Volutne XIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE  24,1896. 

Number 666

The  most 

RADICAL  CHANGES  PROPOSED.
interesting  resolution  pro­
posed  by  the  recent  convention  of  the 
Chambers  of  Commerce  of  the  British 
Empire  was 
the 
adoption  for  the  entire  empire  of  a dec­
imal  currency system,  as well as the met­
ric  system  of  weights  and  measures. 
Not  only  was  this  resolution  proposed, 
but  it  was  also  adopted.

advocating 

that 

in 

It  was  pointed  out,  in connection with 
the  proposed  change 
the  currency 
system,  that  the  British  arrangement  of 
pounds,  shillings,  pence  and  farthings 
was  a  source  of  constant  annoyance  and 
loss  of  time  to  the  trade,  particularly 
the  foreign  trade,  as  most  foreign  coun­
tries  have  adopted  a  decimal  system.  It 
was  pointed  out  that  more  than  70,000,- 
000  English-speaking  people 
in  North 
America  employ  a  decimal  system. 
The  Canadian  decimal  system  of  cur­
rency  was  proposed  as  an  ideal  system, 
wh'ch  should  be  extended  to  the  entire 
empire,  the  pound  sterling  to  represent 
five  dollars  and  the  shilling  twenty-five 
cents.

With  regard  to  the  metric  system  of 
weights  and  measures,  it  was  pointed 
out  that,  outside  of  Great  Britain  and 
the  United  States,  that  system  was  very 
generally  accepted  and  was  found  con­
venient  and  serviceable,  whereas  the 
many  different  systems  in  vogue  in  En­
glish-speaking  countries  were  a  source 
of  endless annoyance.

While  the  British  trade  convention 
was  no  doubt  honest  in  its  desire to sub­
stitute  a  decimal  system  of  currency,  as 
well  as  weights  and  measures,  in  place 
of  the  existing  systems,  it  by  no  means 
follows  that  there  is  the  least  chance  of 
its 
recommendation  being  adopted. 
The  great  masses  of  the  British  people 
are  attached  to  their  pounds,  shillings 
and  pence,  and English-speaking people 
all  over  the  world  fully  understand  the 
meaning  of  inches,  feet,  yards,  ounces 
and  pounds,  and 
it  is  not  at  all  likely 
that  any  amount  of  persuasion  will  con­
vince  them  of  the  advisability  for  a 
change,  particularly  where  the  terms  of 
the  new  systems  proposed  are  in  a  for­
eign  tongue,  which  will 
convey  no 
meaning  to  the  masses  of  the  people.  It 
is  certainly  not  at  all  probable  that  the 
change  will  be  adopted.

CLEARING  THE  ATM OSPHERE.
The  Tradesman  naturally  takes  much 
credit  to 
itself  for  breaking  up  the 
“ Lamb  gangs”   and  putting  an  end  to 
the  operations  of  one  of  the  most  rep­
rehensible  gang  of  swindlers which  ever 
disgraced  a  reputable  market.  One  of 
the  gang,  Chester  A.  Lamb,  is  now  un­
der  arrest  on  a  charge  of  grand  larceny, 
and  Striding,  a  recent  addition  to  the 
gang,  is  a  fugitive  from  justice.  Frank 
J.  Lamb  and  J.  O.  Smith  are  still  at 
large,  but  the  Tradesman  confidently 
hopes  to  see  them 
lodged  behind  the 
bars  within  a  very  few  days  on  ¡[charges 
of  a  most  serious  character.

As  soon  as  the  Tradesman  is  satisfied 
that 
it  has  driven  the  men  composing 
the  Lamb  crowd  to  the  wall,  and  thus 
placed  the 
commission  business  of 
Grand  Rapids  on  a  reputable  basis,  it 
its  attention  to  Detroit,  and
will  turn 

long 

investigate  a 
list  of  complaints 
which  have  been  lodged  against  some 
of  the  commission  merchants  of  that 
city,  with  a  view  to  exposing  the  short­
comings  of  those  who  are  found  to  be 
unworthy  of  credit  and  dishonest 
in 
practice.
Random  Thoughts  at  Odd  Moments. 
Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

The  science  of  occult  forces  common­
ly  called  hypnotism  is  rapidly  coming 
to  the  front.  One  medical  practitioner 
after  another 
is  beginning  to  carry  on 
his  professional  work  in  harmony  with 
its  teachings.  A  school 
lately  estab­
lished  in  a  Western  city  turned  out  last 
week  a  baker’s dozen  of  graduates.  The 
professor who instructed this class  makes 
the  alarming  claim  that  hypnotism  is  a 
science  that  may  be  easily  learned  by 
any  person  of  ordinary intelligence,  and 
be  of  practical  use  in  whatever  avoca­
tion  he  may  engage. 
is 
well  founded  we  may  look  for wonderful 
results  whenever  the  occult  force  is  ap­
plied  to  mercantile  business.

If  this  claim 

presence, 

The  traveling  solicitor  who  has  so 
long  depended  on  hard  work  for  suc­
cess,  aided  by  a  good  figure,  command­
ing 
retentive  memory, 
courteous  speech,  and  a  fair  knowledge 
of  human  nature  will,  if  he  become  an 
adept  in  this  science,  soon  distance  all 
his  rivals  in  procuring  orders  with  half 
the  labor  formerly  required.  Indeed,  he 
will  find  it  the  only  way  to  get  an  order 
from  a  certain  class  of 
of  any  size 
crabbed 
cannot  be 
reached  by  present  methods.  Of  course, 
he  must  expect  to  ‘ ‘ make  hay  while  the 
sun  shines, ’ ’ for a gift so easily acquired 
will  before  long  be  appropriated  by 
hosts  of  competitors,  and  the  first  in the 
field  will  reap  the  richest  rewards.

customers 

that 

*  *  *

long  continue  to  be  free  agents,  and 
drummers  as  they  are  now,  welcome 
messengers  of  mercantile  progress.

♦   *  *

Yet,  after  all,  should  the  fates  prove 
adverse  and  cupidity,  overcoming  prin­
ciple,  leave  the  retailer  at  the  mercy  of 
solicitors  made  by  science  invincible 
at  a  bargain,  his  case  may  not  be  quite 
hopeless.  Like  many  others  of  his call­
ing  when  forced  to  desperation  by  un­
fair  competition,  he  can  still  fight  fire 
with  fire, (3and, 
if  necessary,  carry  the 
war  into  Africa.  By  attending  a  full 
course  of  instruction  in  the  new  school 
of  occult  science,  the  dealer  may  him­
self  become  an  expert  in  the  art  of  put­
ting  to  sleep 
in  others  those  faculties 
that  antagonize  his  pecuniary  interests. 
He  will  then  be  able  to  meet  the  scien­
tific  drummer  on  an  equal  footing  and, 
if  he  has  the  proper  amount  of  odic 
force, come  off  victor  in  the  mental  con.- 
test. 
In  this  case  the  home  office  may 
not  present  so  cheerful  an  appearance 
after receiving orders  from 
its  agents. 
Being  accepted  by  them  at  such  low 
figures,  with 
liberal  concessions  as  to 
time  and  discount,  nothing  short  of  a 
prompt  notice  of  refusal  will  prevent  a 
balance on the  wrong  side  of  the  ledger. 
is  apt  to  prove  a  two-edged 
Science 
sword. 
It 
is  liable  to  cut  either  way, 
according  as  it  is  handled.

If  such  a  powerful  force  as  hypnotism 
is  ever  to  be  used  in  affairs  of business, 
justice  might  indicate  practical  experi­
ments  upon  a  certain  class  of  aggravat - 
ing  debtors  who  hide  behind  every  bush 
of  pretence  to  cheat  the  confiding  re­
tailer.  A  few  successful  experiments  on 
this  class  may  serve  to  neutralize  some 
of  the  demoralizing  results  of  our  ex­
emption  laws.

S.  P.  W hitmarsh.

But  alas!  what  shall  be  done  to  pro­
tect  us  poor  dealers,  destined  to  be  the 
victims  upon  whom  the  new  science 
is 
to  be  practiced?  Hitherto  we  have  al­
ways  greeted  cordially  the  knights  of 
the  grip,  opening  our  hearts  and  hands 
to  their  courteous  advances. 
Is  the 
present  delightful  era  of  mutual  good 
will  and  business  fellowship  soon  to 
terminate? 
If  the  exercise  of  hypnotic 
power  will,  nolens  volens,  put  a  subject 
in  such  a  mental  condition  that  he  is 
in  the  power  of  the  traveling 
wholly 
salesman,  how  easy  will 
it  be  for  the 
latter  to  procure  orders  to  an  unlimited 
amount  without  regard  to  the  needs  of 
the  buyer.  As  one  after  another  suc­
cumbs  to  this mysterious process, though 
the 
there  will  be 
consternation  and  mourning  among  the 
dealers  buncoed 
extravagance. 
Then  the  relative  position  of  salesman 
and  purchaser  will  be  changed.  The 
man  with  the  grip  will  be  no  more 
“ hail  fellow,  well  met,”   but,  like  the 
book  agent,  an  enemy  to  be  shunned  or 
resisted  by  any  defensive tactics.  There 
will  be  no  cheerful  smile  and  hand­
shake  for  him  until  he  shows  that  he 
has  left  all  hypnotic  weapons  at  home; 
and  even  then  incredulity  may  bar  the 
friendly  intercourse  that  has  so  long  ex­
isted.  Let  us  hope  that  this  occult 
science  may  not  develop 
to  such  a 
practical  length,  and  that  dealers  may

jobber  may  smile, 

into 

The  Honest  Kitchen.

It 

is 

thus 

reading-room;  but 

A  writer  on  household  topics  says 
that  the  sitting-room  of  a  house  may  be 
made  to  do  duty  as  a  parlor;  the library 
as  a  music-room ; a drapery-hidden nook 
in  the  second  hall  may  conceal  the  bath 
tub;  a  chamber  with  a  folding  lounge 
may  be  a  bedroom,  a  smoking-room,  a 
nursery  or  a 
a 
kitchen,  however  metamorphosed,  will 
be,  must  be  and  cannot  be  anything  but 
a  kitchen  still.  These  considerations 
in  the  plan  of 
mark  out  the  kitchen 
household  salvation  as  the  most 
impor­
tant  room  in  the domestic  economy  of 
housemaking. 
that  the 
kitchen  becomes  a  tower  of  refuge  for 
plain  people  weary  of  mantles  that  are 
folding  beds,  and  chairs  that  have  a 
table  concealed about their persons.  The 
kitchen 
is  what  it  pretends  to  be,  and 
nothing  else.  You  may  break,  you  may 
shatter,  the  range  if  you  will,  but  the 
perfume  of  fried  steak  and  onions  will 
is  unhappily  true 
cling  to  it  still. 
that*  honest  as  the  kitchen 
is  in  de­
clining  to  lend  itself  to  a  deceptive  ap­
pearance  of  being  a  parlor  ora  conserv­
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not  extend  to everything  that  comes  out 
of  it.  A  kitchen  that  sends  forth 
into 
the  worl d  chicken  croquettes  made  of 
veal,  and  mock  turtle  soup,  still  needs 
reforming  morally.

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The  Lamb  Gang  Finally  Driven 

o f  Business.

Out

“ The  jig  is  up,”   was  the  laconic  re­
mark  of  Frank  J.  Lamb,  after  reading 
the  exposures  of  the  Lamb  gang  in  the 
last  issue  of  the  Tradesman. 
“ We  may 
as  well  shut  up  shop  and  quit  the 
town, “ he  continued,  “ for  the  day  of 
fake  commission  houses,so far  as  Grand 
Rapids 
is  past.  We 
may  as  well  pull  up  stakes  and  remove 
to  Chicago,  where  half  the  people  are 
fakirs  and  where  there  are  no  Trades­
mans  to  camp  on  our trail  and  hound  us 
to  death,  simply  because  we  catch  a 
few  sucke rs. ’ ’

concerned, 

is 

*  *  *

“ I  tell  you,  boys,”   continued  the  ur­
bane  and  cool-headed old swindler,  “ we 
didn’t  work  the  scheme  slick  enough. 
When  a  man  sent  us $50  worth of butter, 
we  ought  to   have  made  some  returns— 
sent  him  a  check  for  2 cents or drawn on 
him  for  the  freight,  so  that  he could  not 
say  he  did  not  hear  from  us. 
Instead 
of  doing  so.  we  received  the  goods, 
sold them for what  we  could  get,  put  the 
money 
in  our  pockets  and  paid  no  at 
tention  to  the  letters  of  the  poor  devi 
who  sent, us  the  stuff.  That  wasn’ 
right,  boys,  and  we  won’t  do 
it  that 
way  any  more—not  till  we  get  to  Ch 
cago. ’ ’

One  of  the  most  perplexing  questions 
which  has  come  up  in  connection  with 
the  career  of  the  fraudulent  commission 
houses,  exposed  last  week,  is  the liabil 
ity  of  a  bank  in  permitting  its  name  to 
be  used  as  reference  by  houses-  solicit 
ing  consignments  from  the  retail  trade. 
Smith  &  Waidelich  used  the  name  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Savings  Bank  as  ref 
erence  on  its  letter  heads  and  other  sta 
tionery,  and,  although  such  use  of  th< 
name  was  entirely  unauthorized,  and 
anyone  referring  to  the  Bank  got  any 
thing  but  a  favorable  response,  yet  the 
unauthorized  reference  caught  a  good 
many  dealers,  as 
it  gave  the  concern 
soliciting  consignments  an  appearance 
of  credibility,  to  which  it  was  not  en 
titled.  The  managers  of  the  bank  are 
greatly  chagrined  over  the use  to  which 
the  name  of  their  institution  has  been 
put,  but  were  not  made  aware  of  the 
fact  that  it  was  being  so  used  until  the 
victims  had  been  caught  and  the  injury 
had  been  done. 
In  the  opinion  of  the 
Tradesman,  there  ought  to  be  a law pro­
hibiting  the  use  of  the  name  of  any  in­
stitution  or 
individual  as  reference, 
for 
without  first  securing  permission 
If  such  a  law 
such  use  of  the  name. 
had  been  in  effept,  -many  of  the 
losses 
sustained  by  the  retail  trade  of  Michi­
gan  would  have  been  averted,  as  Smith 
&  Waidelich  would  have  been  unable  to 
refer  to  any  rep utable  concern.

*  *  *

The  disclosures  of  the  swindling  op­
erations  of  the  gang  of  commission 
sharks have brought to  notice  some  facts 
in  regard  to  business  methods  which 
may  be  worthy  of  comment  by  the 
Tradesman.  The  principal  element 
in 
the  success  of  the  schemes  was  that  the 
circulars 
the  operators 
should  be  so  worded  as  to  command 
sqfficient  confidence  to  secure  consign­
ments.  While  there  was  a  pretense  of 
reference  as  to  credit 
in  some  of  the 
stationery  used,  the  principal  depend­
ence  for  securing  patronage  was  on  the 
apparent  candor  shown 
in  the  corres­
pondence.  That  this  dependence  was

sent  out  by 

large 

returns 

is 
sufficient  to  Secure 
plainly 
shown  by  the  number  who 
have  responded  to  the  Tradesman’s  re­
quest  for  reports  of  the  operations  of 
the  gang.  These  show  that  various 
pretenses  were  employed,  such  as  offer- 
ng  to  ship  consignments,  where  such 
offers  would  be  appropriate.  Usually 
there  was  great  haste  in  the  orders  for 
goods,  which  were  frequently  made  by 
wire,  thus  preventing  the 
investigation 
of  credit.

*  *  *

One  correspondent  sends  statements 
of  sales  to  one  of  the  bogus  concerns 
amounting  to nearly  $100,and writes that 
he  should  have  written  the  Tradesman 
to  find  out  about  its  reliability  had  not 
the  order  been  placed  by  wire  with such 
urgency  that  there  was  not  time. 
In 
this  case  there  was  to  be  a  return  con­
signment  of  a  car  of  potatoes.  Of 
course,  this  was  never  sent,  nor  returns 
made  for  the  goods.  This  is  only  one 
nstance  among  a  great  number  with 
varying  circumstances,  but  all  alike 
in 
that  the  consignors  received  no  returns.

*  *  *

It 

the 

from 

The  Tradesman  is  inclined  to  preach 
little  sermon  on  this  subject.  The 
natural  and  laudable  desire  which  every 
enterprising  business  man  has  for  the 
securing  of  trade  is  a  constant  tempta­
tion  to  overlook  or  slight  the  question 
is  sought  as  a 
of  credits.  Business 
means  of  profit, 
to  be  sure,  but  in  too 
instances  the  desire  to  secure 
many 
force  of 
business,  possibly 
habit,  becomes  so  great  that  the  end 
is 
lost  sight  of. 
is  the  experience  of 
every  sportsman  that  the  game  he  hunts 
becomes  the  object of paramount desire. 
The  same  principle  applies  in  trade, 
and ‘ too  frequently  the  object  of  the 
bunt  becomes  business  instead  of  profit. 
It  is  a  matter  of  surprise  to  what  an  ex­
tent  dealers  succumb  to  this temptation. 
Nor  is  this  failing  confined  to  the  com­
mission  part  of  business. 
In  every 
branch  there  is  a  constant  tendency  to 
relax 
in  favor  of  any  one  transaction 
rather  than  lose  the  trade.  Merchants 
will  go  to  the  expense  of  subscribing  to 
commercial  agencies  and  will  either 
neglect  to  use  them  or  will  strain  a 
point 
in  favor  of  the  customer  on  the 
ground  that,  possibly,  the  report  may 
be  prejudiced,  or,  more  likely,  without 
foundation—the 
to  secure 
the  business  is  too  great,  and  they  ven­
ture,  hoping  it  will  come  out  all  right. 
Sometimes  it  does,  but  so  frequently 
it 
does  not  that  the  dealer  who  habitually 
falls  into  this  sin  soon  suffers  from  the 
consequences.  One  bad  debt  neutralizes 
the  profits  of  many  good  sales,  and  the 
loss  is  not  only  in  the  unfavorable  en­
try  it .necessitates  on  the  ledger— it  in­
cludes  a  long  list  of  items  in  the  way  of 
annoyance  and  worry  and  time  and 
expense  in  futile  efforts  at  collection.

temptation 

Compared  with  the  serious  conse­
quences  of  a  bad  debt  the  loss  of  a  sale 
is  a  slight  affliction.  This  is  a  proposi­
tion  which  will  strike  every  one  favor­
ably,  yet  many  will  go  on  placing  un­
warranted  credits.  It  is  becoming  more 
and  more  an  essential  part  of  every 
successful  merchant's  duty  to  carefully 
study  and  watch  the  responsibility  of 
his  customers.  Many  large  houses  em­
ploy  the  most  experienced  experts  they 
can  find  to  aid  in  this  duty,  though  it 
is  not  usually  entrusted  to  such entirely. 
In  smaller  establishments  the  proprietor 
must  needs  give  it  the  requisite  atten­
lesson  is  rapidly  being 
tion.  And  the 
learned  that  he 
is  the  successful  mer­
chant  who  makes  the  most  thorough 
study  of  this  branch  of  his  work  and

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G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

Finest Grown.  “Triumphs" are in their prime.  White 
stock  just arriving.  Lowest  market price guaranteed.

S T IL E S   &   PH ILLIPS,

W holesale F ru its and Produce, 

GRAND RAPIDS.

ESTABLISHED  1876.

T ^ ire i^ P   S E E D S .

wv have a  full  line  extra choice Common  and  Oerman  Millet.  White,  Green  and  Scotch  Field 
We nave a  Tul^nne extra camcc  No. 1Wnelt,ld  No.  2  Whiiewood  Egg Cases.  No. 11  and No.  2

bSL8s! 

b£S2 S T & S i i S i S S r  ” d

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale  Beans, Seeds, Potatoes, Fruits. 

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

SA LT 

SA LT 

SA LT

If you want anything in the line of  salt,  write  to  us  for  prices.

It will be to your advantage to do so.

J O H N   L .  D E X T E R   &  C O .,

12  G r is w o ld   S t.,  D e tro it.

M ic h ig a n   S p ic e   C o m p a n y ’s   ‘•A b so lu te ”   T e a s ,  C offees,  S p ic e s 

a n d   B a k in g   P o w d e r  h a v e  a   w id e -s p re a d   r e p u ta tio n .

Beware of imitations!

We are the sole owners of the trade mark  “Absolute,” and are the original 
and only lawful  importers of “Absolute”  Teas, and also the only lawful man­
ufacturers of and jobbers in “Absolute” Coffees  Spices and  Baking  Powder.
We  caution  importers,  manufacturers  and  dealers  not  to  use  our  said 
trade  mark, and  give notice that we will  protect our said  trade mark against 
infringements,  and admonish dealers to beware of teas,  coffees,  spices  and 
baking  powder branded “Absolute”  not manufactured and  put up by us.

MICHIGAN  SPICE CO.,

S O L E   P R O P R IE T O R S   A N D   M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F  

T H E   “ A B S O L U T E ”   B R A N D .

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who  has  the  most  backbone  to  pass 
im­
partially  on  all  questions  of  reliability 
according  to  a  judgment  not swerved  by 
the  desire  to  do  business.

*  *  *

_goods  are  received, 

lose  on 

There  is  a  concern  in  Detroit  which 
is  getting  butter  on  promises  of  high 
prices  to  creameries,  and,  when  the 
is  selling  them 
at  less  than  the  market  price per pound, 
and  giving  r  per  cent,  off  selling  price 
for  spot  cash  to  the  buyer.  Someone  is 
going  to 
it 
doesn’t  take  a  very  shrewd person to  see 
who  the 
loser  will  be.  Creamerymen 
and  shippers  should  be  more  careful  as 
to  whom  they  consign..  It  seems  that 
some  of  them  can  never  be  prevailed 
upon  to  stick  to  reliable  houses,  for 
they  are  continually  getting  into  trouble 
with  irresponsible  firms.
*  *  *

this  deal,  and 

“ The  Tradesman  has  done  the  legiti­
mate  trade  of  Grand Rapids—and Mich­
igan,  too,  for  that  matter—a  world  of 
good  by  the courageous manner in which 
it  has  exposed  the  Lamb  crowd,”   re­
marked  a  reputable  commission  mer­
chant  the  other  day. 
“ In  all  my  ex­
perience  I  have  never  seen  a more reck­
less  and  disreputable  association  of 
swindlers  than  that  which  formerly  con­
gregated  at  33  Ottawa  street,  but  which 
has  made  South  Division  street  head­
quarters during the past year.  Beginning 
with  F.  J.  Parker  and  C.  L.  Bunn,  and 
ending  with  Frank  J.  Lamb  and  B.  F. 
Strifling,  the  record  has  been  the  black­
est  one  ever  recorded  in  the commercial 
history  of  Grand  Rapids.”

Commends  the  Exposures.

their  vocation  of 

St.  Charles,  June  22— I  am  much 
pleased  at  the  manner 
in  which  you 
printed  my  exposure  of  the  commission 
swindlers  throughout  the  country,  as 
every  city  is  full  of  them,  industriously 
plying 
swindling 
shippers  and  merchants  out  of  their 
goods.  You  have  done  a  good  thing  in 
devoting  space  to  so valuable a purpose, 
and  I  hope  you  will  continue  to  do  so 
until  they  are  all  driven  out  of  their 
swindling  dens  and  exposed  to the cred­
ulous  public  who  send  them  .goods. 
Please keep  at  them  without  cessation. 
You  will,  undoubtedly,  lose  patronage 
by  so  doing,  but  you  will  gain 
largely 
from  honest  people  who  are  pleased  to 
see  fraudulent  houses  exposed and made 
do  an  honest  business  or  compelled 
to  desist  from  engaging  in  any  line  of 
I  will  do  all  I  can  to  further 
trade. 
the 
interest  of  the  Tradesman  in  in­
creasing its circulation  among  reputable 
business  men,  as  I  consider  every  issue 
worth  the  price  of  a year’s subscription. 
Please  accept  my  thanks  and  a  grand 
future  for%the  Tradesman.

J.  H.  Ham m ill.

Another Invitation from  Cedar Springs.
Frank  Hadden,  Secretary  of  Post  E, 
has  received  the  following  pressing  in­
vitation  from  E.  M.  Smith,  of  Cedar 
Springs:

Cedar  Springs,  June  22—As  stated 

in 
the  Tradesman  of  last  week,  the  citi­
zens  of  this  town  are  going  to  celebrate 
July 4, and we, the merchants,  most heart­
ily  extend  an  invitation  to  the  traveling 
men.  We  will  do  all  within  our  power 
to make  it a  day  of  sport  and merriment 
for  those  who  favor  us  (for  even  part  of 
the  day)  with  their  presence.  And 
those  who  come  will  rest  assured  that 
their  presence  will  be  appreciated  and 
that  they  will  be amply  repaid  for  their 
trip ;  and 
future  they  will  be 
remembered  by  us  with  larger orders 
than  ever before.

the 

in 

Ced ar Springs  Merchants.

Satisfied  customers  are  good  advertis 
ers.  Such  are  the  customers  who  use 
Robinson  Cider  Vinegar,  manufactured 
at  Bentor  Harbor,  Mich.  You  can  buy 
Robinson’s  Cider  Vinegar  from  the  I. 
M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.

Fruits  and  Produce.

fairly  good 

Never  before 

in  the  history  of  the 
fruit  belt  of  Western  Michigan  have 
the  prospects  of  large  crops  in  all 
lines 
been  so  flattering  as  at  the  present. 
During  the  past  week  commission  mer­
chants  and  others  interested  have  made 
frequent  excursions  over  Kent  arid  ad­
joining  counties— comprising the  “ fruit 
belt, ’ ’  so-called—and  all  the  stat ements 
agree  on  this  point.  While  the  cherry 
crop  is  something  of  a  disappointment, 
owing  to  the 
largq  proportion  of  the 
fruit  which  was  blown  off  during  the 
recent  severe  storm,and  the  yield  of  red 
raspberries  is  not  likely  to  be  quite  up 
to  the  average  in  amount  (although  the 
fruit  this  year  is  exceptionally  large 
in 
size  and 
in  quality),  all 
other 
fruits  promise  enormous  crops. 
Black  raspberries  are  large  in  size  and 
the  yield  is  exceptionally 
large.  The 
same  is  true  of  blackberries, which have 
now  so  good  a  start  that  a  drouth  from 
now  on  would  not  seriously 
impair  the 
crop.  Plums  hang  heavily  on  the trees, 
while  the  appletrees  are  so  heavily 
laden  with  fruit  that  the  growers  will 
large  expense  in  propping  up 
be  at  a 
in  order  that  their  orchards 
the 
may  not  suffer 
from 
breakage.  While  the  old  peach  trees 
are  dying  out,  owing  to  the  severity  of 
the  winter,  and  very  few  of  the old trees 
are  bearing 
the 
young  trees  are  fairly  well  loaded  with 
fruit,  and,  although  the  fruit  is  not  so 
thick  as 
last  season,  the  crop  will,  in 
all  probability,  amount  in  size  to  what 
it  lacks  in  numbers,  so  that  the  quality 
will  be  ahead  of  previous  seasons.

this  season, 

serious 

injury 

limbs 

Beans— Prices  have  shown  a  decline, 
although  trading  has  been  moderate and 
receipts  have  been  light.

Beets— 20c  per  doz.  bunches  for  home 

fruit 

grown.

Butter—While  arrivals  are  not  com­
ing  in  quite  so  lively  as  last  week, 
the 
market  is  still  glutted  with  an over  sup­
ply  of  both  dairy  and  creamery.  The 
former  is  bringing  I3@i4c,  while choice 
dairy 
in 
jars  commands  10c  and  from 
that  down.

Cabbage— Home grown  stock  is  com­
ing  in  freely  and  the  quality  is  improv­
ing  daily.  Quotations  are  based  on  50c 
per  doz.  heads.

Cherries— The crop  is  proving  a  great 
disappointment,  so  far  as  quantity  is 
concerned,  owing  to  the 
large  amount 
which  was  blown  off  during  the  recent 
wind  storm. 
Sour  stock  commands 
§2  per  bu.  and  sweet  fruit  brings  $2.25. 
Black  cherries  are  beginning  to  come 
in,  commanding  $2@2.25  per  bu.

Cucumbers—30@35c per doz.  for  home 

grown.

Currants—$1.50© 1.75 per  bu.  for  red.
Eggs—The  market  is still flooded with 
eggs— good,  bad  and  indifferent.  Deal­
ers  claim  that  only  one-third  of  the  re­
ceipts  are  strictly  first  class,  in  conse­
quence  of  which  shippers are  compelled 
to  stand  a  considerable 
loss,  which 
could  just  as  well  be  avoided  by  can­
dling  the stock  before  shipping.  Clean 
candled  stock  commands  10c,  selected 
stock  about  gc,  while  ordinary  ship­
ments,  as  they  come  in  from  the  coun­
try,  bring  an  average  of  about  8c.

Egg-Plant—40c  per  doz.
Green  Onions—Silver  Skins,  10c  per 

Lettuce—Outdoor 

stock 

commands 

doz.

4@5c  per  lb.

Melons—Georgia  watermelons 

are 
in  market,  commanding  20@25c. 

now 
Nutmeg  bring  $1.50  per doz.

Onions— Mississippi  stock  commands 

$1  per  bu.  in  bags  or bbls.

Peas—June,  70c  per  bu.  Marrowfat, 

75c  per  bu.

is 

commanding 

Potatoes— Old  stock 

in  moderate 
demand, 
io@i5c  per 
bushel,  with  the  tendency  downward. 
New  stock  from  Arkansas  now  com­
mands  50c  per  bushel  or $1.50  per  bar­
rel,  but  the  price 
likely  to  go  still 
lower  in  the  near  future,  as  the  market 
on  Southern  gYown  stock  is  badly  de­
moralized,  affording  no  profit  what­
ever  to  the  grower,  who  will,  in  all

is 

probability,  suffer  serious 
loss.  Home 
grown  stock  has  already  put  in  an  ap­
pearance  and  by  the  Fourth  of  July  it 
is  probable  that  the  shipping  and  con­
sumptive  demand  of  this  market  will 
be  entirely  supplied  by  home  grown 
stock.  This  breaks  all  previous  records.

Radishes—Charters  command  8c  per  I 

doz.  bunches.  China  Rose  bring  10c.

Raspberrries —  Black, 

75@8oc  perl 
crate  of  16  qts.  Red,  ${@1.25  per  crate 
of  16  qts.

Seeds— Hungarian  and  Common  Ger­

man  Millet  bring  6o@75c  per bu.
String  Beans— 75c@$i  per  bu.
Tomatoes— Mississippi  stock  brings 

$1  per  4  basket  crate.

Fancy Lemons, 
New Celery, 
Water  Melons,! 
Bananas,
Fruits and 
Vegetables
F.  J.  Dettenmaier,

117 and 119 Monroe street, 

__________   Grand  Rapids.
FRUIT  and 
VEGETABLES

are good and  very cheap. 

Send your orders to

Hemg  J.  v in k m im r.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

F.  J .  ROHR IQ,  J r.,

Wholesale  and Retail Dealer in

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HAY  and  STRAW.

Recleaned Oats a Specialty.

Mack Ave. and Belt Line, 

DETROIT.

CHAS.  A  COYE
Tents, Awnings.

Manufacturer ot

Horse,  Wagons  and 
Binder  Covers.

Send for prices.

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if  you  happened to be a customer of the 
fair  sex?  Well,  if  that  is  the  case,  you 
know as well as anyone that an advertise-  Q^jjp 
ment of your business,  neatly printed on 
the  back of  a  nicely  decorated  Fan,  will 
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shipments—such  as  happened  here 
last 
summer,  when  neither  mining  nor ship­
ping  was  permitted  from  the Ishpeming 
mines  for  ten  weeks.

Detroit—On  July  1, 

1881,  George
Bolton  entered 
into  a  contract  with 
Joseph  H.  Berry,  by  which  Bolton  as­
signed  a  half  interest  in  a  heater  pat­
ented  by  himself  to  Berry  for $1,  and 
the  other  half  on  condition  that  Berry 
should  pay  him  2 '/2  per  cent,  of  the  net 
sales.  A  further  consideration  was  that 
Bolton  should  assign  to  Berry  any  im­
provements  or  inventions  that  he  should 
make  to  the  heater  in  the  future.  Mr. 
Berry  organized  the  Detroit  Heating  & 
Lighting  Co.,  which  manufactured  the 
Bolton  heaters.  Differences  arose,  and 
subsequently  Bolton  and  his  son  invent­
ed  a  boiler  which  they  had  patented  to 
them  jointly  as  joint 
'Some 
months  later  Bolton  assigned  his  patent 
to  some  New  Haven  parties,  and  con­
tinued  making  boilers,  known  as  the 
Bolton  boilers.  He  filed  a  bill  for  an 
accounting  against  the  Berrys  and  the 
Detroit  Heating  &  Lighting  Co.,  and 
the 
latter  filed  a  cross  bill  for  an  in­
junction  to  restrain  Bolton  from  using 
his  name  on  his  boilers.  Judge  Frazer 
held  that,  since  Bolton  made  no  assign­
ment  of  his  new  patent  to  Berry,  as 
agreed  in  the  contract,  the  court  had  no 
authority  to  order  an  accounting.  As  to 
the  cross  bill,he  thought  he was  not  jus­
tified  in  enjoining  Bolton  from  the  use 
of  his  name  on  his  new  boilers.  Both 
bill  and  cross  bill  were  dismissed.

inventors. 

See  that  Humpl

in 

on  “ The  Wonderful  Wheel,”  

New  York,  June  22—Your  editorial 
the 
radesman  of  June  17,  is  pertinent  and 
covers  the  case  fully,  so  far  as  it  goes.
am  rather  surprised,  however, 
that 
you  did  not  extend  the  paragraph deal- 
lg  with  evils  of  “ scorching”   so  as  to 
nclude  an  odious  practice  still  more 
deleterious  than  overriding  in  its  worst 
form :  1  allude  to  the  habit  of  riders 
ho  “ hump  thesmelves. ”   (1  guess  this 
It  is  a  disgust- 
s  a  good  name  for  it.) 
is 
ng  position  to  assume  and,  what 
It  is  an 
worse,  is  positively  injurious. 
nnaturai  position— cramped ;  and 
it 
oes  not  take  a  well-posted  anatomist  to 
ecide  that  riding 
in  this  doubled-up 
leads  to  serious  consequences— 
shape 
probably  curvature  of  the  spine,  or  at 
least  to  a  bad  case  of  round  shoulders. 
The  chest  becomes  shriveled,  the  lungs 
congested  and  no  end  of  ills  can 
and  do  come  from  this  nonsensical  and 
monkevfied  practice.  Now,  it  naturally 
leads  "one  to  ask,  Why  do  they  do  it? 
It  is  a  fad-nothing  more.  When  b i­
cycling  was  confined  mostly  to  expert 
so-called  sportsmen,  they  assumed  this 
attitude  when  riding  in  races,  alleging 
that  this  bending  of  the  body  enabled 
them 
to  make  greater  speed,  etc. 
Straightway  the  average  youth  took  it 
up  as  being  the  proper  caper  when  rid- 
ng.  Gradually,  the  wheel  came  to  be 
utilized  by  a  larger  number  of  active, 
sensible  business  men,  most  of  whom, 
it  said  to  their  credit,  have  sense 
be 
enough  to  ride 
in  a  natural,  upright, 
and  surely  more  dignified  and  graceful, 
position.  Women  who  ride  wheels  as­
sume  the  proper  position,  ninety-nine 
cases  in  a  hundred.  Abolish  “ hump- 
j” . and  you  will  have  less  “ scorch-

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Alpena—John  Witt,  meat  dealer,  has 

retired  from  business.

Alba— Fred  Shepard  has  removed  his 

bazaar  stock  to  Bear  Lake.

Sturgis-  Pope  &  Craig  succeed  J.  W. 

Blood  in  the  grocery  business.

Morenci—G.  W.  Gust  has  purchased 

the  hardware  stock  of  E.  B.  Rorick.

Kalamazoo— L. Levy  has opened a gro­
cery  store  at  215  North  Burdick  street.
Kalamazoo—Geo.  McCarty  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  C.  S.  Ran- 
ney.

West  Bay  City— F.  M.  Hiscock  has 
purchased  the  laundry  business  of  Geo. 
Reilly.

Lansing—O.  A.  Jenison  has  sold  his 
book  and  stationery  stock  to  Fred  W. 
Curron.

Vicksburg—O.  H.  Carr  has purchased 
the  tobacco  and  cigar  stock  of  A.  V. 
Cropsey.

North  Lansing— Cimmerer  & Co.  suc­
ceed  Geo.  E.  Cimmerer  in  the  grocery 
business.

Muskegon—Emil  Haas  has  opened  a 
furnished 

grocery.  Geo.  Hume  &  Co. 
the  stock.

M unising— Harry Coddington  has  em­
barked  in  the  notion,  fruit,  confection­
ery  and  tobacco  business.

St.  Johns—Cooper  &  Kenney,  dealers 
in  bicycles,  have  dissolved,  Geo.  D. 
Cooper  continuing  the  business.

Lansing— J.  W.  Edmonds’  Sons  suc­
ceed  Cannell  &  Edmonds  in  the  whole­
sale  and  retail  harness  business.

Detroit—Oakley-Crouse  &  Co.,  man­
ufacturers’  agents  for  machinery,  have 
dissolved,  H.  M.  Crouse  &  Co.  suc­
ceeding.

Marquette—The  Johnason  Clothing 
Co.  succeeds  M.  S.  (Mrs.  J.  L .)  Johna 
son  in  the  clothing and furnishing  goods 
business.

Montague— Will  Sweet,  clerk 

in  F. 
H.  Mason  &  Co. ’s  store,  will  act  as 
manager  of  the  grocery  business  at  the 
resort  that  the  firm  will  open  in  a  few 
weeks.

Bellevue—C.  W.  Young  has  taken 

possession  of  the  general  stock  of 
brother,  W.  A.  Young,  under  a  chattel 
mortgage.  The  stock  has  been  moved 
to  a  more  central 
location  and  th< 
business  will  be  continued,  with  W.  A 
Young  as  manager.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Mill  Supply  Co 

fund  of  $1,000,  which  he  will  treat  as  a 
loan,  to  be  repaid  as  soon  as  the  profits 
of  the  business  warrant.

Detroit— Articles  of  association  of  the 
Superior  Refining  Co.,organized  for  the 
purpose  of  dealing  in  oils  and  similar 
merchandise,  have  been  filed.  The  cap­
ital  stock 
is  $5,000,  all  paid  in.  The 
stockholders  are  John  Edward  Harris, 
Detroit,  300  shares;  William  B.  Rose,  J 
Cleveland,  190  shares,  and  William  H.
K.  Rose,  Cleveland,  10  shares.

Quinnesec— The  Cundy  Mining  to. 
has  filed  articles  of 
incorporation  with 
the  Secretary of State,  and  is  developing 
the  Town  Site  mine  here,  which  was re­
cently  purchased  from John  R.  Wood,  of 
ron  Mountain.  The  principal  stock­
holders  of  the  Cundy  company  are  offi- 
ials  of  the  Illinois  Steel  Co.,  which, 
ike  the  other  great  manufacturers,  is 
ever  ready  to  acquire  good  mines.

in 

injunctions 

Detroit—Charles  I.  Hood,  of  Hood’s 
Sarsaparilla  fame,  and  Alfred  B.  Scott, 
manufacturer  of  Scott’s  Emulsion,  each 
obtained 
the  United 
States  Court  Monday  against  Lambert & 
Lowman,  manufacturing 
chemists. 
Hood  claims  that  his  name  was  placed 
on  an  extract  of  celery  made  by  the  De­
troit  firm,  and  Scott  complained  be­
cause  the  same 
institution  made  and 
sold  to  an  Ohio  druggist  a medicine  un­
der  the  name  of  Stott’s  Emulsion.  The 
defendants claimed that they  had  not  in­
tended  to 
infringe  upon  the  rights  of 
either  of  the  complainants,  and,  al­
though  believing  that  they  had  a  com­
plete  case,  did  not  consider  their  trade 
the  articles  to  be  worth  a  lawsuit. 
An  injunction  in  each  case  was  granted 
by  consent.

idle 

Negaunee—Capt.  Samuel  Mitchell, 
one  of  the  shrewdest  practical miners  in 
the  Lake  Superior  district,  where  good 
men  abound,  has  bought  the  Rolling 
Mill  mine,  which  has  been 
for 
more  than  a  decade.  The  property  was 
owned  by  the  late  Luther  Beecher,  the 
eccentric  Detroit  millionaire,  who  kept 
the  Biddle  House  closed  for  many  years 
because  he  could  not  secure  the  rental 
which  he  demanded.  His  heir  has 
wisely  decided  to  part  with  a  property 
hich  has  for  many  years  returned  no 
large  ex 
revenues  and  has  entailed 
penses 
taxes, 
Capt.  Mitchell  began  at  the  bottom  of 
the  ladder  forty  years  ago  as  a  common 
miner,  and  every  property  that  he  has 
ever  taken  hold  of  has  proved  a  money 
maker:  hence  his  acquisition  of 
the 
Rolling  Mill  property  is  hailed with de 
light  by  the  people  of  Negaunee.

for  maintenance  and 

succeeds  the  Alaska  Metal  Co.

Jackson—C.  G.  Handy 

succeed;
Handy  Bros,  in  the  cigar  manufactur 
ing  business.

Sand  Beach—J.  G.  Puddock  succeeds 
Winterhalter  &  Puddock  in  the  foundry 
and  machine  shop  business.

Detroit— E.  G.  Miles  &  Co.,  manu 
facturers  of  turf  goods,  have  dissolved 
They  are  succeeded  by  Delbridge  & 
Marshall.

Stockbridge— Kennedy  &  Kennedy 
basket  manufacturers,  have  dissolved 
The  business  will  be  continued  by  Wm 
H.  Kennedy.

Rochester—The  Western  Knitting 
Mills  Co.  will  shortly  remove  its  plant 
from  Detroit  to  this  place.  This  move 
is  made  because  the  firm  has  been 
offered  a  free  site  and  a  bonus  of  §1,000 
in  cash.

Clare—Jno.  A.  Hess,  whose  creamery 

was  burned  at  Calkinsville  recently, 
the  projector  of  an  enterprise  to  estab 
lish  a  creamery  here,  providing  the 
business  men  of  the  place  will  raise  a

Ishpeming— June 

forwarding  ports 

shipments  of  ore 
from  all 
continue 
heavy,and  those  who  have  been  predict 
ing  a  falling-off 
in  the  ore  shipments 
this  month,  as  compared  with  the heavy 
business  of  June,  1895,  will  be  sur­
prised  at  the 
figures  piled  up.  A l­
though  the  shipments  of  ore  from  the 
mines  to  lower  lake  ports  are  unprec­
edentedly 
large,  it  does  not  necessarily 
follow  that  the  season’s  output  will  be 
in  proportion. 
The  Lake  Superior 
mines  had  larger  reserves  of  ore  mined 
and  in  stock  for  shipping  at  the  open­
ing  of  navigation  this  spring  than  they 
ever  had  before,  partly  because  of  the 
anticipated  heavy  demand  and  partly 
because  of  the  fear  of  labor  troubles, 
which  sometimes  come  about  unexpect­
edly. 
By  rushing  shipments  at  the 
opening  of  the  season  the  mines  obtain 
reasonable  freight  rates.  Again,  if  the 
stock  piles  are  sent  to  Lake  Erie  and 
Lake  Michigan ports as soon as possible, 
the  mines  will  have  large  stocks for sale 
labor  troubles  preventing
in  case  of 

Marquette— The $6,000,000 steel plant, 
like  the  other  big  industrial  enterprises 
that  have  been  located  here—on  paper 
— within  the 
last  decade,  has  failed  to 
materialize and the project  is  apparently 
dead. 
It  may  be  nursed  back  into  life 
again,  however,  by  Richard  A.  Parker, 
who  has  once  more  planted  his  shoes 
upon  American  soil,  greatly  to  his^re- 
lief.  Mr.  Parker,  who  is  a  mining  en­
gineer  of  note,  has  for  years  lent  his 
voice  and  pen  to  the  advocacy  of  estab 
lishing  big  rolling  mills  and steel works 
at  Marquette,  where  he  has  resided  for 
the  past  ten  years.  Last  fall,  he  left  for 
South  Africa, 
to  accept  a  position 
second  to  that  of  John  Hays  Hammond 
the  American  mining  engineer  who  did 
in  the 
so  well  at  mining  and  so  poorly 
insurrection  business. 
Shortly  after 
the  unpleasantness,  when  the  Transvaal 
government  reached  out  for  Hammond 
Col.  Rhodes  and  the  other  leaders  of 
the  Reform  Club,  Mr.  Parker  was  noti 
fied  by  friends  that  Oom  Paul  had  his 
men  out  looking  for  all  American  en 
gineers  who  were  anywise  prominent. 
Mr.  Parker  left  the dinner-table between 
soup  and  fish.  He  did  not  even  tarry 
for  his  overcoat,  but departed forthwith 
and  the  wisdom  of  his  celerity  was  am 
ply  attested  by  the  fate  that  befell  all 
his  compatriots  who  were  managing  the 
little  change  of 
' Mr, 
Parker  left  behind  him  in  South  Africa 
a  $20,000  salary  and  the  opportunity  of 
adding  to  the  fame  of  a  name  already 
favorably  known;  but  he  also  avoided 
the  trifling  fine  of  $125,000  which  was 
imposed  upon  his  friends  and  fellow- 
laborers  as  mining  engineers  and  polit­
ical  economists,  and  he  feels  satisfied 
that  the  balance 
is  on  his  side  of  the 
ledger.

government. 

Planting  Coffee  Trees  in  Mexico.
The  Mexican  Coffee  Trading  and 
Planting  Co.,  of  New  York,  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $400,000,  has  been 
in­
corporated  under  the  laws  of  Missouri 
for  the  purpose  of  starting  a large  coffee
plantation 
1,00 0,0 00   coffee  trees. 

N.  T rissel.

A  Scarecrow  for  Mosquitoes.

Prom   the  N ew ark  Sun d ay C all.

john  Habberton  statts,  with  the  so- 
emnity  of  firm  conviction,  that  mos­
quitoes  are  extremely 
frightened  by 
dragon  flies  and  will  not  come  within 
yards  of  them.  He says  that  one  or  two 
dried  dragon  flies  suspended  from  fine 
silk  under  the  roof  of  an  open  porch  in­
fested  by  mosquitoes  will  scare  all  of 
the  little  pests  away,  and  that  they  will 
not  come  back  while  the  dragon  flies 
are  there.  This,  he  says,  he  has  tried 
with  surprising  results. 
is  a  well- 
known  fact  that  dragon  flies  are  pred­
atory  and  voracious  insects,  and  that 
they  subsist  largely  upon  gnats,  midges 
it  is  but  natural 
and  mosquitoes,  and 
that  the  mosquito,  who 
is_  a  wise  in­
sect,  should  regard 
“ spindle,”  
the 
“ darning  needle,”   or  dragon  fly  as  the 
small  bird  regards  the  hawk.

It 

Association Matters

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President, F. S. C a k le to n,  Calumet;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  H e n r y  C.  W e b e r ,  Detroit;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, He n r y C. M in n ie,  Eaton Rapids.
Northern Mich. Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. F. T atm an, Clare ;  Secretary,  E. A. 
Sto w e,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  W is l e r , 
Mancelona.
Next Meeting—At Grand Rapids,  Aug.  4  and  5, 
1896.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association 
Ho l l y :  Treasurer, C. A.  Hammond.
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association
President.  E. C.  W in c h e st e r :  Secretary, H om er 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  G e o.  L eh m an.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers’ Hall, 
over K. J. Herrick’s  store.

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, B yr o n C. Hill; Secretary, W. H. P or­

t e r ;  Treasurer, J. F. H klm kr.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association
in  Mexico  and  planting  1  president,  F .  B.  J o h n so n;  Secretary,  A  

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

th 

which  is  100,000  bushels  more  than 
last 
week.  The  receipts  were  below  the  nor­
in  the  winter  wheat  section,  while 
mal 
spring  wheat  sections  the  re­
in 
ceipts  were  as  large  as  is  usual  of 
late. 
The  great  perplexing  question  is  asked, 
Where  does  all  this  wheat  come  from? 
The  writer  has  reliable information  that 
there  is  still  2,000,000  bushels  to  come 
from  that  section.  The  same  party  re­
ports  that,  owing  to  the  wet  and  unsea­
sonable  weather,  there  is  only  about  40 
per  cent,  of  a  crop  in  the  Red  River 
is  being 
Valley  this  year.  Harvesting 
done 
Indiana, 
Illinois, 
Ohio  and  Kentucky.  The  harvesting 
has  been  completed 
in  Missouri  and 
threshing  has  begun.  The  reports  vary 
considerably  regarding  the  quality  and 
The  preponderance  of  the 
quantity. 
reports 
is  a  shrinkage 
reports.  However,  as 
from  former 
there  are  no  orders  being  placed  for 
the 
wheat  from  this  section,  where 
crop  reports  come  from,  there 
is  some 
credence  placed 
in  the  reports.  The 
fact  is,  wheat  is  and  has been  so  cheap 
that  traders  are indifferent and  are  wait 
ing  for  further  developments.

is  that  there 

in  Southern 

Coarse grain—corn  and  oats—are  life­
in  farmers’ 
less,  as  there  is  too  much 
hands  and 
the  outlook  at  present  is 
splendid  for  an  immense  crop  of  both 
cereals.  However,  it  is  too  early  to  talk 
much  about  corn  and  oats,  as  there 
might  be  a  frost  or a  drought  yet.  The 
receipts  during  the  week  were:  wheat, 
22  cars;  corn,  6  cars  and  9  cars  of  oats. 
Detroit  received  only  7  cars  of  wheat 
14  of  corn  and  18  of  oats  in  the  same 
time.  The  millers  are  paying  59c  for 
wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt

Flour  and  Feed.

There  have been no important changes 
n  the  flour  market  the  past  week.  Buy 
ers  still  act  very  indifferent,  taking only 
small  lots  for  immediate  use,  and  even 
then  waiting  and  watching  for  weak 
spots  in  the  wheat  market.  On the  other 
hand,  millers  and  holders  of  flour  have 
not  been  anxious  to  sell  and  in  most 
cases  have  refused  to  lower  their prices, 
claiming  that  the  condition  of  both 
spring  and  winter  wheat  has  been  re­
ported  altogether  too  high  by  the  Gov­
ernment.

New  wheat  flour  is beginning  to  make 
its  appearance  in  some  of  the  Southern 
and  Southeastern  markets, but  the  trade, 
owing  to  past  experience,  prefer  the  old 
wheat  flours*  and  are  willing  to  pay  a 
premium  for  them.

The  market  for  millstuffs  has  about 
held 
its  own,  with  good  demand  for 
local  shipments  at  $9  per  ton  for  bran 
and  $10  per  ton  for  middlings  at  the 
mill.

Corn  and  oat  feeds,  coarse meal,  etc., 
have  declined  in  price  25@5oc  per  ton. 
Orders  are  scarce,  carlots being  out  of 
the  question.

W m.  N.  R owe.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

W.  H.  Wills  has  purchased  the  drug 
stock  of  W.  S.  Temple  at  504  South 
Division  street

D.  Schoonbeck  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  on  Cedar  street  to  Ira  Hufford, 
late  of  Englishville.

Billington  Bros,  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Pine  Creek.  The  Worden 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

John  J.  Dejonge  succeeds  Dejonge  & 
VanHeulen  in  the  flour  and  feed  busi­
ness  at  149  and  151  Spring  street.

Frank  Fagan  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Moorestown.  The  stock  was 
furnished  by  the  Worden  Grocer  Co.

Skeels  &  Buitendorp,  meat  dealers  at 
45  Fountain 
street,  have  dissolved, 
Richard  Skeels  continuing  the business.
Egbert  Wonnink  has  removed  his 
wood  turning  and  furniture  carving  es­
tablishment  from  6 and  8  Erie  street  to 
the  J.  W.  Fox  building,  89  and 91  Sixth
s t r e e t . ______________

T.  H.  Peacock  has  purchased  a  half 
interest 
in  the  meat  market  of  John 
Waidelich,  59  South  Division  street. 
The  new firm  will  be  known  as  Waide- 
Iich  &  Peacock.

Wm.  W.  Paul  has  opened  an  agency 
for  the  Wheeler  &  Wilson  sewing  ma­
chine  in  the  store  building  formerly  oc­
cupied  by  the  Valley  City  Dye  House, 
72  South  Division  street.

H.  G.  Walz,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  at  Saginaw,  E.  S.,  will 
shortly  open  a  new  drug  store  at  Sagi­
naw,  W.  S.  The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.  has  the  order  for  the  stock.

Chas.  Gaylord,  Clarence  A.  Cumings 
and  Adam  Hedrick  have  retired  from 
the  New  York  Electro Plating and  Man- 
ufacutring  Co.,  located  at  the  west  end 
of  Pearl  street  bridge.  The  business 
will  be  continued  at  the  same  location 
under  the  same  style  by  John  T.  F. 
Hornburg  and  Otto  C.  J.  Bernthal.

Geo.  H.  Reeder  and  J.  P.  Reeder 
have  formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style  of  Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.  to  suc­
ceed  to  the  business  formerly  conducted 
under  the  style  of  the Reeder Bros.  Shoe 
Co. 
In  addition  to  the  Lycoming  and 
Keystone  rubbers,  the  firm  will  handle 
a  line  of  specialties  in  men’s  and  wom­
en’s  shoes,  felt  boots  and 
lumbermen’s 
socks. 

_____________

At  a  meeting  of  the  Directors  of  the 
Citizens  Telephone  Co.,  held  Monday 
evening,  the  old  officers were re-elected. 
The  announcement  that  the Bell  monop­
oly had brought a  couple  of  suits  against 
the  company 
lor  alleged  infringement 
was  greeted  with smiles,  as  it  is  not  un 
usual  for  the  Bell  people  to  bring  suits 
against  competing  companies  for  the 
sole  purpose  of  intimidation  and  these 
suits  are  regarded  in  this  light  by  the 
stockholders  of  the  Citizens  Co.  Those 
who  have  been  connected  with  the  C iti­
zens exchange  insist  that  the phone  used 
is better  than  the  long-distance  Bell.

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  has  been  what 
might  be  termed  a  rather  tame  affair, 
While  there  was  some  seesawing,  we 
find  the  wheat  market  in  about  the same 
position  as 
The  visible 
made  another  remarkably  small  de 
crease,  taking 
into  consideration  the 
amount  exported  (3,020,000  bushels,

last  week. 

John  M.  Peterson,  Manager  of  Buck- 
ley  &  Douglas’  general  store,  at  Man­
istee,  and  Miss  Belle  Hansen,  of Green­
ville,  were  married  at  the  Congrega­
tional  church  at  Greenville,  June  16. 
It  was  an  elaborate  affair,  over  500 
in­
vitations  having  been  sent  out.  A  re­
ception  was  held  at  the  Hotel  Phelps. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peterson  will 
travel 
through  Europe  until  September.

Cyclone  value  in G illies’  (NewYork) 
Our  Jar  brand  Japan  tea.  Visner,  agent.

The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 

E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— After  the  decline  of  a  six- 
pence^on  Monday,  June  15,  the  market 
ruled  steady  unitl  Monday  of  this  week, 
when  two  declines  occurred— %c  and 
a  sixpence. 
Tuesday  powdered  was 
marked  down  a  sixpence.  The  market 
is  weak  and  unsetlted,  but no indcations 
of  the  upward  movement  so  long  pre­
dicted  are  yet  apparent.  The  season  of 
small  fruits  is  here,  and  consumption  is 
gradually 
increasing,  but  consumption 
will  not  reach  its  height  until  the  peach 
and  preserving  season,  when  the  higher 
prices  on  refined  sugar  are  expected.

A

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

5

Pertinent  Advice  to  Shippers.

When  you  make  a  shipment,  advise 
your  house  that  you  have  made  a  draft 
for  the  aggregate  amount  and  not  at  so 
much  per  pound.

*  *  *

Never  ship  a  house  without  looking 
for a  better  reference  than  a  picture  of 
an  eight-story  building  on  a letter  head. 
Cuts  of  buildings  are  cheap  in  cities.

He  *  *

The  house  that  returns  more  weight 
for  your  butter  than  all  other  competi­
tors 
suspicion.  Dis­
honesty  among  merchants  is  the  excep- 
ion  and  not  the  rule.

is  subject  to 

*  *  *

Don’t  split  up  your  shipments  among 
too  many  houses.  Lines of  butter  rang- 
ng  from  fifty  to  one  hundred  and  fifty 
tubs  sell  more  readily,  and  for  more 
money  ,tban  small  shipments.

*  *  *

When  you  make  a  shipment  always 
advise  your  house  of  the number  of  tubs 
and  the  railroad  you  ship  on.  Many 
sales  are  missed  by  the  receiver’s  not 
having  the  advice  of  shipments.

*  *  *

A  great  deal  of  complaint  is  made  in 
the  markets  about  the  tubs  not  being 
properly  soaked.  This  causes  mouldy 
sides,  woody  flavor,  and  such  stock  can­
not  be  used  for  storage  purposes.

♦   *  *

Cheese— The  market  rules 

lower  than  a  week  ago,  but  the  season 
of  greatest  production  has  been  reached 
and  passed  and  the  price  will  probably 
tend  upward  from  now  on.

Canned  Goods—While  there  is  no  act­
ive  interest  in  futures,  there  has  been 
a  slight  improvement  in  the demand  for 
spot  goods,  due  to 
increased  inquiry 
from  the  trade.

Currants— Primary markets are  steady 
and  higher  and  the  decided  improve­
ment  in  this  country  will,  undoubtedly, 
result  in  a  higher  range  of  values.

Annual  Picnic  on  August  6.

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  held  at  Retail 
Grocers’  hall,  Tuesday,  it  was  decided 
to  hold  the  annual  picnic  on  Thursday, 
August  6.-  The  committee  having  the 
matter 
in  charge  asked  further  time  to 
decide  upon  the  place  of  meeting  and 
was  granted  one  week’s  extension,  the 
understanding  being  that  a  final  report 
on  the  matter  will  be  made  at  a  special 
meeting  of  the  Association  next  Tues­
day  evening.

It  was  voted  to  close  the  doors  of  all 
grocery  stores  at  noon  on  July  4.  But 
for  the  fact  that  the  anniversary  comes 
on  Saturday,  the  doors  would  not  be 
opened  at  all.

The  annual  picnic  will  be  an  all-day

affair. 

____  

____

No  commission  -man  who 

is  enter­
prising,  has  capital  and  is  able  to  look 
after  your 
intelligently  can 
work  for  less  than  5  per  cent.  Houses 
‘.hat  work  for half-price  give  you  half- 
priced  service.

interests 

|   *  *

The  financial  strength  of  a  commis­
sion  house  is  not  all  that  is  to  be  con­
sidered 
in  making  up  your  mind  to 
whom  you  will  ship.  Men  who  have 
been  rated  at  a  half-million dollars  have 
been  known  to  be  incompetent and  even 
dishonest.

Insist  on  having  clean,  pure  refrig 
erator  cars.  The  railroads  want  your 
business  badly  enough  to  give  you  good 
service  if  you  insist  on  it.  Slatted  floors 
in  refrigerator  cars  are  desirable 
they  protect  the  packages  from  wet  and 
dirty  floors.

*  *  *

Always  go  to  the  bank  and  look  up 
the  standing  of  a house  to whom  you  in 
tend  to  ship.  Then  to  make  assurance 
doubly  sure  see 
if  the  house  is  good 
enough  to  have  a  card  in  the  Trades­
man.  The  publisher  of  this  paper  is 
in  better  shape  to  pass  on  the  standing 
of  a  house  than  Bradstreet  or  Dun.

*  *  * ^

Butter  is  a  slaughter  product  for  gro­
cery  houses.  They  sell  it  at  cut  prices 
induce  sales  of  groceries.  The  re­
to 
sult 
is  weakened  markets  and  a  de­
moralized  condition  of  trade.  Force 
grocers  to  pay  the  price  commission 
merchants  ask  for  your  butter. 
It  is 
penny  wise  and  pound  foolish  to  ship 
direct  to  the  customers  of  your  agents.

Frank  J.  Lamb  Under  Arrest.

As  predicted  would  be  the  case  else­
where 
in  this  week’s  paper,  Frank  J. 
Lamb  and  J.  0 .  Smith,are  now  con­
fronted  with  charges  of  a  most  serious 
character— using  the  mails  for  fraudu­
lent  purposes.  Lamb  was  apprehended 
and  arrested  Tuesday,  but  Smith  has, 
apparently,  skipped  out,  as  the  officers 
have,  as  yet,  been  unable  to  ascertain 
his  whereabouts.  The  prosecution 
is 
based  on  the  complaint  of C.  H.  Smead, 
of  Hartford,  and 
if  this  case  fails  to 
convict  the  defendants,  the  Tradesman 
has  on  file  dozens  of  other  complaints 
even  stronger  than  the  case  of  Mr. 
Smead.  ____   ^  ^____

New  Sugar  Schedule.

The  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers' 
Association  has  promulgated  a  new 
schedule  for  granulated  sugar,  as  fol­
lows :

cents  per  pound.

4j|  pounds  for  25  cents.
9>|  pounds  for  50  cents.
19  pounds  for  $1.

Police  Com- 
The  Board  of  Fire  and 
commendable 
missioners  have  taken  1 
Arthur  Arm­
position  by  dismissing
strong  from  the  position  of  Inspector  of 
the  Alarm  System  because  he  does  not 
pay  his  debts.  On  taking  the  position 
he  agreed  to  pay  all outstanding  indebt­
edness  and  not  contract  any  further 
debts.  Failing  to  keep  either  promise, 
he  has  been  dropped  from  the  service 
of  the  city—an  act  the  Tradesman  com­
mends  to  all  the  other  boards  and  gov­
erning  bodies  of  the  city.

Charles  C. 

Philbrick,  of  Foster, 
Stevens  &  Co.,  accompanied  by  his 
wife,  sails  from  New  York  on  the  Cu- 
nard  steamer  Umbria,  Saturday,  for  a 
three  months’  tour  of  Europe,  visiting 
England, 
Ireland,  Scotland,  Holland, 
Switzerland,  Germany  and  France.  Mr. 
Philbrick  says  he  will  be  back  in 
time 
to  cast  his  vote  for  McKinley.

Chas.  E.  Belknap,  President  of  the 
Belknap Wagon Co.,  is  off  for  a  month’s 
visit  to  the  trade  of  Wisconsin,  Minne­
sota,  Montana,  Washington, 
Idaho, 
Utah  and  Colorado.

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ROBBED  HER  HUSBAND.

How  a  Portland  Merchant Suffered  at 

the  Hands  of  His  Wife.

From the Portland Review.

Whether  kleptomania  is  a  disease,  a 
mania,  or  simply  an  irresistible  desire 
to  commit  a  wrong,  the  courts  have 
in 
never  declared,  but  that 
various  forms  in  every  community 
is  a 
It  is  likely  soon  to 
well-known  fact. 
form  the  basis  of  a  suit  for  divorce 
in 
the  case  of  a  Portland  couple.

it  exists 

Eight  years  ago,  D.  C.  Levinson, 
manager  of  the  Michigan  Mercantile 
Co.’s  Portland  store,  married his  wife  at 
Kalkaska.  Her  parents  were  well  to 
do,  while  his  were  considered  wealthy. 
Young  Mr.  Levinson,  with  the  assist­
ance  ot  his  father,  soon  went  into  busi­
ness,  first  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  then  in 
various  other  Michigan 
towns,  and 
lately  at  Belding.  His  wife  helped  him 
in  the  store  and  everybody  considered 
them  a  most  happy  couple.  But  young 
Mr.  Levinson  had  been  married  but  a 
short  time  when  he  says  he  discovered 
that  a  systematic  pilfering  from  his 
stock  was  going  on.  Each  time  he 
in­
voiced  results  seemed  more  and  more 
unsatisfactory.  He  instituted  a thorough 
investigation,  with  the  result,  he  says, 
that  his  wife  was  confronted  with  proof 
of  her  guilt,  admitted  it  and  promised 
it  should  cease.  The  goods  and  money 
had  been  shipped  clandestinely  to  her 
people,  who  reside  at  Walton.

Mr.  Levinson  claims  that  things  went 
along  more  smoothly  for  a  time,  but 
soon  the  old  habit  returned  and,  finding 
that  he  was  rapidly  being  swamped,  he 
went  out  of  business.  His  wife  and  he 
parted  and  for  six  months  they  did  -not 
see  each  other.  He  still  loved  her  and 
this,  together with the little  son,  brought 
them  together  once  more.  The  wife’s 
good  promises  were  renewed,  with  such 
demonstrations  of  penitence  that  the 
husband’s  confidence  was,  for  the  time, 
restored.  At  Belding  trouble  broke  out 
afresh.  Still  hoping  that  the  ruling 
passion  might  be  controlled,  he  came 
to  Portland;  but 
it  was  the  old,  old 
story.

Mrs.  Levinson  had  a  key  to  the  store 
and  helped  her  husband.  He  became 
suspicious  last  week  and  opened  her 
trunk  at  the  Welch  house,  finding  val­
uable  silks,  ribbons,  etc.,  together  with 
a  good-sized  sum  of  money  concealed 
in  a  stocking.  He  watched  the  sum 
grow  larger  and  then  become  depleted, 
which  was  assurance  that  the money was 
being  sent  out  of  town.  Then  he  got 
possession  of  letters,  one written to Mrs. 
Levison’s  brother  and  another  to  her 
mother,  in  which  she inquired  if various 
articles  had  reached  them,  requesting 
them  to  put  two  crosses  at  the bottom  of 
their  answer  if  they  had.  One  of  them 
told  of  a  box  of  valuables  she  still  had 
stored  with  a  friend  at  Belding  and 
asked  for  advice  whether  to  ship  by 
freight  or  express.  The  Belding  friend 
came  down  with  her  husband  last  week, 
and  implored  Mr.  Levinson  not  to  pros­
ecute,  acknowledging  that  she  had  re­
ceived  the  property.  Mrs.  Levinson 
went  to  Walton,  Friday,  and  divorce 
proceedings  will  soon  be started,  though 
the  woman  will  not  be  prosecuted on the 
other  charge.

feels 

Mr.  Levinson 

the  disgrace 
keenly.  He  says  that  his  wife  has 
never  been  denied  anything  within  his 
means  to  grant;  that  he  has  exhausted 
his  persuasive  powers  in  endeavoring to 
break  her  of  the  mania.  There  are  evi­
dences  of  his  generosity  on  every  hand 
anc  his  integrity  has  not  been  assailed. 
The  affair  is  as  unfortunate  for  him  as 
for  his  young  wife,  whose  only  defense, 
he  says,  is  that  her  parents  are  not 
in 
good 
circumstances,  while  his  are 
wealthy.

Fourth  of  July  Display. 

Correspondence Printers’ Ink.

Merchants  will  do  well  to  trim  their 
show  windows 
in  a  patriotic  way  on 
July  4th,  as  the  spirit  of  ’76  takes  vio­
lent  hold  of  the  people  on  the  fourth 
day  of  July  in  every  year.

A  window  may  easily  he  decorated  in 
a  grotesque  way  by  putting  in  it  a  few 
rolls  of  red-colored  paper  carpet  lin­
in  the  ends  small
ing,  and  squeezing 

pieces  of  one-inch  rope.  This 
is  to 
represent  fuse,  and  from  a  little  dis­
tance  many  will  imagine them  a  pile  of 
gigantic  fire  crackers  until  a  close 
in­
spection  and  the  ridiculousness  of  the 
idea  dawns  on  their  mind.

A  rather  pretty  effect  would  be  to  fill 
a  window  front  full  of miniature Ameri­
can  flags,  small  streamers  and  cute 
burgees,  and  then  buy,  beg  or borrow  a 
couple  of  electric  desk  fans,  placing 
one  on  each side and setting  them in mo­
tion.  The  little  banners  would  fly  and 
furl  as  if  in  a  stiff  breeze,  and would  be 
bound  to  create  favorable  comment.

Dry  goods  stores  have  plenty  of  ma­
terial  at  hand  to  ornament  their  show 
windows  in  the  National  colors.  Other 
stores  can  buy  cheap  bunting  in  red, 
white  and  blue,  and  even  small  flags 
come  now  in  prints  by  the  yard.  Where 
these  cannot  be  obtained,  a  good  sub­
stitute  is  the  new  crepe  tissue  paper,  as 
it  is  made  in  all  shades.

Florists  can  display  flowering  plants 
representing  the  tricolors,  and  a  pretty 
good 
imitation  can  be  made  even  by 
shoemen, with  a  pile  of  red  russet shoes, 
then  the  blue-black  kangaroos  and  the 
white  duck  tennis  slippers.  The confec­
tioner  can  easily  form  a  flag  by  sprin­
kling  white  sugar  over  the  bottom  of  a 
show  window,  and  using  mint  drops  for 
the  stars,  and  strips  of  molasses  taffy 
for  stripes.  Druggists  have  an  oppor­
tunity  to  fill  their  large  glass  jars  in  the 
show  windows  with  “ fire  water”   of  the 
red,  white  and  blue  variety.

For  evening  display,  no  merchant  us­
ing  incandescent  lights  should  neglect 
to  have  his  electrician  sprinkle  a  few 
red  and  blue  “ bulbs”   among  the  white 
ones,  so  that  the  lamps  could  blaze  out 
a  hurrah  for  Old  Glory.

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade 

is  only  fair,  for,  with 
the  closing  of  June,  trade has a tendency 
to  drop  off,  and,  as  the  farmer  is  busy 
at  work,  but  little  is  doing 
in  general 
hardware  in  many  towns.  The  method 
now  pursued  by  the  retailer  is  to  buy  in 
a  moderate  way  and  not  to  overstock.
Prices  on  hardware  are  stationary  and 
the  feeling  among  the  manufacturers  is 
that  but  little  change,  either  higher  or 
lower,  can  be  looked  for  before  late  in 
the  summer  or  early  fall.

Wire  Nails— Are  still  held  firm  by the 
Association  and,  while  the  subject  of  a 
decline  has  been  considered,  they  are, 
as  yet,  unable  to  decide  on  such  action. 
According  to  the  best  sources  of  infor­
mation  we  now  have,  the  strong  outside 
competition  has  been  taken  into the  As­
sociation,  and  it is  believed  it is stronger 
than  ever,  and  their  ability  to  maintain 
the  present  price  or  even  to  make  an 
advance 
is  unquestioned.  We  quote 
$2.65  rates  at  mill,  and  $2.85  rates  from 
stock.

Barbed  Wire— Is  moving 

in  rather 
light  quantities  and  prices  are  station­
ary.  No  change  in  price  is  anticipated.
Shovels  and  Spades—The recent  price 
list  established  by  the  makers  is  work­
ing  smoothly  and,  as  yet,  no  outside 
competition  has  come  up  to  interfere 
with  their  plans.  Prices  are  firmly  held 
at  $5.50  for  regular  grade  and  $6.50  for 
socket  strap.

Ammunition—The  recent  advance  of 
rifle  powder  to  $4  a  keg  is  solid  and  no 
lower  price  is  being  made.  We  should 
not  be  surprised  to  see 
it  go  still 
higher. 

Window  Glass— Is  firm  at  70  and  10 
by  the  box.  All  glass 
factories  are 
closed  down  and  will  not  start  up  again 
until  fall,  and  stocks 
in  hand  are  not 
overly  large.  We  look  for  an  advanced 
price— if  there  is  any  demand.

#

The  Sultan  of  Turkey  has  had  his 
face  painted  by  his  physician  in  order 
to  hide  the  effect of  a  tumor.  By  the 
tenets  of  the  Mahommedan  religion 
he  is  prohibited  from  painting  it  him­
self.

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7

Getting  the  People
The  Use  o f  Summer  Advertising.

Louis James in Printers'  Ink.

There  is  less  advertising  during  the 
summer  than  at  any  season  of  the  year. 
Many  an  advertiser  who  has  been 
spending  thousands  of  dollars  and  do­
ing  his  best  to  attract  the  patronage 
and  attention  of  people  suddenly  stops 
this 
important  and  necessary  item  of 
expenditure  and  becomes  as  silent  as  a 
clam.  He  disappears  from  public  gaze, 
and  is  heard  of no  more  for  two  or three 
months.  His  name  and  his  business 
drop  out  of  sight.

The  next  fall  the  advertiser  starts  in 
to  bring  back  trade  to  his  counters  and 
his  store.  But 
in  many  cases  the  ad­
vertiser  must  begin  all  over  again.  The 
public  has  a  short  memory  and  soon 
forgets  the  man  who  does  not  advertise.
Last  week  a  merchant  said  to  m e: 
in 
“ There  is  no  use  of  my  advertising 
summer.  Many  good  customers  are 
awav  in  the  country,  and  those  who stay 
in  town  are /iot  buying  much.  So  it 
is 
a  dull  season,  and  I  do  not  think  that 
advertising  would  do  us  any  good.”

This 

is  the  common  argument  often 
advanced  against  summer  advertising.
It  is  very  weak,  for  it  does  not  go to the 
bottom  of  the  matter.  Because  business 
is  dull  during  the  summer,  is  that  any 
reason 
I 
think  not.  It  is  one  reason  for  trying  to 
make  business  less  dull  by  'keeping  up 
advertising.

for  stopping  advertising? 

If  the  object  of  advertising  is to bring 
trade,  why  not  use 
it  when  you  need 
trade  the  most?  Of  course,  I  know  that 
it  is  more  difficult  to  get  people to come 
in  summer,  but  still  they 
to  the  store 
will  go  when  you  offer  an 
inducement. 
They  are  always  attracted  by  bargains 
and  other  good  things.

through 

Hence  it  seems  to  me that extra efforts 
should  be  made  in  summer.  More 
in­
ducements  should  be  offered  then  to  the 
customer  than  in  brisk  seasons.  More 
care  should  be  taken  in  selecting  the 
different  things  to  be  advertised,  and 
more  display  should  be  given  to  adver­
tisements  to  bring  people  to  the  store. 
All 
the  summer  make  your 
offerings  just  as  attractive  as  you  know 
how.  Advertise  only  such  things  as  are 
timely  and  seasonable.  Do  not  make 
the  mistake  of  offering  unseasonable 
goods.  They  go  slow  enough  in  good 
seasons,  when  people  are  liberal  buy­
ers.
The  use  of  summer  advertising  must 
depend 
largely  upon  the  kind  of  busi­
ness 
and  the  general  surroundings. 
There  are  some  lines  of  trade  that  can 
get  along  without  much  advertising 
summer.  There  are  some  goods  that 
have  their  particular  seasons.  The  sum­
mer  advertising  of  the  merchant  in  the 
North  must  be  different,  of  course, 
from  that  of  the  merchant  in  the  South. 
What  sells  during  the  summer  in  the 
Eastern  States  might  not  go  on  the  Pa 
cific  Coast.  The  advertiser  must  adapt 
himself  to  his  trade  and  surroundings 
Every  merchant  who  does  a  general 
business  should  do  some  summer  adver 
tising.  Even  a  little  is  better  than  none 
at  all.  The  great  mistake  consists  in 
stopping  altogether.  Seme  New  York 
merchants  do  that,  but  most  of  the 
larger  and  shrewder advertisers continue 
about  the  same  as  at  any  other  time. 
They  believe  that  there  is  no  month 
in 
the year when their business can  afford to 
be  out  of  the  newspapers.

Attractive  Window  Advertising.
From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

The  great  public  dearly  love  novelty, 
and  anything  startingly  original  in  the 
way  of  advertisement,  especially in win­
dow  dressing, 
is  bound  to  attract  the 
eye  of  the  curious,  and  a  crowd  will 
bring  a  crowd.

The  knowledge  of  this  fact  has  led  to 
many  unique  experiments,  attended,  ii 
due  course,  by  uncommon  success.

In  a  little  town  up  the  State,  about  ; 
year  ago,  a  tradesman  placed 
in  hi 
window  a  huge  wax  candle,  some  four 
inches  in  circumference,  and  about  five 
feet  high.  This  candle  was  lighted  on 
a  certain  night at  a  certain  time,  and

number  of  prizes— some  of  consider­
able  value— were  offered  to  those  who 
should  most  correctly  forecast  the  time 
it  would  take  for  the  candle  to  burn  to 
the  socket.

crowds  assembled 

This  curious  guessing  match  soon 
awakened  general  interest  in  the  local­
ity,  and  huge 
to 
watch  the  downward  progress  of  the 
ever-lessening  candle.  On  the  eventful 
evening  when  the  candle  was  expected 
to  expire,  the  mob  of  wondering  watch­
ers  tilled  the  street  from  side  to  side, 
and  when  the  light  went  out  the  crowd 
relieved 
its  mind  by  a  hearty  shout. 
This  experiment  amply  repaid  the  en­
terprising  tailor  who  had  tried 
it  by 
bringing  him  hundreds  of  customers,  in 
addition  to  advertising  his  name  all 
over  the  district.

An  ingenious  fruit  dealer  in  a  Con­
necticut  town,  at  considerable  cost,  had 
the  ordinary  plate  glass  removed  and  a 
sheet  of  strong  magnifying  glass  put  in 
it  place.  Viewed  through  this,  his  fruit 
and  vegetables  assumed  gigantic  size. 
For  a  time  the  novelty  was  a  source  of 
great  attraction  to  the  public  and  of 
profit  to  the  fruiterer,  who  was  amply 
repaid  for  the  outlay  retailed  by  his 
curious  scheme.

An  enterprising  stationer  in  Cincin­
in  a  conspicuous  position  in  his 
nati 
commodious  window  placed  a 
large 
white  card,  whereon  was  inscribed:  “ I 
have  placed  in  my  window  a  dozen  ar­
ticles  actually  marked  below  cost  price. 
Any  person  selecting  these  may  have 
them  at  the  prices stated.”   The  unique 
offer  naturally 
in  a  good 
deal  of  speculation  on  the  part  or  the 
bargain-seeking  public,  ana  led  to  a 
marked  increase  in  trade.

resulted 

Advertising  Handicapped.

A  writer  in Brains tells,  in a recent  is 
sue,  of  a  visit  he  made  to  a  grocer  in  a 
small  Pennsylvania  town.  Among  the 
merchants  whom  he  talked  with  was  a 
grocer  who  had  a  few  things  to  say.

“ See  here,”   he  said; “ I  advertise  all 
the  time  and  I  advertise  well,  but  I  am 
not  doing  the  business  I  ought  to  do 
and  I  don’t  believe  that  advertising 
pays. 
I  don’t  make  any  more  than 
did  before  1  commenced  advertising.’
The  solution  of  the  question  wasn’t  ; 
hard  thing  to  find.  The  grocer’s  win 
dows  would  frighten  away  about  every 
thing 
in  the  world  except  a  fly.  The 
fly  had  been  there,  and  so  had  his  sis 
ters  and  his  cousins  and  his  aunts.  The 
things  in  the  windows  had  been  there 
since  the  time  of  the  fly’s  father and his 
grandfather  and  his  great-grandfather 
The  dust  on  the  brim  of  the grocer’s hat 
was  conclusive  evidence  of  the  fact  that 
he  had  not  brushed  it  since  he  bought 
it.  His  clerks  wore  dirty  aprons,  and 
looked  as  though  a  shave  and  a  bath 
were  luxuries  in  which  they  seldom  in 
dulged.  The  stock  of  goods  on  the 
shelves  was  old,  rusty  and  dusty.  The 
fresh  groceries— vegetables  and  the  like 
—were  scattered  around  in  a haphazard 
devil-may-care  manner. 
Everything 
in  a  state  of  disorderly  uncleanl 
was 
ness. 
It  was  a store  to  which  an  adver 
tisement  might  biing  a  customer,  but 
he  or  she  would  never  come  again, 
the  newspaper  man  told  the  grocer there 
were  some  things  advertising  could  not 
do.  He  tried  to  show  the  grocer  that 
advertising  could  not  sell  goods for such 
a  store,  and  that  the  reason  why  his  ad 
vertising  didn’t  pay  was  because 
wouldn’t  let  it.  And  he  hopes  this  gro 
cer has  taken  his  advice  to  heart  and 
will  benefit  by  it,  and  that  other  mer 
chants  everywhere  will  bear 
in mind 
that  the  thing  which  is  next  to  godl 
ness  is  a  mighty  important  thing.

The Commissioner of  Patents,  in  ; 

cent  report,  makes  the remarkable state 
ment  that,  out  of  a  total  of  t ,544.419 
patents,  divided  among 
thirty-three 
different  nations,  562,458  were  issued 
the  United  States.  .  In  other  words,  th 
nation  has  granted  over  one-third 
many  patents  as  all  nations  combined

A  woman 
is  right  in  it.

with  a  stylish  shirt  wa

Ure  Unkle  is  at  Bushman’s.

BARROWS

BOLTS

BUCKETS

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s.......................................................... 
70
Jennings’, genuine.......................................25410
Jennings’, imitation....................................60410

AXES

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.........................  5  50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.........................  9 50
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel.........................  6  25
—irst Quality, D. B. Steel............................   10 25

Railroad..............................................$12 00  14 00
Garden.................................................   net  30 00

Stove.............................................................  
60
Carriage new list..........................................  
65
Plow............................................................... 40410

ell,  plain................................................... $3 25

Cast Loose  Pin, figured...............................  

BUTTS,  CAST
rought Narrow...................... 

70
75410

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

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

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS

CAPS

Ely’s 1-10..............................................perjn
Hick’s C. F . ....................................... per m
D..................................................... perm
Musket.................................................per m

CARTRIDGES

Rim  Fire........................................................ 504 5
Central  Fire.................................................. 254 5

Socket Firmer... 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Comer... 
Socket  Slicks....

CHISELS
...................................... 

...................................... 
DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks....................................... 
60
Taper and Straight Shank........................... 504 5
Morse’s Taper Shank................................... 50*  5

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................ doz. net 
60
50
Corrugated...............................................dis 
Adjustable...............................................dis 40410

EXPANSIVE BITS

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26........................ 30410
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30...  ........................ 
25

FILES-New  List

New American......................... 
70410
Nicholson’s.................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.....................................60410

 

GALVANIZED  IRON

Nos.  16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 28;  27.........  
List  12 
16.........  

13 

28
17

Discount,  75 

14 
'

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s.......................60416

KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....................  
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings 
MATTOCKS

Adze Eye..................................... $16 00, dis 60410
Hunt Eye..................................... $15 00, dis 60410
Hunt’s.....  ...................................$18 50, dis  20410

70
80

MILLS

70

65

80
80
80

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s ...................................
Coffee, P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables..
Coffee, Landers, Ferry 4  Clark’s................
Coffee, Enterprise.........................................

MOLASSES  GATES

Stebbin’s Pattern...........................................60410
Stebbin’s Genuine.........................................60410
Enterprise, self-measuring.........................  
30

NAILS

 

 

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  WItc 

2 80 
Steel nails, base 
2 85
Wire nails, base
ou
10 to 60 advance........................................... 
¡»
8........................................................... 
7 and 6..........................................................
90
4 
.......................................   ................  120
3
.....................................................................   1  60
Fine 3 .......................................................... 
1  *?
Case 10...
Case  8...
Case  6...
Finish 10 
Finish  8 
Finish  6 
Clinch 10 
Clinch  8 
Clinch  6
Barrel  %.......................................................   * 75
Ohio Tool Co.’s.  fancy.................................  @50
Sciota Bench................................................. 60410
Sandusky Tool Co’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, firstquality.......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60410410
704 5
Common, polished..................................  
Iron and T inned......................................... 
60
Copper Rivets and Bure................................ 
60

PLANES

RIVETS

PANS

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

Broken packages 

per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole 4  Co.’s, new  list..................... dis  33M
25
Kip’s  .....................-..............................dis 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s...................................<11* 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...................30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40410

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

 

 

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE
 

Stamped Tin Ware......................... new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware...................................... 20410
Granite Iron  Ware.........................new list 40410
Pots............................... 
.60410
K ettles...........................................................60410
Spiders.......................................................... 60410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3...............................   dis 60410
State..........................................per doz. net  2 50
80
Bright...........................................................  
80
Screw Eyes.................................................... 
Hook’s................... 
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes..................................  
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Sisal, V4 inch and  larger.............................. 
5V4
Manilla.......................................................... 
9
80
Steel and Iron...............................................
Try and Bevels.............................................
M itre.............................................................
com. smooth.

 
LEVELS

SHEET  IRON

SQUARES

ROPES

 

 

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIOHTS

com. 
$2 40 
2 40 
2 60 
2 70 
2 80 
2  90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14.................................. $3 30
Nos. 15 to 17.................................. 3 30
Nos. 18to 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
Steel, Game.............................................  
60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 4  Norton's 70410410
Mouse, choker............................per doz 
15
1  25
Mouse, delusion......................... per doz 
WIRE
Bright Market.............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market.............. 
75
Coppered  Market...........................................70410
Tinned Market.............................................   62J4
Coppered Spring  Steel................................. 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .........................  2 25
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................   1  90
Au Sable...................................................dis 4041C
Putnam.................................................... dis 
5
Northwestern...........................................dis 10410
30
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.........
50
Coe s Genuine....................................
80
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................
MISCELLANEOUS
60 
Bird  Cages  .......................................
75410 
Pumps, Cistern..................................
85
Screws, New List...............................
Casters, Bed and  Plate............................50410410
Dampers, American...............................  
40410
600 pound casks............................................  6q
Per pound............................................ 
  63i
.............................................................  1214
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................$ 5 25
14x20 IC, Charcoal.......................... ............   5 25
20x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................   625
14x20 IX, Charcoal........................................   6 25

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

SOLDER

TIN—Allaway Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................................   5 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal........  ................ 
  5 00
10x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................   6  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal.......................................  6 00

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

 

 

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoa'. Dean..............................  5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal  Dean..............................  6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................   10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, All  way Grade.............  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............  5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   9  00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
n
14x56 IX. for  No.  9  Boilers, ( 1,61 r °una” ’

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE 

„ llnrt 

TINWARE.

We carry a full stock of 

Pieced and S tam ped  T inw are.

WPI.  BHUPIPIELEB & SONS

Manofactoron  and  Jobbers of TINWARE. 

Dealers  in  Rags,  Rubbers, Metals, etc.

260 5 .  Ionia St. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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E.  A.  STOW E,  E d it o r .

WEDNESDAY,----- JUNE 24, 1896.

THE  MEN  WHO  ARE  TO   LEAD.
In  this  season  of  the  year,  when  the 
schools  of  this  great  country  are  clos­
ing,  so  as  to  give  teachers  and  pupils  a 
summer  vacation,  and  the  colleges  and 
universities  are  turning  out  by  scores 
and  hundreds  their bachelors,  masters 
and  doctors  of  arts,  science  and  phi­
losophy,  it  may  well  be  asked  whether 
the  vast  amounts  of  wealth  investee 
in 
institutions  for  the  higher  education  of 
men  and  women  give  a  return  that  jus­
tifies  the  expenditure  of  the  time  and 
the  money.

Men  who  have  had  little  or  no  edu­
cation,  but  who  have  by 
their  good 
luck,  or  their  skillful  management  in 
business speculations,  accumulated great 
fortunes,  are  often  pointed  to  as  models 
imitated  by  the 
and  examples  to  be 
youth  of  the 
land,  while  the  college 
man  who  has  always  been  poor  and 
has  worked  hard  for  a  living  is  as  often 
pointed  to  with  pity  and  contempt,  and 
upon  the  two  examples  has  been  framed 
an  argument  to  show  that  the  time  and 
the money  spent in  educating boys  in the 
classic 
languages,  philosophy  and  lit­
erature  have  been  wasted.

Even 

if  the  chief  business  and  the 
highest  duty  of  man  are  to  get  wealth, 
the  argument  does  not  apply.  Peculiar 
qualifications,  combined  with particular 
opportunities,  are  required  for the rapid 
accumulation  of  wealth,  and  the  man 
who  possesses  them  will  get  pelf,  edu­
cation  or  no  education.  The  average 
man  who  is  poor  and  remains  so  would 
have  found  himself 
in  that  condition 
without  regard  to  the  amount  of  book­
learning  he  may  have.

But  what  the  human  race  most  needs 
“ Get  understanding’ ’  is  a 
is  wisdom. 
injunction  which  has  been  re­
solemn 
peated  by  the  great 
leaders,  teachers 
and  wise  masters  of  men  in  every  age. 
The  people  need  teachers.  There  are 
still  enormous  benefits  to  be  secured  by 
the  human  race  from  the  discoveries  of 
science;  but,  most  of  all, 
is  wanted 
knowledge  which  will  make  the  human 
family  happier  and  better,  which  will 
raise  men  to  higher  planes in morals,  in 
honor, 
in  the 
philosophy  of  life.

in  statesmanship  and 

It  is  deplorable  how  easily  people  are 
swindled  and  deceived.  Any  trickster 
in  religion  or  politics  can  gather  more 
followers  than  can  the  most  virtuous 
and  patriotic  statesman.  An  ignorant 
quack,  peddling  nostrums  and  pretend­
ing  to  miraculous  powers  in  healing, 
can  often  gather  from  the  people  in  a

week  more  money  than  can  ofentimes 
an  able  and  conscientious  physician 
in 
a  year.  This  is  not  the  fault  of  the 
people,  but  it  is  their  misfortune.  They 
do  not  know  how  to  distinguish  the  true 
from  the  false  and,  for  lack  of  this 
knowledge,  are  led  away  by 
rascals 
and  swindlers.

Last  week,  at  Vanderbilt  University, 
in  an  address  before  the  graduating 
class,  Hon.  W.  L.  Wilson,  Postmaster- 
General  of  the  United  States,  declared 
that  the  70,000,000  of  the  American 
people  struggling  to  solve  the  great 
problem  of  human 
liberty  under  con­
limitations  must  be  largely 
stitutional 
dependent  on  wise  and  patriotic leader­
ship  to  bring  them  in  safety  to  a  happy 
conclusion,  and  for  this  leadership  they 
will  have  to  look  to  their  educational 
institutions.  The  people  must  know  the 
truth,  and  they  can  only  learn 
it  from 
those  who  possess  it.  How tremendous, 
then,  is  the  obligation  resting  on  the 
young  men  who  are  coming  forth  from 
the  colleges  and  universities  of  the 
country.

it 

is 

The  young  scholars  who  have  just 
begun  to  learn  how  vast  is  truth  and 
little  they  know  of  it,  but  how 
how 
transcenijently  valuable 
for  the 
guidance  of  individuals  and  of  nations, 
cannot  all  expect  to  become  great  lead­
ers,  but  at  least  they  can  show the worth 
of  an  honest  and  honorable  life,  and 
they  can  each  realize  the  noble  ideal  of 
the  gentleman  as  pictured  by  the  good 
and  genial  and  most gentle of all modern 
wits  and  philosophers,  Thackeray. 
“ It 
is  to  have  lofty  aim s;  to  lead  a  pure 
life ;  to  keep  your  honor  virgin ;  to have 
the  esteem  of  your  fellow-citizens  and 
the  love  of  those  of  your  fireside;  to 
bear  good  fortune  m eekly;  to  suffer 
evil  with  constancy,  and,  through  evil 
or good,  to  maintain  truth  always.”  
If 
such  are  not  all  leaders  it  is of such  that 
leaders  are  made.

The  declaration  calling  off  the  boy­
cott  on  the  Milwaukee  Street  Railway 
Company  is  the  last  incident  of  interest 
to  the  public 
in  that  notable  contest, 
and 
is  probably  about  the  last  that  will 
be  heard  of  it,  though,  nominally,  the 
strike  still  continues.  The  outcome  is 
a  victory  of  special  significance  over 
the  worst  features  of  unionism,  and  es­
pecially  over  that  most  repugnant  man­
ifestation,  the  boycott.  After  a  series 
of  contests 
in  various  other  cities  of  a 
similar  character,  all  of  which  were  de­
cided  against  the  principle  of  union 
control  of  municipal  corporate  enter­
prises,  this  was  undertaken  in  a locality 
and  under  circumstances  apparently  the 
most  favorable  to  secure  a  victory  for 
the  walking  delegate. 
In  addition  to 
the  fact  that  the  city  is  an  exceptional 
stronghold  for  unionism,  there  existed 
an  unusual  degree  of  prejudice  and  an­
tagonism  between  the  general  public 
and 
street  railway  corporation, 
which  made  the 
latter  especially  vul­
nerable  to  such  attacks.  As  a  conse­
quence  of  these  conditions,  the  con­
test  was  a  long  one,  and  was  carried  to 
such  an  extent  that  the  business  inter­
ests  of  the  city  were  about  paralyzed. 
It  is  probable  that,  after suffering signal 
defeat  under  such  circumstances,  it will 
be  some  time  before  another  similar 
contest  will  be  precipitated ;  and  thus 
this  victory  is  of  value 
in  establishing 
the  stability of  these  corporations  and 
the  value  of  their  securities.

the 

Commerce  feels  the  usefulness  of  the 
commercial 
traveler  more  and  more 
every  day,  for  he  is  the  very  best  spoke 
in  the  wheel.

AMERICA’S  NAVAL  STRENGTH.
Ten  years  ago,  when  the  first  vessels 
in  commis­
of  the  new  navy  were  put 
sion, 
the  United  States  ranked  very 
low  down  on  the  list  of  naval  powers, 
being  preceded  not  only  by  all  the 
im­
portant  European  powers,  as  well  as 
Chinese  and  Japanese,  but  also  by  many 
of the South American countries.  We did 
not  possess  a  single  armored  vessel, 
while  our  fleet  of  cruisers  consisted  en­
tirely  of  antiquated  wooden  vessels, 
mounting  mostly  smooth-bore  muzzle- 
loading  guns.

At  the  present  moment,  after 

ten 
improvement  to  the 
years  of  constant 
fleet,  by  the  annual  addition  of  many 
vessels,  the  navy  of  the  United  States 
has  assumed 
formidable  proportions, 
and  this  country  now  ranks  high  on  the 
list  of  naval  powers,  being  surpassed 
only  by  Great  Britain,  France,  Italy, 
Russia  and  possibly  Germany. 
The 
latter  power,  which  some  years  ago  far 
surpassed  us 
in  naval  strength,  has 
dropped  about  to  our  level  in  the  race, 
while  we  are  pushing  Italy  and  Russia 
closely.  China  has  dropped  out  alto­
gether  as  a  naval  power,  while  Japan  is 
well  below  us,  both  in  the  number  and 
strength  of  her  ships.

None  of  the  American  republics  can 
now  hope  to  compete  with  the  United 
States 
in  any  way  at  sea.  The  only 
Latin-American  countries 
possessing 
any  navv  worth  mentioning  are  Brazil, 
Chili  and  Argentina,  and  it  is  evident, 
from  the  naval  registers,  that  all  three 
combined  could  not  hope  to  cope  with 
the  fleet  of  this  country.  There 
is, 
therefore,  no  longer  any  danger  that  the 
United  States  can  be  placed  in  the  hu­
miliating  position  of  being  unable  to 
enforce  its  demands  in  South  American 
waters  through 
inability  to  send  there 
ships  superior  in  strength  to  those  pos­
sessed  by the  South American  republics.
The  United  States  has  now  completed 
and  ready  for  service  five  battle-ships 
and  six  heavily-armored  coast-defense 
vessels.  There  are  also  two  armored 
cruisers,  with  the  fighting  power of bat­
tle-ships,  making  in  all  a  fleet  of  thir­
teen  armored  ships.  This  force,  sup­
plemented  by  a  fleet  of  more  than  thirty 
powerful  cruisers,  the  finest  of  the  class 
in  the  world,  places  the  United  States 
in  a  much  more  favorable'position  as  a 
fighting  power  than  many  people  sup­
pose.  While  it  is  true  that  Italy  and 
Russia  have 
larger  naval  forces,  and 
Germany  has  an  equal  fleet,  none  of 
these  powers  would  be  able to  send  a 
sufficient  force  to  our  shores  to  cope 
with  our  fleet  acting  on  the  defensive.
At  the  rate  at  which  this  country  is 
now  building  battle-ships  and  other 
large  war  vessels,  it 
is  evident  that 
within  a  few  years  France  and  Great 
Britain  will  be  the  only  nations  above 
us  on  the  list  of  naval  powers.  There 
are  now  six  battle-ships  authorized  and 
building,  and  Congress  may  be  counted 
on  to  make  further  additions  from  year 
to  year,  until  the  fleet  reaches  a  size 
fully  commensurate  with  the  country’s 
defensive  needs.

TRADE  CONDITIONS.

The  incident  of  the  week  of  most  sig­
nificance  in  trade  matters was the  action 
of  the  St.  Louis  convention  in  regard  to 
the  financial  policy  of  the  Republican 
It  was  qdite  generally  thought 
party. 
that  the  declaration 
in  favor of  main­
taining  the  present  status  of  the  cur­
rency  and  of  protection  would  exert  a 
strong  influence  in  the  way  of  strength­
ening  and  advancing  prices,  especially 
in  foreign  markets,  even  by  those  who 
were  not  favorable  to  that policy.  There

was,  indeed,  a  strengthening  tendency, 
which  amounted  to  a  positive  advance 
in  U.  S.  Government  4s  of  1Yz  per 
cent,  which  they  have  held.  But,  either 
on  account  of  the  silver  bolt  from  that 
convention,  or  on  account  of  the  fact 
that'  another  National  convention  is  to 
be  heard  from  in  a  iew days,  or for  both 
reasons,  there  has  been  a  decided  re­
action  from  the  strengthening  since, 
which  has  cost  the  advance  in  wheat 
and  many  other  products.

improved  slightly 

The  iron  situation  continues  very  un­
satisfactory.  While  demands  for  struc­
tural  have 
in  Chi­
cago,  the  operations of the combinations 
are  producing  serious  results 
in  Penn­
sylvania.  For 
instance,  the  combina­
tion  on  nails  has  kept  down the  demand 
until  American  wire  rods  are  offered  at 
competing  prices 
An 
other  serious  feature 
is  that  outsiders 
are  rapidly  putting  up  apparatus for  the 
production  of  the  goods  sought  to  be 
controlled  by  the  combines.

in  England. 

The  general  situation  in  textiles  has 
not  changed  for  the  better,  especially as 
to  cotton.  The  changes  that  have  oc­
curred  have been in the wrong direction. 
But  there  are  feelings  of  hopefulness 
and  a  discussion  of  the  prospect  of  a 
better  condition  as  soon  as  fall  demand 
materializes.  This  feeling  is  even  more 
manifest  in  woolens,  in  which  good  or­
ders  seem  to be  imminent.

The  shoe  and 

leather  situation  con­
tinues  the  favorable  conditions,  hides 
having  reached  the  best  prices  of  the 
year.

The  slight  boom  given  to  general 
stocks  by  the  political  declarations  of 
last  week  are  entirely  neutralized  by 
rumors  of  Cuban  complications  and 
other  disturbing 
influences  this  week. 
Exchange  has  declined -to  a  point  to 
prevent  the  export  of  gold,  and 
less 
than  a  million  went  out  last  week.

In  bank  clearings  the  showing is more 
favorable,  the  aggregate  exceeding  a 
billion  again,  and  exceeding  the  clear­
ings  for  the  corresponding  week  of  any 
previous  month  of  June.  Failures  in­
creased  to  265,  against  284 for preceding 
week.

GET  AFTER  THEM.

It  will  be  necessary  for  the  commis­
sion  houses  who  have  reputation  and 
standing  in  Chicago  to  take  united  ac­
tion  and  rid  South  Water  street  of  the 
sharks  and  thieves  who  are  doing  busi­
ness  there  as  commission  merchants.  A 
league  should  be  formed  by  all  good 
men  to  hunt  down  the  outlaws  and 
lock 
them  up.  With  a  perfected  organiza­
tion,  detectives  and  counsel  should  be 
employed,  and,  when  once  a  rascal  is 
located,  there  should  be  no  backward 
step  taken  until  he 
is  landed  in  the 
penitentiary  or  driven  from  the  street.
The  thieving  propensities  of  a  gang 
of  persistent  swindlers  who  pose  as 
commission  merchants  have  cast  a  re­
proach  on  Chicago,  and  it  is  high  time 
that  some  positive  action  was  taken. 
The  repeated  arrests  of victimized  ship­
pers,  on  charges  preferred  by 
these 
swindlers  fer  the  sole  purpose  of  run­
ning  them  out  of  town  and  preventing 
their  own  exposure  and 
conviction, 
rival  anything  on  record.  A  week  or 
two  ago,  a  number  of  shippers  visited 
Chicago  to  see  what  disposition  had 
been  made  of  their  goods,  and  to  re­
cover,  if  possible,  some  of  their  losses. 
They  were  repeatedly  arrested,  on  ficti- - 
tious  charges,  for  extortion  and  other 
crimes.  Some  of  them  were  compelled 
to  leave  the city  to avoid further trouble.

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are  irregularly  received,  she 
is  doled 
out  pittances  to  meet  emergencies,  she 
thus  being  given  no  opportunity  to  use 
her  best 
judgment  in  family  expendi­
tures.  The  same  rules  that  apply  to 
mercantile  business  ought  to  prevail 
in 
transactions  concerning  household  eco­
nomics.  The  purchasing  partner  in  the 
largest  successful  concern  is  not  stinted 
n  the  performance  of  his  duties  by 
such  penny-wise-pound-foolish  methods 
as  tie  the  hands  of  thousands  of  domes­
tic  purveyors  of  to-day,  all  because  of 
thoughtless  disregard  on  the  part  of  the 
High  Mogul  of  the  firm.

Years  of  personal  observation  and  ex­
perience  have  convinced  the  writer  that 
a  wife’s  judgment  is  to  be  fully  relied 
upon  and that she  is the better  purchaser 
for  a  firm  that  has  no  limited  term  of 
partnership.  Given  a  reasonable  fund, 
she  will  disburse  it  to  better  advantage 
than  most  men  who  have  been  educated 
in  a  business  college,  since  she  mingles 
intuition  with 
taste  and 
business,  and  evolves  results  that  could 
hardly  be  deemed  possible  of  accom 
plishment.  And  another  thing :  Many 
a  girl  who,  when  she  assumes  the  cares 
and  responsibilities  of  married 
life, 
knows  absolutely  nothing—and  cares 
less, I might  say, if such a thing were pos 
sible— about  household  economics  be 
comes,  after  purchasing  practice,  an 
expert  financier,  on,  of  course,  a  very 
limited  scale.

sentiment, 

It  may  be  noted,  in  conclusion,  that 
acting 
the  New  Woman  Movement, 
after  the  manner  of  an  avalanche,  is 
bringing  about  a  reform  that  gains  mo 
mentum  as  it  proceeds,  with  the  pros 
pect  of, 
the 
methods  of  the  past,  and  of  making  the 
wives  and  mothers  of  to-day  equal  part 
ners  in  the  matrimonial  contract.

annihilating 

time, 

in 

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

Divided  Duties  of  Life  Partners. 

Written  fo r the T r a d esm a n .

Married  life,  in  all  ages  in  civilized 
communities,  develops  some  abnormal 
features  that 
invite  attention  and  just 
criticism.  Custom,  as  well  as  senti­
ment,  nas  recognized  the  husband  as 
the  head  of  the  household,  who  is  ex­
pected  to  be  at  once  the  protector  and 
the breadwinner.  The  wife  has  also pe­
culiar  duties,  which,  equally  arduous, 
contribute,  if  properly  performed,  ma­
terially  to  family  comfort  and  success 
in  a  pecuniary  way.  The  exceptions 
appear  when  either  usurps  or  is  com­
pelled  to  assume  cares  and  responsibil­
ities  not  fitted  to  their  relative  position 
in  the  matrimonial 
firm.  One  may 
sometimes  see  a  man  of  domineering 
disposition  who  insists  on  controlling, 
by  his  imperious  will,  household  details 
that  can  be  better  conducted  by  his 
wife,  who  is no less capable but who,  un­
fortunately,  is  obliged  to  submit  to  this 
usurpation  of  her  domain.  He  controls, 
not  only  the  gathering  of  income,  but 
also  the  domestic  expenditure  as  pur- 
chaser-in-chief  of  every  article  of  ne­
luxury.  He  holds  the  purse 
cessity  or 
strings  and  treats  the 
co-partner  as 
though  he  had  been  constituted  her 
guardian  by  law  and  she were the  infant 
ward.  On  the  other  hand,  wives  there 
are  who,  by  the  neglect  of  the  proper 
household  purveyor,  are  compelled, 
in 
addition  to  domestic  and  maternal  du­
ties, 
to  assume  burdens  unsuited  to  the 
weaker  sex  and 
far  exceeding  their 
strength.  Most  of  the  failures  in  do­
mestic  partnership  that  are  settled  in  a 
divorce  court  have  their  origin 
im­
perfect  comprehension  or  unwillingness 
to  accept  the  true  principles  of the mat­
rimonial  partnership  entered  into.  Mat­
rimony  may  well  be  considered  a  busi­
ness  of  paramount  importance,  though 
it  is  conducted  more  from  a sentimental 
point  of  view.

in 

is 

Among  a  farming  community  there 
less  anomalous  arrange­
seem  to  exist 
ments  as  to  the  duties  of  married 
life. 
This  is  noticed  frequently  by  the  mer 
chant  who  furnishes  domestic  and  farm 
supplies,  and  who, 
in  the  spirit  of 
reciprocity,  purchases  products  of  the 
farm.  You  will  seldom  see  the  wife 
imposing  her  tastes  arbitrarily  on  the 
husband in the matter  of  dress ;  nor  does 
she  select  his  tobacco  or  cigars,  unless 
perhaps in the guise  of  a  Christmas  gift 
On  the  contrary,  she 
left  free  to 
choose,  of  her  own  will,  everything 
needed  for  the  household,  including  all 
that  taste  may  suggest  for  her  own  oil 
children's  personal  .adornment. 
Th 
fund  provided  for  this  is  usually  th 
butter,  egg  and  small  fruit  products  o: 
the  farm,  supplemented,  if  necessary, 
by  cash  received  by  the  husband  froml 
larger  sales  of  home  production. 
is 
difficult  to  sell  the  latter any  goods  not 
pertaining  to  his  own  department,  un­
less  he  has  been  specially  instructed 
from  the  home  office  to  procure  them. 
Neither  can  the  wife  be  induced  to  use 
her  judgment  in  the  matter  of  farm  im­
plements  or  other outside purchases,  ex­
cept  perhaps  a  family  carriage,  where 
her  opinion  is  naturally  consulted,  or  a 
wheel  of  the  period,  that  opens  up 
for 
herself  delightful  possibilities  of  restful 
recreation.  This  is  all  as  it  should  be; 
and  the  dealer,  knowing  his  customers, 
can,  accordingly,  use  his  persuasive 
powers  in  the  direction  where  they  will 
be  most  effectual.

It 

In  towns  and  cities  there  prevails  the 
custom  of  not  making  the  wife  cus­
todian  of  a  special  fund  for  the  pur­
chase  of home  supplies.  Where  incomes

Bushman  has  the  cigars.

m

m

m

w

m

ini

The Stimpson Computing  Scale  Co.  begs 
to  inform  the  trade that  they have  recently 
re-organized their company  under  the  laws 
of the state  of  Indiana,  with a capital  stock 
of §100,000, and that they are now building a 
new factory  in the city of  Elkhart,  Ind., and 
which will be ready for  occupancy  the  15th 
of June.  The officers of  the  new  company 
are  H.  E.  Bucklin,  Pres.;  Isaac  Grimes, 
Vice-Pres.;  Mell  Barnes,  Sec.  and  Treas.; 
Edwin  Finn,  General  Manager.  After the 
15th of  this month our address  will  be  Elk­
hart,  Ind.

Very truly yours,

Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Go..

ELKHART,  IND.

You can’t fool
The  people all the time

You buy inferior  bakery  goods  because  they  are 
cheap and  the  salesman  who sells them is a “good 
fellow,” but the trade will  soon  learn which grocer 
Is 
keeps the best  goods  and will  patronize  him. 
it no t so?

Sells on  its merits.
Retails profitably at a low  figure.

1  Is in constant demand.
[ Is an all-around cake for every occasion.

Not  a  Single  Slow  Thing  about  It.

It  is not made from poorflour, in­
ferior fruit and  rancid butter, but 
will bear the strictest analysis.

Its pleasing flavor recommends it to everyone.

HE  HEW  M   BISCUIT

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

Why  Employes  »Should  Read  Trade 

Journals.

Written for the T r ad esm an.  Copyrighted,  1895.
In  every  mercantile  reading  room  are 
filed  the  representative  trade  and  com­
mercial  papers.

In  nearly  all  business  and  factory 
offices  are  kept  the  trade  papers  repre­
senting  the  industries.

Intelligent  manufacturers  and  man­
agers  read  their  trade  papers  regularly 
and  carefully,  and  when 
they  are 
through  with  them,  they  are  handed  to 
the  department  heads,  and  from  there 
reach  every  class  of  employes,  except 
that  of  ignorant  labor.

The  good  trade  paper  is  not'only  a 
correct  mirror  of  business,  but  it  is  a 
text-book,  a  volume  of  successful 
les­
sons.

Where  you  see  success,  there  you  see 

trade  papers.

The  trade  paper  is  a  necessity,  and  is 
‘  more  and  more  being  so  recognized, 
for,  faulty  as  it  may  be,  and  there  is 
nothing  perfect,  it  is  the  best  arena  for 
the  exchange  of  thought,  anc  for  prac­
tical 
illustration  of  successful  making 
and  doing.

The  capitalist  should  read  the  trade 
it  tells  him  how  his 

paper,  because 
money  is  making  money.

The  active  manager  should  read  the 
trade  paper,  because  it  tells  him  what 
is  going  on,  and  is  constantly  furnish­
ing  him  with  ideas,  or  the  suggestions 
which  better  enable  him 
to  produce 
ideas  of  his  own.

The  superintendent  should  read  the 
trade  paper  as  he  would  read  any  other 
work  of  business  education.

The  workman  should  read  the  trade 
paper,  because 
it  broadens  the  scope 
of  his  mind  and  lifts  him  out  of  me­
chanical  ruts.

The  trade  paper  shoula  be 

in  every 
office,  in  every  superintendent’s  room, 
and 
in  every  reading  room  for  work­
men.

If  there  be  many  employes  there 
the  same 

should  be  many  copies  of 
paper.

Are  trade  papers  read?
Look  at  the  crumpled  pages;  see  how 
they  show  the  effects  of  handling  and 
rehandling.

If  you  then  doubt  that  the  trade  paper 
is  read  from  beginning  to  end,  put  a 
little 
item  about  yourself  in  the  most 
obscure  corner,  and  count  the  number 
of  references  by  mail  and 
verballj 
that  come  to  you  concerning  it.

Get  married,  and  ask  the  trade  paper 
if  you 
to  print  the  marriage  notice,  or 
have  a  bouncing  boy, 
let  the  editor 
pleasantly  speak  of  it.  '  Then  visit  youi 
cousins,  and  the  cousins  of  your  cous 
ins,  if  they  are 
in  your  trade,  and 
there’ll  be  no  need  of  telling  them 
about  it.

If  all  the  folks  in  trade  who  know  you 
will  read  these  little  social 
items,  how 
much  more  reason  there  is  to  believe 
that  they  will  read  the  words  which 
mean  more  business  for  them.

Each  copy  of  a  daily  paper  may  have 

but  one  reader,  but  every  copy  of 
trade  paper  has  from  one  to  one  hun­
dred  readers.

You  will  not  have  to  make  your  em­
ployes  read  the  trade  papers;  you  will 
not  even  have  to  suggest  it ;  you  have 
simply  to  give  them  the  opportunity.

I  know  that  most  trade  papers  con­
tain  a  superabundance  of  chaff,  and 
that  the  reader  must  separate  from  it 
the  kernels  of  wheat,  but  compared 
with  other  publications,  there 
is  more 
in  the  good
food  to  the  square 

inch 

trade  paper  than  there  is  to  the  square 
foot  in  any  other  publication.

Perhaps  the  editor  of  the  trade  paper 
may  not  be  correct  in  all  that  he  says. 
If  he  were  infalliablé,  he  wouldn  t  be 
editing  a  trade  paper,  for  there  would 
be  a  place  for  him  in  some  other  and 
better  world.

If  he  be  wrong  sometimes,  or wrongly 
expressses  himself,  then  the  employe 
can,  by  using  his  mind,  learn  manu­
facturing  affirmatives  by  reading  the 
negatives.

interested 

The  reason  that  trade  paper  adver­
tisements  are  read  more  than  any  other 
is  because  the 
class  of  advertisements 
trade  paper 
advertisement  contains 
money-bringing  information,  and every­
is 
body 
in  trade 
in  what 
everybody  else 
in  the  same  trade  has 
to  say  to  the  public,  and  the  trade 
paper  advertisement 
is  the  cheapest, 
easiest  and  most  sensible  method  for 
the  man  who  makes  and  sells  anything 
to  tell  the  man  who  buys  that  some­
thing  that  he  has  that  article  for  sale.
N a t h ’l  C.  F o w l e r ,  Jr., 
Doctor  of  Publicity.

Unjust  to  Responsible  Dealers. 

;orrespondence  A m erican  A rtisan.

is 

I  would 

in  vogue 

like  to  say  a  few  words  in 
your  paper  about  a  trade  abuse  which 
responsible  furnace  dealers  suffer  from 
uncomplainingly,  but  which  an  efficient 
organization  of  retail furnace men would 
break  up,  as  the  Masters  Plumbers’  As­
sociation  has  broken  up  sales  of  plumb­
ing  goods  directly  to  consumers.  In  our 
town  in  Michigan,  which  I  wish  to  be 
considered  nameless,  there  is  ostensibly 
no  selling of  furnaces directly from man­
ufacturers  to  house  owners,  but.  as  far 
as  reputable  dealers  are  concerned,  the 
practice 
just  as  bad,  the 
difference  between  it  and  direct  selling 
being  only  the  difference  twixt  tweedle 
dee and tweedle dum.  The  manufacturer 
has  as  an  “ agent”   some  tinner  with  the 
sign  “ Furnace  Dealer”   over  his  door. 
This  dealer  has  no  capital  and  but 
lit­
tle  experience.  He  scents  out  a  job  and 
the  manufacturer  sends  a  representative 
to  that  town,  who  sells  the  dealer  a  fur­
nace  on  long  time,  the  dealer  selling 
it 
to  the  house-owner  and  the  house-owner 
standing responsible to the  manufacturer 
for  paying  for  it.  Responsible  dealers 
who  have  invested  capital  in  the  busi­
ness  cannot  compete  with  the 
irrespon­
sible dealers,  whom manufacturers prob­
ably  bolster  up,  to  the 
loss  of  the  re­
sponsible  dealers,  as  well  as  the  manu­
facturers  themselves. 
I  would  like  to 
see  the  manufacturers  take  some  action 
in  this  matter.

Never  Too  Late  To  Learn.

From the Denver Commercial Bulletin.

it 

“ It 

is  an 

ill  wind  that  blows  no 
good,”   and  every  merchant  can,  with 
profit,  study  the  methods  employed  by 
the  large  department  stores  in  attract­
ing  attention 
to  their  wares.  People 
nowadays  are  on  the  lookout  for  bar­
gains,  and  the  department  stores  are 
shrewd  enough  to  see  it  and  take  ad­
in  every  way.  Every 
vantage  of 
week  something  new 
is  pushed  to  the 
front,  and  every scheme  is  resorted  to 
that  will  bring  trade  to  the  store.  They 
let  the  people  know  they  have  bargains 
to  offer,  and  they  convince  them  they 
want  their  trade.  Leaders  are  selected 
and 
low  prices  made,  and  the  public 
flock  to  their  stores  with  a  belief  that 
every  article  is  marked  down.  The day 
is  past  when  a  merchant  can  sit  down 
and  wait  for  trade  because  he  has  been 
in  business  for  a  long  time  and  is  well 
acquainted.  Acquaintance counts for but 
little  in a  large c ity ;  the people are after 
bargains.

Illustrated  Advertising.

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

Did You  Ever 

H ave  a  good  custom er  vvho  w asn ’t
particular  about  the  quality  of  her 
flour?  O f course not.  W e  offer you a 
flour with which you can build up a pay- 
ing trade.  T h e  name  of  the  brand  is

^  

► — 

3
^  

A n d   every  grocer  who  has  handled 
the  brand  is  enthusiastic  over  the  re­
sult,  as  it  affords  him  an  established 
profit  and  invariably  gives  his  cus­
tom ers  entire  satisfaction.  M erchants 
who  are  not  handling  any  brand  of 
spring w heat  flour  should get into line 
im m ediately,  as  the  consum er  is  rap­
idly  being  educated  to  the  superiority 
of  spring'  w heat  over  winter  wheat 
flours  for  breadm aking purposes.  A ll 
we  ask  is  a  trial  order,  feeling  sure 
that  this  will  lead  to  a  large  business 
for you  on  this  brand.  N ote  quota­
tions  in  price  current.

G R A N D   R A P ID S .

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11

T he  Substituter  from   Substituterville. 
Stroller in the Grocery World.

I  believe,  in  some  cases,  that  certain 
little  tricks  of  trade  get  so  fastened  on 
a  man  that  he  becomes  diseased,  so  to 
speak,  in  that  particular*  Grocers  get 
to  cutting  so  that  they  find  no  pleasure 
in  maintaining  prices,  etc.  Last  week 
I  got  in  the  store  of  the  prize substituter 
from  Substituterville. 
If  the  practice 
of  substituting  hadn’t  become  a  disease 
with  him,  it  was  mighty  near  it,  I’ll 
tell  you.
Just  to  show  how  far  gone  this  fellow 
was,  he  bragged  to  me  that  he  could 
change  the  mind  of  any  customer  who 
came  into  his  store.

“ You  don’t  mean  that  you  try  to  do  a 

thing  like  that,  do  you?’ ’  I  asked.

“ Substi­
“ Sure,”   he  said,  jauntily. 
I  believe 
tution  is  a  fine  art,  my  boy. 
I ’m  a  mesmerist. 
I  can  take  a  woman 
who  comes  here  bent  on  getting  some 
particular brand  of  something  and  get 
her  to  take  something  entirely different. 
Oh,  it’s  a  slick  game.  Stay  here  and 
you’ll  see  m e.”   and  he  smiled  with 
unction.

“ Why  do  you  do  it?”   I asked. 

“ Pay 

“ Notalways;  I  take  enjoyment  in be­
’em 

you  more  profit?”
ing  able  to  change  their  minds  for 
— that’s  all. ”
-  The  door  opened  just  then  and a  little 
girl  came  in.  She  asked  for  a  can  of 
-----corn.
“ You  tell  your  mamma  that  we  have 
a  corn  much  nicer  than  that, ”   started 
“ Everybody’s  buying 
in  the  grocer. 
this  other  kind  now, ”   and  he  handed 
down  a  can  and  pushed  it  toward  the 
child.

“ I  don’t  know,”   she said,  doubtfully,
‘ ‘ mamma  told  me to get the other k i nd. ” 
“ Oh,  that’ll be all right,”  said the gro­
cer,  reassuringly,  “ you  tell  her  I  told 
you  she’d  like  this  better.”

The  little  girl  reluctantly  picked  up 

the  can  and  walked  out.

“ Do  you  think  that’s  good  policy?”   I 

claimed  in  tones  that  brought  several 
passers-by  to  a  standstill. 
“ When  I 
ask  you  for anything  you  want  to  give 
it  to  me.  Understand?  None  of  your 
blanked  working  off  of  stale  stock  on 
me!  Do  you  hear? 
I 
want  to  deal  any  further  with  you,  any­
how.  This  experience  has  been  quite 
sufficient. ’ ’

I  don’t  think 

The  substituter  from  Substituterville 
opened  his  mouth  to  speak,  but  no 
words  came.  The  old  man  slapped 
down  the  money  he  owed  and  stamped 
out  of  the  store. 

I  went  out.

leaned  back 

Bought  the  Soap  with  a  Condition. 
The  merchant 

in  his 
chair  and  listened  attentively to  the  tale 
told  by  the  old  woman who was peddling 
soap.  Then  he  glanced  at  the  ragged 
and  dirty  urchin  she  was  leading  by 
the  hand.

“ You  are  doing  this  in  order  to  sup­
port  yourself  and  your  child?”   he  said, 
reflectively,  when  she  had  finished  her 
recital. 
a 
woman  who has  seen  better  days,  as  I 
understand  it’ ?’ 
“ And 
it  would  be  an  act  of  charity  for  me  to 
buy  a  cake  of  soap  from  you?”

“ Yes,  sir.”  

“ Yes,  sir.”  

“ You  are 

“ Indeed  it  would,  sir.”
4 4 You  take  the  boy  around  with  you,
I  suppose,  in  order  to  prove the  truth  of 
your  story,  and  to  show  the  depth  of 
your  maternal  affection  and the care  you 
take  of  him?”
“ Yes,  sir.”
“ Well,  madame,  I  am  willing  to  help 
you,”   he  said  thoughtfully,  “ but  I 
must  impose  at  least  one  condition.”  
“ Anything  you 
if  you’ll 
only  buy  a  cake.”

like,  sir, 

“ I’ll  take  half  a  dozen,”   he  replied. 
And  when  they  were  laid  on his  desk  he 
unwrapped  one  and  took  out  a  printed 
slip  that  was  enclosed  with  the  soap. 
“ It’s  all  right,”   he  said.  “ Here  are in­
structions  for  use.”
“ Oh,  yes,  sir,”   she  hastened  to  say: 
“ there  are  full printed  instructions  with 
ever  package. ’ ’

asked.

“ Oh,  it doesn’t make any difference, ”  
was the reply ; “ these  people don’t know 
what  they  want,  anyhow.

Then  a  lady  came  in.  She  wanted 
half  a  dozen  bottles  of  a  certain  kind 
of  rootbeer.

*‘ Haven’t you heard of this other kind,
“ This  is
M rs.-----■ ?”   said  the  grocer. 
selling  twice  as  well  this  year  as  the 
other.  It’s  a  great  deal  better,  too. 
You’d  better  try  a 
little  of  it,  hadn’t 
you?”

* * Oh,  I guess not, ’ ’ was the reply; * * the 

other  suits  me  very  well. ”

The  grocer  got  desperate.  He  didn’t 

like  to be  sat  down  on  before  me.

“ I’ll tell you what I'll do,  m a'am ,"  he 
it  ain’t 

said;  “ you  take  this,  and 
if 
better,  I’ll  refund  the  money.”

The  lady  hesitated  a moment and  then 
it.  The  grocer  came  grinningly 

took 
around  to  me  when  she  had  gone.
“ See  how  easy  it  is?”   he  said.
4 * Do  you  make  any  more  out  of  the 
root  beer  she  took  than  out  of  that  she 
wanted?”   I  asked.

“ Not  a  cent;  just  the  same,”   he  re­
plied;  “ I  simply  like  to  have the pleas­
ure  of  knowing  that  I  can  sell  these 
people  what  I  choose.

I  looked at the man as I would at a two- 
headed  boy  or  the  Albino  woman— as 
a  genuine  curiosity.
The  third  customer  was  an  elderly 
gentleman,  who  wore  an  old-fashioned 
necktie  and  had  a  red  face. 
I  braced 
myself  for  the  fun  I  knew  was  coming.
The  old  gentleman  gave  his  order, 
included  a  package  of  a  certain 
which 
brand  of  widely-advertised 
shredded 
cocoanut.  The  grocer  started  to  put  the 
order  up  and  didn’t  say  a  word. 
I 
thought  the  fun  wasn’t  coming  after all. 
Suddenly 
in  the  silence  the  old  man 
broke  out:

“ Ah,  but  my  dear  sir,”   said 

“ What  cocoanut  are  you  giving  me 
there?  That  ain’t  what  I  asked  for,  is 
it?”
the 
grocer  with  the  blandest  smile  I  ever 
saw  on  a  human  face,  “ this 
is  very 
much  superior  to  that  you  asked  for. 
Why,  I  sell  twice— ”

The  old  man  actually  stamped  his 

foot.

“ You  go  to  thunder,  sir,”   he  ex­

44Precisely,”   he  returned. 

The  experiences  of  the  past 

“ Now,  I 
will  buy  these  six  cakes 
if  you  will 
promise  me  that  you  will  take  them 
home, 
read  the  directions  carefully, 
and  then  show  your  motherly  devotion 
by  using  all  six  of  them  on  the  boy.  He 
needs  it,  and 
it  will  be  a  good  adver­
tisement  for  the  soap.”
Necessity  of  Holding  the  Head  High. 
From the Minneapolis Commercial  Bulletin.
few 
years  to  men  engaged  in  trade  have,  no 
doubt,  been  as  varied  as  ever,  but  more 
discouraging,  perhaps, 
any 
other  period  in  our  history.  Reverses 
have  been  common,  business  failures 
very  numerous,  and  disaster  has  been 
the  result  of  many  a  business  venture. 
As  a  natural  result,  many men  have  lost 
their  grip,  and  they  habitually  go  about 
literally  and 
with  their  heads  down, 
figuratively.  But  this 
is  neither  wise 
nor  profitable.

than 

in 

We  are  victims  of  circumstances  to 
a  great  extent,  and  all  our  plans  must 
have  an  element  of  uncertainty  about 
them.  We  cannot  see  into  the  future, 
nor  can  we  control  the  acts  of  others. 
This  is  as  it  should  be.  The  wise  man 
said :  “ It  is  not  in  man  that  walketh  to 
direct  his  steps,”   and  while  plans  and 
purposes  must  be  behind  any  success­
ful  effort,  the  best  schemes  may  mis­
carry.  Under  the  best  of  circumstances, 
the  minority  of  our  hopes  will  find  but 
a  partial  fruition,  but  no  effort 
is  ever 
quite  lost.  Then  why  allow discourage­
ments  to  rob  us  of  the  comforts  of  hope 
and  so  destroy  our  energies  before  the 
race  is  run?

“ Trust  in  God  and  keep  your  powder 
dry,”   was  the  old  Revolutionary  motto. 
The  trust,  to  be  effective,  needed  the 
aid  of  good  dry  powder.  With  the  best 
of  ammunition,  the  battle  may  not  al­
ways  be  won,  but  with  unfailng  trust 
the  courage  for  another battle  will  al­
ways  be  kept.  Hard  times  have  de­
feated  thousands  of  men  who  have  not 
yet  been  subdued.  We  may  even  have 
to  change  our  weapons,  but  what  of 
If  the  past  has  taught  us  any­
that? 
thing, 
the  present  should 
our 
chances  to  win,  in  the  battle  of  life, 
much  better  than  before  we  knew  a 
failure.

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Office 9 Canal street, 

Grand  Rapids.

To  Grocers  in  Grand  Rapids  and  dealers generally:

Entire wneat Flour

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

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Write for  Special Prices.

LAUREL  FLOUR

“Once tried=“ always used.”

Although this flour has been in this market but  a  short 
time it has forced its way Into favor  by  possessing  real 
merit.  What the consumer  wants  is  a  flour  that  will 
produce  the  greatest  quantity of light, delicious bread 
to the barrel.  “ Laurel ”  will do that in every instance.

Try it and be convinced.
We are exclusive agents for the sale of “ Laurel.”

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COMPUTING  SCALES

WHICH  IS  BEST?

D ear  S ir :

Y o u r  scale  arrived  all O.  K .  W e  
are  using  it  now  for  about  a  month, 
and  like  it  very  well,  as  it  is  accurate 
and  very  sensitive— a  sm all  piece  of 
paper  bringing  up  the  balance.  A re 
sorry 
that  we  didn't  discard  any 
sooner  our  Stim pson  Com puting 
Scale, which  we  have  used  only about 
six  months.

Y o u rs  truly,

B E C K   &   S C H W E B A C H , 

D ealers  in  general  merchandise.
T o   the  Com puting  Scale  Co.,  D ay- 

ton,  Ohio,  U .  S.  A .

DIE “IflllirTTIE BEST!

So over 23,000 Merchants say.

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CHEAP  AND  CHEAPER.

A  Sam ple  of  Japanese  Com petition  in 

From Men’s Outfitter.

Neckw ear.

The  traditions  of  the  neckwear  trade 
were  set  at  naught  the  other  day  when  a 
big  Broadway  outfitter  hung  a  window 
full  of  tubular  ties  priced  at  io  cents 
each.  They  were  silk  throughout,  and 
good  weight  besides.  Ten  cents!  Ah, 
well  do  we  remember  when  a  full  inch 
tubular  was  worth  §6  a  dozen,  retailing 
at  75  cents  each.  They  were 
imported 
in  those  days,  as  was  every  bit  of  silk 
that  went  into  a  scarf  or  tie.  Now  they 
are  made  here,  all  sorts,  along  with 
hatters'  galloons  of  the  best  quality  and 
ribbons  enough  to  girdle  the  solar  sys­
tem.

But  there’s  more  to  the  tubular.  A 
few  days  later  another  Broadway  out­
fitter  showed  a  broadside  of  tubulars, 
and  the  price  was  eight  cents.  Whether 
this  is  the  bottom  figure  we will not  say, 
but  we  hope  that  the  descent  will  halt 
short  of  giving  the  goods  away,  plus  a 
premium.

in  a 

inches 
in 

In  fact,  the  public  has  been  treated 
within  a  few  days  to  an  object  lesson  of 
what 
is  already  an  accomplished  fact. 
Other  big  Broadway  windows  have  been 
conspicuously  decorated  with  ascot 
scarfs 
large  variety  of  pleasing 
two-color  combinations.  These  scarfs 
long,  one  and  a 
were  fifty-one 
quarter  wide 
the  neck  and  three 
inches  wide  in  the  fronts.  They  were 
double  faced,  being  of  Japanese  silk  all 
over.  They  retailed  at  twenty-five  cents 
each.  We  understand  they  were  made 
complete  in  Japan  and  cost  §2.25  here, 
duty  paid.  The  silk  of  which  they  are 
about  thirty-five 
composed 
cents  a  yard 
in  first  hands  here.  The 
girls  who  make  the  scarfs  receive  about 
ten  cents  a  day.

is  worth 

Silk  goods  of  American  manufacture 
are  cheap  enough  in  all  conscience,  but 
American 
looms  are  powerless  against 
the  Japanese.  In  fact,  it  is a  good while 
since our  weavers  attempted  to  compete 
with  them  on  the  classes  of  silks  to  the 
production  of  which  chiefly  the  Jap­
anese  address  themselves.  Twelve  mil­
lion  dollars’  worth of finished  silks  were 
exported  from the island empire  in  1894, 
and  that  more  are  coming  who  can 
doubt?

Those  Yankees  of  the  Orient  are  one 
of  the  most  enterprising  peoples  on  the 
earth.  They  are  progressing  in  manu­
facture  at  an  astonishing  rate.  We 
if  the  equal  of  it  has  ever been 
doubt 
seen  except,  possibly, 
in  the  case  of 
Ireland  from  1782  to  1800,  that  wonder­
ful  period  between  the  attainment  of 
industrial  and commercial  independence 
and  the  act  of  union.

can  workmen 
likely  to  do  relative  to 
such  'competition?  The  Japanese  are 
increasing  their  facilities  rapidly;  they 
have  many  agencies  here  and  fleets  of 
their  own  steamers  to  carry  their  goods. 
When  they  make  a  surplus  in  any  line 
they  export 
In  time  we  shall  feel 
their  competition  in  other  lines,  as  we 
have  already  felt  in  some.

Will  free  trade,  low  duties,  or  even 

it. 

high  duties  be  the  proper  policy?

In 

this  era  of 

Plea  for  the  D epartm ent  S tore. 
Hastings,  June  18—As  so  much  has 
been  said  about  the  department  store 
it,  I  must  say  some­
and  nothing  for 
thing.  The  department  store  has 
long 
since  passed  the  experimental  period 
and,  like  the  New  Woman  and  the  b i­
cycle,  has  come  to  stay. 
It  is  the  prin­
ciple  of  the  hustling  business  man  to 
give  his  customers  as  much  as  he  can 
for  the  money.  Upon  this  depends  his 
future  success,  and  it  is  right  to  repay 
the  confidence thus placed.  The Trades­
man  has 
long  advocated  spot  cash, 
money  down,  no  credit,  quick  sales, 
small  profits. 
the 
world  any  dealer  will  tell  you  that  it 
seems as if he  could  not  get  goods  cheap 
enough.  This  makes  some  of  the  de­
partments  carry  goods  that  are  cheap 
both 
in  quality  and  price.  But  what 
stock  of  goods  has  not  the  same?  The 
cry  against  the  department  store  cheap 
goods 
is  more  in  the  price  than  in  the 
goods.  Old-style  merchants  who  buy 
regular  goods  at  regular  prices  and  sell 
on  time,  when  they  see the cut in prices, 
will  say  to  the  trade,  “ Oh,  the  depart­
ment  store  keeps  no  good  goods. ’ ’  The 
judges  be­
result  is,  those  who  are  not 
com e  scared  and  think 
it  is  so;  but 
they  are  beginning  to  find  out  the  truth 
in  the  matter.  Of  course,  you  will  find 
unscrupulous  dealers 
department 
stores;  but,  if  you  will  count  them  and 
then  the  others,  I  think  you  will  find  as 
many  in  other  trades. 
is  natural  for 
people  to  go  where  they  can  get  the 
most  for  their  money 
in  these  close 
times;  and as  the  depatrment  stores  can 
furnish  more  articles  for  a  family  for 
the  same  money,  the  people  will  pat­
ronize  them ;  and  they  will  find  more 
difference 
in  the 
goods.  The  other  dealers  will  say  to 
customers,  “  I  do  not  keep  those  bazaar 
goods.’ ’  Yet  I  have  seen  these  same 
dealers  sell  customers  the 
identical 
thing,  or  no  better,  for  one-half  more 
on  the  price.  As  long  as  a  man  does  a 
legitimate  business,  he  has,  or  ought  to 
have,  the  right  to  buy  and  sell  what  he 
pleases.

the  price  than 

in 

in 

It 

How  many  merchants  to-day  can  tell 
what  per  cent,  they  are  making  on  an 
article?  Few  customers  can  figure  it 
out;  yet  they  get  price  lists  in  most  of j 
their  papers.  A  simple  way  for  mer-1 
chants  to  figure  percentage  is  to  take 
the  profit  on  an  article,  add  two  c i­
phers  and  divide  that  by  the  cost. 
If 
merchants  in  trade  will  figure  some  of 
their  profits,  they  will  probably  reduce 
the  price.  All  dealers  that  have  capital 
enough  carry 
large  stocks— at  least  as 
large  as  their  trade  demands;  and  that 
is  what  the  department  store  does.  As 
to  prices  they  all  sell  as  cheap  as  they 
can. 

P h in   S m it h .

Ali 

In  1883  the  Japanese  erected their first 
is 
modern  cottonmill.  The  fifty-sixth 
now  building. 
these  mills  are 
owned  and  managed  by  natives,  and 
are  very  profitable. 
Imports  are  dis­
placed,  and  Japan  as  an  exporter  is  al­
ready  a  formidable  competitor  in  the 
Asiatic  trade.  Her  genius  extends  into 
all  classes of  manufacture,  even  to  ma­
chinery  and 
Instead  of 
buying  all  her  machinery  abroad,  she 
buys  specimens  of  the  latest  and  the 
best  and  copies  them  at  home.

locomotives. 

Japan,  not 

including  Formosa, 

is 
about  two-thirds  the  size  of  Texas,  and 
has  a  population  of  about forty millions. 
These  she  supports,  and  has  land  to 
spare. 
In  fact,  there  are  still  savage 
tribes  in  the  northern  portion.

But  what  makes  Japanese competition 
far  as  it  has 
so  threatening  and,  as 
is 
reached,  so  fatal  to  Western  trade 
the 
low  cost  of  production,  which  in 
turn  rests  upon  the  low  cost  of  living. 
Reports  recently  published  from  trust­
worthy  statistical  sources  in  Japan  show 
that  the  food  for  a  whole  family  of  the 
working  class  for  a  year  does  not  cost 
more  than  $20.  The  living  expenses  of 
the  well-to-do  people  average  not  more 
than  §33  apiece  annually,  while-those  of 
farmers  and  small 
traders  are  but  a 
fraction  of  that  sum.

Wages  range  from  §3  to  §15  a  month 
and  the  days  are  twelve  hours  long. 
What  sort  of  a  chance  have  American 
manufacturers  against  competitors  pay­
ing  such  wages?  And  what  are  Ameri­

A  Cool  Suggestion

To  your  customers 
is  an  attractive 
fan,  with  your  advertisement  neatly 
printed  thereon.  The  Tradesman  Com­
pany 
is  prepared  to  furnish  you  with 
fans,  at  the  lowest  prices consistent with 
good  goods. 
Send  for  samples  and 
prices.

themselves  to 

The  Italians  in  London  are  sufficient 
of 
form  a  large  town. 
There  are  as  many  as  14,000  of  them; 
2,000  of  these  are  ice  cream  vendors, 
and  1,000  are  organ  grinders.  The 
other  11,000  are  chiefly  engaged as  plas­
ter  bust  sellers,  artists’  models,  cooks, 
valets,  teachers,  artists,  restaurant  and 
hotel  keepers,  and  so  on.

The  largest  sheep  owner  in  the  world 
is  said  to  be  Mr.  S.  McCaughey,  of  the 
Cooning  Station,  at  Jerilderie,  New 
South  Wales.  He  has  3,000,000 acres  of 
land  and 
last  season  shore  1,000,000, 
sheep.

N ew   1896  crop  J E W E L L   C H O P   J A P A N   T E A S  
just  arriving.  Rich,  delicious,  delicate.  Q uality  this 
year  finer  than  ever  before.  M any  jobbers  throughout 
the  country  still  have  on  hand  a  large  stock  of  1895 
crop,  private  chop m ark  Japan  T ea,  and  must  unload 
them  on  you  or the  other  fellow.  T h is  is  not  the  case 
with  us.  N ot  a  pound  of  old  Jew ell  Chop  Japan  T e a  
in  stock.  B u y Jewell  Chop  T eas  of  us,  and  you  will 
get J U S T   W H A T   Y O U   B U Y ,  nice,  tender  leaf,  frag­
rant  1896 crop  tea.

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HAS NO EQUAL

FOR  CARRIAGES  AND  NEAYY  WAGONS

Wiles  of  the  Shrew d  C ustom er to  Get 

Reductions.
From the Dry Goods Economist.

These  are  trying  days  for  one-price 

integrity.

Many  and  great  are  the  temptations 
to  depart  from  the  rule  “ just  for once’ ’ 
in  order  to  oblige  a  regular  customer  or 
to  get  rid  of  sbort-season  goods  that  a 
customer  has  made  some  sort  of an  offer 
for and  which  may  soon  develop  into  a 
troublesome^.  sticker  or  have  to  be  sold 
for  a  price  much 
less  than  the  one 
offered.

The  public,  and  especially  the  regu­
lar  shoppers,  know  just  how  a  merchant 
is  placed.  They  are  not  slow  to  catch 
stock  and 
onto  cases  of  “ long”   on 
“ short”   on  time  in  which  to  move 
it.
Some  of  them  brazenly  demand  a  cut 
or  rebate  from  the  price  at  which  the 
goods  are  marked  and  boldly  proclaim 
that  they  will  only  have  to  wait  for  a 
few  days  for  the  merchant  to  beg  them 
to  take  the  goods  at  their  own  price.

This  kind  of  stand-and-deliver  trad­

ing  is  easily  dealt  with.

and 

Business 

personal  pride, 

if 
nothing  else,  would  compel  a  merchant 
to  firmly  refuse  such  demands,  even  to 
the  extent  of  having  to  keep  the  goods 
indefinitely  and  to  give  them  away  at 
last.  As  one  merchant  remarked  to  the 
writer,  “ I  would  rather  throw  the  goods 
into  the  furnace  than  submit  to  such 
impudence. ”
insinu­
ating  ways 
temptation 
comes  to  depart  from  the  established 
rule  of  “ one  price  to  a ll.”

But  there  are  other  and  more 

in  which  the 

Here  is  a  good  customer  who  wants to 
get  two  parasols,  but  whose  taste  for 
your  fine  goods  slightly exceeds the  con 
tents  of  her  pocketbook. 
If  you  can 
help  her  in  the  matter  she  will  take  th 
two  parasols,  but  if  not  she  will  have  to 
look  farther,  as  there 
is  nothing  else 
that  she  fancies.
is  a  customer  attracted  to 
your dress  goods  counter  by  a  clever ad. 
She  only  wanted  one  pattern,  but  the 
prices  are  so  low  and  the  goods  so  de 
sirable  that she would  like  to  take two or 
more,  only 
is  quite 
sure  you  ought  to  make  a  furtht 
duction  on  the  quantity.

in  that  case  she 

Or  here 

The  merchant 

is  very  anxious  to  get 
just 
rid  of  all  the  fine  parasols  in  stock 
now. 
If  the  customer  would  decide  on 
one  and  take  it,  it  would  not  be  so  bad 
but  to  lose  the  sale  of  two  just  for  the 
sake  of  a business  rule  and  a  dollar  o: 
so—well,  it’s  pretty  hard  lines  anyway 
And  then  the  dress  goods  customers 
They  are  not  so  plentiful  as  they  were  ; 
few  weeks  ago.  There  has  not  been  i 
really  good  day  in  that  department  for 
some  little  time,  and altogether  it would 
perhaps  be  better  to  let  the  customer 
have  her  own  way,  provided  she  wi 
make  the  stock 
lighter  and  the  sales 
heavier  to  the  extent  of  at  least  three 
patterns.
in  these 
cases  that  the  customer  gets her way  and 
gets  the  goods  at  her  own  price.  Of 
course,  she is  pleased,  and  does  not  for­
get  to  tell  her  friends  and  neighbors  of 
her  business  ability.  She  will  try  the 
same  thing  another  time.  Others  will 
follow  her  example. 
If  they  succeed, 
your  “ strictly-one-price”   rule  is  simply 
a  huge  joke. 
If  they  are  refused  the 
privilege once granted,  they are offended 
and  their  trade,  which 
is  certain  to 
amount  to  much  more  than  the  value  of 
two  parasols  or  the  few  dress  patterns, 
is  lost.

It  too  frequently  happens 

“ One  price  under all circumstances, ”  

is  a  good  business  rule  to  stick  to.

During  the  war  merchants  used  to  re­
vise  the  prices  on  cottons  each  morn­
ing.  The tendency  was  always  upward.
It  would  be  a  good  thing  to  revise 
the  prices  on  short  season summer goods 
each  morning,  and  be  sure  that  they are 
right  before  the  day’s  selling  com­
mences.  The  tendency  may  be  slightly 
downward  in  many  instances.

T he  D istrust  of  Justice.

From the Muskegon Sews.

The  growing  mistrust  among  business 
men  and  others  of  courts and the admin­
istration  of  justice  is  one  of  the  serious 
signs  of  the  times,  and 
if  there  is  a

remedy 
it  should  be  applied,  and  ap­
plied  soon.  Men  who  have  large  inter­
ests  which  are  subject  to  litigation  are 
getting  so  they  avow  that  they  would  as 
soon  flip  up  a  dollar  as  submit  the  con­
troversy  to  the  courts,  and  this  feeling 
is  crystallizing  more  and  more.

The proper determination of  litigation 
es  at  the  base  of  our 
institutions,  and 
pon  it  rest  our  liberties  and  property 
ights.  Absolute  confidence  in 
justice 
being  obtained  by  appeals  to  the  courts 
s  necessary 
if  organized  society  is  to 
exist.  A  great  deal 
is  said  about  the 
failure  of  the  jury  system  to  insure  jus- 
ce  and  the  consequent  distrust  of  the 
public  in  the  administration  of  the  law.
There  is  no  question  but what  reforms 
n  the  manner  of  getting juries  could  be 
nstituted  with  good  results,  but  there is 
another  reform  which,  if  accomplished, 
would  go  a  long  way  towards  eradicat- 
ng  the  growing  mistrust  of  courts,  and 
that  is  the  raising  of  the  moral  tone  of 
the  bar. 
It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  in 
every  city  there  are  lawyers  whose  rep­
utations  are  so  bad  that no prudent busi­
ness  man  would  trust  them  with  §25. 
They  are  so  lacking 
in  every  quality 
which  goes  to  make  up  good  citizen­
ship  that,  instead  of  being  a  part  of  the 
machinery  for  the  administration  of 
justice,  they  ought  to  be  ostracized from 
every  decent  community.  They  are  dis­
honest,  corrupt  and  dead-beats.  They 
rrade  on  the  fact  that  they  are 
lawyers, 
and  they  have  it  understood  that  woe  be 
to  the  man  who  crosses  them.  They  feel 
perfectly  secure  because  they  know  that 
they  are  officers  of the courts,  and  that  a 
man  who  has  to  employ  other  lawyers 
stands  no  equal  show  with  them.

lives  not  more 

We  know  of  one  of  these  disgraces  to 
humanity,  who 
than 
forty  miles  from  here,  offering  his serv­
ices  through  third  parties  to fix  the  jury 
in  a  case  pending  in  court.  This  man 
is  known  and  distrusted  by  every  mem­
ber  of  the  bar  and his dishonesty contin­
ually  crops  out,  but  he  is  allowed  to  re­
main  a  pillar  in  the  temple  of  justice. 
And  he  is  not an  exception.

These  lawyers  who  are  a  disgrace  to 
the  legal  profession  are  not  in  a  major­
ity,  but their practices are so continuous­
ly  winked  at  by  courts  and  the  respect­
able  members  of  the  bar  that  the  mem­
bers  of  the  great  public  who  do  not  dis­
criminate  nicely  are  liable  to,  and  do, 
class  them  all  together.  When  the  halls 
of  justice  contain  such  representatives 
of  badness,  is  it  to  be  much  wondered 
at  that  people 
lose  confidence  in  the 
right  administration  of  law?

Disbar  every  dishonest  and  corrupt 
lawyer,  and  respect  for  law  and 
the 
courts  will  begin  to  come  back.  At  this 
time  it  is  actually no disqualification for 
a  member  of  the  bar  to  serve  a  term 
State’s  prison ;and  the  law  is  called 
honorable  profession.

From   Dog  to  Mutton.

that 

followed  Mary 

According  to  the 

latest  gossip  from 
New  York,  the  dog  is  no  longer  the 
fashiounable  pet  for  swell  society  wom­
en.  Papa 
is  not  importuned  to  buy  a 
bow-wow,  but  a  lamb,  which  must,  as 
closely  as  possible,  resemble  the  his­
toric  mutton 
to 
school  one  day.  Every  belle  aspires  to 
leading  a  young  sheep  by a silken leash, 
and  the  society  resorts  this  summer  will 
be  all  wool  and  a  yard  wide  if  this 
fancy  prevails.  The  idea  is  extremely 
pretty  and  pastoral,  and  has also  a prac­
tical  side,  as,  when  these  up-to-date 
Marys  get  tired  of  leading  their  little 
lambs  around,  they  can  indulge  them­
selves  in  spring  lamb  and  mint  sauce, 
and  the  last  estate  of  that  sheep  will  be 
better  than  the  first. 
It  was  manifestly 
impossible to pursue  this course  in  deal­
ing  with  even  the  most  adorable  pug  or 
poodle.  Nobody  but  his  enraptured 
like  they  could  eat 
mistress  ever  felt 
him  up  or  devour  him  with  kisses. 
It 
is also  thought  that  the  unexciting  com­
panionship  of  a  lamb  and  its  mild  bleat 
will  prepare  the  summer  girl  for  the 
innocuous  conversation  of  the  summer 
young  man.

A  milliner  feels  all  right  when  her 

hats  are  in  good  trim.

Wait  for  Bushman,  of  Kalamazoo.

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to  my  special  partner  what  a  confound­
ed  fool  Moon  was,  and  that  1  was  anx­
ious  for  the  acquaintance  of  none  but 
herself;  and  when  she  left  the  dance 
with  her  mother  at  midnight,  we  parted 
excellent  friends.  Very  soon  I  wanted 
to  leave,  too,  and  Moon  came  down  tc 
the  hall  with  me,  where  we  put  on  our 
at  night 
boots—we  walked  home 
when  we  could,  in  those  days, 
to  save 
cab  fare.  Now,  I  had  a  small  black 
handbag  to carry  my  ‘ pumps’  in,  while 
Moon  had  brought  a  piece  of  brown 
paper  for  his.  However,  I  saw  him  slip 
them 
into  his  coat  pocket;  and 
when  we  got  outside  the  door  I  noticed 
that  he  had  something  wrapped  up  in 
the  paper  as  well.

loose 

“   ‘ Do  you  know  what’s  inside  this 
parcel,  my  boy?’  said  he  in  a  trium­
phant  way.

Shoes  and  Leather

A  LUCKY  SH O E.

A  Love  Story  of  Shoes  and  People.
I  heard  it  from  Trefford himself.  He 
is  a  middle-aged  man  with  a  family, 
who  lives  in  the  same  suburb  as  I 
live 
in.  My  acquaintance  with  him  has 
hitherto  been  chiefly  of  an  out-door 
character,  that  is  to  say,  by  traveling  to 
and  from  town  on  the  same  line  we  oc­
casionally  meet  and  converse  in 
the 
road  or  the  railway  carriage.

One  evening  lately  we  were  coming 
in  the  train  together  when  our 
down 
talk  slid 
into  the  subject  of  trout  fish­
ing,  in  which both of us take a  lively  in­
terest;  and  he  made  mention  of  a  fa­
vorite  fly  of  his  that  had  not  been 
brought  within  the  range  of my previous 
experience.  So,  on  leaving  the station, 
he  observed  that,  if  I  would  walk  on 
with  him  to  his  house,  he  would  show 
me  this  piscatorial  wonder,  and  of 
course  I  readily assented to the proposal. 
On  reaching  his  home,  he  took  me  into 
the  smoking  room,  and  proceeded to un­
lock  a  drawer  in  a  piece  of  furniture, 
half  bookcase  and  half  cabinet,  where 
he  said  he  kept  his treasures,  and whilst 
he  was  in  course  of rummaging amongst 
its  very  higgledy-pigpledy  contents,  out 
from  a  brown  paper  wrapper,  loosely 
tied  around  with  a  piece of string,  there 
tumbled  upon  the  floor  a  rather  second­
hand  looking  blue  satin  shoe.

“ Hullo!”   I  exclaimed  with  a 

laugh. 
“ Is  that  what  you  call  one  of  your 
treasures?”
“ Indeed 

it  is,”   he  answered,  pick­
ing  up  the  fallen  article  in  question. 
“ You  seem  surprised,  but  I  beg  to  in­
form  you,  sir,  that  this  shoe  has a some­
what  remarkable  history.”

it.

And  then  he  told  me  all  about 
“ Years  ago  I  lived  in  London,”   said 
Trefford;  “ that  was  before  I  had  given 
up  flirting,  and  when  I had  no  domestic 
establishment  to  keep  up,  and 
like 
many  other  young  bachelors,  I  was  ad­
dicted  to  dancing. 
It  so  happened  that 
one  evening  I  was  taken  to  a  ‘ small and 
early’  by  a  friend,  Moon  by  name,  who 
was  not  a bad  sort  of  fellow  in  his  way, 
but  abominably  fond  of  practical  jok­
ing,  and  I  hate  practical 
jokes—espe­
cially  when  they  are  played  upon  my 
self.  Now,  on  this  occasion  I  met,  for 
the  first  time,  a  most  delightful  girl,  a 
Miss  Stanbury,  with  whom  I  very  soon 
made  the 
in 
classics.  During  the  first  waltz  I  came 
to  the  conclusion  that  she  was  pretty 
and  fascinating  enough for anyone ;  dur­
ing  our  second,  I  found  that  we  had 
various  interests  in  common,  including 
a  fancy  for  practising  conversation  in 
the  French  tongue;  during  our  third,  I 
learned  that  her  father  was  dead,  and 
guessed  he  had  left  her  a  little  money; 
and  after  the  fourth,  I  was  simply  head 
over  heels  in  love,  and  mentally looking 
forward  to  the  day  when  I  should  be 
entitled 
to  address  her  as  ma  petite 
coquette  sucree,  or  by  some other  equal­
ly  touching  term  of  endearment.

running,  as  they  say 

“ Unfortunately,  Moon  seemed  taken 
with  her,  too,  and  did  all  he  could  to 
in  one  of  his 
cut  me  out;  and  being 
mischievous  moods,  he  suddenly, 
in 
Miss  Stanbury’s  presence, 
introduced 
me  to  Miss  Clive  Brown—a  dumpy, 
frumpy  female  of  some  40  summers  or 
more,  who  was  badly  dressed  in 
light 
blue  and  white,  and  tried  to  appear 
quite a  young  thing—saying  I  was  par­
ticularly  anxious  to  make  her  acquaint­
ance.  Of  course,  I  afterwards explained

“   ‘ No,  and  I  don’t  want  to,’  said  I.
“   ‘ Don’t  you,  though!’  said  he  with 
a  leer;  “ but  it’s  a  shoe  that  Miss  Stan­
I’m  thinking  of 
bury  dropped,  and 
calling  upon  her  and  returning 
it  in 
person. ’

it  rapidly 

“ Of  course,  this  was  intended  to  an­
noy  me,  and  it  flashed  across  my  mind 
in  an  instant  that,  if I could  obtain  pos­
session  of  that  shoe  and  return  it  to 
Miss  Stanbury  myself,  I  might  get 
farther  into  her  good  graces,  and  at  the 
same  time  pay  Moon  for  his 
irritat­
ing  conduct  during  the  whole  evening. 
So,  on  the  impulse  of  the  moment,  I 
snatched  the  parcel  out  of  his  hand, 
popped 
into  my  bag,  and 
then  fled  like  the  wind.  Moon  tried  to 
catch  me,  but  I  'easily  distanced  him, 
and  should  have  got  clean  away  had  I 
not,  in  turning  a  corner,  dashed  into  a 
group  of  persons  who  were  staring  at  a 
fallen  horse,  and  bowled  over  several, 
including  myself.  A  general  altercation 
and  explanation  followed,  at  the  end  of 
which  I  was  allowed  to  depart  in peace, 
but  without  my  handbag,  which had dis­
appeared  in  the  scrimmage;  nor  did  I 
see  anything  more  of  Moon  that  night.
“ This  disaster  perturbed  me  greatly. 
At  that  juncture  the  bag,  with  its  con­
tents,  was  exquisitely  precious  to me—1 
would  sooner  have  lost  every  one  of  my 
uncles  and  aunts  than  my  darling’s 
shoe. 
I  mentioned  it  to  the  police,  but 
they  could  not  find  it. 
I  issued  an  ad­
vertisement  to  the  effect  that  anyone 
who  would  restore  a  black  bag  contain­
ing  three  shoes,  of  no  use  to  anyone  but 
the  owner,  should  be  handsomely  re­
warded ;  but  without  result. 
Perhaps 
recompense  promised  was  too 
the 
vague. 
I  grew  desperate  and  offered 
three  pounds  reward;  and  then,  on  the 
sixth  day  after  the  loss,  I  received  a 
scrawl  intimating  that  the  bag  might  be 
heard  of  at  some  address 
in  a  third- 
class  street  near  Cavendish  square,  and 
thither  I  went  as  early  as  I  could  that 
very  afternoon.

“ The  door  was  opened  by  a  poor 
woman,  and  I  told  her  at  once  what  I 
had  come  for.  She  said  her  little  boy 
had  picked  up  a  bag  like  the  one  ad­
vertised  about,  [so, 
to  make  sure,  she 
asked  me  if  the  shoes  in  it  were  two 
lefts  and  a  right,  or  two  rights  and  a 
left.  Of  course,  I didn’t know,  but I very 
soon  satisfied  her  that  the  bag  was  my 
bag,  paid  the  three  pounds  reward  and 
went  off  rejoicing.

to 

“ I  was 

just  going 

take  my 
charmer’s  shoe  but  of  the  paper,  with  a 
vague  intention  of  kissing  it,  I  believe, 
when,  unhappily,  I  ran  up  against 
Tommy  Rogers,  an  awful  bore  of  a 
fellow,  who  wanted  to  know  what  I  'was 
doing  in  that  neighborhood. 
I  gave  an 
evasive  answer,  but  could  not shake him

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off  until  I  reached  the  house where  Miss! 
Stanbury  lived  in  Regent’s  park,  when 
I  got  rid  of  him  at 
last  by  abruptly 
mounting  the  doorsteps  and  ringing  the 
bell.

“ A  servant  arrived.  Was  Mrs.  Stan­
bury  at  home?  No,  she  wasn’t.  Was 
in?  Which  ‘ Miss  Stan­
Miss  Stanbury 
bury—as  only  one  was  at  home. 
I 
didn’t  know  there  were  two.  Oh,  yes; 
there  was  Miss  Isabel  and  Miss  Dora.
I  described  the  one  I  wanted.  Yes,  it 
was  Miss  Dora,  and  she  was  at  home. 
Could  she  kindly  see  me  for  a  moment 
on  a  matter  of  importance?

“ The  servant  took  up  my  card,  re­
turned,  and  ushered  me  into  the  draw­
ing  room,  where  I  found  my  sweet  girl 
looking  more  lovely  than  ever,  but  de­
cidedly  embarrassed.

‘ ‘ I  became  confused,  stammered  an 
apology  for  calling  without  an  invita­
tion,  and  when  her  mother  was  out,  and 
then,  plunging  headlong  into  the  busi­
ness,  I  said  that,  as anything  that  was 
of  consequence  to  her  was  of  great  con­
sequence  to  me,  I  had  been  at  much 
pains  to  recover  and  bring  to  her  that 
property  of  hers  which  had  been  so 
strangely  missing  for  a  week.

“ With  a  spasmodic  flourish  I  took 
from  my  bag  the  brown  paper  parcel, 
and  handed  it  to  her.

“ She  opened  it,  held  up  a  light  blue 
satin  shoe,  and,  glaring  indignantly  at 
me  for  an 
it  savagely 
across  the  room.  She  evidently  thought 
I  was  playing  a  trick  upon  her.

instant,  flung 

“   ‘ How  dare  you  do  this!’  she  cried, 
‘ You 
quivering  with  suppressed  rage. 
know 
it  isn’t  mine!’  And  then— the 
vanity  of  a  pretty  woman  peeping  out, 
though  I  wasn’t  quite  in  a  condition  to 
appreciate  it  at  the  time— ‘ Just  as  if my 
foot  was  as  clumsy  as  Miss  Clive 
Brown’s !’  She  burst  into  tears.

“ I  was  flabbergasted,  and  made  mat­
ters  worse  by  trying  to explain.  So,  to 
cut  the  scene  short,  I  bolted  without 
even  saying  good-by,  and  left the house, 
conscious  of  having  made  an  unutter­
able  ass  of  myself,  and  having  lost  the 
good  favor  of  my Dora  forever.  Oh,  if  I 
could  have  caught  Moon  at  that  mo­
ment,  I believe 1 should have killed him ! 
Not  content  with  humbugging  me 
with  Miss  Clive  Brown  during  the 
dance,  the  wretch  somehow  had  man­
aged  to  purloin  her  shoe,  and  made  me 
think  it  was  Miss  Stanbury's,  and  had 
I  not  snatched 
it  away  from  him,  I 
dare  say  he  would  have  sent  it  away  to 
one  or  the  other— he  probably  wouldn't 
have  minded  which—with  my  kindest 
regards.

“  Fortunately for  Moon,  I did not  meet 
him  again  until  my  wrath  had  been  ap­
peased.  And  this,  sir,  is  the  original 
is  the  original  piece  of 
shoe  and  this 
brown  paper;  the  string 
is  a  modern 
addition. ’ ’

Trefford  paused  and  I  could  not  help 
thinking  that  his  story  was  a  little  in­
conclusive;  so  I  said,  “ Then  I  suppose 
you  went  off  and  consoled  yourself  with 
Miss  Clive  Brown?”

“ Not  a  bit  of  it,”   he  answered.  “ So 
far  as  I  know,  M.iss  Clive  Brown  is 
Miss  Clive  Brown  still;  but  she  never 
got  back  her  shoe.

“ But  how  come  you  to  have  it?”   I 

asked,  naturally  wondering.

had  m yself;  anyhow,  a  day  or  two  later,
I  received  a  letter  from  her mother,  say­
ing  she  was  sorry  she  was  not  at  home 
when  I  called,  that  I  had 
inadvertently 
left  a  small  parcel  behind  me  and that, 
if  I  cared  to  come  and  fetch 
it,  she 
would  be  very  pleased  to  see  me  at  din­
ner-time. 
I  went,  you  may  be  sure, 
and,  as  a  symbol  of  peace,  the  shoe, 
with 
its  wrapper,  was  returned  to  my 
care,  which  has  ever  since  guarded 
it 
as  a  prize  keepsake;  and  we  laughed 
until  we  cried  over  its  adventures,  and 
—«nd— well,  there’s  no  use 
in  going 
into  details,  but—■”

He  had  got  so  far  when  a  lady  with 
an  infant  in  her arms  opened  the  smok­
ing-room  door  and  looked  in.

“ Ah, 

I’m  so  glad  you’ve  come,”  
said  Trefford  to  her;  and  then,  turning 
to  me,  he  added,  “ Allow  me  to 
intro­
duce  you  to  my  wife— Miss  Dora  Stan­
bury  that  was.”

He  Tied  H er  Shoestring.

From the New York Herald.

let  everyone 

She  was  pretty  and  pert  and  as  the 
theater  train  swayed  around  the  high 
curves  of  Harlem  four  men  in  dress 
suits  glanced  at  her  approvingly.  All 
at  once  she  made  a  discovery  and  her 
manner 
into  her  secret. 
One  of  her  shoes  was  unlaced.  At  first 
she  made  a  show  of  stooping  to  tie  it 
up,  but  she  was  not  comfortably  ad­
justed  for  lacing  her  own  shoes. 
In 
fact,  it  was  a  physical 
impossibility. 
The  four  young  men  in  dress  suits  saw 
t  and  soon  were  discussing  the  young 
woman’s  dilemma.

“ I’ll  make  a  bluff  at  it,  anyway,”  
said  one  of  them  as  the  train  left  the 
Fiftieth  street  station ;  whereupon, 
to 
the  delight  of  his  companions  and  the 
astonishment  of  those  who  hadn’t  ob­
served  the 
situation,  he  arose  and, 
kneeling  deliberately  at  the  feet  of  the 
fair  one,  he  raised  his  hat  politely  and 
said :

“ May  I  have  the?”   etc.
Her  red 

lips  parted,  showing  two 
rows  of  pearly  teeth,  while  a  faint  color 
mounted  her  cheeks.

“ If  you  will  be  so  kind,”   she  said. 
It  was  a  mightily  pretty  foot  and none 
too  quickly  the  job'wasdone,  neatly  and 
deftly.  The  pretty  woman  thanked  him 
and  he  returned  to  his  seat.  He  was 
plainly 
inclined  to  plunge  himself  in 
the  eyes  of  his  companions,  who  made 
various  remarks  about  “ having  her  on 
a  string,”   all  of  which  was  heard  by 
her,  as  was  evidently  intended.  At  the 
Fortieth  street  station  she  arose  and, 
pausing  a  moment  before  the  young 
man  as  she  passed,  sweetly  inquired: 

“ May  I  ask  where  your  store  is?”  
And  then  she  vanished.

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“ It  seems  that,  when  Miss  Stanbury 
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had  evidently  been  some  mistake,  and 
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had  behaved  quite  as  ridiculously  as  I

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We do not claim  this  cigar to 
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cigar made,  but  we do  claim 
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T he  M anufacture  of  T obacco 

in 

France.

Frank Valesh in Cigarmakers’ Journal.

Snuff 

The  cigar  and  tobacco 

industry  in 
France 
is  a  Government  monopoly. 
Twenty-one  great  factories  are  scattered 
in  the  various  large  cities.  The  factory 
at  Marseilles  is  a  large  well-built  four- 
story  building,  with  a  fine  courtyard,  in 
which  are  several  pieces  of statuary  and 
an  abundance  of  tropical  shrubbery.
Eleven  hundred  women  and  two  hun­
dred  men  are  employed  at  the  various 
processes  of  tobacco  manufacture,  in­
cluding  the  making  of  'cigars,  cheroots, 
cigarettes,smoking and plug tobacco and 
merchantable  nicotine. 
is  only 
manufactured  in  Dijou  and  Lyons,  and 
cigars  are  made 
in  all  the  factories. 
Hand  work  is  only  made  in  the  factory 
at  Paris.  Cigars  are  made  exclusively 
by  women;  the  men  only  do  the  casing 
and  other  heavy  work,  but  receive  the 
best  pay.
the  cigars 
In  point  of  workmanship 
American 
the 
are  much 
cigars 
I 
product.  The  best 
looking 
credit  to 
saw  made  would  hardly  do 
months  in 
an  apprentice  working  six 
But  the  cigars 
one  of  our  union  shops.
are  sold  cheap.  They  retail  at  two 
cents  apiece,  and  the  cheroots  for  one 
cent.  The  cheroots  are  made  wholly  of 
French  tobacco,  which,  by  the  way,  is 
very  vile  stuff,  and  on  the  cigars  they 
use  Java wrappers  of fairly good  quality.
into  the  tobacco  fac­
tories 
is  regulated  by  a  sort  of  civil 
service,  and  no  favoritism  is  shown,  al­
though  positions  in 
are 
much  sought.  The  wages,  though  low, 
judged  by  our  standard,  compare  very 
oc-
favorably  with  wages  paid  in  other 
the
cupations  in  France.  The  men 
in 
tobacco  factory  average  about  $1.20  a 
day  and  the  women  about  70  cents  a 
day.  Nine  hours  constitue  a  day’s 
work,  with  a  two  hour  intermission  for 
dinner.

The  admission 

inferior  to 

factory 

the 

After  twenty-five  years’  continuous 
service  the  workers  are  pensioned,  the 
men  receiving  $120 a  year and the wom­
en  $80.  Free medical  attendance  is  pro­
vided  at  all  times  and  a  sick  benefit 
is 
also  paid  by  the  government,  which 
varies  according  to  the  amount  of wages 
earned.
The  managing  director  of  the  Mar­
seilles  factory  receives  $2,500  a  year 
and  free  rent  in  the  building,  and  the 
foremen  get  from  $700 to  $1,000  a  year.
In  the  making  of  smoking  tobacco, 
nicotine,  plug  and  cigarettes  they  use 
some  very  elaborate  machinery,  which, 
however,  is  well  guarded ;  and  the  fa­
cilities  for  ventilation  are  all  that  could 
be  desired. 
I  asked  the  superintendent 
if  they  had  any  machines  for  making 
cigars  and  received  a  most  surprising 
answer.  He  said: 
“ We  have  had  a 
number  of  offers  from America and  else­
where  to  put  in  machines,  but  we  will 
not  do  so because  they  might  displace 
hand  labor.

In  point  of  physical  appearance  the 
tobacco  workers  in  Marseilles  will  com­
pare  very  favorably  with  American  fac­
tory  workers.  They 
look  well  fed  and 
reasonably  healthy  and  contented.

The  one  unpleasant  feature  about  the 
discipline  is  the  searching  of  the  em­
ployes  every  time  they  leave  the  fac­
tory,  but  it  is  largely  a  matter  of  form. 
The  men  formed  a  line  and  the inspect­
or  hastily  passed  his  hands  over  their 
coats.  The  women  were  searched  by a 
female  inspector,  but  the  operation  was 
even  less  ceremonious.  The 
inspector 
just  walked  through  the  crowd  of  1,100 
women  and  the  whole  search  of  the 
1,300 operatives  lasted  a  trifle  less  than 
two  minutes.

The tobacco  industry  in  France  is  not 
managed  from  any  philanthropic  mo­
tive  nor  to  solve  any  economic problem. 
It  is  simply  a large source  of  revenue  to 
the  government  and,  as such,  conducted 
on  a  scientific  basis.

The  C igarette  U pper  Lip.

Different  methods  obtain  with  differ­
ent  peoples  for  the  securing  of  a  like 
result.  Among  the  savage  Africans  a 
prominent  and  protuberant  upper  lip  is 
produced  by  inserting  a  wooden  ring  in 
a  slit  in  the  lip  and  increasing  the  size

It 

of  the  ring  from  time  to  time.  The 
same  effect 
is  attained  in  enlightened 
lands  by  means  of  the  cigarette,  though 
the  expense  involved  is  vastly  greater, 
as  well  as  the  deleterious influence  upon 
the  general  health  of  the  patient. 
is 
the  fashion  among  cigarette  smokers  to 
hold  the  cigarette 
in  position  by  the 
muscles  of  the  superior  lip,  ostensibly 
for  the  purpose  of  preventing  the  teeth 
from  biting  through  the  paper  covering 
and  so  getting  the  filling  into the  mouth 
and  throat.  The  real  purpose,  how­
ever,  is  the  development  of  the  upper 
lip,  although  the  victim  of  the  cigarette 
habit  may  not be  aware  of  the  fact.  He 
is  an  unconscious 
imitator  of  others 
without  knowing  the  object which others 
have  or  have  had 
in  view,  and  so  he 
develops  his  upper  lip  until  it  is  pro­
jected  into  space  like  the  upper  lip  of 
the  camel  without  being  aware  of  what 
he  is  doing. 
It  is  easy  to  distinguish 
the  expert  cigarette  smoker  from  the 
rest  of  mankind.  Through  the  process 
of  natural  selection  we  may  before  long 
see  the  cigarette 
lip  upon  women  as 
well  as  men,  and  also  upon  children, 
even  to  the  baby 
in  the  cradle.  At 
present  the  cigarette  lip  is  not  regarded 
as  a  mark  of  beauty,  but  ideals  of  per 
sonal  beauty  change  from  time  to  time, 
the  same  as  do  fashion 
in  clothes  or 
opinions  upon  almost  any  subject.  So 
in  process  of  time  it  is  extremely  prob­
able  that  the  overhanging,  outreaching 
cigarette 
lip  will  be  regarded  as  the 
highest  type of labial perfection.  There­
fore,  while  the  cigarette  lip  may  ap­
pear  hateful  to  the  untutored  eye  of  the 
present  day,  it  is  fair  to  presume  that, 
in  a  score  of  years  perhaps,  it  will  be 
the  peculiar and  transcendent  charm  of 
the  human  species.

Began  the  Study  o f  Natural  History 

in  the  W rong  Way.

From the New York Sun.

rather 

Wheelmen  do  not  begin  the  study  of 
natural  history 
like  ordinary  people 
Down  on  the  Brooklyn  cycle  path  on 
Tuesday  night, 
late,  a  white 
sweater  scorcher  came  hooping  along 
It  was  a  few  minutes  after  10,  rather 
dark  in  spots,  more  especially  just  be 
yond  the  graveyard,  where  the  woods 
are  thick.  There  were  two  redeeming 
features  about  the  scorcher’s  outfit—he 
had  a  very  bright  light,  and  his  mouth 
was  wide  open  ready  to  yell.  There 
were  a  lot  of  insects  in  the  air  over  the 
path,  among  them  several 
large  and 
hard-shelled  beetles.

These 

in  perceiving  the 
insects, 
light  a-coming,  flew  toward 
scorcher’s 
it  at  good  speed  to  investigate.  One  of 
large  and  strong 
them,  an  especially 
winged  beetle,  flew  about  eight 
inches 
higher  than  the 
lamp,  and  the  cyclist 
began  his  study  of  the  entomological 
branch  of  natural  history  on  that  one. 
There  is  no  place  where 
insects,  birds 
eggs  and  other  specimens  may  be  put 
for  temporary  security  more convenient 
ly  than  the  mouth,  but  it  is  usually  ad 
visable  to  kill  the  specimen  first,  nor  i 
it  a  good  plan  to  close  one’s  teeth  onto 
it,  since  that  ruins  the  specimen 
retrievably.  Not  knowing 
the 
this, 
cycling  amateur  naturalist  spoiled a  fine 
specimen  of  a  night-flying  carrion 
beetle.

lured  by  their  lamps.  Such 

A  good  many  wheel  folk  have  begun 
the  study  of  natural  history  in  this  in 
advisable  wav,  using  their  open  mouths 
as  landing  nets  with  which  to  capture 
insects 
method  of  procedure 
is  almost  sure  to 
cause  the  beginner  to  give  up  the  study 
entirely,  even  to  the  extent  of  wearing 
mosquito  net  veils  to  shield  the  lips 
The  mouth  receptacle  is  better  left  to 
the  more  experienced  naturalist.

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E d w in  Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  Geo.  A.  Re y ­
n o ld s,  Saginaw.

Michigan Division, T. P. A.

President, G eo.  F. O w en,  Grand  Rapids;  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer,  J a s.  B.  M cIn nes,  Grand 
Rapids.

G ripsack  Brigade.

A  business  requires  to  be  fed  as  reg­

ularly  as  the  man  who  runs  it.

The eccentricities  of commerce  are  as 

peculiar  as  the  emotions  of  a  virgin.

What  a  pity  that  there  is  so much pol­
little  business 

itics  in  business  and  so 
in  politics.

Remember  the  old  saying, 

“ It  is 
better  to  cry  over  one’s  goods  than  after 
them,”   when  giving  credit.

It 

isn’t  at  all  hard  to  tell  what  the 
railways  and  the  hotels  would  do  if  the 
commercial  traveler  were  not  in  evi­
dence.

J.  P.  Reeder  (Geo.  H.  Reeder  & 
Co.)  is  happy  over  the  advent  of  a 
bouncing  boy— the  second  son  to  grace 
his  family  circle.

Graham  Roys  (L.  H.  Beals  &  Son) 
has  rented  the  John  Dregge  cottage,  at 
Macatawa  Park,  and  taken  his  family 
there  fori the  season.

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.  will  be  repre­
sented  on  the  road  by  J.  P.  Reeder, 
John  M.  Fell,  H.  G.  Krause,  Frank 
Beil  and  R.  L.  Porterfield.

C.  S.  Hitchcock  has  resigned  as  trav­
eling  salesman  for  W.  J.  Quan  &  Co. 
and  accepted  a  place  with  J.  J.  Hoff­
man  &  Sons,  Elkhart,  Ind.

The  traveling  man  is  not  immaculate 
and  he  does  not  profess  to  be  so,  but  he 
averages  up  well  with  the  best  Ameri­
can  citizenship  all  the  same.

While  the  pathway  of  the  traveling 
is  strewn  with 
occasiona 
salesman 
thorns,  he 
is  sensible  enough  to  just 
pluck  them  and  pursue  the  even  tenor 
of  his  way.

The  up-to-date  commercial  traveler  ii 
plain  and  matter-of-fact  in  all  his  do 
ings.  He  wears  no  fringes  and  frills 
and 
lays  no  claims  to  unnecessary  for 
mality  or  ceremony.

The American commercial traveler has 
unbounded  faith in  America  and  Amer­
ican  methods,  for  he  knows  that  thii 
Nation,  though  young  and  still  an  ex 
periment,  will  hold  its  own  against  th< 
world.

The  great  growth  of  trade 

in  thi 
hemisphere  must  be  placed  to  the credit 
of  the  ambassadors  of  commerce,  the 
commercial  travelers,  for  without  them 
the  circle  of  traffic  would  be  greatly 
curtailed.

One  of  the  most  important  things  that 
business  has  given  us  is  the  sense  that 
man,  under  whatever  condition,  is  hu­
man ;  that  all  men  are  the  children  of 
one  father,  and  that they are all brothers. 
In  the  church  we  are  taught  religion, 
while  in  the  field  of  business  we  live 
it 
out.

Reports  have  it  that  a  new  palace  car 
company 
is  to  become  a  rival  of  Mr. 
Pullman.  If  it  will be  so  arranged  that 
their  porters  will  not  knock  their  sal­
aries  out  of  the  poor  traveling  man with 
a  whisk  broom,  it  will  run  its  competi­
tors  off  the  earth  within  a  very  short 
time.

Milton  Reeder, 

formerly 

traveling

representative  for  the Reeder Bros.  Shoe 
Co.,  has  engaged  with  Gokey  &  Son, 
shoe  manufacturers  at  Jamestown,  N. 
Y.  His  territory  comprises  all 
the 
available  towns  in  Southern  Michigan. 
He  will  continue  to  reside  in  Grand 
Rapids.

The  salary  of  a  traveling  salesman 

is 
at  once  a  curse  and  a  blessing  accord- 
ng  as  he  uses  it. 
If  be  spends  every 
cent  of  it  knowing  he  is  going  to  have 
just  so  much  to  spend,  it  is  a  curse; 
but 
if  he  guides  his  expendituies  so 
that  he  shall  save  a  certain  percentage 
every  year,  then  it  is  a  blessing  to  him, 
for 
to  regulate  his 
wants.

it  enables  him 

any  other  profession 

The  vast  army  of  commercial  travel­
ers  comprises  in  its  ranks  the  brightest 
and  keenest  business 
intellects  in  the 
whole  world  of  business  activities,  and 
the  average  type  is  distinctly above  that 
in  quick  ap­
preciation  of  opportunity,  in  knowledge 
of human  nature,  in  viligance  of  ever- 
shifting  possibilities 
in  conditions,  in 
persistence  of  labor,  in manners,  and  in 
all  that  makes  for  the  advancement  of 
prosperity— which  means  the  progress 
of  civilization.

At  an  adjourned  meeting  of  the Board 
of  Directors  of  the  Michigan  Commer-
al  Travelers’  Mutual  Accident  Asso­
ciation,  held  Saturday  evening,  E.  E. 
Stanton  and  Chas.  J.  Reed  resigned— 
the  latter  on  account  of  his  inability  to 
attend  the  meetings—and Geo.  F.  Owen 
and  Frank  M.  Tyler  were  appointed  to 
fill  the  vacancies  until  the annual  meet­
ing  of  the  Association  next  January. 
Other changes will be made in  the  Board 
and 
in  the  officers  from  time  to  time, 
to  the  end  that  the  Association  may  be 
managed  by  men  who  have  the requisite 
leisure  time  at  their  disposal  to  devote 
considerable  attention  to  the  organiza­
tion,  so  that  it  may  have  the  confidence 
and  co-operation  of  reputable  traveling 
men  everywhere.  The  Tradesman 
not  at  liberty  to  state  what  the  changes 
will  be,  but  can  positively  assure  the 
fraternity  that,  when  the  program  now 
mapped  out  has  been  completed,  the 
organization  will  be 
in  the  hands  of 
men  of  undoubted  honesty  and responsi 
bility,  so  that  no  one  need  have  any 
hesitation in  joining  the  Association  for 
fear  the  funds  of  the  organization  will 
not 
and  economically 
handled.
Outline  of  the  T .  P.  A.’s  Demand  on 

be  honestly 

the  Railroads.

The  day  after  the  T.  P.  A.  national 
convention  at  Terre  Haute  passed  the 
ringing  resolutions  instructing  each  of 
the  thirty-two  state  divisions  of  the  or­
ganization to introduce  a  bill  in  the  leg 
islature  of  their  respective  states  com 
pelling  railroads  to  sell  tickets  at  a  flat 
rate  of  two  cents  per  mile,  the  Chicago 
Tribune  wired  President  Lee  as  fol 
lows;  “ What  do  commercial  travelers 
want  from  railroads  and  why  should 
they  have  it?”  
In  reply,  President Lee 
telegraphed  the  Tribune  as  follows :

They  want  an  interchangeable  mile 

age  ticket,  good  over  all  the  lines 
eluded 
in  tne  territory  of  the  Central 
Passenger  Committee,  to  be  sold  at  two 
cents  per  mile,  and  strictly  non-trans- 
ferable,  and  a  similar  ticket  in  the  ter­
ritory  of  each  of  the  other  passenger  as­
sociations  of  the  United  States.  They 
want  the  friendship,  co-operative  sym­
pathy,  and  active  and  considerate  aid 
of  the  railroad  companies  in  building 
up  and  developing the commerce  of  this 
country,  including  an  extension  of 
its 
railroad  facilities.

They should  have  all  of these,  because 
they  are  professional  promoters  of  the 
prosperity  of  the  people  and  the  most 
economical,  prompt  and  practical  me-

to 

ium  of  exchange  between all the people 
for  the  products  of  their 
labor;  be­
cause  they  are  the  recognized represent­
atives  of  commerce  and 
its  great  up­
building  and  civilizing  power,  and  are 
as  essential 
the  prosperity  and 
growth  of  railroad  interests  as  the  rail­
roads  are  to  theirs;  they  are  practically 
and  constantly  acting  as  freight  solicit­
ors  for  the  railroads,  and  at  the  same 
¡me  paying  the  railroads  millions  of 
dollars  for  the  privilege  of  so  acting.

They  should  have  these  also  because 
they  aie  willing  to  submit  to  all  reason­
able  and  fair  restrictions  as  to  use  of 
such  mileage  tickets,  and  because  the 
rate  of  two  cents  per  mile  asked  for 
is 
not  unreasonable,  for  most  roads  have 
been  making  that  rate  for  many  years, 
and  because,  though  manufactured  and 
agricultural  products  have  declined 
in 
alue  nearly  50  per  cent,  in  ten  years 
past,  there  has  during  that time  been  no 
corresponding  reduction,  and, 
in  fact 
no  reduction  at  all,  in  passenger  trans­
portation  rates.  There  are  many  other 
excellent  reasons  why  commercial  trav­
elers  should  have  these  things,too  many 
for  telegraphing.

persuasive, 

They  have,  however,  after  long  and 
persistent, 
and  pacific 
methods  have  been  for  years  employed, 
concluded  that  the  illegal  formation  of 
pools  and  trusts  called  railway  associa- 
ions stands in their way to prevent them, 
by  evasion, 
insincerity,  and  combina- 
ion  against  the  public  good,  from  se­
curing  justice.

They  have  been  treated  insincerely, 
nconsiderately,  and  unjustly  by  these 
organizations  against  public policy,  and 
have  about  concluded,  though with great 
reluctance,  and  after  careful  consider­
ation,  to  join  hands  in  common  cause 
with  all  the  people,  commercial,  manu­
against 
facturing,  and  agricultural, 
those  combinations  and 
conspiracies 
which  are  opposed  to  public  welfare. 
In  this,  the  just,  righteous,  and  honest 
advocacy  of  right  and  the  public  weal, 
they,  the  commercial  travelers,  hope  to 
have  the  sympathy  and  approbation  of 
that  most  powerful  champion  of  the 
cause  of  the  people  against  wrong  and 
oppression,  the  daily  press,  and  espe­
cially  of  The  Chicago  Tribune.

National  President Travelers’  Protective 

Association  of  America.

John A.  L e e, 

If  the  shoe 

Advice  of an  Old-Tim e  Shoem aker.
A  shoemaker  says:  “ As  soon  as  a 
man  comes  into  my  shop  and  takes  off 
his  shoes,  I  can  tell  whether  or  not  he 
is  a  good  walker,  and, it  is  astonishing 
to  find  how  few  men  know  how  to  step 
out. 
is  worn  down  at  the 
heel—not  on  one  side,  but  straight back 
—and  the  leather  or  the  sole shows signs 
of  weakness  at  the  ball  of  the  foot,  a 
little  greater  on  the  inside  just  below 
the  base  of  the  great  toe,  I  know  that 
the  wearer  is  a  good  walker.
“ If,  however,  the  heel  is  turned  on 
one  side,  or  is  worn  unevenly  through­
out,  and  the  sole  is  worn  most  near  the 
toe,  I  know  that  I  have  to  deal  with  a 
poor  pedestrian.  The  reason  of  the 
difference 
in  position  of  the  worn  spot 
lies 
in  the  fact  that  the  poor  walker 
walks  from  his  knees,  and  the  good  one 
from  his  hips.

“ Watch  the  passer-by 

in  the  street 
and  you  will  at  once  see  the  difference. 
Nine  men  out  of  ten  will  bend  the  knee 
very  considerably  in  walking,  stepping 
straight  out  with  both  hips  on  the  same 
line,  and  the  toe  will  be  the  first  to 
strike  the  ground.  The  tenth  man  will 
bend  his  knee  very little— just enough  to 
clear  the  ground—and  will  swing  the 
leg  from  the  hip,  very  much  as  the  arm 
is  swung  from  the  shoulder,  and  not 
from  the  elbow.
“ By  so  doing  he  calls  upon  the  mus­
cles  which  are  strongest  to  bear  the 
strain,  and  increases  the  length  of  his 
stride  four  or  six 
inches.  The  heel 
touches  the  ground  first  and  not  the  toe. 
A  slight  spring  is  given  from the ball  of 
the  foot  on  making  another  stride.

“ Men  who  walk  in  this  fashion  cover 
the  ground  30  per  cent,  faster  with  the 
same  exertion  than those who  walk  from 
the  knee. ’ ’ 

^ 

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The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 

E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo,

CLIFTOK  HOUSE

Michigan’ Popular Hotel.

Remodeled and Refitted Throughout.

Cor.  Monroe  and  Wabash  Aves.,

CHICAGO.

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

GEO.  CUMMINGS  HOTEL CO., 

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

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

CIG A R S

COMMERCIAL  HOUSE

Lighted  by  Electricity.  Heated  by  Steam. 

Iron  Mountain,  Mich.
All modern conveniences.

$ 2   P E R   D A Y .

IRA A.  BEAN,  Prop.

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

HOTEL  BURKE

G.  R.  &  I.  Eating  House.

CADILLAC,  MICH.

All modern conveniences.

C. BURKE,  Prop. 

W. 0. HOLDEN, Mgr.

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Drugs==Chemicals

STATE  BOARD  OF PHARMACY.

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

C. A .  B u g b e e, Charlevoix 
S. B.  P a u k il l ,  Owosso 
F. W. R. Pe r r y , Detroit 
- 
A. C. Sch u m ach er,  Ann Arbor 
G eo.  G und rum, Ionia

President, C. A. B u g b e e, Charlevoix. 
Secretary, F. W. R. Perrt, Detroit. 
Treasurer, G eo. G u nd rum ,  Ionia. 
f 

Coming Meetings—Detroit (Star Island), June 23.

Lansing, November 3.

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

. 

„ 

.. 

P h il l ip s,  Armada. 

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

President, Geo. J. W a r d , St. Clair.
Vice-Presidents  j q 
Secretary, B. Sch r o u d er,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, W x . D upo nt, Detroit.
Executive Committee—F.  J.  W u r zb u r g ,  Grand 
Rapids;  F. D. Ste v e n s, Detroit;  H. G.C olman, 
Kalamazoo;  E. T.  W e b b ,  Jackson;  D.  M. R us­
s e l l, Grand Rapids.

The  Drug  M arket.

Acetanilid— Quiet,  with  only  jobbing 

movement.  Prices  unchanged.

Acids— Market 

is 

less  active  but 

prices  are  mainly  the  same.

Alcohol— Prices  firm  with  good  de­
mand  for  grain.  Wood,  active with  un­
changed  prices.

Arsenic—Quiet  with  unsettled  prices 

tending  downwards.

Balsams—Copaiba,  the activity  of  last 
little  change  in 
week  continues,  with 
prices,  however.  Tolu  is  improving  in 
demand.  Peru  and  Canada  Fir  remain 
quiet.

Barium  Nitrate—Prices  have  been 

advanced  on  account  of  scarcity.

Beans— Mexican 

vanilla 
strong  and  in  good  demand.

continue 

Cacao  Butter— Quiet  with  no  change 

in  quotations.

Caffeine— Light  demand  has  resulted 

in  unsettling  prices  somewhat.

Cassia  Buds—Prices  unchanged  with 

fair  demand.

change  in  prices.

Cocaine  Muriate— Good  demand.  No 

Codeine —  Prices  have 

advanced 
slightly  on  account  of  increasing  de­
mand.

Cod  Liver  Oil— Quiet,  prices  un­

changed.

Colocynth  Apples—Quotations  con­
tinue  the  same  with  improved  demand, 
especially  for  the  better  grades.

Cream  Tartar— Improved  demand  for 

consumption.  Prices  unchanged.

Cubeb  Berries—Quiet^  jobbing  de­

Cuttle  Fish  Bone—Steady  with  firm 

mand.

quotations.

Essential  Oils— Continue  quiet  with 
prices  tending  downward  as  to  anise, 
neroli  and  rose.  Lavender,  thyme  and 
rosemary  are  likely  to  advance,  on  ac­
count  of  unfavorable  crop  reports.

Flowers— German 

chamomile  have 
more  than  maintained the  advance,  on 
account  of  unfavorable  crop  reports. 
American  saffron  continues  unsettled. 
Insect  powder has  advanced.

Glycerine—Unchanged  with  fair  de­

mand  for  consumption.

Gums— Asafoetida 

continues  quiet 
with  small  demand.  Curacoa  aloes  are 
steady  and  unchanged.  Japanese  cam­
phor  has  improved  in  demand  for  con­
sumption.  Domestic  remains  quiet.

Leaves— Short  buchu,  fair  consump­
tive  demand.  Senna  continue 
in  re­
quest  on  account  of  continued  scarcity.
Lycopodium— Firm  with  tendency  to 

higher  prices.

Manna— Quiet,  prices  unchanged.
Menthol— Quotations  are  unchanged, 

though  with  small  demand.

Morphine— Quiet  and  unchanged.
Opium— The  market  shows  improved 
remain 

conditions,  though  quotations 
the  same.

Jamaica 

Roots— Ipecac,  quiet  with  unchanged 
is  firmer  and  in  better 
prices.  Jalap 
demand. 
ginger  continues 
firm,  and  the  same  may  be  said of Mex­
ican  sarsaparilla.
Seeds— Canary 
Italian 

in  fair  jobbing  de­
mand. 
fennel  has  declined. 
Mustard  remains  at  same  quotations 
with  very  little  demand.  German  rape 
has  advanced  slightly.  Russian  hemp 
steady  with  small jobbing demand.  Co­
riander  unsettled  and  irregular.  Celery 
still  tending  downwards.

Spermaceti— Quiet 

and 

quotations 

unchanged.

Sponges— Quiet  and  steady with prob­
ability  of  continuing  the  prices  which 
have  prevailed.

Sugar  of  Milk— Quiet  and unchanged.
Strontia,  Nitrate—Good demand,  with 

scarcity,  has  advanced  prices.

Wax— Japan  in  fair  demand,  prices 
firm.  Brazil  has  declined,  while  bees­
wax  remains  steady.
Program m e 

fo r  the  Pharm aceutical

Convention  at  M ackinac  Island.

Grand  Rapids,  June  18—At  yester­
day’s  meeting  of  the  Executive  Com­
mittee  of  our  Association,  held  at  the 
Hotel  Livingston,  this  city,  there  were 
present:  H.  G.  Colman,  Kalamazoo; 
E.  T.  Webb,  Jackson ;  Dorian  M.  Rus­
sell  and  F.  J.  Wurzburg,  city.  Mr. 
Stevens,  of  Detroit,  wired 
that  he 
missed  the  train.

It  was  decided  to  have a regular hand­
shaking  social  session  Monday  evening, 
August  3,  and  on  Tuesday  to  begin  the 
meeting  with  an  opening»  address  of 
welcome  by  the  Mayor  of  Mackinac, 
which  will  be  responded  to  by  H.  G. 
Colman,  then  to  proceed  with  the  regu­
lar  business  until  noon.  The  second 
session  will  be  held  after dinner,  the 
third  session 
in  the  evening,  and  the 
fourth  session  Wednesday  morning 
Wednesday  afternoon  an  excursion  will 
be  given  to  Point  Pines,  where  a  ban 
quet  will  be  held  in  the  afternoon,  also 
such  games  as boat  races,  tugs  of  war, 
contests  for  ladies,  etc.,  returning to the 
Island  in  the  evening.  Thursday morn­
ing  the  fifth  session  will  be  held  and 
Thursday  afternoon  the  sixth  session 
will  close  the  convention.

The  Committee  decided 

to  offer  a 
prize  for  the  best  paper  on  advertising 
to be  written  by  any  Michigan  druggist 
or  his  clerk ;  two  prizes  for  the  best 
lot 
of  display  advertisements,  each  contest­
ant  to  submit  five  samples; one prize  for 
the  best  paper  on  co-operative  manu­
facturing ;  one  for  the  best  paper  on 
pharmacy;  one  for  the  best  paper  on 
chemistry;  one  prize  to  the  pharmacist 
who  can  fill  twenty-five  capsules  with 
powdered  willow charcoal  in the shortest 
time.  There  will  also  be  a  prize  sub­
mitted  in  each  game and  athletic  con­
test  that 
is  given  for  both  ladies  and 
gentlemen.  The  special  committees  ap­
pointed  are  as  follows;

Entertainment— M.  G.  Bailey,  Mack­
inac  Island;  C.  A.  Bugbee,  Charle­
voix;  F.  W.  R.  Perry,  Detroit;  Geo. 
Gundrum,  Ionia,  and  four  others,  to  be 
appointed  by  Chairman  Bailey.

Reception— D.  E.  Prall,  Saginaw;  S. 
P.  Whitmarsh,  Palmyra;  S.  E.  Park- 
hill,  Owosso;  C.  E.  De  Puy  Stock- 
bridge;  Mike  Reidy,  Corunna;  Dr.  C. 
B.  Colwell,  Jackson;  Fred  Price,  Sault 
Ste.  M arie;  H.  J.  Brown,  Ann  Arbor; 
J.  E.  Peck,  Grand  Rapids;  Prof.  A.  B. 
Prescott,  Ann  Arbor;  C.  N.  Anderson, 
Detroit;  James  Vernor,  Detroit;  Dr. 
Geo.  J.  Ward,  St.  Clair;  Geo.  Mc­
Donald,  Kalamazoo;  F.  D.  Stevens, 
Detroit;  M.  G.  Bailey,  Mackinac  Is­
land.

Games  and  Boat  Race-  “ That  man 
Church,”   Detroit;  B.  E.  West,  Grand 
Rapids;  E.  C.  Varnum,  Jonesville.

Excursions  and  Refreshments— I.  S. 

Cooper,  Cheboygan;  A.  J.  Dayton,
Grand  Rapids;  Geo.  S.  Seibert,  Iron 
Mountain;  A.  O. 
Speckhard,  Fort 
Wayne;  A.  M.  Todd,  Kalamazoo.

As  this  meeting  is  to  be  held 

in  the 
Northern  Peninsula,  we  expect  to  see  a 
large  number  of  new  faces  present  from 
the  Northern  cities  and  towns.

The  druggists  in  Southern  Michigan 
will,  no  doubt,  go  by  the  way  of  Grand 
Rapids  and  Detroit, 
thence  by  D.  & 
C.  boats  to  the  Island  (special  rate hav­
ing  been  given  us  from  this  city)  and 
return  by  rail  to  Grand  Rapids.  All 
railroads  will  give  a  rate  of 
fares 
round  trip  for  the  occasion.

Benj. Schroder, Sec’y.

The  Dodge  Club  cigar 
E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

is  sold  by  F.

The  drummer  is  a  privileged being in 
Great  Britain. 
In  addition  to  a  room 
specially  set  apart  for  his  comfort  in 
every  hotel,  the 
leading  railway  com­
panies  have  decided  to  let him travel  on 
return  tickets  for  single  fare.  This 
is 
for  the  purpose  of  letting  him  see  his 
family  over  the  week  ends.

PECK’S

HEADACHE..............
................. PO W D ERS
Pay the Best Profit  O rder from  yo u r jobber

The  Etiquette  of  Gum Chewing.
More properly speaking there are certain rules, 
not etiquette as some  would  have  It,  to  be  ob­
served In abstracting  the  sweetness  and  reduc­
ing the obstinacy of a stick of gum.  In the first 
place one should have an object  In  view.  It  is 
more than probable that chewing gum merely to 
keep the jaws in operation will  not produce any 
marked  benefits. 
If  one  is  troubled  with  dis­
ordered  stomach,  however,  the  right  kind  of 
gum will not only correct the  trouble,  but  keep 
the  breath  from  becoming offensive.  There is 
but one gum made that is  really  meritorious  as 
a medicinal gum, and that is Farnam’s Celery & 
Pepsin.  Mr. J. F. Farnam of Kalamazoo, Mjch., 
is  the  most  extensive  grower  of  celery in the 
world,  and  his  knowledge  of  that  toothsome 
plant has been turned to account in the  form  of 
the  pure  essence  of  celery  which he has incor­
porated  with  pure  pepsin  into  chewing  gum. 
Celery  is a splendid nerve remedy and pepsin  is 
equally valuable for stomach disorders.  To use 
this gum regularly after meals  there  can  be  no 
question  as  to  the  ultimate recovery from indi­
gestion or  any  other  form  of  stomach  trouble. 
Druggists  and  dealers  generally  are  finding  a 
ready  demand.  The  trade  is  supplied  by  all 
good' jobbers.

WE CREATE THE DEMAND

This ad.  below will  run  in all the leading State papers.

taCTRic  P lL E  CURE

A

/ f/jr jy A  

/tEFi/A/o r//E p/?/ce

/f /vor sa t/sfactoff.

Pays the  Druggist a  Handsome  Profit.

Order of your Jobber.

A   meritorious  w hisky  suitable  for 
fine  trade.  W rite  for  prices.

HULMflN  l  BEGGS,

Distillers and  Wholesale  Liquor Dealers,

SOLE  PROPRIETORS,

TE R R E  HAUTE,  IND.

jareBAirnyPi
-  fimi? ar.rNT5  Z

A. E. McGUIRE,  Headquarters Grand  Rapids 
DAVE McCANN,  Headquarters Grand  Rapids

|  M ichigan  Representatives.

S M O K E   T H E

HAZEL

S o  C I G A R

Hand made  long  H avana filler.  Send me a trial order.  M anufactured by

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

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¡ALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Declined—Gum Camphor.

ionium  Mac........... 
35®  65
lopaiba.....................  
90® 1 00
ubebse....................   1  50@  1 60
Ixecbthltos...........  1  20®  1 30
Irigeron.................   1  20@  1 30
iaultheria..............  1  50®  1 60
leranium,  ounce...  ® 
75
tossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
iedeoma.................  1  25@  1  40
uni pera..................  1  50® 2 00
Avendula................. 
90® 2 00
.imonis...................  1  30®  1 50
lentba Piper........  2  25®  3 00
lenthaVerid.........   2  65@ 2 75
lorrhuae,  gal.........   2  00® 2 10
iyrcia, ounce.........   @  50
►live.......................  
75® 3 00
’icis  Liquida.........  
10®  12
'icis Liquida, gal...  @  35
Ucina....................  
91®  96
®  1  00
Rosmarini...............  
tosse,  ounce...........  6 50@ 8 50
uccini  ................... 
40®  45
abina................... 
90®  1  00
antal......   .............  2 50® 7 00
assafras............... 
50®  55
inapis, ess., ounce. 
®  65
'iglii.......................   1 25@  1  30
40@  50
'hym e....................  
'hyme,  opt............. 
®  1  60
'heobromas........... 
15@  20
Potassium
15®  18
li  Barb.................... 
13®  15
lichromate............  
48®  51
Iromide................... 
!arb.......................  
12®  15
:hlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
iyanide...:............. 
50®  55
odide......................  2 90®  3 00
’otassa, Bitart, pure  30®  33
®  15
’otassa, Bitart,  com 
8@  10
•otass Nitras, opt... 
’otass Nitras........... 
7® 
9
•russiate.................  
25®  28
lulphate p o ........... 
15®  18

Radix

20®  25
Lconitvm................ 
Llthm.................... 
22®  25
Lnchusa.................  
12®  15
trum po..................- 
®  25
20®  40
'alam us.................  
15
12® 
ìentiana........po  15 
18
Jlychrrhiza.. .pv. 15  16® 
®  30
lydrastis Canaden . 
lydrastis Can., po..  @  35
lellebore.Alba, po.. 
15®  20
nula, po.................  
15®  20
pecac, po................  l  tin®  I  75
ris plox....po35@38  35®  40
alapa, pr................ 
40®  45
tlaranta,  14s...........  @  35
•odophyllum, po__  
15@  18
thei  .......................  
75®  1  00
thei, cut.................   @ 125
75®  1  35
thei.pv................... 
35®  38
Ipigelia.................... 
ianguinaria. ..po. 15  @ 
15
ierpentaria ............. 
30®  35
ienega....................  
55®  60
iimilax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
imilax, M................  @  25
Icillae...............po.35  10@  12
iymplocarpus, Fcetl-
dus,  po.................   @  25
Valeriana, Eng.po. 30  @  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Singibera...............  
16
12@ 
Hnglber j ................ 
23@  25
Semen
Vnisum.........po.  20 
@ 1 5
14®  16
Vpium  (graveleons) 
Jird, Is....................  
4@ 
6
10@ 
larui.............po. 18 
12
Cardamon................  1  00®  1  25
Borland rum............  
8® 
10
Cannabis  Sativa__  3“4® 
4
Dydonium...............  
75@  1  00
Dheiiopodium  ........ 
10® 
12
Oìpterix  Odorate...  2 90® 3 00
Foeniculum............   @  15
Fcenugreek, po........ 
6® 
8
Lini.........................   2*4® 
4
4
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 2*4  3*4® 
Lobelia...................  35®  40
4
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3*4® 
Rapa.......................   4*4@ 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
7@ 
8
Ainapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spirltus

Frumenti, W. 1). Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti................  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
5pt. Vini Galli........  1  75@ 6 50
Vini Oporto.............  1  25@ 2 00
Vini  Alba................  1  25@ 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  @ 2 00
Velvet extra  sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  1  10
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__ 
@  85
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................  @  65
Hard, for slate use..  @  75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............  @  1  40

Syrups

Acacia....................   @  50
Auranti Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber...................  @  50
Ipecac....................  
@  60
Ferri Iod.................   @  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega.....................  @  50
Scili».......................  @ 5 0

fliscellaneous

ScilleCo.................   @
Tolutan...................  @
Frnnus virg............. 
@
Tinctures 
AconitumNapellisR 
Aconitum N apellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Can tha rides...........
Capsicum...........
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co__
Castor......................
Catechu.............
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba.................
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis.................
Ergot.......................
Ferri Chloridum__
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino.........................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh......................
Nux  Vomica...........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated..
50 
1  50 
Opii, deodorized__
Quassia...................
50 
Khatany...................
50 
Rhei.........................
50 
Sanguinaria...........
50 
Serpentaria............
f0 
Stramonium...........
60 
Tolutan..................
60 
Valerian.................
50 
50 
Veratrum Veride ... 
Zingiber..................
20
35
JSther, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
38
.¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4F  34®
3
Alumen...................  2*4®
4 
3®
Alumen,gro’d..po. 7 
50
Annatto................... 
40®
Antimoni,  po.........  
4®
60
Antimoni et PotassT  55®
@  I  40 
Antipyrin..............
@  15
Antifebrin..............
@  55
Argenti Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum...............
10®  
12 
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..
Bismuth  S. N.........
1  00®  1  10 
9 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.. 
10 
Calcium Chlor., *4s. 
12 
Calcium Chlor.,  54s. 
75 
Cantharides, Rns.po 
1> 
Capsici  Fructus, a f. 
15 
Capsici Fructus, po. 
15 
Capsid FructusB,po 
®
10®
12 
Caryophyllus..po.  15
3 75 
Carmine, No. 40......
50®
55 
Cera Alba, S. & F
40®
42 
Cera Flava..............
40
Coccus....................
@
Cassia Fructus........ 
Centraría.................   @
10 
45 
Cetaceum.................  @
63 
Chloroform.............  
60®
1  35 
Chloroform, squibbs 
1  15®  1  30
Chloral Hyd Crst__
Chondrus................  
20®
Cinchonidine,P.& W 
15®  20 
Cinchonidine, Germ  7  @ 
14
Cocaine...................  5 30®  5 50
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct
Creosotum............... 
.  @
Creta............. bbl. 75  @
Creta, prep..............  @
Creta, precip........... 
9®
Creta, Rubra........... 
@
Crocus....................  
50®
Cudbear................
24 
6 
5®
Cnpri Sulph............
10©
l:
Dextrine..................
75®
90 
Ether Sulph............
8 
Emery, all  numbers
6 
Emery, po................
35 
30®
Ergota.......... po. 40
12®
15 
Flake  White...........
23
Galla........................
I® 
9 
Gambier..................
@  60
Gelatin, Cooper
Gelatin, French...... 
3u@  50
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10
Less  than  box__
9®
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue,  white  ........... 
13®
19®
Glycerina................ 
Grana  Paradisi  __   @
Humulus.................  
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @ 
Ilydraag Chlor Cor.  @ 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @ 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @ 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  60
Ichthyobolla, Am...  1 25®  1  50
Indigo...................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubl........  3 80® 3 90
Iodoform.................   @ 470
Lupulin...................  @ 2 2f
Lycopodium........... 
60®  65
Macis........................ 
65®
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............   @  27
LiquorPotassArsinit  10®  12
Magnesia, Sulph__  
2® 
3
Magnesia,-Sulph,bbl  @  1*4
Mannla, S. F ........... 
60®  63
Menthol...................  @ 550

@

10
80
15
40
46
5
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1215
65
5
1  60
40

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8
14
14

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3  00

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15
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50
2 60
45
80

18
12
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
ì 25
80
50
15
2
35

14
25
25

20
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
80
18
12
30
60
25
55
13
14
16
50
10
70
%
3 00
65
40
2 30
60
45
8C

1  00

25
2025
25
25
3S
22
25

60

31

3 5(
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8 25
3 (X
2 41

3 2Ís6*

2 5(
2  6(£1

Morphia, S.P.& WT... 1  65®  1 90 Binapis....................
@ 18
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.Ä
Sinapis, opt............
@ 30
C.  Co.................... 1  55®  1 80 Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Moschus Canton__
@ 40
Voes......................
@ 34
Myristlca, No. 1......
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch.DeVo's
@ 34
Nüx Vomica.. .po.20
@ 10 Soda Boras..............
7  @ 10
Os  Sepia.................
15® 18 Soda Boras, po........ 7  @ 10
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
28
1*4® 2
D. Co....................
@  1 00 Soda,  Carb..............
Picls Llq. N.N.*4gal.
Soda,  Bi-Carb__
5
3®
@ 2 00 Soda,  Ash...............
doz........................
3*4® 4
PicisLiq., quarts__
@  1 00 Soda, Sulphas.........
2
®
@ 85 Spts. Cologne...........
Picis Liq., pints......
@ 2 60
Pll Hydrarg.. .po.  80 @ 50 Spts. Ether  Co........
55
50®.
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22
@ 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom...
@ 2 00
Piper Alba__po.  35
© 30 Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
®  2 49
Piix  Burgun...........
@ 7 Spts. Vini Rect. *4bbl
® 2 54
Plumbi  Acet...........
10® 12 Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal
© 2 57
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  10@  1 20 Spts.  Vini Rect.  5gal ©2 59
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
@  1 25 Strychnia, Crystal... 1  40®  1 45
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
27® 30 Sulphur,  Sub!.........
2*4® 3
Quassia...................
8® 10 Sulphur,  Roil........
2®
Quinia, S.  P. & W..
37® 42 Tamarinds..............
8® 10
Quinia, 8. German..
30® 40 Terebenth Venice...
28® 30
Quinia, N.Y............
35® 40 Theobromae............
42® 45
Rubia Tinctorum...
12® 14 Vanilla................... 9 00® 16 On
24@ 26 Zinci  Sulph............
SaccharumLactis pv
8
7®
Salacin.................... 3 00®  3 10
Oils
40® 50
Sanguis Draconis...
BBL.  6 AL.
12® 14 Whale, winter.........
Sapo,  W...................
70
70
Sapo, M....................
10® 12 Lard,  extra.............
60
53
Sapo, G....................
@ 15 Lard, No.  1..............
40
43
Siedlitz  Mixture__ 20  @ 22 Linseed, pure  raw..
40
43

Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days.

Linseed,  boiled......
Neatsfoot, winter str 
Spirits Turpentine..
Paints
Red Venetian........
Ochre, yellow Mars 
Ochre, yellow  Ber. 
Putty, commercial. 
Putty, strictly  pure 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............
Vermilion,  English
Green, P aris.........
Green,  Peninsular.
Lead, Red..............
Lead, white...........
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders'... 
White, Paris Amer.. 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................
Universal Prepared.

45
42
70
65 
33 
40
BBL. 
LB 
1*4  2  @8 
1*4  2  @4 
1*4  2  @3 
2*4 2*4@3 
2*4  2*4@3
13®  15
15  @  24
13®  16
5*4®  5*4 
5*4®  5*4 
@  70
@  90@ 1 00
@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

Paint your buildings with

Prepared Paint

306 N. BURDICK ST., KALAMAZOO, Mich. 
Write for samples and prices. 

It is the most durable 

paint made.

HAZELTINE 
& PERKINS » 
DRUG CO.

Irnporters  ai?<1 Jobbers of
DRUGS

GDemicais  ami  Patent  m edicines

Dealers  in

Paints,  Oils 
and  Varnishes

. 

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

erly’s Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.
We have  in stock and offer a  full  line 
of  W hiskies,  B randies,  G ins,  W ines, 
and  R um s.

We  sell  Liquors  for  medicinal  pur­

poses only.

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

I

HUZELTIJE S PEWS Dit SD.

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

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

T h e  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are^for  the  trade  only,  in  such  quantities  as  are  usually  purchased  b y  retail 
dealers  T h ev  are  prepared  just  before  goin g to  press  and  are  an  accurate  index  of the  local  m arket. 
It  is  1m- 
possible  to  give  quotations  suitable  for  all  conditions  o f  purchase,  and  those  below   are  given as representing av­
erage  prices  for  average  conditions  o f 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  m ake  this  feature  of  the  greatest  possible  use  to  dealers.____________________________________

AXLE  GREASE.

doz.  gross
Aurora.........................55  6 00
Castor Oil................... 60 
7 00
550
Diamond.....................50 
Frazer’s ......................75 
9 00
9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
Mica............................70  8 00
Paragon...................... 55 
600

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

Acme.

JaXon

Dwight’s.

54 lb cans doz........  ........ 
45
54 lb cans doz...................  85
lb cans doz...................  1  50
1 
54 lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
75
% lb cans 3 doz.................  
lb cans 1 doz.................  1  00
1 
Bulk.................................... 
10
lb cans per doz case—   1  50 
1 
54 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
45
54 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
85
lb cans 2 doz case........  1  60
54 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
55
>4 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
90
l 
lb cans 2 doz case........ 
54 lb cans..........................  
45
75
$4 lb cans..........................  
l 
lb cans..........................   1  50
American................................70
{English.................................... 80

BATH  BRICK.

Our Leader.

Home.

q

p

BLUING.

a

s p

1 doz."Counter Boxes...  . 
40
12 doz. Ca?es. per gro........  4 50

BROOnS.

No. 1 Carpet.......................   2 0)
No. 2 Carpet.........................  1  65
No. 3 Carpet.......................   1  50
No. 4 Carpet.........................  1  20
Parlor Gem.......................   2 00
Common Whisk.................  
85
Fancy Whisk......................  1  00
Warehouse.........................2 25
Hotel 40 lb boxes................ 954
Star 40 lb boxes................. .  854
.  .................... 9
Paraffine  . 

CANDLES.

CANNED  GOODS. 
Hanitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........   1  00
Lakeside E.  J ....................   1 30
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1  40 
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.  1  65 
Columbia, 
pints............. 4 25
Columbia, 54 pints.............2 50

CATSUP.

CHEESE.

Amboy....................   ©  754
Acme........................  ©  754
Elsie........  .....................@  794
Gold  Medal........
Ideal.................
Jersey.................
Lenawee.............
Riverside............
bparta................
Brick.................
Edam..................
Leiden................
Limburger.........
Pineapple.......... .
Sap Sago............
Bulk 
Bed 

©  7
©  75,
©  7
@  75;
©  7
®  10 
© 1  00 
©  20 
©  15 
©  20 
©  18
5
7

Chicory.
.............................  
...................... 
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

CLOTHES LINES.

German Sweet........................22
Premium.................................. 31
Breakfast Cocoa.....................42
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz......... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz......... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz......... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz.............  80
Jute, 72 ft,  per doz..............  95
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes........................... 45
COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags.......................  
2H
Less Quantity.................  
3
Pound  packages............. 
4
CRBAil TARTAR. 
Strictly Pure, wooden boxes.  35
Strictly Pure, tin boxes..........37
T artarine............................... 25

Souders*.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

New Orleans.
F a ir......   .....................
Good............................
Extra good...................
Choice.........................
Fancy  .............................. 
Half-barrels 3c extra.

PICKLES, 
riedium.

so

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  3 60
Half bbls, 600 count...........2 30
Barrels, 2,400 count...........  4 75
Half bbls,  1,200 count........2 88
Clay, No. 216......................   1  70
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
65
Cob, No. 3...........................  1  20

PIPES.

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s............................ 4 00
PennaSalt  Co.’s ................3 00

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   654
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  454
Broken................................  254
Japan,  No. 1......................   5
Japan.  No. 2..... 
454
Java, No. 1.........................   4M
Java, No. 2.........................   454
P atna.................................   4

imported.
 

 

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

SEEDS.

SAL SODA.

Church’s .............................. 3 3C
Dei and’s .............................. 3  15
Dwight’s .............................. 3 30
Taylor’s ................................3 00
Granulated, bbls..............1  10
Granulated,  100 lb cases. .1  50
Lump, bbls.......................  
1
Lump, 1451b kegs............. 1  10
A nise................................  13
Canary, Smyrna................ 
6
Caraway...........................  10
Cardamon,  M alabar......   80
Hemp,  Russian.............. 
4
Mixed  Bird......................   454
Mustard,  white................ 
654
Poppy  .............................. 
8
Rape.................................  4
Cuttle Bone......................   20
Scotch, In bladders.............  37
Maccaboy, in jars................  35
French Rappee, in  jars......   43

SNUFF.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels..............................  15
Half  bbls.........................   17
Fair  .................................  16
Good........................>.......   20
Choice..............................  25

Pure Cane.

SPICES.  .
Whole Sifted.

Pure Ground in Bulk.

Allspice  ..............................  954
Cassia, China in mats.......... 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 hite.. .20
Pepper,  shot........................ 16
Allspice  ........................ 10@15
Cassia, Batavia....................17
Cassia,  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 15
Cloves, Zanzibar.................. 10
Ginger,  African.................. 15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 20
Ginger,  Jamaica..................22
Mace,  Batavia...............60@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste..................25
Nutmegs,.......................40@60
Pepper, Singapore, black9@12 
Pepper,Singapo re, wbitel5@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage.......................................18
“ Absolute” in  54bl.  Packages.
Allspice............................   66
Cinnamon.........................  75
Cloves...............................   70
Ginger, Cochin.................  75
Mace.................................2  10
Mustard............................   75
Nutmegs...........................2  10
Pepper, cayenne.............  75
Pepper, white  .................   75
Pepper, black shot...........  60
Saigon.............................. 1  50
“ Absolute  ’’Butchers’  Spices.
Wiener and Frankfurter__16
Pork Sausage........................16
Bologna and Smoked S’ge. .16 
Liver S’ge and H’d,Cheese..l6

FLY  PAPER. 
Tanglefoot.

“Regular” Size.

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

“Little” Tanglefoot.

FURNITURE 

Cleaner and  Polish. 

Henderson’s “ Diamond.”

Half Pint............................   1  75
P in t...................................... 3 50
u a rt...................................5 40
alf Gallon..........................7 75
G allon................................ 14 40
Knox’s sparkling................. 1  10
Knox's acidulated............... 1  20

GELATINE.

GUNPOW DER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs.....................................4  00
Half Kegs..................  
2 25
Quarter Kegs............................. 1 25
1 lb  cans..............................  30
54  lb  cans............................   18
K egs......................................... 4 00
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter  Kegs........................... 1 25
1 lb  cans..............................  34
K egs......................................... 8 00
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 2 25
lib  cans................................  45
Sage......................................  15
Hops....................................   15
Madras, 5  lb  boxes.............  55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes —   50 
16 lb  palls............................   36
17 lb  pails............................   44
30 lb  pails............................   66
Condensed, 2 doz  ...............1  20
Condensed, 4  doz.....................2 25
Pure......................................  30
Calabria  ..............................  25
Sicily.........................  
  14
Root......................................  10

LICORICE.

INDIOO.

HERBS.

JELLY.

LYE.

 

MINCE MEAT.

HATCHES.

Mince meat, 3 doz in  case. .2 75
Pie Prep. 3 doz In case........2 75
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur...................... 1  65
Anchor Parlor.....................1  70
No. 2  Home........................ 1  10
Export  Parlor....................4 00

rtOLASSES. 
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.
........................... 

Sugar house.......................10@12
Ordinary............................12@14
Prim e.............. 
JO
30
Fancy 

 

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

F air......................................... Jjj
Good....................................... J®
Prim e.....................................21
Golden  ..................................*1
Peaberry  ................................23

Santos.

 

 

Java.

Mexican  and  Ouatamala.

Fair  ........................................19
Good  ............................ 
20
Prim e......................................22
Peaberry  ..................  
23
Fair  ........................................21
Good  ...............................    ■••22
Fancy 
...................................24
Maracaibo.
Prime  .......................... 
23
Milled...................................... 24
Interior...................................23
Private  Growth...................... 27
Mandehling.............................28
Im itation................................25
Arabian  ................................. 28
Quaker Mocha and Java...... .32
Toko Mocha and Java........... 28
State House Blend..................25
Arbuckle.......................   21  30
Jersey..............................  21  30
| 5 5 n Q ) f f e e

Package.

Roasted.

Mocha.

e2(teu>Qimcu  Nrr.
<goK»!00 Ibsl  E(luaHty  Price

60  ■  J 'ess ac  P01

• 

Cabinets 120 lbs. Same Price. , 
9 0 ¿Extra  tor Cabinets.
ricLaughlln’s  XXXX......  21

KOFFA-AID.

Extract.

3 doz in case......................   5 25
Valley City 54 gross......  
75
Felix 54 gross................. 
1  15
Hummel’s foil 54 gross... 
85
Hummel’s tin 54  gross... 
1  43

CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz.Jin case.

COUPON  BOOKS.

"Tradesman.”

8  1 books,  per  100 ..............  2 00
8 2 books, per  100 ..............  2 50
8 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.”

8  1 books, per  100 ..............  2 50
8 2 books, per  100..............  3 00
8 3 books, per  100 ..............  3 50
8 5 books, per  100..............  4-00
810 books, per  100 ..............  5 00
820 books, per  100..............;6_00

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Lima Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Biscuttine.
Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

3 doz. in case, per doz......1 00
B ulk................................    3
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s..........2 00
Barrels  .........................3 25
Flake, 501b.  drums..........1  50
D ried................................ 
*
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb.  box......   60
Imported,  25 lb. box........ 2 50
Empire  ............................  
2f£
Chester.............................19i@2
Green,  bu.........................
Split,  per lb...................... 
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........2 80
Rolled Avena, Vjbbl.........1  55
Monarch,  bbl........................2 55
Monarch,  54  bbl....................1 40
Private brands,  bbl.......2 40
Private brands, 54bbl......
Quaker, cases........................3 20
Oven  Baked......................... 3 25
Lakeside  ......................... 2 25
4
German............................  
East  India........................ 
354
Cracked, bulk................... 
3
24 2 lb packages............... 2 40

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

254

“ Universal.”

8  1 books, per  100 ..............   3 00
8 2 hooks, 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 
quant’ ty discounts:
200 books or over...  5 per cent 
500 books or over.. .10 per cent 
lOOO.books or over.  .20 per cent

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

Can be made to represent any 
20books  ..........................  1  60
50 books...............................   2 00
100 books...............................   § 00
250 books...............................   6 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books................................17 50

Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch........................ 
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOflESTlC 

Apples.

Sundried.........................   @ 354
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  © 654

California Frntts.
Apricots.........................9  @11
Blackberries..................
Nectarines.....................   554©
Peaches..........................  5  @14
Pears..............................  »54©
Pitted Cherries..............
Prunnelles.....................
Raspberries..................
California  Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes.........   © 454
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   @  4%
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   @5
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   © 554
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........   @6
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   © 654
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @754
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........   © 7%
54 cent less In baes 
Raisins.

London Layers.......... 1  10@1  30
4 54 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
5 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
6

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls..............................© 354
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........ @  394
Cleaned, bulk  ..................@ 5
Cleaned, packages........... © 554

Fish.
Cod.

10

95

Halibut.

Herring.

ITackerel.

Georges cured............  © 4
Georges  genuine........  @5
Georges selected........  @6
Strips or bricks......... 6  © 9
Chunks..........................
Strips............................... .
55
Holland white hoops keg 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  6 50
Norwegian...................
Round 100 lbs........................  2 30
Round  40 lbs........................  1 }0
Scaled................................ 
No. 1100 lbs...........................  13 00
No. 1  40 lbs...........................  5 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................   1 «
No. 2 100 lbs...........................  8 00
No. 2  40 lbs...........................  3 50
No. 2  10 lbs......................  
Family 90 lbs............
Family 10 lbs............
Sardine«.
Russian kegs....................  
55
Stockfl«h.
No. 1,1001b. bales.............  1054
No. 2,100 lb. bales............  854
No. 1100 lbs...........................  5 50
No. 1  40 lbs...........................  2 50
No. 1  lOlbs......................  
TO59
No. 1 8 lbs......................
Fam 
No. 1  No. 2
1  75 
6 75
100 lbs. ......... 7 25
3 00
40 lbs. .........   3 20
1  00 
33 
83
10 lbs. .........  
88
29
71
8 lbs. .........  
73
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.
Jennings’. 
D.C. Vanilla
2 oz........1  20
3oz........1  50
4 oz........2 00
8oz..t“ .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

Whltefish.

Trout.

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co. 

brands.
Gail Borden  Eagle..................7 40
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy................................... 5
Champion  ...........................4 50
...........................4 25
Magnolia 
.3 35
Dime

Peel.

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

Raisins.

Ondura 29 lb boxes.......  ©
Sultana 20 lb boxes....... 7  @8
Valencia 30 lb boxes—   @

EGG  PRESERVER.
Knox’s, small size................4 80
-9 00
Knox’s, large s i z e .

Peerless evaporated cream.5 75

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

21

Grains and Feedstuffs
C

Provisions.

Crockery  and

Worcester.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes'......... ..1  60
Barrels,  1(|0  3 lb bags — ..2 75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags— ..2 50
65
Butter, 56 lb  bags...........
..3 00
Butter, 20  14 1b  bags......
Butter, 2801b  bbls........... ..2 50
Common Grades.
..2 60
100 3 lb sacks...................
..1  85
60 5-lb sacks...................
.1   70
28 11-lb sacks.................
..3 25
50  4  lb.  cartons...........
..4 00
115  2*lb. sacks..............
..3 75
60  5  lb. sacks..............
..3 50
22 14  lb. sacks..............
..3 50
..  32
28 lb. linen sacks............
56 lb. linen sacks............. ...  60
. .2 50
Bulk in barrels...............
56-lb dairy in drill bags.. ..  30
15
28-lb dairy In drill bags..
60
56 lb dairy in iinen  sacks 
60
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 
56-lb  sacks...........................  22

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.
Common Pine.

Warsaw.

Saginaw..............................  ®
Manistee  ............................   85
Boxes...................................  5^4
Kegs, English......................  43*

SODA.

STARCH.
Diamond.

Klngslord’s  Corn.

64 10c  packages  ................5 00
128  5c  p a c k a g e s ...................... 5  00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
20 1-lb packages...................  8*
40 1 lb packages...................  °*
Klngslord’s Silver Oloss.
40 1-lb packages...................  6H
6-lb bo x es.................... ■ —  1
20-lb boxes...........................  5
40-lb  boxes...........................  4*
1-lb  packages......................  ■}*
3-lb  packages......................  f*
6-lb  packages......................   j>M
40 and 50 lb boxes................  2fc
Barrels  ................................  23*

Common Oloss.

Common Corn.

SUMMER  BEVERAOES.

Wild Cherry Phosphate. 

“Little Giant”  case,  28-15c  bot­
tles ............................  2 50
“Money Maker” case,24-25c and
24-15C b o ttle s .................  5  00
Free  with  above,  Large  Bot 
tie, Easel and Advertising  Mat 
ter.  ’
Concentrated Extract for  Soda
Fountain, per gal.......2 00
Root  Beer Extract,  3  doz  case,
$2 25, per doz............ 
75
Acid  Phosphate, 8  oz.,  per
doz.............................  2 00
Beef, Iron and Wine, pints,  per
3 00
doz.
Thompson’s 
Wild  Cherry 
P h o s p h a te  
“H u m m e r 
Case”  co n ­
tains  3  doz. 
25c  8  oz  bot- 
11 e s,  #5 00. 
One  Big  Bot­
tle  Free.  24 
oz.  50c size, 1 
doz. to a  case 
4 00.  Special 
Soda  Foun­
tain  Extract 
per gal. $2 00. 
Big  Demon­
strator  con­
tains  15  doz. 
25c size, 1 doz 
50c size, 1 jug 
and  fixtures. 
See add.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. J. Johnson’s  brand

S. C. W.....................................35 00
Quintette................................35 00
New  Brick.............................. 35 00
Absolute...........................   35  00

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

Gowans & Sons’ Brands.

Crow.........................................3 10
German Family......................  2 15
American Grocer  100s........ 3  30
American Grocer  60s.............. 2 75
Mystic  White....................  3 80
L otus.........................   ....  3  9c
Oak Leaf.................................   3 00
Old Style...................................3 20
Happy Day..............................  3 10

 

@30
@45

Fresh Fish

Mixed Candv

bbls.  pails  V

Fancy-In Bulk.

TABLE  SAUCES.

Single box, delivered 

Henry Passolt’s brand.

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

C a n d i e s
Stick  Candv.

1  Burnt Almonds...... 1 25  @

25 box lots,  delivered.
Scouring.

JAXON

Allen B.  Wrisley's brands. 
For  special  quotations

WOLVERINE
3 !

Single  box................................3 00
5 box lots, delivered..........2 95
10 box lots,  delivered..........2 85
Lautz Bros. & Co.'s  brands.
Acme  ...................................3 25
Cotton  Oil................................5 75
Marseilles................................. 4 00
Master...................................... 3 70

Single box................................. 3 00
5 box lots, delivered..........2 i
10 box lots,  delivered..........2 f
25 box  lots  delivered.......   2 '
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s  brands. 
American Family,  wrp’d...3!
American Family, plain__3 i
Thompson A Chute's Brand.

Lea & Perrin’s,  large... . .4  75
Lea & Perrin's, small.  .,..2 75
Halford,  large..............
Halford small..............
Salad Dressing, large......4 55
Salad Dressing. 3mall.. ...2 65
Leroux Cider............... ...........]
Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain. 
Robinson's Cider. 50 grain. 

Standard.................
Standard H.  H........
Standard Twist......
Cut Loaf.................
Extra H .H ..............
Boston  Cream........
Standard.................
Leader  ...................
Conserve.................
Royal......................
Ribbon....................
Broken...................
Cut  Loaf.................
English  Rock.........
Kindergarten.........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan..............
Valley Cream.........
Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
@ 8*
Choc.  Drops...........
12  @14
@13
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops.............
@ 5
Moss  Drops.............
@ 8*
Sour Drops..............
@ 8*
Imperials................
@  9
Lemon  Drops.........
@50
@50
Sour  Drops............
Peppermint Drops..
@60
Chocolate Drops__
@65
H. M. Choc. Drops..
@75
Gum  Drops............
35  @50
Licorice Drops........1 00  ©
A. B. Licorice Drops
@50
Lozenges,  plain__
@55
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@60
Imperials................
@60
Mottoes...................
@65
Cream  Bar..............
@50
Molasses B a r.........
@50
Hand Made Creams. 80  @90
Plain  Creams.........
60  @80
Decorated Creams..
@90
String Rock............
@60
Wintergreen Berries
@55
Caramels. 
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes ...................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  ...................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................
Fish and  Oysters
Per lb.
Whiteflsh................ @  8
T rout...................... @  8
Black Bass.............. @  12*
H alibut...................
)  Ciscoes or Herring.. @  4
)  Bluefish...................
@  10
2  Live Lobster.........
@  15
Boiled Lobster........ @  17
c  C od.........................
@  10
e  Haddock................. @  8
1  No.  1  Pickerel........ @  6
@  7
u  Smoked White........ @  7
e  Red Snapper........... @
8  Col  River Salmon.. @
e  Mackerel  f............. @  20 
Shell Good!
;, 
1.
e  Oysters, per  100......
.1  25@1  50
Clams,  per  u)0......
.  90@1  00
7
¡0 
>6
XXXX  Powdered..............  .5 06
Mould  A...............................5 00
Granulated in bbls...............4
Granulated in  togs..............4 75
Fine Granulated..................4
Extra Fine Granulated....... 4 87
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4  87
Diamond  Confec.  A.
..4  75

Confec. Standard A......4  62
No.  1. ...4 37
No  2.. ...4 37
No.  3. ...4  31
No.  4 .No.  5.. .4 25
No.  6... .412
No.  7....4 06
No.  8. ...4 00
No.  12......................... 3 75
No.  15. ...3  12
No. 0, per gross.
No. 1, per gross.... 30
No. 2, per gross.... 40
No. 3, per gross.... 75
Carcass. 5 @ 6*
Fore quarters. 3 @ 4
Hind  quarters. 6 @  8
Loins  No.  3. 9 @12
Ribs.. 7 @ 9
Rounds. 6 @ 7
Chucks. . 4 @ 5

as follows:
Seymour XXX...................  5*
Seymour XXX, 31b.  carton  5%
Family XXX......................  5*
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  5% 
Salted XXX........................  5*4
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton 
Soda  XXX  ...................
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton.
Soda,  City...*...............
Crystal  Wafer..............
10*
Long Island  Wafers.........   li
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Square Oyster, XXX.  ......   5*
Sq. Oys. XXX, l  lb  carton.  6*
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   5*
SWEET .aOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................   10*
Bent’s Cold Water.............  12
Belle-Rose.........................   8
Cocoanut Taffy.................   8
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey...................  11
Grabs m Crackers  .............  8
Ginge r Snaps, XXX round.  6* 
Ginger Snaps,XXX  city...  6* 
Gin. Snps,XXX home made  6* 
G in. Sn ps, X X X seal loped..  6*
Ginger  Vanilla.................   8
Imperials...........................  .8
JifmDles,  Honey................  11
Molasses  Cakes.................   8
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Pretzels,  hand  made  ........  8*
Pretzelettes, Little German  6*
Sugar  Cake........................  8
Sultanas................... 
  12
Sears' Lunch........................  7*
Sears’ Zephyrette................10
Vanilla  Square.................   8
Vanilla  W afers..............  14
Pecan Wafers....................   15*
Fruit Coffee..........................10
Mixed Picnic.....................  10*
Pineapple Glace..................  15*

Plates  ...................... O*@ 3
Dressed.................... .  4 @ 4*
L oins.......................
@ 7
Shoulders.................
@  5*
Leaf Lard.................
@ 6
Mutton.
Carcass.................... .  5 @  6
Easter Lambs...........
@10

No.  9.......................
No.  10........................
No.  11........................
No.  13.......................
No.  14.......................
WICKING.

including  20  pound! 
weight of the barrel. 
Cut  Loaf...................

Fresh  Meats.

TheH. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

Crackers. 

...3 87
...3 87
...3 81
...3 69
...3 37

shipping  point,  giving

VINEGAR.

SUOAR.

Butter.

Oyster.

-Soda.

Pork.

Veal.

Beef.

15@

 

Wheat.

Local Brands.

Winter  Wheat Flour.
6  @7
6  @ 7
sn ts..............................  4  00
P
6  @ 7 
Mid  Patent...................  3 50
7*@ 8*   S 
tight............................   3 30
cases  S
tr...................................  2 90
...........................  3 25
ham 
@ 8*   C
:kwheat....................... 3 00
_  f - — 
......................   265
@ 7  H
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis- 
@ 7*  _
ount.
@8 
c
Flour in bbls.,25c per bbl. ad- 
.
@ 7* 
litional.
© 
d
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
@ 
f
@ 
f
©  8*   £
@ 8*   ^
@ 9
,
@10 
Je resota, 
............
........4 05
@13 
J-
Deresota, * s ............
....... 3 95
Ceresota, * s ............
.......   3  90
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, *s.
........4 05
Grand Republic, *s. ___3 95
Grand Republic, *s.
........3  90
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

ker, * s ........................  3 45
.ker, * s ........................  3 45
ker, * s.........................3 45
Spring  Wheat  Flour. 
Olney & Judson’s Brand.

6

o*

Beef.

5&
10*

Sausages.

8 00 
9 00 
8 75 
7 50 
10  00

The  Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and Provision Co. quotes as fol­
lows:
Barreled Pork.
Mess  ..............................
Back  ..............................
Clear back......................
Shortcut.........................
Pig...................................
Bean  ..............................
Family  ...........................
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies................  ..........
Briskets  .........................
Extra  shorts...................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __
Hams, 14 lb  average 
...
Hams,  161b  average......
Hams, 20 lb  average......
Ham dried beef..............
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
Bacon,  clear...................
California  hams............
Boneless hams................
Cooked  ham...................
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound......................
Family............................
G ranger.........................
Musselman’s Gold Leaf..
Worden’s Home Made... 
Worden's White Clover.
Cottolene.......................
Cotosuet  ........................
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
501b T ins......... advance
20 lb Pails..........advance
10 lb Pails..........advance
5 lb Pails..........advance
3 lb Pails..........advance
Bologna.........................
Liver...............................
Frankfort.......................
P o rk ...............................
Blood  ............................
Tongue  ..........................
Head  cheese...................
Extra  Mess....................
.  7 00 
Boneless  ...................
.11  00
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs.................
80 
*   bbls, 40 lbs...........
1  65
*   bbls, 80 lbs.................  3 00
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
75
1  50
*   bbls, 40 lbs.
*   bbls, 80 lbs................
P ork..............................
Beef  rounds.................
Beef  middles................
Rolls,  dairy...................
Solid,  dairy...................
Rolls,  creamery...........
Solid,  creamery...........
Canned  Meats. 
Corned  beef,  2 lb.
Corned  beef, 15  lb...........14 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb............2 00
Potted  ham,  * s .........  
75
Potted  bam,  * s ..........   1 25
Deviled ham,  * s .........  
75
Deviled ham,  * s ..........   1 25
Potted  tongue * s .........  
75
Potted  tongue * s ..........   1 25
Hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Hides.
Green.................... 
3
Part  cured.................
@ 5 @   6 @7 
Full Cured................... 5
Dry  ..............................5
Kips,  green................  3
@ 4 @ 6 
Kips,  cured................  5
®
Calfskins,  green
Calfskins, cured__ ..  5‘4@ 7
Deaconskins  ......... . .25 @30
Shearlings.............. ..  5 @  10
Lambs.................... .. 15 ©  25
Old  Wool................ ■  40 @  75
Washed 
................ ..10 @15
Unwashed.............. ..  5 @12
Tallow.................... ..  2 @
Grease Butter......... ..  1 @ 2
Switches  ............... ..  i*@  2
Ginseng......................2 50@2 90

Butterine.

riiscellan eous.

Casings.

Tripe.

Wool.

Pelts.

® 4 

• 

Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled.............
Brazils new................
Filberts  ....................
Walnuts, Gren., new.. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
Table Nuts,  fancy__
Table Nuts,  choice... 
Pecans, Texas H. P ... 
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio.......................
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks
Butternuts  per  bu__
Black Walnuts per bu 
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................
Fancy, H. P., Associa­
tion Roasted...........
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras, 
................

Roasted 

@13

© 121- @  7 
@10 
@ 12*/ 
@11

@12 
@10 
®  9

@3 50

@ 6

@ 4* 

Glassware.
FRUIT JARS.

Mason—old style, pints...  6  15 
Mason—old style, quarts..  6 75 
Mason—old  style, *  gal..  8 75 
Mason—1 doz in case, pts.  6 75 
Mason—1 doz in case, qts.  7 00 
Mason—1 doz in case,* gal  9  00 
Dandy—glass  cover, qts..  9 00 
Dandy—glass cover, *  gal  12 00

LAMP  BURNERS.

45

No.  0  Sun........
No.  1  Sun........
No.  2  Sun........
Tubular...........
Security, No.  1. 
Security, No. 2,
85 
Nutmeg  .........
50 
1  15
Arctic..............
LAMP  CHIMNEYS-Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun...........................  1  85
No.  1  Sun.............................2 00
No.  2  Sun...........................  2 80

No. 
No. 
No. 

No. 
No. 
No. 

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

top,
top,
top,

wrapped and  labeled__   2 55
wrapped and  labeled__   2 75
wrapped and  labeled__   3 75

top,
top,
top,

First  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 
CHIMNEYS,
Pearl  Top.

No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
Fire Proof—Plain Top.

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

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

Electric.

OIL  CANS. 

Pump  Can-,

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......   4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4 40
Miscellaneous.  Doz.
Junior,  Rochester............. 
50
15
Nutmeg  ............................  
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 E0  4  20 
No. 3 Rochester, flint  1  75  4  80 
No. 3  Pearl 
top,  or
Jewel  glass...........  1  85  5 25
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
lime.......................   1  75  5  10
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
flint  ......................  2 00  5 85
No. 2 Pearl glass......   2  10  6 00
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  60
1 gal galv iron with spout.  2 00
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  3 25
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4  50 
5 gal Eureka with spout...  6  50 
5 gal  Eureka with faucet..  7 09
5 gal galv iron A &  W......   7 50
5 gal Tilting cans,  M’u’ch. 10 50 
5 gal galv iron Nacefas  ...  9 00
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
No.  0 Tubular......  
......  4  50
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6 00
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 0 00
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 13  00
No.  3 Street  Lamp  .........   3 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2  doz.
each, box 15 cents...........  
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5  doz.
each,  bbl 35..................... 
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1  doz.  each__ 
LAMP  WICKS.

45
45
40
1  25
No. 0 per gross...................   24
No. 1 per gross.................  
36
50
No. 2 per gross................... 
No. 3 per grow................... 
80
Mammoth per doz............. 
75
JELLY  TUMBLERS-TIn Top.
*  Pints, 6 doz  in  box,  per
box (box  00)  .................   1 70
*  Pints, 20 doz in  bbl,  per
doz (bbl  35)....................  
23
*   Pints,  6 doz in  box, per
box (box  00)...................   1  90
*  Pints, 18 doz  in bbl,  per
doz (bbl  35). 
25
 

LANTERNS

 

 

its.

3  70
............  4 05
...........3  90
’artsian. * s........................  3 90
William Callam & Sons quote

Entire Wheat Flour. 

3 85 
3 75

Feed and Millstuffs.

.13  25 
.12 50 
.12  00
Unbolted Corn Meal...
r Wheat  Bran......... 9 uO
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 10 00
Screenings.........................  8 50
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:
Corn.
Car  lots..............................  31
Less than  car  lots.............  32*
Car  lots..............................  21*
Less than  car  lots.............  24
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots__13  50
No. 1 Timothycarlots........12 00

Oats.

Hay.

Fruits.
Oranges.

Fancy  Seedlings

4  50

Medt. Sweets...........
150-176-200...............
Messlnas 200s...........
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s..............
Fancy  300s..............
Extra 300s  ..............
Bananas.

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 
12  @

@3 50 
@3 50 
@3 75 
@4 00 
@4  25
A  definite  price  is  bard  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 00
Figs,  Fancy  Layers
20 lbs................... 
Figs, Choice  Layers
101b...................... 
Figs,  Naturals 
in
bags,  new............  
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes................... 
Dates,  Fards in 60 lb
cases  ................... 
Dates,  Persians,  G.
M. K., 60 lb cases.. 
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  ................... 
Oils.
Barrets.

@10
@ 6
@ 8
@6
@ 5
<a 4

Eocene  ......................  @10*
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @  8*
W W Michigan...........  @8
High Test Headlight..  @ 7
D., S. Gas....................   @ 9*
Deo. N aptha..............   @ 8*
Cylinder.................... 30  @38
Engine....................... 11  @21
Black, winter.............  @9
Black, summer...........  @ 8*
Eocene.......................   @ 8*
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt.  @  6
D. S.  Gas....................  @ 7

From Tank  Wagon.

Barrels.

Scofield,  Shurmer  &  Teagle

quote as follows:
Palacine....................   @11*
Daisy  White..............  @10*
Red Cross, W. W........  @ 8*
Water  White Hdlt__  @8
Family  Headlight....  @7
Red Cross S.  Gasoline  @10*
Stove Gasoline...........  @ 9*
Naphtha....................   @  8*
Palacine....................   @ 9*
Red Cross W.  W........  @6
Gasoline.....................  @ 7*

From  Tank  Wagon.

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

Gerald  FitzGerald,

Attorney at  Law

50  W.  Bridge  St.,

Grand  Rapids.

DoMs’  Utility 
Cycle  Seat

Mfg*d by Alexander Dodds, 

Grand Rapids.

Trade supplied by  Adams &  Hart,  Perkins & Rich­
mond,  Brown  &  Sehler,  Frank  Nichols,  Studley  &

BUILT  for  BUSINESS

It always pays to buy the best, and doubly so when the best costs no more 

than one not so good.  The

G Ä R & Ä N D

¿0,

Bicycles____

T he  Wheel  and  Its  “ Environment.” 
Written for the T rad esm an.

There  has  probably  never been  an  in­
novation  in  the  development  of civiliza­
tion  that  has  been  a  greater  disturbing 
element  than  the  bicycle.  This  fact  is 
a  necessary  consequence  of  the  rapidity 
with  which  it  is  becoming  the universal 
vehicle.  The  disturbing 
influences  of 
the  tremendous  rush  in the manufacture, 
and  the  no  less  tremendous  rush  in  the 
sale,  with  the  consequent  diversion  of 
funds  from  usual  channels,  have  had 
vast  influence  in  the  commercial  world 
not  altogether  the  most  favorable.  Of 
course,  the  unfavorable 
influences  are 
but  temporary—when  the  wheels  are 
paid  for the  paying  of  other  obligations 
will  be  resumed,  as  well  as  the  buying 
of  most  of  the  ordinary  luxuries  which 
its  purchase  has  supplanted.  Thus  the 
business  of  the 
the  book­
sellers,  the  confectioners,  etc.,  which 
was  never  so  dull  as  now,  will gradually 
return  to  normal  conditions  as  soon  as 
the demands of  the  wheelmakers  are sat­
isfied. 
It  is  predicted  by  many  that the 
disturbance  in  the  saloon  trade  will  be 
permanent—a  calamity  which  will  have 
to  be  borne  as  philosophically  as  pos­
sible—and  that  the tobacconists’ trade  is 
likely  to  suffer  longer  than  others,  as 
there  seems  to  be  an  incompatibility 
between  smoking  and  wheeling.

jewelers, 

least,  to  be  an 

In  many  ways  the  wheel  is  felt, 

tem­
porarily  at 
intruder. 
Just  now much  attention  is  being  given 
to  the  problem  of  its  regulation in cities 
is,  of  course,  a 
and  villages.  There 
conservative  element  which  is  long 
in 
accustoming  itself  to  the  celerity  of  the 
new  traveler.  Such  are  startled  by 
its 
meteoric  appearance  and  cannot be  per­
suaded  but  that  there  is  great  danger  to 
all  concerned  in  its  mad  career.  This 
sentiment  has  been  greatly  increased  by 
the  selfish  recklessness  of  a  few  riders, 
until  all  sorts  of  ridiculous  restrictions 
and  regulations  are  being  advocated 
and  put  upon  the  statute  books.  For 
instance,  the  ordinance  being  consid­
ered  by  the"Council  of  this  city  limits 
the  speed  to  ten  miles  per hour  in  any 
part,  and  to  six  miles—once  and  a  half 
the  pace  of  a  rapid  walker—on the prin­
cipal  streets.  Every  practical  wheel­
man  knows  that  such limitation is  ridic­
ulous  and  cannot  be  enforced,  and,  in­
deed  if  it  could  be,  would  not  be  desir­
able  as  serving  the  end  of  keeping  the 
streets  as  clear  as  possible  and  traffic 
moving.  The  slower a  wheel moves  the 
longer  it  is  in  the  way,  and  to  keep  all 
those  on  Monroe  street  in  a  funeral  pro­
cession  of  six  miles  per  hour,  neces­
sitating  frequent  dismountings  on  ac­
count  of  blockades,  etc.,  would  greatly 
increase  the  confusion.  By 
increased 
celerity  of  movement  the  wheelman  is 
able Jo  avoid  blockades,  and 
is  much 
less  in  the  Way  than  if  such  a  provision 
could  be  enforced.  But  the  condition 
is  new,  and  the  average  councilman, 
whose  privileges,  such  as  gratis  street 
car  tickets,  if  not  prestige  and  dignity, 
preclude  the  use  of  the  wheel,  thinks 
the  only  way  is  to  hold  down  the  speed. 
The  prohibition  of  rapid,  reckless  rid­
ing 
is  all  right;  but  to  hamper  the 
movements  of  wheels  by  such  extreme 
measures  is  calculated  to  defeat  the  ob­
ject  to  an  extent  that  will  become  man­
ifest  as  the  wheel  and  its  surroundings 
become  more  reconciled.

Other  attempts  at  regulation show  that 
there 
incompatibility. 
Thus,  in  the  same  ordinance,  it  is  pre-

is  yet  much 

scribld  that  the  wheel  shall  not  go  on 
any  sidewalk  or  parkway  intended  for 
pedestrians,  and  the  ordinance  also pro­
vides  that  a  bell  shall  be  rung  thirty 
feet  away  on  approaching  pedestrians. 
To  every  wheelman  the  ridiculousness 
of  such  a  provision  is  manifest.  Sup­
pose  that  the  pedestrian  is  crossing  the 
street  and  that  the  wheel 
is  to  pass 
fifteen feet back of him, the rider must at­
tract  his  attention  by  the  ringing  of  his 
bell. 
It  is,  of  course,  desirable  to  re­
quire  a  suitable  bell,  and  its  ringing 
when  necessary ;  but  unnecessary  ring­
ing  only  tends  to  disconcert  the  pedes­
trian  and  should,  rather,  be  forbidden. 
An  amusing  result  of  this  provision 
in 
the  pending  ordinance  was  the  equip­
ment  of  several  wheels  with  as  large 
and 
loud  gongs  as  could  be  procured. 
The  consequence  was  an  amendment  to 
the  ordinance  limiting  the  bells  to  a  di­
ameter  of  three  inches.

Another  ridiculous  provision  of  the 
same  ordinance  is  that  wheels  shall  not 
be  pushed  along  the  walks.  The  at­
tempt  to  enforce  such  an  ordinance  re­
sulted,  in  some  of  the 
larger  cities,  in 
the  carrying  of  the  wheels  on 
the 
shoulder  of  the  wheelmen,  which  did 
not  materially  help  matters. 
This 
prohibition 
is  ridiculous  and  will  be 
impossible  of  enforcement.

It  must,  of  necessity,  take  time  for 
the  wheel  to  come  into  harmony  with 
its  surroundings.  The  most  serious  fac­
tor  in  the  disturbance  it  is  creating 
in 
is  that  the  riders  are,  as  yet, 
its  use 
mostly 
learners.  This  condition  will 
rapidly  change.  The  riders  of  the  fu­
ture  will  be  far  more  expert  with  the 
wheel,  for  so  great  a  proportion  of  them 
will  have  grown  up 
It  is 
astonishing  with  what  skill  and  celerity 
the  average  rider  already  manages  its 
quick  manoeuvers ;  but  those  who  have 
learned  as  adults  are  bunglers compared 
with  those  who  made  it  an  accomplish­
in  youth.  Then  the  public  will 
ment 
be  more  accustomed 
it— indeed, 
most  of  the  public  will  be  riders.

in  its  use. 

to 

Principal  characteristics  of  the  wheel 
of  the  future  will  be  quickness  and 
availability.  Recklessness  or  annoy­
ance  will  be  forbidden,  but  such 
lim i­
tations  of  speed  will  not  be  tolerated. 
The  responsibility  for  accidents  will  be 
put  upon  the wheelman,  and no “ scorch­
ing”   will  be  allowed ;  but  the  main  ob­
ject  to be  gained,  in  the  use  of  mechan­
ical  aids  to  individual progression— that 
of  quick  and  safe  transit— will  not  be 
hampered  by  needless  restrictions.

* 

N a t e .

Some  calculations  have been  made  of 
the  carrying  strength  of  the  pneumatic- 
tired  bicycle  as  compared  with  that  of 
other  vehicles. 
It is  said  that  a  bicycle 
carries  seven  times  its  weight  ten  miles 
an  hour,  while  a  freight  car  carries only 
twice 
its  own  weight  at  an-  average 
speed  of  twenty  miles  an  hour.

John  M.  Miller,  a  Chicago  engineer, 
has  a  scheme  for  providing  a  perpetual 
spring  and  summer  for  Montana,  North 
Dakota  and  Minnesota,  by  building  a 
wall  from  the  Rockies  to  the  head  of 
Lake  Superior.

The  consumption  of  wheat  in  Britain 
is  reckoned  at  six  bushels  per  head  per 
annum,  which,  on  the  basis  of  an  esti­
mated  population  of  38,900,000,  makes 
a 
consumption  of  233,400,000 
total 
bushels.

Debs  is  variously  called  an  organizer 
and  disorganizer  of  labor;  but  it  is  all 
the  same  to  Debs,  who  is  getting  along 
very  well  without  laboring.

is the highest type of  standard  high  grade  bicycles.  Being  one  of the handsomest and prettiest 

wheels, it Is the lightest and strongest.

We want a few more good live agents. 

It is north your while to write  us  for  catalogue  and  dis­

counts.  Fiist come, first served.

C.  B.  M ETZGER,

SUCCESSOR TO

PENINSULAR  MACHINE  COMPANY.

G R A N D   R APID S,  MICH.

HELICAL
PERMI ERS!

TUBE

SELLS  EASILY 
F O R ....................

— 
—  

to -We are away behind on  our  orders  for  these  beautiful  wheels.  ‘-A  vital  point
you  can t  resist—Helical  Tubing—see  that  twist.”  We  also  have  the
“ Monarch,”  “America,”  “ March,”  “Outing,” 

fam ous

“ Envoy” and Others.
Our  Line  of Wheels  at  450.00 and  460.00  are 

Great Sellers.

ADAM S  &  HART,

Wholesale and Retail Bicycles, 
NO.  WEST BRIDGE  STREET.

W e   G i i a r a n t e e

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our  Brand  of Vinegar to be an ABSO LU TELY  PURE A PPLE  
JUICE  VIN EG AR.  To any  one who  will  analyze  it  and  find 
any deleterious acids, or anything that  is  not  produced  from  the 
apple, we will forfeit

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS

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

J.  ROBINSON, Manager. 

ROBINSON  CIDER  & VINEGAR  CO.,

BENTON  HARBOR,  fllCH.

OF  NO  MORE  VALUE.

How  the  Old  “ O rdinary”  Has  Nearly 

D isappeared.

The  old  and  unsolved  mystery  as  to 
what  becomes  of  all  the  pins  is  really 
not  so  difficult  of  explanation  as  a  more 
modern  question  of 
like  form.  What 
has  become  of  all  the old-fashioned high 
bicycles—the 
"ordinaries,”   as  they 
were  christened  when  the  safety  began 
to  supersede  them?  Pins  are  compara­
tively  easy  to  account 
for,  but  how 
could  hundreds  and  thousands  of  ma­
chines  like  the  wheels  used  ten  years 
ago  have  disappeared  so  swiftly  and 
completely  from  the  face  of  the  earth?
is  a  rare  sight  now  to  meet  with 
It 
one 
in  the  city  streets,  or  upon 
the 
roads  most  frequented  by  riders.  The 
man  bold  enough  to  exhibit  himself 
upon  the  "ordinary”   knows  that  he 
must  be  stared  at  by  every  passer-by 
and  must  run  the  gauntlet  of  the  ever­
present  small  boy’s  not  too  gentle  criti­
there  are  few  of 
cism.  Consequently, 
him— so  few  that  he  cuts  no 
figure 
whatever  in  accounting  for  the  missing 
wheels.

Occasionally  a  boy  may  be seen strug­
gling  upon  the  lofty  perch  of  one  of  the 
ancient  models,  but  this 
is  almost  as 
unusual  as  to  see  a  man  riding  one. 
There  is  a  strong  probability  that,  if all 
the  cellars  and  garrets  and  old  store­
rooms  could  be  searched,  they  would 
yield  up  a  goodly  number  of  the  lost 
machines.  Especially  would  this  be  the 
case 
in  the  country  towns,  where  peo­
ple  have  more  spare  room  for  * ‘ glory- 
holes”   than  do  city  folks.

“ I ’ll  tell  you  what  has  become  of  the 
leading  bicycle 
high  wheels,”   said  a 
dealer. 
‘ ‘ A  good  many  of  them are be 
ing  ridden  with  great  zeal  at  present  by 
the  negroes 
in  the  South.  The  price 
has  finally  come  down to suit them—that 
is,  there  is  practically  no  price  at  all— 
and  they  seem  to  get  plenty  of  sport  out 
of  the  old  machines.  You  see,  they  are 
not  particular  about  the  fashion  of  the 
day. 
In  parts  of  the  West  and  through 
the  backwoods  districts  there 
sprinkle  of  the 
I  have 
often  noticed  them,  as  I  was  passing 
through  the  country,  standing  in  rail 
way  sheds  or  near  the  stations. 
I  sup 
pose  there  are  plenty  stowed  away  in 
barns  and  lofts.

‘ ordinaries.’ 

is 

"There  is  absolutely  no  sale  for  them 
here.  They  had  a  reign  of  just  about 
twelve  years,  1878  to  1890,  when  the 
‘ safety’  came  in.  Generally  speaking 
you  can’t  even  give  them  away  now,  as 
a  Boston  house, discovered  last  spring 
when  it  threw  a  lot  of  them  out  into  the 
street.  The  newsboys  and  bootblacks 
came  along  and  kicked  at  them  scorn 
fully,  but  scarcely  a  boy  condescended 
to  take  one  home.  Probably  most  of 
them  have  been  broken  up 
for  old 
junk. ”

The  way 

in  which  the  mighty  have 
in  respect  to  prices  may  be 
fallen 
grasped  by  a  single  comparison.  At  the 
height  of  their  popularity  the  old  ma 
chines  sold  for  from  $90  to  $175,  w* 
$150  as  the  average  for  a  strictly  high 
grade  wheel.  At  an  auction  in  Chicago 
last  year hundreds of them were disposed 
of  for  59  cents  apiece.

One  rather  odd  use  to  which  a  few  of 
them  have been  put  is  that  of  serving 
as  signs  for  stores  where  bicycles  and 
their accessories  are  kept.  This  is  be­
coming  more  noticeable  as  time goes 
on,  giving  rise  to  the  suggestion  that 
the  high  wheel  may  in  time  be  regard­
ed  as  the  peculiar  symbol  of  the  cycle 
trade,  as  the  pestle  and  mortar  now  i 
dicate  that  of  the  pharmacist.

It  is  a  mistake  to  suppose that  the  old 
machines  can  ever be  used  again  in  the 
construction  of  the  present  wheels.  All 
the  parts,  from  the  least  to  the  greatest, 
are  of  so  much  heavier and  clumsier 
workmanship  that  there  is  no  place  for 
them  in  the  new  and  graceful  designs. 
There  is  r.o  way,  either,  of  remoulding 
them  so  that  they  will  answer  the  pur­
pose.

W.  S.  Maltby,  the  well-known  trick 
der,  when  asked  about  the  difference 
between  riding  a  high  wheel  and  a 
safety,  said :

* * In  some  respects  the  old  model  was 
more  troublesome.  One  required  a  good 
deal  more  confidence  to  induce  him  to 
get  up  so  high,  and  there  was  constant 
danger  of  taking  headers.  On the  other 
hand,  the  machines  were  much  easier 
steer,  because  the  rider’s  seat  was 
large  front  wheel.

rectly  above  the 

sturbing  influences,  and  only  a  very 
poor  bicyclist  would  be 
in  danger  of 
losing  his  balance.  I  think  they  allowed 
little  more  opportunity,  too,  for  fancy 
work.  But  for  ordinary  riding,  they 
were  dangerous  and  are  well  displaced 
by  the  safety.

Another  man  who  was  graduated  from 
the  old  style  into  the  new  expressed  the 
same  opinions  about  the  steering  quali 
es  of  the  former.  He said  that  a  good 
rider,  in  the  days  of  the  "ordinary, ’ 
could  sit  still  on  his  wheel  and  main 
tain  his  equilibrium.

"  But  going  up-hill  was  heart-break- 
mg  work,”   he  added. 
"T h e  machine 
weighed  at  least  sixty  pounds,  and when 
you came to an  ascent  which  the  modern 
laugh  at,  you  simply 
wheelman  would 
_  ghed,  got  off  and 
laboriously  walked 
the  bicycle  to  the  top.  Small  stones  that 
safety  would  run  over  with  scarcely 
_  jar  would  upset  the  high  wheel 
in  a 
twinkling.  -It  was  an  unusual  thing  for 
_  rider  to  get  home  after  a  trip  without 
having  taken  at  least  one  desperate 
header.’  ”

A  New  Invention.

Written fo r  the T r a d e sm a n .

As  if  disheartened  in  his  unsuccess­
ful  attempts  to  gain  possession  of  the 
earth  and 
its  gold  fields,  the  English­
man  has  been  trying to  see what chances 
of  gain  there  are  in  other  directions; 
and  the  result 
is  the  manufacture  of 
silk  out of  wood  pulp.  It  is not claimed, 
as  yet,  that  the  occupation  of  the  silk­
worm  is  wholly  gone;  but  British  sym­
pathy  for  that  long-overworked  creation 
has  resulted 
in  a  commercial  article 
■ hat  is  just  as  good  as  silk  for  many  of 
the  purposes  for  which  the  genuine  ar- 
_  cle  is  used.  For  working  up  with  the 
real  article  it 
is  found  to  be  service­
able,  and  the  fact  that  it  can  scarcely 
be  distinguished  from  the  product  of 
the  worm,  and  so  sold  at  a  substantial 
profit  at  a  much  lower  price,  is  a  suffi­
cient  reason  for  an  extensive  manufac­
ture  of  the  article.

Dress  goods  and  other  fabrics  from 
‘ wood  silk”   have  already  made  their 
way 
into  the  London  shops,  and,  from 
the  reception  it has received  there,  it  is 
safe  to  infer  that  the  new  material,  like 
the  New  Woman,  has  come  to  stay.

It  seems  that  the  discovery  of  the 
process  was  made  by  a  Frenchman 
Count  Hilaire  de  Chardonnet;  and  its 
manufacture  was  established 
in  1893 
The  threatened  prosperity  of  Lancaster 
led  to  a  discussion  of 
introducing  the 
manufacture  of  the  new  article  into  that 
city,  resulting  in  securing  certain  con 
cessions  and  the  erection  of  suitable 
buildings  near  Manchester,  England 
for  the  purpose.

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

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It  remains  to be  seen  what  effect  the 
increased  manufacture  will  have  on  the 
general  market.  If  any  reliance  may  be 
placed  upon  public  opinion 
in  regard 
to  the  manufacture  of  shams,  there  are 
entirely  too  many  of  these  already.  The 
filled 
history  of  oleomargarine  and 
cheese 
it 
will  not  help  matters  to  add  to  the num­
ber  of  manufactured  shams.  The  old

is  not  wholly  pleasing,  and 

comes  painfully  to  the front;  and,  while 
the  wood-pulp  silk  may  not be the  cause 
of  so  much  suffering  as  the  shoddy- 
made  clothing  then  prodficed,  it  has 
in 
it  all  of  the  offensive  elements  which 
made  the  shoddyite  an  object  of  aver­
sion,  if  not  of  contempt.  With  another 
adulteration  added  to  the  list,  the sham- 
world  shouts  lustily,  "N e x t!”

R e u b e n   M.  S t r e e t e r .

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cash on delivery.  F or further particulars address

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J. W .  POX  EXCELSIOR COMPANY,

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

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We were mildly  surprised  when  the  Secretary  of 
the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association called 
us up by phone and proceeded to discipline us.

Shades of Moses!  Wasn’t that a position  to place 
an  American  citizen  in,  more  especially  one  who 
loves “ Old Glory ”  for  the  very  breath  of  freedom 
which pervades its folds!

When this company  purchased  a  car  of  Holland 
granulated sugar, a  few weeks  ago,  at  ‘4  cent  per 
pound under the price asked by the American Trust, 
we regarded the matter simply as a  straightforward 
business transaction.

When any Trust or any combination  dares  to  dic­
tate to this company in such a high-handed manner, 
we resent it as a menace to our liberty and an insult 
to  our American  manhood,  and  we  will  see  them 
eternally d-------d before we submit to any such dic­
tation.
No wholesale grocer in Michigan shall be allowed 
to buy foreign sugars under  the  penalty  of--------- ?
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We carry  in  stock  the  following 
lines of Duplicating Sales  Books, 
manufactured  by  the  Carter- 
Crume Co.:

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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GOTHAM  G O SSIP.

News  from   the  M etropolis— Index  to 

Special  Correspondence.

the  M arket.

New  York,  June  20— The  market  sit­
uation  remains  about  the  same  as  dur­
ing  the  past  fortnight.  No  great  amount 
of  activity  prevails  and  the  general  sit­
uation  is  very  listless.  Coffee  is,  nom­
inally,  unchanged.  The  amount  of  the 
product  changing  hands  is  not large  and 
purchases  made  are,  seemingly,  only 
for  present  requirements.  Invoice  value 
of  Rio  No.  7  is  i3%c  nominally.  The 
amount  afloat  is  considerably  less  than 
a  year ago,  being  329,135  bags,  against 
579,228  bags.

is  nothing  doing  in  teas  and 
the  market 
is  as  flat  as  a  pancake. 
Auction  sales  are  fairly  well  attended, 
but  most  of  those  there  seem  to go  to 
see  others  bid.  Prices  are  as  low  as 
ever  and  the  quality  is  such  as  warrants 
no  better  prices..  On  the  street  the 
volume  of  business  is  small  for  the  av- 
erage>grades.  Of  course,  the  very  best 
teas  bring  good  prices  and  are  sought 
after;  but  this  is  the  exception.

There 

Granulated  sugar  has  taken  a  drop 
and  at  this  writing  is  held at 4.94c.  The 
situation  is  quiet,  with  few  transactions 
of  any  magnitude.  Deliveries 
are 
promptly  made  and  the  outlook  is  for 
an  even  market  for  some  time.  Deal 
ers  anticipate  a  greater  demand,  how­
ever,  as  soon  as  the  canning  season 
fairly  opens,  but 
is  a  good  time  to 
buy  now.

it 

The  amount  of  trading  in  rice  during 
the  week  has  been  up  to  the  general  av­
erage  and,  while  more  orders  might 
easily  have  been  taken  care  of,  dealers 
are,  apparently,  quite  well  satisfied  at 
the  turn  of  affairs.  Offerings  of  domes­
tic  have  been  fair  in  volume  and  prices 
are  well  adhered  to.  Reports  as  to  the 
growing  crops  indicate  a  need  of  mois­
ture.  Quotations  are  unchanged  and,  in 
fact,  there  has  been  scarcely  any  ap­
preciable  difference  made  for  a  month.
In  spices  transactions  are  small  in 
volume  and  at  low  prices;  yet  matters 
might  be  worse.  There  is  some  life  to 
the  market  and,  as  the  season advances, 
the  situation  seems  to  grow  better. 
Many 
little  “ jobs”   can  be  picked  up 
here  and  there  and  something  might  be 
saved  by  “ shopping;”   still,  the amount 
likely  to  be  involved  is  so small that  the 
buyer takes  what  he  wants  from  reliable 
dealers  and  lets  it  go  at  that.

For  really  good  grocery  grades  of 
molasses  there 
is  sufficient  enquiry  to 
keep  things  moving  and  the  tone  of  the 
market  is  encouraging.  There  is 
little 
if  any  accumulation  of  the  better  sorts. 
Grades  a  little  off  are  slow  of  sale  and 
low  in  price.

In  syrups  sales  are  few  and  small 

in 
volume.  Buyers  do  not  care  to  carry 
much  stock  and,  as  the  hot  spell  ad­
vances,  the  tendency  to  curtail  pur­
chases  becomes  more  pronounced.

Canned  goods  are  attracting  no  at­
tention  whatever,  either  for  present  or 
future  pack.  There  was  a  short  pack 
of  Early  June  peas  in  Maryland  and  the 
brokers  here  acted  as though there would 
be  a  famine  in  food  products  all  over 
the  United  States;  but  the  storm  sub­
sided  and  prices,  even  of  Early  Junes, 
seem  to  be  about  as  low  as  ever.

Dried 

fruits  are  dull  for  all  sorts. 
There  is  always  an  apathy  in  this  arti­
cle  during  this  season  of  the  year.  Loss 
by  worms  and  dampness is  so  extremely 
likely  that  the  amount  being  transferred 
from  seller  to  buyer  is  small  at  best. 
Quotations  are  nominal  and  nothing 
seems  to  prove  a  winning  factor  in  this 
1 i ne.

Butter  shows  no  material change.  The 
market  is  dull,  and the  demand  is  light, 
but  receipts  are  sufficiently large to  pre­
vent  any  appreciation  in  values.  Best 
Western  creamery 
15@15.JfcC. 
Under  grades  are  moving  slowly.

fetches 

Cheese  is  steady  and  in comparatively 
good  request.  Prices are  unchanged  and 
the  export  trade  is  quiet.

Eggs  are  quiet.  The  market  shows 
no  material  change  and  best  Western 
stock  is  held  at  I2@i3c.

When  extra  fancy  lemons  can  be  pur­
chased  at  $3@3.50  per  box,  it  would 
seem  to  be  a  good  time  to  buy.  That’s

what  they  are  now  and  the  town  is  full 
of  stock. 
If  not  full  of  fancy  stock,  it 
is  amply  supplied  with  lemons  of  al­
most  that  grade.  Oranges  are  steady 
and  seem  to  begetting into better shape.
Pea  beans  bring  g5c@$i.  Medium, 
is 

$ 1 ;  Marrow,  $ i @ i . io.  The-market 
dull.

If  the  peddlers  of  this  city  are  not 
restricted  in some way, jt   looks  as  if  the 
small  retail  grocer  will  be  forced  to  the 
wall.  The  latest  addition  to  the  ranks 
of  the  itinerant  vender  is a dusty-lunged 
individual  who  hawks  jelly  and  pre­
serves  through  the  byways  of  the  town.
An  enterprising  individual  who  runs 
a  bootblacking  stand  far  up  town  hangs 
a  sign  on  the  wall  on  his  chairs  each 
Saturday  which  reads:  “ Flowers  given 
away  with  every  shine 
to-morrow.”  
And  his  customers  on  Sundays  are  each 
presented  with  carnations  for  their  but­
tonholes,  and  he  provides  a  gorgeous 
supply  that  permits  of  the  choice  of 
white  or  pink  or'scarlet  or  dark  red.

A  good  many  families  in . New  York 
and  Brooklyn  have  been  surprised  this 
spring  by  receiving  letters  from  well- 
known  dry  goods  houses  offering  to  per­
mit  them  to  open  accounts  without  the 
formalities  and  statements  which,  as  a 
rule,  are  the  preliminaries  to  such  a 
privilege.  The  offer  was a result,  partly, 
of  the  growing  keenness  of  the competi­
tion  among  the  big  stores,  partly  of  the 
desire  to  get  new  business,  and  partly 
of  the  desirability  of  credit  customers. 
large  house  would  prefer to  do 
Every 
business 
credit  with  payments 
monthly  rather  than  on  a  cash  basis, 
for the  sales  are  apt  to  be  larger and  the 
customer  can  be  held  more  faithfully  to 
his  or  her  allegiance ;  so that all  sorts  of 
privileges  and 
favors  are  extended  to 
credit  customers.  Not  so  much  risk  as 
might  seem  is  involved  in the apparent­
ly  broadcast  offers  of  accounts  which 
are  being  made,  for  the  reason that  only 
those  families  are  selected  which  have 
some  member  with  a  rating  in  Dun’s  or 
Bradstrtet’s ;  and  this 
is  a  solid  citi­
zen. 
Indeed  the  offers  of  credit  are  in­
tended  to  tempt  the  imagination  of  the 
female  members  of  the 
family  more 
than  anything  else.

on 

W oman  as  Bank  C ashier.

From Business.

One  of  the  characteristics  of  the  New 
Woman,  we  believe,  as  commonly  rec­
ognized,  is  her  push  and  enterprise  in 
business  directions,  her  ability  to  take 
care  of  herself  in  the  sense  of  support, 
and  her  general  independence  of  man. 
It  was  not  very  long  ago  that  the woman 
stenographer  was  a  novelty.  A  woman 
book-keeper  was  also  rare  until  quite 
lately,  but  more 
recently  we  have 
ceased  being  surprised  at  anything  that 
a  woman  accomplishes 
in  business. 
Among  the  recent  announcements  of 
woman’s  success  in  the  business  field  is 
that  of  Miss  Emma  Anderson,  in  the 
capacity  of  Cashier of  the  State Bank  of 
Ottumwa,  Iowa.  Miss  Anderson  has 
served 
in  this  capacity,  as  we  are  in­
formed,  for  nearly  two  years,  and  for 
two  years  prior  to  her  promotion  was 
employed  by  the  institution  over  which 
she  now  presides  as  book-keeper  and 
stenographer.  It  would  seem,  therefore, 
that  she  has  fairly  earned  her  present 
position.  Miss  Anderson  is a  native  of 
Ottumwa,  and 
the 
Augustana  Business  College,  of  Rock 
Island,  111.  The  bank  over  which  she 
presides  is  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  the  State  of  Iowa  and  does  a  large 
commercial  business. 
In  the  account 
which  reaches  us the statement  is  made 
that  Miss  Anderson 
the 
■ cashier  of  the  bank,  and  exercises  that 
supervision  of  the  business,  even  to  the 
management  of  the  cash  and  the  time- 
lock  on  the  vault,  and  all  other  duties 
that  usually  devolve  upon 
cashiers. 
Miss  Anderson  is  of  Swedish  extraction 
and,  it  would  seem,  comes  of  a  busi­
ness  family.  A  sister  of  hers  is  a  book­
keeper 
in  one  of  the  largest  dry  goods 
houses  in  the  town  of  Ottumwa.

is  a  graduate  of 

in  fact, 

is, 

Advertising  goods 

is  the  best  medi­
cine  that  can  be  given  to  a  sick  busi­
ness.

The  poor man  is  never sued for breach 

of promise.

A  French  chemist  has  made  a  blue 
soap  which  will  render  unnecessary  the 
bluing  in  the  laundry.  In  ordinary  soap 
he 
incorporates  a  solution  of  aniline 
green  in  strong  acetic  acid.  The  alkali 
of  the  soap  converts  the  green  into blue.

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

Don’t  Be  a  "C laim er.”

An 

From the Philadelphia Orocer.
interview  with  a 

leading  local 
wholesale  grocer 
last  week  developed 
the  fact  that  there  is  in  the  world  of  re­
tail  grocers  a  class  known  as  “ claim- 
ers, ”   who  are  familiar  to  the  wholesale 
houses  as  men  who  may  be  expected  to 
claim  a  reduction  or  rebate  on  every 
order.

No  retailer  who  has  an  atom  of  self- 
respect  will  be  guilty  of  this  practice. 
It  is  all  very  well  to  make  a  just  claim 
when  the  goods  are  damaged,  or  not 
equal  to  sample,  but 
it  appears  that 
some  retailers  conscientiously  make  a 
claim  on  every  order  they  get,  no  mat­
ter  whether there  is  any  foundation  for 
it  or  not.  One  of  these  professional 
the 
“ claimers”   asserted  recently,  in 
hearing  of  a  gentleman  who 
informed 
the  writer,  that  he  “ expected  to pay  his 
rent  out  of  claims. ”

In  a  day  or  two  a 

The  usual  method  of  this  species  of 
retailers  is  to  write  the  wholesaler  after 
the  receipt  of  goods  that  they  were  not 
equal  to  sample,  and  the  contract  price 
would  not  be  paid.  The  wholesaler,  re­
luctant  to  pay  the  return  freight  on  the 
goods,  often  makes 
the  concession 
rather  than  have  the  bother  of  having 
them  returned.  One  retailer  ordered  a 
certain  brand  of  goods  from  a  local 
wholesaler  recently,  and  his  order  was 
filled  exactly. 
letter 
was  received  by  the  jobber  stating  that 
the  goods  were  inferior,  and  offering  to 
“ keep  them  at  a  oiscount.”   The  job­
ber  refused  this  peremptjrily  and  or­
dered  the  goods  returned,  whereupon 
the  retailer  replied  that  “ someof  it  had 
been  used,  and  could  not  be  returned.”  
Several  other  similar 
instances  might 
be  cited.  One  retailer  in  Richmond, 
Va.,  ordered  some  goods  of  a  local  job­
ber  at  a  very  low  price  and,  when  the 
goods  were  shipped,  claimed  that  they 
were 
inferior  and  offered  25  per  cent, 
under  the  original  price,  which  was  de­
clined  and  the  return  of  the  goods  com­
pelled.  These  goods,  by  the  way,  were 
of  a  standard brand which neither varied 
in weight nor quality. 
In his letter mak­
ing  the  claim,  the  retailer  took occasion 
to  mention  the  freight  rate  from  Rich­
mond  to  Philadelphia.

in  a 

Still  another  retailer  ordered  two  cer­
tain  brands  of  standard  goods  which 
rule  at  a  certain  price.  The  goods, 
with  bill,  were  sent,  and  the retailer  re­
plied 
letter  containing  two  clip­
pings  from  two  private  price  lists,  in 
which  the  jobber  had  for  some  reason 
heavily  cut  the  price  of  these  two  ar­
ticles.  A  check  was  enclosed  for  an 
amount  which  these  two  kinds  of  goods 
would  have  cost  at  the  cut-price  job­
ber’s.  The  original  wholesaler  returned 
the  check  and  insisted  that  the  bill  be 
paid  as  rendered,  which  was 
finally 
done  after  some  correspondence.

Don’t  get  a  reputation  as  a  “ claim­
er.”  
It  is  a  very  unfair  and  dishonor­
able  practice  to  the  wholesaler,  and will 
do  you  a  great  deal  of  harm  in  the  end.

Is  Fruit  Canning  on  the  Wane?
Many  believe  that  fruit  canning  has 
reached 
its  limit.  The  smaller  inland 
towns  and  mining  camps  will  doubtless 
have  to  depend  for  some  time  yet  upon 
hermetically  sealed  goods  for  their  win­
ter  supply  of  fruits  and  vegetables.  But 
the  superior  transportation  service  from 
large  market  centers  to  nearly  every 
town  of  importance,  and  the  improved 
methods  of  packing,  rapid  transit  and 
refrigerator  cars  bring  the  possibility 
of  fresh  fruits  and  vegetables  to  nearly 
every  consumer adjacent  to  the  lines  of 
our  great  railway  systems.  It  is  a  great 
question  with  canners  having  millions 
of  money  invested  in  plants  in  various 
parts  of  the  country  whether  the  further 
development  of  these  already  improved 
conditions  will  not  seriously  curtail  the 
demand  and  requirements  for  canned 
products.

Novel  New  Soap.

WANTS  COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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55

IjV>R  SALE-GENERAL  STOCK  OF  GOODS, 

consisting of dry goods and boots and shoes, 
cheap  for  cash,  at  Munitb,  Mich.  Stock  in­
voices  $3,500:  old  established  trade;  leading 
store in town.  Address  L.  C.  Townsend,  Jack- 
Eon, Mich. 
dbOC  CASH  WILL  BUY  A  REMINGTON 
typewriterin first-class condition.  Thum 
Bros. A Schmidt, Grand Rapids, Mich.____ 54
IpOR  SALE—FOR  SPOT  CASH  ONLY,  AT  A 
’  bargain, a stock of  shoes  in  elegant  condi­
tion; will invoice about $1,500; 110 culls or chest­
nuts;  all spring stock except  about  $200.  Don't 
answer  unless  you  mean  business;  no  trades. 
Address No. 53, care Michigan  Tradesman.  53

1  Bale  and  retail  business.  Best  location  in 
Grand Rapids.  Address S. A.  Potter,  500 South 
Division street. Grand Rapids, Mich. 

IPOR  SALE-A  BAKERY,  DOING  WHOLE- 
IpOR  SALE—A  CHOICE  LINE  OF  CLEAN 

drugs  and  medium-priced  fixtures.  Will 
invoice  about  $1,500.  Must  sell, owing  to  bad 
health.  Might take sound  trade.  For  particu­
lars address Decker & Slaght, Agents, 74 Monroe 
Street, Grand Rapids,___________________ 58
FOR  SALE—GOOD  P AYI NG  GROCERY 
store  and  stock  in thriving town.  Address 
E. D. Goff, Fife Lake,  Mich._______________ 51
IP OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND  FIXTURES, 
’  ii.voicing about $1,500, in best city in North­
ern  Michigan.  Best  of  reasons  for  selling. 
Address Drugs, care Michigan Tradesman.  42
FPOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  FURNISHING 

goods,  bats,  caps,  boots  and  shoes,  with 
good st<>ie fixtures and good trade;  stock nearly 
all new;  grand chance  for  right  party:  popula­
tion, 1,000 :  40j men employed in factories;  good 
farming  country 
'round  about.  Terms  easy, 
part  cash.  Address  No.  45,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

t r'OR  SALE-STAPLE  AND  FANCY  GRO- 

cery stock, invoicing about $1,400, located in 
live Southern Michigan town of 1,200 inhabitants; 
good trade, nearly all cash.  Redsons for selling, 
other business.  Address No. 007, care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

907

45

MISCELLANEOUS.

56

57

gan Tradesman. 

Wr AN TED—AN  ASSISTANT  REGISTERED 

pharmacist.  Address No.  57,  care  Michi­
RICK  STORE  rOR  RENT.  NASHVILLE, 
Mich  Best  opening  in  State  for  general 
siock.  Address  W.  A.  Aylsworth,  79  Clark 
street, Chicago,  111. 

ate )  would like to hear of a  good  location. 

Address M. D., care Michigan Tradesman.  47

■   GOOD  PHYSICIAN  (REGULAR  GRAD lb 
IT'OR SALE  A  LOT  OF  MitN’S  FALL  AND 

.  winter underwear  in  merino, natural  wool 
and  fleece lined;  20 dozen  pairs men's, women’s 
and  children’s  rubbers  and  Alaskas,  well  as­
sorted, and a few  dozen  Jersey  overshirts,  all 
for 50 cents  on  the  dollar.  A  good  chance  to 
sort  up.  Converse  Manufacturing  Co.,  New­
aygo, Mich. 
48
W ANTED—LOCATION  FOR A BANK.  COR- 
respondence confidential.  Address Bank­
49
er, Marine P. O , Detroit,  Mich. 
IIVJR RENT—CORNER STORE WITH SHELV- 
ing,  counters,  etc.  Excellent  location  for 
first-class grocery.  Dunton Rental & Collection 
Agency. 63 Lyon St., Grand Rapids, Mich. '  46
IjVJK  RENT—BRICK  BUILDING  IN  NEW- 
'  berry, Mich  Best  location  in  the  village 
Specially adapted  for  drug  trade.  J.  A.  Shat- 
tuck, Newberry, Mich. 
UTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY  AND  VEAL 
Shippers should write Cougle Brothers, 178 
South  v\ ater  Stieet,  Chicago,  for daily  market 
reports. 
ANTED. BY APRIL 1—A LINE OF GOODS 
for Lower  Michigan  or  Upper  Peninsula; 
last six years in  Upper  Peninsula;  the  highest 
reference to character and ability.  Address No. 
970, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SHIP- 
pere of butter and eggs  and  other  season­
able produce.  R. Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit. 
____________________________________ 951
W ANTED—SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN- 
tral  mileage  books.  Address,  stating 
price, Vindex. care Michigan Tradesman.  869

970

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41

For Sale!
FEED  MILL

B rick,  S team   R oller

Known as the Ostrander  Mill,  situated 
in the village of Willis,  Washtenaw Coun­
ty,  Mich.,  fully equipped with  Elevators, 
Bins,  Hopper,  Scales,  Etc., for handling 
grain, on Main Street, and runs to Wabash 
rail  road grounds, with side track.  Sixty 
horse *power engine  and  boiler.  Liberal 
terms.  Address,

JOHN  P.  KIRK,  or
TRACY  L.  TOWNER,  Trustees.

Ypsilanti, Mich.

