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FEM ALE  COMPETITION.

How  an  Old  Man  Was  Crowded  Out 

by  the  New  Woman.

Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  3—I  have  no­
ticed  several  very  able  articles  in  your 
paper  lately  in  regard  to  the  position  of 
“ The  Woman  in  Business,”   but  of  all 
those  who  have  written  on  the  subject  I 
have  failed  to  notice  any  one  who  has 
reviewed  the  question  from  the  stand­
point  of  the  man  whom  “ The  Women 
in  Business”   is  crowding  out.

Will  you  permit  one  who  has  had  ex­
in  this  direction  to  express  a 
perience 
ideas  that  have  occurred  to  him? 
few 
That  the  new  woman 
is  crowding  the 
man  out  nobody  can  deny,  and  many 
people  seem  to  think 
it  a  most  com­
mendable  thing.  Let  us  look  first at the 
motives  which  actuate  women  in  invad­
ing  the  business  world.  Some  are,  no 
doubt,  prompted  by  a motive  the justice 
and  reasonableness  of  which  no  one  can 
dispute 
i.e.,  being  compelled  to  pro­
vide  for  themselves,  they  naturally  wish 
to  make  as  good  a  living  as  possible, 
and,  finding the fields  of teaching,  dress­
making,  millinery,  etc.,  overcrowded 
and  the  field  of  domestic  service  not  to 
their  tastes, invade  the  fields  which have 
been  held  as  man’s own  for  so  long. 
Against  such,  no reasonable  person  can 
complain;  but  there 
is  another  class, 
and  by  far the  greater of  the  two,  that, 
having  finished  their  education—either 
all  they  can  get or all  they  want 
think 
it  more  refining  to bridge  over the space 
f  time  that  intervenes  between  scb 
days  and marriage by  working  in  offices 
if  stores  rather  than  to  remain  at  home | 
ind  assist  their  mothers  in  the  manage­
ment of  the  household,  where  their  as­
sistance  is,  as  a  rule,  more  needed  than 
the  paltry  salaries  they  can  earn.  These 
people  have,  in  very  few 
instances,  no 
idea of  making  life  work  of  the  branch 
if business  they  take  up, only  intending 
to  follow  it  until  they  have  a  chance  of 
getting  married,which  they  all  look  for­
ward  to  as  only  a  short  distance  away ; 
ind  it  is  this class of  women,  more than 
those  who  excel 
in  their  calling,  that 
are  crowding  men  out.

Now,  why  are they  crowding  men out? 
Because  they  will  work  cheaper  than 
men  will  or  can.  And  why  will  they 

work cheaper?  Because  they can  make 

their own  clothing,  board  at  home,  or, 
if  necessary,  board  themselves  and  are 
not  called  upon  to  defray  the  expenses 
of  a  companion  to  the  theater  or  other 
places  of  amusement  or  entertainment, 
for 
it  is  very  noticeable that,  however 
clamorous  women  are  to  fill  men’s 
places and  to  be  recognized  as  men’s 
equals,  they  are  never  very  anxious 
about  paying  the  bills,  but  would  per­
mit  the  young  men  to bear all  the  ex­
penses and  then  underbid  them for their 
position  the  very  next  day.
Now,  is this fair  competition?  Does 
it  not  approach  very  closely to the great­
est  evil  known 
in  business—cutting 
prices?  The  Tradesman  has  always 
lifted  up  its  voice  in  no  uncertain  man­
ner about  the  price cutter,  but  where  is 
the  difference between  cutting  the  price 
of  sugar or  calico and  the  price  of  ser­
vices? 
is a difference  it  is  so 
finely drawn  that  I  am  too  dull  to  detect 
it.
The question  has  been  raised,  What 
are  men  to  do 
if  women  fill  all  the 
breadwinning  positions?  This  has been 
most  summarily  dismissed  by  the  ad­
vocates  of  “ The  Woman  in  Business”  
with  the  injunction  to seek  new  fields of 
labor.  This  may  be  entirely  satisfac­
tory  to  the  woman  and  the advocate,  but 
how  about  the  man  who  has been  turned 
down? 
I  call  to  mind  an  acquaintance, 
a book-keeper,  in  which  field,  perhaps, 
the  woman  has done more crowding than

If  there 

in  any  other.  He  was  thoroughly  com­
petent,  a  master  of  his  profession  (if 
such  it  may  be  called);  having  taken  it 
up  when  a  mere  boy  and  pursued  it 
with  the  intention  of  making  it  his  life 
work.  By  force  of  circumstances  he 
was  forced  to  look  for a  new  position. 
He  was  well  known  in  the  city where  he 
lived  and  had  friends,  but  time  and 
again  he  met  the  same  repulse,  “ Yes, 
we  know  you  and  have  no doubt  you are 
a  first-class  man  but—well,  we think  we 
will  get a girl  for  the  place.  A  girl  will 
work  cheaper  than  you  can  afford  to 
and  will  answer  our  purpose. ”   This 
continued  until 
it  began  to  look  as 
though  he  might  have  to  work  on  the 
streets  to  support  himself  and  family, 
and  he  was  finally  forced  to accept a 
position  that  ten  years  before  he  would 
not  have  looked  at  for a  moment.
Now,  this  man  was  in  a  very good po­
sition  to  “ seek  some  new  field of labor’ ’ 
and  begin  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder 
(with  a  family  on  his  hands  and  a 
home  partly  paid  for)—a  new  field  of 
labor  was  just  the  place  for  him !
is  all  right,  but  let  the 
competition  be  fair and  honest  and  not 
a  price  cutting  war.  Let  the  woman 
come  into  business,  if  she  wants  to,  but 
let  her  stand  on  the  same  basis  man 
stands on ;  let  her  take  up  her  calling 
with  a determination  to  make  it  her life 
work  and  to  win  promotion  as  men have 
to  win 
it,  purely  on  her  own  merits, 
and  nobody  will  object. 
1  will  not  en­
ter  into  a  discussion  as  to  whether  the 
woman  will  be  better  off  or happier than 
if  the  had  remained  out  of  business- - 
that  is a  question  for her  to  decide  for 
herself -  but,  if  she  proposes to  compete 
with  man,  let  the  competition  be  hon­
orable  anil  fair.

Competition 

Evander.

so-called  rights  of  those  who  are  abun­
dantly  able  to  work?  Toil  not,  neither 
do  they  spin,yet  the  lilies  of  the  valleys 
are  not  arrayed  like one  of  these.

The  assumption  that  the  ruling  class 
is 
must,  of  necessity,  be  heaven-bom 
comforting,  especially  if  one  is 
in  the 
swim.  Mr.  Partridge  makes  it  clearly 
vident  when  he  considers himself in  on 
the  ground  floor. 
If  Mr.  Partridge’s 
ither qualities are  on  a  par  with  his 
knowledge  of  the  rights  of  man,  as  set 
forth  in  his  screed,  one can  more easily 
understand  the  necessity  of  asylums  for 
feeble  minded  and  accept  the  belief 
in 
divinely-equipped  individuals,  born  to 
govern. 

In  conclusion, 

I  would  advise  Mr. 
Partridge  to  invest  50 cents 
in  a  copy 
of  “ Progress  and  Poverty”   and  would 
recommend 
its  study  until  he  under­
stands  the  natural  rights  of  man,  for 
then  he  would  cease  to  weary a suffering 
public  with 
concerning 
things  of  which  he  knows  nothing.

A. Falkel.

statements 

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STILL  LOOKS  TOWARD  FREEDOM.

The  Cuban  outlook  continues  favor­
able  to  ultimate  independence.  The re­
ported  barbarous  ferocity  of  the  Span­
iards,  while  rough  on  the  Cubans  which 
may  come  into  her  power, 
is  a  benefit 
to  the  Cuban  cause,  and  is  as  serious  a 
mistake  as  Spain  could  make 
if  she 
wishes  to  regain  control.  The  increase 
in  sympathy  for  the  struggling  islanders 
will  he an  important  aid  to  them  and 
will  result  in  increased  accessions  from 
those  who  had  remained  neutral  in Cuba 
and  from  sympathizers  in  this  country 
and  elsewhere.

From  the  Standpoint  of 
Tax  Advocate.

Single

Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  3  Mark  Twain, 
in  one  of  his  sketches,  tells  how  he,  de­
siring  to obtain  a  situation  as  editor  of 
a  farmer’s  journal,  supported  his  claim 
for the  position  by  assuring  the  pro­
prietor  that  his  absolute  ignorance  of 
agriculture  was his  strongest  qualifica­
tion,  which,  he  thought,  eminently  fit­
ted  him  to  perform the  duties  of that po­

sition.  A perusal  of  Mr.  Partridge’s 

disquisition  on  the  “ Rights  of  Man”  
leaves  no  room  for doubt 
in  regard  to 
his  unqualified  fitness  for  his  task.

It  is  not  my  intention  to  follow  Mr. 
Partridge  in  detail,  but  merely  to notice 
his  fling  at  single  taxers,  since  he  has 
coupled  them  with  anarchists  and  the 
class  of  men  that  thinks  the  world owes 
them  a  living.  Where  did  Mr.  Part­
ridge  gain  this  information?  Certainly 
not  from  studying  the  rights  of  man,  as 
emDodied  in  the  single  taxer’s  creed; 
and  why  does  Mr.  Partridge  undertake 
to 
instruct  on  a  matter  in  regard  to 
which  he  displays  such  woeful  igno­
rance?  Did  he  ever  see  anything  in the 
doctrines  of  the  single  taxer that  war 
rants  him  in  asserting  that  they  hold 
that no  man  has  a  right  to  property  or 
anything  else beyond  a  bare  existence? 
Why,  except 
for  personal  ends  and 
gains, 
intelligent  men  (of  the  upper 
classes,  of  course)  should  be  willing  to 
advocate  such  falsehoods,  it  is  difficult 
to  understand.
The  doctrine  that  Nature  recognizes 
no  right  but  that of  labor,and  this  with­
out  regard  to  person  or  station,  is  self- 
evident.  It  is a  pity  Mr.  Partridge  does 
not  understand 
full  significance. 
Neither bird,  beast  nor fish  can  be  said 
to  be  provided  with  a  living  by  Nature. 
If the savage  dies  when no longer able  to 
hustle; 
fish  must 
skirmish  or  starve,  on  what  theory  of 
ethics does  Mr.  Partridge  defend  the

if  bird,  beast  or 

its 

England 

is  beginning  to  manifest 
some  uneasiness  as  to  the  outcome. 
Should  such  a  colony  as  Cuba  obtain 
freedom  the  example  might  be  inimical 
to  British  rule over  some  of  her  less  do­
cile  colonies,  as  India  or  Ireland.  The 
fear  is  expressed  by  the  English  press 
that  the  cost of  putting  down  the  rebel­
lion  will  he  too  great  an  addition  to  the 
tremendous debt  Spain  is  already carry­
ing.  This  is  a  matter  of  English  con­
cern, as  most  of  the  debt  is  held  in  that 
country.  The  English 
the 
United  States  taking  the  island  is  with­
out foundation ; this country would prefer 
to  see  it  independent.  The  British am­
bition  for  territorial  conquest  colors that 
nation’s  estimate  of  the 
intentions  of 
others.

fear  of 

The  prospect  of  Cuba  receiving  rec­
ognition  as  a belligerent,  if  not  as  an 
independent  power,  is  continually grow­
ing  brighter.  Either  would  receive  the 
endorsement  of the  vast  majority  of  the 
American  people.

the  attempt. 
Island 

Iceland  is  at  last  waking  up.  The 
spirit  of  the  early  discoverers  of  the 
Western  World 
is  rousing  itself,  like  a 
strong  man  from  sleep,  fully determined 
to  have  her  share  of  this tourist business 
or  die 
in 
Information 
about  the 
is  to  be  scattered 
abroad,  and  a  steamer  is  to  be  bought 
to  establish  direct  communication  with 
England  during  the  summer  for  mails 
and  passengers. 
It’s  a  good  move. 
There 
is  something  attractive  in  the 
very  name  of  the  Island  on  a  hot  day ; 
and,  once  the  movement  is  started,  the 
place  will  be  flooded  with  the  American 
traveler and  the  American  dollar.

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OUR  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS.

Criticism  by  Ezra J.  Ware  Reply  by 

Written for the Tradesman.

R.  M.  Streeter.

It  was  devised  by  Rev. 

The  school  system  of  the  State  of 
for 
Michigan  has  been  the  pattern 
many  other states  as  it  far  excels  most 
systems  previously  instituted  in  Amer­
ica. 
J.  I). 
Pierce,  a  Cougregational  missionary 
who  was  appointed  by  the  Legislature 
of 
i S31  as  State  Superintendent  of 
Schools,  with 
instructions  to  organize 
the  common  schools  and  University  of 
the  State,  and  to  his  intelligent  study 
of  the  Prussian  system  of  gymnasium 
and  university  we  owe  the excellence  of 
our  public  school  system  and 
its  con­
nection  with  the  University,  at  Ann 
Arbor,  whereby  the  high  schools  of  the 
State  are 
feeders  to  the  University. 
Judge  Cooley  calls  them  * “our  acad­
emies.

()ur  public  schools  are  graded  upon 
this  plan :  Four  years’  primary  work, 
the  graduates  going  into  the grammar 
department,  when  four  years  more  are 
required  to  complete  the  work,  when 
they  go  to  the  high  school  for  four years 
more,  when  they are  graduated,  receiv­
ing  a  diploma  as  evidence  of  the  fact. 
Having  the  diploma,  the graduate  may 
go  to  the  University,  at  Ann  Arbor, 
where  he  may  enter,  without  examina­
tion,  and  study four years,  receiving  an­
other diploma,  giving  him  a  degree  as 
bachelor  of  something;  then,  if  he  de­
sires  two  years’  post  graduate  work,  he 
may  obtain  the  degree  of  doctor  of 
something—a 
Then 
we  have the  plan  in  theory :

literary  degree. 

Primary,  four  years;
Grammar,  four  years;
High  school,  four  years ;
University 

(undergrade itet, 

four 

years;

University  I post  graduate), two  years, 
111 

complete’ ’  education 

making  a 
eighteen  years.

in  America. 

Our  University  has  been  a  leader  in 
e-lucational 
innovations  and  improve­
ments  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the 
The 
best 
faculty  and 
b >ard  of  regents  have  been 
raising  the 
standard”   until,  at  the  present  time, 
the  conditions  may  be  said  to  be  almost 
as  follows:

Work  formerly  done  in  the  two  post 
graduate  years  has  been 
introduced  as 
required  work  for the bachelor’s  degree; 
the  former  senior and 
junior  work  has 
been,  to a  considerable  extent,  'forced 
down  into  the sophomore  and  freshman 
years  and  much of  the  work 
formerly 
done  in  these 
lower  years  has  been 
crowded  out  of  the University altogether 
requirements  for 
and  thrown  into  the 
is  that  all  di­
entrance. ’ ’  The  result 
ploma  schools  have  been 
forced  to  do 
more  work  than  formerly,  in  order  that 
their  diplomas  shall  be  recognized,  and 
at  the  present  time  work  is  being  done 
in  our  high  school  and  text  books  used 
which  were  to  be  found  only  in the Uni­
versity  ten  or  twelve  years  ago.  The 
work  of  the  last  two  years  of  grammar 
school  and  the  four years  of  high  school 
must all  be  done,  besides  considerable 
work  which  was 
formerly  University 
work  crowded  into  these  six  years  as 
well.  We  are,  in  fact,  paying  taxes to 
the  State  to  support  the  University  of 
Michigan  and  other  taxes  to  the  city  in 
considerable 
order  to  accompl ish  a 
amount  of  college  work 
in  our  high 
school, which  makes  our  burdens a  trifle 
unjust.

Aside  from  the  financial  considera­
tions  is the  graver and  more  deplorable 
is  being
condition  that  too  much  work 

in  our  high  school.  The j 
graduates  are  not  educated  properly; j 

attempted 

ft 

is  a 

for  life  but  for 
they  are  not  prepared 
exam i nat i ons,  and  a 
subject,  once 
passed,  is  with  most  of  them  passed 
it  is  crammed  down  them  and 
forever 
they  are  graduated 
in  a  condition  of 
mental  indigestion and seasickness with­
out  the  possibiliy  of  relief  to  be 
found 
in  physical  sickness,  and  they  cannot 
expell  the  mass  of  half  digested  knowl­
edge  and  begin  again, 
fact, 
which  the  professors  at  Ann  Arbor  ob­
serve,  that  “ diploma  students”   are  not 
as  well  fitted  for  University  work  as  the 
examination  students  (those  who  pass 
entrance  examinations).  Our  theory  is 
fine  and  has  worked  tolerably  well,  but 
not  well  enough  to  assert  that  it  is  all 
right. 
At  the  present  time  a  certain 
amount  of  work  must  be  done  in  a  giv­
en  time and  any  one  who  is  unable  to 
“ do”   it  gets  left.  That 
is  all  right, 
probably,  with  a  reasonable  require­
ment ;  but must a  whole school  be  keyed 
to  a  high  pitch 
in  order  that  a  small 
percentage  of  our  graduates  shall  be­
come  University  students?
Our  remedy  lies  in  this: 

( 1 )  Let  our
high  school  cease to  be a diploma school 
and  let  our students from  Grand  Rapids 
for 
go  to  Ann  Arbor  so  well  prepared 
rank  high 
examinations  that  they  will 
as  University  students ;  (2) 
In  order  to 
accomplish  this 
let  a  post  graduate 
course  in  the  high  school  be  instituted 
in  which all shall pay tuition,  and-let  the 
instruction  be  selected  with  such  care 
and  discrimination  that  a  boy  (or girl) 
having  completed  the  post  graduate  or 
academic  course may pass  with ease any 
requirements  of  the  University  for  en­
trance.

Harvard  requires  every  man  entering 
to  pass  examination ;  so  does  Vale ;  and 
in  the East  it is  customary for a  boy  who 
wishes  to  enter  either of  the  universi­
ties,  after  having  completed  his  high 
school  work, 
to  spend  a  preparatory 
period  at  Andover or  Exeter  Academ­
ies,  from  which  he goes  to  the  univer­
sities  well  equipped  for  his  tussle  with 
Latin  declensions  and  Greek 
roots. 
The  University  of  Michigan  is  striving 
to  equal  Harvard  and  Yale  in  the quali­
ty  of  work,as  she  does  now  in  the  quan­
tity  of  students. 
1  have  no  criticism  to 
make  on  the  University  of  Michigan  as 
a  single 
but  when  she 
spreads  out  over  the  State,  entering  our 
high  schools  and crowding altogether too 
much  work  upon  our corps  of  teachers 
and  scholars  to  have  it  properly  done,  1 
think  it  time  to  call  a  halt  and  ask  why 
we are  called  upon  to  support  a  school, 
an  academy  and  a  University.  A motto 
which  our  high  school  and  Board  of 
Education  would  do  well  to  keep  con­
stantly before  them  is :

"Not how much, but how well."
Ezra J. Ware.
REPLY BY AN OLD EDUCATOR.

institution; 

The  author of  the above  communica­
tion 
is  the  well-known  Cherry  street 
druggist, who  is  a graduate of  the Grand 
Rap ills  high  school  and,  also,  of  the 
Pharmacy  Department of  the  Michigan 
University.  Believing  that  his  criticism 
of  the  present  school  system  is  well  in­
tended  and  that a  discussion  of  the  sub­
ject  will  be  productive  of  good  to  all 
concerned,  the  Tradesman  cheerfully 
gives  place  to  the  commuuication,  ac­
companying  same  with a  reply  to  the 
salient  statements  therein  by  the  asso­
ciate  editor of  the  Tradesman,  who 
is 
an  educator  of  twenty  years’  expe­
rience :

The tone of the  above  excellent  paper 
cannot  be too much  commended.  With

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

no  fault-finding  spirit  it  states  clearly 
its  objection  to  the  State  system  of  in­
struction  and as  clearly  offers  a  remedy.
Concisely  stated,  the question  is,Shall 
the  University  of  Michigan  do  the work 
for  which  it  was designed?

Most  certainly,  and  that  work 

in­
cludes  whatever 'superior  education  in­
cludes. 
In  all  that  pertains  to  what  is 
best  in  learning,the  University  not  only 
stands  first  but  is  expected  to  lead  the 
This  makes  it  progressive;  and, 
way. 
if  it  be true  to  its  trust, 
it  must  keep 
abreast  of  the  times. 
is that the 
university of  to-day  has  left  far  behind 
the  university  of  yesterday;  and  so  it  is 
that  the  college  of  our  grandfathers 
hardly  covered  the  ground  which  be­
longs to  the  high  sclu»>1  now.

So  it 

imperative 

arithmetic, 

The  problem  which  the  University  is 
trying  to  solve 
is,  how  to  compress, 
within  the  four  years  of  her curriculum, 
the needed  nourishment  which  scholar­
ship  has  lately  harvested 
in  the  rich 
fields of  learning and  of  thought,  by  not 
adding  to  the  time  of  the  course,  lor 
public  opinion  has 
fixed  the  limit  to 
I he  demands  of  the  l  Di­
four years. 
versity  are  equally 
it  must 
its  work,  and  the  requirements  of 
do 
the  two  masters  are  met  by  putting  into 
the  high  school  the  lower  work  of  the 
University.
The  writer clearly  states  the condition, 
and  the  high  school  principal  and  the 
school  superintendent  bend  together 
over  the  puzzling  problem.  The  prin­
cipal,  taking  the  hint  from  the  Univer­
sity,  soon  finds  its  plan  his,  and  he 
promptly  pushes  his  lower  grade  work 
into  the grammer  school  and  leaves  the 
superintendent  to  solve  the  problem  as 
best  he  can. 
The  first  fact  that  official 
will  be almost  sure  to  grapple  with  is 
that  for  eight  years  the  children  are 
studying,  daily,  lessons in  reading,spell­
ing, 
grammar,  writing, 
drawing,  music  and science,  with  geog­
raphy  added  for  four  years and  history 
for one year.  To  that  daily  round  ov 
eight  and  sometimes  nine  studies,  he  is 
expected  to  add  several  more  without 
killing  the.  child  and  injuring the health 
of  the  teacher!  The  school  age  of  five 
years  precludes  the possibility  of  begin­
ning a  year  earlier.  What  is  to be done?
The  paper  suggests  that  the  halt  be 
called  on  the  University;  but,  with  that 
list  of  stu lies  to  which  eight  precious 
just  the  thing  to 
years  are given,  is  it 
cripple  the  University 
1
do  not  think  so. 
1  think,  in  the  first 
place,  that  it  does  not  take  the  average 
child,  taught  as  that  child  should  be, 
more  than  four  years  at  the  outside  to 
learn  to  read  and  write  and  spell.  I 
think  that  three  years,  under  a  good 
teacher  be  sure  to  notice  that  condi- 
: tion  will, in  most  cases,be  long  enough 
to  teach  the  child  to  do his  own  work  in 
that trinity  of  school  study,  and  that, 
after  the  third  year,  the  three should  be 
made  the  daily  means and  no  longer the 
1 end  of  school  work. 
I  bel i eve  that  the 
real  teacher,  with  the  ordinary  reading 
| book,  or without  it,  will  prove  the  text 
book  on  grammar  and  elementary  sci­
ence  and  physiology  and  primary  geo­
graphy  to  be  unnecessary;  and  when 
children  who  can’t  sing  and  don’t  want 
to  sing  and  won’t  sing  are  daily  led  up 
to the musical trough and  time  is  wasted 
in  trying to  make  them  sing,  I  believe 
it  is better to  call  the  halt there and  de­
vote the  time  upon  some  study  forced 
into  the grade  from  the high  school.  O11 
the  subjects  of arithmetic and geography 
I  know  I  am  not  orthodox  and  I hesitate 
to  state  any  convictions;  but  when,  af­
ter eight,  nine and  sometimes  ten  years

in  its  work? 

of arithmetic,  the  student 
is  asked  to 
add  a  column  of  figures  and  he  can’t 
got  the  right  answer  to  save  his  poor, 
tortured,  examination-racked  soul;  and 
when,  after  six  or  more  years  of  geog­
raphy,  the  same  pitiful  child  cannot  lo­
cate  a  town  in  her own  county  and  says 
that  peanuts grow  on  trees,  I  am  forced 
to  believe,  as  eye-openers  and  mind  de­
velopers,  these  two  ought  not  take  up 
for 
the  time  everywhere  given  them 
eight  long,  wearisome  years. 
I  know 
that  it  requires  experience  to  make the 
expert  and  that  the  school  room  cannot 
furnish  experience,  and  for  that  very 
reason  1  would  not  try  to  furnish  it ;  but 
1  would  stop  wasting  so  much  time  on 
these  and  the  other  studies  in  the  pri- 
mary grades  and  I  would  put  that  same 
time on  these  studies  pushed  down  by 
the  University  from  the  high  school  in­
to  the grades below.

The  child,  when  placed  at  the  age of 
5  or-6  years  in  the schoolroom,  is looked 
upon  and  treated  too  much  as  i f he were 
a little fool;  but,  between  babyhood  and 
his  fifth  birthday,  he  has  learned  to 
walk  and  to  talk  with  a  facility  which 
is  simply  surprising ; and the knowledge 
he  has  gained  of  his  surroundings  often 
surpasses  that  of  his  elders.  He 
is 
aching  to  learn  to  do  something  and  of­
ten,  in  spite  of  the  teacher,  he  learns to 
read  and  write  long  before  the time laid 
down  for  him  in  the  programme.  Why 
not  let  him  and  so  save  a  part  at  least 
of  those  dreary  years  of  primary  study 
by  taking  kindly  to  the  work  which  the 
University  has  wisely  and  mercifully 
crowded  down  to  him?

To  me  the strong  point  in  the  paper 
and,  if  I  do 
is  the  “ diploma  student, 
not  mistake,  Michigan  University is not 
institution  of  its  kind  which 
the  only 
has  reached  the same  conclusion. 
I’he 
diploma  system  is  not adapted  to broad­
en  scholarship  and  the  student 
is  nar­
rowed  by  it,  but  not  quite  so  much  as 
the  teacher.  The  means 
is  made  the 
end ;  and  when  teacher  and  student  set- 
| tie  down  to  work,  with  the  conviction 
i that  mental  training  consists  in  being 
J able  to  repeat  word  for  word  the  correct 
1 rule  for an  unfrequent  use  of  the  sub­
junctive,  the 
result  cannot  be  called 
scholarly.  The  remedy  for the  evil will 
be found  in  doing  away  with  the  diplo­
ma  and  admitting  the student  to the Un­
iversity  by  examination.  This,  in  my 
opinion,  in  connection  with  putting  in­
to  the  lower  grade,  the  studies  which 
will  be  found  to belong  there,  will  pre­
clude  the  need  of  breaking  up  what has 
come  to  be  regarded  as  one  of  the  best, 
if  not  the  best  school  systems known. 
It  is  to  the educational  body  what  the 
nervous  system  is  to  the  physical,  with 
the  University  as  the  cerebrum,  the pri­
maries  as  the terminal  nerves  and  the 
other  grades  as  ganglia,  not  one  of 
which  can be  cut  without  danger.

This,  it  seems  to  me, 

is  the  better 
way  to  meet the  difficulties,  if  they  are 
difficulties,  which  the  paper  has  pre­
sented. 
It  is dangerous always for those 
not  in  the thick  of the fight to venture an 
opinion;  yet  little  harm  can  come  from 
the  discussion  of  the  engagement on the 
part of  those  who  are  watching  its  prog­
ress.  The  paper  certainly  is a  model 
of  its kind  and  the  statements  are  made 
with apparent  candor;  and,  while  1  do 
not  concur 
in  the  conclusions  which 
j have  there been  reached,  I  am  not  quite 
ready  to  insist  that  mine 
is  the  only 
way. 
It  is,  after  all,  the  good  of  the 
child  which  the  paper  and  the  response 
are  seeking,  and  if  that  end  be  at­
tained,  it  can  make 
1 ittle  difference 
whether  one  or neither  has  been  the 
agent  for  securing  the  end  desired.

Reuben  M. Streeter.

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

• M M M M M N M M M t M M t M t t M V M M M M N M M « « » *

We  Are  In  It 

With  Both  Feeti

;.,  Sears  & 
of canned

We  are  carrying  a  full  line  of  Curtis Bra 
Nichols,  and  a  score  of  other  well  known  brands 
goods.

We are in  position  to  name  closer net  prices than any 

firm  in  Michigan.

We have just  received  another  large  consignment  of 

Teas, our own  importation, direct  from  Hiogo, Japan.

We  assert,  with  the  utmost  confidence  our  ability  to 
sell  Teas, prices and quality  considered, at  better  prices  than 
any firm  in  the State of Michigan.

All  we desire is a sample  order  to  convince  the  most 

critical buyer, that we are headquarters on  Japan  Teas.

Rolled Oats,  Standard  brands,  we  quote  this  week  at 

$2.95  per bbl.

The  Plug Tobacco war continues bitter as ever.
Through an error of printer,  price  on  Battle  Axe  was 

quoted at  12c. 

It  should have  read  12  lb.  Butts,  14c.

We make this  correction  in  justice  to  The  American 

Tobacco Co., as we never sail  under false colors.

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21, 

BANK  EXAMINERS. 

and  Authority. 
, 

I  have  failed  to  see  any  reference 

, 
Grand  Rapids,  Aug  27  1  was  much 
interested 
entitled 
in  your 
“ Questionable  Methods,”   referring  to 
the  action  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Chicago  in  charging  $1,000,000  of  bad 
debts  to  surplus  account.  1  do  not  know 
who  wrote  the  article,  but  it  is  so  mis­
leading,  and  contains  so  many  state­
ments that  might  give  rise  to false 
im­
pressions  that  I  felt  as  if  the  truth 
in 
regard  to  the  matter  should  be known.

ducting  therefrom  losses and  had  debts,
and  if  such  losses  shall  exceed  the  tin- 
Plain  Statement  as  to  Their  Duties  divided  profits on  hand,  other  than  sur- 
P1^ ,  no dividend  shall be  made.  Care-
ful  provision  is  thus  made  tor the steady
£ th o{  the  surplus  fund  of  a  bank,
fund
in  an  article  which .appeared | *  Thig  erowth  is  caused  by  the  bank’s 
This  growth  is  caused  by 
issue  or  Aug. 
carrying  to  surplus  fund each six months 
one-tenth  part  of  its  net  profits  since the 
last  preceeding dividend,  until  the  sur­
plus  shall  equal  one-fifth  part  of  its cap­
ital. 
It  can  then,  if  it  so  please,  carry 
all  the balance  of  earnings to undivided 
profit account.  For example,  the Grand 
Rapids  National  Bank,  on  its  organiza­
tion,  put  $100,000  (its  legal requirement 
on  $500,000  capital)  to  surplus,  which 
has always  remained  at  that  figure,  and 
all  earnings carried to undivided profits. 
The Chicago bank  has  for  a  long  time 
had  a  surplus  of  $3,000,000,  which 
is 
in  excess  of  legal  require­
$2,400,000 
ments.  Supposing,  as  in  the  action  of 
the  city bank  quoted,  they 
in  Chicago 
had  simply  kept  the  surplus at  the  legal 
figure  and  carried  all  other gains to  un­
divided  profits,  the  charging  off  of  any 
such  amount  as  named  would  not  have 
created  any  comment. 
In  the  one  case 
the  consent of  the  Comptroller  of  the 
Currency  must  be  obtained,  when  the 
amount  to  be charged off exceeds the  un­
divided  profits  and  in  the  other  case 
not; and  inasmuch  as the Chicago bank, 
after  charging  off  the  $1,000,000,  still 
has  $2,000,000  surplus  on  hand  - which 
is  yet $1,400,000  in  excess  -it  does  not 
look  very  much  as  if  the capital  of  the 
bank  was  impaired  to  any  very  serious 
extent,  as the  article  in  question  would 
lead  one  to  suppose.  The  conclusions 
in  regard  to other banks  are  hardly  jus­
tifiable  and  will  not  “ hold  water.”   You 
say,  the dividends have  been  paid  out 
of  surplus  for the  last  few  years,  instead 
of  earnings.  The  records  do  not  justify 
the  statements.  The  whole  article 
is 
misleading  in  its  tendency  and,  hence, 
hurtful 
It  should  al­
ways,  it  seems  to  me,  be  the  purpose 
of  a  journal  to  maintain  confidence 
in 
so  important factors  in  the  commercial 
institutions,  in­
world  as  our  financial 
stead  of  breeding  distrust. 
It  is  hard  at 
times  to  express  one’s  self  clearei 
in  a 
written  communication,  but  1  trust  you 
will  receive  this 
in  the  same cordial 

1  am  not  in  any  sense writing for pub­
lication,  for,  although  1  nave had  fifteen 
years’  experience  in  the  banking  busi­
ness, when  it  comes  to writing  for publi­
cation,  there  are older  heads  than  mine 
in  Grand  Rapids  whose  names  should 
more  properly  appear 
in  connection 
with  any  printed  article concerning  the 
banking  business.
in 
banking  journals  to  the  transaction  re­
ferred to,  but,  doubtless,  many  of  your 
numerous  exchanges  have  touched  upon 
it.  The  first  thought  that  attracts atten­
tion  is  that  this  action  throws  distrust 
upon  the  reports  and  examinations  of 
National  Bank  Examiners.  The article 
says  it  is  unfortunate that  Bank  Exam­
iners  should  have  passed upon  these bad 
debts  as  good.  Now,  if  the  Examiner 
had  knowingly  passed  upon  bad  debts 
as  good,  then 
it  would  be,  indeed,  a 
state of  affairs open  to  very  grave  and 
just  criticism ;  but  the  function  of  a 
Bank  Examiner  is  not  to  pass  upon  the 
value of  the assets  of  a bank.  What does 
he  know,  or  can  he tell,  of  the  value  of 
the  notes  a  bank  may  have  on  hand?
An  institution  might  have  my  note  for 
$5,000  in  its  assets,  which  might  not  be 
worth  the  paper  it  was  written  on,  but 
an  Examiner  is  not  supposed  to  know 
anything  about  that  fact,  unless he  finds 
that  note  in  the  “ past  due  file.”   Then 
it  is  his business to exercise control.  A 
bank  has  six  months  in  which  to  carry 
a  past due item before “ charging it off. ”
His business  is  to  count  the  cash  of  a 
bank  and  see  that  it tallies with the cash 
on  hand,  as  shown  by  the  books.  He 
must make  a  list  of  the  bills receivable, 
finding  whether his totals  agree with  the 
amounts standing  to  “  B.  R. ”   account 
on  the  bank  books.  He  must,  at  the 
same  time,  notice  any  excessive  loan 
that is,any firm or  individual or company 
having  a  line  of  direct  paper  in  excess 
of  the  legal  amount—that  is, toper  cent, 
oflthe bank’s  capital;  examine  the  cer­
tificate  of „deposit  account;  look 
into 
the  character of  the collaterals  the  bank 
may  hold,  and  attend to  some  minor de­
tails,  such  as  the  reserve  fund,  etc.  Be­
yond  this,  hisjiuthority  does  not go,  un­
less  thejnstitution  is  found  to be  in bad 
condition,  and  the books  and  cash  are 
out of  balance. 
is  not  his  function 
to  pass on  the  value  of  the  bank’s  as­
sets.  As  1  said  in  regard  to  “ past due 
paper,”   he  must  inquire  into  its  value 
and  the  prospects of  its being  paid  and 
report  these  findings  to  Washington; 
and 
is  only  when  paper  is  “ past 
due”   that  an  Examiner  can  exeicise his 
control.  He  also  notes  the  amount  of 
single  name  and  double  name  'paper  a 
bank  may  possess. 
I he  value  of  bonds 
and  stocks  is not  determined by a Bank 
Examiner,  as  that lays  entirely  with  the 
directors,  and  when  there  shall  be  held 
by  a bank  among  its  live  assets  'stocks 
that shall  have  become  worthless,  they 
should  at once be ‘ ‘ charged off, ’ ’  regard­
less of  any  possible  future  value  they 
may  possess. 
the  Chicago 
bank  may  have  possessed  some  such  as­
sets;  at any  rate,  the  Bank  Examiner  is 
in  no  wise  responsible  for  lack  of  judg­
ment  regarding  the  value  of  assets  of 
which  he  can  know  nothing.

If  there  is  any  class  of  people  in  the 
community  who,  more  than  another, 
should  be  scrupulous  in  paying debts,  it 
is  rich  people.  No sacrifice  is  incurred. 
They  simply discharge  a  duty,  and 
in 
the act  are  making  for themselves habits 
which  will  be  of  benefit  in  their  busi­
ness  relations  in  life.  But  by  thought­
less  inattention,  or a  singular reluctance 
to  pay  out  money,  which even  those  who 
have  much  of  it  exhibit,  they  do  great 
injustice to others and  get  into  very  bad 
ways on  their  own  account.

When  a  bill  is  due to  a  mechanic  or 
tradesman  it ought  to  be  paid  and  the 
man  who  has  the  money  to  discharge 
such  debt  should  take  pleasure  in  pay­
ing  it.  He  does  justice  to  those  whom 
he  owes  and  to  himself  by  the  act.  By 
withholding  it  he  frequently inflicts,  not 
only  injustice,  but  causes  sensible  em­
barrassment,  if  not  distress,  to  worthy 
people.

spirit  in  which  it  is  written.Banker.

Obligation  of 

its  influence. 

the  Rich 

Promptly.

to  Pay 

Possibly 

in 

It 

it 

The whole  matter  may  seem  of  slight 
importance  on  a  cursory  view,  but there 
is often  an  injury  caused 
in  this  way 
which  is  important  in  pecuniary  and 
other  effects.  The creditor  is  at  an  ob­
vious disadvantage  in  urging  payment, 
for he  is  in  constant  fear  that  in  so  do­
ing  he  may  offend  and  thus  lose  a  cus­
tomer.  He ought  not  to  be  compelled 
to do  this.  Every  man  who  owes  money 
should  take  pleasure  in  clearing himself 
of  the  obligation  thus 
incurred.  Next 
to  the  satisfaction  of  receiving  payment 
of  a  debt  should  be  that  of  making pay­
ment  for the  same,  and  we are  not  sure 
but  the two  should  be  on  a  par  here.

The article  says the method of the Chi­
cago  bank, 
in  thus  “ charging  off”
$1,000,000 excites  unfavorable comment.
You  forget  that  after  funds  have  once 
been  passed  to  surplus  account they can­
not  be  used  for  any  such  purpose  with­
out  the  consent of  the Comptroller of the 
Currency.  Sec.  5,190 of  banking 
laws 
provides that  no  bank  shall  declare  a 
dividend  greater  than  the  undivided 
profits  (not surplus)  on  hand,  after  de-

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

Around  the  State.

Movements  of  Merchants.

jvet  A  bit ycle  dealer  in  this  town
0  poorer  in  purse and  a  great  deal 
tr  in  experience  than  he  was a 
lew
age  A  hard-looking  stranger came 
g  with  a  bicycle  in  his  wagon  and 
n  to him  for ¡>io and  went  merrily 
is  way.  The  dealer  fixed  up  the 
■I  and  gave  it  a  coat  of  enamel  and 
it  for  Si 5. 
lust  then  Under  Sheriff 
in  the 
ge  Blanchard  took  a  hand 

and  seized  the  bicycle  and  a set  of

for  strictly  short  lenghts 

to  cut  hemlock  to  order,  but  the figure 
must  be  a  good one,  and  S5.50  on  dock 
here 
is  not 
thought at  all  out  of  the  way,  while 
in 
long  lengths  the  price  is  almost  what  a 
man  wants  to  ask.

Disputes  the  Supremacy  of  Kent 

County.

Allegan,  Sept.  2—I  note the  contribu­
tion  ol  Hon.  K.  D.  Graham  in  the  last 
issue  of  the 
1 radesman,  in  which  he 
asserts  that  Kent  county  produces  more 
peaches  than  anv  other  countv  in  the 
State.

It 

I  am  greatly  pleased  to  see  the  busi­
ness of  fruit-growing  so  prosperous  in 
Kent  county,  but  if  the  above  is a  cor­
rect  measure  of  its  volume,  the  palm 
for  quantity  of  peaches  still  belongs  to 
Western  Allegan  county  by  a  very  wide 
margin. 
It  is safe  to  say'that  the  out­
put of  Allegan  county,  that  same  day, 
was  much  more  than  double  fifteen 
thousand  bushels. 
is  so  great  that 
six  steamboats are  constantly  employed 
in  transporting  the crop  across the lake; 
the  C.  &  \Y.  M.  Railway runs  long trains 
daily,  heavily  loaded,  and  thousands  of 
bushels and  lesser  packages  go  dailv  to 
the  South  and  to  the 
interior  o f  the 
State.  Xo doubt  the  peaches  of  Kent 
county  are as  good  as those  of  Allegan, 
which  means  that  they  have  no  super­
iors on  earth,  but when  it conies  to  total 
amount  of  shipments,  Allegan 
can 
double  Kent's  product and  have  enough 
more  to  equal  the output of all  the other 
counties  put  together.  The  countv  has 
repeatedly  grown  a  million  bushels  in  a 
single  season,  and  the  crop  this  year 
will  much  exceed  that  amount,  great  as 
it  is.

Allegan  county  feels  no  pride  in  her 
train  robberies,  murders,  burglaries, 
and  thefts,  but  no  one  shall  be  allowed 
to  question  her supremacy in  production 
of  the  lovely  and 
In 
that  she  is  in  the  very  front  of  the  po­
mológica!  procession.

luscious  peach. 

Since  writing  the above  I  have  jour­
neyed  to the  region  where  they  really do 
grow  peaches,  and  have  learned  some­
thing  of  the  amount  shipped  out  of  Al­
legan  county  on  Monday,  Aug.  26. 
I hese  figures  were given  me  by Edward 
Hutchinson,  who  secured  them  jointly 
with  Mr.  Higrnan,  of  the  Wells-Higmait 
Co.,  package  makers.  1 hat  night  there 
were  shipped,  fifth-bushel  baskets,  from
Ganges  pier......................................26,000
Saugatuck  and  Douglas................40,000

Kai;
E;

1  of,  claiming  it  as  property  stolen 
Battle  Creek.  The  stranger  was a
■ looking  individual,  and  the  officers 
iter  him  for  charges  of  theft  at

is  being  sold 
y  City  Hard  coal 
=er  in  Bay  City  at  present  than 
in 
■ tiler city  iri  the  State,  and  Hon.  S. 
isfaer  is  responsible  for  this  coridi- 
<f  affairs.  Because  the  West  Bav 
Board  of  Education  refused  to 
a  contract w ith  him for Sebewaing 
he 
taking  revenge  out  of  the 
coal  dealers,  who  have  never en* 
g ™   tne  sale of  the  Sebewaing arti- 
>'  putting  the  price  of  hard  coal 
:  sf.  exactly  Si. 
lower than  the 
nite. 
i he dealers,  of  course,  have 
obliged  to meet  the  cut.  and  now
-  sell mg  at  the  same  figure.  They 
eat.y  incensed over  the  action  of 
r.  I hey  say  he  has deprived  them
profits  of  their  business,  and,  if 
gbt  as  continued,  they  will  be 
i  out  of  business.  They  claim 
'  *'  trying  to  ;•(i?e  as  a philanthro- .

iy.  F  isfacr,  on  the  other  hand, 
e  is  merely  endeavoring  to  break
- combination  of  coal  dealers,  who 
»em  robbing  the  people  right  and 
He  claims  to  make money  by sell­
er  and  says  he  buys  from  the 
EJ1JCS  '-nai  the  other  dealers  buy 
lie  people  have  an  idea  that  the
:  be  continued  for any  great

: 

r winter coal at the reduced price.

j.  M.  Carr  will  rebuild 

Tanufacturing  .Tatters, 
gkson 
: 

..  recently  destroyed  bv

n 

Á  F t

its.  ttie  fe.i* iw  got

i  last  Cole  5c  Wav.

ag  G

•fitable  by  rea 
^   21XS  nuctijá

C

"eek  F ur- Glenn  ..
teds 

the Hoppert,DWI1  ___

.....................  4,000

Bros.  &
These would  1
J  a  saw- But  the  ;shipment:
intending Kibbie, and  the

106,000 
21,200  bushels, 
n  Bravo,  Lacota, 
the  fruit  which  goes  front 
South  Haven  1 the  greater  part  of  all

that  goes  from  that part |  were  not  ob­

sperati on  in  the

Curtis  ant 

B

side of the

LTiti 

finer ho

of  this 
Ri lev,  of 
Kellogg 
river,  for 
manufacture  some 
furniture,  and  will, 
e doing  custom  work. 
Peninsular  Lumber  \  
sawmill  has  started 
to  manufacturing  lum-
>eis  ana preparing hemlock 
iiong  purposes,  the  com- 
Juce  setters to occupy  land 
n  this  vicinity.
The  Oconto  Lumber  Co. 
i   of  the  Michigan  Land 
a  tract  of  pine  about  ;o 
in 
d  wii] 
lumber  it  this 
be  logs on  the  Chicago 
near  Ciovvrv,

tained. 
I hese  would  make  the  total 
quite  35,000  bushels.  Editor  Bassett,  of 
the  Fennville  Herald,  tells  me  he  was 
in  Grand  Rapids the  day  of  the above 
; mentioned  record-breaking 
sale,  and 
none of  the  dealers  claimed  the  total 
was  above  10,000  bushels.  But,  accept­
ing  the  extreme  figures  of  the  Grand 
Kapids papers,  Allegan county  was more 
than  100  per cent,  ahead  that  day.

Kent  county  peach -growers,  Mr.  Gra­
ham,  included,  are among  the  best  fel­
lows,  on  earth,  lnit  Allegan  county 
is 
still  the  grand  center  of  peach-growing.

E d w y  C .  R e i d .

K.  \\.  Solheint, the  Traverse Citv  gro- 
ier.  informs the  1 radesman  that  Sofie 
Solheim,  his  daughter,who  was  reported 
in  the  papers  as  having  eloped  with  her 
former  employer,  at  Muskegon,  spent 
the  time  in  question  with  him  and  his 
family  at 
I raverse  City.  The  report 
was a  cruel  one ami  the  persons  respon­
sible  tor  the  rumor should  be.  made  to

s i   G

I.  G.

Wind
Edwt

Geo. 
D.  F.

-seeper,  ceiv 
Beasiev  Cui*» 
ster  the  lecti

■*>£>. gavtr 2.  chattel in on 
tir  stock,  fix to res  an< 
Charle»  H.  Culver,  a &  Iron  Co.
the claims of five local  miles  west  of  here.  They  have  put 
iting  St00.68.  Subse-  their  camp 
.rr-  winter,  load

chant

f d!  Co.,  of  Toledo,  to  &  Northwestern  Railway,

n
jintmt

r  and  aii

g  any  more 
ssued a  prel

accounts. 
lmuiarv-  injunction

Judge  Hi 

11 pm

□ confi 1.

Manistee— Every  foot  of  dry  hemlock ; I';'iv  the  full  p
that  was in  the  market  has  been cleaned
It  the  re por
up.  Thi s  healthy  state  of  affairs  has th<e  English  c
served  to stiffen  the  backbone  of  our i the  United  St;
hemlock men,  and  now  they  will  offer 1 to supply  the

;  are  turning out badly, 
may  he  called  upon

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The Grand  Rapids  Packing  &  Pro­
vision  Co.  has  leased  the  plant  of  the 
defunct  Steele  Packing  &  Provision 
Co.,  just  below  the  G.  R.  &  1.  car 
shops,  and  will  undertake  to  conduct 
the slaughtering  of  hogs  and  cattle  as 
soon  as  necessary  repairs  can  be  made 
on  the  premises.  The  plant  comprises 
thirteen  acres  of 
several 
buildings  especially  adapted  for  the 
steers  and 
business  of  slaughtering 
hogs  and  handling  fresh  meats 
in  an 
economical  manner.

land  and 

Homer  Klap  suggests  that  another 
package  tying contest  be  held  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion.  The  contest  held 
at  Ottawa 
Beach,  two  years  ago,  was  one  of  the 
most  interesting  events  of  the  picnic 
that year,  and  there  is  every  reason  to 
believe  that a  repetition  of  the  feature 
would  be  well  received.  Mr.  Klap sug­
gests  that  several  loo  pound  bags  of 
granulated  sugar be  borrowed  from  the 
wholesale  grocers  and  that  each  con­
testant  be  required  to  weight  and  do  up 
fifty  packages,  to  be  judged  by  a  scale 
of  points  somewhat as  follows:  Speed, 
30;  appearance  of  package,  30;  ac­
curacy,  40.  The  hint 
is  an  excellent 
one and  should  be given  careful  consid­
eration.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar  Raw 

sugar  has  been  dull, 
prices  being  entirely  nominal  with  buy­
ers  and  sellers apart.  Refined  is  weak, 
Nos.  4  to  14,  inclusive,  having  been  re­
duced  in  price.

Coffee  So  far  as  Brazil  growths  art 
concerned,  the  market  has  been  just  a 
trifle  more  active,  but  mild  grades  art 
still  very quiet.

Dried  Fruits  -Trading  in  dried  fruit 
has generally  been  moderate. 
In  Cali 
fornia  prunes  the  low  price  on the Coast 
influenced  quite  some business,  but  tht 
, 
hand  to  mouth 
rest  of  the  list 
request.

,  ’ 

is 

Canned  Goods—Very quiet,  the  whole 
list  being  neglected,  as  far  as  any  spec­
ulative  business  is  concerned,  and  there 
is  very  little  doing  on  the  spot.

Tea  There  is  no  particular  life  to 
trade  and  prices  remain  unchanged. 
Tea  is  selling  so  low  now  that  there 
is 
but little  probability  that  values  will  re­
cede  much.  The  stock  ¿n  second  hands 
is  ample,  but  jobbers  appear  to  be  will­
ing  to  run  along  on  small  stocks  and  do 
not  relieve  the  market much.  The  con­
dition  of  the  market  now  is 
in  strong 
contrast  to  that  which  existed  at the cor­
responding  time  last  year,  when  a  large 
trading  was  being  indulged  in.  Pres­
ent  conditions  are  only  a  natural  reac­
tion  from  the  speculation  that  was  in 
force  during  the  period  that  China  and 
Japan  were  at  war.  However,  with 
cooler  weather 
is  believed  that  a 
stronger demand  will  start  in.

it 

Syrup—The  syrup  market  is fairly ac­
tive,  and,  while  there 
is  no  accumula­
tion  of  stock,  there  seems  to  be  a  slight 
weakness  on  the  production  of  one  or 
two  refineries.

not holding  out  inducements  in  the way 
Essential  Oils—Peppermint is without 
of  concessions.  The  statistical  position  further  change,  the  general  conditions 
of  the  article  is  such  that  holders  can  referred  to  in  our  last 
issue  still  con- 
afford  to  await  the advent  of  buyers  in  trolling  the  situation.  Anise  is decided- 
the  market.  The  stocks  in  New  Orleans  ly  stronger and  more  active,  with  prices
higher  both  here  and  abroad.  Bergamot 
are  very 
is  firmer  and  tending  upward.  Cassia 
hausted  of  merchantable  goods.
is  very firm.  Lavender is firmer,  the  im­
provement  being  due  to  cables  showing 
upward  tendency  abroad.  Sanderson’s 
Orange  has  been  advanced.

light,  being  practically  ex­

speculative 

Provisions-  The  provision  trade  has 
continued  under  the  dominating  influ­
ence  of  speculation  of  a  nature  which 
finds  its  reward  in  a  lowering  of  values 
—and  the tendency  has  been  downward. 
The  liberal  supply  of  mess  pork  at  Chi­
cago  has  been  a  convenient  facility  for ■ 
promoting  such 
interest. 
Expectations  of  a  large  corn  crop  have 
served  to  encourage  anticipations  of  a 
liberal  supply  of  hogs  and  low  prices 
for the  winter  season,  and  this  condi­
tion  has  had  an  unsettling  and  unduly 
depressive bearing  on  the  markets  at 
the  present  time  for  current trade.  The 
manifest  weakness  of  the  markets  nat­
urally  tends  to  restriction 
in  demand 
from  consuming  regions,’  although  a 
fairly  good  distribution  appears  to  be 
maintained.  The  present  rate  of  man- 
ufactuie  of  meats  of  all  kinds,  for the 
is  about  30,000,000 
West  and  East, 
pounds  weekly,  and  the  distribution 
is 
45,000,000  pounds  or  more.  And  this 
relation  between  production  and  con­
sumption  is  likely  to  continue  for  some 
time  to  come.  The  British  markets, 
which  were  understood  to  have  been 
in 
favorable  position  for  responding  to  an 
advancing  tendency  under the  large  re­
duction 
in  manufacture  in  this  country 
and  the  offerings  of  Irish  and  Danish 
product,  have  naturally  weakened  and 
declined  with  our  markets. 
It  is within 
reason  to  assume  that  had  there  been  a 
speculative  effort  to  sustain  and 
im­
prove  values,  having  a  forceful  nature 
I corresponding  with  the  influence  which 
has  been  brought  to bear  in  favor of  de­
pressing  prices,  the  markets would  have
I shaped  favorably  and  satisfactorily,  and
the  holders of  product  would  have  been
spared  the  losses which  have overtaken 
them.

3

1 

Oranges—Continue  to  sell  in  a  small 
way,  although  prices  are  necessarily 
higher,  owing  to  scarcity.  A  few  seed­
lings  remain 
in  the  hands  of  certain 
wholesale  fruit  dealers,but  the  main  of­
ferings  are  Rod is.

Lemons — During 

the  past  week 
lemons  reached  the  highest  point  since 
1892  and  good  sound  fruit  is  selling  at 
present  at $8.50(6510  per  box.  Yerdell is 
and  a  few  fancy  Maioris  have  brought 
as  high  as $12  per  box.  Stock  in  sight 
is  very  scarce  and  orders  are  few. 
Everybody  is  waiting  for  the  decline 
that  is  sure  to  come  with  the  frost.

The  Drug  Market.

Caffeine—Is  firmer  with  an  upward 
tendency  and  holders  have  advanced 
their  prices,  but  the demand  is  not  par­
ticularly  urgent and  the market  presents 
a quiet  appearance.

Cocaine—Continues  in  very  good  re­
values 

for  consumption,  with 

quest 
maintained.

Flowers—Arnica  and  chamomile  are 
both  in  good  demand  for  consumption 
at  unchanged  prices.

Lycopodium  -Is 

rather  quiet,  but 

there  is  no  effort  to  force business.

Opium —Cables  from  Smyrna  report 
ing  an  advance  for  ordinary  druggists’ 
has  stimulated  a  firmer  feeling  among 
holders  here.

Quinine  Has  continued  in  good  de­
mand  for  consumption  with  rather  free 
buying  by both  pill  makers  and the gen­
eral  drug  trade  throughout  the  country, 
and  in  some  instances  sales  were  made 
by  second  hands  at  the  full  parity  of 
manufacturers’  prices.  The  bulk of  the 
orders  have  gone  direct  to  manufac­
turers’  agents,  and  it  seems  to  be 
im­
possible  for  outsiders  to  furnish  round 
lots.  The  recent  sales  reported  for  ex­
port,  together  with  what  pill  makers 
have quietly  taken  up,  has  apparently 
absorbed  all  available  large  lots.

Roots-  The  general  market  has  not 
developed  any  new  features  of  special 
interest,  although  the  jobbing  demand 
for  most  of  the 
leading  varieties  is 
moderately active.

Welcome  to  State  Fair  Visitors.
Next  week  will,  probably,  chronicle 
a  larger  influx  of  Michigan  merchants 
than  Grand  Rapdis  has  ever  seen  be­
fore,  and  the  Tradesman  cordially 
in­
vites  all  visitors  to  make  this  office 
headquarters  while  in  the  city,  inspect 
its  mechanical  department,  which 
is  a 
model  in  point  of  system,  convenience 
and  neatness,  and  note  the  operations 
of 
type-setting  machine, 
which  is  one  of  the  mechanical  marvels 
of  the age.

its  Thorne 

Nothing  could  be  more  ridiculous 
than  the  spectacle  of  a  trio  of 
laboring 
men  who  smoke  clay  pipes  and  Peerless 
tobacco  dictating  to  a  dealer  what  sort 
of  10  cent  cigars  he  shall  keep  in  stock 
for  his  customers  among  the  business 
and  professional  classes.  The 
incon­
gruity  of  the demand  is  so  manifest that 
no  dealer  of  independence  will  submit 
to  such  an  imposition.

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

Zenoleum

Used
vermicide

as  a  sheep  dip,  her 
or  disinfectant.

dip,

G rand  R apid s  G ossip

Persons  Bros,  have  opened  a grocery 
store at  Lansing.  The  1.  M.  Clark Gro­
cery  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Geo.  H.  Tinkler  has  embarked 

in 
the  grocery  business  at  Hastings.  The 
stock  was  furnisheil  by  the  1.  M.  Clark 
Grocery  Co.

The  Calkins  Mercantile  Co. 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  Benton
bor.  The  Musselnian 
Grocer  Co.
nished  the stock.

has
Har-
fur-

Klaas  Geut,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
meat  business  at  351  South  East  street, 
has  re-engaged  in  the same  business  at 
the  same  location.

C.  Kinney,  whose  grocery  stock  at 
Ola  was  recently  destroyed  by  fire,  has 
resumed  business.  The  1.  M.  Clark 
Grocery  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Frank  Van  Deven,  clerk  for  H.  M. 
Liesveld,  the Cherry  street  grocer,  has 
invented  a  file  for  paper  sacks,  which 
is  evidently  destined  to  meet  with  a 
large  sale.

Geo.  Brown  and  Wm.  Eaton  have 
formed  a  copartnership  under  the  style 
of  Brown  &  Eaton  and  opened  a  gro­
cery  store at  732  South  Division  street. 
The  I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.  furnished 
the stock.

“  I  always  get  out  of  the  city  Fouith 
remarked  a 

of  July  and  Labor  day, 
leading  business  man,  the  other  day 
‘ ‘ Fourth  of  July,  on  account  of  the 
noise,  and  Labor day,  on account  of  the 
drunkenness

Geo.  Hecox,  formerly  on  the  road  for 
B.  ].  Reynolds,  has  purchased  the  Geo. 
YV.  Hart  cigar and  tobacco  stock  at  20 
Canal  street.  The  statement,  last week, 
that  the  stock  had  been  purchased  by 
Geo  Peacock,  was  incorrect.

Geo.  W.  French  has  purchased  the 
musical  merchandise 
stock  belong­
ing  -to  Mrs.  Alice  Lockerby  and  re­
moved  it  to  Belding,  where  he  has  em­
barked  in  the business  of  selling  musi­
cal  instruments  and  merchandise.

Constantine  Morton  and  Everett  P. 
Lewis  have  purchased  large  blocks  of 
stock 
in  the  Willey  Boom  &  Lumber 
Co.,  having  headquarters  at  Bristol, 
Temi.,  and  will  give  the  corporation 
the  benefit  of  their  experience  from now 
on.  The  company  has  large  holdings 
of  choice  timber  and  will,  probably,  in­
crease  its  holdings,  as  Bristol  is  an  ex­
cellent  location  for cutting  and  market­
ing  the  timber of  Eastern  Tennesse.

The  untimely  hour  at  which  the  gro­
cers  and  commission  men  arrive  on  the 
public  market  during  the  months  of 
August  and  September  reminds  old- 
timers  of  the  days  when  the  stores  kept 
open  until  late  at night,each waiting  for 
the  neighboring  store to  be closed before 
winding  up the day’s  (and night’s) busi­
ness.  It is by no means unusual  for grow­
ers  to  arrive  on  the  market  at 2  o’clock, 
while  4  o’clock  finds  no 
inconsiderable 
number of buyers  already on the ground. 
While  the  commission  men  claim  that 
thev  must  get  an  early  start,  in  order  to 
get  off  their  morning  shipments  by 
freight  and  express,  this reason  does  not 
apply  to  the  retail  grocery trade  and,  by 
concert  of  action,  it  would  be 
just  as 
well  if  the grocers  arranged  to  get  on 
the  market  an  hour or two  later, thus  en­
abling  them  to get the  usual  amount  of 
sleep  at  a  season  of  the  year when  sleep 
is at_a premium

Starch—-The  demand  for  starch  con­
tinues  quiet.  The  grocers  are  taking 
goods 
in  a  hand-to-mouth  manner,  and 
the  market  is  steady  at  the  moment,  al­
though  lower  prices  are  confidently  pre­
dieted,  owing  to  the  large  corn  crop  in  reaction  in  prices.
sight.

Cod  Liver  Oil—Has  continued 

to 
meet  with  an active  inquiry,  and  orders 
have  been  coming  in  freely,  indicating 
that  interior dealers are  convinced  that 
there  is  not  likely  to  be  any 
important

Molasses—Trade  continues  quiet 

in 
all 
lines,  but  a  change  is  looked  for  in 
the  next  few  days,  when  it  is  expected 
necessity will  compel  buyers  to  replen­
ish  their stocks to  some  extent.  Prices 
remain  unchanged  and  while  only  a 
small  run  of  orders  comes  in,  sellers are

Cream  Tartar—Continues  to  move 
steadily  into  channels,  and  owing  to  the 
upward  tendency  of  crude  material 
abroad  manufacturers  have  advanced 
their quotations.

Cuttle  Fish  Bone—The  trade  demand 
for  small  lots  shows  no abatement,  and 
prices  remain  steady.

50  per  cent.  Profit 
On  Goods  That 
Do Sell.

Write for p rticulars 
Ask your jobber.
A.h.Zenner

Co.
DETROIT, MICH.

98  Shelbv  St.,

Exhibited  at  State  Fair.

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the  farm,  the  work  shop,  the  office,  the 
counting  room,  and 
from  behind  the 
counter,  is  nothing but  the  whine of  the 
Old  Man  as  he  begins  to  realize that  the 
possibilities  for 
the  achievement  of 
success  are  passing  away  from  him  for­
ever.  There  are  battles  to  fight  and 
victories  to  be  won  in  the  future  as  in 
the  past,  but  all  industrial  honors  will 
be  held  in  reserve  for  the  New  Man.
In  a  future  article  I  will  have  some­
thing  to  say  about  this  New  Man.

E.  A. Owen.

The  Hardware  Market.

General  Trade  Continues 

fair  but 
is  every  prospect  of  a  great  re­
there 
vival 
in  September.  All 
indications 
point  to  a  good  fall  business.  Many 
goods are  being  advanced  and  in  nearly 
every  line  prices  are  being  withdrawn 
until  the manufacturer  can  figure  up  his 
present  cost and  establish  a  new  list  of 
selling  figures.  Many  of  our  readers 
have,  no doubt,  read  in  the  daily  press 
of  the  advance on bessemer  pig  of  more 
than  S7 a ton,  and  as  this  is  the basis of 
all  steel  and  iron,  it  will  cut  quite  a 
figure  in  the  cost  of  manufactured  arti­
cles.  A  further advance  of  $3  a  ton 
is 
looked  for.

we quote  as  last  week :

Harbeil  Wire  No change  to  note  anti 

Wire  Nails--  No  advance  was  made 
for  September and  it  is hoped there  will 
be  none;  but  if  the  raw material  contin­
ues  to  go  up  we  may  look  for  advances 
for October. 
from  stock.

I'he  present  price  is $2.35 
Painted barbed, from mill.....................$2 40
Painted barbed, frani stock................  2 *>■>
Galvanized barbed, from mill............ 2 HO
Galvanized barbed, from s ock........  3 05
from  wire  mill  and S2. io  from  stock. 

Plain  Annealed  Wire  A  recent  ad­
vance  has been  made  and  the  present 
price  on  plain  No.  go  wire 
is S i. go 

We  look  for  another  advance 

sometime  this  month.

in  this 

Extra  for  galvanized,  40c.  For  price 
in  the other sizes  add  10c  for each  num­
ber.

Miscellaneous—We  note  advances on 
all  kinds  of  copper  which  averages 
about  5  per  cent,  as  follows:  tinners’ 
rivets,  20  per  cent.  ;  shelf  brackets,  10 
per cent.  ;  poultry  netting,  10  percent.  ; 
window  glass,  5  per  cent.  ;  galvanized 
sheet  iron,  10 per  cent.
The  New  Woman  as  an  Object  of 

  •   ♦ —

---- ♦

Ridicule.

The  men  who  write  funny  things,  and 
those  who draw  funny  pictures  for  the 
newspapers  are  making  a  harvest  out 
of  the  “ new  woman.”   They  dress  her 
up  in  all  sorts  of  unseemly  rigs,  and 
they  describe  her as  a  coarse  creature, 
"chawing”   tobacco  and  swearing  un­
couth  profanity.

There  may  be  women  who  are  disso­
lute and  profane  who do  not  wear  trous­
ers,and  there always  will  be,as  there al­
ways  have  been,  women  who  were  de­
ceived,  ruined  and  brought  to  disgrace 
and  depravity  by  the  wicked  arts  of 
wicked  men ;  but these are  facts  which 
have  nothing  to  do  with  the  so-called 
new  woman.  She,  Heaven  help  her! 
is  the  result  of  the  incapacity  or the 
selfishness,  or of  both,  on  the  part of the 
stronger sex. 
It  has  come  about  that 
there  are  so  many  women  who,  by  the 
failure  of  men  to  support  them,  are 
compelled  to  support  themselves  that 
there are  not  places enough  for  them  in 
domestic  service,  in  dressmaking  and 
in  teaching,  the  only  callings  that  were 
once open  to  working  women,  and  they 
have  been  forced  to find  places  in  the 
occupations  heretofore 
reserved  “  for 
men.

Forty  years  ago  all  the  women,  with 
the  exception  of  teachers and  those en­
gaged  in  sewing  and  domestic  sevice, 
lived  at  home  as  wives,  mothers,  sisters 
or  daughters,  and  were  supported  by 
their  fathers,  husbands or  brothers  and 
other  male  relatives.  There  was  then 
no such  male  creature  as  a  hoodlum. 
in­
The  word  had,  perhaps,  not  been 
vented.  Some  men  were 
and 
drunken,  but  the  number  was small.

idle 

To-day  all 

is  changed.  AH  through 
the country there are  male  tramps,  who 
do  not  work.  There  are  many 
loafers 
who, 
if  not  as  ragged  and  vile  as 
tramps,  are  no better.  There  are  hus­
bands, 
fathers  and  sons  who  spend 
their  earnings  in  vice and  debauchery, 
and  do  not  provide  for  their  families. 
What are  the  women  of  these  families to 
do but  seek  work  wherever 
it  can  be 
found, in  order to  earn  a living for them­
selves and  their children?  This  is  the 
origin  of  the  new  woman.  She  is  the 
creature of  man’s  worthlessness.

circumstances, 

is  not  strange  that  woman,  under 
It 
rebel 
these 
should 
against  the  yoke  that  puts  her 
in  any 
sort  of  servitude  or  position  of  inferior­
ity  to  men.  There  is no wonder  that  in 
comparing  herself  to  some  of  the  crea­
tures  that  are  called  men,  the  honest, 
hard-working  woman  should  feel her  su­
periority.

The  new  woman,  instead of  being  an 
sands of  women  going  out  every  morn­

object  of  ridicule,  should  be  taken  for 
what  she  is,  a  monument  of  the  decline 
and  degeneracy  of  the  male  sex.  Forty 
years  ago  men  would have been ashamed 
of  the  spectacle  of  hundreds  of  thou­

ing  to  labor.  To-day  men  only 
at  them,  and  not  a  few  art 
live on  the  earnings of  thus 
should  support.

laugh 
willing  to 
whom  they

The  new  woman  is  man’s 

if  there  is  anything  funny 
let those  who can  enjoy  the

Frank Stowell.

shame,  and 
1  the  fact, 
fun  laugh.

Everything  Opposite  in  Australia. 
Australia  is  really  the  antipodes  of 
111  all  re­
the  remainder  of  the  world 
spects. 
Summer  time  comes  during 
the  time  of American  winter; the  rising 
barometer  indicates  rain,  and  the  fall­
ing  the  opposite;  the  swans  are  all 
black,  and  the  eagles  white;  the  male 
lays  eggs,  and  has  a  bill  like  a  duck ; 
the native  dogs  never  bark ; the serpents 
have  tails 
like  fishes  and  wings  like 
bats;  the  prickly  pear grows  to  be  a tall 
tree,  and  the  poplars  and  oaks  seldom 
grow above  five feet  in  height;  the  elm 
has  hairs  in  place  of  feathers;  the birds 
are  without  song;  the  sun 
in  the 
north  at  noon;  the  chief  rivers  flow  in­
land ;  the  pear  tree  grows  a  fruit  that 
is  beautiful  to  look  upon,  but  which, 
when  ripe,  is  as  hard  as  though  fash­
ioned  from  the  wood  of  the  tree  itself; 
the  leaves of  the  trees  all  stand  edge­
wise and  cast  no  shadows;  the  stone  or 
pit  of  the cherry  is  on  the  outside,  and 
must  be  cracked  in  order to get  at  the 
like  bats;  the 
meat;  the opossums  fly 
kingfisher  never  catches  fish,  but 
lives 
on  fruits;  the  peas  are  poisonous;  the 
oaks  bear  110  acorns;  the chestnuts are 
without  burr,  and,  in  many 
instances, 
the trees  are  hollow,  with  the  bark  on 
the  inside.

is 

It  is  to  cost  10 cents  to  get  from  At­
lanta  to  the  exposition.  The  street rail­
road  company  thinks  that 
it  can  get 
double  fares,  and  it means  to have them. 
If  the hotels,  boarding  houses,  etc.,  are 
going  to  charge  double  fare,  too,  let  us 
know  it  right  now. 
It  will  save  hard 
feelings  and  cuss  words  afterwards.

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

7

to
20

50
50

CAPS

: 0*10

AXES

BOLTS

TRAPS

WIRE

BUCKETS

BLOCKS

CRADLES

BARROWS

LEVELS

ROPES

,S0 A'10 
. so* 10

CROW  BARS

CAR I RIDGES

BUTTS,  CAST

WIRE  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

SASH  WEIGHTS 

AUOURS  ANO  BITS

1,2,3.

Hardware  Price  Current.

... .60*10 
.  60&ÌU 
___60*10
dis 00*10 
net  2 50

Pots................
Kettles........
Spiders........
Snell’s...
............................................25*10 |
Jennings' genuine 
.Jennings’
Gate, Clark'!
imitation...................................................60*10 j
State.......................................................la
First quality. S. B. Bronze.......................................  5 5(1
Bright......................................................
!• SO
First quality, 1). B. Bronze....................................... 
Screw Eyes..............................................
First quality. 8 B. s. steel.......................•.........  r> 25
Hook’s........................................................
First quality. 1>. B. Steel..................................... 10 25
Gate Hooks and Eyes.......................
Railroad............................................................$12 00 It 00
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s 
..
Garden.................................................................  net  30 0*1
..........05 A: H> Sisal,  *2 inch and 
60
.......... 
Stove.......................................................
....  9
Manilla....................
Carriage new list...............................
SQUARES
..........40A10 !Steel and Iron. ..
.p  41 no 1Mitre........................
Well, plain..............................................
___ 
SHEET IRONcom. si
75
Cast Loose Pin, figured...................
>th. com.
............75*10| Nos. 10 to 14........
Wrought Narrow.................................
*2 50
2 60
Nos. 15 to 17........
2 702 80
.................................4 05
S \'us. 1(S to 21 
..
Ordinary Tackle...................................
(>,>
2 90
Nos. 25 to 26........
............$16 00 No.  27..................
: i no
75
(■rain, Wood brace.............................
............*18 00|  All sheets No.18  and lighte*, ovCT  l30 inches
Grain, Wire brace...............................
than 2-10extra. 
wide not less 
SAND PAPER
» last Steel................ ........................................per lb
50
........dis 
List aeet. 11», 
- per m 
Ely's 1-10... 
per ton  20  00
So Id Eves..
. per m 
Hick’s C. F.
. per 111 
G. D...............
00* 1050
. 
. 
Steel, Game .
. per m
Musket........
Oneida Community. Newhouse’s............
TO* 10* 10 15 1 25
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton’s
.50*
Mouse, choker.....................................per doz
Rim Fire...........................................
Mouse, delusion.................................per doz
Central Fire...................................
CHISELS
Bright Market...................................................
.80*10 
Socket Firmer...............................
Anneal d Market..............................................
Socket Framing...........................
* OA: 10
Coppered Market.............................................
Socket Corner...............................
Tinned Market.................................................
Socket Slicks...............................................................8 A10
12*250
DRILLS
3 05
Barbed Fence, galvanized .......................
2 65
Barbed Fence, painted...............................
60
Morse’s Bit stocks.................................................. 
Taper and Straight shank....................................50* 5
HORSE NAILS
Morse’s Taper Shank...............................................50* 5
An Salile................................................................ dis40& 10
Putnam.................................................................. dis
5
ELBOWS
Northwestern..................................................... disH kV 10
doz. net 
1 'om. 4 piece, 6 in.......................
..........dis
WRENCHES
Con ugated.....................................
30
Adjustable..............................................................dis 40*10
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled..............
50
Cue’s Genuine...................................................
EXPANSIVE BITS
80
Coe’s Paie t Agricultural, wrought ..
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26.................
80
Coe's Patent, malleable...............................
Ives’, 1. $18; 2, $2t; 3, $30...........................
MISCELLANEOUS
FILES  New List
50
Bird Cages........................................................
70*1070
75 A: 10
Pumps, cistern...........................................
New American.............................................
85
Screws, New List.............................................
Nicholson’s......................................................
.■•0* 10* 1(1
.60*10
Pasters, Bed and Plate................................
Heller's Horse Rasps.................................
4OA1IO
Dampers. American.......................................
GALVANIZED  IRON 
lO
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods.
Nos. 16 to 21: 22 and 24; 25 and 26: 27 
15 
List 12 
16
14 
601» pound c 
Discount, 05*10 GAUGES
Per pound.
SOLDER
.60*16
Stanley Rule ami Level Co.’s...............
12‘i
KNOBS  New List
older
1 of the many otherqualiti s of 
The price: 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........................... 
70
vary
:t indicated by private brandi 
in the mark 
80
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings....................... 
1 composition.
according t<
MATTOCKS
\dze Eye.................................................$16 00, dis 60* 10
.* 600
loxl1 IC,Charcoal.
Hunt Eye................................................ $'5 00. dis Oo&lO
600
14x20 IC,Charcoal
Hunt's......................................................$18 50, dis 20*10
750
20x11 IX,Charcoal
MILLS
750
14x20 IX Charcoal.
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s................................................ 
40
Each aIditional >on this grat le, *1.75.
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.'s Malleables... 
40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark's..................... 
40
525
10x14 ir.Charcoal
Coffee, Enterprise................................... 
 
 
30
.  525
11x20 IC,Charcoal
MOLASSES GATES
625
10x14 IX ( 'harcoal
60*10
Stebbiu’s Pattern.....................................
625
1 Jx-211 IX ( ’harcoal
60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine...................................
Each a■ iditional V on this grade, *1.50.
Enterprise, self-measuring.................................
NAILS
.  500
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire
14x20 1C. 1 li arcua1.Dean........
6(HI
14x20 IX t ’harcoal Dean........
Steel nails, base..........................................................  2
1000
20x28 K *( ’harcoal,Dean........
Wire n%ils, base.........................................................  2
.  475
U.X20 IC ( ’harcoal,Alla wav (rade.............
10 to 60 advance........................................................
.  5(D
14x20 IX < ’harcoal,Allaway <rade.............
.  950
20x28 IC Charcoal.Allaway (rade............
7 and 6.
. n 50
20x28 IX Charcoal,Allaway <rade.............
4.............
3............
Boilers, fper pound.
I 20 
I 60 
for No. 1Boilers. # 
14x56 IX for No. 
14x56 IX 
1 60
9
Fine 3 .. 
Case 10..
Case  6— 
Finish 10 . 
Finish  8. 
Finisti  6 . 
Clinch 10 . 
Clinch  8 . 
Clinch  6 . 
Barrel 7¿.
(Continued from last week) 
.  @50 
. fancy...............
Ohio Tool Co.
to get the work, thus saving the 
Sciota Bench............
architect’s client sometimes triple 
.  @50 
fancy. wood.
Sandusky Tool Co 
the  architect’s  fees;  besides, 
.  @50
Bench, first quality. 
when the house is completed, its 
el Co.’
Stanley Rule and LPLANES 
just as he planned it before he 
saw the architect, while the con­
.60*10*10 j 
Fry, Acme.....................................
tractor’s client lias but half of 
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thankful  for  past  patronage  and  with 
every  confidence  in  the  future.

It 

WIDENING  THE  BREACH.
is  fitting  that  Labor  day  should 
have been  born  of  American  parentage 
upon  American  soil.  Here, 
if  any­
where, should  Labor be  exalted,  for  here 
only  have  its grainiest  hopes  been  real­
ized,  unshadowed  by  a  throne.  Home­
making  has  been  his  task,  untrainmeled 
by  priest  or  kin g;  and  with  these mar­
velous  results  before  him,  it  was  but 
natural  that  the  work i ngman  should 
seek  to  have  a  day  set  aside 
in  which 
to  glorify  his  labor,  to gather his  fam­
ily  about  him,  to  sing  labor  songs  and 
so  incite  his  children  to  continue  the 
work  when  he  lays  down  the  pick axe  or 
loosens his  grip  on  the  throttle.  There 
is,  indeed,  ample  excuse  for  a  hoiida 
which  shall  be  to  American  Labor  what 
Independence  day  is  to  American  lib­
erty,  and,  with  that  thought,  the  great 
heart  of  the  Nation  placed  Labor  day 
upon 
its  calendar  of  holidays .  The 
story  which  could  be  repeated  on  the 
occasion  of  Labor  day  would  be  none 
the  less  pleasant  on  account of  its being 
an  essential  part  of  American  history. 
Were  the exponent  of  the  laborer  to  be 
faithful  to  his  theme,  how,  like  an  in­
spiration,  the figure  of  the  old  Pilgrim 
would  appear,as  he  stands at  Plymouth, 
axe  in  hand,  ready  to  hew  his  pathway 
across  the  continent  to the Golden  Gate! 
Now,  as  the  picture  widens,  the  fields 
grow  green  with  corn  and  bridges  leap 
to  their  places  across  the rivers!  Cities 
spring  up  like  magic !  The  mountains 
are  leveled  or  tunneled ;  and  the  iron, 
wrested  from  the  earth  and  beaten 
into 
bars,  becomes a  band  whereon  the pant­
ing  steeds  of  commerce,  their  manes  of 
smoke  streaming  upon  the  wind,  pilots 
the  train  from  sea  to  sea—a  royal  high­
way  through  a  royal  country  where 
prince  nor  peasant  never yet has  trod !

fiery  with 

That  was  the theme which  the  patri- 
I otic  people  of  the  country had  reason  to 
expect  on  Labor day.  Has  that  expec­
tation  been  realized? 
It  has  not.  The 
holiday  has  been  monopolized  by  less 
j than  one-tenth  of  the  sturdy  laborers  of 
the  country  and  made  to  subserve  the 
ends  of  selfish  and  venal  exponents of 
trades  unionism.  Only  a  small  portion 
of  the  laboring  men  of  the  country  are 
permitted  to  participate  in  the  event  - 
the privilege  of  walking  in  the  proces­
sions being  accorded pnly  to those  poor 
dupes  who  have  taken  an  oath  which ar­
bitrarily  and  absolutely  governs  their 
future  conduct  and  deprives  them  of 
their  liberty  and  ever}' attribute of  free­
dom,  binding  them  hand  and  foot,  body 
and soul,  to  the despotic  exactions of the 
walking  delegate,  master  workman, 
strike  committee  and  district organizer. 
Not  a  Labor day has  so  far  come  and 
gone  without  causing  this  Nation  to 
hang  its  head  with  shame. 
Instead  of 
the  indomitable courage  of  the  Puritan 
and  the heroic  story  of  his  early  toils 
and  tears,  the  words of  the  labor  orator 
are 
threatened  vengeance 
against the demon of corporate wealth.  In 
place  of  eulogy 
for  the  tireless  arm 
which  has  made  a  harvest  field,  rich 
with  ripened  corps,  out  of  the  trackless 
forest,  he  denounces  the  tyrant  whe 
wants a  full  day’s  work  for a  full  day’s 
wages.  Upon  the  marvels  on  every 
hand  which  has  made  this  country  the 
wonder of  the  world  and  the glory  of the 
workman,  he turns  his  back  and  longs 
for  that  “ glorious  epoch,  that  noble 
day,  when  the abused and  down-trodden 
union  workman  can  make  and  unmake 
judges and  courts,  abolish  military  des­
potism,  wipe out  contempt  proceedings 
and  injunction  commitments,  take  the 
ruling  power  into  his  own  hands  and 
bring  this  Government back  to  its  orig­
inal  prestige!”   That  is  the 
inspiring 
theme and  its  equally 
inspiring  treat­
ment  which  has  made  of  Labor day a 
blistering  disgrace. 
looked-for 
blessing  is,  instead,  a curse.  The  crown 
of  Labor  is  placed  upon  the  head  of 
Gambrinus and,  instead  of  the  libations 
poured  forth  from  thankful  hearts  for 
work  and  the blessings  that  come  from 
it,  the air—redolent  of whisky and  beer 
—resounds with  the shouts  of  the  disor­
derly  crowds  that  misuse  the  day and 
make  its  name  a  misnomer.

The 

The  Tradesman  believes that  this  was 
not  the  purpose  for  which  the  day  was 
intended.  That  purpose was  a  worthy 
one,  bright  with  the  promise  of  bring­
ing  together  elements  at  variance  with 
if  not  at  war.  That  pur­
one  another 
pose 
Instead of 
closing  the  breach,  it  has  widened  it. 
Instead  of  ennobling  labor,  Labor has 
been debased.  The  day 
is  a  failure. 
Let  it  take  its  place  in  the  line  of  other 
failures  and  pass  forever  from  the mem­
ory  of  men!

is  not  accomplished. 

A  movement 

is  being  made  by the 
Cubans  who  have  remained 
loyal  to 
Spain  to  secure  home  rule  for the island 
with  a  view  to  thus  pacify  the  revolted 
districts  and  so  end  the  war. 
It would 
seem  that  Spain  must be infatuated with 
the 
idea  of  power  that  she  should  not 
avail  herself of  this  opportunity  of  sav­
ing  a  modified  dominion  over the  is­
land. 
It  is  to be  hoped  she  will  persist 
until  such  an  opportunity  is gone.

Emigration  from  Hamburg  and  Bre­
men  seems  to  be  reviving,  something 
like  12,000  more  coming  to  this  coun­
try  the  first  half  of  this  year  than  for 
the  same time last year.

THE  AMERICAN  DRUMMER. 
Those  who  have  been  watching  recent 
events  in  England  attendant  upon  the
return  of  Lord  Salisbury  to  power  have  menia,  a  method  which 
not  failed  to  observe  the  vigorous  re­
sumption  of  plans  for the  railway be­
tween  Burmah  and Yunnan.  Since  i860 
England has been  clamoring  for  such  a 
railway  and  the  time  has  come  for 
something  to  be  done  about  it. 
Indeed, 
the  work  has  already  been  put  off too 

duce  England  to  so  modify her  attitude 
as  not  to 
interfere  with  the  Turkish 
method  of  settling  differences  in  Ar-
long  practice
has  confirmed  to  be  the  easiest and  by 
far  the best?

long.

The  plea  is  an  old  one  and  the  prac­
tice  is  older  still. 
It  began—the  prac­
tice—so  far back  as  when  the  Christian 
world  made Jerusalem,  the  home of  the 
Holy  Sepulcher, 
the  end  of  many  a 
pious  pilgrimage  from  every quarter  of 
the  Christian  world.  Then,  as  now,  the 
Christian  pilgrim  suffered  every  indig­
nity  and  cruelty  at  the  hands  of  the 
Turk.  Then,  as  now,  the story  of  this 
treatment  was 
throughout 
Christendom  with  the  same  result of  un­
heeded  protest,  until  Peter,  the  Hermit, 
wakened  Europe  and  set  in  motion  the 
Crusades. 
It  was  the  Turk  with  his 
sword,  as  it  is  now,  and  from  that  dis­
tant  time  to  this  the  centuries have been 
marked  and  marred  with  the  slaughter 
of  the  Christian  by  the  sword  of  the 
Turk.

repeated 

It  is  pleasing  to  notice  that  the  whine 
of  the  Porte  is  receiving  little  attention 
from  Russia  or  from  France. 
The 
Christian  ear  is  getting more than weary 
of  the  story  of  Christian  bloodshed. 
The 
love  of  humanity  is  taking  the 
place  of  policy  and  the balance  of  pow­
er  is getting  to  be a question of less  mo­
ment  than  the  preservation  of  human 
life. 
It  was  the  battle  of  Tours  that 
freed  Europe  from  the  Moslem,  be  he 
Arab  or be he  Turk,  and if  the  time has 
come  for the  final  settlement  of  a  ques­
tion  too  long  delayed,  Christian  Europe 
will  breathe  freer than  she  has  breathed 
before  for centuries  and  the  pest  and 
bane  of  civilization  will  soon  perish 
from  the  earth.

ALMOST  A  BOOM.

Some  apprehension  is being manifest­
ed  by  observers  of  the  industrial  situa­
tion  that  the  increase  of  business  and 
improvement 
in  prices  may  go  too 
rapidly,  and  this  apprehension  has  a 
tendency  to  create  a  careful  and  conser­
vative  spirit  that will  go  far to  prevent 
an  unhealthy boom.  The  continued ad­
vance  in  prices  has a  tendency  to  check 
business and  will,  also,  tend  to  keep  it 
on  a healthy basis. 
It  is  probable  that 
the  export  of  gold  will  not  continue 
much  longer and  there  will  be  less  un­
easiness  as  to  the  financial  situation. 
Crop  prospects  are generally  improved. 
Labor  troubles are  less  disturbing.  The 
conditions  of  railroad  securities  are 
more  promising.  The  improved  condi­
tions  in  iron  and  steel  are beginning al­
most  to amount  to  a boom.  The strength 
of  the advance  seems  to  be  maintained 
by the  fact  that the great  steel  compan­
ies  are buying  material  wherever  they 
can.  The general  demand  seems  suffi­
cient  to sustain  the  advance  in  prices 
thus  far made.  Fear  is  expressed  that 
the  strikes  of  miners  and  ore  handlers 
may  cause a  scarcity  of  bessemer.  The 
advance  in  copper  is  causing  the  return 
of  American 
from  Europe.  Other 
metals are  strong.  Coke  and  coal  trade 
continues  very  satisfactory.

Prices  of  wool have been  advanced  to 
the  extent  of  materially  checking  the 
trade.  The  demand  for dress  goods 
is 
good  although  still  threatened  by  con­
tinued  importations.

Wheat  h as begun  to  move somewhat, 
though  prices  have  fallen  slightly.  E x ­
ports continue small.  Corn  is also  mov­
ing  with  promise  of  large  crop.  Price 
is a  little  lower.  This  has  affected  the 
price of  pork  and  lard.

Cotton  is  rising  and  extensive  pur­
chases  are being made.  The cotton  crop 
reports are  not  favorable.

The  fact 

is,  relief  must  come  from 
somewhere  for  the  industrial  population 
of  England,  which  is 
increasing  much 
faster  than  the visible means of support. 
If  recent  statistics  can  be at  all  relied 
upon,  the  inhabitants  of  Lancashire  are 
increasing  at  the  rate of 3 %  per  cent,  a 
year,  while  the  cotton  operations  have 
increased  at  the  rate  of  less  than  )A  of 
1  per cent.  Other means  of  livelihood 
show the same  great  pressure,  so  that, 
unless a  market can  be  found  for  Brit­
ish  products with  a  new and  large  body 
of  consumers,  there  is  serious  trouble 
ahead.  These  consumers are  found  to 
the  number of a  hundred  million  inhab­
itants  in  the  Western  half  of  China  who 
have  become  sufficiently  civilized  to 
make good  use  of  British  manufactures, 
provided  the goods  can  he  secured  at 
reasonable  prices.  Hence  the  need  of 
the  railroad  and  the  great  need  of 
its 
early  completion,  with  the  additional 
reason that France,  too,  is looking out for 
the  main  chance  and  is  hoping  to  reach 
the same  market ahead of her great com­
mercial  rival.

While  these great  schemes  are  carried 
on  by  the  English  and  the  French,  the 
question  which  comes  promptly  to  the 
front  is,  where  in  this  great  game  of 
finance—involving,  as  it does,  the trade 
of  one  hundred  millions  of  people— 
does America  come  in  with the irrepres­
sible  and  omnipresent  American  drum­
Is  it  charged  that  the  Govern­
mer? 
ment  at  Washington 
is  coolly  looking 
on,  interested  only  in  seeing  whether 
England  or  Franee  reaches  the  goal 
first?  Does  the  Monroe  doctrine  stand 
in  the  way  and  prevent  the  American 
gripsack  from  disclosing  its  wonders  to 
part,  even,  of  the  one hundred  mil­
lions  shut  up 
land­
locked  half  of  the  Chinese  empire? 
These  have  not,  heretofore,  been  con­
sidered  momentous  questions;  and  the 
history  of  this  republic  does  not  show 
that  the  American  drummer  has  ever 
waited  for the  Government  to go  ahead.
It should  be  with  us  a  question  of  po­
litical  economy,  as  it  is  with  England, 
although  in  a  less  degree. 
There  are 
the  Celestials  wanting  the  goods  which 
we are  wanting  to  sell.  How  shall  the 
matter  be  adjusted? 
England  and 
France  have  answered  the question  with 
railway surveys and  terminal  plans.  Let 
America  answer  it  with  the  American 
Drummer.

in  the  Western 

The  tempest  of  indignation  which 

THE  CROSS  AND  THE  CRESCENT.
is 
sweeping  over Christendom  at  the  Ar­
menian  atrocities  has,  at last,  made an 
impression  on  the  Sublime  Porte,  and 
the  Turk 
is  troubled.  His  peculiar 
right  and  privilege  of  fleshing  the  sim­
itar  of  the  Crescent  in  the  upholders  of 
the  Cross has been  interferred  with  and 
he 
is  aggrieved.  Smarting  under his 
wrongs,  he  complains  bitterly  to  Russia 
and  to  France at  the  unseemly attitude 
and  the  discourteous  language  of  Great 
Britain  and avows both  to  be derogatory 
to  the  prestige of the  Sultan.  Will  not 
these  two  powerful  friends  of his  use 
their good  offices  in  his behalf  and 
in-

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9

NOTHING  NEW.

Human  nature 

When  Solomon,  who  is  credited  with 
having been  the  wisest  king  that  ever 
reigned,  declared  that  there  is  nothing 
new  under  the  sun,  he  doubtless  meant 
that  there  is  nothing  new  in  human  na­
ture  or  in  human  thought.
is  a 

characteristic 
common  to  all  the  race,  and  is  modified 
according  to  the degree  of  development 
produced  by  circumstances.  But  while 
there  are  differences  and  variations 
in 
the degree  and  method  of  its  manifesta­
tions,  its  real  qualities and  the  laws  by 
which  it  operates  never change.

Human  thought,  which  is  the  definite 
expression  of  a  finite  intelligence,  can­
not  pass  beyond  the  limits  set  for 
it. 
Some vainglorious  people  in  this age  of 
boasted  enlightenment  are  accustomed 
to  congratulate  themselves  that  they  are 
wiser  in  their geneiation  than  werq  the 
people of  any  other  age.  But  the  fact 
remains that  this  nineteenth  century has 
not  advanced  in  poe'ry,  oratory,  statu­
ary,  painting,  belles  letters,  metaphysi­
cal  and  moral  philosophy,  and  many 
other branches  of mental culture, beyond 
what was  attained  thousands  of  years 
ago,  and  to-day,  in our colleges and  uni­
versities,  the. 
chief  attention  of  the 
learners  is  directed  to  the study  of  an­
tiquity.

constantly  operating  according  to  con­
stant  laws  in  a  definite  field,can  scarce­
ly do  otherwise  than  examine over again 
ground  that  has been  formerly .explored, 
and  rediscover  arts  that  had  formerly 
been  known,  but  from  some great  social 
disturbance,  like  a  destructive  war,  had 
been  lost,  so  that  in  all  truth  there 
is 
nothing  new,  nothing  that  has  not  at 
some  previous  time  been  known,  if  not 
to  the  many,  at  least  to  a  few.

In  ancient  times  knowledge  was  not 
given  to  the  people  in  newspapers  and 
public  prints. 
It  was  preserved  among 
the  learned  and  only  taught  to  chosen 
disciples,  who  were  commonly  sworn  to 
secresy  Thus  it  was  easy,  by  the death 
of  all  the  initiated,  in  war  or  in  some 
terrible  epidemic  of  disease, 
for  the 
knowledge  of  some  important  art  to  be 
lost,  and  to  remain  forgotten  until  it was 
rediscovered.

In  this  connection,  some  reference 
may  be  made  to  the  new  woman,  so- 
called.  What  is  termed  the new  woman 
the  woman  emancipated  from  the 
control  of  the. other  sex.  She 
is  to  be 
vested  with  the  same  political  and 
social  rights  as  are  possessed  by  men. 
She  is  to  vote,  to  be  eligible  to  office, 
and  to  be  subject  to  no  more  social  or 
moral  restraints  than  are  put  on  men, 
intents  and  purposes,  a 
being,  to  all 
free  and 
This 
would  be  only  a  repetition  of  what  has 
been  known  before.

independent  person. 

Not  to  speak  of  the  Amazons,  nations 
of  women  whose acts are recorded  in his­
tory,  it  is  only  necessary  to  appeal  to 
the  history  of  the  Román  Empire,  in 
the  middle  part  of  the  first  century  of 
which  women  were  completely  emanci­
pated  from  control. 
If  they  did  not 
actually  command  armies  and  o  induct 
the business  of  the State, they were  freed 
from  all  restraints,  except  those 
im­
posed  by  the  general 
laws.  The  mar- 
iage  tie became  virtually  a  matter  of 
business,  and  was  dissolved  with  the 
greatest  ease  for the  most trivial  causes. 
The  marriage  of  noble 
ladies  with 
slaves became  so  common  that  laws  had 
to  be  made  for  the  protection  of  the 
masters,  to  prevent  the  free  wives  ab­
sorbing  too  much  of  the  time  of  their 
slave  spouses  and  detracting  from  the 
labor  due  their  masters.

But  this  was  only  one  of  the  oscilla­
tions of  human  nature.  Like  a  pendu­
lum,  it swings  from  one  extreme  to  the 
other  of  its  course;  but  it  cannot  depart 
from 
its  fixed  limits.  There  have  been, 
in  the  past  history  of  the  world,  periods 
when  women  were  abject  slaves,  and 
others  when  they  despised  all  restraints. 
Such  periods  will  again  return. 
is 
all  in  the  swing  of  the  pendulum.  The 
new  woman  will,  doubtless,  run  her 
course,  but  she  will  continue  in  the  fu­
ture,  as  in  the  past,  to  be  the  mother, 
the  wife  and  the  daughter  of  the  men. 
Human  nature,  operating  by  fixed  laws, 
will  go  on  forever.

It 

ft  is  in  the  realm  of  physical  science 
is 
that the  progress  of  the  present  age 
most  distinguished ;  but the explorations 
into  the  buried  cities  of  the  past  are 
giving  out facts  which  make  it extreme­
ly  probable  that  the  civilization  of  In­
dia  and  Egypt  possessed  a  knowledge 
of  electricity  and  modern 
scientific 
agents  that  would  rival  that  of  to-day." 
in  the  rock  cut 
There  are  evidences 
temples  of  India  that  have 
led  modern 
explorers  to  believe  that  the  electric 
light  and  the telephone  were  known  to 
those  who  constructed  and  used those re­
markable  monuments of  a  past  age.
recently 

ex­
amined  the  colossal  stone  structures  of 
Egypt  have  discovered  that  the  dia­
mond  drill  and  the  diamond  saw,  which 
are  among  the  most  recent 
inventions 
for  working  in  rock,  were  known  to  the 
ancient  Egyptians,  and  were  used  by 
them  in  quarrying the great stones which 
were built  into  the  pyramids,  the  tem­
ples,  and  formed  the  obelisks,  a  few  of 
which  have  with  infinite  difficulty  been 
transported  to  Rome,  Paris,  London and 
New  York.

Engineers  who  have 

The 

In  a time  so  early  that  there 

late  Captain  Gorringe,  of  the 
United  States  navy,  who  brought  the 
obelisk  which  now stands  in  New  York, 
front  Alexandria,  declared  to  the  writer 
that 
it  was  impossible  not to  impute to 
the ancient  Egyptians  the  highest  en­
gineering  science  after  surveying  theii 
works,  and  there  was  reason  to  believe 
that  they  possessed  many  ntechan i cal 
appliances  of  the  highest  scientific  de 
velopment  in  the production  of  the  as­
tonishing  results  accomplished by them.
is  no 
certain  date  by  which  to 
fix  it,  the 
Chinese  possessed  the  arts  of  making 
silk  fabrics and  porcelain  vessels  of  ex­
quisite delicacy.  They  printed  books ; 
they cast and  made great  use  of  bells; 
they  had  a  knowledge  of  the  mariner’s 
compass  and  of  gunpowder.  They  bored 
artesian  wells  to  procure  salt  water,  and 
utilized,  in  the  manufacture  of  the  salt, 
natural gas which  came  from the borings 
along  with  the  water.  These  are only  a 
few  of  the arts  which  are  supposed  to 
belong  exclusively  to  modern  civiliza­
tion, but which  were known and  used  in 
periods  exceedingly  remote.

The simple fact is that human thought,

scored.  On  the  London  &  Northwest- j 

ern,  from  Rugby  to  Crewe,  a  distance I 
of  7554  miles,  a  speed  of  53X  miles  an 
hour was  attained.  O11  the  Caledonian, 
from  Carlisle  to  Edinburgh,  a  distance 
of  ioo}{  miles,  a  velocity  of  50f.fi  miles 
per hour was  made.

These  are  probably  the  fairest  tests | 
ever  made  of  the  capacity  of  a  steam 
railway  train  to  attain  a  high  rate  of 
speed  under  existing  conditions.  As 
locomotives  are  now  constructed,  the 
power  is  applied 
in  *the  manner  com­
mon  in  all  steam  engines,  and  that 
is 
that  the  steam  is  used  to push the piston 
from  one  end  of  the  cylinder  to  the 
other.  Having  reached  its  destination, 
the  forward  movement  ceases;  the  pis­
ton  comes  to  a  dead  stand ;  the  steam  is 
let  in  at  the  other  end  of  the  cylinder, 
and  so the  piston  is  pushed  back  to  the 
point  from  which 
it  started,  and  thus 
this  back-and-forth  movement  of  the 
piston  in  the  cylinder  is  continued.  At 
the  further  end  of  the piston  rod  it  con­
nects  with  a  crank  which  is  fastened  to 
the  drive  wheels, and  the back-and-forth 
movement  is  converted  into  a  circular 
motion.

A  little  consideration  of  this  piston, 
its  course, 
whicli  goes  to  the  end  of 
stops  still  and  then  goes  back  to 
its 
starting  point,  makes  another  full  stop, 
and  afterwards  returns  on 
its  route, 
must  show  that  there  are  limits  beyond 
which  such  a  movement  cannot  be used, 
and  this  must be  the  case  wherein  the 
power  is applied  by  converting  a  hori­
zontal  or  vertical  motion  into  one of rev­
olution.  The  swiftest  nfachine  motion 
is  where  a  rotatory  movement,  once  se­
cured,  is  maintained  and  propagated by 
revolving  mechanism,  and  not  by  a 
back-and-forth  device.

It  is  a  recognition  of  these  facts  that 
has  revealed  to  machinists  the 
limita­
tions  of  speed  of  a  steam  railway  train 
with  the  power  applied  as  at  present. 
They  now  hope  to  obtain  extreme  rates 
jf  speed by  means  of  electricity,  and 
they  talk  of  any  velocity  from  150  miles 
to  400  miles  an  hour.

It  is  entirely  questionable  if  any  de­
vice  has  yet  been 
invented  which  can 
give  to  electric  trains  such  velocity ; but 
granting  that  it  exists,  and  that  tracks 
of  the  requisite  solidity,  smoothness and 
straightness  will  be  constructed, 
the 
proposition  is  worth  attention  as  a  sub­
ject,  not  only for scientific investigation, 
but  as  an  economic  problem.  Extreme 
speed  would  be 
impossible1  in  street 
transit,  where  stops  must  be.  made  at 
every  crossing.  On  trunk  line  railways, 
where  stops  are  to  be  made  only  at  a 
few  important  places,  the  operation  of 
such  a  system  of  travel  would  be  more 
I practicable,  and 
it  would  enormously 
please  the  traveling  public,  which never 
gets  forward  fast  enough. 
I he  danger­
ous  and  often  fatal  racing  of  steamers 
on  the  sea  and 
inland  waters  is  only 
done  to  please  the  passengers  and  to 
gratify  their  demand  for  faster  travel.

100  to 

is  entirely 

stop  is  made-—sometimes as  much as  300 
150  miles  per 
feet.  At  from 
hour,  it 
improbable  that  a 
stop  can  be  made  with  a  heavy  train, 
such  as  would  be  required  to  withstand 
the  shocks  of high  speed,  in  a  distance 
less  than  two  mi les  to  two  miles  and  a 
half  on  level  track.

To  make  such  operating  safe,  high 
isolated 
speed  tracks  must  be  entirely 
and  free 
from  connection  with  other 
tracks,  from  crossings  with  other  roads 
at grade  and  from  street  crossings  at 
grade,  all  of  which  combines  to  present 
such  difficulties  in  the  way  of  extreme 
railway  speed  as  that  it  can  be  realized 
only  under  special  conditions  which  are 
at  present  out  of  reach.

REDISCOVERING  LOST  ARTS.
The  ancient  Mexican  civilized  races 
have been  credited  with  the  knowledge 
of  some  process  for  tempering  copper 
which  made 
it  as hard  as  steel,  and  of 
it  were  fashioned  weapons,  mechanics’ 
tools,  and  particularly  the  chisels  that 
were  used  in  working  and  cutting  stone 
for  their  temples  and  other  colossal 
structures.

that 

is,  it 

Copper,  as  is  well  known,  is  extreme­
ly  ductile  and  malleable 
is 
easily  drawn  into  wire  and  works  readi- 
ly  under  the  hammer-  -but 
it  will  not 
weld.  When  two  pieces  of  white  hot 
iron  are  hammered  together,they  adhere 
and  form,  to  all  practical  purposes,  a 
single  piece. 
"I his  is  an  extremely  val­
uable  quality,  which 
as 
“ welding. ”   The  refusal  to  be  welded 
has  operated  as  a  defect  in  the  value  of 
copper,  and,  from  time  to  time,  an  an­
nouncement  is  made that the art of weld­
ing  this  metal  has  been  discovered.

is  known 

However  this  may  be,  the art  of  tem­
pering  copper  to  make  it  like  steel  has 
long  defied  modern  science.  Recently, 
however,  it  is  claimed that this has been 
discovered.  The  discoverer 
is  given 
out  to  be  Albert  E.  Lytte,  of  Chicago. 
The  metal  so  treated  is  said  to  be  per­
fectly  pure,  not  being  alloyed  with  any 
other,  and  can  be  produced  of  different 
degrees  of  hardness,  and  is  capable  of 
being  rolled  into  thin  sheets  or  drawn 
into  fine  wire when cold,  without anneal­
ing. 
Illinois  Central  Railroad 
shops  have  made  some  tests  of  this 
treated  metal  to  determine 
its  action 
while  being  worked 
in  the  machine 
shop.  During  the  operations  of  plan­
ing,  boring  and  turning, 
it  behaved 
much  like  steel,  though  slightly  easier 
to  cut.

The 

Investigations  made  at  the  Washing­
ton  navy  yard  show  tin*  treated  copper 
to  be  pure,  and,  on  a  test bar,  14 inches 
long  and  1  inch  on  the  faces,  showed an 
elongation  of  3-V  inches and  an ultimate 
breaking  strength  of  37,800  pounds. 
Other  tests  made  in  Chicago  show  the 
I ultimate  breaking  strength  to  be  be­
tween  56,000  and  38,000  pounds. 
1 he 
ultimate  strength  of  ordinary  cast  cop­
per  is  24,781  pounds. 
It  is  claimed  that 
no  alloy  is  used  in  the process  of  treat­
ing,  and  that  the  process  is  not  expen­
sive  and  can  be  applied  to  a  quantity 
of  copper  necessary  to  make  the  largest 
castings.  The  treated  metal  can  be 
worked  successfully  with  the  planer, 
lathe,  dies  and  rolls,  or  can  be  drawn 
into  wire.
If  this  be  true,  as  in  all  probability 
it  is,  it appears  to  be  only the discovery 
of  an  art  known  in  a  former  age,  but, 
like  many  others,  lost. 
Ihus  it  is  that 
modern  science,  in 
its  progress,  stum­
bles  upon  nuggets  of  truth  known  to  the 
people  of  antiquity.  Probably,  if  we 
only  knew  all  that  they  were  familiar 
with,  we would  not  be  so  proud  of  our 
superiority  over the  men  of  the  earlier 
ages.

EXTREM E  RAILW AY  SPEED.
It  is  doubtful  if  a  greater  speed  of 
transit  has  ever been  made  than  sixty 
miles  an  hour.  Some  trains  may  have 
been  moved  for  a  few  moments  with 
greater  rapidity,  but  the  rate  was  not 
kept  up  long  enough to  warrant  its  be­
ing  made  the basis  of any  computation. 
There  is  at  hand  a  table  of  speed  made 
by  fast  trains  in  England,  where  the 
tracks  are  especially  solid  and  well 
built,  and  the  figures  given  show  the 
distance  traveled  and  the  time  con­
sumed,  and  the  rate  of  speed.  Thus, 
on  the  Great  Northern,  from  Grantham 
to  Rexford,  a  distance  of  33%  miles, 
a  velocity  of  55yi  miles  an  hour  was

There 

is  no  question  that any  serious 
increase  in  the  speed  vastly 
increases 
the  danger;  moreover,  since  railways 
are  not built  for the  exclusive  use  of  a 
few  swift  passenger  trains,  but  for  a 
large  freight  service  as  well,  it would be 
next  to  impossible  to get  the  track  clear 
I for trains  traveling  at  from  100  to  400 
miles  an  hour.  Then  the  stopping  of 
such  a  train  would  be  a  serious  matter. 
An  expert  authority,  the  Chicago  R ail­
way  Review,  declares that  a  train  run­
ning  at  forty miles  an  hour can  at  pres­
ent make  an  emergency  stop 
in  about 
600 to 660  feet  if  the  brake  equipment 
is  in  good  condition;  but  oftener  the 
train  runs  a  greater  distance before  the

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Getting  the  People

Art  of  Reaching  and  Holding  Trade 

by  Advertising.

From  now  until  Christmas  the  shrewd 
advertiser  may  reap  an  abundant  har­
vest.  There  must  Ire  no cessation,  how­
ever,  in  the  advertising. 
It  must  he 
persisted  in  continuously  and  system­
atically  -continuously,  because  erratic 
and  purposeless  advertising  is  a  waste 
of  money;  systematically,  because  by 

method  and  thoroughness only  can  the 

merchant  hope to  win.

I he  proper  course  to  inflow  is  to  map 
out  a  plan  of  advertising  along  lines 
both  novel  and  practical,  deciding care­
fully  on  tile  media  to  be  used  and  the 
amount  of  space.  This  plan  should  be 
followed  to  the  letter,  only  varying  it  in 
ways  which events  prove  to  be  valuable 
changes.

In  towns  large  enough  to  boast  one 
daily  paper or  more  it  is  generally  ad­
visable  to  patronize  this,  even  at  the 
sacrifice  of  all  other  publications,  for 
the daily  paper  becomes  the 
intimate 
associate  of  all  members  of  the  house­
It  is  read  every  day  by  all, 
hold  alike. 
from  paterfamilias  down 
little 
omega,  and  the  buying  people are edu­
cated  on  the  fact  that 
in  no  way  can 
they  economize  so  well  and  obtain  such 
values  as  by  watching  carefully  for  the 
daily  bargains  in  the  advertising  col- 
ums of  their  family  journal.

In the smaller towns,  where hut  one 

to 

daily  exists  in  association  with  one  or 
more  weekly  journals,  a  certain  amount 
in  the  weekly 
of  space  should  be  used 
paper,  as  this class  of  publication 
is  a 
inmate  ol  the  farmer's  house­
valued 
hold,  and  is  credited  with  a  large  share 
of 
integrity  in  news  and  advertising 
matter  by  the  rural  resident.

1  hear  some one  say, 

‘ ' I  know  very 
well  these  different  journals are valuable 
helps to  my  trade,  if  I  can  only  say  the 
right  words to  the  right  people,  in  the 
right  way.”   This 
is  the  keynote; 
strike  this  properly  and  a  responsive 
chord  is  touched  which  will  not cease  to 
vibrate  until  it  has  poured  into  the  ad­
vertiser’s  lap  returns a  thousandfold  in 
creased  above  the  original  expense.

Plain  talks,  couched 

in  plain  terms, 
directed  to  people  who are on  the  alert 
constantly  for  just  such  bargains as you 
can  offer  them,  are  the surest  means  of 
"Getting  the  People.”   Too  many  writ­
ers  of  advertising  cherish  the  fallacy 
that  a  profitable  ad.  must  necessarily 
be  made  of  unpronounceable  words.
I his  is  the  reverse  of  true  simplicity 
and  practicality  are  continually  prac­
ticed  by the  largest  and  most  successful 
advertisers  of  the  United  States.

When  a  merchant  sits  down  to  write 
directs  the  matter  to  his  own  under­

an  ad.,  it  is  too often  the  case  that  he 

standing  and'  reasoning  powers.  He 
thinks  because  he  can  see  the  point and 
value and  pertinence  of  the  reasoning 
that others  will  accept 
it  in  the  same 
light.  This  is  not  the  fact.  The  mer­
chant buys  his  goods  at  wholesale  and 
looks  at  them  from  the  point  of  view  of 
one  who  expects  to  sell  them  at  a profit.
The  buyer,  who  is  to  he  the  reader  of 
the  advertisement  for  the  merchant’s 
profit,  or otherwise,  looks at  the articles 
from  the  standpoint  of  wear,  or  use,  or 
style,  or taste,  and  price,  as  compared 
with  what he  has been  able  to  buy  and 
what  other  merchants  are offering.

This,  then 

is  the  ground  to  take: 
"What  would  1,  were  I  in  the  position 
of  the  buyer  for  consumption,  like  to 
read,  and  what  would  I  take  the  most

interest  in?"  After having  placed him­
self  in  entente  cordiale  with  the  con­
sumer 
in  other  words,  put  on  the  lat­
ter’s  spectacles and  looked  at  the matter 
in  the  buyer’s  light,  then 
it  becomes 
possible  for  the  merchant  to  write  an 
advertisement  which  will  sell  his  goods, 
and  not  until  then.

There  must  be  sufficient  oddity  and 
novelty  in  the  wording  to  catch  the  eye 
and  please  the  fancy.  There  must  be 
enough  sound  common  sense and reason­
ing  to  force  belief  upon  the  reader's 
min 1.  There  must  be  enough  economi­
cal  attractiveness 
in  the  prices  men­
tioned  to  reach  the  spot  in  the  human 
anatomy  commonly  called  the  pocket- 
hook.  With  these  ingredients,  properly 
mixed  and  flavored  with  the  right  kind 
of  spice,  which  is  brevity and terseness, 
the advertiser  has  at  his  command  the 
attention  of  those  he  wishes  to  attract.  I 
1  have  picked  up  a  few oddly worded 
advertisements  which 
I  present  for  the 
benefit  oi  the  Tradesman’s  readers,  j 
Some  of  them  are  ridiculous  in  the  ex­
treme,  and  show  great 
ignorance,  but 
among  them  are  some  good  ones  which 
may  be  taken  advantage  of :

A  sign  in  New York reads,  "R ea l  E s­
tate  for  S a il,"  which  conveys  the  idea 
that  the seller  has  a  floating 
island  or 
two  to  dispose  of.

A  provision  dealer  says,  "N ew   laid 
tijrcrs  -JU ST  OUT,  which 
literally 
correct;  but  when  he asks  the  public  to 
Try  my  own  sugar-cured  hams”   it 
is  too  generous 

would  appear  that  he 
with  his  anatomy.

is 

A  sausage  factory  in  Brooklyn  has  in 
the  window  a  card,  "Fresh  country- 
made  sausages  daily, 
and  on  the door 
leading  to  the  rear yard is the significant 
legend,  Beware  of the  Dogs.”   It  does 
not  specify  whether  in  sausage  form  or 
otherwise.

A  furniture  dealer  in  Cincinnati  went 
so  far  in  his  ads.  as  to  say,  "O ur  car­
pets cannot be beaten  in this city, ’ ’which 
statement  is  not  likely  to  sell  many,  as I 
most  people  prefer  to  beat  their carpets,  j 
or have  them  beaten  at  home  whenever | 
it  is  necessary.

I he  fish  dealer  who  boldly  announce 

his  goods  as  "watered  stock”   made  a 
happy  hit,  anil  so  did  the  coal  man  who 
wrote  - " I f  there’s anything  the  matter 
with  our  coal—fire 
it!  We  won’t 
kick.

A  clever  ad. 

is  that  of  a  Chicago 
"O f  all  the  felt  I  ever  felt,  I 
hatter: 
never  felt  such  felt  as  that  felt  hat  felt 
I  bought  from  Bates,  the  hatter. ’ ’

Here  are  some  odd  things  in  con­
nection  with 
that  always  attractive 
and  usually  pleasing  subject,  women— 
"God  bless  ’em !’ ’  These  can  be  used 
to  advantage  in  many  ways,taking them 
one  by  one  as  introductions  to the  body 
of  the  ad.  :

Buffalo  has  a  lady  mortuarist. ”  
Arizona’s  best  mining  expert  is  a  wo­

man.

An  expert  tea  taster  in  San  Francisco 

is a  young girl.

On  Sixth  avenue,  New  York, 

expert  woman  silversmith.

is  an 

One of  the  greatest  wood  engravers  is 

Miss  Donlevy,  of  New  York.

inary  surgeon  in  the  world.

the best  blacksmith  is  a  girl.

New  Orleans  has  the  only  woman  vet- 

In  the  Coggswell  Polytechnic  school 

In  Boston  a  wel 1  educated  woman j 
Nebraska  has  a  woman  who  earns  her j 

electroplates 
nickel.

living  by  operating  a  steam  thresher.

silver 

The  finest  raisins 

in  California  are S 
raised  and  packed by  three  women  near 
F resno.

gold, 

and 

in 

The  most graceful  thing on  wheels 

is | 

a  ’eyeless—woman  or girl.

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Look  our  line  over  for all  the  latest  novel­
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E W E L R Y   Co.,

G R A N D   R A P ID S

N I C K E L I N G .

A  nODERN  WONDER.

It isiabsolut« ly the  only  po|. 
ish that will not  dry  up  in 
stock, or become hardened.

We will refund  the  purchase 

price if it does not  please.

Every  box  is  guaranteed  to 

the trade and consumers.

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If  your  jobber  doesn’t 

keep  it, write

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Don’t  be  an Oddity - - -

IT IS ODD

Eccentricity is no longer fashionable, 
ana no well-bred persons will allow 
themselves to be thought peculiar.
that you haven’t taken advantage of 
our Midsummer Clearance Sale, for 
you can make money by so doing. 
Everything in our Summer goods 
goes at a slashing reduction. Don't be 
“My  Good  Mr.  Mephistopheles, 

-  £r*  SL  SLASHEM &  CO.

od<l! 

Whose Coal  Do  You  Use?’

A  ’C ycless 
W ithout  T ro u se rs!

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W m '

 

\V ould be quite a novelty in Paris.  A lady 
without some one of our hundreds of bar 
gains in Dress Goods Novelties Is almost as 
great a rarity in this city.  Our new Fall 
Goods are arriving daily and we can show 
the finest line of fabrics in all grades ever 
exhibited.

LACEDQE  &  CO.

A  Crazy  Man

i'°“‘dn 1 ,S1V® away goods, neither 
ao we—not so long as we retain what 
sense we are endowed with. We are in 
^HneS,S to„se11 g«ods, to sell good 
goods, to sell goods a little “gooder” 
than anyone else keeps, and to sell 
good goods at a good deal closer mar 
gin of profit than even the “goodest” 
kind of merchant»—our competitors 
can do. If you have a good idea of the
real goodness of good goods, it will 
pay  you to  be  good  to us and 
gooder 
to yourself by investigat­
ing our goods.

doogood  &  CO.

Hard  to Beat!

WILTON  &  CO.

Bv this statement we mean toeonvey the 
idea that it's a bard matter to beat our 
prices on Carpets, Floor Mattings, Rugs, 
Lace Curtains and Draperies.  The goods 
cannot be approached in value at the 
prices we offer them.  Don’t acknowl­
edge yourself slow by failing to take ad­
vantage of these prices.-
We carry in stock a class of 
goods that pleases those who 
wish pure food at a reason­
able price.  We do not cater 
to those who want cheap gro­
ceries at cheaper  prices— 
there's no satisfaction in such 
dealing.  But to those who 
want their
Groceries 
Canned  Goods  and 
Pure, Fresh and of the best 
grades,  we  can  guarantee 
every article on our shelves to 
be of the first class  and at 
lowest living retes.

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.Just now we aie using Lackiunanna Hard 
Nut Coal, but it burns so hot and lasts so long 
that it scorches my boarders too rapidly and 
don't give 'em work enough to do while they do 
last.”

$6  a clean ton at

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advertisers  the  necessity  for  persever­
ance,  push,  progressiveness,  pugnacity, 
prominent  publicity,  and  perpetual  pre­
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in 
to he  combined  in  perfect  harmony 
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When the clouds are in the blue:
But a fellow finds it double 
When theNoteFallsDue!
Sorrow’s nothing but a bubble 
That will vanish from the view:
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In a living world of trouble,
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A  short  time  ago at  Brunn,  the  capi­
tal  of  Moravia,  a  journeyman  baker and 
his  sweetheart  determined  to  commit 
suicide  together by drowning  themselves 
in  the  Schwarza.  The  young  man  was 
out  of  work  and  saw no  prospect  of  be­
ing  able  to  get  married.  The  couple 
carried  out  their  fatal  resolve,  and  their 
bodies  were  found  in  the  river.  The 
pockets  of 
the  young  man  were 
searched,  and 
in  them  were  found  a 
florin  and  a  lottery  ticket.  A  few  days 
afterwards  the  drawing  of  the  lottery 
took  place,  and  that  very  ticket  turned 
out to be the  winner  of  20,000  florins, 
or about  §10,000  in  our  money.

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Written for The Tradesman.

how  Cy

Land.

JA N E  CRAGIN.

Huxley  Reclaimed  Waste 

"Cyrus,  what  is  the  trouble  over  in 
the  Fairbanks  neighborhood?  Yesterday 
it  was  Goodwin  who  backed  vou  into  a 
corner and  nodded  his  head and wagged 
his  index  linger at  you ;  the  day  before 
both  the  Ammidowns  were  doing  their 
best  to  get  you  to  say 
'yes’  to  some­
thing ;  to-day  old  man  Herbert  came  in 
to-morrow 
to  unburden  himself;  and 
brother  Bateman  will  be  stopping 
in 
because  he happened  to  be going  by. 
1 
should  like  to  know  what  it's  all  about. 
If  it  isn’t  a  secret,  tell  what  it  is.  Have 
they got  into  a  quarrel  over  there?"
isn’t  so  bad  as  that. 

It 
looks  to  me  like  a  little piece  of  human 
nature  working  out;  and  somehow  they 
all  seem  to  fancy  that  1  can  straighten 
things out  by going  around  and  talking 
to  the  others  and  telling  them  that 
they’ve  all  made  a  m istake."
"Y ou  mean,  don’t  you, 

"Well, 

it 

that  each 
Isn’t 

thinks  the  others  are  to  blame? 
that  just  like  a  lot  of  men?"
’ N"  women?  Yes,  just 
It’s  human  nature  all  over."
it  they  are 

“ What 

like

is 

about,  anyway?”

quabbling

1 

"T o   tell  you  the  plain  truth,  Jane,  I 
I’m  going  over  there  to­
don’t  know. 
day  to  find  out. 
judge  that  1  shall 
find  a  big  swamp  bordering  on  four  or 
five  farms and  near  enough  to  others  to 
It’s  wet  land, 
affect  them  more  or  less. 
anyway,  and  what  they  all  want 
is  to 
have  someone  of  ’em  drain  the  swamp 
so  that  the  others  can  reap  the benefit  of 
1 hat  s  what,  I  guess.  Then  1  have 
it. 
an  idea  from  the  frequency  with  which 
Widder  Malony’s  name  is  brought 
in 
that  she  has  been  having  a  good  deal  to 
say  and  do.  That's  natural,  too.  There 
never  was  a  quarrel  yet,  you  know, 
which  didn't  show  a  woman’s  hand, 
sooner or  later.

"N o,  1  don’t  know 

it;  but  I  have 
known  one or two  instances where a wo­
man’s  much  belied  tongue  has  been  the 
only  peacemaker."

1 hat’s  right;  only  there  are  peace­
makers  anil  piece-makers  anil  you’ve 
got  hold  of  the  wrong kind.  That's  the 
way  with  vou  women.  You  mean  all 
in 
right—your  intentions  are  the  best 
the  world  but  you’re  illogical, 
Jane, 
in  your  conclusions; 
and  you’ re  hasty 
you’ re  governed  by  sound 
instead  of 
sense—”

Why  don’t  you  combine  the  two, 
Cyrus?  Make  it  sound  sense,  just  once, 
and 
if  we’re  so  far  behind 
y o u !"  i

let’s  see 

"And  when  you  see  that  you  are  get­
ting  the  worst  of  a  discussion,  you  cut 
right  in  and  try  to  break  up  your  oppo­
nent  with  a  pun, instead  of  meeting  him 
with argument. 
I  don’t  find  any  fault, 
mind  vou 

“ Indeed!"
’ * V ou  can't  help  it;  you’ re  built  that 
way;  and  I  haven’t  a  doubt  that  every 
one  of  you  after  that  quilting-bee  at 
Hemmenway’s  last  Thursday  afternoon 
went  home thinking  and  saving  before 
you  went  to  sleep 
‘ Blessed  are  the 

piece-makers,’  and  so  forth!  Excuse 

me,  Miss Cragin,  but,  if  you  have  any 
designs  to  carry  out  with  the  help  of 
that  paper  weight,  let  me  remind  you 
is  plate 
that  the  window  behind  you 
glass  and  that  cows  ’n’  wimin  ’ n’  hens 
kin  t  throw  a 

there’s  Fairbanks."

" Don’t  git  aout, 

Josh,"  he  called

through  the  open  window. 

right
you.'' 

and  drive

there  with

"A fter you  get  things  all  snarled  up, 
you’d  better  let Mrs.  Fairbanks untangle 
them  for  you !"  called  Jane  through  tht 
window,  as  they  drove  away.

Wha’il  she  mean?”

Josh

"Nothing  at  all.  We  got 
to  talkin’ 
this  morning,  anil  Jane's like 
the rest  on 
’em  she’s bound  to  have  tht 
last  word, 
.About  this  business. 
to  be  c nit
and  out  honest  with  you,  there  ain’t  but 
one  way  to 
fix  up  this  swamp  fuss. 
What  every  one  of  you  wants  is to  have 
tile other  feller drain  his  laud  for  him. 
You  ain’t  going  to  pay  out  ten  dollars 
for  the  sake  of  Goodwin’s getting fifteen 
out  of  it;  and  that’s  the  way  1  expect  to 
find  it  all  along  the  line.  You  fellows 
have been  grinding  this  thing over until 
every  one  of  you  thinks  the  rest  are  try­
ing  to  squeeze  him.  You  ought  to  know 
better  than  that,  Josh. ”

" Wal,  naow,  see  here."
"<),  I ’ve been seeing here  for  the  last 
five  years  and  1  know  the  thing  from  a 
to z, with the etc.thrown in ; and  1 'm sorry 
to  see  it.  Now,  we’re  not  exactly  what 
they  call  ‘ getting  on  in  years’,  but  you 
know,  and  so do  I,  that  this  big  1  and 
little  you  business  is  all  wrong.  There’s 
the  point,  right  there. 
1  don’t  want  to 
wait  until  you  get  through  breathing be­
fore  I  get  a  whiff,  and  when  you  say 
1 
shall,  1  kick,  and  1  ought  to  kick.”

"W al,  wh ose  goin’ 

ain’t.

to  give  in? 

I 

"W e  can  both  of  us  tell  better  about 
that  on  the  way  home,”   and  by  tacit 
consent  the conversation  was  turned  in­
to  other channels.

inanimate  objects.  On 

Mill  River  is  a  fair  illustration  of 
what  somebody  has  put  down  as the cus­
sed ness  of 
its j 
way  from  its  fern  bordered  home  in  the ! 
uplands  whence,  with  the  reflected  blue 
of  the  sky  upon  its  brow  and  with  the 
happiest  of  home-songs  upon  its  limpid 
lips,  it  goes  winding  and  dancing down 
to  the  level  lands  below,  it is as well-be­
haved  and  as  companionable  a  stream 
as  one  would  care  to  see;  but, 
for  a 
mile or  two before  it  reaches  Milltown, 
it  sulkily  and  sullenly  dragged  its  slow ! 
length  along, 
spoiling  more  valuable 
meadowland  than  any  ten  streams  of  its 
size  ought  to  monopolize.  First  one 
farmer,  where  it  touches  his  farm,  tried 
to  make  it  respectable,  and  then  an­
other,  but  to  little  purpose. 
It  was  the 
same obstinate,  pig-headed  thing  it  had 
made  up  its  mind to  be,  until  it  reached 
the old  sawmill.  From  there  it  makes 
up  its  mind  to  be  somebody,  and 
is  a 
useful  and  well-thought-of  river;  but  it 
was that  stretch  of  sluggish  stream  that 
had  set  the  farmers  upon  its  borders  by 
the  ears  and  thither  one  of  them  and 
the storekeeper  were on  their  way.

The outcome  was  what  had  been  pre­
dicted.  Not  a  man  of  them  but  admit­
ted  that the  whole  was  a  mistake, but he 
wasn’t  going  to  give  in  anil there wasn’t 
any  use  talking.  The  "w idder”   hail 
come  to  a  decision.  She’d  lived among 
the  heathen  long  enough,  "them  Fair­
bankses bein’  a  head  anil  shoulders  the 
wust  of any of  ’em ,"  and  she  dropped 
a  mock  courtesy  to  the  Fairbanks repre­
sentative  before  her.  She  had  made  up 
her  mind  to  sell  out,  and  if  Mr.  Huxley 
knew  of  a  purchaser,  what  little  land 
she  owned  on  Mill  River  would  go 
cheap.

"H ow  much  land  have  you,  Mrs.  Ma- 
lonv,  and  how  much do  you want  for  it? 
It’s  barely  possible  that  I  may  come 
across  somebody  wantin’  to  buy.”

’ I ’ve  got  a  hundred acres  here  wuth
" I ’ll  git | $25  an  acre  if  its wuth a  cent;  and  fori

A re  You • • • • • • • • • • •

M aking  Money

Selling 
C ra ck ers 

and  C akes

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 IT Y ,  Q U A L IT Y   and 
P R L S I IX IiS S   make the finest 
line  in  the world  to select  from.

W  ill  lie  comparatively  easy  if 
you  push  our  goods.  Liberal 
profits  and  quick  sales  will  be 
yours.  Customers buying once 
will  come  again.  Pry,  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,sw eetest 1 .ard, 
the finest  Patent  Flour  and the 
richest  Molasses enter our  pro­
ducts.

We make a Specialty of SUMMER DELICACIES.

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Successors  to  WM.  SEARS  &  CO.

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Hold Your  Nose

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

“  Lily White Flour

Note the following

Pointers!

People always want  more of  it. 
Where  they  buy  Flour  they buy 

I Phis  Flour is always the same. 

Pleased  customers  are  good 

Groceries.

vertisers.

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the  sake of gettim 
sell  it  for S i5. ”

out

f  Tophet, 

I’ll 

^ ou  11  feel  better  about  it

bv  and

No,  I  shan't.  My  mind’s  made  up; 
and,  if  1  can’t  do any  better,  I’ll  let  thè 
whole  place  go to  rack*  and  ruin. 
I’m 
going  to  leave. ”

" Wal,  I  don’t  want  to  take  no advan­
tage  on  you,  Mrs.  Malony,  but  if  its any 
object.  I ’ll  give  you  S12  cash,  if you say 
so,  and  give  you  the  money as  quick  as 
the  papers are  made  out.  Will  you  do 
it?”

“ Vou  bet  I'll  do  it. 

If  you'd  said 
Sio,  I'd  took  you  up;  but  I’m  sorry  for 
you.  You  might  jest  as  well  try  to take 
comfort  in  a  camp-meeting,  with  a  hor­
net  buzzing  around  your  head,  as  to  live 
in  this  neighborhood  with  a  Fairbanks. 
I'll  come  to  the  village  this  afternoon 
and  we’ll  fix  this  thing  up;  and  I’ ll  get 
out  of  here  in  short  order.  Good  day, 
Mr.  Huxley ;  and,  utterly  ignoring  the 
hated  Fairbanks,  she  turned  from  the 
buggy  with  the air  of  an 
injured  Juno 
and  went  into  the  house.

I he  transfer  was  properly;  and  duly 
made,  and  Huxley  went over at  an early 
day  to  take  possession.  He  found  what 
he expected  to  find :  that  some  twenty 
or  twenty-five  acres  of  the  best  land  on 
his  farm  were  worthless,  on  account  of 
a  much-needed  ditch. 
I lie  other  farms I 
were  in  the  same  condition.  What  was 
action. 
wanted  was  a 
little  united 
Would  the others  "go  in”   for 
it?  Not 
one.  Would  they  be  willing  to  let  him 
go ahead  and  dig  the  ditch  and  they 
share  the  expense?  No. 
Then  the 
storekeeper,  with  something  that  Sound­
ed  like  a  "cuss  word,”   after  a  little fig­
uring,  asked  them  if  they  would  let  him 
dig  it  at  his own  expense. 
“ If  he  was 
big  enough  fool  to  do  that  and  would 
sign  a  paper  releasing  them  from  all  li­
ability,  yes.”   The  paper  was  signed 
and  the ditch  was dug  and  some  of  the 
richest  land  in  the  whole  county  was  re 
claimed,  and  the  crops 
''you  ought  to 
see  the crops they  raised  on  that  river 
bottom!  Never  saw  anything  like  it; 
and  to  think  of what  they’d  lost all these 
years 
just  because  a  woman  got  her 
spunk  up  and  wouldn't  do  nothing!”

you  wanted  me  to say,  wasn't  it,  bovs?”  
When  Huxley  had  told  Jane  all  about 
it,  he  tossed  the  wallet  and  its  contents 
on  the  book-keeper’s desk  with,  “ Better 
put  that  into  the safe;  I  don’t  want 
it; 
but  I’ll  tell  you  what,  Jane,  after  store­
keeping,  the  most  profitable  business  I 
know  of  is digging  ditches!”

Riciiakd Malcolm Strong.

Tribute  to  the  Dead-Beat.*

My  remarks  will  be somewhat  scatter­
ing  and  will,  necessarily,  have  to  be 
scattering  to  hit  all  the  dead-beats,  be­
cause  we  find  them  everywhere  and 
in 
all  grades  of  society. 
I he  dead-beat  is 
not  always  clothed  in  poor apparel,  and,
I  blush  to  say,  not  always  dressed 
in 
male attire.  Sometimes  the  most  august 
looking  men  are  found  in  this  class and 
they  do  not  hesitate  to  send  us  to  hades 
when  we  refuse  to  give  them 
further 
I he  worst  class  of  dead-beats  I 
credit. 
know  anything about  are  those  whom 
I 
am  absolutely  afraid  to dun.  These are 
the  fellows  who  are  considered  good, 
but,  when  we  politely ask  them  to  help 
us  out on  their  long-standing  accounts, 
they  flare  up  and  say,  "W hat!”   Ain’t  I 
good?  Are  you afraid  to trust  me?”

I  would  give  the  medicine 

Just  how to  get  along  with  this  class 
I  wish  1  had  more 
is  a  puzzle  to  me. 
in  my  audience  here  this 
confidence 
evening 
in 
more  herculean  doses  but  I  don’t know 
just  how  you  would  take  it.  What!  lack 
of  confidence 
in  my  brother  grocers? 
Yes,  that’s  just  it.  To  explain,  I  will 
say  that  I  have  belonged  to  other  asso­
ciations  than  this. 
I  used  to belong  to 
the  Michigan  Business  Men’s  Associa­
tion  and  I  frecjuently met brothers Cran­
dall  and  Stowe  at  the  conventions.  We I 
clasped  hands and  pledged  eternal  fidel­
ity  to  each  other,  so  far as the dead-beat 
was concerned ;  promised  to  guard  each 
other's 
in  fighting  him,  and 
then  we  went  home  and 
immediately 
commenced  to  feed  our groceries  to this 
insatiable octopus,  the  dead-beat. 
Is  it I 
any  wonder  that  my  confidence  should j 
be a  little  weak?

interest 

This condition  of affairs  is  our  own 
fault.  We  own  the  dead-beat  and  we 
should  squelch  him. 
I  say  we  own I 
him. 
I  will  demonstrate  this  by  the 
simple  rule  of  three.  We  are  taught  or 
were  taught,  when  1  was  a  boy,  that 
once  in  seven  years  a  man  is  renewed 
in  other  words  it  takes  seven  years  to 
entirely  change every  particle of the hu­
man  anatomy  and,  as  we  have  kept  the 
dead-beat  in  groceries  for  more  than 
seven  years,  it  stands  to  reason  that  we 
own  his  body.  Some  of  us  grocers keep 
other  commodities  for sale  beside  gro­
ceries,  such  as  boots  and  shoes,  pants, 
etc.  So  the dead-beat  goes  to my broth­
er  Finkbeiner and  gets  a  pair  of  shoes. 
Then  Mr.  Finkbeiner owns his sole—for 
the  genuine  dead-beat  has  no other soul.
1 hen  he goes  to  brother  Proctor,  and  is 
rigged  out 
in  a  pair  of  pants,  which, 
of  course,  Mr.  Proctor  owns;  therefore,
1  think  it  can  be  truly  said,  we  own 
him  “ body,  soul  and  breeches.”

But  that  wasn’t  the  best  of  it.  When 
the  water  was  drawn  from  the  swampy 
soil  and  had  carried  with  it  every  ves­
tige  of  the  late  unpleasantness,  it  grad­
ually  dawned  upon  the  minds  of  the 
farmers  that  there  were  matters  of  com­
mon  concern  among 
them  besides 
swamp-draining ;  that  good  roads  and 
good  schools and  a  desirable community 
could  be  secured  and  sustained-on]v  by 
the  healthy  and  concerted  action  of  all ; 
and  that  for getting  out of  a  tight place, 
Cy  Huxley  had  the  longest  head  on  him 
of  any  man  in  Milltown.  There  was  an­
other 
idea  which  grew  and  gathered 
strength.  The  signers  of  that  paper  be­
gan  to  be dissatisfied.  More  and  more 
the  selfishness of  the  whole  matter came 
home  to  them  and,  finally,  when  they 
had 
stood  as  much  of  that  sort of thing 
as  they  cared  to,”   the  signers came over 
to  Huxley’s  farm  in  a  body  and,  with­
Minneapolis  Commercial  Bulletin:
out  hardly  giving  him  a  chance  to  say,
reallv
“ How are you?”   Josh  Fairbanks stepped  handsome  in  a  new  dress  of  type.  Our 
up  to  him  and  said,  Cy,  I've got some-  very  successful  contemporary  has  busi- 
thing  here  for 
you  and  you’ve  got  to  ness back 
take  it. 
Flier
’tis ;“   and  he  took  Cy’s
hand and  put  into  it  a  long  leather  wal­
let. 
in  there  what  that 
ditch  cost,  and  a  little  besides,  to  pay 
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Dry Goods

CLERK  AND  CUSTOMER.

Value  of  Courtesy  Before  and  Be* 

hind  the  Counter.

Store  manners,  the behavior  of  sales­
men  and  saleswomen  and  the  behavior 
of  shoppers,  as  displayed 
in  the  large 
retail  establishments,  are  an  interesting 
subject  to  study,  revealing  as  they  do 
naively,  often  brutally,  always  uncon­
sciously,  the  real  character  and  princi­
ples of  conduct  of  those concerned. 
In­
dividual  traits,  traits  of  class,  of  age, 
of  race,  above all  of  sex,  are  nowhere 
more  broadly  exposed  than  across  the 
counters  where  men  and  women  sell 
and  buy.  The  caricaturist  and 
the 
comic  writers  have  long  since  realized 
this,and  seized  upon  such  salient  points 
for  their  satire  as  the bargain  day  crush 
and  the  wholesale  sacrifice  scramble, 
but  the subject  is  worth  a  more  serious 
consideration.

or  woman  is  a  most 

Let  us  begin  with  the  manners  of 
clerks,  for  it  is  their  manners  and  not 
those  of their  customers  that  are of  the 
most  importance,  because  as clerks  they 
are,  in  a  way,  servants  of  the  public, 
and  thus  under certain  obligations to  it, 
and  because  the  position  behind  the 
counter,  even  when  filled  by  a  hireling, 
is  the  post  of  vantage.  The  shopper 
may,  indeed,  go  away,  but  if  he wishes 
to  buy  what  the  clerk  has  to  sell  he 
must  submit  to  the 
latter’s  manner, 
whatever  this  may  be,  of  selling 
it  to 
him.  That  the  manner  ot  the  salesman 
important  element 
in  the  matter  no  one  will  deny.  An 
agreeable,  or  interested  or simply  civil 
salesman  or  woman  induces  a  purchase 
where  a  disagreeable,  uninterested,  or 
uncivil  one  and  there are  surprisingly j 
many  such  will  often  drive  an  intend- I 
ing  purchaser  away.  Storekeepers  are 
well  aware of  this  fact,  and,  consequent­
ly,  in  small  stores  where  the  proprietor 
im­
himself  does  the selling  or  is  able 
mediately  to  supervise  those  whom 
lie 
employs  for  that  purpose,  customers 
almost 
civil 
treatment  that  is  the  real  secret of  many 
a  tradesman’s  success.

invariably  receive 

the 

In 

larger  establishments,  however, 
where both  the  selling  and  the supervis­
ion  of those  who  sell  are  delegated  to 
subordinates,  the  treatment  of  custom­
ers  is  often  different.  The  proprietor’s 
intention  remains  the  same; 
in  every 
store,however  large,  every  clerk  is  ex­
pected  to  serve  every  customer  with 
politeness,  promptness  and  attention. 
This  is  the  theoretical,  the  ideal  state 
of  the case;  but  the actual  is  such  that 
while  there  are  may  large  stores  in  this 
city  where  the  best 
intentions  of  the 
proprietors  toward  their  customers  are 
carried  out  in  the  courteous  conduct  of 
their employes,  there  are  others  where 
these subordinates  are  notoriously  un­
civil,  where  every  shade  of  rudeness 
front  downright  insolence  to  dull  inertia 
is  encountered  by  the buyers who, never­
theless, flock  to  their  sales.

For,  strange  as 

it  may  seent,  those 
stores  where  the  behavior  of  the  clerks 
is  the  least  pleasant  and  often  the  most 
offensive  are  precisely  those  where  the 
crowd  of  custom  is greatest.  To a  cer­
tain  extent  this  is  a  case  of  cause  and 
effect.  A  continuous  crowd  of  custom 
fatigues  the  clerks,  tries  their  patience 
and  dulls  their  interest  by  a  too  con­
stant demand.  That  buyers,  however, 
will  continue  to  submit  to  the  treatment 
that  is  the outward  and  visible  sign  of 
these  effects,  when  they  could  get  what

they  want  sold  to them  more civilly and 
cheerfully  elsewhere,  remains  one of  the 
most  curious  of  the  phenomena  that 
meet  one  in  the 
investigation  of  this 
subject.  Within  a block  of  each  other, 
in  the  fashionable  shopping  quarter,  are 
two  large  establishments  dealing 
in 

dress  and  fancy goods.  To  all  appear­

ances  they  are  in  every  way  equal,  ex­
cept  that  in  the  one  the  clerks,  as  a 
mass,  are  perhaps  the  worst  mannered 
in  the  city,  whereas  in  the  other  they 
are  equally civil.  Vet  the  former has by 
far  the  greater  run  of  custom.  Nor  is 
this  to  be  accounted  for by  a  difference 
in  prices  to  the advantage  of  the  more 
largely  patronaged  house,  since  these 
range  alike  in  both.  Of course,  there are 
many  persons  who,  having  once  ex­
perienced  uncivil  treatment  in  a  store, 
never  return  to  it again,  or who,  if  they 
do,  avoid  the  particular  department 
where,  or  the  particular  clerk 
from 
whom,  the  uncivil  treatment  was  re­
ceived :  but  the great  majority of  shop­
pers  go  on  submitting  as  if  unwilling 
or  indifferent or  insolent  service  were  a 
necessary  part  of  their  purchase.

this 

The display  of bad  manners by  clerks 
in  those  depart­
is  especially  marked 
ments of  large  shops  where  women  sell 
to  women.  Here  the  primitive  feeling 
of  sex  antagonism,  which  would  seem 
to  be  stronger  or at  least  less  controlled 
in  women  than 
in  men,  together  with 
the  smaller  animosities  such  as  envy, 
color and  race  prejudices  and  the  like, 
intensify the incivility so often shown.  A 
salesman  is  consequently  surly  or  impa­
tient ;  he is sometimes fairly brutal in  his 
attempts  to  bully  a  shopper  particular­
ly  when  that  shopper  is  a  woman—into 
a  purchase,  but  he  is  rarely  indifferent, 
as  the  vast  majority  of  saleswomen  are. 
If the  incivility  of  the  latter  ceased, 
however,  with 
indifference,  the 
complaints  against  them  might  be  dis­
missed,  but 
itself,  as 
every  shopper  knows, 
in  a  far  more 
offensive  form.  Not  long  ago  the  writ­
er  was  walking  behind  two  ladies  who 
had 
just  come  out  of  a  well-known 
store.  They  were  well-dressed,  refined- 
looking  women,  with 
the  hand-bags 
and  hurried  air  of the suburban shopper.
Oh,  dear,”   exclaimed  one  of  them 
‘ ‘ I ’ve  forgotten  that  shirt 
in  dismay. 
waist! 
If  I  don’t  get  it  to-day  I  shall 
have  to  make  another  journey  into  town 
just  for  it.”  
‘ ‘ Well,  I’m  afraid  you 
w ill,”   replied  her  companion,  ‘ ‘ for you 
can’t  go  back  now. 
It’s  nearly  6 
o’clock,  and  you  know  how  they’d  act; 
they’d  not  show  you  anything,  and 
they’d  be  positively  insulting  about  it, 
too. ’ ’

it  often  shows 

This  incident  illustrates  the condition 
of  dread,  if  not  of  awe,  to  which  many 
women  shoppers  are  reduced  by  the 
ladies behind  the  counter,  for  ladies— 
young  ladies  these  saleswomen 
insist 
on  being  considered,  however  much 
their manners  may  dispute their  claim. 
The  persistence  with  which  this  much- 
abused  title 
into  shoppers’ 
ears  is  often  ludicrous  in  the  extreme, 
as, 
instance,  when  such  a  self- 
styled young  lady  at  the same time turns 
her  back  on  a  customer,  as a  real  lady 
would  never do,  and  lets  her wait  while 
she discusses with the other young  ladies 
the  cut  of  a  new gown  or  Tom’s  atten­
tion  to  Jennie at  the dance the night be­
fore.

is  dinned 

for 

Another common  disproof  of  such  a 
saleswoman’s  claim  to  this  title  is  the 
reception  accorded  to  the  appeal  so  fa­
miliar  in  our  crowded  stores: 
‘ ‘ Will 
you  wait  on  me  next,  please?”   A  lady 
answers  when  she  is  addressed,  or  at 
least glances  an  acknowledgment  to the '

person  addressing  her.  Not  so  the 
saleswoman;  she might be a  statue  or a 
deaf  mute  for all  the  sign  she  gives  of 
having  heard. 
Sometimes  the  floor­
walker himself,  when  appealed  to  by a 
weary  or  impatient  shopper,  is met with 
the same  churlish  stolidity.

Indeed,  the  floor-walker  who 

is  set 
over women  has  not  a  happy  lot.  They 
defy  his  authority,  or,  in  submitting  to 
it,  do  so  in  a  way  a  man  would  not 
dare.  Occasionally,  they  coquet  with 
him,  but,  as a  rule,  they  seem  neither 
to  like nor to  fear  him.

A  few  days  ago  the  writer  stood  at 
the  same  counter with  a  gentle-looking 
elderly  woman,  who  had  brought  back 
an  article she  wished  to  change.  The 
saleswoman  to  whom  she addressed  her­
self  interrupted  her  explanations  curtly 
with  See the  flawker. ’ ’

‘ ‘ The  flawker?”  said  the customer,  in 

a  puzzled  tone.

‘ ‘ Yes;  that’s him  over there,’ ’  jerked 
out  the  saleswoman,  pointing  with  her 
thumb  at  the  floor-walker,  who  was 
standing  near. 
In  fact,  these  police  of 
the  trade  seem  to  be  regarded,  at  least 
by  the  women  under  them,  very  much 
as  are  the  marines  by  the  sailors  on  a 
man-of-war,  the  difference  in  sex  add­
ing,  apparently,  to 
the  difficulty  of 
maintaining  discipline  on  the one  side 
and  to  the  presumption  with  which  the 
attempts  to  do  so  are  defied  on  the 
least, 
other.  At 
large  store 
function  is  performed  by 
where  this 
women  in  every  department 
in  which 
women  serve,  not  only  is the  service  ex­
ceedingly  good,  but  the  understanding 
between  overseers and  overseen 
is  ap­
parently  much  better than  in  those  es­
tablishments  where  such  overseers  are 
men.
It 

is  not  usual,  however, 

in  one 

find

to 

indeed, 

in 
women  in  this  position,  or, 
any  other  of 
importance and  authority, 
except,  of  course,  where  they  are  at  the 
head  of  establishments  of  their  own.  In 
shops  where  both  men  and  women  are 
employed,  the  position  of  women  is  al­
most  invariably  .inferior  and  subordi­
nate. 
It  is  men  and  not  women  who 
sell  the silks and  fine  dress  goods  that 
women  wear.

to 

the 

Why?’ ’  said  a  gentleman  prominent 
in  the  dry  dry  goods  business  in  re­
sponse 
reporter’s  question.
Why,  because  to  sell  silk  or  any  other 
fine  dress  goods  something  more 
is  re­
quired  than  merely  to  tell  the  price  and 
measure  off  the material.  It  takes  judg­
information, 
ment,  skill,  knowledge, 
for  color  that 
and  a  certain 
feeling 
women  don’t  seem  to get. ’ ’ 
It  is  men 
and  not  women  who  sell  the  jewels  that 
women  more  especially  prize.  It  is  men 
and  not  women,  in  short,  who  do  the 
fine,  the higher grade  dealing  in  every 
branch  of  trade,  except  millinery  and 
dressmaking.  The  reason  for  this,  as 
for the worse  manners of  saleswomen  as 
a  class  when  compared  to  salesmen  as  a 
class,  is best  given  in  the words  of  the 
gentleman  quoted  above:

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business,  and  at  the  first  opportunity  to 
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inter­
urally,  they  do not  take  the same 
est  or do  as  well  as  the  man  who 
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for  his  business,  the  means  of  drawing 
custom  to  him.  Every  good  salesman 
builds  up  a  clientele  for  himself  out  of 
It  stands  to 
his  employer’s  custom. 
reason  that  if  a  man  or  woman 
is  well 
served  and  well  suited  in  a certain store, 
when  they  want  anything  in  the  same 
line  again  they  are  likely  to  go  back  to 
the  same  store  and  the  same  person. 
Such  a  clientele  is  the  beginning  for  an 
ambitious  young  man  of  a  business  of 
his  own.  Women,  as  a  rule,  lack  that 
sort  of  ambition  entirely;  they  don’t 
exert  themselves  in  a  way  to  succeed. 
Of course,  there  are  exceptions  to  this 
rule;  and  where  a  woman  stays  in  busi­
ness  until  she’s  too  old  to  marry,  or 
where  for any  other reason  she  has  got 
that  idea  of  marriage  out  of  her  head, 
into  a  first- 
she 
rate saleswoman.  Such  women  are 
in­
valuable  in  business,  and  you  will  gen­
erally  find  them 
in  positions  of  trust 
and  very  well  paid.”

is  apt  to settle  down 

This  gentleman,  whose  experience 
certainly  makes  him  an  authority on the 
subject,  also  maintains  that  the  sales 
personnel  of  an  establishment,  as a mass 
its  chief,  and  that 
is  a  reflection  of 
where  the 
former 
is  “ not  up  to  the 
mark”   it’s  because  ” there’s  a  screw 
loose  somewhere  higher up. ”

1 his  control,,  however,  so 

far,  at 
least  as  manners  are  concerned,  would 
seem  to  be 
indirect  a  matter  of  ex­
ample,  perhaps,  rather  than  of  precept, 
since  there  does  not appear  to  be on  the 
part  of  employers any  direct  and  spe­
cific  requirements  as  to  the behavior  of 
their  employes  toward  their  customers. 
The  matter  is  left  to  the  clerk’s  own 
sense  of  what  is  due.

both  salesmen  and  saleswomen  are  in 
the  habit  of  attuning  their  manners to 
their  customers’ 
clothes,  a  shabbily 
dressed  shopper  receiving  shabby  treat­
ment,  while  a  well-dressed  one  is  civil­
ly,  and  an  elegantly  attired  one  cring- 
ingly,  served. 
Judging thus superficial­
ly,  they  sometimes  make amusing  mis­
takes.  A  lady  of  the  writer’s  acquaint­
ance  had  in  wear  last winter two cloaks. 
One  was  a  valuable  fur garment  of  the 
latest  fashion,  the other  was a  good  but 
passe  cloth  wrap.  While  wearing  the 
latter  one stormy day  she  was  so 
inso­
lently  treated  by  a  salesman  at  the  silk 
counter  in  a  certain  store  that  she 
left 
it,  resolving  never  again  to  patronize 
it,  at  least  so  far as  that department was 
concerned.  However,  some  weeks  later, 
when  her  indignation  had  cooled,  she 
did  return  to  that  department,  having 
reduced  her  boycott  to  the  particular 
salesman  whose 
insolence  had  so  out­
raged  her.  He,  evidently  all  uncon­
sciously  of  having offended  her,  hurried 
forward  to  serve  her  with  such  alacrity 
that  her 
still 
further  and,  instead  of  punishing  him 
as  she  had  meant  to  by  declining  his 
services,  she  suffered  him  to  wait  upon 
her,  which  he did  in  such  a  way  that 
proved  him  to  be  an  acknowledged 
knight  of  the  yardstick.  Finally,  he 
even  ventured  to  remark,  in  a  tone ex­
pressive  of  admiration,  “ That’s  a  fine 
garment  you  have on,  ma’am,  and  com­
fortable  for  such  a  day  as  this.”   It  was 
cold,  and  she  was  wearing  her  hand­
some  fur  cloak.

indignation 

subsided 

Of  the  manners  of  shoppers  it  is  more 
difficult  to  treat,  since  the  variety  is  al­
most  as  great  as  the  endless  procession 
of  purchasers.  The  worst  behavior  be­
hind  finds  more  than  its  match  before 
the counter.  Indeed,  the 
latter  is  often 
the  aggravating  cause  of  the  former. 
Here,  again,  women  are  the  worst  of­
fenders.  Men,' when  they  go  shopping,

generally  know  beforehand  what  they 
want  and  how  much  they  will  pay,  and 
they  will  get  through  with  the  operation 
as quickly  as  possible,  to  the  saving  of 
their own  time  and  the  clerk’s patience. 
The  result  is  that  they  are  favored,  even 

by  a  salesman, over  women  buyers;  of 

a  mixed  company at  a  counter,the  men, 
although  they  may  not  be  the  first  com­
ers,  are  likelier  to  get  waited  on  first.
1 he  woman  shopper  is  terribly  prone  to 
dally;  she  does  not  know  what  she 
wants;  or  she  wants  so  many  things that 
she  can  t  decide  where  a 
lack  of 
money sufficient  to  command  them  all 
compels such  a  decision— -which of them 
to  take.  Frequently,  it  is  the  lack  of 
decision 
itself,  rather  than  of  money, 
that  makes  her  vacillate  until  the  deal­
er’s  stock  and  patience,  too,  are  ex­
hausted.  All  shoppers  and  clerks  are 
familiar  with  the  woman  who  brings 
husband,  mother,  daughter  or friend  to 
decide  the  matter 
for  her.  A  good 
salesman  knows  well  how  to deal  with 
this  psychological  peculiarity 
in  his 
women  customers;  he  brings  all  the arts 
of  suggestion  to  bear  upon  it,  and  often 
shows an  admirable  skill  in  guiding  an 
uncertain  mind  to  its  conclusion.  The 
bearing  of  a  saleswoman  in  the  face  of 
this  trying  vacillation  takes  more  the 
form  of  dumb  endurance.  She  does  not 
try  to  pursuade  or bully;  she  waits  with 
more  or  less  long  sufferance  for it to find 
its own  way  to  a  conclusion.

I  don’t  mind  how  long  a  customer 
detains  me,  if  she  really means to buy, ”  
said  a  saleswoman  to  the  reporter,  "but 
there are  lots  of  women  who. come 
in 
and  try  on  garments  just  to  fill  up  their 
time. ’ ’

I his  is  quite  true;  in  every  store  such 
women  may  be seen  wandering  aimless­
ly  about,  picking  up  things  and  asking 
their  prices,  and 
laying  them  down 
again,  to  pass on  to  the  next  counter 
and  repeat  the  performance.  Against 
such  pseudo-shoppers  the  clerk  has  no 
defense.  He  or  she 
is  obliged  to 
show  the articles  and  give  the  informa­
tion  asked  for;  but  it  is  not  to  be  won­
dered  at  that,  after  a  few  such  expe­
riences,  the  service  thus  imposed  upon 
should  become  less  willing  and  less  po­
lite,  and  that  the  bona 
fide  shopper 
should  sometimes have  to  suffer  for  it.
\ ulgarity,  aggressiveness  and  every 
degree  of  ill-breeding,  or  of  no  breed­
ing  at  all,  are  displayed  by  those  who 
come  to  buy.  At  times,  the  mere  tone 
is  stated  would 
in  which  the  errand 
arouse  the  demon 
in  the  breast  of a 
saint.  The  superintendent’s  desk  in  a 
large  store  is  an  excellent  place  for  ob­
serving  the  manners of  shoppers.  Here 
the  customer  comes  who  has  any  com­
plaint  to  make,  and  the  way  in  which j 
it  is  made,  not 
infrequently  the  com­
plaint  itself,  is  a  fair  index  of  the  real 
character  and  social  status  of  the  in­
dividual.  The  refined  person  states  the 
grievance quietly,  the  clever  one  con­
cisely,  and  the  voluble  one  in  a  deluge 
of  words,  and  the  coarse  and  ill-bred 
one  somewhat  in  this  wise:

I  bought  and  paid  for  a  pink  silk 
waist  in  this  store  a  week  ago.  This  is 
what  was  sent  m e,”   anil  a  waist,  also 
pink,  was  flourished  angrily  in  the su­
“ It  ain’t  the one 
perintendent’s  face. 
1  bought  at  all. 
I ’ve  wrote  to  you  about 
it;  I’ve  sent  my  friends  to  see  about  it; 
and  now  I  want  to  know  what  you’re 
goin’  to  do about  it.”

“ Madam,”   asks  the  superintendent 
blandly—they  are  marvels  of  self-con­
trol  and  suavity,  these  functionaries— 
“ are  you  sure  this  is  not  the  waist  you 
bought?”

woman. 

Of  course  I  am ,”   snaps  the  furious 
What  do  you  take  me  for?”  
A  lady,  of  course,  that  she  would  in­
sist  upon.  The  title  is  as  often  misap­
plied  before  as  behind  the  counter. 
In 
a  laundry  the other day  such  a  lady  was 
berating  the  proprietress about a  pair  of 
lace  curtains  which  had  not  been  done 
up  to  her  satisfaction.

I  want  you 

to  understand,”   she 
screamed,at  the  end  of  her  tirade,“ that 
I  am  a  lady,  and  1  know  better  how 
look 
curtains  ought  to 
than  you,  who 
only  wash 
’em. 
I  shan’t  pay  you  a 
cent  , 
and  out  she  bounced,  slamming 
the  door behind  her.
I he  washers  and  troners at  the  back 
of  the  room  had  stopped  their  work  to j 
listen,  and  as  she  made  her noisy  exit,  \ 
one of  them,  a  big 
Irish  woman,  j 
came  forward  and  looked  out  the door 
after  her.

fat 

“ Well, ”   she  exclaimed  in  her  inim- 
j ¡table  brogue,  “ if  that  thing’s  a  lady,
I  m  glad  1  ain't  one.

An  English  hat  merchant  once  re­
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enabled  him  to  tell  whether  business 
generally  was  good  or  bad.  The  new 
hat  is  an  article  which  the  prosperous 
man  desires an  1  an  un[irospenms  man 
can  do  without.  Hence  the  frequency 
with  which  his  customers  renewed  their 
head -gear  was a  goo 1  indication  of  the 
financial  state  of  the  people. 
If  the  re­
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T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

C l e r k s ’  C o r n e r

How  the  Model  Merchant  Should 

Treat  the  Careless  Clerk.

“ I ’d  just  like to get a  lot  of  us  fel­
lows  together and  have  you  talk  to  us 
ten  minutes  with  the  privilege  of  an­
swering  hack.  We’d  have  some  fun. ’ ’ 
“ I'll  bet  you  we  would,  and  when  we 
got  through,  a  good  many  of these store­
keepers  would  think  themselves ’ pretty 
small  potatoes and  lew  in  a  h ill.’

It  was only  an  exchange  of  pleasant­
ries,  but  it  forced  upon  my  mind  two 
important  facts:  That 
I  am  talking 
lot  of  us  fellows,”  
who  have  the  privilege  of  answering 

ever)’  week to  " a  
back,  and  that  the  thing to  do  is  to  hit 

as  many  birds  as  I  can  with  the  same 
stone.

Taking  advantage,  then,  of  the  hint 
lately  given  me,  to  “ haul  the boss  over 
the  coals,”   I  will  ask  that  gentleman  a 
question  or  two  and  see  how  he  likes  it. 
I’m  going  to ask  him, in  the  first  place, 
if  he  doesn’t  know  that  about  all  the 
fault  which  he  finds  with  his  clerks  is 
traced  directly  to  himself.  A  stream 
never  rises  above  its  source,  and,  while 
he  may  know  little  and  care  less  abqut 
the  antecedents  of  his  clerks,  he  ought 
to  know  much  and  care  more  for  what 
they  think  and  do  after 
life 
stream  mingles  with  his  as  they  journey 
together  to  the  Great  Sea.

their 

For  instance,  when  that  guv  of  a Tom 

‘ ‘ That 

the  store. 

came  down  to  the  store  the  other  day 
well,  last  week,  to  be  exact  about 
it— 
with  a  necktie  on  loud  enough  to  raise 
the  dead,  then  was  the time for  the mer­
chant  to  have  a  talk  with  the well-mean­
ing  clerk  on  the  harm  he  was  doing  to 
himself  and 
tie, 
Tom, ”   he  should  have  said,  “ shows 
that  you  mean  well,  but 
it’s  a  regular 
‘give  away. ’  Anvbodv  can  see  that  it’s 
all  silk  and  a  good  one ;  but  you  should 
be  careful  about wearing anything which 
attracts  attention.  That  was  the  first 
thing  1  noticed  when 
I  saw  vou  this 
morning. 
It  kept  my  eyes  on  you  un­
til  you  came  near  me,  and  then  I  saw 
what  nobody  1 ikes  to  see  a  bright  silk 
scarf  with  a  much  soiled  collar.  A  cus­
tomer will  notice  that  at  once  and  the 
examination  will  be sure  to go  on.  He 
will  see,  as  1  do,  that you  haven’t taken 
good  care  of  yourself.  There  isn’t  any 
particular  reason  why  you  shouldn’t 
part  your  hair  in  the  middle,  if  you 
want  to—this 
is  a  free  country  but 
there 
is  every  reason  in  the world  why 
you  shouldn’t  part  it  with  your  fingers; 
nor  is  there  any  reason  why  you  should 
not  make  yourself  generally  acceptable 
in  that  particular  direction.  Mind,  I 
don’t  want  you  to  go  to  the  other  ex­
is  a  nuisance,  and, 
treme.  A  dude 
while  you  mav  not  know 
it,  anything 
1 ike  overdoing  in  the  matter of  personal 
adornment  turns the customer’s attention 
from  tthe goods  on  the  counter  to  the 
goods  on  your  back  and  spoils  many  a 
bargain  which  would  otherwise  stand  to 
your  credit  when  the  day’s  account  of 
sales  is  made  up.  I  guess  your  tie  cost 
you half  a  dollar.  Here’s  the  half  dol­
lar,  anyway.  Take 
it,  and  get  you 
some  neckwear  more appropriate.  Over­
alls  and  cardigan  jacket  for  the  rough 
work,  something  appropriate  and  neat 
for the  fine;  and  then,  when  you  meet 
your  customer,  you  have no  prejudices 
to  overcome  and  are  ready  with  that 
salesman’s  knack  you  are  developing  to 
send  her away  with  a  dozen  bargains I 
when  she  didn’t  expect  to  make  one. ’ ’ 
That’s  what  that  storekeeper  should 
Instead,  he  lost one of  the 1

have  said. 

best  opportunities  he  will  ever  have  to j 
give a  well-meaning  clerk  a  half dollar ; i 
and,  without  knowing  it,  he became  re­
sponsible  for other blunders  which  that 
same  clerk  will  be  sure  to  make  in  that 
same  1 i ne.

Boys,  there  are  one  or  two facts which 
you  ought  to  know  and  to  which  you are 
heartily  welcome.  They  are  1 resh  from 
the  mint  and  came  into  my  possession 
during  the  last  twenty-four  hours.  Here 
is  one:

I  can’t  understand  what  a  business 
man  is  thinking  of  when  he  employs  a 
clerk  with  an  unwholesome  mouth.  He 
may  think  that  it  is  no  concern  of  his, 
but  I  can  tell  him  that  right  here  in this 
city  of  Grand  Rapids  to-day  there  are 
clerks  whose  unwholesome  mouths  have 
driven  customers  away  from  his  coun­
ters.  Think  this  over,  all  of  you,  and  a 
week  from  to-day  I ’ll  tell  you  how.

Uncle Bob.

Prof. A. T. Iladley, in Yule Review.

The  Ethics  of  Getting  Rich.

On  account  of the  mistakes  of  a  few 
economists  in  confusing  social  and  in­
dividual  wealth,  socialistic  critics  are 
frequently  led  to  charge  the  economists 
as  a body  with  glorifying  the  pursuit  of 
wealth  and  making  it  the  chief  end  of 
man.  This  is  exactly  the  reverse  of  the 
truth. 
I he  economist  views  the pursuit 
of  individual  wealth,  not  as  an  end,  but 
as  a  means  to  the general  well-being  of 
society.  He  shows  that the effort to make 
money  is  a  most  powerful 
incentive  to 
work  in  the  service  of  the  community— 
in  fact  the  most  powerful  incentive  the 
world  has  yet  known ;  and  that,  within 
certain  limits,  the  commercial  success 
or failure  of an  enterprise  is  dependent 
upon  the question whether the communi­
ty needs 
it.  To  this  extent  he  may  be 
said  to  glorify  the  pursuit  of  wealth,  in 
showing  that  it  is  a  means  of  mutual 
service,  instead  of  mutual  robbery;  an 
honorable  ambition,  instead  of  a  base 
one.  But  in  thus  elevating 
its 
proper  place  in  the  social  order he also 
reduces  it  to  its  proper  place.  By  un­
derstand ing  the  uses of  the  commercial 
system  he  is  able  to  more  effectively 
criticise  its  abuses.  The  day  is  past,  if 
ever  there  was  one,  when 
indiscrimi­
nate  condemnation  of  business  methods 
and  business  ambition  can  be  effective. 
The  moralist  who  tries  to  show  that 
money-getting 
is  a  mean  thing  over- 
shoots  the  mark.  His  own  acts 
in  his 
daily  life  are  usually  enough  to  convict 
him  of  inconsistency.  The  economist, 
on  the other  hand,  in  pointing  out  the 
reasons  why  modern  business  methods 
are  approved  by  society  puts  himself  in 
a  position  to  condemn  those  methods 
when  they  are  carried  to  a  point  where 
they  cease  to  be  of  social  service  and 
violate,  instead  of  furthering,  the  pur­
poses  which  have 
justified  their  ex­
istence.

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Shoes and  Leather

WEARING  OF  THE  SHOE.

Sure  Indication  of  Character  in  the

Manner  of  Demolishing  Leather.
Tht-  feet  are a  most  interesting  study. 
I  have  spent  many  months  in  perfecting 
theories and  proving  facts,  and  consid­
er the  reading of character simply  from 
one's  feet  of  great  practical  service. 
You  may  safely  choose  your  friend  by 
the  way  he  wears  his  shoes  and  abidt 
the  issue.  No  doubt  you  will  say  that 
some of  the  theories  presented  are  start 
linglyoriginal,  but  I  have  confidence  in 
my  claims  and  challenge  yourreasonin 
powers.

In  the  first  place  I  have  observed  that 
people  with  very  large  feet  are  dictator 
ial  in  a  degree,  can  stand  much  physi 
cal  endurance and  have  functions  of  de 
fense  that bring  them  in  wealth  and  se 
curitv ;  faculties  for economy  and  cau 
tion  generally  lead  them 
policeman,  if  a  man.  or  a  desire  to 
vote,  if  a  woman.

into  being 

I he  function  of  ambition  is  someway 
mysteriously  seated 
in  the  heel  and 
causes one to  pound  the  floor  if  seated, 
often  giving  no  let  up  until  a 
layer  or 
two  of  the 
just 
enough  to catch  in  a  splintered  board 
and  throw  one.  A  new  shoe  with  the 
heel  battered  on  the  back  sets  the  wear­
er  down 
in  my  mind  as 
over  zealous.  He  has  ambition,  but  no 
executive  powers.

immediately 

loosened 

leather 

is 

A  strong,  elastic  tread  that  wears  a 
sole  evenly,  indicates  a  cheerful  nature 
that  carries  a  fountain  of  sunlight  about 
it ;  quite  contrary  to  the  person  over 
ambitious  who  kicks out  the  heel;  he 
never  laughs  and  has  a  smile  more  ca­
daverous  than  his  look.

A  woman  editor,  a  wee  mite  of  a 
body  who  gets  through  more  work  in  a 
half  day  than  some  men can  do in three, 

every  now  and  then  unconsciously  pro­

claims  her  sunny  character,  good  will 
and  kind-heartedness  by  bursting  out 
'Why,  look  at  my  shoes;  they
with: 
have gone  all  to  pieces 
in  one  d ay!”
A  shoe  that  decays  like  the  "wonderful 
one boss shay”   is  always  worn  by  one 
who  makes  his  own  sunshine, 
furnish­
ing  enough  for a  family  besides.  The 
motto of  such  a  person 
is: 
"C are  to 
our coffin  adds  a  nail,”   etc.

A  young  man  acquaintance  who  is 
egotistical  and  unpleasantly 
indepen­
dent  kicks  forward  w ith  his  feet  while 
talking  as  if  thereby  to  emphasize  his 
statements.  By  observing  others  with 
the same  habit,  I  note  that  such  habits 
go  with  egotism.

Give  wide  berth  to  the  person  who 
walks  turning  his  feet  unusually far out.
He  is  not  truthful  as  a  rule.  Although 
he  is  eager  to  make  promises,  he  will 
throw  them  off as  easily  as  he  does  the 
clods  of  snow that  gather  on  Ip's  shoe 
top.

There  are  nervous  feet  that  twist  and 
writhe;that  keep  up  a  tap,  tap,  tapping 
nntil  they almost  drive one  mad.  Those 
that  don’t  beat  time  strive 
to  work 
themselves out  of  the boot,  and  no  won­
der,  for  the  owner 
is  restless,  has  a 
shrill  voice  that  pierces  one’s  soul, 
enunciates  w ith  a  quickness  that startles 
and  is apt  sooner or  later  to  have  ner­
vous  prostration  or  perhaps  a  peculiar 
stomach  trouble  brought on  through  ex­
cessive  worry  and 
impatience.  Thes. 
feet  are always  well  dressed  and  often 
belong  to  politicians, 
journalists  and 
public  speakers.

I  have  learned  to  look  out  for  the  feet

with  the  velvet  tread,  cat-like  grace 
and  swaying  elegance  of 
the  tiger. 
These  careful  feet  are  generally  shod  in 
hand-sewed  shoes  with  dainty  tips  of 
shiny  leather  on  the  toes.  An  explana­
tion  can  be  given  for  every  move  they 
make.  Such  feet  often  belong  to 
lead­
ers  in  dishonest  political  deals,  minis­
ters  who  are  not  true  to  their  preach­
ings,  women  who  are  fond  of  gossip, 
and  to  people  who believe  in  getting  all 
they  can  out  of  friend,  then  throwing 
him  overboard

There are other  feet  that  are  irregular 
in  their  stepping  and  full  of  joy and 
carelessness.  They are  never encased  in 
tight  shoes,  the  toes  are  broad  and  oft- 
times  the  leather 
is  calfskin,  but  soft 
and  elastic ;  the owners of  such  feet  are 
the  people  you  want  to  call  upon  when 
in  trouble and  need  the  quick, 
light, 
willing  step  of  a sunny-tempered friend.
I he  broad,  good-humor  foot  some­
times goes  with  bow  legs.  The  owner 
if  such  appendages  will  have  the  repu­
tation  of being  jovial  and  it 
is  impos­
sible  to  keep  from  laughing  when  he  is 
around.  Knock-knees  and  a  cramped, 
stiff  foot 
invariably  go  with  persons 
whom  you  are  unconsciously  and  ever­
lastingly  pitying.  There  seems  to  be 
no  spring  in  their  life,  they  jolt  along, 
getting  the benefit  of  every  knock  and 
ar  that  comes  in  their  way.
I  have  my  mind  on  an  office boy when 
speak  of feet with the  firm quick tread. 
He  is  bound  to  amount  to  something, 
or the toes  point  straight  ahead of him, 
never striking against  things,  never  in 
the way;  they are  full  of  elasticity  and 
im,  striking  the  floor  in  a  manner  that 
means  business  every  time.  There  is 
grit  in  them,  too,  and  courage,  for  they 
■ alk  right  ahead  when  told  they  must 
-ach  a  certain  point  at  a  certain  time. 
There  is  the  long,  narrow,  thin  foot. 
is  cautious  and  seldom 
Such  a 
leads  its  owner astray. 
I he imagination 
that goes  with  this  foot  is  not very vivid 
and  takes  no  wild  flights.  There  is  a 
living  in  the  present,  the  ambition 
is 
not  great,  but  no  laziness  is there.  The 
shoes  generally  look  w ell;  they grow  old 
without  being  wrinkled  or  run  down  at 
the  heel; there are  never any  buttons off 
or  laces broken.  They  seem  to  always 
look  attractive  without any  special  at­
tention  being  paid  to  them,  yet  I  don’t 
like  these  feet  as  well  as  I  do  the  short 
stubby  ones.

foot 

The  thick,  short,  well-knit,  stubby 
feet  are  noted  for  their  quickness,  and 
though  they  may  have  many  places to go 
they  are generally  late,  but  at  the  same 
time  there 
is  so  much  good  humor, 
frankness  of  character  and  merriment 
connected  with  them,  that  though  they 
break  all  rules  of  etiquette  in  the  mat­
ter of  punctuality,  they  are  generally 
welcomed  with greater enthusiasm  than 
some  of  the  precise,  never-making-mis- 
take  kind.

Other feet have great responsibilities.

1 he  shoes  of  them  are  sometimes  run 
down  at  the  heel;  they  are  large  and 
heavy,  and 
they  sometimes  stumble 
about,  not awkwardly,  but blindly.  Such 
I feet  are  never elegantly  dressed  and  the 
i shoes are  seldom  blackened ;  they  are 
not  at  all  stupid  feet,  but  a  solid, watch- j 
ful  kind  that  always  stop  at the first sign 
of  danger  and  are 
to  walk 
through  fire  if  necessity  calls  for  it. 
Above  them  is  a  head  full  of  thought 
| and  purpose,  and  power  and  a  heart 
vorth  its  weight  in  gold  are  ever  to  be 
I foun 1  in  close  connection.  There  is  a 
will  of  iron,  and  a  tender  hand  full  of 
sympathy  in  the hour  of  trouble.

ready 

You  will^notice  in  the  row  of  feet

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A.  G.  MCGRAW  l  CO.

M ake  it  their  business  to  carry  in  stock  goods  not 

found  in  shoe  houses.  O ur salesm en  will  call  up­
on  you  as  usual.

RUBBER  DEPARTMENT

W . A .  M c G r a w  &  C o .,  D etroit,  Mich.

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Agents  for  the

BOSTON  RUBBER 
SHOE  CO.’S 
GOODS

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12,  14 and  16  Pearl  Street

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

B o o t s   and  S h o e s

'' e make the best line of Medium Priced Goods in the 
market.  ^ ou can improve vour trade by handling our Komis

I.INDRN
NKKIH.K TOR.

Are the  Best.

Hirth,Krause
& Co.
GRAND RAPIDS,-MICH.

We Carry a  Large Stock.

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Manufacturers  and  Wholesale  Dealers  in 

BOOTS,  SHOES  i  RUBBERS
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN
We carry in stock Regular, Opera, 
Piccadilly and Needle Toes.
S K U 1IS  WALES-GOODmfl  R I M
We are prepared to furnish a Rubber of 
superiority in quality, style and Ht. 

5 and  7  Pearl  Street 

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Owing to the Great Advance  in  Leather,

Boots and Shoes are necessarily much advanced in price.

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

5  cull  1  Noun  ion  si.  Grand  h o s .

Candee  Rubbers

Dealers,  Please  Take  Notice  -  =  =  =

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

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

Socks  in  Michigan.

in 
seen  in a  car  that  some are  encased 
sleek,  well-polished  shoes,  with  gaiters 
to  match  the  dress  or  trousers.  These 
people  have  a  lot  of  time,  their  hours 
If  you  look  above 
of  work  are  few. 
them  you  will,  without  doubt, 
find  a 
from  wrinkles  and 
merry 
lines  of  care.  He  may  be  a  dude;  she 
a  belle.  For  lack  of  occupation  they 
lead  the  owners  into  all  kinds  of  reform 
movements  and  philanthropic  clubs.

face, 

free 

is  an 

Another  kind  turns  up  at  the  toes— 
turns  up  so  decidedly  that  it 
im­
possibility  for  them  to  get  a  jar or a 
shock ;  they slide  over everything  with 
the  greatest  ease,  so  does  the  person 
who  owns  them ;  he  makes  the  most  of 
his  opportunities,  has  contempt  for  the 
fopperies  of  life,  has  a  certain  sense  of 
humor,  though 
life 
rather seriously ; is  a  stupid  companion, 
socially,  but  a  good  one  in  finances.

is  inclined  to  take 

There  are  other feet  that are  seen  on 
the athletic  grounds.  They  are  pecul­
iar  in  a  way,  for  they  are  springy,  not 
too  long  or  to  broad,  but 
just  right. 
There  is  enough  self-adoration  to  make 
them  look  neat,  but  never  enough  van­
ity  to  pinch  them.  Feet  that  take  to 
athletics,  unless  they  make  the  sport  a 
fad,  generally  carry  a body  that  is  full 
of  vigor,  health,  animation,  and  a  brain 
that  is  laden  with  good  common  sense.
There  is  the  nervous  foot  that the shoe 
must shrink  to.  There  is  the  practical 
foot with  the thick  sole  and 
low  heels, 
broad  and  well  braced.  There 
is  the 
aggressive  foot,  which  seems  connected 
to  the  shin  with  a  hinge.  Then  there 
is  the  broad,  normal  size  that,  when 
once  placed,  does  not  swerve  one  hairs- 
breadth  until  called  upon  to  move  the 
body;  these  feet  look  like  empty  shoes 
slipped  under  the  edge  of  the  dress 
life 
merely  for  effect;  there 
in 
them,  neither 
in  the 
wearer.  Then  there  are  the  re-assuring 
feet,  which  are  found 
in  all  kinds  of 
shoes but  expensive  ones;  they  are  al­
ways  in  a  rush;  the  owners  never  stop 
longer than  to  say  how-de-do. 
In  one 
way  they  are unsatisfactory,  because you 
never see  enough  of  them.  There 
is  a 
gay  foot  dressed 
in  fancy  colors,  no 
matter what  the  weather;  they  are  al­
ways  ready  to  dash  into  a  waltz  or come 
down  in  a  jig,  and  are  a  great  bore  to 
the  solid,  ambitious 
foot  that  grows 
brown  and  gray  for  lack  of  attention, 
and  looks  upon  its high-polished  neigh­
bor with  disdain.

is  no 
is  there  much 

A  woman  in  the  street  with  a toot that 
looks  like  a  miniature Cinderella’s must 
be  put  down 
immediately  as  narrow­
minded,  simpering  and  silly. 
I  much 
prefer  the mannish  boot,  for  if  we  must 
go  to  extremes  let  us  take  the one which 
is  the  less detrimental  to  the health.  A 
woman  who  wears  a  shoe  too  small  for 
her has  a  soul  too  small  for  her  body, 
but  I  am  glad  to  say  the women  of  such 
description are growing  less  in  number 
every  year.

A  woman  who  wears  a  shoe to  match 
her  gown  shows  great  artistic  taste,  a 
possessor  of 
lots  of  time  and  lots  of 
money ;  and  a  woman  who  brushes  her 
shoes with  a  “ bit  of  old  merino’ ’  and 
“ wrings  a  small  sponge  out  of  cold 
water and  washes  them’ '  every  night 
before  retiring,  is  on  the  verge  of  what 
seems  insanity  or  imbecility.  The  se­
cret  of  pretty  feet  is  in  the selection  of 
shoes.  They  must  not  bind,  and  must 
have  sensible  heels  that  do not throw the 
weight  forward  on  the ball  of  the  foot, 
and  thus  unduly  broaden 
They 
laced  or  buttoned, 
should  be  neatly 
never  limpy  or  run  down  at  the  heel. 
These  dainty  feet,  with  arched 
insteps

it. 

i

and  slender  ankles  make  one’s  head­
ache  if  time  is  taken  to  stop  and  think 
of  the  pain  that  woman  must  be  suffer­
ing  while  she  wears  the  uncomfortable 
bit  of  leather.

Properly  shod 

feet,  as  to  comfort, 
health  and  neatness,  show  a  properly 
well-balanced  mind  every  time.

K a t e  K en sin gto n.

Expedients  to  Cheapen  5 hoes.

Manufacturers  are  trying  in  every way 
possible  to  cheapen  the  cost  of  shoes.
I he  high  price  of  leather  forces  them to 
expedients  never before  thought  of,  and 
regarding  the 
especially  is  this  true 
cheaper grades.  There  is  a  large  fac­
is  turning  out  a 
tory  in  Maine  which 
compressed  paste  that 
is  extensively 
used  in  the  manufacture of shoes.  Large 
quantities  of  them  are  shipped  to  other 
countries,  and  they  are also  used  in  this 
country.  People  in  buying  these  goods 
think  they  are getting  the  genuine  arti­
cle,  as  the  appearance  is  just  the  same 
as  leather. 
I his  class  of  shoe  wears 
very  well  if kept  dry,  but  after  a  good 
soaking,  or twice  wearing  in  the  rain 
they  will  tear and  are  of  1 ittle use there­
after. 
It  is  cheaper  in  the  end  to  pay  a 
little  more and  get  reliable  goods  that 
will  give  satisfaction.

Sheepskin  is  being  used  a  great  deal 
by  manufacturers  to  cheapen  the cost of 
shoes. 
1 his is being done bv some reput­
able  houses,  which use  it  as  a  substitute 
for  dongola  calf  and  kangaroo.  The 
process  of  tanning  has  been so improved 
that  m  appearance  the  fraud  cannot  be 
detected.  In  dry  weather  sheepskin  will 
give  fair  satisfaction,  but as  soon  as 
it 
leather  goes  all  to 
becomes  wet  the 
It  lacks  the  toughness,  the dur- 
pieces. 
ability  of  calfskin,  and  il  the  shoe 
is  a 
little  tight  will  give  way  under  the pres­
sure.

A  large  number  of  Eastern  manufac- 
tuiers  have been  in  this  market  duringi 
the  last  two  weeks,  but  they  have  not 
taken  many  orders  for  spring.  When 
orders  are  taken  the  manufacturer  cov­
ers  himself  at  once  on  the  leather. 
There  is  a  feeling  among  the  manufac­
turers  that  should  they  go  in  the  market 
and  try  to  buy  any large amount of  stock 
it  would  push  the  price  of  leather  sev­
eral  notches  higher,  and  this  they  wish 
to  avoid.  This  is  the  season  when  the 
largest  quantity  of  leather  is  cut,  and 
this  has  an 
important  bearing  on  the 
situation.

The  United  States  Leather  Company, 
otherwise  known  as  the  leather  trust,has 
recently  added  S8,000,000  to  its  enor­
mous  capitalization,  which 
already 
reaches  $ 120,000,000.  The  profits of  the 
trust  by  the  advance 
in  leather  have 
been  enormous.

French  Shoes  and  Shoe  Stores.

From the Shoe a ml  Leather Gazette.

It  is  peculiar  that  France  has  very- 
few  shoe  stores  of  what  may-  be  termed 
the  first  class.  Paris,  that  Mecca  of 
the  fashionable  world,  is  singularly  de­
void  of  elegant  and  luxurious  retail shoe 
establishments  such  as  give  to  Ameri­
can  and  English  streets  a  handsome ap­
pearance when 
located  near  stores  of 
equal  gorgeousness  in  other  lines.

Perhaps  this  is owing  in  some  meas­
ure  to  the  fact  that  French  shoes  are 
not  the  graceful,  artistic  articles  of  foot 
apparel  to  which  Americans  are  ac- 
cusomed,  but are built  more  for  com­
fort  than  looks,  as  a general  thing.

The  men’s  shoes  made  in  French  fac­
tories  are  coarse,  ill-shapen  and  poorly7 
little  more 
made.  Women’s  shoes  are 
sightly  than  men’s,  but  are  made  par­
ticularly comforable by  the  last  being 
narrowed  and  rounded  at  the  bottom  so 
that  the  tread  brings  the  upper  close 
down  to  the  foot,  which  has  also  the 
effect of  giving  to  a  fat  foot  a  petite 
appearance.
Notwithstanding  prices  charged  for 
shoes  in  the  French  capital  are  extrav­
agantly high,  there  is  said  to  be  but 
one  really  high  grade  store,  as we  would 
regard  it,  in  the  entire  city,  and  this 
one  is  naturally  very  successful.  Here 
seems  to be  an  opening  for  American 
manufacturers  to  push 
their  goods 
I through  retail  stores.

NO.  4  nONROE  ST.  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Lime 
Cement 
Sewer Pipe 

3IUDLEY & BARCLAY.
F.tc. COAL
1 CANAL ST.. GRAND RAPIDS.
The Trade is 
cordially in­
vited to write 
COAL
us for sum­
mer prices on
11  BENNETT  FUEL  ID  ICE  CO.
Wood
Lime
Sewer

T H O M A S   E .  W Y K E S

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Pipe
Flour
Feed Etc.

45  South  Division  St.  GRAND  RAPIDS

C O A L
Correspondence Solicited.
Prompt shipper of
G.  H.  BEHNKE
C o a l 
“
Manufacturers of
M o rg a n   &  Co.
FLAGS AND CANVAS COVERS 
AWNINGS, TENTS,

Long Distance Telephone. 

30 E. Bridge St.,

Grand  Rapids.

YACHT SAILS A SPECIALTY

187  Jefferson  Avenue 
DETROIT,  filch.

W o o d en   Shoes

803 Mich. Trust Building, 

GRAND RAPIDS

We  Have It

In  any  amounts  you  may-  want 

from a gallon  to  a carload.

What?  A  chemical  compound 
that will absolutely fire proof wood?

Yes  Sir.

And  we  earnestly-  invite  you  to 
call on or write us for  full  particu­
lars and prices.  Also headquarters 
for the leading brands  of  Building 
Papers,  Roofing  Paints,  Ready 
Roofing,  and  in fact we are Jobbers 
of all kinds of  Roofing Materials.

H. pi. Reynolds & Son,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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THE  SW EAT-BOX.

Necessity  of  Reform  in  Some  of  its 

Methods.

Those  who  by  mishap,  misfortune,  or 
something  worse,  are  helplessly  and 
hopelessly  conducted  mto  the  perspira­
tion  department  of  any  institution  ar*- 
seldom anxious to  get  there  and  afte, 

one dip  in  the warm  hath are 

in  nr

danger of  buying a  ticket  for  a  returi 
trip.  For all  that,  it  is  a  necessary  de­
partment  in  all  sorts of conditions of in­
dustrial  life.

In  railway  service  it  has a well-round­
ed  and  vivid  sunflower  bloom  and  the 
executive  power,  seated  on  a  revolving 
chair  in  its  torrid  limits of  wainscot  or 
rough  pine,  has  supreme  and  unques­
tioned  authority.

If  what 

figuratively  known  as 
“ chopping off heads”   was of  the  Rob-

is 

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

culprit  must  answer  for the  lapse  in  the 
department  where nothing  freezes  but  a 
salary and  a  situation.

We  are  of  the  opinion,  both  from  ex­
perience  and  observation,  that  while 
what  is  known  as  the  sweat-box  is  as 
necessary  as an  office  in  railroads  and 
workshops,  there  in  need  of  reform 
in 
some of  its  methods.

into  accidents, 

Inquiries 

reported

neglect  of  duty, 
insubordination  and 
other  forms  of  disaster  or  offense  are 
not always  what  they  ought  to  be 
in 
equity  and 
impartiality.  We  have 
known  cases  where  men  have  been  de- I 
posed  on  unverified  statements and  w ith 
hut one  side  of  the case  considered.

Personal  spite  or  malice  too often  find j 
even  a  good  man  into the street when  he | 

the  sweat-box  a  valuable  assistant  to I 
their  evil  designs. 
It  is  a  short  cut  for 

has become  objectionable to a clerk with ■

a  prisoner  is  charged  with  stealing  a 
watermelon  or a  horse  and  we can do  no 
less  with  a  workingman 
in  the  shop- 
court  room.

We  need  not  say  that  it  would  be  well 
if  managers  and  heads  of  departments 
diil  not  leave  their  hearts  at  home  when 
they shut  the  door.  We  know  that  in  a 

certain  sense  there  is no standing  room 
For  such as 

j for  sentiment  in  business,  but  we  have 
yet  to  find  out  the  reason  why  a  man  iu 
others 
control  or  management 
should  consider  their 
and 
rights  beneath  his  notice. 
these  it  is  a  consolation  to  remember 
there  is  a  sweat-box  to  which there is  no 
back  door.

interests 

of 

To  the  many  whose  souls  have not  run 
into  pig 
iron  and  who  would  in  all 
things  be  both  just and generous  in  all 
their  dealings  with  men,  the  sweat-box 
can  be  made  not  only  “ a  terror to  evil- i

should  not  depreciate  its  value  by  mak- 
|  ing  it  apologetic  or  weak  in  any  partic- 
I  ular.  This  can  be  done 
in  tin-  typo­
graphical  arrangement,  in  the  wording 
| and  by  inclosing  it  with  other  printed 
matter.  Advertising  circulars  destroy 
j effectually  the object  of  a  statement.

If  mailing  advertising  matter  pays, 
mail  it  by  itsell,  but  if  you  are  expect­
ing  favorable  results  from  the  statement 
by  combining  the  two,  the  chances are 
surely  against  you.  One  might  argue 
that  it  costs  two  cents  anyhow  and  why 
not  pul 
in  circulars  to  make  up  the 
ounce?  They  might  do  some  good,  but 
destroy  the  effectiveness  of  your  state­
ment. 
I lie  policy  of  getting  something 
for  nothing,  or  trying  to,  has  ruined 
many  fair  prospects  in  business.

Many  houses  stumble  over  the  ques­
tion  of drafts,  but  if,  when the  very  first 
monthly  statement  is  sent  showing  any-

E.  A.  Stowe,  Esq.,

£ Michigan  Tradesman,  City,

suit,  and&we  raustTsay  that'forSn«It«ícQhe  í ra,lesinan  comes  to us  in  its  new. 
ness,  it  will  compare  favorahi^wfth683*  ° i efTn0SS  and  typographical  correct­
o r   Uble;  and  S
  ef?o?í?  ío  S   t S   ?£  }he  trade  Journals  that  come  to 
comprehensive,  accurate  aíd  ttÜtí  doi’ 
trade  paper  that  is  a  trade  paper- 
teeming  with  ¿right  e d i t o r i a l rf}ates  market^conditions,
wF*tt’en  on  topics  of  the  hour,  in-
terspersed  with  interesting  f
a  moral—make  it  welcorae^ike  in  stír«  a^i1hS^ai?t'lt;la8*Íhat 
Points
progressiveness  apparent  from  r»nUflT.^ í8 
home;  and  the  air  of  thrift  and
1cover»  J he  symetrical  beauty  and  nul-
tiplicity  of  advertisements 
bere  and  manufacturersoJ^theVail^Citvl*™^?d° ’  a11  th®  for0nost  Job- 
profit,  as  the  paper  ie  a  credit 

‘ nu?t*be  a  80urce  of  pride  and

It  Improve  £ S   thíívf S Í Y t S   ¿ r Y K t T i^ e ^ t Y   °lty’

Yours  very  truly,

The Putnam Candy Co.

espiei re type,  that  sardonic  gentleman 
with  a  peculiar appetite  for  heads  with­
out  owners  would  wish  for  a  second 
birth  of  the  nineteenth  century.

In  many  of  our  factories  and  mills, 
our mines  and  shops,  as  well  as  our  law 
courts  and  police  stations,  the  sweat- 
box  is  a  piece  of  warm  furniture. 
If a 
man  has  broken  a  tool  or  forgotten  to 
oil  a  bearing;  if  a  motorman has passed 
a  street  crossing  and neglected  to  take 
up  a  passenger,  has graze !  the  hub  of  a 
wagon  wheel  or closed  the  biography  of 
a  dog;  if  a  molder  has wasted  time and 
iron  in  had  castings  or  a  plumber  has 
left  a  free  passage  for gas or  water  in  a 
pipe connection;  if a  clerk  has  mistak­
en  a  figure  three  for an  eight,  and  puts 
cents on  the dollar column  of  a  ledger; 
if,  in  fact,  anything  has  been  done con­
trary  to  rules  and 
instructions,  either 
wilfully,  maliciously or  innocently,  the

more  collar  than  sense  or  to  a  foreman 
who  has  more bile  than  honor or  manli­
ness  in  his  make-up.

| doers  but  a  praise  to  those  who  do 
well. ’ ’

F r e  u  W o o d r o w .

Many a  name  is  struck  off the pay-roll 
and  many an  honest  man  robbed  of  the 
opportunity  to earn  his  bread  and  find 
| bread  and  shoes  for  his  family  not  for j 
real  but  for alleged  offenses  sometimes 
| to  make a  place  for a  friend ; sometimes 
j b> get  rid  of  a  man  whose only  fault 
is 
j that  he  has  none or  because  his  native j 
brightness  or  skill 
in  his  work  might  I 
make  him  a  rival.  For these and  other 
reasons,  almost  as  numerous  and  often 
as  unclean  as  many of the animals which j 
found 
in  Noah’s  Ark, 
g°°d  men  and  true find  their  wav 
into 
the street  via  the  sweat-box.

lodgings 

free 

Whenever a  man’s character  and  his 
bread  are at  stake,  no  pains  should  be 
spared  to get  the  whole  truth  and  noth­
ing  but  the truth.  We  insist  on  this  if j

The  Sending  of  Statements.

There  are statements  of  account  and 
statements  of  no  account.  Observation 
of  some  thirty  before  us  shows that only 
intelli-j 
five of the number  convey  any 
gent  idea  of  the  expected result. 
If you 
send  it  “ only  for  comparison,”   say  so 
plainly;  but  do not  waste  too much time 
sending  statements 
this  purpose 
alone. 
If  it  is  sent  as  a  reminder  that 
the account  is  due,  say  so,  politely,  yet 
forcibly.  About  one-half  of  those  be­
fore  us are mere apologies—weak-kneed 
affairs  which  disclose  weak  business 
methods.

for 

The  manner  in  which the statement  is 
inclosed  has  its  effect  also.  A  man  who 
receives  a  statement  seldom attaches  to 
it  the  importance  you do,  therefore  you]

thing  due,  notation 
inten­
tion  to  make draft  within  seven  to  ten 
days,  it  will  start  the account  right.

is  made  of 

The good  business  man  and  the  best 
trade  for  which  we are  looking  will  not 
think 
for  wanting  your 
money when  due.

less  of  you 

Many  hesitate  to  notify  a  new custom­
er of  intention  to  make  draft,  and  this 
is  just  where  the  error  is  made,  for 
if 
from  the beginning,  unless  prompt  pay­
ments are  made,  you  make  draft,  there 
will  not  be as  much  difficulty  as  if  the 
in­
account  at  first  was  allowed  to  run 
definitely  and  then  when  such 
is  past 
due,  you  provoke  your  customer  “ be­
cause  you  have  never drawn  before. ’ ’
W.  S.  Pa r k.

Have  you  tried  it—Signal  Five?

Bastard baskets must  go!

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MEN  OF  MARK.

John  P.  Hemmeter,  Manager  of  the 

Hemmeter  Cigar  Co.

to the  end  with  this difference: 

I  have  just  listened  to a  story  as  full 
of  interest  as  a  well  written  romance. 
“ From  towpath  to  White  House”   has 
been  in  my  mind  from  the  beginning 
that 
Garfield’s  life,  while  beginning  with 
poverty  and  surrounded by  the  vicious 
influences  of the canal,  was soon changed 
for a  higher order of  existence ; but  this 
one,  with a beginning equally as humble, 
drifted  into  a  saloon,  and  with  that  for 
a  stepping  stone,  in  spite  of  the  odium 
centering  there, 
the 
heights  where  lie  stands  to-day,  a  living 
example  of  what  a  man  can  do 
in  the 
midst  of  unwholesome  surroundings,  if 
he  will.

clambered  up 

John  P.  Hemmeter  was  born  on  a 
farm,  two miles  from  Saginaw,  Aug.  13, 
1862.  His  parents  were  German  Luth­
erans  and,  when  the  boy  was  old  enough 
to  learn  to  read,  they  sent  him  to  a 
school  of  that  sect,  where  lie  remained 
until  he  was  thirteen  years  of  age. 
School  over,he  still  staid  under the  par­
ental  roof  until  he  reached  his majority, 
anil  then,  taking  off his  coat and  rolling 
up  his  sleeves,  he  was  ready  to  begin 
wherever  late  should  decide.

At  first 

it  was  simply  a  change  of 
place,  but  the  same  old  work  of 
chor- 
ing around”  went  on for three months for 
Geo.  L.  Burroughs,  of  Saginaw,  a  place 
better than  he  could  find  at  home, 
for 
there  was  more  money 
it.  With 
money  still  “ his  plea, ”   he  found  he 
could  do  better  for  Geo.  VV.  Morley,  of 
the same  town,  and  for  six  months  he 
rendered  him 
That 
brought  him  to  the  season  for  rafting 
logs;  and, 
leaving  behind  him  his 
record  as  a  chore  boy,  he  entered  the 
service  of  the Tittabuwasee  Boom  Co., 
as  a  raftsman.

service. 

in 

good 

It  was  here  that he  earned  his  spurs. 
The  season  was  at 
its  height  and  the 
business  which  gave  the  commercial 
world  a  new  word  was  literally  on  the 
“ boom,  when  all  hands  struck.  For 
the  moment  the  company was powerless. 
The  shock  came with  the  suddenness  of 
a bolt  from  a  cloudless  sky  and,  not 
knowing  which  way  to  turn  for  relief, 
they  were  rejoiced  to 
find  one  man 
among  the  many  who,  with a  No!  to  the 
strikers  that  started  the saw-logs,  report­
ed  to  the  company  for  duty.  That  man 
was  John  Hemmeter. 
The  company 
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theirs  and  the booming  logs  went  down  I 
stream  as 
if  no  strike  had  been  de­
clared. 
I hat  settled  the  business  for! 
Hemmeter.  He  had  proved  himself j 
the  man  fpr  the  hour  and 1 rom  that time 
he  had  a  firm  friend  in  the  Tittabavva- 
see  Boom  Co.

I he  work  was  not,  however,  to  his
liking. 
It  was  hard  and  dangerous;
and whcii  the  season  was  oviT, he  went
to  ck‘iking  at  the  Ameròran Himise,  at
Sag ii iaw, where  he  staid thrt*é months.
Tin­s le.1 naturallv,  it  seeins to me  to
tile bar-tending,  which folloWl;d,  in  a
general  liquor  store,  one  of  the  worst 
places  in  the world  for  a  young  fellow 
and  one  which,  nine  times  out  of  ten, 
will  ticket  him  to  the  devil  and  ensure 
his  safe  arrival.  He  was  there  a  year.
1 hen  he luecame bar-keeper  for  a  sam­
ple  room  for  four  months;  and  then, 
concluding  that  he  might  as  well  have 
whatever  profits  accrued  from the saloon 
business,  he  opened  a  saloon of his own.
1 here  is  no  use  i 11  saying  here  that 
the  best  friends  of  the  man  were  sorry 
when  this  step  was  taken.  More  than 
it  with  a  sigh  and  a
one  heard  of 
It  would  be  the old 
story,  told  in  the  old,  sad  way,  with 
the old,  sorrowful  ending;  and  with  an
they went thei r  way and 
he  went  his.  He  was  in  that  saloon  for 
seven  years,  and when  he  found  himself 
its owner,  the  old  spirit  that  showed  it­
self  at  the  strike  of  the  log  runners  ap­
peared  in  that  saloon  ¡11  all  its  strength. 
Not  a  card  or  a  card  table  was  ever 
seen  inside  its doors,  not  a  dice  or  a 
dice-rattle  was  ever  heard  upon 
its 
rushing  the 
counter.  There  was  no 
growler”   011  Sunday  and 
if  there  ever 
was  a  respectable  saloon 
in  the  wide 
world,  it was found  in Saginaw under the 
ownership  ol  J.  P.  Hemmeter.

Good bye,  John. 

It’s  too bad, 

Such  a  thing  as  that  soon  attracted at­
tention.  Looked  upon  at  first as  a  con­
dition  to  wear away  in  time,  it  came  in 
time  to  be  considered  as a  phenomenon. 
Men  spoke  about  it  to  one  another.  Cit­
izens  who  never  had  seen  the 
inside  of 
a  saloon  came  in  to  see  and  went  away 
to  report.  The  friends  who  knew  him 
in  his  earlier days  were,  and  yet  were 
not,  surprised.  They  were  afraid,  and 
yet  the  outcome  was  what  they  who 
knew  the  man  had  every  reason  to  ex­
pect.  So  he  went  out  and  came 
in 
among  them  and  with  them,  not  only 
respected  but  kindly  thought  ol,  and 
the  saloon  life  came  to  an  end.

A  cigar  establishment  had  been  for 
months  upon  the  decline. 
It  needed  a 
manager;  and  when,  one  day,  there  had 
been  a  preliminary  talk  among those in­
terested  in  the  business  and  a  conclu­
sion  had  been  reached,  one  of  them 
went  over  to  the  Hemmeter  saloon  and 
had  a  talk  with  the  proprietor;  and  I 
am  glad  to give  the  substance  of  this 
talk  for the benefit  of those  whose  young 
eyes  have  looked  upon  the  saloon  and 
wondered  why  it  is  not  a business  good 
enough  to  follow.

‘ ‘ John, ’ ’  said  the  man  of  business, 
"w e  are  needing  a  new  manager over at 
our cigar  factory  and  we  have  made  up 
our minds  that  you  are  too good  a  man 
to  stay 
in  a  saloon.  Here's  a  place 
whece you  can  turn  your time  and  your 
talents to good  account  and  we  want  to 
help  you.  Give up  this business and  go 
into  something  that  is  respectable.  We | 
know  that your  place  has  been  respect­
able,  so  far  as  it  is  possible  to  make  a 
saloon decent; but,  after all,  John, it isn’t 
a business  a man of  your  stripe  ought  to 
engage  in  and  we  want you to come with
us.

Don’t  take  everything  offered  as 
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the 
PR IC E  may  be  low. 
Insist  on 
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stock  company  was  formed  under  the 
name of  the  Hemmeter  Cigar  Co.,  with 
John  P.  Hemmeter  as  Secretary  and 
General  Manager,  with  headquarters  at 
122  and  124  South  Hamilton  street.  The 
enterprise began  business some  time  in 
1875,  with a  force  of  ten  hands. 
It  now 
has  seventy-five  hands,  with  a  pay  roll 
of  S750  a  week. 
It  is  a  success and  has 
been  from 
the  time  Mr.  Hemmeter 
took  the management.  The  old  spirit 
that opposed the walking delegate on the 
booming ground  and  whose  thundering 
"N o ”   gave strength  to  the  Boom  Com­
pany’s  paralyzed  arm  has  forged its way 
to the  front  and,  in  spite  of  the  saloon, 
in  the  widening  field  of  a  legitimate 
business,  is  making  its  wholesale  influ­
ence  felt  upon  the  community  in  which 
its  possessor  lives.
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dence is Void.

An  agreement  by  the  bookkeeper of  a 
corporation  to disclose  its  financial  con­
dition  to another party  is  void, and  it  is 
immaterial  that  such  other  person  is  a 
stockholder of  the  corporation. 
In  the 
case  of  Davenport  vs.  Hulme  (32  X.  V. 
S.  Reporter,  803)  the  Superior Court of 
New  York city  makes  tlit  above  deci­
sion  and  says :  We  have  no  hesitation 
in  condemning the  agreement on  which 
this  suit  was  brought as  absolutely  void 
and  unenforceable,  and  approve  the ac­
tion  of  the  trial  judge  in  dismissing  the 
complaint  on  this  ground. 
It  involved 
a  clear  betrayal  of  trust  by  the  book­
keeper anil  was  utterly  sordid  and  con­
scienceless  in  its  purpose  and  concep­
tion.  He  was an  employe  of  the  com­
pany  holding  a  place of  trust  and  confi­
dence.  The information  he  had obtained 
in  the course of  the  performance of  his 
duties belonged to  the company and  was 
not  his  to  use against  his  employer or to 
dispose of  to  his  own advantage.  When 
he agreed  to  barter  it  away  in  the  man­
ner  proposed  he  not  only  violated  an 
obligation  to  his employer springing out 
of  the  contract  of  his  employment  and 
the  relation  in  which  he  stood  to  the 
company,  but  the whole transaction was, 
in  foro  conscientae,  flagitious  anil  inde­
fensible.  The  law  has  sternly  set  the 
seal  of  its  disapproval  and  condemna­
tion  upon  such  acts. 
It  reads  into  ev­
ery  contract  of  service an  obligation  on 
the  part  of  the  servant  to  be  faithful  to 
his employer  in  respect  to  matters  with-1 
in the scope of  his duties and  pronounces 
any  violation  of  such  duty  to  be  a 
breach  of  contract,  for  which  the  ser­
vant  may  be  discharged.  The  betraval 
to others  of  facts  which  have  come  to 
his  knowledge  in  the  house  of  his  em­
ployment,  and  which  are  confidential  in 
their  nature,  is  within  this  principle, 
which  applies  with  peculiar  force to  the 
office  of  a  book-keeper.  His  employer 
is  compelled  to  confide  to  him  almost 
every  detail  of  business  venture  and 
financial  condition.  The  knowledge  he 
thus acquires  is  usually  of  such  a  char­
acter as  to expose  the  employer to  loss 
and  possible  serious  disaster  if  promul­
gated  to  others.  The  obligation,  there­
fore,  is  proportionately great  to  preserve 
inviolate  the  confidence  reposed  in  him 
which  the  performance of  the  duties  for 
which he  has  been  employed  has  ren­
dered  necessary.  There  doubtless  are 
cases  in  which  the  prevention of  fraud 
or other service  of  the  ends  of 
justice 
create  exceptions  to  the  rule,  but  this 
case  does  not  come  within  any  such 
modifying  principle,  and  it  is  not  nec­
essary to  discuss  them.  A  violation  of 
duty  of  the  character  above  mentioned 
also  involves an  element  of  moral  turp­
itude.
It  is  a  recognized  and  firmly-estab­
lished  maxim  in  the  law  that  ex  turpi 
contractu  actio  non  oritur,  and  no  per­
son,  so  far back  as  the  feudal  ages,  was 
permitted  by  law  to  stipulate  for  iniq­
uity.  But  authority  is  unneccessary  to 
support  so  plain  a  proposition.  The 
consideration  for  the  agreement  in  suit 
was  illegal  and  the  contract  sued  upon 
never  had  any  legal  inception.

The contention  that  the agreement was 
relieved of  the  taint of  illegality because

is  without 

the  party  to  whom  the  disclosures  were 
made  was a  stockholder  and  entitled  to 
the 
information  which  was  the  subject 
of 
legal 
the  barter 
support.  Assuming the existence of  the 
right  it by  no  means  follows  that  the 
book-keeper was  entitled  to give it.  He 
was  the servant  of  the  company,  not  of 
the  stockholders.  He  wras  neither  em­
ployed  nor could  he  be  discharged  by 
them.  His  w'hole  duty  was  to  the corpo­
ration  represented  by  the  directors,  who 
managed  anil  controlled  the  business, 
who were alone  entitled  to  exercise  cor­
porate powers,  and  to whom  he was  sole­
ly  responsible  for  the  proper discharge 
of  his  functions.  Such an  agreement  as 
the  one 
in  suit,  though  made  with  a 
stockholder,  is  as  much  within  the  rule 
of  prohibition  as  if  entered  into  with a 
stranger. 
Stockholders  must  seek  the 
information  they are  entitled  to through 
the  proper channels  and  not  by  corrupt­
ing  the employes of  the  company.  The 
book-keeper  had  no  other thought  than 
his  own  profit,  and  he  drove  as  hard  a 
bargain  as  he  could  in  his  attempt  to 
make  the  utmost  farthing  out  of  a 
shameless  act.  The  agreement  sued 
upon  presents  itself  as  a  mere bargain 
for  the  betrayal  of  a  trust,  without qual­
ifying  circumstances,  which  the 
law 
repudiates  and which  no court of  justice 
will  enforce.

From the X. V. Shipping List.

Proposed  Chemical  Combination.

\ ague  rumors  have  been  circulated 
for some  weeks  concerning  negotiations 
now  in  progress  to  unite  the  leading 
manufacturers  of  heavy 
chemicals 
throughout  the  world.  Advices  to that 
effect  have  come  from  England,  and 
the  fact  that  forward  delivery  prices  on 
alkali,  caustic  soda,  sal  soda  and  soda 
ash  have  been  advanced  recently  is con­
sidered  rather  significant.

Inquiry  among 

representatives  of 
home and  foreign  manufacturers  failed 
to  throw  any  light  upon  the  situation. 
In  every  instance all  knowledge  of  the 
alleged  negotiations  was  denied,  and  in 
some quarters  the  report  was  emphatic­
ally  denied.  However,  there  is  a  feel­
ing  that  some  action 
is  necessary  to 
make  the  business  profitable.  For  a 
year or  more  competition  has  cut  prices 
to a  low  point,  and  consolidation  is con­
sidered  the only  salvation  unless  the law 
of  the  survival  of  the  fittest 
is  allowed 
to  follow  its  natural  course.  The  latter 
as  a  heroic  remedy  for  overproduction, 
is  seldom  adopted,  however.
According  to one of our  informants the 
trade  is  expecting  some  developments 
from  abroad  which  may  have  reference 
to  the  three  American  heavy  chemical 
manufacturers  located 
in  Syracuse,  X. 
Y.  ;  Wyandotte,  Mich.,  and  Saltville,
\ a. 
I he opinion  has  been  expressed 
that  future arrangements  may  mean  the 
development of  factories  here  to  supply 
the  whole demand  of  the  United  States 
without  resorting  to  the  necessity of  im­
porting,  and  in  this  connection  we have 
been  asked  to  look  up  the  present  con­
nection  between  a  leading  American 
heavy  chemical  works  and  one  of  the 
principal  concerns 
It  is 
denied  that any  relation  exists  between 
the  two,  and  there  the  inquiry  rests  for 
the  present.
Whatever  is  done  will  not  affect  the 
bulk  of  next  year’s  business,  as  con­
tracts  have  already  been  made ahead for 
heavy  chemicals by  the  glass  and  paper 
manufacturers. 
They  will  doubtless 
have  to  pay  more  money  the  next  time 
they  enter the  market  for  supplies,  and 
in  addition  to  the  articles  mentioned 
above,  prices  may  harden  on  bleaching 
powder,  bicarb  soda,  chlorate  potash, 
salt  cake,  etc.

in  England. 

Sparta  Sentinel:  The  Tradesman  of 
Grand  Rapids  has  placed  a  new  Thorne 
typesetting  machine  in  its office and that 
journal  came  out  last  week  in  a  new 
dress  bright  and  sparkling  as  a  girl  in 
a  new  summer  suit.  Not  only 
is  the 
Tradesman  of  interest  to  business  men, 
but  to the  family as  well,  the  local  writ­
er’s aged  mother  (68  years  old)  taking 
great  pleasure  in  reading  it,  and  if  we 
I do  not  take  it  home she  will  remind  us 
of  it.  We wish  Editor  Stowe unbounded 
I success.

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Opinion  of  a  Leading  /Manufacturer 

Written for The Tradesman.

on  Delivery  Wagons.

improvement 

It  affords  me  the  greatest  satisfaction 
to  notice  the  effort  the  Tradesman  is 
making  in  an  endeavor  to  convince the 
dealers  and  merchants of  the  necessity 
of  an 
in  their  delivery 
and  freight  wagons,  and  I  have  read 
with  much  pleasure  the  articles  pub­
lished  in the Tradesman  on  that subject.
Being  a  wagon  manufacturer,  I  prob­
ably  notice  tin? great assortment  of  non­
descripts  much  more  particularly  than 
others;  yet  I  am  convinced  that the 
general  public  notices  and comments  on 
the  poor quality and design of  the  deliv­
ery  wagons  in  use by merchants through­
out the  State and,  particularly,  in  Grand 
Rapids.  Our  merchants  will  exhaust 
every  resource  to  make  an  artistic  dis­
play  of  their goods;  will  use  every  pre­
caution  to prevent their being  damaged, 
yet,  when  these  goods  are  sold,  they  are 
sent  to the buyer  with  no  thought  as  to 
their  condition  when  delivered  or 
in 
what  kind  or  shape of  vehicle  they  are 
delivered.

I  contend  that  a  fine  display  of  goods 
should  be 
invariably  delivered  to  the 
consumer  in  as  perfect  condition  as 
when  placed  on  sale. 
In  order  to  do 
this,  it  is  absolutely  necessary  that  a 
vehicle  should  be  provided  suitable  to 
those  requirements.  As  a  means of  ad­
vertising  and  of  bringing  the  dealer 
prominently  to the  eyes  of  the  public,  a 
fine appearing  wagon  affords  great  op­
portunity.

The  wagons  in  use by  our  merchants 
are  constantly  under  motion and,  conse­
exceptional  oppor­
quently,  present 
tunities  for  successful  advertising. 
If 
a  wagon  is  neat  and  tasty  in  construc­
tion  and  finish,  it  at  once attracts  atten­
tion,  not only  to  the  wagon  but  to  the 
owners  and  their  business. 
If  a  mer­
chant  desires to  keep his  name and  bus 
iness  before  the public,  can there  be  tie- 
vised  any  better  means  than  that  afford­
ed  by  his  wagons?

The  merchant  alone 

is  responsible 
for  the  present  deplorable  condition  of 
the  delivery  wagons  seen  on  our streets. 
In  former  vears  the question,  What  is 
the quality?”   was  first asked,  price  be­
ing  an  after  consideration.  Now, 
the 
first question  is,  “ What  is  the  price? 
quality  and  adaptability  to  the  use  for 
which  it  is  intended  not  being  given  a 
thought.

The  manufacturers,  as  a  rule,  are  not 
less  than 
given  to  selling  wagons  at 
cost,  and,  as  a  result,  an 
inferior  arti-
cle  is  produced  which  soon  becomes  a 
disgrace  to  the  owner and  to  the  manu­
facturer.

The  life  of  any  vehicle depends large­
It  should j 
ly  upon  the  care  it  receives. 
in  use,  i 
he  properly  housed  when  not 
least  once  each j 
oiled  anti  washed  at 
week,  and  thoroughly  painted  once 
in J 
each  twelve  months.  By  doing  this  the j 
life  of  any  wagon  is  greatly  lengthened, 
while  the  vehicle  is  made  much  more | 
presentable.

in  business  he 

It  is  a  supposable  case  that  when  one j 
embarks 
expects  to 
maintain  his  position  against  competi- : 
tion  anti  to  endeavor,  through  the  qual- j 
ity  and  neat  display  of  his  wares,to d is-1 
I he  store  and | 
tance  his  competitors. 
fixtures  are  thoroughly  modern, 
the j 
goods  are  displayed  to  the  best  possible j 
advantage,  and  he  and  his  clerks  are 
polite  and  painstaking.  As a  result,  he j 
secures  the  desired  trade.  Why does  he i

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shadow,  his harness old and soiled, his j office and Yard«—Seventh St. andC.& W.M.R.T 
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hard
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Eating  Bones.

One  of  the  New  York  reformers  who I 
would  improve  the diet of  mankind  has j 
just  put out a  proposition  for  the  eating | 
of  bones after they are ground  fine.  He 
holds that  under  the  existing  regimen j 
the bones  of  the  human  frame  are  not 
properly  supplied  with the chemical ele-  ' 
ments  needed  to  keep  them  in  sound 
and  vigorous  condition,  and  that  these 
elements  can  be  most  easily  obtained by 
consuming  the  powdered  bones  of  the 
animals  ordinarily  used  for  food.  He 
would  sprinkle  a  steak  or chop,  for  ex­
ample,  with  bone dust,  after the  manner 
in  which  it  is  sprinkled  with  salt  and 
pepper,  and  he  maintains  that  thus  the 
taste  of  the  meat  may  be  greatly  im­
proved.

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write us about

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Swell  Body 
Cutters

Belknap,  Baker &  Co.

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Lumber  Wagons.

Sole  manufacturers 
of  Belknap’s Patent 
Sleighs.

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GAMBLING  IN  TRADE.

From the Keystone.

Chances  Must  be  Taken  but  Some 

Venturas  are  not  Warranted. 

In  a  broad  way  it  may  be  said  that 
all  trade  is  gambling,  since  there  is  an 
element  of  chance,  or  risk,  in  every 
business  venture  chances  which lie out­
side  the operations  of the merchant him­
self,  and  are  external  in  any  scheme  or 
plan. 
I he  failure  of  crops,  the  acci­
dents of  flood  and  lire,  all  the  interposi­
tions  of  Providence,  are  of  this  kind; 
so,  too,  are  the  bankruptcy  of  debtors 
and the faithlessness of trusted employes.
Our  subject,  however,  comprehends 
in  which 
another  kind  of  gambling, 
the  merchant 
and  him­
self  only,  is  directly  responsible;  and 
if  we  have given  the  “ hard”   name  of 
gambling  to mere  bad  judgment and un­
fitness  it  is  because  these  faults  deserve 
the severer  name  when  honest  creditors 
have  left  to  them  only  the  luxury  of 
“ calling  names.”

himself, 

The  merchant  who  buys  beyond  his 
utmost needs,  or beyond  his  ability  to 
pay,  is  such  a  gambler;  and  his  offense 
is  worse  than  that  of  the  card  player, 
for  the  latter  stakes  his  own  money, 
while the merchant gambler  risks  that of 
confiding  jobbers or  manufacturers  who 
have  sold  him  goods.  He  justifies him­
self by  the  unwarranted  hope  that  his 
overstock  will  attract  trade  by  reason  of 
its  profusion,  that  his  business  will  go 
forward  by  leaps  and  bounds 
in  conse­
quence,  with  the  result  that  he  will  be 
easily  able  to  pay  for  the  goods  and 
keep  a  large  profit  for  himself  as  the re­
sult  of  his  “ nerve.”   He gambles on  the 
chance  of  a  miracle.
this 

form  of  gambling 
Instead  of  en­
takes  another  phase. 
deavoring  to  attract  public  attention  by 
the  size  of  his  over-large  stock  he  may 
seek  to  impress  this  public 
in  another 
way.  He  will  strive  to  create  an  ap­
pearance  of  prosperity,  on  the  theory 
that 
there  is  nothing  so  successful  as 
success, ’ ’  by  building  an  extravagant 
house  or  driving  a  “ swell”   team,  or  by 
some  lavish  entertainment,  or  by  dress, 
or by  some  other  loud  personal  adver­
tisement.  But  it  is  gambling,  just  the 
same,  if  it  is  not  justified  by  his  actual 
net  worth.

Sometimes 

1 here  are  other  classes  of  gambling 
which  are  negative  in  character  but 
less  worthy  of  consideration. 
are  no 
.Many  a  merchant gambles  with  oppor­
tunity 
that  golden  key  which  unlocks 
the  door ol  fortune  when  it falls  into the 
right hand,and  which  only once or twice 
in  a  1 ifetime  is  given  to  every  trader  to 
show  his  skill  in  handling  it.  The sud­
den  death  of  the  old  jeweler  who  had 
the  trade  of  the  community  furnishes 
one  such  occasion ; and the nerveless  be­
ginner  who  shrinks  from  the  trial  sub­
sequently  finds  the  cards  in  the  hands 
of  fate 
stacked”   against  him.  He  is 
henceforth  out  of  the  game,  and  be­
comes  a  wretched  looker-on,  while  a 
more  confident player  grasps  the  gold 
that  lies  within  his  easy  reach.
Another  poor wretch  is  the  merchant 
who gambles  with  time.  He  is  forever 
putting off  the  needed  reform,  perpet­
ually  «tallies  with  his  determination  to 
do  the  needful  thing—forgetting  that  a 
merchant’s  money-making  period  ends 
at  his  fiity-second  year,  according  to 
the  statistics  in  economic  science.  A f­
ter  that  point  conservatism  outvotes en­
thusiasm ;  the  productive  faculty wanes.
I ime  is  money”   in  a  sense  which  he 
never appreciated  until  he  finds  it  too 
late.
What  shall  we  say  of  him  who  gam­
bles  with  the  trend  of  trade;  with  the 
spirit  of  the  d ay;  with  the  laws  of prog­
ress?  The  man  who  does  not  advertise 
in  a  way  that advertises ;  who  does  not 
conform  his  business  to  the  latest  ap­
proved  theories  and  the  established  tra­
ditions ;  who  runs  counter to  the general 
drift  ol  things ; who knows more than the 
combined  intelligence  of  his  contempo­
raries  he  is  essentially  a  gambler,  and 
must  be  classed  with  that  unhealthy 
class  in  the  business  world  who  eventu­
ally  drop  out  of  the  uneven  struggle  be­
cause  they  gambled  against  certainties 
and  “ took  the  hazard  of  the  die”   with 
all  of  fate  against them.

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

| Written for the Tradesman-.

THE  BACK  OFFICE.

We  were talking  of  Chicago,  and  the 
visitor,  who  had  lately  been  there  and 
| who  manages  an  extensive  and  thrifty 
I manufacturing  establishment 
in  Grand 
|  Rapids,  remarked  that  one of  the  most 
noticeable  sights 
in  the  Western  me­
tropolis  was  the  tramp.  It  is  a  topic  too 
stale  to  discuss,  but it  led  to  the remark 
that  the  upheaval  in  business  had  fur- j 
nished  too  many  men  who,  without  em­
ployment and  without  visible  means  of 
support,  are  refusing  to  accept  any  po­
sition  which  does  not  ensure  the  old- 
time  income  of  S3  to  ¡55  per  day. 
“ 1 
had  a  man  come  into  my  office  last 
week, 
remarked  the  manufacturer,
“ wanting  something  to  do.  Four  dol­
lars  a  day  was  what  his  old  position 
had  given  him  and was  what he  wanted 
now. 
1  had  nothing  like  that  for  him. 
The  only  thing  I  could  possibly  give 
him  was  common  day  labor at  the  regu­
lar, wages,  which  he,  of  course,  refused.
I  have 
known  men  with  families,  behind 
in 
rent  and  in  debt at  the  grocer’s,  refuse 
to  take Si  a  day  when  they  had  nothing 
to  do  and  their families  were  suffering

He  is  not  the  only  instance. 

for that  very dollar.  Why,  if  I  were  in 
I these  men’s  shoes,  I  would  rather  work 
j at  50  cents  a  day  and  have 
it  mine,
I earned  by  my  own  hands,  than  to  sit 
1 around  doing  nothing,  with  my  family 
I suffering for  the  things  that  50  cents 
would  buy. ”

That  spirit,  out  of  work, 

is  bad 
| enough,  but  it-  is  worse, 
if  anything, 
when  it  accepts  under  protest  the  posi­
tron  it  is  confident  it  can  more  than  fill. 
The  dollar a  day  is  the badge  of  servi­
tude;  and  every  stroke of work,  instead 
of being done with gratitude,  as  it should 
be,  for the blessed  privilege  of  honor­
able  work  with  honorable  rewards,  how­
ever  meager,  is  made  the  occasion 
for 
resentment  of  the decrees  of fate and the 
inscrutable  dispensations  of  divine 
Providence.

\Y ith  that  motive as  the  mainspring 
of  action,  the  unsolved  problem  is,  how I 
much  ol  my  over-plus  ought  I  to furnish 
for  this  miserable  dollar?  If  I  am  worth 
| $5  a  day,  then,  unless  arithmetic  and 
! “ figures  won’t  lie” —is  at  fault,  only  a 
fifth  of  my  value  is  needed  to  equalize 
the  demands  of a  full  day’s  work.

I hat point  settled,  another  promptly' 
takes  its  place.  My  employer  cannot I

it  to  m e; 

expect  me  to come  to  him  for  details 
I which  I  know  more about than he does— 
in  my  prosperous  days,  had 
I,  who, 
If 
better  men  in  my  employ  than  he. 
he  has  work  for  me  to  do, 
let  him 
bring 
that  will  be  time 
Ingrate  that  he  is,  will  he 
enough 1”  
never  learn  the  lesson  that 
is  the 
basket,  lull  and  running  over  with  his 
best,  which  wins  favor,  not  only  with 
men  but  with  Heaven?  Good  work, 
well  done,  is  its  own  reward ;  but  how 
much  more  than  a  thousand  fold  is  the 
value  of  that  work  when  it  is 
the  out­
pouring  of a  grateful  heart!

it 

is 

Ihink  of  it,  you  who  scorn  the  dollar 
that 
intended  only  to  hold  you  up.
1 hi 11k  of  it,  you  who  are  abusing  your 
only  means  of  climbing  again  to  the 
| shining  heights,  and  may  the  reflection 
strangling  the  spirit  of the  tramp  which 
is  in  you,  nerve  your heart and strength­
en  your hand  with  a  worthier  purpose 
and  enable  you,  by  a generous  outpour­
ing  of  the best  that  is  in  you,  to  gain 
and  keep  the  old  position  which  long­
ing  alone  will  never again  secure.

Richard Malcolm Strong.

It  has  no  equal-  Signal  Five.

fjraiitent

of  tl)c  United  States  of America,

To

Greeting :
Ulereas. It  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of 

I I I J I V R Y   K O C H ,   your  c l e r k s ,   attorneys,  ager  j, 
s n l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

N e.;  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  C O M P A V V   rv.™  1  • 
of  N e JatTey 
I X iT '- n T r ,  M  

itS  said  Bil1  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  h>r  d T  District

— *   *.  —   - x

RV  KOCH- 

,

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

Horn, (therefore, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY 

soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly, 

*  SC° Unng

B y  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPOLIO,”   or  when  “ SAPO LIO ”   is  asked  for,

false  Zr'LLZ, 

W itn ess,

[seal;

“ d 

**“  

The  honorable Melville  W.  Fuller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 

United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

this  16th  day  of  December, 

in  said  District  of  New 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 

«*  »»'<*  "S A P O L IO ” 

a „ r

[signed]

S.  D.  OLIPHANT.

ROWLAND  COX,

Complainant's  Solicitor

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

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Sugar  Card-Granulated.

Sugar  Card—Granulated.

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association

Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 

A sso ciatio n   M atters

President, E. White:  Secretary, E. A. Stowe; 
Treasurer, J. Geo. Lehman.
554 cents per pound. 
414 pounds for 25 cents 
10 pounds for 50 cents. 
20 pounds for $1.
President, Byron C. Hill: Secretary, W. II. Por­
ter: Treasurer, J. F. Helmer.
514 cents per pound. 
9‘4 pounds for 50 cents 
19 pounds for $1.
President, ,1. F. Tatman, Clare: Secretary, E. A. 
Stowe, Grand Rapids: Treasurer, .1. Wisler, 
Manrelona.
President, A. D. Whipple; Secretary, G.T. Camp­
bell; Treasurer, W. E. Collins.
President, F. S. Carleton, Ca uraet: Vice Presi­
dent, Henry C. Weber  Detroit;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.
President, R. D. Graham; Secretary, M. W. 
Honan: Treasurer, H. O. Braman.

Northern Mich. Retail Grocers’ Association

Grand  Rapids Fruit  Growers’ Association. 

Owosso Business  Men’s Association. 

Michigan  Hardware Association. 

Gripsack  Brigade.

L.  (Windy)  Williams,traveling  repre­
sentative  for  the Detroit Cigar Manufac­
turing  Co.,  of  Detroit,  is 
in  town  to­
day,  accompanied  by  his  wife.

W.  H.  Downs has  engaged  to  travel 
for  the  Milton  Hosiery  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
which  controls  the output  of  six  mills. 
He  also  represents  the  suspender  house 
of  G.  W.  Hoyt,  of  Chicago.

There  will  be  a  meeting  of  Grand 
Rapids  traveling  men  at  the  Livingston 
Hotel  next  Saturday  evening  to  consid­
er  the  mattter of  holding  an annual  pic­
nic  and  make  the  necessary  preliminar) 
arrangements,  in  case  it  is  thought  ad­
visable  to  hold  a  picnic  under  the  aus­
pices  of  the  local  salesmen.

“ If  dealers  would  all  call 

Ed.  Germain,  the  Saginaw  lumber­
man,  has  a  panacea 
for  the  present 
stagnation  in  the  lumber  business,  as 
follows: 
in 
their  salesmen 
lumber  would  advance 
50  cents  a  thousand  within  60 days.  The 
stocks  at  all  Eastern  and  interior  points 
are  small,  but  manufacturers are  crowd­
ing  their  commodities  upon  the  market, 
and  when  a  dealer  is  drummed  by  pos­
sibly  a  dozen  different  salesmen  he 
will  buy  only  as  his  necessities demand, 
for  he  reasons  that  when  the  lumber 
manufacturer  is  so  anxious  to  unload 
prices are  likely  to drop,  and  he  is  not 
disposed  to  buy  on  a  falling  market. 
We  all  know  that  better  times  are  com­
ing,  but  the  difficulty  is  we  do not  know 
just  when  they  will  arrive.”
■

 

- 
The  official 

  >  ♦

♦
investigation 

into  the 
Bannock  Indian  troubles 
in  Wyoming 
shows  that  the  “ trouble”   was  the  mur­
der of  one  poor old  Indian  by  the  set­
tlers’  posse  who  hail  arrested  a  party  of 
hunters  for  killing  game  in  the  Jackson 
Hole  region,  a  privilege  accorded  to 
them  by  treaty.  The  murder 
is  with 
impunity  as  the  officials  before  whom 
the  murderers  would  be  arraigned  are 
parties  to  the  conspiracy against  the  In­
dians. 
is 
passed  when  there  is  a  possibility  of 
an  outbreak  of  Indians  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States.  They  are thoroughly 
subdued  and  cowed  by  the  government 
officials  and  there  is  not  enough  of  the 
fighting  spirit  left  to  make 
it  possible 
that  such  reports as  the  one  sent  out  by 
the  press  a  few  weeks  ago  of  the 
“ Bannock  massacre”   should  be  true. 
Indians  may  be disorderly  but the  days j 
of  Indian  wars  are  forever  past

It  is  probable  that  the  time 

It  is  the  best—Signal  Five.

CURRENT  COMMENT.

The  Chamber of  Commerce  of  Man­
chester,  England,  has  decided  to  have 
i a  Testing  House,  “ to  ascertain  the  true 
condition,  weight, 
length  and  other 
physical  properties  of  such  articles  as 
the  Board  of  Directors  may  from  time 
to  time determine.”   When  the Cham­
ber  gets  settled  down  to  discuss  the 
question of  shrinkage,  how  would  it  do 
to  send  over a  Grand  Rapids  ¡»each bas­
ket  and  strawberry  box  and  l^ve  'them 
decide  how  far  the  atmosphere  can  be 
depended  on  as  a  cause  for  this  change?

*  *  * 

|||

The despairing “  How long?”   of  the 
public,  suffering  from  the  murderous 
building  contractor,  is  relieved  by  the 
exultant  “ At  last,”   from  the  same  out­
raged  public.  The  rascal  whose  ineffi­
ciency  led to the catastrophe of  the  ill- 
Ireland  building  has  been  un­
fated 
earthed,  and  arrested. 
It  is  the  plaster­
er  who  is  the  cause of  all  this  wretched 
business. 
It  has  been  found  that  not  a 
single  square  inch  of  plastering  was 
found  in  its  place,  when  even  a  child 
can  be  made  to  see  that 
if  the  plaster 
had  stuck  not  an  iron  girder would have 
fallen.  The  plasterer  is the rascal.  Off 
with  his  head!

*  *  *

Here’s  a goodly  row  of  figures  889, - 
843,000.  Now  put  this  little  contraction 
of  the  United  States  before 
it  ($)  and 
it  will  begin  to  mean  something.  That 
is  what  the  exports  from  this  country 
were  valued  at  for  last  year.  That  isn’t 
all.  Three-fourths  of  that  sum  came 
from  the  farmers and  the  farms  of  this 
republic. 
Just  let  the genuine  farming 
communities  get  rid  of  their  “ way- 
hacks”   and  their  "hay-seeds”   and  that 
amount,  large as  it  is,  will  be  doubled ; 
and  it  may  be  well  enough  to  say  right 
isn’t  the  only 
here,  that  the 
American  citizen  with  hay-seed 
in  his 
hair and  sandburrs  in  his  stockings.

farmer 

*  *  *

It  is  a  disputed  question  whether  the 
Bay  City  sea  serpent,  which  attacked 
the three  ladies  the other day,  is  a  sea 
lion  or  a  seal.  At  this  distance 
is 
safe  to  say  it  was  a  sea  lion.  No  sane 
woman 
letting  alone  three— would  be 
as  near as  that  to  an  unclaimed  seal 
skin  without  making  a  vigorous  fight 
for  it.  Without any  kind  of  doubt 
it 
was  a  sea  lion.

it 

*  *  *

its  way 

“ How  the  world  is given  to  lying!”  
A  story  has  found 
into  the 
papers  to  the  effect  that  a  Michigan 
farmer  has  been  caught  by  the  green 
goods  scheme. 
It  is  a  base,  ignomini­
ous whopper,  that’s  exactly  what  it  is; 
and  as  senseless  as  it  is  wicked.  The 
idea  of  a  Michigan  farmer  being caught 
by any  such  scheme  as  that  at  this  time 
of  the  year,  when  he  is  making  money 
hand  over  fist  without  fear and  favor  of 
the  law  with  the  bastard 
fruit  basket. 
I11  the  language  of  the  street  gamin’, 
“  W’at  ye givin’  us?”

r  *  *

“ It  has been  reported  that 

Mark  Twain  explains  his  business  re­
lations  in  a  way  that  does  him  credit. 
Says  he: 
I 
sacrificed,  for the  benefit  of  creditors, 
the  property  of  the  publishing 
firm 
whose  financial  backer  I  was,  and  that 
I  am  now  lecturing  for  my  own  benefit. 
This  is  an  error. 
I  intend  the  lectures, 
as  well  as  the property,  for the creditors. 
The  law  recognizes  no  mortgage  on  a 
man’s  brain,  and  a  merchant  who  has 
given  up  all  he  has  may  take  advantage 
of  the  rules of  insolvency  and  start  free 
again  for  himself;  but  I  am  not a  busi­
ness  man,  and  honor  is  a  harder  master 
than  the  law. 
It  cannot  compromise for

less  than  100 cents on  the dollar and  its 
debts  never outlaw. 
I  had  a  two-thirds 
!  interest  in  the  publishing  firm  whose 
capital  I  furnished. 
If  the  firm  had 
prospered  I  should  have  expected to col­
lect  two-thirds  of  the  profits.  As  it  is,  I 
| expect  to  pay  all  the  debts.  My  partner 
has  no  resources,  and  I  do  not  look  for 
assistance  from  him.”

*  *  *

Canadian  farmers  haven’t  been  idle; 
and  for a  country  making no pretentions 
to greatness  46,000,000 bushels  of  wheat 
rdr  one  season  is  doing  pretty  well.  Of 
I course,  that  is  nothing  when  compared 
I vr,ith  what  the  Nation  to  the  south  of 
Canada  is  doing,  but  its  a  good  crop 
and  the  farmer  up  there  should  he  con­
gratulated.

*  *  *

It  is  safe  to  say  that  fruit  orchards 
near  Benton  Harbor  will  not  be  further 
molested. 
It  has  been  the  fad  to  ap- 
| proach  the  orchard  on  the  water’s  side 
by  means  of  row boats  and,  after  steal­
ing  the  peaches  to  steal  away.  A  watch­
man  with  orders  to  shoot  will  have  a 
tendency  to  put an  end  to the  fun.

*  * 

;Jc

If  that  Bangor correspondent  who says 
that  peaches  shipped  to  Chicago  do  not 
pay  will  send  his  fruit  to Grand  Rapids, 
he  will  find  that  he  need  not  go  so  far 
and  fare  better.

*  *  *

If  pleasure  is  business  Lord  and  Lady 
William  Beresford  have  been  putting  in 
some heavy  strokes  this  summer  in  Nor­
way.  They  wanted  to go  fishing for sal­
mon  and  they  went.  My  lord  bought  a 
salmon  stream  in  the  Land  of  the  Mid­
night  Sun  for  S4,ooo  and  he  and  my 
lady  took  a  day  off  and  enjoyed  the 
sport 
They  caught  -two 
fishes  (one  apiece),  weighing—if  the 
joke  isn't  too  far fetched—.£400.  Nice 
salmon  they  have  in  Norway!

immensely. 

*  *  *

According  to  the  report  of  Warden 
Fuller,  of  the Ionia House of Correction, 
the  manufacture  of  furniture  in  that  in­
stitution  has  yielded  a  profit  of  $26,000 
during  the  past  year.  Such  a  profit 
is 
only  possible  through  sales at  rates  cal­
culated  to  injure the  industry elsewhere. 
Wholesalers  will  not  handle  prison 
made  goods  except  at  prices  far  below 
those  made  by  free  labor.  Of  course, 
it  is  possible  to  make  and  sell  such 
goods  at  a  profit  where  the  labor  costs 
nothing,  even  at  the  prices the contract­
ors are willing  to  pay,  but  every  dollar 
thus  saved  to  the  State  costs  many  lost 
from  the  profits of  the  furniture  factor­
ies  elsewhere 
the 
maintenance  of  such  a  factory  at  Ionia 
to  support  criminals  is  no  small  factor 
in  keeping  the  wages  of  workmen  else­
where below  what  they  should  be.
A  New  Calling  for  Women.

From the Emporia, Kan., Gazette.

in  the  State  and 

There  is  a  woman  in  this  town  who 
has  invented  a  new  calling  for  women ; 
is  a  professional  companion  for 
she 
women  whose  husbands  are  away.  She 
will  go  to a  house and  be  company  for 
a  lone  woman  at  $5  a  week,  or  she  will I 
go  out  for  the  night,  while  husbands are 
away,  for  75  cents  an  evening.  She 
knows all  the gossip  and  will  tell gossip 
for  50  cents  a  night  extra. 
In  families 
when  there  is  a  young  woman  with  a 
beau,  who  is  liable  to  be  talking  in  a 
low  tone  until  10 o’clock  in  the  parlor,
| and  then  hush  up  until  she  is  awakened 
by  the  front  door slamming  about  mid­
night,  the  woman  charges  a  dollar  a 
night  straight,  making  no  reduction  for 
long-time  contracts. 
In  families  where! 
there  is a  boy  who  lies  on  his  back  and 
screams at  bedtime,  the  woman  charges 
is  particular  and j 
I double  rates.  She 
very 
independent,  and  as  the  lodges! 
is j 
grow 
in  the 
branching  out,  and  she  is  said  to  be j 
|  putting  money  in  the  bank  every  Satur- 
I day  night.

town  her  business 

1:25pm 6:30pm
5:15pm 10:40pm

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Going to Detroit.

Going  to Chicago.

To and from Lowell.

PARLOR  AND  S L E E P IN G   CARS.

To  and  from  fluskegon.

Returning from  Detroit.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

“  Tie Niagara Falls Route.”

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and Petoskey.

M ic h ig a n  (Te n t r a !

D E T R O I T , &  Northern  R’y

Travelers*  Time  Tables.
CHICAGO and West Michigan R’y

Lv. G'd Rapids 6:00am 1:25pm *0:30pm *11:30pm 
Ar. Chicago—12:05pm 6:50pm 6:00am  6:25am
Lv. Chicago......................7:20am  5:00pm *11:45pm
Ar. G'd Rapids................12:40pm 10:40pm *0:30am
Lv. G’d Rapids...................6:00am 
Ar. G'd Rapids...................11:30am 
Lv. G’d Rapids..................*8:00am 1:00pm 11:00pm
Ar. Manistee......................12:55pm
Ar. TraAcrse City............*1:20pm 4:50pm  4:00am
Ar. Charlevoix ...............*3:50pm  G:30pm  6:30am
Ar. Petoskey.......................*4:20pm 6:55pm 7:00am
Trains arrive from north at5:30a.m., 11:45a.m., 
1:00p.m., *1:30p.m.
Parlor Cars leave Grand Rapids 6:00a.m., 1:25 
p.m.: leave Chicago 7:20a.m., 5:00p.m.  Sleeping 
Cars leave Grand Rapids *11:30p.m.; leave Chi­
cago *11:45p.m.
«Every day.  Others week days only.__________
Lv. Grand Rapids.........7:00am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit.........................II :40am  5:30pm 10:10pm
Lv. Detroit...........................7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........12:40pm 5:2opm 1 :45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G R 11:35am 10:45pm 
Lv. Grand Rapids..........7:i< am  1:20pm  5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell.............12:40pm  5:20pm 
.............
Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rap­
ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.  Trains week days only.
________L. M. Fuller, Chief Clerk, Pass. Dep’t.
Arrive  Depart
Detroit Express ................................10:20pm  v:00am
»Atlantic Express...............................6:30am 11:20pm
New York Express.............................11:45am 6:00pm
»Daily.  All others daily, except Sunday. 
Sleeping cars run on all night trains to and 
from Detroit.  Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 
7:00a.m., reaching Detroit at 12:20p.m.: return­
ing, leave Detroit 4:35p.m., arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20p.m.  Direct communication made 
at Detroit with all through trains east over the 
Michigan Central Railroad (Canada Southern 
Division.) 
A. Alsiijuist, Ticket Agent, 
_________________________Union Passenger Station.
+No. 14  tXo. 16  tNo. 18 »No. 82 
Lv. G’d Rapids.6:45am 10: 0am  3:25pm 11 ;0npm
Ar. Ionia..........7:40am 11:25am  4:27pm 12:35am
Ar. St. Johns..8:25am 12:17pm  5:20pm  1:25am
Ar. Owosso___9:00am  1:20pm  6:05pm  3:10am
Ar. E. Saginaw 10:50am 3:45pm  8:00pm 6:40am 
Ar. Bay City. . 11:30am  4:35pm  8:37pm  7:15am
Ar. Flint..........10:05am 3:45pm  7:05pm  5:40am
Ar. Pt. Huron.12:05pm  5:50pm  8:50pm  7:30am 
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.....................tl :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................110:05pm
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.  Trains arrive 
from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m., 5:30p.m., 10:00 
p.m.  Trains arrive from the west, 6:40a.m., 8:15 
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 ear.  No. 81 Wagner sleeper.
Jas. Campbell, City Ticket Agent.
Aug. 18, 1895
Northern  Div.Leave  Arrive
Trav. Cy., Petoskey & Mack. 
.t7:00am t 5:15pm 
Trav. Cy., Petoskey & Mack.. .*8:00am *10:00pm
Traverse City...................................to :25pm+11:30am
Saginaw............................................+5:00pm +11:00pm
Petoskey and Mackinaw.........+10:45pm + 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
Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo.+ 7:25am  +9:15pm
Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo..........+ 2:00pm  +2:15pm
Cin., Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo.*10:15pm  *6:50am
Kalamazoo.......................................+ 6:00pm  +9:21 am
7:25a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 
10:15p.m. train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, 
Indianapolis and Louisville.
Lv. G'd Rapids.............»7:25am +2:00pm +10:15pm
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.....................+6:50am +3:00pm *11:30pm
Ar. G'd Rapids..............2:15pm  9:15pm  6:50am
3:00p.m. train has through coach and 11:30p.m. 
has through coach and sleeping car.
Lv G'd Rapdis+7:25am +1:00pm +8:30am +5:40pm 
Ar Muskegon.,8:50am  2:10pm  9:55am  7:05pm 
Lv Muskegon.*9:13am* 12:05pm +6:30pm '•4:06pm 
Ar G'd RapidslO :30am  1:15pm  7:55pm  5:20pm 
»Except Sunday.  »Daily.  ¿Sunday only.
A. Almquist, 
C. L. Lockwood.
Ticket Agt. Uu. Sta.  Gen. Pass, & Tkt. Agt.

nFTPO IT  Graod Haven &
D C   1  I v U l   1  j 

GRAND

Rapids  &  Indiana  Railroad

Milwaukee Railway 

Muskegon Trains.

Chicago  Trains.

Westward.

Eastward.

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S h o e s  and  Leather

"  I  AWING  Of  THI  SUO I;.

>«ifv  in d u a iion  of  C haracter  in  the 

Manner  of  HrmoUsMng  Leather.

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

twit  true  to  their  preach-

friem i,  then 

iher  iect  that  are  irregular 

" h o   believe  in  gettine  all 
of 
thorn ins;

I hey  are  never  encased  in 

ping  and  full  .if jov  ami 
'• toes  are  liro.nl  and  «»ft- 
foot  some-  j 

her 
is  calfskin,  hut  soft 
le  owners of  such  feet  are 
ii  want  to  call  upon  when 
light, 
need  the  quick, 
a sunny-tempered friend, 
good-humor 
Ii  how  legs. 

„I

Mu ll  appenda

File  owner 
will  have  the  repu-I 
jovial  and  it 
is  impiis- 
iiii  laughing  when  lie  is
I ar«•timi.  Km »€ k - knees and  a  cramped,
1  Is  someway st iff 
it variably go  with  persons
lie  heel  and 1 w min  you  ar •  ut in it is« iouslv  and  ever-
lastingi y  pin mg.  There  seems  to  be
layer  or «I« spring  in their  life. they  jolt  along.
•very  knock  and

just 1 g< tlilig  the  b •uefit  of

nnsened 

foot 

«1  I Ii«*  lit«.»r  it  s»’¡itoti.

»  if up  «ntl 1  a 
K* Dill  k

«.111

Hr

t

wilt

«ft HN« thro*

far  that  com« s  in  their wav.

¡1  SJ »11titered  biianl
\  new  < M ft *  With  til«
et>  lilt:  wrar-
III y  in imi
tfi.ill  |n|f 

vim.  striking 
means  busim

ii li 'iii'iii
1  have  mv mini  on  ;
1 'peak  of  fit i  with till

liever  striking  against
h.it  wears  a th<•  wav ;  tlirv are  full
rful  (tallire 
the  tioor 
•>s  every

in  office bov when
firm quick tread.
,||f h •  is  bound to  amount  to  something,
things,  never  in
if  elasticity  and
in  a  manner  that 
time.  There  is

« »V # ■
till-  tors P »int  straight  ahead of him.
\
“ »« «  arri«'-  a 1
ini ìi^ht  ai Hint
son  ov «  r gT !  Ill  them. t « »1 ».  and murage,  for  they
Ml ll ks oll(
lite  Itet i ; in* 
im«
le  more  « a-
•r
1  here  is tin•  long,  11;irrnw,  thin  foot.
A w* «in 11  e limi .  ¡1  Wl'f
IMMII will » get
ihrOliali III! «re  wurk  in  a Such  a 
lut If «lav  tlnil >»in«* hit'll  eat1 <!<> Ill 1 iin-r
**vi*rv  now ami then him'* ins ci, mis!V  pro- j th; t  goes  will
¡IV1  takes  no vi Id  (lights.  There  is  a
clan 11s  her Still iV  t lia racle .  good  will
am! k 1 ne ! -
In
"W Ii v.
,„,k at  ut \
shoes ;  they not great,  but no  lazi ness  is there.  The
sillks  generally  look w< 11 ;  they grow old
lui vi gone iii  t<1 
fit»*< «*> 
A si«>«•  (ha «let¡«vs like  the ‘ ‘ vv, unIt-rfill without  being wrinkled or  run  down  at
is  ;i Wavs  w« «ru  hv  one tin heel ;  then are  nevt r any  buttons off
ont* 1..SS  sh;iv"
ir laces  broken.  They seem  to  always

is  cautious  and  seldom
I lie  imagination
this  foot is  not very vivid

wa Ik  right  ahead  when 
ich  a  certain  point  a

told  they  must 
a  certain  time.

leads  its  own« r astray.

mg  in  the present,

the  ambition 

•lusting  out

i  u ru •inr ss 

imte  of  a

with

«lavi

ft nit

ill

is

who makes his own sunslii ie. 
furnish-
mg  enough  for a  family  besides.  The 
motto of  such  a  person 
is: 
“ Care  to 
our  cofl'm  adds  a  nail, ”   et«.

A  voting  man  actpiaintance  who  is 
indepen- 
egotistical  and  unpleasantly 
tierit  kicks  forward  with  his  feet  while 
talking  as  if  thereby  to  emphasize  his 
statements.  By  observing  others  with 
the  same  habit,  I  note  that  such  habits 
go  with  egotism.

r.ive  wide  berth  to  the  person  who 
walks  turning  his  feet  unusually  far out. 
He  is  not  truthful  as  a  rule.  Although 
In-  is  eager  to  make  promises,  he  will 
throw  them  off as  easily  as  he  does  the 
clods  of  snow  that  gather  on  Ip's  shoe 

top.

I here are  nervous  feet  that  tw ist  and 
writhe; that  keep  up  a  tap,  tap,  tapping 
until  they  almost  drive  one  mad.  Those 
that  don  t  beat  time  strive  to  work 
themselves out  of  the  boot,  and  no  won- j 
der,  for  the  owner 
is  restless,  has  a 
shrill  voice  that  pierces  one’s  soul, 
enunciates  with  a  quickness  that startles 
and  is  apt  sooner or  later  to  have  ner­
vous  prostration  or  perhaps  a  peculiar 
stomach  trouble  brought on  through  - re­
cessive  worry  and 
impatience.  Tiles, 
feet  are  always  well  dressed  and  often j 
belong  to  politicians, 
journalists  and ! 
public  speakers.

I  have  learned  to  look  out  for  the  feet

look  attractive  without  any  special  at­
tention  being  paid  to  them,  yet  I  don’t 
like  these  feet  as  well  as  I  do  the  short 
stubby  ones.

I he  thick,  short,  well-knit,  stubby 
feet  are  noted  for  their  quickness,  and 
though  they  may  have  many  places to go 
they  are generally  late,  but at  the  same 
time  there 
is  so  much  good  humor, 
frankness  of  character  and  merriment 
connected  with  them,  that  though  they 
break  all  rules  of  etiquette  in  the  mat­
ter of  punctuality,  they  are  generally 
welcomed  with  greater enthusiasm  than 
some  of  the  precise,  never-making-mis- 
take  kind.

Other  feet  have great  responsibilities.
I he  shoes  of  them  are  sometimes  run 
down  at  tlie  heel;  they  are  large  and 
heavy,  and 
they  sometimes  stumble 
about,  not  awkwardly,  but blindly.  Such 
I  feet  are  never elegantly  dressed  and  the 
I shoes  are  seldom  blackened ;  they  are 
not  at  all  stupid  feet,  but  a  sol id, watch - 
| ful  kind  that  always  stop  at the first sign 
of  danger  and  are 
to  walk 
through  fire  if  necessity  calls  for  it. 
Above them  is  a  head  full  of  thought 
and  purpose,  and  power  and  a  heart j 
worth  its  weight  in  gold  are ever  to  be 
lou:; 1  in  close  connection.  There  is  a 
will  of  iron,  and  a  tender  hand  full  of 
sympathy  in  the  hour  of  trouble.

ready 

You  will^notice  in  the  row  of  feet!

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Hirth,Krause
& Co.
GRAND RAPIDS,'MICH.
H e r o l d - B ertsch  S hoe  Co.
BOOTS.  SHOES J  RUBBERS
'^=5S==:==——^¡fC^,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN
We carry in stock Regular, Opera, 
Piccadilly and Needle Toes.
stale Aoems  m - G o m   rubbirs
We are prepared to furnish a Rubber of 
superiority in quality, style and fit.  —

Manufacturers  and  Wholesale  Dealers  in

5 and 7  Pearl  Street 

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10

seen  iit  a  car  that  smite art:  t*ticast*<|  n 
sleek,  well-pulisheii  shoes,  with 
jailer1

people  have  a 
of  work  are 
them  you  will,  without  doubt. 
merry 

lot  <»(  time,  their  lump 
II  you  look  abovi 
lew. 
. 
from  wrinkles  am 

lines  of ca re.  Me  may  he  a  dude ; she 

face, 

free 

find 

a  belle.  For  lack  of  occupation  tln-v 
lead  the owners  into all  kinds ot  reform 
movements  and  philanthropic  clubs.

Another  kind  turns  up  at  the 

toes 

is  an 

turns  up  so decidedly  that  it 
im­
possibility  for  them  to  get  a  jar or a 
shock ;  they  slide  over  everything  with 
the  greatest  ease,  so  does  the  person 
who owns  them ;  he  makes  the  most  of 
his  opportunities,  has  contempt 
lor  the 
fopperies of  life,  has  a  certain  sense  of 
humor,  though 
life 
rather seriously; is a  stupid  companion, 
socially,  but  a  good  one  in  finances.

is  inclined  to  take 

There are other  feet  that  are  seen  on 
the athletic  grounds.  They  are  pecul­
iar  in  a  way,  for  they  are  springy,  not 
too  long  or  to  broad,  but 
just  right. 
There  is  enough  self-adoration  to  make 
them  look  neat,  hut  never  enough  van­
ity  to  pinch  them.  Feet  that  take  to 
athletics,  unless  they  make  the  sport  a 
fad,  generally  carry  a  body  that  is  full 

of vigor,  health,  animation,  and  a  brain 

is  no  life 

that  is  laden  with  good  common  sense.
There  is  the  nervous  foot that the shoe 
must  shrink  to.  There  is  the  practical 
low  heels, 
foot  with  the  thick  sole  and 
broad  and  well  braced.  There 
is  the 
aggressive  foot,  which  seems  connected 
to  the  shin  with  a  hinge.  Then  there 
is  the  broad,  normal  size  that,  when 
once  placed,  does  not  swerve  one  liairs- 
breadth  until  called  upon  to  move  the 
body;  these  feet  look  like  empty  shoes 
slipped  under  the  edge  of  the  dress 
in 
merely  for  effect;  there 
them,  neither 
in  the 
wearer.  Then  there are  the  re-assuring 
feet,  which  are  found 
in  all  kinds  of 
shoes but  expensive  ones;  they  are  al­
ways  in  a  rush;  the  owners  never  stop 
longer  than  to  say  how-de-do. 
In  one 
way  they  are  unsatisfactory,  because you 
never see  enough  of  them.  There 
is  a 
gay  foot  dressed 
in  fancy  colors,  no 
matter  what  the  weather;  they  are  al­
ways  ready  to  dash  into  a  waltz  or come 
down  in  a  jig,  and  are a  great  bore  to 
the  solid,  ambitious 
foot  that  grows 
brown  and  gray  for  lack  of  attention, 
and  looks  upon  its  high-polished  neigh­
bor  with  disdain.

is  there  much 

A  woman  in  the  street  with  a toot that 
looks  like  a  miniature Cinderella’s must 
immediately  as  narrow­
be  put  down 
minded,  simpering  and  silly. 
I  much 
prefer  the  mannish  boot,  for  if  we  must 
go  to  extremes  let  us  take  the one which 
is  the  less detrimental  to  the health.  A 
woman  who  wears a  shoe  too  small 
for 
her  has  a  soul  too  small  for  her  body, 
but  I  am  glad  to  say  the women  of  such 
description  are growing  less  in  number 
every  year.

A  woman  who  wears  a  shoe to  match 
her  gown  shows  great  artistic  taste,  a 
possessor  of 
lots  of  time  and  lots  of 
money;  and  a  woman  who  brushes  her 
shoes  with  a  “ hit  of  old  merino”   and 
“ wrings  a  small  sponge  out  of  cold 
water  and  washes  them”   every  night 
before  retiring,  is on  the  verge  of  what 
seems  insanity  or  imbecility.  The  se­
cret  of  pretty  feet  is  in  the  selection  of 
shoes.  They  must  not  bind,  and  must 
have  sensible  heels  that  do not throw the 
weight  forward  on  the ball  of  the  foot, 
and  thus  unduly  broaden 
They 
should  be  neatly 
laced  or  buttoned, 
never  limpy  or  run  down  at  the  heel. 
These  dainty  feet,  with  arched 
insteps

it. 

:<«!  tin-  p;tm  that  woman  must  be  suffer-

t  bit  of  leather.

health  and  neatness,  show  a  pronerlv 
well-balanced  mind  every  time.

K.vn-.  K e n s in g t o n .

« ♦

expedients  to  Cheapen  Shoes.

is  this  true 

Manufacturers  are  trying  in  every wav 
possible  to  cheapen  the  cost  of  shoes'.
I he  high  price of  leather  forces  them to 
expedients  never before  thought  of,  and 
regarding  the 
especially 
There  is  a  large  fac­
cheaper  grades. 
tory  in  Maine  which 
is  turning  out  a 
compressed  paste  that 
is  extensively 
used  in  the  manufacture of shoes.  Large 
quantities  of  them  are  shipped  to  other 
countries,  and  they  are  also  used  in  this 
country.  People  in  buying  these  goods 
think  they  are  getting  the  genuine  arti­
cle,  as  the  appearance  is  just  the  same 
as  leather. 
I his  class  of  shoe  wears 
very  well  if  kept  dry,  but  after  a  good 
soaking,  or twice  wearing  in  the  rain 
they  will  tear and  are of  little  use there­
after. 
It  is  cheaper  in  the end  to  pay  a 
little  more and  get  reliable  goods  that 
will  give  satisfaction.

Sheepskin  is  being  used  a  great  deal 
by  manufacturers  to  cheapen  the cost of 
shoes. 
I his is being done bv some reput­
able  houses,  which  use  it  as a  substitute 
for  dongola  calf  and  kangaroo.  The 
process  of  tanning  has been so improved 
that  m  appearance  the  fraud  cannot  he 
detected.  In  dry  weather  sheepskin  will 
give  lair  satisfaction,  hut  as  soon  as 
it 
becomes  wet  the 
leather  goes  all  to 
pieces. 
It  lacks  the toughness,  the dur­
ability  of  calfskin,  and  it  the  shoe 
is  a 
little  tight  will  give  way  under the pres­
sure.
A   large  number  of  Eastern  manufac­
turers  have  been  in  this  market  during 
the  last  two  weeks,  but  they  have  not 
taken  many  orders  for  spring.  When 
orders are taken  the  manufacturer  cov­
ers  himself  at  once  on  the  leather.
1 here  is  a  feeling  among  the  manufac­
turers that  should  they go  in  the  market 
and  try  to  buy  any large amount of stock 
it  would  push  the  price  of  leather  sev­
eral  notches  higher,  and  this  they  wish 
to  avoid. 
I his  is  the season  when  the 
largest  quantity  of  leather  is  cut,  and 
this  has  an 
important  bearing  on  the 
situation.

The  l  nited  States  Leather  Company, 
otherwise  known  as  the  leather trust, has 
recently  added  s8,000,000  to  its  enor­
mous  capitalization,  which 
already 
reaches Si20,000,000.  The  profits of the 
trust  by  the  advance  in 
leather  have 

been  enormous. ♦ •
French Shoes and Shoe Stores.
Kruin the Shoe ami Leather Gazette.

It  is  peculiar  that  France  has  very- 
few  shoe stores <>f  what  may  he  termed 
the  first  class.  Paris,  that  Mecca  of 
the  fashionable  world,  is  singularly  de­
void  of  elegant  and  luxurious  retail shoe 
establishments such as  give  to  Ameri­
can  and  English  streets a  handsome  ap­
pearance  when 
located  near  stores  of 
equal  gorgeousness  in  other  lines.

Perhaps  this  is owing  in  some  meas­
ure  to  the  fact  that  French  shoes  are 
not  the graceful,  artistic  articles  of  foot 
apparel  to  which  Americans  are  ac- 
cusomed,  but  are  built  more  for  com­
fort  than  looks,  as  a  general  thing.
The  men’s  shoes  made  in  French  fac­
tories  are  coarse,  ill-shapen  and  poorly 
made.  Women’s  shoes  are  little  more 
sightly  than  men’s,  hut  are  made  par­
ticularly  comforable  by  the  last  being 
narrowed  and  rounded  at  the  bottom  so 
that the  tread  brings  the  upper  close 
down  to  the  foot,  which  has  also  the 
effect  of  giving  to a  fat  foot  a  petite 
appearance.
Notwithstanding  prices  charged  for 
shoes  in  the  French  capital  are  extrav­
agantly  high,  there  is  said  to  be  but 
one  really  high  grade  store,  as we  would 
regard  it,  in  the  entire  city,  and  this 
one  is  naturally  very  successful.  Here 
seems  to be  an  opening  for  American 
manufacturers  to  push 
their  goods 
through  retail  stores.

Owing to the Great  Advance  in  Leather,

Reeder  Bros"  Shoe  Co.
Have a great many tilings purchase,! („.fore 
the advance that they are still selling at okl 
prices, and balance of the line at not one-half 
of the advance of the cost to manufacture the 
It will pay you to examine our 
goods to-day. 
line of "»ample»» when our representative eailfi 
on you.

5  and  ï  Norm  lomo si.  Grand  M d s.

Can dee  Rubbers

Dealers,  Please  Take  Notice  »  -  *  -

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

Socks in  Michigan.

STUDLEY&BARCLAY.

NO.  4  flONROE ST.  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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W ooden  Shoes
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lars and prices.  Also headquarters  \  
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THE  SW EAT-BOX.

Necessity  of  Reform  in  Some  of  its 

Methods.

Those  who  by  mishap,  misfortune,  or 
something  worse,  are  helplessly  and 
hopelessly  conducted  into  the  perspira­
tion  department of  any 
institution  ar<* 
seldom  anxious  to  get  there  and  afte. 
one dip  in  the  warm  bath  are  in  n< 
danger of buying  a  ticket  for  a  retun 
trip.  For all  that,  it  is  a  necessary  de­
partment  in  all  sorts of conditions of in­
dustrial  life.

In  railway  service  it  has a well-round­
ed  and  vivid  sunflower  bloom  and  the 
executive  power,  seated  on  a  revolving 
chair  in  its  torrid  limits of  wainscot  or 
rough  pine,  has  supreme  and  unques­
tioned  authority.

If  what 

figuratively  known  as 
“ chopping  off  heads’ ’  was  of  the  Rob-

is 

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

culprit  must  answer  for  the  lapse  in  the 
department  where nothing  freezes  but  a 
salary  and  a  situation.

We  are  of  the opinion,  both  from  ex­
perience  and  observation,  that  while 
what  is  known  as  the  sweat-box  is  as 
necessary as an  office  in  railroads  and 
workshops,  there  in  need  of  reform 
in 
some of  its  methods.

Inquiries 

into  accidents, 

reported 
neglect  of  duty, 
insubordination  and 
other  forms  of  disaster  or  offense  are 
not  always  what  they  ought  to  be 
in 
equity  and 
impartiality.  We  have 
known cases where men  have  been  de­
posed  on  unverified  statements and  with 
but one  side  of  the case  considered.

Personal  spite or  malice  too  often find 
the  sweat-box  a  valuable  assistant  to 
their  evil  designs. 
It  is a  short  cut  for I 
even  a  good  man  into  the street when  lie 
has  become  objectionable to a clerk  with i

I a  prisoner  is  charged  with  stealing  a  should  not depreciate  its  value by  mak- 
waternielon  or a  horse and  we can do  no  mg  it  apologetic  or weak  in  any  partir- 
less  with  a  workingman 
in  the  shop-  ular.  This  can  be  done  in  the  typo- 
graphical  arrangement,  in  the  wording
court  room. 
We  need  not  say  that  it  would  be  well j and  by  inclosing  it  with  other  printed 
if  managers and  heads  of  departments  matter.  Advertising  circulars  destroy 
j did  not  leave  their  hearts  at  home  when  effectually  the object  ol  a  statement.
I they  shut  the door.  We  know that  in  a 
If  mailing  advertising  matter  pays, 
certain  sense  there  is  no  standing  room j mail  it  by  itself,  but  if  you  are  expect- 
! for  sentiment  in  business,  but  we  have 
ing  favorable  results  from  the  statement 
yet  to  find  out  the  reason  why a  man  in  j by combining  the  two,  the  chances are 
others  surely against  you.  One  might  argue 
control  or  management 
interests  and  that  it  costs  two  cents  anyhow  and  why 
should  consider  their 
rights  beneath  his  notice. 
in  circulars  to  make  up  the 
these  it  is  a  consolation  to  remember j ounce?  They  might  do  some  good,  but 
there  is  a  sweat-box  to  which there is  no i destroy  the  effectiveness  of  your  state-
-r 
I he  policy  of  getting  something
Io the  many  whose souls  have not  run  for  nothing,  or  trying  to,  has  ruined 

For  such  as  not  put 

iron  and  who  would  in  all  many  fair  prospects  in  business 

into  pig 
things  be both  just  and  generous  in  all  |  Many  houses stumble  over  the  ques- 
the.r dealings  with  men,  the  sweat-box  tion  of  drafts,  but  if.  when the  very  first 
Cau  he  made ,lot  0,|1-V  j>   t«*rmr to  evil- j monthly  statement  is sent  showing  any-

of 

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! 

j 

E.  A. Stowe,  E sq .,

n 

^   Michigan  Tradesman,  C ity,

------ ,  and  your  e ffo rts  to  orpnta  * 
y 'u i  e ffo rts  to  S e a t H  

s u it,  and*£e  raust^ay  th a t'fo r Sn9atnes9h* < .o ^ eS,,,an  °!T ? S  10  us  ln  l l s   new 
n ess,  i t   w ill  compare  favorably 
Lraae  Journals  that  come  t u
that  come  to
trade  PftPer  that  In  a  trade  paper- 
comprehensive,  accurate  and  tm  tn  S i  
teeming  with  ¿rig h t  editorifl?S~io««tt 0i a8  re la te s  to  market  con dition s.P 
terspersed  with  ta te ? e e tta r ^ L ? ? o S  
in - 
“T,U ten  on  ‘ «O'10 » 
‘ >>at  always  points
a  moral-make  i t   w e i o S  
progressiveness  apparent  f r o m r i v  
and  the  a ir   of  t h r ift   and
t lp llo it y   of  advertiaenienta--repreaent ln rVa«*t h!lv  «sraietrioai  beauty  and  mSl-

and  typographical  oorreot-

the  hour 

ai 

may  i t   improve  and  th rive  n n ^ Y t°. 

° l t y ’

Yours  very  tru ly ,

T h e   P u t A a m jC a n c iy  Co

espierre  type,  that  sardonic  gentleman 
with  a  peculiar appetite  for heads  with­
out  owners  would  wish  for  a  second 
birth  of  the  nineteenth  century.

In  many  of  our  factories  and  mills, 
our  mines and  shops,  as  well  as  our  law 
courts  and  police  stations,  the  sweat- 
box  is a  piece of  warm  furniture. 
If a 
man  has  broken  a  tool  or  forgotten  to 
oil  a  bearing;  if a  motorola» has passed 
a  street  crossing  and neglected  to  take 
up  a  passenger,  has graze !  the  hub  of  a  I 
wagon  wheel  or closed  the biography  of 
a  dog;  if  a  mokler has  wasted  time and 
iron  in  bad  castings or  a  plumber  has 
left  a  free  passage  for gas or  water  in  a 
pipe connection;  if  a  clerk  has  mistak­
en  a  figure  three  for an  eight,  and  puts I 
cents on  the dollar column  of  a  ledger; 
if,  in  fact,  anything  has  been  done  con­

trary to ruies and 
instructions,  either 
wilfully, maliciously or innocently, 

the

j more collar  than  sense  or  to  a  foreman 
j who  has  more bile  than  honor or  manli­
ness  in  his  make-up.

Many  a  name  is  struck  off the pay-roll 

J  and  many  an  honest  man  robbed  of  the 

opportunity to earn  his  bread  and  find
I bread  and  shoes  for  his  family  not  for 
I real  but  for alleged  offenses  sometimes 
s  make a  place  for a  friend ¡sometimes 
I to get  rid  of a  man  whose only  fault 
is 
that  he  has  none  or  because  his  native 
brightness or skill 
in  his  work  might 
make  him  a  rival.  For  these and  other 
reasons,  almost  as numerous  and  often j 
as  unclean  as  many of the animals which j 
in  Noah’s  Ark,  I 
found 
good  men  and  true rind  their  way 
into 
the street  via  the  sweat-box.

Whenever a man’s character and  his 
bread are at stake, no pains should  be 
spared to get the whole truth and  noth­
ing but the truth.  We insist  on this if j

lodgings 

free 

doers  but  a  praise  to  those  who 
well. ’ ’

F r e d   W oodrow 

The  Sending  of  Statements.

I here are  statements  of  account  a 
statements of  no  account. 
(Jbservati 
j **f  Sf,me  thirty  before  us  shows that  01 
five of  the  number  convey  any  in tel 
! gent  idea of  the expected result. 
If y 
.send  it  “ only  for  comparison,”   say 
I plainly;  but  do  not  waste  too much tii 
sending  statements 
this  purpe 
alone. 
If  it  is  sent  as a  reminder  tl 
the account  is  due,  say  so,  politely,  \ 
forcibly.  About  one-half  of  those  b 
fore  us are mere apologies—weak-kne< 
affairs  which  disclose  weak  busine 
methods.

The  manner  in which the statement 
inclosed has its effect also.  A man wl 
receives  a statement seldom  attaches 
it  the  importance  you do,  therefore  yc

for 

thing  due,  notation 
inten­
tion  to  make  draft  within  seven  to  ten 
days,  it  will  start  the account  right.

is  made  of 

The good  business man  and  the  best 
I trade  for which  we are  looking  will  not 
think 
for  wanting  your 
money  when  due.

less  of  you 

Many  hesitate  to  notify a  new ctistom- 
le ro f  intention  to  make  draft,  and  this 
is  just  where the  error  is  made,  for 
if 
from  the beginning,  unless  prompt  pay- 
j merits are  made,  you  make  draft,  there 
will  not  be as  much  difficulty  as  if  the 
in­
account  at  first  was  allowed  to  run 
definitely  and  then  when  such 
is  past 
due,  you  provoke  your  customer  “ be­
cause  you  have  never drawn  before. ’ ’
W.  S.  Pa r k.

Have you tried it—Signal Five?

Bastard baskets must  go!

MEN  OF  MARK.

John  P.  Hemmeter,  Manager  of  the 

Hemmeter  Cigar  Co.

I  have  just  listened  to  a  story  as  full 
of  interest  as  a  well  written  romance. 
“ From  towpath  to  White  House”   has 
been  in  my  mind  from  the  beginning 
to the  end  with  this  difference: 
that 
Garfield’s  life,  while  beginning  with 
poverty  and  surrounded  by  the  vicious 
influences  of the canal,  was soon changed 
for a  higher order of  existence; hut  this 
one,  with a beginning equally as humble, 
drifted  into  a  saloon,  and  with  that  for 
a  stepping  stone,  in  spite  of  the  odium 
centering  there, 
the 
heights  where  he  stands to-day,  a  living 
example  of  what a  man  can  do 
in  the 
midst  of  unwholesome  surroundings,  if 
he  will.

clambered  up 

John  P.  Hemmeter  was  horn  on  a 
farm,  two miles  from  Saginaw,  Aug.  13,
1 S6.2.  His  parents  were  German  Luth­
erans  and,  when  the hoy  was  old  enough 
to 
learn  to  read,  they  sent  him  to  a 
school  of  that  sect,  where  he  remained 
until  he  was  thirteen  years  of  age. 
School  over, he  still  staid  under  the  par­
ental  roof  until  he  reached  his majority, 
and  then,  taking  off  his  coat and  rolling 
up  his  sleeves,  he  was  ready  to  begin 
wherever  late  should  decide.

At  first 

in 

it  was  simply  a  change  of 
place,  but  the  same  old  work  of 
chor- 
ing around”  went on for  three months for 
Geo.  L.  Burroughs,  of  Saginaw,  a  place 
better  than  he  could  find  at  home, 
lor 
there  was  more  money 
it.  With 
money  still 
his  plea, ”   he  found  he 
could  do  better  for  Geo.  W.  Morlev,  of 
the  same  town,  and  for  six  months  he 
rendered  him 
That 
brought  him  to  the  season  for  rafting 
logs;  and, 
leaving  behind  him  his 
record  as  a  chore  boy,  he  entered  the 
service  of  the Tittabawasee  Boom  Co., 
as  a  raftsman.

service. 

good 

It  was  here  that  he  earned  his  spurs. 
The  season  was  at 
its  height  and  the 
business  which  gave  the  commercial 
literally  on  the 
world  a  new  word  was 
“ boom,  when  all  hands  struck. 
I-or 
the moment  the  company  was powerless. 
The  shock  came  with  the  suddenness  of 
a  boll  from  a  cloudless  sky  and,  not 
knowing  which  way  to  turn  for  relief, 
they  were  rejoiced  to 
find  one  man 
among  the  many  who,  with a  No !  to  the 
strikers  that  started  the saw-logs,  report­
ed  to  the  company  for  duty.  That  man 
was  John  Hemmeter.  The  company 
caught 
lost

its  breath.  The  strikers 

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theirs  and  the booming  logs  went  down 
stream  as 
if  no  strike  had  been  de­
clared. 
1 hat  settled  the  business  for | 
Hemmeter.  He  had  proved  himself 
the  man  for  the  hour  and from  that time | 
he  had  a  firm  friend  in  the  Tittabawa­
see  Boom  Co.

I he  work  was  not,  however,  to  his 
liking. 
It  was  hard  and  dangerous; 
and,  when  the  season  was over,  lie  went I 
to  clerking  at  the  American  House,  at 
Saginaw,  where  he  staid  three  months. 
This  led  naturally,  it  seems  to  me 
to 
the  bar-tending,  which  followed,  in  a 
general  1 iquor  store,  one  of  the  worst 
places  in  the world  for  a  young  fellow 
and  one  which,  nine  times  out  of  ten, 
will  ticket  him  to  the devil  and  ensure 
his  safe  arrival.  He  was there  a  year.
1 hen  he  1 became bar-keeper  for  a  sam­
ple  room  for  four  months;  and  then, 
concluding  that  he  might  as  well  have 
whatever  profits  accrued  from the saloon 
business,  he  opened  a  saloon of his own.
I here  is  no  use  in  saying  here  that 
the best  friends  of  the  man  were  sorry 
when  this  step  was  taken.  More  than 
it  with  a  sigh  and  a 
one  heard  of 
“ Good bye,  John. 
It  would be the old 
story,  told  in  the  old,  sad  way,  with 
the old,  sorrowful  ending;  and  with  an 
they  went their  way and 
he  went  his.  He  was  in  that saloon  for 
seven  years,  and when  he  found  himself 
its owner,  the  old  spirit  that  showed  it­
self  at  the  strike  of  the  log  runners  ap­
peared  in  that  saloon  in  all  its  strength. 
Not  a  card  or  a  card  table  was  ever
seen  itisi«le  its  doors,  not  a dice  or  a
d i ce-ratti 1e  was  ever  heart1  upon 
its
rushing  the
counter. There  was  no
there  ever
growler’ ’ on  Sunday  and 
il
was  a  respedalile  saloon 
in  the  wide
world,  it  'was found  in Saghiaw under the
ownershi[1  of  J.  P.  Hemmeter

It’s  too bad, 

Such  a thing  as  that  soon attracted at-
tentimi.
Looked  upon  at  first as  a  con-
dition  to wear away  in  timo,  it  came  in
time  to  Ine  considered  as a  |ihenmnenon.
Men  spoke  about  it  to  one  another.  Cit­
izens  who  never  had  seen  the  inside  of 
a  saloon  came  in  to  see  and  went  away 
to  repi>rt.  The  1 riends  who  knew  him 
in  his  earlier days  were,  and  yet  were 
not,  surprised.  They  were  afraid,  and 
yet  the  outcome  was  what  they  who 
knew  the  man  had  every  reason  to  ex­
pect.  So  lie  went  out  and  came 
in 
among  them  and  with  them,  not  only 
respected  but  kindly  thought  of,  and 
the  saloon  life  came  to  an  end.

A  cigar  establishment  had  been 

for 
months  upon  the  decline. 
It  needed  a 
manager;  and  when,  one  day,  there  had 
been  a  preliminary  talk  among those in­
terested  in  the  business  and  a  conciu- 
sion  had  been  reached,  one  of  them 
went  over  to  the  Hemmeter saloon  and 
had  a  talk  with  the  proprietor ;  and 
1 
am  glad  to  give  the  substance  of  this 
talk  for  the benefit  of  those  whose  young 
eyes  have  looked  upon  the  saloon  and 
wondered  why  it  is  not  a business  good 
enough  to  follow.

“ John,”   said  the  man  of  business,
' ‘ we  are  needing  a  new  manager over at 
our cigar  factory  and  we  have  made  up 
our minds  that  you  are  too good  a  man 
to  stay 
in  a  saloon.  Here’s  a  place 
whete  you  can  turn  your time  and  your 
talents  to good  account  and  we  want  to 
help  you.  Give up  this business and  go 
into  something  that  is  respectable.  We 
know that your  place  has  been  respect­
able,  so  far as  it  is  possible  to  make  a 
saloon decent ; but,  after all,  John, it isn't 
a business  a man of  your stripe  ought  to 
engage  in  and  we want you to come with 
us.

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stock  company  was  formed  under  the 
name of  the  Henuneter  Cigar  Co.,  with 
John  P.  Hemmeter  as  Secretary  and 
General  Manager,  with  headquarters  at 
122  and  124  South  Hamilton  street.  The 
enterprise  began  business some  time  in 
1875,  with  a  force  of  ten  hands. 
It  now 
has  seventy-five  hands,  with  a  pay  roll 
It  is a  success and  has 
of  S750 a  week. 
been  from 
the  time  Mr.  Hemmeter 
took  the  management.  The  old  spirit 
that  opposed the walking delegate on the 
booming ground  and  whose  thundering 
"N o ”   gave  strength  to  the  Boom  Com­
pany’s  paralyzed arm  has  forged  its way 
to  the  front  and,  in  spite  of  the  saloon, 
in  the  widening  field  of  a 
legitimate 
business,  is  making  its  wholesale  influ­
ence  felt  upon  the  community  in  which 
its possessor  lives.

Contract  Requiring  Breach  of  Confu 

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dence Is Void.

An  agreement  by  the  bookkeeper of  a 
corporation  to  disclose  its financial  con­
dition  to  another  party  is  void,  and  it  is 
immaterial  that  such  other  person  is  a 
stockholder of  the  corporation. 
In  the 
case  of  Davenport  vs.  Huline  (32  X.  Y. 
S.  Reporter,  803)  the  Superior Court  of 
New  York  city  makes  the  above  deci­
sion  and  says :  We  have no  hesitation 
in  condemning  the  agreement  on  which 
this  suit  was  brought as  absolutely  void 
and  unenforceable,  and  approve  the ac­
tion of  the trial  judge  in  dismissing  the 
complaint  on this  ground. 
It  involved 
a  clear  betrayal  of  trust  by  the  book­
keeper and  was  utterly  sordid  and  con­
scienceless  in  its  purpose  and  concep­
tion.  He  was  an employe  of  the  com­
pany  holding  a  place of  trust  and  confi­
dence.  The information  he  had obtained 
in  the course  of  the  performance of  his 
duties belonged  to  the  company and  was 
not  his to  use against  his  employer or to 
dispose of  to  his  own advantage.  When 
he  agreed  to  barter  it  away  in  the  man­
ner  proposed  he  not  only  violated  an 
obligation  to  his  employer springing  out 
of  the contract  of  his  employment  and 
the  relation  in  which  he  stood  to  the 
company,  but  the  whole  transaction was, 
in  foro  conscientae,  flagitious  and  inde­
fensible.  The  law  has  sternly  set  the 
seal  of  its  disapproval  and  condemna­
tion  upon  such  acts. 
It  reads  into  ev­
ery  contract of  service  an  obligation  on 
the  part  of  the  servant  to  be  faithful  to 
his  employer  in  respect to  matters with­
in the scope of  his duties and  pronounces 
any  violation  of  such  duty  to  be  a 
breach  of  contract,  for  which  the  ser­
vant  may  be  discharged.  The betrayal 
to  others  of  facts  which  have  come  to 
his  knowledge  in  the  house  of  his  em­
ployment,  and  which  are  confidential  in 
their  nature,  is  within  this  principle, 
which  applies  with  peculiar  force  to  the 
office  of  a book-keeper.  His  employer 
is  compelled  to  confide  to  him  almost 
every  detail  of  business  venture  and 
financial  condition.  The  knowledge  he 
thus  acquires  is  usually  of  such  a  char­
acter as  to  expose  the  employer  to  loss 
and  possible  serious  disaster  if  promul­
gated  to  others.  The  obligation,  there­
fore,  is  proportionately great  to  preserve 
inviolate  the  confidence  reposed  in  him 
which  the  performance of  the  duties  for 
which he  has  been  employed  has  ren­
dered  necessary.  There  doubtless  are 
cases  in  which  the  prevention  of  fraud 
or other service  of  the  ends  of 
justice 
create  exceptions  to  the  rule,  but  this 
case  does  not  come  within  any  such 
modifying  principle,  and  it  is  not  nec- 
essary  to  discuss  them.  A violation  of 
duty of the  character  above  mentioned 
also  involves  an  element  of  moral  turp­
itude.

It  is  a  recognized  and  firmly-estab­
lished  maxim  in  the  law that  ex  turpi 
contractu  actio  non  oritur,  and  no  per­
son,  so  far back  as  the  feudal  ages,  was 
permitted  by  law to  stipulate  for  iniq­
uity.  But  authority  is  unneccessary  to 
support  so  plain  a  proposition.  The 
consideration  for  the  agreement  in  suit 
was  illegal  and  the  contract  sued  upon 
never  had  any  legal  inception.

The contention  that  the agreement was 
relieved of the taint of  illegality because

is  without 

ly  responsible  for  the  proper discharge j 

the  party to  whom  the  disclosures  were 
made  was  a stockholder  and  entitled  to f 
information  which was  the  subject 1 
the 
of 
the  barter 
legal 
support.  Assuming the  existence of  the 
right 
it  by  no  means  follows  that  the 
book-keeper was  entitled  to give it.  He 
was  the  servant  of  the  company,  not  of 
the  stockholders.  He was  neither  em­
ployed  nor could  he  be  discharged  by 
them.  His  whole  duty  was to  the  corpo­
ration  represented  by the  directors,  who 
managed  and  controlled  the  business, 
who  were  alone  entitled  to  exercise  cor­
porate powers, and  to whom  he was  sole­
of  his  functions.  Such an  agreement  as j 
in  suit,  though  made  with  a j 
the  one 
stockholder,  is  as  much  within  the  rule j 
of  prohibition  as  if  entered  into  with a 
stranger. 
Stockholders  must  seek  the 
information  they are  entitled  to  through | 
the  proper channels  and  not  by  corrupt- 
ing  the  employes  of  the  company.  The I 
book-keeper  had  no  other thought  than 
his  own  profit,  and  he  drove  as  hard  a 
bargain as  he  could  in  his  attempt  to 
make  the  utmost  farthing  out  of  a 
shameless  act.  The  agreement  sued 
upon  presents  itself  as  a  mere bargain 
for the betrayal  of  a  trust,  without qual­
ifying  circumstances,  which  the 
law 
repudiates  and which  no  court of  justice 
will  enforce.

From the N. V. Shipping List.

Proposed  Chemical  Combination.

Inquiry  among 

Vague  rumors  have  been  circulated 
for some weeks  concerning  negotiations 
now  in  progress  to  unite  the  leading 
manufacturers  of  heavy 
chemicals 
throughout  the  world.  Advices  to  that 
effect  have  come  from  England,  and 
the  fact  that  forward  delivery  prices  on 
alkali,  caustic  soda,  sal  soda  and  soda 
ash  have been  advanced recently  is con­
sidered  rather significant.
representatives  of 
home  and  foreign  manufacturers  failed 
to  throw  any  light  upon  the  situation. 
In  every  instance all  knowledge  of  the 
alleged  negotiations  was  denied,  and  in 
some  quarters  the  report  was  emphatic­
ally  denied.  However,  there  is  a  feel­
ing  that  some  action 
is  necessary  to 
make  the  business  profitable.  For  a 
year or more  competition  has  cut  prices 
to  a  low  point,  and  consolidation  is con­
sidered  the only salvation  unless  the law 
of  the  survival  of  the  fittest 
is  allowed 
to  follow  its  natural  course.  The  latter 
as  a  heroic  remedy  for  overproduction, 
is  seldom  adopted,  however.

According to one of our  informants the 
trade  is  expecting  some  developments 
from  abroad  which  may  have  reference 
to  the  three  American  heavy  chemical 
manufacturers  located 
in  Syracuse,  N. 
Y.  ;  Wyandotte,  Mich.,  and  Saltville, 
Va.  The opinion  has  been  expressed 
that  future  arrangements may  mean  the 
development  of  factories  here to  supply 
the whole demand  of  the  United  States 
without  resorting  to  the  necessity of  im­
porting,  and  in  this  connection  we have 
been  asked  to  look  up  the  present  con­
nection  between  a  leading  American 
heavy  chemical  works  and  one  of  the 
principal  concerns 
It  is 
denied  that any  relation  exists  between 
the two,  and  there  the  inquiry  rests  for 
the  present.
Whatever  is  done  will  not  affect  the 
bulk  of  next  year’s  business,  as  con­
tracts  have already been  made ahead for 
heavy  chemicals by the glass  and  paper 
manufacturers. 
They  will  doubtless 
have to  pay  more  money the  next  time 
they  enter the market  for  supplies,  and 
in  addition  to  the  articles  mentioned 
above,  prices  may  harden  on  bleaching 
powder,  bicarb  soda,  chlorate  potash, 
salt  cake,  etc.

in  England. 

Sparta  Sentinel:  The  Tradesman  of 
Grand  Rapids  has  placed  a  new  Thorne 
typesetting  machine  in  its office and that 
journal  came  out  last  week  in  a new 
dress  bright  and  sparkling  as a  girl  in 
a  new  summer  suit.  Not  only 
is  the 
Tradesman  of  interest to  business  men,
| but  to  the  family as well,  the local writ­
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great  pleasure  in  reading  it,  and  if  we 
do  not  take  it  home she  will  remind  us 
of  it.  We  wish  Editor  Stowe unbounded 
success.

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these  goods  to  his  customers  with  the 
same  display  of  neatness  he  exhibits j 
in  and  around  his  place  of  business?

In  most 

instances  his  horse 

is  a 
shadow,  his  harness  old  and  soiled,  his 
wagon  misshapen,  bruised  by  hard i 
knocks,  and  defaced  by  mud  and  time 
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just  put out a  proposition  for  the  eating 
of  bones after they are ground  fine.  He 
holds that  under  the  existing  regimen 
the bones  of  the  human  frame  are  not 
properly  supplied  with the chemical ele­
ments  needed  to  keep  them  in  sound 
and  vigorous  condition,  and  that  these 
elements can  be  most  easily  obtained by 
consuming  the  powdered  bones  of  the 
animals ordinarily  used  for  food.  He 
would  sprinkle a  steak  or  chop,  for  ex­
ample,  with bone dust,  after the manner 
in  which  it  is  sprinkled  with  salt  and 
pepper,  and  he maintains  that  thus  the 
taste of  the  meat  may  be  greatly  im­
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It  affords  me  the  greatest  satisfaction 
to  notice  the  effort  the  Tradesman  is 
making  in  an  endeavor  to  convince  the 
dealers  and  merchants of  the  necessity I 
of  au 
in  their  delivery 
and  freight  wagons,  and  I  have  read 
with  much  pleasure  the  articles  pub­
lished  in the Tradesman on  that subject.
Being  a  wagon  manufacturer,  I  prob­
ably  notice  thtf great assortment  of  non­
descripts  much  more  particularly  than 
others;  yet  I  am  convinced  that  the 
general  public  notices  and  comments  on 
the  poor quality and design of  the  deliv­
ery  wagons  in  use by merchants through­
out  the  State and,  particularly,  in  Grand 
Rapids.  Our  merchants  will  exhaust 
every  resource  to  make  an  artistic  dis­
play  of  their goods ;  will  use  every  pre­
caution  to prevent  their being  damaged, 
yet,  when  these goods  are  sold,  they  are 
sent  to  the buyer  with  no  thought  as  to 
their condition  when  delivered  or 
in 
what  kind  or shape  of  vehicle  they  are 
delivered.

I  contend  that a  tine  display  of goods 
should  be 
invariably  delivered  to  the 
consumer  in  as  perfect  condition  as 
when  placed  on  sale. 
In  order  to  do 
this,  it  is  absolutely  necessary  that  a 
vehicle  should  be  provided  suitable  to 
those  requirements.  As  a  means  of  ad­
vertising  and  of  bringing  the  dealer 
prominently  to the  eyes of  the  public, 
tine appearing  wagon  affords  great  op­
portunity.

The wagons  in  use by  our  merchants 
are constantly  under  motion  and,  conse­
exceptional  oppor­
quently,  present 
tunities  for  successful  advertising. 
If 
a  wagon  is  neat  and  tasty  in  construc­
tion  and  finish,  it  at  once attracts  atten­
tion,  not only to  the  wagon  but  to  the 
owners  and  their  business. 
If  a  mer­
chant  desires  to  keep his  name and  bus 
iness  before the  public,  can there be  tie- 
vised  any  better  means  than  that  afford­
ed  by  his  wagons?

The  merchant  alone 

is  responsible 
for  the  present  deplorable  condition  of 
the delivery  wagons  seen  on  our streets. 
In  former  vears  the question,  “ What  is 
the quality?”   was first  asked,  price  be­
ing  an  after consideration.  Now, 
the 
first question  is,  “ What  is  the  price?”  
quality  and  adaptability  to  the  use  for 
which  it  is  intended  not  being  given  a 
thought.

The  manufacturers,  as  a  rule,  are  not 
given  to  selling  wagons  at 
less  than 
cost,  and,  as  a  result,  an  inferior  arti­
cle  is  produced  which  soon  becomes  a j 
disgrace  to  the  owner  and  to  the  manu­
facturer.

The  life  of any  vehicle depends large-1 
It  should | 
ly  upon  the  care  it  receives. 
in  use, 
be  properly  housed  when  not 
least  once  each; 
oiled  and  washed  at 
week,  and  thoroughly  painted  once 
in | 
each  twelve  months.  By  doing  this the 
life  of  any  wagon  is  greatly  lengthened, 
while  the  vehicle  is  made  much  more 
presentable.

in  business  he 

It  is  a  supposable  case  that  when  one 
embarks 
expects  to 
maintain  his  position  against  competi­
tion  and  to endeavor,  through  the  qual­
ity  and  neat  display  of  his  wares,to dis­
tance  his  competitors.  The  store  and 
fixtures  are  thoroughly  modern, 
the 
goods  are  displayed  to  the  best  possible 
advantage,  and  he  and  his  clerks  are 
polite  and  painstaking.  As a  result,  he 
secures  the  desired  trade.  Why does he

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

Portland  and 
Swell Body 
Cutters
Belknap,  Baker  &  Co.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

Express  and 

Spring,
Freight,

Lumber  Wagons.

Suit-  manufacturers 
uf  Belknap’s Patent 
Sleitrhs.

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

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

THE  BACK  OFFICE.

We  were  talking  of  Chicago,  and  the 
visitor,  who  had  lately  been  there  anti 
who  manages  an  extensive  and  thrifty 
manufacturing  establishment  in  Grand 
Rapids,  remarked  that  one  of  the  most 
noticeable  sights 
in  the  Western  me­
tropolis  was  the  tramp.  It  is  a  topic  too 
stale  to discuss,  but  it  led  to  the  remark 
that the  upheaval  in  business  had  fur­
nished  too  many' men  who,  without  em­
ployment anil  without  visible  means  of 
support,  are  refusing  to  accept  any  po­
sition  which  does  not  ensure  the  old- 
time  income  of  S3  to  $5  Per  day.  “ 1 
had  a  man  come 
into  mv  office  "last 
week, ’ ’ 
remarked  the  manufacturer, 
“ wanting  something  to  do.  Four  dol­
lars  a  day  was  what  his  old  position 
had  given  him  and was  what  he  wanted 
now.  1  had  nothing  like  that  for  him. 
Flie  only  thing  I  could  possibly  give 
him  was  common  day  labor at the  regu- 
ir  wages,  which  he,  of  course,  refused.
I  have 
He  is  not  the  only  instance. 
known  men  with  families,  behind 
in 
rent  and  in  debt  at  the  grocer’s,  refuse 
to take Si  a  day  when  they  hail  nothing 
jo  and  their  families  were  suffering

for  that very dollar.  Why,  if  I  were  in 
these men’s  shoes,  I  would  rather  work  j 
it  mine,  j 
at  50  cents  a  day  and  have 
earned  by  my  own  hands,  than  to  sit 
around doing  nothing,  with  my  family 
suffering  for  the  things  that  5°  cents 
would  buy.”

That  spirit,  out  of  work, 

is  bad 
enough,  but  it*  is  worse, 
if  anything, 
when  it  accepts  under  protest  the  posi­
tion  it  is  confident  it  can  more than  fill. 
The  dollar a  day  is  the badge  of  servi­
tude ;  and  every  stroke  of work,  instead 
of being done with gratitude,  as  it should 
be,  for the blessed  privilege  of  honor­
able  work  with  honorable  rewards,  how­
ever  meager,  is  made  the  occasion  for 
resentment  of  the decrees  of fate and the 
inscrutable  dispensations  of  divine 
Providence.

With  that  motive  as  the  mainspring 
of  action,  the  unsolved  problem  is,  how 
much  of  my  over-plus  ought  I  to furnish 
for  this  miserable  dollar?  If  I  am  worth 
S5  a day,  then,  unless  arithmetic  and 
‘ ‘ figures  won’t  lie’ ’—is  at  fault,  only  a 
fifth  of  my  value  is  needed  to  equalize 
the  demands  of  a  full  day’s  work.

That  point  settled,  another  promptly 
“ My  employer  cannot

takes  its  place. 

it  to  m e; 

expect  me  to come  to  him  for  details 
which  I  know  more about than he does— 
in  my  prosperous  days,  had 
1,  who, 
If 
better  men  in  my  employ  than  he. 
lie  has  work  for  me  to  do, 
let  hint 
bring 
that  will  be  time 
enough !’ ’ 
Ingrate  that  he  is,  will  he 
never  learn  the  lesson  that  it 
is  the 
basket,  lull  and  running  over  with  his 
best,  which  wins  favor,  not  only  with 
men  but  with  Heaven?  Good  work, 
well  done,  is  its  own  reward;  but  how 
much  more  than  a  thousand  fold  is  the 
value  of that  work  when  it  is 
the  out­
pouring  of  a  grateful  heart!

Think  of  it,  you  who  scorn  the  dollar 
that  is  intended  only  to  hold  you  up. 
Think  of  it,  you  who  are  abusing  your 
only  means  of  climbing  again  to  the 
shining  heights,  and  may  the  reflection 
strangling  the spirit  of  the tramp  which 
is  in  you,  nerve  your  heart and strength­
en  your hand  with  a  worthier  purpose 
and  enable  you,  by  a generous  outpour­
ing  of  the best  that  is  in  you,  to  gain 
and  keep  the  old  position  which  long­
ing  alone  will  never again  secure.

Richard Malcolm Strong.

It  has no  equal  -Signal  Five.

GAMBLING  IN  TRADE.

From the Keystone.

Chances  Must  be  Taken  but  Some

Ventures  are  not  Warranted.

Our 

himself, 

In  a  broad  way  it  may  be  said  that 
all  trade  is  gambling,  since  there  is  an 
element  of  chance,  or  risk,  in  every 
business  venture  chances  which lie out­
side  the  operations of the merchant him­
self,  and  are  external  in  any  scheme  or 
plan.  The  failure  of  crops,  the  acci­
dents  of  flood  anil  fire,  all  the  interposi­
tions of  Providence,  are  of  this  kind; 
so,  too,  are the  bankruptcy  of  debtors 
and the faithlessness of trusted employes.
subject,  however,  comprehends 
another  kind  of  gambling, 
in  which 
the  merchant 
and  him­
self  only,  is  directly  resjxnisible;  and 
if  we have given  the  “ hard”   name  of 
gambling  to  mere  bad  judgment and un­
fitness  it  is because these  faults  deserve 
the severer  name  when  honest  creditors 
have left  to  them  only  the  luxury  of 
“ calling  names.”
The  merchant  who  buys  beyond  his 
utmost  needs,  or beyond  his  ability  to 
pay,  is  such  a  gambler;  and  his  offense 
is  worse than  that  of  the  card  player, 
for  the  latter  stakes  his  own  money, 
while the merchant  gambler  risks  that of 
confiding  jobbers or  manufacturers  who 
have  sold  him  goods.  He  justifies him­
self  by  the  unwarranted  hope  that  his 
overstock  will  attract  trade  by  reason  of 
its  profusion,  that  his  business  will  go
forwaril  by  leaps  and  bounds 
in  conse­
quence,  with  the  result  that  he.  will  be 
easi ly  able  to  pay  for  the  goods  and 
keep  a  large  profit  for  himself  as  the re­
sult of  his  “ nerve.”   lie  gambles on  the 
chance  of a  miracle.
form  of  gambling 
this 
takes  another  phase. 
Instead  of  en­
deavoring  to attract  public  attention  by 
the  size  of  his  over-large  stock  he  may 
seek  to  impress  this  public 
in  another 
way.  He will  strive  to  create  an  ap­
pearance  of  p ro sp e rity,  on  the  theory 
that “ there  is  n o th in g  so  successful  as 
success,”   by  building  an  extravagant 
house  or driving  a  “ swell”   team,  or  by 
some  lavish  entertainment,  or by  dress, 
or by  some other  loud  personal  adver­
tisement.  But  it  is  gambling,  just  the 
same,  if  it  is  not  justified  by  his  actual 
net  worth.

Sometimes 

There are  other  classes  of  gambling 
in  character  but 
which  are  negative 
less  worthy  of  consideration. 
are  no 
Many  a  merchant  gambles  with  oppor­
tunity 
that  golden  key  which  unlocks 
the door  of  fortune  when  it falls  into the 
right hand,and  which  only once or twice 
in  a  lifetime  is given  to every trader  to 
show  his  skill  in  handling  it.  The sud­
den  death  of  the  old 
jeweler  who  had 
the  trade  of  the  community  furnisht 
one  such  occasion ; and the  nerveless be­
ginner  who  shrinks  from  the  trial  sub­
sequently  finds the  cards  in  the  handi 
of  late  "stacked”   against  him.  He 
ii 
henceforth  out  of  the  game,  and  be 
comes  a  wretched  looker-on,  while  : 
more  confident  player  grasps  the  gold 
that  lies  within  his  easy  reach.
Another  poor wretch  is  the  merchant 
who  gambles  with  time.  He  is  forever 
putting  off  the  needed  reform,  perpet­
ually dallies  with  his  determination  to 
do the  needful  thing-  forgetting  that  a 
merchant’s  money-making  period  ends 
at  his  fifty-second  year,  according  to 
the  statistics  in  economic  science.  A f­
ter  that point  conservatism  outvotes  en­
thusiasm ;  the  productive  faculty wanes. 
“ Time  is  money”   in  a  sense  which  he 
never appreciated  until  he  finds  it  too 
late.
What  shall  we say  of  him  who  gam 
bles  with  the  trend  of  trade;  with  the 
spirit of  the day ;  with  the  laws of prog­
ress?  The  man  who does  not  advertise 
in  a  way  that  advertises;  who  does  not 
conform  his business  to  the  latest  ap 
proved  theories and  the  established  tra 
ditions;  who  runs counter  to  the  genera 
drift  of  things ; who knows more than tli 
combined  intelligence  of  his  contentpo 
raries—he  is  essentially  a  gambler,  and 
must  be  classed  with  that  unhealthy 
class  in  the  business  world  who  eventu 
ally  drop  out  of  the  uneven  struggle  be 
cause they  gambled  against  certainties 
and  “ took  the  hazard  of  the  die”   with 
all  of  fate against them.

(Ehe  Ir m d e n t

tjf  tl)c  United  States  of  America,

Greeting :

tttycreas,

To

H E J X R Y   K O C H ,   your  c l e r i c s ,   attorneys,  ager.j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation 

‘‘ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

How, £l)cvcfore, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
iderth^pain^^HK^^>enaltie!^^HijH^^na^^fMl^i£oi^^oi^HTidMicl^o^you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  SAPOLIO,"  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPOLIO,”   or  when  “ SAPOLIO”   is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner.

W i t n e s s ,   The  honorable Melville  W.  Fuller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  any 

[seal] 

United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey,  this 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

i6th  day  of  December, 

in  said  District  of  New 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 

[signed]

S.  D.  OLIPHANT.

ROWLAND  COX.

Complainant's  Solicitor

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

25

Man felon a.

Sugar  Card—Granulated.

Sugar  Card—Granulated.

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

Northern  Mich. Retail Grocers’  Association

A ssociation   M atters

President, E. White: Secretary, E. A. Stowe; 
Treasurer, J. Geo. Lehman.
51,' cents per pound. 
4‘4 pounds for 25 cents 
10 pounds for 50 cents. 
20 pounds for fl.
President, Byron C. Hill; Secretary, W. II. Por­
ter; Treasurer, J. F. IIklmer.
914 pounds for 50 cents 
514 cents per pound. 
19 pounds for $1.
President, J. F. Tatman, Clare;  Secretary, E. A. 
Stowe, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. U isler, 
President, A. D. Whipple; Secretary, G.T. Camp­
bell; Treasurer, W. E. Collins.
President, F. S. Carleton, Ca uraet: Vice Presi­
dent, Henry C. Weber  Detroit;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.
President, R. D. Graham: Secretary, M. W. 
Ronan; Treasurer, H. O. Braman.
in town  to­
turing Co., of  Detroit, is 
day, accompanied by his wife.

L.  (Windy)  Williams,traveling  repre­
sentative  for the Detroit Cigar Manufac­

Grand  Rapids  Fruit  Growers’ Association. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association. 

Michigan  Hardware  Association. 

Gripsack  Brigade.

W.  H.  Downs  has  engaged  to  travel
for  the  Milton  Hosiery  Co.,  of  Chicago, 
which  controls  the output  of  six  mills. 
He  also  represents  the  suspender  house 
of  G.  W.  Hoyt,  of  Chicago.

There  will  be  a  meeting  of  Grand 
Rapids  traveling  men  at  the  Liviugstor. 
Hotel  next  Saturday  evening  to  consid­
er the  mattter of holding  an  annual  pic­
nic  and  make  the  necessary  preliminary 

arrangements,  in  case  it  is  thought  ad­

visable  to  hold  a  picnic  under  the  aus­
pices of  the  local  salesmen.

CURRENT  COMMENT.

The  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Man­
chester,  England,  has  decided  to  have 
a  Testing  House,  “ to  ascertain  the  true 
condition,  weight, 
length  and  other 
physical  properties  of  such  articles  as 
the  Board of  Directors  may  from  time 
to  time determine. ”   When  the  Cham­
ber  gets  settled  down  to  discuss  the 
question  of  shrinkage,  how  would  it  do 
to  send  over a  Grand  Rapids  peach bas­
ket  and  strawberry box  and  hcve  'them 
decide  how  far  the  atmosphere  can  be 
depended  on  as  a  cause  for  the  change?

*  *  *

The  despairing  “  How  long?”   of  the 
public,  suffering  from  the  murderous 
building  contractor,  is  relieved  by  the 
exultant  “ At  last,”   from  the  same  out­
raged  public.  The  rascal  whose  ineffi­
ciency  led  to  the catastrophe of  the  ill- 
Ireland  building  has  been  un­
fated 
earthed,  and  arrested. 
It  is  the  plaster­
er  who  is  the cause  of  all  this  wretched 
business. 
It  has  been  found  that  not  a 
single  square 
inch  of  plastering  was 
found  in  its  place,  when  even  a  child 
can  be  made  to  see  that 
if  the  plaster 
had  stuck  not  an  iron  girder would have 
fallen.  The  plasterer  is the rascal.  Off 
with  his head!

Here’s  a goodly  row  of figures  889, - 
it  (S)  and 

843,000.  Now  put  this  little  contraction 
of  the United  States before 
it  will  begin  to  mean  something.  That 
is  what  the  exports  from  this  country 
were  valued  at  for  last  year.  That  isn’t 
all.  Three-fourths  of  that  sum  came 
from  the  farmers and  the  farms  of  this 
republic. 
Just  let the genuine  farming 
communities  get  rid  of  their  “ way- 
backs”   and  their  “ hay-seeds”   and  that 
amount,  large  as  it  is,  will  be  doubled ; 
and  it  may  be  well  enough  to  say  right 
isn't  the  only 
here,  that  the  farmer 
American  citizen  with  hay-seed 
in  his 
hair and  sandburrs  in  his  stockings.

less  than  ioo  cents  on  the dollar and  its 
debts  never outlaw. 
I  had  a  two-thirds 
interest  in  the  publishing  firm  whose 
capital  I  furnished. 
If  the  firm  had 
prospered  I  should  have  expected to col­
lect  two-thirds  of  the  profits.  As  it  is,  I 
•xpect  to  pay all  the debts.  My  partner 
has  no  resources,  and  I  do  not  look  for 
assistance  from  him .”

*  *  *

Canadian  farmers  haven’t been  idle; 
and  for  a  country  making no pretentions 
to greatness  46,000,000 bushels  of  wheat 
for  one season  is  doing  pretty  well.  Of 
course,  that  is  nothing  when  compared 
with  what  the Nation to  the  south  of
Canada 
and  the  farmer  up  there  should  he  con­
gratulated.

is doing,  but its  a good  crop

*  

*   *

It  is  safe  to  say  that  fruit  orchards 
near  Benton  Harbor  will  not  he  further 
molested. 
It has  been  the  fad  to  ap­
proach  the  orchard  on  the  water’s  side 
by  means  of  row  boats  and,  after  steal­
ing  the  peaches  to  steal  away.  A  watch­
man  with  orders  to  shoot  will  have  a 
tendency  to  put  an  end  to  the  fun.

*  *  *

If  that  Bangor correspondent  who says 
that  peaches  shipped  to  Chicago  do  not 
pay  will  send  his  fruit  to Grand Rapids, 
he will  find  that  he  need  not  go  so  far 
and  fare  better.

♦  

sfc 

*

If  pleasure  is  business  Lord  and  Lady 
William  Beresford  have  been  putting  in 
some  heavy  strokes  this  summer  in  Nor­
way.  They  wanted  to go fishing for sal­
mon  and  they  went.  My  lord  bought  a 
salmon  stream  in  the  Land  of  the  Mid­
night  Sun  for  §4,000  and  he  and  my 
lady  took  a  day  off  and  enjoyed  the 
sport 
They  caught  two 
fishes  (one  apiece),  weighing—if  the 
joke  isn’t  too  far  fetched—.£400.  Nice 
salmon  they  have  in  Norway!

immensely. 

*  *  *

THROUGH  CAR  SERVICE.

Going to Detroit.

Going to  Chicago.

To and from Lowell.

PARLOR  AND  S L E E P IN G   CARS.

Union  Passenger Station,

To  and  from  iTuskegon.

Returning from  Detroit.

Returning  from  Chicago.

“  T ie  Niagara F a lls Route.”

Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and Petoskey.

n c T D n i T  
oct. 28, .894
L / C   1   I \ U 1   I   y Lansing  &  Northern  R’y

Travelers*  Time  Tables.
June 16,  1895
/ t u i / y   i   r » / \  
C n l C A U U   and West Michigan R’y

Lv. G'd Rapids 6:00am 1:25pm *0:30pm *11:30pm 
Ar. Chicago. ...12:05pm 6:50pm 6:00am  6:25am
Lv. Chicago..........................7:20am  5:00pm *ll:45pm
Ar. G'd Rapids..................12:40pm 10:40pm *6:30am
Lv. G’d Rapids..................6:00am  1:25pm C:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids. .............11:30am  5:15pm 10:40pm
Lv. G’d Rapids..................*8:00am  1:00pm 11:00pm
Ar. Manistee......................12:55pm
Ar. TraAerse City..........*1:20pm 4:50pm  4:00am
Ar. Charlevoix..................*3:50pm  6:30pm 6:30am
Ar. Petoskey......................*4:20pm  6:55pm 7:00am
Trains arrive from north at 5:30a.m., 11:45a.m., 
1:00p.m., *1:30p.m.
Parlor Cars leave Grand Rapids 6:00a.m., 1:25 
p.m.; leave Chicago 7:20a.m., 5:00p.m.  Sleeping 
Cars leave Grand Rapids *11:30p.m.: leave Chi­
cago *11:45p.m.
«Every day.  Others week days only.___________
Lv. Grand Rapids.............7:00am 1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit...........................11:40am 5:30pm 10:10pm
Lv. Detroit.............................7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...........12:40pm 5:20pm 1 :45pm
Lv. G R 7:40am 5:00pm Ar. G K 11:35am 10:45pm 
Lv. Grand Rapids..........7:i« am  1:20pm 5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell..............12:40pm 5:20pm 
....
Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rap­
ids and Detroit. Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.  Trains week days only.
L.  M .  F u l l e r , Chief Clerk, Pass. Dep’t.
Mic h ig a n Î Tentral
Arrive  Depart
Detroit Express..................................10:20pm  7:00am
»Atlantic Express................................6:30am 11:20pm
New York Express.............................11:45am 6:00pm
«Daily.  All others dally, except Sunday. 
Sleeping cars run on all night trains to and 
from Detroit.  Parlor cars leave for Detroit at 
7:00a.m., reaching Detroit at 12:20p.m.: return­
ing, leave Detroit 4:35p.m., arriving at Grand 
Rapids 10:20p.m.  Direct communication made 
at Detroit with all through trains east over the 
Michigan Central Railroad (Canada Southern 
Division.)  A. ALM9UIST, Ticket Agent,
+No. 14  tXo. 16 tNo. 18  *No. 82 
Lv. G’d Rapids.6:45am 10: 0am  3:25pm lliOupm
Ar. Ionia..........7:40am 11:25am  4:27pm 12:35am
Ar. St. Johns. .8:25am 12:17pm  5:20pm  1:25am
Ar. Owosso___9:00am  1:20pm  6:05pm  3:10am
Ar.E.Saginawl0:50am  3:45pm  8:00pm  6:40am 
Ar. Bay City. .11:30am  4:35pm  8:37pm  7:15am
Ar. Flint..........10:05am  3:45pm  7:05pm  5:40am
Ar. Pt. Huron.12:05pm  5:50pm  8:50pm  7:30am 
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—*H:40am
For G’d Haven and Muskegon.....................+1:00pm
For G’d Haven, Milwaukee and Chi.......+5:35pm
For G'd Haven, Milwaukee and Chi— *7:40pm
For G’d Haven and Milwaukee.................110:05pm
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.  Trains arrive 
from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m., 5:30p.m., 10:00 
p.m.  Trains arrive from the west, 6:40a.m., 8:15 
a.m., 10:10a.m., 3:15p.m., 7:05p in.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlor Buffet 
car.  No. 18 Parlor car.  No. 82 Wagner sleeper.
Westward—No. 11 Parlor car.  No. 15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81 Wagner sleeper.
J a s .  C a m p b e l l , City Ticket Agent.
Leave  Arrive 
.+7:00am t 5:15pm 
Trav. Cy., Petoskey & Mack. 
...* 8:00am *10:00pm
Trav. Cy., Petoskey & Mack
__+5 :25pm tl 1:30am
Traverse City.............................
... +5:00pm tl 1:00pm
aginaw
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
Cin , Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo.t 7:25am  t9:15pm
Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo..........t 2:00pm  t2:15pm
Cin , Ft. Wayne & Kalamazoo.*10:15pm  *6:50am
Kalamazoo.......................................t  6:00pm  +9 : A am
7:25a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 
10:15p.m. train has sleeping cars to Cincinnati, 
Indianapolis and Louisville.
Lv. G'd Rapids............*7:25am 
t2:00pm +10:15pm
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....................+6:50am  +3:00pm *11:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids..............2:15pm 
9:15pm  6:50am
3:00p.m. train has through coach and 11:30p.m. 
has through coach and sleeping car.
tËxcept Sunday.  »Daily.  ^Sunday only.
C.  L.  L ockw ood,
Ticket Agt. Un. Sta.  Gen, Pass. & Tkt. Agt.

D ETR O IT, Grand  Haven  &

GRAND  Rapids  &  Indiana  Railroad

Milwaukee  Railway

Muskegon Trains.

Chicago  Trains.

Northern  Div.

A .  A lm q u ist, 

Westward.

Eastward.

“ If  dealers  would  all  call 

Ed.  Germain,  the  Saginaw  lumber­
man,  has  a  panacea 
for  the  present 
stagnation  in  the  lumber  business,  as 
follows: 
in 
their  salesmen 
lumber  would  advance 
50  cents  a  thousand  within  60 days.  I he 
stocks  at  all  Eastern  and  interior  points 
are  small,  but  manufacturers  are  crowd­
ing their  commodities  upon  the  market, 
and  when  a  dealer  is  drummed  by  pos­
sibly  a  dozen  different  salesmen  he 
will  buy  only  as  his  necessities demand, 
for  he  reasons  that  when  the  lumber 
manufacturer  is  so  anxious  to  unload 
prices are  likely  to  drop,  and  he  is  not 
disposed  to  buy  on  a  falling  market. 
We all  know  that  better  times  are  com­
ing,  but  the  difficulty  is  we do not  know 
just  when  they  will  arrive.”

----♦

  •   ♦ —

The  official 

investigation 

into  the 
Bannock  Indian  troubles 
in  Wyoming 
shows  that  the  “ trouble”   was  the  mur­
der of  one  poor old  Indian  by  the  set­
tlers’  posse  who  had  arrested  a  party  of 
hunters  for  killing  game  in  the Jackson 
Hole  region,  a  privilege  accorded  to 
them  by  treaty.  The  murder 
is  with 
impunity  as  the  officials  before  whom 
the  murderers  would  be  arraigned  are 
parties  to  the  conspiracy  against  the  In­
dians. 
is 
passed  when  there  is  a  possibility  of 
an  outbreak  of  Indians  in  any  part  of 
the  United  States.  They  are thoroughly 
subdued  and  cowed  by  the  government 
officials  and  there  is  not  enough  of  the 
fighting  spirit  left  to  make 
it  possible 
that  such  reports  as  the one  sent  out by 
the  press  a  few  weeks  ago  of  the 
“ Bannock  massacre”   should  be  true. 
Indians  may  be  disorderly  but the  days 
of  Indian  wars  are  forever  past

It  is  probable  that  the  time 

It  is  the  best—Signal  Five.

It  is  a  disputed  question  whether  the 
Bay  City  sea  serpent,  which  attacked 
the  three  ladies  the  other day,  is  a  sea 
lion  or a  seal.  At  this  distance 
is 
safe  to  say  it  was a  sea  lion.  No  sane 
woman 
letting  alone  three-  would  be 
as  near  as  that  to  an  unclaimed  seal 
skin  without  making  a  vigorous  fight 
for  it.  Without  any  kind  of  doubt 
it
was a  sea  lion. 

it 

,

£  £  $

its  way 

“ How  the  world  is given  to lying!”  
A  story  has  found 
into  the 
papers  to  the  effect  that  a  Michigan 
farmer  has  been  caught  by  the  green 
It  is  a  base,  ignomini­
goods  scheme. 
ous  whopper,  that’s  exactly  what  it 
is; 
and  as  senseless  as  it  is wicked.  The 
idea  of  a  Michigan  farmer  being caught 
by any  such  scheme  as  that at  this  time 
of  the  year,  when  he  is  making  money 
hand  over  fist  without  fear and  favor  of 
the  law  with  the  bastard  fruit  basket. 
In  the  language  of  the  street  gamin', 
“ W’at  ye givin’  us?”
*  * 

♦

“ It  has been  reported  that 

Mark  Twain  explains  his  business  re­
lations  in  a  way  that  does  him  credit. 
Says  he: 
I 
sacrificed,  for the  benefit  of  creditors, 
the  property  of  the  publishing 
firm 
whose  financial  backer  I  was,  and  that 
I  am  now'  lecturing  for  my  own  benefit. 
This  is  an  error.  1  intend  the  lectures, 
as  well  as  the property,  for the creditors. 
The  law  recognizes  no  mortgage  on  a 
man’s  brain,  and  a  merchant  who  has 
given  up  all  he  has  may  take  advantage 
of  the  rules  of  insolvency  and  start  free 
again  for  himself ;  but  I  am  not a  busi­
ness  man,  and  honor  is  a  harder  master 
It  cannot  compromise for
than  the  law. 

According  to  the  report  of  Warden 
Fuller,  of  the Ionia House of Correction, 
the  manufacture of  furniture  in  that  in­
stitution  has  yielded a  profit  of  §26,000 
during  the  past  year.  Such  a  profit 
is 
only  possible  through  sales  at  rates  cal­
culated  to  injure  the  industry elsewhere. 
Wholesalers  will  not  handle  prison 
made  goods  except  at  prices  far  below 
those  made  by  free  labor.  Of  course, 
it  is  possible  to  make  and  sell  such 
goods  at  a  profit  where  the  labor  costs 
nothing,  even  at  the  prices the contract­
ors are  willing  to  pay,  but  every  dollar 
thus saved  to  the  State  costs  many  lost 
from  the  profits  of  the  furniture  factor­
ies  elsewhere 
the 
maintenance  of  such  a  factory  at  Ionia 
to  support  criminals  is  no  small  factor 
in  keeping  the  wages  of  workmen  else­
where  below  what they  should  be.
A  New  Calling  for  Women.

From the Emporia, Kan., Gazette.

in  the  State  and 

is  a  professional  companion 

There  is a  woman  in  this  town  who 
has  invented  a  new  calling  for  women; 
she 
for 
women  whose husbands  are  away.  She 
will  go  to a  house  and  be  company  for 
a  lone woman  at §5  a week,  or  she  will 
go  out  for  the  night,  while  husbands are 
away,  for  75  cents  an  evening.  She 
knows all  the gossip  and  will  tell gossip 
for  50  cents  a  night  extra. 
In  families 
when  there  is  a  young  woman  with  a 
beau,  who  is  liable  to  be  talking 
in  a 
low  tone  until  10 o’clock  in  the  parlor, 
and  then  hush  up  until  she  is  awakened 
by  the  front door slamming  about  mid­
night,  the  woman  charges  a  dollar  a 
night  straight,  making  no  reduction  for 
long-time  contracts. 
In  families  where 
there  is  a boy  who  lies  on  his back  and 
screams  at  bedtime,  the  woman  charges 
is  particular  and 
double  rates.  She 
independent,  and  as  the  lodges 
very 
grow 
is 
in  the 
branching  out,  and  she  is  said  to  be 
putting  money  in  the bank  every  Satur­
day  night.

town  her  business 

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- 

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

26
Drugs==Chemicals
- 
One Year— 
Geo. Gundrum, Ionia
C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix
Two Years— - 
Three Years— 
S. E. I'akkill, Owosso
- 
Four Years— 
F. \V. R. Peiiry, Detroit 
- 
Five Y'ears— -  A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor 
President, C. A. Bugbee, Charlevoix 
Secretary, F. \V. H. Perry. Detroit. 
Treasurer, Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coining Meetings— Houaliton. August—.
Lansing, November 5.
President, Geo. j. Waro, St. Clair.
Vi<;e Presidents, S. P. Whitmarsh, Palmyra: 
G. C. Phillips, Armada. 
Secret ry, B. Schrouder, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, YVm. Dutont, Detroit.
Executive Committee— F. J. Wurzburg. Grand 
Rapids: F. D. Stevens. Detroit: H.G.Colman. 
Kalamazoo: E. T. Webb, Jackson: 1). M. Rus­
sell, Grand Rapids.
President,
John E. Peck 
Secretary,
B. Schrouder
From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

The  Right  and  Wrong  Views  of  the 

THEORIES  OF  INSOLVENCY.

GRAND  RAPIDS  PHARMACEUTICAL 

Question  Involved.

ASSOCIATION.

SOCIETY.

There  are  wholesale  houses  which 
make  it  a  rule  never to  settle  with  an 
insolvent  debtor  for  less  than  the  face 
of  his  account,  if  they  think  there 
is 
any  show  whatever  to  force  it  out of 
hint  or  his  estate.  Such  a  rule 
is  not 
based  upon a  correct  theory  of  honestlv- 
conducted  business. 
It  is  founded  on 
the assumption  that  insolvency  is  chief­
ly,  if  not  wholly,  an  abuse  of  conti- > 
deuce.  Where the  latter  is  the  case,  it 
cannot  be  too  severely  dealt  with,  hut 
most  settlements  grow out  of  a  convic­
tion  that  there  is  more  misfortune  than 
rascality  in  business  disasters.

What  we  regard  as the  true  theory  of 
the  relation  between  wholesaler and  re­
tailer  is  often  acted  upon  hut  seldom 
analyzed  and  definitely  stated.  That 
relation  is  in  the  nature  of  a 
limited 
partnership.  The 
retailer,  when  he 
starts  in  business,  puts  in  such  capital 
as  he  may  have,  his  experience, 
intel­
ligence,  time  and  labor. 
The  whole­
saler  voluntarily  contributes goods  from 
time  to  time. 
If  the business  prospers, 
both  parties  have  their  reward.  The 
goods  contributed  are  paid  for,  and  the 
way  opened  for  increasing  transactions, 
which  may  continue  to grow  year  after 
year. 
If,  however,  tin-  retailer faithful­
ly  employs  all  the  elements  named 
above,  but  is  overborne by  adverse  con­
ditions or  unfavorable  events,  it  is  but 
equitable and  fair  for his creditors,  who 
may or  may  not  have  profited  liberally 
from  the connection,  to  submit  to  share 
in  the  losses of  the  concern.
This  is the well-settled  principle  un­
derlying  insolvency  legislation,  and  has 
been  delcared  from  the  bench  as  the 
basis of  proceedings  in  bankruptcy. 
If, 
as  we  are  often  told,  “ Law  hath 
its 
source 
it  also 
appeals  to the  love of  fair  play  in  man. 
Mutual  dependence  is  a 
large  charac­
teristic  of commercial  affairs.  To  stand 
alone and  aloof  is  more  truly impossible 
in  business  than  in  any  other  depart­
ment  of  human  life.  To give and  take, 
to  live  and  let  live,to share and  recipro­
cate,  rather than  to  maintain  a  solitary- 
rectangularity,  are  the  watchwords  and 
principles of  that great civilizer of  man­
kind,  the Genius of  Trade.
Hut  all  this  presupposes  honesty  and 
fair dealing. 
Either  party  may  vitiate 
his  rights by  fraud  or  chicanery.  The I 
retailer  who obtains goods,knowing  that 
he  is  unable  to  pay  for  them,  who  adds 
to  his  liabilities  when  his  living  assets 
are  so far  below  them  that  no amount  of 
boosting  will  ever  bring  the  two entities 
within  sight  of  each  other,or who delib­
erately  fails  in  order  to  make  money, 
implied 
has  forfeited  all  claims  to  any 
partnership  considerations,or 
to 
the 
mercy  of  the  court.  Strip  him  and  re­
mand  him  to  his  proper place,  that  he 
may  no more 
imperil  the  property  of 
others.  Let  the  line  between  the  two 
kinds  of  delinquents  be  drawn  with  a

in  the  bosom  of  God, ”  

subsoil  plow,  and  never be  overstepped 
or  obliterated.

The  privilege of  preference  has  be­
come  a deadly  weapon  in  the  hands  of 
insolvents.  The  carnage  has been  fear­
ful  among those who didn’t know  it  was 
loaded. 
Insolvencies  which  should  pan 
| out  at  least  fifty  cents  on  the  dollar,  in­
ure only to  the benefit  of  the  preferred, 
other creditors  receiving  nothing.  We 
could  fill  pages  with  instances,  but  re­
frain,  our  readers  being  well  aware— 
some  of  them,  no doubt,  painfully aware 
-of  “ how  the  old  thing  works.”  
It 
seems 
incredible  that  so  wide-awake 
and  progressive a  people  should  so  long 
endure  the oppression  of  this unjust  and 
exasperating 
first, 
doubtless,  to  protect  the interests of non­
commercial  and  non-participating cred­
itors,  it  has  outrun  that  benevolent  de­
sign  and  become  the  ready  and  potent 
instrument  of  mercantile thievery.  The 
new  national bankruptcy law,  if  we  ever 
get  one,  should  draw  a  line  with  dis­
tinctness  behind  which, 
if  anywhere, 
the  preference may  prevail.  Meantime 
it  is well,  wherever the  sum  involved  is 
worth  fighting  for,  to 
invoke  such  aid 
as  the  courts  can  give  in  preventing 
fraudulent  settlements.
♦
How  the  Street  Fakir was  Rewarded 

Created  at 

law. 

  m  

-

♦

 

for  Honest  Dealing. 

“ Gentlemen,”   said  the  street  fakir, 
as  he arranged  his  bottles  on  the  table 
before  him,  “  I  did  not  come  here  to  lie 
and  deceive,  and  roh  you of  your  hard- 
earned  dollars.  I  have  stuck  to  the truth 
all  my  life,  and,  though  that  is  the  rea­
son  I  am  a  poor  man,  I  shall  continue 
to  speak  the  truth  to  the  end  of  my

The crowd  had  been  coldly  surveying 
his  preparations,  but  began  to  warm  up 
a  little over  his  address.

‘ 1  might  say  to  you,”   he went  on,  as 
he  held  up  one of the bottles  in  a loving 
way between  his  eye and  the  sun,  “ that 
this  medicine  was  discovered  by  a  cel­
ebrated  medicine  man  of the Sioux tribe 
of  Indians,  but  why  deceive  you? 
It  is 
a  remedy  entirely  unknown  to  the  In­
It  is  my own  discovery,  and  I 
dians. 
never saw  an  Indian  in  my  life .”
I he crowd  increased  in  numbers  and 
began  to  press  closer.

I  could  tell  you  that  this  compound 
would  cure  Bright's disease,  and  in  ten 
minutes  every bottle  would  be  sold ;  but 
could  1  sleep  to-night  with  the  weight 
<>f  so  much  deception on my conscience?
How  could  I  ever again  look  an  hon­
est  man  in  the  face after  telling  such  a 
falsehood? 
It  will  not  cure  Bright’s 
it would  even  hasten  the end of 
disease 
a  victim  ot that  baleful  complaint.”  
There  were  now  100  men  in  front  of 
the fakir,  and  at  least  half  of  them  had 
money.

their  hands  in  their  pockets  in search of 

“ I  could  say  that 

it  was  a  pain 
killer,  ’  continued  the  man,  as  he 
brought  out  more  bottles  from  an  old 
satchel,  but  an  accusing  voice  would 
be  whispering  in  my  ear  forever  more. 
You  might  rub  a  barrel  of  it  on  you and 
it  would  not  affect  a  pain. 
I  miss  the 
I sales of at  least  fifty  bottles  because  I 
tell  you  the  truth,  but  it  must be  so.”  

“ Gimme  a  bottle!”   shouted  a  dozen 
men  in  chorus,  as  thev  held  up  their  Si 
bills. 

1
V No,  gentlemen—not  yet. 

I  will 
neither deceive  you  nor allow-  you  to de­
ceive  yourselves.  You  are  an  honest, 
confiding  people,  and  I  might  tell  you 
that  this discovery  would  stop  a  head­
ache  in  five  minutes and  you  would  be­
lieve  me and  hand  up  your  money. 
It 
w ill  not  cure  a  headache. 
I  even  de­
clare that  it  would  make one  ten  times 
worse. ’ ’
The  number of  men  who  now  wanted 
a  bottle  was  at  least  twenty,  but  the 
fakir  waved  them  aside  and  said :

Wait  a  minute.  The  discovery  will 
not  cure  consumption  after one  lung 
is 
It  will  not  cure  catarrh  after  the 
gone. 
disease  has  a  firm  hold  on  the  bronchial 
tubes.  After both  kidneys  have  wasted 
1 away  it  is  no  use  to  take 
It  simply 
purifies the blood,  and  thus—”

“ Gimme a  bottle!  Gimme a  bottle!”  
yelled  fifty  men  as  they  pressed  forward 
and  in  less  than  ten  minutes  the  last 
one  had  been  sold  and  the  fakir had  the 
1 money  in  his pocket.

it. 

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

“ Yes,  cayenne  pepper  to  make 

As  we  went  down  on  the  train  to  Ot­
tawa  Beach  that  afternoon  together  I 
asked :
“ After you  have  mixed  water,  mo­
lasses,  and alcohol  together do  you  add 
anything  else?”
it 
bite,  and  the  solemn  truth  to  make  it 
sell, ”   he solemnly  replied  as  he  took 
out his  wad  of ‘ bills  and  spread  them 
on  his  knee  and  started  out  to  find  the 

sum  total.Office 5 tdlidnci%

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in  this  or  any  other  world 
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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Balsam um

Acidum
Ace ti cum......................$
Benzoicum, German
Boracic...........................
Carbolieum.................
Citricum.......................
Hydrochlor.................
Nltrocum.....................
Oxalicum.....................
Phosphorium, dil...
Salicylicum.................
Sulphuricum...............
Tannicum................... 1
Tartaricum...................
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg..............
Aqua, 20 deg..............
Carbonns.....................
Chloridum...................
Aniline
Black............................... :
Brown...........................
Red.................................
Yellow..............................:
Race*.
Cube®e..............po. 25
Juniperus.....................
Xanthoxylum..........
Copaiba..........................
Peru. .............................
Terabin, Canada___
Tolutan..........................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian___
Oassiie...........................
Cinchona Flava........
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera. po.
Prunus Virgini..........
Quilluia, gr'd.............
Sassafras.......................
Ulmus...po. 15, gr'd 
Extractum 
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza, po........
Hsematox, 15 lb box.
Hsematox, Is..............
Hsematox, %s.............
Hsematox,  4s.............
Ferru
Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinta..
Citrate Soluble..........
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate, com'l........
Sulphate, com'l, by
bbl, per cwt............
Sulphate, pure.........
Flora
Arnica 
.........................
Anthemis.....................
Matricaria...................
Folia
Barosma.........................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly. ...................
Cassia Acutifol,Aix. 
Salvia officinalis, 4s
and !4s.......................
Ura Crsi.........................
Gummi 
Acacia, 1st picked.. 
Acacia, 2d picked.. 
Acacia, 3d picked.. 
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
Acacia, po.....................
Aloe, Barb. po.20@2S
Aloe, Cape___po. 15
Aloe, So' otri.. po. 60
Ammoniac...................
Assafoetida___po. ?5
Benzoinnm.................
Catechu, Is...................
Catechu, 4s.................
Catechu, 4».................
Camphor* ...................
Euphorbium..po. 35
Galbanum.....................
Gamboge po..............
Gnaiacum........po. 35
Kino..............po. $2.00
Mastic...........................
Myrrh.................po. 45
Opii... po. $3,000)3.20 1
Shellac................. 
......
Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth .................
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatoriuni .oz. pkg
Lobelia..........oz. pkg
Majorum___oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rue...................oz. pkg
TanaeetumVoz. pkg 
Thymus, V..oz. pkg 
ITagnesia.
Calcined, Pat..............
Carbonate, Pat..........
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium................. 2
Amygdahe, Dole___
Amygdalae, A mane .  8
Anisi............................... 2
Auranti Cortex........ 1
Bergamii....................... 3
Cajiputi.........................
Caryophylli.................
Cedar...............................
Chenopadii..................
Cinnamonii................. 1
Cilronella.....................

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550),  65
400>.  1 60 ! 
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18©  25

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800),  2 I
10©  2 : 
000; 3 ; 
700» 
75© 
35©
45©

©  1 
70©  1 

1

1 50 3 00

35©
Conium Mac.............. 
80©
Copaiba......................... 
l 500),
Cubeb®.................... 
 
Exechthitos.............. i  20©,
Erigeroji...................... l an©
Gaultheria.................. l 50©
Geranium,ounce___ 
©
Gossippii, Sent. gal.. 
000>.
lledeoma...................... l 25©
Junipera...........................l  5001.
Lavendula.................. 
iN©
Limonis.........................  1 30©
Mentha Piper..........  2 25©
Mentha Verid............  1 80©
Morrhu®, gal............  1  75©
.Myrcia, ounce............ 
@
Olive............................... 
90©
Picis Liquida............ 
10©
Picis Liquida, gal... 
©
Ricina........................... 
88©
Rosmarini.................... 
©
Kos®, ounce..............  0 50©,
SllCCiui ......................... 
400;
90©
Sabina......................... 
Sontal.............................  2 500.
Sassaf ras....................... 
50©
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
©.
Tiglii............................... 
©
Thyme 
....................... 
40®,
©
Thyme, opt................. 
Theobromas.............. 
15©
Potassium
Bi-Barb.......................... 
15©
Bichromate 
13©
.............. 
Bromide......................... 
45©
Carb............................... 
12®
Chlorate, .po. 17019c  160;
Cyanide......................... 
500
Iodide............................. 2 90®
Potassa. Bitart, pure  240
Potassa, Bitart, com 
©
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8©
Potass Nitras.............. 
7©
Prussiate....................... 
25©
Sulphate po............... 
15©
Radix
Aconitvm..................... 
20©
Alth®............................. 
22©
Anchusa....................... 
120,
Arum po......................... 
@
Calamus....................... 
20©
8©
Gentiana..........po. 12 
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
lti0; 
Hydrastis (»anaden . 
©,
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
©
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
15©
Inula, po....................... 
15©
Ipecac, po..................... 1 3001
Iris plox___po35@38 
35©
Jalapa, pr..................... 
40©
Maninta. 4s.............. 
©
Podophyllum, po.... 
150,
Rhei............................... 
750,
Rhei, cut....................... 
©
Rhei.pv......................... 
75©
Spigelia.......................... 
35©
Sanguinaria... po. 25 
©,
Serpentaria.................  50©,
Senega........................... 
55©
©
Similax,officinalis H 
Smilax. M..................... 
©
Scill®................po.35 
10©
Svmplocarpus, Fceti-
dus, po....................... 
©
Valeriana,Eng. po.30 
0,
Valeriana, German. 
15©,
Zingiber a..................... 
18©
Zingiber j..................... 
18©
Semen
Anisum............po. 20 
©
Apium (graveleons) 
14©
Bird. Is........................... 
4©.
Car 11 i.................po. 18 
10©
Cardamon.................... 1 00©,
Coriandrum................ 
120;
Cannabis Sativa___ 
5©
Cydonium..................... 
75©
Chenopodium.......... 
10©
Dipterix Odorate...  1 800
Foeniculum................. 
©
Foenugreek, po.......... 
60;
Lini.................................  34©
Lini, grd___bbl. 3*4  34©
Lobelia ......................... 
35®,
Phariaris Canarian. 
4©
Rapa....................... 
..  4 J*0
Sinapis Albu.............. 
7®;
Sinapis Nigra............ 
11©
Spiritus
Frumenti, W. D.Co. 2 00© 
Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00©
Frumenti..................... 1 25©
Juniperis Co. O. T.. 1 65©
Juniperis Co.............. 1 75®
Saacharitin N. F,___ 1 90©
Spt. Vini Galli.......... 1 75©
Vini Oporto................. 1 250,
Vini Alba.................... 1 250»
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage..................... 2 500,
Nassau sheeps wool
carriage..................... 
@
Velvet extra sheeps’
©
wool, carriage........ 
Extra yellow sheeps'
wool, earriage___ 
0;
Grass sheeps’ wool,
carriage..................... 
©
Hard, for slate use.. 
0s
Yellow  Reef, for 
slate use................... 
@
Syrups
®
Acacia........................... 
Auranti Cortes.......... 
©
Zingiber......................... 
@
Ipecac......................... 
@
Ferri Iod....................... 
©
Rhei Aram................... 
©
Smilax Officinalis... 
50©
Senega........................... 
©
Scill®.............................. 
©

Declined—Linseed Oil
Scill® Co....................... 
©
Tolutan......................... 
©
Prunus virg................ 
©
Tinctures 
Aconitum N a pel 1 is R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes..............................
Aloesand Myrrh___
Arnica...........................
Assafoetida................
Atrope Belladonna.
Auranti C> rtex........
Benzoin.........................
Benzoin Co...................
Barosma......................
Cant iia rides................
Capsicum....................
Cardamon...................
Cardamon Co............
Castor.............................
Catechu.........................
Cinchona......................
Cinchona Co..............
Columba......................
Cubeba...........................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co .
Digitalis......................
Ergot..............................
Ferri Chloridum___
Gentian........................
Gentian Co..................
Guinea..........................
Guinea amnion..........
Hyoscyamus..............
Iodine..................... ...
Iod ine, colorless....
Kino................................
Lobei ia..........................
Myrrh.............................
Nux Vomica..............
Opii.................................
Opii, camphorated..
Opii, deodorized___
Quassia........................
Rhatany........................
Rhei.................................
Sanguinaria..............
Serpentaria................
Stramonium...............
Tolutan..........................
Valerian.......................
Veratrum Veride... 
Zingiber........................
Hiscellaneous 
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  35® 
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  38©
Alumen.........................  24®
Alumen, gra’d.. po. 7 
3©
Annatto....................... 
40©
Antimoni, po............ 
4@.
Antimoni etPotassT  55©
Antipyrin................... 
©
Antifebrin.................. 
@
Argenti Nitras, oz .. 
@
Arsenicum................... 
5©
Balm Gilead Bud .. 
38©
Bismuth S. N............1 20®
Calcium Chlor., Is.. 
@
@
Calcium Chlor., V4s. 
Calcium Chlor.,  4s. 
©
Cantharides, Rus.po 
©
Capsici Fruetus, af. 
©
Capsici Fruetus, po. 
@
Capsici FructusB,po 
©
Caryophyllus..po. 15  10©
Carmine, No. 40......... 
@
Cera Alba, S. A F .. 
50©
40©
Cera Flava................... 
Coccus........................... 
@
Cassia Fruetus.......... 
©
Centraria....................... 
©
Cetaceum...................... 
©
Chloroform.................. 
60©
Chloroform, squibbs 
©
Chloral Hyd Crst___ I 15©
Chondrus...................... 
20©
Cinchonidine,P.& W  15© 
Cinehonidine, Germ  34©
Cocaine........ 
............. 5 00©
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum................... 
©
Creta..................bbl. 75 
©
Creta, prep.................. 
©
Creta, precip.............. 
9©
Creta, Rubra.............. 
@
Crocus........................... 
50©
Cudbear....................... 
©,
Cupri Sulph................. 
5©
Dextrine........................ 
10©
Ether Sulph................ 
75©
Emery, all numbers 
©
Emery, po........ 
......... 
©
Ergota..............po. 40  30©
Flake White............... 
12©
Galla................................ 
@
8©
Gambier......................... 
Gelatin, Cooper.. .. 
@
Gelatin, French........ 
30©
Glassware, flint,box
Less than box___
Glue, brown.............. 
9©
Glue, white .............. 
13©
Glycerina..................... 
13©
Grana Paradisi ___ 
©
lltimulus....................... 
25©
Hydraag Chlor Mite 
©
Hyd raag Chlor Cor 
@
Hydraag Ox Rub'rn. 
©
Hydraag Ammoniati 
Hydra agUnguentum  450»
Hydrargyrum............ 
Ichthyobolla, Am... 1 25©
Indigo............................. 
75©
Iodine, Kesubi.......... 3 80©
@
Iodoform....................... 
Lupulin......................... 
©
Lycopodium............... 
60©
JIacis............................... 
70©
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.................. 
@
LiquorPOtassArsinit  10©
Magnesia, Sulph___  24©
Magnesia. Sulph,bbl 
©
60©
j Manilla, S. F.............. 

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Varnishes

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Menthol.........................
Morphia,S.P.& \\... 1 65©1 90 Sinapis...........................
© 18 Linseed, pure raw..
44
47
Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.&
Sinapis, opt.................
© 30 Linseed, boiled........
46
49
C. Co........................... 1 55@ 1 80 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Neatsfoot,  winter
Moschus Canton___
40
Voes.............................
strained....................
65
© 34
70
Myristica, No. 1........
656^
80 Snuff,Scotch, De Vo’s
© 34 Spirits Turpentine..
39
34
Nux V omica... po.20
© 10 Soda Boras..................
9
64®
LB.
Paints BBL.
Os Sepia.......................
15© 18 Soda Boras, po..........
9
64©
Pepsin Saac, II.  & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
24© 25 Red Venetian............. 14  2 @8
D. Co...........................
© 1  00 Soda, Carb................... 14® 2 Ochre, yellow Mars.
1?4  2 ©4
Picis Liq. N.N.4gal.
3© 5 Ochie, yellow Her.. 14  2 @3
Soda, Bi-Carb............
doz................................
© 2  00 Soda, Ash....................
34© 4 Putty, commercial.. 24  2¿©3
Picis Liq.,quarts___
© 1  00 Soda, Sulphas.............
© 2 Putty, strictly pure.
Picis Liq., pints........
85 Spts. Cologne..............
© 260 Vermilion,  Prime
Pil Hydrarg.. .po. 80
© 50 Spts. Ether Co..........
50(íl),
55
13© 15
American..................
Piper Nigra... po. 22
@ 18 Spts. Myrcia Drm...
©  2 00 Vermilion, English.
70© 75
Piper Alba___po. 35
30 Spts. Vini Reet. bid.
© 251 Green, Paris.............. 204© 27
Piix Burgun........—
© 7 Spts. Vini Rect.4bbl
© 250 Green, Peninsular.
13© 16
Plumbi Acet..............
100,
12 Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal
© 259 Lead, Red..................... 54© 6
Pulvis Ipecac etOpii 1  10© 1  20 Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal
@  261 Lead, white................
54® 6
Pvreth rum. boxes H.
Less 5c gal. cash
Whiting, white Span
© :o
& P. D. Co., doz...
©1 25
10 days.
© 90
Whiting, gilders'...
Pyrethrum, pv..........
20© 30 Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40® 145 White, Paris Amer..
© 1  00
Quassi®.........................
8© 10 Sulphur, Subl............
3 Whiting, Paris Eng.
24©
Quinta, S. P. & W.. 344©394 Sulphur, Roll...........
cliff............................
© 1 40
2© 24
Quiiiia, S. German..
27© 37 Tamarinds...................
SCaX 10 Universal Prepared.
1  00®.1 15
Quiñi a, N.l................ 324©374 Terebenth Venice...
30
Rubia Tinctorum...
12© 14 Theobrom®.................
45© 48
SaccharumLactis pv
18© 20 Vanilla......................... 9 000-16 On No. 1 Turp Coach...
1  10© 1  20
Salacin......................... 2 500, 2 60 Zinci Sulph.................
7© 8 Extra Turp................
1 60©1 70
Sanguis Draconis...
40© 50
; 75©3 00
Coach Body.................
BBL. GAL. No. 1 Turp Furn___ i  on© 1  10
Sapo, W .....................
12© 14
Sapo, K..._.................
10© 12 \\ hale, winter............
70 Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@, 1 60
70
Sapo, G...........................
© 15 Lard, extra.................
60
65 Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp
70© 75
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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

Peas.

Grits.

Farina.

W heat.

Raisins.

Hominy.

Rolled  Oats.

Lima  Beans.

Pearl B arley.

Maccaroni and Vermicelli.

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FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Ondura 29 lb boxes..
Sultana 20 lb boxes...
Valencia 30 lb boxes
Bulk........................................... 
3
Walsh-DeRoo Co.'s.............2 00
Barrels ......................................3 25
Flake, 50 lb. drums............. 1 50
Dried......................................... 
6§4
Domestic. 101b. box..........  60
Imported, 25 lb. box...........2 50
31
Empire...............................
Chester...............................
.1 15
Green, bu...........................
Split, per lb.....................
.4 00
Schumacher, bbl...........
Schumacher. V* bbl___
Monarch, bbl..........................3 40
.1 80 
Monarch. 54 bbl.
.3 20 
Quaker, cases..........
.3 25
Oven Baked.............
Lakeside ...................
Sago.
German .
East India..................
Cracked, bulk.............
24 2 lb packages........
\  Cod.
Georges cured..............
Georges genuine........
Georges selected........
Strips or bricks..........
Halibut.
jSmoked...........................
Herring.
Holland white hoops keg. 
80 
Holland white hoops bbl.
Norwegian...............................
Round 100 lbs.........................  2 55
Round 40 lbs.........................  1 30
Scaled......................................... 13 00
rtackerel.
No. 1 100 lbs............................. 12 50
No. 1 40 lbs.............................  5 30
No. 1  10 lbs.............................  1 40
No. 2 100 lbs.............................  9 25
No. 2 40 lbs.............................  4 00
No. 2 10 lbs.............................  108
Family 90 lbs...........................
Family 10 lbs........ 
..............
Sardines.
Russian kegs........................... 
55
Trout.
No. I 100 lbs.........................-  4 25
No. 1 40 lbs.............................  1 96
No. 1  10 lbs............................. 
56
No. 1  8 lbs............................. 
48
Whitefish.
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs.............. 7 00  6 00  2 50
40 lbs.............. 3 10  2 70  1 30
101 s.............. 
85 
75 
40
S lbs.............. 
63 
35
71 
Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew. 
for 
Best in the  world 
the 
money.
Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.doz
2 oz..........  75
4 oz..........1 50

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Lemon Vanilla
2 oz regular panel..  75
1  20
4 oz regular panel.. 1 50
2  00
6 oz regular panel. .2  00
,3 00
No. 3 taper.................l 35 ; Z 2  00
No. 4 7aper.................1 50
2 50

1  10 

Ja v a .

Acme.

Arctic.

Baker’s .

Chicory.

BLUING.

Teller’s.

Red Star.

Our Leader.

CHOCOLATE.

BATH  BRICK.

COFFEE.

CLOTHES  PINS.

CLOTHES LINES

Van Anrooy’s Pure.

German Sweet...............

BAKING  POWDER.

Aurora................................55 gross 
A XLE  G R EASE.doz.
liulk 
6 00
Red .
..........«0
7 00
Castor Oil..........
..........50
Diamond............
5 50
... .75
Frazer's..............
9 00
8 00
Mica....................... ...........60
6 00
...........55
Paragon...............
Premium...............................
Breakfast Cocoa..............
45 Cotton. 40 ft. per doz___
i II) cans 3 doz..
75 | Cotton, 50 ft, per doz___
doz
. lb i
00 i Cotton, (¡0 ft, per doz___
1 
lb cans I doz....................
10 I Cotton, 70 ft. per doz___
Bulk.............................................
Cotton, so ft. per doz___
__ | Jute, 00 ft, per doz..........
>4 lb cans 6 doz case........
95
Jute, 72 ft, per doz...........
*4 lb cans 4 doz case ----
lb cans 2 doz cate____
1 
2 00 9 00
lb case  1 doz case.........
a 
5 gross boxes....................................40
\i lb cans.................................
Green.
i-i lb cans...............................
Rio.
1 40
lb cans...............................
I 
Fair.......................................................18
Good.....................................................19
Prime........................................ 
21
>4 lb cans 6 doz ease.........
Golden ..............................................21
1 65 3 25
*2 lb cans 4 doz case..........
Peaberry ..........................................23
I 
lb cans 2 doz case.........
Santos.
Fair ....................................................19
45
*4 lb cans doz......................... 
..................................................20
Good 
l2 lb cans doz......................... 
So
Prime..................................................22
lb cans doz......................... 1 50
1 
Peaberry 
..........................................23
Mexican and Guatamala.
}4 lb cans................................... 
45
Fair .................................'................21
!4 lb cans................................... 
75
Good
.................... 1 50
1 
lb cans.
Fancv
.24
2 dozen in case.
Prime . 
American.........................................70
Milled. Maracaibo.
English...............................................HO
Interior..............................................25
Private Growth..............................27
3 till
Arctic 4 oz ovals........
Mandchling......................................28
Arctic 8 oz ovals........
Arctic pints round..
Imitation..........................................25
Arctic No. 2 sifting 1 
Arabian 
............................................28
4 (X)
Arctic No. 3 s fting I 
sifting box.... 8 00
Arctic No. 5 
ill........................ 4 503 60
Arctic 1 oz 1 
To ascertain cost of roasted 
Mexican liquid 
coffee, add Vic per lb. for roast­
Mexican liquidBROOrtS.
ing and 15 percent, for shrink
No. 1 Carpet...............................2 20
A rbuckle 
No. 2 Carpet...............................2 00
Jersey___ Package.
.21 80
No. 3 Carpet............................... 1 75
No. 4 Carpet............................... 1 60
Parlor Gem............................... 2 50
Common Whisk....................... 
85
Fancy Whisk............................. 1 00
Warehouse.................................2 50
Lion Coffee
CANDLES.
Hotel 40 lb boxes............................10
Star 40 lb boxes.............................. 9
Paraffine............................................10
Cabinets 120 lbs.  Sam e P rise 
As the pack of 1895 will not 
ricLaughlin’s  XXXX........21 80
begin to arrive in any quantity 
until about Sept, l" we have 
concluded to defer the publica- 
Valley City V4 gross.........  75
tion of full list under this head 
Felix V4 gross....................... 1 15
uutil our issue of Sept. 11.
Hummel's foil  % gross... 
85
Hummel’s tin V4 gross... 1 43
CATSUP.
Blue Label Brand.
Half pint 25 bottles..............2 75
Pint 25 bottled......................... 4 50
Quart 1 doz. bottles.............  3 50
Triumph Brand.
100 packages in case........ 
9 00
KOFFA-AID
Half pint per doz...:............ 135
60 packages in case........ 
5 65
Pint 25bottles........................... 4 50
Quart per doz........................... 3 75
201b bags............................... 
Less quantity....................... 
3
Pound packages................. 
4
Major's, per gross.
*4 oz size____ 12 00
1 oz size____18 00
Strictly pure........................... 
30
Liq. Glue.l. z 9 60
Telfer’s Absolute .............. 
30
Grocers'......................................15@25
Leather Cement,
1 oz size.......... 12 00
4 doz. in case.
2 oz size..........18 00
Rubber Cement. 
'2 oz size___  12  00

Fine Assortment o f Summer 
Games nowin the nackaaes.
Cases  100 tbs. I  21  8=10 

CONDENSED  MILK.

CANNED  GOODS.

SO t   Extra  for Cabinets.

CREAH  TARTAR.

COCOA SHELLS.

CEMENT.

l 6 Ounces  Net 

Extract.

Roasted.

60  ' /

Mocha.

.21  80

6 f0

254

* 

CHEESE.

Amboy..........
Acme...........*.
Jersey.............
Lenawee.... 
Riverside..
Gold Medal.
Skim 
............
Brick...............
Edam.............
Leiden............
Limburger. . 
Pineapple.... 
Roquefort...
Sap Sago......................
Schweitzer, imported 
Schwei tzer,domestic

11
@1  00

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

Coupon Pass Books,

i-rless evaporated cream.:
COUPON  BOOKS.m
1---------“Tradesman.’.
$  1 books, i>er  100........
....  2 00
$  2 boolts, per  100........
.... 2 50
$ 3 books, per 100........
.... 3 00
$ 5 books, per 100........
.... 3 00
$10 books, per  100........
....  4 no
$20 books, per  100........ ___5 00
“Superior.”
$  1 boobs, per  100........
.... 2 50
$  2 books, per  100........ ___ 3 00
$ 3 books, }>er 100........
.... 3 50
$ 5 books, per 100........
.... 4 00
$10 books, per  100........ ___ 5 00
$20 books, per  100........
....  6 00
■ M m“Universal.”
$  1 books, per  100........
.... 3 00
$  2 books. per  100.........
.... 3 50
$ 3 books, i er 100........
.... 4 00
$ 5 books, per 100........
.... 5 00
$10 books, per  100..............  6 00
$20 books, per  100.............. 7 00
Above prices on coupon books
are subject to the following
quantity discounts:
200 books or over... 5lier cent
500 books or over... 10 peí cent
1000 books or over.  .20j>er cent
Can b; made to represent any
denomination from $10down.
20 books .............................  1  00
50 books...........................___ 2 00
100 books............................... 3 (Ml
250 boohs...............................  6 25
500 books.........................
.... 10 00
1000 books...........................___17 50
500, anv one denom'n .... 3 00
1000, anv one denom'n .... 5 00
2000, any one denom'n ....  8 00
Steel punch........................... 
75
Sundried............................... 
6}$
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. 
7‘4
California Goods.Bxs Bgs
Apricots........
Blackbe tries.
Nectarines..........................
Peaches..................................854
Pears.......................................
Pitted Cherries.
Prunnelles............................
Raspberries........................
2 Crown..................................3
3 Crown..................................4
4 Crown...................................5
Patras bbls...........................  @2
Vostizzas 50 lb cases___
25 lb boxes............................
50 lb boxes............................
1 lb packages.....................
Citron Leghorn 25 lb bx 
Lemon Leghorn 25 lb bx 
Orange Leghorn 25 lb bx 
25 lb boxes.
California 100-120..............
California 90-100.............. 
California 80-96............... 
California ¿70-80................. 
California 60-70.................l—^  7J4
H cent less in bags

DRIED  FRUITS.

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Schuit’s   Cleaned

Loose M uscatels.

Credit Checks

DOnESTIC.

Raisins.

Prunes.

Apples.

554
6
614

Peel.

20

H ERBS.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Sage.. 
Hops
KegsHalf Kegs___
QuartenKegs.
1 lb cans.........
54 lb cans___
Kegs.......................................................4 25
Half Kegs............................................2 40
Quarter Kegs...... 
....................1 35
1 lb cans.......................................  34
Kegs.....................................................11 00
Half Kegs............................................5 75
Quarter Kegs......................................3 00
1 lb cans.........................................  60
Madras, 5 lb boxes.................  55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes___  50
15 lb pails.....................................  33
17 lb pails.....................................  42
30 lb pails.....................................  58
Condensed, 2 doz ....................1 20
Condensed, 4 doz...........................2 25

Eagle  Duck-  Dupont’s.

INDIGO.

JE L L Y .

L Y E .

LICORICE.

Mince meat, 3 doz in case. .2 75
Pie Prep. 3 doz in case..........2 75
riATCHES.
Columbia Match Co.’s brands
Columbia Parlor.......................1 25
XXX Sulphur.............................1 00
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.............................1 65
Anchor Parlor...........................1 70
No. 2 Home.................................1 10
Export Parlor...........................4 00
IIOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Sugar house..............................10@,12
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary....................................12@14
Porto Rico.
Prime.....................................
Fancy ...................................
New Orleans.
Fair.........................................
Good.......................................
Extra good...........................
Choice...................................
Fancy 
...................................
Half-barrels 3c extra.
OIL CANS.
Crystal valve, per doz..
4 00 
Crystal valve, per gross 
36 00
PICKLES, 
riedium.
Barrels, 1,200 count..............4 25
Half bbls, 600count.............. 2 (Si
Small.
Barrels. 2,400 count.............. 5 25
Half bbls, 1,200 count.......... 3 15
PIPES.
Clay, No. 216............................. 1  70
Clay, T. D. full count.......... 
66
Cob, No. 3................................... 120
POTASH.
48 cans in case.
Babbitt’s..................................... 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s.....................3 00
RICE.
Domestic.
Carolina bead...........................  514
Carolina No. 1.........................  5
Carolina No. 2.........................  4*4
Broken.........................................  3%
Imported.
Japan, No. 1.............................  454
Japan, No. 2.............................  414
Java, No. 1.................................  554
Java, No. 2.................................  4u
Patna...........................................  4
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls..................1  10
Granulated. 100 lb cases.. 1 50
Lump, bbls............................... 
Lump, 1451b kegs..................1 10

1

8
4

6 
10
4

SE E D S.

SPICES.

Anise..............................
13 
Canary, Smyrna........
Caraway
Cardamon, Malabar..........  80
Hemp, Russian................... 
Mixed Bird............................. 
4Vj
Mustard, white..................... 
6ti
Poppy ....................................... 
Rape............................................ 
Cuttle Bone.............................  20
SYRUPS
Corn.
Barrels........................................  18
Half bbls....................................  20
Pure Cane.
Fair ............................................  16
Good..............................................  20
Choice..........................................  25
Whole Sifted.
Allspice .......................................  9*4
Cassia, China in mats............  9^
Cassia, Batavia in bund___15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls..........32
Cloves, Amboyna......................22
(.’loves, Zanzibar...........................11 y,
Mace, Batavia............................70
Nutmegs, fancy..........................65
Nutmegs, No.  1..........................60
Nutmegs, No.  2..........................55
Pepper, Singapore, black... 10 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .20
Pepper, shot................................16
Pure Ground in Bulk.
Allspice ........................................ 15
Cassia, Batavia..........................18
Cassia, Batavia and Saigon .25
Cassia, Saigon............................35
Cloves, Amboyna......................22
Cloves, Zanzibar........................18
Ginger, African........................16
Ginger, Cochin..........................20
Ginger, Jamaica.......................22
Mace, Batavia............................65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .22
Mustard, Trieste........................25
Nutmegs, No. 2..........................75
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .16 
Pepper, Singapore, white..24
Pepper, Cayenne.......................20
Sage.................................... 
 
Allspice ................................84
Cinnamon.............................84
“ Absolute”  in Packages.1 55 1 55 1 55 1 55 1 55 1 55
Cloves......................................84
Ginger, Jamaica...............84
Ginger, African...............84
Mustard..................................84
Pepper....................................84
Sage........................... 
 
81
STARCH.
Kingsford's Corn.
, 
20 1-lb packages......................
40 1 lb packages............................6J4
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.
40 1-lb packages............................654
6-lb boxes....................................754
Common Corn.
20-lb boxes...................................  534
40-lb boxes...................................  554
Common Gloss.
1-lb packages.............................  5
3-lb packages.............................  5
6-lb packages.............................  554
40 and 50 lb boxes.....................  354
Barrels ..........................................  354
SODA.
Boxes................................................ 514
Kegs, English.............................  454
SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 213-lb boxes...........
Barrels, 320 lbs.....................
2 50 
Barrels, 115 214 lb bags... 
Barrels, 60 5 
lb bags... 
.3 75 
Barrels, 30 10 lb bags...
.3 50 65 
Butter, 56 lb bags........
Butter, 20 11 lb bags.........
.3 50
Butter, 2801b bbls............
Butter, 2211b bbls.............
Common Grades.
100 3 lb sacks.........................
60 5-lb sacks.........................
28 11-lb sacks.................
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..
28-lb dairy in drill bags.. 
Ashton.
56 lb dairy in linen sacks 
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks 
Solar Rock.
56-lb sacks.............................
Common Fine.
Saginaw.................................
Manistee 
.........................
SNUFF.
Scotch, In bladders...........
Maccaboy, in jars................
French Rappee, in jars...

6060

.1  00 
.4  00 

2  00 1  85

6I4

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

SALERATUS. 

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

SOAP.
Laundry.

S. C. W...........................................35 00
B. J. Reynolds' brand.
Hornet’s Nest............................35 00
Private brands.
Quintette.....................................35 00
New Brick...................................35 00
Allen B. Wrisley’s brands.
.3 30 
Old Country 80 1-lb.
Good Cheer 60 1-lb___
.3 HO 
.3 05
White Borax 100 9* lb. 
Proctor A Gamble.
Concord.....................................3 45
Ivory, 10 oz..............................6 75
Ivory,  6 oz...........................___4 00
... 3 65
Lenox.....................................
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’i13 33
American Family, plain___3 27
N. K. Fairbank A Co.’sbrands
Santa Claus.........................___3 90
Brown, 60 bars.......................2 10
Brown, 80 bars.......................3 10
Lautz Bros. A Co.'s brands.
Acme ..........................................3 65
Cotton Oil...........................___6 00
Marseilles.............................___4 00
Master...................................___4 00
Thompson A Chute brands.

Silver...............................................3 65
Mono.................................................3 30
Savon Improved.........................2 50
Sunflower ....................................2 80
Golden ..........................................3 25
Economical ................................2 25
Henry Passolt's brand.

STOVE  POLISH.

Atlas, 5 box lots, del...........3 60
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz.......2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz.............2 40
Gowans & Sons’ Brands.
Crow . ^........................................330
German Family.......................2 15 |
3 60 
American Grocer 100s 
3 05 3 30 
American Grocer 60s.
N. G.....................................
3 80
Mystic White.............
Lotus............................................ 4 Or
.................3 55
Oak Leaf................. 
Old Style......................................2 55
Happy Day.................................3 10
Nickeline  *4 gross................. 1  00
Nickeline  *4 gross.................2  00
Nickeline 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 Confec. A..............4 50
Confec. Standard A.................4 37

SUGAR.

Soda.

Meal.

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

WICKINQ.

Caramels. 

TABLE  SAUSES,

Feed and  Millstuffs.

WASHING  POWDER.

C R A C K E R S .

PROVISIONS.

Buckwheat........................... 4 50
R y e ....................................  3  50

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

No.  1...............................
No  2.......................................
No.  3...................................
No.  4...................................
No.  5...............................
No.  6.................................
No.  7.................................
No.  8...........................
No.  9.................................
No. 10..........................
No. 11.....................
No. 12........................
No. 13...........................
No. 14..............................
Lea & Perrin's, large___
Lea .V Perrin’s, small. 
..
Halford, large ..................
Halford-small......................
Salad Dressing, large___
Salad Dressing, 3mall___
100 packages in ease.
No. 0, per gross............
No. 1, per gross............
No. 2, per gross............
No. 3, per gross............
The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes 
as follows: Butter.
Seymour XXX...........................  5V*
Seymour XXX, 3 lb. carton  6
Family XXX...............................  5)4
Family XXX, 3 lb carton..  6
Salted XXX.................................  5*4
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton ..  6
Soda XXX .........................
Soda XXX. 3 lb carton.
Soda, City...........................
Crystal Wafer..................
Long Island Wafers___
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lbcarton .. 12
Oyster.
Square Oyster. XXX............  5*/4
Sq. Oys. XXX. I lb carton.  0*. 
Farina Oyster, XXX.............  5*4
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
Animals..................................... 10*4
Bent's Cold Water................. 12
Belle Rose.................................  8
Cocoanut Taffy......................  8
Coffee Cakes.............................  8
Frosted Iioney......................... 11
Graham Crackers...................  8
Ginger Snaps. XXX round.  6*4 
Ginger Snaps, XXX city...  6*4 
Gin.Snps.XXX homemade 
(¡in. Snps.XXX scalloped..  6*4
Ginger Vanilla......................  8
Imperials...................................  8
Jumbles, Honey..................... 11
Molasses Cakes.......................  8
Marshmallow ......................... 15
Marshmallow Creams........ 16
Pretzels, hand made ...........  8*4
Pretzelettes, Little German  6*4
Sugar Cake...............................  8
Sultanas......................... 
  12
 
Sears’ Lunch...............................  7*4
Vanilla Square.......................  8
Vanilla Wafers..................... 14
The Pu tnarn Candy Co. q note 
as follows:
Stick  Candy.bbls. pail
Standard...................... 
6 © 7
Standard H. H.......... 
6 6 7
6 @ 7
Standard Twist.
7 @ 8 
Cut Loaf..............
cases © »‘4 
Extra H. H........
Boston Cream.
©  8*2
bbls. pails
5 @514 
Competition ..
Standard..........
5;*i@ 614
6 @ 7 
Leader ............
6!4@ 714 
Royal................
Conserves........
0!4@ 714 
6*4© 714 
Broken.............
Kindergarten. 
7*4©  8*2@ 9
French Cream.
Valley Cream............
@12*4
Pails
Lozenges, plain........
@ 8i4
@  9*4
Lozenges, printed..
(;hoc. Drops..............  11 @12
@12
Choc. Monumental»
(ft 5
Gum Drops.................
Moss Drops................
(ft 7*,4
(ft 8
Sour Drops..................
Imperials.....................
@  9
Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.Per Box
Lemon Drops............ 
@50
Sour Drops....................... 
@50
@60
Peppermint Drops .. 
Chocolate Drops— 
@65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum Drops................  35 @50
Licorice Drops..........1 00 @
A. B. Licorice Drops 
@75
Lozenges, plain— 
@60
Lozenges, printed.. 
@65
Imperials........................... 
@60
@70
Mottoes............................... 

Cream Bar..........
@55@50@90-@80@90@60@90
...4 25 Molasses Bar........
...4 25 Hand Made (’reams. 80
.. .4 18 Plain Creams............ 60
...4 12 Decorated Creams..
...4 06 String Rock..............
...4  00 Burnt Almonds........1%
...3  94 \\ intergreen Berries
.3  K, 
.3 81 
No. 1 wrapped, 2 lb.
.3 75 3 69 3 50 
boxes .........................
@60@34@51@28
No. 1 wrapped, 3 lb.
boxes ........................
.3 25
No. 2 wrapped, 2 lb. 
boxes ........
f r u i t s "
Medt Sweets,  150s,
176s, 200s___
@4 00
Rodi and Sorrentos
160 Imperials.........
@
200s ...
@4 00
Lemons.
Extra  Choice  360
New Verdillis___
@
Extra  Choice  300
New Verdillis___
©
Fancy 300 New Yer-
dillis 
....................
(ft
Fancy 360 Novemi er
.........
cut 
@
Extra Fancy 360___
<ft8 50
Extra Fancy 300___
@8 50
Bananas.
is hard to
A definite price 
name, as it varies according to
size of bunch and quality of
fruit.
Small bunches...........1 H)  @1 25
Medium bunches...! 25  @1 50
Large bunches...........1 75  @
Foreign Dried Fruits.
Figs, Fancy Lavers
10 to 16 lbs...............
@15
Figs, Choice Layers
10 lb......................
@13
Figs,  Naturals 
in
bags...............................
(ft 6*4
Dates, Fards in  10 lb
boxes......................
©  7
Dates, Fards in 601b
cases ......................
@ ñ
Dates, Persians,  (!.
Ms 60 lb cases.........
© 4*4
Dates,  Sairs  60 lb
cases 
...........................
@ 314
N U T S .
Almonds, Tarragona..
@15
Almonds, Ivaca.............
(ft
Almonds,  California.
soft shelled..................
@12
Brazils new......................
(ft 8
........................
Filberts 
\\ alnuts, Urenob e...
@14
Walnuts, French........
©
Walnuts, Calif No.  1. @12
\\ alnuts, soft shelled
Calif............................... @13
Table Nuts, fanev___
©10*4
Table Nuts, choice...
© 9
Pecans, Texas H. P... 8  (ft, 12
Chestnuts .......................
®
Hickory Nuts per bu„
Mich...............................
©
Coeoanuts, full sacks
(ft3 65
Butternuts per bu___
©
Black Walnuts per bit ©
Peanuts.
Fancy, H.  P„ Game
Cocks.............................
©
Fancy, 11.  P., Game
Roasted.........................
©  7*4
Fancy, II. P., Associa-
t ion.................................
@  514
Fancy, Ii. P.. Associa
tion Roasted..............
@ 7V4
Choice. 11. P„ Extras.
(ft 4*4
Choice, II. P., Extras,
Roasted .......................
@ 6*4 1
Fish  and O ysters
Fresh Fish.
(ft  0
Whitefish....................
(ft,  8
Trout.............................
Black Bass..................
!
© 
12 
Halibut......................... 13@  15
Ciscoes or Herring..
(ft*  6
Blueflsh.........................
(ft  12*2
Live Lobster, per lb ©  18
Boiled Lobster..........
© 20
Cod.................................
@  12
Haddock......................
©  8
(ft  9
No. 1 Pickerel..........
Pike.................................
(ft  ~
Smoked White..........
(ft  8
Red Snappers............
©  15
(ft  20
Col River Salmon..
................... 18©  25
Mackerel 
Shrimps, per gal.... 1XXftl 25
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per 100............1 25©1 50
Clams,  per 100............ 75(ftl 00
Oysters—in Cans.
F. J. Dettenthaler’sBrands.
400,
Fairhaven Counts___
F. J. D. Selects............
35(ft
Selects 
............................. 30©
F. J. D................................. 28©
Anchors............................. 25©
Standards......................... 22©
Wheat.......................................
Patents..............
4 00 
3 50 
Second Patent
3 30 
Straight..............
Clear.
3
Graham 

Subject to  usual cash dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbi. ad­
ditional.
Bolted........................................  2 10
Granulated 
............................. 2 35
St. Car Feed, screened____18 00
St. (:ar Feed, unscreened.. 17 50
No. 1 Com and Oats...............17 00
No. 2 Special...............................16 50
Unbolted Corn Meal...............17 00
Winter Wheat Bran...............14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 16 00
Screenings................................... 14 00
Car lots....................................... 
41
Less than car lots............... 
45
Car lots....................................... 
24
Less than car lots............... 
26
No. I Timothy, ton lots ...
No. 1 Timothy carlots.............14 00
Pelts.
Hides  and
Perkins A Hess pay as fol-
lows:
Hides.
Green.........................
. .  6  (ft 7
Part cured.................
(ft  8
Full Cured.................... 7>,@  8‘,
Dry.................................. 9*4© 11
...  6 (ft 7
Kips, green.. ........
Kips, cured..............
...  Hl4(<t ÍM4
Calfskins, green...... 7* 2<ft 9
Calfskins, cured.... .. 9*¡(ftll
Deaconskins .............25 (ft40
Pelts.
Shearlings.................... 10 @30
Lambs............................20 @50
Old Wool..................
.. 40 (ft 75
Wool.
Washed 
........................ 10 @18
Unwashed....................5 @13
Hiscellaneous.
Tallow............................ 3 @  4*4
Grease Butter............. 1  @2
Switches 
...................... 1*4© 2
Ginseng.......................... 2 50@2 75
The Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and Provision Co. quotes as fol­
lows:
Barreled Pork.
Mess 
.....................................  10 50
Back 
........................................12 00
Clear back ............................12 00
Shortcut...................................10 75
Pig...............................................13 00
Bean 
.......................................
Family ...................................
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies..................................... 
Briskets ................................. 
6*£
Extra shorts......................... 
Smoked Heats.
10Q
Hams, 12 lb average  
 
Hams, 41b average......... 
10
Hams, 16 lb average........ 
9?j
Hams, 20 lb average........ 
*•*.
Ham dried beef................... 
10
Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 
. 
Bacon, clear.......... 
........... 
8*4
California hams................. 
714
Boneless hams..................... 
Cooked ham......................... 
Lards.
Compound, tierces.......... 
49i
Family, tierces................... 
Syp
Granger................................. 
Kettle (our own).............. 
Cottolene............................... 
6J4
Cotosuet 
6
............................... 
501b Tins..............advance 
J4
20 lb Pails..............advance 
10 lb Pails..............advance  %
5 lb Pails..............advance  %
3 lb Pails..............advance 
1
Sausages.
Bologna................................. 
5
Liver.........................................
Frankfort............................... 
Pork.........................................
Blood 
.....................................
Tongue ...................................
Head cheese.........................
Extra Mess. 
...
Boneless 
9 75
Kits, 15 lbs............................. 
80
Q bbls, 40 lbs.......................  1 65
54 bbls, 80 lbs.......................'3 00
Kits, 15 lbs............................. 
75
Q bbls, 40 lbs.....................
1 5035
*4 bbls, 80 lbs.....................
Pork............. 
.......................
Beef rounds.......................
Beef middles....................
Rolls, dairy.......................
Solid, dairy.......................
Rolls, creamery..............
Solid, creamery..............
Corned beef, 2 lb..........
Corned beef, 15 lb..........
Roast  beef, 2 lb. 
Potted  ham, 
*fs. 
Potted ham. 
*4s. 
Reviled ham,  yfs. 
Beviledham, 
*4s. 
Potted tongue 54s
..................................... 3 40 I Potted tongue J4s............. 1

Grains and Feedstuffs

C A N D IE 5 .

Flour  in  Sacks.

Fancy—In Bulk.

Canned  Meats.

Mixed Candy

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterine.

* 

Tripe.

7*-4

9
11*4

7
7*4

*4

Casings.

Wheat.

@10

FRESH  MEATS.

Beef.
Carcass.........................
5 © 7
3*4© 4
Fore quarters..............
Hind quarters............
S © 9
Loins No. 3...................
@10
Ribs.................................
8 @12
Rounds ........................... 6*i(ft  7lA
t hucks.......................
3*4@ 5
Plates 
............................. 2‘4@ 3
Pork.
Dressed........................... 5 Vo(ft 6*4
(ft 11 *4
Loins...............................
(ft 8
Shoulders.......................
(ft 8
Leaf Lard......................
Mutton.
Carcass........................... 41>(ft. 5*4
6 (ft 7
Spring Lambs..............
Veal.
Carcass........................... 6 (ft  6*4
O ILS.
The Standard Oil Co. quotes
as follows:Barrels.
Eocene ...........................
© 9*4
(ft 8
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
High Test Headlight.
@  7
(ft
Naptha ...........................
stove Gasoline............
@10'/,
1 'ylinder..................
31  @38
Engine............................. 11  ©21
(ft 8
Black, winter___
©  " H
Black, summer............
From Tank Wagon.
(ft 8
Eocene.....................
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
@ 6*4
Scofield, shurmer A Teagle
quote as follows:
Barrels.
Palaci ne.................
@¡10*4
(ft 9 %
Daisy While................
© s'*
Red Cross, W.W.Hdlt
© 8K
Naphtha.............
@I0*2
Stove Gasoline............
From Tank Wagon.
(ft  9*4
Palaci tie.............
© 6*4
Red Cross W. \V. lid]
Crockery and
Glassw are.
LAMP BURNERS.
........  42
No. 0 Sun.......................
No. 1 Sun.......................
........  48
No. 2 Sun...................
........ 
70
Tubular.....................
........ 
50
Security, No. 1...
.........  65
........  88
Securitv, No. 2.............
Nutmeg .......................
........ 
50
Arctic...............................
........ 1 15
LAMP CHIMNEYS-Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No. 0 Sun...................................  1 85
No. 1 Sun...................................  2 00
No. 2 Sun......................................2 80
0 Sun, 
crimp  top,
No. 
wrapped and labeled___ 2  10
No. 
crimp  top,
1 Sun, 
wrapped and labeled___ 2 25
crimp top,
No. 
2 Sun, 
wrapped and labeled___ 3 25
No. 
crimp  top,
0 Sun, 
wrapped and labeled___ 2 55
No. 
1 Sun. 
crimp  top,
wrapped and labeled___ 2 75
No. 
2 Sun, 
crimp  top,
wrapped and labeled___ 3 75
No. 1 Sun,  wrapped and
labeled.....................................  3  70
No. 2 Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled........................................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and 
labeled........................................4 88
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb.......... 3 40
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb.......... 4 40
No.  1 Sun. plain bulb, per
doz ........................................... 1 25
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per
dozNo. 1 Crimp, per doz.
1 50 
l 35 1 603 504 00
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.
No. 1, Lime (65c doz)
No. 2, Lime (70c doz)
No. 2, Flint (80c dozi.......... 4 70
No. 2, Lime (70c doz)
4 00 
No. 2, Flint i80c doz)... 
4 40 Doz.
50
Junior, Rochester................. 
Nutmeg ................................... 
15
Illuminator Bases................. 1 00
Barrel lots, 5 doz................... 
90
7 in. Porcelain Shades........ 1 00
Case lots, 12 doz..................... 
90
Lamps.  Doz.  Box 
No. 3 Rochester, lime 1 50 
4 20 
No. 3 Rochester, flint 1 75 
4 805 25
No. 3 Pearl  top, or
Jewel glass.............. 1 85
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
lime............................... 1 75
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
flint ............................. 2 00
5 856 00
No. 2 Pearl glass.........2 10

Mammoth  Chimneys for  Store 

Fire Proof  -Plain Top.

Miscellaneous.

First  Quality.

XXX Flint.

La  Bastie.

Pearl  Top.

Rochester.

Electric.

£ 9

I)oz,

OIL  CANS. 

1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 60
1 gal galv iron with spout. 2 00
2 gal galv iron with spout  3 25
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4 50 
5 gal Eureka with spout... 6 50 
5gal Eureka with faucit..  7 do
5 gal galv iron A A \V........ 7 50
5 gal Tilting cans. M'n’eh 10 50 
5 gal galv iron Nacefas___ 9 00
Pump Cans.
3 gal Home Rule..........
105012on12• 0
5 gal Home Rule..........
3 gal Goodenough........
5 gal < ioodenough........
3no10 00
5 gal Pirate King........
LANTERNS.
No. 0Tubular ......................  3  50
No.  1 B Tubular.................. 5 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash............5  00
No.  1 Tub., glass fount___ 7 00
No. 12 Tutiular, side lamp. 12  00 
No. 3 Stre, t Lamp..............  3 25
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents............... 
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents............... 
No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35........................... 
No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, 
cases 1 doz. each..............  1 25
LAMP WICKS.
No. 0 per gross......................... 
20
No. 1 per gross......................... 
«8
No. 2 per gross......................... 
as
No. 3 per gross......................... 
65
Mommoth per doz................. 
JELLY TUMBLERS-TIn Top. 
*4 Pints, 6 doz in box, per
box (box 00) .......................  1 60
*.! Pints. 20 doz in bbi, per
doz (bbl 35)........................... 
14 Pints, 6 doz in box, per
box (box 00)....................... 
1 HO
*4 Pints, 18 doz in bbi, per 
doz (bbl 35)........................... 
g5
FRUIT JARS.
Mason—old style, pints___
Mason—old style, quarts.. 6 00
Mason...old style,  *4 gal...  8  00
Mason—ldo in case, pts..  6 00 
Mason — 1 doz in case, qts.  6 50 
Mason-  1 doz in case, *4 gal  8 50 
Dandy—glass cover, qts 
. 9  00 
Dandy—glass cover, *4 gal.12 00

45
45
40

75

22

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

7
6%

7*4

IF YOU ABF. IX THF. MARKET FOR

P E A C H E S

Send to headquarters.

BUNTING  &   CO
Ward  L. Andrus &  Co.

********** 

20  and  22  OTTAWA  STREET,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

FRESH  PEACHES

And  Baltimore Canned Oysters a Specialty.
We Solicit Your Consignments.
5 3 =55=57  JEFFERSON  AVE., 

= 

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DETROIT

wholesale 
Commission

Live and  Dressed  Poultry.

 

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.

.

.

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

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Fill  in  and  Mail:

117-119   Monroe  Street, 

Send  your consignments of

84  and 86 South  Division  St.,  GRAND  RAPIDS

FRESH  EGGS,  CHOICE  CREAMERY  and  DAIRY  BUTTER

AKTIIUR J. WATKINS
WATKINS& AXE,Wholesale Produce
*» 
Northern Trade Solicited 
 
  **•—•- •
Special Attention to Consignments 
for Meats and Produce. 
Phone 395 
________ I  ^
and Buying on Track.
CUT  THIS OUT
H. .1. VIXKKMi'LDER.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Sir—When you can ship us good 
yellow peaches, such as Crawfords, Barn­
ards, Fosters, etc., at #1 pe bushel or less
you may ship us.
.bushels
times a  week via 
Signed..
ÌXSXSXèXSXSXSX!
State how to ship:  Freight or Express and 
over what Line.
Fears, Plums and Crabapples are now coming 
in: prices reasonable.
Apples, Potatoes  Melons, Cucumbers, Celery 
Onions, Cabbage, etc., at lowest market prices.
We respectfully solicit your mail  orders; same 
will have our prompt and careful attention and 
benefit of lowest possible prices.

Geo.E.DarliiigSlio.

Peaches

42  Jefferson  Avenue,
142  Woodbridge  St.

BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY  and

FRUITS  to

HENRY  J .  VINKEMULDER,

418-420-445-447  S.  Division  St.  Grand  Rapids 
____ Long Distance Telephone  1084

30
Fruits and Produce

Why  the  Buyer  Controls  the  Peach 

Market.

As  I  came down Wealthy  avenue  the 
otner morning,  I  could  see,  long  before 
I  reached  Ionia  street,  that  there  was a 
full  market,  but  a  greater  number  of 
buyers.  Heads  of  families  with  cran­
ing  necks  and  closely  observing  eyes 
were  scanning  wagonloads and  baskets. 
Housekeepers  with  an  eye  to  the  main 
chance  were  prospecting  for  the  day’s 
dinner,  while  here and  there  among  the 
throng  was  the  provident  preserver  on 
the  lookout  for the  right  kind  of  fruit 
and—shall  I  say  it?-  the  right  kind  of 
seller to 
“ It  grows  crowd­
ed er  an  crowdeder, 
remarked  an 
earnest  buyer  to  her  companion,  as  her 
large  market  basket  familiarly  and  un­
expectedly  thrust a  corner  into  my  ribs 
a  statement  true to  the  letter  and  all 
the better,  it  seemed  to  me,  for  the  lib­
erties  taken  with  the  conventional  rules 
of speech.

‘ do  up !”  

What’s the matter  with  the  market 
this  morning? 
It  seems  to  me  you fel­
lows are  not  getting  what  you  ought  to 
get for your  peaches. ’ ’

“ Are  you  buying or selling?’ ’ was  the 

irrelevant  reply

Neither,  only  it  seems  to  me  that 
you are  not getting  enough  to  pay  for 
the  fruit,  leaving  out  the  labor  part  of 
it,  and  the wear and  tear of  getting  up 
in  the morning. ’ ’

“ 1  should  say  not.  The  fact  is,  these 
commission  men  have  been  putting 
their heads together and  so  the  market 
has tumbled  to  75  cents  this  morning. ’ ’ 
■ Then  why  don’t you  producers  get 
your heads  together and  play  your  own 
game,  instead of theirs. ”

that’s  why. 

Because  we are a  lot of dashed lunk 
heads, 
(He  didn’t  say 
dashed,  but  I  find,  on  trial,  that  his 
adjectives are  by  far too lurid  and much 
too  sulphurous  for  this  column.)  We 
just  go  bleating  around  like  a  lot  ol 
scared  sheep  and  when  the  right  time 
comes,  them  fellows  let down  the  bars 
and  shoo  us  into any.  lot  they  want  to 
and  there we are;  but  I guess we’ll learn 
one of  these  days—”

What  do  you  want  for  peaches  this 

morning?”   asked  a  passing  buyer?”

“ I  want  a  dollar;  but  I ’ll  let you have 

’em  for 75  cents. ’ ’

“ What’ll  yon  take  for your  load?”
A 
little  mental  arithmetic  was 

dulged  in  with  this  for a  result:

in­

'You  may have  the  load  at  75  cents  a 

hughel. ’ ’

Huh !  ’  was the response.  4 * What are 
you  thinking  about?  Seventy-five  cents 
and  I  with  a  family  of a  wife  and  ten 
children  to  support!”

1 hat’s all  right  but what am  I to do, 

with  my  family  of  eleven  children?”

The buyer stepped  back, looked  the 25 
year  old  grower  over  and  remarked  as 
he  turned  away, 
’a ’ 
thought  it !”

“ I  wouldn’t 

interests. 
in  the  market, 

“  Yes, ”   he went  on,  after  the  laugh 
was  over, ’ ’  there  are no  two ways  about 
it 
the growers  are  too  careless  of  their 
Instead  of  having  a 
own 
voice 
somebody  else 
fixes  the  price  for  their goods  and  they 
take  what  they  can  get and go  home  af­
ter another  load.  There ain’t  any sense 
in  it ;  but  it  always  has been  so  and  I 
guess  it always  will  be.

which  develops  from  organized  effort 
on  one side  of a bargain  is  just  as  valu­
able on  the other side and  just  as  easy 
to secure.

Rambler.

PRODUCE  flARKET.

Apples—Cooking  stock, 

$1.50^1.75 
for 3  bushel  barrel.  Fancy  eating  vari­
eties,  such  as  Twenty  Ounce  Pippin, 
Maiden  Blush  and  Strawberry,  $1.75 
per  bbl.

Beets—40c  per bu.
Butter—Factory  creamery  is  strong, 
on  account  of a  further  improvement  in 
the  Eastern  markets,  commanding  20c. 
Dairy 
is  weaker,  if  anything,  than  a 
week  ago,  handlers  paying about  14c for 
choice dairy  and  holding  at  15c.
Cabbage—In  fair  demand  at  35&40C 
per  doz.
Celery—15c  per doz.
Crabapples—35@400  per  bu. 
Cucumbers—Pickling  stock,  70c  per 
Eggs—About  the same as a week ago, 
handlers  paying  11c  and  holding at  12c.
Grapes— Concords and  Wordens  com­
mand  15c  per  8  lb.  basket.  Delawares I 
and  Niagaras bring  20c  for  same  sized 
package.

bu.

Green  Corn—5c  per doz.
Melons—Nutmeg,  50c  per doz.  Osage, 
75c  per  doz. 
Southern  watermelons 
leaving  only 
have  ceased  to  arrive, 
It is small 
homegrown  stock in market. 
in  size  and  inferior  in  quality,  going 
begging at 40@5oc  per  doz.
for  home­
Onions--40^-500  per  bu. 

grown  Yellow  Danvers.

Peaches—This  week  is  “ betwixt  and 
between, ’ ’  marking  the  last  days  of  the 
early  varieties,  while late varieties have 
not  yet  begun  to  come  in  in  any  consid­
erable  quantities  The  glut  is,  appar­
ently,  a  thing  of  the  past,  as  an  active 
demand  has  sprung  up  in  the South dur­
ing  the  past  three  days,  owing  to  the 
fact  that  Delaware  and  New  Jersey 
peaches  have  ceased  to  compete  with 
Northern  fruit  in  Cincinnati,  Louisville 
and  many  other  Southern  cities.  Fos­
ters and  Early  Crawfords  commaud $1 @ 
1.25 ;  Susquehannas bring  §1.25,  while 
Chilis  and  other  inferior varieties  go  at 
So@75c.
Pears—-75c  per bu.  for small  pickling 
stock.  Clapp’s  Favorite,  Bartlett  and 
flem ish  Beauty  varieties  command  $1 
@ 1.25  per  bu.

Peppers—Green,  75@8oc  per bu.
Plums- -Practically  out of  market. 
Potatoes  Utterly  neglected  and  with 
out  demand,  either  local  or  shipping 
Prices  rule  in  buyer’s  favor.

Tomatoes—30^400  per  bu.  for  good 

to  fancy  stock.

A  prominent  French  physician  argues 
that  the  only  way  to  deal  with  criminal 
maniacs  of  a  certain  type  is  to  put 
them  to death.  He  says: 
“ A  crimin 
ally  insane person is like a  wild  animal 
and  should  be  destroyed.  The  case  of 
a  copying  clerk  whom  I  knew  in  my 
youth  will  best  illustrate  this.  The man 
had  been  in  an  insane  asylum  because 
he had,  without  the  slightest  reason  or 
provocation,  killed  a  neighbor  in  cold 
blood.  His  subsequent behavior  in  the 
asylum  caused  the  guardians  to  think 
that he had  recovered  from  his  danger­
ous  madness,  and  he  was 
liberated. 
One  day my  father  intrusted  this  man 
with  a  valuable  medical  manuscript, 
which  had  been  lent  by  the  Munich 
library.  The  clerk  was  to  copy  it,  and 
we accompanied  him  to  his  own door  in 
the  rue  St.  Jacques.  We  had  hardly  left 
him when we heard a  noise,  and upon re­
turning,  we  found  a  dead  man  on  the 
pavement,  and  the  clerk  in  the  hands 
of  the  police.  Looking  for  the  manu­
script.  we  found  it  on  a  stone,  where 
the  clerk  had  placed  it  before  he  stab­
bed  a  harmless  passer-by  to  death.  Of 
course,  he  was again  sent to the asylum, 
where,  about  ten  years  ago,  he  killed 
the  director. 
I  do not know  whether he 
is  still  alive,  but there  can  be  no  doubt 
that  such  people  should  be  put  out  of

I  walked  on  wondering  how  long  it 
would  take  for the  average  grower,  us­
ually  alert enough  in  looking  out  for his 
own  interests,  to  find  out  that  two  heads
---- -------- uui  uuu 
uraus  that  such
are  better than  one and  that  the strength j the  world

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

DETROIT
Grand Rapids Fruit Growers Assn.

Each grower  sells  his own  stock 
fresh picked each  day 

.

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.

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

Headquarters until Oct. 1 
Peaches

22  S .  IONIA  ST

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

WRITE  US TO-DAY.

A L F R E D   J .   BRO W N  CO.

Grand Rapids

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

We respectfully solicit your orders.

ALFRED  J .  BROWN  CO.,

Seed ilerchants,

GRAND  RAPIDS

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

3 1

COMPETITION.

Some  New  Thoughts  on  a  Time- 

Written for the Tradesman.

Worn  Subject.

in  the  town. 

Competition  is  the  life of  trade.  This 
trite  saying  embodies  a  truth sometimes 
not  appreciated  in  localities where there 
appear to  be  too  many  engaged 
in  the 
same  line of  business.  The  trade  that 
is  absolutely  without  competition 
is 
trade  without  life. 
In  the  normal  con­
ditions  of  trade,  there are  few  instances 
where  there  is  no  competition. 
If,  by 
auxiliary  business,  as 
in  the  case  of 
the  company  store,  the  custom  is  com­
pelled,  competition  may  be  gotten  rid 
of  as  to  the  trade,  yet  in  such  cases  the 
store,  with  its custom,  becomes  an  ele­
ment 
in  the  competition  of  the  enter­
prise to  which  it  is  auxiliary.  There 
may  be  localities  where  there  seems  to 
be  no  such  thing  as  competition. 
It 
may  be  that  the  line  carried  is  the  only 
one 
In  such  a  case  the 
merchant  may  fondly  suppose  that  the 
effort  to  sell  goods  which  must  needs 
accompany  competition 
is  not  neces­
sary,  and  that  he  may  sit  down  and  en­
joy  the good  the  gods  send.  The  mer­
chant  who  does this,  even  in  such  local­
ities,  makes 
a  grievous  mistake. 
Competition  obtains  even  there,  and 
the  trade  that  is  not  alive  to  it 
is  in  a 
lethargic  condition.  The  merchant  who 
will  sit  down  under  such  conditions 
is 
not  worthy  of  the  vocation  to  which  In­
is  called. 
If  all  the  customers  possible 
to  be  reached,  already  come  to  his  town 
and  store,  then,  indeed,  there  may  be 
little  chance  for  competition;  but  the 
trade  of  the  dealer subject  to  these  con­
ditions 
in  comparison  with 
what  might  be  otherwise.  The  cases 
are  few  where  there  is  not  trade  going 
localities  which  might  be 
to  other 
life  put  into  the  business 
reached  and 
by  the  effort  thus  made. 
It  is  not  only 
the  trade that  may  be  attracted  away 
from  other dealers  that  benefits  but  ad­
vertising  creates a greatly  increased  de­
mand  among  buyers.  The  advertised 
goods  are  sold  to  those  who  would  not 
have bought at  all.  This fact  is  of  vast­
ly  greater significance  than  is  generally 
considered.

is  dead 

The  word  competition,  to  too  many 
dealers,  has a  very  narrow meaning. 
It 
is  comprised 
in  getting  ahead  of  their 
competitors,  either  by  cheapening 
in 
price  or  by  running  down  their  goods 
and  business. 
It  is  like  one engaged  in 
a  race,  instead  of  bending  every  effort 
to  reach  the goal,  trying  to  run  foul  of 
his  antagonist  and  prevent  him  from 
reaching  it.  It  serves  such  an  one  right 
when  he comes  to grief  himself  in  these 
attempts,  but  the  analogy  of  the  race 
does  not  hold  good.  There  are  equal 
and  sufficient  prizes  for  all  in  fair com­
petition.

Competition  by  cheapening 

is  never 
legitimate  or good  policy.  There  is  an 
idea  widely  prevalent  that  business  is 
increased  by  making  the  fact  of  low 
it  is  the  low 
prices  known  and  that 
prices  alone  which 
increase  the  busi­
ness.  There  are  many  dealers  who 
will  assert  this  and  cite their experience 
to  prove  it.  The  error  lies 
in  this,  it 
was  not  the  price  that brought  the  cus­
tom,  but  the  advertising.  To  be  sure 
the  customer  wants  to  know  that  the 
prices  are  right,  but  the  cheapness 
would  not  be the  prominent  feature 
in 
many  cases  if  it  were  not  made  so  by 
the advertiser.  There  is a  class  of  trade 
where the  last  cent  on  a bargain  is  the 
prime  object;  but  the  loss  of  such  trade 
is  not a  misfortune,  and,  if  competition

be  fair,  it  will  not  be  so 
factor as  many merchants  suppose.

important  a 

This 

What,  then,  is 

legitimate  competi­
tion?  The answer  has  many  elements, 
comprised  in  reaching the  people  with 
the  best  goods  obtainable  at  correct 
It  is  obvious that,  to  reach the 
prices. 
people,  one  must  advertise. 
is 
legitimate  competition  and  calls  out  the 
best  of  a  merchant’s  ability.'  Where, 
when,  how  to advertise  judiciously  and 
economically  requires  close  application 
of  a  clear mind  to  determine  and  the 
one who  has  the  ability  to  devote  the 
most and  best  mental  effort  in  this  di­
is  the  one  who  will  lead  in  the 
rection 
race anil  no  harm  will  come  to  him 
if 
his  competitor  is  close behind.

Another  element  is  having  the  best 
possible  goods  purchased  at 
correct 
prices.  This,  also,  calls  for  much  per­
sistent,  patient,  careful  attention.  Pity 
the  man  who  has  bought  indifferent 
goods  at  too  high  prices.  He  is of  all 
men  the  most  miserable.  The  only 
remedy  for  such  a_mistake  is  for  the 
dealer to  stir  himself,  advertise  goods 
at  prices  which  will  clear them  out,  and 
then  learn  how  to buy  correctly.  His 
only  salvation  is  to  advertise  promptly 
by  some means;  time  will  only  serve  to 
make  his  condition  worse.

Other elements are an  attractively  ar­
ranged  stock  in  an  attractively  neat, 
clean,  bright building,  and  the  employ­
ment  of  clerks  whose  courtesy  will  at­
tract  and  hold  custom.  These,  espec­
important,  and 
ially  the  last,  are  also 
they  involve  cost,  for which  the custom­
er  should  pay.  The  customer  wants, 
whether  consciously  or  unconsciously, 
something  besides  his  goods  at  the  low­
est  possible  figure  he  wants  courteous, 
accommodating  treatment involving val­
uable  time and  intelligence.  He  ought 
to  pay  for 
it  and  he  will  pay  for  it. 
There  are  customers  who  may  think 
they  don’t  care  whether their  goods  are 
bought  from  a gentleman  or  a  churl,  or 
whether they  come  out of  a  palace  or  a 
pig  pen,  only  so  they  are  good  and 
cheap,  but  they  do  care,  just  the  same 
and  will  pay  the difference  if  they  have 
a  chance.

The  race  is  to  the  swift  and  strong- 

to  the  one  who  will  put 
into  it  the 
mental  and  moral  effort  to  command 
success;  to  the  one  who  has  mental 
and  moral  breadth  of  mind  which  will 
enable  him  to  charge  what  his goods are 
worth,  taking  into  consideration  all  the 
proper  elements  of  cost;  to  the  one  who 
will  most  effectively  and  surely  reach 
the  people  by  suitable  and  sufficient 
advertising.  The  race  is  not  to  the nar­
row  soul  that  thinks  he can  only  sell  his 
goods by  selling  them  cheap.

\V.  N. Fuller.

♦

  •

Jackson  Jottings.

Jackson,  Aug.  30  -Ex-Alderman  Fred 
Lewis  has  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
and  fixtures  of  J.  H.  Purvis,  corner  of 
Wildwood  and  West  avenues,  and  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Haven  &  Son  have opened  a  flour and 

feed  store at  717  East  Main  street.

D.  F.  &  G.  E.  Neidhart  have  put - 
chased  the  harness  stock  and  tools  of 
their  father,  at  120  South  Mechanic 
street,  and  will continue  the business.

Charles  L.  Beamer,  of  Barry  county, 
has opened  a  fruit  store at  the  old  post 
office building,  South  Mechanic  street.
Cookingham  &  Johnson  have  opened 
a wholesale  and  retail  fruit  house  in  the 
Stowe 11  House  block,  East  Main  street.
The  new  Michigan  Corset  Co.  has 
commenced  operations  in  the  buildiug 
formerly  occupied  by  the  Michigan 
Harness  Co.  on  East  Main  street.

Peaches!

B u tter*

E g g s   an d 
•  11111 ,   « J l . ,  
R H  a r*f 

F r u it s !

I  M 

Consignments received.  Highest 

Prices procured.

36  Market  St.
138  Bates  St.

Telephone  1218. 

D E T R O IT .
Mason Fruit Ja rs

W.  H.  BEACH
W H O L E S A L E   D E A L E R  IN
HAY.  GRAIN,
SEEDS,
PRODUCE,

Orders Promptly  Filled 
W rite for Quotations

HOLLAND,  n iC H .

Everything  for the

Field  and  G arden
S M 5 Clover,  Medium  or  Mam­

moth,  Alsyke,  Alfalfa  and 
Crimson,  Timothy,  Hunga- 
rian  Millet,  Peas and  Spring 
Rye.  Garden  Seeds in bulk 
and Garden Tools.

We quote for immediate orders the following 
prices : packed one dozen in box, each jar in 
sépara1 e compartments. Price subject to change. 
No charge for box or cartage.
Per Gross.
Pints, wide mouth........................................................$6.00
Quarts, wide mouth......................................................6.50
Half gallons, wide mouth................................... 
8.50
Same packed in straw as before, 50 cents per 
gross less.
Extra caps and rubbers........................................$3.50
Rubber rings for Mason jars................................. 
.30
Mail orders direct to

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

128=132  West Bridge Street,

Headquarters for  Egg Cases  and  Fillers

W.T. UHnOREHUX CO.
SEEDS, POTATOES, BEANS

We handle all kinds FIELDsSEEDS, Clover, Timothy. Hungarian, Millet, Buck­
wheat, Field Peas, Spring Rye, Barley, Etc.  Buy and 'sell Potatoes, Beans, Seeds,
Eggs, Etc.  Carl lots or less.
If you wish to buy or sell write us.

EGG  CRATES  and  EGG  CRATE  FILLERS.

H.  Leonard  &  Sons, 

rapids.

I M A C p I   p V   D n n C  
1 

26=28=30=32.0 TTAW A  STREET

I  
Jobbers  SEEDS,  BEANS,  POTATOES,  FRUITS.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

SEND  YOUR  CONSIGNMENTS OF

P E A C H E S

Stencils furnished upon applica'ion.

T o   Q A W L E Y   B R O S .  &   C O .,  64=66  Woodbridge  St.  W.,  Detroit.

References^^^—-

DUN’S  &  BRADSTREET’S 
HOME  SAVINGS  BANK  -  -

We Want Every Retailer to 

Share the Profits of

K 0 F F A - A 1 D

It  retails  at  12c  per  package,  equal  to  one  pound  of  ground 
coffee?  Refer to price current  in  this  issue  under  the  head  of 
Coffee for  Price Thereon. 
If your jobber cannot supply  it, drop 
us a postal, and we  will  see  that  you  get  it.  Each  case  con­
tains samples  colored  Banner  Placque and  advertising  matter.

The Koffa=Aid Co.,  =  =  =  Detroit.

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

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index 

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

Special Correspondence.

of  the  Market.

it 

It  has  been 

It  has  been  shaded 

New  York  Aug.  31—Where are  we  at? 
What  ails August anyway?  Many jobbers 
is  the  dullest  August  for years 
say 
and  we have  only  to  report  the  demand 
for groceries as  being of  the  most limit­
ed  sort. 
Sufficient  goods  are  being 
taken  to  last  from  day  to  day  and  there 
It  is  a  waiting  condi­
it  seems  to  end. 
tion  which  confronts  us 
From  some 
interior  points  come  reports of an excel­
lent  business  being  done,  but,  as  for 
New  York  City  the  grocery  jobbing 
trade  can  take  care  of a  far  larger  vol­
ume of  business  and  even  then  not  be 
rushed  to death.  Transportation  charges 
will  soon  be  advanced  and  buyers  who 
desire  to  save  anything  in  the  matter 
of  freights  should  take  advantage  of 
present  rates.
Sugar  is  utterly  unattractive  to  buy­
ers. 
in  vain  and 
foreign  has  been  sold  for  future  deliv­
ery at  4c. 
intimated  that 
the  Sugar  Trust  will  use  the  latter  fact 
as  an  argument  for  the  further  increase 
in  duties  when  Congress assembles,  so 
just  now  and 
low’ ’ 
they  are  “ laying 
more  than  recouping 
in 
themselves 
the  stock  market  for any losses they may 
in  the  legitimate  sale of  granulat­
meet 
ed  sugar.  The 
fact  that  30,000  bags 
(112  pounds  each)  or so of  refined  sugar 
have  been  imported 
into  this  country 
is  supposed,  make  an  excellent 
will,  it 
club  for  Congressmen,  but
The  declining  tendency  of  the  coffee 
market  seems  to be  checked  and,  while 
the  demand 
is  a 
pretty  fair  trade  on  the basis  of  16c  for 
No.  7  Rio.  Mild  grades  are  about 
steady.  Trading  has  not  been  for  any 
large  lots.  The  amount of  Brazil  coffee 
afloat  is  546,575  bags,  against  472,101 
bags at the same time  last  year.  From 
reliable sources  it 
is  learned  that  the 
syndicate  controlling 
the  European 
movement  of  coffee  is anxious  to  liqui­
date before a  collapse  lakes place and  is 
only  “ hanging  on  by  the  eyelids. ’ ’ 
Stock  of mild  coffees  111  New  York,  not 
including  East  Indian  sorts,  is 99,192 
bags.

is  not  brisk,  there 

Teas  remain  in  about  the  usual  chan­
nel.  While  prices are  at  the  lowest  rate, 
the  feeling  is  one of  rather  more  confi­
dence  and  sellers  express  themselves  as 
not  at  all  discouraged.  Buyers,  how­
ever,  appear  to  look  at  the  matter  in  a 
diffident  light  and  don’t  seem  to  care 
whether  school  keeps or not.
Spices  are  in  rather  better condition 
and  a 
firmer  undertone  pervades  the 
market.  Sellers are  not  over anxious  to 
dispose  of  stocks and  very  little  dicker­
ing  takes place between buyer and seller.
There  is  a  difference  of  opinion  be­
tween  buyer and  seller on  molasses as to 
the  condition  of  affairs.  The  former 
maintains that  he  can  buy  any grade  he 
wants at  almost  his  own  price.  Sellers 
say  that  they  are  making  not  the  least 
concession 
in  the  world,  and  between 
the two  it  is  hard  to arrive at the  exact 
truth.  Prime  N.  O.  molasses 
is  worth 
ig@ 2ic;  choice,  22(^250.
Syrups are somewhat  depressed,  even 
in  a  period  of  dullness.  The  sales  are 
mostly  of  a hand-to-mouth  character and 
probably  rates are  shaded in cases where 
necessary  to  make  sales.  Choice,  20
& 2 2 C .
The  supply  of  rice  is not  so  large  as 
to  bring  any  apprehension  of  undue  ac­
cumulation  and  the  demand 
is  about 
equal  thereto.  The  amount  of  foreign 
is  certainly  diminishing.

is, 

Canned  goods  attract  no  attention. 
The amount  of tomatoes  which  will  be 
canned  this  fall  is,  by all  reports,  going 
to be  mighty  small.  That 
in  the 
Maryland  and  Delaware  districts.  One 
reliabl;  authority  says  there  will  not be 
a  single  packer  in  Harford  county  who 
will  pack  5,000 cases  by  Sept. 
1.  Fur­
ther,  he  says  that where  1,250,000  cases 
were  packed  last  year,  less  than  300,000 
will  be put up this season.  All  this is im­
portant—so  far  as  it goes—and,  if  the 
same  holds good  all over the country,  we 
shall  see  higher  prices,  of  course;  but 
the  country  is  big  and  the tomato  is gay 
and  festive and  prolific-—very  much  so.

Peaches  are very dull  and  buyers  are 
indifferent.  The  supply  of  pears 
is 
large and the  demand  is not satisfactory 
at  all.

influence  on 

Butter  shows  very  little  change,  the 
best  Western  andJState  being  quotable 
at  20c.  Arrivals are  not  large  of  that 
quality  and  the  demand  seems■  about 
equal  to  the  supply.  Aside  from  top 
grades,there  is absolutely  nothing doing 
and  under grades sell at nominal figures.
The  extremely  hot  weather has  exert­
ed  an  unfavorable 
the 
cheese  market  and  a  large  share of  that 
coming  to  hand  is  not  all  that  could  be 
wished.  Small  sized  colored  is  worth 
from  7 l/£(Q}7%c,  but  more  than  this 
seems  very difficult  to obtain.
Best  Northern  Ohio  and  Michigan 
‘ ‘ manu­
eggs  are  worth  15c  if  of  fresh 
facture. 
fairly 
liberal  and  the demand  has  been  good 
for fresh eggs.
Lemons  are great luxuries.  They  are’ 
selling all  the  way from  $6.75@9 a  box, 
the  latter  for  fancy  Maiori.  Oranges 
are quiet and  steady,  and  the  same  may 
be  said  of  bananas  and  other  foreign 
fruits.
immense 
and,  in  bulk,  supplies  of  Long  Island 
are  bringing  only  about  Si  per bbl., 
while  many  are  selling  as  low as  75c.

The  supply  of  potatoes 

Arrivals  have  been 

is 

The  horseless  carriage,  which  was 
started by  one  of  the  big  department 
stores  last  Thursday  as an  example  of 
what  is  to  come  in  the  way  of  delivery 
wagons,  was  a  great  success,  and  the 
crowd  which  watched  it  was  enthusias­
tic.  The big  stableful  of  horses  which 
the stores  have  been  obliged  to  keep 
are  bound  to  go.  Where  will  the  end 
be of  the  reign  of  electricity?

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat has  only  held 

its  own  during 
•the  past week.  On  Thursday  there  was 
quite an  advance,  but the  fine  weather, 
large gold  exports,  rather  small  exports 
of  wheat  and  increased  receipts  at  the 
Northwest gave  the  market  a  setback 
during  the  last  two  days.  We  may  see 
more of  this  lagging  off 
if  the  spring 
wheat  farmers turn  their  wheat  on  the 
market  at once.  Winter  wheat  receipts 
are  slacking  up,  as  the  prices  do  not 
suit  the  farmers.  Some have other work 
to do,  so  they  leave their  wheat 
in  the 
graneries.  As  yet,  the  shortage  does 
not  effect  the  markets,  as  foreigners can 
buy  wheat  elsewhere  at  the  present 
time.  However,  Argentine  exports  are 
falling  off and  other  exporting  sections 
are also  shipping  in  less,  so  the  trade 
will,  eventually,  come  to  the  United 
States  for supplies, when prices  will  ad­
vance  to  where  they  have  been.  The 
increase this  week  was  very  small,  be­
ing  only  350,000 against  about  2,800,000 
last  year.

Com  and  oats are on the down  grade. 
While  oats  are a  very  light  crop  in  the 
State,  prices remain  extremely low.  Ow­
ing  to  the  large corn crop  oats, as well as 
corn,  will  remain extremely cheap,  and, 
owing  to  the  cheapness  of  sugar,  there 
will  not be as  much com  used  in  mak­
ing  glucose.

The  receipts  were:  43  cars  wheat,

6 cars com  and 7  cars oats.

C. G. A.  V o ig t .

There  is  trouble  in  New  Boston,  this 
State.  The  fish  are  dying  there by thou­
sands,  poisoned  by  the  drainage  from 
the  Detroit  Sanitary  Works. 
. What 
should  be done  is  to dig  a  canal  right 
across  the  State  and  give  the  finny  tribe 
a  taste  of  the  wholesome  and  healing 
waters  of  Grand  River.

For  Bargains  in  Real  Estate, 
in  any  part  of  the  State, 

write  to...................G. W. Ames

106  Phoenix  Block 
BAY  CITY,  MICHIGAN

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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

F-hir sale—a stock of general mer-
chandise.  Double store building, saw mill 
and stock of seasoned lumber.  Business well 
established in a live town, situated fourteen 
miles from any other trading point.  Mill will 
pay $1,000 a year above expenses.  A splendid 
chance for the right party.  Reason for selling, 
ill health.  Address No. 840, care Michigan 
Tradesman.____________________________________840
tion on railroad.  No competition within 
ten miles.  Address No. 839, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
839
IjM)R  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  IN  GOOD  LOCA 
IjV»R  SALE  OR RENT—LIVERY 
BARN.
Have also for sale at a bargain one carryall 
and three-seat carriage.  C. B. Lovejoy, Agent, 
Big Rapids, Mich. 
831
YT7TLL SELL ONE OF  THE  BEST $4,000 
Vt  general stocks of merchandise on earth at 
50 cents on the dollar.  Cash—no traders need 
apply.  Lock box 46,  Reed City, Mich. 
835
f'tASH AND HOUSE AND LOTS IN GRAND 
V  Rapids, Michigan, to exchange for first-class 
stock of boots and shoes.  Address Box 101, Les­
lie, Mich. 
831
TJV1R SALE—HARDWARE STUCK, SET OF 
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 
Michigan Tradesman. 
832
CTOCK  of  millinery  and  fancy
O goods, 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 
City, Mich. 
833
fpOR  SALE-STOCK  OF GENERAL  MER- 
chandise in a live growing town of3,000 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
TTT ANTED—A COMPLETE OUTFIT OF MA­
TT  chinery for band sawmill and planing 
mill plant to supply the place of one recently de­
stroyed by fire.  Second-hand will do if good and 
cheap.  Address Fearon Lumber & Veneer Co., 
fronton, Ohio. 
826
\  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 
829
Stores, St. Louis, Mich. 
IT'OR RENT—THE  WALDRON BLOCK, OP- 
I  posite Union depot.  Best location in city 
for wholesale or commission  business. 
See 
Scribner Bros, or F. D. Waldron. 
830
A BIG CHANCE FOR SOMEONE—JEWELRY 
A  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
f^OR SALE—HALF INTEREST IN A WELL- 
established drug store located in best town 
in Upper Peninsula mining district.  Stock also 
includes stationery, blank books and wall paper. 
Cash sales, $8,000 per year.  Will sell half in­
terest for $1,500 cash and permit purchaser to 
pay for balance of Interest oat of profits of busi­
ness. Purchaser must be able to take full charge 
of business, as present owner must remove to 
warmer climate on account of ill health.  Ad- 
dress No. 820, care Michigan Tradesman. 
820
ATT ANTED - TO EXCHANGE  DESIRABLE 
VV  residence property or vacant lots located 
in Benton Harbor, Mich., for stock of groceries 
or general stock.  Address Box 1296, Benton Har­
bor, Mich. 
815
For sale or exchange—a fine  mill
property, 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
YX7ANTED—PARTNER TO TAKE HALFIN- 
V 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 county,Mich. 711
fvm SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES;
comer location; stock in good condition and 
business paying.  Good reasons for selling.  Ad- 
dress Dr. Nelson Abbott, Kalamazoo, Mich. 776
ITOUNG MAN OF 18 YEARS OF AGE WHO 
has been attending business college offers 
services free to retail shoe dealer for an in­
definite time, in order to gain practical expe­
rience and with a view of purchasing an inter­
est.  Address J. K., care Michigan Tradesman.
837
T UMBER AT WHOLESALE; WILL MAKE 
JLJ  you wholesale prices on lumber, shingles, 
lath, delivered in car lots at your place; can 
fill house or barn bills direct from mill and save 
you .5 per cent.  Address F. H. Earle, School­
craft, Mich.______________________________________836
TT7E BUY ALL KINDS SCRAP IRON, METAL, 
VV  ags, shirt and overall cuttings and rub­
ber.  Write for prices. Wm. Brummeller & Sons, 
260 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. ’Phone 640.  804
TXT ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, PO­
TT 
tatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc.  Cor­
respondence solicited.  Watkins  & Axe, 84-86 
South Division street, Grand Rapids. 
673
TTTANTED—EVERY DRUGGIST JUST COM- 
VV mencing business, and every one already 
started, to use our system of poison labels. What 
has cost yon $15 you can now get for $4.  Four­
teen labels do the work of 113. Tr desman Com­
pany, Grand Rapids.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Wanted!
Beans!

Hither 

farmer’s  stock, 
machine  cleaned  or  hand­
picked.  Will  buy  outright 
or handle  in  a  commission 
way.  Ample  storage  and 
improved machinery.  Lib­
eral  advances  on  consign­
ments.

0.  E.  BURSLEY  &4C0.,

Fort  Wayne,  Ind.

TO  CLOSE  UP  AN  ESTATE

Good  Furnitu re 
B u sin ess___

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

Well selected and complete stock of all 

kinds of Household  goods.

Yearly business of $50,000 can be done.
Will be sold at a bargain.
Address  No. 

1,000,  care  M ic h ig a n  

T r a d e sm a n .

Are You  Looking 

.....for  Business?

FOR  SA L E

GRAND  RAPIDS, fllCH.

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

Size of ground KHlxltO ft.  Machine Shop, one 
story, 60x65 ft.  Foundry, 60x60 ft, two cupolas. 
Boiler and Pattern Shop, two stories, 50x100 ft. 
Blacksmith Shop, in rear, 50x60 ft., two forges. 
Engine Room, 33x20 ft.  Engine and Boiler of 75 
horse power capacity.  Vacant ground for stor­
age, 60x160 ft.
Will be sold cheap and on easy terms, to close 
an estate. 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
By Wm. T. P o w e r s, Survivor.

W fl.  T.  POWERS  &  SON,

M IC H A E L   K O L B   &   5 0 N ,  

Wholesale

Clothing  Manufacturers,

ROCHESTER,  N.Y.

Write  our  representative,  W ILLIAM 
CONNOR,  of  Marshall,  Mich,  Box 346' 
to  call  upon  you and  see  our  fall  and 
winter 
lines  of  Overcoats,  Ulsters  and 
Suits  for  all  ages,  prices,  fit  and  make 
guaranteed,  or  meet  Mr.  Connor  at
The  MORTON  HOUSE,  0n,nRdapids>

On  Tuesday  afternoon,
Sept.  10 to  Sept.  14__

FAIR  WEEK.

Millers!  Attention!

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.

SPOONER  &  HALL,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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always.

Attention  to  these  principles  has  placed  the

S econd.  Let  the  people  know  of  it,  early  and  often.

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

First.  Make  the  best  goods  possible ;  not  once  in  a while,  but 
T hird.  Don’t  neglect  details.
Qail  Borden  Eagle  Brand
the  consumer’s  favor,  because  it  has INTRINSIC MERIT.
Borden’s  Peerless  Brand

EVAPORATED  CREAM  is sure  to  obtain  an  equally  high  place  in 

CONDENSED  MILK  at the  head,  and

Prepared and guaranteed by the NEW  YORK  CONDENSED  niLK  CO. 

IST" f o b   Q u o t a t i o n s   S e e   P r i c e   C o l u m n s .

IT  HAS  NO  EQUAL

Don’t fail to order a su p p ly now. 

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You  Want  It!
You Must Have It!
The  Law  Says  You  Shall 

Have  It!

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

Grand  Rapids 

ABSOLUTELY  PURE.

Our Goods are sold by all Michigan Jobbing Houses. 

BRUjSHES

ACTURERS OF

....Brush  Co.
GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

—« CORBIN’S

The  only  perfect  Sharpener .made.  Will 
sharpen  any  pair  of  shears  or  scissors  in 
ten seconds.  Made of the finest tempered 
steel, handsomely finished and nickel plated

There are  113  poisonous drugs  sold, which  must  he  labeled  as  such,  with  the 
proper antidote attached.  Any label  house will  charge you  14  cents  for  250  labels, 
the smallest amount sold'.  Cheap  enough, at a glance,  but did you  ever figure  it out 
-—11-3 kinds at  14 cents—$15.82.  With our system  you get the" same  results with  less 
detail for less than one-third the money.

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

Tradesman  Company

Grand  Rapids

SELLS  AT  SIGHT

Her scissors will always have a  keen edge, 
funded.

Because every lady can see at a glance 
the  practical  benefit  she  will  derive 
from this addition to her work  basket. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed  or  money  re-

Put up one dozen  on handsome 8x 1 2   Easel  Card.  Per Dozen, $1.50.

FOR SALE AT WHOLESALE BY

I.  M. C l a r k   G r o c e r y  C o. 
Mu sselm a n  G r o c e r  Co. 
I  L emon  &  W h e e l e r   Co. 
|  B a l l - B a r n h a r t- P u t.man  Co. 

H a z e l t in e   &  P e r k in s  D ru g  Co.
A.  E.  B rooks  &  Co
Putnam  Ca n d y  Co
W u r z b u r g J e w e l r y   Co.

OR  BY  THE  MANUFACTURER,

W.  T.  LAMOREAUX,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCH.

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OUR  LATEST  --  Imported  Twins

ALFRED  MEAKIN’S  SEMFPORCELAIN.

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 the money.  Your  customers  will  not  be 
disappointed.

BROWN  AND  PINK  ENAMEL.

The  Decorator's  art  is  here  produced  in  the  highest degree, as 
shown  in  the  beautiful  blended  colors  produced  in  this  decoration. 
The handles and knobs are  richly  ornamented  with  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  yon  will  surely thank  us for 
having called your attention to it.

BROWN  and  PINK  ENAriELED. 

Ideal  Shape.

Luton  Decoration.

Gold  Handles and  Knobs.

PEARL.

BROWN  AND  PINK

GRAND  RAPIDS

Ideal  Shape. 

Luton  Decoration.

2 48
3 04
5 34
1 03
1 78
1 64
1 12
1 38
1 38
1 10
28
96
41
62
42
62

These  Goods  in  Open  Stock

H. Leonard &  Sons
3 only 10 Inch Dishes....................... 2 48 
82
2 only 12 inch Dishes....................... 4 13 
69
1 only 14 inch Dishes..............— 5 78 
48
3 only Pickles....................................... 1 65 
41
3 only Sauce Boats........................... 220 
55
2 only 24s Jugs.................................... 193 
32
41
3 only 30s Jugs ................................... 1 65 
35
3 only 36s Jugs...................................... 1 38 
3 only 8 inch Covered Dishes... 6 60  1 65
3 only 8 inch Casseroles................. 7 43  1 86
2 only Cov. Butter and Drs........ 4 95 
83
2 only Sugars 30s................................ 3 30 
55
2 only Creams 30s............................... 1 54 
26
Per Set.
21 Sets Handled Teas........................ 
11 55
55 
3 Sets Handled Coffee».................. 
64 
1 92
Total Amount Forward... 
46 39

A ssorted   C rate  Flow n  P earl  and  B row n   and  Pink  Enam el  No.  1.
Amount Forward................. 
76  47
Doz.
3 only 8 inch Dishes....................-1 
75 
4 doz.5 inch Plates..............
..........$ 62
3 only 10 inch Dishes................  3 
15 
......... 
76
4 doz.6 inch Plates............
2 only 12 inches............................  5 
88
25 
..................... 
6 doz.7 inch Plates 
89
35 
1 only 14 inch Dish.....................  7 
gj
1 doz.8 inch Plates....................... 1 03
10 
3 only Pickles.................................2 
2 doz.7 inch Coupe Soups.......... 
89
3 only Sauce Boats.....................  2 
80 
70
4 doz.4 inch Fruits.............
41
......... 
45 
2 only 24s Jugs.............................  2 
4 doz.Individual Butters.
.........  28
10 
3 only 30s Jugs.............................  2 
52
2 doz.Bone Dishes...............
69
........ 
3 only 36s Jugs.............................  1 
75 
69
........ 
2 doz.Oatmeals.....................
3 only  8 inch Cov Dishes, 8 inch 8 40  2 10
1 doz.Ovster Bowls, 30s...
........ 1 10
3 only  8 Inch Casseroles, 8 inch.  9 45 
2 36
........ 1 10
3 onlvBowls, 30s..................
1 05
2 only Covered Butters and Drs  6 30 
12 only3 inch Bakers..........
.........  <6
2 only Sugars 30s .............................  4 20 
70
3 onlv7 inch Bakers..........
........ 1 65
2 only Creams 30s............................. 1% 
33
3 onlv8 inch Bakers..........
........2 48
Per Set.
3 onlv7 inch scallops........
........ 1 65
21 Sets Handled Teas....................... 
70  14  70
3 onlv8 inch Scallops........
2 48
3 Sets Handled Coffees................. 
82  2 46
......... 1 38
3 only8 Inch Dishes...........
Total........................................... 
$105 49
Crate and Cartage Net.......... 
$2 50

Amount forward.................. 
$46 39
4 doz. 5 inch Plates.............Doz.#  79 
3 16
4 doz. 6 inch Plates......................... 
96  384
6 doz. 7 inch Plates.........................  1 14  6 84
1 doz.  8 inch Plates......................... 
l  31
2 doz. 7 inch Coupe Soups.......... 1 14  2 28
4 doz. 4 inch Fruits........................ 
53  2 12
4 doz. Individual Butters........... 
1 40
35 
2 doz. Bone Dishes.......................... 
1 76
88 
2 doz. Oatmeals ................................ 
1 76
88 
1 doz. Oyster Bowls, 30s................. 
1  40
3 only Bowls......................................... 1 40 
1 23
12 only 3 inch Bakers..................... 1 23 
3 only 7 inch Bakers 
53
.................... 2 10 
3 onlv 8 inch Bakers....................... 3 15 
79
3 only 7 inch Scallop«....................  2 10 
52
3 only 8 inch Scallops................... 3 15 
7976 47

Saving Scale

in  Open  Stock.

These  Goods

53
41
44

44
79

34

35

*
¥

Investigate  the  Dayton  Computing  Scale. 

PAYS  FOR  ITSELF

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

in  your  business  these  hard  tim es.  Y o u   can  not  afford 

It prevents all  errors in  weighing-  and
STOPS  THE  LEAKS

to  be  without  one.

YOU  NEED  IT!

SEE  WHAT  USERS  SAY.

BOSTON STORK.
118-124 State St., and 77-79 Madison St.,
Cash Merchandise.Chicago, Dec. 31, 1894. 
The Computing Scale Co.. Dayton, Ohio: 
Gentlemen:  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 economicaFscale in use for meat markets 
Yours truly,Boston Store.

and groceries 

1895.

Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, etc*.
Bonaparte, Iowa. April :
Dayton Computing Scale Co., Dayton, O.: 
In reference to yours of recent 
date regarding the Computing Scales which vou 
Gentlemen: 
sent us, permit us to state that they have'ex 
ceeded our expectations, giving us the utmosi 
satisfaction. 
e consider it one of our greatest 
conveniences in our store, and knowing it as we 
now do and from the experience we have had 
from its usage in the store, we would not dis­
pense with it for ten times its value.  Any ordi 
nary clerk, with common school education can 
expedite business equal to two or three clerks 
and we prize it as one of our foremost fixtures 
J. W. Whitblet a Son.

in our store.  We consider and feel that ours has 
paid for itself In two months.

Yours truly,

For  further  particulars  call

or  write

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio.

