Volume XIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  29,1896.

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The  Metric  System  vs. Confusion. 

W ritten fo r th e T radesman.

in  1866, 

In  a  previous  article  discussing  the 
prospects  and  results  of  a certain reform 
in  commercial  methods  recognized  by 
congressional  action 
it  was 
treated  from  the  standpoint  of  one  who 
naturally  enquires,  “ Where  are  we  at?”  
The  writer  entertains  no  hostile  feeling 
towards  the  new  system  because  of  its 
being  an  exotic,  but,  on the contrary,  fa­
vors  it  as  a  decided  improvement  over 
the  exasperating  methods  now 
in  use. 
No  attempt  was  made  to be  logical  or 
connected  in  treating  the subject,  which 
has  many  points  of  view  outside  of 
those  that  are  economic  and  useful. 
It 
was,  in  short,  an  offhand  way  of  ex­
pressing  what  might  be  the  average 
thought  of  the  public,  if  once  wakened 
up  to  consider  it  in  the  light  of  an  ac­
complished  fact, 
to  be  enforced  by 
National  statute  upon  every  transaction 
in  the  remotest  corner  of  the  land.

of 

enlightening 

In  harmony  with  thousands  who  stand 
ready  to  welcome  any  policy that  makes 
for  true  progress,  even  though 
it  tears 
down  old  and  venerated  customs  and 
makes 
it  necessary  to  remove  much 
“ rubbish,”   the  writer believes  that  the 
hope  of  early  success 
lies  mainly  in 
the  way  by  the  practical 
preparing 
pioneer  work 
the 
masses.  All  will  admit  that  this  has 
not  been  done  to  any  great  extent  up  to 
the  present.  You  may  ask  the  first  500 
persons  you  meet,  including  profession­
al  and  business  men,  what  they think of 
the  metric  system  as  compared  with  the 
crude  methods 
in  use,  and  very  few 
will  give  you  a definite  reply.  The  ma­
jority  will  even  require  some  explana­
tion  before  understanding  the  question.
It 
is  not  because  they  do  not  care  or 
are  wedded  to  precedent.  But  the  bold 
fact  stares  us  in  the  face  that  there  has 
not  been,  in  the  last  thirty  years  since 
the  reform  was  introduced,  any  general 
organized  effort  made  to  attract  public 
attention  to 
its  details  or  its  merits. 
Can  we  then  wonder  at  the  ignorance 
acknowledged  by  a  certain  representa­
tive  in  a  speech  made  in  opposition  to 
the  law  lately  passed  by  a  bare  major­
ity,  and  afterwards  reconsidered  and re­
committed?

its  advocates 

As  the  chief  arguments  in  favor of the 
metric  system  are  advanced  to  business 
men,  and  as 
insist  so 
strongly  on  the  economic  advantages 
accruing  to  every  individual  of  the  70,- 
000,000 of  American  people,  one  might 
naturally  expect  them  to  use  business 
methods  to  attain  the  desired end.  They 
surely  cannot  attribute  the  slow progress 
of  this  reform  to  opposition  on  the  part 
of  any  considerable  number,  unless  the 
inertia  caused  by  want  of  knowledge 
may  be  so  called. 
It  is  safe  to  say  that 
not  5  per  cent,  of  our  whole  population 
have  been  approached,  either by speech 
or  in  print,with  an  intelligent,practical 
the  subject. 
proposition 
The  question  is  to  nine-tenths  as 
little 
known  and  as  comparatively  unimpor­
tant  as  that  of  the  balance  of  power 
in 
Europe.

concerning 

So  far  as  now  appears,  this system has 
been  kept  as  a  pet,  carefully  guarded 
i by  chemists,  scientists  and  men  of  high |

instead  of  being 

professional  standing  beyond  the  reach 
of  the  common  people.  True,  some 
articles  and  editorial  comments  in  drug 
or  scientific 
journals  are  occasionally 
printed  for  a  special  class,  and  perhaps 
now  and  then  in  the  general  press  may 
he  found  morsels  of  news  partially  sug­
gestive  of  information.  They  are,  how­
ever,  of 
little  use  to  the  multitude. 
Would  it  not  be  more  practical  to  pur­
sue  the  course  adopted  with  other  re­
forms  of  a  political,  moral  or  economic 
nature?  A  campaign  of  education  has 
been  usually  considered  the  logical  pre­
liminary  to 
legislation,  except  within 
the  last  few  years.  The  most  valuable 
and  enduring  policies  that ever  contrib­
uted  to  National  prosperity  were  built 
upon  the  foundation  of  intelligent popu­
lar  consent, 
thrown 
over  the  people  after  the  Napoleonic 
style  of  originating  and  establishing 
measures  affecting  the  general  welfare. 
This  very  system  was  once  imposed  on 
France by  his  authority  as  dictator  and 
guardian  of  her  interests.  The  people 
had  no  choice  in  the  matter  but  sub­
mitted  by  virtue  of  necessity,  and  as 
soon  as  the  pressure  was  removed  by 
the  allied  armies,  they  restored  the  old 
system ;  not  because  of  merit  in  the  lat­
ter,  we  may  justly  conclude, 
for  they 
adopted  later  the  one  so  arbitrarily  en­
forced,  but  because  its  value  had  after­
ward  become  better  understood  and they 
were  given  freedom  of  choice. 
It  is 
surely  not  in  harmony  with  Republican 
precedent  to  adopt  Napoleonic  methods 
here  where  the  masses  have  intelligence 
of  a  higher grade  than  that  of  European 
peasants,  and  where  every  household 
is 
in  close  connection  with  the  omnipres­
ent  press,  and  every  one  can  be  rea­
soned  with  as  they  are  concerning  other 
policies  deemed  necessary  to  the  gen­
eral  good.

It  may  be  noticed,  in  the  editorial 
discussion  containing  a  kindly  criti­
cism  of  my  article,  that  there 
is  one 
special  point,  at 
least,  where  the  new 
system  meets  serious  difficulty.  This 
partly  justifies  my  treatment  of  the  sub­
ject,  particularly  as  to  the  last  para­
graph.  The  proposed  law  tacitly  admits 
the  fact,  and  proceeds  to  overcome  the 
land  measure  obstacle  by  going  around 
it,  which  all  will  agree  is  a  wise  con­
clusion.

As  one  who  is  confronted  daily  by  a 
vexatious  compound  system  of  weights 
and  measures,  the  simple  terms  of  the 
proposed  method  offer  advantages  that 
cannot  be  realized  too  soon  for  his satis­
faction.  The  decimal  part 
is  in  har­
mony  with  National usage. 
If  the  units 
can  be  expressed  in  language  as  plain 
and  easily  spoken  or  written  as  are  coin 
decimals,  the  whole  system  can  be  nat­
uralized  in  as  short  a  time  as  a  foreign­
er 
in  his  own  person  is  allowed  to  he. 
As  Horace  Greeley  said  of  the  plan  of 
resumption,  “ The  only  way  to  resume 
is  to  resume.”   Yet  it  took  much  prep­
aration  and  earnest  effort,  even  then,  to 
“ get  there”   on  time. 
It  is  possible  to 
reach  an  equally  happ.y  conclusion  with 
the  metric  system;  but  there  must  be 
more  hustling  done  among  those  who 
are  expected  to  use  it,  if  we  desire  to 
come  in  together  under  the  wire  of  suc­
cess  at  the  time  set  for  the  adoption  of 
this  method.

S.  P. Whitmarsh.

Unique  Order  for  a  Bonnet.

When  a  woman  buys  a  bonnet  she 
wants  the  fun  of  trying  on  all  the  mil­
linery  in  the  house  before  she  makes  a 
selection.  This 
is  merely  by  way  of  a 
treat,  as  she  knows  quite  well  what  she 
wants  and  can  order  a  bonnet  by  mail 
if  she  desires.  Of  course,  there  are  cer­
tain  directions  she  wishes  to  give  on  an 
occasion  when  she  does  not  personally 
inspect  the  article,  but  they  are few and 
simple.  A  store  in  Detroit,  which  has 
a  customer  who  lives  afar  from  the 
places  where  artificial  roses  blow,  but 
who  wishes  a  bonnet,  has  received  the 
following  letter  of 
instruction:  “ Ma- 
zure  of  head  from  ear  to  ear  over  top  of 
inches;  from  ear  to  ear 
the  head,  12 
inches;  from  fore­
under  my  chin, 
head  to  back  hare,  7  inches. 
I  want 
black 
lase  bonnet  with  streamers  and 
rozetts  of  red  or  yallow  sating  ribbon, 
an’  would  like  a  bunch  of  pink  Roses 
or  a  blue  plume  behind  with  a  black 
jett  buckel,  if  artifishels  is  still  all  the 
go  I  want  a  bunch  of  grapes  or  a  bird’s 
tale  somewhares. 
I  do  not  dezire  any­
thing  too  fansy  but  if  you  think  a  '■ eath 
of  pansies  would  look  good  you  may put 
one  on. 
I  have  some  good  pink  ribbon 
here  at  home,  so  you  need  not  put  on 
strings.”
“The  Michigan  branch  of  the  Bell T el­
ephone  Co.  has  constructed  thousands 
of  miles  of  telephone  line  in  the  State 
at  the  people’s  expense—and  still  owns 
is 
the  system.  Now  that  competition 
becoming  formidable,  the  monopoly 
is 
rapidly  constructing  new  lines 
in  all 
parts  of  the  State  at  its  own  expense, 
depending  solely  on  long-time  contracts 
for  service.  The  Tradesman  warns 
its 
readers  not  to  place  too  much  confi­
dence  in  the  perpetuity  of  the  Bell  mo­
nopoly. 
Its  days  are  numbered.  Hun­
dreds  of  Bell  telephones  will  go  out  of 
service 
in  Grand  Rapids  between  now 
and  July  1,  and  the  country  merchant 
who 
imagines  he  will  he  able  to  talk 
with  any  considerable  number  of  Grand 
Rapids  wholesale  houses  through  Bell 
•phones  three  months  hence  will  find 
himself  grievously  disappointed.  Grand 
Rapids  people  have  organized  a  tele­
phone  company  of  their  own,  with 
larger  poles,  double  the  wire,  better 
phones  and  better  switchboards  than  the 
Bell  combination  has  ever  had,  and, 
from present  indications,  the  competing 
systems  friendly  to  the  Citizens  Com­
pany  will  soon  present  a  much  larger 
array  of  outside  connections  than  the 
Bell  exchange  has  ever  had  or  ever  will 
have.

After  an  existence  of  less  than  six 
months  the  French  ministry  has  come 
to  an  end  on  account  of  the  Senate  re­
fusing  to  appropriate  means  to  continue 
the  military  occupation  of  Madagascar. 
These  changes  in  the  ministry  have  be­
come  so  frequent  that  they  excite 
little 
comment  except  that  recently  they  show 
a  tendency  to  a  change  in  the  presi­
intimations 
dency  as  well.  There  are 
that  such  may  be  the  case 
in  this 
in­
stance.

A  Georgia  farmer,  while  digging  in 
his  field  the  other  day,  unearthed  a  box 
coins  of 
containing  nineteen 
French  and  Spanish  coinage. 
They 
bore  dates  of  the  early  half  of  the  pres­
ent  century.

silver 

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

FIRE  IN  DRUG  STO RES.

Precautionary  Measures  Which  Deal­

ers  Should  Adopt.

A   drug  store  was  recently  destroyed 
by  fire  which  originated 
in  a  natural 
but  unusual  manner.  A  loosely  covered 
can  containing  water  and  several 
laige 
sticks  of  phosphorus  had  gradually 
rusted  until  a  hole  was  opened  and  the 
water  gradually  leaked  out  and  evapo­
rated.  The  phosphorus,  thus  exposed 
to  the  warm  atmosphere,  ignited during 
the  night,  and,  as  no  person  was  pres­
ent,  the  flames  spread  over  the  shelves 
and  other 
inflammable  material  and 
gained  good  headway  before  being  dis­
covered.
We  once  read  of  a  country  druggist 
who  had  sold  gunpowder  at  retail  by 
lamplight  for  over  twenty  years  and 
never  found  fault  when  customers  or 
loungers  leaned  against  the  counter and 
smoked  while  he  poured  it  out.  One 
night  in  the  twenty-first  year,  however, 
there  came  a—whish !—bang !—boom !— 
three  men  killed—no  more  powder  -no 
more  drug  store—no 
insurance.  Many 
druggists  carry  on  business  for  years 
without consideration of fire precautions, 
but  they, 
like  our  rural  friend,  are 
liable  to  be  suddenly  called  down.

it 

is  the 

The  causes  from  which  fires  can  oc­
cur  in  drug  stores  are  numerous;  and, 
in  most  cases,  the  origin  is  difficult  to 
determine,  since 
interest  of 
those  at  fault  to  suppress all  evidence. 
Few  fires  have  occurred  which  might 
not  have  beeu  prevented  by  exercise  of 
common  prudence,  and  many  such  ca­
lamities  are  attributed  to  “ accident”  
when  they  really  result  from  the  lazi­
ness  or  recklessness of  an  employe,  or 
lack  of  vigilance  on  the  part  of  the pro­
prietor.
Matches  are,  as  everybody  knows,  es­
pecially  designed  to  start  combustion, 
and  their  use  and  storage  must  there­
fore  be  subject  to  careful  restrictions. 
Don’t  allow  them  to  lie  around 
loosely 
or  in  paper  boxes.  They  should  be  pro­
tected  by  closed  metal  safes,  out  of  the 
reach  of  rats  and 
juve­
niles.  Receptacles  should  be  provided 
for burned  matches;  throwing  these  up­
on  the  floor 
is  a  phase  of  carelessness 
to  be  discouraged.  Matches  should  not 
be  kept  in  the  pockets  of  shop  coats  or 
overalls,  where  they  may  be  ignited  by 
friction  against  each  other  or  by  rats. 
When  a  match  accidentally  falls  upon 
the  floor  in  a  cellar  or store-room,  never 
leave 
it  there  to  be  stepped  upon  and 
cause  conflagration.

investigative 

Gas-jets  present  a  constant  menace. 
Wall  brackets  of  gas-pipe  should  not  be 
placed  near  to,  or  underneath,  sections 
of  shelving,  as  paper  parcels  on  shelves 
above  them  may  be  left  protruding  and 
become  ignited  by  heat  from  the  flame. 
When  pressure  is  increased  by  turning 
off  other  burners  in  the  same  building, 
or  at  the  gasworks,  the  flame  from  a 
gas-jet  will  frequently  leap  one  or  two 
feet  into  the  air,  and  perhaps  reach  a 
wooden  ceiling  or  overhanging  timbers. 
Large  metal  shields  placed  above  the 
burners,  near  but  not  in  direct  contact 
with  the  woodwork,  afford  protection  in 
such  cases.  Jointed  swinging gas-brack­
ets  are  particularly  dangerous,  as  they 
are  almost  invariably  capable  of  swing­
ing  the  flame 
into  contact  with  some 
woodwork  or  other  inflammable  mate­
rial.  Fires  have  repeatedly  spread  from 
the  upper  portion  of  an  inside  blind  or 
a  curtain  swinging  over  a  lighted  wall- 
bracket.
Certainly  every  one  has  read  of  the 
man  who  carried  a  candle  into  the  cel­
lar  to  search  for  a  leakage  in  the  gas- 
pipe-—and  found  it.  Special  care  must 
in  the  use  of  gas-lights, 
be  exercised 
in  the  cellar. 
lanterns,  and  candles, 
The  use  of  ordinary  kerosene oil 
lamps 
in  the  cellar  is  almost  certain  to  lead 
to disaster.  Remember  that  kerosene 
oil 
lamps  are  more  likely  tc  explode 
when  nearly  empty  than  when  full. 
It 
is  a  safe  rule  to  prohibit  the  use  of 
lights  in  the cellar altogether;  necessary 
business  can  usually  be  transacted  in 
this  department  during  the  day.  When, 
however,  the  cellar  has  to  be  explored 
after  dark,  closed  lanterns  will  usually 
answer all  requirements,  and  are  much

safer,  provided  they  are  lighted  in  the 
store  beforehand.
The  writer  recalls  a  destructive  fire 
which  was  started  by  a  candle  which, 
instead  of  being  placed 
in  a  metal 
candlestick,  had  been  impaneled  upon 
a  nail  driven  through  a  block  of  wood. 
This  was  left  burning  in  the  cellar  by 
an  errand  boy  in  the  evening,  and  dur­
ing  the  night  the  candle  burned  down 
and  set  fire  to  the  wooden  base  and 
boxes  upon  which  it  was  standing.

is  an  established  and  well-known 
fact  that  sawdust  or  rags  saturated  with 
vegetable  oils  are  dangerously  liable  to 
spontaneous  combustion;  these  should 
therefore  not  be 
left  carelessly  about. 
For  the  same  reason,  overalls  should  be 
hung  up  loosely,  to  permit  free  circula­
tion  of  air,  and  sawdust  should  not  be 
used  to  catch  drippings  from  oil-tanks 
or barrels.

It 

lest 

circumspection 

Owing  to  its spontaneous inflammabil­
ity  when  exposed  to  atmospheric  oxy­
gen,  phosphorus  must  be  handled  with 
appropriate 
it 
cause  serious  conflagration,  or,  what 
is 
incomparably  graver,  personal  injury.
It 
is  safest  to  cut  phosphorus  under 
water.  Although  it  can  often  be  dried 
on  a  soft  towel  and  cut  in  the  air  with­
out  ignition,  this  operation 
is  always 
attended  with  more  or  less  danger. 
In 
drying  and weighing phosphorus,  always 
handle 
it  with  forceps,  the  heat  of  the 
hand  being  sufficient  to  raise  its  tem­
perature  dangerously  near  the  point  of 
ignition.
In  ihis connection  it  may  be  of  inter­
est  to  note  that  the  addition  of  ether  to 
phosphorated  oils  reduces  or  entirely 
prevents 
the 
dark,  or  the  production  of  white  vapors 
on  exposure  to  atmosphere.
Storage  of  phosphorus 

in  the  phar­
macy  or  laboratory  is  always  attended 
with  considerable  danger  from  fire,  and 
in 
the  customary  method  of  keeping 
it 
a  bottle  of  water  will  not  permit  of 
its 
being  placed  out  of  doors  during  the 
winter  season.

phosphorescence 

in 

In  view  of  all  this,  the  following  ar­
rangement  was  devised,  and  has  been 
employed  for  someth ing'over  four  years 
with  gratifying  results: 
(i)  Place  the 
phosphorus  in  a  wide-mouthed  bottle  or 
jar  containing  a  sufficient  quantity  of 
a  25-per-cent,  solution  of  common  salt. 
(2)  Place  this  bottle  of  solution  in  a 
crock  with  earthen  cover,  containing 
glycerin  enough  to  immerse  the  body  of 
the  bottle,  having  only  the  neck  ex­
posed.  (3)  Protect  the  crock  by  sur­
rounding  it  with  a  layer  of  sawdust  or 
asbestos  fibre  packed  in  a  suitable  box 
with  close-fitting  cover.

A  25-per-cent,  solution  of  common 
salt  will  preserve  phosphorus  quite  as 
well  as  pure  water,  and  will  retain 
its 
fluidity  at  a  very  low  temperature,  con­
In case  the  bottle 
siderably  below  zero. 
should  by  accident  be  broken, 
the 
phosphorus  is  deposited  in  the glycerin, 
is 
which  will  protect  it  perfectly  and 
also  capable  of  withstanding  cold. 
If 
the 
the  box  affords  due  protection, 
liquids  will  rarely  reach  zero 
in  the 
most  extreme  weather.

Many  drug  stores  have  been  injured 
or  destroyed  by  conflagration  resulting 
from  accidental  breakage  of  carboys  of 
nitric  acid 
in  the  cellar.  When  suffi­
cient  quantities  of  this  powerful  oxidi­
zing  liquid  are  brought  in  contact  with 
vegetable  substances  such  as  hay or tow, 
exceisior,  paper,  sawdust,  etc.,  fire 
is 
apt  to  occur.  Remembering  the  value 
of  carbonic  acid  gas  as  a  fire-extin­
guisher,  a  profusion  of  carbonate  of 
soda  solution  should  be  promptly  ap­
plied,  or  a  mixture  of  chalk  and  watpr 
may  be  made  to  serve  in  an  emergency.
Metal  boxes  or  pails  should  be  pro­
vided  for  the  reception  of  waste  paper, 
rags,  and  other  refuse.  It  is  considered 
unsafe  to  use  wooden  vessels  for  this 
purpose.  Refuse  boxes  should  not  be 
pushed  under  tables,  shelves,  or  other 
woodwork  to  which 
flame  would  be 
communicated  in  case  of fire from  spon­
taneous  combustion,  but  should  occupy 
a  conspicuous  place  in  the  open  room, 
where  they  are  more  apt  to  be  kept 
clean  and  receive  proper  attention. 
It 
is  a  safe  rule  to  have  them  set  out  of 
doors  during  the  night.

Sawdust  or  rags  used 

in  cleaning

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S"h e  largest  jobbers  in  nearly  every  city   are  handling 

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We offer this week  a line  of  canned  goods ^which
ought to start a good many retailers “thinking.”  They
are all  well-known  standard  brands and at our prices
should prove a hummer for any live  retailer.

The financial  condition  of this country grows worse
daily.  F.very  prudent merchant  is  keeping  close  to
the shore.  Our motto, “Cash  is  King,”  is  fast  being
adopted by scores  of  retailers  and  has  set  a  great
many who formerly  purchased  and  sold  upon  long
credits “to thinking.’

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1  Case 2 dozen 3's  Indiana Apples.
1  Case 2 dozen 3*s Riverside  Pumpkin.
1  Case 2 dozer. 3*s  Hopkins* Hominy
1  Case 2 dozen 2's  Peerless String  Beans.
1  Case 2 dozen 2's Clark's Peas
1  Case 2 dozen 2's Dailey's French  Kidney Beans
1  Case 2 dozen  Pride of Columbia Salmon,
1  Case 2 dozen  Dailey's Lunch  Beans.
1  Case 2  dozen  McCall's Sugar Corn.

We offer ten cases of the following  brands, twenty
dozen  in all, at 60c per dozen— 240  cans  of  standard
goods for $12:

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sacks,  which we  offer at the  remarkably  low  price of §2.40 per  barrel  ¿¡i 
in order to close consignment.
We have a new line of fine Japan Teas,  158 packages, 80 pounds to “j 
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(LIMITED.)

SAGINAW,  MICH.

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greasy  mortars,  graduates  and  other 
utensils  should  not  be  thrown 
into  the 
dirt  bucket,  but  rather burned  or placed 
outside  the  pharmacy  at  once.

Spontaneous  combustion 

is  appropriate  here  to  recall  a  fire 
which  originated  in  a  jewelry store from 
rays  of  sunlight  which,  being  focused 
through  some  large  reading-glasses  dis­
played  on  a  rack  in  the  window,  set  fire 
to  a  velvet  curtain.  Pharmacists  are,, 
of  course,  subject  to  similar  conse­
quences  from  show  globes  in  windows.
com­
pressed  tablets  of  potassium  chlorate 
and  ammonium  muriate  has  been  made 
the  scapegoat  for  a 
large  number  of 
fires. 
In  the  writer’s  experience  the 
behavior  of  these  tablets  has  been  no 
more  offensive  than  potassium  chlorate 
alone.  Reports  of  this kind  of spontane­
ous  combustion  have  the  flavor  of  ghost 
stories.  We  often  meet  a  person  who 
knows  some  one  who  has  seen  a  ghost, 
but  we  have  never  either  inspected  the 
ghost  itself  or  seen  any  one  who  has.

Ointments,  plasters,  and  similar  com­
bustible  material  should  not  be  melted 
over  an  open  gas  flame  or  fire  without 
the 
intervention  of  a  sand  or  water 
bath.  Drippings  running  down  the  side 
of  the  vessel  may  conduct  the  flame  to 
the  entire  contents,  causing  serious con­
flagration,  which  may  result  in  injuring 
the  operator and  destroying  the  prem­
ises.

Alcohol,  ether,  and  benzin,  or  prepa­
rations  containing  them,  should  never 
be  evaporated  over  or  near  open  flame, 
owing to the  inflammable  nature  of  their 
vapors.

inflammable 

Benzin  is  probably  the  lightest  and 
most  dangerously 
liquid 
commonly  handled  by  the  pharmacist. 
Its  storage  in  barrels  is  both  hazardous 
and  wasteful. 
In  most  cases  it  will  be 
found  quite  as  profitable  and much safer 
to  keep  a  stock  of  only  five  or  ten  gal­
lons  in  a  tin  can,  which should be stored 
remote  from combustible material,  fires, 
and 
the 
premises  may  become  filled  with  its  va­
por,  which  is extremely inflammable and 
explosive,  and  if  ignited  would  create 
havoc.

In  case  of 

leakage, 

lights. 

Turpentine  is  tc  be  regarded  as  dan­
It  burns  with  a 

gerously  inflammable. 
strong,  persistent  flame.

inflammable  substances, 

Bulk  stock  of  benzin,  ether,  bisul­
turpentine, 
phide  of  carbon,  kerosene, 
is 
and  other 
frequently  stored 
in  small  buildings 
which,  while  accessible,  are  sufficiently 
remote  from  the  pharmacy  to  prevent 
a  communication  of  flames  to  it  in  case 
of  accidental 
is  also  a 
good  plan  to  store  gun  cotton  and  sim­
ilar  explosives  with  the  combustibles, 
where  theirexplosion  during  a  confla­
gration  will  do  the  least  possible  dam­
age.

ignition. 

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Gun  cotton,  benzin,  oil  turpentine j 
and  similar,extremely  inflammable  ma­
terials  should  not be  stored  with  phos­
phorus,  matches,  or  any 
substances 
which  are  capable  of  causing  spontane­
ous  combustion. 
It  would  be  quite  as 
rational  to  store  matches  in  a  powder- 
magazine.

Lycopodium,  although  not  particular­
in  substance,  explodes 
ly  inflammable 
with  a  vivid  flash,  when  ignited,  in  the 
form  of  floating  powder. 
It  is therefore 
imprudent  to  openly  transfer  or  handle 
large  quantities  of  it  in  too  close  prox­
imity  to  a  flame.

incendiarism 

the  premises. 

Don’t  encourage 

by 
leaving  heaps  of  straw,  papers,  and 
boxes  about 
Straw, 
papers,  and  other combustible  materials 
should  not  be  allowed  to  accumulate 
in 
the  space  underneath  grates  opening 
through  the  sidewalk.  Many  fires  have 
been  stated  by  a  burning  match  or 
lighted  cigar  carelessly  dropped  by 
pedestrians.

Smoking  on  premises,  by  employes, 

should  be  strictly  prohibited.

is  as  dangerously 

It  is  a  common  mistake  among  phar­
macists  to  believe  that  the  vapor  of 
chloroform 
inflam­
mable  as  are  the  vapors  of  benzin, 
ether,  and  benzol,  probably  because 
chloroform 
like 
the  others.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  chloro­
form  and  its  vapor  tend  to  extinguish 
flame  rather  than  feed  it.

is  extremely  volatile 

Natural  gas 

is  now  largely  used  for

heating  purposes,  and many deaths  have 
occurred  from  asphyxiation  when  the 
supply  has  been  temporarily  shut  off 
during  the  night  and  soon  after  turned 
on  again.  Our  attention  was  recently 
directed  to  a  clever arrangement  which 
has  proven  an  efficient  and  compara­
tively 
inexpensive  safe-guard  against 
such  accidents.  A small  jet  of  artificial 
illuminating  gas  is  placed  in  the  stove 
near  the  natural  gas  burner;  this  small 
flame  keeps  on  burning when the natural 
gas  is  shut  off,  and  promptly  ignites 
it 
again  when  subsequently  turned  on.

familiar  with 

Remember  that  by  prompt  applica­
tion  a  bucket  of  water  will  often  extin­
guish  a  fire  which  would  soon be beyond 
control  if  action  were  delayed.  Suitable 
apparatus  for  extinguishing  fire  in  its 
incipient  stages  should  be  kept  at 
hand,  and  employes  should be thorough­
ly 
its  location  and  use. 
Fire  apparatus  should  always  be  placed 
near  the  entrance  to  a  room,  where 
smoke  or  fire  will  not  cut  off  access  to 
it.  A  dozen  buckets,  covered  with  loose 
plates  of  tin,  painted  red,  and  labeled 
“ To  be  used 
in  case  of  fire  only,”  
should  be  distributed  through  the  cellar 
and  manufacturing  rooms  within  easy 
reach.  A  small  force-pump  such  as 
is 
frequently  used  for  washing  windows, 
kept 
in  a  bucket  of  water,  serves  as  a 
fire-extinguisher, 
cheap  and  efficient 
and 
likely  to  get  out  of  order 
than  more  complicated  apparatus.

less 

is 

A  small  alcohol-blaze  can  easily  be 
blown  out  with  the  breath,  but  a  flame 
of  dangerous  size 
is  most  readily  ex­
tinguished  by  dashing  water  across  the 
surface  of  the  liquid  or  floor. 
If  in  an 
open  vessel,  prompt  closure  with  a  loose 
cover  will  subdue  the  flame  by  cutting 
off  the  supply  of  air.  Remember  that 
fire  cannot  burn without  a  supply  of  air. 
Smother  it  if  you  can.

Remember  that  soda-fountains  can  be 
made  to  serve  as  excellent  fire-extin­
guishers.  Two  men  can  easily  carry  a 
small  fountain  to  a  point  from  where  its 
Carbonated  contents  can  be  emptied  on­
to  a  fire.
into  a 
richly  merited  state  of 
“ innocuous 
desuetude, ”   and  little  reliance  should 
be  placed  upon  them  for  extinguishing 
fires  in  drug  stores.

Hand  grenades  have  fallen 

Where  fire-shutters  are 

capable  of 
preventing  communication  of  fire  to  the 
premises  from  adjoining  buildings,  in 
the  rear or  at  the  side  of  the  pharmacy, 
they  should  certainly  be  applied,  and 
invariably  closed  and  locked  at  night. 
Heavy  shutters  and  doors  of  wood  cov­
ered  with  block  tin  are considered  more 
serviceable  than  iron  shutters.

Fire  precautions  not  only  confer  a 
degree  of  safety,  but  materially  reduce 
the  rate  at  which  insurance  can  be  se­
cured.

Permanent  paper  labels  on  stock-con­
tainers  should,  as  far  as  practicable,  be 
kept  varnished. 
In  case  of  fire,  great 
damage  often  results  from  the  loss  of 
through 
identity  of  pharmacueticals 
washing  off  of  labels  by  water  used 
in 
extinguishing  flame.  Ordinary  shipping 
tags,  bearing  the  name  of  the  contents, 
are  well  protected  by  sizing  with  glue 
and  varnishing  on  both  sides.  Ordinary 
ink  or  pencil  marks  on  unprotected  la­
bels  are  soon  obliterated  by  action  of 
damp  air  in  a  cellar.

During  the  excitement 

incidental  to 
a  fire,  don’t  forget  that  the  prescription 
records  rank  among  your  most  valuable 
possessions.  Some  neighboring  drug­
gist  will  be  willing  to  repeat  prescrip­
tions  for  you  until  your  plant  can  be  re­
established.
is  engaged  in  an 
attempt  to  extinguish  the  fire,  another 
should  promptly  proceed  to  turn 
in  an 
alarm.

While  one  person 

Escape  from  a  burning  building  can 
often  be  effected  by  creeping  on  hands 
and  knees  to  a  window,  door,  or  stair­
case.  The  atmosphere  of  a  room  so 
full  of  smoke  as  to  cause  suffocation  of 
a  person  standing  upright  can  general­
ly  be  safely  breathed  near  the  floor. 
Several  folds  of  wet  cloth,  or  even  a 
damp handkerchief  tied  or  held over the 
mouth  and  nostrils,  will  often  enable 
people  to  pass  through  dense  smoke.
Don’t  neglect  to  keep  your  stock 

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sured.

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Perfectly  Pure  Coffee.
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CHAS.  E.  STORRS,

Dairy and  Food Commissioner.

Lansing,  Mich.,  Feb.  25,  1896.

E.  B.  Millar  &  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.

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

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Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Woodviile—Wm. 

Fisher 
Young  Bros,  in  general  trade.

succeeds  j 

Marcellus—Bent  &  Higgins  succeed 

F.  M.  Bent  in  the  grain  business.

Wolverine--Roswell  &  Jones  succeed 

Chas.  E.  Roswell  in  genera!  trade

his  general  stuck  to  VVolcottville, 

V  icksburg— David  Welt  will  remove 
ind.
Sparta—Hesseltine  &  Dudley  have 
opened  a  bazaar  and  fancy  goods  store.
Homer— Samuel  Hannah  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery stock  of  J.  A.  Clark.
Lansing-  H.  E.  Turney  succeeds 
Page  &  Turney  in  the  grocery  business.
McBain—O.  Hart  has  purchased  the 
grocery  and  shingle  mill  of  S.  E.  Mar­
tin.

Leland—Mrs.  J.  M.  Watts  succeeds 
Mrs.  A.  Halmond  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Yestaburgh—J.  E.  Davis  &  Co.,  gen­
eral  dealers,  have  removed  to  Carson 
City.

Ewen—j.  M. 

(Mrs.  J.  T.  )  Gardner 
has  removed  her  drug  stock  to  Walker, 
Minn.

Battle  Creek— Frank  C.  Beard  has 
purchased  the  drug  stock  of  Herbert  A. 
Fisher.

Nashville— B.  C.  Button  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  business  of  Ed. 
White.

Lansing— O.  A.  Jenison has purchased 
the  book  and  news  business  of  h.  F. 
Russell.

Homer—Sloan  it  Aldricli,  meat  deal­
1.  V.  Sloan  suc­

ers,  have  dissolved 
ceeding.

Milford—James  G.  Holmes 

is  suc­
ceeded  by  S.  Clark  Eddy  in  the  grocery 
business.  '

Ithaca— E.  R.  Van  Duser  succeeds 
jewelry 

Kinch  &  Van  Duser  in  the 
business.

Kalamazoo— Rakider  Bros, 

it  Co. 
succeed  Radiker  Bros,  in the  plumbing 
business.

Palm  Station—John  E.  Eastman  suc­
in  gen­

ceeds  Eastman,  Graves  it  Co. 
eral  trade.

Lapeer— Robt.  D.  Malcolm,  merchant 
tailor,  has  removed  from  Port  Huron  to 
this  place.

Liberty— Gibbons  &  Carey,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Carey  it  Hilton 
succeeding.

Pine  Creek— B.  E.  Cole,  general 
dealer  at  this  place,  has  removed  to 
Battle  Creek.

Marlette— Stroebel  Bros.  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  hardware  stock  of  Dan­
iel  Thompson.

Benton  Harbor— Teetzel 

succeed  Chas.  W.  Teetzel 
jewelry  business.

it  Hayden 
the 

in 

Kent  City— Daniel  Mcfnnis  succeeds 
in  the  grocery 

it  Mclnnis 

O’Connor 
and  meat business.

Woodland— S.  S.  Schantz  announces 
intention  of  removing  his  general 

his 
stock  to  Northville.

Traverse  City—John  C.  Ringler  suc­
ceeds  F.  H.  ( Mrs.  M.  E . )  Greenough 
in  the  grocery  business.

Alba—De  Voist  Bros.,  general  deal­
ers  at  this  place,  have  removed  their 
stock  to  Thief  River  Falls,  Minn.

Perry— I.  Osborn  &  Son,  dealers 

in 
hardware  and  agricultural 
implements, 
have  dissolved,  Osborn  &  Locke  suc­
ceeding.

New  Era— Frank  Veltman  has  sold 
his  store  building  and  stock  of  general 
merchandise to H.  H.  Pleschee,  formerly 
of  Allendale.

Evart— D.  G.  Forton  has  purchased 
the  City  bakery  plant  and  business  of 
S.  Stephens  and  will  continue  the  busi- j 
ness  at  the  same  location.

Hawkins— W.  L.  Remington  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  formerly  con­
ducted 
in  connection  with  the  sawmill 
of  Jackson  &  Darling  and  consolidated 
it  with  his  own  stock.

Ithaca— Frank  Dreese,  who  conducts 
a  dry  goods,  clothing  and  boot  and  shoe 
store  at  this  place  and  also  at  Edmore, 
has  sold  his  stock  and  discontinued 
business  at  the  latter  place.

Carson  City— F..  C.  Cummings  has 
begun  the  erection  of  a  three-story  and 
basement  brick  store  building,  42x110 
feet 
in  dimensions.  The  building  has 
been  leased  for  five  years  by  Cowman  & 
McKenna,  who  will  occupy  it  with their 
general  stock.

Sutton’s  Bay— John  Litney  & Co.  have 
sold  their  general  stock  to  E.  R. 
Dailey,  of  Empire,  who  will  continue 
the  business.  Mr.  Litney  has  been 
identified  with  the  mercantile  business 
here  for  seventeen  years.  He  will  em­
bark 
implement 
in 
business.

the  agricultural 

St.  Ignace—Walter  G.  Wing  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Joseph  Con­
rad  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same 
location.  Mr.  Wing  is  well 
known  in  St.  Ignace,  having  been  for 
the  past  fifteen  years  in  the  employ  of 
the  Mackinaw  Lumber  Co.,  eight  years 
as  manager  of  their  store  in  this  city.

Rockford—W.  F.  Hessler  has  pur­
chased  the 
lot  on  the  corner  of  Main 
and  Courtland  streets  for  a  considera­
tion  of  Si,000  and  will  immediately  be­
gin  the  construction  of  a  three  story and 
basement  brick  block,  71x80  feet 
in 
dimensions.  Hessler  Bros,  will  occupy 
the  ground  floor  and  basement  with 
their  hardware  stock.

Bay  City— E.  R.  Fischer,  the  Colum­
bus  avenue  grocer  who  was  arrested  on 
a  charge  of  throwing  poisoned  sausage 
into  the  street,  asserts  that  ht 
is  being 
pursued  by  enemies  and  claims  that 
this  case  has  been  put  up  by  them.  He 
says  that  he  has  two  dogs  and  a  cat  of 
his own  and  he  would  be  a  fool  to throw 
poison  out  in  front  of  his  store,  as  they 
claim  he  did.

Holland— H.  DeKruif,  Jr.,  of  Zee- 
land,  has  about  completed arrangements 
to  buy  out  the 
implement  business, 
building  and  grounds  of  Allie  Van 
Raalte  and  expects  to  move  here  with 
his  family  in  a  few  days.  The  Zeeland 
branch  will  be  managed  by  Will  De 
Kruif  and  the  two  stores  connected  by 
private  phone. 
It  is  probable  that  Mr. 
Van  Raalte  will  remain  in  the  employ 
of  Mr.  De  Kruif.

Munising—The  new  town  of  Muni­
sing,  where  beds  are  at a  premium,  will 
soon  take  on  metropolitan  airs—charter 
election,  water  works,  electric 
light 
plant,  police  protection,  and  last,  but 
not 
least,  a  saloon.  Unlike  all  other 
new  towns,  there  is  not  a  saloon  within 
four  miles  and  that  is  at  Wetmore. 
It 
looks  as  if  T.  Moses  Bissell  would  b ;  a 
candidate  for  village  president.  Mr. 
Bissell  is  in  the  hardware  business.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— R.  G.  Ferguson, 
who  recently  sold  his  hardware  stock 
here  to  Chesebrough  Bros.,  has  about 
decided  to  locate  at  Green  Bay,  W is., 
capitalists  there  offering  to  contribute 
$100,000  toward  a  stock  company to con­
duct  a  wholesale  hardware  business. 
Mr.  Ferguson 
is  a  thorough  hardware 
man  and  will  make  things  hum  wher­
ever he  goes.  He  was  with  W.  H.  Mil­
ler,  Bay  City, 
for  years  up  to  eight 
years ago.

Marquette -  J.  H.  Gillette  will  build  a j 
saw  mill  011  Fortage  or  Torch  Lake 
this  season.

Tecumseh — Martin  A.  Zimmerman 
succeeds  M.  A.  Zimmerman  &  t_o.  in 
the  sawmill  business.

Ithaca— The  St.  Johns  Manufacturing« 
Co.  is  succeeded  by  the  Ithaca  Saw 
Mill  Co.,  with  a  capital 
stock  of 
$15,000.

Homer— The  Homer  Steel 

fence  Co. 
has  merged  its  business  into  a  corpora­
tion,  under  the  same  style,  and  will  re­
move  to  Battle  Creek.

Marion— Bradley’  Stone  has  purchased 
of  Wm.  Daniels  his  half  interest  in  the 
sawmill  and  hardwood  lumbering  busi­
ness  of  Daniels  &  Stone.

Lake  Ann— Hawley  &  Bolton,  who 
operated  a  sawmill  at  this  place,  have 
dissolved  partnership. 
I he  business 
will  be  continued  by  Darius  Bolton.

Sebewaing— Liken  &  Bach,  manufac­
turers  of  staves,  heading  and 
lumber, 
with  headquarters  here,  are  considering 
the  project  of  building  another  plant  at 
Alpena.

Cadillac—The  Cadillac 

Stave  & 
Heading  Co.’s  plant  is  producing  30,- 
000  elm  staves  and  3,000  sets  of  bass­
wood  heading  daily.  The  company  has 
3,000,000  feet  of  logs  on  hand.

Cheboygan—Thompson  Smith’s  Sons 
have  contracted  to  manufacture  12,000,-
000  feet  of  Canadian 
logs  for  Alger, 
Smith  &  Co.  The  mill  will  start  May
1  and  will  be  run  night  and  day.

Lewiston—The  Michelson  &  Hanson
saw  mill  shut  down  last  week  to  make 
repairs  which  will  require  about  four 
weeks’  time.  This  mill  has  run  steadily 
day  and  night  for  two  years  with  the 
exception  of  two  months,  when 
it  ran 
days  only.

Shelby— The  project  to  establish  a 
canning  factory  here  has  been  aban­
doned  by  the  Dunkley  Celery  Co.,  of 
Kalamazoo.  The  business  men  of  the 
place  still  stand  ready  to  donate  $1,500 
to  a  cannery  enterprise  fathered  by  re­
sponsible  people.

Byron— M.  S.  Doyle  has  discontinued 
his  cheese  factory  at  St.  Johns  and 
opened  a  factory  here,  beginning  oper­
ations  for  the  season  April  22.  At pres­
ent  the  factory  is  turning  out  thirteen 
cheese  per  day,  but  Mr.  Doyle  expects 
to  have  an  output  of  thirty  per  day  dur­
ing  May  and  June.

Saginaw-—The  planing  mill  plant  and 
lumber  yard  of  E.  O.  and  S.  L.  East­
man,  at  Carrollton,  has  been  purchased 
by  the  Brewer  Lumber  Co.,  which  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$50,000.  A.  P.  Brewer  &  Son  have 
15,000,000  feet of  dry  white  pine  Imber 
piled  up  at  Duluth  and  Ashland,  which 
is  to  be  brought  t j  Saginaw  by  lake 
and  handled 
in  the  planing  mill  and 
yard  of  the  Brewer  Lumber  Co.

Houghton—The  deal  by  which  the 
Huron  Isle  Royale  Portage  and  Shelden 
&  Columbian  copper  mines  were  to  be 
consolidated  hangs  fire—at  least  that 
is 
the  popular 
impression,  as  nothing  is 
learned  regarding  the  definite  outcome 
of  the  matter.  The  consolidation  of 
these  four  mines,  all  of  which  are  idle, 
would  add  another  big  producer  to  the 
present  list. 
It  is  the  opinion  of  com­
petent  mining  men  that  these  mines,  if 
properly  opened  and  equipped,  could 
be  producing  nearly  as  much  copper 
within  five  years  as  the  Quincy  is  mak­
ing  now,  but  to  do  so  will  require  an 
enormous  amount  of  money.  Half  a 
million  dollars 
is  the  estimate  of  the 
promoter,  but  these  figures  might  easily 
be  exceeded  through unforeseen require­

in 

ments,  or  through  a  desire  to  bring  the 
property  to  a  high  producing  plane  at 
the  earliest  possible  moment,  without 
waiting  to  make  improvements  through 
profits  realized  from  the  operation  of 
the  property.

addition 

twenty-four 

Calumet—All  that  prevents  the  open­
ing  of  a  number  of  new  copper  mines 
in  this  region  on  veins  of  undoubted 
merit 
is  the  enormous  cost  of  putting 
the  properties  on  a  plane  to  compete 
with  the  gigantic  mines  of  this  county 
and  Montana.  All  the  big  miners  own 
mills  and  railroads 
to 
mines.  The  pump  of  the  Calumet  & 
Hecla  mills,  at  Lake  Linden,  which 
furnishes  water  for  the  stamps,  would 
furnish  the  water  supply  for  as  large  a 
Its  size 
city  as  Providence  or  St.  Paul. 
can  be  imagined  best  from  the  work 
it 
must  do. 
It  must  supply  enough  water 
to  carry  off,  as  sand,  5,000  tons  of  rock 
every 
hours —10,000,000 
pounds  of  sand  carried  in  suspension 
for a  quarter  of  a  mile  through  wooden 
launders.  Such  pumps  as  these,  with 
7,000  horse  power  hoisting  engines  and 
like  machinery,  cost  millions  to  the 
Calumet  &  Hecla,  and  even  the  small­
est  of  copper  producers  must  expend  its 
tens  or  hundreds  of  thousands  on  equip­
ment  if  it  hopes  to  produce  copper  at 
a  profit,  no  matter  how  rich  its  veins 
may  be.  The  machinery  of  a  Houghton 
county 
copper  mine  of  the  second 
class,  such  as  the  Quincy  or  Tamarack, 
probably  cost  as  much  as  all  the  ma­
chinery  in  the  great  gold  camp  of  Crip­
ple  Creek.  The  37  foot  double  conical 
hoisting  drum  at  the  North  Tamarack, 
which  hauls  up  a  10  ton  load  in  a  ver­
tical  shaft  at  a  speed  greater  than  that 
of  an  express  train  on  a  horizontal 
track,  could  alone  hoist  all  the gold  and 
silver  ore  mined 
in  Colorado  and  not 
work  overtime  doing  it.

Traverse  City—Secretary  Fleming,  of 
the  recently  organized  Michigan  Hard­
wood  Lumber  Co.,  has  been  at  work  for 
several  weeks  securing  from  the  several 
members  of  the  company  estimates  of 
the  total  cut  of  hardwood,  as  compared 
with  that  of  last  year.  The  Association 
includes  in  its  membership  nearly every 
manufacturer  from  Cross  Village 
to 
Ludington,  and  the  result  of  the  Secre­
tary’s  investigations  has  been  surpris­
ing  to  even  the  lumbermen.  Very  few 
members  of  the  company  are  compelled 
to  ship  by  rail,  most  of  them  being 
within  reach  of  water  transportation, 
and  for  this  reason  the  figures  compiled 
by  Secretary  Fleming  represent,  practi­
cally,  the  total  output  of  the  region. 
The  percentage  not  represented 
is  ex­
ceedingly  small  and  will  cut  only  an 
inconsiderable  figure  in  the  total  out­
put.  The  total  cut  last  year  was  68,000, 
000  feet,  and  of  this  quantity  4,000,000 
feet  were 
left  on  the  manufacturers’ 
hands  at  the  close  of  the  season  and 
had  to  be  carried  over. 
It  is  estimated 
that  the  total  cut  will  this  year  amount 
to  only  50,000,000  feet,  of  which  29,- 
000,000  feet  have  already  been  sold, 
leaving  only  25,000,000  feet  of  maple  in 
this  entire  region  to  be  put  on  the  mar­
ket  this  season.  Some  of  the  most  con­
servative  lumbermen  are  of  the  opinion 
that  this  amount  will  not  be  sufficient 
to  supply  the  demand.  As  a  conse­
quence,  the  price  of  maple  must  ma­
terially  advance.  The  report  of  Secre­
tary  Fleming  has  inspired  confidence in 
the  future  of 
lumber 
trade,  and  it  is  conceded  that  the  out­
look  for  manufacturers 
is  better  just 
now  than  it  has  been  for  many  seasons.

the  hardwood 

The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 

E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Samuel  A.  Potter,  baker,  has  removed 
from  400  South  East  street  to  500  South 
Division  street.

Myers  Bros,  have  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Dunlap’s,  Ind.  The  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Gibson  &  Knolty  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Barryton.  The  stock  was 
furnished  by  the  I.  M.  Clark  Grocery 
Co.

Landeman  &  Ostenbrugge  have  re­
moved  their  grocery  stock 
from  748 
East  Fulton  street  to  208  Sinclair 
street.

Arthur  Manley,  grocer  at  418  West 
Bridge  street,  has  opened  a  meat  mar­
ket  at  42c  West  Bridge  street,  and  will 
conduct  business  at  both  locations.

The  Michigan  Spice  Co.  will  shortly 
remove  from 
location  on 
Pearl  street  to  30  North  Ionia  street, 
opposite the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. 's 
establishment.

its  present 

Chas.  H.  Butler  has  sold  his  interest 
in  the  Valley  City  Implement  Co.,  at 
83  South  Division  street,  to  Stephen  L. 
Parr,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location,  under  the  same style, 
in  company  with  his  son,  Silas  L.  Parr.
F.  Letellier,  Trustee  of  the  mortgage 
creditors  of  the  Buss  Machine  Works, 
announces  the  sale  of  both  the  Grand 
Rapids  and  Benton  Harbor  plants,  in­
cluding  machinery  and  merchandise  on 
hand,  at  the  Kent  county  court house on 
May  14.  Catalogue  of  the  property  to 
be  sold  can  be  obtained  on  application 
to  Mr.  Letellier,  at  his  office  with  the 
Goshen  Sweeper  Co. 

*

Miss  Mary  E.  Collins  has 

invented 
and  patented  a  hook  and  eye  which,  in 
her  opinion, is  ahead  of  anything else on. 
the  market.  The  matter  has  been  taken 
up  by  Kalamazoo  people,  who  have  or­
ganized  a  stock  company  to  undertake 
its  manufacture,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$18,000.  The  name  of  the  corporation  is 
the  Four  Loop  Hook  and  Eye  Co.  The 
American  Pin  Co.  is  constructing  ma­
chines  for  the  manufacture  of  the  de­
vice. 

____

The  Grocery  Market.

Provisions— Since  our  last  report  the 
market  has  been  further  depressed  and 
another  new  record  of  prices  has  been 
established.  This  has  been  occasioned 
by  arrivals  of  hogs beyond expectations, 
while  their  average  weights  are  heavy 
and  point  out  that  the  corn  crop  is  be­
ing  freely  used  and  to  better  advantage 
by  putting  it  into  hogs.  There  appears 
to  be  a  good  deal  of  uncertainty  still, 
and  the  next few  days’  developments are 
awaited  with  a  good  deal  of  interest.

Rice— The  demand  for  rice  continues 
good  and  values  rule  at  about  the  same 
range  as  quoted  last  week.  The  fact, 
however,  is  perceptible  that  domestic 
standards  are  being  lowered  gradually, 
as  desirable  lots  are  taken  from  stock, 
and  while  the-  market  is  quotably  un­
changed,  in  reality  prices  are  better 
than  they  were.  This  condition  has 
foreign 
strengthened  the  position  on 
very  materially,  and  the 
latter  shows 
increasing  activity.'

Lemons—A  full  demand  has  been 

in 
force  this  week,  and  values  have  shown 
an  advance  on  the  average  of  50c  per 
box.  The  warmer  weather  has  stimu­
lated  the  demand,  and  this,  in  connec­
tion  with  the  reduced  quantity  on  the 
way,  has  given  a  firmness  to  values.

5

cash  and  2;>/c  on  active futures.  Wheat 
is  very  hard  to  get  at  the  prevailing 
prices,  and  we  are  stili  of  the  opinion 
that  we  shall  see  better  prices  before 
harvest  time.  Our  exports  were  of  a 
diminutive  character,  being  only  about 
1,286,000  bushels,  which  is  the  smallest 
weekly  export  in  five  or  six years.  The 
reason  for  this  is  because  there  are only 
about  2,200,000  bushels of  wheat  in  ele­
vators  east  of  Chicago.  As soon  as  some 
of  the  cargoes  now  enroute  from  Chi­
cago  and  Duluth  arrive  we  may  see 
much 
The  visible 
showed  a  decrease  of  only  537,000bush­
els,  but  this  had  been  discounted,  so 
it 
did  not  have  any  effect  on  the  market. 
This  may  be  considered  a  weather  mar­
ket.  Other  commodities  are  also  cheap 
and  it  seems  that  people  are  consuming 
something  else  besides  wheat  flour.

exports. 

larger 

the 

We  note  a  decline  of  2Lie  per  bushel 
j^c. 
on  corn,  while  oats  declined  only 
Should 
frosts  hold  off  so  as  not  to 
injure  the  young  corn  plants,  we  may 
expect  another  large  crop.  We  can  see 
nothing  at  present  to  advance  the  price 
of  coarse  grain.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were: 
wheat,  44  cars;  corn,  15  cars;  oats,  3 
cars.

C.  G.  A .  V o i g t .

PRODUCE  MARKET.

Asparagus— 30c  per  doz  bunches.
Butter—()n  account  of  large  receipts 
the  price  has  sustained  another  decline, 
fancy  roll  commanding  12(<i 13c,  with 
fair  to  choice  dairy  ranging  from 
io@ 
lie.  Factory  creamery  is  in  moderate 
demand  at  15c.

Cabbage— Florida  stock  has  declined 
to  $2.75  per  crate  of  about  4  dozen 
heads.
Cheese- -There  have  been  further  ar­
rivals  of  new  stock,  which bring g@ nc, 
but  the  trade  prefers  old  goods  at 
io@ 
12c.

Cider— I5@i8c  per  gal.  ;  Crabapple, 

Cranberries— Jerseys  in  boxes  are still 
limited  demand  and  supply  at  $2 

20c.
in 
per  bu.

Eggs-  -Arrivals  have  been  liberal dur­
ing  the  past  few  days,  but  trade  has 
been  extremely  dull  and  prices  have 
declined materially.  Fancy stock,  close­
ly  graded,  suitable  for  cold  storage  pur­
poses,  commands  9 !<c,  but  many  sales 
are  beine  made  on  the  basis  of  9c.

Green  Onions— 10c  per  doz.  bunches.
Honey— Dealers  ask  13© 14c  for  white 

clover,  11 @ 13c  for  dark  buckwheat.

Lettuce— 10c  per  lb.
Maple  Sugar— Fancy  commands  10c 

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

Maple  Syrups—6o@8oc  per  gallon, 

according  to  grade  and  quality.

Onions— Home  grown  are  in  fair  de­
mand  and  ample  supply,  commanding 
25@30C  per  bu.  Bermudas  command 
$1.50  per  crate.
in 

Pieplant— Home  grown 

market,  commanding  1 

Pop  Corn—Rice,  3c  per  lb.
Potatoes— No  change.
Radishes— 30c  per  doz.  bunches.
Seeds—Clover  command  $5@5-25  f°r 
Mammoth,  $4.85@5  for  Medium,  $4.75 
for  Alsyke,  $3(0)3.25  for  Crimson  and 
$5.50  for  Alfalfa.  Timothy  commands 
$i.55@i.65  for  prime  to  strictly  prime 
and  $i.75@i.8o  for  choice.

is  now 
per  lb.

Spinach—40c  per  bu.
Strawberries—Beginning 

with  more 
about  20c  per  qt.

regularity, 

to  arrive 
commanding 

Tomatoes—$3  per  6  basket  crate  of 

Vegetable  Oysters— 15c 

per  doz. 

Florida  stock.

bunches.

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Drop  a  postal  card  to  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  for  a  catalogue  of many  new 
and  attractive  cuts  of  different  sizes 
which  can  be  used  in  your  advertising 
displays  and  obtained  at  very  small 
expense.

Buy  showcases  of  F.  E.  Bushman, 

Kalamazoo.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
IS  IT  INSINCERE?

Canned  Goods—The 

Not  only  is  the  local  demand  good,  but 
orders  come  in  freely  from  out  of  town, 
as  further  advances  are  looked  for.
inquiry 

for 
canned  goods  during  the  period  under 
review  has  been  of  a  desultory  charac­
lots 
ter,  and  confined  entirely  to  small 
to  keep'  stock  assortments 
complete. 
Buyers  will  not  allow  themselves  to  be 
interested 
in  a  large  way.  Except  on 
Calfornia  fruits  the  tendency  of  values 
has  been  to  an  easier  basis.  Vegetables 
are  slow  of  sale, 
tomatoes  being  dis­
tinctly  weaker.  The  pressure  to  sell 
corn  reported  some  time  ago  still  con­
tinues,  and  stocks  are  evidently  greater 
than  was  generally  supposed.  There  is 
little  doing 
Cammed  corn 
beef  shows  a  further  decline  on  several 
sizes,due  to  the  generally  dull  condition 
of  trade,  there  being  but  little  demand 
lor  home  consumption,  while  in  an  ex­
port  way  the  West  Indies  and  South 
Africa  are  taking  fair  quantities.

in  peas. 

Spices— Prices  are  still  very  low  on 
all  varieties  of  spices—lower  in  this 
country  than  any  of  the  other  markets 
of  the  world—and  this  has  been  brought 
about  by  a  speculative  demand  which 
has  kept  the  American  markets  abun­
dantly  well  supplied  with  stock  and 
is 
really  the  cause  of  the  slowness  of  the 
recovers  of  p ric e s  to  a  parity  with  other 
markets.  Regarding  crop  reports  there j 
is  nothing  materially  new.  Recent  as­
sertions  that  there  would  be  a  shortage 
in  pepper  and  Cochin  ginger seem to  be 
verified.  There will be an average clove 
crop,  but  the  interference  with  the slave 
trade  at  Pemba  and  Zanzibar  may 
have  an  influence  on  the  clove  market. 
The  opening  of  the  canals  has  slightly 
stimulated  the  country  demand.

Molasses—The  demand  for  centrif­
ugal  grades  is  quiet  and  prices  are  well 
maintained.  Kettle  varieties  are  sell­
ing  slowly,  but  holders  still  adhere  to 
quotations,  and  buyers  are  compelled  to 
pay  them  when  they  want  selections. 
The  shortage  on  centrifugal  grades  at 
New  Orleans  continues  to  grow,  and 
was  reported  on  April  20  to  be  99,934 
barrels,  as  compared  with  last  year. 
It 
is  said  there  is  little  or  no  stock  in  first 
hands  at  New  Orleans.  The  demand 
for  foreign  molasses  is  good  and  prices 
are  firmly  held.

Tea— Price  show  no  material change, 
except  on  uncolored 
Japans,  which 
have  eased  off  slightly,  owing  to  the de­
sire  of  holders  to  sell  before  the  new 
season’s  teas  arrive.  The  trade  is  about 
facing  a  new  season,  as  new  cron  teas 
will  be 
in  about  five  or  six  weeks, 
and  it  is  this  that  has  caused  the  weak­
ness  in  that  particular  variety.

in 

Flour  and  Feed.

Another  week  of 

seesaw  markets, 
with  a  general  downward  tendency  of 
futures,  has  not  tended  to  liven  up  flour 
markets.  The  trade  is  waiting  for  more 
settled  conditions,  and, 
in  the  mean­
time,  buying  only  for  actual  needs.

greatly 

The  output  of  flour  for  the  past  few 
weeks  has  been 
restricted 
throughout  the  winter  wheat  States  and 
must,  necessarily,  be until after  harvest, 
which,  in  Michigan,  promises  now  to 
be  a  bountiful  one.

The 

local  mills  have  been  running 
steadily  and  have  had  a  fair  average 
demand  for  the  product,  so  that  stocks 
have  not  been  materially  increased.

Feed  and  millstuffs  are  in  fairly  good 
demand,  with  prices  25@5oc  per  ton 
lower.

W m.  N.  R owf..

Gillies’  New  York  Warrior  Japan  Tea 

at  killing  value.  Visner.

Motives  of  the  Street  Railway  Co.

Questioned  by  a  Dealer.

Grand  Rapids,  April  28  -Has  it  been 
brought  to  your  attention  that  the  Con­
solidated Street  Railway Co.  has pursued 
a  very  peculiar  course  in  the  matter  of 
the  tickets  recently  placed  on  sale  by 
that  corporation?  Ordinarily,  what  does 
a  business  man  reduce  prices  for—to 
sell  goods  or  to  keep  them?  Officers  of 
the  Street  Railway  Co.  have  said  pri­
vately  that  they  do  not  want  to  sell 
these  tickets;  in  fact,  prefer  not  to  sell 
them.  What  reason  have  they  for  such 
a  course?

Let  us  see:  The  company  has  “ vol­
untarily  reduced  the  price  of  transpor­
tation  20  per  cent.,”   as  Mr.  Johnson 
said  to  me  one  day  recently,  and  now 
assumes  that  it  is  deserving  of  much 
commendation  from  the  public  for  this 
philanthropic  move.  It  has  put  all  pos­
sible  obstacles  in  the  way  of  a  general 
distribution of  the  tickets. 
It  will  sell 
them  at  one  place  only—at  its  office— 
all  advertisements  to  the  contrary  not­
Its  announcements  of 
withstanding. 
“ agencies”   in  many  diverse 
locations 
is  untrue,  for  no genuine  agency  for  the 
sale  of  street  car  tickets  exists  to-day. 
All  dealers  selling  them  do  so  of  their 
own  choice  and  not  because  the  Street 
it  any  object  for 
Railway  Co.  makes 
them  to  do  so;  in  fact, 
the  company 
does  not  wish 
the  tickets  sold,  for  it 
will  neither  pay  a  commission  to  any 
one  for  selling  them  nor  allow  transpor­
tation  for  the  remoter  dealer  to  come 
after  them,  nor  deliver  them  to  the 
dealer;  and  when  the  suggestion  was 
made  that  it  is  no  object  to  the dealer to 
the  answer  was  to  the 
handle  them 
effect  that  it  was  to  the 
interest  of  the 
company  not  to  sell  them,  anyway,  and 
it  didn’t  care  whether  the  dealers  sold 
I hem  or  not.

Another  point:  The  conductors  do 
not  sell  them.  This  is  for  two  reasons : 
one  (inferred),  that  the  company  does 
not  want  the  public  to  use  the  tickets; 
the  other  (expressed  by  Mr.  Hanchett), 
that  it  dare  not trust  its  men  with  them, 
as  that  would  be  putting  a  premium 
on  dishonesty.

Now,  I  ask  again,  what  does  such  a 
policy  mean?  Keep  watch  of  the  fu­
ture  Council  proceedings  and  note, 
sometime  next  fall,  that  the  company 
will  ask  some  “ little  privilege”   and 
plead  against  any concessions  the  Coun­
cil  will  demand  in  return  by  the  state­
ment, “ We  reduced  the  fare  last  spring 
and  summer  and  it  was  not  a 
financial 
success;  you  really  cannot  ask  us  to  go 
on  losing  money,  can  you?”

This  ticket  deal  will  bear  watching. 
Why  did  not  the  company  put  them 
out,  as  General  Manager  Johnson  is  re­
ported  to  have  recommended—at  eight 
for  25  cents—and  adopt  a  liberal policy, 
establish  real  agencies 
in  a  few  well- 
selected  localities  and  give  the  public 
the  benefit  of  a  real  reduction,  instead 
of  such  a  deluding  policy  as  appears  to 
have  been  adopted?  Finally,  why  not 
carry  out  the  promise  of  20  per  cent, 
reduction,  and  not  stop  at  1675  per 
cent.,  as  has  been  done?  This  attempt 
to  secure  commendation  and  future  re­
muneration  for  a  move  which  has  not 
yet  been  a  success,  and  which  the  com­
pany  hopes  will  fail,  is  bad  and  should 
be  widely  known  and  severely  con­
demned.

Retail Dealer.

The  Grain  Market.

In  last  week’s  article  some  one  made 
a  slight  error  and  where  it  should  have 
read,  “ The  corresponding  week 
last 
year  the  visible  decreased  2,250,000 
bushe'ls,”   it  was  made  to  read,  “ The 
corresponding week  last  year  the  visible 
decreased  225,000,000  bushels,”   which 
is  more  than  half  the  amount  raised 
in 
the  United  States.  Errors  will  occur, 
even  with  editors,  especially  where they 
are  so  rushed  with  business  as  is  the 
editor  of  the  Tradesman.

This  exceptionally  fine  weather  has  a 
depressing  effect  on  the  price  of  wheat. 
The  record  shows  about  3%c  decline  on

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TH E  TIE  THAT  BINDS.

Why  the  Traveler  Hastens  to  Return 

to  His  Own  Hearthstone. 

Correspondence Pittsburg Times.

Nestling  under  the  hills  of  Pennsyl­
vania  lies  a  small  town  and  in that town 
lived  a  traveling  man  once  on  a  time, 
and 
in  his  home  lived  two  little  tots, 
whose  blue  eyes  glistened  and  glowed 
with  pleasure  when  “ papa  came,  ^  and 
from  the  same  little  eyes dropped 
tears 
as  big  as  a  pound  of  wool  when  papa 
“ started  out.”   His  territory  was  large 
and  took  him  from  four  to  six  weeks  to 
cover.  About  ten  days  after  he  was 
gone  two  little  heads  might  be  seen 
bending  over  ten  dimpled  fingers,  on 
till 
which  the  days  were being counted 
papa  would  be  home  again, 
or  Eliza­
beth,  sprouting  up  tall  and  fair,  would 
watch  the  trains  that  daily  deposited 
the  weary  travelers  at  the  wayside  inn ; 
and  if  the  crowd  of  eager  men  hurry­
ing  up  the  walk,  each  weighted  down 
with  sample  cases  too  heavy  for  mortals 
to  bear,  was  larger  than  usual,  the  tears 
would  roll  down  the  fair  little  cheek, 
and  “ it  makes  me  think  of  papa  was 
always  the  answer,  if  questioned.

from 

incidents 

long  came 

This  is  one  of  the  little 

Margaret,  however,  laughing,  roguish 
witch,  would  weep  and  wail,  1  want to 
see  my  papa  so  bad— I  want  my  papa.
One  Sunday  had  been  unusually  lonely. 
Bad  colds  kept  them  away  from  the 
usual  Sabbath  service.  Meeting,  Sun­
day  school  and  Christian  Endeavor 
had  been  well  attended  several  times, 
and  at  the  “ twilight  hour”   the  mother 
thought  to  pass  the  lonely  spell  singing 
the  hymns  and  songs  that  she  and  the 
father  sang  together.  But  scarcely  had 
the  first  chords  been  struck  when  a  wail 
loud  and 
papa  s 
chmr,''  and  soon  wcc  Margsrct  slid 
down  and  hunted  till  she  found  a  book 
of  papa’s  and  then  an  old  pair  of  slip­
pers,  and  with  them  tightly  clasped  in 
her  arms  she  walked  up  and  down  the 
room,  sobbing:  “ Oh,  my  dear  papa! 
How  many  more  weeks  will  it  be  till  1 
see  my  papa?”   Elizabeth  softly  whis­
pers:  “ Won’t  you 
let  me  have  one  of 
* papa’s  slippers?’ ’  And,  taking  it  in her 
arms,  she  cuddled  down  on  the  couch, 
patting  it  lovingly  and  crying  silently.
in 
the  life  of  a  traveling  man’s  family,and 
it  is  these  little  pathetic  side  scenes, 
these  little  white  milestones  on 
life’s 
pathway,  that  make  the  traveling  man 
stick  so  close  to  his  own  fireside  when 
he  has  a  day  off. 
is  these  invisible | 
cords  of  love  drawing  him  that  will  al­
low  him  to  “ skip”   that  town  on  his 
home  trip  and  “ do”   this  on  the  outgo­
ing  trip.
the  great  depths 
Who  can 
or  heights  of  a 
love? 
Who  can  estimate  the  preserving  and 
purifying  power  of  our  children  s  affec­
tion  for  us? 
It  shields  from  tempta­
tion,  it  takes the sting  from  sorrow,  and 
gives  more  worth  and  .beauty  than  the 
“ finest  bill  of  goods”   ever  sold  by  the 
“ best  drunimer”  
‘ largest 
house.”   Woe  to  him  who  “ smiles  not 
over  a  cradle,  or  weeps  not  over  a 
tomb.”   Pity  a  man,  for  he  deserves 
it,  who  has  never  had  the  companion­
ship  of  a  little  child.  He  has  missed 
the  greatest  pleasure  of 
life.  Oh,  the 
love  of  a  little  child,  so  pure,  so  con­
fidingly  trusting!  No  man  can  be  a 
long  who  holds  in  his  heart 
bad  man 
the  love  and  influence  of  a 
little  child 
and 
fruit.  There  is  no 
proper  equilibrium  of  life  and character 
without  this  influence,  this  love that  the 
dear  little  eyes,  looking  up 
into  ours, 
give  us.  No  home  is  complete  without 
the  purifying  life  of  a  little  child.

little  child  s 

lets 

it  bear 

fathom 

for 

the 

It 

It 

is  no  wonder  the  traveling  man 
“ rushes”   his  orders  on  the  homestretch 
— no  wonder  he  does  not  feel 
like  tak­
ing  in  that  town  or  this,  when  it  makes 
him  step  off  a  train  which  runs  by  his 
own  cottage  door,  where  the  shouts  of 
welcome  from  the  babies  are  awaiting 
him,  and  where  “ mamma”   adds  this 
or  that  dish  to  the  cooking  department, 
because  “ papa  likes  it,”   and  dons  the 
blue  instead  of  the  green  dress,  for  the

same  reason.  Home!  How  the  name 
touches  every  fibre  of  the  soul  and 
strikes  every  chord  in  the  human  heart! 
Nothing  but  death  can  break  the  spell. 
To  the  commercial  traveler  it  is  the one 
name  altogether  lovely.  As  the  train 
rushes  on,  he  sits  worried over the  thou­
sand and one things  which  make  his  life 
unpleasant  (for  a  drummer  is  not  car­
ried  on  flowery  beds  of  ease,  although 
some  folks  think  so).  Even  when  he 
smiles  and  is  “ so  polite”  his  heart  may 
be  heavy,  but  “ it’s  one  of  the  tricks  of 
the  trade, ”  and  he must be * ‘ polite’ ’ and 
smile,  though  maybe,  in  that  home  far 
awav 
in  the  village  under  the  hills,  a 
little  curly  head  is  tossing  and  fever- 
parched 
lips  are  asking :  Has  papa
come  yet?  Oh,  I  want my  dear  papa ! 
and  steam  and  electricity  cannot  bear 
him  swiftly  enough  to  the  little  arms 
stretched  out  to  greet  him.
How  a  Woman  Made a Fortune Patch­

ing  Greenbacks.

The  story  of  the  rise  and  fall  of  Er­
nestine  Becker  has  never been truthfully 
told 
in  print.  She  was  the  ingenious 
woman  who,  being  employed  in  the  re­
demption  division  of  the  Treasury  De­
partment,  devised  a  method  of  making 
nine  notes  out  of  eight.  Of  course,  the 
paper  money  that  comes  into  the  Treas­
ury  for  redemption  is in all  stages  of  di­
lapidation. 
it  can  only  be 
identified  by  pasting  scraps  together. 
Ernestine  would  tear  a  strip 
from 
one  note  and  paste  it  upon  another,  so 
artfully  manipulating  the  section  thus 
obtained  that  the  original  material  of 
eight notes served  to  compose nine,  leav­
ing  one  bill  over  for  herself.  This  was 
very  profitable,  inasmuch  as  she  was 
able  to  deal  with  fifties  and  hundreds 
she  never  bothered  with  notes  less  thai 
§20.

Some  of 

There  is  no  telling  how  long  she pros 
ecuted  this  business.  She  did  it  with 
the  utmost  boldness,  and  there  is  every 
reason  to believe  that  she  carried  it  on 
for a  unmber  of  years.  Her profits  may 
be  faintly  surmised  from  the  fact  that 
on  the  last  day  of  her  employment  she 
earned  $980  in  this  way.  This  was 
i- 
the  autumn  of  1883-  On  that  day  sh 
was  so  unlucky  as  to  be  absent  from  the 
office  for  a  while  and  a  package  of 
money  which  she  had  made  up  was  torn 
by  accident. 
It  was  handed  over  to an 
other  clerk  to  be  repaired,  and  the  lat 
ter  employe  counted  it  again,  according 
to  the  established  usage.

The  first  thing  that  excited  her  atten 
tion  was  that  the  numbers  on  the  tops 
and  bottoms  of  some  of  the  notes  di 
i not  match.  Nevertheless,  she  suspected 
nothing. 
It  was  evident  that  the  notes 
I had  been  patched  wrongly.  According 
ly,  she  soaked  them 
in  water  and  put 
them  together  properly.  As  a  result  she 
less  number  of  notes  and  a  less 
had  a 
indict 
amount  by  $980  than  had  been 
ted.  This  discovery  resulted  in  an 
ir 
vestigation.  Ernestine  claimed  that  the 
money  had  reached  the  Treasury  and 
been  handed  to  her 
in  the  shape  i| 
which  it  was  found.  Proof  to  the  con 
trary  could  hardly  be  obtained,  and 
no  prosecution  was  attempted.  The 
woman  made  good  the  $980.  A  Wash 
ington  real  estate  agent  who  died  the 
other  day  swallowed  the  fortune  which 1 
was  thus  criminally  acquired. 
T h e1 
woman  died  not  long  ago  of  cancer  in  a 
New  York  hospital.

Wooden  Sheep  Possible.

The  interesting agricultural announce­
ment  is  made  that  vegetable  wool  is  to 
be  introduced  into  the  United  States.  It 
comes  from  Peru,  where  it  grows  on 
perennial  tree  that  lasts  years. 
It  has 
a  long  and  fleecy  staple  and  is  the  best 
thing  yet  discovered  for mixing with the 
real  wool. 
In  fact,  for  many  purposes 
it  is  a  satisfactory  substitute  for  wool. 
Its  great  forte,  however,  is  as  a  mixer. 
It 
is  claimed  that  garments  manufac­
tured  of  a  combination  of  sheep  wool 
and  vegetable  wool  will  be  as  soft  and 
pliable  as  the  all  wool,  while 
its  pres-1 
ence  will  render  the  winter  undershirt 
less  shrinking  and  retiring  in 
its  dis­
position.  The  growing  of  vegetable 
wool  will  offer  many  advantages  over 
the  ordinary  wool 
in  neighborhoods 
where  there  are  sheep  killing  dogs.

BrusHes lor

\n y   sort  of  brushes  for  scrubbing, 
cleaning,  whitewashing,  window 
cleaning,  paper  hanging,  etc.  Best 
goods,  lowest  prices.  Send  for  cat­
alogue.

MICHIGAN  BRUSH  CO.,  grand rapids.

The Ideal Fencing  for  Fancy Stock

FROM  A  PH OTOGRAPH.

Cheap,  Strong,  Visible,  Durable,  Handsome.
Regular— Put  up on spools of about  100 pounds  each.  Runs 

twelve feet to the  pound, and  is  1 ^   inches wide.

The above shows A size of “reg u lar” wire.

NOTICEABLE  FEATURE.

Notice particularly that  the main  parallel  wires  are wrapped 
around and  securely fastened  to  the  ziz-zag  truss wire.  This 
construction  makes  a  rigid,  visible  and  absolutely  non=col- 
lapseable fencing strand, a distinctive feature  with  the  Hath- 
away  fence,  not  found  in  other  patterns  of  panel  or  truss 
fencing.  Write for prices.

FOSTER,  STEVENS & CO.  H

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Discovery  of a  Lost  Art  by  an  Amer­

ican  Potter.

jardinieres 

originated  under 

Among  the  triumphs  which  America 
has  recently  scored  is  the  reproduction 
of  the  famous  “ dragon’s  blood”   pot­
tery, 
the  Ming 
dynasty,  in  China,  500  years  ago.  The 
in  this  unique 
vases  and 
ware  are  much 
in  vogue  and  likely  to 
be  more  so because  of  the  costliness  of 
its  production.  The  glazes  are  a  gor­
geous  blood  red,  veinetl  and  streaked 
in  places  with  the  richest  purple  hue, 
and  for  ages  they  have  been  the coveted 
standard  of  all  that 
is  most  distin­
guished  in  the  world  of  ceramic  art.

The  secret  process  by  which  this  pe­
culiar  ware  was  produced  was  lost  to 
the  world  for over  a  century,  then  it  re­
appeared  and  was  again  lost,  until  an 
American  potter,  a  poor  man,  who 
made  every  sort  of  sacrifice  to obtain  it, 
finally  succeeded  in  his  aim.  Early  in 
his  career  a  curious  accident  led  Hugh 
C.  Robertson,  a  Chelsea  potter,  to  a 
discovery  which  made  him  confident  of 
possessing  a  clue  to  the  long-lost  art  of 
the  Chinese  “ dragon’s  blood.”   He 
concentrated  all  his  energies  upon  at 
taining  the  secret  outright.  On  one  oc­
casion  he  remained  for  sixty-two  hours 
constantly  on  the  watch  at his kiln,  with 
his  eye  glued  to  the  sight-hole,  while  a 
fire  of  3,000  degrees raged within,  every 
faculty  on  the  alert  to  catch,  from  the 
appearance  of  the  flames  and  currents 
of  air,  the  secret  of  the  transformation 
he  was  seeking.

jars  of  a  deep 

His  business,  financially,  was  a  fail 
ure.  When at  length  the kiln stood  idle 
for  lack  of  money  to  procure  fuel,  the 
shelves  of  his  shabby  shop  were  filled 
labors— priceless 
with  the  fruits  of  his 
vases  and 
iridescent 
color,  which  declared  at  once,  to  the 
virtuoso,  their  unmistakable  kinship  to 
the  ancient  ware  of  China.  The  leading 
art  critics  of  the  country  are  now  con 
gratulating  the  self-sacrificing  potter  on 
his  discovery.  A  company  of 
interest 
ed  capitalists  have  established  for  him 
a  new  and  improved  potttry,  and  have 
enabled  him  to  gain  public recognition 
Tiffany  gives  among  foreign 
importa 
tions  a  prominent  place  to  the  new 
American  “ dragon’s  blood”   ware.

in  regard  to the  re-use 
in  old  cig: 

Another  artistic  success,  more  prac 
less  costly  than  the  coveted 
tical  and 
“ dragon’s  blood”   ware, 
is  the  gray 
crackle  ware  produced  by  an  American 
potter.  This crackle  china  is  decorated 
in  a  harmonious  blue  shade,  and  gets 
its  name  of  “ crackle”   from  the 
innu 
merable  fine  lines,  simulating  cracks 
appearing  on  its  surface.
Scheme  to  Use  Cigar  Boxes  Twice
A  manufacturer and  importer  of  to 
bacco  applies  to  the  Commissioner  for 
information 
the  material  contained 
boxes.  He  says  that  his  presumption 
is  that  the  purposes  of  the  law  are  to se 
cure  the  total  destruction  of  the  stamps 
and  prevent  the  re-use  of  the  old  pack­
age  for  fraudulent  purposes,  but  that  he 
has  understood  that  it  has  been  hereto­
fore  ruled  by  the  Commissioner  that 
when  the  stamps  on  the empty boxes  are 
utterly  obliterated  by  washing,  or  some 
similar  process,  and  the  boxes  them­
selves  reduced 
to  “ shooks”   and  the 
parts  cleaned  off  so  as  to  obliterate  all 
the  old  marks  and  brads,  that  the  ma­
terial  thus  obtained  can  be  used  for  the 
construction  of  new  boxes;  that  in  view 
of  the  great  saving  to  the  trade  to  be 
effected  by  such  a  practice  he  desiies 
further  information.

The  Commissioner  informed  him  that 
Section  3392  of  the  Revised  Statutes 
prescribes  that  all cigars shall be packed 
in  boxes,  not  before  used,  for  that  pur­
pose;  that, 
to  his  special 
query,  he  is  advised  that  the  Commis-

in  regard 

oner  has  ruled  that  old  cigar  boxes 
can  be  taken  apart,  the  pieces  planed 
or otherwise  treated,  so  as  to  remove  a’l 
traces  of  previous  use,  and  that  new 
boxes  may  be  constructed  out  of  such 
material,  but  that 
the  Commissioner 
as  not  and  does  not  feel  authorized  to 
rule  that  old  boxes  may  be  re-used  sim- 
ly  by  removing  from  them  all  traces 

of  previous  use.
The  “ Eureka”  Self-Locking  Hand 

Potato  Planter.

We  here  illustrate  the  celebrated  Eu­
reka  Hand  Potato Planter,  manufactured 
nd  sold  by  the  Greenville  Planter  Co., 
f  Greenville.  With  such  favor  was  the 
'Eureka”   received  last  season  that  the 
manufacturers  were  wholly  unable  to 
supply  the  demand  and,  when their  fac­
tory  was  closed  June  8,  it  was  found  the 
into  hundreds 
ancelled  orders  ran  up 
f  dozens.  To  meet  the  greatly 
in- 
reased  demand  for  the  season  of  1896, 
new  special  machinery  was  constructed, 
and  on  Nov.  11  their  factory  was  again 
full  blast,  with  a  capacity  of  200 
complete  planters  each  day.  The  pros­
pects  now  are  that  they  will  run  equally 
as late  this  season.

As  will  be  seen,  tht 

Eureka’

strong, 

durable
most  simple  device, 
and  little  likely  to  get  out  of  repair. 
Figs.  1,  2  and  3  well 
illustrate  the 
mechanism  of  the  jaws  or  beak.  The 
lotted  lines  indicate  the  position  of  the 
slot 
In  this  slot  the 
heavy  special  steel  bolt,  which  is  sta­
tionary  in  the  front  jaw,  plays  freely  up 
and  down, 
jaws  as  the 
planter  is swung clear of,  and  unlocking 
them  as  it  strikes,  the  ground.

in  the  back  jaw. 

locking  the 

Great 

importance 

is  attached  to  the 
lock,  which  is  fully  covered  by 
letters 
patent.  As  this  lock  holds  the  jaws  se­
curely  together  against  pressure  from 
within  the  operator  is  enabled  to  drop, 
the  potato  or  seed  at  any  stage  of 
the  operation,  as, 
for  example,  when 
the  planter  is  swung  forward,  and  at the 
most  convenient  height  to  be  reached. 
the  dropping  of  the  seed 
Without 
must  be  delayed  until 
is 
brought 
into  actual  contact  with  the 
ground.  When  in  this  position,  how 
ever,  the  tube  cannot be reached without 
stooping  forward. 
Consequently 
the 
lock  saves  both  in  time  and  fatigue.

the  beak 

it, 

Be  More  Lenient.

If  you  are  the  proprietor  of  a  store, 
and  consequently  the  boss,  bear in mind 
that  you  are  not  the  only  individual 
the  world  who  is  running  a store.  Don’t 
use  your  employes  as  door  mats  and 
forget  the  courtesy  and  consideration 
due  from  one  human  being  to  another 
Treat  those 
in  your  employ  with  a  jot 
more  leniency  at  least  than  you  would 
a  machine.  That  you  would  keep  oiled 
up,  if  for  on  other  reason  than  because 
it  would  pay  you  to  do  so.  Sound  busi­
ness  policy,  if  nothing  else,  would  dic­
tate  as  good  treatment  of  the  human 
machine.  Everyone  makes  mistakes, 
perfection  cannot  be  attained  this  side 
of  the  heavenly  rest—and  there  it  is  not 
needed.  Don’t  get  yourself  into  such  a 
state  of  excitement  over  some  delin­
quency  on  the  part  of  an  employe  as  to 
almost  bring  on  an  attack  of  apoplexy. 
Exercise 
toward 
those 
in  your  service,  and  thus  secure 
their good  will,  instead  of  a  wholesome 
longing  to  punch  your  head.

common  humanity 

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s, r...........................................................  
70
Jennings’, genuine...........................................25*10
Jennings’, im itation........................................60*10

AXES

First Quality. S.  B.  Bronze.................................  5 50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.................
First Quality. S.  B. S.  Steel.................
First Quality.  D.  B. S teel.........  .........

9  50 
10 25

BARROWS

R ailroad................................................. $12 00  14 00
Garden......................................................  net  30  00

BOLTS

Stove................................................................... 
60
65
Carriage new list............................................... 
Plow.................................................................... 40* 10

Well,  plain.........................................................$ 3 25

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin, figured..................................  
70
Wrought  Narrow...............................................75*10

BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle......................  

 

 

70

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

CARTRIDGES

Ely’s  1-10... 
Ilick’s C. F.
G.  D ............
M usket.......

Rim  Fire__
Central  Fire.

65

. per m 
. |>er m 
.per m 
. per m

.50*  5 
.25*  5

Socket Firm er.................................................... 
Socket  Fram ing................................................ 
Socket  Corner.................................................... 
Socket  Slicks..................................................... 

80
80
80
80

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks.........................................  
60
Taper and Straight Shank.............................. 50*  5
Morse’s Taper Shank....................................... 50*  5

ELBOWS

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

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark's small, $18;  large, $26..........................£0*  10
Ives’,  1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30................................. 
25

FiLES-N ew   List

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

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

13 

14 
Discount,  70—10

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and  Level  Co.’s.........................60*16

28
17

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.........................................$16 00, dis  60*10
$!5 (K), dis  60*10 
Hunt Eye....................
$18  50, dis  20*10
Hunt's.........................

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s ...............................
Coffee,  P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.'s  Malleable
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark *............
Coffee, Enterprise.....................................

MOLASSES  GATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................
Stebbin.’s G enuine..
Enterprise, self-measuring ...
NAILS

Steel  and

Advance over base, on  both
Steel nails, base........................
Wire nails,  base........................
10 to 60 ad vance........................
3 
....................................
* ...............................
4 
3 
....................................
Ping 3

Finish 10............... 
..............
Finish  -6..................................
Clinch  iq ....... .......... .

60*10
60*10
30

. 
.. 

Wire.
2 65 
..  2  70 
50 
60
75
90
1  20
1  60
1  60
75
90
75
90
10
70
80
90
1  75

.. 

... 

...  @5C
...60*10
...  @50
...  @5(
6C
.60*10*10

70&

PLANES
Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy..........
Sciota B ench...........................
Sandusky Tool C o’s,  fancy..
Bench, firstquality.................
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s
PANS
Fry,  Acme ..._..................................
Common, polished..........................

RIVETS

wood.........

Iron and  T in n e d .............................................
Copper Rivets and Burs.................................. 50*10
“A”  Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages 54c per pound  extra 

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new 
Kip’s  .............................................................dis
Yerkes & Plum b's....................................      -dis 40*10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel.................... 30c list 
i0
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40*10

list........................... dis 3314

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware........................... new list 70&101
Japanned Tin W are..........................................20*10
Granite Iron  W are........................... new list 40*10

HOLLOW  WARE

Pots.......................................................................60*10
K ettles................................................................60*10
Spiders 
.............................................................. 60*10
Gate, Clark’s,  1,2,3..................................   dis 60*10
State...............................................p erd o z.n et  2 50

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

B right................................................................. 
Screw  Eves......................................................... 
Hook’s................................................................. 
Gate Hooks and  Eyes...................................... 
Stanley Rule and  Level Co.'s................... dis 

LEVELS

ROPES

Sisal, H inch and  larger................................. 
Manilla...............................................................  
Steel and Iron.................................................... 
Try and Bevels..................................................
M itre..................................................................

SQUARES

80
80
80
80
70

514
9
80

SHEET  IRON

com. smooth,  com.

2  90
All sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14.......................................$3  30 
Nos.  15 to 17 ......................................  3  30 
Nos. 18 to 21.......................................  3  45 
Nos. 22 to 24 ......................................  3  55 
Nos. 25 to 26 ......................................  3  70 
No.  27 ..............................................  3  80 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86............................................dis 
50
Solid Eyes.............................................per ton  20 00

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

$2 40
2 40
2 60
2 70
2 80

Steel, Game.................................................. 
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton's70&10*10
Mouse, choker...............................per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion...........................per doz 
125

TRAPS

WIRE

WRENCHES

HORSE  NAILS

Bright  Market...................................................  
75
75
Annealed  Market............................................. 
Coppered  Market...............................................70*10
Tinned  Market.................................................   6214
Coppered Spring  Steel.................................... 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ...........................   2 35
Barbed  Fence,  painted..................................   2  00
Au Sable........................................................dis 40* 1C
Putnam ..........................................................dis 
5
Northwestern............................................... dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled......................  
30
50
Coe's Genuine...................................................  
Coe's Patent  Agricultural, wrought  ..........  
80
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable..................................  
Bird  Cages  .........................................  ... 
50
Pumps, C'istern..........................................  
75*10
Screws,  New  List.......................................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate.............................. 50*10*10
40*10
Dampers, American..................................  
M ETALS-Zinc
6q
600 pound t;asks.............................
6%
Per pound.......................................
12V4
14@H...............................................
The prices of the many otherqualitiesof solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.
10x14  IC, Charcoal............................................ $  5 25
14x20 IC, C harcoal...........................................  5  25
20x14 IX, C harcoal...........................................  6  25
14x20 IX, Charcoal............................................  6  25

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

SOLDER

Each additional  X on this grade, $1.75.

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, C narcoal...........................................  5  00
14x20 1C. C harcoal...........................................  5  00
10x14 IX, C harcoal...........................................  6  00
14x20 IX, C harcoal...........................................  6  00

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean................................   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean................................   6  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............................  10 00
4  50
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Alls way Grade----
5  50 
14x20 IX, Charcoal,  Allaway Grade —
9  00
20x28 1C, Charcoal,  Allaway G rade....
20x28 IX* Charcoal, Allaway G rade....
BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 1 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, f

11  00

per pound.

T IN W A R E .

We carry a full stock of 

Pieced and Stamped  Tinware.

wm.  BRumjnELER & sons

Manufacturers  and  Jobbers of  TINWARE. 

Dealers  in  Rags,  Rubbers, Metals, etc.

260 5.  Ionia St. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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WEDNESDAY,  -  -  -  APRIL 29, 1896.

TAKES  A  BOLD  STAND.

The  Solvay  Process  Co.,  a  corpora­
tion  having  a  capital  of  several  million 
dollars,  has  begun  the  construction  of 
a  branch  of  its  Syracuse  establishment 
in  a  suburb  of  Detroit.  As  is  usual 
in 
such  cases,  the  management  has  been 
called  upon  to  define 
its  position  to­
ward  unionism,  which  it does  in  a news­
paper  interview,  in  no  uncertain  terms. 
Superintendent  Angell— who  is  a  broth­
er  of  President  James  B.  Angell,  of 
the  University  of Michigan—plainly de­
fines  the  policy  of  the  company  as  un­
compromisingly  hostile  to unionism  and 
the  walking  delegate.  Not  only  does  he 
consider  labor  unions  as  inimical  to  the 
interests  of  the  company  on  account  of 
the  fact  that  its  process  is  a  secret  one, 
but  he  positively  refuses  to  permit  a 
union  man  to  be  employed  on  the  work 
of  constructing  the  buildings  and  plant. 
Every  man  applying  for  work,  if  con­
sidered,  is  subjected  to  a  searching  ex­
amination. 
If  he  is  found  to  belong  Btc 
a  union,  all  negotiations  cease.  Mr. 
Angell  gives  as his reason  for this courst 
that  the  company  considers  the  “ walk­
ing  delegate  as  a  walking  pest  on  the 
face  of  the  earth,”   and  that  “ uniot 
men  create dissensions  among  the  othe 
workmen,  and,  if  we  can  prevent  it,  not 
one  will  find  employment  here.”   The 
works  will  employ  a  force  of  i,8oo  men 
when  manufacturing  commences  nex 
spring,  and  the  plant  will  be  run  day 
and  night 
in  eight  hour  shifts  for  31 
days  in  the  year.

For  this  positive  and  manly  stand  th 
Solvay  Company  will  be  held  up  to  ex 
ecration  as  the  enemy  of  labor,  and,  i 
possible,  its  products  will  be boycotted 
and  it  is  fair to  presume that,  with  such 
prestige  and  intelligence  in  its manage­
ment,  its  determination  is  the  result  of 
careful  consideration. 
Among  other 
phases  of  the  question  doubtlessly  con­
sidered  was  that  of  the  rights  of  the 
company  in  the  premises.  Through  the 
operation  of  unionism  it  has  come  to  be 
quite  generally 
that  all 
questions  as  to  wages  and  management 
of  labor,  hours,  etc.,  are  questions  for 
the  sole  consideration  and  decision  of 
the  walking  delegates. 
If  this  proposi­
tion  be  true,  the  company  is  decidedly 
radical  and  high-handed  in  its  position.
But  is  it  true?  This  company  comes 
to.the  workman  with  a  quantity  of  labor 
it  wishes  to  have  performed.  Has  it 
not  a  perfect  right  to  say  how  much 
it 
will  give  for  it?  Has  any  man  or body 
of  men  a  right  to  say  that  this  labor 
must  be  done  at  prices  they  will  name

considered 

INTERNATIONAL  ARBITRATION. 
in  Washington 
The  convention  held 
last  week  to  consider  the  question of  in­
ternational  arbitration  was  notable  in 
that  there  were  present  many  of  the 
leading  educators,  statesmen  and politi­
cal  scientists  of  the  country.  With such 
a  representation,  it  was  to  be  expected 
that  the  subject  would  be  handled  in  a 
manner  to  secure  a  decided  advance  of 
the  cause  of  universal  peace. 
It  is pos­
sible  that  the  action  taken  in  the  adop­
tion  of  the  well-written  report  presented 
by  President  Angell  of  the  University 
was  as  much  as  could  be  accomplished ; 
but  the  speechmaking  which  preceded 
it  was  very  disappointing.  Not  only 
was  the  matter  principally  the threshing 
over  of  old  straw,  but  some  of  the 
speakers  of  greatest  prestige  went  out 
of  their  way  to  bring  in  the 
irrelevant 
discussion  of  the  past  foreign  policy  of 
the  Government.  Thus  President  Eliot, 
of  Harvard  University,  gave  President 
Cleveland  and  Secretary  Olney  a partic­
ular  scoring  for  the  Venezuela  episode, 
and  condemned,  in  unqualified  terms, 
the  prompt  action  of  Congress  in  the 
matter.

President  Eliot  seems  to  forget  that, 
however  desirable  a National arbitration 
tribunal  might  be,  there  was  none  in 
existence  at  the  time  of  this  incident. 
The  officials  of  the  Government  are 
placed 
in  their  positions  to  discharge 
their  duties  in  conformity  with  condi­
tions  which  are  in  existence,  regardless 
of  theoretical ideals  which  might  be  de­
sired.  The  prompt  seconding  of  the 
action  of  the  Government  both  by  Con­
gress  and  the  people  indicates  that  the 
conditions  demanded  the  action,  and  it 
in  preserving  the 
was  more  effectual 
peace,  as  events  show,  than  a 
less  de 
in  any  case,  the 
cisive  course.  But, 
action  was  subject  to  conditions 
ii 
which  there  was  no  such  court  of  arbi 
tration,  and  so  the  blame  for  it  is  en 
tirely  impertinent. 
It  may  be pertinent 
to  deprecate the  conditions,  but  it  is,  to 
say  the  least,  not  patriotic  to  condemn 
the  spirit  of  Americanism  called  out  by 
incident  and  to  say  of  it,  Car 
that 
anything  be  more  offensive  to 
indus 
trious,  sober,  hard-working  American 
citizens  than  this  chip-on-the-shoulder 
attitude,  this  brutality,  coupled  with 
despotic  militarism?”   President  Eliot 
also  deprecates  the  fact  that 
foremost 
in  this  enormity  are  sundry  graduates 
of  Harvard  University.”   Rather  should 
Harvard  be  congratulated  that  some 
patriots  are  included  among  its  alumni 
It  is  fair  to  say  that  the  remarks  of  the 
learned  professor  were  not  enthusiastic 
ally  seconded,  and  Bishop  Keane, 
the  Catholic  University,  took  occasion 
to  all  attention  to  the  fact  that  they- 
the  delegates—were  not  there  for  th 
purpose  of  blaming  the  President  or 
Congress,  and  pertinently  added,  “ It 
a  pity  that  things  are  as  they  are,  com 
pelling  the  President  and  Congress  to 
talk  of  war  with  another  civilized  ns 
tion. ”

E.  V.  Smalley,  of  St.  Paul,  a  former 
Washington  newspaper  correspondent 
indicated  the  situation  more  correctly 
by  dissenting  from  the  proposition  that 
this  country  should  welcome  the  exten­
sion  of  the  power  of  Great  Britain  over 
the  world  as  an  agency  of  civilization, 
while  we  should  keep  within  our  own 
borders.  He  believed  in  a  navy  and  in 
a  competition  for  the  commerce  of  the 
world.

However  commendable  such  philan­
thropic  gatherings  may  be,  and however 
beautiful  the  theories  of  universal peace 
to  result  from  arbitration,  it  must  be

taken  into  consideration  that  national­
ities  still  exist,  that  there  is  still  such  a 
thing  as  national  aggression,  which  de­
mands  the  continued  existence  of  pa­
triotism.  For  men  like  President  Eliot 
to  decry  such  a  spirit  under  present cir­
cumstances  will  be  apt  to  awaken  a 
suspicion  of  Anglomania on his  part  not 
favorable  to  his  influence  in  this  coun­
It  may  be  the  destiny  of  the  world 
try. 
secure  universal  peace  by  universal 
jubjection  to  Great  Britain;  but  it  will 
be  some  time  before  this  country  ,is 
ready  to  accept  that  proposition.

GENERAL  TRADE  IMPROVING. 
While  the  opening  of  spring  has  de­
veloped  a  greatly  increased  trade  move­
ment,  it  has  also  developed  the  extent 
of  overproduction  which  keeps  prices 
iown  and  prevents  any  rapid  recovery 
n  the  tone  of  the  markets.  The  opera- 
011  of  combinations  has  been  disap­
pointing  in  that,  while  they  succeed 
in 
nominally  advancing  prices,  it  is  gen- 
rally  found  that  dealers  and  consumers 
tave  sufficient  stocks  on  hand  to  pre­
vent  demand.  The 
increased  activity 
_jas  also  developed  a  disposition  for 
strikes,  which  has  a  discouraging 
in­
fluence.

Commodities  are  generally continuing 
tendency  of  prices, 
the  downward 
lower  than 
though  they  were  already 
ever  before.  Wheat  has  lost  about  one- 
its  advance  the  first  of  the 
sym­

month  and  other  cereals  have 
pathized  with  it.

alf  of 

improvement 

The  fact  that  there  is  a  better  retail 
trade  gives  a  more  hopeful  outlook 
in 
the  cotton  manufacture,  although  the 
actual 
Raw 
cotton  is  advanced  a  trifle.  The  woolen 
ituation  continues  the  same  old  gloomy 
story— everything  dull  except  women’s 
dress  goods.  Mills  for  all  other  lines 
are  rapidly  decreasing 
production. 
Sales  of  wool  continue  very  small.

is  slight. 

Although  the  demand  for  shoes  has 
is  weaker, 
are 

leather 
sales.  Hides 

been  fairly  good, 
with 
stronger.

increased 

is  attributed 

The  speculative  situation  continues 
the  bullish  tendency  of  last  week,  with 
an  increased  breadth  and  confidence  of 
operation.  On  the  average,  prices  have 
continned  to  advance.  This  favorable 
outlook 
to  a  revival  in 
London  speculative  markets  and  to  the 
usual  spring  awakening.  The  continued 
advance  of  Diamond  Match 
is  becom- 
.ng  almost  phenomenal,  having  ad­
vanced  to  235.  Predictions  are  made 
that  it  will  reach  250  before  the  end  of 
the  week.

is 
The  improvement  in  general  trade 
effected 
in  the  bank  clearings,  which 
exceeded  the  billion  mark.  They  have 
been  below  this  for  a  long  time.  Fail­
ures  were  a  little  less—240,  against  244 
last  week.

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the Ital­
ian  population  of  New  York  is  much 
greater  than  that  of  either  the  French 
or  Spanish  speaking  colonies,  it 
is  re­
marked  that  the  sign  “ Italian  spoken 
here”   is  very  rarely  seen,  while  those 
of  the  other  nationalities  are  frequent. 
This  is  attributed  partly  to  the  fact  that 
the  Italians  are  more  inclined to patron­
ize  their  own  countrymen  and  partly  to 
the  fact  that,  while  they  remain 
igno­
rant  of  English,  they  are  generally  too 
poor  and  unprofitable  as  customers  to 
have  their  patronage  sought.  Those  of 
that  nationality  who  become  prosperous 
at  the  same  time  acquire  the  American 
ways  and  language,  while  the  German 
and  French  population  represent  con­
siderable  purchasing  ability  at  the  start 
and  continue  longer  in  the  use  of  their 
mother  tongue.

and  under  restrictions  they  will  impose? 
The  reply  is  self  evident,  yet  the  man 
who  undertakes  to  do  work  on  this basis 
takes  his  life  in  his  teeth.

The  man  who  assumes  the  position 
indicated  would  be  decidedly  silly  to 
offer  his  labor  at  a  price  so  low  that  he 
could  not 
secure  suitable  workmen. 
The  laws  of  competition  are  effective 
here  as  elsewhere. 
If  a  man  insists  on 
prices  too  low  to  secure  good  workmen, 
if  he  gets  any  they  are  not  such  as  can 
properly  and  profitably  do  his  work. 
The  man  who  offers  better  wages  gets 
the  efficient  workmen ;  and  in  the  mat­
ter  of  hours  and  the  treatment  of  men 
the  same  rules  apply.

is 

On  the  other  hand,  the  workmen  en­
joy  the  same  rights.  They  may  estab­
lish  their  price  and  even 
join  with 
others  in  doing  so,  and  this  right  is  not 
infringed  by  the  action  of  the  company 
It  is  the  observation  of 
referred  to. 
the  management  that  unionism 
in- 
mical  to  the  interests  of  the  company, 
and,  in  deciding  to  exclude  it,  it  sim- 
ily  exercises 
its  unquestionable  right 
f  seeking  its  labor  in  other  markets. 
The  position  of  the Solvay company is 
a  consistent  one  and  is  one  worthy  of 
the  consideration  of  the  management  of 
other  similar  enterprises.  The  cost  of 
securing  employes  who  can  be  depend­
ed  upon,  and  who  must  each  stand upon 
his  own  merits  as  a  workman,  is  well 
.ncurred  when  permanent  arrangements 
and  future  results  are  under  considera- 
don.  The  time  for  temporizing  is  past 
for  those  who  are building for the future.

HOMICIDAL  MANIA.

local 

There  has  never  been  a  time  in  the 
history  of  the  country  when  homicidal 
mania  was  as  prevalent  as  it 
is  at  the 
present.  The  terrible  tragedy  at  Pent- 
water,  having  a 
interest  on  ac­
count  of  its  being  so  near  and  the  ones 
concerned  having  interests  and  relatives 
in  this  city,  is  cnly  one  of  a  series  of  a 
great  number  which  have  been  occur­
the  country 
ring  all  over 
some 
months  past. 
Chicago  and  vicinity 
have  afforded  a considerable proportion, 
ranging  from  the  killing  of  one  or  two 
individuals  to  the  destruction  of  whole 
families.

for 

life. 

The  most  plausible  reason  for  the 
prevalence  of  this  mania 
just  now,  is, 
perhaps,  the  continued  hard  times  and 
the  uncertain  outlook  for  the  future  in 
the  minds  of  those  inclined  to  take  a 
pessimistic  view  of 
In  several 
cases  the  cause  was  directly  traceable to 
this  condition,  and  it  is  noticeable  that 
the  tragedies  are  not  the  result  of 
actual  destitution, 
the  murderers  ~  in 
some  cases  having  a  large  bank  credit.
Instances  of  the  fatal  results  of  homi­
cidal  mania  are,  of  course,  always  oc­
curring,  and  will  occur  as  long  as  it 
is 
impossible  to  know  of  the  existence  of 
insanity  until 
is  thus  manifested. 
Adding  to  these  instances  those  caused 
by  the  effects  of  financial  stringency  on 
the  mind  is  sufficient  to  account  for  the 
unwonted  frequency  of  the  demonstra­
tions.  The  lesson  to  be  taught  is  great­
er  care  and  watchfulness  and  more 
summary  action  in  cases  where  threats 
or  other  manifestations  of  mental  dis­
order 
indicate  the  possibility  of  de­
rangement.

it 

The  Chicago  health  department  has 
condemned  500  cans  of  corn,  packed  at 
Hoopeston,  111.,  in  1893,  found 
in  the 
hands  of  a  retail  grocer  on  State  street. 
The  department  has  found  that  consid­
erable  of  the  canned  corn  packed  that 
is  unfit  for  consumption  and  has 
year 
advised  that  none  of  it  be  used. 
It  is 
being  condemned  wherever  found.

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9

TURNING  OF  THE  TIDE.

During  the  past 

few  days  a  small 
amount  of  gold  has  been  exported,  not 
a  sufficient quantity to  occasion  any  un­
easiness,  but  just  enough  to  cause  spec­
ulation  as  to  the  prospects  of  gold  ship­
ments  this  spring.  The  course  of  the 
exchange  market  recently  has  not  indi­
cated  any  prospect  of  immediate  gold 
shipments,  and 
it  must  be  “admitted 
that  the  general  impression  is  that  the 
exports  of  gold  will  be  rather  light  for 
some  time  to  come.

In 

is  perfectly  plain. 

Money  never  was  cheaper 

The  reason  for this  improved  state  of 
In  the  first 
things 
in 
place,  the  trade  balance  has  been 
our  favor  for  some 
little  time,  and, 
secondly,  the  liberal  dumping  of  Amer­
ican  securities  by  London  and  other 
foreign  markets  upon  our  hands  has 
ceased. 
fact,  the  tide  has  com­
menced  to  flow  the  other  way,  and,  in­
stead  of  the  steady  return  of  our  secu­
rities  by  foreign 
investors  which  has 
been  in  progress  since  the  Baring  fail­
ure,  there  is  now  an  outflow,  as  Euro­
pean 
investors  are  beginning  to  pur­
chase  American  stocks  and  bonds  with 
something  like  the  old-time  confidence.
the' 
European  markets,  and  very  naturally 
there  is  a  brisk  demand  for  desirable 
investments.  The  unfortunate  experi­
ence  with  South  American  securities, 
and  more  recently  with  African  ven­
tures,  has  been  such  as  to  divert  the 
more  conservative  class  of 
investors  to 
something  more  solid.  American  se­
curities  which  represent  more  stable 
values  are accordingly being  looked  to 
with  more  avidity  than  has  been  the 
case  for  several  years,  and  the  fact  that 
such  securities  can  be  disposed  of  at  a 
pinch,  as  the  steady  absorption  of  vast 
quantities  by  this  country  during  the 
past  few  years  has  demonstrated,  has 
won  them  friends  among  conservative 
investors.

in 

It  is  true  that  the  foreign  demand  for 
American  securities  has  only  reached 
moderate  proportions  as  yet,  but  the 
fact  that  the  selling,  which  so  recently 
played  an 
important  part  in  financial 
history,  has  ceased  entirely  is  a  signifi­
cant  sign  of  the  times,  and  is  accepted 
in  well-informed  quarters  as a  promise 
that  from  now  on  a  steadily 
increasing 
demand  for  American  securities  will  be 
experienced.

There  can  be  no  denying  that  foreign 
losses 
investors  suffered  considerable 
in  the  case  of  certain  American  enter­
prises  which  were  badly  or loosely  man­
aged ;  but,  at  the  same  time,  it  is  like­
wise  true  that  American  enterprises  are 
now  on  a  much  sounder basis  than  they 
have  ever been  before,  and,  consequent­
ly,  will  recommend  themselves  with 
greater  force  than  formerly  to  the  for­
eign  investor  seeking  an  outlet  for  his 
surplus  money,  which  at  the  present 
time brings  butTittle  interest  in  Euro­
pean  money  markets.

With  this  prospect  of  a  good  demand 
is  little 
for  American  securities,  there 
large  exports  of gold; 
danger  of  any 
hence 
it  may  safely  be  said  that  the 
large  outward  movement  of  the precious 
metal  witnessed  last  year  is  not  likely 
to  be  repeated  again  for  a  long  time  to 
come,  if  at  all.

WASTED  SYMPATHY.

The  series  of  resolutions  of  sympathy 
for  the  Armenians  and  in  denunciation 
of  the  Turks,  which  are  again  being 
passed  by  public  meetings  in  England, 
come at  a  late hour  in  the  day  and  with 
little  consistency  from  that  source. 
If 
responsibility  for, these  outrages  rests

upon  any  one  nation  other  than Turkey, 
England  is  that  nation.

It  is'too  late  for  the  British  govern­

ment  to  act.

Russia  has achieved such signal diplo­
matic  triumphs  and  acquired  such  a 
standing  at  Constantinople,  through  the 
halting  and  cowardice  of  the  Salisbury 
government,  its  clumsy  diplomacy  and 
final  confession  of 
impotency,  that  the 
Czar  alone  possesses  the  key  to  the situ­
ation  and  is  now  alone  responsible  for 
the  continued 
inhumanity  towards  the 
Armenians  and  hostility  towards  the 
missionaries.  England,  at  the  begin­
ning  of  the  troubles,  by  prompt  and  de­
cisive measures,  could have  checked  the 
wholesale  slaughter.  By  common  con­
sent  of  the  majority  of  European  pow­
ers,  England  was  expected  to  take  the 
lead  and 
interpose  between  the  Sultan 
and  his  suffering  subjects.  For  fear  of 
permitting  Russia  or  France  to  gain 
some  little  advantage  in  the  East,  the 
British  government  deliberately  and 
cold-bloodedly  abandoned 
the  Arme­
nians  and  devoted  itself  to  maintaining 
the  Eastern  statu  quo.

What  has  been  the  result  of this short­
sighted  and  selfish  policy,  after  all? 
Simply  that  England  has  lost 
its  pres­
tige  at  Constantinople,  while Russia has 
acquired  the  mastery.  England  could 
not  have  lost  more  by  an  honest  resort 
to  force.  Selfishness  and  heartlessness 
have  overleaped  themselves,  as  usual. 
The  British  government  could  not  have 
stood  an  hour  unless  it  had  been  sus­
tained  by  British  opinion.  Opinion 
over  there  can  drive  a  ministry  out  of 
office  at  any  time. 
If  these  Good  Sa­
maritans who are  now ‘ ‘ resoluting, ’ ’  and 
other  Good  Samaritans  who  have  never 
been  resoluting,  had  brought  the  proper 
pressure  to  bear at  the  right  time,  they 
might  have  seen  the  Turkish  outrages 
stopped. 
In  view of  the  continuously 
cowardly,  selfish  and  cold-blooded  posi­
tion  of  the  British  government 
in  the 
premises,  resolutions  by  large  and  re­
spectable  and  presumably 
influential 
bodies  at  home 
look 
extremely  like  buncombe.

in  Old  England 

When  work  was  slack  last  winter,  in 
the  completion  of  the 
San  Francisco, 
Parrott  building  was  hastened  in  order 
to  give  employment  to  mechanics  who 
would  otherwise have  been 
idle.  They 
were  employed  at  the  current  rate  of 
wages,  and  for  the  usual  hours  of  work. 
They  do  not  pretend  that  'the  terms  of 
their  contract  were  violated  by  their 
employers.  They  were  “ called  out”  
because  the  demagogues  who  manipu­
late  the  unions  put  forth  new  demands 
which  were  not  thought  of  last  winter, 
and  which  are  not  essential  to  the  well­
being  of  the  mechanics.  The  work­
men  and  their  wives and  children were, 
in  fact,  required  to  give up their  means 
of  livelihood  in  order  that  the  officials 
of  the  unions  should  win  a  victory  over 
their  employers,  and should demonstrate 
to  the  men  that  they are useful,  and  that 
they  ought  to  be  supported  in 
idleness 
out  of  the  funds  of  the  unions.

A  competent  authority  places  the  sal­
aries  and  commisssions  earned  by  the 
commercial  travelers 
in  the  country  at 
about  $500,000,000.  These  men  also 
distribute 
in  traveling  expenses,  rail­
road  fare  and  hotel  bills  another  $500, - 
000,000,  or  a  total  of  $1,000,000,000 
in­
vested  annually  in  this  factor  of  trade. 
Yet  so  evenly  is  this  vast  sum  distribu­
ted  and  so  well  adjusted  to  the  needs  of 
business,  that 
it  all  runs  on  smoothly, 
constantly  augmenting  commerce,  de­
veloping  the  resources  of our country, 
and  maxing  it  the  wonder of  the  world.

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METHODS  OF  TRAVELING.

Written for the T radesman.

It  is  a  disputed  question  whether  the 
primitive  human  animal,  in  his  earliest 
mode  of  progression, 
traveled  on  all 
fours  or  walked  upright  as  he  does now.
If  the  former  method  was  the  original 
one,  all  will  admit  that,  when  the  in­
vention  of  upright  progression  was 
made, itembodied  a great  improvement. 
While  some  of  the  orders  of  creation 
more  conservative,  by  adhering  to  the 
use  of  all  the  legs  given  by  nature,  de­
veloped  a  degree  of  speed  and  endur­
ance  not  to  be  attained  by  two  legs, 
there  are  none  who  would  wish  to  se­
cure  those  advantages  at  the  expense  of 
the  commanding  dignity  and  majesty 
of  the  human  figure.  The  mo le  of  pro­
gression  on  two  legs,  whether  the  orig­
invention,  is  the 
inal  cne  or  a 
in 
most  universal:  all  other  inventions 
the  direction  of  human 
transit  are 
comparatively  unimportant  exceptions; 
walking  is  the  democratic  method.

later 

It  is  probable  that,  fora  large  portion 
of  the  existence  of  the  human  race,  this 
was  the  only  method.  We  know  that  in 
many  savage  races  no  other  was  ever 
invented.  Thus  the  American  Indian 
never  conceived  the  idea  that  he  could 
do  more  than  endeavor  to  develop  the 
universal  method,  which  he  did  by  the 
training  of  runners  until  they  became 
wonders  of  agility  and  endurance,  when 
the  horse  was  provided,  and 
its  use 
taught  by  his  unwelcome  visitor  from 
across  the  Great  Sea.  The  same  fact 
has  been  observed  of  most  primitive 
races  of  both  ancient  and modern times.
It  is  probable  that  the  first  aid  to pro­
gression  was  that  devised  by the earliest 
ones  of  the  race  who  succeeded 
in  es­
tablishing  an  authority  over  their  fel 
lows  and  compelling  them  to  relieve 
their  legs  of  their  proper  duty  by  them­
selves  acting  as  bearers  for  their  aristo­
cratic  persons.  Of  course,  it  is  a  mat­
ter  of  conjecture  as  to  whether  this  was 
by  the  method  commonly  known  as 
pickapack,  or  whether  there  were  sev­
eral  whose  services  were  made available 
by  means of  the  branches  of  trees  used 
as  a  stretcher. 
It  has  been  observed  by 
travelers  that  in  many  primitive  tribes 
the  pickapack  method 
is  most  in  use 
as  the  proper  way  to  manifest  the  dig­
nity  of  the  highest  rulers,  and 
it  is, 
therefore,  fair  to  presume  that  it was the 
earliest  improvement  on  walking. 
1 he 
method  of  bearing  the  great  ones  of  the 
earth  on  some  form  of  hand  carriage, 
as  a  stretcher  or  palanquin,  doubtless 
became  early  developed ;  and  it  is  still 
widely  in  use  among  savage  peoples— 
and  among  some  not  so  savage,  as  the 
Chinese,  Japanese,  etc.,  where  human 
life  is  so  plentiful  that  it  provides  the 
cheapest  burden  bearers.

The  method  of  progression  where 
water  would  serve  as  a  medium  by  the 
aid  of  some  object  that  would  float  on 
its  surface  was,  no  doubt,  an  early 
in­
vention  in  many  tribes  and  races.  The 
necessity,  which 
is  the  mother  of  in­
vention.  of  crossing  rivers  and  streams 
in  nomadic  life  probably produced some 
form  of  boat  at  an  early  day  in  human 
progress 
localities. 
Thus  we  note  that,  while  the  American 
Indian  had  only  been  able  to  use  the 
original  mode  of  traveling  by  land,  or 
possibly  the  pickapack  method  in some 
cases,  he  had  invented  a  most  efficient 
boat 
in  the  birch-bark  canoe,  and  he 
was  able  to  navigate 
it  with  wonderful 
skill  on  all  the  principal  waters  of  the

the  different 

in 

country. 
In  the  case  of  some  primitive 
nations  the  boat  was  a  much  cruder 
affair,  as  the  skins  of  animals  extended 
by  willow  branches  making  the  “ cor­
acles”   of  the  early  Britons.

It 

The  next  invention  was  a  more  radi­
cal  one  and  came  more  largely into  use. 
Indeed,  it  was  a  natural  consequence  of 
the  commission  given  to  man  to  subdue 
the  earth. 
is  probable  that  he  had 
made  use  of  the  animal  creation  for 
purposes  of  food 
long  before  the  idea 
came 
into  his  mind  that  some  of  the 
gentler  and  more  docile  of  ;ts  members 
might  be  taught  to  relieve  his  legs  of 
their  tedious  duties.  The  animals  thus 
utilized  represent  many  families  and 
species,  from  the  elephant,  whose  hu­
man  load  is  relatively  very 
insignifi­
cant,  to  some  varieties  of  the  donkey 
species,  whose  burden  is  relatively  very 
great.  Of  course, 
the  animal  best 
adapted  to  such  duty  is the horse,  whose 
use  is  from  a  very  early  date.

The  next  departure  was  in  the  nature 
of  an  additional  use  of  the  animals 
which  had  been  utilized 
for  carrying, 
by  the  invention  of  the  vehicle.  For 
the  primitive  form  of  this  we  must  go 
to  savage  tribes.  Among  American  In­
dians,  after  they had  acquired the horse, 
the  carriage  was,  ami  is,  two  poles  at­
tached  to  either  side,  with  the  burden 
strapped  upon 
the  trailing  poitions. 
Very  likely  this  was  the  original  vehi­
cle. 
Improvements on this  arrangement 
doubtless  early  evolved  the  sledge,  with 
runners  or  other  provision  for  passing 
smoothly  over obstructions.

invented 

The  time  of  the 

invention,  making 

invention  ol  the 
wheel  for  carriages  cannot  be 
located. 
Like  manv  other  such  contrivances,  it 
may  have  been 
in  different 
places  and  in  different  ages,  and  it  may- 
have  been 
lost  and  re-invented,  as  in 
other  cases.  This  may  be  said  to  be  the 
generic 
possible 
nearly  all  forms  of  artificial  ^transit.
Chariots  for  war  are  mentioned 

in 
very early histories.  1 hese contrivances, 
as  they  are  usually  described,  were 
rather  extravagant  as  means  of  progres­
sion. 
In  early  Roman  history  they  are 
represented  as  being  drawn  by  four 
horses  and would  carry  only-  two at most. 
What  they  might 
lack  as  economical 
modes  of  traveling  was  doubtless  made 
up  in  their  efficiency  as  engines  of  de­
moralization  to  foes.

The  evolution  of  the  cart,  and  so  the 
wagon,  may  be  conjectured  as  soon  fol­
lowing  the  more  modern  chariot.  This 
invention  was  a  gradual  evolution,  and 
was  made  available  wherever  highways 
could  be  provided  for  their accommoda­
tion.  The  evolution  of  carriages and 
roads  went  hand  in  hand.  As  European 
civilization  developed  in  the  Old  World 
and  was  carried  to  the  New,  the various 
types  of  wagons  were  very  slowly  im­
proved.  The modern wagon  is,  perhaps, 
the  slowest  invention  in  coming  to  per­
fection  of  any.

In  the  space  at  my  disposai  I  can 
barely  touch  upon  the  modern  departure 
in  methods  of 
transportation.  Until 
near  the  close  of  the  last  century,  there 
was 
little  thought  of  anything  beyond 
the  wagon  for  transportation  on  land. 
The  needs  of  transportation  of  coal  and 
in  some  parts  of 
goods  was  so  great 
England,  however,  that  the 
idea  was 
conceived  of  facilitating  it  by  the  use 
of  rails  on  which  the  wheels  of  the 
wagon  should  run.  Thus  was  invented 
the  tramway,  which,  with  the  evolution 
of  the  locomotive,  made  modern  rail­
ways  possible. 
It  is  a  source  of wonder 
when  we  think  how  new  they  are.

The  railways  supplied  the  need  for

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310  Woodward  Ave.,  Detroit.

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transportation  on  a  great  scale,  at  great 
speed  and  for  great  distances. 
It  was 
necessary to continue  the  use  of  the  ven­
erable  wagon  for  ordinary transportation 
for  short  distances.  This has  been  done, 
with  a  slow  evolution  of  barely  usable 
highways,  until,  in  very  recent  times, 
there 
is  a  new  departure,  which  will 
render the  plodding  vehicle  great  ad­
ditional  value—the  movement  for  good 
roads.  Recently, 
the  use  of  the 
wagon  has  been  supplemented  in  cities 
by  the  street 
railways,  which  have 
a  yet  greater destiny  before  them.

too, 

All  these  modes  of transportation have 
one  common  characteristic which makes 
them  ideally  far  from  perfect—they  are 
tremendously  wasteful.  Not  only  does 
it  seem  ridiculous  to  train  and  support 
a  huge  elephant  for  the  purpose  of  car­
rying  a  single  puny  man,  but,  following 
down  through  the  list,  there  is  no  mode 
of  transit  but  that  is  the  same  in  less 
degree,  unless  we  except  the  poor  don­
key,  and  he  is  scarcely  adequate  to  the 
task.  Take  them  all—horses,  wagons, 
camels,  railroads,  street  cars—all  are  a 
great  expenditure  of  energy 
for  the 
meager  result  attained.

The 

imposed 

invention  which  seems  the  most 
nearly  adequate  to  the  task 
is 
the  bicycle.  This  is  a  return  towards 
the  point  of  departure,  in  that  it  is  a 
machine  auxiliary  to  the  legs. 
In  the 
use  of  this  there  is  put  forth most nearly 
the  amount  of  energy  adapted  to  the 
task.  This  vehicle  relieves  the  rail­
roads  of  no  part  of  their  duties,  wagons 
of  comparatively  little,  while horses and 
carriages  are  so  largely  supplanted  by 
its  use  that,  as  branches  of economic in­
dustry,  they  are  great  sufferers.

There  are  two  other  modes  of  pro­
gression  receiving  public 
attention 
whose  careers  are  yet  in the future :  The 
motocycle,  or  horseless  vehicle,  prom­
ises  to  supplant  the  horse  at  as  early  a 
day  as  the  perfecting  of  mechanical  ap­
pliances  and  the  training  of  men  to  use 
them,  with  the  building  of  proper  high­
ways,  will  permit;  and  the  time  is  not 
very  far  in  the future.  The other method 
— aerial  navigation— may  not be so near. 
This  will  require  such  a  high  efficiency 
in  mechanics  and  such  a  high  training 
of  aeronauts  that  it  will  probably  be 
a  considerable  time  before  it  will  even 
threaten  to  supersede  any  of the methods 
mentioned  above.  And  yet  there  are 
some  of  the  finest  inventors  and  scien 
tists  constantly  at  work  on  the  problem 
and  they  promise  us  that  something 
'  particular  will  soon  be  developed  as  the 

result  of  the  experiments  now  in  prog
ress. 
„Nate.

News  and Gossip  of Interest to  Dealer 

and  Rider.
“ Talk  about  wheels 

I’ve  been  selling  them 

in  the  head, ’ 
said  the  manager  of  one  of  the 
largest 
and  best  known  concerns  in  the  city, 
“ why,  I  dream  about  selling  wheels  all 
night  long. 
in 
reality  from  early  morning  until  after 
midnight  every  day  this  week,  and 
can’t  even  get  a  rest  from  it  in  my 
sleep.  Judging  from  our  own  sales  and 
what  I’ve 
learned  of  those  made  by 
other  concerns,  this  has  been  the  great­
est  month  that  the 
ever 
known. 
It  looks  now  as  if  the  factories 
would  get  behind  with  their  orders,  as 
they  did  last  year. 
It  will be wonderful 
if  they  don’t.  So  far  we’ve  kept  up 
pretty  well,  though  we  are  not  deliver­
ing  special  orders  as  promptly  as  we 
and  our  purchasers  would  like.”

trade  has 

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Just  as  purple  and  green  are  a  partic­
ular  fad  of  this  spring’s  millinery,  so

tandem  riding 
is  of  bicycling.  The 
tandem  is  in  the  ascendant.  What  man 
is  there  with  soul  so  dead  who  does  not 
love  a  bicycle  built  for  two?  And  what 
girl 
is  there  whose  heart  does  not  beat 
more  quickly  when  mounted  on  a  tan­
dem  in  front  of  some  man  she  likes,  or 
one  that  she  doesn’t  care  a  rap  about, 
so  far  as  that  goes?  Tandem  riding  for 
the  woman 
is  bicycling  without  any 
effort.  Those  who  have  never  known 
the  joys  of  a  tandem  ride  have absolute­
ly  no  appreciation  of  i t ;  but,  judging 
from  what  the  dealers  say, 
there  will 
soon  be  few  such  ignorant  persons,  for 
hundreds  of  tandems  are  being  sold. 
People  who  own  single  wheels  are  no 
longer  content,  but  long  to  own  a  tan­
dem,  too.

Interest  has  for  some  reason  been  re­
newed  in  the  question  whether  it  is  the 
proper  thing  for  a  fond  father  to  take 
his  offspring  out  on  his  bicycle,  carry­
ing  the  youngster  in  a  sling  in  front  of 
him.  That 
it  can  be  done  with  safety 
on  a  smooth  and  unobstructed  road  may 
be  frankly  admitted,  and  that  normally 
constituted  children  enjoy 
it  and  are 
not  made  nervous  by  the  operation  is 
equally  true.  But  it  is  a  different  thing 
when  a  child  is  carried  in  this  fashion 
through  crowded  city  streets,  and many 
a  rider  has  received  a  nervous  shock  at 
seeing  another  running  the  risk  that 
is 
nevitable 
in  a  crowd  when  a  baby  is 
carried  on  a  bicycle.  At  certain  times 
the  practice 
is  fairly  safe,  even  when 
street  car  tracks  have to  be crossed ;  and 
the  man’s  control  of  his  machine,  if  he 
knows  well  how  to  handle  it,  is  not  less 
sure  because  of  the  child 
in  front  of 
him,  since  he  can  mount  and  dismount 
as  readily  as 
if  his  wheel  had  not  a 
second  occupant.  But  the  custom  is  not 
to  be  commended  when  children  are 
carried  in  this  fashion  through  crowded 
thoroughfares  or  over  rough  roads.

*  *  *

As  respects  form  and  construction, 
the  present  year  has  witnessed  no 
marked  advance  in  the  bicycle.  In  gen­
eral  there  is  little  change  as  compared 
with  the  wheels  put  out  in  1895.  Such 
differences  as  appear  are  mainly  in  the 
direction  of  making 
the  machines 
stronger  and  more  durable.  There  has 
been  somewhat  of  a  reaction  against 
the  extreme 
lightness  of  weight  that 
marked  many  of  last  year’s  wheels,  and 
it  seems  plain  that  the  limit  has  been 
reached 
in  the  efforts  to  reduce  weight 
by  all  possible  means. 
It  would  not  be 
strictly  within  the  bounds  of  truth  to 
describe  the  bicycle  as  a  perfect  ma­
chine,  but  no  one  can  doubt  that  the 
wheels  of  the  best  type  are  a  close  ap­
proximation  to  perfection,  from  the  hu­
man  point  of  view.  The  question  of 
saddles  has  not  been  satisfactorily  set­
tled,  but  so  many  new  designs  are 
offered  this  year  that  the 
fastidious 
ought  to  get  themselves  suited  without 
extreme  difficulty.  The  choice  of  a 
saddle  is  largely  a  matter  of  individual 
preference  or  idiosyncrasy,  for  what 
is 
perfectly  comfortable  and  satisfactory 
for  one  person  may  be  quite  the  oppo­
site  for  another.

*  *  *

It  is  a  good  idea  to  wear  an  old  pair 
of  gloves  while  cleaning  the  bearings  of 
one’s  wheel  or  doing  anything  else  to  it 
which  requires  the  use  of  kerosene, 
graphite  or  other  material  which  soils 
thè  hands.  A  mixture  of  oil,  dust  and 
kerosene  will  stick 
the  fingers  in 
spite  of  all  efforts  to  remove  it  with 
soap  and,  once  it  gets  under  the  finger 
nails,  can  only  be  coaxed  out  by  chem­
ical  means,  or be  allowed  to  wear away.

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JANE CRAGIN.

The Tree Planting at Milltown.

lots.  That  can  all  be  done  by 

“ See  here,  Jane.  How  will  this  do 
in  the 
for  a  programme?  First  thing 
morning,  have  everybody  along  the 
road,  where  we’ve  settled  it  with  ’em, 
plant  the  trees  in  front  of  their  houses 
and 
io 
o’clock. 
It  won’t  take  long,  you  know, 
to  do  that,  because  I’ll  see  to  it  that 
every  tree’s  where 
it  ought  to  be  over 
night.  Then  everybody  with  a  cart  or 
a  yoke  of  oxen,  a  pick  or  a shovel,  is  to 
be  ready  to  start 
in  and  work  on  the 
I  don’t  see  why  the  young  ones 
road. 
couldn’t  be  on  hand  and  pick  stones  a 
it 
spell.* 
would  keep 
I 
should  think  you  and  Dolly  might 
look 
out  for  that. ’ ’

’em,  and 
’em  out  of  mischief. 

'Twouldn’t  hurt 

“ Well,  you’d  better  not  put  it  down 
on  the  programme,  because  it might not 
be  possible  to  carry  it  out.  For my part, 
I’d  rather pick the  stones myself than try 
to  get  the  boys  and  girls  to  do  it.  You 
left  off  where  everybody  was  working 
on  the  road.  Then  what?”

‘ ‘ Well,  that  will take up  the bulk of the 
day.  Most  of  ’em  won’t  want  to  keep  at 
it  after  two  o’clock,  and  I  think  I  shall 
get  tuckered  out  by  that  time.  Then  we 
shall  have  lunch ;  and,  if  you  and  Dolly 
won’t  pick  stones,  you  can  engineer 
I’m  not  going  to  have  that  gang 
that. 
upstairs,  though, 
I  can  tell  you  that, 
and  I  don’t  see  what  hurt  ’twould  do  to 
use  the  old  meeting-house. 
I’ll  tell you 
how  we’ll  manage  that:  Mrs.  Bettis 
won’t  want  any  better  fun  than  getting 
it  for  us,  just  to  stir  up  ‘ them  there 
Pelseys  and  Bassetts. ’  That’s  a  good 
idea ;  and  both  families  will  be  sure  to 
be  there  so  they  can  have  a  good  solid 
meal  at  somebody  else’s  expense  in  the 
old 
‘ark  of  Zion,’  where  they  can  look 
out  into  the  burying  ground.  D—dogs 
take  such  folks,  I  say!”

“ There,  Cyrus,  don’t  get  excited  too 
long  before  hand,  or your  strength  won’t 
hold  out.  You’ve  got  us  all  into  the  old 
meeting-house— then  what?”

"W ell,  then  comes  the  dinner.  You 
women  folks  must  see  to  that;  and  I’ll 
tell  you  right  here  that  you’ll  want  a 
lot.  More  than  half  of  ’em  will  come 
for  the  sake  of  getting  something  good 
to  eat,  and  I’ll  be  hanged  if  I  blame 
’em. 
'Long  this  time  o’  year,  and  on 
till hog-killing time  in the fall,  the farm­
ers  don't  have  half  enough  to  eat. 
Meat’s  all  gone,  except  a  little  corned 
beef  they’re  keeping  ' if any body should 
come, ’  and  they  keep  body  and  soul  to­
gether  with  salt  pork  and  potatoes  and 
brown  bread,  with  salt  codfish  for  a 
change. 
they’d  die. 
Good  many  of  ’em  do ;  and  the  rest  dry 
up.  That’s  what  makes  ’em  so  skinny 
— it’s  codfish  and  salt  pork.  So  let’s 
give  ’em  something  good 
for  dinner. 
They’ll  know  what  to  do  with  it,  and 
there  ain’t  one  of  ’em  that  won’t  look 
as  plump  as  a  pollywog  by  the  time 
they’ve  eaten  all  they  want.  So  just  let 
’em  have 
it,  and  let  it be  good  and  a 
lot. ’ ’

I  should 

think 

“ Well,  is  that  all?”
“ No,  at  that  stage  of  the game  yours 
truly  is  going  to  hammer  everybody  to 
order.  Then,  you  know  Sid’ll  be  home 
by  that  time,  and  I’m  going  to  have 
him  make  a  fine  speech.  He  can  make 
a  good  one— I  know  he  can—for  I’ve 
been  writing  to  the head principal about 
him. 
I  just  want  the  folks  ’round  here 
to  know  that  a  store  is  the  best  place  to 
bring  up  a  boy  in,  providing  the  store 
is  the  right  kind  of  a  store  and  the  boy 
is  the  right  kind  of  a  boy—which  Sid

is.  !  I  knew  it  the  minute  I  set  eyes  on 
him,  that  day  he  came  in  here  all  tired 
and  dusty.  Don’t  you  remember,  Jane, 
how  I  said,  ‘ Here’s  your  man?’

Jane’s  eyes  snapped. 

“   ‘ Do  I  re­
member  how  you  said  it?’  Yes,  just 
how;  and  if  there  was  any  sneering  or 
contempt  in  tone  or  manner  left  out,  it 
was  because  you  couldn’t  express 
it. 
You’d  better  go  on  with  your  pro­
gramme.  What  next?”

“ Well,  I  knew  Sid  was  a good fellow, 
if  I  did  have  a  little  fun  about  him. 
Let’s  see ;  what  does  come  next?  You 
are  always  breaking  in  and putting  any­
body  out  so.  Well,  next— ”

I 

’em 

“ Did  I  hear  you  say,”   interrupted 
Jim,  “ that  you  are  going  to  furnish  the 
trees?’ '

“ Why,  yes, 

thought  I  would. 

I 
want  some  likely  ones,  and  the only way 
to  get 
is  to buy  ’em  of  somebody 
you’re  sure  of.  Why?”

“ Nothing  much ; only,  if  you’djust as 
lief,  I  wish  you’d  make  me chairman of 
the  tree  committee,  with  power  to  act. 
Will  you?”

“ What’s  come  over  you?”
“ Never  you  mind.  Will  you?”
‘  All  right.  Jane,  if  anybody  comes 
in  to  sell  trees,  you  are  to  turn  ’em over 
to  Jim— Hello!  What’s  that  old  skin­
flint  of  a  Henderson  hitching  in  front 
of  our  door  for,  I’d  like  to  know. 
I 
don’t  want  anything  to  do  with  the  old 
kermudgeon,  I  can  tell  you  that.  Jim, 
I’m  so  awful  busy  that  you’ll  just  have 
to  take  care  of  him— I  can’t  treat him 
decent. 
I  don’t  want  anything  to  do 
with  him !”

“ All  right,  I’ll  take  care  of  him,  but 
I  want  you  to  be  within  hearing.  We’re 
going  to  have  some  fun  with  that  feller. 
—Good  morning,  Mr.  Henderson.  Isn’t 
this  a  little  early  for  you?”

“ Oh,  no. 

I  got  some 

I  was  coming  daown  and 
I  thought  I’d  come  daown.  Heerd  some 
t’other  day,  abaout  some 
little  talk, 
trees. 
likely  ones  and  I 
says  to  myself,  says  I,  ‘ I’ll  go  daown 
and  see  ef  I  can’t  onload  some  uv 
’em 
onterCy. ’  How  are  ye  on’t  fer  trees, 
this  mawning,  Cy?”

“ Too  busy  to  talk  to  you— Jim’s  the 

man  to  gouge. ’ ’

“ Gouge?  Can’t  be  no  gouging  with 
them  there  trees,  onless  I  be  the  one  ter 
git 
a  narrer—every 
dumbed  one  on  ’em.”

it— straight  ez 

“ Well,  you’ll  have  to  talk  to  Jim.”
‘ * Makes  no defference,  ez I  knows  on, 
who  I  talk  ter,  ef  I  kin  git  rid  uv  the 
likeliest  trees  above  graound.  How 
many  do  yer  want,  young  feller?”

“ I  want  just  a  hundred,  half elms and 
half  maples— the  kind  of  maples  that 
turn  so  red  and  shiny  in  the  fall.  Got 
’em?”

“ Waal,  I  hain’t  got  nawthing  else, 
I’ll  tell  yer that.  What’ll  yer  gin  me 
fer  ’em?”

“ What’ll  you  take?”
“ Waal  now, 

le’s  see.  Five 

times 
five  is  twenty-five— I  don’t  see  ez  I  kin 
git  aout  uv  it  and  make  anything  with- 
aout  I  charge  yer a  dollar and a quarter. 
Must  make  suthin,’  yer know.”

“ We  don’t  want  ’em .”
“ Waal  now,  I’ve  made  yer a  noffer 
and  yer  wouldn’t  take  me  up—suppose 
you  make  me  one?”

“ All  right— I’ll  give  you  a  dollar 
apiece  for  every  first-class  tree  you have 
here  at  the  store  two  days  before  the 
day  we  want  them ;  and,  if  you  don’t 
have  them  here,  you're  to  pay  me  a 
dollar  for  every  tree missing. ”

There  was  mischief 

in  the  air and 
Cy  smelled  it.  Even  Jane’s  eyebrows

Of trouble and loss might be 
saved  by  the  retailer  if  he 
would  buy  his  flour,  feed, 
bran,  com  and  oats  and 
everything in the milling line 
in  mixed  car  loads  of  one 
firm.  There  would  be  less 
freight,  no tom or soiled flour 
sacks,  no  shortages  and  no 
delays.  A great deal depends 
on how you manage the little 
things, and  pennies are little 
things, but if you are trying to 
make a great deal of  money

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by  the  movement  of  one  poise 

without adjustment  of 

any  kind.

Customers  prefer to trade with  grocers  using  the 
Stimpson Scale,  which  gives  pounds  and  ounces 
as well as money value.

BARBER & CRAW.

h. O. Barber. 
C. B. Craw.

Fruits, Groceries and 
Lowell, Mich., March 16,1896.
After using the Stimpson  Computing  Scale  for  two  months 
we are pleased to say that we are perfectly satisfied with them and  no  money 
could take them off our counter.  They are saving money for us every day.

Farm   Produce. 

Gentlemen:

BARBER  &  CRAW.

Write for circular giving full  particulars.

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TECUMSEH,  MICH.

M

could  be  seen  peering  from  the  office 
window.

“ Waal  now, 

I  couldn’t  do  that;  but 
I’ll  split  the  defference  with  yer and 
call 
it  a  dollar  and  twelve  and  a  half 
cents. ’ ’

“ On  the  conditions  I  named?”
“ You  are  ter  pay  cash  daown  when 

the  trees  are  delivered?”

“ If  Cy  says  they’re  all  right,  I  w ill.”  
“ All  right.”
“ Will  you sign a paper to that effect?”  
“ Le’s  hear  yer  read  it.”
The  statement  was  made  as  given 
above  and  duly  signed,  and  the  parties 
to  the  contract  went  their  way.

That  very  afternoon,  Jim  had  to  go 
away.  The  next  morning  he  came  in  to 
say  that  he  “ believed  he’d  go  over  and 
see  if  the  Am ¡downs  had  any  eggs,”  
a  remark  which  turned  C y’s  face  a little 
red  and  brought  a  smile  to  Jane’s.  He 
was  gone  all 
that  day,  and  the  next 
went  by  without  his  putting  in  an  ap­
pearance  at  the  store;  and  so  it  went  on 
up  to  the  afternoon  before  the  morning 
when  the  trees  were  to  be  delivered. 
Just  before  closing,  Old  Henderson 
drew  up  his  horse  before  the  store  and 
called  for  Cy.

“ I’ve  come  over ter let  yer  know  that 

I  can’t  git  them  there  trees  fer  yer.”  

“ That  ain’t  any  o’  my funeral—you’ll 

have  to  see  Jim  about  that. ”

“ Jim  be  hanged! 

I  can’t  git  the 

trees  and  that’s  all  there  is  tew  it.”

“ Oh,  well,  settle  it  with  Jim.— Jim, 
come  out  here.  Henderson,  here,  says 
he  can’t  get  those  trees.”

“ Why  can’t  you  get  them?”
“ ’Cause  I  can’t,  and  that’s  all  there 

is  tew  it. ”

“ All  right;  but  you  remember  the 
bargain.  Here  it  is  in  black  and  white, 
with  your  name  at  the  bottom  ;  and  it’s 
money  or  trees— I  don’t  care  which.—  
You  and  Miss  Cragin  saw  him  sign 
it, 
didn’t  you,  Cy?”

“ I’m  ready  to  swear  to  that,’ ’ was 

Cy’s  emphatic  rejoinder.

“ Yis,  I  know  I  signed  it— Ia in ’t^ago- 
ing  ter  try  ter back  daown  on  that;  but 
yer  ain’t  agoing  ter  hold  me  ter any 
sech  a  thing  ez  that,  be  yer?”

“ Why  not?”
A bullet  in  his  breast  couldn’t  have 
cheek 
turned  Old  Bill  Henderson’s 
quicker  or  paler.  The  veins 
in  his 
neck  and  forehead  stood  out  like  cords.
length  he 

“ You—know— why,”  

at 

stammered.

“ I’ll  bet  I  do!”   was  Jim’s  short  an­
swer.  Then  he  added,  "B u t  Cy  and 
Miss  Cragin,  here,  don’t.  Hitch  your 
horse  and  come  in  and  tell  them.”

“ Will  that be  all  there  is  tew it?”  
“ Never  you  mind.  Come  in  and  tell 

them!”

With  his  whole  body  aquiver,  the 
man  climbed  from  the  wagon,  hitched 
his  horse  to  the  post  and  walked  slowly 
into  the  store,  his  head  on  his  chest. 
Clutching  the  edge  of  the  counter  with1 
trembling  fingers,  he  made  this  shame­
faced  confession:

“ I  was  agoing  ter git  them there trees 
outer  your  woods,  Cy,  over  there  back 
o’  my  haouse.— But I didn’t  tech  one  on 
’em !”   he  hastened  to  add.

‘ * You  bet you ‘ didn’t tech one on’em !’
then,  what 

I  can  swear  to  that.  Now, 
you  going  to  do  about  the  trees?”
“ What  yer  want  me  ter dew?”  
“ There’ll  be  a  hundred  trees  here 
on  the  morning  train.  You  go  and  get 
them  and  bring  them  up  here.  They 
cost  50  cents  apiece.  Here’s  the  bill— 
you  pay  it. ”

The  old  man  took  the  paper,  looked

hard  at  it  a  minute  and  then  asked, 
“ Will  that  be all  there  is  tew  it?”

“ Will  it,  Cy?”
“ I  hope  so.  Here,  let  me  have  the 
in  the 
bill.  You  go  after  the  trees 
morning  and  I’ll  pay  this.  I  don’t  want 
any  trees  you’ve  paid  for  planted  in 
Milltown;  but  I’ll  say  this  to  you,  Bill 
Henderson— if  I  ever  know  of  your 
darkening  my  woods  with  your  shadow 
again,  I ’ll  bring  this  up  as  sure’s  my 
name’s  Cy  Huxley.  Now  you  g ib ”

The  old  man  needed  no second invita­
tion,  and  with  commendable  alacrity 
was soon  urging  his  horse homeward.

“ How  did  you  get  onto 

it,  Jim?”  
asked  Cy,  the  minute  the  old  man  was 
out  of  hearing.

“ Oh,  that  was  easy.  You  know  the 
big  fuss  he  made  about  the  trees?  Well, 
the  day  before,  I  happened  along  that 
way,  and  there  he  was  in  your wood  lot, 
sizing  ’em  up.  He  acted  so  suspicious 
about  it  that  I  watched  him ;  and  any­
body  could  put  this  and  that  together.  I 
made  up  my  mind  what  he  was  up  to, 
and  I  just  lay  low  and  waited.  That’s 
what  made  me  want  the  management  of 
the  trees.  Then,  about  the  time  he’d 
have  to  dig  ’em,  I  went  over  there  and 
watched  him.  He  kept  prowling  ’round 
for  a  chance  to  begin.  He  didn’t  get 
it.  All  there  was  to 
it,  the  jig  was 
up.”

It  was.  The trees  ordered  from  town 
came  on  the  morning  train  and  Old 
Henderson  hauled  them  from  the  sta­
tion  and  they  were  duly  planted.  Then 
Cy’s  programme  was  carried  out,  the 
crowning  success  of  which  was  Sid’s 
splendid  speech.  When  it  was  all over, 
and  the  trees  extended  i n  long  and even 
rows  down  the  village  street,  it  was 
unanimously  declared 
that  Milltown 
was  the  prettiest  little  town 
in  all  the 
country  ’round,  and  one  and  all  vowed 
that  it  should  ¡improve  more  and  more 
each  year of  its  life.

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

How  Modern Chemists  Eclipse  Those 

From the Chicago Record.

of Old.

There  were  learned  alchemists  long 
ago,  it  is  said,  who,  versed  in  the  mys­
teries  of  the  black  art,  turned  clods  to 
gold.  But  there 
is  a  modern  alchemy 
of  food  manufacture  which  completely 
eclipses  the  ancient.

It  certainly  would  turn  any  old  al­
chemist  green  with  envy  to  stand  by  to­
day  and  see  apple  cores  changed  into 
jelly,  good  butter  and  cheese 
currant 
made  from  pork,  corncobs  turned 
into 
maple  syrup,  old  nutshells  transmuted 
into  cinnamon  spice,  and  honey  which 
would  deceive  bees  manufactured  ac­
cording  to  chemical  formula.

Not  long  ago  an  enterprising  dealer 
gathered  together  from  various  dealers 
in  South  Water  street  a  carload  of  nut­
shells  and  old  nuts  and  sent  them  to  a 
Missouri  factory  to  be  made  into  spice. 
The  sale  of  apple  cores,  which are man­
ufactured  into  various  jellies,  is  a  reg­
ular  part  of  the  dried  fruit  business.

It  would  not  cause  much  surprise  if 
some  ingenious  person  with  a  few  acids 
and  alkalies  and  an  array  of  bottles  and 
flasks  should  devise  a  chemical  formula 
for  producing  an  artificial  cow,  which 
would  give  milk,  tread  on  the  flower 
beds  and  have  all  the  “ cuts  of  beef”  
found  on  the  stock-yards original.  Even 
eggs  have  been  counterfeited,  but  the 
inventor  of  the  artificial  egg  was  not 
long  in  learning  that  the  hen  could  un­
dersell  him  in the egg  line  and  gave up.
A  Russian  physician  has  conceived 
idea  of  a  sort  of  floating  hospital 
the 
for  consumptives. 
It  is  to  cruise  North 
in  the  summer and  South  in  the  winter, 
and  visit  spots  which  experience  dem­
onstrates  are  best  for  the  disease.

Shoes  and  Leather

What  Constitutes  Civilization. 

“ Civilization”   is  a  word  which  has 
various  meanings,  depending  on  condi­
In  the  earlier  periods  it  meant 
tions. 
a  high  state  of  development 
in  human 
liberty  and  intellectual  culture.  To-day 
it  seems  to  mean  distinguished progress 
in  the  creation  of  wealth  and  material 
development.

The  ancient  Greeks,  who  established 
republican  forms  of  government  and 
invented  the  word  democracy  and  the 
original  principles  which  it  individual 
izes,  and  who  were  pre-eminent 
in 
poetry,  painting,  sculpture,  oratory, 
rhetoric  and  philosophy,  were,  in  their 
day,  at  the  head  of  the  world’s  civiliza­
tion.

To-day  the  people  who  have 

the 
greatest  mileage  of  railroads,  the largest 
numbers  of  steam  engines and machines 
for  manufacturing,  and  the  widest  ap­
plication  of  electricity  to  the  various 
economic  purposes,  and  the  most  exten­
sive  commerce,  would  have  a  potential 
claim  to being  far  advanced  in civiliza­
tion.

Then  there 

is  the  title  based  on  in­
tellectual  progress.  The  country  which 
possesses  the  greatest  number  of  com­
mon  schools,  colleges  and  universities, 
and  the  most  effective  system  of  free 
education,  also  the  most  numerous 
printing  presses  and  the  greatest  pro­
duction  of  newspapers,  magazines  and 
books,  would  certainly  have a  right  to 
be  considered  to  have  reached  a  high 
position  on  the  rolls  of  civilized  coun­
tries.

Then  there  are  the  churches, 

the 
asylums  for  the  care  of  the  poor  and  the 
helpless,  and  the  institutions for  the  ed­
ucation  of  those  unfortunates  who  have 
never  enjoyed  a  due  distribution  of 
their  natural 
the 
deaf,  dumb  and  blind,  also  the  hospit 
als  for  the  treatment  of  disease,  and the 
other grand  charities  which  have  been 
so  largely,  if  not  exclusively,  developed 
by  the  Christian  religion.  Surely  all 
these  would  constitute  a  high  claim  to 
the  title  of  being  civilized.

faculties,  such  as 

majority,  and 
is  as  far as  possible  re­
moved  from  those  systems  of govern­
ment where one man,  as  in  an  empire, 
or  where  a  limited  class,  such  as an 
aristocracy,  is regarded  as  being  pos­
sessed  of  superior  rights  and  is  en­
titled  to govern  the  many.  Therefore, 
a  constitutional  democratic-republican 
government  should  be  most  consistent 
with  the highest  state of development  in 
everything  that can be  termed  civiliza­
tion. 

Frank  Stowell.
Suggestions  As  to  Shoe  Styles.

From the Lewiston  (Me.)  San.

As history  repeats  itself,  so  does  the 
style  in  shoes.  Although  there 
is  not 
the  slightest  danger  of  the  present  style 
of  razor-toed  shoes  losing  their prestige, 
with  the  younger  class  at 
least,  yet 
there 
is  apparent  tendency  towards  a 
combination  of  the  styles  of  years  ago 
and  the  present  extreme  style.  For  in­
stance,  it  is  a  fact  that  very few  low-cut 
or oxford-tie  shoes have  been  worn  for 
the  past  few  years,  yet  the  manufactur­
ers  who  have  already  commenced  to 
get  out  their  spring  samples  are making 
some  excellent  lines  in  this  style.

One  manufacturer  with  whom 

the 
reporter  talked 
informed  him  that  he 
believed  the  greater  portion  of  his 
product  during  the  next  run  would  be 
low  cuts,  and  also  expressed  the  belief 
that  he  would  not be  at  all  surprised  if 
the  nickel-plated  buckle 
fastenings 
which  were  so  much  in  vogue  from  1872 
until  the  Centennial  year  of  1876 would 
again  be  all  the  rage  before  another 
vear  had  passed.  The  buttoned  bal., 
which  held  the  preference  for  so  many 
years  after  the  buckled  low  cuts  went 
out  of  style,  is  again  coming  into  pub­
lic  favor,  and  some  of  the  manufactur­
ers  and  drummers  think  it  will  claim  a 
large  share  of  the  patronage  during  the 
next  few  years  to  come.  There  are 
many  who  consider this  the  most  com­
fortable of  modern  style  shoes  to  wear, 
and  no  one  wjll  attempt  to  deny  that 
it 
holds  its  shape  a  longer  length  of  time 
than  a  majority  of  the  prevalent  styles. 
Of  course,  those  will  be  made  with  the 
crescent style of peaked  toe,  for a time at 
least,  but  the  fact  of  their  again coming 
into  favor  shows  a  tendency  to  return  to 
styles  which  have been  practically  dis­
carded  for  a  number  of  years.  One 
thing 
is  certain,  that  a  buttoned  bal., 
either  hand-sewed  or  Goodyear,  or  a 
moderately  high  cut oxford  tie  made  in 
the  same  manner,  would  make  an  ele­
gant  and  durable  style  of  footwear.

From 

in  morals,  in 

these  propositions 

But  from  no  classifying  of the  various 
sorts  of  progress  that  are  demanded  of 
civilized  people  can be  left  out  just  and 
wise  codes  of 
law,  embodying  the  re­
pression  and  punishment  of  crimes and 
protection  of  free 
institutions  and  all 
rights  and  immunities  which  are  con­
sistent  with  constitutional  liberty.
it 

seems 
plain  that  the  highest  civilization  must 
embrace  all  the  qualifications  and  the 
various  sorts, of  progress  that  have  been 
enumerated  above,  because  develop­
ment 
intellectuality,  in 
science  and  the  practical  application  of 
natural  forces,  in  the  securing  of  lib­
erty  and  free institutions  to  all  men  and 
in  the  increase  of  their  comfort  and 
in 
the  promotion  of  general  prosperity 
If  the  proper 
must  all  go  on  together. 
object  of  every  human  being 
is  the 
pursuit  of  happiness,  a  substantial, 
lasting  and  profitable  happiness, 
the 
object  of  the  social  and  political  con­
in  which  human  beings  have 
ditions 
organized  society  is  to  protect  the 
in­
dividuals  in  the  proper  enjoyment  of 
their  rights.

But,  in  coming  together 

into  these 
conditions,  which  are  called  govern­
ment,  the  few  must  give  way  to  the 
many.  This 
is  a  natural  result  of 
any  social  system which accords to every 
individual  equal  rights.  Such  equality 
is  the  basis  of  all  government  by  the

Decline  o f the  Tin  Peddler 

Correspondence New York Sun.

* 

Twenty  or thirty  years  ago  there  were 
more  ¿ a n   50,000  men  engaged 
in  bar­
tering  tinware  for  old  junk  in  the  New 
England  and  some  of  the Middle States, 
going  about  in  the  familiar  kind  of  red 
cart—“ the  tin  peddler’s  go-cart.”   To­
day  there  are  not  500 of  these  peddlers 
in  the  United  States.  These  peddlers 
inventing  kitchen 
were  famous  for 
utensils  for  every  purpose 
in  the  days 
when  everv  woman  inYankeeland  spent 
several  hours  a  day  in  her  kitchen,  and 
when  it  was  the  ambition  of  every  good 
house-wife  to  have  her  kitchen  shelved 
and  pegged  for  holding  the  bewildering 
variety  of  plain  and  japanned  tinware 
bartered for rags,  old  metal,  yarn,  stock­
ings,  mittens,  dried  apples,  eggs  and 
butter. 
..
In  and  around  Salem,  Mass.,  until 
twenty  years ago,  the  peddlers,  of  whom 
sixty  were  sent  out by  two  Salem  firms, 
in  barter  vast  quantities  of 
received 
pewter  platters, 
porringers,  candle­
sticks,  ale  mugs,  etc.,  which  were  used 
by  the  early  settlers  of  the  Puritan  col­
ony ;  but  the  stores  of  pewter  were  soon 
exhausted,  consequently the peddlers got 
out  of  that  business,  and  throughout  the 
territory  once  ranged  by  the  tinware 
carts  from  Maine  to  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
the  sales  of  tinware  have  fallen  off  at 
least  75  per  cent.,  as  compared  with 
the  sales  of,  say  twenty  or  thirty  years 
ago,  when  the  red  tin  cart  was  seen  on 
every  road  and  street  within  the  terri­
torial 
for a hundred 
years,  it  was  a  picturesque  and  familiar 
object.

limits,  in  which, 

„  

The Boston  Rubber Shoe Company are  making a  great m m y  n w  

kinds this season, embracing all the  new  styles in  toes,  ‘n^ i n g  t 
extreme 20th Century; also Boys  and  Youths  Sandals in  narrow toes 
S t  what the boys want.  W e will have them.  They  are  packing 
neariy'aH  the specialties in bulk, and  we will 
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terms are as favorable as offered by any  agent of  the  Boston  Rubber 
Shoe Co  Wait and see our salesmen before placing  your order.

H

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Payable  December  1,  1090. 

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When you  need  dry  goods  you  do  not  go  to  a  grocery 
house,  or  to  a  hardware  house  if  you  need  clothing,  nor 
would you try to buy leather shoes of a rubber factory, would 
you?  No;  of course not.  Then why try  to  buy  rubbers  at 
a shoe factory?  Why not buy  your  rubbers  of  people who 
sell nothing else? 
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15

is  perused 

Why  People  Buy  Goods  by  Mail.
The  enormous  business  of  mail-order 
houses 
is  not  founded  on  an  inherent 
snobbishness  to prefer  to buy  away from 
home.  The  system  in  force 
in  these 
great  houses  makes  it  easier,  often,  to 
buy  by  mail  than  to go  and  make  per­
sonal  selections  in  local  stores.  Goods 
are  all  catalogued  and  the  descriptions 
are  clear  and  accurate.  How  many 
clerks  tell  the  story  as  well  as  the  cata­
is  shown 
logue?  The  greatest  variety 
in  the  catalogue,  which 
in 
the  evening  at  one’s  leisure  and  in  con­
sultation  with  other  members  of  the 
family.  The catalogues are  usually  cor­
rect  arbiters  of  fashion  and  can  always 
be  depended  upon to list the latest thing. 
The  managers  for  mail-order houses are 
men  of  great  ability.  They  keep  in 
touch  with  the  people  and  know  what 
they  want.  The  patron  of  a  mail-order 
house  can  get  the  exact  style  and  shade 
and quality wanted.  The system in vogue 
in  these  houses makes shipments prompt 
and  the  correspondents  are  usually  men 
of  business  who  can  read  human  nature 
in  the  letters  they  receive,  and  play  up 
on  the  same  accordingly.  Prices  are  us­
ually  low.  Above  all, 
the  business  is 
advertised,  and  advertised  well.  The 
mail-order  house  wins because  the  local 
dealer  is  not  equal  to  his  opportunity 
Many  retailers  buy  good  things and wait 
for  the  people  to  come  in  and  ask  for 
them.  The  mail-order  man  uses  the 
best  descriptive  talent 
in  advertise 
ments  and  in  catalogue  to  tell  the  peo 
pie  exactly  what  his  goods  are.  Many 
retailers  meet a customer’s call for a cer 
tain  thing  with  the  statement,  “ We 
haven’t  it,”   and  let  it  go  at  that.  The 
mail-order  man  will  get  things  not 
shown  in  his  catalogue  and  say  he 
is 
glad  to  do  it. 
I  told  a  shrewd  mail-or 
der  man  some  time  ago  that,  if  I  was  : 
retailer  in  a  country  town,  I  could  kill 
all  his  trade  within  a  radius  of  twenty 
miles,  and  he  remarked  that 
there 
would  always  be  enough  of  the  other 
kind  of  retailers  to  give  him  a  chance 
to  do  business.

The  retailer  who  watches  the  things 
advertised 
in  the  great  monthlies  and 
weeklies by  mail-order  houses,  and  ad­
vertises  in  his  own  local  paper the same 
goods,  need  fear  nothing  from this com­
petition.  Most  people  would  rather  see 
a  thing  before  they  buy 
it,  or  would 
rather  let  the  retailer  order  it  than  do 
it  themselves.  The  mail-order  man,  to 
win,  must  make  large  profits  on  a  good 
many  of  his  things,  because  his  method 
is  expensive,  and  the  shrewd  retailer 
who  isn’t  afraid  to  use  his  local  papers 
to  tell  what  he has  and  what  he  can  do, 
and  that he  will  furnish  quickly  at  the 
same  or  lower  prices  anything  offered 
by  mail-order  houses,  is  not  going  to 
lose 
in  the  game.  He  must  have  the 
same  snap,  the  same  push  and the  same 
energy ;  but  with these you  can  count  on 
the  retailer  as  the  winner  every  timel 
J o h n   L e e   M a h i n .

Argentina  as  an  Agricultural Competi­

tor.

Europe  and  the  United  States  are  ac 
customed  to  look  upon  the  Latin-Amer- 
ican  countries  as  worth  little  notice 
from  a  political  point  of  view,  but as 
valuable  fields  for  the  expansion  of 
trade.  At  least  one  of  these  countries, 
however,  is  rapidly  assuming  the  pro­
portions  of  a  trade  rival,  namely,  the 
Argentine  Republic.  This  State  is  as 
badly governed  as  the  rest  of  the  Latin 
American  countries,  and  its finances are 
in  a  hopeless  tangle;  still,  as  a  wealth 
producer, 
is  most  prosperous  and 
promising.

it 

It 

The  lands  of  Argentina  are  fertile, 
and  the  area  susceptible  of  cultivation 
is  very  large.  The  climate  is  favorable, 
and  the  country  is  capable  of  producing 
many  of  the  same  products  grown  by 
the  United  States.  Wheat,  sugar,  cot­
ton  and  other  staples  can  be  profitably 
produced,  while 
in  cattle-raising,  Ar­
gentina  has  already  achieved  a  high 
reputation. 
is  but  a  few  years  since 
an  initial  shipment of  Argentina  wheat 
to  Great  Britain  created  a  sensation. 
In  1894  the  exports  of  wheat  from  that 
country  to  Great  Britain  alone  reached 
3,272,000  cwt.,  valued  at  $17,000,000. 
This  marvelous  development  of  Ar- 
getina  as  a  wheat  producer,  and  her 
ability  to  flood  the  British  market  while 
prices  were  at  their  lowest,  were  sad 
experience  for  English  agriculturists, 
and  compelled  them  to  realize  that  the 
despised  South  American  State,  while  a 
pigmy  politically,  was  a  formidable 
competitor agriculturally.  The  supply­
ing  of  the  English  markets  with  wheat 
has  also  made  Argentina  a  dangerous 
competitor of  our  own  wheat 
industry. 
Before  Argentina  began  to  ship  wheat 
large  quantities,  American  wheat 
had  largely  a  monopoly  of  the  British 
markets;  whereas  now  it  competes  with 
the  South  American  article  on  terms 
anything  but  favorable  to  the  American 
interests.

Wheat  is but  a  single  item.  Now  for 
another.  As  late  as  1892  the  number  of 
beef  cattle  shipped  to  Great  Britain 
from  the  Argentine  was  so  small  as  to 
get  no  separate  mention 
in  statistics 
But  in  1893  it  was  6,882,  and 
in  1895, 
39,494.  The  same 
is  to  be  said  of 
sheep. 
In  1893  the  exports  of  them  to 
Great  Britain  were  22,365;  in  1894  73 
446 and 
in  1895,  308,094,  while  the 
quantity  of  dressed  mutton  was  also 
steadily  increasing.

Here again,  not  only  has  the  British 
farmer  found  a  dangerous  competitor, 
but  our  great  American  cattle 
interests 
have also discovered  a  formidable rival 
At  the  rate  at  which  Argentina  has  ex 
panded  her  commerce  with  the  outer 
world,  it may be  safely  assumed  that  she 
has  by  no  means  reached  the  limits  of 
her  possibilities:  hence  we  must  expect 
that  the  formerly  despised  little  Latin 
American  Republic  will  become  a  yet 
more  formidable  trade  rival.

Frank  Stowell.

A  Vast  Advantage.

into  market 

As  the  question  of  cash  must  always 
figure  greater than  all  others,  it  is  plain 
to be  seen  what  a  vast  advantage  cash 
has  over  credit.  Note  when  the  cash 
buyer  comes 
in  quest  of 
goods  how  anxious  all  are  to  sell  and 
how  cordial  are  friends  and  acquaint 
ances. 
If  any  snaps  are  about  how 
speedily  he  is  informed.  Everything i 
life  and  animation  and  business.  He 
cannot  help  but  be a  happy  man.  He 
embraces  every  opportunity 
to  push 
forward  his  business,  and  it  is  safe 
presume  that  his  customers  actually  en 
Joy  spending  their  money  with him,  be 
cause  they  know  they  secure good  re 
turns.  And  he  knows  that  a  sure  profit 
is  his  from  these  customers. 
It  may 
not  be  large,  but 
is  sure.  Of  the 
many  failures  which  occur,  the assertion 
can  be  safely  ventured  that  few,  if  any 
were  those  who  conducted  business  on 
cash  basis.  This  is  coming  to be  more 
generally  recognized  than  was  the  case 
at  one  time,  and  the  prediction  is  ven­
tured  that  before  another  decade  buy­
ing  on  credit  will very nearly  be  a  thing 
of  the  past. 

^____

it 

“ Why  do  democrats wear lace shoes?”  
“ 1  give  it  up.  Why  do  democrats  wear 
lace  shoes?’ f   “ I’ll  tell  you  why  dem­
ocrats  wear 
“ Why?”  
“ Because they  can’t  get  in  congress.”  
And  the  dull  thud  that  followed  be­
tokened  a  tragedy.

shoes.”  

lace 

Send in your orders now for your

We have a full  line of

FISHING OUTFIT
Mackintoshes,  Wading 
Pants  and  Boots  and 
Rubber Goods of all  kinds.

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.

STUDLEY  S  BARCLAY.

4  Monroe S t.

Grand  Rapids.

We are the Originators &  Manufacturers  of

Bronze Clocks

Vou  w ill  certainly pet 
better prices and sat- 
faction  direct 
from 
the  factory.

W e are furnishing con - 
pons and advertising 
matter,  same  as  our 
jobbers.

W r i t e  f o r  C a ta lo g u e .

The  Golden  Novelty  Mfg.  Co.,

M - W   W .  J a c k s o n  S t.,

C H IC A G O .

ç o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o <

Reeder  Bros.  Shoe  Co. 
are closing out their entire 
Leather  Stock  of  Boots 
and Shoes.  Come in and 
see  the  bargains  or  see 
samples of our men on the 
road.  We  will  do  an  ex­
clusive rubber  business in 
the  future.  Hold  your 
rubber orders until we  see 
you,  as  Lycomings  and 
keystones are the best.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

Getting  the  People

An  Advertising  Legend.

in 

linen  collars 

Several  years  ago  there  was  a  very 
large  dealer 
in  St. 
Louis.  His  sales  were  ‘ enormous.  As 
a  result  he  obtained  generous  conces­
sions  from  manufacturers,  buying  on 
the  most  favorable  terms.  Desiring  to 
make  a  big  drive  one  season,  he  made 
unusually  heavy  contracts  at  an  extra 
reduction 
firm, 
Messrs.  So-and-So,'  standing  out.  For 
some  reason  or other  Messrs.  So-and-So 
declined  to  make  any  concession  what­
ever.

in  price,  only  one 

As  the  dealer  wanted  every  pattern 
a 
to 

obtainable,  he  nevertheless  made 
small  order.  But  he  determined 
“ bring  the  firm  around,”   as  it  were.

Flaming  advertisements  were inserted 
in  the  St.  Louis  dailies  announcing  a 
reduction  sale,  and  saying  that  any  col­
lar  made  in  the  United  States,  no  mat­
ter  what  the  quantity  or  pattern,  could 
be  had  “ two  for  a  quarter— excepting 
So-and-So’s, 
twenty-five  cents 
each. ’ ’

price 

Greatly  to  the  dealer’s  surprise,  al­
though  a  heavy  trade  followed,  every­
body  wanted  So-and-So’s  collar,  and  he 
telegraphed 
in  hot  haste  for  a  large 
supply. 
Inadvertently  he  had  taken  the 
very  course  to  create  a  demand  for  the 
collar  that  he  least  wanted  to  sell;  but 
as  his  profits  were  good,  he  kept  on  ad­
vertising  in  the  same  way.
^Messrs.  So-and-So,  surprised  at  the 
sale  and  learning  its  cause,  caught  the 
idea  and  determined  to 
improve  it. 
Thenceforth  they  only  made  a  high- 
grade  collar,  and  adopted  the  one  price 
and  high  price  system,  not  only  them­
selves,  but  putting  every  dealer  under 
a  written  contract  to  do  so.

A  very 

Then  they  spent  money  lavishly  in 
advertising,  until  their  collars  became 
household  words.  As  an  actual  result 
of  this  brilliant  business  stroke, 
the 
partners  became  millionaires.
Advertising 

Illustrations  Cannot  Be 
Copyrighted.
important  decision  to  this 
effect  has  been  made  by  Judge  Gross- 
cup,  of  the  United  States  Circuit Court, 
in  the  case  of  J.  L.  Mott  Iron  Works 
vs.  Clow,  72  Fed.  Rep.  168.  Suit  had 
been  brought  to  enjoin  infringement  of 
a  copyright.  The  complainants,  who 
are  manufacturers  of  bath  tubs,  have 
issued,  from  time  to  time,  advertising 
sheets  containing  a  description  of  their 
the  dimensions  and 
porcelain  baths, 
prices  of  the  same,  and  such  other 
in­
formation  as  people 
in  that  trade  are 
interested  in.  The  sheets  also  contain 
cuts  or  prints  of  such  baths  as  are 
offered  to  the  trade.  The  defendants 
engaged,  among  other  things,  in  a  like 
business  have  also,  from  time  to*  time, 
issued  advertising  sheets  or books  con­
taining  like  information,  and,  in  some 
cases,  closely  copying  the  prints  or  cuts 
of  baths  contained 
in  complainants’ 
sheets.  A  comparison,  Judge  Grosscup 
goes  on  to  say,  makes  it  pretty manifest 
that  some  of  these  cuts  or  prints  of  the 
defendants  have  been  copied  by  photo­
graphic  processes,  or  otherwise,  from 
the  complainants’  cuts  or  prints;  and 
the  latter  so  averred.  The  defendants 
took 
the  position  that  the  matter  ic* 
question  was  not,  in  law,  a  proper  sub­
ject-matter  of  copyright.  Judge  Gross- 
cup  holds  that  it  was  not  He  says  that 
the  cuts  or  prints  shown 
in  complain­
ants’  sheets, 
in  connection  with  their 
ornamental  settings,  may  have  such  ar­
tistic  merit  as  would  support  a  copy­
if  offered  as  a  work  of  fine  art. 
right 
But  the  United  States 
as 
amended  by  the  act  of  1874,  limit  the 
right  of  copyright  to  such  cuts  and 
prints  as  are  connected  with  the  fine 
arts.  And  the  complainants  did  not

statutes, 

show  that  the  author  or  designer  in­
tended  or  contemplated  these  cuts  and 
prints  as  works  of  fine  art.  No  copy­
right  was  asked  upon  them  separately 
from  the  advertising  sheet  of  which 
they  are a  part.  They  were  not  offered 
to  the  public  as  illustrations  or  works 
connected  with  the  fine arts,  but  as  ad­
juncts  simply  to a  publication  connect­
ed  with  a  useful  art.  The  court,  says 
Judge  Grosscup  in  conclusion,  will  not 
supply  an 
intention*  that  the  author or 
designer  has  not  avowed,  nor give to the 
cuts  or  prints  a  character  and  purpose 
different  from  what  their  surroundings 
indicate.

A  Perplexing  Problem.

It 

in  advertising, 

A  problem  which  confronts  owners 
of  small  stores  in  large  cities  is  that  of 
gaining  effective  publicity.  As  trade 
can  only  be  drawn  from a circumscribed 
area,  it  is  an  exceedingly  difficult  mat­
ter  to  reach  every  person  residing  with­
in  a  certain  number  of  blocks  of  a  city 
store. 
is  very  discouraging  to  the 
proprietors  of  these  small  stores  to  find 
that  all  these  people,  whom 
they  are 
prone  to regard  as  their  natural  patrons, 
daily  read  the  announcements  of  their 
great  competitors,  the  big  stores,  who 
can  afford  to  spend  large  sums of money 
in  advertising,  and  pass  them  by  in 
search  of  the  proffered  bargains,  sim­
ply  because  they  have  but 
limited 
means  for  letting  people  in  their  neigh­
borhood  know  that  they  can  do  as  well 
by  them  as  the 
larger  houses.  While 
these  small  dealers  may  be  firm  believ­
they  know  that  a 
ers 
modest  announcement 
in  a  paper  of 
general  circulation  with many thousands 
of  readers  would  not  prove  of  much 
benefit  in  catching  the  trade  of  the  few 
hundred  people  they  are  after 
in  their 
immediate neighborhoods.  No thorough, 
effective  solution  of  this  problem  has 
been  reached,  but  thire  are  several 
agencies  which  might  be  brought 
into 
play  to  ameliorate  this  trouble.  That 
window  advertising 
these 
every  up-to-date  dealer  fully  appreci­
ates.  The  circular,  booklet,  etc.,  got­
ten  up  so  as  to  compel  attention  and  ju­
diciously  distributed  are  other  means 
to  the  end.  A  plan  which  has  been 
found  effective  is  for  various  dealers  in 
a  neighborhood  to  combine  and  publish 
a  sheet  containing  their  advertisements 
and  a  limited  amount  of  carefully  se­
lected  reading,  which  can  be  sent  to 
those  whose  trade  they  are  in  search  of.
Odd  Scheme  of “Marking  Down.” 

is  one  of 

Prom the Chicago Record.

A  Chicago  bicycle  dealer  has  adopted 

a  curious  cut-price  sale.

He  puts  one  of  the  bicycles 

listed  at 
$100 
into  his  - window  and  begins  cut­
ting  the  price  $1  a  day.  That  is,  the 
price  the  first  day  is  $100,  the  next  day 
*$99,  the  third  day  $98,  and  so  on  until 
'some  one  takes  it  at  the  quoted  price, 
when  a  new $100  wheel  is  put 
into  the 
window,  and  the  cut of $1  a  day  again 
begins.

If  the  great  public  could  be 

for  a  month,  but  the  dealer 

induced 
to  hold  off  there  might be  a  chance  for 
some  one  to  get  a  very  cheap  wheel  aft­
er  the  price  had  been  reduced  every 
day 
is 
shrewd  enough  to  know  that  some  one 
will  jump  in  and  take  the  wheel  before 
the  price  becomes  very  low. 
In  fact, 
there  is  not  much  chance  of  the  wheels 
remaining  unsold  after the  price  drops 
below $90.  The  latter  figure  is  supposed 
to  be  the  common  cut  price  on  the 
wheels  listed  at $100,  but  there are  still 
a  few  manufacturers  who  can  afford  to 
stand  on  their  reputations  and  refuse  to 
allow any  discounts.

An  Observing  Customer.

“ I  am  afraid,”   said  the  young  wom­
an  who  is  candidly  critical,  “ that  there 
is  some  foreign  substance 
this 
coffee. ”

the  grocer.
“ Ceratinly, ”   replied 
That  remark  shows  that  you  have  the 
palate  of  a  connoisseur.  The  coffee 
itself  is  imported.”

in 

The  way  for a  young  man  to  improve 
his  time  is  to  improve  himself  when  he 
has  time.

Established, 1868. 

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T h e“EUREKA” 

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Patent Self-Locking 

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vantages  of  the  Tube, have  jumped  at  the  conclusion  that the Tube is the “whole  ~*X 
thing,” whereas, without the Self-Locking Jaws it is robbed of half its  effectiveness.  ~ X  
The “Eureka” alone combines these two essential features—the Tube  to  receive  the  2^5 

^ Z   potato  as  the  Planter  Is  swung  forward, and  the Locked Jaws to prevent its drop- 
^ Z   ping  through.  Furthermore,  the  “Eureka”  is  the  only tube planter that has had a  z 2  
practical  test  in  the  field.  The  others  are  experiments, liable to “fall by the way-  2 2  
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^ Z   and  improved  throughout.  We  unhesitatingly  guarantee  it  to  be  the  lightest, 
strongest,  best  finished and most perfect working hand planter on  the  market.  In 
the language  of  that  great  agricultural  paper,  the  “Ohio  Farm er,”  “The  ‘Eureka’  —X  
planter is a simple device—strong and durable, and little likely  to  get  out  of  repair,
We especially note,” continues this great journal, “the absence of springs and  other  2 2  
devices so objectionable in a tool of this character.”  Over 300  “Eurekas”  were  sold  ~*X 

the  world,  and  every  farm er  hereabouts  knows  a  potato  planter  when  he sees it.  2^5 

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^Z  While other towns we might mention did almost as well, we do not advise you  to  or- 
^ z   der  300  or  anything  like  it  to  start  with.  But  you owe it to your customers to give

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it will outsell it ten to one.

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Buhl, Sons & Co., Detroit. 
Standart Bros, Detroit. 
Saginaw Hardware Co., Saginaw, Mich. 
Grand Rapids M’f ’gCo., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., Chicago. 
C. Sidney Snepard & Co., Chicago. 
Sidney Shepard & Co., Buffalo, N. Y. 

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Greenville, Mich. 

(Successors to Eureka Planter Co.)
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card you can have an expert examine

roof and tell you why it leaks and how much it will cost to “stop  the  hole.”  We 
have had 28 years’ experience in this business,  and  are  reliable and responsible. 
We have men traveling all the time and  can  send  them  to  you  on  short  notice. 

All kinds of roofs put on and repaired by

H. M. REYNOLDS & SON,

Reliable Roof Builders,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Detroit Office,  Foot of Third

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

Commercial T ravelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip. 

President,  S.  E.  Symons,  Saginaw;  Secretary, 
Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand  Itapids;  Treasurer,  J.  J. 
F kost, Lansing.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, J.  F. Cooper, Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

Gripsack  Brigade.

J.  A.  Gonzalez  addresses  the 
Men’s  Club  of  Traverse  City 
subject of  Cuba  this  evening.

Young 
on  the

It  is  necessary  to-day  that  every  com­
mercial  traveler  should  be  an 
interest­
ing  talker  and  that  he  be  well  informed 
on  topics  of  the  times.

H.  E.  Biel,  the  jolly  representative 
of  the  John  Pretzlaff  Hardware  Co.  in 
the  Upper  Peninsula, 
is  doing  the 
trade.  He  sells  lots  of  curling  irons.,

It 

is  easier  for  the  house  to  correct 
the  experienced  traveling  salesman  of 
his  faults  than  to  imbue  poor  raw  ma­
terial  with  qualities  that  are  not  in­
herent.

There 

is  nothing 

lost  by  pleasant 
words  and  courteous  treatment.  The 
merchant  who 
traveling 
salesman  by  the  clothes  he  wears  and 
treats  him  accordingly  makes  a  sad 
mistake.

judges 

the 

Spearman, 

Miss  Fannie 

formerly 
stenographer  for  W.  C.  Dewey,  will' 
shortly  be  married  to  J.  I).  Beckwith, 
traveling  representative  for  Uptegrove 
&  Bro.,  of  New  York.  Mr.  Beckwith  is 
to  be  congratulated.

Representatives  from  Kansas  City, 
Omaha,  East  St.  Louis  and  from  the 
Chicago  stockyards  met  at  Chicago  one 
day  last  week  and  discussed  the  advis­
ability  of  dispensing  with  traveling  so­
licitors  employed  by  the  commission 
men  at  the  several  markets  in  the  coun­
try.  The  expenditures  in  this  direction 
by  the  commission  men  in  the  markets 
named  amount  to  nearly  §1,500,000  an­
nually.  The  result  of  the  meeting  was 
the  adoption  of  a  rule  cutting  down  so­
licitors  to  one  with  each  firm.  The  rule 
will  be  submitted  to  each  exchange  to 
be  voted  on.

information 

Traveling  men  generally  will  under­
take  to  see  that  Governor  Rich  fails  to 
reach  the  goal  of  his  ambition  at  the 
hands  of  the  Republican  State  conven­
tion  in  the  shape  of  delegate-at-large  to 
the  St.  Louis  convention.  So  far as  the 
Tradesman’s 
the 
traveling  men  who  are  delegates  to  the 
Detroit  convention  will  center 
their 
efforts  and  votes  on  Hon.  T.  J.  O ’Brien, 
of  this  city,  on  the  ground  of  his  ex­
ceptional  fitness  for  the  position.  Mi. 
O ’ Brien  is  a  gentleman  of  high  stand­
ing  and  strong  character, who  will  grace 
any  position  his  friends  may  see  fit  to 
bestow  upon  him.

goes, 

Dick  Warner  is  disconsolate.  Dick 
Warner,  Jr.,  recently  began  making 
short  trips  on  the  road  for  the  Michigan 
Spice  Co.,  with  which 
institution  he 
has  been 
identified  for  several  years, 
but  neglected  to  use  the  term  “ Jr.”   on 
his  advance  postal  cards.  This  natur­
led  the  trade  to  believe  that  Mr. 
ally 
Warner  had  changed  base  from 
the 
Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company  to  the 
Michigan  Spice  Co.,  and  the  traveling 
men  took  up  the  report  and  spread  it 
broadcast. 
is  understood  that  Dick 
Warner  and  Dick  Warner,  Jr.,  have 
had  an  interview  and  that  the  younger 
member  of  the  family  has been persuad­
ed  that  it  would  be  well  for  him  to  use 
the 
junior  designating  term  with  his 
signature  hereafter,  as  the  senior  mem­
ber  of  the  family  is  satisfied  with  his 
present  position  and  doesn’t  relish  the

It 

why  he  has  nar- 
to  teas,  coffees,

idea  of  being  asked 
rowed  his  line  down 
and  spices.
Annual  Meeting  Michigan 

T.  P.  A.

Division,

At  the  annual  meeting  of  Michigan 
Division,  T.  P.  A.,  held  at  the  Trades­
man  office  very  early  in  the  week,  the 
following  officers  were  elected  for  the 
ensuing  year ;

President—Geo.  F.  Owen.
First  Vice-President— E.  A.  Stowe.
Second 
P. 

Vice-President— Guy 

Smith.

zelman.

Gann.

man.

Innes.

Third  Vice-President— J.  Geo.  Heint- 

Fourth  Vice-President— D.  R.  Mc- 

Fifth  Vice-President— Samuel  New­

Secretary  and  Treasurer  Jas.  B.  Mc- 

Board  of  Directors— A.  E.  McGuire, 
W.  A.  Stowe,  E.  A.  Stowe,  Geo.  F. 
Owen,  J.  B.  Mclnnes,  F.  V.  Freeman.
Railroad Committee— F.  V.  Freeman.
Press  Committee— E.  A.  Stowe.
Hotel  Committee—John  M.  Shields.
Legislative  Committee— H.  A.  Hud­

son.

well.

Shults.

Employment  Committee— F.  A.  Cad- 

Sick  and  Relief  Committee—O.  C. 

Physician 

and 

Surgeon--Wm.  F. 

Hake.
Conservative  View  of  the  Sugar  Sit­

uation.

Detroit,  April  27—The  general  posi­
tion  has  not  changed  materially  since 
we 
last  wrote.  No  new  features  have 
appeared  and  the  course  of  the  market 
has  been  simply  one  of  development. 
We  have  now  a  visible  deficit  in  the 
world’s  supply  of  about  310,000  tons, 
against  an  apparent  surplus  approxi­
mating  750,000  tons  on  January  1,  but 
there  is  no  immediate  prospect  of  sugar 
amine,  the  supply 
in  sight  for  this 
campaign  being  more  than  enough  to 
go  around 
in  any  event.  The  prime] 
factor  at  the  moment  is  the  outlook  for 
the  succeeding  campaign.  Cuba,  ac­
cording  to  authorities,  cannot  possibly, 
under  the  most  favorable circumstances, 
produce  more  than  half  a  normal  crop 
in  1897.  Europe,  with  increased  acre­
age  and  average  yield,  will  about  offset 
the  Cuban  loss  and  advices  from  Loui­
siana  indicate  the  largest  crop  ever pro­
duced. 
It  would  seem,  therefore,  that 
there  is  no  immediate  cause  for  anxiety 
as  to  supplies.  We  have  experienced  a 
total  advance  of  1  cent  per  pound  in 
sugar  during  the  six  months  just closing 
and  can  afford  to  study  the  situation 
carefully  before  entering 
large 
transactions  in  anticipation  of  a  further 
upward  movement.

into 

W.  H.  E d g a r   &  Son.
Producer Selling Consumer  Direct.
Butter  routes  will  soon  be  established 
in  Chicago.  Housekeepers  can 
leave 
their  orders  at  the  central  depot  and 
have  one  or  more  one-pound  rolls  de­
livered  to  their  kitchen  doors  every 
morning,  just  as  the  milkman  and  the 
baker  deliver  their  commodities.  The 
plan  is  the  idea  of  an  Elgin  man,  who 
is  said  to  be  the  largest  buttermaker 
in 
the  world.  He  has  organized  a  company 
to  operate 
in  Chicago,  and  after  the 
venture  may  be  made  in  other  cities. 
Ten  delivery  wagons,  equipped with  re­
frigerating  outfits,  will  be  used  at  the 
start.

A  canard,  based  possibly  on  some 
freak  of  a  freshman’s  debating  society, 
or  a  silly  joke  on  the  apostle  of  strikes, 
has  been  going  the  rounds  of  the  press, 
to  the  effect  that  Eugene  V.  Debs  has 
been  invited  to  lecture  before  the  stu­
dents  of  the  Chicago  University.  Such 
canards  are  given  currency by enterpris­
ing  reporters  and  complaisant  editors 
on  account  of  the  comment  and  interest 
they  will  provoke,  even  when  their  fal 
sity,  as  in  this  case,  is  apparent.

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

How  They  Entertained 
Samples.

the  Men  of

Lansing,  April  25— The  Ladies’  Aux­
iliary  to  Post  A..which  was  recently  or­
in  this  city,  gave  a  most  de­
ganized 
leap  year  banquet  on  Friday 
lightful 
evening,  April  24,  at  E lk’s  hall, 
in 
honor  of  their  Knights.  The  elegant 
rooms  were  most  beautifully  decorated 
with  cut  flowers and  potted  plants.  The 
doors  cf  the  dining  room  were  thrown 
open  at  7 ¡30,  where  sumptuously  ap­
pointed  banquet  tables were in readiness 
for  the  guests,  who  marched  in  to  the 
strains  of  the  grand  march  played  by 
Richmond’s  orchestra. 
tables 
were  handsomely  decorated  with  cut 
flowers,  each  guest being  provided  with 
carnations.

After partaking  of  the  sumptuous  re­
past,  the  company  listened  to  the toasts, 
which  were  most  ably  responded  to  by 
the  ladies.

The 

The  President  of  the  Auiliary,  Mrs. 
Jas.  F.  Hammell,  introduced  the  toast 
mistress  of  the  evening,  Mrs.  Nellie  P. 
Fields,  who  made  appropriate  opening 
remarks  and  presided 
in  a  very  able 
manner.  Some  of  the  notable  features 
of  the  entertainment  were  the  following 
toasts:

The  Gentlemen  -Mrs.  R.  B.  Kellogg. 
Mrs.  Kellogg  very  ably  painted 
the 
traveling  men  in  their  various  phases 
of  life,  their  honesty,  religion,  home 
life,  sociability,  and  good  fellowship, 
and  interspersed  the  toast  with  numer­
ous  witty  roasts,  which  were  greatly  en­
joyed  by  the  Knights.

“ As  his  Mother  used  to  do’ ’  was  re 
sponded 
to  by  Mrs.  J.  A.  Weston. 
Mrs.  Weston  was  well  received  and 
made  numerous  hits  on  the  local  travel­
ing  men,  which  were  highly  appreci­
ated.  We  think  it  safe  to  say  that  mem­
bers  of  Post  A  hereafter  will  not  be 
found  telling their  wives  “ how  mother 
used  to  do. ’ ’

“ The  New  Woman”   was  most  ably 
responded  to  by  Mrs.  E.  L.  Smith,  who 
assured  the  Knights  that  “ She”   had 
come  to  stay.

The  toast  ‘ ‘ My  Grip, ”   by  “  Mary, 

scored  a  great  success.  After  the  re­
sponse,  Mary  pulled  out  a  large  manu­
script  prepared  by  her  Private  Secre­
tary,  which  she  had  not  read  but 
no  doubt  could;  she  was  not  allowed 
to  read 
it,  however,  as  the  members 
knew  what  it  meant  to  listen to speeches 
written  by  the  Secretary.

Miss  Maud  Holdridge,  with  Mrs. 
rendered 
in  a  highly  pleasing 

John  Bush  as  accompanist, 
two  vocal  solos 
manner.

A  piano  and  violin  duet  by  Miss 
Clara  Gower  and  Clarence  Urquhart 
was  very  favorably  received  and  en­
joyed.

During  the  evening  numerous  tele­
grams  were  received  from  the  “ first 
ladies  of  the  land,”   expressing  their re­
grets  at  their  inability  to  be  present and 
respond  to  toasts.

“ After  the  ball”   the  Kqights  voted 
the  ladies  the  honor  of  having  given 
the  most  enjoyable  banquet  they  had 
ever attended.

S e c r e t a r y   o f   t h e   A u x i l i a r y .
Reduced  Rates  to  Mt.  Clemens. 
For  the  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
State  Medical  Society,  at  Mt.  Clemens, 
June  4  and  5,a  rate  of  one  fare  and  one- 
third  will  be  made  by  the  D.,  G.  H.  & 
M.  Railway  on  the certificate plan.  Cer­
tificates  can  be  had  of  all  Agents  of this 
company.

J a s.  C a m p b e l l , 
City  Passenger  Agent

One  of  the  most  peculiar  orders  a 
wholesale  hardware  house  ever  received 
was  one  the  Fletcher  Hardware  Co.  re­
ceived  from  Kante  Bros.,  of  Holland, 
for one  white  bull  dog.  Mr.  Kante  got 
the  dog,  has  him  yet,  and  says  he 
good  one.

is 

Satisfied  customers  are  good  advertis­
ers.  Such  are  the  customers  who  use 
Robinson’s  Cider  Vinegar.

of  F.  E.  Bushman, #•»

Buy  showcases 

Kalamazoo.

Bridge  Street 

...House...

Corner  of  Bridge  and 
Kent Streets,

G ran d   R ap id s,  n ic h

R ates  $1  an d   $1.25  p er d a y .

Best  House  In  the  State 
for  the  Honey.
E.  FULLERTON  &  CO.,  Props.

CLIFTON  NOOSE

Michigan’  Popular Hotel.

Remodeled and  Refitted Throughout.

Cor.  M onroe  an d   W a b a sh   A v e s.,

C H IC A G O .

Moderate  rates  and  special  attention  to  l)e- 
roit and Michigan  guests.  Located  one  block 
from the business center.  Come and see us.
GEO.  CUMMINGS  HOTEL CO.,

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

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

Cutler  House  in  New  Hands, [j
II.  D.  and  F.  II.  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  dfetail  painstaking  at­
tention.

«•» 

SELL  THESE

CIGARS

and

give  customers 

satisfaction.

good

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Delivered from cars into 

your store at

Manufacturers’  Cash  Prices.

Drop postal NOW to

Grand  Rapids.

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Drugs==Chemicals

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

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

C. A. B ugbee, Charlevoix
- 
- 
S- E. Pabkill, Owosso
F. W. R. Pebby, Detroit 
-  A. C. Schumacher,  Ann Arbor 
Geo.  G undrum, Ionia

- 
- 
- 

- 

President, C. A. B ugbee, Charlevoix. 
Secretary, F. W. R.  Pebby, Detroit. 
Treasurer, Geo. Gunurum, Ionia.

Coming Meetings—Detroit (S tar Island), June 23.

Lansing, November 3.

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

. 

a 

i S.  P. W hitmarsh,  Palmyra;

President, Geo. J. W abd, St. Clair.
xt, 
VicerPresidents  j G  c   Phillh>8i  Armada.
Secretary, B. Schrouder, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Wm. D upont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—F.  J.  Wurzburg,  G rand 
Rapids;  F. D. Stevens, D etroit;  H. G. Colman, 
Kalamazoo;  E. T. Web b,  Jackson;  D. M. Rus- 
bell, Grand Rapids.

The  Drug  Market.

Acetanilid— Is 

inactive,  with  quota­
tions  unchanged  and  more  or  less  nom­
inal.

in  a 

Acids— Seasonable  descriptions  are 
jobbing  way,  but 
moving  fairly 
nothing  has  occurred  to  influence  any 
important  change  in  quotations  and  the 
general  market  is  devoid  of 
interesting 
features.

Alcohol— The  condition  of  the  market 
for  grain 
is  practically  as  noted  for 
some  time  past,  moderate  quantities 
continuing  to  move  freely  into  consum­
ing  channels  at  prices  based  on  the 
schedule  rate.  Wood  is  in  fair  request 
and  firm.

Arsenic—The  market  remains  more 
or  less  unsettled  under  the  influences 
heretofore  noted.  The  demand,  how­
ever,  is  very  light  and unimportant.

Balsams—There  is  a  continued  strong, 
market  for  prime  quality  Central  Amer­
ican  copaiba  and  the  tendency  is  still 
upward  under  a  good  consuming  de­
mand.

Beans—Trading  in  the  various  grades 
of  tonka  continues  wholly  of the jobbing 
order,  without  quotable  change 
in  val­
ues.  Vanilla  are  in  good  request  from 
the  consuming  trade  and  the  tone  of  the 
market  is  strong,  especially  for  Mexi­
can,  which  are  steadily  hardening  at 
primary  sources.

Cacao  Butter— The  market  has  ruled 
dull,  and,  in  the  absence  of 
important 
demand,  values  are  more'or  less  nomi­
nal.

lack  of 

Caffeine— A  continued  tame  market, 
with  a 
interest  on  the  part  of 
consumers,  has influenced  an easier feel­
ing  among  holders  and  quotations  have 
been  reduced.

Cascara  Sagrada— Is  moving  actively 
into  consuming  channels,  with  prices 
unchanged  but  firm.

Cassia  Buds— Strictly  prime  on  the 
spot  are  becoming  very  scarce  under 
continued  active  demand  from  consum­
ers  and  prices  are  firm.

Cinchonidia— Is  scarce  and  higher..
Cocaine,  Muriate—The  market  con­
tinues  unsettled,  but  there  has  been  no 
further  change  in  prices.

Cod  Liver  Oil— Milder  weather  has 
checked  the  consuming  demand,  and 
the  tone  of  the  market  is  slightly  easier 
under  some  pressure  to  realize,  but  the 
easier  feeling 
in  the  lower 
grades.  Leading  brands  are  held  with 
a  fair  degree  of  steadiness.

is  chiefly 

Colocynth  Apples—Only  small 

job­
bing  sales  are  reported,  and  quotations 
remain  somewhat  nominal.

Cream  Tartar— Is  moving  in moderate 
quantities  only.  Cable  advices  indicate 
advancing  markets  abroad  for  argols, 
and  quotations  for  cream  are  expected 
to  sympathize.

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

Cubeb  Berries—Are  slow  of  sale  and 

nominal

Cuttle  Fish  Bone—Is  moving  moder­
jobbing  orders,  with 

ately  on  small 
prices  steady.

Ergot— The  market 

is  dull,  with 
values  unchanged  and  somewhat  nomi­
nal.

Essential  Oils— Cassia  is  firmer,  with 
the  spot  stock  very  light  and  chiefly  of 
low  grades.  London  cables  a  gradual 
but steady improvement;  yesterday  sales 
were  made  at  8s.  and  that  market  is 
said  to  be  entirely  cleared  up.  Spot 
values  have  been  advanced.  Citronella 
is  easy,  with  quotations  showing  a  de­
cline.  Peppermint  is  steady  but  quiet. 
Other  descriptions  are  without  new  fea­
tures  and  general  trade  is  slow.

Flowers— The  only  noteworthy  feature 
is  increased  scarcity  of  prime  German 
chamomile.  American  saffron  is  fairly 
steady.

Glycerine— Business  is  of  fair  volume 

and  prices  are  maintained.

Gums—The  market 

is  pretty  well 
cleared  of  Curacoa  aloes.  Cape  are 
firm.  Asaletida  continues  to  sell 
in 
limited  quantities.  There  are  no  new 
developments  in  camphor  and  a  contin­
ued  good  business 
is  reported  in  do­
mestic.  Arabic  and  Senegal  are  stead­
ily  hardening  under  the  influences  here­
tofore  noted  and  values  are  fully  2@3C 
higher  for  all  grades.  Advices  from 
Egypt  just  to  hand,  state  that  there  are 
only  two  or  three  small  lots  of  Arabic 
remaining  in  Cairo,  none  of  which  are 
offered  for  sale,  and  no  fresh  receipts 
from  producing  sections  are  expected 
for  several  months.

Tinnevelly 

Leaves—Short buchu have continued to 
move  rather  freely  and  values  are  well 
sustained. 
Senna  of  all  varieties  are 
have 
tending  upward. 
begun  to  share  in  the  general 
improve­
ment.  Orders  for  Alexandria  are  be­
ing  cut  down  by  sellers  and 
is 
claimed  that  two  or  more  large  consum­
ers  will  be  unable  to  fill  their  wants,  as 
all  the  distributing  markets  of 
the 
world  have  been  practically  cleared  up.
improve 
both  here  and  abroad  and  holders  are 
not  anxious  sellers,  in  view  of  the  ex­
in  demand  when  the 
pected 
coming  political  campaign 
fairly 
inaugurated.  Values  are  firm.

Lycopodium— Continues'  to 

increase 

is 

it 

Manna—Jobbing  parcels  only  are  re­
ceiving  attention,  and  a  quiet  feeling 
prevails,  with  large  flake  quoted.
Menthol— Is  inactive  and  weak.
Morphine—Continues  to  meet  with  an 
ordinary  trade  demand  and  manufactur­
ers  are  quoting  on  the  old  basis.

Naphthaline—Is 

in  active  demand 

and  firm.

stocks  accumulating, 

Opium— The  market  has  ruled  dull 
with  the  limited  inquiry  almost  entirely 
for jobbing quantities.  With the demand 
slow  and 
the 
favor.  Foreign 
tendency  is  in  buyers’ 
markets  are  also  quiet,  with  cables 
from  Smyrna  reporting  small  sales  at 
8s.  4d.,  and  from  Constantinople  offer­
ing  at  8s.  3d.  c.  and  f.
Quicksilver— Small 

in  fair 
request  for  consumption,  with  prices 
steady.

lots  are 

dications  are  that  the  current  crop  will 
be  below  the  average. 
Senega  has 
shown  increased  activity,  but  at  slight­
ly  easier  prices.

Seeds— Canary  remains  dull  and  de­
pressed,  but  without  further  quotable 
change  in  prices  of  any  variety.  Cori­
is  weak  and  demoralized  under 
ander 
pressure  to  sell  and 
lack  of  demand, 
together  with  free  offerings  for  future 
delivery  at  much 
lower  prices.  Ger­
man  Fennel  has  declined.  California 
yellow  mustard  continues  rather  heavy 
in  the  absence  of  important  demand, 
although  holders  on  the  Pacific  coast are 
endeavoring  to  sustain  values.  Brown 
is--scarce  on  the  spot  and  firm.  Sun­
flower  has  declined.  Millet 
is  firmer

with  quotations  fractionally  higher.

Sponges— The  spot  market  rerfiains 
quiet  but  prices  for  good  grades  con­
tinue 
from 
indicate  a  higher  market  with 
Nassau 
stocks  limited.

latest  reports 

firm.  The 

Sugar  of  Milk—Continues  to  meet 
with  a  good  steady  consuming  demand, 
and  values  are  well  sustained.

Don’t  forget  that  success 

is  assured 
by  the  amount  of  money  made  and  not 
by  the  quantity  of  goods  sold.

Smoke  the  Dodge  Club  Cigar.

HEADACHE.............
K C C ' I V   O   ................POWDERS
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PURE  RYE
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P I   I D E   D V R
A  Perfect  Whisky.

Sole  Proprietors, Terre  Haute,  Ind.

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A. E .  M CG U IRE, 
D A VE  MCGANN, 

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j  Headquarters at Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Tie Great 
Van Twiller

Again  I  have  the  agency 
for  this,  the  greatest  5 
cent cigar ever made.

Send  orders  by  m ail  and  they  will 

have prom pt attention.

J. A. GONZALEZ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Representing the

Best &  Russel  company,

Chicago,  HI.

All Jobbers have tberr)

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Quinine— Has  continued  to  meet  with 
a  fair  demand  from  second  hands,  with 
quotations  unchanged.

ipecac  and  the  market 

Roots—There  is  a  good seasonable de­
mand  for 
is 
stronger  in  tone.  Jalap  is  working  into 
an  improved  position  and  the  tendency 
of  prices  is  toward  a  higher basis.  Most 
of  the  stock  has  been  taken  from  first 
hands  by  dealers.  Prime  quality  Ja­
in­
maica  ginger  is  yet  scarce  and  the 

Candy!

A.  E.  BROOKS  &  CO •9 

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  S t.,
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Morphia, S.P.& W ... 1  75© 2 00 Sinapis......................
Sinapis, o p t..............
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
1  65@ 1  90 Snuff,  Maccaboy, De
C.  Co......................
© 40
Voes........................
Moschus Canto*__
65© 80 Snuff, Scotch, DeVo's
Myristlca, No. 1.......
© 10 Soda Boras...............
Niix V om ica.. .po.20
15® 18 Soda Boras, po........
Os  Sepia...................
Soda et Potass T art.
Pepsin  Saac, II.  & P.
©  1  00 Soda,  Carb...............
D. Co......................
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
Picis Liq. N.N.M gal.
© 2 00 Soda,  Ash.................
doz...........................
© 1  00 Soda, Sulphas..........
Picis Liq., quarts__
© 85 Spts. Cologne............
Picis Liq., pints.......
© 50 Spts.  Ether  Co........
Pil  H ydrarg.. .po.  80
© 18 Spts.  Myrcia Dom...
Piper N igra.. .po.  22
@ 30 Spts. Vini  Rect. bbl.
Piper Alba__ po.  35
7 Spts.  Vini Rect. Mbbl
Pilx  Burgun............
©
10@ 12 Spts.  \  ini Rect.lOgal
Plumbi  Acet............
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  10© 1  20 Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
© 1  25
& P. D. Co., doz...
27@ 30 Strychnia, Crystal... 1  40© 1  45
Pyrethrum,  pv........
8® 10 Sulphur,  Subl..........
3
Quassiae....................
2© 2*4
37@ 42 Sulphur,  Roll.........
Quinia, S.  P. &  W ..
8© 10
30© 40 Tam arinds...............
Quinia. S.German..
28© 30
35© 40 Terebeuth Venice...
Quinia, N.Y.'............
42© 45
12© 14 Theobromae..............
Rubia Tinctorum ...
9 00@16 0*
24@ 26 Vanilla.-..................
SaccharumLactis pv
8
7©
Salacin...................... 2 50© ‘•JJjtL Zinci  Sulph..............
40© tSt
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

10 days.

Oils

Lard, No.  1...............
Linseed, pure  raw..
Linseed,  boiled.......
Neatsfoot,  w i n t e r
strained.................
Spirits T urpentine..
Paints
Red V enetian.........
Ochre, yellow  Mars 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.
Putty, commercial.
Putty, strictly  pure 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American.............
Vermilion,  English
Green,  P aris,...........
Green,  Peninsular.
Lead, Red...............
Lead, w hite............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders'...
White, Paris A m er..
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
eliff ..x .................
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

BBL.
1* 2 
1M  2 
@4
1*  2  _ 
©3
2M  2M@3 
2M  2M@3
15
13©
70©
15  ©
13©
5m® 
5M®
70
®
©©  1  00
©  1  <0 
1  00®  1  15

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

70
53

2M©

Less 5c gal.  cash

HAZELTINE 
PERKINS m
DRUGS

Importers aod Jobbers of

Chemicals  and  Paient  medicines

Dealers  in

Paints,  Oils 
and  Varnishes

4

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  W hiskies,  Brandies,  Gins,  W ines, 
and  Rums.

We  sell  Liquors  for  medicinal  pur­

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

MIZELTWE i mm K  CO.

RAPIDS.

4®
tilth
1301
12©

8@$ 10
Aceticmn...................$
75@ 80
Benzoicum,  German
© 15
Boracic......................
29® 40
Carbolicum ..............
44© 46
C itricum ...................
5
H ydrochlor..............
3©
S@ 10
N itrocum .................
10® 12
O xalicum .................
@ 15
Phosphorium,  d ii...
65
55(7*)/
Salicÿlicum..............
5
Sulpnuricum............ m @
T an n icu m ...............   1 40©  1 60
38© 40
Tartaricum ...............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg............
Aqua, 20  deg............
Carbonas...................
Chloridum ................
Aniline
Black...  .  ................
B ro w n ......................
R e d ............................
Y ellow ......................
Baccai.
Cubeaee............po.  18
Juniperus.................
Xanthoxylum ..........
Balsamum
Copaiba.....................  
Peru............................ 
Terabin, Canada—  
Tolutan...................... 
Cortex 
Abies,  Canadian—
('assise  ......................
Cinchona Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Quillaia,  gr’d ..........
Sassafras...................
U lm us...po.  15,  gr’d 
Bxtractum 

2 00© 2 25 
80©  1  00 
45©  50
2  50© 3 00

45@
©
40©
’¡'5®

13©
6©
25©

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra
Glycyrrhiza, po.......
Haematox, 15 lb box.
Haematox, I s ............
Haematox, M s..........
Haematox, Ms..........
Ferru

24©
28©
11©
13©
14©
16©

Carbonate  Precip.. ■ 
Citrate and Q uinia..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride.......
Sulphate, com’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cw t..........
Sulphate,  pure  .......
Flora
A rn ica......................
A nthem is.................
M atricaria...............
Folia
Barosma....................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly...................
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms...................
U raU rsi.....................
Gumml 
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po.................
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28 
Aloe, Cape ....po.  15 
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40
Ammoniac...............
Assafcetida__ po. 30
B enzoinum ..............
Catechu, Is................
Catechu, Ms..............
Catechu, M®..............
Camphor®...............
Euphorbium ..po.  35
Galbanum.................
Gamboge  po............
Guaiacum.......po. 35
Kino............po. $3.00
M astic......................
Myrrh..............po.  45
O pii...po. $3.20@3.40  :
Shellac......................
Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth ..............
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia.........oz. pkg
M ajorum __ oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
M entha Vir..oz. pkg
R ue................oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat............
Carbonate, P at.........
Carbonate, K.  & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium ............
Amygdalae, Dulc__
Amygdalae, Amarse .
A nisi.........................
Auranti  Cortex.......
Bergamii...................
Cajlputi.....................
Caryophylli..............
Cedar.........................
Chenopadii...............
Cinnamoni!..............
Ci tro nella.................

12©
18©
18©

20®  30
18©  25
25©  30
12©
S®

©
©
©
©
60©
14©
©
©
55©
22©  25
50©  55
13
©  
@  14 
16 
@ 
61®  64© 
10 
@ 1  00 
65©  70
©   35
©  3  00
©
©
35©  : 
40© 
40© 
50®

55©
20©
20©
35©

3 25©  3 50 
30®  50
8 00© 8 25 
2  90©  3  00
2  30©  2 40
3 00®  3 20
70®  75
55®  60
35©  65
©  2  50 
2  50® 2  60 
75®  80

25©  1 40

75
60
1  50© 2  00 
90©  2 00
1  30©  1  50
2  25©  3  00 
2  65©  2 75 
2 00©  2  10
@  50
75© 3  00 
10©  
12 
©  35
91©  96
©  1  00 
6  50© 8  50 
40©  45
90©  1  00 
2 50©  7 00 
50©  55
®   65
©  1  10 
40©  50
©   1  60 
15©  20

Conium  Mac............ 
35©  65
Copaiba........................ 
80©  90
Cubebæ......................   1 
50©  1 60
E xech th ito s............  1  20©  1  30
E rigeron...................  1 
20©  1 30
G aultheria...............   1 
50©  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
Gossippii, Sem. g a l.. 
50© 
Hedeoma...................  1 
Junipera.
Lavendula..........
Li mou is .................
Mentha  Piper__
Mentha V erid__
Morrbuae,  g al__
Myrcia, ounce__
Olive.....................
Picis  Liquida.  .. 
Picis Liquida, gal
R ic in a .................
Rosmarini............
Roste,  ounce.......
S u ccin i.....................
S abina.....................
Santal........................  !
Sassafras...................
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce.
Tiglii..........................
T hym e......................
Thyme,  o p t..............
Theobrom as............
Potassium
Bi-Barb......................
Bichromate  ............
Bromide....................
Carb..........................
Chlorate..po. 17@19c
Cyanide.....................
Iodide........................
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa,  Bitart,  com 
Potass Nitras, opt...
Potass Nitras............
Prussiate...................
Sulphate  p o ............
Radix

15© 
18
15
13© 
45©  48
12® 
15
16© 
18 
50©  55
90©  3 00 
30©  33
©
8©
7@
25©
15©
20©
22©
12©
®20©
12©
16©
@
@
15®
15©  20
1  65©  I  75 
35©  40
40©  45
©   35
15©  18
75©  1  00 
©  1  25 
75©  1  35 
35©  38
@  16 
30©  35
55©  60
@  40
©   25
12

lychrrhiza.

10©  
©
@
15©
12©
23©

Aconitvm .
A itin e.......
Auch usa .. 
Arum po... 
Calamus  .. 
G entiana.. 
po  15 
pv.  15
Hydrastis Canaden . 
Hydrastis Can.,  po.. 
Hellebore,Alba, p o ..
Inula, po...................
Ipecac, po.................
Iris plox__ po35@38
Jala pa,  p r.................
Maranta,  Ms............
Podophyllum, po__
R h e i..........................
Rhei, c u t...................
Rhei, pv.....................
Spigelia.....................
Sanguinaria. ..po.  15
Serpentaria..............
Senega......................
Similax,officinalis H
Smilax, M.................
Scillae..............po.35
Svmplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po...................
V aleriana.Eng.po .30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ................. 
Zingiber j .................  
Semen
Anisum .......... po.  20
©
14©
Apium  (graveleous)
4©
Bird, Is......................
10©
C arui.............. po.  18
Cardamon.................  1  00©  1  25
S@ 
10 
Conundrum.
Cannabis  Sativa__
4
3M@ 
Cydonium.................
75©  1  00 
C henopodium .........
10©  
12 
Dipterix  odorate...
!  90©  3 00
Foeniculum..............
15
®
Fcenugreek, po.........
6®
L in i...........................
2M@
Lini,  grd __ bbl. 2M
3M@35©
Lobelia  ....................
3M@
Pharlaris  Canarian.
4M®
R ap a..........................
Sinapis Albu............
7@
11®
Sinapis  Nigra..........
Spiritus 
2 00©
Frum enti, W. D. Co. 
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 
1  75®  6  50 
Spt. Vini Galli.........
Vini Oporto..............
1  25©  2  00 
Vini  Alba.................
1  25® 2 00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.................
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage.................
Velvet extra  sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
E xtra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
Grains  sheeps’  wool,
carriage.................
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for 
slate  use...............
Syrups
A cacia......................
Auranti Cortes.........
Zingiber.....................
Ipecac.....................
Ferri Iod...................
Rhei Arom...............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega......................
Scili®.........................

@
®
@
©
®
@
50®

© 2 00 
®  1  10
@  85

®   1  40

I  50 
50 
50

Scillae Co...................
T olutan.....................
Prunus virg..............
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconi tum N apellis F
Aloes..........................
Aloesand M yrrh__
A rn ica......................
Assafoetida..............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex.......
Benzoin.....................
Benzoin Co...............
B arosm a...................
Cantharidcs.........  .
C apsicum ............
Cardam on................
Cardamon  Co__
Castor........................
Catecbu.............. 
..
Cinchona...............
Cinchona Co............
Colum ba..................
Cubeba......................
Cassia  Acutifol.......
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis ...................
E rgot.........................
Ferri Chloridum __
G entian.....................
Gentian Co...............
G uiaca......................
Guiaca am m on........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine........................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino...........................
Lobelia......................
Myrrh........................
Nux  Vomica............
O pii............................
Opii, camphorated..
Opii,  deodorized__
Q uassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei...........................
S anguinaria............
Serpentaria..............
Strom onium ............
Tolutan....................
V alerian...................
Veratrum V eride...
Zingiber....................
¿Ether, Spts.  Nit. 3F 
¿Ether, Spts.  Nit. 4 F
Alum en.....................
Alumen, gro’d. .po. 7
¿Vnnatto.....................
Antimoni,  po..........
Antimoni et PotassT
A ntipyrin................
A ntifebrin...............
Argenti Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum................
Balm Gilead  Bud
Bismuth  S. N ..........
Calcium Chlor. 
.,  Is..
Calcium Chlor. 
-,  Ms.
Calcium Chlor.
.,  Ms-
tus.po
is, a f .
s, po.
sB,po
po.  15

niscellaneous 

30®
34@
¡M®
3@
40©
4©
55®
@  1  40 
@ 
15
@
10©  
12 
38©  40
I  00©  1  10
@ 9
© 10
© 12
© 75
@ 1 >
@ 15
Capsici I 
@ 15
10© 12
Caryoph’
Carmfne', No. 40. 
© 3  75 
Cera Alba,  S. A F
50®
Cera Flava...............
40©
Coccus......................
®
Cassia F ructus.........
®
Centraria...................
10 
©  
Cetaceum..................
®   45
Chloroform...............
60®  63
®   1  35 
Chloroform, squibbs
1  15©  1  30
Chloral Hyd Crst__
20®  
Chondrus..................
a
Cinchonidlne,P.& W
15©  20
Cinchonidine, Germ  3M@ 
1
Cocaine.....................  5  30©  5  50
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
65
Creosotum................ 
@  35
@
Creta...............bbl. 75 
©
Creta, prep...............  
Creta, precip............ 
9@ 
1
Creta, Rubra............ 
@
Crocus......................  
50©  5
C u d b ear................... 
@  24
Cupri Sulph.............. 
5®
Dextrine.................... 
1
10@ 
Ether Sulph.............  
75©  90
Emery, all  numbers 
®
Emery, po.................  
@
Ergota............po. 40  30©  35
Flake  W hite............ 
12© 
1
@  2
Galla..........................  
8®
Gambier..................... 
Gelatin, Cooper..  .. 
@  60
Gelatin, F rench....... 
30©  50
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10
Less  than  box__  
60
Glue,  brow n............ 
9@ 
t
13©
Glue,  w hite.............. 
G lycerina.................  
19©  26
Grana  Paradisi  .... 
@ 
15
Humulus................... 
25©  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  75
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
@  65
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
@  85
®   95
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentum  45@  55
Hydrargyrum..........  
@ 
60
Ichthyobolla, A m ...  1  25®  1  50
Indigo........................ 
75@  1  00
Iodine, Resubi.........  3 80© 3  90
@ 4  70
Iodoform................... 
Lupulin..................... 
@
Lycopodium............ 
60@
Macis.......................... 
65@
Liquor  Arsen et Hy-
drarg Io d ...............
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannia,  S.  F ............
I  Menthol..................... 

©  5  50

Hir

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

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

F a ir...............................
Good.............................
P rim e............................
Golden  ........................
Peaberry  .....................

Santos.

Fair  ............................................19
Good  ..........................................20
P rim e..........................................22
Peaberry  ...................................23
F air  ........................................... 21
Good  ..........................................22
Fancy 
...................................... 24

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

Maracaibo.

Prime  ........................... 
23
Milled..........................................24

 

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

In terio r...................................... 25
Private  Growth.........................27
Mandehling............................... 28
Im itatio n ...................................25
Arabian  .....................................<8
Quaker Mocha and Jav a........32
Toko  Mocha and Java............ 28
State House Blend................... 25
A rbuckle..........................  19  95
Jersey................. ...............  19  95
lio n  To f f e e
h i 
Packages.Without 6 u ro *
WFou. Ounces  Net.
C asts 100 lbs Ì  Equality  Price 

Package.

60  -  J  lessac  per lb.
C abinets 120 lbs. Same P rice, 
90 *  Extra  for Cabinets.
(TcLaughiin’s  XXXX........!9  95

* 

KOFFA-AID.

doz.  gross

AXLE  GREASE.
Aurora...........................g
Castor O il....................®> 
Diamond..................... g- 
F razer's........ .•••■.......¿2 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
..70
Mica.................
Paragon..........

i  “
« m
„ ™
9  oo

8 00 
6  00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

Acme.

45
85 
1  50

go
1  00 
10

M lb cans doz ..................... 
% lb cans doz.
1 
lb cans doz.
M lb cans 3 doz................... 
y2 lb cans 3 doz.
1 
lb cans 1 doz.
Bulk.....................
u  lb cans 4 doz case......... 
14 lb cans 4 doz case........  
1 
u  lb cans 4 doz case........  
14 lb cans 4 doz case......... 
1 

45
g?
lb cans 2 doz case.........  l  00
35
•*•*

lb cans 2 doz case...............

JaXon

Home.

Lynch.

45 
00 
1  20
45 
75 
1  50

M lb catis......................
14 lb cans......................
1 
lb cans......................
Our Leader.
M lb cans......................
yt lb cans......................
1 
lb cans......................
b a t h   b r ic k .
A m erican...................................¿2
English........................................8U
No. 1 Carpet..........................  2  20
No. 2 Carpet............................-
No. 3 Carpet....................   J  “?
No. 4 Carpet.........................   *  ™
Parlor Gem ... -.......................
Common W hisk................... 
»
Fancy Whisk........................  ’  ™
W arehouse...........................   - 50
Hotel 40 lb boxes.......................lo
Star 40 lb boxes...................... 
»
P araffin e...................................10

CANDLES.

BROOriS.

CANNED  GOODS, 
rianitowoc  Peas. 

Lakeside M arrowfat..........  1  00
Lakeside E.  J-- 
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1  «0 
Lakeside, Gem. Ex. Sifted.  1  65 

....... :  ]

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
pints.................4 25
Columbia,  !4 pints................- «u

CEMENT.

Major’s, per gross.

*4 oz size.... 12 00 
1  oz size — 18 00 
Liq. Glue,loz  9 60
Leather  Cement,
1 oz size.......12 00
2 oz size.......18 00
Rubber  Cement.
2 oz size.

12  00

CHEESE.

Amboy......................  @  11
Acme  ................. . • • •  @  11
Jersey........................  @  >114
Lenawee....................  @  11V4
Riverside...................  @  11 !4
Gold  Medal.............. 
It
Brick..........................  @  10
Edam.........................   @1 00
Leiden.......................   @  20
Limburger................   @ 1 5
Pineapple..................  @  24
Sap  Sago...................  @  18
5
Bulk 
Red 
T

Chicory.
 

............................ 
 
CHOCOLATE.

W alter Baker & Co.’s.

CLOTHES LINES.

German Sw eet......................... 22
Prem ium ...................................31
Breakfast  Cocoa......................42
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz..........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dez..........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz..........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz..........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz..........I  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz..............  80
Jute, 72 ft,  per  doz...............  95
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes.............................45
COCOA SHELLS.
201b  b a g s........................  
2%
Less quantity................... 
3
Pound  packages.............. 
4
CREAH  TARTAR. 

Strictly Pure, wooden boxes.  35 
Strictly Pure, tin boxes------ 37

Extract.

3 doz in case.........................  5  25
Valley City Vi g ro ss....... 
75
Felix  H  gross.................  
1  15
85
Hummel’s foil  *4 gross... 
Hummel’s tin  **  gross. 
1  43

CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. in case.

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co.’s 
brands.
Gail  Borden  Eagle..............7  40
.6 25 
C row n......................
.5 75 
D aisy........................
.4  50 
Champion  ...............
4  25 
Magnolia 
...............
3  35
Dime

Peerless evaporated ¡cream.5  75

COUPON  BOOKS.

“ Tradesman.”

$  1 books,  per  100................  2 00
$ 2 books, per  100 ...............   2  50
$  3 books, per  100 ...............   3  00
8  5 books, per  100 ...............   3  00
810 books,  per  100 ...............   4  00
820 books, per  100...............   5 00

‘Superior.”

2  50
8  1 books, per  100—
3 00
8 2 books, per  100—
3  50
8  3 books, per  100 —
4  00
8  5 books, per  100----
810 books, per  100...............   5  00
820 books,  per  100 ...............   6 00

“ Universal.”

8  1 books, per  100 .................  3 00
8  2 books, per  100 .................  3 50
8 3 books, per  100.................  4 00
8  5 books, per  100 .................  5 00
810 books, per  100 ...............   6 00
820,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 810 down.

au DOOKS..........................
50 books.......................... ..  2 00
..  a oo
250 books.......................... ..  6  25
500 books.......  ................ ..10 00
17 50

Credit  Checks.

500, any one denom 'n... ..  3 00
1000, any one denom’n . .. ..  5  00
2*»00, any one denom 'n... .  8 00
75
Steel  punch......................
DRIED  FRUITS—DOflESTIC

Apples.

Sundried.......................... @ 3V4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @  614

California  Fruits.

Apricots........................... 9  @11
Blackberries....................
N ectarines...................... 6  @7
Peaches............................ 5  @14
Pears................................. 8V4@
Pitted Cherries...............
Raspberries....................

California  Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes.......... @  4H
90-100 25 lb boxes.......... @  m
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.......... @  5*4
5%
70 - 80 25 lb boxes..........*
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.......... @ 6*4
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.......... @  6?4
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.......... @  7*4
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.......... @  7?4
54 rent less in hags 
Raisins.

London  Layers...........1  00(3:1  25
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown  3*4
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown  4
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown  5

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bills.........................@  4?s
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........@ 4*4
Scliuit’sCleaned 25 lb hxs@  6% 
Schult’sCleaned 50 lb bxs@ 5 
Sch nit’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.......7J4@8
Sultana 20 lb boxes.......6*4@7i4
Valencia 30 lb boxes__   @

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Bulk  .......................................  
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s ............2 00

3

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

254

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Lima  Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels  ............................... 3  25
Flake, 501b.  drum s............1 50
D rie d ..................................  
4
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box.........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box..........2 50
E m p ire ...............................  
2%,
C h ester................................1J£@2
Green,  b u ...........................   90
Split,  per lb .................   ... 
Rolled Avena,  bbl..........3 30
Rolled Avena, 54hbl..........1  78
Monarch,  bbl..................... 2  90
Monarch,  54  bbl......................1 58
Private brands,  bbl....... 2  65
Private brands, 54bbl........1  45
Quaker, cases.......................... 3 20
Oven  Baked............................3 25
Lakeside  ............................2  25
G erm an............................... 
4
354
East  India.......................... 
Cracked, bulk..................... 
3
24 2 lb packages..........2  40
Breakfast  Food.
Pettijobn’s Best.......................3 10
Buckwheat Flour. 
Excelsior  Self Rising.

Case o f 2 doz.............................1 90
Five case  lots...........................1 75

W heat.

Sago.

Fish.
Cod.

IS
10

riackerel.

Georges cured.............  @  454
Georges  genuine........   @ 6
Georges selected........   @654
Strips or  bricks..........   6  @ 9
Halibut.
Chunks................................ 
Strips....... 
........................ 
Herring.
Holland white hoops keg. 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  6  50
Norwegian..........................
Round 100 lb s.....................  2  30
Round  40 lbs.....................  1  10
Scaled................................... 
12
No.  1  100 lbs........................  13  00
No. 1  40 lbs........................  5  50
No. 1  10 lbs........................   145
No. 2 100 lbs........................  11  75
No. 2  40 lbs........................  5 00
No. 2  10 lbs........................  1  32
Family 90 lbs......................
Family 10 lb s......................
Russian kegs......................  
55
No. 1 ,1001b. bales..............  1054
No. 2,100 lb. bales............. 
854
No. 1100 lbs........................   5 50
No. 1  40 lbs........................  2  50
No. 1  10 lbs........................
No. 1  8 lb s........................ 
59
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
i
1  40
43
$

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

100 lb s............  7  25  6 75 
40 lbs............   3 20  3 00 
10 lbs............ 
83 
8 lbs............ 
71 

Sardines.
Stockfish.

W hitefish.

Trout.

88 
73 

Jennings 
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz........1  20
3 oz........1  50
4 oz........2  00
6 oz........3 00
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
6 oz........2  00
No.  8...2  40 
No.  10. ..4  00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No.  4 T 4  50

Souders’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

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

Regular 
Vanilla.

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

Lemon.

2 o z......... 1  50
4 oz......... 3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.

2 o z..........1  75
4 oz.........3 50

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.”

H alf P in t...............................  1  75
P in t..............................-........ 3 50
Q u a rt...................................... 5  40
Half Gallon..........................  7  75
G allo n ................................... 14  40
Sage..........................................  15
H ops........................................  15

HERBS.

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
%  lb  cans...............................   18
K eg s............................................. 4 00
Half Kegs.................................... 2 25
Quarter  Kegs..............................1 25
1 lb  cans.................................  34
K eg s............................................. 8 00
H alf Kegs.....................................4 25
Quarter Kegs............................... 2 25
lib  c a n s ................................  45

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

INDIGO.

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

JELLY.

15 lb  pails...............................
17 lb  pails...............................
30 lb  pails...............................

LYE.

Condensed,  2  doz  ...............
Condensed,  4  doz.................

LICORICE.

Pure.........................................
C alab ria................................
Sicily.......................................
Root.........................................

MINCE  MEAT.— — —— 
^StNGUllVö

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

HATCHES.

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

n O LA SSES.
Blackstrap.

Cuba Baking.

Sugar house......................... 10@12
O rdinary..............................12@14
20
30

Porto  Rico
Prime............................ 
Fancy 
......................... 

New Orleans.

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

Half-barrels 3c extra. 

18
22
24
27
30*

PICKLES.
JTedium.

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.............................   120

PIPES.

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head......................   6H
Carolina  No.  1.....................  5
Carolina  No. 2.....................  4%
Broken..................................   254
Japan,  No. 1........................   5
Japan.  No. 2 ........................  454
Java, No. 1............................  43£
Java, No. 2............................  454
P a tn a ....................................  4

Imported.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60  lbs. in  box.

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
1
Lump, bbls.......................... 
Lump, 1451b kegs............... 1  10
A n ise ..................................   13
6
Canary, Smyrna.................  
C araw ay.............................   10
Cardamon,  M alab ar.......  80
4
Hemp,  Russian...............  
Mixed  B ird........................  
454
6V4
Mustard,  w hite.................  
8
Poppy  ................................. 
R ap e............... ....................  
4
Cuttle Bone............   .........  20
Scotch,  in bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, in ja rs.................   35
French Rappee, in  ja rs.......  43

SNUFP.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

B arrels.................................  14
Half  bbls............................  16
Fair  ....................................   16
Good....................................   20
C hoice.................................  25

Pure Cane.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pure Ground in Bulk.

Allspice  .................................  954
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, blackS@12 
Pepper, Singapo re, whitel5@18
Pepper, Cayenne............17@20
Sage.......................................... 18
“ Absolute”  in  541b.  Packages.
Allspice.........................  
  65
Cinnamon...........................   75
Cloves..................................   70
Ginger, Cochin..................   75
Mace.....................................2 10
M ustard...............................  75
Nutmegs..............................2 10
Pepper, c ay e n n e ..............  75
Pepper, white  ...................  75
Pepper, black shot...........   60
Saigon..................................1  50
“ Absolute  ’’Butchers’  Spices.
Wiener and F rankfurter__ 16
Pork Sausage..........................16
Bologna and Smoked S'ge. .16 
Liver S’ge and H’d Cheese..16

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes........... ..1  60
B arrels,  100  3 lb bags— ..2   75
B arrels,  40  7 lb bags — ..2   50
B utter, 56 lb   b ag s...............
B utter, 20  14 lb   bag s......... ..3   00
B utter, 280 lb  b b ls............. ..2  50
100 3 lb  sack s........................ ..2  60
60 5-lb sack s........................ ..1  85
28 11-lb sack s...................... . .1  70
lb.  ca rto n s.............. ..3   2»
50  4 
115  2/41b. sack s.................. ..4  00
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  iiuen  sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 
60 
56-lb  sacks.............................   22
S aginaw .....  ........................   85
Manistee  ...............................   85
Boxes.........................................5*4
Kegs, English.........................  4%

Solar  Rock.
Common Fine.

Ashton.
Higgins.

W arsaw.

SODA.

STARCH.
Diamond.

Common  Corn.

Common Gloss.

Kingsford’s  Corn.

SUMMER  BEVERAGES.

64 10c  packages  .................5  00
128  5c  packages.................. 5  00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
20 1-lb packages.....................  6)4
40 1 lb packages.....................  6M
Kingsford’s  Silver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages.....................  614
6-lb  boxes............................. 7
20-lb  boxes.............................. 5
40-lb  boxes............................  4%
1-lb  packages......................  4%
3-lb  packages......................  4%
6-lb  packages......................  5)4
40 and 50 lb boxes.................   25k
Barrels  ...................................  2%
Thompson’s 
Wild  Cherry 
P h o s p h a te  
“H u m m e r  
Case” 
c o n  
tains  3  doz 
25c  8  oz  bot 
t i e s ,   $5  00 
One  Big  Bot 
tie  Free.  24 
oz.  50c  size, 1 
doz. to a  case 
4  00.  Special 
Soda  Foun­
tain  Extract 
per gal. $2  00. 
Big  Demon­
strator 
con­
tains  15  doz. 
25c size, 1 doz 
50c size, 1 jug 
mrail  and  fixtures, 
g if   See add. 

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. J. Johnson’s  brand

S. C. W.
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
....... 35  00
Q uin tette.....................
brand.
Clark Grocery Co.’s
Michigan Spice Co.’s brand.

Absolute....................... ___ .35  00

Gowans & Sons' Brands.

SOAP.
Laundry.
C row ............................
........2  85
German Fam ily.......... .......   1  85
American Grocer  100s ....... 3  00
American Grocer  60s. .......  2  40
Mystic  W hite.............. ....... 3  80
Lotus  ............................ ___3  90
........3  00
....  2  55
Old Style.......................
Happy Day................... ........2  85

JAXON

Single  box................................3 i
5 box lots, delivered...........2 !
10 box lots,  delivered...........2  !
Lautz Bros. &  Co.’s  brands.
A cm e........................................3 :
Cotton  Oil............................... 5 1
Marseilles.................................4 1
M aster...................................... 3 1

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

Standard............
Standard  H.  H.. 
Standard  Twist. 
Cut  Loaf............
Extra II. H ...............  
Boston  Cream......... 

*bbls.  pails
6)4® 7 
)4®  7)4 
)4@  7)4 
)4@ 8)4 
cases
®  8)4
®  8)4

Mixed Candy.

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

obis,  pails
@ 7
@ 7*4
@ 8
@ s
@
@
@
@  8)4
@ 9
@  9
®10
@13

Fancy—In Bulk.

Pails
Lozenges, plain....... 
@ 9
@ 9
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops............  12  @14
Choc.  Monumentals 
@13
Gum  Drops.............. 
@ 5
Moss  Drops.............. 
@ 8)4
@ 8)4
Sour Drops...............  
@ 9
Im perials.................  

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Per Box

Lemon  Drops..........
Sour  Drops..............
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate  Drops__
II.  M. Choc.  Drops..
Gum  Drops..............  35
Licorice Drops........ 1  00
A.  B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
Im perials.................
M ottoes....................
Cream  Bar...............
Molasses B a r ..........
Hand Made Creams.  80
Plain  Creams..........   60
Decorated Creams..
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.
150-176-200................. 
250-288 ...................... 
126 ............................... 
Lemons.
Strictly choice  360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy  360s...............  
Extra 360s................. 
Fancy  300s...............  
Extra 300s  ...............  
Bananas.

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

@60@

@55

@30
@45

3  00
2  25
2  50

@2 75
@2 75

@3 00
@3  25
@3  50
@4  00

Scouring.

VINEGAR.

SUGAR.

..3  00
.2  85

Allen B.  Wrisiey’s brands.

Single box
5 box lot, delivered__
10 box lot, delivered.  ..
25 box lot, delivered__
Old Country 80  1-lb..............3 20
Good Cheer 60  1-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,  per gro...  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 25
Salad Dressing,  large........ 4 55
Salad Dressing, .Small........ 2 65
Leroux Cider.............................10
Robinson's Cider, 40g rain ..  .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 tobisshipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Dom ino...............................
.6  12 
Cut  Loaf.............................
.6  12
Powdered  .......................... R  7R
XXXX  Powdered..............
.5  87
.5  75
Mould  A .............................
Granulated in bbls............
.5  50
Granulated in  bags..........
.5 50
.5  50
Fine G ranulated...............
.5  62
Extra Fine G ranulated...
.5  62
Extra Course G ranulated.
. ü  Rrt
Diamond  Confec.  A .........
Confec. Standard A..........
5  37
.5  12
No.  1...........................
.5  12
No.  3.................................. ..5 06
.5  00
No.  4  .................................
No.  5.................................. ..4  94
No.  6................. ................
.4  87
No.  7..................................
.4  81
No.  9..................................
.4  62
No.  10........................................... 4 62
No.  11............................................4 56
No.  12...................................... 4  5o
No.  13............................................4 44
No.  14............................................4 12
No.  15........................................... 3 87

WASHING  POWDER.

WICKING.

100 packages in  case............3 35
No. 0, per gross......................   25
No. 1, pergross......................   30
No. 2, per gross.
...................  40
No. 3, pergross......................   75

Crackers.

Soda.

B utter.

Oyster.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

as follows :
5«
Seymour XX X .....................
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton
Family XXX........................   5)4
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  5;l>
Salted XXX..........................  5%
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  5% 
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
A nim als...............................  10)4
Bent’s Cold W ater...............  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,XXX scalloped..  6)4
Ginger  V anilla.....................  8
Im perials...............................   8
Jumbles,  Honey...................  11
Molasses  Cakes.....................  8
Marshmallow  ......................  15
Marshmallow  Creams.......  16
Pretzels,  hand  made  .......  8)4
Pretzelettes, Little German  6)4
Sugar  Cake............................  8
S ultanas................................   12
Sears’ Lunch........................   7)4
Sears’ Zephyrette..................10
Vanilla  Square.....................  8
V anilla  W afers...................  14
Pecan W afers......................  15)4

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.
12  @

Figs,  Fancy  Layers
20 lbs..................... 
Figs, Choice  Layers
101b........................ 
Figs,  Naturals 
in
bags,  new .............. 
Dates, Fards in  101b
boxes..................... 
Dates,  Fards in 60 lb
cases  ..................... 
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..........................
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks
Butternuts  per  bu__
Black W alnuts per bu 

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

Roasted 

@10
@ 6
@ 8
@ 6
* @ 5)4
@ 4

@13
@
@12)4 
© 8 
@10

© 
@12 
@ 9)4 
@  9
®
@4  00
@
@

©

®

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

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

Thompson A Chute’s Brand.

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Fish and Oysters

Provisions.

Fresh Fish.

1 W hitefish.................
T ro u t........................
Black Bass..............
H alib u t...................
Ciscoesor Herring..
Bluefish.....................
Live  Lobster..........
Boiled Lobster.........
C o d ..........................
Haddock...................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike........................
Smoked  W hite........
Red Snapper............
Col  River  Salmon..
Mackerel 
...............

Shell  Goods
Oysters, per  100.......
Clams,  per  (flO........
Oysters.

Per lb.
($  9
@  8
@  15
15@  16
@  6
@  12)4
@  15
©   18
@  10
%  8
@  9
(fb  8
@  8
@  10
©   13

1  25@1  50
90© 1  00

b . J.  Dettenthaler’s Brands.

Fairhaven  C ounts...
C ounts........................
Extra Selects..............
Medium  Selects.........
Anchor  Standards...
Standards...................
Scallops  ..............
C lam s..........................
Shrim ps......................

Per Can.
40©
Per  Gal.
@
@
@
@
@
(<£
@1  25
Per  Can.
C ounts.................
40©
Extra  selects__
30©
Plain  Selects..............
25©
I X  L
Mediums  ..................... 20(Si
Standards 
.................
18©
F av o rites...................
16©
Per  Gal.
New \  ork  Counts__
@2 00
Extra  Selects............
@1  75

Oscar Allyn’s Branc: s.

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

W heat.

W inter  W heat  Flour.

W heat..........................
Local  Brands
P a te n ts......................
Second  Patent..........
Straight......................
Clear.....................
...................
Graham 
|  B uckw heat...............
R y e .............................
count.
ditional.
Quaker,  u s .............
Quaker, )fs................. ........  3  75
Quaker, Í4s._
.......3  75

.......  4  25
.......3 75
....  3 55
.......  3 25
.......  3  35
.  ...  3  25
....  2 65
Subject  to  usual cash  dis-
Flour in  bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
Worden Grocer Co.’ Brand.

Spring  W heat  Flour.

Olney <fe Judson 's Brand.

Entire Wheat Flour.

Ceresota, )¡¡s...............
.......  4  10
Ceresota, U s............... ........  4  00
Ceresota,  U s............... ........  3  90
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand.
Grand  Republic, 1Rs.. ........ 4  10
Grand Republic, Us..
...  .  4  00
Grand Republic,  Us.. ........ 3 90
Worden Grocer Co.’ Brand.
Laurel,  (.¿s........
.......  4  10
Laurel,  J4s ...................
4  00
|  Laurel, U s.................
.......  3  90
1  Lemon A  Wheeler Co 's  Brand.
Parisian,  (¿s............... ___   4  10
Parisian, 14s..............
.  ...  4  00
Parisian,  Us...............
..  ..  3  90
\\ illiam Callam & Sons  quote
as follows, delivered in  Grand
Rapids:
Wood......................... __   4  00
10 lb. cotton sacks__ ........  4  00
l-16s..............................
...  .  3 85
.......3 75
Meal.
B o lted ......................
.......  1  75
G ranulated...............
.......  2 00
St. Car Feed, screened__ 14  00
St. Car Feed, unscreened.. 13  75
No.  1  Corn and  Oats.
.......13  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal.
.......13  00
W inter Wheat  Bran.
.......11  50
W inter Wheat M iddlings.. 12 00
.......io no
screenings.................
The  O.  E.  Brown Mill  Co.
quotes as  follows:
Corn.
Car  lots......................
Less than  car »lots...

Feed and  Milistuffs.

....  33

* 

Oats.

......  If

Hay.

Less than  car  lo ts...
No.  1  Timothy, ton lots  ... 16  00
No. 1 Timothycarlots .......14  50
Hides  and  Pelts.

©1  4H

Hides.

Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol-

3  @  4
4  @  5
5  @ 7
3  @  4
4  @  5
4 
5H
5  @  6)4

lows:
G reen..........................
Part  cured.................
Full Cured.................
Dry  .............................
Kips,  green...............
Kips,  cured...............
Calfskins,  green.......
Calfskins,  cured.......
Deacouskins  ............ 25  @30
Shearlings................. .10  @30
L am bs........................ .40  @1  00
Old  Wool................... 40  @  75
Washed 
Unw ashed.................

................... .10  @17
5  @13

Wool.

Pelts.

9)4
9«

6
pH

9 50
10 00
9  25
11  00

Barreled  Pork.

The  Grand  Rapids  P icking
and  Provision Co. quotes as fol-
lows :
Mess  ...................
Back 
...................
Shortcut...........................
Bean  ........................
Family  .............................
Dry Salt  Meats.
B ellies.................
Briskets  ............................
Extra  shorts.....................
Smoked  neats.
Ilams, 12 lb  average  ....
Hams,  14 lb  average 
..
Hams,  16 1b  average.......
Hams, 20 lb  average.......
Ham dried beef  ..............
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
Bacon,  clear...............   ..
California  ham s............
Boneless ham s.................
Cooked  ham .....................
In Tierces.  Lards
Compound........................
Fam ily..........................
G ran g er...........................
Mussulman's Gold  Leaf..
Worden's Home  Made...
Worden's  White Clover.
C ottolene..........................
Cotosuet  ..........................
55 lb Tubs.......... advance
80 lb Tubs.......... advance
50 ib T in s .......... advance
20 lb  Pails..........advance
10 lb Pails.......... advance
5 lb Pails.......... advance
3 lb Pails.......... advance

9%
6*4
8
6%
8)4
10)4
4)4
4?i
6

6‘4
5?á
5T£
/8
%

i

5
6
7*4
6H

Beef.

Tripe.

Pigs’  Feet.

Sausages.
B ologna.....................
Liver..................................
Frankfort.........................
P o rk .............................
Blood 
...............................
Tongue  ..........................
6
Head  cheese.....................
Extra  .Mess...................... 7  (X)
Boneless  .......................... 10 00
• 
Kits, 15 lbs......................
80
%  bbls, 40 lbs................... 1  65
Ï4  bbls, 80 lbs................... 3  00
Kits, 15 lbs........................
75
)4  bbls, 40 lbs................... 1  50
)4  bbls, 80 lbs................... 2  75
Casings.
P o rk ......................
Beef  rounds...............
Beef  m iddles....
Butterine.
Rolls,  dairy.....................
Solid,  dairy......................
Rolls,  cream ery..............
Solid,  cream ery..............
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2  lb .......... 2 00
Corned  beef,  15  lb .......... 14  U0
Roast  beef,  2  lb .......... 2 00
Potted  ham, 
..........
.......... 1  25
Potted  ham, 
Deviled ham,  Us ..........
Deviled ham,  U s.......... 1  25
75
Potted  tongue U s..........
Potted  tongue U s.......... 1  25
Fresh  Meats.

7
10
9

Beef.

F orequarters..............  4
©  5 
Hind  quarters............  6
@  8 
Loins  No.  3  ...............   9
@10 
Ribs...............................8
@12
R ounds......................   5)
4@  6)4 
Chucks................... 
4
@ 5 
Plates  ..........................  3
@ 3)4
Pork.
D ressed........................  4
@ 4)4 
L o in s............................
@  7)4 
@  6 
Shoulders.....................
Leaf Lard.....................
@ 7
C arcass........................6
@ 7)4 
@10
Easter Lambs..............
C arcass........................4 @ 5

Mutton.

Veal.

O i l s .

quotes

The  Standard  Oil  Co. 

as follows:
Barrels.
Eocene  ........................
@11
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
@  9
W W Michigan............
@ 834
High Test H eadlight..
©   794
D., S. Gas......................
9/4
Deo. N ap th a ...............
@ 8U
C ylinder......................30 @38
Engine..........................11
@21 
Black, wincer..............
@  9 
Black, summer............
@ 8)4
Eocene..........................
©   9)4 
,@ 63k
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt 
D. S.  Gas....................

From Tank  Wagon

Scofield,  Shurmer  &  Teagle 

Barrels.

quote as follows:
Palaeine......................  @12
Daisy  W hite...............   @11
Red Cross, W. W........   @ 9
Water  White H dlt__   @844
Family  Headlight__   @ 8
N aphtha......................  @  8)4
Stove Gasoline............  @  9)4
P alaeine......................   @10
Red Cross W.  W .........  @  6%
Gasoline......................   @7)4

From  Tank  Wagon.

Crockery and

Glassware.

LAMP  BURNERS.

No.  0  Sun.........
No.  1  Sun.........
No.  2  Sun.........
Tubular............
Security,  No.  1. 
Security,  No. 2.
85 
Nutmeg  ..........
50 
Arctic................
1  15
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
■ .  ..............   I 85
......................   2 80

.................  2 00

No.  0  Sun. 
No.  1  Sun. 
No.  2  Sun.

First  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 

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

top,
top,
top,

No. 
No. 
No. 

XXX Flint.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 

wrapped and  labeled__   2 55
wrapped and  labeled__   2 75
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 llinge,  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  .....................................   1 50
No.  1 Crimp, per doz..........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.............1  60

Rochester.

No.  1,  Lime  (65c doz)..........-8  50
No. 2,  Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4  00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)...........4  70

Electric.
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz) 
.  4 00 
No. 2,  Flint  (80c doz).
4  40
Doz.
Miscellaneous.
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
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
flint  ........................  2 
No. 2 Pearl glass.......  2  10

10

00  5 85
6  00 
Doz. 
1  60 
2  00
3  25
4  50
6  50
7 00 
7  50
10  50 
9  00

OIL  CANS, 

tin cans with  spout, 
galv iron with  spout 
galv iron with  spout 
galv iron with spout 
Eureka with spout.. 
Eureka with faucet.
galv iron A A  W __
Tilting cans,  M’n’ch 
galv iron  N acefas...

1  gal
1 gal
2 gal
3 gal 
5 gal 
5 gal 
5 gal 
5 gal 
5 gal

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.

No.  OTubular.....................   4 50
No.  1 B  Tubular................  6 00
No.  13 Tubular Dash.......... 6 00
No.  1 Tub., glass fount 
  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 13  00 
No.  3 Street  Lamp............  3  75

LANTERN OLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1  doz.
each, box 10 cents............  
45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box  15 cents............ 
45
No. OTubular,  bbls  5  doz.
40
each,  bbl 35....................... 
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1  doz.  each............  1 25

LAMP  WICKS.

50
80

No. 0 per gross__
No.  1  per gross__
No. 2 per gross..................... 
No. 3 per gross..................... 
Mammoth per doz.
JELLY  TUMBLERS—Tin  Top. 
)4  Pints, 6 doz  in  box,  per
box  (box  00)  ...................  1  70
)6 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 
25
doz (bbl  35). 

 

 

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

22

How  to  Detect  Shoddy.

Familiarity  with  handling  the  differ­
ent  grades  of 
low  stock  goods  is  the 
surest  way  of  ascertaining  the  percent­
age  of  shoddy,  mungo,  or  noils  con­
tained 
in  textile  fabric.  Goods  com­
posed  of  such  material  plainly  display 
their  deficiency  in  elasticity  and  dur­
ability.  Goods  manufactured  entirely 
of  shoddy  or  extracts  will  also 
in 
fineness  and  softness  of  feeling.  Thus, 
uidess  finished  to  a  high  degree  of  ex­
cellency,  it  is  possible  to  detect  adul­
terating  material  in  fabrics  of  this  class 
by  simply  handling  them.  There  are 
several  modes  employed  for  ascertain­
ing  ot  what  raw  materials  a  sample  of 
cloth  may  be  composed.  Probably  the 
amplest  is  to  submit  a  particle  of  the 
texture  to  a  flame.

lack 

If  of  vegetable  origin,  a  deposit  of 
carbonic  acid  ami  watery 
liquor  will_ 
form,  which  results  from  the  hydrogen, 
oxygen  and  carbon  of  which  it  is  com­
posed. 
If  of  animal  origin,  a  deposit 
having  the  peculiar  odor  of  a compound 
of  nitrogen  will  be 
tormed.  Vegetable 
fibre,  when  exposed 
to  a  flame,  will 
rapidly  ignite  and  burn,  while  the  ani­
mal 
fibres  burn  comparatively  much 
more  slowly.  Another  mode  of  detect­
ing  the  presence  of  cotton  in  woolen 
cloths  is  to  submit  particles  of  the  sam­
ple  to  a  bleaching  bath,  which  tends  to 
whiten  the  cotton  fibre,  while  the  pure 
woolen  ones  will  remain  unaffected,  of, 
as  frequently  is  the  case,  they  will  turn 
to  a  dark  brown.

The  ordinary  horse-hair  fabric  con­
sists  of  black  linen  warp  which  extends 
longitudinally  through  the  piece,  and  a 
horse-hair  filling  which  extends  trans­
versely  through 
it.  Much  labor  is  re­
in  weaving this  cloth,  from  the 
quired 
fact  that  the  hairs  are  not  in  a  contin­
longer  than  their 
uous  string,  and  no 
original 
thereiore  each  one 
must  be  handled  separately,  and  woven 
into  the  warp  one  at  a  time.  This  mode 
of  weaving  not  only  consumes  much 
timq,  but  necessitates  the  employment 
of  two  persons  at  the  loom.  ^

lengths, 

into 

The  writer  devoted  several  hours  to 
watching  the  rapid  motions  of  a  hair­
cloth  weaver  and  his  assistant 
in  a 
Lowell  mill  recently,  and  was  much  in­
terested  in  their  method  of  weaving  the 
long^ black  horse-hairs 
fabrical 
form.  The  loom  was  an  ordinary  one, 
being  similar 
in  construction  to  any 
band 
loom.  The  warp  was  made  of 
glossy  black  linen  yarn,  and  the  filling 
was  piled  up  beside  the  weaver 
in  the 
form  of  a  collection  of  long black  horse­
hairs.  The  weaver  occupied  an  eleva­
ted  seat  in  front  of  the  loom,  while with 
his  feet  he  pressed  the  treadles  which 
formed 
the  shed,  and  his  assistant
passed  a  single  hair  to  him,  which  be 
quickly  inserted  into  the open shed,  and 
then  beat  up  with  the  reed.  A  second 
movement  of  the  feet  reversed  the  har- 
nedbes,  thus  forming  another  shed,  into 
which  a  second  thread  was 
introduced. 
This  work  was  repeated  by  the  weaver 
and  his  assistant  until  the  required 
length  of  cloth  was  woven,  when  a  fresh 
start  was  made.

is 

The  above  description  of  a  hair  loom 
would  give  one  the  impression  that  the 
ancient  method  of  weaving 
still 
maintained;  this 
is  true  in  one  sense, 
for  every  motion  of  the  hair  loom  is 
made by hand,  and  the  automatic  de­
vices  so  advantageous 
in  the  modern 
cloth  loom  are  absent.  This  is  all  due 
to  the  fact  that  it  is  an  impossibility  to 
tie  a  knot 
in  horse  hair  and  not  make 
a  defect  in  the  goods.  Therefore,  if  the 
hair  cannot  be  united  in  a  continuous

piece,  it  follows  that  each  individual l 
strand  must  be  handed  into  the  shed  of 
the  loom  separately;  for  this  reason  the 
hair-cloth  loom  cannot  be  made  auto-^ 
matic.

Utilize  the  Political  Campaign.

Prom the Dry Goods Bulletin.

The  next  few  months  will  be  full  of 
excitement  regarding  the  political  out­
come,  and  retailers  will  find  an  oppor­
tunity 
to  interest  the  buying  public  in 
their  stores by  means  of  the  speculation 
regarding  who  will  be  the  standard 
bearer  for  tho  respective  parties.  One 
of  the  great  difficulties  in  trying  to  get 
the  interest  of  the  general  public 
is  to 
find  a  common  subject  of  interest  with 
which  to  arouse  them.

On  the  subject  of  presidential  nomi­
nees  this  is  practically  solved,  so that  if' 
you  can  hit  on  some  good,  bright 
idea 
that  pertains  at  all  to  this  subject,  you 
have  gotten  the  trade  coming  to  your 
store,  or at  least  interested  in  it,  which 
is  a  big  victory.  What  that  plan  is  to 
be  is,  of  course,  the  vital  thing  There 
are  many  retailers  who  are  willing  to 
if  they  are 
undertake  just  such  things 
told  what  to  do and  how  to  do 
it.  But 
to  get  hold  of  some  idea  that  will  inter­
est  the  public  ought  not  to  be  so  diffi­
cult  a  task.

For  example,  if  you  would  advertise 
that  you  intend  offering  a  few  prizes  to 
the  women  who  correctly guess  the  or­
der  of  the  first  six  candidates  receiving 
the  nomination  on  the  Democratic  and 
Republican  tickets,  it  would  create  a 
good  deal  of  interest. 
In  the  execution 
of  any  such  plan  as  the  above  it  would 
be  necessary  to  give  the  names  of  all 
the  men  who  have-been  mentioned  so 
far.  On  the  Democratic  ticket  the  Pres­
ident,  Carlisle,  Whitney,  Olney,  Morri­
son,  Matthews,  Patterson,  Russell,  Ful­
ler  and  Boies  are  the  most  prominent.
On  the  Republican  ticket  Reed,  Mc- 
I^inley,  Allison,  Cullom,  Quay  and 
Morton  are  the  favorites. 
It  would  be 
well  to  add  some  of  the  less  prominent 
names.  Offer  to  the  woman  of  your 
community  who  gives  the  correct  order 
of  the  first  six  candidates  on  final  bal­
lot  on  both  Democratic  and  Republican 
tickets  the  choice  of  any  silk  dress 
in 
your  store.  To  the 
lady  who  guesses 
second  best,  the  choice  of  any  woolen 
'dress  in  your  store.  To  the  third,  some 
less  expensive  article. 
It  will  remain 
optional  with  you  whether  to  permit 
every  woman  to  guess  or  only  those  who 
buy  from  you.  Possibly  if  you  adver­
tise  that  every  woman  who  holds  one  of 
your  guessing  tickets  may  write  on  the 
back  of  it  her  guess,  and  also  add  that 
every  purchase  made  in  your  store  dur­
ing  such  a  time  is  accompanied  with 
one  of  these  tickets,  it  would  cause  you 
to  sell  more  goods.

The  men  would  assist  the  women,  so 
that  the  task  would  not  be  so  difficult. 
Other  ideas  may  be  worked  out,  but  at 
any  rate  you  should  try  to  create  more 
interest  by  means  of  such  things.

Be  simple  in  your  manners  and  you 
•have  found  one  of  the  keys  to  success.

Garden
and  Field  *JvCtlo

In Bulk.

Wholesale and  Retail.

All  Fresh  Stock.

GRAIN,  FEED,  HAY and Straw , 

Wholesale and  Retail.

We buy Potatoes in car  lots  and  Beans 

in carlots and less; also Eggs 

and Country Produce.

Beach, Cook & Co.

128-130*132 West Bridge S t W. T. Lamoreaux’s 

old stand.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

COMPUTING S6ALES

More than  19,000  in  use

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

$30.00

which  Includes  Seamless  Brass 
Scoop.
This  is  not  a  real  Computing 
Scale, it being necessary  to make 
mental  calculations.  It  is  also 
limited in capacity.  You can sell 
in  fractions  in 
the  following 
prices  per  lb.  only:  354, 454, 554, 
654, 754, 8%,  9*4,  1254  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.

For advertisement  of  our World  Famous  Standard 
Market  DAYTON  COMPUTING  SCALES,  see  last 
page of cover in this issue.
The Computing Scale Co.,

Dayton,  Ohio.

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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,  58 inches  wide  @  20c.

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

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Pointers on  Window  Shades

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, HERP0LSHE1MER i  GO.

WHOLESALE DRY GOODS

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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R EP R ESEN T A T IV E  R ET A ILER S .

Hon.  F.  M.  Warner,  Merchant  and 

Cheese  Manufacturer.

1865,  coming 

Fred  M.  Warner  was  born  in  Eng­
to  the
land,  July  21, 
United  States 
in  the  fall  of  the  same 
year  and  locating  at  his.present  home, 
the  village  of  Farmington.  He  attended 
the  village  school  until  15  years  of  age, 
and,  after  spending  a  short  time  at  the 
Agricultural  College,  he  entered  his 
father’s  general  store,  which  business 
was  turned  over  to  him  on  his  arriving 
at  the  age  of  21  years.  In  1887 he bought 
the  hardware  stock  adjacent  to  his  gen­
eral  store  and  has  had  a  large  trade  in 
both lines ever since.  In  1894 he changed

the name  of  the  firm  in  the general store 
to  Wilber,  Cook  & Co.  and  in  the  hard­
ware  store *  to  C.  M.  Doherty  &  Co., 
the  partners  in  each  case  being  young 
•men  who  had  been  in  his  employ  sev­
eral  years.  These  changes  were  made 
¡necessary on  account  of  the  time  needed 
to  manage  his  other  affairs,  mainly  the 
cheese  manufacturing  business,  which 
has  steadily  grown 
larger  each  year 
since  1890,  when  he  started  his  first 
cheese  factory  at  Farmington. 
In  1894 
he  built  a  factory  at  Franklin,  and  in 
1895  one  at  Novi,  both 
in  Oakland 
county.  Last  year  he  made  over  7,000 
boxes,  which  were  readily  sold.  He 
also  owns  a  large  cold  storage  and  an­
nually  handles  25,000  to  30,000  dozen  of 
eggs  and  several  tons  of  butter  and 
other  perishable  products.

Mr.  Warner  was  married  to  Miss 
Mattie  Davis,  of  Farmington,  Sept.  19, 
1888,  and  has  three  children.

In  1894  Mr.  Warner  was  elected,  not 
as  a  politician,  but  as  a  business  man, 
to  the  State  Senate  from  his  district— 
Oakland  and  Macomb 
counties—by 
over 2,000  majority.  He  was  the  young­
est  member 
in  the  Senate  and  ran 
farther ahead  of  his  ticket,  taking  as  a 
basis  the  vote  on  the  Secretary  of  State, 
than  any  other  member,  receiving  368 
votes  in  his  own  township  to  80  for  his 
opponent,  or  over  175  ahead  of  his 
ticket. 
In  addition  to  his  Senatorial 
honors,  he  has  been  President  of  the 
village  and  also  of  the  School  Board  for 
several  years.

Personally, Mr.  Warner  is  a  most  gen­
ial  and accomplished gentleman,  always 
ready  to  extend  a  helping  hand  to  any 
in  distress,  and  is  liked by  one  and  all. 
He  has  always  been  on  the  watch  to

help  the 
interests  of  Farmington  and 
its  people,  and  much  of  the  rapid  im­
provement  of  the  village,  during  the 
past  six  years,  has  been  due  directly  to 
his  efforts  and  assistance.  He  is  now 
doing  his  utmost,  both 
in  money  and 
influence,  to  secure  the  building  of  an 
electric  railway  from  Farmington 
to 
Detroit. 

____

Evolution  of the  Lamp.

it 

Lamps  have  made  a  permanent  place 
is  safe  to  say 
for  themselves,  and 
that  of 
late  years  no  article  of  house 
furnishings  has  been  improved  so  much 
as  the  lamp.  Only  a  few  years ago  the 
artistic 
lamps  of  to-day,  which  can  be 
found  in  the  homes  of  thoseauf moderate 
means,  were  unknowii  outside  of  the 
mansions  of  the  wealthier  class.  The 
most  primitive  lamps  were  probably the 
skulls  of  animals, 
fat  was 
burned ;  and  certain  sea-shells  formed 
admirable  lamps  for  those  to  whom they 
were  attainable.  To  this  day  there may 
be  occasionally  seen  suspended  in  the 
cottages  of  Zetland  shells  of  the  “ roar­
ing  buckie,”   which  form  perhaps,  the 
most  ancient  kind  of  lamps  in  exist­
ence.

in  which 

improvement  took  place 

The  invention  of  lamps  has  been  at­
tributed  to  the  Egytians,  but  it  is  far 
more  probable  they  received  it  from 
the  older  civilization  of  India.  Lamps 
were  called  lychna  by  the  Greeks,  and 
lucernae  by  the  Romans.  At  first  these 
lucemae  were  made  of  unglazed  pottery 
and  only  with  one  wick  hole;  but  bet­
ter  material  and  more  elaborate  forms 
were  introduced,  and  their  light-giving 
power  was 
increased  by  their  being 
made  to  hold  several  wicks,  from  two 
to  twelve.  The  wick  used  in  this  lamp 
was  generally  made  of  flax-tow,  some­
times,  however,  of  rushes and other veg­
etable  fibres.  Among  the  Northern  na­
tions  of  antiquity  lamps were in use,  but
the  difference  of  climate  necessitated  a 
different  kind  of  lamp.  The  limpid  oils 
of  the  present  day  were  unknown  to  our 
Celtic  and  Saxon  forefathers;  besides, 
the  "cold  winters  would  have  solidified 
them,  and  they  could  not  have been 
drawn  up  by  the  wick  if  arranged  as  in 
the  old  Roman  and  Greek  lucernae. 
The  solid  fat  of  various  animals  was 
their  chief 
illuminating  material,  ex­
cept  on  the  sea-coast,  where  seal  and 
whale  oil  occasionally  helped  them.  No 
great 
in  the 
construction  of 
lamps  until  the  begin­
ning  of  the  present  century.  Taste  had 
been  shown 
the 
principle  remained  the  same:  a  wick 
sucking  up  oil  from  the  reservoir  of  the 
lamp  to  supply 
itself  during  combus­
tion,  and  nothing  more,  if  we  except 
the  improvement  effected  by  the invent­
or,  M.  Argand, 
In  1803,  M. 
Carcel,  another  Frenchman,  made  an 
excellent  improvement  on  the  lamp,  by 
applying  clockwork,  which  acts  by rais­
ing  the  oil  up  tubes  in  connection  with 
the  wick,  so  that  the  latter  is  kept  con­
tinually  soaked.  The 
introduction  of 
mineral  oils—known  under  various 
names  of  paraffine  oil,  petroleum,  ker- j 
osene,  naphtha,  etc.— has 
in  a  great 
measure  superseded  the  use  of  animal 
and  vegetable  oils  for  lighting  pur­
poses.  The  great  recommendation  of 
the  former 
is  their  cheapness.  One 
great  difficulty  with  the  mineral  oils  at 
first  was  that,  without  careful  prepara­
tion,  they  were  apt  to  give  off 
inflam­
mable  vapors  at  a 
low  temperature, 
which  gave  rise  to  dangerous  explo­
sions. 
This  has  been  obviated  by 
processes  of  rectification,  which  get  rid 
of  the 
ingredi­
ents

lighter  and  volatile 

in  the  designs,  but 

in  1784. 

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apple, we will forfeit

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  of 

Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

in  the 

jobbing  circles 

New  York,  April  25— The  week  has 
been  one  of  quiet,  steady  trading  in 
grocery 
in  this  city. 
is  cause  for  satisfaction  in  the 
There 
fact  that  on  nothing 
line  of 
staples  has  there  been  any  decline. 
Prices  remain 
firm  and  buyers  who 
have  tried  to  pick  up  “ bargains”   find 
them  rather  scarce.

Sugar  has  remained  decidedly  firm 
and  the  demand  for  refined  has  bean 
quite 
are 
prompt  and,  upon  the  whole,  the  situ­
ation  is  very  encouraging  for  holders.

satisfactory. 

Deliveries 

The  supply  of  Rio  coffet  afloat  is. 
rather  smaller  than  at  the  same  time' 
last  year,  being  370,442  bags  now,, 
against  465.505  bags  then.  Mild  coffees 
have  been  in  good  demand  and  holders 
are  not  inclined  to  make  the  least  con­
cession  in quotations.  Rio  No.  7  in  in­
voice  lots  is  worth  13-54!c.

luture. 

iudias  hold 

The  rice  market 

There  was  a  big  auction  sale  of  teas- 
on  Wednesday,  about  11,000  packages 
being  offered. 
It  was  thought  that  this 
amount  would  completely  demoralize 
the  market,  already  in  bad  condition; 
but,  contrary  to  expectations,  the  sale 
went  off  at  quite.good rates,  and  the  sit­
uation  is  ce:tainlv  no  worse  than 
it  has 
been,  while  some  dealers  profess  more 
confidence  in  the 
It  seems  to 
be  practically  impossible  to  get  up  any 
enthusiasm  over  the  ordinary  run  of 
teas.  Ceylon  and 
their 
own  and  continue  to  grow in popularity.
fairly  steady, 
without  any  special  activity.  Upon  the 
whole,  the  situation  is  hardly  as  satis­
factory  as  it  was  a  week  ago.  Foreign 
and  domestic  seem 
to  be  selling  in 
about  equal  ratio,  bur  the  demand  for 
the  former  is  almost  altogether  for  the 
best  grades. 
from  primary 
'points  are,  as  a  rule,  quite  satisfactory.
Spices  remain  about  the  same  as  a 
is  not 
week  and  a  month  ago.  Trade 
active  and 
is  not  as  dull  as  it  has 
been.  There  is  scarcely  a  particle  of 
change  in  quotations.  A  little  is  being 
done 
in  a 
jobbing  way  and  dealers 
seem  content  to  wait  the  coming  of  fu­
ture  events.

Reports 

is 

it 

Molasses,  both  foreign  and  domestic, 
drags  somewhat  this week.  The  demand 
has  not  been  altogether  satisfactory and, 
while  prices  have  exhibited  no  change, 
the  feeling  is  hardly  as  “ comfortable”  
as  it  has  been.

Syrups  are  steady.  The  market  moves 
along  in  about  the  same  old  channel, 
with  supply  and  demand  nicely  ad­
justed.  The  better  grades  show  the 
more  activity,  while  other  sorts  are 
rather  slow.

Canned  goods  are  selling  in  the  usual 
is  not  an  item  of  interest 
way.  There 
in  the  whole 
line.  Some  prominent 
packers  from  different  sections  have 
been  here  during the week,  looking  over 
the  situation  and  making  ready  for  the 
campaign  of  1896.  Some  of  them  prob­
ably  wish  there  were  no  more  cam­
paigns  to  he  conducted.  The  goods 
which  have  earned  a  reputation  are 
selling  all  the  time  and  at  satisfactory 
profit.  Quality  will  tell  in  everything.
Dried  fruits  move  slowly  and  it  takes 
great  effort  to  interest  buyers 
in _ any­
thing  unless  at  a  price  that  they  cannot 
refuse  to  consider.  Evaporated  apples 
are  scarce  for  the  fanciest  sorts.  Re­
ports  of  great 
injury  to  the  growing 
fruit  crops  of  California  by frost attract­
ed  some  attention,  but 
is  generally 
agreed  that  this  frost  is  “ worked  for  all 
it  is  worth. ”

it 

Lemons  are  selling  in  a  satisfactory 
manner,  although  it  is  not  thought  that 
prices  will  show  much,  if  any,  advance 
over  those  now  prevailing.  Of  course, 
the  “ circus”   and  the  “ Fourth”   will 
have  an  effect,  temporarily,  but  no  im­
mediate  appreciation 
is  anticipated. 
Oranges are  selling  less  freely  and  the 
demand  is  hardly  sufficient  to  keep  the 
market  even  steady.  Choice  to  fancy 
California  navels  are  held  at  $2.25@ 
3-75-
The  market  for  marrow  beans  can  be 
called  about  steady  on  the  basis  of

$1.27^1^1.30  for  choice.  Pea  beans are 
firm  at  $1.12^@i. 15 ;  California  limas, 
$1.87 >^@1.90.

A  better  feeling  exists  in  butter,  al­
though  the  bottom  seems  to  have  almost 
fallen  out.  Best  creamery  can  hardly 
be  rated  as  worth  over  i\ lAc,  but  the 
feeling  is  a  more  confident  one and  it  is 
hoped  the  tone  will.becom e  steadily 
stronger.

The  cheese  market  has  lost  strength 
and  the  outlook  is for  a  further  decline. 
Small  size  full  cream  may  be  quoted  as 
high  as  ioc,  but  it  is  not  thought  this 
will  last.  Little  is  doing  in  an  export 
way,  the  basis  being  about  7c.

Eggs  are  firmer.  Supplies  continue 
large,  but  the  demand  shows  some 
im­
provement.  Best  Western  are  held  at 
lie.  A  good  share  of  arrivals  are going 
into  cold  storage.

All  who 

imagine  that  the  wheel  is 
merely  a  fad  of  the  fleeting  hour  will 
be  surprised to  learn that the aristocratic 
Metropolitan  opera  house  is  to be turned 
into  a  bicycle  rink.  The  surprise  will 
grow  when they are  informed  that  Anton 
Seidl  will  conduct  his  big  orchestra 
while  riders  of  the  silent  steed  go round 
and  round.  The  preliminary  arrange­
ments  have  already  been  made  for  car­
rying  out  this  program.

The  saloonkeepers  along  that  part  of 
Park  Row  running  from  the  bridge  en­
trance  to  Baxter  street  have  not  hesita­
ted to  utilize  the  i-cent  lunch  method  of 
holding  their  customers.  On  several  of 
the  old  signs  which  before  read,  “ Free 
Hot  Lunch,’ ’the  word  ” Free” .has  been 
covered  with  paper,  on  which  ” 1  Cent”  
appears.  Stews,  sandwiches  and  salads 
can  be  had  in  the  section  named  for  1 
cent. 
In  some  of the  small  saloons  on 
Upper  Broadway,  lunches  are  sold  for 
5  cents,  but  sales  are  slow.

Never  was  a  matter  more  literally 
brought  home  to  the  minds  of  the  peo­
ple  than  the  Raines  bill  was 
last  Sun­
day  morning.  The  housewives  of  the 
town  hadn’t  thought  much  about 
it; 
hadn’t  supposed 
it  particularly  con­
cerned  them,  except  by  way  of  their 
husbands,  and  they  were  quite  willing 
to  have  the  saloons  closed  to  the  men  of 
the  family.  But  wheii  the  maid  was 
sent  out  for  the  fresh  vegetables,  which 
the  housewife  has  been  in  the  habit  of 
getting Sunday  morning from the grocer, 
and  came  back  empty  handed,  why, 
that  was  a  different  thing  altogether! 
It  is  astonishing  how  much  depends  on 
the  point  of  view!

THE  VENEZUELAN  PROBLEM.
Although  the 

impression  generally 
prevails  that  the  Venezuelan controversy 
is 
in  a  fair  way  towards  satisfactory 
settlement,  there  has  actually  been  no 
settlement  arrived  at.  Just  where  the 
delay  is  it  is  difficult  to  say,  but  it must 
be  candidly  admitted  that,  while  there 
is  no  excitement  on  the  subject,  either 
in  this  country  or  in  Great  Britain,  lit­
tle  or  no  practical  progress  has  been 
made  in  the  actual  work  of  settlement.
impression  generally  prevails  in 
this  country  that  England  has  agreed  to 
submit  the  whole  matter  to  arbitration, 
whereas  no  such  proposition  has  been 
made  by  Lord  Salisbury,  as  far as  any­
body  knows.  The  British  Government 
has  all  along  agreed  to  arbitrate  the 
claim  to  the  territory  in  dispute  west  of 
the  so-called  Schomburgk  lin e ;  but,  as 
Venezuela’s  claims  extend  considerably 
within  the 
line  mentioned,  it  is  clear 
that  the  whole  problem  has  not  yet 
been  submitted  to  arbitration.

The 

Venezuela  has  not  helped  the  settle­
ment  of  the  controversy  to  any  extent. 
It  is  clear  that  the  South  American  re­
public,  relying  upon  the  aid  and  coun­
tenance  of  the  United  States,  intends 
to  hold  out  her  entire  claim,  utterly  for­
getting  that  the  Monroe  doctrine  does 
not  countenance or  imply  land-grabbing 
on  the  part  of  the  Latin-American coun­
tries  any  more  than  it permits European 
interference  in  American  affairs.

The  London  papers  have  been  en-

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

deavoring  to  call  attention  to  the  un­
settled  state  of  the  Venezuelan  contro­
versy ;  some  of  them  with  a  view,  no 
doubt,  to  cause  the  Government  em­
barrassment,  and  others  for  stock-job­
bing  purpose.  The  Government 
itself 
is  apparently  content  to 
let  the  matter 
rest  for  the  present.  With  so  much 
trouble  on  its  hands  in  Africa,  it  is well 
satisfied  to  allow  the  Venezuelan  matter 
to  slumber  for  the  present.

In  this  country,  Congress,  having  ex­
hausted  its  jingo  fervor  over  the  Cuban 
controversy,  is  also  con tent  to  allow  the 
Venezuelan  matter  to  drop 
the 
background,  the  more  particularly  as 
leisure  will 
thereby  be  given  to  the 
special  Venezuelan  Boundary  Commis­
sion  to  make  a  report  on  the  merits  of 
the  controversy.

into 

It  is  details  that  makeup  a  successful 
business  but  the  rub  comes  in  knowing 
how  to  fit  them  together.

The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 

E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

Buy  showcases  of 

Kal amazoo.

E.  Bushman,

WANTS  (COLUMN!.

Association Matters

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  F.  S.  Carleton,  Calumet;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  IIenry  C.  Weber,  Detroit;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, Henry C. M inn ie,  Eaton Rapids.
Northern Mich. Retail Grocers’ Association
President, <1.  F. T atman, Clare;  Secretary,  E. A. 
Stowe,  Grand  ltapids;  Treasurer,  J.  Wisler, 
Mancelona.
Next Meeting—At Grand Rapids,  Aug.  4  and  5, 
1896.
Traverse City  Business Men’s Association 
Holly;  Treasurer, C. A.  Hammond.
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
President,  E. C.  Winch ester;  Secretary, IIomer 
Klap ;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  L ehman.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers’ Hall, 
over E. J.  Herrick’s  store.

President,  Thos.  T.  Ba t e s;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  A.  D.  Wh ip p l e ; Secretary,G .T .C amp­

bell;  Treasurer,  W. E. Collins.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Byron C. H ill; Secretary, W. H. Por­

t e r ;  Treasurer, J. F. H elm er. 

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Alpena Business Men’s Association 

President,  F.  W.  Gil c h r ist;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P artridge.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  J ohnson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

D arling;  Treasurer, L. A. Gilkey. *

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

“ BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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r|X ) EXCHANGE—3 STORY BRICK BUSINESS 
X   block in city of Lansing  for  a  good  paying
business in town of 3,000  or 5,000. 
Address  Box 
79, Lansing, Mich.
rrv »  EXCH ANGE—AN  IMPROVED  FARM  OF 
X   200 acres for  a  stock  of  merchandise.  Ad­
dress Lock Box 41, Newaygo,  Mich. 
TDOK SALE OR EXCHANGE -A  GOOD FRESH 
X   stock of  drugs  and  stationery;  only  stock 
in  >own;  good  town:  schoo s  No.  1;  farming 
and lumbering.  Reason for selling,  poor health. 
Address No. 12, care Michigan Tradesman.  12 
ip o iF   SALE—FIRST-CLASS  RESTAlfRANT; 
X   best location  in  the  city  of  Owosso;  terms 
reasonable.  Address  A.  A.  Tillman,  Owosso, 
Mich. 

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ti'OR SALE-DRUG  STOCK  "aND  FIXTURES 

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. 
RUG  STOCK  FOR  SALK—HI0ST~FAYING 
store in  Muskegon.  Will sell at  a  bargain, 
cash or time, at about $1,500 if  sold  at  once.  X. 
F.  Hopkins,  Muskegon,  Mich. 

PARTNER  WANTED—TO TAKE  Olf E-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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tPOR  SALE—STAPLE  AND  FANCY  GRG 

eery stock, invoicing about $1,400, located ii 
live Southern Michigan town of 1,200 inhabitants 
good trade, nearly all cash.  Reasons for selling 
other business.  Address No. 907, care  Michigai 
Tradesman. 

IPOR  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  HARDWARE 

and implement  business in  thriving  village 
in good farming community.  Address Brown A 
Sehler, Grand Rapids,  Mich. 

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881

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V yA N T E D —POSITION  AS  TRAVELING 
TT  salesman,  house salesman,  clerk  or  office 
man  by  married  man  thoroughly  acquainted 
with the grocery and general merchandise  busi­
ness.  Best of  references.  Salary  not  so  much 
an object as  permanent  position.  Address  No. 
22, care Michigan Tradesman. 

ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, PO- 
tatoes, onions, apples, cabbages, etc.  Cor­
respondence  solicited.  Watkins,  Axe  A  Co., 
84-86 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 
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PHARM AGIST
1 1 7  ANTED—REG 1STE RED 
m   at  once.  For  particulars  write  C.  L 
Hampton, Sunfield,  Eaton county,  Mich. 
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WANTED—FIRST-CLASS  DRESSMAKER.

Plenty of work at good  prices  Free  re n t 
to right  party.  Address  No.  25  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
ANTED—TO  SELL  THE  BEST  PATENT 
in the United States to make money out of. 
Will sell one-half interest  or  all.  Address  Box 
1121, Traverse City, Mich. 

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SALESMAN—VV A N T E D .   EXPERIENCED 

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. 
987
WANTED,  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. 

WANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SII1P- 
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pers of butter and eggs  and  other  season­
able produce.  R. Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit.
ANTED—SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN- 
tral  mileage  books.  Address,  stating 

price, Vindex, care Michigan Tradesman.  869

951

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who  will  do  it  honestly  ahd  is 
competent to attend to buying and 
knows values in dry goods, cloth- 
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We 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  those  goods 
large 
quantities  and  are  able  to  sell 
them  at  factory  prices.  Corres­
pondence solicited.

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