean  to 
prefer  claims  except  subordinate to such 
interests.  How  far  would  England  tol­
erate  the meddling  of the  United  States 
with  the control  of  the  Suez  Canal!  Cer­
interests  are 
tainly  the  relative  local 
much  more  direct 
in  the  case  of  the 
American  canal.

interests  of 

It 

In  civilized  communities 

intellect  man  does  not  presume  to  answer. 

If  the  question  resolve  itself  into this : 
whether the  teacher can  afford  to be idle 
for  three  months  of  the  year,  are  we 
quite willing  to  sacrifice  the  welfare of 
the  child  for  the  financial  good  of  the 
teacher?  or,  putting  it  more  exactly 
in 
accordance  with  the  facts,  are  we  will­
ing  to  give  up  what  we  are  sure  is  for 
the  child’s  best good 
in  order  to  save 
the  money  which  might  possibly  go  to 
the  teacher  unearned? 
In  any  case,  are 
we  ready  to  make a  question  of  money 
out  of anything pertaining  to the welfare 
of  our own  flesh  and  blood?

There  is  really  no  solution but the cul­
In 
tivation  of  a  sound  public  opinion. 
this  effort,  at  least,  the  press  should  not 
be  divided.  No  man  should  have  aid 
or  countenance  who  seeks  place  and 
emolument  by  enlisting  under  his  lead­
ership  the  turbulent  and  predatory 
forces  of  unionism,  misrule  and  disor­
der.  No  ¡ilea  of 
loyalty  to  party  can 
justify  the  support  of  such  a  leader  by 
honest  men. 
is  uncertain  how  much 
can  be accomplished  by  mere  political 
reformation;  but  political  reformation 
implies a  vast  deal  more,  and  when 
it 
comes,  the outlook  will  be  far brighter
than  it  is  at  present.  Men  of 
in 
and  force  of  character  must  engage 
this  work.  Whatever  there  is 
in  them 
of  popular  power must  be  made  to  tell. 
Men  say  occasionally  that  “ politics  is 
a  dirty  business, 
and  they  will  have 
nothing  to  do  with  it ;  but  they  should 
remember  that  politics  will  always  have 
a  great  deal  to  do with  them.  Either 
the law  will  prevail,  or a  lax  and  cor­
rupt  public opinion  will prevail,  accord­
ing  immunity  and  reward  to  crime.

there  are 
certain  wel 1-established  rules  of conduct 
which,  though  they  are  often  violated, 
may  be said  to  meet  with  a  practically 
universal  approval.  These 
rules  arc- 
taught  at  every  fireside,  and  have  be­
come  a  part  of  the  traditional  property 
The  public  opinion 
<>f  civilization. 
which  demands 
their  enforcement 
is 
law  just  to  the degree  that  it  is outspok­
en  and  uncompromising;  but  there 
is 
still  a  disputed  territory  even  in  civil­
ized  countries  between  the  written  law, 
which  is  expressed  in  formal  statutes, 
and  the  unwritten  law  of  public  opin­
ion. 
It  is  the written  law,  for  instance, 
that  a  man  shall  not  take  the  life  of  his 
fellow,  except  in  self-defense;  but  jur­
ies  sometimes  ignore,  or virtually deny, 
the supreme authority  of  this 
law,  and 
when  they  do  so  they  are  not  always  un­
supported  by  public  opinion. 
It  is 
urged  that  there  are  wrongs  for  which ! 
legislation  has  provided  no  remedy,  and  j 
that  in  such  a  case a  man  must  .decide ! 
for  himself  whether  he  will  be  his  own 
It  is  claimed  that  kola  is  more  stim­
avenger.  When  the  individual  citizen  j 
ulating  than  coffee  and  has  no  bad  after 
proceeds  upon  this assumption,however, 
effects.  The  natives  of  Africa  and  the 
he depends  upon  public  opinion,  and 
West  Indies,  who  chew  it,  are  in  great 
the  risk  he  incurs  is  greater or  less,  ac­
demand  as  laborers,  because  they  are 
cording  to  the  law-abiding and  law-en- 
splendid  health,  suffer  no 
always  in 
forcing  habit  of  the  community  whose 
fatigue,  and  work 
long  hours  without 
statutory  prohibition  he  has  disregard­
any  food. 
In  those  countries  the  cocoa 
ed.  There,  in  that doubtful  border-land 
INTERNATIONAL  ARBITRATION. 
chewer  is  always  rejected  for  the  kola 
between  the allowance  of  public  opin­
At  the  Parliamentary  Peace  Congress, 
chewer.  Kola  contains  more  caffeine 
ion  and  the  plain  terms  of  the  written 
now  sitting  at  Brussels,  a  delegate 
than  coffee  itself,  a  good  deal  of  starch 
law,  the  eloquent  and  casuistical  advo­
from  Liverpool  denounced  the  United 
and  no  tannin. 
increases 
cate  rinds  a  field  for  the  display  of  his 
States  for  refusing  to  pay  the  award 
in
muscular  strength  and  allays  hunger 
dangerous  talent.  He  appeals  to  the 
the  Behring  Sea  case,  and  argued  from 
and  thirst,  besides  le
promptings  of  individual 
to 
ssening  peispira-  tha.t  fact  that no aid  to  the  peace  move-
the  undisciplined  sympathies  of  human 
t.on  in  hot  weather.  The  nut 
is  now  ment  could  be  expected  from  this  coun- 
nature,  and  leaves  out  of  consideration 
cult.vated  in  large quantities in  various I try.  The Peace  Congress  proposes  to
the  superior  claim  of the peace  and dig- | 
international  arbitration
parts  of  the  world,  and  an  American  establish  an 
nitv  of  the  state.
firm  expects  shortly to put it on  the  mar 
international  disputes
falls  more and more under the  influences ket  in  this  country.  When  it  makes 
its  could  be  submitted  where  both  sides
of  civilization,  as  political,  social  and  appearance  it  is  predicted  that  tea  and  were  satisfied  to abide  by  the  decision 
industrial
| of  arbitrators.  This  plan  is  the  result

These  are  questions  which the Trades-
It
believes that the  opening  of  the  schools 
should  be  postponed  until  the  summer 
heat  is  over. 
It  bel ieves  that  the  pro­
gramme and  the  course  of  study,  if  too 
long  now to permit  of this postponement, 
should  be shortened  until  it  does  allow 
it ;  and  that  the  same  wages  paid  the 
teacher now  for  the  long  year  should  be 
paid 
In  our 
greed  for gain,  let  us  scrimp  with  our­
selves 
for  ourselves,  if  we  will ;  but 
when  it  comes  to  our  children,  let  us 
line  there.  The  Tradesman 
draw  the 
believes 
it  can  be  done,  and  that  it 
ought  to  be  done ;  and  it  hopes  that  the 
time  is  not  far off  when  a  wiser  policy 
will  prevail  and  cool  weahter  will  be 
made  the  first  consideration  for  begin­
ning  the  school  work  of  the  year.

janization  becomes  more | coffee  will  have  to go. 

for  the  shortened  one. 

But  as  a community 

court  to  which 

impulses, 

instantly 

It 

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The  Plug  War  Is  On  **'

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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  lilies.
at  14c.

A  Saginaw  firm  is  out  with  a  circular  quoting  Battle  Axe 
Sales had been  made at  13^ c.
We are of the opinion that our  i2%c  price on  certain  plugs will 

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.

THe Jas. Stewart Go.

(LIMITED.)

EAST  SAGINAW,  MICH.

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At  prices  ranging 
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GOD-MADE  OR  SELF-M AD E?
To-day the standard  of  civilization  is 
of a  material  sort. 
I he  people  who 
make  the greatest use of  mechanical  ap­
pliances  and  scientific  processes  in  the 
is  con­
manipulation  of  matter  which 
sumed  in  the  physical  uses  of 
life  are 
the  most  civilized.

it 

long 

is  not 

There  was  a  time,  not  more  than  a 
century  ago,  when  Edmund  Burke  de­
fined  civilization  as  that  condition of so­
cial  and  intellectual surroundings  which 
most  contributed  to advance  the  princi­
ples of  honor,  integrity  and  truth,  and 
a  just  regard  for others ;  that,  said  he, 
is  the  highest  civilization  which  goes 
farthest  to  make  men  gentlemen  ami 
in 
Christians.  A  century 
nature’s  chronology,  but 
is  a  vast 
period  in  the  calendar  of  scientific pro­
gress.
Z 1 he  lives  of  two  men,  George  Wash­
ington  and  William  E.  Gladstone,  who 
would,  according  to  Burke’s  estimate, 
have  been  considered  to  possess  the 
highest  civilization,  will  almost  bridge 
over  the  century  that  opened  with  the 
steam  railway  ami  closes  with  the  tri 
umphs  of  electric  light,  heat  and  pow­
er,  and  the  electric  transmission  of 
in­
telligence.  The age  in  which Washing­
ton  lived  was one  rude and  barbarous as 
to  material  development,  compared  to 
that  of  the  last  days  of  the  venerable 
Gladstone,  for  in  material  civilization 
the  present  is  its  highest  possible  ex­
pression.
»»But  how  is  it  as  to  those  principles 
that go  to  make  the  Christian  gentle­
man?  Why  should  there be any  moral­
ity  or religion  in  an  age  illuminated  so 
brilliantly by  science?  How 
infinitely 
superior  is  the  man  who  has  been  en 
lightened  as  to  the  facts  of  his  begin­
nings and  his  nature and  destiny by  the 
wonderful  lamps  of  Darwin,  Haeckel, 
Huxley  and  other  apostles  of  nature 
over  those  who  possessed only the B ible! 
How  vastly  more  cheering  and pride-in­
spiring  it  is  to know  that man,  with  his 
great  power  and  apparently  unlimited 
destiny,  is  a self-made  being,  evolved 
by his own  talents  and  genius  from  a 
mere  speck  of almost  nothing,  when  the 
men  of  more  barbarous  ages  believed 
they  were  the  creatures  of  a  superior 
intelligence!  A  man  who  can  create 
himself 
is  a  god,  and  does  not  have 
need  of another god  to  make  him  a sub­
ordinate and  inferior  creature.

•  

No  wonder,  under the  bright  light  of
science,  he  has  come  to  revolt  at  the 
idea that  he  was  created  at  all,  or  that 
he can  have  any  superior.  Why,  then, 
should  the  self-created  man be dwarfed 
and  limited  by morals,  religion  or  re­
straints of any  sort,  when  science  is  his 
guide and  matter  from  which" he  has 
evolved  his  wonderful  power  is  a  thing 
subject to  its  own  laws  of  selection,  of 
reaching  out and  grasping and  possess­
ing,  and  converting  to  its  own  use,  that 
which  it  needs  for  its growth,  for its  en­
joyment?  And 
if  there  be,  as  there 
must be,  a  conflict of  efforts and  of  in­
terests  in  this  instinctive  and  persistent 
process  of grasping and  seizing,  it  will 
be  inevitably  settled by  the  irresistible 
law of  the  survival  of  the  fittest.

Plainly,  then,  this  god-like  man, 

if 
he has  not already done so,  must  finally 
outgrow all  of  the  conventi onal ¡ties  of 
morals,  religion  and social  law,  and will 
be governed  only by those  laws  of  mat­
ter,  evolution, selection  and  the  survival 
of the  strongest.
" B u t  it so happens  that,  even 
in  this 
day of  the  swift  darting  of  knowledge 
from  the  lights  of nature,  all  men  are 
not fitted  to  receive  these advanced doc-

And  there  are  others  who, 

trines  so acceptable  to those  who  wish 
to  cast  off all restraints,  to absolve them- 
selves  from  all  human 
law  and  social 
obligation,  and  seize  and  enjoy  at  their 
will.  There  are  still  many  who  are 
wedded  to  the  ancient  superstitions, 
who  believe 
in  the  existence  of  a 
mighty  power and  supernal  intelligence 
who  created  all,  controls  all,  and  will 
hold  all  His  creatures  to  accountabi 1 ity.
instead  of 
lejoicing  that  they  are  only  higher 
forms  of brute  beasts,  cherish  with  a 
strange  comfort  and  satisfaction  the  no­
tion  that  they  were  made by that mighty 
One  in  His  image and are endowed with 
some  share,  small  though  it  be,  of  the 
supreme  intelligence  and  the upward as­
piration  that  belong  to  a  spiritual  es­
sence,  and  that finally  the  spiritual  na­
ture  will  be  perfected  through  divine 
processes  of  purification  now  unknown 
to  men  or misunderstood  by them.

And  there are still  some so benighted 
and  unenlightened  by  the  wonderful 
lamp  of  science  as  that  they  believe 
that  there  was  once  a  period 
in  the 
most  distant,  almost 
forgotten  past, 
when  those creatures  made  in the divine 
i mage,  endowed  with  understand i ng 
and  chei ishing a  divine  love,  were  per­
mitted  to commune  with  the mighty One 
and  to  learn  from  Him  of  the  begin­
nings,  of  the duties  and  of the nature  of 
man,  and  that  this  gift  of  association 
has  been  for  the  most  part  lost  by  dis­
use,  and  the  knowledge  so  received  has 
been  preserved  only 
imperfect  and 
fragmentary  forms,  but  still  there  are 
left  some  lessons of  instruction and some 
promises  of  a  future  restoration.

in 

The  necessity,  for  the good  of  the  hu­
man  race,  of honesty,  truth,  virtue  and 
justice  has  been  taught  in every age and 
every  nation,  and  among  all  peoples, 
from  their  earliest  times,  are  preserved 
traditions or records of  the  ancient  as­
sociation  of  men  with  the  supreme  ce­
lestial  gods,  and  among  all  these  peo­
ples,  nations,  kindreds, 
languages  and 
toii^ut's  remain  promises  of  a  restora- 
Bon,  a  redemption,  of  something  of  su­
preme  value  that  has  been  lost.

The 

ignorance. 

But  science 

From  this  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
light  of  nature  must  burn  with  an 
in­
tense and  destructive  fury  before  it  can 
destroy  all  the  remains  of  the  antique 
superstition, and  efface all  the  hopes  en­
gendered  by  those ancient  and  wonder­
fully  preserved  promises  of  future bene­
fits. 
is  enormously  far- 
reaching,  and  it  has  done  much  to  civ­
ilize  man  out of  his  old 
It 
cannot  be  expected  that  law,  morality 
and  the  restraints  of  religion  will  be 
annihilated  at a  blow ;  but  progress 
is 
being  made. 
civilization  of 
science,  as  opposed  to  the  civilization 
of  morality  and  religion,  will not culmi­
nate  until  the  missing  1 ink  that  binds 
man  to  the ape shall  be  discovered ;  un­
til  the  last  remnant  of  a  belief  in  su­
preme,  potential  and  just 
intelligence 
shall  be  eliminated  from  human  belief, 
and  until  it  comes  to be  the groundwork 
of  all  society  that there  is  no  truth  but 
what  is  discoverable by  the  senses,  and 
no  rule  of  action  but that  of  every  man 
for  himself.  This will  be a  civilization 
which  not even  Burke,  Washington  or 
Gladstone  ever  reached,  or  of  which 
Moses,  Socrates,  Plato and  all  the  an­
cient  holy  prophets  and  apostles  never 
dreamed,  and  one which,  fortunately for 
science, 
it  will  never  be  able  to  ac­
complish.

A  man  in  the  East,  who owns a  ranch 
in  California,  saves  the  expense  of  go­
ing  to see  it  in  person  by having  photo­
graphs of  whatever  is  going  on  made 
and  sent to  him.

$ 3 0 . 0 0

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

Tor advertisement showing our World  Famous  Stan­

dard  Market

DAYTON  COMPUTINO  SCA LES

see  last page of cover in this issue.

The  Computing Scale Co.,

DAYTON,  OHIO.

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Getting  the  People

Art  of  Reaching  and  Holding  Trade 

by  Advertising.

In  the  milling of  an  advertisement,the 
real  basis  to  my  mind,  is  a  good  knowl­
edge  of  human  nature.

cation  is of  but  little  use.  Flowers  of 

Without  this,  a  good  all-around  edu­

rhetoric  perish  in  the  bud ;  the  figures 
of  speech  become 
forceful  than 
those  of  common  practicality;  the  beau­
tifully  rounded  sentences  are  like  the 
clay  which  never  reaches  the  moulder’s 
hands ;  the glow  and  scintillation  of  wit 
reflect  only  as  a  conflagration  throws  its 

glare  into  the  eyes of  the  person  whose 

less 

property  is  uninsured.

Bill,  not  only  is  the  ad.written  by  one 
who  is  without  this  vital  trait  valueless 
as  if  it  had  not  been  written  w.  rse;  it 
is  positively  injurious  to  the  fame 
it 
Human  nature  is  tin- 
would  enrich. 
same  the  world  o.er.  and  one 
w h o
writes  a  good  ad.  must  miderstan 
underlying  principles  of  the  art, 
if  not  wholly  conversant with the s, 
information  required  for  properly ' ' Get­
ting  the  People”   as  a  "class.”

t!urial

It  is,  indeed,  unfortunate  for  the  good 
is 
name  of  an  article,  if  its  exploiting 
left  in  the  hands  of  such  an  one  as 
1 
have  referred  to;  yet  it  is  no  les;  true 
than  remarkable,  that  many  tho is.mds 
oi  dollars  have  been,  are  being,  and 
will  doubtless  continue  to  be,  expended 
on  the class  of  publicity  turned  out  by 
the  pens  of  these  ill-built  advertisement 
writers.  We  see  constant  evidence  of 
his  poorly-put  matter  oftentimes bright 
in  itself,  and  not  lacking other elements 
than  the  one  oi  good  taste,  conformity 
to  the  appropriate,  tact,  and,  there  can 
be  no  better  way  of  putting  it,  want  of 
knowledge  of  human  nature.

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I  have  met  many 
advertisers  and 
never  yet  one  who  did 
not  thoroughly 
nel ¡eve  in  the  thing  lie 
by  advertising 
presented  to  the  public, 
l lie  object  of
advertisers  is  sales,  and  of  sales  profit, 
and  the  writer  who  has  the most  faith  in 
his  own  goods  is  the  one  who  makes  the 
most  proli table  advertising.
Woman  Carries 

Sound  Currency

Furniture 
for  Homes........

N.  O.  DRUDGERY  <&  CO.

the  Load:.

Oi housekecpingjiud. therefore, should 
have tiie burden made as light as poi 
fcible.  Our  elegant  and  convenient 
sideboards ease the task of woman and 
makes home happier.  A full line of
always in stock at lowest living prices, 
Buys sound ('rockery at Breukem's.  China. 
Sdver ¡Hid (ilussware in immense variety, 
biu  should see my line before buying  for 1 
can  sell goods ai a closer margin of protit 
than those buying in small q amities—my 
orders are usually in wholesale quantities.
And  in  strict confidence  let  us  tell  you that 
you never had a better opportunity to clothe 
yourself and fam ily for fall and winter than 
we can  now  give you.  Our immense  line of 
Men's  Boys'  and  Chi «Iren's Clothing  will 
l»e offered  at great  reductions  in  prices  for 
and the verdict has been returned that 
our line of (Groceries and ('aimed Goods 
cannot he excelled by anyone.  We aim 
to carry so complete a stock that any 
taste may be satisfied and any variety of 
goods procured from our stock—all fresh 
and up-to-date.

W.  E.  BREAKEM.

the  next ten days.

LOW  &  NICE.

I.  KETCHUM.

Behind  the 
Scenes-—

Testimony 
All  In====

An  Autumn  Sun ••••-

Shines gloriously down on our Annual (:lenr 
mice Sale. 
It keeps us busy in supplying th 
wants of people who appreciate our
Kaeh year we pull down from our shelves all 
stock which Is 
ikely to be carried over and 
I mark it at such a price as Is sure to sell it.  The 
cut is on Men's and Boys' Suits this Fall.

-  Annual  Bargains

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ALLRICH  &  CO.

Burning 
Greenbacks,

Are  You?

Well, try some of our celebrated 
Black Diamond l'oal this winter and you won 
have to Sturt' so many greenbacks  u the stove to 
It's clean and bright and tlOT
keep warm. 
Of an Overcoat will soon be grateful.  Our 
complete line is now ready for  nspection— 
the prices a e so small they are near y invis­
ible  you never saw good clothing so c! e 
as we oiler it.

The  Warm, 
Soothing  Pressure:

MINER  &  CARR

SPINK  &  SPAN CLOTHING CO.

1  have  in  mind  a  little story published 

in  Tact  in  Court,  which  runs  about 
follows:

A  lawyer advertised  for  a  clerk.  The 
next  morning  the  office  was  crowded 
with  applicants  all  bright  and  many 
suitable.  He  bade  them  wait  until  all 
should  arrive,  and  then  arranged  them 
in  a  row and  said  he would  tell  them  a 
story,  note  their  comments  and 
judge 
from  that  whom  he  would  choose.

“ A certain farmer, ”  began the lawyer, 
“was troubled  with  a  red  squirrel  that 
got  in  through  a  hole  in  his  barn  and 
stole  his  seed  corn.  He  resolved  to  kill 
the  squirrel  at  the first opportunity.  See­
ing  him  go  in  at the  hole  one  noon  he 
took  his  shotgun  and  fired  away.  The 
first  shot  set  the  barn  on  tire.”

“ Did  the barn  burn?”   said  one of the 

boys.

The  lawyer, without answer,continued 
“ And  seeing  the  barn on fire the farm 
er  seized  a  pail  of  water and  ran  to  put 
it out. ”

“ Did  he  put  it  out?”   said  another. 
"A s   he  passed  inside the  door shut  to 
and  the  barn  was  soon  in  flames.  When 
the hired  girl  rushed out  with  more  v 
ter-----”

“ Did  they  all  burn  up?”   said another 

Ixiy.

The  lawyer went  on  without  answer:
1 hen  the old  lady  came  out,  and  all 
was  noise and  confusion  and  everybody 
was trying  to  put out the  tire.”

"D id  anyone burn  up?”   said another. 
The  lawyer said:  “ There,  that  will 
do;  you  have all  shown  great  interest  in 
the  story.

But  observing  one  little  bright-eyed 
fellow  in  deep  silence,  he  said:  “ Now, 
my  little  man,  what  have  you  to  say?”
I lie  little  fellow  blushed,  grew uneasy 
and  stammered  out: 
“ I  want  to  know 
what  became of  the squirrel; that’s  what 
1  want  to  know. ”

“ You’ll  do,  ’ ’said  the  lawyer;  “ you 
are  my  m an;  you  have  not  been 
switched  off  by  a  confusion  and  a  barn 
burning,  and  the  hired  girls and  water 
pails.  You  have  kept  your eye  on  the 
squirrel. ”

It  is a  rather  long story  to  illustrate a 
little  point,  but answers the purpose bet 
ter  than  anything  1  know of.  The  point 
is that  the  writer  of  advertising  must 
never  lose sight  of  the business  in hand­
selling  the  goods.  While  he  may  di­
verge  from  the  beaten  path  and  wander 
among  the flowers of  rhetoric,  poesy and 
song,  yet  he must  keep  the  beaten  turn- j 
pike  of  business  in  sight  and  never  di­
vert  the  reader’s entire attention  there­
from.  Stick  to  your  text.

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

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, 

Sell Lily White Flour

Note the  following

P o in ters!

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

Pleased  customers  are  good  ad­

(iroceries.

vertisers.

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

gas
i s

VAN ILLA  W A FER S

G IN G ER   VANILLA.1

G IN G ER  W A FER S

Be  Progressi ve !

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 
F R  HSH N F S S  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.  Fry,  and  be 
convinced.

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

Our aim is to produce the best. 
Only  the  choicest  Creamery 
Butter,the purest,sweetest Lard, 
the finest  Patent  Flour  and  the 
richest  Molasses enter our  p r o ­
ducts.

We  make  a  Specialty  of  SUMMER  DELICACIES.

TH E N EW   YORK  BISCUIT  CO.

Successors  to  WM.  SEARS  &  CO.

Grand  Rapids,  flichigan.

V A N ILLA   SQ UARES-

-G IN G ER  SNAPS—

-IM PER IA LS

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

know  what  he  wants  when  he  sees  the 
less  suggestive  separate  piece  that  he 
seeks,  and all our meals taste better when 
we  who are  not  obliged  to  know  drop 
the  curtain  over a  considerable  part  of 
what  is  precedent  to them.

From Printers' Ink.

Artificial  Meats  and  Vegetables.

I  wish  to  return  to a  topic  on  which 
I  have  once  slightly  expatiated 
for 
teaching,  like  advertising,  prospers  by 
reiteration. 
I h  •  matter  concerns  gro­
cers  and  but. hers  and  fish  dealers  al­
most  exclusively,  and  I  should  be  glad 
to draw  out  the  opinions  of  even  one 
from  each  class on  a  custom  that  is com­
mon  to  the  three  classes  named.
is  that  they 
all  make  so  universal  and  liberal  a  dis­
play  in  the  front  of  their stores  and  on 
the  sidewalk  or street  of  their  very  per­
ishable  and  easily-damaged  goods.  Of 
but at  a  very  great  expense,  or at a  real­
ly  regrettable  loss  or damage  to  some­
body'.

course,  they  are advertised  by so  doing, 

Let  me  ask  them  why  it 

These  tradespeople  wish  to  attract  at­
tention,  and  a re  anxious  to  show  the 
public,  represented  by  the  passer-by, 
that  they  have  the  best  fruits, 
fish  and 
food  that  the  market  affords.  So  they 
take  their  very  best  samples  and  place 
or suspend  them  where  they  catch  all 
the dust  and  dirt  of  the  street,  besides 
the  flies  and  winged  feeders  prevalent 
in  front  of  such  stores.

‘ ‘ drawing”  

Go  through  Vesey  street,  in  this  city, 
for  instance and  see  the  tea  boxes  and 
coffee  boxes,  the  tea  itself  finely' pulver­
ized  often ;  the  cakes and  biscuits ;  the 
sugared  and  sweet  things,  etc.,  which 
one would  say should  not  oulv  be  cov­
ered  up  but  should—many  of  them  be 
sealed  up  from  the  air,  left  wide  open 
and  exposed  to  the heat,  dirt  and  blaz­
ing  light.  Would  a 
from 
that  powdered  tea,  after  standing  out  in 
this  way  for  three hours only,  lie  entire­
ly  what  it  should  be?  And  if  it  stands 
out  for days  and  weeks,  as  no  doubt 
it 
usually  does,  who  can  guess  what  auto­
matic,  unflavorous  and  unwholesome 
adulterations  must  take  place  w 1 th 
it?
Even  the  bottled  and  canned  goods, 
which,  perhaps,  suffer  least,  get  unduly 
heated  by  this  almost  universal  expos­
ure,  and  are  soiled  outwardly  in  a  very 
brief  time, 
fish   soon  become stale and 
destroyed,  and  vegetables  and  berries 
age and  w ilt  visibly  every  hour.  Some 
of  these  things  must,  in  fact, be kept  as 
signs  while  they  preserve  any  attractive 
look  whatever, when  they must be  thrown 
away  to  the  refuse  heap,  or, 
if  sold, 
advertise  the store  so  much  in the wrong 
direction  as  to  drive  those  particularly 
victimized  cutsomers  away  for  all  time.
I  passed  a  new,  clean  and  particular­
ly  well-managed  butcher  shop  the  other 
morning  where  some  fine  hams,  bacon, 
and  the  usual  half-dressed  trunks  of 
calves and  sheep  were  deftly  suspended 
in  the  orthodox  way.  The  wind  was 
filling  the  air  with  tine, 
impalpable 
dust  from  the  soil  and  refuse  of  the  dry- 
street,  so  that  no  small  amount  must 
have  been  imbedded  in  these  prospec­
tive  viands  before  the  day  was  done. 
Now,  either the  butcher  was  to  throw 
away  these  several  hundred  pounds  of 
choice  meat  within  a  few  days,  and  put 
another assortment  of  the  same  kind 
in 
its  place,  or he  must  sell 
it  very  soon 
and  impose on  a  large  number  of  his 
confiding  customers.

I  didn’t  do  this. 

Retailers  Should  Avoid  Speculation,  j
Kalamazoo,  Aug.  17. 
I note,  with  in- I 
terest,  a  recent  article 
in  your  paper, 
warning  retail  dealers  against  taking 
money  out  of  their  legitimate  business 
for  the  purpose of  speculating 
in  real 
investment 
estate or  other  avenues  of 
foreign  to  their own  business. 
I  am  an I 
instance  myself of  that tendency,  which 
is  more  general  than  you 
..believe 
think. 
I  started  in  business  for  myself 
in  1S89. 
I  had  little  money,  had  had 
experience,  was  able  to  control  a  fair 
line  of  credit  and  did  a  pretty  good  ' 
business  from  the  start. 
It  takes  more 
than  three  or  four  years  to  firmly  estab­
lish  a  business,  however,  and  what  I 
should  have done  was  to  have  put  every 
cent  I  made  above  legitimate  expenses 
back  into my  business,  making  needed 
improvements  in  the  store,  keeping  a 
reserve  fund  of  sufficient  dimensions on 
hand  and  discounting  my  bills  when­
ever  possible. 
1  got 
enamored  with  some  suburban  property 
and  bought  several  acres,  to  make  thé 
required  cash  payment  on  which  I  was 
obliged  to drain  my  resources  to  the  ut­
most  and  borrow'a  little  besides.  The 
monthly payments were  large and  I  soon 
found  that  I  had  more on  mv hands than 
I  could  easily  meet. 
I  learned  a  les­
son  when  the  dull  times  came. 
I  was 
obliged  to  sacrifice  the  property,  which 
has since greatly appreciated  in  value.
I  had  got  behind  with  the  wholesale 
house  with  which  I  dealt,  and  had  hard 
work  to get  even  again,  although  they j 
were  very  lenient  with me.  I  have  been | 
very  careful  since,  it  is  useless  to  say.
I  think  it  s  right,  of  course,  for  a  man 
to  make  money  in  every  way  he  can  le- 
gitimately  and  there’s  no  surer  way  for  j 
a  man  of  moderate  means  to  invest  his 
money  than  in  real  estate. 
I  hope  to be 
able  to  be a  property  owner on  a  moder­
ate  scale  some  day,  but  I  will  wait  be- ! 
fore  taking  any  step 
in  that  direction! 
until  I  can  do  so  without 
jeopardizing j 
my  regular  source  of  revenue  in  any 
way,  and  even  then  I  shall  proceed  verv 
slowly.

Knows Better Now.

Bustle  Is  Not  Business.

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It  seems  to  me  there  is  more  than  one 

Some  dealers  labor  under the delusion 
that  they  must  be  doing  something  all 
of  the  time  to  attain  the  highest  suc­
cess. 
1 hey  are  too  dull  to  perceive 
that  the  really able  man  is  he  who seeks 
to  avoid  drudgery ;  who  spends  not  a 
little  time  in  calculation,while  the  shal­
low  mind  whose  sole  ambition  is  to  get 
llP  early  in  the  morning  and  saw’  wood 
rises 
with  vigor  until  night,  never 
above  the  wood  pile.  We  have  seen 
it 
stated  somewhere  that  the  desire  to  es­
cape  an  unwelcome  task  led  to  the  dis­
covery  of  the  safety  valve.
A  man  in  a large business concern w’as 
considered  a 
loafer  by  his  partners.
I hey  bent  over  the  books  for  hours,  and 
objection  to  this  long-existent 
WOil 1(1
w, 
to  i.i.o  ioniS  ' /VIrut ML 
attended  to  every  detail.  He  would
and,  in  addition  to  all  that  may  he said  saunter  into  the office and  stay  only  an
defensively  of 
it,  the  fashion  doesn’t 
In in r  n r  tu-/i 
it 
/ Lwjor. ’ f 
flP lP lK lV H lv   iif 
hour or  two,  doing  nothing  except  to 
appear to be  at  all  necessary.  People 
give  the  others  advice  on  important 
may  forget  certain  kinds  of  dry  goods 
points.  They  deemed  it  best  to get  rid 
and  the  various  novelties;  but  they 
of  him.  When  he  was  out,  it  was  all 
don’ t  forget  their dinner.  If  there  were 
the  firm  could  do  to  prevent  the  busi­
painted  signs  or sculptured models (like 
ness  from  sinking.  He  had  furnished 
the  porcelain  egg-heap,  say),  made 
in 
the  brains  for  the  establishment ;  and 
perfect  color and  form  of  each  class  of 
his  partners  did  not  realize  it  until  he 
these goods  at  the  proper  season,  and 
was  absent.
placed  conspicuously  at the store’s front, 
why  wouldn’t  all  the  advertising  pur­
poses be  even  better  served  than  they 
are  now?  The  dealer’s  advertisement 
in  the  papers  could  tell  with  force  wrhv 
he  had  made  this  new  departure,  si 
his  rivals  would  be  forced  to  follow 
him,  or to  confess  to  a  less  scrupulous 
care of their  best  wares,  which  would 
prove  them  to be  inferior.
And  there  is  another  consideration. 
workmen,  and  cannot  be  obtained  else-
One  who  enjoys  carnivorous  foods,  es­
pecially  doesn’t  wish  to  see  wdiole
------- .where.  These  sheets  will  be  ready  to
bodies too  much  resembling  his  own an- 
atomy  suspended  before  him  h   a  ghost-  ma,,  to  aPPllcants  10  a  sh°rt  ‘ «me.  A 
ly  manner.  The  table-provider  w ill!  postal  card  will  bring  one  to  you.

that I  especially  adapted  to  the  use  of  retail 
The  cuts  are  made  from 
original  designs,  prepared  by  our  own 
designers  and  engraved  by  our  own 

The  Tradesman  Company  has  in  prep­
aration  specimen  sheets  of  engravings 

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JAN E  CRAQIN.

How  She  Demonstrated  that Trading 

Out  of  Town  Doesn’t  Pay. 

W ritten  fo r T h e  T k a d e s m a n .

" 1   guess,  Miss Cragin,  you’d  better 
get  interested  in  what  they  are  talking 
about.  They  are both  hot-headed  when 
they  get  started,  and  1  haven’t any busi­
It's  getting 
ness  to  say  anything. 
worse  instead  of  better  and  1  guess 
it 
will  be  better to  try  to  stop  it  when you 
can.

‘ What seems  to  be  the  matter,  Sid? 

Which  one  is  to blame?”

" 1   don’t  know  who  began  it.  New- 
stead  said  something  about  getting 
things  cheaper  somewhere  else,  and 
Mr.  Huxley  flared  up  like  so much gun­
powder and  denied  it ;  and  it  has  taken 
Newstead  all  this  time  to  mention 
in­
stances  where  he  knows  he  has  been 
cheated  here  and  where  Mr.  Huxley 
knows  it,  only  to  be  answered  by  Mr. 
Huxley’s  'taint  so. 
I)o  come  out  and 
stop  them.

|ane  put  down  her  pen  with  a  sigh. 
" I   don’t  suppose,”   she  thought,  “ that 
there  is  any  blood  relation  between  Cy 
and  Charles  11..  who  ‘ never did  a  fool­
ish thing  and  never  said  a  wise  one;’ 
but  there  are  times  when  it  does  seem 
as  if  the  men  were  brothers.  Cy  won’t 
lie  out and.out,  if  he  isn’t  driven  to  it; 
but  he  does  do  some  of  the  unwisest 
talking  of  any  man  1  know.  He  will 
talk  by  the  hour  of  how  ‘ a  woman’s 
tongue  goes  rattle-te-bang  and  never  ’d 
stop  if  ’t  didn’t git hitched  somewhere;’ 
an 1  he can’t  see  that  all  Joe  Newstead 
needs  is  just  the  least  patting  on  the 
back  not  pounding.  Getting  things 
cheap  at  Holbrook’s  Mills  is  one  of 
|oe’s  hobbies,  and 
letting 
him  have  a  good  ride  on  it  once 
in  a 
while  and  getting  all  ’tuckered  out,’  as 
Cy  would  [nit  it,  he  takes the other way, 
gets  Joe  mad,  and  then  we  don't  see 
him  again  for a  decade.  Let  me  see  if 
'  can  pour a  little  oil  on  the  troubled 
waters,”   and  the  little  woman slid  from 
her  high  stool,  put  up  both  hands  to 
feel  if  her  hair  and  neck  ribbon  were 
all  right,  and  then 
leaving  the  office 
stood  listening,  for  a  moment,  on  the 
threshold, 
in 
bloom,”   as  Leigh  Hunt  puts  it.

looking  "lik e   a 

instead  of 

lily 

"T h at  ain’t  so.”
’ ’ 1  tell  ye  ’tis. ”
”  ’Taint. ”
“  ’T is tew. ”
"W hich  one  of  you 

is 

is 

six,  and 
which  rive;  You  must  be  the  six-year- 
older,  Cy,  for  your  hair  is  getting  gray; 
but  both  of  you are  too  old  for this  ‘tis- 
aud-’taint  business.  What 
it  all 
about,  anyway,  Joe?”

WaT,  nothin’,  Jane,  when  ye  come 
right  down  t’  the  pint  on’t ;  but  I  tell 
Cy  there’s  lots  of  things  I  c ’n  git  a 
dumbed  sight 
’t  Hol­
’n'  the  dumbed  whelp  sets 
brooks; 
there  ’n’  yelps  ’taint  so’ 
’t  ev’rything 
I  say,  when  1  know  'tis  f'r  I ’ve  tried 
it. ”

cheaper  over 

"What  makes  you,  Cy,  when 

been  over there and  knows  he  can.”  

“ Why, 

Jane, 

it  holds 

to 

reason 

that 

. ”
No 

it  doesn't.  You  can’t  reason 
against  fact.  What  was  it,  Joe,  you  got 
over  there  for  less  than  you  can  get 
it 
here.  Are  you  willing  to  tell?”

Good thunder!  th’  ain’t  no  secret 
’n’  m’lasses, 
I  c ’n  git  flour, 
about  it. 
’n’ ginger,  ’n’  allspice, 
’n’—-b’  gosh, 
anything  ye  c ’n  think  on  a  good  deal 
cheaper  ’u’  I  c ’n  git  it  here.”

You  know%  of  course,  Joe,  that  your 
going over there  would  be one good rea­
son  for  their  putting  down  the  price  on I

j  for whatever  you  got,  didn’t  you?”  

everything  you  want.  You  paid  cash 

” Y-a-s,  but—”
” 1  know,  it  seems  so;  but 

it  does 
in  the  world.
make  all  the  difference 
|  Pay  us  cash  when  you  take  the  goods 
and  you  will  be surprised  what bargains 
if  you  should 
we can  give  you;  and 
come  here  for a  wagon 
load  of  goods 
and  do  your  own  carting  as  you  do 
when  you  go over there,  and  pay  cash, 
you’d  be  still  more  surprised. 
I ’d  like 
to  have  you  try 
it,  some  day.  What 
did  you  pay  for  your  last  barrel  of  flour 
over at  Holbrook’s?”

’t 

”   ’T  ’s  s’ long  ’go,  I don’t  remember, 
less  in’  wife  spoke 

but  ’twas  s’  much 
’bout  it,  ’n’  said  ’twasa  dumb  shame 
Jane,  sh’  didn’t  say  that;  but  she 
no, 
said  ’twas  funny 
there  sit’d  be  s’ 
much  difference,  ’n’  she thought  ’twould 
mine  ’n  pay  t’  trade  mos’ ly over there. ”
“ Then  why  ’n  thunder don’t  ye  dew 
’ere  what 
it,  ’n’  not  be ye’pin’  ’round 
ye c ’n  dew. 
I  don’t b’lieve a word on’t,
I  tell  ye  flat!"  Cy  broke  in,  as  if  he 
! was  "good  ’n’  rested”   and  w'as  going 
| to  have one  more  round  in  spite  of any­
body.

“ Cy,  the  first thing you’ll know,  you’ll 
be  sent  to bed  without  any  supper;  but, 
Joe,  to be  honest  about it,  I should think 
you  would  want  to  trade  over  there; and 
just  for the  sake  of  knowing  howr  much 
better they  will  do  by  you  than  w'e  can, 
I’ll  tell  you  what  I’ll  do,  you  and  Lov- 
icy  fix  on  some time  when  you  want  to 
go,  and  I’ll  take  our old  John  and  the 
delivery  wagon  with  the wide  seat,  and 
we’ll  drive  ever  to  Holbrook’s. 
I ’ve 
one  or two  friends  over there  I  want  to 
see,  and  you  and  she  can  do  what  trad­
ing  you  wish ;  but  you  must  let  me  see 
your bills. 
If  you’ ll  do  that,  we’ll  all 
go over and  have a  good  time;  and  I 
won’t  charge  you  anything  for the team. 
Will  you do  it?”

"Y ou   bet  I  w ill.”
“ After  I  see  your  prices  I ’ll  compare 
them  with  the  same  quality  of  goods 
we  have,  and  you  may  see  our  prices 
and  so  settle  this  question  once and  for-

“ I ’ll  bet  ye  ten  dollars,  Joe,  that  you 

get  stuck,”   broke  in  Cy.

“ We’ll  have  no betting  about  it,  un­
less  Mrs.  Newstead  gets  the  bet  which 
ever  way  it goes.  Do  you  say  yes  to 
that?”

“ Well,  y-e-s,”   was Cy’s  half-hearted 
response;  and  " I   can’t  kick  on  that”  
was  Joe’s.

’n’ 

“ There’s  one  thing  more,  and 

I 
won’t go,  and  the  team  shan’t,  unless 
you  agree  to  it;  and  that  is  that  there 
shall  be  no  ‘twittin’ 
’flingin’  one 
way or another  which  ever  side  comes 
out  best;  and  the  one  that  does  that, 
shall  turn  over to  the other the  ten  dol­
lars.  Now,  you  two  shake  hands  on 
that,  right  here  and  now,  and  give  me 
your money;”   and  the  contract  was  so 
sealed and  the  money  received  and  put 
into the  safe.

"Now, 

then,  when  shall  we  go?”  

“  How about  to-morrow,  if  it’s  fair?”
“ To-morrow  it  is,  and  I ’ll  drive  up 
at  your door at  ten  o’clock  sharp ;  and 
you  tell  Lovicy  that  she  needn’t  bother 
about  lunch. 

I ’ll  see  to that. ”

When  Joe  had  gone,  Jane looked at the 
senior  member  of  the  firm  without  a 
word.

’Taint  necessary  for  you  to  say  a 
blessed  thing,  Jane.  I  know  it,  already, 
and  am  ashamed  of  it,  for  a  fact;  but 
that confounded  c—cur  was  so  blamed 
hectoring  that  I  just  couldn’t  help  it.

That  was  contrition  enough;  but  Cy 

lie’s 

asked  Jane.

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office  to see how  the  land  lay,  that  tin- 
book-keeper  was bearing  down  a 
little 
harder on  the  pen  than  there  was  any 
need  of.

Promptly  at  ten  the  next  morning, 
Jane and  old  John  stopped  at  the  New- 
stead  door  with  the delivery  wagon,  and 
soon  after Joe,  between  two  fine  looking 
women,  was  on  the  way  to  the  store  at 
Holbrook’s  Mills.

’er. 

“ Have  you a  long  list,  Lovicy?”
“ Don  t  ask 

I  don’t  want  t’ 
know.  She’s  ben  a  puttin’  daown 
things  ever  sence 
I  got  home  n'  I 
couldn’t  git  ’er  t’  bed  till  I  blowed  the 
light  aout. ”

’ Let  me  look  it  over,  please;’ ’  and 
the  long  list  was  put  into  Miss  Cragin’s 
hands.  As  her  eye  glanced  down  tin- 
list,  a  smile  crept  into  her face,  and  re­
turning  it,  she  said,  Be  sure  to  put 
down  the  prices  for each 
item,  because 
there  are some  of  them  I  am  curious 
about.”   Then  they  gave  themselves  up 
to  the  enjoyment  of  the ride and reached 
the  Mills  in  due  time  for  dinner,  which 
Jane ordered  at  the  hotel.

This over,  and  you may  be  sure  that 
it  was a  dinner well  worth  the  eating, 
Jane  went  her  way  and  the  Newsteads 
went  to  the  store,  Joe  remarking  when 
the  two  were  by  themselves: 
“ When 
Jane  sets  aout  t’  dew  anything,  she does 
it  right  up  t’  the  handle. 
I  shan’t  want 
anything  ’gin  till  day a ’ter t’-morrow 1”
“ She’s  just  as good  ’s  she  c’n  be,  ’n’ 
liv e ;  ’n’  I  c’n  tell  ye  b ’forehand.  Joe 
Newstead,  that  y’  ain’t goin’  t’  make 
such  a  dreadful  sight out  o’  this  trip, 
f ’r  all  y ’r  talkin’ ;  ’n’  1  don’t  want  ye t’ 
go  in,  ’n’  the  fust  thing,  say  y’re  f’m 
Milltown  where  they’ve ben  a  cheatin’ 
y ’ur  eyes  aout. 
Jane’s 
ben  more  than  fair  with  us, 
jes’ 
let’s  see  ’thout  any  snoopin'  what  the 
diff’ rence  is  in  prices.  Ye won’t  now, 
will  ye?”

'Taint  fair. 

’n’ 

“ Wha’  d’  ye  take  me  for?’ ’

‘ F ’r better 

f ’r  richer 
poorer;’  ’n’  I’ll  leave  it  t'  you, 
’f 
haint ben  wus  ’o’  poorer  ev’ry  time.

’r  wus; 

’i 
’t 

Naow  min',  don’t  ye  dew 

it;’ ’  and 
their  entrance  into  the  store  prevented 
a  reply.

Good  afternoon, ”   said  the  affable 
proprietor,  “ what  can  I  show  you  to­
day?’ ’

“ Ye’d  better  put  it  t’other  way;  it’ll 
list  t’ ll 
take  less  time.  She’s  got  a 
reach  fr’m  here  t’  Milltaown; 
’n’  ye 
want  to give  us  y ’re  bottom  prices  t’ 
pay  f ’r  drivin’  fifteen  ’r twenty  mile  t' 
trade  with  ye.  Team  costs  suthin’,  ye 
know. 
’Ye  ben  tradin’  t’  Milltaown,  t’ 
the  brick  store,  ye  know,  ’n’  they  ben 
¡lullin’  ’r back  teeth  right  aout  on  us; 
’n'  fin’ly,  I  says  t’  m,  wife,  we’ ll  go  t’ 
the  Mills  'll’  here  we be.”

tell 

“ You  can’t 

anything  by 

“ That's  right.  We’ re  glad  to  see 
you.  Let  me  look  at  your  list ma’am .”
it. 
There’s  a  good  many  things  that  I  don’t 
want.  What’s  y ’r  flour?”
He  ran  through  the  list.
“ G i’  me a  sack  o’  Tip  Top.  How 
much  is  it,  and  she  put  down  the  price.
“ That’s all  t’-day,”   she  said  after  a 
meager  list  had  been  checked ami tilled.
“ Naow,  Joe,  you  go  ’n’  git  the  boss, 
’n’  by  the time  ye git  back  t’  the  tah- 
vun,  Miss  Cragin  ’ll  be  waitin’  for  us, 
’n’  we’ll  start  f ’ r  home.  Old  John’s- 
such  a  good  traveler  we’ll  git  there 
’ ll 
time  f ’r chores.

“ Miss  Cragin?  Aint  she the  Milltown 

storekeeper?”

“ Yes,  ’n’  ’s  her  hoss  ’n’  wagin;  but 
she  offered  t’  take  us  over  ’f  we  wanted 
t’  come.  She  was  coinin’  herself  and 
so she  didn’t  charge  anything  f'r  the 
team.  When  the  flour's kgone,  mebby

Joe  Newstead, 

we’ll  drive  over  agin.  Good  day.
I here, 
I  guess  you’ll 
lam  one o’  these  days,  that  ye  can’t 
play off any  y ’r games  on  me. 
’ Nother 
time when  I  tell  ye not  to dew  a  thing, 
you  go  right  off  ’n'  dew  it  ’n’  see  what 
ye git. 
1 here’s  Jane  naow.  B’gun  t’ 
think,  didn’t  ye,  we  wa’n’t  coinin'. 
Drive  raound,  Joe,  so she  c ’n  git  in  on 
t’  other  side. ’ ’

“ Well,  how’s  the  trading  gone  on? 
You don’t  seem  to  have  much  of a  load, 
flour  and  only  those  few  packages? 
Why,  there  aren’t  enough  to  pay  for 
coming  over.  Why  didn’t  you  get  your 
list?”

“ It  s  the  same  ol’  story,  all  smoke  ’n 
’mighty  little  fire.  Then  Joe  had  to 
show  off a  little  ’n’  that  made  me  mad. 
Want  t’  look  at  the  list?”

Wait  until  we get  to the  store  where 
you  can  see  our  prices  for  the  same 
things. ’ ’

I hey  did. 

the  cost, 

In  counting  up 

I hey  found  what  experi­
ence teaches  everywhere,  that a  respect­
able  grocer  wants  a  fair  profit  on  what 
he  sells  and  only  that;  and  when  less  is 
claimed,  the  conventional  pickanniny 
will  be  found  somewhere  in  the  wood- 
pile. 
Joe 
found  that  the  trip  to  Holbrook’s  Mills 
didn’t  pay.  Leaving  out of  the  account 
the  price  of  the  team,  he  was  out  of 
pocket  two  dollars  and  a  h alf;  and 
when  Jane  said  that,  possibly  if  they 
had  bought  more,  they  would  have come 
out  even,  Joe  with  a  pretty  strong  voice 
got  as  far as “  if ”  and suddenly stopped.
I here  was  something  in  his  wife’s  face 
’f  ye 
“ Goon 
which  seemed  to  say: 
dast  ter,’ ’  and  he  didn’t  dare. 
Just, 
then,  too,  Jane  said,  ' ‘ Now,  boys,  we’ll 
wind  up  this  business  and  have  every­
thing  square. 
I here,  Lovicy,  that  ten 
dollar  bill  is  yours.  The  boys  wanted 
to  bet  and  you  were  to have  the  money 
whoever won ;  and  I  want  you  to  prom­
ise  that  you’ll  lay  every  cent  of  this  out 
on  something  for  yourself.  Will  you?”
“ Yes,  I  will.  D ’  ye  hear  that,  Joe? 
f ’r 

E v’ry  cent.  Put  me  down, 
ev’ry  blessed  cent.”

Jane, 

Cy couldn’t  indulge  in  any  "   ‘ twitin’ 
’n’  Hingin’, ’  ”   but Jane  had  forgotten  I 
to  bar out Gy’s  laugh,  and  he  made  the 
most  of  it.

”  |es’  hear  that  blame-fool-laugh 

I ’d  ruther 

was Joe’s  comment  as  they  rode  away, 
“ i  d’n’  know  what  there  is  abaout 
it, 
but  it’s  the  meanest,  dog-gone-dest hec- 
terin’est  laugh  that  a  human  ever  had 
hung  onto  ’ im. 
’e  \1  slap 
me square  ’n  the  face  any  time  ’n  ter 
hear  it;  ’n’  1  s’ pose  I  s’ll  have  to  hear 
it  a good  many  times  a ’ter  th is;”   and 
he  did,  although  he  never  afterwards 
complained  about  the  prices  at  Mill- 
town,  nor afterwards  did  any  trading  at 
Holbrook’s  Mills.

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

D ry   G ood s
J. E. Blackstone in Dry Goods Reporter.

CHAPTER  I.

Goods  Merchant.

Nine  Years’  Experience  as  a  Dry 

The  store  was  closed  for  the «lay.  My 
clerks  had  gone  home.  I  was alone,  ex­
cept  that  the  ghosts of  former  years  and 
ambitions  flitted  before  and  around  me, 
taunting  me  with  miniatured  plans  and 
hopes.  My  sales  for the day  had  been 
estimated,  and  while  1  knew  they  were 
larger than  those of  my  competitors, ex­
cepting  one  or possibly  two,  yet the am­
bition  of  my  life  had  evaded  my  grasp.
I  was  enjoying  the  fruits  of  nine  years’ 
unremitting  effort  in  a  well  established 
business.  My  stock  was  steadily  grow­
ing. 
I  was  sure  of  a  competency  for 
life.  But  that  was  not  enough.  Twelve 
years  ago  my  determination  to own a 
store ot  my  own  was  made.  For  three 
years  1  sacrificed  the  pleasures  of  life 
and  some  of  the  necessities, 
that  I 
might  the  sooner  and  firmer  establish 
myself  in  business.  Economy  having 
a 1 wavs  been  an  inherent  quality  of  my 
nature  1  had  previous  to  my  determina­
tion  to  start  in  business  saved  Si,ooo. 
The  three  years  of  especially rigid econ­
omy  had  netted  me  S i,ooo.  When,
therefore, 
1  had  reached  the  critical 
period  in  my 
life  to  which  doubtless 
every  clerk  looks,  viz.  :  buying  a  stock 
for  myself,  I  had  S3,goo  in  the  bank. 
This  was  not  by  any  means  a  large 
amount  to  compete  with  old  and  firmly 
established  merchants,  hut  sufficient,  I 
thought,  if  backed  by  unbounded  en­
1  felt  that  the  quality  I  needed 
ergy. 
most  was  nerve  to  make  the  effort. 
I 
had  great  faith  in  these  words:

You can  cl to any station,
That's on life's schedule seen.
If there’s tire beneath the boiler, 
in ambition's strong machine:
And you 11 reach a place, called Flash town. 
At a rale of speed that's grand.
If for all the slippery places.
You've a good supply of saint.

It  was  with  considerable difficulty that 
I  decided  on  my  location.  My  deter­
mination  was  to  hang  up  my  sign 
where  1  expected  to  remain  the  remain­
der of  my  life,  believing  strongly  that  I 
could  not  afford  to  exert  myself to estab­
lish  a  reputation,  and  then  suddenly 
box  up  my  stock  and  remove  elsewhere. 
Such  procedure  1  deemed  very  foolish, 
indeed.  After serious  consultation  with 
friends  and  whomsoever  1  could, 1  chose 
the  town  I  had  been  clerking 
in  for 
some  seven  or eight  years.  To  be  sure, 
it  was  not  a  large  place  only  about 
I,goo  inhabitants  yet  1  felt  that it  poss­
essed  advantages  which 
I  could  not  af­
ford  to  pass  lightly.  During  my  clerk- 
ship  I  had  exercised  my  quality  of  civ­
ility  to  such  effect  that  1  prided  myself 
on  the 
large  number  of  friends  who  de­
lighted  to  have  me  sell  to  them.  They 
manifested  an  interest 
in  my  welfare, 
which  I  knew  was  genuine.  So  confi­
dent  was  I  that  their  interest  in  me  was 
more than  that  of  ordinary  patrons  for 
clerks  that  I  checked  up  a  list  of  those 
whom  I  believed  would  follow  me  if  I 
started 
in  business.  And  more  than 
opening  a  stock  in  the  same  town 
in 
which I was clerking,  1  resolved  on  near 
proximity  to  my  old  employer. 
I  had 
settled  the  matter  in  my  own  mind  that 
it  must  he  a  royal  battle;  that  I  would 
never be  content  to  simply  own  a  store. 
It  must  be  a  store  which  would  be a 
credit  to  myself  and  the town,  and  if  to 
ilrop  my  32,goo  was  necessary,  I  would 
at  least  demonstrate  of  what stuff  I  was 
made,  and  if  I  possessed  none  of the ar­
ticle  of  which  merchants  are  made,  I 
was  going  to  know 
it  by  experience. 
And  so by  such  course  of  reasoning  I 
was  led  to  rent  a  st >re  directly  across 
the street  from  the  mercantile  gymna­
sium  where  I  had  trained.  Those  nine 
It  was 
years are  full  of  interest  to  me. 
no  easy  task  at  the  beginning  to  meas­
ure  myself  with  the  experience  of  the 
town  and  other  towns.  My  S2,goo  did 
not go  far  against  stocks - varying  from 
325,000 to 350,000. 
I  found  my  watch­
fulness  taxed  to  its  very limit to keep  in 
stock  what  I  might  be  asked  for.  Every 
night  after  closing  I  would  carefully  go 
through  the stock  and  learn what I need­
ed—not  what  I  was  low  on, 
for that

was  everything—but  what  I  might  be 
sold  out of  within  a  week.  My  com­
petitors  went  to  market  twice  a  year, 
and  the amounts of plunder they brought 
home used  to  make  me  thoroughly  dis­
heartened.  Their advertisements  fairly 
flamed  with  the 
information  of  “  im­
mense  purchases. ”   But  while  they were 
passing  my  store and  chuckling  at  “ the 
express  packages  which  he gets, 
I  was 
“ sawing  wood. 
They  were  turning 
their  stock  one  and  one-half  to  two 
times,  and  I was turning mine six times. 
I  had  no  old  stock ;  they did. 
I,  there­
fore,  had  no  losses  on  plunder;  they 
did.  When  my  competitors were  work­
ing  in  pushing  goods  on  which  they 
were stuck,  I  was  pushing  new,  clean, 
bright  stuff,  and  told  the  people  so.  My 
windows  and  store  1  kept  scrupulously 
clean.  My  large  plate  glass  windows 
were  the  first  introduced  into  my  town.
I  polished  them  daily,  and  they  shone 
like  the  best  French glass.  The  inte­
rior  of the windows  I  made  an  index of 
my  store  throughout.  They  were  the 
talk  of  our  town. 
I  was  lavish  with 
paint  and  water.  My  counters  and 
shelves  were  always  clean.  No  dust 
was  permitted  to  accumulate. 
I  insist­
ed on  especial  effort  on  the part of every 
clerk  to  please.  Every  favor  possible 
was  shown  a  customer without  lowering 
the  dignity  of  the  store.  My clerks  were 
asked  to  dress  neatly.  No  slovenly 
package  was allowed  to go out.  My  pur­
pose  was  to  excel. 
I  had  special  sales 
on  which  I  made  large  returns.  To  in­
terest  the  people  I  would  advertise  an 
article  at  a  price  that  would  surely 
create talk,  because of  an  exceptionally 
low  figure.  These sales  I  would  run  a 
day.  Then  I  would  follow  them  with 
j  one on  an  article  on  which 
I   made  a 
handsome  profit.  These  I  would  run 
several  days,  carrying  no  large  stock, 
but  ordering  every  night  such  styles  as 
1  sold  out during  the  day.  Thus by  ex­
traordinary  effort  and  application  I  had 
gotten  together  a stock  of  314,500 
in 
those nine  years.  My  sales  were  good
about 363,00  the  ninth year  but  I had 
not  yet  realized  my  ambition.  My  de­
liberate  purpose  at  the beginning  of  my 
career  was to  sell  more  stuff  annually 
than  any other  merchant  in  town.  This 
I  was  not  doing,  and because  of  it  I  sat, 
as  explained  at  the opening  of  this  let­
ter,  well  nigh  cast  down. 
I11  such  a 
condition  I  had  remained  for  some  two 
hours,  turning  over  and  over  different 
schemes  to 
increase  my  sales,  when, 
presto,  one flashed  across my  mind  that 
made  the  perspiration  start  and  the  ex­
ecution of  which  during  the  next  year 
trotted  my  sales  up  to  3117,000  and 
made  me  the  leading  merchant  of  our 
town.  How  I  did  it  will  be  told  next 
week.

From the Chicago 1) y Goods Reporter.

Big  Sleeves  Reach  Their  Zenith.

Big  sleeves  have  at  last  reached  the 
culminating  point  of  extravagance,  and 
the  decadence has  set  in.  Opinions con­
flict as  to  the  length  of  time  it  will 
take for the big  sleeve to  pass away. 
It 
seems  likely  that  the  change  will  be 
slow and  tortuous. 
I11  fact,  it will  be  a 
case  of  death  by  inches.

Just  as  it  was about  to be decided that 
the big  sleeve was  to  continue,  at 
least 
a  season  longer,  the  fatal  prejudice  set 
in.  The  women  have  suddenly  discov­
ered  that the huge  inflated balloon sleeve 
is  a  monstrosity,  and  its  former devoted 
adherents are  crying out against  it.

finding 

The  dressmakers 

that  the 
limit  in  size had been  reached,  and  that 
the  only variety  to  be  given  the  new 
season’s  productions  would  be by lessen­
ing  the  volume,  turned  traitors and  de­
serted  the  cause which they  had  so firm 
ly  espoused.
From  an object  of  pride and  admira­
tion  it  will  soon  become  one  of  ridi­
cule. 
is  sealed,  for  the  reac­
tion,  though  but  slightly  indicated  so 
far,  is nevertheless a  decided  one.  We 
will  continue  to  see big  sleeves for some 
time,  but  the  changes  will  be  entirely 
toward  the  lessening  rather than  increas­
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Its  fate 

Few things are  more  ludicrous  than 

bogus  dignity.

A  home without  children 

garden  without  flowers.

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Exercise  and  the  Bicycle.

Written  for  the T r a d es m a n .

in  the 

inevitable 

increasing  wealth  and 

There  has  been  a good  deal  of  appre­
hension  manifested  by 
students  of 
economic  problems  as  to  the  effects  of 
the 
luxury  of 
modern  times.  That  this  luxury  and! 
its  consequent  enervation  should  cause I 
the downfall  of  the  most  advanced  mod­
ern  nations —those  nations  whose  en­
lightenment  has  carried  them  beyond 
the  possibility  of  war  with  its  healthful' 
demands on  national  vitality  -seems  al­
most 
light  of  the 
effects  of  similar  conditions on  the  civ­
ilizations  of  history.  And  these  appre­
hensions  a/e  not without apparent  foun­
dation. 
1 he oft-quoted  story  of  Rome 
is,  perhaps,  as good  an  example  of  the 
results  of  the  enervation  of 
luxury  as 
any.  A   warlike training  had  given  the 
proud  empire a  national  greatness  lim­
ited  only  by  the  then  known  world. 
Luxury  anil  idleness  followed,  soon  re­
ducing  her to a  state of  imbecile  weak­
ness. 
In  the  rugged  fastnesses  of  the 
northern  wilds  the  Germanic  tribes were 
contending  with  hard  conditions  for  ex­
istence.  With  them  life  was  short,  as 
a  result  of  exposure and  hardship.  Yet 
these  conditions  developed  a  sturdy 
strength  which  made  the  enervated  Lat­
ins  an  easy  prey.

1 hat  the  g'reat  modern  nations have 
become  much  weakened by  luxury  and 
the  lack  of  the  necessity  of  effort  is  ap­
parent.  Where  is  it  to  end?  Will  it  be 
necessary  for them  to  fall  to  and destroy 
each  other by  savage  war to  avoid  dying 
from  inanimation?

it 

ihe  answer  to  these questions  will  be 
found  in  the  fact  that  modern enlighten­
ment  is  bringing  with  it  a  knowledge of 
the  secret  of 
individual,  and,  conse­
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cret”   has  long  been  known and applied, 
theoretically,  but  there  is  now  such  a 
practical  recognition  and  it  is  made  to 
assume  such  agreeable  forms  that 
is 
assimilated  and  is  becoming  a  factor  in 
modern  life.  This  “ secret”   is  exercise. 
One of  the  most  promising  indications 
of  the  permanence  of  modern  civiliza­
tion  is  that  the  world 
just  entering 
upon  an  era  that  may  be  called  the  re­
naissance  ol  exercise.  Enlightenment 
is  bringing a  knowledge  that  most  of 
the  ills  that  have  destroyed  the  value 
and  enjoyment  of  so  many  lives and fur­
nished  support  for  the  great  host  of 
medical  charlatans  are  the  results of  in­
activity.  And  this  knowledge  is  becom­
in  the  education  of  the 
ing  a  factor 
young  that  promises  an 
increasing 
recognition.

is 

Efforts  for  the  popularization  of  exer­
cise  have  long  been  urged.  Many  plans 
have  been  devised,  games  like lawn ten­
nis,  archery,  etc.,  and  these,  with  rid­
ing,  walking  and,  withal,  work,  have 
done  much  toward  the  redemption of the 
race.  But  it  remained  for the  mechan­
ic  to devise  the  means,  par  excellence, 
that  should  make  exercise  a  delight,and 
bring  a  greater  recognition  of  its  value 
than anything  else  ever  devised.  The 
bicycle  has  been  a greater  object  lesson 
as  to  the  value  and  necessity  of  exer­
cise,  even  to  those  who  have  not  yet 
adopted  its  use, 
in  their observation  of 
its  effects,  than  is  generally  considered.
The  results  of  its  use already  attained 
are  small  compared  with  the  promise  of 
the  future.  The  increase  of  the  present 
season  is  a  matter of  the greatest  aston­
ishment,  and  yet  every  facility  of  man­
ufacture  is  strained  to  the utmost to sup­
ply  the  demands  of  the  coming  season.
In  view  of  the  promise of  reduction 
in 
prices  consequent  upon  such  tremen­

dous demand  it  is  riot  unreasonable  to 
predict  that  its  use  will  soon become al­
most  universal.

I he  practical  knowledge  of  the  value 
of  exercise  will  become  more  and  more 
an  element 
in  the  education  of  the 
young.  The  wheel,  and  other  means of 
exercise  will  become  more  and  more at­
tractive  and  pleasant.  Their  sanitary 
value  will  receive  greater  recognition. 
Ihe  time  is  not  far  distant  when  the 
student  of  modern  conditions  of 
life 
will  not  long  for  the  salutary  effects  of 
savage  war. 

\V.  N.  F.

Keep  Stock  in  Sight.

A  great  many  sales  are  lost  and  a 
great  deal  of  dead  stock 
is  carried  by 
stores  which  are  in  the  habit  of  having 
places behind  or  under the  counters 
in 
which  to  place goods.  These  goods  are 
probably  never  overhauled,  except  at 
stock-taking  times,  and  these  drawers 
and  hiding  places  are  an  excellent catch 
basin  for all  sorts of  goods,  which  a r e  
usually  called  “ stickers,”   and  which 
ought  to  be  out  on  the  counters  where 
they  can  be  pushed  more  than  ordi­
narily.

Do  not  have any  places  in  your  store 
where goods  can  be  stuck  out of  sight. 
If  you  have  plenty of room  it  is  better  to 
have  all  the goods  on  or  in  front  of  the 
counters,  or  on  shelving  conspicuously 
situated.  Have  no  shelves  below  the 
counter,  so  that  there  will  be  no  oppor­
tunity to put things away out of sight.  A 
great  many  stores,  however,  cannot  do 
this,  as  they are  crowded  for  room,  and 
it  is,  therefore,  necessary  that  a  part of 
the  goods  should  be  kept 
in  places 
which  make  no display.

in  easy  access 

If  this  is  necessary,  see  that  every 
piece  of  goods  not 
is 
looked  over and  examined  and  brought 
out  to  the  light  at  least  once  a  week.  If 
the goods are  kept  out where they can be 
seen  all  the  time,  they  are  very  much 
more  apt  to  sell  than 
if  hidden  away. 
The  salesmen  are  usually  very  careless 
about  goods  which  are  not  easy to reach, 
and  they  very  seldom  take  the  pains  to 
look  into  any  of  these  old drawers or un­
der  the  shelves  to find goods  to  sell.
for 
If  customers  come  in  and  call 
some  particular  thing  which  they  know 
to be  in  such  and such  a place,  they usu­
ally  go  and  get  it,  but  if  it  is  in  some 
place  where  there  in  any  doubt  about 
finding  it,  they  either  say  they  haven’t 
got  it,  or  they  don’t  take  the  pains  to 
look  for  it  where  they  should,  and  try 
to  substitute  something  else  which  pos­
sibly  the  customer does  not  want.

If  you  have  goods  that  cannot  be  car­
ried  on  the  shelves,  arrange  them  about 
the  store  where  they  will  be  in  full view 
of  the  customers.

handling  Other  People’s  Money.
The  true  course  for  evey  person to fol­
low  who  has  in  charge  the  moneys  of 
other  people  is  this :
Insist  upon your accounts being  audit­
ed  once  a  year  or  more.  Do  not  wait 
until  you  retire  from  office  or until  you 
resign  from  a  position,  but  demand  a 
close  investigation  of  your financial  ac­
counts as  you  go  along. 
If  you  serve as 
treasurer,  of any  kind  of a  society,hold­
ing  any  sort  of  a  fund,  make  a  full  and 
complete  report  of  your  accounts  from 
time  to  time,  then  ask  that  they  be 
audited  by  a  committee  which  shall  be 
appointed  by  other people than  yourself. 
Do  not  ask  that  any  particular  persons 
be  the auditors,but  keep your  books  and 
moneys  so  correctly  that  you  can  face 
even  your enemies  and  ask  them  to  ap­
point auditors  to  investigate  your  ac­
counts  and  make  their  report,  with  a 
consciousness  that  you  have  sacredly 
guarded  all  the  money  that  has  passed 
through  your  hands,  knowing that  not 
one  cent  has  been  m isappropriated  but 
being  sure  that you  can  render  an  ac­
count  for  every  farthing  that  has  been 
entrusted  to  your  keeping.  Then  you 
will  have  a  good  conscience,  a  good 
character,  and  a  fine  reputation  in  the 
business  world.

Bastard baskets must  go!

How to l
H erp 
flOPsI  To induce Cash Trade, you can afford 
, 
to give a small discount in the shape
If you discount your bills. Cash is taken off the total 
or a present. 
If your customers pay cash you give a premium which 
costs you less than the discount, your customers are (.leased and 
you save money.

amount. 

Knock out the credit  business 
Build up a cash trade 
Save many dollars 
Make home happy

Catch  the  Idea?

Don’t  Use Old  Chestnuts!  F^ in£re-
See our line:  Folding  Furniture.  Pictorial  Books,  quadruple Plate 
Silverware,  Framed Pictuies, Crayon Portraits,  Etc.

Write to-day, commence to touch that 

sensitive nerve, the

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523 S.  Division  St.,  Harris  Block, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Home  Office,  Fond du Lac, Wis.

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16

Clerks’  Corner

Advantage  of  Good  Breeding  Behind 

the  Counter.

There 

in  broom-holding, 

is  no  place  where  the  prin­
ciple,  “ Learn  by  doing, ”   can  be  prac­
ticed  more effectively  than  in  a  general 
store. 
“ Let  me show  you  how  to  hold 
the broom, ”   followed  then  and  there  by 
an  object  lesson 
is 
worth  more than  a  dozen  tellings  how; 
and  everyone of  my  clerk  readers  will 
bear  me out,  1  think,  in  the  statement, 
that they  never did  up  a  package  neatly 
and  snuglv  until  some  good  fellow  -no 
matter  if  it  were  a  she—taught  him  how 
to  do  it. 
I  thought  of  that  the  other 
day  when  I  saw  some  rice  done  up  by  a 
novice,  sifting  through  the  loosely  tied 
package,  and  concluded  that  was  a 
good  text  for  my  weekly  sermon;  but  1 
have decided  that  an  object  lesson 
is 
needed,  rather  than  a  talk,  and,  as  I 
cannot give  the  one,  I  will  refrain  from 
the other.  There  is  nothing  more  dis­
couraging  to  a 
learner  than  a  list  of 
"don’ts,”   and  1  am  going  to  take  you 
on  a  little  trip  this  morning  and  give 
you  an  object  lesson  upon  a  single 
“ don’t”   for a  subject,  which  I hope you 
will  remember as  long as  you  live.

It  is  a busy  day  and  we  will  make  a 
call  at  a  grocery  store  in  Somewhere 
county.  The  people  there are  not  over 
sensitive  and  the grocer there,  wise 
in 
his  own  conceit,  wants 
it  understood 
that  a  busy,  business  man  has no chance 
to  be  pol ite  or  even  respectful  to  a 
friend  or stranger  who  comes  in  bother­
ing  and  hindering.  You  will,  usually, 
find,  boys,  that  these  gropers  are  well- 
to-do.  They  are  up  in matters of finance. 
They  are  on  the  alert  for  the  nimble 
shilling.  They  ‘ ‘tell  a  man  just  once 
what  he’s got  to  do  and,  if  he  can’t  do 
it, 
1  want  you  to  take  a
good  look  at  the  store  and  at  the  store­
keeper  himself.  Everything  is  as  neat 
as  a  pin.  Everything  is  in  its  place— 
it  doesn’t dare  to get  out  of  it  -and  the 
clerk  jumps  for  us  the  minute  we  enter, 
as  if  somebody  had  jabbed  him  with  a 
needle. 
I  am  told  on  good  authority 
that  this  Somebody  in  that  Somewhere 
store  charges  more  for  the  same  goods 
than  any  other grocer  in  town. 
1  men­
tion  this  because  you  can  see  why 
without a  word  from  me. 
It  is  an  ob­
ject  lesson  well  worth  studying.

fire  him. ”  

This  man  doesn’t  know  me,  and  I 
have  come  in  here  without  knowing,  of 
course,  that this  is  his  busiest  day',  as 
any  stranger  is  very  liable to  come  in at 
any  time.  While  the  clerk 
is  putting 
up  the peanuts  you  have asked  for,  you 
watch  the  porcupine  while  1  ask  him 
the  way  to  the  Morton  House.  He  will 
look  at me  until  his  eyes  fairly  glare, 
wasting  ten  times  the  time  it  would 
take  to  answer  my  question.  When  he 
sees that  I  don’t  care  for  that  kind  of 
nonsense  and  that  I  am  respectfully 
waiting  for a  respectful  answer  to  my 
respectful  question,  he  will 
perfectly 
snap  out: 
“ This ain’t  Grand  Rapids, 
it’s  S o m e w h e re a n d   his  voice  will 
whack  up  against  the  period  at  the  end 
of  his  remark  with  the bang  of a freight 
train.  When  I  say,  “ O,  1  beg  your  par­
don, ’ ’  he will  turn  away  from  me  with 
a  “  Humph!’ ’  and 
into  that  ominous 
sound he  will  crowd  all  the  overbearing 
ill  breeding  which  years  of  practiced 
coarseness  have  intensified.  I have gone 
thus  into  details,  so  you  can  see how ex­
actly  he  has  carried  out  my  programme 
in  every  particular. 
That’s  exactly 
what he did  the other day  when  he  was 
not  especially busy and  when  he  didn’t

have  a  customer  in  his  store.  Then,  it 
angered  me.  Now,  it  makes  me  laugh. 
And  whenever  I  feel  like  it, 
I  saunter 
in  there  with  some  idiotic  question  and 
let him  glare  at  me and  ‘ ‘ humph. ’ ’

That  sort  of  cattle  isn’t  confined  to 
Somewhere.  There  are  several,  I  am 
told,  over  in  Everywhere;  but  they  all 
have the  same  leading  traits.  I  met  one 
of  the  Somewhere  grocer’s  customers 
one  day  and  asked  him  wherein  lay  the 
dealer’s  successful  trade.  Here  is  his 
answer:

is  prompt 

‘ ‘ He  keeps  the  best  goods.  He  has 
the  cleanest  store.  He 
in 
filling  orders.  The  first  customer  who 
comes  in  is  waited  on  first;  and  a  child 
is  treated  as  considerately  as  the  parent 
would  be.  He  charges  more  than  the 
other grocers,  but,  when  you  get  used 
to  his  peculiarities,  you  don’t  care  for 
them  and  it’s  trading your  after,  any­
way. 
If the  man  had  had  any  kind  of 
bringing  up,  or  enough  to  treat  people 
decently,  he’d  be  one  of  the  leading 
men  in  Somewhere. ’ ’

Uncle Bob.
Fnoni the Philadelphia < ¡rovers' He view.

How  many  of  my boys  see  the  point?

Professional  flarketer.

New  Occupation 

for  Women  The 

is  still 

A  new  employment  has  recently  been 
added  to the  lengthening list of woman’s 
activities  in  this  city  by a bright daugh­
ter of  Philadelphia. 
I he  professional 
marketer  is  one  of  these new  ventures. 
There  are two  women  who  are  rapidly 
building  up  a  paying  clientele  in  this 
way  of  business.
On  account  of  the  summer  exodus 
from  town,  business  is  very  slack  now, 
but  one  of  these  marketers 
in 
town  and  the  other  morning  outlined 
her  plan  of  work.
“ When  the  head  of  a  household  en­
gages  me  she  tells  me  how  many are  in 
the  family  to  be provided  for  and  gives 
me an  idea  of  their  usual  style  of  liv­
ing. 
I  then  make  a  calculation  as  to 
how  much  money  it  will  take  to  proven­
der  such  a  household  a  week.  Again, 
in  households  where  the  purse  has  a  de­
cided  limit  I  am 
told  the  numerical 
strength  of the  family  and  asked  if  1 
can  do  the  marketing  on  a  specified 
sum.  Of  course,  the  success  of the pro­
vision  depends  to a  great  extent  upon 
the  skill  and 
ingenuity  of  the  cook, 
who  must  be governed  very  much  in her 
dishes  by  the nature  of  the  things  pro­
vided. ”
“  I  should  fancy  that there  must  need 
be a  rather thorough  understanding  be­
tween  you  and  the  cooks?”
“  I  try  to  make  it  so,  and  in  a  great 
many  cases  1  prepare  the  menu  for  the 
week,  so  all  the  cook  has  to  do  is  to 
follow  that  and  manipulate the  food that 
I  provide  in  her best  style ‘ 
If  there  is 
any  dish  m  the  menu  with  which  the 
cook  is  unacquainted  1  usually  go  to 
the  house and  give  her  directions.  I  am 
a  trained cook myself - -a graduate of  the 
Philadelphia  Cooking  School—and  have 
had much experience in that line.  Do the 
cooks take  kindly  to my invasion?  Some 
do  and  some  do  not.  On  the  whole, 
however,  I  think  I  have been rather suc­
cessful  with  them.  Some  of  those  who 
looked  upon  me as  encroaching  on  their 
domain  have  come  to  regard  me  as 
more  of  a  helpful  ally  than  anything 
else,  and  the  more  sensible and  shrewd 
ones have  always welcomed  my work be­
cause  it  relieves  them  of  the  task  of 
planning  meals,  and  often  brings  to 
their  knowledge  new dishes,  new  com­
binations of  food,  which  in  the  end  in­
crease  their  professional  value.  Last 
winter  was a  very busy one, and the pros­
pects  are that  the  number of my custom­
ers  will  be  increased  next year.”

Sticking  to  Business.

“ What  in  the name  of  common  sense 
are you  doing,  George?’ ’  asked  the boss 
of the  new boy  who  had  been  sent to tap 
a barrel  of  vanilla  syrup. 
“ Sticking  to 
business,  sir, ”   he  stammered,  as  he 
vainly  tried  to  hold  his  hand  over  the 
broken  spigot,  and  at the same time,lift 
his  feet  from  a  pool  of  wasted  molasses.

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Grand  Rapids.

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Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association 

Northern  Mich.  Retail Grocers’ Association 

Association  Matters what  unique,  as  the  package  we use and 
President, E.  W h i t e :  Secretary, E.  A .  S t o w e : 
the  manner  in  which  our  fruit  is  loaded
Treasurer,  J .   G e o .  L e h m a n .
on  the  car differs  from  the common cus­
Orand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
is 
tom.  For  peaches the bushel  basket 
514 cents per pound. 
4'4 pounds for 35 cents
10 pounds for 50 cents. 
30 pounds for $1.
used  almost  entirely,  and  a  very 
large 
portion  of  our  fruit  goes  direct  from  the 
grower’s  wagon  to  the  car,  where 
is 
President,  B y r o n  C.  Hi l l : Secretary, W. H.  Por­
t e r ; Treasurer, J. F.  H e l m k r .
placed  on  shelves  in  the  open  basket, 
one shelf above  another,  until  the  whole 
9% pounds for 50 cents
5A cents per pound. 
1* or  long  distances,  of 
car  is  filled. 
19 pounds for $1.
course,  the cars  are  iced ;  and, 
in  this 
manner,  comparatively  ripe  fruit  can 
President, J. F. T a tm  a n , Clare:  Secretary, E. A. 
be  shipped  long  distances  with  perfect 
S t o w e . Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J.  W i b l e r , 
Manreiona.
safety and  at  very small  expense. 
It  is 
the object  of  the  Association  to  bring 
buyers  from  all  over  the  country  direct 
President, A.  D.  W h ip p l e : Secretary, G.T. Cam p­
b e l l ; Treasurer, W. E. C o l l in s.
to  our  market,  where  they  can  procure 
just  what  they  wish  and  in  any  quantity 
desired.  By this  means all  outside  mar­
President, F. S.  C a k l e t o n , Ca umet: Vice Presi­
dent,  H e n r y  C.  W e b e r   Detroit;  Secretary- 
kets  are kept  regularly  supplied,  and, 
Treasurer,  H e n r y  C.  M in n ie , Eaton Rapids.
at  the same  time,  are  seldom  or  never 
glutted,  as  they  often  are  where  fruit  is 
President, R. D.  G r a h a m : Secretary, M. W. 
consigned.  There  is  now  coming  in  a 
R on a n ; Treasurer,  U . O.  B r a m a n .
splendid  lot of  choice  yellow  peaches, 
and,  with  our  sytem  of  packing  and 
loading  and  refrigerator cars,  no  market 
within  three  or  four days’ ride should  be 
Written for the  T r a d e s m a n .
without  plenty  of  fruit.

The  Fruit  and  Produce  industry  of 

Grand  Rapids  Fruit  Growers’ Association. 

Owosso Business  Men’s Association. 

Michigan  Hardware Association. 

Kent  County.

Until  very  recently  Kent  county-or, 
to  use  the  usual  expression,  Grand 
Rapids  -was  not,  particularly,  promi­
nent  or  very  well  known  as  a  fruit  and 
produce  center.  We  have  always  heard 
of  the  great  orchards  of  the  Lake  Shore 
and  of  the  immense  shipments  of  ber­
Joe 
ries and  garden  produce  from  St. 
and  Benton  Harbor ;  and,  while  it 
is 
true  that  in  many  small  towns  along  the 
Lake  Shore  the  fruit  and  produce indus­
try  is  paramount  to  all  others  and  of 
vast  importance, G rand  Rapids,  with  its 
great  and  varied  manufacturing  and 
mercantile  industries and  its  many  rail­
roads  and  greater  population, has scarce­
ly  taken  note  of  the  magnitude  and 
growing  importance to  the general  pub­
lic  of  its  own  fruit  and  produce 
indus­
try.  Little  by  little,  however,  the  peo­
ple  are  beginning  to  see  that  Grand 
Rapids  is  getting  to  be one  of  the  great 
fruit  and  produce  centers  of  the  West, 
and  especially  is  this  true  of  the  pro­
duction  of  peaches. 
I  believe  we  are 
to-day  producing  more  and  better 
peaches.than  any  other  country  in  the 
State;  indeed,  a  large  portion  of  the 
county  is admirably  adapted  to  the  pro­
duction  of  this  fruit,  the  land  being 
high  and  rolling  and  the  soil  of  a  qual­
ity  exactly  suited  to  the  needs  of  peach 
culture.  There  are  being  planted  an­
nually  hundreds  of  thousands  of  peach 
trees,  while  most of  the old orchards are 
still  in  bearing  condition.  The  deadly 
disease  known  as the "yellows”  has  not, 
as  yet,  made  any  serious  inroads  on  our 
orchards,  and,  wherever  it  does appear, 
it  is  immediately  stopped  by  the de­
struction  of  the  infected  trees.  Not  only 
is  this true of the  trees,  but  there  is  a 
commission  appointed  by  the Council  to 
inspect  the  fruit  offered  on  our  market, 
and,  if any  diseased  fruit  is  found,  it 
is  promptly  condemned  and  destroyed.
Our system  of  marketing differs  front 
that  of  any  other with  which  I  ant  ac­
quainted,  almost  the  entire  product  be­
ing  sold  on the open market  -practically 
to the  highest  bidder.  There 
is  very 
little  fruit  being  consigned  by the grow­
er,  at  least  among  those  who  have  or­
ganized  the society  known  as  the  Grand 
Rapids  Fruit  Growers’  Association,  the 
object of  which  is  to advertise  our fruit, 
secure better shipping  facilities and  ad­
vocate and  encourage  the  use of  a  uni­
form  package of  standard  size  and qual­
ity.  Here,  again,  our  practice  is some-

This  year  is  our fourth  full  successive 
crop  here  and  the  farmers  are  taking 
hold  of  the  matter  in  earnest  and  are 
making  the  production  of  this  fruit  a 
specialty,  and, 
for  that  reason,  are | 
growing  better  fruit  and  putting  it up in 
a better  manner than ever before.  Grand j 
I  Rapids  has,  perhaps,  a  dozen 
local 
I wholesale  buyers  who  not  only  keep  the 
different  towns  of  the  State  supplied, 
hut do  a  large  carload  business,  ship- 
| ping  to  Detroit,  Buffalo,  Cleveland, 
Cincinnati,  Indianapolis,  St.  Paul,  St. 
Louis  and  many  other  cities  of  the 
United  States.

Pres.  G.  R.  Fruit  Growers’  Ass’n.  1

R .  D.  G r a h a m ,

Appointed  Pure  Food  Spies.

Food Commissioner Storrs has awaken- j 
ed from  his lethargy and appointed  three 
commissioners  to  look  up  violations  of 
the  pure  food  laws  W.  B.  Scattergood, 
of  Ithaca;  John  I.  Breck,  of  Jackson, 
and 
John  R.  Bennett,  of  Muskegon. 
They  will  receive  S3  per  day  and  ex­
penses  for  time  actually  spent  in  the 
service of  the  State.

It  will  be  well  for  all  retail  dealers  to 
look  over the  new  law  enacted  by  the 
last  Legislature  (it  was published  in  full 
in  the  Tradesman  of  Aug.  7),  with  a 
I view  to  abandoning  the  sale  of  any 
goods  which  do  not  conform  to  the  pro­
visions  of  the  law.  Heavy  fines are  pre­
scribed  for  violations of  the  law,  and, 
as  new brooms  usually  sweep  clean,  the 
new  inspectors  will,  probably,  be  very 
vigilant  in  prosecuting  all  cases  of  vio­
lations brought  to  their  attention  -not 
forgetting  to draw  on  the  State  for  S3 
per day  and  expenses.

it 

Georgia  has  one  man  who  farms 
right  and  makes  money.  Captain  W. 
H.  Hodnett,  who  resides  near  Neal, 
G a.,  has  a  magnificent  plantation  and 
I nothing  on 
is  wasted.  He  raises 
1 everything  on  it,  including bantams and 
popcorn.  His  peaches  are  the  finest 
shipped  to  market  this  season.  When 
he  found  the  market  glutted  he  canned 
j the best,  and  those  next  best  were  made 
|  into  peach  brandy.  He  raises 
large 
quantities of vegetables and  fruits which 
he  cans  for market.  He  raises  his own 
meat  and  com,  and  has  a  pond 
from 
which  he  gets  all  the  fish  and turtles he 
can  use.  His dairy supplies a large num­
ber of  customers with  the best  of  butter.

Love  in  a  cottage will  do  if  the  cot- 

| tage  isn’t  mortgaged.

CAPS

AXES

BOLTS

DRILLS

BLOCKS

CHISELS

ELBOWS

BUCKETS

CRADLES

BARROWS

CROW  BARS

CARTRIDGES

BUTTS,  CAST

FIL ES-N ew   List

EXPANSIVE  BITS

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Hardware  Price  Current.

Snell's..................................................................................... 
70
................................................25*10
Jennings’, genuine 
Jennings’, imitation....................................................60*10
First Quality. S. B. Bronze......................................  5 50
First Quality,  D. B. Bronze.................................  9 50
First Quality.  S. B. S. Steel.................................  6 25
First Quality.  D. B. Steel...................................... 10 25
Railroad.................................................................*12 00 14 00
Garden.......................................................................  net  30 00
Stove....................................................................................... 
60
Carriage, new list............................................................65*10
Plow.........................................................................................40*10
Well, plain................................................. .....................f 3 25
Cast Loose Pin, figured............................................. 
75
Wrought Narrow.............................................................75*io
Ordinary Tackle............................................................... 
70
Grain, Wood brace........................................................$16 00
Grain, Wire brace..........................................................$18 00
Cast Steel..................................................................per lb 
4
Ely's 1-10...................................................................per in 
65
Hick’s C. F..............................................................per m 
55
G. D..............................................................................per m 
35
Musket.......................................................................per in 
00
Rim Fire.................................................................................50* 5
Central Fire........................................................................25* 5
Socket Firmer....................................................................80A10
Socket Framing................................................................80*10
Socket Corner....................................................................80*10
Socket Slicks.....................................................................8u*10
Morse’s Bit Stocks........................................................ 
00
Taper and Straight Shank.........................................30* 5
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................................50& 5
Com. 4 piece, 6 in........................................doz. net 
60
Corrugated..................................................................dis 
50
Ad j ustable..................................................................dis 40* 10
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26.................................SO A10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30.......................................... 
25
New American............................................................... 70*10
Nicholson’s...........................................................................70* 10
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................................60*10
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 20; 27......... 
28
14 
13 
List 12 
16.............. 
17
Discount, 65*10
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................................60*16
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings............................. 
70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......................... 
80
Adze Eye.....................................................$16 00. dis 60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................................$15 00, dis 60*10
Hunt's.......................................................... $18 50, dis 20*10
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................................... 
40
Coffee, P. S. * W. Mfg. Co.'s Malléables... 
40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark's....................... 
40
Coffee, Enterprise..................................... 
30
Stebbin’s Pattern.................................................... 
. .60*10
StebWn’s Genuine..........................................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring.................................... 
30
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire
..  2 g
Steel nails, base......................................................
Wire nails, base..........................................................  2  35
50
10 to 60 advance......................................................
---- 
60
7 and 6.............................................................................. 
75
90
4.......................................................................................
3...........................................................................................  1 20
2.......................................................................................
....  1 60
1 60
Fine 3..........................................................................
Case 10................................................................................ 
65
Case 8................................................................................ 
75
Finish 10.....................................................................
.. 
. 
75
Finish  K .....................................................................
90
Finish 6.....................................................................
Clinch 10.....................................................................---- 
70
Clinch 8...................................................................
____ 
80
Clinch 6.....................................................................
Barrel  %.....................................................................
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy......... .........................
....  @50
Sciota Bench..........................................................
... .60*10
Sandusky Tool Co’s, fancy.........................
____  @50
Bench, first quality.............................................
....  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood___
60
Fry, Acme....................................................................60*10*10
Common, polished................................................. 
70* 5
Iron and Tinned .......................................................... 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................................50*10
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 30 
Broken packages  'Ac per pound extra. 
Maydole & Co.’s.......................................................dis 25*10
Kip’s 
..............................................................................dis 
25
Yerkes & Plumb's..................................................dis 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...........................30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40*10 
Stamped Tin Ware....................................new list 70*10
Japanned Tin Ware.................................. 
................20*10
Granite Iron Ware....................................new list 40*10

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

GALVANIZED  IRON

MOLASSES  GATES

KNOBS-New List

MATTOCKS

HAMMERS

15 

GAUGES

PLANES

RIVETS

MILLS

NAILS

10

90

PANS

y

1 7

50

50

30

80

514

75
75

30
50

HOLLOW  WARE

PotS.............................................................................................60*10
Kettles....................................................................................60*10
Spiders....................................................................................60*10
HINGES
Gate, Clark's, 1, 2, 3............................................. dls 60*10
State............................................................per doz. net  3 50
WIRE aOODS
Bright..................................................................................... 
go
Screw Eyes.......................................................................... 
80
Hook’s..................................................................................... 
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes................................................. 
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........................dis 
70
ROPES
Sisal, 54 inch and larger........................................... 
Manilla................................................................ 
 
SQUARES
Steel and Iron........................ 
go
 
Try and Bevels.................................................................
Mitre....................................................................................... 
SHEET IRON•om. smooth,  com.
Nos. 10 to 14...................................................|3 50 
$2 50
Nos. 15 to 17.................................................  i 50 
2 00
Nos. 18 to 21..................................................  4 05 
3 70
Nos. 22 to 2 1.................................................. 3 55 
3 80
Nos. 25 to 26.................................................. 3 65 
2 90
No.  27 ............................................................ 3 75 
3  00
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
List acct. 19,  ’86........................................................dis 
50
SASH WEIGHTS
Solid Eyes..........................................................per ton 30 00
TRAPS
Steel, Game................................................................. 
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s............. 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 70*10* 10
Mouse, choker........................................per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion....................................per doz 
1  25
WIRE
Bright Market........................................................ 
Anneal d Market................................................ 
Coppered Market..................................................70*10
Tinned Market......................................................  62V-
Coppered Spring Steel.................................... 
Barbed Fence, galvanized .......................................  3 05
Barbed Fence, painted....................................................  3 oi
HORSE NAILS
Au Sable........................................................................dis 40*10
Putnam...........................................................................dis 
5
Northwestern.............................................................dis 10*10
.
WRENCHES 
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.................. 
Coe's Genuine........................................................ 
Coe's Patent Agricultural, wrought ............. 
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................... 
80
 
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird Cages........................................................ 
Pumps, Cistern................................................ 
 
Screws, New List............................................. 
85
Casters, Bed and Plate................................50*10*10
Dampers, American...................................... 
40*10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.. 
70* 5
METALS-Zinc
600 pound casks............................................................. 
6
Per pound................................................................. 
614
I4@!4......................................................................................  12-J4
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by private brands vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal..................................................................$6 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................................................  6 00
20x11 IX, Charcoal..............................................................  7 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal................................................................  7 50
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.
10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................................................  5 25
14x20 IC, Charcoal..............................................................  5 25
10x14 IX, CharCoal...............................................................  6 25
14x20 IX, Charcoal..............................................................  6 25
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 
14x20 IC, Charcoa1, Dean..........................................  5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal. Dean..........................................  6 00
20x28 IC, (’harcoal. Dean........................................  10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade......................  4 75
14x30 IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade......................  5 75
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade......................  9 50
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Alla way  Grade...................... 11 56
1 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers. | 
14x56 IX, for No.  9 Boilers, f pei pounu" 
Prompt shipper of
Hay, Grain, Flow
Will exchange for seasoned 16-inch wood.
IflO  D o n t  Place  to  secure a  Business, 
For new catalogue, address
Prompt shipper of
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BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

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TIN—Allaway Grade

ROOFING  PLATES

TIN  Melyn Grade

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

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G e o .  G u n p r u m ,  Ionia

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

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Drugs==Chemicals
One Year— 
Two Years----- 
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C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix
Three Years— 
- 
S. E.  P a r k i l l , Owosso
Four Years — 
- 
F. \Y. Ii.  P e r r y , Detroit-
Five Y'ears—  -  A. C.  S c h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor 
President, C. A.  B u g b e e , Charlevoix 
Secretary, F. \V. it.  Pe r r y . Detroit. 
Treasurer,  G e o .  G u k d r c m , Ionia.
Coming Meetings—Iiouahton. August—.
Lansing, November 5.
President, Ge«. J. Ward, St. Clair.
Vice Presidents. S. P. Whitmarsh, Palmyra: 
G. C.  Ph i l l i p s , Armada. 
Secretary, B. Schrouiiek. Grand ltapids. 
Treasurer,  W m.  D u p o n t, Detroit.
Executive Committee—F. -I. Wurzburg. Grand 
Rapids: F. D. Stevens. Detroit: II.G.Colman. 
Kalamazoo: E. T. Webb, Jackson: I). M. Rus­
sell, Grand Rapids.
President, 
J o h n E.  Pe c k
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Secretary, 
-  B.  S u h r o u d e r
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MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

GRAND  RAPIDS  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

SOCIETY.

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The  Magic  Wand  of  Business.

Written  for the  T r a d e s m a n .

“ There  is  magic  in  the a ir"  that  the 
successful  merchant  breathes  now-a- 
riavs.  That there must he some magic in 
it is evident  from  the  tact  that the great 
unnumbered  majority  of  “ storeKeep- 
ers, 
in  spite  of  their  most  diligent  ef­
forts,  win  nothing  hut  vexation  of spirit 
and  shattered  hopes.  What  is  this  ma­
gic  that  the  exigencies of  the  day  has 
made  so  highly  essential  in  the manage­
ment of  evert-  concern  where  merchan­
dise  is  retailed successfully  toa factious 
and  whimsical  public? 
In  staid  old 
stage-coach  days  the  door  of  success 
was  not  barred  to  mediocrity.  All  that 
was  necessary  was  resolute  will,  honest 
endeavor  and  unceasing  perseverence.
Where there  was  a  will  there  was  a 
way;  and  individual  effort,  hacked  up 
with  ordinary 
individual  capabilities, 
was sure and  certain  of  its  just  reward. 
Hut  the old-time  list of  business  quali­
fications  essential  to  business  success 
have  lost their grip. 
It  will  not  do  to­
day, 
to  teach  the  young  aspirant  for 
mercantile  fame  that  success behind  the 
counter  depends  upon  a 
schoolastic 
knowledge  of  business  transaction,  un­
impeachable  personal habits,  and  a bull­
dog  tenacity  that  knows  no  rest.  At 
this  very  moment  there are  tens of thou­
sands  of  over-worked  hustlers  grinding 
coffee  and  tying  up  an  endless  variety 
of  parcels  who,  like  the  young  man  we 
read  of 
in  scripture,  have  “ kept  all 
these  things  from  their  youth  up,”  
and  yet  they  are  painfully  aware  that 
something  is  yet  lacking  in  their  efforts 
to  make  a  success of  life.

Success  means  business.  A  successful 
mercantile  concern 
is  a  busy  place. 
The  prosperous  merchant  does  not 
spend  his  time  standing 
in  the  door, 
looking  up  and  down  the  street  for  cus­
tomers  that  never come;  neither  do  his 
clerks  kill  time  in  the  back  yard  pitch­
ing  quoits.  The  accumulation  of  inter­
est  and  wages,  and  the  growth  of rentals 
never  ceases,  day  nor  night;  and  the 
counter-currents  of  cash  and  merchan­
dise  must  be kept  in motion during busi­
ness  hours,  or success  is out  of the ques­
tion.  There 
is  no  lounging  or ‘ ‘ pos­
ing’ ’ 
in  the  store  where  prosperity 
reigns,  and  Trilby  cannot  be  found  on 
any  of  its  counters.  How  familiar 
is 
that  medley  of  sounds  which  strikes the 
ear,  as  one enters the  door  of a prosper­
ous  city  trade  emporium. 
the 
sweetest  of  music  to  the  successful  man 
of  business  and  a  matter  of  profound 
wonderment  to  the  casual  customer from 
the back  township. 
The  shuffling  of

is 

It 

laughter; 

busy  feet;  the  low  conversational  hum ; 
the  silvery  ripples  of 
the 
thudding, 
ripping  and  tearing;  the 
clanking  of  weights  and  measures,  and 
the click  of  the  little  metallic  cashboy, 
as  it  starts  from  every  quarter  of  the 
busy  scene  and  goes  spinning  over  the 
wire  to  a common  center,  where  it  de­
posits  its  precious cargo  and  then  flies 
hack  with  the  “ change,”   to  relieve  the 
customer  with  the  milky  boots,  who  im­
agined  that  his  ” V ”   had  been  stuffed 
into  some sort  of  a  bomb and  fired 
into 
the  ethereal  regions.

In  the  very  nature  of  things,  every 
store cannot  be  made  a  busy  place  and, 
therefore,  it  is  absolutely  impossible  for 
every  storekeeper  to  succeed.  If  the  an­
gel  Gabriel  were  to assume the  manage­
it  would not 
ment of  every  retail  store, 
put  them  on  a  paying  basis. 
Indeed, 
were  such  the  case,  all  being  under  one 
management  and  that  the most  perfect, 
and  the  public  patronage being,  in  con- 
. sequence,  more  evenly  distributed 
there  could  be  no  success  in  any  one  of 
them.  The  fact  is,  there  is  too  much 
i capital  invested,  too much  storing  space 
rented,  and  too  much  “ help”   employed 
in  the  distribution  of  commodities  to 
make  success  possible,  except for a  lim­
ited  few.

the  life  of  trade. ”  

There  was  a  time  when  competition 
was 
It  was  healthy 
and  meant  that  the man  who,  by  virtue 
of  his  more  thorough  business  training 
and  his  superior  knowledge  of  legiti­
mate  business  tactics,  could  sell  goods 
cheaper or  of  superior quality than could 
his neighbor,  would  get  the  plum.  But 
competition  of  this  bind  will  not  win 
plums  to-day.  Leaving  the  great  mass 
of 
incompetents  out  of  the  question, 
there  is  still  left an  indefinite  number of 
competitors  who  are  peers  of  each  other 
in  capital,  business  capacity,and  every­
thing  else  that  once  insured  success,  but 
to whom  success  is  absolutely 
impossi­
ble,  simply  because there  are  not  plums 
enough  to  go  around.  Although  these 
old-time  qualifications  are still  essential
and  magnified  a  thousand  diameters, 
beside-  the competition  of  to-day  de­
mands  something  more.  To  succeed  in 
the mercantile business  to-day,one  must 
possess an  inspiration  an 
insight  that 
will  enable  him  to  look  into  the true  in­
wardness  of  human  nature.  He  must 
understand  man 
in  all  his  variety  of 
phases,  and  know  how  to  manipulate 
him  to  his own  advantage.  Dollars  he 
must have,  and  the  winning  of  dollars 
is  impossible  to  the  man  who  cannot 
win  the  owners  of  dollars.  The  man 
who  cannot  aim  higher than  his  longed- 
for customer’s  pocket-book  is  proceed­
ing  on  the  ‘ ‘ ta il-wags-the-dog”   theory. 
He  sets  traps  for  pocket-books while  his 
successful  competitor  catches the owners 
of  pocket-books.

A  knowledge of  human  nature 

is  es­
sential  to  success  in  any  calling  in  life 
depending  for  its  support  upon  public 
patronage-  -especially,  when  that  pat­
ronage  is  measured  by  the direct  result 
of  a  daily,  personal  contact  with  our 
fellow  men.  Courtesy 
is  the  magic 
wand  made  use of by the successful  man 
of  business  in  turning  this  knowledge 
of  human  nature  to  practical  account. 
He  understands  the  foibles  of  human 
nature  and  makes  use of them  as  step­
ping  stones for  his  own  advancement. 
He  is  not  in business to prepare  men  for 
the  millennium,  and  so  he  takes  man 
just  as  he  is  and  makes  the  most of 
him.  He  is  no  hobbyist  and  displays 
no  particular  fondness  for  that  numer­
ous fraternity;  yet  he knows  the  dollar 
of  the hobbyist  is as  valuable to him  as

other person  we  meet,  and  put business 
success  beyond  the  possibility  of  at­
tainment. 
In  these  days  of  superficial 
polish,  such  a  course  would  starve  us 
to  death  or shut  us  up  in  an  asylum 
for  incapables.  The  man  behind  the 
counter  may  indulge  in  perfect  sincer­
ity  of  feeling,  but,  if  he  is  there  to  suc­
ceed,  he  will  never  express  it by an  act, 
a  word,  or  even  a  look.  Were  he  to  for­
get  himself  and  give  perfect  sincerity 
of  expression  to  perfect  sincerity  of 
feeling,  he  would  address  about  half  of 
his  customers  in  terms  not  at  all  com­
plimentary  and  kick  the  other half  into 
the  street  for their  perverse  pig-headed­
ness.

To  displease  one’s  self  and  become 
“ all  things  to  all  men, ’ ’  without  letting 
other  people  know  it,  may  not  be  con­
is  is 
sistent  with  perfect  sincerity,  but 
the  only  kind  of  business 
courtesy 
which,  if  guided  by  a  knowledge  of 
good,  old-fashioned  human  nature,  will 
furnish  the 
inspiration  which  makes 
success  possible.

E.  A. Owen.

Don’t  Sing  the  Old  Song  Too  Long.
Where  is  there a  good  business  man 
who  is  not  always  ready and  anxious  for 
really  good  business  ideas?  There  are 
some  fossils  men  who  delight in telling 
of how  things  used  to  be  done  “ before 
the war, ’ ’  who  find  the  good  old  style 
good  enough  for  them,  and  who  take  no 
stock  in  new-fangled  ideas  and  modern 
notions  which,  they  assert,  are  turning 
things  upside  down.

‘ ‘ Why, ’ ’  they  say, 

people  are  no 
better  satisfied  with  these  fancy  fixings. 
They  are  continually  throwing  them 
aside  for  the  next  new  toy.”

That  is  just  what  we  want.  Play  the 
new  tune  while  it  is  popular  and  then 
change  key ;  but  never  tire  people  with 
the  same  old  song.
The  modern  miller  never  sighs  for 
the  water that  is  past  to  turn  his  mill­
wheel.  He  knows  that there  is a  plenti­
ful  and  fresh  supply  constantly  arriving 
from  the  fountain-head.

One  person  of  every  seventy-three  in 
England  is a  Smith,  and  one  in  every 
seventy-six  is a  Jones.

It  has  no  equal  Signal  Five.

p i C F ’  1 / 1 C   HEADACHE............
\r  C , V l x   ^  
............. POWDERS

Pay the Best Profit.  Order from your jobber
u few cranks, who don’t 
If you want to please 
having blue label cigars.
pationize you, insist on 
your patrons the worth 
But if you want to give 
irs made by clean honest
of their money with eigi 
people, give them
GREEN   S E A L   CIGARS

SOLD ONLY' BY

.The  HcKnowieaged  Leader.
TELFER  SPICE  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  Mich.

it 

any  other,  and  that 
is 
inseparably 
connected  with  the  hobby. 
Iherefore, 
he  tickles  the hobby  under  the  chin  and 
secures  the  dollar.

The great  whimsical  public  is  made 
up  of  individual  units,  no  two  of  which 
are  alike,  except  in  one  thing  each 
is 
utterly  power]ess  to  resist  that  which 
pleases  it.  The  art  of  pleasing  carries 
with  it  the force  of  attraction,  and  is as 
sure  and  certain  in  its operation  as  are 
the  effects  produced  on  matter  by  the 
laws  of  gravitation.  If  any  one  of  many 
“ storekeepers”  
I  might  name  could  be 
spirited  away  from  himself  and  taken 
through  the  workshops,  out 
into  the 
fields  and  into  the  homes of  the  people 
and  hear  the  comments  so  freely  in­
dulged  in,  and  trace out  the  effects  of 
these  comments,  he  would  return  to  the 
flesh  a  wiser  man  than  he  now 
is.  He 
would  no  longer wonder  why  the  goods 
on  his  shelves  become  stale  and  shelf - 
worn  before they  are  disposed  of.  He 
would  then  know  why  Tickle  &  Pleas­
ure can  obtain  better  prices  than  he  can 
and,  at the  same  time,  command  the 
trade  of  the  street.  Tickle  &  Pleasure 
are  in  possession  of  the  magic  wand  of 
business.  They  know  more,  and  are 
adepts  in  the art  of  attracting,  pleasing, 
satisfying  and  holding  him. 
They 
possess  the  requisite  inspiration,  and, 
other things being  equal, 
they  are  on 
the  solid  road  to  mercantile  success. 
They  care  not  for  fame,  glory,  social 
position,  the welfare  of  their country,  or
pardon  me  but  mighty  little  for  the 
welfare  of  their  fellow  beings.  They 
are  in  it  for dollars,  knowing  that  busi­
ness  success  in  these  rushing,  money­
grabbing  times  is  measured  by the num­
ber of  dollars  accumulated,  and  nothing 
else.

One  of  the  first  questions  debated  by 
a  New  York  club,  recently  organized 
for  the  promotion  of  moral ity,  was :  ‘ ‘ Is 
true  courtesy  consistent  with  perfect 
sincerity?”   A  preponderance  of  opin­
ion  was given  in  favor  of  the  negative. 
‘ ‘ spirit  of 
This  is  a  true  reflex  of  the 
the  times. ”  
is  in­
consistent  with  perfect  sincerity,  then 
‘ ‘business’ ’  courtesy,  which  I  have  de­
signated  the  magic  wand  of  business, 
cannot be  expected  to  bear  any  resem­
blance  to  perfect  sincerity.  Perfect  sin­
cerity !  Why,  there  is  no  such  thing. 
Perfect  sincerity  of  look,  speech  and 
action  would  make  an  enemy  of  every

If  “ true”   courtesy 

Merchants
And you will always satisfy them.
Absolute
Tea!

Ghent’s

Headache

W afers
Handled by all Jobbers.  Prepared by

Immediate
Eifectual
Harmless w *.

C.  N.  GHENT  &  CO.,  Pharmacists 

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] Coni inn Mac...........
Acidum
Ill  Copaiba......................
Aceticum.........................$
Cubebse................. ..
65©.
Benzoicum, German
¡7 j Exochthitos...........
Boracie.............................
-/’>  Erigeron....................
Cnrbolicum..................
Gaultheria...............
Citricum.........................
5  Geraniuui.ounce.. 
Hydrochlor..................
|1> I Gossippii,Seni, gal
Nitrocum......................
liedeoma....................
Oxalicum......................
Juuiperu.....................
Phosphorium, dii...
Lavendula...............
Salieylieum...................
Limonis......................
Sulphuricum................
Mentha Piper.........
Tannlcum....................
Mentha Yerid.........
Tartaricum....................
Morrhuie, gal.........
Ammonia
Myrcia. ounce.........
Olive.............................
Aqua, 16 des................
Picis Liquida. 
. 
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Aqua, 20 deg................
Picis Liquida, gal.
Carbonas.........................
Ricina........................
Chloridum....................
Rosmarini..................
Aniline
Rosai, ounce...........
Black......... 
..............
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Succini ......................
Brown.............................
Sabina.........................
Red....................................
Soutal...........................
Yellow. 
.....................
Sassafras....................
Sinapis, ess., oline
Tiglii............. 
...........
____po. 25
Cubesee—
Thyme 
....................
Juniperus.
Thyme,
Xanthoxylum............. 
Theobroma:Potassium
Balsam um
Copaiba............................ 
j Bi-Barb.............................
Peru...........................— 
Bichromate 
...............
Terabin, Canada— 
Bromide..........................
Tolutan............................ 
Carh.................................
Cortex
Chlorate, .po. 17(7/19c
Cyanide...........................
Abies, Canadian___
I Iodide...............................
Cassise.............................
] Potassa. Bitart, i-ure 
Cinchona Klava.........
] Potassa, Bitart, com 
Euonymus atropurp 
j Potass Nitras, opt...
Myriea Cerifera. po.
I Potass Nitras................
Prunus Virgini...........
Prussiate........................
Quillaia, gr'd.............
Sulphate po ................
Sassafras.........................
15
Ulmus.. .po. 15, gr'd 
Radix
Extractum
Acouitvm......................
Aitine...............................
24©  25
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 
Ancbus.-i........................
Glycyrrhiza, po......... 
35
33© 
Arum i o...........................
11©  12
Hsematox, 15 lb box. 
Calamus........................
14
13© 
Haematox, Is................ 
Genti/ma...........po  12
15
14© 
Hsematox, 14«.............. 
Glychrrhiza... j>v. 15 
Iliematox, its........... 
IT
Hi© 
Hydrastis Cauailen .
Ferru
Hydrastis Can., po..
15
Carbonate Preeip... 
Hellebore,Alba. po..
3 50
Citrate and Quinia.. 
Inula, po........................
Citrate Soluble........... 
80
Ipecac, po......................
50
Eerrocyanidum Sol. 
Iris plox___po35©38
15
Solut. Chloride......... 
Jalapa. pr...................... 
2
Sulphate, com'l......... 
Maranta, 'is................
.
Sulphate, com'l. by 
Podophyllum, po. ..
50
bbl, per cwt.............. 
Rhei .................................
Sulphate, pure......... 
7
Rhei, cut... 
................
Rhei. pv...........................
Flora
Spigelia.........................
Arnica 
12© 
14
........................... 
Sanguinaria.. po. 25
18© 
25
Anthemis....................... 
Serpentaria..................
18©  25
Matricaria..................... 
Senega .............................
Folia
Similax.officinalis II
Smilax. M................
Barosma........................... 
14©  30
S- ill*...................po.35
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
Symploearpus, Fieti- 
18(7«
nevelly...................... 
dtls. pO........................
30
25©
Cassia Acutifol.Aix. 
Valeriana. Eng.po 30 
Salvia officinalis, (¿s
Valeriana, German.
and ‘4s......................... 
42(7«
Zingiber a......................
8(7«
Ura Ursi........................... 
Zingiber j......................
Qummi
Semen
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Acacia, 1st picked.. 
zn  Anisum............po. 20
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Acacia, 2d picked.. 
30 I Apium cgraveleonsi
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Acacia, 3d picked . 
20 I Bird Is.............................
<3
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
80 j Carili 
..................po. 18
Acacia, po...................... 
60©
18  Cardamon.....................
11(7/
Aloe. Barb. po.20ff>28 
12  Conundrum..................
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Aloe, Cape___po. 15 
5-i  Cannabis Saliva
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Aloe, So-otri. po. 60 
60 | Cydoriilini......................
Ammoniac.................... 
55©
Chenopodinm ...........
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Assafcetida___po. •' 5 
30©
Dipterix iidorate.
Benzoinum.................. 
50©;  55
Foenieulum..................
13
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Catechu, Is.................... 
Keen ugieek. po...........
@ 
14
Catechu, '¿s.................. 
Lini....................................
Catechu, '4s.................. 
(rr. 
16
Lini, grd___bbl. 3(4
Camphor* 
58©  60
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Lobelia...........................
©  10
Euphorbium  po. 35 
Pharlaris Canarian.
Galbanum............. 
© 1 c0
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Rapa.................................
65©  70
Gamboge po................ 
Sinapis Alim...............
Guaiacum.........po. .'{5 
©  30
Sinapis Nigra.............
@ 2 00
Kino.............. po. $2.00 
© 
80
Mastic............................. 
Spirltus 
©  40
Myrrh..................po 45 
2 00(7/ 2 50 
Frumenti. W. i). Co.
Opii . po. $3.00®3 20 1 85(7/ 1 90
2 00© 2 25 
Frumenti. I). F. R..
4 © 40©
Shellac.
1 25©  I 50 
Frumenti......................
Shellac, bleached
1 65© 2 00
J uni peris ( 'o. O. T..
Tragacanth ..................
Joniperis Co............... I la© 3 50
Saaenarum N. E___ 1 90© 2 10
Spt. Vini Galli........... 1 75©. 6 50
Absinthium..oz. |>kg 
Vini Oporto.................. 1 2567 2 00
Eupatorimn oz. pkg
1 25(7/ 2
Vini Alba....................
Lobelia...........oz. pkg
Majorum___oz. pkg
Sponges 
2023
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Florida sheeps’ wool 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
2 50©
carri ag
39
Rue....................oz. pkg
Nassau sheeps wool
22
TanaeetumV oz. pkg
carriage......................
25
Thymus, V. oz. pkg
Velvet extra sheeps’
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wool, carriage.........
Extra yellow sheeps’
55(fi
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Calcined. Pat................
©.  85
woof, carriage___
2U® 22
Carbonate, Pat...........
Grass sheeps’ wool,
20© 25
Carbonate, K. »V M
carriage......................
35® 30
Carbonate, Jennings
©  75
Hard, for slate use..
Oleum
Yellow  Ree«, 
for 
slate use....................
Absinthium.................. :1 50(it3 00
Amygdalae. Dtilc — 3(1© 50
Amygdalæ, Amane
Acacia........................ •
Anis!...............................
Auranti Cortes...........
Au muti Cortex —
Zingiber...........................
3 03©
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Bergami i.......................
Ipecac...........................
70©
75
Cajiputi
Ferri lod........................
Caryophylli.................. 
75©  80
Rhei Arom....................
Cedar................................ 
35©  65
Smilax Officinalis...
Chenopadii.................... 
© 1 60
Senega.............................
Cinnamomi................... 1 70© 1 80
Scill*.,.............................

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Scill* Co........................
Tolutan...........................
Prunus virg..................
Tinctures 
Aconituni Napellis R 
A conit. inn Napellis F
A iocs.................................
Aloes and Myrrh....
Arnica.............................
Assafcetida..................
Atrope Belladonna.
Auranti C rtex.........
Benzoin...........................
Benzoin Co....................
Barosma........................
Oantharides..................
Capsicum......................
Cardamon.....................
Cardamon Co.............
Castor...............................
Catechu...........................
Cinchona........................
Ciip-hona Co................
Columba........................
Oubeba.............................
Cassia Acutifol.........
Cassia Acutifol Co .
Digitalis .........................
Ergot.................................
Ferri Chloridum___
Gentian...........................
Gentian Co....................
Guiaca...........................
Guiac.ii aiiimmi...........
llyoscyamus................
Iodine...............................
Ioiline, colorless....
Kino...................................
Lobelia............................
Myrrh................................
Nux Vomica................
Opii....................................
(1 ii, camphorated..
Opii, deodorized___
(¿uussia...........................
Riiatanv..........................
Rhei...................................
Sanguinaria................
Serpentaria..................
Stramonium................
Tolutan............................
Valerian.........................
Veratrum Veride ... 
Zingiber..........................
liscellaneou 
.Ether. Spts. Nit. 3 F 
.Ether. Spts. Nit.4 F
Alumon...........................
Alumen, gro’d . po. 7
Annatto........................
Antimoni, po.............
Antimoni et PotassT
Antipyrin....................
Antifebrin 
................
Argenti Nitras, oz
Arsenicum.....................
Balm Gilead Bud
Bismuth S. N.............1
Calcium Chlor., Is.. 
Calcium chlor., *4s. 
Calcium Chlor., Hs- 
Oantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici Fruí tus, af. 
Capsici Fruetus, po. 
Capsici FructusB,po 
Caryophyllus..po. 15
Carmine, No. 46.........
Cera Alba, S. A F
Cera Flava....................
Coccus.............................
Cassia Fruetus...........
Centrarla........................
I Cetaceum........................
Chloroform...................
chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst—
Chondrus.......................
j Cinchonidlne,P.& W 
Cinchonidine, Germ
Cocaine...........................  ■
| Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum.....................
Creta...................bbl. 75
Greta, prep....................
Creta, preeip...............
Creta. Rubra...............
Crocus.............................
Cudbear.........................
Cupri Sulph..................
Dextrine..........................
Ether Sulph..................
Emery, all numbers
I Emery, po......................
I Ergota...............po. 40
Flake White...............
Galla..................................
Gambier...........................
Gelatin, Cooper.. 
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Gelatin, French.........
Glassware, Hint,box
Less than box___
Glue, brown...............
Glue, white ................
Glycerina......................
I Grana Paradisi ___
Htimulus........................
j llydraag Chlor Mite 
Ilydraag Chlor Cor 
I llydraag Ox Rub’m. 
llydraag Ammoniati 
UydraagTJ n guen turn
Hydrargyrum.............
lehthvobolla, Am..
Indigo...............................
Iodine, Resubi...........
Iodoform........................
Lupulin...........................
l.ycopodium................
Macis..................................
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarg lod...................
LiquorPotassArsinit 
Magnesia, Sulph — 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Manpia, S, F................

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Morphia, S.P.& W
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Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.&
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Nux Vomica...po.20
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Os Sepia.........................
24® 25
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50 Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
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D. Co.............................
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Picis Liq'. X.N.Ugal.
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50 Picis Liq., quarts___
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85  ! Spts. Cologne...............
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55
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Pil  H y d r arg. . .po. 80
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50 Piper Nigra...po. 22
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50 Piper Alba___po. 35
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Piix Burgitn................
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10© 12 I Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal
50 P Iumbi Acet...............
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Pyrethrum, pv...........
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10 f Sulphur, Subl.............
50 Quassi*...........................
75 Quinia, S. P. Sc Vi.. 344©394 | Sulphur, Roll...........
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27© 37 1 Tamarinds....................
75 Quinia, s. German..
28© 30
00 Quinia. N.Y.................. 32 ‘4©37'4 j Terebenth Venice...
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50 Rubia Tinctorum...
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Red Venetian.............
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
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Och/e, yellow Her.. 
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Vermilion,  Prime
13©  15
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70©  75
Vermilion, English
2014©  27
Green, Paris..............
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Lead, Red....................
Lead, white................
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting, gilders'.. 
White, Paris Amer 
Whiting, Paris Eng
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No. 1 Tnrp Coach... 1 10© 1 !0
Extra Turp.................. 1 60© 1 70
Coach Body.................. 3 75© 3 00
No. 1 Turp Film___ 1 00© 1 10
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possible to give quotations suitable  for all  conditions of purchase,  and  those below are given as representing av- 
e*age 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.

22

Acme.

AXLE 

Arctic.

Telfer’s.

Baker's.

Chicory.

Red Star.

Green.
Rio.

1  10 
2 00 
9 00

Our Leader.

Maracaibo.

CHOCOLATE.

COFFEE.

BATH  BRICK.

2 dozen in case.

CLOTHES  PINS.

CLOTHES LINES.

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

Van  Anrooy’s Pure.

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

BAKING POWDER.

5
...23
...37
.. . 45
.  95 
. 1 15 
.1 35 
. 1 55 
.1 95 
.  80 
.  95

Aurora............. GREASE.doz. gross 
Bulk.............................................
6  00
Red
..................*50
Castor Oil....
7 00
Diamond...........................50
5 50
Frazer's.............................75
9  00
Mica......................................60
s  00 German Sweet......................
Paragon.............................55
6  00 Premium....................................
Breakfast cocoa..................
Cotton. 40 ft. per doz.........
»4 lb cans3 doz.........................
Cotton. 50 ft. per doz.........
i, lb cans :1 doz........................
Cotton, 00 ft, per doz.........
1 
lb cans  1 doz.........................
< otton, 70 ft.^er doz.........
Bulk...................................................
Cotton. 80 ft, per doz.........
.lute, Oil ft, per doz.............
lb cans 6 doz cafe...........
.lute, 72 ft, per doz...............
Is lb cans 4 doz cate 
.........
lb cans - doz cat e...........
1 
5 
lb case 1 doz cat e...........
5 gross boxes.............................
J4 lb cans......................................
% lb cans....................................
lb cans....................................
1 
Fair.................................................
Good...............................................
Prime............................................
M lb cans 6 doz case............
........................................
Golden 
% lb cans 4 d  >/. case...........
....................................
Peaberry 
lb cans 2 doz case.............
1 
Santos.
Fair .....................................................
.19
45
cans doz........................
1 lb
......................
N5 Good 
.30
. li*cans doz.........................
lbcans doz.......................... 1 50 Prime...................................................
.22
Pea berry 
..........................................
.23
(4 lb
. .21
75 Fair ................................................. 
4 lbcans..................................
.................................................
lbcans..................................... 1 50 Good 
................................................24
Fancy- 
PrimeMilita
English...............................
Javi
BLUING.
Interi
Privale Growth................................27
Arctic 4 oz ovals..........
MandehPiig.........................................->
Arctic 8 oz ovals.........
Arctic pints round..
Imitation........................................  25
Arctic No. 2 sifting box.... 2 75
Arctic No. 3 s  ftiug box ... 4 00
Arctic No. 5 sifting box....  H  00
Roasted.
4 50
Arctic  1  0:z ball........................
To  ascertain cost of roasted 
Mexican 1¡quid ' OZ...........
. 3 60
coffee, add '¿c per lb. for roast­
Mex can 1¡quid  8 OZ............
.  6  .'0
ing and 15 i>er cent, for shrink
age
Package.
So.No. 4 Carpet................................... I 60
Parlor (rein....................................2 5#
Common Whisk.........................  Kfi
Fancy Whisk................................. I 0(1
Warehouse.......................................2 5#
Lion Coffee
JO Ounces  Nc- ^
Cases  tCOtbs  I  21  8=10 
Hotel 40 lb boxes..............................in
Fine Assortment of Summer 
Star 40 lb boxes................................. 9
Paraffine................................................lo
Games now m the natkaaes.
Cabinets /SO/bs.  S a m e P rice 
As the isick of 1895 will not 
ITcLaughlin's XXXX...........21 sn
begin to arrive in any quantity 
Extract.
until  about  Sept. 1* we Lave 
concluded to defer the publica- 
Valley City 
gross......... 
t.ou of full list under this head 
Felix H gross......................... I  15
until our issue of Sept. 4.
Hummer- foil  14 gross... 
85
Hummel's tin  >4 gross..  1  43
Half pint 2j bottles................2 75
Pint 25 bottles............................. 4 50
Quart 1 doz. bottles..............  3 50
100 packages in case......... 
9  00
11 ilf pint per doz..................... 1 35
00 packages in case......... 
5 65
Pint £> bo'' les............................. 
i 50
Quart per d"Z............................. 3 75
20 :b bags..................................
Less quantity......................... 
Pound packages.................. 
Major's, per gross.
1 oz size____is  00
Strictly pure............................. 
Liq. Glue,I- z 9 60
Telfer's Absolute 
30
.............. 
Grocers'..........................................15@25
4 doz. in ease.

KOFFfl-AID

Leather  Cement, 
. .12  00

CONDENSED  MILK.

irpel.
irpet.

SO e  E\tra  far Cabinets.

C A N N E D   G O O D S.

CREArt  TARTAR.

Blue Label Brand.

.........................................28

COCOA SH ELLS.

Triumph  Brand.

C E M E N T .

CANDLES.

CATSUP.

Mocha.

A rab ian  

CO 

X«

■ /

30

75

3
4

Rubber  Cement.

CHEESE.

Amboy...........
Acme...............
Jersey..............
Lenawee.. .. 
Riverside.. 
Gold Medal.
Brick.................................
Edam...............................
Leiden..............................
Limburger...................
Pineapple........................
Roquefort......................
Sap Sago.........................

Schweitzer, imported 
Schweitzer,domestic

© 9 %
© 9*5
© 9's
©© 9*49l/j
6  © 7© 11
@1 00© 20© 15© 24© 35© 18© 24© 14

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

3

3*4

2%

6 00

06%

Cod.

LYE.

© 6 

Grits.

JE L L Y .

INDIGO.

Halibut. 

LICORICE.

“ Superior.”

“ Tradesman.”

MINCE  MEAT.

FISH.

Choke  Bore  Dupont s.

COUPON  BOOKS.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle - Dupont’s.

per  100 ...................  4  00
per  100...................   5  00
6  00

Peerless evaporated cream.!

Sage...............................................
15
Hops.............................................
Kegs.............................................
. 3 25
Half Kegs..................................
. .1 90
1  10
1 lb cans...........................
..  30
54 lb cans..................................
..  18
Kegs.............................................
. 4 25
Half Kegs.........................
. 2 40
Quarter Kegs.........................
.1 35
1 lb cans....................................
.  34
Eagle  Duck  Duponts.
Kegs...............................................
11  00
Half Kegs...........................
Quarter kegs.........................
.3 00
1 lb cans.............................
60
Madras, 5 lb boxes____
55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes.
50
151b pails..................................
17 lb pails......................
..  421
30 lb pails.........................
70 I
Condensed.  2 doz............
.. 120
Condensed, 4 doz..................
Pure..........................................
. .  301
Calabria.............................
Sicily.................................
Ì4
.. 
Root...............................
..  HI

Raisins.
Ondura 29 lb boxes..........  @>14
Sultana 201b boxes.......... 
Valencia 30 lb boxes...
Farina.
Bulk............................................... 
Walsb-l)cRoo Co.'s.............2 00
Hominy.
Barrels ........................................ 3 25
Flake, 50 lb. drums............1 50
Lima Beans.
Dried............................................. 
6li
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic. 10 Ib. box...........  60
Imported, 25 lb. box..........2 50
Pearl Barley.
Empire........................................ 
Chester........................................ 
2?4
Peas.
Green, bn..................................1  15
Split, per lb................................ 
Rolled Oats.
Schumacher, bbl.................4 20
$  1 books, per  100....................  2  00
Schumacher, H bbl............2 25
9 2 books, per  100.................... 2 50
Monarch, bbl..........................3 60
$ 3 books, per 100.................... 3 00
Monarch,  *4 bbl...................1 90
¥ 5 books, per 100 .................... 3 00
Quaker, cases..........................3 20
$10 books, per 100 .................... 4 00
Oven Baked............................3 25
¥20 boobs, per 100.................... 5 00
Lakeside ....................................2 25
Sago.
German........................................ 
4
$ 1 boobs, per  100 .................... 2 50
East India.................................. 
314
$  2 boob 
per 100 .................... 3 00
Wheat.
¥ 3 books 
per 100 .................... 3 50
Cracked, bulk........................... 
3
$  5 books 
24 2 lb packages......................2 40
$10 books. 
$30 books. per  100.
Georges cured...............
(Si 5 © 51* 
Georges genuine.........
“Universal.
Georges selected.........
¥  1 books, per  100....
3 003 504 005 (10
Strips or bricks...........
.6  © 9
¥  2 (>ooks, per  100....
¥ 3 books.  1 er too___
Smoked.............................
It  @12
¥ 5 books, per 100___
¥10 books, per  100....
Herring.
Mince meat, 3 doz in case. .2 75
$20 books, per  100...........................  7 00
Holland white hoops keg. 
80 
Pie Prep. 3 doz in case...........2 75
Above priees on coupon books 
Holland white hoops bbl.
are subject to  the following 
Norwegian..................................
quantity discounts:
Columbia Match Co.'s brands
Round 100 lbs.............................  2 55
200 books or over... 5 per cent 
Columbia Parlor.........................1 25
Round 40 lbs...........................  1 30
500 books or over... 10 per cent 
XXX Sulphur............................... 1 00
Sealed............................................... 13 00
,‘JOjiercent 
1000 books or over. 
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
ftackerel.
No. 9 sulphur.................................1 65
Coupon Pass Books,
No. 1 100 lbs................................. 12 00
Anchor Parlor..............................1 70
Can be made to represent any 
No. 1  40 lbs..................................  5 10
No. 2 Home.....................................l  10
denomination from $10down.
No. 1  10 lbs...............................  1 35
Export Parlor..............................4 00
20 books .................................... l  00
No. 2 100 lbs..................................  9 25
50 books.............................................  2 00
No. 2 40 lbs..................................  4 00
riOLASSES.
100 books.............................................  3 00
No. 2  10 lbs.............................  108
Blackstrap.
250 bools............................................. b 25
Family 90 lbs.............................
Sugar house................................io@ 12
500 books..............................................10 00
Family 10 lbs.............................
Cuba Baking.
1000 books..............................................17 50
Sardines.
Ordinary.......................................12@I4
Credit Checks.
Russian kegs............................. 
55
Porto Rico.
500, any one denom'n......... 3 00
T rout.
Prime............................................. 
1000, any one denom'n......... 5 00
No. 1100 lbs..................................  4 25
Fancy ........................................... 
30
t000, any one denom'n.........  8 00
No. 1 40 lbs..................................  1 95
Steel punch................................. 
 
10 lbs................ 
No. 1 
 
56
New Orleans.
No. 1 
8 lbs.............................. 
48
Fair................................................. 
is
Good............................................... 
Whitefish.
Extra good...........................
Fam 
No. 1 No. 2
Choice....................................
2 50 
6  00
.... 7  00
100 lbs....
DOriESTIC.
Fancy 
....................................
2130
.... 3 10
1 30 40 35
2 70
40 lbs...
Apples.
Half-barrels 3c extra.
75
101 s... •.... 
85
Sundried..................................
8 ills___.... 
71
63
OIL CANS.
Evaporated 50 lb tmxes 
Crystal valve, per doz.
4 00
California Goods.Bxs Bgs
Crystal valve, per gross.. .36 00 
Apricots...................................8>i  854
PICKLES, 
Oval bottle, with corkscrew. 
Blackberries..........................
fledium.
for 
Best in the  world 
the 
Nectarines.............................
money.
Barrels, 1,200 count................. 4 
Peaches................................... 8}
8«
Half bbls, 600 count..................  2 
Pears.........................................6J,
Small.
Pitted Cherries....................
Prunnelles...............................
Barrels. 2,400 connt..
5 25 
Lemon.doz
Raspberries..........................
Half bbls, 1,200 count 
3 151 70 65 
Raisins.
PIPES.
4 oz.
50
Clay, No. 216..................
Loose Muscatels.
Clay, T. I). full count
2 Crown....................................314
Cob, No. 3.........................
3 Crown....................................4
POTASH.
4 Crown.................................... 5
Vanilla.doz
2 oz............ 1  20
48 cans in case.
FOREIGN.
4 oz............2 40
Babbitt's...........................................4 00
Currants.
Penna Salt Co.’s...................... 3 00
Patras bbls.............................  @24»
Vostizzas50 lb cases.... 
02 %
RICE.
Schuit’s Cleaned.
Domestic.
25 lb boxes..
Carolina head.............................  554
2oz.............1 50
50 lb boxes.. 
____
@5
Carolina No. 1...........................  5
4 oz............3 00
1 lb packages......................  @ 6
Carolina No. 2...........................  414
Broken.............................................  3^4
Citron Leghorn 25 lb bx 
Imported.
Lemon Leghorn 25 lb bx 
Japan, No. 1................................  4%
Orange Leghorn 25 lb bx
2 oz.............1 75
Japan. No. 2................................  4J4
4 oz............3 50
Java, No. 1....................................  5%
25 lb boxes.
Java, No. 2....................................  4u
California 100-120................
Patna...............................................  4
Lemon Vanilla 
California 90-100................
SAL SODA.
1 20
California 80-90..................
2 00
Granulated, bbls.................... 1  10
California 70-80.................
.3 00
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 1 50
California 60-70.................
¡2 00
Lump, bbls................................. 
j
ii cent less in bags
2 50
Lump, 1451b kegs.................... 1  10

2 oz regular panel..  75 
4 oz regular panel.. 1 50 
6 oz regular panel. .2  00 
No.  3 taper............1 35 
No.  4 7aper...............1 50 

DRIED  FRUITS!

nATCHES.

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

XX  Grade 
Lemon.

XX  Grade 
Vanilla.

Regular
Grade

Jennings.

Souders’ .

Regular 

Prunes.

1  20

6jq

22

30

75

 

6
8

10

. . .  
... 

SEED S.

Pure Cane.

Poppy  ..........  

SYRUPS
Corn.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Anise...............................
...  13
Canary, Smyrna.........
6 
Caraway
Cardamon, Malabar...........  HO
Hemp, Russian. 
Mixed Bird.
Mustard, white....................... 
Rape............................................... 
4
Cuttle Bone................................  20
Barrels........................................... 
ig
Half bbls....................................  ao
Fair 
...............................................  16
Good...............................................  30
Choice..........................................  35
Allspice ..................................
9149»/.
Cassia, China in mats... 
Cassia, Batavia in bund 
Cassia, Saigon in rolls..
Cloves, Amhoyna.............
Cloves. Zanzibar................
Mace, Batavia....................
Nutmegs, faney..................
Nutmegs, No.  1..................
.60
Nutmegs. No. 2..................
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .20
Allspice ............................................15
I Cassia, Saigon..............................35
I Cloves, Amboyna....................... 22
Cloves, Zanzibar..........................18
Ginger, African..........................16
Ginger, Cochin............................20
Ginger, Jamaica.........................22
Mace, Batavia..............................65
Mustard, Eng. and Trie-te. .22
Mustard. Trieste.........................25
Nutmegs, No. 2............................75
Pepper, Singapore, black .16 
Pepper, Singapore, white..24
Pepper, Cayenne.......................  20
Sage.......................................................20
“Absolute” in Packages.
Allspice ..................................84 l'sl
Cinnamon.................................84  1  55
Cloves..........................................84 1 55
Ginger, Jamaica.................84  1 55
Ginger, African..................81  1  55
Mustard......................................gf  1  55
Pepper........................................81 1 55
Sage..............................................gi
STARCH. 

Pepper,  shot..........................p;

Cassia,  B a ta v ia ...........................¡8

Pure  Ground in Bulk.

Kingsford's  Corn.

20 1-lb packages........................  614
40 1  lb packages........................  6*4

Kingsford’s  Silver  Gloss.

401-lb packages........................  6%
6-lb  bo xe s................................  7j^

Common  Corn.

20-lb  boxes...................................  5j£
40-lb  boxes...................................   514

Common Gloss.

SODA.

1-lb  packages............................  5
3-lb  packages............................5
6-lb  packages............................  55^
40 and 50 lb boxes....................  3 %
Barrels  ........................................  39^

Diamond  Crystal.

Boxes.............................................. 554
Kegs, English............................  4%

25
65
Barrels,  115 214  lb bags 
lb bags 

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes...
Barrels, 320 lbs..............
Barrels,  60 5 
Barrels,  30 10  lb bags
Butter, 56 lb  bags......................   65
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags................3 50
Butter, 280 lb  bbls....................2 50
Butter, 224 lb  bbls....................2 25

1  002 50 
4 003 75 
3 50

SA LT .

Common Grades.

Warsaw.

100 31b sacks................................2 00
60 5-lb sacks.................................t 85
2811-lb sacks................ 
.........1  70

56-lb dairy in drill bags........  30
28-lb dairy  in drill  bags........  15

56 lb dairy in linen  sacks 
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 

Ashton.
Higgins.

6060

Solar  Rock.
Common Fine.

56-lb  sacks..................................  22
Saginaw ......................................  75
Manistee 
....................................  75
SNUFF.

Scotch,  In bladders..................   37
Maccaboy,  in jars......................   35
French  Rappee, in  jars........  43

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

SALERATUS. 

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s......................................
Deiand’s 
....................................
Dwight's......................................
Taylor’s.........................................
Edw. W. Rohe’s brands.
Signal Five.................................
R. R. R............................................
Mr. Thomas...............................
G. J. Johnson’s brand

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

.3 3C 
.3 15 
.3 30 
35 00 
35 00 
35 0(J

.3  00

SOAP.

S. C. W...............................................35 00
B. J. Reynolds’ brand.
Hornet’s Nest...............................35 00
Private brands.
Quintette........................................35 00
New Brick.....................................35 00
Laundry.
Allen B. Wrisley’s brands.
Old Country HO l-lb................... 3 20
Good Cheer 60 l-lb......................3 90
White. Borax 100 % lb...............3 65
Proctor A Gamble.
Concord...............................................3 15
Ivory, 10 oz........................................6 75
Ivory,  6oz........................................4 00
Lenox................................................ 3 65
Mottled German...........................3 15
Town Talk........................................3 25
Dingman brands.
Single box........................................3 95
5 box lots, delivered...............3 85
10 box lots, delivered...............3 75
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.'s brands. 
American Family, wrp’d. 
.3 33
American Family, plain_____3 37
N. K. Fairbank A Co.’s brands
Santa Claus......................................3 90
Brown, 00 bars...............................3 10
Brown, 80 bars...............................3 10
Lautz Bros. A Co.’s brands.
Acme...................................................3 65
Cotton oil........................................o 00
Marseilles..........................................4 00
Master.................................................4 00
Thompson A Chute brands.

Silver 
Mono.
Savon Improved..................
Sunflower ................................
Golden ......................................
Economical 
...........................
Henry Passo!t's brand.

Scouring.

Atlas, 5 box lots, del..............3 60
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz..........2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz................2 40
Go wans & Sons’ Brands.
Crow....................................................3 30
German Family......................... 2 15
American Grocer 100s......... 3 60
American Grocer 60s........... 3 05
N. G.................................................... 3 30
Mystic White............................. 3 ho
Lotus ............................................... 4 0
Oak Leaf...........................................3 55
Old Style...........................................2 55
Happy Day.................................... 3 10
STOVE POLISH.
Xickeline 
'¿gross.................. 1 00
Nickeline % gross.....................2 00
Niekeline 1 gross.......................4 00
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 tohisshipping point, 
including 20 pounds  for the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................................5 18
Cut Loaf..................................................5 18
Cubes........................................................4 81
Powdered 
.......................................4 87
XXXX Powdered..............................5 06
Granulated in bbls............................4 50
Granulated in bags..........................4 50
Fine Granulated................................4 50
Extra Fine Granulated.........4 62
Mould A.................................................4 81
Diamond Con fee. A................4 50
Confec. Standard A..........................4 37

SUGAR.

No.

Oyster.

SW EET  UOODS  * Boxes.

No.NoNo.No.No.No.No.No.

CRACKERS.

. .4 35 
. .4 35 
. .4 25 
. .4 35 
. .4 18 
. .4 13 
. .4 06 
. .4 00 
. .3 91 
No. 10..................
..3 87 
No. 11.............................
. .3 81 
No. 12...............................
. 3 75 
No. 13.............................
. 3 63 
No. 14..........................................
. 3 44
TABLE SAUSES.
Lea & Perrin's, large.........4 75
.. .3 75
Lea A Perrin’s, small. 
Halford, large......... 
............3 75
Halford small........................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large.........4 55
Salad Dressing, Small.........3 65
WASHING POWDER.
100 packages in case...............3 35
(cC& e M a
WICKING.
O r-------—
No. 0, per gross.............................  25
N«. 1, pe r gross.............................  30
No. 2, per gross.............................  40
No. 3, per gross.............................  75
The N. Y. Biscuit Co. ciuot 
as follows: Butter.
Seymour XXX...........................  5
Seymour XXX, 3 lb. carton  (j
Family XXX...............................  5
Family XXX. 3 lb carton..  0
Salted XXX.................................  5
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton 
.  6
Soda.
Soda XXX 
..................................  5
Soda XXX. 3 lb carton___ 
ti
Soda. City....................................  7
Crystal Wafer........................... 1C
Long Island Wafers............. 11
L. I. Wafers, I lb carton .. 13
Square Oyster, XXX.............  5
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1 lb carton.  6 
Farina Oyster, XXX.............  5
Animals........................................ 10
Bent's Col<l Water.................. 13
Belle Rose................ 
8
Cocoanut Taffy........................  8
Coffee Cakes...............................  8
Frosted Honey........................... 11
Graham Crackers....................  8
Ginger Snaps. XXX round.  6 
Ginger Snaps, XXX city...  6 
Gin. Sups,XXX home made 
Gin.Snps,XXX scalloped..  6 
Ginger Vanilla.........................  8
Jumbles, Honey.................... 11
Molasses Cakes....................
..  8 
Marshmallow 
......................
. . 15
Marshinallow Creams...
. . 16
Pretzels, hand made ...
..  8 Vo
Pretzelcltes. Little German  6%
Sugar Cake...............................  8
Sultanas...................................
.. 12
Sears' Lunch...........................
Vanilla Square....................
8
Vanilla Wafers.................... 14
The Putnam Candy Co.quotes
as follows:
Stick  Candv.bbls. pails
Standard........................ 
6 Û 7
Standard  H.  H........ 
6 @ 7
6 @ 7
Standard Twist......... 
7 @ 8eases
Cut Loaf........................ 
Extra H. H ..................
© 8%
Boston Cream...........
@ 8%
Mixed Candy.bbls. pails
5 (53, 5 Vi
Competition................ 
Standard........................
iGx 6 Vi
Leader 
........................... 
6 @  7
64j@ 7%
Royal............................... 
Conserves...................... 
64i(a 7‘ j
j@ 7%
7V'.(ài 80j
Kindergarten.. 
.... 
Freuch Cream...........
© 9
@12%
Valley Cream.............
Pails
Lozenges plain.........
(ài 8 %
Lozenges, printed..
611 9%
Choc. Drops...............  11 @12
Choc. Monumentals
@12
Gum Drops..................
@ 5
@ 74*
Moss Drops..................
Soar Drops....................
(fb 8
Imperials......................
@  9
Fancy  -In  5  lb.  Boxes.Per Box
L man Drops............. 
@50
Sour Drops.................. 
@50
@60
Peppermint Drops . 
Chocolate Drops___ 
@65
11. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum Drops..................  35  @50
Licorice Drops...........100  @
A. B. Licorice Drops 
@75
Lozenges, plain___ 
@60
Lo-enges, printed.. 
@65
Imperials....................... 
@60
Mottoes........................... 
@70

CANDIES,

Fancy-In Bulk.

| 

Cream Bar....................
@?5 @50 
Molasses Bar.............
Hand Made Creams.
80  @90 
Plain Creams.............
60  @80 @90 @60 
Decorated Creams..
String Rock..................
Burnt Almonds.........1
25  @90 @60
Wintergreen Berries 
Caramels. 
No. 1 wrapped, 2 lb.
boxes ..................
@34@51@28
No.  1 wrapped, 3 lb.
boxes ...........................
No. 2 wrap, ed, 2 lb. 
boxes...........................
F R U IT S .
Medt Sweets,  150s,
@
176s, 200s....................
@
Rodi and Sorrentos
160 Imperials.........
@
200s....................................4 00
Lemons.
Extra  Choice  360
New Verdillis___
@
Extra  Choice  300
New Verdillis___
@
Fancy 300 New Ver-
dillis ..................
@
Fancy 360 No vend er
cut 
...........
Extra Fancy 360 ___ 6 00 @
Extra Fancy’300 ___7 00  (?/•,
Bananas.
A definite price 
it hard to
name, as it varies according to
size of bunch and (inality of
fruit.
Small bunches...........100  @t 25
Medium bunches... i25  @1 50
Large bunches...........l 75
Foreign Dried Fruits.
Fig-, Fancy Layers
10 to 16 lbs...............
@15
Figs, Choice Layers
101b......................
@13
Figs,  Naturals 
in
bags...........
(¡JO,  6Vi>
Dates, Fards in  10 lb
boxes...........................
@ 7
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases 
......................
fm 5
Dates, Persians, G.
M s 60 1 b cases.........
© 4%
Dates,  Sairs  60 lb
cases ...........................
@ 3%
N U T S.
Almonds. Tarragona.
©15
Almonds, Ivaca.............
Almonds.  California
soft shelled..................
Brazils new......................
@  8
......................
Filberts 
Walnuts, Grenob e...
Walnuts, French.........
Walnuts, Calif No. l.
W alnuis, soft shelled
Calif.................................
@13
Table Nuts, fancy___
Table Nuts, choice...
% 9 
Pecans, Texas H. P..
8  @12 
Chestnuts .........................
@ 
Hickorv Nuts per bu.
Mich.................................
@
Oocoanuts. full sacks
@3 65
Butternuts per bu...
@
Black Walnuts per bt
P
Peanuts.
Fancy, H.  P.,  Game
Cocks.............................
@
Fancy, H.  P.,  Game
Itoasted........................
@ 74«
Fancy, H. P., Associa
tion.................................
@ 5 Va
Fancy, H. P.. Associa
tion Roasted.............
@. 7%
Choice, li. P„ Extras
@ 4%
I Choice, II. P., Extras
Roasted ......................
@  6%
Fish  and O jste rs
Fresh Fish.
Whitefish......................
%  9
Trout...............................
@ 
Black Bass....................
@  12
13@.  15
Halibut...........................
Ciscoesor Herring..
@ 
Bluefish...........................
@  12%
Live Lobster, per lb
@  18
Boiled Lobster...........
@  20
Cod....................................
@  12
Haddock........................
No. 1 Pickerel...........
9
Pike....................................
®  7
Smoked White...........
Red Snappers.............
!8§  15
Col River Salmon..
Mackerel 
....................
18©  25
Shrimps, per gal ... 1OUffd 25
Shell Goods
Oysters, per 100........... 1 25@1 50
(’lams.  per  100...........
75@1 00
Oysters—in Cans.
F. J. Dettenthaler'sBrands.
Fairhaven Counts...
40@
35p
F. J. 1)  Selects...........
Selects 
.............................
30®
W heat.................................
......... 
60
Flour in  Sacks.
Patents.............................
......... 4 00
Straight.............................
......... 3 30
Graham 
.........................
......... 3 40
Bu< kwheat....................
. 
... 4 50
....  3 50
Rye......................................

Grains and Feedstuffs

@10
CaU
©
(aú2

<fà
@12

Wheat.

(ft,  0%

20

6

8

8

8

!
j

1

@10

(fl\ 8

Hay.

Oats.

Corn.

Meal.

Pelts.

Wool.

Hides.

Barrels.

niscellaneous.

LAMP  BURNERS.

Feed and  Millstuffs.

From  Tank  Wagon.

Glassware.

Crockery  and

PROVISIONS.

F R E 5 H   M E A T S .

Hides  and Pelts.

Subject to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
Beef.
ditional.
5  (ft,7
Carcass.........................
Fore quarters.................. 3'j (in4
Bolted.............................................  2 10
Hind quarters.............
8  (ft,9
Granulated 
................................ 2 35
Louis No. 3.......................
Ribs................
8  @12
St. Car Feed, screened___18 00
Rounds .............................
6 Vi (Si 7 4
St. Car Feed, unscreened  17 50
■ h ticks........................
34j@5
No. 1 Corn and Oats.............17 00
Plates 
.................................. 2 vj7h3
No. 2 Special.................................16 50
Pork.
Unbolted Com Meal.............17  00
Dressed ...
5* '¿iff', 6 V4
Winter Wheat Bran.............I t 50
Loins..................
@1144
Winter Wheat Middlings. 16 50
Shoulders...........................
(ffi«
Screenings.
. 14 00
Mutton.
Care -ss.............................
4U (T/5t4
Less than car lots............... 
44
Spring Lambs.................. 6  @7
Car lots...........................
Veal.
Less than car lots................ 
Carcass............................... 6  @ 6 Vi
27
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots ... 16 00
O IL S .
No. 1 Timothy carlots...........14 00
The Standard oil <-o. quotes
as follows:Barrels.
Eocene ...............................
@‘*v;
Perkins & Hess pay as  fol-
K
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdll
lows:
@7
High Test Headlight..
Cm 8&Í
Naptha ...........
Green............................... ■ 6%@ 7%
Stove Gasoline.............
@ 10%
Part cured....................
@8
Cylinder..................
31  @:38
Full Cured...................... 8%@ 9%
Eiigi ne............................... 11  (in
Dry...................................... 9%@11
Black, winter..................
@. 8
Kips, green..................
7*2
. 
Black, summer..............
@7 VI
Kips, cured..................
. 8H@ 9*4
.. serbio
Calfskins, green. 
..
From Tank Wagon.
Calfskins, cured___
10‘2<i/ 12
Eocene.............................
Deaconskius 
.............
25  0/40
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdll.
6*2
Scofield.  Shurmer A Teazle
•Shearlings....................
. 10  <f/3d
quote as follows:
Lambs.............................
.2«i  Of.50
4o  0V.75
Old Wool......................
Palaci lit-......................
Ûfi10%
Daisy Whin*................
Washed 
........................
. . 10  (il 18
Of 9S
Ut s
Red Cross, W.W.Hdlt.
Unwashed...................... 5  Oí 13
Naphtha..................
% 8:*¿
Stove (¡asoline................
%ti)V>
Tallow............................... 3  Of  4 *4
Grease Butter.............
1  0/; 2
Palaci lie...........
Switches 
......................
. 11*0f 2
(¡ti9* T
Red Cross W. W. Ildlt
Ginseng .........................
P 6l 2
.2 500f2 75
The Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and Provision Co. quotes as fol­
lows :
Barreled Pork.
No. 0 Sun...................................... 
4;
Mess 
........................................ 10 50
No. 1 Sun...................................... 
p
............................................12  00 •
Back 
No. 2 Sun...................................... 
Clear back 
............................12 25
5t
Tubular........................................... 
Shortcut.......................................11 00
of
Security. No.  1........................... 
Pig....................................................13 00
88
Seeuiit-, No. 2........................... 
Bean 
...........................................
Nutmeg ......................................... 
Family 
......................................
Arctic...............................................  1 if
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies............................................. 
7
Per box of  6 doz
Briskets ............... 
 
No. 0 Sun.....................................  1 si
Extra sboits........................... 
No. 1 Sun........................................  2 (K
Smoked Heats.
No. 2 Sun........................................  2 g
Hams, 12 lb average .... 
Hams, 4 lb average......... 
10
crimp 
j No.  0  Sun. 
top.
9%
Hams, 16 In average......... 
wrapped and 
labeled___ 2  11
9%
Hams, 20 lb average......... 
top,
No. 
1 Sun. crimp 
Ham dried beef.................... 
101»
labeled___ 2 2:
I  wrapped and 
7*4
Shoulders (N. Y. cut». 
. 
top,
No. 
2 sun, crimp 
Bacon, clear........................... 
8%
j  w rapped and labeled___ 3 SS
California hams.................. 
Boneless hams........................... 
9
Cooked ham........................... 
11%
No. 
top.
0 Sun. Crimp 
Lards.
wrapped and labeled.... 2 5i 
j No. 
1  Sun, crimp 
top,
Compound', tierces........... 
4?4
wrapped and labeled...
Family, tieiees.................... 
5%
No. 
2 Sun. crimp 
top
Granger......................................... 
7
wrapped and labeled...
Kettle (our own;................ 
7%
2  i53 75
Cottolene...................................... 
6 %
Cotosuet 
....................................... 
No. I  Sun,  wrapped  and
50 lb Tins..............advance 
%
labeled........................................
3 704 70 
20 lb Pails.............a ivam e 
%
No. ; Sun.  wrapped  and
10 lb Pails..............advance 
labeled........................................
5 lb Pails..............,dvance 
£
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and 
3 lb Pails.............. dvance 
1
labeled........................................
4 883 404 40
Sausages.
Bologna ......................................... 
5
Liver.............................................
No. I Sun, plain bulb...........
Frankfort................................. 
7%
No.  2 Sun, plain bulb...........
Pork.............................................
........................................
Blood 
Tongue ......................................
No.  Sun. plain bulb, per
Head cheese...........................
doz 
...............................................
1 251 50 
Beef.
No. 2 sun, plain bulb, per
Extra Mess.............................  7 00
doz ...............................................
Boneless 
.................................. 9 75
No. 1 Crimp, per doz...........
1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz............. I 00
Pigs’ Feet.
80
Kits, 15 lbs............................... 
% bbls, 40 lbs......................... 1 05
No. 1, Lim<* ( t«e doz !...
3 504 00 
•j bbls, 80 lbs......................... 3 00
No. 2, Lime <70c doz)..
Tripe.
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...
4 704 00 
Kits, 15 lbs................................... 
75
% bbls, 40 ibs......................... 1 50
No. 2, Lime (71k: doz)
% bbls, 80 lb-......................... 2 75
No. 2, Flint (HOcdozi..
4 40 
Casings.
Pork............................................. 
35
Doz. 50 15
Beef rounds........................... 
5
Junior, Rochester.........
Beef middles. 
.......... 
7
Nutmeg ................................
Butterine.
Illuminator Bases...........
Rolls, dairy............................. 
11%
Barrel lots. 5 doz 
901 00
Solid, dairy................................. 
II
7 in. Porcelain sh 
Rolls, creamery..................
Case lots, 12 doz.
90
. 
Solid, creamery..................
Canned Meats.
Doz. Box
No. 3 Rochester, lime 
1 50 4 20
Corned beef, 2 lb.............. 2 15
No. 3 Rochester. Hint 
Corned beef. 15 lb.........  14 50
1 75 4 80
Roast  beef, 2 lb................2 00
No. 3  Pearl 
top, or
Jewel glass................
1 85 5 25
Potted  ham 
44s.......... 
75
No. 2 Globe Incaudes.
Potted  bam.  %s.............. 1 25
lime.................................
Reviled ham. 
44s.............. 
75
1 75 5 10
No. 2Globe Incaudes. 
Reviled ham.  %s.............. 1 25
2 00 5 ^5
Potted tongue  44s............... 
flint 
...............................
2 10 6  00
Potted tougue %s.............. 1 25

LAMP  CHIMNEYS  Common 

Fire Proof  Plain Top.

First  Quality, 

Miscellaneous.

XXX  Flint.

La  Bastie.

Pearl  Top.

Rochester.

» for  :Store

Electric.

Lamps.

6;I4
6%

0

%

71

51

1044

7‘A

1  00

75

21

I)oz. 

OIL  CANS. 

LANTERNS.

Pump  Cans.

LANTERN GLOBES.

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 
50 
5 gal Eureka with spent, 
r. 50 
5 gal Eureka with fane t 
7  00
5 gal galv iron A A W.........  7 50
5 gal Tilting cans. M'n'ch 10 50 
5 gal galv Iron Nacefns___ 9 00
3 gal Home Rule.........................10 50
5 gal Home Rule........................12 00
3 gal Goodenough......................12 0
5 gal Goodenough..................... 3 00
•5 gal Pirate King....................10 00
No. 
i>Tubular 
...................... 3 50
No.  1 If Tubular.................... 5 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash...........5 00
No.  1 Tub., glass fount___  7  00
No.  2 Tu ular, side lamp. 12 10 
No  3 Stic t Lamp................ 3 25
No. " Tubular.cases :1 doz.
èaeh. box 10 (Petits..
45
No. 0 Tubular,cases 2 doz.
e.aeh, box 15 <•cuts..
45
No 0 Tubular, bbls 5» doz.
each, bbl 35.
40
No. 0 Tubular.. biiii’i* eye.
C;ases 1 doz.each..
1 25
No. 1 per gross........................... 
28
No. 2 per gross........................... 
38
Mom moth per doz.................... 
*3 Pints.  6 doz in box. per
box (box  00) 
.......................  1 no
hi Pints. 24 doz in bbl, per
doz (bbl 35)............................. 
go
*i Pints,  6 doz in box. per
box (box (Mil........................ 
1 80
4s Pints,  1  doz in bbl, per
doz (bbl 35)............................. 
Mason—old style, pints___
Mason—old style, quarts..  6  00 
Mason—old style, % gal...  8  00 
Mason —1 do 
in case. pts..  6  00 
Mason 
I doz incase,qts.  6 50 
Mason 
I doz in case, % gal  8 50 
Dandy—glass cover, qts 
9  00 
Dandy- glass cover. 4 gal 12  00

65
75
JE L L Y   TUMBLERS  Tin  Top. 

No. 0 jier gross........................ 

No.  3  per  gross.......................... 

LAMP  WICKS.

FRUIT  JA R S.

20

24

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

o n

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

the  Morning  Market.

Desirability  of  Attractive Vehicles on 

P f - l l l t c   a n d   P r r k r l l i r ’ f*   an  alder and  catching  more  trout  with 
r i U l L S   c ll,u   r   I U U  U t C   that  and  a  bent  pin  than  the  city  chap
could  with  the costly  rod—1  was  the boy 
—but  for all  that,  the  country  boy  be- 
lives,  to  this  day,  that,  had  he  "sw ap­
ped”   tackle  with  the  city  chap,  his own 
string  of  trout  would  have  been 
larger 
and  the  city  l>oy's couldn’t  have  been 
smaller,  for  he didn’t  have  any. 
I  like 
the  fine  tackle  and,  while  there  may  not 
insure a 
be  in  it  anything  in 
string  of  fish,  there  is  everything  in 
its 
favor,  even  if  there  is  nothing  but  the 
fact  of  ownership  to  recommend  it.

" I t   is  queer  how  matters  take  good 
care  of  themselves  when  piously 
let 
alone."  One doesn’t  hear that  kind  of 
remark  on  the  market,  or anywhere else, 
for  that  matter,  without  having  some­
thing  behind  it;  and  1  became  intense­
ly  interested  in  a  fine basket  of  peach­
es  close  to  the  elbow  of  the  man  who 
made the statement.

itself  to 

-peaches  and  potatoes, 

" 1   was down  here  a  couple  of  days 
ago,  and  the  growers  were all  mixed  up
first  one  and 
then  the other  and  now  look  at  them ! j 
1  started  in  on  Ionia  street,  going  north 
from  Wealthy  avenue  and  lor  a block  or 
two there  was  nothing  but  peaches-  -big 
wagon  loads of  them  and  nothing  else. 
Then  the other  fruit  had  its  turn;  and, 
further down  the  line,  vegetables  were 
shown  in  endless  profusion.  Talk  about 
vour  department  stores!  When  you  get 
through,  it  all  comes  down  to the  birds 
of a  feather  flock  together’ 
idea,  and 
here  it  is .”

"T h e   flocking  together’s  all  right," 
was  the  answer,  "but  you  won’t  find 
one  man  running  the whole concern,and 
there's  where  the  mischief  comes 
in. 
It's  a  question  of  convenience,  after 
all,  and  the  grower  finds  that  out  as 
soon  as  anybody.  What  I’m  curious 
about  is,  whv  more of  these’sharp grow­
ers don't  see  it  is to  their  interest  to  fix 
up  a  little  in  the  way  of  attractive  out­
fits;’ 'and  the  speaker  sauntered  on  out 
of  my  hearing.

I  caught  the  idea,  however,  and  I  ap­
plied  it  to  the  vehicle  behind  which  I 
stood.  The  thill  had  met  with  an  acci­
dent  in  the  distant  past  and  it  had  been 
mended  by  the  nailing  on  of  a stout nar­
row  board.  A  little  farther on,  an  anti­
quated  harness  had  been  strengthened 
with  a  rope;  and,  long  before  1  reached 
the  end  of  the  line,  there  was  enough  to 
find  fault  with  had 
l  felt  so  inclined. 
That  kind  of  wagon,  however,  was  the 
excepti«11,  most  of  the  growers  being 
provided  with  large,  well-made  wag­
ons;  but  almost  all  of  them  were  de­
void  of any attempt  in  the  line  of  at­
tractive  display.

Why couldn’t a grower  make  himself 
conspicuous  with  some  such  little  de­
vice,  for  instance  ,  as  coming 
invari­
ably  to  market  with  a  freshly  washed 
wagon?  The  roads  are  not  always  so 
dusty  as to  hide  the  atttempt  to  keep 
clean.  That  will  do,  to  begin  with,and 
in  time,  other  suggestions  will  come  of 
I  know  one  thing:  if 1  had 
themselves. 
bought  out  the  huckster’s 
load  whose 
harness  was  tied  up  with  a  rope,  I  be­
lieve  I  would  not  like  to  have him drive 
up  to  my  door to  unload  it.  Of  course, 
a  cart  is  a  cart  and  fine  vegetables 
is 
what  the buyer  is  after;  but,  after  all, 
would  any  of  our 
first-class  grocers 
think  it to  their  advantage  to  use  the 
huckster’s  board-mended  vehicle  for  a 
delivery  wagon?

With a  new  market  and  the  new  con­
ditions  attending  it,  we  shall see wheth­
er an  attempt  will  be  made  to  attract 
custom  by  the  methods so  common  now 
in  the  trading  world.

Rambler.

PRODUCE  flARKET.

stock, 

Appes-—Cooking 

$ i.50(^1.75 
for  3  bushel  barrel.  Fancy  eating  va­
rieties,  such  as  Twenty  Ounce  Pippin, 
Maiden  Blush  and  Strawberry,  §1.75 
per  bbl.

improvement 

Beets  40c  per  bu.
Butter  Factory  creamery 

is  strong, 
on  account  of  an 
in  the 
demand  at  the  Eastern  markets,  com­
manding  19c.  Dairy  is  a  little  weaker 
and  lower,  being  sluggish  at  14(^15 '4 c.
Cabbage  -Slow  sale  at  251« 30c  per 
doz.  The  country appears  to  be  over­
stocked at present.

Celery  —15c  per  doz.
Crabapples—35*7 40c  per  bu. 
Cucumbers  Pickling  stock,  50c  per 
'¿c  higher,  handlers 
Eggs— About 

100.

Grapes  -  20c  per  5 

paying  11c  and  holding  at  12c.
home-grown  Concords.  The  stock 
I fair  in  size  and  excellent  in  quality. 
ing  to quality.

Green  Corn  56710c  per  doz,  accord­

lb.  basket 

Muskmelons-  Nutmeg,  S i@ i.50,  per 
doz.  and  very  scarce.  Osage,  Si  per 
doz.  crate.
Onions  ~5o@55c  per  bu. 
for  home­
grown  Yellow  Danvers.
Peaches—This  is  the  big  week  for 
early  yellow  stock  and  every  indication 
leads  to  the belief  that  the  transporta­
tion  facilities,  complete  as  they  are, 
will  be  inadequate  to  handle  promptly 
all  the  stock  offered  for  the  next  ten 
days.  With  this  in  view,  it  will  be  well 
for  dealers  to get  in  their  orders  early 
and  ahead  of  their  requirements,  so  as 
to  suffer as  little  loss  and  annoyance  as 
possible  in  the  event of  delay  in  receiv­
ing  shipments.  The  favorite  varieties 
this  week  are  Mountain  Rose  (white), 
Red  Crawford,  Yellow  Crawford,  Bar­
nard  and  Foster.  Prices  range from 75c 
for  white to  Si. 50  lor  fancy  yellow,  a 
good canning  yellow  peach  command­
ing  Si.
Pears  -75c  per  bu.  for  small  pickling 
stock.  Clapp’s  Favorite,  Bartlett  and 
Flemish  Beauty  varieties  command  Si 
@ i.25per  bu.
Plums  Lombards  and  Green  Gages 
command  $1,504^1.75  per  bu.  Fancy 
Bradshaws  find  ready  sale at  S2.
Potatoes— Ranging  about  30c  per  bu. 
In  the  rush  of  fruit,  this staple is entire­
ly  neglected.
smooth  stock.
good  size  and  excellent  quality.

Tomatoes  50c  per  bu. 
Watermelons—i5@iSc 

for  good 
for  stock  of 

Hence  Those  Tears.

1  know that  it  seems  as  if 

A  gentleman  while  traveling  on  a 
Western  railway  got  out  at  a  station 
where  the  train  stopped  for  a  few  min­
utes,  and  entered  the  refreshment  room. 
Casting  his  eyes  on  a  basket  containing 
buns,  he  suddenly burst  into  tears.
The  sympathetic barmaid gently asked 
him  what  was  the  matter,  and  elicited 
the  following  touching  information 

it  could 
make  but  little  difference  as  the  wagon 
■ stands  backed  up  to  the  curb,  whether it 
be  clean  or dirty,  rough  and  unpainted, 
or bright  with  care  and  paint;  but there 
is  a  great  deal  of  human  nature  in  the 
buyers on  the  market  and  human  nature 
incidental 
is  attracted  by  these  little 
things  so  much  so,  in  fact,  that,  if  the
"  Pray  excuse  my  emotion.  Two years 
town  dealer  and  the  producer  should I aK°  f  was traveling on  this  line  on  my 
change  places,  the  first  thing  the  dealer | honeymoon.  My  wife  came  into  this  re- 
lf  ireshnient  room  and  stratched  our  mi-
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I  know  the j  f  beg  you  to  let  ine  have  it as  a  tender 
with  an  attractive  turn-out. 
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State how to ship:  Freight or Express and 
over what Line.
Pears, Plums and Crahapph s are now coming 
in: prices reasonable.
Apples. Potatoes  Melons, Cucumbers, Celery, 
Onions, Cabbage, etc., at lowest market prices.
We resjiectfully 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 !

HENRY  J .  VINKEMULDER,
Long Distance Telephone  1084.

Seeds==

We are  now  receiving  New 
Crop Timothy. 
If you  wish 
to  buy  Timothy  or  Clover 
correspond  with  us.  We 
handle  all  kinds  Seeds,  Al- 
sy ke,  Alfalf a,  Crimson  Clo­
ver,  Etc.

for 
is 

\\ e respectfully solicit  your orders.

ALFRED  J .  BROWN  CO.,

Seed  rierchants,

GRAND  RAPIDS

Peaches

1 f 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.

WRITE  US  TO-DAY.

ALFR ED   J. BROWN  CO.

Qrand  Rapids

Send  your consignments of

Peaches

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BUTTER,  EGOS,  POULTRY  and 

FRUITS  to

Geo.E.DariMCo.

42  Jefferson  Avenue,
142  Wood bridge  St.

DETROIT
Grand Rapids Fruit Growers Assn.

Each grower  sells  his own  stock 
fresh  picked each  day 

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R.  D.  O R AH An,  President.
J .  A.  PEARCE,  Vice-President.
H.  O.  BRAITAN,  Treasurer.
M.  W .  RONAN,  Secretary.

Headquarters until Oct.  1 

22 S. IONIA ST.

A R T H U R   .1.  W A T K IN S

J .   U.  AXE

Phone 395 

W ATK IN S&  AXE,Wholesale Produce
Northern Trade solicited 
Special Attention to Consignments 
for Meats and Produce
and Buying on Track.

FRESH  EGGS,  CHOICE  CREAMERY  and  DAIRY  BUTTER

84  and  86  South  Division  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

PEACHES

To  GAWLEY  BROS.  &  CO.,  64=66  Woodbridge  St.  W.,  Detroit.

Stencils furnished upon application. 

Pi fi  11 mi. w~  1

SEND  YOUR  CONSIGNMENTS  OF

DUN’S   &  BRADSTREET’S  
Agencies. 
HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  . . . .   Detroit.

Ward  L. Andrus &  Co.

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

FRESH  PEACHES

And  Baltimore Canned Oysters a  Specialty. 
We Solicit  Your Consignments.
53-55-57  JEFFERSON  AVE., 
wholesale

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DETROIT

Commission

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Vegetables  ..............  Fruits  of  all  kinds.

Live and  Dressed  Poultry.

F.  J.  D ETTEN TH ALER,

117-119   Monroe  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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SEEDS, POTATOES, BEANS

We handle all kinds FlELDoSEEDS, Clover, Timothy. IIangaria 
wheat, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Barley, Etc.  Buy and -sell Poiatoe 
Eggs, Etc.  Car lots or less.
If you wish to buy or sell write us.

EGG  CRATES  and  EGG  CRATE  FILLERS.

Beans. Buck
Millet.
Seeds.

PM A C  C I  H?\/  DDHC 
I  l U ^ b L E   I 

*6 -38 -30 -32-OTTAWA  STREET

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Jobbers  SEEDS.  BEANS.  POTATOES,  PRUITS.

W H O LESA LE  D E A L E  I!  IN

Mason  Fruit Jars  W.  H.  BEACH
HAY, GRAIN,
SEEDS,
PRODUCE,

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS. 

Frank  West,

the  Hoytville  General 
Dealer.

farm-born  anil 

Frank  West  was  born 

in  Madison 
county,  near  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  23, 
1855.  His  parents  were  natives  of  the 
Nutmeg  State  of  Revolutionary  ances­
try,  and  an  Orderly  Sergeant’s book, the 
property  of  a  great  grandfather  who was 
under  General  Green, 
is  preserved 
among  the  family  archives.  Like  other 
boys, 
farm-bred,  he 
passed  his  early  days  in  the  green  pas­
tures  and  beside the  still  waters  of  the I 
country,  now 
in  the  country  school 
house  in  summer  and  now  in  the  active 
duties  of  the  farm  until the  dawn  of his 
15th  birthday.  Then  the  first  change 
came,  and  the early  morning  found  him 
in  a  wagon  on  the  road  to  Syracuse, 
with  his  trunk  behind  him,  to  take  his 
place  in  the bread-w'inning  ranks  of  the 
world.  His  uncle,  the senior  partner of 
the firm  of  Estes  &  Fitch,  was  in  need 
of a  boy,  and  Frank  was  chosen  to  sup­
ply  the  need. 
It  was  not  the  fashion 
then,  as  it  is  so  often  now,  for  boys  to 
soft  snaps.”   A 
be  on  the  lookout  for 
place to  work,  they  called 
it  then ;  and 
if  there  was an  idea  in  the  boy’s  mind 
that  it  would  be a  little  easier  to  work 
for  his  uncle,  the  thought  was  soon  dis­
pelled.  The awakening  from  that  de­
lusive  dream  was  disturbing,  but  when 
this  was  once  over and  he  settled  brave­
ly  down  to  earn  his  meager  wages,  the 
great  lesson  of  personal 
independence 
was  learned  and  the solid  foundation  of 
a  successful  career  was  laid  on  the solid 
rock.

For  seven  years  he  worked 

in  that 
Syracuse  grocery  store,  beginning  with 
the broom  and  gradually  climbing  up­
ward,  round  by  round,  so  that,  when  at 
the  age of  22,  he  thought  best  to  see 
what  he  could  do  somewhere  else.  With 
His  seven  years’  of  hard  earned  experi­
ence  and  the  money that  it  had  brought 
him,  he  came  to Michigan and,at Grand 
Ledge,  launched  this  financial  bark 
in 
the  furniture  and  undertaking  business 
with  his  brother,  with  whom  he  entered 
into  partnership.

For  two  years  prosperity  smiled  upon 
them,  when  a  fire  broke  up  the  estab­
lishment.  Gathering  up  what  was  left, 
he  removed  to  Hoytville,  where  he  car­
ried  on  the  same business  for two  years 
more,  and  then, 
forming  the  firm  of 
West  &  Co.,  added  lines  of  dry  good: 
and  groceries.

from 

Another two  years  went  by,  and  then 
dropping  the  furniture  and  undertaking 
lines,the  establishment  was  made  inti 
general  country  store.  Prosperity  was 
again  leading  the  concern  kindly  by  the 
hand  when  the  fire  fiend  again  swoopec 
down  and  flew  skyward  with  whateve 
its  flaming  talons  could  clutch ;  and  tin 
next  morning,  after  clearing  away  tin 
ashes,  he 
‘ ‘ opened  up”   with  good 
which  arrived 
the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company,  of  Grand  Rapid 
and  which  he  had  wired  for  on the night 
of  the  (ire  before  he  went  to  bed.  That 
meant business,  and  in  less  than a week 
the  salamander  firm,  finding  the  ashbed 
undesirable  for  commercial  purposes, 
found  accommodations  in  a neighboring 
hall,  where  it  remained  until  a  fittinj 
building  could  be  permanently  secured 
The  store  is in that building now,  where 
with  increased  facilities,  including  cold 
storage,  it  manages,  with  the  helj 
the  [lost  office,  the  telephone exchange 
and  the  express  office  to  make  out  a 
busy  day,  as  well  as a  profitable  one.

Mr.  West was  married in  1880  to  Miss 
Carrie  Prentice,  of Wafer4own,  N.  Y .,

and  two  boys  are growing  up  to  be 
thri fty  storekeepers  as their  father.
Some  Suggestions  for  Fall  Window 

Dressing.

said : 

There 

in  solid  colors 

of  his  windows 

The  fall  will  be  a  season  for  colors. 
This  is  already  seen  in  the  goods  being 
shown.  Plaids  now  seen  in  the  windows 
are  of  striking  appearance  on  account 
of  the bright  colored  stripes.  Blue  will 
be  used  a great  deal  in  window displays 
what  is  called  old  blue  or  Dutch  blue 
being  one  of  the  most  popular  shades.
Green  will  also  be  a  favorite  color 
in 
combination  with  red,  yellow  or  blue. 
One  State  street  trimmer  will  trim  a 
in 
contrast  to  the  multitude  of  bright  col­
ors  which  will  be  shown.  Windows  of 
two  colors  he  will  experiment  with.
im­
Dress  goods  are among  the  most 
portant  articles  a  trimmer  has  to  dis­
play.  One trimmer,  speaking  of  trim­
ming  a  dress goods window,  said :  The 
ooils  should  be  draped 
in  a  way  to 
show  how  the  goods  will  look  when 
made  up.  The  Haring  skirt  can  be  il­
lustrated by  spreading  the  goods  out  at 
the  bottom  when  draped  011  a  stand,  and 
the  pleats  and  organ  pipes  can be shown 
by  pinning  the  goods 
in  the  proper 
place.  The  upper  part  of  the  costume 
should  be  draped  after  the  style  of  the 
hat. 
If  it  is  plain  make  the  display 
plain,  but  if  it  is  elaborate  or  of  fancy 
design  the  waist  should  have  ribbons, 
.ice,  flowers,  etc.  Baskets  of  flowers 
ire  quite  appropriate  in  a  dress  goods 
window.  They  add  a  touch  of  beauty 
and  color that  greatly  improves  the  ap- 
earance.
Another  trimmer,  speaking  of  dress 
are
roods  displays, 
any  suggestions  for  the coming  season 
which  may  be  found  profitable  to  mer­
chants.  New  fabrics  for  the  fall  season 
ire  usually  dark  effects,  and  in  order  to 
lisplay  them  in  the windows  it  isadvis­
able to  remove  the  looking  glass  effect 
reduced  by  the  dark  color. 
I o  do this 
e  would  suggest  the  use  of  suitable 
light backgrounds,  which  will,  of course, 
throw out  the goods  and  the patterns can 
be  more  plainly  seen,  which  otherwise 
would  have  been  lost.  The  use  of  tick­
ets with  prices  or the  name of each nov­
elty  displayed  tends  to  dispel  the  dark­
ness  of  the  goods  and  throws  out the 
atterns  more  plainly.  The  sale  of dress 
materials  may  be  increased  by  the  use 
if  wax  figure  dress  forms,  upon  which 
the trimmer  will  effectively  drape  such 
iterial  as  is  displayed  in  the  window, 
which not only attracts attention but often I 
uggests  to  the  onlooker  the  manner 
in  which  the  goods  will  look  when made 
up.  A  constant  change  of goods  in  win- 
lows  adds  greatly  to  the  sales  of  such 
lepartments.
Une  well-known  trimmer  will  use  the | 
new  style  background  made  ■ of  blue 
satin  with  scroll  patterns 
in  his  dress 
goods  windows.  This  wiil  be  partic­
ularly  effective  in  dress  goods  displays, 
setting  off  the  dark  colors  of  the  fabrics 
by  contrast. 
Light  backgrounds  are 
necessary  to  properly  display 
these 
goods.
‘ ‘ In  the  display  of  light  weight  silks 
some  kind  of  stiff  lining  must  be  used 
to  produce  the organ  pipes,  and  repre­
sent the flaring  skirts, 
says  one  well- 
known  trimmer.  Heavy  silks,  taffetas, 
etc.,  do  not  need  this  lining,  as  the 
goods  are  heavy  enough  to  keep  the 
form  desired.  The  same  is  true  of  dress 
goods.  Light  weight goods  should  have 
a  stiff  lining  underneath,  while  goods 
such  as  Sicilians  will  keep  any  desired 
shape.  Both  silks  and  dress  goods  will 
be  shown  with  organ  pipes  and pleats.

Nikola  Tesla  is  beginning  to  find  the 
honors  shower  thickly  upon  him.  He 
has  already been  made,  within  the  last 
year,  a  doctor by Columbia  College  and 
an  M.  A.  by  Yale,  while  one  of  the 
leading  universities  of  the  far  West  has 
recently  invited  him  to  accept  one  of 
its diplomas.  A  couple of  years  ago  he 
received  the  rare  order of  St.  Sava  from 
the  king  of  Servia,  and  last  week  news 
reached  him  officially  that  the  Order  of 
the  Eagle  had  been  conferred  upon  him 
by  the  prince  of  Montenegro,  who  may 
be  said  to  represent  the  race from which 
Tesla  springs.

........ ítí.

Pints  wide mouth.............................

e quote for immediate orders  the following 
es :  jun ked  one dozen  in  box, eaeh jar  in 
ra e compartments.  Price subje» t to change, 
¡•barge  lor box  or  cartage.
Per Gross. 
Quarts, wi Je mouth..................................
Half gallons, wide mouth..........
Mail orders direct to
Peaches!

Same  p icked  in  straw  as  before, 
gross less.
Extra  caps  and  rubbers...................
Bub  er  rings  for  Mason  jars...........

H.  Leonard & Sons,

URANI)
RAPIDS.

Butter,
Eggs  and 
Fruits !
Consignments re<

Prices procured.

1.  Highest

36  Varktt  St. 

13K  Bates  St.

R .  H irt,  J r .,

Telephone  121N.

DETROIT.

Field  and  Garden

Orders  Promptly  Filled 
Write  for Quotations

HOLLAND,  niCH.

<^eeds

Everything  for the

Clover,  Medium  or  Mam­
moth,  Alsyke,  Alfalfa  and 
Crimson,  Timothy,  Hunga­
rian  Millet,  Peas and  Spring 
Rye.  Garden  Seeds  in  bulk 
and  Garden  Tools.

TINWARE

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Egtr  Cases  and  Fillers

260  South  Ionia  Street 
URAND  RAPIDS,  HIGH.

TURZ
W.T.L

Headquarters for

128

= 132  West  Bridge Street,

WJYl.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,

MANUFACTURERS 
AND  JOBBERS  OF.
Tului«hi

Selling Agts. for Columbian  Enameled  Steel Ware.

SEE  QUOTATION'S.

Catching Rain Water j

is a familiar practice in sections where  I 
the  regular  water  supply is  too  hard  | 
for use. 
Its softness and purity make  f 
it  very  desirable  on  wash  day.  The  | 
same  results can be  derived  by using  c

OAK  LEAF $0AP.  |

It makes the hardest water soft, makes  the  clothes white  without  in-  *
juring t h e m ,  and reduces the labor of washing one-half.  Ask the grocer  •
for  it. 
*
Wholesale Agents,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  J

O L N E Y   &.  J U D S O N   G R O C ER   CO., 

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

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index 

of  the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.
New  York,  Aug. 

3 4—The 

foreign 
fruit  trade of  this  city,  or,  more  accu­
rately,  the  fruit  trade  in  general  has  far 
years been  in  a  chronic  state  of  agita­
tion. 
It  has  been  almost  impossible  to 
keep  track  of  the  ups  and  downs  and 
the  innumerable  entanglements  which 
importers 
have  occurred  between  the 
and  the  buyers.  What 
is  called  the 
Fruit  Exchange  has  a  nice  suite  of 
rooms and  has enjoyed  a  good  degree of 
prosperity;  but  it  has  finally  agreed  to 
lease  the  rooms to  a  more recent organi­
zation,  called  the  Fruit  Buyers’  Union. 
The  number  of  members  of  the 
latter 
organization 
is  rapidly  growing  and 
will  probably  number about  150 when all 
are  in,  and  the  future  of  the  society 
seems  to be  very  bright. 
If  the  long- 
drawn-out  quarrels  will  be  ended,  the 
trade  will  be  on  the  road  to  prosperity.
The  fruit  trade  of  New  York  will 
make  a  great  demonstration  on  the 
twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  Italian  unity 
Sept.  21.  There  will  be  a  big  military 
parade,  living  pictures,  etc.,—all  show- I 
ing  the progress  which  Italy  has  made 
during the  iast  quarter  of  a  century.

General  trade  in  jobbing groceries has 
been  disappointing  during  the  past 
week  and  it  is hard  to  tell  just  what  the 
trouble  is.  Cost  is  even  lower on  some 
articles  than  at  the beginning of August, 
but there  is  no  rush  of  buyers.  How­
ever,  there  is  no  doubt  we  shall  soon 
see  a  better  prevailing  condition.
For two  or  three  weeks coffee has been 
in  an  unsteady  condition.  While  there 
has  been  no great  decline,  nor  likely to 
be at  once,  the  fact  is  that  there 
is  a 
general  feeling  that  prices  must  decline 
before there  will  be  free  selling.  Rio 
No.  7  is  worth  i6@i6',sc.  Mild  grades 
are  very  quiet and,  while no concessions 
are  openly  made,  there  is  a  determina­
tion  to  sell  without  much  haggling  as  to 
the  rate to  be  paid.

Refined  sugar  is  dull.  Undoubtedly 
some  shading  on  prices  has  been  done, 
and  it  was  hoped  this  would  stimulate 
trade;  but  animation  seems  to  be  sus­
pended  for a  time.  An  additional  drop 
is,  evidently,  anticipated,  which  may 
account  for  the  small  orders  coming  to 
hand.

Tea  is  exciting  no  interest  and  there 
is  an  utter  absence  of  speculation.  At 
the  auction  sale,  next  Wednesday,  al­
13,000  packages  will  be  disposed 
most 
of  and  the  outcome 
is  awaited  with  a 
interest.  Prices  will,  probably, 
little 
show  no advance.
Canned  got ids  are  about  as  dull  and 
quiet  as  can  be  imagined.  There  has 
been  no  change  in  prices,  nor any  de­
mand.  Some  local  reports of  frost  com e 
from  Northern  New 
Jersey  and  some 
points  in  New  York,  but the  corn  crop 
is  very  flourishing,  as  a  general  thing, 
in  the  Eastern  part of  the  country,  and 
Maine  promises  to  outdo  herself  this 
year.  Peaches  bring  so  much  better 
prices  fresh  than  canned  that  Baltimore 
packers are  said  to  be doing  very  1 ittle 
business  in  canning.  Samples  of 
lob­
sters  packed 
in  gelatine  have  been 
shown  this  week.  The  gelatine  pre­
vents  the  lobster  from  becoming  discol­
ored  by  the action  of  the  tin.

Rice  is  firm.  While  the  demand 

is 
not  active,  it 
is  sufficient  to  prevent 
any  undue  accumulation.  Foreign 
is 
in  decidedly good  position  and  the  ac­
cumulation  is  by  no  means  large.
Molasses  and  syrups  are in pretty good 
demand,  upon  the  whole,  although  the 
market  is  somewhat  irregular.

The butter  market  is 

in  pretty  good 
shape  and  supplies  are  working  out 
well.  Best  Elgin  is  worth  20c,  but  the 
slightest 
imperfection  will  deter  pur­
chasers  from  completing  the  deal.  State 
dairy  is  worth  i j J4 @ i S c .

rhe  cheese  market shows considerable 
improvement  and,  altogether,  dealers 
feel  encouraged.  Small  sized  is  worth
SX@8Kc-
rhe  supply  of  eggs  has  been  quite 
liberal,  but  very  few  can  be  called  good 
stock.  Northern  Indiana,  Michigan  and 
Ohio  will  bring  igK c  for  best  grades. 
Nearby are  held at  1634c.

Good  Furniture 

834

in  which  he 

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GRAND  RAPIDS, fllCH.

Gripsack  Brigade.

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BUSINESS  CHANCES.

kinds of  Household  goods.

T  7  — , 

TO  CLOSE  UP  AN  ESTATE

/ A ASH  AND  HOUSE  AND  LOTS  IN  GRAN D 

.....for  Business?

Are You  Looking 

Business......

J.  J.  Frost,  Treasurer  of the Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip,  was  in  town  over

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

Buildings,  Machinery,  Foundry  and 
Boiler  Shop,  with  Tools,  Patterns  and 
good  will of the  business.  Located  right 
in  center of the city, on  the  bank  of  the 
river and near the railroad.  Now- in  op­
eration and doing a fair business 

Retail  trade  is  very good  and  grocers 
are  pretty  well  contented.  The  most 
asinine  movement  ever  projected  is that 
of  the  retailers  of  Chicago,  who  want  a 
tax  of  $5,000  levied on every outside line 
carried  by  the  department  stores. 
It 
will  never  see  daylight.

W A N T S   C O L U M N .

if* >R  SALE  OB  RENT—LIVERY  HA KN.

Dr.  Josiah  B.  Evans  is  spending  a 
week  at  Petoskey,  accompanied  by  his 
wife.  While  there  he  will 
investigate 
the  prospects  of  the  Cross  Village  gold 
mine, 
is  a  large  stock­
holder.

Well  selected and complete stock of all 

Yearly business of $ 5 0 ,0 0 0 can be done. 
Will be sold at a bargain.
Address  No. 
1,0 0 0,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesman.

J.  Henry  Dawley,  Secretary  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Traveling  Men’s  Base 
Ball  Club,  is  in  receipt  of a  letter  from 
Wm.  H.  Baier,  Captain  of  the  Detroit 
nine,  offering  to accept  the  challenge  of 
the  Grand  Rapids boys  in  case  the  lat­
ter  will  pay  the  traveling  expenses  of 
the  Detroit  boys  to  Grand  Rapids  and 
return.  The  offer  has  been  respectfully 
declined,  as the  Grand  Rapids  boys  are 
of  the  opinion  that  they  can  hardly 
afford  to  pay  their own  expenses  on  the 
occasion  of the  return  game  and  also 
pay  the  expenses  of  the  Detroit  boys  to 
Grand  Rapids to  play  the  initial  game 
of  the  series.

Have also for sale at a bargain one carryall 
and three-seat carriage.  G. B. Lovejoy, Agent 
Big Rapid 
TITILL  SELL ONE OF  THE  BEST  $4,01)0 
it  general stocks of merchandise on earth at 
50 cents on the dollar.  Cash—no traders need 
apply.  Lock box 46, Reed City, Mich. 
8©
V ' Itapids, Michigan, to exchange for first-class 
stock of boots and shoes.  Address Box 101, Les­
lie, Mich. 
j-3i
IAOK SALE—HARDWARE STi CK, SET OP 
P  tinner’s tools and store furniture, Invoicing 
about $2,500, in a town in Michigan, located in a 
good farming country.  Address No. 832, care 
832
Michigan Tradesman. 
TUCK  OF  MILLINERY  AND  FANCY 
ids, sale or trade.  Will inventory at cost 
and discount for cash 80 per cent if sold at once 
in a lump.  Address V.  E.  Roland, Traverse 
Oily, Mich. 
833
|A<>R SALK -OKI O ST<ICK AND FIXTURES 
in thrifty Indiana town.  No pharmacy law. 
Address C. M. W., 285 Central avenue, Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
823
TPOR  SALK  STOCK  OF GENERAL  M1!R- 
JL  chandise in a live growing town of 3.000 pop­
ulation.  Will inventory $5,000 and 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
\ \ Tanted—location  for  a  hay anD
* * 
feed store. New towns preferred.  Address 
“Feed," care Michigan Tradesman. 
825
\  I/-AN TED- A COMPLETE OUTFIT OF MA- 
“
  ehinery for  hand sawmill and  planing 
mill plant to supply the place of one recently de­
stroyed by fi re.  Second-hand will do if good*and 
cheap.  Address Fearon Lumber A Veneer Co.,
Ironton, Ohio 
826
r  C'Oli SALE - STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES AND 
, 
Invoices about
<„„ 1.... 
d,y soods, cheap for cash. 
ounday.  He states that lie has $ 1, 4 9 2 .4 9  $1.800.  Address No.
, cate Michigan Trades 
man. 
g27
A  GOOD  TWO  AND  ONE-HALF STORY 
A  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. 
Ij'O R   R E Ñ T   T11E  ~WALDRON  BLO CK ?6F- 
Size of ground. 160x170 ft.  Machine Shop, one 
F  posite I nion depot.  Best location In city 
story. 60x65 ft.  Foundry, 60x60 ft, two cupolas. 
for wh ‘IcmiIc or commission  business. 
See 
Boiler and Pattern Shop, two stories, 50x100 ft". 
Scribner Bros, or F. D. Waldron. 
830
Blacksmith Shop, in rear, 50x60 ft., two forges 
Engine Room, 33x20 ft.  Engine and Boiler of 75 
U'OR SALE—OR WILL TRADE FOR PKOPKK- 
horse power capacity.  Vacant ground for stor­
!y located near the corner of  Hall  and 
age, 60x160 ft.
Madison avenue, a stock of general merchandise, 
consisting of groceries, dry goods, boots and 
Will be sold cheap and on easy terms, to close 
shoes, flour, feed. etc.  Good reasons for selling. 
an estate. 
For particulars call or address  011 the premises^ 
„ 
Grand Rapids, Mich.
_ 
... 
305 Central avenue. Grand Rapids. 
819
By \\  m . I.  p o w e r s , Survivor.
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
JA*>R SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A WELL- 
I 
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 he 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. 
VST ANTED — TO EXCHANGE  DESIRABLE 
T T 
residence proi»erty or vacant lots located 
in Benton Harbor, Mich., for stock of groceries 
or general stock.  Address Box 1296, Benton Har- 
bor, Mich. 
t^bu SALE OR EXCHANGE—A FINE  MILL 
propertj, 40 horse water power; 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 near by. 
Exchange for farm or city property.  Address 
W. H. N., care Michigan Tradesman. 
811 
Y \ 'ANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALF IN- 
T“ 
terest in my 75 bbl. steam roller mill and 
elevator, situated on railroad; miller preferred; 
good wheat country.  Full description, price, 
terms and inquiries given promptly by addressing 
H.C. Herkimer,Maybee,Monroe 1 ountv.Mich. 711
corner location ; stock in good condition and 
business paying.  Good reasons for selling.  Ad- 
dress Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo, Mich. <76
W JE BUY ALL KINDS SCRAP IRON, METAL, 
TV 
ags, shirt and overall cuttings and rub­
ber.  Write for prices. Wm. Brummeller & Sons, 
260 S. Ionia St., Gran I Rapids. ‘Phone 640.  804 
T17ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, PO­
TT 
tatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc.  Cor­
respondence solicited.  Watkins & Axe, 84-86 
South Division street. Grand Rapids. 
673 
\ \ TANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST COM- 
T T   mencing business, and every  01 e 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._____________

to  the  credit  of  the  organization,  with 
only  one  death  claim  unpaid,  that  of the 
late  frank  Seymour,  whose  proofs  of 
death  will  he  acted  upon  by  the  Board 
at  its  next  meeting  on  Sept.  6.  On  the 
I occasion  of  that  meeting  the  Lansing 
Post  will  present  a  formal  invitation 
from  the  business  men  and  traveling 
sale smen  of  Lansing  to  hold  the  next 
convention 
in  that  city,  Monday  and 
Tuesday,  Dec.  30  and  31,  being  the 
It 
dates  suggested  in  such  connection. 
is  proposed  to  hold  the  meetings 
in 
Representative  Hall  and  the  banquet 
in armory  hall,  dispensing  with the ball.
1 wo  complaints  have  been  filed  with 
the  Tradesman  relative  to  overcharges 
by  I.  &  F.  Andres,  proprietors  of  the 
Cutler  House,  at  Grand  Haven.  Both 
complaints  are  made by reputable Grand 
Rapids  traveling  men  who  are  regular 
patrons  of  the  house,  the  substance  of 
their  complaints  being  that  they  were 
charged  for the  use  of  rooms  assigned 
their  wives  in  the  daytime  for  the  pur­
pose  <>1  permitting  them  to  attend  to 
toilet  arrangements. 
In  addition  to 
such  charges,  the  Cutler  House  makes  a 
practice  of  charging  regular  rates  for 
the wives  of  traveling  men,  accompany­
ing  their  husbands  on  their  regular trips 
once  or  twice  a  year—a  custom  now 
more  honored  in  the  breach  than the ob­
servance.  The  proprietors,  are,  evi­
dently,  acting  011"  the  assumption  that 
they  have  the  only  first-class  hotel 
in 
Grand  Haven,  but  a  movement  is  al­
ready  on  foot  to 
induce  an  estimable 
lady to  open  a  boarding  house,  similar 
to  the  adm i rabie  establishment formerly 
conducted by  Mrs.  Capt.  Smallman,  in 
which  event  many  of the boys will trans­
fer their  patronage  from  the  Cutler  and 
use  their  influence  to  get other traveling 
men  to  take  the  same  course.

i  stands to reason that in competi­

(Continued from last week) 
The mill keeps it  011 hand and 
they 
sell 
it  cheap,  while  he 
charges you just as much as if he 
had to make it to order, while 
the architect’s client gets some­
thing  different 
in  style,  and 
without a d ubt l e gets a better 
finish  throughout and pays no 
more.  And you are sure you are 
getting your money's worth. 
It
tion you figure close and when 
you have plans, they tell the eon 
tractor just what you want and 
he knows what he has to do and 
no guesswork, and when a per­
son  knows just  what  another 
wants it is an easy matter to give 
him a price and it is given so as 
(To be continued) 
Anybody having any question 
to ask on this subject will  be
A leaky or improperly adjusted valve may 
Cost you hundreds of dollars per year at the 
r
"
coal pile.
I can show you how to save it by apply­
ing the indicator to your engine.
Address, 74 Monroe St., Room 5, Grand Rapids.

I B IG  CHANCE Foil SOMEONE—JEWELRY 

ij'OK SALE—DRÜG STOCK AND FIXTURES;

The  click  of  the typewriter  is  the  tap 
of  the  hammer on  the  nails  of  the  coffin 
containing  all  that  remains  of  the  old- 
time  prejudice  against  women  in  busi- 
ness.

Are Your Coal  Bills too High ?

John  Brechting  *rchltcct

MISCELLANEOUS.

W fl.  T.  POWERS  &  SON,

829

820 

#15

FOR  SA L E

Grand  Rapids. 

The aggregate  of  the  employes  of  the 
railroads of  this  country  is  as  large  as 
the  whole German  army.  Nine  hundred 
thousand  people  work  for the  roads.

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

There  is  no  worse  investment  than  to 

barter character  for  money.

Best  seller  in  the world—Signal  Five.

Q .  W .  A m e s

106  Phoenix  Block 
BAY  CITY,  MICHIGAN

Consulting  Engineer

________B.  E.  PARKS,  Engineer.
V.  SEBRING  HILLYER

Structural Iron Work
Concrete Construction.
Machinery Draughting. 
803  nichigan  Trust  Building 
We have for sale a number of NEW PURIFI­
ERS, FLOUR DRESSERS 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.

Millers!  Attention!

SPOONER  &  HALL,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

GRAND  RAPIDS

_  

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Cycle  Chain  Cleaner

Pritchard’s  Rotary... 

J J .H W C0.

6 9 Pearl Street,, GRAND RAPIDS, ftlCH.

Keeps  chain  clean  and oiled. 

Prevents snapping.
Weighs ;lj  of an ounce.
Iiuns w ith ou t friction .

Price,  50 cents,

BUSINESS  W HEELS 
LIGHT  ROADSTERS 
LADIES’  W H EELS

11 Griswold House

A  High Grade  Machine,  Built on  Mechanical  Principles.  Prices  Right. 

ate  Shipment.  Dealers, write for discounts.

cycloid  cycle CO., 488 s. Division St., Grana Rapios

___DECT 
*•••  BEST $2 .0 0 A DAY HOUSE IN THE CITY  •••*-

--- * I\ A V MniîEC IAJ THE .'ITA REMODELED 
Proprietor

NEWLY  FURNISHED
FRED  POSTAL

Immedi­

WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.  2  2  Corner  Grand  River  Avenue  and  Griswold  St.

DETROIT,  MICH.

Will you allow us to give you

A  POINTER

The  S .  C.  W .  is  the  only  nickle 
Cigar,  Sold  by  all  Jobbers  traveling 
from  Grand  Rapids  and  by  Snyder  & 
Straub, 
Jobbers  of  Confectionery, 
Muskegon.  We > do  not3 claim  this 
Cigar  to  be  better  than  any  10  cent 
Cigar  made,  but  we  do  claim  it to  be 
as  good  as  any  5  cent  Cigar  that  is 
sold  for  a  nickle.

Nos.  122  and  124  Louis  Street, 

PURE,  HIGH  GRADE

Waller Baker &  Go. Limited,
The Largest Manufacturers of
COCOAS AND 
on this continent, 
CHOCOLATES
have received
HIGHEST  AWARDS

from  the  great

EXPOSITIONS

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Europe and America.

r A IIT IA k l ■ In view of the many 
v n U  I IV/ll ■ imitations  of 
the 
labels and wrappers on our goods, consum­
ers should make sure thatour place of man­
ufacture, namely  Dorchester, Mass, 
is printed on each package.

SOLD  BY  GROCERS  EVERYWHERE.

Walter  Baker &  Co.  Ltd,  Dorchester,  Mass.

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AND  READ.

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^   1895  until  we  call  or  you 
^   write us  about
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Portland  and 
Swell  Body 
Cutters

I  Belknap,  Baker &  Co. 

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the  best  trade  is  a  perplexing  problem  to  some  people,  but  its  solu­
tion  is  simple.

F irst.  Make  the  best  goods  possible;  not once  in  a while,  bat 

always.

S e c o n d .  Let  the  people  know  of  it,  early and  often.
T hird.  Don’t  neglect  details.
Attention  to  these  principles  has  placed  the

CONDENSED  MILK  at  the  head,  and

Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand
Borden’s  Peerless  Brand
Prepared and guaranteed by the NEW YORK CONOENCCD HtLK CO. 

EVAPORATED  CREAM  is  sure  to  obtain an  equally  high  place  in 
the  consumer’s  favor,  because  it  has  IN T R IN S IC   M E R IT .

0.

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The  Money=Saving  Scale

HSIi
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saELiie;

Bai

P A Y S  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 AT  U SERS  SA Y .

C a sh   Mer c h a n d ise.

BOSTON STORK,

US-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 24,1894, 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 economical scale in use for meat markets 
and groceries 

Yours truly,

B oston  St o r e.

G e n t l e m e n : 

J. W. WHITELEY 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 us, permit us to state that they have ex­
ceeded our expectations, giving us the utmost 
satisfaction.  We consider it one of our greatest 
conveniences in our store, and knowing it, as we 
now do and from the experience we have had 
from its usage in the store, we would not dis­
pense with it for ten times its value.  Any ordi­
nary clerk, with common school education, c .n 
expedite business equal to two or three clerks, 
and we prize it as one of our foremost fixtures 
in our store.  We consider tnd feel that ours has 
paid for itself in two months.

Y o u rs truly.

•I.  W .  W h it e l e v   a   S o n.

Investigate  the  Dayton  Computing  Scale. 

For  further  particulars  call  or  write

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

   !           PPP!

¡OUR  LATEST  -=  Imported  Tw ins!

ALFRED  MEAKIN’S SEMI  PORCELAIN.

FLOWN  PEARL.

A beautiful blended color bordering on  a  blue  tint.  Very  clear 
cut  having  the  effect  of  a  wreath  of roses.  One of the handsomest 
patterns ever produced for tlie money.  Your  customers  will  not  be 
disappointed.

BROWN  AND  PINK  ENAMEL.

The  Decorator’s  art  is  here  produced  in  the  highest degree, as 
showm  in  the  beautiful  blended  colors  produced  in  this  decoration. 
The handles and knobs are  richly  ornamented  w ith  gold,  and  alto­
gether it  is one of the prettiest and most attractive patterns we have to 
offer.  Place  a  trial  order  at  once  and  you  will surely thank  us for 
having called your attention to it.

H. Leonard  &  Sons

GRAND  RAPIDS

Ideal  Shape. 

Luton  Decoration.

BROWN  and  PINK  ENAM ELED.

Ideal Shape.

Luton  Decoration.

Gold  Handles and  Knobs.

These  Goods  in  Open  Stock  ^

4 doz. 
4 cloz. 
6 doz.
1 doz.
2 iloz. 
4 doz. 
4 doz. 
2 doz.
2 doz. 
1 doz.
3 only 
12 only
3 only 
3 only 
3 onlv 
3 only 
3 only

PEARL.
Amount Forward.
Assorted  Crate  Flown  Pearl  and  Brown  and  Pink  Enamel  No.  1.
: only 
8 inch Dishes.........
5 inch Plates.
: only 
10 inch Dishes___
3 15
6 ini'll Plates
! only 
12 inches...................
7 inch Plates
only 
14 Inch Dish...........
8 inch Plates 
! only 
Pickles......................
7 inch Coupe Soups
: only 
Sauce Boats...........
4 inch Fruits..............
only 
24s Jugs ....................
Individual Butters.
only 
30s Jugs....................
Bone Dishes______
: only 
36s Jugs....................
only 
8 inch Cov Dishes, 8 Inch 8 40 
Oyster Bowls, 30
only 
8 Inch Casseroles. 8 inch. 9 45 
Bowls, 30s...........
only 
Covered Butters and Drs  0 30 
3 inch Bakers..
only 
Sugars 30s
7 inch Bakers.
only
Creams 30s.
. 1 96 
8 inch Bakers.
Per Set.
SetsSetsHandled Teas___
8 inch Scallop:
7  inch  Scallops.
Handled Coffees.
8 inch Dishes.
$105 49 
$2 50

Amount forward.................
4 doz. 5 inch Plates .
Doz.;
4 doz. 6 inch Plates .
6 doz. 7 inch Plates .
1 doz. S inch Plates .
2 doz. 7 inch Coupe Soups.
4 doz. 4 inch Fruits...........
4 doz. Individual Butters 
2 doz. Bone Dishes.............
2 doz. Oatmeals ..................
1 doz. Oyster Bowls, 30s.
3 only Bowls.............................
12 only 3 inch Bakers___
3 only 7 inch Bakers  ____
3 only 8 inch Bakers.........
3 only 7 inch Scallops___
3 only 8 inch Scallops____

: only 
10 inch Dishes.................
! only 
12 inch Dishes.................
only 
14 inch Dishes...............
: only 
Pickles....................................
: only 
Sauce Boats........................
only 
24s Jugs...................................
30s Jugs ...............................
only 
only 
36s Jugs..................................
only- 
8 inch Covered Dishes
on] y 
8 inch Casseroles...........
only 
Cov. Butter and Drs.
only 
Sugars 30s.............................
only
Creams 30s............................P
: Handled Teas......................
: Handled Coffees...............
Total Amount Forward.

T o ta l...................................
Crate and Cartage N et.

These  Goods  Also  in  Open  Stock.

BROWN  AND  PINK

O atm eals.............

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