Volume  XIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  22,  1896.

Number 657

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D E P A R TM E N T  OF  C O M M E R C E .
Ever  since  the  agricultural 

interests 
of  the  United  States  have  been  repre­
sented  in  the  Government  by  a  Cabinet 
minister  and  a  department,  the 
impor­
tance  of  having  similar  representation 
for  the  great  interests  of  manufacturing 
and  commerce  has  been  urged,  and 
there  is  now  before  Congress  a  proposi­
tion  to  establish  at  Washington  a  de­
partment,  presided  over  by  a  member 
of  the  President’s  Cabinet,  and  known 
as  the  Department  of  Commerce and 
Manufactures.  This  bill  provides  that 
the  Department  of  Commerce  and  Man­
ufacturers  shall  have  general 
jurisdic­
tion  over  the  foreign  and  internal  com­
merce  of  the  United  States,  except 
in 
so  far  as  relates  to  the  collection  of  rev­
enue  and  the  administration  of  customs 
and  internal  revenue  laws.  It  shall  also 
have  jurisdiction  over  all  matters  relat­
ing  to  manufacturing 
interests  of  the 
United  States,  the  extension  of  foreign 
markets,  the  increase  of  trade  and  trade 
facilities  with  foreign  countries,  and  to 
perform  all  the  functions  relating  to 
trade  and  commerce 
in  the  United 
States  that  are  now  performed  by  the 
Treasury  Department.

Provision 

It  further  provides  for  the  transfer 
from  the  Treasury  Department  to  the 
Department  of  Commerce  and  Manu­
factures  of  the  Life-Saving  Service, 
the  Lighthouse  Board,  the  Marine  Hos­
pital  Service,  the  Bureau  of  Steamboat 
Inspection,  the  Bureau  of  Navigation, 
the  United  States  Coast  and  Geodetic 
Survey  and  the  Bureau  of  Statistics. 
The  bureau  of  Statistics  of  the  Depart­
ment  of  State  is  also  transferred  to  the 
new  department  and  consolidated  with 
the  statistical  bureau  of  the  Treasury 
Department. 
is  made  for 
the  appointment  by  the  President  of  a 
chief  of  the  bureau  of  Statistics  of 
Commerce  and  Manufactures,  who  will 
perform  all  the  duties  now  imposed  up­
on the chiefs of the two separate bureaus.
It  also  provides  that  the  Consular  Bu­
reau  of  the  Department  of  State  and  the 
several  consular  officers  of  the  Federal 
Government  and  all  other  officers  of  the 
Government  who  are  resident  in foreign 
countries  and  are  charged  with  the  duty 
of  facilitating  and  promoting  the  com­
merce  of  the  United  States  shall  be 
transferred  from  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Department  of  State  to  the  Department 
of  Commerce  and  Manufactures.  When­
ever  consular  officers  shall  be  required 
to  act 
in.  purely  diplomatic  capacity, 
they  will  continue  to  report  to  the  De­
partment  of  State,  as  at  present.

The  great 

interest  concerned  in  the 
commerce  and  industries  of  the  country 
would  well  warrant  the  erection  of a  de­
partment  of  the  Government  to  care  for 
them.  The  agriculturists,  who  are solely 
engaged 
in  producing  raw  products, 
were  for a  long  time  the  most important 
class,  so  far  as  a  productive  interest 
was  concerned ;  but  the  growth  of  trade 
and  manufacturing  has  been  so  rapid 
that  they  have  come  into  great  promi­
nence,  and,  as  the  population  of  the 
country  increases,  they  will  develop  all 
the  more  rapidly.

The  figures  of  the  census  show  that 
half  a  century  ago^the  aggregate  value

of  all  the  products  of  manufacturing  in­
dustries  in  the  United  States  was  only 
five-eighths  of  the  value  of  the  ["agricul­
tural  products.  The  growth  of  industry 
has  been  so  rapid,  however,  that  manu­
facturing  outstripped 
thirty 
years  ago,  and  the  Mast  census  showed 
that  the  value  of  manufactured  articles 
was  more  than  three  times  the  value  of 
all  that  agriculture  yielded.

farming 

Another 

important  feature  of  manu­
facturing  is  the  vast  increase  of  value 
made  by  manufacturers.  The  crude 
products  are  commonly worth only  a  few 
cents  a  pound.  When  made 
into  the 
various  manufactures,  they are enhanced 
in  value  from  ten  to  one-hundred  fold. 
It 
is  the  wisest  statesmanship  to  look 
after  the  great  productive  interests  of 
the  country.  The  Treasury  Department, 
to  which  all  matters  pertaining  to  com­
merce  are 
intrusted,  is  already  over­
crowded  with  business,  and some change 
seems  necessary 
interests  of 
trade.

the 

in 

In  view  of  the  indifferent  manner 

in 
which  the  Spanish  commander  of  the 
forces  operating  against 
the  Cubans 
continues  to  carry  out  the  bloody  pro­
gram  indicated  by  his proclamations  is­
sued  soon  after  his  arrival,  the  question 
seems  likely  to  become  pertinent  as  to 
what  good  is  likely  to  ensue  from  the 
act  of  recognition  by  Congress.  The 
ostensible  reason  for  urging  the  action 
was  that  this  savage  monster  should  be 
stayed  in  his  cruel  work. 
If  the  recog­
nition  of  belligerency  has  a  meaning,  it 
would  seem  that  steps  to  make  it  man­
ifest  should  be  taken  in  season  to  save 
as  many  from  his  cruel  clutches  as  pos­
sible.  The  action  of  the  President,  in 
taking  advantage  of  the  part  of  the  act 
of  recognition  which  suggested  the good 
offices  of  the  United  States  in  securing 
terms  of  settlement,  by  starting  a  pro­
crastinating  correspondence  for the  pur­
pose  of  trying  to  secure  autonomy  for 
Cuba—a  manifestly 
impossible  under­
taking—and  ignoring  the  other  features 
of  the  act,  is  an  effort  to  nullify  the ac­
tion  which  seems  probable  of  success.

People  are  always  complaining  of  the 
trouble  they  have  with  agents.  They 
overlook  the  fact  that  agents  have  sor­
rows  of  their  cwn  and  that  it  is  not  a 
picnic  to  sell  unabridged  dictionaries 
and  get  people  to  insure  their  lives 
in 
the  greatest  company  on  earth.  Fre­
quently  the  agent 
is  not  cordially  re­
ceived  and 
is  told  to  wait  for  a  man 
who  has  gone  out  for  the  whole  day. 
Down  in  Ohio  there  is  a  merchant  who 
has  a  particular  prejudice  against 
life 
insurance  agents.  He  has  tried  every 
way  to  avoid  them,  without  success, 
until  he  hit  on  the  happy  idea  of  shut­
ting  himsell  up  in  his  safe.  There  he 
felt  he  would  be  secure.  A few days  ago 
he  heard  a  life  insurance  agent’s  foot­
step  on  the  stair.  He  shut  himself  up 
in  the  safe,  as  he  had  planned. 
It 
wasn’t  a  busy  day  with  the  agent,  and 
he  sat  down  and  waited  an  hour  for  the 
man.  When  he  finally  departed  and 
the  safe  was  opened,  it  was  found  that 
the  merchant  inside  was  unconscious, 
and  he  is  likely  to  die.

ENGLAND  AND  AFRICA.

in 

The  events  following  the unauthorized 
and  abortive  raid  of  Dr.  Jamison  in  the 
Transvaal,  South  Africa,  have  been of a 
character  to  promise  important  results 
for  British  rule 
that  region.  The 
uprising  of  the  Matabeles  has  made 
military  demonstration  necessary,  with 
its  usual  consequence  of  an  extension  of 
British  authority.  The  republic  of  the 
Transvaal  is  surrounded by the  English, 
and,  when  it  is  remembered  that in  that 
country the Uitlanders,  principally  Eng­
lish, 
far  outnumber  the  Boers,  who 
alone  have  a  voice  in  the  government, 
it  will  be  seen  that  there  is a  condition 
of  things  not 
likely  to  be  permanent. 
The fact  is  impressed  upon  the  observer 
of  events  in  that  region  that  there  can 
hardly  fail  to  be  established  a  vast  col­
ony  subject  to  English  rule.

It 

is  a  coincidence  that  at  the  same 
in  Egypt  and  the 
time  the  situation 
Soudan 
less  promising  for 
is  scarcely 
the  extension  of  the  same  authority. 
English  rule  in  Egypt  has  done so much 
for  the  prosperity  of  that  country  that 
there  is  little  danger  of  its  ever  being 
called  to  account  or  its  authority  taken 
away.  Just as its rule  is thus firmly estab­
lished,  theMahdists  of  the  Soudan  give 
the opportunity for  the  advance  of  Brit­
ish arms  to  the  South.  While  the  chal­
lenge offered  by  the  fatalists of the False 
Prophet  is  vastly  more  formidable  than 
that  of  the  Matabeles  in  the  South,  it  is 
not  one  that  cannot  be  successfully  met 
by  the  English,  and  the  consequence  of 
success  cannot  fail  to  be  a  great  acces­
sion  of  English  colonial  territory.  Be­
tween  the  two  movements 
it  looks  as 
though  that  country  would  soon  be  the 
dominant  power  of  the  Dark  Continent.

TH E   G ERM S  M U S T  GO.

for  the  Roentgen  ray. 

There  is  no  telling  what  will  be  next 
claimed 
It  is 
believed  that  hereafter  all  that  will  be 
necessary  will  be  to  flash  your  little  X 
ray  on  a  sick  person  and  the  ray  will 
do  the  rest. 
It  will  ascertain  what  is 
the  matter  and  cure 
it.  Profs.  Pratt 
and  Wightman,  of  Chicago,  two  learned 
electro-therapeutists  and bacteriologists, 
claim  to  have  practically  knocked  the 
spots  out  of  scarlet fever  epidemics  by 
their  discoveries  during  the  past month. 
They  claim  that  Asiatic  cholera  will 
also  be  as  harmless  as  the  earache  and 
that  diphtheria  will  be  no  more dreaded 
than  the  toothache. 
Various  germs 
were  grown  in  tubes  in  proper  media. 
Magnetic  lines  of force from the Crookes 
tubes  were  then  turned  on  them.  The 
cholera  ^germs  appear  to  have  been 
wiped  out  entirely,  while  diphtheria 
germs  were  completely 
annihilated. 
There  has  been  no  growth  in  any  other 
germs  and  the  professors  are  ready  to 
announce  that,  with  certain  modifica­
tions,  the  ray,  properly  applied,  will 
destroy  any 
The 
idea  is  that,  when  a  germ  sees  its  own 
picture,  and  discovers  what  an  ugly, 
measly-looking 
little  thing  it  is,  it  will 
curl  up  and  die.  The  Roentgen  ray  has 
a  kind  of  Medusa  look  that  gives  it  the 
marble  heart.

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T H E   W OM AN  BUYER.

The  Lines  in  Which  She  Is  Most  Con­

spicuous.

From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

is  an 

Ever  since  women  were  employed 
as  clerks  in  dry  goods  stores,  some  of 
them  have  been  advanced  to  the  posi­
tions  of  buyers.  It  is  the  minute  knowl­
edge  of  the  wants  of  her  customers  and 
the  instinctive  feminine  good  taste 
in 
matters  of  dress  that  have  qualified  the 
woman  to  act  as  a  buyer,  and  with  such 
in  most  cases 
success  as  she  has 
achieved.  Women  are  crowding 
into 
every  department  of  work,  and  in  no 
business  more  than  the  dry  goods,  bo 
long  as  women  fill  the  positions  of 
clerks  behind  the  counters  they  will  be 
found  at  the  head  of  departments,  and 
advising  with  the  proprietor  in  the buy­
ing  of  goods.  The  latter 
inevi­
table  result.
The  number  of  women  buyers  wno 
come  to  market  to  buy  is  a  very  small 
proportion  of  the  real  women  buyers.
It 
is  very  seldom  that  a  merchant  can 
send  all  his  department  managers  to 
market.  The  expense  would  be  too 
great.  Having  consulted  with  all  his 
head  clerks,  he  comes  himself  and  does 
the  buying  for  the  entire  store. 
If  he 
is  fortunate  enough  to  have  a  wife  who 
has  good  taste 
in  selecting  goods  he 
brings  her,  and  the  help  he  receives 
goes  far  to  show  the  need  merchants 
have  for  a  woman  s  assistance in buying 
stock  nowadays. 
Some  merchants  are 
bewildered  in  selecting  goods  in  many 
lines,  if  they  do  not  have  a  woman  to 
assist  them.
The  departments  where  women buyers 
are  most  conspicuous  are  those  of  mus 
lin  underwear,  hosiery,  ladies’  and  chil 
dren’s  wear,  etc. 
like 
these  the  woman  buyer  has  a  decided 
advantage  over  a  man,  because  she 
is 
in  a  position  to  know  the  desires  of  her 
customers.  Her 
long  apprenticeshi 
as  clerk  has  given  her  this  knowledgi 

In  departments 

There  can  be  no  doubt,  after  reading 
the following interviews,  that  the woman 
buyer  has  come  to stay.  The  statements 
of  some of  the  traveling  salesmen,  tha* 
from  one-half  to three-fourths  of  the  de 
partments  in  large  dry  goods  stores  are 
under  the  control  of  women,  go  to  show 
to  what  an  extent  women  are  entering 
the  retail  stores.  The  travelers  further 
say  that  in  nearly  all  cases  the  lady  de 
partment  managers  select  the  goods  and 
the  proprietor  passes  upon  them.  While 
the  women  cannot  be  called  the  buyers 
in  the  sense  that  they  place  the  orders 
yet 
is  upon  their  knowledge,  taste 
and  judgment  that  the  orders  are  made.
It  will  be  a  long  time,  perhaps,  before 
women  who manage departments  will  be 
independent  buyers,  but  they have  now, 
many  of  them,  reached  a  place  of  equal 
importance  with  the  proprietor  himself 
Among  general  salesmen  there  is  ■ 

it 

individu 

•diversity  of  opinion  as  to  the  value 
the  woman  buyer.  Some  have  decided 
grudges  against  her.  One 
remarked:  “ No,  sir,  I  have  no  women 
buyers  among  my  employes,  and 
thank  my  Maker  that  I  haven’t. 
Others  are  more  tolerant,  and  are  in 
dined  to  regard  her as  a  necessary  aux 
In  cer 
iliary  to  the  dry  goods  store. 
tain  lines  of  goods  the  woman  buyer 
i 
better  than  a  man,’ ’  said  one  salesman 
“ These  lines  are  those  pertaining  ex 
clusively  to  women’s  apparel.  A woman 
knows  what 
is  needed,  a  man  only 
guesses. ’ ’
Mr.  Sanford,  general  salesman  at  the 
J.  V.  Farwell  Company,  had  only  high 
compliments for the women buyers whom 
he  knew. 
‘ ‘ I  know  two  women  who  are 
exceptionally good  in  purchasing.  They 
are,  in  fact,  better  than  many  men.  One 
woman  manages  a  store  in  South  Da­
kota.  She  began  business  in  Chicago 
over  twenty  years  ago,  buying  out  a 
store  in  this  city  and  assuming  a  debt, 
which  was  soon  paid  off,  however,  due 
to  her  good  management  of  the  busi­
ness.  A 
few  years  ago  she  moved  to 
South  Dakota,  and  her  success there  has 
stamped  her  as  a  woman  of  exceptional 
managerial  ability.

“ There  are  other  instances  of  women 
merchants  who  manage  dry  goods  stores 
and  who  do  all  the  buying  for  their 
in
houses.  They  are  successful  both 

“ She  buys  with  keen 

in  disposing  of  what  they 

buying  and 
have bought. ”
Mr.  Lamberton,  general  salesman  at 
the  J  V.  Farwell  Company,  knew  of  a 
young  lady  who  did  all  the  buy ing  for 
a  certain  dry  goods  house  in  Wenona,
111 
judgment 
and  is  thoroughly  conversant  with goods 
and  prices.  Fully  three-fourths  of  the 
departments  of  large  dry goods  stores  in 
the  cities  throughout  this  State are man­
aged  by  ladies.  The  opinion  of  the 
women  is  always  consulted  by  the  pro­
prietors  of  thé  stores  when  they  make 
their  purchases  through  the  traveling 
man.  The  women  managers  know  more 
about  what  goods  will  sell  than  the  man 
himself.  However, 
the  women  do  not 
nake  the  final  decisions  and  do  not  ex­
ercise  the  fine  business  judgment  in  or­
dering  that  the  man  does.’ ’

‘ No,  sir, 

in  the  buying  of  goods. 

Another  general  salesman  said :  _  A 
umber  of  merchants  bring  their  wives 
vo  market  to  help  select  goods. 
In  se­
lecting  from  some  lines  of  merchandise 
the  man 
is  helpless  without  his better 
half.  A  merchant  was  here  the  other 
ay  buying  goods,  and when  asked  if  «c 
’anted  to  look  at  the  silks and embroid­
eries,  replied: 
I  won  t  go 
nto  those  departments  without my  wife,
;  I  did,  I  would  get  swamped.’  ’
Mr.  Boring,  of  the  muslin  underwear, 
white  goods  and  handkerchief  depart 
ments  of  the  I.  V.  farwell  Company 
spoke . enthusiastically  on  the  subject 
of  the  woman  buyer. 
“ In  most  of  the 
arge  dry  goods  stores  the  departments 
if  muslin  underwear  and  ladies  hosiery 
re  under  the  management  of  women. 
These  women  have  more  or  less  author 
,ty 
In  nearly 
all  cases  their  opinion  upon  goods  has 
as  much  weight  as  that  of  the  propri 
etor.  While  these  women  may  not  hav 
the  final  details  of  the  buying  to  attend 
to,  yet  in  the  matter  of  selection  their 
judgment 
is  given  great  weight.  The 
tendency  for  women  to  take  charge  of 
special  departments  in 
is 
gaining  strength  each  year. 
lt  *s  rny 
in  ten  years  one-halt  ot 
opinion  that 
the  department  managers  in large  stores 
will  be  women.  What  is  true  of  the  big 
stores  of  the  large  cities  will  ultimately 
be  true  in  smaller  places.  The  woman 
buyer  is  a  success  and  will  attain  more 
and  more  authority  as  the  years  go  by 
In  those  departments  where  goods  ex 
clusively  for  women’s  wear  are sold,  the 
lady  manager  and  buyer  are  inevitable. 
The  goods  are  sold  bv  women,  who  for 
this  reason  have  a  better  knowledge  of 
the  wants  of  the  customers  than  the 
proprietor  of  the  store.  Even 
in  stores 
is  21  man,  the  lady 
where  the  buyer 
saleswomen  are  consulted  and 
their 
opinion  is  given  great  weight.  Woman 
is  the  equal  of  man  in  mental  capacity 
and  a  similar  course  of  education  wil 
in 
develop  the  same  intellectual  traits 
each.  Since  women  have  stepped 
into 
the  dry  goods  stores  in  the  capacity  of 
saleswomen,  there  is  no  reason  on  earth 
why,  in  the  course  of  a  few  years,  they 
will  not  share  equal  honors  with  men  in 
the  management  of  departments  of  the 
larger dry  goods  houses.
A  successful  traveler 

large  stores 

in  the  muslin 
underwear  and  handkerchief department 
of  one  of  the  jobbing  houses  did  not 
herald  the  coming  woman  buyer  with 
very  much  joy.  “ They  may  be  all  right 
and  necessary 
in  certain  departments, 
but  they  are  harder  to  sell  goods  to  than 
men.  They  have  good  taste  and  fine 
judgment,  but  they  have  a  hard  time 
making  up  their  mind.  Women  are  not 
used  to  having  much business  authority 
vested 
in  them  and  they  do  not  have 
enough  confidence  in  themselves.  They 
look  over  the  whole  stock,  make  a  se­
lection,  then  in  a  few  minutes  change 
their  mind  about  the  relative 
impor­
tance  of  some  of  the  articles,  then  look 
the  stock  over again,  and  finally  tell  us 
they  will 
it  over  night. 
Next  day  we  go back  and  find  the  orig­
inal  order  cut  in  two,  all  of  which  is 
not  the  most  pleasant  thing  in  the world 
for  the  salesman.  From my  experience 
in  such  cities  as  Toledo,  Cleveland, 
Detroit and  Grand  Rapids,  I  should  say 
that  three-fourths  of  the  people  who 
look  over  my  goods  are  women.  They 
practically  make  the  selection  of  the 
In  some  cases  they  do  the  buy-
order. 

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independently  of  the  proprietor. 
Some  of  these  buyers  are  very  shrewd 
and  are  fully  the  equal  of  any  men  pur­
chasers  I  meet.  However, 
I  do  not 
ink  that  a  woman  makes  as  good  a 
buyer  as  a  man.  The  only  reason  the 
women  attain  to  positions  as  buyers 
is 
because  they  are  saleswomen and under­
stand  the  wants  of customers  better  than 
anybody  else. 
In  the  matter  of  judg­
ment  I  do  not  think they are the equal  of 
the  man  buyer.

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Mr.  Billig,  traveler  in  the  notion  de 
partment  of  J.  V.  Farwell  Company,
■  inks  the  proportion  of  lady  buyers 
is 
I  visit  the  largest
growing.  He  said : 
in  Iowa  and  have  many  ladies 
among  my  customers. 
I  think  that  in 
one-third  of  the  stores  I  visit  the  buy- 
that 
ng  of  notions  is  done  by  women, 
the  women  select  the  goods,  but  do 
not  in  all  cases  place  the  order.  They 
are  the  real  buyers,  though  not  always 
the  nominal  ones.  The  women  have 
better  taste  than  the  men,  also  a  wider 
knowledge  of  what  customers  will  call 
for.  The  proprietor  understands  that  a 
clerk  usually  can  sell  what  he  or  she 
thinks  ought  to  sell.  When  he  gives  the 
buying  of  goods  into  the  hands of one  ot 
his 
ladv  managers  he  instructs  her  to 
buy  what  she  can  sell.  Knowing  so 
well  what  will  sell,  the woman buyer sel­
dom  orders  stuff  that  the  custpmers  do 
not  want.  The  woman  buyer  is  coming 
with  the  large  department  stores. 
In 
the  smaller  country  houses  she  has  not 
yet  become  conspicuous;  but  with  the 
specialization  which  is  found  in  the  re­
tail  dry  goods  trade  in  the  larger cities, 
the  woman  buyer  has  become  indispen-

Mr  Hibbard,  head  of  knit  underwear 
of  Marshall  Field  &  Co.,  said:  “ The 
women  buyers  who  come 
in  here  are 
very  shrewd.  They  take  in  the  details 
of  a  garment  at  a  glance,  and  nothing 
escapes  their  eyes.  What  a  man  would 
overlook  or  think  of  no  consequence, 
they  detect  instantly,  and  you  may  be 
sure  anything  to  pass  muster  must  be 
perfect.  They  understand  the  make­
up  of  a  garment  and  its  adaptability  to 
their  trade.  The  woman  buyer,  as  she 
s  seen 
in  this  department,  is  a  suc­
cess.

. 

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, 

, 

increasing 

Mr.  McLain,  head  of  the  muslin  un­
derwear  department  of  the  same  house, 
said  there  were  a  few women buyers who 
came 
into  his  department  and  bought 
with  rare  discretion.  He  thought  that 
lacked  the  “ nerve”   to 
most  women 
make  good  buyers. 
“   They  are  too 
timid,  and  do  not  like  to  assume  the 
load  of  responsibility  which  a  Oliver 
shoulders 
in  coming  to  market.  The 
woman  buyer  is all  right at home,  where 
she  can  have  the  proprietor  make  the 
final  decisions  as  to  quantities,  but  she 
has  not  yet  developed  that  self-confi- 
dence  which  is  necessary  for  an 
inde- 
pendent buyer.  This 
is  largely  due  to 
a  lack  of  business  education.  Whether 
women  will  ever  get  this  education, 
and  advance  into  positions  of  responsi­
bility,  is  a  question  I  have  not  yet
solved. ”  
Mr.  Gilbert,  who  travels  for the above 
department,  thinks  the  woman  buyer 
is 
in  numbers  every  day.
* In  one-half  of  the  houses which  I  visit 
the  goods  are  selected  by  women 
These  women  are  the  heads  of  their  re­
spective departments,  and  have  worked 
up  to the  management  from  the  position 
of  clerks.  They  are 
in  touch  with  the 
customers,  know  exactly  what  will  sell, 
and  place  their  orders  with  the  best  of 
judgment.  They  select  the  styles  and 
qualities  of  goods  needed,  and  the  pro­
prietor  tends  to  the  business  part  of  the 
purchasing.  The help  of  the  lady  man­
ager  is  indispensable  to  the  owner  of 
the  store.  Without  her  knowledge  of 
what  will  suit  the  trade  he  would  be 
completely  at  sea.  She  knows  by 
in­
tuition  what  will  sell,  and  generally  has 
a  finer  taste  in  selecting  goods  than  the 
man. 
In  those  departments  where  arti­
cles  for  ladies’  wear  are  sold  exclusive­
ly  (and  these  departments  form  a  good 
part  of  a  dry  goods  store),  the 
lady 
manager  is  an  absolute  necessity.  She 
has  the  clerkships  in  these departments, 
and  must  have  the  management  of  the 
departments  and  the  buying  of  the 
goods.

instinct.

Mr.  Odell,  buyer  of  hosiery 

in  Mar­
shall  Field  &  Co.,  wholesale,  remem­
bered  some  women  buyers  with  a  great 
deal  of  admiration. 
“ We  know  good 
buyers  here  when  we  see  them,  for  we  ^ 
have  visits  from  some  of  the  best  de­
partment  buyers  in  the  country.  Some 
of  the  women  who  come  here  to  buy 
goods  are  as  well  equipped  with  knowl­
edge  and  experience  as  any  men.  Their 
proprietors  make  no  mistake  in  sending 
them  in.  They  are  conscientious  as  well 
as  shrewd,  and  get  the  best  bargains 
the  market  offers.  We  have  one  man 
customer  who  comes 
in  to  buy  every 
other  season  and  sends  his  lady  n?a?" 
ager  the  alternating  seasons.  The  lady 
is  the  better  buyer  of  the  two  in  this de­
partment,  and,  what 
is  more,  the  man 
is  sensible  enough  to  admit  it.  Women 
buyers  have  every  requisite  of  a  good 
buyer,  except  a  commercial 
This  was  the  opinion  of  a  department 
manager  who  sees  a  great  many^  women 
buyers  each  year.  He  said :  Women
have good  taste,  they  know  instinctive­
ly  what  will  seli  in  their  department  ot 
the  store,  but  they  have  not  yet  ac­
quired  the  decision  and  fearless  judg­
ment  which,  above all else,  are necessary 
in  this  age.  Only  a  very  exceptional 
woman  succeeds  as  a  buyer.  She  is  far 
above  the  average  of  her  sex  and  must 
be  taken  as  no  evidence  of  the  ability 
of  women  in  general  to  succeed  as  buy­
ers.  The  successful  business  men  of 
to-day  are  those  who  take  risks,  and 
women  fail  at  this  point.  What  they 
lack  is  the  training  that  a  business  ex­
perience  alone  gives.  Most  of  the  wom­
en  buyers  , are  really  assistants.  They 
have  exclusive  authority  oftentimes 
in 
the  selection  of  the goods,  but  the  juc^S* 
ment  upon  the  business  side  of  the 
transaction 
left  to  a 
man.  We  might  say  that  both  the  wom­
an  and  the  man  are  necessary  to  the 
buying  of  goods,  and 
in  this  way  we 
would  reconcile  the  equality  which  na­
ture  meant  the  sexes  should maintain  in 
their  relations.  The woman,  instead  of 
supplanting  the  man  buyer,  is  to  be  his 
co-laborer.

is  almost  always 

In  the 
jobbing 

Mr.  Williams,  in  the  notion  depart­
ment  of  J.  V.  Farwell  Co.,  said  that 
some  of  the  shrewdest  buyers  who  visit­
ed  his  department  were  women.  “ Fully 
as  capable  as  men  in  most  cases,  and 
many  of  them  are  ahead  of  the  average 
man  buyer. 
In  the  buying  of  corsets 
women  are  especially  well qualified,  be­
cause  of  their  experience  behind  the 
counter  as  saleswomen.  But the  women 
buyers  who  come  to  market  are  only  a 
small  fraction  of  those  who  do  the  buy­
ing  at  home. 
largest  stores 
throughout  this 
territory  the 
corset  department  is  usually  in  charge 
of  a  woman,  who  has  a  great  deal  to  dc 
with  the  ordering  of  goods.  The  owner 
of  the  house  either  refers  the  salesman 
to  the  lady  manager  or  else  buys  the 
goods  with  her  assistance.  He  recog­
nizes  the  value  of  her 
judgment  in  de­
ciding  what  kinds  and  styles  of  goods 
In  the  great  majority  of 
will  sell  best. 
large  stores  the  selecting 
is  done by 
women,  although  questions  of how many 
lines 
goods  are  needed  in  the  different 
selected  are  settled  by  the  man 
in 
charge  of  the  house.  The  only  objection 
to  women  buyers  is  that  they  are  apt  to 
influenced  by  other  than  strictly 
be 
business  motives. 
If  a  woman  likes  a 
salesman  she  is  apt  to  be  prejudiced  in 
favor  of  his  goods.  She  is  unable  to 
keep  her  sympathies 
the  back­
ground.  I  remember one  instance  when 
I  was  on  the  road  that  proves  my  point.
tried 
I  had 
to  sell  goods  to  a  certain 
woman 
in  charge  of  the  corset  depart­
ment  of  a  large  house  in  Milwaukee. 
Not  being  a  particularly  good-looking 
man  myself,  and  the  store being  com­
pletely  stocked  with  my  line  of  goods,  I 
was  unable  to  make  a  sale, 
just  as  I 
was  turning  away  from  the  lady  mana­
ger  she  observed  my  melancholy  coun­
tenance  and  remarked,  ‘ Oh,  I  am  really 
sorry  we  couldn’t  buy  this  time,  but 
next  time  you  come  I  shall  certainly 
give  you  an  order.’

in 

As  the  correspondent  for  the  Reporter 
information  concerning 
was  collecting 
the  woman  buyer,  he  was 
fortunate 
enough  to  meet  a  representative  of  this 
class  of  people 
in  the  person  of  Miss

Annie  Jacobs,  of  Morton,  111. 
For 
seven  years  Miss  Jacobs  has  assisted 
her  mother  in  the  management  of  a  dry 
goods  and  notion  store  at  Morton.  This 
was  Miss  Jacobs’  second  visit  to  Chi­
cago  in  the  capacity  of  a  buyer.  She 
said  that  she  usually  came  to  Chicago 
twice a  year  and  staid  three  days  each 
time. 
In  reply  to  the  question  as  to 
how  she  liked  the  work  of  buying,  she 
said :  “ It  is  tiresome but  not  disagree­
able.  The  goods  that  we  want  are  de­
cided  upon  before  I  leave  home,  so  the 
trip  to  Chicago  is  not  the  most 
impor­
tant  part  of  the  buying.  I find  the  sales­
men  attentive  and  kind,  but they  do  not 
overwhelm  me  with  flowers,  candy  or 
theater  tickets. 
I  believe  I  am  treated 
with  the  same  consideration  as  a  man 
and  that  my  sex  makes  no  difference  in 
my  business  relations with  them.  I  can­
not  see  why  a  woman  cannot buy as  well 
as,  or better than  a man.  So  much of  dry 
goods  are  for  women  only  that  I  think 
a  woman  has  the  advantage  of  a  man  in 
selecting  goods. 
I should  certainly  find 
it  hard  to  go  into  a  gentleman’s  cloth­
ing  store  and  select  a  stock  of  goods  for 
men. * ’ 

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Past  and  Future  of Ginghams. 

Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

The  air  has  at  last  been cleared on the 
gingham  situation  by  the  recent  sales 
at  Claflin’s  and  the  auction  sale  held 
last  week  in  New  York.  For  several 
years  ginghams  have  been 
in  smaller 
demand  each  season,  but  gingham man­
ufacturers  and  their  agents  have  been 
slow  to  admit  this,  and  have  struggled 
to  keep  ginghams 
in  favor.  Every 
effort  has  been  made  to  bring  out  at­
tractive  styles,  and,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
ginghams  at  the  prices  for  which  they 
have  been  sold  for  some  seasons  were 
the  best  value  on  the  market  in  wash 
goods.  Value,  however,  is  not  the  main 
consideration  with  the  consumer,  and 
other  fabrics  than  ginghams  have  been 
steadily  gaining  in  favor.

It  would  not  be  safe  to  say that  ging­
hams  have  gone  out  for  all  time,  but 
when  the  appreciation  and  desire  for 
ginghams  are  so  small  that  they  have  to 
be  sold  at  a  loss  on  the  cost  of  produc­
tion,  it  is  plain  evidence  that, 
for  the 
time  being,  only  a  small  percentage  of 
consumers  care  for  the  fabric.  No doubt 
the  ginghams  which  were  distributed  at 
these  sales  will  go 
into  consumption 
freely  and  quickly,  for  the  reason  that 
they  can  be  retailed  at  as 
low  a  price 
as  prints,  which  have  heretofore  been 
the  cheapest  wash  goods  manufactured, 
and  the 
excepting 
challies, 
intrinsic  value  of  a  gingham 
is  much 
higher  than  either  of  these  fabrics.

cotton 

A  swindle  which  evidently  is  new 

in 
Missouri 
is  being  worked  with  great 
success  in  many  towns  there.  A  wom­
an  book  agent  appears  in  town  and goes 
from  house  to  house  leaving  books  for 
examination.  Next  day  a  man  calls  to 
see  if  the books  are  wanted,  and  if  they 
are  not  he  takes  them  away  with  him 
Usually  they  are  not  wanted.  A  few 
days 
later  the  woman  agent  appears 
again,  and  on  being  told  that  the  man 
has 
the  books  weeps 
copiously,  says  the  villain  has  been 
collecting her books all over town,  pleads 
poverty  and  so  on,  and  accepts  the 
proffered  compensation.

taken 

away 

It  means  to  be  alert 

To  sell  goods  nowadays  and  make 

it 
pay  is  a  task  that  needs both brains  and 
from 
energy. 
morning  until  night;  and 
to  succeed 
every  point  must  be  utilized.  The  re­
tailer has  abundant  opportunity  to  dis­
play  originality 
in  advertising,  in  se 
lections,  etc.  There  are  stores  where 
the  main  work  done  is  loafing.  But 
in 
is  desired  work 
those  where  success 
must.be  the  order  of  the  day.  This 
is 
the  only  way  to  bring  and  retain  sue 
cess— work  and  save»

You  must  keep  what  the  people  want 
or  they  will  not  do  business  with  you 
It  makes  mighty  little  difference  what 
you  think,  or  what  we  think,  or  what 
we  both  think,  they  want,  for the people 
will  buy  what  they  want,  and  if  you 
don’t  have 
it  somebody  else  does,  and 
somebody  else  gets  the  trade.

S U C C E S S FU L  SALESM EN .

John  C. 

Foreman,  Representing 

Strong,  Lee  &   Co.

John  C.  Foreman  was  born  at  Duns, 
Scotland,  March  30,  1S59,  being  the 
youngest  of  six  children.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  village 
until  17  years  of  age,  when  the  family 
removed  to  Hamilton,  Ont.,  where  the 
school  work  was  finished.  The  young 
man  then  entered  the  office  of  a  fire  in­
surance  company,  where he  acceptably 
filled  a  clerical  position  for  five  years. 
He  subsequently  entered  the  employ­
ment  of  a  wholesale  furnishing  goods 
and  notion  house,  with  which  he  re­
mained  six  years.  Yearning for  a  larger 
field  and  wider  scope,  he  removed  to 
Detroit,  where  he  found  employment 
with  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co.,  remain- 
ng  five  years  as  house  and  city  sales­
man.  He  then  entered  the  establish­
ment  of  Strong,  Lee  &  Co.,  where  he 
occupied  the  position  of  general  sales­
man 
in  the  house  very  creditably  for

four  years. 
In January  of  this  year,  he 
accepted  a  position  on  the  road,  taking 
a  portion  of  Western  Michigan  for  his 
territory.  He  located  at Muskegon,  but 
finding  Grand  Rapids  a  more  central 
point  from  which  to  cover his  trade,  he 
has  removed  to  this  city,  locating  at  41 
Madison  street.

Mr.  Foreman  was  married  eight years 
ago  to  Miss’ Chrissie  Arthur,  of  Ham 
ilton,  Ont.,  and  the  family  circle  in­
cludes  a  boy  7  years  of  age  and  a  girl 
o f’5.  A  peculiar  coincidence connected 
with  his  marriage  is  that  his  wife 
left 
the  same  port  in  Scotland— Glasgow 
on  the  same  vessel,  on  the  same  month 
and  the  same  day  of  the  month,  four 
years  after his  departure  for  America.
Mr.  Foreman  belongs  to  no fraternity, 
nor 
is  he  a  member  of  any  traveling 
men’s  association.  He  is  an  attendant 
at  the  Presbyterian  church  and  is  doing 
his  best  to  inculcate  in  his children  cor 
rect  principles  of  morality.  He  attrib 
utes  his  success  to hard  work,  coupled 
with  persistent  effort  and  a  determina 
tion  to  treat  every  customer  fairly  and 
candidly.  ____  

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Has  the  subject  of  wrapping  paper 
been  given  the  attention  it  should have? 
There  are  many  customers  who  carry 
their  packages,  and nothing  is  more  an­
noying  than  to  have  the  contents  pro­
truding  before  they  are  half  way to their 
journey's  end,  by  reason  of  having 
been  wrapped  in  flimsy  paper.

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It  is  claimed  that  nearly  75  per  cent, 
of  all  the  tea  imported  into  the  United 
States  comes  through  the  port  of  Ta­
coma,  at  the  head  of  navigation  on 
Puget  Sound.  Steamship  lines  radiate 
from  this  port  to  all  points  on  Puget 
Sound,  to  Alaska,  San  Francisco,  Cen­
tral  America,  China,  Japan  and  Africa, 
carrying  an  immense  traffic  in  all kinds 
of  merchandise,  especially  wheat,  flour, 
lumber  and  coal.

The  women  of  Ohio,  in  revenge  for 
law,  propose  to  have  an­
the  high  hat 
introduced,  imposing  a  fine  for 
other 
going  out  between 
the  acts  to  see  a 
man,  and  for  expectorating on  the  floor.

I  have  learned  from  observation  that 
three  things  happen  to  a  man who works 
In  the  first 
steadily  without  relaxation. 
irritable 
place,  he  becomes  nervous, 
and  hard  to-  get  along  with. 
In  the 
the  grade  of  his  work 
second  place, 
falls  off,  his  services  are  worthless,  and 
In 
he  is  liable  to  err  in  his 
the  third  place,  he  dies suddenly. 
It  is 
an 
law  -of  nature.— 
incontrovertible 
Chauncey  M.  Depew.

judgment. 

Too  much  stock  means  loss,  too  little 
loss;  just  enough  stock 

stock  means 
means  profit.

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losses, lessen the time devoted to credit  transactions, enable 
them  to  avoid  the  annoyances  incident  to  credit  dealings 
and  place  their  business  on  practically  a  cash basis.  We 
were the originators, and original  introducers of the Coupon 
Book System —beginning their manufacture at  Big Rapids, 
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other  manufacturers  combined.  Over  25,000  retail  mer- 
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Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants. 

Bessemer— H.  K.  Pino  has  purchased 

the  drug  business  of  H.  H.  Sheldon.

Lyons—F.  E.  Marcey  has  purchased 

the  meat  business  of Vance  &  Barrus.

Byron—A.  Hoisington  will 

shortly 
open  a  drug" store  in  the  Bunce  block.
Gould  City—J.  VV.  Summers,  physi­
cian  and  druggist,  has  removed  to  Mu­
nising.

Plainwell— Heath  &  Smith  succeed 
in  the  tailoring 

Hitchcock  &  Smith 
business.

Belleville—Cheeseman  &  Blackmar 
succeed  Cheeseman  &  Heglund  in  gen­
eral  trade.

Grand  Marais— R.  J.  Teeter  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  business  of  Frederick 
H.  Osborne.

Baraga—Jos.  Real 

succeeds  Harry 
Coddington  in  the  news  and  confection­
ery  business.  #>

Wayne— H.  C.  Blount  &  Co.  succeed 
Hammon  &  Hawley  in  the  boot  anc 
shoe business.

Reed  City— Boelio  & Gerber,  agricul­
implement  dealers,  have  retired 

tural 
from  business.

Pontiac— Dugald  Brown  is  succeeded 
in  the  book  and  sta­

by  Brown  Bros, 
tionery  business.

Hickory  Corners— F.  B.  Lawrence, 
grocer  and  meat  dealer,  has  sold  out  to 
Dickerson  &  Coleman.

Bay  City—The  style  of  the  H.  Car- 
riere  Pharmacy  has  been  changed  to 
the  Carriere  Pharmacy.

Williamston— Lounsbury  &  Lockwood 
succeed  Lounsbury  &  Turner  in  the  ag­
ricultural  implement  business.

New  Lothrop—Gillett  &  MacKender 
are  putting  in  a  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise  in  the  Gillett  building.

Pine  Creek—C.  G.  Morris  &  Son, 
dry  goods  dealers  and  grocers,  have dis­
solved.  C.  G.  Morris  succeeding.

Laurium—-The  Burgan  Hardware  Co. 
in 

has  opened  a  bicycle  department 
connection  with  its  hardware  stock.

West  Bay  City— Isaac  Golden  suc­
in  the 

ceeds  Fanny  ( Mrs.  I .)  Golden 
clothing  and  boot  and  shoe  business.

Wayne—Nash  &  McDermott,  dealers 
in  groceries. and  notions,  have  dis­
solved.  The  business  will  be  continued 
by  Geo.  Nash.

Grand  Marais—Geo.  P.  Fisher, 

of 
Sault  Ste.  Marie,  has  purchased  a  stock 
of  tinner’s  tools  and  will  open  a  tin- 
shop  at  this  place.

Big  Rapids—Wicking  &  Storrer  have 
removed  the  remainder  of  their  fire  sale 
stock  from  Mt.  Pleasant  to  this  place. 
Fred.  Storrer  is  in  charge  of  the  busi­
ness.

Hastings—Fred  Spangemacher 

and 
Richard  Johnson  have  purchased  the 
Van  Valkenburgh  stock  of hardware and 
will  remove  it  to  Middleville  to  close  it 
out.

Big  Rapids—Cochrane  &  Co.  have 
removed  their  grocery  stock  from  Cedar 
Springs  to  this  place,  where  they  have 
resumed  business  under  the  same  firm 
name.

Thompsonville—W.  A.  Anderson  has 
been  bound  over  for  trial  in  the  United 
States  Court  on  a  charge  of  selling 
oleomargairne  without  first  obtaining 
the  necessary  license.  He  gave  bonds 
jin  the  sum  of  $300.

Yale—O.  P.  Chamberlain  has  retired 
irom  She  firm  of  Chamberlain,  Putney 
&  Co.,  general  dealers.  The  business 
.will  be  continued  by  Frank  Putney  and 
Mary  Chamberlain  under  the  style  of 
Putney  &  Chamberlain.

Cannonsburg— Hartwell  Bros,  have be­
gun  the  construction  of  a  two-story  and 
basement  frame  store  building,  24x50 
feet  in  dimensions,  which  they  expect 
to  have  completed  by  June  15.  They 
will  occupy  it  with  their  general  stock.
Ishpeming— F.  D.  Rappelee,  who
has  been  for  some  time  a  trusted  em­
ploye  of  Swift  &  Co.  as  manager  of  the 
Ispheming  Beef  Co.,  has  resigned,  to 
accept  the  general  management  of  the 
Consolidated  Beef  Companies  of  Me­
nominee  and  Sturgeon  Bay.

Detroit—Articles  associating  the  J. 
H.  Donaldson  Co.  have  been  filed  in 
the  county  clerk’s  office. 
It  will  con­
duct  a  general  merchandise  tailoring 
business,  with  a  capital  of  §6,000  paid 
in.  The  stock 
is  held  by  James  H. 
Donaldson,  598  shares,  and  John  W. 
Simcock  and  Gilbert  Hart,  one  each.

is  now  on  hand. 

Calumet—The  annual 

job  of  carting 
the  snow  from  the  principal  business 
street 
Snow  gets 
packed  in  the  street  to  a  depth  of  five 
or  six  feet.  Spring  opens  up  so  sud­
denly  that, 
cellars 
flooded,  the  snow  has  to  be carted away.
It  is  a  novel  sight  to  one  unaccustomed 
to  so  much  snow.

to  avoid  having 

Vermontville—  W.  H.  Benedict  has 
begun  the  construction  of  a  brick  store 
building,  40x70 
in  dimensions,* 
feet 
front  and  all  other 
with  plate  glass 
modern 
in 
a  town  the  size  of  Vermontville.  Mr. 
Benedict  expects  to  have  the  structure 
completed  so  .that  he  can  occupy  it 
with  his  grocery  stock  by  October  1.

improvements  permissible 

implements, 

Martin— Murray,  Campbell  &  Co., 
in  hardware,  paints,  oils  and 
dealers 
agricultural 
have  dis­
solved,  C.  C.  Murray  retiring,  having 
been  appointed  to  the  position  of  post­
master,  in  connection  with  which  he 
will  conduct  a  grocery  and  'fruit  store. 
N.  A.  Campbell,  John  Blair  and  John 
Mathews  will  continue  business  at  the 
old  stand  as  heretofore.
“Saugatuck—A.  B.  Taylor  has  formed 
a  copartnership  with  his brother-in-law, 
R.  P.  Russell,  and  on  June  1  the  new 
firm  will  succeed  to  the  banking  busi­
ness  of  A.  B.  Taylor  under  the  style  of 
the  Fruit  Growers’  Bank. 
In  order  to 
separate  the  banking  business  from  his 
mercantile  establishment,  Mr.  Taylor 
is  erecting  a  two-story  brick  banking 
building,  20x40 
in  dimensions, 
which  will  be  fitted  up  with  all  the 
modern 
conven­
iences.

improvements  and 

feet 

Saginaw—The  Wells-Stone Mercantile 
Co.  ceased  to  exist  as  a  mercantile  es­
tablishment  April  15,  being  succeeded 
here  by  Phipps,  Penoyer  &  Co.  ;  at 
Midland  by  Hawks  &  Co.,  while  at 
West  Branch  the  business  is  discontir- 
ued  altogether.  Phipps,  Penoyer  &  Co. 
is  a  corporation,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$60,000.  all  paid 
in.  W.  C.  Phipps 
holds  one-half,  C.  W.  Penoyer  one- 
third,  and  E.  P.  Stone  one-sixth.  Mr. 
Phipps  for  the  past  seven or eight years, 
has  been  Secretary  and  Treasurer  and 
General  Manager of  the  Wells-Stone Co, 
Mr.  Penoyer 
the  younger  son  of 
Lewis  Penoyer,  one  of  Saginaw’s  suc­
cessful  lumbermen.  He  is  a  young  man 
of  push  and  business  ability,  and  prior 
to  a  few  months  ago  was  with the Wells- 
Stone  Co.  for  some  time.

is 

Petoskey 

(Democrat)—The 

spring 
decorations  at  Levinson’s  last  week  and 
this  have  attracted  a  great  deal  of  in­
terest,  and  they  reflect  much  credit  on 
Manager  Washburne,  who  designed  and 
executed  the  displays.  Mr.  Washburne 
conducted  the  principal  dry  goods  store 
in  Charlevoix  for  ten  years  and  was  the

T H E   M ICHIG AN   T R A D E S M A N

youngest  man  we  have  ever  known  to 
succeed  in  such  an  extensive  business.
In  four  years  he  reduced  an 
indebted­
ness  of  $11,000  to  less  than  $4,000,  but 
he  was  then  closed  out  by  the  failure  of 
his  former  partner,  losing  the  accumu­
lations  of  years  in  the  forced  depres­
sion  of  values,  as  so  many  others  have 
done.  We  remember  that,  while  Mr. 
Washburne  was  in  business 
in  Charle­
voix,  the  leading  dry  goods  papers,  in­
cluding  the  New  York  Economist  and 
the  New  York  Dry  Goods  Chronicle, 
printed  reproductions  of  his  window 
displays,  accompanied  by 
the  most 
complimentary  references  to  his  origin­
ality  and  taste.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Manistique—Two  of 

the  Chicago 

Lumbering  Co.’s  mills  are  running.

Thompson— The  Delta  Lumber  Co.  s 
sawmill  has  begun  sawing  for  the  sea­
son.

Flint— H.  W.  Bickford 

succeeds 
Bickford  &  Freeman  in  the  manufac­
ture of  bicycles.

St.  Ignace— H.  Walker 

is  succeeded 
by  M.  Mulcrone  in  the  fruit  and  cigar 
manufacturing  business.

Locust—George  Lord’s  new  cheese 
last  week,  making 

factory  started  up 
eight  cheese  every  other  day.

Tustin—W.  B.  Miller,  who  operated 
a  shingle  mill  at  Reed  City,  has  re­
moved  his  plant  to  this  place.

Croswell— Alex.  McAllister  denies 
the  report  that  the  Croswell  cheese  fac­
tory  will  not  run  as  usual  this  summer.
is  putting 
machinery  into  the  old Cummer  planing 
mill  building  for  manufacturing  maple 
flooring.

Cadillac— J.  W.  Cummer 

Ontonagon—The Edward  Hines  Lum­
ber  Co.,  of  Chicago,  purchased  6,000,- 
000  feet  of 
lumber  of  the  Diamond 
Match  Co.  last  week.

Cheshire— K.  B.  Edgell  has purchased 
the  cheese  factory  heretofore  owned  by 
the  Cheshire  Cheese  Co.  and  will  oper­
ate  it  in  his  own  name.

Beaverdam— The  Beaverdam  Cream­
ery  Co.  has  moved  the  plant  of  the  late 
Hamilton  creamery  to  this  place  and 
will  soon  begin  operations.

Ontonagon—The  Diamond  Match  Co. 
is  getting  ready  for  one  of  the  largest 
drives 
it  has  ever  had,  expecting  to 
bring  all  the  rears  down  this  spring.

Sebewaing— Neuman  &  Beck,  who 
operate  a  small  sawmill  here,  have  pur­
chased  shingle  machinery 
and  will 
manufacture  shingles  as  well  as  lum­
ber.

Roscommon— D.  H.  Matheson  has 
sold  his  sawmill  on  the  south  branch  of 
Au  Sable  River  to  U.  M.  Guilford,  of 
West  Branch,  who  has  stock  enough  to 
run  the  mill  two  years.

Mt.  Pleasant— Lewis  Russell,  who 
operates  a  sawmill  in  Coldwater  town­
ship,  has  purchased  the  timber on  1,000 
acres  of 
in  Isabella  and  Mecosta 
counties.  It  is  mostly  hemlock.

land 

Saginaw— Werner  &  Pfleiderer,  who 
have  large  factories  for  the  manufacture 
of  bakers’  machinery  in  London,  Paris, 
Vienna  and  other  European cities,  have 
been 
locate  an  American 
factory  here.

induced  to 

and 

Bay  City— The  active  lumber  manu­
facturing 
shipping  season  has 
opened  and  those  engaged  therein  are 
already  in  the  harness.  Several  mills 
have  started  during  the  week  and  the 
work  of  rafting  and  delivering  logs  is 
being  prepared  for.  It  is  true  that  trade 
is  not  what  it  ought  to  be,  but  somehow 
lumber  manufacturers  and  dealers  are 
hopeful  of  a  fair business.

Detroit— The  American  Brass  & 
filed  chattel  mortgages 
Metal  Works 
April  20 
favor  of  Jacob  Kock  for 
in 
$31,100,  and  Henry  Kock  fo r$ i5, 5°°* 
The  mortgages  were  given  to  secure 
moneys  advanced.

Muskegon— F.  A.  Yeager,  formerly  of 
this  city,  who  for  the  past  two  years 
has  conducted  a  cigar  manufacturing 
business  in  Traverse  City,  has  returned 
here  and  started  in  his  old  business  at 
104  Myrtle  street.

Drenthe— The  Drenthe  Co-operative 
Creamery  Association,  which  was  or­
ganized  March  6  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$3,600,  will  begin  operations  about 
May  15.  M.  Brandt,  Sr., 
is  President 
of  the  organization  and  J.  S.  Optholt  is 
Secretary.

Brant— T.  A.  Cook  has  purchased  the 
Brant  Center  cheese  factory  of  E.  P. 
Whaley,  the  consideration  being  $500. 
Operations  began  for  the  season  April 
15.  Mr.  Cook  acted  as  maker  last  sea­
son 
for  Bates  &  Trautman’s  Cold 
Spring  factory,  at  Hilliards.

in  an  endless 

Bay City— F.  P.  R.  Graves  is  making 
extensive  repairs  to  his  shingle  mill, 
putting 
log  haul  chain, 
drag  saw,  and  a  new  foundation.  He 
expects  to  begin  making  shingles  next 
week,  and  will  have  one  of  the  best 
equipped  plants  in  the  valley.

Copemish—The  Krein  hame  factory 
is  rushed  \vith  business.  They  are  ship­
ping  from  two  to  four  carloads  of manu­
factured  stock  daily,  and  have  on  their 
books  orders  for  about  80  carloads,  and 
are  compelled  to  turn  away  orders  con­
tinually,  not  being  able  to  fill  them  on 
time.

Detroit—George  C.  Wetherbee  repre­
sents,  ina  bill  filed  in the Wayne Circuit 
Court,  that  he  has  a  $4,000  interest  in 
Starret  &  McVittie’s  hollow  wooden- 
ware  works  and  that  he  is  dissatisfied 
with  the  manner  in  which  the  business 
is  being  conducted,  and  asks  for  an  ac­
counting.

Saginaw— The  Princess  Manufactur­
ing  Co.,  which  commenced  the  manu­
facture  of 
ladies’  wearing  apparel  the 
first  of  the  year  with  about  fifty  hands, 
is  now  furnishing  employment  to  over 
200  girls  and  shipping  goods  to  points 
in  Ohio,  Pennsylvania, 
Indiana,  Illi­
nois  and  Michigan.

Detroit—The  Armorite  Interior  Con­
duit  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association 
and  will  manufacture  conduits  for  elec­
trical  conductors.  The  capital  stock 
is  $100,000,  and  the  10,000  shares  are 
held  as  follows:  J.  F.  Cummings,  3,600; 
John  Thomas,  1,000;  C.  S.  Johnson,700; 
Duncan  Macmillan,  2,000;  J.  F.  Laird, 
700;  James  Grant,  2,oco.

Grand  Marais—The  sawmill  'of  the 
Marais  Lumber  Co.  has  begun  sawing. 
John  Millen,  President  of  the  company, 
has  associated  himself  with  Mr.  Forbes, 
of  Negaunee,  and  will  add  a  match  fac­
tory  to  their  already  large  plant.  Mr. 
Forbes 
is  a  practical  matchmaker  and 
Mr.  Millen 
is  not  a  novjce.  Mr.  Millen 
is  also  General  Manager  of  the  Manis­
tique  Railway.  He  has  a  long  head, 
for,  by  starting  a  match  factory,  he 
will  employ  a  large  number of  girls who 
will  have  beaux  to  come  to  see  them 
Sundays—increased 
receipts 
the  result,  and  good  matchmaking  all 
around.

railway 

•  

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

Chas.  P.  Reynolds,  grocer  at  the 
corner  of  Burton  avenue  and  South  Di­
vision  street, 
is  succeeded  by  Flora 
(Mrs.  W.  H .)  Potter,  formerly  engaged 
in  trade  at  Jenisonville.

The  Unique  Shear  Grinding  Co, 
composed  of  Chas.  P.  Benedict  and  his 
wife,  Sarah  A.,  has  dissolved.  Chas.
P.  Benedict  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location,  40 Fountain street.
John  Killean  &  Son,  wholesale  and 
retail  grocers  at  28  East  Bridge  street, 
have  dissolved,  John  Killean  retiring. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by  the 
son,  Ed.  J.  Killean,  at  the  same 
loca­
tion. 

_____________

J.  G.  Blakeley  &  Co.,  hardware  deal­
ers  at  130  West  Fulton  street,  and  C.  F. 
Blakeley,  engaged 
in  the  hardware 
business  at  77  South  Division  street, 
have 
joined  hands  under  the  style  of 
the  Blakeley  Hardware  Co.,  which  will 
continue  the  business  at  both 
locations 
as  heretofore.

About  the  most effective  exhibition  of 
ladies’  shoes  the  Tradesman  has  seen  is 
that  in  the  show  windows  of  Mavhew’s 
shoe  store.  The shoes  shown  are  all  tan 
color  and  arranged  on  a  foundation  of 
hemlock  bark.  The  natural  roughness 
of  the  bark  gives  a  dainty  appearance 
to  the  goods,  which  is  very  attractive. 
The  effect  is  greatly  aided  by  the  mir­
rors  at  the  back  and  ends  of  the  win­
dows,  apparently  increasing  the  size  of 
the  exhibit  about  four times.

spending 

instructing  them  as 

Judging  from  the  little  that 

is  heard 
from 
the  State  Food  Commissioner 
since  he  occupied  so  much  of  the  atten­
tion  of  the  trade  a  few  weeks  ago,  it 
would  appear  that  the  food  products  of 
the  State  were  in  a  satisfactory  condi­
tion  as  to  adulteration,  or  that  that 
official  has  found  it  necessay  to  take  a 
rest  after  his  arduous  and  somewhat 
erratic  campaign  outside  the 
line  of 
his  official  duties.  The  torpid  condi­
tion  of  the  Commissioner,  however,  is 
amply  compensated  for  by  the  unusual 
activity  of  the  three  Inspectors,  one  of 
whom— Uriah  Heap  Scattergood,  of 
Ithaca— has  been 
several 
weeks  among  the  retail  trade  of  Grand 
Rapids, 
to  the 
price  they  should  pay  for  their  ground 
pepper  and  other  articles  comprised 
in 
the  line  of  condiments.  A  superficial 
reading  of  the  statute  would  lead  to  the 
conclusion  that  all  that  concerns  the 
Commissioner  and  his  cohorts 
is  the 
matter  of  quality  and  that  the  question 
of  cost  is  foreign  to  their  duties.  Mr. 
Storrs  learned  this  lesson  in  a  most  hu­
miliating  manner 
in  connection  with 
his  denunciation  of  some  Battle  Creek 
preparations,  but  Inspector  Scattergood 
is,  apparently,  disinclined  to  profit  by 
the  experience  of  his  superior officer, 
law  until 
insisting  on  exceeding  the 
called  down  hard 
for  his 
termeirty. 
From  present  indications  it  is  not  at  all 
unlikely  that  the  Ithaca  gentleman  will 
get  what  he  is  looking  for— trouble.

Effect  of  the  Bicycle  on  General 

Trade.

A  curious  and 

interesting  phase  of 
the  bicycle  furor  is  its  effect  on  general 
trade.  Notwithstanding  the  fact  that 
savings  were  hoarded  for  the  purchase 
of  wheels  by  very  many  during  the  win­
ter  months,  when  the  time  comes  for 
the  actual  distribution,  the  demand  is 
so great  as  to  make  a  sudden  and  posi­
tive  stringency  in  all  other  lines.  Lo­

cally,  this  fact  is  manifestly  apparent 
and  there 
is  no  doubt  that  the  same 
conditions  prevail  in  most  of  the  towns 
of  the  country.

That  this  factor 

in  the  problem  of 
trade  conditions  is  of  some  importance 
will  become  apparent  when  the  magni­
tude  of  the  trade  is  considered.  Dur­
ing  the  early  part  of  the  season 
it  was 
generally  estimated  that  the  output  of 
wheels  would  be  about  1,000,000.  Later 
developments  of  the  trade  have  been  so 
remarkable  that  there  is  no  doubt  that 
this  number  will  be  greatly  exceeded. 
The aveiage price at which this output is 
being  sold  cannot  be  placed  at  less  than 
$60.  Thus  there 
is  a  sudden  demand 
upon  the  best  class  of  the  consumers  of 
the  country,  mostly  in  towns  and  cities, 
for a  sum  exceeding  $60,000,000.  When 
the  sale  of  $100,000,000  of  bonds  oc­
curred 
last  winter,  it  will  be  remem­
bered  that  considerable  anxiety  was  felt 
lest  that  demand  should  cause  a  serious 
stringency,  although  it  was  known  that 
idle 
it  would  be  filled  mostly  from  the 
from 
capital 
banks  and  trust  companies. 
If  there 
was  cause  for  anxiety  at  that  time, 
there  is  much  more  when  a  sum  nearly 
is  to  be  assessed  almost  en­
as  great 
tirely  from 
the  retail  buyers  of  the 
country.  To  be  sure,  this  will  be  im­
mediately restored to  circulation through 
the  liquidation  of  dealers’  and  manu­
facturers’  obligations.

investment 

seeking 

It  is  the  observation  of the Tradesman 
that  this  factor  is  producing  as  great  an 
effect  in  local  trade  as  could  be  expect­
ed. 
It  is  heard  on  all  sides.  Retailers 
are  not  able  to  make  collections because 
the  money  must  go  or  has  gone  for 
wheels.  A  West  Side  grocer  asserts 
that  one  of  his  best  customers  cannot 
pay  an  $80  account  because  he  has  pur­
chased  two  wheels—one  for  his  wife 
and one for his son—and finds it desirable 
to  pay  spot  cash,  in  view  of  the  at­
tractive  discount  given  for  cash  pay­
ment  over  time  sales.  The  customer  is 
“ good  as  the  wheat,’ ’ but  the  grocer 
must  carry  him  along  another  month 
in  order  that  the  bicycle  dealer  may 
not  have  to  wait  for  his  pay.  A  South 
Division  street  druggist  asserts  that  his 
cigar  trade  has  fallen  off  half  since  the 
bicycle  season  opened,  owing  to  the 
fact  that  many  of  the  customers  of  his 
cigar  department  have  foresworn  the 
use  of  tobacco  until  they  have  paid  for 
their  wheels.  Cigar  manufacturers  cor­
roborate  these  reports,  and 
is  the 
lines.  The  dealers  may 
same 
stand  and 
look  on,  while  the  bicycle 
men  are  reaping  their  harvest.

in  all 

it 

It 

is  an 

is  encouraging,  however, 

that, 
is  at  its  height, 
while  this  condition 
improvement  manifest  in 
there 
general  retail  trade.  This  fact  argues 
that  when  the  bicycle  demand  begins  to 
subside,  through  satiety,  there  will  be 
something  for  the  rest.

Change in  Sugar  Card.

The  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  has  issued  a  new  schedule 
for  the  sale  of  granulated  sugar,  as  fol­
lows :

6 x/i  cents  per  pound.
4  pounds  for  25  cents.
8  pounds  for  50  cents.
16  pounds  for  $1.
The  card  issued  by  the  Jackson  Re­
tail  Grocers’  Association  on  April  16  is 
uniform  with  that  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Association.

Satisfied  customers  are  good  advertis­
ers.  Such  are  the  customers  who  use 
Robinson’s  Cider  Vinegar.
Gillies for New York Teas that are Teas 
at  bargains  that  are  bargains.  Visner.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— While no  change  in  quotations 
has  occurred  since  the  last  issue  of  the 
Tradesman,the  market rules very strong, 
with  all  refiners  oversold,  particularly 
the  Philadelphia  trust  refiners  and  the 
independent refiners in New York.  Great 
confidence  is  expressed  by  both  the gen­
eral  trade  and  the  brokers  in  a  higher 
range  of  values,  and  many  predict  that 
the  basis  granulated  will  sell  on,  on  or 
before  July  1,  will  be  about  6c.  German 
sugars—especially  granulated-  are  com­
ing 
sturdy  patriotism  of  the  American  peo­
ple  will  prevent  any  great  amount  of 
foreign  sugar  being  used  in  this  coun­
try,  as  the  people  realize  that  American 
sugars  are  manufactured  by  American 
workmen,  while  foreign  goods  are  the 
product  of  the  pauper  workmen  of 
Europe.  The  Tradesman  is  disposed  to 
look  upon  the  question  of German  sugar 
in  the  nature  of  a  bugbear,  which  will 
soon  disappear.

into  increased  distribution,  but  the  ■ 

Tea:—There  has  been  a  small  increase 
to  the  country  demand  during  the  pe­
riod  under  review,  but no  one is yet  dis­
posed  to  buy  large  quantities ;  but  there 
is  just  enough  increase  to  trade  to  give 
Prices  remain 
values  a  steadier  tone. 
very  low,  and  any  material 
increase  to 
trading  would  undoubtedly  be  followed 
by  an  enhancement  to  values.

Canned  Goods— No  new  features  have 
developed  during  the  past  week  and 
the  general  condition  of  the  canned 
goods  market  remains  just  as  dull  as 
it 
has  been  for  weeks.  Sellers  seem  un­
able  to  arouse  any  interest  among  buy­
ers,  although  now  and  again  a  better 
demand 
is  safe  to 
assume  that  it  is  the  result  of  a  shading 
of  values  rather  than  of  any  increase  in 
ihe  consumptive  request.  The  changes 
in  prices  have  not  been  very  material 
during  the  period.  Prices  of  canned 
lower  on  5  pound 
corned  „beef  are  5c 
tins  and  25c 
lower  on  6  pound  and  14 
pound  tins.

is  reported,  but 

it 

Rice— Prices  have  shown  no  change 
and  the  demand  continues  very  good. 
The  stock  in  first  hands  of  all  varieties, 
except  fancy  head,  is  sufficient  to  meet 
all  the  wants  of  the  trade.  That  grade 
is  practically  out  of  the  market  and 
is 
not  obtained  at  any  price.  The  scar­
city  of  high  grades  of  domestic  is  hav­
ing  considerable  influence  on  the  de­
mand for Japan,and  it is not unlikely that 
it  will  result  in  the  revival  of 
importa­
tion  of  fancy  Java  styles,  which  are  at 
times  substituted  for  high  grade  domes­
tic  rice,  owing  to  similarity  of  grain 
and  style.

Raisins— Little  attention 

is  given 
California  raisins,  beyond  a  small  con­
suming  demand,  and  as  all  holders  are 
rather  anxious  sellers,  prices  are  none 
too  steady.  London  layers  are  practi­
cally  unsalable  and  have  declined  con­
siderably,  ruling  prices  meaning  heavy 
losses  to  owners.  Three  and  four-crown 
stock  is  most  wanted.  Stronger  foreign 
advices  have  caused  slight  advances 
in 
Sultanas  and  the demand  has  improved. 
Layer  Valencias  are  also  higher.  The 
in  Sultana  raisins  is  due  to  a 
advance 
decidedly  higher  market 
in  Smyrna, 
and  the  demand  in  this  country  being 
quite  good,  sellers  find  no  difficulty 
in 
obtaining  the  increased  prices.

Prunes— While  the  consuming  season 
has  opened,  there  has  been  no  great  de­
sire  shown  to  purchase  and  the  usual 
activity  does  not  materialize. 
is 
said  that  the  stocks  in  the  hands  of  job­
bers  are  not  heavy,  but they hold  off  and 
place  orders  only  for  small  lots,  appar­
ently believing  that further declines  will

It 

occur.  One  of  the  reasons  for  the  de­
pressed  condition  of  the  market  is  that 
there  is  considerable  inferior  stock  be­
ing  offered,  and  buyers  want  to  pur­
chase  sound  goods  on  the  same  basis 
that  the  gray  fruit  is  offeed  at.

Coffee—The  markets 

in  Brazil  are 
quiet,  with  little  or  nothing  doing,  sell­
ers  showing  no  disposition  to  part  with 
their  holdings.  The  receipts 
in  this 
country  are  light,  and  the  same  is  true 
at  shipping  points  in  Brazil.  Europe 
has  been  buying  options,  not  apparent­
ly  believing 
in  the  large  estimates  of 
the  next  crops,  but  this  had  no  particu­
lar  influence  on  the  spot  market.

The  Grain  Market.

is  nothing 

Wheat  has  been  very  quiet  during  the 
week,  having  no big  spurts  or  depres­
sions.  Winter  wheat  closed  about  ic 
lower  and  spring  wheat  y2c  lower  than 
one  week ago.  The fine growing weather 
kept 
it  down.  There  were  plenty  of 
strong  features,  but  the  small  exports, 
the  large  Western  receipts  and,  as stated 
above,  the  fine  weather were  the  depres­
in 
sing  elements.  There 
sight  to  change  the  price  ’much 
in  the 
near  future.  The  winter  wheat  receipts 
are  better  and  the  offerings  from  eleva­
tors  are,  also, 
increasing,  which  was 
anticipated,  as  farmers  who  have  any 
to  sell  will  sell  it  now.  Owing  to  the 
small  exports,  the visible decreased only 
847,000  bushels,  while  at  the  corres­
ponding  time  last  year  the  visible  de­
crease  was  225,000,000  bushels.  Our 
exports  will  be  more,  as  navigation  on 
the  lakes 
is  now  open,  and  wheat  will 
be  moved  from  the  Western  wheat  cen­
ters,  especially  Duluth,  where  it  is  re­
ported  that  7,000,000  or  8,000,000  bush­
els  have  been  sold  for  direct  export. 
If 
this  is  true,  prices  will  not  only  remain 
steady,  but  will  be 
likely  to  advance. 
There  was  considerable  speculation  in 
coarse  grain,  especially  in  corn,  owing 
to  the  small  receipts;  but  at  the  close 
of  the  week  there  was  no  advance  re­
ported  and  corn  was  at  the  same  price 
as  at  the  end  of  the  previous week.  The 
same  is  true  of  oats.  The  receipts  dur­
ing 
the  week  were:  wheat,  40  cars; 
corn,  28  cars  and  8  cars  of  oats— rather 
an  excess  of  corn,  but  the  usual  amount 
of  wheat,  owing  to  the  1,000 bushel cars. 
The  mills  are  paying  68c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

Flour  and  Feed.

for  the 

The  past  week  has  been  more  active 
and  with  the  advent  of  warmer  weather 
the  demand  for  flour  has 
increased. 
Another  reason 
increased  de­
mand  and  perhaps  the  chief  one  is  that 
large  number  of  families  make  a 
a 
practice  of  buying  in  the  fall of the yeai 
a  sufficient  amount  of  flour  for  winter 
consumption  and  such  supplies  being 
now  nearly  exhausted,  the  regular week­
ly  demand 
is  much  greater.  Without 
doubt,  the  talk  of  the  shortage  and 
scarcity  of  the  winter wheat crop,  which 
is  now  making 
itself  felt,  stimulated 
free  buying  by  consumers  who  were 
able  to  purchase  last  fall,  and  this  ac­
counts,  in  a  measure,  for  the dull,  drag­
ging  markets  since  January.  A  good 
is  expected  from  this 
steady  demand 
time  on  until  a  new  corp 
is  harvested, 
not  only  for  home  but  also  for  export 
consumption.  A  rapid  depletion  of  the 
visible  supply  of  both  wheat  and  flour 
may  be  expected,  now  that  navigation 
is  open  and  the  grain  fleets  are  under 
way.  The  city  mills  have  all  been  run­
ning  steadily,  although  but  little  stock 
is  accumulating.

Feed,  meal  and  millstuffs  are  in  good 
demand  and  prices  thereon  have  re­
mained  unchanged  for the  week.

W m.  N.  R owe.

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6

LARGER  QUARTERS.

Burnham,  Stoepel  &.  Co.  to  Occupy 

the  New  Bagley  Building.

Detroit,  April  20— The  well-known 
house  of  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co.  has 
so  long  been  identified  with  the  corner 
of  Jefferson  &  Woodward  avenues,  that 
the  announcement  of  its  removal  to  the 
new  Bagley  building,  on  Lamed  and 
Bates  streets,  has,  naturally,  excited 
considerable  interest  in  commercial cir­
cles.  This  concern  has  been  looking 
for  a  building  large  enough  for  its  con­
stantly  increasing  business  for  the  past 
two  years,  and  has  at  last  succeeded 
in 
closing  arrangements  for  the  new  Bag- 
ley  building,  which  is  claimed  to  be  the 
largest  building  devoted  to  the  whole­
saling  of  drv  goods  in  the  State.  Not­
withstanding  the  addition  of  two  floors 
in  the  adjoining  store,  about  five  years 
ago,  and  the  occupancy  of  the  Snedicor 
&  Hathaway  building,  for  the  storage 
of  original  package  stuff,  it  was  found 
inadequate  for  the  wants  of  the  increas­
ing  business,  consequently  the  change 
to  larger  quarters  was  a  matter  of  abso 
lute  necessity.
The  concern  was  organized  as  J.  h. 
Burnham  &  Co.  in  the  spring  of  1S75, 
the  firm  being  composed  of  Jas.  K. 
Burnham.  Frederick  C.  Stoepel  and 
Albert  H.  Munger,  all  of  whom  were 
connected  with  the 
former  house  of 
Allan  Sheldon  &  Co.  The  house  opened 
for  business  at  228  Jefferson  avenue, 
it  occupied  for  a  period  of  five 
which 
years, 
from  which 
its 
present  location.  The  firm  name  was 
changed  in  April,  1887.  to  Burnham, 
Stoepel  &  Co.,  at  which  time  the 
large 
wholesale  dry  goods  business  of  ¡Tootle, 
Hanna  &  Co.,  of  Kansas City,  Mo.,¡was 
purchased  by  Messrs.  Burnham,  Stoepel 
&  Munger.  This  purchase  necessitated 
some  changes,  with  the  ¡result 
that 
Messrs.  Burnham  and  ¡Munger  moved 
to  Kansas  City, 
leaving  the  Detroit 
in  charge  of  F.  C.  Stoepel,  J.
business 
J.  Crowley  and  James  Wilson, 
the  two 
latter  being  admitted  as  partners.  From 
the  very  first  the  business  was  success­
ful  and  to-day  the  house  stands  second 
to  none  in  the  Detroit  wholesale  dry 
goods  market  in  point  of  sales.

it  moved 

to 

The  principles  followed  in conducting 
the  business  were  not  to base  profits  on 
limited  sales,  but  rather  to  depend  on 
a  large  volume  of  business,  depending 
on  the  intelligence  and  discrimination 
of  merchants  for  encouragement  in  the 
building  up  of  business  on  the  lines  in­
dicated.
The  new  store  will  be  ready  for  occu­
pancy  about  July  1  and  will  be  entirely 
remodeled,  although  now  a  practically 
new  building.  The  changes  contem­
plate  the  placing  of  new  boilers,  en­
gines  and  a  complete  electrical  plant, 
three  swift  running  elevators,  conven­
ient  private  and  general  offices  (in 
eluded 
in  which  will  be  set  apart  a 
space  to  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of 
customers),  a  complete  sprinkler  sys­
tem,  and  improvements generally,  which 
will 
insure  one  of  the  most  convenient 
buildings  adapted  to  the  dry  goods  job­
bing  trade  to  be  found  in  the  United 
States.
The  various  departments,  under  the 
management  of  competent  help,  will  be 
arranged  as  follows:  On  the  first  floor, 
wash  goods  and  dress  goods  will  be 
floor,  notions  and 
displayed;  second 
white  goods; 
furnishings 
and  hosiery;  fourth  floor,  domestics,  oil 
cloths,  carpets,  etc.  ;  the  fifth  floor  will 
be  devoted  to  the  charging,  packing 
and  shipment  of  goods,  and  in  the base­
ment  will  be  stored  all  original  pack­
age stuff.

third  floor, 

The  concern  employs  twenty  travel­
ing  men,  covering  Michigan,  Ohio  and 
Indiana;  and, 
in  addition  to  the  large 
jobbing  house  of  Burnham,  Hanna, 
Munger  &  Co.,  of  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
it  has  a  factory  employing  between  600 
and  700 hands  engaged  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  shirt  waists,,  shirts,  overalls, 
jackets,  pants,  etc.

The  buyers  of  this concern  have  made 
unusual  efforts  to  get  together  the  most 
attractive  lines  of  goods  to  be  displayed

at  the  time  of  the  opening  of  the  new 
store,  and  it  will  be  in  the  nature  of  a 
surprise  to  the  trade  to  see  the  result  of 
efforts  which  have  been  put  forth  to 
display  all  the  latest  and  best  things 
in 
the  dry  goods  line. 
The  firm  wishes  to  emphasize  its  de­
sire  to  have  the  store  made  the  head­
quarters  of  merchants  visiting  Detroit 
and  no  pains will  be spared to have them 
feel welcome.

.

RAPID  GROW TH  O F  CITIES.
The  expansion  of  the  big  cities,  both 
in  the  United  States  and  abroad,  is  so 
rapid  and  pronounced  at  this  time  as 
to  excite  the 
liveliest  comment  and 
many  speculations  as  to  the  probable 
size  of  the  greater  centers  of  population 
in  another  quarter  of  a  century.  The 
wall-known  engineer,  E.  L.  Corthell, 
has  compiled  some 
interesting  figures 
iecently  on  this  subject.

the 

10  per  cent.  ;  Berlin, 

being  based  on 
the 

According  to  this  authority,  the  cal­
latest 
culation 
censuses, 
increase  of  population 
in  the  greatest  cities  is  upon  the  follow­
ing  decennial  ratio:  Greater  London,
18  per  cent.  ;  Greater  New  York,  33 
per  cent.  ;  Philadelphia,  25  per  cent.  , 
Paris, 
3 7  p e r 
cent.  ;  St.  Petersburg,  15,  and  Chicago, 
106  per  cent. 
In  1920,  by  Mr.  Cor- 
thell’s figuring,London  will  have 8,516,- 
000  people;  Chicago,  8,200,000;  New 
York, 
6,191,000;  Berlin,  3,496,000; 
Paris,  3,234,000;  Philadelphia,  2,002,- 
000,  and  St.  Petersburg, 
1,500,000. 
What  is  true  of  these  big  cities  is  sub­
stantially  and  proportionally  true  of 
the 
smaller  cities—a  phenomenally 
rapid  growth.

The  reason  is  easy  to  determine.  The 
comforts  and  advantages  of  city  life 
are  drawing  the  aspiring  youth  of  both 
sexes  from  the  country.  The  men  who 
have  made  a  competency,  also,  in  the 
small  towns  and  in the  country are mov­
ing  into  cities  to  obtain  the  benefits  of 
the  educational  facilities  and  enjoy  the 
conveniences  of  metropolitan  life.  And 
just  in  proportion  as  a  city  presents 
these  superior  advantages  and  comforts 
of  living,  in  that  proportion 
it  draws 
new  population.  The  city  with  parks, 
paved  streets, 
thorough  drainage  and 
sewerage,  good  schools,  rapid  and  ex­
tended  local  transit,  efficient  policing 
and  honest,  progressive  government 
and  up-to-date  business  methods 
is 
the  city  that  will  catch  the  new  people 
and  the  new  investments.  As  has  been 
stated  before  in  these  columns,  the  pro­
portion  of  the population living  in towns 
of  8,000  inhabitants  and  over  at  the  be­
ginning  of  the  century  was  but  3  per 
cent,  in  this  country;  now  the  propor­
tion  is  but  a  fraction  short  of  33  per 
cent.  And 
just  as  wide-awake,  pro­
gressive  America  is  getting  the  bulk  of 
the  world’s 
the  wide­
awake,  progressive  cities  in  the  various 
states  are  getting  the  greater  number  of 
the  people  who  are  flocking  to the towns 
from  the  villages  and  fields.
Bicycle  Sundries.

immigration, 

Silk  for  tires  has  been  produced  by  a 
French  tire  maker. 
is  used 
instead  of  cotton  fabric  in  the  special 
racing  tire.

The  silk 

One  of  the  newest  uses  to  which  the 
bicycle  has  been  put  is  its  introduction 
as  an  aid  to  the  life  savers  in  patroling 
the beach.

is  said  that  all  machines  used  in 
the  French  army  are  to  be  equipped 
with  electric 
lights  capable  of  being 
turned  on  or  off  at  will.

It 

The  bicycle  is  proving  of  great  use  to 
the  medical  profession. 
In  many  cases 
the  sick  can  be  thankful  that  the  doctor 
has  a  bicycle,  and  can  thus  be  at  the 
bedside  in  less  time  than  that  required 
for  harnessing  a  horse.

G O TH A M   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  of 

the  Market, 

gpecial  Correspondence.

,

, 

__ 

is  putting 

But  business 

New  York,  April  18—Records  which 
go  back  fifty  years  show  nothing  which 
equals  the  present  hot  spell  at  this  time 
of  the  year.  New  York  has  sizzled  at 
80,  while 
in  the  suburbs  from  85  to  90 
is  recorded.  No  [one  knows  what  a  day 
may  bring 
forth  and,  consequently, 
thousands  dare  not  change  their  winter 
underwear.  To  say  that  it  is  uncom­
fortable 
it  mildly—very 
mildly. 
is  better.  That  s  the 
thing.  Within  the  last  six  days  we  have 
ushered  in  some  trading  which  has,  ac­
tually  been  lively.  While  this  applies 
to  more  than  one  line  of  trade,  it  is 
particularly  true  as  regards  the  jobbing 
grocery  business. 
Prices  on  some 
staples  *  show  decided  advance  and 
strength  is  shown  where  weakness  pre­
dominated  a  week  ago.  This  does  not 
apply  to  potatoes,  but  it  does  apply  to 
the  wretched  old  despised  rutabaga, 
which  is  actually  worth  more  just  now 
than  the  potato.
It  applies  to  sugar,  also,  and  this 
great  staple  now  seems  to  have  fairly 
started  on  its  upward  summer  way,  and 
there 
is  no  telling  where  it  will  stop. 
There  has  sprung  up  a  renewed  demand 
and  this  is,  probably,  owing  in no  small 
degree  to  the  warmer  weather.  Orders 
have  come 
in  freely  from  out-of-town 
dealers  and  as  they  all  want  them  filled 
immediately  there  is  a  lack  of  supply. 
The  result  is  that  some  orders  will  have 
to  wait  a  few  days.  For  raw  sugar  the 
position  is yet very strong and  all  reports 
indicate  that  holders  will  have  their 
own  way.
is 
stronger,  but  no  advance  is  perceptible 
and 
likely  that  any  will 
take  place,  as  the  statistical  position  is 
not  favorable  for  any  appreciation  in 
price.  Tea  seems  to  be  driving  coffee 
entirely  out  of  England,  and  while  this 
will  have  no  effect  here,  perhaps,  it  is 
true  that  “ every 
little  helps”   and  if 
the  coffee  which  formerly  went  to  Eng­
land  comes  here 
in  the  future,  it  will 
simply  add  to  our  supply  of  the  bean. 
Supplies  of  mild  coffees are  rather  light 
and,  as  there  seems  to  be  no  great 
amount  in  sight,  the  market  appears  to 
be  slightly  stronger.  Of  Brazil  coffee 
afloat  there  are  474,578  bags,  against 
444,078  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
Invoice  value  of  Rio  No.  7, 
in  about  the  same  old 
rut,  unless  possibly,  in  sympathy  with 
the  general  grocery  market,  there 
is  a 
little  better  undertone.  At  the  auction 
sales,  Wednesday,  there  was  a  little bet­
ter display  among  bidders,  but  at  best 
the  prices  were  low  and  the  outlook  al­
together 
is  not  very  cheerful,  although 
no  worse  than  it  has  been.

The  tone  of  the  coffee  market 

Teas  remain 

is  hardly 

c*

it 

Rice  is  firm.  Holders  are  making  no 
concessions  whatever  and  advices  from 
primary  points  are  of  a  most  encoura­
ging  nature.  Of  course,  the best grades 
are  in  best  demand,  but  other  sorts  are 
selling  pretty  well,  and,  upon the whole, 
the  market  is  very  satisfactory.  Prices 
have  shown  no  advance,  yet  no  surprise 
would  be  occasioned  should  one  take 
place.
The  spice  market  is  reported  in  a sat­
isfactory  condition  by  "those 
interested 
and  the  demand  ¡is  quite  good  for  this 
time  of  the  year.  Recent  prices  are 
firmly  adhered  to  and  there  is  no  weak­
ness  in  the  staples  whatever.

large  as 

The  demand  for  molasses  is,  perhaps,  | 
hardly  as 
last  week  and  the 
market  remains pretty much  unchanged. 
Prices  have  not  been  altered  and  full 
rates  are  exacted  for  best  goods,  while 
they  are  about  the  only  kind  much 
sought  after.

Syrups  are  selling  at  full  figures,  and 
the  demand  is  very  good  for  best goods. 
The  supply  is  not  at  all  excessive  and 
the  market  is  strong.

Canned  goods  are  about  unchanged ; 
that  is,  the  market  is  no duller,  because 
that 
impossible.  Of  course,  every 
day  sees  a  lessening  supply ;  but  stoeks 
are  ample  enough  in  all conscience.  We 
may  have  a  frost  after  this  hot  wave 
which  will  knock  the  fruit  crop  end-

is 

.

fruit 

wise.  Maryland 
probably,  mighty  anxious  about 
time. 
Dried  fruits  are  selling  in  the  slowest 
sort  of  way.  Prices  are  unprecedentedly 
low,  yet  matters  might  be  worse.

growers  are, 
this

Fresh  fruits, 

lemons,  oranges,  etc., 
exhibit  considerable improvement.  *  Or­
ders  for  lemons  come  in  freely  and  the 
whole  line  shows  a  tendency to advance. 
There  are  plenty  of  lemons  here  for  all 
wants.  New  pineapples  are^  arriving 
and  the  market  for  this  delicious  fruit 
is  firm.
Butter  must  be  of  the  best  sort  to 
bring  over  16c.  With  free  arrivals  and 
a 
light  demand  the  market  shows  no 
encouragement  to  dealers.

There 

is  a  pretty  good  demand  for 
cheese.  Home  trade  shows  considerable 
improvement  and  on  the  best  grades  of 
full  cream  cheese  there  is  a  steady 
im­
provement.  For  grades  other  than  the 
best  the  demand  is  slow  and  prices  are 
much  depressed.

Arrivals  of  eggs  continue  large  and 
rates  have  declined  until  now  the  best 
sorts  are  worth  not  over  12c.  The  ex­
cessively  hot  weather  will  certainly  de­
velop  a  huge  crop  of  eggs  which  are  a 
“ little  off”   and  the  market  is  likely  to 
suffer  accordingly.

AN  ENCOURAGING  E X A M PLE .
The  spasm  of  reform  must  have  been 
stronger  in  New  York  City th ,n the gen­
eral  public  has  been  ready  to  admit,  if, 
as  the  World  says,  the  last  gambling  es­
tablishment  has  been  closed 
in  that 
modern  Babylon. 
Imagine  New  York 
without*:fts  gilded  palaces  of  chance! 
Chañóte  in  a  few  instances,  and  a  dead 
sure  thing  in  the  others,  for  the  propri­
etors.

Yet  the  World  says  that  the 

lottery 
has  gone,  the  pool  rooms  have  disap­
peared,  and  faro  and  keno  and  roulette 
and  the  professional  poker game  are  no 
more.  Even  the  green  goods  business 
,is  said  to  no  longer  pay  respectable 
day’s  wages  and  the  gold  brick  is  with­
out  its  old  premium  and  goes  slowly  at 
bullion  prices.  True,  the  World  notes 
an  exception—the  tobacco  trust;  but  it 
seems  that  the  law  is  powerless  to  take 
hold  of  the  stock  gamblers.  They  play 
their big  game  recklessly  and  defiantly. 
The  only  consolation  is  that  the  small 
wage-earner  cannot  be  reached  by  these 
big  sharks.  The  suppression  of  the 
other kinds  of  gambling,  however, 
in 
the  metropolis  is  in  itself  a  wonderful 
achievement. 
in  connection 
with  the  closing  of  the  side  doors  and 
the  maintenance  of  a  dry  and  decent 
Sunday,  this  reform  success  in  the  big 
city  leads  the  general  public  to  hope 
that  laws  can  be  enforced  after  all. 
Municipal  codes  will  begin to command 
some  respect  again  after a  while.

Taken 

The  fact  is,  the  people  generally  are 
beginning  to  get  surfeited  with the open 
and  flagrant  disregard  of  law.  The  vio­
lators  of  the  codes  have  been too aggres­
sive—they  have  misconstrued  popular 
indifference  at  times  into  popular  ap­
proval  and  have  proceeded  to  take 
charge  of  the  various  municipal  agen­
cies  for  maintaining  good  order  and 
good  government.  Then  popular  pa­
tience  ceased  to  be  a  want  of  virtue 
and  became  resentful.  What  has  been 
accomplished  in  New  York  can  be  ac­
That  city  kept 
complished  elsewhere. 
on  trying  new  men  until  at  last 
it  got 
an  honest  and  fearless  police  board—  
then  the  enforcement  of  the  law  fol­
lowed  as  a  matter of  course.  The  law 
will  always  be  respected  if  the  officers 
of  the  law  are honest and  efficient.  Vice 
can  only  flourish  by  permission  of  the 
officials.

The talk  of  the  proprietor  is often  less 
eloquent  than  the  silence  of  the  clerk 
who  is  a good  listener.

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S Y M P A T H Y   FOR  M URDERERS. 
Much  of  the  attention  of  the  local 
press  and  the  public  has  recently  been 
occupied  by  the  accounts  of  the  terrible 
tragedy  costing  six  lives  at  Pentwater 
and  the  trial  of  a  homicide  in  this  city. 
In  both  cases  the  murderers  have 
seemed  to  have  a  larger  share  of  public 
sympathy  than  is  usual.

the 

This 

there 

carried. 

industry, 

In  the  Pentwater  case  the  first  victim 
was  the  manager  of  a  “ soullesscorpora­
tion. ”   In  all  communities  where  large 
corporations  have  been  built  up,  even 
though  the  existence  of  the  town  de­
pends  upon 
is  a 
large  element  which  cherishes  enmity 
against  the  management. 
is  a 
sufficient  reason  why  there  are  so  many 
ready  to  find  excuses  and  palliations  for 
the  fiendish  crimes  of  Minshell.  The 
facts 
in  the  case  seem  to  be  these: 
Minshell  came  to  Pentwater  to  handle 
the  insurance  and  collection  business 
of  the  corporation. 
In  accordance  with 
the  universal  practice,  the  management 
io  per  cent,  on  the  large 
gave  only 
amount  of 
insurance 
The 
regular  rate  for  small  risks  is  15  per 
cent.  This  gave  Minshell  about  $5°°* 
in  return  for  a  nominal  amount  of  cler­
ical  work  occupying  but  a  few  days 
in 
the  year.  He  proved  incompetent  as  a 
collector  and,  in  justice  to  the  interests 
of  the  business,  that  portion  of  the work 
was  taken  away  from  him.  Considering 
that  he  had  a  small  income,  as  indi­
cated,  and  practically  all  his  time, 
while  his  wife  and  daughter  were  earn­
ing  something  as  music 
teachers,  it 
would  seem  that  his  case  need  not  be 
so  desperate.  As  too  often  happens, 
however,  he  had  neither  taken  steps  to 
increase  his  earnings,  nor  gauged  his 
expenditures  to  his 
Instead, 
he  had  used  §850 of  money  belonging  to 
insurance  companies  and  was  a  default­
er.  He  knew  that  the  companies  were 
about  to  demand  settlement  and  that 
exposure  and  disgrace  were 
imminent. 
In  this  emergency  he  proved  to  be  a 
revengeful  coward.  Rather  than  man­
fully  face  the  trouble  his  mismanage­
ment  had  brought,  he  revenged  himself 
upon  his  benefactor,  because  the 
latter 
had  not  been  so  liberal  as he demanded, 
and,  by  murdering  his  family  and  him­
self,  sneaked  out  of  the  ordeal  of  finan­
cial  trouble  and  disgrace.  The 
fact 
that  he  manifested  a  tenderness  for  his 
family  doubtless  increases  the  sympa­
thy  for  him,  but  that tenderness  was  not 
sufficient  to  cause him  to make  any  self- 
denying  effort  for  their  proper  support.
The  trial  of  the  murderer  Holmes,  in

income. 

this  city,  has  afforded  opportunity  for 
the  exhibition  of  misplaced  sympathy, 
based  on  different  causes  but  not  less 
to  be  deprecated.  Thé  respondent  in 
this  case 
is  a  man  of  intelligence  and 
one  who  has  received  a  liberal and tech­
nical  education  at  the  expense  of  the 
State.  He  came  to  this  city  and  found 
profitable  employment,  but  selected  a 
boarding  place 
in  the  class  where  his 
intelligence  and  education  must  need 
create  antipathies.  When  these  began 
to  manifest  themselves  and  he  was  sub­
jected  to  the  rough  horse  play  to  be  ex­
pected  in  such  cases,  instead  of  looking 
for  a  more  suitable  place  and  compan­
ionship,  he 
cherished  a  resentment 
against  his  tormentor  which  prompted 
him  to  obtain  a  revolver and  to  have 
it 
ready  for  use.  For  a  man  with  his  an­
tecedents  and  education,  without  ever 
having  had  a  legitimate  use  for  such  a 
weapon,  to  be  thus provided  is sufficient 
evidence  of  premeditation.

In  the  estimation  of  a  large  circle  of 
sympathizing  friends  the  act  committed 
in  the  delirium  of  passion  made  the 
murderer  a  hero.  The  difference  in  the 
education  and  the  degree  of 
intelli­
gence  between  the  two  men  was  never 
taken 
into  consideration,  and  the  too 
general  popular  verdict  was  that  the 
victim  was  served  right  for  his  rough­
ness.  This  has  seemed  to  be  the  opin­
ion  of  the  murderer’s  relatives  and 
friends,  and  to  judge  from  his  bearing 
it  seems  to  be  the  opinion  of  the  mur­
derer  himself.

insanity. 

It  is  to  be  deprecated  that  in this case 
there  was  so  much  expert  testimony  of 
a  high  character  offered  to  establish  the 
theory  of  emotional 
This 
tended  to  raise  the  self-pitying  esteem 
of  the  murderer  still  higher  and  to  fur­
nish  an  extenuation  for  “  insane”   an­
ger,  which  is  not  well  for  the  young  of 
It  is  a  matter  of  as­
the  community. 
tonishment  that  so  many 
reputable 
medical  practitioners  should  lend  their 
voice  to  this  pernicious  and  dangerous 
idea.

The  apparently  heartless  bearing  of 
the  prisoner  and  the  manner  in  which 
he  accepted  the  sympathetic  attentions 
of  his  effusive  friends,  without  at  any 
time  showing  the  slightest  feeling  for 
the  victim  of  his  savage  rage  or  his  rel­
atives,  did much to  secure  a  prompt and 
unanimous  verdict  of  conviction  from 
a  sensible  jury.

of 

Under  the  circumstances  the  extenu­
ation  of  this  man’s  crime  on the  ground 
of  great  provocation  is  most pernicious. 
Rather  should  he be  the  more  severely 
dealt  with,  as  his 
intelligence  and  cul­
ture  leave  him no excuse for  the  vicious 
indulgence 
vindictive  passion 
againât  one  whose  unpleasant  ways,  if 
distasteful,  could  be  easily  avoided. 
If 
his  passion  in  any  degree  could  have 
extenuated  his  act,  there  should  have 
been  contrition  manifested  and,  instead 
of  accepting  the  sacrifice  of  his  father’s 
property 
in  the  attempt  to  defeat  the 
ends  of  justice  by  what  he  knew  to  be 
a  false  plea,  he  should  have  willingly 
paid  the  penalty  of  his  crime  against 
the  State,  at  whose  hands  he  had  re­
ceived  such  favors,  until  such  time  as 
he  could  have shown,  by  a  life of repent­
ance  and  self-control,  that  he  had  be­
come  fit  to  be  set  at  large  by  executive 
clemency.

It 

is  estimated  that  the  quantity  of 
oysters  passing  through  the  hands  of 
Baltimore  dealers  this  season  will  fall 
20  per  cent.,  or  1,000,000  bushels,  be­
low  that  of  last  season.  This  decrease 
is  attributed 
lack  of  care'  in  the 
methods  of  handling  the  crop  and  of 
proper  care  for  the  beds  of  the  Chesa­
peake,  which  are  the  .largest 
the 
world.

to 

in 

BUSINESS  C ALLS .

A  grave  concern  to  many  people  is 
the  etiquette  to  be  observed  in  the mak­
ing  of  -social  calls.  That  part  of  the 
ceremony  presenting  the  most difficulty, 
perhaps, 
is  the  ordeal  of  terminating 
them.  The caller of society who can make 
a graceful,  pleasant  and,  withal,  prompt 
exit  is  one  who  has  made  good  progress 
in  social  culture.

Calling 

is,  relatively,  as 
iri  business 

frequent 
an  occurrence 
life  as  in 
social;  and  in  the  making  of  business 
calls  there  are  the same vicissitudes.  To 
the  novice  and  uncultivated,  as  in  the 
other  kind  of  calls,  the  great  difficulty 
is the ending of  them.  Not that the mat­
ter is of so much conscious concern  to the 
business  caller—the  failures  are  more 
frequently  a  result  of  slovenly  careless­
ness  than 
in  social  life.  Deficiencies 
in  this  direction  are  more  noticeable  in 
young  men  than  in  those  of  wider  ex­
perience.

In  the  making  of  a  business  call,  the 
business  should  be  the object of  the call, 
and  when  the  business 
is  transacted 
the  business  call  should  be  promptly 
terminated. 
instances, 
when  the  business  is  finished,  there  are 
careless,  lazy  hesitation  and  waiting. 
is  a 
This 
“ give  away”   on  the  caller  whenever 
it 
occurs.

is  not  businesslike,  and 

In  too  many 

It  does  not,  necessarily,  follow  that 
the  business  caller  should  always  im­
mediately  proceed  on  his  journey  when 
the  business  of  the  call  is  ended. 
If 
the  circumstances  and  the  humor  of  the 
recipient  of  the  visit  are  propitious, 
there  may  follow  a  friendly  call or  chat; 
but 
let  the  business  be  wound  up  and 
the  change  to  the  other  kind  of  call  be 
positive.  Any  hesitation  or  waiting, 
that  seems  to  need  something  more  to 
be  said  when  all  is  said  that  is  neces­
sary,  quickly  becomes  exceedingly  an­
noying;  and,  while  the  man  receiving 
such  a  call  may  not  formulate  in  his 
mind  the  reason  for  the  annoyance,  he 
conceives  a  dislike  unconsciously.

There  are  some  men— young  men 
mostly—who  consider  an  abrupt,  gruff 
manner  as  a  businesslike  acquirement. 
Such  a  manner  is  quickly  set  down  by 
the  man  of  experience  as  callow  affec­
is  not  so  serious  a  dan­
tation.  This 
ger  as  the  other,  but 
is  one  to  be 
avoided.  Be  natural;  be  courteous; 
but,  above  all,  be  prompt.

it 

trade  throughout 

S TA PLE S   AND S TO C K S  IMPROVE.
The  sudden  transition  from  winter  to 
summer  weather  had  a  decided  influ­
ence  on  retail 
the 
country,  and  the  influence  has  extended 
to  wholesalers  and  has  even  created  de­
mand  at  manufacturing  works.  There 
is  still  conservatism  in  buying,  which 
argues  a  healthy  quality  in  the improve­
ment.

Many  of  the  quotations  for  staples 
show  improvement,  noticeably  those  of 
flour,  wheat  and  corn,  with  a 
sugar, 
slight  advance 
in  cotton,  while  most 
other  lines  are  unchanged.

The  operations  of  the  steel  and  iron 
combinations  have  not been  productive 
increased  orders  and  are,  on  the 
of 
whole,  disappointing.  There  is  an 
in­
creased  demand  for  plates  and  bars, 
but  Bessemer  pig  and  gray  forge  are  a 
shade  lower.

The  unsatisfactory  condition  of  the 
woolen  trade  still  continues.  Several 
more  mills  have  shut  down  and  some 
have  reduced  wages  10  per  cent.,  while 
still  others  are  working  half  time.  The 
demand  for  goods  does  not improve  and 
the  sales  of  wool  are  less  than  half  what

they  were  for  the  corresponding  time 
last  year.  There  is  an  improvement  in 
the  demand  for cottons;  but many works 
are  shutting  down  or  curtailing  produc­
tion.  There 
is  an  improvement  in  the 
demand  for  hides  and  the  shoe  trade 
is 
better.

There  is  a  decidedly  increased  activ­
ity  in  the  stock  market,  the  leading  in­
dustrials  and  railways  especially  look­
ing  up.  Sugar  stock  has  been  especially 
active.  There  is  an  increased  demand 
for  American  securities  in  London,  as 
confidence  in  the  improving  conditions 
in  this  country  increases.  The  Moore 
stocks,  Diamond  Match  and  New  York 
Biscuit,  have  both  made  new  high 
records,  the  former  reaching  iq4/^  and 
the  latter  96^.

is 

found 

An  indication  of  generally  improving 
conditions 
in  the  fact  that 
bank  clearings,  which  had  been  declin­
ing  from  week  to  week  for-a  long  time, 
show  an  increase  of  no  less  than  6  per 
cent.  Failures  number  244,  against  231 
the  preceding  week,  but  there  are  less 
important  ones.

ENGLISH  PRO SPERITY.

yet 

It  is 

year, 

interesting  to  note  that,  while 
American  national  finances  are 
in  a 
very  discouraging  condition,  with  a 
constantly  increasing  deficit,  the  report 
of  the  English  Chancellor  of  the  E x­
chequer  shows  that  the  revenues  of  that 
country  have  never  been  in  so  prosper­
ous  a  condition.  The  expenditures  of 
the  year  were  greater  than  for  any  pre­
ceding 
the  surplus  was 
£4,210,000,  the  greatest  ever  known. 
The  report  states  that  the  increase  of 
exports  and 
imports  during  the  year 
amounted  to  over  £21,000,000.  As  a 
result  of  the  English  policy  of  encour­
aging  trade  with  the  colonies,  the  re­
port  states  that  there  was  an  increase  in 
the  imports  of  tea  from  India  and  Cey­
lon,  amounting  to  £10,000,000,  replac­
ing  that  amount  of  Chinese  tea.  The 
Chancellor  states  that  the  large  surplus 
had  caused  a  considerable  decrease  in 
the  public  debt. 
It  is  proposed  to  re­
duce  taxes  on  account  of  the  increasing 
surplus.

It 

Commenting  on  the  revenues, 

the 
statement  is  made  that  the  consumption 
of  tea,  tobacco  and  sugar  had  greatly 
increased,  from  which  it  is  argued  .that 
the  condition  of  the  working  classes 
is 
is  becoming  greatly  improved. 
a  coincidence  that  this 
improvement 
occurs  at  a  time  when  the  employment 
of  American  artisans is  rapidly decreas­
ing ;  when  the  mills  are  shutting  down 
because  their  product 
is  replaced  by 
the  shoddy  goods  which  have  kept  the 
English  workmen  employed, 
to  their 
own  and  their  country’s  prosperity. 
It 
is  a  comfort  to  know  that  we  are  con­
tributing  to  the  prosperity  of  some­
body,  but  as  charity  properly  begins  at 
home,  it 
inquiry  as  to 
whether  some  policy  that  should  keep 
our  own  artisans  at  work  would  not  be 
more  consistent  than  the  present  ar­
rangement.

is  worthy  of 

The 

trade 

spirit  of 

combination 
in  this 
which  has  been  so  manifest 
country  recently 
is  by  no  means  con­
fined  to  the  Western  World.  Such  com­
binations  have  been  in  process  of  evo­
lution  in  England  for  some  years  and 
there  is  recently  the  same  disposition 
to  regulate  prices  and  production,  the 
measures  taking  the  form  of  restriction 
and  allotments,  with  fines  for  violation 
of  the  agreements,  the  same  as 
in  this 
country.  There  are,  also,  a  number  of 
such  combinations 
in  Germany,  and 
the  French  system  has  just gone through 
a  reorganization  which  makes 
it  the 
most  complete  and  effective  of  any.

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9

T H E   M ETRIC   SYSTEM*
The  consideration  of  the  bill 

intro­
duced  in  the  House  early  in  the  present 
session  of  Congress,  providing  for  the 
adoption  of  the  metric  system  for  use 
by  the  United  States  Government,  after 
July  i,  1898,  and  for the  extension  of  its 
use  to  the  people  at  large  after  July  1, 
1901,has  given  the subject a  renewed  in­
terest.  It  will be remembered that an act 
was  passed  by  Congress 
in  1866  au­
thorizing  the  use  of  the  system,  but  not 
making  it  compulsory. 
It  was  thought 
that  its  manifest  advantages  would  win 
voluntary 
for  it  a  recognition  and 
adoption. 
found 
.themselves  greatly  mistaken  in their an­
ticipations,  for,  while  the  desirability 
was  conceded,  there  were  too  many  es­
tablished  methods  and 
interests  to  be 
interfered  with  for  the  movement  to 
progress  by  voluntary  action.  The  law 
has  been  practically  a  dead 
letter,  so 
far  as  general  trade  is  concerned,  and 
there  is,  perhaps,  less  interest 
in  and 
knowledge  of  the  system  among the peo­
ple  at  large  than  there  was  at  the  time 
of  the  enactment.  The  manner in  which 
the  matter  is  being  taken  up  now,  how­
ever,  promises  different  results.

Its  friends,  however, 

Denmark,  and  on  this  continent  it  has 
been adopted by  Mexico and  Central and 
South  America.

About  twenty  years  ago  an  Interna­
tional  Commission,  in  which  the United 
States  and  most  of  the  countries  of  Eu­
rope  were  represented,  held  a  meeting 
in  Paris  for  the  purpose  of  verifying 
the  meter and  preparing  formulae  for 
the  making  of  duplicate  standards  of 
the meter  for  the  different  countries. 
This  work  involved  the  most  careful 
methods  known 
to  mechanical  and 
chemical  science,  and  the  standards 
thus  prepared  defy  the  detection  of  any 
naccuracy  by  known  methods.
The  metric  system  is  based  on  this 
it.  Decimal  divisions  and  multipli- 
ations  of  this  constitute  measures  of 
length.  The  square  of  this  unit  consti­
tutes  the  unit  of  square  and  cubic meas- 
res  in  the  same  manner.  Measures  of 
capacity  are  a  decimal  part  of  the  same 
^andard,  and  the  standard  of  weight  is 
obtained  by  the  weight  of  a  quantity  of 
distilled  water,  at  a  temperature 
just 
above  freezing,  equal  to  a  cubic  centi­
meter.  Thus the  system  is made to  apply 
to  all  requirements. 
Its  simplicity  and 
convenience  are  all  that  can  be  attained 

the  Arabic  system  of  notation.
It  is  difficult  to  describe  the  systems 
which  it  is  intended  to  replace  by  the 
metric 
in  this  country.  Not  content 
ith  arbitrary  units  for  the  different 
inds  of  measurements  and  weights 
ith  no  relation  to  each  other, 
there 
must  be  different  systems  for  the differ 
ent  kinds  of  computations,  as,  for 
in 
stance,  avoirdupois,  Troy  and  apothe­
cary’s weights; and,  to add to  the confu­
sion,  the same terms,  as  ounces,  pounds, 
etc.,  are  used  in  the  different  kinds  oi 
weights  for  different  quantities.  Thus 
pound  Troy is less than  a pound  avoir 
dupois,  while  an  ounce  Troy 
is  more 
than  an  ounce  avoirdupois.  There  are 
tons  of  varying  quantities,  a  hundred 
reight sometimes meaning one thing and 
sometimes  another.

When  it  comes to measures of capacity 
the  confusion  is  almost  without  limit 
Acts  of  legislatures  in  all  the  different 
states  are  almost  constantly  defining  the 
ifferent  measures  for  this  or  that  com 
modity.  There 
is  an  endless  assort 
ment  of  bushels,  pecks,  quarts,  gallons 
and  barrels.  Dealers  may  buy  by  beer 
measure  and  sell  by  wine  measure,  thus 
cheating  in  quantity.  A  report  to  Con 
gress  states  that  there  are  130  different 
sizes  of  bushels 
in  this  country  for 
measuring  products  and  that  none  of 
them  are  the  size  of  the  English bushel 
But  the  task  of  describing  the abomina 
ble condition  of the American  system(? 
s  beyond  the  ability  of  the  Trades 
man  and  it  desists.

for 

It  may  be  of 

interest  to  devote  a 
small  space  to  a  history  and  descrip­
tion  of  the  system.  During  the  Middle 
Ages  there  was  developed 
in  all  the 
countries of  Europe  a  variety  of weights 
and  measures,  similar  to  that  obtain­
ing  in  this  country,  only  with  less  com­
plexity,  perhaps,  in  the  different  coun­
tries.  Early  attention  was  directed  to 
the  subject  of  the  adoption  of  a  more 
philosophical  system,  and  as  early  as 
1528  a  decimal  system, 
to  correspond 
with  the  universal  method  of  numera 
tion,  was  suggested  by  a  French  physi 
cian  and  scientist.  The  development 
of  his  idea  was  very  slow, 
it  was 
not  until  1790  that  any  decisive  steps 
were  taken  for  the  establishment  of  a 
system.  At  that  time  Prince  Talley, 
rand  distributed  a  memorial  among  the 
members  of  the  Constituent  Assembly, 
urging  the  desirability  of  some  system 
to  displace  the  inconvenient  and  illog 
¡cal  variety  which  then  obtained  ii 
France.  This  action 
led  to  the  ap 
pointment  of  a  committee  of  five  of  the 
leading  scientists  and  mathematicians 
of  the  country  to  determine  some  nat 
ural' standard  for  such  a  system.  The 
report  of 
this  committee  proposed 
that  a  certain  portion  of  a  circle  of  thi 
earth  should  be  adopted  as  such  stand 
ard  and  specified  that 
the  ten  mi' 
lioneth  part  of  the  quarter  meridian  of 
Paris  should  be  the  new  unit  o l  meas 
ure.

The  next  thing  was  to  determine  the 
length  of  this  unit.  To  do  this  a  com 
mission  was  appointed  to  measure  an 
arc  of  the  meridian  between  the  cities 
of  Dunkerque  and  Barcelona.  Not 
withstanding  the  fact  that  the  work  of 
this  commission  was  carried  on  during 
the  French  revolution,  so  that  their  la 
bors  were  frequently  interrupted  by  the 
arrest  of  the  surveyors  on  account  of 
the  suspicion  of  the  people,  when  thei 
work  was 
it  was 
found  to  agree  very  accurately  with pre 
ceding  measurements  and  with  the  the 
oretical  computation.  The  result  was 
the  establishment  of  the  meter,  equal 
39.37079  inches  in  our  measure,  as  the 
new  unit.  The  adoption  of  the  system 
based  on  this  unit  soon  followed, 
the 
universal  overturning  of  all  precedents 
by’ the  revolution  no  doubt  opening  the 
way.  This  has  been  followed  by  the 
adoption  by  all  of  the  European  coun­
tries,  except  Great  Britain,  Russia  and

finally  completed 

its  long-time  contributor,  S.  P. 
from 
Whitmarsh,  which  is  of  value  as 
indi­
cating  the  character  of  the  objections 
usually  advanced  to  making  a  change 
to  the  metric  system.  The  writer  ob­
serves,  very  justly,  that  the  change  will 
be  a  radical  one  and  that  it  will  render 
worthless  much  of  the  apparatus  of  ex­
change  now  in  use.  It  may  be  observed 
that  the  superseding  of  much  of  the 
clumsy,  inexact  appliances  for  weight 
and  measure  which  have  been  inherited 
from  a generation  before  the modern ex­
act,  scientific  methods  of  construction 
were  possible  would  not  be  the  most  se­
rious  calamity.  The benefit  of  a  clear­
ing  out  of  this  old  rubbish  to  make 
room  for  that  which  is  made  correctly 
ould  go  far  to  compensate  for  the  loss 

sustained.

The  fact  that  a  bill  providing  for  the 
full  adoption  of  the  system  is  receiving 
favorable  consideration  at  the  hands  of 
Congress  argues  that  there  has  been 
some  progress  made  during  the  thirty 
ears  since  there  was  legislative  action 
permitting 
its  use.  The  observation 
that  legislation  alone  will  never  effect 
the  change  is,  of  course,  true.  Educa- 
Jon,  however,  can,  and  will,  prepare 
the  way  for  it,  and  in  conjunction  with 
legislation  will  eventually  attain  the  re­
sult.

The  Tradesman  is  not exactly  pleased 
ith  the  tendency  of  its  contributor  to 
treat  the  system  as  a  “ new,”   “ fantas 
c ”   or  “ French”   method.  This  illus­
trates  the  estimation  in  which  it  is  too 
commonly  held,  and  this  method  of 
treating  the  subject  is  not in accordance 
rith  the consistent thoroughness usual  in 
It  is  true  that  the  French 
is  writings. 
scientists  were  foremost  in  the  work  of 
establishing  a  logical,  scientific  system 
but  great  care was taken that as few local 
or  National  characteristics  should  find 
their  way  into  the  system  as  possible 
hus,  when  the  writer  speaks  of  the 
fantastic  terms  of  the  French  meth 
od, ”   he  ignores  the  fact  that  there 
ii 
not  a  word  of  French  origin  in  the  sys 
tern.  The  scientists  preparing  a  system 
for  universal  adoption  very  consistently 
drew  for  their  terms  upon  the  universal 
languages,  Greek  and  Latin 
classic 
iurely  it  was  an 
inconsiderate  slip  of 
the  pen  when  the  metric  nomenclature 
was 
* F rencb. ’ ’

“ fantastic’ 

classified 

an 

as 

It  is  not  probable  that  the terms of our 
present  systems  will  soon  go  out  of 
knowledge  so  as  to  realize the sad catas 
trophy  of  spoiling the sentimental  aptu 
risms  referred  to  or  injuring the  poetry 
of  Shakespeare.  Surely  the  writer would 
not  wish  us  to  translate  all  the  terms  o 
quantity  or  distance  in  the  history  and 
literature  of  the  past  into  the  present 
American  systems.._______

is 

T H E   PR O B LEM   O F IMMIGRATION.
Although  it  is  not  to  be  expected  that 
the  present  session  of Congress will take 
up  many  more  important  questions after 
the  appropriation  bills,  now  well  on  the 
road  to  final  passage,  are  disposed  of, 
nevertheless,  it 
just  barely  possible 
that  the  immigration  problem  may  be 
touched  upon.  A  presidential  year  is 
not  a  good  year  to  take  up  such  ques- 
for  future 
in 

action  at  the  short  session,  to  begin 
December  next,  may  be  laid.
immigration 

The  present 
laws  pro- 
de  for  the  exclusion  of paupers,  crim- 
nals,  insane  persons  and  contract 
la­
borers,  and  while 
is  admitted  that 
these  restrictions  do  exclude  a  large 
umber  of  undesirable  people, 
is 
kewise  evident  that  the  check  placed 

ons,  but  the  groundwork 

it 

it 

upon  immigration  is  not  sufficient.

There  was  a  time 

in  the  history  of 
the  country  when  the  rapid development 
f  new  sections  made  immigration  from 
all  quarters  desirable;  but  for  the  past 
fifteen  or  twenty  years 
it  has  become 
evident  that  the  inflow  of  alien  popula- 
on  was  too  rapid  to  be  healthy  or  de- 
irable.
For  a  very  long  time  the  inflow of  im­
migration  produced  no  noticeable 
ill 
effects,  as  prosperity  and  the  ability  of 
our  American  population  to  quickly 
assimilate  the  alien  elements  neutral- 
zed  any  evils  that  might  naturally  have 
been  expected  to  flow  from  the  constant 
nvasion  of  the  surplus  population  of 
ilurope. 
It  has  become  evident  of  re­
cent  years,  however,  that  this  power  to 
assimilate  has  been  materially  weak- 
ned,  and  that  slowly,  but  surely,  for­
eign  nations  and  un-American  ideas are 
becoming  grafted  upon  the  population 
of  many  sections.

The  people  of  Northern  Europe  be- 
ng  allied  sufficiently  close 
in  blood 
and  traditions  to  our  own  population  to 
there  have 
make  assimilation 
easy, 
immigration 
arisen  no  ill  effects  from 
of  that  class;  but  with  the 
inflow  from 
Southern  Europe  the  case  has  been  very 
different,  and  the 
influence  upon  the 
population  of  the  sections  in  which  this 
class  of 
immigrants  have  settled  has 
been  very  marked.  How  to  check  this 
undesirable  element  among  the  immi­
grants  seeking  our  shores 
is,  therefore, 
the  problem  which  our  statesmen  will 
have  to  solve.

the 

the 

among 

immigrants 

immigration 

The  percentage  of 

illiteracy  is  very 
large 
from 
Southern  Europe;  whereas,  in  the  case 
from  Northern 
of 
Europe  the  very  reverse  is  the  case. 
It 
has, 
therefore,  been  proposed  that  a 
proper  way  to  correct  the  evil  would  be 
to  include  illiterate  persons  among  the 
classes  of 
immigrants  excluded  from 
admission.

With  this  object  in  view,  a  bill  has 
been  introduced  in  Congress  amending 
the  immigration  laws  so  that  all persons 
over  16  years  of  age  who  are  unable  to 
read  and  write  their  own  language  shall 
be  excluded.  This  provision,  if  adopt­
ed,  would,  undoubtedly,  prove  a  more 
effectual  check  upon  undesirable  im­
migration  than  any  of  the  existing  pro­
visions  of  the  law,  and  for  that  reason 
it  is  worth  the  careful  consideration  of 
our  legislators  when  the  conclusion  of 
the  presidential  campaign  will  afford 
them  the  necessary  leisure.

Norway’s  supply  of  cod  liver oil  is 
rapidly  diminishing.  Not  only  are  less 
fish  caught,  but  the  livers  of those taken 
are  of  inferior quality.  While  in  1893 
the  yield  of  oil  was  26,813  barrels,  in 
1894  it  was  18,500,  and 
in  1895  12,680 
barrels,  with  every  prospect  of  smaller 
harvests  in  the  future.

Perhaps  the  most  serious  obstacle  to 
the  adoption  of  the  entire  metric system 
is  the  question  of  land  measurements 
There  is  no  doubt  that  superseding  the 
acre  and  the  section  would  work  serious 
complications;  and  it 
is  a  question 
worthy  of  investigation  as  to  whether 
the  work  of  reform  would  not be  facil 
tated  by  leaving  the  land  measurements 
out  of  consideration.  These  certainly 
afford  considerable  obstacles  and  there 
are  few,  if  any,  practical  disadvantages 
in  the  present  system.  Would  it  not  be 
better  to  confine  the  work  to  the  lines 
in  which  the  need  is  so  great,  and 
which  there  are  comparatively  few  ob 
stacles  to  overcome,  and  leave the  land 
measurements  to  a  more  propitious sea 
son,  should  a  change  be  found  neces
saryr

Elsewhere  in  this  week’s  paper  the 
Tradesman  publishes  a  communication

Considerable  significance  attaches 
the  statement  that  17,000  cars  of  gra 
have  gone  to  Gulf  ports  for  export since 
December  1,  from  localities  which  had 
been  in  the  habit  of  shipping  via  Ch 
cago.  That  city  claims  that  cuts 
i 
freight  rates  are  responsible  for  the  d 
version.  Whether  this  be  the  case  < 
not,  the  short  distance  from  the  South­
west  to  the  seaboard  via  the  Gulf  ports 
makes  .them  the  natural  outlet.  This 
has  not been  available  heretofore,  be­
cause  there  was  no  harbor  to  accommo­
date  the  largest  vessels.  This  difficul­
ty  is  now  obviated  by  the  completion 
of  a  sufficient  harbor at  Galveston ; and, 
whatever  may  have  been  the  cause  of 
the  diversion  this  season,  there  is  no 
doubt  but  that,  in  future,  export  grain 
will  follow  the  route  thus  shown  to be 
practicable.

T H E   M ICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

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portions  of  the  flesh  had  been 
away  as  if  with  great  violence.

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TH E   D O C TO R ’S  STORY.

W ritten for the T radesman.

I  had  just  graduated  from  an  Eastern 
medical  college  and  had  opened  an 
office  in  a  city  in  the  State  of  Ohio.  A 
modest  sign  was  at  the  side  of  the  door 
and  beneath  my  name  were  the  words : 

SU RGERY  A  SPECIALTY.

I had  given  this  branch  of  my  studies 
the  chief  portion  of  my  time,  believing 
that  I  had  the  necessary  skill  and  nerve 
to  make  it  a  success  and  also  that  good 
work 
line  would  bring  me  the 
most  money.

in  that 

I  was  a  bachelor  and  lodged  in  my 
inclement  night 
office.  One  fearfully 
in  April,  when  wind,  rain  and  crashing 
thunder  combined  to  drive  every  ani­
mate  thing  to  shelter,  I  was  awakened 
bv  hurried  raps  at  my  door.  Springing 
from  my  bed  and  crying  out,  “ Wait a 
minute!’ ’ 
in  my  clothes 
and  opened  the  door.  Two  men  stepped 
inside,  while  close  to  the  curbstone  the 
dim  outlines  of  a  carriage  and  horses 
were  revealed  by  the  electric  dashes.

I  was  soon 

“ Are  you  I)r.  Denny?”   asked  one  of 

my  visitors.

‘ ‘ I  am ,”   was  my  reply, 

and  at  your 

service. ”

‘ ‘ Then  with  the  least  possible  delay 
will  you  enter  the  carriage  with  us  and 
we  will  take  you  to  the  patient?”  No­
ticing  me  reach  for  my  pocket  case,  he 
continued,  ” Take  your  surgical 
instru­
ments,  doctor,  as  an  accident  has  oc­
curred.

In  a  few  minutes  more  we  were  com­
fortably  seated  in  a closed  carriage  and 
the  driver  was  urging  his  horses  for­
ward.

After  a  rather  prolonged  silence  I  en­
quired  whether  the  patient  was  a 
lady 
or  gentleman  and  what  caused  the  ac­
cident.  As 
if  wishing  to  say  as  little 
as  possible,  the  same  speaker  replied 
in  two  words :  ” Gentleman—elevator.

All  was  again  silent,  except  the  noise 
of  the  elements,  for  what  seemed  to  me 
some  fifteen  or  twenty  minutes.  Dur­
ing  this  time,  we  had  turned 
in  differ­
ent  directions  until  I  wondered  if  we 
were  "boxing  the  compass,”   when  I 
enquired  how  far  the  patient  was  from 
my  office.

“  Mile  and  a  half, ”   was  the 

laconic 
reply;  and,  before  I  had  time  to  say 
more, 
the  vehicle  stopped  in  front  of  a 
two-story  building.

A  street  lamp  near  by  lighted  the way 
and  revealed  a  basement,  with steps  de­
scending  to  a  door,  the  upper  half  of 
which  was  glass;  but  there  was  no  sign 
of  light  or  life  within.
“ Wait  for  us,  Ben, 

said  the  spokes­

man  to  the  driver,  as  we  alighted.

He  led  the  way  to  the  basement  door 
and  rang  a  bell.  A  middle-aged  wom­
an,  holding  a  small  lamp  in  her  hand, 
was  seen  coming  through  a 
long  hall­
way.  She  opened  the  door  and  admitted 
us.

“ Well,  how's  Charlie  by  this  time?”  
enquired  the  man  who  seemed  to  do  all 
the  talking.

“ Sleeping  quietly,”   was  the  woman’s 

reply.
She 

led  us  to  an  upper  room  where 
the  wounded  man  was  lying.  As  I  ap­
proached  the  bed, 
I  noticed  his  ster­
torous  breathing  and  said  enquiringly, 
“ He  has  had  an  anodyne given  him?’ ’
“ Yes,  doctor,’ ’ the  man  answered; 
“ I  gave  him  one  grain  of morphine just 
before  starting  for  your  house. 
But 
examine  his  right  arm,  please,’ ’ and  he 
removed  the  covering.

A  handkerchief  was  tied  tightly 
around  the  arm  above  the  elbow,  with  a 
knot  upon  the  main  artery.  Both  bones

As  the  speaker  saw  me  critically  ex­
the  wound,  he  again  speke : 
amining 
“ For  the  patient’s  sake,  doctor,  ask 
only  the  most  necessary  questions about 
the  accident,  but  do  for  him  all  that 
may  be  necessary,  and  your  fees  shall 
be  promptly  paid;”   and  1  noticed  the 
most  eager  anxiety  and  solicitude  in 
his  countenance. 
lose  any 
portion  of  his  arm?”   he then  asked.

“ Will  he 

“ 1  think  not,”   was  my  reply. 

“ Was 
his  arm  caught  mi  the  elevator,  or  did 
he  fall?”   I  enquired,  as  1  proceeded  to 
pick  up 
the  arteries  and  dress  the 
wound.

I  saw  the  two  men  cast  rapid  glances 
at  each  other,  as  I  asked  the  question, 
and  the  speaker,  his  countenance  plain­
ly  indicating  annoyance,  said  : 
Par­
don  me,  doctor, 
if,  for  the  present,  I 
give  you  no  particulars;  all  will  be  ex­
plained  in  due  time. ”

1  made  no  reply  but  continued  my 
work,  reducing  the  fracture and banda­
ging  the  limb.  Then,  giving  the  lady 
some  orders  regarding  his 
food  and 
drink,  1  announced  myself  ready  to  de­
part.

The  speaker  now  turned  to  me again, 
saying.  “ 1  am  a  stranger  to  you,  and, 
as  an  earnest  of  my 
intentions,  accept 
this”   (placing  a  $20  gold  piece  in  my 
hand ) ;  “ and  now  1  will  accompany  you 
home.

When  we  were  again  seated  in  the 
carriage,  my  companion  became  more 
talkative,  reverting  only  once,  however, 
to  my  patient,  by  saying  that  he was not 
a  relative,  only  a  companion of  his,  and 
that  an  unfortunate  accident  had  oc­
curred,  for  which  neither  of  them  was 
responsible.

that  no  serious 

I  answered  that  l  hoped  for  the  best 
and  believed 
result 
would  follow.  As  we  reached  my  office,
I  remarked,  “ It  will  be  necessary  for 
me  to  see  the  patient  again  at  2  p .r m., 
to-morrow,  and  unless  you  are  to  send 
for  me,  you  might  give  me  the  street 
and  number,  or  I  shall  be  unable  to  find 
the  place. ”

“ My  carriage  will  call  for  you  at  that 
hour,”   was  his  short  reply,  and  he bade 
me  good  night.

*  *  *

feet, 

reviewing  the 

Sitting  before  my  comfortable  fire 

in 
slippered 
inci­
dents  of  my.  night’s  adventure,  I  puz­
zled  my  brain  regarding  the  cause  of 
the  accident. 
It  was  clearly  a  sudden 
blow  and  probably  from  a  solid  sub­
stance  and  hurled  with  great  force.  The 
parties  were  apparently  gentlemen  and 
wealthy,  and  their  surroundings  were  in 
keeping  with  such,  and—well,  I  would 
be  thankful 
fees  and  await 
further  events.

for  my 
*  *  *

It  was  g  o ’clock  the  following  morn­
ing  before  1  was  seated  at  the  break fast 
table.  Glancing  at  the  morning  paper 
the  waiter  had  placed  before  me,  the 
following  startling  lines  caught  my  eye:
Bold  Robbery  of  the  Warren  Bank ! 
The  vault  lock  blown  in  pieces  by  some 
powerful  explosive  and  $25,000  in  gold 
and  bank  notes  carried  away!  De­
struction  of  vault  and  furniture  com­
plete.

The  noise of  the  fearful  storm  during 
the  night  prevented  the  explosion  from 
being  heard  by  any  person,  so  far  as 
known.  There  wrere  no  traces  of  blood 
to 
injury  to  the  thieves,  al­
though  it  is  impossible  they  could  have 
is  a 
escaped  it,  as  the  adjoining  room 
perfect  wreck  and  pieces  of 
iron  were 
thrown  in  all  directions.  No  clue  to  the 
robbers  except  a 
fragments  of 
cloth,  evidently  from  a  coat  sleeve.  A

indicate 

few 

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1

heavy  reward  will  be  offered  for  the 
burglars.

Rapidly  my  mind  reverted  to  my  pa­
tient  of  the  night  before—the  shattered 
arm,  the  secrecy,  the  gold  coin  so  gen­
erously  paid  me,  the  lateness  cf  the 
hour  I  was  summoned,  the  short  replies 
to  my  questions,  and  now  here  were 
pieces  of  a  coat  sleeve  found  in  the 
ruins! 
It  was  clearly  my  duty  to  insist 
upon  more  definite information  as to  the 
cause  of  the  accident  to  my  patient,  or 
I  might  be  arrested 
as  “ particeps 
criminis”   in  this  robbery.  When  the 
carriage  should  come  for  me  that  after­
noon,  I  determined  to  be  told,  in  un­
equivocal language,  the  cause  of  the  in­
jury. 
the  gentleman  ap­
peared,  I  commenced  conversation  by 
asking  him  how  long  he  had  been a  res­
ident  of  the  city,  and  if  he would oblige 
me  by  telling  me  his  name.
■   Without  hesitation,  he  replied:  “ My 
name  is  Clermont,  and  I  have  resided 
here  more  than  twenty  years.

So,  when 

I 

visited 

“ You  have  not  given  me  the  details 
of  the  accident  to  your  friend—or  per 
haps  brother— whom 
last 
night  and,  as  his  physician,  I  desire 
to  know  his  name  and  the  particulars.”  
Noticing  the  flush  on  his  face  and  the 
compressed  lips,  I  quickly  continued 
“ Pardon  me,  Mr.  Clermont,  when 
frankly  say  to  you  that  the  startling  oc 
currence  of 
last  night,  as  recorded  in 
this  morning’s  papers,  and  the  condi 
tion  of  my  patient,  together  with  the 
discovery  of  fragments  of  a  coat  sleeve, 
bear  a  close  analogy  to  each  other,  and 
you  must  be  aware  that  I  will  be  ex­
pected  to  make  a  report  of  my  case  to 
the  chief  of  police.”

As  I  ceased  speaking,  the  man  rose 
from  his  chair  and  his  brow  darkened 
“ You  evidently  do  not know  me,  sir! 
he  thundered. 
“ My  friend  and  I  are 
respectable  and  honorable  gentlemen 
We  never  stoop  to  the  practice  of  rob 
bery.  We  are  well  and  publicly  known 
in  this  city  and  county,  and  would  be 
the  last  persons  suspected  of  crime.  We 
are  gamblers  by  profession,  but  make 
no  secret  of  our  vocation  and  are  as 
proud  of  it as  you  can  be  of  yours;  and 
we  have 
large  bank  accounts  in  this 
city.  You  will  find  my  name,  sir,  on 
the  last  census  roll—‘ T.  C.  Clermont,
•  gambler and capitalist’— and you will be 
informed  that  I  donate  liberally,  not  to 
public,  but  to  private  charity,  and  am 
the  first  to  assist  any  suffering.  This 
accident  to  my 
friend,  Mr.  Davis,  I 
had  hoped  to  keep  secret;  but,  as  you 
display  so  much  curiosity,  I  will  briefly 
disclose  the  particulars:  A  stranger  to 
both  of  us  was  quarreling  with  his 
partner  at  the  gaming  table,  and  aimed 
a  blow  at  him  with  a  ragged  piece  of 
broken  stove,  intending,  as  he  said, 
to 
kill  him.  He  missed  his  intended  vic­
tim,  and  the  iron  descended  upon  Mr 
Davis’  arm,  injuring  it  in  the  manner 
you  saw.  This,  sir,  is  all  there 
is  to 
it.”   Raising  his  voice  to  a  higher 
pitch,  while  his  face  flushed  with  an 
ger,  he  continued:  “ I  now  demand 
your  receipted bill  for medical  services 
which  I  will  cancel  at  once,  and  you 
will  consider  yourself  discharged  from 
further  attendance  upon  Mr.  Davis; 
and,  if  you  ever  dare  whisper  that  we 
may  be  criminals,  I  will  make  thi 
city  too  warm  for  you!”   and,  as  the 
man  ceased  speaking,  he  walked  back 
and  forth  like  a  caged  lion.

I  attempted 

to  partially  apologize; 
but 
it  was  useless  and  I  turned  to  my 
table  and  made  out  a  receipted  bill  for 
medical attendance—$40— when,  without 
a  word  more,  he  laid  a  double  eagle  no

the  table,  placed  the  receipt  in  his  vest 
pocket,  turned  and  passed  out  the  door 
and  entered  his  carriage. 
I  could  not 
rid  myself  of  the  belief  that  my  patient 
was  one  of  the  parties  to  that  robbery 
and  that  Mr.  Clermont  had  deceived 
me,  and  that  evening  I  had  an audience 
.. ith  the  chief  police  officer  of  the  city, 
who  listened  with  interest  to  my  state­
ment  regarding  my  patient.

‘ I  knew  you  were  summoned  to  at­
tend  Mr.  D avis,”   he  replied,  “ and  had 
I  not  known  just  how  he  was  injured,  I 
should  have  suspected and arrested  him, 
although  the  coat  he  wore  and  the  frag­
ments  of  a  sleeve  found  are  not  of  the 
same  material  or  color. 
I  have  long 
known  both  Davis  and  Clermont  and 
they  have  always  apparently shown their 
true  colors  to  the  world ;  they  are  both 
generous and charitable with their money 
and,  in  every  respect—except  it  may  be 
in  their  vocation—of  good  morals.  The 
breaking  of  Davis’  arm  was  purely  ac­
cidental,  although  the  man  who  dealt 
the blow  admitted  that  he 
intended  to 
kill  his  partner  in  the  game;  and  ¡1 
was  the  stranger’s  money,  and  not  Cler­
mont’s,  that  paid  for  your  services,  as 
he  insisted  upon  defraying  all  expenses 
attendant  upon  Davis’  recovery;  and 
only  hope  you  demanded  a  good  fee. ’ 

In  conclusion,  I  will  only  add  that 

that  eventful  night. 

still  believe  my  patient  received  hi 
fearful  wound  from  the  explosion  in that 
bank,  although  there  was  not  a  particle 
of  evidence  produced  to  associate  him 
with  the  robbery. 
I believe  he  was  act­
ing  as  a  sentinel  for  the  real  operators 
on 
It  was  sir 
months  before  Mr.  Davis  again  ap 
peared 
then  much 
emaciated  and  hardly  his  former  self. 
Detectives  were  employed  to  work  on 
the  case  and,  although  strong suspicions 
pointed  to  parties  connected  with  that 
gambling  house,  neither  the  thieves  nor 
any  portion  of  the  money  were  ever 

in  public,  and 

iscovered.

F rank A.  Howig.

The  King  and  the  Pope.

The King and the Pope together 
It was signed with a golden scepter.
The King wants me out of his eyesight:

Have written a letter to m e:
Ii was sealed with a golden key.
The  Pope wants me out of his See.

The King and the Pope together 
Have a hundred acres of land:
I do not own the foot of ground 
On which my two feet  stand:
But the prettiest girl in the  kingdom 
Strolls with me on the sand.

The King has a hundred yoeman 
Who will fight for him to-day;
The Pope has priests and bishops 
Who for his soul will pray:
I have only one true sweetheart,
But she’ll kiss me when I say.
The King is served at his table 
The Pope has never a true love,
No ladies stand round me in waiting,

By ladies of high degree;
So a cardinal pours his tea:
But my sw eetheart sits by me.

And the King with his golden scepter,
The Pope with Saint Peter’s key,
Can never unlock the one little heart 
That is opened only to me.
For I am the Lord of the Realm,
And I am Pope of a See;
Indeed. I’m supreme in the Kingdom 
That is sitting just now on my knee!

C h arles  H e n r y  W e b b .

Mistress 

Likely  to  Cause  Trouble.
(angrily)— Bridget, 

I  find 
that  you  wore  one  of  my  low-necked 
evening  dresses  to  the  ’bus-drivers’  ball 
last  evening. 
It’s  the  worst  piece  of 
impudence  I  ever  heard  of.  You  ought 
to be  ashamed  of  yourself !
Bridget  (meekly)—Oi  wuz,  mum—Oi 
wuz.  And  me  young  mon  said  if  Oi 
iver  wore  sich  an  ondacent  dress  in 
public  ag’ in  he’d  breck  our  ingage- 
ment. 

^  ____

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The  note  of  a  man  who  tries  to  evade 
giving  it  by  saying  his  word  is  just  as 
good  will  bear  watching.

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Shoes  and  Leather

Bungville  Commited  Suicide.

Written for the T r ad esm an.

this  unpardonable 

Who’s  Bungville?  Why  Bungville 

is 
a  village.  And  do  villages  commit  sui­
cide?  Most  assuredly  they  do.  Like 
individuals  they  get  tired  of  life  and 
long  for  "Kingdom   come,  and  so  they 
blow  themselves  out.  The  most  common 
method 
in  vogue  among  villages,  of 
putting  an  end  to  their  own  miserable 
existence,  is  the  granting  of  a  bonus  to 
a  one-horse  railroad  company. 
If  the 
bleaching  bones  of  all  the  villages  in 
this  America  of  ours  which  have  com­
mitted 
sin  were 
gathered  together  in  one  awful,  ghastly 
pile,  it  might  serve  as  an  effective  ob­
ject  lesson  in  showing  up the pernicious 
evils  which  follow  in  the  wake  of  bonus 
granting,  and  lead  municipalities  into 
a  wiser  way  of  managing  their  affairs.
In  view  of  the  many  valuable  essays 
which  have  been  written  and  published 
in  our  trade  journals,  showing  the  un­
businesslike  nature  of  the  system,  and 
giving  practical examples  of  its  evil  re 
suits,  it  would  seem  that  some such  ter 
rible  object  lesson  was  needed  to  over­
come  the  hypnotic  influences  made  use 
of  by  bonus  hunters  in  the  accomplish­
ment  of  their  designs  upon  the  people
We  are  living  in  an  era  of  railroads 
The  railroad  has  destroyed  old  condi 
tions  of  life  and  revolutionized  every 
thing.  We  seem  to  depend  upon  th 
railroad  for  everything that  life  is  worth 
the 
very 
breath  essential  to  our  existence  deriv 
a  certain  stimulus  from  the  puff  of  the 
locomotive; and the  man  who  finds  him 
self  so  far  removed  from  a  railroad  that 
he  cannot  hear  the  whistle  of  a  passing 
train  is  simply  out  of  the  world.

for.  Somehow, 

living 

the 

Bungville  was  in  the  world  before  the 
dawn  of  the  railroad  era.  When  the 
iron  horse  changed  all  things, 
the  old 
village  was  told  that  she  had  been 
dropped  out  of  the  world  in  the  great 
readjustment  of  things,  and  that  she 
must  give  up  the  ghost  or  buy  a  rail­
road.  She  bought  a  railroad—and  gave, 
up  the  ghost,  too.  The  ghost,  although 
given  up,  remains 
in  Bungville  and 
cadaverously  grins  at  the  Bungville  tax­
payer  every  time  he 
is  called  upon  to 
pay  interest  on  the  railroad  bonus.

Bungville 

is  older  than  Chicago. 

It 
than  Grand 
is  a  half-century  older 
It  was once  the  main  trading 
Rapids. 
center 
in  a  large  section  of  country.  It 
was  in  the  front,  but  two  trunk  lines  of 
railroad  having  crossed  the  back  town­
ships,  reversed  things  and  relegated 
Bungville  to  the  rear.  The  county  seat 
was  a  larger  trade  center  than  Bung­
ville;  it  was  eight  miles  distant  and 
situated  on  one  of  the  trunk  lines  before 
mentioned.  Now,  it  was  a  most  natural 
thing  on  the  part  of county  seat business 
to  covet  the  trade  enjoyed  by 
men 
Bungville  and  the  other  villages 
lying 
beyond  in  this  now  back  portion  of  the 
line  of  trade 
county.  To  catch  that 
would  be  a  smart  trick,  especially 
if 
the  victims  themselves  could  be  made 
to  pay  the  expense  of  working the trick. 
There  is  only  one  scheme  known  to  fal­
lible  man  by  which  a  trick  of  this  kind 
can  be  successfully  played,  and  that 
is 
by  building  a  bonused  line  of  railroad. 
A  company  was  accordingly  organized 
to  build  a  railroad  from  the  county  seat 
out  through  the  county,  terminating  at 
a  village  on  the  lake  shore,  and  being 
about  twenty-five  miles  in  length. 
It 
was  to  act  as  a  feeder  to  the  trunk  line, 
and  great  care  was  taken  in  the  survey

vice—and  yet  the  elite  will  not  raise 
their  little  fingers  to  stop  the  shameful 
there.  These  wealthy 
orgies  enacted 
"bumps  on  logs’ ’  are  alike 
indifferent 
to  the  shameless 
licentiousness  of  the 
evil  inclined,  and  the  adverse  circum­
stances  surrounding  the  poor and needy. 
They  have  a  railroad  and  the  masses 
must  help  pay  tor  it.  They  can  ride 
over  to  the  county  seat  to  do  their  shop­
ping,  and  in  the  summer  months  they 
can  ride  out  to  the  lake  shore  and 
lux­
uriate 
in  a  cottage.  They  are  in  no 
wise  concerned  with  the  question  of 
how  to  earn  bread.  But the  masses  are, 
and  the  one  thing  they  will  never  again 
io 
in  Bungville  is  to  vote  for  a  bonus 
to  any  railroad. 

E.  A.  O w e n .

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to  tap  every  four-corners  where 
it  was 
possible  to  do  so  without  crossing  its 
own  track  or  tying  itself  up  in  a  hard 
knot.  When  everything  was  ready  the 
aid  stock  arguments  were  brought  out 
and  dusted  and  assigned  to  the  spout- 
rs.  The  tax-payers  of  Bungville  and 
other  points  along'  the  proposed  line 
were  given  the  same  old  hash,  in  the 
same  old  manner,  and  it  had  the  same 
ild  stimulating  effect,  followed  by  the 
same  old  nauseousness  that  marks  the 
experience  of  all  municipalities  which 
have  been  thus  bled  by  designing 
schemers. 
Bungville  was  wild  with 
ielight  at  the  prospect  of  a  railroad. 
Two  or  three  of  her  leading  business 
men  were  bought  with  a  price  to  play 
the  part  of  "stool pigeons”   in  decoying 
the  shy  and  suspicious  farmers  of  the 
townships 
into  the  meshes  of  the  fatal 
net.  Of  course,  the  price  paid  for  this 
valuable  service  was  not  a  result  of 
bargain  and  sale;  it  was  simply  a  com­
plimentary  donation  of  a  little  stock 
just  a mere something to strengthen their 
own  faith 
in  the  scheme,  and  make 
them  feel  as  though  it  was  their  duty  to 
better  the  condition  of  their  fellow  men 
by 
inducing  them  to  vote  this  bonus 
mortgage  on  their  farms.

The' farmers  were  promised  a  home 
market  for  their  surplus  products  and 
an  increase  of  farm  values.  The  Bung­
ville  real  estate  owners  were  made  to 
see  a  sudden  demand 
for  houses  and 
lots  and  a  rapid  increase  in  values  and 
rentals.  The  village  tradesman  and 
mechanic*  had  the  scales  removed  from 
their  eyes  by  these  spouting  quack 
doctors,  and  immediately  they  saw  an 
increased  demand 
for  their  wares  and 
felt  an  additional  weight  of  silver  in 
their  pocket.  The  ball,once  set  in  mo- 
ion,  gained  in  momentum  right  up  to 
polling  day,  by  which time  pretty  much 
everyone  who  had  a  vote  had  made  up 
his  mind  to  get  out  of his  own  light  and 
vote  for  the  bonus.

The 

rates. 

Bungville  got  the  railroad  and  the 
countyseat  got  Bungville’strade, 
from 
the  very  day  the  first  train  passed  over 
the  road— which  was  on  a  Saturday—the 
Saturday  trains  have  carried  passengers 
into  the  county  seat  and  return  at  re­
duced 
early  afternoon 
is  generally  filled  with  farmers 
train 
and  villagers,  gathered  up  along 
the 
line,  bearing  baskets  of  eggs,  butter 
and  other  supplies  for  the  county  seat 
market;  and  they  return  on  the  evening 
train  with  armfuls  of  parcels  and  pack­
ages  of  all  kinds.  When  the  Bungville 
contingent  alights  from  the  train  and 
files  up  the  hill  on  a  Saturday  evening 
with  their  parcels and bundles,  it  causes 
a  clammy  sensation  to  creep  up the  ver­
tebral  columns  of  the  two  or  three  mer­
chants  who  remain  in  Bungville.

As  a  trade  center,  Bungville 

is  no 
more.  She  gave  up  her  life  for  a  rail­
road,  and  put  a  twenty-year  mortgage 
on  her 
lifeless  remains  besides.  But 
what  care  the  half-dozen  nabobs  who 
in  elegant  mansions  and  enjoy 
live 
princely  incomes?  What  care  they 
if 
the  tradesman’s  business  is  ruined  and 
the  toiling  artisan  is  driven  away  from 
home  to  seek  for  work?  What care  they 
if  the  windows  of  the 
little  shop  are 
boarded  up  and  the  home  representing 
the 
earnings  of  years  has 
become  a  thing  of  no  value?  What care 
these  aristocratic,  purse-proud  descend­
ants  of  wealthy  ancestors  whether  the 
in  the  streets  of  Bungville 
grass  grows 
leading  Bungville  hotel 
or  not?  The 
in 
has  made  two  or  three  men  well  off 
the  years  gone  by,  but  now 
it  is  re­
duced  to  a  low-down  den  of  infamy  and

saved-up 

Is  your stock  complete for spring  trade?  Look  it  over  and 

write  us for samples  in  Misses and  Children s.

Our  Bob and  May  is the best grain  shoe made.
For a  Kangaroo calf,  we  can  give  you  one  that  competition 
...  ,
You  ought  to see our Berlin  Needle  toe,  Misses  and  Childs 

cannot  meet. 
Dongola;  this  is the  neatest shoe out  for spring.

Our  Little Gents’ 9-13,  1-2  is on  Needle  Toe  and  as  tony  as 

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any made. 

Our  Rochester  Misses and  Childs  Dongola they all swear by. 
Send  us your order for turns 2-5 and 4-8.

Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.

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extreme 20th Century;  also  Boys’ and  Youths’  Sandals in  narrow toes  =55 
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nearly all  the specialties  in bulk, and  we will  carry  them  in  stock  and 
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be able  to  take good  care  of  any  orders  given  us.  Discounts  and 
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Is what our customers  say  not only  with the  Boston 
Rubber Shoe  Co’ .s  goods,  but  with the  prompt  and
complete attention  we have given  their  orders...........
It’s  nothing  new—but  always  the  same  if  you  deal 
with...........

W .  A.  M cG raw   &   Co.,

Jobbers of  Rubbers.

Send in your orders now for your

FISHING OUTFIT

We have a  full  line of

M ackintoshes,  W a d in g  
P an ts  and  Boots  and 
Rubber Goods of  all

We  would also remind you that the dealer 
who places  his  orders  early  for  his  fall 
stock  of  Rubber  Boots  and  Shoes,  Felt 
Boots and  Sox, will  have  them  when  the 
wearer  wants 
them.  We  guarantee 
prices.  Ask for price  list.

S T U D L E Y   S B A R C L A Y .

Grand  Rapids.

Practical  Decorating  and  its  Value.
In  these  enterprising  and  progressive 
days  every  effort  must  be  put  forth  by 
the  wide-awake  retailer 
to  show  his 
goods  in  the  most  advantageous  way 
possible.  The  dry  goods  trade has been 
revolutionized,  as  it  were, 
in  the  past 
decade,  the  old  style  of  doing  business 
ideas  and 
having  passed  away;  new 
new  business  methods  have  been 
intro­
duced,  subjecting  the  trade  to  the keen­
est  competition.  Where 
it  was  once 
possible 
for  anyone  who  displayed 
goods  for  sale  to  do  an  apparently  suc­
cessful  business,, now  it  is  necessary  for 
the  merchant  to  be  thoroughly  up  in  all 
the  branches  of  the  trade  to  achieve 
success.

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It  matters  not  how 

The  successful  and  popular  store  of 
is  the  wide-awake  and 
to-day,  then, 
thoroughly  up-to-date  one,  but  to  be 
in 
perfect  readiness  for  the  spring  trade 
the  planning  and  arranging  must  be 
commenced  early.  With  the  store 
freshly  cleaned 
good  business  shape, 
and  renovated  and  all  the  necessary  i-m 
provements  made,  the  merchant  feels 
confident  of  a  successful  season  Does 
it  ever  occur  to  the  indifferent  or  care­
less  merchant  how  valuable  as an adver­
tisement a clean coat of paint would be to 
his  premises,  thereby  making  it  more 
inviting  for  the  ladies to enter  his  plac 
of  business? 
large 
or  how  small  the  store  is,  or  the  size  of 
the  town  you  do  business 
these 
changes  are  absolutely  necessary,  the 
bring  new  life,  and  very  often  amount 
to  a  genuine  boom  for  a  business house 
The  most  modern  and  up-to-date  ad 
vertising  medium  is  the  store  and  win 
dow  decorating ;  therefore,  the 
lack  of 
nice  show  windows  and  all  the  neces­
sary  display  stands  is  a  great  drawback 
for  a  window  artist,  but  the  artist  has 
to  be  in  part  a  mechanic,  so  he  shall 
have  no  difficulty  in  makng  a  modern 
window  stand ;  trade  can  be  won  even 
if  the 
fixtures  are  homemade.  The 
window  and  its  success  are  not  confined 
to  any  particular  line  of  the  mercantile 
trade;  the  grocer,  the  druggist,  and  the 
hardware  merchant,  as  well  as  the  dry 
goods  man,  pronounce  upon  its  advan­
tages  and  success.

in; 

In  making  an  artistic  display  it  is not 
necessary  that  all  the  goods  in  the  store 
should  be  placed  in  the  window;  show 
only  one  line  of  goods  at  a  time,and  the 
general  effect  will  be  much  better. 
Real  artistic  taste  is  necessary 
in  the 
blending  and  combining  of  shades,  so 
that  the  finest  results  will  be  produced. 
There  are  but  few  who  thoroughly  mas­
ter  the  art  or  are  successful  in  doing the 
many  things  requited  of  a  window 
dresser.
The  first  requisite  in  window  design­
ing  is  to  understand  color,  then  origin­
ality  is  essential  in  producing  new com­
binations  that  will 
immediately  arrest 
the  attention  of  the  passer-by and return 
fruitful  results. 
The  window  artist 
should  be  the  “ fashion  book”   of  the 
house,  and  by  his  aid  the  blending  of 
colors  .and  harmony  of  effects  are  pro­
duced  and  the  possibilities of combina­
tions 
in  shades  and  variety  of  style 
shown.  Every  assistance  and  encour­
agement  should  be  given  him 
in  his 
work,  and  sufficient  time  allotted,.as 
thert  is  no  branch  of  a  business  so  te­
dious  and  at  times  so  disappointing  as 
the  work  of  the  window-dresser.

H.  A.  M a d d o c k .

Pointed  Toed  Rubbers.

From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

Pointed  footwear  has been seized upon 
with  such  eagerness  that  blunt-toed  rub­
bers  and  even  the  Opera  toe  are  not 
equal  to  the  emergency  of  fitting  the 
footwear  of  the  majority  of  the  people 
who  wear  rubbers  of  the  lighter  weights 
and  who belong  to  the  vast  army  of 
Razor  toed  shoe  wearers.

Consequently  the  rubber-shoe  manu­
facturers  have  found  it  obligatory  upon 
them  to  build  their  sandals  and  their 
croquets  and  their  storm  rubbers  and 
their  clogs  and  the  rest  of  their  light­
weight  goods  along  the  lines  of  the  20th 
Century  and 
the  Needle  toe  of  the 
leather-shoe  manufacturer.  They  have 
thrown  aside  their  new  aluminum 
lasts 
and  gone  over  to  the  wood last manufac­
turer  again  and  ordered  lasts  made  with 
all  the  style  and  finish  put  into  lasts  for 
leather  shoes.

Even  here  the  multitudinous  array  of 
different  points  and  shapes  confuses 
them  and  they  groan  in  spirit  as  they 
blow  their  money  in  for wood—and real­
ize  that  in  a  few  short  months  perhaps 
all  this  timber  will  go  into  the  furnace. 

'What  is  the  result  of  all  this?
In  the  first  place,  rubber-shoemakers 
will  not  make  this  huge  variety  of  stuff 
except  on  orders  from  the  jobbers. 
In 
the  second  place,  jobbers  will  not  as­
sume  the  risk  of  ordering  big  stocks  of 
these  goods  until  retailers  show  their 
feeling  in  the  matter by  placing  orders 
themselves.

Briefly,  then,  those  who  defer  order­
ing  pointed  toed  rubbers  until  the  latter 
part  of  the  season  will  get  left, just  as  a 
great  many  did 
last  season.  The  Ga­
zette  knows  of  one jobber  alone  who was 
“ shy”   3,000  cases  of  pointed  toes.  He 
couldn’t  get  them  from  the  factories 
and  his  customers  went  without.  Here, 
then,  is  the  situation  in  a  nutshell— if 
you  want  pointed  toed  rubbers  ord 
them  early  in  the  season  and  be  assured 
of  getting  them.  Waiting  in  this  case 
is  pretty  sure  to  result  in  dissatisfac­
tion. 
last 
year,  how  much  greater  deficit  must  be 
looked  for  this  season  when  pointed 
toes  are  of  supreme 
importance  and 
must  be  fitted.

If  there  was  lack  of  them 

Success in Speculation.

From the Kansas City Packer.

A  man,  to  engage  in  speculation,  has 
to  be  constituted  particularly  for  the 
work  in  hand. 
It  is  not  every  man  who 
is  fitted  to  be  a  speculator  any  more 
than  any  other  business.  The most suc­
cessful  are  those  who  combine  a  quick 
perception  and  who,  when  once  taking 
a  certain  course,  follow  it  out.  Often, 
however,  those  who  pursue  this  course 
come  out  losers.  There  are  countless 
instances,  too,  where  men  who  have 
been  successful  for  years 
in  the  end 
have  gone  to  the  wall,  but  this  will  ap­
ply  to  any  business.  It  is  stated  on  the 
authority  of  statisticians  that  not  more 
than  2  per  cent,  of  the  persons  who 
have  amassed  fortunes  keep  them  until 
they  are  called  to  their  last  account. 
This  may  be  on  the  principle  there 
is  no  lane  but  has  a  turn  in  it.

The  successful  speculator  must  be 
born,  not  made,  as 
is  said  to  be  the 
case  with  poets.  The  attributes  of  suc­
cess  must  be  implanted  in a man,  which 
later  in  life  will  be  brought  out.  How 
often  it  is  that  men  start  out  in  life  in a 
‘business  for  which  they  really  have  no 
aptitude  and  become  failures,  while 
later  they  make  a  change  to  some  ether 
line  and  become  conspicuous  successes. 
Aptitude 
in 
any  business  and  to  act  contrary  is  but 
setting  at  defiance the  laws  of  nature. 
Take  Jay  Gould  as  an  instance  of a suc­
cessful speculator,  manipulator,  or what­
ever  he  may  be  called,  and  while he has 
had  many  imitators  they  have  generally 
been  conspicuous  failures  because  they 
did  not  possess  the  aptitude.

is  necessary  to  success 

in 

Bishop  William  Taylor  has  been  suc­
introducing  the  use  of  soap 
cessful 
in  Africa,  and  has 
large  quantities 
shipped  to  him  frequently,  but  the  na­
tives  do  not  use 
it  for  cleansing  pur­
poses. 

It  passes  as  currency.

What’s  to  Hinder?
Cadillac,  April  10—This 

is  a  very 
pertinent  question  these  hard  times, 
and,  though  I  have  no  direct  knowledge 
of  how  the  United  States  of  Columbia 
is  run,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  the  system 
of  private  property  in  land  would  hin­
der  there  as  here.  We  have  all  the 
wealth  in timber,  minerals,  etc.,  we  can 
use  right  here  in  our  own I In ited States, 
but  private  property 
in  land  prevents 
those  who  need  from  getting  any  of  it 
without  giving  up  to  those  who  control 
these  sources  of  wealth  a  large  percent­
age  of  their  products  for  the  privilege 
of  helping 
from  naturejs 
storehouses. 
From  a  single  taxer’s 
point  of  view,  what’s  to  hinder?

themselves 

A rthur  V.  Harm er.

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T H E   M ETRIC   SYS TEM .

Serious  Obstacles  in  the  Way  of  Its 

Adoption.
W ritten  fo r  th e T r ad esm an.

It 

Yet  we 

is  more  than  30  years  since  this 
French  method  of  computing  length, 
capacity  and  weight  was  formally  legal­
ized  by  congressional  action  with  the 
intent  that 
it  should  in  time  take  the 
place  of  the  present  crude  system  that, 
like  our  language,  has  been  gathered 
from  many  divers  sources.  Even  as 
early  as  1866  tables  explanatory  of 
metric  measure  were  published  in  the 
12th  edition  of  the  U.  S.  Dispensatory 
for  the  especial  benefit  of  pharmacy 
and  medical  practice. 
find 
ourselves  near  the  close  of  the  century 
but 
little  farther  advanced  in  the  di­
rection  indicated  by  the  above  action. 
Scarcely  one  in  a  thousand  druggists 
to-day  has  adopted  the  system,  except 
in  an  experimental  way,  nor  have  phy­
sicians  intimated  a  desire  to  assist 
in 
bringing  it  to  the  test  of  actual  prac­
tice.  The  discussions  of 
its  merits 
have  heretofore  been  of  an  exparte  na­
ture,  and  were  confined  mostly  to  the 
pages  of  drug  journals.  Perhaps  a  few 
medical  periodicals  may  also  have 
mentioned 
to  the 
whole  people,  who  are  expected  to  wel­
come  this  foreign  candidate  for  public 
favor,  the  question  has  never  been  sub­
mitted  as  one  demanding  their  serious 
attention.

the  subject. 

But 

One  may  be  pardoned  for  wondering 
why  a  system  so  long  and  presistently 
advocated  as  an 
important  aid  in  the 
prosecution  of  every  home  enterprise, 
and  equally  desirable  in extending trade 
with  other  nations,  should  have  made 
so  little  progress  towards  universal  ac­
ceptance 
in  three  decades,  since,  as 
its  supporters claim,  Germany  and  Aus­
inside 
tria  succeeded  in  establishing  it 
of  three  years  by  legal  enactment. 
It 
would  seem  as  though  a  change  of  such 
importance,  if  realiy  practicable,  could 
have  been  by  this  time  fully  under­
stood  and  accepted  by  all.  But 
if  the 
advocates  of  the  new  system  depend  on 
legislation  alone,  there  is  every  prob­
ability  of  another  generation  passing 
away  before  the  American  people  can 
be  induced  to  use  metres, 
litres,  and 
grammes  in  place  of  terms  which,  how­
ever  unscientific  and  inconsistent,  have 
come  to be  second  nature  by 
long  us­
age.  So  long  as  no  special  effort  is 
made  to  explain  to  the  mass  of  our  peo­
ple  who  daily  buy  and  sell  by  weight 
1  pay?”
is 
and  measure  why  the  metric  system 
superior  to  the  present methods,  varying 
as  they  do  in  different 
localities  there 
surely  can  be  no  practical  progress 
made  by  simply  enacting  a  statute  de­
claring  it  to  be  the  legal  standard,  to be 
enforced  after  the  year  1900.  Congress 
once  attempted  a  like  experiment  with 
the  currency,  by  making  a  greenback 
dollar  the  measure  of  value  for  all  com­
modities  and  a 
legal  tender  in  every 
state  of  the  Union  except  for  custom 
dues.  Though  appealing  powerfully  to 
the  spirit  of  patriotism,  this  statute 
was  wholly  inoperative  in  many  West­
ern  States,  and  was  never enforced there 
except 
in  cases  of  ex  post  facto  con­
tracts.

Even  the  educational  method  used  in 
persuading  pharmacists  to  adopt  the 
metric  system  have  produced  no  results 
commensurate  with  the  efforts put  forth. 
So  long  as  the  medical  profession  con­
tinue  to  follow precedent in prescribing, 
and  for  the  most  part  dispense  their 
own  prescriptions,  what  practical  use 
can  the  druggist  make  of  metric  meas­
ure  behind  his  counter?  As  well  might

it 

learn  French  as 

he 
is  spoken,  in 
hopes  to  serve  more  acceptably  an  oc­
casional  customer  who  can  speak  no 
other  language.  The  demand 
in  this 
case  may  very  properly  precede  the 
supply— especially  as  the  latter  requires 
so  little  preparation  to  satisfy  the  for­
mer.

The  scientific  advocates  of  the  metric 
system,  as  applied  to  medicine,  who are 
so  persistent 
it  upon  drug­
in  urging 
that  whenever 
gists  may  be  assured 
prescriptions,  written  a 
la  Francais 
come  to  be  filled,  the  accommodating 
dispenser  will  gladly  accept  both  the 
new  diction  and  the  quid  pro  quo  that 
should  follow  delivery of the goods.  And 
should  the  reform  spread  till  the  major­
ity  of  customers  became  used  to  the  or­
dering  of  drugs 
in  amounts  expressed 
metrically,  the  knight  of  the  pestle  will 
stand  ever  ready  to  deal  them  out 
in 
grammes  and  litres,  with  all  the  multi­
ples  and  decimal  subdivisions  thereof, 
to  all  who  may  apply.
While  suspending 

judgment  on  the 
question  whether  it  is  best  for  us  as  a 
people  to  adopt  the  metric  system  in  all 
the  transactions  of  life,  the  writer  be­
lieves  it  is  worth  while  to  consider 
in 
advance  all  the  possible  results  likely 
to 
follow  from  such  a  radical  change. 
Once  determined  on,  it  may  be  found 
a  larger  task  than  many  imagine  to  ad­
just  the  business  and  economic  inter­
ests  of  the  country  to  the  new  basis. 
Compared  to  the  feat  of  widening  or 
narrowing  the  gauge  of  every  railway 
track 
in  the  land,  the  project  appears 
colossal.  First,  every  scale  with  beam 
showing  pounds  and  ounces  must  be 
altered,  if  not  thrown  away,  and  also 
all  balance  weights  wherever 
in  use. 
Every  pocket  rule,  yard-stick,  ten-foot 
pole,  measuring  tape,  surveyor’s chain, 
steam  gauge,  cyclometer,  etc.,  will 
become  back  numbers  because  read­
justment 
the 
school  books 
land  relating  to 
mathematics  will  have  to  be thrown out, 
for  like  reasons,  with  the  plates  from 
which  they  are  printed.  A  new  lot 
must  be  bought,  and  our  public  school 
classes  in  arithmetic  reorganized  to  fit 
the  new  order  of  things.  A  similar 
course  must  be  pursued  with  the geog­
raphies  and  atlases  that  measure  areas 
of  water  and  land  by  miles,  and  height 
in  feet 
of  mountains  or  depth  of  seas 
The 
enor­
mous  to  contemplate,  and  a  few  may 
be  impertinent  enough  to  ask,  “ Will  jt

impracticable. 
in  the 

cost  of  this  change 

All 

is 

is 

land, 

But  this  is  not  all.  Descriptions 

in 
transfers  of 
in  'deeds  and  mort­
gages  now  on  record  will  have  to  be 
translated  into  the  legal  version  when­
ever  duplicates  or new transfers  are  nec­
essary.  Surveyors’  ’plots  and  architects’ 
plans  will  also  be  subject  to  revision 
when  copies  are  required.  Whoever 
peruses  any  book  in  public  or  private 
library  in  which  weight  or  measure 
is 
referred  to  will  find  himself  obliged,  if 
he  reads  understandingly,  to  translate 
the  text  to  suit  the  new  usage. 
In  fact, 
the 
imagination  can  hardly  cover  the 
infinite  variety  and  extent  of  .disagree­
able  effects  that  are  sure  to  follow  from 
so slight a cause as  the  mere  change  of  a 
few  tables  of  weights  and  measures,  if 
resolutely  carried  to  its  inevitable  con­
clusion.

The  opinions  and  acts  of mankind are 
as  often  controlled  by  sentiment  as  by 
appeals  to  material  advantage.  This 
question  has  a  sentimental  side,  which 
will  appear  in  evidence  should the  met­
ric  system,  with  all  the  term 
implies, 
prevail  as  National  usage  over  the  one

To

Desirable  trade  and  retain  it  is 
the ambition  of  every wide-awake 
merchant. 
It  cannot  be  done  by 
selling inferior goods at  any price. 
You  may  bait  your 
trap  with 
“quantity”  and  “prices,”  but 
if 
“quality”  is lacking,  the  delusive 
snare will  turn on you likea boom­
erang.

(The latest and daintiest of choice wafers.)

I   me  New  york  Biscuit  Co., 1

Retail  a t  15  cents.

Packed  in  cases 1 Superb quality.
J Delicate flavor.
of 27 boxes each. | Handsome label.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan. 

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which  includes  Seamless  Brass 
Scoop.
This  is  not  a  real  Computing 
Scale, it being necessary  to  make 
mental  calculations.  It  is  also 
lim ited in capacity.  You can sell 
in  fractions 
following 
prices  per  lb.  only:  3%, 4)4, 5Vi, 
654, 7)4, 8H,  9)4.  12)4  cents.  This 
cannot be avoided, on  account of 
the construction and  the  limited 
capacity in this style of  scale.  It 
is  equal  in  every  respect  to  all 
scales of this  style  sold  at  much 
higher prices.

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we  now  have  so  deeply  rooted  in  cus­
tom,  however  great  may  be  its  faults 
and  disadvantages.  We  have  many 
time-honored  aphorisms  still 
in  use 
that  the  plain  people  find  appropriate 
to  certain  occasions,  which  they  would 
be  loth  to  surrender  to  a  foreign  in­
truder.  Among  them are  the  following : 
“ A  miss  is  as  good  as  a  m ile.”   "G ive 
him  an  inch  and  he  will  take  an  e ll.”  
“ A  pint  is  a  pound  the  world  around.”
Of  a  man  in  peculiar  difficulties  they 
say,  “ He  is  in  a  peck  of  half-bushels.”  
These  and  similar  phrases  handed 
down  by  tradition  serve  as  expressions 
to  convey  a  definite  meaning.  Yet, 
translated  as  they  would  be  into  metric 
measure, 
idiotic 
drivel.

they  would  be  only 

If  the  new  system  prevails  how  can 
we  contemplate  the  desecrating  influ­
ence  it  will  have  upon  the  works  of  the 
Immortal  Bard?  Many  pedantic  critics 
have  twisted  his  poetic  measures  to  suit 
their  esthetic  fancies,  in  hope  to  im­
prove  on  the  original,  to  develop  their 
idea  of  his  true  meaning.  Yet  so  far 
no  one  has  trifled  with  the  text on points 
suggested  by  the  French  system.  But 
may  not  the  tragedian  of  the  future who 
takes  the  part  of  Shylock  feel  it  his 
duty,  under  a  law  of  Congress,  to  inter­
pret  it  in  a style  that  shall  recognize the 
binding  obligation 
of  said  statute? 
And  when  in  the  most  thrilling  portion 
of  the  play  he  proceeds  to  interpolate 
the  metric  equivalent  of  16  ounces  av­
oirdupois  for  the  pound  of flesh due  him 
from  Antonio,  what  will  the  true  lovers 
of  Shakespeare  think  of 
it?  As  his 
graceful 
in 
grammes  and  decimals  the  weight  of 
that  debt  flow  out  upon  the  audience, 
how  will  the  gallery  gods  howl  their  de­
rision  at  the 
the 
memory  of  the  greatest  dramatic  author 
the  world  has  ever  known.

insult  offered 

expressing 

syllables 

to 

The  American  Dictator.

W ritten for the  Tkauesman.

It  is  becoming  more  and  more  an  ac­
knowledged  fact  that  the  American  ma­
chine  is  the  best  in  the  world.  There 
is  a  growing  belief  that  whatever  is 
made  with  it  is  better,  generally,  than 
other  machine-made  goods;  and,  with 
this  for  an  established  fact,  the  wonder 
is  why  these  American  machine-made 
goods,  the  acknowledged  best 
in  the 
world,  are  not  finding  a  better  sale 
in 
the  world’s  markets.  Even 
those 
instances,  altogether  too rare,  where  en­
terprise  has  done 
its  best  to  forward 
the  interests  of  manufacturer  and  mer­
chant,  it  is  found  that  there  is  a  hitch. 
The  goods  do  not  sell. 
They  are 
looked  at,  they  are admired,  they  create 
wonder  that  the  newest  manufacturing 
country 
is  by  far  the  best;  but,  when 
all  is  said  and  done,  the  goods  are  un­
sold  and  the  parties  most  interested  are 
asking  why  not.

in 

Charles  Dudley  Warner,  in  the  April 
number  of  the  North  American  Review 
in  a  single  sen­
answers  the  question 
tence:  “ We  should  make  what 
the 
markets  demand.”   America  has  not 
been  doing  this.  She  has  been  work­
ing  up  her  raw  material  with her match­
less  machinery  according  to  her  own 
ideas,  and,  finishing  the  work,  with  the 
dictator  in  manner  and  in  voice,  says: 
“ Here  are  the  goods  you  want—this 
is 
the  article  you  are  looking  after;”   and 
when,  with  lifted  eyebrow  and  a  shrug 
of 
turns 
away,  the  American  dictator,  with  an­
swering  brow  and  shrug,  exclaim s: 
if  you  don’t  want  the 
“ Very  well, 
goods,  you  needn’t  buy 
them;  but 
you’ll  have  no  more  until  these  are  dis­
posed  of. ”   The  American  tradesman, 
in  dealing  with  foreign  trade,  insists 
on  doing  what  he  would  discharge  his 
salesman  for  doing  behind  his  counter 
at  home.

indifference, 

customer 

the 

It 

lingo  that 

listener,  but  must, 

is  not  a  pleasant  anticipation  for 
fishermen  and  hunters  accustomed  to 
drawing  the  long  bow,  in  relating  ex­
ploits  with  the  rod  or  gun,  to  know 
that,  after  the  next  century  begins,  they 
will  not  be  permitted  to  measure  the 
trophies of  their  skill  by  the  old  terms 
that  convey  a  definite  meaning  to  the 
average 
instead, 
smother  the  most  ambitious  exaggera­
tions  as  to  weight,  size  and  distance 
in 
a 
is  only  half  ac­
foreign 
climatized. 
It  will  also  be  a  severe 
blow  to  the  prosperity  of  the  Ananias 
clubs  that  have  heretofore  depended  on 
the  strength  of  the  English  system  of 
mensuration  to  embellish  a 
favorite 
whopper  built  in  the  Queen  Anne  style 
of 
lingual  architecture.  The  fantastic 
terms  of  the  French  method,  entering 
into  the  thread  of  a  story  (though  the 
latter  may  be  a  chef-d’oeuvre)  will 
scarcely 
auditors, 
and  must  destroy  much  of  its  force  and 
effect. 

interest  American 

.

In  short,  the  question  whether  the 
metric  system 
is,  on  the  whole,  a  tree 
likely  to  thrive  and  bear  fruit  on  our 
soil  needs  to  be  more  thoroughly  under­
stood  by  the  masses  than  it  is  at  pres­
ent,  before  it  can  obtain  unanimous  ac­
ceptance.  Nothing  is  lost  by  carefully 
considering  every  possible  effect  of  any 
new  reform,  especially  one 
like  this, 
that,  if  not  universally  accepted,  will 
the  present 
increase  the  diversity  of 
methods  of  mensuration. 
Scientific 
men,  however,  may  better  accommo­
date  themselves  to  the'change  than  can 
the  entire  business  of  the  Country.

S.  P.  W hitmarsh.

Dissembled  honesty  is  like the'poison 

of  perfumes. 

Its  sweetness  kills.

It 

is  reasonable  to  conclude  that  the 
tradesman  in  the  United  States  had  bet­
ter  turn  over  a  new  leaf,  if  the  com­
mercial 
interests  of  his  country  are  to 
be  improved.  He  has  made  a  mistake 
in  the  position  he holds  with  the  trad­
ing  world.  By  some  strange  fallacy,  he 
has  got  on  the  wrong  side  of  the  trad­
ing  counter,  and  has  forgotten  his  man­
ners,  as  well  as  the  commercial  inter­
ests  he  has  at  heart.  What  has  he  to 
do  or  to  say  as  to  what  goods  are  called 
If  the  demand  is  for  cable,  shall 
for? 
he  offer  clothesline,  and 
insist  on  its 
being  taken? 
If  the  call  is  for  cheese, 
shall  he,  with  the  ungracious  remark, 
“ That  or  nothing, ”   give  the  “ filled”  
article? 
It  'is  the  purchaser  who  is  to 
be  satisfied,  not  the  manufacturer;  the 
wearer  of  the  clothes,  not  the  tailor  who 
takes  the  measure  and  makes  the  gar­
ments:  and  the American dictator, in the 
face  of  this,  sends 
forth  his  “ Thou 
shalt"  and  “  Thou  shalt  not, ”   violates 
the  first  principles  of  trade;  and  then 
grumbles  because  “ these  foreigners  are 
scooping  everything 
It  is 
unbusinesslike,  it  is  un-American;  and 
the  sooner  the  American  dictator  throws 
off  his  robes  of  office  and  buckles  down 
to  his 
legitimate  business,  the  sooner 
will  come  the  business  that  should  have 
been  his  long  ago,  and  the  sooner  will 
he  stop  the  ruinous  policy  of  forcing 
skim-milk  upon  a  customer  who  is  call­
ing  for  cream.

in  sight. *' 

R.  M.  Str e e t e r.

The  merchant  who  thinks  he  will  ad­
vertise  just  as  soon  as  his  business  war­
rants 
it  will  most  likely  never  get  out 
the  warrant.

SPRING  &  COMPANY

IMPORTERS  and  JOBBERS.

Ever  Offered  by Them

Their new  Spring  Goods,  including AVflite Goods,  Prints,
Ginghams,  Embroidery,  etc.,  are  very inviting.

GR AN D   RAPIDS.

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Pointers on  Window  Shades

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We have them  in  all  colors,  styles  and 
prices.  Packed 
in  boxes  of  a  dozen 
each.  They are easy to hang and  there 
is money  in  it  for you.  House  cleaning 
time  means  new  shades.  Do  not  de­
lay but  place your order now.

VOIGT,  HERPOLSHEIMER  i   CO.

I  

W HOLESALE  DRY  GOODS

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

Our  Wash  Goods  Stock

Is now complete.  Calicos,  Ginghams.  Seersucker, 

Wide  Prints  in colors and Indigo,Outing Flannels, 

Shirtings,  Pants cloths,  Cottonade,  Denims  and a 
new line of  Red  Damasks,  5^ inches  wide  @  20c.

Write  for samples,  if  our traveling  men do not call  on  you.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,

G R AN D   R APID S,  MICH.

Candy!

A.  E.  BROOKS  &  CO.,

Now  is the time  to  put  in 
new  Varieties  that  attract 
attention.  We  are  c o n ­
stantly  adding  such  to  our 
line  in  both  fine  and  penny 
goods.  Give us a call.

5  &  7  South  Ionia  St., 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  niCH.

F REE a book  containing over  ioo views  of  New 

York  City and incidentally some  informa­
tion about  the  best  thing  in  the  market 
in the way of

R O O F I N G

Write to  Warren  Chemical  and  Manufacturing  Co.,

■ 120 Chamber of Commerce,  Detroit.

T H E   M ICH IG AN   T R A D E S M A N

Produce.

No  Danger  of  an  Overproduction  of 

Good  Butter.

I  confess  myself  greatly  amused at the 
articles  appearing  in  some  of  the  trade 
journals  of  late,  predicting  dire  results 
to  the  dairy 
interests  of  the  country 
through  the  possibility  of  an  overpro­
duction  of  good  butter.

it 

is 

I  know  butter 

While  I  admit  there  is  a  possibility 
of  overproduction,  I  do-not  think  there 
is  any  probability  of 
in  the  near 
future.  Those  producing a  strictly first- 
class  article  of  butter  at  any  rate  need 
have  no  fears;  their  trade  will  be  the 
last  to  suffer. 
lower 
now  than  it  has  been  for  many  years  at 
a  corresponding  season,  but  1  cannot 
think  for  a  moment  that  it  is  all  caused 
by  overproduction.  There  are  numer­
ous  causes  for  it.  One  of  the  most  po­
tent  is  the  depressed  condition  of  every 
industry.  Many  are  out  of  employ­
ment,  scarcely  able  to  purchase  the  ne­
cessities  of  life,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
luxuries.  While  these  would  be  very 
glad  to  purchase  the  best  quality of  but­
ter,  if  they  had  the  means, 
they  are 
obliged  to  be  content  with  a  cheaper 
grade and  are  glad  to  get  that.  A  great 
many,  too,  have  been  eating  second  or 
third-class  butter,  not  knowing  what 
really  good  butter 
is.  Suppose  that 
only  half  the  people  buy  the  best  and 
the  remainder  use  a  cheaper  grade  or 
oleo.  The  best  butter  would  all  be  re 
quired  for  the  former;  the  latter  would 
be  obliged  to  depend  upon  cheap  butter 
or  oleo.  The  object  is  not  so  much  to 
induce  people  to  make  more  butter  as 
to  make  a  better  article  and  make 
cheaper.  People  will  in  time  become 
educated  to  know  good  butter from  infe 
rior,  and  they  will  not  be  satisfied  un 
less  they  get  the  best.  Then  good  but 
ter  will  sell  higher  and  poor  butter  sti' 
lower,  for  the  reason  that  there  will  be 
less  call  for  it  than  now. 
is  simply 
astonishing  to  find  how  much  poor  but 
ter  is  being  made.  Go  into  the  average 
grocery  store  and  examine  the  stock  o 
hand  and  you  will  be  surprised  thj 
more  than  half  of  it  can  be  sold  at  ali 
The  truth 
is  there  are  thousands  o 
pounds  used  annually  in  the  manufac 
ture  of  fancy  soaps  -butter that  ought 
sell  for  20  to  25  cents  per  pound,  to  bt 
consumed  in  a  legitimate  wav,  selling 
for  8  or  10  cents  or  less,  to  be  used  for 
such  purposes.  The  demand  for  good 
in  proportion 
butter  ought  to  increase 
to  the  supply. 
im 
proved, 
increase 
rather  than  diminish.  People always eat 
more  of  a  good  article  than  of  an 
inf 
rior  one,  without  a  thought  of  its  cost.

consumption  would 

If  the  quality  were 

It 

If  go  per  cent,  of  the  butter  would 
grade  No.  1,  there  would  be  very  littl 
demand  for  oleo  and  very  little  would 
be  used.  To  tell  the  honest  truth, 
would  rather  eat  good  oleo  than  poor 
rancid  or  bad  flavored  butter.  Not  that 
I  advocate  the  use  of  oleo  when  good 
butter  can  be  had,  or  believe  that  it 
right  to  sell  oleo  as ‘butter at  all.  Whei 
a  buyer  knowingly  buys  oleo  instead  of 
butter he  has  no  right  to  complain.  But 
the  Government  should  see  that  no  one 
is  deceived  a  moment  as  to  either. 
It 
is  the 
innocent  purchaser  who  com­
plains  upon-discovering  the  truth.  A 
short  time  ago  I  went  into  one  of  the 
leading  hotels  in  a  neighboring  city  of 
4.0,000  inhabitants  and  made  inquiry  as 
to  furnishing  them  with  butter.  The 
proprietor  informed  me  they  were  using 
oleo  because  they  had  found  it  impossi­
ble  to  procure a  good  article  of  butter

in  sufficient  quantity.  He  said  they 
were  using  about  a  hundred  pounds  per 
week  and  had  been  unable to get anyone 
to  supply  that  amount  of  uniform  color 
and  quality.

That  does  not  look  as  though  there 
as  any  danger  of  overproduction  of 
. jally  good  butter.  That  the  markets 
are  and  have  been  badly  glutted  with 
poor  butter  is  certain.  So  long  as  peo­
ple  persist 
in  making  No.  3  butter 
there  is  no  danger  the  market  will  be 
erstocked  with  No.  1.  Before  people 
an  be  taught  to  make  a  fancy  article 
they  must  first  be  convinced  -that  they 
are  not  doing  so  now.  Tell  a  woman 
that  her  butter  is  not  first  class  and  she 

insulted  in  a\noment.
The  majority  do  not  know  what  good 
butter  really  is  and  naturally  they  think 
theirs  is  as  good  as  any.  They  have  not 
the  opportunity  to  compare  it  with  the 
best,  nor  have  they  anyone  to  tell  them 
herein  they  have  failed.  They  raise 
the  cream,  skim  it  and churn  when most 
convenient,  without  regard  to  surround- 
ng  influences,  and get  something called 
is 
butter.  When  ready  for  market  it 
robably  as  white as  chalk, with  a  good, 
ad  or  indifferent  flavor,  as  the  case 
may  be.  Perhaps 
it  contains  a  good 
ercentage  of  buttermilk  and,  as  a  con­
sequence,  will  have  a  still  more  pro­
nounced  flavor  or  smell  in  a  few  days.

My  views  may  seem  extreme  or  exag­
gerated  to  some,but  those  who  buy  their 
supply  at  the  ordinary  grocery  store will 
not  think  so. 
In  order  to  supply  our 
regular  customers  at  all  times  we  are 
often  under  the  necessity  of  purchasing 
there  for  our  own  use. 
In  that  way  we 
get  a  knowledge  of  the  variable  quality 
of  store  butter.

O .  J.  V i n e .

S A L *

Diamond  Crystal,  “ the  salt  thats  all 
salt,”  Peerless  Crystal,  Packers’  Rock, 
and  Ice  Cream  Salt.  Lump  Rock  Salt 
for horses and  cattle.

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New Cabbage, Cauliflower, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Radishes, Rhubarb, 
Bermuda Onions, Cucumbers, Green Onions, Parsley, Pine Apples, 
Bananas, Sweet Oranges, Apples, Cranberries and Crabapple Cider. 
Send in your order to ensure choice selections.

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FIELD  SEEDS

E S T A B L IS H E D   1 8 7 6 .

We carry  Largest  Stock  Highest  Grades  Field Seed* 
in Western Michigan.  Prices to meet the markets.

M O S E L E Y   B R O S . ,

26, 28, 30, 32 Ottawa St, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Beans, Seeds, Potatoes, F ruits.

W

e

  O  u  a  r a  a n  t e e

our  Brand  of Vinegar to be an A BSO LU TELY  PURE  A PPLE  
1UICE  VIN EGAR.  To any  one who  will  analyze  it  and  nnd 
any deleterious acids, or anything that  is  not  produced  from  the 
apple,  we will forfeit

O N E   H U N D R E D   D O L L A R S

We also guarantee it to be of not less than 40 grains strength.

J.  ROBINSON, Manager.

ROBINSON  CIDER  & VINEGAR  CO.,

b iJn t o n   HARBOR,  rtlCH.

Make  Regular  Shipments.

One  of  the  most  successful  ways  of 
marketing  any  kind  of  produce  is  to  se­
cure  a  regular  channel 
into  which  the 
goods  can  be  moved  promptly  at  the 
best  prices that  are  current  on  arrival. 
Every  large  receiver  must  have  custom­
ers  who  take  certain  brands  regularly; 
this  is  necessary  to  the  proper  distribu­
tion  of  the  stock. 
If  each  day’s  re­
ceipts  had  to  be  thrown  on  the  market 
to  take  their  chances  of  sale,  and  often 
in  competition  with  similar goods  from 
a  hundred  different  points,  there  would 
necessarily  be times of  great depression, 
when  values  would  fall  very  low.  Then, 
again,  there  would  be  brief  periods  of 
excitable  markets,  with  prices  danger­
ously  high.  The  average  would,  we 
think,  give  less  favorable  results  than 
under  the  system  of  securing  a  regular 
distribution  for  a  very  large  part  of  the 
stock.

Under  the  plan  of  having  a  specific 
and  regular  place  for  the  goods  as  they 
arrive,  it is necessary to  have  the  co-op­
eration  of  the  shipper.  For  instance,  a 
commission  merchant  goes  to  Jones  and 
induces  him  to  buy  a  brand  of  butter, 
assuring  him  that  every  possible  means 
will  be  employed  to  get  that brand regu­
larly.  Jones  agrees  to  this  and  distrib­
utes  the  lot  to  a  dozen  or  more  of  his 
customers  who  like  the  flavor,  charac­
ter,  color and  saltness  and  soon begin  to 
think  that  nothing  is  quite  so  good  as 
his  favorite  brand.  Everything  runs 
smoothly  for  some 
Shipments 
come  along  each  week,  are  sold  on  ar­
rival  at  the  very  highest  market  price 
and  returns  made  quickly.  All  at  once 
the  goods  are  missing,  or  there  may  be 
only  a  small  part  of  the  usual shipment. 
Word  had  reached  the  Secretary  of  the 
creamery,  or  the  buttermaker,  that some

time. 

?o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o < x x > o o o o o o o o o o o o <
*  NOTHING  BETTER  MADE  In  New  York  or  Michigan,  than

C H E E S E

W ARNER'S
OAKLAND
COUNTY

WRITE
FOR
PR ICE S.

Still have a few Fine Old Cheese to ship;  New Cheese for shipm ent, April 10.

rifd.  and Sold by  FRED.  M.  WARNER,  Farmington,  filch.

!   perkins & HESS,  Der  HUBS, FllTS, WOOl ¡tyll TallOW

♦

 

We carry a stock of cake tallow for mill  use.

Ask for our weekly quotations.

F.  J.  DBtlentlialer,

117 and 119 Monroe street,

Grand Rapids.

Cow  Butter  and 
Hen’s  Eggs

O

I can supply a limited number  of  custom­
ers with choice butter and  fresh eggs,  and 
solicit correspondence with merchants who 
prefer to deal direct with  the  buyer,  thus 
saving  the profits of  the  middleman.  Al­
legan, Barry,  Kalamazoo  and  Van  Buren 
counties are noted  for  the  superiority  of 
the dairy products—I draw  supplies  from 
all  four  counties. 
In  writing  for  quota­
tions,  please  mention  name  of  grocery 
jobbing house with whom you are dealing.

A.  B.  CLARK,

Plainw ell,  Mich.

are right in line at this  season. 
We  are  prepared  to  fill  your 
orders with better cases, better 
fillers  and  closer  prices  than 
any  other  house  in  the  coun­
try.  We are

Complete Outfitters of 
Creameries and 
Cheese  Factories
If you want one in your community  we  will 
help you get it.  Our business is selling  Sup­
plies and Outfits; the  greater  tha  number  of 
factories,  the larger our business  That’s the 
point.
We have a large line of special sizes of Egg 
Cases,  Egg Testers and Egg Case Fillers. 
Can save you  money.  Prompt service,  cour­
teous treatment.  Always a pleasure  to quote 
prices.  Better have our catalogue, it's free.

M i ll
1-3*5 Washington St., 

Chicago, III.
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Why  pay  enormous  prices  for  “ Entire  wheat” 
flour from  the  Eastern  States  when  you  can 
buy it  from  a  Michigan  mill,  equally  good, at 
a much  less  price?  We  have  special machin­
ery for  the  purpose  and  would  like  to  confer 
with you on the subject.

WM.  CALLAM  & SON,

-217  N.  Franklin  street,

215

The 

jobber  has  to  go 

other  market  was  doing  a 
little  better 
and  the  week’s  make  was  marked  up 
another  point.  The  effect  is  easily  un­
derstood. 
in 
search  of  other  stock, which may  or  may 
not  wholly  satisfy  his  customers,  the  re­
ceiver  loses  the  outlet  for  the  butter 
when  the  difference 
in  values  changes 
in  favor  of  the  original  shipping  point, 
and  the  disarrangement  of  the  entire 
business  is  not  only  very  unpleasant  but 
decidedly  against  shippers’  interests.

We  urge  the  importance  of  selecting 
a  house  which  merits 
implicit  confi­
dence,  seeing  that  a  regular  channel  for 
the  goods 
is  secured,  and  then  never 
breaking  that 
the 
services  rendered are  satisfactory.  Any 
temporary  gain  by  diverting  the  stock 
elsewhere  for  a  short  time  will 
invari­
ably  be  lost  before  the  balance  sheets 
of  the  season’s  work  are  closed.

connection  while 

Too  Much  Independence  in  the  Gro 

eery  Store.

Stroller in Grocery World.

smiled  complacently  to  think  how 
dependent  he  was.

in­

The  -girl’s 
face  reddened,  but  she 
idn’t  say  anything.  When  the  order 
./as  finished,  the  grocer  added the  items 
and  announced  the  result:

“ Eighty-three  cents."
“ Isn’t  that  a  mistake?" 
irl.  “ I  only  make  it  78  cents/’
The  grocer  showed  her  his  figuring, 
and,  as  it  proved,  he  was  right,  but  he 
needn’t  have  been  insulting  about  it.

said  the 

“ Huh!”   he  said,  with  a  sneer,  “ you 
an’t  do  a  little  sum  in  arithmetic 
like 
that,  eh?"

The  girl  was  mad  clear  through  then. 
I  can!"  said  she,  “ and  I’ll 
“ Yes, 
into  your  mean  old  store 

never  come 
again!"  And  she  meant  it,  too. 

Customer  No.  2  lost.
Then  the  grocer  came  around  to  me, 
and  was  going  to  show  how independent 
he  was  again,  but  I  was  disgusted  with 
him  and  cut  the  thing  short. 
I  derived 
more  satisfaction  out  of  a  thing  I  said 
to  him  just  as  I  left,  than  anything  I’ve 
done  for  a  long  time.

“ The  biggest  fool  idiot  I  ever  knew" 
I  said,  “ was  a  man  who  was  so 
inde­
pendent  he  thought  he  had  to  rub  up 
against  everybody."

Then  I  left  him  to  think  it  over.

in 

I  believe 

independence  as  much 
as  any  man  possibly  can. 
I  wouldu’ 
allow  a  man  to  expectorate  in  my  fac 
any  quicker  than  anybody,  but  I  am 
strongly  convinced  that 
independence 
can  go  too  far. 
It  goes  too  far  when.  a 
man  who  attempts  to  be  independent 
goes  around  with  a  chip  on  his  shoul 
der. 
I’ve  seen  some  men  who-made  ¡ 
specialty  of  independence.  Every  other 
word  they  said  was:  “ I’m  independent 
I  say  what  I  mean. 
I  say  to  a  man’ 
face'w hat  I  say  to  his  back.’ ’  They 
seem  to  roll  their 
independence  undt 
their  tongues  like  a  sweet  morsel.

One  of  the  worst  traits  a  business 
I  saw 
man  can  have  is  to  be  this  way. 
an  evidence  of  this  last  week. 
It  was 
in  the  store  of  a  Philadelphia  grocer, 
up  in  the  Northwest. 
I  had  occasion  tc 
go  in  there  on  business,  and  I  sized  the 
man  up  as  soon  as  I  heard  him  talk. 
He  was  an  “  independent  man’ ’  clear 
through.
*  Well,  young  man,  what  do  you 
want?’ ’  he  said,  brusquely,  as  I went  in. 
Well,  now,  you  know  such  a  greeting  as 
that  rattles  á  man  right  on  the  start.

I  told  him  who  I  was  selling  for  and 

what  I  had.
"  “ Don’t  want  it,’ ’  he  said;  “ wouldn’t 
Handle  it  with  a  ten-foot  pole.  Your 
stuff’s  no  good,  and neither  is  the  house 
you’re  working  for,’ ’  he  said. 
“ I  al­
ways  say  what  I  mean,  young  m an;  I’m 
independent.

The  customer  was  a 

Well,  this  sort  of  thing  made  me  hot 
under  the  collar,  and  I  started  in to give 
the  man  a  straight  line  of  talk. 
In  the 
midst  of  the  argument  a  customer  came 
in,  and  he  left  to  wait  on  her. 
I  stayed 
where  I  was.
lady,  and  she 
wanted  a  certain  brand  of  canned  peas. 
“ Eighteen  cents,”   said  the  grocer. 
“ Why,  I  can  get  exactly  the  same 
thing  at  Smith’s  for  14,”   said  the  lady. 
“ Why  do  you  charge  so  much  more?”  
“ Smith’s  is  the  place  to  go  for  them, 
then,’ ’  said  the  “ independent"  gro­
cer.  And  the  man  actually  put  the  can 
its  place  and  came  from  be­
back 
hind  the  counter,  forcing  the 
lady  to 
leave  the  store  whether  she  intended  to 
or  not.  A  few  pleasant  words,  a  cour­
teous  explanation  and  a  sale  might have 
-  been  made,  besides  retaining  the  lady’s 
good-will.  As  it  was,  she  was  angry  at 
the  grocer’s  brusqueness,  as  she  had  a 
right  to be,  and  her  face  was  flushed  as 
she  left.

in 

That  was  customer  No.  1  lost.
The  grocer  had  just  started  to  argue 
with  me  when  another  customer  came 
.in. 
It  was  a  young  girl  about  thirteen 
or  fourteen.  She  wanted  several  things, 
and  the  grocer  wrapped  them  up.

One  o f the  articles  was  crackers.  The 
grocer  weighed  them  out,  and  he  had 
the  scales  exactly  on  the  balance.

“ You  don’t  give  very good measure, ”  
“ Mr.  Smith  down  here 

said  the  girl. 
always  makes  the  scales  gc  down."
“ This  is  my  measure,"  said  the 
“ If  you  don’t 

in­
dependent  grocer. 
like 
it  you  know  what  to  do. ’ ’  And  he

Is  Partnership  Desirable?

From the Commercial Bulletin.

,

. 

Partnership  troubles  are  many,  and 
partnership  troubles  are  few.  Here  are 
two  opposite  statements,  and  both  true, 
depending  on  the  view point from which 
the  survey 
is  made.  Looked  at  from 
one  point  partnership  is  a  failure,  and 
from  another  standpoint  it  is a  success.
A  great  deal  depends  on  the  firm  as  to 
whether  partnership  is  a  success  or  a 
failure. 
As  a  general  proposition  it  can  prob­
ably  be  said  that  most  good  business 
men  prefer  to  be  their  own  managers, 
free  from  the  entanglements  of  partner­
its  possible  misunderstand­
ship  with 
ings  and  worriments. 
This  feeling 
may  refer  more  to  smaller  lines  of  busi­
ness  than  to  large  corporations.  Take 
the  general  store  of  the  country,  for  in­
stance.  A  successful  business  man  can 
on  the  whole  better  manage  a  business 
than  where  equal  partnership  exists. 
But  men  find  it  convenient  and  politic 
interests  with 
at  times  to  unite  their 
some  one  who  is  supposed  to  have 
in­
fluence  in  the  community  in  the  matter 
of  drawing  trade  to  a  store.  The  pref­
erence  to  be  sole  proprietor 
is  waived 
by  the  one  for  the  advantage  that  is  ex­
pected  to  follow  a  union  of forces.  Thus 
many  partnerships'are  formed  for  the 
benefits  they  are  supposed  to  yield  to  r 
business. 
j
I11  this  view  is  partnership  desirable 
There  are  many  complications  involved 
in  a  discussion  of  the  question. 
If  twe 
men  can  agree,  or  rather  avoid  dis 
agreements  that  annoy, 
is  probably 
in  mercantile  affairs  advan 
true  that 
tages 
But  thi: 
point  should  be  well  considered  in  ad 
vance.  Differences  of  temperament, 
personal  habits,  general disposition,  are 
proper  matters  for  consideration  in  thi" 
connection.  A  man  of  strict  mors 
ideas  and  clean  personal  habits  would 
not  want  to  ally  himself  with  a  man  of 
opposite  character;  there would be trou­
ble  sooner  or  later,  because  the opposite 
natures  would  clash ;  the _ same 
is  true 
where  the  principal  considering  a  par 
nership 
is  not  of  strong  moral  cha
acter. 
Not  enough  attention  is  paid  to  these 
matters  when  partnerships are agreed  to. 
A  business  alliance  must  be well formed 
or  trouble  will  follow. 
It  is  better to do 
the  work  well  at  the  beginning  rather 
than  make  an  alliance  that  will  result 
in  unpleasantness  later  on  and  which 
will  make  readjustment  necessary.

follow  partnerships. 

it 

. 

.

It  appears  that 

the  single  State  of 
Georgia  now  has  more  manufactories 
than  the  whole  South  had  in  i860.  This 
is  an 
illustration  of  the  remarkable 
change  that  has  been  taking  place  in 
Southern 
the  past 
thirty  years.  That  section  is  no  longer 
giving  all  of  its  attention  to agriculture, 
but  is  reaching  out  for additional means 
of  prosperity,  in  imitation  of  the North.

industries  during 

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& Pulte,

Plumbing  and  Steam  Heating;  Gas 
and Electric Fixtures;  Galvanized  Iron 
Cornice and  Slate  Roofing.  Every kind 
of  Sheet  M etal  W ork.

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ing  Experiences.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.

“ I  went 

“  ‘Oh,  what  shall  1  do?’ 

to  see  Fanny  Davenport 
Thursday  n ight,”  said  a  well-known 
‘‘and,  while  watching 
„ traveling  man, 
the  excellent  performance  and  adm ir­
I  was  re­
ing  the  beautiful  scenery, 
minded  of  a play  I  saw a  short  tim e  ago 
in  one  of  the back  woods  towns 
in  In* 
diana.  1  do  not  remember  the  name  of 
the  piece,  but 
it  was  a  border  drama, 
filled  with  thrilling  situations,  and  be­
fore the  end  of  the  second  act  the  stage 
ran  red  with  blood.  The actors,  if  they 
can  be  called  such,were of the  kind  that 
believe  that  it  is necessary to  yell  at  the 
top  of  their  voices  in  order to  bring  out 
the  pomts  of  the  play. 
In  other  words, 
they  were  ‘scenery  chewers,’  and 
the 
way  they  strutted  about  the  ten  by  four­
teen  stage  was  ridiculous.
“ The third  act  opened  in  a  wild  and 
picturesque spot  in 
the  Rocky  moun­
tains,  with  a  m iner’s  cabin  in  the  fore­
ground.  The  star,  a  young  woman  with 
yellow  hair  and  black  eyebrows,  was 
seated  at  the  door,  bemoaning  her  fate.
she  cried, 
wringing  her  hands  in  an guish;  ‘for 
three  long  days  have  I been  in  this  m is­
erable  place  without  food,  and  now—’
‘ • She got  no  farther,  for  there  was  a 
heavy  footstep  and  the villain strode  up­
on  the  stage.
“   ‘Well, ’ said he in a voice  of thunder, 
‘have  you-made  up  your  m ind 
to  be-1 
,come my  w ife?’
“  ‘ Never,  you  base,  vile  v illa in ; 
sooner would  I  die 
than  become 
the 
wife of  such  as  I  know  you  to  be. ’
“   ‘That  is  exactly  what  you  will  do,’ 
said  he.  * Prepare to meet your M aker! ’ 
large  and 
With  this  remark  he drew  a 
gleaming  knife  from his  belt and started 
toward  her.  He  had 
taken  but  a  few 
steps  when  an  unexpected 
thing  hap­
pened.  For  some  cause  or  other  the 
flat  on which  was  painted  the  mountain 
scenery had  not  been  properly  braced 
and  fell  with  a crash,  carrying  with  it 
the  cabin.  The  man  saw  it  coming  and 
made  an  effort  to  shield  the young  wom­
an.
“   ‘ Lay down !' he yelled, as he dropped 
flat  on  his  stomach.  The  woman  at­
tem pted  to  do  so,  but  was  not  quick 
the 
enough,  and  the flat  struck  her  on 
head.  The  canvas  was  old  and  rotten 
and her  head  went  right 
through 
it. 
She  was  unable  to  release  herself  and 
there  she  stood.  The  audience  yelled 
and  during 
the  excitem ent  the  villain 
crawled  out  from  under  the  flat  and 
helped  to  release the young woman  from 
her  unpleasant  position. 
It  was  some 
little  tim e  before  the  curtain  was  rung 
down,  and  after 
it  was  the  audience 
yelled  until  the  man  and  woman  came 
out  and  made  a  bow.  He  proved  him ­
self  to be  master  of  the  situation,  how­
ever,  and  in  a  neat  speech  said  he  be­
lieved  he  and  the  woman  were  the  only 
people  living  who  ever had  a  mountain 
fall  on  them  and  escape  uninjured. ” 
‘‘Your  story  reminds  me of  another, 
said  a  member of  the  party,  who  was 
listening  to  the  above,  ‘‘and,  as an  In­
dianapolis  man  named  George  Mitchell 
is  concerned  in  it,  I  believe  this  would 
be  a good tim e to tell it.  T his  happened 
a  few  years  ago  when  Mitchell  was  on 
the  stage.  He 
joined  a  fly-by-night 
company  playing 
la., 
and  the  very  day he  arrived  the  com­
pany  went to the  wall.  He supposed  ev­
erything  was  lovely, and  that night  went 
on  to  do  the  part  of  a  scout  in  a West­
ern  play.  He  was  dressed  in  buckskin 
and  while he  was  on  the  stage  conduct­
ing  a  party  of  settlers  to  a  place  of  ref­
uge in order to  escape  from the  Indians, 
a  constable  and  several  deputies  ar­
rived.  They  at  once  seized  everything, 
including  M itchell’s  trunk,and  when  he 
wanted  to  change his  clothing  they  re­
fused  to allow  him   to  do  so. 
In  vain 
be  argued  that  the  suit  of buckskin  was 
worth  more  than  the  clothing  he  want­
ed  to  wear,  but the  constable  was  bull­
headed  and  said  he was  compelled  to 
take  things  just  as  he  found  them.  This 
was  a  pretty  predicament,  but  Mitchell 
was  compelled  to  make  the  best  of  it, 
and  that  night he  was  forced  to  walk  to

in  Davenport, 

the hotel  dressed  in  the  garb  of  a  wild 
Western  scout. 
The next m orning he 
telegraphed  home  for  enough  money  to 
buy  him   a  suit  of  clothing,  and  then  he 
returned  to 
Indianapolis  a  sadder and 
a wiser  m an.”
“ The  tricks  of  the  old-time  salesman 
are  varied  and  many, ’ ’  said  a  veteran 
yesterday,‘‘but  I  remember  an  instance 
where a  country  m erchant  got  the  best 
of  one  of  the  smartest  men 
that  ever 
traveled  out  of  Chicago.  This  hap­
pened  years  ago,  shortly  after  the  close 
of  the  war.  The  merchant  kept  a  sort 
of  general  store  in  Crawfordsville,  and 
one  day  a  Chicago  traveler  came  along 
with  some  accordions  which he offered 
at a  very  low figure.  He  explained  that 
they had  been  slightly  damaged 
in  a 
steamboat  wreck  on  Lake  M ichigan, 
and, while they  were slightly soiled, were 
just  as  good as  new.  The  samples were 
all  right,  and  the  merchant  took  about 
two  dozen  at  a  price  far  below  cost. 
About  a  week  later  the  instruments ar­
rived  and  were  found  to  be  ruined  and 
unsalable. 
Instead  of bringing  suit  fot 
damages  the  merchant swore to get even.
A  short  tim e  later  his  opportunity  a r­
rived.  He  saw a  chance 
to  buy  some 
flimsy  cloth,and  this he sold to  the  trav­
eling  man,  who  thought  he  saw an  op­
He 
portunity to  make  some  money. 
purchased  the  entire  lot and  then  sold 
some  of  it  to  other  merchants 
in  Craw 
fordsville.

to  rain. 

to  shrink. 

long  before 

“ If  my  memory  serves  me  right,  on 
of  the first  men  to buy  a  suit  from 
the 
cloth  was  a  Methodist  m inister,  who 
was  holding  revival  services 
the 
in 
woods  near  the  town. 
The  suit  looked 
nice  and  everything  would  have  been 
lovely had not an unfortunate  thing hap­
pened  on  the  first  day  he  wore  it. 
The 
preacher  was on  the  platform  busily  en­
gaged  in  pointing  out  the  straight  and 
narrow  path  when  it began 
I 
do  not  exaggerate  when  I  say  it  rained 
h a rd ;  in  fact,  the  water  came  down  in 
torrents,  and  before  he  could  get to a 
house  he  was  wringing  wet.  He  stood 
by the  stove  with  a  woe-begone  look  on 
his  face,  and  when  his clothes  began  to 
dry  thev  also began 
It  was 
not 
they  began  to  rip  as 
well,  and  the 
ladies  were  politely  re­
quested  to  retire.  Inside  of  twenty  m in­
utes  the  trousers  had  crawled  up  to  his 
knees  and 
almost 
the  coat  sleeves 
reached  his  elbows.  The  trousers  were 
almost  as 
tight  as  the  skin,  and  the 
poor  unfortunate  follower  of  the  meek 
and  lowly  Nazarene  was  beginning  to 
suffer,  not  onlv  hum iliation,  but  bodily 
pain  as  well.  He  soon 
that 
there  was  only  one  way  out  of  his  trou­
ble,  and that was to get out of  the clothes 
as  quickly as possible,but  when  he  tried 
trousers 
to  do  so * he  found 
the 
stuck  to  him   like  glue.  Some  of 
the 
good  brethren  suggested  that 
it  would 
be  necessary  to  cut  them  off and  finally 
the  m inister  consented.  After 
twenty 
m inutes’  work  he  was  relieved  of 
the 
trousers,  and  a  boy  was  dispatched  to 
If  I  live 
the  town  after  another  pair. 
to  be  a  thousand  years  old  I  shall  never 
forget  how  that  m inister 
looked  as  he 
sat  by the  stove  dressed  only  in  his  un 
dercfothing.  Finally  the boy arrived and 
the  m inister  dressed  himself  and  made 
a  sneak  for home and  the m eeting  broke 
up  in  confusion.

realized 

that 

“ As  m ight  be  expected,  the  incident 
caused  indignation among the good  peo­
the  man  who 
ple of  the  vicinity,  and 
sold  the  cloth  was  roundly  denounced 
for taking  advantage  of  the  m inister  by 
selling  him  such  a  flimsy  suit.  He  was 
forced  to  make  him   another;  then  he 
decided  to bring  suit  against the  travel­
ing  man  who  sold  him  
the  stuff.  He 
did  so  and,  owing to  the  feeling  among 
the  good  people  in  Crawfordsville  and 
vicinity,  found  no  trouble  in  recovering 
damages.
the  prohibition  move­
ment  first  gained 
the  ascendency  and 
became a  fixed  fact  in  the  form  of  stat­
utory  law  in  Kansas  that  Herm an  H ul­
mán,  the  famous  wholesale  grocer  of 
Terre  Haute,  m aintained  an  extensive 
branch of  his business,  from  which  he 
sold  whiskies  all  over  the  West and 
Northwest,  and  nowhere  enjoyed  a  bet­
ter trade  than 
in the  State  of  Kansas, 
where  prohibition  came  with a  force

It  was  when 

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Pronounced  by  all  who  attended  the  Pure  Food  Show  in  —^  

Grand  Rapids  and  tested  them, equal  to  fresh  peas  from  the 
Garden. 
at once. 

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Grand  Rapids people made  them  a  standard  of  excellence  —^
—
—

Nothing to compare with them on the market. 
W herever Manitowoc  Peas have been tried,  French  Peas have 
—
We are the largest packers of hand-picked  peas in the country.  —^

been  abandoned. 

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which  was  likely  to  wipe  out^Mr.^Hul- 
man’s  business  in  that  section.
If  ever  there  was  a  man  of  ready  ex­
pedients  in active business life  that  man 
was  the  great  Terre  Haute  grocer,  and 
this  stood  him  well  in  hand  at  the  pe­
riod  in  question.

One  day  an  old 

friend  of  Mr.  Hul- 
man’s  was  visiting  him  and,  of  course, 
was  spending  a  little  time  at  the  Main 
street  establishment.

In  a  storage  room  on  the  second  floor 
of  the  great building  he  came  upon  sev­
eral  rows  of  shelves  containing  a library 
of  splendidly  bound  books.  He  was 
something  of  a  literateur,  and  his  at­
tention  was  accordingly  at  once  at­
tracted  to  the  display  of  volumes.  He 
saw  that  all  the  standard  poets  were  in­
cluded  in  the  collection,  and,  pursuing 
his  examination,  he  discovered  that 
among  the  miscellaneous  works  were 
Bunyan’s  “ Pilgrim's  Progress,5’  “ Ten 
Nights  in  a  Bar-room,”   “ Ten  Years  in 
Hell, ’ ’  by  Luther  Benson ;  ‘ ‘ The  Rum 
Fiend’s Grasp,’ ’  “ Scientific  Poker, ”  by 
Robert  Schenck ;  “ Baker's  Hygiene,’ ’ 
“ Combe’s  Dietetics  and  Digestion”  
and  many  others.  More  from  matter of 
habit  than  for  any  other  reason  he  took 
down  “ Ten  Years  in  H ell,”   and  was 
astounded  to  find  that  what  he  supposed 
was  a  story  of  the  well-known  and  er­
ratic  reformer’s  struggle  with  the  drink 
habit  was  nothing  but  a  pasteboard box, 
in  the  form  of  a  book,  and  that  it  was 
quite  heavy.  Then  he  noticed 
in  the 
top  of  the  box,  so  to  speak,  in  the  up­
per  edges  of  the  leaves,  a  sliding  circu­
lar  disc,  which  he  shoved  back. 
Then 
he  looked  down  into  the  “ book”   and 
discovered  a bottle. 
Inverting  the  box, 
the  neck  of  a  pint bottle slipped through 
and  he  caught  it  in  such  a  manner  as to 
enable  him  to  draw  the  cork.  Turning 
it  up  to  his  mouth,  he  took  a  stiff  drink 
of  bourbon  whisky,  simple  and  pure. 
Then  he  replaced  the  book  in  its  place 
on  the  shelves  and  retraced  Ms  steps  to 
the  office  below,  where  he  asked  Mr. 
Hulman  if  he  had  added  a  book depart­
ment  to  his  already  mammoth  business.
“ Oh,  no,”   was  the  sententious  reply. 
“ Those  books  on  the  shelves  up  stairs 
are  simply  samples  of  packages  I  have 
had  prepared  for  my  Kansas  trade.

It  was  even  so,  for  it  was  not  many 
days  until  two  or  three  car 
loads  of  the 
Hulman  library  were  consigned  and  in 
transit  to  the  Kansas  correspondents  of 
the  house.

The  Tramp’s  Device. 

“ Madam,“   said  the  tramp,  as  he  put 
his  nose  through  the  grate  of  the base­
ment  door,  “ kin  I  ask  a  favor of  you?” 
is  it?”   demanded  the 

“ Well,  what 

housewife,  impatiently.

“ Will  you  give  me  a  description  of 
the  outcast  what  dropped  dead  at  your 
table  the  other  day? 
I  fear  it  was  me 
brother.

“ What  do  you  mean?  No  outcast  has 

ever  dropped  dead  at  my  table.”

“ Then  I  have  been  heartlessly  de­
ceived,”   continued  the  tramp. 
“ The 
lady  in  the  yellow  house  across  the 
street  told  me  that  a  man  had  died 
while  eating  one  of  your  meals.

“ Step  inside,  my  man,  and  I  will  tell 
you  all  about  that  story. 
That  hateful 
creature  across  the  way  is  my  deadliest 
enemy. 
She  told  you  that  story  to  hurt 
my  reputation  as  a  cook..  Now,  to  prove 
to  you  that  her  insinuations  are  absurd, 
and  that  my  cooking  is  as  good  as  any 
in  this  town,  I  will  ask  you  to  try  it. 
How  do  you  take  your  chocolate?”  

“ With  cream  and  buttered  toast,”   he 
in  sympathetic  tones  as  he 

replied 
pushed  his  legs  under  the  table.

No  Fixed  Wages.

Applicant— No,  I  didn’t  git  no  fixed 
I  worked  on 

last. 

wages  where  I  was 
time.

Business  Man—Were  you  discharged?
“ Yes,  sir. 
I  expected  to  be  there  for 
years,  but  they  discharged  me  in  three 
years  for  bein’  good !”

“ That’s  strange.  Where  did  you 

work?”  

_ 

s

“ In  the  penitentiary!”
A  well-cultivated  brain  is  a  great 

bor-saver.  Study  a  little  harder.

la-

How  Indiana  Merchants  Increase  the 

Volume  of Currency. 

*

United 

States  Marshals 

recently 
nipped*a  neat  game 
in  the  bud  in  the 
little  town  of  Linton,  Ind.,  and  some  of 
the  leading  citizens  were  arrested  and 
taken  to  Terre  Haute  for  trial,  charged 
with  making  and  circulating  a  substi­
tute  for  money.

The  names  of  the  defendants  are 
Frank  Martin,  manager  of  the  Linton 
Supply Co.  ;  Nathan  G.  Dixon,  manager 
of  the  Summit  Coal  Co.  ; Finney Strong, 
a  partner  in  the  Linton  Supply  Co.  ; 
John  W.  Wolford,  general  merchant, 
and  his  three  sons,  Edward,  Thomas 
and  William  Wolford.

Martin  is  charged  with  making  and 
circulating  coupons  and  checks  in  sums 
of  less  than  $i,  in  lieu  of  money.  The 
other  six  defendants  are  charged  with 
substituting  a  coin  of  their  own,  simi­
lar  to  pool  and  card  checks,  for the  law­
ful  coin  of  the  realm.  All  were  placed 
by  Commissioner  E.  F.  Williams  under 
§500  bonds  each  for  appearance  at  trial 
on  Tuesday,  the  21st.  John  W.  Wolford 
gave bonds  for  his  sons,  who  were  not 
present.  Edward 
is  lying  at  the  point 
of  death  and the other children are  at his 
bedside.

The  United  States  marshal  confiscat­
ed  almost  $80,000  worth  of  the  checks 
and  coins,and  there  is  said  to  be  a  con­
signment  of  the  coins  weighing over 800 
.pounds  now  on  its  way  to  Terre  Haute, 
where  Commissioner Williams  will  have 
charge  of  it,  pending  a  hearing  of  the 
case.

The  scheme  of  the  defendants,briefly, 
amounted  to  compelling  the  people  of 
the  community  to  trade  at  said  defend­
ants’  stores,  while  workmen  at 
the 
mines  were  paid 
in  the  checks.  So 
completely  had  the  substitution  driven 
out  the  genuine  article  that doctors were 
compelled  to  receive  their  fees  in 
it, 
and  John  Wolford,  the  merchant,  with 
several  thousand  dollars’  worth  of  the 
substitute  in his  store,  had  to  borrow 
enough  good  money  to  get  him  to  Terre 
Haute  and  return.  The  coupons  and 
coins  range 
from  5 
cents  to  $1  and  were  redeemable  at  85 
cents  on  the  dollar.  The  defendants 
claim  to  have  consulted  attorneys before 
beginning  their  operations.

in  denomination 

The  scheme  is  a  pretty  one  and a very 
profitable  one  to  the  operators,  provided 
they  could  in  the’ end  secure  the  neces­
sary  money  to  redeem  the  substitutes 
and  for  carrying  on  their  business. 
But  it  was,  likewise,  risky,  as  the  pres­
ent  turn  in  affairs  proves.

Her  Small  Offense.

The  beautiful  though  richly  dressed 
young  woman  stood  before  the  police 
magistrate.  Beside  her  on  the  bench 
was  her  accuser,  a  stern-faced  merchant 
in  the  dry  goods  line.

“ I’m  not  a  kleptomaniac,  sir,”   she 
began,  when  the  time  came  for  her  to 
speak  in  her  own  behalf;  “ it’s  my  first 
offense.

‘ * That  may  be  true  enough,  your  hon­
‘  but  we 

or, ”   broke 
in  the  merchant, 
must  be  protected,  you  know.”

“ But  the  article  was  so  small  that  I 
didn’t  think  my  act  in  taking  it  would 
be  construed  in  the  light  of  a  theft,”  
pleaded  the  maiden  again.
“ Iam   extremely  sorry  for  you,"  re­
sponded  the  kindly  faced  magistrate  in 
a  husky  voice,  “ but  it  is  my  duty to see 
that  the  law  is  maintained.  What  was 
the  article  you  took?”

“ There  it  is,”   she  said.

Opening  her  purse,  the  accused  with­
it  before 

drew  a  something  and  placed 
his  honor. 
“ It  is,  indeed,  too  small  a  thing  to 
speak  of, ”   muttered  the  magistrate  as 
he  unfolded  a  red  silk  bathing  costume.
And,  as  the  young  woman  walked  ad 
libitum  from  the  court  room,  she cast  a 
withering  glance  at  the  defeated  mer­
chant. 

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A  good  window  advertisement  can  be 
secured  by  placing  a  representation  of 
the  “ Old  Oaken  Bucket”   well,  with  the 
outside  covered  with  shoes  and  pla­
carded,  “ A   well-selected  stock  of  shoes 
and„slippers. ”

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OF  THEIR  OWN  MAKE.

CHAS.  E.  STORRS,

Dairy and  Food Commissioner.

Lansing,  Mich.,  Feb. 25,  1896.

E.  B.  Mill a r  &  Co.,

Chicago,  111.,

Gentlemen:

The  December  number  of  the  Bulletin  of  this  De­
partment  contains  the  analysis  of  a  sample  of  Pepper  from 
R.  B.  Shank  &  Co., of  Lansing,  produced by  your firm.

In a  re-examination of this  Pepper  it  has  been  found  that 
a mistake was  made in classifying  it as an adulterated  product, 
which correction  will be published  in  the  next  number  of  the 
Bulletin.

Respectfully yours,

(Signed) C.  E.  STORRS,

Dairy and  Food Commissioner.

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T H E   MIOHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

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eight styles for  adults and children, 175, *60, *50, and *40, fully guaranteed.  Send 
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THE  TALLY=H0  TANDEM

rtade by th e only exclusive Tandem flanufactory in th e W orld.

TANDEM  TRUTHS.

1.  An  expectant  public  is  just  beginning to  realize  the 

pleasures that come from Tandem riding.
2.  Long wheel base,  excessive  strain  on  the  front  fork, 
clumsy steering, and many otherdisagreaable features  have 
heretofore  made  Tandems  inconvenient  and  undesirable.
3.  The Tally-Ho, the result of careful experimenting, en­
tirely overcomes all these objections.
4.  The Tally-Ho is distinctly a Tandem, and, unlike many 
others, is not constructed of bicycle  parts.
5.  You should write for  further particulars.

THE  TALLY-HO  TANDEM  CO.

TOLEDO,  O.

The Demand For The Bicycle.

The 

increase 

in  bicycle  demand  has 
gone  far  beyond  expectations.  When 
it  was  proposed  to  manuufacture  a  mil­
lion  wheels  for  the  market  of  1896, 
double  the  number  for  the  preceding 
year, 
it  certainly  seemed  that  there 
would  be  more  built  than  could  be  sold 
at  profitable  prices.  Manufacturers 
and  dealers  hoped  that,  with  improving 
times,  there  would  be  a  sufficient  de­
mand  to  warrant  the  large  output.  The 
hopes  as  to  better  times  have  not  been 
realized.  General  business  has  become 
more  discouraging  ever  since  the  open­
ing  of  the  year.  But,  in  spite  of  this 
fact,  everything  that  is  offered 
in  the 
shape  of  a  wheel  finds  almost 
immedi­
ate  sale.  The  factories  are 
increasing 
their outputs  as  far  beyond  their  origi­
nal  intention  as  the  supply  of  material 
will  enable them  to do,  running,  many of 
them,  day  and  night. 
It  is  certain  that 
the  output  of  wheels  will  far  exceed  the 
estimated  million,  and  they  will  all  be 
sold.
It 

interesting  to  conjecture  what 
the  demand  would  be  if  times  were  not 
so  stringent.  There  would,  doubtless, 
be  a  greater  output,  for,  undoubtedly, 
the  general  dullness  has  deterred  many 
from  entering  the  field  of  production. 
It  is  a  fair  inference  that,  as  times  im­
prove,  the  demand  will  also  continue 
to 
increase,  thus  arguing  a  favorable 
outlook.

is 

The  demand 

is  almost  universal. 
Many  who  poohed  at  the  undignified 
plaything  are  now  to  be  seen  gracefully 
skimming  along  by  its  aid.  Many  a 
mother  who  declared,  “ No  daughter  of 
mine  shall  ever  ride  on  such  a  thing!”  
is  accompanying  her  daughters,  and 
with  little  less  enthusiasm  than  theirs. 
Old  men  find 
in  it  a  renewal  of  the 
exhilaration  of  youth,  and  invalids  are 
recognizing  its  efficacy  in  the  restora­
tion  of  health. 
It  seems  to  have  con­
quered  all  prejudice  in  the conservative 
classes  and  to  have  become  the  ambi­
tion  of  all  who  can  procure  the  means 
of  possession.

It 

is 

In 

for 

Its  economic  value  is  coming  to  be 
more  and  more  appreciated. 
the 
United  States  postal  service  it  affords  a 
wonderful  acceleration  of  the  service 
and  saves  much  of  the  weariness  of  the 
constant  walking  before  its  advent. 
In 
in  great  cities  it  is 
the  police  service 
rapidly  becoming  a  necessity. 
is 
interesting  to  note  that  for  this  service 
the  demand 
expert,  athletic 
wheelmen,  who  can  outdistance  those 
who  become  speedier  on  the  same  ve­
hicle  than  ordinances  allow,  and  for  the 
overtaking  of  those  who  are  disorderly 
or  criminals,  and  also  for  overhauling 
fast  drivers  or  runaway  teams.  Num­
instances  of  efficient  work  of 
bers  of 
those  who  are  filling  such  positions 
in 
the  New  York  service  have  recently  ap­
peared  in the press,  and there is no doubt 
but  that  the  experiment  will  result  in 
a  greatly 
increased  demand  for  men 
capable  of  doing  such  work,  who  are 
sufficiently  athletic,  as  well  as  for  the 
wheels.

Then,  for  uses  of  general  transporta­
tion,  not  only  for  those  whose  business 
requires  much  travel—as  collectors,  etc. 
— but  for  transportation  to  and  from  la­
bor  or  business,  it 
is  found  that  the 
wheel 
is  more  economical  than  any 
other  mode  of  transportation,  soon  pay­
ing  for  itself  in  the  saving  of  car  fares. 
Its  use  enables  many  to  live  in  comfort­
able  homes  outside  of  the  crowded  dis­
tricts,  which  would  otherwise  be  unat­

tainable.  As  these  economic  reasons 
for  its  use  become  more appreciated  the- 
demand  increases.

for 

Where  will  it  end?  As  already 

inti­
mated,  there  is  little  doubt  but  that 
it 
will  greatly  increase,  and  for  a  consid­
erable  time  to  come.  In  the  large  cities 
every  school 
learning  to  ride?  is 
crowded  to 
its  capacity.  The  streets 
already  present  a  remarkable  spectacle, 
the  wheels  far  outnumbering  all  other 
vehicles.  A  year  or  two  ago,  a  path 
made by  the  bicycles  was  a  curiosity ; 
the  wheels  are  having  a  decided 
now, 
improving  the  streets  and  the 
effect 
in 
paths  are  prominent  everywhere. 
is 
already  a  question  of 
importance  to 
manage  to  avoid  collision  with  pedes­
trians  or  with  other  wheels.  Both  have 
to  be  educated  to  avoid  unpleasant 
in­
It  is  impossible  to  predict  the 
cidents. 
end ;  but 
it 
is  not  unreasonable  to  say 
that  no  mode  of  progression  has  ever 
made  a  greater  change,  since  legs  were 
invented,  than 
likely  to  result  from 
the  introduction  and  development of  the 
wheel.

It 

is 

N a te.

Money  in  the  Mails.

A  member  of  a  Boston  firm  doing  a 
large  mail  order  trade,  receiving  sev­
eral  hundred  letters  a  day  in  answer  to 
their  advertisements,  and  with  money 
in  nearly  every  one  of  them,  has  this  to 
say  about  the  proper  way  of  making 
small  remittances  by  m ail:

there 

“ I  think  the  mails  of  our  country  are 
safe,  but  there  is  no  need  of  the  people 
becoming  reckless,  and  they  ought  to 
understand  that  in  remitting  money,  as 
is a 
in  nearly  everything  else, 
right  way  and  a  wrong  way. 
The 
safest  way  is  to  get  a  postoffice  money 
order,  or,  if  one  has  a  bank  account, 
send  a  check  or  draft.  If  one  doesn’t 
happen  to  have  money  on  deposit  at  the 
bank,  he  should  give  the  amount  to be 
sent  to  a  friend  who  has  an  account  and 
let  him  write  a  check  or  procure  a 
draft.

“ The  express  money  orders  are  an­
other  good  way  to  send  money  safely. 
All  the  express  companies  now  issue 
them  in  any  amount,  and  when  sent  to a 
point  where  the  company  has  no  office, 
they  will  be cashed  by any bank  or  mer­
chant.

“ A  registered 

is  considered 
quite  safe. 
All  that  is  necessary  is  to 
go  to  the  fostoffice,  put  the  money  in 
the  envelope,  and  tell  the  postmaster 
or  registry  clerk  to  register  the  letter. 
A  receipt 
is  given  and  another  is  re­
turned,  when  the  letter  is  delivered— 
all  this  for  a  fee  of  eight  cents.

letter 

“ If  one  takes  ordinary  care  in  inclos­
ing  money  in  letters,the chances  for  los­
it  are  probably  not  one  out  of  a 
ing 
thousand. 
Silver  should  be  wrapped 
in  paper,  or  a  better way  is  to  take  a 
piece  of  cardboard  and  cut  a  hole  in 
it  the  size  of  the  coins;  then  put  them 
in  the  hole  made,  pasting  paper  over 
them  on  both  sides. 
This,  however, 
should  be  placed  inside  the  folds  of  the 
letter.

“ When  sending  postage  stamps  for 
fractional  parts  of  a  dollar,  they  should 
be  wrapped 
in  oil  paper  to  prevent 
their  sticking 
together,  and  one  and 
two-cent  stamps  are  preferred  by  most 
mercantile  houses  to  stamps  of  the 
larger denominations.
containing 
money  or  not,  should  have  the  address 
of  the  writer  in  the  upper  left  hand  cor­
ner of  the  envelope  so  that, if  not  deliv­
ered,  they  can  be  returned  promptly. ’ ’

letters,  whether 

“ All 

in  Russia.  A  good  crop 

The  sunflower  crop  is  one  of  the  best 
paying 
is 
worth,  as  it  stands  in  the  field,  $25  an 
acre.  The  seeds  are  sold  by  the  farmer 
for  from  4s  to  6s  a  pound;  then  the 
merchants  salt  them  and  retail  them  for 
12s  a  pound,  and  at  every  street  cross­
ing 
in  Russian  provincial  cities  are 
stands  and  peddlers  with  baskets,  sell­
ing  to  the  passers-by  the  salted  product 
of  the  big  sunflower,  which  is  eaten.

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The  Drummer  and  the  Dressmaker. 
W ritten fo r  the T r ad esm an.

I  was  sitting 

in  our  living  room, 
one  evening  last  week,  writing  a  letter.
I  had  already  finished  two  others,  so 
it 
was  quite  late.

The  other  person 

in  the  room  was 
Miss  Perkins,  a  dressmaker  who  had 
been  working 
in  the  house  for  some 
time.

I  was  interrupted  in  my  writing  by 
Miss  Perkins’  remark,  after  having 
consulted  her  watch,  to  the  effect  that  it 
was  past  eleven  and  time  to  go  to  bed.
Certainly,  this  was  a  most  ordinary 
incident,  and  seemingly  not  worthy  of 
further  comment,  yet 
fact  of 
Miss  Perkins’  consultation  of  her  watch 
hangs  a  tale.

in  the 

life 

Miss  Perkins  started 

in  Balti­
more,  the  daughter of  wealthy  parents, 
who,  subsequent  to  her  fifteenth  birth­
day,  unfortunately  lost  all  their  riches. 
learned  the  art  of  making 
She  then 
dresses  and  has  been  working  at 
it 
nearly  all  the  time  since.  She  is  now 
forty-five  on  her  own  confession.  Ten 
years  ago,  she  went  to  Texas  to  fill  a 
responsible  position  to  which  she  was 
called,  and  then,  when  the World’s Fair 
came  along,  she  was  seized  by  the  Chi­
cago  fever  and  started  thither.

She  had  a  brother  living 

in  Kansas, 
and  so  it  was  that  she  came  by  way  of 
the  “ Santa  Fe”   with  a  stop-over  in  her 
pocket—she  was  a  dressmaker and could 
have  all  the  pockets  she  wanted.  Her 
ticket  allowed  her  to  get  off  at  Emporia 
and  take  a  train  on  a  little  sleepy  road 
that  ran  up  to  Buzan  every  morning  at 
7  o’clock.  'In  case  she  missed  this  train 
at  Emporia,  she  must  wait  over  a 
whole  day,  in  that  pinched-up,  dreary, 
forsaken  village.  This  was  decidedly 
to be  avoided,  if  possible.

She  went  to  bed  early,  on  the  Santa 
Fe  train,  to  be  ready  to  get  up  in  time 
to  leave  the  car  at  Emporia.  She  slept 
the  sleep  of  a  tired  dressmaker  who 
snores—-she  sometimes  goes  to  sleep 
in 
her  chair  and  we  all  know  how  she 
snores.

At  three  o’clock  in  the  morning  she 
was  awakened  by  a  terrible  commotion 
in  the  lower  berth  next  to  her own,  and, 
when  she  had  gained  sufficient  presence 
of  mind  to  comprehend  that  it  wasn’t  a 
smash-up  or an  earthquake,  she  learned 
that  the  man 
in  the  berth  from  which 
came the disturbance wished to leave  the 
train  at  the  next  stop,  which  would  be 
just  two  minutes  from  the  time  she 
in 
late  in 
awoke.  The  porter  had  been 
calling  him,  and  he  had 
lazily  turned 
over  once  or  twice,  as  a  matter of habit, 
and  so  it  was  that  he  had  only  two  min­

in  which  to  robe  and  get  off  the 

utes 
train.

He  was 

furious  at  the  porter,  on 
whose  shoulders  he  insistently  laid  the 
blame,  and,  by  all  that  was  holy  or 
otherwise,  they  should  hold  that  train 
for  him  to  get  dressed  in  a  respectably 
leisurely  manner.  He  cowed  the  porter 
with  his  vehement  verbosity,  and  final­
ly  browbeat  the  conductor 
into  his 
view  of  the  case.

They  held  the  train  for  the  ogre—that 
was  the  pretty  name  Miss  Perkins 
dubbed  him  then—to  take  his  time 
in 
completing  his  toilet,  and  the  dress­
maker  missed  her  train  at  Emporia  and 
had  to  wait  all  day  for  the  next  one.

By  3  o’clock  she  was  completely  at 
her  wits’  end  for  some occupation.  She 
had  vanquished  everyone  in  sight  by  a 
magnificent  display  of  her  qualities  as 
a  conversationalist.  She  was  a  talker, 
and  everybody  in  the  hotel  knew  it  be­
fore  dinner  and  by  three  o’clock  had 
learned  to  keep  a  respectful  distance 
from  her  broadsides.  Many  a  time  has 
she  talked  me  to  sleep,  and  I  would 
defy  anything  under  heaven—even  an X 
ray— to  discover  anything 
in  her  talk 
but words  and  wind.

When  landlord  and  landlady  and  the 
waitress  and  the  one  other  guest  had 
one  by  one  stolen  away  from  her  on  the 
plea  of  duties  unperformed,  she  strolled 
out  upon  the  veranda  and  saw,  to  her 
in  a 
delight,  approaching  the  hotel, 
single  carriage,  a  portly, 
red-faced 
man,  who  had,  from  the  appearance  of 
the  rig,  driven  several  miles  across 
country.

He  reined  up  with  a  great  deal  of 
fuss  and  feathers  in  front  of  the  hotel, 
and,  dismounting,  stamped-his way  into 
the  office,  in  a  manner  distinctive  of 
those  who  spend  their  lives  going  up 
and  down  the  country,  as  he  did,  sell­
ing  goods  and  practicing  urbanity  of 
manner  in  difficult  situations— such  as, 
for  instance,  the  study  of  country  hotel 
menu  cards.

But  it  was  all  over  with Miss Perkins. 
Her  fluttering  maidenly  heart  was 
touched  as 
it  had  never  been  before, 
and  she  knew  he  was  the  man  for  her. 
To  make  a  long  story  short,  before 
many  quarters  of  an  hour  had  passed, 
the  admiration  had  become  mutual.

The  two  parted,  after  a  delightful 
afternoon,  with  the  promise  to  corre­
spond.

They  did  so,  intermittently.-
Time  rolled  on,  as  time  will  occa­
sionally.  Benjamin  Harrison  was  nom­
inated  for  the  presidency  against  Gro­
ver  Cleveland.

Miss  Perkins  was  an  ardent  Demo­
crat.  She  offered  a  wager on  Cleveland 
to  her 
if  she

friend.  He  accepted 

would  allow  him  to  name  the  stakes. 
She  did _  so,  and  his  proposition  was 
that,  if  she  lost,  she  was  to  belong  to 
him.

She  won,  and  his  end  of  the  wager 
was  paid  with 
the  gold  watch  from 
which  she  told  me  the  time,  the  other 
evening.
Thus 

is  seen  how  many  and  ex­
tremely  varying  circumstances 
con­
spired  to  bring  about  the  simple  act  of 
Miss  Perkins’  looking  at  her  watch.

it 

But  the  funniest  part  of  the  whole 
story  remains  to  be  told :  The man who 
raised  such  a  cyclone  in  the  sleeping 
car,  and  who  caused  Miss  Perkins  to 
miss  her  train  at  Emporia,  was  the 
identical  man  who  afterward  gave  her 
the  gold  watch. 

L.  L.  S.

It 

is  easier  to  get  into  debt  than  to 
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Not  long  ago  Sanaow  was  going  from 
Kansas  City  to  Omaha,  and  had  occa­
sion  to  go  into  the  day  coach.  There  he 
was  accosted  by  a  tall  gentleman  with 
long  side-whiskers.

“ Excuse  me,  sir,”   he  said,  “ but  are 

you  not  Mr.  Sandow?”

“ Yes,”   said  the  strong  man.
“ You  can  lift  three  tons  in  harness?”  
“ Yes,  sir, 
is  my  record,”   the 

that 
Hercules  returned.

“ You  can  hold  two  hundred  weight 

at  arm’s  length?”

“ Yes. ”
“ And  put  up  three  hundred  pounds 

with  one  arm?”

* ‘ Y es.
“ And  six  hundred  with  two?”
“  Yes. ”
“ Well,  then,  would  you  kindly  raise 

this  car  window  for  me?”

It  is  very  noticeable  how  the  memory 
of  him  who  is  both  debtor  and  creditor 
fluctuates.

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H ardw are

The  Tragic  Fate  of a  Washboiler.
A  washboiler  was  sitting  upon  the 
crub  line,  away  down  by  degradation 
and  about  a  bushel  and  a  half  of  ashes.
It  was  an  old  boiler,  in  fact  one  which 
might  be  classed  as  one  of  the  “ has 
beens. ”  
Its  thoughts  were  something 
like  these:

I 

“ Once  I  was  a  resplendent  and  beau­
tiful  truncated  cone,  worth  eighty-nine 
cents,  and  evolved  from  the  purest  iron 
ore,coated  with  the  brightest  and  clean­
est  of  tin.  To  be  sure,  I  was  an 
in­
verted  cone,  and  hollow  at  that,  but  I 
was  both  handsome  and  useful,  and  I 
commanded  respect. 
led  an  easy 
In  fact,  I  worked  only  one  day 
life. 
in  the  week,  and  although 
it  was  hot 
work  for  a  few  hours,  I  rested  for  six 
days,  and  had  little  to  complain  of. 
I 
might  be  enjoying  the  same  life  yet  but 
for  the  slovenliness  of  a  new  servant. 
When  I  was  young  I  was  in  the  care  of 
a  woman  who  took  great  pride  in  my 
appearance,  and  on  Monday  at  noon, 
when  my  work  was  done,  she  was  care­
ful  to  wipe  me  dry  and  stand  me  up­
side  down  in  a  place  where  I  could  get 
plenty  of  fresh  air.  A  few  months  ago 
this  woman  disappeared  and  a  slattern 
I  realized >the 
ly  girl  took  her  place. 
difference  the  first  day  she  took  me 
ii 
hand.  She  rapped  me  against  a  laun 
dry  stove,  in  the  first  place,  and  made a 
most  disgusting  dent  in  my  side.  When 
my  work  was  done,  she  hurriedly 
drained  me  and  then 
left  me  setting 
upon  the  wet  floor of  the  laundry.  The 
water  trickled  down  my 
insides  and 
settled  an  eighth  of an  inch  deep.  By 
the  end  of  the  week  it  had  all  evapo 
rated,  but  then  my  trouble  began, 
felt  the  oxide  of  iron  entering  into  my 
soul  from  inside  and  out.

‘ ‘ It  was  the  same  way  the  next  week 

and  the  next.  Then  trouble  came, 
began  to break  first  in  one  place  and 
th«i  in  another,  and  was  sent  to  the 
tinker’s.  He  daubed  acid  and  solder 
on  my  seams  here  and  there  and  sent 
me  home,  but  it  was of  little use.  Can 
kering rust had attacked me everywhere 
and  hole  after  hole  appeared. 
I  shed 
bitter  tears,  which  sizzled  upon  the  hot 
stove, and  the  more  I  cried  the  less  the 
thought  of  me.  One  day  I  saw  a  hand 
some .new boiler  carried  into  the  laun­
dry,  and  I  went  banging  down  the  cel­
lar.  Since  then  I  have  been  battered 
and  bruised  most  relentlessly.  Filled 
with  nasty,  choky  ashes  every  morning, 
banged  against  the  furnace,  beaten  with 
pokers  and  shovels,  pounded  upon  the 
sidewalk,  teased  by  hook-bearing  Ital­
ians,  and  abused  most  grievously  by 
rough-handed  scavengers.

Just  then  an  ash  man  hoisted  him 
aloft  and  tipped  him  over the sideboard 
of  the  wagon.  A  rude  gust  swept  over 
the  wagon  at  that  instant,  and  much  of 
the  contents  of  the old boiler  went  flying 
down  the  street  and  into  the  eyes  cf  the 
passers-by.  The  ash  man  got  some  in 
his  eyes,  and,muttering  a  German  oath, 
he  flung  the  poor  old  hollow  and  empty 
cone  down  upon  the  curb.  After  a  pre­
liminary  spin,  it assumed  a  perpendicu­
lar  position,  groaned,  and  then  emitted 
like  a  sigh  of  relief  as  it 
something 
“ Iam   glad  my 
pulled  itself  together. 
bail  is  gone,"  it  said. 
“ It  was  always 
a  nuisance,  constantly  banging  my  rim 
and  pulling  my  ears.  It’s  gone  for  good 
now,  and  I’m  really  thankful.  Here, 
you  keep  off,  boys.  You  wouldn’t  help 
me  a  few  minutes  ago  when  I  was  full 
of  ashes  and  you  might  have done  me  a

T H E   M ICH IG AN   T R A D E S M A N

kindness  by  relieving me of some of the 
pressure,  but  now  you  come  around 
trying  to  have  fun  with  me.  Keep  off,
I  say.  Let  me  alone.

into  the  gutter. 

This  was addressed  to two  rollicking 
gusts  of  wind  which  came  at  the  light 
boiler  from  opposite  sides  and  almost 
twisted  him 
They 
histled  up  a  number  of  other  gusts 
and  shrieked,  “ Here’s  fun,  boys!  and 
then  they  went  at  him  with  repeated 
onslaughts.  The  boiler  held  his  ground 
-aliantly  for  a  moment,  and  then  two 
of  the  lustiest  gusts  caught  him  up  and 
into  the  gutter,  where  he 
mstled  him 
ay  moaning  on  his  side. 
Then  all  the 
little  gusts  went  at  him  like 
>ig  and 
college  boys 
in  a  cane  rush,  and  he 
fairly  shrieked  as  they  banged  him 
over  the  pavement.  He  would  not  roll 
straight,  but  turned  in  a  circular  sweep 
to  get back  to  his  home. 
Just  as  he 
hought  to  attain  the  goal  another  gust 
would  catch  him  in  the  fullness of  his 
system  and  throw  him  end  over  end,  or 
whirl  him  on  his  chine,  until  finally  a 
huge  rotary  gust  caught  him  up,  sent 
him  spinning 
in  the  air,  and  dropped 
into  the  arms  of  a  full-back  gust, 
him 
ho  ran  with  him  under  a  trolley  car. 
That  was  the  end.  He  came  out  flat­
tened  and  rent  asunder,  and  a  boy  on 
the  sidewalk  called  to  another :  “ Hoop 
la!  did  you  see  that  old  washb’ iler  git 
smashed?”

Value  of  the  Store  Window  to  the 

Hardware  Dealer.

A  store  window 

is  attracted,  and 

its  daily  dressing. 

In  some  lines  of  business  the  store 
window  has 
It  is 
made  attractive  by  its  changes.  So  im­
portant  a  matter  has  this  become,  both 
in  a  commercial  and  spectacular  sense, 
that  it  is  cultivated  as  an  art and  recog­
nized  as  a  special  feature  in  the  promo­
tion  of  trade. 
is,  or 
ought  to  be,  a  cameo,  in  which  we  have 
in  artistic  grouping  of  what  is  offered 
for  sale  on  the  counters  behind  the  pic­
ture.  Where  this  rule  is  observed  the 
eye  of  the  public 
its 
patronage  not  only  invited,  but  gener­
ally  secured.  Here  you  find  the  crowd 
without  and  also  the  crowd  within.  The 
clerks  are  busy.  The  hum  of  business 
is  heard,and  the  cashier  is in  no  danger 
of  taking a nap as  the  cash  goes  through 
his  fingers.  On  the  other  hand,  a  win 
dow  that  has  no  new  picture  behind  its 
glass  fails  to  arrest  attention,  and  if  it 
does  it  is  simply  to  leave a  bad  impres­
sion  on  the  mind  of  the  passing  critic. 
It  is  like  an  unwashed  face  on  Sunday 
morning,  or  a  collar that  knows  more  of 
dirt  than  of  soap.  It is slovenly  and  for­
bidding,and  if trade prospers under such 
conditions,  it  is  as novel  as  a  poke-bon 
net  would  be  on  the  moon,or  a  third eye 
in  a  calf  or  a  baby. 
is  needless  to 
say  that  such 
instances  are  to  be  found 
in  every  city,  town  and  hamlet.  The 
neglected  window has  a  stale  and  inval­
id  appearance. 
same  old  sad­
iron  stands  in  the  corner,  with  a  sug­
gestion  of  real  estate  on  its  sombre 
countenance.  A  coal  hod  finds  a  fixed 
abode  where  the  spider  weaves  a  web 
for  flies  on  a 
lounging  buck  saw.  A 
stray  hammer  and  an 
imprisoned  axe 
divide  a  forlorn  situation  with  an  auger 
and  a  gimlet  that  have  been  mutual 
friends  for  months.  A  sleigh  bell  has 
the  same  position  in  summer  as  in  win­
ter,  and  an  ice  cream  freezer  looks  out 
on  the  street  in  December  as  it  did  in 
June.  The  idea  of'exhibiting  goods  ac­
cording  to  the seasons  has never invaded 
the  petrified exhibit.  The same old stove 
does  duty  when  the  world  is  perspiring 
as  it  did  when  men  were  wearing  ear-

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laps,  and  the  pair  of  skates  that  might 
have  attracted  a  longing  look  when  the 
ice  was  three  feet  deep 
in  the  river 
have  still  the  same  cold  smile  for  the 
passer-by  when  the  summer fly  is  being 
roasted  on  the  window  pane.  Now,there 
is  no  reason  why  this  abnormity  should 
exist,  unless  it  be  in  the  misfortune  of 
the dealer’s^being  born  tired,or the clerk 
objecting  to  soil  his  digits.  In the hard­
ware  trade,  as 
in  all  others,  demand 
has  its  seasons,  and  there  is  certainly 
no  lack  of  material  in  a  hardware  store 
wherewith to make  a  kaleidoscope  of  its 
window.  There can he no doubt but that 
a  little  more  attention  to  window  dress­
ing  according  to  the  seasons  would  do 
much  to  help  trade,  when  under  differ­
ent  conditions, 
it  has  a  struggle  to 
evade  the  sheriff.  Anyhow,  it  remains  a 
fact  that  where  a  store  window  is  neg­
lected,  and  its  exhiibt  has  the  unchang­
ing  face  of  a  stone  dog,  it  might as well 
draw  the  blinds  or  close  the  shutters.

“ Jim  the  Penman”  Caught.

At  regular  intervals  for  the  past  sev 
enteen years counterfeit  notes have made 
their appearance  which  were  executed 
entirely  with  a  pen  and  brush,  and  were 
so  cleverly  made  as  to  deceive  even  ex­
perts.  The  person  who was putting these 
dangerous  bills  into  circulation  came  to 
be  known  as  "Jim   the  Penman”   among 
United  States  secret  service  men,  but 
none  of  them  was  able  to  discover  his 
identity.  All  sorts  of  clues  were  fol­
lowed,  in  one 
instance  the  detectives 
working  cn  a  case  for two years,  but  not 
one  was  able  to  get  anywhere  near  the 
clever  counterfeiter.  Many 
innocent 
persons  were  placed  under  surveillance 
and  arrest  from  time  to  time,  but  they 
proved  that  they,  like  the  government, 
were simply the victims of the mysterious 
penman.

The  pen  drawn  counterfeits first  made 

in  1879;  ^ at  's> 

their  appearance 
first  one  of  them  was  detected  at  the 
treasury  department  in  that  year.  The 
redemption  bureau  at  Washington keeps 
a  record  of  the  number  of  every  note  is­
sued.  One  day  a  $20 bill  came  in,  bear­
ing  a  number  that  was  on  a  canceled 
note. 
It  looked  all  right,  and  the  de­
partment experts about came  to  the  con­
clusion  that  the  canceled  duplicate  bill 
was  a  counterfeit.  Finally,  however, 
one  of  them  ran  his  wet  thumb  over  the 
corner  of  the  bill  under  examination.
The  result  was  a blur,  showing  that 
stationers’  instead  of  printers’  ink  had 
been  used  in  making  the  note. 
It  was 
then  clear  that  the  counterfeiter was  do­
ing  his  exceedingly  clever  work  with  a 
pen  and  brush.  That  was  the  only  thing 
that  was  known  about  him  for  years, 
despite  the  fact  that  he  continued  to  is­
sue  his  bills  regularly, in  denominations 
in  the 
of  §10 and  §20,  and  generally 
winter  season.  The  average 
lease  of 
life  of  the  plate  counterfeit is two  years, 
but‘ ‘ Jim  the  Penman”   worked over six­
teen  years  without  being  detected.  His 
success  was  due  largely  to  the  fact  that 
he  could  do  his  work  without  the  assist­
ance  of  confederates.

But 

is  how 

‘ ‘ Jim  the  Penman”   has  finally 
it  came 
been  caught,  and  this 
about.  On  March  28  a 
respectably 
dressed  man  went into  a  saloon  on  Cort- 
landt  street, New  York  and,after  buying 
a  drink  and  a  cigar,tendered  a  $50  note 
in  payment,  saying  be  was  a  farmer  in 
Pennsylvania  and  wanted  the  change  to 
pay  his  hands.  The  bartender  changed 
the  bill,  but  after  the  stranger  had  gone 
he  examined  it  and  came  to  the  conclu­
sion  that  it  did  not  feel  just  right.  He 
hunted  up  a policeman and  the  two  soon 
after  found  the  stranger at a  ferry  count­
ing  his  change.  He  was  arrested  and 
gave  the  name  of  Gilbert.  At  the  sta­
tion  the  city  detectives  tried  to  sweat 
him,  but  could  learn  nothing  other  than 
that  he  was  a  German  who  said  he  got 
the  counterfeit  bill  among  others  paid 
him  for  some  Government  bonds.  Then 
the  United  States  secret  service  men, 
among  them  Deputy  Chief  Ray  Bagg, 
took  hold  of  the  case.

It  was  finally  discovered  that  “ G il­

bert”   came  from  Flagtown,  N.  J.  De­
tectives  sent  to  that  place  found  that  a 
German  named  Emanuel  Ninger  lived 
there,  who  answered  to  the  prisoner’s 
description.  He  came  to  this  country 
twenty  years  ago  and  got  work  as  a  sign 
painter.  Five  years  ago  he  bought  a 
farm  at  Flagtown,  where  he  is  now  liv­
ing  with  a  wife  and  four  children.  He 
passed  as  a  retired  merchant,  and  had 
little  to  do  with  his neighbors.  The lat­
ter  understood  that he got regular  remit­
tances  from  the  old  country.

When  the  secret  service  men  searched 
Ninger’s  house  they  found genuine  bills 
amounting  to  §4,000,  three  government 
bonds  of $1,000 each  and  $1,100  in  coin.
They  also  found  pens,pencils  and  ink 
used  in  making  spurious  notes,  and pat­
tern  pieces  used  to  copy  them. 
The 
chain  of  evidence  was  made  complete 
by  the  discovery  of  several  more  coun­
terfeits  Ninger  had  passed 
in  New 
York,  and  when  he  was  confronted  with 
it  in  the  sweat  box  the  man  confessed 
everything.  He  said  he  first  made  the 
tracings  in  pencil  so  as  to  correct  pos­
sible  mistakes  with  the  pen  afterwards. 
The  seal  was  the  most  difficult  of  all 
to  counterfeit,  and 
it  took  him  some 
time,  he  said,  before  he  could  get  the 
light  red.  The  number­
right  color,  a 
ing  was 
ink.  He  used  a 
ink  to  make  the  tracings  over 
white 
the  dark  background,  and  also  with  a 
pen  he  cleverly  imitated  the  silken  fiber 
of  the  genuine  note.  He  vowed  that  he 
did  not  use  a  magnifying  glass  to  make 
the  microscopic 
lettering,  and  said  he 
could  make  a  pen  portrait  of  a  person 
so  fine  that  it  would  look  exactly  like  a 
photograph.  His  skill  appears  all  the 
more  marvelous  when  any  one  sees  his 
hands,  which  are  big,  fat  and  clumsy, 
like those  of  a  ditch  digger.  Ninger 
had  made  counterfeits  of  the  denomina­
tions  of  $10,  $20,  $50  and  $100. 
It  gen­
erally  took  him  two  weeks  to  turn  out  a 
bill.  His  counterfeiting  work  was  most­
ly  done  in  the  winter  time.

in  green 

Hardware  Price  Current.

Snell’s...
Jennings
Jennings

AUGURS  AND  BITS

genuine..........................................25*10
’, im itation.......................................60* 10

AXES

First Quality. S.  B. Bronze...........................   5  50
First Quality, 1).  B.  Bronze...........................   9  50
First Quality. S.  B. S.  Steel............................  0  25
First Quality, I).  B. Steel..............................   10  25

BARROWS

R ailro ad ..................................................$12 00  14  00
net  30 00
Garden..

BOLTS

Stove .....................
Carriage new list. 
Plow.....................

Well,  plain.............................................

BUCKETS

60
65
.40*10

$  3 :

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin, figured..................................
Wrought  Narrow.............................................. 7

70
5*10

Ordinary Tackle...............................................

BLOCKS

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10................................................. perjn
. per m 
Hick’s C. F. 
.per m 
G.  D ....
M nsket.
. per m

CARTRIDGES

CHISELS

Rim  Fire. 
Central  Fire.

Socket  Firm er.. 
Socket  Framing 
Socket  C orner.. 
Socket  Slicks...

DRILLS

Morse's  Bit Stocks..............
Taper and Straight Shank.. 
Morse’s Taper Shank..........

.50* 
. 50*

Com. 4 piece, 6 in ...............................doz. net
60
Corrugated................................................... dis
50
Adjustable...................................................dis 40*10

_ 

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark's small, $18; large, $26.............................30*10
Ives’, 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30..............................  
25

A  Hazardous  Business.

Prom the New York Shipping List.

If  a  bank 

fails  and  deposits  have 
been  received  within  thirty  days  of  the 
date  of  the  suspension,  the  officers  of 
that  bank  are  liable  to  criminal  prose­
cution  for  embezzlement,  the penalty for 
which  is  a  fine  double  the  amount 
in­
volved  and  imprisonment  from  one  to 
three  years.  No  matter  what  the  cir­
cumstances,  no  matter  what  the  causes 
of  suspension  may  have  been,  the  law 
says  a  crime  has  been committed  by  the 
banker,  broker,  banking  company or in­
corporated  bank  officers.

Such 

is  the  decision  of  the  Illinois 
Supreme  Court. 
It  has  caused  conster­
nation  in  banking  circles  of  that  State, 
as  the  radical  interpretation  of  the 
law 
is  too  sweeping  in  its  application  to  a 
influential  body  of  business 
large  and 
men.  Absence  of  fraudulent 
intent  or 
any „other  plea  in  extenuation  can  have 
no  standing  in  court.  A  capitalist  who 
occupies  the  honorary  post  of  director 
and  leaves  the  management  to  others  is 
considered  just  as  guilty  as  the  Presi­
dent  or  other  officer.  Fire  may  wipe 
out  the  assets  of  a  bank,  or  forgeries  or 
thefts  may  cause  a  bank  to  suspend. 
No  matter.  Every  depositor who put  in 
money  within  the  thirty-day  limit  has 
cause  for  action  under  the  criminal  act. 
It  makes  no  difference  that  the  assets  of 
a  closed  bank  are  greater than  the  lia­
bilities,  and  that  every  depositor  will 
receive  dollar  for dollar by  waiting. 
If 
the  money  of  the  thirty-day  depositor  is 
not  paid  on  demand,  he  can  have  every 
officer  arrested  for  embezzlement.

Such  an  extreme  view  of  the  law  by 
the  highest  court 
in  the  State  makes 
banking  a  highly  dangerous  business  in 
Illinois.  Many  fair-minded  and  honest 
bankers  see  in  this  decision  the  possi­
bility  of  criminal  prosecution  for  acts 
of  which  they  have  had  no  knowledge 
and  over  which  they  may  have  had  no 
control.

Cheese  cloth,  loosely  tufted  over  the 
floor  of  a window,  combined with  an  ar­
tistic  decoration  of  the  same  material 
for  the  sides  and  back,  although  noth­
ing  novel,  makes  a  very  pretty  dressing 
for  a  window.

FILES—New  List

New A m erican.................................................. 70*10
70 
Nicholson’s ..............................................
.60*10
Heller’s Horse  Rasps.............................
GALVANIZED  IRON 

Nos.  16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27. 
List  12 
16.

14 
Discount,  70—10

13 

15 
GAUGES

Stanley  Rule and  Level  Co.’s ..............

KNOBS-New List

Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings............
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings.........

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye...........................
Hunt Eye...........................
H unt's................................

..$16  00, dis  60*10 
. .$15  00. dis  60*10 
.  $18  50, dis  20*10

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s .......................................  
Coffee,  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.'s  M alleables... 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark'«.................  
Coffee, Enterprise............................................. 

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  GATES

Stebbin’s Pattern...............................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine.............................................60*10
Enterprise, self-m easuring...........................  
30

NAILS

 

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base................................................  2  65
Wire nails, base................................................  2  70
50
10 to 60 advance............................................... 
8 ........................... .............................................. 
60
7 and 6...............................................................  
75
4 
90
3.
.......................................................  1  20
.......................................................  1  60
.....................................................  
1  60
Fine 3 .....................................................
Case 10......................................................
Case  8.....................................................
Case  6......................................................
Finish 10................................................
Finish  8 ................................................
Finish  6 ................................................
Clinch 10................................................
Clinch  8 ................................................
Clinch  6 ................................................
Barrel  %................................................

PLANES

PANS

RIVETS

@50
Ohio Tool Co.'s,  fancy.......  ..............
Sciota B ench......................................................60*10
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...........................   @50
Bench, flrstquality...........................................  @60
Stanley  Rule and Level Co.’s wood..
Fry, A cm e...................................................60*10*10
Common, polished................................
Iron and  T in n e d ............................................. 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs...................................50*10
“A”  Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 
10  20 
9  20
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages 54c per pound  extra. 
33*j
Maydole & Co.’s, new  list....................... dis
25
Kip’s  ............................................................dis
Yerkes & Plum b's...................................... dis 40*10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel.................... 30c list 
70
Blacksmith's Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40*10

HAMMERS

70*

T H E   M ICH IG AN   T R A D E S M A N

23

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin  Ware............................new list 70*10
Japanned Tin W are..........................................20*10
Granite Iron  W are..........   ..............new list 40*10

HOLLOW  WARE

Pots.......................................................................60&10
K ettles................................................................60*10
S piders.......  ........................................... 
60*10
Gate, Clark’s,  1,2,3..................................   dis 60*10
State.............................................. per  doz. net  2 50

HINGES

 

WIRE  GOODS

 

B right................................................................. 
Screw Eyes......................................................... 
Hook’s.......................  
Gate Hooks and  Eyes...................................... 
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.’s...................dis 
Sisal, U inch  and  larger................................. 
M anilla...............................................................  
Steel and Iron. 
Try and Bevels 
M itre...............

LEVELS
ROPES

SQUARES

HO
80
80
80
70
5 ^
9
80

SHEET  IRON

tn 21

. com. smooth,  com.
$2  40
10 to  14............ ........................$3 30 
2  40
15 to 17............ ........................  3  30 
2  60
3  45 
2  70
22 to 24............ ........................  3  55 
25 to 26............ ........................  3 70 
2 80
2  90
........................  3 80 
27 ...
1 sheets  No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches

Nos.
Nos.
Nos.:
Nos.
No.
All
wide not less than 2-10extra.
50
List  acct.  19, ’86..........................................dis
Solid Eyes.............................................per ton  20 00
60*10
Steel, Game.................................................. 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's70*10* 10
15
Mouse, choker...............................per doz 
Mouse, delusion........................... per doz 
1  25

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

TRAPS

WIRE

 

 

 

__ 
..... 

WRENCHES

HORSE  NAILS

Bright Market...................................................  
75
75
Annealed  Market............................................. 
.70*10 
Coppered  Market...............
62H 
Tinned  Market...................
50 
Coppered Spring  Steel....
2 35 
Barbed  Fence, galvanized 
.  2 00
Barbed  Fence,  painted...
Au Sable............. 
dis 40*1C
Putnam .................................................................... dis 5
Northwestern..........................................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled........
Coe's Genuine......................................
Coe's Patent  Agricultural, wrought
Coe’s Patent, malleable.....................
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages  ......................   ................
Pumps, Cistern...................................
Screws,  New L ist..............................
Casters,  Bed and  Plate.....................
Dampers, American............................
600 pound  casks.................................
Per pound............................................
..........................................

30
50
80
80
50
75*10
85
. 50* 10*10 
40*10
6H
63¡á
12K
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal............................................ $ 5  25
14x20 IC, C harcoal...........................................  5  25
20x14 I X, C harcoal...........................................  6  25
14x20 IX, Charcoal............................................  6  25

TIN—Melyn Grade

MET ALS—Zinc

SOLDER

5 00
5 00
6  00 
6  00

ROOFING  PLATES

TIN—Allaway  Grade

Each additional X on  this grade, $1.75.
10x14 IC, C harcoal......................................
14x20 IC, C harcoal......................................
10x14 IX, C harcoal......................................
14x20 IX, C harcoal......................................
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 
5 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...........................
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean...........................
6  00 
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Dean...........................
10  004 50
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
5 50 
14x20 IX, Charcoal,  Allaway Grade.........
9 00
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade..............  11  00
BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boi

per pound.

9

Scales!
Buy  direct and save 
middlemen’s  profit. 
Write for prices and 
description  before 
purchasing  elsewhere.  Scales  tested  and  re­
paired.  Satisfaction guaranteed.
GRAND  RAPIDS  SCALE  WORKS,
41  S.  Front  St..__________Grand  Rapids.
39 

Do  You  Use 

Get

our prices 
W ill  save 
you  $&$ 

Detroit  Rubber  Stamp  Co.,

99 Griswold S t., 

Detroit.

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

C a l k   C b a t   C e l l s  !

80%,  110%.  144%  PROFIT.

Figure  it  out  and  see  that  you  get  this  profit.  You  never  heard  of  such  offers  before,  did  you  ?  Grocers  seldon.  get  a  chance  like  this  to  make  big  profits  quickly.

* ^ B U R N H A M ’S

^

No=Tox  Wild  Cherry  Phosphate.

Scientifically  Prepared,  Does  not Precipitate,  as Many  Others  Do,  Keeps  Indefinitely  in  Any  Climate. 
The  Most  Rapid  Selling and  Satisfactory  SUMMER BEVERAGE  ever  put on  the  Market.

Contains  8  dozen  8  oz.,  25c.  size,  and  8  dozen 

BONANZA  BARREL
10c.  size,  and  Yi  dozen  s°c  size.
X 
COSTS  X
|  $15.00  |
X  Profit  144/   t
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RETAILS  FOR  $36.60.
Large  Demonstration  Outfit FREE.

as  fo llo w s:

Packed  com plete in this bar­
rel.  Une  gallon jug for sam ­
pling,  one  tray,  six  glasses, 
1  pitcher,  banners,  posters, 
show  cards,  circulars,  etc.

Be  sure  to  use 
the Demonstration 
Outfit  every  hot 
day. 
It  sells  the 
goods. 
You  can 
afford  to,  it  costs 
you  nothing.

TRIAL  CASE

Contains  i  dozen  X  oz.,  25c.  size,  and  2  dozen 

10c.  size.

X 
COSTS  X 
|  $3-00  |
X  Profit 80/   X
t  
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BARGAIN  CASE

Contains  3  dozen  8  oz.,  25c.  size,  and  3  dozen 

10c.  size.
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X 
COSTS  X
I  $6.00  I
J  Profit  110/  
♦
Xa a a a a a a a a a a a a

RETAILS  FOR  $5.40.
Demonstration  Outfit  FREE.

RETAILS  FOR  $12.60.

Demonstration  Outfit  FREE.

/ A v e r   F IF T Y   T H O U S A N D   C A SES  SO L D   L A ST   SE A SO N   in  ninety  days, 
and  it  was  an  off  season  for  summer drinks  at  that,  besides only  a small part of 

the country  was  covered.  W e were  not  prepared for such 
a  rush,  consequently  were  unable  to  fill  many  orders.
W hat  do  you  think  of  it? 

Just  facts,  that’s  all.
E V E R Y   C U ST O M E R   will  receive  a  com plete 
demonstration  outfit  free  (see 
illustration),  with 
large  sam ple  bottles,  pitcher,  tray  and  glasses,  and 
advertising  matter  enough  to  reach  every  customer 
they  have. 
No  better  way 
in the world to show up goods, 
and  no  more  trouble  than  to 
prepare a pitcher of  ice water.
to  conform 
requirem ents  of  State 

Prepared  and 

labeled 

with  all 
Boards of  Heal th  and  Food  Laws.

the 

E .  S .  B U R N H A M   C O ..  NEW   Y O R K ,  S O L E   M F R S .

Order  from  your  jobber  and  be  sure 
you  get  NO-TOX. 
If  he  does  not 
keep  it,  apply  to  us  direct.

T H E   MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

2 ,r>

CommercialT ravelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President,  S.  E.  S y m o n s,  Saginaw;  Secretary, 
G eo.  F .  O w en,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  J. 
F r o st,  Lansing.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President, J.  F.  Co o per, Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D.  Mo r r is, Detroit.

S U C C E S S FU L   SALESM EN .

Jas.  W.  Moore, Traveling Representa­

tive  Burnham,  Stoepel  &   Co.

Jas.  W.  Moore  was  born  in  New  York 
City,  July  4,  1850,  his  antecedents  on 
both  sides  being  English.  About  1857 
the  family  removed  to  Detroit,  where 
Mr.  Moore’s  father  took  the  manage­
ment  of  the  Detroit  office  of  R.  G.  Dun 
&  Co.,  which  position  he  filled  to  the 
satisfaction  of  all  concerned  for  seven 
years,  when  he  was  promoted  to  the 
management  of  the  St.  Louis  office  and 
the  family  removed  to  that  city.  Here 
Mr.  Moore  attended  the  City  Univer­
sity,  pursuing the  Latin-Scientific course 
for  three  years,  when  he  returned  with 
the  family  to  Detroit,  his  father  form 
ing  a  copartnership  with  John  Stephens 
in  the  wholesale  grocery  business,  un­
der  the  style  of  John  Stephens  &  Co., 
taking  the  position  of  credit  man.  The 
father  subsequently  took  a  similar  po­
sition  with  the  dry  goods  house  of  Allan

Sheldon  &  Co.,  seven  years  later  retir­
ing  from  the  business  to  accept  the 
management  of 
the  Mobile  office  of 
Dun  &  Co.,  which  position  he  still  oc­
cupies.

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Moore  had 

fin­
ished  his  education  and  taken  the  posi­
tion  of  shipping  clerk  for John Stephens 
&  Co.,  which  he  filled for four years.  In 
1871  he  entered  the  employ  of  Allan 
Sheldon  &  Co.  as  stock-keeper  and 
house  salesman,  and  nine  years  later 
was  rewarded  for  faithful  service  by be­
ing  promoted  to  a  position  on  the  road, 
taking  as  his  territory  the  G.  R.  &  I., 
F.  &  P.  M.,  C.  &  W.  M.  and  a  part  of 
the  D.  &  M.  He  continued  in  this  po­
sition 
for  ten  years  and,  probably, 
would  have  made  no  change  but  for  the 
retirement  of  Allan  Sheldon  &  Co.  from 
trade,  in  consequence  of  which  he  sev­
ered  his  connection  with  the  old  house 
one  day,  and  the  next  day  engaged  to 
cover  the  same  territory  for  the  whole­
sale dry goods house of Burnham,  Stoepel 
&  Co.,  with  which  he  has  remained 
ever  since.  Mr:  Moore  is  a  prime  fa­
vorite  with  the  veteran  and  venerable

Mr.  Sheldon  and,  on  the  retirement  of 
the  Sheldon  house,  the  senior  partner 
voluntarily  gave  him  a  letter  of  recom­
mendation,  which  is  believed  to  be  the 
only  recommendation  ever given  by  Mr. 
Sheldon.  Mr.  Moore  naturally  cherishes 
t  greatly,  in  view  of  the  nineteen  years 
of  faithful  service  of  which  the  recom­
mendation  is  a  token.

Mr.  Moore  was  married  May  2,  1880, 
to  Miss  Louise  A.  Whiting,  of  Detroit. 
Two  children  complete  the  family  cir­
cle,  a  boy  of  15  and  a  girl  of  6  years. 
Mr.  Moore  resided  in  Detroit  until  nine 
.rears  ago,  when  he  removed  to  Grand 
Rapids,  where  he  now  resides  in a com­
fortable  home  at  6  Portsmouth  Terrace.
Mr.  Moore  is  a  member  of  no  secret 
order  and  but  two  associations—the 
Knights  of  the  Grip  and  the  Royal  Ar­
canum.  He 
is  an  attendant  at  Grace 
church  and  is  a  liberal  contributor  to  a 
considerable  number  of  charitable  en­
terprises.

So  far  as the Tradesman's information 
goes,  Mr.  Moore has  but one hobby,  and 
Inasmuch  as  he  has  no 
that  is  a  horse, 
even  being  addicted
bad  habits—not 
to  the  use  of  tobacco—he  naturally  feels 
that  he  has  a  right  to  indulge  himself 
in  this  hobby,  although 
it  is  proving 
quite  as  expensive  as  some  other’ habits 
of  a  more  damaging  character.  When 
he  came  to  the  city,  in  1887,  he  brought 
with  him 
a  “ combination  horse,’ ’ 
which  could  trot,  gallop,  run,  pace  and 
walk  under  the  saddle.  Wm.  H.  Hoops, 
who  will  be  remembered  as  an  expert 
horseman  at  that 
time,  offered  Mr. 
Moore $300  for  the  animal,  but  the own­
er  was  so  much  attached  to  him  that  he 
refused  to  sell  the  steed  for  less  than 
$1,000. 
is  a  cold  day  when  Mr. 
Moore  does  not  have  from  one  to  three 
horses  on  his  hands,  either  in  the  livery 
barn  or  out  to  pasture,  and  his  friends 
among  the  traveling  fraternity  delight 
in  telling  how  Mr.  Moore  has  paid  the 
board  of  a  horse  at  Eastmanville  for  the 
past  three  years  at  the  rate  of  $1  per 
week,  rather  than  sell  a  $150  horse  for 
$100,  on  account  of  the  depression 
in 
the  horse  market  at  the  present  time. 
This  recalls  the  experience  of  Horace 
Greeley 
in  buying  $12  worth  of  hogs 
ind  feeding  them  $12  worth  of  corn  and 
then  selling  the  whole  outfit  for  $18.

It 

Mr.  Moore  attributes  his  success  on 
the  road  to  doing  as  nearly  right  as  he 
knows  how,  believing  that  the  best  ex­
emplification  of  success  is  in  being able 
to  treat  a  customer  so  well  that  he  will 
be  glad  to  see  you  the  next  time  you 
meet  him.  Perhaps  the  best  evidence 
of  his  success 
is  the  fact  that  he  has 
been  able to  cover,  practically,  the same 
trade  and,  substantially,  the  same  terri 
tory for the past sixteen  years,and is  now 
able  to  sell  the  same  men  he  sold  on the 
occasion  of  his  first  trip  through  the 
territory.

Smoking  a  Business  to  Death. 

Stroller in Grocery World.

I  believe  it’s  possible  to  smoke  one’s 
In  fact,  I’m 
grocery  business  to  death. 
inclined  to  believe  that 
it’s  easier  to 
smoke  the  business  to  death  than  it  is 
to  smoke  yourself  to  death.  After  I  tell 
you  an  experience  you’ll certainly  agree 
with  me.

The  circumstance  happened  up 

in 
York  State,  within  a  few  miles  from 
Niaraga  Falls.  Judging  from  the  ex­
fairly  decent  store. 
terior,  it  was  a 
There  was  a  modern  look  about 
it,  and 
it  bore  the  stamp  of  a  progressive  busi­
ness  man.
When  I  went  in  I  changed  my  mind. 
The  place  reeked  with tobacco.  Clouds 
of  smoke  were  in  the  air  and  the  ^whcle 
establishment  smelled  like a second-rate 
beer  saloon.
^The  proprietor  stood 

against 

the

counter  talking  to  a  man,  and,  judging 
from  what  I  caught  of  their  conversa­
tion,  they  were  talking  about  the  effects 
of  tobacco  on  the  human  system.  That 
certainly  was  the  one  subject  likely  to 
occur  to  anybody  entering  the  place.

“ No,  sir,’ ’  said  the  grocer,  “ I  don’t 
believe  tobacco  ever  hurt  anybody  if  he 
used  a  good  quality. 
I  smoke  thirteen 
cigars  every  day  of  my  life,  and  I  am 
as  healthy  a  man  as  lives,  I  believe. 
Know  why? 
I  smoke  a  good  10-cent 
if  every  man  would  do  this 
cigar,  and 
there'd  be  no  tobacco  wrecks.”

The  grocer  had  a  stump  in  his  mouth 
then. 
It  had  gone  out,  and  the  nasty 
saliva  oozed  out  of  the  end  as  he talked. 
If  I  had  been 
that  man’s  wife,  I 
wouldn’t  have  kissed  him  for  a  ten- 
dollar  bill,  spot  cash.  But  maybe  his 
wife  had  caught  the 
infection  and 
chewed,  too;  I  don’t  know.

While  the  conversation  was  going  on 
a  gentleman,  who  was 
evidently  an 
Episcopalian  cleigyman,  judging by the 
cut  of  his  clothes,  came  in  and  ordered 
something  or  other. 
I  heard  him  sniff 
the  nasty  air  disgustedly  as  he  came  in, 
but  the  grocer  was  oblivious.  He’d 
probably  heard  disgusted  sniffs  before.
When  the  clergyman  left  I  was  stand­
ing  on  the  doorstep.  He  was  so  wrought 
up  that  he  couldn’t  stand  it,  so  he 
opened  on  me.
“ Terrible!  terrible!  disgusting!”   he 
said,  “ to  keep  a  grocery  store  smelling 
of  tobacco  like  that!  The  man  ought  to 
be  ashamed !  How  in  the  world  does  he 
keep  customers?”   Then  he  grumbled 
off  down  the  street.
On  the  spur  of  the  moment,  I  went 
into  the  store.  The  grocer  was 
back 
still  sucking  his  stump.
‘ My  friend,”   I  said,  “ you  spoke  a 
while  ago  of  being  able  to  smoke  thir­
teen  cigars  a  day  without  injuring  you. 
Has  it  ever  occurred  to  you  that  a  man 
may  smoke  his  business  to  death?” 

“ Yes,  sir,”   he  said,  heartily,  “ I  be- 
ieve  it  thoroughly.  When  a  tobacco- 
smoker  gets  to  using  tobacco  so  that  his 
store  reeks  of  it,  his business will suffer; 
but  there’s  no  smell  of  tobacco  in  this 
store,”   he  said, 
in  the  whole 
store  by  a  sweep  of  his  arms. 
“ There 
never  has  been.  I’m  very  careful  about 
that,  and  I  keep  my  place  as  clean  and 
sweet  as  any  man  possibly  can.”

taking 

I  looked  at  the  man  in  amazement. 
While  I 
looked,  a  drop  of  liquid  nico­
tine  dropped  on  the  counter  from  the 
end  of  the  dry  cigar  he  was  chewing. 
At  first  I  thought  he  was  guying  me, 
but  I  soon  saw  that  the  man  was  sin­
cere.  He  was  so  completely  impreg­
nated  with  tobacco  that  he  didn’t  smell 
it.

He  was  slowly  smoking  his  business 

to  death.

Gripsack  Brigade.

J.  W.  Sleight,  representing  the  Coats 
Thread  Co.,  has  removed  to  this  city 
from  Chicago,  locating,  for  the  present 
at  the  Vendome.

J.  L.  Lazier,  traveling  representativi 
for  the  Stebbins  Manufacturing  Co.,  of 
Lakeview,  has  engaged  to  represent  the 
Electric  Pile  Cure  Co.,  of  the  same 
place,  in  connection  with  his  work  for 
the  other  concern.

A.  F.  Peake,  State  agent  for  DeLand 
&  Co.,  Fairport,  N.  Y.,  was honored  by 
election  to  the  Common  Council  at 
Jackson  at  the  spring  election.  On  the 
same  day  J.  F.  Hammell  was  re-elected 
to  the  Common  Council  of  Lansing.

Geo.  P.  Cogswell, 

formerly  Western 
Michigan  traveling  representative  for 
the  old  firm  of  H.  S.  Robinson  &  Bui 
| tenshaw,  has  been  appointed  Detro 
agent  of  Whitney,  Wable  &  Co.,  the 
Cleveland  rubber goods  manufacturers 
with  headquarters  at  16  East  Elizabeth 
street. 

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Business  men  who  buy  Robinson’s 
Cider  Vinegar  are  always  to  the front in 
trade. 

^____

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Oats are sometimes felt; also  soft  hats.

Smoke  the  Dodge  Club  Cigar.

CLIFTOD HOUSE

Michigan’ Popular Hotel.

Remodeled and  Refitted Throughout.

Cor.  Monroe  and  W abash  A ves.,

CHICAGO.

Moderate  rates  and  special  attention  to  De­
troit and  Michigan  guests.  Located  one  block 
from the business center.  Come and see us.

GEO.  CUMMINGS  HOTEL CO., 

Geo. Cummings,  Pres, 
eo. Cummings is an  Honorary  member  of  the 

Michigan  Knights of the Grip.

Cutler  House  in  New  Hands.
H.  D.  and  F.  H.  Irish,  formerly landlords at 
the  New  Livingston  Hotel,  at  Grand  Rapids, 
have leased the Cutler House,  at  Grand  Haven, 
where  they  bespeak  the  cordial  co-operation 
aud support of the traveling  public.  They  will 
conduct the Cutler House as a strictly first-class 
house,  giving  every  detail  painstaking  at­
tention.

Bridge  Street 

...House...

Corner  of  Bridge  and 
Kent Streets,

Grand  Rapids, Hich.

Rates  $1  and  $1.25  per  day.

Best  House  in  the  S tate 
for  the  floney.
E.  FULLERTON  &  CO.,  Props.

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26

Drugs-=Chem icals

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

One Year— 
- 
Two  Years— 
Three Years— 
Four Years—
Five Years—

President, C, 
Secretary,F 
Treasurer, G 
Coming Meetings-

C. A. B u g b e e, Charlevoix 
S. E. P a u k il l, Owosso 
F. W. R. Pekrt, Detroit 
A. C. Schu m ach er,  Ann Arbor 
G eo.  G undrum,  Ionia 
!. A. B u g b e e, Charlevoix.
. w .  R.  Pe r r y ,  D etroit.
■ BO. GUNDRUM,  Ionia.
-Detroit (Star Island), June 23. 
Lansing, November 3.

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

, 

„  

. _ 

( s.  P.  W h itm ar sh,  Palmyra;

President, Geo. J. W a r d , St. Clair.
__ 
Vice-Presidents  -j G  c   PhillIp8,  Armada. 
Secretary, B.  Sch r o u d er,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Wm. D u po n t, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—F .  J.  W u r zb u r g ,  Grand 
Rapids;  F .  D.  St e v e n s, Detroit;  II. G .C olm an, 
Kalamazoo;  E. T.  W e b b ,  Jackson;  D.  M. R u s­
s e l l , Grand Rapids.

The  Drug  Market.

Acetanilid— Remains  quiet  and  fea­

tureless.

Acids—Jobbing  parcels  of  the  various 
leading  descriptions  have  found  a  mod­
erate  consuming  outlet  and,  although 
there 
in  quotations,  the 
general  market  has  a  fairly  steady  un­
dertone.

is  no  change 

to  move  freely 

Alcohol— Moderate quantities  of  grain 
into 

have  continued 
channels  of  consumption.  Distillin 
interests  held  a  meeting  last  week,  at 
which  reports  of  cut  prices  were  an- 
alzyed  and  discussed.  There  was  evi­
dence  that 
in  some  cases  slight  con­
cessions  had  been  made  to  favored  cus­
tomers,  with  the  object of  holding  par­
ticular  customers  against  possible  need 
in  the  future. 
It  was  agreed  that  thi 
policy  was  unsound  and  that  it  was  for 
the  interest  of  all  that  it  should  be  dis 
continued. 
Letters  have  since  been 
received,  it 
is  alleged,  from  distillers 
charged  with  giving  some  special  rates 
explaining  the  circumstances  and  stat 
ing  their  intention  to  maintain  prices 
Wood  remains  quiet.

for 

Arsenic— The market  is  somewhat  un 
settled,  owing  to  pressure  to  sell  on  the 
part  of  outside  holders.

Balsams— The  market 

strictly 
prime  copaiba  of  all  varieties  is  strong 
er,  owing  to  reduced  stocks  and  small 
shipments  from  primary  sources,  and 
quotations  for  Central  American  hav 
been  marked  up.  Tolu 
is  quiet  and 
easy.  Peru  is  in  light  request  and  nom 
inally  steady.

Beans— Only 

jobbing  sales  of  tonk; 
are  reported,  but values continue steady 
Mexican  vanilla  are  moving  freely  in  ; 
jobbing  way  and  prices 
firmly 
maintained.

are 

Bismuth  Preparations— Values  are 

lower,  manufacturers  having 
their quotations.

reduced 

Cacao  Butter— A continued  quiet  feel 
ing  has  pervaded  the  market,  with  bulk 
nominally  steady.

Caffeine— The  market  remains  tame, 
with  no  business  reported  in  excess  of 
small  jobbing  transactions.

Cascara  Sagrada— Continues  to  meet 
with  a  good  steady  demand  for  con 
sumption  and  prices  are  firm.

Cassia  Buds— The  market  has  devel 
oped  increased  activity and,  with  avai 
able  stocks  of  prime  materially 
r 
duced,  prices  are  firm.

Cocaine,  Muriate— Has  continued  to 
lecline,  under  the 
influence  previously 
noted,  and  on  Wednesday  last  manufac 
turers  announced  a  further  reduction  of 
25c  per ounce.

Cod  Liver  Oil— The  consuming  de 
fairly  active,  with 
mand  has  been 
prices 
for  prime  qualities  steady 
Cables  from  Norway  report  a  further 
decline  for  prime  brands.  The  Lofoden

fishery  is  practically  ended,  and  the  re­
sult  of  the  total  yield  thus  far  shows  a 
falling  off  of  over  4,000 barrels,  com­
pared  with  last  year,  and  6,000  barrels, 
compared  with  1894.

Colocynth  Apples—The  market  con- 
nues 
irregular,  with  quotations  more 

or  less  nominal.

Cream  Tartar— Has  met  with  only  a 
mited 
inquiry  and  manufacturers’ 
rices are  unchanged.
Cubeb  Berries—Continue  to  sell 
in 
small  jobbing  way  only,  with  quota­

tions  nominal.

Cuttle  Fish  Bone—There 
is Ja  con- 
inued  good  consuming  'demand,  with 
alues  steady.
Essential  Oils—The  only  new  feature 
of  special  interest  in  this  department  is 
stronger  feeling  in croton,  with  an  ad­
vance  of  ioc  per  lb.  in  quotations,  due 
to  scarcity  of  both  seeds  and  oil,  to­
gether  with  higher  markets  abroad.  A 
general  revision  of  quotations  by  lead- 
ng  dealers  shows  the  following  minor 
changes:  a 
lower  range  for  allspice, 
artificial 
amber, 
eucalyptus,  geranium,  pennyroyal,  rose, 
ansy and  thyme.
Flowers—American saffron are steady. 
Glycerine— Is  in moderate request  and 

rectified 

almond, 

nominally  steady.

aloes 

Gums— Cape 

continue  very- 
scarce  and  prices  are  firm.  Asafetiaa 
continues  to  move  fairly  on  consuming 
orders.  Camphor  is  in  good  demand, 
but  there  is  no  change  in  prices.  The 
stock  of  Japanese  is  almost  exhausted. 
increasing 
Arabic  and  Senegal  show 
strength  and  holders  are 
indifferent 
sellers  at  the  recently  improved  prices, 
Powdered  gamboge  has been  reduced.

Leaves—The  demand  for  short  buchu 
has  been  moderately  active.  Alexandria 
senna  continues  to  harden,  as  the  statis 
tical  position  becomes 
less  favorable 
The  demand  is  in  excess  of  the  supply 
and  holders  are  cutting  down  their  or 
ders.

Lycopodium— Is cabled higher abroad 
and  with  the  demand  here  quite  active 
the  tone  of  the  market  is  firmer,  with 
quotations  showing  an  advance.

Menthol— Conti nues  weak.
Morphine— Is  meeting  with  only  an 
ordinary  demand,  and  manufacturers 
continue  to  quote  on  the  old  basis.

Opium— Immediately  subsequent 

to 
our  last  issue  the  price  for  single  cases 
was  further  advanced.  Very  little  in 
terest,  however,  is  manifest  on  the  part 
of  buyers,  and  the  market  is  quiet  with 
the  tendency  toward  a  lower basis. 

Quinine—Values  continue  firm.
Potash,  Cyanide— Manufacturers  have 

reduced  their quotations.

Potash  Permanganate— Is  scarce  and 

firmer.

Roots—General 

trading  has  been 
rather  slow  and  the  market  is  without 
new  features  of  special  interest.

Seeds—There  is  no  further  change  i 

Coriander 

quotations  of the  various descriptions  of 
canary  and  the  general  market  remains 
is  quiet 
dull  and  depressed.  Celery 
and  nominally  steady. 
i 
also  quiet.  Cummin  has  met  with  ; 
fair  demand,  with  prices  maintained 
The  only  new  feature in  mustard  is  an 
the  price  of  Califomi 
advance 
brown.  Russian  hemp 
is  well  held 
Sunflower  remains  dull  and weak.  Car 
damoms  are  held  firmly.

in 

Spermaceti— Block  is  easier.  Cakes 

are  nominally  steady.

is  dull 
Sponges—The  spot  market 
and  absolutely  without  new 
feature, 
values  of  strictly  prime  grades  continu 
ing  firm,  while  ordinary  varieties  are 
irregular,  in consequence of competition 
between  sellers.

GRAND  RAPIDS  IN  1850.

CHAPTER  X II.

Written fo r  the T r a d e sm a n .
The  hotels  of  any  city  or  village, 
large  or  small,  are  an  unmistakable  in­
dex  to  the business character of the  town 
n  which  they  are  located.  The  travel - 
ng  man’s  first  impressions  of  a  place, 
on  visiting  it  for  the  purpose  of.  work­
ing  up  business,  are  made  from  the 
character  of 
its  hotels  and  their  sur­
roundings.  Dating  away  back  before 
the  existence  of  any  traveling  men’s 
association,  the  writer  was,  for  several 
years,  a  member  of  the  Gripsack  Bri­
gade,  and  speaks from  his own  practical 
experience. 
If  the  hotel-keeper  and 
those  about  him  are  slovenly  in presonal 
ppearance;  if  the  office 
is  dirty  and 
unsavory;  if  the  rooms  are  dusty  and 
lly  ventilated;  if  the  dining  room  is 
cold  and  the  dinner  half  cooked  and 
worse  served,  his  irresistible  conclusion 
s  that  a  town  that  can’t  support  a  bet­
ter  hotel 
is  not  much  of  a  place  in 
which  to  work  up  business,  and  goes 
about  his  work  in a listless,  half-hearted 
way  that  never  meets  with success.  But, 
on  the  contrary,  if  the  proprietor  and 
his  assistants  are  neat  in  personal  ap 
pearance,  greeting  their  guests  with  ; 
hearty welcome ;  if  the  house,  though  i 
may be  old,  is  kept  in  good  repair;  i 
the  rooms  are  sweet  and  clean ;  if  the 
table 
is  well  supplied  with  plain 
wholesome,  well-cooked  food,  and  there 
s  an  atmosphere  of  thrift  pervading 
all,  a  favorable 
is  formed 
which  gives  the  salesman  a  cheerful 
confidence  that  makes  for  his  success  in 
a  business  way.

impression 

the  National—occupying 

The  best  two  hotels  in  Grand  Rapids 
were 
the 
ground  now  covered  by  that  very  popu 
ar hostelry,  the  Morton  House— and  the 
Rathbun  House,  both  of  which  were 
well  worthy  the  reputation  they  enjoyed 
as  first-class  hotels.

The  National  was  under  the  manage 
ment of  the  late  A.  X.  Carey and  Robert 
Collins.  Mr.  Collins was  the  son-in-law 
of  Mr.  Carey. 
I  believe  the  firm  name 
-Carey  &  Collins—was  continued  in 
some  kind  of  business  as  long  as  both 
were  alive.  The  hearty  welcome  and 
kindly face of  my old friend,  Mr.  Carey 
were  a  guarantee  to  the  weary  traveler 
of  the  good  cheer  that  awaited  him 
withui.

The  Rathbun  House,  which  stood  at 
the  comer  of  Monroe  and  Waterloo 
streets,  on  the  site  of  the  fine  new  Wid- 
dicomb  Building,  was  under  the  man­
agement  of  Dorsey  &  Thornton.  These 
gentlemen were both young men,  who un­
derstood  all  the  requirements  of  a  well- 
kept  hotel,  and  they  were  well  pat­
somewhat  handi-
ronized,  although 

caped  by  the  fact  that  their  competitor, 
the  National,  was  the  “  stage house, ”  
where  all  the  passengers  by  stage  were 
booked.

Grand  Rapids  hotel  proprietors  and 
their  families  were  all  habitual  church 
goers,  always  owning  or  renting  pews 
n  some  one of the various churches,  and 
never  forgetting  to  invite  “ the  stranger 
within  their  gates’ ’  to  a  seat 
in  the 
family  pew,  or  even  escorting  him  to 
any  place  of  worship  he  preferred  to 
attend.

The  old  Eagle  Hotel,  on  Waterloo 
street,  and  the  Bridge Street House were 
small  wooden  buildings,  occupying  the 
same  ground  now  covered  by  them. 
They  were  kept  more  for  the  accommo­
dation  of  the  farmers  and teamsters  who 
visited  Grand  Rapids,  in  considerable 
numbers  and  from 
long  distances,  for 
their  annual  supply  of 
gypsum— or 
‘ land  plaster, ’ *  as  they  called  it— for 
fertilizing  purposes.

industry 

Incidentally, I might state that the gyp­
sum  business  was,  at  that  time,  a  very 
important 
in  Grand  Rapids. 
During  a  season  of  good  sleighing, 
sometimes  a  hundred  teams  were loaded 
daily,  to  be  used  in  counties  along  the 
line  of  the  central  railroad  and  farther 
south.  The  mills  were  frequently  un­
able  to  supply  the  demand.  Henry  R. 
Williams  and  Richard Butterworth  were 
the  only  plaster  mill  owners.  The mar­
ket  price  ranged  from  $2.50 to  $3  per 
ton.  These  two  gypsum  beds  were  op­
posite  each  other,  down  the  river,  at 
what  was  then  known  as  Plaster  Creek. 
The  quarrying  was  quite  easy,  as  the 
rock  on  the  East  Side  cropped  out  at 
the  surface.  The  manufacture  of  stucco 
by  the  boiling  process,  in  cauldron  ket­
tles,  until  every  particle  of  moisture 
was  expelled  and  the  natural gray  of  the 
plaster  turned  to  a  beautiful  white,  was 
an 
important  part  of  the  business. 
There  were  no  other  mills  in  the  West 
that  made  this  valuable  item  of  build­
ing  material,  now  in  such  general  use 
for  hard  finished  walls  and  ornamental 
cornices.  Chicago  and  Milwaukee  were 
the  largest  purchasers  of  this  valuable 
lake 
article  of  commerce.  River  and 
freights  were  cheap  and, 
in  conse­
quence,  the  demand  from  those  points 
was  large.  Previous  to  this,  the  salt 
business  had  been  abandoned,  and  gyp­
sum  was  the  most 
important  article  of 
export.

W .  S.  H.  W elton.

Owosso,  Mich.

Sugar  of  Milk— Is  meeting  with  a 
good  steady  demand  from  the  consum­
ing  trade  and  prices  are  maintained.

Smoke  the  Dodge  Club  Cigar.

A   p i L E   C U R E   T H A T  C U R E S

®  HANDSOMEST  ®

PACKAGE 
ON  THE 
MARKET

THE  ELECTRIC  PILE  CURE 

_____

Guaranteed  to  cure  any  form  of  Piles. 
In  use  for  the  last  twelve  years.  Now 
being  introduced  to  the  druggists  of 
Michigan by our travelers.

O r d e r  T h r o u g h   Y o u r   J o b b er.

The  Electric  Pile  Cure  Co.,

Lakeview,  Mich.

T H E   MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

2 7

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.
Declined—Sub.  Nit, Bismuth.
Advanced—Oil Croton.

© 18
Morphia, S.P.& W ... 1  75®  2 00 Sinapis......................
© 30
Sinapis, o p t..............
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co...................... 1  65®  1 90 Snuff,  Maccaboy.De
® 34
Voes........................
® 40
Moschus Canton__
© 34
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch.DeVo's
Myristica, No.  1.......
7  © 10
® 10 Soda Boras...............
Nux V om ica.. ,po.20
15® 18 Soda Boras, po......... 7  © 10
Os  Sepia...................
26® 28
Soda et Potass T art.
Pepsin  Saac, H. A P.
2
®   1  00 Soda,  Carb...............
1M®
D. Co......................
5
3®
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
Picis Liq. N.N.Mgal.
3M@ 4
®  2 00 Soda,  Ash.................
doz...........................
2  ’
©   1  00 Soda, Sulphas..........
®
Picis Liq., quarts....
® 2  60
® 85 Spts. Cologne............
Picis Liq., pints.......
50® 55
® 50 Spts.  Ether  Co.........
Pil H ydrarg... po.  80
@ 2 00
@ 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom...
Piper N igra.. .po.  22
2  49
® 30 Spts. Vini  Rect. bbl.
Piper Alba__ po.  35
© 2  54
7 Spts. Vini Rect. Mbbl
Pilx  Burgun............
©
© 2  57
10@ 12 Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal
Plumbi  Acet............
® 2  59
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  10®  1  20 Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal
Pyrethriim, boxes II.
@   1 25
& P.  D.  Co., do z...
27® 30 Strychnia, Crystal... 1  40® 1  45
Pyrethrum,  p v .........
3
8® 10 Sulphur,  Subl..........
Q u assise........................
2® 2v4
37© 42 Sulphur,  Roll.........
Quinia, S.  P. & W ..
8® 10
30® 40 Tam arinds...............
Quinia, S. G erm an..
28® 30
35@ 40 Terebenth Venice...
Quinia, N.Y..............
42® 45
12® 14 Theobromse..............
Rubia Tinctorum ...
24@ 26 V anilla..................... 9 00@16 Oq
SaccharumLactis pv
8
Salacin...................... 2 50© 2  60 Zinc!  Sulph..............
7®
40® 50
Sanguis Draconis...
12® 14
Sapo,  W  ...................
10® 12
Sapo, M......................
15 Whale, winter..........
Sapo, G......................
Siedlitz  M ixture__ 20  @ 22 |  Lard,  ex tra..............

BBL. GAL.
70
60

Less 5c gal.  cash

10 days.

2M®

Oils

70
53

®

IX  2
IX  2 
IX  2 

Lard, No. 1...............
Linseed, pure  raw ..
Linseed,  boiled.......
Neatsfoot,  w i n t e r
strained.................
Spirits T urpentine..
Paints
@8
Red  Venetian......... 
©4©3
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
Putty, com m ercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2X®3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
15
American............... 
Vermilion,  English. 
Green, P a ris ............
Green,  Peninsular..
Lead, R ed.................
Lead, w hite............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’...
White, Paris A m er..
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff........................
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

13®
70®
15  @ 
13® 
5m@ 
5M@ 
@ 
®®  1  00
®   1  40 
1  00®  1  15

No. 1 Turp C oach...  1  10®  1  2
Extra  T urp..............  1  60®  1  70
Coach Body..............  2  75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp  F u m __   1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  75

H A ZELTIN E 

PERKINS  •  
:uc  CO.

Irpporters 

Jobbers of

DRUGS

ICtiemicais and  Paten! medicines

Dealers in

Paints, 
and  Varnishes

Full line of staple druggists’ sundries.
We  are  sole  proprietors  of  Weath­

erly’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  pur­

poses only.
We  give  our  personal  attention  to 
mailorders  and  guarantee  satisfaction.
All orders  shipped  and  invoiced  the 
same  day  we  receive  them.  Send  a 
trial order.

BiZELTIIE 

PERKINS

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Acidum
Aceticum...................!
Benzoicum,  German
Boracic......................
Carbolicum ..............
C itricum ................... 
H vdrochlor..............
N itrocum .................
O xalicum .................
Phosphoriuin,  d il...
Salicylicum..............
Sulphuricum............
T an n icu m ...............
Tartaricum ...............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg............
Aqua, 20  deg............
Carbonas...................
Chloridum ................ 
Aniline
Black..........................‘
B ro w n ......................
R e d .........  ...............
Y ellow ...................... ;
Baccae.
Cubesee............po.  18
Juniperus.................
X anthoxylum ..........
Balsamum
Copaiba.....................
Peru...... ..............
Terabin, Canada
Tolutan...................... 
Cortex 
Abies, C anadian....
Cassise......................
Cinchona Flava.......
Euonymus  atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Quillaia,  gr’d ..........
Sassafras...................
U lm us...po.  15,  gr’d 
Extractum  

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza, po.......
Ilaematox, 15 lb box.
H® mat ox, Is
Haematox, M
s
Hsematox,  Ms

Ferru

Carbonate  P recip...
Citrate and Q uinia..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride.......
Sulphate, com’l .......
Sulphate,  com'l,  by
bbl, per cw t.......
Sulphate,  p u r e .......
Flora
A rn ic a ......................
A nthathis. ■  ............
M atricaria...............
Folia

8®$ 10
75@ 80
® 15
29® 40
44® 46
44®
5
3®
8@ 10
10® 12
@ 15
55® 65
IX® 5
40® 60
38© 40

6
4®
8
6®
19® 14
12® 14
131

00® 2  25
80® 1  00
45® 50
50® 3 00

13® 15
8
6®
25@ 30

45® 50
@ 2  60
40® 45
75® 80
75@

24®
28®
11®
13®
14®
16® 

12®
18®
18®

17

15

35

30

65

30

20®
18®
25®
12®

Barosma..................... 
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly...................
Cassia Acutifol.Alx.
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms...................
Ura Ursi.....................
Gummi 
Acacia,  1st picked..
Acacia,  2d  picked..
Acacia,  3d  picked..
@60®
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po.................
14®
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28 
®
Aloe, Cape —  po. 15 
®
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40
Ammoniac......... 
Assafcetida___ po. 30  22®
B enzoinum ....... 
Catechu, Is......... 
Catechu, Ms....... 
Catechu, Ms.............. 
Camphor® ............... 
@  *y
Euphorbium .. po.  35 
Galbanum................. 
@19®
Gamboge  po........... 
70
@  3jj
Guaiacum.........po. 35 
Kino............po. $3.00 
®   3  00
M astic............... 
®
Myrrh................po. 45 
@  40
Opii..  po. $3.20@3.40  2 35@  2  40
Shellac......................
Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth ..............
Herba

55®
50®
®
@

40®
40®
50®

.  ®
61®

65® 

® 

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz.  pkg
Lobelia.........oz. pkg
Majorum —  oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz.  pkg
R ue................oz.  pkg
TanacetumV oz.  pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
ITagnesia.
Calcined, Pat............
Carbonate, P at.........
* Carbonate, K. & M..
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum

20

39

60

55®
20®
20®
35®

30® 50

Absinthium............   3 25@  3 50
Amygdal®, Dulc.... 
Amygdal®, Amar® .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi..........................  2 90®  3  00
Auranti  Cortex.......  2 30® 2 40
Bergamii...................  3 00® 3 20
75
C ajiputi..................... 
Caryophylli.............. 
60
C ed ar..  ................... 
65
@ 2  50
Chenopadii...............  
.  Cinnamonii..............   2  50@  2  60
Citronella.................  
75®  80

70® 
55® 
35® 

*

1

©
@
@

Radix

30@  1 50

25®  1 40

20®  1 30
50®  1 60

niscellaneous 

35®  65
80®  90
1  50®  1  60 
1  20®  1  30

Conium  Mac.
Copaiba.........
Cubebæ..........
Exechthitos
Erigeron...................  1 
G aultheria...............   1 
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. g a l.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma...................  1 
Junipera...........   —   1  50® 2  00
Lavendula...............  
90® 2 00
Limonis.....................  1 
Mentha  Piper.........  2  25®  3 00
Mentha V erid..........   2  65® 2  75
Morrhu®,  gal..........   2  00® 2  10
@  50
Myrcia, ounce..........  
75® 3  00
Olive.......................... 
Picis  Liquida..........  
12
10® 
Picis Liquida, gal... 
©  35
R ic in a ......................  
91®  96
@  1  00
Rosmarini...............  
Ros®,  ounce............  6  50@ 8  50
S u ccin i..................... 
40@  45
90@  1  00
S abina..................... 
Santal........................  2  50® 7 00
Sassafras................... 
50@  55
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
®   65
Tiglii.......................... 
©   1  10
Thyme 
................... 
40®  50
Thyme,  o p t.............. 
@  1  60
Theobrom as............ 
15@  20
Potassium
Bi-Barb...................... 
18
15® 
15
13® 
Bichromate  ............ 
48
45@ 
Bromide....................  
15
12@ 
Carb.......................... 
18
16® 
Chlorate..po. 17®19c 
50®  55
Cyanide..................... 
Iodide........................  2 90®  3 00
30@  33
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
®   15
Potassa,  Bitart,  com 
8® 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10
Potass Nitras............ 
9
7@ 
Prussiate................... 
25®  28
Sulphate  p o ............ 
15® 
18

Scill®Co................... 
T olutan..................... 
Prunus virg.............. 
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes..........................
Aloes and Myrrh —
A rn ica......................  
A ssafcetida..............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex.......
Benzoin.....................
Benzoin Co...............
B arosm a...................
Cantharides.........  .
Capsicum ............
Cardam on..........
Cardamon  Co..........
Castor........................ 
Catechu...................
Cinchona...................
Cinchona Co............
Colum ba...................
Cubeba......................
Cassia  A cutifol.......
Cassia Acutifol Cb  .
D igitalis...................
E rgot.........................
Ferri Chloridum __
G entian.....................
Gentian Co...............
G uiaca......................
Guiaca ammon.........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine........................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino...........................
Lobelia......................
Myrrh.........................
Nux  Vomica............
O pii............................
Opii, cam phorated..
Opii,  deodorized__
Q uassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei...........................
S anguinaria............
Aconitvm ................. 
20@  25
Serpentaria..............
A lth® ........................ 
22@  25
Stram onium ............
A nchusa................... 
12® 
15
Tolutan....................
@  25
Arum po....................  
V alerian...................
C alam us................... 
20@  40
Veratrum Veride ...
12®  15
Gentiana........ po  15 
Zingiber....................
16®  18
G lychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
@  30
Hydrastis Canaden . 
@  35
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
/Ether, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15@  20
34®
/Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
15@  20
Inula, po................... 
A lum en.....................  2M@
Ipecac, po.................   1  65®  I  75
3@
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
Iris plox__ po35@38 
35®  40
40®
Annatto..................... 
Antimoni,  po..........  
4@
40@  45
Jalapa,  p r.................  
Antimoni et PotassT 
55®
©  
Maranta,  Ms ............ 
35
@  1 40
15® 18 A ntipyrin................
Podophyllum, po...
75®  1 00 A ntifebrin...............
@ 15
R h e i........................
@ 55
@  1  25 Argenti Nitras, oz  ..
Rhei, cu t...  ...........
75®  1 35 Arsenicum................
10® 12
R hei.pv...................
&5@ 38 Balm Gilead  Bud  ..
38© 40
Spigelia....................
@ 15 Bismuth  S.  N .......... 1  00®  1 10
Sanguinaria. ..po.  1
30® 35 Calcium Chlor.,  Is..
Serpentaria.............. 
30®
®
55® 60 Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.
® 10
Senega......................  
“ /5a‘
@ 40 Calcium Chlor.,  Ms-
@ 12
Similax,officinalis II
© 75
@ 25 Cantharides, Rus.po
Smilax, M.................
10® 12 Capsici  Fructus, a"f.
© i*»
Scillae............... po.35
@ 15
Capsici Fructus,  po.
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
® 25 Capsici FructusB.po
@ 15
dus,  po...................
10® 12
© 25 Caryophyllus-.po.  15
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 
©  3 75
15® 20 Carmine, No. 40.......
Valeriana,  German.
50® 55
12® 16 Cera Alba,  S.  & F  ..
40® 42
23® 25 Cera  Flava...............
Zingiber j .................
® 40
Coccus......................
Semen
© 25
Cassia F ructus.........
® 15 Centraria...................
Anisum .......... po.  20
®
14® 16 Cetaceum..................
Apium  (graveleons)
© 45
6 Chloroform...............
4®
Bird, Is......................
60® 63
10® 12 Chloroform, squibbs
C arui.............. po. 18
@  1 3a
ou® 25 Chloral Hyd C rst__ 1  15®  1  30
Cardamon.................
8@ 10 Chondrus..................
Coriandrum..............
20©
4 Cinchonidine,P.& W 15@
Cannabis  Sativa—
75® 00 Ciuchonidine, Germ 3M@
Cydonium.................
10®
Chenopodium .........
Cocaine..................... 5  30®  5
90® 3  00 Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
D iptenx  Odorate...
Fceniculum .............. 
(©
Creosotum................ 
@
6®
Fcenugreek, po......... 
@
Creta...............bbl. 75 
L in i............................  2M@
@
Creta, prep................ 
Lini,  grd— bbl. 2M  3M®
Creta, precip............ 
9®
L ob elia..................... 
@
Creta, Rubra............ 
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3M@ 
C rocus......................  
50®
R ap a..........................  4M® 
@
C u d b ear................... 
Sinapis Albu............ 
7@ 
5®
C upriSulph.............. 
Sinapis  Nigra..........  
11© 
Dextrine.................... 
10@
75@
Ether Sulph.............. 
Spiritus
Emery, all  numbers  @
Emery, po.................  
@
Ergota........... po. 40  30@
Flake  W hite............ 
12®
®
Galla........................... 
8®
Gambier....................  
Gelatin, Cooper..  .. 
®
Gelatin, French....... 
30®
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10 
Less  than  b o x ....
9®
Glue,  brow n............ 
Glue,  w hite.............. 
13©
19®
G lycerina.................  
@
Grana  Paradisi  __  
25®
Humulus................... 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
©  
Hydraag Chlor  Cor. 
@ 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
@ 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
® 
45® 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum..........
@1  25©  1
Ichthyobolla, Am.
Indigo........................ 
75©  1
Iodine, Resubi.........  3 80® 3
Iodoform................... 
@ 4
Lupulin. . .  
@ 2
.......  
....... 
60®
Lycopodium .
Macis.......................... 
65®
Liquor  Arsen et Hy-
@
drarg Iod............... 
10®
LiquorPotassArsinit 
Magnesia, Sulph__  
2@
®
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F ............ 
60®  631
Menthol..................... 
©  5  50

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.................   2  50® 2  75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...................... 
Velvet extra  sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...................... 
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for 
slate  use................
Syrups
Acacia ......................
Auranti Cortes.........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac......................
Ferri Iod...................
Rhei Arom...............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega......................
Scillae.........................

Frum enti, W.  D. Co.  2 00®  2 50 
Frum enti,  D. F. R ..  2 00®  2 25
F ru m en ti.................   1  25®  1  50
Juniperis  Co. O. T ..  1  65@  2  00
Juniperis Co............  1  75®  3  50
Saacharum  N.  E —   1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini G alli.........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto..............  1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba.................   125@ 200

@  1  10
@  85
©  65
@  75
@  1  40

35@  40
4
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8
12

50®
®
©

2  00

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COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

E“11-..................................
G ood............................................i*
P rim e.........................................
Golden  .....................................21
Peaberry  ................................. »

Santos.

Pair  ........................................... J*
P rim e......................................... ..
Peaberry  ...................................■“
Fair  ........................................... 21
Good  ..........................................|2

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

Maracaibo.

P rim e..........................................23
Milled..........................................24

Java.

Mocha.

In te rio r...................................... 26
Private  Growth.........................27
Mandehling............................... 28
Im itatio n ...................................25
Arabian  .....................................28
Quaker Mocha and Jav a........32
Toko Mocha and Java............ 28
State  House Blend................... 25
A rbuckle..........................  19  95
Jersey.................................  19  95

Package.

Roasted.

^ i o n  T o f f e e
Oh 1*. Package .Without&Azm  
DKFhtb Ounces  Net.
Cases too lbs.i  Equallty^Prlce
60  *  J  essac  per lb.
C abinets 120 lbs. Same Price, 
90* Extra  for Cabinets.
ricLaughfin’s  XXXX......... 19  95

■ 

KOFFA-AID.

AXLE  GREASE.
Aurora...........................**>
Castor O il..................... 60
Diamond.......................60
Frazer’s ........................7o
IXL Golden, tin boxes 7o
Mica...............................70
Paragon........................ 65

doz. gross 
6  00 
7  00 
5  50 
9 00 
9 00
5 00
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

Acme.

)4 lb cans doz....................  
45
lb cans doz.....................  ®
1 
lb cans doz.....................  r
)4 lb cans 3 doz................... 
% lb cans 3 doz................... 
1 
Bulk.............................
lb cans 4 doz case 
% lb ta n s 4 doz case 
lb cans 2 doz case 
1 

lb cans 1 doz..  ..............  1

JaXon

45
7b
10

85 
1  60

Home.

Lynch.

)4 lb cans 4 doz case........  
14 lb cans 4 doz case.
1 
lb cans 2 doz case.

35
90
45 
)4 lb cans....................
90 
14 lb cans.....................
1  20
1 
lb cans.....................
Our Leader.
45
*?
)4 lb cans............................. 
% lb cans.............................  .  j£
1 
A m erican................................. ™
English.......................................

lb cans........................  • ■  1

BATH  BRICK.

BROOnS.

No. 1 Carpet..........................  f ®
No. 2 Carpet..........................
No. 3 Carpet.........................   J
No. 4 Carpet.........................   *
Parlor G em .........................   ~  ™
Common W hisk................... 
°d
Fancy Whisk........................1  66
Warehouse........................... “ 60

CANDLES. 

.

Hotel 40 lb boxes..................... 10
Star 40 lb boxes.......................   »
Paraffine....................................

CANNED  GOODS. 
Hanitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside M arrowfat..........  1  00
Lakeside E.  J ......................   J  60
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1  40 
Lakeside, Gem. Ex. Sifted.  1  65 
Columbia, 
pints............... 4 2E
Columbia,  *4 pints...............2 50

CATSUP.

CEMENT.
Major’s, per gross. 

----  

____
% oz size.... 12 00
1  oz size__ 18 00
Liq. Glue,loz  9 60
Leather Cement
. 1 2  00 
..18 00
Rubber  Cement
.  12  00

Extract.

3 doz in case
Valley City J4 gross  ...
Felix  54  gross...............
Hummel’s foil {4 gross. 
Hummel’s tin V%  gross.

5  25
75 
1  15 
85 
1  43

CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. in case.

COUPON  BOOKS.

m m
i f p

“ Tradesm an.”

$  1 books,  per  100 ...............   2  00
$ 2 books, per  100 ...............   2  50
$ 3 books, per  100...............   3  00
$ 5 books, per  100...............   3  00
$10 books,  per  100 ...............   4 00
$20 books, per  100 ...............   5 00

“ Superior.”

|   1 books, per  100 ...............   2  50
$  2 books, per  100 ...............   3 00
$  3 books, per  100 ...............   3  50
$ 5 books, per  100 ...............   4  00
$10 books, per  100...............   5  00
$20 books, per  100...............   6 00

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

B u lk ....................................... 
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s ...........2 00

3

Farina.
G rits.
Hominy.

*

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Lima  Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels  ............................... 3  25
Flake, 50 lb.  drum s...........1  50
D rie d .....................................  
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box.........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box......... 2 50
Empire  ............................... 
2)4
C h ester................................1%®2
Green,  b u ..............................  90
Split,  per.lb........................  
2)4
Rolled Avena,  b b l!........3 30
Rolled Avena, )4bbl..........1  78
Monarch,  bbl..................... 2 90
Monarch,  )4  bbl................ 1  58
Private brands,  b b l....... 2  65
Private brands, 14bbl........1  45
Quaker, cases..................... 3 20
Oven  Baked.......................3 25
Lakeside  ............................2  25
G erm an............................... 
4
3)4
East  India.......................... 
Cracked, bulk..................... 
3
24 2 lb packages.......................2 40
Pettljohn's B est.......................3 10

Breakfast  Food.
Buckwheat Flour. 
Excelsior  Self Rising.

Case of 2 doz.............................1 90
Five case  lots...........................1 75

W heat.

Sago.

“ U niversal.”

$  1  books, per  100 ................  3 00
$ 2 books, per  100................  3 50
$ 3 books, per  100 ................  4 00
$  5 books, per  100 ................  5 00
$10 books, per  100 ...............   6 00
$20.books. per  100 ...............   7 00
Above prices on coupon books 
are  subject  to  the  following 
quantity discounts:
200 books or over...  5 per cent 
500 books or over.. .10 per cent 
1000 books or over.  .20 per cent

Coupon Pass Books,

Can be made to represent any 

denomination from $10 down.

30 books...................................  1 00
50 books..................................   2 00
100 books..................................   3 00
350 books..................................   6 25
500 books.......  ....................10  00
1000 books................................... 17 50

Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n .......  3 00
1000, any one denom’n .......5  00
3000, any one denom’n .......  8  00
Steel  punch.......................... 
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnESTIC 

Apples.

Sundrled..........................  ©  3)4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @  6!4

California  Fruits.

Apricots...........................  9  @11
Blackberries....................
N ectarines......................   6  ©7
Peaches............................   5  @14
Pears..................................  8)4©
Pitted Cherries...............
Prunnelles.......................
Raspberries..................

California  Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes..........  ©   4)4
90-100 25 lb boxes..........  @ 434
80 - 90 25 lb boxes..........  @  5)4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes..........  @ 5%
60 - 70 25 lb boxes..........  @  6M
50 - 60 25 lb boxes..........   @ 6?i£
40 - 50 25 lb boxes..........  @ 7H
30 - 40 25 lb boxes..........   ©  7%
)4 rent less In bags
Raisins.

London Layers...........1  00@1  25
3Q 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
334 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
5 

FOREIGN.
C urrants.

Patras bbls.................................@ 4%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......... @  4)4
Schuit’s Cleaned 25 lb bxs©  634 
Schuit’s Cleaned 50 lb bxs© 5 
Schuit’s Cleaned  1  lb pkg@ 7 

Peel.

Citron Leghorn 25 lb  bx  @13 
Lemon Leghorn 25 lb bx  @11 
Orange Leghorn 25 lb bx  @12 

Raisins.

Ondura 29 lb boxes.......7)4@8
Sultana 201b boxes.......6)4@7)4
Valencia 30 lb boxes —   ©

Fish.
Cod.

Trout.

Halibut.

Herring.

riackerel

Whlteflsh

Georges cured.............  @  414
Georges  genuine........   @ 6
Georges selected.........  @ 614
Strips or  bricks..........   6  @ 9
Chunks................................  
J3
*0
Strips....................................  
Holland white hoops keg. 
55 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  6 50
Norwegian......................  
......
Round 100 lb s.....................  2  30
Round  40 lbs.....................  1  J6
Scaled................................... 
12
No.  1  100 lbs........................  13 00
No. 1  40 lbs........................   5  50
No. 1  10 lb s........................   1 ®
No. 2 100 lbs........................   11
No. 2  40 lbs........................  5 00
No. 2  10 lb s........................  132
Family 90 lbs..............
Family 10 lb s..............
Sardines.
Russian kegs......................  
65
Stockfish.
No. 1 ,1001b. bales..............  16)4
No. 2,100 lb. bales............. 
84
No. 1100 lbs........................   5 50
No. 1  40 lbs........................  2 50
No. 1  lOlbs........................ 
70
No. 1  8 lbs........................  
59
Fam 
No. 1 No. 2
2
6 75
1  40 
3 00
43 
83
3!
71

100 lb s.... ....  7  25
40 lbs__ ....  3  20
10 lb s.... .... 
88
8 lb s__ .... 
73
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.
Jennings’. 
D.C. Vanilla
2 oz.........1  20
3 oz.........1  50
4 oz.........2 00
6oz........3  no
No.  '8.. .4 00 
No.  10.  .6 00 
No.  2 T.l  25 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No.  4 T.2  40 
D. C. Lemon
2 oz .  ...  75
3 oz.........1  00
4 oz.........1  40
6oz........2  00
No.  8  .  2 40 
No.  10 . .  4  00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No.  4 T.l  50

Souders’.
In  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular
Vanilla.

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

...1  50 
...3   00

iz.........1  75
>z.........3 50

F lavoring  |Ä

DAYTON.Oi

FLY  PAPER. 
Tanglefoot.

“Regular” Size.

Less than one case, per box 
32 
One to five cases, per case..  2 75 
Five to ten cases, per case.  2  65
Ten cases, per  case............  2 55
Less than one case, per box 
13 
One to ten cases, per case..  1  45
Ten cases, per  case............  1  40

“Little” Tanglefoot.

FURNITURE 

Cleaner and  Polish. 

Henderson’s “ Diamond.”

Half P in t...............................  1  75
P in t........................................3 50
Q u a rt.................................... 5  40
H alf G allon..........................  7 75
G allo n ................................... 14  40

HERBS.

Sage............................................  15
H ops..........................................  15

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

K eg s........................................3 00
Half Kegs................................1  75
Quarter« Kegs..........................1  00
1 lb  cans.................................  30
>4  lb  cans.................................  18
K egs................. ......................4  00
Half Kegs............................... 2 25
Quarter  KegB.........................1  25
1 lb  cans.................................  34
K eg s........................................ 8 00
Half Kegs............................... 4  25
Quarter Kegs..........................2 25
llb c a n s ......................  
45

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

 

 

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

15 lb  palls...............................   33
17 lb  palls...............................  40
30 lb  pails...............................  60

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

LICORICE.

P ure.........................................   30
C alab ria.................................  25
Sicily.......  ................................  14
Root...........................................   10

MINCE MEAT.

INDIOO.

JELLY.

LYE.

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

ITATCHES.

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

Sugar house.....................  10@12
O rdinary.............................. 12@14

nOLASSES.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.
P rim e..................................  
Fancy 
...............................  

20
30

New Orleans.

F a ir ......................................  
G ood....................................  
E xtra good.......................... 
C hoice................................. 
Fancy  ................................. 

Half-barrels 3c extra.

18
22
24
27
30

PICKLES.
riedium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count............  3 25
Half bbls, 600 count............  2 13
Barrels, 2,400 count............  4 25
Half bbls,  1,200 count.........2  63
Clay, No.  216........................   1 70
Clay, T. D. full count......... 
65
Cob, No. 3.............................   1 20

PIPES.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ................................4  00
Penua Salt  Co.’s ..................  3 00

POTASH.

RICE.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina head........................   6)4
Carolina  No. 1.....................  5
Carolina  No. 2.....................  4)4
Broken.....................................  254
Japan,  No. 1........................   5
Japan.  No. 2..................  
  4)4
Java, No. 1..............................  4J£
Java, No. 2..............................  4)4
P a tn a ................................   4
Packed 60  lbs. in  box.

SALERATUS.

SEEDS.

SAL SODA.

Church’s ................................. 3 3C
Deiand’s ................................. 3  15
Dwight’s ................................. 3 30
Taylor’s ...................................3  00
Granulated, bbls...............1  10
Granulated,  100 lb cases.. 1  50
Lump, bbls....................... 
1
Lump, 1451b kegs...............1  10
A n ise ...............................  13
Canary, Smyrna.............. 
6
C araw ay..........................  10
Cardamon,  M alabar........   80
Hemp,  Russian...............  
4
Mixed  B ird........................  
4)4
Mustard,  w hite.................  
6)4
Poppy  ................................. 
8
R ap e................................  
Cuttle Bone........................   20
Scotch,  In bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In ja rs.................   35
French Rappee, in  ja rs.......  43

SNUFF.

4

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels.................................  14
Half  bbls............................  16
Fair  ....................................  16
G ood....................................   20
C hoice.................................  25

Pure Cane.

S P IC E S .

W hole Sifted.

Pure Ground in Bulk.

Allspice  .................................  9)4
Cassia, China in m ats.......... 10
Cassia, Batavia in  bund__ 15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna..................15
Cloves, Zanzibar....................10
Mace,  Batavia.....  ..............70
Nutmegs, fancy..................... 65
Nutmegs, No.  1..................... 60
Nutmegs, No.  2..................... 55
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .10 
Pepper, Singapore, w h ite.. .20
Pepper,  shot...........................16
Allspice  ...........................10@15
Cassia, B atavia......................17
Cassia,  Saigon..  ..................35
Cloves,  Amboyna..................15
Cloves, Zanzibar....................10
Ginger,  A frican....................15
Ginger,  Cochin..................... 20
Ginger,  Jam aica....................22
Mace,  B atavia___ ____ 60@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste....................25
N utm egs,.........................40@60
Pepper, Singapore, black9@12 
Pepper,Singapo re,wbitel5@18
Pepper, Cayenne............17@20
Sage.......................................... 18
“ Absolute”  in  )4lb.  Packages
Allspice...............................   66
Cinnamon...........................  75
Cloves..................................   70
Ginger, Cochin..................   75
Mace.................................... 2  10
M ustard...............................  75
Nntmegs..............................2  10
Pepper, c ay e n n e ..............  75
Pepper, white  ...................  75
Pepper, black shot............  60
Saigon................................. 1  50
“ Absolute  ’’B utchers’  Spices.
Wiener and Frankfurter__ 16
Pork Sausage..........................16
Bologna and Smoked S’ge..l6 
Liver S’ge and H’d Cheese..16

Amboy......................
Acme.........................
Jersey........................
Lenawee...................
Riverside...................
Gold  Medal..............
Brick..........................
E d am ........................
Leiden.......................
Limburger................
Pineapple..................
Sap  Sago...................
Chicory. 
Bulk 
Red 

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

©
12
©
©
© 12
@ 12!
12
© 11
@1  00
© 20
© 15
24
©
© 18
5

.........

CHOCOLATE.

W alter Baker & Co.’s.
German Sw eet......................
Premium.................................
Breakfast  Cocoa...................

..22
..31
..42

CLOTHES LINES.

1  00 
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz..........
1  20 
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dcz..........
1  40 
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz..........
1  60
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz..........
Cotton. 80 ft, per  doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz..............  80
Jute, 72 ft,  per  doz---- ------   95
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes..............................45
COCOA SHELLS.
|)4
301b  bags.......................... 
Less quantity................... 
3
Pound  packages.............. 
4
CREAIl  TARTAR. 
Strictly Pure, wooden boxes.  35 
Strictly.Pure,.tin boxes.........37

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co.’i 
brands.
Gail Borden  Eagle............. .7 40
Crown  — ...................................6 25
D aisy........................................... 5 75
Champion  ..............................4  50
Magnolia 
..............................4 25
.3  35
Dime

Peerless evaporated  cream .5  75

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

W orcester.

Common Qrades.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes..............1  60
Barrels,  100  3 lb bags........2  75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags........2  50
Butter, 56 lb  bags.................   65
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags............3  00
Butter, 280 lb  bbls............... 2 50
100 3 lb sacks........................... 2 60
60 5-lb sacks............................1 85
28 11-lb sacks..........................1 70
50  4  lb.  cartons..................3 25
115  2*41b. sacks......................4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks......................3 75
22 14 
lb. sacks......................3 50
30 10  lb. sacks......................3 50
'■28 lb. linen sacks..................   32
56 lb. linen sacks...................  60
Bulk in barrels.......................2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags.......  30
28-lb dairy in drill bags.......  15
56-lb dairy in iinen  sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 
60
56-lb  sacks.............................   22
Saginaw  —   ........................   85
Manistee  ...............................   85
B oxes......................................
Kegs, English........................   4?i

Solar  Rock.
Common Pine.

Ashton.
Higgins.

W arsaw .

SODA.

STARCH.
Diamond.

Klngsford's  Corn.

64 10c  packages  ..................5  00
128  5c  packages....................5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
201-lb packages.....................  6*4
40 1 lb packages.....................  6*4
Klngsford’s  Silver  (Boss.
40 1-lb packages.....................  6*4
6-lb boxes  ............................7
20-lb boxes.............................   5
40-lb  boxes.............................   4$i
1-lb  packages........................   4*4
3-lb  packages............  
4*4
6-lb  packages........................  »54
40 and 50 lb boxes................... 244
Barrels  ...........................
■SUMMER  BEVERAOES.

Common (Boss.

Common  Corn.

 

Thompson’s 
Wild  Cherry 
P h o s p h a t e  
“H u in m e r 
Case” 
c o n  
tains  3  doz. 
25c  8  oz  bot- 
1 1 e s,  $5  00. 
One  Big  Bot­
tle  Free.  24 
oz.  50c  size, 1 
doz. to a  case 
4 00.  Special 
Soda  Foun­
tain  Extract 
per gal. 12  00. 
Big  Demon­
strator 
con­
tains  15  doz. 
25c size, 1 doz 
50c size, 1 jug 
and  fixtures. 
See add. 

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. J. Johnson’s  brand

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  brands. 
American Family,  wrp’d ...3   33
American Family, plain__ 3  27

Thompson A Chute's Brand.

Scouring.

SUGAR.

VINEGAR.

Allen B.  Wrisley’s brands.

Single box
5 box lot, delivered............2  95
10 box lot, delivered.  .........2  85
25 box lot, delivered............2  75
Old Country 80  l-lb..............3 20
Good Cheer 60  l-lb............... 3  90
White Borax  100 %-lb.......... 3  65
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o z .......2  40
Sapolio, hand. 3 d o z ............ 2  40
STOVE  POLISH. 
Nickeline, small, pergro. 
4  00 
Nickeline, large,  pergro...  7 20 
TABLE  SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s,  large...... 4  75
Lea A Perrin’s, sm all...... 2  75
Halford,  large.................. 3  75
Halford sm all....................2
Salad Dressing, large......4  55
Salad Dressing, 3mall......2  65
Leroux Cider.............................10
Kobinson’s Cider, 40 grain..  .10 
Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain.  ..12
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Dom ino..................................6  12
Cut  Loaf................................ 6  12
C ubes..................................... 5  75
Powdered  .............................5  75
XXXX  Powdered.................5  87
Mould  A................................5  75
Granulated in bbls...............5 50
Granulated in  bags.............5 50
.5  50 
Fine G ranulated..............
.5  62
Extra Fine G ranulated..
Extra Course Granulated 
Diamond  Confec.  A.......
...  5  37 
Confec. Standard A__
....5   12
No.  1.............................
X n   9
No. 3............................. .......5 06
__ 5  00
4
N o
.......4  94
No.
6 ..................................... .......4  87
No.
..................... .......4  81
7 
No.
No. 8............................. .......4 75
No. 9............................. .......4  62
No. 10............................. .......4  62
No. 11............................. .  ...4  56
No. 12............................. ----  4  5o
... .4  44
No. 13.............................
No. 14............................. .......4  12
.......3  87
No.

WASHING  POWDER.

100 packages in  case.
WICKING.
No. 0, per gross..........
No. 1, per gross..........
No. 2, per gross..........
No. 3, per gross..........

Candies. 
Stick  Candy.

Standard................... 
Standard  II.  II......... 
Standard  Tw ist....... 
Cut  Loaf................... 
E xtra H. H ...............  
Boston  Cream......... 

Mixed Candy.

Standard...................
Leader  ....................
Conserve...................
R oyal.......... .............
Ribbon......................
Broken  .....................
Cut  Loaf...................
English  Rock..........
K indergarten..........
French  Cream.........
Dandy Pan...............
Valley Cream..........

Lozenges, plain.....
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops............
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops..............
Moss  Drops..............
Sour Drops...............
Im perials.................

Fancy—In Bulk.

bbls.  pails
6*4©  7*4
6*4®  7*4
6*4®  7*4
7*4®  8*4
cases
@8*4
@  8*4
'bbls.  pails
@ 7
@ 7*4
@ 8
©  8
@
@
@
@  8*4
©   9
©  9
©10
@13

Pails
@  9
@  9
12  @14
@13
©   5
©  8*4
@  8*4
@  9

Fancy—In  5  lb. Boxes.

Per Box
@50
@50
@60
@65
@75
@50
@@50
@55
@60
@60
@65
@50
@50
@90
@80
@90
@60
@@55

35
.1  00

Lemon  Drops.......
Sour  Drops..........
Peppermint Drops 
Chocolate Drops..
H. M. Choc.  Drops
Gum  Drops..........
Licorice Drops__
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
Im perials.................
M ottoes.....................
Cream  B ar...............
Molasses B a r ..........
Hand Made Creams.  80
Plain  Creams..........   60
Decorated Cream s..
String Rock..............
Burnt Almonds.......1  25
Wintergreen Berries 
Caramels. 
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  .....................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  .....................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  ...................

Fruits.
Oranges.

Fancy Navels

Fancy  Seedlings

126...............................
176-200........................
150-176-200............. :.
250-288......................
126...............................
Lemons.
Strictly choice  360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy  360s...............
E xtra 360s.................
Fancy  300s...............
Extra 300s  ...............
Bananas.

A  definite  price  is  hard  to 
name, as it varies  according  to 
size  of  bunch  and  quality  of 
fruit.
Medium  bunches... 1  25  @1  50
Large bunches........ 1  75  @2 25

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

S. C. W ........................................ »> 00
Q uin tette...................................® 0°
New  B rick................................. 35 00
Absolute..............................  35  00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Clark Grocery Co.’s brand.
Michigan Spice Co.’s brand. 

SOAP.
Laundry.

Gowans A Sons’ Brands.

C row .............................................2 85
German Fam ily........................   1 85
American  Grocer  100s........3  00
American Grocer  60s..............2 40
Mystic  W hite...........................   3 80
L o tu s ..................  
3  9c
Oak Leaf.............. 
3  00
Old Style.  .............................. 2  55
Happy Day.................................  2 85

 

JAXON

Single  b o x ........ 
.............3  25
5 box lots, delivered............3 20
10 box lots,  delivered............3 10
Lautz Bros. A  Co.’s  brands.  _
A cm e...................................... 3
Cotton  Oil...............................-5 75
Marseilles................................4 00
M aster..................................... 3 70

Henry Passolt’s brand.

Single box.....................................3 00
5 box lots, delivered...........2  95
10 box lots,  delivered...........2  85
25 box  lots, delivered...........2 75

Crackers.

Soda.

B utter.

Oyster.

TheN. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:
Seymour XXX ....................   5*4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton
n*4
Family XXX........................
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  ost
Salted XXX..........................  5*4
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton...  544 
Soda  XXX  ..........................  6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__   6*4
Soda,  City............................  7
Crystal  W afer.....................10*4
Long Island  W afers..........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Square Oyster, XXX..........   5*4
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb  carton.  6*4
Farina Oyster,  XXX..........   5*4
SWEET  GOODS— Boxes.
A nim als...............................  10*4
Bent’s Cold-Water..............  12
Belle  Rose."..........................  8
Cocoanut Taffy...................  8
Coffee Cakes........................  8
Frosted Honey.....................  11
Graham Crackers................  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  6*4 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city ...  6*4 
Gin. Snps,XXX home made  6*4 
Gin. Snps.XXXscalloped..  6*4
Ginger  V anilla...................  8
Im perials.............................   8
Jumbles,  Honey.................   11
Molasses  Cakes...................  8
Marshmallow  .....................  15
Marshmallow  Creams.......  16
Pretzels,  hand  m a d e .......  8*4
Pretzelettes, Little German  6*4
Sugar  Cake..........................  8
S ultanas...............................  12
Sears’ Lunch........................  7*4
Sears’  Zephyrette..................10
Vanilla  Square...................  8
V anilla  W afers.................   14
Pecan W afers......................   15*4

12

Figs,  Fancy  Layers
20 lbs.....................
Figs, Choice  Layers
10 lb ........................
Figs,  Naturals 
in
bags,  new ..............
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
b oxes.....................
Dates,  Fards in 60 lb
o a se s ....................
Dates,  Persians,  G.
M. K., 60 lb cases..
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  .....................
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca..........
Almonds,  California,
soft  shelled..............
Brazils new .................
Filberts  ......................
Walnuts, Gren., new .. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
C alif..........................
Table Nuts,  fancy__
Table Nuts,  choice... 
Pecans, Texas H. P ... 
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
O hio..........................
C ocoanuts,  fu ll  sacks
B utternuts  per  b u __
Black W alnuts per bu 

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Cocks............... ........
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Roasted.....................
Fancy, H. P., Associa­
tion Roasted............
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras, 
.................

Roasted 

Fish  and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
W hitefish.................
©   9
T ro u t........................
@ 
8
Black  Bass...............
@  15
15©  16
H alib u t.....................
Ciscoesor  Herring..
© 
6
Bluefish.....................
@  12*4
Live  Lobster..........
@  15
Boiled Lobster.........
@  18
C o d ............................ @  10
Haddock...................
©   8
No.  1  Pickerel........
®   9
Pike
©   8
Smoked W hite.........
Red Snapper............
@  10
@  13
Col  River  Salmon..
16©  20
Mackerel 
................
Shell  Goods.
Oysters, per  100.......... 1  25©1  50
Clams,  per  100..........
90@1  00

Oysters.

F. J.  Dettenthaler’s Brands.

Per Can.
Fairhaven  Counts__ 35©
30@
F. J.  D.  Selects.........
25©
Selects 
........................
22©
F. J.  D...........................
20@
Anchors........................
Standards....................
©
Per  Gal.
C ounts.......................... @
Extra Selects..........   ..
@
Medium  Selects.........
@
Anchor  Standards__
©
Standards...................
@1  75
Scallops  .....................
C lam s..........................
•©1  25
@1  25
Shrim ps......................
Per Can.
40©
30@
25©
22©
18©
16@
Per  Gal.
@2 00
@1  75
@1  50
@1  20
@1  10

C ounts..........................
Extra  »elects............
Plain  Selects...............
IX   L.............................
Standards  ...................
F av o rites...................
New York  Counts__
Extra  Selects............
Plain  Selects..............
1  X L Standards.-----
Standards...................

Oscar Allyn’s Brand s.

G r a i n s  a n d   F e e d s t u f f s

@30
@45

3 50 
3  50
3 00 
2 50

@2 75 
@2  75 
@3  00 
@3  25 
@3  50 
@4  00

W heat.

68

W heat..........................

....... 
W inter  W heat  Flour.

Local  Brands.

.......4  25
P a te n ts......................
.......3 75
Second  Patent..........
....  3 55
Straight......................
Clear............................ .........3 25
.......3  35
Graham 
...................
R y e ............................. .......  2 65
Subject  to  usual cash  dis-
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  *£s................ .........  3 85
Quaker,  *fs................. ........  3  85
.......3  85
Quaker, *4s................

Spring  W heat  Flour.

Olney A Judson ’s Brand.

Ceresotà,  *4».............. .........4 20
........  4  10
Ccresota,  *£s.............
........  4  00
Ceresotà,  *4s.............
Ball-Barnhart-Putm ans Brand.
........ 4  20
Grand  Republic,  !gS.
...  .  4  10
Grand Republic,  *4s.
Grand Republic, *6s. ........ 4  00
Lemon A Wheeler Co.'s  Brand.
Parisian,  *gs.  ........... .........  4 20 I
Parisian, *{s............... .........4  10
Parisian, *4s............... .........4  00
William Callam A Sons  quote
as follows, delivered in  Grand
Rapids:
\V ood........................... .......  4  00 1
10 lb. cotton sacks...

Entire W heat Flour.

........   4  00

@10 
@   6 
@  8 
@  6 
@ 5*4
©   4

@13
@
©12* © 8 
@10

@12 
©  9*4 
©   9
©

Meal.

Feed and  M lllstuffs.

B olted........................ .........  1  75
G ranulated............... .........2 00
St. Car Feed, screened__ 14  25
St. Car Feed, unscreened.. 14  00
No.  1 Com and  Oats .........13  75
.........13  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal
W inter Wheat  Bran .........12  00
W inter Wheat M iddlings.. 12  50
.........11  00
Screenings...............
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co.
quotes as follows:
Corn.
Car  lots.....................
Less than  car  lo ts..
Car  lots.....................
Less than  car  lo ts..
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ... 16  00
No. 1 Tim othÿcarlots........ 14  50
Hides  and Pelts.
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol-

........   23
.........  25

.........33*4

Oats.

lows:

@  4*4

Hides.
3  @  4
Part  cured................
Full Cured............... . . 4   ©   5
D r y .................................. 5 @ 7
Kips,  green.....................3 @ 4
Kips,  cured...................  4 @ 5
Calfskins,  green..........  4 @ 5*4
Calfskins,  cured............5 @  6*4
Deaconskins  ..............25  @30
Shearlings.................... 10 @30
L am bs...........................40 @1  00
Old  Wool....................  4y @  75

Pelts.

2 9

Crockery  and

Glassware.

LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0  Sun........................ 
45
. 
No.  1  Sun.............................  
50
75
No.  2  Sun............................. 
50
T ubular................................. 
Security, No.  1..................... 
65
Security, No. 2..................... 
85
50
Nutmeg  ............................... 
A rctic....................................  1  15
LAMP  CHIMNEYS-Common.
Per box of 6 doz. 
.................  1  85
No.  1  Sun...................
No.  2  Sun.................   .........2 80

F irst  Quality.
crimp 
0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
crimp 
crimp 
2 Sun, 

wrapped and  labeled__   2  10
wrapped and  labeled__   2  25
wrapped and  labeled__   3  25

top,
top,
top,

No. 
No. 
No. 

XXX Flint.
crimp 
crimp 
crimp 

0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
2 Sun, 

wrapped and  labeled__   2 55
wrapped and  labeled__   2 7a
wrapped and  labeled__   3  75

top,
top,
top,

No. 
No. 
No. 

CHIMNEYS,
Pearl  Top.

No.  1  Sun,  wrapped  and
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
No. 2 Hinge,  wrapped  and 

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

Fire Proof—Plain Top.

No.  1 Sun, plain bulb.........  3  40
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb........   4  40

La  Bastie.

No.  1  Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ............... » .................   1  25
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ....................................  150
No.  1 Crimp, per doz..........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.......... 1  60

Rochester.

No. 1,  Lime  (65c doz).........  3 50
No. 2,  Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4  00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........ 4  70

Electric.

Miscellaneous. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  .......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz).........4  40
Doz.
Junior,  Rochester.............. 
50
Nutmeg  ............................... 
15
Illuminator  Bases..............  1  00
Barrel  lots, 5 doz...............  
90
7 in. Porcelain Shades.......  1  00
Case lots, 12  doz................. 
90
Mammoth  Chimneys for  Store 
Lamps.  Doz.  Box 
No. 3 Rochester, lime  1  50 
4  20 
No. 3 Rochester, flint  1  75 
4  80
No. 3  Pearl 
top,  or
Jewel  glass............  1  85
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
lim e..........................  1  75
10
N o. 2 Globe Incandes.
flint  .. 
.................   2 00  5 85
No. 2 Pearl glass.......  2  10  6 00
Doz.
1  gal tin cans with  spout..  1  60
1 gal galv iron with  spout.  2 00
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  3  25
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4  50 
5 gal Eureka with spout...  6  50 
5 gal  Eureka with faucet..  7 00
5 gal galv iron A A  W .......7 50
5 gal Tilting cans,  M’n’ch  10 50 
5 gal galv iron  Nacefas__   9 00

OIL  CANS. 

Pump  Cans.

3 gal Home Rule...................10 50
5 gal  Home  Rule...................12 00
3 gal Goodenough.................10 50
5 gal Goodenough.................12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King...............   9  50

LANTERNS.

4  50 
No.  0 T ubular...................
No.  1 B  T ubular..............
6  00 
6 00 
No. 13 Tubular Dash.........
7  00
No.  lT ub.,glassfount...
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 13 00 
No.  3 Street  Lamp............  3  75

LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1  doz.
each, box 10 cents............
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2  doz.
each, box 15 cents............ 
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls  5  doz.
each,  bbl 35......................  
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1  doz.  each............

45
45
40
1  25

LAMP  WICKS.

24
No. 0 per gross............
36
No. 1 per gross..................... 
50
No. 2 per gross..................... 
No. 3 per gross..................... 
80
Mammoth per doz.............. 
75
JELLY  TUMBLERS-TIn  Top. 
*4 Pints, 6 doz  in  box,  per
box  (box  00)  ...................   1  70
34 Pints, 20 doz in  bbl,  per
doz  (bbl  35)....................... 
23
*4  Pints,  6 doz in  box, per
box (box  00).....................  1  90
*4 Pints, 18 doz  in bbl,  per 
doz (bbl  35). 
25

 

 

9  50 1
10 00
9  75
9  25
11  00

The  Grand  Rapids  Packing  i

4 Y%
4?J
6
6*4
6J4
574
5/4
/S
M
H
Yt
%
%
1
5
6
71/<2
6*4

6
5*4
5
9%
3*i
8*4
8*4
9 H
6*4
8
6*4
8*4;
10*4

and Provision Co. quotes as fol-
lows:
Barreled  Pork.
Mess  .................................
Back  .................................
Clear  back........................
S hortcut...........................
Pig......................................
Bean  ................................
Family  .............................
Dry Salt  Meats.
B ellies...............................
Briskets  ............................
Extra  shorts.....................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams,  12 lb  average  __
Hams,  14 lb  average 
...
Hams,  161b  average.......
Hams, 20 lb  average.......
Ilam dried beef  ..............
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
Bacon,  clear....................
California  ham s..............
Boneless ham s.................
Cooked  ham .....................
In Tierces.  Lards.
Compound........................
Fam ily...............................
Granger  ...........................
Musselman’s Gold  Leaf..
Worden’s  Horn  Made...
Worden's  White Clover.
Cottolene..........................
Cotosuet  ..........................
55 lb Tubs.......... advance
80 lb Tubs.......... advance
50 lb T in s .......... advance
20 lb Pails.......... advance
10 lb Pails.......... advance
5 lb Pails.......... advance
3 lb Pails.......... advance
B ologna...........................
Liver..................................
Frankfort..........................
P o rk ..................................
Blood  ...............................
Tongue  .............................
Head  cheese.....................
6
Extra  Mess...................... 7  00
Boneless  .......................... 10  00
80
Kits, 15 lbs........................
*4  bbls, 40 lbs................... 1  65
y2  bbls, 80 lbs................... 3  00
75
Kits, 15 lbs........................
*4  bbls, 40 lbs.......... ........ 1  50
*4  bbls. 80 lbs................... 2  75
25
P o rk ..................................
5
Beef  rounds.....................
7
Beef  middles...................
to
Rolls,  dairy....................
9
Solid,  dairy........ .............
Rolls,  cream ery..............
Solid,  cream ery..............
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2  lb .......... 2  00
Corned  beef, 15  lb .......... 14  00
Roast  beef,  2  lb .......... 2  00
75
Potted  ham,  *js..........
Potted  ham.  *4s.......... 1  25
75
Deviled ham,  *4s..........
Deviled ham,  *4s.......... 1  25
75
Potted  tongue *ts........
Potted  tongue *4s.......... 1  25
Fresh  Meats.

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterine.

Sausages.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Beef.

C arcass.....................  .  5 @ 7
Fore quarters..............  4 ©  5
Hind  quarters............  6 ©   8
Loins  No.  3.................   9 @10
Ribs...............................8 @12
R ounds......................   514©  6*4
4 @  5
Chucks................... 
Plates  ..........................  3 ©  3*4
Pork.

©   7*4
L o in s............................
©   6
Shoulders.....................
© 7
Leaf Lard.....................
C arcass........................6 ©  7
@10
Easter Lambs..............
C arcass........................  4 ©  5

M utton.

Veal.

Oils.

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  quotes 

Barrels.

as follows:
Eocene  ........................  @11
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 9
W  W .Michigan............  @
High Test H eadlight..  ©  7 \
D.,S. Gas......................  @9*4
Deo. N ap th a ...............   @ 8*4
C ylinder......................30  @38
Engine......................... 11  ©21
Black, w inter..............  @ 9
Black, summer............  @8*4
Eocene..........................  @ 9*4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt.  @  62£
D. S.  Gas...................... 
©  7

From Tank  Wagon.

Barrels.

Scofield,  Shurmer  A  Teagle 

quote as follows :
Palaci n e ......................   @12
Daisy  W hite...............   @11
Red Cross, W.  W........   @ 9
Water  White H dlt—   @
Family  Headlight—   ©  8
N aphtha......................   @  8*4
Stove Gasoline............  @9*4
P alacine......................   @10
©   634
Red Cross W.  W ......... 
Gasoline......................   @  7*4

From  Tank  Wagon.

MUTILATED  PAGE

T H E   M ICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

Getting  the  People

How to Write Effective Advertisements. 
W ritten for the T ea d b sm an.  Copyrighted, 1895.

Advertising  pays.
Some  advertising  pays  better 

than

some  other  advertising

The  good  of  an_advertisement  is  in 

how  it  looks  and  in  what  it  says.

Don’t  make  your  firm  name 

too 

prominent.

Advertise  what  you  have  for  sale.
If  you’re  for  sale,  advertise  yourself.
If  you  have  something  to  sell,  adver­

tise  that  something.

Have  your  name  in  type  large  enough 
for  folks  to  see  it,  but  not  so  large  they 
can’t  see  anything  else.

Don’t  put  your  name  at  top  and  bot­
is 

tom  of  the  advertisement.  Once 
enough.

If  you  can,  advertise  specifically,  not 

generally.

An  advertisement  shouldn’t  be  like  a 
It  should  say  something 

business  card. 
in  particular.

Conventional  advertisement  writing 

pays.

Progressive 

advertisement  writing 

pays better.

The  advertising  pages  of  a newspaper 
information.  They 

are  departments  of 
rise  above  mere  advertising  space.

The  newspaper  advertisement  is  as 
interest  of  the  reader  as 

in  the 

much 
for  the  advertiser.

Write  your  advertisements  as  you 
would  a  letter  of  solicitation,  with  more 
display  to 
it,  and  with  more  brevity, 
your  strong  points  being  brought  out  in 
large  type.

Don’t  ask  people  to  send  for  orders. 
That’s  under­

That’s  unnecessary. 
stood.

Tell  people  what  you  have.  Use  ar­

gument.

If  your  goods  and  your  argument  are 
your  advertisement 

then 

not  strong, 
isn’t  any  good.

In  the  quality  of  your  goods,  and 

your  ability  to  write  about  them,  is  the 
selling  strength  of  your  advertising.

M AKERS  OF

Most  Everything,

and

W hat You  Want. 

Our  Blanks  are  the  Best.

Your  Order  Solicited.

John  Blank  &  Co.

B L A N K V IL L E .

Plate  No.  1.

Plate  No.  i  presents  the  conventional 
form  of  advertisement  writing,  with  the 
firm  name  inserted  twice,  and  in  more 
prominent  type  than  that  used  for  the 
anicles  for  sale.

Plate  No.  2  presents  the  same  adver­
illustrative  of  the  simple 

tisement  as 
and  affective  modern  style.

The 

typographical  display  of  the 
second  example  gives  the  advertisment 
increased  value,  for  in  display,  almost

as  much  as  in  words,  is  effectiveness.

In  sending  advertising  copy 

to  a 
newspaper,  always  specify  the  words, 
or  lines,  you  desire  to  have  prominent. 
A  good  way  is  to  underline  the words  or 
paragraphs,  the  very  unimportant words 
not  to  be  underlined  and  one,  two  and 
three  or  four  underlines to represent,  re­
spectively,  the  degrees  of  type  sizes. 
The  meaning  of  this  underlining  will 
be  understood  by 
compositors. 
Whenever 
is  necessary  to bring  out 
one  word,  or  a  line,  in  unusually  large 
type,  it  is  well  to specify  it  with  a  note 
to  that  effect.
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It 

Plate  No.  2 

is  so  arranged  that  the 
two  strong  words  stand 
in  bold  relief, 
and  will  be  seen  by  even  the  casual 
reader.

is  always  advisable  to  bring  out 
some  word,  or  illustration,  as a  sort  of 
eye arrester,  in  order that the ski mm ing- 
over-reader  will  absorb 
it  if  he  gives 
only  a  glance  at  the  advertising  pages.
An  advertisement  must  contain  aigu- 
ment,  and  be  of  a  typographical,  or 
illustrative,  character  that  will  focus  at­
tention.

N a t h ’l   C.  F o w l e r ,  J r ., 
Doctor  of  Publicity.

Sure  Cure  for  Loafers.

A  New  Jersey  grocer  owning  a  corner 
store  was  arnoyed  continually  by  a 
number  of 
loiterers  who  used  to  con­
gregate  on  the  corner.  He  called  the 
police  to  keep  the  store  front  clear,  but 
the 
idlers  disregarded  the  bluecoats. 
The  groceryman  was  in  a  quandary  as 
to  the  best  means  of  removing the  cause 
of  his  annoyance,  but  a  bright 
idea 
struck  him.  He  went  to  a  painter  and 
had  him  make  a  sign  which  read as  fol­
lows :

: 

WANTED.

One more loafer to stand on this corner.

This  sign  he  placed  in  the  front  win­

dow,  and  he  has had  peace  since.

Sure  Indication  of  Healthfulness.
The  healthfulness  of  Lynton,  a  sum­
is  ad­

mer  resort  in  Devon,  England, 
vertised  by  this  story :

“ W ell,”   said  the  visitor,  “ you 

Recently  a  visitor  began  to  talk  to  an 
old  man  in  Lynton,  and  asked  him  his 
age,  whereupon  he  said:  “ I  am  just 
over 70. * ’
look 
as  if  you  had  a  good  many  years to  live 
yet.  At  what  age did  your  father die?”
look­
ing  surprised. 
isn’t  dead; 
he’s  upstairs  putting  grandfather  to 
bed! ’ ’ 

“ Father d ie!”   said  the  man, 

“ Father 

____  

____

A  sign  which  hangs 

in  a  Brooklyn 
shoe  store  reads:  “ Don’t  sell  shoes  too 
short  or too  tight.  Fit  your  customers.”

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To talk of many  things,
And cabbages and kings.
And whether pigs have wings—

The time has come, G. Cleveland says,
Of ships and shoes and sealing wax 
And why the sea is boiling hot 
But  we  will  leave  the  coffee  question 
to  some  one  who  knows  how 
to 
handle it.

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First will  give

GRAND  RAPIDS.

T H E   M ICHIG AN  T R A D E S M A N

M EN  O F  MARK.

Fred  H.  Olin,  Treasurer  of the  Mich­

igan  Brush  Co.

The  Treasurer  and  General  Manager 
is  of 
of  the  Michigan  Brush  Company 
Welsh  ancestry,  although  his  family  has 
been 
in  this  country  long  enough  for 
them  to  be  thoroughly  Americanized. 
He  was  born 
in  the  village  of  Harts- 
grove, 
in  Ashtabula  county,  Ohio, 
March  19,  1852.  The  first  twelve  years 
of  his  life  were  spent  on  a  farm  at  that 
place  and  in  attendance  at  the  village 
school.  The  family  then  removed  to  a 
farm  near  the  village  of  Galesburg,  in 
this  State.  He  completed  his  school 
life 
in  that  village  and  remained  at 
work  on  the  farm  until  he  attained  his 
majority.  While  his  farm  experience 
gave  him the healthy,  rugged  strength  to 
which  city  life  is  not  so  favorable,  he 
was  not  sufficiently  pleased  with 
it 
to  choose  that  avocation ;  so  he  started 
out  in  the  world  by  entering  the  employ 
of  E.  Ware,  of  Sand  Lake,  as  foreman

portions  from  the  start. 
Its  extension 
was  so  rapid  that  it  was found necessary 
to  form  a  corporation,  and the Michigan 
Brush  Co.  was  organized  in  September, 
1895.  A 
large  trade  is  already  estab­
lished,  carried  on  by  tour  regular  trav­
eling  men,  besides  a  number  handling 
the  goods  on  commission.  Agencies 
have been  established  and  the  trade  al­
ready  extends  from  New  York  to  Colo­
rado.  The present  directors  of  the  com­
pany  are  J.  B.  Ware,  Daniel  McCoy, 
Ralph  McCoy,  F.  H.  Olin  and  W.  S. 
Walker.

Mr.  Olin’s business  life  has been  too 
exacting  for  him  to  devote  much  time 
to  social  matters,  although  he  has  made 
an  exception  as  to  Masonry.  He  be­
came  a  Mason  in  1885,  being  raised 
in 
Cedar  Springs  Lodge.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  Royal  Arch  the  same  year,  enter­
ing  Lovell  More  Chapter,  of  Rockford. 
He  promptly  advanced  to  the  Templar 
degrees,  joining  De  Molai  Command- 
ery  of  this  city  the  same  year.  Since 
removing  to  Grand  Rapids  he  has  de- 
mitted  to  Valley  City  Lodge.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  Salad in  Temple  of 
the  Mystic  Shrine.

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Olin  have  a  pleasant 
home  at  1077  Jefferson  avenue.  The 
family  consists  of  one  boy and two girls.

it 

is  gradually  working 

Increasing  Consumption  of Silk.
Not  only  is  silk  gaining  rapidly 

in 
the  fields  which  are  interesting  to  wom­
en,  but 
into 
fields  which  are 
interesting  to  men  as 
well.  The  sale  of  silk  fish  lines  has  in 
the  past  three  years  grown  from  $6,000 
to $60,000,  while  the  growth  of  the  pro­
duction  of  men’s  silk  linings,  hosiery, 
underwear  and  gloves  would  be  a  reve­
lation  if  we  could  estimate  it.  We  are

31

l6ti  Please

a r e   M A N U F A C T U R E D   b y   t h e

MICHIGAN  BRUSH  COMPANY,

On account of their durability.

We  use  only  best  materials  and  guarantee all 

our products.  Send  for Catalogue.

Michigan  Brush  Qo.

GR AN D   RAPIDS.

HEADACHE..........
H f c i C ' K   O   .............POWDERS
Pay the Best Profit.  Order from your Jobber

growth 
in  the  silk  industry,  were  with­
out  the  ennobling,  as  well  as  the  elevat­
ing  and  luxurious  influence.  What fab­
ric  or  article  can  be  used 
in  such  a 
great  variety  of  ways  or  arranged  so 
artistically?  Silk  materials  for  decora­
tive  purposes  are  now  indispensable.

Proper  Wrapping Paper.

The  city  of  Montpelier,  France,  is, 
probably,  the  first  to  regulate  the  kind 
of  wrapping  paper  that  articles  of  food 
shall  be  delivered 
in.  Colored  paper 
is  absolutely  forbidden.  Printed  paper 
and  old  manuscripts  may  only  be  used 
for  dried  vegetables.  For  all  other  ar­
ticles  of  food  new  paper,  either  white 
or  straw-color,  must  be  used.

The  dealer  who  manages  to  keep  the 
busiest  the  most  days  in  the  year  is  the 
one  that  usually  makes  the  most  money 
and 
incidentally  gets  the  most  out  of 
life.  Try  to  have  such  a  variety  of 
stocks  that  something  will  always  be  in 
season,  no  matter  what  time  of  year 
it 
is  or  what  kind  of  weather  comes.

Laziness  begins  the 

quality  which

negligence  completes.
The  -  B est  -  Seller  -  in  -  the  =  H arket
Half P int........................... *  25
P in t.................................... 
50
Q uart..................................  
75
Half  Gallon......................  1  10
Gallon. 
..'........................  2 00
A  Combined  Cleaner,  Polish 
The Only One.

and  Disinfectant.

Retail Prices:

Sample  (f4  pint  can)  and 
prices sent tQdealers free on 
receipt of business card and 
20  c e n t s   postage.  S ee 
wholesale  quotations 
in 
Grocery Price Current.

W.  F.  Henderson  &  Co.,
2952  Cottage Grove  Are.,  CHICAGO.

Sole  M anufacturers,

GRAND  RAPIDS 
BRUSH  CO........

..¡eld.  While  a  tew  years ago decorative 
silks  were  observed  only  in  the  man­
sions  occupied  by  the extremely wealthy 
class,  the  then  expensive 
luxury  has 
now found its way into many thousands of 
homes  of  well-to-do  people,  which  are 
this  respect

:rs of

BRUSHES

Our goods are sold by all  Michigan Jobbing Houses. 

____ ^

JO B B E R   O P

Paints, Oils, Brustißs, 
Varnisties, etc.

Plate  and^Window  Glass.

Grand  Rapids.

sweet  music,  are  successful  in  drawing 
out  one’s  better  and  broader  ideas,  and 
in  cultivating  a  love  for  humanity 
in 
those  who,  prior  to  the  phenomenal

I   T h e y   all  say F

‘It’s  as  good  as  Sapolio,”  when  they  try  to  sell  you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell  ^  
you  that  they  are  only  trying  to  get  you  to  aid  their  ^
new  article. 
—g

W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

Is  it  not  the 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and  judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers  to your stores whose  ^  
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for  other  articles.

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of  his 
lumber  yard  and  planing  mill 
business  at  that  place.  Mr.  Olin  re­
mained  in  this  position  about five years, 
when  he  purchased  a  half  interest in  the 
business,  becoming  the  junior  partner 
in  the  firm  of  Ware  &  Olin.

About  the  time  of  thus  commencing 
business  for himself,  Mr.  Ware  formed 
another  partnership,  by  marrying  Miss 
Mary  A.  Hannibal,  of  this  city.

The  lumber  and  planing mill business 
in  a  prosperous  condition 
continued 
it 
until  it  was  found  necessary  to  close 
up  on  account  of  the  exhaustion  of  the 
lumber  supply,  which  was  done in  1886. 
This  made  the  prospects  of  the  town 
insufficient  for  a  man  of  business  am­
bition,  so  Mr.  Olin  removed  to  Grand 
Rapids.

Soon  after  his  removal  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Planing 
Mill  Co.  as  superintendent,  remaining 
in  this  position  until  1891.  He  then 
took  an  opportunity  of  getting  experi­
ence as a  salesman  by going  on  the  road 
and  selling  window  and  door screens 
for  the  manufacturing  firm  of  E.  T. 
Burrowes  &  Co.,  Portland,  Me.  After 
a  year  of  this  work  he began  to  look 
about  for a  more  promising  business.

In  April,  1893,  Mr.  Olin  formed  a 
partnership with  E.  J.  Ware,  of this city, 
for  the  manufacture  of  brushes  under 
the  firm  name  of  Ware  &  Olin.  The 
new  business  assumed considerable  pro

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32

RUSSIA  AND  CHINA.

The  approaching  coronation  of  the 
Czar  of  Russia  promises  to  bring  to­
gether  some  very  remarkable  men  from 
all  parts  of  the  world  as  representatives 
of  their  respective  nationalities,  but 
probably  the  most  conspicuous  figure 
in  the  gatheirng  will  be  old  Li  Hung 
Chang, 
statesman.  Li 
Hung  Chang  is  a  very  old  man,  but  his 
ability  as  a  shrewd  diplomat  and  man 
that  he 
of  affairs 
represent 
should  have  been  sent  to 
China  at  the  coronation  ceremonies 
is 
significant.

is  admitted,  and 

the  Chinese 

It  will  be  remembered  that  recently 
it  was  semi-officially  announced  that 
China  had  entered 
into  an  agreement 
with  Russia  which  practically  amounts 
to  an  offensive  and  defensive  alliance. 
According  to  the  reported  terms  of  this 
treaty  Russia  is  to  have  the  use  of  Port 
Arthur  and  other  Chinese  seaports.  She 
is  also  to  have  the  right  to occupy  such 
portions  of  Manchuria  as  she  may  de­
sire  and  to  extend  her  Siberian  railroad 
to  whatever  point  on  the  coast  may  be 
deemed  expedient.  In  return  Russia 
is 
to  aid  China  to  fight  her  enemies  and 
to  furnish  officers  to  instruct  and  com­
mand  the  Chinese  armies.

At  the  present  moment  Russia  ac­
tually  controls  affairs 
in  Corea.  After 
forcing  Japan  to  evacuate  the  country, 
through  the  combined  pressure  brought 
to  bear  by  herself,  France  and  Ger­
many,  Russia  has  practically taken  pos­
session  of  the  leading  Corean  ports  and 
the  person  of  the  King.  Corea  has, 
therefore,  become  practically  a  Russian 
protectorate.

in 

importance 

in  the  matter, 

Although  Great  Britain  has  made  no 
it-  is  clear that 
move 
Russia’s  growing 
the 
shaping  of  events  in  the  Far  East  can­
not  but  be  displeasing  to  the  foreign 
In  Japan  the  course 
office  in  London. 
of  Russia  is  also  the  cause  of  much 
ir­
ritation,  and 
in  which  the 
Japanese  are  increasing  the size  of  their 
army and  hurrying  the  construction  of  a 
large  navy  proves  that  Japanese  states­
men  regard  a  conflict  with  Russia  as 
ultimately  inevitable.

the  way 

Despite  the  poor  showing  made  by 
the  Chinese  in the  war with Japan,  there 
can  be  no  denying  that,  with  the  assist­
ance  of  Russia,  China  would  become  a 
formidable  foe,  and  her armies,  officered 
by  Russians,  would  furnish  much  bet­
ter  fighting  material  than  the  history  of 
the 
late  war  would  appear  to  justify 
in  the  opinion  of  students  of  the  events 
which  then  took  place.  A  combination 
between  Russia  and  China  will  certain­
ly  prove  disquieting  to  the  Western 
Powers,  and  must eventually  produce an 
upheaval.

PRO D UCE  M ARKET.

Apples—So  scarce  as  to  be practically 

out  of  market.

Beans—Without  material  change.
Butter— The  market  during  the  past 
few  days  has  been  marked  by  a  rapid 
and  unprecedented  decline,  considering 
the  season  of  the  year,  the  average  of 
values being  fully  2C  below  the  prices 
prevailing  a  week  ago.  Fancy  roll  com­
mands  I3@i4c  and  fair  to  choice  dairy 
commands  i i @ I2 c.  Factory  creamery 
is  dull  and  slow  sale  at  17c.

Cabbage— 5o@6oc  per  doz.  for  home 
grown.  Florida  stock  has  declined  to 
$3  per  crate  of  about  4  dozen  heads.

Celery—Out  of  market  just  at  pres­
in 

ent.  Fresh  supplies  are  expected 
about  a  week.

Cheese— Trade  during  the  week  has 
been  very  dull,  but  we  note  no  changes 
in  quotations.  New  goods  are  begin­
ning  to  arrive,  but  they  are  unfit  for 
consumption  and  do  not 
influence  the 
market  for  old  stock  to  any  appreciable 
extent.

Cider— I5@i8c  per  gal.  ;  Crabapple, 

20c.

in 
per bu.

Cranberries— Jerseys  in  boxes  are  still 
limited  demand  and  supply  at $2 
Eggs— Instead  of  advancing  J4c,  as 
predicted  last  week,  the  price  went  off 
y2c  and  the  market 
is  now  steady  at 
ioc.  The  slump 
in  the  market  East 
was  the  cause  of  the  downward  tend­
ency.

Green Onions— I2j^c per doz.  bunches.
Honey— Dealers  ask  I5@i6c  for  white 

clover,  I3@I4C  for  dark  buckwheat.

Lettuce— io@i2c  per  lb.
Maple  Sugar—Fancy  commands  10c 

per  lb.  Fair  to  choice  brings  6@8c.

Maple  Syrup—6o@8oc  per  gallon,  ac­

cording  to  grade  and  quality.

Onions— Home  grown  are  in  fair  de­
mand  and  ample  supply,  commanding 
25<&30C  Per  bu.  Bermudas  command 
$2.50  per  crate.
commands 

Pieplant— Illinois 

stock 

2j^c  per  lb.

Pop  Corn— Rice,  3c  per  lb.
Potatoes— No  hope  for  old  stock.
Radishes—30c  per  doz.  bunches.
Seeds—Clover  command  $4.90©$  for 
Mammoth,  §4.75@4.85 
for  Medium, 
$4.75  for  Alsykev  $3.25@3.40  for  Crim­
Timothy 
son  and  $5.50  for  Alfalfa. 
to 
commands  $1.55^1.65 
strictly  prime 
for 
choice.

for  prime 
$ i . 7 5 @ i . 8o 

Spinach— 50c  per  bu.
Strawberries—$3 per  crate  of  24  pints, 

and 

Mississippi  stock.

Tomatoes—$5@6 per  6  basket  crate  of 

Vegetable  Oysters— 20c  per 

doz. 

Florida  stock.

bunches.

Tit  for  Tat.

Kosciusko  Murphy,  who 

is  a  book­
keeper  in  a  grocery  store,  met  a  friend 
who  clerks 
in  a  cigar  store  and  asked 
him  for  a  cigar.

‘ ‘ A in ’t  got  any,”   said  his  friend.
‘ ‘ A in’t  got  any?”   said  Kosciusko. 
‘ ‘ Why,  when  I  used  to  work  in  a  cigar 
store  I  always  had  my  pockets  sutffed 
with  cigars. ”

“ Yes;  probably  that’s  the  reason  you 
ain’t  in  the  cigar  store  now,”   was  the 
crushing  reply.

The  Pilgrim—Easter  Number.

Will  be  ready  the  early  part  of  April. 
Everything  in  it  will  be  new  and  orig­
inal. 
It  will  contain  articles  by  Capt. 
Chas.  King,  U.  S.  A.,  Ex-Gov.  Geo. 
W.  Peck,  of  Wisconsin,  and  other noted 
writers.  An  entertaining  number,  vzell 
illustrated.  Send  ten  (10)  cents to  Geo. 
H.  Heafford,  publisher,  415  Old  Colony 
Building,  Chicago,  111.,  for  a  copy.

is,  also,  the 

Albion— The  Gale  Manufacturing  Co. 
writes  the  Tradesman  that  it  entertains 
none  but  the  kindliest  feelings  toward 
its  moulders  and  greatly  regrets  that 
they  did  not  come  and  state  their  case 
before  they  organized.  The  workmen 
are  peaceable  and  very  orderly  and  the 
company  does  not  wish  to 
increase 
their  hardships  o r ‘ ‘ freeze  them  out.”  
intention  of  the  com­
It 
pany,  so  far  as  possible,  to  procure 
its 
in  Albion  during  the  shut­
castings 
down,  which  will  probably 
last  until 
August  1,and  it  will  only  send  away  for 
such  as  the  other  local  foundries  are  not 
prepared  to  furnish.  The  closing  of  the 
foundry  was  not  intended  as  a  lock-out, 
labor  often  causes 
but 
trouble,  and  we,  not  knowing 
their 
object,  were  uncertain  as  to  their  plans, 
we manufactured enough iron castings  to 
practically  run  us  through  this  season, 
and  then,  when  this  was  done,  we  shut 
down  the  foundry. ”   The  company  will 
not  at  any  time  treat  with  its  moulders 
except  as  individuals,  and  hopes  for  an 
amicable  settlement,  but  in  these  close 
times  must  remain  in  command  of  its 
business,  always  conceding  to  any  the 
right  to  leave  its  employ  whenever  they 
choose  to  do  so.

‘ ‘ as  organized 

WANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisem ents  will  be  inserted  under this 
head  for tw o  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion 
and  one  cent  a  word  for  each  subsequent  in­
sertion.  No advertisem ents taken for less than 
»5 cents.  Advance paym ent.________________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

___________21

r p o  EXCHANGE—FARM OF 140 ACRES, FIVE 
X   miles northeast  of  Jackson,  Michigan,  liJ5 
acres  improved,  all  good  land,  brick  house, 
large  basement  barn,  horse  barn  and  other 
buildings, well and windmill, large orchard and 
plenty of small fruits, for  stock of goods.  Will 
take dry goods, hardware or general stock.  For 
further  information  address  or  call  on  L.  C.
Townsend, owner, Jackson, Mich._________ 20
q n o  EXCHANGE—3 STORY BRICK BUSINESS 
JL  block in city of Lansing  for  a  good  paying 
business in town of 3,000  or 5,000.  Address  Box 
79, Lansing, Mich. 
n p o  EXCHANGE—AN IMPROVED  FARM  OF 
X   200 acres for  a  stock  of  merchandise.  Ad­
dress Lock Box 44, Newaygo,  Mich.________ 18

Ip OR  SALE—CONFECTIONERY,  FRUIT, 

cigar and tobacco  business,  good  soda  ap­
paratus and ice cream parlor;  the leading place; 
location the  best;  good  trade;  six  years  estab­
lished ;  population 8,5  0.  Investigate this.  Ad­
dress No.  IS, care  Michigan Tradesman. 

stock of  drugs  and  stationery;  only  stock 
in  town;  good  town;  schoo's  No.  1;  farming 
and lumbering.  Reason for selling, poor health. 
Address No. 12, care Michigan Tradesman.  12

I’  pOR SALE OR EXCHANGE -A  GOOD FRESH 
IpOR  SALE—FIRST-CLASS  RESTAURANT;

best location  in  the  city  of  Owosso;  terms 
reasonable.  Address  A.  A.  Tillman,  Owosso, 
Mich. 
TpOR SALE—DRUG  STOCK  AND  FIXTURES 
U  
in Indiana town,  doing  a  paying  business. 
Will  sell  cheap.  Value, $1,000.  Don’t  answer 
this  advertisement  unless  you  mean  business. 
Chas.  Maston, Benton, Ind. 

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Association Matters

Michigan  Hardware  Association

President, F .  S. C a r l e t o n ,  Calumet;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  H e n r y  C.  W e b e r ,  Detroit:  Secretary- 
Treasurer, He n r y C.  Min n ie,  Eaton  Rapids.
Northern Mich. Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. F. T atm an, Clare ;  Secretary,  E. A. 
Sto w e,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  W is l e k , 
Mancelona.
Next Meeting—At Grand Rapids,  Aug.  4  and  5, 
1896.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association 
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer, C.  A.  Ham mond.
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  T hos.  T.  B a t e s ;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

President,  E. C.  Win c h e s t e r :  Secretary, Hom er 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L eh m an.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall, 
over E. J.  Herrick’s  store.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  W h ip p l e ; Secretary, G. T. C am p­

b e l l ;  Treasurer,  W. E.  C o l lin s.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,B yr o n C.  H i l l ; Secretary, W.  II.  Por­

t e r ;  Treasurer, J. F.  H el m e r.

Alpena Business Men’s Association

President,  F.  W.  G il c h r is t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P a r t r id g e.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  F.  B.  J o h n so n;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

D a r l in g ;  Treasurer, L .  A.  G il k e y .

Duplicali

Cl  RAND  OPPORTUNITY  IN  THE  COPPER 

X  Country.  My stock of general merchandise 
for sale.  Reasons  for  selling  made  known  to 
buyer.  Address  T.  Wills,  Jr.,  Agt.,  Calumet, 
Houghton County,  Mich. 

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store in Muskegon.  Will sell at  a  bargain, 
cash or tim e, at about $1,500 if  sold  at  once.  I. 
F.  Hopkins,  Muskegon,  Mich. 

Dr u g   s t o c k   f o r   s a l e —b e s t   p a y in g
PARTNER WANTED—TO TAKE  ONE-HALF 

interest in paying hardware business.  Good 
town in good farming country.  No competition. 
This is an opportunity  seldom  found.  Address 
for  particulars.  Hardware, 
care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

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■ ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  GOOD  GRAND 

Rapids estate for  stocks  of  merchandise. 
Address No. 969, care Michigan Tradesman.-  969

WTe carry  in  stock  the  following 
lines of Duplicating Sales  Books, 
manufactured  by 
the  Carter- 
Crume Co.:

J   Pads
Acme Gash  Sales  Book 
Nine Inch  Duplicating  Book 
Twelve  Inch  Duplicating  Book

We  buy  these  goods  in  
large 
quantities  and  are  able  to  sell 
them  at  factory  prices.  Corres­
pondence solicited.

LTD.

Established 1780.

Dorchester,  M ass.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,
Waiter  Baker  & Co.,
PURE, HIGH G B *
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

Largest  M anufacturers  of

The Oldest and 

AND

on  this  Continent.

No  Chem icals  are  used  in 
th eir m anufactures.
Their  B reakfast  Cocoa  is absolutely pure, 
delicious,  nutritious,  and costs less than one 
cent a   cup.
Their  Prem ium   No.  1  Chocolate  is  the 
best plain chocolate in th e m arket for family 
use.
Their German  Sw eet  Chocolate  is  good to 
eat and good to drink.  It  is  palatable,  nutri­
tious  and  healthful;  a   great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers  should  ask  for  and  be  sure  that 

they get the genuine
W alter  Baker  &   Co.’s

goods, made at

D o r c h e s t e r ,  M a s s .

DO  YOU  USE

STEfJCfLS

Get our prices—will save you $$$

DETROIT  RUBBER  STAMP  CO.,

99 Griswold St., Detroit.

FIRST-CLASS  HARDWARE 
and implement  business in  thriving  village 
in good farming community.  Address Brown & 
Sebler, Grand Rapids,  Mich. 

881

MISCELLANEOUS.

W ANTED— 6  OR  8  FOOT  SHOW  CASE, 

cheap.  Address,  C.  H.  Howd,  Baldwin, 

Mich. 

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Address C. A., care  Michigan Tradesman. 

enced lady book-keeper.  Good references. 

WANTED—POSITION  BY  AN  EXPERI- 
W ANTED—FURNITURE  SALESMAN  TO 
carry a  good  selling  side  line;  sell  from 
photographs.  Address  C.  L.  Bothwell,  Lima, 
Ind. 
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W ANTED—TO  SELL  THE  BtST  PATENT 
in  the United States to make money out of. 
Will sell one-half interest  or  all.  Address  Box 
_____4
1121, Traverse Ci y, Mich. 
elALESMAN—W A N T E D   EXPERIENCED

z  salesman  to  sell  our  high-grade  lubricating 
oils and greases.  Liberal and satisfactory terms 
will be made with a competent  man.  Equitable 
Refining Co., Cleveland. Ohio,
w ANTED.  BY  APRIL 1—A LINE OF GOODS 
»  » 
for Lower  Michigan  or  Upper  Peninsula; 
last six years in  Upper  Peninsula;  the  highest 
reference to character and ability.  Address No. 
970
970, care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SHIP- 
pers of butter and eggs  and  other  season 
able produce.  R.  Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit.
951
WANTED-SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN 
DO YOU WANT

tral  mileage  books  Address,  stating 
price, Vindex, care Michigan Tradesman.  869

A  man  that  will  take  that  extra 
worry or burden  from  you?  One 
who  will  do  it  honestly  abd  is 
competent to attend to buying and 
knows values in dry goods, cloth­
ing,  millinery;  am  a  worker, if 
you  employ  me  you  will  find  it 
out.  W rite

jPl  I X T i d n i g a n .  M a n  

Tradesman Co.

