Volume XIII.
The  nichigan

T r U S t   C O . ,  

Grand  Rapids,

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator 

Guardian,  Trustee.

Send for copy of our  pam phlet  "Law s  of  the 
S tate of M ichigan  on  D escent  and  D istribution 
of P roperty.”

Martin DeWright. 

J .  Renihan,  Counsel.

The  Michigan 
Mercantile  Company

3   &  4 Tower Block,  Grand Rapids. 

C orrespondence solicited.  Law and collections. 

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R eports  on  in d iv id u als fo r  th e  retail  trad e, 
house renters an d  professional m en.  Also  Local 
A gents  F u rn .  Com.  A gency  Co.'s  “ R ed  Book.” 
C ollections han d led  fo r m em bers. P hones 166-1030 

WIDD1COMB  BLDG.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Goiumtlan  Transfer  Company

CARRIAGES 
BAGGAGE  and 
FREIGHT  WAGONS

■ 5 and  17  North  Waterloo St. 

Telephone 38 1.1. 

Grand Rapids.

T his  Check  fu rn ish ed   by  P referred   B ankets 
Life A ssurance Co., Lansing,  M ich.,  to  be  w orn 
on  key  rin g   to  Identify  keys  if  lost,  also 
to 
id en tify  th e person in   case  of  ac cident  o r  sud- 
dendllness.

Country  Merchants

Can save exchange by  keeping  th e ir B ank 
accounts in  G rand R apids, as G rand R apids 
checks are p a r in  all m arkets.  The

Offers  exceptional  facilities to its custom ­
er'-, and is  prepared  to  ex ten d   any favors 
co n siste n t w ith sound banking.

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

Detrot  Bonner  Simp  Go.

99  Griswold  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  29,1896.

Number 645

Official  Call  for  the  Big  Rapids  Con­

vention.

Grand  Rapids, 

Jan.  22—The  semi­
annual  convention  of 
the  Northern 
Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
will  be  held  at  Big  Rapids,  on  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday,  Feb.  4  and  5,  conven­
ing  at  10  o’clock  on  the  day first named.
Every  grocer  doing  business  in  Mich­
igan  north  of  the  D.,  G.  H.  &  M.  R ’y 
is 
invited  to  attend  the  meeting,  as 
matters  of  great  importance  to  the  trade 
will  come  up  for discussion  and  action. 
Among  the  topics  already  assigned  are 
the  following :

“ Should  the  retail  grocer favor whole­
sale  department  stores?” —N.  Bicknell, 
Clare.

“ Should  the 

jobber  handle  produce 
for  the  retail  dealer?” -—Geo.  F .  Cook, 
Grove.

“ The  pure  food  laws  and  their  effect 
on  the  retail  dealer.’ ’—State  Food Com­
missioner  Storrs.

“ How  can  the  present  business  con­

ditions  be  improved?’ ’—

“ Who  will  be  the  Moses  of  the  potato 

market?” —Jesse  Wisler,  Mancelona.

“ The  essentials  of  a  successful  busi­
ness  career?” —-Prof.  W.  N.  Ferris,  Big 
Rapids.

“ Cash  vs.  Credit.” —W.  D.  Hopkin- 

son,  Paris.

“ Was  the 

law  of 
1895  a  move  in  the  right  direction?” — 
Hon.  C.  K.  Hoyt,  Hudsonville.

invalid  peddling 

“ Is  it  possible  to  improve the  present 
exemption  law?” —Robert  Johnson,Cad­
illac.

“ Is  it  desirable  to  pay  cash  for  prod­
instead  of  store  trade?” —J.  H. 

uce 
Schilling,  Clare.

“ Wherein  can  this Association greatly 
benefit  the  grocery  trade  of  Northern 
Michigan?” —J.  W.  Densmore,  Reed 
City.

“ Is  it  desirable  to  substitute  weights 
for  measures  in  the  handling  of  prod­
uce?” —E.  E .  Hewitt,  Rockford.

Other  topics  are  under  consideration 

and  will  probably  be  introduced.

The 

The  meetings  will  be  held  in  the  G. 
A.  R.  Hall,  on  Maple street.  Extensive 
preparations  have  been  made  by  the 
grocers  of  Big  Rapids  for  the  entertain­
ment  of  their  guests  on  the  occasion  of 
the  convention,  including  a complimen­
tary  spread  at  the  Northern Hotel on  the 
evening  of  Feb.  4.

local  Committee  on  Arrange­
ments  has  secured  a  special  rate  of  25 
cents  per  meal  at  the  Northern  and 
Western  Hotels.

is  not  likely  that  100  grocers 
will  be  present,  outside  of  the  Big Rap­
ids  contingent,  it  has  been 
impossible 
to  arrange  for  reduced  railway  rates.

Believing  that  our  Association  is  des­
tined  to  accomplish  much  good  for  the 
grocers  of  Northern  Michigan,  and  con­
fident  that  you  will  feel  like  doing  your 
share  to  assist 
in  the  good  work,  we 
earnestly  invite  you  to  be  present  on the 
occasion  of  our  Big  Rapids  convention. 
Come  one,  come  all !

E.  A.  Stowe  (Grand  Rapids),  Sec’y. 

As 

it 

J.  F.  T atman  (Clare),  Pres.

The  Grocery  Market.

Provisions—The  temper  of  the  mar­
ket  is,  on  the  whole,  more  satisfactory 
to  the  selling 
interest.  Hogs  have 
been  arriving  in  reduced  numbers,  and 
the  expectations  concerning  near  future 
supplies  have  been  stimulating  to  the 
products  generally.  Of  course, 
there 
have  been  the  natural  reactions  from 
an  upward  tendency  and  the  usual  de­
sire  to  realize  and  take  in  profits.  As 
yet  the  movement  has  been  chiefly  of 
a  speculative  character,  covering  a  ma­
terial  outside  buying  interest;’ but  some

of  the  packers  were  short  of  the  prod­
ucts  more  than  had  been  supposed  and 
their  efforts  to  cover,  together  with  the 
increased  buying  interest,  helped  to  the 
strong  situation.  The  greatest  obstacle 
to  a  more  material  advance  at  present 
is 
in  the  attitude  of  foreign  markets. 
All  sources  of  consumption  abroad  are 
heavily  supplied  with  cheap  stuff,  and 
until  this  passes  to  some  extent  into 
consumption,  or  the  hog  products  be­
come  permanently  strong  here,  the  buy­
ing  interest  therein  is  not  likely  to 
in­
crease.

in  a 

Raisins—There  has  been  a  fair  de­
mand  for  California  raisins 
job­
bing  way  and  prices  are  generally  firm. 
The  majority  of  orders  that  come in call 
for  3  and  4  crown  stock.  Stocks  of  both 
these  varieties  are  scarce  and  values 
have  an  advancing 
Two 
crowns  are  in  light  demand  and  about 
steady 
in  price.  There  has  been  no 
change  of  moment  in  either  Sultana  or 
Valencia  raisins.

tendency. 

believing 

R ice—The  position  of  rice  appears 
to  be  unchanged,  with  a  good  demand 
at  firm  prices.  The  general  feeling  is 
that  the  market  has  touched  bottom, 
and  holders  look  to  the  future  with  con­
fidence, 
that  the  present 
range  of  values  will  be maintained  even 
if  no  further  advance  is  made.  Foreign 
has  not as  yet  proved  to  be  much  of  a 
factor,  and  wiil  probably  not  influence 
the  market  to  any  extent  for  some  time 
to  come.
Canned  Goods—While  last  week  there 
were  signs  of  returning  activity,  this 
week  conditions  have  changed  and  de­
mand  has  relapsed 
into  extreme  dull­
ness,  that  being  about  the  only  feature 
that  has  developed.  Buyers are not  dis­
posed  to  anticipate  wants,  and,  as  a 
matter  of  consequence,  the  business 
is 
devoid  of  speculative  qualities.  Prices 
are  low  all  along  the  line,  but 
this 
week  even  that  has  not  seemed  to  have 
any  particular  influence  on  buyers,  who 
have  let  the  market  severely  alone,  pur­
chasing  only  as  positive  wants  dictated. 
While  a  year  ago  prices  were  about  as 
low  as  they  now  are,  there  was  more 
disposition  shown  to  purchase  and quite 
a  fair  business  was  in  progress.  The 
changes  in  prices  this  week  have  been 
unimportnat,  but  generally  speaking  an 
easier  feeling  prevails.

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labeled. 

are  properly 

Chocolate—Walter  Baker  &  Co.  write 
the  Tradesman  that  they  are  assured 
by  the  Food  Commissioner  that  their 
goods 
They 
guarantee  protection  in  the  handling  of 
their  goods  and, 
in  the  event  of  pro­
ceedings  being  begun  against  any  of 
their  customers,  they  request  the  per­
sons  attacked  to  plead  “ notguilty”   and 
send  them  word,  when  they  will 
imme­
diately  employ  counsel  and  pay  all  ex­
penses  and  costs  in  defending  the  mat­
ter. 
Annual  Heeting  of  Owosso  B.  M.  A.
Owosso,  Jan.  25—At  the  annual  meet­
ing  of  the  Business  Men’s  Association 
the  former  officers  were  re-elected,  as 
follows:  President,  A.  D.  Whipple; 
Vice-President,  O.  L.  Sprague;  Secre­
tary,  G.  T.  Campbell;  Treasurer,  W. 
E.  Collins.  The  Executive  Committee 
consists  of  the  officers  and  James  Os- 
burn,  C.  D.  Stewart  and  W.  H.  Lingle. 
The  appointment  of  a  city  assessor  was 
discussed  at  length.  Some  thought  our 
present  method  preferable  to  having  an 
assessor,  while  others  were  of  a  con­
trary  mind.  The  subject  will  be  taken 
up  for  discussion  and  action  at  a  future 
meeting.

DO  YOU  W ANT

A  Fine Fruit Farm  in  Berrien  County?
Have  you  $400 with  which  you  wish 
to  begin  fruit  farming? 
If  you  don’t 
wish  to  farm  it  yourself,  do  you  know 
of  a  worthy  man  whom  you  would 
like 
If  so,  here  is  as 
to  give  a  start  in  life? 
good  a  chance  as  you  could  ask fo r: 
In 
Berrien  county  I  have  a  farm  of  sixty 
acres  which  I  will  sell  for  $2,000;  only 
$400  down,  the  remainder  in  easy  pay­
ments  at  low  interest.  There  is  plenty 
of  water  on  the  place  and  plenty  of 
buildings  for  a  man  just  starting.  Five 
acres  are  set  to  fruit—cherries,  apples, 
etc.  The  whole  can  be  made  into a 
good  fruit  farm  by  any  one  willing  to 
work.  There  is  adjoining  land that  can 
be  purchased  whenever  desired,  so  a 
man  may  have  as  big  a  place  as  any 
one  needs.  Write  to  G.  W.  Barnett, 
159  South  Water  street,  Chicago,  and 
learn  all  there  is  to  be  said  about  this 
rare  bargain. 
It  will  be  hard  for  you 
to  find  a  better  chance.  Berrien  county 
has  the  best  transportation 
facilities 
(lower  rates  and  more  routes)  than  any 
county  in  the  fruit  belt.

Review, of  the  Sugar  ftarket.

in  the  world’s 

Detroit,  Jan.  25—It 

is  interesting  to 
note  the  rapid  disappearance  of the  vis­
ible  surplus 
supply, 
which  is  now  only  475,000  tons,  being  a 
reduction  of  nearly 
100,000  tons  per 
week  during  January.  Cuban  crop  es­
timates  have  again  been  reduced,  be­
ing  now  less  than  100,000  tons.

London  has  advanced  for  all  descrip­
tions,  with  a  net  gain  of  3 -3 2 C  per 
pound  for  beets,  atuTour  Southern  mar­
ket  is  very  strong  a rT fu ll  parity  with 
4c  for  96  deg.  centrifugals.

1 . 16c.  With 

Refined  ruled  firm  with 

increasing 
demand  until  Wednesday,  when  an  ad­
vance  of  i -i6c  was  announced.  A  fair 
business  followed  the  advance  and 
in­
dications  pointed  to  renewed  heavy  de­
mand,  which  was,  however,  effec­
tually checked  by Friday’s horizontal re­
action  of 
the  market 
stronger  in  its  general  position  than  at 
any  time,  and  with  the  almost  certainty 
of  another  %c  advance  being  estab­
lished  on  the  next  sale  of  raws,  it  is 
difficult  to  account  for  the  scaling  of 
prices  to  a  basis  of  i -i6c  below  the  cus­
tomary  working  margin.  The 
impres­
sion  prevails,  however,  that  refiners  are 
determined  to  discourage  any  invest­
in  excess  of  ordinary  require­
ment 
limited 
ments,  and  at  this  season  of 
consumption  there  is  certainly  very 
lit­
tle  encouragement  to  anticipate,  when 
all  calculations  are  so  easily  upset  by 
eccentric  action.

We  are  firm  believers  in  the  future  of 
sugar,  but  do  not  yet  feel  warranted 
in  any  radical  change  from  our  conserv­
ative  views,  as  outlined  in  former 
let­
ters.

Jan.  28—The  week’  opened  with  a 

quiet  steady  market.

is  again  restricted 

Raws  are  unchanged  in  all  positions. 
Grades  No.  4  and  No.  5  are  i - i 6 c  lower 
—remainder of  list  firm  and  unchanged. 
The  demand 
to 
“ hand  to  mouth”   business  and  will  so 
continue  until  buyers  overcome  the  un­
certain  feeling  incident  to  the  peculiar 
recent  manipulation  of  the market.  We 
see  nothing 
in  the  situation  to  change 
our  impressions,  as  outlined  in  our  let­
ter of  the  25th.  A  further  marking  off 
in  refined  sugar  would  not  surprise  us 
at  all.

W.  H.  E d gar  &  Son.

Walter  N.  Kelley,  Manager  of  the 
Kelley  &  Covell 
lumber,  charcoal  and 
general  merchandise business at  Slights, 
is  in  town  for  a  few  days,  a  guest  at  the 
Morton  House.

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Dry  Goods

SUCCESSFUL  SA LESriEN .

Louis J .  Koster,  Representing  Edson, 

rtoore  &  Co.

There  are  two  prominent  characteris­
tics 
in  the  genuine  German—he  is 
never  in  a hurry  and  he  a l w a y s  manages 
to  get  there  on  time. 
It  is  not  the  old 
story  of  the  tortoise  and  the  hare,  for 
the  son,  or  the  grandson,  of  the  Father- 
land  does  not  take  all  day  to  do  noth­
ing,  any  more  than  his  American 
brother;  but  he  does  take  the  needed 
time  for  the  work  he  intends  to do; and, 
is  no  rest  until 
when  he  begins,  there 
the  work  is  done.  The  German 
is  yet 
to  be  found  who  runs  to  catch  a  train, 
and  the  train  is  yet  to  be  located  which 
ever  left  a  German  passenger.

This 

idea  of  being  on  time  began 
with  the  subject  of  this  sketch  in  De­
troit,  March  28,  1856,  at  which  place  and

mands  which  adverse  circumstances  re­
quired  of  him,  without  a  thought  of 
compromising  himself  by  his  action,  he 
closed  his  law books,  left  the  law  office, 
and  went  to  work  in  the  retail  dry goods 
store  of  Anthony  Kirschner,  in  Detroit.
That  was  the turning point in  his  life. 
The  work  pleased  him  and  he  kept  on 
with  it.  After  a  year  with  Kirschner,he 
entered  the  wholesale  notion  establish­
ment  of  G illis  &  Sprague  and  was  with 
them for six  months.  At the  end  of  that 
time,he  entered  the  ranks  of Allan Shel­
don  &  Co.,  a wholesale  dry  goods  he use, 
and  was  their  entry  clerk  for  a year  and 
a  half.  At  that  time  Edson,  Moore  & 
Co. were  on  the  lookout  for  a  man  of  his 
make-up,  and  in  the  fall  of  1879,  I>e  be- 
came  one  of  the  force  of  that  well- 
known  Detroit  house.  He  entered  as 
entry  clerk  and  kept  at  it  for  two  years. 
Then  they  wanted  a  house  salesman;  he 
was  ready  for  the  place,  took  it,  and 
filled 
it  for  two  years.  Then  the  firm 
wanted  a  good  man  on  the  road  and 
sent  him  out.  That  was  a  date worth  re­
membering—a  pleasant  milestone 
for 
the  young  man  to  pass—and  he  passed 
it  October  11,  1883.  There  is  where  he 
is  now  and,  if he  is  as  satisfied  wit.i  the 
position  as  the  house  is  with  him,  his 
customers  will  have  the  pleasure  of  giv­
ing  him  orders  for a  good  many  years.
This  recoid  ought  to  stop  here,  but  a 
sentence  or  two  more  will  only  brighten 
the  narrative. 
It  is  always  considered 
the  proper  thing  in  the  course of  the  in­
terview  to  give  the  victim  a  chance  to 
“ let  himself  out.”   The  opportunity 
was  given,  but  was  not  improved.  Here 
was  a  rara  avis  who  evidently  needed 
a  little  encouragement.

T H E S E   A R E   T H E   L IN E S  
W E   A R E   W O R K IN G   ON 
T H IS  M O N TH .  O U R S T O C K  
A N D   A S S O R T M E N T  
IN  
E A C H   L IN E   IS T H E  L A R G ­
E S T   a n d   F IN E S T  W E   H A V E  
E V E R   SH O W N .

S E E   O U R   S A M P L E S   B E ­

F O R E   B U Y IN G .

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“ After  your  thirteen  years  on  the 
road,  it  is  needless  to  ask  who the sales­
man  is  who  sells  the  most goods for  Ed­
son,  Moore  &  Co.?”

“ It  may  be  so,”   was  the  reply,  “ but 
in  that  case  it  will  be  proper  for  me  to 
state  that  I  am  not the  m an;”   and  in 
that  case,  it 
is  proper  to  say  that  the 
chance  to  tell  a  good  fat  one  has  never, 
in  this  office,  been  more  handsomely  or 
more  promptly  refused.

Mr.  Koster  was  married  in  the  spring 
of 
1889  to  Miss  Agnes  S.  Stark,  of 
Grand  Haven,  and  one  child  blesses 
their  wedded 
life  and  the  home  on 
Franklin  street,  Grand  Haven.

Mr.  Koster  is  a  member  and  trustee 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  He  is  a 
Master  Mason;  a  member  of  the  Ger­
man Salesmen’s Association of Detroit; a 
charter  member  of  the  Knights  of  the 
Grip,  holding  certificate  No.  3 ;  Vice-J 
President  of  the  Fifth  district  of  K.  of 
G ;  Chairman  of  Post 
J  of  Grand 
Haven,  a  position  he  wants  emphasized 
with  the  largest  type,  to  express,  in  a 
measure,  his  pride  therein—a  wish  the 
Tradesman  cannot  gratify,  from  a  lack 
of  space—and  a  member  of  the  Friend­
ship  Club  of  Grand  Haven.  Like  all 
other Grand  Haven  men,  he  is  loyal  to 
the  city  of  his  adoption,  ardently claim­
ing  that  the  Sand  Hill  City  possesses 
the  only  open  harbor  on  Lake  M ichi­
gan!

Handsome  in  appearance,  gentleman­
ly  in  manner,  loyal  to  his  house,  faith­
ful  to  his  customers,  proud  of  his  wife 
and  child,  pleased  with  his position and 
prospects,  Mr.  Koster  has  every  reason 
to  regard  his  career  with  satisfaction 
and  his  future  with  composure.

A  Traverse  City  girl  had  her  feet 
frost-bitten  while skating recently.  They 
will  trouble  her  all  her  life,  and  may 
trouble  other  people  some  if  she  does 
not  get  the  chill  out  of  them  before  re­
tiring  time.

time  he  promptly  announced  his  own 
safe  arrival.  Born  of  German  parent­
age,  the  child,  when  he  had  reached the 
proper  age,  was  sent,  naturally,  to  a 
German  school;  naturally,  because  the 
parent,  foreign  born,  has  a  firm  belief 
that  children  are  not  fit to  govern  until 
they  have  learned  to  obey,  a  feature  not 
extensively  encouraged  and practiced  in 
the  American  home  and  not  too  often  in 
the school.  So, then, from an early school- 
time—a  period  coming  earlier  with  the 
German  child  than  with  us—until  he 
was 
12  years  old,  he  came  under  the 
rigid  discipline  of  the  German  school­
master—a  discipline  which  cannot  be 
too  much  encouraged—and  then  became 
enrolled  as  a  pupil  of  the  Detroit  pub­
lic  schools.  Four  yeass  there  brought 
him to  the  end  of  public  school  life,and 
then,  with  a  year  at  a  commercial  col­
lege,  he  bade  good  bye  to  schoolbooks 
and  entered  upon  the  study  of  the 
law.
A  digression  may be  of  service  here. 
The 
is  firmly  grounded  in  many 
minds  that  the  study  of  the  schools—es­
pecially  the  public  schools—unfits  the 
pupil  for the  real  work  of  life. 
It  ger­
minates  and  fosters  the  thought  that  the 
pupil  is  above  work  and  that  the  com­
mon  lot  of  earning  a  living  by the sweat 
of  the  brow  is  a  decree  not  referring  to 
him.  With  that  thought  this  instance 
does  not  agree.  After  his  school  was 
over, 
for  three  years  he  followed  the 
study  of  the  law ;  but,  finding  then  that 
the  profession  was  not  equal  to  the  de­

idea 

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THE  COUNTRY  MERCHANT.

W ritten fo r theT'RADESMAN.

Have  you  ever  thought  of  the 

im­
portance,  in  the  commercial  world,  of 
that  somewhat  isolated,  yet  numerous, 
portion  of  the  business  interests  of  the 
land,  the  country  merchant?

Invariably  a  man  of  ambition  to  rise 
above  his  condition,  and  usually  one  of 
tact  and  ability,  possessing  good  sound 
sense and  reliable 
judgment,  he  is  the 
representative  business  man  of  his  sec­
tion,  in  whom  the  people  have  confi­
dence,  and  in  such  close  touch  with  the 
masses  as  to  have  a  very  considerable 
influence 
in  the  moulding  of  public 
opinion.

His  store  is  the  neighborhood  head­
quarters  and  the  forum  for  the  discus­
sion  of  all  questions  of  local  or  general 
importance,  from  the  latest  local  gossip 
to  the  designs  of  the  English  upon Ven­
ezuela.  The  merchant  it  is  whose  opin­
ion  carries  most  weight  in  these  free- 
for-all  debates,  and  whose  authority, 
especially  upon  questions  of  business 
policy,  is  seldom  disputed.  He  is  con­
sulted  on  matters  of  law  and  ethics,  is 
the  arbitrator  of  neighborhood quarrels, 
trusted  with  family secrets and frequent­
ly  made  the banker  of  the  surplus  funds 
of  the  community.

it 

He 

is  frequently 

is  who  takes  the  city  daily, 
knows  all  about  the  latest  sensations, 
the  doings  of  Congress,  the  dealings 
on  ’change  and  the  prospects  of  crops. 
He 
justice  of  the  peace 
and  postmaster,  sitting 
judgment 
on  the  misdeeds  of  the  erring,  and  fre­
quently  remaining  the  Government’s 
agent  through  successive  administra­
tions,  except  where  the  interests  of  the 
people  are  sacrificed  to  partisan  selfish­
ness.

in 

The  man  who  “ runs  the  store’ ’  at  the 
country  crossroads  must  be  master  of 
many  accomplishments  beyond  those 
of  being  able  to  make  change  and  wash 
windows.  He  is  supposed  to  be  posted 
on  the  market  price  of  all  the  produce 
of  the  section,  a  good  judge  of  every­
thing  handled  in  his  store,  a  judicious 
buyer  and  an 
industrious  seller.  He 
must be  fam iliar with  the  ruling  fash­
ions  and  the 
latest  fads,  from  needle- 
pointed  shoes  to  bell-crown  hats.  This 
he  must  learn  by  close  observation  on 
his  occasional  visits  to  the city markets, 
through  the  indispensable  trade journal, 
whose 
information  and  teachings  are 
the  chart by  which  he  guides  his  vessel 
through  the  uncertain  and  oft-times  tur­
bulent  commercial  sea,  and  by  the  aid 
of  the  trusted  commercial  traveler,  that 
essential  connecting 
link  between  his 
little  community  and  the  great  world 
outside,  and  upon  whom  he  has  often  to 
depend  like  a  sailor  upon  his  compass, 
and  with  the  same  confident  assurance 
of  guidance  to  a  safe  harbor.

His  business  is  essentially  a  personal 
undertaking.  He  is  not hidden  behind 
glazed  office  doors,  beyond  the  reach  of 
is  his  city  brother,  whose 
patrons,  as 
personality 
is  often  unknown  to  hun­
dreds  of  his  customers.  The  country 
merchant’s  dealings are  through  direct 
and,  necessarily,  friendly  contact  with 
the  people,  whom  he  treats  with  on 
terms  of  equality,  and  with  whose  tastes 
and  peculiarities,  whose  condition  and 
general  surroundings,  he  familiarizes 
himself.  His  friendship  is  prized  and 
his  influence  solicited  by  those  seeking 
business  or  personal  advancement.

The  country  merchant  who  under­
stands his business,  and  who  possesses 
the  confidence  of  his  people,  has the  as­
surance  of  a  substantial  and  unfailing 
reward  for  his  labor,  if he but  be  con-

tented  to  ‘ * let  well  enough  alone, ’ ’  and 
does  not branch  out beyond the demands 
of  his  trade  or  the  limit  of  his  capital.

H a r r y   M.  R o y a l .

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Apples—Greenings  are  about  the  only 
Michigan  variety  still  on  the  market 
and  easily  command  £2.75  per bbl.  The 
trade  is  well  supplied  with  Ohio  fruit— 
Rome Beauties, Baldwins,Greenings and 
Smith’s  Ciders—which  bring  Ji2@g2.25 
for  choice  and  $2 .5o@2.75  for  fancy.

In 

Beans—During  the  period  under  re­
new  the  market  has  been  dull,  uninter­
esting  and  featureless.  Receipts have 
inquiry  con­
been  moderate,  and  the 
tinues  moderate. 
the  matter  of 
values,  a  generally  easier  feeling  pre­
vails,  while  of  several  varieties  a  slight 
decline  has  occurred.

featureless. 

Butter—The  market  continues  dull 
Fancy  dairy  brings 
and 
14c  but  good  to  choice  commands 
I2@ 
13c.  Creamery  shares  the  depressed 
feeling,  having  sold  as  low  as  19c.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Cabbage—Stationary  at  £3@4  per  100.
Celery—I2j^c  per  doz.  bunches.
Cider—12^ c   per gal.
Cranberries—In  fair  demand  at  £8@ 
Jersey  are 

10  per bbl.  for  Cape  Cods. 
plentiful  at £2.5o@2.75  per bu.box.
Eggs—Receipts  are  large  with  every 
indication  of  stili  larger  receipts,unless 
the  weather  should  become 
colder. 
Fresh  stock  has  declined  to  16c,  while 
cold  storage  and 
limed  stock  is  neg­
lected.
per  keg  of  60  lbs.  net.

Grapes—Malaga  stock  is  held  at  £6 

Hickory  Nuts  (Ohio)—Small,  £1.25 

perbu.,  large,  £1  per bu.
Honey—Dealers  ask  I5 @ i6 c   for  white 
clover and  1 3 ®  14c  for  dark  buckwheat.
Lettuce—15c  per  lb.
Onions—Spanish  command  about £1 
per  crate  of  40  lbs.  Home  grown  are 
dull  and  slow  sale  at  25c.
local 

Pop  Corn—Rice,  3c  per  lb.
Potatoes—The 

roads  have 
granted  a  small  concession  in  the  rate 
on  potatoes  to  Southern  points,  making 
the  F.  &  P.  M.  the dividing line, instead 
of  the  D.,  G.  H.  &  M.,  as  heretofore. 
The  concession  amounts  to  2 ^ c   per  100 
pounds—equivalent  to  ij^c  per  bu.,  but 
does  not  afford  any  relief  to  Grand 
Rapids  or  to  the  towns  north  of  the  line 
of  the  F.  &  P.  M.  Railway. 
confidently  expected  by  the  shippers 
that  the  Michigan  roads  would  make  an 
emergency  rate,  same  as  has  been  done 
by  a  number of  Western  roads,  but  the 
change  from  an  arbitrary  to  a  prorate 
basis  over  a  small  section  of  the  potato 
growing  area  effectually  ends  any  hope 
in  that  direction.
Seeds—Clover 

command  $4.75@S5- 
for  Mammoth,  £4.5o@4-7o  for  Medium, 
$4.75  for  Alsyke,  £3.50  for  Crimson  and 
S4.25@4-75  for  Alfalfa.  Timothy  com­
mands  £1.85 for Prime and £2 for Choice.
Squash—}4 @ ic  per  lb.  for  Hubbard
Sweet  Potatoes—The  market 
is  un. 
Illinois  Jerseys  bringing  £4- 

changed, 
per bbl.  and £1.30  per  bu.

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Do  Aw ay  with  Careless  Habits.
There  are  many  disagreeable  prac­
tices  permitted  in  stores  that  might eas­
ily  be remedied.  Your  object  should be 
to  have  the  general tone of your store  up 
to  the  highest  possible  point,  and  your 
personal  habits  in  this  respect are large 
ly  responsible  for  those  occupying  : 
subordinate position  with  you.  Do  away 
with  everything  that  tends  to  slovenli­
ness.  Then  are  some  merchants  who 
wait  on  lady  customers  with  their  coats 
off,  or  without  collars  and  cuffs.  This 
costume  might be  all right on the plains, 
but  for  a  merchant  to  indulge  in  such 
slovenliness 
inexcusable.  Another 
habit  that  will  stand  correcting  is  hum 
ming  or  whistling  while  waiting  on 
customers.  This  should  not be  practiced 
by  yourself  or  allowed  among 
your 
clerks. 

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How  much  will  you  pay  for  imagina 
tion  this  year?  Take  a  10c  cigar and 
a  S.  C.  W.  5c  cigar  and  see  if  you  can 
tell  the  difference  in  the smoke!  Try  it"

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Spfipg fabrics

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and  stripes.

retail at  10 cents.
and neat figures,  to retail at  12 1/ 2  cents.

D.  Dimity,  30 inch,  all  new  designs,  in  quality  to 
Fine  Dimity,  30  inch,  fine  sheer  cloth,  stripes 
Organdie,  printed,  new beautiful  designs on  black 
grounds,  vine  and stripe effects.
Percales,  our  trade  who  had our line  last  season 
know  they  were winners.  We  have  a better 
line  than  ever. 
Patterns  for  Waists  and 
Shirts,  36 inches  wide,  28 yards  to each  piece. 
We will show  a line of over  150 styles, to retail 
at  12 ^2,  and staples in  a  quality  to  sell  at  10.
Tela  Vela  Ducks,  navy  and  black  grounds,  in 
neat  patterns.
Sateens,  Aniline  black,  in  qualities  to  sell  at  10, 
12y2,  15,  20 and  25  cents.
Normandie Gingham,  plaids  and  stripes.  Park- 
hill  gingham,  small  neat  work  for  children’s
wear.
Bates Seersuckers and Abbottsfords, in checks 
Amoskeag  and  Lancaster  Staples,  best  ging­
ham  in  the  market,  fast colors.  We  shall  have 
all styles.  Domino staples  lower  in  price.
Crepons,  all colors,  fast black  also,  30 inches wide, 
to  retail  at  12 V2  cents.
Plumetis Soir, a new  white  ground  fabric,  30 in. 
wide,  put  up  in half  pieces,  beautiful colors and 
new  designs  on  embossed  ground,  excellent 
quality,  to  retail at  25  cents.
Calicos,  Hamilton,  Windsor,  American,  Merri­
mack,  Garners,  Cocheco,  Pacific,  Manchester, 
Simpsons,  Allen,  Harmony  in  all  new  work, 
papered  or unpapered.  The  new  line  contains 
the  very  newest work  to  suit  all  trade  at  the 
usual  low  prices at  which  we  sell  these  goods.
Dress  Canvas,  all colors  to retail  at  10,  12 ^ ,  15, 
18,  20 cents.  These  goods we  have  sold  the 
past  three  years  and  are  considered  the  best 
quality  in the market at the price.  All  Linen.
Selwygn  Suitings,  36  inch  double  fold,  to  retail 
Satin  Surrah.  30 inch,  black 
floral  ef-

at  10  cents.

ground,

fects,  to  sell at  10 cents.

We shall  carry a full line  of  plain  Dress  Goods  to 
retail  at  10,  125^,  15,  20,  25,  30  to  50  cents 
and fancies at  10 cents  to  $1.  Be  sure  to see 
this  line,  which  is  too large  to  numerate.
Linings,  all  grades  and  qualities in cambrics,  per­
calines,  silesias,  grass  cloth,  hair  cloth,  fiber 
chamois,  and cheaper  paper  linings  and  fancy 
silesias,  black and  self  backs.

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Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Jamestown—S.  Cooper  has  sold  his 

general  stock  to  O.  N.  Sage.

Edmore—W.  Reed  has  sold  his notion 

and  confectionery  stock  to  T.  Spear.

Marion—J.  A.  Nelson  succeeds  Nel­
son  &  Fenton  in  the  hardware  business.
Amasa—01 in  &  Horder  have  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  J.  T.  Gib­
son.

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Ashley—Palmeter  &  Bowker  succeed 
Palmeter  &  Martin  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Bessemer—The  K.  S.  Markstrum  Co. 
general 

succeeds  D.  Markstrum 
trade.

Orion—John  Lenhoff,  dealer  in  cloth­
ing  and  hats  and  caps,  has  removed  to 
Oxford.

Howard—U.  M.  (Mrs.  L. )  Gates  has 
sold  her grocery  stock  to  Bradley & Mc- 
George.

Armada—E.  A.  Hulett  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  H.  P.  Barringer  in  the  hardware 
business.

Kalamazoo—E . 

P.  Ford  succeeds 
Ford  &  Partridge  in  the  photographing 
business.

Harrison—C. 

J.  Richardson  &  Co. 
succeed  Chas.  J.  Richardson  in  the gro­
cery  business.

St.  Johns—Waldron  &  Mack  succeed 
in  the  boot  and 

E.  P.  Waldron  &  Co. 
shoe  business.

Alpena—John  Beaulieu  continues  the 
formerly  conducted  by  Fon­

business 
taine  &  Beaulieu.

Stanton—Wm.  H.  Owen  has  retired 
from  the  drug  and  grocery  firm  of Haw­
ley  &  Owen.  The business  will  be con­
tinued  by  the  remaining  partner,  E.  D. 
Hawley.

St. 

Johns—Elmer  T.  Hull  succeeds 
Hull  &  Hulse  in  the  furniture  and  un­
dertaking  business.

Marshall—Jandell  Bros.,meat  dealers, 
have  dissolved,  Arthur  C.  Jandell  con­
tinuing  the  business.

Carsonville—Smith  &  Manes  con­
tinue  the  drug  business  formerly  con­
ducted  by  H.  W.  Smith.

Wetmore—Wm.  F.  Cox  now  carries 
on  the business  formerly  conducted  un­
der  the  style  of  Cox  &  Cox.
Ellsworth—W.  A.  Stone 

is  closing 
out the  Supernaw  stock  of  goods  which 
was  purchased  by  W.  L.  French  last 
week.

Gilbert—John  G.  Carlson  has  sold  his 
general  stock  and  store  building 
to 
Jacob  Larson,  who  will  continue  the 
business.

Millbrook—Dr.  W.  R.  Stringham  has 
removed  his  drug  stock  from  this  place 
to  Baraga,  where  he  will  continue  the 
business.

East  Jordan—It  is  stated  that  A.  L. 
Coulter  and  a  partner  will  embark 
in 
the  hardware  and  grocery  business  at 
Munising.

Caledonia—The  meat  market formerly 
conducted  by  Hale  &  Shisler  has  been 
purchased  by  M.  R.  Shisler,  who  will 
continue  the  business.

Tecumseh—C.  B.  Mize ^has  resigned 
his  position  as  traveling  salesman  for 
the  Marshall  Furnace  Co.  and  will  em­
bark  in  the  grocery  business  here.

Memphis—Stewart  &  Streeter’s  stock 
of  merchandise,  which was seized  by the 
sheriff  at  the 
instance  of  W.  J.  Gould 
&  Co.,  of  Detroit,  was  sold  at  sheriff 
sale  to  J.  A.  Barton,  subject  to  chattel 
mortgages 
$6,103.71, 
held  by  Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  of  De­
troit,  and  Saunders  &  Co.,  of  Port 
Huron.

amounting 

to 

Shelby—J.  D.  M.  Shirts  has  sold  his 
interest 
in  the  grocery  stock  of  Shirts 
Bros,  to  his  brother,  who  will  continue 
the business  under  the  style  of  W.  H. 
Shirts.

Nashville—Wm.  Clever  has  retired 
from  the  firm  of  Clever  &  Ackett,  meat 
dealers  at  this  place.  The business  will 
be  continued  by  his 
John 
Ackett.

partner, 

Detroit—Thomas  P.  Hubbard  &  Co., 
dealers  in  paints  and  wall  paper,  have 
dissolved.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued  by  Thomas P.  Hubbard under the 
same  style.

Fremont—Fred  Holt  has  retired  from 
the  grocery 
firm  of  Holt  &  Tanner. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by  the 
remaining  partner  under  the  style  of 
Wm.  W.  Tanner.

Battle  Creek—Mrs.  Maria  A.  Hollis­
ter,  dealer  in  jewelry,  and  H.  E.  Mc­
Coy,dealer  in  optical  goods and jewelry, 
have  consolidated  their  stocks  and  will 
hereafter  do  business  under  the  style  of 
McCoy  &  Hollister.

Traverse  City—R.  A.  Hastings  has 
sold  a  half  interest  in  the  Fuller  drug 
stock,  which  he  purchased  last  week,  to 
C.  A.  Bugbee,  of  Cheboygan,  who  will 
remove  to  this  city  and  take  the  man­
agement  of  the  business.

Freesoil—Marigold  &  Stevens,  who 
are  running  the  hardwood  mill  here  this 
winter,  have  already  shipped  in  a  large 
quantity  of  their  product,  and  have  it 
piled  on  dock  at  Manistee  ready  for 
water  shipment  in  the  spring.

Watervliet—The  stock  'o f  groceries 
belonging  to  the  estate  of  the  late  R. 
E.  Wigent  was  sold  last  Monday,  and 
was  bid 
in  by  Mrs.  Wigent  at $1,000. 
Although  all  legal  formalities had  been 
complied  with,  Kidd,  Dater  &  Co.,  of 
Benton  Harbor,  were  dissatisfied  with

the  sale,  so  it  was  decided  to  advertise 
and  sell  the  property again.

Tekonsha—A  Tekonsha  man  became 
local 
despondent  and  called  upon  a 
druggist  for  some  morphine  to  help 
him  out  of  his  trouble.  After  purchas­
ing  the  drug,  he  shook  hands  with  the 
druggist  and  bade  him  a  tearful  good 
bye,  divulging  his  purpose,  whereupon 
the  druggist  compelled  him  to  give  up 
the  morphine.  The 
funeral  has  been 
indefinitely  postponed.

Kalamazoo—David  H.  Haines,  as­
signee  of  the  Conger  Company,  which 
conducted  the  variety  goods  business  at 
Kalamazoo  and  Owosso,  has  issued  a 
circular  to  the  creditors  announcing that 
on  Feb.  15  he  will  move 
in  the  K ala­
mazoo  Circuit  Court  for  premission  to 
sell  the  stocks  in  both  stores,  appraised 
at $13,000.  No  move  has  yet  been  made 
to  contest  the  mortgages  uttered  to  pre­
ferred  creditors.

Lapeer—Strong,  Lee  &  Co.  object  to 
the  statement 
that  they  caused  the 
downfall  of  Lee  Powelson.  Mr.  Pow- 
elson  first  gave  mortgages  on  his  stock 
and  made  several 
transfers,  which 
caused  his  downfall,  and  Strong,  Lee  & 
Co.  got  their  pay  by  making  an  attach­
ment  on  him.  Their  connection  with 
the  matter  was  purely  of  a  business 
character,  involving  only  the  relations 
of  debtor  and  creditor.

East 

Jordan—F.  S.  Yorks,  who  for 
some  years  has  had  the  management  of 
the  lumber business  of  C.  A.  Barker,  at 
this  place,  has 
leased  the  mill  in  the 
Bohemian  settlement  and  will  operate 
the  same  on  his  own  account.  He  has 
also  leased  the  Hubbard  dock  for  the 
coming  season,  which  he  will  use  for 
shipping  his  lumber  and  cedar.  The 
Barker  sawmill  at  this  place  will  not 
be  stocked  this  season,  as  was  reported 
from  Traverse  City.

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Patrick  H.  Kilmartin  has  purchased 
the  drug  stock  of  Josephine  V.  (Mrs. 
Will  Z .)  Bangs  at  252  Grandville 
avenue.

C.  D.  Valentine  has  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  the  corner  of  Hall  and 
loca-
South  Divison  streets,  the  former 
tion  of  Perry  &  Worden.

John  P.Oosting  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  and  store  building  at  369  South 
East  street  to  Cornelius  Vander  Ploeg, 
who  will  continue  the  business.

The  annual  meeting  cf  the  Grand 
Rapids  Seating  Co.,  which  was  called 
for  Tuesday  of  this  week,was  adjourned 
four  weeks,  at  the  request  of  the  minor­
ity  stockholders.

Jacobus  Ritzema, 

formerly  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  on  Grandville 
avenue,  has  opened  a  grocery  store  at 
796  South  Division  street.  The  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
the 
stock. 

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furnished 

Benjamin  Gilden  has  traded  his  gro­
cery  stock  at  43  Fountain  street  for  the 
Michigan  House  livery barn.  Mr.  Gil 
den  will  continue  the  livery  business 
and  H.  Parish  will  continue  the grocery 
business.

Henry  Heesen  and  H.  C.  Wendorff 
have  removed  to  this  city  from  Green 
Bay  for  the purpose  of embarking  in  the 
grocery  business.  Mr.  Heesen  has  had 
an  experience  of  fourteen  years  as  clerk 
in  a  grocery  store.

A.  E.  Worden,  President  of  the  Wor 
den  Grocer  Co.,  is  in  receipt  of  letters 
from  Senator  Burrows  and  Congressman 
Smith,  promising  to  work  and  vote  for 
the  Torrey  bankruptcy  bill,  which  has 
been  before  Congress,  in  one  form  or 
another,  for  the  past  dozen  years.

H.  T.  Allerton  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  and  meat  market  at  300  South 
Division  street  to  B.  E.  Pomroy,  wife 
of  Fred  J.  Pomroy,  who  recently  retired 
from  the  hardware  and  lumber  business 
at  Lisbon.  Mrs.  Pomroy  will  continue 
the  grocery  business  at  the  same 
loca­
tion.

Scofield,  Shurmer  &  Teagle  have 
erected  storage  tanks  and  established  a 
storehouse  at  Jackson,  placing  in charge 
of  the  business  Roy  B.  Parmenter,  who 
for  the  past  six  years  has  been  associ­
ated  with  Frank  H.  Barnes,  local  man­
ager  for  the  Great  Western  Oil  Works. 
Mr.  Parmenter  has  had  the  benefit  of 
an  excellent  business  experience  and 
will,  undoubtedly,  make  his  mark 
in 
his  new  field  of  usefulness.  His  suc­
cessor  as  book-keeper 
local 
branch  is  Chas.  A.  Frey,  formerly  with 
the  Hudson  Clothing  Co.

the 

for 

A  suburban  druggist  has  been  han­
dling  ten  brands  of  union-made  cigars 
and  two brands  of  non-union goods.  For 
this  heinous  offense  he  has  been  boy­
cotted  by  the  unions,  and  he  has  retal­
iated  by  throwing  out  the  union  brands 
altogether.  The  same  course  is  likely 
to  be  taken  by  other  druggists  who 
' smart  un ler  the  attempted  dictation  of 
the  unions. 
invariably 
proves  to  be  a  boomerang,  but  it  is  de­
cidedly  annoying  for a  decent  dealer  to 
be  subjected  to  the  espionage  of  the 
walking  delegate  and  bum  cigarmaker.

The  boycott 

Even  the  litlte  bird  cannot  collect 

worm  without  presenting  its bill.

Gillies  originated  5th  Ave.  New  York 

Coffees. 

J.  P.  Visner,  Local  Agent.

WORKING  WOMEN.

Provided  with  a  Comfortable  and 

Economical  Home.

‘ A 

few  charitable  women  met  De­
cember  16,  1846,  in  the  ‘ Prospect  H ill’ 
schoolhouse  to  form  a  society  for benev­
olent  purposes.”   So  begins  the  nar­
rative  of  the  greatest  of  the  three  Chris- 
ian  Graces  in  Grand  Rapids ; and,from 
the  gathering  of  those  ‘ ‘ few  charitable 
forty  years  ago  has 
women”   some 
sprung  up  and 
increased  one  of  the 
strongest  and  most  pleasing  features  of 
this  city’s  daily 
life—the  care  of  the 
stranger within  its gates.

In  these  days,  when  so  much 

is  said 
of  the  New  Woman  and  her  rapidly- 
widening  sphere.it  may  be  well  to  refer 
to  the  charitable  few  and  to  remark  that 
in  the  ringing  in  of  the  new,  the  world 
is  not quite  ready  to  ring  out  that  part 
of  the  old  which  the  hills  of  Bethlehem 
sent  echoing  along  the  centuries,  and 
that  the  change  can  make  but  little 
difference  to  the  life  of  the  woman,  new 
or  old,  so  long  as  the  faith  and  the hope 
that are  in  her  remain  the  incentive  of 
the  charity  that  ‘ ‘ suffereth  long  and  is 
kind. ”

It  is  pleasing  to  note  that  the  wom­
an’s  work  of  ’46  has  never  passed  out 
of  her  benevolent  hands.  Changes have 
increased 
been  made,  the  work  has 
in 
extent  and 
importance, 
the  old  has 
passed  away  and  all  things have become 
new;  but  it  is  the  woman  that  still 
found  devising  and  dispensing  these 
charities  with  her  own  hands to-day,  ex­
actly  as  she  did  in  the  earlier  centuries 
to  the  poor  at  the  castle  gate,  and  so 
teaching  to  the  Christian  world  the  old 
Judean  lesson: 
‘ ‘ Inasmuch  as  ye  have 
done  it  unto  these,  my brethren,ye  have 
done 
it  unto  m e.”   So  the benevolent 
institutions  of  the  city  have  prospered, 
and  so,  as  time  goes  by  and  the  need 
appears,  one  after  another  of  these 
in 
stitutions begins  its  life  with  the  de 
scendants  of  the‘ ‘ few  charitable  women 
of  Prospect  H ill;”   and  by  and  by  the 
project  materializes,  the  new  benevo 
lence  finds  a  locality  and  a  name,  and 
begins  at  once  its  good  Christian  work 
That  is  the  history  of  the  latest  chari 
table  development,  known  as  the  Work 
ing  Woman’s  Home.  A  few  charitable 
women,  on  the  alert  for  doing  good 
found,  as  the  city  grew, 
that  young 
women  were  drawn  here  with  the  hope 
of  work.  They  came  from  the  surround 
ing  towns  and  villages  and  from  farther 
off.  Many  were 
farmers’  daughters 
Young  women  from  city  homes  were 
talked  with  occasionally, where glimpses 
were  caught  of  a  home-life  not  always 
desirable.  The  stores  were  filled  with 
young  women  from  the  city,  who,  since 
they  lived  at  home,  could  afford  to  work 
for  small  wages,  because  the  S3,  little 
as  it  is,  was still  so  much  gain  for  those 
who  had  nothing  to  pay  for  board  and 
lodging.

It 

is  this  kind  of  competition  with 
which  the  incoming  stranger  has to con 
tend.  So  long  as  clothing  is  not needed 
the  young  women  from  the  town and  the 
farm  can  live  on  the  S3  a  week  they  re 
ceive  for  wages,  because  that  will 
just 
pay  for  room  and  board  in  some  cheap 
boarding  place;  but,  when  the  other 
needs  of  living  are  to  be  supplied,  un 
less  there  is  help  from  the  home  or else 
where,  want  is  sure  to  follow.

This  was  the  condition  which  made 
itself  manifest  and  which  led  a  ‘ ‘ few 
its  charitable  women”   of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
to  speak,  from  time  to  time,of  instances 
coming  under  their  own personal knowl­
edge  where  young  women  were  actual­

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

5

ly  suffering  from  just  such  a  condition 
of  things.  So,  from  the  observation  and 
the  closely  following  remark,  the 
idea 
of  doing  something  to  relieve  this  great 
need  began  to  take  tangible  shape—not 
this  time  in  a  “ schoolhouse  on Prospect 
H ill,”   but  at  a  meeting  in  the  Central 
nion  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  The  moment 
the  words  had  given  expression  to  the 
thought,  the  charitable  circle  hearing  it 
hailed  it  with  joy. 
It  was  early  taken 
before  a  meeting  of  the Federation,  and 
received  its  sanction;  and  the  Working 
Woman’s  Home  passed  from  the 
ideal 
to  the  real.

A  desirable  house  was  found  on  the 
corner  of  North  Division  and  Lyon 
It  is  large  and  roomy.  Its  style 
streets. 
is  pleasing. 
)f  architecture 
It  has  a 
large  lot;  and 
it  has  a  look  at  once 
homey  and  attractive.  Generous  citi­
zens—and  there 
is  a  goodly  number  of 
them  here—promptly  helped  to  furnish 
the  house,  which  became  at  once  the 
headquarters 
the  Federation  of 
nions;  and  on  September  1,  1895,  the 
doors  of  the  Working  Woman’s  Home 
were  thrown  open  and  the  new  life  un­
der  its  roof  began.

of 

permanent  dweller.  Whoever  presents 
the  passport  of  respectability 
is  wel­
come  and,  once  within  the  pleasant  cir­
cle,  the  old  home-life  comes  back  to 
them  like  a  benediction.

The  rules  of  the  Home  are simple and 
is  the  bedtime, 
salutary.  Ten  o’clock 
the  house  being  then 
locked  for  the 
night.  They  who  are  unwilling  to  con­
form  to  the  conditions  cannot  remain.

The  Board  of  Managers  is  made  up 
of  the  Presidents  of  each  of  the  local 
unions,  so  that  there  are  as  many  mem­
bers  as  there  are  local  unions.  That 
these  managers  have  an  important  work 
to  perform,  the  experience  of  the  last 
five  months  plainly  shows;  that  they 
know  how  to  meet  the  demands  made 
upon them  is evident,  and,  while  it  may 
sometimes  seem  to  them  that  the  re­
wards  are  not  commensurate  with  the 
effort  put  forth  to  reap  them,  beyond 
the  effort,  beyond  the  difficulties,  be­
yond  the  discouragements  comes  the 
thought  that  fell  first  from  the  lips  of 
Him  who  spake  as  never  man  spake: 
" A s   ye  have  done  it  unto  the  least  of 
these,  my  brethren,  ye  have  done  it  un­
to  me.

for 

That 

The  Grain  Market.

longing 

falling  off 

it  was  an  undertaking  much 
needed  was  at  once  made  manifest. 
This  has  been  what  is  termed  a  bull 
Numbers  who  had  long  felt  that  some­
in  with  an  up­
week.  Wheat  started 
thing  must  be  done  or  they  must  give 
ward  tendency  and  continued  without 
intermission  until  the  closing  on  Satur- 
up  the  positions  they  held  came  to  find 
a  day,  when  the  advance  for  May  reached 
what  they  had  been 
about  4>£c  above  Monday’s  opening. 
home.  They  have  come 
from  every 
The  receipts  are 
in  the 
calling—the  store,  the  shop,  the  trade— 
Northwest.  The  exports  were  heavy,
and  here  in  the  crowded  city  they  have
found  again  the  family  life they thought  being  3,849,000  bushels  (flour  included) 
left  forever  under  the  apple | from  both  coasts,  as  compared  with
they  had 
the  corresponding 
2,840,000  bushels 
trees  of  the  farm  or  the  maples  of  the 
week 
last  year.  So  all  the  longs  felt 
village.  They  do  not  come  as  depend­
happy  for  once,  while  the  bear  element 
ants.  The  advantages  of  a  Christian 
went  growling.  This  has  been  expected 
home  are  theirs.  They  eqjoy  it ;  and 
for  some  time,  and  now  a  setback 
is 
they  enjoy  it  all  the  more because they 
expected,-but  we  shall  see  still  better 
pay  for 
it.  They  are  not  objects  of 
prices  before  long.
charity.  They  learn  that  from  the  first. 
The  house  and 
furnishings  cost 
money;  the  one  has  been  rented,  and 
the  others  paid  for,  at  regular  rates. 
There  is  room  rent,  and  there  are  board 
bills,  and  these  are  to  be  met promptly; 
but  they  can  be  met  and  a  margin  be 
left  for  the  other  numberless  wants 
which  wholesome 
requires, 
whether  the  wages  earned  be §3  a  week 
or  less.  No  wage-earning  girl  of  good
repute 
that  home  rooftree,  where  hands  of 
heartiest  welcome  are  held  out to  her, 
she  can  enter and  become a self-respect­
ing  member  by  independently  paying 
her  way.

The  visible  did  not  show  up  as  much 
as  was  anticipated.  While  the  trade 
expected  about 
1,000,000  bushels  de­
crease,  it was only 465,000 bushels, which 
took  the  sharp  edge off  the  market,  and 
May  wheat  slumped  off  1 y ic   per  bushel 
duiing  the  last  thirty  minutes  of  the 
closing  from  high point  yesterday.  I  am 
of  the  opinion  that  someone  made  an 
error  in  figuring  the  visible.  While  our
large,  the  re­
ceipts  were  only  moderate and  I  cannot 
reconcile  these  figures,  according  to  my 
calculation.

is  ever  turned  aw ay;  but,  under  exports  have  been  extra 

Corn  and  oats  followed  wheat  on  the 
up  grade  and,  while  not  in  the  same
per

A  pleasing  feature  in the management  degree,  both  cereals  advanced 

living 

its 

is  the  absence of  scrimping. 
It  is  seen 
nowhere.  True,  the  plain  prevails,  but 
it 
is  a  plainness  that  commends  itself 
to  the  beholder.  Comfort  has  been-the 
thought—a 
good,  comfortable  home, 
with  wholesome  plenty  at  the  table  and 
warmth  and  cleanliness  everywhere.  A 
pleasant  parlor,  opening  from the pleas­
ant  hall,  receives  the  visitor,  and  the 
glimpse  he  gets  into the  sitting  room 
through  the  folding  doors  confirms  the 
idea  that  here,  in  a  convenient  quarter 
of  the  town,  at  a  nominal  cost,  which 
every  self-respecting  young  woman 
is 
able  and  glad  to  pay,  is  a  home  bright 
and  comfortable,  where  peace  and  quiet 
and  contentment  abide,  and  where, 
when  the  toils of  the  day  are  over,  its 
weariness,  its  cares  and  its  annoyances 
can  be  forgotten 
in  the  genial  home 
circle,  or  in  the  restful  enjoyment of the 
prettily-appointed  sleeping  apartment— 
the  throne-room,  always,  of  the  femi­
nine  mind.

The hospitable  doors  of  the  Home  re­
ceive  the  transient  comer as  well  as  the

bushel.

The  receipts  were :  wheat,  41  cars; 
corn,  7,  and  oats,  4  cars—about  the  av­
erage.

C.  G.  A.  V o igt.

Flour  and  Feed.

The  past  week  has  been  one of excite­
ment  and  a  sharp  advance  in  wheat  and 
flour has  followed  to  some  extent,  prices 
being  advanced  from  4o@5oc  per  bbl. 
This  condition  of  things  has  been  pre­
dicted  for  some  time by  those  fam iliar' 
with  wheat  supply  and  demand,  but  the 
change  came  so  suddenly  that  many 
were  caught  napping  and  with  very 
light  stocks.  Some  reaction  would  now 
seem  to  be 
in  order,  but,  in  all  prob­
ability,  a  considerably  higher  range  of 
values  will  be  reached  for  breadstuffs 
of  all  kinds  before  another  crop  is  har­
vested.

Corn  and  oats  are about  ic  higher,  in 
sympathy  with  wheat,  but  prices  of 
feed,  meal,  bran  and  middlings  remain 
locally  the  same  as  last  week.

W m.  N.  R owe.

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Hardware

A  PLEA  FOR  THE  OLD  FOOY.

W ritten  for th e T radesman.

the 

By  reason  of  the  commercial  changes 
that  have  occurred  within 
last 
twenty  years  a  certain  class  of  retail 
dealers  have  become  reduced  to  a  small 
fragment,  each  one  of  which  is,  in  the 
parlance  of  the  day,  considered 
" a  
back  number.”   His  position  among 
mercantile men  is  supposed  to  be  in  the 
rear,  where  he  is  fated  to  catch  all  the 
dust  thrown  behind  by  the  hustlers 
in 
their  frantic  struggles  to reach the front. 
Whether  located  in  city,  town  or  coun­
try,  he 
lack  of 
push,  which  is  something  that may have 
a  definite  meaning,  though  scarcely  two 
of  his  critics  can  agree  upon  what  it  is. 
All  of  them,  however,  have  a  stone of 
ridicule  or  sarcasm  to  cast  at  him  and 
are  unanimous  in  the  conclusion  that  he 
is  not 
‘ ‘ up  to  date,”   but  rather  in  a 
class  by  himself,  distinctly  recognized 
as  ‘ ‘ old  fogy.

is  characterized  by  a 

The 

trade 

literature  of 

journals, 
though  kindly  critical,  fails  to  spur  his 
ambition,  since  he  is  too  far  behind  in 
the  use  of  improved  methods to care  for 
advice  or  precept  that  does  not  suit 
his  condition  or  aim 
in  life.  On  the 
other  hand,  he  is  plainly  given  to  un­
derstand  that  the  evolution  of  trade 
is 
the 
leaving  him  hopelessly  behind 
times,  where  he 
is  only  useful 
to 
“ point  a  moral  or  adorn  a  tale”   Hav­
ing  no  organization  upon  which  to  de­
pend  and  no  leader  to  champion  his  in- j 
terest,  the  unfortunate  old  fogy  of  to­
day 
jogs  along  at  a  methodical  gait, 
quite  satisfied  with  the  speed,  never  en­
vious  of  those  who apparently  distance 
him  in  the  race  and  receive  cheers from 
the  grand  stand.  Personifying,  as  he 
does,  a  part  of  the  conservative  force  of 
trade,  one  who  is 
inclined  to  philoso­
phize  upon  the  relation  he  bears  to  the 
more  active  factors 
in  mercantile  life 
may  be  permitted  to  say  a  few  words  in 
his  favor.

is  well,  at  the  outset,  to  consider 
It 
what 
is  the  main  purpose  in  choosing 
an  occupation,  and  also  that  men  may 
reasonably  take  different  views  of  what 
constitutes  success 
in  any  occupation. 
Very  few  of  the  large  number  of  retail­
ers  qualify  themselves  expressly  for  a 
mercantile  life,  as  do  the  lawyer and the 
physician  for  their  respective  profes­
sions.  The  ranks  of  trade  are  oftener 
recruited  from  men  who  failed  in  other 
employments, 
or  who  drifted  along 
without  any  denfiite  purpose  until  some 
favorable  circumstance  turned  their  at­
tention  to  commercial  venture  as  the 
surest  road  to  fortune,  or  at  least  an 
easier  way  to  secure  a  competence. 
Many  a  farmer  with speculative procliv­
ities,  tired  of  slow  gains,seeks a  change 
of  occupation,  believing  that  the  mer­
chant  middleman  has  a  great  advantage 
over  the  producer.  So  one  after  another 
exchanges  his  capital 
for  experience, 
and  begins  to  put 
in  practice  his 
theories  on  how  to  run  a  business  that 
he  hopes  will  land  him  nearer  the  goal 
of  human  endeavor.

Like  the  active  participants  in  every 
other  race,  each  competitive  retailer 
is 
supposed  to  be  hustling  for  local  com­
mercial  supremacy.  He 
is  urged  to 
strain  every  nerve  to  distance his neigh­
bors  or  hold  his  own  against  greater 
odds.  Advice  by  the  carload  is  offered 
by  those  interested  in  his  success  to  in­
duce  him  to  adopt  certain  methods  to 
speed  his  progress.  The  great majority 
incentive  to  exertion,
need  no  such 

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

while  much  of  the  advice  as  to  methods 
falls  short  of  practical  result,  for  the 
reason  that  local  conditions  are  so  vari­
able.  A  great  many,  however,  respond 
to  words  of  stirring  counsel  and  meet 
with  a  moderate  degree  of  success. 
Others  drop  out of  the  race  from  sheer 
exhaustion  or  incompetency,  leaving  a 
few  who  never  considered  themselves 
in  any  race  at  all,  and  who  are  wonder­
ing  what  the  whole  ado  is  about.  These 
last  constitute  the  class  termed  “ old 
fogy,”   who,  whether  in  city  or  country, 
keep  on  the  even  tenor  of  their  way, 
content  to  accept  the  conditions  of trade 
as  they  find  them,  and  to  do  their  duty 
in  their  own  little  spheres,  heedless  of 
the  jealous  rivalries  of  the  majority.

It  is  not always  easy  to 

identify  the 
old  fogy  by  his  personal  appearance; 
neither does  his  store  front  nor  the 
in­
terior arrangement  of  goods furnish clue 
sutificiently  definite.  He  may  be  pur­
suing  his  destiny  quietly  in  a large city, 
behind  a  plate  glass  front,  side by  side 
with  the  so-called  “ hustler”   who  clam­
ors  for  trade  through  the  daily  papers. 
He  will  oftener  be  found 
in  some  vil­
lage  or  crossroad  settlement,doing  busi­
ness  in  a  building  of  unpretentious  ap­
pearance,  with  a  stock  of  goods  of  the 
most  miscellaneous  character  and  ar­
ranged 
in  the  most  elaborate  disorder. 
Wherever he  may  be, there  is an absence 
of  dash,  of  display,  of  apparent  pros­
perity.  The  casual  visitor 
is  apt  to 
think 
it  a  dull  place,  and  to  wonder 
how a  man  of  any  business  ability  can 
content  himself  with  such  stagnation.

But  the jobber,  in  scanning  his  ledger 
showing  a 
list  of  customers  whose  ac­
counts  can  be  classed  as  good  assets, 
never  fails  to  notice, when  certain  pages 
are  opened,  how  short  is  the  time  be­
tween  delivery  and 
remittance.  The 
footings  for  any  given  time  may  not 
reach  the  total  of  entries  against  more 
ambitious  dealers,  yet  they  represent  a 
period  of  time  outlasting  scores  of  so- 
called  “ progressive  traders,”   and 
in 
the  aggregate  an  amount  of  sales  that 
leaves  no  painful  memories  of  loss; 
and,  when  statements  are  sent  out  to 
call  back  some  of  the  wandering  capi­
tal  profusely  scattered  among  thousands 
of  hustling  retailers,  the  pages  contain­
ing  the  names  of  old  fogies  are  sure  to 
be  skipped,  or, 
if  noted,  it  is  but  to 
send  circulars  of  welcome  greeting  and 
urgent  requests  for  future  orders.

it 

How often,  too, does  the  knight  of  the 
grip  prize  these  oases  in  the  desert  of 
dull  trade’s  weary  round.  What  satis­
faction 
is  to  him  when,  disgusted 
by  failure  to  sell  goods  to  some  con­
ceited  beginner  in  business  who  thinks 
he  “ knows  it  all,”   he  drops  his  sam­
ples  on  the  counter  of  the  old  fogy  cus­
tomer  and  gets  a  hearty  handshake  and 
an  order  that  restores  his  confidence  in 
humanity.  Though  the  order  may  not 
be  a  voluminous  one,  he  knows  that 
it 
is  given  in  a  liberal  business  spirit  and 
that  it  will  be  repeated  as  often  as  the 
wants  of  legitimate  demand will justify.
The  peculiarties  of  the  old fogy dealer 
that  call  forth  criticism  in  trade  papers 
contemporaries  may 
and 
be 
in  the  following:  He  is 
summed  up 
old 
in  business  methods. 
Since  he  does  not  consider  the  occupa­
tion  of  a  merchant  necessarily  a  strife 
between  competing  forces  but,  instead, 
a  means  to  facilitate  the  exchange  of 
products  to  supply  natural  wants,  his 
aim  is  to  be  a  useful  factor  in  the  work 
of  collection  and  distribution.  Having 
no  inordinate  desire  for  wealth,  he  pur­
sues  his calling  as  a means  of  livelihood 
for  himself  and  family,  quite  satisfied

fashioned 

from 

N IC K ® U N ® ....

A  nODERN  WONDER.

It is absolutely the  only  pol­
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.

®0 ®

If-  vour  jobber  doesn't 

keep  it, write^

TRACY & WARREN, Grand Rapids Agents, 737 Mich. Trust Co. Bldg.

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if 

it  shows  an  excess. 

if  the  net  profit  equals  expenditure,  and 
thankful 
It  is 
often  the  case  that  a  majority  of  his 
customers  are  old  fashioned,too, in  their 
ways  and  wants,  which  makes  him  the 
right  man  in  the  right  place.  He  does 
not advertise  to  any  extent,  because  his 
custom  is  limited  to  a  small  territory, 
one 
in  which  he  is  well  known,  while 
his  goods,  prices and  manner  of dealing 
speak  for  him  quite  as  plainly  as  would 
columns  of  printed  display.  His  motto 
is,  “ Pay  as  you  go ,”   which  insures 
against  some  of  the  calamities 
that 
overtake  more  progressive  dealers.  On 
this  rock  bottom  principle  he  maintains 
a  fairly  profitable  trade,  outlasting  that 
of  other  dealers  who  use  “ up  to  date”  
methods.  While  to  the  eye  of  the  visitor 
used  to  a  regular  and  orderly  display  of 
goods,  with  elegant  fixtures  to  set  them 
off  to  advantage,  his  arrangement  of 
stock  may  have  a  negligent  appearance 
offending  to  good  taste,  yet  it  may  be 
excused,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  what 
appears  to  be  confusion  is,  in  reality, 
nothing  but  well-arranged  disorder, 
which,being  fam iliar to  both  dealer and 
customer,  well  answers  the  purpose  of 
a  more  systematic  classification.

Thus,  we  find  the  old  fogy  dealer  of 
to-day,  as  a  general  rule,  in  harmony 
with  his  environment.  No  more  can  be 
siid   of  the  ambitious  head  of  a  city 
department  store.  There 
is  room  for 
each  in  the  world  of  trade,  though  cen­
sorious  critics  are 
free  to  comment 
severely  on 

the  merits  of  both.

I  confess  to  having  a  decided  respect 
for  the  old  fogy  at  this  stage  of  the 
world’s  progress,  because  he  reminds 
me  of  the  time  when  contentment  with 
one’s  lot  was  more  of  a  virtue  than  it  is 
now;  and  I  consider  him  a  brave  man 
in  personifying  that  virtue  before a gen­
eration  of  hustlers,  who  consider  hurry 
and  worry  inseparable  from  successful 
business.

S.  P.  W h i t m a r s h .

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade 

is  only  fair,  but'the 
outlook  is  not  bad.  While  we  may  not 
have  anything  booming,  we  all  look  for 
a  satisfactory  spring  trade.  Prices  are 
now  stationery,  with  an  upward  tend 
ency,  and 
is  not  believed  they  will 
it 
go  any  lower.

Wire  Nails—Are  still  held  firm  and  i 
is  not  thought  any  lower  prices  will  be 
made.

Barbed  Wire—Has  been  a  little weak 
but  at  the  present  rime  it  is  firm  and 
i 
will  take  but  little  to  advance  the price

Window  Glass—No  advance  as yet has 
been  made,  but  the  closing  down  of  all 
the  glass  factories  has  made  the  price 
very  firm.  An  advance 
is  looked  for, 
but  it  may  not  come.

Lanterns—There  has  been  a  big  ad 
vance 
in  this  line  of goods,  averaging 
as  high  as  $i  per  dozen.  The  lantern 
men  are  all  together  and  have  but  one 
selling  agency,  which  accounts  for  the 
advance.

The  travel  on  a  certain  branch  rai 

road  running  out  of  Buffalo  is  so 
light 
that  the  depot  officials  make  fun  of  i 
when  occasion  permits.  Not  long  ago 
the  conductor  of  one  of  the  trains  on 
this  branch  came  through  the  station 
about  two  minutes  before  his  train  was 
due  to  start,  and  asked  the  doorman 
i 
all  his  passengers  were  on  the  train 
The  doorman  replied: 
“ Yes.  He  are 
all  on.  Bill 
in  the  forward  end  of 
the  smoker. ”

is 

If  your  wife  could  buy  a  10c  articli 
for  5c,  do  you  think  she  would?  Well, 
I  guess  so!  Why 
lon ’t  you  buy  S.  C 
W.  5c  cigar?

Honey  in  Specialties.

The  advantage, 

in  an  advertising 
sense,  of  becoming 
identified  with  a 
specialty  of  some  sort  is  not  as  much 
appreciated  as  it  ought  to  be.  Practi­
cally  any  tradesman  can  make  a leading 
feature  of  something  which  will  differ­
entiate  him 
from  his  competitors  in 
trade.  The  value  of  specialties,  or  of 
acquiring  a  name  for  certain  special 
ines,  should  be  thoroughly  understood. 
Do  not bury  yourself  in  the  dull  level  of 
conventionality. 
If  you  would  gain  at­
tention  do  something  that  nobody  else 
s  doing  at  the  moment.  The  world 
s  so  very  much  occupied  that  it  will 
not  pause  to  heed  the  ordinary  bland- 
shments  that  were  once  sufficient  to  se­
cure  trade.  You  must,  metaphorically 
speaking,  sound  a  trumpet  or  wave  a
flag. 

0   m

Get  Rid  of  a  Bad  Bargain.

Upon  finding  you  have  made  a  mis- 
ake 
in  buying  stock,  do  not  hold  up 
for  the  first  price  and  let  the  goods  lie 
ndefinitely  on  the  shelves,  but  let  them 
go  for  what  they  will  bring.  This  is 
the  wisest  course  to  pursue.  Everybody 
makes  mistakes,  so  that  no  one  has  a 
monopoly  in  this  line.  But,  after  the 
mistake  has  been  made,  do  your  best  to 
rectify  it  by  getting  rid  of  the  bad  bar­
gain  as  soon  as  possible. 
If  goods  fail 
to  meet  the  popular  approval,  don’t  let 
the  question  of  price  hinder  in  their 
disposal.  Better  sell  when  the  rush  is 
on  at  a 
low  price  than  carry  them  in 
stock. 
In  many  stores  throughout  the 
country  there  are  goods  piled  up  whose 
original 
interest  added, 
would  make  quite  a  nice  little  sum.

cost,  with 

It  is  a  favorable  political 

indication

best  education  and  intelligence.  Re-

indication  that  even 

vorable 
in  New 
York,  the  city  of  rings  par  excellence, 
the  protest  was  unavailing.

feminine  appreciation.

Long  credits  given  by  manufa« 
and  wholesalers  are  responsible 
large  majority  of  the  business  failures. 
With  plenty  of  time  to  pay,  me 
not  hurry  to  get  ready  to  pay.

No  matter  how bad  or  destruct; 
boy  be,  he  never becomes  so  deg 
or 
sufficient! 
throw  mud  on  a  circus  poster.

self-respect 

loses 

The  difference  between  success 
failure  is  not  always  in  the  amou 
work  applied,  but  in  the  method  t 
application.

greater  will  come  without  an  eftort.

It  takes  one  hundred  cents  to  make  a 
dollar,  but  ten  million  dollars  couldn’t 
make  sense  for  some  people.

If  there  were  less 

there  would  be 

ignorance  to  prey 
less  rascals  to 

scratches  every  other  stone.

is 

the  diamond 

that 

upon, 
prey  upon  it.
Character 

[TlLdl^LdlV 

WM.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,
4-7\ / 1 T A-s 9
MANUFACTURERS 
AND JOBBERS  OF...

TINWARE

Selling Agts. for Columbian  Enameled  Steel Ware.

Write for C atalogue. 
Telephone  640. 

360  South  Ionia  Street
GRAND  RAPIDS, niCH.

H a r d w a r e   P r i c e   C u r r e n t .

AUGURS  AND  BITS
Snell’s .........................................................
Jen n in g s’, genuine  ...............................
Jen n in g s’, im ita tio n .............................

AXES

F irst Q uality. S.  B. B ro n z e .................
F irst Q uality,  D.  B. B ro n ze................
F irst Q uality. S.  B.  S.  S tee l................
F irst Q uality, D.  B.  S te e l....................

.........  
70
.........25*10
.........60&10

5  50
.........   9  50
.........   6  25
.........  10  25

BARROW S

R a ilro a d ................................................... $12  00  14  00
n et  30  00
G arden........................................................

BOLTS

60
Stove ...........................................................
65
C arriage new  li s t ..  ...............................
P low ............................................................ ........... 40*10

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

W ell,  p la in ................................................

BUCKETS

$ 3 25

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin,  figured........................ ...........  
W rought  N arrow ...................................

70
........... 75*10

'O rdinary T ackle......................................

.........  

Cast Steel................................................... per lb 

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS

CAPS

Ely's  MO................................................... .p e rm  
H ick's C.  F ................................................ per m 
. per m 
G.  1)............................................................
M u s k e t....................................................... . per m  

CARTRIDGES

Rim  F ire...................................................
C entral  F ire............................  .............

70

4

65
55
35
60

CHISELS

Socket  F irm er.......................................
Socket  F ram in g ...................................
Socket  C orner........................................
Socket  S lick s.........................................

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit S to c k s...............................
T aper and S traight S hank..................
Morse’s T aper S hank...........................

ELBOW S

........... 50*  5
........... 25*  5

. . : . . . .  
........... 
...........  
........... 

so
80
80
80

........... 
60
...........50*  5

70
80

40
40
40
30

Com. 4 piece, 6 in ................................. doz.  n et 
60
C orrugated ...............................................
A d ju stab le................................................ ___dis 40*10

EXPANSIVE  BITS

C lark’s sm all, $18;  large, $26.............
Ives’,  1, $18;  2, $24; 3, $30...................... ...........  

...........S0&10
25

FILES—New  L ist

New A m erican ....................................... .............70*10
...........  
70
N icholson’s ..............................................
.............60*10
H eller’s Horse  R asps...........................
IRON

GALVANIZED 

Nos.  16 to 20;  22 a n a  24;  25 and 26;  2 '.  ... 
L ist  12 
16.........  

14 

13 

28
17

D iscount, 70

15 
GAUGES

Stanley R ule and  Level  Co.’s ........... .............60*16

KNOBS—New L ist
........... 
Door, m ineral, jap.  trim m ings.........
Door, porcelain, jap.  trim m in g s— ........... 

MATTOCKS

H unt Eve..........................................  $'5 00. dis  60*10
H unt's.............................................. 
IlH  50, dis  20&10

M ILLS

...........  
Coffee.  P arkers Co.’s ...........................
Coffee.  P.  S. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s  M alléables... 
Coffee, Landers, F erry & C lark-*— .........  
........... 
Coffee, E nterprise.................................
M OLASSES  GATES

Stebbin’s P a tte rn ................................... .............60*10
Stebbin’s G en u in e................................ .............60*10
30
E nterprise, self-m easu rin g ...............

......... 

NAILS

A dvance over base, on  both  Steel  and  W ire.

...........   2  50
Steel nails, b ase.....................................
Wire nails, b ase....................................
50
........... 
*8,7...,............................................... ............. 
60
........... 
75
7 a n d   6.............................................
4 
........... 
90
...................................................
............ . . : . . ........................................ .............  1  20
3
.............  1  60
1  60
...........  

riatsa in 

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

g..............

90
............. 
75
F in ish   10 .................................................
90
............. 
10
F inish  6 .................................................. .............  
C linch 10.................................................
80
............. 
90
.............  1  75

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fa n c y ........  ............. .............  @50
Sclota B e n c h .......................................... .............60*10
Sandusky Tool C o ’s,  fancy............... .............  @50
.............  @50
Stanley R ule and  Level Co.’s wood. ............. 
60

Fry, A cm e..............................................
Common, polished.................................

....60*10*10
70*  5

PANS

RIVETS

Iron and  T in n e d ................................. ............. 
00
Copper Rivets and B urs...................... .............50*10

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

‘A”  W ood’s patent planished,  Nos. 34 to 27  10  20 
‘B”  W ood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9  20 
Broken packages  %c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

.dis 
25 
.dis 40*10 
list 
70

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Japanned T in  W are...........................   .............20*10
Trauite Iron  W are.............................new  list 40*10

HOLLOW  W ARE

S p id ers................................................................... 60*10

HINGES

80
80
80
80

70
6%
9V4
80

20

W IRE  GOODS
B rig h t................................................
Screw E yes.......................................
H ook’s...............................................
G ate Hooks an d  E yes..................

L E V E L S

ROPES

Stanley R ule and  Level Co.’s __

.dis

Sisal, 54 inch an d   la rg er.............
M anilla.................................................................... 
Steel and Iro n .....................  
Try an d  B evels.....................................................
M itre ........................................................................... 

SQUARES

 

SH EET  IRON

Nos. 10 to  14........................................ $3  50
3  50 
Nos.  15 to  17. 
3  65
Nos.  18 to 21. 
Nos. 22 to 2.. 
Nos. 35 to 20.
No.  2 7 .........
All sheets 
wide not less

com. sm ooth,  com. 
13  60 
2   60 
2  80
2  90
3  00 
3  10
No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 
than 2 -10  ex tra.

3  IK)
4  00

List  acct.  19, ’8 6 ..............................................dis 

50

Solid  E yes................................................per ton  20 00

SAND  PA PER

SASH  W EIGHTS

TRA PS

Steel, Gam e.....................................................  
60&10
50
O neida Com m unity, N ew house's........... 
O neida Com m unity, Hawley *  N o rto n 's70*10*10
Mouse, choker................................ per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion.............................per doz 
125

W IRE

B right M arket....................................................... 
75
A nneal’d  M arket................................................ 
75
Coppered  M arket..................................................70&10
T inned M arket.....................................................   6254
Coppered Spring  S teel....................................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .............................   2 25
Barbed  Fence,  p ain ted .....................................  1  90

HORSE  NAILS

Au S able........................................................... dis 40&1C
P u tn am .............................................................dis 
5
N orthw estern..................................................dis  10*10

W RENCHES

B axter’s A djustable, n ick eled ........................ 
Coe’s G enuine....................................................... 
Coe's P ate n t  A gricultural, w rought  ........... 
Coe’s P atent, m alleable..................................... 

30
50
80
80

MISCELLANEOUS
 

B ird  Cages  ........................ 
50
Pum ps, C istern .............................................  
75*10
Screws, N ew L ist.......................................... 
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate.................................5O&1O&10
Dampers, A m erican.................... 
 
40*10
F orks, hoes, rakes an d  all steel goods.. 
70

 

 

M E T A L S -Z inc

600 pound  casks............................................ 
 
P er p o u n d ............................................................. 

6)i
634

SOLDER

54@54 ...............................-....................................  
1254
T he prices of them any o th e rq u a litie so f solder 
in  the m arket indicated  by  private  brands  vary 
according to  com position.

TIN—M elyn G rade

10x14 IC, C harcoal................................................$  6  00
14x201C, C h a rc o a l..............................................  6  00
20x14 IX, C h arc o al..............................................  7  50
14x20 IX , C harcoal...............................................  7  50

E ach additional X on this grade. $1.75.

TIN—A llaw ay  G rade

10x14 IC, C h a rc o a l..............................................  5 %
14x20 IC, C h a rc o a l..............................................  5  25
10x14 IX, C h a rc o a l..............................................  6  25
14x20 IX, C h a rc o a l..............................................  6   25

Each additional  X on this grade, $1.50. 

ROOFING  PLA TES

14x20 IC, C harcoa1. D ean...................................  5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal  D ean...................................  6  00
20x28 IC, C harcoal, D ean.................................  10 00
14x20 IC, C harcoal, All  way G rad e...............  4  75
14x20 IX, Charcoal,  Allaway G rade...............  5  75
20x28 1C, C harcoal, A llaway G rad e...............  9  60
20x28 IX, Charcoal, A llaw ay G rade...............  11  50

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

14x56 IX , for  No.  8  Boilers,  I 
14x56 IX, fo r  No.  9  Boilers,  f per p o u n a ' ’ ' 

„„„„¿I 

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m iddlem en's  profit. 
W rite for pi ices and 
before 
description 
purchasing  elsew here.  Scales  tested  and  re­
paired.  S atisfaction guaranteed.
GRAND  RAPIDS  SC A LE  WORKS,
39  &  41  S .  Front  St., 
Grand  Rapids.

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WEDNESDAY,  -  -  -  JANUARY  29,  1896.

A  MOMENTOUS  MOVE.

If  the 

latest  advices  from  the  East 
is to  be 
are  to  be  believed,  Armenia 
protected 
irom  the  sword  of  the  Turk 
by  the  sheltering  arm  of  Russia.  An 
understanding  has  been 
if 
there  has  been  no  treaty,  which  virtual­
ly  gives  to  Russia  control  of  whatever 
belongs  to  Turkish  territory,a  statement 
which,  if  true,  is  the  most  momentous 
move  which  has  been,made  in  the  East 
for  years.

reached, 

This  method  of  solving  the  Eastern 
problem  can  hardly  be  a  surprise.  The 
Sultan  has 
long  been  only  the  shadow 
of  a  power  behind,  not one but  many 
thrones,  the  umbra  of  which  has  fallen 
from  the  Russian  Bear;  and  when  pri­
vate 
interest  was  lead  to believe  that 
the  time  had  come  when  it  could  turn 
to  practical  account  the  horrible  condi­
tion  of  the  Armenians  by 
shielding 
them  from  the  scimitar of  the  Mussel- 
man,  the  move  made  was  the  one  which 
there  was  every  reason  to  expect. 
It 
remains  now  to  be  seen  whether  the  re 
suits  will  be  what  has  so  often been  pre­
dicted.  It  seems  to  be  taken  for granted 
that  the  slaughtering  of  Christians, 
which  has  always  been  the  principal 
business  of  the  Turk,  will  be  stopped; 
that  relief  will  be  promptly  adminis­
tered  to  the  suffering,  and  that  life  and 
liberty  will  hereafter  be  respected  in 
the  territory  once  under  the  control  of 
the  Sultan.

With  this  phase  of  the  matter  dis­
posed  of,  the  move  on  the  political 
chessboard  of  the  Eastern  hemisphere 
interest.  With 
becomes  of  absorbing 
the  Sultan  no  longer  a  king 
in  check 
but  a  pawn  in  Russia’s  hands,  not  only, 
is  the  Bosphorus  guarded  by  that  pawn 
but  the  Dardanelles becomes  the South­
ern  outpost  of  Russia,  with the  Mediter­
ranean  Sea  as  the  only  available locality 
for  the  gathering  of  unfriendly  fleets. 
If,  as 
it  may  be  readily  believed, 
France  has  entered  into  this  alliance, 
the two countries,  to  all  intents  and  pur­
poses,  will  control  that 
inland  sea,  a 
condition  of  things  it  would  be 
impos­
sible  in  any  form  for  England  to  regard 
with  indifference.

Another 

feature  which  this  move 
brings  promptly  to  the  front  is  the  bal­
ance  of  power  the  true  doctrine  of 
which,  over  a  century  ago,  William 
Pitt  declared  was  “ that  the  influence  of 
Russia  should  not  be  allowed  to  in­
crease,  nor  that  of  Turkey  to  decline.”  
If  this  move  has  been  made,  it  is  evi­
dent  that  Russia  refuses  any 
longer  to 
accede  to  that  doctrine,  both  conditions

of  which  will,  be  as  utterly  ignored  as 
if  they  had  never  been.  She  has  done 
this  with  a  full  knowledge  of  what  the 
balance  of  power  in  Europe  means,  and 
is  ready  to  take  the  full  consequences 
of  whatever  follows  from  what  she  has 
done,  however  portentous  they  appear.
It  is  plain  that,  under  the  new  cir­
cumstances,  Turkey  becomes  a  Russian 
province;  that  the  Russian  forces  will 
march  into  Asia  Minor,  the  Asiatic  ter­
ritory  of  T urkey;  that  Russian  bayonets 
will  flash  in  the  streets  of  Constantino­
ple ; 
to 
the  contrary,  the  material 
increase  of 
the  Russian  Empire  will  go on,  and that 
not  the  decline  but  the  annihilation  of 
that  pest  of,  and  check  to,  all  Christian 
civilization,  the  power and  the  territory 
of  Turkey,  is  as  certain  as  sunrise.

that,  the  balance  of  power 

These  are  a  few  of  the  changes  made 
possible  by  this  momentous  move. 
Whether  the  other  great  powers 
of 
Europe  will  submit  to  this  utter  repudi­
ation  of  all  treaties  remains  to  be  seen; 
but  if  Russia  has  at  last  succeeded 
in 
gaining  possession  of  Constantinople, 
it  is  much  to  be  doubted  if  all  Europe 
combined  will  be  able  to  wrest  it  from 
her  grasp,  the  last,  and  by  no  means 
the  least,  result  to  be  expected  from the 
movement  said  to  have  been  made.

BUSINESS  CONDITIONS  IMPROVING.
It  is  a  relief  to  be  able  to  note  some 
change in  trade  and  financial  conditions 
from  the  monotonous  waiting  of  the 
past  few  weeks,  although  the  changes 
may  not  be  all  that  could  be  desired  as 
to  money  and  collections. 
In  these, 
however,  there  is  decided  improvement 
in  certain  localities,  and  there  are signs 
of  improvement  in  the  general  market.
The  most  notable  advance  has been  in 
wheat.  This  has  been  so  marked, 
in 
spite  of  general  bear  news,  that  hope  is 
given of  permanent  improvement  The 
change  is  attributed  to  the  unfavorable 
news  of  the  wheat  resources  of  Austra­
lia, 
India  and  Argentina.  The  esti­
mates  of  domestic  stocks  are  larger than 
ever,but  the  export  outlook  is  sufficient­
ly  favorable  to  more  than  offset  that 
consideration.  The  latest  advices  make 
the  domestic  supply  so 
large  that  it 
has  caused  a  slight  reaction 
from  the 
highest  prices  which  have  been  quoted.
In  sympathy  with  wheat,  prices  are 
advancing  for  flour,  corn  and  oats;  and 
the  movement  of  pork  is  in  the  same 
in­
direction.  The  interference  of  the 
is 
surgents  with  the  Cuban  sugar  crop 
finally  beginning  to  make  itself  felt 
in 
the  advance  of  that  commodity.  Cot­
ton  is  advanced  by  increased  export  de­
mand.  Wool 
is  unchanged  although 
there  is  an  advance  in  foreign  markets. 
Leather,  petroleum  and  copper  have 
continued  to  decline.

The  management  of the combinations, 
in  pushing  up  the  prices  of  coke  and 
coal  and  restricting output,  seems likely 
to  be  successful  in  putting  the iron mar­
ket 
into  a  better  shape.  Prices  have 
advanced  on  Bessemer  pig  and  steel 
billets  from  $i@ 2  per  ton  at  Western 
centers.

Failures  for  the  week  were  71  less 
than 
for  the  preceding  week.  Bank 
clearings  show  a  decrease  of  8  per 
is  an  increase  of  7  per 
cent.,  but  this 
cent,  over  the  corresponding  week 
last 
year.

Gold  shipments  for  the  week  were 
§2,500,000;  imports  on  account  of  bond 
subscription,  $1,150,000.  A premium  of 
is  still 

for  gold  or  legal  tenders 

quoted,  but  transactions  are  light.

The  hardest  kind  of  a  chasm  to go 

over  is  sarcasm.

it  will  require  an 

HESITATION  IN  NAMING  THE  PRICE.
There  seems  to  be  a  curious  reluc­
in  all  commercial  transactions, 
tance 
unless 
it  be  the  crying  of  bananas  or 
newspapers,  to  name  the  price.  This 
hesitation  is  especially  manifest  on  the 
in  small  manu­
part  of  those  engaged 
facturing  or 
job  shop  trades,  where 
there 
is  a  good  deal  of  variety  in  the 
prices  or  in the  elements  of  cost,  so  that 
the  prices  are  not  absolutely  established 
by  precedent. 
Perhaps  the  printing 
trade  will  afford  an  example  as  familiar 
to  merchants  as  any  that  could  be 
cited. 
In  this  the  elements  of  cost  vary 
considerably;  still,  they  are  all  simple 
and  plain  and  can  be quickly estimated. 
Yet,  go  into  the  average  printing  office 
and  ask  the  price  of  the  simplest 
job, 
and 
astonishing 
amount  of  figuring,  estimating,  hesitat­
ing,  looking  over  the  copy,looking  over 
the  figures—then  looking  over  the  cus­
tom er-ending  with  the  final  announce­
ment,  with  an  air  of  deprecation,  as 
though  it  is  expected  that  the  price  will 
be  considered  too  high,  and,consequent­
ly,  it  generally  is. 
is  the  same  with 
the  allied  business  of  engraving,  it  is 
so  with  many  kinds  of  repairing,  and 
with  other  lines  which  will  occur  to 
the  reader—the  tradesman  hesitates  at 
the  critical  point  to  name  his  price, 
probably  because  it  is  a  critical  point.
But  it  is  because  this  trait is  manifest 
too  largely  in  general  mercantile  trade 
that  it  is  referred  to  here. 
It  is  curious 
to  what  an  extent  merchants  hesitate 
about  plainly  marking  the  price  on 
goods.  Why  there  should  be  such  hesi­
tation 
is  difficult  to  conjecture,  es­
pecially  in  a  business  conducted  on  the 
fair  principle  of  one  price  to  all.  The 
only  plausible  explanation  is  that  it 
is 
a  reluctance  to  make  the  prices  known 
for  fear  of  comparison  with  competi­
tors. 
is  notable,  however,  that  the 
custom  of  marking  goods  is  rapidly  in­
creasing.

It 

It 

it 

The  reluctance 

to  name  the  price 
is  strongly  manifest  on  the  part  of many 
clerks  and salesmen.  Fam iliar examples 
will  be  recalled 
in  the  sale  of  a  gar­
ment.  The  clerk  extols  the  merits  of  a 
coat  until  the  customer  asks  the  price. 
Instead  of  promptly  answering  he  con­
tinues  to  expatiate  on  the  desirable 
qualities. 
If  he  finally  brings  himself 
to the  point  of  naming  the  price,  it 
is 
with  the  preface  that,  on  account  of 
considerations—‘ ‘ and 
such  and  such 
because  it  is  you—I  will 
let  you  have 
that  coat  for  so  much.”   Now,  this hes­
itation 
is  not  to  secure  any  particular 
advantage  in  most  cases,  for  frequently 
every  word  said  after  the  price  is  asked 
is  detrimental  until  it  is  named—it 
is 
simply  a  manifestation  of  that  same 
trait  of  hesitation,  of  reluctance 
to 
bring  the  matter  to  the  critical  point.

it 

The  average  customer,  in  making  a 
purchase  or  in  ordering  work,  has  one 
in  his  mind  which  is  more  or 
question 
It  is  the ques­
less  a  source  of  anxiety. 
tion  of  cost.  Not  that  he 
is  always 
afraid  that  the  cost  is  going  to  be  too 
great,  but 
is  an  anxiety  depending 
on  a  similar,  or  the  same,  trait  of  char­
acter  which  makes  the salesman hesitate 
—the  decision  as  to  what  he  is  to  pay. 
In  the  majority  of  cases,  if  he  can  be 
brought  to  see  the  article  and  given  to 
understand  that  it  is  just  what he wants, 
which  is  the  proper  work  of  the  clerk, 
and  the  price  is  plainly  marked,  there 
is  no  trouble  about  the  sale. 
In  any 
instinctive  anxiety  as  to  the 
event,  his 
matter  of  cost  cannot  be  too  promptly 
relieved.

It 

The  Tradesman  calls  the  attention  of 
its  readers  to  the  article  on the  Working 
Woman’s  Home,  found  in  another  col­
umn.  The  object  is  one  which  cannot 
is  the 
be  too  much  commended. 
ounce  of  prevention  which  is  worth 
in­
calculably  more  than  pounds  of  cure. 
On  the  principle  that  much  of  the 
world’s  wickedness  comes  from  need, 
the  Home  removes  the  need,  by making 
it  possible  for  the  wage-earner  to  live 
on  a  meager  income,  and  live  comfort­
ably  and  respectably.  Room  rent  is  50 
cents  a  week  and  table  board  is $2  a 
week,  so  that,  with  wages  at  a  low  rate, 
it  is  possible  for  the  girl  to  support her­
self,  with  something  in  her  favor  when 
the  weekly  expenses  are  paid. 
It  is  an 
undertaking  which  commends  itself  to 
all. 
is  one  which  will  prosper,  if 
managed  as  it  should  be  and  as  the 
Tradesman  has  every reason to believe it 
will  be.

It 

The  most  effective  weapons the  Span­
iards  are  able  to  use  against  the 
insur­
gents  in  Cuba  are  the  misrepresenta­
tion  of  the  events  of  the  campaigns  and 
the  invention  of  reports  of  calamities 
upon  the  Cuban  arms  and  leaders.  The 
latest,  which  seems  to  have  gained  con­
siderable  credence,  is  that  the  Cuban 
General-in-Chief  is  dying  from  an 
in­
curable  disease. 
If  a  sick  man  could 
lead  the  Spaniards  such  a  dance  as 
Gomez  has  done,  it  is  hard  to  say  how 
he  would  have  used  them  if he had  been 
well.  As  a  matter  of  fact  the  Cubans 
are  better  supplied  with  capable  and 
experienced  generals  than  ever  before 
and,  if  Gomez  should  die, 
it  does  not 
follow  that  it  would  be  a  fatal  calamity 
to  the  Cuban  cause.  The  circulation  of 
such  stories,  however,  will  do  consider­
able  to  prevent the Cubans  gaining  rec­
ognition.  _________________

The  Attorney-General  of  Illinois  has 
commenced  suit  for  the  revocation  of 
the  charter of  the  Illinois  Steel  Works. 
His  action  is  based  on the claim that the 
combinations  of  the  several  companies 
constituting  the  Illionis  company  make 
the  latter  a  trust  and  that,  in the  issuing 
of  stock,  acquiring  real  estate,  etc.,  it 
has  exceeded  the  powers  of  its  charter. 
Commenting  upon 
the 
Chicago  papers  assert  that  since  his  ac­
cession  to  office  the  Attorney-General 
has  instituted  suits  against  a  number  of 
corporations  on  the  ground  of  their  be­
ing  trusts,  but  that  in  no  case  have  the 
suits  been  carried  to-a  succussful  issue. 
In  some  cases  the  apparent  grounds  for 
such  suits  were  far  stronger  than  in  the 
case  of  the  steel  company.  There  is 
little  alarm 
that  he  will  abolish  a 
concern  which  pays  $6,000,000  a  year  in 
wages. 

_________________

action, 

the 

instructing 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Bean- 
Chamberlin  Co.,  manufacturers  of 
pumps  and  bicycles  at  Hudson,  a  reso­
lution  was  adopted, 
the 
manager  to  dispense  with  the  services 
of  any  employe  who  permits  a  garni­
shee  to lie against  him. 
If  more  corpo­
rations  took  this  position  on  the  ques­
tion  of  employes’  paying  their  bills,  the 
happiness  of  the  retail  merchant  would 
be  complete.

The  Tradesman  hopes  to  see  a good at­
tendance  of  representative  grocers  at 
the  convention  of  the  Northern  M ichi­
gan  Retail  Grocers’  Association  at  Big 
Rapids  next  week.  The  objects  of  the 
organization  are  laudable  and  the  Asso­
ciation  can  bring  about  an 
improved 
condition  of  things,  if  properly  sup­
ported  by  the  grocery  trade  of  Northern 
Michigan.

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9

THE  BACK  OFFICE.

Certain  Swedish  inhabitants  of  Wis­
consin,  says  an  item  in  the  daily  press, 
are  perfecting  plans  for  a  million-acrt 
colony  in  Tennessee, in which  the Swed­
ish  language  only  shall  be  spoken.  That 
is  the  simple  statement  of  a  grand  idea 
from  the  Swedish  standpoint.  As  they 
look  at  it,  that  extensive  colony,  where 
only  Swede  is  to be  spoken,  is  to be  the 
one  place  in  the  wilderness  of  language 
touched  by  the  Jordan.  There  will  be 
found  not  only  the 
language  of  the 
northland,  but  the  old  habits  and  the 
old  customs,  so  dear  to  the  Swedish 
people.  There  will  the  church  stand, 
with  its  skyward-pointing  finger.  The 
schoolhtuse  will  hum  with  the  buzzing 
of  human  Swedish  bees.  The  streets 
will  throng  with  the  Old  World  life,  and 
in  that  one  spot  of  transplanted  Sweden 
the  leaven  in  the  meal  will  work;  until, 
in  the  course  of  the  centuries,  the  whole 
on  this  side  of  the  sea  will  be  Swed­
ish  leaven.

it 

It  is  a  pleasing  picture  to  the  eyes  of 
the  Swedes;  but 
is  one  which  will 
never  be  painted.  It  is  one  which  never 
ought  to be  painted.  America’s  future 
is  not  Sweden’s  future,  not  Germany’s 
future,  not  England’s, 
simply 
America’s  future.  Here  the  old  has 
passed  away  and  all  has  become  new; 
and  here,  if  anywhere,  must  be  worked 
out  the  problem  of  humanity.

but 

The 

leading  thought  of  the  Swedish 
colony—that  only  that  language  is  to  be 
spoken—could  never  be  carried  out. 
Time  and  again  that  idea  has  been  at­
tempted,  and  always  with  the  same  re­
sult.  The  it  ill ion  acres may be doubled ; 
but  the  territory  will  never  be  large 
enough  to  satisfy  the  wandering  feet 
of  the  Swedish  youth,  nor  to  keep  them 
from  contact  with  the  world  outside.

The  first  difficulty  to  present  itself 
will  be  the  school  question.  The  com­
mon  school 
insists  that  the  American 
born  child  shall  be  taught  the  Ameri­
can  language.  The  state  cannot  afford 
to  teach  a  child  the  language and  the 
thought  of  a  government  contrary  to 
its 
ideas  of  citizenship;  and  monarchy, 
and  republicanism  are  antagonistic. 
It 
cannot  be.

itself 

The  same  principle  will  sooner  or 
later  show 
in  religious  matters. 
The  faith  of  the  Swede  is  protestant; 
but  this 
is  a  question  not only  of  the 
Swede,  but  of  any  nationality,  and  will 
lead  to  trouble  in  any  colony  having  at 
heart  the bodily  transfer  of  foreign 
life 
to  America.  It  may be said—it  has  been 
said—that  this  is  the 'land  of  freedom. 
It  is,  for  American  freedom ;  but  there 
is  no  greater  menace  to  that  freedom 
than  just  the  monarchical  idea which the 
Swedish  colony  hopes  to  realize.  The 
Monroe  doctrine  may  not  yet  be  an  ad­
mitted  principle  of  international  law, 
but 
it  will  be  found  in  full  force,  not 
only  in  Tennessee  but  in  every  place  in 
America  overshadowed  by  the  eagle’s 
wing.

Such  undertakings  owe  their ^failure, 
not  to  legal  restriction,  but  to  the  very 
element  which  led  to them.  The under­
taking  breeds  the  disease  that  kills 
it. 
A  single  generation  shows  signs  of  de­
cline.  The  American  word,  in  spite  of 
the  decree  to  the  contrary,  is  sure  to 
creep  in.  Once  there,  it  not only  stays, 
but brings  with  it,  to  stay,  the  Ameri­
can  thought  with  which  the  world  is 
freighted.  The  young  Swede will  catch 
and  keep  both,  and  both  will  be  royally 
entertained.  By  and  by  there  will  be 
a  stepping  over  of  the  Swedish  bound­
ary  line.  The  American  drummer  will 
be  sure  to  come  in, the  ambitious  Swede

will  be  sure  to  go  out;  and  from  that 
day  the  Swedish  colony 
is  doomed. 
That  is  the  only  possible  outcome ;  and 
the  Swedish  colony  will  see  in  time that 
it  is  the  only  right  outcome,  if  the ideal 
of  republicanism  —America’s  only hope 
—is  ever to  be  realized.

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

The  Bicycle  Exhibits.

W ritten fo r th e T r a d e sm a n .

It 

is 

The  two  important  events  in  the  b i­
cycle  world  this  winter  were  the  ex­
hibits  in  Chicago  and  New  York. 
In 
the  latter  city  no  less  than  360  manu­
facturers  were  represented,  while 
in 
Chicago  there  were  not  so  many.  At 
these  shows  there  has  been  great  local 
interest,  the  rooms  being  thronged  with 
interest 
both  women  and  men.  The 
manifested  argues  well  for  the 
local 
trade  in  those  cities  as the season opens.
interesting  to  note  that  in  sc 
great  a  number  of  makes  there  is  sucl 
similarity,and  yet  difference  enough  fcr 
distinction  and  interest  as  to  claims  of 
different  styles.  To  the  novice  the’ 
were  nearly  all  alike,  but  the  great  ma­
jority  of  visitors  manifested  an  interest 
in  the  differences  and  a 
technical 
knowledge  of  the  merits  of  the  different 
points,  which  shows  how  general  the 
“ craze”   has  become,  and  how  rapid­
ly  the  mechanical  knowledge  of  the 
wheel  is  spreading.

Of  course, 

the  great  object  of  these 
exhibits  is  to  bring  about  a  meeting  ol 
manufacturers  and  wholesale buyers,  the 
same  as  in  the  Grand  Rapids  exhibits 
of  furniture.  This  feature  was  a  suc­
cess  in  both  exhibits; and  it  is  a  proba­
bility  that  it  will  assume  still  more 
importance  in  future  years  as  they  be­
come  more  widely  advertised  and  the 
buyers  are  educated  to  the  value  of  the 
exhibits  as  exchanges.

for 

fitted 

Many  novelties  in  construction  were 
placed  on  exhibition,  such  as  double 
wheels,  both  tandem  and  abreast,  and 
tandems 
four,  and  even  for  six 
riders.  There  were  also  shown  a  m ili­
tary  wheel, 
for  carrying  forty 
pounds of arms  and  equipment, and  one 
double  tandem,  fitted  for  carrying  arms 
and  complete  field  outfit  for  two  sol­
diers.
It 

is  probable  that  in  the  trade  this 
year  more  attention  will  be  paid  to 
having  the  wheels  properly  adapted  to 
the  size  and  build  of  the  riders;  espe­
cially  will  this  be  the  case  with  ladies’ 
wheels.  Heretofore,  wheels  have  been 
bought  almost  at  random  as  to  size  and 
throw  of  crank,  regardless  of  the  figure, 
whether  slender  or  of  heavier build.  So 
far,  the  thin  ones  have  had  decidedly 
the  advantage,  appearing 
far  more 
graceful  on  the  wheel  than  their  sisters 
whose  more  fully  developed  figures  are 
their  envy  in  other  situations.  Women 
whose build  will  not admit  of  too 'much 
motion  without  appearing  ungraceful 
will  have  wheels  with  much  shorter 
cranks,  even 
if  they  sacrifice  some  of 
the  possibilities  of  speed  and endurance 
on  the  altar  of  vanity.

W. N. F.

The  Bradstreet 
Mercantile  Agency

THE BRADSTREET COMPANY 

Proprietors.

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Offices in the principal cities of the United States, 
Canada and the European continent, Australia, 
and in London, England.

CHARLES P. CLARK, Pres.

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Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg.

,  HENRY RQYCE, Supt.

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

IO
Getting  the  People

Art  of  Reaching  and  Holding  Trade 

by  Advertising.

An-erroneous  idea  obtains quite large­
ly  that  the  esthetic  element 
is  not  ap­
preciated  by  the  great  mass  of  the  peo­
ple,  that  too  great  a  degree  of  refine- 
mentt,  too  little  of  that  which  wi  1  ap­
peal  to  the  vulgar  taste,  will  destroy  the 
effectiveness  of  advertising.  Color  is 
given  to  this  idea  by  the  fact  that  many 
of  the  most  successful  comic  papers 
published  in  this  country  are not  by  any 
means  up  to  the  highest  standard  of  re­
finement,  either  in  text  or 
illustration. 
It 
is  a  natural  and  apparently  logical 
conclusion  that,  to  be appreciated,  there 
must  be  coarseness  in  advertising,  es­
pecially  it  there  be  a  suggestion  of  hu­
mor  or  an  illustration. 
If  it  is  not  con­
sidered  necessary to have  a suggestion of 
is  frequently  admitted 
vulgarity,  there 
—not  wholly  by 
inadvertence—that 
which  is  coarse,  ugly,  unrefined.

It  is  this 

There  is  an  idea  quite  prevalent  that 
many  of  the  average  of  people  are 
pleased  with  vulgarity. 
idea 
which  leads  some  traveling  men,  usual­
ly  the  callow  youths,  to  provide  them­
selves  with  an  outfit  of  questionable 
stories  and  schemes  of  vulgar  or  coarse 
suggestion  for  the  amusement  of  their 
customers,  or,  in  an  idle  moment,  their 
fellow  pilgrims.  This  practice  is  much 
less  common  among  the  more  experi­
enced,  and  the  successful  ones  soon dis­
It  is  sometimes  thought  to 
continue  it. 
be  necessary 
in  saloon  trade,  but  its 
value  even  there  is  to  be  questioned.

Because  there  are  many  who  will 
laugh  at  a  coarse  joke  or  suggestion,  it 
does  not  follow  that  such  will  be attract­
ed  by  coarseness  in  advertising.  More 
of  the  apparent  appreciation  of  such 
things 
is  a  dutiful  regard  for  the  feel­
ings  of  the  narrator  and  a  wish  to  ap­
pear appreciative  and  genial  than a real 
delight  in  nasty  coarseness. 
If  people 
only  knew  how  frequently  the  hilarious 
and  apparently delighted listener to such 
things 
in  his 
inmost  mind,  they  would  not  place so, 
much  value  on  their  equipment  in  this 
lin e ;  and,  if  he 
is  of  as  coarse  a  fiber 
as  they  take  him  to  be,  he  says  to  him­
self,  “ He  must  think 
I  am  a  d—d 
idiot!”

is  thoroughly  disgusted 

People  are  never  attracted  by  coarse­
ness.  Some  months ago,  this  city  was 
flooded  with  an  advertising  card  of 
some  soap  manufacturer.  This  was  in­
gen iusly  arranged 
in  such  a  way  that, 
by  putting  two  fingers  through  some 
holes  in  the  cards  provided  for that pur­
pose,  there  would  be  the  appearance  of 
a  man  sitting  with  bare  legs  and  with 
his  feet  in  a  bath  tub.  Now,  this 
idea 
might  have  been  all  right  enough  if  the 
representation  had  not  been  so  hideous­
ly  coarse.  The  sight  of  it  was  simply 
disgusting.  The  writer  took  some  pains 
to  see  how the  scheme  was  appreciated 
and,  as  a  result,  is  convinced  that  it 
is 
an  advertising  failure.  The 
ingenuity 
attracted  some  attention  but  the  coarse­
ness  more  than  neutralized  any  benefit 
resulting  therefrom.

In  the  preparation  of  advertisements 
the  defect of  coarseness  cannot  be too 
carefully  guarded  against. 
is  not 
necessary  to  cite  examples—every  ob­
server  notes  them,  as  he  looks  over  the 
average  work  of  the  would-be  smart  ad­
vertiser,  and  a  chill  of  disgust  passes 
over him  as  he  comes  across  such  ex­
pression.

When  illustrations  are  used  there 

is 
still  more  danger.  Too  frequently  the

It 

coarseness  and  vulgarity  are  the  result 
of  inartistic  designing.  Many so-called 
designers,  in  attempting  to  draw  an  an­
gel  of  light,  only  succeed  in  producing 
a  suggestion  of  Mephistopheles.  Then, 
many  times, 
is  essentially 
coarse—a  man  perhaps  on  a  scaffold 
with  a  rope  around  his  neck,  or  a  figure 
with  its  head  cut  off,  or other  monstros­
ity.  Such  coarseness  in 
is 
in  very  common  use,  but  it  never  sell 
goods.

illustration 

idea 

the 

jaws 

Of  course,  in  other  modes  of advertis­
ing,  as  in  signs,  etc.,  the  same 
eature 
is  prominent.  The  writer  has  a  night­
mare  recollection  of  a  dentist’s  sign 
which  at  an  early  day  performed  by  the 
side  of  a  stairway  on  Canal  street,  in 
this  city.  The  sign  consisted  of  a  pair 
of 
in  constant  activity,  propelled 
by  some  ingeniously  hidden  machinery. 
It  would  have  required  the  severest 
necessity  to  compel  him  to go up  to  that 
dentist’s  room  past  the  hideous  repre­
sentation,  and  there  is  no  doubt  many 
more  were  driven  to  avoid  the  place 
than  were  attracted  by  it.  The  business 
was  not  prosperous.

Apparently  coarse  people  are  not  at­
tracted  by  coarseness—much  less  the  re­
fined.  There  is  enough  that  is pleasing 
in  suggestion  connected  with  all 
lines 
of  business  for  material  for advertising. 
Use  care  to  find  it,  and  see  that  nothing 
creeps  in  that  will  offend  the  most  fas­
tidious  taste;  rest  assured,  the  work 
will  be  more  effectual,  even  with  the 
coarser  grained.

W.  N.  F u l l e r .

Not  so  Green  as  He  Looked.

He  was  from  the  country,  and  the 
hayseed  was  fairly  streaming  down  his 
back  as  he  strolled 
into a  down-town 
clothing  house.  He  looked  around  in 
open-eyed  astonishment  at  the 
large 
display,  and  the  clerks  had  consider­
able  quiet  sport  at  his  expense.

Finally  his  eye  rested  on  a  small 
string,  hanging  lengthwise  of  the  coun­
ter,  loaded  down  with  men’s  shirts  and 
bearing  this  sign :

:  THIS  LIN E  OF SHIRTS,  FIFT Y  CF.NTS.

“ I  see  you be  wantin’  to  sell  that  line 
o’  shirts  for  fifty  cents?’ ’  he  remarked 
interrogatively  to  a  clerk.

“ Y es,”   replied  the  clerk,  with  a  po­

“ Well,  that  there’s  th’  best  bargain 

lite  bow.

I’ve  seed !”

And  Old  Hayseed  pulled  out  a  quar­
ter,  two  dimes  and  a  battered  nickel, 
which  he  deposited  carefully  on  the 
counter.  Then  reaching  up  he  gave the 
“ line”   a  quick  jerk  which  loosened 
it 
at  both  ends,  quickly  and  dextrously 
rolled  up  the  “ line,”   shirts  and  all,and 
was  through  the  door before  the  aston­
ished  clerk  recovered 
sufficiently  to 
realize  what  had  occurred.

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SUCCESSFUL  SA LE SflE N .

J .  W .  Sleight,  Michigan  Represent­

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The  Tradesman 

is  not  a  religious 
periodical;  especially  is  it  not  an  up­
holder  of  sectarian  doctrine. 
It  does 
now  and  then  meet  with  an  instance 
where  the  idea  of  predestination is mar­
illustrated,  and  without  com­
velously 
mitting  itself  to  the  dogma 
illustrated, 
it  presents  the  facts  and  allows  its read­
ers  to  draw  their  own  conclusions. 
It 
seems  out  of  the  regular  order of things, 
in  this  day  and  generation,  to  assert 
that  a  man  cannot  be  drowned  who  was 
foreordained  to  be  hanged,  and  on  the 
same  theory 
it  seems  absurd  to assert 
that  a  boy  who  was  born  to  be  a  travel­
ing  salesman  cannot  be  anything  else; 
but  here 
is  an  instance  where  no  other 
theory  fits 
If  the  case 
were  one  that  had  been  reported  from 
“ away  off  somewhere,’ ’  it  could  be dis­
posed  of  with  a  wave  of  the  hand  and 
a  “ What are  you  giving  us?’ ’  but  when 
a  thing  happens  at  your  very  doors, 
what  can  be  said  other than  that  it  is 
one of  those  remarkable instances which 
just  happened  and  that’s  all  there  is  to 
it?

into  the  facts. 

The  instance  referred  to  originated  a 
little  ways  out  of  Kalamazoo.  Hiram 
Arnold,  an  old  and  successful  merchant 
of  that  city  of  euphonious  name,  having 
retired  from  business,  built him a  hand­
some  residence,  Brookside,  in  the  sub­
urbs  and  enjoyed  there  the  life  of 
lux­
urious  ease  which  he  had  justly  earned. 
Here  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Sleight,  gave 
birth  to  the  son  whose  name  stands  at 
the  head  of  this  article,  on  the  29th  of 
September,  1867.

After  a  residence  of  three  months  at 
the  home  of  his  maternal  ancestor,  the 
mother  and  child  went  to  their  own 
la.,  and  the 
home  at  'Marshalltown, 
serious  business  of 
life  began.  The 
records  of  those  early  years  are  not  ex­
tensive,  but 
it  can  be  safely  inferred 
that  the  mother  and  the  elder  sisters 
were  kept  busy  in  caring  for  this 
latest 
addition  to  the  family,  a  care  greatly 
increased  by  the  inborn,  not  to say fore­
ordained,  proclivity  of starting  out  on 
the  road,  unknown  to  the  rest  of  the 
family.

It 

At  6  the  road  to  the  schoolhouse  was 
pointed  out  to  him,  but  he  did  not  take 
to 
it  kindly.  An  examination  of  the 
if  convenient,  would 
school  register, 
not,  it 
is  feared,  show  that  regularity 
of  attendance  which  implies  a  fondness 
is  to  be  feared  that  the 
for  books. 
“ old 
swimming-hole,’ ’  which  Whit­
comb  Riley  sings  of  so  tenderly,  more 
than  once  allured  from  his  books  the 
listening  schoolboy,  and  if  the  song  of 
the  poet  had  not  then  been  sung,  that 
of  the  happy-hearted  bobolink a-singing 
in  the  sun  answered  the  same  purpose, 
and  often 
led  him  at  schooltime  into 
the  woods  and  fields.

Admitting,  however, 

that  all  this  is 
mere  conjecture,  it  is  a  fact  that  when 
his 
14th  year  had  come,  his  scholastic 
attainments  were  not  such  as  to  meet 
with  favorable  comment;  and,  as  a 
means  of  rectifying  any  past  mistake, 
it  was  decided  to  enroll  him  as  a  stu­
dent  at  the  Shattuck  Military Academy, 
at  Faribault,  Minn.

He  completed  his  education,  or  that 
part  which  he  concluded  to  take,  in  six 
weeks.  Then  the  predestination  came 
to  the  front  and  he  started  out  on  the 
road,  as  it  had  been  foreordained  that 
he  should.  He  did  not “ wait  upon  the 
order  of  his  going,  but  went  at  once”  to 
St.  Paul,  where,  after  a  sojourn  o f t w o

months,  he  sought  the  privacy  of  the 
home  circle  at  Marshalltown.  He  was 
not allowed  to  remain.  If  the  Academy 
did  not  please  him, 
“ there  were 
others,”   and  the  unwilling  student  was 
taken  to  Racine  College,  where,  after 
four  wearisome  weeks,  he  ran—that is  to 
say,  he  deemed  it  advisable,  under  the 
circumstances,  to  go  home  for  a  few 
days  on  a  little  matter  of  business. 
It 
proved  to  be  a  very  brief  visit,  for  he 
was  promptly  sent  back  to  school  the 
following  day.  He  found,  however,  on 
his  return  to  the  classic  halls,  that  he 
had  forgotten  to  have  a  defective  tooth 
taken  care  of,  and  the  next  train  to 
Marshalltown  found  him steaming again 
towards  home. 
“ A  stitch  in  time  saves 
nine,”   and  the  tooth  could  not be  put 
off.  It  was  not. 
It  was  promptly  placed 
in  the  hands  of  the  dentist,  as  promptly 
taken  care  of,  and  that  same  day  found 
the  student  back  in  the  halls  of learning 
—for  the  space  of  two  week s !

There  is  rich  material  here  “ to  draw 
a  moral  or  adorn  a  tale,”   but 
it  would 
be  a  little  out of  place  in this narrative, 
which  is  intended  to  sustain  the  theory 
that  a  boy  born 
for  a  traveling  sales­
man  will  fulfill  his  destiny.

12, 

After  those  last  two  weeks,  he  went 
to  Chicago  to  stay.  He  found  a  place 
in  the  office  of  E.  R.  Walker,  a  bro­
ker.  He  stayed  there  six  months,  and 
then  went  to  Worth  &  Dickie,  tobacco­
nists, with  whom  he  stayed a year.  From 
them  he  went 
intc  the  house  of  J.  V. 
Farwell  Co.,  where  he  worked  as  book­
keeper,  an  art  which  he  “ picked  up.”  
He  was  with  them  three  years  and  then 
he  entered  the  employ of Woolley & Co., 
dealers  in  woolens,  where  he  remained 
three  years.  His  health  failed  then,and, 
after  that  was  restored,  he  secured  a 
position  with  the  Nonotuck  Silk  Co., 
of  Chicago,  where  he  stayed  for a  year 
and  a  half.  He  then  entered  the  service 
of  the  Coats  Thread  Co.,  and  there  he 
is  to-day.
January 

1888,  Mr.  Sleight  was
married  to  Miss  Lillian  Henry,  of 
Richmond, 
Indiana,  and  one  of  the 
brightest  little  boys  in  the  whole  round 
of  babies  came  to  his  home  not  very 
long  ago,  with  the  avowed  intention  of 
taking  up  his  residence  there.  .  Mr. 
Sleight 
is  a  Knight  of  Pythias  and  a 
Knight  of  the  Grip.  He  resided  in 
Grand  Rapids  for  several  years,  but  re­
moved  to  Chicago  a couple of years  ago, 
since  which  time  he  has  spent  nearly 
six  months 
in  bed  as  the  result  of  a 
complication  of  diseases.  Satisfied  that 
Grand  Rapids 
is  a  good  place  to  live 
in,  and  that  Chicago  is  a  good place  to 
get  away  from,  he  will  return  to  the 
Second  City  about  May  1,  taking  up  his 
residence  on  East  street.

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Happy  in  his  home  and  in  his  social 
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with  his 
and
gratified  with  his  success  as a  salesman, 
Mr.  Sleight  has  every  reason  to  regard 
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ture  with  complacency.

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JA N E   CRAGIN.

Her  Ideas  and  Dolly’s  of  the  Drum­

mer  Fraternity.

W ritten f o r  th e T r a d esm an.

“ It's  the  unexpected  which  always 
happens.  Of  course,  you  are  not  really 
expected to open  a  public  house  in  Mill- 
town,  and  yet  these  men  come  here  for 
our  benefit,  and  it  does  look  a  little  like 
uncharitableness  to  turn  them  off  after 
a  half-hour  interview to  find  their  way 
to  the  next  town.  They come—that’s  the 
unexpected—and 
I ’ve  been  wondering, 
ever  since  that  young  Trissel  was  here 
that  Saturday  and  had  to  hire  somebody 
to  take  him  over to  Waterford  Junction, 
whether  it  wouldn't  be  a  good  thing  for 
the  place,  and  an  equally  good  thing  for 
us.  to  have  a  place  where  these  men 
could  come  and  be  made  comfortable 
for  the  little time  they  stay.’ ’

“ Well,  1  guess,  for  the  good  o’  the 
town,  we’d  better  let  well enough  alone. 
Nobody  wants 
’em  -I  don’t,  anyway.
I  never  knew  any  good  from  having  a 
lot  of  bummers  hanging 
’ round,  and 
that’s  what  the  most  of  ’ em  amount to, 
anyway.

if 

in  her  mind 

“ There’s  that  old  Morrison  house. 

I 
think  it’s  just  the  thing,”   and  Jane  ran 
over 
its  qualifications. 
“ Take  it  in  the  summer  time,  what  a 
good  place  that  would  be  for  those  tired 
boys  who  have  little  or no  vacation^to 
come  to  and  stay  over  Sunday.  Any 
one  of  those  old  elms  would  be the mak­
ing  of  the  place 
it  were  a  public 
house—no, I  don’t  mean  a  public  house, 
but  a  place  where  it  would  seem  more 
like  home.  With  those big  elms  in  the 
large  front  yard  and  easy  chairs  on  that 
big  veranda,  how  they  would  enjoy  it; 
and 
if  the  house  is  kept  clean  and  the 
cooking  is  ‘ home  cooking,’  it  would  be 
a  bonanza  to  them. 
I  don’t  wonder  so 
many  of  these  young  fellows  go  to  the 
dickens,  the  way  they  live  and  the  food 
they  have  to  eat.  How  many  do  you 
suppose  drink  a  cup  of  good  coffee  or 
have  any  good  wholesome  bread  and 
butter  from  one  week’s end  to the other? 
And,  let  it  once  be  known  that  there 
is 
such  a  homey  place,  and  you’d  have  to 
put  a  ’bus  line  from  there  to  the  station 
to  accommodate  all  who  would  come  to 
Milltown  to  stay  over  Sunday.”

“ Y es;  and  how  long  would  it  be  be­
fore  the  ’ Morrison  House’  would  be  the 
pest of  the  village,  after 
it  was  filled 
up  with  your  traveling  men  who  come 
all  the  way  from  everywhere  for  a  good 
cup  of  coffee?  Coffee?  Say  whisky  and 
you’ll  come  a  good  deal  nearer  the truth 
than  you  are  now.  No,  Jane,  you’re  off 
—you’ re 
’way  off.  We  want  Milltown 
to grow,  but  we  don’t  want  it  to  grow 
in  that  direction. 
I  don’t  want  a drum­
mer  tramping  in  here  every other day !”
in  Dolly, 
it  would  make  to 
“ what  a  difference 
the  congregation  on  Sunday!  All  these 
men  that  I  have  ever  met  are  generous 
to  a  fault,  and  it’s  one  of  the  best  ways 
I  can  think  of  to  let  Elder  Perkins  get 
a  sight  of  a  little  lucre. ”

“ Just  think,”   chimed 

It  was  a  loud,  a  long  and  a  mocking 
laugh  that  rang  through  the  Milltown 
store.

“ That’s  a  good*  one! 

F ill  up  the 
‘ Morrison  House’  on  Saturday  with  a 
lot  of  bummers  and  so  fill  up  the  con­
tribution  box  of  the  Milltown  meeting­
house  on  Sunday  with  their  silver  dol­
lars !  You  foolish 
little  thing!  Don’ t 
you  know  that  you  couldn’t  pull  one  of 
those  fellows 
into  that  meeting-house 
with  a  yoke  of  oxen?  Every  nickel  they 
have  stands  for a  beer  or  a  second-class 
cigar.  Either  you’ve  lost  your  senses,

both  of  you,  or  else  got  some  new  bon­
nets,  and  I  don’t  know  but  both!”
“ What  I ’m  thinking  about,”  

Jane 
went  on,  as  if  what  Cy  said  went  in one 
ear  and  out  the  other,  “ is  how  we  can 
get  the  house  and  get  rid  of  Aunt  Me- 
hitable. ”
“ Get 

rid  of  her!  Who  wants  to 
to  get  rid  of  the  best  housekeeper  there 
is  in  Milltown?”   asked  Dolly. 
“ This 
isn’t  to  be  a  public  house,  as  I  look  at 
it.  We  won’t  send  everybody  there— 
just  the  nice  ones;  and  Aunt  Hitty, 
with  heri  plan,  prudent  ways,  will  not 
only  be  taking  good  care  of  herself,  but 
will  be  a  blessing  to  the  community  by 
taking  care  of  the  fisrt-class  salesmen 
we  will  send  there.”

‘ * I  tell  you,  Dolly  McWayne,  you 
don’t  kr.ow  what  you’re  talking  about. 
These  fellows  don’t  want  any accommo­
dations.  You  are  wasting  your  time  and 
sympathy 
in  thinking  anything  about 
’em.  They’ re a  low-lived  set,  and  the 
least  you  have  to  do  with  ’em the better.
I  know  every  one  of  ’em,confound  ’em! 
and  if  you  know  what  is  good  for  your­
self,  you’ll  let  ’em  alone.”

“ All  of  them,  Mr.  Huxley?  Are  you 
quite  sure?”  
(Jane  said  afterwards 
that,  pretty  as  Dolly  McWayne  was,  she 
never  looked  so  pretty  in  all  her  life  as 
she  did  then) 
“ because  I  happen  to 
know  one—two  or  three—and  they  are 
gentlemen!”

Type  fails  to  express  what  Miss  Mc- 
Wayne’ s  tone  and  manner  crowded  into 
that  last  word ;  and  for  the  first  time  in 
his  life  there  dawned  upon  the  senior 
member of  that  Milltown  establishment 
the  idea  that  very  possibly he  might  not 
belong  to  the  class  to  which  Dolly  re­
ferred.  He  was  angry  with  himself  for 
the  thought.  But  what  under  the  sun 
was  she  taking  up  the  cudgel  for  in 
behalf  of  “ those  pesky  drummers?”  

Dolly  went  on : 

“ There  was  a  time 
when  these  men—many  of  them—were 
of  the  type  you  mention,  but  that  time 
is  past.  Those  that  I  know  intimately 
are  well  born  and  college  bred,  and  the 
one  I  meant  particularly  has lately come 
from  a  German  university,  where  re­
port  says  he  ranked  the  highest as  a 
scholar.  He 
is  traveling  now  for the 
knowledge  of  his  business  which  he can 
get,  and  wants  to  get,  in  no  other  w ay; 
and 
I’m  afraid,  Mr.  Huxley,  that  he 
would  hardly  be  willing  to  take  his 
place  with  the  ‘ low-lived’  without  ques­
tioning  a  little  the  authority  that  would 
put  him  there!”

“ Oh,  well,  he’s  probably  one  of  your 
‘ way  up’  fellows.  He’s  an  exception 
to  the  rule,  anyway,  and—”

“ I ’m  sorry  to disagree  with  you,  Mr. 
Huxley,  but  I ’m  obliged  to  say  that 
you  are  stating  what  I  believe  to be 
wholly  untrue.  As  a  class,  they  are  not 
low  lived.  They  are  well  read.  They 
have  to  keep  up  with  the  current  topics 
of  the  day,  for  they  have  to  meet  with 
all  sorts  and  conditions of men ; and  you 
know,  and  so  do  I, 
that  a  man  who 
comes  to  the  trade  to-day  with  nothing 
to  recommend  him  but  a  list  of  prices 
is  not  the. man  who  leaves  the store  with 
a big  list  of  orders. ”

“ I  don’ t  say  they  are  natural  born 
fools,  but  you  take  them  as  a  whole  and 
you’ ll  find  them  a—”  

•

“ Very 

intelligent  lot  of  men.  They 
have  to  be.  The  majority  of  them  are 
well  educated.  The  most  of  them  show 
by  their  talk, 
their 
dress,  that  they  belong  to  the  cultured 
class.  They  travel  and  they  know  how 
to  make  the  most  of  what  travel  gives. 
indeed—what  they  always
They  are, 

their  manners, 

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have  been—the  real  civilizers  of  the 
country. ’ ’

“ Wh-e-w! 

Jane,  who 

is  he?  Out 
light­
with  it!  My  darkness  has  been 
ened.  My  eyes  have  at  last  been  pried 
open,  and  now  tell  me  who  he  is .’ ’

“ It 

isn’t  Mr.  Trissel—I ’ll  gratify 
your  curiosity  that  much.  He,  as  you 
know,  is  one  of  Jane’s  ardent  admir­
e rs!’ ’  and  for  the  first  time  in  his  life 
Cy  detected  the  echo  of  his  own  hector­
ing  laugh  in  Dolly’s  sly  little  giggle. 
lips 
*^“ D—n h im !”   he  muttered  with 
as  ashen  as  his  face. 
“ Will  you  two 
idiots  be  kind  enough  to  tell  me  what 
all  this  m eans!’ ’  he  finally  managed  to 
ejaculate. 
is  this  man  Trissel, 
and  what’s  he  been  about?”

“ Who 

No  reply.  Dolly  only  giggled  the 
harder.  Cy  dropped 
into  a  chair,  his 
honest  face  slowly  flushing  to  the  roots 
of  his  hair. 
Jane  glanced  at  one  and 
then  the  other,  and  then,  with  a  “ Well,
I  never!”   and  a  little  nervous laugh, she 
slipped  down  from  her  high  stool  and, 
going  straight  to  Cy,  took  his  face 
in 
both  her hands  and  bent  over and kissed 
him  on  the  mouth !

“ There! That  means  that  I  like you— 
and 
it’s  all  it  does  mean!  Now,  don’t 
you  try  any  longer  to  make  a bigger 
fool  of  ycurself  than  you  are.  Now,  if 
you’ve  anything  to  say  about  this tavern 
business,  stop  turning  all  colors  of  the 
rainbow  and  say  it.  Have  you?’ ’

* * Not  as  anybody  knows  of. ’ ’
“ That’s  what  I  thought.  I  have. 

I ’m 
going  over  to  Aunt  Meliittv’s  inside  of 
half  an  hour,  and  I  know  she’ll  be  glad 
to  follow  our  suggestion.  Now,  here’s 
something  else  you’d  better be  thinking 
about.  You  know  that  room  upstairs 
—well,  when  any  respectable  traveling 
man  stops  here,  just  take  him  up  there 
and  makes  him  feel  at  home,  and 
in­
vite  him  to  go  in  and  out  as  he  pleases. 
We  all  know  that  about  every 
idea 
we’ ve  carried  out 
in  this  store  since 
I ’ve  been  here  has  been  from  a  sugges­
tion  that  a  drummer  gave  u s;  and, 
intimate,  as  you  did,  that 
when  you 
they  are 
ignorant,  and  call  them  low­
lived  fellows,  you  know  better.  The 
majority  of  them  know  enough  sight 
more  than  we  do,  and  for  us  to  set  our­
is,  to 
selves  up  as  so  many  wiseacres 
say  the  least,  chumpy. 
I  declare,  there 
comes  that  Mr.  Trissel  now!  Go  out, 
Cy,  and  do  the  grand  polite.  Take  him 
upstairs  and  tell  him  to  make  himself 
at  home,  and,  if  he  says  anything about 
dinner,  take  him  over  to  Aunt  H it’s ; ’ ’ 
and  Cy  went  out,  humming

“ I'm  d ream ing now  of A llie!”

There  was  never  any  sign  on  the  an­
cestral  mansion  under  the  magnificent 
elms,  and  Aunt  Hitty  never  would  ad­
mit  that the granddaughter of old Colonel 
Morrison  “ kept  tavern;”   but,  on  a 
Monday  morning,many  a  wayworn  trav­
eler,  rested  and  refreshed  under  that 
hospitable  roof  in  the  quiet  of  the  coun­
try  Sabbath,  has  stopped  at  the  turn 
in 
the  road  for  a  last  look  at  the  house  he 
is  leaving  with  genuine  regret,  to  catch 
the  farewell  wave  of  the  God-speeding 
elm  branches,  and  then  resumed  his 
journey,  singing  or  sighing  as  his mood 
might  dictate:

“ W hoe’e r has traveled life ’s d u ll round, 
W here’e r h is w andering feet have been,
M ust sigh to th in k  he e ’re has found 
H is w arm est w elcom e at an in n .”

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

Tea  as  a  Revenue  Producer.

Since  Congress  is  apparently  bent  up­
on  increasing  the  revenues  of  the  coun­
try  by  an  increase  in  the  tariff  duties, 
there 
is  a  general  disposition  to  cast 
about  for  such  articles  as  can  best  bear 
taxation  with  the  minimum  of  incon-

is 

venience  to  the  people  of  the  country. 
From  the  protectionist  standpoint,  only 
those  articles  are  recommneded  for  tax­
ation  which  comes  in  competition  with 
similar  articles  produced  in  the  United 
States.  Such  a  tax,  instead of producing 
likly  to  prove 
revenue,  however, 
prohibitive,  and,  consequenttly,  fail 
in 
producing 
The 
ideal revenue tariff should  impose  duties 
on 
consumption 
which  are  not  produced  in  the  United 
States.  Sugar  is  such  an  article,  as  the 
amount  produced  in  this  country  is  but 
a  small  proportion  of  the total  consump­
tion.  Tea 
is  another  such  article,  and 
is  not  produced  at  home  at  all.

revenue  altogether. 

articles  of  general 

The  wholesale  grocers  and tea import­
ers  of  the  country  have  decided  to 
recommend  that  Congress  place  a  duty 
on  te a;  not  a  large  duty,  but  sufficient 
to  produce  a  fair  revenue,  and  at  the 
same  time  correct  certain  evils  which 
have  crept 
into  the  tea  trade  of  the 
United  States.  This  country  is  the  one 
ol  the  tea-consuming  countries  which 
admits  tea  free  of  duty,  and,as  a  result, 
tea  producers  in  the  Orient  send  all  the 
damaged  and  unmerchantable  tea  to  the 
United  States  on  consignment.  Owing 
to  the  duties,  it  would  not  pay  to  ship 
this  tea  to  any  of  the  European  coun­
tries ;  but  in  the  United  States,  having 
no  initial  charges  to  pay,  it  can  easily 
await  a  buyer.

As  a  result  of  this  practice  of  ship­
ping  poor  tea  to  the  United  States,  the 
better grades  of  tea  are  injured,  and  the 
door  is  opened  for  adulterations.  The 
consumer 
is  made  to  pay  a  stiff  price 
for  a  very  inferior article,  and  the  en­
tire  tea  trade  is,  moreover,  less  demor­
alized.  A  moderate  duty  would  at  once 
shut  out  the  trashy  stuff  which  is  now 
sent  to  this  country,  and  consumers 
would  receive  a  better  article,  which 
would  more  than  compensate  for  the 
slight  increase  in  the  retail  price.

The  Bureau  of  Statistics  at  Washing­
im­
ton  shows  that  in  1873  the  average 
port  price  of  tea  was  double  the  price 
of  to-day,  and  the  consumption  per 
capita  1.53  pounds,  since  which  time 
the  average  quality  and  price  have 
steadily  declined, 
the 
is  now  only  1.34 
consumption,  which 
pounds  per  capita. 
In  contrast  with 
this,  we  find  that  in  all  countries  where 
there 
is  a  tax  on  tea  the  consumption 
per  capita  has  increased,  most  notably 
in  England,  where  the  consumption  has 
increased  within  the 
last  twenty-five 
years  from  3.63  to  5.53  per  capita.

together  with 

is  very 

It  is  a  fact  well  known  that  the  best 
tea  made  goes  to  Russia,  where  the  tea 
consumption 
large,  and  yet  a 
duty  of  45  cents  per  pound  is  collected 
upon  tea.  The  duty  on  tea 
in  France 
is  equal  to  21  cents,  Germany  11  cents, 
Austria-Hungary  20  cents,  Spain  28 
cents,  Portugal  48  cents,  Norway  24 
cents,  and  England,  a  free-trade  coun­
try, collects  a  duty  of  8  cents  per  pound, 
not only  from  tea  imported  from  China 
and  Japan,  but  the  same  duty  from  her 
own  colonies,  India  and  Ceylon.  Since 
the  consumption  of  tea  has  actually  di­
minished 
in  this  country  without  a 
tariff  tax,  and  as  this  decrease 
in  con­
sumption  is  attributed  to  the  poor  qual­
ity  of  the  tea  which  is  shipped  here,  it 
might  pay  to  try  the  experiment  of  a 
moderate  revenue 
tariff,  particularly 
as  the  country  is  sorely  in  need  of  ad­
ditional  revenue.  Great  Britain,a  free- 
trade  country,  has  a  tax  on  tea,  and  her 
consumption  is  5.53  pounds  per  capita; 
whereas,  in  the  United  States,  with  no 
tariff  tax, 
is  only 
1.34  pounds  per  capita.

consumption 

the 

F ra n k St o w ell.

They  say  “what  a 
man  lacks  in  his 
head he must make 
up in his  heels,” so 
it is fair to presume 
that  “what  a  man 
lacks  in  his  heels 
he  must  make  up 
with his head.”
This man certain­
ly  is  “short”  on 
heels,  but  he  is  “long”  on  head,  and  HE 
says NO one will kick who uses

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Shoes  and  Leather

HAPPY  SHOEMAKERS.

Get  High  Prices  and  Don’t  Worry 

Over  Style.

F rom  th e Xew York Sun.

There  is  one  shoemaker here  in  New 
York,  and  he  boasts  of  being  the  high­
est  priced,  who  has  for  years  made 
shoes  according  to  one 
invariable  pat­
tern  and  for one  invariable  price.  They 
are  perfectly  square  at  the  ends,  the 
corners  alone  being  slightly  rounded. 
They  have  no  caps  and  are  always  but­
toned.  This  maker  has  built  up  a large 
custom 
in  New  York.  He  charges  S19 
for  his  shoes  in  calfskin,  and  amazing
the  fact  may appear-,  he  has  pur-
as
chasers  enough  for this  eccentric  article
to become wealthy.  Tbe  shoemakers
in New  ATork  and  LoneIon  who  are  at
the head in  the matter of  price  and
patronage--barring the gli9  man—make
their customers  a walking  shoe
for
moderately  pointed  at  the  toe,  buttoned, 
with  a  straight  cap,  and  generally  box 
toes.  The  search  for  appropriate  nov- 
eltv  will  discover  nothing  different from 
this  cosmopolitan 
for  well- 
dressed  men.  Sometimes  younger  men 
like  the  leather cap  extended  down each 
side  and  punctured  frequently.  This  is 
a  youthful  vagary,  also  seen  sometimes 
in  tan  shoes,  but 
invariably  deplored 
by  conservative  men.  The  single  cap 
over  the  toe  is  the  only  ornamentation 
they  admit.  A  dress  walking  shoe  of 
[latent 
in  this  same 
fashion.  For  a  brief  period  two  or  three 
years  ago  the  makers tried  an  all-patent 
leather  shoe  made 
in  the  style  of  the 
blucher.  This  was  made  with  a  heavy 
sole  and  enjoyed  a  brief  period  of  pop­
ularity,  but  after  a  while  what  had 
seemed  to  be 
its  appropriate  novelty 
wore  away.  Men  who  think  seriously 
of  such  matters  began  to  realize  that  a 
shoe  made 
in  the  fashion  of  a  heavy 
walking  boot  out  of  material  intended 
exclusively  for  dress  involved  an  incon­
sistency  which  no  man  dressed on a  sys­
tem  could  tolerate.  So  the patent-leather 
blucher  rapidly  disappeared.

is  made 

fashion 

leather 

Shoemakers 

in  London  are  not  often 
called  on  to  make  low-quartered  patent 
leather  shoes,  although  here 
in  New 
York  such  shoes  are  regarded  as  appro­
priate  for  evening  dress  under  certain 
circumstances. 
They  are  considered 
especially  appropriate  for  dinners,  but 
for  a  dance  the  one  thing  that  fashion 
makes  absolutely  appropriate  is  the pat­
ent  leather  pump.  Englishmen  wear 
pumps  always  with  full  evening  dress; 
to  the  theater, to  dinner,or  to  a  dance  of 
any  size.  Thev_  know  no  such  compro­
mise  as the low-quartered patent leather. 
It  is  a  marvel  to  Americans  that  they 
can  walk  around  the  streets 
in  such 
light  footwear,but it  is  no  unusual  thing 
to  see  men  in  the evenings on Piccadilly 
or  Pall  Mall  walking through  the muddy 
London  streets  in  pumps.  Pumps  have 
not  been  adopted  here  with  any  such 
general  acceptance,  but  the  men  who 
wear them  always  for  evening  dress  are 
becoming  more  and  more  numerous. 
They are seen  considerably  at  the opera. 
They  are  not  becoming  shoes, 
for  the 
flat  heel  diminishes  a  man’s  height.and 
the  trousers  fit  poorly around  the  ankle 
with  no  shoe to  fall  on.  The  low-quar­
tered  patent 
leather,  made  with  the 
straight  cap  and  box  toe,  is  a  distinctly 
American  fashion  and  a  better  one,  for 
there  is  no  more  attractive  footwear  for 
men  than  this  form  of  shoe  when  it  is 
properly  made.  One  English  style  that 
has been  struggling  for  adoption  here  is 
the  high,  buttoned  patent  leather  shoe, 
intended  for  dress,  not  for walking,  and 
made  without  a  cap.  The  fashion  is  not 
a  pretty  one  and 
it  has  struggled  so 
long  unsuccessfully  now  that  it  is  not 
likely  ever  to  be  adopted.  The  pumps 
are,  of  course,  without  a  cap,  and  orna­
mented  only  with  a  broad  black  ribbon 
bow.

The  men  who  cling  to  tan  shoes  in 
winter  need  observe  only  the  same  reg­
ulations  as 
in  summer.  These  would 
forbid them to wear  them with a silk  hat. 
To  wear  them  even  with  dress  trousers 
would  offend  the  men  most careful  in

like 

such  matters.  Rough  tweed  or ordinary 
materials  make  the  tan 
leather  shoes 
appropriate.  The  best  of  them  are 
made  with  heavy  soles, 
round  toes, 
capped,  and  usually  box  toed.  The 
blucher  shape 
is  less  in  vogue  and  the 
high  buttoned  tan  shoes  with  yellow 
buttons  should  be  avoided 
the 
plague.  They  give  a  carefully  dressed 
man  a  serious  shock.

Several  years  ago  an  English  shoe­
maker  came  here  from  London, moved 
into a  modest  shop  in  a  side  street,  and 
put  out  his  sign  announcing  that  he 
came  from  a  certain  well-known  shop 
in  London.  Some  customers  who  were 
attracted  by  his  advertisement  began  to 
patronize  him  and  gradually  his  clien­
tele  spread,  because  the  people  who 
bought  their  shoes  of  him  first  were  just 
those  whom  a  great  many  others  were 
anxious  to  imitate.  His customers never 
found  him  cheap,  even  at  the  outset. 
He  charged  the  regulation  rates  of  the 
high-priced  shoemakers.  But  his  trade 
grew  until  now  he  has  become  one  of 
the  most  popular  shoemakers  in  New 
York,  and  the  crowds  that  gather  in  his 
little  shop, if  their  names were called out 
as  they  entered, would make  as imposing 
a 
list  as  the  guests  at  an  exclusive 
dance.
“ The  most  difficult  thing  I  had  to 
do,”   he  said,“ was  to  persuade  my  cus­
tomers  that  they  need  never  expect  any 
change 
in  the  fashion  of  their boots— 
that 
is  to  say, laced  shoes  one  year  and 
buttoned  the  next. 
‘ What  are  worn  this 
year?’ 
they  would  say  to  me,  and  I 
would  have  to  answer,  ‘ The  same  that 
were  worn  the  year  before. ’ 
In  London 
we  have  no  changes  in the fashions from 
one  year  to  another  and  men  wear the 
same  style  year  in  and  year  out.  But 
there  are  some  of  the  London  fashions 
which  it  seems  absolutely  impossible  to 
transplant  successfully to  this  country. 
One  of  these  is  the  fashion  of  wearing 
gaiters  or  spats.  These  are  worn  con­
stantly  by  Englishmen  who  make  no 
special  pretense  at  dressing  well,  but  it 
seems  out of  the  question  for Americans 
to  wear  them  regularly  and  as  it  were 
unconsciously.  They  always 
look  as 
though  they  felt  dressed  up  when  they 
put  them  on  and  some  of  my ’ customers 
have  told  me  they  did  feel  that  way. 
Certainly  they  look  it.”

Original  Order  for  Hardware.

“ Dere  Misthur  Krosbe:
“ Please  send  me  this  afther  nine, 
a  keg  uv  spoikes,  a  John  screw,  &  a 
munky  rench.  I  knede  them  bad.

“ Youers  trooly,

“ John  McCann,  and  a  frog.”

A  man  named  Simmons  declined  to 
become  the  private  secretary  of  a  man 
named  Green,  for a  particular  reason. 
The  salary  was  tempting  and  the  work 
would  have  been  light  and  agreeable ; 
but,  then,  as  he  said,  he  couldn’t  bear 
the  thought  of  signing  letters,  “ Green, 
per  Simmons. ”

The  S.  C.  W.  is  a  long  mixed  filler 
Single’Connecticut  binder  and  Sumatra 
wrapper.  K   you  have  no  jobber calling 
on  you  from  Grand  Rapids,  write  to  the 
manufacturer,  G. 
Johnson,  Grand 
Rapids.

J. 

A  Chicago  coal  dealer  hit  on  the 
scheme  of  sending  out  an  advertising 
circular  in  the  shape  of  a  wedding  invi­
tation. 
It  was  so  cleverv  done  that  it 
got  a  reading  before  being  consigned  to 
the  waste  basket.

Good  advice  is  like  medicine.  Peo­
ple  do  not  like  to  take  it.  They  prefer 
something  that  is  more  pleasant and  de­
lightfully  wicked.

Offici Statidnirjj
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f™^NTs, tradesman
c o u N T t e m i s .   I  COM BAN Yj

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

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We are To-day  Showing 
The Most Complete  Line of

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Soft Soles,

“ Our  Boss  Line.’ ’

Misses’ and Women’s in  Polish,  Congress  and Button, the  very 

newest  lasts.
Men’s Oil  Grains,  “ Our  Black  Bottom  Line,”  our  name on  the 
sole of every pair—it’s there for a purpose-  always the stan­
dard of  E X C E L L E N C E .  Low Shoes in  Men’s, Women’s,
Misses’ and  Children’s, all kinds of styles,  black  or tan,  in 
great profusion.  Men’s,  Boys’  and  Youths'  in  Balmorals, 
the latest  conceits,  from  Gems  to  Brogans, etc., at  prices 
guaranteed, quality and workmanship considered.

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe Co.,

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GRAND  RAPIDS

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Our  Spring-  line 
of  samples  are 
being  shown  by 
our 
representa­
tives on the road 
and the prices are 
based on to-day’s 
latest  price  of 
leather.  We want you to see them as we can and 
will do you  good.  We  want  your  order.  State 
agents for Lycoming and Keystone Rubbers. They 
are the  best.  Stock  full  and  complete—can  fill 
orders at once.  Send us your order.

REEDER  BROS  SHOE  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Leggings,  Wool,  Jersey  and  Leather  Socks 
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a  small  amount.  The  man  who  hauled 
it  said  there  was  nearly  half  a  ton.  You 
can  have  it  as  it  is  for $2.50.”

inspection.) 

(Silence  and  close 

I 
don’t  think  it’s  worth  quite  that  much. 
You  see,  it  has  lain  here  a  long  time, 
and  no  doubt  the  cats  and  vermin  have 
been  running  over  it  a  good  deal.”

This  was  the  last  straw.  The  owner 
of  the  hay  could  only  find  breath  to  say, 
“ Never  mind  then.  I  guess  it  will  keep 
a  while  longer. 
I  must  go  to  the  house 
or  I  will  have  a  catnip  fit  m yself.”

That  ended  the  interview.  The  ex­
asperating  would-be  purchaser  and  the 
widow  did  not  meet  again  until  the 
time  rolled  around  for  soliciting  orders 
for  the  next  winter’s  supply  of  coal.

He  accosted  her  one  day  as  she  was 
passing  his  office,  and  asked,  naming 
the  price,  how  many  tons  she  wished  to 
order  for  early  delivery.

from  you 

“ Well, I  hardly know, ”   was  the  reply. 
last  fall 
“ The  coal  I  had 
wasn’t  exactly  the  kind  to  suit  me. 
It 
was  very  dirty  and  would  not  burn 
clear;  besides,  I am  sure  you  must  have 
taken  it  from  an  open  shed,  where 
'the 
cats  and  vermin  had  a  chance  to  run 
over  it !’  I  think  I  will  look  further  be­
fore  ordering. ’ ’

There  was  a  subdued  snicker  from 
two  or  three  bystanders,  who  well  un­
derstood  the'aptness  of  the  retort.  (The 
hay  story  had  gone  the  rounds.)  Need­
less  to  say,  the  ears  of  the  confused coal 
dealer  tingled  as  he  recalled  the  flimsy 
pretense  he  had  used  a  few  months  be­
fore 
in  an  attempt  to  secure  a  cut-rate 
bargain  from  a  woman  whom  he  sup­
posed  to be  unacquainted  with  business 
methods.

Perhaps,  at  the bottom  of  the  so-called 
New  Woman’s  Movement  now  so  gen­
erally  commented  on, it  may  appear that 
one  of  the  inspiring  causes  was  a desire 
to  change  the  conditions  that  have  so 
long  fettered  the  gentler  sex  whenever 
money  considerations  were 
involved. 
No  doubt,  many  a  woman  carries  the 
reform  to  unjustifiable  extremes,  and 
instances  often  occur  wherein she proves 
her  capacity  to  maintain  her  own  inter­
est  against  man’s  persistent  injustice. 
Yet  there 
for  improve­
ment,  although  her  sphere  of  business 
opportunities  is  rapidly  widening.  She 
may  at  least  justly  appeal  to  the  moral 
consciousness  of  mankind,  that  theoret­
ically  acknowledges  allegiance  to  the 
Golden  Rule,  and  ask  that,  as  regards 
woman  in  business,it  may  have  a  wider 
and  more  practical  exemplification.

is  still  room 

P e t e r   C .  M e e k .

Woman’s  Extremity  Man’ s  Oppor­

tunity.
W ritten fo r  th e T r a d esm a n .

In  almost  every  community  it  is  com­
mon  to  find  men  disposed  to  drive  hard 
bargains  whenever  the  pendulum  of  op­
portunity  swings  in  their  favor.  From 
the  humblest  ranks  of  hucksters  to  the 
partners 
in  gigantic  trusts  the history 
of  trade 
is  crowded  with  examples  of 
sharp  dealing,  with  many  self-deluding 
excuses  for  the  same,  all  contained 
in 
the  simple  sentence,  “ There  is  no  sen­
If  there  were  not 
timent  in  business.’ ’ 
a  host  of  honorable  exceptions, 
this 
world  would  be  no  comfortable  abiding 
place  for  the  poor,  the  weak,  the  un­
fortunate  and  defenseless  units  of  »hu­
manity.  The  moral  sense  of  the  great 
majority,  who  recognize  the  principle 
of  abstract  justice,  is  the  salt  that  pre­
serves  one’s  faith  whenever 
individual 
wants  compel  an  exchange  of  equiva­
lents.  The  theme  of  the  reformer  is 
“ Man’s  inhumanity  to  man,”   which,  it 
is  said, 
“ makes  countless  millions 
mourn;’ ’  and,  with  a  zeal  that  seldom 
receives  due  credit,  he  labors  earnestly 
in  behalf  of  the  weaker  factors  in  life’s 
struggle.
In  the 

light  of  everyday  experience 
in 
how  often  is  observed  a  disposition 
man  to  take  advantage  of  woman’s 
helplessness 
reflect  no 
credit  on  his  boasted  chivalry  toward 
the  fair  sex.  Widows,  especially,  who 
are  called  to  administer  upon  estates 
and  assume  untried  responsibilities  that 
tax  severely  all  their  energies  not  un- 
frequently  feel  “ how  much  sharper  than 
a  serpent’s  tooth’ ’  is  the  harsh  advan­
tage  sometimes  taken  by  heartless  men 
whom  they  encounter 
in  the  way  of 
making  business  settlements.

in  ways  that 

These  thoughts  were  suggested  by  the 
little  experience  of  a  widow  lady  liv­
ing 
in  one  of  the  southern  towns  of 
Michigan,  upon  whom  was  thrown  the 
burden  of  settling  up  an  estate  compli­
cated  with  many  leases,  mortgages, con­
tracts,  accounts  and  a  large  amount  of 
personal  property.  Besides  the  worry  of 
defending  her  trust  against 
greedy 
heirs  who  stepped  at  no  lawful  limit  in 
a  struggle  to  secure  unjust  claims,  she 
was  handicapped  in  nearly  every  trans­
action  by  the  fact  that  she  was  a  wom­
an,  therefore  supposed  to  know 
little 
about  business,  and  an  easy  subject  up­
on  whom  to  use  sharp  practice,  either 
as  buyer  or  seller.  Fortunately, 
she 
employed  a  legal  counselor  who  was  a 
just  and  safe  adviser;  but,  in  the  dis­
posal  of  minor  personal  assets,  she  was 
at  the  mercy  of  many  shrewd  and  de­
signing  persons  who  did  not  hesitate  to 
take  advantage  of  her  sex  to  drive  hard 
bargains.

Upon  one  of  these,  however,  she  had 
opportunity  to  turn  the  tables,  much  to 
his  discomfiture.  The  man  was  a  re­
tail  coal  dealer,  who  had  the  reputa­
tion  of  being  close  on  either  side  of  a 
bargain.  Hearing  that  she  had  some 
hay  for  sale,  he  called  one  day  and 
asked  to  see  it,  with  the  view  of  pur­
chasing.  On  being  shown  where  it  was 
stored,  the  following  conversation  en­
sued :

“ Is  this good  timothy  hay?’ ’
“ Yes,  sir, 
good  judges.”

I  have  been  told  so  by 

After  careful  examination with a fork : 
“ I  see  it  is 
it 
looks  as  if  it  might  be  a  little  musty.”
It  was  in  fine  or­

“ I  don’t  think  so. 

from  weeds,  but 

free 

der  when  put  in  the  barn.”

“ Do  you  want  to  sell  it  by  weight  or 

by  the  lump?”

“ It’s  not  worth  while  to  weigh  such

W E  KNOW

• 

That just now you  have  a  stock  of  Rubbers 
that you want  to  reduce.  But you may need 
a  few sizes to  help  out.  We  have  sizes  and 
widths, and as we are an

Exclusive 

Rubber  House

Can send  you just what  you are short of and  ship  goods  the  day  the  order

is received.

W .  A.  M cG R A W   &  C O ,

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Jobbers  of  Boston  and  Bay  State  Rubbers. 

Detroit,  flich.

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A ny  person w ho w ears one p air o f

=  = Goodyear W elt  Shoes  =  =
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5 ® “  Made  for  lien  and  Women.

W ill w ear no other.

Retail from $3.00 Upward. 

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Pres.

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Sec’y and  Treas.

We  are  now  ready  to 
make  contracts  for  bark 
for the season of 1896.
C orrespondence S olicited.

Geo.  N.  Miller.

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C.  W.  Miller.

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Clerks’  Corner

it 

It  is  true,  but,  more’s  the  pity, 

The  Little  Foxes  Spoil  the  Vines.
It 

is  more  than  likely  that  many  of 
the  readers  of  this  column  have  come 
to  the  conclusion  that  it  is  easy  to  mag­
nify  a  molehill 
into  a  mountain  and 
then  enlarge  upon  the  imagined  evil.
is 
necessary.  The  day  of  the  simple  has 
gone  by  and  nothing  will  answer,  even 
in  language,  but  the  uncommon  to  ex­
press  a  common  idea.  The  grocer  who 
was  scolding  his  clerk, the  other day,  for 
landing  one  of  his  lubbers  in  the  sugai 
barrel  was  not  content  to  say,  “ You  see 
now,  what  comes  of  not  covering  the 
barrel  as  soon  as  you  get  through  tak­
ing  out  sugar!’ ’  And  the  unwilliing 
customer  learned,  furthermore,  that, 
if 
that  barrel  was  left  uncovered  again, 
the  clerk  would  get  his  “ something”  
head  knocked  off!  Observation  assures 
us  that  the  head 
in  question  still  re­
mains  intact;  and  the  grocer  assures  us 
that  nothing  less  than  that  kind  of  ex­
plosion  will  make  any ¡impression  on 
any  clerk  in  his  store.

is 

“ 1  suppose, 

“ Take  just  that  one 

instance,”   said 
he. 
if  I  have  told  that 
fellow  once  to  cover  up  things  after  he 
gets  through  with  them, 
I  have  a  thou­
sand  times,  and  to-day  he  lands  that 
gunboat  goloshe  of  his  right  into the 
best'  barrel  of  sugar  there 
in  the 
house!  Mud? 
It  was  covered  with 
earth—that  fellow  never  was  known  to 
shun  a  mud  puddle  in  his life.  The  re­
sult  of  it  is  that  I ’ve  lost  several pounds 
of  sugar.  Oh,  yes,  I  can  make him pay 
for  it;  but  that  ain’t  what  I  want.  H e’s 
got  to  stop  i t ;  and  you’ll  see,  now  that 
he  knows  I  mean  business,  that  there 
won’t  be  any  more  rubber-throwing  and 
that  he’ll  cover  up  the  sugar.  He  has 
spoiled  more  oysters 
just  that  way 
than  his  wages  were  worth,  and  nothing 
stopped  him  until  I  ¡got  mad  one  day 
and  told  him  I ’d  shake ¡his  confounded 
if  he  did  it  again. 
liver  out  of  him, 
I  ¡opened  a  barrel  of 
Then  he  stopped. 
choice  crackers  the  other  day. 
‘ Now, 
Henry,’  says  I,  ‘ if  you  don’t  keep  these 
covered,  the  dust  and  soot  11  get  into 
’em  and  that’ll  finish  ’em  for  sale.  Do 
you  hear?’  ‘ Yes,  he  heard;’  but—would 
you  believe  it?—before  night  I  covered 
that  barrel  of  crackers  no  less  than  ten 
times.  The  last  time, 
I  made  a  few 
remarks. 
I  noticed,  after that,  that  the 
cracker  barrel  was  covered every time. ”
Do  vou  suppose,  boys,  there’s  any­

in 

thing  in  it?

The  grocer  is  not the  only  one  with 
such  complaints.  Once  upon  a time,  in 
a  town  not  a  hundred  miles  from  the 
Furniture  City,  there  was  a  certain  fine 
Its  goods  were  of  the 
stationery  store. 
best  and 
its  trade  was  excellent.  By 
and  by,  a  partner  was  taken  into  the 
firm,  who took  for his  part  of  the  busi­
ness  the  sale  of 
letter  paper and  en­
velopes.  Trade  pretty  soon  began  to 
drop  off,  and  a  little 
investigation  re­
vealed  the  fact  that  the  uncovered  sta­
tionery  was  uncovered  from  morning 
until  night,  when  paper  and  envelopes 
were  hustled  indiscriminately 
into  the 
boxes,  to  be  opened  in  the  morning  on 
the  coming  of  the  first  customer. 
In  a 
short  time  the  result  was  that  much  of 
the  best  stock  in  the  store  was  unfit  for 
use.  After  the  best  customers  in  the 
city  had  been  forced  to  trade elsewhere, 
an  attempt  as  made  to  repair  the  dam­
age;  but  it  was  too  late.  The  tide  had 
turned  and  the  trade  was  ruined ;  and, 
while 
it can  hardly  be  said  that  the  in­

solvency  which  followed  was  due  to  the 
exposure  of  the  stationery,  it  doubtless 
is  true  that  the  same  loose  methods,  ap­
plied  to  the  general  management,  were 
the  direct  cause  of  the  wreck  which 
followed.

The  fact  is  that,  while  it 

is  trouble­
some  to  put  the bars  up  every  time  you 
go  through  them, it  is  a  great deal  better 
to  do  so  than  not  to  have  any  bars  to 
put  up,  a  result  as  much  to  be  deplored 
in  financial  matters  as 
in  other  con­
cerns  of  life.

U n c l e   B o b .

Cashing  a  Bank  Check  Burned  to 

Ashes.

From  th e Sau F rancisco B ulletin.

One  of  the  greatest  curiosities  in  the 
check  line  has  just  come  to  light  in this 
city.  A  lady  took  it  to  the  Bank of Cali­
fornia  to  be  cashed. 
It  was  in  a  paper 
box  and  had  to  be  handled  very  care­
fully,  for  it  was  in  two  pieces,  and  both 
were  burned  to  a  crisp.  There  was  not 
a  decipherable  word  on  either  piece. 
The 
lady  said  the  bits  of  crisp  paper 
represented  a  check  for $125,  which  she 
had  received 
in  a  letter.  The  check, 
she  said,  was  drawn  by  the  National 
Bank  of  D.  O.  Mills  &  Co.  of  Sacra­
mento.  She  had  removed  the  letter from 
the  envelope  and  had  thrown  the  en­
velope  on  some  live  coals  in  the  grate. 
Upon  reading  the  letter  she  had  found 
a  reference  to  an  inclosure  of  check  for 
the  sum  named,  and  turned  to  the  fire 
in  the  grate  with  sore  disappointment. 
The  fire  had  done  its  work.  The  crisp 
paper  lay  on  the  coals.  She  carefully 
removed  the  same,  placed 
it  in  a  box 
and  hurried  to  the  Bank  of  California 
to  get  the  money  before  the  pieces  were 
further  crumbled.

After  listening  to  the  story,  the  offi 
cers  of  the  bank  made  a  careful  exami­
nation  of  the  pieces  of  burnt paper,  and 
by  the  aid  of  powerful  glasses they were 
able  to  make  out  portions  of words  from 
the  pen  impressions  made  on  the paper. 
There  were  enough  of  these  lines  left  to 
show  that  “ E lla ”   had  been  written, 
and  part  of  the  word  “ hundred”   was 
also  made  out,  with  two or  three 
letters 
of  the  name  of  the bank.  These  dis 
coveries  corresponded  with  the  story  of 
the  lady,  and  the  bank  officers  then 
communicated  the  circumstances  to  the 
National  Bank  of  D.  O.  Mills  &  Co.  of 
Sacramento,  and  asked  for  a  duplicate 
check 
in  favor  of  the  lady.  This  was 
forwarded  and  the  money  was  paid 
The  circumstance  disproved  the  charge 
about  the  curiosity  of  women.  Had 
there  been  more  curiosity  about  the 
closure  of  the  envelope the trouble would 
have  been  avoided.  The  practical  ap­
plication  of  the  story  is  to  be  careful 
that  what  you  throw 
into  the  fire  has 
no  further  value  for  you.

How an 

Indispensable  Clerk  W as 
Dispensed  With.

Mr.  L.,  a  good-natured  German,  was 
the  proprietor  of  a  prosperous  grocery 
store  in  a  country  town.  He  had  in  hi 
employ one  John  S .,  whom  he  had  ad 
vanced  from  errand  boy  to  head  clerk 
and  who  had  for  many  years  been an  at 
tache  of  the  store.  Since  his promotion 
John  had  several  times  asked  fora  raise 
in  his  salary,  and  each  time  his  request 
had  been  granted.  One  morning  John 
again  appeared  at  the  old  merchant’ 
desk  with  another  request  for  an  in 
crease  of  gio  per  month. 
“ Vy,  Shon, ’ 
said  Mr.  L.  ;  “ I  dink  I  bays  you  pooty 
veil,  alrettty;  vat  for  I  bays  you  any 
more?’ ’ 
“ W ell,”   replied  John,  confi 
dently,  “ I  am  your  principal  help here 
I  have  worked  you  up  to  a  large  trade 
I  know  every  detail  of  the  business 
and,  indeed,  I  think  you  could  not  get 
along  without  m e.”  
“ 1st  dot_ so?”   ex 
claimed  the  German. 
“ Mein  Gott 
Shon,  vot  vood  I  do  suppose  you  vas  to 
die?”   “ Well,”   hestitated  John,  “ I sup­
pose  you  would  have  to  get  along  with 
out  me  then. “ The  “ old  man”   took  sev 
eral  whiffs  from  his big  pipe  and  said 
nothing.  At  last  he  gravely  remarked ■ 
“ Veil,  Shon,  I  guess  you  petter  gonsid 
er  yourself  dead.

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T his is th e Season 
of the Year...

When you need “something  warm” 
to drink, and there is no drink more 
wholesome  and  warming, and  less 
harmful than a good cup  of Tea or 
Coffee.  We  can  supply  you  with 
the very  best  material  for  both  of 
these drinks.  Our Quakeress Japan 
Teas  and  Quaker  Toko,  State 
House  Blend  and  Golden  Santos 
Coffees are of the highest character. 
You can prove this by trying  them.

Worden 
Grocer Co.

Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

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Look over your stock and see  if  you  are
carrying the best Crackers  in the market.

Are now in order.

throughout  the  country,  to  be  the  best.
Every one is stamped  “ S ”   and  they  cost
no more than  inferior  brands,  which  are
claimed to be “just as good.”

Are acknowledged,

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Is always sought for and
99  per  cent,  of your trade will want our

When they see them  in their new and handsome dress.

5 REMEMBER!

We  excel  in  the  Manufacture  of 
choice Crackers  and  Cakes.

York  Biscuit  Co,
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17

Commercial T ravelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

P resident,  S.  E.  S ym o ns,  S aginaw ;  Secretary, 
Geo.  F.  Ow en,  G rand  R apids;  T reasurer,  J .  J. 
F r o st, Lansing.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
P resident, J.  F.  Co o per,  D etroit:  Secretary  and 

T reasurer, D.  M o r r is,  D etroit.

Gripsack  Brigade.

When  you  get  on  the  perch  make  sure 

of  staying  there  rather  than  crowing.

The  croaker  is always  about; he  never 
notes  any 
improvement.  He  believes 
that  everything  is  going to the bow-wows 
in  short  order.

The  traveling  man  has  set  up  a  high 
standard  for  his  own  profession,  that  re­
quires  manliness,  shrewdness,  sociabil­
ity  and,  above all,  reliability.

L.  C.  Bradford,  who  has  represented 
the  Durand  &  Kasper  Co.  (Chicago) 
in  the  Upper  Peninsula  for  the  past  six 
months,has  severed  his  connection  with 
that  house.

J.  F.  O.  Reed, 

traveling  salesman 
for H.  Leonard & Sons,  is ill with neural­
gia  at  the  Park  Place  Hotel,  Traverse 
City.  His  friends  will  be  glad  to  know 
he  is  improving.

Socially  speaking,  as  a  class  the 
knight  of  the  grip 
is  a  gallant  and 
courtly  gentleman,  enjoying  in  common 
with  all  other brave  and  chivalrous  men 
an  ardent  and  extravagant  admiration 
for  feminine  purity  and  loveliness.

Chas.  F.  Brown,  who  has  had  charge 
of  the  dry  goods  and  clothing  depart­
ment  of  F.  L.  Burdick  &  Co.,  at  Stur­
gis,  has  sold  his 
interest  to  the  other 
members  of  the  firm  and  gone  on  the 
road  for  Griswold,  Palmer  &  Co.,  cloak 
manufacturers  at  Chicago.

The 

salesman 

traveling 

is  often 
cussed,  discussed  and  recussed,  and  yet 
it  goes  without  saying  that  his  most 
vindictive  enemy  has  never  truthfully 
hurled  at  him  the  denunciation,  “ Thou 
art  a  fool,”   ior  the  average  man  on  the 
road  isn’t  built  that  way.

To-day  the  commercial  travelers  of 
the  country  are  universally  acknowl­
edged  to  be  the 
instru­
mentality  to  modern  development,  prog­
ress  and  civilization.  This  verdict  is 
the  outgrowth  of  the best  financial  wis­
dom  of  a  quarter  of  a  century.

indispensable 

Opinions  and  prejudices  are  different 
things.  An  opinion  gently  insisted  up­
on 
in  the  presence  of  a  buyer,  if  well 
backed  by  good  reasoning,  will  often­
times  result 
in  making  a  sale,  while 
prejudice  is  something  which  too  often 
interferes  with  good  salesmanship.

The  widow  of  the  late  Gilbert  M. 
Steese  has  received  a  check  for  $5,000 
from  the  Northwestern  Traveling  Men’s 
Association,  in  settlement  of  the  policy 
held  by  the  deceased  in  that  organiza­
tion.  Mr.  Steese 
joined  the  Associa­
tion  in  1880,  having  paid  in  dues  to  the 
amount  of  $731,  an  average  of  $47  Per 
year.

and 

Jas.  T.  Avery,  who  has  covered  the 
Upper  Peninsula 
Southwestern 
Michigan  for  the  past  sixteen  years  for 
Jennings  &  Smith,  died  at  his  home  in 
South Haven  on  Monday,as  the  result  of 
diabetes,  which  dread  disease  he  had 
been  fighting  for  several  years.  Mr. 
Avery  was  a  member  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip,  which  he 
joined 
in  December, 
the  A.  O.  U.  W. 
and  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  carried 
a  $5,000  policy  in  a  Massachusetts 
in­
leaves  a  wife 
surance  company.  He 
and  daughter  to  mourn  his 
loss.  Mr. 
Avery  was  a  man  of  excellent  habits 
and  possessed  a  happy  temperament,

1894, 

and  was  a  welcome  visitor  wherever  he 
called,  his  long  connection  with  one 
house  being  the  best  possible  recogni­
tion  of  his  merits  as  a  salesman  and  a 
gentleman.

One  of  the  faults  of  traveling  men, 
and  a  great  fault  at  that,  is  their  prone­
ness  to  push  new  goods  to  the  exclusion 
of  “ back  numbers,”   which  the  house 
is  always  anxious  to  get  rid  of,  and 
hence  a  firm  should  not  take 
into  con­
sideration  entirely  the  amount  of  a 
man’s  sales,  but  the  class  of  goods  he 
sells.

There’s  always  business  to  be  had 

in 
It  may 
exchange  for  push  and  energy. 
not  be  as 
large  as  some  of  the  boys 
would  like,  not  yet  as  large  an  amount 
of  projjt  as  has  been  made  at  other 
times,but  there are business and profit in 
exchange  for  “ up-to-date”   or  energetic 
push  and  well-considered,  strong,  ag­
gressive  effort.

There  are  two  kinds  of  hustlers  to  be 
found  on  the  road—the  real  and  the 
imitation.  The  real  hustler  has  always 
plenty  of  time  for  all  legitimate  pur­
poses.  The  imitation  hustler  is rattled, 
fidgety,  buzzing  and  ineffective.  The 
one  accomplishes  much  without  appar­
ent  effort;  the  other  is  all  effort- -with­
out accomplishment.

Miss  Emma  Brown,  traveling  repre­
sentative  for  the  Forest  City  Baking 
Powder  Co.,  was  in  town  several  days 
last  week,  on  her  way  home  from  Mt. 
Clemens,  where  she  spent  a  couple  of 
weeks  in  the  effort  to  reduce  her  avoir­
dupois.  Miss  Brown  formerly  covered 
the  retail  trade  of  Western  Michigan, 
but  for  the  past  six  years  has  traveled 
in  Wisconsin  and  the  Upper  Peninsula, 
with  increasing  success.

Every  commercial  traveler  must  deal 
justly  with  his  customers  if  he  desires 
success.  He  should  make  it  his  busi­
just  as  particular  that  his 
ness  to  be 
trade  gets  the  value  of  their  money 
ior 
goods  ordered  through  him  as  he  would 
be  to  get  the  value  of  his  money  from 
people  of  whom  he  buys. 
If  he  can  get 
his  trade  to  believe  he  is  giving  them 
just  treatment,  he  will  very  soon  find 
that  there  will  be  no  difficulty in getting 
them  to  purchase  their goods  of  him.

P.  H.  Carroll,  Michigan  representa­
tive  for  Selz,  Schwab  &  Co.,  began  his 
pilgrimage  in  this  State  for  C.  M.  Hen­
derson  &  Co.  twenty-four  years  ago. 
At  that  time  there  was  but  one  grocery 
salesman  emanating  from 
the  Grand 
Rapids  market—the  late  John  H.  Mc­
Intyre.  Three  Chicago  salesmen  were 
then  covering the trade of Western Mich­
igan—the  late  H.  F.  Hastings,  the 
late  Alex.  Knopfel  and  Geo.  Brink.

large. 

I11  some 

instances  complaint  by  a 
buyer  against  the  salesman,  as  to  dis­
courtesy  of  manner,  cheek  or  misrepre­
sentation,  is 
justified  by  facts,  but  the 
offsetting  offenses  of  the  buyer  in  rela­
tion  to  the  salesman  are  not  so often and 
conspicuously  advertised  at 
I 
am  not  afraid  to  state  that  more  than 
half  of  the  unpleasant  and  condemning 
traits  which  attach  to  the  general  con­
ception  of  the  commercial 
traveler 
spring  from  conditions  which  he 
is 
forced  to  meet, 
in  the  bearing  and 
speech  of  the  average  buyer.  Hence  it 
is  no  wonder  that  the  salesman  occa­
sionally  breaks  out 
the  pride  of 
offended manliness  and  hotly  resents the 
insult  of  the 
low-bred  upstart  whose 
trade  he  has  solicited,  for  it  is  a  poor 
rule  which  does  not  work  both  ways. 
But  the  special  wrong  which  most  fre­
quently  obtains  is  the  attitude of superi­
ority  which  some buyers  assume  toward 
the  man  on  the  road,  forgetting  that

in 

withstanding  the  work  done, 
the  pas­
senger  agents  refused  to  entertain  the 
idea,  for  two  reasons : 
(1),  that  bank­
rupt  roads  could  sell  hundreds  of  such 
books  through  scalpers  and  never  re­
deem  the  coupons  when  called  upon  by 
the  other  roads;  (2,)  that  the 
issue  of 
such  books  would  be  unconstitutional.

During  the  time  your  Committee  and 
the  general  passenger agents  were  dis­
cussing  matters,  Air.  Donovan,  of  Bay 
City,  introduced  a  bill  in  the State Leg­
islature,  known  all  over the  State  as  the 
Donovan  bill,  which,  in  the  opinion  of 
your  Committee,  was  not  practicable; 
and  the  chairman  of  your  Committee 
spent  one  day  in  Lansing  in  conference 
with  the  House  Railroad  Committee, 
trying  to  amend  the  bill  and  make  it 
acceptable  to  all  parties ;  but  the  Don­
ovan  bill  passed  both  branhces  of  the 
Legislature,  and,  as  you  all  know,  was 
vetoed  by  Governor  Rich.

including 

A  5,000  mile  bill  was  passed  by  both 
houses  of  Congress  and  received  the 
signature  of  President  Cleveland,  but 
the  railroads  have  refused  to 
issue  the 
books ;  that bill  made  a  5,000  mile  book 
good  on  any  road  in  the  United  States. 
If  we  are  to  get  any  concessions  the 
traveling  men  of  all  sections  must  work 
together;  when  we  all  do  that,  some 
good  may  result.  At  the  present  time, 
the  railroad  companies have  everything 
their  own  way, 
low  wages 
and  high  tariff.  When  we  consider  the 
fact  that  railroad  companies 
obtain 
work  and  material  at  from  one-third  to 
one-half  less  than  they  did  twenty-five 
years  ago,  and obtain  the  same  passen­
ger  fares,  your  Committee  think  it  is 
time  something  was  done  to  reduce 
traveling  men’s  expenses. 
If  we  take 
into consideration  the  fact  that  travel­
ing  men  pay  to  railroad  companies  at 
least  $200,000  a  day,  or  upon  an  aver­
age  of  200  working  days  a  year,  the 
enormous  sum  of  $100,000,000 a  year, we 
think  we  are  entitled  to  some  consider­
ation,  and  the  only  way  to  get  it  is  to 
work.  To-day  we  pay  3  cents  per  mile 
or buy  a  number of  1,000 mile  books  at 
$20  each,  which  requires  quite  an 
in­
vestment  of  cash.

Your  Committee  suggests  that  at  the 
State  elections  to  be  held  next  fall  an 
effort  be  made  to  select  only  such  mem­
bers  as  will  pledge  themselves  to  in­
troduce  and  vote  for  a  bill  which  shall 
give  a  2  cent  rate  on  all  railroads  in 
the  Lower  Peninsula  and  3  cents  per 
mile  on  all  railroads  in  the  Upper  Pen­
insula.  Such  a  bill  would  do  away 
with  the buying  of  all  books  and  be  to 
the  interest  of  everyone,  as  much  in  the 
interest  of  the  railroad  companies  as 
their  passengers.

Opened 

the  Doors 

for  Honorary 

riembers.

Detroit,  fan.  26—Post  C,  Michigan 
Knights  of "the  Grip,  held 
its  monthly 
meeting  last  night  at  Star  and  Crescent 
hall.  The  question  of  inviting  the  State 
organization to  hold  its  annual  meeting 
in  Detroit  next  December  was  dis­
cussed.  The  rules  of  the  Post  were  re­
vised  so  as  to  allow  any  traveling  man 
to  become  an  honorary  member by  pay­
ing  half  yearly  dues  of  50  cents.  An 
entertainment  committee  was  appoint­
ed  to  arrange  for  the  social  features  of 
the  meetings,  consisting  of  Maj.  A. 
W. 
Jack'lin,  M.  Silberman,  W.  H. 
Bair,  L.  S.  Rodgers  and  Elmer  Hunt. 
At  the  close  of  the  business  session 
ladies joined the members in an informal 
dance. 

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As  predicted  by  the  Tradesman  two 
weeks  ago,  Governor  Rich  has  re-ap­
pointed  Geo.  Gundrum,  the  Ionia  drug­
gist,  to  succeed  himself  as  a  member  of 
the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  for  the 
full  term'  of  five  years.

Cutler  House  in  New  Hands.
H.  D.  and  F .  H.  Irish,  form erly landlords at 
the  New  Livingston  Hotel,  at  G rand  Rapids* 
have leased th e C utler House,  at  G rand  H aven, 
w here  they  bespeak  th e  cordial  co-operation 
and support of th e trav elin g   public.  They  w ill 
conduct the C utler H ouse as a strictly   first-class 
house,  giving  ever}'  d etail  painstaking  a tte n ­
tion.

sterling  worth  and  highest  business  ca­
pacity  are  as  likely  to  be  found  on  one 
side  as  on  the  other;  and  whether  he 
carries  a  sample  case,  makes  purchases 
for  a 
it, 
“ A  man’s  a  man  for  a ’  that.”

large  establishment,  or  owns 

J.  W.  Walsh,  private  secretary  of  H.
S.  Pingree,  Mayor  of  Detroit,  writes 
the  Tradesman  that  His  Honor  is  in  fa­
vor  of  a  2  cent  rate  for  all  passenger 
travel  in  this  State.  Such  an  arrange­
ment  might  prove  highly  satisfactory  to 
the  general  public,  but 
it  would  not 
please  the  rank  and  file  of  the  frater­
nity,  most  of  whom  cherish  the  belief 
that  they  are  entitled  to  special  priv­
ileges,  on  account  of  the  large  amount 
of  traveling  they  do  and  the  amount  of 
freight  which  follows  them  on  their  pil­
grimages.

When men enter into business relations 
with  each  other  they  possess  certain 
rights  and assume  certain  duties.  Some 
of  the  plainest  are  these;  The  buyer 
undoubtedly  has  the  right  and  privilege 
of  contending  for  the  lowest  price  and 
best  terms  obtainable,  but  once  that 
he’s  closed  the bargain  it  is  his  duty  to 
it  and  settle  according  to 
¡live  up  to 
agreement. 
It 
is  the  duty  of  the  seller 
to  furnish  goods  in  every  respect as rep­
resented  and  according  to  the  terms 
agreed  upon.  Disregard  of  some  of 
these  perfectly  plain  provisions 
is  a 
fruitful  source  of  dissatisfaction.  The 
chronic 
the 
man  who  returns  goods  after  they  are 
shopworn  and  demands  credit  for  them, 
or the  fellow  who  has  placed  a  bona fide 
order  with  the  traveling  salesman  and 
countermands  it  without  good  cause  are 
in  the  path  of  smooth  and 
obstacles 
even  business  progress. 
If  commercial 
travelers  could  apply  some  remedy  that 
would  cure  the  ills of  the  body  commer­
cial,  selling  goods  on  the  road  would  be 
a  much  pleasanter  task. 
* * Do  unto 
others  as  you  would  have  them  do  unto 
you”   seems  to  be  applicable  to business 
as  well  as  to  all  other  relations  of  life.

fault-finder  and  kicker, 

Recommend  a  Flat  Rate  of  2  and  3 

Cents  Per  Mile.

John  McLean  and 

At  the  recent  annual  convention of the 
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Asso­
(E. 
ciation  the  Railroad  Committee 
Mortlock, 
J.  T. 
Lowry)  presented  the  following  report:
At  the  last  annual  meeting  it  was  de­
cided  that  your  Railroad  Committee 
should  make  an  extra  effort  to  obtain 
concessions  from  the  railroads  in  this 
State,  also  obtain  a  5,000  mile book, 
good  on  all  railroads  in  this  State.

In  pursuance  of  this  object  your Com­
mittee  held  a  number  of  meetings,  also 
had  several  interviews  with  the  general 
passenger  agents;  but  regret  to  have  to 
report  that  all  our  efforts  were  in  vain. 
The  passenger  agents  utterly  refused  to 
discuss  or  grant  the  Saturday  to  Mon­
day  return  tickets,  but  did  condescend 
to  consider  the  5,000  mile  book  and  re­
quested  your  Committee  to  obtain  some 
data  that  they  could  work  upon.  To  ob­
tain  the  data  they  required,  your  Com­
mittee  sent out  175  postal  cards,directed 
to  the  manufacturers  and  wholesale  job­
bers  of  Michigan,  asking two questions:
1.  Are  you  in  favor  of  your  travelers 
spending  Sundays  at  home?  To  that 
question  we  received  almost  a  unani­
mous  answer  in  the  affirmative.

2.  How  many  5,000  mile  books  do 
you  think  you  could  use  within  a  year? 
The  answer  was  that  the  manufacturers 
and 
jobbers  of  this  State  guaranteed  to 
use  950  5,000  mile  books  within  one 
year. 
If  your  Committee  could  have 
consulted  the  manufacturers and  jobbers 
of  the  United  States  doing  business 
in 
Michigan,  no  doubt  the  number  would 
have  been  3,000,  if  not  more.  Upon re­
ceipt  of  such  favorable  results  your 
Committee  thought  that  the  passenger 
agents  would  issue  the  books,  but,  not­

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Drugs==Chemicals

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

One Y ear— 
Two  Years—  - 
T hree Years— 
F o u r Years—  - 
F ive Years— 

- 
- 

G eo.  G u n d r u m , Ionia
- 
-  C. A.  B u g b e e , C harlevoix
- 
S.  E.  P a r k il l ,  Owosso
- 
F.  \V.  R .  Pe r r y ,  D etroit
- A. C. Sch u m a c h er,  A nn Arbor 

P resident, C. A.  B u g b e e , C harlevoix. 
Secretary, F. W.  R.  Pe r r y . D etroit. 
T reasurer, G eo. G u n d r u m ,  Ionia.

Coming M eetings—G rand Rapids,  M arch 3 and 4.
D etroit ^Star Island), Ju n e  23. 
Lansing, N ovem ber 3.

MICHIGAN  ST A T E  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

_  

.  . 

President, G eo. J .  W a r d . St. Clair.
, r. 
V ice-Presidents  -j  q   ç,  pjjxluips.  A rm ada. 
Secretary,  B. S c h r o u d er,  G rand Rapids. 
T reasurer, W m.  D upont. D etroit.

j S.  P.  Wh itm a r sh .  Palm yra;

. 

E xecutive  Com m ittee—F.  J.  W u r z b u r g ,  G rand 
R apids;  F. D. S t e v e n s, D etroit;  H. G .C o lm an, 
K alam azoo:  E. T.  W e b b ,  Jackson:  D.  M.  R u s­
s e l l , G rand Rapids.

The  Drug  Market.

Acetanilid—The  firmer  feeling  here­
is  well  sustained,  but  the 
tofore  noted 
demand 
is  not  urgent  and  the  market 
has  ruled  quiet  but  strong,  in  sympathy 
with  crude  material.

Acids—German  benzoic 

is  higher, 
prices  having  been advanced.  Tartaric 
continues  firm  under  the 
influence  of 
stronger  markets  for  crude  material  and 
manufacturers  have 
further  advanced 
their  quotations.  Carbolic  is  also  firm 
and  tending  upward,  with  holders  offer­
ing  sparingly.  Salicylic  continues  to 
offer  freely.  Oxalic  is  in  good  demand 
and  steady.

Alcohol—The  consuming  demand  for
grain  has  been  somewhat better  and  a 
steadier  feeling  is  developing,  but there 
is  no quotable  change  in  values,  which 
are  maintained  on  the  old  basis.

Arsenic—The  market  for  powdered 
white  retains  all  the  strong  features 
heretofore  noted,  and  spot  values  are 
firmly  maintained.

Balsams—A  fairly  active  joDbing  de­
mand  is  reported  for  copaiba,  and  the 
various  grades  have  continued  to  find 
buyers  at  the  old  range.  Peru  remains 
quiet  but  steady  at  the  former  range. 
is  receiving  very  little  at­
Canada  fir 
tention,  and  the  market  shows  no 
im­
provement,  values  ruling  barely  steady.
Cream  Tartar—A  continued  firm  mar­
ket  is  noted,  and  business  is  of  average 
volume, with manufacturers’ prices again 
advanced  ic per  lb.,  owing to  the  steady 
upward  movement  abroad  in  argols.

Cuttle  Fish  Bone—A  fair  demand 

is 
reported,  chiefly  for  Trieste,  and  the 
tone  of  the  market  continues  firm.

Essential  Oils—There  have  been  no 
fresh  developments,  and  the  general 
market  is  steady,  with  a  moderate 
job­
bing  movement  in  leading  descriptions.
Flowers—There  is  a  quiet  market  for 
all  descriptions,with  only  small  jobbing 
parcels  receiving  attention,  but  values 
as  a  rule  are  fairly  steady.

Glycerine—Continues 

in  fairly  good 
demand  for  manufacturing  purposes, 
and  the  market  retains  a  strong  under» 
tone,  mainly  on  account  of  the  firm  po­
sition  of  crude  in  foreign  markets.

Gums—Camphor  is  very  scarce  and 
firm  at  full  previous  prices,  and  the 
condition  of  the  market 
is  unchanged. 
A  few  small  lots  of  crude  have  arrived 
here  and  in  Boston,  but  the  quantity 
is 
far  below  the  holdings  at  corresponding 
periods  in  former  years.  Guiac  is  un­
settled  and  irregular;  recent arrivals  are 
claimed  to  be  of  such  poor quality  that 
the  trade 
is  surprised  that  they  were 
passed  by  the  appraisers.

Leaves—About  the  only 

noteworthy 
is  a  material  advance 

feature  of 
interest  in  this  department 
in  Tinnevelly

senna  at  the  last  regular  sale  in  Londoi 
and  a corresponding  improvement in the 
views  of  holders  here.  Both Tinne veil j 
and  Alexandria  are 
in  good  demand 
for  consumption.

Morphine—The  demand 

continues 
only  moderate  and  the  market  reflects 
an  easier  undertone  mainly,  on  account 
of  the  reaction  in  opium.

Opium—The  total  receipts  this  year 
to  date  aggregate  336  cases,  but,  not­
withstanding  the  comparatively  liberal 
arrivals,  together  with  a  large  shipment 
per  San  Rocco,  which  recently  put 
in 
at  Bermuda  for  coal  on  her  way  to  this 
port,  the  market  is  unchanged  so  far as 
quotations  are  concerned.

Quicksilver—The  market  has  re­
covered  from  the  depressed  condition 
referred  to  last  week,  and  prices  have 
reacted.  The 
is  in  part 
due  to  reports  of  a  hardening  tendency 
in  the  London  market.

improvement 

Quinine—Domestic makers and agents 
of  foreign  manufacturers  report  an 
im­
proved  consuming  demand  and  values 
remain  steady.

Seeds—All  varieties  of  canary  are 
very  quiet,  with  values  nominally  un­
changed.  Dutch  caraway  is  very  firm, 
with  the  tendency  upward,  in  sympathy 
with  primary  markets,  where  prices 
have  reached  the  highest  point  of  the 
season,  the  lay  down  cost  being fully  up 
to  the  parity  of  spot  values.  California 
brown  mustard  is  in  good  demand  and 
the  limited  stock  in  first  hands  is  firmly 
held.  According  to  late  reports  there 
is  no  more  to  be  had  on  the  Pacific
coast.

The  Powf r  of  the  Penny.

in  one  man’s 

When  the  accumulation  of  unpaid 
bills  forces  us  to  a  consideration  of 
financial  measures,  we  are  led  to  reflect 
upon  the  great  power  which  even  a 
small  sum  of  money  is  capable of  exert­
ing.  A  penny  is  the  smallest  denomi­
nation  of  money  recognized  in  financial 
transactions,  and,  singly, 
is  regarded 
by  all  persons  except  editors  with  a 
kind  of  lofty  contempt.  Our  respect  for 
the  penny,  however,  has  visibly  in­
since  making  a  calculation 
creased 
is  capable  of 
showing  what  one  cent 
producing 
lifetime,  by 
investing  it  at 6  per  cent,  per annum, 
compounding  the  earnings  annually. 
Commencing  at  the age  of  ten  and  clos­
ing  the  financial  transaction  at  an  age 
which  would  leave  a  reasonable  number 
of  years  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  fruit 
of  life ’s  labors,  we  find  that  the  one 
cent  investment  has  produced 
just  one 
hundred  and  eighty-four  quadrillions, 
four  hundred  and  sixty-seven  trillions, 
five  hundred  billions,  six  hundred  and 
thirty-six  millions,  ninety-five thousand, 
five  hundred  and  sixteen  dollars  and 
sixteen  cents  ($184,467,500,636,095,516.- 
16).  The  magnitude  of  this  sum  of 
money  almost  defies  the  power  of  the 
mind  fully  to  realize.  We  can  form 
some  idea  of  its  immensity  by  calculat­
ing  the  space 
it  would  occupy.  Sup­
posing  this  sum  to  be  in  the  denomina­
tion  of  one dollar bills and, ranging them 
side  by  side,  we  form  a  belt  extending 
around  the  entire  world,  and  yet  we 
have  scarcely  commenced  to  exhaust 
our  pile.  We  continue  the operation, 
covering  the  first  belt  with  bills,  but 
our  work  does  not  end  until  we  have 
made our journey  around  the  world  388, - 
189 times.  Allowing  two  hundred  bills 
to  the  inch,  we  find  we  have  a  column 
consisting  of  one  dollar bills  reaching 
around  the  entire  world,  over  one  hun­
dred  and  sixty-two  feet  high !

This  amazing  amount  is  the  mathe­
matical  result  of  an  investment  of  one 
cent continuing  through  one  man’s  life­
time ;  but  lest  the  incredulous  should 
doubt  our  veracity  in  this  matter,  and 
the  credulous  Commence  wildly 
invest­
ing  their  surplus  pennies,  we  yvill  ex­
plain  that  the  one  man  whose  lifetime 
we  took  as  the  basis  of  our  calculation 
was  that  worthy  old  patriarch,  Methu­
selah !

successful 

Every  Successful  nan’ s  Duty.
The 

general  merchant 
needs  to  be  most  truly  a  hustler,  as  the 
work  of  keeping  himself 
informed  on 
the  numerous  lines  of  goods  in which he 
deals  is  something  calculated  to  dis­
courage  many  people.  A  successful 
dealer  must  not  only  do  this,  but  should 
keep  a  weather-eye  on  his  stock  of  each 
kind  of  goods,see  that  the profits  on  one 
line  are  not eaten  up by the losses on an­
other,  look  after  the  assistants,  and  not 
overlook  the  books  and  collections.

Tafce  a  look  at  ’Em!
Well  DO M S I .

The  Tradesman  Com­
pany has on hand a line 
of Picture Cards, Menu 
Cards,  Dance and Pro­
gramme  Cards,  An­
nouncement s,   etc., 
which it desires to close 
out.  To  do  this,  we 
will give a reduction of 
50 per cent, on the price 
at  which 
same 
goods  can  be  bought 
elsewhere,  and  will 
print  them  for  you  at 
small  additional  ex­
pense.  They are all up- 
to-date,  and  a  surplus 
stock is the only reason 
for this, cut in price.

Call and look at sam­
ples  when  you  are  up 
our way.

the 

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

NEW  BLODGETT  BLDG.

Blank  Books 

Inks

Mucilage 

Steel  Pens
And all Office Supplies

LfOH * CO.,

2 0   an d   2 2   H o n ro e   S t .

o o o o o o o oo o o o oo o o o oo o o oo o o

Extra  Fine 
Candy....

If in need  of any place  your  order 
w ith  SNYDER  A  STRAUB  and 
you  w ill  be  sure  to  be  satisfied. 
These orders receive th e ir personal 
attention, an d  they do  n ot  depend 
w holly upon hired help as a  m ajor­
ity   of  th e  Candy  F actories  do. 
They are both  practical Candym ak- 
ers and have  w orked  at  this  busi­
ness since they  w ere  boys.  Also  a 
fine  lin e  o f  P enny  Goods,  M ixed 
Candy, Cream s  and  E verything  to 
be found in a C andy Factory.

IS,  17,  19  E.  Clay  ave., 

Muskegon,  Mich. 

$
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HEADACHE............
K t i d v   ^   ...............POWDERS
Pay the Best Profit.  O rder from  your jobber

Detroit

Rubber  Stamp 

Company.

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SELL  THESE-2 CIGARS

W rite  fo r  “ G ypsine  A dvocate,”  Color  C ard  and 
A dvertising P lan.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

SaI«  rinkpr«
Sole  nakers.

and give customers 
GOOD  SATISFACTION.

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

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—T artaric A cid, C ream  T artar.  Declined—P aris  G reen.  Gum O pium ,  Lard Oil.

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M orphia, S .P .& W ... 1  75©  2 00 S inapis........................
43
40 
18 Lard, No.  1................
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M orphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
Sinapis,  o p t...............
30 Linseed, pure  raw ..
43
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C.  C o........................ 1  65©  1 90 Snuff,  Maccaboy, De
I.iuseed,  b o iled ... 
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45
42 
M oschus C an to n __
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34 N eatsfoot,  w i n t e r
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65© 80 Snuff, Scotch, DeVo's
70
65 
s tra in e d ..................
34
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N üx V om ica.. .po.20
10 Soda B oras................
10 Spirits T u rp e n tin e ..
42
38 
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Os  S epia....................
15© 18
10
P ain ts
BBL. 
LB.
Pepsin  Saac, H. «fe P.
25©
Soda et Potass T a rt.
D.  C o........................
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2 Red  V en etian .........
19á  2   @ 8
5 Ochre, yellow  Mars.
Picis Liq. N .N.M gal.
Soda,  Bi-Carb...........
3®
1M  2  ©4
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©   2 00 Soda,  A sh ..................
4 O chre, yellow  B e r..
1?4  2  @3
314®
Picis Liq., q u a rts__
©   1 00 Soda, S ulphas...........
2 P utty, com m ercial..
©
Picis Liq.. p ints.......
85 Spts. Cologne.............
© 2   60 P utty, strictly  pure
©
2Í4  2M@3
Pil  Ily d ra rg .. .po.  80
@ 50 Spts.  E th er  C o.........
50#
55 V erm ilion,  P r i m e
P iper N ig ra .. .po.  22
18 Spts.  M yrcia D rm ...
© 2   00
A m erican................
13© 
15
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Piper  A lba___po.  35
30 Spts. V ini  Itect. bbl.
70# 
75
© 2  49 V erm ilion,  E nglish.
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Pi ix   B u rg u n .............
7 Spts. V ini R ect.l/ibbl
1 1   ©   2 0 G
@ 2  54 G reen,  P a r is .............
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Plum bi  A cet.............
@ 2  57 G reen,  P e n in su la r..
10©
13© 
16
Spts.  Vini Rect.lOgal
12
P ulvis Ipecac et Opii
1  10©   1 20 Spts.  Vini Rect.  5gal
5*4#  ft*
@ 2  59 Lead.  R ed..................
P yrethrum , boxes II.
Lead, w h ite .............
5*4©  5JÍ
& P.  D.  Co., d o z ...
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W hiting, w hite Span
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P yrethrum ,  p v .........
20©
30 Strychnia. C rystal... 1  40© 1  45 W hiting,  g ild e rs '...
90
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Q.uassi®......................
10 Sulphur,  SubI...........
3 W hite, P arisA m er..
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2© 2*4 W hiting, Paris  Eng.
37@ 42 Sulphur,  R o ll.........
Q uinia, S. G erm an ..
30© 40 T a m arin d s................
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10
Q uinia, N .Y ............... 32*4©  3714 T erebenth V enice...
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12 ©
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S accharum L actis pv
26 V an illa......................
S alacin.........   ........... 2 50©  2 60 Zinci  S u lp h ...............
7©
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40© 50
Sapo,  W  ....................
12 ©
14
Sapo, M..............*.........
12
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Sapo.  G........................
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V arnishes
1  10©   1  20
8 No.  1  T urp C o ac h ...
1  60©  1  70
E x tra  T u rp ..............
Coach B ody............... 2  75©   3  00
BBL. GAL. No.  1  T urp  F u rn __ 1  00©   1  10
70 E x tra T urk  D am ar.. 1  55©  1  60
75
60 Jap. D ryer,N o.lT urp

@ 15 W hale, w inter...........
Lard,  e x tra ...............

Less 5c gal.  cash

9 00©16 On

10  days.

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Oils

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Importers  and  Jobbers  of

CHEMICALS  AND  PATENT  MEDICINES. 

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E   FAINTS, OILS AND YARNISHES  3

Dealers  in

Full line of staple  druggists’ sun­
dries.
We  are  sole  proprietors  of 
Weatherly’s  Michigan  Catarrh 
Remedy.
We have in stock and offer a full 
line  of  Whiskies,  Brandies,  Gins, 
Wines and  Rums.
We  sell  Liquors  for  medicinal 
purposes only.
We  give  our  personal  attention 
to mail orders and  guarantee  satis­
faction.
All orders  shipped  and  invoiced 
the  same  day  we  receive  them. 
Send a trial  order.

IHRZELTIHE S PEMIJIS DRUG CO. |

GRAND  RAPIDS,  HICH. 

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Acidum

A ceticum ....................$ 
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75
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Benzoicum ,  G erm an 
B oracic........................ 
15
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36
26© 
C arb o licu m ............... 
C itric u m ....................  
46
44© 
3© 
5
H v d ro c h lo r............... 
N itro c u m ..................  
10© 
12
10© 
12
O x alicu m ..................  
2i
P hosphorium ,  d il ... 
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Salicylicum ...............  
55© 
65
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Sulph u ric u m .............  1%@ 
T a n n ic u m .................  1  40©  1  60
T artaricu m ................  
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A m m onia
A qua, 16  d eg ............. 
A qua, 20  d eg ............. 
C arbonas....................  
C h lo rid u m ................. 
A niline

4© 
6©  
12@ 
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6
8
14
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B lack...........  .............  2  00@ 2 25
B ro w n ........................ 
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B e d ............................< 
50
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Y ello w ........................2  50©  3 00

Baccse.
Cúbeme.............po. 25 
J u n íp e ra s ................... 
X an tn o x y lu m ........... 
B alsam  tun
C opaiba....................... 
P eru .............................  
T erabin, C anada__  
T o lu tan .......................  

C ortex

A bies,  C an ad ian ___ 
C assise........................ 
C inchona F la v a .......  
E uonym us  atro p u rp  
My rica C erifera, po. 
P runus Y irgini......... 
Q uillaia,  g r’d ........... 
S assafras....................  
U lm u s.. .po.  15,  g r’d 
E x tractu m
G lycyrrhiza  G labra. 
G lycyrrhiza,  p o .......  
Hsematox, 15 lb b o x . 
Hmmatox, I s ............. 
Hsematox, % s........... 
Hsem atox, M s........... 

P e rru

C arbonate  P re c ip ... 
C itrate and Q u in ia.. 
C itrate Soluble......... 
F errocyanidum   Sol. 
Solut.  C hloride.......  
S ulphate,  com ’l .......  
S ulphate,  com ’l,  by
bbl, per  cw t........... 
S ulphate,  p u r e .......  
F lo ra 
A rn ic a ........................ 
A n th e m is..................  
M a tric a ria ................. 

F olia

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25© 

25
10
30

45@ 
40@ 
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45
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10
12
15

24@  25
35
33© 
11©  12
14
13© 
14© 
15
' 6©  
l1*

15
3  50
80
50
15
2
50
7

14
25
25

*
12@ 
18© 
18© 

60@ 
14@ 

30
25
30
20
10

20@ 
18© 
25@ 
42@ 
8@ 

B arosm a...................... 
C assia A cutifol, Tin-
n ev e lly ....................  
C assia A cutifol,A ix. 
Salvia officinalis, Ms
an d   V4s....................  
U ra U rst...................... 
G um m i
©   60
A cacia,  1st p ic k ed .. 
©   40
A cacia,  2d  p ic k e d .. 
@  30
A cacia,  3d  p ick ed .. 
@  20
A cacia, sifte d   sorts. 
A cacia, po..................  
80
18
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28 
Aloe, C a p e ___ po.  15 
@ 12
@ 3 0
Aloe, S ocotri.. po. 40 
60
55@ 
A m m oniac................. 
A ssafcetida___ po. 35 
B e n z o in u m ............... 
55
50@ 
13
@ 
C atechu,  Is................. 
14
©  
C atechu, Ms............... 
16
Catechu,  Ms............... 
@ 
C a m p h o r» ................  
63© 
68
E uph o rb lu m ..p o .  35  @ 1 0
G albanum ..................  
@  1  00
Gam boge  p o ............. 
65@ 
70
G uaiacum .........po. 35  @ 3 5
K in o .............po. $2.50 
@  2   50
M a s tic ........................ 
65
@ 
M yrrh................po.  45  @ 4 0
O p ii.. .po. $3.00@3.20  2  15©  2  20
S hellac........................ 
6"
Shellac,  b le a c h e d ... 
45
T ra g a c a n th ............... 
fcO

4t’@ 
40© 
50© 

30@ 35

H erba

' A bsinthium ..oz.  pkg 
E upatorium  .oz. pkg 
L obelia......... oz. pkg 
M ajo ru m ___oz. pkg 
M entha Pip..oz. pkg 
M entha V ir..oz. pkg
R u e................. oz. pkg 
T anacetum V  oz. pkg 
T hym us,  V ..oz.  pkg 
fla g n esia.
C alcined, P at............. 
C arbonate, P a t____  
C arbonate, K.  &  M .. 
C arbonate, Jen n in g s 

25
20
25
28
23
39
25

60
22
25
36

55@ 
20© 
20@ 
35© 

O leum
A b sin th iu m ...............
Amygdalae, D ulc—
Amygdalae,  Amarse .
A n isi...........................
A u ran ti  C o rtex ___
B ergam ii....................
C ajip u ti..  ...............
C ary o p b y lli.............
Cedar...........................
C henopadii................
C innam onii...............
C itro n ella..................

30© 

3  25©  3  50 
50
8  00©  8  25 
3  00©  3  10
2  30©  2 40
3  00©  3 20
75
70
65
©   1  60 
3  10© 3  20 
80

70@ 
60© 
35© 

75© 

50®  1 60
20@  1 30
50©  1 60
@ 
60© 
25@  1 40
50© 2 00

75
70

35© 
80© 

C onium   M ac............. 
65
C opaiba...................... 
90
Cubebae....... ................   1 
E x e c h th ito s .............  1  20©  1  30
E rig e ro n ....................   1 
G a u lth e ria ................   1 
G eranium ,ounce__  
G ossippii.Sem . g a l.. 
H edeom a....................  1 
Ju n ip e ra .....................  1 
L a v en d u la................  
90©  2  00
L im onis......................   1  30©  1  50
M entha  P ip er...........  2   25©  3  00
M entha V erid ...........2  65©  2  75
Morrhuae,  g a l...........  1  75©  1  80
M yrcia, ounce........... 
50
@ 
O live...........................  
90@  3 00
Picis  L iq u id a........... 
12
10© 
©  
Piéis L iquida, g a l... 
35
R ic in a ........................ 
91© 
96
R osm arini.................. 
@  1  00
Rosse,  o u n ce.............  6  50©  8  50
S u c c in i...................... 
40© 
45
S a b in a ...................... 
90®  1  00
S ontal....... ................
50©  7 00
50© 55
S assafras..................
65
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce
©
_
T ig lii.......................... 
©   1  00
40© 50
40©
T h y m e........................ 
@  1 60
Thyme,  o p t...............
T h e o b ro m as.............
15© 20
P o tassiu m
Bi-Barb........................
Bichrom ate 
.............
B rom ide......................
C arb...........................
C hlorate..po. 17@19c
C yanide......................
Iodide..........................
Potassa, B itart, pure 
Potassa,  B itart,  com 
Potass N itras, o p t...
Potass N itras.............
P ru ssiate....................
Sulphate  p o .............
Radix
A co n itv m ..................
A itin e..........................
A n c h u sa ....................
A rum  po...................... 
C a la m u s....................  
G en tian a......... po.  12
G lychrrhiza... pv. 15 
H ydrastis C a n a d e n .
H ydrastis Can., p o ..
H ellebore, Alba, p o ..
Inula, p o ....................
Ipecac, p o ..................
Iris p lo x __ po35©38 
Jala p a,  p r .............
M aranta,  Ms .......
Podophyllum , po.
R hei  ......................
R hei, c u t...............
R h e i.p v .............
Spigelia....................... 
S an g u in a ria... po. 25
S e rp e n ta ria ...............
S en eg a........................
Sim ilax,officinalis H
Sm ilax,  M..................
Scili® ................ po.35
Sym plocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  p o ....................
V aleriana, Eng. po. 30 
V aleriana,  G erm an.
Z ingiber a ..................
Zingiber j ..................  

25
20©
25
22©
15
12 ©
25
_
©
20©
20©
40
8©
10
16@ 18
30
©
@ 35
15© 20
15© 20
65©  1 75
35© 40
35©
40© 45
@ %
15© 18
75@  1 00
©   1 75
75@  1 35
35© 38
35©
20
©
50© 55
55© 60
@ 40
@ 25
12
35
25
15® 20
18© 20
23© 25
23@

15© 18
13© 15
45© 48
15
12 ©
16© 18
50© 55
90®  3  00
30© 33
@ 15
8©
10
9
7©
25©
28
15©
18

10©
©
©

Sem en
A nisum ..........po.  20
@ 15
14© 16
A pium   (graveleons)
B ird ,Is ........................
4©
6
10 ©
10©
C aru i...............po.  18 
12
00©   1 25
C ardam on.............
C oriandrum .........
8©
10
5
C annabis  Sativa.
5©
75@  1 00
Cydonium .............
C henopodium   ...
10©
12
90©  3  00
D ìpterix  O dorate
F ceuiculum .........
@ 15
6©
Foenugreek, p o ...
8
3M@ 4
L i n i........................
4
Lini,  g rd __ bbl. 3M  314©
3!4®
35© 40
L o b e lia ......................
5
4©
P harla ris  C anarian.
4;£@
5
R a p a ............................
7©
S inapis A lb u .............
8
S inapis  N ig ra...........
1 1 ©
12
S p lritu s 
F ru m en ti, W.  1). Co.
F rum enti,  D. F. R ..
F ru m e n ti..................
Ju n ip eris Co. O. T ..
Ju n ip eris C o.............
Saacharum   N.  E __
Spt.  V ini G alli.........

ScillseC o....................  
T o lu ta n ......................  
P runus v irg ............... 
T in ctu res 
A conitum  N apellis R 
A conitum  N apellisF
A loes...........................
Aloes and  M y rrh ___
A rn ic a ........................
A ssafc etid a...............
A trope  B elladonna.
A u ran ti  C ortex.......
B enzoin......................
Benzoin Co................
B a ro sm a ....................
C antharides.............
C ap sic u m .............
C ardam on..................
C ardam on  C o...........
C astor..................
C atechu......................
C inchona....................
C inchona Co.............
C o lu m b a....................
C ubeba........................
C assia  A cutifol.......
Cassia A cutifol Co  .
D ig ita lis....................
E rg o t...........................
F erri C hlo rid u m __
G e n tia n ......................
G entian Co.................
G u ia c a ........................
G uiaca am m ou.........
H yoscyam us.............
Io d in e..........................
Iodine, colorless__
K ino........................... .»
L obelia.......................
M yrrh..........................
N ux  V om ica.............
O p ii..............................
Opii, ca m p h o rate d ..
Opii,  deodorized.........
(Q uassia......................
Iih atan y ......................
R hei.............................
S a n g u in a ria .............
S e rp e n ta ria ...............
S tram onium  .............
T o lu tan .......................
V a le ria n ....................
V eratrum  V e rid e ...
Z ingiber.....................

@
@
@

1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50

50
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20

n iscellan eo u s 

35 
.E th er, Spts.  N it.3 F  
30© 
38
31@
.E th er,  Spts. N it. 4 F  
3
A lum en......................   2M®
4
3@
A1 u m en, gro’d .. po. 7 
50
A n n atto ....................  
40©
5 
A ntim oni,  p o ...........  
4©
A ntim oni et PotassT 
55©
60
©   1  40 
A n tip y rin .................
A n tife b rin .................
15
©  
A rgenti  N itras, oz  ..
53
©  
A rsenicum .................
8©  
10 
40
38© 
Balm G ilead  Bud  ..
Bism uth  S.  N ...........
1  20@  1  30 
C alcium  Chlor.,  Is.. 
9
@ 
Calcium  Chlor.,  *4 s. 
10 
© 
© 
Calcium  C hlor.,  Ms. 
12 
©  1  00 
C antharides,  Rus.po 
15 
Capsici  Fro« tus, a f . 
© 
Capsici F ructus,  po. 
15 
© 
15 
Capsici FructusB .po 
© 
10© 
Caryophyl!us..po.  15
12
C arm ine, No. 40........
©   3 
C era A lba,  S. & F
50© 
C era  F la v a ................
40© 42 
C occus........................
40 
25
©  
Cassia F ru c tu s .........
C entraría....................
@
C etaceum ...................
@ 
45
63
60© 
Chloroform ................
©   1  25 
C hloroform , squibbs 
C hloral H y d C rst....
1  15©  1  30
C hondrus...................  
20©
20
15© 
Cinchonidine,P.&  W 
C inchonidine, G erm   3M@ 
IS 
C o cain e......................  5  05©  5  25
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
C reosotum .................
C reta................bbj. 75
C reta, p re p ................
Creta, p recip.............
Creta,  R u b ra.............
C ro c u s........................ 
C u d b e a r....................
C upri S u lp h ...............
D extrine.....................
E th er S ulph..............
Em ery, all  num bers 
Em ery, p o ...
E rgota...........
F lake  W hite
G alla..............
G am bier.__

©
©
©
9©
@
50©
5©
10©
75©
©

00©   2 50
00©   2 25
po.  40  30©  35
25© 50
12©  15
.........  
65©  2 00
.........  
©   23
75©  3  50
.........  
8©  
9
90©  2 10
r . . 
.. 
©   60
. .75©  ( 5C
30© 50
1  25 #   2  00 G elatin, F re n c h .......
60,  10 & 10
1  25#  2  00 G lassw are, flint, box
60
Less  th a n   b o x __
G lue,  bro w n .............
9© 12
13© 25
G lue,  w h ite...............
2  50@  2  75 G ly ee rin a..................
19© 26
@ 22
G rana  P aradisi  __
25© 55
Ilu m u lu s...“...............
©   2   00
79
H ydraag C hlor  Mite
®
©   1  10 H ydraag C hlor  Cor.
69
©
89
H vdraag Ox  Rub'm .
©
99
85 H ydraag A m m oniati
@ 
©
H ydraagU nguentum 45® 55
65
65 H ydrargyrum ...........
#  
©
Ichtbyobolla, A m ...  1  25©  1  50
©  
75
Indigo.......................... 
75©  1  00
©   1  40
Iodine, R esu b i.........   3  80©  3  90
Iodoform .................... 
@ 4 7 0
L u p u lin ......................  
©   2   25
L ycopodium ............. 
65
60© 
75
M acis...........................  
65@ 
L iquor  A rsen et Hy-
d rarg  lo d ................ 
27
©  
L iquorP otassA rsinit 
12
10© 
M agnesia,  S u lp h __   2M@ 
4
@  1M
M agnesia, Sulph,bbl 
M annia. S.  F ............. 
60© 
63
M enthol......................  
© 5 5 0

@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
50© 
@ 
©  

50
50
50
60
50
50
60
50
50

Sponges 
F lo rid a sheeps’ wool
c a rriag e...................
N assau sheeps  wool
c a rriag e..................
V elvet ex tra  sheeps’
w ool, carriage.......
E x tra yellow sheeps’
wool,  ca rriag e___
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
ca rria g e ..................
H ard, for slate u s e .. 
Yellow  R e e f ,  fo r 
slate  u se .................
Syrups
A c a c ia ........................ 
A uranti C ortes......... 
Z ingiber...................... 
Ipecac........................ 
F erri Io d ....................  
Rhei A ram ................  
Sm ilax O fficinalis... 
S en eg a........................  
Scili®........................... 

20

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

aR O C B R Y  P R IC E  C U R R E N T .

The  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.

AXLE  GREASE.

doz.  gross I
A urora............................ S> 
6  00
.60
-   00 
i  50
D iam ond......................
F r a z e r 's ............................75 
1X L Golden .till boxes 75 
.................................70 
P aragon..........................55 

9 00
9 00
8  00 I
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

45 
85 
1  50

45 
75 
1  00 
10

1  10 
2  00

A bsolute.
v   lb cans d o z .........
Vi.  lb ( M i l s   dOZ...........

Acme. 
3 doz__

A rctic.

■aus 6 doz case  . 
M lb
■ans 4 doz case 
‘  lb cans 2 doz case  .
lb case  1  doz case  .

, 

JaX on

u   lb cans  1 doz case, 
v;  lb cans 4 doz case. 
"   lb cans 2 doz case.
O ur Leader.
M  lb cans......................
4   lb cans......................
lb cans......................
Red S ta r.

cans

BATH  BRICK. 

2 dozen In case.

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

BLUING.

c ross
Arctic 4 oz ovals................... 3 60
tí  75
A rctic Soz ov als...................
Arctic pints ro u n d ............... 9  00
Arctic No  2 sifting box.  .. 2  i5
\ ri*T;u No. 3 sifting b o x .... 4  00
\ rptU No. 5 sifting box— 8  00
Arctic i  oz  ball...................... 4 50
Mexic in  liquid  - oz............. 3  60
Mexic m  liquid  k oz............. 6  80
No.  1  iCarpet........................... 2  20
Jar pet..... ..................... 2  00
\ o .  3 <’arp et........................... 1  75
1  60
v 0  4  :Jarpet.........................
Parlor G e m ........................... 2  50
85
Comm >n  W hisk....................
Fancv W hisk......................... 1  00
W are! ouse............................. 2  50
.10
Hotel 40  ’ b boxes................ .
Ib boxes..................  . ...  9 
.. .10
pa pa ;r

CANDLES.

BROOMS.

CANNED  GOODS.
M anitow oc  B rands.
1  00
Lakes <le  M arrow fat.........
C’i fcfxi; de E. J ......................... 1  30
1  40
Lakes do. Champ, of Eng..
Lakes de,  Gem,  Ex. Sifted 1  65

CATSUP

Blue Label B rand.
2  60
H alf  r 1 Li1  25 b o ttle s ...........
Pint 2 a-  'ties.  .................... 4  25
3  00
Q uart l doz.  b ottles...........
T rium ph  B rand.
H alf i in t  per doz................. 1  35
bottle»........................ 4  50
Dìi:. ï*î {H*r d oz........................ 3  75

I

CEM ENT.

Mai ir’*,  per gross.
|in*  ^*3—, 

Vi oz size.. .. 12  00
1  OZ size__ Is  00
SS  Liq. Glue.loz 9  60
L eather  C em ent,
1 oz s ize....... 12   00 j
2 oz size....... 18  00
R ubber  C em ent. 
* ^2  oz size__   ’2  00

MPEN

CHOCOLATE.

W a lter B aker & C o.’s .

G erm an S w e et............................ 23
P rem iu m ....................................... 37
B reakfast  Cocoa.........................45

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton. 40 ft. per  d o z...........  95
Cotton.  50 ft.  per  d e z .......... 1 15
Cotton, 00 ft,  per  d o z .......... 1 35
Cotton, 70 ft,  per  doz...........1 55
Cotton. 80 ft,  per  d o z.......... 1 95
Ju te, 60 ft,  per  d o z...............  80
Ju te , 72 ft,  per  doz................  95

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross b oxes................................50

CO FFEE.

G reen.
Rio.

S an to s.

Fs i r
C QGii
P rim e .......
G olden  ...
i’eaberry  .

F air  .........
Good  .......
P rim e ........
Peaberry 
.

M exican and  G uatam ala

.18
.19
.21
.21
.23

.19
.20
.22
.23

.24

Good  .......
F ancy 
...

Prim e
M illed.

P rivate  G row th. 
M andehling.......

Im itatio n  
A rabian  .

...28

R oasted.

To  ascertain  cost  o f  roasted 
coffee,  add  ‘¿c per lb. fo r roast­
ing and  15 per cent,  for  sh rin k ­
age.

P ackage.

A rb a c k le ...........................   18  95
Je rse y ...................................  18  95

Ii o n Co f f e e
In 1Bi.Pack&ges.Without6la7in&
16Fuu. Ounces  Net.
Cases 100 lbs.\  Equality  Price 

60  “  j   less 2c  per lb.
C abinets  120 lbs. Same P rice, 
9 0  ^ Extra  for Cabinets.
ncLaughlin’s  XXXX........21  3

E x tract.

75
1  15
85
1  43

V alley City  V4 g r o s s .......  
F elix 
gross.................... 
H um m el’s foil  % g ro ss... 
H um m el’s tin   Vis  g ro s s ... 
COCOA SH ELLS.
2 0 1 b  bag s............................ 
Less  q u a n tity .................... 
P ound  packages............... 
CREAH  TARTAR.
S trictly p u r e ........................ 
30
T elfer’s  A b so lu te'............. 
30
G rocers’............................... .15®2S>

2 V4
3
4

CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. in case.

................-.........  8

C H EESE.
A m boy........................
A cm e...........................
J e rs e y ..........................
L enaw ee.....................
R iverside....................
Gold  M edal...............
Skim 
B rick............................
E dam __ ’.....................
L eiden.........................
Lim burger..................
P ineapple...................
R oquefort..................
Sap  S ago....................
Schw eitzer,im ported 
Schw eitzer,dom estic 
C hicory.

B ulk 
R ed 

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

@  12V 
©  12 
©   12 
©  12 
@  12V 
12
©   10 
©  11 
©1  01) 
©  20 
©   15 
©   24 
@  35 
©   18 
©   24
©   H
5
7

N.  Y.  Condensed 
brands.
G ail  Borden  Eagle.
C ro w n ........................
D a is y ..........................
Cham pion 
...............
M agnolia 
................
Dime 
........................

Milk  Co.'s
7 40 
6 25
4  50 
4 25 
3  35

Peerless evaporated  crea m .5

COUPON  BOOKS.

R aisins.

O ndura 29 lb boxes........   7@8
S ultana 20 lb boxes.........  @6%
V alencia 30 lb.boxes__   @7Vi
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

3

•  P eas.

F arin a .
G rits.
H om iny.

Lim a  B eans.

P earl B arley.

B u lk .......................................... 
W alsh-DeRoo  Co.’s ...........2  00
B arrels  ................................. 3  25
Flake, 501b.  d ru m s...........1  50
D r ie d ..................................... 
4
M accaronl and V erm icelli.
Dom estic,  10 lb.  b o x .........  60
Im ported.  25 lb.  b o x ..........2  50
3
E m p ir e .................................  
C h e s te r.................................  
2
G reen,  b n ..............................  90
Split,  per lb .......................... 
2 4
Schum acher,  b b l.....................3 25
S chum acher, V4 b b l............1  75
M onarch;  b b l............................2 75
M onarch,  4   b b l........................1 50
Q uaker, ca ses............................3 20
Oven  B ak e d ..............................3 25
L akeside  ..............................2  25
G e rm a n .................................  
4
3 4
E ast  In d ia ............................ 
C racked, b u lk ......................  
3
24 2 Hi p ackages........................ 2 40
P ettijo h n 's B est.........................3 10

B rea k fa st  Food.
B uckw heat F lour. 
Excelsior  Self Rising.

Rolled  O ats.

Case of 2 d o z....................   1  90
Five case  lo ts.............................1 75

W h eat.

S ago.

FISH.

“ U n iv ersal.”
I   1  books, per  10 0 .........
$  2  books,  per  10 0 .........
$  3  books,  per  10 0 .........
I   5 books, per  100.........
$ 10  books, per  10 0 .........
$20 books, p er  10 0 .........
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  th e   follow ing 
q u an tity  d iscounts:
200 books or o v e r...  5 per cent 
500 books o r o v e r.. .lOJper c en t 
1000 books o r over,  ,20’per cent 

Coupon P ass Books,

denom ination from  $ 10  dow n.

Can be m ade to  rep resen t any 
20 books.....................................   1 00
50 bo o k s...................  
2  00  |
100 b o o k s.....................................  3 00
250 books.....................................  6 25
c500 b o o k s..................................... 10 00
1000 books..................................... 17 50

 

C redit  C hecks.

500, any one denom ’n .......   3  00
1000, any one denom ’n ....... 5  00
2000,  any one denom ’n .......   8  00
Steel  p u n c h ............................ 
75
DRIED  FRUITS.

DOnESTIC.

A pples.

C alifornia Goods.

S u n d ried ............................  @  4%
Evaporated 50 lb  boxes.  ©   7 
Bxs  Bgs
.10  ©
7  @
8  © 
84@

A pricots..............
B lackberries.......
N ectarin es.........
Peaches................
P ears....................
P itted C herries..
P runnelles..........
R aspberries........

R aisin s.

Loose M uscatels.

2 Crow n..............................   @ 3 4
3 Crow n..............................   @ 3%
4 Crow n..  ..........................   @  4%

FOREIGN.
C u rra n ts.

Patras b b ls.......................  @  3 4
Yostizzas 50 lb c a se s....  @  2% 
25 lb boxes.........................  @  5
50 lb boxes.........................  @  4%
1  lb packages..................   @ 6

S ch u it’s   Cleaned.

P eel.

Citron  L eghorn 25 lb   bx  @13 
Lemon L eghorn 25 lb bx  @11 
O range Leghorn 25 lb bx  @12 

P ru n es.

25 lb  boxes.

C alifornia 100-120.............  @ 5
C alifornia  90-100.............  ©   5 4
C alifornia  80-90..............   @  6M
C alifornia  70-80...............  @  6S£
C alifornia  60-70...............  @  7Vf

Vi cent less in bags

Cod.

H alibut.

H erring.

©   4M 
©   6 
@  6 4  
©   9

14
11

Georges cu red ..............
Georges  genuine.........
Georges selected .........
S trips or  b ric k s...........  6
C h u n k s.................................
S trips.....................................
H olland w hite hoops keg 
H olland w hite hoops  bbl
N orw egian..................
R ound 100 lb s ...........
R ound  .40 lb s...........
S caled..........................
flack erel.
No.  1  10 0 lb s ...............
No.  1  40 lb s ...............
No.  1 
10  lb s ...............
No. 2 100 lbs 
No. 2  40 lbs 
No. 2  10 lbs 
F am ily 90 lbs 
Fam ily 10 lbs
R ussian kegs.
No. 1 ,10 0 1b.  b ales.............
N o. 2,100 lb.  bales.............
No.  1100 lb s ........................
No. 1  40 lb s ........................
No. 1  10 lb s ........................
No. 1 
8 lb s ........................
No.  1  No. 2
6  25
2  8J
78
6a

4  25 
1  95 
56 
48
Fam
100 lb s .............  7  50 
1  40 
40 lb s .............  3 30 
43 
10 lb s ............. 
90 
37
8 lb s ............. 
75 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

S ari
S tockfish.

W hitefish.

T ro u t.

Oval  bottle,  w ith  corkscrew . 
the 

S ouders’.
th e  w orld 

fo r 

in 

Best 
m oney.

R egular 
G rade 
L em on.

doz
2 oz.........  75
4 o z.........1  50

R egular 
V anilla.

doz
2  o z.........1  20
4 oz.........2  40

1  75 
3 50

Jen n in g s.

Lemon  V anilla 
120
2  00 
3  00 
2  00 
2  50

2 oz regular p a n e l..  75 
4 oz  regular panel  1  50 
6 oz regular panel. .2  00
No.  3  ta p e r................1  35
No  4  7aper............... 1  50
FLY  PA PER .
Tanglefoot.
‘■Regular” Size.

Less th an  one case, per box 
3! 
One to  five cases,  jicr case..  2  7! 
65
F iv e to ten cases, per case.
Ten cases, per  c a se.............
“ L ittle” Tanglefoot.
Less th a n  one case, p er box 
One  to ten cases, per ca se..
T en cases, p er  c a se.............

13 
1  45 
1  40

FURNITURE 

C leaner  and  Polish. 

H enderson’s “ D iam ond.”

H alf P in t.......................................  1 75
P in t..................................................3 50
Q u a r t.............................................. 5 40
H alf G allo n .................................   7 75
G a llo n ........................................... 14 40
Sage............................................  
H o p s..........................................  

HERBS.

If
IS

3  00 
1  75 
1  00
30
18

4  00
1  25 
34

8  00 
4  25

1  20

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—D upont’s.
K e g s ...................................
H alf  K egs..........................
Q u arterK eg s.........   .......
1  lb  c a n s...........................
4   lb   c a n s..........................

C hoke  Bore—D upont’s

K e g s ............................
H alf K egs..................
Q uarter  K egs—  
..
1 lb   c a n s....................

Eagle  D uck—D upont’s
K e g s ........................................
H alf K egs...............................
Q u arterK eg s..........................
1 lb c a n s........................  —

INDIGO.

M adras, 5  lb  b o x es.............
S.  F., 2, 3 and 5 lb  b o x e s.. 

JELL Y .

15 lb  p ails...................... ...
17 lb  p a ils.............................
30 lb  p a ils .............................

LYE.

Condensed,  2  d o z .............
Condensed,  4  d o z...............

LICORICE.

P u re ........................................
C alabria  ...............................
S icily......................................
R oot........................................

MINCE  M EAT.

M ince m eat, 3 doz in  case. .2  7E
P ie Prep. 3 doz in ca se......... 2  75

HATCHES.

D iam ond M atch Co.’s brands.
N o. 9  s u lp h u r...........................1  65
A nchor  P a rlo r.........................1  70
No. 2  H om e.............................. 1  10
E xport  P a rlo r.........................4  00

nO L A SSE S.
B lackstrap.

Sugar h o u se.......................... 10@12

Cuba B aking.

O rd in ary ................................12@14

P o rto   Rico.

P rim e ..................................... 
F ancy  ................................... 

New O rleans.

F a i r ......................................... 
G o o d ....................................... 
E x tra  goo d ............................ 
C h o ic e ................................... 
F ancy 
................................... 

H alf-barrels 3c extra.

20
30

18
22
24
27
30

OIL CANS.

C rystal valve,  per  d oz.......   4  00
C rystal valve, per  g ro ss.. .36  00 

PICKLES, 
rtedium .
B arrels,  1,200 c o u n t..
H alf bbls, 600c o u n t..

3  75 
2  00

S m all.

P IP E S .

B arrels, 2,400  c o u n t.............  4  75
H alf bbls,  1,200 co u n t.........  2  50

Clay. No.  216..........................  1  70
Clay, T.  D.  fu ll co u n t......... 
65
Cob, No. 3...............................  1  20

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

B ab b itt’s .................................   4  00
P en n a Salt  Co.’s ..................   3  00

RICE.

D om estic.

C arolina h e a d ......................
5 4
C arolina  No.  1  ................... .  5
4Vi
C arolina  No. 2 ....................
B roken................................... •  3 4

Im ported.
Jap an ,  N o.*1........................
Japan.  No. 2 .............
Jav a, No.  1...........................
Jav a, No. 2 ...........................

4 *
4M
.  5 4
.  4M
.  4

SAL SODA

G ranulated, b b ls................. 1  10
G ranulated)  100 lb c a se s .. 1  50
Lum p, b b ls...........................
1
Lump,  1451b keg s................ 1  10

SEED S.

A n is e .....................................
C anary, Sm yrna..................
C a ra w a v ...............................
C ardam on,  M alabar.........
Hemp,  R u ssian .................
M ixed  B ird ___....................
M ustard,  w h ite ..................
Poppy  ...................................
R a p e ......................................
C u ttle B one........................

SYRUPS.

C orn.

B arrels...................................
H alf  b b ls..........................

P u re Cane.

F a ir  .......................................
Good  .. 
Choice

SPICES.
W hole Sifted.

13
6
10
80
4
4 4
8
4
20

15
17

16

A llspice  ...................................  9 4
Cassia, C hina in m ats........... 10
Cassia,  B atavia in  b u n d __ 15
Cassia, Saigon in ro lls......... 32
Cloves,  A m boyna................... 15
Cloves, Z an zib ar..................... 10
Mace,  B atav ia........................ 70
j Nutmeg§, fan cy .......................65
N utm egs, No.  1.......................60
N utm egs, No.  2.......................55
I  Pepper, Singapore, b la c k ... 10 
Pepper, Singapore, w h ite .. .20
Pepper,  s h o t............................ 16

P u re  G round in B ulk.

A llspice  .............................10@12
Cassia, B a ta v ia .......................17
Cassia,  Saigon........................ 35
Cloves,  A m boyna.............. ...15
Cloves, Z an zib ar.....................10
G inger,  A frican .....................15
G inger,  C ochin................... ,.20
G inger,  Ja m a ic a .....................22
M ace,  B atav ia................. 60@65
M ustdrd, Eng. and T rieste. .20
M ustard, T rie ste .....................25
N utm egs, No.  2 ............... 50@60
Pepper,  Singapore, black9©12 
Pepper,Singapo re, whitel5@18
Pepper, C ayenne.............17@20
Sage.............................................18
“ A b so lu te"  in  Vflb.  P ackages
A llspice.................................   65
C innam on.............................  75
C loves.....................................  70
G inger, C ochin....................  75
M ace........................................ 2 10
M ustard.................................   75
N utm egs.................................2 10
Pepper, cayenne  ...............  75
Pepper, w hite  ....................   75
Pepper, black sh o t............   60
S aigon......................................1 50

STARCH.

K lngsford’s  Corn.

20 1-lb packages......................   6 4
40 1 lb p ack ag es.. i ................... 6M

K ingsford’s   S ilv e r  Gloss.

40 1-lb packages......................   6M
6-lb  boxes  ................................7M

Comm on  Corn.

20-lb  b oxes..................................5 4
40-lb  b oxes...............................   5M

Comm on G loss.

1-lb  packages............................4 4
3-lb  packages..........................  4 4
6-lb  packages..........................  5M
40 and 50 lb  box es...................  3M
B arrels  .....................................  3J4

SODA.

SALT.

B o x es...........................................5 4
Kegs, E n g lish ..........................  4M

D iam ond  C ry stal.

Cases, 24 3-lb  box es.................1 60
B arrels,  120 2 4  lb bags........... 3 00
B arrels,  75  4  lb b ag s...........2 75
Barrels,  60  5  lb bags...........2 75
B arrels,  40  7 lb b ags...........2 50
B arrels,  30  10  lb b ags...........2 50
B utter, 561b  bag s...................  65
B utter, 20  14 lb  b ag s...............3 50
B utter, 2801b  b b ls.................. 2 50

Comm on G rades.

100 3 lb s a c k s ............................. 2 60
60 5-lb sack s..............................1 85
2 8 11-lb sack s............................l 70

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56-lb dairy in  d rill b a g s..
28-lb dairy  in d rill  bags.. 

56 lb dairy in   iinen  sacks 

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 

Solar  Rock.

56-lb  sack s...............................   22

Common Pine.

S a g in a w ....... ............ 
85
M anistee  .................................   85

 

SNUFF.

Scotch,  in b la d d ers...............  37
M aecaboy, in  ja r s ...................  35
French  Rappee, in  ja rs  —   43 

SALERATU S.

Racked 60  lbs. in  box.

C h u rc h 's .........................................3 3C
D eiand's 
D w ight’s .........................................3 30
T aylor’s ...................................

..................................3  15
.3  00

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. J . Jo h n so n ’s  brand

S.  C.  W ...........................................35 00

B. J . R eynolds’ brand.

H ornet’s  N est..............................35 00

H. & P. D rug Co.’s brand.

Q u in te tte ..................................... 35 00

Clark G rocery Co.’s  brand. 

New  B ric k ................................... 35 00

SOAP.
Laundry.

D ingm an  Soap  Co.’s brand.

Single  b o x .................................3 95
5 box lots,  d eliv ered .............3 85
10 box lots,  d eliv ered ............ 3 75
N.  K. F airb an k  & Co.’s brands
S anta  C la u s...............................3 50
B row n, 60 b a rs ......................... 2 00
Brow n, 80 b a rs......................... 2 90

G owans & Sons’  Brands.

C ro w ................................................3 10
G erm an F a m ily ..........................  2 15
A m erican G rocer  100s 
A m erican G rocer  60s.
N.  G .................................
M ystic  W h ite ..............
L otas  .............................
Oak  L e af........................
Old S ty le........................
H appy D ay ....................

3  25
2  65
3  30 
3  80 
3  9r 
3  30
2  55
3  10

JAX0N

Single  b o x ........ 
-.............3 25
5 box lots, d eliv ered ............ 3 ¿0
10 box lots,  d eliv ered ............ 3 10

Jas. S. K irk <Sc Co.’s  brands. 

A m erican  Fam ily,  w rp’d ...3   33 
A m erican F am ily, p la in — 3  27 

Lautz Bros. &  Co.’s ¡brands.

Acme  .........................................3  35
C otton  O il................................ 5  (•>
M arseilles.................................. “I Ob
M a s te r........................................3 70

H enry Passolt’s b rand.

Single b o x .................
5 box lots, delivered 
10 box lots,  delivered 
25 box  lots, delivered 
P roctor & G am ble’s

C oncord.....................................
Ivory, 10 ....................................
Ivory,  6 o z ...............................
L e n o x .......................................
M ottled  G erm an ....................
T ow n T a lk ...............................
A llen B.  W risley's  brands

Old C ountry 80  1-lb...........
Good C heer 60  1-lb...........
W hite b o rax   100 \  lb .......

Scouring.

Sapolio,  kitchen, 3 doz  ..
Sapolio, h and, 3 d o z .......
STO VE  POLISH. 
N ickeline, sm all, p ergro. 
N ickeline, large,  p erg ro . 
T A B LE   SAU CES.

. .3 20 
. .3  90 
. .3  65

.2  40 
.2  40

4  00 
7 20

Lea &  P errin ’s,  la rg e......4   75
Lea A  P e rrin ’s, sm a ll.  .,..2   75
H alford,  la rg e...................3   75
H alford sm all................. ...2   25
Salad  Dressing,  larg e......4   55
Salad  D ressing, 3m all.. ...2   65

VERMICIDE.
Zenoleum ,  6  o z .............
Zenoleum ,  q ts ...............
Zenoleum , (4 g a l...........
Zenoleum .  g a l...............

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

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on  sugars,  to  w hich  the 
w holesale dealer adds th e local 
freig h t from  New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  th e  invoice  fo r  the 
am ount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from   th e  m arket  in  w hich  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  fo r  th e 
w eight of the barrel.
D om ino...................................... 5 56
Cut  Loaf-.................................... 5 56
C u b e s ..........................................5 18
Pow dered  ...............................5  18
XXXX  Pow dered....................5 31
Mould  A .................................... 5 18
G ranulated in b b ls .................. 4 94
G ranulated in  bag s................ 4 94
F ine G ran u lated ......................4 94
E x tra F ine G ran u lated .........5 06
E x tra Course G ran u lated .. .5 06
Diam ond  Confec.  A ...............4 94
Confec. S tandard A ................ 4 81
No.  1.............................................. 4 62
No  2 .............................................. 4 62
No.  3.............................................. 4 56
No.  4  .......................................4  50
No.  5 .............................................. 4 38
No.  6.............................................. 4 31
No.  7  .......................................4  31
No.  8.............................................. 4 25
No.  9...............................................4 18
No.  1 0 ....................................... 4  12
No.  11.............................................. 4 00
No.  12......................................   3  94
No.  13.........................................3  87
No.  14..............................................3 81
No.  15.........................................3  56

WASHING  POW DER.

100 packages in  case............. 3  35

WICKING.

No. 0, per g ro ss........................  25
No. 1, p e rg ro ss........................  30
No. 2, per g ro ss........................  40
No. 3, p e rg ro ss........................  75

CRACKERS

T he N. Y.  B iscuit  Co.  quotes 

B u tter.

as follow s:
Seym our X X X ......................  5
Seym our XXX, 3 lb.  carton  5(4
F am ily X X X ..........................  5
Fam ily XXX, 3 lb  carton. 
o(4
Salted X X X ...........................   5
Salted  XXX, 3 lb c a rto n ...  514 

Soda.

Soda  XXX  ............................  5*4
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  c a rto n —   6
Soda,  C ity ..............................  ”
C rystal  W afer......................   1014
Long Island  W afers...........  11
L.  I. W afers,  1 lb carton  ..  12

O yster.

 

Square O yster, X XX ...........  5
Sq. Oys.  XXX,  1  lb   carto n .  6 
F a rin a  O yster,  X XX...........   5
SW EET  G O O D S-B oxes.
A n im a ls .................................   1014
B ent’s Cold W a ter...............  12
Belle  R ose..............................  8
C ocoanut  T affy....................   8
Coffee C akes................ 
8
Frosted H oney......................   U
G raham  C rackers.................  8
G inger Snaps, XXX round.  614 
G inger Snaps, XXX  c ity ...  614 
G in. Slips,XXX hom e m ade  614 
G in. Snps, XXX scalloped..  6(4
G inger  V a n illa ....................  8
imperials
Jum bles,  H oney..................   11
M olasses  C akes....................   8
M arshm allow   .......................   15
M arshm allow   C ream s.......   16
Pretzels,  hand  m ade  .......   8*/
Pretzelettes, L ittle G erm an  6*.
S ugar  C ake...........................   8
S u lta n a s ..................................   12
Sears’ L u n c h ..........................
V anilla  S q u are....................   8
V an illa  W a fe rs ..................   14

CA ND IES.

as follow s :

Stick  Candy.

S tan d a rd .................... 
S tandard  li.  I I ......... 
S tandard T w ist.......  
C ut  L oaf....................  
E x tra  H .H ................  
Boston  C ream ......... 

Mixed Candy.

bbls.  pails
6(4©  714
6(4©  7(4
6(4©  7(4
7(4©  8(4
case:
@8*4
©   8(4

Sts n d a rd ....................
L eader  ......................
R o y a l..........................
C onserves..................
B roken  ......................
K in d erg arten ...........
F rench  C ream .........
Valley C ream ...........
Fancy  In Bu

5(4©  6(4 
6(4©  7(q 
6(4©  7(i 
6(4©  7(4 
7  @  8 
7(4©  8/1 
©   9 
@12

Lozenges  p la in .......
Lozenges,  p rin te d ..
Choc.  D rops.............
Choc.  M onum entals
Gum  D rops...............
Moss  D rops...............
Sour D rops................
Im perials .

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lem on  D rops...........  

©   8(4 
©   9 
11(4@13 
@ 12(1 
©   5 
@ 8 
@ 8 
©   9
Per Bo:
©50

@50
S our  D rops...............
@60
P epperm int  D rops..
©tin
C hocolate Drops —
@75
II.  M. Choc.  D rops..
35 @50
G um   D rops...............
Licorice D rops.........1 00 ©
@50
A.  B.  Licorice Drops
@60
Lozenges,  p la in __
@65
Lozenges,  p rin te d ..
@60
im p e ria ls..................
@65
M ottoes......................
@ 0
Cream   B ar................
@.->0
Molasses B a r ...........
80 ©90
Hand  Made Cream s.
00 ©80
Plain  C ream s...........
©90
D ecorated C rea m s..
©60
String R ock...............
B urnt A lm onds....... 1 25 @
©55
W intergreen Berries 
Caramels. 
No.  1  w rapped, 2  lb.
b o x e s ......................
No.  1  w rapped, 3  lb.
boxes  ......................
No. 2 w rapped, 2  lb. 
....................
boxes 
FRUITS
O ranges. 
M exicans 
150.................................
120..................   ...........
150.................................
176-200..........................
V alencias 
Cases of 420 an d  714.
Lem ons. 
S trictly choice  36Us..
Strictly choice  300s..
Fancy  360s................
E x tra 360s..................
Fancy  300s................
E x tra  300s  ................
B ananas.
A  definite  price 

Fancy  N avels

©30
@45

3  00
?  ^5
3  U0
3  50
5  00

@-2  75
@3  00
@3  50
@3  75
@3  50
@4  50

©11
@  6
@  8
©   6
©   5
©   4(4

is h ard   to
nam e, as  it varies  according  to
size  o f  bunch  an d   quality  of
fru it.
Small  1 u n ch e s......... 1  00  @1  25
M edium  b u n ch e s... 1  25  @1  50
Large b u n ch e s......... 1  75  @
Foreign Dried  F ru its .
13  @

F ig-,  Fancy  Layers 
20 lb s ...................... 
Figs, Choice  Layers 
101b..........................
Figs,  N atu rals 
in 
bags,  n ew ...............
D ates, F ard s in   101b 
boxes  ......................
Dates.  F ards in  60 lb  —
cases  ......................
D ates,  P ersians,  G. 
M. K., 60 lb c a se s..
Dates,  Sairs  00  lb 
cases  ......................
NUTS.
@13
A lm onds, T a rra g o n a..
Alm onds, Iv a c a ...........
©
A lm onds,  C alifornia, 
@12(4
so ft  sh e lle d ...............
©   9
B razils n e w ..................
@10
F ilberts  ........................
©13
W alnuts, G ren., n e w ..
@12
W alnuts,  C alif  No.  1.
W alnuts,  softjsbelled
C a lif........... r ..............
©
T able N uts,  fa n c y __
@12
Table  N uts,  c h o ic e ...
©   9(4
P ecans, T exas  II. P . . . 7  ©   8
Hickory  N uts per bu., 
O h io ...........................
C ocoanuts,  full  sacks
B utternuts  per  bu —
Black W alnuts per  bu

25© 1  40
@4  00
@  50
@

P ean u ts.

@  6
©   7(4
@ 6

Fancy,  IL  P.,  Game 
C o ck s..........................
francy,  H.  P.,  Game 
R oasted......................
Fancy, H.  l\ ,  A ssocia­
tion .............................
Fancy,  H.  P..  A ssocia­
tion R o asted .............
Choice,  11.  P.,  E xtras.
Choice,  II.  P..  E xtras, 
Roasted  ....................
Fish  a n d   Oysters

(§4>
®

7Vi

F resh  F ish. 

Per lb. 
@  10
@ 
9
©   15
18©  20
@ 
6
©   15
@  20
@  20
©   10
©  
8
©   10
@ 
8
©  
8
@  10
@  13
16©  20

W h itefish ..................
T r o u t..........................
Black  B ass................
H a lib u t......................
C iscoesor H e rrin g ..
B luefish......................
Live  L o b ster...........
Boiled L obster.........
C o d .............................
H addock....................
No.  1  P ickerel.........
P ik e.............................
Smoked  W hite.........
Red S napper.............
Col  River  Salm on..
M ackerel 
.................
Shell  Goods
Oysters,  per  100......... 1  25@l  50
90@1  00
plains,  per  1(H).........
Oysters.

F. J.  D etten th aler's Brands.

F airh av en   C o u n ts...
F.  J.  D.  S elects.........
Selects 
........................
F. J.  I)...........................
A nchors........................
S tan d a rd s....................
F a v o r ite ......................

P er Can. 
35©
30©
25®
22©
20©
18©
16©

C o u n ts ...........................
E xtra Selects................
M edium  S elects...........
A nchor  S tan d a rd s—
S ta n d a rd s......................
Scallops 
........................
C la m s ...........................
S h rim p s........................

O scar A llyn’s Brands

I C o u n ts....................
E xtra  '-e le c ts.......
Plain  S elects.........
I X   L ........................
M edium s  ...............
Standards  .............
Favorites  ...............
New York  C ounts.
E x tra  S elects.......
Plain  Selects.........
1  X L  S tandards.  . 
S ta n d a rd s ...............

Per  Gal. 
@2 00
@1  65
@1  30
© I  10
@1  10
© 1   75
@1  25
@1  25

Per  Can. 
40©
30©
25©
20©
18©
16©
Per  Gal. 
@ 2   00 
©1  75 
@1  50 
@1  2j  
@1  10

Grains and Feedstuffs

W heat.

61

F lo u r  in  S ack s.

 

P a te n ts ...................................  4  25
Second  P a te n t......................  3  75
3  55
S traig h t.....................  
C lear........................................   3  25
G raham  
................. 
3  25
B u c k w h e a t..............................3  35
R y e ........................................   2  70
S ubject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
F lo u r in  bbls.,25c per bbl. ad­
d itio n al.

 

 

S p rin g   W h e at  F lour.

Ceresota,  jgs ..........................   3  95
Ceresota,  (4s..........................   3  85
Ceresota,  V*s............ .............  3  75
G rand  R epublic,  (as...............3  95
G rand  R epublic,  (4 S....................3 85
G rand R epublic,  (is....................3 75
P arisian,  (¿s..........................   3  95
P arisian,  (4s............................. 3  85
P arisian,  V2s...........................  3  75
Qu  ker,  *8s ..................................  3 ,0
Q uaker,  (4 s ..................................  3 70
Q uaker,  (2s.................................... 3 70

M eal.

B o lte d ..........................................   1 75
G ra n u la te d .................................  2 00

Feed and  M illstuffs.

St. Car Feed, s c re e n e d ___13  00
S o.  1  Corn and  O ats............12  50
U nbolted Corn  M eal............12  25
W inter W heat  B ran ............11  00
W inter W heat M iddlings.. 12  00 
S creenings.................................... 11 00

T he  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 

quotes as follow s:

Car  lo ts..............................
Less th an   ca r  lo ts.........

Oats.

C ar  lo ts .............................
Less th a n   car  lo ts.........

Hay.

. 16  00 
14  25

No.  1 Tim othy, ton lots 
No.  1 T im o th y c arlo ts..
Hides  and  Pelts.
&  Hess  pay  as  fol-
Perkins

low s:

H ides.

G re e n ....................
Part  c u re d ...........
F ull C u red ...........
D ry '........................
Kips,  g re e n .........
Kips,  c u re d .........
C alfskins,  green. 
C alfskins,  cured. 
D eaconskins  ___

4(4©  5 
© 6 
5  ©   6 
5  @  7 
4(4©  5 
5  ©   6 
5(4©  7 
6(4©  8 
25  ©30

P elts.

Shearlings
Lambs
Old  W ool....................   40

___10  ©30
___211  @50
@75

Wool.

W ashed 
...,  ............... 10  @17
U n w a sh e d .....................  5  @13

rtiscellaneous.

. .2   50@2 90

T a llo w ................ ‘......... 3  ©   3(4
Grease B u tte r................  I  @ 2
Switches  ...................  1(4©
G inseng....................
Furs.
30©  1 25
M in k ..........................
25© 70
C o o n ..........................
40© 85
S k u n k ........................
9© 14
R a-,  W in ter.............
9
3©
Rat,  F a ll..................
Red F o x .................... .  1  00©   1 35
40© 60
Gray F o x ..................
2 00©  5 00
Cross  F o x ................
70
20©
B ad g e r......................
40© 75
Cat,  W ild................
85
10©
Cat,  H ou-e...............
.  4  00©  6  00 
Fisher. 
.  1  00©  2  50 
L y n x .. 
.  1  50© 3  00 
Martin,
,  5  00©  9  00 
Ol t e r .. 
.  1  00©  2  00 
W olf .. 
.15  00©25  00 
B e a r... 
.  3  00©  7  00 
Beaver 
18
. 
Opossum
Beaver castors per lb   (  00©  8  00 
D eerskins, dry,per lb 
25

10©  
15© 

PROVISIONS.
The  G rand  Rapids  Paeking

10  75 !
11  25
11  50  1
11  00  j
12   00  ;

and  Provision Co. quotes IS fill-  1
lows:
B arreled  P ork.
...................................
Mess 
..................   .............
Back 
Clear  back  ........................
Short c u t.............................
P ig ........................................
Beau 
...................................
Fam ily  ...............................
D ry S alt  M eats.
B ellie s.................................
B riskets  .............................
E x tra  sh o rts......................
Sm oked  H eats.
H ams,  12 lb  average  .  ..
llam s,  4 lb  average 
...
Hams,  16 In  av e ra g e.......
Hams. 20 lb  averag e.......
H am  dried beef  ...............
S houlders  (N.  Y.  c u t). 
.
Bacon,  c le a r......................
C alifornia  h am s...............
Boneless  ham s..................
Cooked  h a m ......................

6H  j
6 
j
5

L ards.

Com pound,  tie rc e s.........
Fam ily,  tierces................
G ra n g e r .............................
K ettle  (our  o w n ).............
C o tto len e...........................
C otosuet 
.........................
50 lb T i n s ...........advance
20 lb  P ails...........anvance
10 lb  P ails...........advance
5 lb P ails...........advance
31b  P ails...........advance

IH*
U ti
9
9t4  1
6*2
8 
i
J
8 V$  I
11(4
5 
5*4
6 ä,-2
6 :4
5J4
h \
L
fl;
•*4.
%

J

i

5
6
* Va
6(4

6 

S ausages.

Beef.

B o lo g n a .............................
L iver.....................................
F ran k fo rt...........................
P o r k ....................................
Blood 
.................................
Tongue  ...............................
H ead  cheese......................
E x tra  M ess........................ 7  00
........................... 10  00
Boneless 
P ig s’  F eet.
80
Kits,  15  lb s..........................
(4  bbls, 40 lb s.................... 1  65
(4  bbls, 80 lb s .................... 3 00
75
Kits,  15 lb s ..........................
(4  bbls, 40 lb s .................... 1  50
(4  bbls. 80 lb s....................
P o r k ....................................
Beef  ro u n d s......................
Beef  m iddles....................

C asings.

T ripe.

25

B u tterin e.

10 * 2
10

Canned  M eats.

Rolls,  d a iry ......................
Solid,  d a iry ........................
Rolls,  c re a m e ry ...............
Solid,  c re a m e ry ...............
C orned  beef,  2  ib ........... 2  10
Corned  beef.  15  lb ........... 14  00
Roast  beef,  2  lb ........... 2  iO
75
(4s.........
Potted  ham , 
1  25
( is .........
Potted  ham . 
lt5:
(4s.........
Deviled ham . 
1  z5
( is .........
Deviled ham , 
75
Potted  tongue  (4 s .......
1  25
P otted 
tongue ( i s .........
FR ESH   M EATS.

Beef.

C a rc a ss..........................5 ©   7
Fore q u a rte rs ...............  4 Ce / :.  5
H ind  q u a rte rs .............  6 ©   8
@10
Loins  No.  3..................
@ 12
R ib s.................................8
R o u n d s ........................  5 •2<&  6*2
4 %  5
C hucks.................... 

P ork.

D ressed..........................  4 ©   4(4
L o in s .............................   7 Ú   7*-á
S houlders......................
Leaf  L ard ......................

(a\  6
©   7

C a rc a ss ..........................4 4©  5(4
Spring Lam bs...............  5 ©   ti;-2

C a rc a ss ..........................5 /i©   7

M utton.

V eal.

OILS.

21

Crockery and

Glassw are.

LAM P  BURNERS.

 

No.  0  S u n ............................... 
45
No.  I  S u n ...............................  
5c
75
No.  2  S u n ................. 
 
51
T u b u la r................................... 
Security,  No.  1......................  
65
Security.  No. 2 ...................... 
S5
N utm eg  .................................  
5»j
A rctic......................................   1  15
LAM P  CH IM N EY S-Com m on.
Per box  of  6 doz.
1  85
2  00
2  8*')

No.  0 S u n .........
No.  1 S u n ..........
No.  2 S u n .........

F irs t  Q uality.

No.
No.
No.

i•rimp 
0  Sun. 
1  Sun,  <•rim p 
t;rim p 
2  sun, 

w rapped and la b e le d .... 2  10
w riiipped and labeled __ 2  25
WTÍÜipped and la b e le d .... 3  25

top.
top.
top,

XXX  F lin t.
No.  0  Sun,  crim p 
No.  1  Suit,  Crimp 
crim p 
No.  2  Sun, 

w rapped an d   la b eled __   2  55
w rapped and  la b e le d ....  2  75 
w rapped and  la b e le d ....  3  75

top.
top, 
top. 

CHIMNEYS,
P earl  Top.

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

lab eled .................................  3  it)
la b eled .................................  4  70
lab eled ................................... 4  88

j

F ire Proof—P lain Top.

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

La  B astie.

No.  1  Sun.  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ......................................  1  25
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ......................................   t  50
No.  1 Crim p, per d o z.........  1  35
No. 2 Crim p,  per d o z...........  1  60

R ochester.

No.  1,  Lime 
No.  2,  Lime 
No. 2,  F lint

,65c d o z). 
70c d o z). 
80c  d o z ).

No. 2.  Lime 
No. 2.  F lint

(TOC doz) 
180c doz)

4  00 
4  70

M iscellaneous. 

Doz.
Ju n io r,  R ochester............... 
50
15
N utm eg  ............................... 
Illum inator  B ases...............  1  00
Barrel  lots, 5 d o z................  
90
7 in.  Porcelain  S hades.......  1(H)
Case lots,  12  d o z..................  
90
M am m oth  C him neys for  S tore 
L am ps.  Doz.  Box 
No. 3  Rochester, lime  1  50  4  20 
t  80 
Na. 3 R ochester,  Hint  1  75 
No. 3  Pearl 
top.  or
Jew el  g la ss............. 
1  85  5  25
No. 2 Globe lucandes.
lim e...........................   1  75 
No. 2 Globe lucandes.
f l i n t ..........................  2  00 
No. 2  Pearl g la ss.......   2  10  6  60
Doz. 
w ith  sp o u l..  1  60
2  (HI

1  gal  tin
1 gal galv iron  w ith  spout
2 gal  galv iron  w ith  spout
3 gal galv  iron  w ith spout 
5 gal  E ureka w ith sp o ilt..
5 gal  E ureka w ith faucet.
5 gal  galv  iron  A  A  W __
5 gal T iltin g  cans,  M 'n'eh 
5 gal galv iron  N acefas...

OIL  CANS. 

9  IX)

5 10
5 85

Pump  Cans.

3 gal  Home  R u le................
5 gal  Home  R ule................
3 gal G oodenough...............
5 gal G oodonough.......................12 00
5 gal  P irate  K ing......................  9 50

12  00 
111  50

LANTERNS.

B arrels.

The  S tandard  Oil  Co.  quotes 

as follow s:
Eocene  ..........................
XXX W .W .M ich.lldlt
W  W M ichigan.............
High T est H e ad lig h t..
D., S. G as........................
Deo. N a p th a ................
C y lin d e r........................30
E n g in e........................... 11
Black,  w in te r...............
Black, sum m er.............

No.  o T u b u la r............................  3 75
No.  1 B  T u b u la r......................  6 00
No.  13 T ubular D ash............. 5  50
1 Tub., gla ss fo u n t__ 7  00
No
© 1
No 12  T ubular side lam p. 12  00
© 9
3 Street  Lam p............. 3 25
@ 8?.l No
@
LANTERN GLOBES.
© 9*4
cases 1  doz. 
No 0 T abular, 
©
»54
45
ich, box 10 t
e in s ..............
is
©
No 0 T ubular, ut ses 2  doz.
21
45
e tell, box  lot e n ts .............
©
@ Sti No 0 T ubular, bbls  5  doz.
40
e ich.  bbl 35.
b u ll's  eye, 
0  Tubular, 
No
"@
9(4
ì n d i .............. 1  25
iscs 1  doz.
c
6;1*
©
© 7
Scofield,  Sliurm er  &  Teagle 

E ocene...........................
XXX W .W .M ich.lldlt.
D.  S.  G as......................

From  T ank  W agon

LAMP W ICKS.

quote as follow s:

B arrels.

P a la c in e ........................ 
©12
Daisy  W h ite................   @11
Red Cross, W.  W.........  @  9(4
W ater  W hite lld lt__   @  9
Fam ily  H e a d lig h t.... 
@ 8
N a p h th a ........................  @  8(4
Stove G asoline............. 
©   9(4

F rom   T ank  W agon.

P a la c in e ........................  @10
I  Red Cross W.  W .........  @  63*
I  G aso lin e........................  @ 7(4

2!
No. 0  per gro ss.....................  
0
No.  1  p e rg ro ss..................... 
50
No. 2  per gross...................... 
No. 3  per gross...................... 
80
M am m oth per d o z............... 
75
JELI.Y  TUM BLERS  Tin  Top. 
(3  Pints,  6 doz  in  box,  per
box  (box  0 0 )  ....................   1  70
*4  Pints. 20 doz  in  bbl,  per
doz  (bbl  35)........................ 
23
*4 .P ints,  6  doz  in  box. per
box  (box  ()0)....................   1  90
!  *4  P ints.  18 doz  in bbl,  per 
doz  (bbl  35).
i 

2 2

A  SAD  INSTANCE—WHAT  IT  TEACHES.
W ritten fo r th e  T r a d e sm a n .

installment 

About  thirty-five  years  ago  a  child 
was  born 
into  the  world  in  the  city  of 
Toronto  that,  in  due  time,  was  chris­
tened  Joseph  Aultman.  The  event  was 
quite  within  the  ordinary,  not  being  of 
sufficient  importance  to  find  its way into 
the  free  notice  column  of  any  of  the 
city  dailies,  the  father  being  a  mere 
house  decorator  by  trade,  and  of  quite 
limited,  but  easy,  means  of 
livelihood.
At  a  tender  age  Joseph  was  placed  in 
a  prominent  city  dry  goods  house,  un­
indenture, 
der  a  seven-year  articled 
which  provided  for  his 
in 
the  family  of  the  senior  partner  as  a 
member  thereof,  for clothing,  for  three 
months’  schooling  during  each  year  of 
the  seven  and  for  paltry  sums  of  spend­
ing  monev,from  a  mere  pittance at first, 
up  to  the  munificent  sum  of  fifteen dol- 
las  for  the  last  year!  If  Young  America 
reads  this  story,  he  will  wonder  at  this 
point  how  long  this  young  lad  wore  the 
galling  yoke  of  servitude;  and,  when  I 
tell  him  that  Joseph  served  his  masters 
faithfully  to  the  very  last  day  of  his  ap­
prenticeship,  he  will,  wonder  further, 
how 
is  possible  for  a  young  fellow 
with  any  snap  about  him  to  tamely  sub­
mit  to  such  a  humiliating  bondage. 
Young  America,  from  his  first  genera­
tion  to the  present,  has  had  no  use  for 
such  a  course  of  discipline  to  qualify 
him  for  getting  on 
in  the  world,  and 
he  has  always  looked  upon  long-term, 
old-country  apprenticeships as  a species 
of  slavery,  little  dreaming  that  the  time 
would  come  when  such  a thorough train­
ing  would  be  required  in  “ the  land  of 
the  free.”

it 

in 

life,  even 

But  I  am  moralizing.  Although  the 
subject  of  my  sketch  received  the  rudi­
mentary  training  without  which,  to-day, 
success 
in  America,  is 
hardly  possible,  he  has  been  driven  out 
of  his  course  by  the buffetings  of  com­
mercial  depression  and,  with  thousands 
of  others,  is  to-day  floundering 
in  the 
slough  of  adversity. 
After  he  had 
served  two  years  of  his  time  it  became 
clear to  the  senior  partner  that  Joseph 
would  never  make  an  expert  salesman. 
He  spent  too  much  time 
in  arranging 
stock  and  studying  effect.  He  would 
spend  hours 
in  the  windows,  dusting, 
grouping,  comparing  and  ¡harmonizing, 
and  during  the  time  thus  occupied,  he 
would  be  mentally  absorbed  and  uncon­
scious  of  the  fact  that  customers  were 
oftentimes  waiting  to  be  served. 
The 
reprimands  of  his  employers  and  the 
flings  of  his  fellow  clerks  failed  to  keep 
him  in  the  groove  designed  for him  and 
so,after  attaining  his  sixteenth  year and 
the beginning  of  his  fifth  year  of  servi­
tude, he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of 
window  dresser.  The  firm  had  never 
employed  a  professional  window  dresser 
and  stock  arranger and  the  apprentice 
had, therefore,  enjoyed  ample  opportu­
nity  for developing  his  talent.

The 

firm’s 

The  senior  partner,  who  was  the  real 
head  of  the  firm,  was  a  shrewd  business 
man. 
patronage  came 
largely  from  the  refined  and  cultured 
classes  and  he  had  carefully  noted  the 
effects  of  the  young  artist’s  experiments 
and  measured  their  value  in  cold  dol­
lars  and  cents.  The 
lad  who  as  a  fa il­
ure as  a  salesman  proved  a  marked  suc­
in  another  channel 
cess  when  placed 
of  usefulness,  although 
this  case  a 
higher one.  The  “ greatest  utility”   test 
in  assigning  ’to  every  indi­
should  be 
vidual  the  part  for  which  he 
is  best 
fitted.  Place  an  ^individual  where  he 
will  be  of  the  greatest  possible  use  to 
society  and  he  will  be  prosperous  and

in 

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happy—prosperous by  reason  of • adapt­
ability  and  happy  because  the  natural 
inclination  harmonizes  with  the  work  in 
hand.

in  his  nature. 

When  Joseph  entered  his  new  field  of 
usefulness  there  was  not  a  discordant 
element 
It  was  the 
innate  powers—a 
natural  outlet  for  his 
condition  of  natural 
fitness,  where  all 
the energies  of  mind  and  body  quick­
ened  spontaneously  and  acted  harmoni­
ously.  His  models  and  designs  were 
dear  to  him.  They  were  his  creations 
and  in  their  development  he  found  his 
pleasantest  recreation  and,  at  the  same 
time,  the means  of  gaining a  livelihood.
Before  Joseph’s  term  of  apprentice­
ship  expired,  be  had  gained  a  reputa­
tion  for  himself.  A  rival  firm  had  no­
ticed  his  artistic  and  catchy  window 
designs  and  resolved  to  secure  his  serv­
ices.  They  offered  him  $12  per  week 
and  Joseph,  never  dreaming  that  his old 
employers  might  wish  to  retain his serv­
ices  at  such  a  princely  salary,  accepted 
the  offer.  One  year  was  the  stipulated 
time,  at  the  end  of  which  he  turned  to 
the  old  house  at  $15  per  week.  For  the 
next  five years  he  had  charge  of  his  old 
windows  but,  longing  for a  change,  re­
signed  his  position,  then  worth  §20  per 
week,  and  accepted  a  similar  one  in 
Montreal.  One  year  elapsed,  when  he 
returned  to  Toronto,  where  he  secured 
a  position.  Shortly  after  he  married. 
At  the  end  of  four  years,  he accepted  an 
offer  from  a  well-known  jobbing and  re­
tail  house  at  a  slight  advance  in  salary. 
This  was  an  unfortunate move,as proved 
by  subsequent  events.  Two  years  then 
pass  away  and  New  Year’s  Day, 1894, 
finds his  employers  bankrupt  and  him­
self  “ out  of  a  job.”

How  many  thousands  of  worthy  fel­
lows  found  themselves 
in  a  like  pre­
dicament  on  that  New  Year’s  Day! 
How  and  where  have  they  gained  a 
livelihood, si nee that time,for themselves 
and  the  helpless  ones  depending  upon 
them ;  and  where are  they  now, and  what 
are  they  doing  at  the  beginning  of  this 
New  Year?

I can  answer these queries  as  to  one  of 
them. 
Joseph  was  unable  to  find  a  new 
place  in  the  city.  A  general  depression 
had  prostrated  business,  and  employers 
were  driven  within  their  fortifications, 
where  they  were  put  to  their  wits’  end 
in  devising  ways  and  means  to  “ hold 
the  fo rt."  They  were “ lying low 
and 
they  are  yet  lying  low,  waiting  for  the 
gloomy  clouds  to  lift.  Expenses  were 
reduced  to  the  minimum  and  every­
in  the  nature  of  the  superfluous 
thing 
was  cut  off  entirely. 
Joseph  had  a  wife 
—she  was  economical—-and  three  hearty 
children  to  provide  for.  He  had  $300 
in  the  bank  when  he  found  himself  en­
rolled  among  the  great  army  of  the  un­
employed.  The  first  three  months  were 
spent 
in  going  from  city  to  town  and 
from  town  to  city  in  search  of  an oppor­
tunity  to  earn  his bread  by  doing  that 
for  which  Nature  and  thorough  training 
had  qualified  him.  Then  a  feeling  of 
despondency began  to  take  possession 
of him. 
If  he  could  not  find  work  that 
he  could  do,  he  must  find  work  that  he 
could  not  do,  or  at  least  that  he  was  not 
used  to,  not  qualified  for,  and  to  which 
he  never  could  become 
reconciled. 
Add  to  this  the  prospect  of  being  un­
able  to  support  his  family  in  a  “ catch- 
as-catch-can”   contest  of  this  kind,  and 
the  effect  produced  on  his  sensitive  or­
ganization  may  be  imagined.  A  few 
small  jobs  given  him  by  his  old  em­
ployers 
in  “ setting  things  in  order,”  
some  collection  jobs  and  an  attempt  to 
solicit  orders  for  a  tea  house  were  all 
that  the  first  year brought  him.

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prefer to deal dire ct w ith  th e  buyer,  th u s 
saving  the profits of  th e  m iddlem an.  A l­
legan, Barry,  K alam azoo  an d   V an  B uren 
counties are noted  fo r  th e  superiority  of 
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In   w riting’ for  quota­
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Wholesale Clothing Hanufacturers,

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

W illiam   C onnor  w ill  be  at  Sw eet’s  Hotel, 
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28

New  Year’s  Day,  1895»  found  him  in 
destitute  circumstances.  He  was  proud 
spirited  and  closemouthed,  but  kind 
friends  had  divined  the  true  condition 
of  things  and  offered  him  all  the  aid  in 
their  power;  but  these  offers,  although 
prompted  by  the  kindliest  feelings  and 
best  intentions,  were  promptly,  but  re­
spectfully,  rejected.  He  could  suffer 
the  pangs  of  poverty  but  could  not  sac­
rifice  his  manhood.  During  the winter, 
the  little  home  nest  was  broken  up,  the 
wife  taking  the  babies  and  going  to  her 
father’s  home  in  the  country,and Joseph 
accepting  the  offer  of  an  uncle  in  an­
other  section  of  the  country  to  do chores 
for  his  board  during  the  balance  of  the 
winter.  In  the  early  spring  he  borrowed 
some  money  of  his  uncle  and,  with  a 
pocketful  of  good  recommendations, 
visited  Chicago,  Detroit,  Toledo,Cleve­
land  and  Buffalo,  in  search  of  the  work 
nearest  his  heart.  He  came  back  with­
out  finding  it,  but  he  did  find  that  he 
was  not  the  only  ambitious,  worthy  fel­
low  who  was  vainly  searching  for  work.
What  should  he  do  now?  There  was 
an  old  dilapidated  picayune  farm  in the 
let  on  the 
neighborhood  that  was  to 
share  system, 
the  owner 
furnishing 
everything  and  the  “ taker”   perform­
ing  all  the 
labor  and  receiving  one- 
third  the  proceeds.  The  uncle  advised 
him  to  take  this  farm.  The  very  sug­
gestion 
and  disgusted 
him ;  but  he  must  do  something,  and 
as  here  was  a  chance  to  get  his  little 
family  together  again,  he  reluctantly 
accepted  the  proposition.

disheartened 

any 

On  this 

less  than 

last  New  dear’s  Day,  the 
writer  took  dinner  with  Joseph  Aultman 
and  his 
little  family.  His  wife,  who 
spent  her  girlhood  days  wholly  on  a 
farm,  appeared  in  good  spirits,  but  her 
husband  was  morose  and  despondent. 
His  farm  experience  has  been  one  con­
tinuous  nightmare.  Unused  to  heavy 
manual  labor,  and  unskilled  in  the  way 
of  performing  the  laborious  and  never- 
ending  tasks 
in  the  shortest  possible 
time  consistent  with  physical  endur­
ance,  he  has  worked  harder  and  ac­
complished 
ignorant, 
senseless  lout  of  a  boy  in  the  adjoining 
fields.  His  wife  says  that  in  one  short 
summer  he  has  aged  ten  years;  that  he 
has  lost  his  elasticity  of  step  and  buoy­
ancy  of  spirit. 
“  I  do  not  care  for  my­
self,”   he  said  bitterly,  “ but  for  those 
dependent  on me.  After  working like a 
galley  slave all  summer,here  I  am  with­
out  a  dollar  to  show  for  my  drudgery. 
Worse  than  that,  I  have  been  drifting 
away  from  my  proper  plane  of  useful­
ness;  and  each  succeeding day but  adds 
its  corroding  influences  and  makes  me 
less  hopeful  for  the  future.  To  reduce 
. my  family  to  the  low,  groveling,  vulgar 
level  of  a  farm  tenant’s  life  would  kill 
me,  and  I  cannot  support  them  on  a 
farm  without  accepting  such  a  condi­
tion.  What the  future  has  in  store  for 
us  God  only  knows!”

left  on 

Thus  we 

leave  Joseph  Aultman  to 
grapple  with  his  own  destiny.  But  what 
are  the  thoughts 
the  mind? 
These:  Every  young  man  possessing 
a  special  talent  for  usefulness  in  any 
of  the  higher  walks  of  life  should  cul­
tivate  it  and  fit  himself  for  such  useful­
ness.  There  will  always  be  more  than 
enough 
fill  the  lower  places. 
Skilled 
labor  can 
never  successfully  compete  with  each 
other,  for  the  simple  reason  that neither 
can  satisfactorily  fill  the  place  of  the 
other.  All 
is  subject  to  the  law 
of  supply  and  demand ;  but,  when  the 
supply  exceeds  the  demand,  intelligent 
labor  suffers  the  more,  because 
it  is

left  to 
labor  and  common 

labor 

it  will  relinquish 

trained  to  special  lines  of work  and can­
not  adjust  itself  to  other  means  of  gain­
ing  a  livelihood  when  thrown  out  of 
its 
proper  sphere.  Being  intelligent,  it 
is 
more  sensitive,  and  will  suffer  and  die 
its  manhood 
before 
and  accept  alms  on  a  pauper 
level. 
When  the  supply  exceeds  the  demand, 
a  portion  must  lapse  into idleness.  Yet 
that  portion  must  continue  to  eat  bread, 
and  little  children  must  wear  shoes  and 
tockings  in  the winter time.  The causes 
that  bring  about  a  condition  of  this 
kind  are  wholly  beyond  the  control  of 
labor.  Labor,  therefore,  is  not at  fault. 
Society  claims  the  fullest  use  of  the 
highest  capabilities  of every  individual, 
not  spasmodically,  but 
continuously; 
and  every 
individual  who  responds  to 
this  claim  has  a  counterclaim  on society 
—not  for  a 
living,  but  for  the  justly 
earned  means  of  providing  for  his  own 
living.  This  implied  contract  is  bind­
ing  upon  both  parties.  The  individual 
who  fails  to  perform  his  part 
loses  his 
claim  upon  society  and,  when  commer­
cial  depression  smothers  labor  demand 
with  an  overabundant  supply,  must  be 
content  (and  such  are  content)  to  eat 
out  of  the  soup-trough  of  organized 
charity.  On  the  other hand,  those  who 
have  faithfully  performed  their  obliga­
tions  to  society  are  no  objects  of  char­
ity.  They  have  been  wronged  by  so­
ciety;  and 
is  the  solemn  obligated 
duty  of  society  to  mitigate  the  cruel 
effects  of  this  wrong  as  much  as  is  pos­
sible.  How  can  this  be  done?  By  or­
ganizing  a national philanthropic bureau 
intelligence,  with  branch 
of 
bureas  in  every  city  and  large  town 
in 
the  union,  with  the  sole  object  of  regis­
tering  the  names  of  all  worthy  appli­
in 
cants  for  employment 
intelligent, 
skilled  or  professional 
fields  of  labor, 
together  with  their  references,  and  of 
finding work suitable for each.  The com 
monwealth  cannot  afford  an  increase  of 
pauperism  at  the  expense  of  citizen­
ship.

labor 

it 

E.  A.  O w e n .

Government flanagement  Not  Satis­

factory.

from  the 

The  government  control  of  railways 
does  not  seem  to  be  entirely satisfactory 
in  Australia.  The  recent  report  of  a 
commission  which  has  been 
investigat­
ing  the  matter 
indicates  gross  ineffi­
ciency  and  mismanagement.  Wages 
paid  were  not  at  all  in  accordance  with 
those  paid  in  other  industries,  political 
favoritism  having  advanced  the  wage 
scale  unreasonably,  and  staff  discipline 
was  greatly  relaxed 
same 
cause.  The  commission  would  have  re­
ported  in  favor of  leasing  the  lines  had 
it  not been  unpracticable  on  account  of 
the  temper  of  the  people. 
It  states  that 
the  government  management  is  “ weak, 
inert  and  vacillating  when  compared 
with  private  management.”   The  com­
mission  has  reported  as  the  next  best  to 
private  enterprise  the  vesting  of  the 
management in a small  board of trustees, 
and  a  bill 
is  pending  in  the  colonial 
Parliament  to  secure  that  end,  though 
without  much  prospect of  success,on  ac­
count  of  political  obstacles.

Appropriate  Displays.

In  one  of  the  Western  cities  a 

large 
old-fashioned  clock 
is  displayed  in  a 
store  window  well  filled  with  shoes,  and 
a  card  underneath  reads: 
“ Now  is  the 
time  to buy  shoes.”
A  Pittsburg  merchant  recently  an­
nounced  that  on  a  certain 
day  he 
would  give  every  visitor  to  his  store 
enough  valuable  pointers  to  last  more 
than  a  year.  The  pointers  consisted  of 
a  large  case  of  needles.

Keeps axles  bright and  cool.  Never  Gums.

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1  lb.  1 
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25 lb.  W ooden  Pails. 
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reasonable;  location,  one  of  th e  finest  in  the 
city fo r  w holesale  or  m anufacturing  business, 
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94<7

937

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933

931

930

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X   eery stock, invoicing about $1,400, located in 
live S outhern M ichigan tow n of 1,200 inhabitants; 
good trade, nearly all cash.  Reasons forselling, 
o th e r business.  A ddress No. 907, care  M ichigan 
T radesm an.______________________________ 907

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I   to No  884, care M ichigan  T radesm an.  884 

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1  » ¿ U U   stock o f bazaar an d   holiday  goods 
in   a  tow n  of  1,800  population.  Good  farm ing 
trad e;  location on th e m ain  corner  of tow n;  all 
goods new ,  ju s t opened  Nov.  9,  1895.  R ent,  $8 
per  m onth;  size  of  store,  24x>5.  Poor  health 
reason forselling.  A ddress, J . C lark, care Mich- 
igan T radesm an.__________________________888

I NOR  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  HARDVVAKE 

and im plem ent  business in  thriving  village 

in good farm ing com m unity.  A ddress Brown & 

Sehler, G rand  Rapids.  Mich.______________ 881

MISCELLANEOUS.

■OUNG  MARRIED  MAN  WISHES  CLERK- 

sh ip  in grocery o r g eneral sto re;  five  years’ 
experience.  A ddre-s Box  265,  H arbor  Springs,
Mich . 
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A ddress No. 940, care  M ichigan T radesm an. 910

W A N T ED ~41F m ERCHANTS AND OTHERS 

to send me an  o rd er  for  R ubber  Stam ps. 

W ill J .  W eller.  M uskegon.  M ich. 

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all d etails of retail  d r jg   business.  W ill  accept 
any  kind  of  position.  A deress  No.  913,  care
M ichigan Tradesm an._________________ 

A NTED—SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  OEN- 
tra l  m ileage  books 
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price, V index, care M ichigan T radesm an.  869

tatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc.  Cor­
respondence  solicited.  W atkins  &  A xe,  84-86 
South  D ivision street. G rand  Rapids.______ 673

W A NTED—BUTTER, EGGS,  POULTRY, Po­
W A NTED—EVERY  DRUGGIST  JU ST  COM- 

m encing business,  and  every  o re   already 
started, to use o u r system  of poison labels.  W hat 
has cost you $15 you can now   get  fo r  $4.  F our­
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pany. G rand  Ranids.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index 

of  the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

the 

New  York,  Jan.  25—Good  trade  still 
lingers  in  the  lap  of  bad  trade  and,  al­
though  matters  have  been  a  good  deal 
worse,  there  is  yet  room  for 
improve­
ment  in 
the  grocery  jobbing  circles  of 
New  York.  Undoubtedly  some  houses 
have  about  all  the  business  they  can 
take  care  of,  and  this  seems  to  be  the 
case  with  four  or  five  of  the biggest con­
cerns  in  town,  if  one  may  judge  from 
appearances.  The  crowded  condition 
of  the  floors  of  such  concerns  as  the 
American  Grocery  Company,  Austin, 
Nichols  &  Co.  and  F.  H.  Leggett &  Co. 
is  certainly  evidence  of  good  trade. 
show 
great 
staples 
Prices  on 
sugar 
some 
* granulated 
Sugar 
now  being  quotable  at  5c. 
is 
firm  position. 
News  from  Europe  and  Cuba  all  tends 
to  show  that  prices  during  the  next 
twelve  months  will  almost  inevitably  be 
firmly  maintained  and,  with  or  without 
the  Trust,  it  is  very  likely  that  we  shall 
not  frequently  see  granulated 
sugar 
much  below  5c  this  year.

variation, 

certainly 

Coffee  shows  a  fractional  advance  and 
Rio  No.  7  is  held  at  14c.  The  amount 
ifloat  is  550,499  bags.  Last  year at  the 
same time, the amount was  428,422 bags. 
in  town 
There  are  not  many  buyers 
and  trade  is  of  the  usual  character. 
It 
seems  hard  to  convince  buyers  that 
there  is  any  need  of  purchasing  ahead 
of  wants  and  they  are  indifferent  as  to 
whether  the  market  is  up  or  down.

in 

a 

The  friends  and  foes  of  the  proposed 
duty  on  tea  are  having  a  hot and  heavy 
war  of  words. 
It  has  now  settled  into 
a  discussion  of  the  respective  merits  or 
demerits  of  India  and Ceylon  teas.  The 
enemies  thereof  are  making  a  bitter  at­
tack  and  the defenders are coming to  the 
front with  arguments  which  are  impreg­
nable.  They  make  it  clear  that  the teas 
are  by  far  the better  flavor,  the  cleaner, 
and  the  better  to  keep  for  any  length  of 
time.  Trade 
is  dull,  meantime,  and 
the  market  shows  very  little  encourage­
ment  for sellers.
The  rice  market  is  steady.  Business 
is  of  fair  volume  and  prices  remain 
well  held.  Southern  markets show  firm­
ness  and  the  outlook 
is  favorable  for 
good  prices  right  along.  Foreign  is  in 
fair  request  and  stocks  are  sufficient  to 
meet  requirements.

Spices  are  quiet  and  very  few  trans­
actions  have  taken  place.  Prices  re­
main  without  change.

Best  grades  of  molasses  are  firmly 
held.  Outside  rates  must  be  paid  to se­
cure  really  fine  stock,  the  supplies  of 
which  are  not  at  all  excessive.

Syrups  are,  also,  well  under  control 
and  sellers  have  their own  way.  While 
there  seem  to  be  few  buyers,  they  do 
not  haggle  over  prices,  but  walk  right 
up  to  the  captain’s  office  and  pay 
promptly.
Dried 

fruits  seem  to  be  dull  beyond 
expression.  Considerable  talk  is  heard 
in  trade  circles  regarding  the  manner in 
which  growers  of  California 
consign 
their  fruit. 
It  is  claimed  that  the  State 
is  losing  over  a  million  dollars  a  year 
by  the  loose  methods  prevailing.  What 
business  is  being  done  is  nearly  all  of 
a  jobbing  nature,  and,  as  rates  show  no 
signs  of  hardening,  but  on  the  contrary 
tend  still  further  downward,  buyers  are 
not at  all  anxious  to  fill  up.

Lemons  and  oranges  are  selling  in  an 
latter  are  in 
everyday  manner. 
ample  supply  and  prices  are  very 
low. 
Bananas  are  dull.  Pineapples  are mov­
ing  slowly.  News  comes  this  morning 
of  the  death  of  J.  S.  Johnson,  one  of  the 
best  known  packers  of  pineapples  at 
Nassau, in  the  Bahama  Islands.

The  market 

for  canned  goods 

is 
smashed.  Think  of  excellent  New  York 
corn  being 
jobbed  at  6o@65c  a  dozen 
and  tell  where  the  profit comes in.  Good 
tomatoes  are  selling  at  6j% c  which 
actually  cost  65c,  to  say  nothing  of  all 
the  incidental  expenses  of  storage,  etc. 
It 
is  hoped  that  we  shall  see  a  better 
condition  of  things  before  another  sea­
son,  but  the  number of  factories  being 
planned  in  all  parts  of  the  country  fore­
bode  no good  to  the  regular  trade.

The 

is 

Butter 

lower  and  supplies  are 
larger.  Demand  is  moderate  and  trad­
ing  of  only  of  average  character.

Eggs—Are  arriving  in 

large  quanti­
a 

ties  and  the  warm  weather  has 
tendency  to  send  prices  down.

Cheese  is  in  an  unchanged  condition. 
Export  trade  is  light  and  the  inquiries 
for  home  use  are  of  an  average  charac­
ter.

Though  women  are  numerous  in  the 
down  town  offices  and  behind  the  coun­
ters  and  cash  desks  in  the  shops  and 
restaurants,  there  are  still  some  great 
businesses  which  have  not been  opened 
to  them.  Strangely  enough,  the  largest 
wholesale  firms  which  trade  in  woman’s 
most  fam iliar  wares—dry  goods—are 
still  sticking  stubbornly  to  masculine 
salesmen  exclusively. 
In  several  of 
the  very  large  dry  goods  jobbing  houses 
there  is  but  one  woman  employe,  and 
is  nothing  new  or  progressive 
there 
about  her  presence 
in  these  establish­
ments, for  her  place  is  one  of  the  tryers- 
on  of  sacks  and  wraps,  usually 
in  the 
fur  department.

flanufacturlng  natters.

Athens—Fred  T.  Bisbee  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  Sayers  &  Son  in  the  manufacture 
of  headings.

St.  Louis—M.  J.  Claggett  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  Smith,  Claggett &  Co.  in  the  man­
ufacture  of  staves.

Bay  City—The  Hitchcock Lumber Co. 
succeeds  Hitchcock  &  Bialy  in the saw­
mill  and  lumber  business.

Ypsilanti—The  flouring  mill  at  Scio 
belonging  to  Dubel  Bros.,  also  millers 
at  this  place, was  recently  burned.

Detroit—W.  J.  Burton  &  Co.,  manu­
facturers  of  metallic  shingles,  have  dis­
solved.  W.  J.  Burton  will  continue  the 
business  alone.

South  Haven—The  Pierce-Williams 
Co.  succeeds  R.  T.  Pierce  &  Co.  in the 
planing  mill  business  and  in  the  manu­
facture  of  fruit  packages.

Bay  City—The  Lewis  Manufacturing 
Co.,  which  operates  a  planing  mill  at 
this  place,  has  merged  its  business  into 
a  corporation  under  the  same  style.

Bella ire—Ernest  G.  Downer  and  Or- 
lin  C.  Snyder,  under  the  style  of  Down­
er  &  Snyder,  have  embarked 
in  the 
sawmill  business  on  the  Jordan  River, 
near  this  place.

Marshall—Harry  Chapman,  manager, 
and  Alfred  Hill,  superintendent,  of  the 
Royal  Cycle  Works  at  this  place,  have 
retired  from  the  business  and  removed 
to  New  York.

Hudson—At  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  stockholders  of  the  Bean-Chamber­
lin  Co.,  the  annual  report  showed  net 
profits  of  15  per  cent,  and  a  cash  d ivi­
dend  of  7  per  cent,  was  declared.

Saranac—After  looking  over  the  mat­
ter  carefully,  the  stockholders  of  the 
canning  factory  project  have  abandoned 
the 
is  not  suffi­
ciently  promising  to  warrant  them  in 
engaging  in  so  precarious  a  business  at 
the  present  time.

idea,  as  the  outcome 

Detroit—The  Monroe  Rosenfield  Co. 
is  the  name  of  the  new  stock  company 
organized  by  Mr.  Rosenfield, 
formerly 
of  Rosenfield,  Kuttnauer  &  Co.,  for  the 
purpose  of  carrying  on  a  wholesale 
notions  and  fancy  goods  business.  The 
capital  stock  is $10,000,  fully  paid 
in, 
and  the  shares  are  held  as  follows 
Weingarten  Bros.,  New  York, 
200 
Eichhold  &  Miller,  New  York,  200 
Carl  Rosenberger,  New  York,  200 
Straus  Brothers  &  Co.,  New  York,  200 
Benjamin  Rosenfield,  Detroit,  20; same, 
as  trustee,  25 ;  Monroe  Rosenfield,  De­
troit,  5. 

______ 

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Rufus  St.  Onge  (H.  A.  St.  Onge  & 
C o.),  of  Cheboygan,  has  gone  to  Texas 
for  a  six  weeks’  respite  from  business 
cares.

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Our  Piu!ng  Squadron

* 

Visits many ports every  year,  not  on  a  warlike 
mission,  but  spreading  peace  and  contentment 
everywhere it goes.

The bombshells we  explode  are  filled with  low 
prices,  and  our  friends  enjoy  being  hit by  them; 
sometimes  we  hit  one  of  our  competitors  in  the 
neck, and he doesn’t enjoy it half so much as we do.
We claim to be  the  best  house  in  Michigan,  in 
Teas,  Coffees  and  Spices; 
if  you  are  doubtful 
of our ability to  uphold  this  statement, just  tackle 
us and see.

We offer this week,

Best  Michigan  Full  Cream  Cheese  at 
Finest  Brick  Cheese  at  9c.

10  1-2C. 

We  have  an  elegant  line  of  Dried  Peaches  in  boxes  and 

sacks  from  4 l-2c  up  to  8c  for  strictly  fancy.

A  nice  drive  in  Apricots  in  sacks  at  8c.
The  best  Standard  Flour  in  the market  at  $3.10  per  bbl.

O ur  term s:  Cash w ith order.

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