Volume XIV.

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1806.

Number 680

OMMAKERSofMICHIGAI

A foil line of Brooms and  Whisk Brooms In  the 
LAROEST  PLANT  IN THB STATE.  Write for prices,

CHAS.  MANZELMANN,

Factory and Office:  741*740  Bellevue  Ave., 
DETROIT, MICH.

perkihs 4 ress, ■*- Hines, Furs, Wool and Tallow

We carry a stock of cake tallow for mill  use.

Nos.  122 and  124  Louis S t., 

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Grand  Rapids.

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JACKSON  BROOMS

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A.  W.  SMITH’S

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BRASS  SEEDS

Our grades are always np to high  standard.  Prices  at  lowest  values  going.  We  solicit

your business.

ALFRED  J .  BROWN  CO.,

|^ S E E D   M ERCHANTS, 

GRAND  RAPID S,  MICH.

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fine  chocolates  and  Bon  Bons
H ANSELM AN  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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Our line embraces all the varieties In  the  market  and  at  moderate  prices.  New  Penny 
Goods added daily.  Get our catalogue  and  price  list  and  give  us  a  trial  order  or  ask 
your jobber for our goods and get the best.

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NEW  BOSTON 
GINGER  NUTS

Figure for yourself.  A  big  profit  in  retailing  by 

the quart.

110 heaping quarts to the barrel at 10c....... til 00
1 barrel., 80 lbs., at 7V4c per lb.  (cost)........   6 00
Profit per barrel to grocer...........$ 5  00

Nearly  same  proportion  of  profit  by  buying  in 

boxes of about 35  pounds.

TRY  A BARREL

and swell your sales, even in dull times, 

by handling this Rapid Seller.

Simplest  and  Most  Economical 

Method  of  Keeping  Petit 

Accounts.

File and 1,000 printed blank bill heads........$2 75
File and 1,000 specially printed bill heads... 3 25
Printed blank bill heads, per M  ..................  1  25
Specially printed bill heads, per M.............   175

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ARIARINE

The new substitute for 

Cream of Tartar,

Is, in fact, better thamCream of Tartar 
for  all culinary  purposes and  is  a  very 
wholesome  product.  Cheaper  to  con­
sumer and more profitable to dealer.

Manufactured  by

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

For Sale by all Wholesale Grocers. 

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TRADESMAN
ITEMIZED
LEDGERS

Size  8  1-2x14— Three Columns.

2 Quires, 160 pages.................. $2 00
3 Quires, 240 pages..................   2 50
4 Quires, 320 pages...................  3 00
5 Quires, 400 pages...................3 50
6 Quires, 480 pages...................4 00
Invoice Record or Bill Book.
80 Double Pages, Registers 2,880  in­

voices.....................................   12 00

TRADESMAN COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Straw  Boaffl,  Builfling  Paper,  Booling  Material

We are jobbers of these goods, among which are

Tarred Board, Rosin Sized Sheathing, W. C. Oiled Sheathing, 
Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar,
Rosin, Asphalt Paints, Elastic Cement,
Ready Roofing, Carpet Lining, Mineral Wool.

Qualities the best and prices the lowest.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS & SON, Grand  Rapids,  Hich.

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Tendency of me Ties

Owing to the introduction of improved labor-saving machinery, which 
enables us to materially reduce the co6t of the output of our 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, $  1  50 
100 books, any denomination,  2 50 
500 books, any denomination,  11  50
1.000 

books, any denomination,  20 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  $1  for  every  book  of  our 
manufacture found 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 our 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.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The  Bradstreet 
Mercantile  Agency
Proprietors.

THE BRADSTREET COMPANY 

E xecutive Of fic 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.

Grand R apids Of f ic e—

Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg.

HENRY  ROYCE, Sopt.

WE  TOLD  TOD  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.

Place  your  name  on  a  postal  card  ad­

dressed to

THE  CHURN  CO.,

BELLEFONTAINE,  OHIO,

When you wish to  know  anything  about 

this machine.

Don't forget the Tradesman when writing.
Every Merchant

Who uses the Tradesman Company's 
COUPON  BOOKS,  does  so  with  a 
sense  of  se  urity  aud  profit,  for  he 
knows be is avoiding loss and annoy 
ance.  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY 

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

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W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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

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Travelers’  Time  Tables.

wlllvAUU and West Michigan R’y

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Sept.  *7,  1896

Going to Chicago.

Muskegon via W averly.

Returning from  Chicago.

Manistee, Traverse City  and  Petoskey.

L.V.  G’d. Rapids..........8:3oam  1:25pm  tll:00pm
Ar. Chicago.................  3:00pm  6:50pm  t  6:30am
Lv. Chicago................ 7:20am  5:00pm  tll:30pm
Ar.G’dRapids............1:25pm  10:30pm  t 6:10am
Lv. G’d.  Rapids............ 8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d. Rapids............10:15am 
..........  10:30pm
Lv. G’d Rapids...........  7:2tam  5:30pm  ...........
Ar Manistee...............  12:05pm  10:25pm  ...........
Ar. Traverse City......  12:40pm  11:10pm  ...........
3:15pm 
Ar. Charlevoix......... 
...  ..................
Ar.  Petoskey..............  4:55pm 
........................
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:50 
p.m.

Chicago.  Parlor cars on afternoon trains and 
North.  Parlor  car  for  Traverse  City  leaves 

Ub 1 KU1 A »Lansing & Northern R.R.

sleepers on night trains.
Grand Rap1ds7:30am.

Others week days only.

n C T D A I T  

PARLOR  ADD  SLEEPIN G   CABS.

tEvery  day. 

June »8,1896

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

Lv. 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 7:00am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 11:55am  9:15pm 
Lv.  Grand  Rapids........7:< 0am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar.  from Lowell......... 12:30pm  5:20pm 
..........
Parlor cars on all trains  between  Grand Rap- 
Ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids  and 
Saginaw.  Trains run  week days only.

To and from Lowell.

THROUGH  CAB SERVICE.

Geo.  DeHaveh,  General Pass. Agent.

r i p   A  VTT\  Trank Railway System 
V E lx /w I  v i J   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  3:10am
Ar. E. Saginawl0:50a"i  3:4"pm  8:0npm  6:40am 
Ar. Bay City.. 11:30am  4:35pm  8:37pm  7:15am
Ar. Flint....... 10:05am  3:45pm  7:05pm  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  7:05am 

Westward.

For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts__*7:00am
For G'd Haven and Muskegon................ft :30pm
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts.. ..t5:05pm
For G’d Haven and Milwaukee..............10:05pm
tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.  Trains arrive 
from tbe east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m.,  4:48p.m.. 10:00 
p.m.  Trains  arrive  from  the  west,  6:40a.m., 
10:10a.m., 3:15p.m.,  9:55p.m.
Eastward—No.  14  has  Wagner  Parlor  Buffet 
car.  No. 8 Parlor car.  No.  82  Wagner  sleeper.
Westward—No. 11 Parlor  car.  No  15 Wagner 
Parlor Buffet car.  No. 81  Wagner sleeper.

J a s. Cam pbell, City Pass. Agent.

GRAND Rapids ft Indiana Railroad

Northern  Div. Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. .t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 2:15pm  t 6:30am
Cadillac................................... t  5:25pm til:10am
Train  leaving  at  7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey  and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving At 2:15 p.m.  has sleeping  car to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.

Southern  Div.

Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am t   8:25pm
Ft. Wayne............................... t 2:00pm t   1:55pm
Cincinnati  ............................. *  7:00pm  • 7:25am
7:10a.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.

Lv G’d Rapids.............. t7:35am  tl :00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  tit :45am  t4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
tExcept Sunday.  *Dally.
A. Almquist, 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A T k t Agt.

C. L. Lockwood,

oome BAST.

Equip  Yourself  for  a  Career

bv  taking  a course  in  law, without loss 
of time  and  »t  small  expense.  Let  me 
tell you how I am doing it.

ROBERT EDGAR BRUCE,

LAC  DUFLAMBEAU, W IS.

Save Trouble 
Save Losses 
Save Dollars

Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER  30,1896.

Number 680

NOTICE TO HOOPJIIflKEBS

CASH  PAID  for  round  and  racked  hoops  at 
shipping stations  on  D..  L  &  N.,  C.  A  W.  M., 
G. K  A l ,  T„ S. A. M.. M. C., A  v.,  D.,  G.  H.  A 
M.,  M . A N . E . L  S. A M. S. railroads.

ROUND  &  RACKED  HOOP  CO.,

423 Wfddicomb Bldg., 

Grand Rapids, Hich.

The MiohloanTrustGo..

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator, 

Guardian,  Trustee.

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

COLUMBIAN TRANSFER flMNIY

CARRIAG ES,  BAGGAGE 
AND  FREIGHT  WAGONS
15 and 17 North Waterloo St., 

Grand Rapids.

Telephone 381-1 

Commercial Gredin Go.,

(Limited)

ESTABLISHED 1886.

Reports and  Collections.

411-412-413 Widdicomb  Bldg, 

Grand Rapids.

Every  Dollar

Invested  in  Tradesman  Company's 
COUPON  BOOKS  will  yield  hand­
some returns in saving book-keeping, 
besides the assurance  tbat no charge 
is forgotten.  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

The......

PREFERRED
BANKERS
LIFE
ASSURANCE
COMPANY

....... of AYlCHlGAfl
Incorporated by 100  Michigan  Bankers.  Pays 
all  death  claims  promptly  and  in  full.  This 
Company sold Two and One-half Millions of  In­
surance in Michigan  in  1893,  and  is  being  ad­
mitted into seven  of the Northwestern  States  at 
this time.  The  most  desirable  plan  before  ihe 
people.  Sound  and  Cheap.

Home  office,  DETROIT,  Michigan.

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.
Traiesipi Coupons

Save Trouble 
Save Losses 
Save Dollars

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

J.  L.  Farnham, 

the  Veteran  Man- 

celona  Merchant.

One  of  the  oldest  and  best-known  of 
the  mercantile  institutions of Mancelona 
is  the  general  store  of  J.  L.  Farnham. 
Established while the town  was  yet  new, 
its  growth  kept  pace  with  that  of 
the  latter  until  it  was  burned  in  the  fire 
which  destroyed  the  major  portion  of 
the  business  houses,  some  ten  or eleven 
It  was  promptly  re-estab­
years  ago. 
lished  and,  as  soon  as  a 
substantial 
brick  building  could  be built,  it took  its 
place 
in  its  present  quarters,  where  its 
career  has  been  uniformly  successful.
Mr.  Farnham  is  of  English  and  Ger­
man  parentage.  His  father  was  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Western  New  York, 
living  on  a  farm 
in  Italy  Hill,  Yates 
county,  where  Mr.  Farnham  was  born 
in  1839.  The  first  sixteen  years  of  bis 
life  were  spent  on  the  farm  and 
in  at-

tendance  at  the  usual  country  school. 
At this  time  his  family  emigrated to the 
locating  at 
new  State  of  Michigan, 
Leonidas,  St.  Joseph  county,  a 
locality 
at  that  time  principally  and  justly  cele­
brated  for the  abundance  and  regularity 
of  its  fever  and  ague.  The  rigors  of 
pioneer  life  proved  too  severe  for  the 
father  and, 
in  a  short  time  he  died, 
leaving  the  support  of  the  mother and 
two  younger  children  to  James  and  an 
older brother.

Their first  undertaking  was  the  work­
ing  of  a  large  farm  on  shares  for  E.  L. 
Yaple, 
father  of  the  well-known  ex- 
Congressman,  Hon.  George  L.  Yaple. 
In  a  short  time  after  undertaking  this 
venture,  the  Civil  War  began  and  the 
aid  of  the  older brother  was lost through 
his  enlistment.  The  task  left  upon  the 
shoulders  of  the  remaining  brother  was 
a  severe  one  and,  if  it  had  not  been  for 
the  fatherly  kindness  of the elder Yaple, 
it  would  have  been  too  heavy  to  be 
borne.

After  a  few  years  of  farm  work  the 
young  man  took  up  the  business  of buy­
ing  and  handling  live  stock.  After  a 
time 
in  this  business  he  established 
in  the  meat business  at  Leon­
himself 

idas.  This  was  continued  until 
1878, 
when  the  removal  to  Mancelona  took 
place.

The  duty  of  caring  for  his  mother 
and  family  continued  until  he  had 
reached  the  age  of  33,  when  it  was  ter­
minated  by  the  death  of  the  former.  A 
year  later,  in  1873,  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  Coon,  of  Leonidas.  They 
have  no  children.

After  selling  out  the  meat  business, 
Mr.  Farnham  removed  to  Mancelona, 
where  he  undertook  to  establish  himself 
in  his  old  business.  A  few months’  ex­
perience  demonstrated  the  fact  that  the 
locality  was  too  new  for  the  profitable 
support  of  such  an  undertaking,  so  he 
established  a  grocery  instead.  To  this 
other  lines  were  added,  as  occasion 
offered,  until  the  result  was  a  general 
store,  though  making  a  specialty  of 
flour  and  feed.  Notwithstanding  the 
setback  of  the  serious  loss  in  the  burn­
ing  of  his  store and  contents,  as  noted, 
with lapsed  policies  on the building,  the 
business  has  grown  until  it  now  takes 
rank  as  one  of  the  leading  mercantile 
establishments  of  Antrim  county.  Al­
ways  partial  to  the  meat  trade,  in which 
he  began  his  business  career,  he  gladly 
availed  himself  of  an  opportunity,  a 
year  ago,  to  resume  the  sale  of  meats, 
which  has  proved  to  be  a  valuable  ad­
junct  to  his  other business.

While  still  a young  man,  Mr.  Farn­
ham  became  a  member  of  the  Metho­
dist  Episcopal  church  in  Leonidas.  He 
and  his  wife  have  continued  in that  fel­
lowship  until  the  present.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  Mancelona  Lodge,  F.  &  A. 
M.  He  has  been  a  life-long  Republi­
can  and  in  the  present  political  agita­
tion  pins  his  faith  to  sound  money.

The  success  of  his  business  career has 
turned  upon  his  invariable  practice  of 
dealing  so  as  to  merit  the  confidence  of 
all  with  whom  he  comes  into business 
contact,  either  in  buying  or selling,  and 
careful  personal  attention  to  his  busi­
ness  has  brought  the  usual  rewards—a 
comfortable  competence  and  a  con­
tented  mind.  Respected  by  his  custom­
ers,  his  neighbors 
in  trade  and  the 
jobbing  houses  with whom he  deals,  Mr. 
Farnham  has  every  reason  to  be  proud 
of  the  success  he  has  achieved  and  the 
position  he  has  acquired.

The  Apple  Crop  of Canada.

From the Montreal Trade Bulletin.

The  present  season  is  a  phenomenal 
one 
in  the  history  of  apple  production 
in  Canada,  the  yield  being  so  prolific 
as  to  far  surpass  all  previous  records 
and  perplex  growers  and  shippers  re­
garding  its  disposition.  Although  any 
quantity  of  the  best  winter varieties  can 
be  purchased  at  50c  per  barrel  picked, 
in  the orchards,  which  is  equal  to  $1.50 
laid  down  in  this  city,  yet  very  few  of 
our  exporters  are  anxious  to  buy  even 
at  that low  price,  as  one  of  our  leading 
shippers  stated  to  the  writer  a  few  days 
ago: 
“ Fifty  cents  per  barrel  for  the 
fruit  seems  cheap  enough;  but  I  can­
not  see  where  there  is  going  to  be  any 
profit,  even  at  that  low  figure,  when  I 
consider  the 
immense  surplus  stocks 
that  will  have  to go  forward  from  Can­
ada  as  well  as  the  United  States." 
Some,  however,  appear  willing  to  take 
the  risk,  as  advices  from  Toronto  and 
points  west  of  that  city  report  contracts 
from  between  60,000 and  70,000  barrels

for  at  40c 

of choice winter fruit  at  50c,  and one  re­
port  states  that  5,000 barrels  have  been 
contracted 
for  the  fruit, 
which  brings  the  cost  laid  down  here 
up  to  S i.40,  which  certainly  seems  a 
low  price  for  winter  apples.  Last week 
we  raised  our  estimate  of  the  total  crop 
in  Canada  from  3,000,000 to  3,500,000 
barrels;  and  from  more  recent  accounts 
of  the  prodigious  yield  it  may  safely  be 
placed  at  3,750,000  barrels.
A  remarkable  feature  during  the  past 
two  weeks  has been  the  rapid  develop­
ment that  has  been  made  in  the  growth 
of  the  apples,  the  alternate  copious 
rains  and  sunshine  having  been  condu­
cive  to  the  production  of fine clear fruit. 
To  afford  some  idea  of  the  abundance 
of  the  yield,  instances  have  been  given 
of  orchards  of  from  300  to  400  barrels 
each  now  having  at  least  1,000 to  1,200 
barrels  each.

Apples  for  the  Complexion.

From Life and Health.

“ The  secret  of  a  bad  complexion," 
said  a  well-known  physician  recently, 
“ is  a  bad  digestion,  and  we  generally 
trace  that  to  a  bad  liver.  One  of  the 
best  remedies  for  a  sluggish  liver  is 
cheap  and  pleasant.  Dieting 
is  the 
secret  of  the  cure.  The  best  liver  reg­
ulator  for  persons  of  sedentary  habits— 
and  those are  the  ones  whose  complex­
ions  are  muddy—is  to  be  found 
in  ap­
if  they  are  not  well 
ples,  eaten  baked 
digested  when  eaten  raw. 
I  attended 
the  pupils  of  a  well-known  boarding 
school  and  among  them  was  a  country 
girl  whose  complexion  was  the  envy  of 
all  her associates. 
I  found  that  she  was 
a  very  light  eater  at  her  meals,  but  she 
had  a  peculiar  custom  of  taking  a  plate 
of  apples  to  her  room  at  night  and  eat­
ing  them  slowly  as  she  studied  her  les­
sons.  This  was  her  regular  practice. 
Some  of  the  other  girls in the  institution 
took  it  up  and  I  know,  as a  result  of  my 
personal  investigation, that the apple eat­
ing  girls had  the  best complexion of  any 
in  the  school. ”

illustrated 

The  evils  of  the  bonus  system  are 
aptly 
in  the  recent business 
career  of  D.  R.  Salisbury,  of  Corunna. 
A  couple  of  years  ago  Mr.  Salisbury 
was  engaged  in  the  retail  shoe  trade  at 
Owosso.  One  day  he  conceived  the 
idea  of  establishing  himself  in the man­
ufacturing  business,  and  a  short  time 
thereafter  he  was  turning  out  shoes  in  a 
small  factory  “ up  stairs”   over  his 
store.  Adding  to  his  equipment  and 
working  force  until  they  assumed  re­
spectable  proportions,  the  idea  occurred 
to  him  one  day  that  be  could  just  as 
well  conduct  a  shoe  factory 
in  some 
other  town  which  would  be  willing  to 
pay  a  cash  bonus  for  the  privilege of 
securing  a  manufacturing  enterprise  of 
that  character.  After  negotiating  with 
a  half  dozen  communities,  he decided to 
accept  the  offer  of  a  $3,000  bonus  from 
Corunna  and, 
accordingly,  removed 
his  machiney  and  fixtures  to  that  place, 
where  he  resumed  the  manufacture  of 
shoes on  a  larger  scale  than  before. 
In 
the  meantime,  some  of  the heaviest tax­
payers  of  Corunna,  acting  on  the  as­
sumption  that  the  bonus  system  is  il­
legal,  secured  an  injunction  restraining 
the  officers  of  the  city  from  paying  over 
the  money.  The  matter 
is  now  under 
in  the  Circuit  Court,  and 
advisement 
in  the  meantime  the  shoe  factory  has 
suspended  operations,  pending  the  de­
cision,  Mr.  Salisbury  announcing  his 
intention  of  removing  the  plant  to  some 
other  locality  in  case  the outcome is  un­
favorable  to  him.

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PRODUCE  RATES.

Potato  Classification—Block  System—

Ridiculous  Discrimination—Lower 

Apple  Classification.

The  following  letters  from  the 

lead­
ing  potato  shippers  at  Mancelona  and 
Howard  City,  respectively,  are  self-ex­
planatory :

to 

taken 

Mancelona,  Sept.  28—I  have  read, 
with  much  interest,  in  the  Tradesman 
of  Sept.  23,  the  article  on  Grain  vs. 
Potatoes,  and  1  quite  agree  with  Mose­
ley  Bros.,  C.  C.  Bunting  and  C.  B. 
Metzger,  and  I  also  heartily  agree  with 
Mr.  Leavenworth,  General  Freight 
Agent  of  the  G.  R.  &  I.,  in  the  state­
ment  that  the  railroads  would  like  to 
reduce  the  classification  of  potatoes  to 
sixth  class.  I  think  they  should  do  even 
more—give  us  a  commodity 
freight 
rate  of  even  better  than  sixth  class  in 
such  years  as  last  year  and  as  the  pros­
pect  is  for  this  year.  The  farmers  will 
not  plant  many  potatoes  for  shipment 
if  th&y  cannot  get  something  near  what 
it actually  costs  to  grow  them.  They 
will  raise  about  one  car  of  potatoes  to 
four acres  of 
land,  or  over  four  times 
the  tonnage  of  potatoes  to  the  acre  of 
any  crop  with  which  I  am  familiar. 
After  the  timber  is  taken  off the  land  in 
this  country,  what are  the  railroads  go­
ing  to  haul  that 
is  raised  from  the 
land  that  will  give them the tonnage that 
potatoes  do?  About  four-fifths  of  the 
potatoes  shipped  from  this  section  are 
shipped  in  the  fall  and spring,  when the 
cars  need  no  lining  and  get  no  deface­
ment.  As 
for 
loading  in  the  fall  and  spring 
in  good 
weather,  I  do  not  think  the  average 
time  will  exceed  one  day  to  load  each 
car  with  a  market  that  pays  the  farmer 
the  cost  of  raising  them.  Last  winter, 
for  a  short  time,  we  were  given  a  lower 
rate—sixth  class—and  we  appreciated 
it  greatly,  as 
it  helped  us a  little,  but 
would  have  helped  much  more  if  it  had 
been  given  at  the  beginning  of  the  sea­
son  and  continued;  but  in  April  the 
rate  was  changed  back  to  fifth  class. 
I 
will  give  you  the  former  rate  and  the 
present  rate  on  potatoes  to  a  few  of  the 
points  where  we  usually  ship :

the  time 

Evansville,  formerly  23c,  now  26c.
Richmond,  formerly  20c,  now  22c.
Portland,  formerly  19c,  now  21c.
Alexandria,  formerly  20c,  now  21c.
Anderson,  formerly  20c,  now j2ic.
Indianapolis,  formerly  22c,  now  22c.
Jeffersonville,  formerly  23c,  now  24c.
Cincinnati,  formerly  23c,  now 24c.
Columbus,  formerly  21c,  now  23c.
Dayton,  formerly  21c,  now  23c.
All  other  places  I  have  had  occasion 
to  look  up  are  higher  in  about  the  same 
proportion.
Mr.  Rose,  Assistant  General  Freight 
Agent  of  the  C.  &  W.  M.,  makes  a 
statement  which  would  cause  the  aver­
age  potato  shipper  to  smile  when  he 
says  that  the  railroads  have  to  pass  a 
man  through  free  with  potatoes.  Well, 
now,  let  us  see,  for  example,  how much 
the  railway  company  would  be  out  on  a 
shipment  from  this  place  to  Cincinnati. 
The  average  man  weighs  about 
150 
pounds  and  the  freight  is  24  cents  per 
100,  making  36 cents,  at  the  same  rate 
as  potatoes,  and  I  doubt  if  it  takes  any 
more  motive  power  or  expense  to  haul 
him  on  the  freight  train  than  the  same 
weight  in  potatoes.  Now,  the  railway 
fare  back  is §13.63  and,  as  the  passen­
ger  trains  are  never  crowded  at  this 
season  of  the  year,  I  think  the  railroads 
have  made  at 
least  §12  clear  profit  on 
the trip.  Now,  it  costs  the  shipper  at 
least  four  days’  time,  at $2  a  day,  §8, 
and  railway  fare,  §13.65,  a  total  of 
§21.65,  besides  the  expense  of  lining 
cars,  which  is about §8  each.
We  would  not  ask  the  railroads  to 
carry  potatoes  at  any  loss  to themselves, 
but  would  ask  them  to  carefully 
inves­
tigate  the  cost  of  production  of  this 
if  possible,  make 
staple  article  arid, 
such  a  rate  that  the  farmers  can  get 
nearly  what 
If 
this  is  not done,  they  will  stop  growing 
them  to  any  extent and,  when  the  sea­
son  comes  again that they could  afford to 
pay  a  reasonable  rate,  the  potatoes  will 
not be here  to  ship. 

it  costs  to  grow  them. 

J ess  Wisl e r .

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Howard  City,  Sept.  26—In  reference 
to  the  classification  of  potatoes,  I  think 
same  is  altogether  too  high,  as  com­
pared  with  grain,  but  I  find  the  worst 
feature  is  in  the difference between  the 
rates on  potatoes  from  Southern  Mich­
igan  points  to  the  South and  West,  as 
compared  with  the  rates  given  here; 
also  the  discrimination  in  rates made as 
between  Northern  Michigan  and  New 
York  State,  the  latter  having  in  some 
cases  33  per  cent,  better  rates  on  ship­
ments  south  of  the  Ohio  River than  we 
have.

I  must  take  strong  exceptions  to  what 
Mr.  Rose,  of  the  C.  &  W.  M.,  says  in 
the  Tradesman.  First,  he  says  that  the 
transportation  company  must 
issue  a 
pass  to  the  man  in  charge  of  the  ship­
ment,  which  is  correct;  but  he  tails  to 
say  that  the  freight  on  an  ordinary  man 
would  be  about  thirty  cents  from  points 
on  the  D.,  L.  &  N.  to  Louisville,  Ky., 
and  that  the  fare  would  be  in the neigh­
borhood  of  §13  to  get  him  back,  which 
has  to  be  borne  by  the shipper.  Second, 
as  to  the  furnishing  of  refrigerator cars,
I  find  that  these  are  usually  furnished 
by  outside  lines  looking  for  the  trade. 
It  is  true,  however  that the D.,  L.  &  N. 
did  furnish  some  refrigerator  cars 
last 
season.
I  must  also  take  exceptions  as  to 
what  Mr.  Leavenworth  says  about  the 
reduction  in  the  classification  of  pota­
toes  not  having  made  any  difference 
in 
shipments.  Although  it  was  made  too 
late  in  the  season  and  after  most  of  the 
in  their  supplies,  it 
dealers  had 
did  materially  help,  and  had 
it  been 
made  earlier  in  the  season,  I,  for  one, 
could  have  moved  a  great  many  more 
potatoes,  which  were  wasted  and  never 
moved,  entailing  unnecessary  loss  on 
both  farmer  and  shipper and  depriving 
the  railroads  of  considerable  receipts.
W.  H.  L o v ely.

laid 

The  Tradesman  commends  these  let­
ters  to  the  careful  perusal  and  consider­
ation  of  Messrs.  Leavenworth and Rose, 
trusting  they  may  see  their  way  clear  to 
reply  to  the  statements  made  therein  in 
the  next  issue  of  the  Tradesman.

*  *  *

Under  the  system  obtaining  in  this 
in 
country  of  grouping  commodities 
classes  for  purposes  of  transportation, 
in­
there  must  necessarily  be  apparent 
consistencies  and  even 
injustice 
in 
many  cases  and  localities;  and the same 
may  be  said  as  to  the  system  of  fixing 
freight  rates  by  what 
is  termed  the 
“ block  system.’ ’  In 
imme­
diately  beyond  the  division  of  the 
block,  the  sudden  increase  in  the  rates 
seems  to  work  hardship;  and 
if,  as 
frequently  happens,  the  point  at  which 
the  division  occurs  is  the  intersection 
of  a  competing  line,  the  discrimination 
in  favor of  near-by  points  is  sometimes 
serious.

localities 

*  *  *

for 

Take, 

In  an 

is  made. 

illustration, 

the  town  of 
Morley,  the  next  shipping  point  beyond 
Howard  City,  where  the  division  of  a 
block 
inteview  with 
John  C.  Thurkow,  a  prominent  shipper 
of  the  former  town,  the  statement  was 
made  that  through  its peculiar  situation 
in  relation  to  the  block  division  and  to 
shipping  points  on  the  D.  L.  &  N., 
both  the  town  and  the  railroad  suffer 
materially. 
It  so  happens  that most  of 
the  potato-producing  country  is  situated 
so  that  it  is  just  as  easy  for  the growers 
to  draw  the  tubers  to  Amble  and  Lake- 
view,  on  the  D.  L.  &  N.,  as  to Morley; 
and,  as  those  places  are 
in  the  more 
favored  freight  block,  of  course  they 
get  the  business.  Mr.  Thurkow  com­
plains  that  the  town  has  not  bad  a  fair 
show 
in  either  facilities  for  shipment 
or  rates.  As  to  the  former,  he  states 
that 
is  only  a  short  time  since  they 
were  provided  with stock pens,  and  pre­
viously  cattle  were  driven  through  the 
town  for  years  and  shipped  at  points  on 
the  other  road.  He  has just built a very

it 

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have  one  of  our  Oyster  Cabinets.  W ill 
pay  for  itself  several  tim es  in  a  single  sea­
son.  T h e y  are  neat,  durable,  econom ical 
and  cheap.  N o  dealer  who handles oysters 
can  afford  to  be  without  one.  M ade  in 
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“A penny saved  is as good as a penny earned.”  We can 
save you a “pretty penny,” if you will  ship  us your apples  in 
bulk.  “ Expenses” cut a big  figure now.  Save all  expenses of 
If  you prefer to sell, give  us  your 
packages  and  packing. 
bottom  figures at once.

BARNETT BROS.,

responsible  and  dishonest  men  go  into 
the  commission  business  is  that 
it  re­
quires  but  little  capital.’ ’

During  the  entire  summer 

season 
while  we  are handling  berries  and  other 
small  fruits,  including  peaches,  pears 
and  plums,  the  entire  receipts  of  the 
day  are  sold the  same day that  the  goods 
arrive,  and  the  sales  go  out  with  the 
evening  mail,  with  which  is  enclosed  a 
check  for  the  fruit.  This  fruit, when  in 
the  hands  of  regular  dealers,  is  sold  to 
the  city  trade,  the  most  of  whom  are  re­
sponsible  and  have  the  privilege  of fak­
ing  their  bills  and  pay  the  following 
week.  That  which  goes  to  the  shippers 
who are filling  country  orders  is  booked 
and  carried  in  the  same  way.  All  that 
we  sell  during  one  week  is  supposed  to 
be  due  and  payable  the  following  week, 
but  the  following  week  is  usually nearly 
gone by  before  the  bulk  of  the  collec­
tions are  made.  Some of  them  take  the 
entire  week  and  pay  on  Saturday  after­
noon. 
In  this  way,  in  order  to  do  a 
successful  business,  one  must  be  pos­
sessed  of  a  very 
large  capital.  One 
habit  of  our  city  dealers  is  that,  instead 
of  sending  our  city  checks that would be 
floating  in  the  country  for  several  days, 
we  keep  a  bank  account  at  every  ship­
ping  point  and  give  the growers  checks 
upon  these  local  banks,  and  must  of  ne­
cessity  keep  a  balance  there  to  meet 
thèse  checks.

In  our  butter  and  egg  department,  the 
rule  is  a  little  different;  the  sales,  how­
ever,  are  made  to  the  same  class  of 
buyers,  and  on  the  same  terms,  and 
there  are  but  very  few  of  the  country 
shippers  but  what  expect  advances  on 
their  butter  and  eggs  of  half  or three- 
quarters  of  their  value,  at  the  time  of 
making  their  shipments.  The  same 
rule  applies  to  poultry  and  game.

The  dishonest  and  swindling men who 
have  been  working  the  trade  from  this 
city  have  been  obliged,  in  consequence 
of  these  conditions,  to  continually  look 
up  new  shippers. 
is  very  seldom 
that  they  get  more  than  one  or  two 
shipments  from  the  same  parties,  un­
less for the  purpose  of  establishing  con­
fidence  with  the 
shippers ;  they  pay 
promptly  for the  first  few  shipments,  in 
order  to  secure  larger  ones.  These  con­
ditions  make 
it  more  expensive  for 
them  to  secure  goods,  but  as  long  as 
they  have  but  little  to  pay  for  them, 
they  can  afford  to  be  at  a  little  expense 
in  securing  them. 

G e o.  W.  L in n .

It 

F. J.  ROHRIG, Jr.,

Wholesale  and Retail Dealer In

COAL AND  WOOD,

FLOUR  AND  FEED,  HAY  AND  STRAW

Recleaned Oats a Specialty.

Mack Ave. and Belt Line, 

DETROIT.

Protection

D IA M O N D   C R Y S T A L  
S A L T   in  boxes  is  im pervious 
to  the  odor  of  the  m ackerel 
barrel.  F astid io u s  custom ers 
b elieve  in  such  protection.

See Price Current.

DIAMOND C R Y S T A L  S A L T  C O ., 

S T . C L A IR ,  MICH.

complete  warehouse,  at a  cost  of  over 
$2,000.  with  roof  and  sides  sheeted with 
corrugated  iron,  and  furnished  with  ex­
tensive  cellars  and  with  ample  potato 
bins  on  first floor,  protected  with  char­
coal-filled  walls,  and  he 
is,  naturally, 
anxious  to  get  it  into  use.  C.  W.  Crim- 
mins,  of  the  same  place,  complains  of 
the  situation,  but  seems  to  think  there 
is  no  redress.  He  has  begun  the  potato 
season  by  shipping  two  cars  from  Am­
ble,  instead  of  his  own  town,  on  'ac­
count  of  the  more  favorable  rates.

*  *  *

Referring  to  the  Tradesman’s  com­
ments  on  this  subject  last  week,  Bar­
nett  Bros.,  who  operate  one  of  the  old­
est  and  most  responsible  commission 
establishments  on  South  Water  street, 
write  as  follows:

1,700  pounds.  The  rate 

Chicago,  Sept.  2—We  are  pleased  to 
note  in  your  issue  of Sept.  23  a most  in­
teresting  article in  relation to the freight 
classification  of  grain  and  potatoes. 
There  is  one  other point  which  we  sin­
cerely  wish  you  would  take  up  and  dis­
cuss,  and  that 
is  the enormous  differ­
ence  in  classification  between  pears and 
apples.  We  have  before  us  an  expense 
bill  for  the  transportation  of  nine  bar­
rels  of  pears.  They  are billed  as  weigh­
ing 
is  65^ 
cents  per  hundred  pounds,  making  a 
freight  rate  of  $ 11.10   for  the  transpor­
tation  of  nine  barrels  of  pears  about  200 
miles.  Nine  barrels  of  apples  of  prac­
tically  the  same  weight—certainly  oc­
space—would  be 
cupying  the  same 
taken  at  an  agreed  weight  of 150 pounds 
and  a  freight  rate  of  20  cents  per 
100 
pounds,  or  $2.70  for  nine  barrels  of 
apples,  in  place  of  $11.10 .  The  value 
of  these  pears is about 25 per  cent,  more 
than  the  value  of  the apples,  the 
labor 
is  the  same,  the  cost  is  the  same,  and 
the  risk 
is  the  same,  as  both  must be 
shipped  “ owner’s  risk  freight  guaran­
teed.”   Why 
tremendous  dis­
crimination?  We  sincerely  wish  that 
you  would  take  it  up  and  see  what  you 
can  make  out of  it.

this 

*  *  *

two 

these 

On  being  shown  this  letter,  E.  C. 
Leavenworth,  General  Freight  Agent  of 
the  G.  R.  &  I.,  expressed  himself  sur­
prised  that  there should have been found 
so  great  a  difference  between  the  rates 
on 
fruits.  Referring  to 
rates  in  this  locality,  he  stated  that  the 
difference  amounted  to  something  like 
50  per  cent,  in  favor  of  apples.  Thus 
the  rate  for  apples  from  Grand  Rapids 
to  Chicago 
is  2i//£ cents  and  for  pears 
31 
to  Columbus,  25  cents  and  40 
cents,  respectively.  This  difference  in 
the  classification,  he  claims,  is  made 
partly  on  account  of  the  higher  price  of 
pears,  the  much  less  quantity  handled, 
and  the 
fact  that  they  are  usually 
shipped  in  baskets  instead  of  barrels, 
as  are  apples.  As  to  the  remarkable 
discrepancy  in  the  instance  referred  to, 
he  could  only  explain  it  on  the  suppo­
sition 
there  was  a  gross  over­
charge.

that 

*  *  *

While  referring  to  this  subject  Mr. 
Leavenworth  wished  to  call  attention  to 
the  fact  that  the  classification  of  apples 
has been  changed  to  sixth  until  Novem­
ber  1,  thus  placing  them  on  the  same 
basis as  potatoes.  This  action  is  on  ac­
count  of  the  extremely  low  prices.
Capital  Required  to  Conduct  a  Com­

mission  Business.

Chicago,  Sept.  25—In  recent issues  of 
your  paper  we  have  noted  some  very 
timely  remarks 
in  regard  to  the  com­
mission  man,  to  which  class  we  belong, 
and  have  for  a  great  many  years.  The 
information  which  you  give  in  regard 
to  us  seems  to  be  qualified  to  place  be­
fore  the  shippers  and  growers  of  fruit. 
As  we  handle  not  only  butter,  eggs  and 
cheese,  but  fruits  and  vegetables,  we 
must  take  exception  to  one  paragraph 
in  a  recent  issue,  which  says: 
“ One 
possible  reason  why  a  great  many  ir-

5  AND 7   P E A R L  S T R E E T .

Reference, The ITichigan Tradesman.

CHICAGO.

J

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.
Elktoa—M.  A.  Vogel  has  ops 

aed  a

drug  store.

Brows  City—J.  F.  H 

a  new  drug  store  here.

jider.

Litchfield—W.  Bosley 

open  a  rew  drug  store.

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Lanssng—Persons Bros.,  grocers,  hare

sold  out to  C.  A.  Bash.

Albion—Charlotte  Glover,  baker,  has 

sold  out to  Leach  k  Brown.

Baa  Axe—Bates  5c  \ ogel have opened 

a  drag  store on  Main  street.

Shearer—Weydemeyer  Bros.,  general 

dealers,  have  removed  to  Torner.

Howell—Will  Farnsworth  has  sold  his 

laundry  bus:r.ess  to  W.  E.  Snyder.

Ousted—W.  Bilimvre  has  purchased 

the  hardware  stock  of  I.  F.  Brooks.

Adrian—Harry  Wood  has  purchased 

the meat  business  of  W.  A.  Wilcox.

Crystal  City—James  Conklin,  black­
smith,  has  removed  to  South  Frankfort.
Ypsilantl—F.  K.  Rexford,  of  F.  K. 
Rexford  k  Sons,  general  dealers,  is
dead.

Ashicy—Albert  N.  Pal meter  succeeds 
in  the  grocery 

Paimeter  k  Bowker 
business.

Ousted—C.  A.  Desermia 

succeeds 
Geo.  B.  Hines  in  the  grocery  and  meat 
business.

Farwell—Leonard  Lester  continues 
the grocery  business formerly  conducted 
by  Asa  Leonard.

Dundee—Chas.  E.  Slander  has  pur- j ' 

chased  the  drug  and  confectionery stock 
of  Geo.  W.  Hurd.

Detroit—Broad well  \   Wolff  succeed 
Win.  C.  Broadweil  in  the  musical  mer­
chandise  business.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Wood  k  Thoenen 
in  the 

succeed  A.  C.  Lindsay  &  Co. 
hardware  business.

Sanford—C. 

succeeds 
Shersves  k  Jeffers  in  tbe  agricultural 
implement  business.

j.  Sheri ves 

Cedarviiie—\V.  A.  Patrick  has  pur-1 
chased  the  general  stock  and  cedar 
business  of  C.  Y.  Bennett.

Hancock—The  hardware  store  of  Kel-1 
lean  \agel  is  closed  under  attachment 
by  tbe  America  Boiler  Co.,  Chicago.

Chesaning—E.  J.  Domberg,  boot  and 
shoe  and  book  and stationery dealer,  has 
removed  from  S t  Cliaries  to  this  place.
Johns—B.  Failing  k  Co.  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Millie 
'  -’frs.  A.  L. j  Buchanan  at  this  place 
and  at  St.  Louis.

St. 

West  Branch—J.  C.  McGowan,  hard­
ware  dealer,  has  admitted  Edward  Mc­
Gowan  to  partnership,  under  the  style 
of  J.  C.  McGowan  k   Son.

Greenville—Van  Wormer k Stevenson 
have  sold  their grocery  stock  to  X.  W. 
Daggett,  formerly  engaged  in  the  same 
line of  business  at  Carson  City.

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ill  erect  a 
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has  purchased  the site  of  tbe burned-out  "  
boo
National  Bank 
building  next  spring 
a  hardware  store.

Pontiac—Perry  Weed,  proprietor  of 
tne  Wnite  Front  drug  store,  has gone  to 
j California  to  bring  home  his  wife  and 
1 daughter,  who have  been  there  for  sev- 
] €xai  months.  He  will  stay  a month.

Saalt  Sie.  Marie—R .  G.  Ferguson  druggists  by  the  prince  of  humbugs:  steps,  leading  up  into a  recess  enclosed 
For  some  time  past  the  druggists  of  on  all  sides  but  one  with  smooth  stone 
Michigan  have  been  made  the  victims  slabs  of  the  same  gray  color  as  the  en-
of  a  regular  “ skin  game.”   Lansing,  tire  edifice, 
The  door  is  an  unpreten­
Kalamazoo,  Port  Huron,  Battle  Creek, 
tious one  at  one  side  of  the  recess.  The 
have  all  been  worked  successfully,  and 
offices  are  sumptuously  finished  and fur­
operations  are on  in  Detroit  A  nicely 
nished,  the  polished  floors  covered  with 
dressed,  fine appearing  lady  goes 
into 
handsome rugs,  and  all appointments are 
a  drug  store  and  asks  for  a dozen  or 
in  perfect  harmony.  This  building  is 
more  bottles  of  Professor  Birkbolz’
connected  with  the  old  office by  a  stone 
Bald  Head  Cure  She  manages  to give 
corridor  thirty  or  forty  feet  in  length, 
the  impression  that  she  is a hair dresser 
which  is  in  same  style  as  the new build­
and  says  she  will  be  in  town  for  two 
ing,  and  is  occupied  by  business  desks, 
weeks  and  that  she  wants  the cure  de­
all  making  a  material  addition  to  the 
livered  at  a  certain  address. 
If  the 
office  room,  which  bad  become 
inade­
druggist does not  have  the cure in  stock, 
quate to  tbe  requirements  of  the  rapidly 
will  he  please  send  for  it? 
It  is  manu­
increasing  business.
factured  in  Chicago,  is Si  a  bottle  and 
has  the professor’s  picture  on  the  label.
In  every  case,  when  the  druggist under­
takes  to deliver  the goods,  he  finds  that 
e  lady has  given  a  fictitious  address, 
real  many  times  the  number given 
at  of a  vacant  lot.  One  old  bach- 
of  Detroit,  who  keeps  bouse,  was

Ailegan—0 .  R.  Johnson  has  sold  bis 
j grocery  stock  to A.  J.  Sn .’well, formerly 
|cashier  in  tbe  mercantile  establishment 
|of  the  Sherwood  5c  Griswold  Co.,  who 
I will  continue  the  business  at  tbe  same 
| location.

Detroit—Beniamin Carter,  oftfcediug 
I nr;tt  of  Holmes  &  Carter,  corner Wood- 
I ward  avenue  and  Boulevard,  was  re- 
cenily  fined  Sio  for  taking  charge  of  a 
pharmacy  without  being  a  registered

-Vlan istee—C.  A.

formerly  of j

Fred  Tui[bury,

Detroit—Stevens  k  Todd 

Sams has  severed A  £
his COI□ nection  with the  Cilty  drug  store IS  tl
and Wiill  remove  to Petoskey.  where  be 1 elor
has purchased  a  haif  interest  in  a  drus 1¡quit
siock.
i  on  his  receiving  a  dozen  of  the 
E wìen. succeeds  Mr..  Sams as  manager ]; botti
which  be  had  been  sent  to  de­
liver. 
In  Detroit,  tbe  Michigan  avenue 
druggists  were  all  victimized  and  sent 
their orders  in  to  tbe  wholesale  houses 
thick  and  fast.  The  lady  was  working 
the  Jefferson  avenue  stores  when  the 
wholesalers  “ caught  onto"  the  scheme. 
And  now  the  wholesalers  have a  lot of 
dead  stock  on  their  hands,  for  some  of 
tbe  retailers  deliberately  send  it  back 
when  they  find  they have been swindled. 
And  the  laugh 
is  on  everybody con­
cerned !

recently 
procured  a  lot  of  the  new  silver  certifi­
cates,  in  is,  25 and  5s,  and  gave  them 
out 
in  change  for all  purchases above 
50 cents.  The  is  were  in  great  demand,  j 
and 
it  was  funDy  to  see  every  one  who i 
got  bold  of  one  begin  to  hunt  imme- j 
diately  for  tbe  mis-spelled  word.

Newberry—Tbe  dormitory  and  cot- j 
tage  of  the  State  Insane  Asylum  are | 
nearing  completion,  making  the  sixth! 
J building  erected  within 
years,  j 
j There  are  now  more  than  150  inmates 
1 here.  When  the  cottage  system  is com- ] 
pleted,  it  will  form  a  hollow  square, 
j with a  park  in  the  center,  all  connected j 
j by  an  enclosed  walk,  giving  a  promen- j 
j ade  cf  more  than  half  a  mile.

two 

M anufacturing  Matters.

South  Haven—Tbe  Myhan  Leather 

Co.  succeeds  Geo.  H.  Myhan  k   Co. 
j  Menominee—The  Kenyon  Lumber 
I Co. ’s  mill  has  been  closed  on  account 
of dull  trade. 
It  may  be  started  again 
j later  in  the  season.

Detroit—Charles  Wright  &  Co.  are 
Saginaw—The  Louis  Quinnin  Lum-
I making  a  unique  exhibit  in  the  loca'
jdrug  stores  as  a  means  of  attracting  a7-  berCo-’  Dot  incorporated,  has dissolved.
Louis  Uuinnm  continues  tbe  business
terition  t< 
under  the  same sty
silts  of 
spears,  h 
Samoans 
Some  of
and  snow  wonderful  skill 
ship  on  the  part  of  the  natives.

Negaunee—The Johnson  Lumber  Co. 
is  sending  twenty-five  or thirty  men  in­
to the  woods  near  Clowry,  and  will  get 
j out  several  million  feet  of  logs  during 
the  winter.

their  headache  cure. 
It  con 
1  large  collection  of  barbaric 
iws  and  arrows  used  by  the 
and  the  Solomon 
Islanders, 
the  spears  are  ten  feet  long j
in  workman­

6 

Ontonagon—The  insurance  carried  on 
the  mills,  lumber,  mercantile  buildings 
and  general  merchandise  stock  of  the 
Diamond  Match  Co.  amounted  to S462,- 
000.  The  payment  of  losses  is  not  dis­
puted,  but  it  will  be  seve.al  weeks  be­
fore  the cash  is  paid  over  by  the  insur­
ance  companies,  as  it  will  be  necessary 
to  furnish  full  plans  of  buildings  and 
schedules of  losses  to  the  underwriters. 
The  lists  and  plans  are  now  being  pre­
pared,  and  until  the  cash  is  received 
from  tbe  policies  the  matter of  rebuild­
ing  tbe  mills  will  not  be  seriously  con­
sidered.  Some definite arrangement  for 
the  sawing  of  logs  will  be  reached prob­
ably  before  the  annual  meeting  next 
February.  This  company,  which  has 
a  number  of 
factories  turning  out 
matches  in  different  parts  of  the  coun­
try,  has depended  for  many  years  upon 
the  Ontonagon  mills  for  its  supply  of 
lumber  for  matchwood  and  boxes.  The 
wood  used  must  be  dear-stuff  pine,  a 
material  not  readily  obtained  in all pine 
districts.  The  policy  of  the  company 
has  been  to  saw  and  store  large  stocks 
of  lumber  for  possible  contingencies, 
like  that  caused  by  the  burning  of  the 
mills.  The  various  match 
factories 
have  on  hand  an  average  stock  of  kiln- 
dried  clear-stuff  pine  sufficient  for  their 
probable  requirements  for  several  years 
to  come,  notwithstanding  the  burning 
of  65,000,000  feet  of  sawed  lumber at 
this  place.

The  Morning  Market.

On  account  of  the  early  and  severe 
frosts,  the  morning  market,  in  its  more 
popular  features,  is  likely  soon  to  be  a 
thing  of  the  past.  The  peach  season 
may  be  said to  be  practically  over,  al­
though  there  are  yet  some  offerings  of 
the  latest 
varieties.  The  perishable 
vegetables,  such  as  melons,  tomatoes, 
string  beans  and  sweet  corn,  will  soon 
be  lacking.  Grapes  are  in  endless  pro­
fusion,  but  their  perishable  quality  is 
early  manifest,  and  soon  the market will 
be  narrowed  down  to  the  more  hardy 
apples,  potatoes,  cabbages,  etc.,  with 
the  usual  poultry,  butter and  eggs.

by 

anticipated 

Grapes  have  not  realized  the strength­
some  wffen 
ening 
peaches  should  be out  of  the  way,  prob­
ably  on  account  of  the  prospect  of  the 
early  closing  of  the  season,  making  it 
necessary  to  rush  them  in  too  rapidly.
in  taking 
their  place  and  have  served  to  steady 
the  market  to  a  price,  although  a  low 
one,  of  15  cents,  which  is  being  pretty 
generally asked.  There  are still consid­
erable  offerings  of  fall  fruit,  however.

Winter  apples  are  early 

Potatoes  have  not  been  as  strong  as 
was  promised  last  week,  many  offerings 
being  as  low  as  25  cents. 
is  thought
. 
, 
the. price  wil1  be  better  when  ship-
- 
ping  fairly  begins.

. -  —   —  —

It 

What are  the  most  unsociable  things 
for  you 

in  the  world?  Mile  stones, 
never see  two of  them  together.

Hudson—Bond  k   Co.,  wholesale  pro­
duce  dealers  of  this  city,  have  faded. 
Eastern  parties  will  be  the  heaviest 
losers.  The  firm  is  composed  of  G.  B. 
Bond  and  H.  E.  Loyster.  Mr.  Lovster 
has  been  in  the  East  for  several  weeks, 
endeavoring  to  sell  several 
thousand 
pounds  of  butter  the  firm  had  on  hand, 
but  was  unable  to  move 
This, 
coupled  with  a  heavy  loss  sustained  a 
few  months  ago  on  held  eggs  and  the 
inability  of  tbe  firm  to  secure  accom­
modations  at  the  bank, 
is  the  cause 
of  the  failuie.

it. 

Au  Sable—The  H.  M.  Loud  &  Sons 
| Lumber  Co.  has  suspended 
lumbering 
j operations,  owing  to  the  dull  market. 
This  company  has  given  work  to  about 
1,200  men.

Menominee—The  Peninsula  Box  k 
Lumber  Co.  has  laid  off a  large  number 
of 
its  men  who  were  constructing  tbe 
mill,  and  it  may  not  be  completed  for 
work  this  year.

is  running 

Bay  City—Tbe  Detroit  &  Mackinac 
Railroad 
trains 
from  this  city  direct  to  Alpena  over  its 
road,  which  has 
just  been  completed 
from  Emery  Junction  to  Bay  City.

regular 

its  mill  until  after 

Sagola—The  Sagola  Lumber  Co.  has 
closed 
election. 
The  manager  announces  that  if  Mc­
is  elected,  tbe  mill  will  start 
Kinley 
indefi-

closed 

nitely.

Otsego—The  Bardeen  Paper  Co.  has 
taken  possession  of  tbe  annex  to  its 
business  office,  which 
is  a  building 
worthy  of  special  notice.  At  the  point 
of  a  considerable  elevation,  some dis­
tance  from  the  old  office,  is  a  massive 
stone building  with  castellated  cornice,
which 
is  occupied  by  the  reception 
room  and  private  offices.  This  is  con- 
structed  of  gray  sandstone,  cut  rough 
on  the outside,  and  is  fitted  with  heavy 
plate glass  windows.  The  entrance 
is 
stone
unique,  consisting  of 

—  is  con

smooth 

'eo‘  *Vi’ 

Clement  has j on  delivery.  Sbe  meets  the  messenger ¡again:  if  not,  it  will  be 

Way land— H.  P.  Hudson  has  pur­
Detroit—Attempts  are  being  made  to 
chased  a  half  interest  in  the  meat  mar­
work  some  of  the  city  merchants  with 
ket  of  Geo.  McConnell.  The  new  firm
Id  trick.  A  woman  orders  goods
»*»*•».  «   vrumdu  uruers goods
will  be  known  as  McConnell  & Hudson,  sent  to a  certain  number,  to  be  paid  for

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sold  bis  store  building  to John Leaning-  when  he  brings  the  parcel,  opens  it,
ton,  who  will  complete  tbe  building 
it  up  again,  and  asks  that  it
then  ties 
and  remove  his  merchandise  stock  in­
1 be  taken  to  a  relative’s at  some other 
number.  The  second  number  is usually
■ * *  tu o n agui  u t iuc
5 r™ e ry   mai‘.?ger.  ?{the Ithat of  a  vacant  lot  or  house.  When  the 
general  store  of  the Sparrow-Kroll Lum-
, 
parcel  gets  back  to  the  store,  part  of
ber  Co.,  at  Kenton,  has  taken  a  similar  the  contents  are  missing.  The  woman 
position  with  W.  H.  Oakley,  at  Trout j who  opened  the  parcel  when  delivered
Creek.
is  also  missing 

j at  the  first  address 

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buyers j when  an  attempt  is  made  to  find  her.

Whitehall—Green  &  Norris, 

and  shippers  of  country  produce,  have 
dissolved  partnership,  each partner con­
tinuing  in  the  same  business  on his own 
account.

Detroit—The  local  correspondent  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Era  thus  describes 
an 
ingenious  swindle  which  has  been 
perpetrated  on  a  number of  Michigan

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Frederick  E.  Wilson  will  shortly  en­
gage  in  the  grocery  business  at  Alamo. 
The  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  has  the 
order  for  the  stock.

Geo.  J.  Stephenson,  who  recently pu  - 
chased  the  Menold  drug  stock  at  Fenn- 
ville,  has  added  a  line of groceries.  The 
I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

The  Retail  Grocers’  Association  has 
promulgated  a  new schedule  for  the  sale 
of granulated  sugar—5  cents  per pound ; 
five  pounds  for  25  cents;  ten  pounds  for 
50 cents;  twenty  pounds  for $1.

C.  J.  Clapp  has  exchanged  his  stock 
in  the  Ideal  Clothing  Co.  for  the  Geo. 
Avery  clothing  stock  at  Otsego,  and 
will  probably  remove  to  that  place  and 
continue  the  business  established  by 
Mr.  Avery.

Cbas.  M.  Waidelich  has  sold the meat 
market  at  59  South  Division  street  to 
Christian  Katz.  During  the  past  three 
months  this  market  has been successive­
ly  owned  and  conducted  by  Smith  & 
Waidelich,  John  Waidelich,  R.  L.  Bliss 
and  Chas.  M.  Waidelich.

“ With all  due  respect  to the employes 
of  other establishments,  I  honestly  be­
lieve  that  I  have  the  best  working  force 
local 
in  the  city,”   remarked  a  leading 
merchant  the  other  day. 
“ I  wouldn’t 
dare  tell  my people so,  however,  for,  if  I 
should  be  so 
indiscreet,  they  would 
feel  so  puffed  up  that  I  could  not  get 
any  work  out  of  them.  When  a  sales­
man  has  made  a  good  record,  by  sell­
ing  a  large  bill  or  making  an  unusually 
large  number  of  sales,  I  quietly  inform 
him  that  I  know  of  the  circumstance 
and  appreciate  the  effort  which  caused 
the  result. ’ ’

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  refiners  kept  their  prom­
ise  up  to  Saturday  night  of  last  week 
and  a  fairly  good  business  was  done 
on  the  basis  of  their  guarantee  not  to 
change  quotations,  one way or  the  other. 
Monday  morning  brought  a  decline  of 
X c  on  the  entire  list  and  the  market  is 
still  weak  and  unsettled,  with  every 
probability  of  a  further  decline  before 
many  days  shall  have  elapsed.  The  re 
finers  are  reported  to  be  considerably 
alarmed  over  the  discovery  that  depart­
ment  stores  in  New  York  and  Brooklyn 
are  offering  German  granulated  sugar 
at  such  low  prices  that  the  handlers  of 
American  refined  cannot  successfully 
compete.

Tea—There  seems  to  be  no  greater 
firmness  along  any  line  of  teas,  and  no 
change 
in  prices,  at  least  none  that 
can  be  quoted.  Brokers  are  unusually 
willing  to  submit  bids,  but  in  this  case 
it  does  not  argue  any  disposition  to 
shade  prices,  as  all  values  are  held 
firmly.  The  trade  all  around  are  buying 
tea  very  conservatively,  and  are 
likely 
to  do  so  for  some  time  to  come.

Provisions—There is not  much  change 
in  the  aggregate  marketings  of  hogs  in 
comparison  with  the  recent  past.  The 
last  week  was 
Western  total  packing 
230,000,  compared  with 
225,000  the 
185,000  for  the 
preceding  week,  and 
corresponding  time 
From 
March 
1  the  total  is  8,035,000,  against 
6,565,000  a  year  ago—an  increase  of 
i,470,occ  for  the  season  and  45,000  for 
the  week.  There  continues  to  be  evi­
dence  that  in  some  localities  there  is  a 
hastening  of  stock  into  market  in  fear 
of  losses  by  maladies.  Prices  are slight­

last  year. 

ly  higher  than  a  week  ago  in  the  aver­
age  for  prominent  markets  now  operat­
ing.  The  department  of  agriculture  es­
timate  this  month  is  that  the  number  of 
stock  hogs  in  the  country  for  fattening 
is  7  per  cent,  smaller  than  a  year  ago. 
It  will,  however,  not be believed  by  the 
trade  that  the  winter  packing  supply 
will  be  less  than  last  year. 
It  is  not  too 
much  to  say  that  the general  indica­
tions  point  to  an  increase  instead  of  a 
decrease. 
The  provision  trade  has 
shown  a  fair degree  of  life  and  activity 
the  past  week,  and  something  of  gain 
in  prices  of  product  has  resulted.  The 
distribution  has  been  liberal,  and  spec­
ulative  interest,  especially  in  new  sea­
son  deliveries,  has  been  apparently  en­
larged.  This  evidence  of  growing  con­
fidence  is  in  line  with  various  other  in­
dications  of  a  gradual  shaping  of  busi­
ness  affairs  more  favorably,  in anticipa­
tion  of  a  settlement  of  monetary  ques­
tions  in  November 
in  accordance  with 
the  understood  needs  of  the  case.  The 
week’s  exports  of  product  were  again 
of  liberal  proportions,  notably  so  of 
lard.

Cheese—While  the  market  East  has 
sustained  a  considerable  decline,  Mich­
igan 
jobbers  have  been  compelled  to 
mark  their  quotations  up  J£@ ic,  on  ac­
count  of  the  action  of  the  makers  in 
crowding  their  product  up  to  a  higher 
level.

from 

Matches—The 

story  has  been  put 
afloat  by  agents  of  the  various  inde­
pendent  match  companies,  of  which 
George  Gould’s  Continental  Match  Co. 
is  the  principal  concern,  that  the  Dia­
mond  Match  Co.  has  been  buying  up 
anti-trust  matches 
jobbers  and 
placing  them  on  the  market  again  after 
treating  them  chemically  in such a man­
ner  as  to  deprive  them  of  their  original 
value  as  promoters  of  combustion.  This 
story  is  characterized  as  really  too  silly 
for  denial  by  the  management  of  the 
Diamond  monopoly.
Molasses—There 

is  a  little  demand 
for  molasses,  although  not  as  much  as 
should  materialize  at  this  season.  A 
continuance  of  the  cooler  weather  will 
bring  a  good  molasses  trade.  The  price 
is  unchanged.  New  molasses  will  ap­
pear  about  the  middle  of October.  The 
opening  price  is  not  yet  known.

is 

Syrups—Although  the  glucose  people 
have been  endeavoring  to get  the  price 
of  their  product  up,  they  have  not  met 
much  success.  No  advance 
in  mixed 
syrup 
looked  for  at  present.  Low- 
grade  sugar  syrups  are  in  abundant sup­
ply,  and  are  being  mostly  used for man­
ufacturing  purposes.  Other  grades  of 
sugar  syrups  are  scarce  and  the  price  is 
unchanged.

R ice—Advices  from  the  South  note 
free  movement 
in  both  Charleston  and 
New  Orleans.  The  former is fractionally 
cheaper  on  medium  grades  and  com­
mands  the major patronage  to  the  North 
and  West,  as  well  as  points  closely  con­
tiguous  to  New  Orleans. 
is  quite 
evident  that  the  Carolina  planters  will 
market  their  crop  as  rapidly  as  is  con­
sistent  with  present  values,  while  those 
of  Louisiana  will  hold  back  wherever 
possible,  in  the  hope  of  securing  better 
returns 
later  on.  Foreign  styles  are 
firmly  maintained  under  good  demand 
and  light  stocks.

It 

Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  cleared 
a  carload  of  Holland  herring  through 
the  custom  house  this  week.  This  is 
the  first  ever  cleared  here  and  the  qual­
ity 
is  said  to  be  fine.  So  much  poor 
stock  has  been  thrown  on  the  American 
late  that  the  firm  were  in­
market  of 
duced  to  try  the  experiment  of 
import­
ing  direct 
in  an  effort  to  supply  the 
trade  with  better goods.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—The  shipping  demand  is  not 
very  strong,  but  sufficiently  so  to  war­
rant  dealers  paying  50c  per  bbl.  for  the 
fruit  alone,  although  handlers  are  very 
particular  as  to  the quality  and  kind  of 
stock  taken.

is  weaker, 

Butter—The  market 

if 
anything,  than  a  week  ago,  owingjto the 
freedom  with  which  receipts  are  com­
ing  in  and to  the  competition  of  butter- 
is  held  at  12c  and 
ine.  Fancy  dairy 
factory  creamery 
is  in  rather  good  de­
mand  at  about  15c.

Cabbage—$2  per hundred.
Carrots—15c  per bu.
Celery—io@i2c  per  bunch.
Cranberries—Cape  Cods  are  a 

Eggs—The  market 

little 
lower  than  a  week  ago,  commanding 
§6.50  per bbl.  and  $2.25  per bu.
is  even  stronger 
than  a  week  ago,  fancy stock command­
ing  14c,  with  every  indication  of  a  still 
higher  range  of  values  in  the  near  fu­
ture.

Egg  Plant—$1.25  per  doz.
Grapes—Concords are  in  great  abund­
ance  on  the  basis  of  5c  for  five  lb.  and 
7c  for  eight  lb.  baskets.  Catawbas  and 
Niagaras  are  a  little  stronger,  bringing 
8c  for  five  lb.  and  12c  for  eight  lb.  bas­
kets.

Peaches—Smocks  are  about  over  for 
this  season,  but  a  few  Salaways  are 
coming 
in  and  find  ready  sale  on  the 
basis  of  about  50c  per bu.  The  quality 
is  fair,  considering  the  season  and  un­
favorable  conditions 
incident  to  mar­
keting  the  fruit.
Pears—75c  per bu.
Peppers—Green,  50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—The  market  is  fairly  steady 
on  the  basis  of  2o@25c  per  bu.  The 
shipping  demand  has  not  fairly  begun 
yet,  owing  to  the  fact  that  stock  does 
not  seem  to  be  thoroughly  matured.  All 
indications  point  to  a  steady  and  satis­
factory  market,  although  just  how  much 
higher  the  price  will  go  than  the  pres­
ent  basis  is  problematical.

Quinces—75c  per  bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Illinois  and  Balti­
more  stock  fetches $1.50,  while genuine 
Jersey  stock  brings $2.25.  Most  of  the 
stock  from  Illinois  and  Baltimore  mas­
querades  as  “ Jersey,”   being so branded 
by  the  growers.

Tomatoes—25c  per  bu.

Purely  Personal.

E.  A.  Moseley  (Moseley  Bros.)  has 
returned  from  a  trip  to  New  York  and 
other  cities 
in  the  Empire  State,  oc­
cupying  about  a  fortnight.

P.  M.  Lathrop,  Manager of the Round 
and  Racked  Hoop  Co.,  has  returned 
from  Weidman,  where  he  spent  the  lat­
ter  portion  of  the  summer  season  for 
the  purpose  of  securing  immunity  from 
hay  fever.

W.  L.  Freeman  (Worden  Grocer  Co.) 
leaves  Saturday  night 
for  Freeman, 
Ont.,  where  he  will  spend  a  couple  of 
weeks  with  the  friends  of  his  boyhood. 
He  will  be  accompanied  by  his  wife 
and  daughter.

The  career of  H.  A.  Daniels,  the well- 
known  Otsego  dealer,  is  so  unusual  that 
it  is  worthy  of  note.  Up  to  eight  years 
ago  he  was  a  common  laborer,  his 
last 
employment  being  that  of  coal shoveler. 
Tiring  of  this  avocation,  he  tried  his 
hand  at  selling  goods.  His  original 
capital  was  $4.50  and  his  sales  were 
made  from  a  market  basket.  A  year 
later  he  had  realized  enough  so  that  he 
could  carry  out  his  ambition  of  opening 
a  store,  although,  of  course,  in  a  very 
humble  way.  After  four  years  his busi­
ness  had  grown  so  that  a  removal  to 
larger  quarters  became  necessary.  The 
continued 
these  too 
straitened  and  at  the  beginning  of  this 
year  he  removed  again,  this  time 
into 
stone  and  brick 
the  newly-finished 
building  which 
is  the  finest  business 
block 
in  the  town.  Mr.  Daniels  has 
been  a  reader  of  the  Tradesman  most 
of  the  time  since  going  into  trade,  and 
he  is  kind  enough  to  say  that  he  has

growth  made 

practical 
than 

instruction 
received  m ore 
from 
from  all  other 
its  pages 
sources  com bined  and  that  he  attributes 
his  success  largely  to  its  aid.
The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  been  booming  during  the 
past  week—an  old-fashioned  bull  move­
ment,  with  no 
intermissions  of  note. 
There  were  several  small  setbacks,  but 
the  market  continued  to  advance  until 
now  cash  wheat  is  fully  6c  higher and 
futures  SHC  higher.  We  might  say  that 
wheat  has  advanced  fully  10c per bushel 
during  the 
last  two  weeks.  The  re­
ceipts  in  the  Northwest  have  fallen  off. 
The  exports  have  been  very  large  and, 
while  the  visible 
increase  was  very 
large  last  week,  it  decreased  940,000 
bushels  this  week —something  unusual 
for  this  time  of  the  year—yet  there 
is 
room  for  further  advances.  One  thing 
must  not  be  lost  sight  of  and  that 
is,  a 
loc  advance 
is  about  enough  for  the 
present,  as  we  are  about  4c  above  the 
export  basis.  The  wheat  that  is  going 
out  now  was bought far below the present 
prices.  The  writer  thinks  a  setback 
would  be  in  order  for  the present.  How­
ever,  the  decline  may  not  come.

Corn  and  oats  also  show  the  effect  of 
the advance  in  wheat  and  both  cereals 
advanced  about  2c  per  bushel  since  our 
last  report.  Let  the  good  work  go  on !
The  receipts  were:  wheat,  39  cars; 

corn,  5  cars;  oats,  8  cars.

T he  m ills  are  running  steady  at  pres­
ent,  as 
the.  dem and  for  flour  is  good. 
M illers  are  paying  64c  for  wheat  in  this 
m arket. 

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

Flour  and  Feed.

Flour  markets  have  been  very  strong 
throughout  the  week  and,  while  prices 
have  not  followed  the  full  advance  in 
wheat,  still  there  has  been  no  cause  for 
compaint.  The  volume  of  business  has 
been  fairly  satisfactory.

Owing  to  higher  ocean  freight  rates 
and  the  rapid  advance  of  wheat,  for­
eign  trade  has  dropped  off  somewhat, 
but  there  are  plenty  of  enquiries,  and 
as  soon  as  the  market  becomes  settled 
we  anticipate  a  larger  volume  of  busi­
ness.

There  has  been  a  fair  demand  for 
millstuffs  and  prices  have  advanced 
in 
the  Eastern  markets  from  20@40  cents 
feed  trade  con­
per  ton.  The  ground 
tinues  quiet,  prices 
remaining  un­
changed  for  the  week.  The  following 
notice,  clipped  from  a  Western  journal, 
would 
for  corn 
have  dropped,  even  below  a  fuel  basis :
from  Mason  City,  la., 
says:  The  Buffalo  (Winnebago  county) 
school  board  have  passed  a  resolution to 
use  corn  for  feul  this  winter.  Ten  cent 
corn  they  regard  as  cheaper  than  coal. 
To  them 
it  means  a  reduction  of  one- 
half  their  fuel  bill,  providing  corn  does 
not advance  in  price.

indicate  that  prices 

A  telegram 

W m.  N.  Rowe.

Bargains  in  Prints.

For  this  week  only  we  will  sell 
American 
Indigo  Prints at 4c ;  Amer­
ican  Shirting  Prints  at  3>£c;  Central 
Park  Shirting  Prints  at  3'4c,  and  Lodi 
Shirting  Prints  at  3X C-  These  goods 
all  advance  %c  Oct.  5.  All  orders  must 
be  in  the  house  by  Oct.  3.

funeral  of  a  workingman 

P.  St e k e t e e  &  Sons, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
in 
Japan  costs  83  cents,  unless  the  family 
wishes  to  have  it  especially  fine,  when 
it  will  cost  as  much  as  $1.25.  The 
price  of  a  coffin 
is  20  cents,  and  the 
rate  for  cremation  is  from  40  to  75 
cents.  Refreshments  figure  up  from  11 
to  25  cents.

The 

G illies’  New  York  Teas,  all  kinds, 
j grades and prices.  Phone  1589.  Visner.

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Getting  the  People
Now  for  a  Vigorous Advertising Cam­

paign.

On  every  side  are  unmistakable  evi­
dences  that  the  returning  wave  of  pros­
perity  is  coming  this  way  and  that,  be­
fore  another  year  shall  have 
rolled 
around,  we  will  all  be  so  engrossed  in 
the  prosperity  of  the  present  that  we 
will  have  little  time  to  brood  over  the 
four  years  of  depression  which  are  now 
drawing  to  a  close,  during  which  time 
the business  man  who  has  held  his  own 
is  a  decided  exception  to  the  general 
rule.  The  only  thing  which  can  stay 
the.  tide  of  prosperity 
is  the  possible 
election  of  Mr.  Bryan,  which  even  the 
most  conservative  Democrats  concede 
would  unsettle  matters 
for  several 
months,  although  they  believe  that, 
the  end,  disaster  and  uncertainty  would 
be  succeeded  by unexampled prosperity. 
In  any  event  the  time  is  ripe  for a  re­
sumption  of  advertising  on  a  more  ex­
tended  scale  than  has been  the  rule  for 
some  tim e; and  I,  therefore,  resume the 
department  which  has  been  permitted 
to  languish  during  the  summer  season, 
fully  convinced  that  the  points  I  have 
picked  up  and  the  ideas  I  have  assimi­
lated  during  the  summer  can  be utilized 
to  excellent  advantage 
in  succeeding 
issues  of  the  Tradesman.
*  *  *

I  find  the  following  sample  advertise­
ments—several  of  which  are excellent in 
their  way—in  a  recent 
issue  of  the 
Manistee  News:

W E  ARE  NOT 
THROWING  DIRT

In anybody's eyes when we crack 
up  our  line  of stoves.  Cooking 
stoves, ranges and heating stoves 
are  needed  right  now  and  you 
will  find  that  our  line  of  these 
household  commodities will  last 
the 
is  the  most 
easily bandied of any in the mar­
ket.  As the now  famous  “Chim- 
mie  Fadden”  says  when  he  is 
giving  extremely  high  praise, 
“They're up to the limit of perfec­
tion.”

longest  and 

E.  R.  W ELSH .

When  You  See

anything  in  the  medicine  line 
advertised  and  take  a  notion 
you would like to try it. remem­
ber yon can find it at our store. 
If  it  should  happen,  which  is 
a rare thing, that we haven't it, 
we  will eet it for you.  It is our 
aim to please.

W .  R .  H A L L ,

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At any man coming out of out
store and  you'll get a portrait
of a man brimming over with 
pleasant thoughts.
CHAS.  E.  NUNOESSER,

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THERE  IS 
A  SAFETY  LINE

in shoe a store as there is in bridges 
or  on  ice—a  price  below  which 
that  store  is  not  safe.  Yon  will 
find  it  safe  to  buy  shoes of us be­
cause we will not  lower our stand­
ard  of quality to  get  a  low  price. 
We don’t do it; rather let  someone 
else  sell trashy,  paper-soled  shoes.
393 River Street.

JOHN  HANSEN,

WE  ARE  HEADQUARTERS  FOR

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We  import  them  direct  from  Holland. 
Just received a carload  and  the  quality  is 
the  very finest  and  we make prices lower, 
freight considered,  than New  York.  The 
Holland  Herring  trade  has  been  nearly 
ruined  by  the  cheap  grade  of fish which 
has  been  thrown  on  the  market  the  last 
year  or  so,  but  there  are just as good fish 
caught  as  there  ever  were  and  we  shall 
handle only  the  finest.  Please  give  us  a 
trial  order  and  we  guarantee  both  price 
and fish will please you.

WATCH  THE 
PENNIES.....

The  frugal  person  always  watches 
the  pennies;  the  dollars  are  being 
credited  with  being  able  to  care for 
themselves.  At any rate they do it at 
our  store,  where 
the  purchasing 
power  is  greater  than  ever  before. 
It’s beating stoves just now—the cold 
weather is coming on  and  we  can  fit 
out  any home  with  a heating  stove. 
Our stock, just received  is extensive.
OTTO  ROSENFELD.

I

M.  B.  Franklin,  who  prides  himself 
on  the  fact  that  he  has  read  every  issue 
of  the  Tradesman,  writes  me  as  follows 
from  Thompsonville,  where  he 
is  now 
engaged  in  trade:

Referring  to  your  article  on  page  10 
of  your  issue  of  Sept.  23  by  W.  H.  Nor­
man 
in  Printers’  Ink,  I  think  the  ad­
vice  good,  but  “ what  is  sauce  for  the 
goose  is  sauce  for  the  gander. ’ ’
Take back everything your customers are  dis 
pleased with, no matter what the reason.  There's 
one  way  to  do  this  and  make  your  customer 
twice  vour  friend,  and  there's  another  that 
makes her feel what a disagreeable man you are. 
Be sure you do it the right way.

What 

is  the  matter  with  asking  the 
wholesale  dealer  to  follow  this  rule? 
Let  a  retailer  insist  on  this  point,  when 
goods  are  not  as  represented,  and notice 
the  result.

*  #  *

issues  of 

length—and 

“ Comparisons  are  odious’ ’  and 

I 
would  prefer  not  to  discuss  under  this 
head  the question  of  returning  goods  to 
the  jobber,  as  I  am  already  on  record on 
that subject,  which  has  been  discussed 
considerable 
at  much 
warmth—in  previous 
the 
Tradesman.  A  subject  which  is  grad­
ually  forging  its  way  to  the  front,  how­
ever,  is  the  desirability  of  the  retailer 
advertising  to  refund  the  purchase price 
where goods  are  found  to  be  unsatisfac­
tory. 
The  Morse  department  store, 
which  has  recently  enlarged  its  grocery 
department,  announces  that 
it  will  re­
fund  the  money  for  groceries  not  satis­
factory  to  purchasers,  and  a  neighbor 
of  the  Tradesman  in  the  Blodgett build­
ing  is  carrying  the  following  announce­
ment  in  the  daily  papers :
RAPIDS ►furniture exposition*

GRAND

When you get goods home, if  you  are  not  satis- 
ied  or  fully  convinced  they  are 25 per cent, better 
alue than von can buy elsewhere, we will call and 
jet them and refund your money.
C a r l e s   P   l i m b e r T &   (o . 
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B lo d g e tt  B ld g , dttawasl

This  policy  has  been  pursued  by  New 
York  and  Chicago  houses  for  several 
months,  with  very  satisfactory  results, 
as  experience  has  demonstrated  that  the 
annoyance  and  loss  incident  to  the  re­
turn  of  goods  found  to  be  unsatisfactory 
are  more  than  compensated  for  by  the 
advertising  advantage  secured  thereby. 
I  should  like  to  hear  from  retail  dealers 
who  have  given  this  plan  a  trial, 
whether  the  outcome  was  satisfactory  or 
unsatisfactory. 

E.  A.  Stowe.

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Transportation

Experiments  in  the  Making  of  Bicycle 

Paths.
Written for the Tradesman.

The  bicycle  is  now  so  universal,  and 
has  such  an  appearance  of  stability  as 
an  article  of  trade  manufacture and use, 
that  it  is  difficult  to  realize  that  it  is  so 
new an  institution. 
It  is  difficult  to  re­
alize  that  its  place  is  yet  scarcely estab • 
its  economic  value  is 
lished  and  that 
yet  to be  determined.  That 
it  is  to  be 
of  vast  importance  is  sufficiently  recog­
nized,  and 
in  questions  of  street  and 
highway improvement  its  claims  are  re­
ceiving  recognition.

So  recently  as  last  year  the  efficiency 
of  the  wheel  in  preparing  its  own  way, 
when  given  an  opportunity,  was  a  mat­
ter of  curiosity.  The  number employed 
for  purposes  of  transportation  and  the 
regularity  of  their  use  had  only  then 
become  sufficient, 
in  most  localities, 
for  the  fact  to  be  noticed  that  paths 
were  quickly 
improved  in  smoothness 
and  solidity  wherever  they  passed  in 
considerable  numbers.  The  doubling  of 
their  number  and  the  much  more  than 
doubling  their  use  the  present  season 
have  demonstrated  that  they  will  effec­
tually  prepare  their  own  way  when  the 
conditions  are  such  that  they can pass at 
all. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  the quick­
ness  with  which  a  path  is  made  along 
the  muddy  gravel  streets  after  a  rain. 
The  wheels  seem  to  drive  the  moisture 
away  and  they  press  the  earth  into  a 
hard,  smooth  track  with  astonishing 
quickness.  And  in  country  ways  where 
they  are  used  on  the  sidepaths  these  are 
hardened  so  that  they  become  almost 
impervious  to  moisture  and  so  are  little 
affected  by  bad  weather.

But  the  newness  of  the  wheel  makes 
the  question  of  preparing  its  way  still  a 
new  one,  and  one  still  subject  to  ex­
periment. 
It  is  not  long since attention 
began  to  be  diverted  from  the  problem 
of  improving  the  entire  highway  to  that 
of  making  paths  for  the  particular  use 
of  the  wheel,  and  incidentally  of  course 
for  the  use  of  pedestrians.  A  number 
of  such  paths,  intended  principally  for 
pleasure  riding,  have  been  built,  con­
necting  towns  of considerable size ;  and, 
where  money  enough  can  be  afforded 
for  such  a  purpose,  they  are  doubtlessly 
practical  and  worth  while.  But  still,
I  say,  they  are  largely  experimental.

Instead  of  securing  data,  estimating 
cost  and  so  knowing  just  what  would  be 
accomplished,  work  was  begun  and  the 
means  used  up  in  paralleling  an  excel­
is  still  being 
lent  gravel  road,  which 
used  instead  of  the  new  and 
imperfect 
path,  which  seems  likely  to  become  a 
monument  to  the  folly  of  the  local  club 
management.

The  securing  of  bicycle  paths  ade­
quate  for  all  purposes  of  business  and 
most  pleasure  transportation  is  a  very 
inexpensive  undertaking;  but  such  a 
way  is  not  sufficient  for  the  ambition  of 
sporting  wheelmen  who  wish  to  use  it 
for  a  speeding  or  “ scorching”   track, 
and  so  must  have  room  to  pass  at  ut­
most  speed,  or  for  those  riding 
in  a 
more  social  way,  who  must  be  accom­
modated  two  abreast.  This  would  all 
be  very  nice,  of  course,  but those  un­
dertaking  such  works  must  count  the 
cost.  A  path  amply  sufficient  for  or­
dinary  purposes  of  transit  can  be  made 
very  cheaply,  and  will  keep  in  perfect 
repair  for  an  indefinite  time  if  not  dis­
turbed  by  the  road-worker’ s  plow  or 
other  accidental  destroyer. 
It  is  only 
necessary  to  remove  the  soft,  pervious 
material  with  a  couple  of  plow  furrows 
and  fill 
in  with  any  suitable  gravel, 
cinder  or  other  material  which  will 
pack  and  resist  moisture,  roll  or  smooth 
it  will  be  passable  and 
the  surface  so 
the  wheel  “ will  do  the  rest.”  
If  the 
enterprise  referred  to  had  been  under­
taken  on  some  such  scale,  there  is  no 
reason  why  a  sufficient  path  for  all  but 
the  most  luxurious  needs might not have 
been 
in  operation  all  the  way  to  the 
Lake.

But,  as  I  said  at  the  beginning,  b i­
cycle  paths  are  still  an  experiment. 
In 
older  and  more  thickly  settled  localities 
the  wheel 
is  working  out  the  problem 
for  itself.  Recent  trips  in  such  locali­
ties  have  surprised  me  with  the  effect­
iveness  with  which 
it  is  doing  this. 
Very  many  of  the  Southern  Michigan 
towns  are  connected  by  paths  which 
cannot  be  excelled  for  smoothness,  and 
most  of  them  are  the  unaided  work  of 
the  wheel. 

N a t e.

Some  Foundations  of  Success.
Lunby  Foot,  the  Dublin  tobacconist, 
laid  the' beginning  of  his fortune by say­
ing  to  each  dirty,ragged  little  girl,as he 
handed  her  the  penny-worth  of  snuff she 
had  asked  for,  “ Thank  you,  my  dear, 
please  come  again.”   The  largest  re­
tail  grocery  business 
in  Boston  was 
built  up  by  the  founder’s  rule  to  his 
salesmen:  “ Treat  every  servant  girl 
as  you  would  her  mistress  if  she  were 
buying.” _____ _____ ______

A  C L E V E R   MERCHANT

A  good  place  for  the increase of crime 
is  where  criminals  get  more  sympathy 
than  censure.

A  notable  experiment  in  the direction 
of  building  such  a  path  is  the  under­
taking  to  connect  this  city  and  Grand 
Haven.  With  the  usual  improvidence 
of  the  American  people  in  undertaking 
most  public  enterprises  of  this  charac­
ter,  this  was  begun  as  a  pure  experi­
ment  and  without  adequate  prepara­
tion.  A  quantity  of  money  was  raised 
by  the  local  club  and,  without  any 
proper  estimates  or  contracts,  work  was 
begun  to  use  it  up.  The  route  selected 
parallels  a  good  gravel  road  for  a  dis 
tance  of  six  or  seven  miles.  But,  ig­
noring  this,  probably  with  a  view  to 
thoroughness  in  their  undertaking,  the 
projectors  began  at  this  city  and  have 
their  work  about  completed  to  the  end 
of  the  gravel  road,  and  I  believe  there 
is  a  detached  mile  or  so  built  some  dis­
tance  beyond.  This  has  used  up  the  two 
or  three  thousand  dollars  raised  for  the 
enterprise,  and,  unfortunately,  leaves  it 
accomplished 
for  so  short  a  distance 
that  it  is  impossible  to  secure  the  aid 
of  the  towns  along  the  way,  which  was 
depended  upon 
its  continuance. 
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This  is  characteristic  of  the  manner 
in
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will not allow an  advertisement  relative  to  the 
K  oils he handles to pass unnoticed.
What  is  more  profitable  to  a  grocer  than  a 
rapid grow th of his Tea  trade?  This can  be  at­
tained by purchasing where  teas  have  been  ju­
diciously blended by an expert.  The  results  of 
properly blending are that a tea  is  produced  of 
liner quality at lower cost.  In bidding for  your 
trade we are willing to  give  you  the  benefit  of 
hte extra profit. 
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Our current advertisements brought us a large 
number of inquries  through  which  we  effected 
many sales,  which  demonstrates  that  our mer­
chants are strictly up to date and always willing 
to  Investigate  to  better  their  condition.  Are 
vou one of them?  If not, why not?  Our  blends 
have  proved 
themselves  winners  wherever
piacedo^  ^   gtm  <joubtful  we  will  prepay 
freight  and  send  goods  on  approval,  permit­
ting you to return them if unsatisfactory to you. 
We also  send  absolutely  free  with  first  order 
(only) of 100 pounds one very handsome counter 
canister,  100 pound  size  bevelled  edge  mirror 
front, worth fully  *6.00.  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-
gale Dealer in High Grade Coffees.

for 

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PLUG AND FINE CUT

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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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Pollipg  by

A  decided  reaction  has  taken  place throughout the 
United  States  during  the  past  ten  days.  Business  has 
revived,  causing  a  better  feeling  in  business  circles.
Flour  and  provisions  have  advanced  and  have a strong 
upward  tendency.

We  all  hope that we have  reached the turning point 
and will have smoother sailing  from  this  on.  Our  busi­
ness has  been good, especially in teas.

We  claim  to  be  headquarters  for  Japan  teas  of  all 
grades.  We  are  just  in  receipt  of  our  third  carload  of 
this season’s teas.  We  can  show splendid value for  14/4 
cents up to  19 cents for leaf, and 6 to  9  cents  upon  dust, 
bulk and package.

W e offer  as  a  flyer  this  w e e k — one  carload  of  our 
best  M innesota  P atent  F lour  at  $3.75  per barrel.  Cash 
in  current exchange with order.

The  Jajnes Stewart Co,

LIMITED,

Saginaw,  E.  S.,  Michigan.

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WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 30,1896.

there 

REASONS  FOR  IMPROVEMENT.
While  it  cannot  be  said  that  the coun­
is  threatened  with  an  anti-eiectijn 
try 
is  no  question  that  a 
boom, 
healthy  recovery  of  business  and  a  re­
turn  to  normal conditions have fairly be­
gun.  This  seems  to  be  the  result  of a 
variety  of  causes  which  have  aided  the 
return  of  that  most  essential  adjunct  of 
trade—confidence.

The  first  of  these,  perhaps,  is  the 
great  profusion  of  farm  products  in  all 
parts  of  the  country.  This  does  not 
mean  that  everything  has  been  raised 
everywhere with  uniform abundance,  but 
most  products  are  plentiful  and  those 
which  are  not  in  certain  localities  serve 
to  create  a  market  and  cause  a  move­
ment  to  aid  transportation.  Altogether, 
the  harvests  are  in  a  healthy  condition 
and 
it  only  needed  the  loosening  of 
money  to  help  the  farmer  to  realize  and 
start  the  wheels  of  retail,  and  so  of 
jobbing,  trade.

largely 

Perhaps  the  next  factor  of 

impor­
tance,  although  it  may  he  overlooked  in 
the  consideration  of  nearer  and  more 
engrossing  interests,  is  the foreign trade 
of  the  country.  The 
increase  of  ex­
ports  during  the  past  year  has  been  so 
gradual  that  it  almost  escaped  notice, 
and  when  the  balance  of  trade  had  be­
come  so 
in  our  favor  that  the 
tide  of  gold  began  to  set  in  this  direc­
tion,  it  took  the  country  by  surprise 
and  many  sought  to  find  an  explanation 
of  the  phenomenon  in  the  operations  of 
a  syndicate  of  bankers.  Those  who  had 
watched  the  situation  more  closely  at­
tributed 
it  to  the  right  cause,  which 
time  has  demonstrated.  The  extent  and 
inflow,  however,  have 
duration  of  the 
It  has 
been  a  matter  of  surprise  to  all. 
operated  to  raise  money 
rates  and 
create  some  disturbance 
in  England, 
but  has  had  a  reassuring  effect  in  all 
ways  in  this  country.

influence 

The  more  favorable  outlook 

in  the 
political  situation  being  a  matter  more 
constantly  in  the  public  mind,  has,  un­
doubtedly,  gained  more  credit  for  thé 
improvement  than  it  deserves,  although 
in  the  restoration  of  con­
its 
fidence  has  been  considerable. 
The 
assurance  that  conservative  principles 
will  govern 
in  the  management  of 
finance  and  the  currency  has  had  a  ma­
terial 
its  effect  is  mani­
fest.

increase  and 

Then,  in  the  natural  course  of  things, 
trade  could  not  always  wait.  During 
the  depression  there  has  been  a  con-

| stant  accumulation  of  demand  some­
in  the 
time  to  be  satisfied.  Stocks 
hands  of  dealers  and  supplies 
in  those 
of  consumers  were  reduced  to  the  low­
est  point,  waiting  only  the  restoration 
of  confidence  to  require  replenishment. 
This  is  a  sufficient  reason  why  the  pen­
dulum  of  trade  conditions  has  so  great 
a  swing.

In the opinion  of  the  Tradesman  these 
are  sufficient  reasons  why an  early  and 
in  trade  and  industry 
decided  revival 
may  be  counted  upon. 
If  the  return  is 
gradual,  and even slow,  it may be for  the 
best  in  the  permanence  of  the  improved 
conditions.

During  the  three  years  since 

SETBACK  FOR  MANUAL TRAINING 
the 
panic  began,  the question  of  a  manua 
training  school  has  been  held 
in  abey 
ance  by  the  Grand  Rapids  Board  of 
Education  on  account  of  the  financia 
depression.  The  movement,  at  the  time 
of  the  panic,  had  assumed  some  prom 
inence,  committees  having  visited  the 
schools  of other cities  and  reported  up 
on  their  operation  and  an  appropriation 
was asked  for  and  even  allowed,  to  be 
gin  the  undertaking.  The  panic,  how 
ever,  called  a  halt  and  nothing  was 
done.  Recently  the  improved  political 
and  financial  outlook  has  led  the  Board 
which  is  rather  an  optimistic  body,  to 
take  the  matter  up  again. 
Trustee 
Tower,  who  has  long  been  an enthusiast 
on  the  subject,  was  made  chairman  of 
the committee  and  an  appropriation  of 
S5,ooo  was asked  for  and  recommended 
by  the  Board  as  a  starter for the project 
This,  however,  came  to  grief 
in  the 
Council  after a  sharp  fight,  the  leaders 
of  the  opposition  being  prompted  in 
their  action  by  a  commendable  desire 
for  economy  and  a  less  commendable 
disinclination  to  extend  the  work  of  ed 
ucation  in  that  direction.

It 

is  the  opinion  of  the  Tradesman 
indicates 
that  the  action  of  the  Council 
an  economy  which  will  eventually result 
in  great  loss  to  the  city.  There  may  be 
directions  in  which  the  work  of  educa 
is  too  much  extended,  as,  for  in 
tion 
the  great  variety  and  elabo 
stance, 
ration  of  the  high  school  courses. 
It  is 
possible  that  trimming  and  restriction 
in  this  direction  might  be  in  the  inter 
est of  true  economy  and  not  be  deroga 
tory  to  the  best  interests  of  the  school 
system, but manual  training  has  become 
positive  and  essential  a  factor  in 
manufacturing  communities  that  it  can 
no  longer be  ignored  with  impunity.

The  relative  condition  of  Germany 
and  England  affords  an  instructive  les­
son  on  this  subject.  The  former  coun­
try,  as  is  well  known,  has  led  in modern 
technical  and  manual  education.  This 
is,  undoubtedly,  the  explanation  of  the 
is  now  disputing  the  in­
fact  that  she 
dustrial,  if  not  the 
commercial,  su­
premacy  of  England  in  many  parts  of 
the  world.

Then 

it  would  be  well  for  our  city 
government  to  consider  what  is  being 
done  in  other  cities  in  this  country 
in 
that  direction. 
In  this,  as  in  so  many 
other  ways,  there  seems  to  be  a disposi­
tion  to  work  everything  out  by  inde­
pendent  experiment,  regardless  of  the 
experience  of  others. 
In  our most  suc­
cessful  industrial  centers  manual  train­
ing  has been already largely undertaken, 
and  a  city 
like  Grand  Rapids,  whose 
hope  of  prosperity  depends  upon  her 
artisans,  can  ill  afford  to  be  the  last  to 
undertake  this  most  practical  of  all 
branches  of  education,  especially  when 
its  system 
is  overloaded  with  the  less 
practical.

THE  TRADE  SITUATION.

The  general 

improvement  in  trade 
noted  during  the  past  two  or  three 
weeks,  continues at  an  increased  ratio, 
While  the  return  of  confidence  is  very 
gradual,  it 
is  steady,  and  has  already 
been  sufficient  to  show  decided  im 
provement  on  every  hand.  Even  con 
sumptive  demand,  which  is  the  slowest 
to  respond,  is  finally  becoming  appar 
ent.  Works  in  most  industries  are  re 
suming  and  speculative  buying  is large 
ly 
increased.  The  movement  of  gold 
towards  this  country  has  reached  $40, 
000,000and continues without abatement 
notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the  Bank 
of  England  rate  has  been  advanced  to 
3  per  cent.  All  indications  lead  to  the 
belief  that  the  era  of  depression 
gradually  passing  away,  and  that  prices 
on  farm  products  have  touched  the  low 
est  point.

is  some 

The  encouraging  demand  for  wool 
continues  without  abatement,  sales  for 
the  month  exceeding  those  for  the  cor 
responding  time  last  year.  Much  of  the 
increased  demand  is the result of foreign 
buying,  although  there 
im 
provement 
in  the  demand  for  woolen 
goods  and  mills  are  starting  up  on  the 
improved  outlook  for  heavy  goods.  Cot 
ton  prices  have  not  changed  materially 
but  there  has  been  a  further advance  in 
manufactured  products,  based  on  im­
proved  demand.  The  number  of  mills 
in­
resuming  operation 
creasing.  Hides  continue 
firm  and 
leather has  shared  in  the  advance.

is  constantly 

While  the  movement  in  iron  and 

its 
products  is  still  conservative,  the  gain 
is  decidedy  apparent.  The  gain  will, 
doubtless,  be  aided  by  the  award  of 
contracts  for  three  new  battle  ships, 
and,  aside  from  this,  there  have  been 
a  number  of  good  contracts  placed,  all 
having  the effect  of  starting  up  a  num­
ber  of  works.  Minor  metals  are  gen­
erally  reported  weaker.

The  financial  and  stock  markets  show 
as  positive  gain  as  do  other  lines of 
trade,  resulting 
improved  demand 
for  bonds  and  other  investment  securi- 
ies.  The 
is 
slow  and  many  lines  seem  reluctant  to 
respond.

improvement,  however, 

in 

Failures  for  the  week  were  321,  as 
compared  with  315  for  the  preceding 
week.  Bank  clearings  show  a  falling 
off  again  of  5  per  cent.,  amounting  to 
;833,ooo,ooo.

At  the  recent  convention  of  the Amer- 
can  Pharmaceutical  Association,  held 
at  Montreal,  H.  B.  Mason  read  a  paper 
on  the  subject  of  “ State  Board  of  Phar­
macy  Examinations,”   in  which  he  as­
serted  that  he  had  received  full  and  de­
tailed  reports  from  nineteen  organiza- 
ions,  which  had  been  carefully  gone 
over by  himself and  his  associates,  and 
unit  of  valuation  arrived  at  after 
much  labor.  By  this  method  of  valua- 
ion,  the  Michigan  Board  stood highest, 
with  a  mark  of  500;  Colorado,  with 450; 
Wisconsin,  335 ;  Minnesota,  265 ;  Ten­
nessee  (being  the  lowest),  225.  The 
outcome of  the  investigation 
is,  natur­
ally,  very gratifying  to  the  members  of 
the  Michigan  Board,  who  have 
re­
ceived  many  congratulations  from  all 
ides  over  the  showing.

It  is  intimated  that  an  active  crusade 
will  shortly  be 
inaugurated  to  secure 
lower  rates  for  the  carrying  of  packages 
by  mail.  Not  a  great  deal  has  been 
said  about  the  matter in the newspapers, 
but  lower  rates  on  merchandise  will  be 
n  the  interest  of  the  big  store  keepers, 
and  not,  therefore,  in  the 
interest  of 
merchants  generally.

include  nearly  all 

At  last  the  great  miners’  strike 

in 
Leadville,  which has  kept  that  city  in  a 
state  of  turmoil  with  riots  and  incen­
diarism,  involving  considerable 
loss  of 
life  and  heavy  destruction  of  property 
by  dynamite and fire,  is  said  to be ended 
by  the  union  men  withdrawing  their 
demands.  The  strike  was  the  imme­
diate  outcome  of  increased  activity 
in 
the organization  of  the  workmen  by  the 
Western  Federation  of  Miners,  which 
was  made  to 
the 
mine  workers in the locality.  In  further­
ance  of  the  fundamental  principle  of 
unionism—that all  workmen  shall  be  on 
the same  level  as  to  wages—the  demand 
which  led  to  the  strike  was  made  that 
the  surface  workmen,  who  were  receiv­
ing  $2.50  per  day,  should be advanced to 
S3  per  day,  the  same  as  paid  to  those 
below.  Rather  than  accede  to  such  a 
demand,  which they considered arbitrary 
and  unreasonable,  nearly  all  the  mines 
closed  down,  some  even  suffering  great 
damage 
the 
pumps.  Thus  ensue  the  usual  conse­
quences  of  the  unreasoning  aggressions 
of  unionism—workmen  striving  to  se­
cure  their  old  places  at  the  same wages, 
struggling  to  displace  those  employed 
their  stead  during  the  strike,  with 
operations  largely  suspended  by  the  de­
struction  of  the  works  and  the  flooding 
of  the  mines.  Surely  the  most  bitter 
enemy  of  the best  interests  of  the  work­
men  is  the blind  infatuation  of  union­
ism,  which  invariably  lures  the  worker 
to  disaster and  destruction.  The 
later 
ndications  are  that  the  unions  will  re­
pudiate  the  action  taken  to  return  to 
work,  and  so  renew  the  hopeless  and 
destructive  struggle.

from  the  stoppage  of 

The  Common  Council  is  overwhelmi­
ng  itself  with  congratulations  over  the 
final  accomplishment  of  the  sale  of  the 
market  bonds,  which  have  been  passed 
from  hand  to  hand  of  the  bidders  dur- 
ng  the  past  five  or  six  months.  During 
this  time  the  era  of  financial  depression 
and  political  uncertainty  has  made  it 
practically  impossible  to  place  munici­
pal  bonds,  and  thus  the  question  of 
holding  the  bidders  to  their  proposition 
was  a  serious  one.  Had  the  duties  of 
the  officials  who  advertised  for  the  bids 
been  properly  performed  in  the require­
ment of  a  deposit,  there  would  not  have 
been  any  delay  and  uncertainty,  even 
f  the  bonds  had  not  sold  for  a  better 
figure  than  is  finally  realized.

The  life  of  a  traveling  man  is  both 
hard  and  dangerous.  He  sells  goods  all 
day  and  rides  all  night,  while  an  acci­
dent  may  kill  or  cripple  him,  exposure 
may  develop  sickness,  or 
ill-cooked 
food  may  make  him  a  dyspeptic.  Be- 
ides  all  this,  he  is  assailed  by  tempta­
tions  which  would  be  powerless  amid 
the  restraints  of  home.  He 
is  to  be 
if  he  quits  the  road  as 
congratulated 
pure  and  strong  as  when  he  went on. 
Many  do,  and,  what’s  more,  develop 
Christian  character  while  exposed  to 
the  vicissitudes  and  temptations  of  a 
commercial  traveler’s  life.

is 

The  right  amount  of  talk  to  make  a 
sale  to  a  customer 
just  such  an 
amount  as  that  particular customer  re­
quires! 
If  some men on  the  road  would 
only  remember  that  they  are  sent  out  to 
talk  about  business,  and  not  to  write for 
comic  papers,  it  would  be  much  better 
for  themselves  and  the  house  they  rep­
resent. 
The  wide-awake  commercial 
tourist  always  uses  plain,  good,  com­
mon.  sense  expressions  and  not  long- 
drawn-out  jokes  to  effect  a  sale.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

GRAND  RAPIDS  STREETS.

learning 

In  the  crudeness  of  the  new  w*ays  of 
doing  things  incident  to  the 
inexperi­
ence  of  new  cities  and  towns,  it  might 
not  be  thought  strange,  perhaps,  that 
there  should  be  a  lack  of  method  or  or­
ganized  system,  which  results  in serious 
wastefulness  and  frequently  works  hard­
ship  to  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
people;  yet  enquiry  is  suggested  as  the 
reason  why  these  cities  do  not  profit 
more  by  the  experience  of  older  com­
munities, 
them  and 
adopting  the  methods  which  have  been 
tried  and  found  the  best.  There  seems 
to  be a  spirit  of  independence  in  these 
newer  towns  which  prompts  them  to 
work  out  all  the  problems  of  municipal 
improvement  for  themselves,  a  spirit 
commendable  in  certain  directions  but 
to  be  deprecated  when  it  involves  un­
necessary waste of time,  money and  con­
venience 
in  experimenting  again  and 
again with the  problems of  improvement 
enterprises  which  have  already  been 
demonstrated.

from 

The  streets  of  Grand  Rapids  are  a 
patch-work  of  experiments.  The  mix­
ture  in  the  kinds  of  pavement  in  most 
parts  of  the  city 
is  a  curiosity.  The 
different  ones  in  the  same  street  repre­
sent  the  various  attempts  which  have 
been  made  to 
improve  upon  the  work 
of  predecessors in office,  or the  attempts 
to  demonstrate  questions  which  were 
old  in  other cities  before  the  first  were 
laid  here.  Of  course,  it  must  be  taken 
into consideration  that  there  may  need 
to  be  a  little  of  experiment  to  demon­
strate  local  advantages  and  economy, 
but 
it  was  not  necessary  to  devote all 
the  streets  to  that  purpose.

The  strangest  thing  about  it  is  that, 
with  all  the  experimenting,  there  seems 
to  have  been  little  learned  in  this  city. 
When  a  street  is  to be  improved  it  is  a 
new  problem,  whose  elements  must be 
determined  by  experiment. 
In  other 
cities  there  are  engineers  who  can  esti­
mate  the  cost and  the  time  required  for 
an  improvement  and,  when  it  is  under­
taken,  contractors  are held  to  the  time 
as  positively  as  to  the  cost;  for  the  fact 
is 
recognized  that  the  time  during 
which  the  street  is  closed  to  traffic  is  a 
serious  expense  to  its  occupants.

in 

The  work  of  improving  South  D ivi­
is  a  forcible  illustration  of 
sion  street 
the  serious  conditions 
imposed  upon 
many  of  the  business  men  by  incompe­
tent  experimenting 
street  work. 
There  were  no  uncertain  elements  in 
the  undertaking  which  could  not  have 
been  estimated  by  such  an  engineer  as 
a  city  like  this  should  employ,  and  the 
contract  should  not  have  been  awarded 
to  any  but  responsible  contractors  who 
would  give  a  guarantee  for  the  prompt 
completion  of  the  work.

The  improvement  of  a  city  street  is  a 
serious  expense  to  business  men  and 
property  owners.  If  the work  is  proper­
ly done  the  most  serious  expense  may 
be  the  actual  contract  cost  of  the  work. 
But,  as  conducted  here,  this  item  be­
comes  secondary.  The  closing  of  a 
business  street  like  the  one  referred  to, 
for  months at  a  time,  is  a  serious  ca­
lamity  to  the  merchants  thereon.  The 
diversion  of  natural  traffic  to  other lo­
calities  very  soon  costs  more  than the 
paving  expense,  and  results  in  loss  of 
future  trade  to an  extent  which  cannot 
be  estimated.  This 
interruption  and 
loss  of  trade  are the  mo.st serious  cost  in 
the  South  Division  street  improvement. 
To  many  enterprises  the  consequences 
cannot  fail  to be  serious  when  it  is  con­
sidered  that  most of  the  street  is  likely 
to be  left  in  its torn-up  and  impassible

condition  all  winter.  Then  this 
loss 
reflects  upon  the  property  owners  in  re­
duced  rentals  and  vacated  stores.

That  the  American  way  of  doing 
is  for­
things  is  tremendously  wasteful 
im­
cibly  illustrated  by  the  manner  of 
proving  the  city  streets. 
In  the  older 
cities  all  the  elements  of  cost  are  con­
sidered.  Precautions  are  taken  to  pre­
vent  undue  delay  and  a  penny  saved  on 
the  amount  of  a  contract  is  not  con­
sidered  sufficient  equivalent  for  the  loss 
of  pounds  in  waiting  the  movements  of 
irresponsible  contractors.

ARMENIA  AND  CUBA.

is 

The  suggestions  by  the  St.  James 
Gazette  of  London  of  a  new  triple  alli­
ance  to  be  formed  between  England, 
Italy  and  the  United  States,  to  put  an 
end  to  the  Eastern  question  and  the 
Turkish  atrocities, 
interesting  at 
least,  if  nothing  more.

The  United  States,  if  so  disposed, 
could  be  easily  committed  to  such  an 
alliance.  The  President,  with  the  con­
sent  of  the  Senate,  has  the  power  to 
frame  treaties  such  as  would  be  neces­
sary 
in  the  premises,  and  the  present 
Senate  is  on  record  as  to  the  Armenian 
question  and  strongly 
jingoistic.  Any 
suggestion  from  Mr.  Cleveland  in  the 
direction  indicated  would  be  met  with 
approval  by  the  Senate.  The scheme  is 
not  so  chimerical,  therefore,  as  might 
at  first  be  supposed.  All  that  is  re­
quired  is  the  willingness  of  Mr.  Cleve­
land  to  enter  into  such  an  alliance  for 
the  specific  purpose  suggested. 
Joint 
action  has  been  taken  by  the  United 
States  and  Great  Britain  on  several  oc­
casions  in  foreign  lands,  in  the  interest 
of  humanity  and  civilization,  without 
violating  the  traditional  policy  of  this 
Nation  to  avoid  “ entangling  foreign  al­
liances.”

in  Cuba. 

But  while  Englishmen  are  suggesting 
concerted  action  by  America,  England 
and  Italy 
in  behalf  of  the  Armenians, 
it  is  a  good  time  to  invoke  their  co-op­
eration  with  the  United  States  in  stop­
and 
ping  the  Spaniards’  dastardly 
bloody  course 
If  America 
could  form  an  agreement  with  Great 
Britain  and  Italy  to  stop butcheries both 
in  Turkey  and  Cuba,  including  both 
cases  in  the  treaty,  the  American  peo­
ple  would  enthusiastically  approve  and 
support  the  arrangement.  No  Turkish 
outrages  ever exceeded  in  bloodthirsti­
ness  and  horror  the  course  of  Weyler 
and  his  troops 
in  Cuba.  Women  and 
children  have  been  shot  and  brutally 
outraged 
in  many  ways;  the  torch  has 
laid  waste  humble as  well as pretentious 
homes; 
inoffensive  men  have  been 
thrown 
into  dungeons,  garroted  or 
transported to  Africa  to  rot,  and  a  reign 
of  terror  has  been  inaugurated  that  has 
few  parallels  in  history.  And  all  this 
under the  very  shadow  and  in  the  name 
of  a  Christian  civilization.

In 

Europe  professes  to  look  with  horror 
upon  the  treatment  of  the  Armenians by 
the  Turks  and  goody-goody  philanthro­
pists  and  missionaries  of  this  country 
join  in  the  hue  and  cry  against  the  sul­
tan. 
the  meantime  a  so-called 
Christian  nation  is  permitted to  indulge 
in  cruelty  and  barbaric  methods  within 
cannon  shot almost  of  the  Great Repub­
lic  of  the  world,  and  not a  protest  is 
heard.  Such  exhibitions  of sentimental 
inconsistency 
disgust  right-thinking 
people. 
is  well  enough  to  check  the 
Turk,  but  let  us  check  the  Spaniard 
first. 
If  the  United  States  enters  an  al­
liance  in  the  interest  of humanity,  the 
people  of  America  will  not  look  with 
favor  upon  the  agreement  unless  the 
amelioration  of  the  condition  of  Cuba 
is  one  of  the  objects  of  the  combina­
tion.

It 

Qu e e n   v ic t o r ia ’s  r e ig n .

throne. 

Queen  Victoria  has  now  reached  a 
point  in  her  reign  that  makes 
it  cover 
the  longest  period  any  sovereign  ever 
occupied  the  British 
The 
longest  three  previous  reigns  were  the 
forty-five  years  of  Elizabeth,  the  fifty 
years  of  Edward  III.,  the  fifty-six  years 
of  Henry  III.,  and  the  fifty-nine  years 
and  ninety-six  days  of  George 
III. 
Until 
last  Wednesday  the  reign  of  the 
latter  had  been  the  British  record. 
George  III.  ascended  the  throne  on 
Oct.  25,  1760,  and  died  on Jan.  29,  1820. 
During  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life  he 
was  sovereign  only  in  name,  as insanity 
incapacitated  him  from  ruling.  As  he 
had  not  abdicated,  however,  he  nom­
inally  occupied  the  throne  until  his 
death.  During  his  reign  there  were 
forty-six  common  years  and  thirteen 
leap  years.  The  total  number  of  days 
he  occupied  the  throne,  including  the 
ninety-six  between  Oct.  25,  1819,  the 
close  of  the  fifty-ninth  year,  and  Jan. 
29,  1820,  when  he died,  was,  therefore, 
21,644,  Queen  Victoria  ascended  the 
throne  on  June  20, 
1837.  During  her 
reign  there have  been  forty-four  com­
mon  years  and  fifteen  leap  years.  The 
total  number  of  days  she  has  occupied 
the  throne,  including  the  ninety-five 
between  June  20,  1896,  the close of  the 
fifty-ninth  year,  and  September  23,  is, 
therefore,  21,645.  Victoria is thus shown 
to  have  reigned  longer  than  any  other 
British  sovereign.

Prince 

The  Victorian  period  has  been  one of 
the  most  important  in  English  history. 
It  has  been  specially  noticeable  for  the 
extensive  relationship  established  with 
the  leading  royal  families  of  Europe. 
Victoria  was  married  on  Feb.  10,  1840, 
to  Prince  Albert  of  Saxe-Coburg  and 
Gotha.  The  union proved a  very  happy 
one  up  to  the  death  of  the  Prince  Con­
sort  in  1861.  Of  it  were  born  four  sons 
and  five  daughters.  The  eldest  child. 
Princess  Victoria,  is  the  mother  of  the 
present  emperor  of  Germany. 
The 
eldest  son,  the  Prince  of  Wales,  mar­
ried  a  daughter  of  the  king  of  Den­
in  1878,  mar­
mark.  Alice,  who  died 
ried 
Frederick  William  of 
Hesse.  Alfred,  Duke  of  Edinburgh, 
married  an  aunt  of  the  present  emperor 
of  Russia.  Helena  married  Prince 
Christian  of  Denmark.  Louise married 
the  Marquis  of  Lome.  Arthur,  Duke 
of  Connaught,  married  Princess  Louise 
Marguerite  of  Prussia.  Leopold,  Duke 
of  Albany,  who  died  in  1884,  was  mar­
ried  to  Princess  Helena  of  Waldeck. 
Beatrice  married  the  poor but estimable 
Prince  Henry  of  Battenberg,  who  met 
an  untimely  death 
in  the  Ashantee 
country  not  long  ago. 
It  will  thus  be 
seen  that  the  English  royal  family  has 
established  by  marriage  a  strong  per­
sonal 
in  Europe,  which  at  a 
critical  time  may  prove  stronger  than 
diplomacy.

influence 

During  the  Victorian  period  England 
has  made  great  strides  in  the  extension 
of  her  empire.  With  the  exception  of 
the  war of  the  Crimea  she  has  managed 
to  avoid  hostilities  with  European  pow 
ers;  but  she  has  engaged  in  consider­
able  fighting  with  the  colored  races  of 
the  globe.  The  prowess  of  her  arms 
has  been  displayed 
in  China,  Persia, 
India,  Afghanistan,  Abyssinia,  Egypt, 
Ashantee  and  South  Africa. 
In  order 
to  maintain  her  world-wide 
interests 
and  guard  against  possible  perils  to  her 
commerce  and  her  colonies,  she  has 
continued  to  improve  her  navy  until 
it 
is  now  the  strongest  in  the  world.  Her 
diplomacy  has  exerted  a  controlling  in­
in  European  affairs,  and  al­
fluence 

It 

though  it  often  has  not been  above  crit­
icism,  it  has,  on  the  whole,  made  for 
civilization. 
is  said  that  this  di­
plomacy  is  now  losing  its  prestige  be­
cause  of  the  Turkish  question,  but  it 
would  not  be  safe  for  any  European 
power  yet  to  count  England  out  of 
European  affairs.

The  Victorian  Period  at  home  has 
been  a  most  eventful  one  for  England. 
It  has  produced  a  brilliant  array  of men 
of  letters,  while 
in  art,  science,  and 
invention  it  has  made  wonderful  prog­
ress. 
In  the  matter  of  home  govern­
ment  there  have  been  grave  political 
and  economic  problems,  the  attempted 
solution  of  which  has  led  to  various 
party  changes,  but,  on  the  whole,  the 
people  of  the  United  Kingdom  are 
more  fairly  governed  now  than  they 
were  when  Victoria ascended the throne.
In  her domestic  life  Queen  Victoria 
has  been  the  most  exemplary  of  mon- 
archs.  To the  influence  she  has  exerted 
is  largely  due  the  fact  that  the  English 
court  has  been  fairly  free  from  serious 
scandals  during  her  reign,  while  the  so­
cial  condition  of  her  subjects  generally 
has  been  bettered  by  her  watchfulness. 
As  a  woman,  as  well  as  a sovereign,  she 
has  won  the  esteem  of  well-thinking 
people  the  world  over.  From  no  coun­
try  will  go  out  to  her  now  more  sincere 
congratulations  than  from  the Great  Re­
public  of  the  West.

is  necessary,  as 

in  which  mechanical 

Inventions  of  bicycle  sundries  are 
just  now  apparently  the  most  profitable 
direction 
inge­
nuity  can  be directed.  All  the  really 
meritorious  devices  on  the  market  for 
wheels  and  wheelmen  are  selling  well 
and  return  fine  dividends  to  their  own­
ers.  The  most  remarkable  feature  of 
the  case 
is  the  fact  that  these  prove 
paying  investments  from  the  start  and 
that  no  losing  system  of  introducing 
them 
in  other  busi­
nesses.  One  of  the  most  remarkable  in­
stances  of  this  state  of  affairs  is  the 
case  of a  popular  saddle  made  of  alum­
inum  and  leather. 
It  was  invented  less 
than  two  years  ago,  and  has  been  on 
the  market  but  a  short  time.  Yet  this 
year  the  sales  have 
reached 
80,000 and  there  are  more  to  come.  On 
inventor  realized  50 
this  80,000  the 
cents  apiece,  or  $40,000,  a  tidy 
little 
sum,  which  would  be  considered  a  for­
tune  by  some  people,  and  does  fairly 
well  for an  annual  income  on  a  bicycle 
sundry. 

_________________

already 

In 

The  business  of  the  United  States 
which  was  done  by  means  of  bank 
drafts  and  checks 
in  the  single  week 
ending  Sept.  19  was,  in  round  num­
bers,  $800,000,000. 
some  single 
weeks  this business  amounts  to  $1,000,- 
000,000.  In  all  these  transactions  which 
make  so vast  an  aggregate  probably  not 
more  than  $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 
in 
from  hand  to 
actual  money  passed 
hand. 
If  this  business  had  been  done 
for cash,  it  would  have  required  all  the 
gold  and  silver  in  the  United  States  to 
have  made  the  payments;  but  since  but 
little  money  was  actually  used,  it  shows 
that  money  plays  an  unimportant  part 
in  the operations  of  commerce,  and that 
it  is  only  in  the  small  change  of  busi­
ness  that  money 
is  handled  over  the 
counter.

Accuse  a  man  of  defalcation  and  all 
his  associates  will  suddenly  remember 
that  for  years  he  has  been  spending 
money  freely  and 
living  beyond  his 
means.  They  could  have  done him  a 
good  turn  by  setting  him  right  in  the 
first  place,  instead  of  enjoying his steal­
ings  and  helping  him  along  in  dishon­
esty.

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JANE  CRAGIN.

How  She  Revolutionized  the  Millinery 

Business.
Written for the T radesman.

“ I  wonder  what  that’s 

“ I  see  that  the  miiliner over  in  Cold 
Water  has  about  made  up  her  mind  to 
come  to  Milltown, ”   remarked  Miss 
McWayne  as  she  put  down  the  county 
paper. 
for. 
Cold  Water  is  a  larger  place  than  Mill- 
town.  She  seemed  to  be  having  a  good 
trade  when  1  was  there;  and 
it  seems 
to  me  rather  risky  to  pull  up  in  one 
place  and  move  to  another only  a  little 
way  off. 
It’s  too  much  like  tree-plant­
ing.  The  pulling  up  is  all  well  enough, 
but  by  the time  the  tree  begins  to grow, 
if  it  ever  does grow,  the  one  who  trans­
planted  it  is  dfead,  or feels as  if he ought 
to b e ;  and  if  that is  the  end  of 
it,  it 
might  as  well  be 
in  one  place  as  an­
other. ’ ’

“ She’s  been  feeling discouraged  fo- a 
long  tim e,”   said  Jane. 
“ There  are 
two  or  three  families  who  are  just wear­
ing  her  very  life  out.  They  want  the 
best  goods  she  has  or  can  order. 
If 
there 
is  the  slightest  thing  about  the 
goods  which  they  don’t  like,  they  don’t 
mince  matters 
in  telling  her  just  what 
they  think ;  worse  than  all,  they  never 
pay  her  without  quarreling  over  every 
item  in  the  bill  and  declare  they  never 
it;  and,  what  I  simply  .wouldn’t 
had 
have,  after  they  have  worn  a  thing 
just 
enough  to  spoil  it,  back  they  come  and 
insist  on  her  changing  it.  She says  she 
can’t  stand  any  more  of  it  and  is  com­
ing  to  Milltown.  She’s 
just  as  nice  a 
little  body  as  there  ever  was,  and  if  she 
does  come,  I'm  going  to  do  what  I  can 
to  help  her. 
It’s  a  little  selfish,  I  sup­
pose,  but  she  does  good  work ;  that  will 
bring  all  her  old  customers  here,  and 
we’ll  get  some of  that  Cold  Water trade 
which  we  have  been  after  so  long. 
Isn’t  that  a  good  move,  Cy?”

little 

“ Looks  a 

like  branching  out, 
Jane,  and  you  know  how  you  poured 
cold  water  on  my  plans  and  just spoiled 
my  chance  of  clearing,  in  one  season, 
twelve  or  fifteen  hundred  dollars,  don’t 
you?’ ’

“ No,  I  don’t  remember any  such  a 
thing.  The  cases  are  not at  all  alike. 
This  is  bringing  money  into  the  town 
and  keeping 
it  here  and  that  wasn’t. 
This  is  building  up  the  place  and  that 
was  tending  towards  tearing  it  down, 
and  you  know,  yourself,  that  you  made 
money  by  keeping  out  of  it.”

“ Going  to  put  up  anything? 

I  don’t 
believe  she’s  got  a  dollar  beyond  the 
few goods  she  has;  and  if  you’re  going 
in  to  help  her,  Jane,  don’t  be  skimpy.
I  think  you’d  better  go  over and  see 
what  she  has,  and just  make  her  a  prop­
osition.  Make  her an  even  partner.  She 
can  furnish  the  experience  and  you  the 
capital.  What  she  wants 
is  somebody 
to  look  after  the  business  and  you're 
just  the  one to  do  it.  I'd  like  to  see  the 
thing  go  on ;  and  I  don’t  know  a  better 
way  to get  those  Cold  Water  folks  over 
here  than  the  chance  to  look  at  a  new 
bonnet  once 
in  a  while.  Why  can’t 
you  and  Jim  drive  over  there  this  after­
noon?”

“ There  is  no  need  of 

it.  Plans  are 
all  fixed  just  about  as  you  say. 
I  am 
going  to  let  her  have  what  money  she 
wants;  but  I  didn’t  think  of  helping 
her  in  the  management  of  it.  I  believe, 
Cy,  you're  right. 
is  just 
worried  to  death;  and  I  know  that  with 
the  worry  off  her  mind,  her  work  would 
be  a  hundred  per  cent,  better  than  it  ’ is 
now.  That's  a  good  idea.  We  won’t 
wait  till  this  afternoon. 
Jim,  harness 
the  horse  to  the  new  buggy  and  let’s  go

I  know  she 

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now;”   and  five  minutes  later  they  were 
on  the  way.

*  *  *

“ You  don’t  know,  Dolly,  what started 

Jane  on  this  new  tack,  do  you?”

“ Not  unless  it’s  because  she  wants  to 
help  Miss  Peck  and  bring  trade to Mill- 
town. * ’

“ That’s  the  out  and  out  part,  no 
doubt  about  that;  but  you  watch  and 
you’ll  see  Jane and  old  Mrs.  Comstock 
squaring  off  at  each  other  in  fine  style. 
Honestly,  I  don’t  believe  Jane  realizes 
what’s  coming.  She  likes  Miss  Peck, 
and  she  wants  to  stop  her  worrying,  and 
she  knows  that,  while  the  millinery 
in  the  back  room, 
work 
she’ll  be  looking  after  the  business 
in 
the  front  store;  and  she’s  just  going  to 
see  whether there’ll  be  any  more  of  this 
bringing  spoiled  goods  back.  That’s 
what  touched  Jane.  Did  she  ever  tell 
you  about  the  tussle  she  had  with  the 
Pelseys. ”

is  going  on 

“ No,  what  was  it?”
“ 1  don’t  know  as  I  can  remember 

it 
well  enough  to  get 
in  all  the  ifs  and 
ands;  but  I  know  the  boys  and  I—Sid 
was  here  then—almost  split  to  see  the 
fun.  The  Pelseys  are  a  bad  lot,  any­
way ;  and  it’s  hard  to  tell  who  is  worse 
—that  oldest  girl  or her  mother.  Well, 
they  got 
into  the  notion  of  bringing 
back  about  everything  they  bought. 
It 
began  with  groceries or  some  such thing 
which  didn’t  amount  to  much,  and  by 
and  by 
it  got  into  the  dry  goods,  and 
there  was  where  the  trouble  began.  For 
a  time  they’d  exchange.  There  wasn’t 
any  trouble  about  that  so  long  as  it  was 
a  different  kind  of  needle  or  another 
sort  of  sugar.  I began to  notice,  though, 
that  when  the  Pelsey  wagon  drove  up, 
Jane’s 
little  red  spot  would  come  out, 
clear  and  bright,  right  in  the  midlde  of 
her  cheek ;  so  we  boys  watched.  We 
didn’t  have  to  wait  long.  That  oldest 
girl—strange  I  can’t  call  her  by  name— 
is  an  awful  slouch,  and  she  came  in one 
morning  with  her  hair  all  frowzy  and 
threw a  big  wad  of  something  onto  the 
counter,  and  said  her  mother  ‘ didn’t 
it;  ’twa’n’t  big  enough,  to  begin 
want 
with; 
’  ’twas 
all  stretched  out  and 
shrunk  up ;  and  she  wanted  the  other 
one  she  looked  at  when  she  got  this. ’ 
I 
expected  Jane  would  snatch  the  bundle, 
tear  it  open  and  begin.  She  didn’t  do 
that  way  at  all.  She 
it  a 
minute,  sort  of  puzzled  like,  and  then 
she 
looked  at  her hands  and  she  says, 
‘ I ’ve  just  washed  my  hands  and  I  don’t 
want  to  dirty  them  all  up.  Won’t  you 
just  open  it  and  let’s see what ’tis? Jane’ 
said  it  so  innocent-like  the  girl  didn't 
hook  on  at  all  and  opened  the  bundle 
without  a  word. 
It  was  one  of  those 
light  shawls  they  wore some  years  ago. 
This  one  was  white  with  blue  stripes— 
but  dirty! 
in  a  mud 
it  couldn’t  have  been  worse. 
puddle 
‘ Oh,’  says  Jane,  ‘ it's  that  shawl,  is 
it? 
I ’ve  wondered,  when  I ’ve  seen you wear 
’twould  be  before  you’d 
it,  how  long 
bring 
‘ Tis  all  stretched  out 
and  shrunk  up,  that’s  a  fact;  but  you 
needn’t  pretend  that  your  mother  sent 
you  here  on  any  such  errand.  She’s bad 
enough,  and she’s dirty enough,  but she’s 
got  common  sense;  and  you  ought to 
have  enough  not  to  bring  here  a  shawl 
that  you’ve  worn  and  spoiled  before  it’s 
paid  for.  You  just  take  the  dirty  thing 
out  of  here  just  as  soon  as  you  can—it 
smells!—I  think 
it’s  that—and  don’t 
you  bring  here  any  more  of  your  dirty 
duds,  for  we  don’t  want 
’em !’  The 
two  looked  at  each  other  for  a  minute, 
like  a  couple  of  young  roosters,  and  the 
girl  took  up  her  bundle  and 
left.  The 
shawl  never’s  been  paid  fo r;  but  the

it  had  been 

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story  got  round,  and  since  then  we 
haven’t  been  bothered about exchanging 
their goods  or taking  them  back.”

*  *  *

On  Jane’s  return,  it  was  found  that 
the  plan  of  relieving  the  milliner  of  all 
business  matters  suited  her  exactly.  To 
give  her  undivided  attention  to  her  art 
was  the  very  thing  she  wanted,  and 
in 
due  time  the  shop  was  well  stocked  and 
opened ;  the  communities  of  Milltown 
and  Cold  Water  were  informed  of  the 
grand  millinery  opening  on  a  certain 
date;  and  when  the  day  arrived  the sin­
gle  street  of  Milltown  was  hardly 
large 
enough  to  accommodate  all  who  came.

Of  course,  the  store  did  a  good  busi­
ness  that  day ;  but  the  center  of  attrac­
tion  was  the  shop  next  door.  There 
daintiness  met  the  eye  at  every  turn. 
Miss  Peck  was  an  artist  in  her  line  and 
the  artistic  touch  was  visible  every­
where.  The  real  gem  of  the  whole  dis­
play,  however, 
“ the  dream,”   as  one 
enthusiastic  beholder  called  it,  was  the 
creation  of  lace and  flowers  which  Mrs. 
Comstock,  of  Cold  Water,  early decided 
to  carry  home  with  her.  In  conspicuous 
places  about  the  establishment  were 
plainly  printed 
that 
goods  must be  paid  for on  delivery  and 
that  no  goods  would  be  returned  or  ex­
changed.  The  price  of  the  bonnet  was 
high;  but  it was a  ‘ ‘ sample”  bonnet,  an 
item  which  has  great  influence,  espe­
cially  in  the  country.

cards,  stating 

It  was  noticed  that,  much  as  Miss 
Peck  tried  to  avoid  her  old  customer, 
that  individual  had  eyes  and  ears  only 
for  Miss  Peck,  and  the  bonnet  was  the 
only  theme.  Did  it  come  directly  from 
Paris,  as  the  billet  pinned  to 
it  said? 
Was  the  lace  real?  Were  the  flowers 
“ jennywine?”   Was  that  the  very  low­
est  figure  she  would  take?  were a  few  of 
the  questions  which  were  poured  upon 
her,  until  the  little  milliner,  knowing 
from  experience  that  she  was  not  equal 
to  her  customer,  unconsciously  lifted 
her  pleading  eyes  to  Jane.

“ Miss  Peck,  Mrs.  Walker 

is  asking 
me  all  sorts  of  questions  about  velvet 
and  lace  and  pansies.  She  wants  a  bon­
net  and  I  can’t  tell  her  anything.  Do 
take  my  place  and  let  me  sell  this  Paris 
hat to  Mrs.  Comstock.  A  beauty,  isn’t 
it? 
It  isn’t  becoming  to  me,  or I should 
take  it  myself.  Would  you  like  to  try  it 
on,  Mrs.  Comstock?  W ell!”

The  exclamation  drew  the attention 
of  the  crowd  to  the  work  of  art. 
It  was 
one  of  those  instances,  much  too  rare, 
where  article  and  wearer  were  evidently 
intended  for  each  other;  and  Mrs.  Com 
from  the  admiring 
stock  could  see, 
glances  of  the  multitude,  that 
their 
opinion  and  hers  were  in  harmony.

“ I  think 

I  shall  have  to  take  this 
home  with  me.  It  seems  to  be  just  what 
I  want;  but  Mr.  Comstock 
is  such  a 
fussy  man  I  never  like  to  get  anything 
until  he  has  seen 
it.  You  may  do  it 
up  ”

Miss  Peck,  deep  in  the  mysteries  of 
pansies  and  velvet,  was 
still  near 
enough  to  hear  the  remark  and  turned 
pale. 
It  was  the  old  story;  and  the 
bonnet,  once  out  of  the  store,  never 
would  come  back  again  and  never 
would  be  paid  for.  Her  hand nervously 
stroked  the  velvet  as  she  wondered  how 
she  should  tell  Miss  Cragin,  when 
Jane's  unruffled  voice  was  heard  say­
ing : 
“ You  see  what  the  card  says, 
Mrs.  Comstock.  Goods  are  not  deliv­
ered  until  they  are  paid  for.”

“ But  I  haven’t  the  money  with  me.”
“ We’ll  keep  the  bonnet  for  you,  if 
you  say  so,  for a  short  time.  You  and 
Mr.  Comstock  can  come  in  to-day or to­

morrow  for  him  to  see  it  on ;  but  I can’t 
let  the  bonnet  go  out of  the shop unpaid 
for.  We  must  begin  as  we  expect  to 
keep  on,  and  there  the  rules  are,  plain­
ly  printed  on  the  cards  before  you.”

“ Fifteen  dollars 

is  an  abominable 

price,  anyway.”

After a short silence,  which Jane made 
use  of  to  see  if  matters  were  going  on 
satisfactorily  in  other  parts  of  the  store, 
Mrs.  Comstock  remarked: 
“ I  don’t 
see  what  harm  it  would  do  to  let  me 
take  the  bonnet  home  with  me—unless 
you  think you  won’t get your pay for it !”
it, 
the  matter  is  settled  right  there.  Then 
there  is  no  bringing  back,  there 
is  no 
damage  done  and  no  further trouble. 
That 
is  why  we  are  starting  on  a  cash 
basis. ”

“ If  you  pay  for  it  when  you  take 

“ Yes,  but  that  doesn’t  always  mean 
everybody.  Now,  I ’ve  always  had  Miss 
Peck  do  my  work,  and  paid  her  when 
it  was  convenient;  so  I  guess you’d bet­
ter  let  me  take  the  bonnet  home  to  try 
on. 
I ’m  Mrs.  Com­
It’ll  be  all  right. 
stock,  of  Cold  Water. ’ ’

“ Very  well,  then,  Mrs.  Comstock  of 
Cold  Water,  I  shall  have  to  say  to  you 
what  I  say  to  all  my  customers—I  can’t 
let  any  goods go  out  of  the  store  which 
are  not  paid  for. ”

“ Miss  Peck  never  made  any  objec­

“ Miss  Peck  never  traded  for  cash. 

“ Well,  I ’m  going  to  have  the  bon­

tion. ’ ’

We  do. ”

net. ’ ’

“ Very  well,  Miss  Peck  will  do  it  up 
while  I  make  out  the  bill.  Fifteen  dol­
lars,  please. ’ ’

“ Oh,  I ’m  not  going  to  pay  for 

it 

now. ”

“ Then  you  can’t  have  the  bonnet. 
No  matter,  Miss  Peck,  Mrs.  Comstock 
has  changed  her  mind.”

“ Now,  see  here,  Jane  Cragin,  we’ve 
carried  this  thing  far  enough. 
I  shall 
take  that bonnet  home  with  me  to try on 
without  paying  for  it,  or  I'll  know  the 
reason  why. ’ ’

“ All  right,  I'll  tell  you  the  reason 

why. ’ ’

interest 

The  shop  was  full  but  you  could  have 
heard  a  pin  drop. 
“ In  Milltown  we 
trade  for  cash.  When  Miss  Peck  came 
to  open  this  shop,  it  was  on  the  condi­
tion  that  she  should  trade  for  cash. 
I 
in  the  business  on 
bought  an 
that  basis  and  I  took  her  accounts 
just 
as  they  were. 
I ’ve  been  looking  them 
over.  Your  account  is  the  only  one  you 
have  any  interest  in,  and  (every  neck 
was  craned  towards  Jane)  while  you 
have,  as  you  say,  always  had  Miss  Peck 
do  your  work,  for  the  last  five  years  you 
haven’t  paid  her  a  cent,  and  have  worn 
the  best  she  had  in  the  shop. 
I  don’t 
propose  to  do  business  that  way.  Miss 
Peck  doesn’t  propose  to  do  it  that  way 
any  longer;  and 
if  you  can  affoid  to 
wear  a  fifteen  dollar  bonnet,  you  can 
afford  to  pay  for  it.

“ There  is  another  point  in  this  busi­
ness  that  I  might  as  well  speak  about. 
You  come 
in  here  and  make  believft 
that  you  want  to  take  the  bonnet  home 
to  see  if  Mr.  Comstock  likes  it.  That’s 
an  old  dodge  as  weak  as  it  is  wicked. 
What  you  are  after 
that 
bonnet  out  of  here  without  paying  for 
it,  because  you  are  Mrs.  Comstock  of 
Cold  Water!  You  didn't  do  it, and  you 
won’t  do  it.  You’ll  pay  for  what  you 
take,  and  when  you  take  it,if  you  get  it 
here.  Now  do  you  know  the  reason 
why?’ ’

is  to  get 

“ Jane  Cragin,  you  are  an  impudent 

trollop !—”

‘ ‘ But honest, ’ ’  interrupted Jane, ‘ ‘ clear

through.  Shall  I  give  you  the  amount 
of  your  bill  now  or  would  you  rather 
have  me  send  it  to  you?”

‘ ‘ You  may  send  it  to  m e.”
“ Very  well,  and  if  it  isn’t  paid  with­
in  a  reasonable  time,  I ’ll  put  it  into my 
lawyer’s  hands to  collect!”

The 

The  conversation  ended. 

in­
dignant  Jane  with  flashing  eyes  stood 
ready  for  the  expected  reply;  but 
it 
didn’t  come.  With  the air of an  insulted 
queen,  Mrs.  Comstock  of  Cold  Water 
left  the  shop,  not,  however,  before  the 
exultant  voice  of  Amanda  Bettis  ex­
claimed  so  that all  could  hear:  ‘ ‘ That's 
the  time  the  old  woman  got  her  dinner 
trod  on,  and  I ’m  glad  on’t !”

The  battle  was  then  and  there  fought

let 

which  decided  the  question  of  cash 
payments  and  of  bringing  things  back.
I  Little  Miss  Peck,  relieved  of  the  busi­
ness  part  of  millinery,  grew  plump  and 
happy.  Thrift  took  the  place  of  threat­
ened  ruin  and  Milltown  rejoiced  over 
this  new  industry  added  to  its  list  of at- 
| tractions.  Better  than  all, 
it  be 
| said,  Mrs.  Comstock  of Cold Water paid 
her  hill  without  any  legal 
inducement; 
and  the  last  “ creation”   which  adorned 
her  aristocratic  head  came  from  the 
at  Milltown. 
Millinery  Emporium 
“  Miss  Craign 
little  queer  some- 
1 tim es,"  she  remarked  when the changes 
of  praise  bad  been  rung  on  her  last  new 
bonnet,  “ but  she  means  well,  and  I  al- 
] ways  make  it  a  point  to  encourage  such 
■  people  when  I  can,”   a  remark  which,
| when  repeated  to  Jane  was  answered 
| with  a  simple 
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MEN  OF  MARK.

John  H.  Patterson.  President  National 

Cash  Register  Co.

John  H.  Patterson  is  the  son  of Jeffer­
son  and  Julia  (Johnston)  Patterson,  and 
a  grandson  of  Colonel  Robert  Patterson, 
a  pioneer  in  the  settlement  of Kentucky 
and,  later,  one of  the  three original pro­
prietors  of  Cincinnati.

Mr.  Patterson  was born  on his father’s 
farm,  the  original  homestead,  which  lay 
south  of  Dayton,  and  early  in  life  de­
veloped  the habits  of  industry  and  per­
severance  which  have  enabled  him  to 
carry  great  enterprises  to  a  successful 
termination. 
In  his  early  years,  he 
spent  his  leisure  hours  in  assisting  in 
his  father’s  sawmill  and  gristmill  and 
in  the  general  work  of  the  farm,  until 
he  was  18  years  of  age.  The  next  three 
years  were  spent  at  Miami  College,  Ox­
ford,  Ohio,  where he  pursued a  classical 
course  of  study.  His  senior  year  was 
passed  at  Dartmouth  College.  After  he

was  graduated,  he  returned  to  his  na­
tive  place,  where  he  secured  a  position 
as  Collector  of  Tolls  on  the  Miama 
Canal.  Three  years  later,  he  gave  up 
this  position  and  engaged  in  the  retail 
coal  business  in  Dayton.  He  then  be­
came  interested  in  coal  mining  at  Coal- 
ton,  Jackson  county,  Ohio,  ana  assist­
ed,  in  company  with  John  H.  Winters, 
George  Harshman  and  others,  in  push­
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R .,  which  was  built  for  the  purpose  of 
introducing  Jackson  coal  into  Southern 
Ohio.  He  continued 
in  the  mining 
business  for  several  years,  after  which 
he accepted  the  position  of  Manager for 
the  Southern  Ohio  Coal  &  Iron  Co., 
with  offices  located  at  Dayton.

Mr.  Patterson’s  real 

life  work  has 
been  the  perfection  and  introduction  of 
cash  registers.  He  became 
interested 
in  this  great  industry  in  1882  and  from 
that  time  he  has  been 
intimately  con­
nected  with  their  development.  The 
National  Manufacturing  Co.  was  or­
ganized  in  1882  for  the  manufacture  of 
these  machines,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
Sio.ooo,  held  by  Dayton  citizens. 
In 
1883  Mr.  Patterson  became  a director  in 
the  company  and  the capital  stock  was 
increased  to  §15,000,  the added  shares 
being  taken  by  Mr.  Patterson  and  his 
brother.  Little  progress  was  made  un­
til  1885,  when  the  company  was  reor­
ganized.  Mr.  Patterson  then  gave  up 
all  connection  with  the  coal  business 
and,  with  his  brother,  Frank  J.  Patter­
son,  devoted  his  entire  attention  to  the 
cash  register 
industry,  becoming  the 
President and  Manager of  the company.

in 

in  use  has 

Mr  Patterson 

In  1886 the  capital  stock  of the National 
Cash  Register  Co.,  as  it  is  now  called, 
was  increased  to $100,000,  and 
189! 
was  again  increased  to  $500,000.  The 
factory  covers  seven  and  one-half  acres 
of  ground ;  it  turns  out  a  cash  register 
every  fifteen  minutes,  and  the  number 
of  machines 
long  since 
passed  the  one  hundred  thousand  mark.
is  the  captain  of  an 
100  men  and  200 
industrial  army  of 
women 
in  the  factory  at  Dayton,  and 
300  agents  scattered  over  nearly  all  the 
world.  The  factory 
is  governed,  not 
by  a  superintendent,  but  by  a  commit­
tee  of  five  expert  mechanics  of  the 
broadest  experience  in  the  manufacture 
of  cash  registers.  Under  this  committee 
are  a  number  of  sub-committees,  which 
absorb  a  vast  amount  of  detail  work, 
making  the  running  of  the  plant  almost 
automatic,  so  far  as  the  necessity  for 
the  personal  attention  of  its  officers  is 
concerned.  A  new  building,  350  feet 
long  and  four  stories  high,  has  recently 
been  erected,  making  the  plant  one  of 
the  finest  factories  in  the  world.  The 
company’s  policy  is  to promote from the 
ranks  and  reward  merit wherever found. 
Mr.  Patterson’s  plan  creates  enthusiasm 
in  his  little  army;  this  is  his chief aim, 
for  he  finds  that  enthusiasm  is  as  nec­
essary  to  success  in  business as  in  bat­
tles.  The  people  employed  form  a  par­
ticularly 
industrious 
community,  embracing,  with  their  fam­
ilies,  thousands  of  Dayton’s  most  hard­
working  and  prosperous  citizens.  A 
number  of  those 
in  the  employ  of  the 
company  are  college  graduates  and  pro­
fessional people,  and  the standard  of  ed­
ucation  among  the  rank  and  file  is  con­
stantly  being  raised.

intelligent  and 

Mr.  Patterson  is  known,  not  only 

in 
his  own  State,  but  in  the  East also,  as  a 
persistent  advocate  of  co-operation  be­
tween  employer  and  employe  and  the 
establishment  of  the  “ new  factory  sys­
tem,”   of  which  his  own  factory  is  the 
embodiment  He  has  spoken  and written 
forcibly  upon  labor  questions  and  also 
upon  questions  of  municipal  and 
legis­
lative  reform  and  is  universally  recog­
nized  for  his  public  spirit.  Out of  a 
ripe  business  experience,  he has learned 
the  secret  of  sharing  prosperity  with 
those  who  work  for him,  while  steadily 
and  materially  building  up  a  great 
business.

Candor  in  Trade.

Written for the Tradesman.

The  celebrated  saying,  “ People  like 
to  be  humbugged, ”   by  the  celebrated 
showman,  P.  T.  Barnum,  may  have  a 
pertinence  with  certain  people  and 
in 
certain  avocations,  as,  for  instance,  the 
one  selected  by  the sage  of  Bridgeport 
for  that  purpose.  Yet  the  fact  that 
Mr.  Barnum  ended  his  career with  fail­
ure tends  to  discredit  his  philosophy.

However 

it  may  be  as  regards  the 
show  business,  there  are  some  lines  of 
work  where  humbuggery  is  not  the  best 
policy.  There  may  have  been  a  time 
in  the history  of  trade,  in  this  country, 
in  dealing  could  be 
when  dishonesty 
ventured  with  comparative 
impunity. 
There  may  be  localities  where  it  can  be 
ventured  even  now,  but the light of edu­
cation  has  driven  back  the  darkness  of 
ignorance—the  prey  of  dishonesty—and 
is  searching  out  the  shady  places  that 
may  still  be  vulnerable  to  that  sort  of 
policy.  Not  that  it  should  be  admitted 
that  there  was  ever  a  time  or  place 
when  dishonesty  was  the  best  policy, 
but  there  have  been  such  where  the 
wicked  seemed  to  flourish.

The average  merchant  is  now  dealing 
with  a  high  degree  of  intelligence.  The 
people  of  city  and  country  are  educated 
to a  considerable  degree  in  trade  mat­
ters,  and  are becoming  more  so  every 
year.  Values and  correct  prices  are  re­
ceiving  a  good  deal  of  attention,  and 
the  merchant  who  presumes  on  igno­
rance 
likely  to  be  caught  in  his 
smartness  and  punished  by  a  “ secret 
boycott. * ’

is 

The  most  valuable adjunct  to  a  suc­
cessful  business  is  a custom  or clientage 
which  can  be  reckoned  upon  as  per­
manent.  Allowing,  for  the  sake  of  ar­
gument,  that  people  like  to  be  hum­
bugged,  the 
fact  would  still  remain 
that they  do  not  like  to  be  humbugged 
twice  in  the  same  manner.  So  a  per­
manent  clientage  cannot be  built  up  on 
that basis.  There  are  dealers  who  seem 
to think  that  the  loss  of  custom  through 
the  discovery  of  dishonesty  may  be 
made  good  by  advertising  and  “ hust­
ling.”   Such  are  in  error,  for  the money 
is  made on  the  old  steady  customers— 
the  getting  of  new  ones  by  advertising 
is  too  costly  to be  profitable  until  they 
become  old  ones.

The  French  are  coming  to  America 
for bicycle  material.  According  to  the 
British  Consul  at  Nice,  “ Cycling  being 
very  popular  on  the  Riviera  among  all 
classes  of  society,  the  trade  in  cycles 
has  been  greatly  developed.  There  are 
three  makers  of  machines 
in  Nice. 
They  used  to  obtain  all  their  materials 
from  the  United  Kingdom,  but  since 
last,  year  they  have  turned  towards  the 
United  States,  and  are  now  obtaining 
from  that  country  a  great  many  articles 
required  in  the trade.  Up  to  the  pres­
ent  the  machines  sold  by  the  agents  of 
different  manufacturing  companies  are 
chiefly  of  English  make.  Next  in 
im­
portance  are  those  of  French  make, 
while  but  few  machines  made  in  the 
States  are  to  be  seen 
in  the  market 
here.  One  French  firm  of  cycle  manu­
facturers  has  a  branch  retail  establish­
ment  in  N ice.”

A  doctor  in  the  highlands of Scotland, 
whose  patients  are  scattered  over a wide 
district,  takes  carrier  pigeons  with  him 
on  his  rounds,  and  sends  his  prescrip­
tions  to  the apothecary  by  their  agency. 
He  also 
leaves  pigeons  with  distant 
families,  to  be  let  loose  when  his  serv­
ices  are_needed.

Frankness  and  candor  are  becoming 
factors 
in  successful  trade  more  and 
more  every  day.  Customers  are  looking 
less  for “ bargains”   and  more  for square 
goods  at  square  prices.  And  such  cus­
tomers  are  held  by  the  merchant  who 
meets  their  spirit  of  fairness  with  a 
kindred  spirit,  and  recognizes  their  in­
the  correct 
telligence  by  demanding 
price,  which 
includes 
the  correct 
profit. 
I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  the 
millennium  in  trade  is  so  far  advanced 
that  there  are  no  longer the  knowing  or 
smart  bargain-seekers;  but  the  mer­
chant  who  seeks  to  checkmate  such  by 
trickery  or  mis-statements  makes  no 
money  by  the  deal,  as  a  rule.

It 

is  not  necessary  to  “ carry  one’s 
heart  on  his  sleeve, ”   or tell  one’s whole 
business  to  each  customer;  but  what  is 
told  should  be  the  truth,  and,  usually, 
there  need  not  be  the  fear  of  telling  too 
much.  The  intelligent  customer  of  to­
day 
is  not  attracted  by  the  statement 
that  the goods  are  being  “ sold  at  less 
than  cost.”   He  knows  enough  about 
trade  to  know  that that  is  not the normal 
way  to  do  business.  Then  the 
idea 
that goods  are  being  sold  at  cost  as  “ a 
special  favor”   is  not,  usually,  pleasing. 
The  educated  customers  of  to-day—

those  best  worth  having—do  not  need 
nor wish  special  favors.

frankness, 

is  dependent  on  the 

The value of candor in trade is increas­
ing  in  proportion  as  general  education 
increasing  throughout  the  country. 
is 
The  increase  of  education  and 
intelli­
is  so  gradual  that  it  is  liable  to 
gence 
be  overlooked.  But 
is  an  element 
it 
which  has  a  great 
influence  on  trade 
methods.  The  observer  will  discover 
that there  is  a  great  increase  in  candor, 
in  simplicity  and 
in  the 
preparation  of  advertisements,  every 
year.  This 
in­
crease  of  intelligence  and  on  its  recog­
illus­
nition  by  advertisers.  A  notable 
tration  of  the  value  of 
is 
found 
in  the  methods  of  some  of  the 
large  catalogue  dealers,  like  Montgom­
ery  Ward  &  Co.  The  trade  of  this con­
is  almost  wholly  with  the  rural 
cern 
population,  generally 
considered  the 
most  unsophisticated,  yet,  in  the prepa­
ration  of  the  catalogue  for  such  custom­
ers,  the  utmost  candor  of  statement  is 
maintained  throughout.  The  goods  are 
minutely  described,  including  deficien­
cies  of  the  cheaper  grades.  Prices  are 
given  as  the  correct  ones—none  are rep­
resented  as  “ bargains. ”   The  result  of 
this  method  of  dealing  with  that  grade 
of  intelligence  has  been  the  building up 
of  a  mail  order  business  without  par­
allel  in  this  or any  other  country.

frankness 

In  urging  the  desirability  of  this  ele­
ment  in  trade,  I  would  not  wish  to  be 
understood  that  I  think  that,  as  a  rule, 
merchants  are  not  alive  to  the  advance 
in 
of  education.  My  duties  bring  me 
contact  with  many,  and 
I  am  glad  to 
note  that  candor 
is  rapidly  becoming 
the  rule.  Yet  there  are  some  who  may 
be  benefited  by  a  hint  in  this  direction, 
and  there  may  be  interest  to  all  in  the 
to  this  gradual 
calling  of  attention 
change 
is 
raising  our  profession  to a higher plane.

in  the  trade  spirit,  which 

R o s e n s t e in .

A  Merchant’s  Dream.

A  certain  merchant believes thorough­
ly 
in _ advertising,  and  the  result  is  he 
has  the  biggest  business  in  his  town. 
Indeed,  he  works  so  much  on week  days 
that  when  he  goes  to  church  on  Sun­
day,  as  he  always  does,  he  generally 
goes  to  sleep  as  soon  as  the  preacher 
gets  well  started  into  his  sermon.
Not  long  ago  a  visiting  clergyman 
filled  the  pulpit,  and  our  friend,  being 
unaccustomed  to  him,  slept  rather  un­
easily,  starting  up  every  now  and  then 
as  the  minister  grew  emphatic  and  al­
most  shouted  the  words  of  truth  at  the 
congregation.  When  the  preacher  called 
out:

Brethren,  why  stand  ye  here  all  the 

day  idle?”

“ Because  they  don’t  advertise,”  sang 
out  the  half-awakened  merchant;  and 
the  way  his  wife  grabbed  at  him  and 
shook  him  into  a  sense  of  his  situation 
almost  broke  up  the  meeting.

An  Everyday  Occurrence.

From the Minneapolis Times.

store 

A  prominent  society  lady  in  this  city 
into  a  Nicollet  avenue 
to  purchase  some  shoe 

recently  went 
shoe 
strings.  She  secured  one  pair.
“ How  much?”   was  her  query.
“ Ob,  that’s  all  right,”   was  the  reply 
“ Well,  then,  give  me  another  pair.”

of  the  clerk.

inspection 

The  members  of  the  United  States 
forestry  commission,  who  are  making  a 
tour  of 
in  the  West,  with 
the  object  of  devising  means  for  pre­
serving  the  remaining  forest  area  in 
this  country  from  fire,  theft and  need­
less  depredation,  have  recently  reached 
San  Francisco.  They  started  out  on 
their  journey  on  July  2,  and  report  that 
1,000  miles  by 
they  have  traveled 
wagon,  and  have,  besides,  made 
long 
distances on  horseback.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 3

Injunction  Against  Imitations

OF  THE

Cocoa and  Chocolate  Labels,

Trade=Marks, &c.,

OF

Walter  Baker & Co.,  Limited.

On Sept. 3,  1896, we obtained an important decision  in  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  for  the Western 
District of Virginia, against William  Henry Baker, of Winchester, Virginia,  who  for  the  past  two  years  has 
been  putting  on  the  market  chocolate  and  cocoa  preparations  under  the  name  of  W.  H.  Baker  &  Co.,  in 
imitation of the well-known goods of Walter Baker & Co.,  Limited.

The court say:  “A careful consideration of the evidence  and  an  inspection  of  the  packages, cans, wrap­
pers,  labels,  inscriptions,  etc.,  of  the  goods  of  the  complainant  (W alter  Baker  &  Company,  Limited)  and 
those of the respondent (William  Henry Baker) can lead the court to no other conclusion than that there was 
a deliberate purpose to place the goods  of  the  respondent  upon  the  market  in  a  guise  resembling  the  com­
plainant’s goods as nearly as possible so as to avoid a direct imitation.  .  .  .  With  the widest  field  from which 
to select wrappers, labels,  cans,  inscriptions, words,  phrases  and  designations,  the  respondent  has  so  nearly 
simulated  in  these  respects the chocolate goods of the complainant as  to  lead  dealers  and  consumers  to  be­
lieve that they were buying the complainant’s goods, when they were really getting  those of  the  respondent.”
“To prevent this confusion, and to protect the complainant and the public against  this  unfair  competition 
and deception,” an  injunction was granted  restraining W.  H.  Baker from using on  his plain  chocolate  “ any 
yellow label or any label of a color resembling yellow;  and from using  on  or  in  connection  with  the  sale  of 
his plain chocolate any label which in its lettering, arrangement, or design is not plainly distinguishable from 
that used by complainant;  from using on his  powdered  cocoa  in  connection with  any  form  of  his  name  the 
words ‘Breakfast Cocoa,’  and  from  putting  his  powdered  cocoa  up  in  cans  shaped  like  the  complainant’s 
cocoa cans;  from using in any manner whatsoever in connection with the sale of his sweet chocolate the name 
‘Germania,’  or any name not plainly distinguishable from the  name  ‘German’;  from  using  on  molds,  labels, 
circulars, or  in  any  other  way,  the  phrases  ‘Baker’s  Cocoa,’  ‘Baker’s  Chocolate,’  ‘Baker’s  Vanilla  Sweet 
Chocolate’;  from  using  in  the  chocolate  business  the  words  ‘and  Company,’  or  ‘Company,*  following  any 
form of his name;  and  from using the words ‘Established  in  Mercantile Business  1785,*  or any words stating 
or indicating that his business has been long established.”

The respondent,  William Henry Baker,  was required to pay the costs.
A l l   p e r s o n s ,  a n d   e s p e c i a l l y   w h o l e s a l e   a n d   r e t a i l   g r o c e r s ,  a r e   w a r n e d   t h a t   i t   i s   u n l a w f u l   t o   h a n d l e   h i s   g o o d s

IN  THE  FORM  OR  WITH  THE  LABELS  AND  CANS  FORBIDDEN  BY  THE  COURT.

D e a l e r s   a r e   f u r t h e r   n o t i f i e d   t h a t   t h e y   w i l l   b e   h e l d   s t r i c t l y   a c c o u n t a b l e   f o r   s e l l i n g   g o o d s  in   c o n t r a v e n t io n  

OF  OUR  RIGHTS.

The trade may be assured that we shall do everything in our power to prevent  dealers  in, and  consumers 
of, our goods lrom being imposed upon, and we confidently solicit their assistance in our efforts in the interest 
of fair and honest trade.

W A L T E R   B A K E R   &   CO.,  L i m i t e d ,

DORCHESTER,  MASS.

1 4

THE  MYSTERY  OF  GENIUS.
It 

is  wonderful,  when  one  comes  to 
think  of  it,  what  a  part  is  played  in'the 
real  world  by  mere  negations.  Darkness 
and  cold,  for 
instance,  are  nothing  in 
themselves,  but  express  simply  the  ab­
sence  of  light and heat.

A  friend  has  grown  fond  of  a  little 
picture  which  has  been  his  for  more 
than  half  his  life.  It  is a  copy,  or rather 
a  photograph,  of  an  older  picture— 
touched  with  India 
ink—representing 
Michael  Angelo  in  his  studio,  surround­
ed  by  the  marble  trophies  of  his  creat­
ive  genius—Samson  Bound ;  Moses,  the 
Lawgiver,  and  other  magnificent  white 
figures,  of  heroic  proportions.  There 
is  almost  a  blaze  of  light  reflected  from 
the  smooth  surfaces of  these  sculptured 
sublimities,  though 
in  the  far  corners 
and  deep  recesses  of  the  vast  apartment 
the  shades  of  an  advanced  evening  are 
gathering  fast,  and  the  lowered  lances 
of  the  retreating  sun  no  longer  reach  its 
massive  rafters. 
in 
hand,  is  seated,  intently  measuring  the 
progress  of  his  work,  the  mighty  leader 
of  Israel,  still  half statue and half block. 
It  requires  only  a  little  cultivated  im­
agination  to catch  the  poetry  of  the  mo­
ment  and  the  man  in  that  picture. 
It 
is  only  a  thing  of  light  and  shade,  but 
for that  very  reason  it  is  a  symbol of  all 
history.

Angelo,  mallet 

and 

than 

towards 

involved 

excessive  analysis 

infinities  of  which 

“ The  healthy,”   he 

What  one  sees,  what  one  understands 
in  this  world,  is  only  a  little  light  in 
the  midst  of  darkness;  but the  darkness 
is  still  a  part  of  the  picture,  for a  thing 
all 
light  were  as  little  graphic  as  a 
thing  all  shade.  The  mind  of  man  must 
do  its  thinking  under the  seeming  con­
tradiction  of  a  mystery  that  is  in 
itself 
a  kind  of  revelation.  It  deals  with  eter­
nities  and 
it  can 
have  no  conception,  though  they  are  in­
evitably 
in  what  is  known  of 
time  and  space.  The  normal  habit  is  a 
simple  acceptance  of  these  limitations 
without  useless  and  disquieting  ques­
tionings. 
In  his  famous  essay  entitled 
•‘ Characteristics,”   Carlyle  asserts  that 
intro­
the  modern  tendency 
spection 
is 
symptomatic  of  a  deep-seated  mental 
disease. 
says, 
“ know  not of  their  health,  but  only  the 
sick;  this  is  the  physician’s  aphorism, 
and  applicable 
in  a  far  wider  sense 
than  he gives  it.  We  may  say  it  holds 
no  less  in  moral,  intellectual,  political, 
poetical, 
in  merely  corporeal 
therapeutics;  that  wherever,  or  in  what 
shape  soever,  powers  of  the  sort  which 
can  be  named  vital  are  at  work,  herein 
lies  the  test  of  their  working  right  or 
working  wrong.”  
In  support  of  this 
position  he  traverses  a  vast  deal  of 
ground,  ancient,  mediaeval  and modern 
history,  and 
seems  to  find  abundant 
illustration  of  his  thesis  in  the  annals 
of  states  and  nations,  as  well  as  in  the 
biographies  of  individual  thinkers  and 
workers. 
“ Foolish  enough,  too,”   he 
remarks  in  his queer  way,  “ was the  col­
lege  tutor’s  surprise  at  Walter  Shandy; 
how,  though  unread 
in  Aristotle,  he 
could,  nevertheless,  argue;  and  not 
knowing  the  name  of  any  dialectic tool, 
handled  them  all  to  perfection. 
Is  it 
the  skillfulest  anatomist  that cuts  the 
best  figure  at  Sadler’ s  Wells?  or  does 
the boxer hit  better  for  knowing  that he 
has  a  flexor  longus  and  a  flexor  brevis? 
But,  indeed,  as 
in  the  higher  case  of 
the  poet,  so  here  in  that  of  the  speaker 
and  inquirer,  the  true  force  is  an  un­
conscious one.  The  healthy  understand­
ing,  we  should  say,  is  not  the  logical, 
argumentative,but the  intuitive;  for  the 
is  not to  prove,
end  of  understanding 

and  find’ reasons,'but  to  know and  be­
lieve.  Of  logic,  and 
its  limits,  and 
uses  and  abuses,  there  were  much  to  be 
said  and  examined;  one  fact,  however, 
which  chiefly  concerns  us  here, has  long 
been  fam iliar;  that  the  man  of  logic 
and  the  man  of 
insight,  the  reasoner 
and  the  discoverer,  are  quite  separable 
—indeed,  for  the  most  part,  quite  sep­
arate—characters.

it 

is 

It  may be  that  Carlyle has undertaken 
to  give  this  doctrine  too  wide an  ap­
plication;  but 
indubitably  true 
that the human  mind  has  done  much  of 
its  best  work under  the  prompting of in­
tuition.  The  boy,  Benjamin  West, 
takes  a  bit  of  charcoal  and  sketches a 
neighbor’s  head  with  untutored  skill  on 
a  wall.  He  has  no  more  rule  to guide 
him 
in  catching  a  likeness than  a  bird 
has  in  building  a  nest.  Teachers  may 
help  in  the  development  of  his  genius, 
but  the  secret  of  his  power—the  thing 
that  makes  the  difference  between  the 
born  artist  and  all  other men—cannot 
be 
is 
strangest  of  all,  however,  is  the  fact 
that  it  must  remain  a  secret  for  him  as 
well  as  for  others.  But,  however  it  may 
be  philosophized  about,  this  mystery  of 
genius  is  a  real  and  positive  force,  and 
no  analysis  can  reduce  it  to  the  realm 
of  the  commonplace.  And  this  ought 
to be  the  world’s  chief  pleasure 
in  it— 
the  fact  that 
its  genesis  is  wholly  un­
mechanical,  and  that  it  is  unfettered  by 
that  chain  of  cause  and  effect  which 
binds  the  merely  logical  understanding.

schools.  What 

imparted  by 

FRANK  STOWELL.

To  Fight  Adulterated  Jams.

It has been  decided  by  the  San  Fran­
cisco Fruit  Exchange  to  take  active and 
vigorous  measures 
in  an  endeavor  to 
suppress  the  practice  of  bringing  adul­
terated  jams  and  jellies  West  from  the 
East,  and  the  Exchange  will  prosecute 
the  offenders 
evidence 
against  them  can  be obtained.  An  ap­
propriation  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors 
will be  necessary  to  make this work  suc­
cessful,  and  the  Secretary  has  been 
in­
structed  to  notify  that body  of  the deter­
mination  of  the  Exchange,  and  to  ask 
for a  conference  in  order  that  the  mat­
ter  may be  laid  before  it.

sufficient 

if 

No  Retailing  Regulation  Required.
The  Internal  Revenue  Commissioner 
receives  requests  at 
intervals,  usually 
from  country  merchants,for  information 
as  to  the  requirements  of  the  law  rel­
ative  to  selling  manufactured tobacco  at 
retail.  The  most  recent  comes  from  a 
Western  merchant,  who  asks  that  his 
name  be  registered  as  a  “ retailer  in  to­
bacco and  cigars. ’ ’  The Commissioner 
in  all  such  cases  forwards  a  copy  of 
the  regulations  and  advises  him  that  no 
registration 
is  required  of  a  dealer  in 
manufactured  tobacco.

Decreased  Onion  Crop.

We  find  by  estimates  recently  made 
in  regard  to  the  onion  crop  of  the coun­
try  that  there  will  be  an average  de­
crease  of  about  25  per  'cent,  in  the 
yield.  The  crop  this  year  is  placed  at
2.200.000 bushels,  and  with  shortage 
in 
the  domestic  crop  there  ought to be  an 
outlook  for  the  Spanish  onion,  which 
will  come  from  now  on  regularly  by 
steamers 
from
10.000 

to  35,000  crates.

anywhere 

bringing 

Clever  Advertising  Scheme.

The  cigar  manufacturers  of  Law­
rence,  Kan.,  name  their goods  after  the 
newspapers  of  the  place  and  get  adver­
tising  at half  price.

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.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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you.  W e  solicit  correspondence.
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and  Sox  at  the  k w e s t  m arket 
prices.

STUDLEY & BARCLAY,

4  MONROE  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Agents

L.  CANDEE  &  CO., 
FEDERAL  RUBBER  CO.

Ask for price list.

Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.,

12,14,16 Pearl Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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SM A R T   SA Y IN G S.

Short  Catch  Phrases  and  Pointed 

Paragraphs.

What  we  say  is  true!  What  we do  is 
legitimate!  What  we  promise 
is  ful­
filled !—Kempner  &  Warner,  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.

If  it’s  good  it’s  here. 

If  it’s  here  it’s 
cheap.—Baltimore  Shoe,  Clothing  and 
Dry  Goods  Store,  Asheville,  N.  C.

Magnetic  bargains  are  the  rule  here 
during  the  last  closing  days  of  this  re­
building  and  extension  sale.—Mayer  & 
Pettitt,  Washington.

We  want  your  mail  order  trade—will 
fill  it  same  day—will  refund  if  not  right 
—will  go  out  and  get anything  you  may 
want.—Joslin’s,  Denver.

A  head  looks  better  under  a  neat  hat, 
and  a  neat  hat  can  be  bought  for  less 
money  now  than  ever  before.—Mrs.  W. 
Weichen’s,  Portsmouth,  Ohio.
Saving  in  a  stocking  is  considered  an 
old  woman’s  way  of  banking,  but  every 
man  who  buys  sox  here  saves  money  in 
them.—Luke  Gilleran, Woonsocket, R.  I.
is 
certainty.  Here  are  exquisite  grace, 
range  and  selection  and,  above  all— 
Price—the  mediator  between beauty and 
usefulness.  Do  not  miss 
it.—Silver- 
man  Bros.,  Kansas  City.

Certainty  ends  hesitation.  Here 

.We  put  this  here  because  you’ll  see 
it.  This  is  an  invitation  to  look  at  out 
new  fall  derbies.  We’ll  be  really  glad 
to  have  you 
look—because  the  looker 
of  to-day  is  to-morrow’s  buyer.—Franc 
&  Son,  Washington.

We’ve  always  made  it  a  point  to  have 
good  big  value  for  five  dollars,  but 
this  time  we’ve  overdone  the  thing— 
have  left  hardly  enough profit  to  pay  for 
the  handling—but  we  want  the  business 
and  this  will  get 
it.—Boggs  &  Buhl, 
Pittsburg.

There’s  nothing  we  like  better than 
to  make  shirts  cheap  as  well  as good, 
placing  them  within  easy  reach of  mod­
est  means.  No  fancy  profits,  no  double 
prices.  Business 
is  solicited  only  on 
the basis  of  perfect  satisfaction.—R.  J. 
Tooke,  Montreal.

Whatever your  wants  may  be 

in  the 
staple  department  you  will 
find  our 
prices  right.  Don’t  forget  the goodness 
of  good 
important  than  the 
poorness  of  price.  Come  and  see  these 
goods  at  these  prices.—Lewis  &  Patter­
son,  Brockville,  Ont.

is  more 

Why  worry?  Here  are  the  clothes, 
here  are  the  fixings  that  will  brighten 
faces  and  gladden  hearts  of  men  and 
boys  because  of  their  stylishness,  sub­
stantialness and low-pricedness.  “ There 
are  others, ’ 1  but  none  so  good  as  Geo. 
Muse  Clothing  Co.,  Atlanta,  Ga.

We  trust  everybody,  rich  and  poor 
alike.  These  are  times  when  folks don’t 
have  much  money.  We have  plenty  of 
stock,  bought  for  cash.  Will  sell 
it  to 
you,  however,  on  time,  at  cash-store 
prices.  Pay  us  to suit  yourselves.—Peo­
ple’s  Credit  Co.,  Rochester,  N.  Y.

“ Everything  comes  to  him  who 
hustles  while  he  waits.”   We  are  busy 
now  turning  the  balance of  our  lots  of 
summer  shoes  and  Oxfords  into  cash— 
not  into  the  amount  of  cash  we  should 
fairly  get  for  them,  but  into  the  amount 
you’ll  gladly  give.—Hann,  Birming­
ham,  Ala.

In  your  visit  this  week  a 

The  foundation  of  stylish  dress 

liberal 
sprinkling  of  new  fall  goods  will  be  ob­
served. 
In  this  respect  our  store  may 
be  likened  to  the  budding  of  a  huge 
rose.  Another  week  will  see  it  blossom 
into  full  bloom,  filling  every  corner 
with  fabric 
loveliness.—Williams  & 
Rogers  Co.,  Cleveland.
is  a 
lay  that 
nobby  pair of  shoes.  We  can 
foundation  to your satisfaction.  We  are 
the  first  in  the  field  with  the  advanced 
shipments  of  advanced  styles  for  fall 
wear.  As  usual,  we  show  more  styles 
than  even  the  exclusive  shoe  houses.— 
C.  H.  Mitchell,  Detroit.
You’ll  find  us  very  much  alive  in  all 
that  means  business—and  business  that 
will  be  your business  is  what  we’re  go­
ing  to  talk  right  along.  Before  this  sea­
son  is  over  this  column  will  be  eagerly 
read  by  folks  who  “ take  no  stock”   in 
advertisements.—C. 
F.  Wing,  New 
Bedford,  Mass.

No  doubt  after  the  election  we  will 
all  he  on  the  road  to  prosperity and suc­
cess.  The  farmer  will  receive  the  high­
est  price  ever  paid  for  his  produce. 
laboring  man  will 
The  mechanic  and 
not  know  what 
it 
is  to  be  out  of  em­
ployment.  Gold  and  silver  will  be 
plentiful.  With  all  these  prospects  in 
view  cast  your  eyes  upon  the  great  bar­
gains 
in  shoes  now  on  at  Ransone— 
Garrett  Shoe  Co.’s.,  St.  Joseph,  Mo.
There  is  beauty  in  extreme  old  age  to 
the  scientist  who  is  hunting  for  mum­
mies  and  such,  but  to  the  everyday 
housewife  looking  for  palatable  edibles 
the  mold  of  old  age  is  a  delusion  and  a 
snare.  To get  fresh goods,  reliable goods 
and  low  prices,  give  us  your  orders.— 
Welch  &  Eason,  Charleston,  S.  C.
There’s  merry  selling  here.  Our 
store  just  now  is  like  a  big  merry-go 
round—with  prizes  for  every  passenger. 
The  new  prices  make  magic'  music 
Everybody'  takes  a  ride  and  there’s  a 
satisfied,glad-I’m-here expression on the 
stream  of  faces  as  they  go  marching 
through  arch  and  aisle.—Marston’s,  San 
Diego,  Cal.

Barefoot  boys  will  soon  be  wanting 
shoes  for  school  and  nowhere 
in  the 
city  can  they  be  shod  better  than  here. 
Here 
is  where  particular  attention  is 
paid  to  the  shoeing  of  boys  and  girls 
and  here 
is  where  both  qualities  and 
prices  are  within  the  bounds  of  consist­
ency.  Bring 
in  the  boys  and  the  girls 
and  let  us  fit  their  little  feet.—Geo.  W. 
Cowan,  Chatham,  Ont.

This  is  no time  for  trifling.
If  you’ve  got  a  single  dollar  to  spend 
—spend  as  though  there  wasn’t  another 
in  sight.

This  is  no  time  for  trifling—whether 
you’re  young  or old,  you  can’t  recall  a 
period  when  more  prudence  in  purchas­
ing  was  demanded  than  is  demanded  of 
you  right now.—Milner’s,  Toledo,  Ohio.

if  later  evidence  should  convince.  This 
is  the  scientific  spirit. 
In  his  doctrine 
of  evolution,  Darwin  never  said  he  was 
right;  he  simply  advanced  what  he  had 
found  to  be  true  scientifically,  and  then 
he  proposed  that,  with  the  evidence  so 
striking,  it could be  assumed  as  a  prop­
osition  not  entirely  proven  that  man 
and  the  ape  are  descended  from  the 
same  progenitor.  Darwin  never  insist­
ed  that  he  was  right,  as  so  many  who 
are  ignorant  of  what  he  did  say  allege.

A  new  copper  mining  field  is  to  be 
opened  up  near  Silver  Cliff,  in  Custer 
county,  Colo.

S Pin^

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pears  on  the  Rub­
ber of all our “Nev- 
ratcnted  erslip”  Bicycle and 
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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.

Lycoming  Rubbers  Lead  all  other 
Brands  In  Fit,  Style  and  Wearing 
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NAME  PLATE  VALUES.
The value placed upon name plates by the buyer 
is illustrated  by  the  following extract from a letter 
over  the  signature  of  a  prominent  New  York 
auctioneer:  “Wheels sold  in  this  market  without 
plates went from $17 50 up to S27 50  with plates from 
S30.I0 to 850 0 j  ”  Mr.  Dealer,  here’s a pointer for 
von to ponder over.  Buyers are not blind if some of 
hem do look silly,  they can see well enough, 
nd  can reason  well  enough  to decide the 
iifference  in  value  to them  between  a 
one.  They want to know if the maker 
to know  if he  is proud  or ashamed of 
by a firm  with  a standing reputation, 
of adversity  Buy  ¡qew   C lippers,

reputable whe^l and an illegitimate 
is in existence, and if so,  they wan 
his  product  Handle bicycles m«dt 
a firm that has weathered the storm 
and get what vou ran denend uooi

Intelligence  and  Tolerance.
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The 

There  is  a  good  deal  said  these  days 
about  the danger  from  monopolies  and 
trusts  of  trade,  which  are  depriving 
people  of  their  rights.  There  is  a  good 
deal  of  truth  in  the assertions,  but  the 
people  who  make  them  are  a  greater 
menace  to  the  country  than  are  the  mo­
nopolies  they  complain  of,  in  many  in­
stances.  Some  one  has  said  that  “ Ig­
norance 
is  sin.”   Here  we  have  the 
greatest  menace  to  the  country.  The 
ignorant  man  is  the  dangerous  man in  a 
country  like this.  The  man who schemes 
in  a trade  for  profit  may  be  an  excellent 
citizen  so  far  as  his  public  conduct 
is 
concerned;  he  will  carry  through  his 
deal  for  profit  and  then  he  settles  down 
and  no  more  is  heard  of  him ;  he  is  in­
telligent  and  he  is  patriotic;  his  fault 
was 
in  wishing  to  make  more than  a 
legitimate  profit.  That  is  the  weakness 
of  the  trusts.

ignorant  man 
is  a  constant 
menace 
in  the  republic,  because,  no 
matter  how  good  his  intentions  may  be, 
his  action  may  be  wrong,  and  when 
in  the  majority,  as  it 
ignorance  gets 
least,  there  will 
may,  theoretically  at 
be  danger  for  the  country. 
If  the  hand 
be  placed  on  a  hot  stove 
it  will  be 
burned,  and 
it  makes  no  difference 
whether  the act  was  intentional  or  ac 
cidental.  There  are  a  great  many  ig­
norant  persons 
in  the  country  who  do 
not  intend  to  be  ignorant,  but  the  fact 
that  they  are  makes  the  danger 
just  as 
great,  barring  the  single  fact  that  they 
may  be  good  citizens.  A  good  citizen 
is  less  dangerous,  generally, 
ignorant 
than  a  bad  citizen 
ignorant;  but  the 
general  welfare  supposes  that there shall 
be  no  ignorance  so far  as general  prin­
ciples  are  concerned.
The  less  a  man  knows  the  more  pos­
itive  he 
in  his  opinion.  Did  you 
ever  observe  this?  The  educated  man 
understands  that  the  world  has  many 
things  to  learn,  and  he  generally  leaves 
a  loophole  in  his  opinion  for  escape. 
He  says, 
instead  of  “ I 
know.”   He  allows  other  people  to 
have  an  opinion,  although  he  may  be 
fully  persuaded  that  his  own  is  right. 
This  does  not  mean that opinions should 
not  be  held ;  it  means  that the  opinions 
should  be  sufficiently  elastic  to  permit 
of  the  acceptance  of  a  contrary opinion,

“ I  think”  

is 

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T h e  
S t im p s o n  
b e a t s   th e   w o rld .

L .  M .  T H O R N ,  
S a lin e ,  M ic h .

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.

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ELKHART,  INDIANA.

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Trimmed Fedora walking Hats

in cloth, stitched  brims, $4.50 
per dozen and upwards.

Trimmed Sailors

in cloth, $2.00 per dozen.

Satin Grown Sailors

$3.00 per dozen and upwards.

Try sample order.

G O R L ,  K N O T T   &   C O .,

W H O LESALERS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

HAMMOCKS

$7.00 to $42.00 per dozen.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co

Wholesale  Dry Goods

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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The  Grocer  Who  Knew  It  All. 

Stroller in Grocery World.

I _ have  always  asked  Heaven  to  de 
liver  me  from  the  man  who knows  i. 
all. 
If  there  is  a  worse  nuisance  on  the 
face  of  the  earth,  I ’ve never  met  him 
and  I ’m  pretty  good  authority  on  nui 
sances.
I  ran  across  one  of  these  men  who 
knew  it all  a  few days  ago,  and  I  was 
able  to  take such  a  rise  out  of  him  that 
I  really  didn’t  regret  having  met  him. 
I  did  him  some good,  too,  for  I  taught 
him  that  there  were  a  few  things 
this  world  that  he  wasn’t aware  of.
into  this  man’s  store  to  sell 
goods,  and  while  there  I  took  occasion 
to  mention  the  name  of  a  leading  trade 
journal.

I  went 

“ Oh,  I  don’t  believe  in  one  of  them 
trade  papers, ”   sniffed  the  grocer  who 
it  all,  contemptuously;  * * they 
knew 
can’t teach  me  nothin’. ’ ’

“ Think  they  can’t,  eh?’ ’  I  asked. 
“ Don’t  think  nothin’  about  it,”   he 
said.  “ I  know  it.  Why,  man,  I ’ve,been 
in  the  grocery  business  off an’  on  for 
eighteen  year,  and  what  I  don’t  know 
about  it ain’t  wuth  knowin’. ”   And  he 
wagged  his  head  complacently  like 
dog  who  has  just  chased  a  cat.
a  customer  or  two,  and 
weighing  out a  pound  of  rice  the 
inside  of  one  of  his  weights  fell  out.

While  I  sat there  the grocer  waited on 
in  process  of 
lead 
“ Guess  I ’ll  have  to  git  some  new 
“ These  is  a  gittin 

weights,"  he  said. 
worn  out. ’ ’

“ Better  wait,”   I  said. 

“ The  next 
Congress  is  going  to  pass  a  law  putting 
the  metric  system  in  force  in  place  of 
the  system  you’re  using,  and  then  you 
can't  use these  weights. ”
the grocer  who  knew  it  all.

“ The  which?”   intelligently  observed 
“ Why,  the  metric  system,"  I  said 
“ N—,  yes,  oh  yes,  why,  certainly,  of 
course. 
I  know  what the mutrig  sistern 
is;  why,  certainly  I  do,  but  I  don’t  be 
lieve  Bryan  will  be  elected.”

“ Don’t  you  know  what  that  is?’ ’

"What  the  mischief  has  Bryan 

to 
do with  the  metric  system?”   I inquired 
“ What  has  he  got  to  do  with  it?’ 
asked  the grocer,  to  gain  time. 
“ Why, 
he’s got a  good  deal  to  do  with  it,  ain’t 
he?  A in’t  he  for  silver?  An’  ain’t  the 
mutrick  sistern,  or  whatever  you  call 
it—ain’t  that  a  sort  of  a  —well,  ain’t 
that—ain’t 
it  something  of  the  same 
sort,  I ’d  like  to  know?”   He  stopped 
with  a  very 
of 
triumph.

assumption 

I  began  to  laugh.  The  old  fellow’s 
feathers  were  all  ruffled  up,  and  he 
looked  as  sheepish  as  any  Southdown 
I  ever saw.

lame 

idea,  man, ’ '  I  said.

“ No,  no,  you  have  got  the  wrong 
“ I  guess  maybe  I  have,”   said  the 
it  all,  making  the 
“ What  is  your  idea 

grocer  who  knew 
best  of  a  bad  job. 
of  this  mutrig  sistern,  anyhow?”

“ It’s  a  system  of  weights  and  meas­
ures,  to  take  the  place  of  the  present 
ones, ’ ’  I  answered.

“ Sbo!  ye  don’t  say!”   ejaculated  this

“ Well,  then,  there  are  some  things 
about  the  grocery  business  you  don’t 
know,  are  there?”   I 
for  I 
couldn't help  it.  “ Let  me  say  to  you 
that  many  of  the  trade  journals  have 
had  article  after article  on  this  metric 
system,  and  if  you  had  read  them you’d 
possibly  know  a  little  about  the  sub­
je ct ”

inquired, 

my  mind  to  keep  him  there.

He  got  red  and  kept  still.
I  had  him  on  the  run,  and  I  made  up 
“ As  I  go  around  the  country,”  
I 
said,  “ I ’m  getting  the  opinions  of  gro­
cers  on  the  use of  salicylic  acid  in  food 
products. 
I ’d  like  to  have  yours.  What 
do  you  think  about  it?”

“ What  do  I  think  about  it?”   repeat­
ed  the  grocery  cyclopaedia,  sparring 
for  some  time  again. 
“ Why,  I  think 
it  ought  to—that  is—well,  I don’t  know, 
after all,  but  I  think  it  ought  not  to  be 
—er—you  ain’t  writin’  this  down, 
are  ye?”

“ Y es,”   I  said;  “ I ’m  preserving  the 
data  I  collect  for  a  certain  manufac­
turer. ’ ’

“ A n’  ye  want  my  opinion,  do  ye?”  
said  the grocer,  trying  to get his  wind.
“ Why,  yes,”   I  said. 
“ Haven’t  you 
any?”
“ Sure,”   was  the  reply,  and  then, 
“ Well,  I  think  sally—er 
it—ought  to  be 

desperately: 
—er—what—you  call 
used. ’ ’

“ What!”   I  said,  in  a  purposely  loud 
tone,  “ you  mean  to  say  that  you  think 
salicylic  acid  ought  to  be  used  in  food 
products?”

“ What?”   said  the  grocer  weakly, 
“ well,  yes,  I  don’t  think  it  ought—that 
is—why shouldn’t  it  be  used,  I ’d 
like 
to  know?”   he  said,  belligerently,  hop­
ing  my  answer  would  give  him  some 
clue  to  what he  was  talking  about.

“ Well,  well,”   I  said,  “ you  certainly 
are  a  curiosity.  Now, what food products 
do  you  think  salicylic  acid  ought  to  be 
used  in?”
it all  looked 

The  grocer  who  knew 

about  him  desperately.

“ Well,”  he  finally  said,  taking  a leap 
n  the  dark,  ‘ ‘ er—bams. ’ ’
I  burst  out  laughing,  while  the gro­
cer  stood  looking  like a  schoolboy  with 
a  fool’s  cap  on.

I  asked.
I  don’t, 

Why  don’t  you  own  up  like a  man 
anything 
and  say  you  don’t  know 
about  it? 
“ Well, 
the 
cyclopaedia,  defiantly.
“ Didn’t  you  tell  me  a  minute ago 
that  you  knew  everything  about  the gro­
cery  business?”   I  said.

then!”   said 

“ Don’t  you  git  too  funny,  now!”   he 
“ I ’m  a  bad  man  when  I 

ejaculated. 
git  riled. ”

‘ My  advice  to  you,  my  friend,”   I 
said,  as  I 
left  him  to  cool  off,  “ is  to 
get  a  good  trade  paper,  and  read  it 
every  week ;  then  by  the  time  I  come 
round  again,  you’ll  know  more.”
He  muttered  something,  and  I  went 
it 

out.  He  no  longer  thinks  he  knows 
all.

inches 

The  biggest  rope  ever  used  for  haul­
age  purposes  has  just  been  made  for a 
^¡strict  subway 
in  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
is  seven  miles  long,  four and  five- 
t 
in  circumference  and 
eighths 
eighs  nearly  sixty  tons. 
It  has  been 
made 
in  one  unjointed  and  unspliced 
length  of  patent  crucible  steel.  When 
in  place  it  will  form  a  complete  circle 
around  Glasgow,  crossing  the  Clyde 
in 
its  course,  and  will  run  at  a  speed  of 
fifteen  miles  an  hour.

The  San  Francisco  Call  says  that 
there  are  at  least  200  people  walking 
the  streets  of  San  Francisco  in  good 
health  and  likely  to  live  many  years, 
who  have  already  arranged  the  details 
of  their  funerals.  They  have  selected 
the coffins  in  which  they  will  be buried, 
and  paid  cash  for the  same,  as  well  as 
for  the  burial  plat,  hearse,  etc.”

Floating  beds  of  seaweed,  which  are 
often  met  with  in  mid*ocean,  have  been 
observed  to  reduce  the  height  of  waves, 
'ike  oil  thrown  upon  the  water.  Tak- 
ng advantage  of  this  fact,  a  French­
man  has  invented  a  thin cotton or silken 
net  to  answer  the  same  purpose.

Why 

is  a  restiess  man  in  bed  like  a 
lawyer?  Because  he  lies  on  one  side, 
then  turns  around  and  lies  cn  the  other.

The  Tourist  of Trade.

His language Is artless and free.
And his fund of good jokes is immense;
His handshake is hearty and warm,
And bis manners polite to intense.
His clothes fit him snugly and trim,
His necktie’s way up in the style;
His hat is the latest thing out,
And he wears a genial smile.
He has the time table by heart,
He is “chummy” at all the hotels;
He calls the trade by their first name,
And leaves copies of all goods he sells.
His trunk is just packed with “big jobs ” 
He throws out his pet little “baits; ”
He’s determined to sell his new man 
So he offers him all sorts of “dates.”

The trade never wants any goods_
But he gets a man started, and then 

He’s accustomed to slights and rebuff—
He can scarce wait a day for his “stuff.”

Oh. a jolly bright fellow is he,
This tourist of commerce and trade;
Don’t call him a “drummer,” forsooth, 
He’s a full band complete on parade.

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Michigan Knights of the Grip. 

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

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Chancellor, H.  Ü.  Marks,  Detroit ;  Secretary, 
Edwin Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  Geo. A.  Rey­
nolds,  Saginaw.

Michigan Division, T. P. A.

President, Geo. F. Owen,  Grand  Rapids ;  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer,  J as.  B.  McInnes,  Grand 
Rapids.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, J. H. McKelvey.

President, A. F. Peake, Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  of Directors—F.  M.  Tyler, H.  B.  F air- 
child, Gbo. F. Owen,  J.  Henry  Dawley,  Geo. 
J. Hbinzelman, Chas. S.  Robinson.

Gripsack  Brigade.
The  greatest  salesman  on 

earth— 

Price.

Politics  and  business  don’t  make  a 

winning  trade  ticket.

The  confidence  of  your  trade  is  your 

most  valuable  asset.

Many  a  traveling  man  loses  his  trade 
by  changing  to  an  inferior  house on  the 
temptation  of  a  larger  salary.

These  are  the  days  of  small  things  as 
little 

well  as  of  great  things. 
things  that  make  the  big  ones.

It  is  the 

The  links  in  the  chain  that binds your 
customers  to  you  must  be  carefully 
watched  if  you  desire  increase  in  your 
trade.

To  the  commercial  traveler the public 
owes  the  rectification  of  many  abuses 
by  railroad  companies  and  extortionate 
hotel  men.

The most  conspicuous,  the  most  cele­
brated  and  the  most  thoroughly  dis­
cussed  animals 
in  all  bug-dom  to-day 
are  the  gold  and  silver bugs.

“ If  you  don’t  sell to your trade,  some­
body  else  will. ”   Therefore  take  a  back 
seat  for  no  one  and  you  will  accomplish 
what  you  are  sent  out 
for—to  make 
sales.

W.  S.  Cooper,  traveling representative 
for  Brown  Bros.,  has  returned  from  a 
ten  days’  visit  to  the  old  home  at  Mar­
athon,  N.  Y .,  where  he  met  the  friends 
of  his boyhood  days.

Croakers  are  those  who  habitually 
look  on  the gloomy side of  things,  hence 
they  are  nowhere  made  welcome,  while 
fellow  makes  a  wonderful 
the  cheerful 
influence 
in  drawing  an  order out  of  a 
buyer.

The  truly  successful  salesman  is quiet 
seldom  or  never  mentions  his 
and 
in  this  plan. 
sales.  There 
Why  should  he  advertise  his  good  trade 
and  give  competitors  pointers,  that they 
may  go and  secure  the  sales?

is  policy 

Undesirable  accounts  are turned down 
to-day  as  never  before  and  these  are 
also  the  days  when  a  man’s  true  worth 
is  weighed  on  finer  scales  than  ever  be­
fore,  when  not  only  his  wealth  is  con­
sidered a  factor,  but  also  his  health,  his 
habits  and  his  whole  life.

The  greatest  success  among  business 
men  is  to be  found  among  men  who  do 
only  a  portion  of the required  work,  and 
who  gather  around  them  men  of  proper 
capabilities  for  each  of  the  various  di­
visions  of  the  business.  The  require­
ments  of  modern  business  are  so  multi­
farious  that  no  man  can  do them  all and 
do  them  with  equal  success.

There  are  houses  who  seem  to  have 
no  faith  in  human  nature  and  look upon 
their  traveling  force  as  so  many  human 
machines  capable  of  grinding  out  so 
many  orders  at  so  much  profit  per day.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

What  s  more,  they  take  no  interest  in 
their  employes,  care  not  whether they 
sink  or swim,  so  long  as  they  are  able 
to  accomplish  the  results  mentioned.

The  borrower 

is  the  developer and 
his  interests  are  important.  He 
is  the 
man  of  push  and  enterprise.  He  de­
velops  the  country,  opens  new  farms, 
builds  factories  and  railways  and  has, 
in  fact,  a  finger  in  “ almost  every  new 
p ie.’ ’  He  is  the  man  who  supports  the 
banker  and  the  lender.  Without  him 
there  would  be  but  precious  little  use 
for  our banking  system.
impression  that 

the  traveling 
man  is  usually  dissolute,  immoral  or  a 
stranger  to  truth  is  not correct.  No  man 
works  harder  than  he and  his  time  is  so 
taken  up  that  he  could  not,  if  he would, 
engage  in  the  pastimes  with  which  he 
is  credited.  The  traveling  salesman  we 
meet  to-day 
is  a  man  of  fine  natural 
ability,  noble  feelings  and  with  a  heart 
easily  reached,  and  if  a  man  ought  to 
be  well  treated  it  is  he.

The 

“ I 

like  to  get  hold  of  a  buyer  who 
knows  his  business,’ ’  observed  a  local 
traveling  salesman. 
“ In  other  words, 
I  like  to  do  business  with  a  man  who 
can  appreciate  what  I  tell  him  for  ex­
actly  what 
it  is  worth.  Such  a  man  I 
can  do  business  with  in  a  very  satisfac­
tory  manner,  because,  if I am telling the 
truth  about  my  line,  he  knows  it,  and  is 
equally  well  aware 
if  I  am  misrepre­
senting  things  or  making  false  state­
ment.  There  are  many  men  who  buy 
goods  who  know  very  little  about  them. 
Such  men  are  always  suspicious  and 
inclined  to  doubt  statements  that  are 
made  about  the  construction  of  goods; 
in  fact,  they  are  very skeptical  concern­
ing  a salesman’s  statements  in a  general 
way,  for  they  think  they know  it  all  and 
hence  are  very  hard  men  to  sell  goods 
to. 
I ’ll  take  a  buyer  everytime  who 
thoroughly understands my  line  in  pref­
erence  to one who does not,  as I am  more 
certain  to  sell  him .’ ’

“ Do  you  know  that  the  traveling 
saleswoman,  or,  as  the  papers  call  her, 
the  drummer  woman,  is  attracting some 
attention  at  the  present  time?”   re­
marked  a  traveling  man  the  other  day. 
“ I  am  of  the  opinion  that  she  has  en­
tered  American  commercial  life to  stay, 
and  the boys  on  the  road  are  obliged  to 
recognize  the  fact.  Whereas,  ten  years 
ago,  a  traveling  saleswoman  was  looked 
upon  with  curiosity and some suspicion, 
she  now  packs  her  grip  and  comes  and 
goes  as  she  pleases. 
It  seems  that  this 
portion  of  business,  which  has  hither­
sacred  to  men,  has  been 
to  been 
as  successfully 
invaded  as  the  profes­
sions  of  lawyer and  physician  and  other 
lines  of  work. 
If a  woman  can  sell  cal­
icoes  or  ribbons  in  a  dry  goods  store  at 
$3  to $5  a  week,  there  is  no  reason  why 
she  cannot  enlarge  her  usefulness  by 
selling  goods  by  sample  and at the same 
time  make  a  respectable  living  out  of 
it. 
In  my  line,  paints  and  oils,  there 
are  already  quite  a  number  of  women 
on  the  road,  and  in  every 
instance,  so 
far as  I  am  aware,  they  are  doing  good 
work. ’ ’

Strictly  Business.

Hustling  Commercial  Traveler—Miss 
Carrie,  I’ve  been  around  a  good  deal, 
and  I’m  a  good 
I ’m 
ready  to  marry  and  settle  down,  and 
I’ve  picked  you  out  for  a  wife.  Does  it 
go?

judge  of  girls. 

Handsome Young Milliner—It  doesn’t 

go,  Mr.  Swimmalick.

Commercial  Traveler—All right,  Miss 
Carrie.  What  can  I  show  you  in  rib­
I ’ve  got  the  golwhop- 
bons  to-day? 
pinest  lot  you  ever  saw.

Conservative  Condition  of  the  Cloth­

ing  Business.
From the Clothing Trade Journal.

The  largest  part  of  the  heavy-weight 
business  has  been  done,  and,  with  the 
exception  of  the  fancy  goods  which 
have  been  taken  to  brighten  up  stocks, 
it  has  been  largely  a  piecing-out  busi­
ness.  That  is,  the  majority  of clothiers 
have  carried  over  considerable  stocks 
of  staple  garments  from  the  last  heavy­
weight  season,  and  have  restricted  their 
purchases  to  filling  the  numbers  on  va­
rious  staple  lines  which  had  been  de­
pleted.  City clothiers  and  those  in  large 
towns  have  bought  fancy  goods  with 
some  freedom,  but  the  country  clothier 
has  taken  small  supplies  of  such  goods 
and  those  have  been  of  the  less  extreme 
colorings  and  designs. 
larger 
clothiers  will  have  to buy  many  more 
goods  if  their  trade  is  only  of  moderate 
proportions,  but  the country  dealer  and 
the  smaller  houses  will  confine  their 
future  orders  to  staple  goods  and  do 
little  more  than  keep  their  stocks  com­
plete.

The 

is  a 

taken 

inventory, 

September 

The  experience  of  a  retail  clothier  in 
inhabit­
a  Western  town  of  about  8,ooo 
fair  barometer  of  trade 
ants 
throughout  the  country,  and  of  the  fu­
ture  course  of  business'.  This  clothier 
makes  about $3,000  a  year,  clear  profit, 
from  his  business  in  an ordinary season. 
His 
1, 
showed  that  he  had 
lost  $100  on  last 
season’s  trade,  and  that  he  had  $9,000 
worth  of  stock  on  hand,  where  he  ordi­
narily  would  have  $6,000  worth.  This 
stock  consisted  entirely  of  staple  goods, 
more  largely  of  suits  and  overcoats  than 
of  trousers.  He has  $2,000  and  $3,000 
in  outstanding  accounts,  of  which  he 
could  force  the  collection  of  90  per 
cent.,  if  necessary.  He  does  not owe  a 
cent  to  any  one,  but  in  this  respect 
differs  from  about  50  per  cent,  of  the 
retail  clothing trade,  as  fully  that  per­
centage  is  being  carried  by wholesalers. 
The  store  in  question  draws  its  custom 
from  a  farming  community  whose  crops 
are  well  diversified  and  promise  good 
returns  when  harvested,  since  they were 
never  more  bountiful.  Owing  to  poor 
crops  in  previous  seasons  the  majority 
of  the  community  are  not 
free  from 
debt;  neither are  they  burdened  in  this 
respect.  They  have been  economizing 
in  every  way  during  the  last  two  years, 
and  with  confidence  restored  they  will 
have  the  wherewithal  to  make  large 
needful  purchases  this  winter.  Not­
withstanding  the  fairly  favorable  out­
look,  there 
is  too  much  uncertainty 
afloat,  and  stocks  are  too  large  to  war­
rant  this  clothier  in  making  anything 
but  absolutely  necessary purchases.  He 
has  purchased  sufficient  staple  stuff  of 
the  cheapest  kind  t» fill  up  his  sizes, 
and  has  bought  a  small  assortment  of 
fancy  suits  to  brighten  up  his  stock. 
He  says  he  will  buy  no  more  fancy 
goods,  and  will  purchase  only  enough 
goods  later on  to  keep  his  line of staples 
It  is  with  such  retailers  as 
complete. 
illustrated  that  the  great  bulk 
the  one 
of  the  clothing  business  is  done,  and 
the  condition  of  this  house 
is  as  good 
as  the average.  The  point  we wish  to 
emphasize  is  that  clothiers  have  had 
every  reason  to  pursue  their  conserva­
tive  methods  of  buying  and  selling; 
they  do  not  care  to  sell  those  bouses 
which  they  are  carrying  any more  goods 
than  are  needed  to  keep  them  moving, 
and  those  firms  whose  credit  is all  right 
simply  will  not  buy  more goods  than 
are  absolutely  necessary  to  meet  their 
minimum  requirements.  As  soon  as 
confidence  is  restored  and  light  can  be 
seen  ahead,  the  present  conservative 
methods  will  be  relaxed  and  a  freer 
movement  of  goods  will  ensue.  Such 
recovery  will  not  help  the  mills 
in  the 
present  heavy  weight  season,  but  it  will 
be  felt  in  the  light-weight  business.

To  circumvent  the  law  requiring  a 
$500  license  in  order  to  sell  cigarettes 
the  tobacco  dealers  of  Fort  Wayne, 
Ind.,  are  selling  campaign  buttons  and 
“ throwing  in’ ’  the  cigarettes.

Why  is  a  chicken  pie  like  a  gun­
contains 

Because 

it 

smith’s  shop? 
fowlin’  pieces.

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

COM M ERCIAL  HOUSE

Lighted  by  Electricity.  Heated  by  Steam. 

Iron  Mountain,  Mich.
All modern conveniences.
$ 2   P E R   D A Y .

______ IRA  A.  BEAN,  Prop.

THE WIERENGO

E. T. PENNOYER, Manager,

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

HOTEL  BURKE

Q.  R.  &  I.  Eating  House.

CADILLAC,  MICH.

All modern conveniences.

C. BURKE, Prop. 

W. 0. HOLDEN, Mgr.

piiGDael Kolb & Son,

Wholesale

Clothing  Manufacturers,

ROCHESTER,  N.  Y.

Mail  orders  promptly  attended to, or write  our 
representative,  WILLIAM  CONNOR,  of  Mar­
shall, Mich., to call upon you  and  you  will  see 
a replete line for all sizes and ages, or meet him 
at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  RapidB,  Friday, 
October  2nd,  where  he  will  remain  until 
Tuesday evening, October 6th.

Michigan’ Popular Hotel. 

Remodeled and Refitted Throughout.

Cor.  Monroe  and  Wabash  Aves.,

CHICAGO.

Moderate  rates  and  special  attention  to  De­
troit and Michigan  guests.  Located  one  block 
from the business center  Come and see ns. 
GEO. CUMMINGS HOTEL CO.,

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

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

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Drugs°=Chemicals

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.

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

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- C. A. Bugbee, Traverse City
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S. E. Parkill, Owosso
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit 
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-  A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor 
- 
-  Geo. Gundrum, Ionia

President, C. A. Bugbee, Tjaverse City. 
Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. 
Treasurer, Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

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

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. P hillips,  Armada.
Secretary, B. Schrouder, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Chas. Mann, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. Webber, Cadillac; 
H. G. Colman, Kalamazoo;  Geo.  J.  Ward,  St. 
Clair;  A.  B.  Stevens,  Detroit;  F.  W.  R. 
Perry, Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.

Acetanilid—The  firm  feeling  among 

manufacturers  still  continues.

Acids—Quotations  for  benzoic,  car­
bolic  and  salicylic  acids  have  not as 
yet been  advanced,  although  there  has 
been  a  steady  improvement  abroad  as 
to benzole and  other  coal  tar  products.
is 
ruling  nominally  steady.  Wood,  steady.
Arsenic—Powdered  white,  market 
fairly  steady,  with  demand  from  con­
suming  channels  a  trifle  better.

Alcohol—Grain, 

first  hands, 

in 

Balsams—The 

firm,  active  market 
last  week  for  copaiba  still  con­
noted 
tinues.  Tolu 
in  good  demand  and 
prices  have  advanced,  on  account  of 
extreme  scarcity.  The  dulness  which 
has  characterized  Peru  still  continues. 
Not  much demand  for  Canada  fir.

is 

Beans—All  varieties  of  vanilla  are 

strong,  with  good  consuming demand.

Cacao  Butter—The  spot  stock  of  bulk 

is  still  iight  and  prices  are  firm.

Cantharides—Firm.
Cassia  Buds—Demand  from  consum­

ers  is  fairly'  active.  Values  firm.

Castor  Oil—Fair  average  volume  of 
business,  but  competition  has  resulted 
in  an  easier  market  and  prime  quality 
has  met  with  a  reduction  at  hands  of 
manufacturers.

Cinchonidia—Very 

firm,  owing  to 
reduced  supply.  The  movement  within 
the  last  few  days  has  been  very  satis­
factory  and  an  advance  is  looked  for  in 
the  near  future.  The  better  condition 
is  supposed  to  be  due  to  a  circular  re­
cently  issued  as  to  cinchonine,  coupled 
with  the  fact  that  the  stock  of  old 
cinchonidia  abroad  is  about  exhausted 
and  that this  alkaloid  is  no  longer  ob­
tainable  from  the  Java  barks.

Cod  Liver  Oil—Tone  of  the  market 
seems  to  improve  as  the  season  ad­
vances.

Colocynth  Apples—Prices  continue 

firm.

Cream  Tartar—No  change 

in  manu­

facturers’  prices.

Essential  Oils—Anise,  still  firm,  and 
cassia  is  firmer  than  of 
late.  Penny­
royal  has  experienced a reduction.  Mar­
ket 
for  bulk  peppermint  shows  no 
change  as  to  its  irregularity.  Rose,  de­
clined.  Sassafras,  a  very  firm  feeling 
prevails.

Flowers—All  descriptions  of  chamo­
mile  are  very  strong  and  tone  of  the 
market  is  upward.  American  saffron 
remains  unchanged  and  steady.

Glycerine—Moderate  attention  given 
Prices  un­

jobbing  parcels  only. 
changed.

Gums—Asafoetida, 

fair  consuming 
demand,  with  quotations  strong.  Cam­
phor,  values  steady  and  business  of 
fair  seasonable  volume.  Gamboge,  life­
less.  Firm  prices  for  kino  still  obtain.
Leaves—Short  buchu  and  senna  are 
receiving  the  most  attention;  but  the 
is  not  particularly  active  and
market 

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

there  is  no  special  change  as  to  quota­
tions  of any  descriptions.
Lycopodium—Demand 

very  active 

and  stocks  are  rapidly  decreasing.

Morphine—Still  quiet,  prices  without 

nominal  change.

Quinine—Market  continues  active.
Seeds—The  depressed  situation  of  the 
foreign  market  in  regard  to  sifted  Ital­
ian  anise  affects  values  here  for that 
article,  and  prices  are,  therefore,  slow 
and  more  or  less  nominal.  Canary, 
dull  as to  all  varieties,  enquiry  being 
but 
light.  Dutch  caraway,  demand 
active.  Celery  has  again  declined. 
Poppy  is bettering  its  condition.  Cor­
iander  is  without  change  and  nominally 
steady.  Whole  cleaned  flaxseed  has  de­
clined.  Russian  hemp, 
jobbing 
request  and  steady.

fair 

in 

jobbing  quantities  at 

Sponges—Slow  movement  is reported, 
mostly 
the 
former  range  of  prices.  No  new de­
velopments  as  to  primary  markets.
Sugar  of  Milk—Scarce  and 

firm, 
there  being  an  active  demand  from con­
suming  sections,  and, 
for  the  time, 
prominent  manufacturers  are  obliged  to 
decline  to  fill  orders.

Venice  Turpentine—Market tame and 

featureless.

Drinks  Ether  by  the  Quart.
From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune,

it 

It 

is  generally 

The  habit  acquired  by  John  Beck­
man,  a  shoe  laster, 
living  on  New 
street,  presents  one of  the  most peculiar 
cases  known  to  the  medical  profession. 
In  fact,  medical  history  does  not cite 
an  instance  where  a  person  addicted  to 
a  similar  habit  has gone  to the extremes 
reached  by  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Mr.  Beckman  is a habitual user of  ether. 
He  not  only  uses 
it  in  the  customary 
way  of  administering  it,  by  inhalation, 
but  he also  drinks  it  in large quantities.
Ether  is  a  powerful  anaesthetic,  hav­
ing  a  similar  influence  to  that of chloro­
It  is  classed  as  one of  the  dead­
form. 
ly  poisons,  and  the  druggist  selling it  is 
required  by  law  to  place  upon  the  bot­
tle  the  customary  red  poison  label  with 
skull  and  crossbones. 
is  rarely  ad­
ministered  internally,  owing to its dead­
ly  influence,  but  when  it  is  found  nec­
essary 
in  the  form  of 
“ Hoffman  drops,’ ’  a  solution  composed 
of  seven  parts  alcohol  to  one  of  ether. 
A  dose 
in  this  form  is  fifteen  drops. 
Ether  is  also  highly 
inflammable,  and 
when  a  person  acquires  the  habit  of 
drinking  it,  the  breath,  and  even  the 
exhalation  from  the  pores  of  the  skin, 
will  easily becomefignited  by  fire  and 
cause  serious  consequences.
* * Hoffman drops’ ’would no longer have 
any  effect  upon  Mr.  Beckman, 
for  he 
now  uses  the  drug  so  freely that  it  re­
quires  almost  one quart  a  day  to  satisfy 
his  desires.  He  purchases 
it  in  six- 
ounce  bottles,  paying  for  the  same  40 
cents,  and  he  makes  five  and  six trips  a 
day  to  the  drug  store  where  he  is  ac­
customed  to  buy  the  drug.  He  takes  it 
to  his  room  and  goes on an ether ‘ ‘ jag, ’ ’ 
sleeping  for  hours,  until  the  effects 
wear off,  when  he  again  replenishes  his 
bottle.  Sometimes  when  his  money  is 
plentiful  he buys  it  in  pound  packages; 
then  he  remains  in  his  room  and  sleeps 
the  hours  away  and  dreams  a  dream 
that would  do  justice  to an  opium  fiend.
He  was  remonstrated  with  by  the 
druggist  the other day,  and  he  replied, 
“ Oh,  I  have  such  sweet  dreams!’ ’ 
It 
is  not  only 
in  his  room  that  Beckman 
takes  the  drug,  for he  carries  his  bottle 
with  him  on  the  street,  to his  barber 
shop  and  elsewhere,  and  he  can  be 
frequently  seen  by  his  acquaintances 
taking  a  smell  or a  drink  from  his  bot­
tle.  The  lack  of  money  sometimes puts 
a  stop  to  his  protracted  “ sprees.”   As 
soon  as  he  straightens  up  sufficiently  he 
goes  back  to  work  at  the  factory  and 
labors 
accumulate 
money  to  resume  his  habit.  During 
his  sprees  he  eats  nothing.  He  just 
sleeps. 
Recently  he  has  become  so 
inebriated  by  the  use  of  the  drug  that 
he  could  not  do  his  work  at  the  factory 
to the  satisfaction  of  his  employers,^and

industriously 

to 

Mr.  Beckman’s  story 

he  lost  his  job.  As  he has  no  family or 
friends 
in  the  city,  his  condition  is  a 
precarious  one.  Already  his  credit  at 
the  drug  store  is  beyond  the  limit,  and 
when  further  time  is  denied  him  where 
he  will  then  get  the  drug  which  has 
now become  essential  to his existence  is 
not known.
is  a  pathetic 
one.  He  was born  of  honest  but  poor 
parents 
in  a  small  town  in  West V ir­
ginia.  His  father  was  a  shoemaker, 
and  the  son  at  an  early  age  was  pressed 
into  service  to  help  about the shop.  The 
young  lad  was  quick  to  learn,  and  soon 
became  proficient  as  a  shoemaker,  but 
he  was ambitious to  hold  a  higher  posi­
tion  in  life  than  that of  an artisan.  He 
saved  his  money,  and  when  he  was  23 
years  old  he  began  studying  medicine. 
All  the  books  treating  on  the  subject 
which  he  could  secure  in  his  town  he 
practically  devoured,  pouring over  them 
night and  day  until  he  was  25 years  old. 
He  then  went  to  a  medical  college  in 
Maryland. 
Four  years  afterward  he 
graduated,  but  while  at  the  college he 
began 
inhaling  ether,  and  the  habit 
grew  upon  him.  He  returned  to  his 
former  home  and  threw  his  shingle  to 
the  winds,  but  what  practice  he got  he 
neglected  through  his  habits.  He 
moved  from  town  to  town,  but  could 
not 
the  ungovernable  desire 
which  had  sprung  up  within  him.  At 
last  he  came  here,  and  being  out of 
money,  he  made  no  effort  to  practice 
medicine.  He  secured  work  in  the  shoe 
factory,  and  but  a  few  of  his  most  inti­
mate  acquaintances  learned  anything  of

shake 

his  past history  He  has  one  acquaint­
ance  in  this  city,  a  doctor,  in  whom  he 
confides,  and  with  whom  he  frequently 
talks  over  the  effects  of  his  habit.  He 
has  no  desire  to  stop  the  use  of  ether, 
for the  temporary  delight  it brings  him 
is  now  dearer  than  life.
GINSENG  ROOT

Highest price paid by

Write us. 

P E C K   B R O S .

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

Pound at Last

Fruit Preservative Compound
Guaranteed to keep your cider  and  fruits  pure  and  sweet  without  changing their flavor or color. 
No  salicylic  acid  or  ingredients  injurious  to  the  health.  Send  for circulars  to  manufacturer,

J.  L.  CONGDON  &  CO.,  Pentwater,  Mich.

Congdon’s 

Cider Saver and 

SMO KET HEHAZIE L

5  CENT  CIGAR.

Hand made long Havana filler.  Send me a trial order.  Manufactured by

W M .   T E G G B ,   D E T R O IT .  M IC H .

THE  JIM  HAMMELL 
HAMMELL’S  LITTLE  DRUMMER  AND 
HAMMELL’S  CAPITAL  CIGARS

are made of the best imported stock.

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Sold by all Jobbers—*3.00 per doz.  Pays a  big profit. 

years’ test.  Beware 01 imitations made to look like Ciderine. 

Is  reliable—20 

Manufactured by

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
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. & P.
©  1  00
D- Co.................... 
Picis Liq. N.N.Hgal.
doz........................ 
@ 200
Picis Liq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
©  50
Piper Nigra...po.  22  @ 1 8
©  30
Piper Alba....po.  35 
Pilx  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10©  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10©  1  20 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  1 25
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
27@  30
Quassi®..................  
8©  10
31©  36
Quinia, S. P.  W .. 
25©  30
Qu in ia, S. German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............  
29©  34
Kubia Tinctorum... 
12©  14
SaccharumLactis pv  24©  26
Salacin....................3 00© 3  10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40©  50
Sapo,  W .„.............. 
12©  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10©  12
Sapo, G.................... 
© 
15
Siedlitz  Mixture....  20  ©  22

4

Sinapis.................... 
© 
is
Sinapis, opt............  
©  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................  
© 
34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
© 
34
Soda Boras..............  7  @  10
Soda Boras, po........  7  @  10
26©  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
114© 
2
5
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3© 
Soda, Ash...............   3%@ 
Soda, Sulphas.........  @ 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
© 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........ 
50@  55
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
© 2 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
© 2 37 
Spts. Vini Rect. Xbbl  @ 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,  Sub!.........   254© 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2©  2%
Tamarinds.............. 
8©  10
Terebenth Venice...  28©  30
Theobromse............   42©  45
Vanilla....................  9 00©16 Oo
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

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Oils

BBL.  GAL.
Whale, winter......... 
70 
70
Lard,  extra...............  40 
45
Lard, No. 1................  
35 
40

Linseqd, pure  raw.. 
Linseed,  Dolled......   34 
Neatsfoot, winter str 
66 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
31 

1 9

32 

35
37
70
86
Paints  BBL.  LB.
IX  2  ©8
IX 2  ©4 
IX 2  @3 

VA 2H©3 
2V4 2X@3

Red Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow Mars.
Ochre, yellow  Ber..
Putty, commercial..
Putty, strictly  pure.
Vermilion,  Pr i me
American.............
Vermilion, English.
Green, Paris...........
Green,  Peninsular..
Lead, Red...............
Lead, white............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders ...
White, Paris Amer..
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

13© 15
70© 75
15  © 24
13© 16
&X@ 5X
5Q@
© %
© 90
©  1 00
©  1 40
1  00©  1 15

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10©  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  60© 1  7»
Coach Body............   2 75© 3 00
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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We  give  our  personal  attention  to  mail  orders  and guarantee  satis­

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THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

G R O C E R Y   P R I C E   C U R R E N T .

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz..........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz..........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz..........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz..........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz..........I  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz............   80
Jute, 72 ft,  per doz.............   95

CL0THE5  PINS.

5 

gross boxes.......................45

AXLE  QREA5E.
Aurora............ .......... 55
Castor Oil......
......... 60
Diamond........
.........50
Frazer’s ......... ...........75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
Mica...............
.........70
Paragon.........
......... 55

doz. gross
6 00
7 00
5 50
9 00
9 00
8 00
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

H lb cans doz........  ........ 
45
*  lb cans doz...................  85
lb cans doz...................  1  50
1 
ii lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
*  lb cans 3 doz................. 
75
lb cans 1 doz.................  1  00
1 
Bulk...................................  
10

Acme.

Dwight’s.

JaXon

1 
a  lb cans 4 doz case........ 
*  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........ 
hi lb cans 4 doz case........ 
1 
lb cans 2 doz case........ 

Home.

Our Leader.

14 lb cans.......................... 
*  lb cans.......................... 
l 

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

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUINO.CQBSS^ED
B i s s i S

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

BROOflS.

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 25
CANDLES.
Hotel 40 lb boxes......
Star 40 lb boxes.........
Paraffine..................

......... 9*
......... 8*
......... 9

CANNED  GOODS.
Hanitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.
......   1  00
Lakeside E.  J ...........
......   1  30
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng__1  40
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.  1  65

CATSUP.
pints...
Columbia, 
Columbia, *  pints...
CHEESE.

........4 25
....... 2 50

Acme.......................
@  8*
Amboy.................... @  9
Byron...................... @  9
Carson City............. @  8*
Elsie  .....................
@  9*
Gold  Medal............
8*
Ideal....................... @  8*
Jersey.....................
@  9
Lenawee.................. @
Riverside.. 
@  9*
Sparta....................
@  8V»
Oakland County......  8V4<&  9
Brick....................... @  10
Edam......................
@1  00
Leiden..................... @  20
Llmburger............... @  15
Pineapple................ @  20
Sap Sago................. @  18

.

Chicory.
.........................

Bulk 

5

COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound packages............  
CREAJ1 TARTAR.

2%
3
4

Strictly Pure, wooden boxes.  35
Strictly Pure, tin boxes........37
Tartarine  ..................... 
25

COFFEE.

Qreen.
Rio.

P air............. 
18
Good....................................... 19
Prim e..................................... 21
Golden  .................................. 21
Peaberry  .....................  

Santos.

Fair  .......................................19
Good  ..................................... 20
Prim e.................................. 
Peaberry  ............................... 23

Mexican and  Guatemala.

Pair  .......................................21
Good  ........................ 
 
Fancy 
.................................. 24
Maracaibo.

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

 

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

Java.

Mocha.

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

Roasted.

Quaker Mocha and Java.......29
Toko Mocha and Java........... 2*
State House Blend................. 23

Package.

Arbuckle.......................   17 00
Jersey.............................   17  00
flcLanghlin’s  XXXX........17  00

Extract.

Valley City *   gross.....  
Felix K gross................. 
Hummel’s foil *  gross... 
Hummel’s tin *   gross... 

75
1  16
85
1  43

CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. in case.

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co.’s 
brands.
Gail Borden  Eagle............740
Crown................................6 25
D aisy....................................5 75
Champion  ............................4 50
Magnolia  ........................... 4 25
Dime 
................................ 3 35

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet........................22
Premium..................................31
Breakfast Cocoa.....................421

Peerless evaporated .cream.5 75

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,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........2 50
Common...........................  1%
Chester............................ 
254
Em pire............................  23£
Green,  bu....................... 
  90
Split,  per lb......................  2%
Rolled Avena,  bbl......... 3 75
Monarch,  bbl................... 3 50
Monarch,  *   bbl............... 1 88
Private brands,  bbl.......3 30
Private brands, *bbl........1 80
Quaker, cases................... 3 20
Oven  Baked............... 
3 &>
Lakeside  .........................2 SS
4
German............................ 
East  India.......................  
3*
Cracked, bulk................... 
3
24 2 lb packages...............2  40

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

 

Fish.
Cod.

Georges cured............
Georges  genuine........
Georges selected........
Strips or bricks......... 5

Halibut.

@ 4* 
@ 5 
@ 8

Herring.

rtackerel.

55
6 50
2 30 
1  10 
10*
11  75 
5 20 
1  32
7 50
3 50 
90

Chunks........................... .
Strips...............................
Holland white hoops keg 
Holland white hoops  bbl
Norwegian......................
Round 100 lbs.................
Round  40 lbs................. .
Scaled..............................
No. 1 100 lbs.....................
No. 1  40 lbs.....................
No. 1  10 lbs.....................
No. 2 100 lbs.....................
No. 2  40 lbs.....................
No. 2  10 lbs.....................
Family 90 lbs....................
Family 10 lbs....................
Russian kegs....................
10*
No. 1,1001b. bales............
No. 2,100 lb. bales...........
8*
No. 1100 lbs......................
4 75 
No. 1  40 lbs......................
2  20 
No. 1  10 lbs......................
63 
No. 1  8 lbs......................
53
No. 1  No. 2
Fam 
100 lbs...........  6 50  5 75
2  00 
40 lbs...........  2  90  2 60
1  10 
10 lbs........... 
73
35 
8 lbs........... 
61
31
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Sardines.
Stockfish.

Whltefish.

Trout.

80 
67 

Souders’.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

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

FLY  PAPER. 
Tanglefoot. 
“Regular” Size.

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

“Little” Tanglefoot.

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
lb  cans..........................  30
1 
*   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 K en ....................... 2 25
llbcans...............................  45

Sage. 
Hops.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

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

JE L L Y .

15 lb palls...........■................  35
17 lb palls............................  44
30 lb  pails............................  85

LYE.

Condensed, 2 d o z ............. 1  20
Condensed, 4 doz...............2 25

LICORICB.

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

MINCE MEAT.

Ideal, 3 doz. In case............2 25

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 books, any denom... 
500 books, any denom...
1.000 books, any denom...

1  50
2 50 
11  50 
20  00

.  1  50 
2 50 
.11  50 
.20 00

Universal Grade.

23
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

22

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

22
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
lOOO! any one denom’n ......  5 00
2000, any one denom’n ......   8 00
Steel punch....................... 
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOflESTIC 

Apples.

Sundried.......................  @ 3*
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @  iyt

California Fruits.
Apricots........................  9
Blackberries..................
Nectarines....................  5H@
Peaches..........................  5  @14
Pears__ •  ....................   8V4@
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 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  @
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  @
14 cent less In bags
Raisins.

London Layers.......... 
1  25
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown  454
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown  514
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown  6

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls........................@ 4
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........ @ 414
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @ 554
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...........  @614
Sultana 5 Crown...........  @8
Valencia30lb boxes....  @

BOG  PRESERVER.

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

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

HATCHES.

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

HOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

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

Cuba Baking.

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

Porto Rico.
 
 
............................ 

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

New Orleans.

F air..................................  
Good................................. 
Extragood.......................  
Choice.............................. 
Fancy  .............................. 

Half-barrels 3c extra. 

18
22
24
27
30

PICKLES.
Hedlum.

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........ 
Cob, No. 3..........................   1

PIPES.

65

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

RICB.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina head....................  6*
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2................  ’  4^4
Broken..............................     2*
Japan,  No. 1......................  5
Japan.  No. 2.....................  4u
Java, No. 1....................... 
-4Jg
Java, No. 2.................  
41S
P atna....................................4*
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

SEEDS.

SAL SODA.

Church’s .................................. 3 30
Deland’s .............................. " ’3 15
Dwight’s .................................. 3 30
Taylor’s....................................3 00
Granulated, bbls............... 1 10
Granulated,  100 lb cases.. 1  50
Lump, bbls.......................  
j
Lump, 1451b kegs............... l 10
A nise............................... 
13
Canary, Smyrna................  
Caraway..........................  
10
Cardamon,  Malabar  .!..!  80
Hemp,  Russian...............  
4
Mixed  Bird......................  414
6*
Mustard,  white........ 
Poppy  ...........................!.' 
8
Rape................................... 
4
Cuttle Bone...................**  20
Scotch, in bladders............   37
Maccaboy, in Jars........... 
35
French Rappee, In Jars......   43

SNUFP.

6

Corn.

SYRUPS.
Barrels...................... 
Half  bbis................... ;;;;
Pure Cane.
Fair  ................................  
Good..................  
Choice.............. 

14

lg
«o
?5

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  .............................   914
Cassia, China in mats______  10
Cassia, Batavia in bund... .15
Cassia, Saigon in rollB........32
Cloves, Amboyna................... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar.............. ‘[jo
Mace,  Batavia.................  70
Nutmegs, fancy..............  "  65
Nutmegs, No.  1 ............   ’  ‘00
Nutmegs, No.  2........ 
” 55
Pepper, Singapore, black!! !l0 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .20
Pepper,  shot........................ie
Pure around in Bulk.
Allspice  ......................  10C&15
Cassia, Batavia............ . { 7
Cassia,  Saigon.................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna............. ” 15
Cloves, Zanzibar.........  
10
Ginger,  African........ 
15
Ginger,  Cochin...................20
Ginger,  Jamaica.........  
'22
Mace,  Batavia..............60@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,................... !!40@60
Pepper, Singapore, black9@12
Pepper,Singapore,whitel5@l8
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage.................. ..............  
i8
“ Absolute” in  *lb.  Packages.
Cinnamon....................... ""  75
Cloves..................................70
Ginger, Cochin......... 75
Mace...............................   0  10
Mustard......................... 
75
Nutmegs................................2 10
Pepper, cayenne........... 
75
Pepper, white  ...............  
75
Pepper, black shot........... ’  60
..................... 1  5«
Absolute  ’’Butchers’  Spices. 
Wiener and Frankfurter..  16
pj
Pork Sausage................ 
Bologna and Smoked S’ge.  16 
Liver S’ge and H’d[Cbee8e..l6

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

21

bbls.  pails

Wheat.

Veal.

Carcass  ....................54©
Crackers.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

as follows:
Seymour XXX...................  bu
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  5%
Family XXX......................  „3
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  5V
Salted XXX.......................   54
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  5% 
Soda  XXX  .....................  
6
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  64
Soda,  City.........................  7
Zephyrette......................     10
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Square Oyster, XXX.........   54
Sq. Oys. XXX. X  lb  carton.  6w
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   bu
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  104
Bent’s Cold Water............   12
Belle Rose.........................  8
Cocoanut Taffy.................  8
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey...................  n
Grabs m Crackers  ............   8
Ginge r Snaps, XXX round.  64 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  64 
Gin. Snps,XXX home made  64 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  64
Ginger  Vanilla.................  8
Imperials..........................   8
Jumnles,  Honey...............   11
Molasses Cakes......   ........  8
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams...!.  16
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......  84
Pretzelettes, Little Germau  64
Sugar  Cake.......................  g
Sultanas..................... 
12
Sears’ Lunch......................  75^
Sears’ Zephyrette............ .,10
Vanilla  Square.................  8
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Pecan Wafers....................  154
Fruit Coffee.......................   10
Mixed Picnic....................   104
Pineapple Glace................  154

 

Fancy  Seedlings

Jamaicas 200s......... 
Jamaicas bbls......... 
Lemons.

@4 00
@7 00

Strictly choice 360s..  @3 25
@3 75
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s.............. 
@4 25
Fancy 300s.............. 
@4 50
Bananas.

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

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

Thompson & Chute’s Brand.

Figs, New California
12 lbs..................  
Figs, Choice  Layers
10 lb...................... 
Figs,  Naturals 
in
bags,..................... 
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes..................  
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  .................. 
Dates,  Persians,  G.
M. K., 60 lb cases.. 
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  .................... 

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

@11
@ 9
@ 5
@ 7
@ 6
@5
@

Diamond  Crystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes......... ..1  60
Barrels,  160  3 lb bags__ .  2  75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags__ ..2 50
Butter, 561b  bags............ ..  65
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags........ ..3 00
Butter, 2801b  bbls........... ..2 50

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks.................... ..2 60
60 5-lb sacks.................... ..1  85
28 ll-lb sacks................... ..1  70

Worcester.

50  4  lb. cartons............ ..3 25
115  241b. sacks............... ..4 00
60  5  lb. sacks...............
22 14  lb. sacks............... .  3 50
30 10  lb. sacks...............
.3 50
28 lb. linen sacks............. ..  32
56 lb. linen sacks.............. ..  60
Bulk in barrels.................
.2 50

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy in drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy in drill bags......   15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy in iinen sacks...  60 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 

Higgins.

Soiar  Rock.

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

Common Fine.

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

SODA.

Boxes.................................... 54
Kegs, English......................  4%

STARCH.
Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ................5 00
128  5c  packages...................... 5 00
3210c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00

Kingsford’s  Corn.

20 1-lb packages...................  64
40 1 lb packages...................  6%

Kingsford’s Silver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages..................  6 4
6-lb boxes...........................’ 7

Common  Corn.

20-lb boxes..........................   5
40-lb  boxes..........................   4%

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................  44
3-lb  packages......................  44
6-lb  packages......................  54
40 and 50 lb boxes................  24
Barrels  ...............................   24

SOAP.
Laundry.

Gowans A Sons’ Brands.

Crow...................
..  3 10
German Family..
..  2 15
American Grocer 100s... ..  3 30
American Grocer 60s.... ..  2 75
Mystic  White......
.  3 80
L otus.................
..  3 90
Oak Leaf............ .
. .  2 95
Old Style..............
..  3 20
Happy Day...........
..  3 10

iAXON

Single  box............................... 3 00
5 box lots, delivered..........2 95
10 box lots,  delivered..........2 85
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s  brands. 
American Family,  wrp’d...3 33 
American Family, plain__ 3 27

Lautz Bros. A Co.’s  brands.

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

Henry Passolt’s brand.

Allen B.  W risley’s brands. 

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars...3 00
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars__3 90
Uno, 100 4 -lb. bars............. 2 80
Doll,  100 10-oz. bars............2 25

Scouring.

Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz......2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz...........2 40

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   12
Domino .............................” 5 yo
Cubes............................  ” ^4 75
Powdered  ............  
. . . 1 . . .4 75
XXXX  Powdered............   4  87
Mould  A..............................4  75
Granulated in bbls...  .."...4 50
Granulated in  bags.............4 50
Fine Granulated................. 4  50
Extra Fine Granulated...... 4 62
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4  62
Diamond  Confec.  A...........4 50
Confec. Standard A.........   4 37
No. 
1................................ 4 25
No 
2................................ 4 25
No. 
3............................ ” i4 25
No.  4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4  25
no.  5............................. :: .4i8
6..............................   4 12
No. 
7................................ 4 00
No. 
8................................ 3 87
No. 
No. 
9................................ 3 81
No.  10..................... 
3 75
No.  11................................ 3 69
No.  12................................ 3 62
No.  13................................ 3 56
No.  14................................ 3 50
No.  15................................ 3 31

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s,  large.......4  75
Lea A 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

6  © 7
6  @ 7
6  @ 7
74@ §4
cases 
© 8V4 
@ 84
@ 6V 
@ 7 
© 7 
© V/ 
©© 8 
©  8 
© 8 
© 8 
©  9 
©10 
©13

11  ©14

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Mixed Candy.

Fancy—In Bulk.

Standard................. 
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard Twist...... 
Cut Loaf................. 
Extra H. H..............
Boston  Cream........
Standard.................
Leader  ..................
Conserve.................
Royal.....................
Ribbon............... . ’.
Broken..................
Cut  Loaf.................
English Rock.........
Kindergarten.........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan.............
Valley Cream.........
Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops...........
Choc.  Monumcntals
Gum  Drops............
Moss  Drops............
Sour Drops..............
Imperials...............
Lemon Drops
Sour  Drops............
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials...............
Mottoes..................
Cream Bar..............
Molasses B a r.........
Hand Made Creams.  80
Plain  Creams.........   60
Decorated Creams..
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25
Wintergreen Berries 
Caramels. 
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes ..................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes............ ......
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................
Fresh  Meats.

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

© 8 
@ 84 
©  84
©50
©50
@60
@65
@75
@35
@75
@50
©55
@60
@60
@65
©50
@50
@90
@80
@90
©60
©©55

©30
©45

Hind  quarters.
Loins  No.  3__
Ribs.................

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

Dressed...
Loins......
Shoulders. 
Leaf Lard.

Pork.

5 © 7
4 @ 5
6
9 @12
7 ©  9
4 © 5
3 © 4

4 © 44© 7© 5@ 54

5 © 6

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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

Fruits.

Oranges.

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Wheat..................... ......... 
Winter Wheat Flour. 

63

Local Brands.
Patents  ..............................  4 00
Second  Patent......... ” 
3 65
Straight............................'  3 45
Clear..................................  3 05
Graham 
.......................... 3 20
Buckwheat................ 
3  60
Bye    ...............................'  2 50
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  4 s........................  3 40
Quaker, 4 s.......................   3 10
Quaker, 4 s........................  3 40

Spring  Wheat  Flour.
Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, 4 s ......................   4  25
Ceresota, 4 s......................  1 1 5
Ceresota, 4 s............. 4  10
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, 4 s........... 4  25
Grand Republic, jjs........... 4  15
Grand Republic, 4 s........... 4  10
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 4 s .........................  4 00
Laurel, 4 s .........................  3  90
Laurel, 4 s .........................  3  80
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian, 4 s ......................  4 05
Parisian, 4 s............. '
  4  45
Parisian. 4 s.................."  [  4  10

'

Meal.

Bolted..............................  j  go
Granulated............ 
1  85

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__ 11  50
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........11  00
No. 2 Feed..........................10  50
Unbolted Corn Meal........  10 50
Winter Wheat  Bran.......... s  00
Winter Wheat Middlings..  9 00
Screenings.........................  8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:
Corn.

Car  lots............................. 27
Less than  car lots............   23

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots..............................20
Less than  car lots........"   24

No. 1 Timothycarlots........  9 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots__ 11 00

Fish and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb. 
©  8

Whitefish...............
T rout......................
Black Bass..............
Halibut...................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish..................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster........
Cod.........................
Haddock..................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
Col  River Salmon.. 
Mackerel 
..............

©  18 
©  20 ©  10 
@  8 
©  8 
©  6 
©  8 
©  13 
@  15 @  20
F. H. Counts...........
© 35
F. J. D. Selects........
© 32
Selects........
©
F. J. D.  Standards..
©
Anchors.................. @ 23
Standards..............
© 20
Counts.....................
Extra Selects...........
Selects.
Anchor Standards...
Standards...............
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per  100.........
Clams,  per  lQO.........

Oysters in Bulk 

Oysters in Cans.

2 00 
1  75
1  50 
1  15 
1  10
25@1  50 
90@1  00

O ils.

Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @10%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt 
@  9
W W Michigan...........  © 84
High Test Headlight..  @ 74
D„ S. Gas....................  @ 94
Deo. N aptha..............  © 84
Cylinder................... 30  @38
Engine.......................11  @21
Black, wincer............   @ 9

Scofield,  Shurmer  A  Teagle 

quote as follows:

Barrels.

Palacine....................  @114
Daisy  White..............  @10%
Red Cross, W. W........  @ 9
Water  White Hdlt....  @  84
Family  Headlight.  ..  @ 7 4
Red Cross S.  Gasoline  @104
Stove Gasoline...........  @ 94
Naphtha....................  @ 8 4

From  Tank  Wagon.

Palacine....................  @ 9 4
Red Cross W.  W........   @5%
Gasoline....................  @ 1

5

Beef.

Sausages.

11
104
104
10
10
54
7
5%
7
104

The  Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and Provision Co. quotes as fol­
lows:
Barreled Pork.
Mess  ..............................
Back  .......................... . [  8 25
Clear back....................
8  00 
Shortcut.................
Pig................................
9 00
Bean  ............................
Family  ....................
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................
Briskets  ......................’
Extra shorts.................
Smoked Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 16 lb  average......  
Hams, 20 lb  average......  
Ham dried beef.............. 
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear..................  
California  bams............  
Boneless hams...............  
Cooked ham.................’ 
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................  
4
Family............................ 
44
Kettle.............................  
5
55 lb Tubs.......... advance 
4
80 lb Tubs...........advance 
4
50 lb T ins...........advance 
u
20 lb Pails...........advance 
4
10 lb Pails...........advance  %
51b Pails.........advance 
%
31b Pails......... advance 
1
Bologna......................... 
5
Liver...............................’ 
6
Frankfort....................... 
7
P ork....................... 
e
Blood  ....................
Tongue....................
Head  cheese.................."  
g
Extra  Mess....................   7 00
Boneless  ........................10 00
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs...............  
80
4   bbls, 40 lbs................. .' 1  65
4   bbls, 80 lbs.................  3 00
Kits, 15 lbs...  ................ 
75
4   bbls, 40 lbs..................  1 50
4   bbls, 80 lbs................... 2 75
is
P ork.................  ........... 
Beef  rounds................... 
5
Beef  middles................. 
7
Rolls, dairy................... 
gu
Solid, dairy.................... 
g
Rolls,  creamery...........
Solid,  creamery............
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2 lb..........  2 00
Corned  beef, 15 lb...........14 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb............2 00
4 s........ 
Potted  ham, 
75
Potted  ham,  4 s...........  1 25
Deviled ham, 
4 s........ 
75
Deviled ham,  4 s..........   1 25
Potted  tongue  4 s........ 
75
Potted  tongue 4 s..........   1 25
Hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green...................  ...  34® 44
Part  cured.................  @  54
Full Cured.................54© 64
D ry ............................5  @ 7
Kips,  green............... 34® 4
ivius,  uureu...........
..  Ö
Calfskins,  green...
..  4
Calfskins, cured...
..  6
Deaeonskins  ........
. .25
Pelts.
Shearlings............
..  5
Lambs...................
Old  Wool.............. •  *0
Washed 
in
Unwashed.............. ..  5
@10
Hiscellaneous.
Tallow.......................  2  @ 2 4
Grease Butter............  1  @ 2
Switches  ...................  1 4 ® 2
Ginseng......................2 50@3 00

Butterine.

@  25 
@  75

Casings.

Hides.

Tripe.

Wool.

...

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

Roasted 

@12

@124@ 7 
@10 @13 
@11

@10 
@ 9 
© 54 
©10

©©3 75
©

© 4
O 8

Crockery  and

Glassware.
FRUIT JARS.

Mason—1 doz in case, pts.  6 00 
Mason—1 doz in case, qts.  6 75 
Mason—1 doz in case,4  gal  7 50 
Dandy—glass cover, qts..  9 00 
Dandy—glass cover, 4  gal  12 00 

LAMP  BURNERS.

No.  0 Sun..........................  
45
No.  1  Sun........................      50
No.  2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular.............................  
50
65
Security, No.  1 ............ 
 
Security, No. 2................. 
85
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

First  Quality.

No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

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

top,
top,
top,

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

XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
CHIMNEYS,
Pearl  Top.

top,
top,
top,

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

labeled............................3 70
labeled............................4 70
labeled......... ..................4 8g

Fire Proof—Plain Top.

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

La  Bastie.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1 25
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  .................................1  50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..  __   l  60

Rochester.

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

Electric.

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4 40
Miscellaneous.  Doz.
Junior,  Rochester............  
50
Nutmeg  ............................ 
15
Illuminator  Bases............   x 00
Barrel  lots, 5 doz.............. 
90
7 in. Porcelain Shades......  1  00
Case lots, 12  doz...............   90
Mammoth  Chimneys for  Store 
Lamps.  Doz.  Box 
No. 3 Rochester, lime  1 50  4  20 
No. 3 Rochester, flint  1  75  4  80 
No. 3  Pearl 
top,  or
Jewel  glass...........  1 85  5 25
No. 2 Globe Incandes.
Ume......................   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  spout.  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......... 6 50
No.  1 Tub., glass fount 
  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  00
No.  3 Street  L am p.........  3 75

LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1  doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5  doz.
each,  bbl 35....................   40
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
1  25
cases 1  doz.  each........ 
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross....  ........... 
24
No. 1 per gross................... 
36
No. 2 per gross................... 
50
80
No. 3 per gross................... 
Mammoth per doz............  
75
JELLY  TUMBLERS-TIn  Top.
4  Pints, 6 doz  in  box,  per
box (box  00)  .................   1  55
4  Pints, 20 doz In  bbl,  per
doz (bbl 35).................... 
18
4   Pints,  6 doz in box, per
box (box  00) ...................  1  75
4  Pints, 18 doi  In bbl,  per
dos (bbl 86)............ .7/. . 
it

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THE  MIOHIEAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware

Dingy  Store  Doomed—The  Hardware 

Burglar—Window  Display. 

Correspondence Hardware.

it 

The  modern 

The  dingy,  antiquated,  obscure  hard­
ware  store  is  doomed.  The  sooner'  the 
dealer  will  modernize  his  surroundings 
the better chance  he  will  have  to  com­
pete  with  others.  The  fittest  only  will 
survive,  and  no other truism  can  be  ap­
plied  with  so  much  aptness  to  the  pres­
ent  times. 
loves light, 
neatness,  cleanliness,  attractiveness;  if 
you  can  add  splendor  and  elegance  so 
much  the better.  Some dealers  deplore 
what  they are  pleased  to  call  “ the  dis­
integration  of  the  hardware 
trade.”  
They  say  that  the  department  stores are 
causing  their ruin.  Their surroundings 
would  bear  out  their  statement.  They 
do  business  at  the  “ old  stand,”   it  is 
true;  and  an  old  one 
is,  too.  No 
windows  for  display;  old,  worm-eaten 
fixtures;  poor  light  and  ventilation,  old 
methods  and 
inadequate  accommoda­
tions  in  general.  And  then  these  peo­
ple  expect  to  do  business  and  prosper 
these  times.  Here is  where  a  trade  pub­
lication  can  do  infinite  good. 
I  could 
name  scores  of  dealers  who,  after  read­
ing 
its  hints  as  to  modern  shop-keep­
ing,  hastened  to  make  such  improve­
ments  as  were  within  their  reach,  and 
the  result  was  almost magical.  Attract­
ive  window  displays  brought  to  them 
trade  which  they  could  not have reached 
otherwise,  and  the  pleasant 
interior 
left  their  impress  on  the 
surroundings 
future 
It 
requires  no  fortune  to  own  a  modern 
store.  Anyone,  be  his  capital  ever  so 
limited,  can  do  something  toward beau­
tifying  his  surroundings. 
If  you  cannot 
afford  elegance,  choose  neatness.  Be 
cleanly  above  all,  and  employ  your 
spare  time 
in  keeping  off  the  dust. 
Dust  seems  to  be  very  partial  to  hard­
ware  stores;  it  needs  constant  atten­
tion.  Dust  has  killed  more  of  your 
trade  than  anything  else,  probably. 
Keep yourself,  your  wares  and  your  cus­
tomers  dustless,  and  make  such  modern 
improvements  as  you  can,  and  you  will 
soon  have  cause  for  less  croaking.  To 
lay  claim  to  success,  nowadays,  you 
must  not  only  be  progressive  yourself, 
but  educate  the public to be progressive. 
This  can  be  accomplished  by  a  modern 
store  and  stock  and  by  judicious  adver­
tising.

intentions  of  these  buyers. 

Refrigerators!  Who  doesn’t  own  a 
refrigerator  nowadays? 
It  wasn’t  very 
long  ago  when  a  refrigerator  was  a  lux­
ury,  only  accessible  to  the  moneyed 
few.  But  the  evolution  of  the  household 
refrigerator  has  been  rapid. 
It  has 
been  perfected  in  miniature  and  major 
forms,  and  so  many  manufacturers have 
industry  that  prices  no 
gone 
longer  debar  any  hardwareman 
from 
carrying  a  generous  stock.

into  the 

The  bicycle auxiliary  industry  is  fast 
adding  to  its greatness  and  comprehen­
siveness.  Many  manufacturers  who 
were  running  unprofitable  plants,  and  a 
great  number  of  the  outclassed  small 
machine  shop  owners,  are  drifting 
into 
it.  Thus  the  monopoly  on  bicycle  parts 
is a  foregone  impossibility.

*  *  *

Burglars  show a  partiality  for  country 
hardware  stores.  Every  day  one  may 
read  of  such  a  raid.  Revolvers  and 
pocketknives  seem  to  be  the  favorite 
plunder—articles  which  the depredating 
tramps  can  easily  carry  and  dispose  of. 
In  some  towns  they  are  talking  of  bur­
glar  vigilance  committees,  so  frequent 
have  the  raids  become. 
It  seems  as 
though  the  hardwaremen  could  adopt 
more  practical  means.  Electrical  de­
vices  are  plentiful,  and  there  are  many 
burglar-proof  appliances  known  to  the 
trade.  Since  all  of  the  entrances are 
made  through  windows  and  transoms, 
or  by  means  of  false  keys,  one  would 
think  the  hardwareman  would  not  be  at 
a  loss  to  prevent  them  by  means  in  his 
very  possession,  or  to  be  had  by  con­
sulting  a  catalogue  or  traveler.

*  *  *

Effective  window  displays  have  been 
the  means  of  saving  shop-keepers  from 
bankruptcy  and making  new  enterprises

A large number of hardware dealers handle

THE OHIO  LINE  FEED  CUTTERS

OHIO  PONY CUTTER

F ig . 78 3.  No.  1 114.

Made by SILVER  MAN’F ’G  CO.,

Salem,  Ohio.
This  cutter  is  for  band  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 11 $4 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

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HEADQUARTERS  FOR 

¡POTATO TOOLS!

improved 

successful.  About  three  years  ago  I 
persuaded  a  High  street  retailer  in  Co­
lumbus,  Ohio,  to  tear  out  his  old,  fiat, 
unattractive  front  and  put  in  two  dis­
play  windows,  set between  a  V-shaped 
entrance.  This 
is  one  of  the  most ap­
proved  store 
front  types  of  the  day. 
Space  not  allowing  of  a  double  win­
dow,  a  single  window  may  be  arranged 
with  the  V-shaped  entrance  at  one side. 
A  still  further 
idea  is  one 
window  and  two  such  entrances,  one  at 
each  side. 
It  all  depends  on  the  com­
plexion  of  the  store  and  the  neighbor­
hood.  Your  sense  of  symmetry,  beauty 
and  vantage  must  be  the  judge.  The 
improvement  made,  my  Columbus  re­
tailer  laid  out  his  plans  for  systematic 
window  displays.  A  modern  hardware 
stock  is  so  comprehensive  that  effective 
individual  displays  can  be  made  week­
ly,  aye  daily;  suffice 
it  weekly.  The 
first  few  weeks  were  devoted  to  the  dis­
play  of  tools.-  The  plural,  tools,  em­
bodies  an  almost  endless  variety  of  ar­
ticles,  admitting  of  all  manner  of  pro­
miscuous  and  classified  displays.  The 
latter  are,  of  course,  the  proper  thing. 
There  was  a  bulletin  board  on  the  side­
walk.  Anything  new  that  intervened 
during  these  displays  was  posted  on 
this  board,  either  in  the  form  of  a  pat­
ent  office,  trade  journal,  manufacturer’s 
or agent’s  report,  providing  there  was 
any  importance attached  to 
it.  Others 
paste  such  things 
in  the  windows  or 
about  the  stoves,  but  this  manner  of 
placarding  ought  to be eschewed.  These 
tool  displays  brought  to  my  Columbus 
retailer  customers  he  could  not  have 
reached  otherwise;  in  short,  he  laid  the 
foundation  of  a  trade  which  has  en­
dured  ever  since.  When  the  year  was 
up  and  his  plan  of  displays  was  worked 
out,  his  business  had  increased about  35 
per  cent.  For the  then  ensuing  year he 
iaid  out  another  plan,  i.e.,  he  supple­
mented  the  original  plan  with  concomi­
instance,  during 
tant  features.  For 
carpenter-tools  display  week,  a  dummy 
representing  a  carpenter  headed 
the 
display,  as 
it  were,  and  so  on  through 
the  whole  category  of  tools and  other 
articles  of  hardware  that  admitted  of 
practical  *  industrial 
representations. 
These  dummy  figures  entail  but  a  small 
expense,  once  you  have  mastered  the 
window  dresser’s  art.  The  same  plan 
is  being  repeated  the  current year  save 
that  live,  in  lieu  of  dummy,  figures  are 
the  attraction  whenever feasible.  Elec­
tricity  and  hydraulic  power  are  em­
ployed  whenever  an  object  is  to  be  for­
illustrated;  and 
cibly  represented  or 
even  this  expense 
in  com­
parison  with  the  returns  it  will  bring.
Simultaneously  with  this  window  dis­
play  propaganda,  my  Columbus  retailer 
is  exploiting  printers’ 
ink.  He  has 
selected  two  dailies  and  a  weekly  to 
help  him  carry  out  his  idea  of  modern 
shop-keeping.  Whenever a  display 
is 
renewed,  a  few  clear  lines  tell  you  what 
is  made  of,  or  what  it 
the  display 
offers,  in  a  way  to  interest  you. 
“ For 
incidental  novelties  see  the  bulletin 
board,”   is  the  only  “ standing”   note  in 
these  ads. 
It  goes  without  saying  that 
coal  oil  or  gasoline  light  does  not  re­
flect these  displays.  Erstwhile modern- 
ly  equipped  gas  jets  resemble  the  lum­
inary  effects,  but  incandescent  and  arc 
lights  have  latterly  supplanted  them. 
What  my  Columbus  retailer  has  ac­
complished  in  the  way  of  interior  mod­
ernization  is  another chapter.  My  les­
son  was  window  displays,  that brought 
my  Columbus  subject  to  the  realization 
that  modern  shop-keeping  can’t  be a 
whole  success  without them.

is  slight 

The  annual  census  of  Kansas,  taken 
under  state  authority,  has  recently  been 
compiled  for 
It  shows  that  the 
population  of  the  State is only 1,336,659. 
This 
is  less  by  90,000 than  it  was  six 
years  ago.

1896. 

It 

is  cheerful  to  read  that  a  man 
named  Coffin  has  been  sent  to  the  pen­
itentiary  for  wrecking  a  bank  in  In­
diana.  The  undertaking  was  too  much 
for him.

What  is  that  which  Adam  never  saw, 
never  possessed  and  yet  gave  two  to 
each  of  his  children?  Parents.

I   FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., 

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The  Hardware  Market.

is  greatly 

General  trade  has  developed  but  little 
of  especial  interest.  But  few  changes 
are being  made  in  prices.  September 
trade,  however,  shows  a  'marked 
im­
provement  over  August,  although  the 
volume  of  business  is  not  up  to  that  of 
former  years.  The  demand  for  season­
able  goods,  however, 
im­
proved,  but  retaihdealers  are  still  ad­
hering  to  the  policy  of  buying  only 
in 
small  quantities.  The  result  of  this 
limi'ted  buying  is_beneficial  to  the 
job­
ber  in  many  instances,  as  retailers  who 
formerly  would  send  orders  direct to the 
factory  are  getting  their supplies  from 
the  jobber.  The  jobber  is  also pursuing 
the  same  policy  of  moderate  buying, 
waiting  to  see  what  effect  the  result  of 
election  will  have  upon  general  trade. 
The  prices  on  all  goods  still  remain low 
and  manufacturers  are  not disposed  to 
do  any  cutting in  order  to  increase  their 
volume  of  business,  as  it  would  be  use­
less. 
is  hoped  that  there  will  be  a 
better business  as  the  season  advances, 
especially  in  view  of  the  greater  confi­
dence  with  which  the  financial  and  po­
litical  situation  is  regarded.

It 

it 

action 

In  some 

improvment 

is  exceedingly 

Wire  Nails—There 

is,  perhaps,  a 
slight 
in  the  demand  for 
nails,  but 
limited. 
Dealers  are  holding  back  their orders  as 
much  as  possible,  in  view  of  the  un­
certainty  with  regard  to  price.  The 
manufacturers  are  to  hold another  meet­
ing  this  week  and  their 
is 
awaited  with great  interest by  the  trade 
in  general. 
jobbing 
centers  the  Association  price on  nails 
is  being  extremely  cut,  and  whether 
they  will  be  able  to  bring  them 
into 
line  and  have  them  resume  the  Asso­
ciation  price,  or be  obliged  to  make  a 
cut  to  compete  with  the  few  factories 
that  are  still  outside  the  Association,  is 
the  question  for  them  to  decide  at  their 
present  meeting.  The  jobbers  who  are 
adhering  strictly  to  Association  price 
quote  wire  nails  at $2.85  from stock  and 
$2.65  at  mill.

large 

in  this 

Barbed  Wire—But  little  trade 

is  be­
line  of  goods  and 
ing  done 
prices  remain  about  as 
last  quoted. 
Many  manufacturers  are  out  soliciting 
orders  for  spring  business,  but  jobbers, 
as  well  as  retailers,  are  not  inclined  to 
place  orders  at  this  early  day.  We 
quote  to-day:  Painted  barbed  wire, 
$1.55  at  mill,  $1.75 
from  stock;  gal­
vanized  barbed  wire,  $1.85  at  mill, 
$2.10  from  stock;  No.  9  plain  wire, 
$1.30 at  mill,  $1.50 from  stock;  and  all 
other sizes  taking  the  regular  advance.
Wrought  Iron  Pipe—The  manufac­
turers  of  this  article,  becoming  tired  of 
the  low  prices  prevailing,  are endeavor­
ing  to  effect  a  combination,  so  that they 
will  be  able  to  get  better 
figures.  At 
present,  nothing  has  been  done,  and 
prices  remain  in  their  former  low  con­
dition.

Window  Glass—It  is not believed  that 
any  of  the  window  glass  factories  will 
start 
in  blast  until  after  election,  but, 
notwithstanding  that  fact,  and  also  that 
stocks  are  low  in  all  parts  of  the  coun­
try,  there  is  no  indication  of  any  higher 
prices  being  quoted.  We  quote  at 
present  window  glass  by  the  box,  70 
and  5  per  cent,  to  70 and  10  per  cent.  ; 
by  the  light,  10  per  cent,  extra.

lron-*The  demand  for  sheet 
iron  is  fairly  good,  although  there is but 
little  change  to  note  in  prices.  Gal­
vanized 
iron  continues  weak  and  we 
quote at  present,  for  fairly  assorted  or­
ders,  75  to  75  and  10  per-cent,  discount 
from  the  list.

Coil  Chain—The  recent  combination 
in 
of all  chain  manufacturers  resulted 
material  advances  on  all  grades  and

Sheet 

qualities  of  chain.  To  give an  idea  of 
the  present  market,  we  quote  price  on 
H  inch  chain  in  the  following  different 
grades,  as follows :  Proof  chain,  §4.75 ;
B.  B.,  $5.7 5 ;  B.  B.  B.,  8c ;  special 
steel 
is  believed  that 
these  prices  will  be  firmly  held  during 
the  season.

loading,  10c. 

It 

Advertising  at  Fairs.

C. M. Harger in Printers’ Ink.

One  of  the  leading  Western  manu­
facturers  of  machinery  last  year  spent 
§6,000  in  advertising  material  used  at 
the  county  and  state  fairs  of  the  West­
ern  States.  This  year  he  will  not  spend 
anything.  The  result  was  not  what  he 
looked  for and  the  reason  he -  attributes 
to  the  manner  in  which  he  put  out  his 
money.  The  chief  item  of  his  expend­
itures’ was  a  line  of  little  booklets  that 
were  given  to  the  people  as  they  passed 
his  exhibit.  But  there  were  in  the  paths 
of  the  grounds  hundreds  of  these,  which 
the  recipients  had  thrown  away  after 
receiving  them.  Other  hundreds  and 
perhaps  thousands  were  never  received 
by  people  who  could  or  would  read 
them,  while  a  vast  amount  more  were 
thrown  away  on  the  way  home  and  so 
never  made  a  convert.

This  experience 

is  by  no  means  a 
strange  one.  The  firms  that  have  made 
the  closest  study  of  the  art  of  advertis­
ing  at  the  fairs  are  almost  unanimous 
in  the  opinion  that  there 
is  a  great 
waste  of  material 
in  such  work.  The 
character of  the  crowds  may  be  of  the 
kind  to  seize  the  propositions  present­
ed,  but there  is  not  the  disposition  to 
study  the  mass  of  books  and  pamphlets 
given  out by  the  exhibitors.

“ I  have  noticed,”   said  a  prominent 
plow  manufacturer,  ‘ ‘ that  the  children 
are  the  ones  who  gather  the  advertise­
ments at the fairs,  and we have  ceased  to 
give  out any.  The  children  keep  the 
ones  that  have  the  brightest  pictures 
and  take  them  home  to  play  with,  but 
it  does  not  pay.  Too  much  of  this  kind 
of  material 
is  put  out and  the  people 
are burdened  with  it. 
I  instructed  my 
agents  to  give  the  material  only  to  the 
grown  folks  and  to  see  that  they  put 
it 
m  their  pocket,  but  it  was  a  failure.
So  we decided  to give  only  to  those 
who had  interest  enough  to  come  to  the 
exhibit  and  examine  what  we  had  to 
sell.  Then  we  were  sure  that  we  had 
given  the  stuff  to  persons  who  would 
appreciate  it.  That 
is  the  only  way 
not to  waste  a  great  portion  of  it. ”
One  advertiser  estimates  that  fully 
three-fourths  of  the  advertising  matter 
put  out  at  the  fairs 
is  wasted.  The 
plans  to  make  the  recipients  read  the 
into  their  hands  have  been 
matter  put 
many  and  ingenious  but  none  has  been 
entirely  successful. 
It  may  be  consid­
ered  that  the  old  way  of  giving  out  un­
limited  supplies  to  every  passer  in  the 
crowd  is  both  expensive  and  unprofit­
able.  The  big  motto  which  urges  the 
visitor  to 
‘ ‘ ask  for  descriptive  pam­
phlet”   is  one  of  the  best  ways  to  get 
the  right  people 
interested,  but 
it  is 
found  that  only  a  small  portion  cff  the 
crowd  will  stop  for  such  an  errand.
Probably  one  of  the  best  devices  is 
the small  puzzle  that  is  of  sufficient  at­
tractiveness  to  cause  the  recipients  to 
take  it  home. 
is  too  easy,  how­
ever,  it  will  be  solved  and thrown away. 
One  firm  that secured  a  large amount  of 
these  was grieved  to  find  the  walks  and 
drives  of  the  grounds  at  the  first  fair 
where  they  were  used  strewn  with  them. 
They  sent  to  the  home  office  the  rest  of 
them  and  had  the  lot  sent  to  the  stores 
with  the  shipments  of  goods.
Whether  signs  and  posters  do  any 
good  at  fairs 
is  a  question  that  is  not 
settled  yet.  That  they  are  very  much  in 
evidence  is  patent,  but some advertisers 
are  of  the  opinion  that  they  are  not 
read,  as  the  people are  too  busy  sight­
seeing.  Many  committees  will  not  al­
low  these  signs  and  the  modest  ones 
over  the  exhibits  are  the  only  addresses 
to  the  public  eye  that  the exhibitors can 
secure.  By  far the  best  advertisement 
is  an  exhibit  that  the  passers-by  will 
remember.  They go home  to  talk  of  it, 
as  did  the  Centennial  attendants  about 
the  “ Butter  woman.”   Money  spent  on 
the decoration  of  the  exhibit  is  usually 
better  used  than  in  printed  matter  to be 
given  away.

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Hardware  Price  Current.

AUaURS AND  B1T5
 

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
First Quality, D. B. Steel............................  10 50

BARROWS

BOLTS

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

• 60
Stove...................................................... 
Carriage new list...................................65 to 65-10
Plow.......................................................  
40*10

Well,  plain.

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

Ordinary Tackle.

BLOCKS

70

4

65
55
35
60

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

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

CARTRIDGES

Rim  Fire...........................................................50& 5
Central  Fire......................................!!!.!! I25& 5
Socket Firmer..............................................  
go
go
Socket  Framing.......................................... 
Socket Comer.....................................................go
Socket  Slicks........................................... "  
go

CHISELS

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

DRILLS

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
55
Corrugated.............................................. 
j  25
Adjustable................................................dis 40*10

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

FILES—New  List

New 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.........  
28
List  12 
16........ 
17

  " . 

14 

13 

Discount,  75

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60*16
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door, porcelain, ]ap. trimmings................. 

KNOBS-New List

70
80

MATTOCKS

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

MILLS

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

40
40
40
30
Stebbin’s Pattern..........................................60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

MOLASSES  GATES

NAILS

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base............................................      2 80
Wire nails, base...............................................   2 85
10 to 60 advance.......................................... 
50
8..................................................................  
60
7 
and 6. ................................................... 
75
4..................................................................  
90
3 ..................................................................  1  20
2............................................................  ...  160
Fine 3 .......................................v................  
1  60
65
Case 10.......................................’. ................  
Case  8..........................................................  
75
Case  6......................................................... 
90
Finish 19....................  
75
90
Finish  8 ...................................................... 
Finish  6 ...................................................... 
10
Clinch 10...................................................... 
70
Clinch  8 ...................................................... 
80
Clinch  6 ............................... 
90
Barrel  %.................................................  
PLANES
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
Common, polished..................................... 
70* 5
60
Iron and  Tinned.............................  
 
 
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60

RIVETS

PANS

 

 

 

 

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Maydole & Co.’s, new list................................dis 33H
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 75410
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Granite Iron  Ware.........................new list 40*10
Pots........................................... 
flo&io
K ettles......................................................... 60*10
Spiders  ........................................................e0&10
Gate, Clark's, 1, 2, 3...............................  dis 60*10
State.......................................... perdoz.net  2 50
go
Bright..........................................................  
Screw Eyes.............................................. . 
go
Hook’s..........................................  
 
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes..................................  
80

HOLLOW  WARE

WIRE  GOODS

HINGES

 

 

LEVELS
ROPES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............................dis 70
Sisal, H inch and  larger.............................  
5
Manilla...... ..................................................  g^
Steel and Iron..............................................  
go
Try and Bevels.............................................
Mitre...........................................................

SQUARES

SHEET IRON

com. smooth,  com.

WIRE

TRAPS

$2 40
2 40
2 60
2 70
2 80

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

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

Nos. 10 to 14................................... $3 30 
Nos. 15 to 17.  ...............................  3  30 
Nos. 18 to 21.......................... 
3  45 
Nos. 22 to 24...................................  3 55 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3 70 
No.  27 .........................................   3 80 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................  
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’S......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 70*10*10
Mouse, choker...........................per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market......................................  ... 
75
Annealed  Market........................................ 
75
..70*10
Coppered  Market.................................    
Tinned Market.............................................  62H
Coppered Spring Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.........................  2 10
Barbed  Fence,  painted............................... 
1  75
Au Sable..................................................dis 40&1C
Putnam................................................... dis 
5
Northwestern..........................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s Genuine............. 
50
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, w rought....................  80
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
80
Bird  Cages  ...........................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
80
 
Screws, New List............................ 
 
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
40*10
Dampers, American............................... 
600 pound casks...........................................  
6Q
Per pound.................................. ........ ......... 
g j
H@V4............................................................  12H
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

 
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

WRENCHES
 

MISCELLANEOUS

TIN—Melyn Grade

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

SOLDER

 

 

 

TIN—Allaway Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. 

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean............   ..............   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................ 
10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
_
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, ( per P°und- ■ • 
9
1 75

BOILER SIZE TIN  PLATE 

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KSffiSsirRMKiiA
COUNTER  BILLS.  I  COMPANY.

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G R A N D   R A P ID S .

Otto  C.  J.  Bernthal

New  York  Electro  Elating &  Mfg 60.

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

J ohn  T.  F.  Hobnbtjbq

Gas  Fixtures  Refinished  as  Good  as  New.

West  End  Pearl. St.‘Bridge.

3 

doors  South  of  Crescent  Mills.

Citizens Phone, 1517.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Sept.  25—The  coffee  mar­
ket  has  shown  some  interest  to  buyers 
this  week.  We  have  had  quite a  con­
tingent  of  buyers  here and  they  came 
from  all  parts  of  the  country.  Every­
thing 
indicates  that  stocks  in  the  in­
terior are  light and that  buyers are ready 
to  pay  the  regular  rates. 
It  is  a  good 
time  to buy  and  whether  there  will  be  a 
more  favorable  opportunity  time  alone 
can  tell.

Rio  No.  7 is quotable  at  g^ c.  About 
500 bags  of  the  same  grade  were  sold  at 
a  figure  understood  to  be  g ^ c. cost  and 
freight.  Afterwards  the  market  was 
reported  firmer  and  it  is  very  doubtful 
whether this  sale  could  be  duplicated. 
In  mild  sorts  good  cucutas  are  almost 
scarce  and  the  market is decidedly firm. 
As  to  the amount  of  Rio  coffee  afloat  it 
is  considerably 
less  than  at  this  time 
last  year,  being  482,7g8  bags  now, 
against 618,715  bags  then.

The  refined  sugar  market  has  re­
mained  unchanged  for  a  longer  period 
than  at  any  time  since  the  refiners  com­
bined.  Week  after  week  passes  and 
quotations  are  the  same.  Raw  sugars 
are  firmer and,  if  the  rate  keeps  up,  we 
may  expect  a  corresponding  advance  in 
refined.  The  demand  for  refined  is  just 
about  steady  and  purchases  are  made  in 
a  way  that  indicates  no  particular  anx­
iety  about  buying  ahead  of  present 
wants.  Granulated,  4

for 

and 

Tea  orders  have  mostly  been  by  mail 
and  of  small  importance.  If  we see  any 
improvement  one  week, 
it  seems  to 
dwindle  away  during  the  next  seven 
days  and  things  move  along 
in  the 
usual  dull  channel. 
The  one  thing 
which  gives  any  encouragement  is  the 
fact  that  orders  are  numerous,  even  if 
they  are  small.  Enquiry  shows  very  few 
interior  dealers  with  surplus  stock  and 
it  is  hoped  that  later on  we shall  see  a 
more  encouraging  state  of  affairs.

The  rice  market  is  strong  and  dealers 
are  making  money.  The  demand  comes 
from  every  point 
liberal 
amounts.  This  is  true,  also,  at  primary 
points  and  the  probabilities  are  that  we 
shall  have  a  good  trade  right  along.

The  molasses  market 

Nothing  has  transpired  during  the 
week  of  special  note  in  spices.  The 
market  maintains  the  even  tenor  of 
its 
way.  Sales  are  making  of  small  quan­
tities,  but  orders  come  frequently  and, 
as  the  season  advances, 
the  outlook 
grows  brighter.  Prices  are  as  low  as  at 
any  time  in  the history  of  the  trade.
is  very quiet, 
yet  it  has been  duller.  Orders  are  com­
ing  in  probably  as  well  as  could  be  ex­
pected,  and  for  such  demand  the  quo­
tations are  firmly  held.
A  better  business  has  been  done  in 
syrups  than  during  several  weeks  pre­
viously  and  the  feeling  is  one  of  con­
siderable  strength.  Buyers  are  chiefly 
from  the  country.  A  little  trading  has 
been  done  for  export,  but,  as a rule,  for­
eign  demands  are  easily  met.

The  prospects  are  that  the  pack  of 
tomatoes  will  be  very  much smaller than 
for several  years.  The  market 
in  all 
lines  is  sluggish,  although  for  the better 
labels  of  tomatoes the  feeling  is  firmer. 
The  money  market  has  been  one  great 
cause  of  dull  trade,  as  rates  have  ruled 
very  high.  A  number  of  factories  have 
failed  and, altogether,  the canning  busi­
ness  seems  to  be  taking  a  rest.  Perhaps 
the  rest 
if  any 
branch  of  trade  has  been  sick  it  is  that 
of  canned  goods.

is  sadly  needed,  for 

California  dried  fruits  are  in  better 
request  and,  as  it  becomes  evident  that 
lines  must  advance, 
prices on  certain 
the orders  become  more  numerous. 
It 
is  said  that  there  will  not  be  over  350 
cars  of  apricots  in  all  and  that  there are 
not over  fifty  left  on  the  coast.  Should 
these  reports  be  true,  the  prospects  are 
that  we  shall  see  a  very  marked  ad­
vance 
in  the  price  of  this  fruit.  Do­
mestic  dried  fruits,  apples,  etc.,  are 
rather  dull,  but this  is  to  be  expected  at 
this time.

Butter  is  dull,  or  “ nearly  so.”   The 
demand  is  just  sufficient  to  keep  things 
from  collapsing  entirely.  Best  Western

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

creamery 
scent  from  this  is  sudden.

is  held  at  i5 ^ c   and  the de­

Cheese dealers  are  trying  hard to keep 
up  a  bold  front,  but  the  chances  are 
seemingly  adverse. 
The  week  has 
shown  no  animation,  either  for  export 
or domestic  use.  State  large  full  cream 
is  quotable  at gc.

Western  eggs  are  worth  from  I7>£@ 
18c.  The  demand  is  good  and  the mar­
ket  gives  indication  or  remaining  firm 
right  along.  Eggs  pay  better  than  but­
ter  or  cheese  now.

Lemons  are  dull  and  first  Malagas 
brought  at  auction  about  one-third  as 
much  as 
last  year.  They  were  mostly 
withdrawn.  Oranges  are  in  rather light 
supply  and  are  selling  slowly.

Competition  breeds 

ideas.  The  ad­
vent  of a brand new department store has 
led  an  old  firm  in  the  same  line  to  add 
an  annex,one  feature  of  which  is a large 
room  set  apart  as  a  reading  room  for 
men,  supplied  with  the  magazines  and 
daily papers  and conveniences  for smok­
ing.  Writing  tables  and  stationery  are 
also  among  the 
the 
room,  which 
is  planned  to  provide  a 
pleasant  and  luxurious  lounging  place. 
The  women  are  not getting  all  the  good 
things 
if  they 
are  the  best  shoppers.

in  this  direction,  even 

furnishings  of 

Traffic  on  the  New  York  division  of 
the  Pennsylvania  has  become  so  great 
that  even  with  its  four  tracks  the  facili­
ties  of  the  line  are  taxed  to  their  ut­
most,  consequently  the company  has  de­
cided  to  shorten  the  New  York  division 
by  exending  the  Bustleton  branch  to  a 
connection  with  the  main  lines.  All 
the  fast  through  trains  will  run  over 
the  shorter  route.

A  good  many  physicians  here  make 
their  calls  on  bicycles.  The  old  prac­
titioners  who  have  snug  bank  accounts 
still  stick  to  their  carriages,  but the ris­
ing  men  of  the  profession  go  about  on 
the  wheel  and  make  better  time.  And 
the  wheel 
is  keeping  the  medical  pro­
fession  busy.

Here's  a  quaint  species  of  revenge: 
Some  time  ago  a  young  woman  brought 
a  breach  of  promise  suit  against  a 
Brooklyn  millionaire.  He’s  fighting 
the  case  for  all  he’s  worth.  Recently 
she  began  an  engagement  at  a  music 
hall  here,  and  one  of  the  features  of  her 
performance  is  a  perusal  of  the  letters 
she alleges  the  millionaire  clubman sent 
her.

Persons addicted  to  the bicycle  habit 
are  only  beginning  to  learn the possibil­
ities  thereof.  An  inventor  in  Brooklyn 
is  going  to  make  the  wheel  soar  in 
the  air  for  any  distance.  He  claims 
that  he  can  go  to  Europe  on  his  wheel 
in  two  days,  and  the  officials  of  the 
patent  office 
in  Washington  have  be­
come  impressed  with  his  plans.  They 
have 
issued  to  the  inventor a  patent. 
With  eight  wings  of  steel  and  silk,  jus­
tified  to  the  likeness  of  those of  a  bird, 
this  new  invention  is  going  to attempt  a 
revolution  in  the bicycle business.  The 
machine  will weigh twenty-eight pounds 
and  the  wings  fifty-seven  pounds,  mak­
ing  a  total  of  eighty-five  pounds.  The 
steel  and  silk  wings  are  now  being 
made  and  will  be  ready  for  trial  in  a 
few  days.

in  soap  nearly  half. 

The  women  of  Holland  and  Belgium, 
who  make  their  linen  so  beautifully 
white,  use  refined  borax 
instead  of 
washing  soda,  in  the  proportion  of  one 
large  handful  of  borax  powder  to  about 
ten  gallons  of  boiling  water.  Thus  they 
save 
Its  effect  is 
to  soften  the  hardest  water,  and,  there­
fore,  it  should  be  kept  on  every  toilet 
table.  It  is  good  for  cleansing  the  hair; 
is  an  excellent  dentifrice;  combined 
with  tartaric  acid  and carbonate of soda, 
it 
is  a  cooling  beverage.  Good  tea 
cannot  be  made  with  hard  water,  but all 
water  may  be  made  soft  by  adding  a 
teaspoonful  of  borax  powder  to  an  or­
dinary-sized  kettle  of water,  in  which  it 
should  boil.  The  saving 
in  the  quan­
tity  of  tea  used  will  be  one-fifth.

Less  tobacco 

is  consumed  in  Great 
Britain,  in  proportion  to  the 
inhabi­
tants,  than in any other civilized country. 
The  average 
is  23  ounces  per annum 
for each  person.

WANT5  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

IT'OR SALE—IMPROVED  80  ACRE  FARM  IN 
1  Oceana  county;  or  would  exchange  for 
merchandise.  Address  380  Jefferson  Avenue, 
Muskegon.______________________  
110
W ANTED TO  SELL—SMALL  STOCK  GRO 
ceries;  best location in Muskegon forca-h 
trade.  Address  243  West  Western  Avenue, 
Muskegon.___________________________109
I7KIR  SALE—THE  BEST  DRUG  STORE  IN 

’  Petoskey,  Mich.; invoices  about  $6,000;  an­
nual sales, over $10,000;  owner has other interests 
demanding all his time.  Will exchange part in 
Grand  Rapids  real  estate.  Particulars  for 
stamp.  The Fisk Pharmacy, Petoskey. 

ing tools  and  patterns.  Excellent  location 
for good workman.  Rent low.  Reason for sell­
ing, other business.  Neggle & Gordon, Hopkins 
Station, Mich. 

ITlOR SALE—STOCK OF TINWARE, INCLUD.
I DOR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF  GROCERIES 

’  in best town in Michigan.  Address  C,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
100
USINESS  CHANCES-EVERY  DESCRIP- 
tion  bought, sold  or  exchanged;  also  real 
estate.  Correspondence  solicited.  C.  E.  De- 
Sautelle,  Room  1,  99  Ottawa  Street,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

State  in  the  Union.  Stocks  will  be  sold  sep­

I DOR  SALE—DOUBLE  STORE,  GROCERIES 

and notions, in  one  of  best  towns  in  best 
arately or together, with  or  without  buildings. 
Address 420 East State street, Mason City,  Iowa.
92

108

107

99

MISCELLANEOUS.

91

106

104

\ \ T  ANTED—POSITION  AS  CHEMIST  OR 
m   drug clerk;  graduate of pharmacy  school, 
Michigan University, degree Ph. C.  Do not use 
liquor or tobacco.  M. F.  Nichols,  218  Scribner 
St., Grand Rapids. 
ANTED—TO EXCHANGE  LADY’S SOLID 
gold  watch  for  typewriter;  must  be  in 
good condition;  state make.  Wm. Miller, Inter- 
lochen, Mich. 
ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist  of  good  habits  who  has  had 
fourteen  years’  experience.  Address  No.  91, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
SINGLE MAN OF  FIFTEEN  YEARS’  EX- 
perience in a general  store wishes  position. 
Can give good  references.  Dick  starling,  Cen­
tral Lake, Mich. 
TjlOR  EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
-I-  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
UTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY  AND  VBAL 
Shippers should wr:te Cougle Brothers, 178 
South  W ater Street,  Chicago,  for  daily  market 
reports. 
26
ANTED  i;0  CORRESPOND  WITH  SH1P- 
pers of butter and eggs and  other  season 
able produce.  R. Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit. 
__________________________________ 951

W ANTED—SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN- 

tral  mileage  books.  Address,  stating 

price. Vindex. care Michigan Tradesman.  869

73

80

PRICE  LIST.

Butters  14 gal., per dozen.........................$  50
Butters. 1 to 6 gal., per gal......................... 
05^
0514
Extra Covers to flt,  1 to 6 gal. each........... 
11
Extra Covers to fit, 8 to 12 gal. each.........  
Churns (covers count as one gal.) per gal..  0514
Churn Dasher, per dozen............   .......... 
85
50 
Milk  Pans, 14 gal., r'd or flat bottom, doz. 
Milk Pans,  1 gal., r'd or flat bottom, each  0514 
0614
Milk Pans.  1 gal , extra fine glaze, each.. 
Jugs. 14 gal., per dozen..............................  60
Jugs,  l to 5 gal , per gal............................. 
0614
Tomato Jugs, H gal., per doz.................... 
70
Tomato Jugs,  1 gal., perdoz.................... 
84
Corks for 14 gal. Tomato Jugs, per dozen .  20
Corks for  1 gal  Tomato Jugs, per dozen..  30
Sealing  Wax, per lb...................................  
0?

Mail Orders direct to

H. Leonard & Sons,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

If you  want  to  get
The  trade  you  want  to  get,
You want  'o  get
Your  advertisement  into the trade getter, 
For  the  Tradesman  wants 
You  to get  the  trade 
You  want  to  get.

FULL  CREAM  CHEESE

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

Try it and you will use no other.

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

Farmington,  Michigan.

> Is  what  you  should 
advise  your  custom* 
ers.  People who have 

used  it  say  it  is  the  BEST.

T R Y   T H E   F A M O U S

D   ^

5   C E N T   C IG A R .

SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS IN THE STATE AND

fl.  J.  JOHNSON  CIGAR  CO.,  Grand  Rapid

ONLY  FRESH  CRACKERS

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

CHRISTENSON  BAKING  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Weatherly 
& Pulte,

99  Pearl  St., 
GRAND  RAPIDS.

Plum bing  and  Steam   H eating;  Gas 
and  Electric Fixtu res;  Galvanized  Iron 
Cornice  and  Slate  Roofing.  E very  kind 
o f Sheet Metal  Work.

Pumps and  Well  Supplies.
Hot  A ir Furnaces.

Beat  equipped and largest concern in the State.

im m m m m m w m m m

Him  HR own

WE  GUARANTEE

our brand of vinegar to be an absolutely pure apple juice  vinegar.  To any 
one who will analyze it and find any deleterious  acids,  or  anything  that  is 
not produced from the apple  we will forfeit

ONE  HUNDRED  DOLLARS

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

J .  ROBINSON. Manager.

ROBINSON  CIDER  &  VIN EG AR  CO.,

BENTON  HARBOR.  fllCH

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WARREN CHEMICAL AND MANUFACTURING C0„

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

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

Highest  Price  paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels

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In which  we  produce  more  Coupon 
Books than all the other manufactur­
ers in the country  combined.  These 
facts  speak  louder  than  words  and 
conclusively  prove  that  our  books 
must have been the best in  the  mar­
ket for the past thirteen  years  in  or­
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Pound  and  Ounce  Scales  cost  less  but  they  Lose You  Money. 
Dayton  Computing  Scales  cost  more  but  they  Make  and 
Save  You  every  month  more  Money  than  they  cost.

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Write for catalogue and prices of our money savers.

THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A.

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TIME  IS  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 
achant  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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now exists which,  recognizing the  importance  of  having plenty of  pure  |  
milk  on  hand  for  cooking  purposes,  has  found  its requirements fully  i 
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Borden’s  Peerless  Brand 

Evaporated  Cream,

and  it highly  indorses  same.  Merchants  interested  in  supplying their 
customers with  satisfactory goods,  at  a  reasonable  profit to  themselves, 
will  find that the  Peerless  Brand  is a good  article  to purchase and a 
reliable  one  to  sell.

Prepared and guaranteed by the New York Condensed  Milk Co.

For  q u o ta tio n s  S e e   P rice  Colum ns.

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