Volume XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER  21,  1896.

Number 683

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MAINE  FACTS

Skowhegan, Me.. June 3,1806. 
V a l l e y  C it y  Millin g Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear  Sirs:—In the  past  four  years  I  have  sold 
about 3.000 barrels  of  t  e Valley  Oily  Milling  Co.’s 
flours, and it gives me  pleasure  to  say  that  I  have 
always found  them  just  as  represented.  They  are 
flours that  run  very  uniform,  one  barrel  being as 
good as another In its grade.  I can  say  that  I  con­
sider  tbem  the  best  flours  that  are  being  sold  In 
Skowhegan.  I want another car load—the  last one 
went quick. 

C.  W. DAY.

West Pownal, Me., June 20,1896. 
V a l l e y C it y  M illin g C o., Grand  Itapids. Mich.
Geuts:—We have  been handling  your  different 
brands of flour for the last  five  years with  the very 
best  of  results.  We  have  never  before  handled  a 
car of any other mill’s  make  with  as  little  tronble 
as we have had with all we have  sold  of the  Valley 
City  Milling  Co.’s  flours.  We  cannot  get  along 
without them now—our customers wi 1 have them.
DOW  &  LIBBY.

Yours truly.

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

Yours truiv,

BLAKE BROS.

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unsurpassed.  Drop us a - line  for 
delivered prices.

We will make high grade goods 
and  low  prices  an  inducement  to 
buy your flour and millstuffs here.

JOHN  H.  EBELINO,

GREEN  BAY, WIS.

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Silier keaf Flora

Manufactured  by MUSKEGON MILLING CO.,  Muskegon,  Mich.
ONLY  FRESH  CRACKERS

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

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1  SEED  MERCHANTS,

ALFRED J.  BROWN  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

fine Chocolates and  con  Bons

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

TRY  HANSELMAN’S

all dealers.  Also fruits, nuts, etc.

C H R I S T E N S O N   B A K I N G   C O .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HANSELMAN  CANDY  CO.,

KALAMAZOO,  MICH.

LARGEST  BROOM  FACTORY

in  Michigan is

CHAS.  MANZELMANN’S,  a t  Detroit.

His variety of brooms and whisks commands attention.

PEBKins 4  p e s s(  • * -  h u b s , F u r s , W o o l  am i TaD O ÏÏ

We carry a stock of cake tallow for mill use.

Nos. la i and 124 Louis St.,

Grand Rapids.

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In  Beauty, Utility, 
Simplicity, 
Workmanship and 
Appearance the

Stimpson
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is without a 
rival.

Radcliffe,  Ia.,  Sept.  3,  1896.

Gentlemen: — The  Stimpson  Scale  gives  entire  satisfaction.  We 
could not “keep house” right without  it.  My  little  boy, 9 years  old,  can 
operate it. 

Signed,  SEIGH & VOIGHT,

By  C.  P.  SEIGH.

Stimpson  Computino  Scale  Go.

Elkhart. Indiana.

Headquarters for 

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N.  0.  MOLASSES 
and SYRUPS

Samples and prices sent on application.
W e will save you floney.

MICHIGAN  SPICE  CO.,

30  N.  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

•  DON’T  INVEST

a dollar in China Dolls or  Holiday  Goods without 
seeing our line.  We  have  the  best  assortment  in 
the State, at ihe lowest prices.  Catalogue free.

FRANK  B.  TAYLOR  &  CO.,

JACKSON,  MICH.

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NOT  SCRUB  BROOMS

but carpet brooms are what

A. W.  SMITH, of Jackson,

has won his reputation on.

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Big  Rapids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Lodington, 
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WARREN CHEMICAL AND MANUFACTURING CO..

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

8i Fulton street, NEW YORK.

ilio Chamber of Commerce, DETROIT.

FULL  CREAM  CH EESE

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

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

Try it and you will use no other.

Farmington,  Michigan.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  21,  1896.

Number 683

THE  ADVANCE  IN  WHEAT.

One  of  the  most  interesting  commer 
cial  developments  of  the  past  month  or 
six  weeks  has  been  the  very  rapid  ad 
vance  in  the  price  of  wheat.  From  the 
lowest  point  ruling  the  past  summer, 
the  price  of  this  most 
important  of 
cereals  has  risen  about  30  cents  per 
bushel.  What  such  an  advance  means 
to  the  consumers  of  bread  at 
large, 
which  includes  the  whole  of  the  civi­
lized  world,  and  to  the  producers  of 
wheat 
in  this  country  in  particular,  is 
the  theme  now  being  generally  dis­
cussed  by  business  men.

As  to  the  causes  which  led  up  to  the 
advance  the  most 
important  are  con­
nected  with  diminished  wheat  produc­
tion 
in  other  countries.  The  sources 
from  which  Europe  generally  draws  her 
supply  of  wheat  have  produced less than 
usual  this  season,  and  either  have  no 
surplus  for  export  at  all,  or  can  spare 
but  a  portion  of  the  amount  usually 
available  for  shipment.  As  a  result  of 
this  short  supply  elsewhere,  Europe  is 
compelled  to  look  to  the  United  States 
for  a 
larger  amount  of  wheat  than  she 
has  taken  in  recent  years.

Not  only  will  the  exporting  countries 
have  less  wheat  to  spare  than  usual,  but 
the 
importing  countries  have  smaller 
crops  than  usual;  hence they will have  a 
greater  deficit  to  make  up  from  outside 
sources.  The  American  crop  will  be 
anything  but  a  large one;  in  fact,  the 
yield  promises  to  fall  somewhat  short  of 
last  year.  Nevertheless,  the  American 
surplus  will  be  the  largest  source  of 
supply  for  Europe;  hence  it  is  not  sur­
prising that prices should have advanced 
very  materially  in  our  markets.

Quite  recently  another  strong  feature I 
has  been  developed  in  the  purchase  of 
wheat  in  California  for  export  to  Aus­
tralia  and  India.  Those  countries  usu­
ally  export  wheat;  but  during  the 
present season,  instead  of  having  a  sur­
plus  for export,  they  are  compelled  to 
purchase  wheat  abroad.  The  India  crop 
is  an  entire  failure  in  many  districts, 
and  an  actual  famine  is  threatened 
in 
Northern  India.  The  Indian  govern­
ment  is alarmed  over  the  situation,  and 
the  wheat  already  purchased 
in  San 
Francisco  is  likely  to  be  followed  soon 
by  other  and  larger  purchases.

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  advance 
has  not  been  merely  speculative,  but  is 
based  upon  solid  facts  of  supply and 
demand.  As  a  result  of  the  adverse  cir­
cumstances  which  have  shortened  the 
foreign  supply  of  wheat,  American 
farmers  will  profit  largely.  Their  gain 
means  a  sympathetic 
improvement  in 
all  other  farm  products.  Other  food­
stuffs  will  be  improved  in  value by  the 
higher  cost  of  wheat  and  flour,  and  the 
producers  of  these  foodstuffs,  by  re­
ceiving  larger  returns  for  their  crops, 
will  be  enabled  to  purchase  supplies  of 
all  sorts  more  freely  and  liquidate  long­
standing  debts.  The advance  in wheat, 
therefore,  means a  generally  better busi­
ness  in  other  lines of  American industry 
and  trade,  a  circumstance  which  is  cal­
culated  to allay  in  some  degree  the dis­
content  which  prevailed  but  recently 
among  the  farmers.

Rapid  Progress  of Business  Improve­
ment.
Written fo r the T rad esm an.

From  week  to  week  the  reports  as  to 
improvement  in  financial  and  commer­
increase  the 
cial  conditions  steadily 
evidences  of  the  early  return  of 
indus­
trial  prosperity.  The  accumulation  of 
probable  factors  has  become  so  great 
that  even  the  incubus  of  the  political 
campaign,  with 
its  uncertainties,  has 
not  been  sufficient  to  prevent  a  positive 
advance 
in  the  price  of  many  staples 
and  commodities,  as  well  as  in  the  vol­
ume  of  business.

Probably  the  most  potent  single factor 
in  improving  the  situation  is  the  con­
tinued  increase  of exports with  the  rela­
tive  diminution  of  imports.  This  has 
continued  at  an  increasing  ratio  until 
the  statistics  for  September  show  an  in­
crease  of  exports  of  over  $26,500,000,  as 
compared  with the  corresponding  month 
last  year,  while  the 
imports  were  less 
by  $14,500,000  than  for same  time.  This 
means,  of  course,  a  sufficient 
increase 
in  the  market  for  American  products  to 
materially  affect  the  volume  of  busi­
ness,  and  it  also  means  a  material effect 
on  the  balance  of  trade  with  foreign 
nations,  which  reflects  greatly increased 
confidence  in  the  situation  here.

rant  the  improvement  which  is  becom­
ing  so  manifest.

The  advance  has  been  slower  in  ma­
terializing  as  to  manufactures  and 
in­
dustrial  products,  but  these  are  begin­
ning  to  take  their  places in  a way which 
indicates  permanent  improvement.  The 
textile  materials,  cotton,  wool,  etc.,  are 
all  higher  and  more  active  and  their 
manufacturers  are  beginning  to  feel  the 
revival. 
In  the  case  of  iron,  combina­
tions  had  maintained  nominal  quota­
tions  at  prices  which  were  prohibitive 
as  to  trade  movement,  but  gradually  the 
recovery 
is  bringing  the  market  and 
the  combination  prices  nearer  together 
and  advances  have  been  made  in  some 
items.

The  feature  which  gives  most  prom­
ise  as  to^a  prompt  revival  of  activity  in 
domestic  trade  as  soon  as  the  political 
uncertainty 
is  settled  is  that  a  tremen­
dous  demand  has  been  accumulating 
during  the  past  months  of  depression. 
The  shelves  of  the  merchants are empty, 
except  for  what  is  required  from  day  to 
day.  Purchases  have  been,  and  are  be­
ing,  made  in  the  most  niggardly  man­
ner  This 
is  a  condition  that  must 
change— considerations  for  quantities 
must  again  become  a  feature  in  buying.

W .  N.  F u l l e r .

the 

is  the 

One  of  the  results  of  the  favorable 
foreign  trade 
inflow  of  gold  of 
the  past  six  weeks.  The  condition  ot 
the  Treasury  reserve  had  been  a  source 
of  uneasiness  and  distrust  most  of  the 
ime  for  several  years,  and  repeated 
sales  of  bonds  were  necessary  to  reliev 
the  apprehension.  During  the  month 
of  September 
imports  of  gold 
amounted  to  $34,098,080,  while  for  the 
corresponding  month  of  last  year  the 
exports, exceeded  the  imports  by  $16, 
674,609.  At  the  beginning  of  the  pres 
ent  month  the  action  of  the  Bank  of 
England 
in  advancing  the  money  rate 
operated  to  check  the  movement  for a 
few  days,  but 
it  was  based  on  causes 
too  strong  to  be  so  easily  counteracted 
and  the  imports  were  soon  resumed  on 
the  same  extensive  scale,  no  less  than 
$7,000,000  having  been  shipped  during 
last  week,  and  the  tide  is  continuing 
without  diminution.

Then  the 

indications  as  to  the  per­
manence  of  the  favorable  conditions  of 
foreign  trade  are  decidedly  reassuring. 
The  Old  World  demands  our  products 
on  account  of  the  scarcity  in  the  usual 
sources  of  supply.  Instead  of  our wheat- 
growers  competing  with  the  pauper  la­
bor of  India,  they  are  selling  that  prod­
uct 
in  the  Indian  markets,  and  nearly 
all  the  wheat-growing  countries  report 
greatly  lessened  productions.  The  ex­
tent  of  this  demand  is  sufficient  to  war­
rant  the  statement  that  all  of  the Ameri­
can  crop  will  be  sold  at  prices  much 
higher  than  were  hoped  for  while  it 
was  growing.

And  this  demand  for  wheat  is  affect­
ing  by  sympathy  most  of  the  other 
staple  food  productions  and  these  are 
falling 
into  the  line  of  advance  with 
few  important  exceptions.  Taking  all 
this  in  connection  with  the  fact  that  the 
average  of  productions  is  considerablv 
larger  than  usual,  the  fact  will  become 
apparent  that  there 
is  enough  to  war­

How  a Blind  Shopper  Makes  Her  Se­
From the Chicago Tribune.

lections.

Shoppers  in  one  of the big stores down 
town  last  bargain  day  curiously watched 
the  movements  of  a  blind  woman  at  the 
dress  goods  counter.  She  was  about 
30  years  old,  her  face  showing  great  in­
telligence  and  refinement. 
She  was 
richly  dressed  for  the  street,  and  a  girl 
about  20  years  old  accompanied  her.

The  blind  woman  examined  the  fab­
rics  placed  before  her  by  passing  them 
through  her  hands.  She  depended  upon 
her own  sense  of  touch,  apparently,  for 
she  seldom  spoke  to  her companion,  and 
then  only  in  answer  to  questions.  She 
appeared  to be  quite  critical,  and  be­
fore  she  made  her  selection  the  counter 
was  piled  high  with  patterns  of  all 
kinds.

After  she  had  examined’a  large  num­
ber  of  pieces,  she  took  up  one  of  the 
first  that  had  been  shown  to  her and 
decided  to  buy  it.

it  with  her  outstretched 

When  the  clerk  had  measured  it  she 
verified  the  length  herself  by  measur­
ing 
arms. 
Seemingly  satisfied  that  the  piece  con­
tained  as  much  as  she  had  bargained 
for,  she  took  a  transfer ticket  and  went 
to  the  counter  where trimmings are sold. 
There  she  selected  the  materials  with 
which  to  finish  the  dress,  examining  the 
laces  and  other  delicate  fabrics  most 
critically.

After  the  blind  woman  had  left  the 
store  the  floor  manager  said  her  shop­
ping  was  not  an  unusual  thing.  She was 
but  one  of  the  many blind  customers 
who  came  into  the  store  regularly.  This 
woman,  he  said,  was  not  only  able  to 
make  the  nicest  discrimination  in  the 
matter  of  trimmings,  but  so  delicate 
s  her  touch  she  could  often  distinguish 
colors.  He  added,  however,  that  she 
never  depended  entirely  upon  her  touch 
in  matching  shades,  but  verified  her 
selections  with  the  eyes  of  the clerk  and 
her  companion.

A  diamond  merchant 

in  Maiden 
Lane,  New  York  City,  has  just  received 
three  stones  found  near  Phillipsburg, 
Mont.,  which  upon  examination  proved 
to  be gems  of  the  first  water.

Petting  the  People
Side  Lights  on  Advertising.
have 

Advertising  methods 

is  just  as  bad  as  too  little. 

gone 
through  a  series  of  changes  in  the  last 
few  years,  and  always  for  the  better.  If 
the  merchant has  been  out  of  the  news­
paper  columns  for  any  length  of  time 
he  has  probably  as  much  to  learn  as has 
the  beginner,  and  perhaps  the  first  les­
is  not  to overdo  the  matter.  Too 
son 
much 
It 
must  not  be  understood  by  this,  how­
ever,  that  he  can  advertise  too  exten­
sively  within  the  limits  of  his  busi­
ness.  But  it  will  not  do  any  harm  to 
learn  that  extravagance  of  expression 
and  the  spreading  of  too  much  taffy  ou 
himself  and  his  goods  will  not  find  fa­
vor  with  the  public.  They  will  most 
likely  see  through  the  thin  disguise,  or 
what  amounts  to  that 
in  effect,  even 
when  he  has  not  intended  it,  and  will 
be  apt  to  avoid  a  merchant  who  ap­
parently  promises  more  than  he can per­
form.

*  *  *

One  of  the  most  studious  and  conser­
vative  men 
in  the  retail  ranks  of  this 
country,  albeit  one  of  the  most  pro­
gressive  and  successful,  gives  as  his 
opinion  that  where  a  store  is  doing  a 
really  fine  grade  trade  with  a  high  class 
of  people,  the  sensational  window  does 
more  harm  than  good;  that  is  to  say, 
the  window  which  covers  the  sidewalk, 
and  makes  a  crowd,  often  obstructs  the 
doorway,  so  that  the  customers  who 
want  to  spend  money,  and  not  to  look 
at  a  display,  cannot get  in  without  an­
noyance. 

^  ^

it 

the 

It  has  often  been  urged  that 

fe­
male  sex 
is  more  keenly  alive  to  the 
blandishments  of  advertisement  than 
the  mere  man,  and  that  it  should  be  the 
duty  of  every  shrewd  advertiser  to  bear 
the  fact  always  in  mind.  Certain  it 
is 
that  the  housewife 
is  usually  the  pur­
chaser  of  most  of  the  necessaries of life, 
is  therefore  interesting  to  read 
and 
what  Mr.  H.  Warington  Smyth  says 
in 
his  notes,  “ On  a  Journey  in  Siam :’ ’ 
“ The  Siamese, 
if  he  wants  a  good 
bargain  driven,  always  calls  his  wife  or 
daughter,  and  in  business  matters  he  is 
generally  ruled  by  them.’ ’  Which shows 
plainly  that  these  people  of  the  Far 
Fast  are  not  so  benighted  as  many  peo­
ple  think  they  are.

#  *  *

Writing  advertisements  is  one  of  the 
highest  of  all  literary  arts.  No  part  of 
literary  work  taxes  the  physical  and 
mental  powers  as advertisement writing. 
The  advertisement  writer  should  have 
a  room,  a  foundry,  a  place  where  he 
can  be alone  to  think.  Where  he  will 
be  undisturbed  by  clerks,  by  the  drum­
mer,  beggar,  crank,  or  by  a  brother 
writer or  literary  simpleton  or  flatterer. 
A  room  where  he  can  read,  and  smoke, 
and  talk,  and  sing  to  himself  all  un­
seen,  where  be  can  leave  things  and  re­
turn  to  them  at  leisure  to  find  them  just 
as  he  left  them.  A  place  where  he  can 
have  plenty  of  pigeon  holes,  where men­
tal  chips  and  newspaper  clippings  may 
be  thrust  and  found  at  will.  A  sup­
plementary  place  he  should  also  have, 
where  half-bom  ideas  might  be  left  to 
finish  out  at  some  future  time.

*  *  *

It  should  not  be  a  gilded  parlor  or  a 
frescoed  office.  A  room  in  the  attic  or 
the  remote  part  of  some  building  will 
do,  where  a  good  writing  table  and 
plenty  of  material,  in  the  form  of  pens, 
ink,  paper  and  books,  may  be  reached 
at  a  moment’s  notice.  Remember  that

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

in  a  room  like  that  you  can  invent,  and 
what  you  invent  in  the  shape  of  adver­
tisements  will  take  form  where  it  is 
quiet,  and  where  you  can  be alone.

*  *  *

An  advertisement  should  not  be  an 
intellectual  doll,  dressed  up 
in  high- 
sounding  rhetoric,  but  something  to  at­
tract  the  eye  and  make  the  mind  thrill 
and  fascinate  the  attention of the reader. 
An  advertisement  writer  should  read 
anything  and  everything  that  is  bright. 
No  matter  how  good  a  reputation  a  man 
may  have  at  writing  advertisements,  if 
he  doesn’t  fill  his  brain  as  fast  as  he 
empties 
it  there  soon  will  be  nothing 
left.

*  *  *

Following  are a  few  sample advertise­
ments,  clipped  from  Michigan  news­
papers,  which  exhibit  excellent  taste 
and  possess  strong  drawing  qualities:

SOME  PEOPLE’S 
DINING  ROOMS

Have hardwood floors—place for an 
Art Square.  Some  people’s dining 
rooms  are  richly  carpeted—place 
for an Art Square—protect the  car­
pet—keep  It clean.  Some  people’s 
dining  room  carpets  are  already 
badly worn under  and  around  the 
dining  table—place  for  an  Art 
Square-sxve buying a  new  carpet. 
Two  sizes—9x12  and  12x12  feet— 
made  of  fine  Ingrain  carpet,  bor­
dered and fringed.

Expect  to  do 
Business

For  years  to  come — ’twouldn’t 
pay us to ever be undersold — we 
won’t  be — we're  going  to  make 
the price as low, If not lower, than 
* the other fellow’s.”  We pity the 
woman  who  can’t  keep  her  feet 
warm in our  felt  shoes.  75c—Sic 
—98c and $1.25.

Dislocated
Profits

On  a  line  of  children's  underwear. 
How  dislocated ?  All  of the profit— 
and more, too—goes to the buyer.  25c 
and  40c.  qualities  at  14  and  28c.  to 
close.  All sizes except one.

New
iToon Tea.
If you keep  the tea,  we

We sell it conditionally 

keep the money.  Don’t

keep  it.  if  it  isn't just 

right

>oooooooooooo<

Paints of
Everlasting Luster.

Paints  of  perfection — are Boydell 
Bros.’  These  paints  cost  a  trifle 
more than some others, perhaps, but 
if they last about twice as long and 
always look better—you  keep away 
from •■cheap” paints.
Color cards cost nothing.

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POCKETS
LEAK?

Lose money through those  little holes?
A  V'c  purse  will  stop that  leak.  Carry 
valuable  papers  loose  in  your  pockets? 
Soon wear ’em out, if you don't lose them. 
We’ve all sorts of pocket-books, from the  in 
tiny little coin carriers up to the "pocket  nj 

ni  satchels”—or long bill books.

Lend Me 
Thine Ear

Now,  when times are growing brighter and  prices are 
advancing  rapidly,  owing  to  the  feeling  in  financial and 
business circles that  the  “Advance  Agent  of  Prosperity 
will  surely  be  elected  President of the United States,  we 
wish to announce to our friends that we have a very heavy 
stock  of  goods  on  hand,  purchased  previous  to  the  ad­
vance, and we will divide the increased  profits with them.
We  have  specially  a  very  full  and  handsome line  in 
Teas,  Coffees,  Spices  and  Canned  Goods.  We do not 
mention  Provisions,  as  it  is  well  known  throughout  the 
State that we are headquarters in this line.

We  will  quote  our  best  Minnesota  Patent  Flour  at 

$4.10 per barrel  upon all orders received this week.

Terms as usual,  cash  with order in current exchange.

The James  Stewart  Co.

LiniTED.,

Saginaw,  E. S.,  Mich.

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H ere  is  Lois  oi [Honey

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IN  OUR

N E W   BO STO N  
Q 1N Q ER   N U T S

Figure for yourself.  A  big  profit  in  retailing  by 

the quart.

110 heaping quarts to the barrel at 10c....... $11  00
1 barrel., 80 lbs., at 7&c per lb. (cost)........  6 00
Profit per barrel to grocer.........$ 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.

TIE  NEW  T in   B i n   HI.

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Established 1780.

Valter  Baker  &

Dorchester, Mass..

The Oldest and 

Largest  Manufacturers of

PURE.HIGHGRAD:
COCOASAND
CHOCOLATES

on  this  Continent.

No  Chemicals  are  used  In 
their manufactures.
Their  Breakfast  Cocos Is absolutely pure, 
delicious,  nutritious,  and costs less than one 
cent a  cup.

Their  Premium  No.  I  Chocolate  is  the 
oest plain chocolate in the market for family 
use.
Their German  Sweet Chocolate is  good to 
eat and good to drink.  It is palatable,  nutrl 
clous  and  healthful;  a  great  favorite with 
children.
Buyers  should  ask  for  and  be  sore  that 

.hey get the genuine

Walter  Baker &  Co.’®

goods, made  *t

______D orchester,  Mass.______

A  CLEVER  MERCHANT

will not allow an  advertisement  relative  to  the 
goods he handles to pass unnoticed.
What  is  more  profitable  to  a  grocer  than  a 
rapid growth 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 
finer quality at lower cost.  In bidding for  your 
trade we are willing to give  you  the  benefit  of 
hte extra profit.
Our current advertisements brought us a large 
number of inquries  tbrougb  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 
you one of them?  If not, why not?  Our  blends 
have  proved 
themselves  winners  wherever 
placed.
If you  are  still  doubtful  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 handsomecounter 
canister.  tOO  pound  size  bevelled  edge  mirror 
front, worth fully  $6.00.  If  you  are  a  prompt 
paying merchant let us  bear  from  you with  re­
quest  for  samples  or  send  trial  order  to  be 
shipped on approval.

OEO.  J.  JOHNSON,
Importer and Blender of Teas.  Whole­
sale Dealer in High Grade Coffees.

263  Jefferson  ire.,  and  51  and  53  Brush  St.,  Detroit  Mich.

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

the  assurance 

charge 

is 

Tradesman Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

3

EA D Y

IU B E R O ID  

OOFING....

All Ready to Lay.  Needs
Is  Odorless,  absolutely  Water  Proof,  will 
NO  COATING  OR  PAINTING

. esist fire  and the action of acids.

Can  be  used  over  shingles  of  steep  roofs,  or 

is  suitable for flat  roofs.

Will OUTLAST  tin  or  iron  and is very much 

cheaper.

T ry  Our  Pure

Asphalt Paint

Por coating tin,  iron  or  ready  roofs. 
Write for  Prices.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

Ask your hardware dealer for it.

Business  men  don’t  need  to  wait  un­
til  after  the  election  to  make  a  good 
thing out of  butter.  Get  a  rechurn  and 
get a good  price for it this fall.  You can 
make splendid  profits if you take our  ad­
vice. 
Improves rancid butter and  colors 
beautifully.

Bevington, I ow a, Sept. 12,  1896. 
Bellefontaine Churn Co., Bellefontaine, Ohio.

Gen tlem en:

* 

Inclosed  find  money  order  for  85.00 
to  balance  on  butter  worker.  Your  butter 
worker is all satisfactory.  It does all you  claim 
for it if used according to directions.

Yours truly,

J.  H.  McMANDS.

Address orders or inquires to

THE CHURN  GO.,

BELLEFONTAINE, 0.

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

Water  Gone  over  the  Dam.

It 

Water once  over  a  dam  is  not  likely 
to  run  uphill  or  climb  back  again. 
Once  over  the  lip  of  the  crest,  its  de­
parture  is  final.  Before it made a  crystal 
curve  into  the  pool  below,  it  was  eligi­
ble  for  a  tin  cup  or  a  bucket,  a  water­
ing  pot  or  a  garden  hose.  The  thirsty 
flocks quenched their thirst in the gliding 
stream,  and  the  rushes  and  sedges along 
its  brink  fattened  tin  the  crystal  elixir. 
It  was,  however,  but  a  passing  pilgrim. 
Had  it  no  perennial  source  of  supply,  it 
would  vanish  as  a  mist  in  the  sun  or  a 
pebble  in  the  sea. 
It  has,  however,  its 
springs  that  gurgle  over  tree  roots  and 
stones,  and  its  aerial  tanks  in the clouds 
that  empty  on  the  hills  and  trickle 
in 
the  stream.  To  think  that the water gone 
over  a  dam  is  all  that  can  be  squeezed 
out  of  Nature’s  sponge  would  be  a  de­
lusion  and  a  snare.  The  river 
is  not 
dry,  the  rain  has  not  gone out  of  busi­
ness,  and  the  springs  are  not  bottled 
and  corked,  and  the  mill  dam  never 
empties  Nature’s  cup.  This isa  comfort 
to  the  man  who  has  boats  and  cattle, 
and  not  a  little  of  the  same  to  the  mil­
ler  who  grinds  his  grist  as  the  waters 
leap  down  the  dam. 
It  is  just  so  with 
men  who  have  lived  long  enough  to  see 
much  that  they  would  have  preferred  to 
keep  go  over  the  dam.  We  find  thou­
sands  of  human  creatures  who  conclude 
from  their  losses  and  failures  that  their 
last  chances  are  gone. 
is  not  so. 
They  are  neither dead  nor  desolate,  but 
they  act  as 
if  they  were.  They  lose 
heart  and  courage.  They  surrender  to 
what  they  think 
is  inevitable.  They 
practically  throw  up  their  hands  and 
consent  to  drift  down  the  stream  as  a 
straw  or 
log  glides  over  a  cataract. 
Such  a  man,  be  he  rich  or  poor,  educa­
ted  or  ignorant,  is  one  of  the  most  piti­
able  objects  on  earth.  What  he  sees  of 
success 
in  the 
face.  What  in  his  past  life  was  as  fresh 
as  the  grass  after  the  rain,  and  bright 
as  a  buttercup 
in  the  sun,  is  but  a 
mocking  contrast  to  the  path  of  cinders 
or  flints  on  which  his  weary  feet  are 
plodding. 
Anything  and  everything 
is  joyous  and  bright  is  now  as  a 
that 
stone 
in  his  shoe,  or  as  a  wasp  in  his 
collar.  Such  men  are  to  be  found  sit­
ting  on  empty  kegs  in  back  alleys,  or 
tiding  donkeys 
in  Egypt  in  search  of 
some  relief  to  a  jaded  and  exhausted 
soul.  Men  with  money  and  men  without 
it,  in  rags  or 
in  fine  linen,  drinking 
champagne  with  Dives,  or  munching 
crusts  with  Lazarus,  with  life  without  a 
purpose,  existence  without  an  object 
and  the 
future  without  a  hope  are 
simply  waiting  to die.  With  some  men 
reason  abdicates  its  royal  seat,  and  a 
frenzied  spectre haunts  the  cell  of  a  lu­
natic asylum.  Others look  down  the bar­
rel  of  a  Smith  &  Wesson,  make  neck­
ties  of  rope,  or  powder  their  tongues 
with  arsenic,  the  victims  of  hopeless­
ness and  despair.  Now,  while  it  is true 
that  spilled  milk  cannot  be  gathered  up 
with  a  spoon,  it  is  not  conclusive  as  to 
the  death  of  the  cow.  Men  who  have 
made  mistakes in business and have seen 
the  golden  opportunities  of  a  lifetime 
go  over  the  dam  may, 
so 
choose,  be  the  better and  the  wiser  for 
their  experience.  Everything  that  has 
life  has  to  survive  struggle  to  reach 
maturity. 
The  oak  that  outlives  a 
hundred  years  has  had 
its  share  of 
storms  and  broken  branches,  and  the 
eagle  that  circles  above  the  mountain 
crags  has  had  its  pinions  strained in the 
storm.  This 
is  as  true  of  man  as  of  a 
tree  cradled  in  an  acorn,  and  an  eagle 
in  an  eyrie.  We  know  that  in
hatched 

in  others  smites  him 

if  they 

many  cases  men  have  lost  gold  that  will 
never  be  found  again,  houses  and  lands 
that  are  theirs  no  more  forever,  and 
reputations  never  to  be  built  up  again. 
All  those  may  have  gone  over  the  dam. 
But  what  is  left may  be  worth  more than 
what  is  gone.  A  blown-out  candle  may 
be  relighted  and  a  benumbed  hand 
made  warm  again,  and  no  man  can 
draw  the  line 
in  the  life  of  another 
over  which  hope  is  but  a  dead  leaf  and 
salvation  a 
lost  star.  There  is  a  door 
that  never  shuts  and  a  sun  that  never 
sets,  and  the  one  is  open  and  the  other 
shining  for  every  man,  whether  he be 
a  business,  social  or  moral  bankrupt. 
The  highest  aim  in  life,  after  all,  is  not 
a  span  of  thoroughbreds,  social  emi­
nence,  nor  a  wagonload  of  currency. 
The  meanest  excuse  for  manhood  may 
have  all  these.  To  have  a  heart 
for 
every  disaster,  a  courage  for every duty, 
a  resolution  that  never  bends,  and  the 
faith  that  sees  a  silver  iining  to  every 
cloud 
is  better  than  wealth  or  fame, 
and  no  matter  the  water  gone  over  the 
dam,  the  stream  above 
it,  to  such  a 
man,  never  runs  dry.

F r e d   W o o d ro w .

Slang  Names  for  Money.

it 

“ salt, ”  

“ sand”  

There  are  great  numbers  of  slang 
names  for  money  in  general  without  re­
gard  to  the  material  or  the  denomina­
tion  of  the  notes  or  coins. 
In  tough 
circles 
is  denominated  “ stuff,” 
“ slush,”  “ balsam,”  “ boodle,”  “ tips,”  
“ chips,”   “ dough,”   ” m o s s ,o c h r e ,”  
“ the  needful,”   “ open  sesame,”   “ pew­
ter, ” “ the  ready,”   “ poney, ”   “ dust,”  
“ scads,”  
and 
“ spondulix. ”   Nor  does  this  catalogue 
exhaust  the  list,  for  there  are  also  “ the 
¡wherewithal,”   “ the  world  movers,”  
“ what  we  work  for,”   “ tin,”   “ sugar,”  
‘ ‘ swag, ”   "  spelter, ”   “  soap, ”   “  slats, ’ ’ 
“ scrip, ”  “ rocks, ”  “ screeds, ’ ’“ rhino,' ’ 
“ quids,”   “ ntw  lights, ”   “ lucre”   and 
“ filthy  lucre,”   “ honey,”   “ jinglers,”  
“ jocks,”   “ loaves  and  fishes,”   “ rot,”  
“ doots”  
“ greed,”   “ gelter,”   “ fat,”  
and 
and 
“ darby,”  
“ cans,”  
“ bobs,”   “ blunts”   and  “ antes,”   be­
sides  hundreds  of  others,  some  quite 
unfit  for  the  ear  polite.

“ dootermus, ”  
“ cases”  

“ daces”  
and 

Whether  the  English  or  the  German 
is  the  more  flexible  or adaptable  lan­
guage 
is  a  question  about  which  the 
philologists  will  perhaps  always  differ, 
but  in  its  capacity  for  slang  the English 
is  certainly  not  surpassed  by  the  Ger­
man  or  any  other  language  spoken  on 
the  earth,  and  this  capacity  has  been 
tested  to  the  utmost by  the  people  who 
speak  the  English  tongue  when  discov­
ering  or  inventing  names  for  the  most 
desirable  article  of  which  they have  any 
knowledge. 
Various  attempts  have 
been  made  by  enthusiastic  reformers  to 
better  our  speech  by  eliminating  all 
slang  terms,  and  even  the  dictionary- 
makers,  whose  legitimate  business 
is 
not  to  reform 
language,  but  to  record 
the  usage  of  the  day,  have  lent  their 
assistance  in  this  direction  by  neglect­
ing  or  refusing  to  record  slang  names, 
as  not  being  a 
legitimate  part  of  the 
language.  There  are,  however,  things 
beyond  the  control  of  even  so  potential 
an  authority  as  the  maker of  a  diction­
ary,  and  slang 
is  among  the  number. 
As  long  as  there  is  money  there  will  be 
familiar and  slang  names  for  it.  The 
people  will  discover or  invent  them  for 
themselves,  and,  though the  purists may 
rage  and  the  dictionarymakers  imagine 
vain  things,  the  torrent  of  slang  will 
flow  on  undisturbed.

Owing  to  the  discriminating  meas­
ures  which  have been  recently  enacted 
in  Austria  against  foreign life assurance 
companies,  the  large  New  York  com­
panies  which  have  branches 
in  that 
country  are  seriously  thinking  of  with­
drawing  altogehter.  Under  the  present 
law,  the  Austrian  Minister of  the  In­
terior 
is  given  almost  autocratic  sup­
ervision,  and  all  business  methods  of 
the  foreign  associations  are  placed  un­
der government  supervision.

W E  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

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

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

i.  ROBINSON. Manager. 

ROBINSON  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,

BENTON  HARBOR.  niCH

Red  Star  Cough  Drops

No better  remedy known for Coughs and Colds.
A.  E.  BROOKS  &  CO.,

M A N U FA CTU R ED   BY

WHOLESALE  CONFECTIONERS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

T H E  M ICH IGAN   TR A D ESM A N

4

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Somerset—Wm.  F.  Morous,  general 

dealer,  has  removed  to  Woodstock.

Howell—W.  E.  Snyder  succeeds  W. 
S.  Farnsworth  in  the  laundry  business.
Benton—A.  D.  Clary  &  Co.  have  sold 
their  grocery  stock  to  Nels  Bve,  of 
Wallin.

Woodland—J.  C.  Haslett  has  sold  his 
dry  goods  stock  to  A.  M.  Shepard,  of 
Charlotte.

Three  Rivers— W.  J.  Webb  has  re­
moved  bis  stock  of  notions  from  Fulton 
to  this  place.

Detroit— W.  D.  Earnley  succeeds  W. 
D.  Earnley  &  Co.  in  the  grocery  and 
meat  business.

Sturgis—Abram  A.  Pope  continues 
the  grocery  business  formerly conducted 
by  Pope  &  Craig.

Saginaw  (S.  S. /— Harry  Dolson  has 
the  drug  stock  of  Mrs. 

purchased 
Eleanor  P.  Hesse.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—A.  C.  Lindsay  & 
Co.  have  sold  their  hardware  stock  to 
Wood  &  Thoenen.

Carleton—Jaeger  &  Gainsley,  general 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  T.  H.  Jaeger I 
continuing  the  business.

Lyons— W.  A.  Webber  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  G.  H.  McGillivray,  who 
will  continue  the  business.

Tecumseb— Anderson  & Co.,dry goods 
dealers,  have  dissolved,  Seaton  W.  An­
derson  continuing  the  business.

Norway— Bertha  M.  Sampson has pur­
chased  the general  stock  belonging  to 
the  estate  of  the  late J.  D.  Sampson.

Detroit— The  Thomas  Hill  Co.,  en­
gaged  in  the  grain  business,  has  been 
dissolved  and  will  not  again  resume 
business.

Saginaw  (E.  S .)— Doran  &  Downs, 
boot  and  shoe  dealers,  have  dissolved. 
The  business  will  be continued by Thos. 
A.  Downs.

South  Haven— Geo.  H.  Myban  & Co., 
tanners,  have  merged  their  business 
into  a  corporation  under  the  style  of  the 
Myban  Leather  Co.

Lenox—C.  S.  Rice  has  moved  his 
drug  stock  to  Oxford.  The  removal 
leaves  an  excellent  opening  for  a  new 
drug  and  grocery  stock.

Ludington—Joseph  Hoare,  who  has 
conducted  a  bakery  at  Manistee  for  the 
past  five  years,  has  returned  to  this  city 
and  embarked  in  the  bakery  business.

Greenville—A.  H.  Johnson 

retires 
from  the  firm  of  Ludlow  & Johnson, 
flour  and  feed  dealers.  M.  Ludlow  will 
continue  the  business  in  his  own  name.
Saginaw— Mr.  Carver,  formerly  man­
ager  for  the  drug  firm  of  Loranger  & 
Fournier,  Grayling,  has  taken a partner­
ship  interest  in  the  Saginaw  store  of the 
same  firm.

Breedsville— H.  W.  Rodenbaugh  has 
purchased  the  drug  stock  which  he  sold 
to  Byron  J.  Robertson  about  two  years 
ago  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.  Mr.  Robertson  re­
tires  from  business  on  account  of  ill 
health.

Saginaw— Estella  A.  Crawford,  doing 
business  as  the  Michigan  Wall  Paper  & 
Decorating Co.,  has uttered seven chattel 
mortgages,  aggregating  $2,700,  to  se­
cure  creditors.  The  first  mortgage  runs 
to  Weadock  &  Purcell,  her  attorneys, 
and  the  consideration  named  is $1.

Pontiac—C.  Morse  Brooks,  formerly 
connected  with  the  Brooks  Drug  Co.,  at 
Jackson,  will  occupy  his  new  store 
in 
in  a  few  days.  Mr. 
the  Davis  block 
Brooks 
in  new  fixtures  and 
furnishings,  and  is  counting  on  having

is  putting 

the  best  store  in  town.  He  will  carry  a 
line  of  wall  paper,  books  and  station­
ery.

Detroit—The  Peninsular  State  Sani­
tarium  Co.,  Ltd.,  has  filed  partnership 
articles  with  the  Register of  Deeds  with 
| $100,000  capital  stock.  The  stockbold- 
| ers  are  William  Yr.  Lindsay,  president, 
treasurer, 
$1,500;  Maria  S.  Gardner, 
$1,500;  C.  Ed son  Covey, 
secretary, 
$1,300;  Anna  Adams,  $1,500;.  Minnie 
Conley,  $200.

Carson  City— The  merchants  of  this 
place  have  agreed  to  close  their  stores 
at  8 o’clock,  except  Saturday  nights.  A 
warning  bell  will  be sounded at 7 45 and 
the  closing  bell  at  8  o’clock.  All  per­
sons  in  the  stores  making  purchases 
when  the  last  bell  is  rung  will  be  al­
lowed  to  finish  their  trading,  and  no 
one  will  be  admitted  after the  last  bell 
is  sounded.

Detroit—The $100,000damage  suit for 
malicious  prosecution,  begun 
in  the 
Wayne  Circuit  Court  a  few  days  ago 
by  Isadore  Jacobs,  of  Albion,  against 
Louis  Kuttnauer,  of  this  city,  was  set­
tled  Monday  and  discontinued.  Kutt­
nauer  caused  the  arrest  of  Jacobs  and 
others  on  the  charge  of  conspiring  to 
defraud  creditors,  but  on the trial Jacobs 
was  acquitted.  Then  the  latter  brought 
the  suit for malicious prosecution,  which 
has  been  settled  by  Kuttnauer’s  paying 
$50  nominal  damages and  $50 costs.

Kalkaska— Dec.  30,  1895,  Palmer  & 
Hobbs  sold  the  Smith  Lumber  Co.  gro­
cery  stock  and  fixtures  to  Darby  & 
Travis  on  a  contract.  The  property  in­
ventoried  $2,169.50,  on  which  a  pay­
ment  of  $433.90  was  made.  April  1  of 
this  year,  Mr.  Darby  sold  his 
interest 
in  the  business  to  Mr.  Hecox,  when 
the  firm  name  became  Travis  &  He­
cox.  The  contract  stipulated  that  the! 
title  to  the  property,  including any book 
accounts,  should  remain 
in  Palmer  & 
Hobbs  and  specified  that  the  purchaser 
should  discount  all  bills,  in  considera­
tion  of  which  Palmer  &  Hobbs  guar­
anteed  the  accounts  of  two 
jobbing 
houses,  whose  claims  aggregate  $600. 
Becoming  dissatisfied  with  the  manner 
in  which  the  business  was  being  con­
ducted,  Palmer  &  Hobbs  recently  took 
possession  of  the  property  on  this  con­
tract,  subsequently  selling  the  stock, 
which  inventoried  $1,818,  to  Cole Bros., 
on  the  basis  of  90 cents  on  the  dollar. 
It  was  found  that  the  book  accounts 
amounted  to $1,200,  of  which  $600  are 
considered  good,  one-half  of  which  has 
already  been  collected.  The 
fixtures 
can  probably  be  sold  for $200,  in  which 
event  there  will  be  the  proceeds  from 
$600  of  doubtful  accounts  to  divide 
among unsecured creditors  whose  claims 
aggregate $1,300.  Both  Messrs.  Travis 
and  Hecox  are  well-meaning young men 
and  their  failure  to  make  a  success  of 
their  first  business  undertaking  is  de­
plored  by  all  who  know  them.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Thompsouvilie— Delaney  &  Hyatt  are 
enlarging  their  mill  and  handle  factory.
Detroit— Daniel  Scotten &  Co.  are  go­
ing  into  the  extensive  manufacture  of 
snuff.

Cambria— Busch  &  Stambough,  who 
operated  a  grist  and  sawmill  at  this 
place,  have  dissolved 
partnership. 
Busch  &  Cooper  will  continue  the  busi­
ness.

Hermansville— The  Wisconsin  Land 
&  Lumber  Co.’s  sawmill  has  been 
closed  for  the  season.  Two  logging 
camps  will  be started  next  week  on pine 
and  hardwood.  The  company  has  a 
large  stock  of  lumber  in  the  yards here.

Detroit—The  Improved  Match  Co.,
; whose  factory  was  burned  recently,  has 
j received  from Europe six new machines, 
j which  will  enable  it  to  turn  out twice as 
many  matches  as  formerly.

Cadillac— Lumsden  &  Ward will oper­
ate  their  factories  both  at  Big  Rapids 
and  at  this  place  this  winter.  The  de­
mand  for  bicycle  rims  is  heavy and they 
will  purchase  all  the  rock  elm  lumber 
offered.

Scottville—Schumacher  &  Goon  have 
formed  a  co-partnership  for  the  manu­
facture  of woodenware specialties.  They 
will  build  a  mill  at  once  and  will 
operate  a  planing  mill 
in  connection 
with  the  factory.

for 

Ishpeming—The Excelsior furnace,  at 
this  place,  owned  by  C.  H.  Schaffer,  of 
Marquette,  but  operated  for  the  last  two 
years  by  the  local  mines,  was  closed 
last  week.  There  is a  large  accumula­
tion  of  unsold  pig  iron  in  the  yards  and 
this,  with  a  stagnant  market 
its 
product,  caused  the  Lake  Superior  Iron 
Co.,  which  has  been  running  the  fur­
nace  this  season,  to  go  out of blast.  The 
suspension  is  for  an 
indefinite  period, 
but  the  making  of  iron  will,  undoubted­
ly,  be  resumed  as  soon  as  business  al­
lows  the  working  off  of  a  portion  of  the 
unsold  stock  on  hand.  The  stoppage  of 
the  Excelsior  leaves  the  new  furnace  of 
the  Cleveland-Cliffs  Co.,  at  Gladstone, 
the  sole  active charcoal  furnace 
in  the 
Lake  Superior district.  The  Gladstone 
furnace  will  be  worked  continuously un­
less  conditions  grow  worse  than  they 
now  are or  promise  to be.  The  Cleve­
land-Cliffs  Co.  is  practically  the  only 
mining  company  operating  in  the  Lake 
Superior district  which  is  now  employ­
ing  its  full  quota  of  men.

Ishpeming— The 

season  of  closing 
mines  seems  to  have  passed. 
In  sev­
eral  instances  during  the  past  ten  days 
mines  have  resumed  work 
in  a  small 
way  and  the  outlook  is  more  promising. 
The  Norrie  property  at  Ironwood 
is 
now  working  one  shaft  and  will  prob­
ably  resume  work  at  other  shafts  soon. 
The  condition  at  Ironwood  is  very  sad 
and  there  has  been  much  suffering.  Un­
less  the  Norrie  resumes  with  fair  forces 
very  soon  there  will  be  so  much  suffer­
ing  there  that  the  local  authorities  will 
be  unable  to  care  for  the  destitute.  At 
Iron  Mountain  the  situation 
is  better 
than  elsewhere— with  the  exception  of 
this  city—as  the  Chapin,  which  last 
spring  absorbed  the  Hamilton  and  Lud­
ington  properties,  is  being  worked  with 
large  forces  and  the  men  are  making 
excellent  wages,  as  pay  now  goes  in  the 
iron-mining districts.  At Norway the Ar- 
ragon  mine  is  the  mainstay  of  the  town 
and  recently  added  to  its  force  of  em­
ployes.  At  Bessemer  not  much  is doing, 
but  the  condition  of  the  idle  working 
men  and  their  families  averages  much 
better  than  at  Ironwood,  seven  miles 
away,  while  the  proportion  of  idle  men 
is  smaller.  At  Negaunee  there  is  much 
doubt  as  to  the  course  to be  pursued 
during  the  winter by  the  leading  prop­
If  the  Buffalo  mines  follow  the 
erties. 
policy  of  last  season  and  remain 
idle 
for  the  winter  the  situation  will  be  bad 
for 
is  hope  that  the 
mines  may  be  worked continuously after 
election  until  the  shipping  season  next 
spring.

labor,  but  there 

Iron  Mountain—The  water  has  been 
turned  into  the  new  channel  dredged 
for  the  Micbigamme  River  for  the  pur­
pose  of  reclaiming  the  Mansfield  mine, 
which  was  flooded  several  years  ago, 
drowning  twenty-seven  men.  The  en­
terprise  has  proven  even  a  greater  suc­
cess than  the  projectors  anticipated,  for

in 

a  large  body  of  Bessemer  ore  has  now 
been  discovered 
the  old  channel. 
Six  inches  below  the  sand  covering  of 
the  river  bed  was  a  body  of  ore.  A 
1 system  of  trenching  was  instituted  and 
the  body  was  traced  from  two  to  three 
hundred  feet  in 
length.  A  width  of 
thirty  feet  has  been  determined,  but 
long  before  the  exploring  work  was  well 
under  way  a  sand  bar  formed  at  the 
mouth  of  the  new  channel  and 
the 
water backed  up  into  the old  river  bed, 
again  submerging  the  find.  A  sample 
of  the  ore  has  been  analyzed  for  iron. 
It 
is  very  rich.  While  the  chemist’s 
figures  are  not  available,  it is stated that 
no  other  mine  in  this  district  produces 
ore  that  approaches  it  in  volume  of  iron 
carried. 
is  undoubtedly  Bessemer 
ore  of  the  finest  quality.  The  depth 
of  the  deposit  has  not  yet  been  tested. 
While  it  is  possible  that  the  deposit 
is 
in  the  form  of  a  thin  capping,  such  a 
condition  is  not  in  the  least  probable. 
The  body  has  every  appearance  of  a 
clearly-defined  vein  and  there  seems  to 
be  little  doubt  in  the  minds  of  those  in­
terested  that  such  it  is.  At  the  present 
time  everything  indicates  that  the  De 
Soto  Iron  Co.  has  secured  one  of  the 
finest  iron  properties  in  the  Upper  Pen­
insula.

It 

It 

the 

the 

1891, 

Marquette—Although  many  of  the  ore 
carriers  have  tied  up  for  the  season  and 
a  few  others  have  gone  into  the  grain 
trade,  the  volume  of  ore  shipments 
is 
still  considerable. 
is  small  when 
placed  beside  the  heavy  traffic  of  a  year 
ago,  but,  compared  with  the  amount  of 
business  being  done  in  October  of  any 
year  previous  to 
tonnage 
It  will  be  found 
looms  up  preceptibly. 
at 
close  of  the  season,  when 
the  exact  figures  are  available,  that  the 
ore  business  of  1896  will  rank  with  that 
of  the  four  largest  years’  business,  and 
it  would  not  be  surprising  if  it  should 
prove  second  only  to  the  record-break­
ing  shipments  of  1895.  The  output  of 
the  present  year,  including ali  rail  ship­
ments  and  the  consumption  of  local  fur­
naces,  will  be  between  9,000,000  and 
10,000,000  tons,  and  will  probably  be 
less  than  1,000,000  tons  short  of  last sea­
son’s  total.  The  situation,  however,  is 
vastly  different  from  that  of  a  year  ago, 
when  there  was an apparently unlimited 
demand  for ores  of  almost  any  grade to­
ward  the  close  of  the  shipping  season, 
with  prices  advancing  sharply  on all de­
sirable  ores.  The  ore  market at  present 
is  utterly  stagnant,  buying  being  main­
ly  from  hand  to  mouth.  Of  the  4,000,- 
000  tons  of  ore  now  piled  upon  Lake 
Erie  docks,  the greatest  portion 
is  un­
sold.  The  receiving  docks  were  more 
nearly  clear of  unsold  ore  at  the  open­
ing  of this  season  than  they  had  been 
for a  number of years,  but  the  close  of 
the  season  will  see  the  largest  amount 
of  unsold  ore on  hand  ever  known.  The 
is,  therefore,  far  from  satis­
situation 
factory,  but  there 
is  a  very  general 
feeling  of  hopefulness  on  the  part  of 
producers  that  the  settlement  of  the 
financial  question  at  the  polls  will  pave 
the  way  for  better  times.  One  thing 
is 
conceded  on  all  sides,  and  that 
is  that 
any general  revival  of  business  through­
out  the  country  must 
inevitably  cause 
the greatest  activity  ever  known  in  the 
iron  and  steel  trades.  There  are  so 
many  railroads  needing  new  steel,  so 
many  projected  buildings  that  will  con­
sume  enormous  quantities  of  structural 
iron  and  so  many  places  where  good 
business  will  mean  heavy  consumption 
of  iron  that  the  trade  is  bound  to  come 
in  for  heavy  business  when  the  long- 
promised  good  times  come.

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5

Orand  Rapids  Oossip

J.  Herstein,  formerly of  Saginaw,  has 
opened  a  shoe  store  at  15  Canal  street 
with  a  bankrupt  stock  of  goods.

H.  Regher,  formerly  of  Kendallville, 
Ind.,  has  purchased  the  shoe  stock  of 
Michael  Ebrman  at  69  Canal  street  and 
will  continue  the  business 
in  his  own 
name.

The  Central  Furniture  Co.  will  re­
move  Nov.  1  from  102  Prescott  street  to 
the  factory  building  now  being  fitted  up 
at  the  corner  of  Ionia  and  McConnell 
streets.

John  Rottier has  purchased  a  half  in­
terest  in  the  meat  market  of  Christian 
Katz,  at  59  South  Division  strreet.  The 
new  firm  will  be  known  as  Katz  & 
Rottier.  _____________

S.  O.  Graser  has  retired  from  the  un­
dertaking  firm  of  Shannon  &  Graser,  at 
693  Wealthy  avenue.  Arthur  W.  Shan­
non  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

John  R.  Lowrey,  meat  dealer  at  631 
Jefferson  avenue,  has  sold  out  to  Wm. 
Harris,  who  will  continue  business  at 
the  same  location,  dealing 
in  meats, 
butter,  eggs,  poultry  and  game.

It 

street,  under 

The  sale of  the  manufacturing  prop­
erty  of  H.  Rademaker  &  Sons,  at  102 to 
116  Prescott 
the  trust 
mortgage,  will  occur  Thursday  morn­
ing. 
is  expected  that  the  property 
will  be  bid  in  by  Hendrik  Moerman, 
in  behalf  of  the  former owners,  in which 
event  the  business  will  be  resumed 
under  the  same  management  as  before.
F.  G.  Denham,  who  opened  a  shoe 
store at 95  Canal  street  April  21,  subse­
quently  uttering  a  bill  of  sale  to  a  man 
named  Lynch,  recently  shipped 
the 
to  Chicago,  marked  *‘ C.  S. ”  
stock 
Before  leaving  the  city,  Denham  issued 
checks  on  the  Fifth  National  Bank 
in 
settlement  of  local  bills,  but  the  checks 
were  not  honored  at  the  bank,  as  Den­
ham  had  no  funds  there.

E.  G.  Curtis  has  sold  his  dry  goods 
and  grocery  stock  at  200  Watson  street 
to  Thomas  Thomasma,  grocer  at  Oak­
dale  Park,  who  will  remove  his  stock  to 
the  Watson  street  location  and  consoli­
date  it  with  the  stock  purchased.  Mr. 
Curtis  has  decided  to  take  up  his  resi­
dence at  Los  Angeles  and  will  leave  for 
Southern  California,accompanied  by his 
family  and  Miss  Sadie  L.  Main,  his 
former  cashier,  immediately  after  elec­
tion. 

_____________

Frank  J.  Wurzburg  is  no  longer  con­
the  drug  business  with 
nected  with 
which  he  has  been 
identified  for  the 
past  thirty-five  years,  having  turned  the 
stock  over  to  the  Peninsular  Trust  Co. 
on  a  bill  of  sale on  Oct.  17.  By  the 
terms  of  the  transfer  five  creditors  are 
to  participate,  pro  rata,  in  the  proceeds 
— L.  P.  Wurzburg,  whose  claim 
is 
$1,000;  Caroline  Putman,  Executor, 
$1,000;  Noyes  L.  Avery,  $2,200;  J.  L. 
Whiting,  Son  &  Co.,  $171.49;  Peck 
Bros.,  $90. 
It  is  understood  that  sev­
eral  parties  are  figuring  to  secure  a 
lease  of  the  premises,  with  a  view  to 
putting  in  modern  fixtures  and  conduct­
ing  an  up-to-date  drug  store.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso* 

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall  on  Tues­
day  evening,  Oct.  20,  Vice-President 
Frank  J.  Dyk  presided.

The  Committee  on  Signs reported that 
it  had  secured  the  necessary  equipment 
of  printed  and  painted  signs.  The  re­
port  was  accepted  and  the  committee 
discharged.

A.  Brink  and  the  Secretary  were  ap­
pointed  a  committee  to  secure  a  chan­
delier  with  which  to  light  the  hall.

The  annual  report  of  Secretary  Klap, 
from  Jan.  21  to  Oct.  15,  showed  total  re­
ceipts  of  $284.85,  during  which  time 
he 
the 
Treasurer 
in  settlement  of  bills  ap­
proved  by  the  Executive  Committee, 
amounting  to $195.26.

issued  forty  three  orders  on 

The annual  report  of  Treasurer  Leh­
man  showed  total  receipts  during  the 
year  of  $660.46  and  disbursements  of 
$399.59,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of 
$260.87.

Both  reports  bore  the  certificate of the 
Executive  Committee  to  the  effect  that 
they bad  been audited and compared and 
found  to  be  correct.

On  motion  of  Mr.  Wagner,  the reports 
of  the  Secretary,  Treasurer  and  Execu­
tive  Committee  were  accepted  and 
adopted.

The  following  letter  was  read  by  the 

Secretary :

London,  England,  Oct.  1—A  pro­
posal  has  been  mooted  for  the  holding 
of  an  international  conference  of  gro­
cers  at  the  Paris  Exhibition  in  1900.

I  am  writing  to  ask  if  you  think  it 
likely  that  the  members  of  your  Asso­
ciation  would  entertain  the  proposal. 
I  am  sending  a  similar  letter  to the Sec­
retary  of  every  association  in the United 
States  of  which  I  have  the  address,  and 
shall  be  glad  to  receive  the  favor  of 
your  reply  when  the  matter  has  been 
discussed,  in  order  that  I  may  put  the 
whole  of  the  replies  before  the  Feder­
ation  of  Grocers’  Associations,  of which 
I  have  the  honor  to be  Secretary.

A r t h u r  J.  G il e s ,  Sec’y.

Mr.  Lehman  moved  that  the  project 
be  approved  and  that  the  Association 
send  a  committee  of  five  to  Paris,  of 
which  he  should  be  one.  This,  natur­
ally,  provoked  considerable  merriment, 
and 
it  was  finally  decided  to  lay  the 
matter on  the  table  for the  present.

The  question  of  closing  earlier  on 
Saturday  evenings  was  discussed  at 
considerable  length,  culminating  in  the 
adoption  of  a  resolution to make the sub­
ject  the  special  order  of  business  at  the 
It  was  also  proposed  to 
next  meeting. 
discuss,  in  the  same  connection, 
the 
advisability  of  making  the  arbitrary 
closing  hour  on  other  evenings  of  the 
week  6:30,  instead  of  7  o’clock,  as near­
ly  all  the  grocers  of  the  city  are  now 
observing  this  rule.

On  account  of  the  next  meeting  com­
ing  on  the  night  of  election,  it  was  de­
cided  to  postpone  the  meeting  until 
Tuesday  evening,  Nov.  17.

There  being  no  further  business  the 

meeting  adjourned.

Asphalt  Flooring.

Floors  strong  enough  to  hold  locomo­
tives  are  now  being  constructed  and, 
after once  known,  are  coming  into  very 
general  use  in  Michigan.  Tenyearsago 
the  G.  R.  &  I.  car  shops,  at  Grand 
Rapids,  had  a  large  amount  of  floor 
space  covered  with  this  extra  quality 
of  asphalt  by  H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son, 
of  Grand  Rapids,  and  it  has  given  very 
good  satisfaction. 
line 
with  these  experimenters,  the  D.  L.  & 
N.  car  shops  at  Ionia  and  the  C.  &  W. 
M.  car  shops  at  Muskegon  have  at  dif­
ferent  times  ordered  it  and  positively 
proven  its  efficiency.  The  Grand  Rap­
ids  No.  9  fire  engine  house  is  now  com­
plete,  with  its  apparatus  room  and  all 
approaches  paved  with  this  hard,  elas­
tic,  and  durable flooring.  Messrs.  Rey­
nolds  &  Son  constructed  all  these floors.

Falling 

in 

Ask  about  Gillies’  New  York  Spice 

Contest  Phone  1589.  J.  P.  Visner.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— Raw grades  are  strong  on  the 
other  side,  an  advance  of  3d  having 
taken  place  in  the  London  market.  No. 
15  was  marked  up  %c 
last  Wednesday 
and  the  next  day  the  Trust  announced 
an  increase  of  i - i 6c  on  No.  6  and  also 
on  Nos.  9  to  14,  inclusive.  Hut  for  the 
fact  that  the  consumptive  demand  has 
fallen  off considerably,  the market would 
undoubtedly  have  a  strong  upward tend­
indications  point  to 
ency.  While  all 
higher  values, 
the  unexpected 
which  frequently  happens,  and  which 
is  one  of  the 
way  the  cat  will 
jump 
things  no  fellow  can 
find  out.  The 
wholesale  grocers  of  the  country  are 
greatly  concerned  over  the  action  of  the 
Trust  in  reducing  the  rebate  from  3-16C 
to  %c,  besides  abrogating 
the  1  per 
cent,  trade  discount,  but  there  appears 
to  be  a  general  feeling  that  it  is  better 
to  accept  the  reduced  margin than suffer 
the  abandonment  of  the  factor  plan alto­
gether.

it  is 

Tea—All  grades  show  an  advancing 
tendency,  and  some  medium  grades  of 
Japans  are  j^c  per  pound  higher  than  a 
few  days  ago.  This  strength  is  affect­
ing  practically  all  sorts  and  qualities, 
and  the  probabilities  are  for much high­
er  prices  during  the  next  few  weeks. 
One  reason  for  this 
is  the  fact  that 
stocks  of  all  teas  have  been  allowed  to 
dwindle  in  grocers’  hands,  and  the  de­
mand  which 
is  now  ensuing  is  being 
complicated  by  the  much 
lighter  re­
ceipts.  The  disposition  to  shade  prices 
which  pervaded  nearly every merchant’s 
dealings  a  few  weeks  ago  has  entirely 
disappeared,  and  sellers  are  now notice­
ably  independent.  The  present  range  of 
tea  prices  could  advance at  least  25  per 
cent,  and  still  not  be  above  last  year’s 
The  consuming  demand  has 
figures. 
not  derived  any  boom  as  vet,  but 
is 
steadily  and  encoura­
moving  along 
gingly.

Coffee—Actual  coffee  has  ruled  very 
strong  and  active  and  a  large  business 
has  been  transacted,  both  in  a 
jobbing 
way  and  afloat,  on  a  higher  basis,  and 
a  very  confident  feeling prevails.  Mar- 
acaibos  continue  scarce  and  high. 
Javas  are  in  very  strong  position,  and  a 
much  better  market  has  ruled.  Mocha 
coffee  is  very  strong  and  advancing.

From  March  1,  the  total 

Provisions— The  market  of  hogs  was 
not  enlarged  last  week.  Western  pack­
ers  have  killed  a  total  of  305,000,  com­
pared  with  315,000  the  preceding  week, 
and  290,000  for  the  corresponding  time 
last  year. 
is 
8,940,000,  against  7,350,000 a  year  ago. 
The  increase  is  15,000  for  the  week  and
1,590,000 
for  the  season,  compared  with 
last  year.  The  quality  has  been  more 
favorably  spoken  of  the  past  week 
in 
some  of  the  Western  packing  points. 
Prices  are  higher,  showing  an  advance 
of  about  20c  per  hundred  pounds  at  the 
close,  in  comparison  with  a  week  ago, 
in  the  average  for  Western  markets. 
So  far  as  the  current  trade  for  product 
is  concerned  there  has  been 
little  to 
complain  of,  the  demand  having  been 
large  and  steady.  The  speculative  in­
terest  in  the  market  was  enlarged  and 
considerable  advance  was  the  result, 
which  had  the  effect  to  increase  the  of­
ferings,  and  at  the  close  the  market 
shows  a  reaction,  by  which  a  large  part 
of  the  week’s  advance  has been  lost,  in 
values  at  Chicago.  The  export  clear­
ances  of  product  for  the  week were large 
for  both  lard  and  meats.

Rice— Advices  from  along  the  Atlan­
tic  Coast  note  former  free  movement 
and  a  stronger  feeling  than  at  any  time 
since  the  present  season  opened.  The

Carolina  crop  is  of  fine quality and, with 
the  scanty  and  rapidly  depleting  sup­
plies  of  high  grades  in  the  Southwest, 
will  undoubtedly  command  full  figures. 
Latest  information  regarding the domes­
tic  crop  is  fully  confirmatory  of  former 
reports,  indicating  plainly  that the turn­
out  in  Louisiana  will  be  far  short of last 
year.  Foreign 
is  more  active than  for 
several  years  past,  and  must  be  relied 
upon  to  furnish  the  larger  part  of  the 
requirements 
current  year. 
Prices  are  firm,  as  the  percentage of de­
sirable  styles,  such  as  are  meet  for  the 
demand  of  the  United  States,  is  said  to 
be  much  less  than  usual.

the 

of 

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  has  experienced  a 
small  cyclone 
in  the  way  of  boosting 
prices  skyward.  Cash  wheat  has  ad­
ioc  per  bushel  since  last  writ­
vanced 
ing. 
The  writer  has  only  one  recollec­
tion  of  a  similar  advance,  and  that  was 
in  April,  1877,  when  prices  shot  up  50c 
per  bushel 
in  one  week.  This  was 
caused  by  a  shortage  in  the crop of  1876. 
The  market  is  extremely  nervous  and, 
while  the  present  advance 
is  hardly 
what  the  situation  warrants,  it  seems  to 
be  high  enough.  The  rapid  advance 
during  the  last  few  days  seemed  to  daze 
the  traders  on  both  sides—the  longs  as 
well  as  the  short  sellers.  The  large 
visible,  being  2,374,000  bushels  against
1,600,000  bushels the correspondí ng time 
last  year;  an  increase  on ocean passage; 
in 
large  receipts  in  Chicago  and  also 
in 
influence 
the  Northwest—all  had  no 
checking  the  upturn. 
The 
traders 
tumbled  over  each  other  to  buy  wheat. 
We  may  naturally  expect  a  setback.
Corn  and  oats  have  followed  in  the 
wake  of  wheat,  although  not  quite  so 
sharply.  The  advance  has  been  about 
4c  per  bushel  on  each  cereal.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were: 
wheat,  41  cars;  corn,  6  cars;  oats,  15 
cars.

Local millers are paying 75c for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

Flour  and  Feed.

The  excited  condition  of  the  wheat 
market  during  the  past  week  has  cur­
tailed  the  volume  of  business  some­
what.  Buyers  of  flour  are  hardly  pre­
pared  to  believe  that  an  advance  of  7@ 
8c  per  bu.  in  one  week,  on  top  of  an 
advance  of  about  15c  during  the  past 
few  weeks,  is  altogether  legitimate  and 
seem 
inclined  to  wait  for  a  decline. 
A  careful  study  of  the  situation  reveals 
the  facts— if  figures  can be relied upon— 
that  America  must  be  depended upon  to 
supply  a 
large  deficiency  abroad  and 
that  we  have  harvested  a  short  crop 
this  year.  Our  own  home  consumption 
has  increased  and,  with 
light  reserves 
and  only  a  small  surplus  for  export, 
it  is  reasonable  to  expect  that  the  price 
of  wheat  may  advance  to 90c  per  bu. 
or  better  on  this  year’s  crop  and  be 
well  maintained.  If  so,  flour bought now 
would  be a  good  investment.

Millstuffs  have advanced  about  $1  per 
ton  and  about  the  same  advance  has 
been  made 
in  feed  and  meal,  with  an 
increased  demand.  W m.  N.  R ow e.

In  the  Hands  of a  Receiver.

The  Tradesman  recently  warned  the 
trade  against  the  Michigan  Fruit  & 
Produce  Co.,  at  Ft.  Wayne,  since which 
time  the  partners  have  become  involved 
in  a  wrangle  which  has  resulted  in  the 
appointment  of  a  receiver.  Frank  E. 
Purcell  has  been  given  the  custody  of 
the  property,  which 
less 
than  $500,  although  the  debts  are  in  ex­
cess of $2,000.

inventories 

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

From the New York Produce Review.

Fruits  and  Produce.
Higher  Grade  of Eggs  Wanted.
Last  winter  and  spring  we  devoted 
considerable  space  and  expended  a 
good  deal  of  energy  in  the  discussion 
of  egg  grading.  Many  well-informed 
shippers  took  part 
in  the  discussion 
and  all  sides  of  the  question  were pretty 
fully  aired.  No  material  changes  in  the 
methods  of  egg  handling  have  as  yet re­
sulted  from  the  agitation ; but  changes 
in  long-established  customs  are  neces­
sarily  slow,  and 
it  is  only  by  constant 
im­
and  persistent  hammering  that  the 
is  finally  realized 
portance  of  reforms 
and  improved  methods  are  carried 
into 
effective  operation.
The  time  has  now  come  when  the  im­
portance  of  closer  grading  is  especially 
feit  and 
is  a  good  time,  when  the 
evils  of  the  present  system  are  daily ex­
perienced,  to bring  the  matter  up  again 
for  further  consideration.

This  is  the  season  of  year  when  egg 
collectors  at  primary points receive from 
their  sources  of  supply  eggs  of  all 
stages  of  freshness  or  age. 
The  re­
ceipts  at  distributing  markets  are  of 
various  average  quality,  some  contain­
ing  more  and  some  less of  the  old  and 
stale  country  holdings,  but  even  the 
best  lines  of  so-called  fresh-gathered 
eggs  received  in  any  quantity  contain  a 
very  considerable  mixture  of  them.

it 

The best grade  of  eggs  officially  rec­
ognized  by  the  rules  of  the  New  York 
Mercantile'  Exchange—fresh  gathered 
firsts—has  been  fixed  to  correspond  with 
the  average  best  quality  received 
in 
quantity,  and  calls  lor  only  65  per cent, 
of  * * fresh,  full  and  sweet  eggs. ’ ’ 
The 
balance  may  be  held,  but  must  be 
sweet
Now,  as  long  as  this  quality  of  eggs 
is  made  the  basis  for  top  quotations  of 
value,  we  believe  there  will  be  little 
hope  of  raising  the  standard  of  quality 
to  the  point  demanded  by  our  best  class 
of  egg  dealers.  Shippers naturally  look 
upon  the  top  quotation  for  eggs  as  the 
best  price  they  can  hope  to  realize;  if 
they  can  realize  it  by  leaving 
in  their 
best  goods  35  per  cent,  of  held  eggs, 
and  feel  that,  even  by  taking  these  out, 
they  are  not  likely  to  get  any  more, 
there 
is  certainly  no  inducement  for 
them  to  grade  any  more  closely  than 
they  now  do.  The  fact  that  they  do 
not  grade  more  closely  makes  it difficult 
to  establish  a  line  of  quotations  for  bet­
ter quality;  and  so we work around a cir­
cle  with  little  chance  of  reform at either 
end.
But  experience  in  the  wants  of  deal­
ers  at  distributing  markets clearly shows 
the  advantage  of  a  closer  grading.  A 
dealer  who 
is  looking  for  fine  full  and 
fresh  eggs  for  his  highest  trade  now  has 
to buy  a  considerable  quantity  of  stock 
for  which  he  has  no  satisfactory  outlet, 
for  the  sake  of  getting a  supply  of  the 
desired  quality. 
These  under  grade 
eggs  could  be  placed to  much  better  ad­
vantage 
in  other  classes  of  trade  were 
they  packed  separately.
For  an  illustration  we  will  say  that on 
our  present  market  the  best  lines  of 
Western  fresh  gathered  eggs  are  worth 
18c.  and  that  the  stock  is  analyzed  as 
follows  when  taken  out  by  the  dealer: 
fine, 
fresh,  say  65  percent,  (in 
reality  they  range  from  about  50  per 
cent,  to  about  80  per cent.),  more or less 
held,  stale  and  shrunken  eggs,  35  per 
cent.  Now,  to  a  dealer 
looking  for 
fancy  fresh,  these  35  per cent,  of  held 
eggs  are  worth  far  less  than  they  would 
be  to  some  one  else.  The  worst  of  them 
he  is  likely  to  “ crack  out”   and  pay  for 
only  at  half  price,  and 
the  average 
value  to  him  would  hardly  be  over 
about  i2@i3c  net  for  the  35  per  cent,  of 
the  whole  case.  This  would  make  the 
65  per  cent,  of  perfect  eggs  cost  about 
20c  per  dozen.  Many  a  dealer  would 
prefer  to  buy  a  straight 
lot  of  such 
quality,  free  from  mixture,  at 20c rather 
than  pay  18c  for  the  mixed  qhality  he 
now  gets;  and  the  more  or  less  stale 
eggs,  if  packed  separately,  could  un­
doubtedly  be  sold  to  cheaper  trade  for 
more  than  they  now  bring  in the highest 
channels.

We  are  satisfied  that  the  way  to  get

full, 

the  high  quality  demanded  is  to  estab­
lish  a  recognized  official  grading  for  it, 
and  to  include  the  value  of  such  in  the 
daily quotations.  The  presence  of  such 
a  quotation  would  tend  to  produce  an 
effort  on  the  part  of  the  shippers  to 
meet  the  requirements 
in  order  to  get 
the  price,  and  there  is  no  reason  why 
the  presence  of  such  a  quotation,  even 
though 
it  might  for  a  time  represent 
only  exceptional  quality,  should  be  at 
all  misleading,  now  that  shippers  have 
so  many  channels  of  information  as  to 
the  meaning  of  quotations  and  the  re­
quirements  of  classification.

We  hope  the  Egg  Committee  of  our 
Mercantile  Exchange  will  consider  this 
matter  carefully  and  give  us  a  grade  of 
“ fresh-gathered extras,”  which  shall  re 
quire  say  go  or 95  per  cent,  of  “ fresh, 
full  and  sweet  eggs.”   The  fact  that 
this  quality  is  not now obtainable among 
the  Western  receipts  is  no  good  reason 
why  the  grade  should  not be 
instituted. 
So  long  as  shippers  get  in  their  total 
collections  a  fair  quantity  of  desired 
quality,  it is certainly perfectly practical 
that  they  should  be  separately  packed 
and  find  a  market  among  those  who  are 
willing  to  pay  full  prices  for superlative 
goods.  We  will  venture to  say  that,  if 
such  a  grade  is  established  and  quoted 
at 
its  true  value,  it  will  very  soon  be 
supplied  by  our  progressive  egg  pack-
ers.

Tin  Horn  Store  Keeping. 

From the Commercial  Bulletin.

We  have  heard  of  tin  horn  gamblers. 
There  are  also  tin  horn  merchants. 
The  latter  belongs  to  the  class  of  un­
reliable  business  men  who  believe  in 
flash  and  glitter  in  their  methods  rather 
than  substantiality;  they  are  cute  and 
shrewd.

When  we  refer  to  a  shrewd  business 
man  we  refer  to  methods  that  are  busi­
nesslike,  but  not  necessarily  dishonest. 
But  when  we  refer  to  the  merchant  with 
the  use  of  that  adjective,  we  grow  sus­
picious  of  him.  And  as  a  rule  the  sus­
picion  is  not  groundless.
The  tin  horn  merchant  may  not  be 
shrewd,  in  fact  is  not  shrewd,  because 
his  methods  are  calculated  to  make  his 
career  in  any  community  short  lived, 
and  that 
is  not  shrewdness.  We  find 
one  of  this  species  quite  frequently. 
There  is  a  look  of  thinness  about  him, 
and  when  engaged  in  conversation,  his 
shallowness  becomes  apparent  and  we 
begin  to  see  him  in  his  accents  of 
in­
sincerity.
Some  young  merchants  fall  into  this 
way  of  conducting  business,  and  it  is 
bad  for  them.  They  cannot  grow  out 
into  strong  men  so  long  as  they  are 
hound  by  habits  that  weigh  them  down. 
impor­
And  yet  many  do  not  see  the 
flash  will 
tance  of  this.  They  think 
win,  and 
is  carefully 
in  the  middle  that  half  of  the 
parted 
battle  is  won.  A 
little  experience  will 
teach  them  that  all  is  not  smooth  sail­
ing  with  this  their  platform.  We  all 
admire  sincerity,  and  we  detest  its  op­
posite.  Once  let  a  community 
lose 
faith  in  a  merchant  and  the  end  is  but 
a  little  way  off.
It  is  imperative, in order to be success­
ful,  that  the  confidence  of  a  community 
shall  be  gained.  We  cannot  fool  people 
very  long.  Our  real  self  will  crop  out 
in  trade  relations,  and  a  single  false 
weight  may  turn  the  scale against  us.

if  one’s  hair 

It  should  be  the  earnest  desire  of  all 
merchants  to  avoid  classification  with 
the  tin  horn  species.  We  should  be 
Igno­
made  of  better  stuff  than  that. 
rance  will  not  serve  as  a  plea 
in 
justi­
fication  for  mean  acts,  for  it  is  not  true. 
We  are  not  ignorant  along  these  lines; 
we  know  when  a  mean  act  is  done;  we 
know 
the  requirements  of  decency. 
Let  us  act  on  that  knowledge.

Birmingham,  England, 

is  about  to 
enter  on  a  new  departure  with  regard 
to the  liquor  traffic.  The  suggestion  has 
more  than  once  been  made  to  the  tiade 
that  it  should  take  in  hand  its  own  ref­
ormation,  and  the  liquor 
in 
Birmingham  has  taken  the  advice  to 
heart.  The  brewers  and  other owners 
of  public  house  property  are  comhining 
to  meet  the  wishes  of  the  licensing  jus­
tices  half  way  by  voluntarily  diminish­
ing  the  number  of  licensed.premises.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

the  Market.

News  from  the  Metropolis—Index  to 
Special  Correspondence.
New  York,  Oct. 

17—“ Taking  the 
market  up  one  side  and  down  the  other, 
there 
is  a  steady  improvement,’ ’  says 
one  who  is  in  a  position  to  know  what 
he  is  talking  about.  We  have  bad  dur­
ing  the  week  a  firm  tone  all  around, 
and  in  some  leading  articles  the  situa­
tion  is  most  encouraging.

The  invoice  sales  of  coffee  have  been 
long  time,  and  the 

larger  than  for  a 
quotation  on  Rio  No.  7  advanced 
The  activity 
in  a  jobbing  way  is  not 
quite  so  marked  but  there  have  been 
uite  a  good  many  orders,  and  the 
in- 
ications  are  of  light stocks in the hands 
of  distributers,  and  all  signs  point  to  a 
steady  market  right  along.  Rio  No.  7 
is quotable to-day  at  11c  in  an 
invoice 
way.  East  India  coffees  are  meeting 
with  a  fair  request,  and 
it  is  becom­
ing  difficult  to  promptly  pick  up 
large 
quantities  of  the  better grades.  West 
Indian  grades  are  doing  well,  and  a 
good  number  of  orders  have  come  to 
hand  by  mail  from  out of  town,  while 
in  town  have  made 
many  merchants 
The  amount  of 
personal  selections. 
Rio  coffee  afloat 
is  rather larger  than 
last  year,  being  614,444  hags,  against 
in  1895.
573,356 bags  at  the  same  time 
in  the 
sugar  situation 
is  the  story  of  a  com­
bination  of  the  owners  of  the  “ inde­
pendent”   refineries  and  the  Arbuckles 
to  fight  the  Trust.  There 
is  probably 
a  good  deal  of  fog  in  the  story,  but  it 
is  most  persistently  insisted  upon.  The 
raw  sugar  market  is  anything  but 
live­
ly,  and  as  bids  are  not  satisfactory  to 
sellers, 
is  said  that  quantities  of 
stock  are  being  placed  in  storage.  Re­
fined,  on  the  other hand,  has  met  with 
better  request,  and  in  fact  some  delay 
has been  experienced  in  filling  orders 
promptly.  Prices  have  shown  no  ad­
vance  except  in  the  case  of  some  of  the 
i - i6c  higher. 
softer grades,  which  are 
Cuba  has  ceased  to  be  a  factor 
in  sup­
plying raw sugar.  Its exports have entire­
ly  ceased  to  this  country,  and,  until 
“ something  turns  up, ”  the Island must 
be  counted  out.

interesting  thing 

The  most 

it 

Teas  are  said  to  be  firmer  and  in 
better  request. 
It  is  well  to  say,  “ said 
to be. ’ ’  Greens  and  Oolongs  have  been 
favored,  and  orders  have  come  by  mail 
in  a  more  satisfactory  manner  than  for 
a  long  time.

Rice  is  being  taken  more  liberally, 
and  on  some  of the  better grades  an ad­
vance  of 
has  been  made.
While  the  quantities  called  for  hereto­
fore  have  been  of  a hand-to-mouth  char­
acter,  there  is  a  tendency  to  enlarge up­
on  the  orders  and  buying  for  future 
wants  has  been  the  order  of  the  day 
in 
more  than  one  instance.  Japan  rice 
is 
reported  as  largely  sold  ahead.

Well-posted  spice  men  say  that  now 
is  a  good  time  to  take  supplies  for  fu­
ture  use.  The  market 
is  hardening, 
and  reports  from  abroad  all  tend  in  that 
direction.  Quite  a  good  many  orders 
have  been  placed  during  the  week,  and 
dealers  are busier  than  for  some  time. 
Pepper  is  attracting  most  attention.

Molasses  is  steady.  Orders,  while  not 
large  generally,  have  been  sufficiently 
numerous  to  keep  things  quite 
lively, 
and,  in  the  aggregate,  the  amount  dis­
posed  of  must  make a  very  good  show­
ing.  Syrups are moving  in  quite a  satis­
factory  manner,  and  trading  has  been 
good,  both  locally  and  from  a  distance. 
Increasing  supplies  at  the  South  are  re­
ported  by  a  leading  broker,  and  prices 
there  range  for syrups  from 25@2qc.

improving. 

In  canned  goods  the  situation  re­
mains  comparatively  unchanged,  but 
the  tone  of  the  market  is  steadily,  if 
slowly, 
Tomatoes  have 
grown  firmer,  and  the  whole situation  is 
less  gloomy  than  for  a  long  time.  A 
straw  showing  how  the  tomato  pack  has 
decreased  is  given  in  the  reports  from 
ten  factories 
in  Delaware,  which  last 
year  put  up  127,784  cases,  and  this  year 
36,000;  five  firms  packed  none  at  all 
this  year,  against 90,000  cases  last year; 
ten 
in  New  Jersey  packed 
70,200  cases  last  year,  against  61,240 
If ¡¡.this  proportion  holds
cases  this. 

factories 

good  all  through—as 
it  is  very  likely 
to  do— it  certainly  seems  as  though  the 
tomato  market  would  greatly  appreciate 
before  next  season’s'goods are available.
Foreign  green  fruit  is  in  rather  light 
request.  Lemons  are  dull,  and  buyers 
for  hand-to- 
are  taking  only  enough 
mouth  use.  As  supplies  are  not 
large, 
the  market  may  be  called  steady,  and 
there  has  been  no  decline 
in  quota­
tions.  Jamaica  oranges  are 
in  better 
request  and  selling  at  better  prices. 
There 
is  little  call  for  Mediterranean 
fruit.  The  demand  for  the  better grades 
is  good,  but  not  so  for  the 
of  bananas 
lower  grades,  which  are 
in  plentiful 
supply  and  sell  at  very  low  figures.

The  butter  market  has 

Prunes,  raisins  and  figs  are all  in bet­
ter  demand,  and  the  firmness  becomes 
more  pronounced  every  day.  Best  layer 
figs are  held  at  20c.
remained 
pretty  much  unchanged  since  last week, 
and  19c  still  remains  the  top  quotation 
for  best  creamery.  The  supply 
is  not 
large,  and  an  advance  is  probable.  For 
the  under grades  there  is  less  enquiry, 
and  no  reasonable  offer  is  refused  for 
much  of  the  stock  offering.

Cheese  has  hardly  borne  so  good  a 
record  as  last  week,  and  the  price  of 
full  cream  has  gone  off  %c,  although 
a trifle  more  was  paid  for  one or two lots 
of  exceptionally  fine  quality.

Trading  in  eggs  has been rather quiet. 
Best  and  Western  are  still  held  at  about 
I7@i8c,with  near-by  from  22@23C.  The 
arrivals  contain  quite  a  large  propor­
tion  of  stock  that  is  not  all  that  could 
be  desired,  and  the  weather  has  been 
rather  too  warm  for goods  to  come  far 
and  arrive  in  perfect  condition.

The  rise  in  wheat  has  been an encour­
aging  feature. 
It  is  14c  higher  than  on 
August  1,  and  12c  higher  than  a  year 
ago,  and  the  advance 
is  a  perfectly 
legitimate  one.  It  is  reflected  in the bet­
ter  feeling  among  the  grocery  jobbers 
and  in  all  other  lines.

There 

is  a  steady  market  in  beans, 
and,  with  rather  light  supplies,  the  sit­
uation  is  one  of  encouragement  to  deal­
Choice  marrows,  $ i . 5o@$i .6o ; 
ers. 
choice  medium,  1.25;  choice pea,  $1.25. 
California  limas,  $1.50.

It  has  been  said  that  the  agents  of 
dealers  have  collected  nearly  all  the  old 
furniture 
in  the  United  States  which 
possesses  any  qualities besides antiquity 
that  might  be  expected  to  appeal  to 
purchasers.  The  East  was  believed  to 
have  been  entirely  cleared  out  ten  or 
more  years  ago,  when  the  old  furniture 
craze  first  became  virulent,  and  after 
that  the  agents  of  dealers 
in  the  big 
cities  began  to  travel  through  the  South 
collecting  whatever  they  could.  After 
a  while  the  South  had  evidently  given 
up  all  that 
it  was  likely  to,  and  New 
Orleans,  where  only  a  few  years  ago  the 
second-hand  stores  were  filled with valu­
able  old  French  furniture  and  bric-a- 
brac,  discovered  how  much  these  relics 
were worth  and  put  up  prices  until these 
articles  are  now  no  cheaper  in the South 
than  they  are  here.  There  are  few  of 
these  articles  to  be  had  now  in  that  re­
gion,  despite  the 
frequent  announce­
ment  of  auction  sales  here  which  pur­
port  to  offer  furniture  that  had  been  for 
years  on  some  Southern  plantation. 
The  scarcity  of  genuine  articles  of  this 
kind  makes  it  the  more  difficult  to  un­
derstand 
the  discovery  of  two  New 
York  women  who  were  spending  last 
summer  in  the  neighborhood  of  a  small 
Connecticut  town. 
In  a  second-hand 
shop  there  they  stumbled  accidentally 
upon  a  collection  of  antique  furniture of 
the best  American  workmanship  and  in 
a  remarkably  fine  state  of  preservation, 
although 
its  appearance  had  not  been 
ruined  by  any  of  the  elaborate  methods 
of  restoration  which  mar  so  much  of the 
old  furniture  sold  to-day.  The  stock  in 
this  small  town  had  been  gradually  ac­
cumulating  for  years,  and  the  dealer 
had  evidently  escaped  entirely  the 
in­
vestigations  of  the  New  York  agents  in 
their  searches  for  furniture  of  the  kind. 
in  which  these  old  pieces 
The  place 
is  an  ordinary  second-hand 
were  sold 
country  store,  piled  up  with 
junk  and 
other  trash,  with  which  the  furniture 
was  indiscriminately  mixed.  The shop­
keeper  sold  it  at  amazingly  low  figures, 
but,_as  he  knew  the  value,  the  women

who bought  much  of  it  did  not  feel  that 
they  were  taking  advantage  of  him. 
There  was  too  much  of  a  stock  for the 
New  York  women  to  buy,  but  they  are 
jealously  guarding  the  name  and  ad­
dress  of  the dealer  from  the  knowledge 
of any except their very  intimate friends. 
Both  of  them  are  well-known  judges  of 
American  furniture,  and  they  were  not 
to be deceived  by  an  imitation,  and  the 
storekeeper was  entirely  innocent  of  any 
attempt  to  deceive  them.  They  con­
soled  themselves  when  their consciences 
dwelt  on  the  small  sum  the  furniture 
has  cost  them  by  recalling  the  number 
of  occasions  on  which  the  advantage  in 
such  transactions  lay  completely  on  the

dealer’s  side.  This  is  not  an  uncommon 
feature 
in  the  majority  of  such  trans­
actions.

Whoso  keepeth  his  mouth  and  his 
tongue  keepeth  his  soul  from  troubles.
It  isn’t always  safe  to  judge  a  man's 
politics by  the  company  he  is  found  in.

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THE  RAILWAY  PROBLEM.

A  significant  indication  of  the  extent 
to  which  the  building  of  railroads  in 
this  country  exceeds  the  capacity  of 
the  country  traversed  for  support 
is 
found  in  the  last  issue  of  Poor's  Man­
ual,  in  the  statement  that  the  entire  in­
terest  paid  on  bonds  and  other debts,  to­
gether  with  the  dividends  on  stock,  av­
eraged  only  2.94  per  cent,  for  1895, 
while  dividends  on  stock alone averaged 
only  1.59  per  cent.  The  interest  on 
bonds  alone  averaged  4.2 percent.  That 
this 
is  not  a  result  of  panic  conditions 
is  shown  by  the  fact  that these averages, 
for  both  bonds  and  stock,  have  been 
practically  the  same  for  the  past  six 
years.

There  may  have  been  some  watering 
in  a  few  instances,  but  these 
of  stock 
have  not  been  sufficient  to  materially 
affect  the  results.  But  during  that  time 
hundreds  of  millions  of  stock  has  been 
wiped  out  of  existence  by  liquidations, 
foreclosures  and reorganization schemes, 
and 
in  many  other  cases  assessments 
have been  necessary  to  secure  the  exist­
ence of  the  stock.  Taking  it  all togeth­
er,  it  will  be  seen  that  railways  are  not 
in  the  most  satisfactory  condition  as  to 
the  interests  of  the  investors.

is 

T h is  statem ent 

While  it  may  not  be  so  apparent,  the 
situation as to the cost of public service is 
not  much  better.  The  investors are  not 
by  any  means  the  only  ones  who are 
bearing  the  burden  resulting  from  the 
undue  extension  of  the  system.  To 
maintain  the  roads  even 
in  the  nig­
gardly  way 
indicated  by  the  returns  to 
the  investois  requires  rates  of  transpor­
tation  having  no  relation  to  the  proper 
cost  of  the  service.  The  tariffs  are 
simply  arbitrary  charges 
limited  only 
by  what  the  public  can  be  made  to  pay.
illustrated  by  the 
fact  that  there  has  been  no  change  in 
passenger  rates  since  they  were  first  es­
tablished  in  this  country.  As  soon  as 
the  building  of  roads  had  progressed 
sufficiently  for  these  rates to  be formula­
ted,  three  cents  per  mile  was agreed up­
on  as  the  proper  tariff—doubtless  a  fair 
rate  at  that  time,  with  the  limited  pat­
ronage  this  new  mode  of  transit  could 
command.  But  the  maintaining  of  that 
rate  in  the  development  of  the  system 
through  all  these  years  is  an  arbitrary 
tax  without  any  regard  to  the  proper 
cost  of  the  service.  While  the  operation 
of  economic  laws  has  reduced  prices  in 
all  other  public  enterprises  and 
indus­
tries,  passenger  transportation  has  been

factor—the  only  consideration 

excepted  from  the  control  of  such  laws.
And  the  same  arbitrary  principle  ap­
plies  to  the  fixing‘of  freight  tariffs. 
In 
the  classifications  and  the  assessment  of 
rates  the  cost  of  the  service  is  never 
a 
is 
what  the  product  can  be  made  to  pay. 
The  senseless  demand  for  competition 
has  overdeveloped  the  systems,  until  all 
competition 
is  lost  by  the  combina­
tions  of  the  companies,  which  are  com­
pelled,  for  self-preservation,  to  levy  the 
utmost  that  can  be  wrung  from  the  pas­
senger  and  producer.

This  is  a  condition  demanding  rem­
edy.  But  that  is  hard  to  find.  The  ex­
tension  of  railways  has  been  practically 
suspended  for  many  years.  The  de­
velopment  of  the  country  is  helping  the 
matter  slowly,  but  the  solution  of  the 
problem  by  this  means  seems  too  slow. 
If  there  could  be  consolidation  of  inter­
ests  that  might  result  in  the lessening  of 
parallel  lines  and  the  taking  up  of those 
to  “ competing”   points  which  are  not 
warranted  by  the  demands  of  traffic,  the 
solution  could  be  hastened.  Something 
is  being  done,  and  more  soon will be,  to 
help  the  matter by  the  movement  to  se­
cure  improved  highways.

WAITING  FOR  ELECTION.

inconvenience. 

It  is  conceded  by  politicians  of  both 
parties  that  the  issue  of  the  election 
is 
of  great  significance  as  to  immediate 
business  prospects.  While  the  “ gold- 
ites”   claim  that  the  consequences  of  a 
silver  victory  would  mean 
long-contin­
ued  demoralization  and  depression,  the 
“ silverites”   concede  that a  silver vic­
tory  will  mean  a complete re-adjustment 
of  the  finances  of  the  country,  neces­
sarily  causing  temporary disturbance,  to 
result  in  restored  prosperity  on  the  new 
basis,  a  result  worth  the  cost  in  tem­
porary 
It  thus  trans­
pires  that  the  only  ones  who  are  war­
ranted 
in  business  ventures  are those 
who  think  they  see  sufficient  indication 
that  the  first  named  party  will  be  suc­
cessful. 
In  the general  readjustment  of 
the 
lines  consequent  upon 
political 
financial 
issues  there  was 
introduced 
enough  of  uncertainty  to  make  most 
business  men,  even  the  most  sanguine 
gold  partisans,  hesitate  to  venture,  at 
least  in  directions  where  it  is  possible 
to  postpone  action  without  too  serious 
loss.  These  considerations  are  suffi­
cient  to  account  for the  universal  atti­
tude  of  waiting.

THE  BUSINESS  SITUATION.
The  general  revival  of  trade continues 
to  progress  even  more 
rapidly  than 
could  be  expected  in  view  of  the  wait­
ing  caused  by  the  near  settlement  of 
the  political  uncertainty. 
The  most 
marked*  advance 
in  prices  has been  in 
the  cereals,  wheat  especially  having 
advanced  beyond  anticipation,  with  the 
tendency  still  upward.  This  advance 
carries  with 
it  corn,  oats  and  other 
grains.

In  the  grocery  trade  nearly everything 
is  on  the  upward  trend  and  the  ad­
vances  from  now  on  are  likely  to  be 
sharp  and  sudden:

In  the  textile  trade  progress  is  slow, 
the  advance  in  the  raw  materials  and 
activity  in  speculation  tending  to  bold 
the  manufacture  in  check  on  account  of 
the  slow  recovery  in  prices  of  finished 
products.  Considerable machinery is re­
suming  operation 
in  both  woolen  and 
cotton  goods;  but  this  is  largely  in  an­
ticipation  of  future  instead  of  present 
improvement.  There is the  same  trouble 
in  the  boot  and  shoe  trade,  the  manu­
facture  being  checked  because  the price 
of  finished  products  does  not  advance 
sufficiently  to  preserve  the  proper  ratio 
with  the  raw materials.

The  iron  trade  is  still  slow,  the  spec­
ulative  strengthening  of  pig  and  Besse­
mer anticipating  demand  so  that  there 
is  a  weakening 
in  the  manufactured 
products. 
The  associations  are  still 
maintaining  prices,  but the  actual  trade 
is  still  largely  in  the  hands  of outsiders.
The  nearness  of  the  election  is  hav­
ing  its  effect  011  the  stock market,  both 
in  New  York  and  the  Old  World.  The 
inflow  of  gold  has  resum ed  on  the  sam e 
large  scale  as  d uring  October.  The  ar­
rangement  of  the  Diamond  Match  and 
New  York  Biscuit  matters  has  so  far 
progressed  that  the  Chicago  Exchange 
will  probably  reopen  November  5. 
In 
the  changes  resulting  from  the  Moore 
speculations,  both  Pullman  and  Armour 
are  represented  on  the  board  of  direc­
tors,  which  will  greatly  strengthen  both 
properties.

Bank  clearings  have  declined  again 
below  the  billion  mark,  being  $994,- 
000,000,  6  per  cent,  less  than  last  week. 
Failures,  which  had  fallen  off  consider­
ably  last  week,  are  12  less,  being  279.

You  cannot  in  this  progressive  age  do 

business  in  the  old  way.

The 

are  so 

improvement 

in  natural  trade 
conditions—in  the  foreign  situation,  in 
the generally  prosperous condition of the 
country  as  to  natural  products  and  in 
the  accumulation  of  demand  which  has 
so  long  been  held  off  by  the  depression 
— is  so  pronounced  that  trade  revival 
is  in  progress  to  a  great  degree.  The 
natural  conditions 
favorable 
that  returning  prosperity  cannot  be 
stayed  entirely  by  political  uncertainty; 
is  universal,  and 
but  the  uncertainty 
every  ttaveling  man 
is  almost 
invari­
ably  met  with  the  remark,  “ Wait  until 
after election. ”  
In  many  instances  or­
ders  for  future  delivery  are  given  con­
ditional  upon  the  result  of  election, 
leaving  the  manufacturer  to  decide 
whether  he  will  venture  to  prepare  for 
such  delivery.

The  extent  to  which  this  position  of 
waiting  obtains  is  to be  noted  in  all  di­
rections.  The  rapidly  increasing  con­
fidence  in  the  general 
improving  con­
ditions  of  the autumn  months  has  led  to 
the  projection  of  industrial  undertak­
ings.  For 
instance,  the  architects  of 
Chicago,  whose  work  has been  compar­
atively  small  since  the  World’s  Fair 
year,  have  been  called  upon  quite  ex­
tensively  to  prepare  plans  against  the 
day  of  financial  reassurance.  The mag­
nitude  of  building  operations  in  that 
city  waiting  for  this  decision  is  report­
ed  very  considerable.

Not  only 

in  these  directions,  but  in 
all  involving  the  outlay  of  money,  there 
is  unusual  conservatism. 
It  even  ex­
tends  to  collections—many  hesitate  to 
pay  their debts,  probably  from  an 
in­
stinctive  reluctance  to  part  with  the 
money  before  election.  Of  course,  they 
expect  to  pay eventually ;  there is no for­
mulated  reason  for  waiting— it is simply 
increase  of  the  natural  tendency  to 
an 
withhold  the  money,  caused  by 
the 
spirit  of  general  financial  hesitation.

its 

There  is  still  another  manifestation of 
the  general  political  distrust,  which  has 
received  less attention  than 
impor­
tance  deserves—the 
increase  of  the 
hoarding  tendency,  especially  of  gold. 
This  is a  natural  and  logical  result  of 
the  relief  of  the “ silver”  advocates,  and 
the  fear  of  many  of  their opponents, 
that  their cause  will  be  successful. 
It 
is  not long since there was a considerable 
quantity  of  the  yellow  metal  in  general 
circulation,  but  it  has  all  disappeared 
in  most  localities.  The  Tradesman  be­

is  that 

lieves  that  the  principal  explanation  of 
its  disappearance 
it  has  been 
in  small  amounts by 
quietly  hoarded 
those  who have  feared  or  hoped  that 
it 
may  become  more  valuable  in  the  event 
of  a  silver  victory. 
the  de­
mand  for  gold,  evidently  for  this  pur­
pose,  has been  quite  pronounced  in  the 
New  York  markets  during  the  past  few 
weeks;  but  the  hoarding  has been going 
on  for  several  months,  and  has  lessened 
actual  circulation  to  a  degree  much 
greater than  is generally  realized.

Indeed, 

When  it  is  considered  to  what  an  ex­
tent this  waiting  affects  business  in  all 
lines,  the  fact that there  has been  a sub­
stantial  revival  of  trade before  the  final 
decision  argues  that  the  causes  of  the 
return  of  confidence  and  prosperity 
must  be  remarkably  strong,  and  it would 
seem  within  a  reasonable  probability 
to  predict  that,  when  the  result  trans­
pires,  and  those causes  are given  a  fair 
field  in  which  to  operate,  the  return  to 
normal  conditions  will  be  rapid  and 
complete.

THE  GOLD  IMPORTS.

The  imports  of  the  yellow  metal  from 
Europe have  now  reached  $52,000,000, 
without  including  several  million  dol­
lars  imported  through  San  Francisco. 
Large  as this  movement  has  been,  there 
is  no  evidence  that  it  has  reached  its 
limit.  On  the  contrary,  there  is  every 
reason  to  expect  that  it  will  continue, 
unless  money  rates 
in  Europe  further 
advance  and  rates  on  this  side  decline. 
Europe  will,  within 
few 
months,  purchase 
large  amounts  of 
American  cotton  and  grain,  and,  as 
our  imports  from  Europe  are  compara­
tively  modest,  the  difference  will  have 
to be  paid  in  gold.

the  next 

There  is  no  longer any  unloading  of 
American  securities  by  Europe;  hence 
there  is  no  outflow  of  money  to  Europe 
in  payment  of  our  securities.  There 
is  every  reason  to  think  that,  in  the 
event  of  the  triumph  of  sound  money 
principles  in  the  coming  election,  there 
will  be  a  very  brisk  demand  for  Amer­
ican  securities,  as  well  as a freer invest­
ment  of  foreign  capital  in  this  country. 
This  will  add  to  the  movement  of  gold 
in  this  directicn.

importations, 

When  one  reflects  that  during  the  last 
fiscal  year  this  country  sold  $17,000,000 
more of  produce  to  Europe  than  during 
the  preceding  year,  and  $44,000,000 
more  of  manufactured  goods,  while  ac­
tually  diminishing 
the 
large  inflow  of  gold  in  payment  of  bal­
ances  does  not  appear  extraordinary. 
The 
imports  promise  to  continue  on  a 
modest  scale  for  some  time ;  but Europe 
is  taking,  and  will  no  doubt  continue  to 
take  for  the  entire  season,  an  increased 
quantity  of  our  products.  Crop  failures 
in  other  countries  have  forced  Europe 
to  depend  on  us  to  a  greater  extent  than 
u su a l;  hence,  as  long  as  our  tran satlan ­
tic  friends  purchase  more  of  us  than  we 
buy  of  them,  they  must  pay  the  balance 
in  gold.  _________________

to  200,000 boxes. 

The  estimates  of  the  Florida  orange 
crop  for  the  present  year  vary  from
125,000 
Last  year 
the  yield  was  only  about  50,000 boxes. 
A  yield  or  200,000  boxes  this year would 
indicate  a  very  rapid  recovery,  as  it 
was  not  expected  the  trees  which  were 
killed  down  to  the  roots  would  be  again 
in  condition  to bear under  four  or  five 
years.

The  proper  way  to  live  is  to try to im­
lamenting 

prove on  what  is,  instead  of 
about  what  might  have  been.

T H E  M ICHIGAN   T R A D ESM A N

SENSATIONALISM  IN  POLITICS.
Some  years  ago  literary  critics  began 
to  describe  a  certain  class of  novels  as 
sensational.  The  plot  of  these  novels 
turned  usually  upon  murder  or  some 
other  terrible  crime,  and  they  were 
called  sensational  because  they 
ap­
pealed  most  effectually  to  people  who 
like  to  have  their blood‘ ‘ run cold, "and 
who  must be  startled  before  they  can  be 
interested. 
story  of  Macbeth, 
realistically  told—unillumined  by  the 
light  of  Shakespeare’s  poetic 
imagina­
tion,  uninformed  by  his  philosophy  and 
unrelieved  by  his  humor— might  serve 
as  an  example  of  sensational  fiction.

The 

That  love  of  excitement  which  is gen­
eral 
in  human  nature  and  which,  in 
some  minds,  amounts  to  a  craving, 
presents  an  opportunity  for  the  sensa­
tionalist 
in  politics  as  well  as  in  liter­
ature.  A  socialist  or  a  revolutionist  on 
the  stump  may  easily  delight  an  au­
dience  whose  leisure  is  commonly  en­
gaged  by  those  journals  which  make  a 
specialty  of  blood-curdling  narratives. 
The  keen  pleasure  afforded  by  the  de­
nouement  of  a  tale  of  horrors  is some­
thing  akin  to  the  thrill  occasioned  by 
the  suggestion  of  a  dismantled  civiliza­
tion,  a  social  structure  torn  down that  it 
may  be  built  up  on  a  new  and  more 
popular  plan,  and 
is  probable  that 
there  are  thousands  of  ill-conditioned 
people,  even  in  the  United  States,  who 
would  welcome  the  triumph  of  an  ag­
gressive  radicalism  from  sheer  love  of 
novelty  and  excitement.

it 

if 

less 

The  extent  to  which  this  dangerous 
disposition  prevails  ought  not  to  be  ex­
indeed,  can  be  only 
aggerated,  and, 
vaguely  conjectured ;  but 
it  does  exist 
to  some  extent,  and  should  be  taken  in­
to  account 
in  every  estimate  of  the 
forces  and  tendencies  with  which  the 
cause  of  order  has  to  contend  at  this 
stage  in  the development  of  American 
civilization. 
It  has  been  evident  for  a 
long  time  now  that  the  social  unrest 
and  industrial  disquietude  of  the  pro­
letariat  in  the  great  centers  of  popula­
tion 
in  Europe  have  awakened  a  sym­
pathetic  response  in  this  country,  or,  at 
all  events,  that  like  conditions  have 
produced  a  similar, 
intense, 
menace  of  revolt  on  this  side  of  the 
ocean.  At  first  these  symptoms  of  agi­
tation  were  regarded  as  absurd  and  gro­
tesque,  and 
it  was  hard  to  believe  in 
their  reality  in  a  land  where the  highest 
offices  are  within  the  reach  of 
the 
children  of  the  poor,  and  where,  so  to 
speak,  yesterday’s  pauper 
is  to-day’s 
millionaire. 
But  many  contributing 
causes—the  constant  tide  of  immigra­
tion,  the  massing  of  population 
in  the 
larger  cities,  the  displacements  made 
by  labor-saving  machinery  and  the  or­
ganization  of business  generally  on  new 
lines—soon  enough  taught  the  patriotic 
American  that  his  long-favored 
land 
was  not  to  rem ain  forever  exempt  from 
the  perils  that  beset  established  in stitu ­
tions  in  the  Old  World.  Still,  until  very 
recently,  men  could  not 
imagine  that 
the  danger  was  nigh.  Just  now,  how­
ever,  there 
is  too  much  disposition  to 
overstate 
its  urgency.  The  alarmist, 
proclaiming  the  impending  ruin  of  the 
whole  mighty  fabric  of  constitutional 
liberty  in  the  United  States, is well-nigh 
as  much  to  be  dreaded  as the incendiary 
orator  who  reminds  the  people  that 
it 
is  their  right  to  secure  the  execution  of 
their  will,  if  need  be,  by  the  force  of 
arms.  The  alarmist  is,  in  his  way,  also 
a  political  sensationalist.  What  is  need­
ed  most  of  all  at  a  time  like  this  is  a 
constant,  calm  and  intelligent  study  of 
the  situation,  and  a  judicious  direction

of  all  the  elements  of  conservatism. 
It 
is  a  time  to  think  well  and  to  act  de­
liberately,  not  a time  for  excited speech 
and  hasty  action.  There  are  too  many 
who  are  in  love  with  the  sound  of  their 
own  voices,  and  who  are  reckless  of  all 
consequences  beyond  the  applause  of 
the  moment.  The  doctrine  to  be  incul­
cated  now  and  always  is  that  civiliza­
tion  in  the  United  States  can  only  pros­
per  as 
its  development  takes  form  in 
the  mold  provided  by  the  constitution 
and laws  of  the  land,  and  that  otherwise 
there 
is  no  safety  for the  rich  and  no 
hope  for the  poor.
IRON  GATES  OF  THE  DANUBE.
The  recent  opening  of  the 

canal 
around  the  cataracts  of  the  Danube, 
known  as  the  “ Iron  Gates,”   marks  the 
completion  of an  important  engineering 
feat  which  will  not  only  prove  of  great 
in­
consequence  to  trade,  but  have  also 
ternational  results  of  a  very 
interesting 
character.  The  Iron  Gates  of  the  Dan­
ube  shut  off  the  upper  reaches  of  the 
river  from  communication  with 
the 
lower  river  and  the  sea,  and  were, 
therefore,  a  serious  obstruction  to  com­
merce.  As  early  as  the  days  of  the  Ro­
man  Emperor  Trajan,  a  canal  around 
this  formidable  obstruction  was  pro­
jected,  but  the  work  was  never  com­
pleted.

The  regulation  of  the  navigation  of 
the  Danube  was  placed  by  the  Berlin 
Congress  under  the  control  of  an 
inter­
national  commission,  and  the  building 
of  a  canal  around  the  Iron  Gates  was 
intrusted  to  Hungary,  as  the  country 
most  interested.  This  canal  has  finally 
been  built,  after  much  labor  and  ex­
pense,  by  blasting  a  passage  through 
the  rock  five  miles  long  and  twelve  feet 
deep.  This  canal  was  formally  opened 
recently 
in  the  presence  of  Emperor 
Francis  Joseph,  in  his  capacity  of King 
of  Hungary,  King  Charles  of  Roumania 
and  King  Alexander  of  Servia.

It  is  generally  believed  that  the meet­
ing  of  the  three  sovereigns  of  the  States 
interested  in  the  navigation  of  the  Dan­
ube  had  more  in  it  than  the  mere  for­
mal  opening  of  the great  engineering 
work.  The  maintenance  of  the  naviga­
tion  of  the  great  river  untranimeled  to 
the  sea  is  of  vital  importance  to Austria 
and  the  Balkan  States,  and  the  only 
menace  to  the  river  would  be  the  pos­
session  of  Constantinople  by  Russia. 
The  Balkan  States and  Austria  bar  the 
path  of  Russia  to  Constantinople,  and 
very  naturally  they  have a  common 
in­
terest  in  protecting  themselves  against 
a  possible  foe  whose  success  in securing 
the  present  Turkish  capital  would  work 
them  great  injury,  if  it  did  not  imperil 
their  very  existence.

It  is  generally  understood  that  Rou­
mania  will  shortly  join  the  Triple  A l­
liance,  and  add  her  splendid  army  of
150,000  men  to  the  armed strength of the 
central  powers.  G reece  is  also  counted 
on  to  eventually  join  the  Alliance.  The 
addition  of  Roumania  to  the  Triple 
Alliance  would  be  very  welcome to Aus­
tria,  as  the  latter  power  would  be  com­
pelled  to  bear  the  first  shock  of  battle 
with  Russia  in  the  event  that  the  Czar’s 
armies  should  essay  to  reach  Constanti­
nople  through  Europe.  Such  being  the 
case,  it  is  not  surprising  to see Emperor 
Francis Joseph  visiting  the  Roumanian 
King  and  making  a  great  display of  the 
completion  of  the  canal  which  has 
opened  the  Iron  Gates  of  the  Danube.

It  is  not  easy  for  a  man  to  turn  a 
deaf  ear on  good  advice,  unless  he  hap­
pens  to have a  deaf  ear to  turn.

LIVELY  COMMERCIAL  WAR.
It  is  a  matter  for  general  regret  that 
Germany  continues  to  exhibit  such  hos­
tility,commercially,  toward this country, 
and  particularly 
its  tariff 
regulations  so  directly  against  the  in­
troduction  of  American  meats 
into  the 
German  empire.

leveling 

in 

Germany  is  not  a  beef-raising country 
and  it  is  rare  that  the  poorer  classes 
in 
that  part  of  Europe  enjoy  a  regular 
meat  diet,  certainly  not  as  the  Ameri­
cans  of  all  classes  enjoy  it.  What  is 
used  with  safety 
in  America  is  good 
enough  for  Europe,  and 
in  excluding 
our  meats  the  German  government  is 
taking  wholesome  food  out  of 
its  sub­
jects’  mouths  which  the  people  would 
be  only  too  glad  to get.  The  secret  of 
the  prohibition,  in  all  likelihood,  is  a 
lingering  resentment against  the  United 
States  for  discrimination  against  Ger­
man  bounty  sugars. 
In  order  to  protect 
the  beet  sugar  interest,  or  retaliate  in 
its  behalf, 
the  German  officials  are 
abandoning  the  interest of  the masses of 
its  citizens 
in  the  towns.  They  are 
compelling  the  body  of  the  nation  to 
pay  high  prices  for  a  small  supply  of 
meat  products, 
in  order  to  punish 
Americans  for  daring  to  provide  that 
sugar  imported  into  America  shall  pay 
an  additional  duty  when  raised  under  a 
bounty  elsewhere.

The  order  which  has  just  been  pro­
mulgated  in  Germany  against  the  intro­
duction  of  canned  meat  from  America 
will  certainly  provoke  indignation  and 
retaliatory  measures  here  so  soon  as  the 
elections  are  out  of  the  way,  if  not 
sooner,  and  so  the  merry  commercial 
war  will  wax  warm.  The  beet  sugar  in­
dustry  is  one  of  the  largest  in  the  Ger­
man  empire  and  the  United  States  is 
the  Germans’  best  customer  for  the 
product.  To  shut  out  the  German sugar 
wholly  would  be  the  severest blow,  com­
mercially,  we could  inflict  upon  the Ger­
man  people,  and  it  begins  to  look  as 
if 
that  course  will  have  to  be  adopted. 
It 
is  an  ill  wind,  however,  that  blows  no­
body  any  good.  The  most  dangerous 
competitor  the  Texas  and  Louisiana 
growers  have  is  the  German  beet  sugar 
manufacturer,  and  the  exclusion  of  his 
product  would  be  followed  by  increased 
production  and  by  increased  profits  for 
American  cane  growers.

POSTAL  IMPROVEMENTS.

The  experiment  of  free rural delivery, 
now  being  conducted  by  the  Post  office 
Department,  illustrates,  as  no  other  de­
partment  of  the  Government,  the  vast 
progress  of  the  past  half  century  in  this 
country.  Even  middle  aged  men  can 
remember  when  there  was  no  postal  or­
der  service,  when  there  were  no carriers 
outside  of  the  great  cities,  when  mails 
were  days  behind  and  the  Department 
itself  was  crude  and  costly  in 
its  man­
agement.  T hen  the  G overnm ent  seem ed 
to  act  upon 
that  the  people 
ought  to be  thankful  for  what  they  got, 
however tardy  it  came.  Now  the  prin­
ciple  prevails  that  too  much  cannot  be 
done  for  the general  public.  The  De­
partment 
is  managed  now  upon  the 
theory  that 
is  one  of  the  most  im­
portant  business  agencies  of  the  Nation 
and  that  the  greater  the  perfection  to 
which  it  is  brought  the  greater  the busi­
ness  utility  of  the  establishment.

idea 

the 

In  spite  of  the  tremendous  expense  to 
which  the  Government  has  gone  in  dis­
tributing  mails  and  money  from  one 
end  of  the  country  to  the  other,  in  every 
city,  town,  hamlet  and  crossroads of 
the  land,  bringing  the  precious  freight 
to  the  citizen’s  door  and  at  lightning­

it 

9

is  almost  self-sustaining. 

like  speed  and  for  steadily  decreasing 
rates,  the  business  and  correspondence 
of  the  Nation  are  such  that  the  Depart­
ment 
It  is 
not,  however,  paying  its  way  fully  yet, 
and  until  then  it  is  not  likely  that  rural 
free  delivery  or  1  cent  postage  will 
cap  the  climax  of  development.  But 
these  things  will  come 
in  time,  with 
postal  savings  banks  and  postal  tele­
graph. 
In  the meanwhile,  however,  this 
tremendous  machine,  even  in  its  present 
state  of  perfection,  is  one  of  the  chief- 
est  of  our  Governmental  blessings  and  a 
standing  tribute  to  the  business  and  po­
litical  genius  of  the  American  people. 
No other  government  has  a  similar arm 
of  service  so  vast,  so  complete  and  so 
useful  in  all  its  details.

PUSHING  AMERICAN  TRADE.
The  committee  of  business  men  who 
went  to  South  America,  some  time  ago, 
to  study  the  trade  possibilities  of  that 
part  of  the  world,  with  a  view to  in­
creasing  the  sale  of  American  products 
there,  have  returned  home,  after  having 
made  a  very  thorough  examination  of 
the  leading  South  American  markets.

It  appears  that  the  committee  were 
royally  treated  everywhere  and  afforded 
every  opportunity  to  thoroughly  investi­
gate  matters  which  were  directly  con­
nected  with  the  purpose  of  their  visit. 
It  is  reported  that  they  have  amassed 
very  important  information,  which  will 
shortly  be  prepared  for  publication  by 
the  representative  of  the  State  Depart­
ment  at  Washington  who  accompanied 
the  committee.

The  results  of  the  labors  of  this  com­
mittee  will  be  awaited  with  interest,  as 
there 
is  no  doubt  but  that  a  very  de­
cided  development  of  our  trade  with 
South  America  is  much  to  be  desired. 
At  present  the  United  States  enjoys  but 
a  very  meager  portion  of  the  South 
American  trade,  although  the  leading 
consumer  of  the  products  of  that  part  of 
the  world. 
long  been  realized 
that,  in  order  to  secure  the  trade,  some 
in  our  methods  of  do­
radical  changes 
ing  business  are  essential. 
It  was  to 
discover  just  what  such  changes  were 
that  the  committee  visited  South  Amer­
ica. 

_____________

It  has 

AN  INCOMPETENT  OFFICIAL.
It 

is  a  matter  of  congratulation  to 
all  concerned  that  Mr.  Storrs  has  only 
a  few  more  months  to  serve  the  people 
of  Michigan 
in  the  capacity  of  State 
Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner.  En­
tering  upon  the  office  with  no  prelimi­
nary  knowledge  and  no  special  fitness 
for 
the  work  undertaken,  he  has 
stumbled  along  through  his  official  ca­
reer  like  a  blind  man  walking  in  the 
dark,  meeting  many  pitfalls  and  man­
aging  to  find  temporary 
lodgment  in 
every  one  of  them.
When  the  food  laws  were  enacted  and 
the  office  of  Food  Commissioner  was 
created, 
that 
the  position  should  be given  to  some­
one  who  possessed  special  fitness  for 
the  office,  but  Governor  Rich  regarded 
political  expediency  as  of  more  im­
portance  than  special  fitness  and  be­
stowed  the  office  on  a  man  who  had 
never  given  food  topics  any  particular 
consideration,and whose  career  since  he 
took  the office  leads  to  the  belief  that he 
knows  less about  his  duties  now  than  he 
did  at  the  inception  of  his  official  ca­
reer.

the  Tradesman  argued 

Mr.  Storrs’  incompetency  is  nowhere 
more  clearly  shown  than  in  his  dealings 
with  the  grocery  trade  of  the  State, 
and,  now  that  his  days  are  numbered, 
the  Tradesman  confidently  expects  to 
for 
see  the  trade  unite  as  a  class 
the  purpose  of 
that 
the 
next  appointee 
that  office  shall 
possess  the  necessary  requirements  to 
render  the  administration  of  the  food 
laws  a  credit,  instead  of  a  disgrace,  to 
the  State.

insisting 
to 

IO

BERLIN  MARKETS.

Peculiarities  in  Both  Buying  and  Sell* 

ing.

If  you  want  to  put  yourself  back  a 
couple  of  hundred  years,  just  visit  the 
market  places  of  the  Old  Country  while 
you  are  abroad.  Berlin 
is  especially 
blessed  in  this  particular,  as  she  has  at 
least  six.

They  are  open  squares  paved  with 
cobblestones,  and  generally  under  the 
shadow  of  one  or  more  churches.  Here, 
twice  a  week,  the  peasants  gather,  win­
ter  ana  summer,  sunshine  and  rain, 
from  seven  hi  the  morning  until  one  in 
the  afternoon,  and  eke  out  a  scanty  liv­
ing  selling  their  produce or small wares.
roughly-con­
structed  stalls;  but  there  is  many  a  di­
lapidated  old  hag  whose  teeth have gone 
on  a  strike  ami  got  the  worst  of  the  en­
the  sum  of  whose  property 
counter, 
consists  of  a 
lone  stool  and  a  few  dry 
looking  lemons  in  a  decrepit  basket,  or 
a  bunch  of  gaudy  paper  flowers.

The  weli-to-do  have 

In  summer  all  goes  merry  with 

the 
hungriest  and  lilest  clad ;  but,  when  the 
cold  damp  autumn  rains  set 
in,  the 
women  draw  their 
laded  shawls  about 
their  shoulders,  and  the  men  raise  their 
coat  collars  and  talk  twice  as  briskly, 
to  keep  up  their  spirits.  Even  on  the 
coldest  days  in  winter  everyone  is  at his 
post.  Sailcloth  canopies  are  stuck  in 
place,  old  white  cotton  umbrellas  are 
opened  and  all  goes  on  as  usual.

By  eight  o'clock  in  the  morning,  on 
market  days,  the  adjacent  streets  are 
thronged  with  hurrying  people—master 
or  mistress,  accompanied  by  a  maid 
carrying  a  basket  scarcely  smaller  than 
herself;  the  honest working woman,  who 
always  wears  an  apron  but  never  a  hat 
or  wrap  except  on  the  very  freezingest 
days 
in  winter,  and  the  poor  forlorn 
creature  trying  to  make  a  living  with­
out  working.  No  matter. 
is 
eager  to  secure  the  freshest  fruit  and 
vegetables  and  choicest  cuts  of  meat, 
but  especially  to  get  them  at  a  bargain. 
The  substantial  citizen  goes  at  once  to 
his  favorite  market  people  and  is  soon 
through  with  the  business;  but  the  bar­
gain  hunter  with  money  or  the  hungry 
wretch  without  loiters  about  and  wan­
ders  throughout  the  market  hunting  for 
the  impossible.

Each 

Early 

in  the  morning  there  is  little 
in  selling;  but,  as  the 
interest  shown 
day  advances,  more  and  more  eager­
ness  is  shown,  especially  to  get  rid  of 
the  perishable  goods.  One  hears  every 
moment:

"What  will  you  have,  my  lady?”
"H ere  are  some  fine  lemons,  Amer­
ican  Miss.  Just  buy  some  here.  They 
are  very  cheap,”   etc.,  etc.

By  one  o’clock  one  can  give  his  own 
price  and  the  stuff  is  wrapped  up  be­
fore  it  is  ordered.

Meanwhile, 

the  dry  bread—all 

the  people  have  been 
snatching  their  dinner  as  most  con­
venient.  The  decaying  fruit,  the  goose 
feet, 
is  greedily 
swallowed  and  washed  down  with  a 
"Schluck”   of  beer  or  cup  of  barley 
coffee. 
In  the  twinkling  of  an  eye, 
after  one  o’clock, 
are 
packed,  and  then  strapped  on  the  per­
son’s  back  where  there  is  but  one  bas­
ket,  or  arranged 
in  a  cart,  which  is 
dragged  by  woman  or  man  and  dog  to­
gether,  and  lo !  at  fifteen  minutes  after 
one,  the  square 
is  as  bare  as—well,  as 
bare as  St.  Peter’s  toe.

the  baskets 

But  the  largest  amount  of  marketing 
is  done  at  the  market  halls,  which  are 
distributed  all  over  the  city.  Besides 
the  great  Central  Market  at  Alexander

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

there  are 

Platz,  which  has  excellent  railroad 
communication, 
thirteen 
smaller  halls. 
In  them  you  bear  no 
haggling.  No  cheap  felt  slippers  and 
coarse  knit  stockings,  no common paper 
flowers  or  other  cheap  trumpery,  no 
stoneware  dishes  or  coarse  cooking 
utensils  are  on  sale—all  is  plain  legiti­
mate  business.

These  markets  are  opened  at  seven  in 
the  morning,  closed  from  one  to  five, 
and  again  opened  for a  couple  of  hours. 
In  one  part  of  the  building  are  all  the 
meat  stalls.  Not  far  off  are  the  fish, 
also  the  cheese,  butter  and  eggs,  while 
the  vegetables,  fruit  and  flowers  each 
have  their  separate 
location.  One  is 
thus  enabled  to  go  from  stall  to  stall, 
make  his  choice  and  still  lose  little 
time.

It  seems  impossible  to 

imagine  sau­
sage a luxury  where it  seems so common, 
yet  the  various  kinds  and  qualities 
bring 
from  20  to  40  cents  a  pound. 
Even  for  ordinary  beef,  mutton  and 
veal  one  must  pay  at  least  20  cents. 
In 
winter  great  numbers  of  deer  and  hare 
are  to  be  seen,  while  countless  geese 
hang  by  wisps  of  straw  along  wires.

This  monarch  of  German  fowls makes 
himself  indispensable.  His  feathers  go 
for  the beds.  His  feet,  boiled  slowly, 
make a  stew,  on  the  plan  of  pigs’  feet. 
Wings,  legs,  neck,  etc.,  are  served  sep­
arately.  The  breast  is  dried  and  sold  as 
a  great  delicacy.  When  roasted,  the  fat 
is  tried  out  and  afterwards  eaten  on 
bread,  instead  of  butter.
Great  quantities  of 

fresh  and  salt 
water  fish  are  always  on  sale.  The  fresh 
water  fish  are  kept  alive  in  great  tanks 
of  water. 
silver  bait, 
is  no  trouble  to  catch  the 
and  there 
right  fish.  During  the  winter  months, 
but  a  limited  quantity  of  oysters is sold. 
As  small  ones  cost  50  cents  a  dozen, 
they  are  not  a  common  article  of  diet 
among  the  poor  people,  and  there  are 
some  people  in  Berlin  who  have  never 
even  tasted  them  But  there  is  always 
salt  and  pickled  herring,  which  takes  a 
place  second  only  to  sausage.  When 
the  American  refuses  sausage  and  her­
ring,  the  following  dialogue  is  sure  to 
follow:

Furnish  a 

"You  don’t  eat  sausage  in America!’ ’
"  No. ”
"And  you  don’t  eat  herring!"
"N o .”
Then, 

tone  of 
voice,  "W ell,  what  do  you  eat,  any­
way?”

in  a  sympathetic 

Butter 

is  to  be  had  either  fresh  or 
salt.  The  cheeses  are  so  strong  that 
they  could  easily  beat  the  best  bicycle 
rider  on  a 
run.  Eggs  are 
graded  according  to  their  age,  being 
cheaper  after  they  have  reached  their 
majority.  They  are  sold  by  the  "Man 
del”   or  fifteen.

century 

Most  vegetables,  including  potatoes, 
are  measured  by  the  pound,  while  rad­
ishes  and  carrots  go  by  the  bunch. 
When  cucumbers,  turnips  and  cabbages 
are  too  large,  they  are  cut  and  the  de­
is  sold.  The  German 
sired  amount 
celery  has  no  value  except  in 
its  root, 
which  is  boiled  and  made  into  a  salad. 
There  are  at  least  eleven  different kinds 
of  cabbage  in  general  consumption.

There  is  plenty  of  fruit  to  be  had,  but 
it  does  not  stand  a  show  against  Mich­
igan,  or  even  England.  The  canta­
loupes  are  hardly  food  fit  for  the  gods— 
due,  no  doubt,  to  too  strong  a  flavor  of 
gold  and  silver.  The  watermelons— 
poor  things!— look  as  though  they  had 
had  some  disease,  when  young,  which 
prevented  them  from  growing.  Cherries 
and  plums  are  excellent,  and  plentiful

GREAT VALUE

SANCAIBO
COFFEE

SHALL  WE  HAVE

T h e  G old  S ta n d a r d ?

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

MANIT0W06 PEAS

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

THE ALBERT LANDRETH CO.,

MANITOWOC,  WIS.

WORDEN  GROCER  CO.,

Sole Agents for Grand  Rapids and  Vicinity.

Credit for the above idea should be given to 
the Norton Can  Co.  Minstrels, Chicago.

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as  well.  Berrries  are  not  such  a  sure 
crop,  but  the  currants  are generally fine. 
Most  of  the  apples, 
in  winter,  come 
from  Italy  and  America.  The 
latter 
kind  are  preferred  and  bring,  for  ordi­
nary  stock,  io  to  15  cents  a  pound.  The 
best  grapes  must  be  always  used  for 
wine,  for  only  poor  stuff  is  seen 
in  the 
markets.

But 

the  flowers!  Certainly 

some 
magic  is  used  in  raising  them,  for  they 
grow faster  than  weeds  in  a cornfield 
in 
July.  There  are  always  gorgeous  dis­
plays  of  them  in  the  different  markets, 
and  no  one  seems  too  poor  to  take 
home,  each  week,  a  thrifty  plant  or a 
bunch  of  flowers.

Saturday 

evenings 

are  especially 
lively,  when  the  working  people are  out 
in  full  force  hunting  for  extra  treats  at 
low  figures.  The  Sunday  morning  rest 
is  disturbed  for  an  hour,  from  eight  to 
nine,  to allow  the  chance  buyers  to  se­
cure  the  all-essential. 
Then  silence 
reigns  once  more  until  Monday  morn­
ing. 

Za id a  E.  U d e l l .

A  Cheerful  Failure.

Stroller in Grocery World.

I  found  a  grocer  the  other  day  who, 
as  a  reformer  of  his  own  methods,  was 
confessedly  a  failure,  and  yet  he  was 
the  most  cheerful  man  I  ever  saw.  He 
even  chuckled  as  he  recounted  his 
efforts  to  adopt  some  of  the  innovations 
of  the grocery  trade.

“ No,  sir,’ ’  he  said,  " I ’m  simply  a 
There's  no 
I  tried  to get  some  on 
it  and  I’ve 

plain,  everyday  grocer. 
fringes  on  me. 
once,  but  I  didn’t  do 
stopped  trying now.”

“ You  don’t  look  as  if  you  needed  any 
fringes,"  I  said,  for  his  store  was  pros­
perous  in  appearance.

“ Oh,  well,”   he  said,  “ I  thought  I 

did  once,  but  I  don’t  any  longer."

“ What  changed  your  ideas?"  I asked.
“ I  didn’t  have  any  luck  with  my  at­

tempts, ”   he  said. 
’em 
every  time.  Then  I  stopped  makin’ 
’em  and  settled  down.

“ Fell  flat  on 

“ Never  told  you  how  1  got  slumped 
when  I  tried  to  stop  delivering  goods, 
did  I?”

He  never  bad.
“ Well,  it  was  about  three  years  ago 
now. 
I  had  a  pretty  good  delivery 
man,  and  I  paid  him  $12  a  week.  Then 
my  horse  cost  me  a  good  deal,  and,  all 
told,  I  don’t  believe my delivery  service 
stood  me  in  much  less  than  $15  or  $16 
every  week.  Well,  I  got  to  think in’  one 
day,  and  decided 
it  was  money 
wasted.  So,  to  make  a  long  story  short, 
I  issued  a  statement  that  no  more  goods 
would  be delivered,  and  as  an 
induce­
ment  to  balance  against  this  I  reduced 
all  my goods  5  per  cent. 
I  could  afford 
to  do so,  you  see.

that 

“ Well,  the  scheme  didn’t  work. 

I 
lost  some  trade by  it  the  very  first  day, 
and  the  second  day  some of  the  sisters 
at  the  hospital  about a  mile  out  here, 
where  I’ve  always  served  groceries, 
came  and  ordered  about  $15  worth  of 
groceries. 
I  told  them  I  didn’t  deliver 
any  more,  and  one  of  them  said,  ’ Well, 
we’ll  have  to go somewhere,  then,  where 
they  do  deliver,  for  we  can’t  carry  the 
goods  home,  that’s  certain. ’  Well,  what 
did  I  do?  Why,  I  give  up,  that’s  what 
I  done,  and  I’ve  delivered  goods  like  a 
little  man  ever  since.
““ That’s  reform  Number  1.  Then  I 
used  to  be  overrun  with  bums—loafers 
in  this  store  and 
that  used  to  come 
spend  the  whole  evening. 
I  knew  it 
was  a  hurtin’  me,  but  I  didn’t  know 
how  to  get  rid  of  ’em,  so  I  made  up  my 
mind  to  take  a  firm  stand. 
I  come  out 
one  night  and  made  a  regular  little 
speech. 
I  told  ’em,  while  I  liked  ’em 
personally,  and  would  be  glad  to  have 
em  come  to  my  house  any  time,  they 
were  hurtin’  my  business,  and  would 
have  to  clear  out,  or  words  to  that 
effect.  They  got  out,  but  they  was 
madder  ’n  wet  hens,  and  I  knew  they’d 
be  up  to  some  foolishness  or  other;  and 
what  did  they  do?  Why,  my  daughter 
was  sick 
in  bed  with  the  mumps,  and

those  fellows  started  the  report  that  she 
had  the  smallpox.  Why,  the  first  day 
after  that  got  about  the  town  I  didn’t 
have  but  two  customers,  and  they  sent 
the  goods  back  when  they  found  out. 
Why,  it  hurt  me  awful;  but  I  couldn’t 
stop  it.  As  fast  as  I’d  deny  it,  these 
fellows  would  tell  around  that  I  didn't 
want  to  have  to  close  my  store  because 
I’d  lose  so  much  business. 
I'd  a  had 
’em  arrested 
if  I’d  known  who  was  a 
doin’  it.”

“ What  did  you  do?”   I  asked.
“ I’ll  tell  you  what  I done,  and you’d a 
done  the  same  thing 
if  you'd  a  be’n 
me. 
I  went  to  those  fellows  and  asked 
’em  back  in  my  store  again. 
It  was  a 
crawfishin’  thing  to  do,  but  I  had  to  do 
it  because  I  was  losin’  my  trade.  There 
was  so  many  of  ’em  that  I  couldn’t  get 
the  report  out  of  the  way.  But  when 
they  come  back  it  all  died  out  in  a  few 
days;  and 
in  here  to-night 
if  you’re 
you’ll  see 
’em  a  sittin’  right  around 
this  stove.  That’s  how  I  got  stuck  on 
reform  Number  2.

“ I  believe  that's all  the  things  I  ever 
tried—no,  wait!  I  read  a  piece  in  some 
paper  once  that  women  clerks  was  the 
best  sort  to  draw  trade,  and  I  put  in 
likely  sort  of  girl, 
one.  She  was  a 
about 
thirty-five 
years 
old—Mandy 
Smith.  Know  what  Mandy  done?  Be­
fore  I’d  had  her  two  months  she  told  all 
around  town  that  me  and  her  was  en­
gaged. 
I’m  a  bachelor,  you  know. 
Why,  every  man  I’d  see  on  the  street 
would  run  me  about 
it,  until  I  was 
afraid  to  go  out.  The  papers  all  had  it 
in,  and  I  was  miserable.  That  woman 
just  sit  and  grin  when  she  was 
would 
asked  about 
it—I  saw  her  one  night. 
Well,  I  had  to  discharge  her.  and  then 
she  started  a  report  that she’d jilted me. 
Never  even  asked  her  to  marry  m e! 
You  bet  your boots  no  woman  comes  in 
here  to  pester  me  again.  They’ve  got 
no  business  in  a  grocery  store,  anyhow. 
Let  ’em  stay  at  home  and  mend  stock- 
in’s. ”

(Those  grocers  who  wish  to  may 

show  this  to  their  wives.)

“ No,  sir,”   he  went  on,  “ the  old-

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fashioned  grocery  business 
is  good 
enough  for  me.  I  don’t  want  no fringes 
on  it,  either. 
I’ve  made  a  livin’  out  of 
it  for  nearly  twenty  years,  and  I  calc’- 
late  to  make  a  livin’  out  of  it  for  that 
many  more 
if  I’m  spared,  and  that 
without  any  hifalutin’  nonsense,  too.” 
Verily,  I  said  to  myself  as  I  left,  this 
indeed  been 
man’s  experience  has 
hard.  But  how  many  have  suffered  in 
for  not  progressively 
inverse 
ratio 
branching  out 
into  these  new  and 
money-saving  fields?

He  Had  Them.

“ Have  you  got  low  shoes?”   inquired 

the  customer of  the  new  clerk.

are 

“ Yes,  sir,”   replied  the  clerk,  “ we 
marked the entire stock down yesterday, ’ ’
The  public  is  not  as  familiar  with  its 
privileges  about  postal  matters  as might 
be  supposed.  Many  times  people  would 
like  to  recall  a  letter  after  it  has  been 
mailed.  This  can  be  done,  even  if  the 
letter  has  reached  the  postoffice  at  its 
destination.  At  every  postoffice  there 
are  what 
called  “ withdrawal 
blanks.”   On  application  they  will  be 
furnished,  and,  when  a  deposit  is  made 
to  cover  the  expense, 
the  postmaster 
will  telegraph  to  the  postmaster  at  the 
letter’s  destination  asking  that  it  be 
promptly  returned.  The  applicant  first 
signs  this  agreement:  “ It 
is  hereby 
agreed  that,  if  the  letter  is  returned  to 
me,  I  will  protect  you  from  any  and  all 
claims  made  against  you  for  such  re­
turn  and  will  fully  indemnify  you  for 
any 
loss  you  may  sustain  by  reason  of 
such  action.  And  I  herewith  deposit  $ — 
to  cover  all  expenses  incurred  and  will 
deliver  to  you  the  envelope  of  the  letter 
returned.”  
In  many  cases  persons 
have  made  remittances  to  fraudulent 
parties  or  irresponsible  firms,  not  learn­
ing  their  true  character  until  alter  the 
letter  had  gone,  and  have  succeeded 
in 
recalling  them.  There 
is  an  instance 
where  a  Kansas  City  merchant  had  re­
mitted  a  dishonest  traveling  man a draft 
for $175  and  by  means  of  a  withdrawal 
rescued  the  draft  just  in  time.

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TH E  M ICH IGAN   T R A D ESM A N

Every year the  250  salesmen of  The National  Cash Register 
Company  meet  here  at  the  factory  in  convention.  They  bring 
from  all  over  the  world  the  best  ideas  of  retail  merchants  in 
handling  transactions  between  clerks  and  customers.

T o  the  specific  needs  of  individual  merchants  they  give 
careful study and  a  long  experience.  The Eleventh Annual Con­
vention  meets  October  19th  for  a  week's  session.

E  you  have  met  with  any special difficulties  in handling and 
checking  transactions  between  your  clerks  and  customers,  and 
will fill  in the  blank  below,  cut  it  out,  and  mail  it  to  us  at  once, 
we  will  have  the  matter  carefully  considered  at  the  convention 
and  let  you  know  the  result.  Address  the  National  Cash 
Register  Company,  Dept.  D,  Dayton,  Ohio.

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Tenth  Annual  Convention 

Salesmen  of the

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JANE  CRAGIN.

A  Vacation  and  What  Came  of It. 

Written for the T rad esm an.

That  very  afternoon,  Cy  told  Jim  to 
get  out  the  new  top-buggy  and  dust  it; 
to  brighten  up  the  new  silver-mounted 
harness,  and  to  “ curry  down  the  black 
mare  until  she  fairly  shines.”

“ Looks  as  if  ’twould  be  a  good  after­
noon  for  driving  and  I  might  ’s  well 
make  the  most  of  it.”

Then  there  was  a  lot  of  lead  pencil 
in 
chewing  and  walking  up  and  down 
the  office;  and  about  four  o’clock  Cy 
came  over  for  the  team.

The  boys  didn't  know  him.  That 
new  suit  from  the  city  was  what  did  the 
business;  and,  from  the  crown  of  his 
hat  to  the  tip  of  his  patent  leather 
shoes,  “ made  for  him  in  town,”   there 
was  nothing  to  be  improved  upon.

“ I  was  going  to  write  to  Jane  about 
— about  matters  and  things,  but  I  guess 
you’d  better  do 
it  to-day,  Sid ,”   re­
marked  Cy,  as  he  proceeded  to  draw 
on  a  pair  of  new  driving 
gloves. 
“ She’il  be  wanting  to  know how  things 
are  agoing,  and  you  are  handier  than  I 
am  with  a  pen,  you  know.”

lip 

“ I  can’t  write  the  kind  of  letter,  Cy, 
that  you  want  written,”   answererd  Sid, 
curving  his 
in  a  comical  way; 
“ I'm  not  that  kind  of  correspondent. 
though,  of  your 
There’s  no  need, 
getting  uneasy  or  worrying. 
It’ll  be 
taken  good  care  of.  All  you  have  to  do 
is  to  keep  right  along  with  your  hoe­
ing,  now  you’ve  started  in,  and  not  see 
or  hear anything— the  rest’ll  take  care 
of itself.  Here  comes  Jim  with  the 
team.  Good  luck  to  you.”

A  minute 

later  there  was  a  flashing 
of  wheels 
in  the  sunlight  and  then  a 
stopping at  the  hitching-post  in  front  of 
Mrs.  Walker’s  cottage.

“ A in’t  that  a  little  the  darndest  of 
anything  yit?”   was  Jim’s  remark,  as 
the  buggy  rattled  over 
the  gravel. 
“ This  morning  is  the  first  time  he  sets 
eyes  on  her,  and  this  afternoon  every­
thing  new  comes  out,  and  off  they  go 
buggy-riding!  Thunder!”

“ See  here,  Jim,  you  don’t  want  to 
make  a  fool  of  yourself  just because 
you  have  a  chance. 
If  Cy  wants  to 
sample  bis  new  suit  that  way  it’s  none 
o’  your  funeral  nor mine.  I  know  what 
you  are  thinking  of,  but  don’t  say 
it. 
Above  all,  don’t  help  the  thing  along 
by  saying  a  single  word,  or  writing  a 
word  about  it  to  anybody. 
I’m  not  go­
ing  to. 
I’ll  tell  ye  right  here  and  now 
the  old  man’s  bit  off a  piece a great deal 
bigger’n  he  can  chew,  and  the  less  you 
see  and  say  now  the  more  fun  you’ll 
have  when  he  finds 
it  out.  Let  him 
write  his  own  letters;  but,  if  you  have 
to  write,  say  all  there  is  to  say  about 
the  store  and  then  stop.  That’s  my 
program. ’ ’

in  years 

While  that  plan  was  settled  on  at  the 
store,  it  wasn’t  the  one  that  found  favor 
in  the  neighborhood. 
There  hadn’t 
been  so  much  ” jes’  droppin’  in  of  an 
in  Milltown  as 
afternoon”  
there  was  the  week  after  that 
first 
buggy-ride.  Of  course,  the  village  was 
it;”   and  when 
“ all  stirred  up  over 
“ Cy  Huxley 
into 
church  with  Mis’  Walker  and  that niece 
o’  hern  the  very  next  Sunday, ”   Mill- 
town  couldn’t  have  been  more  shaken 
up  if  a  cyclone  had  struck  it.

come  amarchin’ 

“ Did  ye  ever  see  anything  quite  ekal 
to  that 
in  all  yer  born  days?”   asked 
Mrs.  Bettis  of  Mrs.  Pelsey  the  minute 
they  got 
into  the  aisle  after  the  bene­
diction. 
“ One’d  think  a  couple  o’  kit­
tens  was  atryin’  to  see  what  they  could

do 
’stead  of  a  widder  what  ought  to 
know  better  and  a  nole  bach  with  his 
head  ez  gray  ez  a  badger,  and  poor  ole 
Mis’  Walker  apurrin’  raound  ez  ef  she 
thought 
’twas  something  to  be  proud 
on. ”

But  all  unconscious,  apparently,  of 
the  dust  he  was  raising,  the  proprietor 
of  the  Milltown  estabishment  kept  on 
in  the  even  tenor  of  his  way,  and  the 
neighborhood  watched  and  commented.
“ I  noticed.  Mis’  Neely,  that  Cy  had 
a  shirt  on  the  line, 
in  yer  las’  week’s 
wash,  f ’r  every  single  day  in  the  week 
an’  no  end  o’  collars  an’  cuffs. 
If  this 
thing  keeps  on,  soap’s agoin’ to go  up,”  
an  evil  which  was  averted  from  Mill- 
town  by  a  greater  one.

to 

Next  week,  when  the  watchers  of  the 
weekly  wash  found  the  Neely  clothes­
line  bare,  and  careful 
inquiry  discov­
ered  the  fact  that  Cy  was  sending  his 
“ starch  clothes”  
the  Mill  River 
laundry,  outraged  justice  and  propriety 
asserted  themselves;  and 
it  was  be­
lieved  that  the  time  had  come  for some­
thing  to  be done. 
“ Things had  come to 
a  pretty  pass  when  a  poor  widder  wom­
an’s  work  was  taken  right  aout  of  her 
hands  because  she  couldn’t  gloss  linen 
ekal  to a  laundry,  and  all  to  help  a poor 
objick  of  pity  make  a  gawkin'  Nancy 
Ann  of  hisself!  If  he  hadn’t  waited  un­
til  Jane  had  gone,  ’twould  a  been  diff’- 
rent;  but,  the  very  minit  she  put  her 
foot  out  o’  Milltown,  to  go  to  caperin’ ! 
What  fools  men  folks  be!”

There  seemed  to  be  three  points  of 
attack  in  the  righting  of this stupendous 
wrong.  Mrs.  Huxley,  old  lady  Walker 
and  Cy  liimself.  Of  these  the  first  was 
the  easiest  to  approach,  and  three  good 
friends  of  Jane  went  over  to  free  their 
minds. 
It  took  them  a  long  time  to get 
around  to  the  object  of  their  errand; 
and,  when  they  got  through,  “ thatlittle 
woman  jes’  tipped  her  head  up  one 
side,  an’  says  she,  ‘ Cy’s getting  on  to­
wards  forty  and  knows  what  he  wants  if 
he’s  ever  going  to,  and  I  guess  we’d 
better  let  him  change  his  shirt as  often 
as  he  thinks  best;’  an’  we jest  marched 
off  home.  How’s  that  for  ye?”

to 

“ She  belonged 

Calling  on  Mrs.  Walker  was  a  differ­
ent  thing. 
the 
Evanses  over  in  Smithfield—smart  fam­
ily  an’  always  held  their  heads  high. 
Then  she’s  well  to  do,  you  know,  an’ 
knows  how  things  ought  to  be  done. 
Waal,  we  rigged  out 
in  our  best  bib 
an’  tucker  an’  went  over.  We  talked 
abaout  ev’rything  under  the  sun,  an’  it 
seemed  harder  an’  harder  to git  raound 
to  it;  but  at  last  1  out  with  it,  hit  er 
miss.  She  jes’  set  there  aplayin’  with 
her  watch  chain,  with  no  more  expres­
sion  to  her  face  than  to  so  much  dough; 
an’,  when  I  got  all  through,  what  does 
she  do but git  up  an’  teeter  across  the 
settin’-room  to  the  parlor  door,  which 
she  opens,  an’  says  she: 
‘ Mr.  Huxley, 
here’s  some  women  that  think you ought 
I 
to  let  Mrs.  Neely  do  your  washing. 
don’t  know  anything  about 
it  and,  if 
you’ll  come  out  here  and  tell  them,  I 
think  you’ll  be  doing  them  a  favor. ’  If 
I  hadn't  had  my  bes'  black  silk  on,  I 
b’lieve,  my  soul,  I  should  have dropped 
into  a-  heap  right  onto  the  floor;  but  I 
remembered  the  tussle  I  had  with  them 
there  wrinkles  after  the  big  party 
las’ 
winter. 
Then  I  got  up  to  go,  an’  says 
I,  alookin’  straight into her eyes,  'When 
we  want  Mr.  Huxley,  we’ll  know  where 
to  find  him  now,  an’  so  won’t  bother 
you—or  the  other  woman  either,’ says  I. 
At  that  we  come  away,  and  I  heard  the 
young  folks  alaughin’ ez we shet  the out­
side  door. ”

There  was  now  but  one  thing  to be

It  was  done  promptly,  and,  with 
done. 
is  sup­
a  delight  which  the  schemer 
posed  to  feel  at  the  success  of his  well- 
laid  plans,  Cyrus  Huxley,  before  the 
week  was  out,  in  putting  up  the  mail, 
counted  no  less  than  ten 
letters  with 
this  address:

M iss Jane  Cragin, 

Colorado  Springs, 
Colo.

The  Alta  Vista. 

R ic h a r d   Ma lco lm  Stro n g.

English  Capitalists  After  Our  Plug 

Tobacco  Factories.

From the New York Sun.

An  effort  is  being  made again  by  the 
representatives  of  English  capitalists  to 
acquire  the  properties  of  all  the  man­
ufacturers  of  plug  tobacco  in  this  coun­
try.  All  that  prevents  the consummation 
of  the  deal,  so  it  is  said,  is  the  refusal 
of  one  of  the  largest  manufacturers  to 
set  a  price  on  his  property.

interested 

Discussion  of 

When  a  syndicate  of  English  capital­
ists  bought  up  American  breweries, 
five  or  six  years  ago,  an  American  pro­
moter  conceived  the  idea  of  forming  a 
tobacco  trust  with  English  capital  be­
hind  it.  Some  of  the  same  capitalists 
who  had 
interested  themselves  in  the 
brewery  enterprise  were  approached, 
along  with  other  Britishers  with  money 
not  yet 
in  American  enter­
prises.  Many  of  the  Englishmen  looked 
with  favor  upon  the  scheme  and  enough 
capital  was  pledged  to  acquire  a  con­
trolling  interest  in  all  the  plug  tobacco 
manufactories  in  the  country.  Having 
got  the  capital  pledged,  the  promoter 
turned  his  attention  to  acquiring  the 
properties.  He  got  options  from  some 
of  the  manufacturers  of  plug  tobacco, 
but  the  largest  two  concerns,  the  Drum­
mond  Tobacco  Co.  and  the  Liggett  & 
Myers  Tobacco  Co.,  both  of  St.  Louis, 
flatly  refused  even  to consider  any  offer 
whatever  for  their  properties. 
It  was 
believed  that 
it  would  be  unprofitable 
to  investors  to  form a  plug  tobacco  trust 
with  these  two  companies  on  the  out­
side,  and  so  the scheme  was abandoned.
it  was  not  given  up, 
however,  by  either  the  manufacturers 
here  or  the  capitalists  on  the  other  side 
of  the  water.  About  a  year  ago,  or  a 
little  more,  the  manufacturers  of  plug 
tobacco  began 
fighting  among  them­
selves,  and  everybody  was  ready  to 
knife 
else,  commercially 
speaking.  The  trouble  originated when 
the  American  Tobacco  Co.,  made  up 
of  the  leading  cigarette  manufacturers, 
began  the  manufacture  of  plug  tobacco. 
This  made  some  of  the  old  makers  of 
plug  tobacco  very angry.  They proposed 
to  the  manufacturers  who  were  less  ex­
cited  about  the  matter that  the  plug  to­
bacco  men  should  retaliate  upon  the 
American  Tobacco  Co.  by  going  into 
the  cigarette  business.  This  was  strenu­
ously  opposed  by  the  more  conservative 
of  the  plug  tobacco  manufacturers,  and 
the  meeting 
last  August,  at  which  the 
matter  was  discussed,  was  one  of  the 
liveliest  that  even  the  oldest  of  the  plug 
tobacco  men  had  ever  attended.  The 
result  of  the  agitation  was  that  the 
Drummond  Co.  and  the  Liggett  & 
Myers  Co.  declared  that  they  would 
manufacture 
cigarettes  anyway,  and 
they  did  and  are  doing  so  now.

everybody 

The  report  went  abroad  after  that 
meeting  that  some  of  the  plug  tobacco 
manufacturers  were  so  disgusted  that 
they  would  like  to  dispose  of their prop­
erties.  This  report  had  no foundation  in 
fact,  but  it  got  to  the  ears  of  one  of  the 
best-known 
in  this  city,  a 
firm  that  has  done  the  legal  work  nec­
essary  in  the  formation  of several trusts, 
and  the  old  scheme  of  forming  a  plug 
tobacco  trust  with  English  capital  be­
hind  it  was  revived.

law  firms 

The  situation  was  gone  over  quietly 
to  find  out  if  the  properties  could  be ac­

capital. 

quired.  All inquiries  were  made  in  the 
most  guarded  manner and  through  per­
sons  who  had  no  connection  with  the 
law  firm.  What  was  learned  was  con­
sidered  to  be  encouraging  enough  for 
one  of  the  firm  to  pack  off to  Europe 
to  see  what  chance  there  was  of  secur­
ing  the  necessary 
It  was 
found,  at  first,  that  English  capitalists 
would  not  look  at  American investments 
through  a  telescope.  They  feared  that 
Bryan  would  be  elected,  and  were  tak 
ing  no  chances.  More  recently,  how­
ever,  the  feeling  that  McKinley  will  be 
elected  has gone abroad  in  London,  and 
now,  it  is  said,  on  the  authority  of  one 
of  the  manufacturers  interested 
in  the 
deal,  enough  money has been subscribed 
to  float  the  enterprise.

The  story  comes  from  Cincinnati  that 
Charles  M.  Lindley,  of  that  city,  and 
Col.  Joseph  B.  Hughes,  of  Hamilton, 
are  the  men  who  have been  intrusted 
with  the  work  of  securing  the  options 
on  the  properties.  Neither  of  these 
men 
is  known  to  plug  tobacco  manu­
facturers  in  this  city,  but  it  was learned 
yesterday  from  a  man  connected  with 
the  law  firm  mentioned—the  real  pro­
moters  of  the  deal—that  two  Western 
men  have  been  engaged  to  secure  op­
tions  on  the  Drummond  and  Liggett  & 
Myers  properties.  It  was  said  yesterday 
that  Liggett  &  Myers  had  practically 
named  a  figure  at  which  they would sell, 
but  that  the  Drummond  Co.  had  de­
clined  an  offer  of  $7,500,000.

Aside  from  these  two  plants,  the  one 
that  it  was  difficult  to  get  an  option  on 
was  that  of  the  Pierre Lorillard Tobacco 
Co. 
It  was  not  possible,  until  recently, 
for  anyone  to  acquire  this  property, 
even  if  the  owners  cared  to  sell.  When 
the  preferred  stock  of  the  company  was 
put  on  the  market  a  few  years  ago,  the 
agreement  was that the Lorillards  should 
retain  the  common  stock 
for  at  least 
three  years.  That  time  has  now  ex­
pired,  so  that  should  the  owners  care  to. 
sell  there 
is  nothing  to  prevent  them. 
It  was  said  yesterday  that  an  option  on 
the  Lorillard  plant  had  been  obtained. 
This  was  denied,  however,  at  the  fac­
tory  in  Jersey  City.

A  reporter  learned  yesterday 

from 
one  of  the  parties  to  the  transaction, 
should 
it  go  through,  that  the  whole 
deal  hinges  on  the  ability  of  those 
in­
terested  in  acquiring  the  properties  to 
get  an  option  on  the  Drummond  prop­
erty. 
is  understood  that  the  repre­
sentatives  of  the  capitalists  will  offer 
the  Drummonds  $8,000,000  for 
their 
plant,  and  not  a  cent  more.  Should 
this  offer  be  accepted  the  deal  will  go 
through. 
If  not,  Englishmen  stand  lit­
tle  show  of  being  able  to  embark  in  the 
tobacco  business  in  the  United  States.

It 

There  are  two  classes  of  business 
men:  members  of  the  one  class  look 
the  situation  over  carefully,  and,  as 
soon  as  they  decide  that  the  indications 
point  strongly  toward  an 
improvement 
in  tiade  within  a  reasonable  length  of 
time,  they  set  out  bravely and  take  ad­
vantage  of  the  situation  by  discounting 
the  future;  the  members  of  the  other 
class  are  so  deep 
in  the  dumps  over 
what  they  have  lost  by  reason  of  the  de­
pression  or  past  drawbacks  that  they 
never  get  done  grieving  and  fail  to  put 
themselves  into  shape  to  profit from bet­
ter  times  until  their  wiser  competitors 
have  completely  distanced  them.  When 
they  do  finally  arouse  themselves  it  is 
just  as  hard,  quite  likely,  for  them  to 
do business  as  it  was  during  the  panic. 
In reality,  therefore,  business conditions 
are always  depressed  with  them.

In  1895  the  Russian  government,  as  a 
trial,  and  with  a  view  of  diminishing 
drunkenness,  established  a  monopoly  in 
the  supply  of  spirits  in  the governments 
of  Perm,  Orenburg,  Ufa  and  Samara. 
The  English  consul  at  Kieff  says  that 
the  friends of  temperance  can  scarcely 
congratulate  themselves  on  the  result. 
A  considerable  increase  of  drunkenness 
has  been  observable.

A  cargo  of  oranges  from  New  South 
Wales  was  landed  in  England  the  other 
day.  The  fruit  is  said  to  have  been  in 
first-class 
condition,  notwithstanding 
the  long  passage.

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

A  NEW  SCIEN CE.

Kneipp’s  Barefoot  Fad  Opens  Up  an 

Interesting  Study.

If  Kneipp  walking—and  in the proper 
pronunciation  the  “ K "   is  sounded—be­
comes  a  popular  mania,  as  it  bids  fair 
to  do,  feet  will  be  paramount  for  sev­
eral  years  to  come.  Arms  and  shoulders 
will  have  had  their day.

It  is  not  pleasant  to  Kneipp  with  un­
If  the  Bavarian  priest’s 
sightly  feet. 
attains  the 
theory  of  health-making 
vogue  that 
it  has  reached  in  Europe, 
the  maidens  of  New  York  will  forsake 
finger  rings  and  take  to  the  old  Mother 
Goose  adornment  of  “ rings  on  her 
fingers  and  bells  on  her toes. ’ ’

They  will  follow  the  Hindoo  fashion 
of  adorning  the  feet,  and  jewels,  as well 
as  fashionable  toes,  will  twinkle  in  the 
matutinal  shadows  of  Central  Park.

In  many  parts  of  India,  especially 
among  the  Hindoos  of  certain  castes, 
the  women  wear  neither  shoes  nor  san­
dals.  Around  the  ankles  silver,  gold, 
brass  and  bronze  circlets  are  hung. 
They  are  all  of  beautiful  workmanship. 
Even  the  poorest  peasant  woman  can 
boast  a  pair  of  artistic  anklets  with 
quaint  beads  hanging  from  them.  Toe 
rings  are  worn, 
too,  and  are  made  of 
metal  befitting  the  wearer’s  rank.
Only  the  rich  wear  ornamental  chains 
and  instep  pieces,  which  make  the  foot 
look  pretty.  Over  the  great  toe 
is 
slipped  a  slender  ring,  with  a 
long 
marquise  setting,  made  of  gold  or silver 
filagree,  and  tipped  with  perhaps  a 
turquoise,  jasper  or ornamental  ball  of 
the  same  metal  from  which  the  ring  is 
made.

The  second  toe 

is  adorned  with  a 
similar  ring,  with  a  setting  of  beautiful 
workmanship.  The  top  of  the  ring  is 
made  to  cover  the  entire  top  of  the  toe.
The  third  and  fourth  toes  are  covered 
likewise  with  oddly  fashioned  rings. 
The  little  toe  is  graced  with  one  which 
resembles  the  back  of  a  turtle  and  fleur 
de  lis  combined.

instep  and 

Each  ring  is  held  in  place  by  a  chain 
of  unique  design,  which  passes  up  over 
the 
is  attached  to  a  hand­
somely  shaped  piece  of  metal.  This is, 
in  turn,  fastened  to  a  massive anklet, 
which  hangs  loosely  about  the  ankle, 
almost  concealing  the  joint.  Above  this 
are  sometimes  worn  two,  three  and  even 
four  anklets.
Costumes  are  to  be  constructed  here­
after  with  a  view  to  proper  and  attract­
ive  exposure  of  the  feet.  Kneipp  foot­
wear  will  be  more  studied  than  dancing 
slippers,  street  shoes,  golf,  tennis  and 
bicycle  shoes.  Struggles  will  be  made 
to  conceal  foot  blemishes.  People  will 
be  judged  by  feet  instead  of  by  palms, 
ears  or noses.
Pedistry  is  the  latest  and  perhaps  the 
coming  science.

The  sole  of  the  foot  is  marked  with  a 
Conspicuous 
myriad  of 
strong  middle 
among  these  are  the 
lines.  These, 
lines 
in  the 
palm,  are  almost  creases  and  appear  in 
a  photograph  of  the  hand  and  foot. 
Pedistry  reads  these  lines.

lines. 
like  the 

In  one  foot 

Starting  from  the base  of  the  big  toe 
there  is  a  distinct  line.  That  is  the  life 
line. 
it  will  curve  along 
until  it  terminates  under  the  instep  far 
toward  the  lower base  of  the  little  toe. 
This  means  long  life. 
If broken  in  the 
hollow  of  the  foot,  it  denotes  a  sickness 
at  middle  age,  and 
if  it  termintes  in 
the  hollow  of  the  foot  it  means  a  short 
life.  This  line  is  the  most 
interesting 
one  on  the  foot.  The  experiments  that 
have been  conducted  lately  have  proven 
this  to  be  an  almost  unfailing  reading 
of  longevity.

There 

is  this  to  be  said  for  pedistry 
which  cannot  be  said  of  palmistry— it is 
a  natural  reading. 
The  hand  goes 
through  all  vicissitudes  and  is  scarred 
and  worked  down. 
It  is  trained  to  this 
art  and  that,  and  it  becomes curved  and 
molded  by  one’s  work. 
If  you  do  not 
believe  this  notice  the  peculiar  fingers 
of  a  burnisher’s  hand,  with  the  fore­
finger  the  longest  of  the  whole hand, and 
note  the  flat  palms  of  the  shoemaker, 
who  presses  his  last  and  his  irons  with 
great  strength.

fine 

Pedistry  has  not 

this  objection.

Tight  shoes  Tmay  deform  the  foot  in 
a  way,  producing corns and  joints.  But 
no  tight  shoe  can  line  a  foot.  The  sole 
remains  the  same.  Even  very  narrow 
soles  produce  only  creases,  and  a  dip­
ping 
removes 
them,  as  the  marks  of  gloves  are  re­
moved  from  the  hand  by  swelling  the 
hand a second.

in  water  and  rubbing 

Even  tight  shoes,  with  their  disor­
dered  effects,  cannot  affect  pedistry,  for 
the  shape  of  the  foot  remains  the  same. 
The  character  of  the  toes  can  no  more 
be  altered  by  shoe  leather  than the brain 
can  by  the  hair.  There  may  be  a  differ­
ent  look,  but  a  test  brings  out  the  true 
markings.

Next  to  the  line  of  life are  the  diag­
onal  lines,  running  from  one  side  to an­
other  at  what  is  known  as  the  hollow  of 
the  foot,  below  the  “ ball’ ’  of  the  foot. 
These  are  the  lines  of  love.  All  the 
home  and  moral  sentiments  are  here 
found.  A  pronounced  cross-line  means 
that  a  good  domestic  woman  or  a  good 
family  man  is  here.  And 
if  the  line  is 
broken  it  means  domestic estrangement. 
The  originator  of  pedistry,  seeking  to 
bring  the  occult 
into  his  science,  has 
tried  to  show  that  there  will  be  as  many 
transverse  lines  as  there  are  to  be  hus­
bands  or  wives.  But  this 
is  not  fol­
lowed  by  the  true  pedists,  who  refuse to 
see  more  than  character  traits  in  the 
lines.

lines 

sharply 

Mentality 

is  marked  on  the  heel. 
Only  those  with  pronounced  brain  abil­
ity  have  these 
seen. 
Others  have  them  as  mere  markings. 
If  there  is a  network  of  small lines upon 
the  heel 
it  means  great  versatility. 
People  who  draw,  paint,  play  and  dab­
ble 
in  the  languages  have  many  heel 
lines.  A  smooth  surface  of  heel  de­
notes  a  placid,  non-working  brain.
These  three  characteristics  are  much 
amplified  in  the  science.  But  the  few 
here  told  serve  as  a  guide  to  the  whole 
scheme  of  foot  reading.  The  modifica­
tions  thereof  are very interesting.  There 
is  a  tiny  line  right  in  the  center  of  the 
sole  that  means  a  great  ability  to  love. 
The  deeper  this  is  the  more  intense  the 
passion  can  be  shown.  Those  who  fall 
in  love,  once  and  forever,  irrevocably, 
have  a  tiny  dent  that  looks  like  a  line 
here.
Line-reading  is  one  part  of  pedistry. 
The  other 
in  the  shape  of  the  foot. 
Beautiful  women  of  marvelous  talent 
have  the  Greek  foot.  You  should  hear 
Grece, 
rave 
about  Bernhardt’s  foot.  “ The  toes  sep­
arate,”   he  says,  “ and  there 
is  a  tiny 
space  between  the  first  and  second. ’ ’

the  Paris  photographer, 

That  space  means  great  talent.  You 
never  saw  a  talented  woman  with  the 
first  two  toes  hugging  each  other.  The 
toes  are  square  at  the  ends  and  the 
owner  cannot  wear  pointed  shoes,  be­
cause  of  that  square  second  toe.  But 
you’ll  forgive  this  foot  its  square  shoe, 
because  it  is  such  a  talented  one!

The  flat  foot 

is  the  emotional  one. 
Most  of  the  Kneippists  have  these  feet. 
Devout  believers  of  any  faith  have 
them.  There 
is  little  instep,  because 
instep  means  capriciousness,  but  there 
is  a  fine,  sensible,  flat  foot.  If  you  have 
a  chance  to  visit  Central  Park  at  5 
o’clock  any  morning  you  will  see  these 
flat  feet  treading  the  grass;  and  some 
of  them  are  upon  very  stylish persons.

is 

The  ideal  foot  for  a  woman  is  ugly  to 
look  at,  but  very  charming  to  know— 
the  foot  that  is  irregular.  This  foot  can 
wear  the  pointed  shoe,  because  the  big 
toe  is  half  an  inch  longer  than  the  other 
toes.  The  foot 
is  high  in  instep,  de­
noting  capriciousness  to  a  certain  ex­
tent,  and 
it  has  the  incurve  at  the  hol­
low  of  the  foot  that  denotes  aristocratic 
tastes.  A  foot  like  that  belongs  to  a 
person  easy  to get  along  with  and  good 
to  know.  A  curve  at  the  ankle  means a 
love  of  fun.  Those  slender,  curving 
ankles  that  cross  the  street,  giving  you 
peeps  of  prettiness,  belongs  to  just  such 
feet  as  the  “ ideal,”   and  they  mean  a 
good,  nice  little  woman  above  them.
The  solid  foot  boasts  of  its instep. 

It 
is  the  step  of  the worker.  The so-called 
It  is a  thick­
instep  is  no  instep  at  all. 
ening  of  the  ball  of  the  foot  without  the 
beautiful  curve.  Women  with  these  feet 
are  industrious.  Notice  the next  thick­
footed  woman  you  see.  She  will  wear

t   When  you  are  Looking for  Reliable

at  Prices that fit  the times as

♦  well  as the  Feet
 
♦

SEE that your account  is with the “winners.”  They are

I THE HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.
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State Agents for  Wales-Goody ear  Rubbers,

5 and  7  Pearl Street, 

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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N ow   is  the  time  to  get  in  stock  of

p e i  Bools  anil Shoes

as  we  have  great  bargains  to  offer 
you.  W e  solicit  correspondence.
W e  carry  a large  line of Felt Boots 
and  Sox  at  the 
lowest  m arket 
prices.

STUDLEY & BARCLAY,

4  MONROE  ST.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Agents

L.  CANDEE  &  CO., 
FEDERAL  RUBBER  CO.

Ask for price list.

Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.,
Our Factory Lines are He lest Wearing Hoes on Earth.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

12,14,16 Pearl Street,

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

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

GOODYEAR 
GLOVE  RUBBERS

We carry a complete stock of all their  specialties  in 
Century,  Razor,  Round  and  Regular  Toes,  in  S,  N,  M 
and F widths, also their Lumberman’s Rubbers and Boots.
Either  Gold  or  Silver will suit  us— what we want  is 

#
HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,

your fall order for Rubbers.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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with 

a  shoe  that  fairly  looms  upon  the  instep 
and  her  heel  will  come  down  as  straight 
as  can  be.  This  means  a  truth-telling 
instinct  and  all  good  moral  qualities. 
The  foot  is  that  of  the  woman  who  has 
done  pioneer  work  for  the  sex,  and  who 
will  do  it  again.  Seen 
in  a  man,  this 
foot  brings  respect  and  dignity.

The  short-toed  woman  has  a  foot  as 
short  as  her  temper.  The short-toed man 
is  the  man  who  swears  easily. 
It  is  the 
abominable  temper  that  goes  with  short 
toes.  The  toes  are  to  blame,  not  the 
man.  People 
short  toes  get
through  life  easily.  They  never  borrow 
trouble.  They  literally  “ let  Brown  do 
the  walking. ”   Their 
is  cast  in  a 
pleasant  place,  for  they  go  through 
life 
getting  what  they  want  and  enjoying  it.
The  quick  temper  serves  to discipline 

long-toed 

the  world  and  keep  it  in  order.
The 
foot  belongs  to  the 
society  woman,  the  woman  of  many  ac­
complishments  and  great  tact.  Long 
toes  belong  to  orators. 
They  mean 
ability  to  talk,  to  argue,  to  bring  put  a 
nice  point.  All  the  diplomats  of  the 
world  have  these  long-toed  feet.  Beauty 
and  talent  are  shown  by  the  instep  and 
the  hollow.  The  compact  shape  of  the 
foot  means  mental  balance,  and  you 
can  be  sure  of  finding  the  owner  of  that 
foot  here  when  you  come  back.  The 
evenness  of  one’s  way  cannot  be  dis­
turbed,  that  foot  is  sure  to  say.

lot 

Pointed  toes  are  the  toes  of  an  artist. 
Du  Maurier  would  have  liked  to  place 
these  pointed  toes  upon  his  Trilby,  but 
Greek  models  demand  the  square  toes.  I 
Nevertheless,  Trilby  had  these  pointed 
toes,  you  may  be  sure.  Toes  that  come 
down  to  little  sharp  points  mean  a  tal­
ent  for  looking  into  minutiae,  but  the 
slight  points  denote  the  artist.  The 
foot  is  beautiful  always,  and  the  Trilby 
foot  might  be  claimed  for  the  whole 
world  of  art,  so  universal 
is  it  where 
strong  talent  of  this  kind  is  found.
The  shape  of  the  foot  has  a  volume 
in  it.  Broad  feet  mean  common  sense, 
narrow  ones  reserve  and  curved  feet  de­
note  an  erratic  disposition.

The  lines  in  the  sole  are  the  most  in­
teresting  of  the 
later  studies  of  this 
kind.  Foot  reading  will  form  part  of 
the  coming  winter’s  entertainments.
How  the  Material 

in  Old  Shoes  Is 

Utilized.

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Old  shoes  are  not  waste  from  the 
standpoint  of  modern  industry.  After 
they  have  done  their  service  and  are 
discarded  by  the  first  wearers,  a  second­
hand ' dealer  restores  the  worn  shoes  to 
something  like  their  former  appearance 
and  they  are  sold  again,  to  be  worn  a 
little  longer  by  poorer  people.  When 
the  shoes  are  finally  discarded  by  them 
they are  still  good  for  various  purposes. 
In  France such  shoes  are bought  up 
in 
quantities  by  rag  dealers  and  sold  to 
factories,  where  the  shoes  are  taken 
apart and  submitted  to  long  manipula­
tions  which  turn  them  into  paste,  from 
which  the  material  is  transformed 
into 
an  imitation  of  leather,  appearing  very 
much  like  the  finest  morocco.

imprisoned 

Upon  this  material  stylish designs  are 
stamped,  and  wall  papers,  trunk  cov­
ers,  and  similar  articles  are  manufac­
tured  from  it.  Another  French 
indus­
try  is  using  old  dilapidated  shoes  in the 
transforming  of  old  into  new  footwear. 
This  is  the  principal  occupation  of  the 
military  convicts 
in  the 
fortress  of  Montpelier.  There  the  shoes 
are  taken  apart,  all  the  nails  are  taken 
out,  and  then  the  leather  is  soaked  in 
water  some  time  to  soften 
it.  From 
those  pieces  that  can  be  used  are  cut 
the  uppers 
for  children’s  shoes  and 
parts  of  the  soles  are  similarly  used. 
The  smallest  pieces  of  leather  are  ap­
plied 
in  high  Louis  IV.  heels,  which 
were  in  style  a  few  years ago.  Even  the 
nails  of  the  old  shoes  are  used  again. 
They  are  separated  by  a  magnet,  which 
attracts  the  steel  nails,  while  the  cop­
per  and  brass  nails  are  carried  on 
further.

The  price  received  for  the  old  copper 
nails  alone  almost  pays  for the  first  cost 
of  the  old  shoes.  Clippings  and  cut­
tings  of  the  leather are  also  used,  being 
tumedjnto  a  paste,  from  which  artifi­
leather  is  made,  and  what  is  not
cial 

good  enough  to  serve  for  this  purpose is 
sold  with  the  sweepings  to agriculturists 
in  the  neighborhood,  who  use  this  paste 
with  great  success  as  a  fertilizer.

Shades  in  Colored  Footwear.

From Shoe and Leather Facts.

One  of  our  exchanges  has  been  de­
voting  considerable  space  recently  to 
the  views  of  retailers  on  the  subject  of 
colored  shoes.  Most  of  the  writers  agree 
that  the  introduction  of  colors has great­
ly  complicated  the  matter  of  doing  a 
successful  business,  and  some  advocate 
concerted  action  to  get  back  to  former 
conditions  when  black  was  the  preva­
lent  color.

That  the  introduction  of  colored shoes 
has  necessitated  the  carrying  of  much 
larger 
stocks  goes  without  saying. 
There  are  a  good  many  retailers,  how­
ever,  who  claim 
increased  sales 
brought  about  by  the  change  fully  com­
pensate  for  the  additional  outlay.  As 
practically  everybody  has  come  to  wear 
tan  shoes  during  at  least  a  portion  of 
the  summer  months,  and  as  goods  of 
this  kind  have  never  gained  much  of  a 
hold  for  winter  wear,  it  seems  fortunate 
that  the  amount  of  goods  placed  in  con­
sumption  has  been  increased  by  the  in­
novation.  Since  the  perfection  of  shoe- 
is  also  possible  to  change 
dressings 
the  color  or  shade  of  shoes 
in  accord­
ance  with  the  changed  requirements  of 
the  purchasing  public,  and  the  loss  for­
merly  suffered  by  reason  of  unsalable 
colors  is  thus  practically  eradicated.

the 

it 

The  important  question,  however,  is 
not  how  to  change  the  demand  back  to 
black  goods,  but  what  methods  can  be 
pursued  to  the  best  advantage  under  ex­
isting  circumstances.  There 
is  very 
little  probability  of  the  public  taste 
disregarding  colors  in  the  near  future, 
especially  since  the  vast 
improvement 
has been  made  in  colored  stock.  There 
is„a  likelihood,  however,  that  manufac­
turers  will  ultimately see  the advantage, 
not  only  to  themselves  but  to  the  trade 
in  general,  of  arriving  at  some  definite 
understanding  as  to  what  particular 
shades  are  to  prevail  during  a  given 
season.  There  is an inherent  disposition 
on  the  part  of  most  members  of  the  hu­
man  race  to  be  “ in  style,”   if  possible, 
and  it  would  therefore  be easier to effect 
the  reform  referred  to  than  many  might 
imagine.  Certain  it  is  that  the  preva­
lence  from  season  to  season  of  seven  to 
ten  shades  of  colored  shoes,  with  half 
as  many  styles  of  toes,  has  complicated 
the  business  to  an  extent  which  re­
quires  all  the  average  retailer’s  best 
effort  to  meet  the  requirements  of  his 
customers  without  swamping  himself 
with  an  overstock.  The  smaller retailer 
of  course  suffers most in this connection.

Letter  boxes  have  been  established  on 
the  French  steamers  plying  between 
New  York  and  Havre,  in  which  passen­
gers,  in  the  course  of  the  voyage,  may 
deposit 
letters  and  mailable  articles. 
The  boxes  will  be  securely  locked.  At 
the  end  of  the  voyage  the  boxes  will  be 
delivered  at  New  York  or  Havre  post- 
office,  where  they  will  be  unlocked  and 
the  contents  distributed. 
is  hoped 
by  the  New  York  postal^officials  that 
this  convenient  arrangement  is only pre­
liminary  to  the  establishment  of  a  regu­
lar  sea  postal  service  between  France 
and  the  United  States,  such  as  has  for 
some  years  been 
in  operation  on  the 
German  and  American  steamship  lines.

It 

iron,  with 

The  management  of  the  French  state 
railways  has  obtained  a  permission  to 
construct  and  reconstruct  a  number of 
passenger  cars 
in  which  all  the  parts 
formerly  manufactured  from  brass,  cop­
per  and 
the  exception  of 
axles,  wheels,  bearings  and  springs, 
brake-beams  and  couplings,  are  to  be 
It 
made  of  aluminum. 
is  stated  that 
by  this  change  the  cars  will  weigh  one 
and  one-half  tons 
less,  and  be  the 
means  of  considerable  saving 
in  oper­
ating  expenses.

A  farmer  near  Sacramento  says  his 
crop  of  asparagus  this  season  will  bring 
him  $12,000,  of  which  $9,000  will  be 
profit  He  has  twelve acres  of  it.

successors to

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO.

Michigan Agents for

n i n i

The new substitute for 

Cream of Tartar,

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 
Qualities.  Try them.

Is, in fact, better than Cream 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.

This stamp  appears 
on  the  Rubber  of 
all  our  “Neverslip” 
Bicycle  and  Winter 
Shoes.

■i t   PWTCNTeD 

FEB 

'  

1892

DO  YOUR FEET SLIP?

The  “ N everslip”   gives elasticity  and 
ease  to  every  step  taken  by  the wearer. 
It breaks the shock or jarring of the body 
when walking, and is particularly adapted 
to all  who are obliged to be on their  feet. 
None  but  the  best  of  material  used  in 
their  makeup. 
Every  walking  man 
should have at least a pair.

PINGREE &  SMITH,  Manufacturers.

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

DOLL  SOAP

100 Bars in Box, $2.50.  This is a  Cracker 
Jack to make a run on, and  it  will  be  a 
winner for you both ways.

Manufactured only bv

ALLEN  B.  WRISLEY  CO.,

CHICAGO.

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m ee t w ith   such  p e c u lia r  experiences  t h a t   th e y  
ta te  a b o u t reco m m en d in g  th e ir  ow n  m o u n ts.  A m an 
w ho p u rc h ased  a  bicycle at$60 sev e ral w eeks a g o  to ld  a  Sun 
re p o rte r th e   fo llow ing  s to r y :  “ Som e  w eeks  ag o   1  looked 
a ro u n d  fo r a  good m edium  g ra d e  bicycle, a n d  A nally se le c t­
ed a  $60  w heel  th a t   w as  recom m ended  as a  good  all-round 
bicycle. 
I t h a s g iv en  m e em in e n t  sa tisfa c tio n , b u t y e s te r­
d ay   in   lo o k in g   o v e r  som e  w heels  in   a   bicycle  sto re   on 
B roadw ay 1 n o ticed  a  w heel id en tica l in   m odel  an d   fixings 
to  m y ow n w ith  a  d iffe re n t n am e p la te  a t  its  head, liste d  a t 
$39. 
I  w as  so m ew h at  su rp rise d   a t  th is  a n d  questio n ed  th e  
salesm an.  H e  a d m itte d   to   m e  th a t  th e   w heel in  q u estio n  
w as th e  sam e  m ak e  a s  1  ow ned,  an d   in   ex p la n a tio n   o f its 
low er p rice a n d  d iffe re n t nam e, sa id ;  ‘T he  firm  th a t m an u ­
fa ctu re s  th is   w heel  received  a n   o rd e r  fo r  10,000  bicycles
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without  a  p la n t to  
On th is  a c c o u n t th e y  
i f o r $39.* ” -X . Y .Sun.

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m an u fa ctu re .  T he w heels w ere m ade an d  deli 
h av e com e in to  m y hand:

om e people w ho w ished to  h a n d le  bicycles, b u t w 
'  *'  Bred  b u t 3,000 w ere rejected, 
n am e p late, 1 a m  sellin g  thei

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New  Clippers  ere  rot  marketed 
in this way.  They  ere  worth  the 
price  we  ask.  The  Spiral  name 
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Clerks’ Corner
Pointed  Questions,  Plainly  Asked. 

From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

is  kid?”   nor  does 

Are  you  dishonest?  That 

is  a  blunt 
question,  perhaps  impertinent,  but  can 
you  answer  it? 
It  doesn’t  mean  “ Do 
you  steal?”   or  “ Do  you  tell  a  customer 
that  sheepskin 
it 
mean  to  question  your  honesty  in  any 
way  whatsoever. 
It  merely  asks,  “ Are 
you  honest?”   When  the  “ boss”   is  out, 
do  you  work  the  same  as  when  he  is 
around?  When  a  particularly  hard  cus­
tomer  comes  in  do  you  busy  yourself  in 
some  way  wholly  unnecessary  so as  to 
get  out  of  your  real  work  and  let  the 
In  short, 
task  go  to  some  other  clerk? 
do  you  “ soger?”  
it 
right? 
Is  it  fair? 

Is  it  honest? 
Is  it  advisable?

Is 

*  *  *

Will  a  clerk  win  success  who 

is  dis­
honest  with  himself  and  his  employer? 
Honesty  is  not  only  the  best  policy— it 
is  the  only  policy.  Few  men  ever  suc­
ceed  who  are  not  honest  in  little  things 
as  well  as  in  big  ones.  Few  men  suc­
ceed  who  cannot  be  trusted  to  do  what 
they  are  paid  for  doing  as  well  with­
out  the  eye  of  their  employer  on  them 
as  with  it.  The  sogering  employe  re­
mains  an  employe  as  a  rule.  He 
doesn’t  win  success  because  he  doesn’t 
deserve  success.  His  is  the  wrong  pol­
icy.  Success  means  hustle. 
It  doesn’t 
mean  the  evasion  of  hard  work. 
It 
into  it  with  a  will 
means  the  digging 
and  doing 
it  thoroughly  not  because 
somebody  is  overseeing  the  job,  but  be­
cause  the  successful  man  knows  only 
one  way  of  doing 
is, 
thoroughly.

it—and  that 

*  *  *

Are  you  lazy?  Do  you  keep  your  eye 
peeled  for  things  that  should  be  done 
but  are  undone,  and  then  do  you  go  at 
it  and  do  them?  Or  do  you  do  what 
work  you  are  obliged  to  do  in  the  easi­
est  possible  way  so  it  will  stay  done  for 
the  minute?  Did  you  ever  know  of  a 
lazy  man  being 
successful?  Many 
clerks  are  absolutely  shiftless.  They 
are  too  lazy  to  wait  on  customers  prop­
erly  and  politely.  They  are  too  lazy  to 
even  keep  themselves  clean.  Will  they 
succeed?  Not  on  your  life,  unless  they 
mend  their  ways  materially.

*  *  *

When  a  man  is  too  lazy  or  dishonest 
or  both  to  do  the  best  he  can,  he  is  in  a 
very  fair  way  to  be  classed  with  the 
great  army  of  the  unsuccessful.  He 
doesn’t  deserve  success.  No  man  de­
serves  success  who  isn't  willing  to  earn 
it  by  hard  work,  and  few  rpach  success 
who  don’t  earn  it.  Few  are  successful 
anyhow.  The  vast  majority  are  unsuc­
cessful,  financially.  Most  men  go  out 
of  the  world  with  little  or  no  more  than 
they  had  when  they  came  into 
it.  The 
man,  therefore,  who  does  his  level  best 
is  far  better  fitted  for  success  than  he 
who  gets  through  by short cuts at  the  ex­
pense  of  his  work.

*  *  *

judged  accordingly. 

The  thoroughly  honest  worker wins re­
spect. 
If  he  possesses  brains  he  wins 
confidence  and  esteem.  The  slipshod 
worker  gains  neither.  He brands  him­
self  a  failure  from  the  start.  He  seldom 
is  known  by  his 
fools  any  one,  but 
works  and 
If by 
any  means  he  secures  backing  and  em­
barks  in  business  for  himself  he doesn’ t 
last  long.  His  ways  are  not  the  ways  of 
successful  business  men  and  they  won’t 
bring  success. 
It  pays  to be  honest.  It 
pays  to  be  alive  and  active.  This  is 
the  age  of  energy  and  life. 
It  takes 
hustle  and  stick-to-itiveness  to  bring 
success and  it’s  pretty  hard  to get  even 
then  Don't  handicap  yourself  in  the 
race  by  laziness  or dishonesty  in  small 
things.  Your  best  endeavors  are  need­
ed.  Every  stone  in  the  edifice  of  suc­
cess  must  be  laid  well  and  firmly.  Mud 
and  water  won’t  do.  Only  the  best 
mortar,  thoroughly  mixed,  will serve the 
purpose.

*  *  *

Brains  says,  “ Do  your  clerks  make 
a  five-cent  sale 
in  precisely  the  same 
manner  they  do a  fifty-dollar  sale?  Do 
they  treat  the  two  customers^_in  the 
same  manner  and  try to  please one  as

conscientiously  as  they  do  the  other?  If 
not,  your  clerks  are not  good  clerks and 
you’d  better  teach  them  to  mend  their 
ways,  or  else  get  some  good  clerks  to 
take  their  places.”

Don’t  Get  Rattled.

From Shoe and Leather Facts.
tell 

The  soldier  they 

about  who 
bravely  fought  and  without  an  apparent 
tremor  during  the  heat  and  din  of  the 
battle,  and who fell  down  in  a dead faint 
from  fright  as  soon  as  he  learned  that 
the  enemy  were  retreating,  was  not  a 
bit  more 
inconsistent  than  are  some 
business  men  at  present.  During  the 
past  two  or  three  years  of  almost  con­
tinuous  trade  depression  they  have  not 
only  kept a  bold  front  in  the  face  of  the 
most  adverse  conditions  but 
in  some 
cases actually  snatched,  as  it  were,  suc­
cess  out  of  the  jaws  of  what  would  have 
been  sure  defeat  had  they  not  main­
tained  such  stout  hearts  and  level  heads 
as  they  did.  With  the  national  sky  at 
times  overcast  with  clouds  as  dark  as 
Erebus,  they  marched  forward  bravely 
and  until  quite  recently  looked  at  the 
bright  side  of  a  picture  which  perhaps 
was  almost  entirely  painted 
in  dark 
colors.
The  din  of  the  fiercely waged political 
contest,  when  daily  papers  subsidized 
on  both  sides  have  talked  of  the  dire 
disasters  certain  to  occur  if  the result  of 
the  election 
is  not  as  they  desire,  and 
when  the  candidates  on  the  hustings 
talk  about  the  country  going  to  the eter­
nal  bowwows,  as  though  they  had  been 
gifted  with  prophecy,  seems,  however, 
to  have completely upset the equilibrium 
some  were  able  to  maintain  up  to  this 
time.
Without  entering  into  a  discussion  of 
the  political  question,  we  simply  want 
to  ask 
if  any  member  of  the  trade  re­
members  when  there  was  a  Presidential 
election  which  did  not,  for  the  time  be­
ing,  bring  about partial  business stagna­
tion  and  depression?  Does  anyone  re­
member  when,  in  a  measure  at  least, 
there  was  not  a  revival  as  soon  as  peo­
ple  stopped  talking  politics  and  began 
giving  the  usual  amount  of  attention 
again  to  their  chosen  avocation?  This 
year  will  not  be  an  exception.  The 
probability 
is  that  all  the  effort  that 
might be  put  forth,  added  to  the  great­
est  amount  of  worry  anyone  is  capable 
of  enduring,  would  not  brighten  up 
things  very  materially  until  after  the 
election.  The  only  thing  to  do,  there­
fore,  it  would  seem,  is  to  look  at  the 
matter  philosophically, 
good 
care to  make  the necessary arrangements 
to  profit  by  the  reaction  certain  to  come 
in  the  fullness  of  time. 
If  you  have 
been  able to  keep  your  nerve  up  to  the 
present,  therefore,  there  is  every  reason 
why  you  should  hold  nut  for  the  three 
remaining  weeks  before  there  will  be 
an  end  to  all  this  shouting  and  calamity 
howling.

Get  ready  for a  brisk  business  in  No­

taking 

vember  and  December.

A  plan  which  gives  promise  of  a 
much  needed  reform  in  tenement  meth­
ods  is  that  undertaken  by  the  Improved 
Housing  Company  of  New  York  City. 
It  proposes  to  supply 
improved  dwell­
ings  for  the  unfortunate  people  who 
have  been  turned  out  of  condemned 
tenements.  This 
is  to  be  a  strictly 
business  enterprise,  and  at  the  same 
is  designed  to  help  wage-earners 
time 
who  are  willing  to  help 
themselves. 
Model  tenements 
in  the  city  and  cot­
in  the  suburbs  are to  be  erected 
tages 
and  sold  to  workingmen  on  the 
install­
ment  plan,  and  while  the  company  will 
receive  fair  returns  on  its 
investments, 
the  payments  required  will  entail  no 
heavier  burden  than  the  rent  usually 
paid  by  tenement dwellers.  And  one  of 
the  most  commendable  features  of  the 
plan  is  that  an  insurance  is  to  be  add­
ed,  whereby,  in  case  of  the  purchaser’s 
death,  the  home  will  be  turned  over  to 
his  family  free  from  incumbrance.

In  certain  towns  in  Germany  the  tele­
phone  has  been 
introduced  by  tobac­
conists  into  their  stores  as  an additional 
attraction  to  customers.  Anyone  who 
buys  a  cigar  may,  if he  desire,  have  a 
talk  over the  wires.

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easier  to  maintain  prices  the  coming 
season.

it 

While  the  general  type of  wheel  will 
continue  the  same,  there  will  be  some 
departures  tried  by  different  manufac­
turers  which  may  have  significance. 
One  such  may  be  in  the  way  of  making 
a  chainless  wheel.  During  the  entire 
period  of  the  “ safety”   there  have  been 
repeated  attempts  to  supersede  the  un­
reliable  chain  and  sprocket,  as 
is 
sometimes  considered,  but  these  at­
tempts  have  generally  been  in  the  di­
rection  of  using  levers,upon  which  the 
feet  operate  with  an  up  and  down  mo­
tion,  instead  of  the  crank.  All  such 
schemes  have  been  failures,  for the  rea­
son  that  the  crank  motion  is  the  most 
natural  and 
least  fatiguing.  Early  in 
the  history  of  the  safety,  experiments 
were  made 
in  the  way  of  superseding 
the  chain  with  a  shaft  carrying  bevel 
gearing. 
these 
were  not  successful,  and  were  aban­
doned.  But  it  is  said  that  the 
is 
idea 
being  taken  up  again,  and 
that  the 
chainless  wheel  seems  likely  to  become 
a  success. 
Lively  Times  About  the  Home  of the 
From the Cleveland Recorder.

For  various  reasons 

Apple  Picker.

N a t e.

From  Glenville  Corners  comes  a  tale 
of  woe  with  an  apple  at  the  top  of  it. 
Sunday morning, while walking about his 
farm,  John  Schneider  espied  a tempting 
morsel  at  the  top  of  his apple  tree,  and 
straightway  went  about  procuring 
it,  to 
his  own  misfortune  and  grief.

It  so  did  happen  that  John  was  at­
tired  in  his  choicest  raiment,  and  while 
climbing  the  tree  his  nether garment 
was  destroyed.  Undaunted,  however, 
he  reached  for  the apple,  Something 
broke  and  he  fell.  Immediately  beneath 
the  tree  the  festive  honey  bee  made 
honey,  and  the  farmer 
involuntarily 
found  himself  forcibly  deposited  upon 
a  beehive.  Thereupon 
the  bees  sat 
themselves  upon  the  unfortunate  for a 
period,  and,  then  yet  unrevenged  for 
the  destruction  of  their  home,  made  war 
against  the  family  horse,  grazing  near 
by.  The  horse  rushed  to  the  housewife 
for  protection  and  invaded  her  kitchen.
Mrs.  Schneider  was  cooking  the  mid­
day  meal.  The  stove  was  overturned, 
and  in  preventing  a  conflagration  she 
narrowly 
burned. 
Schneider  hurried  to  her  rescue  and 
was  kicked  in  the  pit  of  the  stomach by 
the  once  docile  horse,  which  then  set 
itself  about  demolishing  the  contents  of 
the  whole  house,  but  was  frustrated 
in 
his  design  by  the  narrowness  of  the 
doors.  Mrs.  Schneider  then  turned  up­
on  the  horse.  She  rushed  at  him  with 
a  broom. 
Instead  of  hitting  the  horse 
the  broom  came  in  contact  with a clock, 
which  was  thrown  from 
its  shelf  and 
practically  demolished.

escaped 

being 

The  horse  ran  out  of  his  own  accord 
in  the  yard  met  the  family  cow. 
and 
The  cow  received  a  kick 
in  the  side 
and,  terrified,  ran  at  the  pet  dog  and 
tossed  him 
She  repeated 
the  performance  until  the  dog was dead, 
when  she  started  down  the  road  scatter­
ing  all  who  were  out  for a  Sunday walk. 
And  over  all  the  apple  innocently hung, 
and  still  hangs.

in  the  air. 

Commercial T ravelers

The  1897  Bicycle.

Written for the Tradesman.

Michigan Knights of the Qrip. 

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

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

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

Michigan Division, T. P. A.

President, G eo. P. Owen,  Grand  Rapids ;  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer,  Jas.  B.  McInnes,  Grand 
Rapids.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, J. H. McK elvey.

President, A. P. Peake, Jackson ;  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—P.  M.  T y l e r ,  H.  B.  F a ir - 
c h ild, G eo.  P.  Ow en,  J.  He n r y  D a w l e y ,  G eo. 
J.  Hein zelm an,  C h a s. S.  R orinson.

Lake Superior Traveling Men’s Club. 

President,  W.  C.  B row n.  Marquette ;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A .  P.  W ixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

The  best  pays  the  best  and  that  is 
why  the  best  business  policy  pays  the 
best.

Business  does not  grow because a  man 
complains;  it  grows  because  he  doesn’t 
complain.

The faculty of making himself  ‘ solid”  
with  his  trade,  socially,  is  one  of  the 
most  valuable  features  of  a  commercial 
traveler’s  equipment.

The 

traveling 

representative  who 
stands  firm  on  prices  and  will  not  give 
away  his goods  earns  the  approbation of 
the  firm  which  hires  him.  Traveling 
salesman  are  hired  to  make  money  for 
their  employers  and  not  to  lose  it.

This  is  an  age  of  “ spondulicks”   and 
one-half  of  the  world  fattens  on  the 
other  or  leaner  half. 
In  no  one  part  of 
this  delightful  process  of  absorption 
is  the  art  of  squeezing  the  lemon so per­
fect  and  popular  as  it  is  in  the  loaning 
of  money  to  such  as  must  have  the  cash 
or  else  go  to  the  wall.

The  success  of a  traveling  man  is  not 
merely  to  “ fire”   in  orders  to  the  house 
at  a  profit.  Real  success  on  the  road  is 
to  win  the  respect  and  confidence  of 
one’s  trade.  To  sell  goods  to  a  man 
once,  and  to  sell  him  again  and  again, 
with  increasing  confidence  and  respect 
on  both  sides—that  is  business  success.
There  are  some  men  who  seem  to 
think  they  know  all  about  the  business 
of  selling  goods  from  sample,  either 
from  having  been  born 
commercial 
travelers,  as  they 
imagine,  or  on  ac­
count  of  long  years  of  experience  which 
they may have had on the road.  This class 
of  commercial  travelers  should  remem­
ber  that  there  are  none  of  us  that  can­
not  learn  something  every  day  and  that 
it  pays  to  investigate  and  find  out  what 
your  trade  thinks  of  you  and your house.
Every  traveling  man  knows  that  there 
are  many  very  pleasant  features  con­
nected  with  his  vocation.  It is  pleasant, 
when  getting  to  a  town  on  his  next trip, 
to  find  that  the  goods  sold  on  his  pre­
vious  visit  haven’t  been  delivered  yet. 
It  is  pleasant  when  a  customer  breaks 
his  appointment  and  comes  along  about 
an  hour  later  and  spoils  a  sale  to  anoth­
er one. 
It  is  nice  to  find  your  baggage 
about  twenty-five  pounds  overweight, 
which  the  gentleman  in  charge  compels 
you  to  take  out,  and,  while you are hard 
at  it,  to  see  your  train  slowly  but  surely 
sliding  out  of  the  station.  It  is  pleasant 
to get  out  of  funds  and  be  compelled  to 
either  waste  your  employer’s  time  wait­
ing  for checks  or  to  try  to  induce an un­
willing  customer  to  lend  you  some  ex­
pense  money.

changes. 

From  year  to  year  the  wheel  has  ap­
ideal  in  form,  with  grad­
proached  an 
ually  diminishing 
A  few 
years  ago,  the  change  from  one  season 
to  the  next  was so great  that  the  wheel­
man  with  a  mount  of  the  previous  year 
was  decidedly  out  of  style.  More  re­
cently  the  changes  are  so  slight  as 
affecting  the general  appearance  that 
it 
takes  an  expert  to  note  the  difference. 
And  yet  material  changes  are  being 
made  every  season.

These 

joints. 

The  changes  in  the  pattern  for  the ’97 
will  be  very  slight,  many  manufacturers 
making  none  which  are  noticeable. 
Considerable  attention  will  be  paid  to 
improvements  in  the  construction  of  the 
frame,  especially  in  the  way  of  re-en­
forcing  the 
improve­
ments  will  be  largely 
in  the  line  of 
cheapening  the  construction  by  the  use 
of  improved  patterns  of  stamped  work 
for  this  purpose.  The  angle  re-enforce- 
ments  will  probably  give  way  to  tubular 
ones,  on  which  the  outside  tubing  will 
closely  fit.  Such  a  joint  presents  prac­
tically  as  much  strength  with  as  little 
addition  to  the  weight  as  any  of  the 
more  costly  machine  re-enforcements  or 
joints  that  have  been  devised,  and 
where  stamped  work  can  be  employed, 
there  is  no  cheaper  mode  of  construc­
tion.  The  Lozier  Manufacturing  Com­
introduced  a 
pany  of  Toledo  have 
change  which 
it  contends  will  be  an 
improvement 
in  both  appearance  and 
strength—the  use  of  D  shaped  tubing 
both  from  the  seat post and crank hanger 
to  the  rear hub.

Changes  in  the  ladies’  wheel  will  be 
in  the  way  of  improved  construction  of 
the  chain  and  wheel  guards. 
In  the 
effort  to  get as  narrow  tread  as  possible 
in  the  ’96  patterns,  too  little  allowance 
was  made  for  clearance  between  the 
crank  and  chain  guard.  The  latter  was 
generally  constructed  so  that 
it  was 
liable  to  changes  in  position  sufficient 
to  come 
into  contact  with  the  crank, 
and  the  most  careful readjustment would 
not  prevent 
the  recurrence  of  the 
trouble.  A  considerable  part  of  the  an­
noyance  of  keeping  the  wheels  in order, 
on  the  part  of  the  dealer,  was  caused 
by  this  defect. 
Indeed,  the  method  of 
construction  of  the  guard  work  is all  too 
slight  and  unreliable,  and  the  manu­
facturers  promise  improvement  in  this 
direction.

In  the  general  construction  of  the 
wheels  there  will  be  the  usual improve­
ment.  Mechanical  perfection  will  be 
more  closely  approached 
in  the  lower 
grades,  and  the  high  grades  will  be 
marvels  of  accuracy  and finish,  insuring 
the  utmost  ease  of  running  without  de 
terioration  by  use.  The  high  grade  of 
to-day  would  have  been  a  mechanical 
impossibility  a  short  time  ago.  Then 
in  the  outside  finish  and  decoration 
the  progress  is  fully  maintained,  the 
finish  of  the  low grades  being  equal  to 
that  of  the  highest  a  few  years  ago, 
while  the  high  grades  mark  the  utmost 
of  advance  in  enameling  and  decorative 
finish.

last  year.  The 

Those  of  the  manufacturers  who  have 
agreed  upon  prices  have made  but  little 
change  from 
leading 
concerns  will  make  a  “ high  grade,”   as 
described,  which  will  be  listed  at  Sioo. 
The  prices  of 
lower grades  will  prob­
ably vary,  but  most  seem  inclined  to  set 
the  figures at  $75  and  $60. 
It is thought 
that  the  clearing  out  of  small  concerns 
through  the  financial  depression,  which 
has  caused  widespread  failures  or  con­
solidation  among  them,  will  make  it

17

Adding  insult  to  Injury.

The  Senior  Partner— I  guess  we  will 
have  to give  up  trying  to get that money 
from  Sharpe.

The Junior  Partner— Really?
“ It  looks  that  way.  His  office 

in 
the  second  story  of  his  place,  you 
know,  and  he  threw  our  last  collector 
out  of  his  window,  where  the  man  fell 
through  an  awning,  you  remember.”

is 

“  Yes. ”
“ Now  he  sends 

damage  to  the  awning. ”

in  a  claim  for  the 

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Manufacturers  for  Michigan  Trade. 

D R IV IN G   S H O E S .

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C. E. Smith Shoe Co., Agts. for Mich., O. and Ind.

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.  Tney  will 
conduct the Cutler House as a strictly first-class 
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Drugs°=ChemicaIs

STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.

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

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

- 

President, C. A. B u o b ek, Traverse City. 
Secretary, F. W. R. P e r r y , Detroit. 
Treasurer, G eo. Gu n d r u h , Ionia.

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

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. P h illips,  Armada.
Secretary, B. Sch bou d er,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, C h as.  Mann, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. W e b b e r , Cadillac; 
H. G. C olman, Kalamazoo;  Geo.  J.  W a r d ,  St. 
C l a ir ;  A.  B.  Ste v en s,  Detroit;  F.  W.  R. 
P e r r y , Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.
Acids—No  change  to  note 

in  prices 
of  any  descriptions,  the only  interesting 
feature  being  a  firmer feeling  in  oxalic.
Arsenic— Powdered  white  is  meeting 
with  a  moderate  enquiry,  and  dealers 
report  values  steady.

Balsams— Copaiba,  good 

demand 
from  consuming  sections  and  quota­
tions  are  firm.  Prices for tolu are strong, 
as  the  stock  is  closely  concentrated  and 
there  is  none  coming  forward.  Peru  is 
a  trifle  firmer.  Canada  fir 
is  quiet.
Barium,  Nitrate— Small  lots  are  mov­
ing  moderately  and  prices  are  ruling 
steady.

Beans— Market  is  strong  for  all  vari­
eties  of  vanilla  and  the  trade  demand  is 
still  active.

Bismuth  Preparations—Continue  very 

quiet,  with  no  change  in  prices.

Cacao  Butter— Firmness  is  still  the 
rule,  and  the  light  spot  stock  of  bulk  is 
being  firmly  held.

Cantharides— Market 

is  quiet  but 

steady.

Cassia  Buds—A  fair  jobbing  trade  is 

reported,  and  a  firm  feeling  prevails.

Cocaine—The  demand  is  of  the 

job­
bing  order,  and  is  light,  but  prices  are 
firm.

Colocynth  Apples—The  market is firm 
for  all  kinds,  the  tendency  is  upwards, 
and  holders  are  not  anxious  sellers.

Cream  Tartar—Steady  at  the  late  de­

Cubeb  Berries— Still  slow  of  sale,  and 

cline.

nominal.

Sweet  almonds, 

Essential  Oils—Jobbing  demand 

is 
somewhat  more  active,  and  some  varie­
ties  have  experienced  a  change 
in 
prices. 
the  better 
grades  have  been  reduced.  Cassia  is 
firm.  Copaiba,  market  has  strength­
ened,  in  sympathy  with  the  balsam,  and 
quotations  are  higher.  Orange  is  lower. 
Natural  sassafras,  supply  is  scarce  and 
prices  have  advanced.

Flowers—Chamomile  are  still  firm. 
Insect,  market  is  strong  with  tone  up­
ward,  as  similar  conditions  exist  across 
the  water.  American  saffron  continues 
quiet.

Glycerine— Markets  abroad  are strong 
for  crude  and  the  feeling  there  is  quiet 
but  firm.

Gums—Asafoetida  remains  firm,  and 
active.  Camphor,  fair  seasonable  de­
mand,  and  values  are  firm.  Request 
is 
still  good  for  kino,  which  is  firm.

somewhat 

Leaves—There  is  a  fair  jobbing  de­
mand  to  note  concerning  short  buchu, 
but  prices  are 
irregular. 
Cocoa  are  quiet,  and  nominal.  New 
crop  Tinnevelly  senna  are  attracting  at­
tention.  Digitalis  are  scarce  and  quo­
tations have  gone  up.
Menthol— Demand 

light  and  prices 

are barely  steady.

Opium— Market  is  still  dull  and hard- 

ly  steady.

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

remarks, 

heedful  of  what  is  told  them.  By  a few 
well-chosen 
the  physician 
could  perhaps  do  more  towards  educat­
ing  his  patient  than  anyone  else.  Let 
him  tell  the  patient  that  he  should 
look 
out  for quality  of  drugs  and  efficiency 
in  compounding  rather  than  for  low 
prices.  Many  physicians  seem  to think 
that  they  should  cover  up  the drugs they 
dispense  with  a  great  mystery. 
In  the 
majority  of  cases  this  is  wrong.  The 
day  of  mysticism  is  passed.  The  peo­
ple  have  a  right  to know  all  they  can 
understand  about  the  medicines they are 
taking. 
I  believe  that  they  would  then 
have  a  greater  respect  for the physician, 
for  the  pharmacist,  and  for  the  medi­
cine.  The  pharmacist  himself  should 
be an  instructor  of  the  people.  By  the 
appearance  of  his  store  and  by  the  gen­
eral  deportment  of  himself  and  his  em­
ployes,  he  can  inspire  the  public  with 
confidence  that  he  knows  his  business. 
In  conversation  with  his  patron  he  can 
impart  such 
information  as  will  make 
the  customer  more  fully  appreciate  the 
responsiblities  connected  with  dispens­
ing  drugs,  and 
impress  upon  him  the 
undesirability of employing a person not 
educated.  Let  the  pharmacist  do  all 
in  his  power  to  instill  into  the  public  a 
higher  regard  for  his  profession.

It  would  seem  as  though  there  is  no 
one  way  by  which  we  can  educate  the 
people.  The  so-called  popular  lectures 
or  articles  in  newspapers  will  reach  but 
few  of  the  persons  for  whom  they  are

meant.  Our  methods  of  teaching  must, 
necessarily,  be  rather 
indirect,  putting 
in  a  word  here  and  a  word there,  where- 
ever  we  can  make  it  felt.

Other  and  better  ways  may  suggest 
themselves  to  you,  and  if  so  you  owe 
it 
to  the  others  of  the  fraternity  to  make 
them  known.  This  certainly  is  a  ques­
tion  deserving  attention,  for by  raising 
the opinion  which  the  public  has  of  our 
profession,  we  are  ourselves  elevated, 
and  better qualified  men  will  come  into 
our  ranks. 

E.  A.  R u d d im a n.

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 
out one gum made that is  really  meritorious  as 
a medicinal gum, and that is Farnam’s  Celery & 
Pepsin.  Mr. J. F. Farnam of Kalamazoo, Mich., 
is  the  most  extensive  grower  of  celery in the 
world,  and  his  knowledge  of  that  toothsome 
plant has been turned to account in the  form  of 
the  pure  essence  of  celery  which he has incor­
porated  with  pure  pepsin  into  chewing  gum. 
Celery is a splendid nerve remedy and pepsin  is 
equally valuable for stomach disorders.  To use 
this gum regularly after meals  there  can  be  no 
question  as  to  the  ultimate recovery from indi­
gestion or  any  other  form  of  stomach  trouble. 
Druggists  and  dealers  generally  are  finding  a 
ready  demand.  The  trade  is  supplied  by  all 
good jobbers.

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Orange  Peel— Light  consuming  de­

mand  but  prices  are  steady.

Quicksilver— Firm.
Quinine— Satisfactory  consuming  de­

mand.  Values  firm.
ipecac  are  ruling 
Roots— Prices  for 
continues  good. 
firm  and  demand 
is  scarce  and 
Jamaica  ginger,  supply 
values  are firm.  Senega  is  still  harden­
ing,  and  there  has  been  another  ad­
vance.  Golden  Seal  is  meeting  with 
some  demand  from  abroad  and  values 
are  firm.  Serpentaria,  market  is  quiet 
but  steady.  Mandrake  is  in  small  sup­
ply  and  is  higher.  Gentian  has  gone 
up  higher  and  offerings  are  limited. 
Florentine  Orris,  also,  is  higher.

Salicin— No  change  and  nominal.
Seeds— Dutch  caraway is selling  fairly 
satisfactorily.  A  good  business  seems 
to  be  doing  in  celery,  which  is  moving 
more  freely.  Poppy  is  still  advancing. 
Coriander,  active  but  prices  are  un­
changed.

Education  of the  People.

Much  has  been  written 

in  regard  to 
the  necessity  of  the  pharmaceutical  ap­
prentice  having  a  good  education,  both 
in  the  common  English  branches  and 
in  pharmacy.  The  profession  of  phar­
macy,  the  pharmaceutical  colleges,  the 
pharmaceutical  journals,  and  the  books 
of  pharmacy  all  over  the  country  have 
been  demanding  it,  and  will  continue 
to  demand  it,  and  the  result  will  be  for 
good.  But  I  think  that  it  is  now  time 
to  talk  about  educating  the  people. 
They  should  be  taught  to  realize  the 
need  of  having  educated  dispensers. 
When  the  people  have  learned to require 
this,  their 
influence  on  the  welfare  of 
pharmacy  will be  greater  than  all  other 
influences  combined.  While  we  can 
perhaps  keep  the  standard  of  pharmacy 
above  that  recognized  and  appreciated 
by  the  public,  we cannot bring  it  to  the 
perfection  which  we  all  desire,  and  for 
which  we  all  are  working.  A  man  may 
have  in  himself  a  desire  to  do  his  best, 
and  will  serve  the  public  faithfully,  but 
when  greater  things  are  required  of 
him.  he  will  rise  to  meet  them.

That  the  people  need  to  be  educated 
no  one  will  deny. 
It  sometimes  seems 
as  though  there  is  no  other  subject  up­
on  which  they  are  so  ignorant,  and  I 
might  add  indifferent,  as  that  of  drugs, 
and,  until  they  do  know  more  of  it, 
they  will  continue  to  be  satisfied  with 
men  who  are  not  qualified  to  act  as 
pharmacists.  We  must  teach  the  people 
pharmacy  and  materia  medica,  not 
in 
detail,  but  in  general.

The question  then  comes  up,  How 
can  we  educate  the  public?  a  question 
more  easily  asked  than  answered.  Per­
haps,  with  the  better  education  of  the 
masses  in  other  subjects,  they  will 
im­
bibe  some  knowledge of  medicine.  The 
prospect  of  relief  from  this source,  how­
ever,  is  not  very  flattering  when  we  re­
member  our  numerous  acquaintances 
who  possess  a  good  degree  of  intelli­
gence 
in  other  lines,  but  allow  them­
selves  to  be  duped  and  doped  by quacks 
and  charlatans.  That  the  people  are  ig­
norant  of  the activity  of  many  m edici-! 
nal  agents  can  easily  be  believed,  for 
nearly  every  daily  paper  contains an ac­
count of  a  death  caused  by  one of  these 
It  would  seem  as  though  these 
agents. 
accounts, 
if  anything  could,  would 
bring  them  to  a  realizing  sense  of  the 
danger and  the  necessity  of  care  in  the 
dispensing  of  medicines.

Another  way  by  which  the  public  can 
be  taught  is  through  the  doctors.  They 
come 
in  contact  with  the  people at^a 
time"when  they  will  usually  be  most

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Castor Oil, Balsam Copaiba, Capsicum Pod.

Declined—Gum Opium.

Acldum

4@
6@ 
8
12@  14
12@  14

Aceticum.................$  8@#  10
Benzoicum, German  75@  80
Boracic....................   @ 1 5
Carbolicum............  
29®  40
Citricum...........'.... 
44@  46
3@
Hvdrochlor............. 
Nitrocum................ 
8@  10
10@  12
Oxalicum................ 
Phosphorium,  dil...  @
Salicylicum............. 
45@  50
Sulph uricum...........  1%@ 
5
Tannicum..............  1 40@  1  60
Tartaricum.............. 
34®  36
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Car bon as................. 
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black.......................  2 00@ 2  25
Brown............ ....... 
80@  1  00
Red......................... 
45@  50
Yellow....................  2 50@ 3  00
Baccte.
13@  15
Cubeaee...........po. 18 
Juniperus................ 
6@ 
8
Xanthoxylum.........  
2S@  30
Balsamum
Copaiba...................  
50@  55
Peru.  ..  .................   @260
Terabin, Canada__ 
40@
Tolutan...................   1 10@  1  20
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__ 
Cassise.................... 
Cinchona Flava...... 
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virgini........ 
Quillaia,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras................. 
irimus...po.  15,  gr’d 
Bxtractum 
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.  24@  25
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
28@  30
Hsematox, 15 lb box. 
11@  12
Hsematox, I s ........... 
13@ 
14
14@  15
Heematox, 14s.........  
Hsematox, 14s.........  
I6@ 
17

18
12
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

Perm

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinia.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 
Solut.  Chloride...... 
Sulphate, com’l ...... 
Sulphate,  com'l,  by
bbl, per cwt......... 
Sulphate,  p u re ...... 

Arnica.................... 
Anthemis...............  
Matricaria.............. 

Flora

Folia

15
2 25
80
50
15
2
35
7

12@  14
18®  25
25@  30

15@  20
Barosma.................. 
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18@  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, 14s
and  Vis................. 
12@  20
Dra Crsi..................  
8®  10
Gummi

Acacia,  1st picked..  @ 6 5
Acacia, 2d  picked..  @  45
Acacia, 3d  picked..  @ 3 5
Acacia, sifted sorts.  @  28
Acacia, po...............  
60@  80
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28  14©  18
Aloe, Cape___po. 15  @  12
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 
@  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafcetlda___po. 30  22@  25
Benzoinum............  
50®  55
Catechu, Is..............  @  13
Catechu, Vis............   @  14
Catechu, Ms............  @  16
Camphors.............. 
50@  55
Euphorbium., po.  35  @ 1 0
Galbanum...............   @  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Guaiacum........po. 35  @  35
Kino...........po. $4.u0  @ 4 00
Mastic....................  @  65
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii.. .po. I3.50@3.70 2 30® 2 35
Shellac....................  
4<@  6"
Shellac, bleached...  40@  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz.  pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat___  .. 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20@  22
20@  25
Carbonate, K. A M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  35@  36

Oleum
Absinthium...........  3 25@ 3 50
Amygdalae, Dulc.... 
30@  50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00@  8 25
Anisi......................... 2 80® 2  90
Auranti  Cortex......   2 30@ 2 40
Bergamii.................  2 40® 2  60
70®  75
Cajfputi................... 
Caryophylli............   53®  58
Cedar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadii..............  @250
Cinnamon!!.............  2 25® 2 30
Oitronella.  ........... 
,45

40® 

Conium  Mac........... 
35®  65
Copaiba..................... 
90® 1 00
Cubebae  .................  1 50@  1  60
Exechthitos...........  1 20®  1  so
Erigeron.................   1 20®  1  30
Gaultheria..............  1 50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  © 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50@ 60
Hedeoma.................  1 ir@  1  15
Junipera..................  1 5o@ 2 00
Lavendula................  
gn® 2 00
Limonis..................   1 3o@  1  50
Mentha  Piper........  1 6<.@ 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   2 65@ 2 75
Morrhuae,  gal......... 2  00® 2  10
Myrcia, ounce.........  @  50
75® 3 00
O'iye.......................  
Picis  Liquida......... 
io@ 
12
@  35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
R'Cina.................... 
79®  84
@  1  00
Rosmarin!.............. 
Rosse,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini................. 
40iÄ  45
Sabina..................  
90@  1  00
Santal......................2  50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
so®  55
@  65
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
Tlglii.......................  1 20®  1  25
40©  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............  
©  1  60
Theobromas........... 
ts@  20
Potassium
Bi-Barb...................  
ig
15/» 
Bichromate  ........ 
13® 
15
Bromide..................   48©  51
Carb....................... 
i2@ 
15
Chlorate., po. 17@19c 
16@  18
Cyanide..................  
50©  55
iodide.....................   2 90®  3 00
Potassa, Bitart, pure  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8® 
10
Potass Nitras......... 
7@
25@  28
Proeaiate................. 
Sulphate p o ........... 
15® 
ig

Radix

i2@ 

Aconitvm...............   20@  25
Althse.....................   22®  25
Anchusa................. 
15
Arum po..................  @  §5
Calamus.................  20®  40
Gentiana....... po  15 
12®  15
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15 
I6@  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  30
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  35 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
I5@  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po...............   1  65@  i  75
Iris plox.... po35@38 
35@ 40
Jalapa,  pr...............   40®  45
Maranta, 
........... 
35
15® 18
Podophyllum, po.... 
g£e  ....................... 
75®  1  00
Rhei, cut............ 
<a  i  25
g h.ei.PV..................    75©  1  35
|P!Kel a................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15 
@ 15
Serpentaria............   3o@  35
nega....................  40®  45
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
|m flax, M...............   @  25
10®  12
| ci11®..............po.35 
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po................. 
©  25
@ 25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
15® 20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a...............  
12@  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen
@ 
Anisum.........po.  15 
12
13® 15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
Carui............ po. 18 
10@ 
12
Cardamon...............   1  oo@  1  25
Coriandrum............ 
8® 
10
Cannabis  Sativa__  3V4® 
4
Cydonium............... 
75®  1  00
Chenopodium........ 
io@ 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  2 90® 3 00
Foeniculum............   @ 
10
Foenugreek, po........ 
6@ 
8
Linl... 
..  2V4® 
4
Lini,  grd....bbl. 2V4  3V4® 
4
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
3i4©  4
Rapa.......................  4H@ 
5
Sinapis Albu............ 
7® 
8
Sinapis Nigra..........  
11® 
12
Spiritus 

.... 

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50© 2  75
Nassau sbeeps  wool
carriage...............   @  2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  l  10
Extra yellow sheeps'
wool,  carriage__  @  85
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  65
Hard, for slate use..  @  75
Yellow  Reef,   for 
slate  use..............  @  1  40

Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes.......
Zingiber..................
Ipecac....................
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom.
Smilax Officinalis..
Senega..................
Scili®.....................

@  50
@  50
@  50
@  60 
@  50
@  50
50®  60
@  50
@  50

niscellaneous

Scilla Co................. 
®  50
Tolntan..................  
®  50
Prunus virg............  @  50
Tinctures
AconitumNapellisR 
60
Aconitum Napellls F 
50
Aloes....................... 
go
60
Aloes and Myrrh... 
Arnica.................... 
50
Assafoetida............ 
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex...... 
50
Benzoin..................  
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Can tha rides........... 
75
Capsicum........... 
50
Cardamon.......... 
75
Cardamon  Co.........
1  00
Castor.....................  
Catechu............  
50
Cinchona................  
50
Cinchona Co........ 
00
Columba................. 
50
Cnbeba................. 
50
Cassia  Acutifol...... 
50
Cassia Acutifol Co
Digitalis................. 
50
Ergot......................  
50
Ferri Chloridum__ 
35
Gentian..................  
50
Gentian Co.........  
60
Guiaca................. 
50
Guiacaammon.......  
00
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine.....................  
75
Iodine, colorless__ 
75
Kino........................  
50
Lobelia......... 
50
Myrrh  ..............50
Nux  Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Onii, camphorated.. 
1  50
Opii, deodorized.... 
Quassia..................  
50
Rhatany........... 
50
Rhei..................... 50
Sanguinaria........... 
50
Serpentaria............  
50
Stramonium........... 
60
Tolutan...................  
60
Valerian................. 
50
50
Veratrum Veride... 
Zingiber................. 
20
¿Ether, Spts. NU.3F  30®  35
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2M@ 
3
3® 
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4
Annatto..................  
40®  50
Antimonl,  po.........  
4® 
5
AntimonietPotassT  55®  60
Antipyrin.............. 
@140
@ 
Antifebrin............  
15
Argentl Nitras, oz ..  @  55
Arsenicum..............  
10® 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Bud  .. 
Bismuth  S. N........  1  00®  1  10
Calcium Chlor.,  Is..  @ 
9
Calcium Chlor., Vis.  @ 1 0
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.  @ 
12
Cantharides, Rus.po  @  75
Capsicl  Fructus, af.  @  18
Capsicl Fructus, po.  @ 1 5
Capsicl FructusB.po  @  15
10® 
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
12
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F  .. 
50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®  42
@  40
Coccus..................  
Cassia Fructus........  @  27
Centraria.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform............ 
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  35 
Chloral HydCret....  1  15®  1  30
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cinehonidine,P.& W  20®  25
Clnchonldine, Germ  15®  22
Cocaine..................   5 55® 5 75
65
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
@  35
Creosotum............. 
Creta.............bbl. 75 
@ 
2
Creta, prep..............  @ 
5
9®  11
Creta, precip........... 
Creta, Rubra......... 
@ 
8
Crocus.................... 
50®  55
Cudbear.................  @  24
5® 
CupriSulph............ 
6
10®  12
Dextrine.................. 
75®  90
Ether Sulph............ 
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
Ergota.......... po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla........................  @  23
Gambler.................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper..  ..  @ 6 0
Gelatin, French...... 
30®  50
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10
Less  than  box__ 
60
9® 
Glue,  brown........... 
12
Glue, white  ........... 
13®  25
Glycerina...............  
19®  26
Grana  Paradisi  __  @  15
Humulus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  75
Hydraag Chlor  Cor.  @  65
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  85
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  95
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  60
Ichthyobolla, Am  ..  1 25®  1  50
Indigo.....................  
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 80® 3 90
Iodoform.................  @470
Lupulin..................  
@ 2 25
Lycopodium........... 
60®  65
Macis.......................  65®  75
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarglod.............   @  27
LiquorPotassArsinit  10® 
12 
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
3
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph.bbl  @  1%
Mannla, S. F ........ 
50®  90
Menthol..................   @ 5 50

Morphia, S.P.& W ... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C.  Co..............
Moschus Canton 
Myristica, No. 1. 
Nux Vomica... po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co...................
Picis LIq. N.N.Vigal
doz,
Picis Liq., quarts 
Picis Liq., pints.
Pil Ilydrarg.. .po.  80 
Piper Nigra... po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Piix  Burgun...........
Plumbi  Acet.........
Pulvi8 Ipecac et Opi 
Pyrethrum, boxes I] 
& P. D. Co., doz.
Pyrethrum,  pv__
Quassias.................
Quinia, S.  P. & W. 
Quinia, S. German
Quinia, N.Y.........
Rubia Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin...............
Sanguis Draconis
Sapo,  W  ...........
Sapo, M..............
Sapo, G..............
Siedlitz  Mixture

1  75®
1  65® 
@ 
65® 
@ 
15®

10®

8®
31®
25®
29®
12®
24®
40®
12®
10®
®20  @

2  00
1  90 
40 
80 
10 
18
1  00
2  00 
1  00
85
50
18
30
12
1  20
1  25
33 
10 
36 
30
34 
14 
26
3  10 
50
14 
1215 
22

Sinapis....................  @  18
Sinapis, opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................   @  34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras..............  7  @  10
Soda Boras, po........  7  @  10
Soda et Potass Tart.  26®  28
Soda,  Carb..............  1V4® 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb......... 
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3V4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
50®  55
Spts. Ether Co........ 
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
@ 2 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
@ 2 37
Spts. Vini Rect.%bbl  @2 42
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @2 45
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
© 2 47
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........  2V4® 
3
2®  2V4
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromse............   42®  45
Vanilla..................   9 00@16 0q
Zlncl  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

Whale, winter.........  
Lard,  extra............... 
Lard, No. 1................  

B B L.  GAL.
TO
70 
40  45
35 
40

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
32 
Linseed, boiled......   34 
Neatsfoot, winter str 
65 
34 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
Paints  BBL. 

35
37
70
39

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

LB.
1*  2  @8
l \   2  @4 
Hi  2  @3 
2M 2V4@3 
2 Vi  2«@3
13® 
15 
70® 
75 
24
15  @ 
16 
13® 
5*  
5M@ 
5 Vi© 
6* ^70 
@
390
1  00
r@ 1  to
1  00®  1  15

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  60®  1  TO
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 08
No. 1 Turp Fum __  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. ITurp  70®  75

Importers and Jobbers*of

DRUGS

Patent Medicines 
Chemicals and 
Dealers  in

PAINTS,  OILS  AND 

VARNISHES

Full line of staple druggists’ sundries.
We are sole proprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.
We have  in  stock  and  offer  a  fnll  line  of WHISKIES,  BRANDIES, 

aiNS, WINES AND RUMS.

We sell liquors for medicinal purposes only.
We  give  our  personal  attention  to  mail  orders  and guarantee  satis­

faction.

Send a trial order.

All  orders  shipped  and  invoiced  the  same  day  we  receive  them- 

H i e   i  Perkins  Drag  Co.,

Braci Rapids.

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

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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.

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

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

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

4  lb cans doz...............
4  lb cans doz...............
1 

45
85
lb cans doz............... ..  1  50
45
75
lb cans 1 doz.............. ..  100
10

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

Acme.

Dwight’s.

JaXon

1 
4  lb cans 4 doz case..  .
4  lb cans 4 doz case__

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

4  lb cans 4 doz case__
4  lb cans 4 doz case__ .. 
1 
lb cans 2 doz case__
4  lb cans.......................... 
4 lb cans....................... .. 
1 

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

Our Leader.

Home.

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUING.

m

q n m
É JL iM Ê

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

BROOnS.

No. 1 Carpet.......................  1  90
No. 2 Carpet.......................  1  75
No. 3 Carpet.......................  1  50
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  15
Parlor Gem.......................  2 00
Common Whisk................. 
70
Fancy Whisk.....................  
80
Warehouse.........................  2 25

CANDLES.

Hotel 40 lb boxes..................94
Star 40 lb boxes.....................84
Paraffine.............................. 9

CANNED  GOODS, 
rtauitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........   1  00
Lakeside B. J ....................  1  30
Lakeside, Cham, of Bng....  1 40 
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.  1  66

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
pints.............. 4  25
Columbia, 4  pints..............2 50

CHEESE.

Acme  .................... 9 © 94
Amboy..................
9?i@ 104
Byron....................
© 9
Carson City...........
© 9
Elsie......................
© TOH
Gold  Medal...........
9
Ideal...................
© 10
Jersey............ .......
© 94
Lenawee................
© 94
Riverside...............
© 104
Sparta....................
© 94
Oakland County__ 9 © »4
Brick......................
© 9
Edam.....................
© 75
Leiden...................
© 19
Limburger.............
© 15
Pineapple.............
60 © 95
Sap Sago...............
© 20
Chicory
B ulk....................
Bed 

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

5
7

Walter Baker A Co.’s.

German Sweet........................22
Premium..................................31
Breakfast Cocoa.................... 42

CLOTHES LINES.

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes..........................45
COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags....................... 
2)*
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound  packages—   —  
4
CREACI  TARTAR. 
Strictly Pure, wooden boxes.  35
Strictly Pure, tin boxes....... 37
Tartarine  ........................  ..  25

COFFEE.

Qreen.
Rio.

Java.

Mocha.

Santos.

Roasted.

Mexican  and  Guatemala.

F air.........................................17
Good....................................... 18
Prim e......................................19
Golden  .................................. 20
Peaberry  ............................... 22
Fair  ....................................... 19
Good  ..................................... 20
Prime..................................... 22
Peaberry  ............................... 23
Fair  .......................................21
Good  ..................................... 22
Fancy 
.................................. 24
Maracaibo.
Prim e..................................... 23
Milled..................................... 24
Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth......................27
Mandehling............................ 28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  .................................28
Quaker Mocha and Java....... 29
Toko Mocha and Java........... 2*
State House Blend................. 23
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  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 
weight  of  package.  In  60  lb. 
cases the list is 10c  per  100  lbs. 
above the price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................  17 50
Jersey.............................   17 50
ftcLaughlin’z XXXX..........17  50
Extract.
Valley City 4  gross...... 
75
1  15
Felix 4  gross........ 
. 
. 
Hummel’s foil 4  gross 
85
Hummel’s tin  4  gross  . 
1  43
Nneipp Malt Coffee.
lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
1 
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9
CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. In case.

Package.

N.  Y.  Condensed Milk  Co.’s
brands.
Gail Borden  Eagle ...........7 40
Crown..................
...........6 25
Daisy..................... ...........5 75
Champion  ............. ...........4 50
Magnolia 
...........4 25
Dime
.........»35

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

Peerless evaporated .cream.5 75

COUPON¿BOOKS.

Tradesman 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

Economic  Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__ It  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00

Universal 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

Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1 50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 110 down.

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

Credit Checks.

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

Apples.

Sundried.......................  © 34
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  © 4M

California  Fruits.

Apricots.........
Blackberries...
Nectarines__
Peaches.........
Pitted Cherries
Prunnelles......
Raspberries....

9
54©5  ©14 
84©

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__
4  cent less in bags
Raisins.

© 54 
© 6 
©  64 
© 7 
©  7% 
© 84

London Layers..........
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscs tels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

1  35
5
546

FOREIGN.
Currants.

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

© 54 
© 54 
.© 6 
@  7

Peel.

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

©13
©11
©12

Raisins.

Ondura 29 lb boxes.......
Saltana  1 Crown...........
Sultana, 4 Crown.........
Sultana 5 Crown...........
Valencia 30 lb boxes__

©74
©64
©94
©10
©

EGO  PRESERVER.

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

Lima Beans.

Pearl Barley.

Biscuitine.
Parlna.
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, 501b.  drums.........1  50
Dried  ...............................  4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb.  box------  60
Imported,  25 lb. box....... 2 50
Common.............. ............ 
1%
Chester............................  2
Em pire............................  24
Green,  bu..........................   90
Split,  per lb...................... 
24
Rolled Avena,  bbl........4 50
Monarch,  bbl.................. 4  00
Monarch,  4   bbl............. 2  10
Private brands, 
bbl... 3 95
Private brands, 4bbl......2  10
Quaker, cases.  ................3 20
Oven  Baked................... 3  25
German............................ 
4
East  India.......................  
34
Cracked, bulk..................  
3
24 2 lb packages...............2  40

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

Fish.
Cod.

Georges cured............  © 3 4
Georges  genuine........  © 44
Georges selected........  © 5
Strips or bricks.........   5  @8

Halibut.

Herring.

12
Chunks............................. 
10
Strips...... ......................... 
Holland white hoops keg. 
60 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  8 00
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 50
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled...............................  11
No. 1100 lbs......................  11  75
No. 1  40 lbs......................  5 20
No. 1  10 lbs......................   132
No. 2  100 lbs....................   7 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 50
No. 2  10 lbs...................... 
90
Family 90 lbs....................
Family 10 lbs....................

flackeret.

Sardines.
Stockfish.

73 
61 

80 
67 

Trent.

10 lbs...................  
8 lbs...................  
Whlteflsh.

Russian kegs.................... 
55
No. 1,1001b.  bales..........  104
No. 2,100 lb.  bales..........  84
No. 1100 lbs......................  4 75
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2 20
No. 1 
63
No. 1 
53
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 50  5 75  2 00
40 lbs...........  2 90  2 60  1  10
10 lbs........... 
35
8 lbs........... 
31
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.
Jennings’. 
D.C. Vanilla
2 oz........ 1 20
3 oz........ 1 50
4 oz........2 00
6 oz........3 no
No.  8. .  4 00 
No.  10.  .6 00 
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No.  4 T.2 40 
D. C. Lemon
2  oz...  75
3oz....... 1  00
4 oz........ 1 40
60Z........2  00
No.  8.  .2 40 
No. 10.. .4 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No.  4 T.l 50

Soudera’.

Oval.bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

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

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

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

GELATINE.

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs.........................................4 00
Half Kegs.....................»....2 25
Quarter  Kegs...........................1 25
lb  cans..........................  34
1 
Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs....... ............................8 00
Half Kegs.................................4 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 2 25
llbcans...............................  45

HERBS.

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

INDIGO.

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

JELLY.

15 lb  pails..........................   33
17 lb  pails..........................  48
30 lb  palls..........................   65

LYE.

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

LICORICB.

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

MINCB MBAT.

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

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

riATCHES.

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

nOLA5SBS.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house...................... 10©12

Cuba Baking.

Ordinary...........................12©14

Porto Rico.

Prime............   ................ 
Fancy 
............................ 

20
30

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

18
22
24
27
30

PICKLES.
fledlum.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  3 50
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 25
Barrels, 2,400 count........ ..  4 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count__ ..  2 75
Clay. No. 216................... ..  1 70
Clay, T. D. full count__
65
Cob, No. 3...... ................ ..  1

PIPES.

POTASH. 

48 cans in case.

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

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina head................. ..  64
Carolina  No. 1  .............. ..  5
Carolina  No. 2............... ..  44
Broken............................ ..  3
Japan,  No. 1................... ..  5
Japan.  No. 2............... ..  44
Java, No. 1...................... - 
44
Java, No. 2.................. ..  44
Patna............................. ..  4

Imported.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

SEEDS.

SAL SODA.

Church’s ......................... ...3 3C
Deiand’s ......................... ...3  15
Dwight's......................... ...3 30
Taylor’s .......................... ...3 00
Granulated, bbls...........
.1  10
Granulated,  100 lb cases. .1  50
Lump, bbls......................
1
Lump, 1451b kegs............ .1  10
A nise............................. .  13
Canary, Smyrna..............
6
Caraway......................... .  10
Cardamon,  Malabar__ .  80
Hemp,  Russian..............
4
Mixed  Bird....................
44
Mustard,  white..............
64
Poppy  ............................
8
Rape...............................
4
Cuttle Bone.................... .  20
Scotch, in bladders........ ...  37
Maccaboy, in Jars...............   35
French Rappee, in  Jars......   43

SNUFF.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

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

Pure Cune.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  .............................   94
Cassia, China in mats......... 10
Cassia, Batavia in bund__15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................ 15
Cloves, Zanzibar..................10
Mace,  Batavia...........  .......70
Nutmegs, fancy................... 65
Nutmegs, No.  1...................so
Nutmegs, No.  2................... 55
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .10 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .20
Pepper,  shot........................is
Allspice  ........................10@15
Cassia, Batavia................... 17
Cassia,  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................16
Cloves, Zanzibar..................10
Ginger,  African..................16
Ginger,  Cochin...................5»
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia.............. 60®65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs........................ 40@80
Pepper, Singapore, black9@12 
Pepper,Singapore,whitel5@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage......................................is
“ Absolute’’ in  41b.  Packages.
Allspice.......................777  06
Cinnamon........................   75
Cloves..............................    70
Ginger, Cochin................   75
Mace......................................2 10
Mustard............................  75
Nutmegs............................... 2 10
Pepper, cayenne  ______   75
Pepper, white  .................  75
Pepper, black shot..........   60
Saigon................................... i 50
“ Absolute  ’’Butchers’  Spices.
Wiener and Frankfurter__16
Pork Sausage....................... lfl
Bologna and Smoked S’ge. .16 
Liver S’ge and H’d Cheese..16

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes............1  60
Barrels,  1«0  3 lb bags  ......2 75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags.......2 50
Butter, 56 lb  bags................  65
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags...........3 00
Butter, 260 lb  bbls..............2 50

Common tirades.

100 3 lb sacks.......................2 60
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  85
28 11 -11» sacks..................... 1  70

Worcester.

50  4  lb.  cartons...............3 25
115  241b. sacks.................. 4 00
60  5  lb. sacks.................. 3  75
22 14  lb. sacks..................3 50
30 10  lb. sacks.................. 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk in barrels................... 2 50

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

56-lb dairy In iinen  sacks...  60 

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 

60 

Solar Rock.

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

Common Pine.

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

SODA.

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

STARCH.
Diamond.

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

Kingsford’s  Corn.

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

Kingsford’s Silver (Boss.
401-lb packages...................6 4
6-lb boxes.......................... 7

Common Corn.

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

Common Oloss.

1-lb  packages......................  44
3-lb  packages......................  44
6-lb  packages  ....................   54
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   2%
Barrels  ...............................  2%

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
Lotus  .................
..  3 90
Oak Leaf............
.  2 85
Old Style............
..  3 20
Happy Day.........
..  3 10

JAXON

Single  box............................... 2 85
box lots, delivered......2 80
5 
10 box lots,  delivered..........2 75

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

Lautz Bros. A Co.’s  brands.

Acme.......................................2 85
Cotton  Oil............................... 5 75
Marseilles.................................4 00
Master......................................3 70

Henry Passolt’s brand.

Allen B.  Wrisley’s brands. 

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

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 do z......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 fnm  New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  iqarket  in  which  he 
purchases tohisshipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf............................. 4 75
Domino.............................  4 62
Cubes............................ ;;;;4 37
Powdered  .......................... 4  37
XXXX  Powdered................4 50
Mould  A............................. 4  37
G ranulated in bbls...  ..... . 4  12
Granulated in  bags.............4  12
Fine Granulated................. 4  12
Extra Fine Granulated......4 25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4 25
Diamond  Confec.  A...........4  12
Confec. Standard A........  4  00
No. 1................ .................3 87
No 2__
.................3 87
No. 3...............
3 87
.........  
No. 4 ........................  .....3 81
No. 5............... ..................3 75
No. 6................ .................3 69
No. 7 ................................3 5«
No. 8................ .................3 50
No. 9................ .................3 50
No. 10................ .................3 44
No. 11................. ............... 3 37
No. 12................ ...............  3 31
No. 13..................................3 25
No. 14................. ............... 3  18
No. 15................. ............... 3 12

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. J. Johnson's  brand

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

VINEGAR.

Leroux Cider..........................10
Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain__10
Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain.  ..12

WICKINO.

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

Fruits.

Oranges.

Fancy  Seedlings

Mexicans  150-176-200 
Jamaicas bbls.........
Lemons.

@6  00

Strictly choice 360s..  @3 25
Strictly choice 300s..  @3 75
Fancy 360s.............. 
@
Fancy 300s.............. 
@4 00
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.

Figs, Choice  Layers
101b.....................  
Figs,  New  Smyrna
101b.....................  
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 
oases  ....................  

@
@13
@5
@7
@6
@5
@

Single box.............................2 85
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 80
10 box lots,  delivered.......... 2 75
2 65
25 hoy  lota, delivered 

Thompson A Chute’s Brand.

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

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

_  

Mixed Candv.

Fancy-in Bulk.

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

bbls.  pails
„ 
Standard................. 
53$® 7
5%@ 7
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard Twist......  6  @  7
74@ 84
Cut Loaf................. 
cases
_ 
Extra H.H.............. 
@ 84
Boston  Cream........ 
@ 84
Competition............ 
@6
Standard................. 
@ 64
Leader  ..................  
@ 7
Conserve................. 
@ 7
@ 74
g°y£i.....................  
@
Ri bbon.................... 
Broken  ..................  
@8
Cut  Loaf................. 
@8
English  Rock......... 
@  8
Kindergarten......... 
@8
French  Cream.......  
@ 84
Dandy Pan.............  
@10
Valley Cream......... 
@13
Lozenges, plain...... 
@ 84
Lozenges,  printed..  @ 84
Choc.  Drops...........  11  @14
Choc.  Monumentals  @124
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
@ 74
Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 84
Imperials...............  
@ 84
Lemon Drops.........  
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@30
Peppermint Drops..  @60
Chocolate Drops__ 
@66
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum  Drops............  
@35
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plai u.... 
@55
@60
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials...............  
@60
Mottoes..................  
@65
Cream  Bar.............  
@50
Molasses B a r......... 
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90
Plain  Creams.........  60  @80
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds......125  @
Wintergreen Berries 
@55
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................
Fresh  Meats.
Carcass...................  .5   @ 7
Forequarters.............   4 @6
Hind  quarters............  6 @  74
Loins  No.  3................   9 @12
g lbs  -............................7 @9
Rounds....................  54® 64
Chucks................. 
44@ 54
Plates  .......................  @4
Pork.
Dressed.........................4 @ 44
Loins.........................  @ 7
Shoulders....   ...........  @ 5
Leaf Lard...................  @ 7
Carcass.........................5 @6
Spring Lambs.............. 64@  74
Carcass 
54© 7

Veal.
............ 

@30
@45

Mutton.

Beef.

Crackers.

TheN. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.

as follows:
Seymour XXX...................  554
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  54£
Family XXX......................  514
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  5V
Salted XXX.......................  54
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  5v 
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, 1  lb carton.  64
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   54
Animals............................  104
Bent’s Cold Water..............  12
Belle Rose.........................  8
Cocoanut Taffy.................  8
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey....................  11
Graham 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
JumDles,  Honey.................  11
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Marshmallow  ....................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......  84
Pretzelettes, Little German  64
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sultanas.............................  12
Sears’ Lunch......................  74
Sears’ Zephyrette................10
Vanilla  Square.................  8
Vanilla  Wafers.................  14
Pecan Wafers.... ...............   154
Fruit Coffee......................... 10
Mixed Picnic..  ................  104
Cream Jumbles..................  11
Boston Ginger  Nuts...........  8
Chimmie Fadden...............  10
Pineapple Glace...............    154

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Wheat.

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

Local Brands.

Patents..............................  4 75
Second  Patent...................  4 25
Straight..........................  4  05
Clear..................................  3 55
Graham  ...........................   4 00
Buckwheat...............  
4 00
R ye..................................  3(0
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 4 s ............... 
4  35
Quaker, 4 s........................  4 35
Quaker, 4s........................   4  35

Spring  Wheat Flour. 
Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, 4 s......................  4  75
Ceresota, 4 s....................    4  65
Ceresota, 4 s ......................  4  60
Ball-Bamhart-Putman s Brand.
Grand Republic, 4 s............ 4  75
Grand Republic, 4 s............ 4  65
Grand Republic, 4 s............ 4 60
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 4 s .........................  4  75
Laurel, 4 s...................4 65
Laurel, 4 s .....................  "  
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian, 4 s ......................   4 75
Parisian, 4 s.....................   ] 
Parisian. 4 s....................    4  60

4 60

4 65

Meal.

Bolted....................................  j 75
Granulated......................  ’ 
2 00

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__ 13 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........12 50
No. 2 Feed..........................12 00
Unbolted Corn Meal.......... 12 00
Winter Wheat  Bran........... 9 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 10 00
Screenings.............................   8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:
Corn.

Car  lots............................... 304
Less than  car lots............   324
Car  lots............................... 22
Less than  car lots............   25
Clipped oats, carlots........... 24

Oats.

Hay.

No. 1 Timothy carlots......  10 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ... 11  00
Fish and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish...............   @  u
T rout.....................   @  8
Black Bass..............  @  10
Halibut..................   @  15
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluefish..................   @  11
Live Lobster.........   @ 18
Boiled Lobster........  @  20
Cod.........................  @  10
Haddock.................  @  8
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  8
Pike.........................  @  6
Smoked White........  @  8
Red Snapper...........  @  13
Col  River  Salmon..  @  124
Mackerel 
..............  @  20

Oysters in Cans.

Oysters in Bulk.

F. H. Counts...........  @  35
F. J. D. Selects........  @  28
Selects....................  @  25
F. J. D.  Standards..  @  23
Anchors..................  @  21
Standards...............   @  19
2 00
Counts..................... 
Extra Selects........... 
1  75
Selects..................... 
1  50
115
Anchor Standards... 
Standards...............  
1  10
Clams  .................... 
1 25
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
Clams,  per  1Q0.........   90@1  00

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @104
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...................... tl  @21
Black, winter............   @ 9

Scofield,  Shurmer  A  Teagle 

quote as follows:

Barrels.

Palacine....................  @114
Daisy  White..............  @104
Red Cross, W. W........  @ 9
Water  White Hdlt....  @  84
Family  Headlight__   @ 74
Red Cross S.  Gasoline  @104
Stove Gasoline...........  @ 94
Naphtha....................  @  84

From  Tank  Wagon.

Palacine....................  @ 94
Red Cross W.  W........  @ 54
Gasoline....................  @7

Beef.

54
54
54

Sausages.

Pigs’ Feet.

Smoked  neats.

11
104
104
10
10
54
7
54
7
104
4v
5
6
4
4
4
4
4
4
1
5
6
7
6

The  Grand  Rapids  Packing 
and Provision Co. quotes as fol­
lows:
Barreled Pork.
Mess  .............................
Back  .............................
Clear back.....................   9 00
Shortcut......................... 
8 00
Pig.................................. 
9 50
Bean  .............................
Family  ..........................
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies............................’ 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts................... 
Hams, 121b  average  ___  
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 16 lb  average......  
Hams, 20 lb average......  
Ham dried beef................  
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear..................  
California hams............  
Boneless hams................ 
Cooked  ham................... 
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................... 
Family............................ 
Kettle.............................  
55 lb Tubs...........advance 
80 lb Tubs...........advance 
50 lb T ins...........advance 
20 lb Pails...........advance 
10 lb Pails...........advance 
5 lb Pails...........advance 
3 lb Pails...........advance 
Bologna......................... 
Liver............................... 
Frankfort.......................  
P ork............................... 
Blood  .......................
Tongue ..........................
Head  cheese................... 
6
Extra  Mess.....................  7 00
Boneless  ........................10 00
Kits, 15 lbs........................  
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
P ork............................... 
]8
Beef  rounds................... 
5
Beef  middles................. 
7
Rolls, dairy..................
Solid, dairy....................
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  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green.........................44® 54
Part  cured.................  @6
Full Cured.................  6  @7
D ry ............................5  @7
Kips,  green............... 44@ 54
Kips,  cured...............   6  @7
Calfskins,  green........  5  @  6
Calfskins, cured........  64@  8
Deaconskins  ........
..25 @30
Pelts.
Shearlings.............. ..  5 @  10
Lambs..................
..15 @  25
Old  Wool........  ... •  40 @  75
Wool.
Washed 
..............
10 @13
Unwashed...........
..  5 @10
Tallow..................
..  2 @ 3
Grease Butter......... ..  1 @ 2
Switches  ............... ..  14@ 2
Ginseng..................
Nuts.

niscellaneous.

Butterine.

Casings.

Tripe.

Hides.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @13
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @124
Brazils new...............   @7
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Naples........   @12
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @11
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  @
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @ 9
Pecans, Small............   @ 54
Pecans, Ex. Large__  @10
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............   @1  25
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 75
Butternuts per  bu__  @  50
Black Walnuts per bu  @ 50
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Cocks......................  @ 44
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted..................   @ 64
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted 

...............   @ 54

21

Crockery and

Glassware.

Butters.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
4  gal, per doz.............. 
50
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
54
8 gal., per g a l................. 
64
10 gal., per gal.................. 
64
12 gal., per gal...... 
........  64
15 gal. meat-t lbs. per gal..  8 
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 

Churns.

to 6 gal., per gal......... 

2 
54
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Milkpans.

4  gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  54 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

4  gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  54 

Stewpans.

4  gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 

Jugs.

4  gal., per doz.................   40
4  gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   64

Tomato Jugs.

4  gal., per doz.................   70
1 gal., e*ch...................... 
7
Corks for 4  gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
4  gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00

Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2

LAMP  BURNERS.

First  Quality.

wrapped and  labeled__ 2  10
wrapped and  labeled__  2 25
wrapped and  labeled__  3 23

No.  0 Sun.....................   ..  45
No.  1  Sun..........................  
50
No.  2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No.  1...................  65
Security, No. 2................... 
85
Nutmeg  ......................  ...  50
Arctic.................................  1  15
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  75
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  88
No.  2  Sun..........................  2 70
No.  0  Sun, crimp 
1  Sun, crimp 
No. 
2  Sun, crimp 
No. 
XXX Flint.
0  Sun, crimp 
1  Sun, crimp 
2  Sun, crimp 

top,
wrapped and  labeled__  2 56
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................3 70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled......... ....................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps............ 
80

No. 
No. 
No. 

top,
top,
top,

La  Bastie.
 

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

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

Pump  Cans.

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)........  4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4 40
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............iu 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............9 50
No.  OTubular..................   4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 0 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  00
No.  3 Street  Lam p.........   3 75
LANTERN OLUBES.
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,
cases 1  doz.  each........ 
1  25
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross...................  20
No. 1 per gross...................  25
No. 2 per grow................... 
38
No. 3pergrobS...................  58
Mammoth per doi............. 
70

LANTERNS

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Hardware
The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade  shows  but  little  change 
from  our  report  of  last  week.  The  vol­
ume  of  business 
is  keeping  up  fairly 
well 
in  all  departments.  Changes  in 
prices  are but  few.  Manufacturers  in all 
lines  of  goods  are  feeling  more  confi­
dence  in  the  future  market,  and  are  not 
disposed  to  make  any  further  conces­
sions  in  prices. 
In  many  lines  there  is 
a disposition  to advance  prices  and  job­
bers  find  much  difficulty  in  placing  or­
ders  at  the  extreme  figures  that  were 
made  some  days  ago.  This  condition 
is  followed  along  into  the  jobbing  trade 
and  there  is  but  very  little  incentive  at 
the  present  time  for  them  to  make  cut 
prices  in  order  to  entice  business. 
In 
some  sections,  where the prices received 
from  the  products  of  the  soil  have  been 
fairly  remunerative,  business  has  been 
very  good.

Wire  Nails— Owing  to  the  adjustment 
of  the  troubles  that  existed  among  the 
large  jobbing  concerns  of  the  West,  the 
price  on  nails  is  held  firmly  in  all 
job­
bing  sections. 
is  not  believed  that 
there  will  be  any  change  in  the  prices 
before  December  i.  The  dealers  are 
feeling  quite  safe 
in  keeping  their 
stocks  well  assorted.  We  quote 52.65  at 
mill  and  52.85  from  stock.

It 

Barbed  Wire— Prices  at  which  manu­
facturers  were  willing  to  take  orders  for 
future  shipments  on  barbed  wire  and 
staples  have  been  withdrawn,  and  they 
are declining  to quote  prices  for  future 
delivery.  Jobbers  prices,  however,  have 
not  changed  any  and  the  prices  named 
in  our  price  current  are  those quoted  by 
the  trade  generally.

Sheet  Iron—Trade 

in  sheet  iron,  not 
having  been  of  as  large  a  volume  as 
usual,  the  prices  have  not  been  firmly 
held  and  concessions  can  be obtained 
for good  sized  orders.

Window  Glass— There 

is  no  indica­
tion  of  a  resumption  of  work  at  the 
glass  factories  until  after  election,  and, 
while  stocks  of  glass  are  very  low  in  all 
dealers  and  manufacturers’  hands,  the 
prices  do  not  remain  as  firm  as  they 
should  under  the  circumstances.  Quo­
tations  remain  as  quoted  last  week.

Rope—Another  advance  in  sisal  rope 
has  taken  place,  making  at  the  present 
time a  net  advance of  ic  per  lb.  within 
the  last  four  weeks.  Quotations at  pres­
ent  are  4#c  at  mill  and 5J^c from stock.
Ammunition—The demand  for  loaded 
shells  and  ammunition  of  all  kinds 
keeps  up  remarkably  well. 
Loaded 
shells  in  most  markets  are  now  sold  at 
about  cost,  with  no 
indications  of  a 
change  for  the  better.  The  advance  to 
54  a  keg  for  rifle  powder  is  firmly  held, 
and  indications  lead to the belief that all 
powder  men  are  working  in  complete 
harmony  and  that  the  severe  competi­
tion  which  has  existed  in  the  past  is  at 
an  end.

How  Postage  Stamps  Are  Made.
Shortly  after  the  stamp  business  had 
been  taken  out  of  the  bands  of  private 
companies  and  handed  over  to  the  Bu­
reau  of  Engraving  and  Printing,  the 
whole  country  was  complaining  of  the 
poor quality  of  the  work  done.  A  lot  of 
stamps  had  been  sent  out  which  refused 
to  stick,  having  been  improperly  or  in­
sufficiently  gummed. 
Little  did  the 
people  know  the  difficulty  Uncle  Sam 
was  laboring  under then  in  creating  a 
stamp  plant  from  A  to  Z  with  inexperi­
enced  workers.  But  soon  the  Bureau  of 
Engraving  and  Printing  was  able  to  in­
vite  the  postmasters to  return  the imper­
fect  stamps,  and  get a  new  and  better 
supply,  for  that  first  mistake  had  only

resulted  in  a  deeper  study  of  the  prob 
lem,  and  not  only  were  ways  found  to 
correct  the  error,  but  new  and  improved 
methods  were  discovered  and  applied.
To have  a  clear  notion  of  the complex 
processes  employed  for  the  production 
of  so  simple an  article  of  public  use 
a  postage  stamp,  it  is  necessary  first 
examine  the  paper.  Unlike  that  used 
for  money,  there 
is  little  distinctively 
characteristic  about  the  paper on  which 
stamps  are  printed. 
It  is  merely  first 
class  wood-fiber  paper,  with the  Govern 
ment’s  water  mark,  ‘ ‘ U.  S.  P.  S .,”   re 
peated  again  and  again  on  its  face  t< 
render 
counterfeiting. 
The  counterfeiting  of  stamps  is  a  rare 
crime,  probably  because  the  game 
i: 
scarcely  worth  the  candle.  The  offer 
ing  of  postage  stamps  at  reduced  rates, 
or  even  at  regular  rates,  in 
large  num 
bers,  by 
individuals,  would  be  pretty 
sure  to  arouse  suspicion,  which  would 
end 
in  trouble  for  the  counterfeiters 
The  theft  of  a  few  hundred  dollars 
worth  of  stamps  printed  at  the  Bureau 
of  Engraving  and  Printing  soon  after 
the  Government  began  to  make  stamps 
resulted  in  the  prompt  capture  and  con­
viction  of  the  thieves,  who  are  now 
serving  long  sentences.

difficult 

its 

Even  the  precaution  of  the  water 
mark  was  not  employed  in  the  produc 
tion  of  stamp  paper  before  the  Govern 
ment  took  the  matter  in  hand  last  year, 
In  any  stamps  produced  since  April  29, 
1895,  you  will  find,  if  you  hold  them 
before  a  strong  light,  some  portion  of 
the  water-lined  letters,  “ U.  S.  P.  S. ”  
This  water  mark 
is  made  at  intervals 
of  an 
inch  or  less  all  over  the  big 
sheets  on  which  the  stamps  are  printed. 
The  date  of  the 
introduction  of  the 
water  mark  is  already  a  matter of  inter 
est  to  stamp  collectors.

and 

countings.  When 

After  the  paper  is  started  in  the  ac 
tual  process  of  stamp-making,  it  has 
countings  galore.  When  it  finally 
is 
ready  to  issue  in  the  form  of  red  and 
blue  and  brown  and  green  stamps,  it 
has  had  no  less  than  fifty-two  separate 
and  distinct 
the 
Bureau  of  Engraving  and  Printing 
makes  a  requisition  on  the loan division 
of  the  Treasury  Department  for  stamp 
it  must  state  specifically  what 
paper, 
is  to  be  printed  on  the  paper. 
If  the 
bureau  gets  10,000  sheets  of  paper  to 
print  two-cent  stamps,  it  must  account 
to  the  Treasury  Department  for  the  10,- 
000  sheets  of  two-cent  stamps,  less,  of 
in 
course,  the  number  actually  spoiled 
the  different  processes, 
these 
spoiled  sheets  must  also  be  in evidence 
and  no  eloquence  that  has  yet  been 
in 
vented  can  otherwise  explain  any  dis 
crepancy.  The  moment paper for stamps 
of  a  designated  denomination leaves  the 
Treasury  Department  it  becomes  worth, 
on  the  books  of  the  department,  just  the 
amount  of  the  stamps  of  the  given  de­
nomination  that  can  be  printed  on  it. 
The  transfer  of  the  paper  from  the 
Treasury  to  the  Bureau  of  Engraving 
and  Printing 
iron-bound 
chests,  which  are  placed  in  a  great  van 
lined  with  chilled  steel  and  guarded. 
At  closing  time  at  the  bureau  no  em­
ploye  is  allowed  to  leave  the  building 
until  the  last  particle  of  paper,  printed 
or  unprinted,  and  the  last  plate  and 
die  are accounted  for;  nor  is  any  em­
ploye  permitted  to  depart  before  clos­
ing  time  without  a  pass  from  the  chief 
of  bis  or  her  room,  approved  by  the 
chief  of  the  bureau.

is  made 

in 

Stamps  are  printed  in  sheets  of  400 
stamps,  or  “ heads,”   as  they  are  called 
at  the  bureau ;  and  as  each  press  car­
ries  four  plates,  one  revolution  of  the 
press  means  1,600  stamps.  The  dies 
from  which  these  stamp  plates  are made 
are  cut  out  of  soft  steel  by  the  Bureau 
of  Engravers.  They "are  then  hardened 
and  an  impression  of  them  is  taken  on 
a  roll  of  soft  steel,  which,  so  far  as 
lines go,  is  just  the  reverse of  the  die. 
The  sunken  lines  on  the  die  become  the 
raised  lines  on  the  rolls,  just  as  if  you 
were  to  take  a  piece  of  chewing  gum 
and  impress a  penny  into  it.  After  the 
impression  has  been  made  on 
reverse 
the  roll,  it 
is  hardened  and 
rolled  back  and  forth  over  a  big  plate 
of  fine  soft  steel  until  it  cuts  its impres­
sion  clear  and  sharp  as  many  times as 
is  desired  that  the  plate shall  con-
it 

in  turn 

T H E  M IOHIQAN  TR A D ESM A N

I  

HEADQUARTERS FOR 

¡POTATO  T O I

|

POTATO DIGGING FORKS.

I   FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO., 

È  

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH. 

|

3

A large number of  hardware dealers handle

THE OHIO LINE FEED CUTTERS

OHIO PONY CUTTER

Fig. 783.  No. 11}<.

Made by SILVER  MAN’F’G  CO.,

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

There is only one  size, and  is  made  so  it  can 
be knocked down and packed for shipment, thus 
securing lower  freight  rate.  Has one llj* 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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tain  stamp-dies.  Then  the  big  plate  is 
hardened  and  is  ready  for  the  printing 
process.  The impression  on  the  stamps 
is  made  from  depressed  lines  filled  with 
ink.

A  plate  containing  400  stamps 
last  a  great  while. 

is 
about  two  by  two  and  one-half  feet  in 
size,  and  will 
If 
you  have  ever  bought  a  full  sheet  of 
stamps  and  wondered  what  was  meant 
by  the  mystical  numbers  on  the  lower 
margin,  you  will  be  interested  to  know 
that  this  is  the  printer's  plate  number. 
By  this  number,  the  printer  and  his  as- 
sitants  are  charged  with  every  sheet  of 
damp  paper  they  handle,  and  the  num­
ber  is  credited  with  every  sheet  of 
stamps,  perfect  or  imperfect,  that  they 
return.  One  total  must  always  agree 
with  the  other.  As  the  sheets  come 
damp  from  the  press,  they  are  packed 
up  in  stacks,  a  sheet  of  tissue  paper be­
tween  each  two  sheets  of stamps.  After 
more  counting  and  passing  of  receipts, 
they  are  taken 
to  another  division, 
where  they  are  placed  in  small  batches 
in  wire-bottomed  trays.  The  room  is 
filled  from  floor  to  ceiling  with  these 
trays,  and  a  series  of  electrically  pro­
pelled  fans  keep  the  air  continually 
in 
motion. 
In  about  twelve  hours  the 
sheets  are  dry  of 
ink  and  moisture. 
Then  girls  take  them  in  large  bundles, 
and,  laying  one  hand  in  the  middle  of 
the  sheets,  turn  with  incredible rapidity 
sheet  after  sheet.  The  impression  made 
upon  the  visitor  is  that  they  are  count­
ing  them,  and  counting  at  a  furious 
rate,  too.  And  so  they  are,  but  they  are 
keenly  and  critically  examining  the 
sheets  at  the  same  time  for  all  sorts  of 
imperfections.  When  a  sheet  is  found 
imperfect 
in  any  way,  the  rustling  of 
the  sheets  ceases  long  enough  for  the 
girl  to  withdraw  the  sheet  and  mark 
it 
wjth  a  hasty  scrawl,  which  to  the  un­
initiated  means  nothing  on  earth,  but  to 
the  stamp  people  is  quite a  full  critique 
of  the  sheet’s  shortcomings.  Then  the 
rustle  proceeds  as  before.

Probably  the  most 

interesting  of  all 
the  details  of  stamp-making  is the proc­
ess  of  applying  the  gum. 
It  has  been 
reduced  to  such  perfection  that  the 
bureau  people  may  be  pardoned  for  the 
pride  they  have  in  it.  Right  here,  in­
deed,  lies  the  great  secret  of  successful 
stamp  manufacture. 
The  process  of 
gumming  was  always  carefully  guarded 
by  the  former  makers  of  thé  stamps— 
how  well  it  was  guarded  was  told  by the 
Government's  first  output  of  stamps. 
There 
is  no  longer any  mystery  about 
the clean  and  adequate  process  the  Bu­
reau  of  Engraving  ana  Printing  was 
forced  to  invent.

to 

The gumming  division  is a  big apart­
ment  in  the  basement  of  the  building. 
The  greatest  care  is  taken  to  keep  the 
temperature  of  this  room  evenly  at 
eighty  degrees,  summer  and  winter. 
The  temperature  correspond 
the 
temperature  of  the  gum  as  it  is  applied 
to  the  stamps.  Even  greater  care 
is 
taken  to  keep  the  average  humidity  at 
about  fifty,  which 
is  just  midway  be­
tween  the  humidity  of  a  damp,  drizzly 
day and  a  crisp,  bright  one.  So  much 
is  attached  to  this  atmos­
importance 
pheric  condition 
in  the  gumming  of 
stamps, 
tests, are 
made  during  the  seven  hours which con­
stitute  the  working  day  of  the  bureau— 
at 9,  10 and  11  ¡30  in  the  forenoon,  and 
at  1,  2  and  3  in  the afternoon.  A  care­
ful  record  of  these  readings  is  kept,  so 
that  it  would  be  possible  for the chief  of 
the  division,  by  referring  to  it  months 
and  years  afterward,  to  tell  just  what 
weather conditions  he  had  in  gumming 
a  particular  output  of  stamps.  Ap­
paratus  is  provided  to  correct  any  tend­
ency  to  undue  dryness  brought  about  by 
the  weather  conditions  outside 
the 
building.

that  six  humidity 

Every  particle  of  the  gum  is weighed, 
the  allowance  being  made  of  twenty- 
five  pounds  of  gum  for  every  400,000 
stamps.  The  gumming  machines  are 
marvels  of  ingenuity.  From  a  fountain 
which  receives  gum  after  it  has been 
tested  and  weighed,  a  brown  stream  of 
gum  flows  evenly 
into  a  rectangular 
resevoir,  which  rests  against  a  fas-tre- 
volving  roller  accurately made of ground 
glass ;  the  slightly  rough  surface  of  this 
it
roller takes  up  the gum  and  applies 

to  the  backs  of  the  stamp  sheets  as  they 
pass  under 
it  on  an  endless  carriage 
provided  with  gripers  and  fingers  that 
operate  in  the  most 
life-like  way.  As 
sheet^after  sheet  passes,  face  down,  un­
der  this  gumming  roller,  it  throws  a 
parting  shimmer of  its  newly  gummed 
surface  in  a  mirror  placed just above the 
entrance  to  a  long  chest  which  reminds 
one  of  an 
incubator  on  a  big  scale. 
This  parting  shimmer  is  not  altogether 
a  poetical  incident  of  the  process,nor  is 
the  mirrror 
for 
the  gratification  of  the  young  woman 
operator.  With  her  back  to  the  light, 
she  catches  the  reflection  of  the  shim­
mer  in  the  mirror  as  the  sheet  recedes 
from  her,  and  by  this  means  can  tell 
whether 
is  being  applied 
evenly.

intended  exclusively 

the  gum 

It 

it  emerges 

So,  after  throwing  its  farewell  gleam 
to  the  pretty  girl  gummer,  the  sheet  of 
stamps  passes 
into  the  incubator-like 
chest,  which  is  kept  full  of  hot,  dry air. 
When 
it  is  dumped  on  the 
tables  of  other  girl  operatives  at  the 
journey  of  fifty  feet 
other  end,  after  a 
in  a  temperature  of  132  degrees. 
is 
now  quite  dry  and  ready  to  be smoothed 
of 
its  slight  crinkles  and  packed  for 
delivery  to  the  perforators.  The 
latter 
separate  by  machinery  each  original 
sheet  into  four such  sheets  as  are  de­
livered  to  the  post  offices,  cutting  at 
the  same  time  the  perforations  which 
enable  the 
individual  stamps  to  be 
easily 
Finally  hydraulic 
presses  remove  the  burring  left  by  the 
perforating  machines.

separated. 

the  manufactory 

The  bureau  keeps  on  hand  a  store  of 
stamps  equal  to  almost  any  emergency. 
There  are  now  in  its  vaults  more  than 
250,000,000,  and 
is 
running  on  full  time.  Last  year  there 
were  produced  nearly  2,500,000,000:  yet 
with  the  constantly-increasing  demand, 
in  the  creation  of  supply 
no  cessation 
is  possible. 
It is  estimated  that  stamps 
cost  the  Government ¡¡something  like  5 
cents  a  thousand.  Receipts  from  the 
sale  of  them  last  year  were,  on  an  aver­
age  more  than  $1,000,000  a  month. 
More  than  90  per  cent,  of  all  those  sold 
were  of  the  2-cent  denomination.

A  Deserved  Rebuke.

Prom the San Francisco Grocer.

A  wealthy  merchant  of  a  mining  town 
in  Nevada  comes  to  this  city  once  a 
year  to  do  a  little  trading  and  see  the 
men  from  whom he  buys.  A  few  months 
ago he  was  partially  paralyzed,  and  on 
his  last  trip  »had^ to  use  an  invalid’s 
chair.  He  wheeled  into  one  of  the  larg­
in  town,  and,  with  a 
est  cigar  houses 
stock  of  memorandums 
in  his  band, 
asked  for,  well,  we’ll  call  him  Mr. 
Blank,  the  senior  partner.  As  the  ac­
count  was  a  comparatively  new  one,  the 
firm  thought  their  visitor  was  a  beggar, 
and  in  a  frigid  manner  Mr.  Blank 
in­
formed  him  that  Mr.  Blank  was  out  of 
town.

“ When  will  he  be  back?’ ’
“ Oh,  I  don’t  know.’ ’
“ Can  I  see  his  partner?”
“ He’s  out of  town,  too.”
“ Any  member  of  the  firm  in?”
“ No’p. ”
“ When  can  I  see  someone?”
“ Don’t  know,  I’m  sure,”   was  the 
answer,  as  Mr.  Blank  coolly  walked 
away, ¿leaving  his 
insulted  customer 
paralyzed  with  astonishment  and  wrath. 
He  wheeled  out,  but 
in  an  hour  or  so 
came back.
“ Is any  member of  the  firm  in now?”  

he  asked.

“ Didn’t  I  tell  you  they  were  out  of 

town?”
“ Well,  then,  have  somebody  sent  to 
me  that  I  can  talk  business  .to.  Here’s 
a  check  for $645.70  that  will  settle  my 
account.  You  can  tell  your  salesman
that  M r.-----,  o f -----,  says that, while he
likes  him  very  much,  he  needn’t  call 
any  more,  and  you  may  add 
that  I 
placed  an  order  for $500  worth  of  cigars 
a  few  minutes  ago  with  the  firm  across 
the  street,  where  the  proprietor  attends 
to  business  and  the  clerks  are  polite  to 
customers.  Good  day. ’ ’
The  moral  is  obvious.

This  would  be a  lively  world  if  every 
man  had  the  courage  of  his  convictions 
and  spoke  them  out  on  all  occasions.

Iron and  Tinned  ........................................ 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages 34c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole 4  Co.’s, new  list............................... dis 3334
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s............................................. dis 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s SoUd Cast Steel Hand 3Òc list404ÌÓ

HOUSE  FURNISHING  OOODS

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20410
Granite Iron  Ware.........................new list 40410
Pots..................................................  
60410
K ettles..........................................................60410
Spiders  ........................................................60410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3...............................  dis 60410
State......................................... per doz. net  2 50
Bright..........................................................  
80
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
ROPES
Sisal, 34 inch and  larger.......
Manilla...... .............................
SQUARES
Steel and Iron.........................
Try and Bevels.......................
M itre......................................

334
834
80

LEVELS

SHEET  IRON

WIRE

TRAPS

com. smooth.  com.
#2 40
2 40
2 60
2 70
2 80
2 90
over  30 Inches

All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter, 
SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

Nos. 10 to 14................................ #3 30
Nos. 15 to 17................................. .  3 30
Nos. 18 to 21...............................
.  3 45
Nos. 22 to 24................................
Nos. 25 to 26................................ .  3 70
No.  27........................................ .  3 80
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, '86................................................ dis 50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20 00
Steel, Game............................................. 
60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 4  Norton’s 70410410
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market........................................  
75
Coppered  Market..........................................70410
Tinned Market.............................................  6234
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .........................  2 10
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  75
Au Sable............................................................dis 4041C
Putnam.............................................................dis 5
Northwestern....................................................dis 10410
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, w rought.........  
80
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages  .................... ...............
50
Pumps, Cistern..............................
80
Screws, New List............................
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate..................
50410410
Dampers, American.......................
50
600 pound casks.............................
6*
Per pound.......................................
6X
34@34....................................................  1234
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................#575
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   5  75
20x14 IX, Charcoal......................................   7 00

Each additional X on this grade, #1.25.

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
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
n
9
14x56 IX, for No.  9  Boilers, f P « pound... 

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

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

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.................................. «5 to 65-10
Plow.......................................................  
40410

Well,  plain

BUCKETS

« 3 25

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin, figured............................... 
70
Wrought Narrow..........................................75410

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

BLOCKS

Cast Steel................................

CROW  BARS

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

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

CHISELS

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

DRILLS

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

ELBOWS

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

70

4

65
55
35
60

..per lb 

perm 
per m 
per m 
per m 

504 5 
.254 5
80
80
80
80

60
.504  5 
504  5

doz. net 
55
1  25
........ 
........dis 40410

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

FILES—New  List

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

OALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

28
17

Discount,  75

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.................................... #16 00, dis 60410
Hunt Eye.................................... #15 00, dis 60410
Hunt's—   ..................................#18 50, dis 20Al0

MILLS

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

 

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  GATES

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

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................  2 80
Wire nails, base...........................................   2 85
50
10 to 60 advance.......................................... 
8..................................................................  
60
7 and 6...
75 
90 
4............
3 ............
1  20 
2 ........
1  60 
1  60 
Fine 3 __
65 
Case 10...
75 
Case  8__
90 
Case  .6__
75 
Finish 10. 
Finish  8. 
90 
Finish  6. 
10 
Clinch 10 . 
70 
80 
Clinch  8 . 
Clinch  6.
90
Barrel  %......................................................  1  75

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, firstquality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60

Fry, Acme...............................................60410410
Common, polished.................................. 
704 5

PANS

RIVETS

3 4

Method  in  Advertising.

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

There  are  yet  many  who  venture  into 

the  great  sea  of advertising  without 
sufficient  recognition  of the  fact  that  the 
bringing  of  customers  has  become 
science.  The  desirability,  the  neces 
sity,  of  employing  this  auxiliary  of sue 
cessful  business  is  so  widely  advertised 
itself  that  its  claims  are  generally  rec 
ognized  and  the  getting  of  advertising 
patronage  is  comparatively an easy task. 
In  fact,  it  has  become  so  very  easy 
that  the  country 
“ fake”   and  fraudulent  schemes,  made 
possible  by  the  widespread  belief  in  the 
efficacy  of  advertising,  which  seems 
in  danger  of  bringing  the  science 
into 
disrepute.  Now  the  fact  should  be 
made  prominent  that  advertising  is 
science  and  that  every  investment  in 
should  be  a  part  of  a  systematic  plan  to 
sell  goods.

is  being  flooded  wi 

It  is a  sufficiently  conclusive  propos 

it 

tion  that  advertising  will  not  sell  goods 
unless  there are  goods  to  sell. 
I  recall 
the  experience  of  a  manufacturer  of 
special  remedies  who 
invested  $2,000 
in  a  single  issue  of  a  city  daily with the 
result  of  not  securing  a  cent  in  net  re 
turns.  He  was  getting  his  goods  into 
the  trade,  but  this  part  of  his  enterprise 
had  not  progressed  sufficiently  before 
the advertisement  appeared  but  that  the 
advertisement  was  all 
lost.  He  has 
since  become  successful,  but  he  sees  to 
it  that  he  has  the  goods  to  sell  before 
he  informs  the  public  of  the fact.  Thi 
is  an  extreme 
instance;  but  there  are 
many  cases  where  the  publicity  is  scat 
tered  over  localities  where 
is  not 
made apparent  that  the goods  are  easily 
obtainable 
in  the  natural  channels  of 
trade.  To  effect  sales  the  goods and 
the  customers  must be brought  together 
is  a  science  based  on 
common  sense.  To  be  the  most  sue 
cessful  it  must  be  placed  in  such  media 
and  arranged 
in  such  a  manner as  to 
gain  the  attention  just  when  to  do  so  i 
most  likely  to 
influence  a  purchase 
Thus  the  media  should  be  such  as  the 
prospective  customer  would  be  apt  to 
have  in  hand,  and  in  mind,  when  he  is 
thinking  of  that  particular  subject.  To 
secure  results  the  advertiser  of 
invest­
instance,  would  be 
ment  bonds, 
most apt  to  employ  the  financial 
jour 
nals;  and  so  with  all  special  period 
icals of  highest  standing  and  prestige. 
And  while  the  suitableness  of  the media 
may  not  be  so  fully apparent  in  the  use 
of  the  ordinary  magazines  and  period 
icals,there  is  still  sufficient  character  to 
make  careful  selection  an  essential  to 
success.

Advertising 

for 

Careful  method  will  sometimes  bring 
success  from  what  are generally  consid­
ered  the  most  unpromising  means.  For 
instance,  the  handbill 
is  justly  con­
sidered  one  of  the  poorest  commonly 
employed,  and  yet 
in  proper  locations
and  with  a  complete system the despised 
handbill  may  be  made  effective.  An 
instance  of  effective  handbill  advertis­
ing  is  given  in  the  case  of  a  local  city 
store  situated  several  miles  from  the 
business  center.  Realizing  that  news­
papers  to  cover  the  limited  area  of  the 
local  trade  would  involve  wasted  circu­
lation  elsewhere,  it  was  decided  to  em­
ploy  handbills.  The  number of  houses 
in  the  district  to  be  reached  was  esti­
mated  at  4, 000.  T h is  number of  hand­
bills  were 
issued  twice  a  week  and 
means  taken  to  have  them  put  into  the 
back  doors  of  all  the  houses.  Special 
sales  were  made  the 
inducements  to 
gain  attention,  and  these were made just 
It  was  some  time  be-1
as advertised. 

fore  results  became  manifest,  but  after 
a  time  the  handbills,  which  were  kept a 
distinctive  color,  began  to  be  looked 
for,  and  in  a  couple  of  years  the  trade 
had  increased  beyond  all  competitors. 
This  is  a  good  illustration  of  the  need 
of  complete  system 
in  all  advertising 
operations. 

F.

The  Produce  Market.

Butter— Factory  creamery  has 

Apples— Local  shippers  are  paying 
50c  per bbl.  for  choice  fruit,  but  ship­
pers  at  many  outside  points  assert  that 
they  are  able  to  obtain  all  the stock they 
can  handle  at  30@4oc  per  bbl.  These 
prices,  of  course,  do  not 
include  the 
is  furnished  by  the 
package,  which 
shipper.
sus 
tained  another  advance,  being  now firm 
ly  held  at  17c.  Dairy butter  continues 
come  in  freely  and  many  shipments  i.,- 
clude  packages  of  held  goods,  which 
grade  is  not  in  active  demand.  Fancy 
dairy  commands  about  12c.
Cabbage—$2  per  hundred.
Carrots— 15c  per bu.
Celery— io@i2c  per  bunch. 
Cranberries—Cape  Cods 

continue 
cheap,  excellent  stock,  both  as  to  size 
and  color,  going  at  $1.75  per  bu.  and 
$5.50  per  bbl.

Eggs— Have  taken  a  decided  jump 
during  the  past  week,  fancy  candled 
stock  readily  commanding  17c.  Re 
ceipts  are  very  liberal,  but  too  many 
shippers  are  careless  about  shippinj 
old  and  new  eggs  together,  thus  neces 
sitating  careful  inspection.

Grapes--New  York  Concords  are  now 
market,  commanding  12c  for  8  lb 

baskets.

Honey—Receipts  are  largely 

in  ex 
cess  of  the  demand,  due  to  the  large 
crop.  White  clover  is  held  at  I2@i3c 
while  buckwheat  is  neglected  at  10c.
Onions—3o@35c  per  bu.  The  crop  i„ 
reported  as  not  large,  so  that  supplies 
are  likely  to  be  restricted.

Potatoes—The  price  has  sustained  ; 
serious  slump  during  the  past  week, 
due  to the fact that growers have dumped 
their diggings  on  the  buyers  taster  than 
the  latter  can  find  an  outlet  for the crop 
Local  handlers  now  pay  15c,  but  at 
most  of  the  out-of-town  buying  points 
the  ruling  price  is  12c.  The  statistical 
position  still  favors  a  higher  range  of 
values,  providing  the  railroads  make 
such  concessions  as  will  enable  the ban 
dlers  to  move  the  crop  advantageously 
So  far  they  stubbornly  resent  any  sug­
gestion  looking  toward  a  reduction  of 
rates,  but  when  they  come  to  realize 
that  the  failure  to  move  the  crop  is  due 
to  their  own  shortsightedness,  they  will 
probably  make  such  concessions  as  will 
enable  the grower and  buyer  to  unload 
their  stocks  at  living  prices.

Squash— Hubbard  bring  75c  per  100 

or $12  per  ton.
Sweet  Potatoes—Genuine  Jerseys  are 
held  at  $i-7S  Per  bbl.,  while  Baltimore 
and  Illinois  stock 
is  freely  offered  at 
$1.25  per  bbl.

They  Know  What  They  Want.

From the Boston Globe.

The  man  who  palms  off on  a customer 
what  he  neither asks  for  nor  desires  is 
practically a  bunco  steerer.  He not  only 
discredits  the 
intelligence  and  judg­
ment  of  his  patrons,  but  to  all  intents 
and  purposes 
is  guilty  of  obtaining 
money  under  false  pretenses.

The  field  is  wide.  There  is  nothing
prevent  any  dealer  who  so  desires 
from  bringing  before  the  public  any 
proprietary  preparation  of  his  own 
in 
which  he  has  faith.  Indeed,  a  man  who 
really  believes  he  has  a  “ good  thing”  
owes  it  to  the  public,  as  well  as  to him­
self,  to give  the  fact  the  greatest  attain­
able  publicity. 
But  the  penny-wise, 
pound-foolish  dealer  who  tries  to  palm 
off  “ something  else”   when  a  customer 
wants  a  certain  well-known  and  widely- 
advertised  preparation  ought  to be  sent 
to  Conventry  in  double-quick time.  The 
people  know  what  they  want  and  they 
are  entitled  to  it.

Advertising  brings  business.  Luck 
sometimes  does  the  same  thing,  but 
can’t  be depended  upon.

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

Correct  Standard  of Success. 

From Shoe and Leather Facts.

By  what  standard  is  success  meas­
ured?  This  is  not as  easy  a  question  to 
answer  satisfactorily  as  some  might 
imagine.  Most  people  are  so  in  the 
habit  of  estimating  everything  by  the 
yardstick  of  accumulated  wealth  that 
they,  as  a  matter  of  course,  accept  this 
standard  as  the  only  correct  one.  That 
a business  career  is  either a  success  or 
a  failure,  without  any  middle ground  to 
stand  on,  is  undoubtedly  true 
in  the 
main. 
It  must  not  be  forgotten,  how­
ever,  that one  man  who  in  a  series  of 
years  was  only  able  to  lay  aside  $10,000 
may  have,  in  its accumulation,  brought 
into  play  better 
judgment  and  more 
skill  than  some  fellow-member  in  the 
same  industry  whose  profit  aggregated 
a  million  dollars.  The  former  was,  per­
haps,  surrounded  by  such  adverse  con­
ditions,  in  the  matter  of  location,  pos­
sible  customers,  etc.,  that 
it  was only 
by  exercising  his  most  thorough  busi­
ness  skill  and  judgment  he  was  able  to 
prosper at a ll;  while  the  latter,  by  the 
mere  chance  of  location  in  a  section  of 
the  city  which  grew  very  rapidly,  thus 
raised  himself  from  obscurity  to a  posi­
tion  which  enabled  him  to  accumulate 
wealth. 
location  of  a 
railway  terminus,  or  the  peculiar  ar­
rangement  of  extensive  street  railway 
lines  in  proximity  to  his  place of  busi 
ness,  was  far  more 
in 
achieving  the  results  referred  to  than 
any  individual  effort  on  his  part.

instrumental 

Probably 

the 

in 

The  point  we  desire  to  emphasize 

We  are  well  aware  that  the  world,  in 
making  up 
its  estimate of  various  in­
dividuals,  does  not  usually  pause and 
go  into  these  niceties  which,  neverthe­
less,  contribute  the 
important  part  we 
have  assigned  them.  To  some  extent 
“ luck,”   pure  and  simple,  assists  one 
to  affluence,  while  its  absence  seems  to 
predestine  another  to  continued  failure. 
The  Rothschilds  never  employ  an  un­
lucky  man.
in 
this  connection  is  that,  while  from  the 
nature  of  things  all  cannot be  manu­
facturing  or  merchant  kings,  it  is  with­
in  the  power  of  *11  to  attain  the  full 
measure  of  success  possible 
the 
sphere  in  which  they  move;and,  if  they 
have  been  surrounded  by  such  natural 
obstacles  as  we  have referred to,  making 
it  impossible  for them  to  rise  beyond  a 
certain  point,  still 
in  having  reached 
that  point  they  have accomplished  their 
God-given  work  and  have  occasion  to 
feel  satisfied  with  the  result.  There 
is 
no  reason  why  there  should  not  be  as 
good  system  displayed 
in  arranging  a 
in  one  costing  twenty 
$5»ooo  stock  as 
Indeed,  the  former 
times  that  amount. 
should  be  better arranged  than  the 
lat­
it  any  reason  why  a 
ter.  Neither  is 
room  20x30  feet 
in  size  should  not  be 
made  as  pleasing  to  the  eye of  the  cus­
tomer as  one  covering  a  whole  square. 
Have  you  not  often  paused  before  a 
small  display  window  which  had  been 
arranged  by  some  obscure  genius  so  ar­
tistically  that  your attention  was riveted 
to  it,  while  you  passed  by a  large  plate- 
glass  front  on  the  same  square  scarcely 
noticing  it?  Do  not  think  that  because 
you  are  not  a  millionaire  merchant,  or 
engaged  in  his  establishment,  yourabil- 
“ ies  are  being  dwarfed.  The  mighty 
its  source  in  the  mountain 
spring.  If by ability  and  the  will  of  for­
tune  you  are destined  to  be  a  leader  in 
your  line,  you  will  be  all  the  more  apt 
to  find  your  proper  pedestal  in  the  gal­
lery  of  the  great  by  reason  of  having 
properly  dusted  the  furniture  when  you 
held  your  first  humble  position  in  some 
obscure  store.

ver  finds 

The  worst  calamity  that  can  befall 
any  one  is  to  become  listless  and 
lapse 
into  the  habit  of  doing  merely  that 
amount  of  work  necessary  to  prevent  a 
failure  if  in  business,  or a  discharge  if 
working  as  an  employe.  The  differ­
ence  between  a  machine  and  a  human 
being  is  that  the  former,  while 
it  may 
do  with  the  utmost  exactness  a  certain 
task  for  which  it  was  designated,  can­
not  think;  the  one  who  employs  its 
mechanism  receives  no  new  suggestion 
and  expects  none. 
If  an  employe  is 
more  than  a  machine,  and  ever  hopes 
to  fill  a  higher  position,  it  will  be  by 
reason  of  exceeding  the  capacity  of

mere  mechanism—by  thinking  and  giv­
ing  those  who  employ  his  or  her  serv­
ices  the  benefit  of  such  thought.

While  Kaiser Wilhelm was celebrating 
the  birthday  of  his 
little  daughter, 
Victoria,  recently  by  a  children’s  party 
at  Potsdam,  the  children  wanted 
to 
dance. 
It  being  inconvenient  to  call  in 
a  military  band,  the  kaiser  sent  out into 
the  street  for an  Italian  organ  grinder, 
and  after  the  dancing  was  over  he  gave 
him  150  marks.

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.

M.  E.  Christenson  (Christenson  Bak­
ing  Co.)  put  in  a  couple  of  days  at 
South  Haven  this  week,  calling  on  his 
trade  at  that  place.

WANTS  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

119

Ij'OR  SALE —BABY  SIEGLE  &  COoPER 
stock.  We sell most everything;  good busi­
ness; rent. $30 per month; size of store.  27 x 10  ; 
two  floors;  main  part  of city;  stock  new; sick­
ness, reason for selling.  Address  J. Clark,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
X  LTO  AFFORDS  AN  EXCELLENT  OPEN- 
Xl.  ing  for  a  grain  buyer  who  has  sufficient 
capital to erect and conduct an elevator;  »iso  a 
hardware  dealer  who  is able to carry a stock of 
$1,500 to $2,500.  The towii is surrounded by well 
to-do  farmers  and  is  tributary  to  an  excellent 
trade.  Address  No. 118,  care  Michigan Trades­
man. 
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IJ'OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  AND  FIXTURES 
with  double  soda  fountain.  Doing  goud 
business in good city.  Good reasons for selling. 
Address No. 120. care Michigan Tradesman. 
120
Ij'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MERJ 
chandise—dry  goods,  groceries,  boots  and 
shoes  and  gentlemen’s  furnishing  goods,  in 
small  town  with  very  little  competition,  and 
splendid surrounding country;  or will sell  half 
interest  to  right  man.  Address  No.  115,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
I ('OR  SALK  OR  KENT—A  FINE  NEW  GHO- 
cey store, with dwelling attached for room­
ing and  boarding  students  and  others,  in  the 
best locality in city  of Ann  Arbor  for doing  an 
exclusive cash grocery business.  Meat business 
may be combined;  better than  any  other  place 
in  the  State  for  that  business.  For  terms  ad- 
dress  Hudson  T.  Morton,  46  South  University 
Avenue. 
Ij'OR SALE—AT CONSTANTIN E, MICHIGAN, 
clean, paying drug  stock  and  fixtures,  in­
voicing  about  $1,8U0.  Good  location.  John  J. 
tlS
Proudht, Assignee. 
IpOK SA LE—IMPROVED  8u ACRE  FARM  IN 
Oceana  county;  or  would  exchange  for 
merchandise.  Address  380  Jefferson  Avenue. 
Muskegon. 
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ANTED TO  SELL—SMALL  STOCK  GRO- 
ceries;  best location in Muskegon for cash 
trade.  Address  213  West  Western  Avenue, 
MU8kegOU. 
FOR SALE—STOCK OF TINWARE, INCLUD 
ing tools  and  patterns.  Excellent  location 
for good workman.  Rent low.  Reason for sell- 
Reggie & Gordon, Hopkins 
Station, Mich. 
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T(lOR  SALE—DOUBLE  STORE,  GROCERIES 
X  and notions, in  one  of  best  towus  in  best 
state  in  the  Union.  Stocks  will  be  sold  sen- 
arately or together, with  or  without  buildings. 
Address 420 East State street, Mason  City,  Iowa. 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

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ANTED — POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist  of  fifteen  years’  practical  ex­
perience; best of references.  Address Lock Box 
24, Newaygo.  Mich. 
VV ANTEP  SITUATION AS DRUG OR GEN- 
Tradesman.erk  AddreSS N° 
II^ANTED—EMPLOYMENT  OF  ANY  KIND 
™ 
excePt  washing  and  heavy  work  too  se- 
vere for my  strength.  Believe  myself  capable 
of  taking  a  clerkship  or  position  as  cashier, 
b liing clerk  or  assistant  book-keeper.  Prefer 
situation as companion  to  lady,  but  will  take 
any  honorable  employment  offered  me.  Ad- 
dress No. llfl, care Michigan Tradesman. 
V if  ANTED — BAKER FOR  GENERAL  BAK- 
Rapidsn Mich 
8-  Address LOCkBoz *36’ Eaton
L'OR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
i  „  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades-
B UTTER,  EGGS  POULTRY  AND  VEAL 
Shippers should write Cougle Brothers  178
™   * atCr Street’  Chica*°-  &  daUy  m«k™
reports. 
Q/»
W A N T E D   TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  8HIP- 
”   pere of butter and eggs  and  other  season­
able produce.  R. Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit.
951
W  ANTED—SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CËÏT 
„ I L  V51.  mUea8e  books.  Address,  stating 
price, Vlndex, care Michigan Tradesman.  809

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ARMOUR & 60., Proprietors.

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advise  your  custom* 
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5  AND 7  PEAPL STREET.
The  Bradstreet 
Mercantile  Agency
Proprietor*.

THE BRADSTREET COMPAM 

E x e c u t i v e   O f f i c 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 P. CLARK, Pres.

G r a n d   R a p i d s   O f f i c e —

Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg.

HENRY ROYCE, SupL

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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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Travelers*  Time  Tables.

CHICAGO

Sept.  7,  1896

and West Michigan R’y

Going to  Chicago.

.

Muskegon via Waverly.

Returning  from  Chicago. 

Lv.  G’d. Rapids......... 8:3<iam  1:25pm +11:00pm
Ar. Chicago.................  3:0(ipm 6:50pm  + 6:30am
Lv.Chicago................  7:20am  5:00pm  +ll:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............1:25pm  10:30pm  + 6:10am
Lv. G'd.  Rapids............ 8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G'd. Rapids............10:15am 
.........  10:30pm
Manistee, Traverse City  and  Petoskey.
Lv. G'd Raoids...........  7:20am  5:30pm  ........
Ar  Manistee.......... 12:05pm  10:25pm  ..................
Ar. Traverse City......  12:40pm 11:10pm  ...........
Ar. Charlevoix......... 
3:15pm 
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Ar.  Pe'oskey..............  4:55pm 
.......................
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:50
p.m.

P A R L O R   A N D   S L E E P I N G   C A R S .

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

sleepers on night trains.
Grand Rapids 7:30am.

tEvery  day. 

Others week days only.

D E T R O IT , & Northern

■ 896
R.R.

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........ 7:00am  1:30pm  5:95pm
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 R7:0tem 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 
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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.

T H R O U G H   C A R   S E R V IC E .

Geo.  D e Ha v e n ,  General Pass. Agent.

f | D   A  A i n   Trunk Railway System

’ K*  Detroit and Milwaukee Div.

Eastward.

+No. 14  +No. 16  tNo. 18  *No. 8» 
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  5:20pm  1:25am 
\r.  Owo8so —  9:00am  1:20pm  6:05pm  3:i0am 
Ar. E. Saginawl0:50a~i  3:4'pm  8:00pm  6:40am 
Ar. Bay City  .11:30am  4:35pm  8:37pm  7:15am
Ar. F lin t......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 
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts__*7:00am
For G’d Haven and Muskegon............... +1:30pm
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts  . ..+5:0Bpm
For G’d Haven and Milwaukee..............10:06pm
tDaily except Sunday.  »Dally.  Trains arrive 
from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m..  4:48p.m.. 10:00 
p.m.  Trains  arrive  from  the  west,  6:40a.m.. 
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.

Westward.

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

GRAND Rapids  & Indiana Railroad

Northern  Div.

Leave  Arrive- 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack..  +  7:45am  + 5:15pm 
Trav. C'y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 2:15pm  + 6:30am
Cadillac...................................+ 5:25pm +11:10am
Train  leaving  at  7:45  a m.  has  parlor  car  to- 
Petoskey and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15  p.m.  bassleeping  car to 
Petoskey and  Mackinaw.
Leave  Arrive
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Cincinnati..............................+  7:10am  +  8:25pm
Ft. Wayne.............................  + 2:00pm  +  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. 

Southern  Div.

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Muskegon Trains.

GOING  W EST.

LvG’d Rapids.............. +7:35am  +1:0Opm  +5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon.............................+8:10am  +1t:45am +4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids.............................9:30am  12:55pm 5:20pm
tExcept Sunday.  »Dally.
A. Almquist, 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tkt.  Agt.

C. L. Lockwood,

GO IN G   E A S T .

Every M erchant

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

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insist  upon  having the  brands of

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We make a full line of

Paw  Deilveru and 

'•^Pleasure sieiotis.

Our New  Hub  Runner.

WRITE  FOR PRICE LIST.

The  Belknap  Wagon  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

AUSTRALIAN  BALLOT.

D o yoli  use  the  D a y t o n   C o m p u t in g   S c a l e ?

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H ave you  exam ined  it  and  h ad   its  m arvelous  profit-saving  sys­

tem   fu lly explained to you?

D o  you  know   that  it  required  2,890  years  of  im provem ent  in
w eighing  d evices  to  produce  that  m arvel  of  accuracy  and
rapidity,  T h e  D a y t o n   C o m p u t in g   S c a l e   S y s t e m ?

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that  can  be  shown  to  your  satisfaction  to save and  m ake you 
more  than  its  cost  every few   months? 

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