Volume XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 9,  1896.

Number 677

Stall we have 
“Hie (ell Stamford?»

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.”

THE BLUEST LfiMDBETH CO.,

MANITOWOC,  W IS.

- - _  Credit  for  the  above  idea  should  be  given  to  the  Norton  Can  Co. 

Minstrels, Chicago.

WORDEN GROCER CO., Sole Agents for Grand Rapids and Vicinity.

SATISFACTION

PLEASURE

All derived by keeping in stock  and selling

(TRY  THEM)

I The rarest of 

midsummer dainties. 
The combined 
result of skill 
and superior 
ingredients.

36 per cent, or more 
profit on every 
pound you sell and

I the satisfaction of 

having the pleased 
customers come again.

You cannot  afford  to  miss  handling  such  a  trade 
winner  and  universal  favorite.  Made  only  by

The New York  Biscuit  Co.,

Grand  Rapids, Michigan.

Established 1780.

Valter  Baker  & fio.,™
pPURE, HIGH GRAM

irgest  Manufacturers of

Dorchester, Mass..

00G0ASAND

The Oldest and 

CHOCOLATES

on  this Continent.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
their manufactures.
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa is absolutely pure, 
delicious,  nutritious, and costs less than one 
cent a  cup.
Their  Premium  No.  1  Chocolate  is  the 
bUlt plain chocolate in the market for family
m
Their Oerman  Sweet Chocolate Is good to 
eat and good to drink.  It is palatable,  nutri> 
tious  and  healthful;  a  gnat  favorite with 
children.
Buyers  should ask  for and  ha so n  that 
they get the genuine
W alter  Baker  &   C a's

goods, made at

D o r c h e s te r ,  M a ss.

ASPHALT ROOF COATING
WARREN GHEMIGAL AND MANUFACTURING GO.,

Contains  over 90  per cent,  pure  Trinidad  Asphalt 
when dry.  You can get full  information  in  regard 
to this material by writing •

* 

1120 Chamber of Commerce, DETROIT.

8i Pulton street. NEW YORK.

ONLY  FRESH  CRACKERS

Should be offered to your  customers.  During this warm 
weather order in  small  lots  and  often.  Our  new  Penny 
Cakes and German Coffee Cakes are winners.

CHRISTENSON  BAKING  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

rp e w  m ,  

nines, Furs, wool and Tallow

We’carry a stock of cake tallow for mill use.

Nos. iaa and 134 Louis St., 

- 

Grand Rapids.  ,

Did  you  ever

Try  the  S.  C.  W.  Cigar?  If  not 
why  not?  Are  you  afraid  of  Bo 
cigars?  Just  try  your  favorite  100 
cigar and the S. C. W. at the  same 
time, and if you cannot tell the dif­
ference draw your own  conclusion. 
All jobbers handle them.

u

.

Manufacturer,

loar  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The  B rad stre et 
M ercantile  Agency
Proprietors.

THE BRADSTREET COMPANY 

E x e c u t iv e  O f f ic e s —

279, 281, 283  Broadway,  N.Y.- 

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

CHARLES F. CLARK. Pres.

G r a n d  R a pid s O f f ic e —

Room 4,  Widdicomb  Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE, Supt

It is a  big,  pare,  full  weight,  solid  one 
pound bar (16 oz.) which retails for  only 
o cents.  Get the price you can  buy  it  at 
from  your  Wholesale  Grocer  or  his 
Agent.  One trial  and  you  will  always 
keep it in stock.

DOLL  SOAP

100 Bars in Box, 82.50.  This is a  Cracker 
Jack to make a rnn on, and  it  will  be  a 
winner for you both ways.

Manufactured only by

ALLEN  B.  WRISLEY  CO.,

CHICAGO.

N O   M O R E   B R O K E N   B O G S

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
cer« and jobbers in woodenware.
GEO. H. CLEMENTS, 42 River St., Chicago.

TRADESMAN
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TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS.

WE  TOLD  TOO  SO!

For trade’s improving,
All goods are moving 

Wherever Butter  Workers  are sold. 

Then cease complaining,
Be self sustaining,

And work  your butter before  it’s  old.

DAYTONS 
STERLINGS 
BEN  HURS  PHOENIXES 
STORMERS  RELIANCES 
ROMANS 

PENINSULARS

Make us  a  cash  offer  and, If  anything 
near manufacturer’s  price  and  we can 
fill the order, will do  so.

PENINSULAR WHEEL CO.,

13 Fountain St., next to Peninsular Club, 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Slamali Oil to.

DEALERS IN

Illum inating  and  L ubricating

Naptha and Gasolines

Office, Mich. T rust Bldg.  W orks, B utterw orth Ave. 

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  f llC H .

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

Highest  Price  paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels

Tendency of ttie Tines

Owing to the introduction of improved labor-saving machinery, which 
enables ns to materially reduce the cost of the output of oar coupon  book 
department, we have decided to  put  the  knife  into  three  grades  of  our 
coupon books and make a sweeping reduction in the  price of our Trades­
man, Superior and Universal grades to the following basis:

50 books, any denomination, 8  1  50 
100 books, any denomination,  2 50 
500 books, any denomination,  1150 
1,000 books, any denomination,  30 00

Notwithstanding the reduction, we shall hold  the  quality  of  our out­
put up to its  present  high  standard,  making such  further  improvements 
from time to time as will add to the utility and value of our system.

We shall still follow the practice of the past dozen years  in  prepaying 

transportation charges on coupon books where cash accompanies order.

We are the Only manufacturers of  coupon  books  who  stand  back  of 
our output with  a  positive  guarantee,  paying  81  for  every  book  of  our 
manufacture ^ound to be incorrectly counted.

The trade are warned against using any infringements  of our coupon 
systems, as the manufacturers will protect their  rights  and  the  rights  of 
their customers, and will prosecute all infringers to the full extent of  the 
law.
Since engaging  in  the  business,  a  dozen  years  ago,  we  have  spent 
thousands of dollars in perfecting rftir system and bringing it  to  its  pres­
ent  high  standard  of  excellence,  having  put  in  special  machinery  for 
nearly every department of  the work,  and  keeping  constantly  employed 
a force of skilled workmen who have had many years’ experience In the cou­
pon book business.  We still lead  the world  in the manufacture of special 
coupon books for special purposes, and  solicit  correspondence with those 
who use, or wish to consider the  adoption  of,  something  more  elaborate 
than our regular books.

Place  your  name  on  a  postal  card  ad­

dressed to

THE  CHURN  CO.,  U  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

BELLEFONTAINE,  OHIO,

When you wish to  know  anything  about 

this machine.

Don’t forget the Tradesman when writing.

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Reports  and  Collections.

411-412-413 Widdicomb Bldg,  Grand Rapids.

COLUMBIAN TRANSFER COMPANY
Garriages,  Baggage 
and Freight Wagons....

15 and 17 North Waterloo St., 

Telephone 381-1 

Grand Rapids.

The  flichigan
Trust  Co., 

a r“ nicRhapids’

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator 

Guardian,  Trustee.

Send for copy of our  pamphlet  “Laws  of  the 
State of Michigan  on  Descent  and  Distribution 
of Property.”

The desirable Wholesale Premises 
at No. 19 South Ionia  street  (cen­
ter of jobbing  district),  compris­
ing five floors and basement, with 
hydraulic  elevator,  and  railroad 
track in rear.  Excellent location 
for  wholesale  business  of  any 
kind.  Apply  No.  17 South  Ionia 
street.  Telephone 96.

D.  A.  BLODGETT.

Every Dollar

Invested in Tradesman Com­
pany’s  COUPON  BOOKS 
will yield  handsome  returns 
in saving  book-keeping,  be­
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that 
no 
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Write

the  assurance 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  9,  1896.

Number  677

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

C .  A.  VanDenbergh,  the  Howard  City 

General  Dealer.

Charles  A.  VanDenbergh  was  born 
at  Warren,  Herkimer  county,  N.  Y., 
Sept.  8,  1852,  his  antecedents  on  his 
father’s  side  being  Holland.  He  lived 
on  a  farm  until  24  years  of  age,  work­
ing  on  the  farm  summers  and  attending 
district  school  winters.  He  then  took  a 
commercial  course  at  the  seminary  at 
Lima,  N.  Y.,  and  in  April,  1873,  re* 
moved  to  Belding,  this  State,  where  he 
entered  the  employment  of  Wilson, 
Luther  &  Wilson,  with  whom  he  re­
mained  four  and  a  half  years,  spending 
about  one-third  of  the  time  on the  road

and  the  remainder  of  the  time  in  keep­
ing  the  books  cf  the  firm.  He  then 
bought  a  half  interest  in  the  drug  stock 
of  his  father-in-law,  W.  P.  Newcomb, 
with  whom  he  remained  in  partnership 
until  the  spring  of  1883,  when  he  re­
moved  to  Howard  City  to  take  the  man­
agement  of  the  general  stock  of  Devine 
&  VanDenbergh,  who  at  that  time  car­
ried  dry  goods,  boots  and  shoes,  hats 
and  caps,  and  have  since  added  grocer­
In  October,  1888,  Mr.  VanDen­
ies. 
bergh  purchased  the 
interest  of  his 
partner,  since  which  time  he  has  con­
ducted  the  business  in  his  own  name, 
and  since  1893  he has  occupied  a  new 
two-story  brick  building  erected  and 
owned 
and  his 
brother.

jointly  by  himself 

Mr.  VanDenbergh  was  married 

in 
May,  1873,  to  Miss  Florence  New­
comb,  of  Belding,  and  the  family circle 
includes  three  children—two  sons  and  a 
daughter.

Mr.  VanDenbergh 

is  a  member  of 
the  Forresters,  but  has  not  affiliated 
with  any  other secret  organization.  He 
has been  President  of  the  village  and 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and 
Director of  the  School  Board,  and  hap­
pens  to  occupy  the  latter  two  offices  at 
the  present  time.  He  attributes  his 
success  to  steady  hard  work,  and  those 
who  know  him  and  are acquainted  with 
his  methods  insist  that  be  is  richly  en­
titled to the prosperity which has come to 
him  since  he  established  himself 
in 
trade  at  Howard  City,  thirteen  years 
ago.

The  Bicycle  and  Morals.

Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

if 

During  the  earlier  history  of  the mod­
ern  bicycle  much  criticism  was  urged 
against  it  as  an  engine  of  physical  de­
struction  to  such  as  should  adopt  it.  All 
sorts  of  dire  predictions  were  made  as 
to  the  disastrous  consequences  to  young 
men 
it  should  come  generally  into 
use.  Later,  when  women  first  began  to 
yield  to  its  enticing 
influence,  to  have 
listened  to  the  exclamations  of  horror 
and  predictions  of  physical  evil  one 
would  have  thought  the  perpetuity  of 
the  race  was  in  danger.  Experience  in 
the  almost  universal  adoption  by  both 
sexes 
in  certain  classes  and  localities 
has  demonstrated  that  not  only  are  the 
criticisms  and  fears  wholly  without war­
rant,  but  that  the  wheel 
in  almost  all 
cases  is  conducive  to  the  highest  phys­
ical  health.

While  this  result of  experience  is  now 
so  fully  demonstrated  that  the  health 
critics  may be  fairly  said to be silenced, 
there  is  another,  even  more  serious,  ac­
cusation  brought  against  the  new  in­
strument of progression— it  is  disastrous 
to  the  morals  of  the  communities  where 
it  is  in  general  use.  This charge,  which 
has  been  urged  to  quite  an  extent  re­
cently  by  many  well-meaning  and  in­
fluential  people  high  in  philanthropic 
circles,  cannot  be  so  quickly  answered 
by  experience,  as  the  moral  effects  are 
not  so  obvious. 
It  is  my  opinion,  how­
ever,  that  a  careful  investigation  of  the 
situation  would  tend  to  disprove  it.

In  a  general  way  it  is  a  reasonable 
assertion  that  a  means  of exercise which 
produces  the best  results  in  the physical 
condition  is,  in  a  general  way,  of  moral 
benefit  on  the  principle  of  “ a  sound 
mind  in  a  sound  body.”   Then,  unless 
some  specific  charges  can  be  brought, 
it  must  be  assumed  that  the  tendency  is 
good.

As  to  the question  of  temperance  the 
concensus  of  opinion  seems  to  be  that 
the  influence  of  the  wheel  is  salutary. 
The  man  who  enjoys  the  exercise  of  the 
wheel  is  not  so  likely  to  desire  an  arti­
ficial  stimulant.  Observation  has  shown 
that  where  the  wheels  prevail  saloons 
do  not  flourish.  This  influence  may  be 
ascribed  by  some  to  the  fact  that  a 
clear  head  is  needed  to  safely  manage 
the  frisky  steed,  but  it  is  probable  that 
there  is  more  to  be  credited  to  the  gen­
eral  healthful  tendency.  Nor  has 
its 
influence  been  good  for  the  cigar  trade 
among  the  young. 
It  is  a  matter  of  ob­
servation  that  there 
is  comparatively 
little  smoking  on  wheels.

The  question  of  its  influence  on  re­
ligion  might  seem  to  have  somewhat  of 
the  wrong  side.  Much  complaint  has 
been  made  that 
its  temptations  have 
lessened  attendance  upon  religious serv­
ices,  that  Sunday  has  been  made  a  day 
of  pleasure  through 
its  enticements. 
While  this  criticism  may  have  some 
seeming  foundation, it  must  be  borne  in 
mind  that  the  novelty  of  the  wheel  may 
for  a  time  cause  it  to  have  undue  at­
traction,  even  to  the  neglect  of  the more 
solemn  duties  and  pleasures  of  the  day. 
But  it  is  yet  to be  shown  that  the  pre­
ponderance  of  its 
is  in  the 
in  their  regard,
wrong  direction  even 

inuflence 

for  there  are  worse  ways  in  which  the 
day  may  be  spent  than  on  the  wheel. 
Before  a  verdict  is  rendered  against  it 
in  this  regard  there  must  be  considered 
the  numbers  which  have  been  brought 
out 
into  God’s  pure  air  and  sunlight 
from  enervating,  unhealthy  places  for 
loafing  or  places  far  worse.  The  more 
liberal  of  the  members  of  the  clergy  are 
recognizing  this  fact  and  are  not  join­
ing  in  this  kind  of  criticism.

training  and 

But  many  good  mothers  in  Israel  are 
its  immoral  tend­
crying  out  against 
encies,  particularly  on  account  of 
its 
adoption  by  young  women  and  girls,  I 
suppose 
largely  for  the  reason  that  it 
requires  short  dresses,  bloomers  and 
such  like,  and  that  it  is  generally  im­
modest  for  the  gentler  sex.  It  is  natural 
convention 
that  early 
should  exert  a  strong 
influence  with 
these  good  souls,  and  that  modern  bi­
cycle  costumes  should  shock  their  sen­
sibilities.  But  this 
is  all  a  matter  of 
custom.  Even  now  such  costumes  have 
become  so  common  and  familiar,  where 
wheels  are  much  used,  that  they  are  as 
little  noticed  as  dress  of  the  ordinary 
length,  and 
is  coming  to  be  recog­
nized  that  a  suitable  bicycle  costume  is 
just  as  modest  as  any  other.

it 

Then,  as  to  the 

increased  mingling 
and  comradry  between  the sexes brought 
about  by  the  pleasure  of  riding,  there 
might  seem  to  be  cause  of apprehension 
on  the  part  of  these  same  good mothers. 
Certainly  the  French  dowager  would  be 
greatly  shocked  to  see  the  increased lib­
erty  taken  by  the  American  girl through 
the  aid  of  the  wheel,  for  the  lack  of  re­
straint  and  supervision  in  this  country 
has  long  been  a  matter  of  comment  to 
the  French  critics,  and  yet  it 
is  to  be 
shown  that  the  extreme  care  of  the 
French  duenna  has  produced  a  higher 
in  that  country 
standard  of  morality 
than  we  enjoy. 
It  is  coming  to  be  ad­
mitted  that  the  mingling  of  the sexes  in 
healthful  mental  or  physical  exercise  is 
conducive  to  general  morality.  How­
ever,  if  careless  mothers  permit  undue 
liberty  of  inexperienced  girls  and  boys 
on  account  of  the  wheel,  their  criminal 
foolishness  cannot  be  too  strongly  con­
demned.  But  where  such  instances  oc­
cur  occasionally  on  this  account  there 
are  other  ways  that  are  much  worse  in 
which  custom  in  this  country  sanctions 
too  much  liberty  without  supervision. 
I  need  only  to  cite  the  fact  that  girls 
are  permitted 
to  receive  visits  from 
their  “ fellows”   often  alone  until  the 
small  hours. 
If  there  could  be  inaug­
urated  a  crusade  against  this  it  would 
accomplish  much  more  in  the  cause  of 
morality  than  any  efforts  against  the 
wheel.

The  bicycle  is  a  great  innovation. 

It 
is  impossible  that  it  can  take  its  place 
without  creating  some  disturbance  and 
apprehension  on  the  part  of  the  more 
conservative.  But  while  I  would  not 
give 
it  undue  credit  as  a  promoter  of 
morality,  I  think  I  am warranted  in say­
ing  that  the  world  is  better  for  its  ad­
vent  even  now,and  that  its  influence  for 
good  will  increase  as  it  assumes its  per­
manent  place 
in  the  world’s  economy.

N ate.

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F ru its  and  Produce.
News  and  Gossip  of  Interest  to  Both 

Shipper  and  Dealer.

Woolf  &  Laib,  a  commission  firm 

in 
New  York  that  has  been  among  the 
heaviest  receivers  of  poultry,  have  gone 
out  of  business.  They  claim  that  there 
in  the  business  and  that 
is  no  money 
shippers  owe  them  $5>000  *n 
over­
drafts.

*  *  *

There  is  hardly  any  excuse  fora ship­
per  getting  “ stuck”   by  dishonest  com­
mission  houses.  There  are  a  great many 
solid,  honorable  and  trustworthy  com­
mission  houses  in  all  the  great  markets. 
In  nearly  every  instance  where  we hear 
of  a  shipper  sustaining  a  loss,  it  is 
found  the  goods  were  shipped  to  a 
house  that  made  an  offer  that  seemed  to 
be  better  than  any  of  the  old  conserva­
tive  firms  would  make.  Stand  by  the 
old  houses,  the  houses  of  known  reputa­
tion,  and  consign  tempting  offers  and 
unreasonable  promises  to  the  waste  bas­
ket.

*  *  *

The  practice  of  New  York  merchants 
returning  a  half  cent  above  the  highest 
quotations  for  creamery  butter,  regard­
less  of  quality,  has  been  practically 
done  away  with.  Reports  to  the  con­
trary  are  based  on 
isolated  cases  and 
should  not  be  accepted  as  a  true  state­
ment  of  the  situation.  The  frequent  and 
heavy  failures  in  New  York  have  con­
vinced  sensible  creamerymen 
that  a 
commission  merchant  who  gives  good 
service  and  prompt  returns 
is  entitled 
to  a  full  five  per  cent,  commission,  and 
they  have  learned  there  is  no  real  ben­
efit  to  be  derived  from  driving  close 
bargains  with  the  receivers  of  their 
product.

*  *  *

Some  day,  a  man  with  brains  and  an 
air  of  cleanliness  about  him  will  come 
along  and  locate  in  a  community  where 
creameries  are  owned  and  operated  by 
that  class  of  farmers  who  think  that 
“ anything  is  good  enough  for  a  cream­
ery,”   and  this  clean,  shrewd  man  will 
build  a  creamery  that  will  be  so  fine 
in  its  appointments  from  cellar  to  gar­
ret  that  it  will  make  all  the  others  look 
like  soap  factories.  He  will  adopt  the 
modern  ideas  of  the  best  posted  men  in 
the  country.  He  will  spend  dollars 
where  farmers  have  spent  dimes,  he 
will  have  tile  floors,  porcelain  walls, 
an  office  for  the  buttermaker,  a 
labora­
tory  for the  milk  testing,  perfect  drain­
age  and  ventilation.  He  will  have 
in­
viting  walks  of  gravel  or  cement,  mac­
adamized approaches  to the  creamery for 
the  milk  wagons,  a  lawn  that  will  cost  a 
few  hunded  dollars,  cropped  close  and 
clean  by  the  boys  in  the  creamery.  His 
buttermaker  will  have  to  know  his  busi­
ness  from  a  practical  and  scientific 
standpoint,  and  the  man  at  the  receiv­
ing  can  will  have  the  powers  of  a  czar. 
Bad  milk  will  be  sent  back to the patron 
with  crape  on  the  can.  The  creamery 
man  will  be  called  a  crank,  but  people 
will  come  hundreds  of  miles  to  see  his 
creamery,  and 
its  reputation  will  soon 
become  known  among  the  dealers  who 
are  looking  for  a  superlatively  fine  arti­
cle,  and  the  strangest  thing  of  all  will 
be  that  this  man  will  prosper  and  make 
money  while  his  competitors  stand 
aghast  at  what  they  regard  as  wasteful 
extravagance.

*  *  *

We 

learn  of  a  Newark,  N.  J.,  firm 
that  is  getting  consignments  from  West­
ern  creameries  by  offering  a  cent  above 
the  market  price,  and  after  getting  a

trial  shipment  and  making  returns  ac­
cording  to  promises,  they  ask  for  larger 
shipments,  and  when  they  arrive  the 
returns  are  made  for  about  two-thirds 
actual  value,  and  as  an  excuse  they  say 
the  quality 
is  away  below  their  stand­
ard  and  they  can’t  get  any  more  for  the 
goods.  Some  of  the  shippers  have  been 
caught  by 
for  different 
amounts,  and  still  they  complain  of  al­
lowing  sharpers  to  exist,  when  they  are 
furnishing  the  means  for  them  to  do 
business.

this  game 

*  *  *

Eggs  during  the  month  of  August  just 
in  New  York  nearly 
closed  averaged 
\$'Ac,  which 
is  a  remarkably  good 
showing  in  the  face  of  rather  poor  busi­
ness  conditions  and  against  receipts  of
189,375  cases. 

•

*  *  *

We  exported  five  times  the  quantity 
of  butter  in  August,  1896,  that  was  ex­
in  August,  1895.  The  smallest 
ported 
in  the  past  ten 
quantity  sent  abroad 
years  was 
in  August,  1894,  when  584 
packages  were  shipped,  and  the  largest 
quantity  was 
1896,  when 
61,000  packages  were  sent  abroad.

in  August, 

The  Revolt  against  Shoddy.

From the Dry Goods Reporter.

to 

in 

The  watchword  of  the  times 

is  good 
value  for  the  price.  Shoddy  goods  at 
cheap  prices  have  been  put  to  the  test 
and  found  wanting.  Never  in  the  his­
tory  of  the  mercantile  business  have 
values  been  more  carefully  examined. 
Shoddy  goods  are  receiving  almost  no 
attention 
the  preparation  of  new 
stocks  for  the  coming  fall  season.

As  the  consumer 

At  the  beginning  of 

the  financial 
stringency,  four  years  ago,  quality  as 
well  as  price  was  cut.  People,  in  en­
deavoring 
economize,  demanded 
cheap  stuff.  Merchants,  in  order  to 
cater  to their trade,  were obliged to stock 
with  inferior  goods.  Manufacturers,  in 
turn,  set  to  work  upon  shoddy  articles.
instituted  the  de­
mand  for  such  articles  so  has  he  revolt­
ed  against  them.  A  season  or  two  of 
such  purchases  has  proven  conclusively 
that  trash  is  not  cheap  at  any  price. 
It 
is  better  for  the  consumer  to  buy  a good 
article  for  twice  the  money  and  have 
half  as  much. 
It  is  better  for  the  mer­
chant  to  sell  less goods  and  have  them 
honest.

Shoddy  goods  are  a  source  of dissatis­
faction  and  disgust  from  first  to  last. 
The  manufacturer  does  not  represent 
them  as  they  are  when  selling  them. 
The 
their 
good  points.  The  honest  retailer  hates 
himself  when  offering  them  to  his  cus­
tomers.

jobber  touches  lightly  on 

The  consumer,  who,  in the end,  is the 
greater  sufferer,  retaliates  by  changing 
his  patronage  to  another  merchant  who 
is  no  more  honest  than  the  merchant 
who  sold  the  goods,  and  who,  under  the 
same  circumstances,  would  have  done 
the  same  thing. 
I he merchant,  in  turn, 
blames  the  jobber  or  manufacturer  from 
whom  he  buys,  each  seeking  a  scape­
goat  upon  which  to  place  the  burden  of 
shoddy.  Thus 
repudiation 
is  passed 
back  and  forth  along  the  line.

The  present  demand  for  better  goods 
is  an  encouraging  sign. 
indicates  a 
healthy  state  of  affairs;  honest  goods  at 
honest  prices;  plain,  more  substantial 
and  more  practical  things  in  place  of 
cheap, 
tawdry  articles  that  lose  their 
freshness  before  leaving  the  counters  of 
the  retailer,  and  which,  when  out  of 
fashion,  are  absolutely  worthless  and 
hence  a  dead  loss.

The  time  of  honest  values  at  honest 
prices  can  come  none  too  soon  to  be 
welcomed  by  the  dry  goods  trade.  All 
hail  the  day  when  the retailer  has no de­
mand  for  goods  that  disgrace him,  when 
the  jobber  can  honestly  recommend 
what  he  sells,  when  the  manufacturer’s 
stamp  is  a  guarantee  of  good  faith.

It 

It  is  stated  that  only  one-fourth  of  her 
requirements  are  now 
imported  by 
Japan,  as  against 67  per  cent,  six  years 
ago.

TRY  DETROIT  MARKETS

FOR  FRUITS  AND  PRODUCE.

T  . 

has  finest  location  to  get  highest  prices.  Write

,   v  I  t x » ,   him at 34 and 36 Market Street.

BARNETT  BROS.

Will  make a specialty  in  handling  Fruits of all  kinds,  and

A P P L E S '

in  particular.  Those having  large  orchards  will do well to correspond with them.  Information 
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98 S.  DIVISION ST .,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

26-28-30*32  Ottawa  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  fllCH .

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

Clover  and  Timothy  Seeds

And all kindsof Field Seeds.  Also Jobbers of

Peaches,  Pears,  Plum s,  Apples,  Etc.

Bushel and Half-Bushel Baskets—Buy  and Sell  Beans Car Lots—Send us your orders.

Peaches If  in  the  m arket  corre­

spond  with  us.  W e   are 
the 
largest  shippers  in 
M ichigan.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

DON’T  DELAY

ORDER  PEACHES AT ONCE

PEARS,  PLUMS,  APPLES,  MELONS.  ORAPES,  VEGETABLES.

Mail or teiegrapii orders to me will save you money.

HENRY  J.  VINKEMULDER,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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PEACHES 

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PLUMS, ORAPES, SWEET POTATOES, BANANAS, MELONS  |

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STILES  &  PHILLIPS,

Wholesale Fruits and Produce, GRAND  RAPIDS.

Peaches, Plums, Sweet Potatoes

We are  Headquarters.

BUNTING  &  CO.,

20 and  22 Ottawa St., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Packed  the coming season by

AHerton  &  Haggstrom

127  Louis St.,  Grand  Rapids,

Who have  purchased  privilege from the 

PUTNAM CANDY CO.

Both telephones  1248.

Wholesale  Fruits,  Vegetables and  Produce of all kinds. 

We are in receipt of daily  shipments  of  oysters 
from Baltimore and New York.

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

they  would  make  more  money  out  of 
their  eggs by  the  better  keeping  quali­
ties  of  them.  Some inspectors  use elec­
tricity  in  inspecting  eggs,  but  the  old- 
fashioned  way  of  inspecting  them  by 
gas  or  candle  is  said  to  be  the  most 
satisfactory.

Where  Ignorance  Was  Bliss.

From the St. Paul Trade Journal.

“ I  remember,”   said  a  St.  Paul 

job­
ber  the  other  day,  “ a  story  about  an 
old-time  merchant  of 
this  city,  who, 
after  many  years  of business life, .finally 
decided  to  hire  an  expert  to  go  over  his 
books  and  to ascertain  the  exact  condi­
tion  of  his business.  After  a  long  in­
vestigation  the  accountant  turned  to  his
employer  and  said,‘ Why,  Mr.  -----,  you
have  been  insolvent for twenty years !’

8

“ That  reminds  me,”   said  another 
jobber,  “ of  an  old  customer  who  finally 
failed,  and  I  went  down  to  see  him  and 
to  look  into  his  own  affairs. 
I  soon saw 
that  it  was  a  bad  break  and  asked  him 
why  be  had  not  long  ago  called 
in  an 
expert  to  straighten  out  his  books. 
‘ Why,’  said  he  naively,  'I  did  think  of 
doing  so  several  times,  but  I  was  al­
ways  afraid  that  if  I  did  I  should  find 
out  that  I  was  busted. ’

F.  J.  ROH RIG,  J r .,

Wholesale  and Retail Dealer in

com  and  w o o d -flour  and  feed

Recleaned Oats a Specialty.

Mack Ave. and Belt Line, 

DETROIT.

The  Morning  Market.

fall 

While  the  rush  of  the  peach  season  is 
pretty  well  over,  there 
is  still  enough 
with  the  large  display  of  vegetables  to 
make  the  market  a  place  of  interest. 
The  offerings  of  all fruits have declined, 
except  grapes,  which  are  now  coming 
in  in  great  profusion  and  selling  at  as­
tonishingly  low  prices.  Apples seem  to 
be  between  seasons—late  for  summer 
and 
fruit  and  early  for  winter. 
Peaches  are  falling  off  rapidly  in  quan­
tity  and  quality.  The  variation  in  qual­
ity  noted  last  week  has  increased  until 
now  some  of  the  poorest,  as  well  as 
some  of  the  best,  can  be  found  there. 
The  variation 
in  price  has  kept  pace 
with  the  quality.  Taking  the  season  as 
a  whole,  it  may  be  accounted  a  success­
ful  one  for both  grower  and 
jobber.  A 
greater  quantity  would  have  been  at  the 
expense  of  profitable  prices,  if  all  could 
have been  sold.  As  it 
is,  the  growers 
seem  to  have  disposed  of  everything 
and  that  at  prices  which,  while  com­
mencing  so  low  as  to  cause  apprehen­
sion,  have  steadily  strengthened  just 
rapidly  enough  to  keep  up  a  healthy 
tone  through  the  season.  Considering 
the  general  business  depression  and  the 
low  era  of  prices,  the  peach  men  are  to 
be  congratulated.  Not  so  much  can  be 
said  for  the  other  fruits.

Thus 
it  could  have  had  deliberation 
sufficient  to  have  assured  the  best  plans 
and  the  most  economical  outlay  of  the 
money.  Labor  and  prices  of  material 
have  been  at  the  lowest  ebb,  and  the 
employment  has  been  greatly  needed.
It  is  probable  that  these  conditions  will 
be  changed  another  year.  The  appro­
priation  will  not  accomplish  as  much 
and  the  work  must  be  rushed  to  be 
ready  for  the  next  harvest.  But  there 
seems  to  be  no  practicable  way  to  ex­
pedite  the  matter.

How  Eggs  are  Inspected  in  the  New 

York  Market.

to 

candling.”  

Eggs  are  purchased  by  large  dealers 
in  two  ways :  so  much  per dozen ;  “ case 
count,”   or  so  much  per  dozen,  “ sub­
ject 
“ Case  count’ ’ 
means  as  they  run  in  the  cases,  a  full 
case  containing  30  dozen  eggs. 
“ Sub­
ject  to  candling, ”   means  payment  for 
eggs  that  pass  the  candling  inspector 
and  are,  therefore,  classed  as  good.

In  the  center 

In  “ candling”   eggs  the  inspector  has 
a  small,  dark-lined  room.  He  sets three 
cases before  him,  about  the  height  of  a 
table. 
is  a  full  case  of 
eggs,  on  either  side  cases  into  which  to 
deposit 
“ strictlies,”   and  “ freshes.” 
Nearby 
is  a  case  for  “ rots”   and 
“ spots”   and  another  for  “ cracks.”

Vegetables continue  in abundance and 
all  at  the  same  low  scale of prices which 
has  obtained  all  the  season,  except  that 
potatoes  have  shown  a  healthy  advance, 
selling  now  at  30  to  40  cents.  Reports 
of  the  yield  from  the  principal  produc­
ing  localities  are  decidedly  unfavorable 
— “ small  potatoes  and  few  in  a  hill’ ’  is 
the  report  everywhere.  But  this  is  a 
better  situation  for  both  the  farmer  and 
the  shipper  than  such  an  universal 
abundance  as  last  year. 
is  better  to 
market  half  a  crop  at  30  or  40  cents 
than  a  whole  one  at  10  cents  or  no  sale 
at any  price.

It 

But  little  attention  seems  to be  given 
the  subject  of  a  new  market.  So  little 
has  been  heard  of  it  recently  that  it  has 
almost  disappeared  and  both  sellers and 
buyers  have  accepted  the  situation  as 
though  it  were  to  last  indefinitely.  This 
is  the  second  season  that  Ionia  street 
has  been  devoted  to  this  use.  More  in­
convenience  has  been  suffered  this  year 
than 
last,  on  account  of  the  principal 
southern  thoroughfare,  South  Division 
street,  being  closed  for  paving.  This 
has  greatly  increased  the  traffic on Ionia 
street  and  the  market  has been  found 
considerably  in  the  way,  causing  a  good 
deal  of  trouble  in  blockades  and  con­
fusion.  This  has  been  borne  uncom­
plainingly,  as  though  it  was  not  the 
fault  of  the  Common  Council  that  the 
proceeds  of  the  bonds,  which  are beg­
ging  for  disposal,  have  not  been  real­
ized  and  a  market  built  on  the  new site.
The  season  now  drawing  to  a  close 
will,  probably,  be  the  last  in  which  the 
market  will  be held  in  the  open  street, 
like  that  of  a  country  village,  unless 
what  seems  hardly  possible,  the  Council 
should  succeed  in  fooling  away  another 
year  without  selling  the  bonds;  so  that 
as  the  advancing  cold  of  the  chilly 
mornings  drives  the  farmers  from  their 
posts  it  will  be  for  the  last  time.  With 
the  aid  of  comfortable  stalls  where  the 
goods  may  be  unloaded  and  attractively 
displayed  the  season  can  be  consider­
ably 
lengthened.  That  the  market  of 
such  a  city  as  Grand  Rapids  should  be 
subject  to  the  vicissitudes of the weather 
—should  have  to  dodge  showers— is  cer­
tainly  a  ridiculous  situation.

The  work  on  the  new  market  ought  to 
have  been  principally  done this  year.

On  the  case  from  which  he 

inspects 
is  a  candle  and  behind  it  a  black  cloth 
hung  on  the  wall.  He  picks  up  six  eggs 
in  his  left  hand,  takes  two  in  his  right 
hand,  and  holds  them  close  to  the  can­
dle,  juggling  them  swiftly  before  the 
light  and 
in  a  moment  he  has  them 
sorted.

The  way  he  determines  the  age  of  an 
egg 
is  by  the  ring  he  sees  through  the 
shell.  Every  fresh  egg  has  a  small  air 
space  at  the  top.  When  the  egg  is  a 
month  old the  albumen  becomes  slightly 
thin  and  watery  and 
the  air  space 
larger. 
In  60 days  the  albumen  is  still 
more  watery  and  the  ring  has  come 
down  further.  A  month  or  two  longer 
and  the  ring  is  almost  in  the  center  of 
the  egg,  and  it  is  pretty  sure  to  be  bad. 
Cracks  are  easily  detected 
in  “ can­
In  shipping  eggs  those  even 
dling.”  
very  slightly  cracked  are  put  aside,  for 
they  would  be  sure  to  be  detected  by 
the 
inspector  at  the  other  end  and 
thrown  out,  to  the  loss  of  the  shipper. 
When  the  albumen  of  an  egg  becomes 
watery  the  yolk  floats  up  and  if  the  egg 
lies  long  it  will  stick  to  the shell.  When 
an  egg  of  this  kind  comes  before  the 
it  shows  a  dark  spot  against  the 
candle 
it 
shell  and 
is  set  out  as  a  “ spot.”  
This  spot 
is  often  the  result  of  an  egg 
lying  for  some  time on  the damp ground 
or  in  a  wet  nest.  Sometimes  the  egg 
shells  look  strangely  mottled  or  freckled 
when  held  against  the  candle.  This 
is 
the  result  of  having  been  packed  in 
salt,  an  old-fashioned  custom  still  in 
vogue on  farms. 
injures  the  sale  of 
eggs  whenever  detected,  as  buyers  do 
not  like  to  buy  salted  or  limed  eggs 
in 
these  days  of  cold-storage.  An  inspector 
can  pick  out  an  egg  that  has  been  in 
cold  storage  by  its  pale  or  faded  color, 
and  can  tell  a  salted  egg  by  the  “ ring”  
generally  being  near  the  center of  the
egg-
In 

inspection 
“ candlers”   often  open  a  case  of  eggs 
to  find  newly-hatched  chickens  peeping 
within  it.  The  case  may  have  stood  on 
the  sidewalk  or  on  country 
station 
platforms 
in  the  sun  for  days  and  the 
heat  has  performed  the  duties  of  a 
mother.  This  would  not  happen  if farm­
ers  would  separate  the  fowls  into  sexes 
and  keep  them  apart  all  summer  and

summer 

early 

the 

It 

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Warner’s  Oakland Co. Brand is reliable and of superior quality.

Try it aud .you will use no other.

F R E D   M.  W A R N E R .

Farmington,  Michigan.

Celebrated Anchor Brand are  the  best 

in the market.

See quotations in  price current.

F. J.  DETTERTHHLER.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

BALED  HAY  AND  OATS

CAR  LOTS

Ught from the “first hands.”  Be sociable.  Write for prices.

NIMS &  HOUFSTATER,  Lake Odessa,  Mich.

THE  EGQ  KINO  OF  MICHIGAN  IS

P .  W   B R O W N .

O F   I T H A O A .

OOMMAKERSofMICHIGA

A  full line of Brooms and  Whisk Brnn,^« In  the 
LARGEST PLANT  IN THE STATE.  Write f^r prices.

CHAS.  MANZELMANN,

Factory and  Office:  74i»74o  Bellevue  Ave., 
DETROIT. MICH.

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL  FISH,  POULTRY  AND  GAME.

H.  M.  BLIVEN,
O Y S T E R S

106  CANAL  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

we  are  ONLY  THREE  YEARS

IN  BUSINESS

BUT—if you want a “strictly commission”  home  to give 
you returns promptly and satisfactorily to  bid  for  future 
consignments,  correspond with

1^ A . M  E3 &  S C R I M G E R

of Detroit, who guarantee shippers highest market prices.

43-45  WEST  WOODBRIDGE  ST.

W e

our  Brand  of Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY  PURE  APPLE 
JUICE VINEGAR.  Tc -.ny  one who  will  analyze  it  and  find 
any deleterious acids, or anything that is  not  produced  from  the 
appiè, we will forfeit

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS

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

J.  ROBINSON, Manager.

ROBINSON  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,

BENTON  HARBOR,  fllCH.

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

Around  the State

of  M ífc'iáPts

i, to A.  R.  Henry, of  Battle Creek.

Gf

i ne  ¿aséis  says, 
OW  is pOÍSGO,

rr__VI

ewxgai.,  mo

£  Co.

! in 

tbeir  new  #5.000  stone  building

. b»tn  town, 

it  is  here  to  stay.

Maskegoa— Newcomb  McGraft,  who

S fìniìft— The  «a*

j A.  Gibbs,  of  Grand  Rapids,  who  has

be  remodeled  and  repainted.

Vicksburg— A  new 

industry  hac  re- 
[ceotly  developed  in  this  vicinity.  Men 
nave  bought  the  moss  on  certain  marsh 
:  lands  near the  village and  are gathering 
; and  shipping  it.  Under  the  name  of j

[fruit trees,  etc.  A  number  of  carloads; 
have  been  shipped  already.

Holland—C.  L.  Streeg  &  Son  have ! 

i closed  out  the  remainder  cf  their dry
■ goods  stock  Vj  J.  Wise,  who  will  con-1 
tince  the  business.  Henry  Streng,  the I 
junior  member  of  the  old 
firm,  an-j
i Bounces  that  be  will  identify  himself j 
;w;th  a  wholesale  dry  goods  house of I 
Chicago 
in  the  capacity  of  traveling I

Haneses— The  Lake  Superior  Iron 
Works  have  contracted  to  furnish  four 
16-ton  bed  plates  for  the  compressor 
engine cf  the  5ueerier engine house  of 
the  Calumet  &  Hecia  mine.

Micbizamme—The  Bay  Shore  Lum­
ber Cos. 
a  crew  in  the  woods cutting 
some timber on  which  the  time  expires 
shortly,  but  that 
is  the  only  camp  in 
operation  in  the  Michigamme  district.
lumbering  opera­
tions of  Alger,  Smith  i   Co.  are  almost 
at a  standstill  and  many  men  are  idle. 
The  mills  are  running  days  only,  the 
long  t'Other  trains  have  been  discon-

Black  River— The 

Saginaw—CoL  A.  T.  Bliss  has  kept 
his  mills  reusing  up  to  the  present 
time,  but  is  now  making  arrangements 
to store his  logs and  will  shut  down  his 
mills  shortly.  The  Central  Lumber  Co. 
and  C.  S.  Bliss  £  Co.  will  follow  suit.
Bay  City— F.  R.  R.  Graves,  who 
operates  a  shingle  mill  at  the  foot of 
Twenty-ninth  street,  has  just  returned 
from  a  trip  to  Ohio and  Indiana.  He 
says  the  demand  for  shingles is  improv­
ing  and  that  there  will  be  an  advance 
of  25  cents  per  thousand  on  shingles 
within  30  days.  His  mill 
is  cutting 
71,000  a  day,  and  he  reports  more  in­
quiry  the 
for

last  two  weeks 

than 

Greenville— The  Ranney  Refrigerator 
Co.  has  declared  a  cash  dividend  of  10 
per  cent,  payable  on  or  before  Nov. 
1;.  The  corporation  paid  6  per  cent, 
dividend  from  the  profits of  its  second 
year's  business  and  4  per  cent,  at  the 
end  of  the  first  year,  and  in  the  mean- j 
time  has  created  a  surplus  of  $28,000,  1 
so  that 
its  actual  working  capital  is 
now  $78,000.  The output  the  past  year! 
was  60  per  cent,  in  excess  of  any 
previous  year.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— There 

are  by  no  means 

is,  practically,  no 
market,  arid  the  prospects  for  winter 
fruit 
flattering. 
Niagara  county  alone  claims  that  her 
yield  will  approximate 
a  million 
bushels,  being  fine  in  color,  size  and 
quality.  Reports  from  the  Southwest 
are  to  the  effect  that  large  crops  are 
everywhere  prevalent,  so  that  the  out­
look  for  the  Michigan crop is not bright; 
in  fact,  the  outlook 
is  anything  but 
bright,  and  thousands  of  growers  will, 
probably,  permit  their  fruit  to  rot  on 
the  trees.

Beets—20c  per bu.
Butter—The  frequent  rains  and  the 
consequent  revival of fall pasturage have 
stimulated  production  to  that  extent 
that  butter 
in  even  more 
1 freely  than  a  week  ago,  in  consequence 
of  which  the  price  is  about  J^c 
lower, 
j  Fancy  dairy 
is  by  no  means  active  at 
!  t2 %c  and  factory  creamery  is  in  only 
I moderate  demand  at  16c.

is  coming 

Cabbage—Stock  was  never  finer  than 
this  year,  as  regards  size,  quality  and 
appearance,  large  heads  bringing  about 
S3  per  100  on  the  market  and  com­
manding  $4@5  per  100  when  purchased 
through  the dealer.

Carrots—25c  per bu.
Celery—The  market  has  advanced  a 
little  on  account  of  the  recent  rains 
in­
juring  some  of  the  stock  which  would 
otherwise  have  been  in  market  by  this 
time.  Good  stock  readily  commands 
15c  per bunch.
Crab  Apples—256530c  per  bu.  Never 

finer  in  quality,  size  or appearance.

Eggs—Arrivals  continue  small  and 
unsatisfactory,  in  consequence  of  which 
dealers  have  advanced 
the  price  on 
fancy  candled  stock  to  I2j4c.  While  the 
average  offering 
im­
is  still  opportunity  for 
proved,  there 
further  improvement,  which  will  occur 
as  the  weather  becomes  cooler.

is  very  much 

Egg  Plant—75c  per  doz.
Grapes—Altogether  too  low  for  profit, 
either  to  consumer  or  dealer.  Moore’s 
Early  and  Niagaras  go  begging  at /@8c 
for  5  lb.  basket  and 
io@i2c  for 8  lb. 
package.  Catawbas  are  now  in  fair  de­
mand  at  loc  for  5  lb.  basket.

Musk  Melons—About  at  an  end,  as 
they  have  become  so  cheap  that growers 
prefer  to 
leave  them  cn  the  vines. 
Hundreds  of  bushels  have  been  sold  on 
the  market  here  at  i5@2oc  per  bushel.

Onions— Dry,  40c  per  bushel.
Peaches—Another  week  will  pretty 
nearly  wind  up  the  season,  except  for 
Chilis,  which  will  probably  last  a  fort­
night  yet.  Fancy  Late  Crawfords  and 
Wheatlands  command  $1.506? 1.75  per 
bushel,  while  Chilis  are  in  fair  demand 
at  Si.

Pears  Bells  and  Bartlets  are  in 

fair 

demand  at  Si  per  bushel.

Peppers—Green,  75c  per  bushel.
Plums—About  out  of  market.  The 
season  has  been  a  very  unsatisfactory 
one  in  every  respect,  except  from  the 
standpoint  of  the  consumer,  as  the 
prices  have  been  too  low  to  afford  any 
margin  of  profit  to  the  grower and little, 
if  any,  margin  to  the  dealer.
Potatoes— Prices  have  taken  a  spurt 
during  the  past  week,  owing  to  the  fact 
that  the  early  crop  is  pretty  nearly  over 
and  the  late  potatoes  have  not  yet  put 
in  an  appearance.  For  three  days  this 
week  the  price  has  ruled  at  35@4¿>c  per 
bu.,  but  the  indications  for  late  pota­
toes  are  not  as  reassuring  as  could  be 
wished,  owing  to  the  fact  that  there is  a 
large  crop  in  the  East  and  a larger  crop 
in  the  West  than  last  year.  While  it  is 
true  that  there  has  been  considerable 
loss  from  stock  rotting  on  low ground  in 
the  Central  States,  ¡Ms  feared  that  the 
East  and  the  West  will  fill  up  the  gap, 
so  that  there  will  be  very  little  hope  for 
higher  prices  for  the  Michigan  crop 
than  prevailed  last  season.

Q uinces  -S i.25  per  bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—$3.25  per  bbl. 

Jerseys  and $2.50  for  Baftimores. 

for 

Tomatoes—25c  per  bu.

Soap  Made  from  Dirt.

The  most  curiously-made  soap  in  use 
is  that  supplied  to  the  stations  of  the 
London  and  Northwestern  Railway  Co., 
which  is  made  from  the  fat  and  grease 
washed  out  of  their  meat  cloths.

; 

, 

,  . 

,  ___, 

the  new  place. 

The  clerk  who 

Wben  the  ‘  personal 

Prom the Pharmaceutical Era_

etaiiing  the  occurrences  of 

The  Clerk’s  Personal  Friends. 

yea  =,  will  have charge! grandfatheriv  advice 

Bay  City—The  trades  council  and | 
¡clerks'  union  have  declared  a boycott i
■ against  the  store  that  refuses  to close 
early  at  night.  The  representatives  off 
following”   of 
those  bodies  stand  in  front  of  the  store! 
| some  young  clerks' 
is  mentioned,  the 
and  peddle  handbills  to  customers  and
J proprietor  is quite  frequently  observed
1 the  public.  The  proprietor  will  under- j  make a  wry  face.  Too  ofter 
it  re­
calls  to  mind  a group  of  young 
take  to  have  the  meddlers  arrested. 
persons

¡with  a  personal  following  needs  a 
a 

Detroit— Druggist  F.  W.  R.  Perry ( of  both  sexes  into  whom  the  salt  of 

j macies  have  proved  successful  in smaii- 

deeply  penetrated,  who
has  entered  upon  a  new  departure—for > Pfcri®ECi- 
Detroit— in  establishing  an  exclusive I mak?-  his  .store  3  convenient  place  for 
"last 
prescription  pharmacy.
Such  pbar-  ¡night,”   and  discussing  those inanities
of  the  call-age  of  mankind,  which  re­
concile  older  people  to  the  flight  of 
time.  He  does  not  care  to achieve  the 
reputation  which  attaches  to  the  cur­
mudgeon  or  to  the  tyrant  who  would 
seek  to  restrain  youthful  liberty,  and  he 
often  suffers 
in  silence,  and  that  the 
more  keenly  when  the old  saying  recurs 
to  him  that  “ business  is  business."

[ er  cities  than  Detroit.  Mr.  Perry  has 
not  given  up  his  old  store at  the  corner 
of  Woodward  and  Seiden  avenues,  but 
j will  divide  up  bis  time,  spending  part 
of  it  in  bis  new  place,  which  is  located 
in  Room  6,  Shurley  Building,  Adams 
j avenue  »Vest.  Leonard  A.  Seltzer,  who 
has  been  Mr.  Perry’s  chief  prescription 
clerk  for  several

ed  here  this  fall  with  all  latest  im-  He 
provements. 

is  thus  encumbered
little
total
¡stranger.  He  is  advised  to  get  all  the
enjoyment  possible  in  a  social  way  with 
companions  of  his own  age  outside  the 
. 
store,  but  when  he  enters  the  store  his
A  new  flour  mill  will  be  erect-  3 ^ ^   and  demeanor  should  change, 
in  business  not  only  for  his  (im­
j ployer,  but  for  himself.  He  is  making
Detroit—C.  H.  Koch  &  Co.  succeed 1 money  for  his  employer  and  making 
Koch  &  Allmand  in  the  carriage  man- j character  for himself.  He  need  not  be 
llmand  in  the  carriage 
,  , 
b 
, 
in  manner  toward  his
churlish 
best 
business.
friends,  but  he should  endeavor  to
"  a  uring  us 1 ness. 
cul­
Standisb— Keller  &  Server  have  es­
tivate  a  certain  reserve  which  will  re- 
tablished  a  factory  here  for  the  manu­
' mind  them  that  the  store  is  not  a  plav- 
| ground.  He  need  not  fear  that  such" a 
facture  of  bicycles  and  bicycle findings.
I course  will  drive  away  all  the  chewing 
Baraga— Patrick  Nester  has  sent  a 
¡gum  and  confectionery  trade,  for  it  will
scow  load  of  lumber  to  the  fire  sufferers
-5— —-—-— ----------- -— i not.  A  certain  degree of  soberness  al-
,  
at  Ontonagon,  and  other  Lake  Superior j ways  commands  the  respeet  of  even  the 
manufacturers  will  probably  contribute,  most  giddy  of  the  unsalted  generation.
There  is another  kind  of  personal  fol- 
Alpena—The  Minor  Lumber  Co.  has 
which  every  young  clerk  should
shut  down  its  sawmill  indefinitely  The  j 
t**a* of  tbeh° l^ T
full  of  lumber!  The 
mill  docks  are 
people,  who  will  like  to trade  with  him
r - 
. 
. . .  
Flecther  mill  started  last  week,  after  a | because  he  is attentive,  polite  and  good 
two  weeks’  shut  down 
j natured  when  he  waits  upon  them.  The
Munising— The  main  building  of  the I "boss”   never  distorts  his  features  when 
observes  this  following,  and  his  only 
'S  tbj l  a  salary  will  have  to  be 
raised  some  day,  to  keep  the  clerk  and
is  partly  up  and  presents  a  fine ap- j his  personal  following  from  going  else- 
j where.

Munising  Leather  Co.  will  be  80x800 j 
feet  in  dimensions  and  five stories high.  ! regrf!i 
1.  - 
It 
pearance across  the  Bay. 

Manufacturing  Matters.
, 

“   K 

from 

¿ L '

Omt

•„ 

... 

is 

a 

, 

, 

, 

, 

. 

Big  Rapids—-F.  O. Vasdersluis  has
rented  the  norti1  store of  bis  hh#ck  to  A.
M.  Lester,  of Gran<d  Rapids,  who  is
opening  up  a  s:ock  of dry  ¿íxxis.

Mare uette_F red  Constance.  who  was

head  clerk  for  the  Em
ware  Co.,  has  gone  to  Calumet  to  take a 
position  with  the  Carlton  Hardware  Co.
Central  Caste—A  r.ew  miliirierv  store 
has  been  opened  at  this  place  by  Mrs. 
Dewey,  of  Aiden,  who  was  formerly  en­
gaged  in  the  millinerv  business  at  Elk 
Rapids.

Belding—Nevin  Lloyd  has  sold  bis I 

interest  in  trie  grocery  stock  of Mikesell

cepted  a  $ÏOS stton  wfih a wholesale bouse
id  Adrian

Otsego—A.  W.  Hartman,  who  was 
manager  or  toe  Starr  drv  goods  store, 
will  put  in  a  stock  of  drv  goods 
in  the 
same  place  and  be  ready  to  open 
Sept.  15.

& Lloyd  t0 Ei.  R.  S dencer ami  has  ac-
So.  F rarikf<>a_g   vero ï e r óc Son have
at  204  jo seph  Carn|P?au  averme, have
725  Grand Ri ver  averme,  and WÍ1S con-

removed their  bran<:h  hard ware stock
from  HotlOf
to  this!  place. The y  still
continue the ir  bard ware  business  at
Lake  Ann,
Detroit

purchased the  store of  J.  B. You:ng,  at

eves  & Carson, dr»j;ggists

duct  it  as a  branch.

Detroit--H. T.  Bu?ih  8c  Co.  :have  filed
articles  oiÍ  1ncorporation  and willi  do  a
general  mercantile,
forward ¡fig
and
commi ss ion business
in  this cityr  on  a
capital  stock  of  $20,000,  of which  $0,200 \ 
has  been  paid  in.

Lansing— H.  Kositchek  has  sold  the! 
stock of goods at  106 Washington avenue,  j

G rand  Rapids  Qossip
Fred  G.  Rice  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  75  Pearl  street.  The  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
furnished  the 
stock.

C.  V.  Weller,  dealer  in  notions  and 
furnishing  goods  at  Cedar  Springs,  has 
added  a  line  of  groceries.  The  Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Robert  Massey,  manufacturer 

of 
cigars at  Traverse  City,  will  remove  his 
manufacturing  business  to 
this  city 
about  Oct.  1,  occupying  a  one-story 
frame  factory  building  now 
in  process 
of  construction  at  the  corner  of  Pine 
and  Second  streets.

Clarence  Vanderpool  has  on  exhibi­
tion  at  the  Stornhouse  drug  store,  on 
West  Leonard  street,  a  number  of  boa 
constrictor  skins,  handsomely  tanned, 
which  were  presented  to  him  by  L.  F. 
Sunlin,  who  is  traveling  with  the  Ring- 
ling  Bros,  circus  and  menagerie.  The 
exhibit 
is  so  attractive  that  it  should 
have been  made  at  the  State  Fair.

S.  M.  Vinton,  who  recently  sold  his 
general  stock  at  Leetsville  to  A.  L. 
Moon,  has  removed  to  this  city  and 
taken  possession  of the Ward homestead, 
in  South  Grand  Rapids,  which  he  re­
cently  purchased.  Mr.  Vinton  has  not 
fully  decided  upon  his  career in his  new 
location,  but  will  take  a 
long  respite 
from  business  cares,  as  an  offset  to  the 
fifteen  years’  continuous  application  to 
business  at  Leetsville.

At  the  urgent  solicitation  of  the  retail 
the  compressed  yeast 
grocery  trade, 
companies  catering  to  the  local  trade 
have  finally  decided  to  discontinue  the 
distribution  of  premiums  in  exchange 
for  yeast  labels.  The  practice  was never 
congenial  to  the  grocery  trade,  for  the 
reason  that  it  involved  a  degree of  de­
tail  decidedly  distasteful  to  the  grocer, 
besides  affording  provocation  for  mis­
understandings, which  too  frequently de­
into  serious  disputes,  culmi­
veloped 
nating 
in 
ill  feeling  and  loss  of  trade. 
The  new  arrangement  goes  into  effect 
Oct.  1.

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  was  rather tame 
during  the  week.  There  was  no  en­
couraging  news  for  either  buyers or sell­
ers  and  both  remained  passive,  espe­
cially  as  there  were  two  holidays  (Sun­
day  and  labor day).  The  shorts  put out 
no  new  lines  and  the  longs  evened  up, 
so  the  trade  shows  no  change.  While
the  exports  were  large,  being  3.369,000 
bushels  for  the  week,  the  receipts  were 
also  large,  and  we  may  expect  this  for 
a  few  weeks.  Notwithstanding  the  fact 
that  the  harvest  was  earlier  than  is 
usual,  the  visible  does  not  show  the 
large  increase  that  it  did  last  year  and 
in  1894.  The  increase  in  the  visible was 
only  921,000  bushels—rather  moderate. 
One  thing  should  not  be  lost  sight  of 
and  that 
is  that  Duluth  alone  shipped 
26,500,000  bushels  during  the  past  nine­
teen  weeks,  against  9,500,000  bushels 
during  the  corresponding  time  in  1895. 
the  whole  matter  up  and  ex­
To  sum 
press 
it 
in  a  few  words,  it  is  a  “ wait­
ing  market.’ ’  Perhaps  the  Government 
crop  report,  which  will  be  issued  to­
morrow,  may  give  something  more 
definite  for  the  trade  to  work  on.

Coarse  grain,  especially 

is 
weak,  as  this  crop  is  virtually  matured. 
Regarding  the  crop  in  our  own  State,  1 
will  say  that  the  writer  is  of  the opinion 
that  we  will  be able  to  ship  some  corn

corn, 

out  instead  of  importing  it.  The  past 
season  has  been  an  ideal  one  for  a  corn 
crop.

It  has  been 

just  the  contrary  with 
oats.  Just  when  a  little  rain  was  need­
ed,  it  was  too  dry 
in  many  sections, 
and,  when  it  should  have  been  dry,  it 
rained  altogether  too  much,  thus  dis­
coloring  the  oats  and  also  making  them 
light  weight.

The  receipts  of  grain  were  very  mod­
erate,  being  only  32  cars  of  wheat,  3 
cars  of  corn  and  5  cars of  oats.  The 
mills  are  paying  54c  for  wheat,  against 
55c  one  week  ago.  C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

Flour  and  Feed.

Within  the  past  few  days  the  demand 
for  flour  has  been  steadily  increasing 
and,  from  present  indications,  the trade 
is  beginning  to  realize  that  flour  is 
cheap  and  about  as  safe  a  commodity 
for  investment as  can  be  found.

Reports  continue  to  come  in  regard 
ing  the  shortage  of  both  spring  and 
winter  wheat  crops  and  the  very  serious 
damage  to  the  short  winter  wheat  crop 
since  harvest  in  the  States  of  Ohio,  In­
diana  and  Illinois  on  account  of  the  ex­
cessive  wet  weather.  Fortunately,  this 
section  of  Michigan  has  wheat  of  ex­
cellent  quality,  although  short  in  quan­
tity,  and  flour  from  our  city  mills  is 
in 
good  demand.

Millstuffs,  feed  and  meal  are 

in  fair 
demand  and  prices  are  steady.  There 
is  not  much  advance  looked  for  until 
the advent of winter.  W m  N.  R o w e.

Condition  of  Growing  Crops  in  Mich­

igan.

Lansing,  Sept.  2.— Light  frosts  have 
visited  nearly  all  sections  of  the  State 
during  the  week,  but  they  were  con­
fined  to  lowlands  and  generally 
the 
damage  has  been  very 
light;  otherwise 
the  weather  has  been  generally  favor­
able  to  crops  and  farm  work.  Corn  has 
matured  quite  rapidly  and  continues  in 
fine  condition.  Considerable  corn  has 
been  cut  and  this  work  is  now  becom­
ing  general.  The  general  verdict  of 
correspondents 
is  that  ten  days  more 
will  put  the  crop  beyond  danger of  frost 
and  that  the  yield  will  be  one  of  the 
heaviest  known  in  Michigan  for  some 
years  back.  Potatoes,  in many cases,  are 
yielding  poorly;  the  continued  wet 
weather  during  the  summer  was  detri­
mental,  causing  many  of  them  to  rot  in 
the ground ;  in  addition  to  this,  corres­
pondents  also  report  that,  while  the tops 
are  very  heavy  and  luxuriant,  there  are 
few  potatoes 
in  the  hill.  Millet  has 
been  cut  during  the  past  week  and  a 
fine  crop  secured.  Pastures  are  in  ex­
cellent  condition,  while  the  yield  of 
fruit,  especially  apples,  peaches  and 
pears,  is  very  heavy,  the  fruit  being  of 
fine  quality  and  of  good  size.  The 
weather  has  been  very  favorable  to farm 
work ;  much  threshing  has  been  done 
and  this  work 
is  now  very  near  com­
pletion.  Plowing  and  fitting the ground 
for  fall  seeding  has  also  been  rapidly 
rushed 
in  all  parts  of  the  State.  Con­
siderable  wheat  has  been  sown  and  also 
some  rye.  Bean  harvest  has  quite  gen­
erally  been  in  progress  and  a  fair  yield 
is being  secured,although  in  some local­
ities  the  crop  has  been  badly  damaged 
by  the  continued  wet  weather  of  the 
past  summer.

M.  S.  Scoville,  the  Kalamazoo  grocer, 
is  spending  a  week  in  Eastern  Michi­
gan,  the  guest  of  friends  at Holly.  Mr. 
Scoville  seldom  takes  a  respite  from 
business  cares  and  richly  deserves  such 
a  breathing  spell.

The  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company 
cleared  two  carloads  of  Japan  tea  from 
Yokohama  last  week,  the  second  clear­
ance  during  the  present  season.

The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 

E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

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

5

The  Grocery  Market.

Perhaps 

the  most 

interesting 

Sugar  (Shipping  List)— The  market 
has  moved  along  without  the  occurrence 
of  any  specially 
events. 
Prices  have  been  held  at  the  old  list 
rates. 
important 
feature  of  the  week  was  the semi-official 
announcement  from 
the  office  of  the 
American  Sugar  Refining  Company that 
prices  of  refined  sugar  would  not  be 
changed  this  week.  The  interpretation 
put  upon 
this  statement  was  that  the 
company  was  anxious  to  remove  from 
the  minds  of  the  country  the 
idea  that 
there  would  be  a  decline  in  prices  early 
next  week.  Many  orders  were  held 
back  on  this  supposition,  but in  spite  of 
this  the  business  for  the  week  shows  a 
very  good  total.  Most  of  the  soft  grades 
are  delayed  a  little  in  shipment,  owing 
to  the  oversold  condition  of  the  market.
It 
is  thought  that  the  country  is  quite 
bare  of  supplies  and  that  there  will  be 
a  good  steady  demand  from  now  on.

In  California  canned 

Canned Goods (Shipping List) —There 
has  been  no  increase  in  the  demand  for 
any  class  of  goods  coming  under  this 
head. 
fruits  to 
arrive  there  is  comparatively little busi­
ness  doing.  The  feeling  on  the  coast, 
however,  appears  to  be  steady  and there 
is  no  pressure  to  sell.  Advices  just  re­
ceived  from  Baltimore  state  that  the 
peach  packing  season  is  near  its  end 
The  pack  will  be about  the  same  as  last 
year,  and  will,  it 
is  reported,  consist 
of  a  larger  percentage  of  seconds,  as 
the  packers  have  found  it  impossible  to 
get  enough  fruit  of  desirable  quality  to 
make  any  sort  of  a  showing  in  extras 
In  Baltimore  the  mar­
and  standards. 
ket, is  firm,  but  there  seems  to  be 
little 
business  doing.  The  tomato  pack,  it  is 
reported,  will  be  rather  light.  Many  of 
the  factories  are  shutting  down ;  some, 
it  is  said,  for  lack  of  funds  and  others 
because  the  price  of  50c  represents  no 
profit.  Peas  art  moving  very  slowly  and 
the  market 
is  rather  easy.  The  low 
prices quoted  for  string  beans  have  at­
tracted  some  attention  to  this  article, 
but  no  business  of  consequence  is  re­
ported.  Corn  is  not  wanted  apparently. 
The  State  pack  this  year,  it  is  said, 
will  be  regulated  with  closer  reference 
to  the  demand,  as  the  packers  are  buy­
ing  their  stock  by  the  ton  instead  of 
contracting  for 
it  by  the  acre,  and 
therefore  will  not  be  under  the  neces­
sity  of  packing  the  green  stuff  in  order 
to  keep 
it  from  “ going  to  waste.” 
There  has  been  no  further  change  in 
the  price  of  corned  beef.  The  demand 
from  home  and  export  buyers 
is  fair 
and  the  market  is  firm.  American  sar­
dines  are  firmer,  owing  to  the  reported 
shutting  down  of  the  factories  as  the re­
sult  of  small  supplies  of  fish  and  the 
unprofitable  prices  obtainable.

last  year. 

Provisions—A  total  of  225,000 hogs 
represents  the killing of Western packers 
the  past  week,  compared  with  240,000. 
the  preceding  week  and  165,000  for  the 
corresponding  time 
From 
March  1  the  total 
is  7,355,000,  against 
6,075,000  a  year  ago.  The  week  shows  a 
gain  of  60,000  for the  week  and  1,280,- 
000  for  the  season,  compared  with 
last 
year.  Prices  have been  moderately  re­
duced.  The  reduction  in  manufacture 
for  several  weeks  past  and  the  liberal 
distribution  of  products  are  bringing 
about  a  decided  decrease  in  stocks  at 
the  prominent  markets,  but  the fact that 
remaining  supplies  are  large,  with  the 
prospect  of  fairly  good  offerings  of hogs 
right along,  operates against such an  ad­
vancing  tendency  as  the 
trade  have 
been  hoping  for.  Other  causes  have 
had  a  share  in  checking  speculative  in-

in 

terest  in  these  and  other  products,  and 
the  prevailing  belief 
is  that  there  is 
likely  to  be  a  continuance  of  the  re­
strictions 
trade  matters  for  some 
weeks  or  months  to  come.  There  was 
quite  a  decline  in  the  visible  stocks  of 
lard  the  past  month,  notably  so  at  Chi­
cago  and  European  markets,  while  the 
recent  large  clearances  for  export  made 
an  increase  in  the  supply  afloat.  The 
aggregate,  however,  marks  a  decrease 
of  45,000  tierces  for  the  month,  which 
would  be  quite  a  strengthening  element 
in  the  market  but  for  the  exceptionally 
large  supply  remaining  in  sight.  The 
past  week’s  exports  were  again  liberal 
of  lard  and  were  large  of  meats.  The 
markets  have  probably  seen  their  low 
points,  and  unless  monetary  matters  in­
terfere  there  should  be  expected  some 
degree  of  shaping  toward  higher values.
Tea— There  are  no  changes  in  price 
to  record  and  there  are  no  indications 
that  there  will  be  any  in  the  next  sev­
eral  weeks.  The  receipts  of  new  crop 
teas  are  about  normal.  Stocks  of  tea  in 
the  country  are  not  too  ample,  although 
there  is  believed  to  be  plenty  for  the 
demand.  Dealers  expect  present prices 
to be  maintained  during  the  season.

still 

Cheese— The  make 

continues 
good  and  the  quality  is  improving  from 
day  to  day.  The  trade  look  for  an 
im­
in  both  demand  and  prices 
provement 
as  soon  as  the  September  cheese 
is 
ready  for  holding  tor  fall  and  winter 
months.  Buyers  are  generally  in  the 
market  at  this  season  for  a  winter  sup­
ply,  but  this  year  may  prove  an  excep­
tion  on  account  of  the  depressed  condi­
tion  of  business,  for  which  reason  they 
are  not  apt  to  lay  in  as  large  stocks  as 
usual,  if  any  at  all.  The 
idea  will  be 
to 
let  factories  and  dealers  carry  the 
goods,  the buyers  taking  their  supplies 
from  day  to  day  as  they  need.

Rice— Receipts  of  rough  thus far have 
been  50  per  cent,  less  than  last  year, 
while  sales  of  cleaned  are  75  per  cent, 
more,  and,  as  a  natural  sequence,  mar­
ket  rules 
in  sellers’  favor.  This  also 
holds  true  as  to  the  old  crop  and  prices 
are  further  advanced  on  everything  of 
merchantable  character.  Reports  con­
cerning  the  crop  along  the  Atlantic 
Coast  are  slightly  discouraging.  On  the 
other  hand,  good  progress 
is  being 
made  with  the  crop  in  the  Southwest. 
Foreign  styles  are  much  more  active 
than  for  some  time  past  and  it  is  evi­
dent  that  they  will  hold  place  the season 
through.  .

How  to  Preserve  Apples.

To  keep  apples  and  other  fruit,  store 
the  barrels 
in  a  cool  place.  Heat  de­
stroys  more  apples  than  does  cold,  and 
alternate  freezing  and  thawing  is  also 
disastrous.  The  location  for  the storage 
of  apples 
is  therefore  more  important 
than  anything  else.  Store  only  sound 
and  perfect  apples,  and  do  not  allow 
even  one  to  be  bruised,  as  an  imperfect 
apple  may  injure  all  in  the  barrel.

Some  apprenhension  is  being  felt 

French  Apprehension  over  Maize  Oil.
in 
the  olive-oil  district 
in  the  South  of 
France  on  account  of  the  statement  that 
the  manufacture  of  oil  from  maize  is 
into  a  new  industry  in  the 
developing 
United  States. 
It  is  feared  that  some 
day  this  maize  oil  will  be  a  serious 
competitor  of  olive  oil.

J.  L.  Farnham,  the  veteran  Mance- 
lona  merchant,  is  spending  the  week  in 
the  city,  visiting  friends  and  taking 
in 
the  State  Fair.

Gillies’  New  York  Teas,  all  kinds, 
[grades  and  prices.  Phone  1589.  Visner.

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AMERICAN  MONEY.

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Cil 2

rariaofe  and  as  exacting  as  a 
u  law,  and  no  nation,  howev< 
uL  has  been  able,  for anv  le

ív  did  nave

sells  were  *of  two  colors,  black
te,  the  blac:k  being  twice as val-
the  white, 
t,  even  at  tfcis  early  period,  the
were trout*Ied  with  counterfeit-
white  shell 5  being  dved  black
them  pass at  a  greater  value.

business transactions  and  it became  a
teuder  to  a  specified amount.
legal 
Laws  were  passed  fixing  its  \raluè  and
regular iniz  its  arrangement. 
It  was  de-
that wampum
creed 
should  be 
strung saitaoiy ana not small 
and  great  uncomely  mixt,  as  formerly 
in
it  hath  been.v  Wampum  remained 

int  Connecticut 

eighteenth  century.

Beaver  skins  were  also  used  by  the 
colonists  as  a  medium  of  exchange  and 
on  Manhattan  Island  a  ratio  was  estab­
lished  between  wampum  and  beaver. 
Thus  a  double  standard  came 
into  use, 
with  its  inconveniences  and .  attendant 
evils.  The  market  ratio  and  the  legal 
ratio  varied. 
It  was  impossible  to keep 
the  two  together.  Difficuit  q u estions

lat

1er i

barley,
musket

Tobacco,  in these

preamt 
be ccioc 
Caroli?

t  and  the  value  is  so 

year,  it  was  de 
of  tobacco  mad

jvt. 
pesce  per 
an  agre«: 
Maryland,  \  ii

t  oerwees  i" 
irginia  and 
Dticg  of  tobacco  for  one

Is  twtiiîT  vçars  the  pnce  fell
e  of

is  circulation  so  recklessly,  persistent­
ly,  outrageously,  as the  colonial  assem­
blies.”   The  debtor  class  gained  con­
trol  of  legislation,  bitter prejudices were 
aroused  against  those  who loaned money 
and  any  one  declaring  against  paper 
money  was  regarded  as  an  enemy of  the 
color:v.  Not  only  were creditors  com­
pelled  to  receive  this  constantly  de­
preciating  currency  in  payment  of  their 
claims,  but  merchants  were  forced  to 
receive  it,  and  penalties  were 
inflicted 
for  charging  more  when  payment  was 
made  in  paper than  when  in specie. 
In 
New England,  bills of credit were  issued 
and 
loaned  by  members  of  the  legisla­
ture  to themselves.  Thomas  Payne,  in 
ijgS,  thus  describes  some  of  the  advo­
cates  of  paper  money: 
‘ ‘ There are  a 
set  of  men  who  go about  making  pur­
chases  upon  credit  and  buying  estates 
that  they  have  not  wherewithal  to  pay 
for;  and,  having  done  this,  their  next 
step  is  to  fill  the  newspapers  with  para 
scarcity  of  money  and  the 
graphs of  ti 
paper  emission,  then  to
necessity  of
re  legal  tender  under the  pretense  of 
iporting  its credit  and,  when  out,  to 
i  d€D
it  as  fast  as  they  can,  get a 
•reciate 
F,  in nnal 
d  deal  of 
it  for a  little  price,  and 
oo
of  debts  and  fall  payment  for 
at  their creditors.”
h^inir  arrprifpH Annaliv  COe
being  accepted  eqoasi 
One  of  the  causes  of  estrangement 
without  reference  to  the  character or  the 
between  England  and  the  colonies  arose 
[ credit  of  the  person  who-offers 
It 
from  the  repeated  efforts  of  Parliament 
may  be a  good  medium  of  exchange  or 
to  put  a  stop  to the  wholesale  issue of 
it  may  be a  bad  one,  but as long as  peo­
paper  money  and  to establish  a  uniform 
ple  are  willing  to accept  it  in  payment 
valuation  of  silver coins. 
It  was  main­
of  debts,  it  answers  the  purposes  of 
tained  by  the  colonists  that  they  had  an 
money.  Anything  can,  by common  con­
inherent  right,  as  freeborn  citizens,  to 
sent,  be  used  as  a  medium  of  exchange 
hey  wanted  and  to 
: and  no  seg 
islation  can  force into general 
colonial  leg is-
I circulation 
any  kind  of  money  which 
I the  busin< 
is  unwilling  to ac-
icept.

imes  they  are not. ‘ * 3Honey  is “v
i  passes  freely  from band  to
igbout  tbe community
“

jayment of del 
istâncii  not i od  tnat  monty 
tr,  a 11 bou ? b  sold  EQQ  ssl

La s
□  paysi 
ider  in

ss  world 

were  a  legal 

It  is  a

arge  oi  dc

iney
and

mat  v

r 

it.”  

The  usi 
tobacco,  com  and  other 
; commoditi 
was,  naturally,  accom- 
panied  wi 
serious 
inconveniences. 
Tbev  fino
:d  greatly  in  value,  were 
i too  cumbersome  to  be 
transported, 
i lacked uniformity  and  were  not durable, 
i  In  the  course  of  time  silver came  into 
i more  general  use.  Some  of  the  coio- 
jnists  entertained  the  mistaken  idea  that 
| the  amount  of  money  in  circulation  was 
i the  only  test  of  the  wealth  of  a  country.
'  in  order,  therefore,  to  increase the num­
ber  of  silver  coins.  South  Carolina 
adopted  the  unique  plan  of  raising  the 
value  of  silver  coins. 
If,  for  example, 
South  Carolina  rated  the  Spanish  dollar 
at  six  shillings  and  nine  pence,  when 
in  Massachusetts 
it  was  only  rated  at 
six  shillings,  it  was  a  very  natural  con­
clusion  that  Spanish  dollars  would  be 
drawn  from  Massachusetts.  An  act  ac­
cordingly  was  passed  to  raise  the  cur­
rent  coin  .of  the  province.  The  pre­
amble  read,  ’ ' Whereas  the  great  decay 
of  trade  had  been  occasioned  by  the 
scarcity  of  money— for  the  prevention 
better  securing  of 
eft  among  us  and, 
ragement of great-

f  the 
As  a

province—be  it 
natural  conse-

; and  the  rapid  depreciation  and  worth- 
! lessness  of  continental  money,  luxury 
i prevailed  to  a  considerable  extent  in 
i the  cities  and 
lavish  display  was  not 
j infrequent.  Extravagance 
in  living  is 
one  of  the  sure  accompaniments  of 
j cheap  money  and  it  is  the inevitable re- 
i suit  of  reckless  speculations 
in  a  de- 
j preciating  currency.  Our  Civil  War 
was  no exception  to  this  rule.  A rapid- 
| ly  depreciating  currency forces  a  rapid 
| rise 
in  prices  and  sbrewd  speculators,
| by anticipating  rapid  changes in values,
] secure  large  gains.  John  Fiske,  in  bis 
¡admirable  work,  ‘ ‘ The  Critical  Period 
| of  American  History,”   makes  this  for- 
j cible  statement:  “ The  worst feature  of 
¡this  financial  device  is  that  it  not  only 
]  impoverishes  people,  but  bemuddles 
their  brains  by  creating a false and fleet- 
] ing  show  of  prosperity.  By  violently 
disturbing  apparent  values,  it  always 
brings  on  an  era  of  wild  speculation 
and  extravagance  in  living,  followed  by 
sudden  collapse  and  protracted  suffer­
ing.  In  such  crises  the poorest  people— 
those  who  earn  their  living  by  the 
sweat  of  tbeir  brows  and  have  no  mar­
gin  of  accumulated 
capital—always 
suffer  tbe  most.  Above  all  men,  it  is 
the  laboring  man  who  needs  sound 
money  and  steady  values.”

At  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  the  condition  of  the  country  was 
indeed  deplorable.  Farmers  were  un­
able  to  pay  their  debts.  Tbe  produce 
of  their  farms  scarcely  met  current  ex­
penses.  Poverty  and  distress  generally 
prevailed.  All  business  was  practically 
at  an  end  and  money  almost  ceased  to 
circulate.  The  colonies  bad  no  credit 
abroad ;  their  securities  were  worthless. 
Recourse  was  had  again  to barter.  The 
editor  of  the  Worcester  Spy  announced 
that  subscriptions  for  bis  paper  would 
be  received  in  salt  pork.  While  great 
losses  were 
incidental  to  the  war,  the 
distress  occasioned  by  cheap money  was 
much  greater.  A  well-known  writer  of 
the  day  on  finance,  Petatiah  Webster, 
says  of  continental  money:  “ We  have 
suffered  more  from  this  than  from  every’ 
other  cause  of  calamity. 
It  has  killed 
more  men,  pervaded  and  corrupted  the 
choicest 
interests  of  our  country’  more 
and  done  more  injustice than  even  the 
arms  and  artifices  of  our  enemies.”

to 

Regardless of  past  experiments which 
had  worked  so  much  evil  to  the  coun­
try,  the  apostles  of  cheap  money  again 
went  about  preaching  that  the  poor  man 
needed  more  money  and  that  tbe  only 
solution  of  the  then  existing  financial 
troubles  was  again 
issue  paper 
money.  There  were,  at  that  time,  as 
there  have  been  and  still  are  in  the 
country,  person’s  who  thought  that  the 
Government  could,  by  merely  calling  a 
quantity  of  paper  a  million  dollars, 
really  add  a  million  dollars  to  the 
wealth  of  the  country,  and  that  any  one 
who  thought  differently  was  an  igno­
ramus.  As  such  men  are  usually  active 
and  clamorous,  converts  were  readily 
made.  Money  had  become  so  scarce 
that  many  men  were  easily  made  to  be­
lieve  that  a  debased  currency which cir­
culated  freely  was,  after all,  much  bet­
ter  than  a  good  currency  which  they 
rarely  saw.  Persons  heavily 
in  debt 
hoped  with  cheap  money  to  get  some 
relief.

The  struggle  was  bitter  and  pro­
tracted.  On  one  side,  it  was  declared 
that  the  evils  which  affected  the country 
could  only  be  cured  by  building  up 
manufactures  and  by  encouraging  com­
merce  and  by  practicing  a  strict 
economy;  on  the  other  side, 
it  was 
urged  that  the  only  panacea for  existing 
troubles  was  cheap  money.  Some  of 
the  colonies,  impressed  with  the  whole­
some  lessons  of  the  Revolutionary  War, 
refused  to  try  again  a  repeated  and  dis­
astrous  experiment  and  they  insisted  on 
a  sound  and  a  stable  currency.  They 
were 
tired  of  attempting  to  create 
wealth  out  of  nothing.  Rhode  Island 
and  some  of  the  other  colonies  plunged 
headlong  into  the  rag  money craze.  The 
farmers,  as  a  general  rule, 
favored 
cheap  money.  Coercive  measures  to en­
force  the  acceptance  of  paper  money 
were  resorted  to,  armed  mobs  interfered 
with  the  courts of  justice,  judges  were 
removed  for  declaring  that  a forcing  act 
was  unconstitutional,  violent  outbreaks

favored 

te  all  :the  money they  v
their debts as  their  c
ires  m¡got  detennine.
res  might determine.
:  wooId  naturaliiy  be
It  would  naturaliv  be  supposed  that 
lesson  taught by  c
colonial  paper] 
ley  wc>u!d  not  soon  be
rgotten;  but 
the  Revolutionary  War opened the  doors j 
!to a  “ mighty  torrent  of  paper  money.”  
j Colonial  money  was  bad  enough,  but ] 
i continental  money  was  much  worse,  j 
Beniamin  Franklin,  who,  before  the] 
Revolutionary  War,  had 
in  j 
Pennsylvania  the  issue  of  paper  money,  I 
proposed  to  Congress  that  the  bills to  be | 
issued  should  bear  interest,  to  prevent I 
them  from  depreciating.  This  sugges­
tion  being  rejected  and  the  first  issue ! 
becoming  exhausted,  be  advised  that j 
the  bills  should  be  borrowed  back  upon 
interest,  instead  of  issuing  more.  This I 
measure  was  afterwards  adopted,  but 
not 
in  time  to  prevent  over-issue  and 
depreciation.  Finally,  to  stay  tbe down­
ward  rush  of  bills,  be  proposed  that  tbe j 
interest  should  be  paid  in  hard  money. 
Congress,  in  the  course of  the  war,  ap­
proved  this  expedient,  hut  at  that  time! 
the  vice of  over-issue  was  past  remedy.

It 

In  order  to  force  continental  money I 
into  circulation,  unusual  and  oppressive 
measures  were  adopted.  Congress  de­
clared  that  any  person  who  would  not 
receive  it  at  par  should  be  regarded  as 
a  public  enemy  and  be  liable  to  forfeit 
whatever  he  offered  for  sale. 
“ Trade 
became a  game  of  hazard.  Unscrupu­
lous  debtors  discharged  contracts  of I 
long  standing 
in  bills  worth,  perhaps, 
but  a  twentieth  of  their  nominal  value.  | 
The  unwary  ran 
into  debt,  while  cun­
ning  creditors  waited  for  payment  until 
the  continental  bills  should  cease  to  be 
a  legal  tender.”  
is  a  remarkable 
fact  that,  when  Congress  issued  an  ir­
redeemable  paper currency,  the  people, 
in  proportion  to  their  numbers,  were 
more  opulent  than  the  people of Franee, 
who  rendered  them  efficient aid.  Judge 
Story,  referring  to  the  legal  tender  laws 
of  this  period,  says;  "They entailed the 
most  enormous  evils on  tbe  country  and 
introduced  a  system  of  fraud,  chicanery 
and  profligacy  which  destroyed  all  pri­
vate  confidence  and  all  industry  and en­
terprise. ”   Continental  money  rapidiy 
depreciated 
in  value,  regardless of  all 
laws  and  penalties.  Forty  dollars  was 
paid  for a  hat,§100 for  a  pair  of  shoes, 
and  $75  for a  bushel  of  wheat.  George 
Washington  declared  that  a  wagon  load 
of  paper  money  would  hardly  buy  a 
wagon  load  of  provisions.  One  thou­
sand  dollars  of  rag  money  was  finally 
worth  but  Si  in  silver.  In  1780  it  ceased 
to circulate.

It  is  a curious  fact that,  in  spite of  tbe 
financial  distress  which  existed  in  tbe 
colonies  during  the  Revolutionary  War

rericy,  this  conclusion was reach«td  : j into  this  part c
ie to the conclusion that dépréciât ion quence of  un'nr is

se. as  have always  ari sen  u!ider siril­ jthereof and  for
is 5
’ ci rcumstances,  and  it is  ref reshing that  which 
in ! likewise for  the  e
inrì1,  everi  as  early  as 16591,  that,
à isappoiintments  of  a dep reciatiing er  quantities of
V bave, after  due
he currei3cv means destrucii on  of the 1of  the  colonies to

consi derati on, enacted, ”   etc.

legal 

It  was  a 

Tobacco  was  used  as  money 

commerce  and,  consequently,  ruin  of 
the country. ”
in  Vir­
ginia  for  nearly  two  centuries  and  in 
Slaryland 
for  a  century  and  a  half. 
These  two  colonies  grew  their  own 
money  and  ample  opportunities  were 
furnished  for  abundant  crops.  Laws 
were  passed  fixing  its  value  and  penal­
ties  were  enacted  for  paying  debts  with 
a  poor  quality.  Bargains  and  contracts 
were  made  and  accounts  were  kept  in 
tobacco. 
tender  and 
severe  penalties  were  enacted  for  refus­
ing  to  accept 
it  in  payment  of  debts. 
Warehouses  were erected  in  which  this 
commodity  was  stored  and 
tobacco 
notes,  like  certificates  of  deposit,  were 
issued  by  tobacco 
inspectors,  which 
passed  as  currency.  Counterfeiting  to­
bacco  notes  was  made  a  felony. 
It  was 
also  wisely  provided  that 
‘ ‘ any  person 
who  should  be  absent  from  divine  serv­
ice  on  Sunday  should  be  fined  one 
pound  of  tobacco.”   In  spite  of  all  laws 
and  penalties,  however,  tobacco  rapidly 
declined  in  value.  An  effort  was  made
*A<Hrcss by  W.  J.  Cocker,  President  Commer­
cial Savings Bank  of  Detroit,  at  annual  con­
vention Michigan Bankers'  Association.

of  siiver  coins,  the  currency  greatly  de­
preciated 
in  value,  the  creditor  was! 
cheated  out  of  his  just  dues  and  much j 
discontent  and  great  social  disorder  fol- j 
lowed.

The  colony  of  Massachusets,  being 
unable  to  pay  what  was  due  the  soldiers 
who  returned  unexpectedly  from  an  un- j 
successful  expedition  against  Canada,  I 
bit  upon  the 
ingenious  expedient  of 
paying  them  in  paper  money.  As  this 
did  not  pass  at 
its  face  value,  the  sol­
diers  lost  about  one-fourth  of  what  was ! 
due  them.  The  first,  therefore,  to  suffer ! 
from  a  depreciated  paper  currency were 1 
the  loyal  defenders  of  the  colony.  This I 
easy  method  of  paying  debts  and  creat-1 
ing  an  abundance  of  money was  rapidlv | 
adopted  by  the  colonial 
legislatures! 
and  an  epidemic  of  paper  currency j 
swept  through  the  colonies. 
In  Rhode i 
Island  alone,  which  had  a  population  of 
not  to  exceed  20,000  persons,  two  mil­
lion  dollars  of  paper money  was  issued,  j 
It  was  the  custom  of  the  kings  of  the  | 
Middle  Ages  to  reduce  the  weight  of 
coins,  but  to  retain  their nominal value, 
a  popular and  expeditious  way-of cheat­
ing  the  people.  But  ‘ ‘ no  kings,  how­
ever  tyrannical,  ever debased tbe  money I

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limitations, 

great  for  the  house  to  carry  with  the 
means  at  hand,  and  hence  the  very  | 
means  that,  under  proper 
would  have  helped  to  pull  it  out  of  the | 
hole  pushed  it  in  still  further.
Again,  the  advertising  of  the  house 
was  far  more  extensive  than  the  busi­
ness  would  warrant.  There was not profit 
enough 
in  the  goods  to  cover  the  ex­
pense  of  $ioo,cco  for a  year,or  anything 
like  it.

This  is  merely  an  instance  that comes 
to  hand  that  reveals  the  faults  of  some 
advertising. 
Some  men  have  made 
terrific  advertising  splurges  and  suc­
ceeded,  but  usually  where  this  has  been 
done  there  has  been  a  far  heavier  profit 
on  the  goods  advertised  than  is  the  case 
with  shoes,or there was  sufficient capital 
on  hand  to  increase  the  business  so  as 
to  take  care  of  the  demand  resulting 
and to hold  the  firm  on  its  feet  until col­
lections  were  made.

There  are  retailers  who  are  making 
the  same  mistake,  though  the  majority 
are  erring  on  the  contrary  side  of  the 
fence.  There  are  retailers  whose  ad­
vertising  expense 
is  out  of  proportion 
with  their  facilities  for doing  business. 
In  such  cases  what  would  otherwise  be 
good  advertising  becomes  poor  adver­
tising,  because  the  merchant  swamps 
himself  in  trying  to  do  business  enough 
on  a  limited  capital  to  make  the  ad­
vertising  pay.

A  CLEVER  MERCHANT

will not allow an  advertisement  relative  to  the 
g  ods be bandies to pass unnoticed.
What  is  more  profitable  to  a  grocer  than  a 
rapid growth of his Tea  trade?  This can  be  at­
tained by p  rchasing where  teas  have  been  ju­
diciously blended bv an expert.  The  results  of 
properly blending are that a tea  is  produced  of 
finer quality at lower cost.  In bidding for  your 
trade we are willing to  give  you  the  benefit  of 
the extra profit.
Our current advertisements brought us a large 
number of iinjuries  through  which  we  effected 
many sales,  which  demon-trates  that  our  mer­
chants are strictly up to date and always willing 
to  investigate  to  better  their  condition.  Are 
you one of them?  If not, why not?  Our  blends 
themselves  winners  wherever 
have  proved 
placed.
If  you  are  still  doubtful  we  will  prepay 
freight and and send goods on approval, permit­
ting you to return them if unsatisfactory te you. 
We also  send  absolutely  free  with  first  order 
(only) of 100 pounds one very handsome counter 
canister.  MX)  pound  size  bevelled  edge  mirror 
front, worth fully  $0.00.  If  you  are  a  prompt 
paying merchant let us  hear  from  you with  re­
quest  for  samples  or  send  trial  order  to  be 
shipped on approval.

GEO.  J.  JOHNSON,

Importer and Blender of Teas.  Whole­
sale Dealer in High Grade Coffees.

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occurred,  the  militia  was  called out  and 
bloodshed  followed,  as  in  Shays’  Rebel­
lion.  Crowds of  idle  men  on  street  cor­
ners  discussed  the currency question and 
the  disputes  often  ended  in blows.  The 
farmers,  astonished  and  enraged  at  the 
rapidly  rising  prices  demanded  by mer­
chants  for  their  goods,  refused  to  sell 
anything  to  the  detested  shop-keepers. 
The  merchants  shut  their  shops,  and  the 
farmers  “ threw  away  their  milk,  used 
their  corn  for  fuel,  and  let  their  apples 
rot  on  the  ground.”   Food  began  to  be 
scarce  and  distress  prevailed. 
The 
more  violent  the  threats  to  make  the 
people  take  the  paper  money, 
the  more 
rapidly  it  depreciated  in  value.  Hap­
pily  for  the  country,  the  Federal  Con­
stitution  was  adopted  and  the  States 
were  prohibited  from  emitting  bills  of 
credit  or  making  anything  but  gold  and 
silver  a 
legal  tender  in  payment  of 
debts.

strange  delusion 

the  states.  The 

Ever  since  the  adoption  of  the  Con­
stitution  the  American  people  have  had 
little  reason  to  feel  proud  of  their  mon­
etary  history.  The  effort  to  establish  a 
sound  and  stable  currency  has,  until 
within  a  few  years,  been  a  lamentable 
failure.  We  began  with  a  depreciated 
currency.  Then  we  tried  the  experi­
ment  of  establishing  United  States 
banks  and  of  authorizing  them  to 
issue 
paper  money.  These  banks  answered, 
for  a  time,  a  useful  purpose,  but,  be­
coming  entangled  in  the  political  con­
tentions  of  the  time,  they  soon  ended 
their  brief  existence.  Afterwards  the 
country  depended  largely  upon  the  cir­
culation  of  banks  chartered  by  the 
authority  of 
incon­
losses  occasioned  by 
veniences  and 
“ wild-cat  money”  
are  well  known. 
People  were  again  carried  away  with 
the 
that  a  super­
abundance  of  money  would  make  the 
Nation  rich.  Not  again  until  the  Civil 
War  was  paper  money 
issued  by  the 
Government.  In  the  War of  1812,  it  was 
proposed  to 
issue  legal  tender  notes, 
but  the  mischiefs  of  a  paper  currency 
were  then  so  well  remembered  that 
Congress  refused  to  issue  them.  Other 
nations  have  sustained 
long  and  ex­
haustive  wars  without  resorting  to  bills 
of  credit  and  making  them  legal  tender 
in  payment  of  public  and  private debts. 
Able  financiers  are  generally  agreed 
that  the 
issue  of  paper  money  during 
the  Civil  War  was  unnecessary  and  un­
wise  and  has  been  the  cause  of  many  of 
our  present  financial  troubles.  Values 
were  abnormally 
rapidly  depreciating  currency,  and ever 
since  the  war  there  has  been  a  contrac 
tion  of  values  and  consequent  loss  and 
financial  distress.  Happily,  some  of 
the  evils  of  paper  currrency  have  beer 
averted  by the adoption of the  fourteenth 
amendment  to  the  Constitution,  which 
provides  that  “ the  validity  of  the  pub 
lie  debt  of  the  United  States,  authorized 
by 
incurred  for 
payment  of  pensions  and  bounties  for 
service 
in  suppressing  insurrection  or 
rebellion,  shall  not  be  questioned.’ 
When  paper  money  was  issued  by  the 
Government,  President  Lincoln,  whom 
all  men  now  honor  regardless  of  party 
affiliations,  pledged  the  honor  of  the 
country 
“ Every  dollar  of  that  money  shall  be 
made  as  good  as  gold.

these  memorable  word 

law,  including  debts 

inflated,  owing  to 

in 

Shortly  after  the  adoption  of  the  Fed­
eral  Constitution,  the  free  coinage  of 
gold  and  silver,  as  provided  by  Hamil­
ton,  was  adopted  by  Congress,  and  the 
ratio  between  the  two  was  fixed  at  15 
to  1.  Fifteen  ounces  of  silver  were  de­
clared  equal 
in  value  to  one  ounce  of 
gold.  This  was  the  market  ratio  at  that 
time 
in  Europe  and  America.  Soon 
after  the  adoption  of  this  ratio,  silver 
depreciated 
in  value,  so  that  gold  as 
bullion  was  worth  more  than  in  coins. 
The  result  was  that  gold  coins  almost 
entirely  disappeared.  The  country  was 
practically  on  a  silver  basis. 
In  1834 
the  ratio  was  fixed  by  Congress  at  16  to 
1.  But  sixteen  ounces  of  silver  in  the 
markets  of  the  world  were  worth  more 
than  one  ounce  of  gold.  The  result  was 
that  silver  was  withdrawn  from  circu­
lation  and  gold  took  the  place  of  silver 
coins.  The  country  changed  to  a  gold 
basis. 
It  is  an  invariable  rule,  without 
any  exception,  that  the  cheaper  money

the  restriction  of 
ions, 
it  has  rapidly  depreciated 
value,  until  to-day  the  market  ratio 
about  32  to  i.

will  drive  the"dearer  out  of  circulation. 
In  1873,  after  a  full  discussion  of  the 
subject  for  three  years  in  Congress,  the 
silver  dollar  was  demonetized.  Both 
political  parties  voted  for  this alike  and 
all  the  Senators  and  Representatives 
from  the  silver  states  approved  of  the 
measure.  This,  oddly  enough,  has  been 
designated  “ the  crime  of  1873.“   For 
twenty-five  years  before  the  passage  of 
the  act,  silver  dollars  had  ceased  to  cir­
culate.  Since  1873,  owing  to  the  great 
crease  in  the  production  of silver,  and 
its  use  by  many  na- 
in 
is 
It  is  now  proposed  that  the  Govern­
ment  shall  declare  that  sixteen  ounces 
of  silver  shall  equal  in  value-one  ounce 
of  gold,  although  in  the  markets  of  the 
world  one  ounce  of  gold  will  purchase 
thirty-two  ounces  of  silver,  and  then 
force 
into  circulation  a  debased  cur­
rency  in  payment  of  public  and  private 
debts.  A  premium  is  thus  placed  upon 
mprovidence  and  dishonesty  by  the 
partial  repudiation  of  debts,  and  upon 
frugality  and  business  sagacity  is  in­
flicted the penalty of partial  confiscation 
and  unavoidable  loss. 
It  is  a  “ mon­
strous  fallacy  that  a  great  nation  can  be 
enriched  by  debasing 
its  currency.”  
Francis  A.  Walker,  one of the ablest  ad­
vocates  of  bimetallism 
in  the  United 
States,  makes  this significant statement : 
Leaving  all  considerations  of  honor  or 
duty  out  of  view,  and  having  reference 
exclusively  to  the  economical 
interests 
of  society,  we  may  confidently  say  that 
the  man  who  advocates  the  scaling 
lown  of  debts  by  act  of  government  for 
the  sake  of  encouraging  trade  and  pro­
duction  shows  himself  so  ignorant  of 
history  as  to  be  a  wholly  unfit  adviser 
in  respect  to  the  present  or the  future.”
In  this  country  of  abundant  resources 
and  of  unusual  opportunities  for  the  ac­
cumulation  of  wealth,  people  plunge 
headlong 
into  rash  speculation,  seek 
unusual  and  rapid  means  of acquiring  a 
fortune,  mortgage  their  farms  to  buy 
more  land,  contract  heavy  debts  in  the 
hope  of  future  gains,  and,  when  con­
traction 
in  values  occurs,  clamor  for 
cheap  money  to  liquidate  indebtedness. 
Distrust  and  lack  of  confidence  follow, 
capital  lies  idle  and  the  people  suffer. 
The  conditions  to-day  closely  resemble 
the  agitation  and  distress  existing  at 
the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Debtors  are  arrayed  against  creditors, 
banks  are  denounced,  capital 
is  held 
accountable  for  present  distress,  courts 
are  condemned,  angry  discussions  on 
the  currency  are  frequent,  and  cheap 
and  abundant  money  is  declared  to  be 
the  only  panacea  for  present  financial 
troubles.  The  bitter  experiences  of  our 
earlier  history  are 
the 
warnings  of  our  ablest  financiers  have 
apparently  no  weight.

ignored  and 

History  cannot  name  a  man  who  has 
gained  enduring  honor  by  advocating 
the 
issue  of  a  depreciated  currency. 
Bancroft,  the  great  American  historian, 
forcibly  says:  “ It  impairs  all  certainty 
of  possession  and  taxes  none  so  heavily 
as  the  class  who  earn  their  scant  pos­
session  by  daily  labor.  It  is  the  favorite 
of  those  who  seek  gain  without  willing­
ness  to  toil ;  it  is  the  deadly  foe  to 
in­
dustry.  No  powerful  political  party ever 
permanently  rested  for  support  on  the 
theory  that 
is  wise  and  right.  No 
statesman  has  been  thought  well  of  by 
his  kind  in  a  succeeding  generation  for 
having  been  its  promoter.”
How Heavy  Advertising  Prolonged 

it 

the  Life  of  a  Firm.

the  concern 

One  of  the  facts  deduced  from  the 
recent  Fargo  failure  at  Chicago  is  that 
advertising  saved 
from 
bankruptcy  much  sooner.  A  year  ago 
the 
concern  began  a  campaign  of 
publicity  that  was  altogether  too  exten­
sive  for 
It  is  said  that 
no  less  than  $100,000  was  spent  by  the 
concern  in  the  last  year  for  publicity, 
chiefly 
for  bicycle-shoe  advertising. 
Hardly  a  magazine  could  be  picked  up 
that  did  not  bear  the  company’s  ad.

its  resources. 

The  result  of  this  extensive  advertis­
ing  was  that  the  concern  received  more 
orders  than  it  could  fill  promptly.  The 
proportion  of  the  business  became  too

Mail  orders  promptly  attended to, or write  our 
representative.  WILLIAM  CONNOR,  of  Mar- j 
shall. Mich., to call upon you  and  you  will  s  e 
a replete line for all sizes and ages or  meet  him  \ 
at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand  Rapids, any time (luring j 
State Fair week (Sept. 7 to 13).  at  the  Cushman  i 
House, Petoskey, Monday, Sept 14, or at  Sweet’s 
Hotel, Grand Rapids, Thursday, Sept 17.

TRADE

Grand  Rapids.

WflHT OF CGjiFIDEHGE

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is the foundation  of  lots  of  trouble,  both  in  business  and  family 
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circles.  The whole country  lacks  confidence at the  present time.  @  
The gold bugs insist that the remedy  lies with  them.  The  silver- 
ites,  upon  the  other  hand,  assert  that they are going  to save  this 
country and  restore confidence.

We base all this  upon  the  fact  that  we  are  a  cash  concern.
We can buy cheaper for  cash  than  any  one  can  upon  the  finest 
credit.  We certainly are  in a  position to sell  cheaper.

All  we ask  is  an  opportunity  to  prove  our  assertions  We 
have no confidence in the present price of sugars and expect a big 
slump within the next  ten days.

We have confidence  in  ourselves  that  no  firm  can  undersell 
us  in  the  State,  that  we  carry  the  handsomest  line  of  teas  in 
Michigan, that we can  sell  many articles at a lower price than any 
other firm dares to.

TIE J0P1ES STEWHUT CO.,

We have  a  carload  of  Mason  jars  on  hand.  Prices  remain 
the same—40 cents for  quarts,  55  cents  for  half  gallons,  packed 
one dozen  in a case.

Cash with order in current exchange.

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The 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
While  recovery 

is  necessarily  slow,  I 
there 
is  sufficient  encouragement  to I 
warrant  the  statement  that  the  tide  has 
positively  turned. 
improvement 
in  the  general  financial  outlook  indi  1 
cated  by  the  continued  importation  of 
foreign  gold,  which  already  exceeds  the 
twenty  millions  predicted,  with  reas- j 
surances  as  to  the  political  situation, 
has  given  confidence,  which  has  result­
ed  in  increased  activity  and  in an  aver­
age  of  improvement 
in  prices.  Even 
iron,  which  is  generally  the  most  con­
servative  line  in  recovery,  shows  an ap­
preciable  improvement.  While  foreign 
and  outside  buying  on  the  stock  market 
continues  small,  there  is  a  decided 
im­
provement 
in  professional  speculation 
it  is  asserted  that  prices are  fairly 
and 
on  the  advance.

last  week 

The  reaction  noted 

in 
wheat  continued  until  Thursday,  when 
there  was  another  advance  of  about  half 
the  decline.  This  week  tbe tendency  is 
downward,  however.  Export  continues 
large,  almost  doubling  that  of  last  year, 
a  decided  encouragement  in  the  situa­
tion.  Corn  has  reached  the  lowest  point I 
ever  known 
in  Chicago,  20  cents  in 
1861.

Large  speculative  purchases  of 

iron I 
indicate  that  the  best  posted  believe 
that  the  tide  has  passed  the  ebb  in that 
product.  Sales  in  Chicago  for  the week 
have  exceeded  those  of  the  entire  pre­
ceding  month,  and  the  activity  is  much 
improved 
Prices  of I 
both  Bessemer  and  gray  forge  show  an 
advance,  but  the  improvement 
in  de­
mand  for  finished  products  is  so  slow 
as  to  be  scarcely  appreciable.  Not  over 
one-third  of  the  coke ovens  are  now 
in 
operation.  Tin  and  copper  show  no 
improvement  but  lead  is  firmer.

in  Pittsburgh. 

The  textile  situation  shows  some  en­

couraging  features,  though  the  resump-1 
tion  of  mills  is  yet  balanced  by  others 
closing.  In  wool  goods  there  can scarce-1 
ly  be  said  to  be  improvement.  There  is 
more  activity  in  wool,  which  would  in­
dicate  that 
improvement  in  prices  is 
looked  for.  Cotton  goods  are  improv-1 
ing 
in  some 
cases  have  been  advanced.  Cotton  has 
advanced  from  7.67  to  8.50  in  spite  of 
favorable  crop  statistics.  Shoes  con­
tinue  in  good  demand,  especially in  the j 
West.

in  demand  and  prices 

Many  jobbing  centers,  notably  Chi-1 
cago,  S t  Louis and  Minneapolis,  report j

a  marked 
dry  goods  and  hardware.

improvement  in  demand  for 

Bank  clearings show an  increase of 10 
per  cent,  for  those  of  last  week.  Fail­
ures  number  336,  against  352  for  pre­
ceding  week.

A  DECLINING  HOLIDAY.

The  celebration  of  labor  day  in  this 
city  was  not  a  success,  as  compared 
with  the  event of  former  vears,  in  that 
there  seemed  to  be  little  enthusiasm 
in 
tbe  ranks  of  unionism  for  the  occasion. 
The  parade  was  greatly  diminished, 
some  of  the  principal  unions  not  being 
represented  at  all. 
Indeed,  had  it  not 
been  for  the afternoon  demonstration  of 
the  letter  carriers,  the  holiday  would 
have  amounted  to  little  more  than  an 
annoying 
interruption  to  business  and 
labor. 
It  is  scarcely  probable  that  in­
terest  in  it  will  revive to any  consider­
able  extent  and  it  certainly  will  never 
become  premanent.

It 

The  national  holidays,  to  become  per­
manent  institutions,  must  be  for  all  tbe 
people.  A  holiday  devoted  to a  class 
is  un-American. 
is  the  effort of  or­
ganized 
labor  to  make  such  a  holiday 
of  the  one  under  consideration.  The 
small  minority  of  those  enrolled  under 
the  banners  of  unionism  arrogate  to 
themselves  the  title  of  "labor,”   and 
while  all  are  required  to observe  and 
respect  the  day,  its  celebration 
is  so 
conducted  as  to  exclude  the  great  mass 
of  the  people  and  to  make  apparent  the 
fact  that  there  is  a  division  into  the two 
classes  of  “ labor”   and  the  rest.

If,  instead  of  trying  to give  the  holi­
day  a  national  character,  its  promoters 
would  make  it  a  holiday  for themselves, 
as 
is  done  by  other organizations  and 
societies,  there  might  be  some  reason 
for 
its  existence  and  it  would  receive 
co-operation  and  support  as  other  such I 
holidays  do;  but  "labor”  
is  not  con-1 
tent  with that— its day must be a national 
day,  even  though  the great  majority  of 
the  people  are  excluded. 
This  fact 
predestines  it to  failure,  for  there are so 
many  common  ties of  interest  in  all  our 
national 
life  that  any  such  division  on 
class  lines  cannot  be  permanent.  En­
croaching  interests  will  break  down  the 
dividing  lines  and  tbe  membership  of 
the  organizations  will  lose  their enthusi­
asm  for observances  which  array  them 
against  such  interests.
A  “ labor”   holiday 

in  our  nation  of 
laborers  is  not needed—we have national 
holidays  enough.  A  class  holiday,  if 
such  an one  could  exist,  would  only  be 
a  source  of  division,  of  unrest  and  dis- 
sention.  Therefore,  the  fact  that the  in­
terest 
in  this  holiday  is  declining  is  a 
fact  upon  which  the  country  is  to  be 
congratulated.

letters  from 

Princeton  University  has 

issued  a 
successful 
pamphlet  of 
graduates  to  show  that  tbe  careful  stu­
dent  can  get  through  that  college on 
$300 a  year. 
It  is  a  noteworthy  indica­
tion  of  the  spirit  of  the  age  that  science 
and  education  are  making  their  strong­
est  appeals  to  the  poor,  from  whose 
ranks  come  the  most  of  those  who at­
tain  distinction  in  these  fields  of  labor.

The  sinking  of  the  German  warship 
Itlis  still  attracts  attention  in  the  press. 
According  to  the  Peking  Times,  after 
she  struck,  all  hands  were  called  on 
deck,  three cheers  were given  for  Em­
peror  William,  and 
joined 
bands  and  sang  a  hymn  as  they  went 
down.  This  was  much  grander  than  dy­
ing  in  bed,  where so  many  people  usu­
ally  die.

then  all 

THE  FOURTEENTH  YEAR.

The  issue  of last  week  completed  the 
thirteenth  publication  year of  the Mich- 
I igan  Tradesman  and  the  present  issue 
therefore  marks  the  beginning  of  the 
fourteenth  year.

The general  editorial  and  managerial 
in  the 
policy  which  has  been  pursued 
past  will  be  continued 
in  the  future, 
with  such  variations  as  may  be  neces­
sitated  by  changing  circumstances.  Be­
lieving  that  organization 
is  a  more 
powerful  instrument  for tbe  reformation 
of  trade  abuses  and  the  attainment  of 
desired  results  in  business  life  than  any 
other  weapon, 
the  Tradesman  will 
continue  to advocate  organization  with 
all  the  vigor  it  can  command,  and  the 
influence  and  income  of  the  paper  will 
be  freely  used,  at  all  times,  to  further 
such  end.

they 

come 

Incidental,  but  not  subservient, 

to 
organization,  the  Tradesman  will  con­
tinue  to  advocate  what  it  deems  sound 
business  methods;  better  education  of 
the  merchant;  more  care 
in  buying; 
more  promptness  in  paying;  greater 
shrewdness  in  selling;  more  time  for 
recreation  and  reflection;  better  feeling 
between  business  men  and  those  with 
whom 
in  contact;  more 
thorough  understanding  and  more  cor­
dial 
retailer, 
wholesaler  and  manufacturer,  to  tbe  end 
that  the  demoralization  incident to price 
cutting  may  be  curtailed  and  legitimate 
margins  assured.  The  Tradesman 
is 
vain  enough  to  think  that  it  has  made 
some  headway 
in  this  direction  in  tbe 
past and  is  sanguine  that  its future work 
will  be  productive  of  even  better  results 
than  have been  achieved  in  the  past.

co-operation 

between 

The Tradesman  feels  under  deep obli­
gation  to 
its  patrons  for  the  loyal  sup­
port  they  have  given  the  publication 
through  the  panic  period  now  drawing 
to  a  close.  While  many 
journals  have 
been  compelled  to  curtail  expenses  and 
suffer  reduction 
in  both  size and  circu­
lation,  the  Tradesman  has  increased  its 
subscription 
list  over  1,000  names,  is 
furnishing  its  readers  on  an  average  of 
25  per  cent,  more  matter  than  was  the 
case  three  years  ago,  while the employes 
of 
its  establishment  are  receiving  the 
same  rate  of  wages  in  vogue  prior to the 
panic.  But  for  tbe  faithful  support  of 
its  subscribers  and  the  hearty  co-opera­
tion  of  its advertisers,  such  a  condition 
of  things  could  not  have  been  possible.

The  Man  with  a  Remedy.

On  all occasions of public  excitement, 
whether  due  to  social,  industrial  or  po­
litical  causes,  the  man  with  a  remedy 
or  a  prophecy 
is  to  be  found  at  every 
corner.  He  may  be  a  wise  man  or  a 
fool,  a  statesman  or  an  anarchist,  a 
competent  leader  of  public  opinion  or 
a  blatant  demagogue,  but,  be  he  one  or 
the  other,  he 
is  sure  of  a  crowd  at  tbe 
corner or an  audience  in an auditorium. 
The  peddler of  nostrums,  with  his  pills 
and  balsams,  and  his  list  of  miracles 
performed  on 
the  blind,  the  halt  and 
the  maimed,  always  secures  the  public 
ear,  and  what  is  laying  around  loose  of 
faith  and  cash.  The  blind  see,  the 
lame  walk,  and  tbe  deaf  hear.

Men  with  a  crook  in  the  spine,  a  lazy 
liver,  or a  dead  kidney  are  reconstruct­
ed  and  renewed,  and  the  fame  of  the 
medical  wizard  finds  its  way  into  every 
back  street 
in  the  city.  When  he  is 
gone,  and  the  old  ailments  return,  some 
men  privately  kick 
themselves,  and 
others  divide  their  time  between  the 
family  doctor  and  the  stool  of  repent­
ance.  The  colored 
lights  have  gone 
out,  and  the  house  fronts  that  were  all

gold  and  glory  are  once  again  but 
smoke-stained 
and  weather  beaten 
boards.  The  same  kind  of  a  crowd,  the 
same  type of  cheap  faith,  and  the  same 
miracle  worker  are  in  evidence  on  all 
occasions  of  public  excitement  Tbe 
ear  that  never  cracks  at  what  it  hears, 
and  the  mouth  that  never  refuses ac­
commodation  to  a  calf’s  foot  or a  whole 
ox,  are  in  brave array.  Men,  otherwise 
of  a  steel-sinewed  and  practical  nature, 
that  could  never  be  tempted  with  a gold 
brick  or  fooled  with  a  plugged  dime, 
are  rattled 
like  a  crowd  on  a  sinking 
ship  or  in  a  burning  theater.  The 
strangest  notions  and 
the  wildest  of 
wild-cat  ideas are accepted as are thirty- 
six 
in  a  yard  and  the  rules  of 
arithmetic.  Fads  that  are  as  thin  as 
rainbows  and  falsities  broad  as  a  barn 
door  are  accepted  as  pure  gospel. 

inches 

Impossibilities,  as  tbe  growth  of  a
beard  on  a  billiard  ball,  or  wings  on  an 
oyster,  become  plastic  as  putty  and  as 
easy  as  cracking  an  egg.  Statistics  that 
have  as  little  to  do  with  the  issues  in­
volved  as  the  price  of a  horse  shoe  has 
to  do  with  an  eclipse  of  the  moon  are 
believed  in  as  is  the  Koran  of  the  Mus- 
selman  and  the  Bible  of  the  Christian. 
Camels  go  through  the  eye  of  a  needle 
without 
injury  to  their  hump  or  hide. 
Mole  hills  that  could  be  covered  with  a 
peck  measure  are  mountains  with  their 
bald  heads 
in  a  cap  of  clouds,  and 
promises  that  are  nothing  but  bags  of 
wind  are  believed  in  with  the  faith  of a 
child.  Under  such  conditions of  recep­
tivity  and  delusion,  the  man  with  a 
remedy  for  all  ills  and  wrongs  has  the 
opportunity  of  his  life.  He  is  let  loose. 
Fences  are  down  and  doors  open. 
Theories  spread  like  oil  on  cambric  or 
ink  on  blotting  paper.  Opinions  ex­
ploded 
long  ago  furnish  gas  for  new 
balloons.  Old  hobbies  show  up  with  a 
new  coat  of  paint,  and  others  crude  and 
evanescent  as  the  work  of  a  soap  artist 
on  the  mirror  of  a  bar-room  spread 
their  panoramic  illusions  on  the  public 
mind.  This  condition  of  things,  how­
ever  paradoxical 
it  may  seem  with  an 
intelligent  and  practical  people,  is  un­
deniable. 
is  a  mystery  and  yet a 
fact,  a  paradox  and  yet  a  verity.

It 

Individualism 

is  lost  in  an  anarchic 
mass.  Parties  and  even  nations  become 
temporally 
insane  and  the  most  mo­
mentous  of  questions  and  the  gravest  of 
issues are  disposed  of  with  as  little  re­
gard  to  consequences  as 
is  a  blind 
in  going  down  tbe  throat  of  a 
mouse 
It  behooves  all  men  at  such  crisis 
cat. 
times  to  do  their  own  thinking. 
If 
this  was  done  the  man  with  a  remedy 
would  cease  to  be  a  public  danger. 
Men  would  not  sneeze  when  another 
takes  snuff,  nor  follow  the  bell  wether 
of  a  flock  of  sheep  when  he  goes  over 
the  fence  into  the ditch.  What is wanted 
in  the  decision  of  all grave  public  ques­
tions  is  robust,  broad-shouldered,  steel- 
sinewed,  positive  private  conviction. 
It  is  to be  confessed  that  even  with  a 
progressive  people  there  is  too  little  of 
this  kind  of  manly  independence.  More 
of  this  granite  and 
less  of  the  usual 
putty  is  needed  in  the  building  up  of  a 
great  nation.  Less  of  mud  slinging 
and  more  of  candid  and  unprejudiced 
investigation  would  save  us the mockery 
of  being  a  free  people  with  others  to  do 
our  thinking. 
is  anything  in 
history  that  has  majesty  it  is  the  sov­
ereign  will  of  an  intelligent and  earnest 
people,  and  what  there 
is  of  somber 
tragedy  in  its  events  is  that  of  human 
folly,  where  the  blind 
lead  the  blind 
and  both  fall  into  the  ditch.

If  there 

F r e d   W o o d ro w .

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

9

John  Law  and  His  Financial  Scheme.*
There  is  no  question  before the Amer­
ican  public  that  is  being  discussed  so 
generally,  and  with  so  much  earnestness 
and  persistency,  as 
the  question  of 
finance.  It  is  the  all-absorbing  question 
of  the  day,  and 
is  debated  in  season 
and  out  of  season,  in  the  school,  on  the 
platform,  on  the  farm  and street  corner, 
by  the  theorist,  the  statesman,  the  poli­
tician  and  the  demagogue.  But  the  sub­
ject  is  not  new.  For  over  200  years  the 
question  of  what  shall  constitute  the 
money  used 
in  settlement  of  balances 
has  received  the  earnest attention  of  the 
world’s brightest  financiers.
The  world  has  never  been  without  its 
self-constituted  financial  teachers,  as  is 
fully  demonstrated  by  the  large  number 
engaged  at  the  present  time  in  trying 
to  educate  the  people  as  to  the  true 
status  of  the  gold,  silver and  paper  cur­
rency  of  this  nation.

"L a w ’s 

It  is  not  our  intention  at  this  time  to 
discuss  the finances  of  the  day,  or  de­
bate  the  silver question,  which  has  been 
urged  so  persistently  upon  the  attention 
of  the  American  people  within  the  past 
few  months.  Our  purpose  is  to  present 
for  your  consideration  one  section  of 
the  financial  history  of  the  past,  which 
relates  more  particularly  to  the  world's 
first  experiment  with  paper  money  as  a 
substitute  for  coin,  and  bring  promi­
nently  before  you  the  danger  attending 
an  excessive  inflation  of  representative 
money  in  any  form.
The  earliest,  and  perhaps  the  most 
famous,  advocate  of  flat  money  was 
John  Law,  the  author of  what  is  known 
in  history  as 
Financial 
Scheme,”   who  was  born  in  Edinburgh, 
April  21,  1671.  His  father  was  a  gold­
smith,  who,  following  the  example  of 
his  fellow  craftsmen 
in  London,  was 
really  one  of  the bankers of  Edinburgh. 
His  son,  John,  early  imbibed  the  crude 
ideas  of  banking  then  in  vogue,  but  it 
was  not  until  he  had  squandered  the 
large  fortune  left  him  by  his  father 
that 
it  suddenly  occurred  to  him  that 
he  possessed a  fund  of  financial  wisdom 
that  ought  not  to  be  lost  to  the  world.
Having  made  an  utter  failure  in  the 
management of  his  own  money,  he  was 
like  hundreds  of  men  of  the  present 
time— anxious  and  willing  to  take  the 
management  of  the  finances  of  their 
fellowmen,  even  after  they  have demon­
strated  their  incapacity  to  successfully 
manage 
Being  without 
money,  and  unwilling  to  earn  his living 
by  manual  labor,  Law  went  to  London, 
where,  by  his  pleasing  address,  he 
readily  obtained  entrance  into  the  best 
society  of  the  day,  maintaining  him­
self 
luxury  by  gambling and  other 
questionable  transactions.  Accepting  a 
challenge,  he  killed  his  antagonist  in  a 
duel  in  1695,  and  was  convicted of  mur­
der,  but  managed  to  escape  after  sen­
tence of  death  had  been  pronounced.

their  own. 

in 

We  next  hear  of  him  in  Amsterdam, 
where  he  became  much 
interested  in 
the  credit  operations  of  the  bank,  and 
immediately  devised  a  plan  the  disas­
trous  failure  of  which  has given  him  an 
unenviable  place  in  history.

About  the  year  1700,  five  years  after 
the  incorporation  of  the  Bank  of  Scot­
land,  Law  returned  to Edinburgh a zeal­
ous  advocate  of  paper  currency,  and 
sought  from  the  Scotch  Parliament  a 
charter,  that  he  might  put  his  scheme 
into  practical  operation.  The  shrewd 
Scotchmen  of  his  native  city  were  not 
convinced  by  his  arguments  or  influ­
enced  by  his  sophistry,  and  his  system 
of  credit banking  and  paper  money,  the 
adoption  of  which  he  said  would  make 
every  one  rich,  was  rejected.  Law  then 
visited  Paris and  sought  to  obtain  from 
the government  a  favorable  considera­
tion  of  his  plan,  but  was  expelled  as  a 
gambler  by the  astute  Louis  XIV.  He 
then  made a  tour of  the Continent,  stop­
ping  at  all  the  large  cities,  everywhere 
presenting  his  currency  scheme,  which 
was  as  often  rejected.  His  fascinating 
manners  readily  gained  him  admission 
to  court  circles  and,  by  his  success  at 
the gaming  table and other speculations, 
he  accumulated  a  large  fortune,  which 
greatly  aided  him 
intercourse
* Address delivered by Théo. C. Sherwood,  State 
Banking Commissioner, at annual convention 
Michigan Bankers’Association.

in  his 

with  royalty. 
In  his travels  he  learned 
of  the  death  of  Louis  XIV.  and,  being 
informed  that  the  finances  of  France 
were in a deplorable  condition,  the  mer­
cantile  and  manufacturing 
industries 
nearly  ruined  and  the  laboring  class 
reduced  to  the  very 
lowest  depths  ot 
poverty,  he  quickly  decided  that  now 
was  the  time,  and  Paris  the  place,  to 
make  himself  famous  as  a  financier,  by 
giving  to  the  world  a  practical  illustra­
tion  of  the  wonderfully  seductive  theory 
of  transacting  a  banking  business  on 
credit  alone.

In  order  to  fully  comprehend  the 
causes  which  made  desirable 
the 
adoption  of  the  financial  system  of  this 
world-renowned financier,  it  is necessary 
to  refer  to  the  events  which  led  up  to 
and  rendered  possible  the  success  of 
such  a  scheme  and  made  the  French 
people  such  easy  victims  to  the  wiles  of 
one  of  the  sharpest  stock  gamblers  in 
the  world’s  history.

the  nation’s 

expenditure  of 

Under  the  long  and  eventful  reign  of 
Louis  XIV.  France  not  only  achieved 
her greatest  success  but  she also suffered 
the  most 
ignominious  defeats  and  hu­
miliating  reverses. 
If  the  king,  by  a 
lavish 
the  nation’s 
wealth,  built  cities,  erected  palaces  and 
adorned  pleasure  grounds  on  such  a 
scale  of  magnificence  as  to  challenge 
the  admiration  of  the  world,  he  also, 
by  his  viciously  immoral  life,  his  need­
less  wars  and  his  cruel  persecutions, 
alienated  the  respect  of  his subjects,  in­
tensified  the  hatred  of  his  enemies  and 
brought  down  upon  himself  the  bitter 
criticism  of  the  student  of  history.  No 
monarch  was  ever  surrounded  by  such  a 
galaxy  of  illustrious  men,  and  no  sov­
ereign  ever  bad  such  loyal  assistance  in 
the  cares  of  state  as  that  rendered  by 
Colbert,  his  prime  minister,  and  Lou- 
vois,  his  minister  of  war.  Under the 
former 
finances  were 
carefully  guarded  and  the  resources  of 
the  country  encouraged  and  developed, 
while  Louvois  organized  the  military 
forces  for  the  exigences  of  vast  military 
campaigns,  the  success of  which  made 
the  power  of  France  felt  throughout  the 
world.  When  Colbert  died  in  1683  and 
Louvois 
in  1691,  the  glory  of  France 
began  to  wane  and  her  military  power 
to  grow  dim.  The  surrender  of  the 
king  to  the  Jesuits  brought  on  the  per­
secution  of  the  Protestants,  which  dec­
imated  the  cities  of  France  and  sowed 
the  seeds  of  discontent,  anarchy  and 
revolution,  while  the  disastrous  wars 
with  Germany,  England  and  Spain, 
during  the  latter  years  of  his reign,  im­
poverished  the  people  to  the  very  verge 
of  bankruptcy.  This  was  the  condition 
of  affairs 
in  France at  the  time  of  the 
death  of  Louis  XIV.  and  the  arrival  of 
Law  in  Paris.  Never 
in  the  history  of 
the  world  were  the  times  so  propitious 
for  a  new  departure  in  finance,  or  the 
people  so  ready  to  listen  to  the  seduc­
tive arguments  of  the  theorist  and  the 
demagogue.

The  Duke  of  Orleans,  Regent  during 
the  minority  of  Louis  XV.,  not only had 
to  contend  with  the  social  and  financial 
embarrassment  handed  down  by  his 
predecessor,  the  least  of  which  was  the 
public  debt  of  nearly 
2,000,000,000 
livres,  but,  by  his  own  reckless,  infa­
mous prodigalities,under the direction of 
his  prime  minister,  Cardinal  Dubois, 
the debt  was  increased  until  the  embar­
rassment  was  so  great  that  his  friend, 
the  Due  de  Saint  Simon,  one  of  the 
great  patricians  of  the  court,  proposed, 
as  a  remedy,  national  bankruptcy, 
affirming  that  it  would  be  a  salutary les­
son  to  the  rich plebeian capitalists not to 
lend  their  money.

At  this  period,  when  the  financial 
condition  of  France  was  at  the  very 
lowest  ebb,  when  the  poverty  of  the cit­
izen  was  most  keenly  felt,  and  when 
national  bankruptcy  seemed  to be  the 
only  alternative,  John  Law  came  for­
ward  and  offered  to  relieve  the  necessi­
ties  of  the  government,  pay  its  national 
debt,  promote  commercial  enterprises 
and  stimulate  every  branch  of  business, 
if allowed  to  use  the  credit  of the nation 
for a  national  bank,  the  chief  function 
of  which  was  the  issuing  of a paper  cur­
rency.

The  French  financiers  were  surprised 
that  such  a  proposition  could be serious­

ly  entertained,  but  those  officers  who 
were  contending  with  the  embarrassed 
condition of  the  national  treasury,  while 
opposed  to  the  State’s  turning  banker, 
were  willing  to  favor  almost  any  prop­
osition  that  promised  relief,  if  some 
one  else  would  take  the  responsibility 
of  the  experiment.

As a  compromise,  in  May,  1716,  the 
government  granted  Law  a  charter  for 
a  private  general  bank  of  issue  and dis­
count,  under  the  name  of  Law  &  Com­
pany,  with  a  capital  of  6,000,000  livres. 
The  bank  was  allowed  to  issue  paper 
money  redeemable 
in  specie,  discount 
bills  of  exchange,  and,  in  order to  make 
the  business  acceptable  to  the  State, 
Law  agreed  to  accept  at  par  govern­
ment  securities,  then  at  80  per  cent, 
discount.

In  a  few  months  Law  had  issued  bank 
notes  to  the  amount  of  nearly  20,000,000 
livres,  but  their  circulation  was  limited 
to  a  few  large  cities until in Aprii,  1717, 
the  government  decreed that Law’s bank 
notes  should  be  accepted 
in  payments
for  imports.  This  act  was  a  long  step 
towards the formation of a national bank, 
which  was  the  end  towards  which  Law 
had  been  working.

His  bank  at  once  became  popular 
with  the  masses  and  was,  to  all  appear­
ance,  successful  and  prosperous,  at­
tracting  the  attention  of  the  Duke  of 
Orleans,  who 
in 
Law  a  Moses  who  was  to  lead  them  out 
of  the-financial  wilderness.

imagined  he  beheld 

In  August,  1717,  Law  suggested  to 
the  French  government  the  propriety  of 
in  North 
utilizing  their  possessions 
America  discovered  by  La  Salle 
in 
1682,  which  extended  from  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico  north  on  the  west  side  of  the 
Mississippi  River,  including  the  terri­
tory  now  comprising  the  States  of 
Louisiana,  Arkansas,  Indian  Territory, 
Missouri,  Kansas, 
Iowa,  Nebraska, 
Minnesota,  North  and  South  Dakota, 
Montana  and  a  part  of  Wyoming.  The 
soil  of  the  Mississippi  Valley  was  sup­
posed  to  be  the  most  fertile  in  the 
world.  Wonderful  stories  were  told  of 
the  abundance  of  gold  and  silver  found 
in  the  mountains,  while  the  climate 
in 
the  Valley  was  considered  superior  to 
that  of  Italy— in  fact,  the  territory  was 
advertised  as  a  veritable  Paradise.

Law's  proposition  was  to  have  this 
territory  ceded  to  a  stock  company,  the 
shares  of  which  were  to  secure  the  cir­
culation  of  a  national  bank  and  retire 
the  debt  of  the government.

A  company  was  soon  formed,  with  a 
capital  of  100,000,000  livres,  divided 
into  shares  of  500  livres  each,  and  re­
ceived,  by  royal  decree,  sovereign  and 
proprietary  rights  over  the  Mississippi 
Valley,  with  power  to  construct  forts, 
raise  troops,  develop  mines  and  colo­
nize  the  country  on  a  scale  consonant 
with  the  spirit  of  the  times.

The  government 

funds,  which  had 
fallen  to  one-third  their face value,  were 
exchanged  at  par  for  the  stock  of  the 
new  company  if  the  subscriber  paid  in­
to  the  bank  one-fourth  their  face  value 
in  specie.  The  stock  of  the  company 
was  quickly  taken  at  par  and  Law’s 
financial  scheme  was about  to  achieve  a 
wonderful  success.

With  the  incorporation  of  the Mississ­
ippi  company,  of  which  many  of  the 
government  officials  were  stockholders, 
it  was  comparatively  easy  for  Law  to 
consummate  the  one  ambition  of  his 
life,  and  December  4,1718,  by  royal  de­
cree,  his  private  bank,  two  years  and 
six  months  after  its 
incorporation,  was 
transformed  into  a  national  bank,  with 
Law  as  Manager and  the  State  as  secu­
rity.  Within  four  weeks  bank  notes  to 
the  amount  of  1,000,000,000  livres  were 
issued.
In  May,  1719,  another  royal  edict 
transferred  to  the  Mississippi  company 
the  East  Indian  and  African  trade,  and 
the  capital  of  the  consolidated  company 
increased  to  312,000,000  livres.  Law’s 
financial  project  was  now  no  longer  a 
visionary  scheme— it  was  a  reality,  a 
brilliant  financial  success. 
Law,  the 
State,  the  Mississippi  company  and  the 
Bank  were now  one.  All  that  remained 
to  be  done  was  to  assume  the  financial 
administration  of  the  nation,  and,  with 
the  proceeds  of  the  new  shares,  pay  off 
the  public  debt  and  lend  the  king,  who

was  anxious  to  borrow  for  personal  use,
1.000. 600.000  livres  at  3  per  cent,  in­
terest.

The  proposed  payment  of  the  public 
debt  and  the 
investment  of  this  large 
sum  at  3  per  cent,  interest,  with  the 
king  as  security,  together  with  the 
in­
flation  of  the  bank  currency  to  nearly
20.000. 
people  to  go  wild  with  speculation.

000.000  livres,  caused  the  French 

The  shares  of  stock  of the Mississippi 
company  daily  increased  in  value,  and 
the  streets  of  Paris  thronged  with  peo­
ple  willing  to  pay  twenty  or thirty times 
their original  cost.  The  street  called 
Quincampoix,  the  Wall  Street  of  Paris, 
became  the  meeting  place  of  the  great­
est  lords  and  the  humblest  citizens,  vy­
ing  with  each other  in  the  purchase  and 
sale  of  bonds  and  speculative  property. 
So great  was  the  excitement,  it  became 
necessary  to  close  the  two  ends  of  the 
street  with  gates  open  from  6  a.  m.  un­
til  9  p.  m.  Every  house  on  the  street 
harbored  brokers  by  the  score.  The 
excitable  French  people  had  gone
speculation  mad.

John  Law  was  now  the  greatest  man 
in  France.  He  was  declared  a  public 
benefactor.  Honors  were  conferred  up­
on  him,  his  house  was  thronged with the 
best  society  that  Paris  afforded,  princes 
of  royalty  considered  it  an  honor  to  re­
ceive  his  salutation.  He was appointed 
Controller-General  of  the  finances  of 
France  and  elected  a  member  of  the 
French  Academy:  Nor  was  his  fame 
confined  to  France;  it  extended  far  and 
wide  and  strangers  flocked  to  Paris  to 
behold  the  man  who  had  made  every 
one  rich  and  no  one  poor.  No  thought 
was  taken  for  the  future,  every  one  was 
so 
intoxicated  with  the  success  of  the 
present  Golden  Age  which  they  sup­
posed  had  come  to  stay.  Money  was 
abundant,  everybody  was  rich. 
The 
lackey  of  yesterday  was  a  millionaire 
to-day.  People  who, 
from  necessity, 
had  heretofore  walked  now  rode in  their 
coaches,  with 
in  at­
tendance.  New  furniture  adorned  their 
homes.  Land  and  farm  products,  manu­
factured  articles  and  works  of  art  rose 
rapidly 
in  price  and  prosperity  was 
seen  on  every  hand.  The  manufacturers 
of  paper  for  bank  notes  could  hardly 
supply  the  demand.

liveried  servants 

Of  course,  the  bills  of  the bank  were 
payable  in  gold  and  silver;  but  no  one, 
for  the  time  being,  wanted  specie. 
Paper  money  was  more  convenient  and 
was  accepted  in  payment  of  taxes  and 
in  France.  The 
everything  produced 
credit  of  the  bank  was  unlimited. 
Its 
notes  were  secured  by  the  capital  of 
the  bank  and  "the  great  company  of 
the  West,”   as  the  Mississippi  company 
was  now  called ;  and  back  of  the  bank 
and  the  Mississippi  company  were  the 
honor and  wealth  or  the  French  nation. 
Could  anything  be  more  secure?

During  all  this  time  Law  never  made 
known  the  number  of  shares  of  stock  of 
the  Mississippi  company he  had  issued, 
or  the  amount  of  paper  currency  his 
bank  had  outstanding.  No  one  made 
the 
inquiry  and,  further  more,  no  one 
seemed  to  care,  as  the  security was  con­
sidered  ample. 
issue  Law 
seems  to  have  been  controlled  by  the 
law  of  supply  and  demand.  Like  all 
stock  gamblers,  he  was  no  respecter  of 
persons,  and  every  one  who  brought  to 
his  bank  specie  or  government  securi­
ties  was,  in  exchange,  furnished  with 
bank  notes,  which  he,  as  Controller- 
General,  readily  accepted 
in  payment 
for  bonds  of  the  Mississippi  company, 
which  he  was  always  willing  to  issue.

In  their 

It  is  but  fair  to  state  that  John  Law 
was  honest  in  his convictions.  He really 
believed  that  paper  money  could  and 
would  be  used  in  place  of  gold  and  sil­
ver  in  business  transactions.  Although 
the  bank  notes  were  payable  in  specie, 
he  honestly  thought  that,  with the  credit 
of  the  nation  back  of  their  issue,  no 
one  would  ever ask for their redemption. 
He  forgot,  as  has  many  a  man  since  his 
day,  that  old  commercial  rules  made 
law  by 
international  usage  cannot  be 
abrogated  or  abolished  by  the  mere 
edict  of  a  king,  a  parliament  or  a  con­
gress.  From  the  earliest  times,  gold 
and  silver,  based  on  their  commercial 
value,  have  been  the  acknowledged 
medium  of  exchange  between  nations,

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and  he 
is  either a  knave  or  a  fool  who 
thinks  he  can  successfully substitute  fiat 
money  for  that  which  the  world  at  large 
recognizes  as  real  money,  viz.,  gold and 
silver.
Government  currency,  bank  notes  and 
bills  of  exchange  are  used  in  all  civi­
lized  nations  as  expedients  in  times  of 
emergency,  or  for  convenience 
in  the 
transaction  of  business;  but,  in  the  set­
tlement  of  balances,  gold 
is  now  the 
basis,  because  all  enlightened  nations 
have  agreed  that  it  shall  be  so.

It  was  this  fact  that  stood  in  the  wav 
of  the  permanent  success  of  Law’s 
financial  scheme  and  made  its  failure 
sure  and  complete.  The  day  of  settle­
ment  came  at  last,  and  came,  as  do  all 
monetary  disturbances,  when 
least  ex­
pected.  The  bubble,  which  was  ex­
panded  to  its  utmost  extent,  could  only 
float  when  the  atmosphere  was  calm 
and  unruffled.  The  financial  storm  was 
now  gathering  and  those  who  were  the 
least  able  to  withstand  its  fury  were  the 
last  to  perceive  its  approach.  The men 
of  leisure,  who had  nothing  to  occupy 
their  attention  but  questions  of  the  day ; 
the  financiers,  whose  only  thought  was 
their  investments,  and  the  foreign  mer­
chants,  who  had  carefully  studied 
the 
situation  from 
the  beginning,  were 
among  the  first  to  perceive  the  gather­
ing  clouds  of  disaster  and  ruin.

The  Prince  of  Conti,  one of  the  most 
powerful  nobles  in  France  (thought  by 
some  to  have  been  a  sort  of  silent  part­
ner  in  this  gigantic  swindle  and,  there­
fore,  well  informed  as  to 
its  nature), 
annoyed  to  find  that  his  ever-increasing 
demands  for  “ hush  money”   were  dis 
regarded,  presented  at  the  bank  the 
large  amount  of  bank  notes  in  his  pos­
session  and  demanded  payment 
in 
specie.  Then  other  nobles,  financiers 
and  foreign  merchants  did  the  same, 
until  the  specie  supply  was  exhausted. 
Then  came  the  beginning  of  the  end. 
Brokers  held  hurried  consultations  on 
the  street,  messengers  were  sent 
to 
notify  their  clients  that  the  bank  had 
refused  payment  of  its  notes.  Financial 
darkness  seemed  to  settle  down  upon 
Paris  and  business  men  were,  for  the 
moment,  paralyzed  with  astonishment. 
Could  it  be  possible  that  the  bank  guar­
anteed  by  the  French  nation  and further 
secured  by  the  great  Mississippi  com­
pany  was  unable  to  redeem  its  notes, 
and  that  the  scheme  of  the  great  finan­
cier  had  failed?  But  a  short  time  was 
given  to  speculation  or  discussion  of 
the  situation.  Soon  the  noise  of  hurry­
ing  feet  was  heard  upon  the  pavement, 
individuals  rapidly  made 
as  excited 
their  way  to  the  bank,  only  to  find  it 
closed.  The  storm  had  come. 
The 
bubble  had  burst.

loudly  bewailed 

The  excitement  was 

intense.  Men 
who,  a  few  months  before,  did  not 
want  their  bank  notes  redeemed,  now 
that  there  was  nothing  with  which  to 
their 
redeem  them, 
fate.  Agents  received  notice 
to  ex­
change  bank  notes  for  any  kind  of 
property.  Orders  were 
issued  to  bro­
kers  to  sell  the  bonds  of  the  Mississippi 
company  at  any  price,  providing  the 
payment  was  made  in  specie.  Men  ran 
hither  and  thither  with  blanched  faces, 
hoping  for  the  best,  fearing  the  worst.

Law  sought  to  stop  the  panic  and 
sustain  the  inflated  values,by  issuing  an 
order,  as  Controller-General,  declaring 
that  the  value  of  paper money  should  be 
5  per  cent,  above  that  of  specie,  and 
requiring  holders  of  coin  in  excess  of  a 
certain  amount  to  exchange  it  for  bills. 
But  no  decree  or  law  could  restrain  the 
people.  They  were  as  anxious  now  to 
dispose  of  their  bank  notes and bonds as 
they  were  a  few  days  before  to  procure 
them.  Everyone  wanted  to  sell,  and 
sell  for  gold  or  silver.  Business  be­
came  demoralized  and 
thousands  of 
families  who,  a  few  months  before,  had 
thought  themselves  rich  were  now  hope­
lessly  ruined.

The  government,  becoming  alarmed, 
issued  an  order  deposing  Law  from  the 
controllers!)ip,  abolished  the  bank  and 
deprived  the  Mississippi company of its 
home monopolies and  its connection with 
the  revenues  of  the  State.

Now  that  the  mischief  was  done,  the 
government  could  do  no  less  than  re­
move  the  cause,  knowing  well  that order

could  not  be  restored  or  the  financial 
excitement  allayed  unless  heroic  meas­
ures  were  adopted.  But  no  proclama­
tion  or  decree  could  remedy  the  evil  al­
ready  done  or  place  the  public  back 
where  it  was,  financially,  before  the  ex­
periment  of  credit  banking  and  paper 
money  was  adopted.  The  reputation  of 
the  bankers  and  brokers  as  financiers 
was  gone  and  the  credit  of  the  nation 
well-nigh  ruined.

To  say  that  John  Law  was  honest  in 
his  intentions  does  not  palliate  or  ex­
cuse  the  great  injury  he  did  the  French 
people.  Neither  did 
it  relieve  the 
poverty  of  the  citizen.  For  many  years 
the  nation  was  financially  embarrassed, 
from  lack  of  confidence  in  the  honesty 
and  ability  of  those  in  authority,  and all 
on  account  of  one  man’s  ignorance  of 
the  fundamental  principles  of  finance.
Confidence  being  the  chief foundation 
stone  upon  which  a  sound  and  success­
ful  financial  structure 
is  builded,  the 
adoption  of  any  new  or  untried  system 
is  a  dangerous  experiment  and  should, 
in  a  majority  of  cases,  be  rejected,  es­
pecially  if  the  promoters  are  novices  in 
finance,  speculators  or  visionary  fanat­
ics.
the 
Mississippi  company  lingered  until  No­
vember,  1720,  and  disappeared,  only  to 
its 
be  remembered 
in 
inception  as  a 
beautiful  vision,  in 
its  fruition  as  an 
irridescent  dream,  and  in  retrospection 
as  a  horrible  nightmare,  an  object 
les­
son  for  future  generations.

As  a  commercial  corporation 

John  Law,  who, 

for  nearly  three 
years,  had  been  the  ideal  financier,  was 
now  considered the greatest of swindlers. 
Men  who,  a  few  months  before,  had 
been  ready  to  do  him  honor  were  now 
anxious  to  do  him  violence.  Heart­
broken  and  poor,  he  escaped  to  Eng­
land,  where  he  tried  to  regain  his  for­
mer  prestige  but,  having  lost  confidence 
in  himself  as  thoroughly  as  the  public 
had 
in  him,  utterly  tailed. 
For  several  years  he  was  a  pensioner 
on  the  bounty  of  the  Marquis de Lassay, 
his  early 
friend,  and  finally  died,  in 
Vienna,  March  21,  1729,  poor,  unhon­
ored  and  only  remembered  as the  author 
of  Law’s  Financial  Scheme.

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MAINE  FACTS

A  Tall  Cheese  Story.

The  Daily  Telegraph  says  a  chemist 
has  discovered  a  process  by  which 
cheese,  after  being  subjected  to  the  op­
eration  of  certain  acids  and  the  action 
of  a  modicum  of  heat,  becomes  admir­
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ture— is  better,  in  fact,  than  the  finest 
marble,  since  it  can  be  made  flawless, 
cut  easily,  and  then  hardened  to a point 
more  durable  than  granite,  while  pre­
serving  the  most  delicate  expression 
the  artist 
is  capable  of  putting  into  a 
countenance.  Thus  every  notable  man 
may  have  his  statue  carved  out  of  the 
cheese  of  his  native  country,  which  in 
itself  would  be  a  great  honor,  without 
taking  into  account  the  stimulus  given 
to  an  important  local  industry.  In cities 
and  towns  where  wars  and  sieges are not 
unknown  the 
invention  will  prove  of 
even  greater 
importance.  A  besieged 
people 
in  want  of  food  might  easily 
subsist  for  a  certain  time  on  the  monu­
ments  of  their  great  men,  who  would 
thus  render  a  double  service  to  their 
country.  The  inventor  also  claims  that 
cheese  may  he so manipulated  as to form 
a  capital  substitute  for  ivory  and  cellu­
loid,  and  thus  become  useful  for  much 
ornamental  work. 

Indeed!

in  Formosa 

The  richest  man 

is  a 
Chinese  merchant  named  Ling-Yeng. 
His  wealth  is  estimated  at  $30,000,000. 
He  took  part  in  the  recent 
insurrection 
against  the  Japanese  occupation  of  the 
island  and  is  now  a  fugitive  in  Pekin, 
where  it 
is  using  his 
money  to  secure  an  appointment as  con­
sul,  in  order  that  he  may  return  to  the 
island  without  danger  of  being executed 
by  the  Japanese.

is  said  that  he 

A  boy  walked 

into  a  merchant’s 
office  the  other  day  in  search  of  a  situ­
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echism  by  the  merchant,  he  was  asked : 
is  your  motto?’ ’ 
“ Well,  my  lad,  what 
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replied, 
“ same  as  you  have  on  your  door— 
* Push. ’  ’ ’  He  was  engaged.

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Skowhegan, Me.. .Tune 3,  1896. 
V a l l e y C it y  Milling Co., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Dear  s r»:—-lo the  past  four  years  I  have  sold 
about 3.000 harre's  of  t  e Valley  City  Milling  Co.'s 
flours, and it gives me  pleasure  to  say  that  I  have 
always found  them  just  as  represented.  They  are 
flours that  run  very  uniform,  one  barrel  being  as 
good as another in its grade.  I can  say  that  I  con­
sider  them  the  best  flours  that  are  being  sold  in 
Skowhegan.  I want anoiher car  load—the  last  one 
- went quick. 

C.  W.  DAY.

West Pownal, Me , June 20, 189j. 
V a l l e y C it y   Millin g C o.,  Grand  Rapids. Mich.
Gents:—We have  been  handling  your  different 
brands of flour for the last  five  years wi>h  the  very 
best  of  results.  We  have  never  befo e  handled  a 
car of an; other mill’s  make  with  as  little  trouble 
as we have had with all we have  sold  of the  Valley 
City  Milling  Co.’s  flours.  We  cannot  get  along 
without them now—our customers wi  1 have them.
DOW  &  LIBBY.

Yours truly,

Oakland, Me., June 4, 1896.
V a l l e y  C it y   Millin g C o
Gentlemen:—We have  sold  your  flours  for  the 
past four years. in several  grades,  and  are  glad  to 
say  that  in  all  grades  we  have  )>een  more  than 
pleased, and do not hes tate to say that we consider 
your goods superior to any we have handled.  They 
suit the trade perfectly and are trade winners.

Yours truly,

BLAKE  BROS.

TERSELY  TOLD

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A  Case  of  Pride  before  the  Fall. 

Stroller in Grocery World.

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Last  week,  as  I  was  looking  over a 
item 
It  was 

Maryland  country  newspaper,  one 
in  particular  caught  my  eye. 
this:

John  Blank,  a  well-known  retail  gro­
cer  of  Blankville,  was  compelled  last 
week  to  make  an  assignment  for  the 
benefit  of  his  creditors.  Mr.  Blank’s 
expenses  were  very  heavy,  and  this, 
combined  with  bad  business,  has 
brought  about  the  failure.  His  many 
friends  will  regret  to  hear  this.

This  was  the  item,  and  it  carried  me 
back  to  a  time,  about  ten  months  ago, 
when  I  stood  in  that  grocer’s  store  and 
prophesied  to  him  that  he  couldn’t 
keep  up  the  methods  he  was  using  a 
year  longer.  He 
laughed  at  me  then, 
and  even  grew  a  little  angry  at  my  pre­
sumption.  But I was  right,  with  two Tull 
months  to  my  credit.

I  believe a  little  history  of  the  reason 
why  this  grocer— whose  name,  by  the 
way,  is  not  John  Blank—-failed  would 
be 
interesting,  and  it  might  serve  to 
turn  the  mind  of  some  extravagant  gro­
cer  more  closely  to  the  matter  of  keep­
ing  down  expenses.

To  begin  with,  Blankville,  where  this 
is  a  quiet  little 
grocer  did  business, 
place  of  about  4,000  people. 
It  is  a 
sleepy  little  country  village,  nothing 
more,  nothing  less.  The  people are con­
servative,  slow  to  adopt  new  ideas  and 
rather  lazy. 
If  a  young  lady  bicycle 
rider  were  to  parade  the  streets 
in 
bloomers,  she  would  be  waited  on  by  a 
indignant 
self-appointed  committee  of 
citizens  and  ordered  to 
leave  town. 
That’s  the  sort  of  a  town  Blankville  is.
John  Blank  was  an  outsider.  He 
didn’t  appreciate  the  peculiarities  of 
the  place.  He  came  from  another  part 
of  Maryland  with  the  idea  of  treating 
Blankville  to  a  real  up-to-date  grocery 
store.  He  was  overambitions  and  he 
met  the  result  that  overambition  always 
meets.
The  store  John  Blank  opened  was  a 
wonder  for  a  country town.  Everything 
about  it  was  up  to  date,  modern,  really 
elegant. 
In  a  city  of  25,000  it  would 
even  have  been  conspicuous  because  of 
its  great  superiority  to  the  general  run 
of  retail  grocery stores. 
In a quiet  little 
village,  especially  one  that  thought  the 
devil  at  the  bottom  of  every  new 
idea, 
it  was  a  flaming  torch.

Let  me  give  a little  description  of  the 
store. 
I  saw  it  only  a  few  weeks  after 
it  was  opened,  and  before  the  shine  was 
yet  off  the  brass. 
It  was  honestly  one 
of  the  prettiest/  most  modern  stores  l 
ever  saw,  but 
it  was  too  far  over  the 
heads  of  the  denizens  of Blankville,  and 
that  is  exactly  what  I  told  John  Blank, 
ten  months  ago.

To  begin  with,  this  store  had  cash 
carriers  all  over  the  store—these  auto­
matic  affairs  right  over  the  clerks’ 
heads  that  transfer  money in a twinkling 
of  the  eye  to  the  cashier’s  desk.  This 
was  looked  upon  in  Blankville  as  a wild 
piece  of  useless  and  colossal  extrava­
gance. 
It  was.  The  system  cost several 
hundred  dollars,  which  would have  been 
all  right  if  the  town  would  have  justi­
fied  it,  but  it  wouldn’t.  There  was  the 
cashier,  who  had  to  draw  a  salary,  of 
course.  Retail  grocers  who  employ  a 
cashier 
in  towns  of  4,000 are  looking 
for  trouble  and  are  pretty  sure to find  it.
Then  John  Blank  had  a  stenographer. 
This  was  even  crazier  than the cash  car­
rier  and  the  cashier  ideas.  He paid him 
$g  per  week,  and  he  probably  wrote  an 
average  of  five  letters  a  day. 
I  know 
it  to  be  a  fact  that, in  order  to  keep  that 
stenographer  busy,  John  Blank  used  to 
write  letters  that  otherwise  he  wouldn’t 
have  sent  at  all.  There  was  a typewriter 
for  the  five  letters,  of  course.

Besides  all  this  fol-de-rol,  John  Blank 
had  a  superintendent  or  manager.  He 
was  not  a  practical  grocer  himself,  al­
though  he  knew  a  good  deal  about  the 
business,  and  he  liked  to  stay  in  his 
private  office,  anyhow,  and receive trav­
eling  salesmen.  The  private  office,  by 
the  way,  was  another  of  his  extrava­
it  furnished  very 
gances.  He  had 
nicely, 
roll-top  desk,  stenographer’s 
desk,  lounge  and  all  the  little  things 
that  you  are  not  accustomed  to  seeing 
in  country  towns  of  4,000.

The  inside  of  John  Blank’s  store  was 
arranged  differently  from  the average 
store,  and  this  was  another  offense  to 
inhabitants  of  Blankville.  He  had 
the 
an  arrangement  of  his  own 
to  keep 
things  in  on  the  shelves,  which  made 
a  good  deal  of  gloss  and  glitter.  It  con­
sisted  of  boxes  with  nickel  fronts,  that 
were  always  highly  polished.  A  whole 
rampart  of  these  made  the  store  look 
vastly  different  from  the  ordinary  dingy 
little  grocery  store,  and  it  was  to  John 
Blank’s  credit  that  this  was  so,  but  the 
people  of  Blankville  didn’t  see  it  that 
way.  They  accused  John  Blank  of  sin­
ful  extravagance,  which  w<r.s  really  a 
fact  when  you  consider  the  sort  of  a 
town  Blankville  was  and  the  sort  of  a 
store  John  Blank  put  in  it.

in 

trying 

that  town 

The  result  of  this  condition  of  things 
was  that  John  Blank  sank  several  thou­
sand  dollars 
to 
make  his  city  bus.ness  go.  From  the 
first  the  people  viewed  it  with  suspi­
cion. 
It  was  too  deep  for  them.  They 
weren’t  used  to  it,  and  they  didn't  like 
it. 
It  was  like  a  farmer  who  has  been 
used  to  a  neglige  shirt  all  his  life  being 
asked  to  wear  a  modern  choker  collar. 
The  people  of  Blankville  refused  to 
wear  the  choker  collar,  and  so  John 
Blank  lost  his  money.  They  went to  the 
little  dingy  combination  tobacco  and 
grocery  store  they  had  always  gone  to, 
and,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  John 
Blank’s  new  store  sold  better  goods  at 
lower  prices  than  the  combination  store 
did,  the  proprietor of  the  latter  kept  on 
getting  the  trade,  and 
John  Blank 
didn’t.

When  I  was  in  the  place  John  Blank 
asked  me  what  I  thought  of  his  store.  I 
told  him  it  was  one  of  the  nicest-look- 
ing  stores  I  had  ever  seen,  but  I thought 
it  was  too  far over  the  heads  of  the  peo­
ple  of  Blankville.  He 
laughed  at  me.
“ Why,  when  they  get  used  to  me  all 
the  other  stores will have  to clean  up and 
put 
in  new  fixtures,”   he  said,  com­
placently.

The  people  of  Blankville  never  got 
used  to  him,  but  he  got  perfectly  used 
to  Blankville.

Good  Money  Wasted.

From the Dry Goods Economist.

The  patrons  of  dry  goods  stores  are 
mostly  women ;  did  you  ever  hear  or 
know  of  one  who  looked  through  the 
pages  of  a  hotel register  to  find  out what 
the  dry  goods  stores  were  offering  in 
the  way  of  bargains?

Take  the  case  home  to  yourself;  did 
you  ever  go  to  a  hotel  register  for infor­
mation  about  clothing,  shoes,  etc.?  No; 
of  course  not.  Were  you  ever  influenced 
by  a  glass  sign  over a  desk  in  a  hotel 
reading-room?  Did  you  ever  have  a 
“ dodger”   stuck 
in  the  crook  of  your 
elbow  and,after  reading  it,go and  inves­
tigate  the  merchanise  that the “ dodger” 
advertised?

Did  you  ever  note  a  big  transparency 
on  an  express  wagon,  at  the  tail  end  of 
a  circus  parade,  with  a  drum  corps 
in 
its  “ innerds”   and  acknowledge  to your­
self  that  it  was  good  advertising?  Did 
you  ever—but  what’s  the  use?  We 
might  go  on  enumerating  schemes  that 
are  sprung  on the unwary advertisers un­
til  our  space  ran  out,  and  then  give 
you  only  a  faint  idea  of  the  “ wonder­
ful”   chances  that  they  miss 
if  they 
don’t  invest  in  them.

Kindly  remember  that  all 

is 
meant  for  “  the  other  fellow, ”   it  being 
an  understood  fact  that  you  never  spend 
any  advertising  money  except  you  feel 
reasonably  sure  of  getting  results.

You  are  too  wide-awake  and progress­
ive  to  spend  your good  money  on  any of 
the  “ fake  schemes”   that  capture  so 
many  thousands  of  dollars  from  those 
who  don’t  think.

this 

Telling  the  Truth.

Clerk— I’d  like  to  go  away  to-day  at 

1  o’clock,  sir,  if  you  can  spare  me.

Employer—All  sick  at  home?  Grand­
mother  dead?  House  burning  down,  or 
what?

Clerk—Well,  to  tell  the  truth,  I  want 

to  go  to  the  ballgrounds,  and—
Employer— I ’ll  go  with  you. 

to  see  if  you  are  telling  the  truth.

I  want 

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

CO URTESY  AND  FAIRNESS.

Harsh  Ways  and  Arrogance  Show 

Weakness.

From the St. Paul Trade Journal.

There  are  men  in  business  who  think 
that  ability  must  be  demonstrated  by 
discourtesy,  harsh  ways  and  words,  ar­
rogance  and  an 
irritable  exaction  of 
every  right  and  privilege.  Some  even 
go  beyond  this,  and  count  no  transac­
tion  a  real  success  if  they have  failed  to 
claim  and  secure  something  which  less­
ens  another’s  just  due and  gives  them 
an  unjust  advantage.
Such  men  are  not  strong,  but  weak ; 
not  able,  but  simply  incapable  of  self- 
control ;  not  wise,  but  foolish  in matters 
indispensable  to  true success ;  not capa­
ble  of  great  things,  but  only  of  petty 
acquisitions  by  methods  which  often 
bring  ruin  and  always  injure  their 
in­
fluence  and  standing.

The good  buyer,  whether  wholesaler 
or  retailer,  should  always  be  courteous 
and  polite,  capable  of  saying  “ no”  
graciously,  and  “ I  am  busy”   politely, 
anxious  to  see  anything  which  may  be 
made  valuable  in  his  line  of  business, 
and  considerate  in  his  rejection  of  such 
goods  and  offers  as  may  be, in  his  opin­
ion, undesirable.  He  has  a right  to  cut 
short 
impudence  and  unwise  solicita­
tion,  but  he  can  often  afford  to be  char­
itable  and  courteous  in  consideration  of 
the  inexperience  and  anxiety  of  very 
many  of  those  with  whom  he  comes 
in 
contact.  Every  man  has  a  legal  and 
business  right  to  exact  every  scruple  of 
his  just  due,  and  he  should  not  accept 
goods  not  up  to  sample  or  description, 
unless  he  has  given  the  seller  some  dis­
in  substitution  or  choice  of 
cretion 
goods.  When,  however, 
there  have 
long  and  satisfactory  business 
existed 
dealings,  it 
is  poor  policy  to be  over­
exacting  on  one  side,  where  loss  and 
inconvenience  must  most  heavily  fall 
on  the  other. 
If  the  friendship  and 
anxiety  to  please  of  the  seller  have  for 
years  been  beneficial  to  the  buyer,  help­
improve  his 
ing  him  to  enlarge  and 
business,  and  perhaps  favoring  him 
in 
temporary  embarrassments  and  matters 
of  personal  accommodation,  it  is  very 
poor  policy  to  utterly 
these 
things  and  to  act  without  regard  to  the 
pleasant  relations and mutual kindnesses 
of  the  past.

isn’t  business”   to  return  unor­
dered  or  unsatisfactory  goods  by  ex­
press  when  there  is  no  need  of saddling 
extra  expense  upon  the  seller. 
If  he 
has  failed  by  mistake,  it  is  unkind  and 
unjust;  if  purposely,  it  is  better  to  be 
firm  and  outspoken 
in  remonstrance, 
and,  if  it  is  necessary  to  end  constant 
annoyance,  to  buy  elsewhere. 
“ It  isn’t 
business”   to  return  goods  bought  and 
shipped,  apd  to  throw  upon  another 
what  the  law  says  is  your  own  burden. 
If  you  have  bought  unwisely,  you  there­
by  confess  your  own 
imprudence;  and 
if  done  because  of  purchases  elsewhere, 
your  own  want  of  sincerity  and  justice. 
If  by  special  agreement  these  things 
are  done,  there  can  be  no question  as 
to  the  right  to  do  them,  but  even  that 
right  should be  exercised sparingly,  and 
with  due  regard 
to  one’s  dignity, 
honor and  self-respect.

ignore 

Humility  becomes  all  men  when  it 
consists  in  recognizing the  interdepend­
ence  of  all  humanity,  and the propriety 
of  giving  to  every  reasonable  being  the 
courtesy  and  consideration  which  one 
deems  due  to  himself.  Nearly  all  de­
partures  from  politeness  and  kindliness 
are  due  to  selfishness  and  vanity,  al­
though 
it  must  be  said  that  overwork 
and  needless  feverish  “ worry”   are  the 
causes  of  many  of  the  unpleasant  ex­
periences  of  American  business  life. 
They  yearly  carry  down  to  the  grave 
many  naturally  generous  and  kindly 
men,  whose  overweighted  brains  and 
exhausted  nervous  force  have  left  the 
heart  unsatisfied,  and  made  life  and 
life’s  activities  a  consuming  fire.  To 
all  such  pity 
is  due,  and  all  that  for­
bearance  and  patience  which  a  strong 
and  manly  soul  can  give  to  its  weaker 
and  overburdened  fellow.

but  all  who  claim  exemption  from 
into  their 
lives,  and  ask  them­
if  they  are  really  wise,  far-see­

such  weakness  should 
own  hearts  and 
selves 

look 

“ It 

ing,  strong  and  prudent  when  they  fail 
to  be  just,  courteous  and  considerate  to 
those  with  whom  they must  do business. 
He  who  has  no  belief  in  anything  ex­
cept  the  acquisition  of  petty  gains,  or 
the  avoidance  of  small losses,  regardless 
of  the  means  used,  may  not  care  for 
these  things,  but  will 
in  due  season 
realize  their  value  and  his  own  weak­
ness.

Put  It  in  Writing.

In  every  commercial  transaction  in­
volving  any  semblance  to  a  contract,  it 
is  always best  to  have  a  definite  under­
standing  between  the  parties  and, 
if 
possible,  that  understanding  should  be 
in  black  and  white.  He  who  borrows 
even  $5  should  insist  on  giving  a  note 
therefor,  and  the  lender  ought  not  to  re­
fuse  it.  As  far  as  possible,  payment 
should  be  made 
in  bank  checks,  and 
receipts  invariably  given  and  required. 
In  extending  credit,  it 
is  especially 
that  a  day  of  settlement 
necessary 
should  be  fixed,  ar,d  that  the  debtor, 
as  well  as  the  creditor,  should  under­
stand  that  the  designated  day  is  to be a 
day  of  settlement.  No  one  should  en­
ter  the  employ  of  another,  nor  should 
anyone  receive  service,  until  the  ques­
tion  of  remuneration  has  been  definitely 
decided. 
In  business  it  does  not  do  to 
take  things  for  granted.  People  are 
very  likely  to  form  different  ideas of the 
meaning  of  a  verbal  agreement  and  any 
man's  mind  is  treacherous  at  times. 
If 
men  would  only  insist  upon  understand­
ing  the  contracts  between  them  as  they 
were  made,  there  would  be  no  necessity 
for  appealing  to  the  law  for an  inter­
pretation.  No  one  knows  how  much 
litigation 
loss  and  dishonesty 
and  trouble  would  be  obviated  if  busi­
ness  people  strictly  adhered  to  the  rule 
of  undertaking  no  obligation  without 
first  arriving  at  a  mutual  conclusion  as 
to  the  exact  limits  of  that  obligation.

and 

Acquire  from  Others.

From the Dry Goods Economist.

Cultivate  the  acquaintance  of  em­
ployes.  This  need  not  imply  familiar­
ity.  But  cultivate  their  acquaintance 
sufficiently  to  make  them  feel  perfectly 
at  home  in  offering  a  suggestion  or giv­
ing  a  point 
in  regard  to  some  matter 
which  might  prove  very  useful.  They 
may  not  be  as  well  informed  upon  some 
subjects  as  you  are,  but  then  they  may 
be  better  posted  upon  others,  and  a 
hint  here,  a  suggestion  there  or  a  point 
given  are  what  make  up  a  valuable 
total. 
Invite co-operation  as  to  window 
displays,  store  arrangement,  selection 
of  stock  and  other  adjuncts  to  success. 
Employes  pick  up  many  straws  from 
customers  that  show  which  way 
the 
wind  blows  and,  if  invited  to  dissemi­
nate  these,  much  that 
is  valuable  is 
likely  to  be  acquired.  A  spirit  of  com­
petition  generated  among  them  as  to 
who  will  be  of  the  greatest  service  in 
this  matter is  sure  to  prove beneficial  to 
both  employer  and  employed.

Window  Display  in  Philadelphia.

H. P. Brown in Printers’ Ink.

and 

large 

A  musical 

instrument  store  here  at­
tracts  the  attention  of  passers-by by  dis­
playing  a  girl  in  the  window  dressed 
in  Spanish  costume  and  playing  a  man­
dolin.  A  candy  store  on  Market  street 
has  a 
imitation  elephant  in  its 
window,  the  head  and  trunk  of  which 
move  automatically, 
frequently 
bring  to  view,  in  a  “ now  you  see  it, 
now  you  don't”   style,  a  card  advertis­
ing  the  confectionery 
in  the  window. 
jewelry  store  has  two  young  negro 
A 
boys 
its  window  dressed  in  planta­
tion  costumes,  each  seated 
in  a  chair 
and  playing  a  banjo.  A  clothing  store 
I here  has  a  novel  way  of  displaying  the 
prices  of  goods  shown  in 
its  windows. 
Instead  of  the  customary  price  tickets, 
bills  of  different  denominations,  repre­
senting  the  price,  are  pinned  on  the 
goods.

in 

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.

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The  Stimpson 
beats  the  world.
L.  M.  THORN, 
Saline,  Mich.

The  movement  of  one  poise 
gives  the  weight  in  pounds  and 
ounces  and  the  value  in  dollars 
and cents at the same time.

All bearings are made from  best 
tool  steel  and  pivoted, thus  insur­
ing sensitiveness indefinitely.

Our  motto—weight  and  money 

value at one operation.

Sim compuTiHG senil co.,

ELKHART, INDIANA.

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New  1896  crop  J E W E L L   CH O P  JA P A N   T E A S  
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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 
in  stock.  Buy Jewell  Chop  Teas  of  us,  and  you  will 
get JU ST W H A T  YO U   B U Y,  nice,  tender  leaf,  frag­
rant  1896 crop tea.

I. M. CLARK GROCERY CO.

The  New  York  Apple  Crop. 
Medina Correspondence Buffalo Express.

It 

The  apple  market  has  opened  at$t  to 
$1.25  a  barrel. 
It  is  reported  that  two 
buyers  of  winter  fruit  for  the  English 
market  have  been 
traveling  through 
Western  New'  York  for  several  weeks 
endeavoring  to  find  the  choicest  fruit 
for  export,  and  after  thorough  exami­
nation  decided  that  a  strip  north  of  the 
Ridge  Road  and  extending  north  from 
Gasport  to  north  of  Knowlesville  and 
nearly  to  the  lake  contained the choicest 
fruit  to  be  found  anywhere,  and  that  the 
buyers  contracted  with growers for about 
31,000 barrels  at  S i.25  and  Si-50  a  bar­
rel. 
is  feared  that  there  will  be a 
scarcity  of  barrels  to  ship  the  enormous 
running 
crop,  and  cooper  shops  are 
night  and  day.  Even 
if  the  coopers 
could  keep  up  with  the  demand  there  is 
a  probability  of  shortage  of barrel stock, 
and  prices  have  gone  up  from  25  to  30 
cents  on  barrels  not  already  contracted 
for. 
If  the  price  of  Si  or  more  can 
be  maintained,  Orleans  and  Niagara 
counties  will  reap  a  fortune  from  their 
apple  crop.  The  trees  are  loaded  so 
heavily  with  fruit  that  it  requires  the 
greatest  effort  to  keep  them  from  col­
lapsing,  and  it  is  no  uncommon  sight 
to  see  an  orchard  in  which each tree  has 
from  five  to  ten  props  under  its  limbs. 
Fall  fruit  is  coming  into  Medina  rapid­
ly  now,  and  when  the  market  for  winter 
fruit  opens,  a  rush  is  expected.  Every 
available  vacant  property  is  being  se­
cured  for  apple  yards  and  storage,  and 
it 
is  expected  that  a  large  part  of  the 
crop  of  Western  Orleans  and  Eastern 
Niagara  will  pass  through  the  hands  of 
Medina  commission  merchants  and  the 
buyers  from  the  East  who  are  stopping 
here  temporarily.

Selfishness  a  Help  to  Courtesy. 

Deacon in Furniture News.

Paradoxical  as 

it  may  seem,  selfish­
ness  may  sometimes  produce  courtesy 
and  self-restraint. 
I  saw  an  exhibition 
of  this  most  marvelous  alchemy  not 
many  days  since.  A  railway  freight 
agent  was  endeavoring  to  persuade  a 
bumptous  buyer  for  a  wholesale  grocery 
to  order  his  goods  shipped  over a  cer­
tain  road.  The buyer  had  a  grievance 
against  the  road  and  a  bad  way  of  ex­
pressing  it.  Light  headed,low  minded, 
intemperate and  overbearing,  he  meta­
phorically  slapped  the  freight  agent  in 
the  face  and  spat  upon  him  with 
large 
show  of  contempt.

The  freight  agent  was  paid  a  salary 
for  taking  such  abuse  with  equanimity. 
To  give  the  buyer  bad  talk  back  meant 
loss  to  the  railway  and  probably  a  loss 
of  position  to  the  agent. 
It  was  a  fine 
study  to  see  the  agent  answering  with 
even  temper and  fine  courtesy  the  little 
fellow  who  was  heaping  abuse  on  him 
in 
language. 
Very  likely  the  grocery  house  had  a 
just  grievance  against  the road,  but  this 
only  made  the  agent’s  position  more 
trying;  for  there  are  none  so  hard  to 
forgive  as  those  we  have  wronged.

lurid  and  unprintable 

That  competition,  which 

is  almost 
pure  selfishness,  has  made  millions  of 
courteous  salesmen,  and  has  done  more 
to  break  down  artificial  class  distinc­
tions than  anything  except  Christianity. 
In  fact,this  competition,to  produce  this 
courtesy,must  be  curbed by Christianity, 
either  in  the  salesman,  or  in  his  neigh­
borhood.

The  Making  of  Tacks.

The  first  tacks  were  made  by  hand. 
The  operator  used  a  vise  and  dies.  A 
bit  of  metal  was  held  by  a  clamp,  and 
the  head  was  made  by  striking  a  blow 
with  a  hammer.  Later  on,  machinery 
began  to  be  used,  and  now  metal  is  fed 
into  an  enormous  apparatus  that  will 
cut  out  nearly  300  tacks  a  minute.  The 
processes  are  extremely  interesting  and 
a  tack  factory  has  many  visitors.  The 
machinery  is  automatic;  narrow  strips 
of  metal  are  fed  in  and  clipped  off;  the 
heads  are  made  by  pressure,  and  it 
lit­
erally  rains  tacks into large boxes placed 
underneath  to  receive  them.  They  are 
then  poured 
into  a  rattler,  which  is  a 
rapidly 
through 
which  a  jet  of  air  is  forced  under  high 
pressure.  This  removes  all  of  the  dust

revolving 

cylinder, 

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lead 

Black 

loose  particles. 

and 
is 
sometimes  put  in  to  give  them  a polish, 
and  then  they  pass  on  to  the  sifter, 
which  sorts  them  and  takes  out  the  im­
perfect  tacks,  leaving  the  good  ones  to 
be  passed  on  and  dropped  into  a  box, 
from  which  they  are  taken  to  be  packed 
by quick-fingered  girls.  A  good  work­
woman  can  pack  1,600  pounds  of  tacks 
a  day.  When  one  realizes  that  many  of 
these  machines  are going,  and  that  the 
tacks  at  this  rate  are  being  sent  out  to 
market,  the  wonder grows  where  all  the 
tacks  go  to.

Headaches  from  Eye  Strain.

the 

Dr.  S.  Weir  Mitchell, 

in  Medical 
News,  says  there  are  many  headaches 
which  are  due  directly  to  disorders  of 
the  refractive  or  accommodative  ap­
In  some  instances 
paratus  of  the  eyes. 
is  often  the  most 
the  brain  symptom 
prominent,  and  sometimes 
sole 
prominent  symptom  of  the  eye  troubles, 
so  that,  while  there  may  be  no  pain  or 
sense  of  fatigue 
in  the  eye,  the  strain 
with  which 
is  used  may  be  inter­
preted  solely  by  occipital  or  frontal 
headache.  The long continuance  of  eye 
troubles  may  be  the  unsuspected  source 
of  insomnia,  vertigo,  nausea  and  gen­
eral  failure  of  health. 
In  many  cases 
the  eye  trouble  becomes  suddenly  mis­
chievous,  owing  to  some  failure  of  the 
general  health,  or  to 
increased  sensi­
tiveness  of  the  brain  from  moral  or 
mental  causes.

it 

last 

As  Necessary  as  Capital.
One  of  the  elements  for  success 

is  a 
firm  belief  in  one’s  own  powers.  This 
does  not  imply  egotism.  The  first  is  as 
necessary  as  capital  to  achieve  success, 
for  without  it  there  can  be  no  self-reli­
ance.  The 
is  nothing  but  inordi­
nate  vanity,, which  in  the  long  run  usu­
ally  makes  the  possessor  of  it  a  sub­
ject  for  amusement  or  contempt.  A 
quiet  reserve  force,  backed  by  ability, 
is  more  effective 
in  commanding  re­
spect  and  winning  confidence  than  all 
the  bluster  that  can  be  brought  forth. 
From  belief  in  one’s  own  powers  come 
courage,  perseverance  and  the  will 
necessary  to  do  battle. 
In  commercial 
life 
is  those  with  the  ability  to  do 
and  will  power  to  overcome  who  suc­
ceed  in  forging  to  the  front.

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impurities 

in  various 

Damage  by  lightning  is  unmistakably 
increasing,  according  to  the  director  of 
the  statistical  office  of  Berlin.  Various 
causes  are  assigned,  such  as  the  em­
ployment  of  electricity 
in­
dustries,  the  continual  change  of  form 
of  the  earth’s  surface  by  deforestation, 
drainage,  etc.,  and  the 
in­
troduced 
into  the  atmosphere  by  the 
growing  consumption  of  coal.  Professor 
Von  Bezold  showed  that,  for  Bavaria, 
the  fires  due  to 
increased, 
from  a  yearly  average  of  32  in  1833  to 
in  1880  to  1882,  while  the 
1843,  to  132 
number  of  persons  struck  by 
lightning 
and  of  those  killed  rose  from  134  and  73 
respectively 
in  1855  to  186  and  161  in 
1885.  An  interesting  fact  noted  is  that 
persons 
perceive 
struck 
neither 
lightning  nor  thunder,  but  re­
ceive  the  impression  of being enveloped 
by  fire.

generally 

lightning 

in  circulation 

Counterfeit  postage  stamps,  with  the 
head  of  the  republic  reversed,  have 
been  found 
in  Rio  de 
Janeiro.  The  police,  in  investigating 
the  matter, 
interviewed  a  prominent 
dealer,  who  said  that  he  had  purchased 
some  of  them  for  collectors  under  the 
impression  that  they  were  genuine,  but 
"errors.”   Stamp  collectors  should  be 
on  their  guard.

it 

An  inventive  genius  has  turned  out  a 
coffin  which,  when 
is  opened,  has 
the  appearance  of  a  luxurious  couch. 
The  sides,  ends  and  the  corners  are 
fitted  with  silver  hinges  and  drop  to a 
perpendicular.  The  corpse  is  permitted 
to  rest  on  this  couch exposed full length. 
It  was  a  foregone  conclusion  that sooner 
or  later  the  folding  bed 
idea  would 
break  in  on  funerals.

is  good  so  far  as  it 
Good  thinking 
thoughts  not  carried 
goes.  But  good 
into  action  are  as  good  as  seed  corn 
that  never  sprouts.

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Shoes  and  L eath er
American  Footwear  Designs.

From the Shoe and Leather Facts.

There  are  no  other  industries  in  this 
country  that  occupy  a  more  command­
ing  or  enviable  position  than  do  those 
of  shoes  and 
leather.  Recently  the 
fashion  papers  and  trade  journals  have 
been  filled  with  lengthy  accounts  of  the 
Paris  summer  fetes,  which  pronounce 
the  styles  for  the  coming  twelve  months 
in  practically  everything  that  goes  to 
make  up  the  apparel  of  those who would 
in  the 
be  fashionably  dressed,  except 
matter  of  footwear. 
In  shoes,  however, 
thanks  to  the 
ingenuity  and  superior 
progressiveness  of  American  designers 
and  manufacturers,  this  country  sets 
the  pace  to-day  for  practically the whole 
civilized  world.  But  recently 
leading 
members  of  the  trade 
in  Paris  freely 
confessed  that  so-called French styles  in 
footwear have  become  largely  mere  im­
itations  of  the  latest  creations  in  Eng­
land  and  this  country,  the  American 
designs  being  most  copied.
The  novel  texture  and  color  which 
form  the  basis  of  a  costume  for  the 
French  woman,  and  which  her  Ameri­
can  sister  is  so  desirous  of 
imitating, 
play  no  part  in  influencing  the  footwear 
of  the  American  belle or  her  more  pro­
saic  companions. 
It  has  scarcely  been 
a  decade  since 
it  was  deemed  almost 
essential,  in  order  to  insure  her  proper 
standing 
that  she  should 
wear  shoes 
in  which  “ French”   kid 
played  a  conspicuous  part.  What  had 
taken 
to  develop  by  the 
French  tanners  their  American  brethren 
have  surpassed 
in  a  few  years,  and 
American  kid  can  to-day  truthfully  be 
characterized  as  the  standard.  Con­
stantly  increasing  quantities  are  being 
disposed  of,  not  only  in  France,  Eng­
land  and  Germany,  but  also  in  most  of 
the  other  foreign  countries.  It  will  thus 
be  seen  that  the  producers  of  leather 
and  footwear  occupy  a  most  enviable 
position  and  one  or  which  they  have 
much  occasion  to  feel  proud.

in  society, 

centuries 

Evolution  in  Trade  Methods.

From the Shoe and Leather Facts.

It 

Everything  in  life  is  changing.  Rev­
olution  and  evolution  seem  to  be  going 
on  everywhere.  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  manu­
facturers  or  merchants  of  half  a  century 
ago  say  to  the  methods,  expenses and 
fine  surroundings  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  sim­
plicity  and  economy  and  yet  of  great, 
honorable  success.  All  business  men, 
and  especially  the  younger  firms,  should 
recognize  the  new  state  of  affairs  and 
make  a  constant  study  of  the  changes 
and  developments that are  taking  place. 
Judgment  and  nerve  are  required 
in  a 
higher degree  than  ever  before.  Busi­
ness  must  have  clear  brains  and  stout 
hearts. 
It  must  have  constant  watch­
fulness  and  energy. 
It  must  have  re­
gard  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  and towns.  The road to fortune 
in  business  is  no  longer  the beaten track 
which  can  be  followed  from  a  genera­
tion  of  a  family.  Each  season  in  each 
year  is  producing  new  elements  and  re­
lations 
in  the  situation  in  connection 
with  human  progress generally,  and  the 
wise  and  successful  manufacturers  and 
merchants  will  be  those  who  join  in  the 
onward  march,  with  faith  in  themselves 
and  confidence  in  the  future.

Dilatory  Debtors.
From the Shoe and Leather Facts.

In  these  days,  when  we  hear  so  much 
about  long  credits  and  slow  pay,  it  is 
interesting  to  note  that  the Government, 
in  spite  of a  popular  theory  to  the  con­
trary,  is  one  of  the  most  dilatory  and 
in  the  world.  The
unfeeling  debtors 

long-delayed 

country  is  full  cf  slow  debtors,  some be­
cause  of  inability  to  meet  their  obliga­
tions  and  others  from  absolute  mean­
ness,  but  none  of  them  take  their  time 
in  standing  off  a  creditor  as  does  Uncle 
Sam.  The  city  of  Washington  is  filled, 
during  the  session  of  each  Congress, 
with  a  large  number  of  persons  from  all 
sections  of  the  country  who  are  there 
urging  the  payment  of  hundreds  and 
even  thousands  of  old  claims  that  ought 
to have been  paid  years  ago.  The  un­
fortunate  people who  trusted Uncle  Sam 
on  his  reputation  have gone  year  after 
instances,  to  his  repre­
year,  in  many 
sentatives,  seeking 
jus­
tice,  but  have  as  often  met  disappoint­
ment.  Many  of  them  have  grown  gray 
in  following  their claims  ana  have  lost 
money,  strength  and  mind  in  the  cease­
less  rounds  and  heartlessness  and  red 
tape  incident  to  Congressional  action, 
and  yet  haunt  the  Capitol  and  depart­
ment  corridors  as  so  many  ghosts  of  a 
former age.  Salaries  are  generally  paid 
promptly,  but  experience  shows  that, 
when  the  average  citizen  does  the  Gov­
ernment  a  good  turn  at  an  opportune 
time,  or  has  his  property  destroyed 
when  the  Government  is  responsible  for 
its  protection,  and  does  not  obtain  the 
cash  at  the  time,  he does  not  get  it  for 
years,  if  ever.
That  this 

is  not as  it  should  be  goes 
without  saying,  but  just  how the remedy 
is  to be brought  about 
is  hard  to  sug­
gest.  Most  likely  it  lies  in  the  election 
and  appointment  to  office  of  such  men 
as  have  a  correct  knowledge  of  business 
and  business  methods,  and  these  can 
only  be  found  in  the ranks of the various 
business  callings.

A  Commendable  Rule.

From the Shoe and Leather Facts.

One  of  the  most  noticeable  things  in 
the  business  world  during  recent  years 
has  been  the  growth  and  recognition  of 
the  fact  that  satisfactory  services cannot 
be  obtained  from  a  dissipated  employe 
or  one  of  loose  habits.  Most  of  the 
leading  corporations,  and  especially  the 
railroads,  make  sobriety  a  prominent 
qualification  of  those  seeking  employ­
ment  with  them.  While  almost  human 
machinery  has,  in  a  measure,  taken  the 
place  of  hand  labor,  still  it  requires  a 
clear brain  and  steady  nerve  to properly 
operate  such  machinery  and  to  secure 
the  greatest  possible  results  therefrom. 
This,  of  course,  is  only  possible  where 
employes  pay  the  proper amount  of  at­
tention  to  those  laws  of  health  the  dis­
regarding  of  which  means  partial  in­
capacity or mental  and physical wreck, if 
not  speedy  death.

We  are  reminded  of  this  subject by 
the  fact  that  a  leading  Ohio  shoe  man­
ufacturing  house  recognizes  the 
im­
portance of  looking  after the  morals  of 
its  help  and  is  endeavoring  to  elevate 
them,  so  far as possible,  to  the  extent  of 
requiring  its  employes  to sign  a  pledge 
to  abstain  from  the  use  of  tobacco  and 
intoxicants  during  working  hours. 
When 
the 
offender  is  discharged.  A  careful  eye 
is  also  kept  on  female  employes,  and 
no  girl  or  woman  with  a  bad  name,  or 
who  gives  evidence  of  an evil character, 
is  employed.  The  result  is  said  to  be 
highly  satisfactory, 
the  employes  not 
only  being  benefited  in  many  ways,  but 
the  firm  also  securing  a  much  higher 
grade  of  work  than  would  be  possible 
under other circumstances.

this  pledge 

is  violated, 

As  has  been  stated,  the  tremendous 
development  in  modern  business  meth­
ods has  undoubtedly  been  more 
instru­
mental  in  bringing  about  reforms  in  the 
direction 
indicated  than  all  the  efforts 
of  the  so-called  reformers.  This  gives 
to  business  a  commendable  feature  that 
is  too  often  overlooked.

A Question of Weights.

Customer  (to  grocer  whose  weights 
have  long  been  under suspicion—You 
made  a  mistake  in  that  pound  of  sugar 
I  got  here  last  night.

Grocer— How  so,  sir?
Customer— Don’t  know. 
Grocer—A h !
Customer— Yes— there  were  sixteen 

It  was  over­

weight

ounces  in  i t !

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OLD  FRIENDS

Who  Were  Early  Enrolled  as  Sub­

scribers  to  the  Tradesman.

it 

If  there 

journals  of  similar 

is  any  one  thing,  more  than 
is  gratifying  to  the 
another,  which 
is  the  manner  in  which 
Tradesman,  it 
its  subscribers  stay  by  the  paper  when 
their  names  are  once  enrolled  on  its 
subscription  list.  Such  attachment 
is 
by  no  means  unusual  with  a  trade  jour­
nal,  but  the  feature  is  none  the  less  ap­
preciated  because 
is  common  with 
other 
character. 
Between the reader and the editor  a  rela­
tionship  of  mutual  trust  and  confidence 
gradually  assumes  such  proportions  that 
the  one  feels  dependent  upon  the  other 
for  encouragement,  assistance  and  ad­
vice. 
is  a  matter  of  much  pride  to 
the  Tradesman  that  113  of  the  mer­
chants  (or  their  successors)  who  began 
taking  the  paper  with  its  initial  issue— 
thirteen  years  ago— are  still  on  its  sub­
scription  books,  as  follows:

It 

Allendale—G.  H.  Walbrink.
Alden—R.  W.  Coy.
Alanson— E.  R.  YVhite.
Altona— R.  Willett.
Ashton—A.  Mulholland.
Bailey— Lindley  &  Lindley,  A.  W. 

Fenton  &  Son.

Bangor—S.  DeLong.
Battle  Creek—Amberg &  Murphy.
Big  Rapids—C.  B.  Lovejoy,  W.  H. 

Hicks.

Burn ip’s  Corners— Adam  Newell.
Berlamont— E.  H.  Luce.
Bowen’s  Mills— C.  W.  Armstrong.
Cadillac— A.  E.  Smith,  Drury  & 

Kelly  Co.

Bitely.

Caledonia— A.  &  E.  Bergy.
Carson  City— B.  F.  Sweet.
Casnovia— A.  Norris  &  Son,  F.  H. 

Cedar Springs—G.  W.  Sharer.
Charlevoix— A.  T.  Burnett  &  Co.
Chicago,  111.— W.  M.  Carpentier.
Coral— Shook  &  Son.
Cross  V illage-O .  H.  Shurtleff.
Coates  Grove—A.  C.  Wait.
Conklin— N.  Harris.
Coopersville— R.  D.  McNaughton,  J. 

B.  Watson.

Dorr— E.  S.  Botsford.
Denison— Susie  McLellan.
Dalton— Peter  Zalsman.
Eastmanville— J.  A.Wagner.
Elmira— Craven  &  Co.
Elwell— Phelps  Bros.
Escanaba—J.  N.  Mead.
Evart—J.  H.  Voller.
Fife Lake— E.  Hagadorn.
Fremont— Fred  Marshall,  Rutherford

&  Misner,  J.  Dursema.

Freeport— Moore  &  Shepard.
Galesburg— Brown  &  Co.
Gobleville— Myers  Bros.
Grand  Haven— D.  Gale,  Ball  &  Co., 
Jacob  Baker,  Fred  A.  Hutty.
Grand  Rapids—Belknap  Wagon  & 
Sleigh  Co.,  F.  C.  Beard,  B.  S.  Harris, 
Dr.  H.  E.  Locber,  G.  S.  Putnam.

Harbor  Springs—W.  J.  Clarke.
Harvard— P.  F.  Stocking.
Hersey—H.  T.  Lewis.
Holland—H.  Walsh.
Hopkins  Station—Furber  &  Kidder, 

F.  B.  Watkins.

Hubbardston— Milo Bolender.
Hudsonville— L.  M.  Wolf.
Harvey,  111.— N.  G.  Burtt.
Kent  City— J.  T.  Perham,  A.  L. 

Bro.

Power.

Lamont— Walling  Bros.
Lowell—John Giles  &  Co.
Luther—Osborne  &  Hammond.
Ludington— Dr.  M.  A.  Carroll.
Lyons— F.  T.  Gleason,  E.  N.  Thayer.
Mancelona—C.  E.  Blakely,  Roden- 
baugh  Bros.,  J.  L.  Farnham,  Wisler  & 
Co.

Manton— F.  A.  Jenison.
Mecosta— M.  Carmon.
Monroe  Center— W.  H.  Brownson.
Moline— Hon.  E.  N.  Bates.
Muskegon—A.  Towl,  Geo.  Hume  & 

Negaunee—Kirkwood  &  O’Donohue.
Newaygo—S.  K.  Riblet, 
S.  D. 

Thompson,  D.  Millard.

Newberry—C.  H.  Bay ley.

Co.

Horn.

Otsego—C.  A.  Barnes,  A.  L.  Van 
Pierson—S.  M.  Geary.
Prairieville—G.  A.  Blackman,  W.  L. 

Brown.

Ravenna—A.  Rogers.
Rockford— John J.  Ely, W.  F.  Hessler. 
St.  Johns—O.  P.  DeWitt.
Saranac— Henry  Frace.
Saugatuck— D.  L.  Barber  &  Co.
Sand  Lake— M.  V.  Wilson.
Sherman—E.  B.  Stanley.
Shelby— W.  H.  Shirts,  J.  R.  Wylie  & 

Spring  Lake—Mrs.  Anna  Mulder  & 

Bro.

Son.

Sumner—Samuel  Bigelow.
Sparta— R.  A.  Hastings  Drug  Co. 
Sylvester—J.  H.  Loucks. 
Thompsonville— I.  J.  Quick,  Edgar 
Trufant  L.  C.  Whittew.
Traverse  City—S.  E.  Wait,  B.  H. 

Campbell.

Rose  &  Son.

Trent  Carrington  &  North. 
Vicksburg— Manfred  Hill,  John Long. 
Watervliet— Walden  &  Merrifield. 
White  Cloud—A.  G.  Clark  &  Co.
E.  L.  Carbine,  of  Battle  Creek,  has 
taken  the  paper  since  the  second 
issue 
and  four have  received  every  issue since 
the  fourth  number:

Harrietta—J.  C.  Benbow.
Rockford—C.  F.  Sears,  Jackson Coon. 
Vermontville— W.  H.  Benedict.
Three  have  been  with  us  since  the 

fifth  issue:

Howard  City—Cbas.  A  Vandenbergh. 
Morley— Wellington  Jones,  John  E. 

Four  have  taken  it  since  the  sixth  is­

Thurkow.

sue :

D ’Ooge.

issue:

Big  Rapids—C.  F.  Mynning.
Grand  Rapids— J.  D.  Van  Wyck,  B. 

Springport—Geo.  E.  Harris.
Three  have  read  it  since  the  seventh 

Grand  Rapids— E.  Fallas.
Kalkaska— G.  W.  Wooden.
Leetsville—S.  M.  Vinton.
R.  Osterhof,  of  Ferrysburg,  has 
taken 
it  since  the  eighth  issue  and 
twenty-six  have  been  constant  readers 
since  the  ninth  issue:

Boyne  City—Wm.  Gardner.
Chicago—Wm.  W.  Smith.
Coral—T.  M.  Stryker.
Detroit— R.  S.  Wolford.
Elk  Rapids—J.  S.  Cromie.
Evart—O.  M.  Bush.
Frankfort— Fred  Kern.
Fremont—J.  R.  Jacklin,  K.  Mulder, 

A.  K.  Wagar.

Freeport— I.  E.  Moore.
Grand  Haven—J.  W.  Verhoeks  &  Co.
Grattan—John  M.  Reid.
Greenville—Wm.  Bradley’s  Son. 
Holland—T.  Van  Dyke.
Ionia— W.  R.  Cutler.
Mason—Vandercook  Grocery  Co. 
Muskegon— Derk  A.  Boelkins.
Owosso— A.  T.  Thomas.
Sheridan—Wood  &  Co.
Spring  Lake— John  B.  Perham. 
Sturgis— Henry  S.  Church.
Traverse  City—J.  W.  M'illiken. 
Vriesland— Christian Den Herder. 
Whitehall—Andrew  Kroogstad. 
Woodland— D.  B.  Kilpatrick.
Three  have  perused  the  paper since 

the  tenth  issue:

Grand  Rapids— M.  H.  Treusch  & 

Muskegon—Wm.  Nested.
West  Olive— Mrs.  H.  M.  Gokey.
E.  R.  d’  Arcambal,  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
has  taken  it  since  the  eighteenth 
issue 
and  seven  have  read  it  since  the  nine­
teenth  issue:

Bellaire— Geo.  J.  Noteware.
Drenthe—H.  Bakker  &  Son.
Grand  Rapids— Leendert  Luikaart. 
South  Boardman—J.  H.  Murray. 
Traverse  City— H.  A.  Langworthy. 
Tomahawk,  Wis.— R.  W.  Hall. 
Wexford— Dr.  D.  W.  Connine.
Four  have  been  on  the  list  since  the 
Grand  Rapids—B.  Zevalkink. 
Hartwick— Alfred  Davis.
Lakeview—C.  N.  Smith.
Watervliet— R.  E.  Wigent.

twentieth  issue:

Four have  been  constant  readers since 

the  twenty-first  issue:

Grand  Rapids— B.  Jonker,  Chas.  Pet- 

tersch,  N.  Silvius.

Monroe  Center—W.  H.  Brownson.
David  Cornwell,  Monterey,  has  taken 
the  paper  since  the  twenty-second  and 
three  have  been  subscribers  since  the 
twenty-third  issue:

Dushville— G.  O.  Adams.
Grand  Rapids—Clark  &  Cole.
Sparta—C.  C.  Darling.
E.  H.  Stow,  Pompeii,  has  been  a 
faithful  reader  since  the  twenty-fourth 
issue  and  Thos.  S.  Freeman,  Grand 
Rapids,  has  taken  it  since  the  twenty- 
sixth  issue,  which  marked  the  date  of 
its  enlargement  from  a  four  page  to  an 
eight  page  paper.

The  Tradesman  has  a  warm  spot  in 
its  heart  for  these  old  familiar  names 
which  have  appeared  continuously  on 
its  mailing  list  during  the  past  thirteen 
years  and  has designs on their stomachs, 
in  the  shape  of  a  complimentary ban­
quet,  at  the  end  of  the  twentieth  year  of 
publication.

Courtesy  is  a  buffer  that  may  turn  in­
to  a  helpful  push  what might  otherwise 
have  been  a  disastrous  collision.

This  stamp  ap­
pears  on  the  Rub­
ber of all our “Nev- 
erslip”  Bicycle and 
Winter Shoes.

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FEB 2ÎÎ 1898

J  
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VGREE & SMITH,  Manufacturers.

successors to

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO.

Michigan Agents for

and Jobbers of specialties  in  Men’s 
and  Women’s  Shoes,  Felt  Boots, 
Lumbermen’s Socks.

.ycomiug  Rubbers  Lead  all  other 
rands  in  Fit,  Style  and  Wearing 
oalities.  Try them.

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X  We are in the market for 500 cords of basswood excelsior bolts,  for  which  we  will  pay  spot 
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J.  W.  FOX  EXCELSIOR COMPANY,

cash on delivery.  For further particulars address

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Weatherly 
& Pulte,

99  Pearl S t., 
ORAND  RAPIDS.

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

Pum ps and  Well  Supplies.
Hot A ir Furnaces.

Best equipped and largest concern in the State. I

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advise  your  custom­
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Sunday  afternoon  Miss Mamie Hines,  153  Union  street.  Flushing,  N.  Y.,  A  
and her friend. Miss Nellie Dunn,  of Locust street, girls of fourteen and fifteen  [2/ 
*3  years, engaged two Clipper  bicycles of Philip Denning and started for a ride  vf* 
tg  out Jamaica avenue.  They met tw o coaches coming abreast.  Miss Dunn, who 
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was riding ahead,  passed  safely,  but Miss Hines,  as she  approached  the team  § 
©   on the right, seemed to lose her control of her wheel.  She wobbled  for an in-  4
stant, ana then fell squarely in  front of the  horses.  As she went off the wheel 
§  Miss Hines grasped the collar on  the  horse nearest  the sidewalk, hung for an  xL 
instant and then scrambled out of the way.  Her clothing was torn, but she was  gj 
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team instantly and the coach passed directly over the bicycle, which was bent 
into almost an unrecognizable mass of steel, rubber ami wood.  Strange as it may 
seem, though the frame of the machine was twisted into a shape which it would 
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broken.  Miss Hines was taken home  Those single tube Clippers do stand the  5 
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16

Clerks’  Corner

Intelligent  Effort  Invariably  Brings the 

Best  Returns.

Prom the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

In  the  race  for  success  there  is  no 
doubt  that  chance  plays  great  part,  and 
too  many  people  take  this  as  an  argu­
ment  to  justify  them 
in  waiting  for 
something  to  turn  up  rather than  doffing 
their  coat,  getting out  into  the  open  and 
hustling.  No  man  can  expect  his 
luck 
to  bring  him  wealth,  honor  or  fame, 
and  be  even  reasonably  certain  of  tan­
gible  returns.  There  is  just  one  way  to 
proceed  in  order  to  be  in  the  least  de­
gree  sure  of  the  partial  fulfillment  of  an 
ambition.  That  way  is  to  work  for 
it. 
Ordinarily,  it 
is  as  easy  or  easier  to 
work  and  work  hard  with  an  intelligent 
direction  of  that  labor  than  it  is  to  loaf. 
Many  clerks  who  are  most  of  the  time 
acting  as  braces  to  counters  or  wearing 
out  the  store  settees  could improve  their 
condition  by  ascertaining  the  truth  of 
this assertion.

*  *  *

It  is  intelligent  effort  that  brings  the 
best  returns.  A  clerk  may  get  down  in 
the  morning,  do  his  routine  of  work 
effectively  and  go  home  at  night  at  the 
regular  hour  and  still  be  practically 
wasting  his  time.  He  will  not  realize 
that  his  weekly  salary  is  the  least  im­
portant  portion  of  his  reward.  He ought 
to know  that  the  knowledge  he  is  gain­
ing  and  the  experience  are  bound  to 
yield  him  big  returns  some  day  if  he 
takes  the  proper  interest  in his work and 
builds  with  the  bricks  that  are  at  hand. 
An  exchange  cites  an 
instance  of  the 
success  of  a  clerk  who  recognized  these 
facts,  and  the  narrative  is  worth  atten­
tion :

*  £  $

A  bright  young  man,  just  from  the 
country,  entered  one  of  the  large  city 
stores  as  a  salesman  and  showed  his 
capacity  for  business  by  quickly  ac­
quiring  a 
large  personal  trade.  He 
rapidly  passed  older  and  more  experi­
enced  salesmen  and 
incurred  no  little 
disfavor  with  some  of  his  envious  fel­
low  clerks. 
It  provoked  their  jealousy 
to  have  good  customers  make  special 
request  to  have  this  young  man  wait  on 
them.  When  they  found  out  the  secret 
of  his  popularity,  many  of  them  also 
found  they  had  formed  habits  of  work­
ing  that  almost  entirely  deprived  them 
of  the  ability  to  become  as  good a sales­
man  as  this  young  countryman,  whose 
experience,  previous  to  entering  the 
larger  field,  had  been  confined  to  the 
little  village  store  owned  by  his  father.

*  *  *

He,  with  his  fresh,  receptive  mind, 
discovered,  very  soon,  the  secret  of  the 
success  of  the  best  salesmen  in  the  big 
store.  The  other  clerks  were  satisfied 
to  ascribe  success  to  ability  to  pull  the 
wool  over  the  old  man’s  eyes,  or  to 
some  accident  of  relationship. 
The 
young  man  from  the  country  at  once 
saw  that  success  was  the  result  of  the 
ability  to  sell  goods.  He  was  satisfied 
that  “ the  old  man” (he never  thought  or 
spoke  of  the  proprietor  in  such  terms, 
however),  was  only  looking  for  real 
business  ability.  He  felt  himself  able, 
but  his  great  study  was  how  to  show  his 
capacity in  the  shortest  possible  time.

He  discovered  there  were  more  good 
customers  than  the  really  good  salesmen 
could  handle  and  that  many  new  people 
came  to  the  store  every  day.  He  also 
observed  that  the  average salesmen were 
practically 
indifferent  as  to  whether 
they  pleased  the  customers  or  not,  and 
that  they  attempted  to  judge  customers 
by  this  or  that  standard,  and  their  in­
difference  was  usually  gauged  by  the 
probable  importance  of  the  person  they 
were  waiting  on.

*  *  *

Only  a  very  few  seemed  to  have  a 
personal  trade.  He  was  convinced  that, 
if  he  could  make  people  ask  for  him, 
his  success  and  advancement  were  as­
sured.  He  accordingly  set  about  to 
make  acquaintances.  His  appearance 
attracted  very 
few  to  him.  He  was 
evidently  a  new  clerk  and  people  at 
least  expected  those  with  experience  to 
be best  able  to  serve  them.

The  young  man,  being  the  latest  ad­
dition  to  the  force  in  his  department, 
was  obliged  to  follow  the  custom  and 
take  such  customers  as  the  other  clerks 
did  not  want.  However,  he  kept  his 
eyes  and  ears  open  and  improved  every 
opportunity  to  do  some,  ever  so  slight, 
favor  for  a  customer.  He  made  him­
self  perfectly familiar with the stock and 
often  made  suggestions,  politely,  which 
pleased  the  customer.  Often  he  would 
see  a  customer  leave  the  counter  hav­
ing  failed  to  get  suited.  The  shrewd 
young  man  would  have 
in  mind  just 
such  goods  as  he  felt  she  would  want 
and  would  politely  stop  her  before  she 
left  the  store  and  show  her  the  goods 
which  the  other  clerk  was  too  careless 
to  look  for.  He  would  also  manage  to 
learn  the  customers’  names  and  also  to 
have  them  learn  his.

*  *  *

In  many  ways  he  added  one  after  an­
other  to  those  who  would  insist  upon 
having  him  wait  upon  them,  until  the 
proprietor  was  forced  to  recognize  his 
value,  and  advancements followed  rap­
idly.

*  *  *

less  money, 
less  worry, 

This  young  man  became  a  very  suc­
cessful  merchant  afterwards,  in  one  of 
the  smaller  towns,  where he preferred  to 
live,  rather  than  in  the  city.  While  he 
might  have  been  more  prominent  had 
in  the  larger  sphere,  he 
he  remained 
was  satisfied  with 
less 
honor,  perhaps  with 
less 
anxiety  and  more  real  comfort  and  en­
joyment  than  are  the  lot  of  the  very 
“ successful”   merchant 
in  the  large 
cities.  He  also  enjoyed  the  conscious­
ness of  having  well  earned  his  success, 
by  diligent  use  of  the  talents with which 
nature  had  endowed  him.  As  this  was 
gotten  from  the  gentleman’s  own  lips, 
we  trust  the  good  example  he  set  his 
fellow  clerks  years  ago  may  live on,  do­
ing  good  to  those  who  read  it.

A  Gloomy  Miller.

John  J.  McCann,  of  the  Cumberland 
Mills,  Nashville,  Tenn.,  discourses  on 
the  flour  situation  somewhat  gloomily, 
as  follows:

The  evangelist  has  been  abroad  in 
the  land,  and  the  energizing  influence 
of  the  gospel  of  milling  has  been  dis­
pensed,  not  only  in  the  word,  but  in  the 
spirit.  Many  are  on  the  anxious  seat, 
asking,  “ What 
shall  we  do  to  be 
saved?”   May  the  powers  that  rule over 
the  destinies  of  men  give  them  a 
lamp 
for  their  feet  and  a  light  for  their  path, 
is  the  prayer  of  this  amen  corner, 
brother-in-law  of  the  church.  Modern 
methods  of  selling  flour  were  conceived 
in  sin,  born  in  iniquity,  and  were never 
found 
in  the  Koran  or  creeds  of  the 
world,  but  had  an  abiding  place  only in 
the  encyclopedia  of  Satan.  The  last 
millers’  meeting  I  attended  had  just 
thirty-three  of 
the 
mourners’  bench.  The  meeting  was 
opened  by  the  entire  congregation  sing­
ing:

the  brethren  on 

A thousand thoughts revolve;
And make this last resolve:
Though greedy hosts oppose,
And have lucre in my clothes.

Come, humble miller, in whose breast 
Come in your poverty, by debt oppressed, 
I’ll quit my sins, yes, Lord, I will,
That I may settle my washing bill 
The  parson  arose  and  said:  “ Breth­
ren,  my  text  is  found  in  the  thirty-third 
chapter  of  Resolutions,  and  reads  as 
follows: 
‘ A  little  leaven  leaveneth  the 
whole  lump,  and  there  are  none so blind 
as  he  that  won’t  see  a  cent  of  money  in 
his  business.’  First,  brethren,  where 
be  we  at?  Nowhere.  Ask some  banker 
to  buy  your  stock 
in  the  mill  and  he 
will  answer.  He  will  tell  you  that  your 
mill  business  is  like  an  unfenced grave­
yard.  No  need  of  fence,  because  them 
what’s 
in  can’t  git  out,  and  nobody 
what’s  out  don’t  want  to  git  in.  What 
do  your  balance  sheets  look 
like?  Just 
like  East  St.  Louis,  brethern,  after  the 
cyclone  had  struck  it.  That’s  the  signs 
o’  the  situation,  brethren.  Our  aspira­
tions  have  all  been  too  high,  brethren, 
and  our  prices  have  been  too  low.”

Satisfying  a  grudge  and  cutting  one’s 
throat  may  be  very  satisfactory  for  the 
moment,  but  both 
leave  a  disageeable 
residuum  for  some  one  to  clean  up.

§tate  pair  yyeefc

Our  Traveling  Men  will  be  in  the  house  from  Monday  till  Friday, 
September 7 to  10, they will be  pleased to  show  visitors  our  stock  of

DRY  GOODS  AND 
HEN’S  FURNISHINGS

of  which  we  have  a  complete  line,  all  dealers  invited  to  call  and 
inspect our goods.

I

P.  Steketee & Sons,

8 to  12  Fountain Street.

Wholesale Dry Goods.

II

DRY  GOODS  MERCHANTS  AND  MILLINERS

Are cordially invited 

to make our store headquarters 

during week of State  Fair

1  CORL,  KNOTT  &  CO.

Importers and  Jobbers of

FELT  AND  CLOTH  HATS  AND  MILLINERY  NOVELTIES. 

RIBBONS,  SILKS,  VELVETS,

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CHOCOLATES AND BON  B0N5

In large or small package—quarters, halves, pounds  or  five  pound 
boxes.  Just  the  thing  for  Summer  Resorts  and  fine  trade  gen­
erally.  An endless variety of the toothsome  dainties  to  be  found 
at the manufacturers’,

A. E. BROOKS & CO., 5  AND  7 SOUTH IONIA STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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TRY  HANSELMAN’S

Fine  chocolates  and  Bon  bom s
HA N S E L MA N   CANDY  CO.,

Goods which are sure to please.  Once used always used.  Sold by 

all dealers.  Also fruits, nuts, etc.

KALAMAZOO,  MICH.

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I T

Com m ercial T rav elers

Michigan Knights of the Grip. 

President,  S.  E.  Sym ons,  Saginaw;  Secretary, 
Geo.  P.  Ow en,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  J. 
F rost, Lansing.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, J.  F.  Co o pbb, Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Mo r r is, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Chancellor, H.  XJ.  Ma r k s,  Detroit ;  Secretary, 
E dw in Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  G eo.  A.  Re y ­
n o ld s,  Saginaw.

Michigan Division, T. P. A.

President, G eo. F. Ow en,  Grand  Rapids ;  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer,  Ja s.  B.  McInnes,  Grand 
Rapids.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, J. H.  Mc K e l v e y.

President, A. F. P e a k e , Jackson:  Secretary and 
Board  o f   Directors—F .  M.  T y l e r ,  II.  B.  F a ir - 
c h il d ,  G eo.  F .  Ow en,  J.  He n r y  Da w l e y ,  G eo. 
J. He in ze lm an, C h as. S.  R obinson.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Work  more  for  profits  than  sales.
The best  positions  on  the  road,  as 

in 
other  avocations,  are  for  the  best  men.
Isaac  G.  Turner  is  working  the  city 
trade  for  Robert  Massey,  the  Traverse 
City  cigar  manufacturer.

Price  cutting  is  a  case  of  “ cutting  off 
the  nose to  spite  the  face.’ ’  There’s  too 
much  lost  and  nothing  gained  by  it.

Frank  E.  Chase  has  gone  to  Detroit 
to  meet  his  wife  and  daughter,  who 
have  been  spending  the  summer  with 
friends  on  Cape  Cod.

Systematic  business  methods 

is  the 
cry  of  the  hour,  and  this  demand  must 
be  met.  Everything is being reduced to 
a  science  and  why  not  business?

No  more  “ soft  snaps”   in  sylvan  re­
treats  and  at  the  Northern  resorts,  boys. 
It’s  going  after  business  now and  a  de­
termination  to  get  it,  if  it  is  to  be  had.
The  plain  fact  that  the  commercial 
traveler  must  act  largely  upon  his  own 
judgment  and  business  ingenuity  is  one 
of  the  reasons  why  he  wields  a  most 
powerful 
the  success  or 
failure  of  the  firm  he  represents.

influence 

in 

Wilbur  S.  Burns  has  taken  the  posi­
tion  of  Michigan  traveling  representa­
tive  for  Gowans  &  Sons,  of  Buffalo,  the 
engagement  dating  from  Sept.  i.  Mr. 
Burns  has  had  no  previous  experience 
on  the  road,  but  announces  his  inten­
tion  of  mastering  the  details  of  the 
business  with  all  possible  dispatch.

The  easy-going  man  on  the  road  gets 
into  trouble  because  he  gives  credit  too 
indiscriminately.  The  credit  question 
is  a  most 
important  and  vital  one. 
Study  it  constantly  and  hew  steadily  to 
line  of  your  best  judgment,  letting  the 
chips  fly  where  they  may.  They  won’t 
hit  any  really  desirable  customer  in  the 
eye.

through 

The  salaries  of  commercial  travelers 
are  based  to-day  solely  upon  the  show­
ing  of  profits  made 
sales. 
Whether  the  man  on  the  road 
is  remu­
nerative  and  fulfilling  the  mission  as­
signed  him,  which 
is  to  make  money 
for  his  employer,  or  whether  he  is  an 
unprofitable  investment,  is  the  result  by 
which  his  services  are  judged  by  the 
house.

M.  M.  Read,  representing  E.  B.  Mil­
ler  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  has  returned  to 
Ypsilanti  from  Henderson  Harbor,  N. 
Y.,  where  his  family  spent  the  heated 
term  in  their  summer  home.  Mr.  Read 
insists  that  Lake  Ontario  is  the  gem  of 
the  Great  Lakes,  albeit  he 
is  a  loyal 
Michigander and  swears  by  Michigan 
resorts  as  well  as  Michigan  men  and 
methods.

Fred  Ephlin,  who  has  represented 
Lantz  Bros.  &  Co.  in  the Michigan field 
for  the  past  eight  years,  will  hereafter

divide  his  territory  with  W.  A.  Drury, 
who  has  covered  Northein  Michigan 
several  years  for  Swift  &  Company. 
If 
Mr.  Drury  succeeds  in  selling  as  many 
goods  as  his  co-worker  has  been  able  to 
place,  he  will  receive  the  congratula­
tions  of  his  friends  everywhere.

Conservatism  in  business  is  the  motto 
to-day  of  careful,  provident  houses. 
Competition  was  never  more active than 
at  present,  hence  profits  on  all  products 
are surprisingly  low,  therefore  expenses 
and  expenditures  have  been  made  to 
correspond  to  these  results.  Owing  to 
these  facts,  however,  the  responsibility 
of  the  trade  is  better,  more  stable  and 
worthy  of  confidence  than  at  any  time 
in  the  last  decade.

Oscar  Allyn  has  been  tendered  the 
position  of  Michigan  representative  for 
M.  Mills  &  Co.,  oyster  packers  of  Bal­
timore,  and  has  decided  to accept  the 
offer,  as  it  is an  unusually  flattering  one 
for  a  man  possessing  no  previous  ex­
perience  as  a  traveling  salesman.  Mr. 
is  confident  that  he  thoroughly 
Allyn 
understands  the 
ins  and  outs  of  the 
oyster  business  and  his  friends  expect 
to  see  him  achieve a  large  measure  of 
success  in  his  new  field.

There  are  thousands  of  people  who 
thoroughly  believe  that  lying  is  neces­
sary  in  order  to  do business. 
If  this  be 
so,  then  the  biggest  liar  must  be  the 
most  successful  business  man. 
Is  he? 
Not  much.  The  liar  may  flourish  for  a 
time  but  his  prosperity  is  based  on  a 
false  foundation  and  the  end  is  but  a 
matter  of  time.  No  man  can  prosper  in 
business  when  the  public 
loses  confi­
dence  in  him,  and  people  soon  find  out 
the  man  unworthy  of  confidence.

J.  H.  Fildew,  of  St.  Johns,  traveling 
representative  for  Baldwin,  McGraw  & 
Co.,  was  in  town  a  couple  of  days  this 
week  on  business  connected  with  his 
telephone  enterprise  in  Central  Michi­
gan.  Mr.  Fildew  has  lately  completed 
a  line  from  St.  Johns  to  Lansing,  via 
Dewitt,  and  has  several  extensions  of 
the  system  under  advisement.  He 
is  a 
firm  believer 
in  the  theory  that  the 
backbone  of  the  Bell  monopoly  can  be 
broken  and 
is  rapidly  making  a  prac­
tical  demonstration  of  the  truth  of  his 
belief.

Frank  C.  Adams,  who  represents  the 
Cody-Ivison  Shoe  Co.,  of  Cleveland, 
has  returned  from  Gunn  Lake,  where he 
spent  the  heated  term  with  his  family 
in  their  handsome  summer cottage.  Mr. 
Adams  has  relinquished  his  trade  in 
Wisconsin  and  Minnesota  and  starts  out 
about  Sept.  20 on  a  four  months’  trip  to 
California,  going  via  Idaho,  Montana, 
Washington  and  Oregon  and  returning 
via  Utah  and  Colorado.  He  will  be  ac­
companied  by  his  brother,  A.  S. 
Adams,  who  represents  the  Powers  & 
Walker  Casket  Co.

Believe 

in  your  line.  Be  sure  it  is 
right  and  then  push  it  along  for all  it’s 
worth.  The  trouble  with  some  of  the 
boys  is  lack  of  enthusiasm.  There  are 
men  who  tackle  the  road  with  no  more 
enthusiasm  as  regards  their  calling than 
a  ton  of 
ice,  and  no  more  magnetism 
than  an  old  rubber  boot.  Such  men 
can’t  sell  goods  They  may  be  truthful, 
earnest  and  industrious  but  they’re  too 
cold. 
It  is  such  men  that  change  their 
line  with  every  season  and  sooner  or 
later  make  room  for  some  one  else  on 
the  road.

It  matters  not  what  calling,  or  what 
line  men  take  up  in  any  one  of  them, 
the  qualities  of  application,  patience 
and  perseverance  must  be  manifested  if 
one  would  reap  a  sure  reward  of  pros­
perity.  Ordinary  business  faculty  will

succeed  when  coupled  with  the  “ stay­
ing  qualities”   which  have characterized 
all  eminent  successes,  while  the  erratic 
can’t-wait  man  misses  it  in  nine  cases 
out  of  ten.  Stick-to-it-iveness  is  the 
golden  key  which  unlocks  the  sealed 
door  of  fortune,  and  the  patient,  plod­
ding  commercial  traveler  may  find  in­
in  the  numberless  examples 
spiration 
of  untoward  circumstances  which 
illus­
trate  the  human  achievements  through­
out  all  history.

Quarterly  Report  of  the  Directors  of 

the  M.  K.  of  G.

Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  7— The  regular 
quarterly  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Di­
rectors  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  was  held  at  Lansing  Sept.  5, 
1896,  all  of  the  members  of  the  Board 
being  present.

Secretary  Ow'en  presented  his  finan­
cial  report  for  the quarter,  showing total 
receipts 
in  the  death  fund  of  §3,126— 
from  Assessment  No.  1,  $36,  and  from 
Assessment  No.  2  §3,090—and 
in  the 
general  fund,  from  new  members,  §46, 
for all  of  which  he held  the  Treasurer’s 
receipts.

The  report  was  approved  by  the 
Finance  Committee  and  adopted  and 
placed  on  file.

Treasurer  Frost  presented  his  report, 
showing  total  receipts 
in  the  general 
fund  of  §408.83  and  disbursements  of 
§207.05,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of 
§201.78. 
In  the  death  fund  the  receipts 
were §3,181.27  and  the  disbursements 
§1,000,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of 
§2,181.27.

The  report  was  accompanied  with  a 
certificate  from  the  City  National Bank, 
of  Lansing,  showing  that  Treasurer 
Frost  had  the  above  amounts 
in  the 
bank  to  his  credit.  The  report  was  ap­
proved  by  the  Finance  Committee  and 
adopted  and  placed  on  file.

Two  communications  were  read  from 
John  McLean  and  on  motion  were  re­
ceived  and  placed  on  file.

A  communication  was  read  from  E. 
G.  Chambers,  of  Frankfort,  regarding a 
railroad  grievance.  The  Secretary  re­
ported  that  he  had  written  Railroad 
Commissioner  Billings,  also  W.  R. 
Burt,  President  of  the  Ann  Arbor  Rail­
road,  and  had  also called upon Attorney- 
General  Maynard  and  had  been  assured 
that  the  matter  should  have  prompt  at­
tention. 
com m un i cat i ons  were 
accepted  and  placed  on  file.

A  communication  was  received  from 
J.  C.  Wittliff,  of  Port  Huron,  stating 
that  the  traveling  men  of  Port  Huron 
were  about  to  organize  a  Post  and  ask­
ing  for a  letter  for  it.  Secretary  Owen 
gave  the  letter  H,  so  Port  Huron’s  Post 
will  be  known 
in  the  organization  as 
Post  H.

The 

The  following  bills  were  properly 
audited  by  the  Finance  Committee  and 
the  Treasurer  was 
instructed  to draw 
orders  for  the  amounts :
Tradesman Company, stationery............$ 33 60
Secretary salary account...........................  167 go
Treasurer salary account..........................  63 44 I
S. E. Symons, attendance board meeting..  5  05 
Geo. F. Owen, attendance board meeting.  4  95 
F.  M. Tyler, attendance board meeting__  14 36
A. F.  Peake, attendance board meeting... 
4  88
John R. Wood, attendance board meeting  5  02
B. D. Palmer, attendance board meeting..  4  GO
F. R. Streat, attendance board meeting ...  3  10
Geo. F. Owen, for receipt issued.............. 
2 00
Proofs  of  the  death  of  Oscar  E.  Cart­
wright,  of Detroit,  were presented and on 
motion  a  warrant  was  ordered  drawn for 
§500 
in  favor  of  Nota  A.  Cartwright, 
beneficiary.

that 

D i rector  Peake  moved 

the 
Secretary  be  allowed  §17.87  as  expenses 
to  Chicago  in  attendance  as  delegate 
representing  the  Michigan  Knights  of 
the  Grip  before  the  General  Passenger 
Agents’  Association  regarding  the  1,000 
interchangeable  mileage  ticket.  Adopt­
ed.
It  was  moved  and  carried  that  a  war­
rant  on  the  Treasurer  for §150  be  made 
on  the  death  benefit  fund  in  favor of  the 
general  fund,  as  provided  for 
in  the 
constitution  and  by-laws,  Article  12, 
Section  3.
ed  by  Director  Tyler:

The  following  resolution  was  present­
Resolved—That  the  President  ap­
point  a  delegate,  to  any  Passenger

Agents’  Association  meeting  which 
may  be  held  between  now  and  January 
1,  1S97,  if  'n  his  judgment  he  deems  it 
advisable,  expenses  to  be  paid  by  this 
Association,  the  same  as  the  Board  of 
Directors.

The  Board  then  adjourned  to  meet 
Nov.  21  at  the  Downey  House,  Lan­
sing. 

Geo.  F.  Owen,  Sec’y.

The  man  who  tells  lies to  make  him­
self  popular  plays  with  a  boomerang 
that  comes  back  on  the  bound  and 
knocks  him  silly.

The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 

E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.

HOTEL  BURKE

G.  R.  &  i.  Eating  House.

C A D IL L A C ,  M IC H .

All modern conveniences.

C.  BURKE,  Prop. 

W.  0 . HOLDEN, Mgr.

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

COMMERCIAL  HOUSE

Lighted  by  Electricity.  Heated  by Steam. 

Iron  Mountain,  Micfa.
All modern conveniences.
$ 2   P E R   D A Y .
IRA  A.  BEAN,  Prop.

THE WIERENG0

E. T.  PENNOYER, Mauager,

MUSKEGON,  MICHIGAN.
Steam Heat, Electric light and bath rooms. 
Rates, $1.50 and $2.00 per day.

V

CLIFTOJI  P O S E

Michigan’ Popular Hotel.

Remodeled and Refitted Throughout.

Cor.  Monroe  and  W abash  Aves.,

C H IC A G O .

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.

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18
Drugs==Chemicals

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

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

- C. A. B u g b b e, Traverse City
- 
S. E. P a b k il l ,  Owosso
F. W. R. P b r b y ,  Detroit 
- 
-  A. C. Schum ach er,  Ann Arbor 
- 
G eo. G undrtjm, Ionia

- 

President, C. A. B u o b ee, T  averse City. 
Secretary, F. W. R. Pe r r y ,  Detroit. 
Treasurer, G eo. Gu ndrum,  Ionia.

Coming Meetings—Lansing, November 4 and 5.
MICHIGAN  STATE PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. P h illips,  Armada.
Secretary, B. Schbou der,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, C h a s.  Man n, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. W e b b e r , Cadillac; 
H. G. C olm an,  Kalamazoo;  G eo.  J.  Wa r d ,  St. 
C l a ir ;  A.  B.  Ste v en s,  Detroit;  F.  W.  R. 
Perry, Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.

Acetanilid— The  market  is  stronger, 
due  to  an  advance  in  prices  of  raw  ma­
terial,  and  values  will 
likely  see  an­
other  advance  in  the  near  future.

Acids— Moderate  seasonable  demand, 
but  orders  are  mostly  of  a  jobbing  char­
acter,  and,  aside  from  a  slight  decline 
in  tartaric,  there  are  no  changes  of  im­
portance  to  note.

Alcohol—A  steadier  market  for  grain 
is  reported.  Wood  is  finding  a  contin­
ued  steady  outlet.

Arsenic— Demand for  powdered  white 
is  fairly  steady,  under  moderate  en­
quiry.

Balsams— Market  for  copaiba  is  said 
to be  active  for  small  jobbing  parcels. 
Tolu,  demand  good,  with  strong  up­
ward  tendency.  Peru,  a  quiet  feeling 
seems  to  prevail.  Canada  fir,  also,  is 
dull  and  slow  of  sale.

Beans— All  varieties  of  vanilla  are 
ruling  firm  and  there  is  a  moderately 
active  demand  from  general  consuming 
channels.

are  moving.  Market 

Cacao  Butter— Light  spot  stocks  only 
is  quiet  but  firm.
Cantharides— Liberal  sales  of  Chinese 
are  mentioned,  and  holders  exhibit 
more  interest.

Cassia  Buds— Fairly  good  consuming 

demand  and  strong.

Castor  Oil— Quotations  have  met  with 
a  decline  of  >£c  per  pound  at  hands  of 
manufacturers.

Chloral  Hydrate— Former  range  of 
prices  for  consumers’  wants  is  in  evi­
dence.

Cocaine—An  early  advance  is  antici­
pated,  as  holders  seem  not at all anxious 
to become  sellers.

Coculus  Indicus—Business  is  good  as 
to  consuming  outlet  and  prices  are firm.
Codeine— Firmer,although  quiet.  The 
in  bulk  has  been  ad­

price  for  pure 
vanced  by  local  manufacturers.

Cod  Liver  O il—Enquiry  shows  no 
particular  change,  but  the  jobbing  de­
mand  is  fair.

Colocynth  Apples— Prime  Trieste  are 

steady.

Cream  Tartar—The  market 
steady,  with  values  fluctuating.

is  un­

Cubeb  Berries— Still  dull  and  nomi­

nal  as  to  price.

in  an  easier  market. 

Essential  Oils— Dealers  have  ad­
vanced  quotations  for  anise.  Cassia, 
also,  is  ruling  stronger.  The  large  crop 
and  heavy  arrivals  of  pennyroyal  have 
resulted 
Spot 
values  of  Baltimore  wormseed  will 
probably  be  reduced,  owing  to  the  en­
couraging  reports  regarding  the  new 
corp,  but,  as  these  reports  are  not  to  be 
relied  on,  owing  to  their  confliction, 
the  true  condition  is  conjectural.  Pep­
permint 
is  exceedingly  dull;  nominal 
as  to  quotations.

Flowers— Arnica,  market  quiet  and 
values  are  unchanged.  Chamomile,

strong,  with  good  demand  to  report. 
American  saffron  continue  quiet.

Glycerine—Eight  enquiry,  tame  mar­

ket-such  is  the  state  of  the  market.

Gums—Consumptive  demand  for  asa 
foetida  is  fairly  good  and  steady.  One 
ounce  cakes  of  Japanese  camphor  re­
main  active  and  firm.  Nothing  men- 
tionable  in  other  descriptions.  Gam­
boge,  dull  and  easy.  Holders  of  kino 
have advanced  the  price.  The  market 
for  Aleppo  tragacanth 
still  shows  a 
stronger  tendency.

Leaves—Prices  of  short  buchu  are 
maintained  and  there 
is  a  moderate 
consuming  demand.  Dealers  and  con­
sumers  are  awaiting  arrivals  of  new 
crop  of  senna,  which  is somewhat quiet. 
Coca,  nothing  new  to  report  and  values 
are  somewhat  nominal.

Menthol— Rather  slo.w  of  sale;  quo­

tations  nominal.

Morphine— Prices  are  at  the  former 

range;  market  dull.

Naphthaline— Enquiry 

is  for  small 

lots  only,  but  prices are  well  kept  up.

Opium—No  changes 

in  the  market, 
it  being  dull  and  without  any  special 
features.

Quicksilver— Firmer,  with  an  ad­

vance  in  inside quotations.

lower. 

Quinine—No  new  features  have  de­
veloped  since  our  last  report.  Referring 
to  the  situation  the  Pharamceutical  Era 
remarks:  Not  since quinine  was  a  dol­
lar  an  ounce,  and  cheap  at  that,  has the 
trade been  more  surprised  than  during 
the  last  three  weeks.  That  was 
in  the 
old  days  when  quinine  was  first  admit­
ted  duty  free,  and  a  good  many  people 
bought  heavily,  thinking  it  could  never 
go 
It  did  become  cheaper. 
Within  the  last  four  years  it  has  sold 
below  17c  an  ounce,  and  it  was  to  save 
the  market  from  such  degradation  that 
finally  the  association  of  manufacturers 
was  formed.  Since  then  quinine  has 
been  steadier.  The  large  stock  in  Lon­
don  was  gradually  reduced  from 3,000,- 
000  ounces 
in  1894  to  a  little  over  half 
that  quantity  at  the  present  time,  and 
prospects  seemed  bright  for an  advance 
of  rates,  rather  than  a  decline.  The re­
cent  sweeping  reductions  have  brought 
heavy  losses  to  speculators  who  took  the 
common  view,  and  the  action  of  the as­
sociated  manufacturers 
is  one  of  those 
commercial  mysteries  which  are  only 
cleared  up  afterward.  There  has  been 
talk  about  a  firm  of  Java  cinchona  rais­
ers  who  have  erected  works of  their  own 
for  the  manufacture  of  quinine,  and  it 
has  been  suggested  that  it  was  in  order 
to  discourage  that  enterprise  that  the 
price  has been  suddenly lowered.  There 
is  also  said  to be  an  English  concern 
organized  to  fight  the  regular associa­
tion.  What  retail  druggists  want  to 
know  is  whether quinine  is  going  high­
er  or  lower.  The  fact  that  at  the  great 
auction  sale  of  cinchona  bark  in  Ams­
terdam  a  week  ago,  prices  ranged  10 
per  cent,  under  those  at  the  previous 
sale  a  month  before,  may  have  some 
bearing  upon  the  question. 
It  would 
excuse  another  cut  in  prices  But,  on 
the  other  hand,  it 
is  the  unexpected 
that  always  happens,  especially  when 
an  association  seeks  to  control  the  mar­
ket.  Altogether,  the  present  seems  a 
good  time  not  to  gamble  in  quinine.

Roots— Business  entirely  of  the  job­
in 

bing  nature.  No  special  change 
prices  of  any  variety.

Seeds—No  changes  of  consequence 
have  occurred  for  the  past  week  as  to 
quotations,  and  the  general  market  has 
been  uninteresting,  although  there  has 
been  some  demand  on  the  part  of  the 
consuming  trade.  Sifted  Italian  anise

it 

is  a  trifle  weaker  and  quotations  de­
clined  somewhat.  Canary,  all  varieties 
are  dull,  and  prices  are  nominally 
steady.  A  good  business  is  still  doing 
in  Dutch  caraway,  so 
is  reported. 
Small  lots  of  Italian  fennell  are  meet­
ing  with  a  moderate  demand.  Russian 
hemp  is  a  notch  lower.  There  is  a bet­
ter  consuming  request 
for  mustard. 
Poppy  has  again  advanced.  German 
rape is  firmer,  due  to  foreign  cables  an­
nouncing  a  short  crop  of  new,  and  spot 
values  have  been  advanced. 
Celery 
has  met  with another decline.  Coriander 
remains  unchanged  and  is  moderately 
steady. 
Improved  situation  is  noted  as 
to  primary  sources.  Cardamom,  scarce 
and  jobbing  demand  fairly  active,  with 
prices  firm.

Sponges— Market  tame  and  feature­
less.  Prices  are  nominally  unchanged 
and  there  is  nothing  new  to  say  regard­
ing  primary  sources  for Florida,  Nassan 
or  Cuban  descriptions.

Getting  Trade  Started.

is  assured, 

About  the  greatest  difficulty  is  over­
come,  in  working  to  obtain  business, 
when  you  get  the  customer 
into  the 
store.  Every  merchant  has  had  occasion 
to  say  to  himself,  “ My  goods and prices 
If  I  can  get  the  people 
are  all  right. 
in,  success 
for  they  will 
buy. ’ ’
How  would  it  do  to get  up  an  attrac­
tively  worded  circular 
telling 
about  the  new  stock  and  asking  people 
to  pay  the  store  a  visit,  “ just  to  look,”  
even 
if  they  do  not  wish  to  buy.  Ask 
the  clerks  to  address  envelopes  to  their 
friends,  and  sign  enough  of  the  letters 
with  their own  name  to  go  to  these  peo­
ple.

letter 

It  will  be  more  of  a  personal 

invita­
tion  than  people  usually  get  to  visit  a 
store  and  they  will  be  apt  to  respond 
more  readily  than  they  would  to  the  or­
dinary  circular  letter.
The  clerks  will  probably  look  on  the 
plan  with  favor,  for  they  must  realize 
that  their  position  is  more  secure  when 
business  is  good,  and  they  will  want  to 
do  what  they  can  to  help  it  along.

Found at Last] 

This 

If  a  coupon  is  enclosed  in  each letter, 
good  for  some  inexpensive  souvenir,  or 
a  discount  of  five  per  cent,  on  the  pur­
chase  when  presented,  it  will  help  to 
draw  people  in,  and  should  prove  well 
worth  the  cost because  of  the  benefit de­
rived.
idea  could  be  used  whether  you 
have  a  regular  opening  or  not. 
In  case 
an  opening  is  held, the  use of the coupon 
should  be  confined  to  the  opening  day. 
Otherwise  it  might  well  be  made  good 
for  one  week.  Thus  people  who  would 
not  find  it  convenient  to  come  on  a  par­
ticular  day  would  come  sometime  dur­
ing  the  week  if  the  inducement  or  sou­
venir  or  five  per  cent,  discount  was 
offered.  ____   ^  ^____

Investigation  has  lately  demonstrated 
that  coal  may  lose  as  much  as  33.08  per 
cent,  in  weight  from  exposure  to  the 
weather,  while  the  loss 
is  made  even 
more  considerable  by  the  deterioration 
in  quality.

The  Dodge  Club  cigar  is  sold  by  F. 
E.  Bushman,  Kalamazoo.__________
HEADACHE............
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Pay the Beat Profit  O rder from  ym ir lohher
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,  bnt  keep 
the  breath  from  becoming offensive.  There is 
out 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  ultimate recovery from indi­
gestion or  any  other  form  of  stomach  trouble. 
Druggists  and  dealers  generally  are  finding  a 
ready  demand.  The  trade  is  supplied  by  all 
good" jobbers.

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No  salicylic  acid  or ingredients  injurious  to  the  health.  Send  for  circulars  to manufacturer,

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Gum Kino, Oil Anise. 

Declined—Anise Seed, Celery Seed, Linseed Oil

18
12
18
30
2»
12
10
12
15

15 
2 25 
80 
50 
15 
2
35
7

4® 6
0® 8
12® 14
12@ 14

8@$ 10
75® 80
@ 15
29® 40
44® 46
3® 5
8© 10
10® 12
@ 15
50@.
55
1&© 5
1  ‘ttAU*  1
36® 38

Acidum
Aceticum.................$
Benzoicum, German
Boracic......... ...........
Carbolicum............
Citricum.................
Hydrochlor............
Nitrocum ...-..........
Oxalicum...............
Phosphorium,  dii...
Salicÿlicum.............
Sulphuricum...........
ran mu u m ..............
Tartarlcum..............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Carbona8...............
Chloridum............
Aniline
Black....................... 2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
Brown....................
45® 50
R ed.........................
Yellow.................... 2 50® 3 00
Bacete.
13® 15
Cubeæe...........po. 18
6® 8
Juniperus................
25® 30
Xantnoxylum.........
Balsamum
45® 50
Copaiba...................
@ 2 60
Peru........................
40® 4o
Terabin, Canada---
75® 80
Tolutan...................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Cassi®....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgin!.......
Quillaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras.................
Ulmus...po.  15,  gr’d
Extractum
Qlycyrrhiza  Glabra.  24©
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
28®
Hsematox, 151b box 
11 ■
11®
13®
Haematox, Is .
14®
Hsematox, Vis.........
16@
Hsematox, Vis.........
Ferru
Carbonate Preeip...
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com'l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate, p u re ......
Flora
12@ 14
Arnica....................
18@ 25
Anthemis..  ...........
18© 25
Matricaria..............
Folia
15@ 20
Barosma..................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
18® 25
nevelly.................
25® 30
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, 14s
12® 20
and >¿8.................
8® 10
Ura Ursi..................
Gummi
@ 65
Acacia,  1st picked..
Acacia,  2d  picked..
w 45
Acacia,  3d  picked..
@ 35
@ 28
Acacia, sifted sorts.
60® 80
Acacia, po...............
14@ 18
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28
@ 12
Aloe, Cape__po.  15
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40 @ 30
55® 60
Ammoniac..............
22® 25
Assafoetida__po. 30
50® 55
Benzoinum............
@ 13
Catechu, Is..............
© 14
Catechu, *4s............
Catechu, >¿8............
® 16
50® 55
Camphor«;..............
Euphorbium..po.  35 @ 10
Galbauum.
1  00 
65®  70
Gamboge  po...........
Guaiacum......po. 35
@  35
@ 4 00 
Kino...........po. $4.o0
Mastic....................
®  65
Myrrh............ po.  45
@
Opii.. .po. $3.50®3.70 2 50®
40®
Shellac.
40®
Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth ............
50®
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Yir..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium............
Amygdalae, Dulc__
Amygdalae, Amarae .
Anisi.......................
Auranti  Cortex___
Bergamii.................
Cajfputi...................
Caryophylli............
Cedar......................
Chenopadii.............
Cinnamonii.............
Citronella...............

3 25® 3 50 
30®  50
8 00®  8 25 
2 50® 2 60
2 30® 2 40
3 00® 3 20
70®  75
53®  58
35®.  65
@ 2 50 
2 25® 2 30 
55®  60

55©
20®
20®
35®

Conium  Mac........... 
35®  65
Copaiba..................  
90®  1  00
Cubebae.........................  l  50®  1 60
Exechthitos...........  1  20©  1  30
Erigeron.................  1  20®  1  30
Gaultheria..............  1  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50@  60
Hedeoma.................  1  25®  1  40
Junipera..................  l  50@ 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 00
Limonis..................   l  30®  1  50
Mentha  Piper........  1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   2 65@ 2 75
Morrhuae,  gal.........   2 00® 2  !0
Myrcia, ounce.........   @  50
Olive....................... 
75® 3 00
10®  12
Picis  Liquida......... 
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
Ricina.................... 
91@  96
@  i  oo
Rosmarin!.............. 
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50@ 8 50
Succini..................  
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1  00
Santal...... ...............  2 50@ 7 00
Sassafras................. 
50®  55
®  65
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
Tiglii.......................  1 25®  1  30
40@  50
Thyme 
................. 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
15©  18
Bi-Barb.................  
13®  15
Bichromate  ........... 
Bromide..................  
48®  51
12®  15
Carb....................... 
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16@  18
Cyanide..................  
50@  55
Iodide......................  2 90®  3 00
Potassa, Bitart, pure  29®  32
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
©  15
Potass Nliras, opt... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras........... 
7® 
9
Prussiate................. 
25®  28
Sulphate p o ........... 
15®  18

Radix

20@
Aconitvm...............  
Althse.....................  
22®
Anchusa................. 
12®
Arum po..................   @
Calamus................. 
20®
Gentiana........po  15 
12®
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15  16@
Hydrastis Canaden.  @
Hydrastis Can., po 
Hellebore,Alba, po
15®
Inula, po..............
15®
Ipecac, po
P ...............   1  65@  I
Iris plox —  po35®38  35®
Jalapa, pr...............   40@
Maranta,  J4s...........  @
Podophyllum, po__ 
15®
75@  1  00
R hei....................... 
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  25
Rhei, pv..................  
75®  1  35
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @  15
Serpentaria............  
30@  35
Senega.................... 
55®  60
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M...............  
®  25
Scillae..............po.35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
15@  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
12@  16
Zingiber j ...............  
23@  25
Semen

Anisum......... po.  15  @  12
Apium  (graveleons) 
13@  15
Bird, Is.......................  
4®  6
Carui.............po. 18  10® 
l:
Cardamon...........
1  00®  1  25 
Coriandrum........
8®  
10 
Cannabis  Sativa.
344© 
4
Cvdonium.......................
75®  1  00
Chenopodium  ..........  
10®  11
Diptenx  Odorate... 2 90® 3 00
Foeniculum...
®  ’ 
Foenugreek, po
6© 
L ini............... .........
2*@
Lini,  grd.... bbl. 2%  3*4©
Lobelia.....................  35®
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3*4©
Rapa.......................   4*4®
Sinapis Albu........... 
7@
Sinapis Nigra......... 
11®
Spiritus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti...............   1  25@  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ..  1  65® 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum N. E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75@ 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  25@ 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

2 50® 2 75 

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

Scillae Co..............
@
Tolntan..................  
„
Prunus virg............   @
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cant ha rides...........
Capsicum...........
Cardamon..........
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor................ 
..
Catechu............
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba.................
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis.................
Ergot......................
Ferri Chloridum__
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine.....................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino........................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica...........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated..
Opii, deodorized__
Quassia..................
Rhatany..................
Rhei........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium...........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride... 
Zingiber..................

niscellaneous 

50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
I  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
SO 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20

35
38
3

Jlther, Spts. Nit.3F  30®
.¡Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   2*4®
Alumen, gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto...................  40®
Antlmoni,  po.........  
4®
55®  60
Antimoni etPotassT
®  1  40 
Antipyrin..............
®  15
Antlfebrin..............
Argenti Nitras, oz .. 
w
Arsenicum..............  
10®
U 
40
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..
1  00®  1  10 
Bismuth  S. N.........
9
® 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is..
Calcium Chlor., 54s.
®  10
® 
IS
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid  Fruetus, af.
@ 15 
Capsici Fruetus, po.
15 
Capsid FructusB.po 
10®
Caryophyllus..po. 15
12
_   3 75 
Carmine, No. 40......
50®  55
Cera Alba, S. & F
40®  42
Cera Flava..............
Coccus....................
®  40
®  25
Cassia Fruetus........
Centraria.................
®  
10 45 
Cetaceum................
60®
63
Chloroform.............
_   1  35 
Chloroform, squibbs 
1  15®  1  30
Chloral Hyd Crst.... 
_
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cinchonidine,P.& W  13®  20
Cinchonidine, Germ  7  @  14
Cocaine..................   5 55® 5 75
65
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
@ 35
Creosotum..............
Creta.............bbl. 75
@ 2@ 5
Creta, prep..............
9® 11
Creta, preeip...........
w
Creta, Rubra........... 
@ 8
50® 55
Crocus.................... 
50®
@ 24
  ®
Cudbear................  
5® 6
Cupri Sulph............  
5®
10® 12
10®
Dextrine.................. 
75@ 90
75®
Ether Sulph............  
Emery, all  numbers
©
8
Emery, po...............
©
6
30® 35
Ergota...........po. 40
12® 15
12®
Flake  W hite...?.... 
Galla................
® 23
9
8®
Gambier..........
60
w
Gelatin, Cooper..  .. 
■
30® 50
30®
Gelatin, French...... 
60,  10&10 
Glassware, flint, box
60
Less  than  box__
Glue,  brown...........
Glue, white  ...........
Glycerlna...............
Grana  Paradisi  __
Humulus.................
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
65 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
85 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
9
95 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
©45®
55
HydraagUnguentum
„   60 
Hydrargyrum.........
1  25®  1  50
Ichthyobolla, Am...  .  — .  —
75®  1  00
Indigo............... ...... 
Iodine, Resubi........  3 80® 3 90
Iodoform................. 
®470
® 2 25
Lupulin................... 
60® 65
@ 50 Lycopodium...........
65® 75
@ 50 Macis.......................
@ 50 Liquor  Arsen et Hy-
@ 27
@ 60
drarg Iod.............
10® 12
@ 50 LiquorPotassArsinit
@ 50 Magnesia, Sulph__
2®
3
50® 60 Magnesia, Sulph.bbl
@ 1*
@ 50 Mannia, S. F ........
60® 63
© 50 Menthol...  . 
© 6 50
....

@  1  10 
®  85
®  65

@ 2 00

13®
19®
@
25®

1  40

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Morphia, S.P.& W ...  1  75® 2 00 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................  1  65®  1  90
Moschus Canton__  @  40
65®  80
Myristica, No. 1...... 
Nux Vomica...po.20 
®  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co....................  @  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.*4 gal.
doz........................  @200
Picis Liq., quarts__ 
®  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
@  50
@  18
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22 
Piper Alba__ po.  35  @ 3 0
Piix  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10® 1  20
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
@ 1  25
A P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
27®  30
8®  10
Quassise..................  
Quinia, S. P. A W .. 
31®  36
25®  30
Quinia, S. German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............   29®  34
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
24®  26
SaccharumLactis pv 
Salacin....................  3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W..................  
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G....................  @  15
Siedlitz  Mixture__  20  @  22

Sinapis....................  @  18
Sinapis, opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................   @  34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
Soda Boras..............  7  ®  10
Soda Boras, po........  7  @  10
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  144® 
2
Soda, Bl-Carb......... 
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   3*4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........ 
56®  55
Spts. Myrcia Dom...  @ 2 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @ 2 37
Spts. Vini Rect. *4bbl  @2 42
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal  @2 45
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
® 2 47
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........  2*4® 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2*4
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromse............   42®  45
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 Oq
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

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Oils

Whale, winter.........   70 
Lard,  extra............   40 
Lard, No. 1.............. 
35 

BBL.  SAL.
70
45
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Linseed, pure raw.. 
30 
Linseed,  boiled......   32 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
30 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

33
34
70
86
Paints  BBL.  LB.
Red Venetian.........  
lit  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars, 
lit  2  @4 
lit  2  @3 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
Putty, commercial..  2*4  2*4@3 
Putty, strictly pure.  2*4  21t@3 
Vermilion,  Pr i me
American.............
13® 15
Vermilion, English.
70® 75
Green, P aris...........
15  @ 24
Green,  Peninsular..
13® 16
Lead, Red.............
6*4® 5*
Lead, white............
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Whiting, white Span 
© 70
Whiting,  gilders’.
© 90
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff..................... 
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Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  60®  1  71
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 09
No. 1 Turp F um ....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  75

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AXLE GREASE.

doz.  gross
Aurora......................... 55  6 00
Castor Oil.................... 60  7 00
Diamond......................50  5 50
Frazer’s 
.................75  9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75  9 00
Mica........................... 70  8 00
Paragon.......................55  6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

X lb cans doz..................  
M lb cans doz..................  
1 

45
85
lb cans doz..................  1 50

Acme.

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

45
75
lb cans 1 doz..  .............  100
10

Dwight’s.

JaXon

1 
U lb cans 4 doz case........ 
M lb cans 4 doz case.......  

lb cans per doz............  1 50
45
85
lb cans 2 doz case........  1  60
35
55
90

M lb cans 4 doz case........ 
M lb cans 4 doz case........ 
1 
lb cans 2 doz case........ 

Home.

Our Leader.

W lb cans.......................... 
M lb cans.......................... 
1 

45
75
lb cans..........................  1  50

BATH  BRICK.

American............................... 70
English....................................80

BLUING.

C Q iisa^D

COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages............  
CREACI  TARTAR. 
Strictly Pure, wooden boxes.  35 
Strictly  l’uro, tin boxes...  .  37 
Tartaiine 
25

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

214
3
4

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

F air........  .............................. 18
Good....................................... 19
Prime......................................21
Golden  .................................. 21
Peabeny  ............................... 23

Santos.

Fair  .......................................19
Good  ..................................... 20
Prime..................................... 22
Peaberry  ............................... 23

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

Fair  .........  
21
Good  ..................................... 22
.................................. 24
Fancy 
Maracaibo.

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

 

Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth...................... 27
Mandehling............................ 28

Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  .................................28

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

Quaker Mocha and Java......30
Toko Mocha and Java...........27
State House Blend..................24

Package.

Arbuckle.......................  17 50
Jersey.............................   17 50
ricLaughlln’s  XXXX......  17  50

KOFFA-AID.

1 doz. Counter Boxes...  .  40
12 doz. Cases, per gro........  4 50

BROOOS.

No. 1 Carpet.......................  2 00
No. 2 Carpet.......................  1  65
No. 3 Carpet.......................  1  50
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  20
Parlor Gem.......................  2 00
Common Whisk................. 
85
Fancy Whisk.....................   1  00
Warehouse.........................2£l

CANDLES.

Hotel 40 lb boxes.................  9y.
Star 40 lb boxes..................... Syt
Paraffine..............................9

CANNED  aOODS. 
rianitowoc  Peas.

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

CATSUP.

CHEESE.

Acme..........................   @
Amboy.......................   ©
Byron......................  @
Carson City.............  @
E lsie.......................  @
Gold  Medal............
Ideal.......................  @
Jersey.....................   @
Lenawee.................   @
Riverside.................  @
Sparta....................  @
Warner’s Oakl’d C'y  @
Brick.......................   @
Edam.....................   @1
Leiden........................   ©
Llmburger.............  @
Pineapple....... 
@
Sap Sago.................  @

Bulk 
Red

Chicory.

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

Walter Baker & Co.’s.
German Sweet......   ...........
Premium..............................
Breakfast Cocoa.................

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz.........
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz.........
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz.........
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz.........
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz.........
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz............
Jute, 72 ft,  per doz.............

CLOTHES PINS.

5 gross boxes.......................

3 doz in case...................... 5 25

Extract.

Valley City 14 gross......  
Felix 14 gross................. 
Hummel’s foil 14 gross... 
Hummel’s tin 14  gross... 

CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. in case.

75
1  15
86
1  43

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co.'s 
brands.
Gail Borden  Eagle................. 7 40
Crown..................................... 6 25
Daisy.......................................5 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia 
...........................4 25
Dime 

8 85

1  00 
1  20 
1  40 
1  60 
1  80 
80 
96
.45  Peerless evaporated .cream.5 75

New Orleans.

F air..................................  
Good................................. 
Extra good.......................  
Choice.............................  
Fancy  .............................  

Half-barrels 3c extra. 

18
22
24
27
30

PICKLES.
(tedium.

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

PIPES.

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6M
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4yt
Broken...............................   2%
Japan,  No. 1......................  5
Japan.  No. 2......................  4q
Java, No. 1.........................  4£
Java, No. 2.........................  4M
Patna................................   4

Imported.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

SEEDS.

SAL SODA.

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

SNUFF.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels.............................. 14@15
Half  bbls......................... I6@17
Fair  ................................   18
Good.............................. 
  20
Choice.............................   25

Pure Cane.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  .............................   9M
Cassia, China in mats......... 10
Cassia, Batavia in bund__15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................ 15
Cloves, Zanzibar..................10
Mace,  Batavia...........  .......70
Nutmegs, fancy...................65
Nutmegs, No.  1...................60
Nutmegs, No.  2...................56
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .10 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .20
Pepper,  shot........................lg
Allspice  ........................10@15
Cassia, Batavia..................17
Cassia,  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................15
Cloves, Zanzibar..................10
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin...................20
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia....   .......80@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................25
Nutmegs,......................40@60
Pepper, Singapore, black9@12 
Pepper,Singapore, whitel5@l8
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage....................................18
“ Absolute” in  Qlb.  Packages.
Allspice..............................  65
Cinnamon..........................   75
Cloves................................   70
Ginger, Cochin..................  75
Mace................................2  10
Mustard..............................  75
Nutmegs..........................2  10
Pepper, cayenne..............   75
Pepper, white  ...................  75
Pepper, black shot..........   60
Saigon............................. 1  50
“ Absolute  “ Butchers'  Spices.
Wiener and Frankfurter__16
Pork Sausage..................... 16
Bologna aud Smoked S’ge..l6 
Liver S’ge and H’d Cheese.. 16

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.
50 books, any denom... 
100 books, any denom... 
500 books, any denom...
1.000 books, any denom...
Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom... 
100 bonks, any denom... 
500 books, any denom...
1.000 books, any denom...

1  50
2 50 
.11  50 
.20  00

.20 00

.  1  50 
.  2  50 
.11  50 

Universal Grade.

50 books, any denom —   1  50 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
50)books, any denom.... 11  50
1.000 books, any denom— 20 00

Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom —   1  50 
100 books, any denom—   2 50 
500 books, any denom— 11  50
1.000 books, any denom —  20 00

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from #10 down

Can be made to represent any 
20 books...............................   1 00
50 books...............................  2 00
100 books...............................  3 00
250 books...............................  6 25
500 books............................... 10 00
1000 books................................17 50

Credit Checks.

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

Apples.

Sundried.......................  @  3M
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 4M

California Fruits.
Apricots.......................  9
Blackberries..................
Nectarines....................  »K@
Peaches.........................   5  @14
Pears.............................   °M@
Pitted Cherries..............
Prunnelles.....................
Raspberries...................
California Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes.........  @
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @
70-80 25 lb boxes.........  @
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @
50-6025 lb boxes.........  @
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  @
M cent less In bags
Raisins.

London Layers..........1  10@1  40
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown  4M
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown  5Q
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown  6

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls........................ @ 4
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.........@ 4Q
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @  5M
Cleaned, packages............ © 6

Peel.

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

' Raisins.

Ondura 29 lb boxes.......  @
Sultana  1 Crown...........  @6M
Sultana 5 Crown...........  @8
Valencia 30 lb boxes__  @

EGG PRESERVER.

Knox’s, small size..............4 80
Knox’s, large.size...............9 00

Lima Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Biscuitine.
Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

FARINACEOUS GOODS.
3 doz. in case, per doz..... 1  00
B ulk................................   3
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s........ 2 00
Barrels  ............................3 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums........ 1  50
Dried  ...............................  4
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  101b. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........2 50
Em pire............................  2*
Chester...........................134 @2
Green,  bu..........................   90
Split,  per lb...................... 
2M
Rolled Avena,  bbl......... 3 85
Monarch,  bbl....................3 25
Monarch,  %  bbl............... 1 75
Private brands,  bbl....... 3 10
Private brands, 54bbl........1 68
Quaker, cases................... 3 20
Oven  Baked............   — 3 25
Lakeside  ..................  
2 25
German.................  ........  4
East  India.......................  
3*
C racked, bulk..................  
3
24 2 lb packages.....................2 40

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

Fish.
Cod.

Halibut.

Herring.

Georges cured............  @ 33£
Georges  genuine.......   @ 4M
Georges selected........  @5
Strips or bricks.........   5  @8
Chunks.............................
Strips................................
Holland white hoops keg. 
56 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  6 50
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 30
Round  40 lbs...................  1 10
Scaled...............................  1054
No. 1100 lbs......................  10 50
No. 1  40 lbs.....................   4 70
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 20
No. 2 100 lbs......................  7 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 50
No. 2  10 lbs...................... 
90
Family 90 lbs....................
Family 10 lbs....................

flackeret.

Sardines.
Stockfish.

Trout.

Russian kegs................... 
55
No. 1,100 lb. bales............   10V4
No. 2,100 lb. bales............  814
No. 1 100 lbs......................  4 75
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2 20
XIO. 1
53
No. 1
No. 1 No. 2 Fam
1  75
100
33
29

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

100 lbs .........   6 25
40 lbs .........   2 80
10 lbs .........  
78
8 lbs .........  
65

1U0...... ;.............
8 lbs......................
Whlteflsh.

5 75
2 60
73
61

Souders’.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

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Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

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

2 oz....... 1  50
4 oz....... 3 00
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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.

GELATINE.

Knox’s sparkling......................1 10
Knox’s acidulated....................1 20

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................................4 00
Half Kegs.................................2 25
Quarter Kegs.............................1 25
1 lb  cans.............................   30
H  lb cans............................  18

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................................4 00
Half Kegs.................................2 25
Quarter  Kegs...........................1 25
1 lb  cans.............................   34

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs................................... 8 00
Half Kegs.................................4 25
Quarter Kegs............................2 25
1 lb cans...............................  45

Sage.....................................   15
Hops....................................  15

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

15 lb  palls............................  35
171b pails........  .................   44
30 lb  pails............................  65

HERBS.

INDIGO.

JELLY.

LYB.

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

LICORICB.

Pure.....................................   30
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily......................... 
  14
Root.....................................   10

 

MINCB MEAT.

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

nATCHES.

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

rtOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

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

Ordinary...........................12@14
20
Prime............... 
Fancy 
30

Cuba Baking.
Porto Rico.
............................  

 

VANILLA
m PM FLAVO«*« 4
9& 2 T &
cnuns.Msurk.

2 oz___   75
3 oz....... 1 00
4 oz.......1  40
6 oz.......2 00
No.  8...2 40 
No. 10...4 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No.  4 T.l 50

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

21

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Crockery  and

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.
Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes.........
1  60
.. 2  75
Barrels,  100  3 lb bags 
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags__ . .2 50
Butter, 56 lb  bags  ...........
65
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags........ ..3 00
Butter, 280 lb  bbis........... ..2 50
100 3 lb sacks.................... ..2 60
60 5-lb sacks.................... ..1  85
28 11-lb sacks................... ..1  70

Common Grades.

Worcester.

50  4  lb. cartons............ ..3 25
115  2%lb. sacks............... ..4 00
60  5  lb. sacks............... ..3 75
22 14  lb. sacks............... .  3 50
3010  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

.  60 

60 

56-lb dairy in iinen  sacks 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 

Solar Rock.

56-lb  sacks..........................   21

Common Pine.

Saginaw....   ......................  60
Manistee  ............................  60

Boxes..................................  5 Z i
Kegs, English......................  43i

SODA.

STARCH.
Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ...............5 00
128  5c  packages................ 5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 

Klngsford’s  Corn.

20 1-lb packages...................  0y,
40 1 lb packages...................  6)4

Klngsford’s Silver  (Boss.
40 1-lb packages...................  6 Vt
6-lb boxes  .........................7

Common Corn.

Common Gloss.

20-lb boxes..........................  5
40-lb  boxes..........................   4%
1-lb  packages.....................   4 yt
3-lb  packages......................  \y%
6-lb  packages.....................   5)4
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   25i
Barrels  ...............................  2%

SOAP.
Laundry.

Gowans & Sons' Brands.

Crow...................
..  3  10
..  2  15
German Family...
American Grocer 100s... ..  3 30
American Grocer 60s....
9  7?i
..  3 80
Mystic  White......
Lotus  .................
..  3 9r
Oak Leaf............
.  3 00
Old Style..............
..  3 20
..  3  10
Happy Day...........

JAXON

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

Jas. S. Kirk & Co.’s  brands. 
American Family,  wrp’d...3 33
American Family, plain___3 27

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s  brands.

Acm e......... ........................3 25
Cotton  Oil........................... 5 75
Marseilles............................. 4 00
Master..................................3 70

Henry Passolt’s brand.

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

Thompson A Chute’s Brand.

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

Allen B.  Wrisley’s brands. 

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars...3 00 
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars.. ..3 90
Uno, 100 34-lb. bars............. 2 80
Doll, 100 10-oz. bars............ 2 25

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Mixed Candy.

Fancy - In Bulk.

bbis.  pails
Standard.................  6  @ 7
Standard H.  H........  6  @ 7
Standard Twist......  6  @ 7
Cut Loaf.................  7%@ 8%
cases
Extra H.H.............. 
@8)4
@8)4
Boston  Cream........ 
Standard................. 
@ 7
@ 7)4
Leader  ..................  
Conserve................. 
@754
© 754
go?»1 ...................... 
Broken..................  
© 854
Cut Loaf................. 
@  -
English Rock.........  
@  854
@ 85*
Kindergarten.........  
French  Cream........ 
@9
Dandy Pan........ 
@10
Valley Cream......... 
@13
Lozenges, plain...... 
@ 854
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@ 854
Choc.  Drops...........  11  @14
Choc.  Monumentals  @13
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
Moss  Drops............  
@  8*4
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 854
Imperials...............  
@ 9
Lemon  Drops.........  
@50
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@60
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops__ 
@65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum  Drops............  
@35
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
@55
Lozenges,  plain.... 
@60
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials...............  
@60
Mottoes..................  
@65
Cream Bar.............. 
@50
Molasses Bar  ......... 
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90
Plain  Creams.........   60  @80
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds......125  @
Wintergreen Berries 
@55
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes............   ... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................
Fresh  Meats.

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

@30
@45

Beef.

Carcass...................  .5   @654
Forequarters............   354@ 454
Hind  quarters...........  7  @ 8
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
g ibs  i..........................   754© 954
K°un^ s ....................  554© 654
4  @5
Chucks................. 
Plates  ....................... 2)4© 3
Pork.

Dressed......................  4  @454
Loins.........................  @8
Shoulders...................  @554
Leaf Lard...................  @554
Carcass......................5  @g
Spring Lambs..............7  @ 8

Mutton.

Veal.

Carcass  ....................554© 754

Crackers.

 

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

as follows:
Seymour XXX...................  554
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  55k
Family XXX......................  514
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  55k
Salted XXX............. 
  55.
Salted XXX..3 lb carton...  5)4 
Soda  XXX  .......................   6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  654
Soda,  City.........................  7
Zephyrette.........................  10
Long Island  Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Square Oyster, XXX.........   5j^
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb carton.  654 
Farina Oyster.  XXX........ 
5u
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  1054
Bent’s Cold Water............   12
Belle Rose.........................  8
Cocoanut Taffy.................  8
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey...................  11
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  654 
Ginger Snaps,XXX  city...  654 
Gin. Snps.XXX home made  654 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  654
Ginger  Vanilla.................  8
Imperials..........................   83
Jumoles,  Honey................  11
Molasses  Cakes.................  83
Marshmallow  ...................  15Q
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......  854
Pretzelettes, Little German  654
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sultanas............................  12
Sears’Lunch......................  754
Sears’ Zephyrette................10
Vanilla  Square.................  8
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Pecan Wafers.... ...............   1554
Fruit Coffee......................... 10
Mixed Picnic.....................  1054
Pineapple Glace................   1554

Single box, delivered 
5 box lots,  delivered..
10 box lots, delivered..
25 box lots,  delivered..

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen. 3 doz 
Sapolio, hand. 3 doz ...

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf.............................5 37
Domino.............................. 5 25
Cubes................................. 5 00
Powdered  .......................... 5 00
XXXX  Powdered...............5  12
Mould  A.............................5 00
Granulated in bbis............. 4 75
Granulated in  bags............4 75
Fine Granulated................ 4  75
Extra Fine Granulated......4 b7
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4  t>7
Diamond  Confec.  A.......... 4  75
Confec. Standard A............4  62
No. 1...............
............... 4 50
No
2................
............... 4 50
No. 3...............
............... 4 50
No. 4  ..............
............... 4 50
No. 5..............
4  44
No. 6...................
...................4  37
No. 7  ...
............... 4 25
No. 8...............
............... 4  12
No. 9...............
............... 4 06
No. 10...............
..  4 00
No. 11...............
................3 94
No. 12................
............   3 87
No. 13...............
..............3 81
No. 14...............
............... 3 69
No. 15...............
............... 3 44

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s,  large....... 4 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small....... 2 75
Halford,  large..................3 75
Halford small....................2 25
Salad Dressing, large........4 55
Salad Dressing, 3mall....... 2 65

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. J. Johnson’s  brand

S. C. W................................35 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Quintette........................... &5 00
Clark Grocery Co.’s brand.
New  Brick..........................35 00
Michigan Spice Co.’s brand. 
Absolute...........................  35 00

VINEGAR.

Leroux Cider..........................10
Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain.. ..10 
Robinson's Cider, 50 grain.  ..12

WICKINO.

N o. 0, per gross....................  25
No. 1, per gross....................  30
No. 2, per gross....................  40
No. 3, per gross....................   75

Fruits.

Oranges. 

Fancy  Seedlings

Rodis 200s...............
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s..............
Fancy 300s..............
Bananas.

@5 50

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

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 OO

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs,  Fancy  Layers
20 lbs..................  
Figs, Choice  Layers
101b...................... 
Figs,  Naturals 
in
bags...................... 
Dates, Fards in 101b
boxes..................  
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ..................  
Dates,  Persians,  G.
M. K., 60 lb cases.. 
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  ................... 

@
@9
@5
@ 7
@6
@ 4%
@ 3%

Wheat.

Winter  Wheat Flour.

Local Brands.

Patents...................
3 70 
Second  Patent........
3 20 
Straight...................
3 00 
Clear.......................
2 50
Graham  .................
2  75
Buckwheat............
3 00 
R ye...........................................
2 50
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis 
count.
Flour in bbis., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 54s........................  3  35
Quaker,  54s .......................   3 35
Quaker, 54s...... 
3  35

 

 

Spring  Wheat Flour.
Olney & Judson ’s Brand.

Ceresota, 54s......................  3 80
Ceresota, 54s......................  3 70
Ceresota, 54s......................  3  65
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand.
Grand Republic, 54s__
..  3 80 
Grand Republic, 54s..  . 
3 70 
Grand Republic, 54s.
3 65
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 54s 
3 85 
Laurel, 54s ...
..  3 75 
Laurel, 54s...
..  3 65 
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s 
Brand. 
Parisian, 54s.
..  3 80 
Parisian, 54s.
...  3  70 
Parisian.  54s.
..  3 65

Meal.

Bolted....................................  1 60
Granulated.................. ..."  1  85

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__ 12 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats..........11  50
No. 2 Feed...............................11 00
Unbolted Corn Meal..........11  UO
Winter Wheat  Bran........... 8 00
Winter Wheat Middlings..  9 00
ö LU
Co.

The  O.  E.  Brown Mill

quotes as follows:
Corn.

Car  lots....................
Less than  car lots......

Car  lots.......................
Less than  car lots......

Oats.

Hay.

No. 1 Timothy, ton lots
No. 1 Timothy carlots..

26 )4
28

20
24

11  00
9 50

Fish  and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whiteflsh................ @ 8
T rout...................... @
Black Bass.............. @ 8
Halibut................... @ 15
Ciscoes or Herring..
© 4
Bluefish..................
© 12
Live Lobster.........
© 18
Boiled Lobster........
© 20
Cod......................... @ 10
Haddock.................
© 8
No.  1  Pickerel........
© 8
Pike......................... @
Smoked White........
© 8
Red Snapper........... @ 13
Col  River Salmon..
© 15
Mackerel 
..............
© 20

Oysters-in Cans

F. H. Counts...........
© 37
F. J. D. Selects........
© 35
Selects....................
© 30
F. J. D.  Standards.. © 30
Anchors..................
© 25
Standards...............
@ 20
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1 50
Clams,  per  1Q0.........
90@1  00

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @1054
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 854
W  W Michigan...........  @ 8
High Test Headlight..  @ 7
D., S. Gas....................  @ 954
Deo. N aptha..............  @854
Cylinder....................30  @38
Engine...  .................11  @21
Black, winter............   @ 9
Black, summer..........   @ 8)4

From Tank  Wagon.

Eocene................ 
...  @ 8«
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt.  @ 654
D. S.  Gas....................  @ 7

Scofield,  Shurmer  &  Teagle

quote as follows:

Barrels.

Palacine....................  @1154
Daisy  White..............  @1054
Red Cross, W. W........  @854
Water  White Hdlt__  @ 8
Family  Headlight__   @  7
Red Cross S.  Gasoline  @1654
Stove Gasoline...........  @ 954
Naphtha....................  @  8)4
Palacine....................   @954
Red Cross W.  W........  @654
Gasoline....................   @754

From  Tank  Wagon.

8 25 
8  00
9 00

IO54
10
10
95£
954
554

1054
4
5
54
54
54
5434

The  Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and Provision Co. quotes as fol­
lows:
Barreled Pork.
Mess  .............................
Back  ............................
Clear back....................
Shortcut.......................
Pig................................
Bean  ............................
Family  .........................
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................
Briskets  .......................
Extra shorts.................
Smoked fleats.
Hams, 121b  average  ...
Hams, 14 lb  average
Hams, 16 lb  average__
Hams, 20 lb  average__
Ham dried beef............
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
Bacon,  clear.................
California hams...........
Boneless hams..............
Cooked  ham.................
Lards.  In Tierces
Compound.................. .
Family............................
Kettle.............................
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
50 lb T ins..........advance
20 lb Pails..........advance
10 lb Pails..........advance
5 lb Pails..........advance
3 lb Pails..........advance
Bologna.........................
Liver...............................
Frankfort.......................
P ork...............................
Blood  ......... ............. ”  ’
Tongue....................’. "
Head  cheese...................
6
.........  
Extra  Mess....................   7 00
Boneless  ........................10 00
Kits, 15 lbs........................ 
go
54  bbis, 40 lbs..................  j 65
54  bbis, 80 lbs..................  3 00
Kits, 15 lbs........................  
75
54  bbis, 40 lbs..................  1 50
54  bbis, 80 lbs................... 2 75
P ork.................  ...........   25
Beef  rounds................... 
5
Beef  middles................. 
7
Rolls, dairy................... 
854
Solid, dairy.................... 
8
Rolls,  creamery............
Solid,  creamery............
Canned  Meats.
Corned beef,  2 lb..........   1 90
Corned beef, 15 lb...........13 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb..........   1 90
Potted  ham, 
54s.........  75
Potted  ham,  54s..........  1 25
Deviled ham, 
54s........... 
75
Deviled ham,  54s..........  l 25
Potted  tongue  54s........... 
75
Potted  tongue 54s..........  1 ¿5

X16

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterine.

Sausages.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Hides.

H i d e s   a n d   P e l t s .
Perkins  &  Hess  pay as  fol-

lows:
Green......................... 3 © 4
Part  cured................. @ 5
Full Cured................. 5
D ry ............................ 5 © 7
Kips,  green............... 3 © 4
Kips,  cured............... 5 @  6
Calfskins,  green........ 4 @ 5
Calfskins, cured........ 5 © 6H
Deaconskins  ............ 25 @30
Shearlings  ............... 5 ©  10
Lambs....................... 15 @  25
Old  Wool................. 40 ©  75
Washed 
.................. 10 @13
Unwashed................. 5 @10
Tallow....................... 2 © 2)4
Grease Batter............ 1 @ 2
Switches  ................... 1 H@ 2
Ginseng...................... 2 50@3 00

riiscellaneous.

Wool.

Pelts.

N u t s .

©

Almonds, Tarragona.. @13
Almonds, Ivaca.........
©
Almonds,  California.
soft shelled............
@12)4
Brazils new...............
@ 7
Filberts  .................... @10
Walnuts, Gren............ @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. @11
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
Table Nuts,  fancy__ @11
Table Nuts,  choice... @10
Pecans, Small............
Pecans, Ex. Large__ @10
Pecans, Jumbos........ @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu„
Ohio.......................
©
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks
©3 50
Butternuts  per  bu__ @
Black Walnuts per bu
©
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Cocks.....................
© 5
Fancy,  H.  P„  Flags
Roasted..................
@ 7
Fancy, H. P., Associa-
tioh Roasted........... @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,

© 5%

Glassware.
FRUIT JARS.

Mason—1 doz in case, pts.  5 00 
Mason—1 doz in case, qts.  a 25 
Mason—1 doz in case, 54 gal  7 25 
Dandy—glass  cover, qts..  9 00 
Dandy—glass cover, 54 gal  12 00

LAMP  BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun..........................   45
No.  1  Sun..........................  
50
No.  2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No. 1................... 
65
Security, No. 2...................  86
Nutmeg  ......................  ...  50
Arctic................................   1  15
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  85
No.  1  Sun.......................... 2 00
No.  2 Sun.......................... 2 80

No. 
No. 
No. 

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

wrapped and  labeled__2  10
wrapped and  labeled....  2 25 
wrapped and  labeled__  3 25

top,
top,
top,

No. 
No. 
No. 

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

wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
wrapped and  labeled. . .   2 75 
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75

top,
top,
top,

CHIMNEYS,
Pearl  Top.

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

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

Fire Proof—Plain Top.

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

La  Bastie.

No. 1 San. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  25
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   |  50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60

Rochester.

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

Electric. 

r

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4 40
Miscellaneous.  Doz.
Junior,  Rochester.............  50
Nutmeg  ............................ 
15
Illuminator  Bases.............  1  00
Barrel  lots, 5 doz.............. 
go
7 in. Porcelain Shades......  1  00
Case lots, 12  doz................  90
Mammoth  Chimneys for  Store 
Lamps.  Doz.  Box 
No. 3 Rochester, lime  1  50  4 20 
No. 3 Rochester, flint  1 75  4 80 
No. 3  Pearl  top,  or
Jewel  glass...........  1  85  5 25
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
lime.......................   1  75  5  10
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
flint  ......................  2 00  5 85
No. 2 Pearl glass......   2  10  6 00
Doz. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  60
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  75
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  3 00
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4 00 
5 gal galv iron with  spont.  5 00 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 6 00
5 gal Tilting cans..............  9 00
5 gal galv iron Nacefas  ...  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule................10 50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 50

Pump  Cans,

OIL CANS. 

LANTERNS.

No.  0 Tubular...................4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular...  ........  6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 0 50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  00
No.  3 Street  Lamp  .........   3 75

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

No. 0 per gross...................  24
No. 1 per gross.................  
36
No. 2 per gross................... 
50
80
No. 3 per grobd................... 
Mammoth per doz............. 
75
JELLY  TUMBLERS-TIn Top. 
M Pints, 6 doz  in  box,  per
box (box  00)  .................   1 55
X Pints, 20 doz in  bbl,  per
doz (bbl 35)....................  
18
H  Pints,  6 doz in box, per
box (box  00) ...................  1 75
44 Pints, 18 doz  in bbl,  per 
doz (bbl 86) ..................... 
ao

3 2

Hardware

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade  continues  in  about  the 
same  condition  as  reported  last  week. 
There  is a  moderate  movement  of  mer­
chandise  in nearly  all  lines,  as a  general 
rule,  owing  chiefly,  no  doubt, 
to  the 
existing  uncertainty 
in  political  and 
financial  matters,  which  affects  the 
hardware  trade  as  well  as other branches 
of  business. 
In  the  larger  markets  and 
among  certain  manufacturers  a  better 
feeling  prevails—a  feeling  that as  soon 
as  there  is  a  restoration  of  confidence, 
a  revival  of  business  will  take  place 
amongst  all  classes  of  trade.  Retail 
merchants,  as  well  as  jobbers,  report  a 
very  moderate  trade.  There 
is  no  dis­
position  among  manufacturers  to  make 
any  concessions 
in  price,  as  they  feel 
that 
is  not  a  question  of  prices  that 
retards  the  ordering  of  goods  and  that 
it 
is  useless  to  offer  inducements,  as  it 
in  increasing  the 
will  have  no  effect 
in  lines  of 
volume  of  business.  Only 
goods  maintained  by  associations 
is 
there  any  special  profit  being  made.

it 

Wire  Nails—There 

The  Association,  at  the 

is  no  change  in 
price  on  wire  nails  and  no 
indication 
that  there  will  be  for  several  weeks  to 
come. 
last 
meeting,  reaffirmed  the  existing  prices 
for  September  and  withdrew the guaran­
tee  which  had  been  in  effect  for  several 
months.  While 
this  withdrawal  of 
guarantee  created  a  certain  amount  of 
fear  among  the  jobbers—they  believing 
that  it  was  the  beginning  of  a  prepara­
tion  for  a 
lower  price— it  is  now  be­
lieved  that  the  guarantee  withdrawal 
was  not  for that  purpose,  but  that  it  had 
been  so  abused,  because  it  was  of  such 
a broad nature, that it was absolutely nec­
essary  to  withdraw  it. 
In  conversation 
with  nail  manufacturers  it  is  believed 
that  there  will  be  no  change  in  price 
until  after  the 
first  of  the  year.  We 
quote at  present  $2.65  rates  at  mill  and 
$2.85  from  stock.

Barbed  Wire—The  barbed  wire  mar­
ket  is  sluggish  and  the  volume  of  busi­
ness  is  very  light.  Prices  remain fairly 
steady,  but  there  is  a  perceptible  tone 
of  weakness  in  the  market,  and  anyone 
desiring  to  place  a  good  sized  order,  no 
doubt  could  obtain  concessions.  The 
demand  at  present  is  principally  on No. 
14  and  No.  15  steel  baling  wire,  and 
it 
is  quite  difficult  for  jobbers  to  keep  a 
full  assortment.

Window  Glass—No  agreement  has 
been  arrived  at  between  the glass  work­
ers  and  the  factory  owners  and  it  is  not 
believed  that  any  factory  will  resume 
operation  before  October  or  Novem­
ber  1.  At  present  the  stocks 
in  the 
hands  of  all  manufacturers  are  very 
broken  and  it  would  be 
impossible  for 
anyone  to  get  a  full  assorted  car  from 
any  one  factory.  Notwithstanding  this 
condition,  and  the  firmness  of  price  at 
which  glass  is  held  by  the  manufactur­
ers.  there  is  a  weakness  of  price  among 
the  glass  jobbers.  The  prevailing prices 
at  present  seem  to be  about  7°   and  10 
per  cent  and 
in  smaller quantities  70 
and  5  per  cent,  is  the usual quotation.

Shot— The  shot  market  is  not  charac­
terized  by  its  usual  regularity,  but  there 
is  no  change  to  note  in  price among 
the  jobbers.

The  Coming  Era  of  Prosperity. 

Written for the T b ad b sm an.

The  Barings  failure  in  London,  five 
years  ago,  gives  the  name  to  a  panic 
which  marked  the  beginning  of  a  long 
depression  in  the  trade  of  Great  Britain

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

leading 

and  her  dependencies. 
In  the  mother 
countries  there  was  a  great  decline  in 
many  of  the 
industries  and 
strikes and  industrial  disturbances  were 
frequent  for  a  considerable  time. 
In 
the  colonies,  especially 
in  Australia, 
the  depression  amounted  to  almost  a 
paralysis. 
Failures  were  widespread 
and  destitution  and  suffering  prevailed 
everywhere.

The  wave of  business  disaster  did  not 
fairly  reach  this  country  until  two  years 
later,  in  the  panic  of  1893.  At  that  time 
the  English  speaking  nations  may  be 
said  to  have  all  been  in  a  condition  of 
industrial  prostration.  To  what  degree 
the  situation 
in  this  country  was  de­
pendent  on  that  among  other  of  the 
English  peoples 
is  a  matter  of  theory 
or  conjecture. 
It is  probable  that  many 
of  the  causes  of  the  depression  were 
common  to  all.

Nor  was  this condition  confined  to the 
English  nations.  The  wave  broke  upon 
the  shores  of  the  Continent  and  the 
great  centers  of 
industry,  particularly 
in  Belgium,  were  subjected  to  the  most 
violent  disturbances, 
the 
very  foundations  of  society.

threatening 

Through  their  conservatism  and  care­
ful  attention  to  the  fostering  of  home 
industries,  Germany  and  France  were 
comparatively  exempt  from  the  more 
serious  disturbances. 
Indeed,  the  mis­
fortunes  of  the  rest  of  the  industrial 
world  were  the  opportunity  of  the  for­
mer,  whose  patient,  persistent  pushing 
of  business  in  new  fields  in  competition 
into 
with  England  started  that  country 
a  period  of  unprecedented 
industrial 
prosperity,  while  all  the remainder were 
still  suffering  from  the  effects  of  the de­
pression.

As  England  was  the  first  of  the  Eng­
lish  speaking  countries  to fall  into panic 
conditions,  she  was  also  first  to  start  on 
the  way  to  recovery.  So  quietly  as  al­
most  to  escape  comment  she  has  im­
proved 
in  financial  condition  and  has 
begun  to  take  hold  of  foreign trade  with 
her  wonted  vigor.  First  it  was  noted 
that  a  great  improvement  was  manifest 
in  the  fiscal  condition  of  the  govern­
ment,  revenues  were  greater  and  the 
country  was  suprised  with  a  handsome 
surplus, 
instead  of  the  deficits  which 
had  been  the  order.

Now  there 

is  coming  to be  noted  a 
in  the  export  and 
remarkable  revival 
import  trade,  especially  the 
former. 
The  increase  was  first  manifest  in  July 
of  last  year.  Comparing  the  exports  for 
the  seven  months  ending  at  that  time 
with  those  of  the  corresponding  time 
this  year,  the  gain  is  found  to  be no less 
than  $68,000,000,  showing  an  increase 
which  means  unwonted prosperity.  This 
increase 
in  the  despatch  of 
railway  material  to  China,  Japan  and 
the  Argentine  Confederation,  indicating 
that  the  colonies  are  not  yet  far ad­
vanced  in  recovery.

is  mainly 

What  share  has  this  country  in  the 
returning  wave  of  prosperity?  That  she 
followed 
in  the  depression  makes  the 
inference  fair  that  she  will  not  be  far 
behind  in  the  recovery;  but,  more  than 
this 
inference,  there  are  manifest  rea­
sons  why  she has  not  long  to  wait.  All 
the  conditions,  save  one,  are  now  fa­
vorable  to  an  immediate  change.  With 
abundant  harvests  of  everything  needed 
for  export  especially,  with  those  exports 
increasing,  with  posi­
already  rapidly 
tive  and  decided 
improvement  in  the 
financial  situation,  the  only  condition 
lacking 
is  confidence—the  only  bar  to 
the  rapid  return  of  prosperity  is  dis­
trust 

W.  N.  F u ller.

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HEADQUARTERS FOR 

POTATO TOOLS1

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POTATO  DIGGING 
POTATO  SHOVELS, 

POTATO  FORKS.

I   FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

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A large number of hardware dealers handle

THE OHIO  LINE  FEED  GUTTERS

OHIO  PONY  CUTTER

Fig. 783.  N o .llJi.

Made by SILVER  MAN’ F’ G  CO.,

Salem,  Ohio.
This  cutter  is  for  hand  use  only,  and  is  a 
strong, light-running machine.  It is adapted  to 
cutting  Hay,  Straw  and  Corn-fodder,  and  is 
suitable for parties keeping from one  to  four  or 
five animals.

There is only one  size, and  is  made  so  it  can 
be knocked down and packed for shipment, thus 
securing lower  freight  rate.  Has one 11M inch 
knife, and by  very  simple  changes  makes  four 
lengths of cut.

We also have a  full  line  of  larger machines, 
both for  hand  or  power.  Write  for  catalogue 
and  prices.

ADAMS  &  HART,  General  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

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

38

H ardw are  Price  Current.

AUGURS AND  BITS
 

Snell’s..................................  
70
Jennings’, genuine.......................................25*10
Jennings’, imitation....................................60*10

 

AXES

First Quality. S. B. Bronze.........................  5  00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.........................  9 50
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel.........................  5 50
j First Quality. D. B. Steel............................  10 50

BARROWS

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

BOLTS

Stove...................................................... 
go
Carriage new list..  ...............................66 to 65-10
Plow.......................................................  
40*10

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

BUCKETS

SOME  SINFUL  GAMES.

Taking  Extra  Discounts— Returning 

Goods  Without  Cause.

From the Men’s Outfitter.

Nobody  objects  to  the  making  of  a 
good  bargain.  But  when  a  bargain  has 
been  made  and  lived  up  to  on  one  side, 
what  sort  of  excuse  is  there  for  depar­
ture  from  it  on  the  other?
If  a  seller  can  be  persuaded  to  make 
special  terms  for  the  benefit  of  a  par­
ticular  buyer,  the  latter  is  entitled to  all 
that  was  promised,  but  some  buyers  are 
not  satisfied  to  get  what  was  agreed  up­
on ;  they  want  to  make  terms  of  their 
own  afterwards  and  force  them  upon 
the  seller.  To  wit:
^There  is  a  large  retail  house 
in  this 
city  that  we  will  designate  and  disguise 
as  A.,  A.  &  Co.  This  house  has  sev­
eral  departments,  one  of  which  has  for 
about  ten  years  been  buying  goods  of  a 
manufacturer  whom  we  will  reveal  as 
Mr.  Smith.  Of  course,  the  house  was 
familiar  with  Mr.  Smith’s 
terms. 
Every  bill  of  goods  from  him  bore these 
specifications  printed  in  red  ink :

Terms \ 3°  days,  less  5  per  cent.  ) 
l  10  days,  less 6  per  cent,  j

If  this  invoice  is  not  in  every  respect 
as  agreed  upon,  notify  us  at  once,  as  no 
change  in  terms  will  be  allowed  at  time 
of  settlement.

No  other  terms  or  extra  discounts  had 
ever  been  allowed  or  taken  between  the 
parties.

The  department  using  Smith’s  goods 
changed  buyers,  and  the  new  man made 
a  purchase,  in  which  no  departure  from 
the  above  terms  was  arranged,  and  yet, 
when  the  house  settled  the bill,  it  de­
ducted  an  extra  discount  without  per­
mission  of,  or  consultation  with,  Mr. 
Smith.

It  was  supposed  that  the  new  buyer 
had  inaugurated  his  era  by  a  policy  of 
his  own,  a  sort  of  forced 
loan,  as  it 
were,  but  in  order  to  verify  this  theory 
inquiry  was  instituted  among  other  par­
ties  selling  goods  to  the  house,  and  the 
fact  appeared  that  the  firm  made  sim­
ilar  unagreed  deductions  from  the  bills 
of  other  manufacturers,  whose  goods 
went 
into  other  departments  of  the 
house.

The  manufacturers  seen  are  all  of 
high  standing  for  scrupulous  care  in  the 
fabrication  of  their  offerings  and  for 
integrity 
in  all  their  dealings.  All 
averred  that  the  exactions  as  to  dis­
counts  were  unaccompanied  by  com­
plaints  as  to  the  quality  of  the  goods  or 
any  other  feature.  Allowing  the  truth 
of  these  statements,  it  is  difficult  to  im­
agine  any  just  reason  for  the  exactions 
made.  They  certainly  appear  like  an 
arbitrary  seizure  of  the  property  of  an­
other  without  warrant  of  law  or  justice.
Some  wholesale  houses  will  not  sub­
mit  to  such  levies.  They  prefer  not  to 
do  business  with  those  who  make  them. 
Others  pocket  the 
temporarily, 
and  take  their  chances  of  making  it  up 
in  future  transactions.  That  any  house, 
with  prices  as  low  as  they  now  are,  will 
consent  permanently  to  enlarge  its  dis­
counts,  or  to  allow  its  customers  to  do 
as  they  please  with  the  rate  of  discount, 
without  prospect  of  ultimate  recom­
pense,  is  not  to  be  expected.

loss 

told  by  a  traveler:

Here  is  a  little  yarn,  pat  to this topic, 
“ 1  used  to  have  a  customer  in  Oville, 
only  one  I  had  there,  who  regularly took 
off  5  per  cent,  at  the  end  of  sixty  days, 
when  our  terms  were  5-30.  Our  folks 
wrote  him  that  they  couldn’t  allow  it, 
and  he  always  replied  that  they  could 
instruct  their  man  not  to  call  on  him.

’ ’ Well,  I  wasn’t  going  to  drop  him 
and 
lose  a  good  customer,  so  I  asked 
the  book-keeper  to  figure  up  how  much 
the  extra  discount  amounted  to.  Our 
house  went  on  the  one-price  plan,  but 
the  next  time  I  visited  Oville  I  over­
charged  the  gentleman  enough  to  cover 
his  past deficit  and  a  nest  egg  for  the 
future.  So  he  wasn’t any  better  off  for 
playing  Smart  Aleck  with  folks  who 
had  always  treated  him  right.”
Here’s  another  illustration:
Jones  &  Jones,  outfitters,  with  two 
stores,  gave  Rocks  &  Kiel  a  special  or­
der  for  a  lot  of  woolen  knit goods,  a 
line  for the  manufacture of  which  they

lot 

have  a  superior  reputation.  R.  &  K. 
declare  that  the  goods  were  made  ex­
actly  as  directed,  were  without  fault  or 
blemish  in  material,  make  and  pack­
ing,  and  were  shipped  on  time.  There 
were  two  lots,  one  for  each  store.

in,  which,  coming 

The  goods  were  kept  a  long  time  and 
then  returned.  The  season  had  so  far 
advanced  in  the  meantime  as  to  impair 
their  salability.  They  were  dumped  at 
the  manufacturer’s  door,  badly  packed, 
with  boxes  broken  and  with  excelsior 
stuffed 
in  contact 
with  some  of  the  goods,  had  damaged 
their  appearance.  The 
included 
some  goods  not  made  by  this  manufac­
turer.  A  note  from  Jones  &  Jones 
merely  stated  that  the  wares  were  not 
up  to  sample,  a  criticism  which  Rocks 
&  Kiel  positively  deny,  and  their  well- 
known  carefulness  affords  strong  ground 
of  support  to  their  statement.

A  buyer  has  a  right  to  return  goods 
that  are  not  up  to  the  sample;  that 
is 
clear  enough  as  a  general  statement, 
but  even  then  he 
is  in  duty  bound  to 
ascertain  the  fact  of  their  defective 
character  at  the  earliest  possible  mo­
ment  after  their  receipt  by  him,  and  he 
should  communicate  with  the  seller  be­
fore  making  the  return  shipment.  The 
seller,  if  convinced  of  the  fault,  might 
wish  to  make  some  other disposition  of 
the  goods.  Nothing  short  of  a  glaring 
and  unquestionable  failure  of  the  goods 
to  comply  with  the  order,  a  failure  that 
suggests  gross  carelessness  or  a  dishon­
justify  arbitrary 
est 
action.  The  seller  has  rights  and 
it 
looks,  in  this  case,  as  if  the  buyer  had 
ridden  roughshod  over  every  consider­
ation  of  fair  dealing.

intention,  could 

Another  case  of  return  varies  some­

what  from  the  above:

It 

A  manufacturer  one  day  found  at  the 
foot  of  the  stairs  of  his  factory  a case  of 
goods.  He  did  not  know  where  it  came 
from,  but  on  looking  it  over  he  found 
the  name  of  a  well-known  city  retailer, 
to  whom  he  had  shipped  some  goods  a 
while  before.

He  wrote  to  his  customer,  asking 
the  cause  of  the  return,  and  the  reply 
was  that  he  would  use  the  goods  later 
in  the season,  but  preferred  to  have  the 
manufacturer  store  them  in  the  mean­
time. 
is  supposable  that  the  latter 
would  have  been  willing  to  store  the 
goods  on  the  promise  to  take  them  ulti­
mately ;  but  the  coolness  of  the  action 
in  throwing  the  merchandise  at  him 
without  a  word  of  request  or  even  an­
nouncement  was  irritating 
in  the  ex­
treme.

Business  would  better  be  conducted 
with  some  courtesy  on  both  sides. 
It  is 
altogether  unnecessary,  in  order  to  get 
one’s  rights,  to  trample  down  the  flow­
ers  of  gentlemanly  behavior,  to  say 
nothing  of  coarsely  ignoring  the  rights 
of  another  to  serve  one’s  own  purposes, 
right  or  wrong.

End  of  an  Old  Steamship.

is 

The  old  steamship  Dessoug,  which 
was  made  famous  by  successfully  trans­
porting  hither  from  Egypt  the  obelisk 
that  now  stands 
in  Central  Park,  has 
been  towed  around  to  Cow  Bay,  Long 
Island,  to  be  broken  up  for  the  metal 
that 
in  her.  She  was  originally  the 
British  steamship  Denton,  and  was 
built  at  Kartlepooi,  England,  in  1864. 
She  was  1,367  tons  gross  measurement 
and  was  an  iron  vessel.  She  had  been 
line  of  the  Ocean 
in  the  Savannah 
Steamship  Company 
in  late  years,  but 
had  been  laid  up  for  some  time  and  her 
class  expired  last  autumn.

A  curious  lake  has  been  found  in  the 
island  of  Kildine,  in  the  North Sea. 
It 
is  separated  from  the  ocean  by  a  nar­
row  strip  of  land  and  contains salt water 
under  the  surface,  in  which  sponges, 
codfish  and  other  marine  animals  flour­
ish.  The  surface  of  the  water,  how­
ever,  is  perfectly  fresh  and  supports 
fresh  water  creatures.

New  York 

is  to  have  the  highest 
building  in  the  world.  It  is  to be known 
as  the  Ivins  Syndicate  Building,  and 
will  be  located  at  13  to  21  Park  Row. 
The  structure  will  be  26  stories  high 
above  the  curb,  and  two  stories  below 
the  curb.

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 He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  QOODS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list................................dis 33%
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s............................................. dis 40*10
70
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40*10 
Stamped Tin Ware........................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20*10
Granite Iron  Ware.........................new list 40*10
Pots................................................................60*10
K ettles..........................................................60*10
Spiders......................................................... 60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.................................dis 60*10
State......................................... per doz. net  2 50
Bright..........................................................  
so
go
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s.........................................  
 
go
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
80

HOLLOW  WARE

WIRE  aOODS

HINGES

 

 

LEVELS
ROPES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...........................dis 70
Sisal, % Inch and  larger.............................  
Manilla.........................................................  8%
Steel and Iron..............................................  
80
Try and Bevels...........................................
M itre...........................................................

SQUARES

6

SHEET  IRON

dis

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER 
’86.................
SASH  WEIGHTS

com. smooth,  com.
$2 40
2 40
2 60
2 70
2 80
290
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches

Nos. 10tol4................................. $3 30 
Nos. 15 to 17.  ..............................   3 30 
Nos. 18 to 21...............................  .  3 45 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................... 355 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3 70 
No.  27...........................................  380 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19,
50
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
1  25
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market................................... . 
75
Coppered  Market..........................................70*10
Tinned Market.............................................  62%
Coppered Spring Steel................................. 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .........................  2 25
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  90
An Sable........................................................... dis 40&1C
Putnam.............................................................dis 5
Northwestern....................................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought.........  
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages.....................................
Pumps, Cistern..............................
Screws, New List...........................
Casters, Bed and  Plate..................
50*10*10
Dampers, American.......................
40*10
METALS—Zinc
600 pound casks.............................
8%
Per pound.......................................
6*
%@%....................................................  12%
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................$ 5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal........................... 
5  75
20x14 IX, Charcoal......................................   7 00

TIN—Melyn Grade

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

30
50
80
80

 

TIN—Allaway Grade
 

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   5 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal................. 
5  00
10x14 IX, Charcoal......................................   6  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal.............................. 
6  00

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

 

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.............................  6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  10 00
14x201C, Charcoal, Alla way Grade............   4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5 50
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   9 00
20x28 EX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   1100
„
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I ___ 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, f 1)61 pound- • • 
9

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE 

Office Slaiünerii

ueTTL Rn o Té  ' " b i u . h e a d s
I Î C e l o p Ê Ï5- T
r a d e s m a *
COUNTER  BILLS'  I  COMPANY.

..............  —   Æ»-  G R A N D   R A P I O S .

BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............
Wrought Narrow.......................

BLOCKS

Ordinary Tackle........................ .
CROW  BARS 
Cast Steel....................................

CAPS
Ely’s  1-10.............................
Hick’s C. F . .......................
G. D.....................................
Musket.................................

CARTRIDGES
Rim Fire.  ..................................
Central  Fire...............................

CHISELS

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

DRILLS

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

ELBOWS

70
.75*10

70

4

65 
55
35
60

per lb 

per'm 
per m 
per m 
perm 

.50* 5 
.25* 5

80
80
80
80

60
.50*  5 
50*  5

MILLS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in.......................... .
Corrugated.....................................
Adjustable....................................
EXPANSIVE  BITS

doz. net 
60
50
........dis 
........dis 40*10
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.......................30*10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30.............................  
25

FILES—New  List

New American............................................. 70*10
Nicholson’s................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................................... 60*10

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

28
17

Discount,  75

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS-New List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 

70
80

MATTOCKS

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

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

40
40
30

40

MOLASSES  OATES

 

 

NAILS

Stebbin’s Pattern....................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine..................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring................... 
30
Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................  2 80
Wire nails, base...........................................   2  85
50
10 to 60 advance.......................................... 
8..................................................................  
60
7 and 6........  
75
4..................................................................  
90
120
3 ................................................... 
 
2..................................................................   160
160
Fine 3 ......................................................... 
65
Case 10.......................................................... 
Case  8..........................................................  
75
90
Case  6..........................................................  
Finish 10....................  
75
Finish  8 ...................................................... 
90
Finish  6 ...................................................... 
10
70
Clinch 10...................................................... 
Clinch  8 -  ................................................... 
80
Clinch  6 ......................................................  
90
Barrel  %......................................................  1  75
Ohio Tool Co.’s.  fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 60*10
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy........................   @50
Bench, first quality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
70* 5
Common, polished.................................. 
Iron and T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60

PLANES

RIVETS

PANS

 

 

Otto C. J.  Bxrnthal 

New York Electro Platlno & Ml’o Go.

Electro  Platers  In  GOLD,  SILVER,  NICKEL,  BRASS  and  BRONZE;  also  LACQUERING.

J ohn  T.  F.  Hoknbubo

Gas Fixtures  Reflnished  as Good as New.

West  End  PearlrSt.  Bridge. 

3 doors  South  of Crescent  Mills. 

Citizens Phone, 1517.

GRAND  RAPIDS  MICH

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24

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

it 

With  teas 

in  a  dull  and 

CoSee  has  continued 

New  York,  Sept.  5— Business  in 

job­
bing  grocery  circles  is  no  duller  than  it 
has  been.  That  is  something.  There 
is  decidedly  a better  feeling ;  and  that 
is  something,  too.  Of  course,  there  is 
no  great  “ revival  of  business,’  but,  as 
time  goes  on,  there 
is  certainly  more 
confidence  displayed,  and though buyers 
are  not  purchasing  for  future  wants  to 
any  great  extent,  they  are  not hesitating 
over  present  rates  as  they  were  a  fort­
night ago.
sagging  way and prices have  wabbled 
up  and  down.  At  the  close  the  nearest 
quotation  for  Rio  No.  7  *s 
ioj^c.  The 
amount  changing  hands 
is  very  small 
and  orders  from  out-of-town  buyers  are 
for  minimum  quantities.  Mild  grades 
are  also  moving  slowly  and,  upon  the 
whole,  the  coffee  market  is  upset.  The 
amount  of  coffee  afloat  is  5I9.*^73  bags, 
against  53°>97^  bags  at  this  time  last 
year.
is  the  same  old  story— 
“ Buyers  are  not  showing  much  inter­
est, ’ ’  etc.  Sales  are  for  the  smallest 
amounts,  prices  are  low,  the  supply  is 
ample,  a  good  deal  of  the  stuff  offered 
at  auction  is  rubbish  and  the  outlook  is 
not  encouraging.
There  has  been  a  good  enquiry for  re­
fined  sugars  during  the  week  and  some 
grades,  have  been  oversold,  so  that  a 
little delay  has  been  experienced  in  fill­
ing  orders  as  promptly  as  desired.  Or­
ders  for  granulated  have  come  from 
everv  section  and  the  indications  are 
that  the’sapplies  in  the hands  of  retail­
ers  generally  are  very light.  No changes 
have  occurred 
in  the  price  and  it  is 
thought  that  present  quotations will  pre­
vail 
for  the  next  week  or  possibly 
longer.
Rice  is  firm.  Holders  don’t  seem  to 
care  whether  they  sell  any  or  not  and 
hang  on  to  the  very  outside  quotation, 
while  holders  are  convinced  that  there 
is  no  use  of  haggling.  They  take  it  or 
leave 
it,  and  that  ends  it.  The  pros­
pects  for  lower quotations  are  not  favor­
able  just  at  present.  Primary  points  re­
port  the  markets  well  cleaned  up  and 
full  prices  demanded  at  the  mills.

While  actual  transactions 

in  spices 
are  rather  small,  there 
is  a  feeling  of 
confidence  and  holders  are quite  posi­
tive  that  the  bottom  has been  touched.

Reports  from  the  South  show  a  great 
shortage  of  molasses  as  compared  with 
former  seasons.  The  market  here  Js 
firm  and  the  demand  is  good  for this 
season  of  the  year.  This  is  especially 
true  of  the  better grades  of  domestic.
On  Thursday  about  3,000  barrels  of 
syrup  were  disposed  of  and  the  market 
in  excellent  condition.
is  certainly 
Every  day  sees  new  customers  from 
both  city  and  country.
The  canned  goods  market  shows  no 
improvement.  Trade  is  dreadfully  slow 
and  the  outlook  at  the  moment  not  en­
couraging.  The  political  situation  is 
made  the  excuse  for  the  non-activity. 
Some  goods  have  sold  at  a  loss,  as  it 
has  been  necessary  to  make  the sacrifice 
to  keep  the  mill  running.  Of  course, 
there  are  lots  of  bargains,  yet  no  one 
seems  particularly anxious to seize them. 
Gallon  apples  can  be  bought  at S 1.50, 
although  the  generally  prevailing  rate 
is  $i.55@i.6o.  The  outlook  for  the  to­
mato  packer  is  for  better  prices  in  the 
future,  but  just  now  he  is  between  the 
devil  and  the  deep  sea.  Peaches  are 
dull  and  lower.

In  dried  fruit  more  attention  has been 
given  during  the  week  to  Pacific  and 
foreign  products  and  if  this  is  contin­
ued,  the  chances  are  that  we  shall  have 
interesting  market  for  dried 
a  very 
fruits  before 
long.  Quite  an  enquiry 
has  sprung  up 
for  prunes  and  some 
grades  of  raisins  and  dealers  are feeling 
in  a  better  frame  of  mind  than  for  a 
long  time  past. 
For  such  things  as 
evaporated  apples  and  the  small  fruits 
there  is  not much  enquiry.
Lemons,  oranges,  pineapples  and 
bananas  are  selling  at  about  recent  quo­
tation,  but  the  demand 
is  not  large.

Bananas  are  suffering  from  the  compe­
tition  of  domestic 
fruits,  which  are 
selling  at  very  low  prices. 
It  is  hard 
to  persuade  Americans  that  the  banana 
is  better  than  a  nice  apple  or  peach  or 
pear.
In  butter  the  demand  has  been  rather 
light  and  receipts  have  been  ample  to 
meet  all  requirements.  For  the  fanciest 
Western  creamery,  i6j^c 
is  about  the 
prevailing  rate  and  from  this  the  de­
cline  is  rapid.
In  cheese  the  trading  done  has  been 
of  rather  small  volume  during  the week, 
but  the  market  shows  many  signs  of 
strength  and,  with  cooler  weather,  the 
stock  arriving  shows  up  well.  Not much 
doing  in  an  export  way.
The  egg  market  is  very  firm  and  ar­
rivals  are  disposed  of  at  once.  For 
strictly  fresh stock  i6@I7C  is  paid  with­
out  any  dispute.

HAND  TO  MOUTH.

Present  Policy  of  Buyers  Bound  to 

Result  in  Higher  Prices.

Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  9—The  enclosed 
letter  contains  so  much  truth  that it may 
be  suggestive  of  a  few  facts  which  it 
might  be  well  for  the  retailer  to  realize. 
While  the  letter  in  general  is  solicitous 
of  business  for  the  writer,  at  the  same 
time  what  he  says  in  regard  to  mer­
chants  buying  so  very  sparingly  is  true. 
Customers  have  gotten  so  in  the  habit 
of  late  of  buying  goods  in  such  small 
quantities  that  it  is  very  difficult  for the 
jobbers  to  govern  their  purchases  ac­
cordingly. 
is  our  opinion  that  mer­
chandise  in  most  lines,  and  especially 
in  ours,  has  reached  rock  bottom  and, 
regardless  of  the  fact  as  to  whether 
Bryan  or  McKinley 
is  elected,  there 
must  sooner  or  later  be  an  advance  in 
prices. 

Corl,  K n o tt  &  Co.

It 

The  letter  above  referred to,  which  is 
from  a  large  cap  manufacturing  estab­
lishment,  is  as  follows:

Utica,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  7—We  desire  to 
say  a  word  to  you  in  regard  to  the  pres­
ent  business  situation,  but  more  partic­
ularly  in  regard  to  the  exceedingly  con­
servative  policy  of  placing  orders  prac­
ticed  by  the  trade  in  general.

It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  manufac­
turers  are  to-day  carrying  a  larger  stock 
of  raw  material  than  ever  before. 
Is 
not  this  ample  proof  that  they  believe 
that  raw  material  is  bound  to  advance 
in  price?  Assuming  that  their  views 
are  correct,  it  should  be  evident  that 
manufactured  goods  are  equally  low  in 
price,  and  will  positively  not go  lower. 
Why, 
then,  are  merchants  so  fearful 
about  accumulating  any  stock?

We  are  daily  receiving  orders  which 
customers  desire  completed and shipped 
at once,  but  as  we  are  running our mills 
strictly  on  orders  it  is  not  always .pos­
sible  to  give  them  as  prompt  service  as 
we  could  wish,  and  the  result 
is,  they 
are  disappointed  and  sometimes  dis­
satisfied  with  us,  when  they  alone  are 
at  fault,  owing  to  their  conservative 
policy  of  placing  orders.
We  fully  believe  that  all  kinds  of 
merchandise  will  advance  sharply  with­
in  a  short  time  after  election,  no  matter 
which  candidate  is  elected. 
If  we  are 
right 
in  our  belief—and  the  fact  that 
both  wholesalers’  and  retailers’  stocks 
throughout  the  country  are  lower  than 
ever  before,  and  that  it  requies  only  a 
return  of  confidence  to  create a veritable 
boom  would 
indicate  that  we  are— it 
seems  as  if  it  would  be  good  policy  for 
our  customers  to  order  merchandise 
freely,  especially  when 
they  can  be 
quite  sure  that  any  goods  to  be  carried 
over  can  be  marked  up  instead  of  down 
at  inventory  time.
We  desire  to  supply  our  customers 
with  the  very  best  goods  of  their several 
kinds,  and  also  to  make  deliveries 
promptly,  but  as  we  are  positively 
carrying  no 
stock  of  manufactured 
goods,  we  cannot  promise  prompt  de­
liveries  unless  customers  will  anticipate 
their  wants  and  place  their  orders a  rea­
sonable  time 
in  advance  of  their  re­
quirements.

A  candidate  for  office  can  have  no 
worthier 
for  fitness 
than  an  unblemished  private  character.

recommendation 

The  intimate  relation  of  the economic 
questions  of  finance  with  the  political 
issues  of  the  presidential  campaign 
makes  it  impossible  but  that,  in the full 
discussion  of  the  financial  situation  by 
such  a  body'as  the  Michigan  Bankers 
Association,  much  will  be 
introduced 
that  is  of  a  partisan  political  character. 
As  all  the  papers  contain  so  much  that 
is  of  value  and  interest  outside  of  such 
features,  it  has  been  thought  proper  to 
publish  them  entire.  Of  course,  in  do­
ing  so,  the  Tradesman  assumes  no  re­
sponsibility  for  the  utterances  having 
a  political  bearing.

WANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under this 
head lor two cents a word  the  first  insertion 
and  one cent a word  for  each  subsequent in* 
sertion.  No advertisements taken lor less than 
25 cents.  Advance payment.
B a r g a in s  in  m en’s  fu r n ish in g s, 
i
have  a  stock  of  men’s furnishing  goods 
which I will sell veey cheap.  J. M. Stanley, 214 
Sheldon street, Grand Rapids, Mich.______102

I NOR  SALE—STOCK  OF BOOTS AND SHOES, 

slightly damaged by smoke, but not by fire. 

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

I ¡TOR  SALE—DOUBLEHSTORE,  GROCERIES 

Will  sell  cheap  for  cash.  Exceptional  oppor­
tunity.  L. A. Bentley,  Eaton Rapids.____ 103
WANTED  FOR  CASH—STOCK  GENERAL 
merchandise.  Address No. 101, care Mich­
igan Tradesman._____________________ 101
Fo r sa l e—sm a ll stock o f g r o c e r ies
in best town in Michigan.  Address C,  care 
100
Michigan Tradesman. 
Bu sin e ss  c h a n c es- e v e r y   d e sc r ip-
tion  bought, sold  or  exchanged;  also  real 
estate.  Corie-pondence  solicited.  C.  E.  De- 
Sautelle,  Room  1,  99  Ottawa  Street,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich._________________________ 99
Drug st o r e f o r  sa l e  in m a r q u e t t e,
.Mich., soda fountain  and  fixtures,  el-gant 
and  well  adapted:  stock  light.  Enquire  of 
Charles Kelsey. Agt., 203  and  204  Nester  Block, 
Marquette,  Mich.______________________ 98
WANTED—TO  EXCH INGE  A  83,000  DRUG 
s:ock for cash and productive  real  estate. 
Address No. 93, care Michigan Tradesman.  93
’  and notion-, in  one  of  best  towns  in  best 
State  in  the  Union.  Stocks  will  be  sold  sep­
arately or together, with  or  without  buildings. 
Address 420 East State street, Mason  City,  Iowa.
92
in   t h e  st a t e—t h e ]
B est  o p e n in g  
business  men  of  Dorr  offer  a  two-story 
frame mill building and two acres  of ground  to 
an experienced miller who will erect  an engine 
room and equip the plant with power and  roller 
process  machinery-  Address  J.  C.  Neuman, 
Dorr, Mich. 
Ha r d w a r e  stock  fo r  sa le—in v o ic-
ing about 86,000:  clean and  in  good  shape: 
store to rent;  location  all  right, in  one  of  the 
best citieB of the State.  Reasons for selling will 
be entirely satisfactory to purchaser.  No traders 
need  apply.  Address  No.  87,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
ST
SALE-CLEAN  AND  PAYING  DRUG 
stock, invoicing 81,800, for 8500  in cash  and
balance  in  real  estate.  Address No.  86,  care
Michigan  Tradesman.  _________________86

Sa lesm an  w a n t ed  to  s e l l  dayton 

MISCELLANEOUS.

88

oughly  competent  book-keeper  of 

Computing Scales in  New England on  com­
mission.  Applicant must have  sufficient  funds 
for  local  traveling  expenses;  exclusive  terri­
tory;  splendid territory for good men.  Address 
96
A. W. Ludlow, 89 State St.,  Boston, Mass. 
WANTED—AT ONCE, POSITION  BY THOR- 
ten 
years'  experience.  References  given.  Address 
No. 95, care Michigan Tradesman. 
95
W ANTED—DESIRABLE RESIDENCE PROP- 
erty  in  Grand  Rapids  in  exchange  for 
stock of general merchandise and store building 
in thriving village  near  city,  center  of  a  rich 
fruit  region  Address  No.  94,  care  Michigan
Tradesman.___________________________ 94
TXT ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
TT  pharmacist  of  good  habits  who  has  had 
fourteen  years’  experience.  Address  No.  91, 
care Michigan Tradesm  n. 
r|V<j EXCHANGE FOR GOODS—160 ACRES  OF 
A  heaviest and test hardwood  timber  land  in 
Wexford  Country,  Michigan,  close  to  rai.road 
and river:  also 360 acres of fine farming lai d in 
Crawford  county,  Michigan,  close  to  county 
seat and railroad;  titles perfect.  Address  Lock 
Box 46, Reed City, Mich.________________ 90

a   SINGLE MAN OF  FIFTEEN  YEARS’  Ex­

perience In a general  store wishes  position. 
Can give good  references.  Dick  starling,  Cen-

91

tral Lake,  Mich._______________________ 80
IDOR  EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
J?  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
73
WANTED—TO  EXCHANGE GOOD  GRAND 
Rapids  real  estate  for  stock  of  mer­
chandise.  Address  No.  969,  care  Michigan 
969
Tradesman. 
B u t t e r ,  eg g*»,  po u ltry  a n d  v ea l
Shippers should write Congle Brothers, 178 
South  Water Street,  Chicago,  for daily  market 
26
reports. 
W ANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SH1P- 
pers of bntter and eggs  and  other  season­
able produce.  R. Hlrt, 36 Market street, Detroit.
951
TXT ANTED—SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN- 
Vv 
tral  mileage  books.  Address,  stating 
price, Vindex, care Michigan Tradesman.  869

A ssociation M atters

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  Hb n b y C.  W b b e b ,  Detroit;  Vice-Pres­
ident. C h as. F. Bock, Battle Creek;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, He n b y C. Min n ie,  Eaton Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

President, .J. W is l e k .  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Stow e,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer, t J.  F. 
T atm an, Clare.
Next Meeting—At Grand Rapids,  Feb.  3  and  4, 
1897.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association 
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer, C. A.  Ham mond.
Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
President,  E. C.  W in c h e ste b;  Secretary, Hom eb 
K l a p  ;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehm an.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers' Hall, 
over E. J. Herrick’s  store.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

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

b e l l ;  Treasurer, VV. E. C o llin s.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, Bybon C.  Hi l l ; Secretary,  W.  H. P ob- 

t e b ;  Treasurer, J. F.  Hb lm e b.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

President,  F.  W.  Gil c h b is t;  Secretary,  C.s L. 

Paktbidge.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  .Jou n son;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

D a b l in o :  Treasurer, L. A. G il k e y .

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J. K a t z ;  Secretary, P h ilip Hil b e b ; 
Treasurer, S. J.  Hu pf o b d.

REDUCED  PRICES

A r e ^ y o u  
prepared  for 
a  b ig   de- 
If 
d a  n d ? 
not,  order 
now.

Prices sub­
ject to change 
without  no­
tice.

Terms  60 
d a y s  
a p ­
proved  cred­
it or 2 per cent 
cash  10 days.

PRICES  TODAY:

Pints. Porcelain-lined Cap, 1 doz. in  box__$5 00
Quarts, Porcelain-lined Cap, 1 doz. in box..  5 25 
X Gal., Por< elain-llned Cap, 1 doz. in box...  7 25
Caps and Rubbers only, 6 doz. In box..........  2 75
Rubbers, packages 1 gross, (soft black)........ 
30
Rubbers, packages 1 g oss, (white)............  
25

No charge for package or cartage.

AKRON  STONEWARE.

We have full stock  all  sizes  crocks,  milk  pans 
jugs, preserve  jars  and  tomato  jugs.  Are  you 
prepared for  the  extra  fruit  season?  Mall  or­
ders shipped quick.

JELLY  TUflBLERS.

Tin Tops.

Barrels, 35 cents.

Ass’t bbls. containing 12 doz. %|pt., 18c...... 82  10
Ass’t bbls. containing 12 doz. %|pt.,  18c......82 10
Ass't bbls. containing  6 doz. X pt., 20c......  1  20
Ass't bbls. containing  6 doz. X pt.,  20c......  1 20
Barrel...................................................... . 
Barrel.............................................................  35
35
83  65
X Pint, in barrels 20 doz , per doz................8  18
X pint, in barrels 18 doz., per doz................   20
X pint, In boxes 6 doz;, per box.....................81 56
X pint, in boxes 6 doz., per box....................   1 75
No charge for boxes nnd cartage.  Prices  sub­
ject to change without notice.  Mail orders to
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
H.  LEONARD 
SONS,

Gel obi of ne on fini I

By discarding  antiquated  business  methods  and  adopting  those  in  keeping  with  the  pro­
gressive  spirit of  the  age. 
If you  are  still  using  the  pass  book,  you  should  lose  no  time  in 
abandoning  that  system,  supplying  its  place with  a  system  which  enables  the  merchant  to 
avoid  all  the  losses  and  annoyances  incident  to  moss  grown  methods.  We  refer,  of 
course,  to  the coupon  book  system,  of which  we  were  the  originators  and  have  always been 
the largest  manufacturers,  our  output  being  larger  than  that  of  all  other  coupon  book 
makers  combined.  We  make  four  different  grades  of coupon  books,  carrying  six  denomi- 
nations($i,  $2,  $3,  $5,  $10  and  $20  books)  of  each  in  stock  at  all  times,  and,  when  re­
quired,  furnish  specially  printed  books, or  books  made  from  specially  designed  and  en­
graved  plates.

Briefly stated,  the  coupon  system  is  preferable  to  the  pass  book  method  because'  it 
(1)  saves  the  time  consumed  in  recording  the  sales  on  the  pass  book  and  copying  same  on 
blotter,  day book  and  ledger;  (2)  prevents the disputing of accounts;  (3)  puts  the obligation 
in  the form  of  a note,  which  is  pr im a   fa c ie  evidence of  indebtedness;  (4)  enables  the  mer­
chant  to  collect  interest  on  overdue  notes,  which  he  is  unable  to  do  with  ledger  accounts; 
(5)  holds  the customer down  to  the  limit  of credit  established  by  the  merchant,  ats it  is  al­
most  impossible  to  do  with  the  pass book.

If you  are  not  using  the  coupon  book  system,  or  are  dissatisfied  with  the inferior books 
put  out  by our  imitators,  you  are  invited  to  write  for  samples  of  our  several  styles  of books 
and  illustrated  price list.

doing  to Chicago.

Muskegon via Waverly.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Lv. (I. R........  5:4'»m  1:25pm t6:30pm  tll:30pm
Ar.  Chi.........11:50am 6:50pm  2:00am  t  6:50am
Lv. Chicago................  7:20am  5:00pm  t  9:30pm
Ar. G’dRapids............1:25pm  10:40pm  t 3:45am
Lv. G'd. Rapids............ 5:45am  1:25pm  6:30pm
Ar. G'd. Rapids............  9:15am  5:15pm  10:40pm
Lv. G'd  Rapids 5:30pm  Ar. G’d Rapids 9:30am 
Lv. G’d Rapids............   7:20am 
Ar  Manistee................  12:15pm 
Ar. Traverse City......  12:25pm 11:10pm  5:00am
Ar. Charlevoix... 
2:55pm .............  7:30am
Ar.  Peioskey................  3:25pm 
...._  8:00am
Ar  Bay V iew ......... .  3:35pm .............  8:10am
Trains arrive from north at 1:10.pm.,  5:00.pm., 
*nd 9:50pm.

riuskegon  and  Pentwater  via  Sparta.
Manistee. Traverse City  and  Petoskey.
5:35pm  11:30pm
10:30pm

tEvery  day. 

PABLOH  AND  SLEEPIN G  CABS.

deepers on night trains.
ind 5:35pm.  Sleeping cars at  11:30pm.

Chicago.  Parlor cars on afternoon trains and 
North.  Parlor cars leave Grand Rapids 7:20am 

UC 1 KU1 I , Lansing  &  Northern  R’y

ntJTDAIT 

Others week days only.

Nov* **• '*»*

doing to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

¡.v. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:30pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit................... 11:40am  5:40pm 10:10pm
Lv. Detroit....................7:40am  1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......12:30pm  5:20pm 10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:35am 5:00pm  Ar. G R 11:35am 11:00pm 
Lv.  Grand  Rapids........7:'« am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar.  from Lowell......... 12:30pm  5:20pm 
..........
Parlor  cars  on all trains  between  Grand  Rap­
ids and Detroit.  Parlor car to Saginaw on morn­
ing train.  Trains run  week days only.

To and from Lowell.

THROUGH  CAB  SBRVICB.

Geo.  DeHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

/ i n   k  v rrv   Trunk Railway System 
vIIVabI v \3  Detroit and Milwaukee Div.

Eastward.

tNo. 14  tNo. 16  tNo. 18  *No. 82 
Lv. G'd Rapids.6:45am  10:20am  3:25pm  11:00pm
Ar.  Ionia........7:40am  11:25am  4:27pm  12:35am
Ar.  St. Johns..8:25am  12:17pm  5:2npm  1:25am
Ar.  Owosso 
9:00am  1:20pm  6:05pm  3:l0am
Ar. E. Sagiimwl0:50a~i  3:4"pm  8:00pm  6:40am 
.Ar. Bay City.. 11:30am  4:35pm  8:37pm  7:15am
Ar. Flint........10:05am  3:45pm  7:06pm  5:40am
Ar. Pt.Huron. 12:05pm  5:50pm  8:50pm  7:30am 
Ar. Pontiac..  10.-53am  3:05pm  8:25pm  5:37am 
Ar.  Detroit..  11:50am  4:05pm  9:25pm  7:06am
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts 
*8:40am
For G'd Haven and Muskegon............... tl :30pm
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts..  .+5:06pm
For G’d Haven and Chicago.................. *7:40pm
For G’d Haven and Milwaukee..............10:05pm
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.  Trains arrive 
from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m.,  4:48p.m.. 10:00 
p.m.  Trains  arrive  from  the  west,  6:40a.m., 
3:15a.m., 10:10a.m., 3:15p.m.,  7:05p m.
Eastward—No.  14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
ear.  No. 8 Parlor car.  No.  82  Wagner  sleeper.
Westward—No. 11 Parlor  car.  No.  15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81  Wagner sleeper.

Westward.

Jab. Campbell, City Ticket Agent.

GRAND  Rapids  & Indiana Railroad

Northern  Div.

Leave  Arrive--
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. .* 7:45am *10:00pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Harbor
Springs..........................t  2:00pm t  5:15pm
Cadillac..................................+ 5:25pm til :10am
Petoskey and Mackinaw........tU :00pm  t 5:30am
Train  leaving  at  7:45  am .  has  parlor  car  to. 
Petoskey  and  Mackinaw  Train  leaving  at. 
2:00 p.m. is a  solid  train with  day  coaches  and 
parlor car  to  Petoskey,  Bay  View  and  Harboi- 
Springs.  Train leaving at 11:00  p m.  has  sieep*- 
ing cars to Petoskey and  Mackinaw.

Southern  Div.

Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati.............................. t  7:25am  t   8:25pm
Ft. Wayne...............................t  2:00pm  t   1:45pm
Cincinnati  ............................. *10:15pm  *  7:20am
7:25a.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
10:15p.m. train has sleeping  cars  to  Cincinnati. 
Indianapolis and Louisville.

Muskegon Trains,

GOING WEST.

GOING  E A ST.

Lv G’d Rapids t7:25am  tl :00pm  t5:40pm  19:00am 
Ar  Muskegon..8:50am  2:10pm  7:06pm  10:25am
Lv Muskegon (Steamer).........   7:45pm
Ar Milwaukee (Steamer).........  4:00am
Lv Milwaukee (Steamer!........  8:00pm
.Ar Muskegon (Steamer) 
5.:00am
Lv Muskeg’n t8:00am  tt I::5am  ti/oOpin  t6:30pm 
ArGd R’pids  9:20am  12:55pm  5:20wn  7‘55pm 
Steamer  leaves  Muskegon,  Monday, Wednes­
day and  Friday.  Leaves  Milwaukee,  Tuesday 
Thursday and Saturday.
tExcept Sunday.  »Daily.  ¿Sunday only.
A.  Almqtjist, 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tkt. Agt.

C. L.  Lockwood,

Save Trouble 
Save Losses 
Save Dollare

TIME  15  MONEY 
LIFE  IS  SHORT

And  Rapid  Transportation  is 
a  Necessity.........

To secure the most  prompt delivery of goods at the least ex­
penditure  of  time  and  money  it is essential  that  the  mer­
chant  have  a  delivery  wagon  of  the  right sort.  We  make 
just that kind of  a wagon and sell it as cheaply as  is consist­
ent with good work.  For catalogue  and quotations  address

Belknap  Wagon  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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CERTAINLY  IT  DOES.

I take no chances.  The quality is of the very best.  The New 
York Condensed  Milk Co.  is a very responsible  concern, and  guar­
antees the

Gail  Borden  Eagle  Brand

CONDENSED  MILK to  its customers.  Besides, it is no trouble to 
sell.  The majority call for it, and won’t  take  any other brand. 
If 
I don’t keep  it my customers will get it  elsewhere.  Smaller profit 
No,  I  guess  not;  have  tried  both ways, and  found  that  it pays to 
sell only the “ BEST.”  It has been demonstrated to my satisfaction 
that the

GAIL  BORDEN  EAGLE  BRAND

Prepared by the New York Condensed  Milk Co. 

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