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Number 667

A  BUSINESS  SUGGESTION.

Written for the  T radesman.

One  of  the  results  of  education  is  to 
make  men  dissatisfied  with  the  present 
and  optimistic as  to  the  future.  Knowl­
edge  gained  by  investigation  and  com­
parison  sometimes  reveals  conditions 
that  become 
less  desirable  as  they  are 
better  understood.  The  citizen  of  to­
day,  were  he  put  back  into  the  first  half 
of  this  century,  would  feel  very  un­
comfortable  with  his  environment.  This 
is  especially  evident  when  we  consider 
the  fact  that both  individual and collect­
ive  progress  has  ever  been  in  a  direc­
tion  that  leads,  through 
industry,  free­
dom  of  thought  and  action,  and  wise 
systems  of  National  enterprise,  towards 
the  goal  of  general  prosperity.

Errant  follies  of  factions  have  only 
generated  centrifugal  force  enough  to 
attract  attention,  and  perhaps  to  dis­
turb,  for  a  time,  the  forward  movement 
of  the  conservative  mass.  But  its  course 
has  never  been  materially  hindered  or 
changed,  because  the  business 
intui­
tions  of  our  people  have  steadied,  if 
not  controlled,  the  vagaries  of  enthusi­
asts  and  calmed  the  elements  of  danger 
in  the  presence  of  every 
important 
crisis.  Still,  crude  theories  are  ever 
in  process  of  development,  bringing 
us  face  to  face  with  new  schemes  of 
Utopian  policy  that,  if  brought  to  the 
test  of  actual  experiment  by  the  whole, 
might  eventually  arrest  true  progress 
and  end  in  social  and  business  calam-' 
ity.

Since  we  cannot  afford  to  allow  every 
plan  or  theory  of  small  minorities— 
based,  as  they  are  most  commonly,  on 
ignorance  of  history  or  long-established 
precedent—to  control  National  policy, 
would 
it  not  be  advisable  to  set  apart 
a  certain  part  of  our  wide  domain  as  a 
proving  ground,  wherein  the  practical 
value  of  each  theory  might  be  tested  on 
a  small  scale?  In  originating large man­
ufacturing  enterprises,  it  is  often  nec­
essary  to  disburse  much  money  upon 
preliminary  experiments,  to  determine 
the  most  practical  and  profitable  meth­
ods  of  production,  before  expending 
large  capital 
in  constucting  the  plant. 
This  business  wisdom  may  be  safely 
imitated  in  the  more  extensive  field  of 
The  colonizing 
National  enterprise. 
habits  of 
the  American  people—in 
building  up  communities  having  such 
common  interest  that  each reform would 
have  undisturbed  opportunity to develop 
all  the  good  claimed  for  it,  or,  on  the 
other  hand,  would  furnish  an  object 
lesson  as  a  warning  to  others—make 
this  plan  feasible.

One  of 

these  advertised  plans  of 
economic  reform  may  yet  be  brought  to 
a  test  in  the  State  of  Delaware,  if  the 
efforts  of  its  supporters  shall  be crowned 
with  success.  For  months  they  have 
been  carrying  on  a  campaign  of  educa­
tion  there,  with  the  view  of  controlling 
a  field  wherein  the  single tax  theory  can 
be  practically  applied. 
Should  they 
prevail,  we  will,  no  doubt,  have  op­
portunity  to  see  how  the  new  system  of 
taxation  will  work  when unhampered  by 
adverse  conditions.

If  it  were  not for constitutional restric­
tions,  it  might  be  well  to  test  the sound­

ness  of  the  radical  silver  theory 
in  the 
same  way—perhaps  in  Colorado,  where 
the  unanimity  of  sentiment  on 
this 
is  overwhelmingly  in  one  di­
problem 
rection.  According  to  the  reasoning  of 
its  advocates,  silver  and  gold  can  be 
kept  at  the  old  parity  of  ratio  if  free 
coinage  is  restored  by  Congress,  with­
out  regard  to  the  action  of  other  nations 
with  which  we  have 
large  commercial 
dealings.  Ergo,  a  state  of  the  union, 
supposing 
to  have  autonomous 
powers,  especially  as  to  coinage,  can 
as  easily  maintain  such  parity  of  value 
by  its  own  unaided  efforts,  without  re­
gard  to  the  financial  conditions  existing 
in  other  states. 
If  not,  why  not?  * It 
would  surely  save  endless  discussion  of 
less  to  try 
an  unsolved  problem,  cost 
the  experiment  and  disturb  to  the 
least 
extent  the  business  of  the  country ;  and 
the  results  should  he  as  conclusive  as  if 
the  test  had  been  made  on  a  larger 
scale.

it 

As  to  socialists  and  anarchists,  a  pa­
triotic  boycott  would  better  meet  their 
deserts,  since  they  form  an  element  that 
can  never  assimilate  with  the  citizens 
of  any  civilized  government. 
If  their 
beliefs  could  be  safely  allowed  to  bear 
fruit,  the  most  suitable  spot  on 
the 
earth's  surface  for  them  to  operate  is 
some  island  in  mid-ocean—one  of  vol­
canic  origin  and  action  would  be nearer 
in  harmony  with  the  character  of  the 
colonists  there  congregated.
1  We  have  had,  hitherto,  some  party 
eruptions  that,  like  boils  on  the  human 
system,  passed 
the  £usual 
changes  of  pathological  condition  until 
absorbed  by  the  healthy  tissues  of  the 
body  politic.  It  is  unfortunate  that  they 
have  not  served  as  a  restraining 
influ­
ence  on  generations  that  followed.  But, 
so  long  as  men, 
individually,  prefer 
the  wisdom  bought  only  by  personal  ex­
perience,  a  nation,  being  but  an  ag­
gregate  of  the 
individual,  is  apt  to 
suffer,  at  times,  from  a  like  mental  ob­
tuseness.

through 

The  above  suggestions  may  seem 
chimerical  by  daylight  to  many  of  my 
readers.  But  are  they  more  so  than 
scores  of  theories  urged  upon  public  fa­
vor,  whenever  opposed  by  disputants  in 
the  ardor  of  debate?  To  all  mercantile 
men  every  economic  plan  of  reform, 
however 
exploited  and  championed, 
must  be  a  matter  of  personal  interest. 
Without  being  an  active  partisan,  he 
yet  cannot  refrain  from 
forming  an 
opinion  concerning  its  merits,  and  de­
ciding  whether  it  may  or  may  not  con­
flict  with  commercial  prosperity,  the 
true  touchstone  of  a  nation’s  progress.
therefore,  may 
well  keep  cool  amid  the  war  of  conflict­
ing  opinions,  for  this  is  a large country, 
with  a  grand  destiny  before  it,  and  it 
includes  a 
large  body  of  conservative 
citizens  who  are  in  the  habit  of  think­
ing  twice  at  least  on  questions  vitally 
affecting  the  prosperity  of  all.

The  business  man, 

Pe t e r   C.  Me e k .

The  worst  debts  are  not the  uncollect­
ible  ones,  but  those  contracted  to  main­
tain  follies.

More  galling  than  the  great  ills of life 

are  its  small  jealousies.

THE  REACTION  IN  SUGAR.
The  extent  of  the  recent  decline  in 
sugar  was  such  as  to  produce  a  feeling 
of  profound  depression  in  sugar  circles 
all  over  the  world.  Without  apparently 
any  real  change  in  the  statistical  posi­
tion,  prices  declined 
fully  a  cent  a 
pound  within  the  space  of  a  few  weeks. 
Such  a  decline  naturally  represented  an 
enormous  shrinkage 
in  the  value  of 
stocks  of  sugar  held  on  speculation.

The  principal  cause  of  the  heavy  de­
liberal 
cline  was  the  forced  sale  of  the 
stocks  of  beet  sugar  accumulated 
in 
Hamburg.  These  stocks  had  been  ac­
cumulated  in  expectation  of  a sharp  ad­
vance  which  it  was  believed  would  fol­
low  the  passage  of  the  new  German 
law.  No  such  improve­
sugar-bounty 
law, 
ment  followed  the  passage  of  the 
however,  owing  to  certain 
changes 
made 
in  the  character  of  the  bill  and 
the  date  on  which  it  was  to  take  effect; 
hence  the  liquidation  by  the  disgusted 
speculators.

The  greater  part  of  the  decline  hav­
ing  been  caused  by  forced  sales,  it  was 
reasonable  to  suppose  that,  as  soon  as 
the  weakly-held  stock  was  again 
in 
strong  hands,  prices  would  react,  as 
nothing  in  the  statistical  position  war­
ranted  the  extensive  decline  which 
took  place.  The  advance  of  last  Friday 
would  seem  to  point  to  the  probability 
that  the  reaction  has  commenced.  How 
far  prices  will  now  go  on  the  up  turn  it 
is  difficult  to  foresee;  but  the  facts  of 
supply  and  demand  would  seem  to  war­
rant  a  very  considerable  ¡improvement 
over  existing  values.

in 

The  season  is  now  at  hand  when  us­
ually  the  largest  consumption  of  sugar 
is  experienced,  namely  the  fruit  ^sea- 
son.  Owing  to  the  shortage 
the 
Cuban  crop,  the  ordinary sources of sup­
plies  of  raw  sugar  depended  upon  at 
this  season  of  the  year  have  been  al­
ready  exhausted.  Now  that  it  is  evident 
that  prices  have  commenced  to  react, 
there 
likely  to  be  a  brisk  demand 
from  all  quarters,  as  there  has  hitherto 
been  much  holding  back 
in  the  hope 
that  prices  would  go  still  lower.

is 

The  outlook 

for  supplies 

for  next 
season  does  not  point  to  a  superabund­
ance.  The  beet  crops  of  Europe  prom­
ise  a  probable  increase  of  600,000  tons 
if  the  weather continues favorable.  This 
increase  will  not  off-set  the  shortage 
which  is  likely  to  be  experienced  in  the 
Cuban  crop.  By  the  time  the  next  sea­
son  arrives  the  world’s  visible  supply 
will  „have  been  decreased  to  a  point 
where  the  stocks  will  cease  to  be  a 
source  of  weakness.
Poor  Recommend  for  the  Husband.
“ N o,”   said  Mrs.  Trett,  “ I  always  do 
my  own  shopping,  and  always  buy  the 
supplies  for  the  kitchen. 
I  can’t  trust 
my  husband  to  do  anything  of  the  sort. 
He  hasn’t  a  bit  of  judgment.  A  dry 
goods  clerk  or  a  grocer  can  poke  any 
kind  of  stuff  off  on  him  at  twice  its 
value.' ’

“ That’s  the  way  with  some  men,”  
“ By  the  way, 

responded  the  caller. 
what  is  your  husband’s  profession?’ ’

“ He  runs  a business  college.’ ’

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

2

B ic y c le s

Until  quite  recently  the 

Wheelways  and  Road  Improvements.
influence  of 
the  wheel  has  been  given  almost  entire­
ly  to  the  general  improvement  of  high­
ways,  without  special  regard  to  its  own 
peculiar  needs  further  than  the securing 
and  maintaining  of  reasonably  smooth 
and  hard  road  surfaces. 
It  is  generally 
conceded  that  the  modern  movement  in 
systematic  road  building  in  this country 
is  the  result  of  the  demands  of  the 
wheel,  beginning 
in  the  days  of  the 
high  “ ordinary,”   in  the  vicinity  of  the 
larger  cities  of  the  country,  notab’.y 
Boston,  and  greatly 
increasing  and 
spreading  through  the wider influence of 
the  “ safety.”   Among  direct  results  of 
this  influence  organizations  have  been 
established  in  a  large  proportion  of  the 
counties  and  towns  of  the  country  for 
the  purpose  of  securing  systematic 
im­
provements,  and  many  of  the  state  leg­
islatures  have  taken  favorable  action  in 
the  same  direction.

form. 

Recently,  however,  the  movement 

is 
assuming  a  new  and  more  selfish,  or  at 
least  more  narrow, 
Instead  of 
striving  to  secure  the  improvement  of 
the  whole  broad  highway  through  the 
enlistment  of  the  interests  of  the  com­
munities  to  be  benefited,  it  is  turning 
its  attention  in  the  direction  of  secur­
ing,  by  direct  action,  suitable  paths  by 
the  roadsides  for  its  exclusive  use,  ex­
cept  as 
incidentally  they  are  shared 
with  the  pedestrian.  The  reason 
for 
this  change 
in  the  movement  seems  to 
be  that,  while  the  general  improvement 
of  roads 
is  progressing  as  rapidly  as 
could  be  expected,  it  is  yet  far  too  slow 
to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  rapidly 
multiplying  wheel.

Thus 

local  organizations  are  being 
instituted,  largely  for  the  purpose  of 
prosecuting  this 
feature  of  improve­
ment.  Already  these  have  built  paths 
sufficient  to  demonstrate  the  practica­
bility  of  such  work.  A  path  is  com 
pleted  to  connect  Kalamazoo  and  Battle 
Creek  which  makes  a  trip  between 
those  cities  “ a  dream  of  pleasure.”  
While  this  kind  ofjmprovement  is  new, 
and  the  science  of  such  path-building 
scarcely  formulated,  it  has  been 
found 
that  the  expense  is  comparatively  light, 
and  the  organizations  and  enterprises 
are  rapidly  increasing.

The  first  such  enterprise  is  just  being 
instituted 
in  this  city.  While  its  ob 
jects  will  be  the  securing  of  the  rights 
and  advantages  of  all  wheelmen  in  gen­
eral,  its  specific  work  will  be  the  build­
ing  of  such  pathways.  -The  first  pro­
jected  is  the  one  between  this  city  and 
Holland,  about  thirty  miles.  Although 
the  project  is  only  a  few  days  old,  the 
first  general  meeting  of  the  organization 
not  having  been  held,  several  thousands 
of  dollars  have  already  been  secured, 
showing  a  sufficient  interest  and  co-op­
eration  of  wheelmen.

Some  of  the  periodicals  devoted  to 
the  interests  of  road  improvement  have 
deprecated  this  phase  of  the  movement, 
fearing  that  the  diversion  of  interest 
would  be  at  the  expense  of  the  prime 
object  of  securing good  highways for the 
whole  country. 
It  seems  to  me  this 
fear  is  without  foundation,  for  the  rea­
son  that  the  good  roads  movement  is 
now  on  a  foundation  independent  of  the 
special  demands  of  the  wheel.  The 
education 
in  that  direction  has  pro­
gressed  until  the  future  is  assured.  And 
whatever  loss  there  may  be  in  the direct 
influence  by  the  adoption  of  paths  will 
in  the  good  results  of  the
be  made  up 

improvement  of  these.  Slight  though 
such  works  may  be,  they  will  be  object 
lessons 
in  every  community  through 
which  they  may  pass,  that  will  result  in 
impetus  to  the  general  road 
a  great 
Then  the  nature  of  the 
movement. 
work  of  general 
improvement  is  such 
that  direct  contributions  from  wheel­
men  for  that  purpose  could  not  be  se­
cured ;  the  new  paths  are  to  be  built  by 
direct  contributions  from  wheelmen,  so 
that  the  work  will  not  be  at  the  ex­
pense  of  existing  resources  for  road 
work.
On 

the  whole,  the  new  movement 
promises  to  be  of  importance  in  the  se­
curing  of  suitable  wheelways,  and  at 
the  same  time  will  be  a  valuable  auxil­
iary  to  the  greater  work  of  securing 
suitable  permanent  highways 
for  all 
purposes.

N a t e .

News  and  Gossip  of Interest to Dealer 

and  Rider.

It 

It 

if  a  bicyclist 

is  with  considerable  amusement 
that  one  reads  a  discussion  in  an  Eng- 
ish  paper  on  how  to  put  a  stop  to 
'scorching.”   Over  there  they  call  it
furious”   riding.  A  plan  which  seems 
to  meet  w ith  favor 
is  the  compulsory 
displaying  of  a  number  which  shall  be 
registered  with  some  official.  The  idea 
s  that 
is  going  at  a 
‘ furious”   pace  his  number  will  be 
taken,  and  a  policeman  will  go  to  his 
home  and  arrest  him. 
is  suggested 
that  this  number  be  painted  on  both 
sides  of  the  gear  cover,  most  bicycles 
n  England  being  equipped  with  this 
accessory.  But  it  would  be  difficult  to 
read  this  number  on  a  swiftly  moving 
bicycle;so  another  plan  urged  is  that  a 
plate  bearing  it  be  suspended  from  the 
rear  of  the  saddle.  Then  the  number 
would  be  visible  as  the  rider sped away. 
Of  course,  there  would  have  to  be a reg­
ulation  that  coattails  be  worn  so  short 
as  not to hide  this  plate.  However,  if 
man  was  violating  the  law  by  going 
at  an  illegal  pace,  he  would  be  willing 
to  violate  it  some  more  by  covering  his 
number.  Besides,  at  night  the  whole 
regulation  would  be  useless,  and  it  is  at 
that,  time  that  “ scorching”  
is  most 
dangerous.

It 

is  agreed  that  the  best  plan  is  to 
stop  the  bicyclist.  At  the  meeting  of 
one  Town  Council  in  England an Aider- 
man  gravely  proposed  the  use  of  a 
“ man  catcher,”   consisting  of  a  bam­
boo  hoop  fastened  to  the  end  of  a  fish­
ing  pole.  Another  worthy  thought there 
should  be  a  law  empowering  any  one  to 
throw  a  stick  at  the  wheels  of  the bi­
cycle,  in  order  to  stop  the  “ scorcher.”  
A  Texas  cowboy,  with  a  lasso,  would 
do  well  at  this  game.  The  complete 
success  of  the  experiment  of  a  police 
bicycle corps  in  New York ought to prove 
a  valuable  hint  to  the  English  authori­
ties.  Cycling  circles  are  thoroughly 
stirred  up  over  the  question,  and  Sir 
Matthew  White  Ridley,  the  Home  Sec­
retary,  has  addressed  communications 
on  the  subject  to  local  officials  and  to 
cyling  clubs 
in  various  parts  of  the 
kingdom,  with  a  view  to  hitting  upon 
some  feasible  and  effective  remedy.

*  *  *

it 

The  accounts  of  certain  cases 

in 
which  persons  were  fined  recently  in 
England  for  fast  riding 
indicate  that 
the  usual  pace  over  there  is  more  rapid 
than 
is  here.  Thus  there  was  great 
indignation  because  a  woman  was  fined 
ten  shillings  and  costs  merely  because 
she  indulged  in  a  speed  of  fifteen  miles 
an  hour  in  a  suburb  of  Bristol.  Police­
men  in  citizens’  clothes  timed  her  over

a  straightaway  stretch  of  three-quarters 
of  a  mile,  and  the  accuracy of their  evi­
dence  was  not  disputed. 
Complaint 
was  made,  however,  because  there  was 
no  testimony  to  show  that  she  endan­
gered  anyone  by  her  act.  Three  B ir­
mingham riders  denied  indignantly  that 
they  were  riding  twenty  miles  an  hour, 
as  charged  by  the  police.  They  told 
the  magistrate  that  they were going  only 
seventeen  miles  an  hour,  but  admitted 
having  run  into  a  policeman.  A  rep­
rimand  and  a  fine  of  five  shillings  and
costs  were  meted  out  to  them.

£  $  .4c

The  crash  cycling  suits  for  men  have 
won  much  favor,  and  are  worn  a  great 
deal.  They  are  pleasing  in appearance 
and  cool.  For  short  rides 
in  the  city 
they  are  specially  desirable,  but for long 
tours  they  are  not  so  good. 
In  a  rain 
storm  they  are  particularly  bad.  They 
get  soaking  wet  so  readily  that  they 
stick  to  one’s  body  and  increase  his 
discomfort.  Woolen  garments,  on  the 
other  hand,  are  a  source  of  warmth 
in 
the  rain.  Women  who  wear  crash 
skirts  say  they  are  exceedingly  light 
and  comfortable  for  hot  weather.

*  *  *

A  surprisingly 

large  proportion  of 
women  riders  do  not  know  how  to  place 
the  feet  on  the  pedals. 
It  is  common 
on  the  Boulevard  to  see  women  riding 
with  the  pedals  against  the  heels  of 
their  shoes.  This 
is  not  only  gawkish  | 
to  look  at,  but  wasteful  of  energy.  The 
proper  place  for  the  pedal  to  rest  is  on 
the  ball  of  the  foot.  There  is  greater 
leverage  and  more  ease  in  this  than 
in 
any  other  position.  Another  cycling 
absurdity  is  high  French  heels,  which 
are  to  be  seen  on  some  women. 
It 
would  be  superfluous  to  speak  about 
women’s  wearing  pointed  shoes  on  the

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A wheel  that  you  can 
retail  at $50 to $60 and 
make good margins.

Also write about our

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“ WORLD”  and 
“ PREMIER”

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wheels, it is the lightest and strongest.

We want a few more good live sgents. 

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

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wheel.  Nearly  all  of  them  do.  The 
common  cycling  shoe  for  men  is  square 
in  front.  Perhaps  women  find  the  tooth 
pick  shape  comfortable. 
If  they  do, 
there’s  nothing  more  to  be  said.

*  *  *
cyclists 

all 

That 

are  not  mere 
“ scorchers,”   bent  solely  on  covering 
as  many  miles  as  possible,  is  shown  by 
the  bunches  of  wild  flowers  which  many 
bring  back  with  them 
from  country 
tours.  The  rapidity  with  which  these 
flowers  wilt 
is  the  only  drawback,  but 
they  can  often  be  revived  by  placing 
in  water  after  clipping  off  the 
them 
ends  of  the  stems.  Of  course, 
they 
should  be  plucked  on  the  way  home, 
and  as  near  the  city  as  they  can  be 
found.  Daisies  are  remarkable  for  the 
length of  time  they  will  keep  fresh  after 
being  pulled.  They  will  sometimes 
last  from  one  week  until  another.  Wild 
roses  have  been  at  their  best  lately,  but 
unfortunately  they  wither  almost  im­
mediately  on  being  picked.  The  buds, 
however,  can  be  brought  home  in  good 
condition.  Honeysuckle  is  now  in  rich 
bloom  and 
is  a  delight  to  the  eye  and 
nostril  of  the  passing  cyclist.

*  *  *

from 

It  seems  out  of  the  question  to  say  a 
final  word  on  the  subject  of  comfortable 
saddles,  as  each  style  has  its  adherents 
and  opposers.  A  man  who  has  tried  a 
good  many  kinds  finds  the  most  satis­
factory  device  to  be  a  piece  of  felt  fas­
tened  to  the  ordinary 
leather  saddle. 
This  felt  may  be  bought  of  dealers  in 
harness,  and  should  be 
three- 
quarters  of  an  inch  to  an  inch  in  thick­
ness.  The  price  is  $2  a  pound,  but  four 
ounces  will  be  found  enough.  This  will 
be  about  six 
inches  by  eight.  The 
corners  can  be  cut  off  with  a  penknife, 
and  the  felt  shaped  to  fit  the  saddle. 
The  longer  dimension  should  be  cross­
wise.  Linen tape  may  be  used  in  tying 
the  felt  firmly.  Saddles  are  the  source 
of  so  much  discomfort  that  this  experi­
ment  is  worth  a  trial,  especially  as  this 
particular  rider  has  used  the  felt  some 
thousands  of  miles  with  entire  satisfac­
tion. 

*

*  *  *

The  manufacturers  of  standard  bi­
cycles  are  not  worrying  nearly  as  much 
as  some  people  seem  to  think.  Rumors 
cf  price-cutting  and  failures  continue 
to  be  circulated.  The  makers  of  the 
high-grade  wheels  realized  that  there 
was  to  be  trouble  for  some  of  the  many 
new  firms  which  have  sprung  up  all 
over  the  country  in  the  last  two  years, 
and  they  are  not at  all  surprised  at  the 
result.  Where  so  many 
inexperienced 
people  tumble  headlong  into  an  enter­
prise,  failure  is  bound  to  come  to  many 
of  them.  Then  the  scramble for  cheap 
wheels  this  year  will  be  for  the  benefit 
of  the  makers  of  high-grade  machines 
hereafter.  Many  veteran  cyclists  will 
tell  you  that  at  some  time 
in  ¡their 
career  they  have  bought  cheap  wheels 
for  economy,  as  they  thought.  They 
will  then  tell  you  that  they  will  never 
again  buy  an 
inferior  article  when  it 
comes  to  cycling.  The  purchaser  is  dis­
satisfied  and  repairs  and  vexatious  an­
noyances  follow.  There  will  be  plenty 
of  high-grade  wheels  on  the  market 
next  year,  and  most  will  be  listed  at 
practically  the  same  prices  that  they 
were  sold  for  this  season,  according  to 
the  makers.  There  will  also  be  many 
machines  which  have  been listed at  $100 
this  year  which  will  sell  for  much  less 
than  that  price.  The  reason 
is  that 
many  of  them  were  never  really  first- 
class  bicycles.

You  have  no  good  reason  to  expect 

prosperity  you  do  not  deserve.

SEC R ET   OF  GOOD  C O FFEE.

Nothing  to  be  Compared  With  Pure 
Java.
From the New York  Sun.

is, 

The  coffee  expert  had  finished  eating 
the  substantial  part  of  his  dinner,  and 
the  waiter  had  just  brought  to  him  the 
first  one  of  his  invariable  two  cups  of 
The  expert  poured  the  hot 
coffee. 
milk 
into  the  coffee,  tested  the  mix­
ture,  and  his  eyes  shcne  with  delight  as 
he  exclaimed :

is  nothing 

“ Ah,  that's  a  fine  cup  of  coffee. 

It 
is  pure  Java,  and  of  the  best  quality, 
and  I  think  I  can  guess  just  how  it 
comes  that  we  haven’t  the  usual  m ix­
ture  to-night.
“ You  see,”   he  continued,  “ the coffee 
we  usually  get  here  is  a  mixture  of  half 
and  half,  Java  and  Maracaibo—and  a 
very  good  mixture  that 
too—but 
there 
like  the  pure  Java. 
Now,  what  has  happened  is  this :  The 
restaurant  man  has  sent  in  a  hurry  for 
coffee  at  a  late  hour,  and  the  clerk  who 
was  to  make  the  mixture  has  found  the 
Maracaibo  bin  empty.  So,  rather than 
get  out  a  fresh  supply  of  Maracaibo,  he 
has  filled  the  order  entirely  from  the 
Java  bin. 
It  was  easy  for  him,  but 
rough  on  his  employer,  for  this  Java  is 
worth  seven  cents  a  pound  more  than 
the  Maracaibo.”

“ What  is  the  best  coffee  in  the world, 
and  where  does  it  come  from?”   one  of 
his  companions  asked.

“ Java ,”   was  the  laconic  answer.
“ But  we  read 

in  novels  about  the 
heroes  or  heroines  sitting  down  to  a cup 
of  the  fragrant  Mocha,  and  the  term 
is 
used  with an air of assurance,  as much as 
to  say  that  when  it  came  to  coffee  there 
was  but  one  kind  and  that  was  Mocha. 
What  is  Mocha?”

“ Mocha 

is  mostly  a  tradition  and 
wholly  a  fraud, ’ ’  declared  the  expert. 
“ There  is  no coffee grown  about Mocha, 
but  there  are  Indian  coffees  shipped 
from  Mocha.  The  peculiarity  of  the 
Mocha  of  -the  trade 
is  that  it  is  com­
posed  mostly  of  round berries  instead of 
flat berries  of  the  more  perfect  coffees. 
These  round  berries,  or  peaberries,  as 
they  are  also  called,  are  simply 
ill- 
grown,  imperfect  fruit.  Most  of  what 
is  sold  for  Mocha  in  the  stores  is  made 
up  from  the 
imperfect  berries  which 
have  been  sorted  out  from  the  mild 
coffees  of  Mexico  and  Central  America 
and  Santos  coffees. 
In  some  stores  you 
can  buy  the  genuine  Mocha,  and  when 
you  get  it  you  are  worse  off  than  if  you 
have  the  imitation.”

“ How  is  that?”
“ It  is  sure  to  be  full  of  Quakers.”
“ And  what  are  Quakers?”
“ The  next  time  you  go  into  a  coffee 
store  take  up  a  handful  of  roasted coffee 
If  it  all  looks  alike 
and  spread  it  out. 
in  color  it  is  free  from  Quakers,  but 
if 
you  find  here  and  there  berries  which 
are 
in  color  than  the  rest  pick 
them  out.  These  are  the  Quakers.

lighter 

is  gathered, 

“ When  coffee 

it  has 
about  the  berries  a  soft  pulp.  To  get 
rid  of  this  the  berries  are  put  out  on 
mats and  left  to  fement.  This  rots  off 
the  outer  pulp  and  it  can  then  be got 
rid  of.  But  this  process  of  fermentation 
sometimes  goes  too  far  and  affects  the 
berries.  This 
is  more  apt  to  be  true 
with  the  imperfect  berries  than with  the 
others. 
If  you  will  take  the  Quakers 
and  break  them  open,  you  will  find  that 
they  present  all  stages  of  decay.  Some 
of  them  are  merely  dry  rotted  and  have 
no  flavor  of  any  kind.  From  this  they 
will  vary  until  you  come  to  the  worst 
ones,  which  swell 
like  rotten  potatoes 
when  they  are  opened.  One  bean  of 
this  kind  will  spoil  a  whole  grinding  of 
coffee,  and  any  coffee  with Quakers  will 
be  bad.  Mocha  has  more  than  any 
other  kind. ”

“ But  suppose  you  get  rid  of  the 

Quakers,  how  is  the  Mocha  then?”

“ Still  bad. 

light  mild  Java. 

It  has  little  flavor,  and  to 
make  up  for  this  lack  the  dealers  give 
it  a  very  dark roasting.  Then  they  rec­
it  to  people  to  add  strength  to 
ommend 
the 
add 
strength  to  the  color  of  the  extract,  but 
is  due  entirely  to  the  burnt  sugar 
that 
and  starch 
in  the  vegetable  matter  in 
the  bean.  Roasted  peas  would  answer 
the  same  purpose.

It  does 

These  are : 

“ There  are  two  things  which  people 
imagine  are  guides  to  the  goodness  of 
coffee  which  are  really  of  no  conse­
quence  whatever. 
The 
color of  the  decoction  and  the  aroma  of 
the  coffee  when  it  is  ground  or  as  this 
escapes  from  the  pot  in  drawing.  The 
color  is  due  almost  entirely  to the  roast­
ing.  This  is  true  also  of  tea.  The  finest 
coffees  and  teas,  when  properly  roasted 
and  prepared  to  give  out  their  finest 
flavors,  will  color*the  water  but  little. 
The  real  essences  which  give  the  flavor 
have  practically  no  color.

“ The  public  seemingly  knows  but 
little  of  what  the  real  taste  of  coffee 
should  be. 
It  confounds  the  bitter  taste 
of .the  roasted  vegetable  matter  with  the 
entirely  dissimilar  flavor  of  coffee,  and 
learns  to  like  this  so  much  that  it  in­
sists  upon  having  the  coffee  roasted  so 
highly  that  any  flavor of  coffee  which  it 
might  have  had  is  driven  off.  As  to  the 
aroma,  that 
is  the  true  essence  of  the 
coffee.  The  reason  that  this  is  no  guide 
to  the  quality  of  the  berry  is  that  there 
is  just  as  much  of  this  essence  present 
in  the  rankest  coffees  as  there  is  in  the 
mild  ones.  Your  nose  would  be  as  de­
lighted  with  the  aroma  from  a  lot  of 
fresh  roasted  Rio  coffee as  it would  with 
the  finest  Java. 
In  the  coarse-flavored 
coffees  there  are  oils  present  which 
spoil  the  extract.  These  oils  are  more 
or  less  volatile,  and  many  of  these 
coffees  are  improved  by  keeping  them 
stored  in  hot  places,  such  as  under  the 
roof  in  lofts  for  five  or  six  years. 
Java 
does  not  need  this.

“ Boston  and 

its  neighborhood  have 
the  best  taste  for  coffee  of  any  part  of 
is  next. 
this  country,  and  New  York 
Boston  has  its  coffee  roasted  the 
light­
est.  We  take  a  medium  roast  for  our 
ordinary  sales;  but  the  Germans  want 
their  coffee  roasted  black. 
If  you  want 
good  coffee,  go  to  the  dealers  of  the 
highest  repute  and  buy  nothing  but 
Java.  Good  coffees  are  standard  as 
gold,  and  you  needn’t  be  disappointed 
if  you  don’t  get  fine Java  from  a  de­
partment  store  or ordinary  grocer  for  28 
or  29  cents  a  pound  when  the  standard

3

price  is  36  cents.  Next  to  Javas  come 
the  Maracaibo  coffees,  and  Santos  fur­
nishes  some  nice  mild  coffees.”

A  Contrary  Man.

The  most  contrary  man 

I  ever 
knew,”   said  Mr.  Sizzlington,  “ was  a 
man  who  was  so contrary  that  he  had  to 
have  his  watch  made  to  go  backward.  I 
never  knew  how  he  told  the  time  by 
it, 
nor  how  far  wrong  he  could  get  by  i t ; 
but 
it  was  a  satisfaction  to  know  that 
twice  a  day 
it  came  right  in  spite  of 
him. ”

It  is  a  very  common  thing  for  a  man 
who  has  speculated  and  lost  his  fortune 
to  commit suicide. 
It seems  exceeding­
ly  cowardly  to  thus  leave  his  family  not 
only  to  bear  the  misfortune  of  his  rash 
judgment,  but  the  sorrow  and  shame  of 
such  a  death;  but  the  man  who  has  not 
bravery  enough  to  live  is  generally  too 
selfish  to  think  of  others. 
It  is,  there­
fore,  reassuiing  to  hear  of  a  better 
spirit  that  animates  a  man 
in  Connec­
ticut.  He  has  decided  to  commit  sui­
cide,  as  he  finds  life  not  worth 
living; 
but  he  proposes  to  make  his  taking  off 
a  source  of  revenue  to  his  family.  He 
intends  to  enter  a  cage  in  which  live 
lions  are  confined  and  allow  himself  to 
be  torn  to  pieces  by  the  beasts.  He 
proposes  to  charge  §5  a  ticket  to  those 
who  would  like  to  witness  the  tragedy, 
the  proceeds  to  go  to  his  family.  Now 
this  is  something  like.  A  man  who  in­
tends  deserting  his  family  and  depriv­
ing  them  of  his  support  should  at 
least 
try  to  make  them  a  money  equivalent. 
Let  us  have  fair  play,  even  in  suicide.
In  Canada  no  campaign  butttons,  rib­
bons  nor  badges  can  be  worn  between 
nomination  and  polling  day. 
The 
carrying  of  flags  as  a  party  badge  is 
also  forbidden.  The  penalty  is  a  fine 
of  §100  or  three  months  in  prison,  or 
both.

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H E R E   A R E   MANY lower priced flours on 
the  market  than  Ceresota.— Note  the word 
low priced.— We don’t  say  cheaper;  there 
is a wide difference between  low priced and 
cheap.

Low  priced  generally  means exactly the 
opposite  to  cheap.  Don’t  be  led  away  by 
tempting offers of something  “just as good” at a  little  lower 
If it was just as good  it would  not  be  necessary  to 
price. 
cut under the price of  “Ceresota," and  the  very  fact  that  it 
has  to  be sold at a lower price ought to satisfy any one that 
it  is  not  as  good.  That  is perfectly plain,  is it not?  Much 
plainer and  simpler than the silver question.

Respectfully,

Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer Company

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

4

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Elkton—Deta  Schultz  has  opened  a 

meat  market.

Alpena—Daniel  Knights, 

furniture 

retailer,  is  out  of  business.

Elkton—Isabella  Cornell  succeeds  G.

B.-Cornell  in  the  drug  business.
Iron  R iver—John  Morrison, 

retail 

furniture  dealer,  is  out  of  business.

Detroit—Nichols  &  Goette  succeed 
Omer  A.  Nichols  in  the  drug  business.
Galien—Henry  Fitterer,  baker  and 
confectioner,  has  removed  to  Chicago.
Jackson—Enos  &  Hay,  meat  dealers, 
have  dissolved,  Joseph  Enos  succeed­
ing.

Jackson—H.  A.  Grover  succeeds  Gro­
in  the  grocery  busi­

ver  &  Butterfield 
ness.

Algonac—J.  P. 

Stewart  Bros, 
business.

Stewart 

succeeds
in  the  grocery  and  meat 

the  other  for  $18,175.80  to  the  same 
I party,  covering  the claims of  other  cred­
itors.  His 
stock  will  probably  not 
much  more  than  satisfy  the  first  mort­
gage.

Kalamazoo—The  Celery  City  Cycle 
Co.,  consisting  of  A.  J.  Holmes,  F.  W. 
Holmes  and  F.  W.  Allen,  has  turned 
its  assets  over  to  F.  J.  Moon  as  trustee. 
A  chattel  mortgage„for S3,145.  on eighty 
bicycles,  machinery  and  tools  at  113 
South  Rose  street  was  also  given  in  fa­
vor  of  Mr.  Moon.  The  creditors  named 
in  the  assignment  are :  Sterling  Cycle 
Works,  S600;  Morgan  &  Wright,  $¿40; 
Excelsior  Supply  Co.,  S5° °  J  Merchants 
&  Manufacturers  Warehouse,  $29,  and 
Barker  &  Hamer,  $138.  The  assets  are 
said  to  exceed  the  liabilities.  Lack  of 
capital  to  carry  a  large  number  of  con­
tract  sales  was  the  cause  of  the  failure.

Benton  Harbor—Rowe  &  Lundy  have 
opened  a  retail  grocery  store  at  214 
Territory  street.

Coopersville—M.  Durham 

succeeds 
in  the  elevator,  grain 

Durham  &  Co. 
and  coal  business.

Sand  Beach—Philip  Binkle  succeeds 
in  the  harness  and 

Binkle  &  Gourley 
hardware  business.

Sand 

L ’Anse—John  Campbell 

succeeds 
Peter  Ruppe  in  general  trade  and  the 
furniture  business.

Lake—Hubbard  &  Latimer, 
meat  dealers,  have  sold  out  to  Ball, 
Nough  &  Co.,  formerly  of  Pierson.

Wayland—Wharton  &  Allen,  proprie­
tors  of  the  West  Wayland  market,  have 
dissolved,  Charles  Wharton  succeeding.
Hancock—John  Pinton  will  continue 
formerly  con­

the  hardware  business 
ducted  by  Jos. Pinton  &  Bro.

Jackson—Riley  &  Harrison  continue 
fomerly  con­

grocery  business 

the 
ducted  by  Stephen  H.  Carroll.

Ubly—M.  C.  Skinner,  formerly  en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  Imlay 
City,  has  removed  to  this  place.

Galien—W.  A.  Dunlap,  proprietor  of 
the  general  store  of  the  Dunlap Co.,  has 
removed  its  stock  to  Battle  Creek.

Detroit—Herz  &  Molitor,  First  and 
Grand  River  avenues,  have  added 
fur­
niture  to  their  storage  and  transfer busi­
ness.

Jackson—Mills  &  Smith,  formerly en­
gaged  in  the  bakery  business,  have  dis­
solved.  A.  C.  Smith  will  continue  the 
business.

Bay  City—Anna  I Mrs.  Samuel)  Lit- 
tauer  succeeds  S am u el  L itta u e r  in  the 
wholesale  and  retail 
liquor  and  cigar 
business.

Calumet—John  Clemc,  Jr.,  and  R.  B. 
Mackenzie  succeed  Werner  Nikander  in 
the  drug  business,  under  the  style  of 
John  Clemo,  Jr.,  &  Co.

Allegan—Cook,  Baker  &  Co.  have 
added  to  their  lines  combination  desks, 
bookcases  and  secretaries.  They  are 
showing  twenty-five  samples  with  the 
Klingman 
Co.,  Grand 
Rapids.

Furniture 

Detroit—The  L.  W.  Thomm  Cycle 
Co.,  doing  business  at  204  Griswold 
street,  has  filed  a  trust  mortgage  to  I. 
N.  Payne.  There  are  five  creditors 
mentioned 
in  the  mortgage.  The  ag­
gregate  amount  of  the  indebtedness  is 
$2,202.  The  company  decided  to  go 
out  of  the  retail  business  six weeks  ago.
Saginaw—Lester  Hirschkowitz,  a  dry 
goods  dealer  doing  business  on  Potter 
street,  has  filed  two  chattel  mortgages— 
one  for  $6,127  to  William  Wolsky,  of 
Clare,  as  trustee  for  three  creditors,  and

Manufacturing  Matters. 

Parshallville—John  Bickhart,  miller, 
has  sold  out  and  removed  to  Warsaw, 
Ind.

Tekonsha—Amy  & 

manufacturers,  have  removed 
Joseph.

Phelps,  cigar 
to  St. 

Wayland—C.  C.  Deane  has 

invented 
a  new  hat  case  which  he  confidently  ex­
pects  to  manufacture  and  place  on  the 
market  on  a  large  scale.

Cadillac—The  mercantile  business 
heretofore  carried  on  by  the  Cummer 
Lumber  Co.  will  be  continued 
in  con­
nection  with  the  Cummer  &  Diggins’ 
lumber  interests  under the  style  of  E.
G.  Snider  &  Co.,  Wm.  Snider,  who  has 
had  the  management  of  the  company  s 
mercantile  department  for  the  past  ten 
years,  having  taken  an  interest 
in  that 
department.

clerk. 

county 

Albion—Articles  of  association  of  the 
Albion  Milling  Company  have  been 
filed  with  the 
The 
officers  of  the  corporation  are  N.  S. 
Potter,  of  Jackson,  President;  S.  B. 
Allen,  Vice-President;  L. 
J.  Wolcott, 
Secretary;  H.  M.  Hearing,  Treasurer. 
W.  B.  Knickerbocker  will  occupy  the 
position  of  general  manager,  under  the 
direction  of  an  executive  committee, 
composed  of  himself,  John  Johnson  and
H.  M.  Dearing.  The  capital  of  the 
company 
is  $120,000,  $80,000 of  which 
is  paid  in.  The  mill  will  be  started  at 
once.

Result  of the  Star  Island  Meeting.
Detroit,  June  27—At  the  meeting  of 
the  Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy, 
which  was  held  this  week  at  Star  Is­
land,  eighty-four  candidates  presented 
themselves  for  registration.  Those  who 
succeeded  in  securing  registered  certifi­
cates  are  as  follows:

Bion  Arnold,  Denton;  Frank  C. 
Hitchcock, 
Plainwell;  William  A. 
Hackett,  Detroit;  Charles  R.  Horton, 
Northville;  George  M.  Heath,  M ilan; 
Ernest  W.  Kurz,  Detroit;  J.  K.  Lip- 
pen,  Battle  Creek ;  Patrick  Looby,  De­
troit;  George  Lohrsortfer,  Port  Huron; 
Frederick  C.  Manchester,  Port  Huron ; 
J.  Masse,  Chatham,  Ont.  ;  Nora  1. 
J. 
Mitchell,  Hubbardston ;  James  C.  Mor­
rison,  Detroit;  A. 
E.  Mulholland, 
Ithaca;  George  A.  McDonald,  Detroit;
| Charles  H.  Patterson,  Jackson ;  C.  W. 
Townsend,  Vandalia; 
J.  Van 
Haaften,  Kalamazoo;  Clarence  A. 
Weaver,  Detroit;  George  P.  Wilder, 
Albion; 
F.  Wanek,  Detroit; 
Charles  A.  von  Walthansen,  Bay  C ity; 
Frank  Yott,  Jr.,  Ann  Arbor.

Assistant  registered  certificates  were 

Fred 

J. 

granted  to  the  following :

Milton  D.  Bryant,  Detroit;  Lewis  H. 
Cooper,  Fowlerville;  Harry  E .  Fox, 
Gaylord; 
John  G.  Harvey,  Detroit; 
August  H.  Ludwig,  Detroit;  Henry 
Nankervis,  Ishpeming;  E.  W.  Wilders, 
Pontiac.

F.  W.  R.  Pe r r y ,  Sec’y.

It  bore  date  of  June  15  and 

Monthly  Report  of  Secretary  Owen.
June  30—Up  to  this 
Grand  Rapids, 
writing  495  members  have  paid  assess­
ment  No.  2  for  1896.  This  is  the  larg­
est  number  of  members  who  have  ever 
paid  up  so soon  after the assessment  was 
issued. 
is 
payable  on  or  before  July  15.  Last  year 
over  a  hundred  of  the  boys  failed  to 
mail  their  remittances  until  July 
15.  so 
that  they  did  not  reach  me  until  July 
16.  I  hope  they  will  do  better  this  time, 
for,  in  the  event  of  the  death ‘of  such  a 
member  between  noon  of  July  15  and 
the  receipt  of  the  remittance  by me,  the 
insurance  would  be  invalid.
Twenty-one  new  members  have  been 
added  to  the  membership  roll  during 
the  past  month,  as  follows:
Julius  C.  Vogt,  Saginaw.
Joel  R.  Gay,  City.
Wm.  Sempliner,  Bay  City.
V.  L.  Garand,  Detroit.
Chas.  E.  Leach,  Eau  Claire,  Wis.
A.  A.  Weeks,  City.
E .  B.  Gillett,  Muskegon.
W.  H.  Price,  Lansing.
H.  C.  Malory,  City.
G.  W.  Lampkins,  Chicago.
W.  L.  Atwood,  Belding.
R.  B.  Parmenter,  Jackson.
J.  F.  Case,  Saginaw.
M.  J.  Wrisley,  City.
H.  Rosenthal,  La  Porte,  Ind.
Hal.  D.  Chapman,  Chicago.
Chas.  T.  Riley,  Cincinnati.
J.  J.  Granville,  Saginaw.
S.  S.  Ramsey,  Portland.
W.  A.  Pitcher,  City.
A.  P.  Prosser,  City.
The 

list  of  honorary  members  now 

comprises  134  names,  as  follows:

I.  F.  Anderson,  Wayne.
Wm.  Addison,  Battle  Creek.
W.  L.  Andrews,  Williamston.
A  T.  Bliss,  Saginaw,  W.
S.  Blackmore,  Vassar.
V.  K.  Brown,  Carson  City.
E.  D.  Bennett,  Cassopolis.
St  Beatty,  Utica.
Bailey  Bros.,  Ionia.
C.  Burke,  Cadillac.
J.  Burt,  Capac.
H.  E.  Brown,  Memphis.
J.  Brownell,  Central  Lake.
J.  F.  Bower,  Mendon.
E.  J.  Brant,  Benton  Harbor.
J.  Bailey,  South  Haven.
W.  P.  Beyer,  Detroit.
Z.  E.  Briggs,  Stanton.
W.  R.  Billings,  Holland.
F.  G.  Bennett,  Galesburg.
J.  D.  Billings,  Traverse  City.
W.  S.  Barringer,  Jonesville.
S.  O.  Bush,  Battle Creek.
C.  A.  Brink,  -Lakeview.
W.  H.  Barney,  Muskegon.
E.  C.  Compton,  Reed  City.
D.  A.  Casterlin,  Charlotte.
E.  Chiritree,  Harrisville.
H.  C.  Crosby,  Hartford.
J.  W.  Calkins,  Clare.
W.  Cortright,  Newaygo.
W.  J.  Chittinden,  Detroit.
W.  M.  Comstock,  Niles.
E.  Carl,  Harrisville.
J.  De  Haas,  Fremont.
M.  Dill,  Lake  Ann.
G.  W.  Doliver,  Niles.
A.  M.  Decker,  Lakeview.
J.  M.  Dodge,  St.  Johns.
G.  H.  Day,  Mt.  Pleasant.
C.  D.  Farr,  Sturgis.
J.  J.  Freeman,  Marcellus.
G. J .   Filmore,  Quincy.
J.  Fisher,  Detroit.
F.  Giddings,  Lawton.
J.  D.  Gleason,  Milford.
A.  J.  Godsmark,  Battle  Creek.
J.  Green,  Battle  Creek.
Geo.  Hook,  Battle  Creek.
J.  R.  Hayes,  Detroit.
Fred.  Hotop,  Kalamazoo.
E.  J.  Holland,  Bellevue.
E.  C.  Hinman,  Battle  Creek.
W.  P.  Hetherington,  Belding.
L.  C.  Handy,  Mancelona.
L.  L.  Homer,  Chesaning.
Mrs.  E.  Howe,  Midland.
H.  D.  Irish,  Grand  Haven.
F.  H.  Irish,  Grand  Haven.
N.  C.  Johnson,  Bay  City.
W.  H.  Jay,  Imlay  City.
F.  B.  Jones,  Fenton.
Ed.  Killean,  Manistee.
F.  Kohl,  Quincy.
J.  B.  Kelly,  East  Jordan.

M.  V.  Lott,  Three  Rivers.
F.  Lyon,  Saginaw.
Jas.  Lyle,  F ife  Lake.
M.  Lignian,  Bellaire.
Chas.  Lvon,  Roscommon.
F.  H.  Latta,  Battle  Creek.
W.  H.  Lewis»  Ypsilanti.
V.  A.  McIntyre,  White  Cloud.
T.  M.  Millikin,  Sebewaing.
C.  H.  Mehrtens,  White  Cloud.
O.  F.  Millard,  Kalamazoo.
H.  F.  Miner,  Lake  Odessa.
C.  F.  Meech,  Charlevoix.
D.  D.  Mitchell,  Albion.
Nye  &  Hamilton,  Flint.
M.  M.  Nowlin,  Ypsilanti.
Mrs.  S.  A  Osmun,  Nashville.
H.  Oakley,  Traverse  City.
H.  E.  Painter,  Marshall.
C.  A.  Patullo,  Grayling.
F.  J.  Parker,  Cadillac.
Parker  &  Son,  Hastings.
J.  A.  Pocklington,  Dundee.
S.  H.  Peck,  Petoskey.
J.  A.  Pearsall,  Lansing.
T.  I.  Phelps,  Greenville.
Fred.  Postal,  Detroit.
G.  W.  Puefrey,  St.  Johns.
H.  F.  Palmer,  Colon.
W.  A.  Palmer,  Ithaca.
E.  M.  Richards,  Battle  Creek.
H.  A.  Read,  Ludington.
G.  F.  Renaud,  Detroit.
John  Robbins,  Manchester.
C.  B.  Rogers,  Springport.
Mrs.  B.  A.  Rhine,  Delphi,  Ind.
M.  Staebler,  Ann  Arbor.
A.  E.  Smith,  St.  Louis.
J.  W.  Smith,  Rochester.
M.  D.  Sly,  Romeo.
G.  M.  Shillinger,  Standish.
W.  M.  Springseen,  Litchfield.
H.  Stone,  Homer.
A.  A.  Sheldon,  Mendon.
W.  M.  Spice,  St.  Ignace.
R.  W.  Swayze,  Lowell.
F.  B.  Stearns,  Big  Rapids.
E.  A.  Shafer,  Northville.
Jas.  S token,  Caro.
Smith  &  Roe,  Pontiac.
J.  H.  &  W.  C.  Swart,  Detroit.
F.  Sandburg,  Shelby.
A.  C.  Stephens,  Ionia.
B.  T.  Skinner,  Battle  Creek.
G.  W.  Trumble,  Evart.
J.  R.  Trimble,  Mt.  Clemens.
Dick.  Townsend,  Ft.  Wayne,  Ind.
J.  R.  Thomas,  L ’Anse.
A.  S.  Thomas,  Durand.
A.  Vincent,  St.  Joseph.
T.  Wentworth,  Lansing.
A.  L.  Wilcox,  Benton  Harbor.
J.  M.  White,  Howell. 
N.  A.  Waugh,  Gaylord.
E.  E.  Whitney,  Plainwell.
H.  Whitney,  Cedar  Springs.
J.  F.  Wildermuth,  Owosso.
E.  Woolcott,  Watervliet.
W.  M.  Woodard,  Kalamazoo.

*

G eo.  F.  Ow e n ,  Sec’y.

Association Matters

Michigan  Hardware  Association

President, F.  S. Carleton,  Calumet;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  H enry  G.  Weber,  Detroit:  Secretary- 
Treasurer,  Henry C. Minnie,  Eaton Rapids.
Northern Mich. Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J.  F. Tatman. Clare;  Secretary,  E. A. 
Sto w e,  Gtand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  Wisler, 
Mancelona.
Next Meeting—At Grand Rapids,  Aug.  4  and  5, 
1896.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
Holey ;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  Thos.  T.  Bates;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

President.  E. C.  Winchester:  Secretary, Homer 
Klap;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers’ Hall, 
over E. J.  Herrick’s  store.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D. Wh ipple; Secretary,G .T.Camp­

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

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

t er;  Treasurer, J. F.  II elm kb.

Alpena Business Men’s Association

President,  F.  W.  Gilchrist;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Partridge.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Darling;  Treasurer, L. A. Gilkey.

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

Wm.  Sandell  and  C.  E.  Hill  have 
formed  a  copartnership  and  engaged  in 
the  banking  business  at  Belding  under 
the  style  of  Wm.  S.  Sandell  &  Co.

Fred  R.  Fuller,  formerly  engaged 

in 
the  drug  trade  at  Newberry,  but  more 
recently 
in  charge  of  his  father’s  drug 
store  at  Traverse  City,  died  recently  at 
Chicago  from  the  effects  of  an  attack  of 
typhoid  fever.

Henry  C.  Waters,  senior  member  of 
the  hardware  firm  of  H.  C.  Waters  & 
Co.,  at  Paw  Paw,  was  recently  married 
Miss  Cora  B.  Nelson,  of  the  same 
place.  Over  100 guests  were  present  to 
assist  in  celebrating  the  event.

Marion  F.  Nichols,  Ph.  C.,  prescrip- 
on  clerk  for  Paul  V.  Finch,  was  mar- 
ed  to-day  to  Miss  Maggie  Muskopf 
f  Beach  City,  Ohio.  The  ceremony 
took  place  at  the  residence  of  the 
bride’s  parents  at  Beach  City.

5

SU C C ESSFU L  SALESM EN.

F.  C.  Eberling,  Representing  John  H.

Eberling,  of Green  Bay.

Frederick  C.  Eberling  was  born  in 
Green  Bay,  Wis.,  June  15,  1868,  his  an­
tecedents  being  German  on  both  sides. 
His  father  was  a  miller  by  trade  before 
he  removed  to  this  country,  while  his 
grandfather  was  a  miller  for  over  half  a 
century  in  the  German  Empire.  He  at­
tended  school  at  Green  Bay  until  19 
years  of  age,  when  he  went 
into  the 
mill  then  conducted  by  his  father,  as 
shipping  clerk.  Two  years  later  he  was 
promoted  to  the  position  of  traveling 
salesman,  which  he  has  filled  to  the  sat­
isfaction  of  all  concerned  for  the  past 
seven  years,  during  which  time  he  has 
covered  the  trade  of  Northern  Michigan 
and  Wisconsin.  During  the  past  few 
months  he  has  extended  his  trade  into 
Ohio,  Indiana  and  Western  Pennsyl­
vania,  in  consequence  of  which  he  is 
considering  a  change 
in  his  head­
quarters,  but  whether  he  will  conclude 
to  locate  at  Grand  Rapids  or  Toledo 
has  not  yet  been  fully  decided  upon.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Chas.  K.  Gibson has  removed  his  gro­
cery  stock 
irom  53  Pearl  street  to  559 
Cherry  street,  corner  of  Packard  street.
The  grocery  stock  of  Wm.  Wiencz- 
kawsky,  at  693  Broadway,  has  been 
seized  on  chattel  mortgage.

Frank  Neff  has  opened  a grocery store 
Judson 

at  Grand  Ledge.  The  Olney  & 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

R.  Kuiper  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  395  Ottawa  street.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company  furnished  the  stock.
J.  W.  Brubaker  and  Arthur  Seymour 
have  formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style  of  the  Boston  Tea  Co.  and  opened 
a  tea  and  spice  establishment  at  85 
Canal  street.

On  and  after  July  1,  subscribers to  the 
Red  Book 
in  Michigan  will  be  served 
from  the  office  of  the Commercial Cred' 
Co.  A  complete  record  of  reports 
now  on  file  there.

large  receipts  and  the  small  decrease  in 
the  visible,  which  was  only  957,000 
bushels,  against 
1,664,000  bushels  the 
corresponding  time  last  year,  leaving 
47,860,000  bushels  of  wheat 
in  sight, 
or  3,229,000  bushels  more than last year, 
and  with  the  harvest  nearly  two  weeks 
earlier.  The  fine  weather  and  the  fact 
that  Russia 
is  offering  wheat  for less 
than  the  United  States  also  helped  to 
depress prices.  The  foreign  advices  re­
garding  the  present%crop  show  up  some 
better  than  heretofore.  For  the  present, 
at  least,  there  is  nothing  in  sight  to  lift 
wheat  much  above  the  present  values.

Corn  and  oats,  owing  to  the  extreme 
dull  times,  with  no  demand  and  hardly 
any  trading,  have  fallen  off.  Corn  has 
declined  ic  per  bushel,  while  oats  are 
off  fully  3c  per  bushel  in  the  open  mar­
ket.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were 
wheat,  28  cars;  corn,  7  cars,  and  12 
cars  of  oats—quite  a  large  amount  of 
oats.

The  millers  are  paying  55c  for  wheat 

to-day.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

Outside  buyers  who  represent  a  circle 
of  retail  dealers  are  beginning  to  be 
seen  on  the  morning  market.  They 
come  to  Grand Rapids  because  they  can 
secure  a  full  line  of  fruit  and  produce 
without  any  trouble.  While  they  could 
perhaps,  buy  one  or  two  lines  of  pro 
lower  at  small  points  re 
duce  a 
little 
mote  from  a 
large  market,  the  extra 
freight  on  less  than  carload  shipments 
and  the  expense  of  traveling  around 
from  place  to  place  to  secure  the  nec­
essary  assortment  amount  to  much  more 
than  the  disparity  in  prices.

The  status  of  the  market  bonds  has 
undergone  no  change.  After  the  first 
firm  which  had  bidden 
for  the  bonds 
declined  to  accept^them,  as  it  was  en­
abled  to  do  on  account  of  no  forfeit 
having  been  submitted,  it  was  awarded 
to  the next highest  bidder.  After  several 
weeks’  correspondence  this  firm,  evi­
dently  not  succeeding 
in  placing  the 
bonds  at  a  sufficient  profit,  also  de­
clined  to  accept  them. 
They  were 
then  awarded  to  the  third  firm,  which 
seems  likely  to  complete the  deal,  hav­
ing  made  a  payment  thereon. 
It  is  an 
insult  and  disgrace  to  the  city  to  thus 
have  its  bonds  apparently  hawked  about 
and  begging  for  acceptance.  The  ask­
ing  of  bids  without  requiring  a  deposit 
permits  irresponsible  brokers  to  submit 
bids  with  a  view  to  making  profitable 
sale  of  the bonds  if  they  ‘can,  or  other 
wise  failing  to  take  them.  Such  an  op­
portunity  to  bid  against  the  future  ir 
the  bond  market  costs  them nothing  and 
the  chance  of  making  a  margin  is worth 
their  while. 
These  bids  were  over 
$1,200  and  $500,  respectively,  above  the 
price  that 
In  the 
meantime  the  improvement  of  the  mar 
ket  site  is  held  in  abeyance. 
Just  why 
it 
is  necessary  that  the  cash  for  th 
bonds  shall  be  on  deposit  before  the 
plans  are  formulated  is  not  apparent  to 
the  outsider,  and 
impatience  in 
creases  that  nothing  is  done  in  the  di­
rection  of  making  the  investment  yield 
returns  and  provide  a  suitable  place  for 
the  early  morning  merchants.
The  Grain  Market.

is  finally  realized. 

the 

The  weakness 

in  the  wheat  market 
continued  throughout  the  week.  Cash 
wheat  closed  about  3c  lower  and  future 
wheat  about  2c  lower  than  it  opened.  It 
is  unnecessary  to  enumerate  the  causes, 
as  they  have,  been  given  often  hereto­
fore.  However,  the  main  factors  for 
the  decline  were  the  small  exports,  the

Put  the  Hour  of  Mailing  on  Youi 

Orders.
Written for the Tradesman.

jobber. 

According  to  the  rule  lately  inaugu 
rated  by  the  sugar  refiners,  the  price 
ruling  at  the  time  a  mail  order 
mailed  to  a  jobber  is  the  price  at which 
such  sugar  must  be  billed.  For 
in 
stance,  an  order  is  mailed  at  9  a.  m. 
June  26,  and  reaches  the  jobber  at  10 
a.  m.,  June  27.  The  price  ruling  at 
a.  m.,  the  26th,  will  be  the  price  at 
which  the  sugar  will  be  billed,  no  mat 
ter  what  it  may  be  at  the  time  the  order 
reaches  the 
If  dealers,  in  or 
dering  sugars,  will  always  put  the  hour 
of  mailing  on  their  orders,  it  will  as 
ist  the  jobber  very  materially  in  mak 
ng  the  correct  price.
Orders  given  to  traveling  salesmen 
are  subject  to  the  same  rule.  Supposing 
the  price  of  granulated  at  9  a.  m.  June 
26,  is  5.25,  and  a  traveler  takes  your or 
der  at 
10  o’clock,  naming  5.25  as  the 
price.  An  advance  of  %c  may  hav 
taken  place  at  9:30,  of  which  he had, 
the  time  of  taking your order,  noknowl 
edge,  in  which  case  the  jobber  will  ad 
vance  your  price  %c. 
ic   has  taken  place,  he  will 
price  in  like  degree.  The  traveler  v 
tually  has  no  authority  to make  a  bind­
ing  price.  This  may  seem,  at  first, 
arbitrary,  but  jobbers  have  been  unable 
to  buy  of  refiners  on  any  other  terms  for 
years,  and,  as  it  applies  to  either  an  ad­
vance  or  decline,  it  is  eminently  fair  to 
all  concerned.

If  a  decline 

lower  the 

H e man  G.  B a r l o w .

Flour  and  Feed.

A  change  has  come  at  last  and,  in 
place  of  dull,  dragging  markets,  there 
has  been  considerable  enquiry  and  a 
disposition  to buy  more  freely  than  for 
weeks  past.  The  trade  has,  evidently, 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  flour 
is 
cheap,  and  to  secure  a  fair  supply  of 
choice  old  wheat  flour  for July  business 
is,  no  doubt,  a  wise  thing  to  do.

The  winter  wheat  crop  is  being  har­
vested  and  is,  perhaps,  the most  irregu­
lar  and  uneven  as  to  yield  of  any  crop 
grown  for  many  years.  The  perfect 
weather  of  the  past  few  weeks  has  en­
sured  for  Michigan,  not  only  a  better 
yield,  but  grain  of  much  better  quality 
than  was  looked  for  in  May.  The  grade 
of  Michigan  flour  this  year  will  be  of 
superior  quality.
Feed  and  millstuffs  are  in  better  de­
mand,  with  pi ices  unchanged  for  the 
week. 

W m.  N.  R owe,

Gaius  W.  Perkins,  President  of  the 
jrand  Rapids  School  Furniture  Co., 
has  invited  a  number  of  friends  to  take 
bicycle  run  to  Cascade  Springs  on  the 
morning  of  July  4.  The  party  will 
meet  at  his  residence  at  181  Fountain 
street  at 6  o’clock,  taking  breakfast  at 
the  Country  Club.

G.  H.  Gates,  formerly  Cashier of  the 

Bank  of  Morenci,  has  disposed  of  his 
business 
interests  there  and  August  1 
will  become  a  citizen  of  Detroit,  where 
he  assumes  a  responsible  position  with
J.  Whitney.  His  brother,  W.  R. 
C. 
Gates, 
Jr.,  will  take  bis  place  in  the 
clothing  house  of  E .  B.  Butler  &  Co., 
and  his 
the  Bank  of 
Morenci  have  been  purchased  by  the 
other partners.

interests 

in 

High  Priced,  but  Cheap.

is  not 

The  Duplex  Egg  Carrier 
in  the  common  ac­
‘ cheap”   carrier, 
ceptation  of  the  term  “ cheap. ”  
It  is 
the  highest  priced  carrier  in  the  mar 
ket  when  first  cost  is  taken  into  consid­
eration,  but  it  will  be  found  the  cheap 
est  in  the  end.

It 

is  high  priced,  because  it  is  well 
made,of the best possible material—hard 
w o o d;  dovetailed  and  nailed  corners; 
fillers  made  of  papier  mache  thorough­
ly  saturated  with  asbestos,  making  it 
waterproof,  so  that  it  may  be  cleansed, 
in  the  event  of  its becoming  soiled,  by 
simply  turning  hot or  cold  water  on  it ; 
the  cover hinged  to  the  body  of  the  box 
and,  when  closed,  locked  with  a  device 
at  once  a  marvel  of  strength  and  sim­
plicity,  which  does  away  with  all  loss 
of  time  in  looking  for  a  detached  cover 
and 
in  finding  a  string  and  tying,  as 
with  the ordinary  egg  box.
The  Duplex  Egg  Carrier  is  cheapest, 
because  it  is  best.  With  ordinary  care 
it  will  last  a  lifetime. 
It  has  no  ordi­
nary  strawboard  fillers  to  wear  out  in  a 
few  weeks;  no  coil  springs  to  lose  their 
elasticity  and  become  useless. 
it 
should become rained  on,  the  only  effect 
will  be  to  clean  it,  as  it  has  no  cloth 
cover  to  become  detached  and  spoiled.
One  dozen  of  them  will  outlast  twenty 
dozen  of  the  other  egg  delivery  boxes 
on  the  market.

If 

Fourth  of July  Excursion  Rates.
Excursion  tickets  will  be  sold  by  the 
Grand  Trunk  Railway  system, 
lines 
west  of  the  Detroit  and St.  Clair Rivers, 
July  3  and  4,  good  to  return  up  to  and 
including  July 6,  at  rate  of  one  and 
one-half  cents  per  mile  each way for the 
round  trip,  between  all  stations.

Good  dollars  and  good  sense  are  the 
forces  that  turn  the  wheels  of  the  mills.

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

The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 

E .  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

strong  one, 

He  is  an  Odd  Fellow  and  a  third  de­
gree  Mason,  having  only  recently  en­
tered  the  circle  of  the  latter  fraternity. 
The  combination  at  Green  Bay  is  an 
■ xceptionally 
the  elder 
Eberling  having  grown  gray  in tbem ill- 
ng  business.  The  eldest  brother,  John 
H.  Eberling,Jr.,  has  charge  of  the  mo­
tive  power  and  the  city  trade  of  the 
mill,  being  a  practical  mechanic  and 
electrician.  The  second  son  is  Fred­
erick,  who  sells  and  superintends  the 
placing  of  the  goods.  Will  T .,  the 
youngest son,  has the management  of  the 
office  and  has  charge  of  the  book-keep- 
ng  and  credit  departments.
Mr.  Eberling  attributes  his  success 
as  a  salesman  to  the  fact  that  he  is  a 
thorough  master  of  the  business,  having 
a  complete  understanding  of  all  the 
processes  by  which  the  golden  grain 
is 
Like  his 
turned 
father  and  his 
is 
steady-going,  conducting  his  depart­
ment  of  the  business  with  as  much 
seriousness  as  though  he  were  the  rep-- 
resentative  of  a  foreign  country.
Grand  Trunk  Railway  System—Ex­

into  the  flaky  flour. 

father’s  father,  he 

cursions.

Account  of  Fourth  of  July,  excursion 
tickets  will  be  sold  to  all  points  July  3 
and  4,  good  for  return  until  July  6th.

Chicago  and  return 

going  July  3,  4,  5  and  6,  and  good 
return  until  July 
cratic  National  convention.

at  $3.90,  good 
for 
12th,  account  demo­

July 

Buffalo  and  return  at  $12.30,  good 
going  July  5  and  6,  and  good  for  return 
until 
12,  or  by  depositing them 
with  joint  agent  at Buffalo,  an extension 
of  time  can  be  had  until  Sept.  1,  ac­
count  National Educational Association.
Washington,  D.  C.,  and return $17.50, 
account  Young  People’s  Society  of 
Christian  Endeavor,  good going  July  4, 
5,  6  and  7,  and  good  for  return  until 
July  15th,  or  by  depositing  the  tickets 
with 
joint  agent  time  can  be  extended 
to  July  31,  1896.

For  full  particulars  apply to any agent 
of  the  D.  &  M.  R ’y,  or  at  the  city 
office,  23  Monroe  street.

Ja s.  Ca m p b e l l, 
City  Pass.  Agent.

Every  Merchant

W ho uses the Tradesman Company’s 
COUPON  BOOKS,  does  so  with  a 
sense  of  security  and  profit,  for  he 
knows he is avoiding loss and annoy 
ance.  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Qrand  Rapids

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MEN  OF  MARK.

Sherwood  Hall,  Sole  Owner  Brown, 

Hall  &  Co.

Sherwood  Hall  was  born  at  Mobile, 
Ala.,  Aug.  14,  1849.  His  father  was  a 
descendant  of  the  famous  Hall  family 
of  Ireland,  while  his  mother  was  a 
member  of  the  no  less  celebrated  Me- 
Cammon  family  of  Scotland,  the  union 
of  Irish  Catholic  and  Scotch  Presbyte­
rian  blood resulting,  as might  readily  be 
imagined,  in  a  man  of  strong 
individ­
uality,  positive  likes  and  dislikes  and 
untiring  energy.

Mr.  Hall  attended  the  public  school 
of  Mobile  until  the  breaking  out  of  the 
war,  when  he  entered  the  St.  Joseph 
Catholic  College  at  Spring  Hill,  Ala., 
pursuing  his  studies  there  until  1865, 
when  he  tried  his  hand  at  several  avo­
cations,  including  that of  ticket  agent 
on  the  transfer  steamer  St.  Elmo  on  the 
Mobile  and  Montgomery  Railroad. 
In
1868  he  went  to  Minnesota and  worked a 
year  on  a  farm,  returning  to  Mobile  the 
year  following.  The  demoralization  in­
cident  to  the  war  and  the  subsequent 
reign  of  the  carpet  bagger  were  decid­
edly  discouraging  to  the aspirations  of 
a  Southern  youth,  and  it  is  no  wonder 
that  he  should  look  beyond  the  Mason 
and  Dixon  line for  a  location  in  which 
to  display  the  ability  and  energy  of 
which  he  felt  himself  possessed.  He 
arrived 
in  this  city  May  6,  1870,  and 
immediately  entered  the  employment  of 
his  uncle,  who  at  that  time  was  con­
ducting  a  saddlery  hardware  business 
under  the  style  of  Brown  &  Foster,  the 
latter  member  of  the  firm  being  the  late 
Wilder  D.  Foster,  founder  of  the  pres­
ent  house  of  Foster,  Stevens  &  Co., 
whose  memory  as  an  enterprising  citi­
zen ^and  sterling  business  man  is  still 
cherished  by  all  who  knew  him.
Mr.  Hall  worked  one  halfday 

in  the 
store,  which  was  then  located  on  Canal 
street,  spending  the  remainder  of  the 
day 
in  the  business  college  of  Swens- 
berg  &  Parish,  learning  to  keep  books. 
Mastering  the  science  of  book-keeping 
after  six  months’  application,  he  was 
given  the  position  of  book-keeper  for 
the  firm,  which  he  filled  to  the  satisfac­
tion  of  all  concerned  for  several  years. 
On  the  death  of  Mr.  Foster,  in  Feb­
ruary,  1873,  his  half  interest  in  the  firm 
was  purchased  by  Mr.  Brown  and  Mr. 
Hall,  Mr.  Brown  furnishing  the  money 
and  taking  Mr.  H all’s  notes fora  fourth 
interest  in  the  business.  The  firm  name 
at  that  time  was  changed  from  Brown 
&  Foster  to  M.  P.  Brown  &  Co. 
In 
increased  his  interest 
1878  Mr.  Hall 
from  one-quarter  to  one-third,  and 
in 
1882  Mr.  Hall  secured  another  third  in­
terest 
in  the  business,  the  other  third 
being  purchased  by Martin  L.  Sweet,  at 
which  time  the  firm  name  was  changed 
to  Brown,  Hall  &  Co.  During  the  past 
week  Mr.  Hall  has  succeeded  in  pur­
chasing  Mr.  Sweet's 
in  the 
business,  so  that  he  is  now  sole  owner 
and  manager  of  the  business,  which  he 
proposes  to  continue  under  the  same 
style  as  before  as  a  compliment  to  the 
founder  of  the  house.  Owing-  to  the 
peculiar  turn  Mr.  Sweet's  affairs  have 
taken,  it  would  be  only  following  prec­
edent  and  the  usual  custom  for  Mr. 
Hall  to  permit  the  firm  to  go  into  liqui­
dation  and  then  buy  up  the  assets  at 
his  own  price;  but  the  sterling  qualities 
inherited  from  his  Scotch-Irish  parent­
age  led  him  to  disregard the suggestions 
of  his  friends  and  the  advice  of  his  at­
torneys  and  to  insist  on  paying  for  Mr. 
Sweet’s  interest  all  that  it  was  actually 
worth,  thus  making  a  considerable  ad-

interest 

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dition  to  the  fund  which  will  finally  be 
distributed  among  Mr.  Sweet’s  credit­
ors.  At  no  stage  of  Mr.  H all’s  career 
have  the  rugged  honesty  and  sturdy  de­
termination  of  the  man  been  more 
strongly  exhibited  than  in this  instance, 
where  he  could  have  added  very  con­
siderably  to  his  own  possessions  by 
pursuing  the  usual  method  of  buying  in 
assets  at  a  low valuation,  because  one  of 
the  partners  was  so  unfortunate  as  to  be 
compelled  to  go  into  liquidation.

A  marked  peculiarity  of  the  house 

is 
the  length  of  time  the  employes  usually 
remain.  Hermanus  Hondorp,  the  pres­
ent  shipping  clerk,  has  been 
identified 
with  the  house  since  1873. 
John  Groot- 
man,  one  of  the  traveling  salesmen,  has 
been  constantly 
in  the  employ  of  the 
house  in  one  capacity  or  another  for  the 
past 
years,  while  Horace 
is  the  third  book-keeper  the
Shields 

eighteen 

community  for  the  past  twenty-six years 
affords  an  excellent  example  of  the  re­
wards  which  come  to  a  man  who  selects 
his  business  with  care  and  stays  by  it 
early  and  late,  through  thick  and  thin, 
through  sunshine  and  storm,  until  he 
achieves  the  fullest  measure  of  success. 
in  his  convictions,  strenuous 
Positive 
in  asserting  his  own 
little 
sympathy  for  those  who  do  not agree 
with  him  on  most  points connected  with 
politics  and  the  eveiwday  affairs  of  life, 
Mr.  Hall,  nevertheless,  possesses a  wide 
circle  of  friends,  who  rejoice with  him 
in  his  prosperity  and  who  will  be  glad 
to  note  still  further  evidences  of  suc­
cess.

ideas,  with 

When  a  Kansas  man  gets  rich  and 
wants  to  put  on  style,  he  doesn’t  spend 
his  good  money  on  fast  horses,  or  fine 
pictures,  or  yachts.  He  blows  it  in  on

SHERWOOD  HALL  AND  FAMILY.

house  has  had  in  the  past  twenty  years.
Mr.  Hall  was  married  Jan.  8,  1879, 
to  Miss  Annie  Lowe,  daughter  of  James 
Lowe  and  granddaughtei  of  the  late  R. 
E.  Butterworth,  founder  and  godfather 
of  Butterworth  Hospital.  The  wedding 
ceremony was somewhat peculiar,  in  that 
it  was  solemnized 
in  the  Methodist 
church  by  a  Baptist  clergyman  with  the 
Episcopal  service.  Five  children  have 
blessed  the  union—one  girl  and  four 
boys,  the  former being  16  years  of  age, 
while  the  boys  range  from  14  to 7  years. 
The  children  have been brought  up  with 
a  view  to  making  strong  men  and  wom­
en  of  them,  physically,  and  no  better 
examples  of  rugged  childhood  are  to  be 
in  the  city.  The  father  is  de­
found 
voted  to  his  family,  and 
it  is  a  com­
mon  remark  at  Ottawa  Beach,  where 
the  family  spend  the  summer  season, 
that,  but  for  Mr.  H all’s  stature  and 
age,  it  would  be  difficult  to  determine, 
from  his  actions  when  playing  with  his 
boys,  which  is  child  and  which  is  man. 
The  family  reside  in  a  handsome  home 
at  250  South  Lafayettte  street,  and  dur­
ing  the  summer  season at Ottawa Beach, 
where  the  children  possess  a  handsome 
steam 
‘ Annie  Lowe, ”  and 
numerous  other  appliances  and  imple­
ments  dear  to  the  heart  of  childhood.

launch,  the 

When  asked  to  what  he  attributed  h is 
success,  Mr.  Hall  dismissed  the  subject 
by  the  three  words,  “ Sticking  to  it,”  
subsequently  adding,  “ and  to  the  care­
ful  training  received  from  the  late Mar­
cus  P.  Brown ;”   and  his  career  in  this

It 

latest  triumph 

a  cyclone  cellar.  He  knows  the  little 
“ funnel-shaped”   cloud  will  supply  all 
the  excitement  he  needs,  and  running 
for  the  place  of  safety  will  keep  him  in 
exercise.  The 
in  this 
is  a  cyclone'pit 
kind  of  architectue 
which  a  wealthy  Mr.  Christie  has 
just 
completed. 
is  dug  down  below  the 
cellar  of  his  house,  and  framed  in  with 
heavy  and  beautifully  polished  oak 
logs. 
it  are  stored  canned  foods, 
cigars  and  reading  matter,  so  that  the 
occupants  may  amuse  themselves  while 
the  clouds  roll  by.  As 
is  possible 
that  debris  from  the  house  would  cover 
up  the  cyclone  pit  in  case  of  a  blow, 
dynamite  and  picks  and  shovels are also 
kept  in  the  pit,  and  there  would  be  no 
trouble  about  getting  out.  Mr.  Christie 
feels  now  that  he  is  prepared  to 
lead 
the  best  Kansas  society,  and  to  give  a 
storm  party  at  a  moment’s  notice.

In 

it 

Long  distance  telephones  have  been 
placed  in  the  smallest  Swiss  villages, 
making 
it  possible  to  communicate 
from  one  end  of  the  country  to  the 
other.  The  fee  ranges  from  two  to  eight 
cents  a  message. 
It  is  needless  to  re­
mark  that  the  Bell  company  does  not 
have  a  monopoly  of  the  telephone  busi­
ness  in  Switzerland.

The  pen  that  makes  too  free  with 
is  apt  to  be  the 

other  people’s  names 
forerunner  of  the  prison  pen.

A good  sign  of prosperity is the  ability 

to  sign  a  check  that  will  be  honored.

Saving  a  Client.

From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.

The  ethics  of  the  difference  between 
the  professional  opinion  of  a  paid  ad­
vocate  and  the  honest  conviction  of  a 
learned  man  were  set  forth  by  a  well- 
known  Enlgish  barrister  who  died  re­
cently.  The  story 
is  not  to  be  found 
in  the  reminiscences  which  he  pub­
lished  shortly  before  his  death. 
It  was 
a  case  of  murder,  and  the  client  and 
counsel  were  closeted  together.

the  barrister, 

“ Sm ith,”   said 

“ of 
course  I  know  you  didn’t  murder  the 
man,  but,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  did  you 
do  it  with  the  butt  end  of  a  revolver  or 
“ S ir ,”   said  Smith,  “ I 
with  a  stick?”  
swear  I  am  innocent.”  
“ I  know  that 
perfectly  well,  but  you  must  tell  me. 
For,  if  you  did  it with a  revolver,  I shall 
‘ Produce  the 
say  to  the  prosecution, 
stick !’  and  if  you  did  it  with  a  stick 
I 
shall  say, 
‘ Produce  the  revolver!’  ”  
The  client  paused  and  scratched  his 
head  meditatively. 
“ It  was  the  butt 
end  of a revolver,  sir.”   “ That’s right!”  
said  the  counsel;  “ I  think  I  can  get 
you  off  now. ’ ’

Lucky  Thirteen.

From the Washington Evening Star.

it 

“ I  believe  that  the  number  13  brings 
luck,”   said  P.  T.  Thornton, 
me  good 
of  Louisville,  at  the  Metropolitan. 
“ I 
don’t  know  whether  or  not  it  was  be­
the  13th  of  the 
cause  I  was  born  on 
month,  but  I  have  watched 
for 
years,  and  whenever  there  is  a  combi­
nation  in  which  13  appears  it  is  a  lucky 
one  for  me.  I  am  as much  of  a  crank  in 
favor of  the  number  13  as  any  one  can 
possibly  be  against  it. 
If  I  am  having 
a  dull  business  on  the  road  I  ask  the 
hotel  clerks  to  give  me  room  No.  13.  It 
is  remarkable  how  many hotels there  are 
that  have  no  room  with  that  number, 
and  I  am  told  that  1  am  the  only  man 
who  ever  asks  for  a  room  with  that 
number.  Most  men  object  to  being 
given  such  a  room.”
California  Orange  Season  Closing.
The  orange  season  is  practically at  an 
end 
There  are  a  few 
scattering  carloads  of  Mediterranean 
Sweets, 
St.  Michaels  and  Valencias 
still  to  go  forward,  but  all  of the  Navels 
have  been  sent  East.  About  5,600  car­
loads  have  been  shipped,  and  the  early 
estimates  varied  between  8,000  and 
io,ooo  carloads.  The  prices  realized 
have  been  the  best  for  the  past  five 
years.

in  California. 

Combinations  on  manufactured  prod­
ucts  are  causing  new  concerns  to  come 
into  the 
field,  whose  equipment  will 
soon  be  paid  for,  as  they  are  enabled  to 
run  to  their  fullest  extent  and  make 
large  profits.  As  the  capacity  for  ab­
sorption  by  a  combination has its limits, 
even  if  outsiders  are  willing to be  taken 
in  when  they  have  become  well  estab­
lished, it  is  merely  a  question of  time  as 
to  when 
it  will  have  run  its  course. 
Prices  are  then  likely  to drop lower than 
before  the  combination  was  formed,  as 
the  capacity  for  production  has  been 
greatly  increased  and the  finances  of  the 
general  trade  are  in  shape  to  sustain  a 
vigorous  fight  for  a  good  footing.—Iron 
Age- 

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Several  manufacturers  of  Fall  River 
are  preparing  to  urge  a  curtailment  of 
production  by  mills  in  that  city,  begin­
ning  the  first  week 
in  July  and  con­
tinuing  alternate  weeks  during  the sum­
mer  or  until  business  shows  material 
improvement. 
is  understood  that 
signatures  will  be  asked  to  an  agree­
ment  to  shut  down,  and  it  is  also  said 
that  efforts  will  be  made  to induce  other 
manufacturers  in  New  England  to 
join 
the  movement.  By  stopping  alternate 
weeks  or  by  running  four  days  a  week 
manufacturers  hope  to keep their trained 
help  around  them.

It 

The  Secretary  of  Agriculture  has 
again  postponed  until  March 
15,  1897, 
the  provisions  of  the  act  of  March  2, 
1895,  regarding 
inspection  and 
shipment  of  dressed  meat.  This  is  the 
third  time  that  the  postponement  of  the 
enforcement  of  the  law  has  been  made 
upon  the  ground  of  its  lack  of practica- 
I bility.

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Are  arriving and  the trade  can  now be supplied with them.  Our efforts during the past year 
to  furnish  a  high  grade Tea direct  from Japan  have  been  appreciated  by our customers, ana 
we  shall  continue to  import  only the  highest grades of Teas  produced  in  that  country,  and 
always at the  lowest prices consistent with high quality.  It is our purpose to keep the highest 
grade  of  goods  in  all  lines  of  Groceries  that  the  trade will  buy,  as it  is  our desire to  fully 
maintain  the  reputation we have established for keeping choice goods and for square dealing.

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represent  the  people,  is  really  the  crea­
ture  of  a  class.

Here 

is  the  cause  of  the  socialism 
that  . is  so  rapidly  growing  up  in  this 
country. 
It is  a  popular  protest  against 
If  there  had  been  no 
class  legislation. 
congressional 
legislation  and  no  judi­
cial  interpretation of  the laws in favor of 
great  corporations,  there  would  be  no 
popular  demand  for  government  con­
trol  of  corporations. 
If  there  had  been 
no  high  tariffs  to  create  a  wealthy  and 
privileged  class  of  manufacturers  at  the 
expense  of  consumers,  there  would  be, 
in  all  probability,  no  demand  by  the 
Western  miners 
a  government 
bounty  on  their  silver  product,  and  no 
demand  by  the  debtor  farmers  of  the 
West  for  the  repudiation  of  half  their 
debt,  and  no  opportunity  for speculators 
and  adventurers  of  all  sorts  to  seek  the 
disorganization  of  all  business,  so  that 
they  may  prey  upon  the  necessities  and 
profit by  the  financial  ruin  of  others.

for 

institutions,  and 

This  is  the  situation  which  has  been 
caused  by  the  apparent  failure  of  dem­
ocratic 
it  means, 
sooner  or 
later,  the  abandonment  of 
those  institutions,  unless  a  radical  rem­
edy  shall  be  applied.  What 
is  the 
remedy?

The  only  way  in  which  any  effective 
relief  can  be  got  is  in  the  patriotism, 
the  honesty  and  public  spirit  of  the 
people.  Bribery  of  public  officials  by 
reputable  citizens 
in  order  to  gain  fa­
vors  and  advantages  in  legislation  must 
come  to  an end.  Citizens  of  good  posi­
tion  must  refuse  to profit by corrupt  and 
unlawful  acts  of  public  men.  Official 
honesty  must  be  considered  as  sacred 
as  is  private  honesty.  Nominations  for 
office  must  be  made  in  primary  elec­
tions,  which  are  guarded  by  the  same 
laws  as  are  used  for  the  protection  of 
public  elections,  and  good 
citizens 
must  consider  jt  a  paramount  duty  to 
take  an  active  part  in  the  nomination 
and  election  of  officers.

These  are  practical  remedies 

in  the 
power  of  the  people.  Will  the  people 
apply  them? 
If  not,  then  ruinous  con­
sequences  must  be  upon  their  beads.  If 
the  people  are  not  honest  enough  to 
maintain  their  democratic-republican 
institutions,  then  those  institutions must 
perish. 
If  the  people  are  not  patriotic 
enough  to  preserve  a  government  of, 
for,  and  by  themselves,  they  will  finally 
see  it  fall  into  the  power  of  a  wild  and 
furious  mob,  only,  on  the rebound of the 
demand  for  order  and 
law,  to  see  it 
seized  by  a  despot.  This  Government 
was  made  by  the  people.  They  alone 
can  destroy  it.

Much  credit  is  due  Assistant  United 
States  District  Attorney  Newnham  for 
in 
the  persistent  and  energetic  manner 
which  he  has  prosecuted 
the  Lamb 
gang.  With  meager  evidence  to  begin 
with,  he  has  succeeded  in  diverting  to 
his  office  a  mass  of  testimony  which 
would  engulf  less  clever  criminals  in  a 
maelstrom  of  despair.  He  has  mar­
shaled  this  evidence  with  consummate 
skill  and  discretion,  and  to  his  aggres­
largely  due  the  honor 
siveness  will  be 
of  depriving  Grand  Rapids  of 
the 
further  operations  of 
the  nefarious
gang' 

= = = = = = = =

There’s  one  thing  that  every commer­
cial  traveler  endeavors  to  secure  at  any 
cost—the 
loyalty  of  his  trade.  He 
never  allows  his  customers  to  think 
for 
a  moment  that  there’s  another firm  in 
the  world  that  can  cater  to  their  wants 
as  well  as  his.

The way  to  resume  is  to resume work.

ENGLAND’S  NIGHTMARE.

While 

it  would  be  going  too  far  to 
say  that  England  is  getting  too  nervous 
to  “ sleep  the  sleep  of  the  just, 
it  is 
not  too  much  to  .say  that  her  slumber 
has,  of  late,  been  interfered  with  by  a 
prodigious  nightmare.  The shadow of a 
paw  belonging  to  a  big  black  bear  has 
haunted—is  haunting—her  and,  with  an 
oppressiveness  all  too  real,  rests  like  a 
weight upon  England’s  troubled  heart.
If  the  dark shadow would only come and 
go,  if now  and  then  a  glimmer  of  the 
Northern  lights  could  be  seen behind  it, 
the  phenomenon  would  not  be  at all por­
tentous ;  but  the  darkness  settles  down, 
and  that  means  the  settling  of  the  sub­
stance which makes the shadow.  It means 
that,  in  spite  of  protest,  the  Russian 
railroads  are  slowly  and  as  surely reach­
ing  the  trade  of Persia and Afghanistan.
It  means  that  the  railroad  to  Herat  is 
for  something  more  than  trade,  as  the 
island  of  Samoa  meant  something  more 
than  a  coaling  station;  and,  while 
it 
may  not  mean  that  Russia  has  designs 
on  Korea,  right  there  is  the  place  for 
the  harbor  which  Russia  is  determined 
to  have,  a  fact  which  wrings  a  groan 
from  the  troubled  sleeper.

that 

reaches 

With  that  object  secured,  what  next? 
The  question  is  not hard  to  answer.  A 
government 
from  the 
fifteenth  meridian  on  the  west  to  the 
one  hundredth  and  eightieth  does  not 
confine  its  thoughts to trade alone.  The 
harbor,  in  a  warmer  clime,  may  be  an 
objective  point 
in  trade  lin es;  but  the 
conquering  of  any  part  of Southern  Asia 
for  such  a  purpose  shows  plainly  that 
conquest  does  not  intend  to  stop  at  any 
harbor  in  Korea.  With  the  largest  ter­
in  the  world,  the  largest  army 
ritory 
and  the 
largest  accumulation  of  gold, 
will  the  Russian  Empire  be  satisfied 
with  the  boundary  line  between  her  and 
China?  And  will  Afghanistan,  an  in­
significant  strip  of  territory  between 
Persia  and  the  Chinese  Empire,  long 
remain  the  barrier  between  the  Bear 
and  British  India?  The  paw  of  the 
beast  is  near  enough  already  for Hindu­
stan  to  see 
Is  it 
any  wonder  that  England  s  sleep  is  dis­
turbed  by  the  incubus  that  presses  upon 
her?

its  gleaming  claw. 

Russia  has  shown  already  what  her 
power  is  over  Japan.  And  there  is  no 
doubt  about  her  intentions  in  regard  to 
China.  And  Manchuria  has  yielded 
already  to  her  powerful  neighbor.  Her 
territory  is to be  seamed  with  Russian 
railroads,  to  be  dotted with Russian  for­
tifications  and  barracks  and  the  same 
power 
is  to  make  use  of  Chinese  har­
bors  as  she  wills  and  to  monopolize 
Chinese  trade.  An  army  of  100,000  men 
is  to  be  raised  and  officered  by  Rus­
is  worst  of  all,  all  this 
sians.  What 
has  been  done 
that 
England 
is  powerless  to  prevent  this 
evident  partition  of  Chinese  territory  or 
secure  a  slice  for  herself. 
In  addition 
to  this, 
in  China, 
more  than  a  hundred  German  officers 
and  non-commissioned  officers  engaged 
in  training  Chinese  troops;  and,  as  if 
to  add  to  the  troubled  sleeper’s distress, 
it  is  found  that  important  trade  conces­
sions  have  already  been  granted to  firms 
in  Germany.

in  such  a  way 

there  are, 

to-day, 

the 

How  much  of 

real  will  be 
found  in  this  hideous  nightmare  re­
mains  to  be  seen.  The  growing  bound­
aries  of  the  White  Czar  have  long  been 
a  serious  causq,  of  unrest  to  English 
statesmanship. 
If,  as  England  fears, 
the  warm  harbor  in  the  Pacific  is  meant 
for  other  purposes  than  trade;  if,  with 
I that  point  gained,  the  southern  bound­

ary  of  Russia  is  pushed  into  China  as 
that  of  British  Guiana  was 
into  Vene­
zuela,  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  the 
white  claw  menacing  India  will  be  un­
sheathed,  that  Turkey  will  yield  still 
further  to  the  inevitable  and  that  ships 
from*the  harbor  in  Korea  will  sail  from 
the  Yellow  Sea  to  the  Red,  and  be 
strong  enough  to  force  a  passage  into 
the  Mediterranean,  to  anchor,  at  last, 
at  Constantinople,  the  future  capital  of 
the  Russian  Empire. 
If  this  be  the 
burden  of  England’s  unrest,  it  is,  in­
deed,  a  fearful  nightmare,  for the  wak­
ing  therefrom  will  be  only  intensified 
by  the  fact  which  is  rapidly reaching its 
culmination.  ______________

RASCALITY  r e b u k e d .

From  present  indications  the  crusade 
waged  against  fraudulent  commission 
merchants  of  Grand  Rapids  by  the 
Tradesman  will  culminate  in  clearing 
the  atmosphere  to  that  extent that it  will 
he 
impossible  for  fakirs  to  thrive  in 
this  locality  hereafter.  B.  F.  Strifling 
and  J.  O.  Smith  are  still  fugitives  from 
justice,  Frank  J.  Lamb  has  been bound 
over  for  trial  in  the  United  States Court 
on  a  charge  of  fraudulent  use  of  the 
mails  and  Chester  A.  Lamb  will,  in  all 
probability,  be  bound  over  on  the  same 
charge before  this  week  s  issue  of  the 
Tradesman  reaches  its  readers.

One  of  the  most  rascally  pieces  of 
work  ever  undertaken  was  the  attempt 
of  Chester  A.  Lamb  to  secure his  credi­
tors  through  the  medium  of his attorneys 
on  80  acres  of  land  in  Newaygo  county, 
which  proved  to  be absolutely worthless. 
But  for  the  efforts  of  the  Tradesman 
in 
ascertaining  the  character  of  the  prop­
erty,  some  of  the  creditors  of  Chester 
Lamb  would,  undoubtedly,  have  ac­
cepted  such  security,  only  to  find,  later 
on, 
that  tfcey  had  been  betrayed  a 
second  time.  _____________

life,  it 

In  their  solicitude  for  the  welfare 
and  advancement  of  the  “ common  peo­
ple,’ ’ the  members  of  the  ministerial 
profession  are  very  apt  to  manifest  a 
“ zeal  not  according  to  knowledge.”  
Educated  in  the  schools and seminaries, 
where  they  come  little  in  contact  with 
the  realities  of 
is  not  strange 
that  there  should  be  a  lack  of  practical 
common  sense,  that  will  frequently  lead 
to  complications  that  neutralize  their 
usefulness 
in  the  cause  of  human  ad­
vancement.  The  Reverend T.  E .  Barr, 
pastor  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Kalamazoo,  has  been  the 
cause  of  a  serious  factional  fight  in  his 
congregation,  which  has  culminated 
in 
the  termination  of  his  services,  on  ac­
count  of  his  persistence  in  inviting  the 
co-operation  of  the  labor  agitators  and 
union  leaders  of  the  city  in his religious 
work,  even  going  so  far  as  to  invite 
the  trades  and 
labor  council  to  take 
charge  of  his  evening  services,  the 
lead  to  be  taken  by  prominent  agitators 
in  turn.  The  people,  who  come  more 
directly 
into  contact  with  the  average 
labor  leader  than  a  minister  is  apt  to, 
form  a  juster  conception  of the religious 
and  moral  character  of  such  represent­
atives  of  labor,  and 
it  is  not  strange 
that  bis  parishioners  do  not  take  kindly 
to  their  prominence  in  charge of  the  re­
ligious  exercises  of  the  denomination. 
It  is,  undoubtedly,  well  that  the  min­
ister  should  do  his  utmost  for  the  ad­
vancement  of  these  classes  especially, 
but  his  preparation  for such work should 
be  such  as  will  enable  him  to  discrim­
inate  as  to  the  instrumentalities  he  em­
ploys,  that  his  efforts  may  not  be  ren­
dered  useless  through  the  activities  of 
the  self-seeking  upstarts  of  the  indus­
trial  world.

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SO CIALISTIC  TENDENCIES.
The  rapid  spread  of  socialistic  polit­
ical  doctrines  in  this  greatest  of  all  the 
world's  republics 
in  this  age  is  one  ol 
the  most  startling  signs  of  the  apparent 
failure  of  a  democratic-republican  form 
of  government. 
In  the  beginning  of 
this  republic  the  ablest men  were sent to 
Congress  and  to  the  state  legislatures, 
and  were  put  into  all  the official  places. 
Consider  what  wonderful  assemblages 
of  great  men  were  the  two  houses  of 
Congress,  even  up  to the  period  of  the 
civil  war.  Every  state  was  represented 
there by  its  foremost  citizens,  and  these 
would  favorably  compare  with  the  best 
statesmen  of  every  leading  country  in 
the  world.  The  state  legislatures  were 
the  schools  in  which  senators  and  con­
gressmen  were  trained,  and  every  city 
and  country  community  was  sure  to  be 
legislature  by 
represented 
its 
most  distinguished  and  worthy  sons.

in  the 

But  those  times  have  passed  away. 
For  the  past  third  of  a  century  the  pub­
lic  representative  assemblages  of  every 
sort  have  been  rapidly  deteriorating, 
and  there  is  no  promise  of any improve­
ment.  The  people  no  longer seem  w ill­
ing  to"  follow  the  men  who  are  most 
competent  to  lead  them,  or  it  may  pos­
sibly  be  that  they  do  not  have  an  op­
portunity.  The politics of every town and 
community,  and  it  may  be  almost  said 
of  every  state,  are  dominated  and  con­
trolled  by  bosses  or by  powerful  private 
interests.

The  consequence 

is  that  men  of  in­
integ­
ferior  abilities,  often  of  inferior 
rity,  and  commonly  men  who  are  sub­
servient  to  the  interests  whose  creation 
they  are,  get 
into  official  places  and 
representative  positions.  Men  are  put 
in  nomination  by  political  bosses  or  by 
great  business  corporations,  and  party 
discipline  is  invoked  to  force  the  peo­
ple  to  vote  for  them,  and  in  this  way 
men  are  elected  to  prominent  public 
places  when  they  are  able  to  command 
no  popular  enthusiasm  and  not  even 
public  confidence.

When  the  people  come  to  realize  that 
their  alleged  repesentatives  are 
too 
often  the  real  representatives  of  trusts, 
of  corporations  and  of  private  interests, 
and  when  it  is  seen  that  the  legislation 
accomplished  is  less  for  the  public ben­
efit  than 
for  private  concerns,  there  is 
no  wonder  that  a  great  body  of  the 
people  would  prefer  a  strong  govern­
ment  that  would  work  for  the  general 
good,  to  one  which,  while pretending  to

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

for 

interesting  study 

TH E  CASE  OF  GEO.  H.  SEM PLE.
The  case  of  Geo.  H.  Semple,  who 
shot  and  killed  President Wyckoff of  the 
Bank  of  New  Amsterdam,  New  York, 
because  he  refused  to  hand  over  $6,000, 
affords  an 
the 
alienist  as  well  as  the  moralist.  His 
father  went  to  New  York  from  Chicago 
twenty  years  ago,  and  built  up  a  busi­
ness  that  was  at  first  prosperous.  Later, 
however,  he  met  with  reverses, 
and 
when  he  died  he  left  very  little  to  his 
son,  who  had  been  reared 
in  luxury, 
and  who,  while  yet  a  youth,  found  him­
self  wholly  unschooled 
in  the  way  of 
making  a 
living.  He  was  bright  and 
active  . enough,  but  he  seemed  to  lack 
what 
is  known  as  a  “ business  head, ”  
besides  being  flighty  and  unstable.  He 
tried  various  things,  and  finally  secured 
employment  in  a  department  store. 
In 
time  he  became  one  of  the  head  clerks, 
and  then  he  -engaged 
in  another  ven­
ture,  which  was  the  beginning  of  more 
love  with  the 
trouble.  He 
in 
daughter  of  a  widow 
lady  of  some 
means.  The  relatives  of  the  girl  ob­
jected  to  the  match,  because,  as  they 
put  it,  she  would  “ be  throwing  herself 
away. ’ ’  But  at  last  they  consented,  and 
four  years  ago  the  couple  were  married, 
Semple  then  being  25  years  old  and  his 
wife  several  years  younger.

fell 

Marriage  with  the  daughter  of  a  well- 
to-do  widow  would  generally  be  con­
sidered a lucky  venture  for  a  young  man 
working  on  a  comparatively  small  sal­
ary,  but  it  did  not  prove  so  eventually 
in  Semple’s  case.  Soon  after  his  wed­
ding  he  left  the  store  in  which  he  had 
been  employed,  and  started  in  business 
for  himself  as  a  cigar  dealer.  He 
adopted  curious  methods  to  draw  trade, 
one  of  them  being  gifts  of  jewelry  to 
good  customers.  Once  thrown  on  his 
own  resources,  however,  ill 
luck  fol­
lowed  him  again,  and  his  cigar  busi­
ness  proved  a  failure.  He  next  took 
the  New  Jersey  agency  for  an  encyclo­
pedia,  and  about  a  month  ago  removed 
to  East  Orange  with  his  wife  and  child. 
He  was  sanguine  of  success,  and  ap­
peared  to  be  in  excellent  spirits,  but  it 
was  noticed  at  the  hotel  where  he 
stopped  that  he  played  pool much  of  the 
time.  As  another  addition  to  the  fam­
ily  was  expected soon,  Mrs.  Semple  was 
persuaded  by  her  mother  to  come  to 
New  York.  This  she  did  on  June  10, 
the  mother  hiring  apartments  for  her 
near her own.  Soon  after  this,  Semple 
lost  his  ^position  as  a  book  agent. 
In 
the  face  of  bis  previous failures,  he  had 
not  the  courage  to  tell  his  wife  of  his 
discharge,  so he  followed  his  usual  cus­
tom  of  breakfasting  and  lunching  with 
his  wife  and  mother-in-law 
in  New 
York  and  then 
to  East 
Orange.  He  was  apparently  cheerful 
and  happy,  but  he  told  a  business  ac­
quaintance  that  he  was  brooding  deeply 
over  the  fact  that  he  was  unable  to  earn 
money  enough  to  support  his  wife  and 
child,  and  that  all  three  were dependent 
on  his  mother-in-law.  Finally,  he  be­
came  possessed  of  the  mad  idea  of  ex­
torting  money  from  some  one,  and  the 
result  was  his  assault  on  the  kindly  old 
banker and  the  taking  of  his  own  life.
It  would  appear  that  Semple’s  some­
what  flighty  mind  became  still  more 
unbalanced  through  brooding  over  what 
he  considered  his  degrading  condition. 
Otherwise  he  would  have  foreseen  that, 
even  had  he  succeeded  in  getting  the 
$6,000  he  demanded  from  the  banker 
and  escaping,  the  chances  would  be 
slim  of  his  being  able  to  use  it  without 
ultimate  detection.  Yet  bolder  schemes 
than  the  one  he  attempted  have been

returning 

carried  out  by  men  who  were  not  only 
sane,  but  who  calculated  their  chances 
with  the  cool  shrewdness  of  unclouded 
minds. 
Semple  was  certainly  sane 
enough  to  have  some  pride  in  himself 
and  to  feel  humiliated  because  he  was 
dependent  on  others.  Whether  he  was 
in  his  right  mind  or  not  when  he  as­
saulted  the  banker,  his  case 
is  one  of 
the  most  curious  in  criminal  history.
TH E  ANTI-OPTIONS  BILLS.

It  is  a  rather  remarkable thing that all 
the  arguments  made  by  the promoters  of 
anti-option  legislation,  whether 
in  the 
National  Congress  or 
in  the  various 
state  legislatures,  are  intended  to  show 
that  the  system  of  trading  in  futures 
depresses  the  value  of  farm  products. 
All  the  bills,  although  drawn  up  as  rev­
enue  measures,  are  meant  to totally sup­
press  the  “ future”   system,  and  the 
backing  received  by  these  bills  comes 
interests.
mainly  from  the  agricultural 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  tendency  of 
all  speculation  is  to  enhance  the  price 
of  products,  because  it brings  into  ac­
tive  competition  with  consumers  a  vast 
amount  of  floating  capital which  aids  in 
relieving  the  producers  of  the  burden  of 
carrying  their  produce  until  consuméis 
are  prepared  to  take  it.  The  worst  that 
is 
can  be  truthfully  said  of  speculation 
that  it  sometimes  has  a  tendency  to 
in­
flate  values;  but  the  sufferers  from  this 
inflation  are  invariably  the  speculators 
or  consumers,  and  scarcely  ever  the 
farmers.

While  it  is  true  that  the  prices  for  all 
agricultural  products  have  gradually de­
clined  of  recent  years,  it  is  evident  to 
the  most  careless  student  of  events  that 
the  cause  of  this  shrinkage  in  value 
is 
not  speculation  or  trading  in  futures, 
but  overproduction  and  keener  compe­
tition  among  the  various  countries  pro­
ducing  exportable  surpluses of products, 
such  as  grain,  cotton  and  the  like.

The  main  sustaining  power  for  prices 
during  the  period  when  the  staple  crops 
are  being  rushed  to  market  is  specula­
tion.  Were  this  withdrawn,  and  the 
producers  forced  either  to  throw  their 
crops  on  the  market  or  hold  them  until 
consumers  should  be  willing  to  buy,  it 
is  not  difficult  to  understand  that  prices 
would  be  very  much  lower  than  is  now 
the  rule,  while  the  range  of  values  from 
the  highest  during  the  period  when  the 
crop  has  been  nearly  disposed  of  and 
the  time  of  greatest  pressure  to  sell 
would  be  extremely  wide.  Reference 
to  the  statistical  tables  of  prices  for 
leading  products  during  periods  prior 
to  the 
inauguration  of  the  system  of 
trading  in  futures  will show that  in those 
times  the  range  of  prices  was very much 
wider  than  at  present,  although  the  pro­
duction  of  staple  products  was  very 
much  smaller and  approximated  much 
closer  the  world's  actual  needs  than 
is 
now the  case.

If  any  class  has  a right  to complain  of 
the  system  of  trading  in  futures,  it  is 
certainly  not  the 
farmers,  who  have 
everything  to  gain  from  the  perpetua­
tion  of  the  system,  as 
its  inevitable 
tendency 
is  to  stimulate  demand  and 
enhance  prices.
ARMING  AUXILIARY  CRUISERS.
Some  years  ago  the  postal  subsidy 
bill  was  passed,  providing  for  the  pay­
ment  of  a  subsidy  to  American  vessels 
for  carrying  the  mails  and  for  entering 
into an  arrangement  whereby  they  were 
to be  examined  by  naval  officers,  and, 
if  found  suitable,  carried  on  the  list  of 
reserve  vessels  to  be  used  as  auxiliary 
cruisers  or  transports 
in  time  of  war. 
law  gives  the  Government  the
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power  to  take  possession  of  these  sub­
sidized  vessels  upon  payment  to  the 
owners  of  their  appraised  value  at  the 
time  of  taking  them.

A  number  of  ships  have  qualified  un­
der  this  law,  and  it  is  believed  that  the 
total  number  is  now  over  thirty.  On 
the 
list  and  at  the  head  of  it  are  the 
New  York,  Paris,  St.  Paul  and  St. 
Louis,  of  the  American  Line,  all  being 
splendid  vessels,  which  would  make 
most  efficient  cruisers  and  commerce 
destroyers.

The  mere  possession  of  these  vessels 
and  their  presence  upon  the  reserve  roll 
did  not  make  them  promptly  available 
for  service  in  the  event  of  war.  There 
were  no  guns  available  with  which  to 
arm  them ;  hence  they  would  only  be  of 
use  as  transports.  The  last  naval  ap­
propriation  bill,,  however,  contained  a 
provision  which  will, 
in  the  course  of 
a  short  time,  correct  this  defect.  On 
recommendation  of  the  Navy  Depart­
ment,  $400,000  was  appropriated  for the 
purpose  of  constructing guns  for  arming 
the  auxiliary  cruisers,  and  the  depart­
ment  is  already  taking  steps  to  at  once 
commence  work  on  these  guns.

The  guns  to  be  constructed  for  the 
auxiliary  ships  will  be  of  the  quick-fir­
ing  type  of  6  and  4-inch  caliber.  These 
guns  will  be  stored  at  the different  navy 
yards,  in  readiness  to  be  mounted  on 
board  of  the  vessels  for  which  they  are 
destined  at  the  shortest  possible  notice. 
With  these  guns,  supplemented  by  a 
number  of  small  rapid-fire  and  machine 
guns,  the  auxiliary  cruisers  would  be  as 
formidable  ships  as  the average  second- 
rate  cruiser,  with  the  advantage  of 
greatly  superior  speed.

HEATHEN  CRACKERS.

The  small  boy  whose  patriotism  ex­
presses  itself  on  the glorious  Fourth 
in 
noise  and  fireworks  had  better  make  the 
most  of  his  opportunities  this  year. 
This  is  the  last  time  when  he  can  pur­
chase  burnt  fingers  and  enough  noise  to 
run  the  neighbors  crazy  for  the  insig­
nificant  sum  of  a  quarter.  The  manu­
facturers  of  fireworks  and  firecrackers 
have  formed  a  trust  and  the  price  is  to 
be  put  up.  One  of  the  delightful  nov­
elties  with  which  the 
idiotic  practical 
joker  will  endear  himself  to  his  kind  is 
a  new  cigarette. 
It  looks  just  like  any 
ordinary  cigarette,  and  is  put  up  in  the 
same  kind  of  boxes.  The  difference  is 
that,  when  the  user  takes  a  puff  or  two, 
the  loaded  cigarette  playfully  explodes, 
throwing  a  small  quantity of  black  pow­
der 
in  the  smoker’s  face.  This  little 
pleasantry  is  considered  very  amusing, 
and  is  a  form  of  wit  which wjll be much 
in  evidence  this  summer.  A  trust  that 
puts  up  the  price  of  firecrackers  will  be 
warmly  applauded  by the adult members 
of  the  community. 
is  to  be  hoped 
that  prices  will  go  so  high  they  will  be 
prohibitive,  so  far  as  the  giant  cracker 
is  concerned,  and  that  our  National 
holidays  will  not be  made  days of  terror 
for  nervous  people  on  account  of  the 
explosive  firecracker  which  always  goes 
off  when 
is  neither  wanted  nor  ex­
pected.

It 

it 

A  commercial  traveler  who  has  trav­
eled 
in  nearly  every  country  of  the 
world  says that  he  nowhere  experienced 
such  extreme  cold  as  in  the 
interior  of 
Labrador.  He  says  that, before  milking 
the  reindeer,  the  milkmaid  places  a 
string  in  the  pail,  allowing  one  end  to 
hang  over  the  side.  By  the  time  the 
milking 
is  finished  the  lacteal  fluid  is 
frozen  solid  and  the  maid  takes  hold  of 
the  string  and,  lifting  the  frozen  milk 
from 
it  over  her 
shoulder and  marches  to  the  hut.

the  pail, 

throws 

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His  Adventure  with  a  Burglar  Alarm. 
From the Chicago Daily Tribune.

A  large  Chicago  jewelry  house recent­
ly  appointed  a  new 
superintendent. 
Prior  to  his  arrival  the  duties  of the  po­
sition  were  filled  by  an  employe,  who 
was  named  as  assistant  superintendent.
All  entrances  to  the  jewelry  house, 
the  windows,  and  the  vaults  are  con­
nected  with  electric  wires,  which  run  to 
detective  headquarters  and  are  there  at­
tached  to  a  burglar  alarm.  Something 
was  the  matter  with  the  alarm,  and  it 
went  off of  its  own  volition  three  times 
within  the  week  prior  to  the  new  super­
intendent’s  arrival.  As  soon  as  the 
alarm  rang,  detectives  were  sent  to  sur­
round  the  store,  while  one  of  their num­
ber  was  despatched  to  the  residence  of 
the  assistant  superintendent,  who  went 
down  to  the  store  with  his  keys  and  ad­
mitted  the  officers.

The  superintendent  arrived  Friday 
night.  The  jewelry  store  closed  at  noon 
Saturday.  At  3  o’clock 
in  the  after­
noon  the  burglar  alarm  at  headquarters 
rang  furiously.  Officers  went  on  a  keen 
jump  to  the store,  while another went,  as 
usual,  for  the  assistant  superintendent. 
Some  one  had  heard  of  the  arrival  of 
the  recently  engaged  superintendent, 
and  he  was  likewise  sent  for.
The  assistant  superintendent  reached 
the  store  first,  and  found  that  the  bur­
glar  alarm  had  gone  on  a  strike  of  its 
own  accord  again,  and  the  officers  were 
sent  back  to  headquarters.  The  assist­
ant  superintendent went  home.  In a  few 
minutes  the  superintendent  reached  the 
store,  unlocked  the  door  and  entered. 
His  opening  the  door  rang  the  burglar 
alarm  at headquarters  once  more.  Down 
came  the  detectives  with  a  rush.  They 
found  the  stranger  superintendent  walk­
ing  around 
in  the  store,  peeping  into 
this  place  and  that,  and  here  and  there 
trying  a  vault  door  to  see  if  it  was  se­
cure.  When  he  saw  the  officers  he  blew 
them  up  for  being  slow,  and  said  that 
twenty  places  could  be  robbed  while 
they  were  getting  around.

“ I  am  the  superintendent  here, ”   he 
said,  “ and  this  dilatoriness  shall  be 
reported. ’ ’

that,”   said  a 
“ Pretty  good  bluff, 
gray-headed  detective, 
“ but 
it  won’t 
work.  See?  You  come  along  with  us.”
And  forthwith  they  dragged  him  to 
headquarters.  The  superintendent  had 
nothing  with  him  to  prove  his  identity, 
and  he  was  compelled  to  submit  to  the 
humiliation  of  being  taken  under  guard 
to  the  far  South  Side  to  have  his  char­
acter  vouched  for  by  a  subordinate.

An  experiment 

is  being  tried  in  a 
large  Pennsylvania  mine  which,  if  suc­
cessful,  will  have  an  important  bearing 
upon  the  coal  mining  industry 
in  the 
future.  The  mine  is  worked  as  far  as  it 
is  possible  to  get  at  the  coal  available 
under  ordinary  conditions.  Many  large 
pillars  have  been  left  standing  because 
it  was  too  dangerous  to  try  to  work 
them,  if  not 
impossible.  Throughout 
this  region  much valuable  coal  has  been 
lost  from  this  cause. 
In  his  annual  re­
port  the  engineer  of  the  mine  estimates 
that  the  amount  of  coal  left  standing  in 
these  pillars  is  about  35  per  cent. 
It  is 
thought  that  fully  50  per  cent,  of  this 
coal  can  be  recovered. 
It  is  proposed 
to  bore  holes  into  the  workings and  then 
allow  them  to  fill  up  with  silt  or  fine 
coal  dirt.  This  will  penetrate  freely  to 
all  parts  of  the  mine,  as 
it  will  be 
thoroughly  saturated  with  water  before 
it  enters  the  surface  openings.  When 
this  silt  has  become  hard  the  old  mine 
will  again  be  opened  up,  gangways 
will  be  driven  through  the  silt,  and  the 
coal  which  is  left  standing  will  thus  be 
reached.  The  plan  has  already  been 
tried  with  success  in  a  small  way. 
If 
its  feasibility 
large  mines  can  be 
proved  it  will  enable  many  mines  to  be 
reopened  that  formerly  cost  so  much  to 
operate  as  to 
little  prospect  of 
profit.

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The  Money  Question  from  a Woman’s 

Standpoint.

“ Have  I  an  opinion  on  the  money 
question?”   repeated  the  New  Woman, 
in  reply  to  my  query  as  to  her  views  on 
the  financial  outlook.  “ Why,  my  dear 
woman,  I ’ve  got  a  m illion!”

I  modestly  intimated  that  one  would 

be  sufficient.

“ Well,  speaking  as  a  woman,”   she 
said,  setting  her  immaculate  collar  and 
in  favor  of  paper 
tie,  “ of  course,  I ’m 
money.  Silver  is  a  nuisance. 
It  ruins 
your  gloves,  and  it  s  so  bulky  itdoesn  t 
leave  a  bit  of  room  in  your  purse  for 
samples.  As  for  gold  or  silver  as  a 
standard,  bless  your  heart, 
I  don’t  un­
derstand  the  question  a  bit  better  than 
the  men  do. 
I  am  a  gold  bug.  Now, 
for  heaven’s  sake,  don  t  ask  me  why 
It 
is  one  of  the  merciful  provisions  of 
providence  that  women  are  not required 
to  give  a  reason  for  the  faith  that  is 
in 
them.

there. 

its  origin  right 

“ But  I  tell  you  what  I  think  is  of 
more 
interest  to  women  than  whether 
the  two  great  parties  declare  for  free 
silver  or  a  gold  standard,  and  that  is 
to  get  the  money  question  settled  in  our 
own  families. 
That’s  where  trouble 
comes  in  with  a  16-to-i  ratio.  Half  of 
the  domestic  unhappiness  that  you  hear 
of  has 
The 
monthly  bills  and  the  allowance  are  an 
unromantic  source  of  discord,  but  they 
are  the  little  rifts  within  the  lute  that 
paralyze 
harmony.  Of 
course,  when  I  speak  of  domestic  un­
happiness’  being  caused  by  money, 
I 
is 
don’t  mean  the  cases  where  the  wife 
wildly  extravagant  or  the  husband 
is  a 
tyrant  or  a  miser. 
I  mean  those  plain, 
everyday  cases,  where  a  man  is  a  good 
man,  who  really  wants  his 
family  to 
have  things,  and  provides  well,  but

domestic 

where  the  wife  never  has  a  cent  of  her 
own  to  buy  a  thing  she  fancies,  and 
where  the  monthly  bills  are  growled 
over as  a  matter  of  conscience.  I  know 
that  American  men  are,  as  a  general 
thing,  generous  to  their  families—in 
a  way.  But  what  a  way !  Do  you  know,
I  often  feel  like  saying  to  them :  ‘ Gen­
tlemen,  will  you  remember  that  women 
are  human  creatures,  with like emotions 
to  yourselves?  Could  we  glory 
in  the 
independence  of  American  men,  with­
out  feeling  a  like  desire  to be independ­
ent  ourselves?  We  despise  a  man  who 
has 
little  enough  spirit  to  live  on  the 
grudging  allowance  given  him  by  even 
his  father,  and  it  humiliates  us  to  have 
to  go  to  you  and  ask  you  for  a  quarter 
for  this  or a  half  dollar  for  that!’ 

“ Y es,”   went  on  the  New  Woman, 
“ no  matter  how  much  a  woman  loves 
her  husband,  no  matter  how devoted she 
is  to  her  father or  brother,  to  have to  go 
to  any  man  and  ask  him  for money  and 
receive  his  ‘ What  do  you  want  with  it?’ 
is a  bitter  shame,  against  which  she  re­
volts  in  her  soul.  How  many  women 
do  you  know  who  say  apologetically, 
‘ John,  I ’ll  have  to  ask  you  to  give  me  a 
little  extra;  I  got  so  hungry  downtown 
I  just  had  to  get  me  a 
lunch,’  or 
' I  asked  Mrs.  B. 
to  lunch  with  me. 
She’s  been  so  kind,  etc.?’  Of  course, 
John,  being  a  gentleman,  gives  her  the 
money;  but  think  of  her  having  to 
apologize  and  explain !  Does  John  have 
to  explain  to  Mary  when  he  gets  his 
lunch;  is  he  abjectly  apologetic  when 
he  asks  a  friend  to  have  a  smoke; does 
he  tell  her  about  it  in  order  to  explain 
the  deficit  in  the  exchequer?  Why,  he 
would  get  a  divorce  from  a  woman  who 
expected  it  of  him!

little 

“ It  is  my  lot  to  be  with  many  work- 
1  ing  women.  Some  of  them  are  but  illy
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paid ;  some  are  too  frail  to  work ;  some 
have  hard  taskmasters;  but  I  have  yet 
to  find  the  first  one  who,  in  speaking  of 
her  lot,  did  not  offset  its  hardships  by 
saying: 
‘ But,  oh,  it’s  so  good  to  be 
independent—not  to  have  to  consult  a 
soul  about  what  you  buy,  or give  any 
account  of  what  you  do  with  your 
monev. 
If  you  choose  to  wear  your  old 
frock  and  buy  a  lot  of  books,  or  go  to 
the  theater,  nobody  can  say  a  word. 
It’s  freedom,  and 
it’s  worth  working 
for. ’

“ I  think 

“ Now,  I  do  not  believe 

in  women’s 
having  to  work,”   said  the  New  Woman 
in  an  old  womanly  way. 
it's 
a  pity  for  every  one  who  is  forced  by 
circumstances  to  earn  her living  outside 
of  her  home,  but  can  you  blame  them? 
Until  men  will  divide  more  fairly  with 
their  wives,  not 
in  the  way  of  paying 
bills,  but  in  giving  them  a  regular  al­
lowance,  just  so 
long  will  women  sigh 
for  the  opportunity  of  making  money. 
If  you  will  go  to  any  woman’s  exchange 
the  managers  will  tell  you  they have  the 
hardest  time  in  keeping  out  the  work— 
the  embroidery  and  tatting  and  hand 
painting—of 
rich  women  who  never 
have  any  money  of  their  own,  and  try 
to  take  that  way  to  earn  a  little  pocket 
money.  Why  should  a  woman  who 
keeps  house,  and  attends  to  a  man’s 
children,  and  receives his company,  not 
be  worth  the  pay  of  a  housekeeper? 
That’s  a  common  sense basis they might 
figure  on.

“ I  have  spokert  only  of  the  wives  of 
good  men.  When  you  come  to  the  hard- 
fisted  old  misers,  God  only  knows  what 
women  endure,  and  where  they  get 
the patience to bear it.  The other day,  in 
a  New  York  paper,  there  was  a  story, 
the  most  pathetic,  I  think,  I  ever  read. 
It  told  the  story  of two women,  a  mother

and  daughter,  who  came  to  a  New  York 
hotel,  and  deposited  $1,400  with  the 
clerk,  which  they  told  him  they  would 
draw  against.  They  were country  wom­
en,  wearing  old-fashioned 
country 
clothes  of  poor  material.  Their  hands 
were  seamed  with  hard  work,  and  their 
faces  etched  with  the  ineffaceable  lines 
of  poverty  and  poor  living  and  priva­
tion  and  dull  monotony  and  despair.

Every  day 

They  twinkled  with 

“ It  was  plain  that  they  had  come  to 
town  to  have  a  good  time.  They  in­
vaded  the  stores,  and 
in  a  few  days 
like  Solomon  in  all  his 
were  adorned 
glory. 
jet  and 
blazed  with  spangles.  'T hey  got  silk 
stockings  and  chiffon  parasols,  and  all 
sorts  of  delicate  and  perishable  finery. 
They  went  to  the  theater  every  evening, 
and  were  insatiable  in  their  thirst  for 
pleasure. 
bundle  after 
bundle  came  for  them  to  the  hotel,  and 
the  clerk  paid 
for  them  out  of  the 
money  deposited  with  him,  until,  at 
last,  in  making  up  his  accounts,  he  as­
certained  that  they  had  spent  all  of  the 
$1,400  and  were  $30  overdrawn.  He 
sent  for  them,  and,  to  his  surprise,  the 
elder  woman,  when  she  heard  it,  burst 
into  tears.  Then  the  whole  story  came 
out.  Her  husband  had  been  a  hard  and 
stingy  man,  living  on  one  of  the  poor 
little  farms  in  Vermont.  Early  and  late 
they  had 
toiled,  denying  themselves 
everything,  always  driven  by  his  grasp­
ing.  The  daughter  said  she  had  never 
known  a  pleasure  in  her  life.  She  had 
never  had  a  new  ribbon,  or  a  holiday, 
or  a  joy.  Always 
it  had  been  work, 
work,  work,  early and late,  without even 
a  pleasant  word  from  her  father 
to 
last  he  died,  and  left 
sweeten 
them,  beside  the  poor 
farm,  a 
$1,400 
insurance  policy,  and  she  had 
persuaded^  her  mother  to  go  on  a  vaca-

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tion  and  not  come  back  until  it  was  all 
spent.  The  mother  cried  bitterly,  but 
the  daughter  declared  passionately  that 
she  had  had  her  fling.  She  had  seen 
something  of  the  world,  and  had  gotten 
some 
joy  out  of  it,  and  she  was  ready 
to  go  back,  and  she  thought  she  had 
gotten  the  worth  of  her  money.  And 
they  did  go  back  to  the  old  farm,  the 
hotel  people giving  them  tickets.
“ Can’t  you  understand  that? 

I  can.
I  can  see  how anyone  starved  for  beauty 
and  color,  and 
light 
would  pay  any  price  for  it,  and  not  re­
I  can  imagine  those 
gret  the  bargain. 
poor  women,  who  had 
lived  on  the 
coarsest  and  plainest  food,  eating  lob­
ster  salad  and  ice  cream  for breakfast.
I  can  even  imagine  the  fearful  joy  with 
which  they,  reared  to  believe  a  play­
house  the  deadly 
the 
theaters  where  the  skirt  dancer  and  the 
ballet  were  the  features  of  the  perform­
ance.

laughter,  and 

sin,  haunted 

“ Of course,some man will say,  ‘ That 

the  way  women  would  throw  money 
away if they  had  it. ’  But  they  wouldn’t.
It  was  only  the  revolt  against  a  lifetime 
of  grinding  down. 
If the  man  had  only 
divided  fairly  with  them,  no matter how 
small  the  amount  was,  they  would never 
have  felt'that  way  about  it.

“ Really, ’ ’ concluded the New Woman, 
“ when  you  come  to  think  about  it 
isn’t  it  a  little  inconsistent  that  a  man 
will  trust  us  with  his  name,  with  hi 
honor,  but  not  his  pocketbook?  As  for 
the  rest  of  the  financial  question,”   and 
she  waved  her  hand  airily  and  blew  a 
kiss  from  the  tips  of  her  fingers,  * 
leave  that  to  the  men—I  am  only  ii 
terested  in  the  divide.”

D o r o t h y   D ix .

Women  in  Business.

In 

i8qo  there  were,  in  the  United 
States,  4,455  women  doctors,  against 52 
in  1870.

Three  hundred  and  thirty-seven  worn 

en  dentists,  against  twenty-four.

Two  hundred  and  forty  women  law 

yers,  against  five.
One th'ousand,  two hundred and  thirty 
five  women  preachers,  against  sixty 
seven.

One  hundred  and  eighty  women 

land 
surveyors  and  engineers,  against  none 
at  all  in  1870.

Twenty-five women architects,  against 

one.

Eleven  thousand  women sculptors  and 

painters,  against  412.

Three 

thousand  women  writers, 

against  159.
en  journalists,  against  thirty-five.

Eight  hundred  and  eighty-eight  wom­

Thirty-four thousand,  five hundred and 
eighteen  women  musicians,  against

Three  thousand,  nine  hundred  and 
forty-nine  actresses,  against  692.
Twenty-one thousand,  one hundred and 
eighty-five  shorthand  writers,  against 
seven.

Sixty-four  thousand  and  forty-eight 

secretaries  and  clerks,  against  8,016.

Twenty-seven  thousand, seven hundred 
and  seventy-seven  women  book-keep­
ers,  against  none  in  1870.
Prices  Reduced—Quality  Maintained.
John  Phillips  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  offer 
oak  show  cases,  highly  polished,  seven­
teen  inches  high,of  double thick French 
sheet  glass  throughout,  bottoms  covered 
with  cotton  plush,  at  $1-75  per  foot—the 
best  show  case  made  for  the money.

Queen  Victoria  seems  to  have  gone 
into  the  strawberry  growing  business. 
An  English  exchange  says 
that  she 
secured  the  Banksian  medal  at 
the 
Royal  Horticultural  Society’s  show,  the 
other  day,  “ for  a  splendid  exhibit”   of 
the  fruit.

Everything  in  cigars at  Bushman’s.  _

Keep  A-Goin’.

Keep a-goin’!
Keep a-goin’!

'Keep a-goin’!
Keep a-goin’!
Keep a-goin’!

If you strike a thorn or rose,
If it hails or if it snows,
'T ain't no use to sit and whine
When the fish ain’t on your  line;
Bait your hook an’ keep on  tryin’—
When the weather kills your crop,
When you tumble from the top,
S’pose you’re out o’ every dime?
Gettin' broke ain’t any crime:
Tell the world you’re feelin’ prime:
When it looks like all is  up.
Drain the sweetness from the cup.
See the wild birds on the wing!
Hear the bells th at sweetly rin g !
When you feel like singin’—sing!

Keep a goin’ !
Keep a-goin’ !
Keep a-goin’!

Keep a-goin’!

Accommodation  in  Business, 

rom the Commercial  Bulletin.

Many  business  men  forget  that  they 
are  dependent  on  the  public  for  sue-1 
cess,  and  as  a  result  they assume toward 
the  public  an  air  of  superiority  that  is 
very  much  out  of  place.  A  business 
man  should  leafli  politeness  in  all  deal- 
ngs  with  the  public,  for  one  can  never 
tell  when  politeness  will  bring  its  busi­
ness  reward.

is  a 

This  is  not  saying  that  a  patronizing 
attitude  should  be  assumed  before  the 
public;  it 
is  unnecessary  to  carry  it 
that  far.  True  politeness  comes  first  in 
consideration,  and 
factor  in 
business  that  always  brings  good  re­
sults.
We  very  often  find  business  men  as­
suming  an  arrogant  attitude  before  a 
customer,  or  it  may  be  an 
indifference 
is  decidedly  cooling  on  the  one 
that 
who  comes  in  contact  with 
it.  To  be 
successful 
in  business  we  must  be 
obliging 
in  small  things,  and  always 
courteous,  even  where  annoyance  con­
fronts  us,  so  long  as  that  annoyance 
is 
not  in  itself  an  abuse  of  our  kindness. 
There  is  the  man  who telephones us  and 
never  knows  just  what  his  errand  is,  or 
whom  he  wants  to  talk  with.

Be  patient  with  this  man,  for  he  may 

it 

become  your  patron.

it 

It 

It 

There 

is  the  man  who  comes  into 
your  office  occasionally  to  use  your  tel­
ephone.  Do  not  freeze  him  to  death 
with  a  look,  but  make  him  feel  that  he 
is  welcome.  This  will  pay  in  the 
long 
run. 
is  not  to  be  expected  that  an 
office  can  be  made  a  running  place  for 
some  business  man  who  prefers  to  use 
another’s  telephone  rather  than  hire 
one,  but 
is  expected  that  the  indi 
vidual  who  seldom  uses  a  telephone wil] 
be  accommodated  when  he  makes  the 
request.
is  natural  many  times  to  become 
snappish  when  snappishness  is  not  the 
quality  of  disposition  most desirable  for 
Sometimes 
the  occasion  of 
snappishness  is  a  good  thing,  when 
its 
object  is  to  arouse  from a dreamy stupor 
some  one  who  should  be  more  activ 
mentally.  But  snappishness  as  applied 
in  business  should  give  away  to  com 
mon  courtesy;  we  all  appreciate  the 
latter,  therefore  we  should  cultivate 
as  a  personal  characteristic.  When  we 
can  say  a  man 
is  courteous,  we  have 
to
paid  him  a  higher  compliment  than 
call  him  president  of  a  country.

its  use. 

But  it  seems  useless  to direct business 
men  along  correct  lines.  There  is  so 
much  of  selfishness in  man  that progress 
is  slow.  And  yet 
it  appears  to  be  a 
duty  to  keep  at  it  in  the  hope  that  some 
one  will  be  able  to  work  for  the  better. 
We often  get  mixed  in  our  expressions; 
we  say  a  man  should  be  courteous  so 
If  we 
that  he  can  sell  more  goods. 
can’t  have  the  action  on  a  higher 
level 
let  us  have  it  anyway,  but 
than  this, 
when  we  find  merchants  selling  more 
goods  because  they  are  courteous,  we 
shall  be  better  satisfied,  because  then 
trade  ¡staking  a  natural  course,  follow­
ing  a  natural  action  by  a  business  man.

A  local  paper says that  a  mine  of  pure 
mica  has  been  discovered  in  the  moun­
tains  near  Cranberry  Creek,  a  few miles 
from  Gloversville,  N.  Y.  The  mica 
appears  to  be »in  “ pockets,”   and  the 
owners  hope  to  exchange 
for  the 
money  now in  the  pockets of capitalists.  I

it 

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IEW189E tier

New  1896  crop  J E W E L L   C H O P  JA P A N   T E A S  
just  arriving-.  Rich,  delicious,  delicate.  Quality  this 
year finer than  ever before.  Many  jobbers throughout 
the country still  have  on  hand  a  large  stock  of  1895 
crop,  private chop mark  Japan  Tea,  and  must  unload 
them on  you  or the other fellow.  This  is  not  the  case 
with us.  Not  a pound  of old  Jewell  Chop  Japan  Tea 
instock.  Buy Jewell  Chop  Teas  of  us,  and  you  will 
get JU S T   W H A T   YO U   B U Y ,  nice,  tender  leaf,  frag­
rant  1896 crop tea.

I.  M. CLARK GROCERY CO.
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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  Co.,

ELKHART,  IND.

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! with  specialties  as  the  only  relief  from 
this  overproduction.

The  editor  appears  to  intimate  that 
the  production  of  specialties,  though 
multiplied  beyond  reasonable  limits,  is 
due  to  a  spontaneous  call  for  novelties 
on  the  part  of  the  public,  and  his  ar­
follow 
gument  and  vituperation  both 
this  premise.  But,  if  his  premise 
is 
not  true,  all  his  censure  upon  my  arti­
cle  falls  short  of  a  logical  conclusion. 
All  will  admit  that many  products,  both 
in  staple  goods  and  luxuries,  have  their 
origin 
in  plainly  expressed  wishes  of 
the  public.  Others  appear  in  market  to 
supply  anticipated  wants  due  to  the 
fashion.  Yet  a 
caprices  of 
large  re­
mainder  are 
introduced  in  the  hope  to 
create  a  demand  on  the  score of novelty, 
without  having 
justification  by  reason 
of 
intrinsic  value  above  othere  in  the 
same  line  to  recommend  them  to  either 
merchant  or  consumer.  A needless  sur­
plus  of  such  goods  has  produced  the 
condition  spoken  of  ana  grocers,  drug­
gists  and  general  dealers  all  feel  the 
pressure  I  attempted  to  describe.

This 

is  the  “ bead  and  front  of  my 
offending,”   which  the  Interstate  Grocer 
resents  as  hostile  to  commercial  ethics. 
Whether  this  be  so  or  not  I  am  content 
to 
leave  to  the  sober  judgment  of  all 
who  do  a  retail  business,  and  I  have  no 
fears  for  the  verdict. 
In  all  discussions 
concerning  trade  methods  there  are,  of 
course,  different  points  of  view*  Writ­
ing 
interest  of  the  retailers,  it 
was  natural  to  treat  the  subject  from 
their  standpoint. 
If  the  statements 
made  are  true,  there  is  no  apology  due 
the  St.  Louis  critic.

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Our sales  have increased rap­
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wherever  our  flour  has  been 
used  it  has  given  the  best  of 
satisfaction.

Hundreds  of  grocers 

in 
Michigan  handle  our  winter 
wheat  flour,  and  we  would 
like to have  all  of  them  who 
sell  any spring wheat flour at 
all  order 
our 
“Crosby’s Superior” the next 
time  they  send  in  an  order. 
We  guarantee the quality.

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More  about  Specialties.

Written  for the T rad esm an.

There  was  once  a  youth  of  robust 
frame  and  healthy  appetite,  having  a 
doting  mother  who  believed  in  gratify­
ing  the  latter  to  its  fullest  extent.  One 
day,  after surfeiting  her  son  with  a  din­
ner  of  many  courses,  she 
insisted  that 
he  had  not yet appeased  his hunger,  and 
should  at  least  eat  another  slice  of  pud­
ding.  But  he  shook  his  head  and  de­
clared  that  he  was  already  satisfied. 
“ But,  dear  H arry,’ ’  she  said, 
“ can’t 
you  just  taste  a  little  more—only  a  tart 
and  a  small  piece  of  this  delicious 
cake?”   With  a  sigh  and  a  groan,  he 
replied,  “ Perhaps  I  could,  mother,  if  1 
stood  up. ’ ’

This  story  comes  to  mind  when  read­
ing  some  comments  by  the  editor  of  the 
Interstate  Grocer,  of  St.  Louis,  who 
calls  in  question  the  animus  of  my  ar­
ticle  on  specialties  that  appeared  in  the 
Tradesman  of  June  3.  After  expressing 
gratification  that  the  matter  complained 
of  was  not  an  editorial,  but  only  the 
heretical  opinions  of  a  contributor,  he 
brings  the  whole  force  of  his  intelli­
gence  to  neutralize  its  effect  on  the gen­
eral  reader,  by  saying  that  an  attempt 
to  reply  ‘ ‘ would  be  a  waste  of  space. 
He  then  goes  on  to  say  that  the  opin­
ions  of  said - correspondent  are  “  weak 
and  fallacious,”   and  asserts  that  “ spe- 
cialites  are  always  potential  factors  for 
success,  when  properly  handled,”   also 
that  “ the  average  dealer  possesses busi­
ness  acumen  and  is  not  apt  to  allow 
himself  to  be  taken  in  by  the  manufac­
turer  of  a  novelty. ”   He  concludes  by 
asserting  that  it  is  the  duty  of  the  mer­
chant  to  “ cater  advisably  and  conserv­
atively  to  the  whims  of  the  people,”  
as  though  they  were  the 
inciting  cause 
in  producing  all  the  specialties  that  are 
forever  knocking  at  the  retailer's  door.
In  reply  to  these  strictures  from  one 
who  claims  to  understand  what  are  the 
best  trade  methods,  I  would  simply  call 
attention  to  the  prominent  points  of  my 
article,  condensed  as  follows:

Retailers,  in  general, 

find  that  the 
fluctuations  in  demand for certain  kinds 
of  goods  known  as  specialties  are  tan­
talizing  and  difficult  to  account  for;

This  fickle  demand  may  be caused,  in 
part,  by  the  persistent  attempts  of  pro­
ducers  to  force  upon  the  market  a  sur­
plus  of  goods  that  compete  with  others 
in  the  same  line ;

Producers  are  not  content  with  im­
proving  the  quality  of  each  article  so 
as  to  insure  permanence  of,  demand  on 
its  merits,  but  crowd  new  goods,  differ­
ing  only  in  name,  upon  the  attention  of 
the  dealer  before  he  has  had  time  to  get 
a  local  trade  well  established with goods 
fully  as  meritorious;

Upon  refusal  to  order  such  competing 
goods,  proprietors  sometimes  appeal  to 
the  customers  of  the  dealer  by  round­
about  ways  that  too  often  succeed  in 
damaging well-established and profitable 
trade.

Commenting  on  the  above  facts,  so 
common  in  the experience of merchants, 
I  expressed  no  antagonism  against  a 
system  that  thus gluts  the  market  both 
in  necessities  and  luxuries  further  than 
to  mention  it  as  a  practice  that,  unfor­
tunately,  exists  and,  though  aggravating 
to  the  retailer,  must  be  endured  so 
long  as.  invention  spurs  enterprise  to 
produce  beyond  the  needs  or  desires  of 
consumers. 
In  admitting  the  existence 
of  an  evil  so  apparent to all,  I  advanced 
no  opinions  hostile  tc  legitimate  busi­
ness  methods,  merely  favoring  a  course 
of  careful  discretion 
in  stocking  up

In  closing  this  rejoinder,  I  have  a 
few  remarks  to  add,  apropos  of  what 
has  preceded,  even  at  the  risk  of  hav­
ing  them  classed  as  “ weak  and  falla­
cious  opinions

While  trying  to  account  for  the falling 
off  in  demand  for  certain  specialties,  a 
careful  observer  may  find  a  clue 
in 
one  direction  that  is  not  complimentary 
to  the  honesty  of  some  manufacturers. 
The  common  complaint  of  consumers, 
when  asked  for  reasons  why  they  dis­
continue  the  use  of  an  article  once  pre­
ferred  above  all  others,  is  that  the  qual­
ity  has  deteriorated.  This  makes  them 
the  more  willing  to  accept  new  favor­
ites  specially  prepared  to  attract  cus­
tom.  And  these,  in  turn,  fail,  after  a 
short  trial,  to  give  satisfaction. 
It  is 
not  the  fault  of  the  retailer.  But  he 
thus  becomes  a vicarious sufferer.  Much 
of  the  adulteration  in  goods  on  the  mar 
ket  may  be  traced  to  this  cause.

The  influence  of  trade  journals  may, 
therefore,  be  wisely  used  by  insisting 
on  fewer  novelties  and  specialties  until 
the  majority  of  those  now offered  the 
public  are  kept  up  to  such  a  standard 
of  excellence  as  will  be  sure  to  hold 
trade  when  once  secured.  The  dealer 
should  not  be  expected  to pioneer,  with­
out  regard  to  its  adaptability  to his  own 
local  trade,  every  product  of  manufac­
turing  enterprise  seeking  the  public 
favor.  Manufacturers  of  staple  goods 
would,  no  doubt,  find  greater  profit 
in 
maintaining  the  quality  of  their  prod­
ucts  than  in  duplicating  grades  of  same 
quality  under  different  names,  besides 
saving  much  in  the  matter  of  adver­
tising.  And  both 
jobber  and  retailer 
might  well  be  grateful  to  them  for  pur­
suing  such  a  course.

Pe t e r   C.  Me e k .

The 

imports  of 

frozen  meats 

into 
England  began  fourteen  years  ago,  and 
last  year 2, £00,000 sheep  and lambs  were 
imported,  besides 180,000  beef  quarters.

Entire Wheat Floor

To  Grocers  in  Grand  Rapids  and  dealers  generally:

pa,

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

WM.  CALLAM   & SON,

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“ Everybody wants  them.” 

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A  Price-C utter’s  S u ccess.

Stroller in Grocery World.

I  had  an  interview  last  week  with  a 
retail  grocer  who  is  famous  for his price 
cutting,  and  for  a  minute  he  nearly  up­
set  my  preconceived  opinions  of  this 
practice. 
the  storm  all 
right 
in  the  end  though,  but  1  had  to 
do  some  pretty  straight  talking  before 
I  could  convince  him  that  it  wouldn’t 
be  good  policy  for  every  grocer  to  do 
as  he  has  done. 

I  weathered 

I  was  walking  up Chestnut street when 

.

I  met  him.

“ Hello,”   he  said,  “ why  doesn’t  that 
paper  of  yours  stop  hammering  at  the 
cutter?”

“ Because 

it  thinks  the  cutter  is  a 

pretty  bad  sort  of  fellow,”  

I  said.
“ Why  is  he?”   was  the  question.
“ Well,  he  demoralizes  trade,”   I said. 
“ Bosh!”   was  the  reply. 
“ These fel­
lows  who  are  too  weak  to  follow  the 
cutter’ s  example  only claim that  to  hide 
their  weakness.  You’ ll  admit,  won’t 
you,  that  the  main  thing  in  business 
is 
to  succeed,  provided  you  do  it  honor­
ably?”

I  admitted  it.
“ Well,”   he  said,  “ when  I  tell  you  a 
few  things,  I  guess  you’ll  change  your 
opinion  of  the  cutter. 
I don’t  say  these 
things  to  be  boastful,  but  merely  to 
show  you  that,  although  I ’ve  been a cut­
ler,  I ’ve  made  more  money  out  of  the 
retail  grocery  business  than  nine  out  of 
ten  men  you  meet.

I  had  some 

“ I  started  eleven  years  ago  with  $60 
ideas  about  the 
in  cash. 
grocery  business  and  felt  pretty  sure 
they  were  good  ones.  So 
I  hustled 
around  and  found  the  means  of  putting 
them  into  execution.  My  hobby 
is,  as 
you  know,  cut  prices  and cash  dealings. 
These  are  the  foundation  of  my  whole 
business  career.  To-day  I  have twenty- 
one  retail  stores  and  one  jobbing  house, 
and $80,000 worth of real estate, $50,000 of 
which  is  clear  of  all  encumbrance.”  

I  said, 

“ Splendid,”  
“ Wait  a  minute, ”   he  said. 

involuntarily. 
“ In  the 
busy  season  l  keep  158  employes  going.
I  have  one  store  where  three  clerks  do 
a  business  of  $1,200  a  week.  Every 
cent’s  worth  of goods  which  goes  out  of 
my  store  has 
left  its  value  in  cash  in 
my drawer.  Never once  since  I  adopted 
the  cash  system  have  I  broken  it.  How 
many  of 
your  non-cutters  can  say 
that?”

“ Do  you  mean  to  say  that  you’ve 
never  broken  the  rule  to  anybody?”   I 
asked,  incredulously.

“ That’s  exactly  what  I  do  mean  to 
say, ’ ’  he  answered. 
‘ * Why,  once  a 
wholesaler  who  buys  goods of me tried to 
get  an  arrangement  to  settle  weekly. 
I 
said  no.  Then  he  said  he’d  deposit  $50 
I  said  no,  too,  because  that 
with  me. 
would  have 
if  I  distrusted 
him,  which  I  didn’t.  He  finally  agreed 
that  I  was  right  and  now  buys  of  me 
spot  cash.

looked  as 

“ Do  you  mind  telling  me  what  your 

average  profit  is?”   I  asked.

“  Not a bit, ”  he said.  “ My  gross  profit 
is  15  per  cent.,  which  is  more than  nine 
out  of  ten  credit  grocers  make  to-day.  I 
live  in  good  style  and  enjoy  life.  No­
body  owes  me  a  dollar.  Now  what  do 
you  think  of  cutting?”

I  stood  and  looked  at  the  man 

for  a 
minute  in  genuine  admiration.  $80,000 
in  eleven  years!  Nobody  can  deny  that 
this 
is  a  splendid  showing.  Then  I 
recovered  myself  and  rallied  to  the  at­
tack.

“ My  dear  sir,”   I  said,  “ I  grant  you 
that  you  have  been  marvelously  suc­
cessful  as  a  cut-price  grocer. 
But 
doesn’t 
it  occur  to  you  that  your  own 
business  faculty  was  the  main reason for 
this?  The  cutting  of  prices  in  your  case.

in  a  peculiar  degree. 

was  only  an 
incident;  you  really  suc­
ceeded  because  you  were  a  business 
man  and  possessed  the  elements  of  suc­
cess 
In  other 
words,  you  are  fitted  to  succeed  in  your 
special  line.  Now  take  the other  99  out 
of  the  100  grocers,  and  you’ll  find  that 
they  have  not  these  peculiar  faculties. 
They  would  break  up  their  business 
in 
a  year,  because  price-cutitng  is  an  ex­
tremely  risky  branch  of  the  grocery 
business.  Where  you  have  the  nerve  to 
skate  over  thin 
ice,  other  grocers 
it’s  no  discredit  to  them 
haven’t,  and 
It’s  all  a  matter  of 
that  they  haven’t. 
disposition.  You’ve  succeeded  where 
others,  were  they  to  try 
same 
methods,  would have failed. ”   Istopped, 
chiefly  because  my  breath  had  given 
out.

“ Um, ”  he said,“  I suppose that’s so. ”  
“ Who  was  it?”   Tom  Hunter.

the 

Pleasing  the  Public.

John Chester, in Printer’s Ink.

The  only  way  to  attract  the  people 

is 
to  please  them ;  the  only  way  to  keep 
their  custom 
is  to  continue  pleasing 
them  and  anticipate  their  pleasures.
You  want  to  “ keep  tab,”   as  it  were, 
on  what  they  require,  to  constantly  en­
deavor  to  find  out  their  wants  and  sup­
ply  them  promptly.  This  can  be  done 
promptly  through  your  salespeople. 
If 
goods  be  asked  for  that  you  haven’t  in 
stock,  offer  to  get  them.  Get the address 
of  the  would-be  purchasers,  notify  them 
when  you  have  the  goods,  and 
let  that 
be  quickly.  All  that  is  trouble,  but 
it 
is  the  kind  of  trouble  that  pays  and 
builds  up  a  solid,  permanent  trade.

it 

I  have  always  claimed  that  the  pri­
vate  reputation  earned  by  a  firm’s  en­
terprise  was  more  stable  than the  public 
one  earned  by  advertising.  Shoppers 
are  mostly  women,  and 
is  one  of 
woman’s  most  glorious  privileges  to 
talk,  and  she  never  fails  to  avail  her­
self  of  that  privilege.  Please  the  wom­
an  and  you  have  secured  the  family 
trade,  besides recommending  you  to  her 
friends.  Displease  her,  and  you  have 
not  only  made  an  enemy  of  her  but  of 
her  friends  also.

lax  or  unattractive 

You  will  never  please  the  public  by 
being 
in  your  ad­
vertising.  The  people  have  come  to  be 
great  and  discerning  critics  in  this  re­
spect.  They  criticise  your  ads,  your 
matter  and  your  methods  much  more 
than  you  think.  Nothing  stale,  weak  or 
silly,  by  way  of  argument,  will  “ go 
down*’ with  them.  And  you  must  not 
merely  please  them 
in  words,  but  in 
practice.  Promise  nothing  you  are  not 
prepared  to  perform  when  they  visit 
your  store.

Because  you  happen  to  be  doing  a 
good  business,  don’t  make  the  mistake 
of  getting churlish with customers.  That 
1 is  a  good  way  to 
lose  all  you  have 
gained.  At  all  times  politeness  paves 
the  way  to  prosperity,  the  lack  of  it 
drives  away  your  best  trade.  Don’t  tire 
of  taking  pains  to  please  the  people,  or 
of  trying,  by  attractive  methods, 
to 
gain  new 
from  day  to  day. 
Never  let  the  report  get  abroad  that  you 
are  disobliging  or  disrespectful.  That 
will  do  you  more  harm  than  your  best 
advertisement  will  do  good.  You really 
can’t  afford  to  get  irritated  because  a 
customer 
is  somewhat  hard  to  please. 
Remember,  your  place  is  to  please  the 
public  if  you  wish  to  succeed. 

friends 

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It 

is  a  great  mistake  to discriminate 
too  much  between  the  regular  and  the 
casual  customer.  The  same  means  that 
made  the  first  one  permanent  can  make 
the  second  one  permanent,  too.  Treat 
every  caller  as  if  he  or  she  were  regular 
traders  at  your  store,  and  you  will  find 
that  a  good  way  to  win 
friends.  Affa­
bility,  anxiety  to  satisfy,  an  uncon­
sciousness—real  or  assumed—of  being 
put  to  any  trouble  or 
inconvenience— 
all  these  are 
instrumental  in  pleasing 
the  public,  and  they  are  positive  neces­
sities  in  every  store  that  is  run with any 
idea  of  being  a  permanent  success.

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

OUR  SAMPLES  FOR  FALL  of

Boots,  Shoes,
W a le s-G o o d y e a r  R u b b ers,

Grand Rapids Felt Boots, 

Lumbermen’s Socks,
Are now  on exhibition at our salesroom,  and in 
the hands of our travelers.  Kindly hold for them.
HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.,

5  and  7  PEARL  STREET.

Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.,

12, 14,16 Pearl Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Our Factory Lius are me Best Weariitg Sloes on Earth.

W e  carry  the  neatest,  nobbiest  and  best  lines  of  job­
bing  goods,  all  the  latest  styles,  everything  up  to  date.
W e  are  agents  for  the  best  and  most  perfect  line  of 
rubbers  made— the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Co.’ s  goods. 
They  are  stars  in  fit  and  finish.  You  should  see  their 
New  Century  Toe— it  is  a  beauty.

If  you  want  the  best  goods  of  all  kinds— best  service 
and  best  treatment,  place  your  ordeis  With  us.  Our 
references  are  our  customers  of  the  last  thirty  years.

m

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

write us for samples in  Misses and Children’s.

Our Bob and  May is the best grain shoe made.
For a  Kangaroo calf, we can  give  you  one  that  competition

You ought to see our Berlin  Needle  toe,  Misses’  and  Childs’

Dongola;  this is the neatest shoe out for spring.

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

cannot meet.

any made.

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

Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.

GRAND RAPIDS.

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Shoes  and  Leather

Outing  Shoes  for  Women.

If  your  spirits  are  depressed ;  if  you 
lack 
are  kicking  and  grumbling  at  the 
lack  of  money  when 
of  trade  and  the 
there 
is'tra d e ;  if  you  are  sick  of  the 
shoe  business-altogether,  read  the  fol­
lowing  from  the  New  York  Journal. 
It 
It  will  assure  you 
will  do  you  good. 
that  somewhere  there  is  a  demand 
for 
footgear—if  it  doesn’t  make  you  smile 
at  the  lack  of  conception  the writer  dis­
plays  of  conditions  outside  a  certain 
contracted  sphere :

Three  years  ago  the  summer  girl’s 
shoes  were  regarded  as  a  minor  part  of 
her  wardrobe.  In  fact,  she  needed  to  be 
provided  with  only  two  kinds—those  for 
walking  and  those  tor  dancing.  But 
since  then  times  have  changed.  The 
athletic girl  has  revolutionized  the  shoe 
trade.  There  are  shoes  and  boots  this 
summer,  not  only  for  bicycling,  riding, 
golf  and  tennis,  but  shoes  for  mountain 
climbing, 
fencing  and 
basket  ball,  to  say  nothing  of  the many 
dainty  slippers designed for dancing and 
piazza  wear.

trout  fishing, 

The  summer  girl  must  own  at  least 

three  different  pairs  of  bicycle  boots.
The  newest  are  dainty  enough  to  suit 
the  most  fastidious  young  woman  in  the 
land.  They  are  no  longer  clumsy  and 
ungainly,  but  are  made  with  a  pointed 
toe and  a  French  heel  and are altogether 
a  very  smart-looking  boot.  For  warm 
weather  the  boot  is  invariably  made  to 
order  to  match  the  costume.
One  of  the  swellest  pairs  of  bicycle 
boots  in  town  is  made  of Russian  crash, 
with  the  foxing  in  brown  glace  leather. 
The  heel 
is  a  dainty  Louis  XV   affair 
and  the  -toe  very  pointed.  The  boot 
reaches  to  just  below  the  knee  and  fas­
two  straps  caught 
tens 
through  gold  heart-shaped 
buckles. 
Boots  made  entirely  of  glace  leather, 
both 
in  tan  and  black,  are  much  in 
favor  at  present.

there  with 

The  fencing  shoe 

the  boot  reaches  nearly  to  the  knee. 
There  are  other  riding  boots,  new  this 
season,  which  are  made  of  Russia  calf 
and  trimmed with patent leather.  These, 
also,  are  much  in  vogue.
is,  perhaps,  the 
oddest  which  the  athletic  girl  wears. 
It 
is  a  low  shoe,  made  of  black  buckskin 
and  patent 
leather  and  trimmed  with 
some  bright  shade  of  leather.  The  soles 
are  of  felt,  and  attached  to  the  shoe  for 
the  right  foot  is  a  leather  projection up­
on  which  to  rest  the  foil.  These  shoes 
bought  ready  made  cost  $3.  Many  of 
them  are  of  white  buckskin,  instead  of 
black,  and  are  trimmed  with  a  strap 
across  the  front  of  scarlet,  blue  or greei. 
leather.  The back  of  the  shoe  is  patent 
leather.
The  tennis  shoe  varies  little from  sea­
son  to  season. 
It  is  always  a  low  shoe, 
generally  of  canvas  and  made  With  a 
corrugated  rubber  sole  to  prevent  slip­
ping  when  running  across  the  court. 
This  year  the  only  novelty  is  the  shoe 
made  to  order  of  white  canvas  and 
trimmed  with  straps  of leather matching 
the  tennis  costume  in  color.
The low bicycle shoes,  a  pair  of  which 
every  wheelwoman  should wear,  are best 
made  of  tan  or black  dongola,  with  rub­
ber  soles.

The  bathing  shoe  most  in 

favor  this 
season 
is  of  canvas,  with  straps  across 
the  instep,  which  give  it  much  the  ap­
It  is  made  with 
pearance  of  a  sandal. 
a  rubber  sole  and  can  be  bought 
in 
either  black,  white  or  dark  blue.  When 
purchased  ready  made  the  straps  are  of 
canvas  and  there  are  but  two  of  them. 
But  the  summer  girl  fond  of  things 
novel  will  remove  the  canvas  straps  and 
sew 
in  their  place  gay  ribbons,  which 
she  will  wind  around  her 
shapely 
ankles  and  then  tie  some  distance  up 
her  leg  in  a  pert  bow.

The  shoe  designed  specially  for  bas­
ket  ball  will  also  be  found  useful  for 
outdoor  wear  generally. 
is  a  little 
lower  than  the  ordinary  walking  shoe, 
laces,  and  is  of  donogla 
leather.  The 
toe  is  round  and  the  thick  sole  is  made 
of  rubber.

It 

One of  the  novelties  of  the  hour 

is  a 
glace  boot  made  with  an  adjustable top. 
After  the  ride  when  the  top  is  unbut­
toned,  the boot  has  the  appearance  of  an 
ordinary  good-looking  walking  shoe. 
in  this  way,  it  serves  two 
Being  made 
purposes  admirably. 
Bicycle  boots 
made  of  satin  Française  and  trimmed 
with  leather  are  also  new.
All  the  boots  are  unlined  and  are 
much  cooler  than  they  look.  The  av­
erage  bicycle  boot,  bought  ready  made, 
varies 
in  price  from  $3  to  $5.  Those 
made  to  order  come  as  high  as  $20,  ac­
For 
cording  to 
hard  wear  the  boot  with  the  horsehide 
sole,  which  is  pedal  proof, 
in 
favor.

the  material  used. 

is  most 

Many  of  the  summer  boots  are  most 
conspicuous.  One  pair  recently  made 
to  order  for  a  New  York  girl  were  of 
white  canvas  trimmed  with  bright  red 
leather.
If  part  of  her  vacation  is  to  be  spent 
camping  out,  the  summer  girl  will  need 
a  pair  of  wading  shoes.  They are  made 
of  canvas,  foxed  with 
leather,  and  are 
worn  over  her  ordinary  shoes.  They 
fasten  with  two  straps  and  the  unusual­
ly  heavy 
is  studded  with 
hobnails.  For  trout  fishing  these  are 
invaluable,  and  also  for  long  tramps 
through  the  uncleared  woods,  where 
marshy  ground  and  rough  stumps  are 
met  at  every  turn.

leather  sole 

For  mountain  climbing  a  less  clumsy 
shoe 
is  needed.  Nothing  is  better  for 
this  purpose  than  a  laced  shoe  of  goat­
skin,  made  with  a  projecting  leather 
sole.  The  golf  boot  is  frequently  worn 
for  extensive  mountain  climbing. 
It 
reaches  just  below  the  knee  and  is  best 
looking  when  made  of  tan  calf,  neatly 
stitched.  The  golf  boot  laces  up  the 
front,  fastening  near  the  top  with  two 
straps. 
is  generally  made  with  a 
It 
round  toe.
There  are  many  novelties  in  riding 
boots  this  summer.  All  of  them  aim  to 
be  mannish  in  effect.  Those entirely  of 
patent  leather  are the most stylish.  They 
are  made  with  a  stiff  leg,  but  wrinkling 
near  the  ankle.  The  toe  is  pointed  and

Prepared  to  Remain.

A  young  man  who  clerks  in  a  Mon­
roe  street  clothing  store  recently  called 
on  a  young  lady  on  Livingston  street  to 
spend  the  evening.  When  he  arrived 
there  was  not  a  cloud  in  the  sky,  so  be 
carried  no  umbrella  and  wore  neither 
goloshes 
10 
o’clock  when  he  arose  to  go,  it  was 
raining  pitchforks  and  grindstones.

nor  mackintosh. 

“ My,  my,  m y!’ ’  said  the  nice  young 
lady,  “ if  you  go  out  in  this  storm  you 
will  catch  your  death  cold.”

At 

" I 'm   afraid 

1  might,”   was 

the

“ Well, 

trembling  answer.
I ’ll  tell  you  what—stay  all 
night;  you  can  have  Tom’s  room,  as 
he  is  visiting  uncle  and  aunt  up  in  the 
country.  Yes,  occupy  Tom’s 
room. 
Excuse  me  a  minute,  and  I ’ll  just  run 
up  and  see  if  it’s  in  order.’ ’
The young lady fled gracefully  upstairs 
to  see  if  any  tidying  was  necessary. 
In 
five  minutes  she  came  down to announce 
that  the  room  was  in  readiness,  but  no 
Charles  was 
In  a  very  few 
minutes,  however,  he  appeared,  drip­
ping  wet  and  out  of  breath  from  run­
ning,  and  with  a  bundle  in  a newspaper 
under  his  arm.

in  sight. 

The  nice  young 

lady  greeted  him 
“ Why,  Charles,  where  have  you 

with: 
been?”

“ Been  heme  after  my  nightshirt,”  
was  his  reply,  as  he  hung  his  hat  up  to 
drip. 

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A  new  use  has  been  discovered  for. 
hops,  namely,  the  curing  of  bacon. 
It 
is  found  that  a  sprinkling  of  hops  in 
the  brine  when  bacon  and  hams  are  put 
in  pickle  adds  greatly  to  the  flavor  of 
both,  and  enables  them  to  be  kept  an 
indefinite  period.

The  first  shipment  of  oranges  from 
Southern  California  was  made  in  1879, 
from  the  Wolfskill  ranch,  now  a  resi­
dence  portion  of  Los  Angeles. 
The 
freight  charges  are  said  to  have  been 
$1,000.

Ure  Unkle  is  at  Bushman’s.

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No  Comfort  in  Shoes.
Eleanor Corbett ir. New York News.

Heelless  shoes,  like  those  worn  in  the 
gymnasium,  must  be,  I  should  think, 
almost  more  fatiguing  to  the  foot  than 
no  shoe  at  all,  and  if  worn  every  day 
through  the  summer  for  any  length  of 
time,  wouldn’t  they  be  likely  to  depress 
the  arch  of  the  instep?
But  there!  is  there  any  style  of  foot­
gear,  as  now worn,  which conduces alike 
to  comfort  and  to  the  preservation  of 
the  natural  symmetry? 

I  doubt  it.

Certainly,  neither  Louise Quinze heels 
nor  Razor  toes  are  correct  from  a  hy­
gienic  point  of  view,  nor  are  they  com­
fortable,  even  though,  from  long  habit, 
we  are  able  to 
ignore  their  disadvan­
tages  and  imagine  they  don't  cramp  our 
extremities  or  endanger  our  equilib­
rium.
But  1  am  not  sure  the so-called “ com­
mon-sense”   shoe 
is,  in  the  long  run, 
preferable,  but 
it’s  certainly  very  un­
sightly.  A  190-pound acquaintance  was 
here  the  other  day 
in  a  pair  of  boots 
constructed  on  the  Kahler  last,  which  is 
as  broad  at  the  tip  of  the  toes  as  across 
the  ball  of  the  foot;  and 
in  this  case, 
the  latter,  being of  generous  proportions 
at  best,  the  result 
in  this  square-toed 
abomination  was  something  paralyzing.
It  looked,  too,  as  if  the  very  roomi­
ness  of  the  shoe  would  produce  slipping 
and  friction  and,  as  the best shoemakers 
will  tell  you,  a  too-loose  shoe 
is  as 
its  wearer  with  corns 
likely  to  afflict 
and  bunions  as  a  very  tight  cne.
fewer  of 

There  would  be 

these, 
though,  whatever  the  style  of  shoe,  if 
people  better  understood  the  care  of  the 
feet.  The  woman  who  comes 
in  from 
a  jaunt  or  a  shopping  expedition,  tired 
and  “ all-over  achy,”   will 
loosen  her 
hair  and  throw  aside  her  corset,  but 
unless  her  shoes  are  actually  hurting 
her,  ten  to  one  she’ll  keep  them  on 
especially  if  she  must  go  out  again 
a  few  hours.
But  if  she  would  bare her feet,  sponge 
them  off  with  alcohol  and water and  slip 
on  fresh  stockings  and  another  pair  of 
shoes,  even  though  the 
latter  be  as 
just  taken  off,  she  will 
snug  as  those 
find 
that  her 
feet  are  rested  and 
strengthened  to  a  comforting  degree 
whereas,  if  she  keeps  on  warm,  damp 
stockings  and  thrusts  her  feet  into  old 
loose  slippers  to  swell  and  spread,  even 
for  an  hour,  they  will  ache  and  burn 
twice  as  badly  when  she  again  squeezes 
them  into her  street  shoes.
thei 
style  or  material,  will  probably  be  con 
siderably  larger  than  those  she  used  to 
wear  a  Jew  years ago ;  and  the  craze  for 
all  manner  of  outdoor  exercise,  walking 
for  th:s  in 
included, 
crease—that  and  the 
fashion  of  ex 
tremely  pointed  toes.

Those  same  shoes,  whatever 

is  responsible 

Previous  to  their  advent  and  during 
the  decade  in  which  I have been writing 
up  women’s  habiliments, 
I  once  in­
quired  in  a  big  shoe  store  what  number 
shoe  the  average  woman  demanded 
“ Four  and  a-half  C ,”   was  the  answer 
but  now  she  gets  cne  several  sizes 
longer.
I,  who  wear  only  a  moderate  toe,  get 
a  half-size 
longer  than  1  used  to,  but 
when  I  go  a  shopping,  I hear  other  fern 
inine  customers  asking  for  fives  and 
sixes.  One  woman,  indeed,  of  only  or 
dinary  size  surprised  me  by  very  audi 
bly  wanting  “ a  seven  D, 
and a friend 
who  used  to  wear  a  four  B  now  needs  -

So  I  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  story-teller  who  prates  of  his  hero 
ine’ s  “ tiny  feet”   is  talking  of  the  has 
been  rather  than  the  is-now.

California’ girls  and  women  have  di 

they  would 

covered  that  when 
look 
their  smallest  and  prettiest  about  the 
feet  they  must  wear  a  boot  of  black 
satin—not  a  slipper,  mind  you,  but 
high,  buttoned  boot, 
fitted  without 
wrinkle.  And  this,  they  assert,  giv 
a  microscopic  smallness  to  the  member 
it  encloses,  so  I  give 
't  as  a  pointer 
“ to  whom  it  may  concern.”
And  likewise  this:  Don’t  take  it  too 
much  to  heart,  nor  let  yourself  be  filled 
with  envy  when  your  dearest  friend 
brags  of  her  2
or  3  shoe;  for  remem­
ber,  a  size  in  shoes  in  only  one-eighth

inch,  so 

of  an 
you  a  four,  there 
half-inch  difference 
your  shoes.

if  she  wears  a 2 ^   and 
is  really  less  than  a
in  the  length  of 
bit  of

Now,  isn’t that  a  comfortin 

information?

.  Push  Tan  Shoes  Now.
From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

Carrying  over  shoes  from  one  season 
to  another  these  days  is  not  merely  un- 
business-like,  because  it  ties  up money, 
but 
it  is  dangerous,  owing  to  the  rapid 
changes  in  styles.

Trade  to-day  is  not  on  the  staple lineg 
that 
it  used  to  be.  The  Opera  and 
Square  toes  are  not  the  only  ones  that 
ust  be  carried.  Dealers  are  obliged 
H stock  up  on  the  up-to-date  goods  that 
change  more  or  less  each  season.  Not 
only  this,  but  there  is  the  tan  shoe,  that 
must  be  handled  now  during  the  spring 
even  in  the  smaller  towns.

illustrate, 

These  complications  of  trade  make 
important  that  the  retailer 
..  highly 
keep  the  closest  possible  watch  of  the 
condition  of  his  stock,  buy  cautiously 
and  avoid  carrying  over goods  that  are 
in  favor  this  season,  but  next  year  may 
be  completely  out.
.Colored  goods  require  special  atten- 
on.  To 
last  summer  the 
correct  shade  for  tan  was  a  light  one.
It  was 
impossible  to  make  leather  too 
light  for  a  great  many  buyers.  The  toe, 
too,  was  a  medium  point  and  the  shoe 
was  not  well  cut.  There  was  little  com­
fort  in  it  and  it brought  corns  as well  as 
pain.
This  summer  the  shoes  have  been 
larker.  Not  only  that,  but  they  have 
been  cut  on  different  patterns,  more 
pointed,  but  fuller  in  the  ball  and 
long 
drawn  out—as  comfortable,  in 
any  common-sense  ever  made.  The  ’96 
shoe 
is  a  radical  change  from  the  ’95 
article  and  the  latter  can  only  be  sold 
at  a  reduction,  and  a  heavy  one.  Re 
tailers  carrying  tans  over  from  last  year 
have  not  only  had  their  money  tied  up, 
but  have  been  obliged  to  cut  prices  to 
dispose  of  the  stuff.

fact, 

The  coming  year  bids 

fair  to  see 
even  a  more  decided  change  in  the  de 
mand  for  colored  shoes  than  the  past 
Instead  of  a  brown,  a  dark  red,  called 
ox-blood—a  sort  of  brown  with  a  dash 
of  red  in  it—will,  it  appears,  be  the  fa 
vored  shade 
in  men’s,  and  possibly  r 
women’s  also,  next  spring.

it 

Further  than  this,  there  seems  to  be 
a  general  impression  that  the  pointed 
toe 
is  not  going  to be  so  well  liked 
year  hence  as 
is  to-day,  but  that 
medium  round  toe  will  be  asked  for 
This  is  a  disputed  point,  many  careful 
observers  claiming  that  the  Razor  anc 
Needle  will  survive 
1897  ar*d  perhaps 
longer.  There  is  sufficient  doubt  about 
this,  however,  to  make  it  advisable  to 
close  out  pointed-toe  tans  as  far  as  pos 
sible  during  July.

It  is  not  good  business  to  carry  these 
goods  over.  Even  a  small  profit  is  bet 
ter  than  taking  chances  and  holding 
them. 
If  your  colored  goods  are  light 
and  ox-blood  or  chocolate  shades  are 
the  only  ones  called  for,  get  some  sta 
and  color  them  dark.  Push  them ;  mak 
a  selling  price  and  clean  out your stock 
You  will  only  have  about  a  month  or 
more  to  do  it  in.

No  Competition  in  Thread.
is  announced  that  the  Clark  and 

It 

Coats  thread  companies  have  formed 
complete  combination.  The  terms 
this  amalgamation were formed  with  the 
idea  of  decreasing  the  expense  in  the 
distribution  of  their  output. 
It  is  said 
that  the  plans  formed  will  materially 
lessen  the  cost  of  putting  their  good 
upon  the  market,  and  thus  do  away 
with  the  double  expense  of  agents,  ad 
vertising,  etc.  There  has  heretofore 
been  no  real  rivalry  between  the  two 
concerns,  as  the  Coats  people  have usu 
ally  supplied  the  markets  in  the  East 
and  the  Clarks  have  taken  care  of  the 
Western  end  of  the  business,  while  in 
Europe  each  company  has  been  repre­
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material  saving  in  expense,  and  this 
is 
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of  any  sort  will  prevail  between  these 
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tion  upon  themselves  through  the  in- 
ifference  of  a  salesman,  they  become 
_issatisfied  with  the  store.  There  is  an 
offensive  way  of 
indicating  to  a  cus­
tomer  by  manner  and  speech  that  the 
goods  they  ask  for  are  not  what  they 
want;  but  the  true  salesman  is  a  sort  of 
mind  reader  and  uses  his  knowledge 
with  tact  and  discretion  solely  with  a 
view  of  making  his  service  entirely  sat­
isfactory  at  the  counter  and  when  his 
goods  are  put  to  the  test.
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Prices.

From the Age of Steel.

The  advanced  price  of  steel  and  ma­
terials  generally  has,  by  force  of  cir­
cumstances  as  well  as  by  example,  ex­
erted  a  powerful  influence  on  the  heavy 
hardware  markets.  The  new  conditions 
presented  by  organized  control  of  the 
principal  materials have  not only afford­
ed  the  opportunity,  but  in  the  case  of 
many  lines  rendered  it  absolutely  nec­
essary  for  advances  to  be  made  in  the 
oods  into  which  these materials largely 
enter.  But  since  in  times  of  compara- 
ive  dulness  it  is  difficult,  if not  impos- 
ible,  to  bring  about a  proper  readjust­
ment  of  prices  of  the  finished  goods  to 
the  enhanced  cost  of  the  strongly  con­
trolled  materials,  save  by  concerted  and 
harmonious  action,  the  formation  of  as­
sociations  of  various  kinds  and  degrees 
among  the  affected  manufacturers  is  a 
natural  sequence  of  the situation.  There 
are  numbers  of  them,  some  revived  on 
the  ruins  of  previous  failures  under  im­
proved  methods  of  organization,  and 
others  fashioned 
light  of  bor­
rowed  experience,  so  to  speak.  Among 
the  organizations  which  may  be  men­
tioned  offhand  as  now 
in  the  field 
(either  new  or  old)  might  be  mentioned 
those  having  to  do  with  the  following 
items  of  heavy hardware,  or more or less 
closely  related  goods :  Bar  iron,  hoops 
and  bands,  roofing  iron,  sheet  copper, 
tin  plate,  stamped  and  pieced  tinware, 
many  lines  of  agricultural 
implements, 
steel goods,  hay  and  manure  forks,  etc., 
bolts,  nuts  and  screws,  shovels,  scoops 
and  spades,  strap  hinges,  etc.

in  the 

The  night  watchman  in  Albany,  Mo., 
rings  the  big  bell  when  he  thinks  that 
the  clouds 
indicate  the  approach  of  a 
heavy  storm.

16

H a r d w a r e

Programme  for  the  Hardware  Deal­

ers’  Convention.

Eaton  Rapids,  June  30—The  follow­
ing  program  has  been  arranged  for  the 
first  annual  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Hardware  Association,  which  will  be 
held  at  the  Hotel  Cadillac,  Detroit,  July 
8  and  9:

WEDNESDAY  AFTERNOON.

1.  Roll  cail.
2.  Selecting  Committee  on  Creden­

tials.

urer.

3.  Recess.
4.  Reading  of  minutes.
5.  President’s  address.
6.  Report  of  Secretary  and  Treas­

7.  Report  of  committees.
8.  Unfinished  business, 
g.  New  business.
10.  Election  of  President.
11.  Election  of  Vice-President.
12.  Election of Secretary  and  Treas­

urer.

mittee.

13.  Election  of  two  members  of  E x ­

ecutive  Committee.

14.  Election  of  Investigating  Com­

15.  Appointment  of  Entertainment 

Committee.

16.  Adjournment.

THURSDAY  MORNING.

1.  Paper—Good  points  for  the  wel­
fare  of  a  hardware  merchant,  from  one 
nearly  a  lifetime 
the  business— 
Charles  F.  Bock,  Battle  Creek.

2.  Discussion.
3.  Paper  — Improved  methods  of
book-keeping—E.  A.  Tillotson,  Sagi­
naw. 

in 

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4.  Discussion.

AFTERNOON  SESSION.

1.  Paper—Clerks  and  arrangement 
of  stores—Sidney  F.  Stevens,  Grand 
Rapids.

2.  Discussion.
3.  Paper—Sports—Fred  Zimmerman, 

Marine  City.

4.  Discussion.
A  banquet  for  Thursday  evening  and 
a  boatride  for  Friday  afternoon  are be­
ing  arranged  by  our  Detroit  friends.

H.  C.  Min n ie ,  Sec’y.

A  Study  in  Wire.

From the American Grocer.

At  a  hardware  store  in  a  country  vil 
lage  the  following  dialogue  occurred : 

it  and  also  a  paper  of 
I  want  to  fix  a  runner  for 

“ Have  ycu  any  copper  wire?”
“ Yes,  sir.”
‘ ' How  much?”
“ Thirty  cents  per  pound.”
“ How  much  does  this  coil  weigh?”  
“ Five-eighths  of  a  pound.”
“ I ’ll  take 
double  tacks. 
some  vines. ”
‘ ‘ Ah,  then  you  do  not  want  copper 
wire,  for 
it  stretches  and  soon  your 
vines  will  sag,  for  they  are  heavy,  and 
in  time  will  break  down.  We  have  a 
wire  specially adapted for trailing vines, 
which  costs  only  one-quarter  as  much 
as  copper,  is  flexible  and better adapted 
for  your  purpose.  And  you  will  require 
something  heavier  than  tacks,  which 
we  also  have  specially  for adjusting  the 
wire. ”
The above indicates a successful  sales 
man. 
In  the  instance  related  the  clerk 
noticed,  from  the  buyer’s  manner,  that 
he  was 
inexperienced,  and  with  con 
summate  tact  stated  that they did a largi 
business 
in  fixings  to  support  vines 
running  over  porches,  and  therefore  he 
would  suggest a change,  which the  buye~ 
saw  at  once  would  save  expense,  time,, 
trouble  and 
The 
seller  at  once  won  his  customer  and  hir 
confidence.
Many  would  argue  that  buyers  gen 
erally  know  their  business best,  and  that 
they  would  regard  it  as  a  bit  of 
imper 
tinence  to  suggest  a  change  in  an order 
The  salesman  ought  always  to  inspire 
the  confidence  of  the buyer  and  make 
him  feel  that  seeking  his 
is 
advancing  his  own.  Many  rely  almost 
wholly  upon  the  statements  of  a  seller, 
and 
if  they  are  misled  or  deceived,  or 
if  they  are  allowed  to  bring  dissatisfac­

future  annoyance. 

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Unpacking  and  Setting  up  Furniture. 
Don M’Donald In Furniture News.

There  are  very  few  lines  of  business 
in  which  so 
large  a  proportion  of  the 
goods  have  to be  “ set  up”   after  being 
received,  and in which  goods  must  be  so 
well  packed  to  prevent  damage  in  ship­
ping.  The  work  of  unpacking  and  set­
ting  up  goods  is  considerable,  and  the 
following  suggestions  are  designed  to 
save  time  and  labor  and  injury  to  the 
goods:

If  possible,  arrange  to  have  a room  in 
the  rear  of  your  store  for  unpacking 
goods;  it  can  also  be  used  for  a  repair 
shop,  thus  keeping  the  dust  and  dirt 
raised  from  settling  on  y6ur  stock.  All 
goods  which  are  to  have  casters  should 
be  turned  on  top  or  side  and  bored  and 
castered  before  the  packing  is removed. 
For  Nos.  2  and  3  Philadelphia  casters 
use  7-32  bit,  and  No.  4,  X  
inch.  The 
twist  drill  bit  is  good for boring into  the 
end  of  the  grain.

In  unpacking  bureaus,  dressers,  etc., 
where  the  casters  are  packed  inside, 
turn  the  case  bottom  up,  being  careful 
not  to  have  any  tacks  or  nails  under  it, 
loosen  the burlaps  or  papers  all  around, 
turn  them  down  until  you  can  get  at  the 
drawers  to  get  the  casters,  and  drive 
them 
in  before  turning  the  case  over. 
Drive  out tacks  with  hammer  and  cold 
chisel,  taking  care  to  strike  away  from 
the  finished  surface  to  avoid  splitting 
it.  An 
iron  bar,  sixteen  or  eighteen 
inches  long,  drawn  out  thin  at  the  end, 
is  a  convenient  tool  for unpacking,  both 
for  taking  out  tacks  and  prj ing  open 
crates  and  boxes.

Wrap  burlaps  from  each  firm by them­
selves  and  mark  each  bundle  with  name 
and  date  of  invoice,  for  convenience  in 
'returning.  Sort  and  save  the  excelsior 
and 
large  sheets  of  paper;  the  small 
and  torn  sheets  may  be  stowed  away 
and  used  to  pack  goods 
in  farmers’ 
wagons.

In  setting  up  dressers  and  similar 
case  goods,  first  put  on  the  pulls;  then 
fit  the  drawers,  if  necessary.  Smooth­
working  drawers  are  a  great  help  in 
selling  furniture.  Rubbing  a  bar  of 
soap  across  the  ends  and  edges  of  a 
drawer  will  often  make  it  work  easily, 
and  a  door  that  binds  may  be  remedied 
in  the  same  manner.  Next,  clean  the 
mirror,  and  lay  toilet  frame  and  mirror 
face down on  your bench,  and  put  on  the 
friction  hinges;  also  screw  cleats  to 
frame  while 
in  this  position.  Set  the 
base  with  front  against  the wall or bench 
and  screw  the  frame  to  it.  A  brace  and 
screw-driver  bit  may  be  used  to  good 
advantage  for  this  purpose  and  for  a 
great  many  others,  and  if you draw  your 
screws  across  a  bar  of  scap  before  turn­
ing  them  in,  they  will  go  very  much 
easier.  The  commode  back  should  be 
Dut  on 
in  the  same  way  as  dresser 
frame,  screwing  cleats  to back  first.  Go 
over  the  whole  case  with  some  good 
furniture  polish,  taking pains to  remove 
mars  and  bruises.
When  beds  are  packed  with  head  and 
foot  together  they  should  be  turned  on 
the  side  before  unpacking  so  that  the 
foot  cannot  drop  when  the  cords  are 
cut.  Part  of  the  cheap  beds  should  be 
repacked  as 
tyin 
head  and  fo-  1  together  in  one  bundle 
and  usfhg  the  slats  to  tie  them  with 
in  front  and  two  at back  on  each 
two 
side.  They  are  then  ready  to  load 
into 
wagons  to  go  into the  country ;  it  saves 
time 
loading,  and  they  ride  safely. 
They  can  be  shipped  short  distances  by 
rail  packed  in  this  way.

'on  as  received, 

in 

Baby  carriages  are  best  set  up  by 
turning  the  body  bottom  up  and  screw 
ing  the  springs  to  it  first,  measuring  to 
in  the  right  place;  then  bolt 
get  them 
the  gear  to  the  springs,  and 
lastly  put 
on  the  wheels.
The  backs  of  single  lounges  may  be 
tacked 
in  place  with  a  couple  of  nails 
and  should  then  be  securely  screwed on. 
In  setting  up  bed 
lounges  screw  the 
cleats  to  the  lounge  first,  letting  them 
run  down  on  the  le g ;  then  when  the 
back  is  put  in  place the  cleats  help  to 
it  until  the  screws  are  in.  The 
hold 
back 
legs  to  a  bed  lounge  need  to  be 
well  braced,  as  the  cleats  being screwed 
to  them  makes  a  heavy  strain  and  often 
opens  up  the  joints  in  the  frame. 
It  i 
in  an  extra  glue
a  good 

idea  to  put 

block  or  short  brace  to  strengthen  the 
leg.

In  unpacking  picture mouldings,  it  is 
well  to  leave  the  wrappers  on  a  part  of 
each  pattern,  but  each  stick  should  bp 
marked  with  the  invoice,  number and 
cost  and  selling  price.  Also  a  part  of 
each 
invoice  of  chairs  might  be  left 
/rapped  to  save  repacking  when  sold 
to  go  into  the  country  or  to  be  shipped 
by  rail.  The  legs  and  rounds  to  K.  D. 
chairs  can  be  more  easily  polished  up 
before  the  chairs  are  set  up,  and  all 
parts,  not  only  of  chairs,  but  of  all 
goods,  should  be  cleaned  up  and  all 
mars  and  white  spots  removed  before 
they  are  put  away ;  then,  when the goods 
are  called  for,  you  know  they  are  in 
good  shape.

The  Foolishness  of Scolding.

Deacon in Furniture News.

If  one  is going  to be a  good  citizen  he 
will  do  well  to  recognize  a  public  evil 
when  he  sees  it.  Some men  are  so  dense 
of  wit  and  perverse  of  heart  that  they 
call  evil  good,  and  good  e v il,”   as  the 
old  Hebrew  prophet  said.  You  can  find 
men  in  your  own  community  who  say  of 
such  things  as  dens  of  vice  and  of  the 
saloon  that  they  are  a  necessity  and  a 
good  thing.

However,  I  began  to  say  that  it  is 
not  only  necessary  that  a  man  know  the 
evil- when  he  sees  it,  but  that  he  know 
the  remedy  for  the  evil  and  how  to  ap­
ply  it. 
I  know  a  man  (and  in  my  list 
of  acquaintances  I  can  multiply  him  by 
one  hundred)  who  can  tell  a  political 
or  a  social  evil  as  fai^as  he  can  see 
it. 
As  soon  as  he  spots 
it,  he  begins  to 
scold  about  it.  He 
is  a  deacon  in  the 
church,  too,  and  he  scolds  every  man 
who  fails  to  measure  up  to  the  moral 
law.  He  flusters  around 
like  a  bob­
tailed  horse 
in  fly  time  and  wrinkles 
his  brow  and  spoils  his  temper  over  the 
sins  of  others.  Then  he  falls  down  ex­
hausted  and  doesn’t  do  another  lick  at 
reforming  the  world. 
It  has  taken  all 
his  spare  energy  to  do  the  scolding.
is  the  good  of  scolding? 
Did  you  ever  know  the  son  of  a  scold- 
ng  woman  to  come  to  any  good?  Last 
week,  while  passing  a  house,  I  heard  a 
woman 
“ B illy! 
Billy !  Come  right  into  the  house  this 
nstant  or  I ’ll  skin  you  a liv e !  Billy, 
you  hear  me?  Come  right  here  or  I ’ll 
break  every  bone  in  your  body.”   Billy 
was  a  five  year  old  lad,  and  his  mother 
must  have  been  forty;  but  her  shot 
glanced  off  his  youthful  skin  like  peas 
off  a  potash  kettle.  Scolding  wastes 
the  steam  the  Almighty  meant  you  to 
use  in  running  your  construction  train 
for  the  grading  up  of  society.

from  the  door  call, 

Now  what 

Scolding  is  destructive  criticism.  A l­
most  anybody  can  produce  destructive 
criticism. 
It  is  easy  enough  to  tear  an 
old  house  down,  I  have  helped  do  that 
myself,  but  it  takes  a  man  of  some skill 
to  build  a  better  one.  Bob  Ingersoll 
can  rip  a  bible  to  pieces  in  an hour and 
forty-five  minutes  for  half  the  gate  re­
ceipts,  but  he  couldn’t  write  a  twenty- 
third  psalm  if  he  lived  to  be  as  old  as 
Methuselah.

Destructive  criticism  is good for noth­
ing  unless  complemented  by  construct­
ive  criticism. 
If  you  take  away  a 
man’s  superstition  you  should  give  him 
a  reasonable  faith. 
If  you  cut  off  his 
saloon,  you  should  give  him  something 
better,  "if  you  kill  his  political  party, 
you  should  lead  him  to  something  bet­
ter. 
If  you  show  him  what  a  fool  he  is, 
you  should  offer  yourself  or  another  as 
a  model  for  him  to  imitate.  The  man 
who  had  the  devil  cast  out  of  him  and 
failed  to  get  a  better  tenant,  though  he 
had  the  rooms  of  his  heart  all  “ swept 
and  garnished,”   finally ended by  taking 
back  the  old  devil  as  a  boarder,  with 
seven  others  so  much  worse  that 
I 
doubt  not  he  was  arrested  for  keeping  a 
disorderly  house—though  the  Scriptures 
leave  this  to  be  inferred.  Therefore  and 
lastly,  while  the  evil  should  be  assailed 
roundly  and  pointedly,  the  better  way 
should  be  made  plain  and  easy  to  the 
erring  one.  This  means  that  you  should 
henceforth  work  for  society  with  some­
thing  more  than  your  tongue.

I  Bushman  has  the  cigars,

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

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

 

 

AXES

First Quality. S.  B. B ronze...........................   5  50
First Quality, D.  B. Bronze...........................   9  50
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel............................  6  25
First Quality. D. B. S teel...............................  10  25

BARROWS

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

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

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

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

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

BLOCKS

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10..................................................per;m
Hick’s C. F ..............................................per m
G. D ..........................................................per m 
M usket.....................................................per m 

70

4

65
35
60

CARTRIDGES

Rim  Fire.  .......................................................... 50&  5
Central  Fire....................................................... 25& 5

CHISELS

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

 

 

 

80
80
80
80

DRILLS

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

ELBOWS

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

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

FILES—New  List

New A m erican......................................
Nicholson's............................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps...........................
GALVANIZED  IRON

70*10
70
.60*10

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

14 

13 

28
17

Discount,  75

15 
GAUQES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye........................................ $16  00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye........................................$15 00, dis  60*10
H unt's............................................. $18 50, dis  20*10

MILLS

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

MOLASSES  GATES

 

 

 

 

 

NAILS

Stebbin’s P attern...............................................60*10
Stebbin’s G enuine.............................................60*10
Enterprise, self-m easuring............................ 
'3 0

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

3......................................... .............  120

Steel nails, base. 
Wire nails, base. 
10 to 60 advance.
7 and 6................................ 
4 
2...................................................................  ... 
Fine 3 ...............................................................  
Case 10.,
Case  8..
Case  6. ......................................
Finish 10..................................
Finish  8 ..................................
Finish  6 ..................................
Clinch 10..................................
Clinch  8 ..................................
Clinch  6...................................
Barrel  %..................................
PLANES

2  80 
2 85 
50 
60
75
90
1  60
160
65 
75 
90 
75 
90 
10 
70 
80 
90 
1  75

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................................  @50
Sciota B ench......................................................60*10
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...........................   @50
Bench, firstquality...........................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood.............. 
60
Fry, A cm e....................................................60*10*10
Common, polished................... 
K
RIVETS
60
Iron and  T in n e d ............................................. 
Copper Rivets and B urs..................................  
60

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 * c  per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list....................... dis  33*
Kip’s  ...........................................................dis 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s ...................................... dis 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................... 30c list 
70
| Blacksmith’s SoUd Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40*10

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin W are............................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin  W are.........................................20*10
Granite Iron  W are........................... new list 40*10
Pots.......................................................................60*10
K ettles................................................................60*10
Spiders 
.............................................................. 60*10
Gate, Clark's,  1, 2, 3..................................   dis 60*10
Spite.............................................. per doz. net  2  50
80
B right................................................................. 
80
Screw Eyes......................................................... 
Hook’s...................... 
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes...................................... 
80

WIRE  GOODS

HINGES

 

 
LEVELS

ROPES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...................dis 
Sisal, *  inch and  larger................................. 
M anilla.......  .....................................................  
Steel and Iron...................................................  
Try and Bevels..................................................
M itre..................................................................

SQUARES

70
5*
9
80

SHEET  IRON

50

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER

SASH  WEIGHTS

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

Nos. 10 to 14......................................$3 30
Nos.  15 to 17.  ..................................   3  30
Nos.  18 to 21...........................   ...  .  3  45
Nos. 22 to 24......................................  3 55
Nos. 25 to 26 ......................................  3  70
No.  27 ..............................................   3 80
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct.  19, ’86...........................................dis 
Solid Eyes.............................................per ton  20 00
Steel, Game................................................. 
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse's..........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 70*10*10
Mouse, choker........................... .. per doz
15
Mouse, delusion........................ .. per doz
1  25
Bright Market...........................
75
Annealed  Market.....................
75
Coppered  Market....................
..70*10
Tinned Market..........................
■ ■  62*
Coppered Spring  Steel............
50
0 pp
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ...
Barbed  Fence,  painted..........
. .  1  90
Au Sable....................................................... dis 40&1C
Putnam ......................................................... dis 
5
Northwestern...............................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled  .........
30
50
Coe’s  Genuine.......................................
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought
80
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable......................
50 
Bird  Cages  ...........................................
75*10 
Pumps. Cistern.....................................
85
Screws, New List..................................
Masters, Bed and  Plate.............................. 50*10*10
40*10
Dampers, American..................................  
6*
600 pound casks..............................................  
Per pound......................................................... 
63Ü
12*
* @ * ..................................................................  
The prices of the many otherquaiitiesof solder 
n the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................................
14x20 IC, C harcoal.......................................
20x14 IX, C harcoal.......................................
14x20 IX, Charcoal........................................
Each additional X on this grade, $1.75.

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

.$  5  25 
5  25 
.  6  25 
.  6  25

M ETALS-Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

TIN—Allaway  Grade

40
40
40
30

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean................................   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean................................’  6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean........ ........................  10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade................  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade................  5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade................  9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade..............  1100
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, ( 
9
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, ( per ponnQ’ ’ ’ 
*

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

POund 

TINWARE

We carry a full stock of 

Pieced and Stamped  Tinware.

wpi.  BQDIfljQELEH & SONS

Manufacturers  and  Jobben of TINWARE. 

Dealers  in  Rags,  Rubbers, Metals, etc.

260 5 .  Ionia St. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

H e Great 
fan Twiner

Again  I  have  the  agency 
for  this,  the  greatest  5 
cent cigar ev«r made.

Send  orders  by  m ail  and  they  will 

have prom pt attention.

J. A. GONZALEZ,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Representing the

Best & Russell Company,

Chicago, 111.

18

SPOOKY  HOLLOW.

An Old-time Resort  for Canadian Hob­

goblins.
W ritten for the  T radesman.

This 

is  no  ghost  story. 

Business 
men  have  no  time  to  read  ghost  stories.
It 
is  simply  a  sketch  of  the  circum­
stances  which  gave  a  ghostly  name  and 
unsavory  reputation  to  a  spot  located  in 
one  of  the  oldest  sectioift  of  Ontario—a 
section  which  has  furnished  a  larger 
quota  in  swelling  the  professional  and 
business  ranks  of  Michigan  than  any 
other  portion  of  the  province.  To  make 
the  sketch  more  palatable  I  have  sea­
soned 
it  liberally  with  spice,  gleaned 
from  the  pioneer  history  of  the  locality, 
and  a  cursory  glance  at  the  character  of 
the  men  who  constituted  the  leading 
faction  among  its  pioneer  settlers.

jut  of  mainland 

A  glance  at  the  map  of  Ontario  will 
reveal  a  broad  jut  of  land  running  out 
into  Lake  Erie,  from  the  outer  extrem­
ity  of  which,  running  southeasterly  into 
the  Lake,  is  a 
long,  narrow  strip  of 
timber.  This  strip  is  Long  Point,  and 
the  protruding 
lies 
principally 
in  the  county  of  Norfolk. 
This  section  of  Ontario  has been known 
as "th e  Long  Point  country”   ever  since 
it was  first  settled,  and  it is  claimed  the 
first  settlement  made 
in  old  "U pper 
Canada"  was  made  here.  The  only lake 
ports 
in  this  district,  which  have  out­
lived  their  day  ahd  generation,  and 
still  possess 
life  enough  to  keep  their 
piers  replenished  with  sound  planking, 
are  Port  Rowan  and  Port  Dover.  Be­
tween  these  two  points  are  the  fossil 
remains  of  two  other  lake  ports,  long 
ago  passed 
into. decay  and  ruin ;  and 
between  these  latter  two,  cosily  nestled 
in  the  mouth  of  a  deep,  narrow,  dense­
ly-wooded  ravine, 
is  the  quiet  little 
leaf-embowered  summer  retreat  called 
"T h e   G len ."

I  never  could  quite  understand  the 

it 

in  a  cosy 

in  fixing  up  t'n 

proprietor’s  motive 
little  place.  He  is  possessed  of  ample 
means but charges a nickel admission fee 
and  sits 
little  office  at  the 
main  entrance  gate.  He  evidently  is 
waiting  and  watching  for  visitors 
nickels,  rather—and  yet  the  only  way  at 
is 
present  to  reach  the  place  by  water 
boat  has 
to  jump  overboard,  after  the 
dare  go 
got  as  near  to  the  shore  as 
it 
might  do 
and  wade  or  swim  in.  This 
baggage,
for  boys,  unencumbered  with 
is  very  inconvenient  for  ladies 
but 
and  for  short  gentlemen  who  cannot 
swim.  To  approach 
it  by  land  neces­
sitates  a  walk  or  chance  ride  of  about 
four  miles over  hills  and  through  sand 
from the nearest railway station.  In addi­
tion  to  these  difficulties,  visitors  who 
cannot  slake  their  thirst  with  anything 
but  pure  "A d am ’s  a le "  from  the  north­
east  corner of  a  deep,  clean  well  must 
carry  a  jug  and  cake  of  ice  with  them 
or  else be  compelled  to  put  themselves 
on  a  level  with  the  beasts  of  the  field
and  drink  out  of  the  creek.  Still,  not­
withstanding  all  these  drawbacks,  the 
exceeding  natural  beauty  of  the  place 
attracts  a  number  of  strangers every sea­
son,  and  to  these  strangers  I  dedicate 
my  story.

These  visiting  strangers  are  not  all 
aware 
that  this  same  ravine  which 
possesses  so  many  natural charms  where 
it  delivers 
its  babbling  brook  into  the 
broad,  placid  lap  of  old  Erie  assumes 
an  aspect  of  midnight  gloom  and  utter 
loneliness  a  short  distance  up  its  wind­
ing  course.  They  are  not aware  that  a 
tramp  of  two  short  miles  would  place 
them 
in  a  spot  made  notorious,  more 
than  a  half  century  ago,  by  a  series  of 
mysterious,  unnatural  sights  and  sounds

which  continued  a  number  of  years, 
until,  in  fact,  the  entire  region  com­
prising  the  Long  Point  country  became 
thoroughly  terrorized.

This  spot  is "Spooky Hollow,"  and  it 
has  acquired  a  place  of  some  promi­
nence 
in  the  pioneer  history  of  the 
country.

Near  Spooky  Hollow  is  a  sleepy  little 
in­
old  village  containing  about  200 
habitants,  which  contained  a 
larger 
population  and  was  alive,  wide-awake 
and  prosperous  when  Michigan  was  an 
unbroken  wilderness.  Here  was  or­
ganized  the  first  Baptist  church 
in  the 
province,  and  here  was  built  the  first 
courthouse  east  of  the  Detroit  R iver; 
and  for  years  afterward  all  the  settlers 
throughout  the  entire  western  peninsula 
of  the  province  were compelled  to bring 
all  matters  in  dispute  here  for  adjudi­
cation.  Sand  hills  abound  here  of  the 
bald-headed variety,  and  farm  buildings 
look  " a s   old  as  the  h ills." 
and  fences 
Moss-covered 
be 
seen 
burying 
grounds a  hundred  years  old.  Nothing 
new,  bright  and  modern  is  seen.  Gen­
eration  after  generation  accept  condi- 
ions,  occupy  premises  and  become  re­
conciled  to  surroundings  as  they  are, 
believing  that  what  was  good  enough 
for  their  fathers 
for 
them.  The  time  is  not  far  distant  when 
the  inhabitants  of  this  particular  local- 
ty  must  arise  to  newness  of  life  or  be 
buried  beneath  the  ruins  of  their  own 
homes.

tombstones  may 

is  good  enough 

brush-entangled 

in 

A 

In 

importance 

little  mass  of  ruins  on  the  lake 
shore  near  Spooky  Hollow  still  bears 
the  high-sounding  name  of  Port  Nor- 
mandale. 
its  halcyon  tiays  it  was 
known,  also,  as  "T h e   Furnace, " t h e  
manufacturing  of  stoves  being  its  prin­
It  was  a  place  of  con­
cipal  industry. 
siderable 
in  the  province 
before  the  wet,  unbroken  prairie  where 
the  great  city  of  Chicago  now  stands 
had  become  the  part  or  parcel  of  even  a 
well-defined  Indian  reservation.  These 
stoves  were  peddled  by  wagon  all>  over 
the  settled  portions  of  Canada  and  the 
neighboring  states,  and 
it  is  said  that 
one  of  these  peddlers,  coming  around 
the  head  of  Lake  Michigan,  stayed  over 
night  at  a 
little  log  tavern  which  was 
the  only  structure  standing  on  the  area 
now  occupied  by  Uncle  Sam’s  big 
Windy  City,  and  while  there  refused  a 
quarter  section  of  land,  which  the  tav­
ern-keeper  offered 
in  exchange  for  a 
stove.  The  land  offered  now  comprises 
the  most  valuable  business portion of the 
city,  but  the peddler was  too "sm art"  in 
his  own  day  and  generation  to  trade  a 
real  cast-iron  stove for a  whole  township 
of  worthless  Illinois  mud,  and  so  he 
accepted  an  old  sorrel  mare  and  an  In­
instead.  This  story  con­
dian  saddle 
is  this:  Men  may 
tains  a  moral—it 
build  cities  with 
ink  and  paper  when 
and  where  they  w ill;  but  the  trade  cen­
ters,  great  or  small,  which  are  built  of 
hard  brick  and  live  mortar,  and  which 
stand  the  test  of  years,  owe  not  their 
origin  or  location  to  the  capricious 
calculations  of  selfish  and  short-sighted 
men,  but  to  arbitrary conditions brought 
about  by  commercial development.  Port 
Normandale  lives  only  in  the  memory 
of  a  few  surviving  "old-tim ers,"  while 
back  of  the  remains,  extending  some 
distance  from  the  shore,  nothing  but 
partially-buried  old  dwelling  houses, 
and  fragments  of  old  orchards  seen  here 
and  there  on  the  plains of drifting white 
sand  or  among  patches  of  stunted  oak 
grubs,  remain  as  sad  reminders  of  the 
industrial  activity  that  once  marked  the 
place.

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

LITTLE JAKE

Made in three sizes.

3 for 25c.  . 
lOc straight. 
12 for €

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or  its hand.
”   If  any  of  my  readers  want  data  for 
writing  ghost  stories  which  will  break 
the  official  stamp  of  a  notary  public,  if 
necessary,  and yet remain  strong  enough 
to  shatter  the  nerves  of  a  marble statue,
I  would  advise  them  to  visit  South Nor­
folk  and  interview  the  old  residents.

When  the  time  came  for  Simon’s  dis­
solution,his ghost,after a time,succeeded 
in  bringing  about  a  treaty  of  peace with 
the  peddler’s  ghost,  since  which  time 
peace  and  harmony  have  reigned 
in 
Spooky  Hollow.

it 

There 

In  the  Blaisdell 

is  one  more  circumstance  to 
relate—and 
is  one  which  certainly 
puts  a  good  deal  of  color  into  it—and 
faithfully 
then  my  task  will  have  been 
performed. 
family 
were  six  daughters,  who,  for  some  in­
scrutable  reason,  never  married.  After 
Simon  had  gone  to  his  reward,  these 
maiden  Blaisdells  continued  to  occupy 
the  old  village  residence  until  the  frosts 
of  a  late-autumn  old-maidenhood  froze 
up  the  wellspring  of  life.  For  many 
long  years  one  of  the  sisters  was  kept  a 
prisoner  in  a  little  dungeon  of  a  room, 
the  only  window  of  which  was  kept 
boarded  up.  The  door  of  this  mysteri­
ous  chamber  was  constantly  guarded, 
and  no  communication  whatever  was 
allowed  to  pass  between  the  occupant 
and  the  outside  world.  The  only  reason 
ever  given  by  the  family  for this strange 
conduct  was  that  long-continued  illness 
had  reduced  the 
invalid  to  a  state  of 
nervous  imbecility,and  that  the  sight  of 
any  person  outside  the  family  threw 
her  into  uncontrollable  spasms. 
In  the 
light  of  Spooky  Hollow  revelations  this 
was  no  excuse.  Amelia  Blaisdell  must 
have been  in  possession of the terrible se­
cret  of  Spooky  Hollow ;  and  the  fact  of

the 

her enforced  confinement  in  that gloomy 
prison  was  sufficient  evidence  to  justify 
the  little  world outside in  the  belief  thjit 
Amelia  wanted  to  divulge  the  secret 
and  that  her  sisters  were  determined 
that  she  should  carry 
it  to  the  grave 
with  her 
inviolate.  The  years  came 
and  went;  the  boards  remained  on  that 
mysterious  window,  and 
invalid 
continued  to  live.  The  people  finally 
made  up  their  minds  that  Providence 
had  a  hand  in  it,  and  that  Amelia could 
not  die  until  she  confessed  the  secret; 
but  there  came  a  day  when  poor Amelia 
was  carried  out  of  her  gloomy  chamber, 
only  to  be  placed  in  one  gloomier  still 
—one  beyond  the  sting  of  idle  gossip  or% 
the  necessity  of  human  hands  to  guard 
its  portals.  Her  secrets,  whatever  they 
may  have  been,  were  buried 
in  the 
tomb  with  her.  The  old  village  house, 
with 
its  boarded-up  window,  is  still 
standing,  dark,  .  vacant  and  gloomy, 
fit  companion  to  the  old 
“ haunted 
house"  in  Spooky  Hollow.

E.  A.  Ow e n .

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The  generosity  of  Mr.  Averoff,  the 
Greek  merchant  of Alexandria,  deserves 
wide  praise. 
It  will  be  remembered 
that  he  gave  $90,000  to 
restore  the 
Stadion  at  Athens  in  anticipation of the 
reopening  of  the  Olympic  games.  He 
has  now  declared  his 
intention  to  ad­
vance  $45,000  yearly  until  the  struc­
ture  shall  be  completed 
in  Pentelic 
marble.

Hollow  during  the  earlier  years  of  his 
career,  he  “ took  in "  ^11  strangers  who 
happened  to  pass  that  way  with  a  suffi- 
ent  amount  of  “ tin”   to  pay  for  re­

freshments  and  a  night’s  lodging.

enough. 

Vague  at 

accumulative. 

It  is  said  that  a  wayfaring  peddler  of 
valuable  wares  went  down 
into  the 
gloomy  Hollow  one  dark  night  and  was 
never  seen  again,  dead  or  alive.  This 
It  mattered  not  whether 
the  peddler  got  up  before  daybreak  and 
ent  on  his  way,  or whatever  became  of 
if  some  neighbor  above  saw  him 
go  down  at  night,  it  was  circumstantial 
idence  enough  to induce that neighbor 
into  the  ear  of  the  next 
whisper 
neighbor  that  something  terrible  had 
happened  down  in  the  Hollow.  Rumor 
it 
gathe'rs  strength  if  it  can  find  anything 
feed  upon,  assuming  shape  and form, 
until,  finally,  the  stamp  of  authority 
is 
put  upon  it  and  it  passes  current  every­
where. 
is  not  a  difficult  thing  for 
overcredulous  and  superstitious  people 
transform  a  pair  of  imaginary  twos 
nto  a  real  matter-of-fact  four.  Then 
again,  it  must  be  remembered  that  the 
only 
living  witnesses  of  the  wonderful 
things  seen  and  heard  in  Spooky  Hol­
low,  although  wearing  the  silvery  gray 
badges  of  old  age  upon  their  heads  and 
occupying  positions  of  honor,  many  of 
them,  were  the  boys  and  girls  during 
the  time  the  peddler’s  ghost  held  high 
carnival  in  the  Hollow.

first, 

It 

found 

It  is  well,  therefore,  to  keep  in  mind 
the  plasticity  and  credulity  of  youthful 
minds  while 
listening  to  the  blood­
curdling  stories  of  these  old  residents. 
There  certainly  cannot  be 
in 
Canada  or  the  United  States  a spot more 
ppropriate  for  the  spiriting  away  of  a 
peddler  or  anyone  else;  and  when  the 
proprietor  of 
is  sly, 
greedy,  and  not  in  touch  with  the  com­
monalty  around  him,  it  would  be  quite 
natural  for  said  commonalty  to 
look 
upon  the  conditions  as  favorable  for 
anything  unusual  or  extraordinary.

such  a  place 

is 

if  there 

loyalists 

is  any  glory 

faction  of  political 

Among  the  first  settlers 

in  the  old 
Long  Point  country  were  many  U.  E. 
(United  Empire)  Loyalists.  Outside 
of  British  American  colonial  history 
these  men  appeat nothing  more  nor  less 
than  a 
fanatics. 
Toryism  was  their  religion.  Caste  was 
in  their  narrow 
the  crowning  dogma 
creed.  They  believed 
in  the  divine 
right  of  kings  and  worshiped  at  the 
shrine  of  flunkyism ;  and  so,  when  the 
American  colonies  resolved  that  old 
King  George  III  had  no  divine  right  to 
demand  further  allegiance  from  them, 
this  loyalist  faction  resented 
it  as  a 
sacrilegious  act.  They  assisted  their 
patron  saint  in  the  attempt to force their 
heretical  fellow-colonists  back  within 
the fold ;  and when the ’ ‘ red coats’ ’  bade 
Uncle  Sam  adieu,  they  shook  the  dust 
of  the  virgin  soil  of  freedom  and  lib­
erty  off  their  feet  and  hied  themselves 
into  the  Canadian  wilderness,  where 
they  might  nurse  their  loyalism  and 
bawl  “ God  save  the  K in g !”   to  their 
hearts’  content.  Much  praise 
corded  these  self-expatriated 
for  their  devotion  to  the  “ old  flag 
and 
in  making 
such  sacrifice  for  the  sake  of  exchang 
ing  a  political  status  of 
independency 
for  one of  dependency,  then  these  men 
are  certainly  entitled  to  all there is in it 
The  man  who  settled  upon  the  land 
embracing Spooky Hollow  was a  “ dyed 
in-the-wool”   tory.  His  loyalism  was  of 
the  “ blood  and  thunder”   variety.  The 
sight  of  an  American  flag  would  bring 
on  an  attack  of  the  rabbies,  just  as  the 
waving  of  a  red  rag  destroys  the  equi 
librium  of  a  turkey  gobbler. 
In  hi 
estimation 
a  “ yankee”   was  a  vile 
wretch  who  had  committed  an  unpar 
donable  sin.  This  man,  whom  I  will 
introduce  as  Simon  Blaisdell,  was  an 
eccentric  character.  He  was  self-con 
ceited,  self-willed,  self-existent  and,  ii 
fact,  self-sufficient,  his  only  use 
for 
friends,  neighbors  or  human  society  be 
ing  for  purposes  of enriching seif.  Hav 
ing  brought  considerable  means  with 
him,  he  was  able  to  make  a  good  start, 
He  erected  a  two-story  dwelling  house 
down 
point  where  the  lofty  hills on either  side 
were  so  broken  up  and  tumbled  to 
gether  as  to  make  a  crossing  by  wagon 
road  an  impossibility.  This  house  be 
came  “  the  haunted  house”   of  Spooky 
Hollow,  and,  although  a  century  of  the 
world’s  history  has  been  made  since 
was built,  it  is  still  standing. 
It  is 
cant,  of  course,  having  been  so  for 
many  years. 
It  is  an  object  of  curios 
ity  to  the  present  generation,  but  it  wa 
an  object  of  terror  to  a  preceding  gen 
eration,  that  have  mostly  passed  away 
The  old  house  contains secret vaults  and 
chambers  built 
hidden  that  their  very  existence  was 
not  known  to  a  living  soul  outside  the 
family—indeed,  it is more  than probable 
that  Simon  Blaisdell  alone  knew of the 
existence,  as  he  alone  knew  for  wb; 
purposes  they  were  constructed.  Not 
until  the  old  house  was  finally  turned 
over to  the  moles  and  bats  and  to  the 
tender  mercies  of  the  morbidly  curious 
was  the  discovery  made.

in  the  bottom  of  the  ravine  at 

in  solid  masonry, 

Simon  was  egregiously  avaricious 
He  took  advantage  of  every possible op 
portunity  to  increase  his  exchequer, 
engaged  in the tanning  business,  opened 
a  general  store  and  became  a  large  land 
owner.  He  succeeded  in  accumulating 
what  was  considered 
in  those  days  a 
it  disappeared  as  mysteri­
fortune,  but 
ously  as 
it  was  accumulated,  and  his 
descendants  were  not  profited  by  it. 
in  the
While  he  occupied  the  house 

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in. 

If  Simon  did  eject the peddler’s  ghost 
from  its  tenement  of  clay,  the  ghost  has 
had  ample  revenge.  While  Simon  oc­
cupied  the  old  house  himself  the  ghost 
behaved  itself,  as  all  respectable  ghosts 
do,  but  when  he  moved  up 
into  the 
village  and  attempted  to  keep  a  tenant 
on  the  place,  then  the  peddler’s  ghost 
wandered  out  of 
its  element  and  took 
up  its  abode  in  the  old  house and  began 
a  diligent  search  for 
its  tenement  of 
clay  which  was  supposed  to  be  secreted 
somewhere  about  the  premises.  One 
after  another  it  drove  Simon’s  tenants 
out  until  no  family  could  be  found 
sufficiently  courageous  to  move 
It 
slammed  doors,  pounded  floors,  rattled 
window  blinds,  groaned  and  shrieked; 
and  when  it  had  gained  complete  pos­
session, 
in  fee  simple,  of  the  entire 
premises,  it  commenced  to  show  itself.
Just  why  this  peddler’s  ghost  assumed 
the  form  of  a  female  is  more  than  the 
“ oldest 
It 
may  have  been  a  timid  ghost,  after  all, 
and,  like  Jeff. Davis,  put  on  petticoats 
to  avoid  capture.  Whatever  the  reason 
may  have  been,  “  it”   always  appeared 
as  a  woman,  sometimes  headless,  some­
times  bodyless  and  always attired  in  the 
white robe  of  night.  When  not  headless, 
it  always  appeared  with 
long  black 
dishevelled  hair  and  a  facial  expression 
of  blank  despair  that  froze  the  blood  in» 
the  veins  of  any  dare-devil  who  ven­
tured  through  the  Hollow  at  night.  The 
darker  the  night  the  brighter  did  the 
specter  appear,  as  he,  she  or 
it  was 
generally  seen  with  a  dimly-burning,

inhabitant”   can  explain. 

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From  the  Curse of Credit.

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Hundreds  of
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abandoning  the 
the  pass
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system,  which  enables  the  dealer 
to avoid  all  the  losses and  annoy- 
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Integrity  and  Bad  Bills.

From  The Dry Goods Reporter.

Financial  panics 

like  that  whose 
effects  still  linger  have  always  afflicted 
the  commercial  world  since  the  discov­
ery  of  credit  methods,  and  probably  al­
ways  will  recur at  longer  or  shorter 
in­
tervals  as  long  as  there  are  borrowers 
idea  lately  ad­
and  lenders.  But  the 
vanced  by  a  contemporary,  that  debt 
is 
no  longer  regarded  with  the  same  feel­
ing  it  once  was,  is  a  more  serious  mat­
ter.  Happily,  the  charge,  at  least  in 
this  sweeping  form,  is  not true.

It 

is 

extricate 

“ See  here,’ ’  he  said, 

in  the  nature  of  credit  to  go  on 
expanding  until  at  the  end  of  a  certain 
period  the  bubble  of  confidence  is  sud­
denly  pricked  by“some unexpected cause 
and  collapse  follows.  Capitalist  and 
borrower  both 
themselves 
painfully  from  the  debris  of  the  wreck. 
One finds  his  business  gone ;  the  other 
sees  his  capital  swallowed  up.  Under 
cover  of  hopeless  failure  the  borrower 
often  declares  himself  free  from  all  re­
sponsibility  and  repudiates  the  debt. 
This,  indeed,  may  be  an  act  of  dishon- 
esty—-it  often  is.  Yet  there  is  another 
side,  not  one  that  excuses  the  repudi- 
ator  of 
just  debts,  but  one  that  shows 
where  the  lender,  too,  was  rash  and  at 
fa u lt.
A  story  now going  the  rounds  of  the 
grocery  papers  will  illustrate  the  point.
A  grocer  complained  that  a  bankrupt 
customer  owed  him  $200,  and  one  day 
dunned  him  for  the  hundredth  time 
since  bis  failure.  The  delinquent  bore 
it  patiently,  then  straightened  up  and 
gave  his  side  of  the  case.
“ we  might  as 
well  undertsand  each  other  first  as  last.
I  consider  that  it’s  your  own  fault you 
lost  this  money.  When  I  first  began  to 
deal  with  you  I  told  you  that  I  wanted 
to  settle  monthly.  For  six  months  I 
dinged  at  you  in  vain  every  month  for 
my  bill.  You  were  too  lazy  to  make 
it 
out,  and  the  account  climbed  up.  Now 
I ’m 
in  a  hole  and  can’t  pay  it,  and 
you’ re  more to blame  than  I  am,  for  you 
could  have  had  your  money  if  you  had 
watched  your  business.’ ’
Of  course,  the  circumstances  did  no 
cancel  the  man’s  indebtedness,  but  no 
body  will  deny  that there  was some force 
to  his  argument. 
is  a 
larger one  than  a  mere lesson of prompt­
ness  in  sending  bills. 
It  points  out  the 
responsibility  of  every  man who extends 
credit  to others. 
It  is  his  duty  to watch 
that  he  is  taking  no  more  than  reason­
able  risks.
If  there  appears  in  recent  failures  to 
be  an  unusual  amount  of  repudiation, 
it  is  only  because things  have gone a lit­
tle  beyond  the  safety  point,  not- because 
there  are  any  mote  dishonest  debtors 
than 
in  former  generations.  The  mer­
chants  of  the  country  are  as  honest,  on 
the  average,  as  ever 
in  the  country’s 
history.  The  great  body  of  our  busi­
ness  men  are  as  well  aware  now as  in 
former  generations  that  integrity  is  the 
only  sound  basis  of  business  success. 
Methods  and  fashions change,  the  young 
supersede  the  old,  but  this  fact,  true  in 
the old,  slow  days,  is  still as  true  in  the 
most  up-to-date  establishment.

The  moral 

Business  cannot  be  healthy  with  set­
tlements  on  a  basi?  ranging  from  10  to 
50  cents  on  the  dollar.  But  the  fault 
must  not be  laid  to  a  growth  of  dishon­
esty,  only  to  a  passing  era  of  overcon­
fidence,  often  amounting  to  careless­
ness,  on  the  part  of  investors  and  cred­
itors. 

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Implied  Warranty  in  Substituting. 
That  a  sale  of  an  article  by  a  partic­
ular  description  constitutes  a  warranty 
that  the  article  answers  to  that  descrip­
tion,  is  well  settled.  But  the  supreme 
court  of  North  Dakota  goes  a  step 
farther  and  holds  that,  because,  when, 
in  response  to  an  order  for an  article 
described 
in  a  particular  way  by  the 
purchaser,  the  seller  delivers  an  article 
of  that  general  nature,  though  not  fully 
corresponding  with  such  description, 
the  law  regards  his  act  as  equivalent  to 
a  sale  of  such  article  by  the  particular 
description  set  forth  in  the order,  there­
fore,  he  is  to be  considered  to have war­
ranted  that  it  corresponded  to  such  de­
scription.  The 
furnished 
by  the  case  under  consideration,  North­

illustration 

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

western  Cordage  Co.  vs.  Rice,  67 N.  W. 
Rep.  298,  is  of  an  order  for  a  quantity 
of  pure  manilla  twine.  The  company 
of  which  it  was  ordered  having assumed 
to  fill  the  order,  the  court  holds  that 
it 
must  be  deemed  to  have  warranted  that 
the  article  delivered  was,  in  fact,  pure 
manilla  twine.  And,  what  is  of  not  less 
importance,  the  court  further  holds  that 
the  acceptance by  the  purchaser  of  an 
article  which  does  not  correspond  to  the 
warranty,  with  knowledge  of  the  de­
fect,  does  not,  as  a  matter  of  law,  bar 
It 
his  right  to  rely  upon  the  warranty. 
is  a  circumstance  to  go  to  the 
jury,  on 
the  question  whether  there was a breach, 
and  possibly  whether  the  purchaser  has 
not  waived  his  right  to  insist upon dam­
ages  for  it.  This  is  certainly  a  remark­
in  some  of  its  aspects. 
able  decision 
The  court 
itself  seems  to  realize  this, 
and  in  anticipation  of  the  applications 
that  may  be  sought  to  be  made  of  it 
in 
the  future,  without  trying  to  forestall 
the  exceptions  which  may  have  to  be 
made  in  different  cases,  the  court  says 
that  it  believes  it  to  be  in  the 
interests 
of 
justice,  and  to  fairly  express  the 
sense  of  business  men  upon  the  sub­
ject,  that  whatever  form  a  warranty  as­
sumes,  if  there 
in  fact  a  warranty, 
the  mere  acceptance  of  the  property 
will  not,  as  a  matter of  law,  bar  a  re­
covery  for  a  breach  of  the  warranty,  al 
though  an 
inspection  of  the  property 
would  have  led  to  a  discovery  of  the 
breach,  and  that  actual  knowledge  of 
the  defective  condition  of  the  thing  de­
livered  should  not  necessarily  preclude 
a  reliance  upon  the warranty.  One  rea­
son  for  this 
is  that  the  purchaser  is 
often  so  situated  that  it  is  necessary  for 
him  to  accept  the  article  in 
its  defect­
ive  condition.
How  a  Merchant’s  Bluff  Indicated His 

is 

True  Standing.

From the Lewiston Saturday Journal.

“   ’ Tis  true  as  the  book,’ ’  says  a 
Maine  lawyer,  “ that  more  crimes  are 
discovered  through  the  efforts  made  to 
prevent  discovery  than 
in  any  other 
way.  The  mind  of  the  wrongdoer  is 
not  satisfied  with  simply  keeping  still.
It  is  uneasy  and overcautious,  and  leads 
its  owner  pretty  surely  to  do  some  act 
he  would  not have  done  if  innocent. 
In 
just  the  same  way  shrewd  business  men 
read  the  minds  of  their  debtors.  Let 
an  apparently  prosperous  man  become 
seriously 
involved,  and  very  often  he 
will  try  to  screen  his  real  situation  by 
doing  things  that  imply  a  solvent  con­
dition,  all  for  the  purpose  of  deceiving 
his  creditors.

“ A  quarter  of  a  century  ago  I  was 
practising  in  a  Western  Maine  village, 
and  among  my  intimate  friends  was  a 
young  merchant  who  had  apparently 
been  doing  a  very  successful  business 
for  several  years.  His  credit  was  as 
good  as  almost  anybody’s  in  the  town. 
To  my  great surprise,  one evening,  there 
came  to  me  the  principals  of  two 
large 
Portland  firms,  to  whom  my  friend  was 
indebted,  and  they  requested  an  imme 
diate  attachment  of  his  stock  of  goods.
I  protested  that  such  a  course  was  un­
just  and  unnecessary.  Then  one  of  the 
merchants  explained  that  a  day  or  two 
previous  he  had  received  a  letter  from 
their  debtor  in  which  he  casually  men­
tioned  some  proposed  action  of  his 
which  would  involve  a  considerable out­
lay  of  money.  He  didn’t  believe  the 
man  really 
intended  any  such  outlay, 
and  he  asked  himself, 
‘ Why  has  he 
mentioned  this?’  Conferring  with  his 
neighbor,  he  found  the  young  man  had 
at  the  same  time  written him  an  exactly 
similar  letter.  That  was  enough,  and 
they  decided  to  sue.  Feeling  almost 
sure  they  were  wrong,  I  had  the  attach­
ment  made  so  secretly  that  none  knew 
immediately  con­
of 
cerned.  The  young  merchant  was 
im­
mensely  surprised,  and  at  once  got 
friends  *to  become  his  security  on  the 
Portland  debts.  But  the  developments 
of  the  next  few  months  showed  con­
clusively  that  the  merchants  had  rightly 
read „ the  meaning  of  the  unusual  letter, 
and  that  their  debtor’s  affairs  were  at 
that  time  rotten  to  the  core.  Only  their 
prompt action  saved their claims,  which 
together  amounted  to  something  more 
than  a  thousand  dollars,''

it  except  those 

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HAMMOCKS

$7.00 to $42.00 per dozen.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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show.  These goods were very popular last fall and no 
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robes.  Colors  are  all  acid  discharge,  dyed  in  the 
piece  and  are  fast  colors.  Patterns  are  Persians, 
stripes and small neat figures.  Place your order early.

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REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.
Dr.  Geo.  B.  Nichols,  the  Veteran 

Martin  Druggist.

12, 

The 

Geo.  B.  Nichols  was  born  at  Naples, 
Ontario  county,  N.  Y .,  June 
1827. 
His  father  was  a  Connecticut  Yankee, 
while  his  mother  was  a  Massachusetts 
Yankee,  the  former  living  to  the  ripe 
old  age  of  90  years,  dying on  his  birth­
day. 
son  attended  the  public 
school  of  Naples  until  20  years  old, 
when  he  taught  school  winters  for  five 
years,  studying medicine  between  times 
with  his  uncle,  Dr.  Sprague,  of Naples. 
He  then  took  a  course  at  the  Geneva 
Medical  College,  graduating  in  1852  at 
the  Castleton  (Vermont)  Medical  Col­
lege.  He  subsequently  practiced  medi­
cine  at  Naples  for  six  years,  when  he 
removed  to  Michigan,  locating  at  Mar­
tin,  where  he  has  practiced  medicine 
continuously  for  the  past  thirty-eight 
years,  being  the  oldest  practitioner  in 
Allegan  county.

About  twenty  years  ago  Dr.  Nichols 
opened  a  drug  and  stationery  store, 
which  business he  has continued without 
interruption  ever  since.

Dr.  Nichols  was  married  in  1863  to 
Miss  Eunice  M.  Watkins,  of  Naples,  N. 
Y.  Seven  children  have  blessed  the 
union,  six  of  whom  are  still 
living,  all 
having  grown  to  manhood  and  woman­
hood,  the  youngest  being  25  years  of 
age.

Dr.  Nichols  is  a  Mason  and  an  Odd 
Fellow  and  attends  the  Presbyterian 
church.  He  has  been  town  clerk  and 
superintendent  of  schools  and 
is,  at 
present,  President  of  the  school  board 
of  Martin  township.  Until  four  years 
ago  he  was  for  many  years  a  member  of 
the  board  of  examining  pension  sur­
geons  of  Allegan  county.

The  Display  of Wall  Paper.

It 

There  is  plenty  of  room  for  improve­
ment  in  the  window  displays  made  by 
the  majority  of  decorative  dealers at  the 
present  time. 
is  really  surprising 
interest  many  of  the  trade 
how  little 
little  good  taste 
take  in  the  matter.  A 
and  common  sense  are  all  that 
are 
needed  to  obtain  a  good  result,  and 
even  if  these  qualities  be  lacking,  the 
following  out  of  a  few  general rules  will 
answer  nearly  as  well.  So  many  men 
make  the  mistake  of  “ sticking”   in 
their  window  half  a  dozen different sam­
ples  of  various  colors,  about  a  square 
foot  or  two  of  each  showing.  The  effect 
of  such  a  display  is  patchy  and  inar­
tistic.  The  first  thing  to  aim  at  is  to 
give  the  effect  as  nearly  as  possible that 
a  fabric  will  have  when  hung  in a room.
To  illustrate,  let  us  take  wall  papers. 
Now,  an 
incongruous  assortment  of 
papers  of  various  hues  and  various 
styles  not  only  is  in  very  poor  taste,  but 
it  does  not  convey  to  the  eye  of  the 
possible  customer what is intended.  The 
effect  of  such  a  kaleidoscopic  combina­
tion  of  odds  and  ends  is  to  kill  the 
in­
dividual  beauty  of  coloring  and  design 
that  the  papers  possess.  Of  course,  in 
the  case  of  a  cheap  gilt  paper,  for  ex­
ample,  where  the ground  is  practically 
colorless  and  the ¡design  a  little  insig­
nificant  figure 
in  gold,  all  this  would 
In  the  first  place,  there 
' not  hold  true. 
is  nothing  in  the  paper  to  kill,  and 
in 
the  second  place,  it  is  not  the  kind  of 
paper  to  make  a  display  with  or  in  any 
way  to  attract  the  attention  of  a  passer­
by.

In  furnishing  a  window  not  more 
than  two  or  three  different papers should 
be  exhibited  at  the  same  time,  and 
these,  of  course,  should  be  harmonious. 
When  we  say  harmonious  we  do  not

necessarily  mean  that  they should be  the 
same  color  or  the  same  pattern,  for 
there  is  harmony  in  contrast just as  well 
as  there  is  harmony  in  tones.

A  scheme  that  the  swell  decorators 
frequently  adopt—and  there  is  no  rea­
son  why  a  small  dealer  should  not  fol­
low  suit—is  to  form  a  solid  background 
of  paper.  This 
is  done  by  having  a 
horizontal  pole  placed  at  a  height  of 
several  feet,  running  the  full  width  of 
the  window,  several  rolls  of  the  same 
wall-hanging  are  placed  on  the  floor, 
side  by  side,  directly  underneath  and  a 
sufficient  length  of  each-breadth  is  un­
rolled  to  permit  of  its being thrown  over 
the  pole. 
In  this  way  no  waste  results, 
it  not  being  necessary  to  cut  off  any 
If  desired,  two different papers 
pieces. 
may  be  used  in  alternation 
in  forming 
this  background ;  or  if  one  is  employed 
that  is  dark—say,  for  example,  a  plain 
green or India red—two or three strips of 
a  paper 
in  which  the  coloring  is  the 
same  but  lighter  in  tone,  may  be  flung 
over  the  dark  ground,  and  by  catching 
in  at  the  center  so  that  it  partially 
it 
reveals  the  dark  ground  a  very 
fine 
effect  can  be  obtained. 
In  addition  to 
this,  one  or  two  papers  may  be  dis­
played  on  racks  in  the  foreground,  al­
ways  remembering  that  the  more  of 
one  display  of  any  paper  the  better  the 
effect  will  be. 
is  also 
interested 
in  the  upholstery  trade,  the 
addition  of  one  or  two  dainty  little  bits 
of  furniture 
in  the  window,  and  say  a 
potted  plant  or  two,  will  all  serve  to  set 
off  to  better  advantage  the  background 
of  paper,  giving  the  spectator  a  better 
idea  of  what  the  effect  of  the  wall­
hanging  would  be  when  hung  in a room

If  a  dealer 

This  selling  of  wall  paper  by  means 
of  sample  books 
is  a  very  convenient 
way  sometimes,  but  the  truth  remains 
that  no  man  of  artistic  ideas  who  has 
much  interest  in  the  decorating  of  his 
house  would  ever  care  to  do  what  prac­
tically  amounts  to  buying  wall-paper 
on  faith.  _____  

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Effect  of  Low  Price  of Wheat.
The  Boston  Information  Co.  thus  ex­
presses  its  opinion  on  the  effect  of  the 
low  price  of  wheat: 
“ With  this  cash 
property  at  50  cents  in  Chicago  and  the 
near-by  options  only fractionally higher, 
the  buying  powers of the farmer,  middle 
man  and  all  others  who  have  anything 
to  do with  the  cereal  are  greatly  cur­
tailed.  The cheaper the  products  of  the 
farm  are  the  less  of  them  go  to  market, 
because,  after  paying  freight,  the  dif­
ference  between  what  is  received  by the 
farmer and  what  it  costs  him  to produce 
his  crop  is  so  small  that  he  might better 
keep  his  property  on  the  farm  and  take 
the  chances  of  those  better  times  that, 
in  the  parlance  of  many  a  Gotham 
writer,  are  just  ahead  of  us.  The  price 
of  wheat,  then,  and  all  other grains  has 
its  cue  effect  upon  the  prices  of securi­
ties,  and  with  a  continuance  of  falling 
values  on  the  Chicago  board  of  trade 
and  New  York  produce  exchange,  it  is 
easy  for  Wall  Street  to become pessimis­
tic  on  stocks.  We are  creatures  of  hope, 
but  when  one  takes an  unbiased  view  of 
the  situation 
in  general,  and  listens  to 
the  long-winded  sermons  as  to  what 
would  happen  if  the  pet  theories  of  the 
writers  were  only  carried  to their proper 
conclusions,  -prosperity,  or  even 
im­
provement  to  any  lasting  extent,  seems 
to be  in  about  the position  of  the  wisp 
of  hay  that  was  fastened  to  the  bridle 
of  the  patient  horse,  but  just  three  feet 
in  front  of  his  ever-watering  mouth.”

Chicago  issued  a  marriage license  the 
other  day  bearing  the  number  250,000. 
No.  1  was  issued  in  1871,  just  after  the 
great  fire.

Sitali  we  have 
“ The  Gold Standard?”

W e offer a substitute  for  Gold. 
Good  as  Gold.
W hat  are we  speaking of?  W hy

Are they legal tender?  Whether 
“ legal”  or  not  is  uncertain,  but 
they are certainly  “tender.”

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T M E   M I O H I E A N   T R A D E S M A N

Getting  the  People
How  to  Charge  Up  Advertising. 

From the Apparel Gazette.

that 

Merchants  who  very  often  try  an  ex­
periment  in  advertising  for  a  year  are 
discouraged  at  the  end  of  the  period  by 
seeing  an  advertising  account  which, 
in  comparison  with  the 
when  placed 
profit  and 
loss  account  for  the  entire 
store,  discourages  them,  and  they  jump 
at  the  conclusion 
advertising 
does  not  pay.  Advertising  charged  to 
a  general  advertising  account  is,  un­
doubtedly,  most  unsatisfactory  and  mis­
leading,  for  the  reason  that  at  the  end 
of  the  year this  account  must  stand  the 
test  of  being  compared  with  the  general 
business,  with  no  credit  given to  adver­
tising  for  pulling  up  the  sales  in  the 
lines  advertised.  On  the  contrary,  all 
losses  taken  during  the  seasons  on 
“ dead  stock,’ ’ etc.,  are  indirectly pitted 
against  the  advertising  account  at  the 
end  of the  year.

into 

advertising 

A  most  satisfactory  way  to  find  out 
exactly  what  advertising  is  doing  for  a 
is  to  break  up  the  advertising 
firm 
charges 
accounts 
against  each  of  your  several  lines.  A 
clothier  should  have  a  men’s  furnish­
ing  account,  to 
include  neckwear, 
shirts,  hosiery,  underwear,  collars,  cuffs, 
etc.  ;  a  suit  account,  for  men’s  suits, 
extra  pants,  fancy  vests,  etc.  ;  an  over­
coat  account,  a  hat  account,  a  boy’s 
clothing  account,  a  shoe  account  and  a 
general 
advertising  account.  Have 
these accounts  or  more.

When  an  advertisement  is  issued 

for 
a  sale  of  neckwear,  charge  to  the  men’s 
furnishing  account  the  full  charge of the 
cost  of  the  advertisement,  and  place  the 
charge  against  the  sales  in  that  depart­
ment  for  the  day  of  the  sale and  the 
several  days  following. 
If  you  include 
in  your  neckwear  advertisement  a 
short,  sharp  drive  on  a  line  of  men's 
shoes,  charge  the advertising pro  rata  to 
the  men’s  furnishing  account  and  the 
shoe  account.  By  this  method  a  mana­
ger  ran  tell  at  a glance,  not only whether 
the  advertsing  pays,  but  can  tell  in­
stantly  whether  the  lines  he  is  advertis­
ing  are  moving—he  knows  whether  or 
not he  is  hitting  the  wants  of  his  trade.
To  the  general  “ advertisingaccount’ ’ 
charge  all  advertisements  of  a  general 
character  which  you,  in  the  year,  give 
to  churches,  societies,  etc., 
for  pro­
grams,  booklets,  etc.  Also  charge  to 
this  account  a  general  heading  over  a 
combination  advertisement,  where  the 
writer  eulogizes  the  firm,  way  of  doing 
business,  etc.  For  instance,  if  the  ad­
vertisement 
is  300  lines  long  and  takes 
in  neckwear,  suits,  overcoats,  shoes and 
boys’  overcoats,  charge  50  lines  to  gen­
eral  advertising  (if  the  firm  name  and 
introduction 
take  up  that  amount); 
charge  70 lines  to  men’s  furnishings;60 
lines  to  suits;  40  lines  to  overcoats;  30 
lines  to  shoes  and  50  lines  to  boys’ 
clothing. 
In  this  way  the  department 
directly  benefited  bears the expense,  and 
its  sales  will  furnish  a  criterion  by 
which  to 
judge  the  efficiency  of  your 
advertising.

At  the  end  of  the  year  dispose of  your 
general  advertising  account by  charging 
it  up,  by  percentage,  to  departments 
that  did  no  advertising  or  were  in  your 
judgment  benefited  by  the  advertise­
ments  of  others.  For  instance,  an  ad­
vertisement  for  shoes  is  considered  to 
benefit  to  a  certain  degree  the  hosiery 
stock;  an  “ ad .”  
for  suits  will  benefit 
the  suspender  stock,  etc.

Advertising,  if  handled  in  this  way, 
is  satisfactory  and  well  in  hand  at  all 
times.  It gives  an  advertiser  a practical 
knowledge  of  what  to  advertise;  he 
knows,  without  guessing  or  taxing  his 
memory,  whether  any  one  branch  of  his 
business  is  getting  too  much  advertis­
ing  to  the  detriment  of  others.

It  is  also  well  to  apportion  to  each  of 
the  several  branches  of  your  business  a 
proportion  of  the  entire  amount  you  ex­

pect  to  spend 
in  advertising,  and  set 
this  amount  at  the  head  of  the  account. 
This  gives  you  the  opportunity  to  con­
tinually  know  just  how  fast  you  are  eat­
ing 
into  the  amount  set  aside  for  that 
particular 
line  and  to  switch  the  ac­
counts  as  the  year  passes,  if  your  judg­
ment  warrants.

Law  Points  of General  Interest.
Even  if  goods  have  been  delivered  to 
a  carrier  consigned  to  the  buyer,  and 
insolvency  occurs before  they  reach  the 
actual  possession  of  the  buyer,  the seller 
may  exercise  the  right  of  stoppage  in 
transitu  to  recover  his  possession,  and 
thereby  revive  his  lien.  The  right  of 
stoppage  in  transitu  is but  an  equitable 
extension  or  enlargement  of  the  seller’s 
lien,  and  is  not  an  independent  or  d is­
tinct  ri$ht.
A  common  carrier,  undertaking  to 
transport  the  baggage  of  its  passenger, 
is  held  by  the  law  to  the  strictest  ac­
countability,  and  if  the  carrier  receives 
such  baggage  and  undertakes  its  car­
riage,  it  cannot  be  relieved  from  reli­
ability therefor by  anything  save  the  act 
of  God  or  the  public  enemy.

One  who  purchases  personal  property 
from  a  conditional  vendee,  contractée, 
or  lessee 
in  possession  thereof,  with 
actual  knowledge  of  the  conditions  on 
which  his  vender  holds  possession  of 
such  property,  is  not an 
innocent  pur­
chaser,  and  acquires  only  such  title  as 
his  vender  had.
A  note  in  the  hands  of  an  agent  for 
collection  cannot  be  reached by garnish­
ment  of  the  agent.

Where  the  payee  of  a  note  after  de­
its  date,  such  act  renders 

livery  alters 
the  instrument  void.

A  contract  will  not be  rescinded  for 
fraud  where  there  is  no  offer  to  return 
the  consideration  paid.

Where  waiver  of  protest  and  notice  is 
embodied  in  a  note,  it  is  binding  upon 
subsequent  indorsers  of  the  note.

The  holder  of  a check  cannot  sue  the 
it  is  drawn  until  such 

bank  on  which 
check  has been  accepted  by  the bank.

In  the  absence  of  an  agreement  to  re­
pair,  the  tenant  cannot  recover  for dam­
ages  for  the  want  of  necessary  repairs.
On  failure  to  deliver goods  sold,  the 
seller  is  not  liable  for  the  loss  on  a  pro­
posed  sale  of  which  he  had  no  knowl­
edge.

Entries  in  books  kept  in  the  ordinary 
course  of  business 
in  the  handwriting 
of  a  deceased  witness  are  admissible  in 
evidence.

Purchasers  of  goods  have  an  insurable 
interest  in  them,  though  title  was  not  to 
pass  till  their  arrival  at  destination,  so 
as  to  make  the  carrier  their  agent.

Contributory 

infringement 

is  the  in­
tentional  aiding  of  one  person  by  an­
other  in  the  unlawful  making  or  selling 
or  using  of  the  patented  invention,  or 
its  parts.

Fraudulent  concealment  by  an  agent 
of  the  amount  collected  for  his  princi­
pal  will  prevent  the  running  of  the 
statute  of  limitations  against  the  claim 
of  the  principal.

A  purchaser  of  personal  property  on 
credit  from  the  person  in  possession, 
before  payment  of  the  purchase  price, 
cannot  claim  the  same  as  a  bona-fide 
purchaser  for  value.

instrumental 

The  authority  of  one  partner  to  exe­
cute  a  sealed  instrument  of  lease  in  the 
name  of  the  firm  will  be  presumed 
where  his  partner  was 
in 
securing  the  lease.
The  Porter’s  Idea  of the  Traveler.
Farmer  (at  door  of  country  hotel,  to 
porter)—Who  are 
respectably 
dressed  men  with  those  funny  looking 
valises  going  in  and  out?

those 

Porter—Them’s  commercial  gents.
Farmer—What,  may  I  ask,  are  their 

peculiarities?

Porter—Well,  sir,  they  never 

the  hotel  without  tipping  the  porter.

leaves 

Illustrated  Advertising.

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

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 n ot so?

f Sells on  its merits 
j  Retails profitably at a  low  figure.
)  Is in constant demand.
1  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.

TIE  HEW  TORI  BISCUIT  CO.

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

Michigan  Spice  Company’s  “ Absolute”   Teas,  Coffees,  Spices 

and  Baking  Powder  have a  wide-spread  reputation.

Bewaie of luitalions!

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.,

SOLE  PROPRIETORS  AND  MANUFACTURERS  OF 

THE  “ ABSOLUTE”   BRAND.

OF  COURSE  YOU  HANDLE

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For  Sale  by  All  Jobbers.

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SEE PRICE LIST ELSEWHERE.

EVERY  mm  IS  OZ.  NET

WITHOUT  GLAZING.

Perfectly  Pure  Coffee.

W O O L S O N   S P I C E   CO .

TOLEDO, OHIO, and  KANSAS CITY, MO.

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etc.,  while  attractive 
in  a  way,  has 
very  little  trade-bringing  power,  if any.' 
Nobody  ever  saw  a  crowd  in  front  of  a 
window  with  such  a  display  in.

If  there  is  a  local  hit  to  be  utilized,  a 
window  display  caricaturing  it  can  be 
in­
made  with  splendid  effect.  For 
stance,  in  a  town  known  to  the writer, 
locally  well-known  chicken 
fancier’s 
fowls  met  with  a  funny  accident  which 
necessitated  the  pulling  out  of  all  their 
feathers.  The  whole  town  was  in  a  roar 
over  the  ridiculous  appearance  of  these 
plucked  chickens.  A  local  grocer,  who 
knew  a  good  opportunity  when  he  saw 
it,  bought  several  toy  chickens,  pulled 
the  feathers out,  built up a  little  chicken 
yard 
labeled  the 
whole  thing, 
“ Smith’s  Misfortune.”  
This  clever take-off  on  a  local  circum­
stance  which  everybody  knew  about  was 
universally appreciated.  Crowds blocked 
his  sidewalk  and  the  store  was  adver­
tised in a way which, unquestionably,  was 
valuable.  There  is  also  a  valuable  field 
for  a  display  upon  some  National  oc­
casion  or  holiday.

in  his  window  and 

The  subject  of  sign-writing  ought  to 
be  considered 
in  connection  with  win­
dow-dressing.  Well-written  or  printed 
signs  are  of  incalculable  value,  both  in 
connection  with  a  window  display  and 
alone.  The  more  artistic  they  can  be 
made  the  better,  as  they  are  directly 
valuable  in  proportion  to  the  attention 
attracted.  Some  young  men  have 
lettering.  Others 
natural  talent 
for 
have  not,  but  can 
largely  supply  the 
deficiency  if  they  will  take  pains  and 
practice.  The 
is  not  as 
valuable  as  the  expert  window-dresser, 
but  the  ability  to  do  this  work  will  en­
hance  a  clerk’s  present  position  and 
render  him  more  independent  in the  fu­
ture.  Study  not  only  the  actual  lettering 
of  these  signs,  but  the  wording,  which 
always  has  selling  power.  Learn  to  ex­
press  your  meaning  in  short,  terse  ex­
pressions,  and 
in  every  case  give  the 
price  of  the  article.

sign-writer 

Learning Window  Dressing  and  Sign 

Painting.

From the Grocery  World.

One  of  the  coming  adjuncts  of  the 
successful  store  is  good  window  dress­
ing.  Nearly  every  sort  of  a  store  but 
the  grocery  has  fallen 
in  line  in  this 
particular,  and  now  devotes  time  and 
care  to  catching  the  eye  of  the  passer­
by  and  attracting  his  trade  through  a 
Good  window 
well-dressed  window. 
dressers  are  always 
in  demand.  At 
present  they  seem  to  be  among  the  very 
lines  which  are  not  overcrowded. 
few 
field  which  exists  for  young  men 
The 
therein 
is  wide  and  success  is  almost 
certain  if  study  and  practice  are  given 
the  subject.

There  are  two  reasons  why  it  will 
profit  the  clerk  to  study  window-dress­
ing.  One 
is  the  fact  that  it  will  make 
him  more  valuable  to  his  present  em­
ployer.  The  ability  to  do  something 
else  besides  wait  on  customers,  and  to 
take  charge  of  a  distinct,  valuable  de­
partment,  will  render  his  position  more 
secure  and  more  remunerative.  Any 
grocer,  except  one  at  a crossroad,  where 
window  advertising  would  be  lost,  will 
be  willing  to  pay  a  higher  salary  to  a 
clerk  who  once  a  week,  or  oftener,  can 
dress  his  windows  in  such  an  ingenious 
manner  that  the  people  will  be attracted 
to  the  point  of  crowding  the  sidewalk. 
There  are  always  spare  moments,  which 
could  be  well  occupied  by  this  work. 
The  results  of  such  advertising,  when 
is  done  well,  are  probably  greater 
it 
than  those  accruing 
from  any  other 
form.

The  second  reason  why  it  will  pay  a 
clerk  to  learn  this  work  is  the  fact  that 
good  window  dressers  are always  sure 
of  a  position. 
If  he  studies  and  plans, 
cultivating  his  ingenuity  and  adapting 
ideas  wherever  he  finds  them,  he  will 
in  time become  a  good  window  dresser.
If  he  has  a  dash  of  artistic  quality  in 
his  composition,  he  will  succeed  to  a 
greater  extent  than 
if  he  has  not,  but 
if  a  young  man  has  no  particular 
even 
bent 
in  this  direction,  careful  study 
will  produce  good  results.

Expert  window  dressers  are  paid  sal­
aries  which will compare  favorably  with 
those  received  by 
lawyers,  clergymen 
and  physicians,  or  even  by  those  of  the 
is  stated  that John 
retail  grocers. 
Wanamaker’s  window  dresser 
is  paid 
$5,000  per  year.  Of  course,  this  is  an 
exceptional  position,  but 
it  serves  to 
show  the 
importance  with  which  the 
profession  is  regarded.

It 

There  is  no book on  the market  which 
covers  the  whole  subject  of  window 
dressing.  No  distinct  rules  can  be  laid 
down  for  it. 
It  is  a  matter  of  taste  and 
ingenuity  purely.  The  sole  object  is  to 
present  an  aggregation  of  goods  or  ma­
terial  which  will  favorably  attract  the 
eye  of  the  passer-by  and  thus  act  as  an 
advertisement  for  the store.  No two men 
will  aim  at  this  result  in  the  same  way, 
hence  no  rules  or  regulations  can  be 
laid  down.

The  clerk, in  the  average country town 
has  a  splendid  field  for  the  exercise  of 
his  talent,  because  probably  not a  mer­
chant  in  the  town  devotes  any  attention 
to  window  displays,  for  which  reason 
he  has  no  particular  competition.

The  usual  grocery-store  window  dis­
play,  where any effort has been  put forth 
at  all,  is  a  pyramid  of  canned  goods. 
This  is  not  the  sort  of  window-dressing 
for  which  $5,000  yearly 
is  paid.  To 
succeed,  a  window  display  must  possess 
ingenuity,  and  need  not  necessarily em­
for  any  particular 
body  advertising 
goods,  although 
if  this  can  be  intro­
duced  without  seeming  to  be  bald  ad­
vertising, 
its  value  will,  of  course,  be 
heightened.
The  best  kind  of  a  display  is  that 
which 
introduces  mechanical  move­
ment  into  the  window,  such  as  flowing 
water,  clockwork,  etc. 
is  not 
attainable,  some  miniature reproduction 
of  a  scene  from  life,  such  as  a  railroad 
train  standing  at  the  station,  etc.,  will 
prove  the  talk  of  the  town  by  reason  of 
its  very  unusualness.  These  are  much 
easier  than  they  look.  Children’s  toys 
can  be  used  for  the  figures,  with  card­
board  utilized  for  woodwork,  etc."  The 
“ pretty”   display,  by  which  is  meant  a 
simple  pile  of  cans,  a  heap  of  fruit,

If  this 

Evolution  in  Trade  Methods.

From Pen and  Ink.

It 

everywhere. 

Everything  in  life  is  changing.  Rev­
olution  and  evolution  seem  to  be  going 
on 
Scenes,  methods, 
habits,  tastes  and  even  principles  are 
radically  changing. 
is  a  new  life, 
with  new  ways  and  new aspirations—not 
the  least  startling  change  is  to  be  seen 
in  business  life.  What  would  the  rich 
old  merchants  of  half  a  century  ago  say 
to  the  methods,  expenses  and  fine  sur­
roundings  of  the  business  houses  of  the 
present  day?  They  would  rub  their 
eyes 
in  bewilderment,  and  tell  many  a 
story  of  their  own  day  of  simplicity  and 
economy  and yet of great,  honorable suc­
cess.  All  business  men,  and  especially 
the  younger  firms,  should  recognize  the 
new  state  of  affairs  and make  a  constant 
study  of  the  changes  and  development 
that  are  taking  place. 
Judgment  and 
nerve  are  required  in  a  higher  degree 
than  ever before.  Business  must  have 
clear  brains  and  stout  hearts. 
It  must 
have  constant watchfuless and energy.  It 
must  have  regard  not  only  for  private 
interests  but  the  public  welfare.  The 
success  and  expansion  of  firms  cannot 
now  take  place  without  the  prosperity 
and  growth  of  cities.  The  road  to  for­
tune  in  business  is  no  longer  the  beaten 
track  which  can  be  followed  from  a 
generation  of  a  family.  Each  season 
and  each  year  are  producing  new  ele­
ments  and  relations  in  the  situation 
in 
connection  with  human  progress  gener­
ally,  and  the  wise  and  successful  mer­
chants  will  be  those  who  join  in  the  on­
ward  march  with 
faith  in  themselves 
and  confidence  in  the  future.

In  Close  Touch  with  the  House.
Merchant—I  hear  you  have  left  the 

firm  you  were  with  for  the  past  year.

Traveler—Yes,  they  got  too  close  for 

me.

Merchant—How  so?
Traveler—How  so?  Great  Scot,  man, 
they  wanted  to  give  me  a  salary  based 
on  the  sales  I  m ade!

New  Mexico’s  claim  to statehood rests 
on  the  fact  that  she  has  a  population  of 
175,000,  with  taxable  property  valued  at 
$45,000,000.

Standard Dll Go.
Illuminating  and  LubricatingOILS

D EA LER S IN

Naptha and  Gasolines

Office, Mich. Trust Bldg.  Works, Butterworth Ave. 

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BULK  WORKS  at Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, 
Big  Rapids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington, 
Allegan,  Howard City,  Petoskey,  Reed City.

Highest  Price  paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels

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FOR  CARRIAGES  AND  HEAVY  WAGONS

Keeps axles bright and  cool.  Never Gums. 

4 doz. in case.
I 4 J 
l lb. I 
3 lb. V  TIN  BOXES -( 2 doz. in case, 
(2 doz. in case.
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,

25 lb. Wooden  Pails. 
Half Bbls. and Bbls.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

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PROFITABLE  PURCHASES.

Some  Excellent  Advice  on  How  and 

When  to  Buy.

General Storekeeper in Shoe and Leather  Facts.
In  the  preparation  for  the  anticipated 
season’s  trade  the  salesmen’s  grips have 
been  something  enormous and  crammed 
to  the  top  with  artistic  creations in foot-1 
wear  almost  calculated  to  draw  one’s 
coin  from  his  pocket  from  their  very 
appearance; but  the country merchant  is 
compelled  to  remember  that these  crea­
tions  de  luxe  are  not  for  him  or  for  his 
trade,  and  that  he  must  buy  sparingly 
of  them,  if  he buys  at  all.  The 
larger 
dealers  buy  their goods  for summer  long 
before  this  season  opens,  but  the  aver­
age  country  store-keeper  does  not  dare 
to  make  plunges  in  that  way,  and  if  he 
buys  his  goods  a  month  ahead  of  the 
time  he  expects  to  use  them  he  thinks 
he  is  taking  a  big  risk.  So,  after  the 
salesmen  have  catered  to  the  wants  of 
the  more  extensive  dealers,  they  carry 
the  stock  for  the  smaller  ones  which 
is 
suitable  for  the  season  nearest  at  hand. 
This  is  to  the  small  merchant’s  advan­
tage 
in  some  respects,  for  the  reason 
that by  this  time  the  fiat  has  gone  forth 
and  the  styles  which  will  be  most  called 
for  have  clearly  revealed  themselves,  so 
that  he  runs  no  danger  of  investing  a 
large  amount  of  money  in  a 
line  of 
shoes  of  a  peculiar  style  which  may  fail 
to  “ take.”   It  might  seem  as  if  he  were 
getting  the  remainder  of  what  had  been 
offered  to  the  larger  dealers  at  the  be­
ginning  of  the  season,  and  must  be 
satisfied  with  a  second  grade  of  goods 
in  the  way  of  picking  up  the  crumbs; 
but  this  is  seldom  a  question  worthy  of 
consideration,  and  the  danger  he  es­
capes  leaves  the  advantage  mostly  on 
his  side  of  the  transaction.  The  large 
dealer  can  experiment  with  different 
styles,  and  lose  on  one  what  he  gains on 
another,  until  he  finds  the  one  which 
will  be  called  for  during  the  season, 
from  the  indications  of  the  present  de­
mand,  and  the  smaller  dealer  reaps  the 
benefit  of  this  trouble  and  expense  with 
neither  trouble  nor  expense  to  himself.
Aside  from  this  danger,  however, 
the  country  merchant  is  always  subject 
to  another.  His  professional  eye  may be 
so  charmed  with  the  outline  and  finish 
.of  a  certain  style  of  shoe as to blind  him 
to  the  all-important  question,  “ Is 
it 
something  which  will  be  called  for  by 
my  trade?”   That  is  the  light  in  which 
he  must  view  everything  of  the  kind 
which  he  purchases;  it 
is  the  test  by 
which  everything  must  be  judged.  He 
may  inspect,  admire  and  appreciate the 
pretty  things,  if  he  can  do  so  without 
being 
influenced  to  buy  them,  but,  if 
he  is  so  susceptible  as  not  to  be  able  to 
do  that,  he  must  shut  his  eyes  and  re­
sist  the  temptation.  The  goods  may  be 
beauties,  but  they  are  not  for  him  oi 
his  trade,  and  if  he takes  a  "fly e r”  
in 
them  he  will  run  a  great  risk  of  coming 
to  earth  mournfully,  with  his  feathers 
bedraggled  and  a  lot  of  fine,  but  unsal­
able,  goods  on  his  shelves.  The  average 
merchant  cannot  afford  to keep any  such 
art  gallery  for  his own  amusement,  and 
so,  when  he  is  thus  compelled  to  keep 
one,  his  reflections  will  be  anything  but 
aesthetic,  although  they  may  take  the 
form  of  meditations  on  the  vanity  of 
human  wishes.

It  is  much  easier  to  buy  goods  than 
it  is to  raise  the  cash  to  buy  them  with, 
and,  when  the  cash  is  already  tied  up 
in  unsalable  goods,  the  question  of  how 
to  buy  the  absolutely  necessary  new 
ones  is  a  mathematical  problem  whose 
solution  is  unpleasantly  difficult.  The 
average  country  community  does  not 
want  such  extra fine footwear.  They will 
neither  pay  the  price  nor  wear  the 
shoes,  for  it  really  seems  as  hard  to  get 
them  to  do  the  latter  as  the  former,  and 
in  such  a  community  the  merchant  will 
have  to  carefully  draw  the  line  between 
that  which  he  thinks 
is  a  pretty  shoe 
and  what  his  customer  will  think  is  a 
good  and  serviceable  one.

The  shoe  trade  in  the average  country 
store 
is  an  exemplification  of  the  old 
proverb  that  good  goods  come  in  small 
packages;  at  least  that  is  the  way  they 
must  be  bought  to  prevent  their  ruining 
the  buyer. 
is 
the  best  plan  to keep only a  few  samples

In  high-priced  goods 

it 

on  hand,  and  order  the  pairs  required 
from  time  to  time  from  the  jobber  as 
the  customer  expresses  his  preference. 
They  can  be  ordered  by  one  mail  and 
be  received 
in  the  next,  in  most  in­
stances,  and  the  average  jobber  will  not 
make  any  objections  to  such  orders,  al­
though  they  may be  slightly 
inconven­
ient  to  fill  and  the  profit  may  be  small 
on  the  single  pairs,  as business  is  busi­
ness  for  them  as  for others  and  they  get 
accustomed  to  that  sort  of  thing  from 
its  frequent  repetition. 
If  they  do  ob­
ject,  why  there  are  others. 
It  is  always 
best  to  consider  the  feelings  of  those 
from  whom  you  buy,  however,  as  well 
as  those  to  whom  you  sell,  and  keep  on 
good  terms  at  both  ends  of  the  line. 
There  is  nothing  gained  by  being  surly 
and  unobliging,  simply  because  you 
know  you  can  force  a  man  to  endure 
something  for  the  sake  of  getting  your 
trade.  The  people  of  whom  you  buy 
are 
just  as  much  entitled  to  the  treat­
ment  of  gentlemen  as  you  are  yourself, 
and,  if  you  do  not  treat  them 
in  that 
way,  you  are  not  entitled  to  such  treat­
ment  yourself.  That  is  one  advantage 
of  business  organizations 
in  that  they 
show  the  good  qualities  which  fellow- 
members  of  the  trade  possess  when  out­
side  of  their  office  walls.

One  characteristic  of  the  young  men 
of  the  present,  which  is  a  disadvantage 
both  to  themselves  and  to  their  employ­
ers,  is  that  they  early  become  imbued 
with  the 
idea  that  they  know  all  about 
the  business  and  how  it  ought  to be con­
ducted,  and  as  soon  as  they  can  scrape 
together  a  few  dollars  they  set  up  for 
themselves.  They  utilize  their  small 
capital 
in  paying  interest  on  borrowed 
money,  with  which  to  buy  their  stock ; 
having no resources,  when  an  emergency 
comes,  they have to  throw up the sponge. 
That  is  the  story  which  we  can  see  re­
peated  all  about  us  day  after  day.  Do­
ing  business  on  borrowed  capital  with 
nothing  ahead  is  risky  business  at  any 
time,  and  the  man  who  pays  interest  is 
taking  that  much  out  of  his  profits  or 
his  receipts  and  getting  no  return.  A 
horizontal  advance  of 
io  per  cent,  on 
all  goods  will  often  not  pay  the  mere 
running  expenses  of  the  business,  such 
as  rent,  salaries,  and 
lighting,  without 
the  constant  drain  of  interest  to be  paid 
on  the  stock  which  lies  on  the  shelves 
as  well  as  on  that  already  sold.  Some 
men  seem  to  be  able  to  come  out  suc­
cessfully  who  start 
in  with  a  chattel 
mortgage  on  their  stock,  but  a  young 
and  inexperienced  man  is  taking  great 
chances  when  he  attempts  it.
When  a  young  man  starts  out  in  this 
way  his  employer  loses  a  good  worker, 
individual 
the  business  world  gains  an 
who,  from  force  of  circumstances,  must 
be  classed  with  the  doubtful  ones,  who 
have  all  to  gain  and  nothing  to  lose, 
and  the  young  man  himself  often 
loses 
the  little  which  he  has  of  his  own  and  a 
great  deal  which  belongs  to  some  one 
else,  and  also  loses  a  good  job  as  well 
About  the  least  unpleasant  thing  which 
he  discovers  is  the  fact  that  he  “ cannot 
afford  to  pay  himself  his  old  salary,’ 
for  some  of  the  other  developments  are 
much  worse  than  this.  The  old  system 
of  apprenticeships  may  have been  a  bad 
and  hard  one  in  some  respects,  but  it  at 
least  prevented  young  men  from  em 
barking  too  soon 
in  business  ventures 
for  which  they  were  not  sufficiently 
equipped,  either  financially  or 
in  ex 
perience.  A  little  extra  capital  to  meet 
emergencies  is  a  very  desirable  thing, 
and 
is  always  best  to go  somewhat 
slowly  until  it  is obtained.  A  little  pa 
tience  exercised  at  first  will  often  save 
a  great  deal  of  trouble  and  worry  in  the 
future.

it 

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.
for  a  wholesale  house 
should  always  treat  the  knights  of  the 
grip 
in  the  same  manner  as  he  would 
have  them  treat  him.  Respect  begets 
respect.

The  buyer 

Flags  and  buntings  at  P.  Steketee  & 

Sons.

HUS  GROWN

1891

1883
1885
1888
1895
1896

In which  we  produce  more  Coupon 
Books than all the other manufactur­
ers in the country  combined.  These 
facts  speak  louder  than  words  and 
conclusively  prove  that  our  books 
must have been the best in  the  mar­
ket for the past thirteen  years  in  or­
der to have secured this demand.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Commercial T ray elers

Michigan Knights o! the Grip. 

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

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Chancellor, II.  U.  Marks,  Detroit;  Secretary, 
Edwin Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  Geo.  A.  Rey­
nolds,  Saginaw.

Michigan Division, T. P. A.

President, Geo.  F. Owen,  Grand  Rapids ;  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer,  J a s .  B.  McInnes,  Grand 
Rapids.

Gripsack  Brigade.

A  poorly  paid  man on the road  is gen­
in  securing  business  as 

erally  as  poor 
the  pay  he  receives.

The  up-to-date 

carries  an  up-to-date 
and  no  other  kind  will  do  him.

traveling *  salesman 
line  of  samples 

The  man  who  succeeds  on  the  road  is 
usually  the  one  who  believes in himself, 
while  the  one  who  fails  believes in  fate.
Push  your  business  as  a  traveling 
its 
salesman 
dignity  and  your  integrity  and  you  will 
come  out  all  right.

energetically,  maintain 

When  a 

commercial  traveler  gets 
discouraged  and  loses  his  energy,  then 
the  sooner  he  quits  the  road  the  better 
it  will  be  for  himsetf  and  his  house.

Your  personality  as  a  salesman  has 
some  influence  with  the  average  buyer, 
while  the  methods  of  broaching  your 
business  and  the  treatment  of  your 
trade  go  a  good  way  toward  securing  an 
order.

Artificial  training  will  never  make  a 
truly  successful  traveling  salesman,  for 
the  duties  of  the  position  necessitate 
qualities  that  every  Tom,  Dick  and 
Harry  does  not  possess.  Like  the  poet, 
he  is  born  for  his  particular vocation.

it  when 

“ behind 

“ Old  foggyish’ ’  and 

the 
times”   concerns  are  not  in 
it 
comes  to  doing  business  on  the  Nine­
teenth  Century  plan.  This  much  every 
commercial  traveler  is  aware  of  and  he 
always  endeavors  to  represent  only  an 
up-to-date  firm.

Miss  Homeria  A.  Bouton,  who  has 
visited  the  furniture  trade  of  Michigan 
for  the  past  year  for  the  Pentwater  Bed­
stead  Co.,  will  shortly  quit  the road  and 
teaching 
re-engage 
school  at  Pentwater.  Her  successor 
is 
Wm.  R.  Compton,  of  Grand  Rapids.

in  the  work  of 

It’s  not  everybody  who  goes  on  the 
road  to  sell  goods  that  is  fit  for  it,  for 
some  men  were  never  cut  out  for  com­
mercial  travelers.  You  see,  traveling 
salesmen  are  born,  not  made,  and  if 
you  were  born  a  hod  carrier,  for  good­
ness’  sake  get  at  it  and  make  room 
for 
i§  fitted  for  the 
-some  good  man  who 
work  of  a  knight  of  the  grip.

lose,  so 

Pope,  in  his “ Letters, ”   says : 

“ Let 
fortune  do  her  worst,  whether  she 
makes  us 
long  as  she  never 
makes  us  lose  our  honesty  and  inde­
pendence.”   This  is  a  noble  aspiration 
for  any  knight  of  the  pencil  and  order 
let  him  treat  his 
book,  and  therefore 
customer  from  the  standpoint  of 
integ­
rity  and 
independence,  thus  knowing 
that  he  has  done  his  duty  toward  his 
firm  and  to  society.

Jacob  Vandenberg  has  exchanged  his 
bouse  and 
lot  at  2  Wells  street  for  the 
Frost  farm,  located  one-half  mile  west 
of  the  Dennis  corners,  on  South  D ivi­
sion  street.  The 
farm  comprises  50 
acres,  being  well  improved  and  excel­
lently  adapted 
in 
which  branch  of  business  Jacob  ex­
pects  to  engage  quite  extensively.  Mr. 
Vandenberg  can  be  found  on  the  vege­

fruits, 

small 

for 

The  strengthening  of  prices  conse­
quent  upon  the  adoption  of  a  sound 
money  plank  at  the St.  Louis convention 
seems  to  be  much  more than  neutralized 
by  the  reaction  caused  by  the  activities 
of  the  extreme  silver  elements. 
In  pro­
portion 
these  have  manifested 
strength  in  the  bolting  contingent  from 
the  republicans  and  in  the  division  of 
the  democrats,  there  has  been  a  further 
decline  in  products  and  industrials,  un­
til  the  financial  world  is  looking  with 
anxiety  for  the  outcome  at  Chicago.

as 

In  the  case  of  wheat  and  other  cereals 
the  continued  decline  seems  to  find 
sufficient  cause  in  the  generally  favor­
able crop  reports throughout  the  produc­
ing  regions.  Wheat  has  declined  about 
three  cents  since  the  last  issue  of  the 
in  pro­
Tradesman,  and  other  grains 
portion,  and  the  bulls 
in  the  market

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

o I

table  portion  of  the  Morning'Market 
and  will  be  glad  to  shake  hands  with 
any  of  his  former  acquaintances  on  the 
road.

The  commercial  traveler 

is  an  edu­
cator—a  missionary,  if  you  please—for 
he  labors  in  constant  fulfillment  of  that 
divine  edict,  “ Let  there  be  light.”   He 
it 
is  who  first  bears  the  torch  of  en­
lightenment  into  the  benighted  regions 
of  the  earth  and  blazes  the  way  for  the 
majestic  march  of  civilization.  Hence 
his  advent,  no  matter  where,  is  a  har­
binger  of  refined 
influence,  more  ele­
vated  tastes  and  habits,  greater  com­
fort,  elegance  and  luxury  in  all  the  ap­
purtenances  incident  to  human  society. 
In  short,  the  whole  accessible  world 
feels  his  superb  influence.

At  an  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  the  Michigan  Commer­
cial  Travelers’  Mutual Accident Associ­
ation,  held  Saturday  evening,  Wallace 
Franklin  resigned 
from  the  Board,  on 
account  of  his  inability  to  be  present  at 
all  the  meetings,  and  Geo.  J.  Heinzel- 
man  was  selected  to  act  in  his  place 
until  the  annual  meeting  of  the  organi­
zation  next  January.  As 
intimated  by 
the  Tradesman 
last  week,  still  further 
changes  are  contemplated,  on  the  com­
pletion  of  which  the  organization  will 
be  well  equipped  in  all  departments  to 
carry  on  the  work 
it  was 
called  into  existence.

for  which 

seem  to  have  little  hope  of  recovery.
The  unsatisfactory  conditions  in  the 
iron  market  continue  with 
increased 
intensity.  The combinations  are making 
a  desperate  struggle,  but  they  have  thus 
far  operated  to  hinder  demand  and 
stimulate  outside  preparations  for  the 
lines.  The  con­
production  of  their 
tinued  contest  under  these 
circum­
stances  seems  likely  to  lead  to  eventual 
disaster.  Bessemer  pig  shows  a  further 
decline  and  a  reduction  in  coke  is prob­
able.

The 

The  textile  situation  shows  no  im­
provement. 
shutting  down  of 
works  on  every  hand  continues  and  a 
concerted  movement  in  that  direction  is 
under  discussion.  The  only  favorable 
indication 
is  that  stocks  in  the  hands 
of  retailers  are  small,  as  they have  been 
buying  from  hand  to  mouth  so  long.

About  the  only  encouraging  features 
are  the  general  favorable  crop  reports, 
for  coal  and  the | 
an 
continued  favorable  situation 
in  shoe 
and  leather  trades.

improved  outlook 

The  stock  market  has  shared  the  gen­
eral  bear  tendency,  probably 
influ­
enced  by  the  same  causes.  Export  of 
gold 
Bank  clearings  were 
smaller,  falling  below  the  billion  mark 
again,  but  failures  were  not  so  numer­
ous—218  against  265 for preceding week.

is  small. 

A  Blow  at  Business.

CLiFTOS 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.

Post  C  (Detroit)  held  its  annual  ex­
cursion  and  basket  picnic  at  Sugar 
Island  last  Saturday.  There  were  over 
200  in  attendance,  and,  of  course,  they 
had  a  fine  time.  At  the  Island  there 
were  some  very  exciting  games.  The 
ball  game  was  won  by  the  team  cap­
tained  by  Mr.  Baier,  and  Cap.t.  Dean’s 
team  won  the  tug-of-war.  Mr.  Howarn 
was the fastest  fat man,  and J.  B.  Schran 
carried  off  the  honors  in  the  100-yards 
dash.  The  ladies  also  had  some  excit­
ing  races.  Mrs.  Watson  won  the  mar­
ried  women’s  race,  and  Miss  Lulu  Dent 
was  the  first  young  lady  across  the 
line 
in  the  single  ladies’  race.

inconguity 

It  has  puzzled  many  traveling  men 
why  such  men  as  “ Hub”   Baker  and 
Tohnny  Shields  should  stop  at the Amer­
ican  House,  at  Cadillac,  in  the  light  of 
Landlord  Parker’s  record  as  a  common 
swindler.  The  explanation  of 
this 
Seeming 
is  that  Baker  and 
Shields both  make  a  practice  of  buying 
up  accounts  against  Parker  at  25  cents 
on  the  dollar,  thus  securing  a  $2  rate  at 
a  net  expenditure  of  50  cents  per  day. 
The  explanation  is  a  plausible  one,  but 
the  precedent  thus  established  is  by  no 
means  a  desirable  one. 
In  view  of 
Parker’s  record  every  traveling  man 
should  shun  the  American  House  as  he 
would  a  pestilence.

TRA D E  CO N DITIO N S.

There  is  a  great  danger  threatening 
in  the  X  ray  discoveries,  and 
if  one-1 
half  of  what  is  anticipated  in  regard  to 
them  happens,  it  is  difficult  to  see  how 
business  of  any  kind  can  be  carried  on. 
If,  as  is  anticipated,  the  X  ray  shall 
enable  us  to  see  into  each  other’s  minds 
as  well  as  through  each  other’s  bodies, 
a  deadly  blow  will  be  struck  at  com­
mercial  prosperity. 
In  the  stock  mar­
ket,  for  instance,  the  seller  or  the  buy­
er,  as  the  case  may  be,  will  be  unable 
to  keep  to  himself  his  reasons  for  wish­
ing  to  sell  or  buy,  and  by  consequence 
it  will  be  practically  impossible  to  do 
business  with  anybody.  The  promoter 
will  be  powerless  to  promote,  for  no­
body  will  believe  the  glowing  pro­
spectuses  which  he  issues;  nobody  will 
need  to  read  them, 
for  one  can  do 
better.  He  can  read  the  inner  con­
sciousness  of  the  promotor and  see  at  a 
glance that his schemes are founded upon 
airy  falsifications  and 
that  his  “ good 
things”   are  good  for  nothing.  The  real 
estate  dealer  will  be  unable  to  conceal 
the  “ outs”   in  the  property  he  would 
intended  purchaser 
dispose  of,  and  the 
will,  on  his  side,  be  powerless 
to 
keep  from  the  owner  knowledge  of  the 
fact  that,on  account  of  certain projected 
improvements,  the  property  in  question 
will  in  a  few  months  double  or treble  in 
value.  And  so  in  all  kinds  of business. 
The  inability  to  conceal one’s purposes, 
his  private 
information  and  his  well- 
grounded  hopes  will  make  the  transfer 
of  any  sort  of  property  next  to  impos­
sible.  And  not  only  in  business  alone, 
but  also  in  statecraft  and  politics,  love 
and  friendship.  The  inability  to  de­
ceive  must  operate  toward  the  abolition 
of  all  these.  When  the  X  ray 
is  fully 
developed  there  can  be  no  business,  no 
gain  in  lying,  nothing  to  make  by  flat­
tery  or  deception,  and  our  high  and 
enlightened  civilization  must,  of  neces­
sity,  lapse  into barbarism.  Surely,  the 
X   ray  is  not  the  purest  ray  serene  that 
some  folks  would  have  us  believe  it  to 
be. 
light  which  must  cast  a 
baleful  shadow  over  all  things  which 
make  for  the  enlightenment  of  the 
world  and  the  upholding  of  humanity.

is  a 

It 

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E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

is  sold  by  F.

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All modern conveniences.
IRA  A.  BEAN,  Prop.

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Cutler  House  in  New  Hands.
II.  D.  and  F.  II.  Irish,  formerly landlords at 
the  Sew  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.

W. 0. HOLDEN, Mgr.
C.  BURKE,  Prop. 
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3 Quires, 240 pages.
4 Quires, 1120 pagPs. 
a Quires, 400 pages. 
6 Quires, 480 pages.

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Drugs-=Chemicals

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

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

C. A. Busbee, Charlevoix
- 
S. E. Pabkill, Owosso
- 
F. W. B. Perry, Detroit 
-  A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor 
Geo.  Gundrum, Ionia

- 
- 
- 

- 

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

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

Lansing, November 3.

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

. 

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( S.  P. Whitmabsh,  Palmyra;

President, Geo. J. Ward, St. Clair.
Vice-Presidents  -j ^   q  Phillips,  Armada. 
Secretary, B. Schrouder, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Wm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—F.  J.  Wurzburg,  Grand 
Rapids:  F. D. Stevens, D etroit;  H. G. Colman, 
Kalamazoo;  E. T. Webb,  Jackson;  D.  M. Rus­
sell, Grand Rapids.

PRIZES  AND  CO N TESTS.

Arranged  tor  Annual  Convention  of 

the  M.  S.  P.  A.

Grand  Rapids,  June  30—The  follow 
ing  program  of  sports  and  contests  has 
been  prepared  for  the annual meeting  of 
the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  As­
sociation,  which  will  be  held  at  Macki­
nac  Island  Aug.  4,  5  and  6:

PRIZES  FOR  PAPERS.

For  the  best  paper  or.  “ Pharmacy:”
$5  in  gold,  offered  by  the  Mallinckrodt 
Chemical  Works,  St.  Louis,  Mo.

For  the  best  paper  on  “ Chemistry :
$5  in  gold,  offered  by  F.  E.  Westervelt 
representing  Seabury  &  Johnson.

For  the  best  paper  on  “ Advertising 
a  Drug  Store:”   the  Bulletin  of  Phar­
macy  for  one  year,  offered  by  the  pub 
lishers.
For  the  best  five  display  advertise 
ments  submitted,  each contestant to  sub 
mit  as  many  advertisements  as  he  or 
she  chooses  (each  contestant  must  be  a 
member,  or  the  wife  of a member  of  the 
M.  S.  P.  A .) :  First  prize,  Michigan 
Tradesman  one  year;  second  prize, 
Michigan  Tradesman  one  year;  third 
prize,  Michigan  Tradesman six months 
fourth  prize,  Michigan  Tradesman  si 
months;  offered  by  the  publisher..

CARNIVAL  OF  GAMES.

offered  by 

bottle  of  Parke,  Davis  &  Co. ’s  Cascara 
Aromatic, 
That  man 
Church, ’ ’  who  represents  them.
Standing  Jump  with  Weights :  Prize, 
one  quarter  dozen  Ridgewood  whisky.
Jump  without  Weights: 
Prize,  one  quarter  dozen  Ridgewood, 
offered  by  Kortlander  Bros.,  Grand 
Rapids.

Standing 

EVENTS  ON  THE  BOAT.

Waltzing Contest: First prize  (ladies), 
one extra large  pyramid  Palmer’s  “ Vio­
let  Bloom,”   offered  by  Solon  Palmer, 
New  York ;  second  prize  (ladies),  one 
case  of  Tanglefoot  fly  paper,  offered  by 
a .  &  W.  Thum  Co.,  Grand  Rapids, 
x  irst  Prize 
(gentlemen):  One  half- 
pound  “ D ike’s  Pepsin,”   offered  by  F. 
Stearns  &  Co.,  Detroit;  second-  prize, 
one 
case  of  Tanglefoot  fly  paper, 
offered  by  O.  &  W.  Thum  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids. 

Cake  Walk:  First  prize  (ladies),  one 
pound  box  fine  candy,  offered  by  the 
Putnam  Candy  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.
irst  prize  (gentlemen)  :  one  quart  bot- 
..e  White  Rose  perfume,  offered  bv 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  Grand
Rapids. 
By  Straw  Vote—The  Most  Cranky 
D ruggist:  One box  Thum’s Tanglefoot 
fly  paper. 
,
Most  Popular  Druggist:  One  pound 
Keasbey  &  Mattison’s  Bromo-Caffeine.
Most  Homely  Druggist:  One  box 

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_ 

. 

.

.

Thum’s  Tanglefoot  fly  paper.

Most  Handsome  Druggist:  One
pound  bottle  Haan  &  Schrouder’s 
‘ Lemo-Seltzer.”

Handomest  Lady  on  the  Boat:  ^  One 
extra 
large  pyramid  Palm ers  “ Our 
Jack ,”   offered  by  Solon  Palmer,  New 
York.
Most  Popular  Lady  on  the  Boat:  One 
case  of  Tanglefoot  fly  paper,  offered  by 
O.  &  W.  Thum  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.

AFTER  THE  FIRST  SESSION.

A  capsule  filling  contest:  Prize,  a 
fine  pair  of  prescription  scales,  offered 
by  A.  E.  Dore,  representing  Fuller  & 
Fuller  Co.,  Chicago.  These  scales  will 
be  given  to  the  one  who  can  fill  twenty- 
five  No.  1  gelatine  capsules  with  pow­
dered  willow  charcoal 
in  the  shortest 
time,  he  capsules  and  charcoal  will be 
furnished  by  Dorian  M.  Russell,  of  the 
Executive  Committee.

B. S c h r o u d e r ,  Sec’y.

Tug  of  War  (twelve  men  on  each 
sid e ):  Each  member  on  winning  side 
will  receive  a  quart  bottle  of  Sloman’s 
Diamond  Wedding  whisky,  offered  by 
S.  A.  Sloman  &  Co.,  Detroit.  Each 
member  on 
bottle  of  ‘ ‘ Lemo-Seltzer.

losing  side  will  receive 

Potato  Contest  for Ladies (very  easy) 
First  prize,  one-half  pint  Wildwood 
Violets;  second  prize,  one  quarter  pint 
Linden  Bloom ;  third  prize,  one  card  of 
assorted  odors;  offered  by  Foote 
Jenks,  Jackson.

Foot  Race  (single  men)  100  yards 
First  prize, 
100  E l  Saladin  cigars, 
offered  by  H.  Schneider  Co.,  Grand 
R apids;  second  prize,  one  case Tangle 
foot  fly  paper,  offered  by  O.  &  V\ 
Thum  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.
Foot  Race  (married  men)  75  yards. 
First  prize,  one  half-dozen  quart  bottles 
Ridgewood  whisky,  offered  by  Kort- 
lander  Bros.,  Grand  R apids;  second 
prize,  one  case  Tanglefot  fly  paper, 
offered  by  O.  &  W.  Thum  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids.
Egg  Contest  for  Ladies  (awful  easy)  : 
First  prize,  one 5  pound  box  fine  candy, 
offered  by  the  Putnam  Candy  Co., 
Grand  R apids;  second  prize,  one  case 
of  Tanglefoot  fly  paper,  offered  by  O. 
&  W.  Thum  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.

Bicycle  R ace:  First  prize,  one  fine 
toilet  set,  offered  by  L.  M.  Mills,  rep­
resenting  Morrison,  Plummer  &  Co., 
Chicago;  second  prize,* one case Tangle­
foot;  third  prize,  one  case  Tanglefoot, 
offered  by  the  O.  &  W.  Thum  Co., 
Grand  Rapids.

Hurdle  R ace:  First prize,  100  “ Drug­
gist  cigars,”   offered  by  the  G.  J.  John­
son  Cigar  Co.,  Grand  R apids;  second 
prize,  one  case  Tanglefoot,  offered  by 
O.  &  W.  Thum  Co.,  Giand  Rapids.

Base  Ball  Scramble:  First  prize,  one 
gallon  bottle  of  P.,  D.  &  C o.’s  Euthy- 
mol,  offered  by  “ That  man  Church.”  

Boat  R a ce :"  First  prize,  one  5  pint

The  Drug  Market.

Acetanilid—Quiet  and  unchanged.
Acids—Consuming  demand  continues 
quiet,  with  some 
jobbing  movement. 
Salicylic  manufacturers  have  reduced 
quotations,  as  a  result of sharp competi­
tion.

Alcohol—Continues 

fair  demand 
for  both  grain  and  wood,  with  prices 
unchanged.

in 

Arsenic—Continues 

in  small  request 

at  same  nominal  prices.
‘  Balsams—Copaiba  continues  in  good 
demand,  with  prices  well  maintained. 
is  claimed  that  the  consumption  of 
It 
so-called  pure  balsam 
is  much  larger 
than  the  receipts,  the  difference  being 
made  up  by  adulteration.  Tolu  con­
tinues  in  good  demand,  with price tend­
ing  upward.  Peru  and  Canada  fir  still 
quiet.

Barium,  Nitrate—Continued  scarcity 

has  further  advanced  prices.

Beans—Vanilla 

continues 

firm  prices  on 

in  good 
same 

demand  with 
basis.

Cacao  Butter—Continues  quiet,  with 

jobbing  demand  at 

prices  unchanged.
Caffeine—Light 

same  prices.

maintained.

Cassia  Buds—Active  with  prices  well 

Cocaine,  Muriate—Prices  firm  with 

increasing  demand.

Cod  Liver  Oil—Less  active  demand, 
with  more  favorable  reports  as  to  the 
Eastern  catch,  has  resulted 
in  a  re­
duction  of  prices.

Colocynth  Apples—Continue  in  good 
jobbing  demand  for  both  Trieste  and

Spanish,  with  a  tendency  to  advance 
prices  of  latter.

Cream  Tartar—Steady  and  unchanged 

with  fair  demand.

Cubeb  Berries—Quiet  and unchanged.
Cuttle  Fish  Bone—Quotations  the 

same  with  fair  demand.

Essential  Oils—Citronella 

is  some­
what  unsettled  and  easier.  Other  de­
scriptions  are  without  material  change.
is  ad­
vancing  in  price,  on  account  of  unfa-

Flowers—German  chamomile 

Gums—Asafoetida  continues 

vorable  crop  reports. 
Insect-is  firmer, 
with  powdered  advancing.  American 
saffron  continues  easy  with  moderate 
demand.
demand. 
without  change,  with  good  demand.
Leaves—Short  buchu  continue 

firm 
with  unchanged  prices.  Senna  quiet 
but  firm.

in  fair 
quotations 

Camphor  firm, 

The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 

E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

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

Pile Cure

iV £ /ren /A to  r » £  f v ù c e  
//" MOT S A  T/SÆ ACTÛffY.

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Pays the Druggist a Handsome  Profit.

Order of your Jobber.

A   meritorious  whisky  suitable  for 
fine trade.  W rite for prices.

HULMAN l BEGGS,

Distillers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers,

SOLE  PROPRIETORS,

TERRE  HAUTE,  IND.

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

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)

Kep™»nt»Bva. 

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, Mich., 
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  ultim ate recovery from indi­
gestion or  any  other  form  of  stomach  trouble. 
Druggists  and  dealers  generally  are  finding  a 
I ready  demand.  The  trade  is  supplied  by  all 
1 good jobbers.

and  Frail  Juices

Batavia Grusned Fruits

illlt,  M il 8  Cl.,

A B S O L U T E L Y   P U R E.

the best in the world, 
guaranteed

W rite for price list to

CHICAGO.  ILL.,

Sole  Agents for th e United States.

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

2 7

SALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Declined—Gum Camphor.

Morphia, S.P.Jt W ... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co......................
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No.  1.......
Nux V om ica.. .po.20
Os  Sepia...................
Pepsin  Saac, H. A P.
p . Co......................
Picis Liq. N.N.*4gal.
doz...........................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints.......
Pil Hydrarg. ..po.  80 
Piper N igra.. .po.  22
Piper Alba__ po.  35
Piix  Burgun............
Plumbi  Acet.. 
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyre thrum, boxes H 
& P. D. Co., doz.
Pyrethrum,  pv__
Quassia*.................
Quinia, S. P. & W. 
Quinia, S. German
Quinia, N.Y..........
Rubia Tinetorum. 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin.................
Sanguis Draconis
Sapo,  W...............
Sapo, M.................
Sapo. G.................
Siedlitz  Mixture.

Voes.

1  65©  1
1  55©  1 

©  
65@ 
© 
15©

@ 2 
©  1 
© 
©
@
©
©
10©

1  10©  1

Sinapis.......
Sinapis,  opt 
Snuff,  Maccaboy, De 
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo's
Soda Boras..............
Soda Boras, po.......
Soda et Potass Tart
Soda,  Carb..............
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
Soda,  Ash...............
Soda, Sulphas.........
Spts. Cologne..........
Spts.  Ether  Co.......
Spts.  Myrcia Dom..
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl 
Spts.  Vini Rect.*4bbl 
Spts.  Vini Rect.lOgal 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
Strychnia, Crystal 
Sulphur,  Subl....
Sulphur,  Roll__
Tamarinds 
Terebenth Venice 
Theobromae
V anilla.......
Zinci  Sulph

© 18 Linseed,  boiled.......
45
42
© 30 Neats foot, winter str
65
70
Spirits Turpentine..
33
40
Paints
© 34
BBL.
LB*
© 34 Red  Venetian.........
13£  2 © 8
7  © 10 Ochre, yellow  Mars.
lit  2 @4
7  @ 10 Ochre, yellow  B er..
1*   2 @3
20© 28 Putty, commercial.. 2*4  2 y
2 Putty, strictly  pure
1%@-
2*4  2*i@3
3@ 5 Vermilion,  P r im e
4
American...............
3*4©
13© 15
2 Vermilion,  English.
70© 75
©
@ 2 60 Green, P a ris ............ 15  © 24
50© 55 Green,  Peninsular..
13© 16
©  2 00 Lead, Red.................
5*4© 5*4
©  2 49 Lead, w hite............
5*4© 5V
©  2 54 Whiting, white Span
© 70
©   2 57 \vhiring,  gilders’...
© 90
_ 
©   2 59 V hite,  Paris A m er..
© 00
Less 5c gal.  cash  10 days. 
days.
Whiting,  Paris  Eng.
40©  1 4»
c liff........................
@  1  W
3 Universal Prepared. 1  00© 15
2*4©
2©
8©  
10 
28©  30
42©  45
9  00@16 Oo 
8
7@ 
BBL. GAL.
70
60
43
43

Prepared Paint.

306 ».  BURDICK ST., KALAMAZOO, Mich.
W rite for samples and prices. 

©  1  25 
27©  30
10 
8©  
37©
30©
40 
35@
40 
12©
14 
24©
26
3  00© 3  10
Oils
40© 50
12© 14 Whale, winter........
10© 12 Lard,  ex tra............
© 15 Lard, No.  1...............
20  © 22 Linseed, pure  raw.

Paint your buildings with

I t is the m ost durable 

70
53
40
40

paint made.

HAZELTINE 
& PERKINS  « 
DRUG CO.

DRUGS

Importers and Jobbers of

CDemicais aim  Patent  medicines

Dealers in

Paints,  Oils 
and  Varnishes

Full  line of staple  druggists’  sundries.
We  are  sole  proprietors  of  Weath­
erly’s Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.
We  have  in stock and  offer a  full  line 
of  Whiskies,  Brandies,  Gins,  Wines, 
and  Rums.
We  sell  Liquors  for  medicinal  pur­

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

mm i raws drug  co.

Conium  Mac............ 
35©  65
Copaiba..................... 
90©  1  00
Cubebae......................   1  50@ 
1 60
E xechthitos............  1  20©  1  30
1 30
E rigeron...................  1  20@ 
G aultheria...............   1  50@  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  ©  
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
60
50@ 
Hedeoma...................  l  35©  !  40
Junipera....................  1  50@  2 00
Lavendula...............  
90© 2 00
Limonis.....................  1  30©  1  50
Mentha  Piper.........  2 25©  3  00
Mentha V erid.......... 2 6f©  2 75
Morrhuae,  gal..........   2 00@  2  10
Myrcia, ounce..........  
©   50
75© 3  00
Olive.......................... 
Picis  Liquida..........  
12
10© 
Picis Liquida, gal... 
©   35
R ic in a ...................... 
91©  96
©   1  00
Rosmarini................. 
Rosse,  ounce............  6  50@  8 50
S u ccin i..................... 
40©  45
90©  1  00
S abina..................... 
San tal........................   2 50©  7 00
Sassafras................... 
50©  55
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
@  65
T iglii,........................  1  25© 
40@  50
T hym e......................  
Thyme,  o p t.............. 
@  1  60
Theobrom as............ 
15© 
20
Potassium
Bi-Barb...................... 
15© 
18
15
13® 
Bichromate  ............ 
Bromide....................  
48©  51
12@ 
15
C»rb.......................... 
18
Chlorate, .po. 17@19c 
16© 
55
Cyanide..................... 
50@ 
Iodide........................  2 90© 
3 00
33
Potassa, Bitart, pure  30© 
15
@ 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
10
8© 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass Nitras............ 
9
7@. 
Prussiate................... 
25@ 
28
Sulphate  p o ............ 
15© 
18

1 30

Radix

Aconitvm ................. 
20©  25
Althae........................ 
22©  25
15
12© 
A nchusa................... 
©  25
Arum po....................  
C alam us................... 
20© 
40
15
12@ 
G entiana.........po  15 
16© 
18
G lychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
@  30
Hydrastis Canaden . 
@  35
Hydrastis Can.,  po.. 
Hellebore,Alba, p o .. 
15@  20
Inula, po................... 
15©  20
Ipecac, po.................   1  65©  I  75
Iris plox.... po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa,  p r.................  
40©  45
Maranta,  *4s............ 
@  35
Podophyllum, ]>o__  
15@ 
18
75©  1  00
R h e i.......................... 
Rhei, cu t................... 
@ 125
75@  1  35
Rhei, pv..................... 
Spigelia.....................  
35®  38
15
Sanguinaria..  po.  15  @ 
30©  35
Serpentaria.............. 
Senega...................... 
55®  60
Similax,officinalis H 
©  40
Smilax, M.................  
@  25
10©  12
Scillae............. po.35 
Symplocarpus, Poeti-
@  25
dus,  po................... 
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
15©  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ................. 
16
12© 
Zingiber j ................. 
23© 
25

Semen

Anisum ..........po.  20  @ 1 5
14© 
Apium  (graveleons) 
16
Bird, Is......................  
6
4© 
10©  12
C arui..............po.  18 
Cardamon.................  1  00© 
1 25
8@ 
Coriandrum.............  
10
Cannabis  Sativa__   3*i@ 
4
Cydonium................. 
75@  1  00
Chenopodium  ......... 
10© 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  2  90@  3  00
Foeniculum.............. 
15
@ 
8
Foenugreek, po......... 
6© 
4
L in i............................  2*4© 
4
Lini,  grd .... bbl. 2*4  3*4© 
40
L ob elia..................... 
35© 
4
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3*4@ 
R ap a..........................  4*4®  
5
Sinapis Albu............ 
7@ 
8
Sinapis  Nigra..........  
11© 
12
Spiritus

1 50
3 50

2 00
2 00

2 75

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2  50© 
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 u se.. 
75
Yellow  R e e f,  for 
slate  use...............  
©  1  40
Syrups
A cacia......................
Auranti Cortes.........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac......................
Ferri Iod...................
Rhei Arom...............
Smilax Officinalis...
Seuega......................
Scillae.........................

© 50
© 50
© 50
@ 60
@ 50
© 50
50© 60
© 50
© 50

 

JTiscellaneous 

@ 
50
@  50
©   50

ScillseCo................... 
T olutan..................... 
Prunus virg.............. 
Tinctures
60
Aconitum NapellisR 
50
Aconitum N apellis F 
60
Aloes.......................... 
Aloes and Myrrh__  
60
50
A rn ica......................  
A ssafcetida.............. 
so
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
50
Auranti  Cortex....... 
60
Benzoin..................... 
Benzoin Co...............  
50
50
B arosm a................... 
75
Cantharides.........  . 
50
C apsicum ...............  
75
Cardam on................. 
Cardamon  Co..........  
75
Castor........................ 
1  00
50
Catechu..................... 
50
Cinchona................... 
Cinchona Co............ 
60
Colum ba................... 
50
50
Cubeba......................  
50
Cassia  Acutifol....... 
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
D igitalis................... 
50
50
E rgot.........................  
Ferri Chloridum __  
35
50
G entian..................... 
60
Gentian Co...............  
50
G uiaca......................  
60
Guiaca ammon........  
50
Hyoscyamus............ 
75
Iodine........................ 
75
Iodine, colorless__  
50
Kino...........................  
50
Lobelia...................... 
50
Myrrh......................... 
Nux  Vomica............ 
50
75
O pii............................ 
50
Oi’ii, cam phorated.. 
1  50
Opii,  deodorized 
 
50
Q uassia..................... 
Khatany..................... 
50
50
Rhei................  
 
50
Sanguinaria,............ 
Serpentaria.............. 
'0
60
Strom onium ............ 
60
Tolutan.................... 
V alerian................... 
50
50
Veratrum V eride... 
20
Zingiber....................  
30©  35
¿Ether, Spts. N it. 3 F 
¿Ether, Spts.  Nit. 4 F  3l@  38
3
A lum en.....................  2*4© 
3© 
Alumen, gro’d..po. 7 
4
40© 
A nnatto..................... 
50
Antimoni,  po..........  
4@
Antimoni et Potassi’ 
55©  60
A ntipyrin................ 
©  1  40
Antifebrin 
15
©  
............ 
Argenti Nitras, oz ..
@ 55
Arsenicum................
10@ 12
38© 40
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..
Bismuth  S. N..........
1  00©  1 10
9
Calcium Chlor.,  is.. 
©
@ 10
Calcium Chlor.,  *4s. 
Calcium Chlor.,  )4s. 
© 12
75
Cantharides, Rus.po 
■
@ I t
C’apsici  Frurtus, a f . 
© 15
Capsici Fructus,  po. 
© 15
Capsici FructusB.po 
10© 12
Caryophyllus..po.  15
©   3 75
Carmine, No. 40.......
50© 55
Cera Alba,  S. A F
40© 42
Cera  Flava...............
Coccus......................
© 40
© 25
Cassia F ructus........
© 10
Centraria...................
Cetaceum..................
© 45
60© 63
Chloroform...............
@  1 35
Chloroform, squibbs
1  15©  1 30
Chloral Hyd Crst__
20© 25
Chondrus..................
15© 20
Cinchonidine,P.& W 
7  © 14
Cinchonidine, Germ
5  30©  5 50
Cocaine.....................
65
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
© 35
Creosotum................
2
Creta..............bbl. 75
©
Creta, prep...............
5
©
9© 11
Creta, precip............
Creta, Rubra............
8
©
50© 55
Crocus......................
© 24
C udbear...................
6
5©
Cupri Sulph..............
10© 12
Dextrine....................
75@ 90
Ether Sulph.............
8
Emery, all  numbers
©
@ 6
Emery, po.................
30© 35
Ergota........... po. 40
12© 15
Flake  W hite............
© 23
Galla..........................
S@ 9
Gambier....................
© 60
Gelatin, Cooper..  ..
30© 50
Gelatin, French.......
60,  10A10 
Glassware, flint, box
60
Less  than  box__
9© 12
Glue,  brow n............
13© 25
Glue,  white  ............
>9© 26
G lycerina.................
© 15
Grana  Paradisi  __
25© 55
Humulus...................
© 75
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
© 65
Hydraag Chlor  Cor. 
© 85
Hydraag Ox Rub'm. 
© 95
Hydraag Ammoniati 
45© 55
Hyd raagU nguentum
© 60
Hydrargyrum..........
1  25©  1 50
Ichthyobolla, A m ...
75©  1  00
Indigo........................
3  80© 3  90
Iodine, Resubi.........
©   4 70
Iodoform...................
©   2 25
Lupulin.....................
60© 65
Lycopodium............
65© 75
Macis..........................
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
@ 27
drarg Iod...............
10© 12
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia,  Sulph__
2©
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
© 1*4
Mannia,  S.  F ............
60© 63
Menthol...................
@ 5  50

10
80
15
40
46
5
10
12
15
65
5
60
40

6
8
14
14

25
00
50
00

15
8
30

50
60
45
80

18
12
18
30
2o
12
10
12
15

25
30
14
15
17

15
25
80
50
15

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
00
70
35oo
65
40
30
60
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
39
22
25

60
25
36

! 50
50
: 00
! 40
! 20
75
60
65
!  50
:  60
60

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

g r o c e r y  p r i c e  CURRENT.

\

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  areDfor the: trade only  i

dealers.  They are prepared  J“ s t  
possible to give quotations suitable  for a“  

d ^t fe t a -
HitionTof nurchase  and those below are given as representing av-
buvers or those of strong credit usually buy closer  than

m

n

^

our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

AXLE GREASE.
doz.
Aurora...........................*®
Castor O il.....................44
Diamond.......................44
“
olden, tin  boxes 75
Mica...............................£2
Paragon.........................44

Kross 
6  00
7 00
5 90 
» 00 
9  00

8 00
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

A b so lu te.

M lb cans doz.......................  
*4 lb cans doz..................... 
1 

48
j®
lb cans doz.....................  1  30

Acme.

M lb cans 3 doz................. . 
*4 lb cans 3 doz................... 
1 
Bulk.......................................  
1 

44
74
lb cans 1 doz...................  1  44
10
lb cans per d o z...........  150

Dwight’s.

JaXon

Home.

45 
M lb cans 4 doz case.
85 
*4 lb cans 4 doz case, 
1  60
lb cans 2 doz case.
35
M lb cans 4 doz case.
*4 lb cans 4 doz case. 
90
t  
lb cans 2 doz case.
Our Leader.
45
M lb cans....................
*4 lb cans....................
lb cans.............................  *  «0
I 
BATH  BRICK.
Am erican.................................70
English......................................80
BLUING.  ______
C W S H S p
= < f E A i C 5 ;
EtLuifiG

1 doz. Counter Boxes....... 
40
12 doz. Cai-es, per gro.........4  50

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

Fair
Good...........................................
P rim e.........................................
Golden  .............................. “*
Peaberry 
............................... a
Santos.

Pair  ...........................................
Good  ......................................... ...
P rim e..........................................™
Peaberry 
............................... "

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

Fair  .................................... U
Good  ................................. ~
Fancy  — ................................**
_
Prime .
Milled....................................   -•24

Maracaibo. 

Java.

In terio r......................................
Private  Growth.......................*7
Mandehllng............................... 28
Im itatio n ...................................25
Arabian  .....................................28

Mocha.

Roasted. 

1

Package.

Quaker Mocha and Jav a ........32
Toko  Mocha and Java............ 28
State  House Blend................... 25

£2^ . : : : : : HIS
I f l g N  ( J i F F E E

Ntr.

: (£,*„ too Q>v\ E«l“ uty  Price
6q  -  J  less ac  per lb.
Cabinets 120 lbs. Same Price. 
90 *  E xtra  for C a b in ets.
rtcLfcufchlin’a  XXXX........21  30

KOFFA-A1D.

BROOnS.

2 03 
No. 1 Carpet.
1  65
No. 2 Carpet.
No. 3 Carpet..........................  1  50
No. 4 Carpet..........................  1*0
Parlor G em ..........................  “  00
Common W hisk...................  ®
Fancy Whisk........................  1  00
Warehouse............................2 2a
Hotel 40 lb boxes................. 9*4
Star 40 lb boxes....................8*4
Paraffine...............................9

CANDLES.

CANNED  OOODS. 
n  an i to woe  Peas.

Lakeside M arrowfat..........  1  00
Lakeside E.  J ......................  ¡8 0
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1  40 
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.  1  65 
Colombia, 
pints.............4 25
Colombia,  *4 p in ts............ 2 50

CATSUP.

7*4

©  8
©

CHEESE.
Am boy......................  
Acme..........................  @  7s£
Elsie........................... 
Gold  Medal..............
Id e a l..........................
Jersey........................
Lenawee....................
Riverside.. 
.............
Sparta......................
Brick..........................
Edam.........................
Leiden.......................
L im burger.............
Pineapple................ .
Sap  Sago...................
Chicory.
Bulk 
................................
..........................
Red 

@  7*4 
@  7*4
@   10 
@1 00 
@   20 
©   15 
©  20 
@  18

CHOCOLATE.

W alter Baker & Co.’s

CLOTHES LINES

German Sw eet.......................... 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...  ...................  
Less quantity................... 
Pound  packages.............. 
CREArt TARTAR
Strictly Pure, woodenboxes.  35 
Strictly Pure, tin boxes.........at  p  
T&rtanne.  ............................

S’*
4
4

3 doz in case.
Extract. 
V aley City >4 gross

gross

immel’« foil *4 gross 
i- trmel’s tin *4  gross 
CONDENSED  MILK 
4 doz. in case.

5 25
75 
1  15 
85 
1  43

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co.’s 

brands.
Gal'  Borden  Eagle..
C row n........................
D aisy..........................
Champion  .................
Magnolia 
.................
Dime

Souders’.
world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the

for 

in  tbe 

Best 
money.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
2 oz....... 
75
4 oz......... 1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz......... 1  20
4 oz.........2 40
XX Orade
Lemon.

2oz. 
4 oz.

......1 »
....3  00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.

..1  75 
..3 50

ftoYAL  -4

„DAYT0 N.01
BfflHBlBIiBfflitiiiiilWISÏÎ

2 oz.
4 o z.
FLY  PAPER. 
Tanglefoot.

“Regular” Size.

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

“Little” Tanglefoot.

FURNITURE 

Cleaner and  Polish. 

Henderson’s “ Diamond.”

H alf P int...'.  ......................   1  75
P in t...............................................3 50
Q u a rt............................................8 40
Half Gallon.................................7 75
G allo n ........................................ 14 40
Knox’s sparkling........................ 1 10
Knox’s acidulated...................... 1 20

GELATINE.

OUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

K eg s............................................. 4 00
Half Kegs.....................................2 25
Quarter Kegs................................1 g4
' lb  cans.................................
*4  lb  cans...............................   »8
Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.
.4  00
K eg s...........................
Half Kegs.................................... ? 55
Quarter  Kegs.............................. * g4
'  lb  cans.................................  44

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ........................................ 8  99
Half Kegs.................................... 4 j*
Quarter Kegs............................... 2 25
lib  cans..................................   44

HERBS.

INDIGO.

JELLY.

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

LYE.

15 lb  palls...............................   36
171b  palls.................................  44
30 lb  pails...............................  64
Condensed, 2  doz  ...............1  20
Condensed,  4  doz................ 2 25
Pure.........................................   "0
Calabria  .................................  g4
Sicily..........................................  }4

LICORICE.

m in ce  m e a t.

COUPON  BOOKS.

"Tradesman.”

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

“ 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...............   °.ou

‘Universal.”

Biscuitine.

FARINACEOUS GOODS
3 doz. In ease, per doz.......1  00
B u lk .................................... 
3
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s ............2 00

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

Barrels  .......- -..................... " ¡3
Flake, 501b.  drum s............1 50

Lima Beans.

* *

Peas.

4
Maccaroni and Vermicelli 
60 
.2 50

D r ie d ..................................... 
Domestic,  10 lb. box. ■ 
Imported,  25 lb. b o x ..
Pearl Barley.
Empire  ............................... 
C h ester........................
Green,  b u ...................
Split,  per lb ...............
Rolled  Oats 
Rolled Avena,  bbl..
Rolled Avena, *4b b l..
Monarch,  bbl............
Monarch.  *4  bbl.....
Private brands,  bbl 
Private brands, *4bbl
Oven  Baked............................g 25
Lakeside  ............................1  ‘S)
5
G erm an............................... 
Bast  India.......................... 
4
Cracked, bulk.......................... „ J*
24 2 lb packages

....  90 
2*4
.... 
.....2  80
......1  55
..  .2 55 
....1   40 
....2  40

Wheat.

Sago.

.2 40

8  1 books, per  100 ...............   3 00
$ 2 books, per  100................
8 3 books, per  100 ...............   4 00
8 5 books, per  100 ...............   5 00
810 books, per  100 ...............   6 00i
820 books, per  100...............   7  uu
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 
1000 books or over.  .20 per cent

_

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .............................  J 00
50 books..............................  ;  XX
100 books..............................  4 XX
250 books..............................  ® ~
500 books..............................J”  XX
1000 books..............................17  44

Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n .......3 00
1000, any one denom n .......  a w
2000, any one denom n .......  o  uu
75
Steel punch.......................... 
DRIED  FRUITS—DOrtESTIC 

Apples.

Sundried.........■ •••..........  ©   3*4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 6*4

California Fruits.

Apricots...........................  9  @11
Blackberries....................
N ectarines.......................   “*4@
Peaches............................   |   ® 14
Pears..................................  8^@
Pittad Cherries...............
Prunnelles.......................
Raspberries....................

California  Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes..........  ©   ¡M
90-100 25 lb boxes..........  ©
80 - 90 25 lb boxes..........  @ 4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes..........  @ "A
60-70 25 lb boxes..........  @6
50 - 60 25 lb boxes..........   @ Jj*4
40 - 50 25 lb boxes..........  @7*4
30 - 40 25 lb boxes....
*4 cent lesR in hags 
Raisins.

London Layers...........1  10@1  30
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown  414
Loo>-e Muscatels 3 Crown  5
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown  6

FOREIGN.
C urrants.

Patras bbls......................
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.......
Cleaned, bulk  ................
Cleaned, packages.........

Fish.
Cod.

Georges cured.............  ®  4
Georges  genuine........   @ X
Georges selected.........  @®
Strips or  bricks..........   4  @ »

Halibut.

Herring.

rtackerel.

Sardines.
s
e g
Stockfish.

Chunks................................
Strips....................................
Holland white hoops keg 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  6
Norwegian.......................... 
.
Round 100 lb s..................... 
f
Round  40 lbs.....................  1
Scaled...................................
No.  1100 lb s........................   14
No. 1  40 lb s........................  4
No. 1  10 lb s........................ 
i
No. 2 100 lb s..:  .................   4
No. 2  40 lbs........................   4
No. 2  10 lbs........................
Family 90 lbs......................
Family 10 lb s......................
Russian k
.........
No. 1 ,1001b. bales..............  10*4
No. 2,100 lb. bales............. 
8*4
No. 1100 lb s........................   4
No. 1  40 lbs........................   55
No. 1  10 lbs........................
No. 1  8 lbs.......-• v..........
No. 1  No. 2
100 lb s............  7 25  6 25
40 lbs............  3 20  2 80
10 lb s............ 
78
8 lb s............ 
6a
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS
Jennings 
D.C. Vanilla
2 oz.........1
3 oz.........1
4 oz.........2
.......3

Whiteflsh.

Fam
1
1

Trout.

88 
73 

No.  8. .  4 00 
No.  10.  .6 00 
No.  2 T 4  25 
No.  3 T.2  00 
No.  4 T.2 40 
D. C. Lemon

New Orleans.

F a ir .......................................... 
G ood........................................ 
E xtragood.............................. 
C hoice..................................... 
Fancy  ..................................... 

Half-barrels 3c extra.

18
22
24
27
30

PICKLES.
riedlum.

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
P ennaSalt  Co.’s .................   3 00

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina bead......................   6*4
Carolina  No. 1.....................  5
Carolina  No. 2.....................  4*4
Broken...................................  2*4
Japan,  No. 1.........».............   5
Japan.  No. 2..... 
4*<
Java, No. 1............................  444
Java, No. 2............................  454
P a tn a ......................................   4

Imported.
 

 

 

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

Church’s ................................. 3  3C
Deiand’s ................................. 3  15
Dwight’s ................................. 3  30
Taylor’s ...................................3 00
Granulated, bbls................1  10
Granulated,  100 lb cases.. 1  50
Lump, bbls............................. 
Lump, 1451b kegs............... 1  10

SAL SODA.

1

SEEDS.

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

SNUFP.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

B arrels.................................  15
Half  bbls............................  17
Fair  ....................................   16
G ood....................................   20
C hoice...................   ...........  25

Pure Cane.

SPICES.
W hole Sifted.

Pure  Ground in Bulk.

Allspice  .................................  9*4
Cassia, China in m ats.........10
Cassia, Batavia in  bund__15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls....... 32
Cloves,  Amboyna..................15
Cloves, Zanzibar....................10
Mace,  B atavia.....................70
Nutmegs, fancy..................... 65
Nutmegs, No.  1...................60
Nutmegs, No.  2— ............55
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .10 
Pepper, Singapore, w h ite.. .20
Pepper,  shot.........................16
Allspice  ..........................10@15
Cassia, B atavia......................17
Cassia,  Saigon.......................35
Cloves,  Amboyna..................15
Cloves, Zanzibar....................10
Ginger,  A frican....................15
Ginger,  Cochin..................... 20
Ginger,  Jam aica................... 22
Mace,  B atavia................60@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................... 25
N utm egs,.........................40@60
Pepper, Singapore, black9@12 
Pepper,Slngapo re, whitel5@18
Pepper, Cayenne.............17@20
Sage.......................................... 18
“ Absolute” in  *4bl.  Package«.
Allspice...............................  65
Cinnamon...........................  75
Cloves..................................   70
Ginger, Cochin..................   75
Mace....................................2  10
M ustard...............................  75
Nutmegs............................. 2  10
Pepper, c ay e n n e ..............  75
Pepper, white  ...................  75
Pepper, black shot............  60
Saigon.................................1  50
“ Absolute  "B utchers’  Spice«. 
Wiener and Frankfurter— 16
Pork Sausage..........................16
Bologna and Smoked S’ge. .16 
Liver S’ge and H’d Cheese..16

Peel.

Citron Leghorn 25 lb  bx 
Lemon Leghorn 25 lb bx 
Orange Leghorn 25 lb bx

Raisins.

Ondura 29 lb boxes........
Sultana 20 lb boxes,
Valencia 30 lb boxes

mu».. =— -
le8g evaporated  cream  5 75  Knox’s, large size.,,

Knox’s, small size................ 4  80

EGG  PRESERVER. 

Mince meat, 3 doz in  case. .2
Pie Prep. 3 doz in case.........2 75
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

nATCHES.

No. 9  sulphur..............................J 44
Anchor  Parlor.............................J to
No. 2  Home..................................J ™
Export  P arlor............................ 4 w

Sugar house.........................10@12

nOLASSBS.
Blackstrap.
Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.
..........................  

O rdinary..............................12@14
Prime........ 
Fancy 

 

 

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44

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

2 9

Candies. 
Stick  Candy.

Gi
Grains and Feedstuffs
bbls.  pails  Wi

Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

M on

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
M aster..........................................3 70

Henry Passolt’s brand.

..........................   3 35
.ker, 
ker,  14s...........................  3  35
Spring  Wheat  Flour. 
Olney A Judson ’s Brand.

M8-

3  75 
3  70

4 s

3 80 
3  70 
3  60
sian, }£s..........................  3 85
sian, M8........................... 3 75
sian. V4s..........................   3 70
Entire Wheat Flour. 
William Callam & Sons  quote

4  00 
4  00 
3  85 
3 75
1  75

Feed and Millstuffs. 
ar Feed, screeue 
l Coni and  Oats.

.13  25 
.12 50 
.12  00 
.12 25 
.  9 DO 
.10 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
n
q
[uotes as follows:
Corn.
f
j

Oats.

Hay.

Fruits.
Oranges. 

Fancy  Seedlings

.............
150-176-200 
Messinas 200s............
Lemons.

Fancy  360s...............
Fancy  300s...............
Extra 300s  ...............
Bananas.

@3 00 
@3  00 
©3 50 
@3 50 
@3  75
A  definite  price  is  hard  to 
name, as it varies according  to 
size  of  bunch  and  quality  of 
fruit.
Medium bunches... 1  25  @1  50
Large bunches.........1  75  @2  00

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Provisions.

Crockery and

Glassware.
FRUIT  JARS.

Mason—old style, p in ts...  6  50 
Mason—old style, qu arts..  6  75 
Mason—old  style, 54 gal-.  8  75 
Mason—1 doz in case, pts.  6  75 
Mason—1 doz in case, qts.  7 00 
Mason—1 doz in case,54 gal  9  00 
Dandy—glass  cover, qts..  9 00 
Dandy—glass cover, 54 gal  12  00

LAMP  BURNERS.

45
o.  0 Sun.............................  
50
o.  1  Sun.............................  
75
o.  2  Sun.............................  
50
T ubular................................. 
Security, No.  1..................... 
65
Security, No. 2..................... 
85
50
“ utmeg  ...............................  
Arctic....................................   1  15
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun.............................   1  85
No.  1  Sun............................. 2 00
No.  2  Sun__ f ......................  2  80

No. 
No. 
No. 

wrapped and  labeled....  2  10 
wrapped and  labeled__   2 25
wrapped and  labeled__   3 25

top,
top,
top,

No. 
No. 
No. 

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

top,
top,
top,

F irst  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crim p 
2 Sun,  crim p 
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  (66c doz).........  3  50
No. 2,  Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4  00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz).........  4  70

Electric.

Miscellaneous. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  .......  4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........   4  40
Doz.
Junior,  Rochester.............. 
50
15
Nutmeg  ...............................  
Illum inator  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 
4  20 
No. 3 Rochester, lime  1  50 
4  80
No. 3 Rochester, flint  1  75 
No. 3  Pearl 
top,  or
Jewel  glass............  1  85
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
lim e..........................  1  75
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
flint  .......................... 2  00
No. 2 Pearl glass.......2  10

6 00 
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  60
1 gal galv iron with  spout.  1  75
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  3 00
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4  00 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  5 00 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet  6 00
5 gal Tilting cans...............   9  00
5 gal galv iron  Nacefas  ...  9 00

OIL  CANS.

5  10

Pump  Can.«.

554

Beef.

Sausages.

9*9H
9549
954

5 % 
754 
1054
4M

Barreled Pork.

%
%
1
5
6
7
6

The  Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and Provision Co. quotes as fol­
lows:
8 00
Mess  ................................. 
9 00
Back  ..  ............................ 
8  75
Clear  back........................ 
S hortcut............................ 
7  50
Pig........................................  10 00
Bean  .................................
Family  .............................
Dry Salt Meats.
B ellies...............................
Briskets  .  ........................
Extea  shorts.....................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __
Hams, 14 lb  average 
...
Hams,  161b  average.......
Hams, 20 lb  average.......
Ham dried beef...............
Shoulders  (N.  Y. cu t).  .
Bacon,  clear.....................
California  ham s..............
Boneless ham s.................
Cooked  ham .....................
Lards.  In Tierces,
Compound........................  
Fam ily...............................
Granger  . . . , .....................
Musselman’s Gold Leaf.. 
Worden’s Home M ade... 
W orden’s W hite Clover.
C ottolene..........................
Cotosuet  ..........................
55 lb T ubs...........advance
80 lb Tubs...........advance
50 lb T in s ...........advance
20 lb Pails...........advance
10 lb Pails.......... advance
5 lb Pails.......... advance
3 lb Pails.......... advance
Bologna...........................
Liver..................................
Frankfort..........................
P o rk ..................................
Blood  ...............................
Tongue  .............................
6
Read  cheese.....................
Extra  Mess...................... 7 00
Boneless  .......................... 11  00
80
Kits, 15 lbs........................
M  bbls, 40 lbs................... 1  65
54  bbls, 80 lbs................... 3 00
75
Kits, 15 lbs......................
M  bbls, 40 lbs................... 1  50
54  bbls, 80 lbs................... 2  75
25
P o rk ................................
5
Beef  rounds...................
7
Beef  m iddles.................
Rolls,  dairy.....................
85-
8
Solid,  dairy....................
Rolls,  cream ery............
Solid,  cream ery............
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2  lb ............. 2 00
Corned  beef,  15  lb ............14 00
Roast  beef,  2  lb ............. 2 00
75
Potted  bam,  M8..........  
Potted  ham,  54s...........   1 25
Deviled ham,  Ms..........  
75
Deviled ham,  54s...........   1 25
Potted  tongue  Ms ..........  
75
Potted  tongue 54s...........   1 25
Hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
G reen.....................—   3  © 4
Part  cured...................  @ 5
Full Cured.......................5 @ 6
D ry ...................................5 © 7
Kips,  green.....................3 @ 4
Kips,  cured...................  5 ©   6
Calfskins,  green........   4  ©  554
Calfskins,  cured.........  554©  7
Deaconskins  .............25  ©30
Shearlings....................  5 ©   10
L am bs............................15 @  25
Old  Wool.....................4o  @  75
Washed 
..................... 10  @15
U nw ashed...................... 5 @12
T allow .............................2 @2)4
Grease B utter...............  1 @ 2
Switches  .....................  154®  2
Ginseng.......................2  50@2 90

Hiscellaneous.

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterine.

Casings.

Tripe.

Hides.

Wool.

Pelts.

5 gal Rapid steady stream .  9  00 
5 gal  Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home R ule................. 10  50
5 gal Home  Rule—   .........12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King...............   9  50

LANTERNS.
4  50 
No.  0 T ubular.......  .....
No.  1 B  T ubular..........
6  00 
G 00 
No. 13 Tubular Dash. 
.
7  00
No.  1 Tub., glass fount.
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..................... 
S6
50
No. 2 per gross............. 
 
No. 3 per grow ..................... 
80
Mammoth per doz.............. 
75
JELLY  TUMBLERS-TIn  Top. 
54 Pints, 6 doz  in  box,  per
box  (box  00)  ...................  170
>4 Pints, 20 doz in  bbl,  per
doz (bbl  35)....................... 
23
54  Pints,  6 doz in  box, per
box (box  00).....................  1  90
54 Pints, 18 doz  in bbl,  per 
doz (bbl  35)....................... 
25

@13

@1254 
@  7 
@10 
@1254 
@11

@12 
@10 
©   9

554

@ 154 
®  6

Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca..........
Almonds,  California,
soft  shelled..............
Brazils new .................
Filberts  ......................
Walnuts, Gren., new . . 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
C alif..........................
Table Nuts,  fancy—  
Table Nuts,  choice... 
Pecans, Texas H. P ... 
Hickory  Nuts per bn.,
O hio..........................
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 
Butternuts  per  b u —  
Black W alnuts per bu 
Fancy,  H. P., Game
Cocks —
Fancy,  H. P.. Flags
Roasted.
Fancy, H. P., Associa­
tion Roasted............
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
Choice, H. P„  Extras, 
.....................

Peanuts.

Roasted 

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Cases, 34 3-lb  boxes....................1 60
Barrels,  190  3 lb bags.........2  75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags.........2 50
Butter, 56 lb  bags.................   65
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags............3 00
Butter, 2801b  bbls.....................2 50

Common Grades.

1003 lb sacks............................... 2 60
60 5-lb Backs.......................... 1  85
2811-lb sacks..............................1 70

Worcester.

50  4  lb.  cartons...................... 3 25
115  2541b. sacks.......................... 4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks.......................... 3 75
82 14  lb. sacks.......................... 3 50
30 10  lb. sacks.......................... 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks..................   32
56 lb. linen sacks...................  60
Bulk in barrels........................... 2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags.......  30
28-lb dairy in drill bags.......  15
56-lb dairy in 'linen  sacks...  60 
56-lb dtdry in linen  sacks 
.  60 

Warsaw.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.
Common Fine. 

56-lb  sacks.............................   22
^
Saginaw  .
u a g iu »  »*  .................
Manistee  ...............................  80
SODA.
5*4
B oxes.......... ..............
Kegs, English............
STARCH.
Diamond.

Klngsford’s  Corn.

64 10c  packages  ................ 5  (W
128  5c  p ack ag es...............»  ou
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5  00 
20 1-lb packages......................  «54
40 1 lb packages.....................
Klngsford’s Silver Gloss
4 0 1-lb packages.................. «54
6-lb  boxes  ............................7
20-lb boxes.............................   *
40-lb  boxes.............................
1-lb  packages.........................   ’ 54
3-lb  packages........................
6-lb  packages........................
40 and 50 lb boxes.................
Barrels  ....................................  **
SUMMER  BEVERAGES

Common Corn.

Common Gloss

Mixed Candv.

Fancy*— In Bulk

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

Standard...................
Leader  .....................
Conserve...................
R oyal........................
Ribbon......................
Broken  .....................
Cut  Loaf...................
English  Rock..........
K indergarten..........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan...............
Valley Cream..........
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops............ 
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops..............
1  Moss  Drops..............
Sour Drops...............
Im perials.................

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Lemon  Drops..........
1  Sour  Drops..............
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|  Peppermint  Drops..
@65
I  Chocolate  Drops__
©75
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II.  M. Choc.  Drops  .
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I  Gum  Drops..............
@75 
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1  Licorice Drops.........
@50  W
I  A.  B. Licorice Drops
@55  B
Lozenges,  plaiu__
@60 
1“
Lozenges,  printed..
54
@60 
Im perials.................
@65
0  M ottoes.....................
6  Cream  B ar...............
@50 
B
6  Molasses B a r ..........
@50  G
6  Hand Made Creams.  80  @90
Plain  Creams..........   60  @80 
S
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n  Decorated Cream s..
1.  String Rock..............
@60  A
0  Burnt Almonds.......125  ©  
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@55 
y
10  W intergreen Berries
V
Caramels.
No.  1 wrapped, 2  lb.
b o x es.....................
15 
10  No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  .....................
0 
W  No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  ...................

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes. 

i0w  Fish and Oysters

@30 
@45 

5 box lots, delivered .
25 box  lots, delivered........   2  •:
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s  brands. 
American  Family,  wrp’d ...3  3 
American Family, plain— 3  2 

Thompson A  Chute’s Brand.

5 box lot, delivered.............2
10 box lot, delivered.............2
25 box lot, delivered.............2
Allen B.  W risley’s brands. 
For  special  quotations  < 
Id Country ask traveling ma 
Doll, 100 bars..........................2
WOLVERINE

Scouring.

j ^ S i i S r
Wild Cherry Phosphate. 

“ L ittleG iant”  case,  28-15c  bot
tie s ...................................  2 50
“ Money Maker” case,24-25c and
24-15c bottles...................  5 00
Free  with  above.  Large  Bot­
tle, Easel and Advertising  Mat
Concentrated E xtract  for  Soda
Fountain, per  gal...... 2  00
Root  Beer Extract,  3  doz  case 
$2  25, per doz  .
Acid  Phosphate,  8  oz.,  per
doz.................................... 2 00
Beef, Iron and Wine, pints,  per 
doz...................................   3 00
Thompson’s
—  
Wild  Cherry 
P h o s p h a te  
“H u m m e r 
Case” 
c o n - 
tains  3  doz. 
25c  8  oz  bot- 
1 1 e s,  85  00.
One  Big  Bot­
tle  Free.  24 
oz.  50c  size, 1 
doz. to a  case 
4  00.  Special 
Soda  Foun­
tain  Extract 
per gal. 82  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

TABLE  SAUCES.

t5@

©  20

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

SUGAR.

ing  2 
; of th

VINEGAR.

Fresh Fish.

weight of the barrel.

shipping  point,  giving

Shell Goods
Clams,  per  100.........

Lea & Perrin’s,  large........ 4
Lea A  Perrin’s, sm all....... 2 75
Halford,  large.................. 3
Halford sm all.................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large........ 4
Salad Dressing, 3mall.......2  65
Leroux Ciddr....................... .
Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain. 
Robinson’s Cider. 50 grain. 
Below  are  given  New  1 
prices on sugars,  to  which

Per lb.
@  8
W hitefish.................
T ro u t........................ @  7
Black Bass............... @  1254
H alib u t.....................
10  Ciscoes or Herring.. @  4
10  Bluefish..................... @  10
@  15
12  Live  Lobster..........
Boiled Lobster......... @  17
rk  C o d ........................... @  10
le  Haddock................... @  8
al  No.  1  Pickerel......... @  6
nr  Pike............................ @  7
©  7
on  Smoked W hite.........
ie  Red Snapper............ @
ys  Col  River  Salmon.. @
ie  Mackerel 
it, 
tie  Oysters, per  100........ 1  25©1  50
90@1  00
»1
12 
C ubes..........................
Powdered  .................
XXXX  Pow dered.............  .5 2a
Mould  A ......................................5 12
Granulated in bbls.................... 4 81
Granulated in  bags...................4 SI
Fine G ranulated....................4  87
Extra Fine G ranulated....... 5 00
Extra Coarse G ranulated.. .5 00
Diamond  Confec.  A .............4  87
Confec. Standard A ....................4 75
.4  5J 
No.
...4  50 
No 
...4   44 
No.
...4  44 
No.
No.
...4   37 
No.
...4   31 
No.
...4  25 
No.
.4  18 
No.
.4  12
No.  10........................................... 4 06
No.  11........................................... 4 00
No.  12...................................... 3  94
No.  13........................................... 3 87
No.  14........................................... 3 62
No.  15........................................... 3 37
No. 0, per gross......................   25
No. 1, pergross......................   30
No. 2, per gross......................   40
No. 3, pergross......................   75

as follows:
Seymour XXX.....................  5M
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  53£
Family XXX........................   5M
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  5%
Salted XXX..........................  5)4
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  5)4 
Soda  XXX  ..........................  6
Soda  XXX, 31b  carton__   6)4
Soda,  C ity...........................   7
Crystal  W afer....................... 1054
Long Island  W afers..........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Square Oyster, XXX.  .......
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb  carton. 
Farina Oyster,  XXX..........
A nim als.................
Bent’s Cold W ater. 
Belle R ose..............

Crackers.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

i.
2 ....
3 .. 
4  ...
5.. 
6 .. 
7 . .  
8 .. ..
9....

WICK1NG.

Butter.

..
..
..
.

S. C. W .................................. 35  00
Q u in tette.............................35  00
New  B rick................................. 35 00
Absolute..............................  35  00

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

SOAP.
Laundry.

Gowans & Sons’ Brands.

Crow .............................................3 10
German Fam ily..........................2 15
American Grocer  100s.............. 3 30
American Grocer  60s................2 75
Mystic  W hite...........................   3 80
L o tu s .........................................  3 90
Oak L eaf...7..............................  3 00
Old Style...................................... 3 20
Happy Day................................3 10

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

C arcass........................5  ©  6)4
Fore quarters..............3  ©   4
Hind  quarters............  6  ©   8
Loins  No.  3.................   9  @12
Ribs...............................7  @ 9
R ounds........................  5)4©  654
Chucks................... 
4  ©   5
Plates  ..........................  254® 3
Pork.
D ressed........................4  @  4M
L o in s............................  @654
Shoulders.....................  ©  5
Leaf L ard.....................  ©   6
C arcass........................ 5  @ 6
Easter Lambs..............  @10
.......................5  @6
Carcass 

Mutton.

Veal.

12

©   4

Soda.

Oyster.

@10 
© 6 
© 8 
© 6

Figs.  Fancy  Layers
20 lbs.....................
Figs. Choice  Layers
101b....................
Figs,  Naturals 
in
bags,  new ..............
Dates, Fards in 101b
boxes.....................
Dates,  Fards in 60 lb
cases  .....................
Dates,  Persians,  G.
M. K.,601bcases..
Dates,  8airs  60  lb 
cases  .....................
Oils.
5M
6M
Barrels.
5M
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt © 854
Eocene  ........................
@10M
W W M ichigan............ © 8
10 v% 
High Test H eadlight.. © 7
12
D., S. Gas.  ................... © 954
8
Deo. N ap th a ............... © 854
8
8
C ylinder...................... 30 ©38
8 Engine..........................11 @21
11
654 Black, w inter.............. © 9
Black, summer............ @ 8M
654 Eocene.......................... © 8M
6*4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt. © 6M
D. S. Gas......................
8
@ 7
8
Scofield,  Shurmer  & Teagle
11
8
quote as follows:
16
854 Palacine......................
©1154
8 Red Cross, W. W......... @ 854
654 Daisy  W hite...............
@10M
12 W ater  White H dlt— @ 8
754 Family  Headlight— @ 7
Stove Gasoline............ @ 954
,10
©1054
Red Cross S.  Gasoline
N aphtha...................... @ 854
8
14
P alacine...................... @ 954
1554
10
@ 6 
Mixed Picnic.......................  10)4
Red Cross W.  W . 
Pineapple G lace..................  1554
© 754
Gasoline..............

Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city... 
Gin. Sops,XXX home made 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped. 
Ginger  V anilla.................

Pretzels,  hand  made 
Pretzelettes, Little German

Sears’ Lunch__
Sears’ Zephyrett 
Vanilla  Square.

—

From  Tank  Wagon.

From Tank  Wagon

Barrels.

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
F. J.  ROHRIG,  Jr.,
W holesale  and Retail Dealer In

com  aim  wood-flour  and  feed

HAY  and  STRMf.

Recleaned Oats a Specialty.

Mack Ave* and Belt Line» 

DETROIT•

FRUIT  and 
VEGETABLES 

-
are good and very cheap. 

Send your orders to

Henry  J.  VinKemumer.
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Gnaranteed that prices will be  right.

I  want you  for a customer

NO  MORE  BROKEN  EGOS.

Every  Grocer Who Uses

(No. 1 Holds One Doz. Eggs.)

THE  DUPLEX  EGG  CARRIER

In which to deliver eggs to customers 

SAVES  MONEY.

Every family should have a  Duplex  in which 
to keep eggs in Ice boxes or  refrigerators  or  on 
pantry shelves.  For sale  by  all  wholesale  gro­
cers and jobbers in woodenware
GEO. H. CLEMENTS, 42 River St.,  Chicago.

3 0

Fruits  and  Produce.

FRAUD  UPON  FRAUD.

Chester  Lamb  Attempts  a  Second 

Fraud  upon  His  Creditors.

it  was  his 

On  Wednesday  of  last  week,  Chester 
A.  Lamb  called  at  the  office  of  the 
Michigan  Tradesman  and  solicited  a 
personal  interview  with  the  editor.  He 
stated  that  he  was  completely  prostrated 
over  his  arrest  on  a  charge  of grand  lar­
ceny,  growing  out  of  the  seizure  and 
clandestine  shipment  of  the  Averill 
furnishing  goods  stock,  and  that,  before 
he  was  made  any  further  trouble,  he 
wished  to  place 
in  the  hands  of  the 
Michigan Tradesman  sufficient  property 
to  secure  those  creditors  who  had  sent 
him  goods  on  consignment  while  en­
gaged 
in  the  produce  business  under 
the  style  of  C.  A.  Lamb  &  Co.  The 
editor  of  the  Tradesman  informed  him 
that 
impression  that  these 
claims  would  aggregate  about  $ 1,000, 
and  that,  if  he  would  bring  to  the  office 
of  the  Tradesman  a  certified  check 
for 
that  amount,  it  would  be  turned  over  to 
the  Peninsular  Trust  Co.,  as  trustee, 
with  the  stipulation  that  the  Trust  Co. 
communicate  with  the  creditors  of  the 
former  firm  and  arrange  an  adjustment 
of  their  claims  on  an  equitable basis. 
This  he  said  he  was  unable  to  do,  ow­
ing  to  the  fact  that  he  had  no  spare 
money  at  his  command,  having  ex­
pended  $300 as  a result  of  the  complica­
tions  arising  from  spiriting  the  Averill 
stock  away  by  night  to  Cincinnati.  He 
offered,  however,  to  bring  to  this  office 
at  4  o’clock  that  afternoon  a  trust  deed 
of  two  lots  which  he  claimed  he  owned 
on  Lamb  &  Toren’s  addition  and  a 
house  and 
lot  on  Baxter  street,  both  of 
which  properties  are  encumbered  by 
mortgage.  The  interview  here  ended, 
with  the  understanding  that  Mr.  Lamb 
would  put  in  an  appearance  again  at  4 
o’clock,  and  in  the  meantime  the editor 
of  the  Tradesman  arranged  with  the 
Peninsular Trust Co.  to  assume the trust, 
and  also  arranged  an  interview  with  ex- 
Judge  Hatch—of  the  firm  of  Hatch  & 
Wilson—for  the  purpose  of  drawing  up 
the  necessary  papers.  Mr.  Lamb  failed 
to  put 
in  an  appearance,  but  in  lieu 
thereof  the  Tradesman  received  a  tele­
phone  message 
Lombard  & 
Hughes,  attorneys  doing business  in  the 
New  Houseman  block,  announcing  that 
Mr.  Lamb  had  changed  his  mind,  and 
that,  if  the  Tradesman  desired  to  com­
municate  with  him  again<it  could  do  so 
through  his  attorneys.  This,  of  course, 
ended  the  negotiations,  so  far  as  the 
Tradesman  was  concerned,  and  docu­
mentary  evidence 
in  the  possession  of 
the  Tradesman  was  thereupon  placed  in 
the  hands  of  Assistant  United  States 
District  Attorney  Newnham,  resulting 
in  the  arrest  of  Chester  A.  Lamb  the 
next  day  on  a  charge  of  using  the  mails 
for  fraudulent  purposes.
*  *  *

from 

In the  meantime  the  advice of Lamb’s 
attorneys  began  to  manifest 
itself.  On 
June  25  Lombard  &  Hughes  sent  out  to 
some  of  the  creditors  of  Lamb  &  Co. 
the  following  typewritten  letter:

Grand  Rapids,  Jhne 25—We have been 
retained  by  Chester  A.  Lamb  &  Co.  for 
the  purpose  of  arranging  and  adjusting 
matters  with  their  creditors.  They  are 
in  embarrassed  circumstances  and  un­
able  to  pay  at  present.

The  company 

is  composed  of  Mr. 
Lamb  and  his  wife.  They  have 
in­
formed  us  that  they  own  eighty  acres  of 
land,  free  from  all  incumbrance,  in  the 
county  of  Newaygo,  a  portion  of  which 
is  improved,  a  description  of  which 
is 
as* follows:

The  west  half  of  the southwest  quarter 
of  section  one,  of township eleven north, 
range  twelve  west,  containing  eighty 
acres  of  land  more  or  less,  the  same 
being  in  the  township  of  Grant.

Their indebtedness in  connection  with 
their  produce  and  commission  business 
amounts  to $547.02,  which  is  distributed 
among  the  parties  and  in  the  amounts 
shown  by  the  list  enclosed.

They  inform  us  that  they  are  desirous 
of  paying  every  cent of  this 
indebted­
ness  and  believe  that  they  can  do  so  by 
the  endiof  the  present  year.
They  do  not ask  that  any  discount  be 
made,  but desire a little  time in which to 
make  payment.  They propose  to secure 
the  payment  of  these  various  sums  by 
mortgage upon  said  land  for  the  amount 
above  mentioned,  to  be  given  to  our 
Mr. 
James  A.  Lombard,  as  trustee  for 
said  creditors,  conditioned  that  said 
sums,  amounting  in  all  to  $547.02,  shall 
be  paid  to  him  on  or  before  the  31st 
day  of  December,  1896, 
to  be  by  him 
distributed  among  the  said creditors  pro 
rata  as  fast  as  the  same  is  paid  in  to 
him,  and  at  such  times  as  there  is  a 
sufficient  sum  paid 
in  to  make  a  dis­
tribution  practicable.

Mr.  Lombard  will  give  a  sufficient 
bond  for  the  fulfillment  of  his  trust.  A 
mortgage  has  Treen  executed  and  is  in 
our  hands  awaiting  the  acceptance  of 
this  arrangement  by  the  creditors.  We 
have  written  all  of  them  to  the  same 
effect  to-day.  Mr.  Lamb  informs  us 
that  the  above  is  the  best  he  can  pos­
sibly  do  by  his  creditors  at  this  time, 
and  assures  us  that  the  land  is  of  suffi­
cient  value  to  protect  the  payment  of 
these  debts.

We  desire  as  early  a  reply  as  con­
venient,  in  order  that the matter may  be 
promptly  adjusted.  The above arrange­
ment  will  be  made  to  secure  all  those 
who  are  willing  to  accept  it.
Yours  very  truly,

Lombard  &  H ughes.

This 

letter  was  accompanied  by  the 

 

 

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following  schedule  of  creditors:
C. H. LaFlamboy,  McBride's..............................840 93
A. M. Gardner, Middleville................................  7 67
C. W. Long, Lacota.................... 
A. D. Stowe,  Berrien  Springs.............................  29 10
Darling & Smith, Frem ont.................................   26 50
A. Stegeman, Allegan..........................................  49 47
Nienhuis Bros.,  Crisp.............................. 
36  82
16  20
F. Halliday,  A shton..................  
D. P. Sprague & Sons, Coates Grove............  26 50
H. M.  Hampton, Glenwood.................................  17 43
Bailey & Co.,  D etroit...........................................  6 25
Bloomgarden & Ellenfield, Detroit.....................10 <0
C. W. Armstrong, Bowen’s M ills......................   24 56
V. Thomson & Co., T ru fa n t...............................  42 06
Lichtenberg & Sons, Detroit...............................  4 20
W arner Bunay, St. Johns....................................  29 36
John W. Rutherford, Hungerford.....................  10 <0
R.  Hirt, Jr., D etroit...............................................  69 50
Shisler & Near, Caledonia  ............................  26  48
A. Gaynor, Breedsville.........................  
  14  20
A. D.  Martin, Interlochen..................................   9 60
Merrifield & Palmer, Six Lakes..........................  19 80

 

through 

It  is  noticeable  that  this  list of credit­
ors  includes  only  those  dealers who have 
been  inveigled  into  shipping  Lamb  & 
Co.  goods  by  means  of  offers  and  in­
ducements  sent 
the  mails. 
Lamb  &  Co.  are  not  in  “ embarrassed 
circumstances’ ’  as  regards  all 
their 
creditors,  being  anxious  to  adjust  only 
such  accounts  as  have  a  bearing  on  the 
case  now  pending  against  Chester  A. 
Lamb  in  the  United  States  Court.  The 
spirit  animating  him  in  attempting  to 
secure  a  portion  of  his  creditors was  his 
desire  to  mitigate  his  offense,  so  far  as 
possible,  by  being  able  to  show  to  the 
court  that  he  had  made  restitution,  so 
far  as 
lay  in  his  power,  for  the  wrong 
he  had  done  by  not  paying  for goods 
sent  in  on  consignment  and  sale,  in  re­
sponse  to  the 
letters  sent  out  by  him 
through  the  United  States  mails.  It  will 
thus  be  seen  that  Mr.  Lamb’s  repent-, 
ance  is  of  the  deathbed  order,  coming 
only  when  punishment  of  a most  serious 
character  stares  him  in  the  face. 
is 
considered  that  the  case  against  him  in 
the  United  States  Court  is  an exception­
ally  strong  one,  and,  as  Judge  Severens 
is  not  much  given  to  leniency  in  such 
cases,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  market 
will  thus  be  deprived  of  the company  of

It 

NEW  POTATOES

NEW  CABBAGE

á

GEORGIA  WATERMELONS

NUTMEG  MELONS

We are  Headquarters.

BUNTING  &  CO.,

20 and  22 Ottawa St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HUGH T. ALLERTON. 

WILLIAM  HAGGSTROM.

ALLERTON  &  HAGGSTROM

GENERAL  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS

and Wholesale Dealers in

FRUIT,  VEG ETABLES,  V EAL,  POULTRY 
BUTTER,  EGGS  and  C H E E S E ....................
___ _________

177  1 nllia  c* 

t Worden Grocer Co. 

ItEra* EBCESl i Ä « S o Ä .   WAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

I Citizeus  1249. 
I  Bell 1248.

WHOLESALE DEALERS.

MOSELEY  BROS..
k i

s, tut,  Bit

Fancy 300 and 360 Size Lemons.  Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers.

Bushel and Half Bushel Baskets and Covers.  Send us  your  orders for  baskets.  Can  make  de­

livered price baskets and covers carlots.

We  handle all kinds Field Seeds.  Buy Beans carlots or less.  Send us your orders.

MOSELEY  BROS.,  26 to 32 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

WATERMELONS

NEW  POTATOES 

BANANAS

Lowest market price guaranteed.  Produce consignments solicited.

S T I L E S   &   P H I L L I P S ,

Wholesale Fruits and Produce,

GRAND RAPIDS.

SALT

SALT

SALT

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 isw o ld   S t.,  D etro it.

W e  G u a r a n t e e

our  Brand  of Vinegar to be an A B SO LU T E LY   P U R E   A P P L E  
JU IC E   V IN E G A R .  To any  one who  will  analyze  it  and  find 
any deleterious acids, or anything that  is  not  produced  from  the 
apple, we will forfeit

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

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

ROnTKTQnxr  U anaorA r

ROBINSON  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,

R P N T A N   H AD RAD  

fllC H .

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

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C H A S .  A .  C O Y E

M anufacturer of

trained  with 

Jared  O.  Smith  and  Benj.  F.  Stri- 
fling,  who 
the  Lamb 
crowd  and  assisted  them very  materially 
in  swindling  the  shipping  public,  are 
still  fugitives  from 
justice.  The  for­
mer 
is  wanted  by  the  officers  of  the 
United  States  Court  on  a  charge  of  us­
ing  the  mails  fraudulently,and  the latter 
wanted  by  the  officers  of  the  Kent 
Circuit  Court  on  a  charge  of  grand  lar­
ceny.

a man  who  has  reflected  no credit on the 
produce  trade  of  this  city.

The  strangest  part  of  the  story  re­
mains  to  be  told.  As  soon  as the letters 
above  referred  to  went  out to  the  cred­
itors  of  Lamb  &  Co.,  several  of  them 
were  forwarded  to  the  Tradesman,  with 
the  request  that  the  editor  exert  his 
kindly  offices 
in  securing  satisfactory 
adjustments.  The  Tradesman  thereupon 
instituted  an  investigation,  with  a  view 
to  ascertaining  whether  the  security  as­
signed  for  that  purpose  was  ample  to 
cover  all  the  claims.  A communication 
was  immediately  sent  to  the  Register  of 
Deeds  of  Newaygo  county,  asking  him 
to  ascertain  the  value  of  the  land  de­
letter  of  Lombard  & 
scribed 
Hughes. 
The  response  was  prompt 
and  conclusive,  as  follows:

in  the 

June  29—The  land  is  not 
Newaygo, 
If  I  am  not  mistaken,  $1 
worth  much. 
per  acre 
I  saw  a 
man  this  morning  who  has  a  40  adjoin­
ing  this  80,  and  he  said  he  sold  it  on  a 
contract  for $40,  or $1  per  acre.

is  worth. 

is  all 

it 

C h a s.  K.  C a r t e r , 

Register  of  Deeds.
The  Tradesman  also  wrote  Jorgensen 
&  Hemingsen,  general  dealers  at  Grant 
Station,  relative  to  the  land,  receiving 
the  following  reply:

We  saw  the  Supervisor  of Grant  town­
ship  and  asked  him  to  place a  value  on 
the  property  you  enquire  about.  He 
asserts  that  the  land  is  entirely  worth­
less.  He  says  he  would  not  give $5  for 
the  whole  of  it.

letters 

Inasmuch  as  the  Supervisor  assesses 
the  property  of  the  township,  his  opin­
is 
ion  is  entitled  to  much  weight,  as  it 
based  on  actual  knowledge  of 
the 
property  and  real  estate  values  in  his 
township.
letters  tended  to 
“   Inasmuch  as  these 
place  Lombard  &  Hughes  in  a  pecul­
iar  position,as  assisting  in  perpetrating 
a  fraud  on  the  creditors of Lamb  &  Co., 
the  Tradesman  communicated  with  Mr. 
Lombard  and  asked  him  to  call  at  the 
office  and  present  his  version  of  the  un­
fortunate  affair.  He  was,  naturally, 
very  much  embarrassed  over  the 
letter 
from  Newaygo,  but  asserted  that  he  had 
sent  out  the  original 
in  good 
faith,  as  he  was  assured  by  Chester  A. 
Lamb  that  the  land  was  worth  at  least 
$10  per acre.  He  frankly stated  that  this 
was  not  the  first  time  he  had  been  de­
ceived  by  the  Lamb  crowd,  but asserted 
that  it  would  be  the  last,  and  that,  from 
now  on,  he  would  wash  his  hands  of the 
whole  affair,  as  he  was  completely  dis 
gusted  with  the  manner  in  which  the 
Lambs  had  deceived  him  on  any  and 
every  occasion.  Mr.  Lombard’s  state 
ment  possessed  the  appearance  of  fair 
ness,  and  the  Tradesman  is  inclined  to 
believe  that  his  statements  were  made 
in  all  candor  and  can  be  relied  upon 
as  they  are  in  line  with  the  usual  cus 
tom  of  the  Lambs,  and  tend  to  further 
discredit  the  professions  of  sincerity 
and  repentance 
indulged  in  by 
thg  Lamb  crowd,  both  father  and  son. 
In  case  Chester  Lamb  succeeds in  evad­
ing  punishment  at  the  hands  of  the 
United  States  Court  on  a  charge  of 
fraudulent  use  of  the  mails,  a  more 
serious  charge  will  probably  be 
lodged 
against  him,  that  of  perjury,  inasmuch 
as  he  swore  at  the  time  he  was  arrested 
land  was 
that  the  Newaygo  county 
worth  $10  per  acre.  This 
is  a  very 
serious  matter,  as  the  punishment  for 
perjury 
is  more  severe  than  that  for 
misuse  of  the  mails,  being  about  the 
same as  the  punishment  for  grand 
lar­
ceny,  on  which  charge  Chester  Lamb 
must  stand  trial 
in  the  Kent  Circuit 
Court.

lately 

On  the  occasion  of  Chester A.  Lamb’s 
visit  to  the  Tradesman  office,  he  stated 
that  one  reason  why  his  father  was  so 
hard  up  now  for  ready  cash  was  the 
treachery  of  F.  J.  Parker,  who  formerly 
conducted  a  swindling  campaign  at  33 
Ottawa  street,  but 
is  now  landlord  of 
the  American  House,  at  Cadillac. 
Chester  claims  that  the  senior  Lamb 
taught  Parker  how  to  “ do  up’ ’  the 
trustful  shipper,  and  assisted  him 
in 
creating  a  surplus  of  twelve  or  thirteen 
hundred  dollars,  when  Parker  showed 
his  appreciation  of  Lamb’s  efforts  and 
services  by 
town  without 
“ divvying  up  a  cent,”   as  Chester  ex­
pressed  it.
Where  Shippers  May Look  for Honest 

leaving 

Houses.

Vicksburg,  June  26—I  thank  you  for 
the  way  you  have  shown  up  the  com­
mission  house  swindling  business  of 
your  city,  and  I,  as  well  as  all  shippers 
in  Michigan,  should  be  thankful  to  you 
for  the  good  work  done.  There  is  one 
thing  you  left  undone—that  is,  you  did 
not  tell  us  or  give  us  the  names  of  the 
commission  houses 
in  Grand  Rapids 
which  are  O.  K.

J o h n   L o n g .

its  advertising 

In  reply  to  the  enquiry  of  the  writer, 
the  Tradesman  begs  leave  to  state  that 
t  can  heartily  recommend  its  advertis­
ers 
in  the  commission  house  line  as 
honest  and  reliable. 
Some  of  them 
may  not be  rated  very  high  by  the  mer­
cantile  agencies,  but  they  are  honest 
and  energetic  and  are  entitled  to  the 
confidence  of  the  trade.  The  Trades­
man  guards 
columns 
with  zealous  care,  and  every  complaint 
made  against  a  commission  house  is 
thoroughly  investigated,  with  a  view  to 
arriving  at  a  correct  conclusion.  Any 
house  found  derelict  in  making  returns, 
or  convicted  of  remitting  less  proceeds 
than 
is 
dropped  from  our  columns—if  a  patron 
of  the  Tradesman—and the trade warned 
to beware  of  such  house  in  the  future.
Among  the  houses  which  have  been 
exposed  in  these  columns  in  times  past 
are  the  following:

circumstances  warrant, 

the 

'

O.  W.  Blain.
Tucker,  Coade  &  Parker.
F.  J.  Parker  &  Co.
O.  Clyde  Tucker  &  Co.
C.  L.  Bun  &  Co.
Aldrich  &  Co.
Day  &  Co.
F.  J.  Lamb  &  Co.
C.  A.  Lamb  &  Co. 
Smith  &  Waidelich.
Jared  O.  Smith.
B.  F.  Striding  &  Co.
All  of  these  houses  have  been  exposed 
and  compelled  to  cease  business,  large­
ly  or  wholly  through  the  untiring  efforts 
of  the  Tradesman  in  protecting  the  re­
tail  trade.
To  this 

list  the  Tradesman  proposes 
to  add  a  circle  of  swindling commission 
houses 
in  Detroit,  as  soon  as  the  de­
tailed  investigations  now  under  way  are 
completed  and 
conclusions 
formed.

correct 

Some  people  can’t  mind  their  own 
business,  because  minding  others  so 
much  has  left  them  none  of  their own 
to  mind.

THE
MORTON 
BAG
HOLDER

A strong, simple, 
',31,  a d ju s t a b le ,  and 

cheap bag  bolder.
Wanted  as Agents
Dealers  in  genera 

merchandise.

DDlr(,  I One, prepaid................... $  37
kkiw e.  | One Doz.,  prepaid...........  2  00

STAR  MFG  CO.,  kalamazoo,  mich.
Three
Prizes
Knox’s <
Egg
Preserver.

Given  in  connection 

with

125 to the man  who  packs  the  most  eggs with 
Knox’s Preserver and gives the longest and best 
test,  $15  to  the  second best and $10 to the third 
best.
Now  you  have  a  double  chance  to  make 
monev.  Send for booklet.
C H A S .  B .  K N O X ,

Manufacturer,

JOHNSTOWN, 
Also maker of the celebrated  Knox Gelatines, 

-  NEW  YORK.

the only pure Gelatines made.

All Sizes and all  Prices.

11  PEARL  STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

Grateful  for  past  favors,  I  announce 
full  line samples Ready Made Clothing, 
Fall and  Winter trade,  ten  trunks  in all, 
Men’s,  Boys’  and  Children’s,  have  also 
closing  out  bargains  Summer  trade,  14 
years  with  MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON, 
oldest  Clothing  Manufacturers,  Roches­
ter,  N.  Y.,  prices,  styles, 
fit  always 
guaranteed.
W ILLIAM   CONNOR,

Box  346,

MARSHALL,  MICH.

Will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, 

Thursday and  Friday, July 9 and  10.

Fancy Lemons, 
New Celery, 
Water  Melons, 
Bananas, 
Fruits and 
Vegetables

F. J. Beltenthaier,

117 and  119 Monroe street,

Grand Rapids

The strenuous efforts some of  our  friends  are 
making to try and convince the  trade  that  they 
are still in the tea business are truly amusing.
The big bluff about the great decline in Japan 
lea has petered out.  Now, some  of  our  friends 
evidently desire to  build  foundling  homes  and 
other  charitable  institutioits  out  of  the  great 
profits  realized from their sales of Teas.
We are not  in  this  line,  but  keep  on  sawing 
wood, sa  isfied we can hold the  fort  against  all 
competition.  Our  new  teas  have  not  arrived 
yet, but we have a  line of Jim  Dandies left over 
from last crop and  they will  give  elegant  satis­
faction every time.
We have just picked up  a  lot  of  Nibs—might 
name  it  His  Royal  Nibs—weighs  70  pounds, 
price 9  cents.  We  have  a  full  line  from  this 
price  up  to  33  cents  for  a  fancy  grade  of 
Japan  Tea.
We have just received a  carload  of  fine  onyx 
tables—retail value $8.50 -a fit ornament for any 
parlor.  We will give one of these elegant tables 
free with an order for  three  one-half  chests  of 
Japan  Tea.
This is a bonanza offer  for  any  one—in  fact, 
the  offer  of  a  lifetime.  Send  in  your  orders. 
Samples mailed with pleasure.

TIE  JUPIES  STEWIKT  GO

(LIMITED)

SAGINAW,  MIGH.

3 2

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis-—Index  to 

the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

in  this  city, 

New  York,  June  27—June  has  been 
in  the  grocery 
rather  a  quiet  month 
taking 
jobbing  circles 
everything 
into  consideration.  Stores 
have  not been  crowded  with  out-of-town 
buyers  and  those  who  have  been  here 
have  exercised  great  caution  in  making 
purchases. 
It  seems  to  be  the  control­
ling  idea  to  take  small amounts of goods 
is 
and  come  often.  Undoubtedly,  this 
the  part  of  wisdom. 
is  useless  to 
overlook  the  fact  that  there 
is  some 
anxiety  among  the  business  men  as  to 
the  future. 
is  conceded  that  we  will 
have  one  of  the  hottest  campaigns,  tak­
ing  the  country  at  large,  we  have  ever 
seen.  This  alone  will  unsettle  business 
for  a  while,  but  there’s  a  good  time 
coming,  boys,  wait  a  little  longer!

It 

It 

Sugar  has  been  bobbing  up  and  down 
in  quite  a  lively  fashion  during  .the 
week  and  this  applies  to  the  “  finished 
product”   as  well  as  to  the stock market. 
Firmer  cables  are  coming  from  abroad 
and  holders  are  feeling  in  a  more cheer­
ful  mood.  Raws  closed  to-day  on  the 
basis  of  3I2C  for  96  deg.  centrifugal. 
Granulated  declined about 3- 16c  without 
making  any  unusual  stir,  and  has  since 
advanced 
i -i6c,  eloping  steaay.  The 
demand  has  become  brisker  and  some 
good-sized  orders  have  been  placed 
within  a  few  hours, 
foreign  refined  is 
meeting  with  steady sale.  German gran­
ulated  is quoted  at  4  7- 16C.

13c  for 

Coffee  has  been  neglected,  with  Rio 
No.  7  held  all  the  week  at 
in­
voice  lots.  Buyers  showed  no  desire  to 
purchase  ahead  of  immediate wants  and 
so  matters  have  ranged  during  the  past 
six  days,  although  at  the  end  of  the 
week  there  came  more  cheering  news 
from  abroad  and  prices  made  a  week 
ago  are,  perhaps,  more  firmly  held  to­
day  than  they  were  yesterday.  Mild 
coffees  are  steady  and  really  desirable 
goods  are  held  at  firm  figures.  Sales 
have  not  been  of  large  volume,  and,  in 
fact,  transactions  are  usually  small 
in 
mild  coffees,  but  orders  enough  have 
been  received  to  make  a  very  fair 
total.

Teas  remain  in  about  the  same  con­
dition  as  usual,  although at  the  moment 
there  is,  perhaps,  a  little  more  trading, 
pending  the  arrival  of  the next  steamer, 
about  July  8.  Sales  at  auction  have 
been  rather  slimly  attended  some  of  the 
time  and  quite an  effort  has  been  re­
quired  on  the  part  of  the  auctioneer  to 
keep  his  audiences  awake.

The  rice  market  is  decidedly  in  favor 
of  the  holder.  Advices  from  primary 
points  are  very  lirm.  Foreign  is  closely 
sold  up  and,  as  there  are  but  750  tons 
afloat,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  outlook 
for  lower  prices  is  not good.  Some  sales 
of  carload  lots have been  made.  Head 
rice  has  sold  for 6c,  but  this is nominal.
Few  transactions  of  importance  have 
taken  place  in  spices,  the  largest  being 
a  sale  of  50  tons  of  Singapore  pepper  at 
5c.  Dealers  seem  to  be  satisfied  with 
the  drift  of affairs,  but  admit  that  there 
is  great  room  for  improvement.
There  has  been  a  quiet  trade 

in  mo­
lasses  during  the week.  First-class stock 
is  readily  taken  at  full  rates,  and  the 
market 
Foreign 
grades  are  firm ;  in  truth,  it is very  hard 
to  find  any  at  all.

is  well  cleaned  up. 

It 

Syrups  are  in  light  supply  in  first 
hands  and,  consequently,  firm.  Choice 
to  fancy  sugar  syrups command  I7@24C.
During  the  week  the  canned  goods 
market  has  been  quiet  and  few  trans­
actions  have  taken  place. 
is  a  busy 
time  for  canners,  however,  and,  as  yet, 
prices  are  not  firmly  established.  The 
strike  of  the  fishermen  on  the  Columbia 
gives  satisfaction  to  brokers  here,  as 
they  can  now  make  arrangements  for 
the  future.

low  and  seem  to 

Dried  fruits  are  quiet.  Quotations 
are 
indicate  very 
small  profit  to  anybody.  New  dried 
apricots  have  been  offered  here  at  7 (658c 
f .0.  b.  at  point  of  production 
(San 
Joaquin  Valley).

Butter has  shown  scarcely  any  change 
in  price  for  some  time,  the  best  cream­
ery  holding  at 
thi's

iS/4 c,  and 

from 

There 

Eggs  are  in  ample  supply  and  selling 
at  I3>¿c  for  the  very  best  near-by  stock. 
Of  course,  there  is  no  accumulation  of 
such  eggs,  as  compared with other sorts. 
Aside  from  the  best,  the  kind  that  are 
good  enough  for  ordinary  use  are  sell­
ing  freely  at  1 1 5¿c.
is  a  better  market  for  beans 
than  prevailed  last  week.  The  stock  of 
pea beans  is  decidedly  light  and  they 
are  quotable  at  $i.o 5@ i.o7Já-  Choice 
Marrows,  $1. io@ i. 15- 
Provisions  have been  quiet  and  are  a 
shade  lower.
The  failure  of the  Brunswick  Hotel  to 
continue  business  profitably  seems  diffi­
cult  to  understand,  in  view  of  the ap­
parent  prosperity  of  most  New  York 
hotels,  which  rarely  give  evidence  of 
any  appreciable  decrease  in  business. 
Several  years  ago  some  of  the  newer 
hotels  up  town  complained  of  the  busi­
ness  depression  from  which  they,  in 
common  with  every  branch  of  industry, 
suffered,  and  one  new  hotel  up  town 
published  the  most  pathetic  details of 
the  efforts  to  stem  the  tide  through  the 
summer  months.  But the  hotels  are  un­
usually  well  filled  when  applications  for 
rooms  are  made,  and  there  is  no  dim i­
nution 
in  prices  evident  to  persons 
seeking  hotel  accommodations.  Even 
luring  the  months  in  which  the demand 
is  slightest  the  decrease 
in  prices  is 
small,  and  in  most  of  the  hotels  down 
town  there 
is  no  desire  on  the  part  of 
the  proprietors  to  secure  occupants  per­
manently.  The  reduction  in  such  cases 
little,  and  one  seeking  rooms  in  a 
first-class  hotel rarely discovers anything 
n  the  attitude  of  the  proprietors  which 
night  be  taken  to  indicate  anxiety  for 
patronage.  The  Brunswick 
long  ago 
nst  a  large  share  of  the  restaurant  and 
bar  patronage,  and  doubtless  that  seri­
ously  affected 
its  prosperity.  People 
who  go  to  hotels  nowadays  are  exacting 
in  the  matter  of  details,  and  electric 
lights,  porcelain  bathtubs,  and  brass 
bedsteads  are  common  enough 
in  the 
newer  establishments  to  make  them  ap­
pear  necessary  everywhere.  Failing  to 
inducements,  the  old-time 
offer  such 
houses  have  suffered  most. 
But  the 
building  of  new  hotels,  which  continues 
actively,  seems  to  negative  any  impres­
sion  as  to  the  lack  of  profit 
in  this 
business  here.

A  close  watch 

is  kept  on  this  city’s 
letter  carriers.  Every  carrier’s  name 
goes  into  the  “ black  book”   the  minute 
he  is  employed,  although  he  probably 
doesn’t  know  it.  When  missing  mail  is 
traced  beyond  the  clerical  department 
the  inspectors  at  once  turn  to  this  black 
book.  They  learn  from 
it  which  car­
letter  should  have 
rier’s  route  each 
gone  to,  and  they  find 
the  carrier’s 
record.  There  is  a  cross  after  his  name 
for  every  "letter  that  has  gone  astray  on 
his  route.  One  carrier  was  convicted 
here  several  years  ago  of  stealing  let­
ters,  and  the  black  book  showed  two 
lines  of  crosses  after  his  name.  His 
route  was  changed  several  times,  but 
his  record  was  always  bad.  Of  course, 
most  of  the  letter  carriers  have  one  or 
two  crosses  after  their  names,  and  they 
usually 
letters  that  were  lost 
through  no  carelessness  of  theirs.  The 
record  of  the  carrier  suspected,  how­
ever,  was  so  bad  that  the 
inspectors 
shadowed  him  and  got  the  evidence  on 
which  he  was  convicted. 
“ Letter  car­
riers  who  choose  to  be  dishonest,”   said 
a  Post  Office  official,  “ can  become  so 
skilled  that  they  can  pick  out a  letter 
containing  money  by  simply  feeling  of 
the  envelope  and  tapping  it  with  their 
fingers.  As  a  rule,  however,  the  letter 
I carriers  are  a  very  honest,  hard-working 
lot  of  men,  and  they  are  as  energetic  as 
the 
the 
thieves. ”

ferreting  out 

inspectors 

indicate 

in 

Money,  like  fire,  is  a  good  servant, 
but  a  bad  master*.  A  thorough  business 
education  enables  one  to  make  it a good 
and  faithful  servant.

Beans—The 

receipts  are 

light,  as 
farmers  are  too  busy  to  take  the  time  to 
market  a  product  which 
is  so  low  in 
price  as  dry  beans.  The  weather  is  fa­
vorable  for  the  growing  crop.

11c. 

fetch 

falling  off 

Beets—20c  per  dozen.
Butter—Fancy dairy commands quick­
er  sale  and  a  little  better  price,  owing 
to  the 
in  arrivals.  Best 
grades  easily 
Factory 
creamery  is  still  selling  at  14c,  but  will 
probably  spring  a  little  in  price,  incase 
the  fancy  dairy  continues  to  grow  firm 
and  scarcer.

Cabbage—40c per doz.  for home grown
last 
Cherries—This  is,^ probably,  the 
week  that  stock  will  be  offered  in  any 
quantity.  Black  easily  bring  $2.25  per 
bu.  and  sour are  in  fair demand  at  about 
25c  per  bu.  less.

Cucumbers—20@40c  per  doz.
Currants—Cherry  command  80c  per 
16  qt.  case.’  Small  red  are  in  fair  de 
mand  for  preserving  purposes  at  50c 
per  crate.

Eggs—Common  candled  command  qc 
per  doz.,  while  seconds  (bakers’  stock 
bring  6c.  This 
is  the  time  of  year 
when  neither  farmers  nor  dealers  should 
hold  their  eggs  for  any  considerabl 
length  of  time.  The  market  reporter of 
the  Tradesman  saw  a  shipment  of  20 
crates  come 
into  a  commission  hous 
this  week  which  ran  one-quarter  black 
eggs  and  one-quarter  seconds,  only  half 
the  shipment  passing  muster  before  the 
candle.  This  condition  necessarily  en 
tailed  considerable 
loss  on  the  part  o 
the  shipper,  who  could  have  avoided 
considerable  of  the  shrinkage  by  send 
ing 
in  his  eggs  promptly,  six  or  eight 
crates  at a  time,  instead  of  waiting  unti’ 
he  had  accumulated  a 
larger  quantity 
If  dealers  would  go  over their shipments 
carefully—or,  better  yet,  candle  thei 
eggs  as  they  take  them  in—the  com 
plaints  over 
lossage  and  shrinkagi 
would  not  be  so general.

Egg  Plant—40c  per  doz.
Melons—Georgia  watermelons  are 

ii 
ample  supply,  commanding  20@25c 
Nutmeg  bring  $1  per doz.

Onions—Home  grown,  $1  per  bu 
Green,  ir,c  per  doz.  for  Silver  Skins
Peas—iGreen  June,  35c  per bu.  Mar 

rowfat,  40c  per  bu.
Potatoes—Local  dealers  hold  Missour 
stock  at  40c  per  bu.  The  price  cannot 
very  well  go  any  lower,  as  the  freight 
25c  per  bu.  from  poipt  of  shipment 
Southern  growers  have  met  the  same 
bitter  experience  this spring  that North 
ern  growers  were  compelled  to  face  last 
fall  and  winter.  From all over  the  South 
come  complaints  of  growers  who  are 
ruined  because  they  borrowed  money  i 
expectation  of  paying  it back  from  the 
proceeds  of  their  potato  crop  and  are 
unable  to  do  so,  owing  to  the  low  price 
—and  no  price—prevailing  all  through 
the  spring  season.

doz.  bunches.  China  Rose  bring 

Radishes—Charters  command  8c  per 
Raspberries—Black, 6o@75c  per  crate 
16  qts.  Red,  $ i @ i .25  per  crate  of 

of 
16 qts.
man  Millet  bring  6o@75C  per bu.

Seeds—Hungarian  and  Common  Ger 

10c

String  Beans—75c  per  bu.

The

there 
is  a  sudden  drop  to  ‘ ‘ anything 
you  want.”   The  demand  is  compara­
tively  light.
The  cheese  market  is  not  altogether 
satisfactory.  Trading  has  been 
light 
and  supplies  have  accumulated  to  such 
an  extent  as  to  be  a  very  decided  load 
to  carry.  Small  colored  fancy  is  worth

T H E   M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
Fruits  and  Produce, 
past  week  has  still  further  im-
proved  the  fruit  prospects  in  the  Fruit 
Belt  of  Western  Michigan.  The  man­
ner  in  which  appletrees  are  overloaded 
is  becoming  a  subject  of  serious  con­
cern  to  the  growers,  who  are  devising 
all  manner  of  means  to  relieve  the  trees 
of  the  weight. 
The  grapevines  appear 
to  have  recovered  from  the effects  of  the 
severe  winds  early  in  the  season,  new 
shoots  having  taken  the  place  of  those 
which  were  blown  off.  As  the  season 
progresses  the  prospect  for  the  “  iron­
clad”   varieties  of  peaches  fails  to 
im­
prove,  but  the  more  tender  varieties, 
such  as  Crawfords  and  Barnards,  will 
be  a  full  crop.  More  young  orchards 
are  coming  into  bearing  this  year  than 
there  are  old  orchards  going  out  of  ex­
istence,  in  consequence  of  which  the 
quality  of  the  fruit  will  be  very  much 
improved.

Tomatoes—Illinois  stock  brings  90c 

per  4  basket  crate.

Whortleberries—The  market  has  been 
utted  for  several  days,  but  is  in  much 
better  condition  at  this  writing.  Dry 
stock  brings  $i.5o @ i.75  per  bu.,  while 
et  sells  ordinarily  at  $1.25,  and  has 
one  as 
low  as  $1.  The  prospects  are 
jr  higher  prices,  as  the  quality  im­
proves.

Licorice  in  Tobacco.
idea  of 

curing 

The 
tobacco  with 
corice  wss  first  conceived  by  Spanish 
sailors.  The  sailors  had  made  repeated 
attempts  to  bring  tobacco  across  the 
ocean,  but  they  found  that  the  salty  at­
mosphere,  to  a  certain  extent,  spoiled 
t.  Finally  the  idea  was  conceived  of 
sprinkling  the  rtobacco  with 
licorice 
water,  and  they  found  this  kept  it  sweet 
and  fresh.  Their  plans  became  known 
a  man  named  Cavendish,  at  Nor- 
fork,  Va.,  and  this  man  was  the  first 
to  make 
licorice-cured  tobacco  in  the 
Jnited  States.  This  tobacco  was  uni- 
ersally  known  as  navy  tobacco,  and 
rom  that  time  it  has  been  so  called.
WANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under this 
head  for  two  cents  a word  the  first  insertion 
and  one cent  a word  for  each  subsequent  in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
5 cents.  Advance paym ent._________ ____
tr'Olt SALE—RETAIL GROCERY ON ONE OF 

the best corners  in  Grand  Rapids.  Liberal 
terms  if  well  secured. 
I  want  to  retire  from 
active business.  Grand opportunity for grocery 
man.  Address C. K.  Gibson,  559  Cherry  street.
__________ ______________60

BUSINESS CHANCES.

IpOR SALE-GENERAL  STOCK  OF  GOODS, 

1  c. m isting  of drv goods and boots and shoes, 
■heap  for  cash.  at'M um tb,  Mich.  Stock  in- 
r0 ces  $3,500;  old  established  trade;  leading 
.tore in town.  Address  L.  C.  Townsend,  Jack-
on, Mich. 
65

_________  

CASH  W ILL.  BUY  A  REMINGTON 
¿¡t)  typewr lerin first-cliiss condition.  Thum 

"5ros. & Schmidt, Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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.'•OR  SA L E-A   BAKERY,  DOING  W1IOLE- 
sale  and  retail  business.  B> st  location  in 
_ rand Rapids.  Address S.  A.  Potter,  500  South 
Division street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

t^OR  SALE—A  CHOICE  LINE  OF  CLEAN 

1  drugs  and  medium-priced  fixtures.  Will 
invoice  about  Si,500.  Must  sell,ow ing  to  bad 
health.  Might take sound  trade.  For  particu­
lars address Decker & Slaght, Agents, 74 Monroe 
street, Grand Rapids._____________________58

IAOR  SALE—GOOD  P A Y IN G   G R O C E R Y  

1  store  and  stock  in  thriving town.  Address 
E.  I). Goff, Fife Lake,  Mich._________________51
7«)R SALE—DRUG SI OCK AND  FIXTURES, 
•  invoicing about $1,500, in best city in N orth­
ern  Michigan.  Best  of  reasons  for  selling. 
Address Drugs, ca'e Michigan Tradesman.  42
FURNISHING
1  goods,  hats,  caps,  boots  and  shoes,  with 
good store fixtures and good trade;  stock nearly 
all new;  grand chance  for  right  party:  popula­
tion, 1,600 ;  400 men employed in factories;  good 
farming  country 
'round  about.  Terms  easy, 
part  cash.  Address  No.  45,  care  Michigan 
T rad esm an .____________________________ 45

F~AOR  SALE-STOCK  OF 

i|V}R  SALE—STAPLE  AND  FANCY  GRO- 

1  eery stock, invoicing about $1,400, located in 
liveSouthern Michigan town of 1,200inhabita'nts; 
good trade, nearly all cash.  Reasons for selling,
Address No. 907, care  Michigan 
other business. 
907
Tradesman.

 

MISCELLANEOUS.
TO  EXCHANGE  GOOD  GRAND 
\ \ J ANTED 
s  real  estate  for  stock  of  mer- 
VV  Rapid 
Address  No.  969,  care  Michigan 
chandise. 
969
Tradesman.
A   C O M P L E T E   D R U G   STO C K   A N D   F i x ­
tures, to exchange for real  estate.  Will  in­
ventory apout $1,500.  Dunton Rent & Collection 
59
Agency, Grand Rapids. 
ANTED—AN  ASSISTANT  REGISTERED 
w
pharmacist.  Address No.  57,  care  Michi- 
gan Tradesman.__________________________57
B r ic k   s t o r e   e o k   r e n t ,  Na s h v il l e , 
Mich.  Best  opening  in  State  for  general 
stock.  Address  W.  A.  Aylsworth,  79  Clark
street, Chicago,  111. 
LOCATION  FOR A BANK.  COR- 
'y^'A N T E D -
respondence confidential.  Address Bank- 
er, Marine  P. O , Detroit, Mich.____________ 49

iftOR RENT—CORNER STOKE WITH SHELV- 
1  ing,  counters,  etc.  Excellent  location  for 
first-class grocery.  Dunton Rental & Collection 
Agency, 63 Ljon St., Grand Rapids, Mich.  46
POULTKY  AND  VEAL
Bu t t e r ,  e g g * .
Shippers should write Cougle Brothers, 178 
South  vtater  Streit,  Chicago,  for  daily  market 
reports. 
26
w ANTED, BY  APRIL 1—A LINE OF GOODS 
for Lower  Michigan  or  Upper  Peninsula; 
lust six years in  Upper  Peninsula;  the  highest 
reference to character and ability.  Address No. 
970
970, care Michigan Tradesman. 

WANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SHIP- 
951
WANTED- 

pers of butter and eggs  and  other  season­
able produce.  R.  Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit. 
1 
-SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN- 
mileage  books.  Address,  stating 

price, Vindex, care Michigan Tradesman.  869

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